skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Similar to when they removed the accessibility guidelines for government websites in the anti-DEI crusade there, they now direct banning grants that include the word "diverse" as in "transdisciplinary", and probably quite a few more that offer any faint hint of what could be DEI.

This is a common pattern in general in authoritarian regimes: censors tend to be overzealous because the cost (to them) of false negatives (not banning sth that they should) is much higher than the cost of false positives (banning sth they should have not). The more people will be involved in this bureaucratic censorship assembly line the more strict the result will be.
> Their incentive is aligned with regards to having less office space.

Really? Then why do you think that return-to-office is mandated by so many large organizations? By following that line of thinking then surely their larger footprint would yield even larger savings for work-from-home?
I've wondered myself why there's so little overlap between these two closely related interests of mine. Some of it seems to be the "But I don't want to cure cancer. I want to turn people into dinosaurs." effect, where some of the people working on exploiting games ONLY care about what can be done in their one game of interest - it doesn't always generalize to interest in using the same techniques against everything else.

Of course there's also the fact that exploiting 20-30 year old games is just vastly easier than modern software, due to the total lack of mitigations in them. And that's on top of the fact that with popular games, you're building on decades of reverse engineering work rather than (potentially) starting from scratch. And the arguably superior toolset (savestates etc).

But I think a very big factor is the one this blogpost is trying to address - most people just don't know anything at all about the vuln research industry, which is not exactly searching for attention in the ways that speedruns broadcast to hundreds of thousands of viewers for charity are.
The haphazard nihilism of America's new Department of Government Efficiency
Show HN: A Transformer model that preserves logical equivalence
It's sad that the Usenet archive by Google doesn't have old binaries at all, and neither do all those "modern" services which are primarly used for piracy.

I wonder how much software has been lost forever.
Wow I wasn't aware of the realities of #1 but I certainly lived through #2 before I became an independent organizer. I'm buying Class on my next bookstore trip -- thank you for expanding your thoughts!

P.S. Self-plug: you might find my newsletter last month [0] mildly interesting. See the section "My Own Views"

[0] https://handmadecities.com/news/splitting-from-handmade-netw...
You can pardon for crimes, but my weak understanding is that violation of a court order is not something you can pardon or enable, by law at least.
Dingnuts point was that it should be disclosed. Everyone knows Dwarf Fortress stories are procedural/AI generated, the authors aren't trying to hide that fact.
Depends on what limit exactly you are thinking about: the size of a transistor is still shrinking.
> Random code from the Internet shouldn't have any chance to touch user credentials

One thing that helps with this are HttpOnly cookies.

"A cookie with the HttpOnly attribute can't be accessed by JavaScript, for example using Document.cookie; it can only be accessed when it reaches the server. Cookies that persist user sessions for example should have the HttpOnly attribute set — it would be really insecure to make them available to JavaScript. This precaution helps mitigate cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks."

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Cookies
Initial attempt was unsuccessful…

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/24/nx-s1-5305269/tesla-state-dep...
Geothermal power plants emit 99% less co2 than equivalent sized fossil fuel plants.

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/geothermal/geothermal-en...
Someone you would consider skilled. Your own personal definition of this would suffice.

I suspect though there isn't a lot of these people that are unemployed. There's more "mediocre" engineers that are in this zone.
I’m really sorry for your loss and what you’re going through. I lost my dad to a stroke, my wife to cancer and my mother and father in law (who I was very close to) in the space of two years. So I’ve been through it.

Everyone is different. Losses affect you in various ways, time can help but the wound is always there. Things will trigger a response to you that you wouldn’t expect. I found a post-it note with a few things my wife jotted down this morning, and it really sent me reeling for a bit after almost two years.

The key thing is that you’re allowed to feel. People may think your fellings are not appropriate… it’s too much / too little / etc. You may feel hesitant to express or otherwise say or be things because you’re worried about what people will think or react. Don’t do that.

I’d encourage you to ask for help and say things. You probably have people who want to be there for you in some way, but they don’t know how. Ask. Talk. You’re allowed to. If you need to go walk in the woods, do it. If you need to be around people, do it. You’ll find your way.

You may want to get professional help, but again, it’s up to you. Everyone eventually loses someone who really impacts us and as society we’re really bad at talking about it — but know you’re not alone.
It's painful, but listening to Penrose is worth it and (in the bits I watched) he somehow manages to politely stick to his thread despite the interruptions.
or just say it was too good and thus too dangerous to release...
I guess that's why I'm confused, which facts are not straight or were corrected?
I can buy it for the low end of your range. I was able to learn Angular during my time at Google super quickly thanks to GPT4 (before they banned it). I recall feeling it doubled my productivity in those early months.
Hence the advice to make that situation not happen. Update the client and server to support both versions and prefer the new one, then update both to not support the old version. With load balancers and other real-world problems you might have to break that down into 4 coordinated steps.
LLMs aren't doing anything truly beneficial to the economy. Nothing has really changed. Some tasks are a bit smoother and faster to do with LLM assistance, but as of right now the entire LLM industry is mostly just R&D and not generating any value.
I care most about perf/responsiveness as I navigate the site. GR was tolerable on this metric while I still used it, StoryGraph (for understandable reasons) is abysmally slow somehow.

