skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Worker's Party is a center-left party that is currently the ruling partying Brazil.

PT stopped being a left-wing party decades ago. The current vice president was once a presidential candidate and leader of a neoliberal party.
> Normally dictators don’t let go of power

This was attempt number one: https://youtu.be/Iludfj6Pe7w

All including the ones using violence against policeman
were just freed less than a week ago.

"Republican Senator Graham calls Trump's Jan. 6 pardons a 'mistake'" - https://www.reuters.com/world/us/republican-senator-graham-c...

"Mitch McConnell calls Donald Trump pardons a 'mistake,' Jan. 6 'an insurrection'" - https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5122585-trump-mcconnell-...
I moved to Debian for servers. Ubuntu is no longer the easy option. Ubuntu has forced upgrades more often than any other platform.

Added "Security" that breaks users workflows is crap. You have to trust the code on your pc. Spend effort making it good, rather than jailing it in case it's bad.
Or maybe you’re just upset because your candidate lost and now you’re looking for a narcissistic way to justify your own beliefs to avoid your world view from crashing?
IMO: on some laptops, Ubuntu installs everything automatically and gets everything working, where on Fedora I end up in painful manual configuration cycles. Most of my laptop work isn't long-lived, so I don't really care about upgradeability. That said, if I was building a server that needed to be stable for a while, I'd go Debian or Fedora.
It's a job for Brion Brand, the mightiest weighlifter in the galaxy.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1549867.Planet_of_No_Ret...
Well if you're going to eat crow, I may as well eat pigeon, for I didn't realise that paper wasn't showing real source.

Thanks for the link to the LCF text though :^)
Great observations! Thanks for your deep dive into result. I didn't go into this level of detail myself, but one thing I notice is that "the cat" in the graph is actually Peter, the cat that Tom gave painkiller to (with missing connections to Tom and Aunt Polly).

You're absolutely right that some characters are missing even in those short books, and there are likely many more relationships that haven't been fully captured. That said, I’m still quite impressed by how much data the LLM extracted in a single pass, especially given the complexity of the task, the size of the input, and the strict output format.

My estimate of quality was subjective. To truly quantify accuracy, we’d need to establish a "ground truth" with a better approach and measure the difference between the generated and actual relationship graphs. One possible way to do that would be to process the text in multiple passes: first extracting characters, then identifying relationships, both steps with more sophisticated prompt engineering. Another way is to manually annotate the network. The only book I found with a publicly available, human-annotated character network is Les Misérables, based on Donald Knuth’s work: https://github.com/MADStudioNU/lesmiserables-character-netwo...

However, there is an additional challenge. Even with human annotation, the question remains: how to define relationship network? What is a relationship in a book? Should it be limited to explicitly stated connections in the text, or it also can include deduced relationships based on context with some probability? Defining these criteria is crucial to quantify quality of the result.
Ask HN: What tech knowledge to back up?
Everything going on in the US right now is really concerning, including a theory that the US will implement a "great firewall" similar to what's used by countries like China and Russia.

Information on how to use tech considered subversive may be hard to access in the future. Guides like how to get around firewalls, or how to access and use specific software or information hubs might be altered or restricted.

What tech knowledge do you think should be stored offline? What knowledge is likely to be restricted in the future?
Show HN: I made a comparison site to find the best TV in your budget
I built this as I was shopping for my first 4k TV. There were too many options, and it was hard to know which was the best one within my budget. Rtings.com offers great reviews, so I decided to combine it with Amazon prices to find the best TV for my budget. You can sort and filter by type (OLED etc), resolution, screen size and price.
Sit in a tower for a day before talking about automation. Remember ten years ago when people said human-driven cars would soon be illegal? The number of fact-specific edge cases that happen every shift mean ATC is far far from automation.
Yes and im saying if we have people we love in our lives who were gullible to that, should we give up on them or fight harder to love them? I choose the latter and that requires me to do soul searching, of mine and theirs.
It’s got Suburbia on there.
There are no less risky areas left to build into in the Los Angeles area. To build more you have to fight nimbys to change neighborhoods from mostly single family residences and build for density increases.

I agree that doing nothing is an increasingly unviable option
Those sliver-of-a-budget grunt workers do quite a bit of disbursements of US taxpayers money.
Maybe this helps their efforts agaisnt illegal hosting of those old movies? It is available for free for users, and they will keep attacking piracy.

They can at any time substitute the full movies with ads to buy the collection, before IP expires. It is a low cost experiment.
Shareholders made tons of money and consumers saved tons of money.

