skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like the China initiative is back:

>Two bills introduced by the Republican Party that passed the House of Representatives on September 11, 2024, have been described as reviving the China Initiative. The bills are part of "China Week", a House Republican-led effort to advance China-related legislation

>The China Initiative was a program by the United States Department of Justice to prosecute potential Chinese spies in American research and industry, in order to combat economic espionage. Launched in November 2018, the program targeted hundreds of prominent Chinese-American academics and scientists, of which an estimated 250 lost their jobs. Many more had their careers negatively impacted and the prosecutions also contributed to at least one suicide.

>According to a Bloomberg News analysis of the 50 indictments displayed on the China Initiative webpage, the program had not "been very successful at catching spies." Most of the cases listed by December 17, 2021, involved individual profiteering or career advancement by the accused, rather than state-directed spying. Despite this, many of these indictments portray the alleged crimes as for the benefit of China. Seton Hall University law professor Margaret Lewis described this as "a conflation of individual motives with a country’s policy goals" that has led to the criminalization of "China-ness."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Initiative
> Neighbors say the agents announced "FBI, come out!" over a megaphone. A woman came out of the house holding a phone.

Then they are really selling the ruse that they don't know where he is.
The number one mistake is everyone trying to explain a Haskell concept to the general population makes is using Haskell. If someone already knows Haskell there is a good chance they know there concepts. Don't use Haskell as the language, use js to explain it.

The number two mistake people make is being aware of the number one mistake so they go write yet another Monad tutorial in Javascript (or Java or whatever...). Which is why there are so many damn Monad tutorials, all saying pretty much the same thing.
> Obviously not for classes like CS

Why is this obvious? Unless you’re talking CS = Programming a specific language, I think it’d be better for the K-12 version of CS to be completely analog save for maybe a “lab” for students in later years of high school.
I’d post that straight lecture is a crap way to teach/learn. And the large auditorium classes that are common at most state Us are fundamentally broken. Interactive discussion is probably much better for most students.
Windows doesn't support shebang lines as you probably know, but if you associate uv with .py files you'll get the same result.

I think it should be something like this:

ftype Python.File=C:\Path\to\uv.exe run %L %*

If you don't use the CPython installer the Python.File file type might not be defined, so you might need to set that with `assoc` first:

assoc .py=Python.File
> Almost all fluoride from the drinking water does not have any effect on tooth enamel, because it has contact with it only for a few seconds

The contact via toothpaste or mouth wash isn’t all that much longer, so why would they be effective if fluoridated water isn’t? People intentionally wash out toothpaste and mouthwash after this short contact.
It may if components are marginal... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43008879
That does sound like an engineering problem more than anything.

On an off note, migrating to nosql might not have a lot of on paper benefit, but it does enforce developers to design their table and queries in a way that prevents this kind of query hell. Which might be worth it on its own.
I hope this one doesn't get ganged up on by the flagging brigade. Of late, anything even remotely political, esp if it's critical of Trump or Musk get flagged immediately and swiftly moved off the front page.

Regardless of of your political affiliation, this kind of behaviour is the very antithesis of the hacker culture this forum was built around.
I found an iPhone and Mac browser that's faster, safer, and easier than Safari
What are the benefits/drawbacks of using this vs. actually running Windows 95 or XP?

I'm assuming the PC will be mostly used for "educational software" (games), which you would want to run on XP. What benefit is there to running Fedora?
If we are being honest, very few students go to university to learn and even fewer what is taught in classes.

I didn't spend 60K out of intellectual curiosity. I was interested in a ladder to multi six figure tech jobs. The actual classes did nothing to get me into those. Only algorithms was related to that goal. Physics and chemistry certainly didn't do anything for me.

All the things he complains about students not doing? None of them go on a resume. None come up in an interview and it is a rational response to changing incentives.
Mechanically it doesn't work for two reasons: Elon's wealth is not liquid and him buying into the market would raise the price of gold far before he got anywhere near all of it.

But going further, I think you're misunderstanding my point - gold is a terrible measurement of wealth on the "human-history" time scale. At that scale, you have to consider monetary wealth as it relates to "the power to get things done" in general.

In that framing you can look at:

1. Power/wealth relative to the next most powerful people (like the Mansa Musa story). For pure wealth we often look at this in relation to country/global GDP.

2. Absolute ability to get "work" done, including technological changes.

3. Relative ability to get "work" done, adjusting for technological changes.

He's probably not close to top 10 in #1, because his relative power compared to the next most wealthy or powerful people is not that disparate, he just wields it more blatantly than we are used to in the modern era. For example, Augustus is believed to have personally controlled 6% of the world's wealth, not accounting for his power over the Roman Empire.

