skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Literally nobody is mentioning the fact that to own 13 chickens there were 13 roosters that were euthanized as chicks. 50% of chickens are born male. Nobody wants all those roosters. Some dude in a factory is squeezing the chicks and looking up their buttholes to see if they are male or female, then the males are thrown into a meat grinder (literally).

Saying all of that, I would rather eat eggs from chickens that had a half-decent life than those kept in horrible conditions.
> the Facebook motto of "move fast and break things" applies.

That’s seriously begging the question of whether a website started to rate the attractiveness of Zuckerberg’s classmates has the same consequences for society if it fails as the government. When you work on something which actually matters, there are virtues other than speed. What the Republicans are doing is like clearing your lawn by setting it on fire, saying they didn’t have time to do anything slower.

It’s estimated that just the USAID cuts alone are on the order of hundreds of children being born HIV positive every day, not to mention the impact of food aid disappearing during a famine, or shutting down the last option for afghan women to get educated:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/opinion/hiv-usaid-freeze-...

The science funding has a lower death toll, of course, but it profoundly disrupts careers and pushes people out of the country. Someone educated in the United States who returns to their home country ends up competing with us and probably won’t come back. The grad student getting cut now will probably end up leaving science entirely (people need to make rent and student loan payments) so we’ll be missing out on their lifetime achievements and also the later-career guidance they would have given the next generation.

The federal government as a whole becomes less efficient because fewer top people will be willing to work for lower pay without job security and every contractor will be pricing in future disruption.
As others have said in various ways, start by fitting a survival model using glmnet.

That said, here are some folks trying to use SDEs to model cells, they even have a "dW" on their logo. This is a long way from predicting age of death, but it might eventually give insights into the exact mechanism. Also I think they're starting with bacteria and yeast, so mice might be a way off.

https://macsys.org/
Cursor has no models, they dont even have an editor its just vscode
Needing to get up and go to the trash can should be +1 not -1. Anything that increases your trips to anywhere from your stationary office chair needs to get points to win
Ultimately the checks and balances are also elected. Directly in the case of congress, indirectly in the case of the judiciary. (Mitch McConnell obstructed merrick garland and was rewarded for it.)

Of course unrestrained majority decisions lead to terrible outcomes. This is well understood, and has been demonstrated over and over recently (think Brexit.)

Democracy is objectively a flawed system for this reason. It has never promised to deliver the best, or even good, government. It is what it is.

I agree, this is a literal interpretation of democracy. It is "the will of the people". I'm not sure that anything else could still be even called a democracy.
> Lua without JIT is one of the fastest interpreted languages.

Maybe I should say it is "still slow". Of course you can find examples of 5-10x over python performance (not that this is saying much), this is not the norm. There's just no way, PUC-Lua is still fundamentally dynamic hash tables for lookup with a big switch statement, there's a certain limit to how fast this can go.
Let's just say there are plenty of game devs that have found that Lua quickly becomes too slow for the task it has been pressed into which then becomes an exercise of exporting more and more stuff to C++ or whatever. There is Luau of course, which sort of proves this point.

These interlanguage comparisons are mostly meaningless anyway. Python may be slow, but you do the heavy lifting in other ways and that ecosystem is huge. Since the Lua ecosystem is small though you are usually on your own. LuaJIT FFI is sorta cool, but wrapping can still be a PITA.

> Maybe you’re comparing it to AOT systems languages like C and C++? That’s obviously not fair.

Or C#/.NET/Java/Kotlin/JVM. Which you can often use as part of a plugin system.

> this is the first time I’ve heard someone claim it’s slow.

Quite ironic to say this, because I'm pretty sure this is why Mike Pall created LuaJIT in the first place. For example http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2011-02/msg00742.html (but there are many other great in depth essays in the archive)

> LuaJIT is also one of the most advanced JIT compilers out there, frequently beating V8 and others.

No it's not these days. LuaJIT is awesome and may have been alien technology in 2005 but has a lot of missing functionality compared to the most advanced JIT implementations.

There were of course many examples of LuaJIT beating V8 on particular microbenchmarks through the years, and many of these are rehashed from over a decade ago and are outdated. I wouldn't say this means it "frequently" beats V8, especially in a practical sense.

Anyone that has much experience with LuaJIT and has stared at a few traces is aware of "NYI" - there is a ton of stuff that is not implemented in the JIT and means fallback to the interpreter, including even pedestrian uses of closures: https://github.com/tarantool/tarantool/wiki/LuaJIT-Not-Yet-I.... There is a ton of stuff that current V8 does to optimize real world larger applications that LuaJIT JIT will bail on.

LuaJIT does well when you write code in a particular style that exploits its strengths. It's not quite as amazing for general purpose use.

