skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dunno, let me hop in my time machine and skip forward a few hundred years. See if they've managed to make something that can count the r's in strawberry by then or not.
What Elon's tweet says is that 18F has been "deleted":

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1886498750052327520

Their account on Twitter/X seems to have just been deleted:

https://x.com/18F

Which is a shame, because 18F did a lot of really good work, including creating login.gov.

For those unfamiliar, 18F is (was?) a group within the GSA that other agencies could contract with for help building government websites.
And here's the most important comment!

Vote in a democracy. Do things to preserve voting in a democracy.

Vote with your wallet for representative news stories that matter to you and not just indulgent shock material.

Vote with your mind and know what is truly important for you, your happiness, and your loved ones.
I highly doubt their BTC reserve is connected to the internet.
This is like building a computer, getting it mostly done, and declaring it useless because it doesn’t turn on yet. Or complaining the Manhattan Project had produced zero nukes by early 1945.

It’s a decade long project, with phases and 50 different state governments doing the actual contracting. The Fed side is mostly funding and establishing the Tesla charger as the national standard - which required quite a bit of diplomacy to get all the car manufacturers onboard.
WASI Preview 1 and WASI Preview 2 can do file and network I/O IIUC.

Re: tty support in container2wasm and fixed 80x25 due to lack of SIGWINCH support in WASI Preview 1:
https://github.com/ktock/container2wasm/issues/146

The File System Access API requires granting each app access to each folder.

jupyterlab-filesystem-access only works with Chromium based browsers, because FF doesn't support the File System Access API:
https://github.com/jupyterlab-contrib/jupyterlab-filesystem-...

The File System Access API is useful for opening a local .ipynb and .csv with JupyterLite, which builds CPython for WASM as Pyodide.

There is a "Direct Sockets API in Chrome 131" but not in FF; so WebRTC and WebSocket relaying is unnecessary for WASM apps like WebVM:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42029188
Several states also couldn’t really enforce the porn ban. They still passed those bills.

So crazier things have happened!
ngl when they said trump 2024 musk 2028 in 2022 i thought it was far fetched but now i'm kinda curious to see what happens
Steel cans provided by the resident are the best option for cost and sustainability. “Metal recycles forever”.
Residents should be forced to provide their own metal cans with tightly fitting or latching lids. Garbage collection should not be provided 6 days a week to Harlem that’s wasteful. Once a week at most is more reasonable.
> I was naive and stupid.

No, you weren't. People on every angle of this are tired of the government not working. It's easy to have that glimmer of hope that maybe he really will make a good change. The problem is, he's a salesman - a grifter. His art is to latch onto that glimmer of hope and sell you on it while never delivering on it.
It's interesting and nice to see how progressive and creative El Salvador has been. Some failures are perfectly understandable when one is willing to try new things. Their approach to crime is another thing that comes to mind that was lambasted and ridiculed by the "international community" and "experts". Yet in the space of a single decade they went from murder capital of the world to safer than New Zealand (in terms of homicide rate), which is just staggering.

I love that they are innovating and experimenting and trying their own things, and don't let the stuffy pompous status quo hold them back.
Grew up in the burbs. Downtown has transformed into a fun, walkable, thriving area. Covid took some of the wind out of the sails, but it’s still chugging along. Overall, it’s a good city.
I hope this is the domino that tips crypto over the edge.
More restaurants, more music, more entertainment, more culture, "scenes", more romantic partners, more job opportunities, high energy, hustle, fashion, always something to do, etc.

Cities are great when you're young.
> sovereign wealth fund

That reminds me of Hong Kong, where I used to live and which maintains a large sovereign wealth fund to ensure its currency is pegged to the US dollar.

