skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's why the house exists? Senate is equal representation for states. House is equal representation for people.

Also the presidential population is decided by delegates based on population.

What am I missing here? I feel like that's basic information.
> ASLR is not security through obscurity.

I used to think this, but hearing about the AnC attack changed my mind. I have never heard of anyone claiming to mitigate it.
I agree. It's about time that the EU actually tried to work on their own thing and stopped being so rely on technologies controlled by other countries. This way we might actually get some competitive offering and stop funneling so much money to other powers for something that has become a basic necessity.

It won't be easy but considering what Huawei was able to accomplish in 5 short years, it definitely isn't impossible, we just need political will and a minimum amount of funding behind it.

I enjoy the US technologies but there is no reason we can't do as well (if not better with the benefits of hindsight) and we definitely should work on that.

I was one of the French minitel critics, but it now seems like they were just wrong on the technical part, not the political side. Even if something might be inferior at some point, it seems like it's worth taking a hit to be able to control your own future.
I found being on a keto diet reduced inflammation and very healthily decreased my appetite, so I lost weight. I also avoided eating fatty foods like bacon. The problem was that after two months it made me thirsty as hell at night and I had to drink lots of water, then I would have to wake up to pee and be thirsty again, so I'd drink more and the cycle repeated. So it was unsustainable for me because of this insomnia. Otherwise, it felt very healthy to me and my cholesterol and triglycerides went to healthy levels.
Most of your examples are just people sharing things about their lives. If you don't know them or care about those things, isn't that on you to remove them from your Facebook, or just... ignore them? Where's the crazy clown circus exactly?
And if it turns out that’s the case, I’ll file suit and establish a class action on my own dime. That’s how the gears turn and recourse made available. Actions have consequences.
There is so much hype around agents but I am still thoroughly unimpressed.

They’re fine at basic tasks, but nothing more.
NASA cuts Office of Chief Scientist, diversity roles
Yeah, call me a cynic or conservative or whatever - I'll believe it when I see it. I give very little weight to predictions about the future from AI shills, especially when they include some variant of "we're 90% there already" or "an exponential shift is imminent, if things keep improving at this rate, which they Will." Opinion discarded, create your thing and come back if/when it works.

Everything is shifting so fast right now that it hardly matters anyways. Whatever I spend time learning will be outdated in a few years (when things are predicted to get good). It does matter if you're trying to sell AI products, though. Then you gotta convince people they're missing out, their livelihood is at stake if they don't use your new thing now now now.
Thanks for writing this out, it's helpful for me as a layman.

Isn't part of the prohibition on trades among officers and directors also because of the inside knowledge they have? Public companies generally report quarterly but the insiders presumably have up to the minute information on sales etc.

And while we wait on the quarterly data, consistent insider selling is indicative of ... something.
The article was about where the first americans came from.

What does a navajo creation myth have to do with that?
I'm pretty sure Facebook/Meta isn't earning any profits from this. They are mostly doing it to "commoditize their complement" and probably prevent the rise of another company to the Big Tech status.
I did the same with Reddit and got the same result. I cannot recommend it enough!
> People in Russia did the opposite of that. People in Russia were conditioned by decades of violent dictatorship and were either afraid to make a noise or actively wanted the strongman fascist rule. And the guy in power is actual ex KGB. There's a difference

I'm sorry if I'm blunt or rude but you have zero idea what you're talking about, and judging by this answer you're unlikely to even attempt to find out. It saddens me that people who have actual chance to avoid neo-feudalism learn nothing from the experience of my own country (Russia), because hey that's Eastasia and we've always been at war with Eastasia so it can be discarded, "we" are not like that, surely "we" are not "them" and can do better, it can never happen here. Well, good luck! You'll need it.
The hackers insinuate that the school is discriminating against white and asian applicants, in favor of black applicants.
The accursed Cox Media Group has since released the following statement on their website: https://www.cmg.com/news/cmg-responds-reports-about-disconti...

CMG Responds to Reports About Discontinued Active Listening Product

As we stated before, CMG businesses have never listened to any conversations nor had access to anything beyond third-party aggregated, anonymized, and fully encrypted data sets that can be used for ad placement. The information referenced in recent stories is based on outdated materials for a product that CMG Local Solutions no longer sells (although the product never listened to customers, it has long been discontinued to avoid misperception). CMG Local Solutions markets a wide range of advertising tools. Like other advertising companies, some of those tools include third-party vendor products powered by data sets sourced from users by digital publishers and other applications and then packaged and resold to data servicers. Advertising data based on voice and other data is collected by these platforms and devices under the terms and conditions provided by those apps and accepted by their users. This data can then be sold to third-party companies and converted into anonymized information for advertisers. This anonymized data then is resold by numerous advertising companies.

