skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think everyone should be concerned how the government is spending our money and every government administration should have its spending audited and any graft, fraud and waste eliminated with a waste-0 initiative. This should be transparent to the voters. We should know how they are spending our money and where. The purpose of the government agencies isn't to be a jobs program.
The problem with 45 years of C++ is that different eras used different features. If you have 3 million lines of C++ code written in the 1990's that still compiles and works today, should you use new 202x C++ features?

I still feel the sting of being bit by C++ features from the 1990s that turned out to be footguns.

Honestly, I kinda like the idea of "wrapper" languages. Typescript/Kotlin/Carbon.
URL blocked by CloudFront. ((sad trombone))
> Not unless there are any tech billionaires lurking on HN, and they don't give a shit about us.

If I understand correctly, they are mostly busy taking over the country at the moment. No time for HN..
> SenseTask helps businesses by seamlessly unifying Document Management, Processing, and Workflow Automation into one AI-powered platform. It captures key document data, automates workflows, and accelerates business processes with precision.

Can you give some real-world examples of problems I could be solving with this?
Show HN: Market.dev – Discover people and projects in open source ecosystems
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Insiders have little say. NSF is probably the most merit based system in all the US government. Literally any other program (defense?) is less merit based.

Also, if nepotism and favoritism are the criteria for removal, let's start with the Executive branch.
Thats a tough one honestly, if you're an incubator, you almost want to always be at the ground level for those that will take off,YC has a history of that. Looking back I'm not sure anyone was a "visionary" to see the potential but maybe it was a case of threw enough ** at the wall and some stuck.

Either way I don't think it's a bad thing, small startups should have the ability to flourish and fail. I am just surprised it's all AI at the moment when we still have problems left unsolved.
Probably not, but there would definitely be some sort of resistance, strikes, refusal to comply, etc.

In France public service employees have a very high level of protection (they're very hard to fire), and are legally allowed to disobey "obviously illegal" orders, I suppose this case would qualify?

All of this was implemented immediately after WW2 as a way to prevent a potential authoritarian ruler from using public administrations for nefarious things. So it seems quite fitting.
The consequence of those people not being paid is that they'd sue the government as a class, win, and then be paid.
Yes it is. That regulation is just not currently being enforced. Which is an important difference because at some point down the line retroactive enforcement might occur.
This!!

Risk-rewards calculus is simply worlds' apart for exploratory/long term R&D versus tech deployment, which is sadly what elon/faang/openAI/nVIDIA are only about.

(I imagine Musk
thinks he's bringing back a closed, for profit Bell System, though!)

I dunno, maybe Arc Institute/research hospitals poised to collect all the bionerds falling out of universities, these are the oligopolies that have any chance of morphing into semi-open Bell Labs-like setups.

Are there nothing of comparable scale in Europe?!? (Not many, I imagine, due to mostly what you already pointed out)
I always fight to get this stuff into JIRA (or whatever equivalent tool we’re using), and then make sure that all commits have the JIRA ID in them.
> unlimited access to classified government computer systems.

What makes you think they have access to classified government computer systems, let alone unlimited access?

It's my understanding that classified data is on a completely separate network called SIPRNET[1] and that basic accounting data (e.g. USAID grant data) (a) isn't classified and (b) access to USAID data doesn't imply access to SIPRNET

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIPRNet
Trump admin seeks to reclassify federal CIOs, opening up to political appointees
> If anything’s really losing credibility right now, it’s the myth of a pure American meritocracy.

It only became a myth when we were forced to consider factors beyond merit in hiring.
It's gotten better over the past couple of years. Even Disney+ has a lot of issues like some kid shows will play like 10 minutes of end credits after an episode instead of going to the next one. Not sure if that is finally fixed. In general, Netflix is still light-years ahead of the competition.
A large part of the GOP playbook around their goal of smaller government is to make the government work worse then use that to argue government can't do the job and it shouldn't do it or it needs to be privatized. "We can't give immigrants their due process before deporting them that takes forever! (We also refuse to expand the number of judges serving those cases)" "Public schools are horrible and don't work! (We've been choking their budget for decades)" etc etc.
Is that not this? https://ai.google.dev/api/compatibility
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the problem with tauri and wails that they are still dependent on the client's native OS webview? I know Tauri uses WRY which essentially takes in your request, finds the webview present in the client and calls a corresponding function. The differences between these webviews are vast and you end up with different UIs or cobbled together adjustments for each OS to split the differences. Fully embedding a browser is extremely storage inefficient but it does guarantee apps look identical regardless of platform.
https://www.superagent.sh/blog/reag-reasoning-augmented-gene...
Oh! You even have marquee element. Nice to see that again.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42953750
"Nepotism is the act of granting an advantage, privilege, or position to relatives in an occupation or field."
> Copyright only protects the actual text. LLMs have weights, not exact copies.

