skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a descendent of a grandmother who, as a child fled the brand new Soviet regime when my great grandpa was being shuffled off to the Gulag on the train in the cold North. I'm sorry that your family died by those same people who shuffled off my great grandpa. Hello.

Is there a problem / disadvantage / critical misleading with using my context as a lens to understand what's the right way to appropriately address unfair power dynamics?
Culture is not innate, so it's pretty obvious that he was referring to race.
Has anyone worked on AI/ML approaches for detecting ancient structures in LiDAR data?
Given that training data for identifying remnants of man-made structures (e.g., Roman or medieval ruins) is quite sparse, how would you approach this problem?

Some initial thoughts:

- Data Augmentation: Using synthetic or simulated LiDAR data from known structures to improve training.
- Few-Shot Learning / Transfer Learning: Training models on better-documented archaeological sites and applying them to new areas.

Would love to hear thoughts from people with experience in remote sensing, computer vision, or archaeology!
They Turned the Calculator App into a Roguelike [video]
> I've changed my mind on that as well. I think that, generally, chat UIs are a lazy and not very user friendly. However, when coding I keep switching between two modes:

> 1. I need a smart autocomplete that can work backwards and mimic my coding patterns

> 2. I need a pair programming buddy (of sorts, this metaphor doesn't completely work, but I don't have a better one)

Thanks! This is the first time I've seen it put this clearly. When I first tried out CoPilot, I was unsure of how I was "supposed" to interact with it. Is it (as you put it) a smarter autocomplete, or a programming buddy? Is it both? What was the right input method to use?

After a while, I realized that for my personal style I would pretty much entirely use method 1, and never method 2. But, others might really need that "programming buddy" and use that interface instead.
There is no too much talk started happening around this. Google will soon I guess going to cut off this like Apple in the be name of battery saving.
Well I don’t like Trudeau so I’ve enjoyed his trolling of him as “the governor of the great state of Canada”. For the most part I don’t mind, but we will come to regret it if war actually breaks out. I think for the most part it is all superficial, and yes tariffs (which are terrible for an economy), will not do well long term, but have already forced Mexico and Canada to act at least, and I think that was the intent. Essentially saying you need us more than we need you. If/When that is no longer true, it is going to come back to bite us if we’ve completely burned all the bridges with our allies.

As it is the United States military is so dominant around the world, NATO should just be considered an overseas American army for example, and Trump is essentially just exerting the us dominance in a blunt way, but it has always been wielded, but is always prettied up to not sound like what it is. A giant military empire of force. Trump is just showing us what has always been behind the curtain of the US government, and the US use of power.

I think long term it will weaken the American empire, but will also make us less reliant on globalization, but I think if all the individual EU countries took a mindset of “our citizens first” like Trump it will be a good thing.
> It would be supposed that women will invest differently and with a more ethical goal than men.

oh. Flag.
and what about slave?
My interpretation of the GP (my personal views on the debate have no bearing) is that the whole master/slave debate meant a whole lot to a few thousand people in one specific country, and absolutely nothing to the rest of the world.

They then go on to mention a term that they find offensive, that seems like it shouldn't be offensive, and imply that under the same rules that master/slave was abandoned, we should abandon the term "equity" as well.
We do this at current job for most of our internal tools. Not a setup I would choose on my own, but serviceable. Using a simple handler function that uses mangum [0] to translate the event into a request compatible with FastAPI, it mostly Just Works TM the same in AWS as it does locally. The trade off comes with a bit harder troubleshooting and there are some cases where it can be difficult to reproduce a bug locally because of the different server architectures.

