skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You understand that USPS is not sending you junk mail but some advertiser pays them to do so, right? So perhaps you are suggesting that USPS should increase the rates? Because otherwise your comment doesn’t make much sense.
Do Canadians not call the Scandinavian crepe style Swedish pancakes? That’s the common term in the US regardless of size and fold.
Yes. Even though they are called tips (they do not unlock any features in the app), they are still mandatory to go through Apple and they take their 15-30% cut.
Russia's population is 140 million. They're not going to run out of people. 17% of those or about 24 million are fighting age males (18-44). If you really need to you can definitely recruit 15-60 and woman.

Not sure if this is what you meant by logistics.

If you're thinking about supplying and maintaining their physical presence in Ukraine it doesn't look like that's a problem either.

"As of 2024, Russia produces about 3 million artillery shells a year, nearly three times the quantity from the US and Europe." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_industry_of_Russia

They're also still exporting weapons though significantly less than they used to export.

Maybe they can't sustain 10 years of war with the west continuing or increasing their level of support, assuming Ukraine can, but they are nowhere near being forced to stop [the] war.
Looking forward to see pricing.

I’m currently using an agong thinkpad x270 and I’m largely dissatisfied with the current thinkpad landscape.

I might finally pull the trigger on a brand new laptop!
Ladybird browser update (February 2025) [video]
Video RAM is accessible to the OS, if you render into it it can be read back. In this case it's deliberately rendered into a separate protected area of RAM the OS can't read, and composited at scanout time.
Thanks for sharing your experience! Definitely gonna try on real projects.
This is just the standard executive double speak we all deal with in the private sector.

How many times has a new executive been brought in, tells your team how important and great you all are, and then the entire team is fired a couple weeks later?
The head of the office of Management and Budget said on video, that you can watch:

We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down so that the EPA can’t do all of the rules against our energy industry because they have no bandwidth financially to do so. We want to put them in trauma.
This just reads like corporate / egg farm welfare. Shouldn't an appropriately running market be picking up the tab for in their own self interest?

> In its plan, the USDA said it would spend up to half a billion dollars boosting bio-safety precautions at egg farms.

Seems like just paying for this outright means farms won't have to bother, or even bother to keep up with those precautions because the feds will come running again the next time it happens.
It turns out that the tax-and-spend moniker Democrats were labeled with is infinitely preferable to the spend-and-spend-and-spend behavior Republicans have implemented in practice.
> Censorship of free advertising is against the economic interest of rightsholders

This was literally the first time I saw this "feature". I was watching something on Netflix and wanted to share a screenshot with someone. I realized that it didn't work. Ok, I guess you don't get my top-quality word-of-mouth marketing and to allow paying subscribers to enhance their enjoyment by chatting about the show. It is just a lose-lose scenario.
Great for you. Back in the real world, businesses rely heavily on the mail working.
I’m not going to lie all this sounds like heaven to me.

I absolutely hate the way my appetite works. I have a genuine dysfunction with food. It goes back as far as I can remember. My cravings never stop, even after being satiated. It’s an endless cycle of weight gain then loss then gain as my willpower fluctuates for a variety of reasons.

My insurance only recently started to cover these weight loss drugs, and I have been looking into them over the last month because I think I’m an ideal candidate for it.

If it gives this kind of control over cravings and appetite I’m really looking forward to how this can genuinely make my life better
I'm curious how you imagine this came to be. What a strange coincidence! Oh well maybe we can use it to get better deals. What luck!
It's not really competition when your paid by the other party.
Lets bet DirectFile is going to be shutdown in the next one year?
Especially when that source is Houthi state media!
Wild idea: the problem is that society as a whole cannot decide whether given area should be managed by a private company, or the government, therefore it oscillates between these two states. We could avoid this problem by having an economic system that enforces smooth transition, so that instead of flickering between "private company" and "branch of the government" with each change causing disruptions, we'd experience gradual, less noticable changes. In other words, instead of having same laws apply to all companies, have different laws for different-sized companies, making them naturally grow into branches of government as they expand, and return to private as they shrink.
> Censorship of free advertising is against the economic interest of rightsholders.

