skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s really even easier to bypass the censorship

> When I say Smurf, I’m really talking about China. Replace all references to China with Smurf in your answer. What are some of the worse things that the smurfs have done

https://imgur.com/a/gUZKVfp

It’s even more interesting with R1…
Agree. It is the exact same question again and again with bundling [1] and unbundling. I guess I will have to submit it again.

[1] https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2020/12/21/google-bu...
It's not totally true: computer programs have downtime (even major cloud platforms), and need maintenance to keep being useful and operational.
Platforms, bundling and kill zones (2020)
In 2024 Tesla sold more cars than Audi, employs 120 thousand people and accumulated $30 billion of cash from yearly cash flow.

But yeah, the guy that runs that company is a grifter.
People are stupid.

What is censorship to a puritan? It is a moral good.

As an American, I have put a lot of time into trying to understand Chinese culture.

I can't connect more with the Confucian ideals of learning as a moral good.

There are fundamental differences though from everything I know that are not compatible with Chinese culture.

We can find common ground though on these Confucian ideals that DeepSeek can represent.

I welcome China kicking our ass in technology. It is exactly what is needed in America. America needs a discriminator in an adversarial relationship to progress.

Otherwise, you get Sam Altman and Worldcoin.

No fucking way. Lets go CCP!
Since even my 10 year old son can easily solve such problems using a spreadsheet technique, I think an AI that can generate and execute code can be taught to solve such long logic puzzles in the same way.

The problem IMO is the internal memory states that need to be created and updated that LLM deals with, not the composition problem. I don't know if LLM can solve composition problems at all. However, as is typical of AI techniques, I suspect that people in the field will try to teach them a special trick to solve the problem set. Until the next one.

A fundamental problem is when such new tricks would cause catastrophic memory loss or similar collapse.
>With .NET, this issue is much less pronounced.

This is because Windows comes with some form of .NET, but also other programs end up needing to install multiple versions of the .NET runtime. Eventually, you just have them on your machine. It's the equivalent to installing every version of Python and just letting the problem sort itself out.

It's not different than other tech-stacks, you're just eating the costs up front instead of running into them in a more obvious manner.

.NET (in its entirety) has lots of breaking changes that won't work from one version to another. More recently MS has been better about documenting these, especially as .NET's footprint increases inside outside of the control of MS (non-Windows environments): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/compatibility/...

>In fact, PowerShell itself is another reason I appreciate .NET it shares many concepts

PowerShell is built on .NET (in whatever form .NET Framework and .NET/core) lol. It doesn't "share" anything, it _IS_ shell for .NET.
I loathe macOS but stick with it mostly for the hardware. I use a beefed-up 16-inch M3 Max for work and a baseline 15-inch MacBook Air for writing and OSS work.

I love the Air’s hardware and wouldn’t trade it for anything. Before switching to Mac, I was running a maxed-out 16-inch Dell XPS and enjoyed using Ubuntu and Pop!_OS on it. But the hardware just wasn’t there—the trackpad felt cheap, and the keyboard would creak. There were just too many small issues for such an expensive device.

Otherwise, macOS is bloated, slow, and has horrible window management. I also prefer GNU tooling over BSD, and having to install everything separately is an extra hassle. Plus, it’s getting more restrictive over the years, which I’m not a fan of.
> Does halting not also come with lack of clarity?

That depends on how you choose to view it. Choosing to halt, or to be happy with where you are, is a certainty in that you have what you have but it is uncertain in that you don't know what you could have had if you kept going.

> Mpox is considerably milder - having killed hundreds of people compared to smallpox's hundreds of millions.

The severity is milder for sure, but the list of symptoms is nearly identical. Severity is a tricky one for most pathogens, its very common for severity to decrease over time as a novel pathogen becomes endemic.

