skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's value in quickly browsing files of a project without needing to clone it first -- especially for quickly linking others to specific lines, API docs linking to implementation, etc. That needs to expose content at every commit, for stable links. So, some sort of a "web git viewer" is very useful.

Unfortunately, the more minimal read-only ones have ended up with far worse UX than the Github clones, or are a scary tangle of shell scripts and/or C. :-(

(Anyone want to collaborate on a Rust-based read-only git browsing web UI that aims for great usability? I'm all in, I want one. I know how to make it handle search etc, I'm not great at wrangling CSS to will or getting navigation right.)
I’m glad they actually tried synthesizing one of the materials their model predicted. Looks like they succeeded in synthesizing only 1 out of 4 of the materials for which they tried. The 20% accurate property claim appears to be for bulk modulus. I’m still seeing little value for this technology for designing electronic properties, mainly because density functional theory which provides the training data is not reliable. Their code looks nice and clean and well organized, perhaps I’ll give it a try.

My biggest problem with this application of AI is trying to approximate DFT, which itself is an unreliable approximation. The claim is it lets you amortize the expensive DFT to search the space, but it’s also true that especially for inorganic materials, training sets do not appear to promote strong generalization. So you embark on an expensive task to wind up back with unreliable DFT. I think perhaps the best goal would be to try to make DFT itself better, and I have seen impressive albeit computationally expensive approaches, e.g. FermiNet by DeepMind.
I spoke a few years back with a tech analyst who specialized in Chinese equities. She herself is a Chinese ex-pat living in the states. She, quite exasperatedly described investing in Chinese equities as "you basically need to guess what Xi is thinking".

One day test prep schools are illegal and immediately shut down. Tech CEOs suddenly became pariahs and started getting carted off to re-education camps. Etc.

You never know what could happen to an executive, company, or sector.
https://archive.ph/lg3kl

The total value of a memecoin in circulation that is backed by Donald Trump has hit more than $12bn, sparking accusations that the incoming president is exploiting his supporters’ enthusiasm for financial gain.
Since its launch on Friday evening, the $TRUMP cryptocurrency — in which Trump’s family business owns a direct stake — has soared from about $6 to $61, making the value of the coins in circulation worth about $12.1bn, according to data from Coinbase.

The rapidly increasing value of the token has already made it one of the crypto market’s biggest “memecoins”, or tokens that represent online viral moments. Initially developed as an insiders’ industry joke, memecoins have no business model or cash flows.

The number of new memecoins, and their value, have jumped since Trump’s election victory in November. Industry executives and traders are betting that the new administration will adopt a friendlier approach to cryptoassets.
Trump’s coin was launched on Friday evening on his Truth Social website shortly after a gala in Washington for crypto executives and politicians to celebrate his inauguration, which takes place on Monday. The accompanying website shows a picture of Trump with his fist aloft and describes the coin as “the only official Trump meme”.
About 80 per cent of the tokens will be held by CIC Digital, which is affiliated to the Trump Organization, and a CIC co-owned business called Fight Fight Fight LLC, according to the token’s website — a reference to the attempt to assassinate Trump last summer.

The tokens held by insiders will start to be unlocked for sale over the next three to 12 months and available to be sold during Trump’s four-year term.

“Trump owning 80 per cent and timing [the] launch hours before inauguration is predatory and many will probably get hurt by it,” said Nick Tomaino, a venture capitalist, on X.

The launch took many in the crypto market by surprise but Binance, Coinbase and Kraken, three of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges, have all since announced plans to trade the Trump coin on their markets.
The Trump family has taken a growing interest in cryptocurrency. The US president-elect and his three sons have been promoting World Liberty Financial, a crypto venture set up by his longtime business partners and others, while Trump’s social media company unsuccessfully tried to buy Bakkt, a cryptocurrency trading venue.
On Saturday, Eric Trump described the Trump coin as “the hottest digital meme on earth” and said World Liberty was “just getting started”.

