skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a fairly recent interview where he was asked about DOGE, Bill Gates estimated 10-15% waste in government spending. Saving that amount is not worth all the collateral long term damage Trump is doing.

You may not put much stock in another billionaire's opinion, but personally I think he's been engaged with our system enough to have a good perspective on things.

That doesn't mean every government operations are 90% efficient, but I'd rather walk the side of slowness and bureaucracy than graft and corruption, let alone Trump's outright fascism.

And by the way, my father worked at a federal manufacturing plant so I've heard plenty of stories, good and bad.
Like this? https://github.com/ffmpegwasm/ffmpeg.wasm
You're extrapolating to cases that are different to a subscription to a digital software service. Companies have slowly but steadily made us shift and put subscriptions in our heads because is the easiest way to make more money and strictly control their software. This is just as pushing ads everywhere is the easiest way to make money on almost every website. The ideal, most fair consumer approach is to charge the user by its daily usage. Why? Because companies are doing exactly the opposite, they are charging us for future usage for max profitability. Just log each day I have used the app and charge me fairly. It can be perfectly done. But the excuse obviously from their side would be that is too much complex to do that, right? BS.
>But I (an American) pay for some European services in Euros, meaning those got 10% more expensive.

European services would be the least of issues. The main issue would be the tons of foreign imported food, cars, products, clothes, gadgets, and so on - including tons of component parts for "american" products (not to mention materials and tooling to make even the increasingly rarer "100% made in US" products).
for my daily work i use aider, but i jump into roo and client when there is an update, or someone has an interesting workflow. it's like taking a test drive.
The US is still the runaway leader for funding in research. American expenditure for R&D was 940 billion dollars while the EU’s was 411 billion [1]. I doubt Canada, Switzerland, the Uk, and AusNZ combined come close to matching that gap. If we get the proposed defense budget, that R&D spending will actually go up, just not in matters many people care about immediately.

With the zeitgeist shifting, I wouldn’t be surprised if we see an exodus of people in the soft sciences and liberal arts though. It’s not like they’re leaving a lot on the table if they leave America.

1. https://www.reuters.com/world/scientists-us-harried-by-trump...
> someone says something dumb 5 years ago

Fire them, debank them, humiliate them, destroy their life.

> someone commits petty crime for the 13th time.

Meh

I just don’t post anything publicly anymore because the EV is clearly negative now. Luckily the people I meet in the real world are not the thought police.
And remember that all this is to give a tax cut to the rich.
Most americans support Israel in this conflict. Maybe the samples are just biased?
This is a great loss for the whole Matrix ecosystem. To succeed, the protocol needs at least one performant and reliable server. Synapse is still slow, finicky and difficult.
Except OpenAI has like 2000 employees.
> Perhaps I'm wrong, but I believe HTTP streaming is for chunking large blobs.

You are wrong in the case of Chrome and Firefox. I have tried it and streaming e.g. unordered list elements are displayed instantly.

But for Safari, "text/html" streaming happens in 512 byte chunks[1].

[1] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=265386
> The more third world countries participate in any given agency, the more of a tire fire it is.

I don't know about other U.N. agencies.

But I find Andrew Millison's youtube blogs [0] to be quite interesting on the subject. His blog about refugees [1] for example.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/@amillison

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfiH9T-iR3E
Wasn’t fear and silence the reality for everyone else on campus until now? This is not flamebait, I’m genuinely curious
> Artists don't hate Adobe just because they're making an AI art generator, they hate Adobe because it's a predatory, scummy corporation that is difficult to work with and is the gatekeeper for common industry tools.

From what I've seen from artists, they hate Adobe for both reasons, and the AI thing is often more of a dogmatic, uncompromising hate (and is not based on any of the various rationalizations used to persuade others to act in accord with it) and less of the kind of hate that is nevertheless willing to accept products for utility.
If no one told me about this being about schizophrenia, I would interpret Figure 3 as a categorization of american movies and series.
>Even Ukraine was excited to see Biden leave office so they could at least have a chance for a better arrangement with America.

