skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, now you probably understand that Trump is not really anti-drug/anti-cartel. Nor do I think he's pro-drug/pro-cartel. I think he doesn't actually care except in how those issues affect his political career and public profile. Many of Trump's more ... let's call them "random" seeming statements and actions make much more sense if you look at them through the lens of "he doesn't actually care one way or the other".
Any article about cardboard standees in japanese aquariums is incomplete without reference to Grape-kun, a penguin who fell in love with a cardboard cutout from an anime promotion.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grape-kun
(I'm not responding directly to parent post, more adding my two cents in agreement)

'Necessary complexity' needs to live somewhere. There is often a core of complexity that is intrinsic to the problem being solved. This cannot be removed, only moved/converted/etc..

That doesn't mean everything needs to be complex, and that you need to 'collect' it somewhere. There is such a thing as unnecessary complexity, and code that has a lot of it is 'bad code'. Don't fall for the trap of thinking that you can't improve code by identifying and eliminating unnecessary complexity.
Lots of private banks will do this.

You live in “consumer finance” land, and understand its rules. In that world, the banks have most of the power.

In “private banking” land, especially at the high end, the client can have a lot of power.

I’m not saying that Tesla, SpaceX, etc might choose their banking relationships, who underwrites their IPOs, etc based on who gave their CEO the best personal deal on the private banking side.

Because that would be wrong.
That's false [1]. USA is like #6 in per-student spending. It's even lower in terms of GDP [2].

[1]: https://www.oecd.org/en/topics/policy-issues/education-finan...

[2]: https://webfs.oecd.org/els-com/Family_Database/PF1_2_Public_...
Republican strategy since the 1980s had been 'starve the beast'. That strategy is the deny actual funding and instead create debt load in order to kill the government, support for government programs, and destroy trust in government.
> layout, "server-only", accidentally bundling server code

the main issue i wanted to highlight is that things are not caught at type-check time. maybe vercel could provide eslint plugins? this could codify a lot of the caveats

> There's no way to get around thinking about AuthN/Z with any server APIs

very true! maybe there is a way to make the default secure somehow by making it awkward to publicly expose a POST route by accident. awesome that next.js 15 is doing things in that regard.

thanks for addressing the points leerob, shows the great governance mentioned in the end of the post :)
And as we all know, the economy scales exponentially with no real world repercussions /s
HCL is Hashicorp Configuration Language: https://github.com/hashicorp/hcl.

It's basically a DSL used by a bunch of Hashicorp products.

It's sort of a programming language. Someone I worked with implemented 1 or 2 advent of code exercises with it a couple of years ago, but it's far from a general purpose language.
I'm sure you are claiming that the founder, CEO, and controlling shareholder is "kept a careful length from the controls" because you have detailed first hand knowledge of the internal operations of Space, right?
motive and means is a basis for conviction according to the law
I don't think billionaires should even be a thing.
Cloud Native Computing Now Has Its Own File System: CubeFS
Just fifty years ago you could buy a home by swinging a hammer for a few years. No degree needed. So it was a thing.

When you made it you would pay taxes, giving back to others. Not selfish.
We "met" a king penguin at Singapore Bird Paradise that would follow people around at the edge of the tank (an acrylic sheet separated you from their enclosure) and try to interact. It swam up to my wife and followed her around, then went to another bunch of people and did the same. It seemed to enjoy watching people watching it and waving to it. Not every animal does, but this one did.
"This crash brought to you by Vanguard anticheat by Riot Games" would be really funny to see though, but completely understandable.
AI Coding Landscape
Ideally, the mass wiretap program would also be ceased. Salt Typhoon was tragic because it was the state's own overreach which was exploited. There are strong constitutional arguments against these domestic spy programs which are laundered through the presumed authority to spy on international communications.
"Society would massively benefit"

Yes. Just like San Francisco and Seattle did when they legalized drugs
Mistral's IPO Plan
Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15886728
But statistically, it's overwhelmingly likely you won't. The proportion of billionaires in the population is too small.
That it is not a good faith attempt to make better or more effective investigations, and rather to stop publicly ‘seeing’ high profile problems.