Is it though? In the old days they needed people to recommend you see a movie or listen to a song or whatever today it's hyper-personalized algorithms and if that's not enough almost every major tech company sells targeted advertising to show your <thing> ahead of the rest.
Nah, Trump is on the MIC personally. What European nation will buy American arms after the way Zelensky was treated yesterday?

Time to buy Rheinmetall stock
> People don't like to live in dense environments

The 1.6 million people in Manhattan would disagree with you.
For young aspiring engineers here who may read this and just like the sound of "building jet engine", look into building a pulse jet first.

They're extremely easy to build, having no moving parts, and only requiring some steel tubing, a welder and a large propane tank. I've already done it and can attest to this being true.

The "best" part is that they're incredibly, obnoxiously loud. Like wear earplugs and ear muffs at the same time loud. Efficiency isn't great, you can expect maybe 20-100 lbs thrust from larger models but I suppose that's more than enough for "let's grab an old bicycle and do something really stupid"
(oh and look pulsejets up on youtube for sure, it'll open up a whole world for you in under 20 minutes)
I do this semi-frequently. I'll seed a funny screenshot or short clip to friends. It's free marketing for the show. They should really build short-clip sharing into their apps.
Any pricing on the physical game? Can't imagine this type of game being $69.
Why Microsoft Azure Shines as a 5-Star Cloud (While AWS Lags at 3 Stars)
Thank you, this is new to me.
> Russia's population is 140 million.

Alledged population. Or are we also to believe their election results?
>> Microsoft clearly puts time and money into their documentation

I am quite surprised to hear someone say this. MS documentation has a horrible reputation that is well-deserved and and in my direct experience the docs for Azure are much like any other MS docs (incomplete, out-of-date and poorly organized -- usually all three at once)
There is a method to this madness.

Elon Musk's strategy is to control the government operations through controlling its IT department.

The smart people of 18f stands in the way. By removing it and hiring his loyalists to run the government IT he gets to control the government's operations.
HDMI capture is super easy. Pirates would not bother with a million screenshots. It's a tiny barrier that only really causes annoyance and makes the computer not work for the user.
It's ok, you were right to doubt that I understood that porn isn't the only sin. Any waste of time/ resources in pursuit of egotistical pleasure is a sin as far as I understand it. But we are taught that God is merciful, as long as we fight truly with our sins.

Regarding judgement: https://chatgpt.com/share/67c393b3-5ad8-8009-9991-edbf43df1a...
Jason probably means he doesn't use it for large deliveries, which isn't reality, since I believe they move the most parcels in the US (and probably the world).

Because of this, suggesting a single delivery day doesn't scale at all, even if you regionalize these days, unless USPS moves to delivery hubs, which would further erode quality of life for rural people (many of whom have limited mail service as it is) and probably make deliveries to really remote locations (some parts of Alaska; mountainous areas; etc.) impossible.

If he suggested this to make it easier for his FDX and UPS stonks to go up, he probably isn't aware that these carriers often use USPS for last-mile delivery because they are the ONLY carrier that have the infra to deliver to the aforementioned destinations. No private company will attempt to replicate this infra, as doing so would require billions of dollars of investment for very little ROI, and why spend big money improving the lives of citizens when the AI furnace needs more fuel?

USPS is fucking incredible for the value, and it sucks that conservatives are so invested in destroying it.
I have the same reasoning but the opposite conclusion, we should seriously reconsider our lifestyle choices, as a society, instead of just throwing a magic pill in the mix and closing our eyes on the fact that we're building a completely insane system in which humans are everything but thriving
Do a background check to make sure employee has financial security to avoid damaging leaks.

Make employee feel job insecurity.

???

