skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I agree. Coffee in the western world is in plentiful supply and easy to get hold
Of for a lot of people. The news item reads as if they giving out golden toilet paper. It’s disrespectful and so out of touch and meaningless offer for employment. It’s embarrassing as a “perk” at best and it’s meaningless in the grand scheme of things if you work in a toxic environment and it will cost pennies even to a failing company such as this but they market it as a great wonderful thing. It’s not. Come on get real where anywhere on the earth has having free coffee been a deal breaker for any job offer/negotiation. What people want. Work on interesting problems. This is a fantastic opportunity to do this and was touted back in the day at Intel. A decent salery and freedom of autonomy. Work from home. It’s not fucking difficult but hey. Free coffee right?
The Florentine Codex
I don't read whole web pages anymore when someone here links to them because I've found that most of the time, nothing on the web page supports the assertion being made.

Also, you haven't stated an assertion.
I assume that it has about the same content as the book "Informal introduction to algol 68", published by the same authors a few years later, and which had at least two editions, e.g. in 1973 and in 1977.

Searching the Internet finds some scanned copies of that book.

E.g.

https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/ALGOL/book/Lin...
How a neuron learns
There are a whole lot of combinations that don’t work out well for the interlocutor.

For example, if “is it safe to be near the pangolin?” is anything above neutral and “can diseases spread through contact” are either thumbs up or double plus thumbs up, then it doesn’t matter how emphatically health guidelines tell you otherwise, this AI wants you to lick that poor thing and roll the evolutionary dice.

So maybe it is an AGI?
You're being down voted but you're right. As far as I can tell, this is just a story about Palantir taking their already FedRamp approved GUI and using it to present Claude models running on already FedRamp approved AWS servers. Anthropic is basically just subcontracting their regulatory compliance to Palantir. I have to imagine the primary service being provided here is giving a bunch of 20 something enlisted intelligence analysts access to Opus for writing their commander's briefs. It probably won't even be as good as the commercial off the shelf version
When I launched my first startup, I was buzzing with excitement. I had an idea I believed in, a product I was proud of, and a vision of how it could change lives. But there was one thing I hadn’t accounted for: how impossible it felt to get noticed.

I tried everything—social media ads, cold outreach, even partnering with a small agency. The costs piled up, the results barely trickled in, and the dream of getting traction started to feel like a faraway goal. That’s when I began to notice something. The brands that were succeeding weren’t necessarily the ones with the best products—they were the ones that had the right people talking about them.

That realization changed everything. I started reaching out to influencers, but even that wasn’t easy. Agencies wanted a chunk of cash upfront, existing platforms were either too expensive or too complex, and getting influencers to respond directly was like shouting into the void. It felt like the whole system was designed for big brands, not startups or small businesses.

It was during one of these frustrating nights, staring at a failed ad campaign, that the idea for BrandLink hit me.

What if there was a way to make influencer marketing simple, affordable, and accessible for everyone—not just the businesses with million-dollar budgets? A platform where startups, small businesses, and even individuals with big ideas could connect directly with influencers, no middlemen, no ridiculous fees.

That’s when I stopped searching for solutions and decided to build one.

I didn’t set out to create just another marketing tool. BrandLink is built with the struggles I went through in mind. It’s a platform that:

Connects brands and influencers directly, cutting out the middlemen and unnecessary layers.
Empowers startups and small businesses with flexible, project-based pricing—no subscriptions, no upfront fees.
Puts control in the hands of influencers, allowing them to set their own rates and customize their packages.
But beyond all that, it’s about giving people like you and me a fair shot. It’s about leveling the playing field so that great ideas don’t get lost just because they can’t afford the traditional ways of marketing.

We’ve already seen startups land their first real customers through influencer collaborations on BrandLink. Small businesses that were once invisible are now gaining traction, and influencers are earning by working with brands they genuinely believe in.

I know many of you reading this are where I once was—trying to figure out how to get traction for your idea. BrandLink is here for you.

More than that, I want your feedback. This is a community built on solving problems, and BrandLink isn’t just mine—it’s for all of us trying to make our ideas work.

