skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It wouldn’t be cheap but I could see 3D modeling and physically based rendering (I’ve been working with Octane but others should do the job fine) being a really good use case for this. Having a bazillion years in 2D but getting into 3D at a professional level a few years ago, I don’t think I’d even suggest using a purely 2D approach if I was looking for optimal results. Match all the camera specs, simulate all sorts of lighting and weather patterns from all sorts of angles, etc.
One use for highly elliptical orbits is being able to linger over some part of the earth for longer periods.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molniya_orbit

I haven't seen the orbital parameters of the X-37, so it may be in an elliptical orbit for some other reason, such as spying on or interfering with geostationary satellites or who knows what else.
Netbus on a floppy, print out an enticing label and leave them around school. Half the teachers computers were infected. Good times.
TROs are preliminary injunctions in all but name. I expect SCOTUS to issue writs of mandamus reining them in otherwise Congress will simply remove the nationwide ability to issue them from the lower courts.
In the book Skunk Works, Ben Rich laments that Lockheed was often passed over for contracts and missions because their achievements were so classified that the various branches of the military didn't know that things like stealth technology were possible, let alone already in production. Sometimes weren't even invited to bid on projects to develop technology that they'd already developed.

Marketing of secret projects is a tricky business!
You can also remove yourself from ad topics, and even if you don't want to remove yourself from them it can be interesting to take a look and see what meta has associated you with - https://accountscenter.facebook.com/ads/ad_topics

It won't stop you getting ads, of course, and I have yet to find the holy grail of fictional facebook settings "Never show me reels or suggest groups you think I might be interested in, stick to my actual friends".
It looks like Sonnet 3.7 (extended thinking) would be a better architect than R1.

I'll be trying out Sonnet 3.7 extended thinking + Sonnet 3.5 or Flash 2.0, which I assume would be at the top of the leaderboard.
A random dimensional analysis that I find amusing about fuel consumption units:

liters / 100 km => m^3 / m => m^2

(volume) / (distance) => (area)

This can be interpreted as the cross-sectional area of a hypothetical trough of fuel running alongside the road, whose contents you slurp up and consume in your engine as you pass (in lieu of using fuel stored in an onboard reservoir).
Microsoft did a similar thing around 15 years ago, where they got OEMs to preinstall a limited, ad-supported version of Word and Excel 2010 with new computers. They discontinued it after Office 2010, probably due to a combination of the feature set being enough for most people and the advertising not doing too well (I only recall seeing ads for Microsoft products) so I'm surprised they're bringing it back. I suppose the new limitation of not being able to save files locally is a big enough hassle to get most people who aren't just using it to view existing files to pay.
The ability to use that tech effectively to optimize the organizations internal processes. Or do the job of a person without actually being a person with a name that can be held accountable.

Most of those orgs have people in key positions (or are structurally setup in such a way) that isn’t desirable to change these things.
This is what I think AI as it gets better will be great at and result in some great discoveries. Today we have millions of research papers on millions of topics the amount of knowledge is impossible for any one human or a group of humans to know so requires serendipity for some discoveries.
I've got my HP 32SII on my desk right now. Nothing beats a physical keypad with RPN.
You should read some books on history and foreign affairs. Most of the world hates the “liberal international order” because it’s an excuse for the U.S. to impose its values on the rest of the world. DOGE revealed that USAID was funding political unrest in my home country (where activists recently overthrew the government). The U.S. has finally turned a corner on it only because the deep staters started turning that same attitude inward, pointing it at Ohio instead of India. Death of liberal internationalism isn’t something anyone should mourn.

There’s no inconsistency between Loper Bright and DOGE. Both reflect separation of powers. The judiciary interprets the law, not the executive branch. But the executive branch—which consists of the President and his agents—decides how to make discretionary spending decisions and hiring and firing of federal employees. Everyone is staying in their lane.

(You’re incorrect that DOGE is “holding the purse strings.” Congress has passed appropriations bills that delegate massive discretionary authority to the executive. DOGE, under Trump’s directions, is countermanding spending decisions made by executive civil servants, not Congress.)
Many systems do not fetch updates from the Mozilla root store, but from their (possibly Debian-derived) stable distribution of it.
Meaning two highly respected entities, known for being well aware of the wider impact of their careful enforcement of strict policies, need to agree to cause any major breakage. When that happens, I can blindly trust they did the thing needed to keep the unaffected parts of that weird system working as intended.. and then still head to bugzilla and read about the background - to laugh at whoever triggered the mess.
Mark Zuckerberg Announces the "Beginning of the End" for Programmers
RPN was what folks used before FP was created, to make other folks feel dumb.
I keep oscillating between are they just stupid or are they malicious and I'm starting to settle on the latter given the kinds of actions this administration is taking. Ironic that their voters thought they'd be mAkINg AMeRIcA gREaT aGAin when in fact they're going to cause us to lose our leadership role in many areas.
Also, I failed to respond to the Antarctica thing. There are small scale greenhouses in Antarctica ensuring the hundreds of people wintering there each year retain access to nice fresh veggies and the like without any external inputs. [1] It's not exactly novel technology, nor difficult to scale.

