skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Derek Lowe in The Science blog "In the Pipeline" says:

"No one has ever ripped into scientific funding like this. The Trump team has attacked it as if it were some evil imposed on us by an invading enemy, and the damage is so large and so widespread already that it’s hard to even explain."

Derek Lowe also quotes a pithy summary from Techdirt (https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/why-techdirt-is-now-a-de...) of the problem:

"When the very institutions that made American innovation possible are being systematically dismantled, it’s not a “political” story anymore. It’s a story about whether the environment that enabled all the other stories we cover will continue to exist. . .This isn’t about politics — it’s about the systematic dismantling of the very infrastructure that made American innovation possible.
Which you should absolutely do when the company storing your seed phrase gets hacked.
Cat predicts 50 deaths in RI nursing home (2010)
Was it worse though? Before they made it obvious. Now it's insidious. They still destroy lives, just the same.
I'd rather be broke and addicted to drugs than rich and addicted to drugs. At least if you're broke, there are natural limits to your consumption.
When it's "very high off", the base stops being "big wide".
Learning to control your actions doesnt necessitate controlling 'that' action, it gives you the option. Having the options beyond following your impulsive feelings is useful.
This is brilliant but for the very wrong reasons. Make it a rescue mission. All you have to do is to have one mission pick up the first mission.
If the project has so little impact that they won't bother maintaining it, that's not really job security.
This feels very hand wavey to me.

So she feels progressively ill and then dies, all without ever seeking medical attention? I suppose they assume it was acute / she collapsed, but it still seems unusual. She's only 65 remember.

But then Gene's just walking around the house for a week? With his dead wife in the bathroom and a barking dog in a crate??

I haven't dealt with Alzheimer's but you're telling me it's possible to be functional enough to eat and sleep for a week, but not know that your wife is dead and the barking dog needs food and water? And you don't ever seek help or outside assistance?

And then, coincidentally, you also die of a heart attack.

Just seems far fetched to me.

Edit: I guess at 95 he might have mobility issues, so maybe he couldn't call for help? Idk still seems odd.
> I've never understood this mentality. ... This is comitting a crime.

Some percentage of the population is criminals. Of various levels. Most are not the completely ruthless kind, but some are. They're all around us, and we need to factor that in to our decisions.
As someone who's been wearing glasses for all my life:

1. Your eyesight is not exactly "fixed". It can vary during the day depending on stress, tiredness, dryness, etc..

2. A prescription glass can help and does help but it doesn't magically fix your eye sight. If your eyes are strained from lengthy screen usage, the glasses are not going to do anything about that.

3. There is a possibility that your doctor prescribed you un-correct glasses. It took me a while to find my "correct" range.
Ariel listen to me: compile-time memory safety and robust type system? It's a mess. Programming in C is better than anything they got over there. The syntax might seem much sweeter where reference lifetimes play, but frills like the borrow checker will only get in the way.
I agree. It’s kind of like how we always try to explain brain function in terms of whatever tech is trending at the time. In the same way, we’re biased to think the biggest hype lab today is gonna be the next Bell Labs. But that doesn’t mean it’ll actually turn out that way.
Pretty stupid but at least naming things was done with grace.
"The Saturn V program cost was $41.3 billion in present day dollars and its cost per launch was $3.2 billion also in present day dollars."

Thus, the IM-1 was cheap.
Some of the greatest evils in this world were conducted legally. Some of the most moral actions were done by breaking the law.
> the types of nontechnical people in 1999 that were online were miles ahead of today's nontechnicals.

I don't know. There are kids making games in Roblox now, editing movies and doing all kinds of things, but Hacker News would still consider them "nontechnical" because they have social media accounts.
Those people would have been more tuned in, since it was the early days of the Web. But in terms of technical skills? Throwing up a very simple Geocities page was about as much effort as starting a blog on Blogger. Easier than fiddling around with Wordpress most of the time.

