skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uff I wanted to read a good flame on Dan Brown, unfortunately this critique just reads like someone just finished a tutorial on good writing and all they learned is strict rules set in stone.
Are the Dan Brown books anything more than mediocre fantasy entertainment? Nope. But this critique doesn't do anything to convince me I should give a fork about their opinion, because their points are so superficial. Oh well at least it was way shorter than the books...
> massive cuts of workers

That is what Trump is doing via DOGE so the burn-it-down camp seems pretty well served, more than anytime since the post-war demobilization anyway. The impasse, if it occurs, is more likely to be with those in Congress that don’t want to reduce the size of government.
You're hearing the "unitary executive" theory, which posits that the president is essentially a king. It's based on a purposeful misreading of the Constitution, of course. To arrive at this philosophy, you have to essentially ignore the entire point of the Revolutionary War, the writings of the founding fathers, the Declaration of Independence, the Civil War, Article I, Article III, Article IV, the Bill of Rights, and the president's oath of office.

There really is no limit to the power, but they say the check is impeachment -- if the people don't like it they can elect a congress that will impeach the president. But in reality it doesn't work that way when the president's party controls congress.
State of AI China Q1 2025 [Artificial Analysis] [pdf]
why how what? can you add a sample prompt with output ?
My suggestion: music! Give the eyes a break.
I think I even saw Mac for the first time around 2004. Eastern europe.
Yes, and libraries pay for that access. They also don't obfuscate the origin or remove the advertising. Don't equate libraries with what OpenAI does.
I think the adminstration's plan to execute on this is basically garden leave. They tell the "retiring" employees to stop working, but keep them on the payroll so they keep getting paid.

This administration has been playing a lot of games with "budgeted" vs. "delayed" vs. "actively being worked on" (or not). So this isn't really that different than the abrupt cancellations or delays or re-org'ing of funded and legislatively mandated work.

The main difference is the uncertainty. IMO anyone would be incredibly foolish to accept a deal from a random email with such limited info on the exact terms of what happens in edge cases like you describe: shutdown, budget shenanigans, actual official RIF, etc.
It's an even better deal if it gets torn up after a month. You get a one month paid vacation and then go back to work.
problem is that the language started hitting its stride and getting attention while the core team is on a 2 year side quest of rewriting the compiler + incremental compilation
I think it's the fear of what the CCP would do with your data being more on the malice end of the spectrum vs. incompetence. Big USA tech is usually a thorn in the government's side when it comes to surveillance, where big China tech is essentially (more precisely, lawfully) complicit.
This doesn't seem to be a code blog, but a general science communication blog. The editors may not be familiar with code syntax, and may simply be using a content management system and copy-pasting from source material.
Interesting. If that’s the interpretation I think i need to contribute elsewhere.

I can’t trust that I’m not seeing other important perspectives here.
And you think that an offer accepted by sending an email with "Resign" in the subject line is subject to these protections? You think DOGE is even authorized to make said offers? Why, because Elon and Trump said so?

Also your last line is just bizarre. The US government can very much selectively pay some parties but not others during a shutdown. That's kind of the definition of a shutdown....

Plus this administration is already brazenly breaking laws. You think they won't violate worker protection laws? Sure, maybe the courts sort it out in a year or two, small comfort to the people who were relying on that income to pay their rent in the meantime.
I've pretty much been stuck on java since 1995, I started right around 1.0. There have been some stints of Python or we have some glue code in C/C++ or whatever but we're talking 95% java.

Some of these things are mildly annoying when you think about them in theoretical terms.

But all the professional teams I've been on a (a lot) have successfully dealt with exceptions without issue. The teams settled on an exception and error handling process early in the design phase and it rarely has caused a major issue.

Yet it seems out on the internet in any place where programming languages are discussed it is an insurmountable problem that has caused all projects in Java to fail and the language died an early and unpopular death. It seems if it caused anyone huge problems it was not Java's issue but that team's issue.

There are/were other much bigger issues over the years. Memory leaks have been issues. Spring was hard for many people to deal with back around 2005 or so. The first iterations were quite bad with XML. XML in general caused a lot of issues. J2EE caused a lot of issues just because it was so badly designed early on. (Some of this was because it was birthed out of CORBA, which was itself pretty horrible.) Plenty of issues were caused by using Collections with mixed objects in them early on before Generics were introduced. Visual J++ caused havoc. Different models of web application caused a lot of havoc before we got to Javascript UIs in the browser driven by Web API back ends. JPA was a big mistake IMO. But exceptions were never really a huge problem anywhere.