In particular, let me highlight this sentence:

Advertising data based on voice and other data is collected by these platforms and devices under the terms and conditions provided by those apps and accepted by their users.

To me, this sounds like "We did not spy ourselves, but we bought data from other people who did the spying for us, and that was legal because some user checked a checkbox somewhere".
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Cryptocurrency allows people who are otherwise limited by draconian payment platform limitations, puritanical moralists who own credit card companies and such to buy and sell things online without being stopped. It's obviously not a good system but it provides a high effort release valve, a fallback mechanism that hopefully will undermine some of these draconian measures. Lots of people have been helped by the existence of cryptocurrency because of this, especially since lately a lot of bad actors control payment platforms and often just shut down businesses on whims.

Whether more have been helped or hurt is debatable but it certainly has a tangible, if niche, use case with real value. It certainly has no value as a store of value, though.
They already do that in many ways. Plenty of features are US only with no signs of Apple wanting to provide complete parity.

I think it is really good if Apple becomes weaker in the EU, more space for other competitors to step in...
https://archive.is/Yvhrj
Anonymise DNA?

With due respect to Poe's law, I spend a lot of talk hearing about how data can be made "anonymous" and somehow you could use it without running into problems with PII. And it's usually wishful or naive. This really takes the cake though. You could certainly aggregate the data in way that preserves some (differential) privacy. But DNA is the the least impersonal data I could imagine.
They're generally considered to be safe unattended for 3-6 hours for a low-heat (ie, 200-250F) cook if they're clean, well-maintained and away from other flammable things, in the same way that a Crock Pot or low-temp oven cook might also be left alone for extended periods. For a high-heat "grill" (375-550F), I would absolutely remain present to prevent burning or a grease fire. They can be used both ways.

A high quality BBQ joint may have trained staff feeding their BBQs post-oak and checking in throughout the day for top-notch BBQ - and you'll pay for that attention. But can you get an A-/B+ brisket out of a pellet smoker in your back yard? Absolutely.
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I'm sorry, I don't understand what you mean.

The article we're discussing, and attendant court decision, is about someone with a Facebook account and the ads in their "social media news feed", not someone without an account who was being profiled.

Did I miss something?

Tangentially, I'd also like to, again, gently, push back on the idea that it's conducive to community health to use an accusatory interlocution approach, especially one that relies on mind-reading to make the accusations.

To provide explanation as to why I am comfortable claiming that, some excerpts from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:

- "...Converse curiously; don't cross-examine."

- "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less"

- "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize."

- "Please don't post shallow dismissals...A good critical comment teaches us something."
It was forgotten by the other europeans...
I disagree, agentic coding is amazing for prototyping. It removes a ton of friction and inertia and allows me to try a bunch of ideas to see what works (from a delivery and/or UX perspective). Of course, you should have the systems thinking and experience in place to know what it is you're doing with it at any given point , but for demos and prototypes it has been an absolute boon.

Generally, you wouldn't type out the spec either, either you provide an existing spec to the model (in form of white board notes, meeting notes, etc.) or you iterate conversationally until you arrive at an initial implementation plan.

It's a different way of working for sure, and it has distinct draw backs and requires different mental modes depending if you're doing green field, demo/prototype, existing large app feature development etc. but it's been a massive productivity enhancement, especially when tackling multiple projects in quick succession.
Interesting idea! How do you think it would turn out? You might like to reference in your answer the time in 2005 when Israel did exactly that, and the consequences that occurred on Oct 7 2023.
I burned through $50 credits in a sitting the first time I used Claude Code to see what I could vibe-code from scratch. You're pushing whole files of tokens through it every time you interact with it.
One reason is so somebody who isn’t you can’t (as easily) set up an account pretending to be you for scammy, misinformation, or propaganda purposes.
> Do you have evidence of that? It sounds like an 'appeal to authority' of the small government crowd.

It's well known that people like John Lock, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Hobbes, William Blackstone, David Hume, Francis Bacon, and others influenced the founders in the US. A lot of the ideas espoused by those people formed the philosophical underpinning for our country. Even in the 19th century authors like Alexis de Tocqueville traveled and wrote about the great experiment embarked upon by the Americans in "Democracy in America". I think a lot of the ideas of the founding generation can be summed up by Frederic Bastiat who said in the the 19th century "[l]ife, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place."

> It was meant to be a democracy, where the people are free to make it what they want.

