skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, there is a partisan distinction that I am trying to make here, so I guess I can't not sound partisan. And the distinction is this:

The left gets too hung up on morality. So, they are prone to trusting slick talkers like SBF or Newsom, who say the right things and use the right language, with no actual substance.

Now, as to the DOGE folks, they have presumably given up their lucrative businesses/careers, and joined this effort to help the nation (according to them). Can you atleast give me a theorical story about how one of these individuals could have a sinister plan to defraud the american people?

If they are doing forensics on govt finances, I am not sure what is there to FOIA. Plus, they are publishing extensive data on doge.gov. Nevertheless, in principle, doge shouldn't be exempt from FOIA.
My issue with that approach is that it's easier for me to write code than to read code and grok all the subtleties of one approach vs another.

Writing thousands of lines? I'm actively thinking about the specific method.

Reading thousands of lines of someone else's code? I might fall into a more passive mode and miss a problem.

I am more likely to do the reverse: write it myself, have LLMs summarize it or suggest how to test it/break it/whatever.

In many situations a sufficiently-described statement of "here is exactly what I want the code to do" is not significantly easier to write than the code itself. Especially when the AI is doing the annoying tedious bits through autocomplete suggestions, vs letting it try to do the whole thing based on a sufficiently-described prompt.
Does it not depend on the chemical composition of local water? The US is vast, geologically diverse, and water quality varies hugely across it. Denmark can likely make a decision that's good for the entire country.
But it does support registering extension handlers[1], so if you name your scripts with say .pyuv and register "uv run --script %1", or whatever it would take to run uv, as the handler of .pyuv files, it should work. Unless uv does something funky that is.

You could do this during an installation step, for example.

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/shell/fa-fil...
The next step is to isolate the Windows applications: you could use different WINEPREFIX, but I think the better way is to do it like android: one "user" per application.

It's not just to prevent applications to read other applications files, but also to firewall each application individually

For example, if you don't want the application you've mapped to user id 1001 to have any networking, use iptables with '-m owner --uid-owner 1001 -j DROP'

I moved from Windows to Linux a few years ago, I have a few Windows apps I still love a lot (mostly Word and Excel) and thanks to wine I will always be able to use them.

They are also extremely fast: cold starting Word (or Excel) on my laptop takes less than a second, and use far less RAM

Personally, I'd rather purchase a few shrink wrapped old versions of Office from ebay than bother with LibreOffice, Abiword or the online version of Office.

EDIT: I can't find the old recording I made showing how fast it was, but here's what it looks like on my hypland desktop: you can see in btop it doesn't take much resources
https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/11w3zzj/hyprland_...
I agree. On Linux (and Mac really), new APIs replace old ones and old binaries stop working.

On Windows, new layers are applied over the old. There is DirectX 9-12. New binaries may use 12 but the ones still using 9 are perfectly happy. Things like .NET work the same. You can have multiple apps installed relying on different .NET versions.
> Try doing the same with a Linux binary that's just a year old.

AppImages are very close to fixing this. I'm not sure if it is already solved or very close to.
I mean, technically our atmosphere gives us oxygen at 35% of a toxic dose/concentration.

Granted, 35% < 50%, but not really that much less.
I am competent on this particular subject matter, I have worked in fluorine chemistry and am familiar with the biology and medical literature of fluorine toxicity. The report made much weaker claims than people seem to think.

There is a very serious mechanism of action problem. Fluorine poisoning is a thing that happens. The observed effects and empirical evidence, as well as the mechanisms of action that cause them, are incompatible with any mechanism of action that supports the hypothesis that it causes brain damage. Basically, it would invalidate the entire history of actual fluoride exposure.

The other serious problem is that people are exposed to far more fluorine through what they eat than through water. What is special about trace levels in municipal water? And many parts of the world have far higher natural fluoride levels in their water than any municipal water supply with no evidence of adverse consequences. This has been studied many times in many countries! In fact, the only consistent correlation with naturally high fluoride levels is better cardiovascular health (for which there is a known mechanism of action).

This notion that trace levels of fluoride in some municipal water is adversely impacting IQ based on thin evidence from the developing world is just the public health version of “faster than light neutrinos”. Someone thinks they measured it but it contradicts everything we know about the subject. The rational approach isn’t to discard everything we know without a hell of a lot more evidence.

I don’t think adding fluoride to municipal water does much these days but it also isn’t harming anyone.
Is is important to note that a reason Poland is growing so much is due to the EU funds it gets (more than it pays in).
This was somewhat mitigated on iOS a few years ago.

You could try to communicate with an app via the custom URI scheme and if it succeeded, it would know you have the app installed. Twitter used this for finger printing.

An app has to get a special intent and has to list the apps it wants to use it for.
No idea, but we did have apps rejected because of similar permissions.
The map is drawing Germany and Czechia both with the same white color as the border.

