skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well considering the FDA gave no information or plans to reschedule to committee members that seems unlikely.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/us/politics/fda-flu-vacci...

> The F.D.A. sent an email to members of the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee on Monday afternoon informing them of the cancellation, according to a senior official familiar with the decision. There was no reason given. The panel was to meet March 13.

> One committee member, Dr. Paul Offit of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, an outspoken critic of Mr. Kennedy, confirmed the cancellation and warned that it could interfere with or delay production of flu vaccines.

> “It’s a six-month production cycle,” Dr. Offit said. “So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.”

Considering the flu kills tens of thousands every year and hospitalized hundreds of thousands more, with the potential of evolving to be more lethal - yes this is important.

If the Trump, GOP and Musk fucked up staffing by firing people who have the expertise to make these decisions, yes they are at fault. If RFK Jr is interfering with this for his anti-vax and anti-science crusade, he is also at vault.
It is… free market allows reciprocity of tariffs levied against US products in the EU
I am on a one-month free trial of Perplexity Pro and its deep research is excellent. It may very occasionally deviate from the original query, but I will still miss it a lot. It makes using Google feel like such a chore.
Would using Teams have made a difference? Other than making it harder to find anything (for users and bad guys)
From the citation

> What do you think of our coverage?’ ‘Were our reporters being too hard on the White House and Trump?’ ‘Should [CNN chief executive] Jeff Zucker be replaced?’ It was nothing explicit, but I got the drift.”
For any undesirables. It never ends with just the first outgroup.
My understanding is that the tritium is bred in the reactor and then consumed in the reaction. But most designs do have some amount of radioactive waste, including structural parts and reactor walls that suffer huge amounts of neutron activation.
oil rig would be perfect, position it over one of the cold currents than make up the global "conveyor belt" heat transport system, and enjoy limitless water @3~4°c to cool any sized data cluster.....position it just right, and the rig can just tap into a natural gas resevoir and use that to power the data cluster, pumps, stuff, whatever, stick some giant wind turbines out there, paint them yellow, make everybody happy
That type of content is extremely useful for younger developers and the publicity probably has other benefits, but it's not for everyone.
It's their bouncing "Join us on Discord!" text. At its smaller font size it fits on one line, and then it increases to the larger size and spans two lines. This causes everything to shift up and down. It's a poorly thought out idea.
Does ECC do anything with memory safety? This is about physical errors while the article is talking about software bugs. Those two are almost orthogonal.
You are being just as dogmatically blind.

While there is truth is what you say about simply redistributing money is going to directly get people the goods and services required since that is not directly production.

It does have second order effect of changing the weighting of what society produces. If people are too poor to afford food why would you bother to grow it.

Taxing should be about keeping winner take all effects in reasonable check to keep markets actually functional for a good proportion of the participants.
In case you haven't noticed, the current US administration is packed full of billionaires who are dismantling all protections that keep free markets from steamrolling average people. They don't need more defense. They are winning more strongly than they ever have.
Voter ID and related laws are reasonable, but every proposal is so obviously an attempt at voter suppression, it’s a joke.

Look at how “real ID” has played out - you need to plan a decade or more in advance and actively help people get the IDs.
That's not what was said. The line of comments was "free markets are not under attack" followed by "From this perspective, they are." There was no judgement passed. I don't find your response curious or otherwise insightful.
Are you also on a mini? ;-)
Just because I really like bivector.net, despite its questionable web design choices: zooming out one level should make it so the animated “join our discord” no longer causes reflows.
This should be fixed, but as a workaround until then for those of us on slimmer viewports…
The "Join us on Discord!" banner changes size periodically and bumps the content down each time. Zooming out keeps it from happening, if your eyes can take it ;)
We live in an oligopoly now. One man has enough money to purchase the president and threaten congress and the senate with unlimited support for their opponent at the next election. The country belongs to the rich and I can't see a peaceful way out of it.
If the word “Rustaceans” is actually in common use then rust loses by default.
I wonder if a wire connection (ethernet/fiber) will have limited use in residential. Speed isn't so much concern although a wired connection still better in terms of reliability and backwards compatibility.

