skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the people in this story - most of the people in the current administrations - aren't originally conservative. Trump, Musk, Gabbard...

In a sense (American) politics is experiencing a vanishing middle of epic proportions where only two strongly held positions are becoming turbo capitalism or state communism. Trump et. al. call themselves progressive only in so forth as their voters dream of the return of the good old days.
The secret ingredient was probably government money.
I ask again: in the context of this discussion, what is my propaganda? What am I saying that is untrue? You’re using a lot of vague lofty statements. Be specific.

> The desire to disenfranchise is also an extreme authoritarian impulse.

Just as well I didn’t do that then!
It does not suppport extensions on mobile, bascially useless at being a user agent in the true sense of the word.
> The reasoning would be no different if it was a corporation.

The difference being the overflow after wastes gets spend on society instead of shareholders.
The next step after identifying some waste isn't to cut well-performing functional parts of the government.
Yes, obviously. I'm saying the current situation is partly the result of Dems like Biden not taking action to prevent it.
To borrow a phrase, any sufficiently incompetent organization becomes indistinguishable from malice.

Although I agree with others' sentiment that focusing on incompetence can be more persuasive to certain segments of society.
Apologies in advance if this is too off topic, it’s something that has been bugging me for a while and I wanted to mention it somewhere.

I occasionally use the Unifi Wifiman app to quickly test my network, even though I don’t use Unifi gear.

One reason I like it is as soon as you open the app you see a bunch of latency metrics for various domains.

X is one of the default test domains. I don’t know when this happened but x.com does not seem to be running anycast in Australia anymore, I get 110ms latency to x (for many this would be 130 to 160 or higher, my provider uses premium transit). A traceroute shows the server I am hitting is in Japan.

Why? This is highly irregular, I can’t imagine any other major website not having a POP in Australia.
We're not going back?
Because NIH has been targeted by DOGE, keep up
I'm getting this error on a white page a few seconds after opening the page:

> Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information).

The console shows this error message:

> Uncaught TypeError: this.embedlyMap is undefined unregisterEmbed fbs-embedly.service.js:52 disconnectedCallback fbs-embedly.component.js:107
If you're looking for a Firefox fork, a couple of options come to mind:

- Floorp (https://floorp.app)
- Zen (https://zen-browser.app)
- Mullvad Browser (https://mullvad.net/browser)
- LibreWolf (https://librewolf.net)
- WaterFox (https://www.waterfox.net)

Besides that, there's also Brave and perhaps Chromium.
FWIW, nameservers lhcns1.nlm.nih.gov (130.14.55.72) and lhcns2.nlm.nih.gov (130.14.55.128) still resolve nlm.nih.gov subdomains.
I listed three concrete actions Dems could have taken or attempted, and didn't. You should try actually reading the posts you're responding to. You're angry at someone who isn't me.
Reminds me of how 9/11 turned into the GWoT and Iraq I etc. The Project for the New American Century posted their playbook for that on their website too. Most people downplayed it.
It's fast tho, really fast
Not sure you will see this. Congrats on your journey into full time dev! I stumbled upon the podcast below a couple years ago, and I found it fascinating. It defines "Mission Critical" as teams that need to make decisions in a couple minutes that impact life-and-death situations. You might find it interesting given your background.

Mission Critical Team Institute (MCTI) Teamcast
Exploring the questions vexing the most elite teams in the world

https://teamcast.missioncti.com/
I've been using Brave at work for my default browser but Firefox for personal things. I've been really impressed by Brave and so, since the Firefox news, I have decided to use Brave as my personal browser. I understand it's chromium based which is a non-starter for some but that it's open source and that Brendan Eich isn't a Google fan makes it tenable for me to try.
I don't see PubMed as being down? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=study
The opposite is not a fine attitude to have especially if you have too few customers. Once they know that they can ignore payments by using that kind of excuse, something very bad will happen to your subscription revenue.
How do you reflect on how smart you are though?
I am trying to strike a balance between not overestimating vs not underestimating myself.
I find that if I do the latter, I pass on opportunities.(Like asking if I can volunteer for some task)
Ask HN: Are Doge, Gundo Defense Companies and Defund Ukraine Meant to Co-Exist
This isn't even a political question, as much as it is an economics one. A ridiculous item in the US budget is defense, and post the Zelensky meeting, there is the feeling that US allies should defend themselves. Hence, they begin to beef up their own defense industries. Given that Defense companies make money during times of war, and the US does not want to be involved in the battles of its allies or be the global peacekeeper, how exactly are these defense companies meant to make money other than dragging the country into war? If the goal is to stop unnecessary government spending, why should the taxpayer dollars be spent on funding defense startups founded by 20-somthing-year-olds? (not that I think their age is a disqualification, just trying to explain what it looks like to someone from the outside).
Even for SpaceX, there is a non-insignificant amount of people who would prefer their tax dollars being used for humanitarian aid than space exploration.