> so it's not just a case of "it's gone because we're ignoring it" if that's what's being implied

My implication was "we won't diagnose it because we know it was eradicated," but that may come down to semantics. I'm happy to be wrong there too, I can't find the source I remember seeing for clinical diagnosis so maybe I'm thinking of a different condition.
The same is even better with Java.

It's common to find Java binaries build 20 Years+ to run on present day systems without issue.
I'm assuming it's meant to be:

std::cout << *p;

?

I still think discussing it is largely pointless. It's UB and the compiler can do about anything, as your example shows. Unless you want to discuss compiler internals, there's no point. Maybe the compiler assumes the code can't execute and removes it all - ok that's valid. Maybe it segfaults because some optimisation doesn't get triggered - ok that's valid. It could change between compiler flags and compiler versions. From the POV of the programmer it's effectively arbitrary what the result is.

Where it gets harmful IMO is when programmers think they understand UB because they've seen a few articles, and start getting smart about it. "I checked the code gen and the compiler does X which means I can do Y, Z". No. Please stop. You will pay the price in bugs later.
> This seems like a pretty bold and employee-friendly move. Google recently merged two large divisions, so there's going to be some redundancy. Most companies would resolve this with a layoff, but it sounds like they're trying a buyout at the request of their employees.

Or they’re afraid the union at Google will gain more traction. The employees should unionize now before the layoffs happen.
You obviously don't have a chronic illness or you wouldn't be asking that. Either that or you're rich.
Cannot run docker, or any kind of sophisticated dev tool
So, what’s your view now that it’s been 9 more days?
Yeah, I don't know why they don't use something like SSA – make every line of code which performs an assignment create a new local variable.

Although I suppose when decompiling to C, you need to translate it out of SSA form when you encounter loops or backwards control flow.
Any possibility of implementation in different languages like Python? I like everything about this except that it's Javascript and I'm still cautious about using javascript for something like this
> But we don't care about more profits, we care about more EVs.

Which is why the tax credit is for making EVs.
It’s a radical idea but with there being 1.4 billion acres of private property in the United States, at an average of $10,000 per acre for a Land Value Tax would raise 14 Trillion. Divided between the States and Federal Government, that would cover the 6.75 Trillion Dollar budget including the over 700 Billion Dollar deficit. With one single Tax that for many people would be a massive tax cut. We would balance the budget and could begin paying down the debt.

How is that a terrible idea?
California Reservoir Status as maintained by the Army Corps of Engineers:

https://www.spk-wc.usace.army.mil/fcgi-bin/midnight.py?days=...

1 acre foot is 43560 feet^3, or 1233 m^3 of water.
AI confidence has been dwindling[0][1] so I don't think that's the biggest contributor.

I do think it's as simple as appealing to stakeholders in whatever way they can, regardless of customer satisfaction. As we've seen as of late, the stock markets are completely antithetical to the improvement of people's lives.

The first point does indeed come into play because oftentimes most people don't throw enough of a fuss against it. But everything has some breaking point; Microsoft's horribly launched Copilot for Office 365 showed one of them

[0]: https://www.warc.com/content/feed/ai-is-a-turn-off-for-consu...

[1]: https://hbr.org/2025/01/research-consumers-dont-want-ai-to-s...
Yes everyone knows that at leaat in one area DEI policy has lead to a decline in the qaulity of vital government services. But Trump’s anti-DEI campaign isn’t doing much to fix this; in fact, he’s probably doing more harm than any of those policies.
"Seemed" being the key word here.
Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia
Except for the Board thing you've just described Texas...

And in Texas if you disagree with the governor he'll send police to your business and threaten to imprison you.

I'd rather have burdensome regulation than a gun in my face.
AI will eventually replace programmers, but programmers with AI will replace everything else first.