I say this as somebody that's about to do Ethernet runs and fiber in the house.
And AlphaStar or OpenAI Five were playing games knowing internal game states and variables

Playing games from pixels only is still is a pretty hard problem
Hello all. I am new here and new to coding. I am trying to create a web app that "gamifies" prompt jailbreaking with a bounty for the successful prompt break. People will pay to try and their payments will fund the bounty. For transparency, I will be using a smartcontract on the BSC chain (to keep testing with real crypto cheap) and crypto wallets will be used to pay, fund the bounty, and track attempts (all easily seen on BSCScan). A successful prompt break will trigger the bounty transfer from the smartcontract to the successful wallet immediately. The LLM prompt will vary to create different personalities in the chatbot to keep efforts fun and engaging. Attempts are linked only to web3 wallets. Prompts will be stored off chain and used to improve LLM prompting security. Data will also be used to improve security interaction between LLMs and blockchains (which can help with protecting sensitive data when utilizing AI). Just wondering what people might think of this project. My day job is in healthcare as a provider, not coding. The projects here are incredibly impressive and there is so much talent. So, I am a bit embarrassed to even post here. Your input will be highly valued and appreciated.
Exactly.

Cisco is paying for the binary provided. Not the source code. There are plenty of patented and open source. Every H.264, H.265, H.266 Encoder and Decoder in existence and used.

There are also plenty of open source 4G and 5G software implementation.

I sometimes wonder if I should just give up the fight for patent misinformation. On HN it is very binary, either good or bad. And all patents and Ads are evil.
I still don't really get the appeal of roguelike games, to me it always just comes off either repetitive/boring/frustrating/etc. Could someone explain why they prefer it over just a "normal" game progression?
Still have a 15" 1.25GHz iMac G4 on my desk, still works, runs Tiger. I mostly use it as a terminal and for Classic apps, but it does very well at both. Occasionally it plays DVDs or music CDs for the kitchen with a set of Pro Speakers.
Eventually, we would love to. In the near/mid-term, it's unlikely.

The reason we specifically chose Rust is because:

* It's rarely someone's first language, so we'll get targeted feedback from users with the right experience level

* It's a somewhat non-intuitive language and has "new/unique" ideas (e.g borrows), so the pain point is particularly strong

* It lacks learning resources (my guess is because the number of Rust developers is relatively small and there's higher barrier to producing content)
The logical goal of any corporation absent regulation is to become a monopoly...which of course ends the free market.

They don't want a free market. They want to be free to control the market.
In my 30s, quit my last startup about 2.5 years ago. Have been an EM scribe the last two years which has been amazing clinical experience.

Did my premed coursework a decade ago when I did neuroscience. Just needed biochem, and about 800 hours of self-study for the MCAT. Interview two weeks ago, fairly optimistic about this cycle but if not, I think next cycle will go well.

Everyone focuses on the amount of schooling and training that this requires. I am happy when I am helping people and constantly learning new things, and I'm already doing both.

There are a lot of other options than just med school, tbh you can make as much money with way less schooling as an anesthesiology assistant.
Your comment in a nutshell:

> Is OP out of touch? Yes, because HN is definitely and absolutely a representative sample of the population and is never wrong!
the comment is, I believe, not about importance but about the relative strength of those ideas in American society.

How much ink needs to be spilled defending ideas that have huge amount of backing, even among people who theoretically are ideologically opposed to it? Elizabeth Warren calling herself a capitalist is a pretty strong indicator of how much capitalist realism has taken hold.