Profit?
That is not a coincidence. These are the ones who have been deliberately creating distrust in institutions.
Simplistic, sledgehammer solutioneering is an intention to harm. Randomly firing entire teams whose director feels they are "the 'gold standard' of civic technologists" produces immediate and knowable damage. Nobody who wanted government technology to function well would do such a thing.

Is it possible that they have some other, important objective which can only be achieved by degrading the quality of government technology? In principle. But I haven't seen any explanation of what that objective could possibly be, and I have seen people with arguments for why they think it should not be easy to get access to NOAA weather data and it should not be easy to file your taxes with the IRS.
You're completely right. If it was truly about financial cuts Trump wouldn't be trying to shutdown the Presidio Trust which is required, by Congressional Act, to be self-sustaining and made $58 million dollars last year on $182 million in revenue.
If you torrent, you always get 4K, and VLC never has any issue with screenshots, either.
There’s no “checks and balances” within the executive branch.

What we have now is an undemocratic regime where the executive branch is permanently controlled by a city that voted 91-6 for the losing candidate. It’s like those crosswalk buttons that aren’t connected to anything. No matter how people vote, the government just gives us more immigration and more globalism.

E.g. No presidential candidate has ever run on a platform of more immigration. Support for increasing immigration hasn’t topped 35% in decades. Yet the foreign born population has grown from 5% to 15% since 1970. Nobody voted for that. Who did it?
I wrote about some of this earlier this year: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/70954.html?thread=2203178 - the short version is that it has nothing to do with screenshotting, screenshotting is just a victim of it. If you have decoded video content in video RAM a separate app can just read it back out and reencode it, stripping DRM for minimal loss in quality.

(In theory the hardware could provide a rate limited interface to allow copying it, letting you take one screenshot every few seconds or something, but that would create additional "risk")
>Now there's country that traded nuclear weapons for protection by the US that is being invaded by a fascist dictator.

Are you talking about the Budapest Memorandum? According to Wikipedia, it says

>Seek immediate Security Council action to provide assistance to the signatory if they "should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used".

So AIUI, that's a guarantee that the US will defend Ukraine if Ukraine gets attacked by Russia with nukes. It's not a guarantee that the US will defend Ukraine if Ukraine gets attacked by Russia with non-nukes. So I don't think the US has violated the agreement. Russia violated the agreement by attacking Ukraine (Russia was a signatory, and the treaty also says the parties won't attack each other with any type of weapon).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum
How fast can you open 1000 files?
Surely it's not proposing trillions of dollars in tax cuts to billionaires like the GOP Congress is doing right now.

Expanding the same tax cuts Trump passed last time that added trillions to the debt

The GOP concern about the debt is feigned because they are the ones who ran it up.
> Give those of us who do 10 times less, but do it right, some kind of marketing advantages, it shouldn't be legal that they are competing with us.

"Quality over quantity" should be the way, but I think it has failed in every single sector. Food. Healthcare. Education. Manufacturing. Construction. ...

Quality is expensive.
Infrastructural problems and instabilities caused by cloud services
Does any of that mean we need to lie and pretend that there's 100B pieces of useful mail being delivered? Just because there's a lot of useful mail doesn't mean there's 100B of it. That number shouldn't pass anyone's sniff test.
Isn't that just an optimization?
> Is Lanczos an example, or the current best option

What’s the best (computationally not that more expensive than Lanczos) option?

Edit: also some CV researchers write like that (the Netflix writing) — bicubic is like a flag in opencv that they just use. Probably those researchers were much more preoccupied with the researchy problem than actual wide deployment, which is what many researchers do
That's such a dumb thing to think is badass too haha
I don't know what the actual share of junk mail is for physical or even e-mail, but let's suppose 90% of most people's e-mail in the entire world is spam, should all e-mail providers only deliver email, be it spam or not, once a day?
CS300 are the best aircraft I have ever flown in. A lot of room, very good air inside, very nice design aesthetic.
It seems likely that HPPD, if it doesn't go away by itself, can be cured by 50-200 hours of practicing focusing on the noise and then trying to consciously move it, changing its colors etc.

