skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well if it "sounds like" an attack I guess case closed, right? No need to dig into the extensive reporting on the Internet Research Agency or other propaganda outfits.
These IRS safeguards will not be of the “security clearance required” form. IRS data, while private, is not classified.
Sometimes I really wonder what reality people live in...

Elon musk quite literally bans topics and terms that he doesn't like on a whim.

There's a rather lengthy account of all it here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_under_Elon_Musk

Even if we buy into the premises that Elon doesn't manipulate Twitter, he actively posts about removal of Canada's sovereignty.

If the CEO of ByteDance was actively posting TikToks saying he is so excited for the US to be China's new province what would the US do?
Postgres has a module called unaccent[0] that removes diacritics for filtering. I expect your browser is doing something similar. While not appropriate when looking for exact matches, when doing user-input based searches, this should probably be the norm, as the user may be unaware of the accents or how to input them correctly on their keyboards.

Dove deep on this years ago when implementing a filter for wines and wine regions.

[0][https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/unaccent.html]
Shrug. Pete Buttigieg went on Fox News all the time over the past 5-6 years even though I thought and think they’re propagandists and a threat to our country. I think his rationale for doing it was sensible.
> Right, but what is “executive power”?

The enumerated powers in article 2 along with the implied powers that are necessary to carry out the constitutional responsibilities of the president make up the executive power.

> Article 2 Section 1 does not confer power beyond what the laws provide.

It does not confer power beyond what is enumerated and implied within article 2 which vests those powers into a single president. Laws are subordinate to the constitution and have no way of limiting, modifying, or expanding it unless the amendment process is used.

> And “vested” does not mean exclusive.

Can there be two commander in chiefs?

> Many U.S. laws grant executive power, including the power to promulgate regulations, to persons in the executive branch other than the president.

How are they granting executive power? I see nothing in article 1 to suggest they have such a power. Congress was given explicit powers to create lower courts though, "To constitute Tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court". It seems odd that the framers would forget to mention that congress can also vest executive power into entities of their own creation.

> There is no authority in the statute for the President to override these determinations made by the Commission.

So according to you argument congress can create an enabling act wherein they vest all executive power into the newly created agency head and require the president to nominate a specific person by a specific date and the president would be obliged to execute that law?
Oh man, I agree with this so much. I used to tell people that if their budget for PCB tools was less than $1k, just use KiCad. I think I might have to increase that number....

The big one, not really given a lot of fanfare in the post, is ODB++ export! This is one feature that would keep people stuck on Altium. Not only does this mean you can easily use US based fabricators who require it, but you can also feed your design into simulation tools that don't easily read Gerber.
These days, the bugs I generate in my own code are rarely programming errors. They're misunderstandings of the problem I am trying to solve, or misunderstandings of how to fit it into the rest of the (very complex) code.

For example, I cannot even recall the last time I had a double-free bug, though I used to do it often enough.

The emphasis for me is on a language that makes it easy to express algorithms.
This is great but please implement mouse look! It makes it way more immersive and is the lingua franca of FPS interactions.
Simply put

The siren cry of ignorance everywhere.

however, only 9–11% of the light from a 10 W emitter penetrated that thickness of skin.

Yes. The study discusses this. Its why the researchers moved to more powerful sources. To provide the results you refuse to read. Which I explicitly pointed out in my reply so you didn't have to worry about struggling with reading comprehension yourself. Which you ignored because it doesn't fit your narrative.

it does not matter how long an LED is shone on a human head

Yes, that is what the researchers said. LEDs don't have enough power; they measured that. That's why they didn't use regular LEDs. And they measured that change. And gave you the parameters of their setup for you to check (well, not you...for people into facts and science and such). And cited the people who had similar results. And cited people who had different results. And other science things that people who actually read this stuff for comprehension appreciate. That you ignore.

The energy delivered to the skin surface is different from the energy that penetrates to the depth of the target tissue

Different...energy? Physics would like a word with you. But physics does expect you to have done your homework, so I'll let it know you won't be around any time soon. I told it to be nice, and remember not everyone has a high school level understanding of physics, and they might say silly things. Be excellent to each other and all that.

often several cm below the surface.

Yeah. How about 3cm? Like the researchers said. In their measurements. That they didn't guess at.

the skull is a formidable barrier to light penetration, as well

Yes. The researchers discuss skulls in detail. Not just people skulls...sheep skulls and mice skulls too. 3cm on people; all the way through in mice. Sheep somewhere between. And a lot about hands, but I don't figure you care about those. They wrote it down and it got published. After actually doing the science.

