skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It hasn’t been tested at the Supreme Court level, no.

However, other presidential administrations have worked within the framework of the law and requested that Congress rescind funding instead of running roughshod over the law and unilaterally attempting to defund programs and canceling spending that was authorized by Congress.

We’ll likely get a Supreme Court case testing the CBIA of 1974, we’ll soon find out what these 9 justices think about it.
Musk takes a bit too much ketamine and has a Roseanne Barr moment

Rosanne Barr, for her flaws, has never done anything as bad as Elon Musk has done in the past two weeks. He already had his Rosanne moment and then some with the Nazi salute, and soared past her into uncharted territory since then. He has lost his mind.
the problem is that email has no legal basis. They make promises they are not entitled to make. This is really, really bad, it's like someone that doesn't work for your company at all and is just friends with your CEO sent you a buyout proposal from their personal email.

Would you take it?
You're correct that increasing resolution to the county level can inflate the size of states with more counties. This kind of map wouldn't be appropriate for a state by state comparison at all; instead, it's more useful for a county by county comparison. It's just a different resolution of administrative boundary and there are limits to that.

A lot of U.S. data is reported at the county level and comparing across regions within or across states without worrying about the geography or shapes of different counties can sometimes be helpful. Adding population as a size dimension and filtering to a single state can also help mitigate the distortions.
My understanding of the price/scarcity dynamics here are that people want lawyers with significant experience, there are a relatively small number of openings every year for BigLaw associates that provide access to that kind of experience, and they hire almost exclusively from the T14 schools.

If you want a random lawyer, you can get them very cheap. But if you're doing M&A or serious corp litigation, you're looking at a much smaller and more expensive pool of candidates. I was shocked by how much our M&A lawyers cost.

All this is to say: the median might not be telling most of the story here.
To be fair, the best human programmers struggle like hell with date math.
The OP said there was no other alternative to what Trump is doing.

What is happening now is not at all a rational response to DEI. It's not even motivated by DEI. Trump and his gang simply want to gut the federal government, because they don't want to pay taxes. DEI is just an excuse.
From what I understand it's a lot more hands-off, it's a bucket of money that goes in (or out) of the budget that is used for education, healthcare, and other items. The province gets to decide how its used and the federal government doesn't get to withhold or dictate conditions. Unlike for example, highway funding and drinking age in the USA?
I guarantee that 99% of Python programmers just think that's a weird way of saying an anonymous function.

Hell I used lambda functions in C++ for years without knowing what lambda calculus is. And C++ doesn't even use `lambda`.
That's what ousd is for.
But at google, they still have some coding interviews with feedback, right, so hires not from minority group can think that they beat many other applicants in this game.
Super interesting.

> Since some people perceive discussion quality to be (relatively) high on HN

It’s really not at the moment on so many discussion worthy topics. I get it, there will be the same old tropes and opinions but HN does a great job of cutting through the noise and unveiling interesting perspectives.

I’m surprised and a little disappointed. And left wondering where to find the discussions on such topics that are worth reading.
Exactly what I was thinking. They can make up any number they want, we have no way to verify it. This could just be a lie to further demoralize workers and/or make them afraid of missing out on the chance to get a buyout.
Aviation DePIN Network Wingbits Raises $5.6M for Decentralized Flight Tracking
The whole way point is LLMs. The goal is AGI and beyond. It's not a short term goal. LLMs are just the latest fad and the best we can do at the moment.
For me Tauri/Wry starts up pretty instantaneous. This is using Wry as the renderer for the DomTerm terminal emulator (https://domterm.org), invoked with 'domterm -Bwry'. This is on Fedora Linux 41 x64. Admittedly using a rather old version of Wry (0.43.1) with webkitgtk 2.46.5 - I haven't had time to update.
The problem is both are still sexist; where is the money to pay for training coming from?

If it's a government initiative then it's taking from all to only give to women.

If it's a publicly owned company, then can you actually make a convincing case that it's a benefit to stockholders?

Only in the case of a private company does this lack ethical issues, but at that point it's just some billionaires whim.
HMAC-bcrypt is a more complicated version of the first construction I proposed, and it would need a rigorous cryptanalysis if someone wanted to actually use it in production. It sounds like Okta actually wanted PBKDF2(stuff) here.

An authentication company should have known this...
> two years after the infamous incident

Actually 18 years later.
Just wrong, perception is the real issue here. The golden calf was not dangerous because it was a statue; it was dangerous because people assigned it reverence beyond its function. That fate is not unique to AI—people have deified power, money, even their own self-importance. AI is simply the newest mirror reflecting our collective narcissism.
Alright, I took your advice and applied to a bunch of internships at those four :) I'll also cold email some people and see how it goes.