If we don’t test or investigate, there are no problems and no crimes eh?
FWIW, both "½ książek" and "½ książki" are valid Polish, but they mean different things:

- "½ książek" == "połowa książek" == "half of the books", and refers to half of some set, e.g. "połowa książek spadła z półki", "half of the books fell off the shelf". It gets tricky when the set turns out to contain only one book, but that's not spelling/grammar issue anymore.

- "½ książki" == "pół książki" or "połowa książki" == "half of the book", as in "pierwszap połowa tej książki jest nudna", "the first half of this book is boring". There's some difference between "pół" and "połowa" that makes them not interchangeable in most cases, but I don't feel confident enough to articulate a rule here.
Had a guy invent a DSL for his Greenfield project as an abstraction layer on top of Python. Within a few months he was asking people to write scripts to programmatically generate the DSL.

So now you have DSL-generating script & DSL to version control.

The use case of "people who are computer literate enough to operate within an DSL but not literate enough to program code" is always smaller than people think. And probably not who you want to hire.
This is the same president that wants to give the death penalty to Drug Dealers but I guess that's fine so long as you use crypto.
That's called doom scrolling.
As if the laws and justice of a nation are a questions of personal favorites! Maybe I have read too much enlightenment philosophers, but I happen to think in terms of general principles in this case.

This might be a good first step, too. Read more books from a time when people were struggling with arbitrary justice.
Heartbleed has been patched, so unless you know a serious attack vector, I'm not sure where this is going.
> turbocharged by the number of people that are descendants of immigrants

It's divided by whether you own real estate or equities.

Immigrant homeownership is starkly lower than native-born Americans' [1].

We're probably going to see a surge in that disparity, now, given the immigrant workforce that builds and renovates houses is in the process of being gutted. That increases the value of existing stock.

[1] https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/research/fi...
1. It's not a defense, just an observation.

2. Transaction costs for liquidating your wealth is materially different from selling enough to significantly affect the market for an asset. As an extreme example, large holders of a meme cryptocurrency cannot sell the majority of their holdings without crashing the value of their coin.

3. Borrowing works for smaller amounts if you can spread out the sales of your assets over a long period of time (or if you don't need to sell at all, e.g. if investing in something that gives you returns).
As an immigrant, I define the "American Dream" as "opportunity regardless of social class". I think Atwood also hints at this in his blog post (as this is the reason he called out his upbringing and family).

This is in contrast to the system of nobility and "old money" in Europe and why many immigrants sought to find their way to the New World.

The idea of public education started in the US and for a long time has been one of the key public services that enabled this social mobility. In the US, historically, there were opportunities even for immigrants to become self-made men and women and their children would be better off than they were. Immigrants might arrive in the US illiterate, but their children would at least have the opportunity to be educated and find better paths.

It's still possible, but it feels as if the cards are stacked higher and higher towards those that are already coming from some wealth. I increasingly feel like the chances that my kids are going to be better off than me are decreasing every year because the stepping stones to success are becoming eroded.
Wow, OneLook and the rest of your Datamuse collection will help me a lot. Thanks!
I am not going to claim or report any kind of accuracy, especially with such a small model and such a specific, context dependent use case. It is the user’s responsibility to cross validate if it’s accurate enough for their use case and upgrade model or use another approach if not.
Not the case on v134.0.1 on Linux Mint.

https://i.imgur.com/vmUFR9K.png
Well, first, the reply was to someone who doesn’t know how they will survive probably making five or six times what the median income is.

