skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Through this article, a few links away, I learnt about tiling logs, explained in https://research.swtch.com/tlog.
Vance made it very clear to the rest of the GOP that Zelensky is an “enemy” now. He misleadingly accused Zelensky of “campaigning with the opposition” because he met with Harris before the election. (He met with Trump too)

That statement was a direct signal to the party to turn on Zelensky and to make him an object of partisan divide, and Lindsay Graham understood that crystal clearly and called for Zelensky to resign shortly after the meeting, not long after praising him.

After sleeping on it, it’s obvious now that this was all to redirect the blame for Trump’s failure to meet his promise to broker peace swiftly.
DOGE excuses the laws they’re breaking and the cost increases they’re incurring by claiming that there’s a crisis they have to respond to and that they’re so smart nobody else can do it.

The last thing they need are smarter, more experienced people around who can show that none of those assertions are true and all of the costs being racked up are pure waste.
Mexico tightens the noose around Los Chapitos
You're still doing better than many larger teams handling larger projects :D
latchkey, I don't know why your reply is straight [dead]. You're just describing the apparent dynamic these days, to the extent it's indicative of overall decay that's not on you. Whenever I got called out by rangers, I would invariably be directed to a campsite. There was always room. Obviously before this reserve'murica dynamic that apparently makes campsites something like concert tickets or NYC restaurant tables.

The times I would try to sleep rougher in my car was when I was coming from FS/BLM land where it's more of a free for all, I got in late, and wasn't planning on staying at the NP very long.

Eventually I got used to the idea that the Parks have much more stringent rules and controls precisely because they are designated parks. You're not in some raw state of being in nature, but rather more like a highly-trafficked museum - they built roads and put a dot on the map attracting throngs of humans that need to be managed.
150k is more than a fire fighter in San Francisco.

https://sf-fire.org/employment-opportunities/h2-firefighter

I don't think it's out of the question to expect professionalism at 150k. These are VC funded companies, not a couple of college kids scraping together a prototype.

Then again, if I was a CTO seeing stories like this I'd be inclined to NOT use Firebase. I'm actually using Supabase right now since I don't like vendor lock in. Deploying Supabase manually is really difficult, but it is an option.

I imagine if I ever run a serious company, which I don't think will ever happen, I would take something like Supabase and run it on prem with some manner of enhanced security.

It's interesting though... For decades the industry has been trying to push this narrative that you don't need servers. You can handle everything using some magic platform, and throw in a couple of custom lambda functions when you need to execute logic.

Parse, Firebase, Appwrite and dozens of others emerged to fill this niche.

ToDesktop, provides even another layer of abstraction. We don't want to handle our own app updates, cool let someone else do it. That someone else doesn't want to manage their own backend, cool let someone else do it.

You end up with multiple layers of potential vulnerabilities which shouldn't exist... Cursor, Arc, etc could run their own update servers.

Maybe the solution is a Steam like distribution platform. Or just using Steam itself. That's a 30% cut to let someone else figure out your app distribution...
> There’s also rates of sexual side effects in excess of 70% [1] and they cause weight gain which is separately associated with depression.

I can't find the source now - if someone can, please help me here - but there was a theory that SSRIs work exactly because of the sexual "side effects" (which means that it's not actually a side effect but the main effect). The idea would be that the depression is due to some kind of deeply rooted sexual frustration, which is alleviated when the sex drive vanishes.
I vaguely recall Naomi Wu writing insightfully on the subject in the past. Maybe in relation to BLM protest security?
Seems likely, given the number of models already fine tuned on notable historical figures.

Not sure if it makes it better or worse that most of us are probably mostly useful as virtual focus groups / crowds rather than any particular interest in you or me as individuals.
Hasn’t US internet gotten way better in the last 20 years?
I think it’s probably good but I definitely agree that it’s not an obvious one and is worthy of debate.
I guess it's the "Stated" mission that I find impossible to believe is the truth. DOGE clearly is not supposed to be about "saving tax payers money" when they include DEI reviews as well. So even your definition removes the baggage of the racism/transphobia/homophobia/misogyny by focusing only on the money when DOGE has not been focused solely on money in the slightest.

Anyone who trusts the "stated" mission of DOGE is a simple child who hasn't followed project 2025
Yes, but as an information worker it means and I avoid the company's infrastructure like the plague. There should be a symbiotic solution here, but corporate IT tend to have their heads up their asses.
no, the right wants you to keep paying Turbotax.
Udemy has recently forced all Instructors to accept the AI mode for their content. So expect soon the courses to be 100% GenAI.

Expect the same coercion, for a future role at any company: "We will record all you do to train your GenAI replacement".

