skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Interesting; I wonder if DOJ approaches on this stuff will continue

It will, but the remedy for all the cases will be to donate $25 million to the president's library.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/meta-agrees-pay-25-million-s...
Ah okay. What did deductible mean in that jurisdiction? Was it a straight write off, or a tax credit?

Where I am in Canada, tax deductions are shitty because they come off the bottom of your income, so to speak. That is to say, the eligible expenses are added up and the lowest tax bracket rate is applied to them. You then get that as a tax credit. That's shitty because you paid for those expenses with your post-tax dollars at your full tax rate, but the credit is for a low tax rate.

Whereas a write-off comes off your income pre-tax, and so the benefit effectively operates at the marginal tax rate, and can knock you into a lower bracket.
she do not look the same
An example customer has 100 $7000 suits?
Also those damnable single button interfaces to earbuds, vapes, etc.

Older people can have trouble double clicking, it's even more difficult for them to "click 5 times rapidly", and to remember exactly where they are in a UI that has almost no outputs.

Hopefully as Gen-X ages, we'll see more thought put into this problem.
This isn't about what he legally should have gotten but what he deserves. Rapist even if found not guilty still DESERVES to go to jail. They shouldn't legally. But however, they did not get what they deserved.

Furthermore, they had the evidence, they just dropped the charges because he had multiple life sentences.
Some issues are (largely) bipartisan.

Over time the sentiment towards concentration of power in small number of big tech firms has rubbed both the Democrats and Republicans the wrong way.

Somewhat for different reasons initially, but the end result/agreement converges.
I know most people just buy what is available but I hope there's continued pushback on touch screens in cars. They're terrible.
> In fact, this chatbot comes with an even bigger risk: DeepSeek is legally required to comply with the Chinese government’s demands for data access and content control, with no legal recourse to resist.

Oh come on. How is that any different from using an American AI chatbot, with them being required to comply with American data access and content control laws? If anything, the Chinese authorities can do nothing to harm any American, whereas the American government -- at all levels -- can do an awful lot to use what Americans say against them.

In other words: Why the assumption that the Chinese government is my enemy, and the US government is my friend?

I'd add that in much of the world people are already beginning to view things very differently. One of the top Japanese political commenters on Twitter, @japantank, wrote a couple of days ago: "Many people say that DeepSeek is at a disadvantage in development because they cannot say anything unfavorable to the Chinese Communist Party, but major Western tech companies are dominated by political correctness and have far more restrictions.
Gemini and other platforms are more likely to not answer political questions than DeepSeek."

https://x.com/JapanTank/status/1883780805119582538
ask chatgpt what i mean
Very happy to see the increasing momentum in the zig community
That's my interpretation.
I always thought that comets come from the Oort cloud, but apparently short-period comets come from the Kuiper belt or its associated scattered disk—similar to the exocometary belts in these images.
> but they might start swapping in Siri for some search access points

They've been doing this for years now.

AppleBot has been crawling away powering the Safari Suggestions engine.
I have a simple hiatal hernia. One of the treatment options is to basically put a weighted band around your esophagus above the stomach so that the weight holds everything downward so your stomach doesn't get pulled up through the hernia. I imagined being in a car accident or some other situation where I'm nonresponsive, the doctor ordering an MRI, and me re-enacting the scene from Alien. Nah, I'll take my chances with the hernia, thanks.
It's not exactly this, but there is an interesting thing going on right now with the San Diego Padres in American Major League Baseball. The owner died last year and control of the team initially passed to his younger brothers. His wife wasn't happy about that and sued them and the team has ended up with an injunction pending resolution of who gets to actually control it going forward, and they've gone from being one of the most active franchises in the league of the past decade to making literally no new deals this offseason and watching all of their free agents leave. They basically can't buy anything until the court decides who of the surviving family gets to decide what to buy, which effects their own employees who can't get new contracts and any other franchises that otherwise might have traded with them.
It will allow me to use the search engine I use in the os integration.
Currently it open google, I use Kagi, which should be soon an option.
This is in line with my perspective that writing as a form of self-reflection and thinking out loud is underrated. Likewise, programming as a form of thinking out loud is also underrated.

