skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed - I'm rather fond of Extension programs. It's more a note that rural Colorado receives a great deal of benefit from Denver taxpayers, and that somehow never gets a hand wringing article about out of touch ranchers.
Uh huh. Sure. Did you see that Trump wants to expel all the Palestinians from Gaza? News just broke today.

But I'm sure he's better than Harris.
that's bad strategic thinking (obviously) because it places at a huge disadvantage to our main competitors.
The Open Source DocuSign Alternative
SPECworkstation 4.0 Benchmark Measures Workstation Hardware and AI/ML Workloads
Pretty sure you'll want to consider usage by teams writing in all of Swift, Java, and Javascript as relatively common.

You're likely to encounter people doing "fringe" stuff like transpiling Go or Rust into Wasm, but those folk are all most likely capable of dealing with idiomatic impedance mismatches themselves.
This will be quite nice for Apple Funerals.
Yes but unfortunately that doesn't make it false.
Ah nuts, I’m not trying to project anything at all. Sincerely.
I agree I would generally prefer clients to be idiomatic for the target language but in the case of LINQ providers I understand not doing them since they are quite involved to implement.

You can probably leverage something like https://linq2db.github.io/ and replace some parts of their SQLite provider with HTTP calls to avoid coding most complicated parts. This would be for the raw sql API, for the records API I'm not sure LINQ makes sense since from what I saw in the docs it would be a pretty small subset of LINQ anyway. An easy way to generate the model classes from the DB schema would be nice too (a source generator accessing the schema via some endpoint?).

Edit: it's nice seeing C# getting some love early in a project, I'm used to fallback to js/ts to try the new stuff :)
I don’t understand why people believe in corporate pledges. They’re just marketing gimmicks. It doesn’t take much effort to scrape pledges off a website.”
You could try to airdop them to wherever they are needed.

Worked for Idaho: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver_drop

This article has a video: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/22/idaho-histor...
Why would Google say yes?
The dam you get for $1m is also a temporary, or very small dam. Real construction costs for a permanent structure at scale exceed this by one or two orders of magnitude. If the dam required was a $1m dam, then getting beavers to make it is an entirely sensible decision or outcome, even if not decided.
Insults are not part of the community guidelines
You have to explicitly upgrade.

There's no trick as far as I can tell.

And they haven't increased the price of the $0.99 tier ever, and it's been around for 8 years I think. I don't think they've ever increased the price of any storage plan in the US ever -- prices in other countries have changed but that seems to do more with currency fluctuations.

Apple is known for their transparent pricing and easy cancellation. I don't think there are any tricks here.
An Excellent AI Use Case: Generating PlantUML and Mermaid Schemas
I mean, the language doesn't even have a version number yet. We should expect them to still be exploring the design space.
In a past job, my company lost track of tens of thousands of servers. They were racked up, powered up, sitting at a PXE boot screen for almost 5 years before someone noticed them sitting idle. They were storage nodes with pci-e flash storage (very expensive at the time), so I'm sure it was in the high 10's of millions of Capex that was completely wasted, and I'm sure at least a million in opex for the datacenter space and power and all that jazz for the 5 years. By the time they were noticed, they were EOL and "recycled" (aka sold off to used server resellers).

I totally buy that Public is way more efficient then Private companies overall.
What's the name for that principle/rule where someone blithely removes rules or regulations without any context for them being there in the first place? It's on the tip of my tounge. I feel like we're seeing that a lot in the US Federal govt at the moment.
The Google ex-CEO Schmidt is developing AI drones for Ukraine in Estonia. One would expect that when he needs a source of good foundational AI Google may be among his suppliers of choice. Naturally the Ukraine is just a start. The addressable market is going to be huge, especially for the battle proven stuff. And especially for the one proven against Russian and, by-proxy, Chinese tech.

