skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a study that looked at precisely the kind of thing this policy will address: https://www.cspicenter.com/p/increasing-politicization-and-h...

To be clear, I would be in support of this policy even if there was no evidence because it sets a tone that I think is positive.
Sure, it's called "property" and "contracts".
If we can define what "pro DOGE" means and say that anyone who does not fall under that definition is therefore not "pro DOGE", then we've got two mutually exclusive and jointly exhaustive groups. Failing those two things, we've got what's called a "false dichotomy". OP is saying there are two groups: those who are "pro government waste" and those who are "pro DOGE". Who do you think is creating that false dichotomy?

edit:

Just adding that I realize the parent comment is making a joke, just expanding on my thoughts with this one.
> Well... yeah? The computer is a tool. If my tool doesn't do what I want it to do, or, by extension, it does things I didn't ask for or need, then it does suck.

Exactly. We have strayed so far from the original path of the PC being owned by and serving its USER. Doing what the USER wants it to do. Running what the USER wants running. Upgrading when the USER wants to upgrade. I don't want my operating system to what Microsoft wants it to do, or what Apple wants it to do, or, to be fair, what Canonical wants it to do. I want it to do what I want it to do. The fact that this has become a weird "power user" point of view is scary.
The "state" of Hacker News is that simply it reflects the wider society (or societies, rather, since users are from many countries). Every major subgroup is represented here. How could it be otherwise?

It's true that when one encounters someone with views far from one's own, it can provoke a kind of shock experience. That's how your comment reads to me. If so, I'm sorry—it's not pleasant to realize that (in a way) your neighbors are not who you thought they were.

I've written about this dynamic in the past, in case you (or anyone) are interested:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23308098.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
> That’s the beauty of a pardon. There’s not a limit, as many people can be pardoned as Mr. Trump wants.

It's really quite an odd power; very few developed democracies have a _personal_ pardon power today (some kind of vaguely pretend to; in the UK pardons are done by the monarch _at the direction of the government_, say). I think the US just stuck it on the presidency because at the time of independence the president was kind of a stand-in for the monarch, and the British monarchy had it at the time. The US then failed to get rid of it when everyone else did, instead relying on norms and basically on everyone behaving themselves to regulate it.
GM cuts 50% of Cruise staff after ending robotaxi business
Dimensional analysis is the term you're looking for.
Golioth Can Now Run on Qualcomm Modems
Also they did provide supplies over the lake but there were limited boats and the lake was shared with the Finns who had their own tiny little navy operating in the lake (tonnage was limited by treaty and the Finns could only bring in new boats that were small enough to be transported over land). During the winter the lake froze and supplies came in over the frozen lake but there were ~3 million people in Leningrad when the siege was established and feeding that many people over improvised routes is... difficult to say the least even if the only thing being transported was food and didn't include the large amount of military supplies needed to continue to repel the besiegers.
Yev here from Backblaze -> This is something that our engineering team is taking a look at. We've been able to successfully upload files over 1TB internally, so we're trying to chase down what's triggering those error messages. From what I can gather the client should certainly upload files over 1TB, but something wonky is going on this case. We're looking at it though!
> > get good at things by doing them repeatedly and optimising

> In an environment where information is shared freely and widely.

The whole reason you need to do it yourself is because information does not get shared freely and widely. You practice, you learn, you know for the future.

> > So of course if we build a couple of naval ships every decade, maybe a giant train line every 30 years or similar, it will be done terribly.

> That's a reasonable explanation but it's not exclusive. You can still face these challenges and not do a terrible job. There is plenty of evidence this is the case.

No, there is no way to avoid doing a terrible job when you are out of practice. Maybe you can mitigate some of the worst issues and outperform expectations for someone out of practice, but you'll never be able to compete with those who do it regularly.

> > so far behind China in industrial capacity now.

> We just don't want to pay first world wages for the work.

No, even if the chinese were paid the exact same wages as americans they'ed be able to outperform because, having done this work for decades, they've gotten good at it. They've found new and innovative methods to make things more efficiently, they've invested in machinery and infrastructure to be more productive, and they've cultivated an industrial culture which makes it easier to learn and apply such lessons going forward.
>a person or a corporation can be held accountable. I'm not sure that's true.

Depends if you like playing Super Mario Bro's as the second player.
I disagree. Chat is a fantastic UI for getting an AI to generate something vague. Specifically I’m thinking of AI image generation. A chat UI is a great interface for iterating on an image and dialing it in over a series of iterations. The key here is that the AI model needs to keep context both of the image generation history and that chat history.

I think this applies to any “fuzzy generation” scenario. It certainly shouldn’t be the only tool, and (at least as it stands today) isn’t good enough to finalize and fine tune the final result, but a series of “a foo with a bar” “slightly less orange” “make the bar a bit more like a fizzbuzz” interactions with a good chat UI can really get a good 80% solution.