Following this logic a lossily compressed image is completely unprotected by copyright.

> In any case, saying "if I put in some input and get copyrighted output" is tantamount to copyright violations; if I use a generative tool and generate copyrighted info is it the tools fault?

Do you not think this is obviously fact-specific? If I gzip a bunch of (copyrighted) files, then obviously that doesn't somehow make distributing them not infringement. If I now replace the tool = ungzip + input = files combination with tool = (ungzip and files) and input = (selection mechanism over files) do you think that in the second case distributing the tool is not infringement? I don't mean to say that any of these is precisely the same as the LLM case, but I think your argument is clearly overbroad.

> OpenAI at most broke an EULA or some technicality on copyright w.r.t. local ephemeral copies. What's the damage to the NYT though?

One obvious damage claim (if you are skeptical of market harm wrt newspaper/oneline sub sales) is that they were entitled to the FMV of licensing costs of the articles, which is not so hard to value: OpenAI has entered such agreements with AP and others. [0]

[0]: https://apnews.com/article/openai-chatgpt-associated-press-a...
Wrong. I can sample a sound off a record, convert it to any format, manipulate it until it's unrecognizable and I'll still have to pay royalties to the original copyright holder.

Even a translation of original text into another language is copyright infringement.

The real question is if LLMs are fair use, and on the basis of the standard tests for fair use, it seems quite doubtful.
Discord suffers from the same problems; censorship platforms in general have the same cancer everywhere.
>Any large system is going to have a lot of inefficiencies

Hence one needs the free market. The govt. typically lack the checks and balance that the free market automatically provides hence it _always_ results in bloat.
Line 115: this.entries = (T[]) Array.newInstance(type, capacity)

You can't just say new T[capacity] in java.
No way in hell I'm running this one :)
This reminds me of two quotes:

"The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth." -Garry Kasparov.

And

"This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore."
This latter quote is, rather ironically, a false quote! (falsely attributed to Hannah Arendt). But I still think it contains truth.
I think this is one of the few functional applications of LLMs that is really undeniably useful.

OCR has always been “untrustworthy” (as in you cannot expect it to be 100% correct and know you must account for that) and we have long used ML algorithms for the process.
Maybe the issue is on their side. Their best outcome is you paying for 4k hdr and streaming 720p. Bandwidth is expensive and slow to provision.
San Francisco's hottest new DJ is a literal war machine
Aren't Twitter workers still trying to get their severances and they took the offer when Twitter actually had the money to pay.
I just feel like there are a few recent things to actually be outraged about
I have Firefox and Brave set to always clear cookies and everything when I close the browser... it is a nightmare when I come back the amount of captchas everywhere....

It is either that or keep sending data back to the Meta and Co. overlords despite me not being a Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp user...
So hens don't usually have to be force-fed. Some of that color can come from having a diverse source of proteins--like the bugs and insects that pasture-raised hens get access to--but farmers "in the know" will also add paprika and marigold to the usual soy-and-grain supplemental feed, to try to encourage it to come out a bit more.
Not that I know of. Sorry. I forgot my uni gives my IP free access.
Broadcom uses Google Workspace; 20k+ employees
From the page:

> according to trading on a contract for difference (CFD) that tracks the benchmark market for this commodity

You aren't buying eggs on a commodities exchange, you're buying them at the grocery store. There's a lot of overhead between the eggs being sold wholesale as a commodity and the eggs making it to your front door in neat little cartons.
I believe this is already the case, at least the Python libraries are compatible, if not recommended for more than just trying things out:

https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/openai
The minimum window width is a funny thing, Chrome has been steadily raising the minimum every time they make changes to the UI. It used to have a minimum around 320px and now on some configurations it's nearly 800px. There's an old open bug about it where people periodically comment to complain that it was raised again.
Im referring to the server-side v8 integration.

> What you're saying makes a lot of sense. SQLite is sync and if you're program is alone accessing SQLite doing a single task, going sync is the way. If you're doing a lot of parallel work, both your JS event loop interleaving many tasks and several event loops accessing SQLite in parallel you have to make trade-offs. Specifically, `conn.query` may block for a long time w/o doing any work. Depending on your use-case it may or may not be ok to block the event-loop that entire period.

In WAL mode SQLite is very good at supporting parallel reads from multiple threads. It should only block for a long time when writing (since writes require an exclusive lock.)

It sounds like your v8 worker threads are mixing read and write work so you are running the query in another sqlite thread pool to prevent writes from blocking reads.

