skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here you want to look at data? Let's look at Amazon's EEO-1: https://assets.aboutamazon.com/64/79/d3746ef14fd99cc6be94532...

Amazon in your table lists 21% black employees. Maybe a lot has changed since 2017, but it sure seems like that might be misrepresenting the picture when 79% of those black employees are listed as laborers in the EEO-1 from 2023. But who can say!

Akin to this, the 2023 EEO-1 says 47% of professional employees are Asian! Wow sure seems overrepresented. Do we know anything about the compensation packages of these employees? No. We don't. We have no ability to tell if these are offshored employees, H1-B, under-compensated, what their tenure is, or even what the actual role of these employees are besides an incredibly broad categorization for them.

Also hmm, interesting that number gets cut by more than half when looking at the percentage of first/mid-level managers. Again have no idea if there's pay equity or equal opportunity at different levels of management.

What can we actually say about diversity at Amazon? Well "mission accomplished" obviously.
So sad when people feel pressured and harrased out of the fun in doing open designs. Looked like a really cool project .
Amazing project, love it!
arguably Zig's c integration is better than c's c integration.
Yeah, that why I said both. It depends on what they are doing. USAID probably needs congress, but other things might just need an EO. The point is DOGE isn't doing this, the President is. Elon doesn't have authority that Democratics are saying he does. He simply informs the President, "Hey, USAID is spending taxpayers money to fund xyz in xyz you might want to shut it down". The President then goes "Yeah, I think we should shut it down let's freeze it and we'll abolish it". Then they go down the path of abolishing it and with the USAID they will probably get congress to do it. Until then they can freeze it because he appoint Marco Rubio has the acting admin.
yes its this one!
I do not see it anymore, seriously what happened
Might be better if you were, though.

Personally - I collect quite a few for different things. I almost always have at least chrome, firefox, ungoogled-chromium, and - recently - ladybird installed.

Not to mention a couple different chromium versions for various electron apps (slack, discord, etcher, bitwarden, vscode, postman, etc).

Different browsers do different things well, and electron does the "desktop app" niche better than the others right now. In the same way that ladybird does the "not tracked by corporations" part, and firefox does the "still supports manifest v2 extensions" part.

You can complain all you'd like (and I recognize you from other places hating on electron) and it's fine, but it doesn't change incentive structures for the folks deploying these, and as a full time linux user... I am SO fucking happy to have all the BS apps my company requires "just work" on my computers because of electron.

If you don't want to use software developed with Electron... more power to ya. Go make that choice. Leave the rest of us out of it.

From my side... it'd be great if we can make electron suck less (and trust me, I definitely agree that we can), but right now... it's still a pretty huge win.
A simplified view: since FDR the main difference in presidential action is whether to crank progress at 1 or 11 in the ever expanding book of regulations, favored tax nook and crannies, and various benefits plans for pay-to-play voters like SS recipients.

Trump is threatening to turn that knob to -1 or lower, for good or ill.
There is ZERO context in those Tweets. Only showing a line item, with a dense description is NOT evidence for fraud. Its like if I were looking at your bank transactions and assuming the worst.

Don't get me wrong. There is certainly fraud and overpayment happening in government operations. But just looking at receipts is not the smoking gun. If anyone suspects fraud, there are a processes. Inspectors Generals are (were) one way to have those payments investigated, DOJ and FBI would be another step. The IGs were fired last week. I wonder why...

Also, this "Ian Miles Cheong" guy is literally a Kremlin operative - really someone worth blocking. So that's important to know about his motivations to sow doubt in US Democracy.
Interesting idea! The real bottleneck here is likely not the number of test runs, but rather the overhead of environment setup and tear down. This is where ephemeral environments really shine if they can be optimized for quick startup.
> Yes policy will be a mess, but as they say “man kann nicht alles haben.” The culture is worth a lot, both for its own sake and as a predictor of the future course of policy.

Cowen has been an economist for too long. Just like Newtonian physicists, he never thinks things will depart too far from equilibrium. Trump/Musk are pushing some things pretty far off equilibrium, seemingly in hopes that everyone else will do the "all things being equal", keep doing what they're doing, and enrich Trump, Musk and other oligarchs. They may push too hard, too far, and the new equilibrium will not be friendly to oligarchs.
Yet projects like LLVM use it
Do you know another model than gridformer to detect table that has an available implementation somewhere ?
They will get a blanket pardon anyway. So in the end we will have to apologize to them.
The price is a proxy for Bird Flu activity multiplied by the intensity of regulations around bird flu incidents.

So either your area has low incidence of bird flu, low regulations around bird flu, or both.

We have high prices because the regulations are strict around dealing with bird flu detections. I wouldn't necessarily interpret low prices as a good thing without the big picture.
> In our case, the recruitment team started by only headhunting target candidates. Once we exhausted that pool, they would headhunt any candidate.

