skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The west feels asleep at the wheel, and the next generations (including mine) have been so heavily insubordinated and worn down economically and spiritually that their capacity for envisioning a positive new future and policy seems minimal. Land grabs are back on the menu. The next generation of leaders has grown up on tiktok.

A young friend I know is a political "golden child" on the fast track to le4dership but only 3 years ago was talking about manosphere people and shoving tiktoks down my throat. I can't possibly communicate to you strongly enough how broken and emotionally stunted this coming generation is due to social media.

Happy I'm in tasmania, aus, learning to be a self sufficient young person. I'm living through the mistakes of the weak willed generations that came before me.

We have 5-10 years of bad enough normalcy left. The world, and us, the people in it, and our "common values" are going to be unrecognisable in 20 years.

I can't understand how we got so weak and unintelligent. Social media played a big role, and the elimination of anything except self aggrandisement in the popular culture, and the stupid labelling of anything a little nerdier as autistic or adhd or yada yada shows a society detaching itself from and losing patience for structured intelligence. Russia is behind a lot of this, and they place both sides. They bolster and distort transgender and autism communities etc as cultural weapons as much as they do conservative and libertarian ones. Their aim is to destroy the idea of the "normal" rational base.

To say russia is dumb, or slow moving is infantile. This is a calculating machine of evil which never rests and preys on the weakness and innocence of the west. I'm sure their propaganda divisions have their own cities at this point.

Read putins people and listen to londongrad s1 to understand just how hollow "western democratic institutions" are. Listen to WEF sexual escorts talk about how there's two camps of people who attend, one that believes climate change is going to end everyone, and the other that believes it almost will, and how the attendees gloat "tax the rich" as a joke as a running joke at bars. Read about how the ex IPCC head says there's a chance for 5°c warming. The world and the system you know is gone.
More: the Treasury Committee is investigating, and has sent letters to all the CMA9 banks:

https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/46590/document...

https://www.openbanking.org.uk/glossary/cma-9/

Unless this is all chance, and IT reliability and/or security is falling apart across the entire British banking sector independently, which seems increasingly unlikely, something is going on. But what?
could have just used https://github.com/mxschmitt/action-tmate
While I agree with the general anti-car sentiment, we have expensive housing in less car-dependent areas as well (case in point: various cities in Europe), leading to a broad range of social issues. Hence, I have to disagree with this point in particular.
China, famously exploiting poorer nations through infrastructure investment and a focus on trade.
>Microsoft acquired Hotmail in the '90s

it was around 2007
(I'm not that old!)
A bit more on Jordan Wick: https://therevolvingdoorproject.org/doge-agent-jordan-wick/

I'm a bit on the edge regarding to why someone on DOGE should collect data on critical infrastructure, even if it's available to the public audience for free.

I'm also quite worried by the possibility to filter federal workers based on the union status
Material tolerances.
Maybe is just has thoughtful people who are against mass murder?
Why aren't the banks prompt engineering or "vibe coding" their way out of this one or AI not fixing this persistent issue?

Interesting that when companies and banks announce plans to lay people off that things stop working.
You know those stories about Soviets getting overwhelmed when they visited US supermarkets? That happens with Americans visiting Chinese downtowns. China will have no trouble outlasting the US unless things change radically.

Demographics are not the problem you think they are; industrial economies no longer rest on the shoulders of burly twentysomething coal miners shoveling sixteen tonnes of coal to get another day older and deeper in debt until blacklung disables them.
Claude Code Without Waitlist
How would you recommend learning about eBPF / BTF / CO-RE? I have a basic understanding of what they are, but am not sure where to start for writing eBPF tracing programs, setting them up in production w/ Grafana, etc.
For a view of everything that’s costing you money, you can just look at your detailed billing data. That’s been available for at least 13 years.
A nothingburger. Not common to see such blatant misinfo high on HN. I do have higher expectations on this and people here instead of people jumping on a hatewagon :/