That doesn’t align with what I saw. Can you provide evidence? Because it was pretty clear to me that it would go exactly as it has, which is pretty terribly for Ukraine.

- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Trump%E2%80%93Zelenskyy...

- https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna200977
It's quite clearly a yellow-box, made from The Chest hide.

https://homestarfanstuff.fandom.com/wiki/The_Cheat
I recommend it! I did that and started using https://www.quasitv.app, which is similar. It completely removes the paralysis you're talking about.
What on earth is going on in the comment section? Do diagnosis articles always attract “examples”?
Ah, I am on iOS, which doesn't seem to have this (or I've turned it off). I'll see if I can replicate it on a friend's phone. Thanks!
This sounds awfully close to woke.
And it'll be back in the next update.
Working on vintage computers, it's unavoidable. Removing failed components like recapping usually involve desoldering machines which use heat and suction which creates spatter and waste inside of the machine and who knows maybe even toxicity that isn't part of normal soldering.
Trump won the popular vote. I don't think this is going away without a major demographic shift, time probably measured in decades.
Show HN: Httpok – httpok is a fast, minimalistic desktop HTTP client
httpok is a fast, minimalistic desktop HTTP client
IMO, this should be the model for everything folks depend on (including internet, shelter). Pay to get it faster/better, otherwise the government provides a good enough service that private companies must compete with.
"enemies" is anyone with a differing opinion.

"deep state" is anyone with a differing opinion that works in government.
I have no knowledge of any of these but do you think webRTC might be superior to websockets for a multiplayer game at this point?
Yes, but the names are not hallucinated

They being python is the hallucination- the names exist in its training data
The AI doesn't intend anything. It produces, without intent, something that would be called lies if it came from a human. It produces the industrial-scale mass-produced equivalent of lies – it's effectively an automated lying machine.

Maybe we should call the output "synthetic lies" to distinguish it it from the natural lies produced by humans?
Bandit is coupled to Plug, so there isn't really a way to use it without Plug. But if you just don't want to use Plug.Router, you can always make your own router (with whatever perf implications that may or may not have). Plug.Router and Phoenix.Router are just middleware and Plug a middleware specification. You can do a case statement on `%Plug.Conn{}.request_path` or `.path_info`.

For Cowboy, what's wrong with the docs? Erlang translates to Elixir pretty cleanly (list comprehensions and records notwithstanding): prefix atoms with `:`, downcase variables, `%` maps, and `~c""` Erlang strings. If you're really itchy (as in the look of using atoms as modules makes you itchy), you can alias the Erlang modules as Elixir module atoms: `alias :cowboy_router, as: CowboyRouter`.
I wish Desqview supported higher text modes than 80x25.
Am I supposed to seriously believe people found that so offensive that the poster was banned for that? Were those crying, feigning offence, being satirical themselves? Truly Poe's Law at work here.

>I personally found it incredibly distasteful

How? Why? It's clearly satire, written in the style of The Onion.

>and also fairly representative of the quality of conversation you often get from some of the Nix community

Good satire? At least some members aren't brainrotted out to the point of no return.

> I'm not offensive, you're just thin skinned, can't you take a joke, etc.

It's clearly not offensive and if that upset you, you clearly have thin skin and can't take the blandest of jokes. Histrionic.

>I no longer endorse its use for any purpose and I seek to replace every piece of it that I was using.

I will also tell others not to use Nix after reading that. The community is indeed too toxic.

>I still hear about the ways they continue to royally fuck up their governance and make negligible progress on detoxifying the culture.

They won't detoxify until they remove all the weak neurotic leftist activists with weird fetishes for "underrepresented minorities."

>It took them until last fucking week to ban Anduril from making hiring posts on the same official forum.

I'm not sure who that is or why it's an issue, but I assume it's something only leftists cry about.
Yes, someone who truly wants greatness should be able to hear a poorly thought our argument, cognitively question the counter party to help them articulate exactly what they are thinking, or even articulate it better themself. Then you can weigh and measure competing arguments.