For complex problems, I find that it doesn't matter how much planning I put into the task, I always find shortcomings in my initial logic and imagination once I get into the details and get involved in countless micro-decisions. Personally, I'd prefer thinking out loud through a programming language vs countless back-and-forth with an AI.
I used to do freelance writing. We did this as a way to break up large blocks of text, it makes the post more digestible.
Ruby on Rails on WebAssembly, the full-stack in-browser journey
"We don't want a solution! We want to complain about what we are used to and dont have!"
TotalView (which I rep), Linaro DDT - thoughts? (Yes, they’re both proprietary)
> Google will get a majority of its share back, while Apple will get nothing.

Then you would have to ask, if people would only switch back to Google anyway, why is Google paying them currently? Depriving Apple of the incentive to develop a competing search engine good enough for people to willingly use.
I was under the impression that viruses cause damage in other ways from directly destroying cells or from inflammation from an immune response.
The thought crossed my mind, to be sure! I talked about all that with the techs beforehand. "Are you sure this isn't going to yank my teeth out?" "Pretty sure. Now stop moving around."
Assuming "A" and "B" are collections of somesort, "plus" is concatenation/union, and "max" finds the maximum in the collection? If your collections were double-ended queues, concatenation would be a constant time operation, so you'd only have a single pass for "max".
Is this like the BEAM but with rust?
My dumb American brain is surprised these things are allowed. :shrug:
Page 31 is interesting, where apparently in the task of creating PRs for an internal repository the o3-mini models by far have the lowest performance (even worse than gpt-4o). What is up with that?
Former Barclays CEOs Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein Ran Deeper Than Disclosed
https://archive.is/BxsMu
I know no one here wants to talk about NFTs and crypto, but the generative art NFT space has been home to some really awesome creative coding. Specifically the Tezos chain.
Fxhash.xyz
verse.works
Feralfile.com
Artblocks.io
Objkt.com
Highlight.xyz

These are all spaces where creative coding took off in 2019-2022. The scene has died down a little, but that also means that the people who are still active aren’t just hopping in on a fad. A lot of the artists are people you might already know by name: Kim Asendorf, who created pixel sorting. Casey Reas, who was part of the original team that created processing. Karsten Schmidt, who made the wonderful open source library thi.ng.
There are a lot more names and things to say about this but IMO the only reason people feel like creative coding is dead is cause it started using NFTs and crypto, and they all promptly ignored all the great output these artists had.
FBI, Dutch police disrupt 'Manipulaters' phishing gang
Well, you can start by tearing down all the fences and firing that Chesterton guy's sorry ass. After all, even a 32-bit ARMv7 uses .eh_unwind sections to crawl the stack for a backtrace, right?

Then, you can focus on resolving edge cases that can cause papercuts. Make sure the solutions are at the expense of the happy path because that's all been solved long ago so there's no need to pay attention to it.
TCAS Avoided Collision with Army Helicopter over Potomac River [video]
Basic insight into what your device is doing, and which app is doing what.

Lets you build intuition about what is normal vs abnormal. And it's also essential for letting you perceive which apps are bad citizens (and good citizens). Try one of these tools out for a month and you catch all sorts of random things.

Funnily enough, the computer's fan used to perform part of this role. But that has increasingly gone away as laptops become increasingly silent.

Once I randomly opened Activity Monitor on my M1 Macbook only to find that vim was using 100% of a CPU core, and the timer said it had been in this state for days! It wasn't even in the foreground of any terminal tab. Just in a spinloop in the background doing who knows what. And it might have stayed like this for a year until I'm forced to reset the computer for an update.