It was likely a lot easier for most people than having to figure out how to do something in DOS (which was also pretty common at the time).
It is not useless noise for something like `help(math.sin)`. The signature displayed by help is `sin(x, /)`, which tells you that `sin(x=1)` will fail. If the signature had just been `sin(x)` then `sin(x=1)` would work.
I kind of wonder if this is just caffeine and higher metabolism, weight loss.

Like caffeine might work. but meth might work too.
You should have seen DuPont in the 1970's.
He seems to be emulating McKinley, down to using tarriffs to pressure Canada into being the 51st state, and the Gold Standard Act.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Standard_Act
It’s a common rhetorical trick to refute one thing someone said and pretend it refutes everything they said. I honestly don’t know how to say it better than I did in my initial comment.

What if the author had just written "while keeping the cash-like characteristics" instead of "while keeping all of cash’s characteristics"? Does that meaningfully change the author’s point? I don’t think so and I would expect someone reading the article in good faith isn’t going to say, "But you said all!"

No, you’re not wrong.

No, your comment does not seem to be in bad faith.

The comment I initially responded to absolutely was.
Why does it need to exist even though that's not the case?

What's the advantage of stopping someone from naming the parameter when they pass it in?
Oh whoops you're right, Friday brain. The first conditional should have a `return` in it.
>“What this bill is focused on is someone who goes out in public, picks a fight — and when the victim responds — they shoot them and claim self-defense,” Zbur told CalMatters.

Is there any evidence this happens with any regularity there?
AI Aunty wastes scammmer's time with witty conversation
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Lovely idea.

Not working for me on a file like this: https://files.catbox.moe/gii0pu.pdf
It says that is larger than 10MB (it's 7MB), or failed on url.
I don’t think putting more money into the system makes the ideas better. We have way more money and people in science in the last decade than in 1960.
> Maybe Bell Labs was lucky to be the right place and right time for a lot of briliant people.

They also hired literally thousands upon thousands of researchers.
Not OP, but UX also matters a lot.

I’d strongly prefer an open source and selfhostable option, but each time I’ve evaluated Bitwarden in the past, it was a big enough downgrade from 1Password that I didn’t think switching was a good option.

If the experience ever becomes as seamless, I’ll be switching.
A very valid point, although my perspective is destruction of the market for US arms is another healthy prospect in the pursuit of peace. That sweetens the deal for much of the antiwar crowd.
It looks great, nice work. I’m impressed at the quick development too.
“Maybe you do not care much about the future of the Republican Party. You should. Conservatives will always be with us. If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.” —- David Frum
Maybe you should read what Trump said on how he will use the Act

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43290002
Their comment made me laugh, agreed, open source is really is that big of a perk. IMO especially for something security-related (though 0day is always possible)
Daisy! Discussion at the time (718 points, 3 months ago, 268 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42138115

.. is this just a rip of that idea?
That, and it's better in most functional and polish regards than LastPass. I haven't used 1Password, so I can't compare those two directly, but I'd strongly recommend BitWarden over LastPass as far as those two are considered.
Smalltalk, by far, is the best in this category.
My understanding is some of the key strength was to low. If 2FA increases the key strength, that should have an impact no?
That's being idiomatic to a language, not being semantically correct.

Result, Either, Expected, all have different names, but their semantics are all the same.

Panic and Recover may not be idiomatically used the same way Exceptions are used in other languages, but they share the exact same semantics of implicitly bailing out potentially multiple functions, going up the call stack until we Catch, or well Recover.
How to Write a 21st Century Proof – Leslie Lamport 2011 [pdf]
> Bitwarden truly doesn’t get enough credit for being completely open source

It’s their No. 1 selling point.

> In 50 years time, who knows if any of these companies will be around

1Password has local clients. If you have the password, you should be able to unlock the vault locally.
At a previous company we fired an analyst. This person had been combative from the day the company I worked for aquired the company he did. When asked to simply show us his reports the first day we met with him he refused saying he "wasn't prepared to show us the secret sauce yet, he wanted his job security". Unsurprisingly it wasn't long before he was fired.

