skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In .NET land that's handled by EF Core 9 using the EF.Constant(...) and EF.Parameter(...) wrappers that either (safely!) inline the value or force parameterisation.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/ef/core/what-is-new/ef-cor...
He's President.

He was convicted of 34 felony counts and got no sentence.

Like I can do nothing but list stuff for the next hour. It makes no difference.

If you still need to read about it... jeeze.
The reality of working in tech: We're not hired to write code (2023)
If that is the plan, it's terrible. The majority of US debt is domestic.

https://usafacts.org/articles/which-countries-own-the-most-u...
What are you doing about TOFU and MITM?
Yes, totally agree. Also a paragraph on the relationship between energy, heat, cooling and that computers effectively turn all energy into heat might have been useful.

The April 1st date on the article is telling.

Shout out to "Technology Connections" YouTube channel for recently publishing "Power is not energy" - <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOK5xkFijPc>.
But this feature was already implemented in normal google assistant
A blanket 10% minimum tariff is a great excuse for any local US manufacturing to increase their prices.

I used to live in a country with heavy tariffs, every time tariffs were raised the local producers increased prices to be just below the imports. Even after the tariffs were abolished the prices (on local and imports) never really lowered in any significant way.
I'll generally tell the clerk that I'll bag, which speeds up the lines, and I get stuff pretty much where I want it. (My store doesn't generally have a dedicated bagger)
You mean they convinced a grand jury to charge him, and then convinced a jury of his peers to convict him of 34 felony counts, all while he had legal representation that most of us could only dream of?
Thanks watched one and it was neat!

Q: can anyone tell me what these solo people do when they need to sleep and it’s too deep to anchor?
Do you know of a study that shows that long term effects in men and women are the same or worse in women?
Car color ought to be banned from being a consideration for insurance rates.
It's a valid criticism that this method would increase compute requirements, but sometimes an improvement in the end result justifies the compute needed. For things like code generation in large datasets, many people would be willing to "pay" with more compute if the results were better. And this doesn't seem to require more memory bandwidth, so it could be particularly good for local models.
This is neat and I share your frustration. I've wanted to build this for a while and nice to see you've got something up.

Can't wait to see this grow into the tool I think we all need.
It's a pretty common method in industry (a wet scrubber) but I don't know of any indoor-scale, self-contained units - it sounds like a recipe for mould because a misting one would basically be a humidifier too, and they are hard to maintain because bacteria like legionella can grow in the water and then you're dispersing it inside your house!
You can trust me, facile3232, instead. I will improve upon all things the leader of automattic.com failed to improve upon.
I’ve heard most of that. And yeah, it’s pretty disconnected from reality.

Rabid DEI? Mythical.

Highest tax rates in the world? No we don’t. And did you notice that this guy just enacted a massive tax hike? Voting Trump for lower taxes is idiotic.

Drugs, poverty, war? Trump has no effective plan to fight any of these.

Importation of new voters? Why do Republicans assume immigrants are automatic Democratic votes? Hispanic culture is pretty socially conservative. Those millions of people coming in over the southern border should be an easy demographic for the Republican Party to recruit.

Rapists and racists? When you support a rapist and racist to run the country, expect that to be criticized. And aren’t Republicans supposed to be all about “free speech”? But oh no, somebody called me names, it’s awful.
Would you care to share which parts you see as "disguised" opinion versus fact?

These all seem like established facts:

* "...bringing the total HHS workforce from 82,000 to 62,000."

* FDA — "..will lose 3,500 employees, about 19 percent of staff"

* NIH — "...is set to lose 1,200 employees, about 6 percent..."

* CDC — "...will lose 2,400 employees, about 18 percent..."

When the article quoted opinions or op-eds it was quite clear and gave citations as to who offered those opinions:

* " In an op-ed Tuesday, Tom Frieden, former CDC director under Obama, called the cuts to the CDC a threat to "America’s health, safety, and economy." "

* " "In a matter of just a couple days, we are losing our nation’s ability to prevent HIV," Carl Schmid, executive director of the HIV+Hepatitis Policy Institute, said in a statement. "
They're just teedioustotal.
Sure, we should be smart, adaptive, and not blindly follow hype...

But also we should not ignore early warning signs, especially when they give us time to prepare.

It's not fear, it’s just game theory. If there's a decent chance of major disruption, the cost of not acting early could be way worse.
I'll share what's posted at reddit

Jellyfish8775 replied to the reddit thread "

Hey, we totally understand how stressful this must have been, and we're glad to see your hosting plan is back up and running. That said, we want to clear up a few things.

When phishing activity is detected, whether intentional or due to a security breach, we have to take action to protect other users. Suspensions aren’t random, we follow strict security protocols, and while we understand it’s frustrating, keeping the platform secure is a top priority.

