skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Let's face it, people over here just don't like Meta and love to spread FUD about them.

It's called punching upwards.

>Since any binary can always be deobfuscated, deliberately putting in a backdoor in the client would be an extremely risky PR move, especially in an app as big as WhatsApp, and one surely receiving lots of attention from security researchers

Correct me if I'm wrong, but can't a proprietary delivery mechanism such as the App or Play stores deliver a backdoored build to an individual device, then later autoupdate it to a clean one?
I like putting my "aliases" into the functions directory of my config.

I have one that uses podman if it's available when I type `docker`. If I ever specifically need Docker I can use the fully-qualified path. I have a similar trick for `nvim`/`vim`.
I know, what is it about shrill people insisting on looking up lately? Dial down on the fear factor, baby! It's like they say on Russian TV: what do you decide, anyway? The higher-ups aren't fools, they know what they're doing.
An undersea cable between Newfoundland and Nova Scotia has also been cleanly cut. Twice.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/bell-subsea-fibre...
New Study Casts Doubt on Accuracy and of the Modern and Paleo CO2 Record
Right it just allows unelected officials answerable to no one pull all the strings indefinitely then puts you into a labor camp if you practice religion.
This. My feed reader pulls a "reader" view so I don't have to leave the app. I normally wouldn't mind going to the website, except that to do so would mean waiting for it to fully load, dealing with javascript popups, and often bad scrolljacking.

This person isn't thinking as a user.
haha, true. Just got blocked because I opened the link once and clicked on refresh.
7.2 km h^-1 if you want to be fully SI correct
There are plenty of free non-adtech alternatives: Proton, Tuta, probably others. Even more options if you're willing to pay a few monetary units/month for it. You don't really need to run your own email server.
You mean countries like Romania, who had their election forcibly cancelled because the EU is scared of Russian social media posts, and Germany, who thinks that a man giving a speech and promoting a certain party is election interference?
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Billionaires influence the government, not the other way around, especially in the US which is heavily controlled by lobbyists...
> What stops the countries you are trying to drain from offering better incentives to stay?

Nothing! And that is sort of the point. If the US can provide freedom, rule of law, education, good salary, etc... and the other countries do the same to keep the best at home that's a win for everyone.
This is a feature in zsh (I don't think it works in bash and the autocomplete in bash is also a bit inferior to the zsh one)
Good thinking, which doesn't make the size of the Baltic Sea comparable to the size of a city, nor the costs of a fleet of cars with a single driver comparable to the costs of a fleet of ships with full crews.

It's tempting to say "if it's such a problem why don't they just monitor better?", but the ocean is vast.
This a somewhat uninteresting matter of semantics, but I think brute force generally refers to exhaustive search. MCTS is not brute force for that very reason (the vast majority of branches are never searched at all).
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The problem, of course, is that the way humanity is set up, only billionaires can do some important things.

Regardless of your feelings about Elon, what would the strategic implications for the US vs Russia and China be minus SpaceX?

SpaceX can exist solely because of the way our system is set up to reward founders with large amounts of capital. The same goes for large portions of our economy- the same parts that have kept the US financially afloat vs the rest of the world and provide massive funding to states like California to support their progressive policies.

Imagine California without Silicon Valley and you imagine it without billionaires.
Flaws in Ice Core Reconstructions of Atmospheric CO2 [pdf]
I'm really not. The government consists of many people with a range of ideologies and ethics. Are there problems? Of course. But, the government has checks and balances, well, HAD checks and balances, separation of powers, and a Constitution that limited those powers. I'm more afraid of the corruption of the SCOTUS with dark money and a religio-fascist movement of persuasion and influence toward members of the SCOTUS, Congress, Judiciary and the Executive. It is a handful of billionaires who are driving this race toward authoritarianism.
Less portable and don't give the subprocess isolation that a proper script has. That's sometimes an advantage (can modify shell state — I think that's the primary one), sometimes a disadvantage (influenced by shell state [e.g. set -e], "exit" exits the entire shell, hard to do cleanup / use signal handlers, can accidentally change shell state [like cwd].)

But I'd use a shell function over an alias if a script isn't an option.
Medicare fraud is conservatively in the $16 billion+ per year range[1] and a lot of it is easily detectable with data the government already has.

Two things about this type of fraud though:

1. Detection would require making USG a better place to work for technically savvy people, with things like "budgets" and "not getting publicly humiliated by the world's richest man"

2. It's committed by men in suits, so enforcement would require going after the types of people that in reality, Trump & co prefer to pardon... for committing exactly this type of fraud [2]...

So, cutting life-saving aid, cancer research, and healthcare benefits it is!