0: https://github.com/Kludex/mangum
Obstacle #3: Logistics and Cost

The Netherlands instead of building an asylum centre decided to rent an old cruise ship at exorbitant cost. The reason was politics and NIMBYism.
Out of sight out of mind.
Thanks for pointing it out :-)
A part that at least helped with China was that after the Great Recession (and somewhat before), China was also willing to subsidize and invest heavily in local manufacturing and helping individual businesses and communities finance "relatively" expensive purchases for equipment that might have been prohibitive otherwise. Low cost loans with relatively forgiving terms. [1][2]

An example is chain link fencing. It's not especially glamorous, yet its a huge industry. The machine's don't have to be especially advanced, yet for somebody normal to even consider purchasing a chain link fencing weaving machine (especially in early 2000's China) look(s|ed) prohibitive. It still looks prohibitive in 2025. A lot of manufacturing looks that way. You need 10-50k up-front in machinery and capital purchases at the low end.

In America, the ROI calculations would always look bad, and the standard lenders would "almost" always turn you down for suggesting investment in a thin margin industry with "old" tech. You're not proposing 10x returns. You're not proposing get out tomorrow VC. You're proposing a decade long relationship of manufacturing chain link fences. Except now China rules the entire chain-link fence manufacturing industry.

The focus on scraping America's modern tech has a lot of the same issues. China didn't get a quick jump in naval ship building by scraping America tech and twiddling more silicon. They got it by buying an old Russian aircraft carrier from Ukraine and tugboating it half-way around the Earth. (Liaoning, original created as Riga for the Soviet Navy in Ukraine) [3][4]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_economic_stimulus_prog...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Development_Bank

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_aircraft_carrier_Liaon...

[4] https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/chinas-very-first-air...
You don't think they grabbed one or two of the existing coders that know the system? (I have no idea)
You're handwaving. Anything can increase cost and complexity. Using Amazon S3 increases cost and complexity.

Set up two locations. Set up rsync. It's still cheaper than cloud storage by far, and that's even after paying yourself handsomely for the script that runs rsync.
I hope prices come waayyyyy down then. Currently (in Germany) this seems to be only available as a specialty item for high blood pressure
Good about describing the problem but the part with solutions is a bit unrealistic
Yeah, I doubt that there are enough tags or categories for the algorithm to use.

Big brush, broad strokes.
> what is the absolute worst that can happen?

Bond payments to major bond holders are not sent out. At that point, the US can no longer be trusted and the dollar stops being the de facto world currency.

Is that bad enough for you?
Which books did Feynman write?

Lot's of people have written books and said they're "stories told by Feynman" but that's not really the same thing as "Feynman dictated this story and reviewed it with the editors..."
I am looking up chunking techniques, but the resources are so scarce on this. What's your recommendation?
Chase Bank chaos: one customer's journey through verifications and call centers
Having a purpose in mind - what are you learning the “math” for?

For me, I want to dive into matrices, vector operations for game engine programming
Non Apple Music users cant contribute. There are currently around 93 million Apple Music subscribers.
I always wondered why a mix of sodium and potassium salts aren't the norm. The slightly higher cost and somewhat less "salty" taste are really insignificant compared to the huge health benefits. And yet, I still can't buy any potassium salt in my local supermarket. Really hope this catches on.
Every accusation is a confession from the Red Hat crowd.
The legal way to stop it is impeachment. Full stop. Nothing else can do with a president that’s gone this far rogue; the courts can at best slow him down, but at worst nothing stops Trump from ignoring them.
Could we use it to replace our CTO when the sales team asks feasibility questions ?
How to forward all Slack messages to an email address, or a folder on disk?
It seems the higher-ups are gonna force us to use Slack instead of Jabber/email which we've used successfully for years. I'm not very happy about this, since it seems like a captive closed platform where all data is hosted by Slack, no integrity of data and access is guaranteed , and I won't have the messages in readable format on my computer for grepping.

So if I'm gonna use it, I'd like to have all Slack communication archived on my machine or in my mailbox independently of Slack. This will be useful e.g. in case I need to access past messages as they were (in case I can't access them on Slack due to outage, or someone tampering with them). It seems in past one could use Pidgin to use Slack, and maybe also set up local archiving, does anybody still use this?

