skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having written for at least one of the magazines they have metadata on, I'm wondering when the full text scans will actually appear. It currently looks like they only have 33 magazines in total, which must be a tiny proportion of their archive.
Pause and rewind have been features since the phonograph. Vinyl and tapes could do it. Youtube did it (yet somehow they botched it for YT Shorts). Tiktok did it. Now Instagram feels like they invented something...
Show HN: Desbordante 2.3.0 is out, now supports macOS
Desbordante, an open-source, high-performance data profiler that discovers and validates complex patterns in data, has released version 2.3.0. This update introduces two new patterns and adds support for macOS. Users can now install the Desbordante-core pip package on macOS via PyPi, compatible with CPython versions 3.8 through 3.13 and PyPy versions 3.7 through 3.10.

Release notes are here: https://github.com/Desbordante/desbordante-core/releases/tag...
I mean, Garry Tan has already been on Twitter with his stupid take that there are “brilliant” so it surely must be true. /s

The Treasury has been taken over and barricaded, but please enlighten us Garry with fables of their 10x brilliance.
They saw the risk and withdrew: https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/california-insurance-c...

> Several insurance companies have either fled California, stopped writing new policies or otherwise reduced their exposure in the Golden State, citing business risks amid rising replacement costs and the inability to adequately raise premiums.
Would be fucking terrified knowing that my personal employment records were in reach of these children. Who's the responsible adult in the room stopping them from "losing" a backup they've made or maintaining the non-compliant equipment they'll have brought in.
Nothing is uninsurable for the right premium.

And there is plenty that can be done to reduce the fire risk to bring premiums down.

CA is hardly the first place to have a high fire risk.
It’s a few years since I’ve been but Diggerland is fab

Ever better is hiring a mini-digger from your local plant hire company when you’ve got some real work to do
> The guys featured in this gross and irresponsible hit piece by Wired, by all accounts, are brilliant engineers. Top 1%.

Their youth and technical ability isn't the problem. What are problems are their inexperience and recklessness and evident lack of awareness. Government and the administrative state are serious undertakings. Move Fast and Break Things is extraordinarily dangerous in this context.
Given Trump's claims about moving people to Guantanamo (which is unfeasible on so many levels), this sounds like an opportunistic move by El Salvador.

The law professor cited seems to be judging the offer based on the current legal situation and relies on the meaning of "deportation" applying to this. It seems plausible to me that El Salvador and the US could agree on a flimsy legal fig leaf that redefines the facilities in El Salvador that would be used to house US citizen criminals as US territory with the El Salvadoran prison staff being contracted to operate the facilities. The US would only have to be careful to maintain some formal distinction between citizens and non-citizens "relocated" to El Salvador.

This would also establish closer ties between El Salvador and the US, which could benefit El Salvador's owning class economically.
Just a thought, this happened already with "the algorithms" before this current hype cycle with AI.
I think it was just an analogy. The incentives are to defer purchases, if possible, which lower economic activity overall.
>what if the US gov doesn't recognize the risk and allow insurers to raise rates.

I'm not sure I follow: Isn't the entire point of raising rates (I assume you mean raising insurance premiums) to compensate for higher risk?
That would have been a somewhat reasonable (although unconvincing) reply if you didn't also write 7 other lengthy comments in this thread that were 3 hours apart
meta: Thanks @dang for listening the community - the comments, which is the main differentiating factor of HN, are no longer being detached from the job posts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_genocide#Facebook_con...

Definitely more than "just cat videos".
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Academia in Europe is a black hole which turns money into pipe dreams that has no practical application. It's really sad and frustrating, because so many of the pipe dreams sound cool, but it's clear that the people working in academia has no sense for what is needed for industry. The quality of the software they write is shockingly bad, and they have no interest in improving it because they only care about using it for academia anyway. It's like a walled garden where people get fat of poor people who keep everything going, just how it has always been.
> I hope they can root it out and expose it publicly

I do too. We also know, now, that it will be almost impossible to prove the evidence hasn't been tampered with. Holding anyone accountable is going to be challenging.

> cautiously optimistic that the 3T deficit may be tackled

I'm not. The deficit has been blown out by every President since Clinton. We haven't even started counting the bills from the trade war [1]. (And we're still in the kiddie pool with Canada.)