A high-functioning team is going to have at least one person who does this. For a perpetually high functioning team this is going to be second nature.
> The USA are safe from brain drain. And I'm saying that as a one living in Canada ...
I am saying as one living in US that it is not. I personally know some brilliant engineers who are in a dilemma because of the uncertainities that lies ahead.
Cool project, another entry to aicoderlist.com
On a Mac, that's fine. On Windows, it's not, because then I can't control the app any more.

I have been using Word since version 4 on DOS and version 5 on Classic MacOS. On Windows, I used WinWord 1, 2, 6, 95, 97, 2000, XP and 2003... then 4 years later MS ripped out the UI I knew backwards and had known for about 16 years, since 1991, and replaced it with one inferior in every way for me.

I'm not denying it might be better for others but for me it's now a waste of disk space.

The old versions do all I need, so I keep them. For everything except Word, there is LibreOffice.

But LibreOffice Writer has no outline mode, and I am a writer: that is THE killer function of Word for me.

So, Word 97 under WINE on Linux and Word 2003 when I have to use Win10 or -- shudder -- Win11.
And Tubi
Who provides internet
On the first team where we did code reviews, I found in RCAs for the bad bugs that snuck in that there was a dearth of comments on the CR that introduced it.

But usually the severity was more correlated with a lack of comments on the tests. Giant holes in test cases meant giant bugs. So don’t call a PR ready to land until you’ve gotten a few substantive critiques. Because the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

For the bugs I introduced (I am highly bug-averse) it was either zero comments on tests, or bugs introduced by the CR process - changes I was coerced into making that I felt were wrong. And I can’t say which sort of subconscious resistance was at work there. Self sabotage for making changes I don’t want to, or my sixth sense for robust code telling me the suggestion is an antipattern. Probably both.

What I learned from that last, which I confirmed in subsequent years, was that as a team you should only tolerate major pushback on a CR/PR at the beginning of the review process. Anyone who jumps in late with Needs Work demands, especially after a round of feedback changes has already landed, has lost their right to participate in the review. Because as a PR drags on, everyone gets tired of looking at it and has a less critical eye for spotting bugs that have been introduced by committee. It quickly becomes better odds that the original bugs the early reviewers did not catch are less dangerous than the ones that will be introduced by work-hardening the PR.

It’s the same mechanic that makes pushing code or a deployment after 4pm a bad idea. Confirmation bias is greatly amplified by a desire to be somewhere else.
I think I'll add a hint button that identifies one letter that isn't yet placed correctly, and it puts it in place (and doesn't allow it to be subsequently moved). Thanks!
Yeah washing your contaminated hands is good for you but but for the water that you washed with and went down the drain.
I think of my watch the same way a lot of people think of jewelry, or suits, or things like that. While it does serve a purpose (telling time), the primary reason I wear it is because I like it. It's functional, but mostly decorative.

I inherited my watch from my father, and I almost certainly wouldn't spend thousands to buy one myself; but I wear it every time I go out to dinner for anything fancier than that.
> unlike openai, google is already cashflow positive and doesnt need to raise any external funds

this can quickly change in several quarters, if users decide to leave google search, then all google org/infra complexity will play very badly against them
Have you asked your LLMs if they're capable of lying?

Did the answers strike you as deceptive?
The fancy clinic was good enough for them to approve it for their own wives, it seems.
Do you think Luigi's actions fixed anything?
Did the multiple people attempting to assassinate Trump fix anything?
Did Assassinating MLK Jr or JFK fix anything?
It’s not that the imports don’t exist, they did in the original codebase the LLM creator stole from by ignoring the projects license terms.
The original bit from the datastar website that was quoted was talking about polling.
LLMs on GPUs have a lot of computational inefficiencies and untapped parallelism. GPUs have been designed for more diverse workloads with much smaller working sets. LLM inference is ridiculously DRAM-bound. We currently have 10×-200× too much compute available compared to the DRAM bandwidth required. Even without improvements in transistors we can get more efficient hardware for LLMs.