Also, managed hosting doesn’t mean full security management, server security is a shared responsibility. If an account gets compromised (through weak credentials, outdated software, or vulnerabilities in third-party apps), action needs to be taken on both sides to prevent issues.

About data access, when phishing-related suspensions happen, we have to be extra cautious before restoring access. That said, we always work with our customers to resolve these cases properly, as happened in your situation.

Again, we’re glad this was sorted out, and if you ever need help tightening security on your server to avoid future issues, just reach out!"

I had been politely waiting for the OP to update rather than just repost the above response ... but I guess we could assume they are working hard to sort out their troubles with the 70 sites in regard to however many had been suspended. I dare say organising back up as well if that's also their role.
It's a cool solution, and I like that it's CSS only. But the generated placeholders are way too blurry/lossy for my personal preferences.
NaNoWriMo to close after 20 years
I don't think I ever make the only-nuanced-opinion claim, the claim I'm making here is many people don't want to have useful discussions, they just want to proselytize

I actually say there are reasons to persevere and encourage debate if it's not just trying to "win":

"However, one reason to persevere is to find the 1% of people that also want to see the world as it is. Aka, finding your own community of anti-tribalists."

"Few things give me greater joy than a discovery-ridden conversation with smart friends, and this is only enhanced if I learn something I previously believed to be true is actually wrong. Seriously, come prove some core belief I have as wrong and you will quite literally make my week."
People should, but is the existing process simple enough even any laymen can do is the question.
The problem is that this miserable state of affairs works at scale.

Yes, on problems that exist at the scale of one or intelligent, educated, experienced, and dedicated human (or maybe up to 3-5), an individual or small team will run circles around a business. You can have a top-notch CEO and COO and HR manager and six program managers (each with zero domain experience other than running a Jira board) and four dozen junior consultants who memorized just enough to pass the interviews and an art department and sales and finance and IT. For some problems, that whole $50M enterprise will be utterly demolished by a couple of determined engineers.

Likewise, a monarchy with a wise, benevolent, and just king can flourish, whereas a corrupted and bureaucratically entangled democracy is woefully inefficient.

But if you want your kingdom to last more than two generations before succumbing to a greedy monarch, or want your enterprise to solve bigger problems that don't decompose nicely to small ones, to vertically integrate huge manufacturing systems and scale out to billions of units, the only method that works is the inefficient one. And it does work!
Was expecting the common "background-image: data url + filter: blur" that a lot of static site generators produce, not a binary encoding algorithm implemented in CSS! Very impressive.

I wonder what other things could be encoded this way. Those generic profile pictures, perhaps? (The ones where your email or account id is hashed to produce some unique geometric pattern.)
I take this angle when I detect dogma now
I’ve been thinking about an idea called Ownyth—a platform that would bring back real ownership to digital media (movies, books, shows, etc.) using blockchain to track and secure who actually owns what.

The concept:

When you buy digital content, you get a downloadable, DRM-free file.

Ownership is recorded on-chain, so you can resell, gift, or keep it—just like a physical copy.

It’s kind of like a “used DVD store,” but for the digital world, with decentralized proof of ownership.

I’m curious if this is something people actually want, or just a niche thing that sounds cool but doesn’t scale.

A few questions I’d love thoughts on:

Is there still real demand for true digital ownership in the age of streaming?

Which types of media (or communities) might this resonate with the most?

What major blockers or flaws should I be thinking about?

The idea’s loosely outlined at ownyth.com. Open to all feedback—technical, business, critical, anything.
Man the world you paint is just not one I want to live in. Without color what's the damn point? I'd rather be corny than have to live like this.
I think we’re addressing different points. I’m talking about how difficult it is to judge quality when shopping for something. Sure, if I’m hiring a contractor I’ll get quotes and talk to them. But I’m deeply unqualified to judge their competence or work ethic. If I’m lucky I’ll go on personal recommendations from someone I know and whose judgment I trust. Otherwise it’s just vibes.
Except that's not the problem. its basic comprehension of requests. They aren't getting the wrong time, they try to play music, or the phone says "no timers playing" while the google home WILL NOT STOP until you lock the phone. etc.

Its basically an embarrassment for a project that's been alive this long from such a major.
yeah this is a very real risk
It starts with necessary background into cache side channels and covers transient execution attacks like Spectre.
This better not have any impacts on my capacity for mischief and shenanigans...

Anywho, welcome tomhow.
> If the environment is continually shouting at you it's hard to hear the whispers, where the meaning is.

So do we currently live lives completely devoid of meaning? That's certainly what it feels like. That's certainly what the color schemes available to us connote.

So much fear of meaning we remove all meaning from our environment....
Can someone explain the economics of this?

So, there are a bunch of open http endpoints serving free video feeds and they don't care about bandwidth?

