skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some folks support the idea behind the CHIPS act, the rest is the slow motion train wreck for the US that is the current administration.
In addition to that, to spend on things that produce net positive returns for society, but whose benefits are diffuse enough that every smaller entity isn't incentivized enough to do it.

Also, to adjust market dynamics to shift things toward long-term good when short-term incentives won't necessarily produce the same result.
It has nothing to do with scruples. It’s all about risk and the ability to sell the loan.

The bank cannot sell off a $2 million loan that is upside down a million.
Why would you dump SQL for REST??
This is an honest question. Why does a blog need to shutdown? If they moderate every comment before it is published on the website, what's the problem? I ask because I've got a UK-based blog too. It has got comments feature. Wouldn't enabling moderation for all comments be enough?
Very cool.

The first web site I ever made was for my CS clan. I hosted it on the Linux server in my university dorm room that also hosted our CS server. I don't remember what I did for DNS back then. I learned so much that I still use to this day.

I also think its neat, guessing based on your ISP, that you had such similar experiences at the same time half a world away from me (in the US).
This is the only game I can remember the had "IPX" as a connection option when searching for multiplayer games (maybe Quake II as well)? Pretty much everything after that was TCP/IP.
Are you using 1976 as a baseline? Given this and your other comments in this thread, it seems like it. I'm sure the regulatory and compliance environment have changed significantly in the last 50 years. E.g. OSHA and other agencies have significantly increased the monitoring and procedures needed to run a chemistry research lab due to accidents and deaths.
I've used Clojure for over a decade and the JVM has never been an issue. The only people I see complaining about the JVM are people who never actually worked with it. Meanwhile, there's zero evidence for the notion that static typing has any impact on code quality. https://danluu.com/empirical-pl/
I have very complex and mixed feelings about US tax law in general as it stands, and I certainly do not condone the current state of US foreign diplomacy in general, nor how our economic situation after Europe was shattered by war led to increased international economic control and influence, and economic consolidation under the dollar.
The upside of having a "aws" level competitor that pays taxes in Europe, could be worth billions or more.
TSM has found few American workers willing to work inhumane 9/9/6 hours and still not pay rent. They also cannot threaten the CCP on them.

>So likely no great loss for hem.

This I agree with. This whole tariff deal was supposed to encourage this exact behavior. Have more foreign companies setup on american soil so they can provide american jobs. So we arguably lose out a lot more on this action.
This is awesome, but I hope you have underlying features that will make you money, otherwise everyone loses here. Do you offer like payment processing plugins so you can get some revenue?
The ancients didn't have toilet bowls. I guess this sort of sanitary porcelain is going to last longer than fine 18th century coffee cups.
> People working in the government are not fungible labor units like GPUs or VMs, to be spun up and disposed of without consequence. The network formed between people is even more important than the individual jobs - and it has an insane cold-start penalty.

I don't believe those networks are ever destroyed.

In practice, those networks will be transferred to the private sector, and the government will have to pay premium money to hire them back as consultants rather than as government workers.

There's exceptions: maybe there's a 60-year-old super-old guy who is at near retirement age, and takes this opportunity to take an early retirement and refuses to answer any phone calls to come back. But I don't think these people are the norm. Offer any 60-year-old or even 70-year-old enough money and strictly promise them its a temporary rebuilding moment and they'll likely come back.
Yes it does cover more time, but did you look at what's available in non-communist time periods? Did you click through the site? Not much else is there.
just tried to play a round, the answer checker failed because it compares the results with `result == eval(expected)`, where `expected` is `"true"`, which is not a thing in Python.
Glad I searched for UNODIR before making this comment!

