skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it makes perfect sense. Don't address any of the counterpoints I raised, ignore the implementation details, and just keep repeating that. It sounds like a really great idea.

Artificially creating fairness by eliminating success has no downsides, especially in a competitive anarchic global system. It's gonna feel so good to not have those evil entrepreneurs trying to create too much value in the world to enrich their families. Fairness should be the ultimate end goal for everything, not overall prosperity. Because nature is 100% fair, this totally aligns with reality.

History has shown these systems work every time.
Plus the whole issue of "the executive branch can't unilaterally change or suspend laws."

Well, not without fascist criminality anyway.
MRI techs are paid a lot of money, so I don't think it's entirely free on the margins.
”[…] the NESHER NX2500 is priced at US $19,600.”

Son to be $21,560 I guess.
GCJ could do that, as well as JET I believe, but both are long dead.

The history of native compilation for java I find fascinating: Nothing looks like a normal, boring programming language as much as java, yet somehow it resists being treated as a normal, boring programming language, and needs its own galaxy of special idioms and tools, like it was some smalltalk or lisp.
The first of those (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42874542) seems to me too topical, i.e. too much about one specific event / specific persons and not enough of intellectual interest.

The second (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42911535), I agree with you is interesting, and you're right that it would normally be encouraged. The question is whether it's a good submission in this moment. It was obviously submitted in the spirit of ideological battle and I think that is how it would be received by the community; this is probably one of the worst possible times for that particular article to appear.

One little-understood weirdness of a site like HN is that an article can be good without being good now. I wrote a long thing about this recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42787306, in case anyone is curious.

As for how we decide which threads to "let through", I wrote about this at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42922234 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42911011 (including a later reply). If anyone reads those and still has a question that isn't answered there, I'd be happy to take a crack at it.

p.s. Thanks for imputing good faith to the mods!

Edit: the second article you mentioned did end up getting a big frontpage thread:

They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42943973 - Feb 2025 (403 comments)
pp.s. When there are submissions you think are particularly good, and that particularly should not be flagged, you can always email the link to hn@ycombinator.com. We're happy to take a look, and many times we've turned off flags as a result of such an email.
Absolutely. This is how it was during Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush 2, Obama, Biden. There’s always a protest.

It’s totally a normal part of the past half century plus of the peaceful transition of power.

People get together on DC to help the outgoing president threaten and scare congress, to see if they change the way the election is called.

It’s just one of those things that people do to see if America is actually strong, and if congress folds, well you know you need a new congress.

Its tradition! Its like a hazing!
> Deflation is bad because it’s literally your economy shrinking.

Well, this comment is off to a bad start. What about a very small economy of 1 widget that can be produced and sold for $2 per unit time, then a technological change that causes the equilibrium to move to 2x widgets for $1 apiece in over the same time? The real production of the economy has doubled, and experienced 50% price deflation. The same basic scenario can be developed at any economic size and complexity. No unemployment. No standard of living drop. Just people affording more stuff.

Deflation, in fact, is literally not the economy shrinking. It is a systemic reduction in prices.

> And by the way, you say Japan is an economic success story because of deflation, but I guess you never bothered looking up their 300% debt ratio that they have been running for decades, exactly because they didn’t want deflation to ruin their economy.

This is pretty typical of anti-deflation comments in my experience - what are you trying to say here? Countries manage to overwhelm themselves with high debts with inflationary monetary policy too; the problem - if there is one - is the borrowing of money. It is hard to end up in debt without borrowing money and investing it unproductively. That decision is independent of monetary policy.

And I didn't say Japan was an economic success because of deflation. There wasn't a "because".
I’ve been thinking a bit about this lately - reasoning in latent space - especially because it looks like that’s what R1-Zero does — the researchers mention that it’s <think> sections switch back and forth between Chinese and English, but the <say> sections are coherent.

The paper raises a few more questions than it answers, though.

Do they hard code a certain set of CoT token types upfront to train on? While the results are good, they are not ‘great’ - other methods seem to provide better outcomes, based on their own charts.

The interpretability does not seem ‘strong’ to me either - they train decoders on latent space encodings by sort of guessing what must be going on based on text prompts.

That said, this is a fairly sweet ‘hack’ in my mind - training hidden layers to do the reasoning. I guess I’m skeptical that it’s the way forward, though. It feels like until your CoT token can specify it needs more thinking time, you’re stuck without extensibility / deep thinking when needed.

Overall, very cool. Probably not “the future”. More research in latent space reasoning would be very welcome.
They will be with this one too.

None of this shit is going to help the economy.

Eggs are more expensive already and the current admin has admitted they aren’t going to do anything about it.