This is all moot however, as NIR is not light

There it is! Ding ding! The audience watching at home knew this was coming.

If it was 'moot', you would have said "Acksually, infrared ain't light so STFU. Duh!" a couple of exchanges back and moved on to easier targets with less annoying 'facts' and 'proof' and 'published works of science by experts' around for anyone who cared to check. I guess even the most seasoned troll gets to a point where their own contrived protests become too silly to keep up with a straight face, and the lazy out is to not just move the goalposts, it's to move them to a different stadium.

Go forth and declare your victory, brave internet warrior. You have outlasted my ability to whip between WTF and LOL and Kagi is telling me "dude, you can't out-research aggressive ignorance". Besides, there's a hockey game on and my wife made cocktails.
I don't mean to spread FUD, but as an interviewer at a FAANG in the US, I have mostly been interviewing candidates in LATAM (Brazil and Mexico). Same for some of my other coworkers.

It's happening, and happening fast.
> logical operators do not short-circuit (so both sides of an or will execute even if the left side is true)

There are two syntaxes: `and` which doesn't short circuit, and `and then` which does. Ditto for `or` and `or else`.
It's the latter, but is there any effective difference, really? Say that lowering their their staff level from X to Y would result in a 15 minute wait for a smaller, undeterred group of callers. Putting an artificial floor for wait time of 15 minutes would mean that (X-Y) agents are sitting idle while callers are artificially waiting. I assume HP would not continue to employee them, since cost reduction was the point, after all. So it seems like the only difference is order of operations.
I didn't know this regarding Pascal, do you have any source ref on this?
I mean yeah, it doesn't even touch what is happening inside your body in order to actually press those buttons. Or what forces are being converted and how they affect the surroundings.
An 8.0 would still cause massive devastation. Even if structures mostly survive there is the threat of fire and tsunami. This antenna tower looks like it is likely to survive though.
S/he's wrong, simple as that. "The particular spatio-temporal version of speech that I grew up with is correct, and all others are bastardised" is not a defensible or - frankly - interesting position. Chaucer would find virtually all modern English to be debased; Bede would wince at Chaucer's English; and so on, forever.

Nothing fruitful comes from cultivating arrogance towards the language of others. It is just as much a cherished part of their cultural inheritance as yours is to you.
A WidgetSystem, Not a WidgetFactoryFactory
It's an interesting idea.

If code is ever updated by an LLM, does it benefit from using abstractions? After all they're really a tool for us lowly sapients to aid in breaking down complex problems. Maybe LLM's will create their own class of abstractions, diverse from our own but useful for their task.
> We are in a period analogous to the end of the Dotcom bubble. The Internet is obviously going to change the world, but right now all it can do is pets.com, etoys.com, kozmo.com

It certainly feels this way if your only perspective on the tech industry comes from headlines and social media.

Step outside of the doomerism whirlwind that is internet headlines and it's a very different story. There are a lot of companies doing great things and delivering products that people use, but they don't make for catchy headlines. So you don't hear about them.
Show HN: Psephopaiktes/share-it: Share or Copy web pages to anywhere
Slow moving*
This is such a mess. How can I both endorse a politicians approach to the world and disagree with every particular action? Trump is right about government overspending, unaccountability, the need to reign in the bureaucratic class. But he is doing it in the absolute worst way possible. Cuts to Public Health? with H5N1 coming looming over us? It won't be China coming to power in 10 years, it'll happen in two when they actually manage a crisis that might decimate the working population of every "developed" country.
> Yes, it might be annoying for Christoph to have to document & explain the precise semantics of his APIs and let a Rust contributor know when something changes,

Don't he need to do that anyway for every user of his code?

I guess the point is that it he is able to review the code of every driver made in C using his API, but he can't review the Rust interface himself.
One of those things might take your server/application/data out. The other is guaranteed.
Never heard of him. But I'm more surprised that someone who saw the Internet in 1998 would say that!
Why would you force a recession to escape interest payments totalling 4% of GDP? It makes more sense to preserve a strong real economy to help fund those interest payments.
not the OP but https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0951508070123951...
As other nations ramp up their scientific knowledge we are ramping it down.
Krugman was very much in the minority in that. There was tremendous hype at that time.
Under U.S. constitutional law -meaning the Constitution itself and the binding judicial precedents and the impeachment precedents (mainly from the failed impeachment of Andrew Johnson)- the president is plenipotent within the executive to do things like:

- fire principal officers without
the Senate's advice and consent

- fire other appointed offices who
did not require the Senate's
advice and consent to confirm

- lay off federal employees in the
executive branch

- audit the executive branch's
agencies

- set policy for all executive
branch agencies

etc., as long as it's all within the executive branch.

