MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tonetegeatinst | 2025-08-22 22:33:33+00:00
Yes, but its semiconductor industry so its complicated.

Intel got money via grants from the chip act and via other governments. Part of the reason they got that money was to help them build the chip fans in the USA and funding research and workforce in other nations. The fact Intel has claimed its slowing construction basically is a full 180° spin and will set them back in manufacturing ability.

Previous CEO strategy was focused on heavy investment in catching up on manufacturing ability. But once you get stuck on a node it becomes expensive to catch up.

New CEO is clearly trying to shed weight. They have let go of a significant % of workforce, stopped certain projects all together, and seem to be basically selling off parts of their technology and assets to keep cashflow positive.

Given the current CEO and his history and connections, plus the US government involvement it looks like a rocky situation.
by FireBeyond | 2025-08-22 22:33:36+00:00
As a paramedic, multiple times I've watched police walk into a mental health emergency that we were handing satisfactorily, to everyone's contentment, patient, family, bystanders...

... and escalate it into a law enforcement situation.

One situation sticks in my mind. Person had broken a glass bottle on a curb. Family member was sweeping and cleaning that up while we dealt with laceration and planning for in-patient help (they were off their meds).

LE shows up, and immediately starts yelling aggressively at the patient about the broken glass, liability for any tires, injuries. Patient makes some comments back, so LE gets in his face and yells more, leads to patient trying to push off a bit and saying "get out of my face", cop is arresting him for assaulting a police officer.

Only with me and my partner talking to the Sergeant who showed up shortly after did it get de-escalated, but better believe the cop (and even the Sergeant) weren't happy with us about it.
by parliament32 | 2025-08-22 22:33:58+00:00
The CHIPS grants had clawback provisions, which carry risk. This transaction removes that risk, so it's very good news for Intel.

> The existing claw-back and profit-sharing provisions associated with the government’s previously dispersed $2.2 billion grant to Intel under the CHIPS Act will be eliminated to create permanency of capital as the company advances its U.S. investment plans.
by chowells | 2025-08-22 22:34:16+00:00
Fighting games do not use server-mediated simulation, in general. Cheating is actually a huge problem in popular games. And in fact, even running a server-mediated simulation wouldn't help with any of the common cheating in fighting games.

For instance, a common cheat in Street Fighter 6 is to trigger a drive impact in response to the startup of a move that is unsafe to a drive impact. That is recognizing the opponent's animation and triggering an input. There's no part of that which cares where the game simulation is being done. In fact, this kind of cheating can only be detected statistically. And the cheats have tools to combat that by adding random triggering chances and delays. It's pretty easy to tune a cheat to be approximately as effective as a high-level player.

Kernel-level anticheat isn't a perfect solution, but there are people asking for it. It would make cheating a lot harder, at least.
by cousin_it | 2025-08-22 22:34:41+00:00
That'll work but you'll get flash of content I think. (Or layout shift, idk what's the right name for it.) The way I did it, the common elements are defined in common.js and inserted in individual pages, but the insert point is an inline script calling a function, not a div with specific id. Then the scripts run during page load and the page shows correctly right away.
by stavros | 2025-08-22 22:35:43+00:00
That's what's always puzzled me as well. There are keychains with such a "coin" magnetically attached, and I've always thought "if I lose a euro, I've lost a euro. If I lose this token, I'll have to buy a whole other keychain!"

Why would I buy something I really don't want to lose to replace something I kinda don't want to lose?
by jjcm | 2025-08-22 22:36:27+00:00
In general I would rather the government take a stake in corporations they're bailing out. I think the "too big to fail" bailouts in the past should have come with more of a cost for the business, so on one hand I'm glad this is finally happening.

On the other hand, I wish it were a more formalized process rather than this politicized "our president made a deal to save america!" / "Intel is back and the government is investing BUY INTEL SHARES" media event. These things should follow a strict set of rules and processes so investors and companies know what to expect. These kind of deals should be boring, not a media event.
by davidandgoli4th | 2025-08-22 22:36:38+00:00
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by kbolino | 2025-08-22 22:36:39+00:00
Ideally, I would want Optional[T] to encode the same as T when a value is present, and to encode in a configurable way when the value is absent. Admittedly, the nothing to null problem exists with *T too, and even with *T and `json:",omitempty"`, you get the opposite problem (null turns to nothing). I didn't think about that at the time, so it's really more of an issue with encoding/json rather than Optional[T] per se. However, you can't implement MarshalJSON and output nothing as far as I know.
by edot | 2025-08-22 22:36:46+00:00
True. I’d probably prefer to see the money go to a better performing company, but since there are like, 2 companies in the US that actually make semiconductors, there isn’t much other than starting a whole new company. Which, for $10B isn’t possible in this industry. So if the money is going to go to Intel, I at least want a cut of it, is my point.
by zahlman | 2025-08-22 22:36:50+00:00
> I want to make sure that the password is between a given number of characters. Same with phone numbers, email addresses, etc.