[1] - https://www.polartrec.com/expeditions/antarctic-weather-stat...
> Lemon felt strongly that timesharing systems were the wave of the future and that SDRC should focus on providing software on these systems rather than license its software for a one-time fee. Initially, the company sold ANSYS and NASTRAN on a timesharing basis using computers operated by U. S. Steel.

SDRC did SaaS in the 1970s, before SaaS was cool.

> In September 1994 the company announced that it would be restating its revenues and earning for 1992 through the first half of 1994 to include a $30 million charge relating to sales discrepancies in its Asian operations [...] The company immediately terminated Tony Tolani, a vice president and general manager of SDRC’s Far Eastern Operations.

I was going to say they cooked the books before it was cool, too, but that's a much older trick. They claimed they sold all this software while in reality they just dumped it in some warehouse at the Cincinnati airport. Then proceeded to sell their shares before shit hit fan. SEC link with more details: https://www.sec.gov/files/litigation/litreleases/lr15325.txt

That is to say the downright corrupt and shady sales and management team almost killed the company. It recovered eventually and ended up being bought by EDS

> While the software’s geometric modeling capabilities were improved it was the package’s user interface that really impressed me. Icon menus typically were only two levels deep compared to five and six levels in other systems [...] I wrote in the April 1995 issue of EAReport: “I-DEAS has the best interactive user interface available today for mechanical design and analysis.

I agree. Its interface would look odd and clunky by today's metrics and might even been considered unusual at that time, but it was really nice to use after some practice. They seemingly put some effort into its design.
Artists release silent album in protest at AI copyright proposals
Looking for top front end developers
Any top developer working remotely looking to come and live in Costa Rica for awhile?

I am looking for a technical co-founder that helps me build the product I designed on Figma. It would be a healthtech solution. Feel free to reach out if you want more details, honestly, just ping me with no hesitation, we will be solving a real problem. Let's leave the world better than how we found it! My WhatsApp is +50687312096.
The X-37B was lifted into orbit by a Falcon Heavy...so yes. See how that works?
Perhaps the Democrats should consider letting their voters choose the candidate for once instead of anointing it. Nobody wanted Clinton except the DNC establishment, and then they lied about Biden until he was forced aside for Kamala at the behest of insiders.
My comment wasn't sarcastic. My comment is aligned with the last paragraph you wrote.
Tech-bros that invented and deployed nearly every privacy-invading technology of the last 20 years, tracked your every movement, scanned your email to show you ads, sold data for profit, now come to HN to cry privacy concern about a government audit.
CA spends around $11B on the University of California system. The NIH budget is $47B. I haven't done the math, but I would hazard that the total amount of money spent on science by the Federal and the individual state authorities would be comparable.

It's just that historically the Federal government was leading with the fundamental research, but if push comes to shove, states can start spinning up replacement programs.
Having worked a little bit in ads, impressions like that won’t get you as much money. Ads usually will bid for a spot, the more targeted info you can present to an ad, the higher the bid for the slot. Random ads don’t have that much to offer.

On top of that, a lot of advertisers have tighter budgets and therefore want the ad on a specific segment to max out ROÍ. So the pool of ads that get shown to you go down. Which means you’ll be shown the same ad repeatedly. And FB does not make as much money off repeat impressions.

And on top of that engagement brings more revenue to the company as compared to just impressions. The whole reason meta exists as a much more profitable business over something like TV or radio for ads is that targeting brings better engagement metrics. And the difference is huge.

Now I am not sure how meta’s ad internals work, but the only way I see them recouping some value out of your selection is by showing you more ads. Maybe you go from seeing ads after every 3 user generated content items to every other item being an ad.

TLDR; turning off preferences doesn’t make you more valuable, but the company could squeeze out as much value from you as other users.
Maybe what is happening benefits him so he is quietly cheering on. If he stays quiet and makes no mentions of current events I will continue to assume so. I feel that if this ultimately escalates a few more rungs everybody will have to lose.
New Zealand bends over for the US.

I imagine NZ is very unlikely to opt out (even though the US surely snarfs our private data and abuses it to our detriment). This century with modern technology and social media, the US has incredible insight into private NZ information regardless of NZ desires.

The US monitoring Angela Merkel is the tip of the iceberg.