As was standard practice IT was given a heads up with a time. His manager would call him into his office at X time and by the time he left that meeting he'd be locked out of his computer and all his accounts.

Well his manager decided there was no point waiting and he might as well just do it, so several hours before the appointed time, he did. The analyst asked if he could get some personal files off his laptop, the manager agreed, and the analyst proceeded to delete everything he had ever worked on, from SharePoint and every PowerBI report he could including emptying the recycle bin, with his (now ex) manager sitting across the table from him.

Needless to say I got a very excited call from our management. Only nice thing I will ever say about SharePoint, once I worked out it was a thing recovering everything from the second stage recycle bin was pretty easy. I then pulled audit logs showing him deleting everything and let management know I had them anytime they wanted to pursue legal action.

The day I left the company those audit logs were still on my desktop never having been requested.

Maybe not quite "getting away with it" in that I was able to undo the damage, but pretty brazen and to my knowledge never faced any consequences.
What was wrong with him attempting to wipe his laptop?
"What's this? Bigots are growing increasingly vocal and mask-off with their threats of violence against marginalized groups? Making it illegal for those marginalized groups to defend themselves ought to put a stop to that!" -- California legislators, apparently

I also predict that this will only be used against poor people defending themselves, and never against rich people defending themselves - just like with pretty much every other such law.
...and especially since this is a convention the author uses for all their articles. The AI images make the whole site look fake.
> What happened to EFF in the past few years? Seems like they're increasingly taking stances that are on the wrong side of public opinion.

What's happened to the public in the past few years? Seems like they're increasingly easily fooled into supporting dumb knee-jerk responses that will have obvious, extremely destructive (hopefully) unintended consequences.
If zstd give you an error and you don't handle it, the next calls may cause UB, so it kinda does both things.

https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/b16d193512d3ded82fd584...
What I’m saying is that this isn’t some huge engineering effort required in 90 days, the core functionality already exists but with artificial limitations. Complying with the law would just be removing the limits rather than having to build something.
> I am pretty sure 99% of people would halt at 'gpg'

Please do not mock gpg.

I have been using gpg for 25 years now (and PGP before that). It works. It encrypts. It decrypts.

It is in vogue to mock gpg on HN and recommend more modern solutions. As an experiment, I tried adding one of those modern tools (rage) to my ansible configurations, just so that they get regularly installed and maintained on my servers (without actually being used). The setup broke within less a year.

Are the modern tools more cryptographically secure? Undoubtedly. Does it matter in practice for me? Not at all.

Longevity is a big deal and is under-appreciated.
I'm not judging either but what's the opposite of too rigid?
More grift. No surprise here.
I have similar gripes, but I still feel like on balance, randomizing passwords across accounts is more important. Selfhost vaultwarden ftw (or not — don’t f*ck it up)
Definitely! We wouldn't learn and become successful technicians if it wasn't for all the failures.
> they had the best uniforms

And the fascists have the outfits

But I don't care for the outfits

What I care about is music

And the communists have the music

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7A2-ACZhg_g
Correction: (too late to edit): cylinder with a diameter of "180.020 [ 4572.5011 ]"
> it leads to exploits or errors

You are blaming implementation failures on the language design. That's kind of my whole gripe. Instead of wasting cycles on inventing new languages, I wish we'd pool resources into fixing libyaml.

> most stuff I've seen in the wild doesn't use the exotic features anyway

Mostly due to lack of awareness. Ruby, Python, JavaScript Rust, Java, etc. all allow mostly arbitrary objects for keys. It's only confusing if you conflate dictionaries/maps for objects.