Elsewhere you suggest that a GC rewrite is actively being developed, but LuaJIT development has slowed tremendously, the mailing list is not very active and I wouldn't be holding my breath for anything major (this new GC has been talked about for well over a decade).
1. Tends to use embeddings with a similarity search. Sometimes called "retrieval". This is faster but similarity search doesn't alway work quite as well as you might want it to.

2. Instead lets the agent decide what to bring into context by using tools on the codebase. Since the tools used are fast enough, this gives you effectively "verified answers" so long as the agent didn't screw up its inputs to the tool (which will happen, most likely).
I think we need some kind of legislation that any kind of death penalty from a monopoly marketplace can't be carried out without a face-to-face appeal with a live human being.
ISO 8601 allowing week-based year numbering is even more insane. E.g. In 2007-12-31 (in RFC 3339 format) is allowed to be notated as 2008-W01-1 in ISO 8601. RFC 3339 is superior, partly because it prevents this bullshit.

ISO week numbering is actually sort of neat, because instead of leap days it has entire leap weeks since the 400-year Gregorian cycle has a whole number of weeks in it, but for some reason they decided that a week's year is the Gregorian year in which the Thursday of that week occurs.
> And more importantly, their local democracy is going strong.

I guess you never heard of gerrymandering.
Except it does. A TRO means the judge believes it likely that your case has merit and will win and that there is irreparable public harm without a TRO.
You can migrate and renounce citizenship. Staying and benefiting from the spending is tacit consent no?
Where I live, video slots have infiltrated many restaurants. It is weird!

Even some slightly fancy restaurants have a corner full of slot machines. They must make a small mint to offset putting off diners.

I know what you are thinking: This guy lives in Nevada. Nope. Illinois.

That last category seems to be growing as well nearby. There are 3 Uzbek restaurants in the neighboring towns. 3! All opened within a year of each other, I think.
Except the second it looks like their might be a chance for prosecution... there will be a pardon.
Democracy is not about what he does. It's all about how he comes to power.

In 4 years the people will vote again.
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"Close friends" is not a good metric anyone. A better metric is the count of token output of personal life. This includes all online chats, including with AI, on apps, and all social sites. I am pretty sure this metric has been trending very high.
This seems to be a summary of the story at http://www.hp9825.com/html/the_9100_project.html, written by people who do know what a Q-meter is, have heard of Olivetti, and cite their sources.
It’s one of those paradoxes where it’s almost funny again
"El Que Tranza, No Avanza"

You got the exact opposite of what that means. Unless you forgot to negate Tranza.

"El que NO Tranza, NO avanza"

Source: Native Spanish Speaker.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TeslaModel3/comments/r9lfqt/install...

Idk man seems like plenty of space to me. Also comes with service mode which shows all the inner working and status of components:

https://www.notateslaapp.com/news/2046/tesla-service-mode-ho...
That’s good food for thought! I would just add that the kinds of threats PCC is primarily targeting, I think, are attacks by malicious third parties (including state actors), rogue internal employees, and privacy-leaking software bugs. These are sort of bread and butter real world threats.

I would go out on a limb and say Apple would love to also prove beyond a reasonable doubt that they too as an organization cannot get away with planting a secret back door — not because they have pure angelic hearts, but because this is good for their privacy-differentiated business model. And PCC certainly makes a huge leap in that direction. But it’s not the problem it’s primarily targeting nor an easy one to solve completely.

As another example, Apple has an implementation of OHTTP onion routing[1] called iCloud Private Relay. It’s really cool and easy to use. The point is to make it so nobody but you can tell what website your IP address is connecting to, not even Apple, the operator of the relay. But bottom line, Apple picks who they collaborate with for the gateways and there’s nothing stopping them from colluding out of band to de-anonymize you if that’s what they wanted to do.

Does this defeat the purpose of iCloud Private Relay? No. Its purpose is to better protect you from common privacy attacks, better than a traditional VPN would. It happens to also narrow the trust you need to place in Apple, namely that they would need to collude with another company to defeat the system as opposed to some rogue lone wolf SRE deciding to access your logs. But it wasn’t put in place to make people who fundamentally distrust Apple as a company start trusting them.

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9458/
I’m working on In Other Words, a daily word puzzle where players connect seemingly unrelated words through conceptual stepping stones. The game showcases how any two words can be connected through surprisingly few steps — we’ve crafted each puzzle to need at least 3 hops, with around 50 elegant 3-hop solutions hidden among thousands of possibilities. When players explore longer paths (up to 9 hops), they can discover millions of valid solutions among billions of potential routes. It’s fascinating to see how words like “ground” can bridge entirely different concepts, or how homographs create unexpected connections between semantic domains. The game advances the “idea-linking” category of word puzzles — focusing on meaning rather than spelling or anagrams — and turns our linguistic network into a daily brain teaser where finding your own creative path is as rewarding as discovering the most elegant solution.