I was directly told our intelligence services were given TEMPEST equipment in late 80's or early 90's. That's one benefit of an alliance with the US.

There was a historical scandal where NZ released a search term NZ had used to gain political advantage over a friendly country. I'm feeling a bit 1984 because I can't find the details at the moment.

I imagine our intelligence service is quite happy to use XKEYSCORE.

There's also this quote: "Trying to get out of the Five Eyes is - how can I put it? - it's like trying to get out of the mafia."

It's not a subject I know a lot about: so my opinions are likely extremely ignorant.

One of our prime ministers revealed that Australian politicians knew more than most of our own elected politicians in the 80's about the topic of intelligence gathering in NZ by the US.

Good modern background on NZ's role in the UKUSA agreement: https://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutlook/pe... which basically says that NZ is just another Pacific Island when it comes to being manipulated by intelligent Chinese interests.

A bit of background from Snowdon: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/edward-snowden-leaked...
It was designed to explicitly avoid recourse. What you want is the traditional banking system, with COBOL and oversight.
Wasn't that always the case? That bad things got popular and then next generation of critics mistook popular for good?
Hey thank you! Sometimes you have to hit refresh when you're in the editor. Did you try that? Can you try again? I will fix it.

Thanks!
Thanks, that's it. It's almost entirely "Prompt caching read."
Yup. If we ignore all the ‘people’ issues (like fraud, embezzlement, gaming-the-system, incompetence when inputting data, weird edge cases people invent, staff in other departments who are incompetent, corruption, etc), most bureaucracies would boil down to a web form and a few scripts, and probably one database.

Better hope that coder doesn’t decide to just take all the money and run to a non extradition jurisdiction though, or the credentials to that DB get leaked.
Ragit (RAG-it) is a Git-like RAG written in Rust
A neat local RAGs for quick spinning up of new AI tooling
Yeah, uBer was better and cheaper. Because it was subsidized from every angle. Cheap fares for riders, higher pay to drivers. Now it's either worse or about the same as Taxi's used to be. There's definitely some benefits to Uber especially when travelling. For local rides though, for me, at least, it's no longer better than taxis used to be, but the problem is now all the taxis are gone. It used to be that calling a taxi was unreliable, but they were generally available just by going outside and standing around for a few minutes.
I mean, to the degree in which I expect there to be an election in 2 years, and 4 years, I suppose that counts as optimism.

I've not seen any indication that elections themselves are under threat. Given that elections would happen at state level anyway (and absent disbandment of congress) those elections would elect senators and representatives. Which in turn have the power to remove a president.

So yes, I see nothing to suggest that elections themselves are at risk.
And yet states aren't allowed to form alliances with other states according to Article 1 section 10. Sure, states might be able to fund research, but most states on their own aren't going to be able to afford to do this effectively - but if several states could band together to, say, keep funding climate science that might help keep us on track and keep scientists employed until better times come back. But they can't do that.
I guess so, I haven't bothered to look as MacPorts fulfills all my requirements.
Add unlimited colors. Remix instantly. One-click export to SVG/Figma. Gallery for inspiration.
> DOGE revealed that USAID was funding political unrest in my home country (where activists recently overthrew the government)

Let's just focus on this part for a moment. Could you please share this evidence?
"Here is the project description:
[project description]
Help me think of ways this could go wrong."

Copy some of the results. Be surprised that you didn't think of some of them.

"Rewrite the email succinctly and in a more casual tone. Mention [results from previous prompt + your own thoughts]. Reference these pricing pages: [URL 1], [URL 2]. The recipient does not appreciate obvious brown nosing."
Planning AsOf Joins
is there any public info on why such DeepSeek R1 + claude-3-5 combo worked better than using a single model?
Voice. There’s something about talking to an AI that just always feels wrong. An uncanny valley for audio communication. Maybe it would help if devs dropped the attempt at imitating humans and just made them talk like machines, like Glados or something. At least then you know upfront no one is thinking they can fool you with fake pleasantries.