I have the same complaint about BoardGameGeek. If it was super snappy to go with the dated design, I wouldn't bat an eye, but it is also kind of a slog.

Both are things I use for discovery a little bit more than I use to record my thoughts about my previous experiences, so my browsing behavior is very breadth-first search and that makes the slow loads more of an acute problem for me.
Actually, fair enough. I still disagree with their argument, but this was the wrong tack for me to use.
Seeing all of the negative articles about Mozilla and Firefox has not influenced my decision to use Firefox as my primary browser. Firefox is the only mainstream browser that still permits add-ons to block advertising and scripts.

Privacy in Edge and Chrome are a joke compared with privacy in Firefox. Safari is a joke altogether, and would die if Apple did not force it on users.

I like Firefox and I like Thunderbird, and I will continue to use both of them.
I feel like the flaws of the Pico 2/RP2350 should be advertised better. The Pico is great. I waisted half of an extremely frustrating day with a Pico 2 before suspecting the board itself was the problem, and confirming it with very specific searches that brought up threads about the issue. The internal pull-downs don't work.

Maybe it's my fault for not making it to page 1357 (!) of the datasheet, where the issue is described as "RP2350-E9".

https://datasheets.raspberrypi.com/rp2350/rp2350-datasheet.p...
But have you experienced a high flow _and_ high pressure shower head? Sooooo good.

It makes you realize a low flow/high pressure shower head is a just a bunch of little needle jets that neither feel good nor adequately cover you in a deluge of water. While better than low flow/low pressure shower heads, they are still a joke.
We are already very painfully aware of the hyper rich being out of touch. This reads like rich guy A saying it’s actually rich guys B and C who are the problem. Maybe this is frustrating for people like the author to hear, because clearly they have good intent with this message, but I’m sorry, the only way I will ever perceive someone who received a 9082% pay increase is as another criminal destroying the world that I live in. I am a complete hypocrite though, because of course I would say yes to a 9082% pay increase, like most/all people would. The price of being this wealthy is exile from plebeian society. Sorry you have to be rich?
As pointed out in the intro to the article, the total amount of power generated in the earth's center is ~50TW.

Global total energy (not just electricity) consumption is currently 180,000TWh/year, or about 20TW. So we would have to capture nearly half of all available geothermal energy to replace current energy usage.

Meanwhile, Solar PV covering (a favorably located) 1% of the earth's surface area would generate 20TW. (This is based on the estimate of 400kwh/year for a 1m^2 panel in a sunny area from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar-cell_efficiency.

I don't expect geothermal to do well in this showdown.
Indeed! I'm the original author of both projects, and thank you for using them :) I agree about Gemini, but I understand the sentiment is not widespread. For me the strongest LLM for coding is Claude Sonnet.
For those of us without time to watch a video - what is the most important AI myth?
You are not serious right ? Most jobs ultimately are CRUD and LLMs are just the shiny new thing that is hardly 2 years old. There are 1000s of companies/products that require CRUD jobs and are not going away just because of LLMs.
> Why do you want to regulate software?

I don't want to regulate software. I want people to have something to lose if they make a decision that has a large impact.

> Arguably this whole thing wouldn't happen if these apps were distributed and updated via the OSX app store. If that's the future you want, it's largely already here.

I don't understand this point.

> Who decides what software to regulate.

Who decides any laws or regulations?

> Do I need a permit to install Python ?

Does you installing Python have potential consequences for large numbers of people or could it cause a significant amount of harm?

Why do you take the most extreme possible position and apply it to me? Is it that difficult to argue against a sensible one?
Maybe they just mean for the type of projects they care about
Phoenix doesn’t have built-in auth, and setting it up with Guardian (the JWT library for Elixir) took too much time. Since we were already using Supabase for Postgres, we decided to go with its auth to move faster. Supabase provides a UUID after authentication, which we then use throughout the rest of the database.
The executive branch can just not comply with civil contempt sanctions against its own members (not pay fines, and the Marshal’s Service can just not take people into custody for civil confinement), and either pardon or decline to prosecute (or both) for criminal contempt, and then the court order has no teeth.
Perhaps but it may also include people that were consciously or unconsciously passed on because of their age.
The national debt is concrete, but no president likes having their ability to spend constrained.

