skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I am failing as a human, not that our kind seems more and more of a rare thing on HN:

Namely I cannot suppress a bit of emotional joy seeing people who have been dragging me down being dragged down, that whatever their political color since it is irrelevant here.

All humans left here, know perfectly the implications of using javascript-ed web engines from the whatng cartel.

If you don't want to understand that, this is on you mate.
Citigroup Customer the Richest Person in History with $81T Transfer
It's also apparently great if you live in El Salvador. His approval rating is > 90% and has been flirting with getting mighty close to 100% +/- statistical noise. Gang tattoos are not random - they are intentionally designed and chosen to indicate your unambiguous affiliation with a specific gang in order to prove loyalty and acceptance. In many cases they can also go much further indicating rank, crimes committed, and more.

They are also often done in very visible places, including the face and hands. Here [1] for instance are various individuals with MS-13 (which was a group initially started by Salvadoran migrants in LA) tattoos. You're not going to make a mistake there, and the gang itself would have also also taken care of imposters.

The groups expressing concern about the gang members tend to be Western human rights organizations in different countries. The president of El Salvador has offered to allow the countries of these groups to take in as many of the prisoners as they would like, if they'd like to more personally look after and ensure their rights. His offers have not been accepted.

[1] - https://yandex.com/images/search?text=ms13%20tattoos
Thanks, that's a good point that makes the most sense to me - MS didn't rewrite it because they essentially didn't need to, they already had something else.

Totally agree about the brand fumble. I think Teams is the least known/used brand by consumers, but honestly maybe these days that really doesn't matter that much from a money-making perspective.
Wyoming Is Fifth State Allow Guns in Public Schools Without Special Permission
Debian 12 with Firefox 135.0.1 and I do get a warning.
what basis would you recommend? Given the rate that chatbots engaging in making stuff up you can't just ask them. At least as humans we can take the substance ourselves to verify there's something happening. I think there will always be an insurmountable barrier to deciding if computers can be conscious, at least in our lifetimes. We're not even sure other humans experience similar consciousness.
Zelenskyy mentioned the 2019 deal that didn't work out, signed under the last Trump administration.
I do not think you can compare this conflict with Vietnam. US army went into Vietnam, while Ukraine is fighting a US rival with their own military, but they do use US provided equipment.

General public in Europe didn't see US as actively involved, or at least didn't see it until the new administration said it would end the conflict. This is when Trump administration started getting into "talks with Russia" and offering Ukraine "mineral deals". While US might have tried to do that even before, it was not discussed openly by presidents.

This war is going to flame out eventually. Lessons learned in this one will be used for the next one, which is going to hurt even more.
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I wonder if they got any feedback on the Ingenuity flights. They must have done the calculations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingenuity_(helicopter)
We need to at least try to get rid of the bad (old) perception; Common Lisp (with SBCL and some others) is a very viable environment for most things people want to do besides hiring bags of people (for now anyway).
On one hand, you have a a group that is working very quickly to make irreversible changes (likely in violation of many laws) before the judiciary catches up and enjoins them.

On the other hand you have an internet user calling them a bozo.

De-escalating the conflict and lowering the temperature of discourse, as you suggest, massively favors the group trying to ram through these changes. If we take a deep breath and calmly work it out, it will already be over and nothing can be done.

Elected officials take notice of these urgent issues when there is significant public outcry. Now I'm not saying that one person calling them bozos meaningfully moves the needle, but as a principle if a regular person wants to do their best to stop what is happening, they must use strong language.
> I believe this is exactly what sebazzz finds worrying.

But none of these are anything new. This is all years old stuff. It does not make sense that it "worries", either you've never cared before and things have not changed, or you should be several steps beyond "worry".
> Since 1998, when the UK decommissioned its tactical WE.177 bombs, the Trident has been the only operational nuclear weapons system in British service. The delivery system consists of four Vanguard-class submarines based at HMNB Clyde in Scotland. Each submarine is armed with up to sixteen Trident II missiles, each carrying warheads in up to eight multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles (MIRVs). With at least one submarine always on patrol, the Vanguards perform a strategic deterrence role and also have a sub-strategic capability.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_of_the_United_...
Hertz was a unique case where shareholders won: https://www.ft.com/content/f41eac59-3404-4504-b698-b4ead8f14...
It depends what you mean by secure. Vulnerabilities is a market and if GOS happens to secure the vulnerabilities that are convenient and work on all standard Android releases, most of the market doesn't support putting the research into setting up additional vulnerabilities against it as they will until another iOS vulnerability is found and weaponized.
SS United States reaches Florida coast, Philadelphians reminisce
I think it's likely they know Putin will not honor any peace deal. So they have to figure out a way to blow up this deal and blame it on Ukraine or they'll end up with egg on their face.
https://archive.ph/HRky2
>What dense city with a thriving commercial and business/industrial base is cheaper to live in than a less-developed rural small town?

