skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is unclear whether the health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, who has long promoted anti-vaccine views, is involved in the planned CDC study or how it would be carried out.

Uh-huh.

How would this work? If they're going to do a literature review or meta-study, the conclusions are foregone. If they're going to do new studies, it will take years to get anything conclusive. Longer than the current political administration.
> The failure of Athena, which was packed with scientific probes and experiments that Nasa was relying on as it prepares to send astronauts back to the moon for the first time since 1972, was almost identical to IM’s first moon landing in February 2024.

Does this mean delays for Artemis, or do we not know yet?
> people do not have a right to a fair trial--in the extreme, this would lead to a contradiction with other rights (e.g. judges being forced to practice law at gunpoint)

Could be avoided by restating it as "a right to be tried fairly or otherwise not tried". The right of the citizen to have crimes against him investigated and brought to justice, that's another matter.
That photo is really poetic though.
Honestly, I'm absolutely terrified of doing anything that might damage my eyesight. I know the common procedures (i.e. Lasik) have come a long way in the last two decades and are very low risk, but they are not zero risk. I won't even wear contact lenses, I long ago fully committed to glasses. That type of procedure doesn't fit my risk tolerance.
three actually
All of our technology is presented as seemless, integrated, secure, and robust and couldn’t be further from the truth.
Impact of 8 lifestyle factors on mortality and life expectancy among US veterans
QwQ 32B has replaced Sonnet 3.7 for me for quick hack apps I write like. 'Service that converts youtube tutorial videos into step by step instructions with timestamp references for each step.'

And I can run it locally!
I'm shocked by how much of the thought process is informed by political considerations, how the creators want to present themselves, and what the users' intentions and expectations might be.

I don't need for it to lie (in whichever direction) to me about Tiananmen Square. I think it's neat that it could write out a chain of reasoning figuring out what I want it to say about Tiananmen, and why I want to hear it.
Oligopolies often exist in the same general categories by serving different submarkets (regions, business vs consumer, large vs small business, specialization, etc). Especially when it's the category is just a technology, like databases with Oracle vs the many db vendors/services. If LLM's technically plateau then it's all about who can find those high $$ markets (coding, consumer chat, phone integrations).
You are comparing two different things.
> Any backdoor could be in theory found by an enemy

In theory.

In reality, it took Snowden leaks for some of the smartest and most motivated people working in technology to discover they had been backdoored by a third-party.
We need a proper rich UI application execution environment, and if HTML, being a primarily document oriented platform can’t be retrofitted to provide that, then we need a new one
You can fit a crab sideways in the Falcon 9.
Operation Warp Speed was Trump. It was a success.
Backdoors introduced by competent people require authentication, so that random people or "the enemy" can't use them.
Are you running it from the built-in terminal in PyCharm? I also use that IDE and want to give this a swing.

Can you elaborate on "check everything in pycharm?"
Funny timing, I've been looking at this recently. Some other well performing concurrent ordered data structures are ART (adaptive radix trees) and masstree. Skiplists are common since they're easier to implement lock free, but they don't seem to perform well relative to these alternatives.
It helped me, I was looking exactly for their comment.
No, if you look at the screenshots on that page it's clear that when they mention albums, they're only talking about the search experience, not the picking experience:

https://developers.google.com/static/photos/images/picker-pi...

They also clarify this in the documentation: "Albums, favorites, and other common photos categories are not show [sic] directly. Users can search for photos using various criteria, such as keywords, dates, locations, and album titles"

The user can search for album names, but only the images from those albums are shown, and users can only select individual images. In the screenshots, you can also see that it shows that you can only select up to 2000 images. And you can see in the docs that only Image, Video and Motion type files are returned—there's no album reference that you can grab, and the URLs for these files expire after 60 minutes: https://developers.google.com/photos/picker/guides/media-ite...
Trippy, this is an improved version of my first ever programming project [0]! I literally didn't know how to program so my version is awful but I love seeing the idea come around into a fully realized app!