How do you use Slack securely on your machine? Do you use some forwarding to e-mail or to disk?
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42929121
Im just excited about a possible alternative to FB for this kinda stuff.
Yes, due to the power of the relative positions, but I'd like to point out

>Replace Your CEO with an LLM

Lossless, as they're already constrained so tightly in their functions by regulations.

>Replace your knowledge worker with an LLM

Lossy, in many cases.
I suspect that the place these removals came from was the desire to dictate other's behavior and/or to feel more enlightened than you, masquerading as protecting from hurt or offense, which is not really a very good place.
> resell it to someone else whom hasn't received a cease and desist yet

I wonder if you could sue them for that? Reselling a debt that they know is invalid.
I use the squash workflow for this. I do my work on change N+1, which includes all the local changes I don't want to merge. When I'm ready to make a PR, I squash my edits into earlier changes, then `jj git push -c @-`, which will send everything up to change N. Once merged, I rebase change N+1 onto the new master.
The moderation team does a good enough job already; they will and should continue to stick to their guns about "good faith" discussions and that will be enough of a frustration to people repeatedly posting thoughtless or incurious comments that most discussions will continue to be reasonable and sensible. There are still pockets of that here. I think the other commenter nailed it about this being a result of increased popularity but I also think that will cool down as the less curious learn to prefer different communities.
Ah I see, the 7% yearly interest on the 0.5% fee can add up to be significant. That is a good point, good job @guntars
I'm in this industry, and I have knowledge about this.

It's important to point out that it takes a long time for uptake of new versions of ad SDKs. The general assumption is that it takes about 6 months after release of a new version for 50% of ad traffic to come from that version or newer. Also, for every version you release, approximately 1% of traffic will never upgrade past that version.

In that kind of world, over-collecting data makes sense, especially if you think nobody will ever find out. Like total / and free disk space. There's no good reason to need those, right? But let's say an advertiser comes to you and says "we want to spend $1M / day to advertise our 10GB game, but only to devices that could install it." All of a sudden it's useful to know that a device only has 8GB of disk space, or only 100MB of free space.

So OK, if we didn't collect disk space, now it makes sense to collect disk space. Let's add it to the SDK. It takes a month or two to release a new version of the SDK. 3 months to get any meaningful traffic from it, and another 3 months to get up to 50% of your traffic. Assuming the ramps are linear, 4 months of 0%, and then 3 months of ramping to 50%, 30 days per month, you'll make $22.5M in the first 7 months. But if you had the logic in there to begin with, you'd have made $210M during the same time period. That makes it an easy choice for the business folks.

There are answers to this, but they all have drawbacks. You could limit data that ad agencies can collect. This reduces the value of ads. And agencies have learned that some data (like location) is low-value and high-risk, so they're removing the ability to supply it. I think it'd be better to support a model where ad code can be updated independently of the app. This way we could push out bug fixes faster, and could remove our just-in-case collection, but Apple has no signs that this is coming soon, and Google's answer has been such a shit-show that we aren't considering it viable over the next 4 years.

Edit: To address screen brightness specifically, it's a very rough proxy for age of the user.
It will be impossible to ever truly do a one-to-one comparison. First, there may be a ton of code in the existing implementation that gets cut out by a mass rewrite due to better, more informed, architecture decisions. On the other hand, it may be possible that new features find their way into the rewrite that cause the fully Zig implementation to be larger than the original Rust-Zig implementation. I don't think any comparison will be fully "fair". A smaller implementation could be argued as only being possible in Rust or Zig because of its advantages over the other language. I expect results to be controversial.
Does wanting to keep master/slave and white/blacklist while also keeping information and resources for people historically (and to some extent currently) disadvantaged by systematic oppression mean that basically everyone will be mad at me? What do you call this position?

Edit: The Google admin panel won't even populate the "allowlist" when you search whitelist which is frustrating. I'd at least like it to show up, even if it's believed to be important enough to change.
Nice work OP.