And that'd be a useful code to include in the subject line of the email, e.g.:

To: Boss

From: Me

Subj: UNODIR by [DATE], upgrading the production database
My flow is to go through the Pandoc JSON AST and then use Jq. This works for other input formats, too.
Why not offer a doctorate with the doctoral students paying tuition like we do in Turkish private universites?
The use of "unlikely" just screams that Ofcom will eventually pull a Vader..."We are altering the deal, pray we don't alter it any further".
The credibility question cuts both ways - a Trump-compromised NATO isn't more reliable than a European alliance with clear democratic commitments and mutual interests.

France and the UK already maintain a credible nuclear deterrent. European industrial capacity dwarfs Russia's. The EU's combined GDP exceeds China's. Scale isn't our problem - political will is.

Sweden indeed shows how principled positions can be maintained while building serious defense capabilities. Now multiply that model by Europe's combined industrial and technological base.

The ICC point is crucial - when most nations accept international law, continuing to accommodate "exceptionalism" becomes a weakness, not a strength. An alliance of genuine democracies, bound by shared values and mutual accountability, may prove more reliable than one held together by mere convenience.

Rather than asking if Europe can afford to build this capability, perhaps we should ask if we can afford not to.
> And for free speech, the US don’t have free speech. People are silenced by fear by „free-speech“ abolitionists so they don’t dare to speak freely in fear of repressive measures.

The US is basically the only country with good free speech laws. I am not saying they’re perfect, but I’m not sure what your argument on that point is. Can you share something more specific and explain how it invalidates the American constitutional protections on free speech?

> And the AfD is full of enemies of the constitution and that’s illegal as a party in Germany.

You either have a democracy where people can choose their leaders or you don’t. It appears Germany doesn’t. Preventing a party that is popular, from existing or participating in elections, is literally authoritarian and anti free speech by definition.

> Bringing in a UN resolution that lacks the part where Russia is the aggressor in the war with Russia.

What do you call the illegal coup in 2014? It removed the representation of everyone in Crimea and Donbas right? What about NATO expansionism? The aggressor isn’t very clear. I would argue that the 2014 coup and efforts to suppress Russian ethnic people in Ukraine was an act of aggression that eventually led to this conflict.

> Blackmailing a country that fights for survival to get rare earths.

This framing just shows how thankless it can be for America to help Europe. Asking for something fair in return for hundreds of billions in defense and security funding (not just in this conflict but for a much longer time), especially since it helps remove China’s rare earth control, is reasonable. It’s not blackmail to propose a fair deal. Ukraine and Europe are also certainly free to refuse the deal and not expect American taxpayers (whose pocket this comes out of) to help them further, considering they’ve already done so much.
I am really curious about how you test software...
There's no point in explaining to you how wrong you are if haven't figured it out by yourself at this point
This game is on GOG's "Dreamlist" of games to preserve on their platform, so if you're interested in playing it, vote for it!

https://www.gog.com/dreamlist/game/the-operative-no-one-live...
the tl;dr is "reasoning models".
> Much of things boils down to doing a risk assessment and deciding on mitigations.

So... paperwork, with no real effect, use, or results.
And you're trying to defend it?

I do agree with need something, but this is most definitely not the solution.
Ultima VII ran in real mode and it wanted every single kilobyte of memory that it could steal away from DOS.

They had some fancy optimized version of HIMEM that worked a little bit better than the stock DOS one and people started using it on all of their boot disks not just the one for Ultima VII.
You’re talking about national elections. California has demonstrated time and time again that it’s able to regulate businesses and impose environmental regulations beyond the federal government
Academic misconduct is an idee fixe on HN, because (1) there is about two orders of magnitude more research occurring than the median HN commenter would guess, (2) misconduct is generally newsworthy, and (3) even a minuscule portion of fraudulent research is enough to keep a steady drumbeat of misconduct stories to vote and comment on.
I work in neurotech/sleeptech and work with Alzheimer's researchers.

This is sensationalist and one-sided.

Alzheimer's is the most common form of dementia, and it is not clearly understood. It is potentially the most common form because it is not understood and there are many, myself among them, who believe that multiple different diseases are being assigned a single title because we don't understand the disease enough.