The federal government includes many anti-democratic features. Let's just take bills of attainder as an example. In a democracy this is possible, you can legislatively vote that someone is guilty. In our system this is just not allowed, at least not without amending the constitution which requires a very wide margin of support. The Supreme Court and judicial review is anti-democratic, as is the electoral college, as was the senate until the 17th Amendment. The Bill of Rights are what we now call negative rights, but these can be traced back to John Locke's conception of rights as a limitation on government as opposed to what many people today consider rights, e.g. right to an education which is a positive right.

To draw an analogy to software development, it seems like we have a legacy code base that we really want to make changes to with a bunch of new ideas. Just like software development though, too many people don't understand the code base at all and any changes that are made carry a very high risk of breaking something else.
This is a cool use case that probably saved you some time, but writing a recursive descent parser is something freshman CS students do for a lab assignment.

It isn’t exactly breaking new ground or doing anything you couldn’t find with a quick google search.
> Windows 8 build 7861's PDF Reader

Was not aware there ever was a Win32 desktop PDF reader shipped by Microsoft.
That's an excellent point, and exactly what I was trying to point out in my post.
I'm not so certain this is a bad thing.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9654648/
"Kahweol and cafestol are two diterpenes extracted from Coffea arabica beans that have distinct biological activities. Recent research describes their potential activities, which include anti-inflammatory, anti-diabetic, and anti-cancer properties, among others"
You're assuming it is within the AG's power to force 23andMe to destroy their data, however they can only enforce existing laws. The only law that can force 23andMe to destroy their data requires a request from the consumer. Thus this is less an abandoning of responsibility and more like a desperate cry for action.
What big tech is doing is much closer to this:

- Ads is a substance, very invasive and toxic, that alters the behavior of its users. They consume ads unwillingly, when the latter is mixed into their drinks and food. Ads are often tailored to different groups of users.

- Advertisers are the manufacturers of ads. They do extensive research into how to make the ads more invasive, and pay a lot to get the ads delivered to the users.

- Content is a type of food that's designed to be highly addictive. It's mostly made of sugar, artificial colors to make it look appealing, and of certain chemicals to invoke strong emotions, usually negative. While content isn't designed to be toxic, it is. The prolonged use of content destroys the ability to focus and deregulates control of emotions. Its users become impulsive, with a very short attention span. These weaknesses make it easy to serve them ads.

- Big Tech is the international ads cartel. It creates so called social network platforms that attract users in billions, profiles and tags them, manufactures content tailored to different groups, and lets advertisers serve ads for a fee.

Because this entire industry works at the mental and emotional levels, as of 2025 its activity isn't considered a crime.
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AG exists as part of a system. An AG should be working with a legislative body to give the AG the tools the AG office needs to do their job.

This is abandonment of responsibility because challenging corporate power results in reduced corporate backing. This is corporate <-> political alignment against citizens manifested.
i’m guessing that after spending all these resources to prevent people from jumping, we’re still doing nothing to help them.
EU: Actual Intelligence...
> it’s an all or nothing deal with digital.

That's not been my experience with hdmi or dvi. Bad cables or bad connections can result in artifacts in the display. Sometimes bad cables can result in difficulty negotiating but a good result if negotiate succeeds. Bad cables can result in frequent dropouts as the signal quality varies around the threshold.

Differences in cable construction may lead to more or less longevity in difficult environments: frequent connection cycles, movement in the cable, heat/humidity/other environmental stuff, tight bends, etc.

Certainly, once you reliably meet the threshold SNR for accurate reception, a better cable doesn't help much.

Does that need oxygen free, cold extruded in zero-g cables? No. But a well made cable is likely to last longer in challenging environments.
I’m not well versed in issues with genetics to discuss the merits but one thing I will say is that billionaires tend not to do things like this because, I think, in order to become a billionaire you necessarily have to have a view of the world which seems to filter out a desire to give away large amounts of value. There are SO MANY social problems which billionaires are at least financially capable of solving which they do not in fact solve simply because they do not seem to think this way. One example - Bill Gates could have made sure the Covid vaccine was open source and he could have helped factories around the world tool up to make it, saving potentially millions of lives. But the way he thinks he can’t seem to imagine doing that and instead believes proprietary medicine is somehow the way. Which even if one believed it was in general, I strongly disagree that was the right solution for the acute global tragedy that was the onset of Covid around the world.
This would be absolutely GREAT for generating icons for applications!

(Also would make a great SaaS... for $X/month ($9.95, $19.95, ??.??) generate unlimited icons...)

Congrats to the team for their pioneering hard work in this nascent area of LLM/Transformer research!