While various US think tanks ranked it well on their checklists of "economic freedom", they tended to gloss over the rest of the recipe that made it work. Not just the huge sovereign wealth fund, but also how half the housing is government-run or subsidized and you don't really own land, you just rent it for a very long term from the government.
Well if you have not banked these files already, you probably should. Bank any open model. OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta are probably behind the potential ban lol.
This actually seems like a more interesting link than the OP https://ccl.clozure.com/history.html

Although if anyone wants to run it, you could download it from the op and drop the file onto one of the emulators on https://infinitemac.org (they run directly in your browser, no download needed)
It would be good if we could create a digital fortress around the US that stopped unwanted things from coming in. Like a firewall for the country.

. . .
They are playing post-URSS playbook, at 10x the speed.

It's fascinating that people still wonder what kind of goals they may be pursuing.

The President launched a meme coin 48 hours before being sworn in !!! Even crypto scammers were outraged at the audacity of the scam.
GDP is 27 trillion.

The government "borrowed" from the SS fund. That's why it's endangered. The money was there and it should still be there.

The government also screwed the postal service by taking their profits (one of the few things in government that actually makes one) and then yells at them for not making enough income.

We need a flat corporate and billionaire tax that has no loopholes.
Show HN: PricePilot – A New Price Comparison Platform
Hey HN,

I'm digital designer who has decided build a few different products the last 6 months: a web scraper that scrapes US ecommerce sites, a product API to store this information, and what I'm presenting to you, a price comparison shopping experience.

For now, I introduce PricePilot, a price comparison platform that allows people to compare product prices between US retailers like Best Buy, Amazon, and Walmart, with many more retailers to come in the future.

My humble ask:
1) I would appreciate any feedback on the experience so far! What do you like? Not like? Any general thought or feedback.

2) Please share this with your community, network, friends, family!

3) Lastly, I'd appreciate if you could use my site to shop and then click on any of the Best Buy US or Amazon US links if you're looking to make a purchase on those sites within 24 hours. I would make a small commission and that would go a long way with helping me keep this project running as it's been all burn so far.

Thanks so much,
Ivan
I think it’s more like NYC rats are bigger than cats. Istanbul maybe the heat keeps them slim.
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Hi, I'm an embedded systems engineer/architect with experience in software, hardware, IoT, and machine learning. Seeking projects from low-power remote applications to mid-range edge compute and HPC.

My latest projects have been in full-stack edge AI R&D, memory controller firmware dev, and chip bringup/testing. I'm passionate about modular synthesis and tinkering with all sorts of circuits and DSP. Currently upskilling in analog PCB design and refining my abilities in FPGA development.

Let's make your idea more concrete.
Surely nobody sees this as a bad thing. It’s been a bit since these events happened.
It's false safety. If the government can't get their drop of blood by diluting their fiat, they will simply do it another, more direct way.

At best it will work as long as few enough people are doing it that the government doesn't care.
I wonder if one could get some member of the current congress to introduce a bill that proposes jailtime for the entire presidential cabinet?

It wouldn't be any more stupid than this, and would probably solve a lot more of the US's problems...
I don't think Treasury Direct could get much worse without just being completely broken.

At least they don't force you to login with a virtual keyboard any longer.
Ditch your old-school social media platforms. Try Airdel instead
www.getairdel.com
While sure, more things could be baked as results, most of the time when you see a panic that's not the case. It's a violation of the callee's invariants that the caller fucked up.

Essentially an error means that the caller failed in a way that's expected. A panic means the caller broke some contract that wasn't expressed in the arguments.

A good example of this is array indexing. If you're using it you're saying that the caller (whoever is indexing into the array) has already agreed not to access out of bounds. But we still have to double check if that's the case.

And if you were to say that hey, that implies that the checks and branches should just be elided - you can! But not in safe rust, because safe code can't invoke undefined behavior.
> Be specific please.

I have never seen a genuine person end a request like this. It's always to bait someone.
I believe in Steven Covy’s idea of “win/win/no deal”. If it isn’t the case where both would walk away better than before, don’t do the deal. It’s not even necessarily about ethics. It’s more about reputational risk.