In the scientific computing community, it's not unheard of to see lists as keys in YAML documents, which is really convenient if that serializes to exactly the data model you're working.
> written throwaway code to make a deadline

A deadline is a business decision. An engineer makes a tradeoff (incurring tech debt) in order to meet the business goal. How is this remotely an ethics issue?
Has anyone used the app http://www.glassesoff.com/ ?

I'd be interested and negative and positive experiences!
If the patient is having a hemorrhagic stroke, fibrinolytics could cause catastrophic bleeding. As soon as you’ve excluded hemorrhagic stroke (and other hard contraindications), you give fibrinolytics ASAP if you suspect an ischemic stroke.
Can anyone save the internet? Neal Agarwal (neal.fun) is trying
Yeah, agreed. It is dripping heavily with nerd.
For quick lookups, I usually use pydoc[1], which displays roughly the same help string but without having to go into the repl. I think there are several *doc functions like this. Off the top of my head I can think of texdoc (which usually just opens the pdf of the package documentation) and perldoc.

pydoc -b is also very useful as a standard lib reference when you're not connected to the internet and you can live with the quite interesting default color scheme.

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/pydoc.html
Seems overly risky. Probably better to put money in domestic/international bonds/stocks. Crypto is fun but I still haven't seen a practical use case (not to say there isn't one, I just haven't seen it yet).
> The Voyagers are powered by heat from decaying plutonium, which is converted into electricity. Each year, the aging spacecraft lose about 4 watts of power.

From the article. This is not really correct. The plutonium doesn't decay that fast. Its half life is about 87 years. So it's still way above half. I Unfortunately the thermoelectric converters that are losing efficiency too. Otherwise there'd still be enough power for a long time. Still pretty awesome they lasted so long of course.
because they don’t use neovim
Unfortunately, there are plenty of DEX's that will launder your bitcoin of questionable providence into completely untraceable Monero.
The article mentions that "it’s internet safety law season again", where there is a long history of bad bipartisan internet censorship bills [1], such as SOPA/PIPA, FOSTA/SESTA.

The difference is that those were 'just' bad laws in a somewhat functioning legislature, while these laws indeed look like fascistic implements.
Just a nit, but it's not "for SXSW" (i.e., temporary). Access via the Uber app is now the mechanism by which we're offering rides in Austin (and next, Atlanta).

https://waymo.com/blog/2024/09/waymo-and-uber-expand-partner...
Don't forget we also included an engraved disk with our galaxy postal address so that isn't even necessary.
> Selfhost vaultwarden ftw (or not — don’t f*ck it up)

Right. Randomizing passwords doesn’t require centralization.
Cool project. What license is this released under? Not seeing it documented.
I agree that especially with modern LLMs, I would avoid following patterns like this.

Dedicated 2FA on a hardware device seems pretty resilient, I hope more banks incorporate it instead of SMS 2FA. Hosting vaultwarden also seems pretty good because it’s unlikely for you to be targeted, but requires selfhost maintenance.
Tell that to the Japanese.
You don’t want to be the opposite either. Too loose means too forgiving nothing is wrong.
Sounds a bit like flat combining?

https://people.csail.mit.edu/shanir/publications/Flat%20Comb...
It’s not mockery though? It’s certainly true 99% of even the technically literate don’t use GnuPG (many because, like me, they cannot stand the GnuPG user experience).

Filippo nailed it with this piece: https://words.filippo.io/giving-up-on-long-term-pgp/
Depends on their relative speed and angle.
I think you misunderstand. The purpose of a business is for the founders to get rich. They already have by pumping AGI, etc. It's been a stunning success.

Investors OTOH...
im on mobile and don’t have a pdf to test it with, but I love your styling and text copy.
Not their point tho. Me too, gpg, no problem. Heck I had the "'smuggled' out of the country as a book" pgp back when.

My kids? I really am not so sure at all. Still too early to tell for sure but so far I don't think any will be as technically savvy as I am. I really doubt they'd know what GPG (or PGP) are and how to use it.
Going out and starting fights is already a self-defense disqualificaiton in Californa.

