skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Such cruelty from the top of any organisation is a sign of impending failure. Leading by that example will only retain the vultures, who will pick the carcass of the best parts then move on. Let the ants and dung beetles deal with the shit parts once we're done.

It's going to get worse before it gets better, and I hope the majority of the "worse" will remain contained in the US. The rest of the world is still going to get some in it's mouth though.
Same. North America performance (US and Mexico) had ~200ms+ latency per query, spiking to 500ms or higher in the test application I made using workers and D1. Their support channel was a discord, so I posted in it and never got a reply.

I was surprised because Cloudflare’s central messaging is that their network is fast, and disappointed becuase I’m a happy user of their other products (domains, DNS, pages, and R2).
It was nosql.. until one used notessql to get it into ansi sql over an odbc connection.
Is there a torrent file containing all of these torrent files?
On top of that, I hear the RAW format on some smartphones is saved after the phone does its fake-HDR and computational photography bullshit, so it's even further from "raw" with those cameras.
KLM still does the painted tiles animation, right?

As far as I can tell, they use real crew to present the concept, so maybe that doesn't as any actors, but it is definitely not completely animated.
> I suspect we could cut the DOD budget by 10-20% and maintain current capabilities

What is that based on? Just suspicion? (At least that honest!)

DoD before the rise of China (and Russia) could afford to cut back. But China is an enormous problem, and an enormous problem of resources.

Wealth drives victory in war more than anything else, except maybe population. Obviously China far exceeds the US and allies in population. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union's economy was (much, I think) smaller than the US, and the Warsaw Pact's was smaller than NATOs. By 2050, with four times the population, if China is only half as wealthy as the US per capita, it would have an economy twice as large. The US has never faced a threat like that.

DoD already cuts and restricts many programs because they can't afford them. For example, the NGAD fighter plane - the next generation fighter plane, a big deal - faces great uncertainty (despite Trump's showboating) because the US can't really afford it. That's just one program of many.

Allies help share the burden, but we are alienating all of them.

> There are a lot of programs that are failing to execute and have for years

Which ones? And programs exist to solve problems - what better ways do you have for solving the problems? The problems don't go away.

> if they're already late then we aren't getting any value from them at this point

We should cancel every late program? Again, what better solutions do you have? Start a new program and lose the progress of the existing one?

Now these are all just words backed by suspicions. Give us some reason to believe!
Thanks, excellent comments.
I would have liked to read something about the legal mechanics here. The bill has had the entirety of its text removed, and the text has been replaced with a thoroughly trivial change to the required procedure for selling aircraft under some circumstances. (Instead of posting public notice in three public places, you have to post it in five public places.)

Obviously, (1) the purpose of this is to withdraw the bill; and (2) nobody really cares about the adjustment to the sale procedure.

So I can infer that replacing the bill with an unrelated bill of the same name is easier than replacing it with nothing at all. But why is that?
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The Boys coming true, in banal form.
This is not what they are doing either. If you look at the overall “savings” so far, it’s actually negligible. This is a front for an ideological purge only and that’s the entirety of what they are doing.
> You can choose not to use any service that uses ads and only use ones that allow you to pay for ad free experiences.

Ads are so incredibly pervasive I effectively cannot.

There's stores I go to which only post their hours on instagram. There's friends I communicate with where my only communication avenue is instagram.

When I walk outside of my door I see billboards and ads, when I install an app required for my daily life, it's full of ads. iPhone, android, and windows all have ads by default littered throughout default apps.

We live in a society, and becoming a weirdo who refuses to use anything that doesn't run on my linux-phone will isolate me from that society. It's perfectly possible to criticize a thing and imagine alternatives without first becoming richard stallman.
If I want to mess around with something without endangering the system I put it in ~/bin. You could compile unzip from source and rename it something like ~/bin/newunzip. If it doesn't work just delete it.
It's literally a nod to the fact that the framework may give you something close to what you want but off in some way. It's pretty much the perfect name for what it is.
Isn't that what the IRS has already been doing the last few years, and has been making good progress on, except that they have been doing it properly so it behaves right?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewleahey/2024/09/06/from-co...

It seems more than a little silly to try to rewrite something when it isn't necessary since it has already been done. And that goes double if the goal is efficiency since it cost money to do something that doesn't need to be done.
Where is Scott Forstall mark in all of this evolution I wonder. He was responsible for adapting macOS, hence XNU, to iPhone. The most successful Apple product of all times. And where is he now?
> unless you're saying they are significantly stupider, they can learn

I'm saying that there's a far larger portion of the population using computers, and they all benefit extensively from R&D going into UX design that allow people to use computers without having to "learn".

