skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but I certainly miss the days when they chose to ignore politics. Especially military stuff like Andreessen!
Afternoon of Day 7 of the Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025
Last substantial discussion, on Day 5: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42933219

Day 7, morning: https://www.crisesnotes.com/day-seven-of-the-trump-musk-trea...

This ongoing story is in a sense about hackers gaining access to an ancient mainframe that controls trillions of dollars of payments a year, and using that to wield political power. A rather "Hacker News" story if you ask me, even if it comes across as an "are we the baddies" moment.
Have you genuinely tried to compare the salaries vs cost of living in the US vs other countries?

You would genuinely be surprised. Financially the thing that leads most Americans to bankruptcy is medical debt.

Another factor primarily lead by private industry taking advantage of people.
"No matter what you believe, I’m willing to bet you’ve been feeling a lot of outrage lately."

Is it true that most people are feeling lots of outrage? Why?

The vibe I get from the left is outrage. The vibe I get from the right is relief and happiness. And the vibe of the likely-majority (i.e., the non-political) is probably just a desire to get on with life.

I can see there being lots of anxiety (e.g., over AI, automation, China-US relations, etc...). But anxiety is different from outrage.
The Musaicum North Atlantic Islands
How LLMs tackle addition is an interesting question in its own right, independently of whether their accuracy provides a metric for judging their ability relative to that of typical humans.
So kind of unrelated, but the reading/singing of arbitrary custom lyrics on suno.com's v4 model has blown me away.
Worth a read.

Ideas beyond "bash$ set -euxvo pipefail ;" .
I do like that this outlines some vetted tenets of fascism versus the hand-wavy name-cally ways it gets thrown around so much.
Discussion (49 points, 3 days ago, 21 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42929401
I think the current idea is for the violence to be done by prison guards in El Salvador. The kind of person that thinks SV "built the modern world", and that they're part of a new tier of human being for having gotten rich for stuff like having worked on a game for kids 11 years ago, and therefore are entitled to co-rule the world from now on, are just useful fools that help to enable that.
> A reporter from Ars Technica, after reading the article by @pkirn.bsky.social, was able to reach out to us and then directly contact a Google employee that could accelerate our appeal to be looked into.

Or the reporter was able to contact someone that could get the issue looked into at all, more like. You don't "accelerate" something that was never going to happen in the first place.

Also, this is a good time to remember that Google occasionally doubles down when they cause serious harm to individual users, even after being contacted by the media. Google invaded the privacy of numerous parents sharing sensitive medical pictures of their children with doctors, took away access to their entire digital lives including Gmail, called the cops, and effectively called them criminals after being contacted by the New York Times. Absolutely disgusting behavior that Google hasn't taken accountability for to this very day.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32538805
> Most of the atrocities were done by people who hated the "theoretically smart, high-achieving young people"

No, most of the atrocities were done to eliminate political threats by targeting everyone who had a semblance of power and did not fell in line. Academia was targeted not because of an anti-intellectual push but because they could counter the influence of the new totalitarian regime trying to establish itself. There's a good reason why the leaders of said authoritarian pushes were lauded as the brightest minds in the land, whose writings should be consumed with a religious fervor.
If you're into 6502 and more specifically the Commodore 64, you should give the winning demo from last weekends Fjälldata a look. Quite insane stuff they do nowadays... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtpPPgFSwxE
Maybe it's just me, but I consider data "data" and addresses "addresses" rather than instructions. I do understand your point, and I'm fine with saying there are 151 opcodes/instructions.
It is about bedtime for me but I am going to read the wikipedi article. I took a glance and am suddenly curious about the "Droste Effect" in medical art. It did not originate with the chocolate maker but was named after them. It is also referred to in the article. Thank you for suggesting to look it up.

I know nothing of the company but am sorry to see a little living history go.
China has its own internal nationalism pressure against foreign aid.
Bit of a misleading headline. They were already spending $83B last year and are just increasing to $100B.

Still an unimaginable amount of money to be throwing around I guess.
I think maybe you're missing the negatives Musk/Starlink did in Ukraine.