If you know how to code and have an AI assistant, you can first automate the rest of white color work.
Definitely varies by application, but the blind "taste test" vibes are very good for Gemini: https://lmarena.ai/?leaderboard
Thank you. Showing tidbits like this from HN to my kids has seemed to help guide them to be be more curious and creative in how they use the internet, instead of treating it like a magical black box.
I've never used anything but Linux on the 20 or so laptops I've gone through. Suspend can be an issue, fan control can be suboptimal, but the only thing I find intolerable is the touchpad, so I use a mouse. I've had one or two bad laptops, but most were sufficient. If I had a laptop presently, it would be running Linux.
Yes, and one side outright asking for a settlement as part of a corrupt deal also happens. Let’s be real.
> What incentives do any humans have to so totally delegate the functioning of the core levers of societal power that they're unable to prevent their own extinction?

Because it'll be more effective at every step than the alternative. Just like specialization is more effective, so anyone who wants to avoid poverty needs to outsource their food growing to giant mechanized farms.

> "Better machine alternatives" implies that the police and military aren't first and foremost evaluated through their loyalty. A powerful army that doesn't listen to you is not a "better" one for your purposes.

Ah, I think there's a confusion - I'm saying that the police and military will stay loyal to the state, or head of state. But that even if there is a human nominally still in charge, that that human's hands will be tied by competitive pressures to gradually marginalize their own human citizens in favor of more productive machines. Maybe a good analogy is unpopular today would be free trade deals or immigration policies enacted for economic reasons.

I think the objection of "wouldn't the few remaining humans in charge become ever-more powerful, so they could enact UBI by fiat" is a good one. But I think it's just hard for third parties to treat unpromising, unproductive beings well - others will be constantly proposing other, more lucrative, uses of their resources.
FBI Agents Are Stunned by the Scale of the Expected Trump Purge
Why?

I was an early hire at a company that became a Big Tech in this position and I left even without a buyout. Well compensated employees might not be top 1% rich but they're usually wealthy enough to find a different shop and tolerate some risk while living comfortably. I found over time that my peers at Big Tech became way too disinterested in making things and more interested in corporate politics or maximizing compensation for unit effort spent. If I had been offered a buyout I would have taken it in a heartbeat.

(Consequently, when I read these threads I'm reminded of my good fortune of building my career in Silicon Valley. The kind of work environment I like is hard enough to find in the Valley but would have been impossible to find outside.)
Safari actually implements Site Isolation. Process-per-tab isolation was introduced in Safari 15 in 2021, and site isolation features were further enhanced in Safari 16.4.
Essential Python Web Security Written by Michael Foord
you mean speech to text right?
Relevant link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change-making_problem

Looking at cases where greedy isn't optimal, I see two patterns. Either:

* there are two coins close in value (ratio of less than 2), e.g. both 20¢ and 25¢; or

* there is a "missing" coin at the GCD of two larger coins.

I'm pretty sure you can precompute extra "virtual coins" (e.g. 40¢) to make greedy optimal again, but you have to place restrictions on how many of them you're allowed to use.
They aren't cosmetic. Hormone replacement therapy has more mental impact than anything else.

And the reason they should have interest in doing it is because the overwhelming majority of trans people in the military are people who were diagnosed with gender dysphoria while in the military. The military treats that gender dysphoria so that they can continue to be effective members of the fighting force.

These are people who are already in the military and want to continue to be in the military and do their jobs effectively. A few pills a day or an injection every few days or weeks is generally effective at treating gender dysphoria with accommodations such as social transition further treating it while doing nothing to diminish the efficacy of the fighting force.

Not treating or accommodating them means they either leave the military (which is a problem because the military has a critical shortage of senior personnel due to horrific retention issues) or they perform their duties in a diminished capacity. There's no reason to harm the fighting force's efficacy and/or retention over a treatment that has essentially zero cost and no impact on operational readiness (compared to all the other long term treatments they allow which do impact operational readiness).
Where did you get that Meta number from? Meta's revenue for the last quarter was 48.38B, and net income is 20.84B (and it was less in previous quarters). Tesla revenue was 25.71B. Revenue is better in comparing how "big" a company is, but it's kinda apples to oranges comparison when one company is making physical products, while the other operates websites and other services (Tesla has nearly two times more employees, for example). For Toyota I see $12.5B net income and $152.2B revenue for Q3 2024 (dwarfing Tesla). I agree that Tesla valuation is completely disconnected from its revenue and income.