Community note on the post:

The geospatial data the reporter claims is "sensitive data" is not actually sensitive data. It is open source data. The source files in the DOGE employee's GitHub repository point to an open source site accessible by anyone.

https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/search/dataset/0038118/Glo...
It's from 2023 but the last Godot community survey showed a marketshare of 27% for Linux amongst the developer's primary development platform and 55% for exports to Linux[1]. That's quite massive compared to the 2.06% Linux and 1.4% OSX have amongst gamers[2].
So, if you need help getting your game to those 3.4%, there should be plenty of helping developers on the usual godot forums.

[1] https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeXRE1nF64PUilO6fA7...
[2] https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...
The US has never been richer, adjusted for inflation, both in aggregate and per person. [0]

The idea that there have been decades of reckless spending and the US is going broke I think is not at all a nuanced take.

Anecdotes about the inflation of prices of eggs (which is 0.05% of US economy) don't change the overall facts that are material.

I will grant you that debt servicing needs immediate attention. Blowing up 100 years of foreign policy has nothing to do with that, however.

The number of NATO members spending 2% or more on defense went from 3 to 23 in the past 10 years. Their spending almost doubled in the past 10 years, while the US only grew 15% (actually shrunk in PPP terms). [1]

The US has been successfully pressuring NATO allies to pick up the bill, without having to call Ukraine a dictator and cede Ukraine to Russia without US security guarantees, and promote politics of appeasement that will lead to China taking Taiwan which is the only material place that produces the future's most important geopolitical asset: chips.

The US looking to reduce debt also isn't compatible with raising tariffs on everyone including allies, reducing taxes and warding off cheap immigrant labour, it's the opposite. Trump seems to have 25% good ideas, 75% bad ideas, and 90% poor execution that causes a lot of collateral damage. Penny wise pound foolish comes to mind a lot when I look at his policy choices.

[0] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD?locat...
[1] https://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014/assets/pdf/2024/6/pd...
I hadn't seen one since X took over
I can top that. As a child I was a fan of a relatively unknown sitcom titled “Out Of This World” and I rediscovered it a couple years ago. It was truly surreal to hear Donald Trump mentioned in a show from 1987–1991. (American Psycho is from 2000.)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotmail

> Founded in 1996 by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith as Hotmail, it was acquired by Microsoft in 1997 for an estimated $400 million

Wrong decade, they really did acquire Hotmail in the 90's.
Sadly his github is now private and the archived pages are mostly previews, not full repos.
But then they would need to be given more money.
In my opinion, the use of AI/ML/neural networks for the recognition of individual letters or of ligatures is perfectly valid.

However for OCR, I do not want any kind of AI that attempts to use a context bigger than that, i.e. attempting to recognize words, phrases, sentences.

I find much more acceptable an OCR tool that fails to recognize all the characters, marking some as unknown, than one tool that returns even a single wrongly guessed word.

While there may be some kinds of documents where an LLM may guess any missing content with reasonable accuracy, all the documents that I would want to process with OCR, i.e. mostly old or very old books, have content where one could guess successfully something only with a very thorough knowledge of the other writings of the same author, of the subject matter and of the characteristics of the language that was used in that historical period.

A LLM trained very specifically for the text author, text subject and contemporaneous writings might have chances of success, but none of the available LLMs is like this and it is much cheaper anyway to just use an OCR tool that does not attempt to make contextual guesses and then resolve any unreadable characters by humans.
>It matters if one person can buy Twitter on a whim and use it to pursue his ideological goals, or if one person can buy The Washington Post and dictate it's editorial positions,

Oh no, now it's important to stop this because some people are able to do these things while having political viewpoints that you don't like. Were you previously making the same argument against say, the New York Times, due to it's being owned by one family and following that family's specific ideological viewpoints?

