skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been self-improving at full capacity for 15 years straight (20 years if you count school years were I was distracted by school work). I basically worked with every piece of software you can imagine. Countless programming languages, C++ game programming, shaders, artificial neural networks (implemented from scratch), frontend, backend, microcontrollers (ATMEL), proof of stake blockchains, large range of databases, vector databases, kubernetes, TCP, websockets... I built successful open source projects, I implemented a lamport signature library from scratch with an improvement from Ralph Merkle to cut the signature size by half and also implemented a merkle signature tree library for key-reuse. I implemented a decentralised deterministic orderbook and DEX to trade between quantum-resistant blockchains which I also built from scratch... At the end of the day experience doesn't really matter. Socializing is far more important. You don't need much skill to go places. Most people who do well don't that know much outside of their niche. You don't need to be hustling like crazy to be a leading expert in one narrow domain.
There are some odd patterns in the voting data. I'm not saying this is proof, but it's definitely weird.

https://electiontruthalliance.org/clark-county%2C-nv

https://www.thenumbersarewrong2024.com/across-the-us/swing-s...

Then combine that with all the election interference we know Elon was doing, and previous years of being concerned about the security of voting machines.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crlnjzzk919o

https://apnews.com/article/election-security-voting-machines...

There are reasons to think the votes may have been tampered with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42994293

This was previously discussed on HN before getting flagged like most political topics.
Let’s call it “trumpism” then. And his supporters and enablers “trumpis”.

It’s not really “better” but at least, it’s specific to what he does.
>signal-confirm[.]site is registered in Ukraine

The WHOIS is usually fake made up data so don't know why you are using that to claim it's registered in Ukraine. Russia is also known to use stolen credentials, SIM cards etc. from their neighbouring countries, including Ukraine, for things like this.
Past performance is no guarantee of future results. This administration is already much more aggressive and corrupt than the previous go around. Trump has been abundantly clear that he does not like or respect democracy and he might very well have the power to end it now. Congress's authority is already being usurped in blatant ways and they are openly talking about not following court orders. If they completely toss the courts aside and survive the resulting backlash (very likely) our system of government as we know it is over.

The conditions for this are being set as we watch. Dictators always prize loyalty above competence, which is exactly what our current leader is doing.

I don't doubt that nearly everyone involved in managing our recent elections are conscientious and professional, but what are they going to do if a bunch of troops with guns show up to change the results?
I never said the election was illegitimate, just that most of the fears of right wing voters were.
>Where are the folks who preached checks and balances 2009-2016, and decried rule by executive order now?

Rule by executive order is obviously only a problem when Democrats do it.

Also why bother with impeachment? He's already been impeached twice. It's nothing more than a strongly worded reprimand, it doesn't accomplish anything.
Though from the objectivist standpoint, maybe the real question the blogger is asking is not whether this will lead to exploitation of others, but whether it will lead to exploitation of oneself. Will it lead to mass exploitation of developed-world non-billionaires? And if so, are you being ethical to yourself if you use it?
You are not a great fan of Morrison v. Olson, are you?
Trump calls himself King in this tweet. I repeat - The White House publishes a quote from the sitting president calling himself King.

This has nothing to do with DOGE, which is a mirage anyway. It has everything to do with Musk, who enabled and is actively helping this King. Or more probably he's actively trying to become the King himself, by first getting rid of Democracy, then getting rid of the current King.
Well duh! They got a kafkaesque promotion using their upgraded resume!
The good news is we in GA are finally getting reasonable 100LL replacements like G100UL and Swift 100R - and not just in the lab, but rolling out at airports. The best time for this to have happened would have been two decades ago: the second best time is this year.
It's really surprising, isn't it? I think they get caught up in minutia of this vs that. So much of medical research just ends up copping out with a surgeons preference option, even though it's meant to inform the surgeon!

Just hard to do the basic science in a field like this though, can't go breaking bones to figure out the best way to make them heal.
Because the debt is a red herring.
Please someone give input on this. It's extremely important and worrying.
> “Optimal load” is really just a tautology.

It's not just a tautology, because it correctly implies that the right amount of load is not zero.

And it's hard to expect an acronym by itself to be very specific.
> The disincentives that have always prevented the executive from blatantly violating the law are still in force and unchanged.

We’re just gonna pretend Trump v. United States, 603 U.S. 593 (2024) doesn’t exist, are we?
Making my static blog generator 11 times faster
I imagine it would be cumbersome to manage many relationships with recipe authors and that the actual payments made would be small enough that it might not be worth the effort to set up.