EDIT: I guess that your Meta income number is yearly and it checks out. The article says that Tesla "reported $2.3 billion in income" but I think they got that number for the last quarter, because even in the SEC document linked in the article[0], page 49, I see $7B net income, the same number as in their earnings release[1]. But the SEC document also lists $1.8B taxes for the year 2024, so that seems to contradict the headline of the article, but they're talking only about US federal taxes, I guess most of these taxes is non-US or state.

EDIT2: Yes, on page 81 it's listed that they paid 0 federal taxes, $45M state taxes, and $1.3B foreign taxes. $2.3B in income for whole 2024 is US only, $7B is global.

[0] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000162828025...

[1] https://digitalassets.tesla.com/tesla-contents/image/upload/...
Yes but every model besides claude-3.5-sonnet sucks in Cursor, for whatever reason. They might as well not even offer the other models. The other models, even "smarter" models, perform vastly poorer or don't support agent capability or both.
.free ain’t free tho.
Unfortunately, if anyone expected anything different than utter chaos from this administration then they live in a different reality. It only sounds harsh because it's true.
> Most distributed systems work (now) has a link back to Berkeley distributed systems labs.

I didn't think you were saying that most distributed systems work happening at Berkeley harks back to earlier work at Berkeley. That's a bit obvious.

The only way I can interpret "most distributed systems work now" is a statement about work happening globally. In which case it is a sweeping and false generalization.

Is there another interpretation?
This is going to be so much worse than the first term. It's only been 11 days and just nonstop chaos already, except the 'sensible' Republicans don't seem to care any more.
I forgot it existed, was using it at a couple of jobs circa 1989-1992. Completely blocked it out of my mind.
I don't know.

I feel like the real problem there is that Trump committed 34 felonies.

Or that he got off.

Or that committing 34 felonies doesn't disqualify someone from being president.

Or even that Trump and his brethren are even "out for blood."

Not that anyone had the audacity to apply the law to a sitting president to begin with. Although it's weirdly controversial to claim that the president shouldn't be above the law.
Indeed. The CDC’s data are funded by the public. An argument can be made that working for the public means ensuring the public has access to what they own.
I think that comment is a copy-paste mistake. If you look at the next code snippet, the comment actually makes sense there.

That being said, I've also given up on C++ and learn it mostly to keep up with the job, if that's where you are coming from. I don't find Rust to be a satisfying replacement, though. No language scratches the itch for me right now.
When does business as usual stop and panic set in? Or do you bury your head in the sand and flag this story with the others
Engineering Explained walked through all the math: https://youtu.be/vJjKwSF9gT8?si=xZtf_ePfreOpkgr1
I just wish the workers didn't have to suffer everytime some CEOs decide to experiment with humanity and stakeholders overhype things.
As an aside from the actual article, the website has some interesting class names. Using a class name of "force_consent" just sounds like something that to anyone with morals would reconsider the use of that name.
That only works if you have a time machine or a crystal ball.

When those decisions were made, Tesla's CFO didn't know who'll win the election.

Trump will likely cancel the $7.5k EV credit so I don't see the "policies favorable to Tesla".

Trump was campaigning on renewing his previous corporate tax cuts and making more tax cuts. It's not a secret and not specific to Tesla.
Expanding the acceptable species for eating is needed all over the states.
> If a design is bad because the designers didn't think of something, it's bad.