Another example that you might find more compelling is when your computer's network jumps to 5MB/s. It should always be explainable.
Well, thanks! I tend to be direct in my language usage. I'll make it more convoluted/obfuscated in the future when talking about e.g. China.
counterpoint: when you visit a site, do you want to be surprised and delighted, or do you want something predictable you already know how to navigate? Or perhaps I lack the flare to spot that as a false dichotomy
NSF is an independent agency, and the degree of control over it which a President can legitimately exercise is disputed, but presidents from both parties have treated the independent agencies as being subject to executive orders.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_agencies_of_the_Un...
> I think the breakups obviously rectify consolidated power. 100%. But I don’t see more mobile phone operating systems coming from a breakup of Apple, for example. Gmail isn’t going to be replaced by a new email provider. Nor would we see a new YouTube, or other dominant businesses. Disrupting these massive aggregators won’t come from direct competition, but rather new product and service experiences.

Perhaps you're right. Perhaps breaking these products up would not create more competition.

But it would mean that these products must determine how to make money on their own merits. That might mean a better product overall. Or it might mean that the product really doesn't deserve to exist as a consumer product.
True - hadn't spotted the bit about the Search Text Ad bit either.
Screensavers do seem like a relic from the CRT era, but there is probably a fraction of a second difference between waking a display and simply dismissing a screensaver, which I imagine matters to some people.
I wouldn't worry much as an X-ray recipient. There was talk in the 1950s about the trade off of getting a routine chest X-ray, say to check if you have pneumonia if you see your doc about a respiratory infection, vs a hypothetical risk of cancer.

Today X-ray dosages are way less because they use

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_radiography

so I wouldn't be afraid to get one. The radiology technician though needs to take special precautions because they are around it all day. Personally I would avoid a CAT scan if it were feasible

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CT_scan#Adverse_effects
People misunderstand what NHTSA actually does. The core of NHTSA's job is to manage FMVSS (what makes a vehicle legal) and investigate safety issues in production vehicles. They don't approve vehicles in any way that matters here, and they avoid telling manufacturers how to do things properly. They also don't meaningfully regulate software or system usability. Those are left up to industry norms and "market forces" until deficiencies are so severe that there's significant evidence for a safety risk in production vehicles.
"You mean I don't have to build a search engine, pay for it's upkeep and engineers, AND you'll give me money?"
- Tom Cook probably circa > 0 AD

Easy for google to measure their IOS mobile Ad revenue to justify the billions.
Having costs doesn't mean something has any fundamental value. You can go in private where nobody can see you and burn some money, that has a cost but no benefit, not even as performance art. Destroying something of value does not necessarily create something of value.
Obviously not, otherwise the dynamics would be the same in other developed countries.
Different reaction over here. I've never heard of Stats or Hidden Bar, but as a Brave fan I'm going to go check them out.
Shipping a Changelog Every Friday for More Than 4 Years
Pipe Dream Labs
GDB is awful and a replacement is sorely needed. It's buggy and slow and feature poor and has a terrible UI and a terrible API which makes all the frontends terrible in turn. I haven't looked at its code but I'm betting it's terrible too.
Have you considered that your outrage (justified or not) may be damaging to your own well being? I do believe that in some causes this is an acceptable trade but i also try to be accepting of things that don’t seem to cause (too much) harm. For me, this is one of them.

Aside, do you also get angry about the use of the words coke, hoover, sellotape, etc?
Outerbase: 10GB managed SQLite databases in early access
Two in the same night? I wouldn't have been so quick to dismiss it as "it just happens". Scary.
Copyright for me, but not for thee.
"Trust beneficiary objects to trust busting."
I'd love to see, and hear, a video of the computer in operation
I seriously doubt Apple would move to Bing by default, even if there were some short term monetary gain. Using a subpar/cluttered search interface is so far off from their brand image.

I find it 10x more likely Apple would suddenly find the motivation to make their own search engine if forced to end their deal with Google.

