skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is telling that you have that interpretation of executive power but not the same of regulatory power.

As proof, this isn't an American problem, it is nothing to do with the US constitution or "gridlock". In most English-speaking countries you have seen: massive increase in power by unelected officials, the vast majority of these officials have identical political views and operate with a political agenda (to be clear, at no point did anyone ask whether this was legal, whether these were "strongmen"), and this effect has paralysed government function in every country.

Even worse, this appears irrespective of clear limits. For example, the US system of political appointments of judges is clearly a bad idea, the incentives are awful, the results are predictable. But the same issue with judges overriding elected officials is occurring in countries where selection is (in theory) non-political.

The reason why is simple: there has never been a greater difference between the lives of the rulers and the ruled. The reason we have democracy is to resolve this problem.

But the US is a particularly extreme case of this: if you look at how government operates in the US, what is the actual connection with people's lives? The filth and decay in US cities is incredible given the amount of government spending...the answer why is simple: the spending is for government, the people don't matter.

Also, US-specific: it is extremely strange to characterise the US as a system of checks and balances if you look at actual real world political history rather than some theoretical imaginings of someone in the late 18th century. Checks and balances have always been dynamic. The reason why the outrage is so vitriolic (and the comparisons to Hitler so frequent...imagine if Hitler fired civil servants or changed regulatory policy, definitely the worst thing he did) is because the people being hit are the people who believed they would always be safe from oversight.
Looks like it is for http requests only? If so, wireshark is not an apt comparison.
Tell me you worked at Google without telling me you worked at Google
Oof. Those hit close to home for me, too.
Kids have so much joy on trampolines! I know they have dangers but net negative? Do you have data or anything?
IIRC He-Man was pretty merchandising driven so maybe not the best example. Except for Skeletor. That IRL origin story is priceless.
May end up doing that. We'll see.

I also write software for these beasties, and it may well be that I won't be able to justify avoiding getting one that has Apple Intelligence.
You do also get double the storage, double the RAM and a 24 megapixel camera upgrade.

Traditionally, the amount of RAM in your device is the limiting factor that controls how many years of updates you get.

So far, 8 years for the OG iPhone SE is the standing record for years of updates.
I'm sure we can make a framework around when they can lie. They can not lie to obtain facts or information while investigating. Doing so should poison what they gain and anything found afterwards.
There's an argument to be made that whether that rises to the level of harassment is up to the recipient of the of behaviour in question.

Another person may well just see it as a cost of doing business, a cost of operating in the world. There will be detractors, some of those will be malevolent snakes. We can mostly just ignore those as they very rarely represent a real and immanent threat.

If you've got nothing better to do with your time than waste it trying to antagonise a situation, you're probably wasting your life. And maybe the recipient can come to understand they can choose to be flattered by the attention - if many people are exerting effort to put you down, more power to you - you might actually be doing something important, and people hate that.
> The system isn't great or even good, but it's still functioning.

If it was, we wouldn't have unelected kids breaking and entering in some of the most sensitive government organizations, getting access to private data and dismantling institutions without congressional oversight.
Can you elaborate? I'm semi-familiar with the Signal protocol but I'm not sure what you are referring to here.
This is really interesting. I wonder how red-teams in State sponsored teams operate in real life. I guess every one has an NDA, but would love to get a general idea.

I assume it's a jungle out there, so teams need to protect themselves 24/7/365 and I'm surprised to find no activities in holidays.
this is from 2 days ago:

Roadmap to fault tolerant quantum computation using topological qubit arrays
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.12252
Show HN: Next.js back end rewrite in Rust
His team ran a query and shared the results. How is that zero? What do you expect him to provide? Litterally NOBODY is arguing that the results aren't accurate based on data other than an, easily verifiable, erroneous claim about the COBOL platform or "mUsK SAiD iT"
Very misleading headline, has nothing to do with servers.
Has anyone figured out where the mandate to eliminate academic 'tracking' came from?
It's the left, and America at large has rejected that garbage.
Woah, I had these too, totally forgot about them!