Second, I posted statistics where even the average college grad can still make it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42794546
the benefit wasnt really unique to silk road or ross. it was just a very convoluted, roundabout demonstration of how safe drug use can be when its done in the right environment. legalization would be even safer…
In the same way the dragon hoarding their loot wields immense power over the peasants (strained analogy, I know), having immense amounts of wealth accessible allows for one to wield immense amounts of influence. Just look at what is happening the last few weeks. Basically explicitly buying favor with the government.
Limit Phone Dev here!

Yea I get it, I have similar feelings about installing such a privileged app on my phone.

You can remove the app (with a delay, so it doesn't defeat the controls!).

I'll make this a bit clearer on the site.
WSJ? Might as well have not included it. It's paywalled.

That being said, it seems to reference property owners. Hell, if I'd had the money to buy a house prior to the pandemic, I would have. I didn't because of constant reorgs at my employer at the time, which resulted in hiring freezes and reduced raises. The goal behind these was to make the company attractive to buyers. Eventually, they did find one: Oracle. They've since gutted what was a major employer for my region.

Since the pandemic housing has skyrocketed and pay hasn't kept up. It's been stagnant for 40 years while economic output has risen, along with COL [0].

Where'd all of the value go?

(that's a rhetorical question)

[0]https://www.consumeraffairs.com/finance/comparing-the-costs-...
Eventually someone is going to have to be the first person in tech to be pretentious. ;)
If they were smart, they'd build MS Fabric for health data, especially if they control a big chunk of the EHR.

Providing a turnkey HIPAA-compliant but modern health dataverse would be huge.
Hi HN, we’re Luke and Philip, founders of Spice AI. Today, we’re announcing Spice.ai OSS 1.0-Stable, a portable, single-node data query and LLM-inference engine built in Rust.

We introduced the very first POC of Spice.ai OSS on ShowHN in Sep 2021 as a runtime for building AI-driven applications using time-series data!! [Insert, it’s been 87-years meme].

One of the hard lessons we learned was that before we organizations could use AI effectively, they needed a much higher level of data readiness. Our customers told us they wanted to adopt AI and technologies like Arrow, Iceberg, Delta Lake, and DuckDB but simply didn’t have the time or resources (and were struggling to keep up), so we focused on making it super easy and simple to use them. We rebuilt Spice from the ground up in Rust on Apache DataFusion, and launched on ShowHN in Mar 2024 as a unified SQL query interface to locally materialize, accelerate, and query datasets sourced from any data source.

It’s designed for developers who want to build fast, reliable data-intensive and AI apps without getting stuck managing ETL pipelines or complex infrastructure.

That release was just the data foundation and today, we’re announcing Spice.ai OSS 1.0-Stable that includes federated data query, acceleration, retrieval, and AI inference into a single engine—now ready for production deployments across cloud, BYOC, edge, or on-prem.

Spice supports accelerating federated queries across databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.), data warehouses (Snowflake, Databricks, etc.), and data lakes (S3, MinIO, etc.). It materializes datasets locally using Arrow, DuckDB, or SQLite for sub-second query times and integrates LLM-inference and memory capabilities and a purpose-built data-grounding toolset that includes vector and hybrid search, Text-to-SQL/NSQL, and evals to ensure accurate outputs.

We’d love for you to check it out on GitHub, try it, and share your feedback: https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai

Thank you!

[1] Spice.ai OSS v0.1 announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28449182

[2] Spice.ai OSS rebuilt in Rust: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39854584
I haven't heard of OpenTofu till today. Will give it a shot.
Which party created the DHS again?
Southern California burn areas brace for approaching storm, mudslide threat
See

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-e&q=etoy+vs...

First you need to know how conformist the culture was in the 1990s, when my wife and I would visit Manhattan we looked like two hippie throwbacks to the 1960s and got told we were the weirdest looking people in the city. I couldn't have stood to live there because you would look up and see a Tommy Hilfiger billboard and look down and see a lot of people wearing Tommy and if you couldn't take it, you couldn't take it. You couldn't get as good of a cup of coffee as you could get at an indy espresso bar in a small town in a flyover state because there was a Starbucks on every block to convince stock market analysts that it was like that coast to coast.