To quote the current official California jury instructions and legal commentary:

"No Defense for Initial Aggressor: An aggressor whose victim fights back in self-defense may not invoke the doctrine of self-defense..."
keyless Signal protocol, as I said.
> Whatever your employer did, it's not worth you committing a crime and/or having to defend a lawsuit. It's just not. You will suffer way worse than the momentary schadenfreude you get from watching the company suffer.

While I agree in principle that it's generally not worth getting caught for sabotaging a company you've left, I wouldn't categorically state that it's never worth it. I suspect you're unaware of some of the deeply shady stuff some corporations have done.

For example, IBM leased Nazi Germany census machines which were instrumental in the identification of Jewish residents during the holocaust, continuing to provide upkeep and service for years. It's been remarked that the concentration camps could never have reached the numbers they did without the aid of IBM's machines. To make things worse: the machines required the use of specialized punch cards which at the time were only provided by IBM, meaning IBM could have cut things off at any time.

That's probably one of the most egregious examples, but it's not the only one. Off the top of my head, Coca-cola was alleged to have worked with paramilitary forces to murder union workers in Columbia. Chiquita banana was also revealed to have funded paramilitary groups within Colombia.

Playing devil's advocate: there are almost certainly some cases where a person could be forgiven (or even lionized) for sabotaging their employer on the way out.
> I don't think that's true. If it is, then I guess it's a sign that the big players don't think this is an important issue. And they are the ones writing the most inline assembly, so they ought to know what is and isn't actually worth it.

I'm not even going to attempt to go into the utter dysfunction that is the C++ standards committee, but I'll just say this: whatever I could say to convince you that it sucks, it's significantly worse than that. Trust me, the C++ standards committee refusing to address something is not a sign that there is not a problem. The reason why inline assembly will never be standardized is because that's a relatively small problem, whereas the C++ world today is full of gaping holes that the standard is utterly failing at filling. From concepts to modules, it's a shit show. The "big players" are slowly leaving. Google and Microsoft may have some of the biggest C++ codebases on Earth, and they are currently busy investing elsewhere, with Rust, Go, Carbon, and more.
“1Password anywhere” (single html file password manager) stopped working a while ago. May be 6 years back. Sure you can install a new client and use a stored folder - but compatibility lasting to your grandchildren’s time / 50 year etc - highly unlikely
You're absolutely right—it’s dystopian overreach, but it's happening in slow motion. The real concern isn’t just "black markets will always exist"—it’s that the window for lawful, private transactions is closing faster than most people realize.

Governments aren’t just tracking major criminal activity; they’re normalizing total financial surveillance under the guise of “anti-money laundering” and “counter-terrorism.” But let’s be real—this isn’t about crime. It’s about control.

- Europe’s AML rules are already targeting self-hosted wallets.
- Canada blacklisted Bitcoin donations for protests, freezing accounts without due process.
- The U.S. Treasury treats every crypto transaction as a taxable event, requiring constant disclosure.

The endgame? A financial panopticon where every transaction is linked, traced, and scored—making cash obsolete and forcing people into fully permissioned, state-approved transactions.

Yes, grey/black markets will always exist, but the bigger question is: Will there be any legal, mainstream way to transact privately? Right now, privacy is being framed as a “red flag,” and once that stigma is fully ingrained, opting out won’t just be difficult—it’ll be criminalized.

The time to push back isn’t when financial privacy is illegal. It’s now.
> so I don't think that would be impossible.

Ok, what bucket(s) does reddit fall into?

> Such things don't need to be perfect, either - just good enough.

I think we disagree about how "good" this effort will be given that it's a supremely subjective task. Your porn is my sexual education and wellness material...

And if it's going to be down to individual parents to make the most appropriate choice for their kids, this whole thing is just regular parenting but with extra steps.
99% sure his point was exactly what you said. "Should be done" vs "should be enforced" by the person you demand stay out of your life.