I basically asking hwo all these people exist in the same ideological camp without seeing the inherent contradiction other than blatant corruption.
For people who use LibreWolf - do you happen to know if it honors Firefox' internal settings relating to disk/memory caches? I insist on configuring Firefox to store as little data as possible on disk in favor or using in-memory caching.
How is it a hijack? He got and is still getting overwhelming support from the GOP rank and file.

It mightve been a hijack at one point, but MAGA owns the whole airline now.
Absolutely.

I would yell this from the rooftops loud and proud if I was running for office in the Bay Area as a D (because I worked with them early in my career and am a party member).

Most 1st and 1.5gen Asian and Latiné Americans would agree with this statement I gave.
Molecules of nitrogen and oxygen both have a distinguished axis (along the bond), but because they're gaseous there's no reason to expect them to align throughout the atmosphere.

So too with galaxies---which, from a cosmological perspective, are essentially infinitesimal dust.
Teleperformance rolls out AI software that 'neutralizes' Indian accents
our csat scores and reputation are terrible ever since we outsourced your job to a third world country so lets pretend we didn't do that.
I think they believe the hijacking happened 12 years ago.
IIRC leading fuel efficient turbo jet cost like ~10m + 1m for maintenance and consumes 70m worth of fuel over 30k hour life time. An engine 15% less fuel efficient would have to cost $0 to be competitive.
The insanity that has/will lead to functions no longer being properly staffed is on purpose.
Presumably, they would - hopefully, the work they're doing is quick enough that it doesn't really matter that they're blocking (this is usually true when interacting with sqlite, for example). Async request handlers are nice to have for when you do want to do something genuinely async (like firing off another HTTP request to somewhere else)
Democrats don't believe in guns or storming the white house... they'll either wait 4 years or wishfully dream that orange man dies of a heart attack.
Maybe, but it makes you think.
Modern Fortran has ISO C bindings in its standard library. You can call any C library from Fortran and wrap it in a Fortran module if you want to make it easier to use.

Despite its history it is a pretty modern language if you enable all warnings, set implicit none and ignore the old style of coding (a la FORTRAN 77 of older).
ecosia
Page loaded, I read the story for a bit then the entire page went black with "Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information)."

2025 when websites implement their own blue screens of death.
I agree with this interpretation. But this still does not explain why this specific course of action was taken by the authorities, i.e., why detain this woman instead of denying her entry?
> Ah, yes, I remember Yarvin. His goal was to become a cult leader for billionaires whose brains had turned to mush from surrounding themselves with only yes-men for decades.

Many such cases: Ray Kurzweil, Eliezer Yudkowsky, etc.

It's really bizarre that these bozos seem to be in control now. Don't see how it ends well.
That is our failed education system, creating gullible fools. One may have a PhD in some technical field, but they can't identify a conman, they believe in "conservative values", go to church, self-identify with their political party, and believe their paster's excuses about that little girl.
In another alternative dimension, the Firefox guys 10 years ago would have capitalized on what their users wanted which is mostly around privacy and not being Google. Instead we got pocket, a re-hashed VPN and a bunch of privacy-degrading changes which slowly erode trust.
Laravel has become highly commercialized, having raised $57 million in VC funding last year. While it remains an open-source framework, it has evolved into a full-fledged ecosystem with official services like Forge, Vapor, and starter kits (Breeze, Jetstream) that streamline development and deployment. These tools are optional, but Laravel is making it harder to install a barebones version through Composer, subtly pushing developers toward its ecosystem.

Laravel is no longer just a PHP framework; it now resembles Java Spring — an opinionated, enterprise-friendly ecosystem where everything can be connected through configuration. The focus has shifted towards businesses and teams rather than personal or hobbyist projects.

For those who prefer a more traditional framework with long-term stability and fewer commercial dependencies, Symfony remains a solid alternative.

Relevant threads:

https://www.reddit.com/r/laravel/comments/1iyyxk4/laravel_is...

https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/1j05wh1/laravel_is_goi...
Chrome's list of transparency logs. The actual CT logs are operated by multiple parties, including Google.
> I also believe that there will be no one left to enforce the "two terms" regulation).

I don't want to suggest what Trump himself suggested: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-2nd-amendment-folks-st...

I think that's a bad option.

What I am saying is: Every single time I've seen a headline about school shootings, someone suggests gun control.

Someone reacts that guns keep the government from becoming despots.

I said then, no, the military are the ones who decide such things. Militia don't make a dent, despite their self image.

And yet, Trump, who just narrowly avoided being killed, signed more support of the 2nd amendment.

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20250207/nra-statement-on-pr...

Did he sign because he's afraid, or because he's not?
> How about we don't build an auto-updater?