Unfortunate that the color scheme is confusing, but not any weird borders.

You can see the uncolored map here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BlankMap-World6-Equirec...
He nominates judges. He's also threatening judges that go against his whim. He's _also_ instructing law enforcement to do things without the involvement of judges, including sending them to El Salvadoran prisons.

You are a fool if you think this isn't a threat.
And as they say in the FAQ,

> Q: My TV started playing a video in full screen by itself. What happened? A: Your TV launched Scenic Mode, a FREE, new feature that displays relaxing, ambient content when your TV is idle for a period of time. Scenic Mode delivers an experience that adds to the environment of your home or office.

It's relaxing, so you need to RELAX rather than getting in a huff over blaring ads. What, you're not relaxed and going to pull the plug?
The time travel discussion is on the 2028 page, but intentionally absent from the 2025 page to minimize risks of contamination.
Yes. The curse of being an expert is having to maintain that expertise.
Let's say a decent software engineer gets paid $100k per year (40hr weeks, 50 weeks a year.)

$100,000 / (50 weeks * 40 hours) => ~$50 per hour.

Extremely conservatively, if this saves a developer ~30 minutes per day, it pays for itself. If you spent $100 per day, it would still be worth it.
It's not the OS but the streamimg sites, like netflix and others are locked to 720p.
It's the concentration that matters. Toothpaste has over 1000x the concentration of fluoride vs 0.7mg/L as tap water. Many well water sources have naturally occurring fluoride that exceeds the additive levels.
Trade dispute? Well that is one way to call it. The threats of annexation (to us, Greenland, Panama…) general disrespect, news of people being held at the border for days and then deported, all with ongoing support for the party doing this that ran on this platform is something is else.
The US was built on tobacco, sugar, and cotton because agriculture has been conducted in the interests of the wealthy and powerful for as long as there has been civilization…6000 years more or less since humans started irrigating deserts for profit.

People who accumulate vast land holdings do so for rents. That’s the juice needed to keep holding it comes from. If the world seems to be changing, it is most likely reversion to the mean.
Interesting, though I think you may have missed a good deal of my own point. Regardless, I wasn't actually commenting on the fluoride situation, I was commenting on the belief that American exceptionalism is the reason we don't look at Europe and other countries for a slew of solutions that won't work here. It had nothing to do with fluoride, so I think your comment and hostility are a bit off the mark.
> How hard would it be for an app to monitor all of your web traffic based on the title alone?

Although not terribly accurate (because of the high variability of page titles), tools like ManicTime and ActivityWatch use windows titles to track your browser history if you don't install the browser plugin.

https://www.manictime.com/

https://activitywatch.net/
I use Nikon Scan 4.0.0.
It was released in either 2008 or 2004.
Targeting and profiling. Reselling the data.
The android ones are just pictures with no ads
Both non-fluoridating countries and country borders are white, so it's not that Germany is drawn wrong, but that that countries near Germany (Czechia, Netherlands, Luxembourg) look like they're part of the same white blob.
Hyundai faces legal action over car that can be stolen 'effortlessly in seconds'
Yes, this completely demolished my argument.
completely bizarre witnessing both sides getting so polarised around a basically non-issue

This isn't a sensible way to think about it. Every contentious conversation I've ever had has gone this way:

Me: why do people want to ban fluoride
Them: [anti government paranoia]
Me: um...but how about tooth decay
Them: pineal gland calcification
Me: idk sounds pretty far-fetched
Them: THAT'S WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO THINK

It's irrational to complain about 'both sides' when only one side is insisting on making it into an issue. I generally just try to disegnage from people as soon as they start freaking out about fluoride/ chemtrails/ vaccinations etc, but people like this frequently treat skepticism as a personal attack. Increasingly they occupy positions of political power (see eg RFK) having acquired them by public displays of conviction rather than any objective criteria.
-compat packages exist on fedora-like systems too, usually allowing it older versions to run. I can't say how far back, but RHEL usually has current version
- 1 for -compat packages.
Thank you for writing this.

There are various ways to try and make sense of what we're living through right now, and commentary such as yours (presumably informed by decades of seeing this industry evolve) will be valuable in the coming years, as we all try to find our bearings in this post-LLM, post-truth, post-literate world.
> I also don’t see how foreigners (or “aliens” as US law seems to prefer) can claim protection under the US Constitution. If the latter does provide it, that’s great, but frankly it makes no sense to me.

Everybody, including the country's citizens, are also expected to follow the country's law. If you come to the US and get mauled, as a non-citizen you have the right to the same protection as anybody else. If you are suspected of mauling someone, as a non-citizen you are afforded the same rights to a fair trial as citizens. If it was legal in the US to beat up a foreigner because they are not protected by the law, it wouldn't be very safe for you.

