skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Getting more comprehensive enforcement of laws in general against well-heeled players is a good thing.

Whether something is good independent of what it takes to achieve it is a separate question from whether that's where you should focus your efforts.

> We would have a lot less bad law if laws were enforced more evenly, because people would more quickly see their true effects, rather than having to wait until companies exploited the loopholes in enforcement so egregiously.

Which is exactly why it's so hard to do it. The status quo is: Pass lots of laws that make everything illegal so that anyone without resources can be brought up on charges if they ruffle the wrong feathers. If you wanted to actually enforce all of those laws, they would immediately have to be repealed or everyone would be in jail. Which isn't in the interests of the people who want to keep them on the books to use for selective enforcement, so they don't enforce them that way in order to keep them on the books.

The consequence is that it takes even more political capital to have those laws rigorously enforced than to have them repealed, because then you have to fight both the big guys who don't want short-term enforcement against themselves and the autocrats who don't want to long-term have the laws repealed, instead of only the latter.

> I also don't agree that the only problem here is bad laws.

When laws are enforced against the little guys but not the big guys, it's usually because they're bad laws, because letting the rich openly get away with literal murder is highly unpopular.

The most significant category of good laws that big companies regularly violate with impunity is antitrust laws, but those also don't often get enforced against the little guy because the little guy isn't even in a position to violate them.
This would be great if I had enough money for my preferences to matter
This is what the majority of Americans voted for. Protect democracy and let Doge do it's work.
Yup, I went through a similar experience with a YC startup no less. First round was a code review with the CTO/co-founder and it was a web API and SQL schema with lots of little bits and varying "areas of interest" from data validation to exception handling (or lack thereof) to indices to type selection and other bits and pieces.

Left a very strong and favorable impression on me for how much more enjoyable it was as a candidate and also how much more it felt like he presented a sandbox within which we could discover and discuss.
Yes and per the poster's opening comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42966958#42966959
Concatenating strings before giving it to the hash function instead of using KFD is rolling your own.
OpenAI Investigating Claim of 20M Stolen User Credentials
That strategy relies on courts always being slow and expensive though. It often feels like it, but that's not a universal truth of the court system. If the damage is high enough, courts can fast-track cases. Judges can also issue injunctions before the delays start, and if the argument is too flimsy it can backfire on the defendant.

I'll concede that if whoever's being sued is going to rely on secret legal interpretations like the NSA/intelligence agencies did with the FISA court rulings, then it makes things a lot trickier.
> Jailing Elon will probably set off Trump and his cronies so the EU will probably not bother to go after him.

No need to, he could simply be bounced at the border.
The Good Old Days
what about the tightrope walker without a net for coding in production?
At least they seeded!
Oh yes, you're correct actually. The one I linked about was mentioned at the end of the article but the article makes clear that Elon Musk actually did hire multiple people with explicitly racist ties because they are not dealbreakers to him.
My observation is about the dynamics of the used car market (reliable cars that are out of warranty still command relatively high prices), it's not a comparison to the cost of new, high end electric vehicles.

My point was that the firm prices in the used market actually reflect demand for those cars and they aren't just tragically going to waste, a counter to your disgust at our supposed refusal to use them up. If they are getting exported and used up, that still prevents them from being available cheaply here.
I took a picture of a grocery list and then pasted it into ChatGPT to have it written out and it worked flawlessly...until I discovered that I'd messed up the picture when I took it at an angle and had accidentally cut off the first character or two of the bottom half of the list.

ChatGPT just inferred that I wanted the actual full names of the items (aka "flour" instead of "our").

Depending on how you feel about it, this is either an absolute failure of OCR or wildly useful and much better.
So who is going to decide who is a "real" researcher?
I personally have no idea, because I don't even know what's the good faith meaning of this phrase.
I think you should take seriously the proposition that this is what's happening.
Apple may withdraw security feature, which is unclear what that achieves at all. Apple will not withdraw all sales in a country for privacy of that country’s citizens, as evidenced in China.

UK demanding to see private information for citizens in other countries though..
I saw the social media post, and it didn’t even register as “trying to start a brigade” IMO.

I read it as “look at this shit” and general frustration with the likes of DMA-guys behaviour.
Also related from yesterday, though not the same article:

> I believe 6502 instruction set is a good first assembly language

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42957823
The plane has an onboard calculator for this :)
> Very few people who buy mid-range Android phones with no planned OTA updates say "okay, this $500 phone will last about a year and a half before it becomes too insecure to use, so I'm subscribing to it for $25/month; with a cloud service it will be $35/month, and with the apps I need, it will be $40/month".

