skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly this. Downsizing the government is fine. But there are good ways to do it, mediocre ways to do it, and then there's the clusterfuck way to do it. We're experiencing the latter.

But it's clear this isn't really about downsizing the government. I really don't think Trump give's a shit about the federal budget or the size of the deficit. It's about a show of power. Trump is proving that he can be king by getting away with doing whatever he wants.
Summary from Gizmodo:

> Per Silverman’s research, Martynov was an officer in the technical espionage division of the Russian intelligence agency back in 1980, when he was sent to the United States to serve as an undercover agent at the Soviet Embassy in Washington, D.C. About two years into his stay, Martynov got flipped by the FBI and started to feed the US government Soviet secrets.

> Martynov was eventually identified as compromised by KGB counterintelligence officer Victor Cherkashin, who had himself successfully developed sources within the US intelligence agencies. In order to get Martynov back to Russia without him suspecting that he was found out, Cherkashin was asked to escort another Soviet spy back home (it’s a long story that Silverman explains in detail). As soon as the plane touched down, Martynov was arrested and ultimately executed.

> His widow eventually moved to the United States permanently, where she and her children would settle, marry, and have kids—including Edward.

* https://gizmodo.com/doge-staffer-known-as-big-balls-reported...
I would probably characterize the moral position as “because even more harm is done by forcing someone who isn’t willing or able to care for the child to bring it into the world.”
The absolute best explanation is they're going to be "sold" to a private middleman so someone can be lining their pockets (so efficient!).

The middle of the road explanation is that it's just more reactionary Lysenkoism.
Online discussions on forests preserved in the Finnish Web Archive
Department of Government Elimination
Did any child? I think by the time we die we should have achieved some understanding and love with connecting with other humans by the tools given to us. It might be somewhat uncomfortable but the pros outweigh the cons.
For the most part, authentic experiences aren’t digital but the current generation are loosing what is.
In my opinion.
See also, India hand painted movie posters.
Sounds like a win? Why did they even call you if they could sort that out themselves in a few minutes.
Too big to fail was a joke, they should have made them sell their assets or ownership to other companies and shareholders who would cover the losses. Not one person who owned the company before should have been allowed to remain owning anything, without additional paid in capital. Anything related to safety, social security and veterans benefits, was/is mentioned specifically as exempt to the cuts/payment pauses from what I've seen.
> 2. Tinder is worse than IRL speed dating.

I don't know about Tinder specifically, but from what I've heard apps seem to be where most people meet nowadays - you'll find normal people mixed in with the weirdos. Meanwhile real-life speed dating is where the really desperate people go and is mostly weirdos.
this is just a recreation, not an expansion, but xu4 is playable on linux without wine.

https://xu4.sourceforge.net/
It's really cool that the full text of this paper is posted publicly like this, +1 for foss science. But it's also very dense and I'm not a physicist, can anyone ELI5 for us mere mortals?
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/06/24/public-trust...
I just assume there was a ton of turmoil internally after layoffs and the outcome of that was me being ghosted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_radiation

"In a vacuum, electromagnetic waves travel at the speed of light, commonly denoted c."

I would expect that in air, that the photon from the light source and the perturbance of the electric field from the charge to reach the detector at the same time.
Historically, create problems, sell solutions is the point most long-standing instutitions (media, government, business, etc) reach, and also when those institutions are undergoing rapid change (e.g. revolution) from within.
I didn't understand how people were scoring so high until I saw in the Settings that you can increase the Working Hours to 24, and your Hand size to 10.

The game immediately became less fun. I was able to max everything out in green in just a few days.
How does execute only memory disable privileged access never memory? The bigger problem I expect is the overhead of loosing PC-relative loads unless the hardware still allows these as instruction fetching related? Would you have to dedicated one of your 31 GPRs as the table of contents pointer similar to PowerPC’s ABI (e.g. sizeof(void()(void)) == 2sizeof(void *))?
click Expand for details https://x.com/i/grok/share/fov27TB0Zn9jH5ZYIV70nTqN2
I think it's more about game preservation.
He got less than 50% of the votes
Word is that China makes getting a license plate for an ICE extremely hard to get, while EVs get basically a free pass.

I don't know about any direct subsidies but I wouldn't doubt that there's something there.
They forget to list The0's comebacks
> These are the early attempts to bias AI. They will get subtler.
> Oof, I would never fly an airline or buy a fare class that didn't let me choose a seat immediately, at time of booking.