But the media won’t be hammering on the egg price story, and people won’t feel like it’s as bad.
Im sure as you read this article, they're already dumping TBs of classified documents and storing it on Musk's servers.
Something can be dishonest without being illegal.
>US debt as a percentage of GDP (i.e. our ability to pay off our debt)

US debt as a percentage of GDP doesn't demonstrate the continued ability to pay off the debt, since the ability to pay off the debt is dependent on that debt's interest. The issue with the debt in the current environment is that it is going to start rolling over into higher interest rates. If the debt is structured to pay higher interest then that lessens the ability to pay off the debt even if the debt as a percentage of GDP stays the same.
Feel free to apply! It's not out of the question, although we can't sponsor visas.
They are using some fancy wording, but this just seems to be about regular service accounts (i.e. "bots") when they are mixed with user accounts in a SoA setting. No AI needed.
Why would the people who are getting richer and richer by hoarding btc and not engaging in anything productive ever agree to that?

> Countries do redenominations all the time

That’s not really the same, in several fundamental ways.
What about if you hack a lost wallet and then you transfer the coins to yourself. No proof of work needed then. It is just there, in your wallet.
> They can use the same frontier level open source model as everyone else, and meanwhile, they can stay on top of harmful uses like social or credit scoring.

We are dependent on models created by USA and Chinese companies for access to the technology that seems to be the next internet - while the entire world is accelerating hard towards protectionism and tariff wars.

What could possibly go wrong
Do big tech companies have a 'duty of care' for users?
I see these articles on HN enough almost always end up agreeing. My gross over simplification of this problem is:

The sweet spot for AWS seemingly is US$300-$3k/mth.

At that low end, you can get a mix of basic-but-okay DB, web servers, caching, CDN and maybe a few Lambdas all with logging/x-ray. All you'll need to run a good site/service w/ low-medium traffic and solid reliability. At around $3k/mth, you likely know whether you're in AWS to stay (using many services) or are eyeing the self hosting route.

Side projects really need to optimize under this $5-50/mth and that's just too low on AWS. The expensive foot-guns are just too risky.
Thanks for the link. So most of the visible pages were deciphered!
The kernel maintains in-tree drivers that break, so it does impact kernel maintenance. This isn't currently true for RfL, but in the case of a C driver anyone who wanted to go and make a breaking change would have to go and fix up breakages to merge.
So, same as with bitcoin
Actually it was the for profit corporation that hijacked the Bitcoin GitHub repo a decade ago, Blockstream, that pushed the idea, Samson Mow specially is the one who deserves most blame.
Found the article light on details here.

What kind of AWS setup leads to surprise bills? If your blog ends up on front page of HN how much is the traffic spike going to cost? $100? $1000? $10000?

Ofc I've seen the horror stories of recursive lambdas causing 1M+ in compute costs but for a small site I'm unsure what kind of issues we're talking about here...

If pages are mostly static doesn't a CDN make most of this go away?
The total number of people charged with, much less convicted of treason, is zero.
Digital Ocean is not equal to "run on a raspberry pi or mini PC and be just fine".
Sure they can criminalize bitcoin possession or use their police force and state apparatus to serveil and track all bitcoin usage. But that is way more effort than simply turning on the money printer.
> Already overworked kernel maintainers will have to find time to learn Rust well enough to manage it within their subsystems.

Well sure, but only if you explicitly reject any help and make up empty claims about impossibility of maintenance like Hellwig does
I thought that was the point?
I have owned a 3.5T mini excavator for over a decade. This class of machine is around 8’ wide and almost 10’ tall. Any bigger any I couldn’t haul it with my pickup truck. I use it regularly on my farm and love it, but it is far too big for many tasks.

Consequently, I recently bought a 1.3T micro excavator. It’s only 36” wide and less than 8’ tall, and even shorter with the canopy off. It opens up a whole new world of jobs that I can do without breaking my back, but it cannot come close to doing the same amount of work as the bigger machine.

Recently, I mucked out a livestock shelter with the micro machine, as my mini could barely reach into the structure without bumping the roof. The micro can drive all around in the structure; however, it can barely reach high enough to dump its bucket into the dump trailer. As a result, the small machine made a big pile outside the structure, then the big machine loaded it into the trailer.

Each machine did its portion of the work at least twice as fast as the other would take. It was a great demonstration of using the right tool for the job.
What would be a good example of these "similar" situations you were thinking of?

Do they involve a crowd smashing through doors and windows specifically to reach or at least terrorize human victims inside?
I agree. It doesn't change my argument though.
But the point is that I don't need scale; just one or two personal vids and then I'm probably done with this for good.

Scale is the problem of someone who wants to convince the world that they need it done as a service.

There is scale in that hordes of people can independently pull this off. Like gluing beads to paper is being done at scale, if we consider all the kindergartens in the world as an aggregate producer.
Don’t do clean up.

