skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Well, he's flouted them. If by "with impunity", you mean that he hasn't been removed from office yet, then yes, he's done that.

If you mean that he's succeeded in making what he wanted happen despite the court order, then not so fast. We're still thrashing through the process of determining whether he will succeed in doing that.

I agree that he is dangerously close to running over the last remaining checks and balances.
It's in the article (and the comments here) -- yes, it was remediated within 3 hours of being reported back in January by GitHub.
Your explanation makes sense but wasn't remotely my interpretation. I'm still unsure if I can interpret it as such.
Yeah, I don't know. My sense is that he is a very entitled young man though and so, no, he is not someone that would be reacting to his own situation. I didn't mean to imply that he was — but that there are plenty of others though.
You're not wrong, but you're closer to wrong than right. C toolchains are the best of a collection of rather sucky things.

I can compile all sorts of things on my Mac LC III+ with 36 megabytes of memory. Sure, Perl takes nine days, but it works. What other language can actually be used on a machine with such little memory?
Yep! Like how except for gym class, school should be mostly in classrooms
The healthcare industry gets an enormous amount of pushback in the US.
They're instant and they work great. PHP includes also.
Uhhh, sanity check: If you lived in a state like Hawaii where the cost of residential electricity approaches outrageous territory (i.e. ~$0.50/kWh), then you'd be hard pressed to save $1 per month trimming -2.4W nominal consumption with this hack.

Perhaps I'm just naive, but this struck me as the buried lede:

> ...but even in bridge mode, the gateway broadcasts several hidden SSIDs with no option to disable the radios.
Why Adding a Full Hard Drive Can Make a Computer More Powerful
Either Xiaofeng Wang is a common Chinese name or there is a lot of well poisoning going on.
You probably mean this one: https://github.com/jgrafton/freebsd-obsidian

That's just a user contributed thing though. It's also just in the official ports collection. There's only a makefile there and some config files for electron (electron is kinda a PITA to compile on FreeBSD because there's no package)

Now, it can update itself automatically but it's all JavaScript. No binaries.

But it's safe enough for me anyway. Especially because the dev community uses it do much. If it did something untoward it would be noticed quickly.
> vast machine of death

UnitedHealthcare was my health insurance provider when my daughter got her heart transplant. They paid over $2M over several years, without a single hitch. I think the only thing we were rejected for was when we asked them to cover baby formula (it was a long shot).

Mangione wasn’t even a UHC customer.

The only machine of death here was in that lunatic’s hand.
> So I did the hipster thing and implemented Noise.

> [...]

> Out of laziness, we kept the Noise stuff, which means the interface to tkdb is now HTTP/Noise.

Yikes, I wager it was more difficult to get this thing working than HTTPS because they surely have an existing solution for nearly everything else. It smells more like a developer being reluctant to delete their own code. There's an unaudited cryptography stack in their authentication path.

You are not your code.
You should have spent more time in school
Why not just iPad?
Yeah the outsourcing of homework and grading to publishers is a sorry state of affairs.
Title: Show HN: Flopper – A web-based Texas Hold'em simulator
Hi HN,

I built Flopper, a simple web app for simulating Texas Hold'em hands and calculating odds: https://flopper.pages.dev

I was inspired after watching a popular Japanese poker YouTuber (World Wide Yokosawa) and noticed a relative lack of straightforward, accessible web-based tools for this compared to mobile apps. My goal was to create something quick and easy to use directly in the browser.

Flopper lets you:

- Add/remove players (up to 10) and edit their names.
- Deal hands through preflop, flop, and turn stages.
- See win probabilities (equity, including ties) calculated at each stage using the poker-odds-calculator library.
- Automatically simulate the river card and determine the winner(s) after the turn betting round would notionally end.
- Includes small visual cues like card flipping animations and highlighting winning hands/cards at showdown.
It's useful for quickly checking basic odds in different scenarios, simulating hands for fun, or even deciding who pays for dinner (like the YouTuber often does!).

