skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m certain you felt the exact same way when Biden spent his first weeks in office doing the exact same thing, issuing executive orders to systemically reverse everything Trump did in 4 years.

It must have been deeply upsetting when the White House press secretary was asked at the time why he was skipping congress, and she said that Biden was not going to “delay action” by going the legislative route.

And I’m sure you’ll feel the same way when the next Democrat president does it too right?
Openreach tests out 50 Gbps broadband – no date for delivery
That take becomes outdated quickly. It looks like the future will be built by those who will be able to seize power and control everybody else.
Slick design, I like it.

Could just be me but with characteristic-level severity levels it's not immediately clear to me if they're referring to like the categorical severity (e.g. "when labor power is suppressed that's a critical sign of encroaching fascism") or the present-day severity (e.g. "recent news points to there being critical levels of labor suppression happening right now").

I can suss out that it seems to be the present-day severity, but it wasn't intuitive (for me at least).

And how does your scale/algorithm work in terms of time-dependence? If there isn't any news indicating signs / intentions of labor suppression for a couple weeks then does that drop the severity level (both at the characteristic level and/or the overall level)?

Cool project at the very least for keeping track of recent alarming news. I hope we never have to find out how accurate your tracker really is...(Then again that opens up the can of worms of "when does fascism arrive?"...with the answer always being earlier in retrospect than predicted in present.)
Figure Out What Doesn't Matter
Show HN: Mist v2 – next gen conversational speech synthesis
90-year-old immigrant could lose Brooklyn home after deed theft scam
> I think the first question to ask is, if the U.S. had a democratic president during the time of this judgement, would the vote granting presidential still have been 6-3 along party lines?

> Perhaps if it had been a democrat president more of the liberal justices would have voted for it too, but that still indicates a corrupted court. It's just corrupted the other way.

Eh? Biden, a Democrat, was President during the time of that judgement.

The primary benefactor of the outcome of the case is clearly Trump as he's the one with open Federal lawsuits, but the POTUS at the time was a Democrat and the 2024 election had not happened yet either. So whatever immunity power the court granted, it was granting on an ongoing basis to Biden.

> There was additional appearance of corruption in that Alito refused to recuse himself even though he projected a clear bias towards the Jan. 6 riots by both flying a flag supporting the rioters [1].

There's an incredibly blurry line between bias an opinion. Having an opinion is not grounds for recusal. If he was at the capital or somehow involved with a lower court interaction, that'd be a conflict.

> It's nine un-elected people with no term limits who make up a third of our government. No matter who is in charge it's going to be a little corrupt I'd say.

I really don't think they're corrupt at all. There's just this sad framing of "us v.s. them" that makes people think that the only way someone could disagree is they are corrupt. I don't see it like that though. I just see a core difference of opinion (and I happen to side with one side much more than the other).
I think this could be one of the more legitimate uses of blockchain - distributed communications, contacts, and a refundable pay-per-call system to make spam calling uneconomical. Communication in general does desperately need an overhaul, phones are effectively useless as phones nowadays.
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the pdf are all seed 0 for each game so a static pdf same thing you would get if buying a printed book but set to seed 0
There are old games which tied system state directly to computational power. A buddy recently tried to boot up some childhood relic (Descent 1?) and said pressing forward made you move at light speed and immediately crash into a wall. So, there is software with implicit maximums.
Congratulations, but that's not what reflection means.

Wikipedia: "reflection is the ability of a process to examine, introspect, and modify its own structure and behavior."

Would you say inspect.getsource(func) fits the definition of reflection?

Would you say ast.parse(inspect.getsource(func)) has something to do with the AST?
Show HN: Distill your own model from DeepSeek R1 in 30 mins (open+GUI)
I've built a GUI tool that lets you distill R1 into a custom fine-tune. It includes synthetic dataset generation: creating a task specific dataset from R1.

The demo video shows building 4 R1 distilled models of different sizes: llama (3b, 8b, 70b) and GPT4o. The whole process took less than 30 minutes (not including training time).

- Guide with video: https://docs.getkiln.ai/docs/guide-train-a-reasoning-model

- Github: https://github.com/Kiln-AI/Kiln

- Download: https://github.com/Kiln-AI/Kiln/releases/tag/v0.10.0
Best Buy will also sell identical hardware with a slightly modified SKU and negligible changes to avoid comparison.

It’s difficult to compare when BB is the “only” company that sells a particular item.
Illegality is a meaningless term when the separation of powers is compromised specifically to make what would normally be illegal legal.

Or put another way: there’s a subreddit called something like /r/EmpireDidNothingWrong that puts forth the idea that nothing the Empire did in the Star Wars universe was illegal. In fact it was quite legal, as Palpatine famously says “I’ll make it legal”.