Wealth inequality is an innate part of human society, and by itself has little bearing on democracy or even overall standards of living. There are also many countries with low wealth inequality in which democracy doesn't exist in any sense.
Nobody gave the slightest fuck about Russia. Even the annexation of Crimea and the proxy war in the Donbas was mostly ignored.

There was ZERO chance of Ukraine joining NATO. Do you really think that Hungary, Germany, Slovakia..... would vote for Ukraine membership while there are still disputes in the Donbas and about Crimea?

@2) Sure, and Hitler also only saved the Sudetendeutschen.....

Putin himself said 2002 that he would have no problems with Ukraine joining NATO:
“I am absolutely convinced that Ukraine will not shy away from the processes of expanding interaction with NATO and the Western allies as a whole. Ukraine has its own relations with NATO; there is the Ukraine-NATO Council. At the end of the day the decision [on Ukraine joining NATO] is to be made by NATO and Ukraine. It is a matter for those two partners.”

Considering that Trump now, all but disbanded NATO there should be no more reason for further Russian attacks, no?

But really, just read and watch Russian media, listen to their politicians. The aggressive imperial aim is very open, transparent and also accepted by the people.
Wehrmacht was mostly supplied by horses.
my guess is because capital has more options than labor, and the decision makers since time immemorial are more afraid of capital leaving than labor leaving
And to wit, Firefox too:

> Setting this preference to 2 causes Firefox to enforce CT for certificates issued by roots in Mozilla's Root CA Program.
LibRedirect, browser extension:

<https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/?...>

I installed it a couple of years back after multiple recommendations from other HN members. It fixes more than just Reddit.
This is a story from some parallel universe right here. You bought a microsoft game and wasn't able to run it on windows, but it works on ubuntu?!? I almost spilled coffee reading this.
> Facts are usually universal and rarely disputed.

The parent poster claimed that Zelensky started the war.

How do you even begin having a conversation with someone who disputes the main fact on how this war started: Vladimir Putin, the dictator of Russia, invaded the neighbouring sovereign nation of Ukraine.
Well if it's so clear to you, why can't you give a straight up argument? People always say things like "explore it for 15 minutes" or "think about it" or whatever. But I think people are just repeating what other people say. And yeah if everyone's opinion is like this, and you explore it for 15 minutes, and you're the kind of person that repeats what everybody says, then I can understand. But then you can't explain why you actually have that opinion.
Well technically the land can still be appropriated by force, only you have to apply it against the entire system which enforces "lawful property rights"
Zelensky lost big yesterday. The minerals deal was supposed to solidify a security guarantee from Uncle Sam. He bet on the wrong horse i.e Europe. Ukraine is facing assured destruction now if Zelensky continues on the foolish path of drumming up support for more war against the insurmountable Bear.

I respect Trump a lot more for having the fortitude to push for a peace negotiation, maybe we'll even be talking about a Nobel prize sometime next year.
> Instead of addressing the substance of their argument you attack a straw man

The substance of their argument was to say "nobody is 100% evil". It's a platitude that clarifies nothing and helps nobody. Everyone has a redeeming quality, so what? How does pointing out that nobody is 100% evil change the bigger picture? Does it offer any moral resolution, especially for the victims of their evil?

> But now the lose this balance.

Honestly I did not know what to make of this sentence
I clicked the twitter link. Perhaps because I don’t have an account, I don’t see any Community Notes nor can I read any other posts in the thread, so no point in using the “official” link.

And it’s not like Community Notes will remain reliable.

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-says-hell-fix-community-notes-...
Impractical in the sense that there are still TLDs (ccTLDs mind you, ICANN can't force anything for those countries) which do not have any form of DNSSEC, which makes DANE and TLSA useless for those TLDs.
In the article, there’s an example where a graph object needs to be:

- converted to png

- converted into a promise of an array buffer

- awaited

- converted into a Uint8Array

- passed to Deno.jupyter.image

Just to display it in the notebook. In Python Jupyter, you can just return many types and the library/Jupyter will figure out how to render them.