This is the rule of law [0] and is a really important concept in modern democracy. This is why foreigners on US soil can expect some protection by the laws of the country, of which the constitution is the foundation.

> As a visitor to a country I expect to follow that country’s laws, and not expect any privileges which are afforded to that country’s citizens.

Visas indeed have additional legal requirements, typically around rights to work or study. It is unlikely that a US visa would specifically restrict speech or protests (you are welcome to check this in your visas), and so it is the rule of law that applies.

In short, what is being disputed here is not that a foreign citizen was deported for violating the law, but that the deportation was decided by the executive branch of government, which is a breach of the separation of powers.

The response by the government is that it is legal for them to rescind any visa arbitrarily. This is currently being debated hotly in the US, and is essentially the background for this article.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_law
Worth reading: Unauthorized Bread. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-...
It’s been a few years since I used it, but isn’t this exactly how interactive brokers works?
https://archive.is/edNIT
It wants to live!
I think there is inherent value in expressing your own thought, from the start, in a formal language.

This is why mathematics has stayed with us in spite of the fact that it's eminently possible to express mathematical ideas in natural language. The precision, clarity, and brevity we gain from formalization is useful.

I think code falls into a similar bucket. Reaching for LLMs makes some amount of sense for throwaway code, but not for serious systems. Code is not merely the raw material with which you happen to realize fuzzy ideas, it is also a means of making once fuzzy ideas precise—and for this benefit to be realized, the communicating human has to participate in the formalization. I don't want to have to deal with a world in which all our systems were authored through fuzzy imprecise language and half-baked, not completely formally analyzed ideas. That's a step backwards. Life isn't only about cost cutting and short term "efficiency".
> Try doing the same with a Linux binary that's just a year old.

I do it all the time. Works fine. Do you have a specific example or is this just a hastily constructed strawman?
Current = 25.4 ± 1.5 nA, Voltage = 17.3 ± 1.5 µV.

Making total power for the 30cm shell = 0.44 picowatts.
These kind of links open the play store app directly and the informstion it's displayed there
The shitty thing is, this just encourages closed source software on the open platform, giving vendors another reason not to port natively.

Good luck with the hellscape you're building.
I've written a fair bit of SIMD code in Rust, and it definitely had lots of sore spots.

The main advantage was that, because Rust doesn't use TBAA, it's completely legal (and safe, if you use bytemuck) to freely cast pointers and values around. TBAA in C++ makes it much easier to hit undefined behavior.

But also, because of various miscompilations, Rust refuses (or at least refused) to pass SIMD arguments in registers, so every non-inlined function call passes arguments via the stack. There were also miscompilations if you enabled a target_feature for just one function, so we ended up just passing `-C target-cpu=...` globally, and if we wanted to support a different microarchitecture, we just recompiled the whole program. On top of that, there's no good way to check to see what microarchitecture you're compiling for, so we had to resort to specifying the target cpu in multiple places, with comments reminding us to keep the places in sync.
> easier to use from writing a web service to writing a high performance DB

Have you looked at what the actual implementation code of tokio / axum etc looks like?

I can't comment on DB because that is quite far out of my wheelhouse but regarding game engines, I've almost universally seen people revert to storing objects in arrays and passing around "handles" which is literally pointers with extra steps... But I guess at least you are protected from some issues there.

Rust forces absurd levels of abstraction onto code very early and if you are wrong you need to make sweeping refractors.

I really want to love the language, but building bottom up is extremely difficult with it, it may be Stockholm syndrome and familiarity but I can generally get much further into a project much quicker in C++.

In Rust it feels like I'm fighting the language and it's not the borrow checker.

There are so many great ideas in Rust and I keep trying it because of them, don't get me wrong I do think a safer language is the future but Rust isn't there yet. Every time I try it it's better though.
1. Its a fringe issue in Australia
2. The US doesnt believe in other countries so why check.
Unfortunately, I expect consumer-hostile behavior like this to become more common. The path that consumers take from intent-to-purchase to transaction will radically change over the next 5 years. It will result in less time shopping and better purchasing decisions for consumers, while diminishing the role of marketing/advertising. As that river runs dry, there will be desperate and intrusive attempts to monetize users like we’re seeing here from Vizio.
I take Trump seriously but not literally. El Salvador is probably a stretch too far. But Trump’s attorneys should channel their inner Alvin Bragg and see if they can bring terrorism charges.
In a word: poverty. People do not have free dental care, and poor people aren't guaranteed to have a toothbrush, toothpaste or sometimes even a sink to brush their teeth in. Fluoridated water is one of the few dental protections available to everyone regardless of their income. It's cheap, minimal and cost-effective cavity protection at scale for the entire country.
This looks quite useful! Is uv a safer choice to use for deploying a python based project long term? I’m referring to the anaconda rug pull that happened- using it for managing dependencies about 5 years ago, but then they changed some rules so that any of my clients who are organizations with over 200 employees are no longer free to use anaconda. They must pay a commercial license
The missing context here is that the science and established benefits of fluoride aren’t a culture war political football in those countries.