A fictional example sure, but if you can’t make the leap here, well, then you’re the one being disingenuous.
Relational Deep Learning (RDL): Predictive modeling without feature engineering
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I've been at this a couple decades, focusing on SaaS, rising up with and through a unicorn, and having worked at over half a dozen real engineering orgs, I agree with just about everything in the article.

My two differing thoughts:

1) Gradual, dependently typed languages are the future: no, just go with something typed. We are trying to type our python code base right now. It sucks.

2) People who stress over code style...: I love go fmt. Use tooling and linters. Be consistent in the code base. Inconsistent styles can lead to misreading code.
That’s not so much a reason, in my experience, as a frequent default/inertia position. In other words, I expect to start at that default, and challenge it with reasoning, in order to justify a significant refactor.
You picked up a wild animal and it fought for its survival.

That's not evidence of being mean but alive and interested in staying that way.

I had a similar experience with a common squirrel that found its way into a friend's kitchen. It's a story about a stupid human treating a wild animal as his pet cat and getting holes in his hand in the process, not how squirrels are mean.
> If there are no consumers then why even bother producing?

> If the producers refuse to lower their prices then they either don’t participate in the market (which also means their production is pointless) or ensure some other way that the consumers can buy their products.

Imagine you're a billionaire with a data centre and golden horde of androids.

You're the consumer, the robots make stuff for you; they don't make stuff for anyone else, just you, in the same way and for the same reason that your power tools and kitchen appliances don't commute to work — you could, if you wanted, lend them to people, just like those other appliances, but you'd have to actually choose to, it wouldn't be a natural consequence of the free market.

Their production is, indeed, pointless. This doesn't help anyone else eat. The moment anyone can afford to move from "have not" to "have", they drop out of the demand market for everyone else's economic output.

I don't know how big the impact of dropping out would be: the right says "trickle down economics" is good and this would be the exact opposite of that; while the left criticism's of trickle-down economics is that in practice the super-rich already have so much stuff that making them richer doesn't enrich anyone else who might service them, so if the right is correct then this is bad but if the left is correct then this makes very little difference.

Unfortunately, "nobody knows" is a great way to get a market panic all by itself.
I like the House of Tomorrow
If the input is 71 character, all the libraries happily accept it, but an attacker needs to guess only 1 character.
Right. Because that's how presidential elections work - the president must do everything personally for the next 4 years and is not allowed to use other people to act on his behalf. That's what Biden did all 4 years for example.
The default-oriented answer to #2 is to pass the rows through some function that applies the default to 'loud' if loud is undefined. That's really pretty code and avoids the complex if-statement which is a universal bad smell.
> Using a boring stack like jQuery would have been already good enough to let them concentrate on solving business problems rather than stack ones

One quick look at the UI (https://signal.vercel.app/_next/static/media/screenshot.dc00...) and with the experience of developing bigger stateful UI applications with jQuery (and Backbone.js, and AngularJS, and React, and...), I would wager that if they were using jQuery at this point, they'd be fighting way more than they ended up doing.

I agree with grand-parent though that it seems like an excessive amount of rewrites, don't get me wrong.
You'd think they would include this kind of detail in the training set, but it gets overlooked.
I recommend https://open.library.ubc.ca/soa/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses... as a place to start.

It isn't about "guaranteeing" _everything_, any more than assertions or guard clauses guarantee everything. It is about giving programmers a semantic tool they can use to communicate expected interfaces in an automatically-detected way, without adding unnecessary toil and boilerplate in tight, local contexts where functions are just working on obvious primitives.

The most graceful implementation I've seen is RDoc comments + Jetbrains tooling in Ruby. When it looks like a type system people assume it's going to work like Java, but having build-time checks based on where people bothered to describe the expected interface catches errors without any of the downsides of type systems that keep type systems from measurably boosting productivity.
Pretty much love all the Simply Solo games from Button Shy Games.
Conversational Alexa being unveiled on Feb 26
if you actualy read past the thongue in cheek titles, you would realize the insanity of your argument.

for example, you are defending firing workers for: “People are just going to have to accept the results,” he told The Washington Post. “I’m a Republican. I believe in fair and secure elections.”