It's built with React, TypeScript, and Vite, deployed on Cloudflare Pages. The odds calculation relies on the poker-odds-calculator library.

This is an early version, and I'm very open to feedback. I'd love to hear your thoughts on:

Usability and design.
The accuracy/usefulness of the equity calculation display.
Any features you think would be valuable additions (e.g., specific hand vs. hand matchups, more detailed statistics, betting simulation?).
You can try it here: https://flopper.pages.dev

Thanks for checking it out!
Are there any viable alternatives to alcohol? There's a lot of times when what I want is effectively the opposite of a coffee: something to drink that is somewhat calming without having as strong of an effect or the negative health effects of alcohol.
Similar why gatekeeper exists on Mac.
This would mean that old software would stop to work, though. Which is a bit anti-microsoft politics. Without running all the old unsigned software Win is not Win anymore.
Do you have links to research or other credible sources that establish kids who have plentiful friends don't also have imaginary friends?

Your statement intuitively feels false to me, and I would like you to defend it.
I think it's because people think their workloads are extremely spiky, and so assume they will spin up/down loads enough to save money, and that has translated into cloud being perceived as cheap.

But devs rarely pay attention to metrics. I've had clients with expensive Datadog setups where it was blatantly obvious that nobody had ever dug into the performance data, because if they did they'd have noticed that key metrics were simply not fed to it.

If they did pay attention, most of them would realise that their autoscaling rarely kicks in all that much, if at all. Often because it's poorly tuned, but also because most businesses see small enough daily cycles.

Factor in that the cost difference between instances vs. managed servers is quite significant, and you need to have significant spikes much shorter in duration than most businesses day/night variation to save money.

It can make sense to be able to spin up more capacity quickly, but then people need to consider that 1) a lot of managed hosting providers has hardware standing by and can automatically provision it for you rapidly too - unless you insist on only using your own purchased servers in a colo, you can get additional capacity quickly, 2) a lot of managed hosting providers also have cloud instances so you can mix and match, 3) worst case you can spin up cloud instances elsewhere and tie it into your network via a VPN.

Some offer the full range from colo via managed servers to cloud instances in the same datacentres.

Once you prep for a hybrid setup, incidentally, cloud becomes even less competitive, because suddenly you can risk pushing the load factor on your own/managed servers much closer to the wire, knowing you can spin up cloud instances as a fallback. As a result, the cost per request for managed servers drops significantly.

I also blame a lot of this on business often shielding engineering from seeing budgets and costs. I've been in quite senior positions in a number of companies where the CEO or CFO were flabbergasted when I asked for basics costing of staff and infra, because I saw it as essential in planning out architecture. Engineers who aren't used to seeing cost as part of their domain will never have a good picture of costs.
This was obvious to any serious person. The common "centrist" (shy Republican) take was that Dems were just being hyperbolic again. It was never surprising that Republicans would try to ratfuck 2028 to keep Trump in power and that his base would accept it considering what happened in 2021 at the Capitol.
I am working on a site that makes it easier for people to learn Vim. It started with me delving into containerization and Neovim plugins and then took on its own identity. It's called:

vimgolf.ai

Right now, only has two levels but I soon plan to add all the Vim motions and use reasoning models as bots that start off the level with you. Apparently, reasoning models like o3-high, Claude 3.7 thinking, and Gemini 2.5 pro are good at finding new ways to transform files using Vim. Kind of silly to have them do that, but I find it kind of cool.
Please read this essay and make your own conclusions. (He rejects physicalism in no uncertain terms). https://thoughtforms.life/platonic-space-where-cognitive-and...
thx for playing!
Maybe a kanban view might work? I use that on obsidian right now. I found it easier than a list
Think you have to be a special kind of person to think the suits from a few years ago “look stupid” now. But I guess that’s also the kind of person buying the £500 tshirts linked in the article.
A “soul mirror” is an interesting idea. Do you mean the modern smartphone is a mirror of ones soul because you just see what you want to see, you see what your soul is interested in?
I love small project!
Thanks for the shout out to Miraheze, a free wiki host with no ads. We really appreciate it.