Here in the UK at least almost everyone buys a phone with a phone plan attached, and expects to upgrade when they get a new plan. This is a very normal mindset.
OpenAI o3-mini scores 78% on yesterday's AIME 2025 math competition
I think you'd attract a more sympathetic audience if you reframed Emil's Story as "How to get people to leave you alone and let you think." E.g. half of your AI autodidact degree boils down to 'make money with what you\'ve learned', and it's always interesting to see people unpack their approaches to this idea. Your thinking around target numbers would be valuable.
I was debating with someone else on here that the "base layer" is "men with guns" [1]

They responded that the base layer is "money".

I have to concede that the behavior of Tech bosses is easier to explain using the money model.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42938656
What is this comment saying? You think the results are different just because of AMD hardware? If there is a difference it would be a software bug.
Captcha solvers are already quite cheap. AI could make it cheaper, but for a single user, I don't think it would make a difference.
European chiming in here. We need to backup, hash, and distribute this data. I bought four 12 TB HDDs (second hand enterprise) for about 360 EUR from USA (included tax & S&H). I could buy more, but I am feeling financially insecure now, and not buying anything from the USA anymore. I do have 3x 4 TB drives spare though. Might use these instead of going to some great parties.
Wasn’t seeing what OCR stands for, I believe it’s Optical Character Recognition.
It depends on what they're doing with it. But mostly probably not.
Most certainly it's about prepping for the zombie apocalypse.
I agree that this seems like a net positive to me overall.
Some are (also) dead.

Dead means, to my understanding, killed by moderation.
Actual real life clearances take between 6 - 12 months or longer depending on backlogs.

These people have zero actual “vetting” but “presidential authority” can just say to give them clearances on the spot which is what happened here.

So they have the legal bit of paperwork but it doesn’t actually mean anything. It was just an override of the regular checks and balances and would you believe it it turns out it’s filled with problems precisely like the process is designed to stop.
Already debunked

> USAID paid $44K to Politico, not over $8M as White House claimed. It was for subscriptions

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42977622
Same thing is likely true in SoCal. The city of Azusa,CA has their own, non-Edison utility, and their rates are 1/3rd of the Edison rates in the towns around them.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/this-piece-of-meat-just-swip...
By your standard C++11 isn't backward compatible with C++98.
Yes we will add it soon :)
But the claim was "No discussion of this sort shall be allowed on hn", and his data shows that significant discussion is happening. Mass flagging doesn't change this.

That is despite violating HN's "intellectual curiosity" rule.
The argument is that getting rid of the bad laws is better than enforcing them more rigorously. This can be applied to the laws propping up the taxi medallion cartels as well as the ones prohibiting personal drug use. Then anyone (not just Uber) could compete with them and thereby disband the taxi cartels previously using those laws to constrain competition.
You seem to be implying that he had nothing to apologise for, and that abusive behavior is an acceptable part of strong leadership.

It’s sad that this even needs to be called out.
Her son died ‘surfing’ BART trains. Now she’s suing the agency
@DanG, you replied to my previous comment about this being a conversation that needs to happen.

Thanks for being even handed and giving folks forbearance.
Someone on Reddit actually cooked eggs using this method today.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Cooking/comments/1ik3qgd/ive_just_t...
I didn’t tell you not to worry about authoritarian power grabs. I was just pointing out that you’re going off on a tangent rather than responding to the question that was asked.
> Seeing what it has become though… Maybe closed source is better.

You thought it was better in the past? Read up on the great ncurses maintainer drama. Or the NetBSD/OpenBSD split. Or FreeBSD/DragonflyBSD split. Or the Emacs forks, GNU libc forks, GCC fork, etc. etc. etc.

This kind of drama has always existed. Difficult people have always existed. And even good people have always been struggling with their emotions.

And in all my closed-source $dayjobs I've had to deal with all of that too. Sometimes significantly worse than I'm seeing here.
Phishing tests, the bane of work life, are getting meaner
Everyone's preferences matter.

I know a homeless guy in Texas whom I talk to on IRC daily. Even he has preferences. He lives under a bridge near a library that gives him Internet access.
I don’t know why it’s supposed to be some secret but there is absolutely an effort here from multiple parties to minimise conversation on the topic.

We can debate the reasons and logic as to why that might be but to pretend it isn’t happening is just silly.
It's Americans having an issue with this, not Germans.
There is no M2 version of Visual Studio. The version of Visual Studio 2022 I installed was x64. I have some other x64 software installed as well (Notepad++, AWS CLI, git, etc.) and all of them work just fine under the ARM version of Windows 11 running under VMWare Fusion.
Yep, that happened. "Forced to apologize" essentially describes it.

A quick sweep through recent messages in LKML shows that there's a healthy return to form for him, maybe with less curse words, but as succinct and impactful as it should be nonetheless.
Yes, but pawning off the work on an infuriatingly forgetful and hurried junior who doesn't really listen to you is.
> This was to be expected, many of their anti-C++ complaints also apply to Rust, given that both languages share many common ideas, even if presented in different forms.