So many have blamed a problem on Java when it was actually a problem with a library, component, or framework written in Java that became way more popular than it should have been. And along the way there were a lot of "developer influencer celebrities" who were listened too far far more than they should have been. Many of these guys (I can't remember one ever being a woman) sold everyone on ultra complex designs and ways of doing things and the community almost always bought in to a ridiculous degree.
> In a moment of dark irony, the sort of diversity-focused work she’s passionate about—not lowering the bar, but inspiring more people and providing them with mentorship and opportunity to reach it

Discrimination by race, gender and sexual orientation (aka DEI, jokingly disabbreviated as "didn't earn it") always results in lowering the bar. No exceptions. Either the candidate earns a position fair and square, in which case you don't need "DEI", or you are discriminating against someone else more deserving, and therefore lowering the bar overall. What's ironic is this is setting minorities back decades. In 2000 nobody cared what color you were or whether you had a penis. In 2025 the assumption is that a minority is a "DEI hire" unless proven otherwise. And bah gawd there are real exemplars out there to support that narrative.
Democracy is a broken, hackable system and it shows why. Theoretically in democracy you're supposed to be elected by the majority and then ensure the rights of the minority. When you're elected by the majority and then make the life of minorities as hard as possible, that's fascism- which is what real world practice of democracy has become.
Let's Encrypt is ending expiration notice emails–for some good reasons
I don't think it's "production over consumption". At least I don't like that framing. For me it's about supporting production. The humans that write news articles every day can't produce that valuable work if they don't get fairly compensated for it. It's not that the AI produces more, it's that the AI destabilizes production. It makes it impossible to produce.
The amusing thing is that despite all you describe, and which many other people have described on this site and in others in great detail about the nature of LLMs, there are still many people who believe that these models essentially possess intelligence, and that it's little different from how a human mind expresses cognition.

I've seen this thinking to be especially prevalent among tech types (especially among many comments on this site), and more so than among average non-tech people I know.

It seems to be a reflection of a certain forced, almost ideological techno-reductionist thinking against the honestly complex and largely mysterious nature of consciousness. Many non-tech people on the other hand accept this mystery of consciousness and paradoxically are thus less likely to consider an LLM to be anything deeper than the clever but mindless pattern-matching trick that it is
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Do you have a reference for us to check? - "DeepSeek explicitly mentioned difficulties training such a model."
I work on asteroid/comet orbit calculations for my day job. I had not actually seen this paper before, though I have done some detective work in old Palomar images in the past: https://caltech-ipac.github.io/kete/tutorials/palomar.html

I spent a few minutes and downloaded the image frame they cite in the paper and ran it through a similar analysis looking for known asteroids, and there were no known asteroids in that patch of sky at that time (didn't really expect any, as I would expect them to be causing a visible streak over the 10 minutes of exposure). Neat paper though!
Well at the VM level live migration and vmotion have been around for a while. I've watched a VM get migrated while ping is running without missing a single packet.

CRIU is used lots of places for Linux processes but in my experience is far more low level and finicky and it tends to do things that require root permissions. It's used in production, but I would be shocked if, for example, someone made it so k8s could just live migrate any pod with CRIU.

Just think of the possible ways apps that might break if you changed their hostname or pid out from under them. And that's not even including stuff like connections to localhost or shared memory.
More expensive and more better.
I think he truly believes it, but given the totality of his post it's very likely wrong. I'm not saying he is lying or a liar.

Again:

> blind reviews where you can’t see the name or details of the applicant (to minimise subconscious bias).

Its been shown that doing so _increases_ the amount of non-minority candidates selected, not the other way around.
This is the kind of advice that can work for anyone, but can't work for everyone. Scale kills all things.
I'm willing to modify the bet to "Just one person does all the labor with AI as the primary tool".

What I meant by "completely done by AI" is that AI is doing the vast majority of the heavy lifting. Sound, visuals, script and ultimately humans are just acting as the director of that AI.