As shitty as Amazon is as employer, marketplace selling fake crap, etc, I can tell you that AWS is very customer focused and everyone that is customer facing is told to put the customer first even internally and don’t sell them something more expensive than needed, meet them where they are, be willing to work with hybrid environments, etc. I know both the shittiness as employer and how well they treat thier customers - I was customer facing.

I’ve worked for two third party cloud consulting companies since then and I can say there is nothing I’ve heard from management on how to treat customers that would be a bad look if it got out.
Yeah, the one useful feature I ever thought it might have would be as a check against a crazy-unqualified demagogue, and since then I have seen it fail spectacularly, twice.
People who bring up this theory, bring the great depression as evidence, forgetting that the problem there was caused by the law forbidding to reduce salaries, which made prices going down equivalent to minimal wage going up, which of course leads to unemployment.
We are for the big.
Why worry? They signed onto be one of Musk's sycophants are at this point are clearly aware of their actions. You can have accomplishments and still be on the wrong side of history.
Trump has a social media company, doesn't he?
Many people have elected to allow direct debit access to their bank accounts for routing bill payments. I've never felt comfortable with the associated risks ever since NACHA relaxed the prenotification requirements. Fortunately my banking institutions still offer a bill payment service that provides some isolation by issuing drafts and/or EFTs from an intermediate account.

If somebody compromises your data and an unauthorized debit occurs, you'll have 60 days to detect and report the fraud for personal accounts. Business accounts have only 24 hours to detect and report the fraud.

If you make the report after the time limit expires, your bank has no responsibility to recover your funds.

https://firstbusiness.bank/resource-center/managing-payment-...

https://www.nacha.org/rules/minor-rules-topics-2
How does anything swing -1000%?
Small twist: Panama "pledged" to exit China's BRI.

- https://freebeacon.com/national-security/panama-wont-renew-b...

- https://ground.news/article/panama-pledges-to-exit-chinas-be...
I'm no rustc expert, but from what little I know it seems like disabling panics for a crate would be an obvious first step. You make a great point though. Turning that into a compiler assertion of "this function will never panic" would also be useful.
It presumably avoids the linked in 300Kb that was supposedly part of the motivation for doing this though?
Great do Epstein next
The Case for Self-Hosting
I have eczema, and I feel like most people who don’t have it cannot understand the experience of giving in to the urge to scratch affected skin after a period of trying to resist it. The best way I can describe it is an orgasm, the length and intensity of which you can directly control. It really is that intense. Why would we have evolved to have such an extreme pleasure response to something negative? And yet the effect of scratching on the skin seems very clearly negative. As a sufferer, it’s psychologically very difficult and confusing.
Fat Rand: How Many Lines Do You Need to Generate a Random Number?
You want federal then take a step out and look at all the people who got 10-15 years for carrying an quarter ounce of weed. Sentencing is very selective based on who they want to make an example of and when.
Super interesting! So the idea is more complex words normally have more syllables, right?
That’s some careful hair splitting.

He was legally placed in the role by the democratically available processes in place after his party won significant seats in several elections.
I am all for Right to Repair, and am upset with the "evil overlords" as much as the next guy. But, to present the treacherous computing argument all on its own, is, well, incomplete. I am a huge fan of Ross Anderson, RIP. However, the reality is that while DRTM was originally envisioned primarily for DRM applications, it is nowadays leveraged to protect PCs against bootkits and the like. YOU may like to own your computer through and through, down to the microcode, but, for most people, their computer is viewed as a product, that they trust vendors to secure for them. If ultimate control is so important to you, can you not buy any machine you like, including one based on a RISC-V open-source processor?

https://community.amd.com/t5/business/amd-and-microsoft-secu...
Musk has said he’s opposed to TikTok ban as well:

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1880975630646612254

Speculation, but it wouldn’t surprise me if Trump’s change of heart on the TikTok ban is due to Musk’s influence.

