skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s just a question of how you define “state-of-the-art”. The term doesn’t preclude secure or reliable - prior to the “move fast and break things” era where adtech dominated the tech industry, those used be considered a requirement.
Chickens are really smart and curious animals. They can also learn from each other new behaviour, like eating unfamiliar food, or hunting for small animals (the cries of joy from our cock once he finally got a frog!!!) They also have really marked personalities, once you spend some time with them.
Honestly, paying for a VPN is just purchasing slow internet speeds at a premium.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_b8Z2kAFyY

Just use Tor.
There are. Anything that is a file in an open format will outlive me (given minimal care in terms of backups). My family photos, my markdown notes, non-DRM music and ebooks, proper applications. I’d say it’s all digital things, except for a small enshittified sliver.

Renting, however, does not work that way. Any DRM-protected download is a rental. Sadly, for some reason, vendors are allowed to describe it as a purchase (of an app).

I don’t know why you are giving up.
Your analogy is absurd.

In a publicly traded company you get to chose whether to buy or sell the shares of a company based on how the CEO is running the company (including who he appoints to audit it)

In US Govt, we don't get to chose whether to "invest" in the govt or not, our taxes our collected by force.

So instead we have the power to vote for people in congress (who decide home much taxes are collected on how they are spend), and the president (who can execute on the spending directed by congress, but also has the power granted by constitution to audit and spend effiecntly)

The US Govt Shareholders (Voters) have SPOKEN, and SPOKEN LOUDLY! (Electoral College victory, and Popular Vote victory). They elected republican majority congress, and President Trump. Thus the voters voted for a deep gov't audit headed by Musk (Trump publicly campaigned on auditing and cleaning up spending, and publicly stated who will be in charge of the audit).
My boy, Tim Cook, ain't a snitch though. (At least, I hope not).
You are correct. And the nonchalant way in which the leaders who are supposed to oversee this thing are treating it is appalling. It will have consequences during mid-terms and beyond. It is clear that some people believe elected office to mean that they are then given authority and rights with which to increase in...being voyeurs rather than visionaries???
My god, your classmate hacked the teacher!
The link seems to be misdirected.
Personal networks only disadvantage those who have none.
Spent an hour going through his blog. Wild and unpleasant ride.
I thank you for highlighting that the intent isn’t actually the problem. I do feel the opposite to you but I’m happy you can see the practice itself is not acceptable / is a bad practice.
Subconscious problem solving is definitely a thing as far as I'm concerned.

It's happened several times that I struggled with a bug for hours, then suddenly came up with a key insight during the commute home (or while taking a shower or whatnot), while not actively thinking about the problem. I can't explain this any other way than some kind of subconscious "brainstorming" taking place.

As a side note, this doesn't mean the hours of conciously struggling with the problem were a waste. I bet that this period of focus on the problem is what allows for the later insights to happen. Whether it's data gathering that alows the insights to happen, or even just giving importance to the problem by focusing on it. Most likely it's both.
So? That's all that's on our Githubs, too. Show us, talk about it. Let us see we're the same.
the difference is that before LLMs you had to use search to find answers to unknowns. The productivity boost of knowing everything immediately doesnt fundamentally change the work itself. I understand over reliance might become problematic at some point. My solution to that would be a bunch of GPUs so I have an R1 locally, anytime. the future is here, some people just havent noticed.
I plan to purchase one in the spring. This thread is giving me second thoughts lmao.
It's more likely it came from Trump instead of Elon. Trump is an isolationist and has long complained about money being spent abroad rather than at home.
> When asked about the rate of the tariffs, Trump said: “It’ll be 25 percent and higher, and it’ll go very substantially higher over the course of a year.”

I guess we're at the point when we don't even expect coherent answers.
Do free promotions (https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...) still work ? And how would you even validate the emails against Amazon Appstore purchases?
https://www.farmkind.giving/the-small-farm-myth-debunked
EU approves 920M euro German aid for Infineon chips plant
The book that does that for me is Notes from Underground, I also read it annually.
That's true. You can head over to lmarena.ai and pit it against other LLMs yourself. I only tried two prompts but was surprised at how well it did.

There are "leaderboards" there that provide more anecdotal data points than my two.
Trump says he is speaking to China about TikTok
You mean Peter Principled into another department...? Sorry, just joking. It's terrible and unfair to fire people like this. They are removing the low hanging fruits first.
How the first "cyberattack" looked 200 years ago
THE top paid app in iOS App Store where I am (which isn't US nor EU) was an ad blocker built by one guy, for past two straight years. I think it's an unspoken open secret that App Store has been dead for a while, with apps that use App Store as mere payment processor e.g. freemium lootbox and subscription apps, notwithstanding.
There might be someone in government right now willing to flush obvious software patents
I wonder how Page and Brin would have polled as "the founders of Google"
busybox: so many tools bundled into one binary
> Self-promoters that don't know the information always look good on paper, but after a few minutes of talking to them you can tell that they don't quite match.