I was genuinely surprised when Linus opened the door for Rust in the Kernel for that reason. And the real waste is there: had Linux said a straight “no”, then nobody would have lost their time trying to make this work against all odds.

Or maybe Linus really thinks Rust is the future, but he doesn't want to enforce its inclusion in the Kernel against his senior maintainers because he's afraid of an uprising.
That's okay, they should just charge The Zuck with it personally; I'd be fine with that.
You understand they're a global company and broke many laws in many countries, right?
thank you very much for your help
> debases the entire conversation.

If my eyes rolled back any further in my head I could look into the past.

But you've proven your own point: you know him because he's known but because you're actually familiar with his work.

So again: textbook celebrity worship masquerading as intellectualism.
s/LLMs/VLMs/g
> approved by popular vote

Quibble: The majority of people voted against Trump, or at least not in his favor. He only got a plurality, not a majority.
Well yeah, the result from ibm quantum is either a 1 or 0 i suppose. Did you expect the quantum computer to draw you the coins through your phone too?
you saved millions and all you can get are these free bananas
Seems like it was only 44k and not 8M and just for subscriptions.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42977622

So the White House’s claim was either incompetence or malice.

Do you begin to understand?

BTW Politico is owned by Axel Springer SE, the owner of the right wing newspapers BILD and Die Welt. The later published a pro-AfD article by Musk endorsing the extreme right wing party as last hope for Germany, Musk is winner of Axel-Springer-Award 2020 and was at the birthday party of Matthias Döpfner, the CEO of Axel Springer SE.
There’s not only one way that works for all. Glad microdosing works for you
> What if breaker boxes were "smart" and able to negotiate higher voltages like USB-C does?

That'd be difficult; a breaker typically feeds an entire room, not a single outlet. (And when it does feed a single outlet, that's typically because it's dedicated to a specific large appliance, like an air conditioner or electric stove, which wouldn't benefit from being able to dynamically negotiate a voltage.)
This seems like a fine decision by Amazon?
If there is a ton of demand for [dog shit tacos] it seems fine to make more [dog shit taco] factories?
The human animal is the one the evolution cares about. It’s the one that lives in caves, hunts by exhausting its prey and uses only rudimentary tools. Ausgustus is far removed from that.
Both Trump and Musk take the view that they should never let the truth get in the way of a convenient story.
What is wrong with Microsoft's free signtool.exe?
Some of Linus's past messages came across as needlessly aggressive and insulting. There really was no practical reason for that and just served to alienate contributors, and it came across as unprofessional.

You can be a strong, opinionated leader and still be kind (or at least neutral) to the people you're working with.

A good leader is someone who can deliver hard messages while still keeping your team inspired. It doesn't do any good if the people working under you feel like trash.

It's the difference between telling a contributor "you're an f**ing idiot" vs "this code isn't up to standards, try again". Same message, but completely different impact on your team.
I keep trying to write docs but then I also keep making them out of date. The idea is that instead of each author of a tool like Pantograph building its own system of language support, (with each language author having to build support for each tool) our hope was that we could design some set of data structures, APIs, and capabilities which would allow a proper frontend/backend divide between languages and the the tools which consume their definitions.

The best place to get started is to see how CSTML works in the playground: https://bablr.org/playground. It's meant to be a self-describing format. It can be streamed, and we have a btree-backed storage format for it that makes incremental editing of immutable trees a breeze.
Except you have no authority to call that out, and we're not forced by law to agree with you.

In my opinion Linus was never abusive or disrespectful - just blunt and direct.

Unfortunately, there seems to exist people (like me) that would prefer such individuals instead of nice empty words just in case someone gets offended.
It was tasty, like a minestrone soup. All the soup cans averaged out to tomato broth with chunks of veggies, meat, and noodles.

Mostly, it was hot and salty and could be drank from a cup :)
Bad faith arguments like this don't really belong on HN. Please represent the substance of your argument accurately rather than debating this inaccurate strawman argument.
I’m going to try it out. My first feedback is that links in text posts (like this very post) aren’t clickable and the <a href… tags show up as plaintext (iOS). Also it’s not possible to make new lines in comments on iOS? Also I can only see the comment I’m currently typing in a single line. Otherwise, the app looks nice!
I've seen the idea floated for combatting non signing related time-based bugs, but I'm a firm believer in having at least one machine run tests with its time set artificially far in the future (e.g. 1 year) to catch these ahead of time where possible.
AI agents do not have agency. This is just another sloppy and disturbing way that AI people show their disrespect or incompetence about the nature of humans.