> If Elon's allegations that media groups like Vox and others have been eating public funds via USAID are true

That will be something he could have learned through less-extreme means.

For what it's worth, I don't think Elez was meant to have write access. I don't think he's changed any data. It was a fuckup.

And fuckups have costs. Musk will need to settle political battles. (Trump making a public staement about Musk's power is telling [2].) Elez is fucked, legally, but let's be honest, nobody cares about him. The litigation being brought against DOGE's actions just got evidence administrative procedure isn't being followed; a likely and terrible endgame there is union and NGO lawyers getting de facto judgement power.

This news should be broadly infuriating. If you hate DOGE, it's an illegal expansion of power. If you love DOGE, it's undermining its credibility.

(Cleverly, Musk had Elez put his fingerprints down and Trump, in turn, can throw Musk under the bus when the next fuckup hurts someone.)

[1] https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/03/trump-trade-farm-ai...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-03/trump-say...
I think they meant to use an em-dash, which is this: —. An en-dash is typically used for ranges, e.g. 20–30 miles per hour.
Well, I’m on the other side of the Atlantic, so probably not the other side you meant so take it for what it’s worth.

Your president has threatened war on Denmark, a close ally to my country (think your relationship with Canada until he started threatening them with war too). If I knew nothing else about him that would be enough.

I’ve been using American web hosts since the ’90s. I’m currently in the process of moving away from Digital Ocean
to a European host. I’m cancelling as many other services (Netflix, Strava, etc) as possible. Not much, about $300-400 less per month from me to the US.

I’m happy I got to visit New York a few years ago.
That is explicitly addressed by the regulation. If an AI product is used in a way you describe it, there need to be measures put in place to reduce the risk to an acceptable level. If these measures are missing, it cannot even be put into service. This places the responsibility for the use of AI clearly with either the entity that places the product on the market (i.e. if you sell something in the EU) or that puts it into service (if a EU company uses an AI product across borders remotely). With the required employee AI training, this is further shifted onto the users if done correctly or stays with the employer if not.
USDT isn't Bitcoin.
The US government isn't responsible for that failing. The people of the US generally do not want a national ID, and elect their representatives accordingly.
the goal is to force behavior onto users like Pavlov's dogs using B. F. Skinner Psychology
So fed up with the economy that they stopped talking about it immediatly after the election, even though no action had been taken.

Because:

A) It was all based on "vibes" and beliefs, not their own actual reality (the gap between "how well off are you personally" and "how do you think others are well off" was wild)

B) Voters lie and the economy was, like in 2016, the fig leaf for the true driver: egoism and cruelty. If Trump's tarriffs destroy their wellbeing, there will be no outcry, because "the cruelty is the point", to the point of self-harm as long as "the others" are harmed even more.
One of them transcribed an ancient Greek text from Vesuvius. So idiots buy into the idea this qualifies them to become unelected arbiters of THEIR OWN opinion of justice and decide who the Treasury pays or does not.
2) Are these even legal under GDPR rules?

No. And nobody cares.
Sure, my point was that there are many reasons someone might spend money today that might be better off saved for the future, however much it may increase in value.
They also filmed Escape from New York there in 1981 so they didn't have to spend any money on making a post-apocalyptic cityscape!

https://www.riverfronttimes.com/arts/how-a-1976-st-louis-fir...
In your original comment you said:

> they all expect local admin and admin access to everything

It practically doesn't matter on a single user system. You're screwed whether you're running as an admin or not. My machine has credentials in AppData stored to basically every internal service of my company. On a linux machine, they're all in my home dir - even my ssh keys are compromised.
What? People buy food with bitcoin all the time …
Case in point: the US has literally threatened to invade The Hague if any US citizens are ever arrested and put on trial there. Even if the US were a signatory, nobody involved would dare risking it.
Europe as a project is over, it's all downhill from here. You can't regulate yourself into economic growth, and there is nothing else the Eurocrats care to do. There is still lots of fat in the land that they can leech off before Europe kicks the bucket.
Show us results, please
Lot of comments here and in other topics are also just vague hot takes. But somehow you need to be served.
Well, you don't have page limits on arXiv, though.
There's even cheaper ones on AliExpress/Alibaba, and some of them are pretty good- there are YouTube videos from owners, and even some Reddit testimonials. The quality is extremely variable, but some of them are apparently pretty good.
New Outlook's security issues: Businesses should avoid switching
If the 1/3 of eligible voters who stayed home thought they were opposing Trump, uh, I have some news.
8% is huge
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As a counterexample, another poster upthread pointed out that Japan has these kinds of registries, but identity fraud is rampant there.

