skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the case of Jeanne Calment, there is suspicion that her daughter took her place in order to claim her pension.

It is completely unproven despite a thorough investigation, but reaching the age of 122 is so unlikely that some people think that fraud is still the most likely explanation.
Many games that have unique shaders all the way up to the end of the game. Reconstructing the path of states required to get an individual sample from the end of a 100 hour JRPG in this manner seems like it would be hilariously computationally expensive?
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It's already standard in many agencies for employee credit cards (IBAa or individually billed accounts) to have their spending limit set to $1 when the employee is not traveling. When travel is approved, the spending limit is temporarily raised based on the estimated travel costs. These cards are mainly used for hotel and rental car charges; federal employees are given a per-diem reimbursement when traveling to cover meals and incidentals, which they pay out of their own pocket. You can see per diem rates at https://www.gsa.gov/travel/plan-book/per-diem-rates . This move seems like something that makes a great sound bite but isn't actually a problem.
"There are only two sexes and genre doesn't exist" is simple and wrong. "Genre is a social construct and is a spectrum" isn't.

Sorry you feel threatened by people not wanting to be pigeonholed into your tiny tidy restrictive categories.
>a large number of people here have paychecks that depend on him being wrong

I was thinking earlier that it's mildly fascinating how some people are more annoyed by the hype, and others by the anti-hype. Thought it'd be interesting to know whether these things are part of our psychological profiles, contributed to political-leanings, etc.

But, now that you mention it, yeah—it might just be the money.
I was once on a team part of which was putting procurement cards into our (local, British) government. We were doing it to save money: the cost of processing an invoice on paper was ~£10, and effective controls on petty cash were difficult.

It worked. We got less bureaucracy, lower costs, and better management data. The project was neither controversial nor expensive. Why would it be?
> And indeed in other cases we often find it immoral to force someone to assist a family member's survival on an ongoing basis.

This is incorrect. Parents have a duty to care of their children. Parents whose children die because of parental neglect end in prison.
And pardoned within minutes
Fantastic work. This is one of the best gaussian splats I've experienced. Especially in regards to the distant objects and sky.
I was surprised at how many more details I could perceive in the VR mode. I couldn't spot the "easter egg" until I switched over.
One API for all Crypto Exchanges o.O
Hi, I'm Florian, and I've been working on Dipsway for the past two years.

It's crazy how painful it is to build a project that interacts with multiple crypto CEXs today—whether it's a wallet monitoring app, a crypto taxation platform, or a trading tool.

Technically, you need to implement and maintain the APIs for every exchange (which change weekly, sometimes without notice).

Even if you magically had all the API integrations ready, you’d still need to host them—and dealing with IP/API rate limits, it's a nightmare.

You’d need an IP pool, a rotating proxy, and distributed servers located near exchanges; otherwise, simple HTTP calls could take 8 seconds because some exchange servers are in Asia, others in the EU, and others in the US...

Just thinking about all of this exhausts me. It makes zero sense for every dev to reinvent the same solution.

That’s why I’m building Bluvo (https://bluvo.co)

We’re narrowing it down to just 2-3 endpoints: one for exporting, one for trading, and one for onramp/offramp.

Bluvo is currently in closed beta. If you’re interested—or know someone who might be—reach out at help@bluvo.co.

Happy shipping!
so musk is a bureaucrat now?
> But he is now telling his C devs they will need to learn and code rust to make new code in the kernel.

I don't think this is accurate, Rust is still totally optional. Also, the Rust folks are supposed to fix Rust code whenever it breaks due to changes on the C side. If they fail to do this, the newly-broken Rust code is supposed to be excluded from the build - up to and including not building any Rust at all.
If the demo is slow/doesn't load, it's just because of the heavy load.

Screenshots are in https://blog.sshh.io/p/how-to-backdoor-large-language-models OR you can try later!
"It would also wreck the business plans of multiple US companies working to provide this capability for NASA. Moreover, it would shoulder even more responsibility for the US space enterprise onto a single company, SpaceX."

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This hits it on the nose. Musk is using his political influence to lock out the competition and siphon billions of government spending to his own company. It's a crystal clear conflict of interest and exposes the real purpose of DOGE.
> but firing and then hiring back who you miss isn’t. It shows you who is really critical.

Maybe for companies (although I'd argue it's extremely bad there as well), but for Governments this is a terrible idea!
hm, Element X should outperform other chat apps; mine does and I’m in 5000 odd rooms. What platform and hardware are you on?
A bit late for that
Maybe, but if there's proof he'll lose.
this will likely make the rounds, a few more times, true or not, this really highlights the concept of hardware supply chain security.
Wasn't the previous administration voted for too?