Imagine being a recipe author and having 15 or 20 AI app authors trying to each give you $0.25 a month. At some point it makes sense to handle flows like that without requiring the humans to explicitly set them up, at which point you might as well use BAT, but since so many are allergic to crypto--with good reason--maybe that's a non starter also.
As discussed elsewhere, Deepmind are also working on extending Alphafold to simulate biochemical pathways and then looking to tackle whole-cell simulation. It's not quite pipetting, but this sort of AI scientist would likely be paired with the simulation environment (essentially as function calling), to allow for very rapid iteration of in-silico research.
If any Apple employees are reading this, the Apple Music page for David Matthews https://music.apple.com/au/artist/david-matthews/616619 mixes up 3 different people:

1. Keyboardist David Matthews born in 1942 who made the album "Dune" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Matthews_(keyboardist)

2. Rock musician David Matthews born in 1967 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Matthews

3. Jazz saxophonist David Matthews born in 1911 (the bio section of the Apple Music page is about him) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Matthews_(saxophonist)

I have submitted a feedback ticket to Apple but I thought I would also leave it here.
Centrally-controlled social media platforms are not a good thing, period. Neither Twitter/X, nor BlueSky. Let's not fete them.
I have been running pi-hole on a raspberry for years with no downtime, op is either pitching for the DNS provider or they have not deployed their pi-hole correctly.
Technical talent with transferable skills for higher paying work aren't incentivized to work on deployment schedule. But really, why assume NSA capable of obfuscating against PRC also stacked with talent. The parsimonious answer is then why bother, everyone knows they're deep in each others networks for decades and will continue to be. So let the hackers have their weekends.
I am British, we have a real king. He cannot do any of this kind of stuff. I am so glad we have him, though it is only recently I have come to understand his value, which is to increase the accountability of those who do make decisions. Long may he reign (first time I ever said that!)
The Value of Emotional Check-Ins
> setting up the president as the sole power center is an inherently unstable system.

Autocracies can be very stable... for a while depending on how much people are able to protest (or not). You could argue that N Korea has been "stable" (from the standpoint of the ruling family) for over 60 years.

> There is a very good reason why the founding fathers built in an elaborate system of checks and balances.

Sure that's what we were all taught in school. But it turns out that the whole system is heavily dependent on the executive branch "doing the right thing". But what good is it for the Judicial or Legislative branches to rule against the executive when the executive is in charge of enforcement? Even Nixon was eventually able to be shamed into doing the right thing, but if we have a president who can't be shamed into doing the right thing... well, I suspect we're about to find out, but my guess is that the checks and balances aren't going to be effective.
If you are from USA, I will suggest you to think about the name of your country and your continent and compare the situation with Europe.
Really. <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...>
Something like https://atlasgo.io/?
I'm not addressing whatever policy was changed here. I don't care, and it isn't the problem.

The problem is, very clearly, that our President is declaring himself a King. The hallmark of a King, or any monarch, is absolute ruling power. His actions have spoken well enough for themselves, but posting "LONG LIVE THE KING" from the official White House account, with a graphic depicting him in a crown (and an accompanying, identical caption), cannot possibly be interpreted any other way except in bad faith.
Performance degradation?
You can do small refactors here and there but usually things get complex after some time. My first advice was to not overthink on architecture in the beginning so it is inevitable that you will end up with something quite unorganized after a while. The assumption here is that in the beginning you won't know what the architecture will look like in the future because you are in startup/discovery mode.

Refactoring such a codebase while keeping everything running can be a monumental effort. I found it very hard to keep people who work on such a project motivated. Analyzing the use cases, coming up with a new design incorporating your learnings and then seeing clear progress towards the goal of a cleaner codebase is much more motivating. Engineers get the chance to do something new instead of "moving code around".

I'm not saying rewrite everything. When you get to this point it usually makes sense to start thinking about these abstractions which I advised to avoid in the beginning. You can begin to separate parts of the system by responsibility and then you rewrite just one part and give it a new API which other parts of your system will consume. Usually by that time you'll also want to restructure your database.
I really hope the Ladybird browser project succeeds in the next few years, because it seems that Mozilla is digging Firefox' grave deeper with every step they take.
Regarding the client apps, I find them to be mostly not neccessary now that you can identify clients to DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS endpoints. What do you miss?
Honestly I would be somewhat surprised if a good chunk of Congressional Republicans weren't high on their own supply at this point
It's a pity some people are against the free market and the simple law of supply and demand. The fact is roads cost money, and we can't possibly fit all cars on the road, thus there needs to be some kind of a mechanism of regulation so that traffic works. I don't see why not just let the market deal with it, especially since in the US everything otherwise needs to be economical including healthcare. But somehow car drivers need to be coddled.
You just need enough to poison the blockchain
The audio is awful. The old landlines advertised hearing a pin drop. And no one laughed at that concept. Imagine trying to hear something comparable with today's mobile phones.
And the results here are exactly why I will never be an early adopter of a $700 AI gadget
Defending Open Source AI
Representatives with term limits. It blows my mind that someone can be a career congressperson. It creates precisely the same adverse incentives as being a career president. Your whole focus becomes making sure you stay in power. Which for congresspeople means toeing the party line.
Maybe you are the one who is wildly off base as to how many people it takes to do the work in the government? Maybe you are filled with Trump Derangement Syndrome and everything he does is wrong no matter what? I actually worked in the government and saw how ridiculous things were and this was a couple of decades ago. It's only worse now.

