skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an example of what I like to call the "both sides fallacy". There are several reasons why people try and make a both sides equivalence in US politics. For example:

- As a way of not having to know anything while appearing intellectual or somehow "above it all";

- Genuine and fundamental misunderstanding of the political forces in the US. Example: thinking there's such a thing as "socialism" or "the far left" in America;

- To knowingly deflect from the excesses of the conservative movement.

Here are the two political forces in American politics:

1. The fascist party who has had a 50+ year project to take over and subvert every aspect of government to destroy any aspect of democracy and create a neofuedal dystopia masquerading as a Christian theocracy; and

2. The controlled opposition party who loves nothing more than to be out of power and, when in power, to do nothing. It's why Democrats not in office are suddenly for progressive policies like medicare-for-all (as Kamala Harris was in 2019) but when on the cusp of taking power, they have a policy of no longer opposing the death penalty, capitulating to right-wing immigratino policy, arming a genocidal apartheid state and the only tax breaks proposed are for startups.

Look at how successful progressive voter initatives were in the last election compared to the performance of the Democratic Party. Florida overwhelmingly passed recreational marijuana and abortion access (~57% for, unfortunately you need 60%+ to pass in Florida) while Trump carried the state by 14. Minimum wage increases passed in deep red Missouri. In fact, abortion access has never failed to garner a mjaority of votes whenever it's allowed to be put in front of voters, no matter how deep red the state.

So why if progressive policies are so popular, are the Democrats so opposed to them as a platform? Really think about that. The Democratic Party doesn't exist to abuse power. It exists to destroy progressive momentum at every level of government above all else.
That won't stop Russia. It just buys them time to regroup and keep pushing.
Because this thread is about a (potential) technological flaw in a communication app. It has nothing to do with the sitting US president.
Honestly dang, I'm seeing mostly not thoughtful substantive commentary here, just ideological battling.

Which is a shame because this is certainly a topic it's possible to do that on (e.g. this comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43105417 ).

Are the good comments really worth the large amount of heat?
The contracts to spacex should be cut.

State Department cut the Tesla deal that Biden signed.
Hit exactly this problem in production, malloc not releasing memory.

Previous discussion with 94 points, 59 comments from 2023: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37791897
It's funny because from my experience airline systems are very imperfect (timing wise).

I (unwisely) tried to purchase an Icelandair ticket via the Chase travel portal. I would get a reservation number, go buy seats on Icelandair's website, and a few days later the entire reservation would vanish into the ether. Rinse and repeat 3x.

I can't remember the exact verbiage, but basically tickets can be "reserved" and "booked". One means the ticket is allocated, and one means the ticket is actually paid for. I eventually sat on the phone with an executive support person as they booked the ticket and got it all the way through. It turns out Chase reserves a ticket on an airline but as an SLA of ~3 days to actually pay for the ticket. Icelandair's requires a ticket to be paid with in 24 hours, so it was timing out.
The card games listed have the information aspect in common. The slot machine is not a Poker, it's a poker-themed slot machine and the game people play with it is called losing money.
This probably veers well into classified territory, but how closely do test launches simulate actual nuclear exchange situations?
There’s prosecutorial discretion. If Congress doesn’t like it, impeachment is the remedy.
100%, this is very definitely him acting immorally and illegally.
Uh, no. It's because when plane engines break they fall out of the sky onto things. They break when they aren't correctly modified to take the new fuel. It is not very realistic to mandate conversions for all of the (often quite old) planes today- like from manufacturers going out of business. It is not trivial to convert an engine, fuel system etc. and also meet the same performance so that things like stall and thrust and altitude are still accurate across the important ranges.

In practice, it's a choice between:

1. Banning or buying out older planes at not-insignificant cost
2. Swapping fuels and doing your best to get people to fix their planes, causing crashes
3. Playing it slow, requiring new planes to be compatible with lead-free fuel, building new lead-free infrastructure, and gradually encouraging people to transition

Currently we're doing 3 until it's determined that 1 is cheap enough to do. That said the FAA could certainly be doing more, but that's much more (IMO) on them not taking the issue seriously than on voters being appeased. Its a national agency, not the local school board.
Will France nuke Russia to retaliate for Russia nuking Poland? If I were a Pole, I'd be very hesitant to rely on that. (The US too, even before the current administration, but at least I'd know the US could trash the Russian military by conventional means.)
> Because it just sounds like a manual version of stacktraces

Because it is. I don't understand it either.
I might be wrong on being most, and eventually they might even be in minority, still some well known across Europe, have started with people that originally were democratically elected deciding that it was about time to change everything from inside.
State of Create
Happy Mastra user here! Strikes the right balance between letting me build with higher level abstractions but providing lower level controls when needed. I looked at a handful of other frameworks before getting started and the clarity & easy of use of Mastra stood out. Nice work.
Tactile/novelty/etc.