Does anyone remember the similar Narnia books? They were sort of in between CYOA and something like FF which are almost like a solo RPG
We live an in imperfect world. Some state secrets probably are for public benefit.

Government lies should be strongly regulated and see multiple layers of check and oversight. Re-review by new agents should be a frequent event. Lies should be expensive, they should have weight, and they should be only when strictly necessary for the good of the people.

As an example, 'fake' terrorists. Those who only rise to that level because someone in the government offered to sell (fake) explosives, etc. I believe that's more harm than good. However I'd also like real terrorists who would eventually figure out how to do bad things to get caught. Review, oversight, lies being expensive.
welp. for every single domain you interact with, you gotta do a dns lookup. visit a modern website like yahoo, cnn, wapo, whatever and that will be like 100 dns requests. your device hits your router, if it has no answer, it recursively goes up the line getting an answer. do that 100 times. that is just for resolution. you still gotta actually hit that endpoint and get whatever it is you are trying to get.

so if your dns is slow, there is a tremendous amount of latency added to virtually everything that you do. just because you can hit nextdns in 12ms does not mean the e2e duration for a single dns-then-fetch is going to be in the realm of 12ms. if nextdns doesn't have the answer it needs to go find it.
I figure you knew it, but OP seemed to be unaware of this.
For every fallacy there is a fallacy of that fallacy.

Words mean what they mean as intended by the people who use them, but they also have history. Also and especially, phrases have history. Keeping not only the original language but also the original alphabet/script/glyphs/characters strongly call back to that history.
Speaking as someone who has been working on a system for almost 10 years now (and it's a programming language and UI framework) the amount of times I have seen "this was so easy, we did it two days with three people" proof-of-concepts that legitimately ballooned into "a team of eight devs, two quarters of work" when actually funded makes me say that even the 10K line pull request probably isn't a valid measure of "the work". There's so much more to shipping a useful software facility than just the actual function "A -> B". How does this system interact with other systems (since the world is not actually a pure function side effects from pure functions are in fact observable), how does anyone know to use the new thing, what happens when the sub-systems this system depends on are in a degraded state, and so on and so on and so forth. If you don't solve these problems (or at least guard-rail them) before shipping then whoever owns them after shipping will have to solve them.
"Qi2 is based on Magsafe" is not the same as "Apple is... contributing to a new version of Qi"

Your statement implies that Qi2 used Magsafe as a starting point or that it's primarily based on Magsafe. Your statement is inaccurate and would lead people to think that Qi2 was mostly an Apple design.
I don't think it's quite correct to call it a regressive tax. Driving a car in Manhattan is a luxury, so this is a tax on a luxury that subsidizes transportation that works for everyone.
The meta-analysis study you cite suggests 2% loss @ 5 days and 5% loss at 10 days at the knee extensor muscles.

Notice that percentage loss is more than double for a doubling of bedrest time. It's not linear.

You're suggesting that muscle loss at the knee extensor is the same percentage for the rest of the body.

from the full text of the bedrest study mentioned in the outsideonline.com article - muscle loss was measured via DXA scan. see https://diabetesjournals.org/diabetes/article/65/10/2862/350...

After 1 week of bed rest, participants lost 1.4 ± 0.2 kg (range: 0.6 to 2.8 kg) lean tissue mass (Fig. 1A) (P < 0.01), representing a 2.5 ± 0.4% loss of lean tissue mass.
It's HELM now: Heat, Exercise, Lower, and Massage. They're all designed to maximize blood flow to, and inflammation in, the injured area. (Note that exercise just means to keep it moving.) Ice and elevation restrict the flow of fluids in and out of the injured area; ice especially slows down recovery and is only recommended for pain management.