A few lines of code isn’t much but in my experience for interactive coding to be productive you have to remove every bit of friction and boilerplate you can.
I moved from Wipr to this, have been pleasantly surprised.

https://github.com/0xCUB3/wBlock
This tells me all I need to know:

# Read the CSV file
df = pd.read_csv(csv_file)

Thanks for the explanatory comment Jordan /s
Historian Timothy Snider has some lectures online and wrote some great books. I’m reading his book Bloodlands now. Then there is Anne Applebaum.

But this is a wide topic, I suppose various biographies would help. Older books could help, e.g. “Prince” is old but a classic.

You could also lookup reading lists in best known universities under political science and international relations.
If the west crank up things already happening - stopping Russia's oil trade and blowing it it's refineries etc - it would probably get so weak economically that it couldn't really continue the war. At that point you could make a deal, or maybe the Russian government would change or decide it has better things to do.

The trouble with just signing a piece of paper is Putin tends to just ignore those.
I have tried them all. They are so unimpressive.

It is not the fault of the model though. MusicLM shows what could be done.

The problem is they just aren't trained on enough interesting music to impress me.

Of course, if you never played music before I am sure it is super cool to produce music.

It would be like if the AI art models had only been trained on a small amount of drawings.

Compared to being trained on every piece of recorded music ever produced?We are just so far from that.

I think to really do something interesting you would have to train your own model.
I assume you're basically trolling here, but as I mentioned, obviously the radioisotopes would be for emergency power generation - life support in the highly improbable case of all other power sources simultaneously failing, not as a driver for industrial level manufacturing. You're also far off on solar estimates, probably in part because that Wiki page hasn't been updated in well over a decade and solar tech has rather change in the interim. You're looking at ~590W/m2 solar irradiance at Mars' equator, so production of something like ~100W/m^2 with typical consumer panels and perhaps 150W/m^2 with high end panels. So that's in the ballpark of ~0.1 acres for a MWh of production.

Hollywood, so far as Mars is concerned, is mostly based on the Martian which is a hard sci-fi and phenomenally well researched book. The mistakes it made, inadvertently and intentionally, only make Mars colonization even easier than demonstrated. For instance the raging dust storm of the movie (and book) does not exist (and was an intentional fib). Low atmospheric pressure means the most fierce dust storm would have all the force of a very light breeze. And similarly his adventures to extract water from the rocket fuel were completely unnecessary as it turns out the seemingly barren regolith is surprisingly moist at 2-11% water by mass, an unintentional mistake as this was only discovered after the book was published.
If you showed a layman a Theranos demo in 2010, they would conclude it's a revolutionary machine too. It certainly gave out some numbers. That doesn't mean the tech was any good when little issues like accuracy matter.

LLMs are really only passable when either the topic is trivial, with thousands of easily Googleable public answers, or when you yourself aren't familiar with the topic, meaning it just needs to be plausible enough to stand up to a cursory inspection. For anything that requires actually integrating/understanding information on a topic where you can call bull, they fall apart. That is also how human bullshit artists work. The "con" in "conman" stands for "confidence", which can mask but not stand in for a lack of substance.
good, very good
You are advocating for giving in to the bully in the hopes that they will stop bothering you. The reality is that the bully will never stop, Russia’s aim is total annexation of Ukraine. Making peace without proper guarantees would be to ensure more Ukrainian people will die in the future.
> In hindsight, it was premature by Germany to shut down theirs so early

This is a widespread talking point that is more wrong than correct:

Germany did not shut down its nuclear reactors early. In fact, those reactors should have been shut down decades ago. They had been well past their intended shelf lives.

The decision to finally shut them down also dates back to Merkel during the Fukushima incident (2011). So the timeline to shutting them down wasn't exactly short either. The last nuclear reactors were shut down well more than ten years after the original decision was made.