If you think AI has agency then you must think all software has agency. AI is just software.

To those of you who say humans are just software: try deactivating a human and see what happens. Note that this is a different experience than deactivating AI.
For folks interested in finite-state transducers and other kinds of tooling available, check out XFST (Xerox Finite-State Transducer), which has been used in computational linguistics applications for a good 20 years now.

I remember a Finnish researcher from PARC coming to one of my classes at UT to show how you can use FSTs for handling Finnish morphology, which is, on its face, quite a feat.
Check out Xerox XFST and its open source clone FOMA for finite state transducers as described by extended regular expresssions, both of which describe the language of regular relations:

The Xerox FST book
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/F/bo36...
(Xerox XRCE's finite-state-tools comprising the compilers lexc, xfst and twolc, the languages they compile and the formal language finite state transducers describe including linguistic applications)

The XFST book
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/F/bo36...

FOMA: the open source clone
https://fomafst.github.io/

FOMA: the paper (Holden, M. (2009) Proc. EACL)
https://aclanthology.org/E09-2008.pdf

FOMA: the open source clone
https://fomafst.github.io/

FOMA: the paper (Holden, M. (2009) Proc. EACL)
https://aclanthology.org/E09-2008.pdf
I find that LLMs can read text off product label photos I can't even read myself.
Could this demo (and the others) be stood up as WASM on the homepage?

The WASM distribution channel is a huge potential selling point for Bevy. You don't get that with Unreal, and AFAIK, with Godot either. And because it's Rust, you get a way better type system and story around deploying to consumer devices than Three.js.

Please show this stuff off in the browser!
The number sixty is highly composite maybe because it's a multiple of three? In which case, I can see why Nikola Tesla liked the number three or multiples of three.

So he can do exploratory electrical science and analysis with flexible cases?
In this case, the court.
DARPA announces a program entitled "Exponentiating Mathematics"
Were you one of the many overemployed people that also worked at AWS?
He meant to say "the Rust code will spread everywhere [like cancer]".

I agree it's rude, offensive, and hostile, but there are degrees of things and context matters. "You are cancer" would be much worse. I feel we should try and interpret things in good faith and maintain some perspective. For a single word like this: you can just read over it (which is also what the other Rust people did).

Certainly outright removing Hellwig from the Linux project, as Marcan suggested, is bizarrely draconian.

As I argued a few days ago: part of "being nice" is accepting that people aren't perfect and dealing with that – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42940591
Wouldn't it make sense to do both then? Low frequency or even dc long distance transmission that gets converted to standard frequency closer to the user?
Aren't there always risks with any treatment though? I'm not sure why psychedelics need to be specially called out.
I agree.

Reading their alternatives, it strikes me with "ZCTA's are the worst form of small area aggregation except for all others."

Its not a great geography to use but it is quite useful if you know it's limitations and inaccuracies when you get into it. Stuff like multipolygon entities, island-polys, etc aren't fun to resolve but can be accounted for.

Add on that ZCTA's will historically follow some sort of actual boundary(rivers/highways/etc) they can tell a story in a way Census tracts can't.
I simply read your post to make it make sense. That is, you’re saying “America is a nation of immigrants” to refer to some articulated principle—like free speech or property rights—that should compel the electorate to adhere to some policy going forward.

If by “nation of immigrants” you mean merely the fact that most Americans have immigrant ancestry, your original post makes no sense. Why would that incidental fact have any bearing on what America’s immigration policy should be going forward? Mere accidents of history don't compel a democratic republic to maintain any particular course.
> or at least stay quiet about any opposition you feel toward them?

Good grief. Can you hear yourself? Can you see what you're writing?

This bizarre weak submissiveness is exactly how you end up with an autocratic state.
> the law actually makes it a criminal offense to reveal that the government even made such a demand.

Why is it tho ? The government has something to hide ?
i mean it's complete bullshit, citizen have the right to privacy and government has the obligation of transparency and being accountable to its citizens.

When did the UK turned into a middle east dictatorship ?

> Google has enforced default encryption for Android phone backups since 2018. When asked by The Post whether any government had requested a backdoor, Google spokesman Ed Fernandez did not provide a direct answer but suggested none exist: "Google cannot access Android end-to-end encrypted backup data, even with a legal order," he stated.

That is absolutely laughable.
If the uk government couldn't access google data, they would have ordered google the same thing they did with apple.

Apple theoretically can't access their user data when e2e encryption is enabled yet the uk government doesn't care. how does that differ from google ?

once again, if you want your data to be safe from google, apple, and the others you got to avoid all cloud and resort to use good old hard drive with encryption.

the only ones getting fcked are once again the average people who don't have much to hide in the first place, the pedophiles and terrorist they are much more aware than the old fart at the government on how to stay hidden.