skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since I got an email asking why this was flagged, I might as well add the answer here too: most likely because it's hardwalled (i.e., paywalled with no workaround).

This is in the FAQ at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and there's more explanation here:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989
if reality turns into a Ubisoft game I think I might log out
Looks kinda cool. Would love a trial. Subscribe doesn't work - 500 error on api/checkout.
I would not take definitions of "arbitrary" or "capricious" for granted. Legal words never mean what most people think they mean, especially once the Supreme Court gets their hands on it.
I think it may have been inspired by this Norm joke.
Basically pointing out that the criminal act is what's actually the worst part and not just whatever is most annoying

Norm MacDonald : Now do you think Cosby's legacy will be hurt?

Jerry Seinfeld - Host : Yeah.

Norm MacDonald : You do, huh? I mean, there's a comedian, Patton Oswalt, he told me, "I think the worst part of the Cosby thing was the hypocrisy." And I disagreed.

Jerry Seinfeld - Host : You disagreed with that?

Norm MacDonald : Yeah, I thought it was the raping.
Because those are the only two options: as bad as Iran and China or….10/10?
He also points out his own accusation is baseless:

https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/113930295586771514

and a longer explanation of his thoughts (mostly that Oracle has left him in the dark so all he can offer is conspiratorial speculation)

https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/113930279621469673

Anyway, since Oracle won't say, it seems fine to take adverse inference.
The US is currently experiencing a ~~coup d'état~~ self coup. The current Republican admin has systematically fired government employees that didn’t vote Republican, any employees viewed as “enemies” have been fired and the admin even locked out a large swath of workers or figureheads that could challenge them - and a large portion of those actions have been explicitly illegal. None of that even covers the extreme targeting of civil rights in only the last two weeks. Dropping the US rating is not “childish nonsense” unless you are simply tuned out of what is actively happening.
Much as I might like to see alternate ways of launching succeed, I have always thought that physics was not on their side.
Sorry to hear that, I wouldn't bet anything on Apple but the core language contains a lot of good ideas imho.
I wonder if I upload a video to standard Youtube and tag it 'music' so it's shows up over on Youtube Music does it get a better audio quality than the video encode gets?
It's worked well with pretty role. However, for our Customer Success / Support team hours = hours out is more true than other roles. So for these roles its more about being able to attract people who are really good at their roles.

We don't track hours at all -- staff are expected to track their own hours and keep them to 32hrs. Occasionally something happens and people work longer hours in a week, however we then give them time off the following week.
He knew his Judo well.
As someone living in a monarchy, I can assure you that our regent very much does not own my nation’s treasury.
lol if you watch zuck's take on it his problem is the fact checkers ended up being biased.
Just imagine, narcos deliver a product that is huuugely popular in the USA. If there was no demand, there would be no need to supply.

You guys could start by replacing opoids with Ibuprofen. But nooo… Ibuprofen damages your stomach, apparently. Opioids are sooo much better.
I think you've associated the entirety of concentration camps with the one that's taught in WWII history. There are extermination camps where the goal is efficient mass-murder, forced labor camps where the goal is slavery, both of which are a kind of concentration camps which is simply a place where groups of people are illegally detained. Don't focus too hard on the illegal part because it's always legal in the state that does it. The Japanese internment camps the US used were concentration camps.

In a weird way the events of WWII saved the US from going down the same path because we were on it. Anything literally Hitler did became politically toxic and it's a bit worrying that this toxicity is wearing off. It kept us far away from
the fence.

The thing that matters for concentration camps is large groups of related civilians detained to advance a political goal— to restore Germany to its former greatness or to make America great again.
One way to look at data compression is splitting it into a model and an encoder. The model describes the data, while the encoder encodes (or equivalently predicts) the data according to the model. The compressed output consists of the serialized model and the encoded data. BWT is a model, while Huffman is an encoder.

Huffman takes a probability distribution and a symbol and encodes the symbol according to the distribution. If you encode all symbols independently according to the same distribution, you probably don't get very good compression.

You get a bit better results with a model that has a separate distribution for each context. If the previous symbols were X, Y, and Z, you encode the next symbol according to the distribution for context XYZ. This approach doesn't really scale, because the size of the model grows rapidly (exponentially in a naive implementation) with context length. You get better compression with an adaptive model. You start with a uniform distribution and update the available contexts and distributions after encoding each symbol. On the one hand, you don't have to store the model explicitly. But on the other hand, updating the model is very slow.