Remind me how many people voted for someone else than the current president?
So, this particular contractor was big into efficiency and cost savings, to the point that we were all required to do a project where we made something more efficient and documented how much money we saved in doing so. The whole thing was mostly bullshit, but one of the interesting things I learned by doing it was that saving engineering time was essentially $0, because from the company's perspective we were all salaried, and as long as the time we were saving was charged to the same contract we would be charging our other work to, it didn't matter.

From that perspective, which I do not agree with, the cost of coffee breaks was also $0, while the cost of providing it was not, so no coffee. On one program I was on we at least managed to get facilities to install a commercial Bunn machine for us, but we were still responsible for buying all the supplies.
All my statements started with a concrete fact, all of which are easily found in current news articles. Perhaps you should go do some reading.
oh you're referring to musk not understanding the "no data" condition as "150 year old benefits"?
It's not really a breach if it is from the same organization (i.e. the executive branch). It may lead to one.
Main difference is that I don't use Git, but GitHub API.

You don't have the full flexibility of a git repo but you can use it easily on different platforms. Works the same way on desktop and mobile too.

Most of those plugins don't work that well on mobile.
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Somalia comes to mind, plenty of guns too, yet the Randians never last more than 10 minutes when they go
I can beat this. My wife's maiden name was in the form "Jane Angela Smith". When we got married, she changed it to "Jane Smith Jones", first name Jane, middle name Smith, last name Jones. Someone at the Social Security Administration entered it into their database as first name "Jane", no middle name, last name "Smith Jones".

Now, for fun, no one noticed this for about 25 years. Her Social Security card says "Jane Smith Jones". Her driver's license says "Jones, Jane Smith". Her US passport says "Jones, Jane Smith". But another part of the federal government says "Smith Jones, Jane". We only found this out when she tried to renew her driver's license recently and the clerk was like, "hey, this isn't matching up right...". A month later, the TSA clerk at the airport stopped her to ask why her passport didn't match her federal records.

So now we're paying $400 to legally change her name from "Jane Smith Jones" to "Jane Smith Jones". That's what the notice they make you pay to run in the newspaper says, anyway.
I wish we got more affordances here with this side of the experience. The nicest thing recently I think are the idea of a directed acyclic graph that describes the system. But even these get cumbersome when many parts are involved and these are only presented in 2d and fully appreciated when they fit within your monitor. While it can be nice if these sorts of things can be visualized in 3d in virtual reality perhaps, I think that in 3d digital environments that often look structurally similar it is easy to lose a sense of subconcious wayfinding that we inherently have when we observe real things in real life.

In other words, a messy dag is hard to interpret, but your messy desk full of papers you can subconciously place where everything might be, because it exists in the 3d space in real life where all your senses are active on it as they are designed to be. not in a simulated manner but the real thing that can never be fully modeled.

Companies used to model things in 3d via clay or balsa wood to help visualize ideas in this manner. Eventually people like architects started using autocad instead of balsawood. But one wonders if a certain dimension of understanding of a project was lost when we went from something we could walk around and look at unencumbered, into a digital abstraction of some real thing.
What I mean to say is that if the average intelligence person, especially those over the age of 50-55 is very susceptible to believing deepfake video, then any video you can successfully show a jury of 12 over 50's people will likely fool 1/2 by default, 10/12 more likely than not, and 12/12 at least half the time.

If you're in a case where there is the possibility of deepfakes being used against you, you had better hope that either your jury is mostly in the 25-45 range and above average intelligence or that your lawyer knows how to deal with those videos since they'll get to review them before they are shown.
Sounds like an argument over semantics and the meaning of the word "breakthrough".

Running the 4 minute mile, climbing everest - those are achievements rather than breakthroughs.

I'd also class the atomic bomb as an achievement - it was the expected/desired result of a massive investment program - though no doubt there were many breakthroughs required in order to achieve that result.
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Exactly. "Look at that guy, who has it slightly better than you. He's really the problem!"
Completely unrelated, but aerial views of San Francisco blow my mind with how under-zoned the city is.

One of the most desirable places on earth to live and it's on a small peninsula. Yet it's a sea of single-family homes as far as the eye can see.

The distance between Sutro Tower and the "Downtown" SF is less than the distance between the Brooklyn Bridge and Central Park. But could you imagine if that space was filled with 2-3 story townhomes?
Thanks! Works great now.
I think he is playing it smart. The more fringe/contrarian it is, the bigger the payoff if he turns out to be right. So far nothing of much use came out of QC, and if nothing will, then the hype pendulum swings back at some point, and he will win big. If not, his position will seem silly, but not much risk to his reputation, being skeptic of a new model is intellectually fine and even courageous if it goes against the mainstream. I see it as those who called out "replication crisis" in social sciences.
Hey look, you still believe in "trickle down"! I thought these guys were extinct!
It has turned into something similar to what people in trading companies on Wall Street deal with. Constant grind, unrealistic expectations, and projects done in order to get a promotion instead of because it provides value to the customers or the business.