It's like Bezos sending out a note saying that editors need to go out to promote not kicking dogs. Even amongst the supposed enemies of free markets, if you ask them enough questions so many people in the US still basically believe in it. Especially among the Post's readership!
Debian ML policy: Is the piece of intelligent software free as in freedom?
In fairness, at one point the extremes of the public's opinions were much closer. It''s easier to debate "should we raise taxes x% to accomplish y goals" than e.g. "should we invade Canada for quite literally no stated reason." Polarization is brutal to public discourse
> Tearing down society

Yikes, very dramatic view. Exactly what OP is referencing.
I have no doubt this is a widespread behavior, but I do have doubts as to whether or not this benefits children. Children seem to benefit primarily from watching relationships that genuinely make both parents happy. There's very little evidence to support that faking it yields results of children reacting as if you weren't faking it. You might as well divorce.
By all accounts the cases of noncitizens voting is so vanishingly small that this just isn’t an issue despite any number of initiatives and tens or hundreds of millions of dollars spent trying to prove the opposite.

This waste of time and resources really puts paid to the lie that DOGE exists to reign in government spending. In terms of effectiveness, this one would be an easy thing to slash from spending.
Given that this administration has made it crystal clear that they want to invalidate birthright citizenship, every US citizen reading this should seriously ask themselves: How would you prove that you're a citizen?
Wow, this actually sounds quite neat. I'm already using markdown and being able to make my notes more interactive and useful via chat-like interface with automations would be great. Especially as I want to use AI systems on top to make the accumulated knowledge as useful as possible. Please share more
> if the US government became a bad actor. It was seen as high impact but extremely low probability.

Was that before or after 2016?
Don't pretend cost of living wasn't a lot of Trump voters reason to vote for Trump. The tarrifs weren't a surprise and Vance was running around brandishing a box of eggs as the greatest problem.

The electorate only likes free markets when it makes things cheap with no consequences they care about.
I just bought your game :)
One of the OG devs from Netpanzer in the late 90s went on to do AAA games and then compiler stuff at FAANG, is that you?
It's all good, the fine print establishes the real culprit as "free software from popular code-sharing site GitHub"
Giving fibre supplements to a potential IBD patient is probably not a good idea.
Geothermal heat transfer is greatly affected by the moisture of the soil, which on the moon would be pretty low as you can imagine.
Netboot Windows 11 with iSCSI and iPXE to play Games
Next.js 15.2
> E.g. I was able to watch live combat footage of the war in Ukraine right as it happened.

I agree that this was interesting to do, but Telegram and Reddit are not high quality media. Some people with high levels of media literacy can distill the information gained through such channels to understand the world, but a lot of people cannot. Most people still use legacy media (even if it is through digital channels) as primary sources. And those legacy media sources are worse than ever.

On top of that the digital channels are massively astroturfed, especially those whose consumer base are in the west. For example, the state of the war as described by Western-targetted media vs. Ukrainian-targetted sources differs greatly. Same applies for the Hamas-Israel conflict. We need high quality and impartial (for some definition of impartial) sources to complement the raw feed for people with lower media literacy. Substack is great but not enough when Fox News and MSNBC exist.
You get the same thing with VR headsets as their physical focus is always around 1 metre away (3-4 feet). But you get used to it quickly.
They want your money. Nothing to do with MAGA. They “cut” federal spending and fire people from their jobs while MElon makes $100b since December.
> Base45 does not use all 45 characters

Huh? I don't necessarily care about an exact "base45", I care about QR code alphanumeric, which just so happens to be a (generic) base 45 character set. For QR code, two characters are encoded into 11 bits.

>in every slot.

I've worked with the QR code standards pretty seriously and I am unfamiliar with the term "slots" being used by the standards. This is why I suspect your referring specifically to RFC base45 (although the term isn't used there either), which QR code doesn't care about.
I also don't care about RFC Base 45 and would prefer to use a more bit space efficient method, such as using the iterative divide by radix method, which I also call "natural base conversion".

> base45 takes 32 source bits
For QR code alphanumeric, 6 characters use 33 bits, not 32.
way to calculate efficiency

The way we calculate this, for example, 2025/2048, we've termed "bit space efficiency". I'm not sure how commonly adopted this term is used in the rest of the industry. On the matter, I thought I had read "the iterative divide by radix algorithm" in industry, but after searching it turns out to be a term novel to our work.