It's not like radio where you broadcast it and people passively receive the signal.

This is a great service for language practice, though. Wish it had a login + favorites system.
Computers and Gadgets in 1994 [video]
You're absolutely right. End-to-end encryption protects message content, but WhatsApp still collects metadata, which is incredibly valuable.

Even though they can't read your messages, they know who you talk to, how often, when, and for how long. They also track your device info, IP address (which can reveal your location), network details, and app usage patterns.

And this data isn’t just sitting there—Meta uses it. For example, if you chat with a business on WhatsApp, you might start seeing ads for that business on Instagram or Facebook. They don’t need to read your messages when they can infer so much just from how you use the app.

Disclaimer: Comment translated from Spanish and corrected by Chat GPT.
This was previously recommended to me on HN, so I’ll pass it along. The book “Seeing Like A State” gives a pretty reasonable explanation for why this happens: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State

The basic idea is that the only viable way to administer a complex and heterogenous system like a massive corporation is to simplify by enforcing “legibility” or homogeneity. Without this, central control becomes far too complex to manage. Thus, the simplification becomes a mandate, even at the cost of great inefficiencies.

What makes the book particularly interesting is the many different historical examples of this phenomenon, across a wide array of human endeavors.
Ask HN: Economic Websites/Blogs?
What are the economic websites/blogs that you recommend to keep up with and learn today's USA and the worlds economic situation?
You have seen nothing yet. Next he will want a mineral deal with each country to pay back the money they stole from the USA in the past. "Primate Behavior Reference 21": https://youtu.be/GhxqIITtTtU
That's not the sentiment I tend to hear from people who use both. I've heard a number of people point out that Meta platforms are stale copy of what you saw on TikTok a long time ago.
>uniform, unbiased, automated enforcement of law?

the only uniform thing would be data collection, loss of privacy, and being a victim of gov-t oppression.

"unbiased" - depends on the bias inherent to the training dataset and enforcement algorithm. Areas with more sensors will get more enforcement.

what if you a victim of false positive? you wont be able to appeal to "unbiased automated enforcement"

just look at recent events, when Trump just stripped some students of their greencards and deported them with 0 due process.

or took a guy with some random tatoo and sent one way to El Salvador...
Photo calorie app Cal AI was built by two teenagers
this is super neat! love your site
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The Big Bang is maximally agentic but has zero intelligence (it has maximal future potential intelligence though). Current definitions of agency are way too narrow and unphysical, so:

Agency is time-like, energy-like, choosing, changing shapes or geometry of the world and the agent itself. It’s GPU computations. Explosions have a lot of agency.

Intelligence is space-like, matter-like, the static geometric shape like an LLM (it’s basically a bunch of vectors). It’s a file. The static final 4D spacetime of our universe has a lot of intelligence but zero agency, because it’s static.

Maximal intelligence+agency is the static spacetime of multiverse (=max intelligence) which can change its shape in an instant (=max agency, shape-changing ability).

Same way we have e=mc2, we have agency = intelligence * constant.
Woah, how? My global search indexer seems to poop out when the sqlite db gets too big or something.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Thunderbird/comments/1jjzb6b/global...

On another note, Thunderbird feels quite snappy for me. Fast and responsive, especially global search.

Even so I think I prefer Recoll now that I've got it working. That thing is amazing.
https://marginalrevolution.com/

If you can get past the current obsession with all things "AI".
Show HN: Library to stream operating system events to AI
Most of the world is also deeply addicted to the internet, and we have rapidly normalized it to at least the same degree as caffeine.

I see it all the time: people go out to restaurants, talk for a few minutes, then silently drift into their phones. The connection just evaporates. It feels like we've traded presence for stimulation.

And I'm not saying this as a Luddite. I used to be incredibly excited about technology. I still am, in some ways. But it's hard not to feel like we're losing something important.

I am often reminded of /The Game/ (S05E06) episode from TNG[0]

Are we in it?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_...
If you're not aware of the downsides I don't have time to explain them to you. If you genuinely want to know, 5 minutes research will give you answers.
Control F in this thread, "Dove", nothing!!!

If you find this story interesting, definitely recommend reading about Robin Lee Graham. In 1965 at the age of 16 he started a solo sail around the world.

He ended up writing a book and they made a movie. Highly recommend.
As such, "The AI did not pass the Turing test because the interrogators were not sufficiently challenging" becomes a standard impossible to beat. The reductio on this is that in order for AI to pass the Turing test, it has to fool everyone on the planet which is not what I believe is intended.

Rather, we should set an upper bound on what a reasonable interpretation of "as challenging as possible" means.
>AmigaOS is small but everything runs in ring 0.

Not accurate.