We’re about to celebrate our tenth anniversary in a couple months. I hope many Fandom wikis can come join us by then.
The abolition of the han system is a perfect example of what I’m talking about. The majority of daimyos first became government employees, eventually becoming the governors of the prefectures, responsible for their administration with funding from the central state. The Meiji government even paid stipends so that the daimyos could pay their former samurais to disarm. The subsequent reforms (which took years) did transform the state away from the hereditary system but there was a continuity in the administrative apparatus. Likewise when the US occupied Japan after WWII it kept much of that apparatus and slowly reformed it further.

Contrast that with Haiti where the vast majority of Haitians weren’t allowed to hold administrative positions in the colonial government so when the remnants of the French bureaucrats fled after the 1804 massacre, Haiti was left with very few people who knew how to run any part of the government. They were left with post offices but without anyone with the experience to actually run a postal system. No officers capable of training and disciplining a police force or military. And so on. They had to build up their bureaucracy entirely from scratch which is an incredibly hard thing to do and usually turns into situations like in Haiti, as opposed to outcomes like Japan where the state isn’t violently wiped clean. It’s hard to overstate how big a roll that continuity plays when a new polity forms in its success or failure.
There are absolutely plenty of spaces where this is true and cloud makes sense either because it's actually cost effective, or because the cost doesn't matter.

Most people aren't in those situations, though, but I think a lot of them think they're much closer to your scenario than the much more boring situation they're actually in.
Guidelines for Evaluating Differential Privacy Guarantees [pdf]
Did you read the article?

A bureau spokesperson issued a statement: “I can confirm we conducted court-authorized activity at the address in Carmel today.
Lost decade in another sense in the case of C#.

It's sooooo good now. Fast, great DX, LINQ, Entity Framework, and more!

But I still come across a lot of folks that think it's still in the .NET Framework days and bound to Windows or requires paid tooling like Visual Studio.
His public papers are mostly white hat focused so it would stand to reason that he has lots of black hat research that is not published.
This sounds reasonable with FedNow being live (which the Treasury was a founding member of when they went live)?

EO: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/mode...

Edit: They're centralizing control of payment flows.

(e) The Secretary of the Treasury shall support agencies’ transition to digital payment methods, including by providing access through the Department of the Treasury’s centralized payment systems to:
(i) direct deposits;
(ii) debit and credit card payments;
(iii) digital wallets and real-time payment systems; and
(iv) other modern electronic payment options.
You gave up too quickly. Allow me to steelman YOUR point LOL

Let’s go with what his rewritten suggestion is saying, and see how it reads in various contexts…

“Aren’t humans supposed to be not exclusively homosexual? The only species with actually observed exclusively homosexual individuals are humans and domesticated sheep. In every other species, including Bonobos, individuals may be seen engaging in occasional homosexual behavior but then “defect” eventually and hook up to impregnate the females. So perhaps gay men and lesbians doth protest too much. Maybe they are all open to a heterosexual encounter here and there. The drop in genetic fitness of a purely homosexual preference would be so low that it would have been heavily selected against by evolution.”

Of course, this can show that humans have recently made biological evolution not apply as much, with sperm banks, contraception, reducing child mortality to negligible levels etc. They moved past historically high levels of war, polygamy, forcible intercourse, human trafficking, etc. As Steven Pinker details in “The Better Angels of our Nature”.

And before that, they already used rudimentary technology to make eunuchs, castratos, Shakesperian actors playing women etc.