Um, any city whose residents want services? Does your rural small town need a plumber? That plumber can offer lower costs if there's a wider, more predictable userbase for him than in the small town.

This applies to any store selling specialist goods, too - if the small town only has a single store, which stocks something that's only bought once a decade, then the buyer pays the cost of the good plus an entire decade's worth of interest. If the city can have a specialist good that sells that stuff one a month, then it'll be cheaper.
The last paragraph of the article sums up why:

> Piot is similarly gloomy. “If it were not so abrupt, countries could explore alternative funding, but not in a few weeks,” he says. As to UNAIDS, he adds, “I don’t see how it can survive.”
Isn't the tax paying towards a society that will respect your "ownership" so that you can have access to legal redress if someone prevents you using it?
My original comment, in full text:

> Some transformations irrecoverably lose information. A recontextualization engine such as an LLM might be able to "recover" some information by comparing it to other code in its training set, but it's still a guess and not all code will have representation in the training set.

It is a completely generalized statement about lossy transformations, aka transformations that aren't reversible with a 1 to 1 map. It says nothing in particular about decompilation, or getting variable names.

> I would argue that variable names aren’t information so much as they’re implicit context

You are free to argue what you want, but that doesn't change reality--variable names are information about the original state before it was irreversibly transformed. Is the information important to you and your current task? Who knows. But my original comment is absolutely correct.
Elon came here under a similar story. The party in significant power cheers on 'kill the boer [farmer]' ( and 'redistribute' their capital to the poor). He escaped to here. It's admirable he wants to prevent America becoming like South Africa.
Maybe an off-topic rant but I ran into a similar feeling when wanting to do a personal PHP project with Laravel.

Even with the backend set, the front still felt like it had to make a choice among Blade, Livewire, Vue and React glued together with Inertia (?). Then you had to pick between several different authentication systems. Unfortunately I wanted app support as well which would require React Native, Flutter or something else which the Laravel documentation doesn't seem to make any mention about.

Naturally one could make it all from scratch with vanilla PHP and JS but that's often not a suitable comparison to a full-fledge framework.
He's a surgeon, not a mathematician.
Darn pensioners are living too long driving the search for alpha
A (scientific) theory is simply a collection of many interlocked observations and logical deductions. A theory can be well established (such as Newton's theory of gravity, or the germ theory of disease), or it can still be at a hypothesis level (such as string theory) or it can be debunked (such as the humor imbalance theory of disease, or the geocentric theory of astronomy).
You're not likely to pirate your own banking app, but thieves would love to patch the APK (or OS itself) so that it works "normally" except for skimming off credentials etc. in the background. This is functionally equivalent to what happens in app piracy (or game cheating, etc.), and all the same mechanisms are used to try to prevent it.

I don't blame the banking apps, it makes sense given their incentives and constraints. But if Play Integrity existed to serve the user, it would answer only to the user, and not "snitch" the device integrity status to apps and their backends.
Old man yelling at cloud here, I guess but, what do you do when something doesn't work? How do you ensure security if you have no clue what's going on underneath?
Why? A good government is one that runs well without half the public frothing at the mouth.
"Bone records" (https://www.npr.org/2016/01/09/462289635/bones-and-grooves-w...).

For black market uses, the consumers was probably willing to bear dreadful audio quality. For a modern aficionado, the quality must be good enough to give some justification for the endeavor.
Yeah, the Russians definitely couldn't have done this themselves... they needed the help of this one guy to compile publicly available data.

Am I on Reddit or HN?
This is implied to me at least by "for generations"

As in after x generations the genes "go back to normal"
I’m not sure how to put it in the nicest way possible without offending anyone, but — your government is the only one in the 2nd/1st world country that is doing in a way where it hurts average person for no reason. Hypothesis among people that I talk to in real life is that American government is jealous of China and knows they can’t have the same power and abilities as they due. This is just a side effect of them freaking out and realizing that they are, in fact, the laughing stock of the entire world.