Burrows-Wheeler transform is an implicit model. It sorts the symbols according to the context that follows them, and it does that simultaneously for each context length. Because you don't have to store the model explicitly, you can effectively use longer context lengths than with a fixed explicit model. And because you don't have to update an explicit model after encoding each symbol, using the BWT is much faster than using an adaptive model.
But x86 is usually not handheld, and has a different power efficiency story.
Show HN: Annotate Any Image by URL
he'll tweet them in revenge.
The market is rigged. Nobody is long Tesla enough.
1.6% Marxist

Did you confuse Liberal with Leftist? Liberals are anti-left

Some portion are Libertarian but there's no distinction between so-called "ancap" and libcom so that one is murky or more often coded for the former (the Libertarian party in the US is anti-left)
Btw why didn’t fuel cells catch on? Just same issue with h2?
Honestly, I was in a similar spot. It was only in my mid-30s that I got a diagnosis, and it was because a lot of my coping mechanisms for keeping ADHD under control were failing.

I struggled a lot through HS and college, which I mostly attributed to having a sort of shitty childhood and generalized depression. But when I started my career and depression issues naturally went away as a result of independence, my issues of attention and focus actually got worse. A lot worse. I could only function in high stress environments with strict deadlines. Which is great when you're working on live ops issues, but bad when you need to complete a big redesign and you have a few weeks to do so. And the stress was having other negative effects.

So I finally got fed up and started talking to people. The more I explained my thought process and how hard it was to hold onto one coherent line of thought and attention, the more I realized this was a problem specific to me. It wasn't something everyone went through, other people could naturally just sit down, work on something and that was it.

In many respects, we have far less control over our brain than we think. So we develop strategies to deal with deficiencies and don't think about why those strategies are necessary in the first place. Recognizing what we don't have control over is a step towards gaining control, and being on ADHD medication made me realize what that actually meant. So you shouldn't think about it as having less personal control, but finally having more.
Emergent Behaviour: How Simple Rules Create Complex Systems – Early Release
I’ve been fascinated by how simple interactions give rise to complex systems—whether in nature, AI, markets, or human society. This led me to start writing Emergent Behaviour: How Simple Rules Create Complex Systems – 99 Real-World Examples, which is now in early release.

The book explores how emergence happens in biology, technology, business, physics, and more, featuring real-world case studies like:

- How ants create self-organising highways
- Why AI agents develop unexpected strategies
- How stock market bubbles emerge from simple investor behaviours
- Why traffic jams form without a clear cause
- How flocking birds and schools of fish synchronise without leaders

Right now, I’m continuously updating the book, refining explanations, and expanding my research with links to videos and images. In the future, I plan to add interactive code simulations so readers can experiment with emergent behaviours themselves.

I’d love get feedback from the community—what are the most interesting emergent behaviours you've observed? What kind of code simulations would be most valuable?

Check it out here: https://leanpub.com/emergent-behaviour

Looking forward to your thoughts!
You bring up an interesting point about the birth of the universe. Doesn’t that violate the principle that energy cannot be created?
The specific law that Trump is very obviously breaking is the Securing Inspector General Independence Act of 2022, which says Congress must be notified 30 days in advance and given "substantive" rationale for dismissing inspectors general.

This law was passed specifically in response to Trump breaking the antecedent law, Inspector General Reform Act of 2008, during his first term.

Will the "party of law and order" do anything? Nope.

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF11546

Good on Ms Fong for refusing to leave.
> Do you want to spend your time navigating legal uncertainty

Texas is arguably more legally volatile than Delaware. Just look at statutory volume. Put another way, Texan lawmakers make headlines in ways Delaware lawmakers do not.

> who does this all benefit except for plaintiff-litigation attorneys?

Texan courts are slower than Delaware’s. Also, there is now a multi-billion dollar incentive to find the areas of law Texas hasn’t patched that Delaware has. Would be shocked if we don’t see a massive boom in Texan corporate litigation in the coming years.

The proximate cause was the pay package. The root cause is these leaders don’t have influence in Delaware. They do in Texas, and they want to wield that. For their companies’ shareholders, that might wind up a win-win.
I'm so annoyed at how popular rationalism is. Human rationality (along with symbolic creativity) is only useful at generating testable hypothesis, not for direct knowledge of reality. Once someone grant the axioms of rationality they become delusional and spiral (half life of around 6 years)
Ziz (the cult leader) had a blog at sinceriously.fyi, where she elaborated on her philosophy. The blog has since devolved into a string of death threads and subsequently been deleted, but anyone who's interested in the backstory can still find some posts on archive.ph (e.g. [1]) and more on web.archive.org.

From Ziz and other cult members' writings, it's obvious that the cult has been in conflict with the rationalist community, rather than part of it, for years. It's disappointing but not surprising that SFGATE decided to pin the murders on the rationalist community while contorting their writing to avoid mentioning the elephant in the room: the cult leader is a trans vegan, almost all of the members are also trans vegans, and these are core parts of their ideology. They were discussed over and over on Ziz's blog.