Anthony Scaramucci, Trump’s former communications director turned critic, also hit out at the launch. “The Trump memecoin stuff is bad for the [crypto] industry. Don’t delude yourself,” he wrote on X.
The price of Solana, the blockchain used by the Trump coin and many other memecoins, hit a record high of $295 on Sunday. US regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission is due to make a ruling in the coming months on whether to permit US stock market funds to invest directly in Solana.

A spokesperson for the Trump transition team did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
To rephrase my question: can you really not tell the difference to democratic health between Americans doing it and foreign adversaries doing it?
Who are the three Israeli hostages released by Hamas?
Turning Innovation Adversaries into Allies
If a 100-200 billion dollar valuation company gets sold for 10 billion dollars then they would be agreeing with my point, not disagreeing with it.
Clickbait title, please flag this
It's simply clickbait
Was just skimming the comments for a mention of Beej's guide, was about to post almost the same comment.

What an amazing resource.

I feel like the last time I looked at it, it has been updated too so was pretty current.

Also agree the OP looks like a good guide.
If sex is the physical construct and gender is the social construct, seems reasonable to assume that both gender and transgenderism could disappear. One seems mostly like a reaction to the other and both may end up being cultural artifacts.

I think the physical construct still has many millennia of evolution to go before we might see it disappear.
Thank you, you expressed this more clearly than I did.
on average the "cleverer" ones get the degrees easier, hence there's a higher chance to pick a "cleverer" candidate if selecting by this criterion than when selecting at random
CRTs also had easily adjustable brightness and contrast dials, so everyone could always quickly adjust to their preferred setting for black on white or vice versa.
Those names made me expect a new OS primitive like signalfd/eventfd/timerfd/userfaultfd, but that's not what they are at all.
I use dark mode in a (moderately) lit room, because it makes me focus better. Even colorschemes can affect my state of mind and make it work differently. I’m not even talking about effectiveness here, just comfort, although they correlate. I can’t just choose light mode.

When screen is too dark (sunlight, etc), I make it brighter. Requires >=400 nit or whatever that unit is for an average day.
The Shiny Toy anti-pattern
For all those saying "RAG is a feature" I mean search is a "feature" of a bazillion systems, with Google, etc offering services to search over your data. And a thriving ecosystem of open source and commercial vendors. Search itself has vastly different user needs from job search, to ecommerce, to enterprise. PDFs aren't products aren't jobs and they all have very diverse use cases.

BUT - I do think its way way way overcrowded vendor market right now. The vector DB vendors are all RAG RAG RAG and have payed little attention to the fact they are actually a search solution focused on one type of index, and there are a million other applications of a search engine.

So its a crowded dumb market, but it probably has some kind of future.
Isn't this the normal way?
Good point, though lobbying groups are often endorsing and donating to candidates and are backed by sentiment in other regimes like AIPAC. I guess $TRUMP is just creating another backdoor around foreign donation regulations.
Well you should be far more wary of what your government will do with such data than a foreign one continents away but i don't think that's the difference you were looing for.
If we’re talking about pasted code not having the proper indentation, that’s a major difference between languages with and without significant whitespace. A formatter can fix that in C, but not in Python. Additionally, manual fixing of the indentation is required first.
good point, the project immediately after building the CA is to build a decent monitoring/alerting setup.
This is a misleading view of history. It is true that it was included in the foreign aid package, but the TikTok ban was also passed in an isolated bill in an overwhelming bipartisan manner beforehand.

90% of Republicans in the House voted for the TikTok ban alone. 73% of Democrats.

https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202486

It is very clear that it would have passed without that procedural trick, because it already did.
Nope. All of our genitals will turn into vestigial organs, shrink and crawl back into our abdominal cavity. You will wear a tattoo on your forhead that designates your Societal Gender Classification (SGC).