I mean, that just seems like an expensive way to pay for seat selection.

e.g. Checking a route I fly frequently for an arbitrary date, it’s $232 (with seat selection in the $20 range) as the base fare rate, or $386 for the cheapest fare that includes seat selection. (With some other bonuses that don’t have any value to me, e.g. checked bags and a better cancellation policy.)
Yes, which is what I said.
That overstates the Soviet aspect and severely understates the Vietnamese aspect.

For Vietnam, Cambodia is their near abroad. Saigon is barely 20 miles away from Cambodia, and the Mekong is the lifeblood of Southern Vietnam, and Cambodian factions (the same ones the Chinese backed in the 1970s) had supported anti-Vietnamese insurgencies in Gia Lai.

Cambodia and Laos became a buffer state for China+Thailand and Vietnam the same way Myanmar has become one for China, Thailand, and India.
OK. But Ukraine choses to keep figting. Let them decide their fate.

At the start of the war EVERYONE said Russia would take Ukraine in days, and asked Zelenskyy when he wanted to evacuate. Not sure why anything they said back then is worth while to base opinions on today.
I might have won this battle, but chances are I'm gonna lose the war.
u/cogman10 comment reads to me as if they are saying that EM radiation and light travel at different speeds.
the exact details of the attack were still evolving when we pushed the blog post out, so we kept it to what we did know and what could be extrapolated from it
This was my initial thought once we got to the Gamma function.

My reasoning is (I'm pretty sure it's the same as yours), why is the gamma function allowed, but not others? I could insert arbitrary functions to make the game arbitrarily solvable.

While this hit me at the Gamma introduction, I think it leads back to the beginning: It's a poorly defined problem from the rules at the start of the article. It should instead define the set of allowable functions (or operations) explicitly. I think you could modify this to retain the intent of showing how the problem scales with knowledge level.
Yes, and this also gives the lie to ageism. I hear this from older-than-me people fairly often, that the reason that they can't get the job they want, or a promotion, or whatever, is 'ageism.'

Meanwhile, I routinely see people older than me (I'm not young) being hired, promoted and generally shown great respect - because their years of experience has given them wisdom. They also remember how things developed over time and have more experience with details farther down the abstraction stack because those abstractions weren't around when they cut their teeth.

I aspire to be one of those grey beards in the not so distant future. And I doubt my age will ever hold back my career, aside from change my personal choices (for retirement, fewer hours, etc).
I watched the video and am curious about the protocol loading apps from add-ons. Do the resistors j7st say what k8nd of connection is used (i2c, serial, etc)?

Also, I've been looking for cyberdeck and clamshell designs using CM4 and am impressed with how you sourced the keyboard. Is there a reason the replace the matrix chip with an i2c extender and not use the original chip?
It is part of the plan. Search “flood the zone.” They’re intentionally doing so much crap that you can’t keep track.
Many math questions are easy to verify, and it's a classic benchmark for reasoning -> so it's a good hill to climb.

I agree with your meta-point that better benchmarks testing more types of task would be good!
Not just the act matters. The rhetoric used by the messenger matters to.
Weird, I've flew out of SFO two weeks ago on United, and their online check-in never works for me so I just do it at the airport and get a paper boarding pass. I didn't run into any issues. Line was short (mid morning on a Thursday). They have a bunch of self-service kiosks to check-in and print passes.

It's never crossed my mind that an airline app exists and I would never consider installing one. If they don't want to provide self-service kiosks or a working website, I guess they'll have to have more demand for agents. Same with banks: there's no check deposits through their website, so I go in person when I need to do that. Installing an app is just not even on my radar to consider.

I'd also never rely on a gate number from my phone anyway knowing that it could be out of date. I'd have to verify with a departure board or sign at the gate anyway, so I'm just going to start there.
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Nothing to offer?

Then why the tariffs?
> In fact, one couldn't be blamed for thinking that perhaps all of this is about something else entirely.

Indeed. They've been quite explicit in their goals.
> Stop giving them the benefit of the doubt and steelmanning a position they don't have.

> They want to destroy the American administrative state.

You did it a little yourself there. s/administrative//. They want to destroy the American nation state, period.
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I actually had one 8-/ and I never flag (intentionally).