It should be handled in the way all >4 year payback US problems are: by empowering a commission to do the neccessary unpopular things and give members longer-than-4-year terms.
I think what Thiel was getting at is the libertarian idea of being able to get a bit of land, farm for food etc. without the government getting in your face doesn't work in democracies because people will vote in laws taking your stuff to give to some causes elsewhere. Which is sort of true.

I don't really agree with the “capitalist democracy” is an oxymoron bit though as capitalism is still capitalism even if you have to pay taxes and follow some regulations.
I feel like Penrose presupposes the human mind is non computable.

Perhaps he and other true geniuses can understand things transcendently. Not so for me. My thoughts are serialized and obviously countable.

And in any case: any kind of theorem or idea communicated to another mathematician needs to be serialized into language which would make it computable. So I’m not convinced I could be convinced without a computable proof.

And finally just like computable numbers are dense in the reals, maybe computable thoughts are dense in transcendence.
> but they don't do very much

no no no, different elements have different behaviours. for example, a button automatically has accessibility features like being able to tab to it and select with Enter key, which is essential for a screenreader. do that with a div and you end up building the functionality from scratch.

if all you care about is the visuals, sure, there's little difference, but once you scratch the surface you will have a poor product by not using the correct elements (where there is a clear "correct" ofc, sometimes it's subjective).
I think we might be working at different scales a 40/month server with 8tb of disk would be a puddle on the floor in my current circumstances.

The problem is that many if not most applications have their own log structure so just saying 'index it' doesn't cut it at all.
The Emperors New Mind - Roger Penrose - published 1989

Shadows Of The Mind - Roger Penrose - published 1994

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose%E2%80%93Lucas_argument
Migrate from what?
I'm not saying that people can't do X, Y, and Z, there are people who are just that driven, or people who have a spouse that fills in those roles, but it's far easier for people who the necessities of life are optional, and when you're surrounded by people for whom it's all optional, they are going to assume it's optional for everyone and no assume why everyone isn't doing more.
> But the question is whether that’s the key differentiator holding you back from X, Y, and Z. And no it’s not. There are people who do X, Y, and Z and don’t have a maid.

As with a lot of things: individually, yes, this is the only useful way to look at it. Statistically? Over a population? No, of course high levels of unpaid obligations keep people from accomplishing things, in the sense that if you ease those up they accomplish more.

More to the point, I didn't make this about how it was "holding people back" so I'm now seeing why you're so resistant to it, since you think that's what I was getting at: no, it's about attitudes from executives who live life on easy mode then complain that their underlings are lazy.
Conservatives leapt upon this as a wedge issue in recent years, but originally the pushback against the imposition of males upon the female category in sports (and female spaces in general) came from feminist activism.

At this point it's hundreds of male athletes competing in women's and girls' sport: https://shewon.org/males
I have no interest in pressing charges against you or getting you in trouble. That would be hypocritical of me and contrary to my beliefs. I was simply pointing out how easy it is to offend people on the internet and why it simply doesn't work at scale. If no one has the right to say something potentially offensive on the internet, then the whole thing needs to be shut down.
The cited value is the energy flow through the surface, which is about 0.1 W/m^2. But this is conducted through kilometers of rock and soil, which acts as insulation. Geothermal power works through convection instead of conduction. You inject cold water into a borehole, and hot water (steam) comes back, and spins a turbine.

Convection can extract energy at a much higher rate than conduction through the crust.

If you boil a pot of water, you can still comfortably hold the pot's handle if it's long enough, indefinitely. This is heat conduction. On the other hand, if you try drinking from the pot with a straw, you'll find it very painful. This is convection.
what do you mean by reference implementations, in this context?
Because they believe it will optimize their labor costs (the most expensive part of white collar business ).

They give employees space in that building so that people have a dedicated space to do their work, free from outside distraction.
The returns from the endowment are used to support university programs. The endowment itself is not spent - it's a long-term investment which produces dividends, not a spending fund.
Out of curiosity, what site was this?

(I assume not HN since we don't have an "appeal portal" (other than hn@ycombinator.com))
The emperor’s new mind is his work on this (not specifically on LLMs obviously).
I can't even tell if you're trolling.
> favorably located

That's the problem, isn't it?
> If the board of my company (my CEO’s boss) showed up in Slack and asked, I would probably listen to my CEO’s boss.

DOGE are not the boss of most (any?) government departments. Its entire purpose, legally, is to improve software: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/esta...

So once again, who are they to ask this, legally? Who are they to fire employees from other departments who rightfully deny this request?
As well as MIT https://hr.mit.edu/jobs
LLMs are just the shiny new thing. Look:

- Most took the easy path, doing CRUD for decades for easy money. Now, with Flash, they struggle to specialize or stay relevant as they are not intelligent enough and never pushed themselves.

- Most took the easy path, doing CRUD for decades for easy money. Now, with AJAX, they struggle to specialize or stay relevant as they are not intelligent enough and never pushed themselves.

