skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a bad idea, but this implementation seems overly aggressive due to the follow-back rule:

> Additionally accounts following more than 200 other accounts,
but also has less than a 1% follow back count. (IE 200:2, 1000:10)

That's not a difficult criteria to fail, especially not for a new'ish/read-only accounts, doubly so if you use starter packs (themed collections of users that you can follow with the click of a button). I could see a number of obvious false positives just from glancing at the live feed of blocked accounts. Such as the newly created account for the Brussels School of Governance [1] that is following researchers from that institution. Another example was a named author following a number of other authors and writing/publishing related accounts.

EDIT: Part of the problem seems to be that accounts are evaluated (and added to the list) mere minutes after they are created, before anyone has a chance to follow them back. That could be mitigated by delaying this check for a few days or so.

[1] https://bsky.app/profile/brusselsschool.bsky.social
I don’t play this game, but my partner does. I sometimes see him “spectating” a player that is below the ground - regardless of if the client is hacked/cheating, aren’t there some server-side checks that the player state is valid?
I enjoy that Trump's page views reached their peak on the day he was announced as winner. "Wait, who is this guy that we voted for?"
I discovered Just with a similar comment in Hacker News and I want to add my +1.

It is so much better to run scripts with Just than it is doing it with Make. And although I frankly tend to prefer using a bash script directly (much as described by the parent commenter), Just is much less terrible than Make.

Now the only problem is convincing teams to stop following the Make dogma, because it is so massively ingrained and it has so many probems and weirdnesses that just don't add anything if you just want a command executor.

The PHONY stuff, the variable scaping, the every-line-is-a-separate-shell, and just a lot of stuff that don't help at all.
The Generalist Edge
Many of them never wanted to be in academia in the first place, or at least shouldn't have wanted it. If you're in a class full of people who want to teach this same class, you might be questioning why you're there.
They _get_ caught (e.g. this, CSAM, etc.). People have ridiculously short memory spans. And in the meanwhile Apple gets to benefit from "privacy first" advertisements even though the actual privacy improvements are unclear if anything.

One example of this effect is how during the CSAM scandal some people were under the wrong impression that Apple was the first to do on-device image classification. Actually they were close to the last to do it. Even Samsung (not well known for their privacy) was doing it locally. But this didn't prevent Apple from full-page advertisements claiming so.

Or Apple selling Secure Boot, Remote Attestation, etc. as technologies for "user" privacy when 20 years ago Microsoft out of all companies tried the same thing (remember Palladium) and was correctly and universally panned for it. What makes Apple so different? They're even more likely than MS to subvert these technologies in a "tie-users-to-my-hardware" way.

Whenever Apple has the opportunity to take simple, risk-free, actual privacy solutions (such as, well, allowing you to _skip their servers altogether_) they often take the complicated, trivially bypass-able approach, and claim it is because for user friendlyness. This is intentional: a complicated approach allows you to claim "sorry, implementation error!" whenever there is an issue, and avoid the appearance of maliciousness.
I can imagine how depress Lee felt when being beaten by AI the first time, but looking at the bright side, we see Shin Jin-seo as the rising star in the AI-era of Go by leveraing AI to help him training.
Why would they provide name?

Their statement is a global reminder of the organization rules:

- they don't give preferential treatment to speakers

- they allow peaceful protest
Wrong post--This was meant for the anti-cheat post that's also on the frontpage.
What if startup founders and employees are paid in shares of the investment fund?
It can be any country in Europe. Fact is that the country inside looks different than in the movies in one’s home country. Another fact is that we like the others that look like us and not like the others. In other words racism and xenophobia are real. Some people can live with that and bite back when confronted, for others occasional reminder about their origin is too much.
The first half feels far too realistic.

The second half feels like wish fulfillment.

I honestly don't see how you get there from here.
Introducing Kanon: the world's best legal AI classifier
> if a peaceful protest were to take place during the talk in question, we will not take action, provided the protest is indeed peaceful and does not disrupt the proceedings

Would staging a sit-in explicitly intended to prevent the booked speaker from speaking be classed as “disrupting the proceedings”?
Knowledge work is too broad a definition. There’s immense potential to reduce the “creative drudgery” in work - think background art, music for malls, first drafts of company comms…

Some knowledge work has more leverage than other knowledge work. We don’t have a term for this distinction right now. But the low-leverage work will get automated, leaving us with more pleasant, higher-level, more creative jobs. This is just a continuation of the trend that saw most people leave the factory and sit down at air conditioned desks.

Knowledge workers can keep up if they stop thinking of themselves as workers and start thinking of themselves as automators of knowledge work.
Question: If I want to inference with the largest DeepSeek R1 models, what are my different paid API options?

And, if I want to fine-tune / RL the largest DeepSeek R1 models, how can I do that?
> A transgender person is someone who is absolutely miserable when they are not permitted to express the gender they feel.