What kind of dissociation from reality leads anyone to believe your regular joe will even have the motivation to waste their time sitting in front a computer, open a terminal, and type commands? Some software engineers don't even want to touch a computer when they clock out, and you expect others to push themselves to "learn" something the have no interest in?
The caveat being if you have even a coarse-grained sense of market timing, this works strongly against your own pnl. The optimal strategy is to long the bubble, short the correction, then long the recovery. It’s not possible to do perfectly but you can often sell for part of the way down and skip some of your losses before buying back in. This generally would increase vol but is personally advantageous if you can do it.

It is incredibly to “follow your lizard brain” and destroy your returns. Selloff? “Time to be greedy!” Whoops, caught that falling knife with your hand. Maybe it’s a V-shaped recovery a la corona. Maybe it’s a decade plus like the Nasdaq post-dot-com. Rally? “Time to be fearful!” Wait, it keeps going up? Do you get more fearful? Do you sit in cash for years amidst inflation and high returns?
At the time, there was trust that the government wanted to assist the recovery. They have lost the benefit of the doubt. This actually feels malicious.

With Covid, recovery came as Covid was removed. With Trump, recovery can come with…
I think moldable development needs a few tutorials demonstrating concrete use cases. Without those it feels promising in the abstract, but I doubt many developers are able to connect with it and figure out how to actually use it.

It feels so open ended that I wouldn’t know where to start. And I’ve actually spent several hours exploring Glamorous Toolkit!
I am assuming they're referring to TinyWall's "allowlist this process" or time-based rule capabilities. Windows Defender firewall can allowlist applications, but you have to feed it a path to the executable image.

Such things have been around for ages - I remember getting a free license somehow for a host-based IDS back in the Windows Vista times (struggled to look it up but I believe it was SAX2 by Ax3soft). It had some interesting features but running on an underpowered laptop the overhead cost more frustration than it was worth.
> The largest fraction, totaling about $300b itself, is military retirement programs and funding. The other largest fraction is internal spending on healthcare for active duty members and their families.

Imagine the benefits to defense if the US reduced health care costs from the 2x-3x it spends relative to peers. I've thought that would be an appealing way to sell healthcare reform to Republicans.
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After the initial COVID phases nothing major really changed long term as far as the world balance goes though. Everyone got affected, everyone started recovering. Things may have been uneven, but not like now, right?
There is so far as I can tell no law or regulation against showing people drinking beer in a beer commercial.
Query: Could you explain the terminology to people who don't follow this that closely?
I was surprised how hard it is. I found myself clicking words that obviously contained another letter. BTW I made something related to anagrams more than a decade ago. If you want to see an animation of one word into another you can put it into an URL. Here's one that I ran into in this game: https://anigram.herokuapp.com/etlas/least
But now everyone has the same problem getting dollars because everyone's got tariffs. The EU and their non-American suppliers. If said suppliers need dollars to pay back dollar-based debts, and those debtors aren't in the US, then they are also tariffed. Maybe they're all open to re-denominating debts and contracts in a currency that is easier to obtain and spend.
What I heard was that it was that the poor fellow tried to shoot himself but didn't get a direct hit. Because there was some time passed between the shooting and the death, they didn't find the gun and the body in the same place that you would expect.
I think you're missing the author's point, which is made in the last three paragraphs.

The point is exactly that these diametrically opposed ideologies do not actually exist, but that ideologues often paint their opponents that way.

A typical example is seen among the more extreme pro-choice activists. They frequently make claims like "It's not about protecting babies, they [pro-life people] just want to control women's bodies".
Where do you see technological advantage over China? There is some, but not in everything and not by the large margins the US was accustomed to.
Morals? Ethics?

It's illegal. Any judiciary statement is ignored and unenforced. Trump will blanket pardon anyone anytime he wants to do so. Besides violating centuries of precedent and well-established policy from the age of the spoils system.

The only small solace is watching the conservatives get owned by Trump's tariffs. I'm sure they'll make the best of it (fundamentally it is a consumption tax and highly regressive and probably is just regulatory moat once exemptions are bribed out of Trump).
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There is a reply to the original Chinese post (whose link is in the reddit post):

(translated by Google)

"In the past two days, I have humbly listened to feedback from all parties (for example, defects in coding, creative writing, etc. must be improved). I hope that there will be improvements in the next version.

However, we have never overfit the test set just to fake the benchmarks. My real name is Licheng Yu, and I have handled the posttraining of two OSS models. Please let me know which prompt was selected from the test set and put into the training set, and I will apologize!"
It's called a gut and amend procedure. Welcome to the California legislature!