There’s this idea, I have no idea from where, that entire world depends on the states, and without US everyone would literally starve to death. But it’s just really not the case. Sure, everyone would suffer, but any sane country has already worked out contingency plans, and is preparing for it while blatantly pretending to bend the knee.

I think there’s a deep cultural issue that you guys need to face and fix. In my opinion, most of it comes from the lack of education. However, you’re actively making sure that people are less educated and blur our the moral lines to have small wins that will be insignificant in the longer term.

I’m saying this as a person who has deep personal connections to people living in the states. Those people belong different “factions” of the political spectrum, and it is just incredibly sad to see from the sidelines.
When you drive without a seatbelt, it only affects you.

If you drive in a way that affects the safety of others, there are generally consequences.
> corn based ethanol

This is an idea that needs to go away. We should not burn food for fuel, and there are a lot of externalities in growing corn and then turning it into ethanol that people are not considering.

Corn-based ethanol is just a very inefficient form of solar energy. Use solar panels instead and skip the middleman.
That's why some deaf people feel superior
Somehow I doubt social justice warriors are the key thing holding up housing reform. That grants a few wokescolds more power than a huge number of other economic forces.

This is kind of like blaming environmentalists when NIMBYs use environmental reviews to prevent new construction. They don't give a shit about the environment, really, but they know how to misuse the system to get what they want.
This is an interesting point that I’ve seen play out as you described. It was the parents of an acquaintance of mine, and they did choose the downsize option because they were getting too old for the upkeep of a whole house and niceties it brings such as having the hotel like amenities of a doorman. Then there’s the point of choosing new vs. old stock, agreed there is a higher demand, thus it demands higher cost.
I would contest the idea that this construction isn't happening - it's largely just resulting in sprawl at the periphery of existing cities. America has a lot of space available and a lot of space actively being developed.

As to why new cities aren't being built in completely empty areas, I would have to know where you're talking about to make a guess as to why they aren't being developed. Off the top of my head:

1) Environmental concerns
2) Expropriation concerns making projects politically untenable
3) The concerns of aboriginals
4) Cost of infrastructure development
5) Lack of market demand

To elaborate on the fifth point, I would posit that people don't tend to populate such greenfield cities unless there is a compelling reason to do so; either by being pulled (e.g. by resource extraction opportunities, a growing economy, educational opportunities, etc.) or by being pushed (e.g. fleeing a war, the effects of climate change, or political persecution). China is the example to look at here. They spent most of the 2010s buying up an enormous amount of resources to build cities that ended up just sitting empty before eventually being demolished. A lot of this was just fraud (the buildings weren't constructed to be habitable to begin with), but at least some proportion of it had to do with the factors I mentioned above. The cost of physically moving to a new city, as well as the loss of social capital resulting from such a move make relocating to a new city both undesirable and prohibitively expensive for most people.

Do you have another theory?
This framing never made much sense to me. It's incredible to be alive at all of course, but miraculous compared to what? I've found it best in these situations to quietly appreciate rather than trying to reify some ontology for contemplation—which is, after all, a distraction from appreciation itself in the moment, something largely akin to meditation.

The easiest way to experience some of the feelings you get from tripping is, in fact, meditation. The LSD mostly just forces you to be more honest with yourself by smashing barriers you would normally dismantle through allowing your mind to rest.

Granted, I've never experienced anything like eg a blurring of the sense of self with meditation. Theoretically it's possible. Maybe I'm just too content with myself to pursue it.
Project 2025 has been an open plan for years and the level of coordination between political elites aligned with the Heritage Foundation and tech industry radicals is obvious on its face.

If the goal was reducing fraud and waste, accurate accounting would be a core principle and this wouldn't happen. They aren't because it's not. Their goal was rapid destruction of the US government apparatus to prevent oversight and accountability that would enable preservation and restoration of constitutional government. Seems like it's working.
> No, the majority of wealthy people didn't accumulate their wealth because high and mighty lord government willed it into their existence. They did it within a system of laws and regulations that government admittedly does create for fostering such wealth creation.

This is akin to saying you only achieved a high score in a video game by your own sweat and effort, and saying the video game developer had nothing to do with it. Without their work, you wouldn't have a system within which to accrue wealth. You may not even have the concept of wealth or property. Bezos wouldn't have his wealth regardless of himself creating amazon if there didn't already exist power grids to electrify his warehouses and data centers, roads upon which his delivery vans could travel, a financial sector to see him be paid for his goods, on and on and on.