Let’s connect, collaborate, and grow. Try BrandLink, tell me what you think, and together, we can make sure no great idea gets left behind.

Check out BrandLink and let’s start the conversation: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/brandlink-promote-projects/id6...
> Redhat is the most serious game in town for SELinux.

not even, it's android. Yeah, their policies are airtight
It Went
Eric Berger: Space policy is about to get pretty wild, y'all
needs a crowdsourced model
The purpose of searching a person's belongings at the border is to look for contaband. What sorts of contraband data are they looking for in electronic devices? They don't stop and search other data coming over the border.
Should be “How It Went” but looks like HN’s auto title changer has struck again…

Anyways, this is probably the most personal thing I’ve ever seen Gruber write and I thought it was moving and helpful to get a view for things that are more important than elections.
> This might also be a microcosm of why the working class is pissed off in America

I know it's topical, but I really don't think the working class on America is pissed because they are struggling to increase their annual income from $350,000 to $500,000 at their Big Tech job. That's an elites-problem; or whatever you choose to call anyone in the top 5% earning bracket.
I believe the issue GP brings up is that merely inhaling a few breaths of this stuff is enough to cause damage. The crew may not have known beforehand that there was a leak or an issue.
--help should give you basic docs for GNU utilities. Manpages should be more extensive (examples included).

As far as GNU tools go, their attempt to move docs to (tex)info format for better interactivity has largely failed, so I guess most of that content is slowly moving over to manpages now.
> now that we have SpaceX

You don't have SpaceX. It's a private company. Soon you might not have NASA either.

As part of his payment for supporting Trump, more and more of NASA and the Department of Defense will be handed to Musk for his profit.

Oligarchs always expect to be paid.
If you read the comments, you’ll find https://github.com/dandavison/delta/pull/1746 which adds the option I mentioned, which limits the length of syntax highlighting, but still has a rather low limit on maximum (unhighlighted) line length :)
> a natural mammalian instinct

So what? I don't make decisions, and I don't think society should make decisions, based on "mammalian instinct". My standards are a little higher than that.

It's a common, but bizarre way to try to argue something is inevitable. You don't have to act like a cow, or even a chimpanzee - if someone says you do, it's not a compliment.

> it has a negative implicit meaning because institutional power should somehow transcend lowly animal instincts

It reduces outcomes and fairness because productive work is shifted to unproductive people who lack merit.
SVDQuant: 4-Bit Quantization Powers 12B Flux on a 16GB 4090 GPU with 3x Speedup
(German Text:)

"JETZT WEISS JEDES KIND, DAS ES ALS TRICK GELTE, SICH IMMER WÜNSCHE ÜBRIGZUBEHALTEN.

DOCH WER TATSÄCHLICH MAL EINEM DJINN BEGEGNET UND ÜBERLEBT, ODER IN WESSEN KULTUR EIN DEMENTSPRECHEND WARNENDES PENDANT, EINEN WOMÖGLICH ANDEREN NAMEN TRÜGE,

WISSE WOHL, DAS WIEDERHOLTES KONSUMIEREN VON WÜNSCHEN, NUR DER GEWÖHNUNG DIENE, BESTENFALLS NOCH DEM ABSENKEN KÜNFTIGEN ZUFRIEDENHEITSPOTENTIALs,

...ZUMINDEST SO LANG DEM NICHT IN WELCHER FORM AUCH IMMER, EINSCHRÄNKUNGEN AUFERLEGT."

(HINT: "VOM GLAUBEN, ALS SELBSTWIRKSAM ZU GELTEN." maybe ...um...a comic text...)

(-;

[weekendmodus]

edited: ' " '
Where is research done? Where do you have colleagues, labs, research resources, etc.? Where do students go for education?
Oof yeah this site feels sketchy
There’s a good reason “I’ve heard” is always discounted in court as hearsay.

I know what I know from first hands experience.

I don’t think that anything I could have possibly done could be self-righteous enough to justify the actions of those involved but that’s just my opinion.
> Why is it a dealbreaker?