There is also tremendous interest, though only a few of them have been fielded on the actual battlefield so far, to the remotely controlled and autonomous ground platforms, and Google is the leader in the civilian ones, and it looks to me there is a relatively easy path to transferring the tech into the military systems.
No matter what happens in the next few years, the damage is done. It is now known that the next administration could kill your apolitical career with the stroke of the pen if your ideas vaguely support the wrong team.

If you have talent, why deal with the (frequently) middling pay and the existential risk that could follow every election?
That isn’t the point of this entire thread, though. It’s about what the default is, because like it or not, most people are crazy susceptible and have practically zero media literacy.
I’ve experimented with both. Neither really values where you come from and what you’ve accomplished. What they care about is what you’re going to do for them.

In my case, I just happen to care about what they’ll do back because I’m not interested in super imbalanced relationships.
This is a worldwide problem. ATC staff under 35 would be a rapid visa approval for Australia, if trained to world-class standards.
I'm watching Apple TV+ on my Apple TV connected to my Apple TV running Apple TV.
With or without autonomous weapons, war is always a sordid business with 'dead babies', this is not in itself a fact that tells us what weapons systems to develop.
The USA restricts the number of positions for medical schools and residencies. It's a problem that money could solve.
I totally agree with you. Scientist originally from the UK who moved to the Bay Area. Salaries are much much better here

I will say that for myself, money is a means to an end for living a “good” life. I am starting to wonder personally where the line is for the trade off between salary and its ability to translate into a good life here in the US
An Android emulator with Play Services should work in theory, but I haven’t tried it. They could have extra checks to prevent that.
The Rise of AI Agents in Modern IDEs – Beyond Copilot and Chat
Agents vs. Traditional AI Assistants and leading IDE's for modern development
Doesnt all this contradict what I initially replyed to?
Look: You're arguing that the US goverment preventing insurers from raising rates is a bad thing. I completely agree.

You however worded the original query in such a way that I read it as the US government allowing insurers to raise rates is a bad thing.

That's why I was confused. All I advise is you choose your wording a bit more carefully in the future.
iCalendar is RFC 2245[0], written by Microsoft and Lotus. CalDAV is RFC 4791[1] written by Apple, Oracle, and CommerceNet. Those are examples of open standards that Apple happens to use, but aren't Apple standards in the sense that they're something they cooked up internally by themselves.

[0] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2445

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4791
> all weapons are evil is an insane luxury belief

It isn't this that's insane, but a total belief purity of weapons that is.
> proper lambdas instead of one liners

that has simple solution - walrus thingy
I am! But I am now on the other side of the virtual table.

IBM conducted a mass layoff a few months ago, and as our little team lost our only customer at the time (this is public information), many of us were let go. Ah well.

One door closes, another opens.

If anyone out there is curious about "who is this guy with the strange and interesting ideas about interviewing", you can find my LinkedIn and other contact info in my HN profile.
I’m a scientist currently on an NSF grant. I am certainly poking around other countries to see what’s out there, and I’m not the only one.

A lot of scientists (at least in my field, computational chemistry) have decent skills that are transferrable to other areas. So I expect quite a few to move on.
TCAS exists. It doesn't always work and of course not all aircraft have it.

Everyone likes to imagine the controller has a screen with perfect information on it. They do not. Especially when light aircraft are involved.
+ keeping it in the front end with local storage
Weapons inherently aren’t evil, which is why everyone has kitchen knives. People use weapons to do evil.

The problem with building AI weapons is that eventually it will be in the hands of people who are morally bankrupt and therefore will use them to do evil.
They've been doing this for awhile, but usually it was something announced for the next version of iOS, but only released/activated later.

Like Apple Intelligence.
Simple: I’ve never heard of it until this thread. I get probably 20 birthday party invites a year from Silicon Valley-type families, and they are all using Evite or Paperless Post. There was a time when I would have looked for alternatives or rolled my own solution, but living busy toddler life means I pick my battles and grumble about it on Hacker News :)

I think they both used to be cheaper, but now they’re focused on profits. Same as Partiful will do eventually.
Well thank you! I wasn't the boss, just a team member who helped out with interviews.