Flagging is for trolls...
That's exactly the point. What exactly, is the set of allowable functions used for the problem? I think you, and the post you reply to, are stating the same thing.

Where do you draw a line between "Functions available on a 4-function calculator" and "Functions I can make up specifically to generate a target integer"? I think you have to rigidly define this, or the game loses meaning.
If 'US switch sides' means US giving military or financial support to Russia in the war, I strongly doubt it. If it means Trump giving rhetorical support to Russia, sure.

I'm willing to bet against both the military support for Russia & the NATO dissolution at 4:1 odds before end of this year and 2:1 before end of next year.

I don't think anyone serious actually thinks either of those things are going to happen so I doubt anyone would take me up on that offer.
Show HN: I created a language called AntiLang – breaking all the conventions
AntiLang is an interpreted programming language written in Go.
The basic idea of this is to keep all the logical parts of a language same, but reverse the structure of it.

The idea for this project came when I was having a long midnight conversation with my friend and thought of writing such a weird language. The initial draft was far worse than the current implementation; we thought of reversing the brackets and the language would be read from bottom to top. I'm happy that I dropped that idea

Technical details:
As the interpreter is written in Golang, I compiled it to WASM, and the whole interpreter is running in the browser.
For the editor, I'm using Monaco, the same library that powers the text editor in VSCode.
I learnt how to build it while reading "Write an Interpreter in Go" by Thorsten Ball.

The project is opensourced - https://github.com/SirusCodes/AntiLang - do give it a star if you like the project.
I mean, the XZ backdoor happened because the main developer was overworked and burned out[0]. Stuff like this happens all over the OSS sphere, its just that its usually on less-critical projects. AFAIK, Heartbleed also sat unnoticed in OpenSSL for years because it was no one's full-time job to care.

If you were paying someone to full-time maintain XZ or Heartbleed, or whatever, it would have their singular attention.

[0]https://www.mail-archive.com/xz-devel@tukaani.org/msg00567.h...

> I haven't lost interest but my ability to care has been fairly limited
mostly due to longterm mental health issues but also due to some other
things. Recently I've worked off-list a bit with Jia Tan on XZ Utils and
perhaps he will have a bigger role in the future, we'll see.
on this topic, I have been wondering lately - what's with China's dominance in the battery science area?

Is it still true that they're the only ones who can make LiFePO batteries? Is anyone else working on production of these?

What accounts for this gap - patents (ha), secret research, materials, manufacturing prowess, all of the above?
Between the fanboys and those who are consumed by hate the internet has been really annoying these last weeks.
Did you only pay for it one time or a few times?
The sad thing is that children are forced by the school to register google, facebook, and share stuff there. One can say that it is a matter of willpower, but I'd say that it is more like forcing them to carry drugs around and expect them to stay away from it.
Leaders are really into playing pretend and it seems to just get worse the higher they are on the ladder.

Like, literally, an effective way to sell to them is to make them feel like they’re in a movie doing Super Important Things. LOL. Executive Disneyland.
OP here: I think the reason for reducing Ph.D. admissions is very simple and should be understandable to anyone who has ever been responsible for making payroll. We (at universities) have great uncertainty about future "revenue" (grants) with even funding for ongoing contracts/ grants not being guaranteed to come in next fiscal year. So we need to reduce expenses which are placed on the grants, the largest amount of which is paying for our trainees. The vast majority of universities in the US do not have extremely large endowments, and at least at the school I work at, the (very modest) endowment amounts that can be used for ongoing expenses already are.

I, as a PI, am not directly admitting anyone into my group this year to ensure I have enough funding to pay existing group members. We're hunkering down and making sure those we have now will be funded through the rest of their Ph.D. While this article is talking about program-level decisions, there is a bottom-up aspect as well - at my program and many others, we (faculty) directly admit students into our group and are often responsible for their salaries from day one. Many faculty are, at an individual level, making the same decision I am, to reduce or eliminate any admissions offers this year.

Edit: For reference, I am not at UPenn, but at a "typical" state school engineering program.
You can't do uncollateralised borrowing/lending without credit checks, that is interaction with the real world. This requires trusted centralized counterparties, identity, etc., and is not suited for permissionless blockchains.

Trading equity/FX on centralized platforms is extraordinarily cheap. You don't save much, if anything, by going decentralized there (not to mention the fact that to enter the crypto system, you need to exchange fiat (hard to get crypto by mining these days), and Coinbase charges consumers 1.55% on average for that, so 3% for a round-trip back to fiat.)