Maybe it will apply to the C-Suite...

https://www.aiaaic.org/aiaaic-repository/ai-algorithmic-and-...
Nginx Explorer – Upload
In california (and i would have guessed nationally) at least you do need a long form test in order to get control prescription like adderall. But the test is more of a "video game" style that tests your attention
Peace isnt on the table. Esp. not from this Orange Turd.
We are not safe. But successfully protecting Ukraine will bring us closer to nuclear war than we've ever been and we need to acknowledge that.
That is interesting.

I can imagine replicating my speaking/typing mannerisms quite well if I think about stages in my life. Maybe a yearly snapshot, so I could talk to my self as a teen, college student, early professional, etc.
i think the thing that got me was that people wrote articles comparing this thing to a laptop GPU, and i didn't read far enough to notice. normally, people compare desktop stuff to desktop stuff, and laptop stuff to laptop stuff

i haven't bought a laptop gpu since ~2008. from what i remember, they used to at least put "mobility" in the name, or throw and 'm' after the number, or something
I think a tax strike could be incredibly effective, but also have really bad failure scenarios.
Awesome to hear! There's still tons we want to do on the Web side, so please let me know if there's anything you think should be added or improved there! Feel free to tag/DM me (@Leland) in our Slack community or email me leland@mobile.dev with questions/suggestions!
>it isn't more widely deployed due to the reasons we all know.

Google doesn't come out with anything useful. Could you elaborate?
I heard of this. My immediate criticism, is that even those with diagnosed ADHD aren't just deficient in focus/attention and impulsive in all aspects of their lives. They can drive a car, play video games, read subjects they are interested in, have long conversations, etc. That is to say, focus/attention/arousal are rather complex phenomenons that vary greatly based on circumstances, and aren't simple numbers we can say one is deficient in.

Testing someone in a completely artificial environment (sitting in an office during a diagnosis playing some tasks clicking on a computer screen) is hard for me to believe is exactly an accurate metric for revealing any of these things. Most especially, when a lot of people are actively seeking this diagnosis, and are motivated to alter their behavior to get the result they are looking for.

Im really curious how this company decided these tests are accurate at all. I assume they did some studies to find some variability in the test results and those who were already diagnosed and then determined those variability were indicative of ADHD. So what test is really doing IMO is just reinforcing the standard diagnostic criteria.
Having conflict free in-house counsel is critical for major buy decisions. The last thing the buyer wants is the seller to write the spec and contract unsupervised. Eliminating technical and legal counsel is an enabling move for corruption.
In my opinion, web browsers have become too popular and widespread. They're an important application on nearly every phone, laptop and desktop computer sold. The pressure to implement pervasive tracking is immense. I don't see a future where companies like Google, Microsoft and Apple all decide to drop this level of tracking and switch to an open-source product.

If another browser engine is good enough they might _fork_ it in order to add these kind of predatory features. Kind of like they already did with WebKit, now that I think about it. :-P
Calvin Klein is the answer. That’s how people do k recreationally.
It’s not really hallucinating though, is it? It’s repeating a pattern in its training data, which is wrong but is presented in that training data (and by the author of this piece, but unintentionally) as being the solution to the problem. So this has more in common with an attack than a hallucination on the LLM’s part.
All I need is Citix and I can automate anything. If it's on a screen and I have a mouse and/or keyboard I can automate it.
> The miss here isn't that the build container had network access, it's that the build container both ran untrusted code, and had access to secrets.

If you're providing a build container service then you pretty much have to run untrusted code (the customer's) in the container, yes? So then the problem is really just the bad Firebase config... ?
GDP / inflation / labor hours all loosely correlated though, so we aren't too far off.

Really I think of things in two main buckets-

Stuff that's going up faster than income and therefore the sooner you buy it and lock in a level, the better. This is also something that you can invest in, because it means when you sell in 10-40 years at retirement, it will have appreciated.

Stuff that's going up slower than income, and I'll buy it as needed.

For example on the face of it - cars and houses should both depreciate.
They cost money to maintain, that maintenance cost goes up over time (it is labor), and newer ones get nicer and nicer. However it is only cars that depreciate. And I don't just mean a used car. A 2000 Honda Civic started at $13k new. A 2025 Honda Civic starts at $24k new, and you now have good reliable Hyundai Elantra at $22k, which weren't as prevalent and reliable 25 years ago.

The fact that we underbuild is why houses refuse to depreciate though.
Deaf culture, presumably.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaf_culture

"Refuge from the grinding frustrations of the hearing world", appreciation of the quality of no sounds, sort of like John Cage's 4'33" but quieter.
There are indeed several widely used objective metrics that can be used to identify hallmark symptoms of ADHD. The difficult part isn't really identifying those symptoms so much as distinguishing from other conditions that can cause many similar symptoms. But OP is not correct in suggesting that there aren't objective metrics -- ADHD probably has more of these than any other psychiatric illness.