Is that true of everyone who identifies as trans, though?

I get the impression there is a subset of trans folks for whom this is the case, and many others (perhaps a majority) who simply prefer to use different pronouns than the ones they started with.

I would love to have data that establishes whether that impression is correct or incorrect. There appears to be a puzzling conflation between folks who enjoy or prefer alternative gender expressions and folks whose survival depends on it, and it would be a great relief to know what's really going on.
Frankly I don’t appreciate being accused of spreading propaganda.

That Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was chinas candidate is well known. It’s not a controversial statement.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tedros_Adhanom_Ghebreyesus
No you just "start looking" on a single image.

Know your approximate location: by dead reckoning. You will need coordinate fixes once every few minutes anyway and you know your direction precisely enough from the same stars, error only comes from wind direction not being precisely known. So we are speaking of correcting for at most tens of kilometers of error. 10km at a typical distance of 1000km to a low orbit sat is <1 degree and only about 10 arcmin to a typical medium earth orbit satellite.

Astrometry allows for locating objects down to about 0.2 pixel reliably and to 0.1 pixels in optimal conditions, so a typical wide-angle camera that might have about 40 arcsecond pixels will easily give 8 arcsecond precision, for a satellite 4000km away (about 2000km orbit at 30 degrees elevation), that's 170 meters of location error, which is more than good enough for navigation (final targeting is done by optical pattern recognition on the ground anyway).

>since in either case you also need a horizon to know your location.

No you don't. Benefit of using satellites is that the source of coordinate data is the parallax of satellites vs stars. It works without having a vertical/horizon.

Simply put, we calculate that in a predicted location the satellite will be at a certain pixel distance from a few of the closest stars on the photo. And it will be a few pixels off that predicted point. Distance and direction of that error allows for calculation of discrepancy of predicted vs real location (and repeating this process on several satellites visible on same photo, allows to decrease the error by removing outliers - which might be noise/space rays on images or errors in star catalogs or orbital elements data, or satellites changing their orbits - and averaging the results).
I read the Paul Graham article mentioned here immediately before reading the Neil Gaiman exposé, and it left a sour taste in my mouth.

PG is an incredible writer and contributor to this community, but that doesn't mean he isn't human (as others have been saying). Open minded people who spend too much time with the same group of global elites (including tech-minded POCs and trans people etc.) end up thinking social justice has already been served and start wondering if those saying it has gone too far are correct.
It reminds me of something that often frustrates me. An allegation that someone said something (e.g. something offensive), but without quoting what they said (or providing context) so I cannot actually evaluate it for myself.
Use more features in online ML models with the Snowflake Schema Data Model
I hate Musk, and he doesn't seem to have a clue about the Twitter stack.

But in this link that you shared, those who ask the questions are being disrespectful first. From my point of view, this recording has no value at all.
Needs a (2017)!
Or they don't want US social media companies to buy TikTok US and use their IP to outcompete them across the world?

On that note, many US-based TikTok users have reported that the app and the algorithm are substantially worse since the ban was lifted, with speculation that TikTok might sell a watered down version of the TikTok experience to an American buyer.
Here’s the talk description: https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4507-infu...
> I'm not sure what the solution is.

Really interesting to think about what an ideal academia would look like. I think a lot of us have an idea of 'pure science' which has never really existed (by which I mean, since the industrial revolution science and academia has been tied to industry).

In terms of conditions, I think this issue is solved elsewhere by unions (there are always people wanting to be hollywood script writers, but the writers guild of America does a good job of maintaining decent conditions despite this). I don't know how that could even come close to applying in something like academia though.
Boot any Linux ISO and bypass any OS logins (secureboot would prevent this), connect devices over IO to otherwise exploit the login or just dump RAM content to potentially get data or even keys.

I would never trust OS login over FDE especially on desktop.
I heard about mixxx back in 2013 from someone who managed to make his Linux lighter ( replacing the kernel or something? ). Then he compiled mixxx without all the unnecessary functions he didn't want. He managed to lower down latency response to 4ms or maybe below I remember. His DJ sets where amazing!
Physicists measure quantum geometry
Elon Musk makes the Nazi salute twice in a row. HN: Nothing to see here.
I can shed some light on this topic. Since I own a SaaS which is focused on freelancers & SME's.

The EU is becoming very regulated when it comes to sending / receiving invoices. Basic invoicing tools that offer PDF are not sufficient anymore.

You could say I'll run my own peppol access point but the economics of doing so for a single person doesn't make sense. You're looking at a basic yearly fee of 2000 euros just for the peppol membership and on top of that you need to get certified by third parties looking at another couple of thousands euros just to be able to send and receive some invoices.