(They say they wouldn't under any circumstance, but seems to be posturing to me)

Regardless, it's clear getting paid Billions to give people the default they'd choose anyway is a good deal for them.

I wonder who at Google negotiated this, because the terms seem very bad for them. They only make sense if the premise was to prevent Apple from starting a competitor
Sure - but what I mean is that Apple seems to be stuck without any good options here. Even if they don't get the $20B/yr, most users will probably either choose google search, or be upset if they don't get google search on mobile safari.
Same thing with my octogenarian grandmother, her fingertips are often so dry the screen does not register the touch; she has arthritis and poor vision so hand-eye targeting is poor with the tiny touch areas many apps have even on a tablet; the lack of any tactile feedback exacerbates these issues, people this age didn't grow up with capacitive touch screens and the lack of sensation after an action is alien to them. She finds the iPad extremely frustrating.

What I found more surprising is that voice control isn't the solution, either. She is very reluctant to talk to Siri because it feels to her like there is an actual person there and she doesn't want to bother them. It would actually be better for her if you could choose a more robotic voice for Siri to make it seem more like a machine.

Not looking forward to getting older and having to interact with the brave new world that Big Tech will be bringing us. With some manufacturers you can't even drive a car without using a touchscreen -_-
For the project managers, it's probably wrong both ways (in wasted time, efficiency, competence) plus wrong some more at every change. Don't throw away your paperwork: much of the current change will be challenged in court so proposals might need changing a couple times. And then again in 4 years.
This is separate from the kind of case outlined in OP. The one linked has to do with Trump’s account being suspended.

It’s definitely off, but no different than a big pharma lobbyist paying every other presidential campaign. Or the 100’s of senate/rep races.

If anything, the funds Meta paid are less accessible to Trump than campaign donations.

The DOJ case has much broader implications than a social account being deactivated, then money being paid to the presidential library…
Author here, I personally wrote more than 100 of the weekly changelogs mentioned in the post, so I'm happy to answer any questions around mechanics, tooling, etc.
For one thing the technology in an MRI based on a phenomenon known as nuclear magnetic resonance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_magnetic_resonance

they dropped the "nuclear" bit because it is scary, it doesn't involve any ionizing radiation. It is all about making the nucleus wobble but not about splitting atoms. I have fond memories of doing NMR experiments in senior labs as a physics major.
China created AI model DeepSeek and shocked the world
I believe the author also means “unconstrained” and “personal” when he calls for more “creative” coding. How else can we play with these technologies and push the limits if we also have to fulfill a business case and ship by EOD? I agree there’s a lack of “let’s see what this crazy browser thing can do” projects out there.
Whoa. What is wrong with UK sewage treatment systems? Oh, I see. They're having flooding from heavy rains:
https://check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk/?v=map-live&lyr=mv...

They need to build more capacity to handle this.
Affirmative action literally requires quotas to implement.

In India they’re more explicitly called out as ‘reservations’, in the US they are based on statistical models of the population.

Once your company gets above a certain size, or if it does business with the gov’t it is required to comply or you’ll get the Department of Labor on your butt and get sued using the evidence that the composition of your employees doesn’t match the model - so you are defacto illegally discriminating. It hit Google pretty hard.
Yeah, the more pages I read, the more disappointed I became. Here is the reason they cite for the low performance (which is even more worrying):

"The model often attempts to use a hallucinated bash tool rather than python despite constant, multi-shot prompting and feedback that this format is incorrect. This resulted in long conversations that likely hurt its performance."
My newer car has a touch screen for the radio channels, and I experience frequent difficulty changing the channels. This becomes impossible when I'm wearing gloves, which of course is often in a Midwest winter.
Really level headed and well-informed response.

I do agree that this is a totally new paradigm, but I would call it more of a popular revolution than a "power/money grab".

I'd also characterize the last system (which you described perfectly btw) as corrupt and ineffective. The most non-political evidence I can offer is the observation that spending decisions only ever went one direction: more spending. This probably seems fair at the "dem vs gop" level but too the taxpayer it was more theft every year.