These countries largely publicly recognise the benefits of fluoride, but don’t add it because:

- Some countries opt for intake via supplementation.

- Some have a naturally sufficient supply in drinking water via natural processes.

- Some even need to reduce the abundance of fluoride in their water due to over supply.
I use this frequently on Windows and Linux. These are the steps I take:

$> uv init --script <script_name>.py

$> uv add --script <script_name>.py <pkg1> <pkg2> ...

$> uv add --script <script_name>.py --dev <dev_pkg1> <dev_pkg2> ...

$> uv run <script_name>.py

Hope this helps :)

Source: https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/scripts/
Unrelated concept
I'm in awe of what a shitty response this is to Niemoller's poem. Like, new depths of twat-itude have been explored here. Congratulations winner.
This seems totally reasonable but wasn’t the original problem that RiscOS was 26bit Arm?
Wine/Proton is basically Linux Subsystem for Windows.
...this software is responsible for "the driver's cab display system on high-speed and regional trains [which] shows the driver the most important technical data in real-time."

I wish they showed the UI. I'd love to see if it's more elegant / information dense / etc.
I love your username, btw :)
Neovim Setup from Scratch (Based on ThePrimeagen)
Debian is still way worse. Do not use it. Instead, stick to fedora or arch
> Of course Apple has locked down their smartphones that way... So has Windows.

Is that where we want desktop Linux to go?
Is it good for teeth because it's "applied" when drinking it, or is it due to ingesting it?
I think ingesting is the issue.
wait what - another math textbook recommendation by academicians. ML and MLL are arts of tinkering not academic subjects.

Though Steven Johnson is the real deal and writes lots of code, Edelman is a shyster/imposter who used to ride the coattails of G. Strang and now shills for Julia where he makes most of his money. You don't need, and won't understand ML/LLM by reading textbooks.

1. If you want to have a little fun with ML/LLM, fire up Google Collab and run one of tutorials on the web - Karpathy, Hugging Face or PyTorch examples.

2. If you don't want to do, but just read for fun, Howard & Parr's essay as recommended by someone else here is much shorter and more succinct. https://explained.ai/matrix-calculus/ this link renders better

3. If you insist on academic textbooks, Boyd & Vandenberghe skips calculus and has more applications (engineering). Unfortunately, code examples are in Julia!
https://web.stanford.edu/~boyd/vmls/vmls.pdf
https://web.stanford.edu/~boyd/vmls/. link to python version

4. If you Want to become a tensor & differential programming ninja, learn Jax, XLA
https://docs.jax.dev/en/latest/quickstart.html
https://colab.research.google.com/github/exoplanet-dev/jaxop...
My strategy is that I hold my cards to my vest. i.e. I take a small peak and then leave them on the table.

Having revealed my strategy for keeping you from seeing my cards, were you able to learn more about my cards after I have revealed my strategy for preventing you from seeing my cards? If so I'd like to learn. If not, then reread my previous comment.
Fair, I guess something like the finals is what Im thinking of? Im not sure though I think they may pre bake their destructible terrain
A sentence does not imply a judge. It is just a punishment by some authority, could be a hall monitor sentencing you to detention even. I guess I also have higher expectations for the president than writing about they will "perhaps" go after their political opponents extra-constitutionally.
A far more likely cause would be the costs of doing business offshore are lower.
Easy to use? Sure. Simple? No way.
I am just thinking out loud. Wouldn't it be better then to just share the reproducible recipes similar to sharing Dockerfiles? For wine, specifically, it could be similar to just using FROM wine-1.23. As long as we keep the recipes maintained and "pinned" to their old dependencies.

I think this could work as a translation layer because containers already abstract away everything on syscall level.

There must be just a GUI for that, which can create multiple sandboxes easily, per application, and remember what you configured and installed there (and add it to the Winefile).

In regards to the sharing serials problem: You can easily diff the .reg file that wine adds there and if anything pops out in \\software, you can assume this is a custom field and offer it as an environment variable for the container?
> When asked about his comments at the White House on Friday afternoon, Trump called the vandalism suspects "terrorists" and appeared to argue what was happening with Tesla vehicles was worse than what happened during the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol.

> "You didn't have that on Jan. 6, I can tell you. You didn't have anything like that on Jan. 6, which is sort of amazing," Trump said.

All the police officers (one of whom died the next day) beaten and assaulted with weapons by the Jan 6 rioters, how few Teslas were they worth?
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