> TrailBase's setup is optimized to maximize throughput under highly concurrent loads, rather than minimizing latency in single-threaded workloads. That's not to say, TrailBase isn't quick. It's pretty low-latency even under load. However, if that's all you're after you're probably better off with better-sqlite3 or dropping down to C :).

Given the additional costs of cross-thread communication I would be surprised if this approach maximizes throughput under highly concurrent loads compared to segregating write requests into a dedicated thread and running read queries synchronously from within their threadpool with a single task per thread.
>Your post added nothing to the conversation except insults though.

You are describing your experience, but stating it as if it is a universal fact.

A relevant post from this morning:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42946854
Of course it's just for showing off, just like carpenters and plumbers buy expensive professional tools to show off. The worst I saw was an office worker who had a comfortable chair, when everybody knows you can work just as well sitting on a cheap stool. Show offs...
FWIW, I’ve hd excellent customer service / support experiences with Vanguard - and the opposite with Fidelity.
> deterministically

How are you planning to do this?
> Because 100% of what you read online is in fact not propaganda.

This isn't even close to true. Facts are facts, and stories are propaganda. What we call "news" is largely just "stories" (opinion/editorials) about facts -- the story is the propaganda - the story weaves the facts together in a narrative, the narrative tells us how to feel and think. Stories cost $$$, and those promoting them are absolutely promoting some stories over others. They have a message to send -- that message is propaganda.

You mention a comment from a "random redditor" is low value -- I'm suggesting that nearly every "major" narrative spun on Reddit has been largely placed there by forces with deep pockets and axes to grind, and the true believers and other useful idiots that follow blindly. It's all astroturfing, and Reddit is an absolute garbage dump of discussion. Anyone that goes there thinking they're getting an accurate picture of the world around them is seriously deluded. I'm convinced those that run Reddit do this by design. We know who runs Twitter, and Facebook. No one talks about who is running Reddit.

A "comment on physics by a renowned physicist" is still just a comment -- there are facts in physics, and theories. Even renowned physicists can be wrong when it comes to the theories they back. And honestly [coming back to the point of the article] that's not what's causing people to feel outrage -- they're not doom scrolling physics forums outraged about dark matter or a theory of everything -- they're doom scrolling an endless stream of political/cultural propaganda designed to outrage them and keep them addicted.

The world isn't nearly as black and white as the internet would have you believe it is.

Point me to a source of political/cultural news that you believe is full of fact and not just another site full of opinions pieces and editorializing around the facts.
If you subscribe to Gemini the menu looks like this, with the addition of 2.0 Pro.

https://imgur.com/a/xZ7hzag
Of course you can affect your country’s government. You can take five minutes every few years to decide who to vote for (spending more on that seems like a waste of time considering the payoff).

More than that though. You can protest and organize however much you like. There’s no cap on that.

And that is how insidious “news” is. The news broadcasts the hegemonic mindset. The same mindset that says that citizens’ only role is to vote every few years. Other than that they are supposed to stay home. Certainly not make a ruckus or anything.

And that’s what many conclude. That they are only supposed to be political in a direct, consequential sense by voting. Then it is clearly absurd, from a cost-benefit analysis standpoint, to stay ever-constantly informed on politics all the time.
Profiles will not provide perfect memory safety, but they go a long way to making things better. I have 10 million lines of C++. A breaking change (doesn't matter if you call it new C++ or Rust) would cost over a billion dollars - that is not happening. Which is to say I cannot use your perfect solution, I have to deal with what I have today and if profiles can make my code better without costing a full rewrite then I want them.
It’s quite similar to the student loan forgiveness in terms of it being about financial obligations to middle class citizens and it being attempted without Congress, as well as the likelihood for overpromising and underdelivering. The ordinary citizens making a choice in a way that would have an effect like promissory estoppel adds an interesting wrinkle but I don’t see how it changes the constitutionality of it. I think that many of those calling it unconstitutional are being hypocritical, even though they may be right.
Yes. USDS is part of the Executive Office of the President; DOGE is officially a “temporary organization” under it. So the hierarchy officially goes Trump -> EOP -> USDS -> DOGE, with Musk the head of DOGE.

It used to go Obama/Trump/Biden -> EOP -> OMB -> USDS, but Trump II’s executive order renaming it also moved it out of OMB and put it directly under EOP
IIRC that's all under the NGFW umbrella, you can use things like zenarmor for that, it's essentially the 'paid feed' I was referring to, but as a plugin to existing FOSS firewalls.

Other useful feeds might be known malicious IPs and ASNs, dropping any packets matching those is very cheap and very effective. But they have to be reliable and not have false positives.