...some dangerous deep state, indeed.
Came here and thought this going to be about the Nim programming language.
There are plenty of experiments done secretly by Americans. You think everything is published in some nice little NIH budget explainer? Ever heard of Fort Detrick?
Surprisingly react lends itself well to 3d screen description. Would love to give it a try this weekend.
The the output of `bcrypt(password)` is:

$2a$12$R9h/cIPz0gi.URNNX3kh2OPST9/PgBkqquzi.Ss7KIUgO2t0jWMUW
\__/\/ \____________________/\_____________________________/
Alg Cost Salt Hash

The Salt part is randomly generated. When you call `bcrypt.compare(output, password)` it uses the salt that's contained in `output`. Two calls of `bcrypt(password)` will generate different outputs(so different salts and thus different hashes), but still if you run `bcrypt.compare(output1, password)` and `bcrypt.compare(output2, password)` they will both match as long `password` was used to generate both.

In short: you can't use just the password as that's going to match a cache key that was generated by whoever typed in this exact password. The salt is only there to prevent offline attacks.
LLM Extensibility 101
DeepSeek – Chinese Propaganda, Alternative History, Uyghurs and Humor
Email is not nearly as effective as a phone call. Seriously. CALL THEM, don't just send an email into the void.
So "management is invaluable" but "most project managers are worthless." Not necessarily a contradiction, but it makes you go "hmm."

At some point, you have to have someone looking "up and out" to make sure the folks looking "down and in" are all still moving in the same direction.
I don’t know. When Sweden reached 58% women in university, they stopped the gender equality programs. Why would you help men if everyone knows they are advantaged?

(Oh man, please answer, but we’re overdue for an overcorrection, and it might look as dangerous as 1934).
This is a classic security dilemma that is not easily resolvable. Suppose we just look at the US and China. Each side will discover some number of vulnerabilities. Some of those vulnerabilities will be discovered by both countries, some just by one party. If the US discloses every vulnerability, we’re left with no offensive capability and our adversary will have all of the vulnerabilities not mutually discovered. Everyone disclosing and patching vulnerabilities sounds nice, but is an unrealistic scenario in a world with states that have competing strategic interests.
This is like making a big deal of the flaws of the first automobile. OF COURSE, there are more appropriate ways to teach ASM today .... its been 50 years. As designer of the first sets of computer cards (yes, way before Apple) ... the Jolt, Super Jolt, SYM-1 we sold over 75K units mostly used to teach early college students to program.
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Agree. Although I increasingly spend this iteration time on types/interfaces/documenting proposal of same. The actual implementation below that is often trivial once the boundaries are settled.
You made a statement (that it is neither rare nor expensive) that is about the absolute price of the commodity, not its price relative to another point in time. Lithium is not expensive compared to, say, gold, but it is expensive compared to, say, copper, never mind aluminum or iron.
I find it interesting that my 2021 MBP's "health" was down to about 85% after the first year, but has only decreased to 82% after two additional years. I have 653 cycles now.

Assuming that's accurate, and batteries spend a majority of their usable lifetime around this capacity, perhaps battery estimates should be based off of the 80% capacity mark.
Looks pretty cool, but I can't use my browser or android? The only reason I use iOS is to manage my family's devices. If it was up to me, I would ditch iOS and move to Android. Unfortunately, being a teenager these days basically requires an iPhone lest you become labeled "basic" as in, not "drippy"... My wife and I have acquiesced to our children's formal proposal (which was a good exercise in debate) to purchase iPhones. I digress.

Are there plans to move this to the actual web, windows, linux and android?
it's hard to do, but easy to talk about. i've done my fair share of slaughtering and currently have a freezer full of meat birds. i don't like the process (you feel bad, you have to do things that also are instinctually gross to someone not used to it), but i will continue to eat meat because i think it's part of a balanced and healthy diet.

i do respect vegans though - many people don't live by any principles so it's nice to see them on display. my principle on this topic is that if i'm not willing to do it myself, then i probably shouldn't offload it to someone else and still consume the end result.
What about the modern 68K subset still manufactured as Coldfire? Much more orthogonal, modern (as of the 1980s) architecture.

On the other hand, the cleaner, more modern architectures are easily targeted by compilers. If you really want to live the "assembly language required for performance" era, the 6502 is fine. Equally quirky is MCS-51. I've written nontrivial assembly language projects for both "back in the day".
I like these reasons.

I will offer some caution on rules for rejecting a proposal. Often times, the number one reason to do something is that there is energy there to do it. If you can take that energy and apply it somewhere else, by all means do so. All too often, suppressing some energy stops all effort.
Bad faith argument.