In otherwords, a masterpiece of cinema created by one person and AI prompts. Masterpiece being judged by the above success criteria. I won't accept some spam film that an AI magazine touts as being a masterpiece.
Nope, it's only budgeted through March 14th, noticeably before September 31st
Market cap is just (no of shares) x (share price) and fluctuates all over in ways largely unrelated to fundamentals. Share price = whatever the idiots buying and selling that day happen to agree on and can depend as much on their mood as anything else.
https://archive.ph/wzSBG
I think very soon a new model will destroy whatever startups and services are built around document ingestion. As in a model that can take in a pdf page as a image and transcribe it to text with near perfect accuracy.
This is pretty dumb generalization. In baltics, where I live, nobody counts cents or limits appliance use, despite low overall income.
> You get a one month paid vacation

I wrote it elsewhere, but no. It may or may not be a paid vacation. Agencies get to decide themselves, not OPM, whether the employees are put on leave or continue to work. There is zero guarantee that anyone will get administrative leave under the offering.
I don't think your take is incorrect. I give it a try from time to time and it's always been inferior to other offerings for me every time I've tested it. Which I find a bit strange as NotebookLM (until recently) had been great to use. Whatever... there are plenty of other good options out there.
> How do you clean up a corrupt organization?

1) The US government isn't "corrupt." It might be inefficient, it might be bloated, but it isn't generally corrupt.

2) You definitely don't try "clean up corruption" by out-doing it in corruption and lawlessness.
I've had decent luck using some of the reasoning models for this. It helps if you task them with identifying where the points on the graph are first.
> and arguably Erlang

Curious about your case for this. I don't know a lot about Erlang other than "it's what Elixir is based on" or whatever technical jargon is more accurate. I thought it was functional.
Max has gone to crap since the merger though. They cancelled a lot of the quality content and added a bunch of cheap and awful crap like reality shows to the service. It's like someone bought a Rolls Royce and riced it out.
That sounds illegal
> Stashes are more like commits — they even appear in the reflog! But they also aren't real commits either, in the sense that you can't check them out, or rebase them, or manipulate them directly.

They are real commits, you can check them out (it detaches your HEAD, the syntax to reference them is `stash{N}`). Although I think this furthers, rather than undermining, your point that there are an unnecessary number of other commands to work with the stash.

I think this is a failure of the git CLI as much as the internal data-structures. I think the idea of a commit tree is very good and a lot of people recognize that. The commands that git exposes to work with that tree can sometimes be miserable.
Sounds like what every major US website does too...
“Such a terrible way to do it” is a huge understatement.

It is so beyond egregious it should be criminal. And that’s no hyperbole.
This is completely tangential, but does anyone know if AI is creating any new jobs?

Thinking of the OCR vendors who get replaced. Where might they go?

One thing I can think of is that AI could help the space industry take off. But wondering if there are any concrete examples of new jobs being created.
If you'd kindly tl;dr the chunking strategies you have tried and what works best, I'd love to hear.
we were talking about operational access to the payment system. you are conflating the situation at USAID which may or may not by illegal, idk.

the legislative branch can form administrative departments and prescribe their function however the president has already defined powers to impound funds and remove senior administrative officers and appoint/remove low-level staff. how these things intersect will be sorted be the courts.

executive actions (by-passing what should be legislation) have been increasing the last few decades. the various media companies plainly do make choices to portray some actions as nothingburger or crisis depending on their political alignment with the party in power.

the issue with the left-media and Trump is they outrage clickbait a bunch of events that are insignificant in terms of outcomes. Should they alarm about Jan6 yes. should they alarm over minor personnel at treasury or some dumb unserious thing Trump said at a press conference, no. This is how the media loses all trust in themselves broadly.
and Department of Commerce

so there's not going to be any backups to restore in 1440 days are there?
Not necessarily. Supporting local is the opposite of supporting scale, it's supporting decentralization. A single local provider might not be able to sustain all local demand, but there need not be only 1 local provider.
"Ingesting Millions of PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 Changes Everything" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42952605
> The FCC also subpoenaed Telnyx for information that might identify the callers and "determined that the very limited identifying information Telnyx collected from its customers was false." They used physical addresses in Canada, including one that turned out to be a Sheraton hotel, and IP addresses from Scotland and England.

Not surprising. These phone call and text messaging platforms almost always look the other way when they have customers doing illegal things, on purpose. It’s how they make money. In my personal experience, Sinch (aka Inteliquent, Mailgun, Mailjet), Bandwidth.com, and Fractel are the biggest offenders. Twilio used to be bad but has become a lot better, and I rarely see robocalls or spam text from them these days.

The only solution is huge fines and jail time. By not coming down hard on these companies, the FCC is basically letting other people be victimized by these scams.
> This is the third time I've seen someone pushing this line of thinking on HN in as many days and I'd like to know more about where it's coming from. Can you cite any source that supports it and justifies it?

It's Civics 101. You should have learned it in 8th grade. Congress makes the laws. The President executes the laws. It's also right there in Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution: https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/article-2/ ("The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.").