And they alleged terrorism. They did not show it, FISA and other courts aren't engaged, and they have Flynn, a foreign agent, making those claims and boosting them.
I have made peace with it. It's not coming. When I look around me - the number of people who want a small sized phone is exactly zero. The ship has sailed. I will still buy an SE if it's much cheaper than the base iPhone model and just one version old (on most hardware and doesn't have to be as powerful as the base iPhone) when my iPhone 14 dies. But seeing they are releasing it in 3 years now (or 4?) I am not sure that SE will be the one-gen-old when I might change my 14.

It's been close to 2 years and I still struggle with the size of my iPhone 14 - and to think that this fucking phablet is the smallest iPhone.

At this point I am just waiting for a much more affordable simple Android phone (with the OS being OEM-deGoogled and supported for at least 3 years with timely updates). I mean I will buy it even if it's slightly bigger than base iPhone because size was the reason I had bought my first iPhone which was the first SE :)
A whirlwind tutorial on creating teensy ELF executables for Linux (1999)
> Someone to look for dicks

Speaking of, that "Use your eyes" image this ends with also could be boobs instead of eyes.
Doge Is Working on a Custom Chatbot Called GSAi
I am a coder and don't work in AI. I don't have a firm grasp on how far away or near we are to something like this. From a non-political perspective, I find it very interesting if true.
People pass between small buildings and generally do things outside for practical reasons.

A giant tower in a park just encapsulates everyone and leaves the park empty.

Easily observable and any why the campus model took root.
Shutting down everything isn't an audit. Looking at some top level line items is not an audit. An audit takes time and you have a plan and reasons to back it up when it's done.

What is happening is things are being indiscriminately torn down.

Maybe it's for the best, but as there's no analysis, people are rightfully concerned about what is happening.
> Oh please.

Oh sure, anytime

> Good faith requires facts, which this current administration does not use.

I don't know, the OP (or GP?) post said they were wanted to continue discussing the issue in good faith. I'll take them at their word until I see them saying something else, what else should we do, downvote and flag everyone to hell? And it seems it's not about the administration having good or bad faith or good or bad facts but the OP presenting their case.

> Or perhaps you'd be surprised to learn they aren't eating pets in Springfield?

There are farms around there, for sure. Some chickens or cows may even have names and eventually get eaten, too. Who knows. I had never been, but was just South of it, in Yellow Springs. A nice little town and big a dairy farm with their own ice-cream and rides and everything.
Social media, rage bait, politics are more polarized than ever before. Now it's basically like rooting for your favorite sports team.
Honest question for Americans.

What do you think the federal government is doing to make you "poorer" that deserves dismantling the government.

US income tax is generally lower than other advanced economies. Housing and medical insurance is mainly a state issue.
Is it recommended to start with Scala 2 instead of 3 right now?
Best descriptions I heard of the zero page:

1. A bunch of numbered "local" variables

2. Data cache with numbered entries

3. 255 numbered registers

IIRC it was mentioned here on HN, but sadly I lost the reference.

EDIT: Formatting.
Search PPP Loans by Zip Code
Added the lat and long to PPP Loan Data. Fun visual to show PPP Loans in your zip
What is shaping the voice means?
> If my 13 mini dies I'll definitely be considering my non-Apple options.

I just can't imagine ever going back to Android though after switching to iOS a few years ago. If my 13 mini dies I think I'm going to cross my fingers and hope that another used one is still viable. Or maybe start carrying my phone on a shoulder strap instead of in my pocket. I don't know. The situation is unpleasant to contemplate.
he did [0] [1]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_Count_Reform_and_P...

[1] https://democrats-cha.house.gov/media/press-releases/ranking...
Yeah, and this is actually a huge pain for visitors. I was in Europe a couple months ago and couldn't buy stuff like train tickets online. Why? Because everything wants to verify with a text, and I couldn't do that because I had gotten a European SIM card because my US plan doesn't do international roaming.

There are several colliding problems there (cheap cell phone plan, 2fa being via text, online purchases requiring 2fa) but it still illustrates to me the pain of doing simple stuff in the modern tech space. I wish the powers that be would work harder on solutions that don't require extra work from the people doing small, normal stuff. It would be better to have a lot more fraud occur but a lot more of the perpetrators pursued and caught. A lot of anti-fraud measures seem to be largely about passing the buck to someone else instead of actually eliminating the humans who are driving the fraud.
Where does the consolidated power come from if it's not from the other two branches?