In AmigaOS, everything runs in unprivileged mode, except for some specific critical code within exec.library which runs in supervisor mode or interrupt mode.

What's true is that exec.library does offer a call to run code as supervisor[0], and that there's no memory protection.

0. http://amigadev.elowar.com/read/ADCD_2.1/Includes_and_Autodo...
I suspect this is a bit of tongue in cheek about the nature of tools improving over time

The difference is that I absolutely could write code by hand in notepad and upload them to a server via ftp if I had to

I think it is a safe bet that people who learn to code with AI agents are not going to have the skills to code without them
I personally think this is the right approach, where you can assign probabilities to the unknowns (the "thinking in bets" section)

Because then the discussions/research switch toward data and evidence, with the results downstream of those

Overall when people can agree "I understand stance 1 if the data says X, or stance 2 if the data says Y", and then all the energy goes into the data analysis, I consider that a successful conversation
That is from the Secrets of Consulting :-)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/566213.The_Secrets_of_Co...
Not Nintendo, but you as a modder need to block Nintendo's servers when inside the custom firmware, otherwise you risk being banned.
Yes, but a couple problems:

1. Where to put them? In Chicago these cameras unfortunately end up being a regressive tax.

2. What to do with the money? Anytime we give the government money from things like this, we create weird incentives. I've been wondering lately what it would be like if we required all the fees to be returned to the federal treasury / burned... no incentives!
Casual labor frequently involves working alongside other casual laborers and/or regular employees and/or the person hiring the casual labor.

The gig economy is people working alone.
Yes and no. As a headline "I reduced $7t of foreign debt" is pretty good. The plan appears to be to invite people to Mar a Lago and offer to trade the existing debt for new instruments out in the never-never.

Domestic debt might not be such a big deal? Who is coming to collect?
I've been able to quit my job and work full time on Marginalia Search, and starting with 8 months expenses' worth of savings and an incoming grant back in 2023, the project is now funded so I can keep going for several more years.

Seems fairly important to somehow write or talk about what you do[1]. Building stuff and never telling anyone about it never got anyone paid. You don't need to become a shill, but the world needs to learn about what you're doing. Will say with full certainty I would not have been able to quit my job and do this full time if I didn't blog about my misadventures.

Risk of this being mostly survivorship bias, but I think in general it's helpful to build something that's more of an end product and not a library or some other widget in the making of products. Possibly also helpful if yours is an ambitious project that somehow seems doable. Ladybird is possibly an even better case of this going well. Exception possibly being if you end up as a linchpin tech like curl.

In general I don't think patreon/github/etc. donations will ever add up to much than coffee money. Most of my money has been from grants, one large donation from some rando anonymous person, and a nonprofit.

[1] Basically this: https://www.codusoperandi.com/posts/increasing-your-luck-sur...
We have to move past tokenization for the next leap in capabilities. All this work done on tokens, specially in the RL optimization contest, is just local optimization alchemy.
EQ is a much better test at what makes us "human" than IQ. The only reason we don't give it credit is that it makes us even more uncomfortable than IQ.
I was curious about this too and enjoyed reading the routes file https://github.com/luskaner/ageLANServer/blob/main/server/in...
Offer it as a commercial hosted service that you build on top of it. You can charge per use or per time period.
I used to read this--don't recall why I stopped. It's a bit more politics/world-events slanted, but you can filter it for an economic focus.

https://angrybearblog.com/category/usglobal-economics
In 2022, the all-cause mortality under-5 was 117 per 1000 in Nigeria.

Not per 100k, per 1000.

That means that for every child that dies from air pollution, ~600 more die from some other cause.

To be fair, most causes seem related to terrible living conditions, so everything probably improves or degrades together.
I specifically wear a bright red top when I'm outdoor skating for reasons of visibility.
If you're okay buying it then the definitive edition is on sale with active servers and includes War Chiefs among other things.

There were some questionable changes to the names of things to make them more politically correct but the game play is better than ever.
Yeah I fully accept that there could be valid dots in the top left (or even top right) corners, just didn't include them to keep the chart's point simple and b/c it was also based on Paul Graham's article which made the same point

> But politics are much more than that, it's how society organize, and if you can't talk to everybody about your city evicting the parasites who mismanaged and eventually brought down the waterlines because you're afraid of 'groupthink', you are fucked.

Yeah I guess I differentiate between the individuals who could help you determine the truth of the mismanaging parasites vs the ones that just blindly support or hate them.
Man, I really enjoyed Sam, until he started doing things that I thought were unnecessarily risky (or in some cases plain inconsiderate). That said, ballsy MF. Solo sailors remind me of free solo climbers. Their risk assessment/acceptance is so far off normal it's almost alien.
Should add the project name, Headscale, to the title

Headscale has been on HN many times.
Any free versions of Cursor or Aider?