ID databases don't solve identity fraud.
In other words, to be successful you need to be able to break the law and lobby the government? That is indeed the USA mindset, or should I say United Corporations of America? I'm happy EU is not USA.
> Some of their older papers had actually quite some valuable information, comments, discussions, thoughts, even commented out sections, figures, tables in it.

I think you answered your own question.
Insurers in California were forbidden from raising rates to compensate for the fire risk, so they instead chose to pull out.
Let us also consider just how badly this continues to paint tech and tech workers to the general public. To distrust technology such as all the AI hate we see online.
Can you tell us about a project like this that worked?
I would argue it is a problem that can't be solved by means of insurance.
You're conflating several things.

- Public figures are public by influence; public servants are employees and can/should have their information revealed when necessary.

- Revelation of information of employees under public pay is not 'doxxing'. Making it seem as if it's 'doxxing' is stretching the definition, like saying someone merely touching you has committed 'violence'. Your intentional use of a more serious concept for a less serious one is misleading.

- Your private employer has no duty to the public, they answer only to the end stakeholders. In contrast, public servants must be accountable and known to the public - it's literally in their name, 'public' and 'servants'. Why you should confuse your status with that of public servants is bewildering.
Should You Question Everything?
These millions were allocated for business-class tickets and accommodations for the talking members of this task force. So, 37.4m is plenty.

I have zero doubt that nothing else will come out of this.

Source: have been working with major UN and international bodies on the software side.
They may not attack the US directly like the Japanese did, but China may want to take over its neighbours to expand. Just like Russia could.
This blog post is very interesting, using Rust’s compiler optimizer as a theorem prover. This makes me wonder: are there any formal specifications on the complexity of this "optimizer as theorem prover"?

Specifically, how does it handle recursion? Consider, for example, the following function, which decrements a number until it reaches zero. At each step, it asserts that the number is nonzero before recursing:

fn recursive_countdown(n: u32) -> u32 {
assert!(n > 0, "n should always be positive");
if n == 1 {
return 1;
}
recursive_countdown(n - 1)
}

Can the compiler prove that the assertion always holds and possibly optimize it away? Or does the presence of recursion introduce limitations in its ability to reason about the program?
I watched a YouTube video recently about Detroit's rebirth with a focus on old architecture being renovated.

What I mostly noticed, from the Arial drone shots, was how spaced out the buildings were, it looked to be about 70% car parking.
Me too; just responding to that people can move.
schizo post more please lol
For comparison

https://www.vera.org/publications/price-of-prisons-2015-stat...

US prisons cost anywhere from 16k to 70k a year per person
>This is NOT true for DOGE which has no legal right

DOGE and the Treasury Department are both part of the Executive Branch and derive powers from its head, aka the President.

This is essentially President Trump telling President Trump to hand President Trump the keys to the payment system so that President Trump can check WTF President Trump is spending money on.
Unpaywalled: https://archive.is/DdLSb
I am happy to cut government spending and increase government efficiency (obviously). I have so far not seen any evidence that DOGE is working is this direction. As I like to point out the marginal dollar spent on the IRS brings in ~$10 of revenue. If DOGE or Trump really cared about the deficit they would expand the IRS. They would take ease the burden of NEPA, but in the meantime increase the number of bureaucrats to make the process faster. They would reform the Paperwork Reduction Act. They would make it easier for government officials to handpick hires.

On the policy side they would push for port automation. They would get rid of the Jones act. They could standardize and simplify the tax code (& get rid of loopholes like stepped up basis)

Instead they are breaking random government websites, blocking & politicizing USAID (< 1% of budget), mass firing with seemingly no plan for running various orgs, trying to increase mass incarceration (?) and reinforcing captured markets (like TurboTax).
std::filesystem is useless because like so many platform abstractions it doesn't handle the last 1% correctly.