Auto-updaters are the most practical and efficient way of pushing updates in today's world. As pointed out by others, the alternative would be to go through app store's update mechanism, if the app is distributed via app store in the first place, and many people avoid Microsoft store/MacOS app store whenever possible. And no developer likes that process.
this appeal to 5D chess falls on its face when you watch what they do. they do things that cause harm and don't care. you don't become a billionaire by caring about other people. empathy doesn't just snap on when your net worth hits one billion.
By historical accident, Unix-like shells tend to hide by default files whose names begin with a dot. This led to programs naming their config files ".$program_name" and throwing them into $HOME. It's no longer cool to do this, but the tradition lives on.
May countries got domestic turbojet running, but most engine projects fail because there wasn't political will eat the billions to keep a competitive program going, especially as complexity increase in turbofans.
As long as it's the only one supporting Manifest v2, I think it really is the best option.
I grew up with an even worse passport than you, so I know first hand how people are treated.

Still, the goal should be to treat everyone better, not make things equal by treating everyone like shit.
I went a different route and use different branches for different OS environments. macOS, macOS-arm, Linux, Windows (wsl)

The environments are basically the same in each but there’s some functionality I can do I one that I cannot do in another
Seriously done with excusing brutish behavior. After everything we have observed over the last 8 years why would I give this administration the benefit of the doubt?

They’re shutting down this government until it is just the police and military left. And then what?
Mental breakdowns, blasting jungle music, and croaking into microphones are wholesome and meaningful human activities belonging to a long-lived tradition that perhaps predates you. I honestly can't imagine what must be going on in the head of the kind of person who finds them reproachable.

"Just saying no" to drugs in 2025 is like refusing to use computers and the Internet. Sure, you can do just fine without them, but you're locking yourself out of a whole realm of the world, since an illicit psychoactive drug is not just a substance - it's a well-established global network of independent human-scale (but not always human-shaped) agents that does not cease to exist when you successfully ignore it. It's no coincidence that chemical neuroaugmentation has developed hand in hand with the silicon pseudocognition that lets us write to each other over a wire :)

And that's exactly why the goody-two-shoes humanist-by-default muh work-and-family type economic agents never know what hit 'em when weird shit inevitably hits the global fan. Though personally, I would prefer a world designed by acidheads, or even opiate addicts, rather than the present inane timeline, which is largely the work of coke fiends (and their industrious flunkies the speediots) over the course of the last half century or so.

Spoiler, kids: contrary to naming convention, amphetamine and its derivatives do not "speed" you up in any meaningful way.

(EDIT: for the sake of it)
I'll wait for Ladybird to be more mature.

Until then, I'm more than happy with Thorium:

https://thorium.rocks/

So far, the only complain is it doesn't support Netflix (usual DRM stuff):

https://github.com/Alex313031/thorium/issues/523
Look for comments from "sylvestre".
At least according to this post which was on HN recently, Flutter lacking significant adoption is a myth: https://shorebird.dev/blog/dart-macros/#:~:text=Flutter%20ha...
Abso-f**ing-lutely
Same. Stow is pretry great! I only recently discovered about the .stowignore very handy!

This looks like it can work with windows as well and you can easily switch between profiles if you have multiple which is great too
This is untrue, did US ESTA fully on Firefox. Not sure what settings you use but the problem ain't FF nor the website.
I assume it is because nowadays there are so many people running around claiming you need C++ or Rust or other more complicated languages to build abstractions, that people do not understand anymore that you can do this in C just fine.
I really don't see why "equity is volatile" is some insurmountable problem. We see the same exact "problem" show up with day trading, where it is possible to accumulate a lot of taxable gains and end up with less than you owe if you don't sock away the money to pay for taxes at the time of locking in the gains.

If an equity is valued at $X on some date when we lock in the value for a wealth tax or a tax on unrealized gains then sell enough of your equities on that date to pay for the tax and store that in a zero-risk asset. This can easily be done automatically.
What's with the lowercase I's though?
Undiagnosed ADHD-PI/-C ruined my life from childhood, teenage years, and early adulthood. I blame by ignorant, opinionated father for espousing conspiracy theories.
My God, only on a Mac you can find a _sidebar_ app that has a subscription. How I hate that.
OTOH it's possible this is the easiest way to disrupt a site - screw with the DNS
Specifically, ungoogled chromium
> right kind of mix between psychopathy and idiocy

Affulenza is real. These guys are brain-damaged.
I basically do not care anymore. It is impossible, What I do do is use Mullvad VPN on my phone where you can block all ads, and I use hosts file and Mullvad on my Laptop.