> This seems to have always been known as the length of the string.

Sure. And by this definition, the string discussed in TFA (that consists of a facepalm emoji with a skin tone set) objectively has 5 characters in it, and therefore a length of 5. And it has always had 5 characters in it, since it was first possible to create such a string.

Similarly, "é" has one character in it, but "é" has two despite appearing visually identical. Furthermore, those two strings will not compare equal in any sane programming language without explicit normalization (unless HN's software has normalized them already). If you allow passwords or email addresses to contain things like this, then you have to reckon with that brute fact.

None of this is new. These things have fundamentally been true since the introduction of Unicode in 1991.
by prmoustache | 2025-08-22 22:37:09+00:00
You are usually warned by email a lot of times before it ever happens. Make sure you receive them on devices and an email address you actually pay attention to. I also put an entry in my calendar a month before every renewal.

The funny part is you need an email address already to register a domain, at least during a bootstrapping phase. I have several domains across 2 registrars with renewals at different time of the year.
by dylan604 | 2025-08-22 22:37:28+00:00
That's precisely how private citizen Trump ran his businesses as well. Make an agreement with contractors to get work started knowing full well those agreements were never going to be honored. Instead, refuse to pay anything forcing contractors to renegotiate at much worse terms vs not getting anything at all. The whole time banking on these contractors not willing to fight in court. That was the art of the deal
by zmmmmm | 2025-08-22 22:37:31+00:00
> taxpayers should receive a share of the company in return

This is seductive logic but I think the opposite is true. The only time government should be giving money to a for-profit company is where a dividend in value is available that is not related to having a stake in the company.

Think about it this way: if the value transferred is fully realised as shares in the company then the government actually transferred nothing to the company. It was a pure commercial transaction and there is no obligation on the company to do anything different than it would have done commercially otherwise. Except the outcome is that the government is now entangled in private industry which is generally bad because it creates strong conflicts of interest in terms of policy and regulatory powers wielded by the government. All the dividend to taxpayers comes from the part that is not realised commercially.
by MyOutfitIsVague | 2025-08-22 22:37:55+00:00
Mostly just zombies and signal handlers.

And your software can do it, if it's written with the assumption that it will be pid1, but most non-init software isn't. And rather than write your software to do so, it's easier to just reach for something like tini that does it already with very little overhead.

I'd recommend reading the tini readme[0] and its linked discussion for full detail.

[0]: https://github.com/krallin/tini
by FireBeyond | 2025-08-22 22:39:02+00:00
Hell, they'll even hold a press conference touting (selective data from) telemetry to say "The vehicle had been warning him to pay attention prior to the accident!"

And then four months later when the actual accident investigation comes out, you'll find out that yes, it had. Once. Eighteen minutes prior to the accident.

And then to add insult to that, for a very long time, Tesla would fight you for access to your own telemetry data if, for example, it was needed in a lawsuit against someone else for an accident.
by jibal | 2025-08-22 22:39:09+00:00
non sequitur ... I simply pointed out a mistaken claim and your comment is about something quite different.

(Also that's not what "character" means in the Unicode framework--some code points correspond to characters and some don't.)

P.S. Everything about the response to this comment is wrong, especially the absurd baseless claim that I misunderstood the claim that I quoted and corrected (that's the only claim I responded to).
by Mawr | 2025-08-22 22:39:16+00:00
> Not enough type safety

Sure? Depends on use case.

> too much verbosity

Doesn't meaningfully affect anything.

> Too much fucking "if err != nil".

A surface level concern.

> The language sits in an awkward space between rust and python where one of them would almost always be a better choice.

Rust doesn't have a GC so it's stuck to its systems programming niche. If you want the ergonomics of a GC, Rust is out.

Python? Good, but slow, packaging is a joke, dynamic typing (didn't you mention type safety?), async instead of green threads, etc., etc.
by lurking_swe | 2025-08-22 22:40:05+00:00
> In the US we seem to have created sort of the opposite incentive structure -- public healthcare is only available to a limited set of people, and everyone else is more or less forced into the private healthcare system (or "private", since it seems heavily intertwined w/ govt -- e.g., standard govt websites to pick a povider, tax penalty (tho since lifted) if you aren't signed up).