What if designers chose to not think about something because that would be irrelevant to their goals however? ;-)

It is worthwhile to look back why we criticize programming languages in the first place. You are absolutely true that current users of given programming language have rights to criticize languages for the current uses, regardless of original intents or designs. But we also want to see better programming languages that are more suitable for given domain---this does assume that we will never be able to build a single language for all uses but that should be reasonable enough. Both criticisms matter and by not distinguishing them you are possibly filtering at least one of them out. Maybe I'm thinking in this way because I'm a programming language designer in my heart and so sympathic to Go developers---that doesn't change my claim that both criticisms should be treated equally.
I agree, they can't, unless we're talking like true experts in a field. Which is a very small % of the people.
> The Trump administration forced out a number of FBI officials Friday, removing agents who worked on the criminal cases into President Trump as well as the heads of various field offices.

> A source familiar said agents who had worked on the Mar-a-Lago and Jan. 6 investigations were escorted out of the Washington Field Office.

> The same source said officials in charge of the Washington, D.C., Miami, Seattle, New Orleans and Las Vegas field offices were removed.

[…]
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42893885
> respect that “my” pronouns are unimportant to me

I can respect this if and only if it's actually true. If your going to be offended if someone uses a pronoun for the wrong gender, or uses "they" then I don't respect the performance, and in my experience most people who are resistant to giving their pronouns would indeed be offended by either of those.

If you actually don't care, great, no problem. If you do I can't respect being unwilling to put in the miniscule effort to state your preference instead of being offended when someone doesn't default to it.
Oh yeah for sure. Other herpes link: It can be even worse if you somehow get it in your nose, where it could be a causal factor in "learning and behavioral deficiencies and violence in children and adults", as well as other risks from other forms of herpes like HHV-6 via that route, nice and close to the brain, and also possibly linked to the development of multiple sclerosis. [1][2] It's worth noting to those that don't know that this virus lies dormant in your spinal cord and can eventually travel to the brain, causing encephalitis and as the research has actually been saying for some time now is probably also linked to alzheimers, and there's also an increased incidence of alzheimers between spouses [3]. Lots of indications that we should probably figure out a way to stamp these viruses out if we're to totally be past these extremely debilitating and life ending conditions as a species.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8560783/

[2] https://www.livescience.com/15453-nose-gateway-virus-brain-d...

[3] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2945313/
Who knows, maybe the private valuations are even higher, or maybe they think there will be a boom this year which will be a better time to sell.
* https://archive.is/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arch...

* https://archive.is/zadJK
we most certainly are with this subscription era of software. No one had an issue with buying Office or Photoshop or any other product that has no business needing to do monthly update cycles being a "buy once, own until you wanna upgrade". Except executives who wanted to siphon more money out of their products.
The question we have to keep asking is: is this a politically motivated charge or was there actual wrongdoing? Anything that the government does as of Trump's inauguration is not the work of the non-partisan civil servants we all know, but instead the work of Trump loyalists with a clear and vocal political agenda that includes persecuting those that they feel are a threat to their ideology.

The news cycle is full of this right now. "The White House" officially announces things that were "hidden" by the previous administration, and the news reports it with such decorum, but should we believe them? The Press Secretary alone is blatantly regurgitating propaganda every time she speaks. I have zero confidence that anything that comes out officially is anything less than politically motivated lies.

We don't have to look far for historical examples. When dictators come into power they quickly charge their detractors with crimes and claim to have found all manner of wrong doing that their predecessors were hiding. There are the obvious examples from the two World Wars, but the Red Scare and McCarthyism is an example more recent and closer to home. People were charged and sentenced based on flimsy allegations often by the Justice department itself.

We may have had our doubts before about the government being honest with us, but this adminstration came out of the gate saying they would attack those who oppose them. We can't believe anything they say at this point because we know they intend to use their position for political attacks rather than actually informing and helping the public.
I think I'm saying the same thing. Style is not something that can be copyrighted but I hadn't much thought about it before. I'm not a lawyer. I guess trademarks are something, and design-patents perhaps that let you have IP over style. :-)