What you can blame Germany for is not building new nuclear reactors. Germany hadn't built new nuclear reactors since Chernobyl - the last reactor to come online was in 1988. The influence of the anti-nuclear protests was strong enough to prevent the construction of new reactors but not enough to phase out the ones that existed. Instead Germany continued extending their runtimes over and over again because this was easier to justify politically (or rather because it was less obvious than building new ones).

So in other words: it took Germany from 1986 (Chernobyl) to 2023 to shut down its reactors. But it did so in an extremely irresponsible way. And it still didn't have proper plans in place like investing in grid infrastructure and storage necessary to expand renewables.

That said, nuclear power is overrated as the one thing it does well is constant stable energy production. But the problem in the modern grid is not not having enough energy, the problem is not having enough energy on demand. Renewables can provide enough energy but they are unstable. You need something to cover those dips and nuclear doesn't work for that because you can't really scale it up and down much. Storage would be ideal but for the majority of time since the reunion Germany has been under a conservative government which doesn't want to spend money on infrastructure maintenance let alone investments (let's see if this conservative government will do things differently as Black Rock Merz has been promising in between his anti-woke populism). But for the time being the only option Germany has is fossil.
The 5mb baby has me wonder.. In humans reasoning and memorizing have overlapping usefulness. Ai is so incredibly good at the later reasoning might be extremely undeveloped. In rare occasions I've seen top human students fail to question things they've learned that would have been very obvious to someone with an IQ under 60. An accidental lack of interaction with the data.
A little bit more of the oval office exchange but still not the fully integral recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEOv4x_FIsc
Before I started delving into this topic, I also thought that Russia was just doing this because they are a crazy war machine. But after I looked into the history of it, I can understand better that Russia does have some reasons to feel threatened by NATO. And yeah, if you threaten a country, you can expect conflict.

We should rather go into conversation with Russia instead of ignoring their perspective and continue with things causing conflicts with them.
I’ve used Netscape, the Mozilla browser, and then Firefox, so I guess I’m a long-time user. But as of today, I’m no longer using Firefox because of this.
I think the whole 'majority' point is supposed to be a racist dog whistle.
I'm sorry, but that makes no sense to me. An attack has to have very strong reasons, as any attack is very costly, no oligarch would spend money for no reason.

So they would seek some gain then, right?

What could an oligarch possibly gain from starting a war with an allied neighboring country?

And why doesn't U.S. attack other NATO members now?

Surely it has (and had) as much oligarchy (if not more) as Russia has. (I hope you won't argue it doesn't? Since even something as ridiculous as the fact of having lobbying being absolutely legal - just can't coexist with the lack of oligarchs quite by nature/definition).
Gadaffi was a nominal socialist who kicked the US military out, aligned himself with the Soviet Union, proposed pan-Arabist and pan-African alliances to exclude the west and was implicated in bombings of US targets, undermining US-allied causes overseas etc. And yes, he nationalized the oil industry early in his rule. Even if he briefly achieved some sort of rapprochement (mostly with the EU) when he'd run out of allies, he's pretty much the exemplar of how to piss off the US, and so them helping finish his regime off fits the pattern perfectly.
I see a parallel with the breakup of Yugoslavia as well. In spite of his authoritarianism, Tito was a popular, legitimate war hero, and Yugoslavia had notably more personal freedom than the typical communist regime. But there wasn't anyone who could truly replace him; once he was gone, the old nationalist tensions that had always bubbled under the surface boiled over, and everything flew apart.
It’s not a matter of good or bad, but a choice among alternatives?

Nobody gets fired: learning opportunity for next time, but little direct incentive to improve.

Fire someone: accountability theater (who is really responsible), loss of knowledge.

AFAIK, blameless postmortems and a focus on mechanisms to prevent repeats seems like the best we’ve come up with?
You can even tell that's ChatGPT rather than, say, Claude. Redundant obvious comments are a stylistic signature of their models.