There is no “we”. The rich and influential people that run the US _designed_ the system this way on purpose. To extract as much money from citizens. We didn’t reach this point by accident. Is there a presidential party or candidate that’s running on “tear the whole stupid system down and rebuild it to be simple and affordable”? Little baby steps like obama care don’t count in my opinion. No reasonable person would design a healthcare system where a hospital charges $500 for dispensing ibuprofen for example. Or a system where it’s impossible to predict how much you’ll pay as a patient. And they call it a “marketplace” lol. That’s lunacy.

If you know someone running on that as their campaign, please let me know. I’d be happy to vote for them. I’ll even donate to their campaign!

> Another annoyance is it also doesn't seem possible to buy insurance that just covers accidents, which I would personally do if I could...

That sounds like an interesting concept. Travel insurance is sort of like that, but not the same thing obviously.
by davidandgoli4th | 2025-08-22 22:40:36+00:00
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by cladopa | 2025-08-22 22:40:39+00:00
I have solar panels on my land. Do you realize how much heat those things absorb from the sun? My fields are way hotter(several celsius) because of the panels that what they were before without them.

Solar panels are manufactured using energy that comes mostly from coal.

I certainly do not believe that solar panels are the universal solution for climate change, like a lot of zealots with no contact with reality believe.
by andsoitis | 2025-08-22 22:40:45+00:00
Western governments have taken a stake in, nationalised, or owned / operated corporations for a very long time!

Some examples: VOC, BBC, national airlines, etc.

List across countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_government-owned_compa...

US specific: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-owned_enterprises_of_the...
by jcgrillo | 2025-08-22 22:41:09+00:00
> it is our responsibility as seniors to coach this new generation into producing quality and value with the tools they have

That's one option.. Another is to just skip them and focus on the next one. It could be that the "pandemic generation" (to which juniors entering the workforce now belong) are just beyond repair. There seems to be a dramatic shift in attitude towards arrogance, not asking questions, reliance on lazy crutches like LLMs, etc. Maybe it's better to just abandon them, wait 5 years, and hope the next crop does better.

To be clear I hope we don't have to do that but sometimes I wonder.
by shortrounddev2 | 2025-08-22 22:41:10+00:00
> While the ecosystem in which the Web thrived had one colossal flaw, namely, Surveillance Capitalism,b it had a stable business model. That business model is now being threatened by GenAI

Good. If there is one silver lining to generative AI, then it is that programmatic advertising will become less viable as a source of income.

If the internet were to overnight become a place where it is impossible to make money via advertising revenue, it could very well save the internet, if not the world.
by alchemist1e9 | 2025-08-22 22:41:26+00:00
It does and I’ve been hoping to see more discussion around best registrars from a domain security perspective. I looked into CSC (cscglobal.com) since it’s what a lot of big companies use, but it’s crazy expensive ($5K+/yr). Even worse, their contract is wild: no guarantee of registration/renewal, all fees non-refundable, they can hike prices anytime, liability capped at $5K, DNS is “as-is” with only credits for outages, and they can unmask WHOIS privacy at will. Basically you pay enterprise prices while they disclaim almost all responsibility.
by forrestthewoods | 2025-08-22 22:42:02+00:00
It’s a bloody shame that Linux is incapable of reliable running software programs without layers and layers of disparate, competing abstractions.

I’m increasingly convinced that the mere existence of a package manager (for programs, not source code) is a sign of a failed platform design. The fact that it exists at all is a miserable nightmare.

Flatpak and Snap tried to make this better. But they do too much which just introduced new problems.

Steam does not have this problem. Download game, play game. Software is not that complicated.
by klipklop | 2025-08-22 22:42:21+00:00
There is a calculator mentioned in the article: https://www.kff.org/interactive/how-much-more-would-people-p...

I am trying to do the before/after for a single Adult earning $25,000 per year. It looks to be a 4% difference. I am not sure how you go from ~$500 to $2800 using this calculator. Short of starting to cover more people like children, etc.
by ForHackernews | 2025-08-22 22:42:39+00:00
Attributing "thinking" is also a mistake. Anthropic have shown that the "thoughts" it produces to explain what it's "thinking" are (like all the rest of its output) just plausible text, unrelated to the actual node activation happening inside the model: https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/bio...

These tools don't have the capacity for introspection, and they are not doing anything that really resembles the thinking done by a human or an animal.
by bentt | 2025-08-22 22:43:12+00:00
I have an ACA plan and am going to take a giant hit when the tax subsidies end.

At the same time, I wonder if it might be not such a bad thing.

Yes, I and millions will suffer higher premium costs.

Yes, many people will drop insurance or take bad plans.

Yes many more people will die because of this.