The only thing that will kill surveillance capitalism (fascism?) is to stop giving them the eyeballs, so get everyone you know to do what I do.
More of you switch to data-harvesting Chromium derivatives and scams, and we'll have no true alternative browser, the only one that is Manifest V2 compatible.
It’s being downvoted because it’s idiotic!
Can you sketch out a bit more how this could work?
The antibodies are probably to the "written in rust" addendum, which seems unnecessary unless rust adds something to the product. Much of the answer above to "why Rust" concerns the developer, and we are potential customers, so who cares? Just drop the "in Rust" and don't worry going forward.

Honestly though I thought we were past the "written in Rust" phase.
Eh? “At some point”? You must’ve been sleeping. This has nothing to do with efficiency or improving the budget. Bill Clinton laid off thousands of employees, but he did it in an orderly fashion, got congressional approval etc. This is the exact opposite. The goal here is to cause havoc, be cruel, cut regulations (by reducing budget and reducing personnel) etc. After the carnage, divvy up what’s left among the billionaires. So far, it seems going according to plan.

Did you hear what Russell Vought said? “We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,”

Anyone genuinely interested in efficiency should start with why the Pentagon has failed audits and is unable to account for tens (hundreds?) of billions of dollars
Do you think I was trying to defend China rather than pointing out that if US continues on its current trajectory it will effectively become one of most important Russian allies?

> unlimited

What do you actually mean by that? Maybe you are mixing up China and North Korea?

China is obviously Russia’s main economic ally. Politically they are somewhat ambiguous towards Ukraine and haven’t provided any direct military aid to Russia. How is that “unlimited”?
Exactly, they even had the authority to do an expedited removal which would bar her from the US for 5 years. This would have spared her the detention while still having a deterrence effect. The detention is just pure cruelty and a waste of taxpayer dollars. While also adding to the immigration courts backlog.
Sounds like something straight out of Revelations. Add another thing best not to emulate after books like 1984, Brave New World etc.
They could have just denied entry though.
As a Rust developer, let me point out that this is certainly the wrong way to respond when someone criticizes or makes an observation about Rust. Especially when they aren't hostile at all. It's clear from the commenters' question that they have a some preconceptions about Rust for which they are seeking clarifications from other Rust users. This sort of response will only make them give up on Rust due to the toxicity of the community, rather than address any real issues they may be facing.
Most countries are democracies because citizens expect their opinions to have some value. That's why we have politicians. Arguably that whole thing is a bit broken, but handing over people's future to AI would not go down well.

Let's let AI decide what job you should do and how much money you should get. Then we'll talk again.
Functional Options Pattern
I use Skype for cheap international phone calls so I'm looking for a replacement. I have't tried it yet but Viber looks promising.
Those would be my first choice too but there might be trees that block the sunlight, or are taller than a wind turbine tower.

They'd certainly be quieter than a microturbine and not need fuel brought in.
Title is wrong. Sites are reachable, but not resolvable (except for servers still caching, such as 1.1.1.1).
Interview Coder: undetectable application to help you pass LeetCode interviews
The underlying thing was that the Beyond Light expansion revamped all of the engines light model. Destiny 2 runs on pretty old console hardware, and to do so, it doesn't dynamically compute a lot of stuff. There's a lot of pre-computed data, and lots of manual placement of light until it looks good.

Hence, a change in light model means redoing light for all content. By reducing a large amount of content, you claw back to the point where it is viable to do so in a single expansion cycle.

And that's just one part of the problem. I'm sure there's bit-rot creeping into game logic and effect-rendering as soon as you don't maintain a piece of the game actively. Add a few years, and you basically have to redo a lot of work from scratch because the active part of the game has likely moved on.
Hint: on most websites, you can press Ctrl+l to focus the address bar, and then Ctrl+f isn't hijacked by the current page any more.

Still wish pages would stop hijacked hot-keys in the first place, but hope this helps.
Unfortunately, sometimes the ones fucking around are parents and the ones finding out are their kids.
At least they only have all the money.
Are Companies going to rethink their hiring processes as AI tools similar to this become mainstream? Leetcode interviews are unsustainable
Because there is strictly speaking no time limit on how long US customs is allowed to detain non-citizens.

IIRC the only limits are 2 days for you to be taken to a facility (so you're not just being held in an interrogation room in an airport or wherever), and 90 days for you to be removed once there is an order for your deportation. The actual detention in between is limitless. Of course there's incentive to keep people moving through (and most people have a home country/embassy that they can eventually appeal to to expedite things), so in practice it isn't literally a de facto life sentence.

These are things that have been happening at your borders (and, in different forms, at other borders around the world) for years - you're just less likely to see it if you have one of the strongest passports in the world. But to be fair, whenever you wake up is your own morning.
DNA Sequencing by expansion (SBX) technology
Another cute and recent development is that they’ve really restricted the hours on the federal payment system, making it difficult for everyone to draw down funds owed. It’s all electronic banking, why does it ever have to go offline?

https://pmsapp.psc.gov/pms/app/login