- Most took the easy path, doing CRUD for decades for easy money. Now, with blockchains, they struggle to specialize or stay relevant as they are not intelligent enough and never pushed themselves.

etc. etc. etc. ad nauseam
Geothermal should be an obvious choice for new-build homes. Put a ground-source heat pump source in the ground, and build your home on top of it.
Being "gay" has nothing to do with it, you are simply exacerbating homophobia by such an ignorant comment. MOST rich tech bros are heterosexual, just SOME are gay.
I don’t think he’s a dumbass. He’s selling pseudo-philosophical guilt-washing to the neo-oligarchs and their temporarily embarrassed billionaire posse, which is a product worth its weight in gold. He hosted the post-election party for all of the trumps, bezoses and Zuckerberg at his estate, so no small player. It’s reminiscent of the growth of the neocon movement – I mean the ideology doesn’t have to be comprehensive or consistent. It just has to be convincing long enough for short sound bites and hot takes, so they can legitimize the rapid transformation of society faster than people have time to refute it.
The slogan is "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" in that order.

industrial resource use is to indirectly fulfill individual demand. Recycling might be a sham but reducing individual consumption would make a difference.
So what's the point of the endowment then? To make the green numbers go up?
So then, how can garbage collection ever be solved if it’s a trade-off
2 and 3 is not too hard to be able to afford here in the US. 1 would depend on when you bought your house because prices have shot up a lot. But if you are a tech workers and got some RSU and bonuses it would be achievable.
For HN reference, MrCheeze is well known and has done quite a lot of work over the years glitch-hunting in older games. (and is cited in the SethBling video posted several times in this thread)
Here are a few examples of drilling technology that will try and drill 10-30 km down through the crust into areas with enough heat to make supercritical steam.
Lasers, plasma, etc.
Russians did it the hard way back in the day.

https://www.foroenergy.com/drilling

https://www.ieg.fraunhofer.de/en/references/ppgd.html

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S199582262...

https://www.wired.com/story/new-tech-cuts-rock-without-grind...
> It's not something you fix, when stuff like this happen, it's foundational, you can't fix it, it's a house of cards, you gotta bring it down and build it again with lessons learned.

That's the last thing you should ever do within a large scale software system. The idea that restarting from scratch because "oh we'll do it better again" is the kind of thing that bankrupts companies. Plenty of seasoned engineers will tell you this.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
And the llm by design does not save or provide source. Unlike google or wikipedia which are transparent about sources.
Hrm it is a bit funny that modern cars are drive-by-wire (at least for throttle) and yet they still require a skilled driver to follow a speed profile during testing, when theoretically the same thing could be done more precisely by a device plugged in through the OBD2 port.
The thing that CLI have over GUI is programmability, which for programmers is a valuable property. As for me, any repeatable task, I automate away with various degree of effort and quality. If I find myself needing a particular set of commands and flag, I create an alias, a function, or a shell script for that, like `flac2mp3.sh` instead of hunting down through the shell history.

For most vcs tutorial, they don't often use why the history of changes is important, instead focusing on a set of usual commands. Why, not how. Once you have that philosophy down, the tool usage become much more efficient.
Yes, there are protests all over the US! Check out https://www.fiftyfifty.one/

I'm deeply impressed by the turnout in every state. It seems media coverage has been lagging in major outlets.

There's also a subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/ and Discord. Thanks for helping. (:
OneDrive shared folder syncing has been broken for months, with no fix in sight
TLDR: A slight appetite curtailment might add a dash of elegance
Idk, Netscape Navigator was good, but then nothing usable came afterwards while Microsoft had IE4.

People hate on IE now, but there was a phase when IE was that best free browser and I say this as someone who breathed open source at the time and who was as Anti-Microsoft as you can imagine.

From how I remember it IE's downfall came after Netscape's.
I think (but may be wrong) that you are thinking metamathematics is a part of mathematics, which (to my knowledge) it is not.
So does nginx. Still Caddy keeps eating a slice of nginx pie.
Wow. Amazing that this page exists virtually unchanged from 30 years ago.

We've definitely lost some part of the charm of the early web when it was common to get email, web space, FTP, and even shell access from your ISP.
The earliest C++ compilers compiled to C, and I believe that's still possible to do even for the latest versions of the C++ standard.
I would say a Unix OS that can leverage existing Unix/linux tools like OSX, but more open than, and with real UX effort, native UI, not the gnome/kde, whatever stuff. Or at least something that has a Linux subsystem like windows does.
He explicitly believes that, yes.
What is Cornell's endowment used for? Edit: Also: Who were the donors? What restrictions did they place on their donation?
No that’s fine and a reasonable thing to do . In fact, I’d say it is one of the main points of enums and one of my biggest gripes against Go is the lack of that capability
Its other value is the engine not being owned by Google. Those were 2 strong value propositions for many people.