All hail Hydra.
Yes, this is how government works if the judicial + legislative branches have no enforcement power. That is not at all how this government works however. I suggest taking an American civics course if you want to learn more.
Isn't "greys as the base color" what dark mode is for the most part? Light mode is generally off-white and dark mode is grey scaled.
I feel like the free speech enthusiasts are missing some imagination and failing to see the situation we are in post-algorithms.

By now -- people have used their free speech to make reels for every possibly viewpoint convincing any possible demography about anything. The trail of reels needed to convert a mountain biker to a racist, or a Lego builder to an LBTQ ally, is out there. Making the free speech isn't the issue in 2025.

The question is: Who sees what, and whose opinions are shifted in what direction.

The big social networks controls the algorithms. Controlling who sees what is the new "speak", where you directly influence peoples minds simply by showing the right reels at the right moments.

We have always had propaganda and media leaning in different directions. But people would know they are looking at Fox News or The Daily Show or Pravda. With TikTo... you find that people's opinion change very gradually and without perception over the course of half a year. Never seeing "TikTok" -- only seeing "people like you" (which can be a function of time, and evolve) sharing their heartfelt opinions.

Not anything blatant of course. Blatant stuff does not change peoples opinions anyway. Just subtly bump some reels that has been proven to shift a demography in a certain direction.

TikTok has the means to do it -- all the data about what reels cause what effect on what demographic, if they just wanted to.

If TikTok is doing propaganda by subtly promoting some reels over others -- who would know? Why would they not be doing it and how can anyone know they are not already doing it?

I am not saying this is definitely happening. But any discussion that isn't treating all the social networks as weapons of mass propaganda that CAN be used is awfully naive.

And focusing on the "speech" thing seems so misplaced. It's all about who is heard and seen, and that is today all about power and algorithms.
There's a bidirectional bridge available

https://fed.brid.gy/
This was basically a 12 year old's plan for making Trump seem like a "champion" - and it somehow seems to be working, even in this comment section (assuming half the comments aren't just bots which I wouldn't discount personally).

And then people in this thread apparently unironically don't see why banning foreign propaganda is a bad thing lol

It's quite fascinating to see a nation's televised descent into absurd cronyism and corruption like this. You've got the prez-elect singlehandedly overturning laws that have just been passed a mere 24 hours ago, making shitcoin scams and getting rich off it, aligning all the psychotic techbros into his corner because they fear what kind of insane bullshit he's gonna pull off on them...
Power is when people do what you say.
I prefer time-based feeds, but that's just me.

I don't think people are objecting to suggestive feeds in general; they're objecting to suggestive feeds whose primary objective is to keep you scrolling for as long as humanly possible to maximize company revenue.

That's simply not what I want to do with my day.

I'd train my own if I wanted to go that route.
The retirees would pay for their own retirement?

Is the concept of saving and then drawing down your savings to pay you living expenses unknown to you?
How wasteful, ed uses just ? for all errors, a 3x saving
GitHub is a hugely successful company. They make a shit load of money. Your idea of success is not in congruence with actual success.
It'd be interesting and amusing if he'd made the private key to his part of Bitcoin a variation on that.

RIP.
That seems an unreasonable expectation as to what the Dems can do. It's sets them up to fail, and make it's easy to say they are the same, when you set up an unreasonable scale where one is trying to remove the rights and the other isn't fighting hard enough become the same.
That's a shame! What sort of problems arise?
One more field will solve it!
That's a good analogy and I like it! If someone is really used to simply using goto for all kinds of flow control purposes, there could be some resistance if there's a coding style guide that enforces using if/else/while/do and such. It reminds me of similar arguments about recursion is too powerful in Haskell and similar languages and good style means using map/filter/foldr and the like; or the argument that call-with-current-continuation is too powerful. When a single tool is too powerful, it can be used for a large number of purposes so it ends up being the code reader's job to figure out which purpose the code writer has intended.
... and then they should tell all those investors that the AI bubble #9 is going to go the way of AI bubbles #1 to #8, from Eliza and the IBM voicebox, to the pre-transformer convnet craze and fizzle out except in specific niches, cutting their stock price in half?
I run a robotics dev tools company and we work closely with companies of all sizes across the robotics industry, so have a unique perspective on this.