But like all new toys, AI and AI chat will be hammered into a few thousand places where it makes no sense until the hype dies down and we come up with rules and guidelines for where it does and doesn’t work
None of that prepares him for the things he is working on now, and they have blatantly flouted the law and all security rules to get access to the treasury payments system
Yes agreed, although I think it's worth pointing out that the same is true of virtually every other country as well. Historically at least the US (generally speaking, plenty of people are exceptions throughout the entire history) aspired to freedom and equality, despite falling short.
Ideally, not electing a person who would abuse those powers. Secondarily, the “immune from prosecution” was a supreme court decision as a result of the events of January 6th, so the 2024 election was a pretty important one.

The current legal method available now is an impeachment process, iterated until we have a president who values societal norms and stable government. (Depending on how you feel about JD Vance not also pulling this shit.)

Currently 28 of the 51 republicans in the Senate are up for re-election in November of 2026; this is a possibility for a makeup change, but a remote one.

It appears a large enough percentage of americans want this that there’s no real possibility of changing course at this point; even the assassination attempts have failed. Understand that over 40% of americans do want what is happening now, as backed up by current polling. Never comply in advance, do not follow illegal orders, and make good friends with your neighbours.
You guys tried everything but the things other countries that do well are doing. But hey, let’s try to stop globalization as a single country.
Which is great advice. I personally struggle (a lot) with the time required to maintain a link blog with such granularity, which is why https://taoofmac.com does have a link namespace, but I typically only post about a link if I have one or two paragraphs to say about it _and_ the time to focus to whittle it down to something readable.

And I fully agree with the notion of "backing up" or keeping track of what was there (that's why I typically include a screenshot in my links).

But the key thing for me is that the time spent in the context shift "in and out" of writing starts taking a toll--especially since I tend to only post about links over breakfast, since I seldom have time to write "properly" by the end of my day, and prefer to devote my breaks to moving and doing house chores for "exercise" and getting tech out of my mind.

So a link blog of such density seems like a tricky juggling act...
> This is why, if something is important, I take it out of email and put it into a document people can reference.

This is how things should be done, regardless of which medium is used to discuss the project. Without isolating and aggregating the final decision of each thread, there is no way to determine what everybody has agreed upon as the final product without looking back, which quickly becomes onerous.

Things get messy when you start having different versions of each feature, but that doesn't change the concept of using email/Slack/Discord/text/etc. for discussion and a separate "living" document for formalizing those decisions.
> I also like the ability to checkout an old commit, make a change to it, then have all my more recent commits automatically get rebased (not exactly what happens, but the analogy works)

Can anyone comment on how Jujutsu "rebases" multiple commits at once vs. git prompting each one be signed (eg. touch Yubikey), and how it looks afterward in git?
The MBAs took over. Public service doesn't "generate renevue."
Never understood how he get time to do so many things. He is very productive
Right, except who's going to be held accountable?
I was a happy mercurial user until market forces and consulting needs made me, regrettably, use the inferior, more complex, more error-prone git.

I have used it already for a few years and can't for the life of me figure out how to solve problems with it. I just have a bunch of aliases that abstract away for the inconsistency of its commands.

Now, I switched to `jj` a month ago and basically, I have learned around 60%-ish of it. And more importantly, I have gotten out of a bunch of serious trouble (you can UNDO!!!!) already.

But if this rant is not enough:

* You can UNDO. Everything. That is the major thing

* You can switch from one `branch` to `another` and leave things incomplete, even conflicts, that is nice.

* The command made sense

* Nobody else knows you use `jj`, so no barrier to adoption.

* Rebases are not painful anymore. Stacking prs are finally nice to author, even of NOBODY ELSE KNOW IT!

The major troubles:

* Not yet support for major tools, ides for it. It stays in `detached head` which is not as nice as showing the current branch on IDEs, and when you are fixing conflicts some tools do not get the diffs.

* No mature UI tool. I use `gg` which is fine enough

But the above is just temporal problems. Git will never be `fixed` or improved, so is pain forever.
And if they don’t give someone better, in your opinion, then what next? Inaction?
I've played on Ubuntu / POP_OS! and I've played on Arch, I haven't tried other distros, but anyone else who has Linux and Steam has shared a similar experience with me.

I play all the Bethesda RPG games (TES, Fallout, and now Starfield) I even play online games with friends. Proton does a fantastic job, I think Rust, which I don't play anyway is one game you can't play on Linux due to them not adding support, which its not even an immense effort to support Linux with Proton, you include a DLL if I'm not mistaken.