"Target candidate" = those in minority groups, yes?
Short Privacy Policy
Publicly, openly musing about imprisoning his enemies gives Bezos, Zuckerberg, et. al. fairly reasonable cause to believe that playing nice with Trump is necessary to avoid the full weight of the regulatory apparatus now under his control being directed at their companies.

(I don't think they'll be successful in appeasing him, but they're visibly trying.)
Zero technical information in the write-up, vague implications, pretty blatant marketing garbage. Who could have guessed that the Chinese platform would communicate with servers operated by one of the largest Chinese telecom companies? Who could have guessed the CCP would have some amount of influence over this company? Truly groundbreaking reporting here.

Replace DeepSeek with Gemini and China with the United States and the post reads just the same.
I'm not really sure if you can call it a "coup" if all parties involved admit he was legitimately elected. Furthermore, this isn't exactly a bait-and-switch. He told us what exactly what he wanted to do. We already knew he would try to do illegal stuff. If you break the law and nobody who voted for you complains (unrealistic I realize, but bear with me), is the rule of law really that secure? If we only criticize Trump when he breaks the law, but not the democrats when they send arms to Israel in blatant violation of the Leahy Laws, how can we get upset when people push the boundaries further?

It's been more than 20 years (or might be about that?) that we passed the law that said "if you prosecute Bush for warcrimes we will invade the Hague". Granted, we were never a treaty cosigner (sharing the lovely company of Russia, North Korea, and Iran), but it's very convenient we have a "laws for thee but not for me" attitude.

Look I'm just saying we've been headed in this direction for a while and I don't expect the institutions we're supposed to care about preserving doing much to stop it. Americans need to get a lot more mad if they want politicians to represent them well. I'd hazard a guess most americans have never contacted their representatives, vote in their non-swing state (effectively making their vote worthless), and pat themselves on the back for a civic duty well done. I think we've gotten ourselves into a position where politicians who have spent most of their careers failing to pass legislation now need to pull political ability from who the hell knows where to actually follow through on their promise to fight facism. Very grim times.
was about to hit the international space station for the weekend but imma boycott the shit out of spacex now :)

and worry not, anyone owning tesla stock is getting their punishment eventually :)
There's a very high amount of political topics lately, and it's very uninteresting to non-US readers. Please stop.
Trump already pardoned 1600 violent insurectionists. If they get tried now, they'll be out of jail the very next day.
Durability is not a Distribution problem.
they were stressing about details that customers see, details that customers don’t see were to cut corners on

Sure, but there's two differences between artisans and programmers.

Firstly, most artisans produce sellable products. Once the customer has bought an item, they would never see it again. I'm pretty sure that if there was a minor error on a self-produced table or a vase and it was standing in the artisan's own living room, they'd not be able to unsee it, and still work to correct it.

Secondly and more importantly: code is not just the product that programmers work on, it's also the workshop that programmers work in. And you bet your ass that artisans are very anal about the layout and organization of their workshop. Put away screws in the wrong box, or throw all the dowels of multiple sizes in the same container? The carpenter will fire his apprentice if it happens more than once; place your knives in the wrong place in a kitchen and the chef will eat you alive; not properly wearing or storing safety equipment can be a fireable offense in many places.

To me, a code review is how you close your workshop for the week: tools are cleaned and stored, floors are tidy enough to walk around, and the work area is available so I can come back on monday and be productive again. I shouldn't have to spend monday cleaning glass shards because someone left a hammer standing straight up on a glass table - or chasing down last week's lunch because someone left the fridge open and now the cheese has grown legs.

So no -- making fuss about code style and quality can certainly be artisanal (maybe not about indents specifically, but can certainly be about textual organization). Because the code is the workshop, and you know the next time you will enter this room it will be because of a high-priority demand and you can't afford to spend half your day cleaning up what you couldn't be bothered to do last time.
I Applied Wavelet Transforms to AI and Found Hidden Structure
I've been working on resolving key contradictions in AI through structured emergence, a principle that so far appears to govern both physical and computational systems.

My grandfather was a prolific inventor in organic chemistry (GE plastics post WWII) and was reading his papers thinking about "chirality" - directional asymmetric oscillating waves and how they might apply to AI. I found his work deeply inspiring.

I ran 7 empirical studies using publicly available datasets across prime series, fMRI, DNA sequences, galaxy clustering, baryon acoustic oscillations, redshift distributions, and AI performance metrics.

All 7 studies have confirmed internal coherence with my framework. While that's promising, I still need to continue to valid the results (attached output on primes captures localized frequency variations, ideal for detaching scale-dependent structure in primes i.e. Ulam Spirals - attached).

To analyze these datasets, I applied continuous wavelet transformations (Morlet/Chirality) using Python3, revealing structured oscillations that suggest underlying coherence in expansion and emergent system behavior.