My best advice is to search for an affordable tool that takes away this complexity away for you. I know that previously you could send for free, but that's going to end if you like it or not.

I run my SaaS at https://www.bizzey.com which is a business tool that you can fully customize and peppol sending and receiving is supported (it's also completely "free" in a sense that you just pay the subscription and nothing on top)
Knowing where Africa is located is "enlightenment"... this forum keeps on giving

All the problems you listed come from the same root, and LLMs won't solve them

> Maslow's hierarchy of needs (shelter, food, sex, relationships) will always take priority for most individuals over learning random pub-quiz trivia.

Time to plug in your brain and ponder why the top economies of the world aren't able to provide basic human needs while generating more wealth than ever before, once again, same root as above, once again, LLMs won't solve any of that.

We could have AGI and immortality tomorrow, as long as we keep the free for all ultra individualistic profit seeking capitalistic system it's not going to change jack shit.

> random pub-quiz trivia.

> Maslow's hierarchy of needs

Wow slow down cowboy, "maslow's hierarchy" IS random pub-quiz trivia, get that off your brain real quick, you wouldn't want to become enlightened do you ?
I thought it'd be under one of the corners.
Yes, I was about to comment that “there won’t be a Go 2”, but I guess that wasn’t settled when the article was written.
Note this is a blog post from 2021, which should be added to the title. The information included is out of date by several years now.

OpenSSL has done stuff with QUIC since then, a cursory search turned up this README in their main repo on using QUIC and OpenSSL: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/master/README-QUIC.m...
You’re partly right, but I think you’re downplaying ASML’s achievements, especially when it comes to EUV. The ‘internationalization’ you mentioned was definitely one of the key reasons for their success. They were smart to position themselves as a global system integrator early on, stepping away from the vertical integration that their competitors mostly stuck with. (And let’s not forget, ASML was already a big player before EUV even became a thing.)

That said, this isn’t something unique to ASML. It’s just how global companies operate, especially in hardware. Take Tesla as an example—these companies are inherently multinational. They rely on acquired patents, parts and expertise from around the world, and hire international talent to stay competitive.

As someone else pointed out, it’s interesting how often this comes up in ASML discussions here, especially from American users. Maybe it’s because admitting reliance on another country—particularly those “arrogant Europeans” Americans often feel both superior and insecure about—kind of messes with the U.S. dominance narrative.
Teaching is not really relevant in the hiring process of professors.

I saw several committees for prof position and teaching is treated like a checkmark. You should done it and provide a small sample lecture (which you prepare much more than your average lecture) and don't have to suck at it. After this checkbox, the differentiating factors are about citations and how much grant money you can/could/do have... (Western Europe, maybe somewhere else it's different).
They don't seem too worried about money at the moment. They run a successful quant hedge fund which provides money and apparently their API charges cover the cost of running their machines. Re what they are going to do:

>Providing cloud services isn’t our main goal. Our ultimate goal is still to achieve AGI.

It's kind of ironic that they seem to be doing what OpenAI was set up to do before Altman changed it to closed AI. The quotes are from https://www.chinatalk.media/p/deepseek-ceo-interview-with-ch...
explaining that KTLO requires 6 SDEs is something I wish every executive knew.
That’s a fun coincidence. I was at a museum recently that featured work of Sema Bekirovic. One of her works was that of 3 snails crawling over a grid cube so from then on they were the artists.
https://www.semabekirovic.nl/grid/
> Understanding how democracy, taxes, politics, resources, compounding interest, inflation, lobbying, corruption,

You can google these too, why bother learning anything ?

Just press the buttons and get the peanuts, why bother being curious ?
What about ruff + pyright? From a skim it seems like a lot of the missing features would be covered by a type checker?

(Pyright isn't written in Rust, but adequate performance is still a design goal)
This is worthy of it's own submission, a very interesting post.
add a comma after he last argument to make black explicitly use multi-line formatting

parser.add_argument(
"--stdout",
choices=("true", "false"),
default="true",
help="log data to stdout",
)

It also removed the superfluous spaces in the keyword arg assignments
note: i used gpt to clean this up because i am ill and distracted by snowfall and cold. It muddied some of my points, but it removed a lot of PII and rambling. note over.

I noticed some commenters questioning details in the article, like the Wi-Fi triangulation and the earthquake survivor detector. While it's fair to discuss technical aspects, I believe the focus should be on the broader implications rather than dismissing the story based on perceived inconsistencies.

I haven’t dealt with clearances or compartmentalization in years, but I know how serious these matters are. Disclosing specific names, dates, or events carries severe consequences—this isn’t something covered by toothless NDAs. The penalties can include federal prison for treason. I’ve personally experienced the DoD investigating me just because I was listed as a reference. It’s an intimidating process, and it makes sense why people who fear being doxxed rewrite their stories, swapping out modular details to obscure sensitive information.