In Dec 1999 there were the WTO riots which have broken the WTO ever since (e.g. the old "corn law" fight over free trade in agriculture reached the impasse it at now) and it had an effect that washed over everyone. For a few weeks there was a wave of honesty, for instance I saw an article in the tech press that somebody went to a Microsoft press conference and he was bored out his mind.

So when Etoy had their domain stolen by Etoys many people from radical artists to people who didn't want to have their private property taken away rallied. We had a system where people would visit our web site and we'd use iframes to DDOS their web site. It ran for a few days with no effect, then I contributed a code snippet that made the attack many times more effective and brought the site down for a short time during the last shopping day of the year. Immediately they called the FBI who pulled the server out of the rack.

We put a lot of effort into public relations and talking to the media, never mind flooding stock market discussion groups with propaganda. We knew we were being infiltrated by the FBI so we used the tactic of creating new mailing lists with (we believed) a clean list of participants periodically. (A general answer to "Eternal September" problems)

The stock dropped precipitously when we were working on it, and a few weeks later they settled with etoy, an event we knew about before it was announced at their earnings call. It wasn't a good earnings call and the stock price spiraled downward and eventually the company folded (might have been more than three weeks but the critical part was about that long)

The management and IT folks at Etoys would minimize the contribution of activists, wrote a blog about how they defeated our DDOS (but we scared them enough to call the FBI, caused a panic on the most critical day of the year, and could boast that the registration numbers that they triumphantly announced were inflated dramatically by fake users we injected) and would say that the company failed because the earnings were not good.

I would say, however, that Etoys could have been a viable business in the long term if investors believed in management, selling toys online in 1999 was an idea with legs. Activism contributed to investors not believing in management, so they were forced to throw in the towel.
Well it's an excel add-in, how else would it work?
Can you enlighten me of a state where none of parent's points apply? I'd be glad to be educated.
AI that can generate full stack apps from Figma designs
I was a heavy tiktok user for the last couple years, before uninstalling the app a couple months ago. It was a lot of fun, truly, but I felt the habit (and its side effects) going in a direction I didn’t like.

I still have IG and FB on my phone, and find myself impulsively reaching for those scrollable short videos whenever I have a spare minute. That format of “content” is just very addicting. I really wish I could go back 20 years to when smartphones were a thing, but there was a lot less to “do” on them. I don’t think I’ll be able to break the habit without a major reset, personally.

> when I ditch FB, which I'm going to do as soon as

As someone who has deactivated and reactivated my Facebook account several times over the years — just do it! Maybe it will motivate you to finish that other project if you have something you really want to share. But the whole “I’ll start that diet after the holidays” thing doesn’t pan out in my experience :(
I think it more imperative that we are mindful of the natural evolution of groups and consciously put structures in place at the right time.

Knowing that initial structurelessness is good and eventually becomes bad can help us preempt failures
Why would cloudflare ever operate a data center that only one user at a time is ever near?
You have several options in Ollama (1.5b, 7b, 8b, 14b, 32b, 70b, 671b)
It is unlikely that anyone will have a computer at home to run version 671b
A novel open-source framework for evaluating conversational agents
this one is really a game changer:

This is how it works - the framework is organized into these powerful components:

1) Policy Graph Builder - automatically maps your agent's rules
2) Scenario Generator - creates test cases from the policy graph
3) Database Generator - builds custom test environments
4) AI User Simulator - tests your agent like real users
5) LLM-based Critic - provides detailed performance analysis

It's fully compatible with LangGraph, and they're working on integration with Crew AI and AutoGen.

They've already tested it with GPT-4o, Claude, and Gemini, revealing fascinating insights about where these models excel and struggle.
> it seems to reference property owners.