Elon is probably in the top 10 or so of #2, behind all modern US presidents, Putin, Xi, and maybe a few other world leaders. There's no doubting that his wealth could be converted into far more kW of work than at any other time in history as a result of technological leverage.

Much like #1, this is probably not close. The Ming Dynasty leaders, Augustus Caesar, Ghengis Khan, etc.
More than 20 uniformed police, some equipped with Tasers,
forced their way into the Westminster meeting house [of worship]
and arrested six people at the meeting

on suspicion of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance.

[police] arrested five other people for the same offence on Friday

Based on the given charge, Police had a feeling that some Quakers might be talking about being a public nuisance.

If we assume the best of the Met police, they first considered sending an officer over to talk to the Quakers and maybe offer some counsel.

And being the Met police and being faced with the potential of a non-violent resolution to a non-violent issue, the police instead opted for an approach that mirrors violent police raids.

That's if we assume the best of the Met police. They might not have ever considered a non-violent solution for Quakers.
I'm working on Cali Challenge. A calisthenics workout app with a daily challenge that gradually increases in difficulty. It guides you through the different progression levels of core calisthenics moves like push-ups, pull-ups, and dips.
Rest in peace Anjin San.
Drake who?

Whoever, it wasn’t FISC, because FISC doesn’t have jurisdiction to do any trials.
If in the ensuing investigation they found out that he'd been spying for the PRC for the last 20 years and they were freaked out about the reputational implications of having been harboring a Chinese spy in a red state in the current political climate?

I don't know anything for sure, my main point is that everything is speculation, but some speculation is better grounded in the facts than other speculation.

EDIT: I see you've engaged in the very frustrating practice of editing your comment to reply to my comment. This time with even less etiquette than normal, because you didn't even have the courtesy to flag upfront that it was an edit. I'm not going to play that game by replying in turn, but I do want to call it out as bad form.
I haven't, I wasn't aware of that attribute. I would gratefully accept a PR with such a benchmark case.

Edit: I've now tried it, and it reduced overhead a small amount. (e.g. Average 7.5 ns vs 8 ns for the 10-byte array )
From Technocracy to Governance: How Peter Thiel Vision Aligns with Project 2025
Maybe OP is making an assumption based on recent events, it has been happening an awful lot.

Has anyone checked Louisiana or El Salvador detention centres for him?
Strong flashbacks of Southland Tales (2006). Underrated movie with this as a core premise
Things can be good or bad when put in a value system context. There is tremendous overlap between everyone's value system, it just doesn't feel this way because the majority of most people's attention is on where they don't overlap.

A loaf of bread is good for a person who is starving, but less good to someone with celiac disease. A bowl or rice is more good to a starving person with celiac than a loaf of bread, etc.
These takes:

> I also don't buy the author's rationale for remote editing; it's oddly archaic

> Any supposed advantage of remote "real servers" is going to be squandered by having to send everything over the Internet

Remote streaming is far better. A 2mbps or 20mbps connection to a powerful editing station is awesome. A compressed down h.265 with HDR will still let you edit very well, but be able to do intensive editing tasks with ease.

This really isn't hard at all, the advantages & wins are amazing, remote desktops have been amazing for decades now. I struggle to see how you continue to justify being so far up a creek, other than exhibiting pathology.
That Git GUI got my attention. Does anyone have an idea what it might be? The titlebar says aurora but when I searched for it all I got was an commercial product with AI nonsense stuck into it.
Xfinity XB3 hardware mod: Disable WiFi and save 2 watts
A phone not in airplane mode and a high capacity lithium battery are not comparable at all.

Airplane mode is largely pseudoscience/an abundance of caution/solving a different problem than a safety one. There's approximately zero chance of a phone interfering with avionics, especially modern ones, with their very low transmission power.

Supposedly the real reason has always been that mobile network operators don't like the interference high-altitude phones can cause: They're in view of potentially many base stations, some of which might be using the same frequency (which is possible since far-away regular-altitude phones are below the radio horizon and therefore not an issue).

Some evidence for this theory: The "mobile phone ban" is an FCC regulation, not an FAA one, and many (non-US) airlines have been offering on-board microcells for decades without any issues.
Obviously this is speculation, but one reason would be if the reasons for his disappearance would generate bad PR for the university and they were fairly sure both he and his wife were involved and won't be returning
In my experience it’s one or the other: attend all the lecturers and nullify the need to study more than that attendance and some specific exam revision if they drop hints or don’t attend but do the readings. I think a lot of being a successful student is cutting through all the duplicative work that gets thrown your way.
That's why being brutally truthful with yourself is essential in learning how to love others so as to actually become a good person.