The president can also abrogate treaties without the Senate's advice and consent.

Most of the above are not explicitly in the Constitution as such, but are understood to be constitutional law either due to SCOTUS decisions, longstanding and unchallenged practice, or the result of the failed impeachment of Andrew Johnson.

Not only that but also most if not all recent presidents going back decades have done some if not all of the above. That includes Reagan, Bush Sr., Clinton, Bush Jr., Obama, Trump, and Biden.

In other words: there is no innovation here, no judicial controversy. This is all standard fare for any new administration. The only difference is the extent of what Trump is doing in his second term compared to any other recent presidency. The sheer number of EOs, the auditing (which basically hasn't been done recently), and the layoffs (which are rare in DC). And yes, he's goring a lot of oxen -more than other presidents in recent memory-, but they all do that, just not eliciting so much outrage from the opposition.
I think there is some confusion about "ubershaders" in the context of emulators in particular. Old Nintendo consoles like the N64 or the GameCube/Wii didn't have programmable shaders. Instead, it was a mostly fixed-function pipeline but you could configure some stages of it to kind of somewhat fake "programmable" shaders with this configurable pipeline, at least to some degree. Now the problem is, you have no idea what any particular game is going to do, right until the moment it writes a specific configuration value into a specific GPU register, which instantly configures the GPU to do whatever the game wants it to do from that very moment onwards. There literally is no "shader" stored in the ROM, it's just code configuring (parts of) the GPU directly.

That's not how any modern GPU works though. Instead, you have to emulate this semi-fixed-function pipeline with shaders. Emulators try to generate shader code for the current GPU configuration and compile it, but that takes time and can only be done after the configuration was observed for the first time. This is where "Ubershaders" enter the scene: they are a single huge shader which implements the complete configurable semi-fixed-function pipeline, so you pass in the configuration registers to the shader and it acts accordingly. Unfortunately, such shaders are huge and slow, so you don't want to use them unless it's necessary. The idea is then to prepare "ubershaders" as fallback, use them whenever you see a new configuration, compile the real shader and cache it, and use the compiled shader once it's available instead of the ubershader, to improve performance again. A few years ago, the developers of the Dolphin emulator (GameCube/Wii) wrote an extensive blog post about how this works: https://de.dolphin-emu.org/blog/2017/07/30/ubershaders/

Only starting with the 3DS/Wii U, Nintendo consoles finally got "real" programmable shaders, in which case you "just" have to translate them to whatever you need for your host system. You still won't know which shaders you'll see until you observe the transfer of the compiled shader code to the emulated GPU. After all, the shader code is compiled ahead of time to GPU instructions, usually during the build process of the game itself. At least for Nintendo consoles, there are SDK tools to do this. This, of course, means, there is no compilation happening on the console itself, so there is no stutter caused by shader compilation either. Unlike in an emulation of such a console, which has to translate and recompile such shaders on the fly.

> How come this was never a problem for older [...] emulators?

Older emulators had highly inaccurate and/or slow GPU emulation, so this was not really a problem for a long time. Only once the GPU emulations became accurate enough with dynamically generated shaders for high performance, the shader compilation stutters became a real problem.
The other title (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43123133) seems better to me even if this version is currently more popular.
> Fixes CSS to use non-bastardised spellings

The last thing I need a tool to do is to spread divisiveness.
Once saw a writeup where someone figured out how to reverse the crc32 calculation… Absolutely no brute forcing needed!

Oddly, this kind of topic doesn’t get a lot of attention
Back at Caltech in the 1970s, every student got a free account on the PDP10. The account username consisted of 3 letters, and Caltech would assign them by the first letter of their first name, middle name, and last name.

Enter Tim Rentsh. He didn't have a middle name, so Caltech asked what letter would he prefer, so he said X.

TXR

That became his nickname, and stuck so hard he legally changed his name to Tim X Rentsh.

Eat your heart out, Elon! :-)
> the prolonged build time of CI and edit-compile-run debugging cycles

Does Linux kernel development have hot reload on the C side as a comparison?
I guess we'll see. I don't have a rebuttal or anything fancy to say other than i disagree with your assessment.
Linus is one of the few people who can forcefully argue the case for moderation, and I've recognized some of the lines I've used to shift really contentious meetings back into place. There's the "shot-and-chaser" technique (a) this is what needs to happen now for the conversation...