Having control of user data is orthogonal to the technology. It's a legal matter. We could retain ownership of a tweet with a different contract. The nature of the underlying distributed database hardly matters.

The vision of crypto has failed. Instead of reducing intermediaries, it gave rise to a whole new host of intermediaries, and enormous externalities (environments, scams, hacks, crime).
Supply lines. You offer political asylum to someone I don’t like I can shut your entire federal government down to get him.
Great points! We're making progress on improving both of the issues you mentioned.

1. For deleted rows, you can create policies to simplify querying. However, periodic deletions are still necessary. We've been optimizing lightweight deletes/updates to improve performance, which should help with automatic deletions.

2. For the second issue, refreshable materialized views with different order keys than raw tables are an option worth considering. However, having it in real time for tables with billions of rows might not be viable. That said, processing within tens of minutes to a few hours could work. We're tracking that the order key serves a dual role—as both a deduplication key and a skip index—which is the root cause of this issue of enabling REPLICA IDENTITY on Postgres side.

Separately, working on a guide covering best practices for Postgres to ClickHouse data modeling, detailing these concepts further. More on this coming soon!
I might add the last term into my vocabulary now.
It isn't unqiue, Dale Carnegie Jr talked about that sort of easy recollection of names and gave explanations of how people who did recall names a decade later do it.
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Cute but Gnome already has a fairly macOS-like interface, really well polished, with great HIG, but with its own flair.
Transparency in Hardware/Software Interfaces
> The interesting and important question which GP poijted out—and which you completely dodged—is where and what should be cut.

This is false on a substantive level. The parent challenged (1) the premise that federal spend should scale and with GDP and (2) whether current healthcare cost levels are justified.

It's also notable that you redacted a key part of the parent's quote. Here's the full quote:

> Given the complexity in the details, I don't think a 'serious discussion' about this is even possible in this forum. But if the question is 'do you think an effort should be made to look for things to cut', I'd say 'yes, of course.'
There is no meant. We are evolving into what we create.
First of all none of this is legal- it’s all money that is appropriated.

Secondly, this is a see-through attempt to further extend an already short staffed federal government in order to justify selling it off in pieces to the millionaire and billionaire class.

One final question, is Elon Musk doing this all purely out of the goodness of his heart? He has nothing to gain from what he is doing?

Basic game theory suggests that maybe he is acting more selfishly than we are being told.
shrugs Sorry, I have no explanation then.

Because I have the same level of experience and to me, for my way of working, they're obviously mostly useless.
Substantial dilution of shares rather than monetary penalties.
For the unfamiliar, this is a major release and is what would be called "30.0" in a more typical version scheme (but Emacs uses x.0.y for prerelease versions).

As the email says at the bottom, here are the release notes: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/etc/NEWS?h=...
You are inferring that as a rule of the game by making assumptions. There are other conclusions different people could reach.
Definitely Elden Ring.

As evidence, even Harper's Magazine wrote about it:

https://harpers.org/archive/2024/11/dying-is-a-form-of-educa...
As someone who holds an IP certificate and JD diploma from a respected law school, I can tell you that most of what you’re saying is utterly false. There are some exceptions carved out by the Library of Congress to the DMCA, but I would advise you to educate yourself before posting further on the subject. You’re right that violation doesn’t necessarily lead to prosecution and liability—people break the law all the time without being prosecuted for it—but nevertheless, you risk getting yourself into hot water if you violate another’s rights.
I mean, the grants that are being cut is the money that graduate students bring in. Less grant money -> fewer graduate students. In theory maybe it's possible to be more efficient like you're suggesting, but it's hard to see how the immediate response could be any different.
you cant send post parameters in a URL, those would be get parameters. Now if the field storage method also parsed get parameters I can see that being XSS, I didn’t consider that.

it’s definitely not being stored if it’s immediately printed like in the example , so that’s not a problem

and you don’t need a browser exploit for XSS to be a problem on its own, I just wasn’t sure if that example counts.
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As father to a toddler, the diapers we have (pampers brand) definitely contain these extremely absorbent polymers. They never leak and can contain insane amounts of liquid. Sometimes you forget about the diapers for half a day and there's no leaks and almost no irritation if the skin.
Technicolor likely closing all US operations as of Monday 24th Feb