In fact, after the katana stabbing and the self-defense shooting by the wounded landlord, another cult member used her blog to blame Zack for the events. Zack wasn't involved, physically present, or in communication with the cult at the time, but he does believe in a different theory of transness than they do [2], so they can't stop being enraged at him. That theory was actually one of the main reasons the cult has split off from the rationalist community. I'm worried that Zack may be in danger.

[1] https://archive.ph/jChxP

[2] http://unremediatedgender.space/about/
Yeah, but this one will do your taxes /s
I assume most viewers will already have most of the youtube javascript warm in the cache...

How much is loaded for a navigation from one video to the next?
The US becomes a new oligarchy. Like Russia. They all admire Putin.
But you cannot run the product on an iDevice and a build for Mac Catalyst isn't even possible. “Bundled with Xcode” is very much necessary.
This is just sick. Musk has wormed his way into Trump's inner circle and used that position to prop up his personal platform to ensure clicks, eyeballs, and personal revenue enhancement from his personal connection to the president. I get that Trump himself skirted emolument issues in his first term, so I guess that just emboldens everyone else to get a bigger piece of the pie too? I guess Zuck's recent $25mil isn't enough for him to get any of the exclusive gov't announcements on his platform? I'm flabbergasted at the number of people that don't think this is an issue.
So you are suggesting that all posts on news.ycombinator be anonymous?
Trump’s margin was very slim, a bit more (2.3M) than the 55+ voters who age out in a year (~2M).

Do younger folks continue to tilt conservative? Maybe, but older Republican voters keep aging out. I see this like Brexit; squeaked by and then the old folks who tipped it died out over the next few years. How much damage there will be to repair is to be determined.

Trump has already walked back several of his campaign promises, such as reducing inflation on food. Does it count if you won if you lied to your base to do it? I think it's important people get what they vote for, otherwise, they may not make better decisions if they don't feel the consequences of their actions.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/20/trump-ele... | https://archive.is/2025.01.23-145837/https://www.washingtonp...

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/12/10-facts-...

https://apnews.com/article/trump-inflation-grocery-prices-en...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-walking-back-biggest-campai...

https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-TRUMP/BUDGET/xmvjbqgmkv...
If you're learning guitar, drums, piano, trumpet, etc, you'll want to start playing along at about 75% speed then work up until you can play 110% faster than you need to. YouTube's built in audio time stretch makes this a painful exercise.
I understand you to be saying that these insiders who wanted to remove evidence waited nearly three months after the election, and more than a week after inauguration to do this. Do I understand this correctly?
GERP 2025 (Demoparty)
You could only mean the database? The stuff I am familiar with was good before they bought it and is better somewhere else despite all their work to choke options with IP law.
> just like we build our deep sea submarines

Nah, I'm sure some expired carbon fibre will do fine.
https://annas-archive.org/blog/all-isbns.html
If I follow the advice

https://pastebin.com/8M9Dbrgj

Not sure how that's any better... I still have no idea that the error occurred on line 2
I find it interesting that Tiktok went with Oracle given their history with the CIA.
Rationalism? The term has been used a lot of times since Pythagoras [0], but the combination of Bay Area, Oxford, existential risks, AI safety makes it sound like this particular movement could have formed in the same mold as Effective Altruism and Long-Termism (ie, the "it's objectively better for humanity if you give us money to buy a castle in France than whatever you'd do with it" crowd that SBF sprung from). Can somebody in know weigh in?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalism#History
> [...] but he may be a little more convinced about physical ones.

He thought raking forests would prevent fires. His off-the-cuff solution to physical barriers would be long hoses and a bunch of water pumps.
Related ongoing thread:

Bzip3: A spiritual successor to BZip2 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42899713 - Feb 2025 (80 comments)
Distro: Fedora (default Gnome)

Laptop: LG Gram 16"

There are several variations of the laptop with spec differences, the main thing you want is Intel CPU with integrated graphics.

Great screen (16:10 ratio), great battery life (80Wh), dual NVMe slots (if you care about bit rot).

Last, but not least, very, very light.
Has she stopped using nazi and racist dogwhistles in their projects, or are we supposed to ignore that Justine is a known, and proud, 'technofascist'?
https://archive.ph/yeuYa
Agreed.
It's not like they didn't have enough time to fix it either.
And they seem semi-capable of creating usable UI's elsewhere.

The thing is, when it comes to applications, both Apple and Microsoft compete with their own customers; which makes a pretty solid motivation for providing shitty developer experiences.
What the fuck is this history

The more I read, the more I'm confused
Of course, but Lidar is more expensive.
Frankly, it makes me feel bad for Chris Lattner. This guy's been worked his ass off to create a genuinely new language with all the bells and whistles he can fit, and his employer is the one that held him back the most. It took years for Foundation framework to get serious multiplatform commitment, and unless something changes drastically I think that's going to be the sour taste that developers have in their mouths.