[0] https://capitolweekly.net/the-micheli-files-gut-and-amend-bi...
One of the big claims is that perhaps the Biden administration had a policy of issuing ssn’s to illegal immigrants. I’m not agreeing or endorsing but this is one of the issues their looking into. If Elon were trustable as an honest broker, this would be compelling to investigate.

https://youtu.be/SrOAY3oQ4oc?si=5O0oinGKAuIju6FJ
It's fascinating to me when you tell one that you'd like to see translated passages of work from authors who never have written or translated the item in question, especially if they passed away before the piece was written.

The AI will create something for you and tell you it was them.
> my first thought is "my favorite store is having a sale."

This gets repeated a lot, but unless you already had most of your portfolio in cash it’s not actually a net win to see a drawdown like this.

The course of the global economy was just altered. The best case scenario would be if the proposed tariffs go away completely, but even then the markets will be cautious for the next 4 years at minimum.

The market is down because the future prospects for those businesses just got much worse. Yeah you can buy them at a cheaper price, but their corresponding future output remains down as well.

It’s like seeing a thing you wanted to buy go on sale, but upon closer inspection it’s on sale because it became damaged and you’re buying damaged goods.

The best case scenario is that the administration pulls the “just kidding” card, reverses course, and claims some sort of victory while returning to the previous status quo. If that happens, stocks were briefly on sale even though they’re not rebounding back right away. However, if the administration digs their heels in and tries to push forward then the market is going to continue downward.

This isn’t a normal drawdown. This is a crisis with the leadership of the United States.
This is very nice article, objectively lists possible pitfalls.
It's however not quite that simple.
I am in favor of removing as, but then try_from needs to work with more types, for example try converting u64 into f32 without using as. It turns out to be very hard. TryInto does not work in single step.

Important aspect is performance. HPC code needs to be able to opt out of math checks.

Also Results and Options are very costly, as they introduce lot of branching. Panic is just faster. Hopefully one day rust will use something like IEX by default https://docs.rs/iex/latest/iex/
It has the same benefits as Results, but if error is returned in less than 15% of function calls, then IEX is much faster.

Btw. allocation failure in std returning Result anytime soon?
Refutations to Roko's Basilisk
I know the basilisk is well trodden ground, but it comes up in conversations in my day to day with people who I'm relaying AI concepts to and I'd like to put my thoughts into words. I haven't read anything that makes my exact argument before, so I'm making my first substack contribution now.
Nah, thanks lol. Not gonna risk seeding something unverified oO
The other option here is "pick an OS and when necessary install newer packages from source."

We've been doing this for a long time at my current workplace (for dev containers) and haven't run into any problems.
That's his point. In the moment, everyone panics and thinks XYZ catastrophe is the end of the world as we know it. In hindsight, it never is.

But who knows?! Maybe this is the time...
Are you seriously suggesting that countries will just force their citizens to buy products they can't afford and don't want? Especially democratic nations? Seriously?
That seems rather grim that killing part of a tumor accelerated its outward growth. I wonder if cancers are considered on the continuum of life like viruses? Our bodies are a bunch of individual cells that have been yoked together in a very complex way. Cancer seems to sometimes be an internal misguided revolution or throwback maybe.
According to the assembly rules (if I am understanding them correctly), amendments like that are considered out of order and can be shot down with a majority vote:

"92. An amendment to any bill, other than a bill stating legislative
intent to make necessary statutory changes to implement the Budget
Bill, whether reported by a committee or offered by a Member, is not in
order when the amendment relates to a different subject than, is intended
to accomplish a different purpose than, or requires a title essentially
different than, the original bill."

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/rules/assembly_rules.pdf

That being said, it seems that typically nobody in the legislature ever cares to challenge it. I saw it happen for another bill this session too (an AI bill that became something about commercial fishing).
> We’re literally torching two billion dollars a day on the military when we’re not at war and not under threat.

Would you just start spending when the war starts? Then you'll get a war much sooner (the enemy will see your weakness) but you'll save money (the war will end quickly).

> not under threat

China, most of all? Russia? Iran?
he's right... it's very, very common. and along multiple generations (well at least current 20 to 50s) and multiple cultures.
I ran into this issue too since I implemented an --rsh wrapper script (based on https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/13776) and the options passed to ssh are different (samba rsync passes in -l user host command, openrsync passes in user@host command).

> openrsync accepts only a subset of rsync’s command line arguments.

I have not upgraded to MacOS Sequoia yet so I cannot verify but from the source (https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/rsync/blob/rsync-...) it appears that there is a wrapper and they ship both samba rsync and openrsync and fall back to samba if you use an unsupported option?
Domino lived around 20 years longer than OS/2.
so, anthropomorphism to be safe?
how much have you made so far?
It's not that either, and you are validating the GP's point. Rust has a very specific 'unsafe' keyword that every Rust developer interpret implicitly and instinctively as 'potentially memory-unsafe'. Consequently, 'safe' is interpreted as the opposite - 'guaranteed memory-safe'. Using that word as an abbreviation among Rust developers is therefore not uncommon.