In any case, I still think of ADHD and a lot of psychiatric diagnoses as models. We try to make these models useful to relieve suffering. They are far from perfect, but it doesn't make sense to throw the baby out with the bathwater and discount the many people who have been helped
This is interesting. If the models had enough actual code as training data, that forum post code should have very little weight, shouldn't it? Why do the LLMs prefer it?
Code signing is a really excellent place to look at ponying up the money for one of those hardware security modules that triggers sticker shock. The ones on their own PCI card with potted chips and optional Byzantine Generals access cards and consultants wearing ties. It’s cheaper than blowing six months of developer time trying to fake it (remember it will always take you twice as long as you think it will)

I built one code signing system after being the “rubber duck” for a gentleman who built another, and both used HSM cards and not cheap ones. Not those shitty little USB ones. One protected cellphones, the other protected commercial aviation.
I like your creativity here but there have been actual calculations done around this and carving out provisions for tax exemptions is not necessary.

Pragmatically speaking, a land value tax would be rolled out first by replacing property taxes with land value taxes, and the majority of people come out far ahead at this stage because people live on lots that have been developed. It is underdeveloped lots that are losers in this phase.

A true georgist would not stop here though, and they would slowly continue to ramp up land value taxes, but rather than replacing property taxes, they would start lowering other taxes on productive activities such as sales taxes or income taxes. But this would be a slow transition.

Additionally, you would include provisions during this phase where tax payments could be deferred until the sale of the property in order to protect individuals who happened to purchase a home that has dramatically increased in value. This prevents situations where an older person might be forced out of their home due to higher taxes. The goal here would be to transition over the long term and protect people who invested significant amounts into their property. The rates would stay relatively low for quite some time. Having lower rates also solves issues that you mention around accuracy of assessments. If you only tax up to 33% of the rental potential of a property, then you can be off by literally a factor of 3 in an assessment and the land will still be profitable to utilize.
> Browser Engine is not an opinionated thing, or shouldn't be, anyway, why would I want any "alternatives" for that? I would rather have 1 engine and several good browsers, which are ultimately opinionated.

Maybe you don’t see the irony in your comment, but that is exactly how you get opinionated engine. If there is only one party that controls the only engine, that is the definiton of ”opinionated”.
Where is all this productivity [0] going, then, if not to wages? Is it just "disappearing" [unlikely, IMHO]?

[0] researchgate.net/figure/US-Productivity-and-Hourly-Compensation-Source-Bureau-of-Labor-Statistics_fig1_270640833
Is Europe “militarizing” any different than now?

Regardless, I don’t think they’ve been given a choice. And if nobody helps out anyone, you get everyone “militarizing”.
who, exactly, is in control of independent agencies if Congress never corrects their power and the Executive isn't in charge?

For example: the perennial fight over "net neutrality" was because Congress absconded their duty to write regulation and handed it off to the Executive to figure out in a vague way that allowed for flip flopping policies with the force of law every time the administration changed.

You know what would stop the Executive power grab currently happening? If Congress would do their damn jobs. The Republicans in Congress are more to blame for this mess than the White House. This is supposed to be their power that they are just sitting and watching get taken away.

But the Democrats aren't guiltless either. People who care about this sort of thing have been complaining for decades, right through Democrat majorities and administrations. They had plenty of chances. The whole beltway fucking sucks and we are so cooked.
It's wild seeing life imitating art, but the recent Civil War movie had the sitting president serving his 3rd term as to what probably caused 19 states to secede, and Trump has talked about somehow finding a way to serve a third term. One could argue that's just typical Trump bluster, like him telling people they won't have to vote again, or blue states might disappear in year. But I'm becoming more convinced he actual intends to do these things.
You’re right, one should not need extensive ground combat experience or PhD level fluency on this topic to be equipped to identify that the war is in the defensive (my initial claim, still true), and changing the equilibrium requires a massive escalation from the United States (also still true). You can continue with your name calling, if you like.
“America’s ethos of “school achievement above all else” is part of the problem, says Stephen Hinshaw of the University of California at Berkeley”

This may be the ethos in elite circles but I don’t think it’s the case in general.
There's a Russian army on that land, so its not entirely clear who would be surrendering it.

I am not against Europe sending in an army if it wishes. I am not against your pro-war position which seeks, via military means, to retake land in Russia's control. I am more pointing out that you're not actually willing to do anything about it. You're not willing to take any risk to your own security.

You can have whatever position you want, but a political slogan isnt a policy -- its not an argument, or a position. It's just some theatrical ploy to make yourself feel better: what is the policy you have (or anyone) to retake the land under russian control? How do you intend to end the war? Ask the school teacher to put Russia in detention?