You could get a white box firewall put something like OpnSense business edition on it, and add Zenarmor. Works forever until FreeBSD no longer supports the hardware or until the hardware dies. And you get all the support and vetting/testing from those software options as well.

But realistically, if you're doing NGFW things you're probably in a compliance regime that doesn't allow for much choice of hardware and software and you're screwed anyway (compliance might require you to buy something like a Cisco or Palo Alto device + subscription, but then it turns out they run PHP as root under the hood and gets pwned monthly by a teenager on the other side of the world).
So are you mostly processing PDFs with data? Or PDFs with just text, or images, graphs?
You can just make a torrent of the video. It will then survive as long as you/others are willing to seed it.
That's not why I called them an incel. I called them an incel for spouting a hateful opinion as fact that makes women out to be inferior, you know, the thing incels are known for doing.
I've long thought its killer feature would be embeddable cross-platform UI and native-wrapped web apps like Electron and Capacitor. For these cases it doesn't need to render the entire public web, but the subset used by the application developers. It's a much more tractable problem.

Chrome had a project a long time ago called Razor whose goal was to make a 120fps streamlined subset of the web platform for those types of use cases. They tried to throw away warts of the web that slowed down parsing and rendering like quirks modes, floats, negative margins, infinite entity expansion, element adoption, and probably most built-in elements, leaving a few core built-ins and custom elements.

Razor apps could have run on the web, and in a Razor runtime. Unfortunately, IMO, they kept removing things until they removed the document, and swapped in Dart for JS and the project became Flutter which is not very web-like at all.

I thought Razor was a neat idea, and Servo could really fill that space well.
Introducing mWhisper-Flamingo for multilingual audio-visual speech recognition
Don't worry, everybody else is following suit and not selling parts for new cars either. My friend just bought a new GM vehicle, and it sat in the bodyshop for 9 months after someone hit the bumper at 5mph.

There's also the recent story about a guy running a limo business who couldn't get a bumper for his Cadillac, and had to keep making commercial insurance payments, and of course the car payment, while the car sat and could not be used.
https://www.carscoops.com/2025/01/gm-keeps-86k-cadillac-lyri...
Read the rest of their replies in the thread - they're fully living in a full on fantasy land concerning what's actually happening.
Show HN: File uploader made with Flask/Python
It may have been in the form of a joke, but I certainly wasn't joking.

I think it is interesting what actions cannot be done by humans.
A lot of people are failing to conceive the danger that poses to the open web the fact that a lot of traffic runs through/to a few bunch of providers (namely, CloudFlare, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and "smaller" ones like Fastly or Akamai) who can take this kind of measures without (many) website owners knowing or giving a crap about.

Google itself tried to push crap like Web Environment Integrity (WEI) so websites could verify "authentic" browsers. We got them to stop it (for now) but there was already code in the Chromium sources. What makes CloudFlare MITMing and blocking/punishing genuine users from visiting websites?

Why are we trusting CloudFlare to be a "good citizen" and not block unfairly/annoy certain people for whatever reason? Or even worse, serve modified content instead of what the actual origin is serving? I mean in the cases where CloudFlare re-encrypts the data, instead of only being a DNS provider. How can we trust that not third party has infiltrated their systems and compromised them? Except "just trust me bro", of course
I didn't say Americans cared about Made in USA - any more than they care that WalMart destroyed small down America.

And by the time they wonder where the jobs all went and start griping about it, it's too late.

But it was a deliberate decision to offshore manufacturing that started the process (you can't sell cheaper goods until you start making cheaper goods abroad). Americans didn't switch from Kraft or Whirlpool or whatever to some Chinese brand. US companies offshored production.
I had this same observation. My guess is because Tauri uses WebGtk and Linux doesn’t really have a “native webview” so it’s kinda shipping the whole thing? The startup time seems like Tauri’s a non-starter for a lot of apps if you want them to be cross platform, had no idea this was a thing.
InGate Is an Ingress and Gateway API Controller for Kubernetes
Luther also showed up just as the HRE's centralization was beginning to show major major cracks. Luther wasn't the first "heretic" to challenge the catholic church, but he was the first one with major political support (a duke or a prince, I can't recall which).
Are you implying that these eggs would incubate chicks? Or are you using the incubation time as a sort of natural timer? Like they would last that long if they were unwashed, but washed eggs wouldn't last even the incubation period.
It's valuable to note that this paper is from 2006, and states:

"Reweighting was based on data collected from incum-
bent ATCSs who took AT-SAT on a research basis; some
of these employees achieved overall scores less than 70
(that was one of the reasons for the reweighting effort – a
belief that incumbent employees should be able to pass
the entry-level selection test)"