I am grateful that so many people in this thread found the ideas useful.
Great work on this, Aymeric and team! In terms of improving browsing and/or data sources, do you think it might be worth integrating things like Google Scholar search capability to increase the depth of some of the research that can be done?

It's something I'd be happy to explore a bit if it's of interest.
I don't see any Zig repositories under https://github.com/pcwalton

Is your opinion based on anything other than pure speculation?

I think it makes more sense to form an opinion after actually having tried Rust, C++, and Zig in earnest.

There are lots of us out there who've done it. Join us!
Wake Up Call Letter to Accelerate Research in the Field of Consciousness Science
Chesterton’s fence. But I think “ungodly hubris” might be appropriate in this context
Some in Congress are more then okay with it

> Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) told NOTUS that even though what Elon Musk is doing is unconstitutional — “nobody should bellyache about that.”
> He added: “That runs afoul of the Constitution in the strictest sense. But it’s not uncommon for presidents to flex a little bit on where they can spend and where they can stop spending.”

https://politicalwire.com/2025/02/04/thom-tillis-says-nobody...
>than a chatgpt style

Literally just remove the first 4 words and keep the rest of the comment the same, and it's a better comment. No idea what chatgpt has to do with it.
No way, StumbleUpon?
I remember that site when I was a kid.
Good memories.
I use WhatsApp on my desktop
I like this. I'm a parent with multiple kids, and absolutely despise getting Facebook invites to birthday parties where I can't even see the invite because I don't have a Facebook account. Meanwhile every family I know uses Apple these days because the kids need iPads for school, so this finally gives a way of doing birthday/event invites that all families can see/use.

I agree open standards would always be better, but reality doesn't always work like that and instead everyone just uses Facebook "because it's easy". This is now easier, and more open than Facebook at least.
Yet there are boundaries on which weapons we can and cannot develop: Nuclear, Chemical, Biological etc.
It's not loading on my end, but I checked out the web archive version of it and have to say that this feels possibly quite fun and, dare I say, potentially addictive. Not sure if there's an intention to extend this, but giving the ability to filter by topic, "trending-ness" (like the "hot" metric on Reddit), controversy, date of post/last engagement, etc. could be a potential next step.
Honestly, if your "friend" group is willing to exclude you because you're not using a particular brand of cell phone, then I have some bad news for you: They might not really be great friends.
OpenAI did the same thing.
> The reason they build dams is to create deep water that gives them protection from predators.

How do they know the reasons beavers build dams? Did these reporters fact-check this by asking the beavers?
Securing edge device systems, including firewalls, routers, and VPN gateways
It really is like slavery, isn't it. The slave database does whatever it's master tells it to, and has no freedom to make up information.
What's burning idea?
Please do! If you ever want to talk about some of the details, you know where to find me.
The Codebase of a National Lab I Worked At
> What am I missing?

Human nature, sad to say.
Thank you for the info, TIL!
How could this be anything to do with Reagan firing them? The Reagan thing was 1981. Air traffic controllers have a mandatory retirement age of 56. Anyone under the age of 56 in 2025 would have been under the age of 12 in 1981.
I’ve been through the regular process for NSA and it is indeed rigorous.
Reposting because my previous comment was unjustly flagged: The US just facilitated a genocide in the previous administration. This is not just me saying this - this is the consensus ruling of the International Court of Justice at the UN.
> On the simple<->complex slider, it's smack dab on the right of the scale.

Sure, but now you snuck in an Artifact of Death (in TvTropes sense) into your codebase. It won't kill your code base immediately and with proper handling it might work, but all it takes is one mistake, one oversight, for it to cause issues.
I think the poster is applying your statement about leaving money on the table. Structural requirements to not leave money on the table is a Moloch results that leads to the deterioration of the system into being just stealing as much shit as possible.
Show HN: Swiss Tax Guide Assistant
Show HN: Swiss Tax Guide Assistant - Ask Questions About Your Canton's Wegleitung

I built a simple bot that lets Swiss residents ask natural language questions about their canton's tax guidance document (Wegleitung). Instead of scrolling through the documentation, you can now just ask questions like "What can I deduct for my home office?" or "How do I declare cryptocurrency gains?" in the cantonal preferred language.