This isn't to say the Amyloid hypothesis is correct, it may be correct in a number of cases, but the Type 3 Diabetes may also be correct.

The Amyloid Hypothesis has not been disproven. Yes, misrepresented data in a few studies have significantly put into question the reliability, however hundreds of other not "doctored" studies have shown the hypothesis holds significant promise.

The pharmaceutical companies did not make up the format of the disease in order to sell drugs, and the current drugs are not very effective, but that doesn't mean the theory is wrong. Just because amyloid build up is a marker of the disease does not mean that removing this metabolic waste would reverse the disease. That's like saying blowing your nose would cure the common cold.

In the case of AD, the suspicion is that the Amyloid/Tau build up damages the neurons ability to signal within the brain, like a blockage in a pipe that causes the pipe to break. Removing the blockage does not repair the pipe.

So why bother removing it at all?

A researcher we work with has posited a theory (which is fairly new, but I'm not sure she is the first) that amyloid build up reduces the power of delta slow waves, and the related glymphatic flushing of metabolic waste. This is why the drugs might be valuable (I'll say might be, rather than are), increasing the removal of waste slows further progression of the disease.

Having said that, there is a point in time where slowing progression is just lengthening time in poor health, and is not valuable, but prior to that, it can be valuable (I'll leave it up to individuals to decide what is right for them or their family members).

We've been developing slow-wave enhancement technology at Affectable Sleep [1] for the last 5 years, and similar tech has shown early promise in people with AD [2] as well as potential preventative in elderly people [3].

[1] https://affectablesleep.com

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39048400/

[3] https://academic.oup.com/ageing/article/52/12/afad228/750330...
OpenStack out of the box does KVM, network, firewalls, NVFs, orchestration (via native heat or terraform), and with the Magnum component can launch k8s, Mesos, or Swarm largely automagically. Storage is typically via ceph (which does block, object [supports Swift/S3 protocols] and filesystem) and supports snapshots and is fully replicated. Sadly the managed database service didn't make it far, but with Heat or Terraform it's pretty easy to spin up a VM holding your DBs. The native FaaS service, Qinling got deprecated a while back. Secrets management via the barbican component. Web interface via the horizon component.

I'm not too familiar with the whole range of AWS offerings, but I really think aside for DBaaS and FaaS OpenStack can cover pretty much everything someone would need, especially combined with Ceph for storage.

All opensource.
Not really, you can tweak a lot with the right CLI commands, and the desktop experience is not constantly being messed with or your settings reverted, as is the case with Windows and its forced updates.
Aka a “heckler’s veto”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler's_veto
Did anyone else ever get the glitch where the game switched from color to red and black? That was truly sinister.
Putting is about half the game numerically and among the pros there are good and bad putters. Tom Watson was an excellent putter for most of his career by hitting firm putts that got past the hole, but he famously missed a 6 footer to win The Open at age 59 by hitting a soft putt that barely made it to the hole. In Jordan Spieth's annus mirabilis 2015 he was by far the best putter from 20-25 feet on tour. On the other hand, if Dustin Johnson could putt as well as he plays the long game he would have won a lot more championships. Innovations tend to get banned. Sam Snead's croquet style putting astride the line was banned and the long putters with the top locked into the body to act as a pendulum also banned. Nothing is worse than amateurs imitating professionals and taking forever lining up a putt from all four sides unless maybe it is on the final green of the club championship.
https://justine.lol/tmp/trump.jpg
Yeah, this is just simple principles: Garbage in, garbage out. If you're only offering little more pay than an entry level fast food worker, your quality and productivity will match that.

The real theme of the post-08 crash is "no one wants to pay americans anymore". And it's only been spreading from industry to industry as the billionaires figure out how to cut american labor but benefit from american consumerism.
As pointed out by @thevarmint, UNODIR is a longstanding military abbreviation for "unless otherwise directed."