[0] https://github.com/ericyd/midi-unbound
Show HN: Ming-wm: A 100% keyboard-operated desktop environment in Rust
Why would anyone expect refunds for a product bought 20 years ago?
That worked OK for some Mars rovers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Exploration_Rover#Airbags

See also the section "uprighting", further down the page - they used a tetrahedral shell with a sensor so it knew which side was down and could lever itself upright.
I mean, it's been almost two decades.

At some point, things just don't work anymore, even if two decades is significantly less time than other DVDs.
It is notable the article is 4 days old. Not clear why this repost is front page news now.
Thanks for the reply, and I know I'm replying ~a day late to your comment.

The near-term costs vs. the long-term payoffs of learning the math skills I was learning were pretty clear (immediate costs, opaque long-term benefits other than being better at math in a general sense). I didn't have anywhere to apply the math, so I decided to spend my time learning more from sources like "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs", which is zero-cost to me.

I don't drink any $6 drinks of any sort; I also can't go back to change how much I did or didn't pay for a university education that did or didn't involve learning math for my major.

Other commenters I read who shared price concerns also didn't mention their latte habits or cost of their advanced degrees, so I didn't find this comment very helpful for making that comparison in my specific case.
Who is this "she" human you are talking about?
That's because the market believes AMD will eventually get its head of its ass on GPUs and start to grow in that segment. Once it starts to grow there, that PE will go up even higher.
They’ve made a recent change to Claude Code that apparently makes it respect your gitignore

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/79
Nah you first!
It was also the US who betrayed Ukraine. These events are not mutually exclusive.

Refusing to continue aid for no reason other than the US realized they might be able to get more out of it, there is a reasonable argument is betrayal.
I have access to friends working directly on the hardware RnD at one of the main players. When I ask if how close we are to q-day the answer is always

well....ummm...............you see.........we are really happy with the progress we made so far and continue to make more progress.

something like that anyway. Not a single one ever says yeah real soon or defiantly by this date. The people that work there on other things basically laugh and say probably never but its an interesting job. To me Q-day is the same as every research stage tech, somewhere between tomorrow and never.

Disclaimer I never used the term q-day before but am adopting it for ease of commenting.
You usually mount mirrors vertically so dust does not settle on them that much (also it is safer to keep laser light propagating horizontally at only one height). Additionally, overhead ventilation is often installed which provides a vertical Laminar flow of dust-free air. If you have to clean the mirrors eventually, you'd use compressed (clean) air or special mirror cleaning wipes. Thorlabs (lab supply company) has a detailed guide on optics cleaning[1]

[1] https://www.thorlabs.com/newgrouppage9.cfm?objectgroup_id=90...
Best case: Star Trek

Worst case: Terminator

Do you really want more technologists to also be politicians?
that ball would bounce for a long time and roll for a while until stopping, and unfolding into tetrahedral hemisegments, each in its desired orientation.
DeepSeek V3 is easily the best cost / performance non-reasoning model on the market but accessing it via API is not straightforward -- at least for people who want their model hosted in the US. For the layperson OpenAI / Anthropic are much more accessible.

Some of OpenRouter's [0][1] providers seem bunk; their version is corrupted. Occasionally just get mangled outputs. Fireworks [2] is my best experience so far: their serverless API, haven't messed with custom deployments. Fast, performant, better than other models in its size category and less expensive.

[0] https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-chat:free

[1] https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-chat

[2] https://fireworks.ai/models/fireworks/deepseek-v3
>As for outright prevent spare parts - these aren't systems in, well, active use. Effects would be tiny over long term.

Experts disagree with you, at least over the "long term".

>Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet secretary, Robert Armstrong, told her that “in the inconceivable case of a future US government deciding to cut off supplies of components”, there would be “no sudden effect”, though over “two or three years” the deterrent’s effectiveness would “begin to fall off”. In 2006 Commodore Tim Hare, a former nuclear-policy chief at the Ministry of Defence, told the Commons Defence Committee: “If, over a very long period, we became deeply estranged from the Americans and they decide to rat on their agreements, we would be in…great difficulty.” But the risk was “very low”.