I've played CyberPunk and other key games as well. Some games on launch are iffy, but after a few updates, they work flawlessly. Like Starfield was almost non-functional on Linux for me, then after a few updates it played flawlessly.
This is not a code problem, and I guarantee none of these kids know COBOL
A company is an authoritarian regime, not a democracy. Real power is kept within a small circle. Since employees can ascend, it might look like a meritocracy, but that is only allowed if it strengthens the regime.
This presumes the rich are looking further ahead than next quarter which doesn't scan for me considering the sorts of things a lot of them say.
Of course, but being in such a choice position is already being very privileged if we take things at their global level.
AI and a 160-year-old economics paradox
Or, if one happens to be France, after, before, after, and before (they had two 'empires', interleaved between republics and a monarchy or two).
This is the big question. I think Pompeo told Trump that the remaining 1% includes the names of US spies inside Havana and Moscow. How would you ensure their descendants are protected?
Agreed if it is correspondence that we are talking about. So, agreed I'm probably too strong that anything needing filtering and such is bad.

I'm thinking of things that are assembled. The correspondence that went into the assembly is largely of historical interest, but not necessarily one of current use.
Show HN: Mandarin Word Segmenter with Translation
I've built mandoBot, a web app that segments and translates Mandarin Chinese text. This is a Django API (using Django-Ninja and PostgreSQL) and a NextJS front-end (with Typescript and Chakra). For a sample of what this app does, head to https://mandobot.netlify.app/?share_id=e8PZ8KFE5Y. This is my presentation of the first chapter of a classic story from the Republican era of Chinese fiction, Diary of a Madman by Lu Xun. Other chapters are located in the "Reading Room" section of the app.

This app exists because reading Mandarin is very hard for learners (like me), since Mandarin text does not separate words using spaces in the same way Western languages do. But extensive reading is the most effective way to learn vocabulary and grammar. Thus, learning Mandarin by reading requires first memorizing hundreds or thousands of words, before you can even know where one word ends and the next word begins.

I'm solving this problem by allowing users to input Mandarin text, which is then computationally segmented and machine translated by my server, which also adds dictionary definitions for each word and character. The hard part is the segmentation: it turns out that "Chinese Word Segmentation"[0] is the central problem in Chinese Natural Language Processing; no current solutions reach 100% accuracy, whether they're from Stanford[1], Academia Sinica[2], or Tsing Hua University[3]. This includes every LLM currently available.

I could talk about this for hours, but the bottom line is that this app is a way to develop my full-stack skills; the backend should be fast, accurate, secure, well-tested, and well-documented, and the front-end should be pretty, secure, well-tested, responsive, and accessible. I am the sole developer, and I'm open to any comments and suggestions: roberto.loja+hn@gmail.com

Thanks HN!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_word-segmented_writing

[1] https://nlp.stanford.edu/software/segmenter.shtml

[2] https://ckip.iis.sinica.edu.tw/project/ws

[3] http://thulac.thunlp.org/
The Slotted Counter Pattern (2020)
Spotify and other streaming sites also killed mixtapes of rappers on other people's beats.

The AI generated stuff will probably be good for its intended purpose white noise with a beat to help you study but its unlikely you'll find you're next favorite artist
The Gadfly: Walter Kempner
I have heard from people who were contactors that everyone brings their lunch at Vanguard. No money pond here!
You should check out out MCP by Anthropic, which solves some of the issues you mentioned.
Claude on LSD
We gave Claude LSD, so it can browse websites and interact with them, similar to OpenAI Operator, but returning structured data from the website.
This uses the MCP (Model Context Protocol) to give Claude access to the LSD API, making it so someone can write and run an LSD SQL query without knowing anything about the language.
Oh wow, somehow missed that. Thank you.

Edit: worked a treat, thank you so much.
The “tool” was sorting your lots by cost basis, which is what Enginerrrd is saying was taken away.
Hmmmmm. More than a few titles from my Steam library in there.

What do you do graphics card-wise?
Put more succinctly: if it came up with a new proof in math that was then verified, and you went back and said "no, that's wrong" it would immediately present a different proof, denying the validity of its first proof, because it didn't construct anything logical that it can stand on and say "no, I'm right".
While it’s not really my thing, I can see how some people might enjoy it. There are many apps like this. How do you plan to differentiate yours?
This is cool. I wonder if you can create your own api for this that accepts cost report uploads for accounts and generate a summary of the exact costs on human readable summaries
There isn't any value judgement here. There are not more cooperatives because they don't prioritize growth. Who are you angry at?
are you guys using livekit for webrtc? If yes, are you using livekit agents as well?
I don't know how to explain to you that EV chargers exist, unlike teleporters and Star Destroyers.
If all these 3 are true, then that seems to me like a definition of a monopoly.