However while speaking about Rust language in general, all half-decent Rust developers specify that it's about memory safety. Even the Rust language homepage has only two instances of the word - 'memory-safety' and 'thread-safety'. The accusations of sleaziness and false accusations is disingenuous at best.
...that's rather a different question, I think. Rsync doesn't claim to use a semantic diff.
Just tried with o3-mini-high and it came up with something pretty reasonable: https://chatgpt.com/share/67f35ae9-5ce4-800c-ba39-6288cb4685...
I like this bit:

> Personally, when I want to get a sense of capability improvements in the future, I'm going to be looking almost exclusively at benchmarks like Claude Plays Pokemon.

Definitely interested to see how the best models from Anthropics competitors do at this.,
email is dead, even gov's use chat clients with emoticons ;)

That email is your internet id and majority countries digital id too ? Who cares, things usually need to be so broken that even elected officials families report problems :) Then we can have some "plans" announced. EU is especially good at this - announcing (and pushing for more centralization no matter what is happening) and not fixing anything, eg. sane CPU's, when ? Rhetoric question because not in this decade...
The person you responded to said “can crush” not “has crushed”, so your pedantic point isn’t warranted.
Indirectly, is this post.. why JavaScript?
Yes, I'm tempted to buy the dip but as a novice how do I know I'm not just hopping in the down elevator.
The closest modern analogy might be Liz Truss’ short tenure in the U.K. Her actions paled in comparison to this absurd tariff situation but the only way to resolve it and restore confidence was for her to resign.

The problem in the US is that the tariff situations is bonkers insane, was clearly not thought out at all, and the person controlling the strings is talking about ways to run for a 3rd term instead of considering resignation.

This is a political crisis. The best we can hope for is that the Senate pushes forward with attempts to reign in the president’s tariff powers and the House actually goes along, which is unlikely right now.

I think we’re going to start seeing Republicans test the waters with breaking rank with Trump soon though.
I almost never get all my K-1s in order in time to file. So I basically always file for an extension.
I don't follow. If the economy collapsed, nobody would want fake money you can't spend whose value relies on someone else with excess income.

Gold is a significantly better, safer purchase.
It's okay to not get a joke. Happens to the best of us. No need to grouse about it.
Don't let what people who don't know that much more than you say freak you out too much.
The IRS is political - the Republicans have made cutting (some say eliminating) the IRS a priority for many years now.
But how good is it at Pokemon?
I would love a feature like retention policies at the filesystem level. If it could somehow take data provenance into account, that would be even better, i.e. data that I've created directly is irreplaceable and should never be deleted unless I say so and should always be backed up (photographs, writing, project source code, art, game save files, my list of installed applications, etc.); data that I've created indirectly is high priority but may be deleted under certain circumstances or may be omitted from backups (browsing history, shell history, recently opened file lists, frequently used app lists); data that can be easily replaced is low priority and may be cleaned up at any time and need not be backed up at all, contingent on how replaceable it is (application files, cached data).
“Should” statements are different from “is” statements - I would not expect them to compile.
I think your second point is the most revealing: government can’t get away with externalising the costs of unemployment the way a private company can.
> Especially deleting old emails and photos.

Google or apple can put a big button delete everything in their phones/accounts but then some prankster will do it to a family member and this gives bad PR. Let's be pragmatic.

> It's in their interest to retain everything at all costs, because more used storage can mean more profits.

As an user, I get the reverse. When I had local NAS then I dumped anything and everything - assuming.. this costs not much. Will clean up later. Once I moved to cloud that changed to If I put crap then it will cost me money! Keep it clean

Once upon a time Google had given generous unlimited to all education and workspace. They stopped it in the last 2 years and you can see most educational and companies are running a tight ship.

Due to backup costs in our organisation we are forcing people to use max of 100GB for emails.

> advanced filesystems don't include "expiration dates" or "purge dates" on file objects. Wouldn't it be logical, if an organization

Totally agree.

Outlook email service has some kind of keep only the last newsletter from this service etc.

> auto-delete could be configurable account-wide, for more than just our web histories

- features are designed with majority in mind
- most users have some sort of nostalgia for reading or keeping old emails SMS etc
How does blocking their conversion help citizens? Are we saying all AI companies must be nonprofit?
I hate searching for vintage computer stuff only to find broken hyperlinks to lost pages that once contained useful information or software but is now gone forever.