The biggest mistake the dems can make is to come in and do clean up. This would be paying the bills of the abusive member in a relationship.
China hits back at Trump with Google probe
The only reason BTC doesn't work as legal tender (but original Bitcoin did) was the GitHub repo was hijacked by Blockstream and several hacks injected to corrupt the project.
The way it seems to work is the President makes a budget request and then congress approves it. You can read about it here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250106031150/https://www.usaid...

https://web.archive.org/web/20250106124223/https://www.white...

https://web.archive.org/web/20250109103910/https://www.white...

So on page 137 it looks like Biden got congress to approve the executive branch having $86 trillion to spend over the next 10 years.

Trump and Elon want that money. Let them have it. I'd rather see it go towards taking us to Mars rather than whatever Biden was doing.
Proxmox is just a way to virtualize things. You need hardware to run it. So what hardware are you talking about?
Or it just takes time to enforce the regulations. As an EU citizen, the recent regulations have already helped me a lot - a lot of companies provide data takeout now, it has become easier to remove accounts, many more websites ask specific consent, etc. Or even small things, our daughter's school has to ask specific consent if they can make photos and where they can post them (of group activities, etc.). Does everyone play according the rules? Not yet, but we will get there.
As somebody told me recently, now AI means any program that does something that people think is AI, even if programs doing that thing have been with us for ten years or more with the same degree of accuracy.
how does this ecosystem accept any patches if any possible changes could make the system worse? I understand the implication about languages, I'm just struggling to understand how any changes are possible at all.
C maintainers are not required to consider RfL currently as a compromise to minimize the burden.
That's the general policy, but Rust is currently an exception to that policy: maintainers are not required to keep Rust bindings working when they change C code. The Rust-for-Linux folks will come along and fix them later.
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The public are misled, thanks to omnipresent right-leaning media and increasingly hard-to-penetrate echo chambers.

In the immediate aftermath of Jan 6, even his fellow republicans called it a coup, until they changed their minds for political expediency.
He did pre-shipping inspection, worked with the factory etc, donuts not at all like temu or aliexpress
Red Guards
I don't think you'd be a Java developer anymore.
It’s around 100k USD apiece, +875% in the last 5y, +340% over last 2y, +130% over last 1y… I’d also qualify this as “not quite crashed yet”

I dont know what the future hodls but it’s looking pretty good for bitcoin so far
> Most web projects can tolerate an hour of scheduled downtime a week and the occasional (< 1/year) unscheduled hour of downtime to replace broken hardware.

An hour? What happens if it breaks while I'm on vacation and no one is there to take care?

Nah, that argument might work sometimes but not in general.
Impressive, very nice.

Now let's see control of assets.
Yes, and that’s just what has to be done. Welcome to interfacing with C, it’s been like that for decades.

There are ways these semantics can be annotated via the attribute mechanism in many compilers; this, like nullability, should be added just to improve the ability to statically analyze the existing code and avoid bugs. It can also happen to improve importability of C APIs in other languages, but the primary reason is and should be to make the C code better.

So you write unsafe-to-safe wrapper code for anything you need to interact with—once—so as to encode the interface semantics by hand. Eventually it’s no longer needed because you’ve added annotations to the headers instead. And the kernel gets _better_ because these things can be statically checked and thus have bugs avoided, _regardless of_ the use of Rust.
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Indeed.

“Where processing is to be carried out on behalf of a controller, the controller shall use only processors providing sufficient guarantees to implement appropriate technical and organisational measures in such a manner that processing will meet the requirements of this Regulation and ensure the protection of the rights of the data subject.”
These are tiny and very boring to use, literally a kids toy.
What route(s) did you go through for funding? As an outsider the bureaucracy fascinates me, I trust it's all open and transparent like the EU?
This is to be expected, because the main thing HN users (and HN mods) seek to avoid is repetition.

If there have been 482 submissions in just 12 days (I'll take your word on that), then what's surprising here is that not more than 62% have been flagged.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
Comparably easy, yes. I'm not talking specifically about AWS btw, but even there it is easy.

If someone has zero knowledge, then everything will take them a long time, including hosting on-prem or so.
The fact that they say it has reduced rodent sightings just makes it seem like the rats are in the bins now
oh fuck i had forget that blast of a presentation
And the entire popular subreddit is now blocked after being invoked by (f)Elon, and a retweet by the Prosecutor from DC.

You can f'off with your condescending bs.
Sounds like a DEXA scan would be much more appropriate. Less radiation, cheaper, faster, and specificity tailored for measuring body composition. It’s like 40 bucks and five minutes.