Regarding the Wi-Fi triangulation: this is well within the realm of possibility. Many years ago, I purchased a Hydra SDR radio with inexpensive RTL-SDR chips. With four matched antennas arranged in a line or an X, connected to a Raspberry Pi 4, I could triangulate signals and visualize the results on a map. The hardware wasn’t advanced, but it worked. Even in 2012, there were rumors about using Wi-Fi signals to see through walls. Whether or not the article is perfectly accurate, the point is to consider the ethical and societal consequences of such technologies, not to nitpick technical details.

As for the earthquake survivor detector, the underlying principle is related. Identifying survivors using leaked signals like Bluetooth or cellular emissions isn’t fundamentally different from using Wi-Fi for similar purposes. The scenarios may involve different actors—military versus contractors—but the capabilities are converging.

I’ve worked at a defense contractor that manufactured components for Boeing and McDonnell Douglas jets. While I avoided involvement with military projects, I know how extensive and layered the contractor ecosystem is. Comments suggesting "there are only a few" don’t align with my experience.

On a personal note, I’ve always struggled with the ethical implications of the work I’ve done. This has made my career difficult. I don’t judge others who take these roles—someone else will do the work if they don’t—but my own scruples have been a constant challenge. For example, I once worked on a project at a large entertainment company based on an idea I had years earlier. The demanded i eventually sit in the office and handle tier 3 phone calls. I had a minor breakdown in the stairwell; i didn't even let my children consume their content, but i was too jazzed to work on the thing that i pitched to apple 7 years earlier. That was over a decade ago, but i'm still annoyed at myself.

I believe stories like this should be taken seriously. Dismissing them based on perceived inconsistencies seems like rationalization, to me.

thanks for the link!
A huge advantage of going your own way is that you don't need to address an audience you think are just wrong.

When this happens periodically (rather than, every other week) you also get the original GNU advantage which is you can revisit an old tool but knowing what you know now, for example today "everybody" has DVCS, and so ripgrep checks for the .gitignore file.
> If the Go language ever comes to the point where I’d have to write this

n, err := r.Read(context.TODO(), p)

> put a bullet in my head, please.

Manually passing around a context everywhere sounds about as palatable as manually checking every return for error.
> This probably doesn’t happen often, but it’s prone to name collisions.

It's funny, it really was just using strings as keys until quite recently, and obviously there were collisions and there was no way to "protect" a key/value, etc.

Now the convention is to use a key with a private type, so no more collisions. The value you get is still untyped and needs to be cast, though. Also there are still many older libraries still uses strings.
A better answer would have been to develop some kind of decentralized censorship-resistant worldwide network, but that wouldn't have served the "iNtErEsTs" of the people wanting to maintain power over civilians.
It’s about the width of three finders on an outstretched hand.
The banks should have been nationalised.Iceland was able to solve they Monte Carlo GFC event without creating a moral hazard.
Beginner-friendly real-time dashboard with flask and raspberryPi
If your a beginner and like doing home automation stuff this ones for you. It's a simple live updating webapp showing basic metrics like temperature, memory usage and cpu load. You can swap these out easy enough for real world datapoints.

The good bit is that project also covers how to get proper VPN remote access to it for free using wireguard.

None of this no-ip free dns or port forwarding bs that leaves your more vulnerable than that IoT fridge running unpatched firmware from 2015.
Fly Me to the Poles – Going Global with NASA Airborne Data
new solution should be: Simple and elegant. Optional, non-intrusive and non-infectious. Robust and efficient. Only solves the cancelation problem.

okay... so they dodged the thing I thought was going to be interesting, how would you solve passing state? e.g. if I write a middleware for net/http, I have to duplicate the entire http.Request, and add my value to it.
How does a discussion about ethics and symbolism not fall under intellectual curiosity?
Sounds like a job for wave function collapse?
I’m becoming increasingly convinced that Product Hunt’s support team is fully automated by AI. Seriously, their responses are so bad that it’s clear real people aren’t involved. You get the same generic reply, whether it’s been a few months or just a few days since you reached out. Why even bother having a human and pay money? It seems like an AI just picks a standard response and inserts a random name. The result? Just pure profit for them while offering no real support.

Briefly: This is the worst use case of AI.
Yeah, PG just seems completely out of touch and isolated in a bubble- not understanding the reality of what people different than him are facing day to day in terms of racism and discrimination. I am white but in a mixed race family- and see the racism black people face day to day: getting followed and watched when they shop in a store, being always accused and suspected first when something goes wrong at work, being seen as dangerous or violent if they ever get visibly upset, etc.
Exactly, the snippets needs at least three lines of inane error checking boilerplate and variable juggling.
A nice reminder by Jan (who is not defending the selection committee) https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/113862181623385975

(Drew's latest posts has similar reminders)