(This is basically a simplified version of the protocol NFL teams have been using.)
OK. Maybe an extra 10 min of work in the future?

Compare that to the days or even weeks it's going to take you to migrate to a client-server database platform as soon as you need to scale to two webservers. All the queries that need to be tested and modified as necessary... potentially different table structures... the migration of data... no thanks.
Nature, Radiolab, NOVA, I probably haven't gone a week without watching or listening to something funded by the NSF since I was a kid. That's just the media stuff off the top of my head, hard to put a finger on just how much NSF funded research and projects impact our daily lives.
How old is your phone/battery? When you say less than a day, do you mean 24 hrs or the period of time you're awake?
Of course you do, thankfully I trust most readers to look at the evidence and see that without any doubt, you resorted to an insult and vulgarity when I did not, and then denied doing so.
It's worse than that -- this announcement is about one qubit, so even a few thousand not necessarily close at hand for this platform (let alone millions).
Microsoft Research entire point is that their approach will allow

"fault-tolerant quantum computing architecture based on noise-resilient, topologically protected Majorana-based qubits."

Roadmap to fault tolerant quantum computation using topological qubit arrays
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.12252
i have been getting bad migraines for as long as i can remember. bad enough to vomit when i was a kid. nothing ever helped except when i took a healthy dose of lsd in highschool and they stopped completely for five years or so. i had been getting them around once every two months before that. then they came back in college and slowly got worse until i was having basically one long migraine for up to a week at a time. then i started taking nurtech. it helped a lot but only worked half the time — and when it did work i could still feel my body reeling from it but without pain. here is something curious: i noticed that nurtech would put me into an extremely good mood… almost to the point of being a different person. without any euphoria or intoxication. specifically, i noticed that i was much more open emotionally, much more personable and friendly. more open to letting people in. and thats when i really started to have a new perspective on just how much this disease had robbed from me. i cant even imagine how awesome it would have been to not be interrupted by these migraines, to not have to feel the throbbing pain, and maybe the whole trajectory of my life would have been different if i had been a little kinder and likable which, if im being honest, i was kind of known for not being. i dont really take nurtech anymore because i have found that hard physical work, sunlight, reducing total calories and cardiovascular exercise basically put them into remission. and im afraid of what nurtech might do to me long-term after seeing how profoundly it alters my personality. based on everything i know, i think its safe to say that migraines are a metabolic disorder. neurons become overexcited due to metabolic dysfunction which then causes a depolarization cascade that sweeps across other regions of the brain. thats why keto helps so much. i wonder if ozempic has a beneficial impact on migraine?
The impacts of this on today’s music is unreal.

WWOZ is the local station and its djs are musical historians.

Enjoy https://www.wwoz.org/listen/player/
> Humane’s AI platform Cosmos, backed by an incredible group of engineers, will help us create an intelligent ecosystem across all HP devices from AI PCs to smart printers and connected conference rooms. This will unlock new levels of functionality for our customers and deliver on the promises of AI.

I can't wait for an HP AI printer
I threw together a toy project to see if it would help me understand the basic concepts and my takeaway was that, if you can shape your input into something a dedicated classification model (e.g. YOLO for document layout analysis) can work with, you can farm each class out to the most appropriate model.

It turns out that I can run most of the appropriate models on my ancient laptop if I don't mind waiting for the complicated ones to finish. If I do mind, I can just send that part to OpenAI or similar. If your workflow can scale horizontally like my OCR pipeline crap, every box in your shop with RAM >= 16GB might be useful.

Apologies if this is all stuff you're familiar with.
It might be 100,000 by now: “A confidential Ukrainian estimate from earlier this year [2024] put the number of dead Ukrainian troops at 80,000 and the wounded at 400,000, according to people familiar with the matter.”
[https://archive.ph/5wRcT]

And today Trump blamed the Ukrainians for the war going on for that long, saying they could have stopped it three years ago.
That's helpful! Thanks for clarifying. I'll have to check it out.
Loneliness Can Change the Brain
Growing Mozilla – and evolving our leadership
I mean, yes, technically it's "not new" for the President and Judiciary to disagree at this level. But doing so results in events like the Trail of Tears, which is pretty bad.