>Sir Lawrence reckons that were that to happen there would not be a “cliff-edge” loss of effectiveness, “but over time we would be scrambling to keep it going”. The biggest problems would be replacing the Kings Bay missile storage and running out of critical spare parts.

https://archive.is/Qz2lI
I prefer the trash to electricity route.

If you think about it, the oil just took a detour into being a water bottle or whatever for a little while on it's way to the power plant. I really can't imagine we'll be at 0 hydrocarbon electricity grid any decade soon and burning garbage (and instead of "recycling" plastic) seems to be a perfectly reasonable thing to do if you can do it cleanly in a power plant.
Lithium in dosages effective in treating a mood disorder is quite toxic (e.g., to the kidneys) so most of the price is probably to offset the risk of lawsuit awards.
As insane as all of this is, I still have a hard time believing that they're foreign assets. They are doing what Trump was elected to do. The voters aren't Russian assets.

Certainly the Russians have been doing their best to dis-inform the voters, but that doesn't need to come from the top. And they are largely doing it by parroting the standard Republican talking points for the last four decades. The Russians are, at most, exacerbating what they already wanted to believe.

If anything, that's worse. They're not assets. They're doing this because they're genuine believers.
> Nvidia is clearly way overvalued

Tell me you haven't looked at Nvidia's financials (especially the margins) without telling me. It basically prints money, now and in the foreseeable future, and all of its products are permanently sold out, even at the insane prices Nvidia is charging.
Two weak spots in Big Tech economics
The product is much more than the model.

Our hacker community is not a good proxy for the overall userbase.
Well, maybe 9/11 itself?
>how they even achieve this at the town recycling center

They don't. A huge proportion is never recycled at all.
In a similar vein, I made https://www.wikdict.com/reader/sv-en/ , which adds translation pop-ups to each word in the input text. The cool thing compared to manually looking up words is that it will translate idioms/phrases (if they are in the dictionary) and split compound words (if they are not in the dictionary) into their translatable parts.

I also have some code to add the translations as pop-up footnotes to epub files (I like to use that on my e-reader). That is not mature enough yet for public usage, but if anyone wants to help testing it, I can run some e-books through it. Just let me know!
"Compared to the United States military spending, they have spent trivial amounts on their own defenses"

Strictly said, the US does not spend that much on its defense either. Most of the expenses go into projecting power afar.

Strategic goals of, say, Poland, are different. They won't be fighting China over Taiwan, and so they don't need aircraft carriers or a chain of bases around the world.

They might invest in an atomic bomb of their own, though.

"Much of the world is now at the mercy of the United States"

In what sense? If the US starts another hot war in, say, the Middle East, I suspect that the outcomes won't be much better than they were in Iraq.

"they must bend the knee"

This only works if the giant has some consistent goals. The current US administration seems to flail around instead of pursuing some particular intelligible path.

Instead of bending knees, a dozen countries will start developing their own nukes. Non-proliferation might not be dead, but it is certainly critically ill.
Trump administration cancels $400M in grants for Columbia University
These things add extra complexity throughout the ecosystem, not just for the end user. Most tools written on top of Git have to be aware of the staging area. Git's own developers, when adding new features to it, need to be aware of the staging area.

Jujutsu's authors have pointed out that a simpler model (here, and with first-class merge conflicts) helps them move much quicker. There are many weird and exceptional states with Git that just don't occur, so new features are more straightforward to add.
> now have to juggle two pairs of glasses instead of one

This can be mitigated with custom magnetic clip lenses, e.g. Chemistrie. Tiny magnets are implanted into your current frame. Clip lens changes the focal length of your existing glasses by a fixed offset. Computer or reading clip can be changed in seconds. They also have polarized clips for instant sunglasses on your existing frame, which are better than Transitions/photochromic because they work while driving and are instant on/off.
You should check out Height-Oriented Tries as well. Their benchmarks shows that it outperforms both ART and masstree.