Thanks!
What matters is that the compiled program is safe. Who cares if the compiler leaks memory? It's only going to run for a bit and then shut down, the OS will take care of it.
Yeah, it is always fun when people here know more than supreme court judges about US law.
"slaves had no choice"... Um, do you think most people can choose not to work?

Gig work is "popular" because wealth-driven systemic pressure is replacing FTE with gig jobs in order to fatten the bottom line.
I just went in and manually played around with what I thought made sense. The primary consideration was what counties were nearest each other county and secondarily what the shape of the state was. I also factored in to some degree what counties were near others across state lines, but the number of counties not reflecting geographical sizes meant this was a bit challenging to keep consistent. I did my best though.
I may have misunderstood, but it seems the OPs intent was to get the benefits of RAG, which Cline enables, since it performs what I would consider RAG under the hood.
They seem to be still be deciding what the EO actually is, and they also didn’t create a non-governmental entity like trump promised.
I've always found sports to be moronic. People sit glued to their TV staring at big men in tights pass a pigskin around. All people who like sports talk about is how those men passed that ball around, or who they think is gonna pass the ball around next. Let's trade stats and figures about the big men in tights. Ooh, did you see what the big man in tights did?

Politics is now just sports where people in business suits pass moronic comments around. Same pointless drama, same fans commenting about the pointless action, glued to their TVs.

I quit all news the first time Trump was in office. I didn't miss anything. Important information filters through culture, you can't avoid it. But you'll notice soon you have absolutely no idea who it is people are talking about constantly. And it turns out, nothing in your life changes now that you're "uninformed", except you have more free time and you're less stressed out.
Java has been able to hot swap code since the beginning? Well, maybe not the beginning. But very early versions.

The standard runtime didn't like some redefinition. But there were alternatives. Eclipse, for example, would purposely let you get otherwise broken code running so that you could breakpoint and replace as you went.
I can’t blame anyone for taking the risk. That’s life changing money for normal people. And if you’re in a good spot to get a new job fast, I could see taking a chance on it.
oooooh 2004 burn! Relevant!
They wanted the cache entry to be invalidated when the password changed. Just using username as the key and storing the bcrypt password inside the cache entry and checking the password on load seems like a better solution if it was possible.
There are advantages to diversity by itself. These have been well documented. So setting aside any concern about excluded groups, it was a good business decision to aim for a diverse workforce.

But taking those concerns up again, almost no one perceives their own biases as biases. It's like you don't perceive your own accent, people of different racial backgrounds look similar, you can't smell your own breath, etc. So being a biased person feels just like being an unbiased person, but it makes you make biased decisions. A person against whom you harbor a prejudice applies for a job. Your bias causes you to discount their better qualities and double count their worse qualities. So you hire someone else. This hurts both you and the person you didn't hire.

A policy that works against well-known biases, if implemented correctly, achieves three ends: it reduces the harm to the person biased against, it reduces the harm to the company whose hiring policies are distorted by bias, and it helps the company by producing a more diverse workforce, which is an end in itself regardless of whether you care about harms to others. If implemented correctly, diversity hiring targets can produce the effect of hiring without prejudice despite the prejudice of those hiring.

If you are crossing a river and the wind blows you off course, you don't head to your goal but to the side. The net result is that you reach your goal. The diversity targets are just tacking against the wind.
The answer to the question you've quoted is important, since it could be "none", "a little bit", "a lot", "any amount", each of which has very different ramifications. There is no answer on the slide ...
Hi Jerry,

How well does llamaparse work on foreign-language documents?

I have pipeline for Arabic-language docs using Azure for OCR and GPT-4o-mini to extract structured information. Would it be worth trying llamaparse to replace part of the pipeline or the whole thing?
It's not a thinking model, and as such is probably going to be good and bad at different things. For the handful of prompts I've thrown at both, it (exp-1206) was generally better than gemin-2.0-flash-thinking-exp, but that could easily be a property of the prompts I tried.
You're still missing the key point. Say that website exists, if someone were to find the exact point in Pi that is the next marvel movie and started sharing the location, is the copyright violation committed by the creator of the Pi website or by the person who found and is sharing the location?

If I give you a prompt that's just the contents of a NYT article and me telling ChatGPT to say it back to me, is ChatGPT committing the copyright violation by producing the article or am I by creating and sharing the prompt?
CoT is widely known technique - what became fully novel was the level of training embedding CoT via RL with optimal reward trajectory. DeepSeek took it further due to their compute restriction to find memory, bandwidth, parallelism optimizations in every part (GRPO - reducing memory copies, DualPipe for data batch parallelism between memory & compute, kernel bypasses (PTX level optimization), etc.) - then even using MoE due to sparse activation and further distillation. They operated on the power scaling laws of parameters & tokens but high quality data circumvents this. I’m not surprised they utilized synthetic generation from OpenAI or copied the premise of CoT, but where they should get the most credit is their infra level & software level optimizations.