That said the amount that you make is insane some of the smartest engineers I’ve ever worked with have been at these companies and a lot of them have really strong engineering cultures, and standards.

The current work environment seems designed to use up bright young engineers, and burn them out within a few years. This is a significant shift from 15 years ago, where it was a much more sustainable place to be.
> Where is the native HTML datagrid (that supports sorting, filtering, paging, downloading, row/column freezing, column resizing and re-ordering)?

That's called <table>.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42163128

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39489285
They don't have to tie it back to an individual, only to an account or, if they respond quickly enough, to a set of activities or traffic pattern.
This is a false tradeoff. The big win for Rust in the kernel is for new code. Bug density and impact is highest in newer code (it may, according to recent research, actually decay exponentially). There's no serious suggestion that existing code get forklifted out for new Rust code, only that the project create a streamlined affordance for getting new drivers into the kernel in Rust rather than C.
That's the beauty. I could care less if my backend JS candidate knows anything about Ethernet frames, but I damn well expect h3 and async discussion.

But my devops guy? He better be talking about CDN, cavhing, WAF.
The US is in no position to tell anyone about how to avoid authoritarianism.
That's super cool, I like how they explain what each antenna is used for.
> firing and then hiring back who you miss isn’t

Once you fire me, I'm not coming back.

Being hired into a known-unstable situation needs to involve a lot more cash than a stable-for-decades one. Is the assumption you're making that there will be no other market to absorb the employees? The ones who remain available will be the ones unable to find work elsewhere.
40 Years of Cisco, the Real Story Behind Cisco's "Innovative" Founding
Happy 40th Birthday, Cisco! Time for some truth-telling from a certified network nerd (CCIE gang represent!) who's had enough vendor Kool-Aid to float a datacenter.
Let's skip the fairy tale version and dive into what really happened, shall we? That romantic story about two Stanford lovebirds inventing the multiprotocol router in their living room? Yeah, about that...
The real story: A team of Stanford engineers, led by Bill Yeager, had already built and deployed working routers across campus. That core software? Written by Yeager. (Spoiler: It becomes the foundation for Cisco IOS.) Enter our "founders," Len Bosack and Sandy Lerner, who saw this Stanford-developed tech and thought, "Hey, this looks profitable!" While still cashing Stanford paychecks, they made some tweaks and started selling it.
When Stanford's licensing office found out... let's just say the lawyers weren't sending birthday cards. But here's the kicker: Stanford settled for a measly $19,300 plus $150k in royalties (about $463K in 2025 dollars). Talk about the deal of the century – that IP helped build a $250B+ empire.
But let's give credit where it's due: Taking that questionably acquired router tech and building it into a networking juggernaut? That's no small feat. Cisco's real innovation wasn't just the tech – it was creating the most successful partner program in tech history. While others tried doing everything in-house, Cisco built an army of passionate partners who became its extended sales force, support team, and innovation engine.
So here's to 40 years of:

Making networking both possible and impossibly complex
Turning "that's a bug" into "that's a feature you need to pay for"
Keeping monopolistic tendencies juuust under the DOJ's radar
Creating enough certs to make SSL inspection look simple
Dominating enterprise networking with the ruthlessness of '90s Microsoft

To my favorite tech giant, perpetually one ill-advised merger away from having the FTC kick down their door – thanks for the legacy protocols, the career paths, and enough documentation to make GPT models cry.
Here's to 40 more years of dodging antitrust legislation with the grace of a perfectly load-balanced ASA firewall cluster!
P.S. If I mysteriously vanish after this post, check if the head trauma matches the port configuration of a Catalyst 9400 switch.
TLDR: Cisco "borrowed" Stanford's router tech, settled for pocket change ($463K in today's money), and built a $250B empire. Stanford's decision to pass on equity "as a matter of policy" belongs in the Silicon Valley Hall of Fame for "decisions that aged like milk."
(Written on my 6th beer, spell-checked by Grammarly, and posted from a throwaway account because I like my partner status more than I like absolute truth-telling.)
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Yes, disabling autocomplete can be annoying, but it is possible. Usually it amounts to being more descriptive in the value of the `autocomplete` attribute, rather than simply applying `autocomplete=off`.

> We have observed Chrome showing a password prompt on an <input type=number> which is just bonkers.