People are alarmed and concerned because they know it's not new. It's not difficult to find horrors in American history. Decorum and norms exist for the purpose of attempting to smooth over these stress points and make a safer power structure that hopefully prevents tragedies like this. The relative peace and safety we've enjoyed for the half century or so has been largely based on a modern era of good feelings and respectful norms.

When those norms go away and the authoritarian president dares the court to enforce the laws he breaks, people, rightly, get scared. The courts don't control the army, he does. I hope the generals remeber their oath, but oh yeah, he's been replacing them with loyalists too.

We know it isn't new. We've seen the horrors of history. That's why it's scary.

Yeah yeah, America lived on and stuff after all of that. But a lot of oppressed minorities didn’t. And if you're any minority group that the ruling party doesn't like right now, you are totally justified in being deathly afraid.

(For the record, I was against centralization of executive power under Obama and Bush too. But open and blatant disrespect like this is as especially alarming and should be treated as such, not normalized or justified)
This does assume that scrapers are smart, and often they're really not. They have infrastructure for scraping HTML from webpages at scale and that is the hammer they use for all nails. (e.g. Wikipedia has to fight off scraper traffic despite full archives being available as torrents, etc.)

In this case I agree though, they're all spammers and/or "clout farmers", or trying to make an account seem more authentic for future scams. They want to generate follow notifications in the hope that some will follow them back (and if they don't, they unfollow again after some interval).
https://archive.ph/IGHKm
I seem to recall uploaded selfies being a frequent source of problems. For example: https://www.rferl.org/a/trench-selfies-tracking-russia-milit...
That's not what anyone means when they talk about cops lying though.

Cops can lie to suspects during questioning. They can say "your friend already confessed" or "we just got a call from the lab, your DNA matches" or "you're getting the death penalty unless you confess right now". As well as bullshit like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Big_(police_procedure) (in some jurisdictions).

I'm fine with undercover cops lying about whether or not they're wearing a wire, or your scenario. I'm not so keen on uniformed cops lying to elicit confessions.
Nice! Excited about HTML export. I used LaTeX for autogenerating some semi-legal documents in both PDF and HTML, so all editing happens on Github and Github Actions do the rest for publishing PDFs and updating site. Started using Typst for some of these, but HTML export was a missing piece to completely switch to it.
nothing it's just two biggest intelligence agencies fighting, I think keeping quiet is the safest bet
okay ...

- it's fast (great!)

- it can't play videos in preview pane (very bad) or display some types of images (webp)

- design is nice but there is too much padding in thumbnail view and no way to control it (not good)

- it's super similar to Files - https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9nghp3dx8hdx?hl=en-US&gl=U... , except that one can play videos and is more than 20x cheaper

- price, the Files I mentioned cost $8.99, I'd never thought i'd dish out any money on file explorer but here we go, yours is faster and if the full release will perfect the areas i mentioned, id pay up to $19 for it ... now asking $200 for file explorer is just mad ... i am in B2B so I know pains of dev software, but if I see such price, Id just be giving imaginary thumbs up to people who pirate this instead, unless this has some crazy super powers and is meant for some very specific professionals for business (I don't see the use case), there is no justification for such price, even from point of view of maximum greed I highly doubt with such prices youd be squeezing the most revenue out of market you could, the yearly plan is more of a slap in a face, software without updates is useless, especially since its early in development and will see lot of basic polish in first few years if worked on .. i wouldn't buy it, but something along $49 for it wouldn't at least scream offensive ... id just look at that with disappointment and move on, even that would be basically asking for the price of AAA videogame, for minor improvement of utility in Windows