It’s for iPhone only (yes, sorry!), and you can play for free once. Apologies in advance for the large download. Get it from here: https://www.inotherwords.app/
I've been reading the air traffic controller subreddit (r/atc) and it really shows how unbelievably stupid and uninformed Elon is.

The air traffic controllers don't have government laptops. They don't use workstations with email. So in order to respond to this email, if they weren't working today, they had to come into the office and get paid overtime to respond. If they were working today, they had to find time and a laptop to respond (and not do their job controlling air traffic). And the whole management chain must have spent the whole day trying to figure out how to deal with all of this since it was not thought out at all.

So the Department of Government Efficiency wasted a ton of time and money getting air traffic controllers to email what they're working on, which is utterly pointless since everything air traffic controllers do is already recorded.
I am thankful my father-in-law gave me his HP-35 purchased in the early 1970s. With it came a metal case with a lock and a base you would bolt to your desk. It was a precious item back then.

Thankfully the power supply still works so I can take it out every so often and enjoy the history of it.
Is the PTX that everyone was looking forward to included this time?
Manifold – Geometric Library for topological robustness
Often times when we feel vulnerable we can give too much of ourselves away to other people. This can sometimes lead to feelings of dissatisfaction or resentment in a relationship. Many people will perceive easily available affection as being low-value. It can help to learn how to manage perceptions (e.g. being occasionally unavailable, making ambiguous comments that could be interpreted one way or another, etc), but the more effective method is in cultivating a sense of self-esteem and then just giving affection freely. Some people might still see this affection as low value, but if you are truly loving freely, it becomes its own reward. There are people in my life I have learned to love in spite of any perceived shortcoming, and my natural inclination is to tell them that I love them. This can lead to that affection being taken for granted, but because the mere act of giving affection is rewarding in and of itself, it isn't especially important if things don't work out.

> I just don’t know how to pull myself out, when nothing seemingly works for me. I find myself increasingly sympathising with people who can’t handle anything
Try to avoid thinking of pulling yourself out of the situation you are in, and focus on simply experience it. With all its unpleasantness, it can't actually reach you.
I'm disappointed you're downvoted. I know a woman who is the exact situation you describe (sans hacker); their ex-husband has made threats to her life and has made attempts to act on those threats. She's extremely privacy sensitive as a result.

You are right. But remember you can be sued for anything, and further remember that suing someone doesn't mean you have good cause to win.

For corollaries, see good samaritan laws

[0]: (specifically about Texas) https://www.uslawshield.com/can-get-sued-good-samaritan-laws...

[1]: https://www.themirror.com/news/weird-news/i-cpr-crash-victim...

[2]: (More generally) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Samaritan_law

So it stands to reason that a white hat hacker who, in good faith, publicly releases information in an attempt to get things fixed shouldn't face negative repercussion.
Having been through the gauntlet of Kings Quest / Space Quest / Monkey Island etc. I now can no longer play games without inspecting every corner and trying every possible thing in every screen. Kinda annoying in some ways. But I still run through the Sierra games with the siblings almost weekly. Too much nostalgia and bonding to let go of. No doubt has given us all an anchor to keep us in touch.
Except that the states have no power because an unchecked executive branch can just claim that it had authority and the states have no recourse to resist.

The US has an incredibly weak form of government.
Well I'm not from "the other side" as I don't align with either party, but I do live in a very red part of the country.

In the short term, as I understand it, the goal is to root out fraud and abuse. For decades many people from both sides of the aisle have believed the government wastes money, that is nothing new. The current moves somewhat rhyme with the early Clinton administration. Whether that is Trump's goal or not is largely speculative, but those I've talked to that support him see this as the goal.

The mid and long term goals vary wildly depending on who I talk to. Some still view it like old school republicans, small government and states' rights. Others want a government just as large and powerful as today but focused on different goals and moral views.

The question I've yet to hear raised or disavowed by the Trump supporters I know is whether this is leading to fascism. A supposed billionaire running the country with his billionaire friends in toe sure seems like industry take over of government.

Similarly though, I rarely heard the other side of the aisle acknowledging whether the other path was intentionally leading to Marxism - a similar number of parallels existed there as well and in either case the outcome is authoritarianism and massive federal powers.
Open source yet? This sounds like a great project to learn how to build a small, but functional app.

> I'm struggling to comprehend why Apple is ditching Objective-C

I never wrote code in ObjC nor Swift. Can you share more thoughts behind this statement? Like, is Swift a worse dev experience compared to ObjC?
I don't want use the product after having a bad experience. If they cannot create a sign up page without it breaking for me why would I want to use this service? Things happen and bugs can occur, but the amount of effort I have put in to resolve the issue outweighs the alternatives that I have had no issues using.
The constitutional crisis was Trump's pardon of Joe Arpaio's contempt of court.