The way we use LLMs is also primitive and inefficient. RAG is a hack, and in most LLM architectures the RAM cost grows quadratically with the context length, in a workload that is already DRAM-bound, on a hardware that already doesn't have enough RAM.

> Depending on US tariffs […] end of fossil fuels […] global supply chain

It does look pretty bleak for the US.

OTOH China is rolling out more than a gigawatt of renewables a day, has the largest and fastest growing HVDC grid, a dominant position in battery and solar production, and all the supply chains. With the US going back to mercantilism and isolationism, China is going to have Taiwan too.
Passkey Garden: a living style-guide for passkeys
> The problem is not that incontrovertible proof cannot be provided real time. Yielding evidence from complex, esoteric systems is always difficult and time-consuming.

This is why we've started to write down larger decisions, the reasons and spots of uncertainty for these decisions in a central, public place. I'm jokingly referring to this as our growing constitution of tech.

I think this is right, because some of these decisions are not entirely comfortable, but a lot of bright people have thought about this over time and this compromise is what we figured is the most effective and workable one.

I'm entirely willing to up-end one of these decisions, but only if something strong comes up that hasn't been discussed in the past many times. But, our reasoning is here, and everyone can take all time they need to make a case why it's wrong, or some case needs further consideration and detail.
Claude Code > all
But you[1] are willing to spend money, so you can pay someone else to worry about that.

[1] Based on the original comment. If you personally are not willing to spend money, your reply doesn't fit the conversation.
If you follow the link on the sentence you quoted, the reason why is explained there
"If you want to play the TV channels in Plex using the spoofed HDHR, Plex Pass is required."

FYI with ErsatzTV, the one I use, (which is great) a Plex Pass isn't needed.
Very strong statement, one I don't really believe
AI doesn’t have “intent” at all.
That's very different from prism. It's also why Google has spent a lot of energy trying to make it impossible for them to see the contents of your data. The government cannot conpel information Google doesn't have access to. I'm also not sure it's relevant for the topic of this post.
Don't think we'll see one.

The more likely outcome is US quality of life & prosperity drops sharply.

Most people don't have the ability to move easily given that most countries require work visas for US citizens.
You found a puff piece from 2010 to extoll Trump?

(It appears to be a promotional piece for a "CNBC Titans" episode featuring Trump.)

I try to assume good intent, which includes not writing off the odd things people post as bot-generated, but in this case, attributing this to a bot is quite a positive spin.
For many, this stuff is mostly about copilot being shoved down everyone's throats via ms office obnoxious ads and distractions, and I haven't yet heard of anyone liking it or perceiving it as an improvement. We are now years into this, so my bets are on the thing fading away slowly and becoming a taboo at Microsoft.
That law applies to all of Google's US customers too.
> The Israelis also actively prevent any aid from reaching gaza

Then why is there so much aid in gaza? Israel controls gazas borders. If they didnt want aid in gaza there wouldnt be any. I just dont see how you plan to convince anyone when the thigns you are claiming are so obviously untrue
I think you could estimate the risk in micromorts from taking LSD from darkweb and find it’s not that different from other activities you do regularly (~multiple times a year, if not more)
What aspects do you not like about Rust?
There is a pattern when you remove the versions few people used.
“Big pharma” spent nothing on Bernie Sanders because healthcare execs hate him and he doesn’t take money from corporate PACs. Individual, low level employees donated to him for the same reason they donate to any other politician. This has been widely known and understood since the baseless false equivalency was raised months ago and that you still repeat it just demonstrates the depths of the bad faith.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/fact-check-rfk-jr-misrepresented-...
>This assumes that he has more power than the tech companies

lol

Even the San Francisco city council is bullying American tech companies and tech executives.