That said, we have probably (collectively) given up reliability and quality to various degrees for in-our-pocket (mostly) always-there ubiquity.
The president can arguably pack the court and with his majorities nobody will stop him

If you believe the Supreme Court is an effective guardrail against tyranny then you're deeply mistaken. The only true safeguard against tyranny is the American people refusing to comply and responding with force of arms if pushed.
I think there is potential for useful satire in nearly any conversation where teasing out nuances of opinion and meaning are also useful. It serves as a tool for highlighting and contrast by virtue of extremes or absurdity or surfacing of illogical reasoning.
That's a great idea. Recipe authors can be compensated by the number of times Preppy adds their recipe to a user's grocery store's online cart.
To put it in perspective I've previously calculated that eating a single beef burger is worse for the environment in terms of CO2 produced than using a high token I/O "reasoning" AI model all day long.

The "AI uses a lot of electricity and creates a lot of carbon" crowd are typically way off when it comes to understanding the environmental impact of AI compared to the environmental impact of other typical daily activities.
You can't say you're serious about cutting debt and say "$10 billion is too small to care about!"
There was an election in November 2024.
The center–left candidate, Harris, lost.
The reactionary–conservative candidate, Trump, won.

Unlike many other countries, the President is both head of government and head of State in the US.

The President of the US has always exercised control over foreign relations. The President can negotiate treaties but they must be ratified by the US Senate to take effect.
Goodbye RAG – How Hebbia Solved Information Retrieval for LLMs
They are 100% ready for this job. It's just that the job is not what they officially say it is...
> The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.

Seems fine that the bureaucrats to whom executive power is delegated should be answerable to the executive.
Not sure if I should laugh or cry.
> My main question is: Is there any method or configuration that can ensure that even on my self-hosted VPS, the provider cannot access my data?

Short answer: No, you cannot.

Long answer: It depends on the resources they plan to allocate on the task. This article provides an excellent deep dive into the topic, based on an fairly recent incident involving an XMPP server in Germany: https://www.devever.net/~hl/xmpp-incident
> Sadam, Bin Ladin, and others were all originally our allies that we betrayed.

They were not allies, or not at all in the same sense. They were people the US did business with because of a common enemy, and then stopped doing business with when the situation changed. I don't think Saddam or Bin Laden thought for a moment that they were allies of the US, like Denmark and Japan are.
Tl;dr it's because they don't want to neglect the other output formats PNG and SVG. For those they'd have to render the PDF, for which there is apparently no satisfactory rust package.
> I think the iphone does a lot more in the background than you might consider initially.

I understand that. My point being that 25 year old tech, before the real miniatyrization of circuits and power efficiency mind you, has 7x charge time and yet we are impressed by a few additional hours.

> Here is an experiment to try. Use your phone as you currently do, but turn on airplane mode when you aren't otherwise using the phone. Leave it on overnight too.

Sure but to what benefit?

I already addressed the tweaks i did do in a sibling comment. Putting the phone in airplane mode is no different than having a dead battery in terms of usability.
You've seen it used correctly many times because language evolves and "decimate" has taken on a new meaning other than the one used to describe ancient Roman military practice.
I think the same happens with any history of warrior cultures. Same with Japanese samurai, etc.

They enter into popular culture, get mythologized, and all nuance flies out the window.
I use Bluesky and literally only see Gamedev content. Unlike X or whatever, I control what I see.
They believe in it, but they also believe that all Democrats are actually filthy cheats who stole every election and thereby inherently illegitimate.
> I interpret this, I think reasonably, to not include encrypted information

I disagree since attacks and leaks can happen/have happened which could compromise that data. Signal was already found to be vulnerable to CacheOut. Even ignoring that guessing or brute forcing a pin is all anyone would need to get a list of everyone a signal user has been in contact with. just having that data (and worse keeping it forever) is a risk that absolutely should be disclosed.

> I don't want to read them in depth. But it sounds like they are again ultimately saying "PIN+SGX is not secure enough".

that was my conclusion back when all this started. The glaring lie and omissions in their privacy policy were just salt in the wound, but charitably, it might be a dead canary intended to help warn people away from the service. Similarly dropping the popular feature of allowing unsecured sms/mms and introducing a crypto wallet nobody asked for might have also been done to discourage the apps use.
It's not a final yes/no. A two-thirds majority in both chambers can overrule the presidential veto. For example:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55510151
There was a huge amount of lobbying in the 1970’s which says otherwise.

The small Aircraft market is tiny and diverse as aircraft last a long time and many past manufacturers have failed. So, there wasn’t a viable alternative for many airplanes owners who couldn’t just swap to some other fuel or certified engine at the time. It’s been 50 years and people are still making the same arguments.
It bothers me that the word 'hallucinate' is used to describe when the output of a machine learning model is wrong.