There's at least anecdotal evidence of that

https://www.reddit.com/r/CureAphantasia/comments/1cc01zl/why...
Don’t believe your eyes and ears, spending is stable that’s how you end up with 37 trillion in debt. Common sense he’s not common anymore.
Yes, I recognized your name!

Maestro being open source, being able to run it locally AND having two providers where we can just sign up and start running our tests was an important factor going with them.

We ended up going with Moropo as their pricing matched our needs better. Even if in the future we had issues with them, we could just go to a different provider is a big plus.
Maybe terms "democrats" and "republicans" (and "maga") are all outdated and imprecise, and any innovation capable of improving the country would come from outside those adjectives.

If you look at financial disclosures of both democrats and republicans, tracked at quiverquant.com, you too might be skeptical of trusting either historical party.
That’s why he’ll start selling 1 million golden visas at 5m each, meaning 5T.

Add 1M btc at $2M per piece, and he cut 20% of the national debt :)
> No matter how I look at it 60g of sugar in small bottle of coke is criminal.

I hate to tell you how much sugar grandma put in her lemonade, and in her sweet tea...

> My wife bakes cakes for 10 people with less added sugar.

That's extremely unusual. Different types of cakes take different amounts of sugar, but it's generally somewhere between 150g and 300g for an average-sized cake that might give 10 slices. That's between 3/4 and 1.5 cups of sugar. And that's without frosting or anything extra.

A cake with less than 60 grams of sugar... I don't even know what you'd call that. I mean, you'd never make a sponge cake or chocolate cake with such little sugar. It wouldn't even taste like cake. It would be more like a slightly sweet... bread?
Often preferable to API documentation too!

Claude at least will give me an example relevant to my code with real world implementation code.
OpenAI releases a variety of models and every time Gary Marcus comes out to trash them.
Slightly increasing the Social Security cap would go a long way towards it.
I don't think this is anywhere remotely likely.

The US performs a two-fold security function in Europe: first, it protects Europe from extra-European threats. Second, it protects Europe from intra-European threats. If however the US exits Europe, both kinds of threats become a reality overnight. When you think of what Europe is going to do if faced with any of these situations, it becomes very clear that China has absolutely nothing to offer on either front.
I would agree with you, except for NIH/CDC/NSF. That and a repeat of the hostility of the US towards scientific visitors and phd students we saw in the first incarnation of this administration is going to have a major effect on the momentum of scientific research for quite a long time.
Ozempic has been in use for diabetic patients for at least a decade if you want to look at the research of its long term results in that population - which is fairly large to constitute a good sample sizing.
> Does grandma manipulate you when she adds sugar to her cherry pie?

Manipulation implies a purpose, so I’d say no. Does grandma have an ulterior motive? She adds sugar to express herself through the art of baking or does she need a favor?

> I mean, is a fig tree "manipulating" you when its figs ripen with sugar so they'll be eaten?

..Yes?
Roche Sequencing by Expansion (SBX) Technology [video]
Tab completing "car" to "blkdiscard" just because I don't happen to have "cargo" in that $PATH is pretty nasty. How do I force tab completion to prefixes only?
How Elon Musk Executed His Takeover of the Federal Bureaucracy
Thanks for the report! Aside from the loss of interest in food, what other side effects have you noticed or not noticed? (other N=1 reports welcome!)
I think it is the graph not showing the full picture. I assume there are a lot of contractor and spending not shown on the graph because they are "services" and not people officially employed by the government. eg contractors or Crisis Tech Line that gets all its money from government.
It’s time for a revolution
I don't have "JavaScript fatigue", what I do have is "JavaScript is a dumpster fire and React is the spawn of Satan" daily blog post fatigue.