Paper here: https://lnkd.in/gfigPgRx

If true, here are the implications:

1. AI performance gains – applying structured emergence methods has yielded noticeable improvements in AI adaptability and optimization.
2. Empirical validation across domains – The same structured oscillations appear in biological, physical, and computational systems—indicating a deeper principle at work.
3. Strong early engagement – while the paper is still under review, 160 views and 130 downloads (81% conversion) in 7 days on Zenodo put it in the top 1%+ of all academic papers—not as an ego metric, but as an early signal of potential validation.

The same mathematical structures that define wavelet transforms and prime distributions seems to provide a pathway to more efficient AI architectures by:

1. Replacing brute-force heuristics with recursive intelligence scaling
2. Enhancing feature extraction through structured frequency adaptation
3. Leveraging emergent chirality to resolve complex optimization bottlenecks

Technical (for AI engineers):
1. Wavelet-Driven Neural Networks – replacing static Fourier embeddings with adaptive wavelet transforms to improve feature localization. Fourier was failing hence pivot to CWT. Ulam Spirals showed non-random hence CWT.
2. Prime-Structured Optimization – using structured emergent primes to improve loss function convergence and network pruning.
3. Recursive Model Adaptation – implementing dynamic architectural restructuring based on coherence detection rather than gradient-based back-propagation alone.

The theory could be wrong, but the empirical results are simply too coherent not to share in case useful for anyone.
> clearly untrue

Maybe you haven't been paying attention the past 5 years, but there has been a dramatic shift to the right in media. Companies change ownership and the new owners take advantage of the historical left leaning nature of the media.

The magic trick fox news and conservatives has pulled is by being so far right that center/slightly right parties look far left. The normalization of the MAGA movement is evidence of this right leaning media machine.

Look at who owns the "left leaning" media companies. CNN is owned by conservatives.

Joe Rogan, Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson audience dwarf most other channels these days. fox news has almost 3-4 times the viewership of CNN which is the preferred example of a "left leaning" network to balance them.

The rights constant raging against mainstream media is an attempt to distract from the fact that mainstream media is in fact conservative.
How to make any AMD Zen CPU always generate 4 from RDRAND
Impressive. Can you share anything more about this project? 500k pages a day is massive and I can imagine why one would require that much throughput.
Wouldn’t the temperature on something like OCR be very low. You want the same result every time. Isn’t some part of hallucination the randomness of temperature?
Since there's no native Linux binary of the game, I assume the real issue here is Windows users telling the game "you're running under Proton, no kernel anticheat please!" and bypassing all of those additional checks.
Perhaps revisit your premise prior to asserting malicious intent.
Maybe you missed the 'defence' part?
Thanks for the response. As best as I can tell, the potassium is naturally occurring in the dried garlic, red pepper, and onion. In neither country is there any added potassium. Possibly the formulation is the same and the two countries just have slightly different thresholds for what must be listed.
Try the Gemini webapp. It has a powerful reasoning model with Google Search and Maps integration.
The only places where C++ failed to take C's crown has been on UNIX clones (naturally, due to the symbiotic relationship), and embedded where even modern C couldn't replace C89 + compiler extensions from the chip vendor, many shops are stuck in the past, even though most toolchains are already up to C++20 and C17 nowadays.

Rust is still too new for many folks to adopt, it depends on how much you would be willing to help grow the ecosystem, versus doing the actual application.

It will eventually get there, but also have the same issues as C++, regarding taking over C in UNIX/POSIX and embedded, and C++ has the advantage of having been a kind of Typescript for C, in terms of adoption effort, being a UNIX language from AT&T, designed to fit into C ecosystem.
Oh I see. And how much would t-shirts made by this non-slave ethical corporation be?
You can bet there are other 0-days in 7-Zip ready to unleash, yet companies keep installing it on their systems.
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/221/
In my mind, Gemini 2.0 changes everything because of the incredibly long context (2M tokens on some models), while having strong reasoning capabilities.

We are working on compliance solution (https://fx-lex.com) and RAG just doesn’t cut it for our use case. Legislation cannot be chunked if you want the model to reason well about it.

It’s magical to be able to just throw everything into the model. And the best thing is that we automatically benefit from future model improvements along all performance axes.
Except that means you're locked in to web APIs.
XBRL is what I'm using currently, but it's still kind of a mess (maybe I'm just bad at it) for some of the non-standard information that isn't properly tagged.
A key part for me is the platinum and lignin and I'm only interested in the same way I might be interested in an article including 'gold and palladium ...' Which is to say, with morbid curiosity as to both the cost and toxicity of the idea, and a little bit of surprise that safety and efficiency would be included as reasons to pursue this research.
That 'LOL' comes across as very arrogant for someone who seems to have a tentative grasp at best on what they're commenting on. We have already experienced stagflation which runs counter to a lot of Keynesian ideas about inflation. It turns out it doesn't always encourage spending and employment. Similarly there is no evidence deflation will lead to stagnation of productivity[1]. People will always want to spend more than is needed for survival and doing so in a deflationary environment makes people think harder on how money is spent.