$36T is mildly in debt? 50% of our tax revenue will be used to pay our interest on the debt in the next 5 years. It sounds like you have no understanding about how much debt we are in, especially considering that most of our debt has been bought by the Federal Reserve, which is essentially printing money.

Nothing about this destroys democracy. Managing our debt and spending allows us to enjoy more democracy not less.
No pain, no gain
Challenges of Running a Global Engineering Team
"Hot Shards in Your Area" - 10/10 heading
>More to the point, the DoGE audits are projected to save the federal government hundreds of billions of dollars, which should significantly reduce the deficit which is currently projected at two trillion dollars.

Oh come the fuck on. Projected by whom? If they are looking to reduce the deficit, why are they floating tax breaks that will cost the country billions?

Have some skepticism, will you?
No, no one cares about AVP.
When I was a kid (not in the U.S), I remember village elders diagnosing all kinds of illnesses simply from checking one's pulse, without asking any questions or even talking. These are people with minimum education, minimum or zero exposure to science or labs or modern medicine.

Now we have all kinds of powerful, fancy machines and drugs and procedures and today's doctors still misdiagnose, mistreat even relatively simple issues.

I don't know if it is because we as humans have lost touch with nature, our own bodies or we have way more illnesses today than I was a kid 4 decades ago or what else is the reason. It is kinda depressing and mind boggling at the same time.
There are definitely tangible predictive differences in the case of, say, Russia vs USA. Things like "If you go to the capital with a bunch of friends carrying placards saying '$LEADER is corrupt and evil and should be replaced by $OPPOSITION' how many of you end up in a jail cell in the next day?".

If there is literally no tangible difference then it's just label games and metaphysics and doesn't matter.

> Your personal income has absolutely no predictive value on gdp.

It actually is correlated (admittedly in most day-to-day cases it's just a lagging indicator, but things like natural disasters hit both). It's not the strongest correlation but it would still be evidential. Definitely under 1.0 bits though... One would need a LOT of such observations and having them not screen each other off to start getting a convincing number of bits.

Probably not realistic to have humans manage these sorts of numerous tiny updates though...

/nitpicks

> Ah, but if either side distrusts the other about whether the observation made is truthfully reported, how do you solve that? It requires some amount of trust and right now there’s a very clear divide there.

Yeah, it gets much trickier like that. But I do think two reasonable people from the opposite political sides could agree on some sort of observable to the extent their disagreement is anything other than narrative.
Hockey Canada is similar.

Paid out a lot of $$$ to quietly settle numerous sexual abuse claims/lawsuits.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey_Canada_sexual_assault...

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6695731
It is exactly that! It is the boogeyman they trot out. You should also read up on the Two Santas strategy.
> If a company goes bankrupt they can’t buy back the devices.

Yes, but in this specific scenario the purchasing entity is far from bankrupt at least financially.
Relative Importance of Attractiveness and Intelligence to Mate Preferences
It's especially disappointing to see that they killed off the SE with this release, as it was the previous inexpensive and smaller option. The screen alone on this new 16e is larger across the diagonal than the entire device on the SE 3rd edition, and the SE famously had the traditional huge bezel.
Have you ever donated? What services do you want that shouldn't be available to non-paying users.
Have been using it for a long time, never have any issues and you can even use it via Tailscale which is nice: https://tailscale.com/kb/1218/nextdns
Lol are we already at the level of psychopathy to be considering not giving humans water because they're less efficient than an LLM?
>This comment isn't witty, and it doesn't contain any useful information or promote discussion either.

Complaining about the comment isn't witty, contain useful information, or promote discussion either.