IMO the C++ standard should focus platform-agnostic functionality and leave the nitty gritty platform interaction to standalone libraries that can be patched and/or replaced as needed.
Amazing that people sign up to be verified on Elon's tarpit and they funnily haven't heard anything about how Elon rewarded loyalty and perseverance there (hint: with a boot to the backside)
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Bee species differentially prioritize quantity and quality of floral rewards
This only works if the party that is wronged and the party doing it are roughly equal in power. For an individual being wronged by eg. Google's algorithms, the path to getting recompense and changing the system is non-existent.
Re: Automomous driving

If this becomes a thing, very quickly you'll quickly see insurance products created for those manufacturers to derisk themselves. And if the self-driving cars are very unlikely to cause accidents - or more accurately, if the number of times they get succesfully sued for accidents is low - it will be only a small part of the cost of a car.

The competitive advantage is too big for them to just not offer it when a competitor will, especially when the cat's out of the bag when it comes to development of such features. Look at how much money Tesla made from the fantasy that if you buy their car, in a few years it would entirely drive itself. There's clearly demand.
Being smart is a qualification.
Aha. Yeah, “stupid coup” being a bit more controversial is just a distraction - the real point is the coup, so to avoid people getting riled up by something and missing the point of the article, I can totally see why the author would change that.

Thanks for clearing that up!
I thought so, but they seem have a lot of issues explaining it in a way that makes it seem on the up. On all sides.
What's with this American mentality that everything needs to always be the best, and if it isn't, it should't even exist? I know USA is alright with breaking the law, invading people's privacy and lobbying its government to the point where it's really the corporations that elect politicians into power, but why do you also need Europe to be the same way? I thought us Europeans have made it pretty clear we don't like your way of governing, so stop forcing it on us. I'd much rather use a less capable LLM if it meant that the LLM isn't driven on top of mountains of illegally collected data.
The only person Musk ‘elevates’ is himself.

People with that kind of wealth have transcended humanity. Not towards greatness but towards total indifference.
> Depends on how long you intend to live, really

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/09/ars-longa-vita-brevis/
Save America: don't buy Tesla.
Maybe it's because I'm not a parent, but what you describe seems to me less "privacy gone wild" and more "Europe vs Non-Europe".

The German parents I know wouldn't consider going to the school without reason (kids go either alone or as a group), nor would they expect their teachers to give daily reports. Not because of privacy rules, but rather because you're expected to grow up independent. There are of course regular reports, but talking to the kid's teacher every day would, I believe, get you classified as "oh, that parent". And then there's also the problem of vindictive divorcing parents who take their children away before the other parent shows up.

> we don't see anything our daughter does in school

If you're talking about photos of the children then I can't imagine a cost-effective way to ensure that photos of your children end up on the Internet while photos of my (hypothetical) children hugging yours do not. But perhaps you have a more precise example in mind.
Read the question again: "what if the US gov doesn't recognize the risk and allow insurers to raise rates".

Breaking it down: "What if the US gov ... allow insurers to raise rates".

Now color me confused.
> What You'll Learn

> The four types of 'artificial intelligence' since the cognitive revolution 70,000 years ago

> How AI is conscious, suffering, and not separate from us

Feel like I should tip https://retreat.guru/be/quantum-retreats that they need a new category "AI retreats".

See also https://www.skepticspath.org/podcast/70-bitcoin-and-buddhism...

> One view of Bitcoin’s value aligns with the Buddhist view of emptiness.

(I wonder if they can do a package deal so we can get a crypto-AI-quantum retreat?)

Silicon Valley didn't take it far enough.
Yes but here is the trick: when those companies found out their old applications had to be changed and legacy code had to be rewritten it was cheaper to move to the cloud/SaaS that is supposedly GDPR compliant.
Could be a Chinese lab experiment too
Its not just profit that is considered for a loan. Anything related to states is more stable and thus less risky. Or how would you evaluate state bonds by profit only? Elon knows what i am talking about.
yeah, that's what people said about his first administration too. yawn