Well done!
Will AI Automate Away Your Job?
Is it the actual silicon that can’t handle it, or is contraction in joints and connections that breaks?
Oops, my read was that you can opt out of systemd with OpenSUSE without much trouble.
Russians have a phrase for this: "Never ask a billionaire how they made their first million".
How does the Landlock API compare to mount/network namespaces, as used in Docker containers? As I understand it, namespaces are for isolation, and Landlock would be more like access permissions, is that correct?

Could it be possible for the system to use the Landlock api to catch unauthorized net/fs access by an app and display a popup to ask for authorization, like macOS does?
The lifetime warranty clearly was valuable to many people here.

The problem though, is the _misleading_ marketing around "better sound" and similar that is false and does not justify charging more to basic home consumers who don't know any better.
No, this is not Zig comptime at all. Zig's comptime work is on another level, and it's amazing.
We share a land border with Denmark, Hans Island , because of the Wiskey War.
I think it is a good thing to undermine copyright by creating various carve-outs that will eventually make it untenable to maintain, which is probably one of the faster ways to reform the obsolete system.

Piracy doesn't care about borders, and if US firms don't do it, Chinese firms will. It is a national competitiveness issue in that sense, which is the easiest argument to get the government to do things to weaken copyright.

Laying the groundworks for the eventual defeat of MAFIAA is a great benefit to society if it happens, and in my opinion outweighs the nonexistent "damage" they did. There wouldn't be llama if they didn't pirate the books, and the authors won't get paid anything either. Bonus points if we can get rid of DRM anti-circumvention as well.

For what it's worth Facebook doesn't seem to be doing the regulatory capture part, unlike "Open"AI and Anthropic.
Evidence suggests it's the exact opposite. The only thing crypto has really been good for is a store of value. Sure, it's a volatile commodity, but over any 5 year average window, Bitcoin definitely beats inflation. That makes it a safe store of value.
Paving Cowpaths
Isn't that what tools like antlr [0], bison[1] do?

[0]: https://www.antlr.org/

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/bison/
Not an expert either, esp. because I'm too young and socialized in West Germany with family ties to Thuringia, though.

What always struck me was Eastern Germans' tendency to practical things (and an enormous creativity in fixing broken stuff!).
In addition, this is 1949 Eastern Germany, the country was devastated and this part under Soviet rule. It might sound a bit weird as a gift from today's wealthy point of view but historically "a good pair of shoes" was always something people appreciated throughout all times and cultures.
It's a fun conversation! I've got a little list of US criminal justice protections and where they do and don't apply in Europe. For example: the UK doesn't have strict double jeopardy protections. They used to! They recently decided they didn't like them, and rolled them back.

It would be a fun thread, and I think a little eye-opening. But nobody is reading this thread at this point so it's not worth sinking a lot of effort in here.
This is why pro gear doesnt come with a replacement warranty. The seconds/minutes spent finding and swapping a cable during a live show far exceeds any concept of replacement costs. Multiply any failure rate by the hundreds or even thousands of cables at a modern concert and any failure rate is unacceptable. If you care, buy good parts and build the cables yourself by hand. That is the only way to be sure it was done right.
My apologies if I misinterpreted, but this sentence:

"It's hard to legislate "you cannot collect any info about people ever", when people are free to choose to have an account with them."

Implied to me that you were saying that the information they were gathering was only coming from people who have an account with them. I don't have an account with them, and I'm pretty sure they're collecting all sorts of data on me (despite having every known Meta hostname in my /etc/hosts file pointing to 127.1).

But reading your sentence again, it looks like you were saying something a little different. It seems like I might have misunderstood your point at first glance. My apologies for the snark.
One of the funniest things I’ve read in a while. Also full of some truths. I think learning how to use AI will become a core part of being a dev but I seriously doubt they’ll have anywhere near the competency of solving a problem that a junior engineer has. They can certainly write code like one though.

I really recommend this to anyone reading - if you haven’t tried using cursor or copilot, check them out. It makes writing code less tedious.
Crypto is still pretty valuable relative to how useless it remains.

Unless you are imagining a world in which there's a global conflict and crypto isn't shut down in the first 12 months.
Nothing smells like bullshit quite like a data-less "graph"
I've found it useful for controlling Unity from within Cursor while doing game development.
Victims of conservative cancel culture
> I'd create an ephemeral tmpfs disk for each landlocked invocation

And now you've just invented firejail.
In this case, API does not refer to client/server. The API of the aforementioned static class is the set of its methods and their signatures.
It's nothing like Zig's comptime.
'Boggles the mind': US defence department slashes research on emerging threats