Tech Stack:
- Built with Next.js and Langchain
- Uses RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) to ground responses in the official cantonal tax documentation
- Currently supports every Canton but in their local language only

This was a weekend project to help make Swiss tax documentation more approachable. The documentation contains detailed information but can be overwhelming to navigate. I wanted to create something that would lower the barrier to understanding tax obligations.

Link: https://xn--str-ioa.ch/

I'd love feedback on:
- Accuracy of responses
- UI/UX improvements
- Other languages to add support for
- Additional features that would be useful

Note: This is not meant to replace professional tax advice - it's just a tool to help understand the official guidance better.

Looking forward to your feedback and suggestions for improvement!
Brendan Eich said "ECMAScript was always an unwanted trade name that sounds like a skin disease". I think the general sentiment is shared fairly broadly.
Respectfully, the fact that you can’t think of any consequences that exceed the risk means that you don’t understand what is at stake.

One single missed interest payment to Treasury bond holders would be a default, something that has never happened to the US before. Our credit rating would be downgraded, investors all over the world would liquidate their US Treasury bonds, and our borrowing costs would skyrocket, both for government and commercial/consumer loans.

This instantly causes a recession, far worse than what we saw in 2008. A US Treasury default would have catastrophic consequences.

This is one of many catastrophic scenarios possible when messing with a government payment system that handles trillions of dollars in payments.

Any money saved by cancelling payments is going to be used to give people wealthier than you or I a tax cut. Is that really worth the risk?
Because we can make a reasonable inference based on the consequences of their actions
Well, for his part Biden's DOJ did argue in court against the idea of blanket presidential immunity. SCOTUS disagreed, said POTUS needed more power.

For Congress' part, they did pass laws that make a lot of what Trump is doing now with impoundment of congressional funds, and firing inspectors general explicitly illegal. He's doing it anyway.

But the reason Trump is able to do what he's doing now comes down to the structure of the DOJ being an executive branch he controls. Combined with his immunity from SCOTUS. This means he can argue anything he does isn't a crime, no one will investigate or prosecute him, and he can pardon anyone acting in his direction / direct his DOJ to not prosecute them.

Nothing Biden or Democrats could do about this, because at the end of the day, Republicans decided they deserve this power, and they grabbed it for themselves. It was always there for the taking, they just needed to convince themselves with words and court decisions and speeches that they had the right.
Is it possible to install WhatsApp on one of the three major 3rd-party AOSP-based operating systems (distros): Graphene OS, Calyx OS, or Lineage OS?

Each one has varying models for replacing functionality of the Google Play Services, and IIRC the Aurora store [1] allows for installation of apps from Google Play without a Google account.

It's not a combination of steps that would be accessible to the average user, but I think it should be possible to use WhatsApp without being an Apple or Google customer (nominally a customer of Google hardware---Pixel phones---if using Graphene or Calyx, and ultimately a customer of Meta/Facebook for WhatsApp itself).

[1]: https://aurorastore.org/
I have seen job listings for ATC's in australia that sounded much like begging.

And yeah, my understanding is we have much the same physical, mental and technical requirements as other countries.
In that case we can look forward to literally nothing of any complexity or reliability being produced.
As far as I recall, in the Aviation world, LASIK is still a major gamble. If you're a pilot or ATC and come out of LASIK surgery with any weird surgery-induced vision abnormalities like "halos" or "starbursts", you're out, permanently.
> it's unlikely to get materially worse for the majority of people in the near term

That’s pretty optimistic…
So far, the only actual support that has been required is to not actively sabotage it. That’s not a high bar.