I’ve done a fair amount of Chinese language segmentation programming - and yeah it’s not easy, especially as you reach for higher levels of accuracy.

You need to put in significant amounts of effort just for less than a few % point increases in accuracy.

For my own tools which focus on speed (and used for finding frequently used words in large bodies of text) I ended up opting for a first longest match algorithm.

It has a relatively high error rate, but it’s acceptable if you’re only looking for the first few hundred frequently used words.

What segmented are you using, or have you developed your own?
How many crashes do the statistics allow before they start reflecting a different answer to my question?
Admittedly this applies less to master/slave, but certainly applies to terms like whitelist/blacklist.
> Timing of the hands with the singer is slightly off.

Sure, only way is up though. I haven't seen this level realism in SORA or the google one. Plus, its synced with audio.
Great writeup. Congrats.
Removing categories like "whitelist/blacklist" is trying to create a more inclusive environment where people don't internalize "white = good, black = bad".

Removing categories like "Children/Families affected by systematic discrimination/bias/exclusion" is pretending uncomfortable and unfair realities don't exist.

So sure, superficially both are cases of "some words are naughty", but one of those spreads love, the other denies some people's harsh lived experiences.

Which world do you want to be part of?
and if the online calculators are right, I think it would then take several thousand streams to earn close to $3.15 from Spotify
Id prefer to cut Meta's social product use in my life to a minimum.
In Cat's Cradle, "Ice 9" is an idea that sweeps across the world destroying it. It's an allegory.
A growing number of artists don't make albums anymore, either physical or something that can be purchased. I don't understand, but their choice.

However, I only buy albums (preferably physically, will accept flac download), so they won't be getting money from me.
Exactly. They sure are brilliant. But there are 30+ year old brilliant people as well…
It says it's an Intel Core i7-6700HQ

* https://i.imgur.com/03hTtsd.png

* https://i.imgur.com/gA7q7xf.png

The PC Health check app says it's not supported, but the installer doesn't complain. I don't know if it would have allowed me to update automatically, but it works when using the ISO.
Money creation is necessary in a healthy economy. It makes all of us richer when the government spends money on infrastructure.
I agree and disagree! To clarify, when I say centre/centre left I mean neoliberal and left being more aoc/burny leaning. It is very acceptable to neoliberal, but often not worth the political risk to go further than that and vice versa. Neoliberal isn't inherently protrans, and in general people see trans people in two ways, example for trans women a different type of male(biology) vs a different type of woman(social construct). Where depending on their ideology and their view as mentioned, it determines what trans issues they will come to bat and risk talking about.
Exactly. The results of the US Presidential Election in 2024 show us that slightly more than 1 in 5 Americans cast a ballot in favor of Donald Trump.

assumptions: The publicly-available vote count numbers are correct and the US has a total population of around 341 million people.

The view that our Republican party got a "conservative mandate" and "won by a landslide" is an interesting one when considered with the above facts. They won by a margin of ~1.6% of the votes cast. The victory looks like a large one only when viewed through the distorted lenses of our Electoral College system.

> Maybe the real problem isn't who voted for who, but how we've all gotten so used to seeing each other as enemies instead of neighbors who sometimes disagree. Just a thought.

Exactly. Divide and conquer. Historically it's been pretty effective.
There are already thousands of unelected government workers that already have control over these government systems. I understand it is different that one person now has access to them all now, but the unelected part of this story I think is a nothing burger.
I'm having a very hard time seeing how you could describe this blog-post as either "propaganda" or "uninformed."

Do you mean something like: "This is true but irrelevant, Trump's going to keep flagrantly breaking laws, and Republicans in Congress are going to protect him from any consequences"?
The fact that people don't realize the same word can have multiple meanings and not just the meaning it had in some previous century is amazing to me.
I think fully burden fuel costs greatly skewed by GWOT where a shit load of supplies was brought in via air or land convoys since AFG land locked. Napkin math Vietnam war cost 1/8 of GWOT adjusted to same dollar which is argument for big ship logistics.