And therefore the idea of “should have” is relative now. “This is how it’s always been so this is the way it has to be”. And with AI, it gets fuzzier still!
He had nothing to do with UNH. He just really really wanted to kill someone that he didn't like and chose the UNH guy.
In SF Bay Area my PG&E rate is also close to 0.5$/kWh…
I would also argue, regardless of what mobile OS you're on, quieting, delaying, or disabling notifications on a regular basis (and taking stock of what you let through) is prudent.
People will still easily find ways to become addicted to content streams, regardless of the algorithm. The algorithms just make it that much worse.
If you're going to be open, you need to list exactly who is donating and how much.
the US model has focused less on exams and more on take-home assignments. this can be better because most people perform better without artificial pressure, and it's possible to ask deeper questions than on a timed exam. it's just that it is not viable as of this year.
The moment they roll it as mandatory - people would stop updating.
This month I've been working on automating the data collection and processing for my property research website [0]. I'm testing out DuckDB to process geospatial data, and so far the process has been quite pleasant.

As long as you don't need many advanced spatial functions (where PostGIS shines), and you make sure to minimize the use of GDAL to perform operations, it parallelizes processing quite nicely (most queries on large datasets saturate as many cores as you throw at it).

[0] https://wynds.com.au
Have you heard about the pagers in Lebanon?
Is an executive order the correct way to go about this though? Aren’t they for handling emergencies?
Racket is giving an error.
As someone with the last name Prater—derived from Praetorian—I really wish I owned praetorian.com.
I could see there being space for a book which covers new(er) kernel mechanisms and features, but as you said TLPI is the Word and if your book covers the same content it doesn’t add a lot of value.
Thanks for posting this, I'll take a look. It wasn't on my radar, but the idea of doing a DSL specifically for SIMD is something I've been thinking about and also starting to explore myself.
>Steelman as much as you like, the fact is that health insurance companies really are evil, and the "great replacement" is wingding nonsense

The point of the steelmaning isn't so "the great replacement" can be declared as "true", it's to point out it's not hard to come up with a slightly revised cause that isn't "wingding nonsense". Sure, it's easy to write off the guy who shoots up a school because of "the great replacement", but what if the next guy is shooting over Biden's immigration policy? Does he get a pass now because "The Biden administration really are evil", on the basis that "they're putting immigrants ahead of Americans" or whatever?

>We can't have a standard applies to both real political grievances and fake lunatic ones.

I'm so glad that there's a universal standard of what counts as a "real political grievances" that everyone can agree on!
A Visual History of Supernova Discovery
This is flagged now. I guess some people just don't want to see this kind of news. Or they agree with these tactics.
The physical act of having to take notes helped me understand and remember them. Being given a handout doesn't work that well.
I've been "Vibe Coding" this weekend with the vibe of a micromanaging tech lead or PM. Actually, it's not terrible if you just accept that you need to treat the AI like a year 0 engineer who is really good at googling.

I've run the project through cline and roo. Also tried Claude 3.7 and the 1M context Gemni 2.5 pro model. I'd say Gemini is less creative. But it's still good.

I can see how it is a productivity booster. Or at least it gives you the illusion of one. Really I think best part of it is just building out detailed documentation. That's really the killer app for me.
It was common in the Windows 9x days for the two Registry Hives (SYSTEM.DAT and USER.DAT) to get corrupted leading to an unbootable system or to get fragmented and/or full of disused values from poorly-uninstalled software leading to increased memory usage.

Here are some KB articles to check out for context:

- https://helparchive.huntertur.net/document/105563

- https://helparchive.huntertur.net/document/89799

- https://helparchive.huntertur.net/document/89794
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_order

Not just for emergencies, although etiquette would’ve dictated a federal agency proposing the EO before being issued by POTUS.
Executive orders being for emergencies went out the window ages ago.
I carry around a little illuminated square on which i interact with imaginary friends. Right now I’m imagining that `mmooss` has just asked me a question.