- that said, good luck ... I saw lot of people here post what they use; i dont want to offend anyone, but seems devs don't have cells for visual taste, those don't compare with yours, but you seem to have the speed of those (sort of, once i opened folder with 4k images, it completely froze for a full minute, windows explorer wouldn't do that, so ... speed is good, but can't sacrifice reliability for it.)
How about not actively providing false information, but being allowed to respond with wrong information?
Your previous comment implies the same. Regardless, I’m not saying that anyone who disagrees is necessarily, just observing that the natural consequence of said manipulation would be to hold a dogmatic insistence that “it’s them, not me”.
Is the balance that is being paid down publicly available? Will the companies decide they like the current cash flow and find a reason for it to continue after the balance is paid off?
If you're a signal user and didn't know about this already, that should tell you everything you need to know about signal.

See https://community.signalusers.org/t/proper-secure-value-secu...

Then read the first line of their terms and privacy policy page which says:
"Signal is designed to never collect or store any sensitive information."
(https://signal.org/legal/)

Signal loves to brag about the times when the government came to them asking for information only to get turned away because Signal never collected any data in the first place. They still brag about it. It hasn't actually been true for years though. Now they're collecting the exact info the government was asking for and they're protecting that data with a not-very-secure/likely backdoored enclave on the server side, and (even worse) a pin on the client side.
The glasses don't have a display, they're just normal glasses with audio/video recording functionality.
The group that came closest to achieving the Spartan ideal was the Mongol Empire. The Mongol Empire was the largest empire in human history, and it was created by tough, hard-trained horse-riding nomads.

It wasn't just about being tough. The Mongols had good operational doctrine.
Here's a modern evaluation by a U.S. Army officer.[1] They used intelligence and mobility to dominate the battlefield with smaller forces than their opponents.
They had a good system for selecting leaders with a track record of winning.
They were surprisingly good at planning, and at coordinating large units.
That's how you win wars.

The Mongol Empire collapsed due to internal political problems. No external enemy could take them down.

[1] https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/Military-Review/Dir...
The good news is the target is targeted for a reason: it's still effective.
Yes! If the venture capitalists that are already involved stick to their stated principles and don't demand eternal growth (which... fingers crossed?), I think bsky has an extremely feasible, promising future.

They've intentionally kept a low footprint to keep expenses down, and while income via donation is out of the picture (unless AT Proto grows into a full ecosystem, I suppose?), cosmetics are a tried-and-true model for supporting something that most users use for free, but that some power users spend all day on and want shiny stuff for. They'll probably end up exploring Discord-esque paywalled features for power users as well, which isn't necessarily ideal but is leagues better than getting on the currently-dying vicious cycle of Display Ads, IMO.
I recently ran across this toaster-in-dishwasher article [1] again and was disappointed that the LLMs I have access to could replicate the "hairdryer-in-aquarium" breakthrough (or the toaster-in-dishwasher scenario, although I haven't explored it as much), which has made me a bit skeptical of the ability of LLMs to do novel research. Maybe the new OpenAI research AI is smart enough to figure it out?

[1] https://jdstillwater.blogspot.com/2012/05/i-put-toaster-in-d...
Just remember, none of this was a surprise. It was advertised ie Project 2025. It is the culmination of the 50+ year Republican Project.

And yet we had no opposition to it. The Biden administration and Kamala Harris were more interested in defending and providing material support for war crimes than stopping any of this.

The Democratic Party is more comfortable with Trump as a dictator than an actual progressive getting in power. If the Democrats opposed and sabotaged Republicans half as well as they did Bernie Sanders, we would be in a very different place.

It’s quite literally “we’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas.” They throw their hands up and surrender. You want a playbook? Look at what the Republicans did at any point from 2010 to 2016 and just do any of that.
The best of both worlds for me would be a device around the size of the "iphone mini", but with a thicker body, no camera bump, and the extra volume is all battery.