EDIT: Oops, yes, I meant Height-Optimized Trie! Sorry about that.
This is so close to validating my expectations that I'm almost skeptical of its veracity. I'm a regular Quest player, but I couldn't tell you how to launch Horizons if you held a gun to my head.

The leaders of corporate initiatives like this often tell themselves that they are building an ecosystem. They also seem convinced that an ecosystem will manifest from a highly curated, centrally developed silo that they have total control over. I guess it sort of worked for Facebook back in the day, but they were surfing on a lot of good will when it happened (and look at it now).

Things that are much closer to a metaverse than Horizons will ever be:

- Minecraft (Bedrock)

- VRChat

- Any popular multiplayer game that includes a free level editor

- The open web
Maybe they just think theirs is an objectively better article, even though their topics differ. And that it also has photos.
Ubuntu Foundations 25.04 – Plucky Puffin progress
Raising money like it is the year 1999.
My understanding of the article is that it was about shutting down the program that keeps the nuclear navy afloat, not about a backdoor with a switch to turn off the arsenal
Does the post confirm anything about software besides "believe"?

It seems ADB is just sending more hardware. As far as I know the drivers are still lacking.
When I was asked to work on this stuff (I didn't want to because I knew very little about it, but it was a "do you like eating hot food and sleeping inside" kind of moment) I got this book: https://amzn.eu/d/chnBwVy

I think it provides very useful abstractions for thinking about QC.
That's pretty reasonable, honestly. Thanks!
If that happened the stock value for every single US weapons manufacturer would drop like a stone.

I think SAAB is already reevaluating the choice of a US engine in the Gripen fighter jet, as the US is talking about blocking their sale to Columbia. The next version won't have a US engine.
Amazing to see one simpleton destroy the US defense export industry in a couple of weeks.
Analyzing Soft Errors in Linux on Cots SoCs Under Proton Irradiation
Uncle Sam charges alleged Garantex admins after crypto-exchange web seizures
The desire to move to the states is proportional to how shitty is back home. People in Europe have little motivation other than making some money and moving back
Why do 96 or 128khz sampled audio files sound better than 48khz ones? I blind tested and could always tell the difference between them, but not between 128 and 192
So to mostly prevent this.

Disable direct IP access.
Use wildcard certificates.
Don't use guessable subdomains like www or mail.
Given you’re clearly a much better reader, can you explain how Apple’s, apparently, anti-competitive app ecosystem (from your links) is remotely similar to your assertion that merely being a more popular device with consumers is monopolistic? I mean, you did read those links right? You didn’t just google “apple monopoly” and then paste the results?
Apple Confirms Delay of AI-Infused, Personalized Siri Assistant
It could be two landers, one stacked on top of the other for takeoff, but separate for landing

EDIT: or a horizontal lander, packed on it's side for takeoff.

I'm sure it's more complicated than that, but landing something this tall seems quite complicated too in the first place.
have you talked with an opthalmologist?

what's your eye pressure?
> I'm sure senior leaders at NASA are reconsidering giving any new contracts to IM.

at NASA, and DOGE, when they catch wind of it

bagholders on reddit trying to understand the 50% drop have not been open to anything rational that explains the 50% drop

so far I've gotten "You are blinded by dumb hate." for pointing out that $LUNR's unintuitive machines getting contracts from Nasa are their only business plan, as if this is a partisan thing
Yes, agreed. Lots of drug using gay vegan anarchists don't assault landlords or kill people.