The worst lies we tell are most often the ones we tell ourselves.

It's just like the low-achieving over-confident folks of Dunning-Kruger: they don't really care about the truth, they're satisfied just believing they're an expert. The real experts take a far different tac, one of humility and intense, honest work.

"Nothing is more important than compassion and only the truth is its equal."
I don't know if you're purposely being dense. The first sentence of Wikipedia is that this is a famous unsolved problem.

So no, sampling 1000000 LLMs will not get you a solution to it. I guarantee you that.
> I don’t know why lists as values in a container would be confusing.

The GP makes it pretty clear - the misunderstanding is that there is one value in a container. A list has many.
Hmm, where we live (western Switzerland), this is the default among basically all parents we know. Locals, immigrants, doesn't matter. Not every single thing in same way as article, but cca same ideas and approach. Simply reasonable.

Any digital screen is simply too intense stimulus for those little minds and leads to passivity. Human mind is wired internally to create habits -> addictions naturally. And most stuff in those screens is highly addictive, even without going into the topic of brain and soul cancer that all social platforms are in one way or another (and many here are even proud of contributing, then folks wonder how trump can happen repeatedly... the trail in US is long but ie reality shows are one of the stepping stones - stuff mostly marginal here). Also time spent on screen is the time spent alone, no social interaction. Not the best idea for developing mind.

Its true that our circles are mostly university-educated folks but not only. Expecting different behavior in families of say car mechanics or prison guard on average. We know one local farmer family and they do same as we do.
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One can start with a partial explanation and expand it cover all the cases as learning progresses. This is how most learning takes place. I expect your primary school teachers introduced numbers with the natural numbers, instead of, say, transfinite numbers. Students learn Newtonian physics before relativity. It's completely fine to build an understanding of monads as operating on containers, and then expand that understanding as one encounters more cases.
Know little about this case, but given what happened with China Initiative in Trump I, I’m genuinely surprised there are still Chinese professors not leaving or preparing to leave US.

200+ lost jobs, at least one suicide, if that still not ring alarm for these Chinese-born professionals, their IQ may not match up the tenure I assume.
Aus intervention in East Timor.
How does that video show that Apple “should have made a car”? The video spends time explaining Xiaomi’s history, but spends no time justifying the clickbait title other than implying Xiaomi’s rise in stock price as the reason.
This author is great. Their blog engine really ought to link to the top level. There’s lots of content.

https://marcelofern.com/

I am immediately intrigued about doing code review in Vim (from their posts) as well as using vale.py to lint my prose (from their GitHub.)
Given the source of truth is British English, the maths says no.
On the long list of problems caused by the government "disappearing" people (which they have objectively been doing lately) is that it destroys trust and therefore makes even valid legal proceedings seem more shady than they would in a world in which due process was a universal guarantee in practice. I don't fault anyone for jumping to conclusions implicating the government is in the wrong here rather than Wang.
Very creative and well executed.

When I was like 6 a friend choked me and I swallowed my tooth. I was very sad because the tooth fairy ("ratón perez") would not pay me :(

But thankfully I found a note notifying me that they found my tooth and reimbursing me :)

So I see where the idea came from, but I wouldn't ever had imagined this bureocratic twist
I've had an alternate theory for a while. Prior to verbose metrics, UIs could only be designed by experts and via small samples of feedback sessions. And UIs used to be much, much better. I suspect two things have happened:

- With a full set of metrics, we're now designing toward the bottom half of the bell curve, ie, towards the users who struggle the most. Rather than building UIs which are very good, but must be learned, we're now building UIs which must suit the weakest users. This might seem like a good thing, but it's really not. It's a race to the bottom, and robs those novice users from ever having the chance of becoming experts.

- Worse, because UIs must always serve the interests of the bottom of the bell curve, this actually is why we have constant UI churn. What's worse than a bad UI? 1,000 bad UIs which each change every 1-6 months. No one can really learn the UIs if they're always churning, and the metrics and the novice users falsely encourage teams to constantly churn their UIs.

I strongly believe that you'd see better UIs either with far fewer metrics, or with products that have smaller, expert-level user bases.
I don't buy arguments from parents about why they can't just take away their kids' phones, or simply decline to buy them a phone in the first place.

My family didn't have a TV growing up. (This was way before the Internet, when TV was king and HBO and cable were a status symbol.) Me and my siblings tried every argument in the book to get them to buy one, to no avail. Out of the loop on TV pop culture? Boo-hoo. Peers make fun of you for not having a TV? Too bad, so sad. The result was that I participated in more activities that engaged my body and brain. Aside from being bad at TV pop culture trivia from those decades, I turned out just fine.