[1]: https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/how-health-insurers-ra...

[2]: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/health-care-f...
Problematic Paper Screener: Trawling for Fraud in the Scientific Literature
Oh that's right, they would upload a hash basically then flag it using whatever criteria they wanted on the server side. I think some of the outrage too was the question of what happens when they detect something, it was the issue of it reporting content outside of your control at all, which again, this Google thing doesnt seem to do.
After North Stream sabotage, any similar action in international waters is a fair game.

If you didn't bother to properly investigate NS, why bother with some random cable?
There are democracies like that. But you need system with more parties and cap on campaign spending.
The issue is that none of that drives engagement.
We don’t partner with any EHRs but we do integrate with all of the major ones (and a few of the not major ones).

We have never encountered MS DEX so I’d say completely different space.
Both US and Germany are rapidly criminalizing vocal support for Palestine and criticism of Israel. Canada is, too - they've escalated a protest crime (painting a message against IDF recruitment on private property... the owner of a large bookstore chain here pays Canadians to go join the IDF) into a hate crime by calling it antisemitic so they can prosecute it more harshly.
FB search for Cyclone Alfred blocked for content breaching 'community standards'
Have to find a way to measure long term quality of life. Digging in the ground should be part of it. If you can forge quality long term mutually beneficial relationships with others who agree to do the digging for you it might score more points than digging yourself.
1) I agree that it’d be a good idea to increase the federal workforce so we don’t rely on contractors so much.

2) Presumably not all of that was waste? Like screw consulting firms but presumably at least more-than-$0 of that is non-waste, and probably a fair amount of it.

3) Other sources make it clear some amount of the $65 billion is spread over multiple years (unclear exactly how it breaks down)

4) That’s the spending with the top-10 consulting firms across a large set of agencies? I’d have guessed it was higher.
Awesome, that's handled by a different recruiter, but they'll follow up with feedback/potential next steps if they see a potential fit!
Supporting additional features generally introduces complexity. This is why people drift towards using larger platforms (e.g. Electron) to build their applications as it reduces the complexity of introducing new features. As it stands today, Zed is unusable for my use-case due to a lack of support for features I need.
>Or you can pay attention to it, in which case it will ignore you.

That doesn't make any sense. The small minority of people who are involved in politics affect politicians completely disproportionately to their number, and this is completely unrelated to whether they actually know what they're talking about or have reasonable concerns.
If you thought Google Search could be bad these days, pity the people who have habitualised themselves to trying to get urgent information out of Facebook.
Assuming this refers neither to a missile program that existed in the 70s, nor a plan to build giant robots to combat superheroes, so got any details?
In other words, you're in the 50% of the population who don't get unsolicited d*ck photos sent to them. But do consider that the other 50% may have significantly different preferences on this matter, and that those preferences may drive tech company product decisions.
I agree with your observation about the exact noise-free nature of the problem. It allows them to formulate the problem as "minimize complexity such that you memorize the X-y relationship exactly". This would need to be generalized to the noisy case: instead of demanding exact memorization, you'd need to prescribe an error budget. But then this error budget seems like an effective complexity metaparameter, doesn't it, and we're back to square zero of cross-validation.
That's definitely true. I also suspect that holding too much potential context can be counterproductive, because then you have too many options to choose from. This happens a lot with jokes: there are a lot of unique backstories offered by different pop culture references, and pop culture is quickly diversifying to an overwhelming size. There is a lot of entropy in human expression.

The good news is that context can sometimes merge stories together. When we do explicitly find shared context, we tend to leverage that knowledge.

My idea is about offloading as much of this process as possible to a computer. We would still need to choose backstories, but the rest could be done in plain view, leveraging the incredible speed and memory size computers have.
AGI is a term that's been around for decades.
Indexing/addressing is not counting though. Look at a ruler. It doesn't start at 1.
<< We’re better off with more power in the hands of the bureaucracy and less in the hands of populist politicians.

How is it dishonest? Parent says "beauracracy" is better, but this is not what the system is set up for and not how it is designed. The reason for current preference for "beauracracy" as 'better' is partisan at best, hence my reading is not only not dishonest, but disturbingly accurate. And this is all before we get to the part of how we got here and the more interesting part of previous federal workforce purges ( and the resulting rise of "beauracracy" ).

Give me some credit man.
Another advantage of using alias: `which [alias]` actually tells you what that alias is mapped to, and not just the location of a script in your bin folder.
> where, for example, would all those professional drivers I mentioned earlier go?

Wherever all the cashiers, toll booth operators, and farmers went after automation took their jobs.