This is also similar to the way Shannon originally calculated entropy and appears to be a fundamental representation of information. Of course log is useful, but it often results in partial bits or rounding, 5.5 in the case of alphanumeric, which is somewhat absurd considering that the bit is the quantum of information, again as shown by Shannon. There is no such thing as a partial bit that can be communicated, since information is fundamental to communication, so the fractional representation we've found to be more informative and easier to work with.

Granted, in all of this, when I have done the math (and I done a lot of math on this particular issue) there appeared to be some very extreme edge cases at the end result of the QR code where some arbitrary data encoded into QR numeric was slightly more efficient than alphanumeric, but overall alphanumeric was more efficient almost all the time. There are other considerations, like padding and escaping, that makes exact calculation more difficult than it's worth. I just needed to "most of the time" calculation and that's where I stopped.

For more detail of my work, my BASE45 predates the RFC by 2 years in 2019, then I published a base 45 alphabet, BASE45, by March 1, 2020, a whole year before the RFC. A patent including BASE45 was submitted June 22, 2021: https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloa...

Matter of fact, because of the issues and confusion surrounding base conversion, I wrote this tool in 2019:

https://convert.zamicol.com

It is the first arbitrary base conversion tool on the web. It also was essential for our work with QR code and other base conversion issues.
It is not Open Source, it is partially Open Source with an Enterprise Edition that has a proprietary license.
Not to get too personal, but how did working on a video game affect your personal life? If you worked from home, do you have a wife/kids? Was anyone upset or disappointed you were working on a game and not getting another job at a big tech company?

I don’t mean to be critical, but I’ve always faced pushback working on startups/side projects, and I’m wondering how that was for you?
Intel, Synopsys, TSMC All Unveil Record Memory Densities
"That's a nice little monopoly you have there. Would be a shame if Department of Commerce decided to investigate it."
Claudius is played by Derek Jacobi substantively as Robert Graves wrote him. in the 1930s. Graves wrote him as the hero. Of course he was whitewashed. So, what the BBC did is faithfully recreate the characterisation Graves wrote. And wrote, a long long time ago, before historicity was an issue. Graves wrote two books about claudius, he becomes a darker character in the last 10 pages of the second book. Graves also wrote count Belisarius about a different time in a roman story arc. He wrote for an age where many people in England spoke latin, a little, from school. He was writing for the wider audience who maybe didnt but also knew roman values existed in the english cultural landscape, because it was taught.

The danger here, is autodidacts, who take this tiktok as a source of ground truth in their ideation of how the past is. We can see the effect in Vikings-have-horns story. Thats an almost entirely modern construction. It literally has no historic context, horns on helms appear in times, for decorative purposes. We knew from archeology viking helms didn't do this but Hollywood does as hollywood must. Kirk Douglas looked sexy as a viking in a helm with horns and here we are.

Yes, "dangerous" is hyperbole. Everyone arguing a case uses hyperbole, rhetoric was a significant component of the cursus honarum for romans with status to enter the senate. your enemy was full of shit, literally, or more figuratively, because that was how you won. The danger is not the same as the danger of eating poisonous mushrooms, or walking in bare feet on broken glass. its rhetorical danger.

Gatekeeping exists. Objections to it, tend to look very like another rhetorical objection. IF you were permitted into the gatekeeping camp, you'd do it to, and in fact, what you are doing can be said to be a function of using the gate to hold it open to every theory allowed, rather than using the gate to shut off noise. you're therefore gatekeeping too, in a different sense. keeping it open, to suit your own purposes.
At this point if you have any commitment to the truth, you will have a "leftist" bias.

What, are you going to report on Trump claiming that Ukraine started the war uncritically? That Haitians are eatings pets in Ohio? That vaccines cause autism? C'mon.