And that'd be a useful code to include in the subject line of the email as an attention-getter and summary, e.g.:

=========

To: Boss

From: Me

Subj: UNODIR 2/23/25: Upgrading production database

=======

And the body of the email could provide more background.
> I know right. Ignorance is bliss.

No ignorance here, quite the opposite. When you realize how low the odds are of the worst case scenarios you use to justify your behavior and do a cost/benefit analysis you'll find it isn't in favor of that level of mild paranoia.

> I'm 19, but no worries, when COVID happened I was not affected

Being afraid to touch door handles in public and being as attached to a smartphone as you are would indicate the pandemic did indeed affect your development. The question is to what extent is your development typical.
I encourage anyone taking this line of criticism to compare an e.g. $5B state university to any other similar sized enterprise, and consider what increased operational and administrative costs those other organizations have had to undertake since 1976. This can include HR and IT and healthcare, legal liability and industry compliance. Now add to that the additional regulatory burdens specific to higher education, and the increased market expectations of higher education as a holistic 'experience' that is almost unrecognizable from what it was 50 years ago.

Much of that professional staff is geared toward corporate-style product development and marketing, because they've been forced to by a lack of public funding. And while a commercial corporation generally aims to retain and grow a customer base, gaining some economy of scale for those professional positions, universities are functionally capped at those small ratios you describe.

Of course there is administrative bloat, and the funding model doesn't do enough to self-regulate that, but lack of public investment causes more systemic inefficiencies than that.
The Age of Disclosure [video]
I love Derek Lowe as much as anyone else, but this piece is a bit weak.

The (currently) first comment on his site is right on point:

> I don’t really see what point this article is trying to make. I’m 65. Vaxxed for covid to the max. Finally got covid. Before I had much in the way of symptoms I took Paxlovid for 5 days. Covid symptoms stopped. Tested clear of Covid after 5 days. Then I had rebound Covid for about a week but it was mild. If I ever get Covid again I’ll take paxlovid again. I don’t care what anyone else thinks.

Here are some reasons the article is weak.

1. I'll start with my own anecdote. I got the initial 2 shots of Moderna and later the booster when it became available. Still, I contracted Covid in early 2022 and it was not very fun. Then I contracted Covid in early 2024 and I got Paxlovid this time, and it was a breeze.

2. The mechanism of action of Paxlovid is different from the mechanism of action of the Pfizer/Moderna vaccines (I guess other vaccines as well). The vaccines train the body to recognize the spike protein of the virus, while Paxlovid attacks a protease (called M-pro) that plays some role in the virus's replication cycle. As the Covid virus mutates and the vaccines bases on the older strains become less effective, the added benefit of a drug with a different mechanism of action increases. Note that I said the added benefit, not the absolute benefit, which could very well decrease too. So, a study based on observations between April and October 2022 is likely to understate the benefit of Paxlovid today (for the vaccinated people).

3. Derek does not mention if the study was powerful enough. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Since this was an observational study based on an existing cohort, the observers did not have a chance to do design the experiment to ensure enough statistical power. The conclusion that Derek draws is based on multiple indirect comparisons, and in all of them Derek treats statistical insignificance as equality.

4. Derek talks about long term effects. In my own anecdote, I did suffer from hearing loss for many months after my Covid episode with no Paxlovid. Nothing close to getting me to a hospital. But very annoying. Absolutely no Covid short or long term effects when I took Paxlovid.

5. This statement "if a drug's not doing you any good then you really shouldn't take it at all" is a big error. Derek jumped from "we have no evidence that the drug is good" to "the drug is doing you no good". Boom. Blink and you don't see it.
Should order this list by number of affected rather than alphabetical IMO. The 275K monthly user platform is almost hidden relative to the 49 and 300 user examples.
I understand Trump wanting to drill-baby-drill and boost the fossil fuel companies (and supposedly drop gas prices though that was just a lie fed to his base as it's not something he can control), but shutting off the EV chargers doesn't lower the price of gas. It certainly doesn't save the government any money or make it more efficient, nor does it root out corruption and fraud. And unless those EVs have DEI stickers on them, then it doesn't help purge America of the "evils of DEI".