Anthropomorphism is to AI what skeuomorphism is to UIs. I can’t wait for us to move into the “flat design” era of AI, where instead of being patronized with phrases like “Hi! I’m Bobby! Your intelligent AI assistant, how can I help you?” we just get something cold and straight to the point like “Ready for Instructions”, in some crunchy byte encoding. Sorry for the rambling, I’m a little drunk.
With a slight pause in the post-watergate era when Jimmy Carter was president.
Bob's comments on... commenting.. are so bizarre that I can't help but think that he just refuses to concede the point rather than admit he might have been wrong about it. Like, the paranoia around incorrect/stale comments is fairly absurd, I've been coding for 20 years across many code bases, and I can't even recall a time when I've been significantly mislead by a comment which caused a significant waste of time. However, the amount of time I've wasted on unclear code that has zero comments is absolutely staggering. However, what really sealed the weirdness to me was his argument that this was somehow a good comment:

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That's verbatim, I'm not unfairly clipping context away from it. Like, what the hell is that supposed to tell someone?! Wouldn't it just be easier to drop a link to the algorithm, or briefly explain the algorithm, or just give a name of the algorithm so someone can look it up? Instead he just talks about taking a bike ride to understand it and making a weird picture. He also has bizarre arguments that if something can't be expressed in a programming language, it's the fault of the programming language (what?!) and that code is more understandable than English. I really find it hard to believe that he thinks these are actually good arguments, I just get the impression he does not want to concede that he was wrong about this.
I suppose we wouldn't allow an alien race to release music in our market on Earth, would we? Although if they had a human agent on Earth, perhaps they could release music under a dedicated Alien label. Human musicians wouldn't like having their grass cut by Aliens, so they campaign to ban Alien music. The Aliens protest, saying "let the market decide." I'm not sure what happens next.
Also Python. Python handles json really well, at least compared to say bash.

I want to say server side JavaScript plays a role in this too, but I’m not a JS developer.
Open AI vs. ANI: The India Take
We use https://www.lindy.ai/. I wonder why it's not on the map; I thought it was widely used.
I think everyone recognizes the importance of that. I think a large part of the country would disagree with your assessment of the current administration and might take issue with your total lack of similar assessment for the previous administration.

I also think anyone with a passing understanding of history would doubt your claim that this has been "reasonably" effective for 200 years. As if no prior generation had to deal with an administration they felt was incompetent or as if there aren't prior presidents that are demonstrably worse than any Trump administration.

Finally, again, if you're going to rely on an "electorate that recognizes social issues identically to me" to protect federal data, I think you've actually made the problem worse. Perhaps your social moors shouldn't be nation wide existential issues?
Google gives attribution and maybe provenance, while AI gives you smoke and mirrors. I guess we'll decide if copyright has any legs left to stand on in the modern world, or if it falls as collateral. It's so sad that commercial piracy has hit such an incredible tipping point that even I feel bad for creative people and their bleak economically dead future ahead.
"no lines of code directly written, just directing the AI"

/skeptical face.

Without fail, every. single. person. I've met who says that, actually means "except for the code that I write", or "except for how I link the code it build together by hand".

If you are 50kloc in to a large complex project that you have literally written none of, and have, eg. used cursor to generate the code without any assistance... well, you should start a startup.

...because, that's what devin was supposed to be, and it was enormously and famously terrible at it.

So that would be either a) terribly exciting, or b) hyperbole.
Always two sides to a story but the guy who caused the validation bug at DigiCert already resigned because of it (which is extreme), the Sectigo guy wanted to prevent the bug being closed so he could keep pushing them (in a subjectively prickly fashion) for more answers about their general responsiveness.

A bit of back and forth discourse is fine and expected, but if you keep pushing someone who has their own legal dept they're eventually going to wander over to the coffee machine and have a chat about it with them, then they're going to take a look and it becomes their problem.

So the number one rule would be don't even breath the word "legal" unless you want to invoke them. This particular response is just a letter telling them to back off and it's why you have a legal dept, so they can argue with each other. This one has just found it's way into the open.

There is a understandable perspective that says CAs shouldn't be burdened with legal risk in their discussions, but that's contrary to the fact these guys are commercial entities protecting their interests, so you don't get it both ways unless all your CAs are non-commercial, and even then that would only extend so far.
I'm not native but had some family-esque members tell it to me. And I tried to copy the quote from a search precisely to prevent this.

How embarrassing. But yes, I'm sure I missed the first no.
It's there in the docs (Model comparison table) https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/about-claude/models/all-m...
fellow data engineer -- yeah i've spent the last 6 months reverse engineering binary data files for the elektron octatrack as a hobby project while waiting to see how the hype cycle plays out. deffo gives a new understanding of how the machine's internals work getting to grips with the underlying stuff.

edit -- i've looked at some assembly posts on here before and they often hurt my brain, so respect to you for digging into it.
> No, the agencies were created by congress, and have always been accountable to Congress. But Congress hasn't been doing its job, which is why they seem unaccountable.

If Congress hasn't been doing its job, then they don't just seem unaccountable, they actually are.
one place such a beast might exist is at the holographic bulk/boundary limit esp. if message adiabatically describable in some quantum system
Article mentions that it's in a highly elliptical orbit.
Is it supposed to look like a Microsoft Word document from 1996? It’s all Times New Roman with 16-bit color highlights.