With that being said, I don’t think the benchmarks we currently have are strong enough and the next frontier models are yet to come. I’m sure at this point U.S LLM research firms now understand their lack of infra/hardware optimizations (they just threw compute at the problem), they will begin paying closer attention. Now their RL-level and parent training will become even greater - whilst the newly freed resources to solve for sub-optimizations that have been traditionally avoided due to computational overhead
It seems almost impossible to get the elderly to eat enough protein. Even those aware that they should be changing their diet. A lifetime of habit and greatly diminished appetite means pushing protein dense foods. I've very grateful for studies such as this, to help with my thankfully scientifically minded seniors. If you can only fit in a spoonful or two, you have to make it count.
Actually, I think creating google alternative has never been as doable as it is today.
What takes up the most space in iCloud, such that the free 5GB tier isn't enough?
What are you going to do about it?

Winning the next election is the most realistic plan. Maybe not that hard in 2026 for Congress, we might win earlier than that since there are 3 special elections in the queue already and 6 per year on average. Flip 3 seats and the Republicans no longer control the House. The thinner the margin it is the more some lunatic who is offended by the idea of having a budget can throw sand in the gears.

Winning all the elections from 2025-2028 is the thing to be thinking about, and thinking about the loss in 2024 is key to that.
Minecraft Bedrock uses React + a "web-like platform" (I assume this means they've just implemented the bits they needed) for their UI: https://github.com/Mojang/ore-ui
Conversely, after many years of dabbling I still consider myself a complete novice at APL and array programming. However, my studying of array langs made learning LLMs fairly trivial. In particular, studying APL's inner product from the Mastering Dyalog book was the key to understanding the self-attention mechanism from Attention is All You Need and how it communicates semantic information across the positionally encoded tokens.

I'd still probably struggle to do anything mildly complex in APL, though, sadly. It hasn't fully clicked yet, but maybe one day!
This sentiment is exactly what David Lynch explores over, and over, and over:

Why are some people willing to be so evil.

I think we tell ourselves it’s environment or inequity or education… but the older I get, the more I think there is a kind of lack of conscientiousness that most people have, and that they are decent folks is only that they have something to lose.

Unless a theory can explain the prevalence of litter, which should effectively never happen based on most criteria, than that theory of why bad things happen is insufficient.
This is easily the most willfully uninformed take on this topic I have seen yet
The Peter Principle: Do firms systematically mispromote workers?
My friend, questioning others' beliefs while asserting that you have the true answers is childish at best. You need to go on the revival circuit, I hear there's a lot of money to be made there.
I don’t trust the ICMP code in mtr. I’ve had an mtr to 1.1.1.1 which shows my wifi router as an intermediate hop showing 100% loss when doing pings at interval of 0.1ms. A flood ping to my router shows 0%. I’d rather just use time tested tools such as ping and trace route, which shouldn’t even be combined anyway since the loss indicator is usually unreliable unless there’s cascading loss (and even then can still be unreliable).
what in the world makes this a "formal" deal?
Its just them being cheap. They probably set every one to a max of 720p, hope most people do not realise (cutting down bandwidth costs) and let them set max quality themselves.
Deathstalker 2 is a classic... of sorts...
To be fair, he's a district chief judge and I've certainly disagreed with some of them in the past. But at least it demonstrates that the question of impoundment is on the table.
Train vs City of New York is almost as old as Roe v Wade. I wouldn’t assume a 50+ year old precedent would be upheld by today’s majority.

Plus, Train v City of New York didn’t actually consider the constitutionality of the Impoundment Control Act. It was about an impoundment decision made prior to that Act, under the rules in force before it. And although SCOTUS held the EPA’s impoundment action (directed by Nixon) to be illegal in this specific case, they didn’t rule on the validity of impoundments in general. In part, the case turned on the wording of the specific appropriation being impounded, and so it might not apply to another appropriation worded differently. Also, upholding congressional limits on presidential impoundment power in the context of one specific appropriation doesn’t mean they’d necessarily uphold the much broader limits on that power imposed by the Impoundment Control Act.

Another factor is this case was about direct grants to the states. It is plausible that SCOTUS might decide that (following Train), the states have the right to direct grants appropriated to them by Congress, yet still hold the President has some constitutional impoundment right in distinguishable cases
Have you tried finding a pirated copy anywhere? I went through an ordeal trying to find the original 60s batman show online for someone, since most available versions were the versions edited down to fit the increased number of ads in the 80s.

I am pretty sure what was syndicated and shown on TV here was the original 60s cut though, since we have far fewer ads than the US.
I would say (despite my own personal engagement) that its about the right amount.