Specifically the condition 3 is practically never true in well functioning market. If you're successful, you'll be copied and you'll have competitors, so you always have to be a step ahead. Maintaining the status quo is how you slowly become irrelevant
You did see my link where Facebook stopped doing that in 2018? You notice you can’t find any newer references.
I went to an Amazon Fresh store soon after it opened, and the store was clogged with people trying to figure out the smart carts and how to use their phones to pay or get discounts on certain items.

I'm sure it's better now, because everyone who had a hard time with it has given up and isn't shopping there anymore, but for physical retail, losing potential customers isn't worth the added value of extra data gathering.
Thanks for the reminder to move some old IRA accounts they dumped onto some random provider to Fidelity.

Horrible move on their part, if I didn't want some provider diversification I'd just move everything over entirely at this point.
https://slate.com/technology/2013/07/skype-surveillance-a-ti...
Well if I can't have intelligent replies I'll gladly take the amusing ones, thanks
> We can support musicians we like by adding them to our personal playlists and playing their music every day.

We can also just buy their albums like ye olden times. Buy tracks for $1.29 like ye slightly less olden times! If you have disposable income, buy albums! It's easy and also fun.
The thing they have you sign is a single-party "consent" and not a two-party "contract", implying it's merely informing you about what they are able to do to you, rather than asking you to assent to a purportedly mutual agreement.

I cross out all that unilateral nonsense about being financially responsible (as well as other types of nonsense), and have never been balked at. Worst case is these days when they ask me to sign a contextless touchpad, and then they roll their eyes like it's some big imposition when I ask for a hard copy instead so I can "review".

So I don't think that paperwork is directly involved with how the medical industry has come to run on billing fraud shakedowns. Hence asking for actual mechanics / outcomes of what happens when people are "sent a bill" and don't do the implied thing of just paying it.

Also, have you ever talked to an attorney - especially asking them preemptive or against-the-status-quo questions? In my experience they generally tell you to just go with the flow. If they advise you to do anything else and it blows up, then they themselves could be on the hook.
Good explanation! As an open-reflexion: will a declarative document be as detailed as the imperative version? Often between the specs that the product team is providing (that we can consider as the "descriptive" document) and the implementation, many sub specs have been created by the tech team that uncovered some important implementation details. It's like a Rabbit Hole.

For example, for a signup page, we could have:
- Declarative: Signup the user using their email address
- Imperative: To do the same, we will need to implement the smtp library, which means discovering that we need an SMTP server, so now we need to choose which one. And when purchasing an SMTP Server plan, we discover that there are rate limit, so now we need to add some bot protection to our signup page (IP Rate Limit only? ReCaptcha? Cloudflare bot protection?), etc

Which means that at the end, the imperative code way is kind of like the ultimate implementation specs.
Of course it did. This is why so many want it out of the US. It's a propaganda vehicle for the CCP. Our citizens have an IV drip of bullshit feeding them 24x7.

This is why Trump wants to save it. Back in his first term he tried to destroy it[0]. Flash forward to now, he openly acknowledges that it helped him win[1]. He doesn't want to lose that influence if it gets dismantled, so of course he's now talking about introducing a sovereign wealth fund and use it to buy tik tok[2].

- [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/28/us/politics/trump-tik-tok...

- [1] https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5042241-president-elec...

- [2] https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/02/fact-sheet-pr...
This has been brought up with freedesktop and they handwaved it away. They claim they want to DIY with donation money but they don't have a donation mechanism and I suspect they don't know how much work just handling money is.
What's Inside a Manhole?
> People call them “great for prototyping,” which means “don’t use this for anything real.”

Eh, that's just copium because we all have a vested monetary interest in them not being useful for "anything real", whatever that means. If it turns out that there useful for "real things", then then entire industry would get turned on its head. (hint: they're useful for "real" things), though putting the entire codebase into the context window doesn't currently work. Aider works past this by passing the directory tree and filenames as context, so the LLM guess that /cloud/scope/cluster.go is where the cluster scope code lives and ask for that specific file to get added to the context and you can ask it to add, say, logging code to that file.
> Oppenheimer was smart, no doubt, but did he have the life experience to warrant 'senior'-level decision making?

You're questioning whether the person chosen to be the director of weapons development could be called "senior" or not? What? Or are you hindsight-second-guessing the decision to make him director? It's wild to me that you would choose the director of one of the most important and ambitious (not to mention successful) programs in world history to make the point "senior is just a title".
Curious as when I was still using TikTok I was getting pro-Trump content in between my usual communist/worker’s rights or pro-Palestinian content.
True but its clear that these systems allow this process to happen at rates orders of magnitudes larger than without it. That changes the severity of the problem and definitely turns it into something people need to intervene in.
If we use that expansive definition of "front running", is it "front running" if I buy stocks trying to squeeze short sellers? What about if I thought people would buy/sell telsa stocks because of musk's role in the culture wars, and tried to get ahead of that? Is "front running" just buying low and selling high?