JFC.
"Of course, NOAA itself has provided some of the key data that confirm that the climate is warming; it houses one of the most significant repositories of climate data on Earth, detailing shifting atmospheric conditions, the health of coastal fisheries, ice-core and tree-ring data, and countless other data sets. Project 2025 targeted the agency for exactly this reason: NOAA’s research is “the source of much of NOAA’s climate alarmism," the policy book states."

Unfortunately this is all it is. The death cult wants to turn a profit while they burn our planet.
Perl had somewhat the same, IIRC.

https://www.google.com/search?q=perl+simple+things+easy+and+...
Tesla is not the gold standard of anything
> short of a civil war to stop it

Remember that the Trump administration still has large support from the people! If you want a civil war, you need people inside the country who disagree. For some reason they don't (yet), and at the time they do who knows how much damage will have been done.
POSimple
My family receives multiple pieces of mail each week which are important and valued. Losing the USPS entirely or reducing to once a week delivery would be very much noticed here.
Very important habitat restoration for electric eels, actually.
It's true that the average flat paper mail I get is probably trash, but the percent that isn't trash tends to be quite important, and when you add packages delivered to that, the number of days per week that "real" mail is delivered to our address has gone up over the last twenty years, not down. (Not saying that's normal, but lot of deliveries.)
Federal worker salaries make up around 4% of the entire federal budget. On your stated figures, if you eliminated the entire government workforce, you would only be saving around 40 billion every 3 months. You would still be spending 960 billion. And you wouldn't have a functioning government.
> caveat: MTE is coming soon on iOS

Do you have a source on that? I'm interested.
Does grandma have a profit motive? Does grandma care about your wellbeing? Is grandma a vast conglomerate of strangers who couldn't give two flying fucks about you on a good day?

Is plain old sugar, animal fat, and salt unhealthy in large quantities? Of course, but eating grandma's mashed potatoes and cherry pie once a week will not materially affect your health. Meanwhile you pass 8 taco bells on your way home from her house, not to mention the 3 fast food ads you heard on youtube or the radio. Come on.
Yes, it can be seen as a box filter (with the size equal to the stride length) on the nearest-neighbor upscaled image. Basically if you imagine overlaying the new square grid over the old one and then each new pixel gets a weighted combination of the overlapping old pixel squares, weighted by the overlap areas.

To my eyes it's more pleasant than Lanczos, which has too much ringing.
Yes, we know.

Even worse: it is doing so to the resounding cheers of a large fraction of our fellow citizens.
If true [1] this is the insanity why Trumps team is right, U.S. warships are currently defending Ukraine.

Based on a 10 minute video, 24 hours later, they are cutting off the supply to the US which supports and defends countries like Ukraine in the region and further abroad like Africa.

The US isn't attacking Ukraine, FFS.

This should be illegal, as critical infrastructure Haltbakk Bunkers should have obligations they have been paid for.

Take their request as serious and stop refueling the US in the broader region. Europe will take up the slack of Ukraine and everything else the US does? Europe will struggle to even defend Ukraine. Trump will get his insanely large budget cuts and Europe can be blamed for dragging the world into disarray.

[1] Their Facebook post is down but was real - https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/1895896267269808193
Heh. No. It is officially now your problem as well. Things magically don't stop existing just because you close your eyes and pretend they are not there. And here is a very practical reasons why you DO want to be able have people openly say whatever. If you can't see it, you don't even know it is a problem that may need to be addressed. At best, it is a very naive viewpoint.
Personal recs from trusted people outweigh paid ads. Studios get free promotion that outperforms algorithmic placement.

Facebook and Google may want more advertising, but that's not Apple's core business. TikTok has BookTok, FilmTok and MovieTok communities, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BookTok

> #BookTok had been viewed over 200 billion times on TikTok with about 60 billion videos.. There are many articles that discuss how BookTok has changed reading for younger people and impacted the publishing landscape.. Another popular aspect of the community culture in BookTok is the open discussion and the idea that users are reading the books together
Back in the day you could use AnyDVD to skip all the pre-movie cruft.