New jobs are created, the people displaced have to migrate to them.

Is it fun for them? No.

Is it how the world works? Yes.

Technology thus far has a VERY VERY long and established role of creating more jobs than it eliminates.

See >95% of the population being employed in agriculture for tens of thousands of years and being reduced to about 5% over the course of 100 years (and civilization being FAR FAR better off for it).

Will that trend one day end? Probably.

Will it be doomsday for the plebs? Who knows.

Is it happening within a timeframe worth worrying about? Unlikely.
Oh damnit. I actually like current Digg. Doesn't nearly have the reach it used to, but its definitely in my "scan once a day list" for a couple interesting articles.

> Digg founder Kevin Rose has teamed up with former rival Alexis Ohanian to buy the once-popular content aggregator as they bet on an artificial intelligence-powered revival of the platform that once drew around 40 million monthly visitors.

Sounds way worse.

Edit: And, "Current Digg" is apparently down now.
I gave up playing them when it is about hundreds of GB, without much added value in gameplay.

I have more fun in classical gaming, even if it is not ray tracing quality.
There’s even a roadmap to achieve this. Vance follows Curtis Yarvin and has mentioned him in speeches.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31104366
Maybe someday it can be part of a Galactic Positioning System.
The perfect plan: We're going to create rampant patronage to destroy the patronage system that we have not been able to produce any evidence of!
> Oh that's right, they would upload a hash basically then flag it using whatever criteria they wanted on the server side.

No, that’s not right either. You should really read their white paper, it’s very interesting and not at all what people assumed it was like.
Read up on your history, X* failed miserably, it was so bad he was basically ousted from his own company. Later success came in spite of him. Same story for his previous and first venture, Zip2.

He did not found Tesla, and arguably the company took a downturn since his takeover. Cars became unreliable and ugly (cybertruck...), and now that people are starting to associate the brand with Musk's terrible public image, sales are going down fast. The only positive was this irrationally inflated stock due to his cult following in the investor class.

SpaceX is cool but received a lot of money from tax payers in the form of government contracts. And let's not mention The Boring Company, Hyperloop, Neuralink...

That's the odd things with odds, with this many people on Earth, one of them was bound to get to the very top. And you don't get to the very top by working 100000x more, you get there by starting a millionaire and taking insane risks, then getting insanely lucky many times.

* The first one, not Twitter. Although there's a story here too.
'Some damage'. End our sheltered and prosperous way of life on this continent.
Pretty much agree with most. I am wondering about paths and locations; there's now ~/.local/bin which is where e.g. a user-wide "pip install" would put things [when used without a venv]… ~/bin is not such a "standardized" location. I kinda started using both and am a bit torn now…
> he can scarce call any Thing else his own

Ironic coming from a future slave owner. He did become an abolitionist, after travelling to France and England and being exposed to some, for Americans, pretty radical ideas.
80% of the world's supply comes from Sudan...that is certainly a surprise. I'd love to see a table of some of the world's most essential goods that have 80% or more reliance on a single market.
I used to have a bunch of over-complicated aliases, but due to their limitations, I now use a mix of aliases and functions, with a few scripts in ~/bin. It’s all a matter of using the right tool. I use aliases for simple things, like default options on some commands. Things that need to happen in the current shell, but are too complex for an alias, are functions. That leaves extra-complex things that I don’t want to write a shell function for as programs in ~/bin, which can be shell, or python, or whatever.
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I think that's because I manually provided the Country key and it eventually complied
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What about the Glove80?
Icbm were done without SpaceX
GPS was done without SpaceX
I miss 2021-22 reddit. Seemed we finally went back to normal.
> One could argue that had they been dead they wouldn't even feel regrets.

Good argument. It applies to murder and mass genocide as well. All those people killed during the holocaust? They are dead so they don’t feel anything anymore. I don’t see what the problem is.

> Although the suicidal tendencies could end is there a single psy disorder that people can really recover from? I understand people get treated but it is mostly about alleviating the symptoms and consequences more than healing, which often is realized through the use of some powerful meds that really make that person disappear and be more a shadow of themselves. I never heard about someone being cured from bipolar disorder or schizophrenia for example.

Plenty of stories of people getting treated and plenty of stories of people who lost their desire to suicide.

Say your 18 year old son wanted to kill himself because he got dumped by his first girl friend? “Son I respect your right to kill yourself, here’s a rope or if you prefer a gun or sleeping pills. Would you like some privacy or do you want me to be here by your side as you go through the process?”
I know it’s in the first sentence, I read the article, that’s how I know what the ingredient is. The point of my comment was to reduce the click-bait so people are better informed regarding if they want to read more or not, and provide an easy reference for more information.
The NitroVolt concept looks interesting it uses less energy than Haber-Bosch process but it's only for nitrogen not phosphorus.