But drugs seem to be a way that people are destabilized outside of norms.
I don't get how this isn't obvious. If you can't defend your territory without relying on another country, you are not truly sovereign. The larger union might be sovereign, but you aren't, and your protection is only as strong as the larger union.
NVDA is valued more appropriately than AMD. NVDA’s valuation based on forward earnings is high, but there are many more extreme examples including AMD.
Sorry, didn’t mean to come off as unappreciative. Will definitely keep your advice in mind, I just get a little exasperated with trend-chasing typically getting prioritized over shoring up inadequacies in the UI framework space (even outside of the Microsoft sphere).
America's Push into F1 Continues with Entry of Cadillac Team
> creat[e] a graph where each permutation is a vertex and every permutation is connected by an edge. Each edge has a weight associated with it; the weight is calculated by seeing how many characters can be added to the end of one permutation (dropping the same number of characters from the start) to result in the other permutation. [...] Any Hamiltonian path through the created graph is a superpermutation, and the problem of finding the path with the smallest weight becomes a form of the traveling salesman problem.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superpermutation
You can get a very accurate timestamp from GNSS. What lots of people do then is slave a PLL based on a local oscillator, to be able to get time between two GNSS captations. Or to be able to extrapolate when they have no GNSS signal.

Now suppose someone is spoofing your GNSS signals, it's pretty hard to replace a constellation with another one whilst maintaining time consistency for you. One way to detect spoofing is comparing what a local clock is saying to whatever the GNSS is giving. A local, unfudgeable, stable, accurate clock is a good reference for this.
> Athena, a probe launched by [...] Intuitive Machines (IM) last month, touched down about 250 miles from its intended landing site near the moon’s south pole on Thursday. Initially at least, it was generating some power and sending information to Earth as engineers worked to make sense of data showing an “incorrect attitude”.

> On Friday, however, IM declared Athena dead.

250 miles off-course, and their second flop in a row. I'd certainly cross them off the Approved Vendor list.

About that "gotta be tall & tippy to fit inside the Falcon's payload fairing" idea. No, it does not. The payload fairing was jettisoned ~1/4M miles before Athena got to the moon. So plenty of time for the lander to deploy some folded-up "spider legs" landing gear, making "land and fall over" virtually impossible.
kids stuff :)

bcachefs uses shared/intent/exclusive locks on nodes, so we only have to take write locks during transaction commit when we're doing the final update, and percpu read locks for interior nodes (and others).

this means that there's basically zero lock contention on interior nodes, or even cacheline bouncing. lock contention only comes up when you've got different keys in the same leaf nodes.
Not to mention reversible computing's "gofrom" and "cometo".
https://archive.ph/qWpca
It's fundamentally not Mill's approach. As a utilitarian, Mill got to dodge questions like "what is human flourishing?" Nussbaum, I believe, refers to her interpretation of virtue ethics to answer that question and give CA ultimate grounding.

I'd be wary of quoting that article like it's some authority. At a glance, it reads as skeptical of Mill. The harm principle is the basis of his thinking and he was very concerned about paternalism. I think it's quite likely he would view CA as an overreach.
The brain and visual perception system are incredibly adaptable, even to incorrect prescriptions. Some unwanted adaptions can be reversed by slowly changing any problematic parameters, like (un)training wheels. This would have been inordinately expensive before the era of self-service online glasses.
Assuming this works over SSH, then presumably people who are literate with a terminal but prefer GUIs.
It’s not that the idea is brand new, just that it’s now implemented in chrome and in the web specs.
It's been some years since I coded any front-end HTML. Sure looks like it's gotten messy.
Looks like the blog migration is incomplete -- links still point to the former

https://andysblog.uk/why-blog-if-nobody-reads-it/

https://andysblog.uk/why-your-blog-post-didnt-go-viral/

Which now 404s, with message from Vercel, "Deployment not found", sfo trace ids.

Congratulations on migrating to a new domain -- hope Vercel serves you well. A little disappointing about the lack of easy redirecting so far.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250219111210/https://andysblog...

https://web.archive.org/web/20250214201735/https://andysblog...

Bearblog.dev no less.
Summary: biology uses chemical signalling. Signals can be used for multiple purposes by different critters.
The people behind these "save the children" age verification bills are funded by verification companies looking for contracts. Russell Vought, Mr.Project 2025 himself, is also a massive proponent of using porn as an excuse for more surveillance.
It's an order of magnitude less due to a manufacturing error in one factory.