My experience differs here: these are not "good self-promoters", but impostors.

Good self-promoters typically have some above-average (though commonly not really exceptional) skills in their area, but their expertise is in the capability of smooth talking (including smalltalk), promoting their contributions, and talking at eye level with various stakeholders.

If you are really exceptional in your area, you will often (though not always) consider smalltalk to be waste of your time, and will often have difficulties talking at eye level with various stakeholders, because either they are not sufficiently knowledgable in your area of expertise to understand you, or the other way round (for the latter point: becoming really great in one area often means that you won't have the time to get sufficiently deep into a lot of other areas, even though for some of them you might become quite skilled if you had more time).
Updated link: https://obsidian.md/blog/free-for-work/
How? I've been wondering the same thing for my laptop. My laptop doesn't even seem to support the ondemand option. It just switches from performance to powersave when I unplug the charger, and becomes painfully slow.
This adds costly pollution tests to the equation, if you want to eat eggs safely. Backyard chickens doesn't sound like a great solution.
A History of the Future 2025-2040
Roger Mandigo, Who Made Chicken Nuggets and the McRib Possible, Dies at 85
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/food-cooking/roger-mandigo-...
They're not going to make many sales with the post on here
Thanks for pointing that out, I don't know a lot about Nikola and the Icevo partnership. The YouTube channel is still worth watching.
No it didn't, you just need to stop asking questions an LLM can easily solve, most of those were probably terrible questions to begin with.

I can create a simple project with 20 files, where you would need to check almost all of them to understand the problem you need to solve, good luck feeding that into an LLM.

Maybe you have some sneaky script or IDE integration that does this for you, fine, I'll just generate a class with 200 useless fields to exhaust your LLM's context length.

Or I can just share my screen and ask you to help me debug an issue.
It’s been known for a long time that upwards of 90% of the federal government are aligned with the party of big government.

Resignations of this kind will not be seen as a step backwards.
On the other hand, at Amazon, people I know like Chime. Sad its going away.
At my first gig, I had "god" level access to our production database.

All I learned is that nobody should have this level of access unless it is some sort of temporary break glass situation. It is extremely dangerous and even experienced engineers can cause irreparable data loss or some other bad outcome. In our case, some engineer accidentally sent around 10,000 invoices to customers that shouldn't have gotten them.

There are far better data access patterns. In the case of US gov data, I don't see why the DOGE team would need anything more than a read replica to query. It could even be obfuscated in some way to protect citizens' identities.
They’re really out here trying to play Command and Conquer irl
You’ve never seen a website not loading?

It loads just fine here in New England, US
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McRib
This is perfect timing. Assuming that the Conservatives are going to win the next election, there are now two options:

- the Conservatives kill the project before significant money is spent

- the Conservatives can proceed with the project knowing that it won't be killed in 4 or 8 years if/when the Liberals go back in power. (On the off chance that the NDP forms the succeeding government, they'll have likely taken a position on the project in this election).
I had no idea people took hackerrank as a serious signal rather than as a tool for recent graduates to track interview prep progress. Surely it has all the same issues AI does: you have no way of verifying that the person who takes the interview actually is responsible for that signal.

I don't see AI as a serious threat to the interview process unless your interview process looks a lot like hackerrank.
Show HN: LLMDog – No more Contextual lose between big codebase and AI
Smart thermostat company Tado is considering charging users for its app
And if the Principal is good, they should stand up and say exactly why the code is bad. If there's a reason to laugh because it is cliche bad, they should say so.

If someone gave me code with

if (x = 7) { ... } as part of a C eval.

Yeah, you'll get a sarcastic response back because I know it is testing code.

What I think people ignore is that personality matters. Especially at the higher levels. If you are a Principal SWE you have to be able to stand up to a CEO and say "No, sir. I think you are wrong. This is why." In a diplomatic way. Or sometimes. Less than diplomatic, depending on the CEO.

One manager that hired me was trying to figure me out. So he said (and I think he was honest at the time). "You got the job as long an you aren't an axe murderer."

To which I replied deadpan: "I hope I hid the axe well." (To be clear to all reading, I have never killed someone, nevermind with an axe! Hi FBI, NSA, CIA and pals!)

Got the job, and we got along great, I operated as his right hand.
Whether it's foolish or not, it's not my decision. There are three groups in an organization that'll have a significant impact to your solution approach:

- Legal

- Cybersecurity

- Enterprise Architecture

You can influence these groups, but ultimately, they set the mandates.
What is the point of all of this? Reducing federal income taxes? It seems to me that these people are pushing a rope if that's the goal.

For example, USAID is 1% of federal spending, but buys the US a disproportionate amount of soft power and good will for that investment.