Trump is withdrawing from Ukraine, there is nothing anyone can do about that. If Europe wishes Ukraine to retain all of its land, and far fewer of its lives, it will have to risk its own security. It will not, nor will you: this is the source of the hatred for trump, it requires people of your mind to act -- and that was never on the table

I'd imagine the US actions might well violate Budapest, but that was extremely watered down at the time from "gaurentees" to "assurances" so its a very weak position to start with. But in any case the world which now exists has three great powers: US, China, Russia. All three are now "pivoting to each other", and away from non-rivaling activity.

If europe doesnt like this, or you don't -- I have no issue with that: go on, do something.

The US is not pivoting back to the EU now, under no administration. Just as Biden retained Trump's pivot against China, the next admin (dem or rep) will retain his piovt from the EU -- since both have been the desire of every president over the last 20+ years.
The original formula for 18F was to hire elite tech workers coming from highly paid corporate jobs to do term-limited stints in public service at lower wages.
It’s a great language, it just lacks the wealth of online tutorials and bootcamps that the JS ecosystem had to get a generation hooked
Most obviously because that one engine is guided by Google's goals, so ex. it has deliberately-inferior support for adblocking.
> Testing is profitable and so are the drugs.

Amphetamine salts (generic for Adderall) cost less than $20 a month. Generic atomoxetine is $15.

The medication for ADHD is _cheap_. A pharmacy will likely get more profit from a bottle of ibuprofen.
While it doesn't make sense to tax unrealized gains, they could be taxed if they are used as the basis for a loan. Loans on unrealized gains are one of the main ways the wealthy are able to live lavishly while paying very low effective tax rates.

It seems fair that you shouldn't be able to have it both ways—if you are getting any financial benefit from an asset, including a loan, there's a pretty strong argument that you yourself are "realizing" that value.
Freedom isn’t free.

We support other free nations…. so that we don’t have to fight directly (and alone).
You've been breaking the site guidelines badly in this thread, such as here, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43222575, and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43221102.

There are other recent cases too (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43163494), and it unfortunately goes back a long time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33227833 (Oct 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29522959 (Dec 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28979071 (Oct 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16017108 (Dec 2017)

I don't want to ban you, so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules from now on, that would be good.

Among other things, that means no more personal attacks regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are.
That’s an Ukraine problem. The US should never have made overtures for Ukraine joining nato.

There is no “right” for any country to join nato. And Ukraine is not a nato ally.

The way it is currently, this is a forever war on low boil that will continue for ever. All the current situation accomplishes is sale of arms to Ukraine.

The Europeans manufacture good armaments as well. They are more than accomplished to provide whatever aid Ukraine needs.
So what are you proposing then? That Russia just takes Ukraine?
> The goal is to make government as dysfunctional as possible

...So it's easier to justify to the people when they tear it down completely and then "rescue" the country by replacing it with a true corpocracy.
ChatGPT used to assure me that you can use JS dot notation to access elements in a Python dict. It also invented Redocly CLI flags that don't exist. Claude sometimes invents OpenAPI specification rules. Any time I ask anything remotely niche, LLMs are often bad.
I like Microsoft Loop's UX
LambdaMART LTR algorithm applied to cross-sectional momentum strategies
I think tribal and political social media discourse has exacerbated this effect, by which I mean, blanket acceptance of the ADHD diagnosis process and medication is now left-coded.

Conspiracy theorist anti-vax types exhibit "Big Pharma" skepticism, so media and pundits take great care to remind people of this. They want them to believe that they're picking a side in tribal politics.

edit: Another way it becomes left-coded is exhibited in this thread: victimization and grievance politics.
Stealing Prestige
> though some of Deutsche Grammophone's Archive Production records from even the 50s sound astonishingly good.

For what it is, i.e. a rock being dragged through a groove. But I'm very surprised to see this used as example, since orchestral music is the worst case scenario for vinyl: the reduced dynamic range makes good reproduction of those peaks simply impossible (labels like BIS would never have been able to engineer their magic such as on this CD - see the warning on the cover - https://www.discogs.com/release/16832175-Carl-Nielsen-Gothen...) and the surface noise really impacts the quieter moments.

Don't get me wrong, some CDs were brickwalled while the corresponding LP got a way saner master (e.g. Celtic Frost's Monotheist), but with similar masters, CD simply always wins as a medium. In this case, I digitize the LP while its surface wear is at its lowest.
Interesting theory, lets check back next year.
Try doing that to a business, and see what happens. Unless your business has real fat, you will watch it circle the drain and die.
I think you could make a reasonable argument that their actions aren't actually effective at implementing their mission. I'm not really in a position to judge that, personally. I was just saying I don't think it requires any great cognitive dissonance for GP to agree with their mission but disagree with a specific cut, as was sort of implied by the reply above.

I generally like my own government but I similarly think they've made some serious blunders at times. I don't think that's a huge contradiction (I'm not American FWIW...)