People demand cheap shit, and riot over expensive stuff. Hell Trump is arguably in power because people couldn't handle prices increasing since 2020 (despite wages increasing too).
I mean why should we expect software to have hard rules? Flexibility is the point, no?
Could you please expand on your "viral indie release to Youtube" idea? I am just a YT basic user and don't know what is there and what is not beyond HN, random videos, and my relatively simple use cases (e.g. music videos, and movie trailers).
Of the three you mention, the only one where you might have a point is Podman (and even then it's not entirely black and white, for example Podman's most appealing feature is not having a daemon).

Systemd was the second attempt at a new init system. The writing had been on the wall for a while for sysvinit, it just turned out that upstart wasn't really fixable. Later, when systemd started trying to unify more aspects of the distro, a lot of the conventions that were adopted didn't even come from Red Hats distros.

And while Wayland was started by a Red Hat employee on his own time, most of the development was done by Intel if I remember correctly.

It seems to me that you confuse "Red Hat is really good at building communities where everyone can contribute what they'd like" with "Red Hat forces what Red Hat wants onto everyone else". And yes, it helps that everything's open source and without a CLA.
you already had Boris Johnson and Liz Truss. what more immiseration could you really be hoping for
or alien and rpmrebuild :/
Objects are also used in functional programming. This feels like a reaction to people being functional evangelists.

There's a reason most modern languages are completely blurring the lines and allowing you to think with multiple paradigms.

I'd be more upset with institutions lacking in functional programming coursework. OOP is dominant, I can't see why people get so irritated by a few annoying functional evangelists. And while annoying, I don't think the motivation there is always "Blind devotion to functional"
I disagree. The real value of exceptions is you can skip 6 levels of functions that have lines like

status = DoThing();
if(status != allIsWell) {return status;}

C++ embedded for a long time has said don't use exceptions they are slow. However recent thinking has changed - turns out in trivial code exceptions are slow but in more real world code exceptions are faster than all those layers if checks - and better yet you won't give up on writing all the if checks. Thus embedded projects are starting turn
exceptions on (often optimized exceptions with static pre allocated buffers)

The final "print something when wrong" is of little value, but the unwinding is very valuable.
> By releasing a handful of hidden gems next to some of the worst films it ever released, WBD is doing a disservice to its creative teams of past and present

Making older movies publicly available at no cost (albeit with ads) is good, actually?

Is the suggestion that there's no bad content on Max and that's why they should put the movies there, instead, behind a paywall? Instead of Youtube, he wants these movies next to Dr. Pimple Popper?

(Ironically, I'm pretty sure this is #1 on Hacker News because people appreciate the heads-up about the free resource, and not because folks support his call to remove them from public view.)
Except the way I read this is that it’s not that AI is taking jobs (at least not in the way that most people mean) it’s that they’re laying people off to invest in AI.

So, I have a question. I see lots of reports of individuals writing blog posts about how great AI has been at accelerating their workflow. I also see lots of reports about “we’re going to lay off 100’s or thousands of people with AI”. But I don’t see lots. Reports connecting the two. What are the products or methodologies companies are using to get this improvement. Any actual case studies?
Avoid following the news constantly. Check in every once in a while—a couple times a week at most. Get your news from long articles, not tweets. Actually read the articles, don't just learn about the world from hot takes.

> ... people have found that, actually, outrage can be useful. It actually can help you identify a problem and react to it. But it can also be harmful if you’re experiencing it all the time and become overwhelmed by it.

I'm reading that as meaning something more like identify a problem and act on it. Outrage itself is a reaction, just not a positive one. There's no shortage of people reacting to things.
I'm surprised a lot of things aren't more accessible.

So much content not making money / available ANYWHERE.

I assume, that maybe the amount of difficulty in terms of getting permission is too high to bother so nobody does?
UAC provides just-in-time elevation. The user belongs to the 'admin' group (aka wheel) and only receives an admin token when performing a task that requires elevation. Once the task is complete, the token is destroyed.
Do you think the blanket-pardon for J6 was ethically justifiable?

To me, a blanket pardon appears very problematic because I firmly believe that the underlying action (violent protest directly aimed at government representatives) was and is still a crime (I think that a group of protestors similarly storming the capitol or white house now would --and should-- not be pardoned either).

The whole thing is even more problematic because it basically directly rewards for loyalty to a person over the country/democratic ideals.

Personally, I have no doubt that a lot of them were honest, well-meaning protestors that caused little harm-- but definitely not all of them.

Commutations done for individual cases would have been much less problematic in my view.
Your last sentence applies equally to Fortran. How would you compare Julia and Fortran?
Thank you, the fact that it's not mass produced is useful context.
> then selling it as a new scandal is already a popular MO for state-sponsored propoganda,

I don't know that it is limited to, or even most prevalent, in state-sponsored propaganda. Private individuals, media, etc. do this too without any state sponsorship.
For example, an high performance logger can ship the tuple object to a background thread for actual formatting and I/O, after converting the capture to by-value.