If the president can pardon contempt, then the president has the power to exempt a person from the obligation to show up in court, admit guilt, or experience consequences for their crime.

That was the moment of structural executive supremacy and an actual constitutional crisis -- when the law contradicts itself calling the laws themselves into question.
They do it for their own reasons, but OpenAI are straight up liars and they are neither open nor give a fuck about humanity.
I figured it was a rather apt example of how the turn it off and wait until someone complains doesn't work if the damage done in the wait until it's restored time isn't repairable. The abrasive personal example is because he's ignoring that this view has many people's lives at risk when we talk about programs like usaid.
If it were prosecuted the same way as the peasants, the direction of prosecution is generally in the direction of the person who granted access, as asking people to do illegal stuff seems to be considered fair game bait to get people prosecuted.
How? I agreed with the examples you gave so that would seem to match your goalposts.

As to my own goalposts, those haven't changed in quite some time. If I did happen to disagree with you though, well, someone disagreeing with you does not on its own imply that they've recently moved their own goalposts.

You seem to be assuming that there's some universally accepted definition that's been changing over time but that doesn't seem to be the case to me. What I see is a continual stream of bogus and overhyped claims that get rebuked.

If anything it's the people trumpeting AI this and AI that who are trying very hard to shift the goalposts for their own benefit.
Steel is by no means obvious. No one else in the industry uses it. (No one else in the industry uses carbon fiber, either, except things like fairings).

The obvious choice that everyone uses is aluminum, or various alloys, like aluminum-lithium.
It's progress. I remember the alst judge rejecting a TRO because no damages were proven yet. And that's still the judgment as 14 states are suing.
It's the opinion of a single judge, before a trial has occurred. It has some meaning, but just last week a different judge said the opposite in a related case (as the article notes), so clearly, opinions will vary.

Must we have blaring headlines and political flamefests every time a judge issues an intermediate ruling related to DOGE?
In fairness, it's an insightful comment. The behavior of plenty of agencies is likely to be erratic or at the very least novel in the current climate.
I can't be the only one who, when I read "space force" hears a deep, reverb-heavy, Buck Rogers kind of voice going "spaaaaaaaace foooooooorce"
at $1,999 I don't see it selling very well.
He disavowed project 25, but it was written by all his inner circle, and he hired them into govt. So, if the voter believed him, well duh.

Musk was a big part of the inner circle before the election. His track record is well known.

In other words everything that is happening was predictable and predicted. Voters knew what they were voting for. Those who are surprised really weren't paying any attention.
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You can't pardon Civil cases. Nor civil contempt, given the course of how likely these people are to follow court rulings.
> It's actually a horrible place to start.

That depends on what the options are. The executive branch likely does have authority to fire probationary employees. They likely don't have authority to immediately fire non coronation dry employees or to end programs and departments created congress.

This may be the best lever they think they legally have today. If that is the case, and that's an if, they are trying to stick within the letter of the law despite how it is often being reported.
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I like `units` for unit conversion. It's in the default install of MacOS, so readily accessible for most people.
Truly. I know plenty of people in their 60s and 70s who use Git and are still very sharp programmers.
Another website framework. I'm using this objective to figure out what's essential and what's not. Trying to answer the question, "what's the least amount of code required to get something performant, hot-reloading for fast dev feedback, and web tech"?

https://github.com/joeyguerra/juphjacs
Video mirror in case you missed it: https://x.com/cdolan92/status/1894216778126959027?s=46
Somehow related:
“A calculator app? Anyone could make that”: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43066953
Silly question: How did you get ownership of that domain? It is a great brand name!
But flashdrives can be tampered with. What about a live cd / dvd / bluray? You would need to compromise the BIOS / UEFI to affect the OS.

(No, I won't suggest carrying the BIOS chip around)
This comes back to my initial thought on the effect of AI on the "producer" rather than the "consumer".

I do a lot of things badly because it helps me develop skills and makes me happy. I wouldn't outsource this to an AI even if it did all these things better and the world benefited more from it. This is for me.
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If your company needs to visualize the employees in the organization, TreeSpider is the best for it

It is completely free and open source, and it seems like it is the most advanced, free and open source, organization structure/tree library out there right now

GitHub repo and contributions and/or feature requests are welcome

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Get it on npm

https://www.npmjs.com/package/treespider
I meant US budget in general. If they believed the ship that is the US federal government balance sheet is sinking, they would jettison whatever they could.

It isn't about funding science in my scenario, its about funding the government.