"We have observed" it, but not filed a bug? Neither of the bugs you linked to exhibit that bug.
I felt like I was doing that with what I described.

What changes to expectations are you talking about?
> I worked specifically on connecting COBOL system to a DB/2 database, and one thing was for certain: understanding the data format was the hardest part of the problem.

But now you are shifting the goalposts: from getting readonly access to the data, to understanding what it actually means. Yes, I totally agree, a lot of legacy COBOL systems, it can be very hard to work out what the data actually means - even though you probably have a COBOL copybook telling you what the columns/fields are, they can be full of things like single letter codes where the documentation telling you what the codes mean is incorrect. And likewise, you are right that seemingly simple tasks like adding a field can be monumental work given the number of different transaction screens, reports, batch jobs, etc, that need to be updated, and the fact that many mainframe programmers don’t know what “DRY” stands for

But simply getting read-only access to data? Most mainframe COBOL systems would already support that. Could there be some really badly maintained ones in which it was never configured properly and they just give DOGE read-write access because DOGE refuses to wait for it to be done properly? I doubt that’s the norm but it might be a rare exception. Such a system would likely violate security standards for federal IT systems, but agencies can get exemptions.
Oh for sure. The questions for most benchmarks can be downloaded on hugging face.
They are just killing the client software part. But the infrastructure part remains. I think it’s not a bad move. Chime app was rather clunky and had no updates.
Doom port in days.
Mine doesn't use any script that you must run on each machine.

It uses the GitHub APIs to sync, so it works seamlessly on desktop and mobile. I'm actively using it both on my Mac, Windows machine and iPhone with no issues.

Didn't try on Android but I expect it work fine.
https://archive.is/73szW
Geoblocking the UK at the level of accuracy maxmind provides, over src IP.
or people whose middle name is their first name.
So the cost of "162,770,988 poultry affected as of 2/20/2025" is less than the cost of loss of export of chickens or of developing a better test?

https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/situation-summary/index.html?co...

I can believe the export market is much larger than the number of chickens killed so far, but the cost of developing a better test seems likely to be lower, especially given future outbreaks.
Where does it say there was no oversight in spending? That is a part of the lie. Locking up cards because “something could happen” is just a useless defense. The funds could get approved, the limit raised and then something could happen. Terrorists aren’t going to drain the Fed through government employee spending cards.

So now instead the red tape is causing inefficiency in an area that was already efficient as applicable to the risk.
But you're just defining the "full amount" as what you think they should pay. If they're abiding by the tax code, they are paying what the law considers "the full amount".

It would not be discriminatory to say "we're going to publicize the returns of anyone who commits tax fraud". It would be discriminator to publicize the returns of anyone the Marxist hive mind thinks should pay more taxes than they are legally required to.

If the rich commit tax fraud, put them in jail. If they don't "pay their fair share of taxes" but don't commit any crime in so doing, be mad at the people who wrote the tax code.
If it’s austerity why are they raising the debt limit by 4 trillion and awarding massive contracts to their cronies (or themselves)? They are not trying to cut costs, they are trying to reallocate wealth away from the working class and into billionaire pockets.
Browser sandbox escape to userspace exploits are still much harder to make though, compared to... uh.. a userspace to userspace exploit, given that the latter takes literally (actually literally) zero effort, and as such you don't have one every couple weeks, but rather an ∞ of new exploits per second.

(that said, a web-based client has the aspect that an exploit could be inserted at any point with only a page restart necessary, whereas a native client would need updating; but hopefully you update your client, lest you start missing out on new protocol features!)
Only if pricing information is also made public. Otherwise, a person with relatively high income, but who also wants to be frugal, will get gouged.

Discriminatory pricing could become a private income tax.
Could be a round of promotions and pay raises coming so that they can fire more people and claim to save extra money.
The extended horizontal size is the only goal here. The dimensions for a sinoform is still related to pt size, so the relative spacing, compared to chr(32), at the same pt size, is reasonably larger.

But...the vertical dimensions don't scale so well, at least in my browser. It causes a slight downward shift.
> To put some numbers on it, to add a column of data to the system I worked on required on average about 20k hours of coding work.

20,000 hours is 10 years of full-time work for a single person. If you "didn't work with this system for long," it is quite simply statistically impossible that you could have witnessed enough projects to have anything resembling an accurate "average".
Yeah, similar but different path for bluesky, sometimes we don't really need a prefect technical solution, just something works for average user.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43105028
Curious what is angle here -
>> Please find me a clip where Trump supported Project 2025, I'll wait

> That does not translate to supporting the entire agenda.

You're moving the goalposts.