I would say about half of the industry (read: for-profit robotics startups from early stages through to 10,000s of robots in production) uses ROS, and of those probably 2/3 are on ROS 2 at this point, and the rest are in some stage of migration. ROS 2 solved a lot of problems that didn't need solving, but like it or not ROS 1 is abandonware at this point so almost no one is planning to stick with ROS 1 longer than they have to.

Most companies aren't maintaining their own fork of ROS (other than to submit patches upstream), but a small number of companies on ROS 1 forked it and diverged so significantly that there is no point trying to rebase on ROS 2 - of these GM Cruise was the most notable, although the future of their stack is unknown now that GM canceled the robotaxi project.

The other half of the industry uses some sort of in-house stack built from parts (compare batteries-included frameworks like rails/django to building a backend using libraries like expressjs and sequelize). There is usually some form of pub/sub messaging architecture, because pub/sub is a natural fit for robotics and makes it easier to log and replay/resimulate. Some common things I see are zeromq, vanilla DDS (no ROS), zenoh, or write their own pub/sub (sometimes using shared memory). The messages themselves are often protobuf, flatbuffer, cbor, json, or sometimes just raw c structs.

Building your own stack isn't hard, but its much easier if you have used ROS before and know which concepts you want to reuse, rather than reinventing everything from first principles.

Some newer robotics frameworks are also starting to spring up which is great to see, for example https://github.com/copper-project/copper-rs and https://github.com/dora-rs/dora

There are also frameworks more specifically targeted towards robot learning, for example https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot

If people are just starting out in robotics, or just starting a robotics company, I still recommend ROS despite its warts, it is worth learning because it has had such a big influence on the current ecosystem. There is no "right answer" though, many companies have been successful with each approach.
> Just look at the uproar the Flipper Zero created in Canada[1]. Now imagine if you could do that with an iPhone (which has most of the hardware needed) by simply downloading an app.

iPhone users should be able to do that if they have any semblance of control over the hardware they bought. If MacOS supports SDR without any issues, and Apple's own implementation of NFC is good enough, I think this is a silly argument. Enabling NFC access does not turn an iPhone into a Flipper Zero any more than it does with Android, the argument is moot.

If the best reason we can muster is "it would make Apple look bad" then we might as well have put the Magic Keyboard and USB-A/HDMI ports in the garbage and withdraw Apple from the EU economic zone. Apple is perfectly capable of adapting to changes that do not align with their insular and stubborn worldview. Some would even say these changes improve their products.
He who can destroy a thing controls that thing. Expect the new administration to have great influence on tiktok policy and content.
That’s a fraction of the total illegal immigration. Yale estimates we have over 20 million illegal immigrants, and that estimate was before the Biden administration: https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/snapshots-of-migrants...
It seems that a lot of people today have a really difficult time understanding that free speech does not mean you get to follow someone around yelling at them, you don't get to come into their home, follow them to the bar they go to with their friends. That's not free speech, that's harassment.

I'd go so far as to say that social media without a block button is unethical, and promotes propaganda and harassment. The block button means the user heard you, use used your free speech! Congrats! Now they want to walk away from you. Ooops. No, you are not entitled to get any response, nor to continue talking at them if they choose to leave the area.
I participate in some local and state level politics. You're not going to get those kind of people in politics. Every even remotely contentious legislation will get you tarred and feathered by your opponents. Opposition will use any tactic to bring you down, focusing on something silly you said 20 years ago, taking words out of context, etc, etc. The only kinds of people who can deal with that kind of political environment are the kinds of folks you see in politics.