The Overton window shifted right in 2016, I don't think the paper's line moved much. But no more, the billionaires are here to ensure nothing will get in the way of their sweet, sweet tax cuts [1].

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp9yx7e13ryo
The ideas don't seem to have much backing within the cultural elite (perhaps hypocritically as they benefit from the system), mainstream media, and certainly not the Washington Post. Also declining backing from both political parties.
Ah, and then I had a 48k run. Compound interest is about as powerful as you’d expect.
Love to see a cylindrical, wraparound screen. (Very silent.)
Okay, but what's a real world example of that happening on CNN's website today?
Digital, yeah? Digital, right? Hey, rocket! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuTSAeFhdZU
Well my comment wasn’t really on usability or UX per se, just noting that the narrative of needing race car drivers is inaccurate. You don’t need to reverse B-trees to program normal software.

Also usability concerns have nothing to do with reversing B-trees.
Except we already do have that technology, its not a fancy robot, but trains. I wouldn't consider buying a car in Tokyo.
That competition resulted in a shift in ideology -- not based on principles but on $$$. That's not good.
"Competition is for losers." ~ Peter Thiel
Nice one! Looks like peggle on mushrooms instead of coke.

I've done many games myself, including PS4 exclusive, and I haven't been able to afford anything else than 2 mins noodles for my effort. So I applaud you on "making it."

I should really talk to publishers. I don't really know how, how did you approach them? How did that initial aspect go?
Good to see more work being done here, but I don't understand why this is tied to someone's proprietary API. Swapping model providers and adding some basic logging is not remotely painful enough to justify onboarding yet another vendor. Especially one that's handling something as sensitive as LLM prompts.
how does canceling a meeting to pick a flu strain for development of a flu vaccine help them to acquire money?
IMHO anyone who doesn't know where to start shouldn't be using an AI. If you don't have enough initiative to decide what to ask you need a very different kind of help.
Russia wouldn't have invaded Ukraine if Ukraine had nukes - just like the EU/US only refuses to invade Russia for fear of nukes.

If you show the world that having been a good citizen in the rules based order isn't enough to avoid being invaded, but nukes are, the consequences are quite predictable: everyone who can afford to do so will start a nuclear program.
Huh? It is specifically a story about Bezos dictating what opinions will be published in his opinion section. That is definitely editorial control.
I have a teenager and a elementary schooler and both enjoy PC gaming.

The elder is interested in game development through his love of Roblox. I hope to help him get started with an IDE for lua, git, and a LLM and turn him loose on it.
Why is that a difficult question to answer? Nearly all adults have Star ID driver licenses that are basically as good as passports for that very purpose. Required documentation is consistent and easily acquired. In general, birth certificate record-keeping is extremely reliable in the US. That's not the case everywhere, though; the Philippines, for example, is notorious for easily being able to acquire fake birth certificates.

In other words, Trump and DOGE have absolutely nothing to do with proving citizenship. You're just angry and emotional.
> Would love to hear your thoughts

Spaceships. Or patents for those.

Could be your plan B - no ships for you, pity, but your patented designs are worth paying for.
I believe what you are describing is commonly known as fair trade, not free trade.
Everyone's focused on the dumb 'backups' pitch and missing all the interesting engineering problems people are mentioning as objections against it.
Don't want to sign up.

Are we not going to get a flu vaccine? Companies that make the vaccines can't do this on their own anyway?
Yes - this is the guy that should decide for everyone...the guy that uses a multi hundred dollar device to replace a $30 amazon puck..
U.S. Lawmakers Want to Block China from 'American' RISC-V (2023)
Of course the owner has that right. Hell, Bezos has the right to fire all the editorial staff and fill the newspaper with AI selected Amazon product reviews if he wants.

What you seem to be objecting to is any kind of reaction to Bezos using that right. Of course people have feelings about his choice, of course they have a right to air them and to judge Bezos by his actions.
I'm all for NPU-capable AI personally. Very excited to run competitive models locally and offline.