But ultimately, prices for health care must come down. If we continue to route infinite tax dollars towards the price setters (hospitals and doctors) then why would they change?

The only way they would reduce prices is if less people will pay. The only way that happens is if there is some pain, somewhere.

I don’t want people to suffer, but we have been headed in the wrong direction for so long… something needs to shake things up.

And ultimately, if this means some MAGA voters question their vote because they cannot get health care due to this change, then extra good.

But then again, it’ll still be Obama’s fault somehow.
by simoncion | 2025-08-22 22:43:46+00:00
> Worth noting that Intel is the only company that had these kinds of shenanigans pulled with their grant.

Sure, but Intel's new CEO is making a lot of noise that indicates that Intel is maybe not going to be able/willing to build some-to-many of the things the CHIPS money paid for.

Giving FedGov a 10% stake in the company [0] is better than taking the money back for nonperformance, wouldn't you say?

[0] Which -as I understand it- was the sort of thing that was done for those finance companies that were Too Big To Fail when all that fraud^W novel financial engineering eventually caught up to them.
by bravetraveler | 2025-08-22 22:43:58+00:00
"I refuse a mailing list" <- closer approximation, in my opinion. Which matters: results, or the method? Proponents have a consistent story, yet I'm getting confused.

Like GP, I read the article too! Different conclusion(s). The CEO wanted a 'good reason'? Control group in this performance experiment. Or, 'fuck off'; how's that? Founder Mode? Cult mode.

edit: Archive link for anyone into it: http://archive.today/LDcBH
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by lrvick | 2025-08-22 22:46:51+00:00
Yeah we only recently broke it out as a standalone repo/binary, as everyone historically vendored it, so docs will get love soon, but it will be part of the next stagex release built and signed by multiple parties deterministically as stagex/user-nit.

To run it all your need to know is put it in your filesystem as "/init" and then add this to your kernel command line for the binary you want nit to pivot to after bringing the system up:

nit.target=/path/to/binary

That's it. Minimum viable init for single application appliance/embedded linux use cases.

nit and your target binary are the only things you actually need to have in your CPIO root filesystem. Can be empty otherwise.
by nine_k | 2025-08-22 22:47:08+00:00
Civil forfeiture existed since 1660s, and was used initially to confiscate smugglers' vessels. Then it was dug out during Prohibition, and turned toxic in 1980s when the agencies doing the forfeiture (e.g. police) were allowed to keep the confiscated property. Ideally it should be used for restitution (e.g. to victims of fraud), but...

I suspect you were growing up when this was in full swing already.
by rpdillon | 2025-08-22 22:47:39+00:00
> That’s why until legal challenges to this law are resolved, we’ve made the difficult decision to block access from Mississippi IP addresses. We know this is disappointing for our users in Mississippi, but we believe this is a necessary measure while the courts review the legal arguments.

I strongly agree with this. All these jurisdictions and politicians are passing laws that they don't understand the technical foundations for. Second order effects aren't being considered.
by theptip | 2025-08-22 22:47:54+00:00
> the government made an $8.9 billion investment in Intel common stock, purchasing 433.3 million shares at a price of $20.47 per share, giving it a 10% stake in the company

> Of the total, $5.7 billion of the government funds will come from grants under the CHIPS Act that had been awarded but not paid, and $3.2 billion will come from separate government awards under a program to make secure chips

Interesting accounting there. I guess the government was threatening to void the grants or something? Why would Intel donate shares for grants already approved?

I guess this nets out to a stock issuance with no downward price pressure, so still not a bad trade for Intel if they thought those grants were worth nothing.
by ejstronge | 2025-08-22 22:47:55+00:00
First, this is different because this was not what was agreed when Intel sought the grant. So I reserve the right to see as ‘bad’ a coercive action.

Second, from your article:

‘ Commerce expects "upside sharing will only be material in instances where the project significantly exceeds its projected cash flows or returns, and will not exceed 75% of the recipient’s direct funding award." 'NOT A FREE HANDOUT'

Democratic Senator Jack Reed praised the profit sharing plan, saying chips funding is "not a free handout for multi-billion dollar tech companies.... There is no downside for companies that participate because they only have to share a portion of future profits if they do exceedingly well."’

Clearly, there was a cap on repayments, but there is not one on giving away equity
by ASUfool | 2025-08-22 22:48:06+00:00
I sometimes use Tatum with PV's speed vans parked on the side of the road to head towards downtown Phx and, yes, the common speed is definitely around 40. But pretty much as soon as past McDonald and on 44th St, I resume the the normalized 7-8 mph over the posted limit because I know there are no more speed cameras.