Because they can find a job that pays way more than $20 an hour. That's it.
The reason most social media doesn't have Payment baked in isn't that its new, but that Apple and Google have VERY strict ideas what kind of transactions are allowed in Apps and which not.

Other than that. The closest I've seen this idea in reality, processed by a third party and not the platform itself are tipping bots on X.
> if the war in Ukraine will finally end in 2025 a lot more will return back home.

And how do you suppose this will happen? By Trump cutting a deal with Putin leaving Ukraine out to die, or what?

The Russian soldiers might return home. The Ukrainians won’t. There won’t be a home to return to, and in many cases, there won’t be anyone left to return.
Is also good to keep the definition of the terms in mind - at least from am enterprise perspective

good: people that give you money

bad: people that don't pay you money after seeing one of your adverts
JD Vance is on record mentioning Yarvin’s ideas as inspirational for how republicans should run government.
> And the Dems only pay lip service to economic equality.

This is simply not true. It's not Democrats who keep making income taxes less progressive. It's not Democrats who refuse to pass a refundable child tax credit. It's not Democrats who attack programs like SNAP. It's not Democrats who pass right-to-work laws and bust unions. It's not Democrats who fight student loan forgiveness. It's not Democrats who try to repeal the ACA. It's not Democrats who fight minimum wage increases.

We live in a country where whatever Democrats try to do for the poor, they get attacked for being socialists or communists.

Yes, sometimes Democrats make mistakes. Sometimes they pass bad policy. But Democrats do more than pay lip service. Things we wouldn't have without Democrats: Social Security, Medicare (with an assist from Eisenhower), Medicaid, food stamps (SNAP), ACA, the child tax credit.
Ask HN: Websites that actually test and review products for listicles
Every now and then I want to know, for example, what the best shower filter is on the market. Now I know that when I google this question I get a series of websites with "top 10 XYZ" listicles and 99% of these are now written by LLMs with dubious sources if any. Do y'all know any websites that actually and reliably test and review the products they make listicles about?

I can try to change my search engine etc etc, but I'd really like to just build up a repertoire of trusted websites for stuff like this.
The weeds will adapt to that, too, over time. Some of the weeds you get in pavement cracks have strong roots and the top part breaks of easily to be quickly regenerated.
Muon Optimizer
its kind of cool to see this guy getting his own product up. you go friend!
But you can still draw the concepts of a cross section, right?
+1. unless you own sizeable equity. you are not (your employer's) company.
You can rename it again to put "How" back in.
I’m not sure what you are arguing against. For me, the article offered a lovely reminder that life is special. Life involves mechanisms but it is more than a machine. And with an attitude that our lives our symbiotically bound to another living organism (or 10^17 of them) we gain a valuable humility — one that might afford us new perspectives on how to make them all happy and flourish. That’s the promise— not just a spiritual connection to the aliveness of mitochondria, but a pragmatic orientation towards their health and wellbeing. And there is a lot of scientific opportunity to explore there.
I really love this game! Is there any plan to make it open source?
Thanks for the recs, some I've never heard, but Outer Wilds is in my all time Top 3 games ever made. Have you played the DLC? Just as amazing, but of course go in blind :)
Gemini now offers OpenAI compatible API
And still can’t recommend me anything interesting outside of my chamber.
Sometimes the little totem of a world that’s passed is the only hope we’ve got there’ll even be a future.

I’ve got my ring. It’s been a long time since there’s been anything else.
Generalizable Implicit Motion Modeling for Video Frame Interpolation
Also the recent Immortality by the same author. The cast and story (stories?) are just incredible. It's not a perfect game, but it is the most incredible fusion of gaming and cinema ever created.
No it isn't. People have imperfect memory, and if the police can knowingly lie to you, then they can also convince you to admit something which never happened, effectively coercing you to fabricate evidence against yourself.

Yes, it may lead to some bad guys getting caught who otherwise wouldn't have been. But that is not an excuse if it also compromises the rule of law for innocent people.
I can see how my comment could be read in this way. It wasn't my intention; I was just a quick note I dashed off before starting work. Apologies to anyone who thought I was making a value judgement on experience here. I think everyone should be encouraged to share their experiences.
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

I understand how bad the reality is in the US, but public transportation is a solved problem.
Are police allowed to do this in Western Europe?