Also, why 20-year olds? You'd think a person as resourced as Musk would have access to more capable people. When I was 20 years old I didn't know a thing about the Federal government or all the ways it benefits Americans.

I don't see DOGE solving an actual problem, and even if it did, this is a horribly incompetent way to go about it.
Einstein Probe catches X-ray odd couple
>If you do it automatically and in a way that has high entropy the result is a lot less memorable.

I find it just as easy to remember correcthor_sebatTerystaple, and it effectively changes the attack from guessing which four words were used from a well known dictionary.
The Amazon store will remain open for Fire tablets if I'm reading right, and those are AOSP-based. So it's kind of similar. Again, not that I'm fine with it, but that I think it's technically not unprecedented.
First 6-day cert from Let's Encrypt
I’m not sure that I follow. I could say the same about Vietnam and Afghanistan. The situation in both world wars was materially different.
I’ve written code for hobby projects. It’s mostly HTML, JavaScript and Bash.

I’m a data engineer, so at work I mostly use SQL, Python and Bash. There’s not much overlap.
A source for you being involved in JC2:MP (which is an awesome project, much kudos to the team) [0].

[0]: https://kotaku.com/just-cause-2s-ambitious-multiplayer-mod-m...
Honest question: who else, internal to the executive branch, and besides the president, should be able to interpret the laws for the executive branch?

By my reading, this is a clarification that if an agency makes a significant policy change or regulation, they ought to run it by the president first.

It doesn't preclude other branches of government from checking this power.
You are right, "guard labor" is what is traditionally called. I think I got "Goon" in my head from reading that "Bullshit Jobs" book.
OTH 8-bit floating point types are so hot right now in the GPU world:

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-arm-and-intel-publi...

Also, a simple 8-bit CPU like the 6502 is just 3.5k transistors while simple 16-bit CPUs like the x86 or 68k are somewhere between 30k and 70k transitors (e.g. I wonder if a 6502 running at full throttle still requires less energy than an x86 or 68k doing the same work in the same time).
The GOP’s attitude towards these things is typically “it’s okay when our guy does it”
Hmm. Every time I've been in a similar scenario (breaking a fall, warding off an incoming projectile) it has been my wrists that broke.
That is a much better password, but there are occasions where you need to type a password. For instance, bootstrapping a new device that doesn't have your password manager installed already.
> for her, certain numbers are unspecific and she also is not coming to a clear conclusion in sense of climate change yes, no, bad, good.

Climate chance is settled science. To claim that "certain numbers are unspecific, so I can't say whether climate change is real or not, or whether it's good or bad" (which, based on your paraphrasing, is what it sounds like she said) is an unacceptable position. It's muddying the waters.

I'm not going to go watch her content about trans people, but it sounds like the same thing: Muddying the waters by Just Asking Questions about anti-trans "social contagion" talking points.

---

EDIT: Okay I went back and watched some clips of her anti-trans video. She takes a pseudoscientific theory based on an opinion poll of parents active on an anti-trans web forum and suggests we take it seriously because "there is no conclusive evidence for or against it," as if the burden of proof weren't on the party making the positive claim, and as if the preponderance of evidence and academic consensus didn't overwhelmingly weigh against it. It's textbook laundering of pseudoscience. You've significantly misrepresented her position.
By the look of it, they were investigating how Ukraine use of Starlink provided to them. You make a great journalist. lol.
Competently built modern houses are well sealed, so not much air filters in through leaked walls, doors, etc. Instead, outside air is actively introduced through a filtered intake, by a fan (or by deliberate negative pressure, but that’s riskier, as air will come in through other paths too, bypassing the filter and potentially introducing contaminants from the structure and/or soil into the building).

There are plenty of systems to do this. My favorite is an ERV, with an aftermarket, oversized, upgraded supply filter.
Some sort of goat maybe?
I'm gonna say it, at the risk of begin downvoted to hell, what the is target developer of this kind of HTTP clients? This is the second client I see in a single day and I'm having hard time understanding these apps/utility.

It is not difficult to make HTTP request, there is no need to pay a client to save those requests. What I would gladly pay is a client that makes those requests testable and repeatable in an ergonomic way. HURL come close, but its testing language is quite limited and disappointing.

I'm sorry for being harsh, but the goal should not be making HTTP requests easy. The goal should be making HTTP requests easily testable in an automatic way. That's why I still use Laravel Guzzle, I write requests and test them in programmatic way with a proper testing framework.
Sure, previous status quo was pretty much that practically. The "totally won't remove abortion protection" suprem court remove that middle ground.

The obvious issue here is that conservative pro-life is nit about life, it is about punishing women. They don't care about anyone born.
The "I have nothing to hide" perspective on privacy is immediately revealed as disingenuous when you ask them to place a web cam in their shower.