There does seem to be very substantial interest in RfL in the kernel, with the exception of a few maintainers generating a lot of personal friction.

Frankly, it’s exactly the kind of behavior you would be very worried to see from key people maintaining the most important operating system on the planet.

My understanding is that part of the reason Linus approved the project is that the current state of Linux is unsustainable. I agree with him. Linux will evolve, or die. Gradually moving on from C will probably be part of that journey, sooner or later.
> “He will learn the business of investing and he will work to support our portfolio companies,” wrote Ulevitch in a note sent to all employees this afternoon.

By their own admission he isn’t qualified for the job. He’s been hired because of who he is rather than the skills he brings.

…wait, I thought A16Z didn’t like that stuff! Is Penny a DEI hire?

(in case you were wondering, yes, this thread got flagged to death)
>"I've been seeing C++ fans talk about how they never see memory safety issues in practice in C++ for a decade and a half. I even believed it sometimes. But if there's ever been a common story over those 15 years, it's that these anecdotes mean little, and the actual memory safety property means a lot."

While I use C++ a lot I am not a fan. It is just one of many languages I use. But from my personal experience it is true. I frankly forgot when was the last time I hit memory problem, years for sure. And my code is often a stateful multithreaded backends with high request rate.
We already do have the setup at a national politics level where deeply motivated 49 are able to influence the lives of 51 in ways that do irreparable harm. In some cases it’s more like 25 are able to influence the 75 because of how the power structures are setup.
Ask HN: How do you prompt the "advanced" models
I use the Windsurf IDE, which comes with integrated LLM chat and edit functionality. Ever since I switched to it two months ago and for the three months before that I was using Cursor (similar editor), I have always had better results with Claude.

With the apparently more advanced reasoning models I thought that that would change. In Windsurf I have DeepSeek R1 as well as o3-mini available. I had thought that they would improve my outcomes to the prompts that I'm giving. They did not, far from it. Even though in benchmarks they consistently pull ahead of Claude 3.5 Sonnet, in reality, with the way I am prompting, Claude almost always comes up with the better solution. So much so, that I can't remember a time where Claude couldn't figure it out and then switching to another model fixed it for me.

Because of the discrepancy between benchmarks and my own experience I am wondering if my prompting is off. It may be that I am prompting Claude specific having used it for a while now. Is there a trick to know to prompt the reasoning models "properly"?
There are many higher order gravitational effects which alter earths orbit and axial tilt and therefore both yearlong and seasonal solar radiation patterns.

One of these is a cyclical pattern of tens of thousands of years that caused warming and cooling somewhat less that a degree. For about six thousand years earth was half a degree warmer and weather patterns in the Sahara were different. Then there was some cooling until modern CO2 issues.

In the early twentieth century there were some very real concerns about long term climate cooling as climate science was being developed but instead greenhouse gases have blasted us very far and very fast in the other direction.
So the company was founded, Elon Musk joined later and funded it. Are investors founders now or what? This isn't a leftist things, it's just reality. I'm not disputing that he was instrumental in Tesla's success, saving the company several times with new financing.

He overpaid about 20B for twitter and tanked it's value so it's almost worthless now. For example by telling advertisers to fuck off, and when they did he started suing them for doing what he told then to do. All this to turn twitter into a far right extreme and racist echo chamber to push propaganda. All regular users and companies are fleeing it to other platforms. Now he's using his position in government go force agencies to use it for communication, padding his own pockets.

And you still think he's a good guy.
I’ve found a good way to get unstuck here is to use another model, either or comparable or superior quality, or interestingly sometimes even a weaker version of the same product (e.g. Claude Haiku, vs. Sonnet*). My mental model here is similar to pair programming or simply bringing in a colleague when you’re stuck.

*I don’t know to what extent it’s worthwhile discussing whether you could call these the same model vs. entirely different, for any two products in the same family. Outside of simply quantising the same model and nothing else. Maybe you could include distillations of a base model too?