It's the same reason you see certain introverted personality types overselected for in backend engineering teams: only a certain type of person enjoys working on something that is inscrutable to most people even users of the service they help support.

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> I do however, also believe that good leaders are people with their own principles and ideas- and are willing to do what is right even if it isn't popular, when necessary.

It's a slippery slope from this to oligopolistic rule. Obviously the US democracy is not direct and there's an understanding that politicians balance their principles against popularity but I also think the US is of a mood that Congress is run by disconnected elites right now. Now is the time to err to populism.
Contrast ratios don’t go away in light mode. The contrast ratio of black-on-white is the same as white-on-black.

Curious then what is the real driver of these issues? If accessibility teaches us anything, it’s that there’s certainly no one size fits all. But it’s gonna be hard to update the standards or make plugins/tweaks successfully unless we get at the root of it.
> It's always been strange to me how many people without a medical reason for doing so want to sit in dark rooms like cave trolls, but there we are.

Because screens are not bright enough to use outside or in well-lit environments.

If E-ink or similar technology manages to get a bit better refresh rates, it's going to change building architecture in the entire industrialized world.
Yea, but we dont have to use their LLM. It can live where it likes but will never have a room in my walled garden.
Couldn't agree more. Each incoming administration since Bush has only expanded executive power, despite decrying its usage in the admin they replaced. This is a very predictable outcome even when looking ahead from 20 years ago, and its easy to see where things will stand in another 20 years.
Even if that's true, he's still cosigning the account isn't he? He's putting his name on it, it's not weird for people to assume that these are his viewpoints and/or opinions, no matter how unhinged.
It's a decent, if uncommon, unit for human reactions. The difference between 0 and 1 seconds is a noticeably long time to wait for something, but the difference between n and n+1 milliseconds is too fine to be useful.
Also the CEO of TikTok is going to sit directly behind Trump at the inauguration. It's not even subtle and half the point is that it isn't subtle - bend the knee to Trump and you'll be taken care of, is the message. We operate just like Russia at this point.

Also, expect to see that Facebook is partnering with TikTok on Monday morning. The head of the bill banning TikTok just invested 100 million in Meta... so I imagine there will be a followup announcement how Trump brokered some deal to Americanize TikTok or something.
It's possible for people who aren't currently the president to do things.
Just google Salt Typhoon, (I'll wait), and then tell me you want the TikTok app on 102M+ US citizens devices.
Now post the lobbying money received by lawmakers, as well as their history of trades of Meta stock.
Nice, interesting solver! But yes, compressible/density-based solvers work a lot better on GPUs than incompressible/pressure-based solvers. When 80% of the runtime is spent solving a Poisson equation, GPU is not worth it.

Especially if you do the comparison on equivalent cost basis, i.e. "what is the walltime difference if I run on a $60k all-CPU cluster versus a $60k GPU cluster". Or in terms of cloud compute cost / HPC allocation spend.
These aren't serious claims. They're criticising the argument being used.

They are things I do stand for though
I never knew about the Dark Reader plugin. I just installed it and it makes HN, Slashdot and other sites much more readable for me. Thanks!
So if a particular book were published by a French company, the government could ban it from being sold in the US? I’m sure that’s not true.
Biden's ability to enforce the law seems to be pretty constrained given the amount of time left in his term. Like asking Garland to start a prosecution isn't exactly practical. I think it's also worth noting that TikTok was complying with the ban until they were given a signal by the incoming administration that they weren't planning on enforcing it.

The text of the law isn't totally unambiguous, but I still think it's quite clear that the conditions where a 90 day extension could be granted aren't being met, so we'll have to agree to disagree on how flimsy it is.
The slim chance of becoming a billionaire is the only reason we have entrepreneurs.
The “real” issue is an untyped configuration language which tries to guess at what you actually meant by 1. They’re tripling down on this by making 1 a Boolean true but other integers be deciseconds. This is the same questionable logic behind YAML’s infamous “no” == false.