If you grow anything or even lawn care you know anything with phosphorus is very expensive usually double the cost of just nitrogen.

https://www.nitrovolt.com/
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Surely this is possible way to alias commands, but keep in mind that PATH extensions are made available not only in shell, but to all programs started from it, well, because it is environ. Whereas aliases are available only for use inside shell, but they're not executable by programs started from it. They are not the same.
RL may prove to be the most important tech going fwd due to test time compute
It was Austria, and I think it's pretty telling that when free speech limitations come up in these kind of threads, it's always neo-Nazi stuff.
What always surprises me is how "sleep" is the ingredient I need here. Yes repetition helps. But space out the repetition with sleep and "woah! i get it!" is often uttered. Obviously there's so much written about sleep as some kind of RAM to SSD offloading step, but it never ceases to amaze me when it happens so well.
> Why do you feel we can't colonize Mars?

Depends on what you call "colonising". We may be able to send a few humans there, just for the sake of doing something super costly and completely useless. We as a species won't independently survive there.

We, as a species, are on the verge of collapsing on Earth, which has all the conditions needed for life. We literally are failing to survive on Earth. Why the hell would we put resources into sending a few people to mars?

> Perhaps not in this century but do you feel it'll never happen?

The way we are going now, long before next century we will be in a place where a large portion of Earth (around the equator) is unlivable. As in, without life support we won't be able to survive outside. It's cute to think about colonising other planets, but at some point we should have priorities.
Research conscripts, meat waves, and blocking troops. Happening in a prominent European conflict today!
idk about ios but I sure can print from android.

I don't know if I'd be surprised or not to find out that you actually can't print from ios. It seems crazy to me, especially considering ipads, but the entire Apple ecosystem seems crazy to me and yet it exists despite my incredulity.

I could even print from webos and palm but I guess that doesn't matter now. 50/50 toss up if the current webos on lg tvs still has any printer drivers. But if there was still any webos printer drivers, they will not be open source and so you can not trust them not to do unwanted things to your printer some day.
My site is a React front end hosted on Netlify, and the blog entries are markdown files I write in Obsidian.

I also use Listmonk for my newsletter and Umami for analytics, both open source and easy to run from Pikapods.

I wrote about my publishing process here:

https://sampatt.com/blog/2025-02-18-Listmonk
So how many drugs are the people who consume the crops now ingesting because of this I wonder ?
People like Krugman are one of the reasons USA is in a hot mess and wealth has concentrated into a select few.

Neoclassical economists have been selling themselves as “scientists” (think physicists) for decades and their theories are cited as reasons for economic policies in the USA.

One of these days I’ll write a post on it. But one of the areas they get wrong repeatedly is on the minimum wage.

Neoclassical economists would argue that increasing minimum wage ultimately hurts the people it’s trying to help. For example, by increasing minimum wage you would see a decrease in businesses and/or number of jobs available. In neoclassical theory and “Econ 101”, they would chalk it up to supply and demand.

However, this has been disproven in regions or states where the minimum wage has well exceeded the federal minimum wage. Take Seattle, WA for example where min wage is ~$20/hr. Local restaurant industry didn’t collapse. Region itself didn’t collapse. Sure jobs or businesses closed (Subway franchises, lol), but were eventually replaced by ones that could compete. Likely local businesses. And since all businesses pay the same wage to remain competitive, workers get more money in their pockets. This leads to increased spending by those same people.

There’s a ton of other factors as well but it’s well beyond commenting here.
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That was a major point in Bernie's response to the State of the Union last night.

> [Americans] want us to end a corrupt campaign finance system, which allows a handful of billionaires to buy elections. It is beyond crazy that someone like Elon Musk can contribute over $270 million to help get Trump elected and then gets to run the government.

> It is absurd that any Member of Congress who stands up to Netanyahu’s brutal war in Gaza can expect to be opposed by millions of dollars in campaign contributions from AIPAC.

> [Americans] want us to end the disastrous Citizens United Supreme Court decision and move to the public funding of elections. Democracy is supposed to be about one person, one vote – not billionaires buying the political candidates of their choice.

https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/prepared-remar...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQjKGKUKpQc
This is true of literally any software with auto updates.

You’re criticising them for something they did not do, did not intend to do, and designed a system that worked in an entirely different way… just because they could do it differently to what they actually proposed doing.

If they wanted to do it that other way, they could have just done it that other way in the first place and saved themselves a lot of effort.