Everything I read about the police in the US suggests to me that they are an array of paramilitary thugs that are supported by the courts, so not suprised they do this.

Curious if these tricks are allowed in the civilised world too?
I think these basic facts should be taught in school. Yes, millions don't have ID.

It seems trite to someone in the middle class, but it genuinely is not a priority to certain demographics, given the challenge of getting it. That challenge may seem trivial to a frequenter of Hacker News, but we're a diverse society.

The only barrier to getting a decongestant should be: having the money to pay for it.
Youtube is one symptom that Google's business model is ethically and ecologically unsustainable. Process and store whatever nonsense to collect more user data.
I have seen many projects where people use activerecord for their SQL interfacing. It is only the really simple queries that are okay, but as soon as there is some complexity the generated sql query are not so good quality to put it politely. Imho raw sql is always best, build your own query generator which you understand its logic fully and is tailored for your project.
the dog didn't lie
In what ways do you customize/vary color temperature?
By now the author missed on approx. 2 million dollars of income.
I believe it got that name because of the KKK chapter that was based there.
Apropos means “with reference to”. Maybe you meant “appropriate”?
That’s why it requires notation in the first place.
Zep: The Foundational Memory Layer for AI
are you not allowed legal counsel in the US?
Stunning physics and guidance! It's a nice casual game
I think google just got fined that by Russia.
Yes, as in your own correction, you were thinking about APL.

ALGOL 68 was certainly more readable than C or Pascal, even if it was somewhat more verbose.

A very good feature of ALGOL 68 was that all the syntactic structures were enclosed in brackets, so no ambiguities or editing errors were possible, like in C or ALGOL 60.

Moreover, each syntactic structure had its own pair of brackets, so you did not have the reading difficulties caused by all bracket pairs being the same, like "()" in LISP, "begin" and "end" in Pascal or "{}" in C.

Especially useful is having different bracket pairs for iterations ("do" and "od" in ALGOL 68, renamed as "do" and "done" in the Bourne shell, which sounds better) in comparison with the bracket pairs used for conditional statements ("if" and "fi" in ALGOL 68).

In C and derived languages, even the indentation is not enough to understand the code in many cases, especially when the lines are restricted to 80 characters, when you have a long loop body that cannot be seen inside a single page.

In ALGOL 68, you have distinct closing brackets for each syntactic structure, so it is easy to recognize their meaning.

Using keywords for brackets is more verbose than in C, but much less verbose than using terminating comments. Moreover, now we can use Unicode for program texts, so instead of keywords one could use different pairs of Unicode brackets that are graphically distinct. For instance one can use angular brackets for conditional statements and S-shaped bag delimiter brackets for iterations.
A lot of these concepts hail from the Open Compute Project[0] which I might have missed being mentioned in the page. ORv3[1] is a 21” rack design that exploits the fan cube law, basically - a lot less power is needed to push the same volume of air given a larger fan blade diameter. It’s a neat cooling concept I think about often.

[0]https://www.opencompute.org/projects/server
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Rack
Author here. Lots of questions about precision --- in the article I calculated 0.6mm as the standard deviation of 200ms worth of phase measurements (n=124) while the slide wasn't moving.

I'd love to hear any advice/ideas re:

- approaches for figuring out what's currently limiting the accuracy (i.e., noise sources)

- the relative merits of averaging in time vs phase domain

- how to improve the analog frontend (See my collaborator Mitko's github repo for the hardware schematics: https://github.com/MitkoDyakov/Calipatron/blob/main/Hardware...)
Normal distribution has an exponential term in it. Your intuition is mostly correct for the >100 part of IQ but thats totally in line with it being normally distributed.

Intelligence is not exponentially distributed. That would mean that the density is monotonically decreasing which its not. There are more “average people” than extremely low intelligence ones.
> If you find 4-5 apps doing basically the same thing (like communication or productivity tool), see if you can consolidate them into one.