Privacy clearly is valuable for it's own sake.
Here's my post from April 2023 flagged as "misinformation" where I state exactly the premise shown to be true by this study, followed by repeated badgering and threats that I was "spreading misinformation" breaking site rules:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35461613
And so that self-selects for people who already are unemployed then, right? Most developers I know (including myself) look for a new job while still having a job, as to not create a financial hole in-between. I'd be curious if that doesn't then end up with lower quality candidates who ended up unemployed to begin with?
Even if this was true, breaking things with reckless abandon has real human costs today and will until they’re fixed. That’s part of the reason government is ‘inefficient’ is the responsibility to serve everyone and get as close to zero downtime as possible.
Or maybe it'll accelerate the much needed improvements.
Yeah agreed - there are actually many, smaller flashes of insight, but most of them don't lead to anything. I once joked that you could probably compress all the time I was actually going in the right direction in my PhD down to about a month or two. That's a bit glib, often seeing why an approach fails gives you a much better idea of what a proof 'has to look like' or 'has to be able to overcome'. But many months of my PhD were working on complete dead-ends, and I certainly had a few very dark days because of that. Research math takes a lot of perseverance.
I guess the big test will be running Kaze Emanuar’s code through it.
What I found in a search:

> A merchant of record (MoR) is a legal entity responsible for selling goods or services to an end customer. They handle all payments and take on the associated liabilities, such as collecting sales tax, ensuring Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance, and honoring refunds and chargebacks.
Would you say military jumps out?[0] Medicare + Social Security + Health + Income Security add up to 44% already; much larger than the 15.5% military budget. Or am I misreading it?

[0] https://www.usaspending.gov/explorer/budget_function
"Smart fellas"? The guy is a billionaire, and all he can find are a few 20-years old edgelords with names like "Big Balls" who make racist comments in online forums?
They were hired to, and authorized explicitly by the President to access that data. In writing.

That's as valid of a reason as you can get in the executive branch.
Maybe the dog just values immediate reward higher even though it understands it could get even more later? How would you control for that?
I suspect many people who don't have strong networks for whatever reason resent that. To which you could probably tack on not having gone to the "right" schools or having a public portfolio.
I assume the browser encoded the space to + with x-www-form-urlencoded, then the server never decoded it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding#The_applicati...
> The structure of DNA was seen in a vision in James Watson's dream

I believe this is apocryphal. Watson likely said this because he stole Rosalind Franklin's research.
An Iranian Drone Lands in Queens
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/opinion/an-iranian-drone-lands-in-queens...
Show HN: GitTok – TikTok but for interesting GitHub repos
I built this as a more productive alternative to my hours spent scrolling through twitter or reels. it's all client side code and has no back-end.
Deepfakes and porn.
> python is changing much faster than it did in the 2.x days.

I think part of the reason Guido stepped down was that the BDFL structure created too much load on him dealing with actual and potential change, so its unsurprising that the rate of change increased when the governance structure changed to one that managed change without imposing the same load on a particular individual.
Same play as the meat industry leveraging "data analytics" to fix and sort at https://www.agristats.com/.

[1]https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/four-states-join-jus...

[2]https://farmaction.us/2023/10/12/food-price-fixing-is-still-...
Language evolves. Capitalization is an artifact of a period where capitalizing the first letter made a lot of sense for the medium (parchment/paper). Modern culture is abandoning it for speed efficiency on keyboards or digital keyboards. A purist would say that we should still be using all capitals like they did in Greek/Latin which again was related to the medium.

I'll likely continue using Capitalization as a preference and that we use it to express conventions in programming, but I totally understand the movement to drop it and frankly its logical enough.
You mean misunderstanding the data, coming to the wrong conclusions, etc? Data science always has an issue with bullshit KPIs, shallow depth of statistics, and mostly mangling stuff keeping the manager happy. Still it's much better than not having any data analysis.

Whether it benefits from being in a single datalake idk. We really don't know how the operations are being done, we're mostly just reacting to news reports and outside guessing.

I'm assuming it will be basically how Palantir works in government health care and intelligence agencies where they aggregate multiple data sources from a bunch of old and new databases and have complex analytical tools on top.
With god mode, it isn't a joke.
Then you should likewise believe that the legislative branch should continue to determine how funds are allocated, and which agencies and departments are created and continue to function.

Let's not be disingenuous.
You're really standing on the shoulders of giants when you rely on the classification of finite simple groups.

Giants whose work has (dirty little secret) never truly been verified. The proof totals about 10,000 pages. At the end of the effort to prove it there were lots of very long papers, with a shrinking pool of experts reviewing them. There have been efforts to reprove it with a more easily verified proof, but they've gone nowhere.

Hopefully, the growing ease of formalization will lead to a verification some day. But even optimistically that is still a few years out.
I told the kids not to name the roosters, but we eat them regardless. Once again, humans excel at holding contradictory thoughts.