So ...?
Tech giants learn to share Trump's zeal for fossil fuels
He’s being played like a fiddle.
Curious, which license can't you use at work for a simple shell tool? Considering you're not linking against it, even GPL3 should be okay, right?
As an aside: despite caring about "correct" use of language I've always been willing to frivolously split infinitives - it's against the rules, but I think quite an effective evolution of language

Good to have linguists around reminding us to boldly go explore :)
That's a catch 22 though. If you never introduce it no one will learn it?

The people that mattered were on board with the experiment though. It was a healthy enough environment that the project failing if it did wasn't going to be terrible for my career
So how many 30 minutes lunches are you having? One every 2 hours?

> supercharges, which are everywhere

Not really? That's the whole point, that the availability of fast chargers is still very low.
You should give Gleam a shot. No REPL, but its simplicity, functional-ity and the BEAM lend themselves to the get-shit-done approach
Four Awakenings
These are highly complicated pieces of equipment almost as complicated as living organisms.
ln some cases, they've been designed by other computers.
We don't know exactly how they work.

Westworld, 1973
I gave up on Ultima VII when some wolves attacked my party in the forest and I couldn't find my downed party member.

That was the day and age when you only had the manual to help you figure out UI problems instead of asking people on The Internet. By the time I had access to somewhere to ask I was too busy playing Starflight. Which for the kids is the second version of No Man's Sky, or No Man's Sky is the third version of Starflight.
In the sense that Ukraine was fine in 2021, sure. Ignoring years of threats from Russia.

Taiwan is the Ukraine of Asia right now. And even without that we are worse off because Trump increased tariffs to Taiwan this month. expect any electronics you buy this year to surge in pricing.
I can mostly speak for German. It seems to mix them all into one general language. But there are a lot of local differences between north and south of Germany, Switzerland and Austria. And it’s not just dialect, but really different words that might not be understood everywhere.
If you look at the english part it has at least three different words. Similar in Spanish.
No idea, I’ve never used that.
“My preferred candidate only one twice” is the hallmark of a “only the federal govt elections matter” midwit. The federal government is the least effective way to lead on regulatory change. California has demonstrated leadership this way repeatedly.

>So, please, spare me. We’re up to violence already. You’re just well behind the times unfortunately.

There have been nut-jobs saying this and inflicting violence since the beginning of the country. Then there are people who actually affect change. Pick a side.
Age of Empires 2 had IPX as far as I remember.
I'm curious how ergonomic you find that? I did look at the pandoc JSON initially, and found it fairly awkward to work with. It's a great interchange format, but doesn't seem optimized for either human interaction or scripting. (It's definitely possible to use it for scripting, it just felt cumbersome to me, personally.)
Some kids definitely enjoy communicating with other kids way more.
Actual Article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-54178-1#Fig1
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I don't think anyone ever really expected to see widespread use of regexes to alter the structure of a Markdown document. Honestly, while something like "look for numbers and surround them with double-asterisks to put them in boldface" is feasible enough (and might even work!), I can't imagine that a lot of people would do that sort of thing very often (or want to) anyway.

If a document is supposed to have structure - even something as simple as nested lists of paragraphs - it doesn't seem realistic to expect regular text manipulation tools to do a whole lot with them. Something like "remove the second paragraph of the third entry in the fourth bullet-point list" is well beyond any sane use of any regex dialect that might be powerful enough. (Keeping in mind that traditional regexes can't balance brackets; presumably they can't properly track indentation levels either.)

See also: TOML - generally quite human-editable, but still very much structured with potentially arbitrary nesting.