Formatting on the foreground thread would be a non-starter.
This happened nearly 13 years ago. It didn't last for very long:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/09/22/1319216/ubuntu-will-...
What's the migration path? Clean install?
Daniel Penny: Silicon Valley's next political weapon
Your post added nothing to the conversation except insults though. I would have been interested in hearing an alternative perspective on why GP's post was reductive because as far as I know it's accurate.
> Pretty much no other government service can claim that.

Sure there are, they just don't get the air time and political attention. Examples I'm familiar with: The minerals, oil, and gas regulatory agencies bring in billions of dollars. A single lease sale in the gulf would make BOEM as an agency incredibly profitable but instead the money just goes up to the federal government and is redistributed. National Parks already collect entry fees and the NPS could easily raise those prices to meet or exceed agency expenses, public demand would almost certainly pay it, and they could also teeter like the USPS. Social Security, if it were never fucked with, would have more money from just interest than most country's GDPs but we've robbed that piggy bank numerous times already.
> You can upgrade your Ubuntu installation and then discover that your browser is now contained within a Snap

This. Maybe i am missing something, but Firefox and Thunderbird keep getting replaced with their snap counterparts periodically, even when given priority to the mozilla ppa. Its really frustating.
I ended up on Fedora which seems similar to the "old ubuntu" where things just works. Stability can be a problem as they update quite often.
Easier said than done. Bear in mind that the way information is served is meant to trigger strong emotional responses, skip the prefrontal cortex and tickle your amygdala. You can limit how much it impacts you, say, through reducing exposure, but you can't reason your way out of it.

(this is a response to the comment, not the article)
This of course, falls squarely into what i wrote at the end of my comment.

Why is money the only thing to do here?
Why do you assume that is the driver, despite tons of data suggesting it's simply not the only driver?

Can you please, please, take like 10 minutes, and go read any of the 1000's of studies on this, and then make some reasoned argument that is more than just what you are doing now, which is:

A. I think money is the only thing that matters and refuse to present any evidence that it is.

B. I will also claim that we never try it, despite it actually having been tried.

C. When someone takes the time to show me that we do try it, i will simply, without any further evidence, claim we aren't offering enough.

This sort of discussion is just kind of silly to have.

You know what - great, you figured it out. The real problem is that we just aren't paying enough. That's the only problem. It's not that the qualifications are too high, or the job as is is too stressful, or anything else ....

You have, without any data, evidence, etc, figured out the one simple and true solution to a very complex problem that lots of people have spent lots of time trying to puzzle through.

You won hacker news!
Congrats!

I actually hope they offer an infinite amount of money to ATC controllers, so we stop having this particular reductive variant pop up in discussions.

It's fine if you want to argue money matters, i even believe money does matter. I just don't think it's the only thing that matters, nor do i believe you can solve a complex problem like this by just taking a single variable in that complex system and pushing it to the extreme.

The most likely outcome seems to be you increase the rejection rate from 90% (which is what it is now) to 99.99999%, given how the process actually works right now.
There have been more niche shows that became quite popular after a YouTube release.
It’s all good! More people writing stuff out is a good thing. You never know which phrasing resonates with more people.

And to be clear I didn’t coin these nicknames, I got them from the community.
(Psst: There's no such thing as purely merit-based hiring. And DEI's mostly just about just making sure perfectly capable individuals aren't passed over or alienated because they're not white men. Because that's what's been going on for most of the past -- checks notes -- 500 years of American history. Pass it on.)
Show HN: Fincept Terminal v1.0 – Open-Source Finance Terminal
Fincept Terminal revolutionizes financial data access.

For years, financial professionals have relied on Bloomberg Terminal, a strong but prohibitively costly instrument that costs more than $25,000 per year. Due to the high cost, access to premium financial data and market insights is limited to major institutions, hedge funds, and high-net-worth individuals. The obstacles to entrance into financial research remain extremely high, putting independent traders, entrepreneurs, and academics at a disadvantage.

What is a Fincept Terminal?

Fincept Terminal is an open-source financial research platform developed for investors, traders, and analysts that want high-quality financial data at a reasonable price. The platform offers:

- Real-time market data, including stocks, currencies, commodities, and cryptocurrency.
-Advanced Analytics: Instant insights with built-in analytical tools.
-Macroeconomic and alternative data- Stay ahead of the global economy.
-Customizable and Open-Source - Extend and adapt to your individual needs.

Why Open Source?

The banking sector has traditionally relied on closed systems with paywalls and black-box data. Our goal in making Fincept Terminal open source is to promote transparency, flexibility, and affordability. Developers may contribute, improve, and integrate the platform into their workflows, while financial professionals can customize the system to meet their specific requirements rather than being trapped behind proprietary solutions.