Only thing is, how do I know for sure that I’m not the imaginary one?
I was working on a ray-casting game engine in C, with the focus on enabling the largest worlds yet seen in such an engine (Minecraft scale etc). [0]

A ray-casting engine is an old style of game engine (think 1990 - Wolfenstein or Duke Nukem). The most famous, well-known example is probably Wolfenstein-3D created by ID software (John Carmack and John Romero etc!) You don’t see these engines used anymore in modern games.

So to me, they are novel and a great challenge to try and modernise. Especially as a solo dev! And for further context, raycasted levels are usually teeny tiny (Wolfenstein 3D or Shadow Warrior are the largest worlds I’ve seen, so nothing impressively scaled). I have never ever come across a raycaster with levels the scale of something like Minecraft. So that’s what my ambition is.

I spent a period of 2-3 months roughly 8-10 hour days every day on this project, not knowing much C and not knowing anything about game engines or graphics, and average at mathematics.

But I’m on a break from the project and coding after my 7 year relationship broke down.
Realised I had tunnel vision with my life and ambitions, and am now “touching grass” daily instead. It’s hard to put effort into your hobbies when you feel other areas of your life are suffering.

So now I’m lifting weights and doing cardio and reading books instead, trying to keep active and my mind occupied.

I do want to pick this project back up, I’m really proud of what I was able to achieve with no knowledge coming in and I think the project has good bones.

And I loved coding, still haven’t found a hobby that scratches a similar itch

[0] - https://github.com/con-dog/chunked-z-level-raycaster/blob/ma...
Why? We have a few thousand murders in the USA each year, why would a few more deaths cause a need for expanded police power when several thousand other deaths didn’t require it?
The emergency is that Congress has given up its duties.
But that too is based on people not knowing the alternatives, as renting managed servers can be close to a wash vs. leasing hardware for a colo (often to the point that relatively cost of land near your preferred managed hosting providers vs. colos that work with access to staff etc. might be what makes one or the other cheaper). Buying outright can be cheaper but isn't necessary.

None of the colo'd setups I've worked on bar one used purchased servers - it's all been leased. But the majority of non-cloud workloads I've worked on have not even been leased, but rented.
Tidal effects from the sun are about 46% as strong as those from the moon.

<https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/tutorial_tides/tides...>
I do not believe the author understands what the word "timeless" means.

There was a time when men did not have to wear ties to be dressed up. Freedom cannot come soon enough
This is very cool.

My daughter was very worried that she might lose her tooth and swallow it, so I told her that the sewer mermaids have an agreement with the tooth fairy, and they'd deliver the tooth to her, and then she would deliver the money.

My child didn't buy it, but maybe ya'll's will be more believing :p
We need a browser or extension that does this stuff automatically in the browser, so it looks like a normal browser request.

By "this stuff" I mean BreezeWiki, Invidious, Nitter, whatever that one for Reddit was called.
I hope that Peter, Caitlin and Leslie aren't reading this - if you are, STOP IT.

One of the minor villains in my D&D campaign is a literal living nightmare - one of three. Each one is named after a time of night when they appear, and this one is named 2:30 - because he really likes the nightmare where your teeth all fall out.

He's the spookiest one of them all, but the least dangerous.
Or you could have rented or leased-to-own. There's hardly ever any need to actually purchase outright to get prices far below equivalent capacity in clouds. In fact, in 25 years, only one of the colo'd server setups I've worked on had any hardware purchased up-front in it.
The extension I use to redirect fandom wikis also includes an option to go to various breeze wiki proxies, which is a convenient way to do that.
First, lack of a phone won't cause them to be completely excluded from their social circles. If it does, then I'd argue those weren't their friends to begin with. Second, kids need to learn that social acceptance doesn't mean they have to do everything their friends are doing. Third, the long-term benefits of reducing their exposure to social media are outweighed by the short-term benefits of the instant gratification and shared experience of social media.
https://archive.is/f5Gpe