Musk needs to stay in Beijing’s favour due to the size of Tesla’s investments in China, which Beijing could destroy in a moment if Musk overly offended them. Opposing TikTok ban helps Musk stay in Beijing’s good books, supporting it would have had the opposite effect.
Notably, Recital 12 says the definition "should not cover systems that are based on the rules defined solely by natural persons to automatically execute operations."

https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Glossary/UKPracti... describes a bit of how recitals interact with the operating law; they're explicitly used for disambiguation.

So your hip new AI startup that's actually just hand-written regexes under the hood is likely safe for now!

(Not a lawyer, this is neither legal advice nor startup advice.)
Many speculate that the prevalence of anti-prop on Israel-Palestine was a big motivator.

I thought this was rather reductionist until TikTok was allowed back temporarily, only for pro-Plaestine slogans to be suddenly banned when it returned.

Is it the only motivation? No. Given the above and the fact that dozens of highly popular Chinese apps continue to be allowed, does it appear likely this is a leading reason? Plausible.
If you believed Trumps disavowal, you're seriously gullible. We all knew that was fake.
While there may very well be security concerns, other countries have handled this by simply banning the app on government devices (eg: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/tiktok-banned-on-uk-gover...). You needn't ban the app nationwide to address those concerns. What I believe is more likely is that, this isn't about national security or data privacy, which could be addressed far more effectively with subject-appropriate legislation (such as data privacy laws akin to GDPR), but rather that TikTok was banned over unfavourable speech. It is no secret that TikTok has been used as a platform of citizen journalism, particularly in regards to the Gaza War. Congressmen have admitted as much.
Congress did this on purpose.

Republican's STATED OBJECTIVE for decades has been obstructionism, entirely so they can go on the news and say "Look how ineffective the government is". Go look at how debates happened on the floor of congress 40 years ago. Go look at the AMOUNT of work done by a functioning congress. Compare it to how little republicans have done in congress since.

Then go ask republican voters and they will tell you that they explicitly prefer a congress that does nothing.

They want a king.
I can think of a few agencies that might be sweating. Or maybe it'll come out that it really was just a random nutjob. Or they'll redact something and conspiracy theorists will forever say that the crucial piece of evidence is contained under the last remaining Sharpie ink
It's really satisfying and inspirational to read about small businesses winning like this. Would love a blog about the daily journey in biz and tech for more of that inspo. Really awesome story.
A Great Firewall.
What I would like to see is a reliable distinction of different types of panics. In the environments where software I write is typically run, panics due to heap allocation failure are generally acceptable and rarely an indication of fragility. (By the time a heap allocation failure occurs, the computer is probably already thrashing and needs to be rebooted.) On the other hand, other kinds of panics are a bad sign. For example, I would frown on any library that panics just because it can't reach the Internet.

In other environments, like embedded or safety-critical devices, I would need a guarantee that even heap allocation failure can not cause a panic.
It's a shame Swartz was downloading JSTOR articles to share. He could have DoS'd half the internet and gotten away scot-free if he'd been training an ML system instead.
This is performative and obviously stupid, but to add some technical color to it: in the alternate universe where this passed, rather than floating around as a signalling tool for Josh Hawley, ordinary violators would see nothing resembling a 20 year sentence.

This statute falls under the 2M5 section of the sentencing guideline (for export violations); it has a base offense level of 14 (15-21 months) and is probation-eligible at that level. There are lots of accelerators for 2M5 offenses, but it's hard to see any of them applying to casual, or even commercial, users of DeepSeek. There are level-reducers that would apply.

(2M5 crimes can optionally be sentenced under 2B1.1, which is what most crimes we talk about on HN, particularly CFAA, are sentenced with; there the penantly would scale with financial damages. Again: hard to see how that would meaningfully apply here).