Getting an MRI for body composition is like using industrial high precision equipment to measure the length of a hotdog
Based on the title and the first few paragraphs, I expected this to be about risk of datacenter security breaches by Bears, and the like.
These are much more technical and don't even mention the more obvious issues:

Block settling time: If a transaction isn't complete until 1 (or n) blocks have been committed, and mining a block takes meaningful time, then this places significant constraints on spending.

If I go to the store, and buy something with bitcoin, but it takes 20 minutes for the next block to be mined, does the store need to hold the goods in escrow until the transaction clears leaving me stuck waiting for 20 minutes? There's also no guarantee that my transaction ends up in the next block being mined, so I may need to wait an indeterminate amount of time before I can walk out with my paper towels - horrible UX.

Lack of physical cash: if the power is out, how do we do business?

Tension between wallet security and convenience of spend.
Talk about burying the lede: "My bill has increased from about $1 to $7 a month."

I agree with much of the sentiment, but I don't see how complex things you could possibly be making things if you're paying $1 a month ...
1 - An AI backed captcha replacement that finally stops only bots instead of humans.

2 - An overall OS-level machine learning/AI service, that monitors the user's behavior, and adapts the overall OS behavior to it automatically, and continuously. Kind of IFTTT, but self adjusting, and smart. E.g. if you don't use a button ever, hide it. If you use an option frequently, put it in the forefront. If you keep ssh'ing into a machine that's fingerprint keeps changing every time, just stop checking (unless it is actually hijacked, in which case alert). Start fstrim when it is actually needed (after a lot of deletion), not once a week randomly. Etc etc etc
The idea that Xi is functionally illiterate beggars belief and is clearly false. It's not impossible his actual Chemical Engineering education was of low quality, but to say he is close to illiterate is actually silly.
OP sounds like they'd be very interested in Zig to tackle this particular problem. they'd get to a very similar place and not have to fight the language or the standard library to get there.
Bootlicking noises

Here is the real reason https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42924145

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42924112

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42924186
While I agree I think most use cases aren't for releasing end-user software that needs to run on many architectures and OSes but rather building enterprise software for one certain combination, usually x86 and linux, to deploy on a server or containerized in a hyperscaler.

But to contradict myself, I actually use windows, WSL and oracle cloud to build for windows x86, linux x86 and linux ARM64 to build a java desktop application. Of course I'd prefer it if I could just use my main machine and OS to build all those like Go can.
They can buy 100 Lummis-es and 100 El Salvadors and bitcoin still won't have a use case outside of fraud and more suckers = number go up
Sounds like this needs a higher level decision to overrule that resistance. Those who refuse it are too late though, it was already decided to accept Rust in the kernel in general, so they should accommodate it otherwise such kind of attitude will only slow down the progress.
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Also great demonstration of the benefits of being exceedingly wealthy.
Everything Musk and Trump have done have been virtue signaling, removing oversight and political independence, gutting consumer protections, and pissing off our allies.

A Russian puppet candidate could not do more damage to this country than what the Trump administration is doing right now.

Nothing being done fights the large causes of fraud/waste/abuse. Nothing being done helps the cost of housing or the cost of healthcare or college or fuel.

The so called successes of the tariff wars so far have been done at the expense of our long term credibility as a nation.
All Supra's have been BMW's
Can we please call it DGE so as not to pump the crypto coin?
> still get gapped by statically compiled languages.

Which statically complicated languages are you referring to? :)
> For the past few years we have been recording a lecture series called Buddhism for AI. It's about our efforts to design a religion (yes, a religion) based on Buddhism for consumption directly by AI systems. We actually feel this is very important work given the world situation.

I think it's an indicator of just how weird the times we're currently living in really are, that this part actually makes perfect sense...

(whether or not it's a good idea or will lead to the results they envision is another question)
Yes, name the laws.
I can see that you're unfamiliar with how EU grants and how these project collections work, but I don't have much time to address this with great detail.

As a person who's in this type of projects for a long time, what I can say is "it works", because people do not compete with each other, but will build it together.

What I can say is, if they have came this far, there's already plans about what to do, and how to do, and none of the parties are inexperienced in these kinds of things.
As a native speaker I assure you that 請 is pronounced differently in context, and that both readings are perfectly Cantonese.

For a more clear example, see 平: 大平賣 ("vernacular" reading; peng4) (lit. big cheap sale; i.e. sale) vs 平面 ("literary" reading; ping4) (lit. flat surface; i.e. surface). peng4 is the "vernacular" reading but used exclusively for meaning cheap. ping4 is "literary" but used everywhere else. "vernacular" versus "literary" is a linguistic classification, but do not necessarily represent either being more common than the other reading. Both readings exist.
I wanted to think you were joking, but no, you were not. What a horrible state of affairs.