I say despite.. because I judge engagement as a net negative much of the time: I prefer to read HN than write into it, and when I write, I judge myself harshly. I'm writing too much into the politics discussions.
Show HN: Effect of Tariffs and Subsidies on Market Equilibrium
I made this with Claude AI to show the effect of tariffs and subsidies. Quantity is the quantity traded and price is the price. You can set the tariff or subsidy rate to see how it influences the price and quantity sold, as well as the revenue or cost for the government, for a given hypothetical good.
Trace is on here, though not very active (https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=TraceWoodgrains)
The study did show it. The author of this critique properly notes that Table 4 is not an apples to apples comparison. The author of the study notes that expanding the pool of women as used in Table 4 likely brought in less talented musicians disproportionately.

Table 5 does the more apples to apples comparison. The critique notes that sample size is too small, but it captures 445 blind women, 816 blind men, 599 non-blind women, and 1102 non-blind men auditions. That's certainly sufficient for a study like this.

The study also does reflect how when a population feel like there is less bias against them in a system they are more likely to participate -- even if that means on average the level of "merit" might go down, but those that make it through the filter will better reflect actual meritocracy -- and that's what this study showed as well.
Sometimes responses like the OP's are the natural, healthy and expected reactions to reality.

It's insanely stressful and discouraging to be harassed, threatened, pseudo-stalked and have your work stolen for profit. Often the healthiest thing to do is to walk away from toxic situations and invest your time, attention and pursuits elsewhere.

That said, circumstances like these can certainly cause lasting depression. I just don't perceive the OP's behavior stemming from depression, it seems like a perfectly logical and healthy reaction in response to a shitty situation.
I suppose the point here is that although the tech may become ubiquitous, it can't make people creative. Previous young people had access to cheap digital video cameras, and the best they could do was Blair Witch. The bottleneck when it comes to good movies is not the technology, it's creatives being any good. There's not a bottled-up reservoir of creative juice waiting to surge forth as soon as friction is reduced, any more than in previous decades.

Which, to be fair ... considering the past, we always have one or two notable indie films inspired by access to tech, so we'll probably see one or two more in years to come, amid a sea of slop.
Google explicitly rejected merit-based hiring for least-regret hiring by setting the bar much higher than strictly necessary for adequate performance. This greatly reduced the rate of unregretted attrition and, until 2022, layoffs.

What this means is that most applications are rejected and so it's very sensitive to unconscious bias or under-recruiting from pools of minority candidates essentially due to network effects. Internal referrals will make up a sizeable percentage of successful hires because they take precedence in the recruiting pipeline (recruiters are still incentivized to maximize their hiring percentage and referrals often have stronger signal to noise on candidate ability than searching through resumes or accepting applications). This effect occurs with more standard hiring practices as well, e.g. "old boys networks", but as the ratio of hires to applicants increases it becomes much more obvious when hiring is biased against minorities and the actual biases can be corrected with policies and procedures.

Hence Google's focus on equity in the recruiting pipeline. I believe it was unconscious bias of referrals coming primarily from the same social and educational circles which, under a truly equitable society, would not have been a problem. But it's long been recognized that prestigious schools and social networks are also bereft of minorities from systemic disadvantages and pre-existing network forces. Reaching out to under-sourced schools and pools acts to restore a more uniform selection over actual candidate ability.

In short, no one at Google I talked to felt like a "diversity hire". We mostly all felt imposter syndrome due to the least-regret hiring process.
That doesn’t matter. Trump gets off on cheating people to get a “win”.
Trump also said he could shoot someone in broad daylight on fifth avenue. I think that might be against some rules though. Idk maybe it can be a campaign promise!
His intro to RL (not for LLM) blog post is a great read FYI

https://karpathy.github.io/2016/05/31/rl/
One way to look at this: Google had no other way to do this. As the other tech billionaires sworn allegiance, as Bezos had even fallen flat on his face for Trump to save the other business interests he has besides the WaPo, Google had to do something. Book burnings were not possible, so this was a nice gesture.

An alternative, better explanation could be obtained when ignoring all recent events. That would be the most convenient, and besides, we are not historians are we?
There seems to be implication of confusion of what a qualified applicant means in your example above.

If there's a test used as the basis of consideration, and some process has decided that any score over X makes the candidate qualified, but then you are later going to claim that actually, given that there were candidates with a score of X+Y, a score of just X does not really constitute "qualified" and the higher scoring candidates should have been chosen, then the whole nature of the test and the ranking becomes rather suspect.

So either everyone who is judged to be qualified really is qualified, and it makes no difference that they were not necessarily the highest scoring candidates ... or ... the test for "qualified" is not suitable for purpose.