The mythmaking of the self-made-wealthy has gone completely off the fucking deep end at this point with a portion of the population, as if these CEOs fell from the sky, cratered in the Earth, raised their arms and from them spawned hyperscaler businesses and cavemen left their campfires, picked up Macbooks and started writing React code.

> It's contradictory and absurd to argue that people accumulate wealth because of the government while at the same time arguing that we live in a situation in which we need more government control of people's earnings to prevent oligarchy since government doesn't do enough.

This is not contradictory at all unless you boil the points down utterly beyond recognition.
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> Who is to say the LLM won't come up with better variable names than the original source?

This is still a loss of information. You're completely misunderstanding the point: Minification is an irreversible process unless you happen to have exactly the context you need, and can verify the provenance of the source in question. Coming up with "better" variable names is not recovering information, it's extrapolating information about the old state to the point of error.
muad'dib
Yeah,

Q: implement POST /endpoint

A: Sure I implemented POST /endpoint and GET /endpoint

ARGH, follow orders mate!
Can you like, run your content in JS only and mine crypto if you detect the visitor is a bot?
> I did respond to GP’s points.

And you also profiled and personally attacked them.

> I didn’t say “day is ruined.”

> making someone’s day worse on Hacker News

Now you're continuing to be dishonest. For the purposes of this discussion, those are the same thing.

> I’m also not OP.

Reading my comment will show that I never said you were nor are any of the points I made predicated on that.
Yes, although I'm not in the US.
I have been using TurboTax to file taxes for years. I do not like the company and would like to switch to something I trust a little more (and is a little cheaper) but I feel a little locked in (and it seems relatively easy). I am going to look at the website but does anyone have much to say about the difference (not employed and some 1099--div/int, in Texas so no state income taxes).
Mini rant. I love the concept of flashcards and I think that Anki is a great idea. Good to see it there. But how in hell is that the best we have? Why is the format so arcane, why is it so hard to create decent flashcards etc? Just try looking for good quality decks and you'll quickly find yourself going through the familiar disappointment, followed by a burst of can-do fervour "I CAN BUILD AND SHARE GOOD DECKS!" and the eventual frustration at the whole experience. So you give up, and after a while the one or two half-decent decks you had on Anki get auto deleted.

Anyway, sorry for the rant.
The title of this piece is “Effective Income Tax Rates Have Fallen for The Top One Percent Since World War II” which seems to directly contradict your statement they have been stable?
They are self-hosted and require campus credentials for access. If you try to chat with the ZJU instance, it will redirect you to a login page. ZJU is unique in that it appears to support access from all higher education institutions in China.
I've seen literal 7 year olds make the same mistakes when doing school projects on butterflies. Can professionals not do better than literal children?
They were making the point that using a word processor as a tool isn't the same as having an LLM write something, then retain the LLM generated changes such that it is immediately obvious the bulk of the code was generated by an LLM, not that it isn't possible to discern whether someone is using a word processor.
> Programmers are trained, mostly through experience but also classically, to think through every exceptional case and figure out how to handle it (or return an error so a human can handle it).

Unfortunately, vibe coding is seen as acceptable to many specifically because what you say here hasn't been the norm for like 15 years now.

The rise of bootcamps, dependency-driven-development, and "move fast and break things" culture convinced a whole generation of programmers that all that matters is the happy path, and even then, only within the context of today's specific task. The ocean of garbage they produced during that time is both one of the reasons why LLM's can produce code in the first place and one of the reasons why that code is so consistently and irrecoverably poor by traditional standards. Aspiring vibe coders see their peers earning absurd six-figure salaries to produce the exact same sort of unstable, short-sighted noise that they see their LLM literally reproduce for pennies now.

In many ways, we should be gatekeeping by asserting a higher standard of foresight and quality for redistributed code, but we completely lost that battle many, many years ago already.
Median personal income shows the same trend. It's not an inequality issue.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA646N
I didn't say always. I made a general statement and avoided absolutist terms. "Are" is not an absolutist term if you charitably interpret my comment and I'm happy to clarify if you need it, however I don't need to append every comment with a disclaimer so that people like you don't respond with meaningless criticism towards some straw man.

Please review the Hacker News guidelines, especially this excerpt:

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
I often tell my friends, we can't be wealthy, we still pay taxes.