I would recommend being the change you want to see in the world (or avoid political threads).
HN as an ivory tower.
Yep, it's a neat project, and keeps getting better. Pretty sure that I've been using it for over 20 years at this point. It was one of the things I put on my Wii, back when I was playing with homebrew on that.
But who enforces impeachment? Who evicts the President?
Because the 13" is close to the same physical size as the old 11
Best to wait a few days before another submission, you had a popular post yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43087482

You're also encouraged not to use HN primarily for promotion, but for curiosity https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
SIP trunk typically use very dated codecs like GSM at super low quality.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Rate

> The quality of the coded speech is quite poor by modern standards

> The codec is still widely used in networks around the world.
I broke my ankle 15 weeks ago, and decided to weight bear early against the advice of my doctors. In my experience, it caused me no issues and prevented my calf from atrophying further. My foot was also super tight, and I can't imagine that would have gotten better by staying off it.

I think a lot of medical advice is based on what doesn't go wrong, rather than what might give the best outcome. I'm sure there are doctors who have tried one thing or another, had it go wrong and then become more conservative as a result. This prevents the worst outcomes, but also gives a lot more people and average or subpar rather than great outcome.

In any case there's a lot of research showing that rest is almost always the wrong answer nowadays. Tbh, I don't understand how people can stand it; I was thoroughly sick of the hospital bed within a day and sick of being a couch potato within a week. I would have walked even earlier I think knowing what I know now.
I think a lot more American need to read the Constitution.
If they were able to follow through on this absolute power would California succession be on the cards?
yes, but google has a long history of being egregious, with the additional detail that their work is often irreproducible for technical reasons (rather than being irreproducible for missing methods). For example, we published an excellent paper but nobody could reproduce it because at the time, nobody else had a million spare cores to run MD simulations of proteins.
Second will be how the internet with social media like twitter/x destroyed our democracy.
Ye it was unfortunate. I remember at the time I thought it was silly but innocent. I don't think I even knew you could buy loot boxes for money.
Discussion (46 points, 3 hour ago, 33 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43105950
The actual papers don't overhype. But the university PR's regarding those papers? They can really overhype the results. And of course, the media then takes it up an extra order of magnitude.
Same. The only outages I had were self-caused due to my (at the time) inexperience with Linux and the hardware of the RPi it was running on - namely the lack of RTC support and my unfamiliarity with fallback methods for Linux that didn't rely on HTTPS for NTP. My own fault, really, but an amazing learning experience.

Since then, it's trucked along without issue for years. Couldn't use the internet without it at this point.
Is gen ai app development really that important?

Does it make real apps? Or only prototypes and trash?

Do we need quantity or quality apps?
"government" and "unprofitable public services" Should never be in the same sentence. Especially for the 4th largest country by landmass.

The only legitmate ways you justify cutting public transit is

1. a superior form of transit has been established for a while

2. Literally no one is using the transit for whatever reason (which is nearly impossible)

3. mass extinction occurs and there's no one left to transit (though at that point transit is the least of our issues)

It's not supposed to be a direct profit. You Transport people around to businesses to sell to, work to operate the city with, and overall stimulate the economy.
It 100% was written with the explicit purpose of giving Trump the power to do whatever he wants. Including ignoring the Supreme Court hilariously enough.

Anyway, the whole discussion is moot because Trump is turning America into a authoritarian state, so rules and laws and elections soon don’t matter anymore.
I’m skeptical that the people who would complain about that wouldn’t find something else to complain about if you resolved the first complaint. I’d recommend implementing product features that you think are reasonable and accepting the fact that you will get complaints from people who disagree.
Of course your phone has a short runtime, it both has a small battery and it's 3 years old so the battery's worn out. One of the main reasons why small phones remain a niche is that improvements in battery technology have been far outpaced by improvements in SoCs, so the easiest way to improve a device's battery life vs. the older model is to make it larger so it can fit a bigger battery. Even when it was new, the regular iPhone 13 had a 3220 mAh battery while the 13 mini had a 2400 mAh battery, despite both having the same processor. You end up sacrificing battery life to achieve the small size.
The civil rights movement would not have succeeded without the confluence of growing anti-government sentiment and protests around the Vietnam War, and fears about the spread of communist influence in the US. This forced American leaders to give 15% of their population basic human rights denied to them under Jim Crow laws.
Would love to get this plugged into intellij/datagrip
This is why I think that web-centric, open source, hosted core apps would be nice to see.

If you want to use the web as your primary application runtime, you're currently stuck with closed-source apps, or pretty bad open source apps that are difficult to integrate.

Sandstorm did (and still is as a community project) try to integrate some existing apps into a cohesive-ish platform with nice security guarantees, but it wasn't really made accessible to every day users.

Something similar to Google Workspace, but open source and hosted by a foundation could be a nice default starting point and/or a principled platform to use, for a lot of users.
I don't have opinions on most of this stuff but I know of some distant relative of mine who voted for Trump not because he's some sort of fascist but just because he didn't understand why voting for Trump maybe wasn't the best idea. People like this probably exist all over the place.