In other fields, when models are wrong, the discussion is around 'errors'. How large the errors are, their structural nature, possible bounds, and so forth. But when it's AI it's a 'hallucination'. Almost as if the thing is feeling a bit poorly and just needs to rest and take some fever-reducer before being correct again.

It bothers me. Probably more than it should, but it does.
Where is the fighting, and who runs the cellular networks in that area?

I’d want to run military communications on a network my side controls
Debt isn't always bad. But our current debt load is bad and will never be paid off. 50% of our tax revenues are going to be used to pay interest from our debt. That is a huge curtailing of spending because of this unsustainable debt.
How could any rep either not think any of this is important or not be actively involved? This is some of the craziest shit the US government has ever seen.
He seems to be optimizing and polishing his ability to do so, which is very dangerous even if technically the reach is the same.
Clearly, people with employment rights and contractual rights are not fired with no cause and no severance. So I don't see how to square this with your comment.
> That item says DOGE canceled a contract of almost $8 billion with D&G Support Services for services provided to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Investigative reporting from the New York Times revealed that the contract was valued at only $8 million.

I guess it's better these geniuses aren't working on FSD.
If the license isn't open source, then the SDK shouldn't be labeled as open source.
It would be interesting to see Mozilla diversify itself from its Google stipend, but there seems to be an inherent conflict of interest at play when a non-profit like Mozilla starts to expand its offerings beyond the core product; the tendency is for leadership to use these projects for empire-building. Wikipedia suffers from a similar problem where the core product is great, but the parent foundation uses the product to finance other projects that are only tangentially related to the product itself.
isnt that ssb?
The second part of the title is more explicit: Compilation of Julia code for deployment in model-based engineering
Perplexity claims to have purged Chinese censorship from its new DeepSeek clone
> there's a decent chance you'd get mildly sick

Aha! I finally know the cause!
> You do realize that Java is objectively less verbose than Go?

I might agree if you're speaking about Java since ~11 or so.

One of my biggest complaints about Java, especially before the lambda syntax caught on, was how many extra files it made me create. I felt like every project had lots of wrapper classes, and people would make a make a file for each class.

You could argue that that was "bad" Java and they should have nested the classes, and that's fair enough, but it certainly wasn't uncommon Java. It artificially makes the language feel way too verbose if you have ten files more than would be necessary in a comparable language.

Once people started to embrace the lambda syntax, I feel that Java got immediately more fun to write; you weren't constantly creating one-off instantiations of interfaces or classes (well, at least not explicitly anyway), and the language felt considerably more streamlined.

Java 21 is actually one of the most pleasant surprises I've had in quite awhile in the tech world, in that I'm actually having fun writing Java. Sealed interfaces and record patterns make some code considerably more pleasant, and I actually have been writing Java in my free time, which is something that I would have said would never happen if you had asked me five years ago.

ETA:

https://youtu.be/jgkEHoc3YUw?t=288 See! I even said I would never enjoy writing Java!
It was a while ago. But late last century the "line item veto" which allowed presidents to get rid of things in bills they didn't like was rejected by the courts. Oddly Reagan (R) asked for this power initially, but Clinton (D) ended up getting it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line-item_veto_in_the_United_S...

"Congress granted this power to the president by the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 to control "pork barrel spending", but in 1998 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the act to be unconstitutional in 6–3 decision in Clinton v. City of New York.

The court found that exercise of the line-item veto is tantamount to a unilateral amendment or repeal by the executive of only parts of statutes authorizing federal spending, and therefore violated the Presentment Clause of the United States Constitution. Thus a federal line-item veto, at least in this particular formulation, would only be possible through a constitutional amendment. Prior to that ruling, President Clinton applied the line-item veto to the federal budget 82 times."
Spot on. I guess the reason is that many people working in industry are lazy and it's easy to follow some pattern mindlessly never questioning whether it works for them. That's ironic because engineering folks are supposed to be intellectuals of the modern world but that's far from truth.
Wasn't some offshore wind farm cancelled recently in the US?
Are you being sarcastic or do you seriously believe nuking the entire earth would be better than living in China??
Maybe via metadata? The size of the information, etc. Do you mean that they should have a caveat about that?

Or if you want to be literal, you have to say that they're storing sensitive information even if it's encrypted. But by connotation that phrase implies that someone other than the user could conceivably have access to it. So for all any user could care, they just as well are not storing it. Do you mean that they should rephrase it so it's literally correct?