So this newly emerging system does appear more susceptible to corruption, so I totally agree with you there, but as a taxpayer I am very happy that someone is slowing down spending.
I've also received surprising levels of vitriol here on HN when I mentioned working for EA (which I did 2015-2019).
This is by design, and it's for a good reason. The carbon monoxide sensor chemically degrades over time. Good CO detectors will perform self-tests periodically, and will go into an end-of-life mode when those tests fail, or when the sensor's expected lifetime has expired.
If you expect Jena to be more battle-tested because it is older, forget it, if the process is killed by a unexpected shutdown or some other reason it results in data corruption. At least this was my experience a few years ago.

I found graph databases a beguiling idea when I first learned about them, and this is a welcome addition, but I've since temperated my excitement. They are not as flexible and universal a modal as is often promised. Everything is a graph, sure but the result of your SPARQL query not necessarily.

I found classical DBMS based on sets/multisets to be much easier to compose from a querying point of view. A table is a set/multiset and a result of a query is also a set/multiset, SPARQL guarantees no such composability. Maybe, if you want to start mucking around with inference engines, but you'll either run into problems of undecidability.
> This is easy to solve though, just change the laws.

Changing the law for highly politicized situations is damn near impossible today.
It's hugely different. We limit donations from lobbyists, force them to register their activities. This settlement goes straight to Trump's pockets like Frank Hagues desk drawer.
Do OpenAI answers include any American propaganda? Or is the propaganda accepted as facts that no one even notices it's propaganda anymore?

Looks like NYT contacts are working overtime to smear China AI models on behalf of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, etc.

Seems like anti-Chinese products/services propaganda is in full force at NYT.
seems pretty bloated

https://github.com/voidDB/voidDB/blob/master/go.sum
Of course, the scope is different, the kernel is about 30 times as large as systemd (which is less than I was expecting frankly), but they both match the description "low-level large C language project". Therefore in my mind they should have a similarl density of CVEs per lines of code:

Systemd has 4 open CvEs in ~1M lines of code.

The linux kernel hash 18 open CvEs in ~30M lines of code.
My Germanic Linguistics teacher in undergrad and grad school was really interesting; this book considers many things you just asked above.

Elmer Antonsen, A Concise Grammar of the Older Runic Inscriptions

https://a.co/d/eTV2tFs
I do like the programming model. Do you perform any network optimizations when rewriting applications? Handling network bottlenecks/congestion.
They must have some research going into touchscreen enhanced distracted driving. But I guess they must not have gathered enough data pointing that way, or something?
Money is only worth something on a personal level. Not on a societal level. A society can print as much money as they like. It does not add any capability to society.
Bit twiddling with Arm Neon: beating SSE movemasks, counting bits, and more
the lack of proper tabs / multi instance support for many desktop apps makes me hate them. the possible quality range of a desktop app is much bigger than that of a web app, and given normal distribution of developer skill levels, i'd take a web app over a native app.
If the DoJ get's Google to divest from Chrome, wouldn't that also setup some precident to force Microsoft/Bing to divest from (the new chromium) Edge?
Apple did send traffic to Bing in the past. It wasn't all of their iOS search traffic, but some.
Which other metrics should we optimize for, and how should those metrics be weighted relative to each other?
Right, that’s what I’m getting when I say this:

> […] pick the one that’s already winning and make it the best we can.

I agree, it can be much better. Tons of incremental improvements have been made, and should continue being made.

I too would like to see browser close the gap completely, supporting everything needed to build real applications, not hacked together applications that accidentally work. We seem so close…
If what I'm doing is illegal, and the court rules that it is illegal, then I don't have right to do it with you (or anyone else), whether or not you like it.

Now, it may not be that black and white. If the ruling comes down to a negotiated settlement rather than a court judgment, then Apple very well may want some say in what that looks like.