None of this is to suggest any federal prosecution for using DeepSeek would ever be reasonable. I don't even think Josh Hawley believes that. I think he just feels lonely and left out.
I bought a loofah pad and it works amazingly well. Never breaks the skin.
I don't think he cares? Seems like he's happy to fill the role publicly. It appears to be on purpose like a wrestler turning heel or a gamer drawing aggro on a mob. Society of the spectacle indeed.
Yeah, 5 years ago. It’s a much larger threat to Meta now. Specifically its gain in GenZ.
I am sure it makes some TLA look bad. I fully expect to not have everything released.
A lot of people in this new federal government are terrified of China
Young, inexperienced people have a hard time saying “no”. It’s even harder when working 120 hour weeks where you have less than 7 hours a day outside work (not even enough to get a full nights rest): https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-doge-work-silicon-...

Sleep deprivation, stress and overwork, controlling the lives of participants, targeting at risk populations, etc. are cult programming techniques.
He probably already knows, because, well, ya know
El Salvador doesn't have a fiat currency. They are dollarized since 2001.
> Where is the cutoff

Is there a reason to believe there is a "cutoff"? As in, do we know that if the undecidability property holds for some ring A, then it holds for every subring of A?
Model? Or Malware?
First AI plush to replace hospital ESAs? (service animals)
Hopefully, yes. Considering the situation in Germany, Scholz was Biden's errand boy, the prospective new chancellor Merz has worked at Blackrock, even the Germany-first party AfD is led by Weidel, who is ex Goldman Sachs.

In Italy, the purportedly nationalist Meloni has caved in on all issues during the Biden administration and is now courting Trump.

There needs to be a new generation of politicians who remember the more independent days from 1970-2000.

It is a disgrace that first the US led the EU into their pet conflict in Ukraine, (deliberately) ruins EU-Russia and EU-China relations and now Trump mocks the EU, demands Greenland and EU payments to Ukraine to the tune of $200 billion.
No model, so irrelevant because EU is extremely late to the party, as i say that as someone from EU.
You would think so but the legality of it all is very disputed.
I don't agree with any of this, but USAID has been involved in many global attempts at colonization and ethnic cleansing. One specific one you could look into is the colonization of Eelam Tamil.
Agreed. Trump should never have allowed the redaction of rhe JFK files in 2017 when he was legally bound to release them
In the first place.
CCP is no stranger to chaos and self sabotage either. China is probably the least affected and most likely still standing in one piece
Ha ha, Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran want to be fired.
El Salvador can't issue fiat. They use US dollars. Only the US Federal Reserve can issue USD.
Will it accept a self signed server certificate?
There is no-panic [1] to turn panics in a function into compile errors, or the older no-panics-whatsoever [2] to do the same for the entire binary

1: https://crates.io/crates/no-panic

2: https://crates.io/crates/no-panics-whatsoever
This is a good point. If one thing didn’t happen then a different unrelated thing cannot happen. You would think that the reason for nobody being in jail for downloading mp3s would be that there is no criminal law against downloading mp3s but actu
It should be bipartisan at this point to demand the release.

If it makes everyone in office look bad then all the better!
What countries did you have in mind? (Haven’t heard that before, would like to investigate)
Speed isn’t always ideal. My favorite example that getting dated in hotel WiFi.

Early adopters signed contracts with companies that provided shitty WiFi at high prices for a long time. A $500 hotel would have $30/night connections that were slow, while the Courtyard Marriott had it for free.
When I was struggling, this really helped me:

https://archive.jamesaltucher.com/blog/reinventing-yourself/

I mostly find James Altucher quite annoying. But this is good.
The left will throw them down even faster. I'm honestly baffled as to why any police bothered stopping January 6th - it predictably got them hated by the right, but they never got any thanks or appreciation from the left either, so it looks like a complete losing move to me.
WASI Preview 2:
https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/blob/main/wasip2/README.... :

> wasi-io,
wasi-clocks,
wasi-random,
wasi-filesystem,
wasi-sockets,
wasi-cli,
wasi-http
Superbomb Mystery: The Herrhausen Assassination