Republicans didn’t want to clean up the voter rolls, as you allege. They wanted to tip the election to Trump by any means necessary. This is so obvious that you’re likely to tell me not to believe my own eyes.
Do you remember the name of the tool or how it worked?
Focus on outlets that prioritize reporting. You can't find a "neutral" outlet -- all human beings have biases, and that gets magnified once we're talking about collective human endeavors such as newspapers, magazines, etc. But we can at least avoid solipsism ("the view that the self is the only reality") by grounding ourselves in outside, shared reality. That's what reporting is -- actually being at a place in real life, talking to actual people involved. Sure, the transmission of those observations will inevitably be shaped by the human reporter's own biases, but you're still getting access to shared reality. Even if the opinions aren't ones you share, you can at least see what they're based on and so have some ability to make your own evaluation on if the implicit conclusions the reporter is drawing match up with the base facts they are sharing.
I was starting to wonder if Elon's team is actually watching threads about them on HN- it would provide competitive intelligence, and it wouldn't be hard for them to flag-brigade things. This is just speculation; I have no evidence.
Just add css style `overflow: hidden;` to your `body`.
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If you want a battery that will last a really long time, nickel-iron batteries already do that. They have 50+ year life spans and are incredibly robust. And if you care about recycling, well its just nickel and iron. The nickel you obviously would want back, but the iron is worth almost nothing.

Until we can surpass current lithium batteries in energy density, cycle stability, and safety all at once, iron-nickel is more than good enough to be used in any application where current lithium tech struggles, and will outlive you along with being infinitely recyclable and basically as safe as any battery ever could be.
> For your challenge: https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/supreme-court-grants-tru...

I fail to see how this is a valid example of a corrupt decision.

And if you're going to start prosecuting Presidents for official acts, we definitely should start with the one that was executing US citizens via drone strikes without a trial.

> The context of the Supreme Court choosing to reverse 50 years of precedent regarding abortion is pretty important there. Especially as the justices involved were going against their explicit answers from their confirmation hearings, that it was settled law.

So a judge can never change their mind on anything? And once a ruling is decided, it's carved in stone forever?

By that bankrupt logic we'd be stuck with Plessy v. Ferguson.

> Schumer also did not threaten violence.

I'd love to hear what other consequences you think he was eluding to when he said they will "pay the price". It's clearly not at the ballot box as SCOTUS are appointed for life.
> most cameras used in that era were rangefinders (or 'point-and-shoot')

Rangefinders from that era are not point-and-shoot. They have two separated windows allowing light into the viewfinder and you turn the focusing mechanism until the two views of the subject merge perfectly. They use parallax to find the distance to the subject with a mechanism linked to the lens focus, hence the name rangefinder.

Point-and-shoot cameras from that era were fixed focus.
This happens to some degree in linted code bases since there’s more than one way to write the same code, and people reach for what they like
Is anyone aware of tools to generate Lottie animations using LLM prompts?
Is anyone aware of tools to generate Lottie animations using LLM prompts?
Oh they have. It's been a big problem for my company. I assume Apple must work on this from their end, but any success would seem to undermine the privacy guarantee of the service.

"Bad guys" using Private Relay is one reason these IPs get blocked: one abuser can cause an entire block of people to get flagged as a single malicious user; and a big enough group of users can also look like a single malicious user to many blocklisting strategies, because they all share the same IP.
Oh for sure! But it only takes a 2 or 3 homicides/year on public transit to dissuade riders.
And next year your secret sauce will be worthless because the LLMs are that much better again.

Businesses that are just "today's LLM + our bespoke improvements" won't have legs.
I don't think there is anything wrong with going into maximum-effort "not fun mode. That's how you get really good at something.
Serious question:

What is the best platform to learn assembly on and where do I start? Books, videos, building my own computer, etc?
This feels like a generational thing, tbqh.

One of the reasons people trumpet for moving to Discord is "it keeps the message history!!!!!!!" which would be nice if 1) Discord's search wasn't a wet bag of cat ass, 2) if anybody _bothered_ to search for their question first (tale as old as time / song as old as rhyme / RTFM n00b), and 3) their platform wasn't moderated by and largely used of groomers.

It's not like you can't log IRC channel chat and make it available for search and BONUS, assuming Google doesn't replace everything with AI, it's easily discoverable through Google or other search engines once they get crawled.
In France it’s forbidden to filter by race. Guess how they filter by criteria? Well the population under 25 is incredibly diverse so they don’t care about filtering, they just donate to everyone under 25. Can’t believe we gave up our land like this, they’re not even nice or thankful.
Colombia's president: Legalize cocaine, it's no worse than whiskey
Making gigantic pipe organs – by hand (2018)
Will of the voters doesn't mean it's not a dictatorship. Plenty of dictators were popular and democratically elected.
I tried that with work. I created an account where I can just follow a few things related to my job. The problem is that reddit will start showing you things you didn't subscribe to. It's a battle to keep them at bay. If you look at my work account feed it's all mycology, bad tattoos, what-is-this-thing. I never subscribed to any of them. Yea, they are interesting but that's not what I wanted or need at work.