Yes. Millenials own property at the highest rate, age adjusted, in generations. (Anecdote: am Millenial. Own a home. Most of my friends do, too. Yes, it's a bubble, but it's a big one.)

> Where'd all of the value go?...(that's a rhetorical question)

No, it's not. It went to the people who bought houses. Including between 2019 and 2024.

Which generation's mode reached home-buying age in that interval, an interval also generously sprinkled with massive stimulus, a stock-market boom and forced consumption-reduction through stay-at-home orders? (That is a rhetorical question.)
That was later. Initially, you could post to Twitter by sending an SMS message. No scripts to load, no tracking of what you were doing.
Clay raises $40M at a $1.25B valuation
Never read it, but I watched its recent adaptation as a Strange New Worlds episode called Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach, and if it's in any way representative of the source material, then I'd say the ethical problems there are nontrivial.
Yeah obviously motivations are murky and all over the place, no one's free of bias. I'm not taking a strong stance on whether they're right or not or how much of it is motivated reasoning, I just think at least quite a bit is genuine (I'm mainly basing this off researchers I know who have a track record of being very sober and "boring" rather than the flashy Altman types)

To your point, yeah the models still suck in some surprising ways, but again it's that thing of they're the worst they're ever going to be, and I think in particular on the reasoning issue a lot of people are quite excited that RL over CoT is looking really really promising for this.

I agree with your broader point though that I'm not sure how close we are and there's an awful lot of noise right now
“If Wikipedia’s eyeballs are low, people wouldn’t contribute”

People were contributing well before it was a top 10 website. That’s how it got kickstarted in the first place.
My kids used to go to that library! We lived in the neighborhood (Glen Park- one of the "gems" of San Francisco) and the downtown is almost like a little village (except with California levels of traffic and trash). It was a bit weird to think that my kids were probably reading books while this guys was, uh, transacting his business nearby.
Comically (horrifically sadly?) they were dismissed that way because he was already in prison for life with no possibility of getting out, so the court did not want to waste time on it.

And here we are
My love is from the BU intro computing class from a number of years ago which was using the Harvey Mudd Miniature Machine

https://www.cs.hmc.edu/~cs5grad/cs5/hmmm/documentation/docum...
I had the same issue at one point. I'm not ready to delete some of my social media accounts as they do bring me real value, so I ended up blocking all shorts/reels/etc. on the services I use.

For YouTube there is Unhook [1], which allows you to block shorts. For all other sites I just use custom uBO rules. Both options also work on your phone if you use a browser that can install WebExtensions (Firefox on Android for example).

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-recom...
Hey all, the page crashed but it's back up now, sorry for the downtime!
exactly my point - if you were to subset to people whose parents were native-born US and compare their wealth to that of their parents at same age, it would be absolutely higher. it looks closer than it is because of immigration and we aren’t comparing to the parents in their home country
"Code is cheap, show me your nationality" approach to opensource is an absolute disgrace to the world. Surely sharing knowledge and volunteer work in software is one place where nationality and politics should have no place
Google Responds to Developer Concerns About Long-Term Commitment to Android XR
This is one of the main topics that I teach entrepreneurs about.

I wrote something reasonably short here:

https://respectfulleadership.substack.com/p/to-grow-you-must...

I wrote something much longer here, but this material is mostly from other CTOs who I surveyed:

https://respectfulleadership.substack.com/p/a-survey-of-ctos...

If you are in New York City, we have 2 different speakers who will speak to 2 different aspects of this problem, at our event on February 27th.
You may have been saying this but the parent comment that spurred the discussion was making the explicit assertion that "the rule of law is the only thing holding together [...] everyone's countries, and civilized society in general".

Saying that law is 'the only thing' necessary for the existence of modern society effectively means it is also a sufficient condition. So yes, someone did claim the opposite.
They're missing a trick here. The best view angle is to have "here" along the bottom edge so it looks like you're looking outward from above the centre point.