Who is this for?
-Independent traders seeking low-cost or free alternatives to Bloomberg or Refinitiv.
-Researchers and data scientists are interested in macroeconomic and alternative datasets.
-Startups and fintechs seeking customized financial data solutions.
-Hedge funds and institutions are seeking developer-friendly solutions.

The Future Of Financial Research

We think that financial data access should not be restricted to those who can afford expensive memberships. Anyone who wishes to properly research and interpret markets should have access to the same tools that the world's greatest financial organizations utilize.

If you are interested in investigating, donating, or integrating Fincept Terminal, visit:

GitHub repository: https://github.com/fincept/fincept-terminal.
Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/finceptterminal

I'd love to hear views, feedback, and contributions from the HackerNews community. How do you anticipate open-source transforming the finance research landscape? What features do you like to see in an alternative to typical banking terminals?
The parent was asking about political parties. In Vietnam, the leftist party runs the country. If "in charge of a politically stable, economically growing country for decades" doesn't meet the definitions of "successful or meaningful" in the context of a political party you're going to have to be more specific.
BigBear Awarded DoD AI Contract
$BBAI has been awarded a contract by the Department of Defense (DoD) Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) to advance our Virtual Anticipation Network (VANE) prototype. This initiative will support the CDAO and Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) by leveraging custom AI models to better assess news media originating in countries that are potential foreign adversaries.

The prototype award is designed to improve CDAO’s ability to identify key trends and topics related to potential foreign adversarial areas of interest, enabling faster and more informed assessments of media data vital to #nationalsecurity.

Visit today’s official release to learn more: https://bigbear.ai/newsroom/bigbear-ai-wins-department-of-de...
The Terraformer tool was the biggest blessing when I had to reverse engineer our AWS stack into .tf modules.

Shoutout to the Waze team for creating it!

https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/terraformer

We built out a large serverless stack on AWS, and we got a request from higher ups to convert it all into Terraform modules for portability and transparency purposes.

The Terraformer tool pulled in the entire stack and spit out the whole thing into tf files in less than 30 seconds.

Everyone was super impressed on the team lol.
Seconding this; I used solely Ubuntu for 15 years but switched to NixOS a few years ago. Using an immutable system feels like a weight being lifted off my back.
> a job that fundamentally should be automated by now, they should focus on developing technology that doesn't rely on people.

Just to be clear: you think that air traffic control is fully automatable?
I agree that most messaging is propaganda, but that doesn't really counter the real pain that is being inflicted upon large populations of people by these government (and corporate) moves, and being cheered on by pretty large masses of people. The propaganda is like environmental pollution -- hard not to breathe it in. That said, I have no answer here..
You can just google this, there's like a million blogs out there parroting how to bypass TPM, its's not some incantation that only Microsoft had.
I'm surprised by the quality of some of these movies, they're not no name failures.
Movies are capital intensive, a movie is less likely to go viral than a video that is made to be viral. Thus, doing this is risky. Also, people wanting to create viral movies probably do not want to make viral videos.
Trump's undersecretary of state for diplomacy tweeted last fall that "competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work".

These people in power are using any good faith doubt about dei that an everyday citizen may have, and are using it to revert to White-by-default government, and tearing up the entire civil service.

If you don't know if and despise Russell Vought and Stephen Miller and their philosophy of the Constitution, you need to.
If you configure apt sources to use testing or unstable upstream of Debian you can get latest kernel.

This way, you can also have a rolling distro.

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTesting
I don't think those line items would have made the difference either way. Until the turbo-filibuster we have today is curtailed, most legislation is DOA from the jump.

Congress has slowly abdicated its power to the other two branches of government over the decades. As a consequence, it's become more and more performative over time. This reality ends up changing the type of people who even seek high office in the first place. Legislators get replaced by social media influencers.

At this point, congress is primarily a judge appointment machine.

And civic institutions that actually want to get things done, adjust accordingly. They spend less time drafting bills and lobbying congress, and more time fighting for change through the courts or by lobbying the executive directly.
I can't comment on DEI, I'm not qualified there. I can comment on software eng culture the past twenty years, however.

My take is we, collectively, pride ourselves on staying up-to-date with the latest and best practices. However, that staying up to date tends to be a rather shallow understanding at best. It's as if we read a short summary of the best practice, then cargo cult it everywhere, fully convinced that we're right because it is the current best practice.

The psychological intent is to outsource accountability and responsibility to these best practices. I'd argue that goal isn't always consciously undertaken. I'm not asserting malevolence, but more a reluctance to dig into the firehose of industrial knowledge that gets spewed at us 24/7.

I suspect this is not just confined to software dev. It's a sort of anti-intellectualism, ultimately. And it's hard to cast it as that, because I don't think we should tell people they're wrong for triaging emotional energy. But it also isn't right that we're okay with people generally checking out as much as possible.