At the end of they day, parents need to set the standards that they want their children to live by, and stick with them. Even today, a phone is a luxury that a kid doesn't really need, and will likely contribute to low attention span and cause them all manner of anxiety. Don't take my word for it; many studies will back me up.
Touching something on the left side, like a link, and let my finger touch the glass a tiny bit too long while pulling the finger back. Unwanted swiping happens to me all the time in all directions - may the developers use a touch screen for everything forever!
See also "Hierarchical File Systems are Dead" by Margo Seltzer and Nicholas Murphy https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/hotos09/tech/full_paper...
It doesn't but if he was a US Citizen (which I'm guessing he is a naturalized citizen) he may have consulted for them.
Since it's a spoof of gov.uk, "rubber" is correct!
> Some people do things because they like doing those things…

If that's the case, that means there's something in it for you, enjoyment.
Unlike the other recent disappearances and deportations to the concentration camp in El Salvador, this one does say it was with a court order.
MAME 0.276
The one course where I showed up to every class was a discussion class. It was on AI and each lecture was a 10 minute topic intro, 30 min of group discussion and research, and 10 min of presentations.

The courses I never attended a single class for were reading screenshots of a textbook.
So if AI research is dual-use tech, would an AI researcher be dual-use human, and get travel restricted because of weapons export controls. Dude is a weapon!
Imagine trying to speed up the Earth's rotation!
This talk seems like exactly what you are looking for for:

Gabriel Gonzalez - “A bare-bones Twitter clone implemented with Haskell + Nix” @ ZuriHac 2020
https://www.youtube.com/live/Q3qjTVcU9cg
Live Weight Quantization
Permanent green card residents have been sent to El Salvador prisons without trial in the recent stuff. This incident does say it was with a court behind it though.
Occam’s Razor suggest he was exfiltrated.
> by the government "disappearing" anyone (which they have objectively been doing lately)

Notably, they haven't been "disappearing" people in the manner that would have to be happening here. Even the most egregious cases, which are very bad, have left a paper trail for lawyers and journalists to follow. This case is notable because no one seems to know where this man has gone.

But yes, point taken: the extrajudicial actions of ICE recently are absolutely not helping people stay calm in the face of something like this.
UK intervention in Sierra Leone in 2000.
I believe the term is "to John McAfee".
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43527154
> "but won't there be a model in the next 6 months that can just do this itself?"

Then you've got 6 months to cement your place in history as one of the last humans ever to have accomplished that thing before AI could do it. Hurry!

(More generally, even if you don't care about AI: if you think you might want to do something, then depending on your age you've got maybe 50 years to do it before you've squandered your opportunity. Hurry!)
I'm working on a tool to convert any OpenAPI JSON spec to an MCP server, so LLMs can interact with it. If anyone's interested in this, email in my bio. I'll also put it on my Github soon, once I polish up the code.
Thank you for the recommendation, I'll look at installing that.

But the problem with add-ons is that every machine you use will have a different combination of them installed. Maybe you're at work and don't have privileges to install them. Maybe you forgot to install one on your desktop even if it's on your laptop, etc.

And building it into "a lot" of Ubuntu-based distros lacks discoverability. I might have that now on the machine I'm typing this on, but it does me no good if I don't know it's there. (Everything in Linux has worse-than-terrible discoverability, but that's another rant entirely.)

MS's dominant position meant their defaults Just Worked everywhere, and when those defaults were good, they were really, really good, by virtue of their ubiquity. Then they fucked us by using their dominant position to just... I don't know... completely lose the plot? Aside from HiDPI fractional scaling and support for large monitor "maximize to a quadrant" and stuff, I can't point to a single MS UI improvement since the XP days. Everything else has just gotten worse, fragmented, and for no good reason.
PISA scores for the US are fairly good and stable in Reading and Science, especially compared to the OECD average. It's Math that has taken a hit over time.

https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/pisa-2022-results-volum...
FBI searches two homes belonging to IU Luddy professor and library analyst
Oh god I knew this would be contentious

I've just changed it to 'eraser' but actually I should make it conditional on your navigator.language...
The AI Studio Ghibli trend is an insult to art and artists?
I've just completed solving Cursor IDE model completion problem called Character prefix conditioning.

https://github.com/Anilturaga/Character-Prefix-Conditioning
The transaction has changed a great deal though. GPA used to be more heavily weighted and professors used to be more essential for references. You might bring your transcript to an interview. Now, it seems to be all about projects. Coursework has dwindled in relevance.
I think we have different notions of OOP. OOP without implementation inheritance and with extension interfaces/methods is still very much OOP to me.