"I respect you technically, and I like working with you[...] there needs to be people who just stand up to me and tell me I'm full of shit[...] But now I'm calling you out on YOURS."

...and (b) this is me recognizing that me taking charge of a conversation is a different thing than me taking control of your decisions:

"And no, I don't actually think it needs to be all that
black-and-white."

(Of course Linus has changed over time for the better, he's recognized that, and I've learned a lot with him and have made amends with old colleagues.)
"It provides a lot of jobs to people who are otherwise unemployable.", what a ridiculous and condescending statement. If that was true, the number of federal employees would be much higher but in fact the number has stayed relatively flat for over 50 years at 2.8 million federal employees.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CES9091000001
Did you make any friends at any previous job? Where are they all now? Referrals and nepotism are the keys to hiring in most places.
They’re outsourcing technical interviews, not the same thing as hiring.
Nothing that is being done by this government is in good faith. All of the things that these people complain about are projections about the things they are doing or want to be doing.

Unfortunately a lot of seemingly switched-on people are still under the illusion otherwise.
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.

Most of what I've been seeing since November 2024 is not at all what I'd call insightful. It generally reads like complaining about how the usual suspects did some outrageous (read: not to the ideological taste of the submitter or commenter; sometimes there is at least an implied argument about social or environmental impact of a policy) thing.
I had the same feeling. Excellent work!
royalty?
> HHS sent the fired fellows letters last weekend stating: “You are not fit for continued employment because your ability, knowledge and skills do not fit the Agency’s current needs and your performance has not been adequate.” But HHS was in no position to judge fellows’ abilities because LLS performance reviews are not logged in the CDC system, several fellows and former fellows told Science.

I mean why let basic facts get in the way of a good mass-firing.

Genuinely the fact that we only just barely (kind of) finished with COVID, much in the same way we finished with Vietnam (everyone getting sick of how expensive it was and declaring victory as innocents continued to die) and now are presently gearing up for a fresh outbreak of bird flu which is creating vast flocks of living petri dishes, any of which can roll the dice on a new variant that can bring all kinds of hell upon our medical establishments, now, of all times, we're taking axes to tons of government agencies responsible for managing infectious diseases, is beyond parody. It's beyond national shame.

And the fact that this series of massive structural demolitions is being executed under the "advisement" of one of the worlds richest living people, who was not elected by anyone, and has ZERO qualifications to be doing this (or anything really), like... how do you even approach this?

And for what!? Another fucking tax cut for the billionaire class, presumably so they can get solid platinum toilets for the bunkers they're all moving to after the world fucking ends.
Not the person you’re respond to, but Rust is never going to have a REPL and is likely to never compile very quickly. For a lot of numerical and scientific use cases that’s a fundamentally restraining factor. WRT performance, you’re ofc correct but that’s not always as paramount as it may seem if you need to tweak the data dozens or hundreds or thousands of time. In that case, having to wait more than say 5 seconds or so is prohibitively annoying.

I think something in between Zig and Rust will emerge someday as a sort of optimal compromise between compile speed, safety, and programmability wrt memory and performance tradeoffs.
I'd just describe this job market as competitive and every company appears to be looking for some specific persona now. Believe it or not you could thrive in this job market. For you, I'd say you'll have figure out what you love to do, figure out how to speak positively/enthusiastically about your previous experience, and find companies that value what you bring to the table. AI is not taking all the jobs yet (seems clear that it produces garbage code that's untenable at scale), and neither is off-shoring (it's very out of trend).

Question - what can you actually control about companies you're applying to? The answer is not a whole lot, so why stress about it? What you can control is a funnel:

1. How many jobs you've applied to

2. What quality those companies are

3. How much they're aligned with your skill set

Other than that, you're stressing about stuff you can't change. Let it go, gain inner peace. There's a lot to unpack in your post, step back examine the stories you're telling yourself. Are they actually real? Is there something more nuanced going on?
As a long term user of Mullvad, I appreciate when new companies try to innovate on existing ones while acknowledging their value.
While I have no interest in changing VPNs right now, I will keep an eye on Obscura. Hope you the best
This is the correct answer, if perhaps too optimistic on there being two of them.
The hallucinated code was reusing memory buffers filled with previous results so not performing the actual computations. When this was fixed the AI generated code was like 0.3x of the baseline.