Apple in general seems to only understand software development through the lens of oppressive control. Maybe that's a security imperative for consumer products, but in Open Source it is an outright suicide pact. You have to treat every major platform as a first-class target, otherwise the major platforms will all switch to something better.
This gets you the (arguably) most powerful AI in the world running completely privately, under your control, in around $2000. There are many use cases for when you wouldn't want to send your prompts and data to a 3rd party. A lot of businesses have a data export policy where you are just not allowed to use company data anywhere but internal services. This is actually insanely useful.
theoretically hydraulics can be regenerative. Whilst lowering a heavy load to the ground, the pump is being 'sucked', and the engine could be consuming no fuel during such an operation.

Practically they rarely are, because the way a piston is moved 'slowly' is to have a half-open valve with a pressure drop across it, and that half open valve wastes all the energy into heat in the fluid.
I don't know why I never see anyone recommend it, but plain fedora with the default gnome is pretty great. In terms of design and usability, it's solid. You can't customize every little thing, so compared to other setups it's not as flexible in that way. But if you want something that is stable and boring so you can get to the stuff you actually have to do, fedora is a decent choice.
Wait, so they waited until yesterday to remove incriminating evidence? Just when Trump’s staff also came in to purge data? What a coincidence!
Google offers 'voluntary exit' to all US platforms and devices employees - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42893463 - Jan 2025 (41 comments)
They'd have got there already if they'd built a space trebuchet instead of a space catapult.
They are violating multiple laws. The Administrative Procedure Act (APA) of 1946 contains the rule that prevents the U.S. executive branch from acting in an arbitrary and capricious manner.

The reason for this law is so that Government operates in a steady and understandable way and doesn't have dramatic shifts due to a change in the Executive branch. Having this law allows for things like a stable society. That in turn build trust resulting in things like our stock market being a goto not just for Americans but investors all over the world. It allows for the trust in the US Government needed for our bonds to be considered safe investments. It allows for the trust in the US Government needed for the dollar to be used as the world reserve currency.

Donald Trump already lost in the Supreme Court his last term doing these sorts of arbitrary and capricious executive actions but he doesn't care that it's not only unconstitutional but also undermines the United State position as number one in the world order.
Theoretically an excavator could be designed which uses a winch-type system to curl the bucket (maybe a highly-geared transmission from an electric motor) and then, to uncurl it, lets gravity pull it and lets the spinning winch drive a generator. I can’t think of any way to do it that isn’t extremely inefficient though.

Plus as you say, excavators don’t use a winch and motor, they use hydraulics, and I don’t think the former would be powerful enough to move lots of earth. But OP said “theoretically”, which makes them technically correct (the best kind of correct.)

There are proposed energy storage systems that involve simply lifting a lot of heavy stuff to store energy, and then lowering it again to recover it. So the idea isn’t even new. But said systems have terrible energy density (lifting and lowering stuff doesn’t store very much energy overall) and are basically a terrible idea as it is.
GE powerhouse? Beg to differ.
https://cleantechnica.com/2024/08/26/jack-welch-screwed-up-g...
Feature flags are ofter initially for feature and later left in as dependency flags. Even within a large organization, individual components and services by other teams will have outages.
what an ignorant comment. you can be upset that voter turn out is low, but to say people don't count is just knee jerk reaction that does not engage the people that didn't vote into positive conversations about voting in future elections.

you are now part of the problem
What's the Deal with Andrew Loeb?
Being a shell interface/scripting language is no excuse for making a bad language.
Forget TikTok, I'd rather see a divestment of X.

Twitter was the best idea ever but never made sense as a business; people keep trying to use X as if it still is Twitter, but it isn't. Bluesky is nice but still too small.
Yes, I am confident that all materials get warmer when exposed to sunlight. Evaporative cooling might be argued as an exception, however I do not consider it so.

There might be some materials that do not absorb solar radiation, I'm not aware of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaporative_cooler
I think there are only about 10,000 active controllers (not in training)
This is very similar to when the CDC stopped recording defensive gun use statistics! The pendulum is certainly swinging, on the other hand, I think we should retain data even if it doesn’t align with the current administration. I think it’s important that people should record data that they value, independent of governments, so they can maintain a source of truth throughout time. Articles from Axios, NYT and posts on X can change or be deleted, it’s important to take snapshots to go back and check for deltas.
Encountering an Apple employee on HN is like finding a Papa John's employee in the food court.
By salted hashes, I'm pretty sure OP meant using something like bcrypt or PBKDF2
> It's now up to the people of the US to stand up and save their democracy.

We weren't able to save our economy from monopolies and tyranny, and now you want us to go stand up against the people with tanks and machine guns!?

At this rate I expect you'll tell me to stop importing iPhones and Perrier...
Then people will die.
Is it possible the models do something entirely different? I'm not sure why everyone needs to compare them to human intelligence. It's very obvious llms work nothing like our brains why would the intelligence they exhibit be like ours?