I thought this was called a monoculture and was a bad thing when e.g. Crowdstrike was the one app chosen?
That’s not how humans work.

Yours sound like the no true scotsman fallacy
Because bringing up “what about Y?” When the discussion topic is X and there is no connection to Y goes against HN norms.
depends on the work, depends on the government. building a system to hunt down illegal immigrants for mass deportation? no thanks. building a missile shield? happy to help.
Why US Truckers can't make a living anymore
Success at What Cost?
I find drivers are often utterly shocked by the presence of a pedestrian at a pedestrian crossing as well as a cyclist at a cyclist crossing. Unpredictable!
There's a global limit on the number of sandbox extensions (security scoped bookmarks) open at once. If it fails that's because someone is leaking them.
Someone posted a scrollable web page depiction of Musk's worth a while back. The entire NASA budget is insanely small by comparison. To imagine it, I would guess he cares more about what's in his omelet than getting more money from that budget.
I agree, he should have given the following quote (from the webpage he linked) and given the url as a reference.

> Vance has said he considers Yarvin a friend and has cited his writings in connection with his plan to fire a significant number of civil servants during a potential second Trump administration.
There's a newer version of this in Last Call BBS called Chip Wizard. Much smaller grid makes for more puzzlyness.
Yeah, we saw the conundrum and went through the inspection and all, and our bike's fit for biking! At that price... well, we earlier hoped it would be recalled and we would buy a competitor's version. But now everything is green, we're back on the road...
Bonus points for getting drunk...
Early draft discussion of memory regions for Go language to reduce GC overhead
It's actually free in France.
When police have a false story that your own lawyer and everyone around you seems to buy, you might then falsely admit guilt. Knowing a lawyer so well that they believe your words above anyone's is a rare privilege.
Tell HN: I have a new google.com tab labeled "Forums" – Is everyone seeing this?
I am in the EU, while signed into my USA Google account, suddenly I have a new tab on google.com labeled: "Forums"

Let's discuss please, this is a huge change, is it not?

Is this an entire tab along the lines of adding something like "reddit" to the query, but not just reddit?

Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/adma1LO
What is there to integrate into? Adult life is mostly just going to work to pay the bills. I don't know anyone with a particularly interesting life outside of their job.

Most Japanese people aren't going to be any less apathetic about a foreigner than others of their own group. Naturally there will be more traction with those looking for free English teachers and gaijin hunters. What a larger proportion of people likes is money and entertainment. Not so much foreigners trying to be Japanese. A foreigner giving such vibes will always be lower down in social status than the natives.
Love this project!

Since "Differential Dataflow" has a specific meaning though and this isn't it, I wonder if a different title wouldn't be better?

"DBSP for the masses" presumes someone already knows what DBSP is so that doesn't work.

What about "Incremental Dataflow for the masses" or "Incremental Dataflow in Python"?
Yep. Not being supportive of the power structure you inhabit is what killed humanities natural Red Team which is why capitalism developed so slow and consumer culture turned into whatever it is now.

The new Red Team is just a sparring partner now, accomplice to any crime and lie and money laundering scheme, hacking away at their passions, in the peaceful bliss of compartmentalisation.

Which is fine. A pseudo behavioural lock-in is still a lock-in. The people decided. False numbers on available resources, false reports on foreign affairs, supporting brutally corrupt countries to destabilise regions where humans still have the innate ability to arrive at better ways to do things and build a culture that is actually worth millions of years of survival, and the list goes on and on.

But you have to simulate whats possible to prepare for the worst, and the inner circles are way ahead so whenever the public gets some pieces of info, know that any criticism lags behind.

Which is why it's so important to hack away at your institutions, corporations and individuals in relevant networks. Their systems and jobs have to get harder, faster, stronger, smarter and that requires radical criticism so that

a) the job description only fits the best, and

b) the job environment doesn't disgust the best.

Neither of which is currently true.

But people are fighting good causes and if you can 're-compartmentalise' for a bit, throw in some brain and gpu power to go against your benefactors. For the sake of the betterment of their successors.
With a lot fewer zeroes!