If an independent agency is exercising "The executive Power," then it does so derivatively of the President. Article II doesn't say that "the executive branch" shall execute the law. It says: "he"--the President--"shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed."

Note also the parallel structure with Article I ("All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States") and Article III ("The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish").

The President is the executive branch, in the same way Congress is the legislative branch, and the Supreme Court and the lower courts are the judicial branch. All of these branches have various offices and subdivisions, but they are within the control of one of those three constitutional actors.

Congress cannot create an entity that exercises executive powers but does not answer to the President any more than the President can create an entity that exercises legislative powers but does not answer to Congress.

> FWIW, the conventional wisdom is that the independent agencies really are independent, and the president's control over them is exactly what is stipulated in the legislation that created them.

That has not been the "conventional wisdom" for anyone who went to law school in several decades. The notion of an "independent agency" exercising executive power independently of the President was an absurd idea cooked up by a racist in the early 20th century who hated democracy and had fantasies of "scientific government" (https://fedsoc.org/commentary/fedsoc-blog/woodrow-wilson-s-c...). It peaked in the mid 20th century, but the project of whittling it back to constitutionality has been ongoing my entire lifetime.

> If the statute of the Dept of XYZ and says the president can fire its governing board but only on weekends, then he has to wait til Saturday, period end of story.

The Supreme Court held in 1926 that the President's removal power over executive-branch officials is essentially unconstrained (Myers v. United States). The Court then reversed itself in 1935 (Humphrey's Executor v. United States) but that case has since been limited pretty much to its facts (Seila Law LLC v. CFPB).
never heard of that term before, thanks!
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/...

> Donald Trump often portrays himself as a savior of the working class who will "protect your job." But a USA TODAY NETWORK analysis found he has been involved in more than 3,500 lawsuits over the past three decades — and a large number of those involve ordinary Americans, like the Friels, who say Trump or his companies have refused to pay them.

> In addition to the lawsuits, the review found more than 200 mechanic’s liens — filed by contractors and employees against Trump, his companies or his properties claiming they were owed money for their work — since the 1980s. The liens range from a $75,000 claim by a Plainview, N.Y., air conditioning and heating company to a $1 million claim from the president of a New York City real estate banking firm. On just one project, Trump’s Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, records released by the New Jersey Casino Control Commission in 1990 show that at least 253 subcontractors weren’t paid in full or on time, including workers who installed walls, chandeliers and plumbing.

> In courtroom testimony, the manager of the general contractor for the Doral renovation admitted that a decision was made not to pay The Paint Spot because Trump “already paid enough.” As the construction manager spoke, “Trump’s trial attorneys visibly winced, began breathing heavily, and attempted to make eye contact” with the witness, the judge noted in his ruling.
You just want to work on things that crack easily.
I don’t know anyone in the US that supports genocide.

The Trump voters I’ve heard seem to not understand what is currently happening with the administration. Similarly, the pro-Israel folks seem to not realize how bad the ethnic cleansing campaign is.

Anyway, the US is significantly less safe than it was last month.
I haven't read much from Bjarne but this is refreshingly self-aware and paints a hopeful path to standardize around "the good parts" of C++.

As a C++ newbie I just don't understand the recommended path I'm supposed to follow, though. It seems to be a mix of "a book of guidelines" and "a package that shows you how you should be using those guidelines via implementation of their principles".

After some digging it looks like the guidebook is the "C++ Core Guidelines":

https://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines

And I'm supposed to read that and then:

> use parts of the standard library and add a tiny library to make use of the guidelines convenient and efficient (the Guidelines Support Library, GSL).

Which seems to be this (at least Microsoft's implementation):

https://github.com/microsoft/GSL

And I'm left wondering, is this just how C++ is? Can't the language provide tooling for me to better adhere to its guidelines, bake in "blessed" features and deprecate what Bjarne calls, "the use of low-level, inefficient, and error-prone features"? I feel like these are tooling-level issues that compilers and linters and updated language versions could do more to solve.
Time taken too, since this is a game it adds a bit of challenge to it beyond "you can/can't see all the colors".
I'm currently working on running an agent through SWE-Bench (RA.Aid).

What do you mean by connecting the test generation capability to it?

Do you mean generating new eval test cases? I think it could potentially have a use there.
This is disastrously easy to implement with just a few filters on git (clean & smudge).

I highly recommend it though, especially if you worked for a long time at one company and are used to a specific way of writing code. Or if you like tabs instead of spaces...