[1] Read this for a more comprehensive view of deflation from an economist who lived through it: https://www.amazon.com/Economic-Changes-Production-Distribut...
There’s stack probes that cause an abort.
They may have feared the negative PR of dropping the policies would be more costly than the policies themselves.
Great observation. Maybe an additional “routing model” could be trained to predict when it’s better to think more vs just using the current result
I hate that you're right.

To make matters worse, I suspect that not even a splinternet can save it. It needs a new foundation, preferably one that wasn't largely designed before security was a thing.

Federation is probably a good start, but it should be federated well below the application layer.
I watched that one after finding it randomly! Will give the new one a watch too
It is hard for me to imagine any entrenched civil service being cooperative with plans to shit can their jobs. So I'm not sure that means much. Almost by human nature, most people are uncooperative ( and deemed such ) with plans to end their dental plan and rent money.
I'm sure NSO Group would love that sort of talent.
It would be interesting to see folks align on new words to mean the same thing.
What power exactly does it have? Be specific.
Wrong. The entire federal government has $8 million dollars worth of Politico Pro subscriptions (like Bloomberg terminal for public policy).

USAID spent $24k on those subscriptions.

Musk is full of shit. I have yet to see an example of such a claim that didn't end up being massively exaggerated or outright false.
Trump the Tyrant King will surely throw her in prison whether the courts like it or not... Any day now... Oh.
Yeah, I mean Musk has literally tweeted that DOGE is "dismantling the radical-left shadow government."[0] This is not about efficiency or rooting out corruption, it's about persecuting political enemies and purging wrongthink.

Which was something people here screamed bloody murder about when they accused Biden of doing it, just by asking Twitter to moderate content, but I guess this is all fine now.

[0]https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1886840365329608708
I did find the community around those projects (MisterFPGA) to be rather weird, so I understand a little where he's coming from.
Oh, that would be nice for a change. My understanding is they no longer debate it, they just send an email to the Senate saying "I filibuster" and the bill is tabled.
Start by removing Rust's dependency in GCC and LLVM, both written in C++.
> Curious about your case for this.

I was mostly riffing on the time Joe Armstrong, creator of Erlang, said that Erlang might be the only object-oriented language in existence. Although he's not exactly wrong, is he?

> I thought it was functional.

I think that is reasonable. Objects, describing encapsulation of data, are what define functional. Without encapsulation, you merely have procedural. Of course, that still does not imply the objects are oriented...

For that you need message passing. But Erlang has message passing too! So there is a good case to be made that is object-oriented.
For the "looping" I'm talking about you don't need to update the weights. It is simply, old context in, new context out, new context in, new-new context out, etc.

Of course, keeping that coherent over numerous loops isn't going to be easy. No doubt there is a chance it goes off the rails. So you might have a section of context that is constantly stable, a section of context that updates each loop, etc.

In the other response to my comment someone mentioned eventually updating the weights (e.g. daily) and you would in that case have to have some kind of loss function.
I've lived through several ends of programming as we know it. They almost always resulted in more work, more growth, more opportunities and more capabilities for the average dev. We're finally firmly out of the "what can we do?" portion of the information revolution and into the "how can we best do it?" portion. It's a lot less romantic, but it's the part where the rubber meets the road.
Libertarians and conservatives don't want to acknowledge efficiencies of scale in certain areas because it's not about efficient spending.
It ostensibly used to be better in the US, and then the smith--mundt act was changed/repealed and now who knows.

I do like the "that's just like, your opinion, man" as an answer to news stories, though.
Originally, yes. These days a "talking filibuster" like that is almost never used, apart from occasionally when someone wants to be dramatic about it.

There's a thing called a vote for cloture, meaning a vote you take about whether to stop debate and vote on the issue. In the US Senate, a cloture vote requires 60 votes (out of 100) to pass. So there's a "procedural filibuster", whereby one side will announce that they're not going to vote for cloture, but the other side won't force them to actually keep talking so the chamber can move on and do other things.

This used to be quite uncommon, and things would regularly become law with a bare 50%+1 majority, but nowadays -- basically since ~2008 -- there's a de-facto "nothing that can't get 60% support in the Senate can become law" rule in effect. With a specific carve-out for a few things that're not allowed to be filibustered, mostly around passing a budget, that are just barely keeping the government functioning.

Personally, I intensely dislike this, and feel like the shift to default-filibuster-everything is a major cause of the growing dissatisfaction with the system that ultimately gave us Trump.