But big ships are outdated crowd surmises big ships used to support logistics (including of other big ships) are also not survivable especially against peer power, not irregular forces that can't touch rear. TBH once adversaries can hit logistics tail (or even CONUS), and they increasingly can thanks to proliferation of rocketry/missiles, the backbone that supports US global expeditionary model breaks. And if enough adversaries can threaten that model, it's value drops even against irregular forces with larger power backing.

The point is, for the first time in modern history, the era of US having uncontested/effective ocean logistics during war time, especially vs peer may be closing. And there simply may not be viable alternative to support expeditionary model that relies on heavy tooth-tail ratios. Which isn't to say sea power is over, just value diminished. At some point it maybe not be economical / feasible to fight large wars on other side of world against adversaries fighting in their backyards. And that's something planners need to account for.
That's the point. YOu listen to shit.
How can the algo know what you like if you don't tell it?
Great job on on the quick execution!

Could you detect when on mobile and link to the mobile wiki page?
People from the left who think they are smart have names for the people who represent this new cultural shift. It's natural to blame things you don't like on the other "stupid" group.
There are 33k broadcast stations in the USA [0], and
11k people employed as disc jockeys [1]

There were 12k broadcast stations in the 1980s [2]

Given we can assume little to no automation, or at least a DJ human making sure the equipment didn’t break, and 8 hour shifts, that suggests 36k people were employed as radio DJs in the 1980s if we only count their time on air, assuming a 24 hour broadcast. If we include their other duties, probably the total DJ time resource required would increase, and so would the number of employed DJs.

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-24-1034A1.pdf

https://www.zippia.com/disc-jockey-jobs/demographics/

https://usinfo.org/enus/media/overview/press11.html?utm_sour...
Your example videos are hard to follow. I don't have this much working memory. Can you keep showing the content of the directory, and the contents of the files too? I guess you will need a file explorer and a text editor that updates automatically, but I can't recommend any in particular.
I am really looking forward for JAX to take over pytorch/cuda over the next years. The whole PTX kerfuffle with Deepseek team shows the value of investing in more low levels approaches to squeeze out the most out of your hardware.
It’s not just an attack on DEI, it’s a return to cultural attitudes that were prevalent in the 1970’s. The new attitude is that anyone who is not a straight white male in any position of any responsibility must be a DEI hire and should be assumed to be incompetent until proven otherwise. All they need now is to bring back the 3 martini lunch and open sexual harassment and my 78 year old father would feel right at home.
PolyVol: See what's happening now on Polymarket
On the polymarket prediction market homepage, markets are sorted by category and volume. But how do you find what is popping off right now?

Enter PolyVol (dot info)

tldr: a volatility score for every market on Polymarket

- sort markets by 2 hr or 24 hr volatility
- EVERY ACTIVE MARKET on polymarket on one big page
- filter by category, volume, and exclude small markets
- "" = (2hr volatility * volume) to show dollar adjusted vol

All data is refreshed every 5 minutes from the polymarket gamma api.
>it's actually a good UI
>I just finished a small project
>around 2200 lines

why the top comments on HN are always people who have not read the article
Seems like we've jumped into the wayback machine and set a course to a year before 1215...
A Free Directory for Deep Research Responses from OpenAI's DeepResearch Model
yesterday me and my cofounder to relieve some stress built a repository that collects all the research responses generated by OpenAI’s new DeepResearch model. With over 30 responses already live, the site is designed for developers, researchers, and AI enthusiasts to dive straight into the insights. I’m excited to see what feedback you have—explore, share your thoughts, and help us iterate as we uncover more.
Exactly, the lawyers will encourage their client to make a false claim, use it for leverage then drop the accusation with no recourse for the accused.
I Am a Strange Loop is also good...