The power of US tech companies is vastly overstated.
The reason that military forces tend to be composed mostly of men is for two very practical reasons:

1. Men are on average physically stronger than women, and at their peak are physically stronger than is possible for any woman. This is more useful in a combat situation.

2. Women's bodies are specialized for pregnancy and childbirth. Without women providing this essential function, the next generation of humanity would not exist. By contrast, men are more disposable because all they do is provide the sperm.

A society where almost all women have been killed in battle cannot effectively repopulate, as there is a bottleneck of pregnancy: it is a long process that - excluding relatively rare cases of multiple births - requires one woman per newborn to conduct. A society where almost all men have been killed can repopulate much more rapidly, as it only takes a small number of men to fulfil the male reproductive role of providing sperm.

In fact the existence of sperm banks makes the widespread obliteration of males even less of a risk to the survival of humanity. Plus there is a promising subfield of stem cell research on growing viable sperm from female cells, which would remove the reliance upon males entirely.
>> Nothing

For most people, getting blowjobs from a subordinate in the office during work hours would result in more than just a warning.
100% true.

The sad thing is that Windows has a great keyboard UI and it's superbly accessible for people with visual and motor disabilities.

Who have reduced earning opportunities because they are disabled, so FOSS should be great for them, but it isn't, because the nerds don't know CUA and don't know the keyboard UI. They spend their time mastering a couple of ancient apps like Vi and Emacs and ignore the fiery furnace of UI R&D that followed for the next 20Y after those early efforts.

Learn Windows' keyboard UI and you can drive the whole OS and all its apps with the speed of a genius Vim user with 20 years' practice. It makes Emacs look like a wet paper pad and a burned stick compared to a Moleskine notebook and a top quality fountain pen.

Xfce comes close and implements maybe 75% of the UI but once you are in an app all bets are off.
I think the most probable outcome is that Trump causes enough trouble to incite the whole country against him.

I don't see him completing his term. He's going to be impeached.
Meta's Llama caught referencing random people's phone numbers
I'm having trouble wrapping my head around the price on this. $500 up front, _plus_ a subscription, and it doesn't even include the display. What are you getting for that cost? It _feels_ like something you could install as software on an RPi or any other computer.
please add HEIC: the default file format from iPhones
Auto parts, but also autos.
LLMs don’t really “know” though.mif you look at the recent Anthropic findings, they show that large language models can do math like addition but they do it weird way and when you asked the model how they arrive to the solution they provide method that is completely different to how they actually do it
Vala [1] is, perhaps, the most prominent example of practically used programming language with such compiler.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vala_(programming_language)
For me it’s less about trustworthiness and more about what they can do with the information. Google can potentially locate, profile and influence everyone around me and I don’t want that type of power however benevolent they are.

What can OpenAI do? They can sell my data, whatever, it’s a whole bunch of prompts of me asking for function and API syntax.
A company who who has a shiny thing that it charges money for, posting on a site specifically created for the expression of the malcontent characteristic of toxic malcontents, and the output is predictable.

Undoubtedly Adobe has legions of users who take a more nuanced view of Adobe and who would also be the type to use Bluesky. And yet.

I'd consider the complaints to be essentially the emotions that come up when people covet unaffordable privately created property.
"Nice smartphone business you have here..."
Credit where credit is due, you're right. I'll admit, I was very unimpressed with the Chiang family's rule in general and ascribed the success of Taiwan to them not being charge, which was not correct. Quoting from the end of the wikipedia background article on the Taiwan Miracle:

> After retreating to Taiwan, Chiang learned from his mistakes and failures in the mainland and blamed them for failing to pursue Sun Yat-sen's ideals of Tridemism and welfarism. Chiang's land reform more than doubled the land ownership of Taiwanese farmers. It removed the rent burdens on them, with former land owners using the government compensation to become the new capitalist class. He promoted a mixed economy of state and private ownership with economic planning. Chiang also promoted a 9-years compulsory education and the importance of science in Taiwanese education and values. These measures generated great success with consistent and strong growth and the stabilization of inflation.