Or do you mean that it's actually bad for them to be collecting safely encrypted sensitive data? Because if so, you literally cannot accept any encrypted messenger because 3rd parties will always have access to it.
Imagine an app where people list themselves as possessing lots of wealth and inadequate defenses and then asking for anonymous armed people looking for money to come to their location.
The "keyed SHA-256" in key transparency's leaf_hash is ok in its current state, but limits future evolution (or presents a risk if that evolution is not done carefully): SHA-256 is subject to length extension.

I could not follow where the leaf_hash is used carefully enough to figure out exactly how dangerous this is in the broader context and taking future evolution into account. But it's clearly safe as it is used now because all expected inputs have the same length.
> These are powers the Presidency already had.

Then what, in your mind, is the purpose of this EO?
> An article from Tom's Guide last year showed that "a single query on ChatGPT-4 can use up to 3 bottles of water

I don't understand how a statement this fucking stupid ever got traction
Gordian Knot: Broadcom and TSMC to Cut Intel into Two?
Out of curiosity, what was the thesis about? Can you share the PDF?
That applies to absolutely everyone. Convenient results are highlighted, inconvenient are either not mentioned or de-emphasized. You do have to be well read in the field to see what the authors _aren't_ saying, that's one of the purposes of being well-read in the first place. That is also why 100% of science reporting is basically disinformation - journalists are not equipped with this level of nuanced understanding.
State of Create 2025 [pdf]
you're underestimating the read load, by a lot
Again, I ask, where has this two-party to multiparty switch happened with single member elections?

Because I can't find an example in any country, yet it is appears to be taken as an article of faith that it will happen by proponents of ranked choice voting.

The evidence for switching from single member to multi-member elections is far more clear. Of course, you obviously can't have multi-member elections for President, the Senate because the Constitution staggered elections and courts have ruled against multi-member districts for the House in the past for violating the VRA.
They are saying that the USA is potentially a Russia-aligned threat actor.
Just goes to show how important having control over the model is for actual production applications
Lead in cars was banned in the 1970’s, any actual transition would have long been played out by now. A “this will be outlawed in 30 years” would have hit in 20 years ago.

Instead the people convinced regulators to simply wait until some hypothetical perfect alternative could be made.
> On top of all the other things that add uncertainty to our software (flaky servers, third-party APIs going down, scaling issues),

Plus the elephant in the room, that prompt injection and hallucinations are a fundamental way of life for the algorithm, even when it's not getting updated in the background.
Very. Election officials, across states and across parties, have been faithfully discharging their duties, often under pressure to not do so. This is a responsibility of the states, and not the federal government. If you're concerned, then work as a poll officer on election day.

In Virginia, I get to participate an incredibly professional and structured process that makes it easy for everyone who can vote to vote and makes sure there are many checks that the process is being followed correctly.
There's also that Peter Jackson's movies botch (intentionally, for dramatic purposes) some things that are present in the books.

For example, the city of Gondor seems like a giant fortress without any fields or farmers working outside its walls to sustain it. This even before any siege. So what do they eat?

Tolkien wouldn't have made this mistake, it's likely Jackson's. And I understand why: people want to see epic battles, farmers doing their thing are a low cinematic priority.
I have a toddler and I've been thinking about landlines for a while now. How do I teach him how to answer a call? I remember listening to my parents saying "this is she/he" when they answered a call and being amazed at that sentence.

But more than that, when he's a little older, how would he call anyone to get help? When a phone is locked, you can call 911, but it's not really obvious how. A landline would be a nice big target.

That said, our house, despite being a century old, doesn't have a single phone jack. I've been thinking about running an ethernet line for a VoIP phone, but they are pretty "buisness-y" and not the nicest to look at. Does anyone have a recommendation for a simple to use/nice to look at VoIP phone?

EDIT: Looks like there are adapters that take ethernet in (and I could split the PoE for power too) and go out to a phone cord. I would probably want to terminate it to a wall plate, but then I could just buy any old phone I liked.
What would that have to do with what I wrote?
Well done!

I created a keyboard-based local storage based time and to-do tracker 3 years ago.

I was starting out in web dev and wrote it for my own use but moved on to other stuff - don't think I even wrote any media queries. I think the codebase since, but just remembered I had it deployed on an internal site for testing - hackily removed a few things from it from the compiled JS and put it on Github.

Try it out here:
https://trackey-beige.vercel.app/

https://github.com/sateeshsai/trackey (compiled JS from a Svelte 3 codebase I lost to time)
The thread is about an attack by Russia on the app, which is American, and used by Americans and their allies. The President's policy toward those allies and Russia can have a substantial effect on whether Russia will risk attacking it or whether American security will protect Signal, its users, or its Ukrainian military users.
What is the "no show" rate?
To serve notice to the FCC, FTC, SEC, and CFTC that Trump intends to override their internal legal interpretations.
Five Kinds of Nondeterminism