Power here is a zero sum game.
Missile vs. Laser: The Game of Terminal Maneuvers
Z80 is also much easier to compile HLLs for, and IMHO has more in common with the 8086.
Is there a third party 13 Mini battery that packs more (some kind of) compressed juice (at least 3.5K? slightly more than my current 14)? :D

I rant about iPhone size a lot but honestly given the choice of dealing with same day by evening/afternoon battery drain or a much bigger phone with better battery I'd choose the latter. My iPhone 12 Mini battery was a horror story and I didn't even use much. That's why I took iPhone 14 even though if I wanted I could find iPhone 13 Mini online.

But if they have two phones with same battery capacity and the smaller phone is costlier and also maybe a little less capable than the bigger phone I'd still buy it.
At a practical level, once a platform like YouTube becomes The Commons, then certain rights become necessary for us to live in a free society. No idea how you implement that legally though.

Perhaps something like utilities where a company operates at sort of a midpoint between private and public?
How do you fix wealth inequality? That's what I want to know. I feel like we're so far past the point of no return. I'm sure they're all eagerly rubbing their hands together waiting to be a Duke in Peter Thiel's new global Monarchy.
Yup I’ll just take your word for it
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Yet Trump claimed they (Haitian immigrants) were eating people's dogs and cats.

So your first part of the comment could have been an exercise towards food faith, and your latter part, perhaps mildly excusable as an ill attempt at humor in normal times, is for most who read it an attempt to muddy the very clear facts that Trump lies all the time.
You can always just use password unlock. Face ID is not a requirement to use the phone. It’s just a convenience.

As to why the in screen fingerprint reader is not an option, obviously there was some sort of conscious decision to not go that route. I can’t tell whether that decision was motivated by money or by desire for good UX. Probably both
All good points, but I would add a couple of things:

1. Scale also comes into play: We only have 8 hens, and are able to significantly supplement their feed with scraps from the kitchen, which are effectively free. The chooks are free ranging over a similar area (~half an acre), so the lower density means more free-range food for them, I guess. As a result, our feed costs per egg are actually much lower than if we had more chooks, and keeping a few old hens around is a negligible cost for us.

2. We regard our chooks somewhere halfway between pets and livestock - it's not a binary choice. We enjoy having them around so they have some intrinsic value for us, but at the same time if they were getting too expensive to keep, we'd be OK with occasionally cooking one up.
To paraphrase a line in the Bible: Are the bots here for the benefit of man, or is man here for the benefit of the bots?
To your point, it works best if the tower is a business related building (or a straight shopping mall), thus creating incentive to generate traffic and also properly maintin it.

Japan has plenty of those (e.g. Roppongi's Midtown, Tokyo Tower, Shinagawa's corp. park)
OK, welcome to the new situation where we have a reason to.
> It's too free, and we have too many opportunistic assholes in it for it to remain so.

There's some truth in this, but I think there is a lot of room for improving things as far as making life much more painful for opportunistic assholes in general.
Probably the main risk would be people trusting what they think to be an automated system and trusting it to act for a specific purpose. That or people saying things they think should be private. I’m not saying it’s actually safe to interact this way with bots, but the trust expectations are different enough.
Looks interesting. Just bought a tiny 3D printer and had to by my first spools of filament after running out of the sample spool that cam with the printer. I do not think I will go this way (I am not printing much) but it is nice to see this sort of thing.

Also from the link (I just thought it was a little funny and answered a question I had)

> "Do all plastic bottles work?

Yes, as long as the bottle is made of PET. But the bigger the bottle the more filament can be made per bottle! Plus don’t forget, any colour of bottle will work!
Fedora is centrally built/signed and not part of the reproducible builds project. It should not be used for any systems you need to be able to trust.

You are much better off sticking with Debian anyway, or looking at Guix for a significant improvement.
> GPT and LLM are very interesting but say little or nothing to me of new theory of mind, or display inductive logic and reasoning, or even meet the bar for a philosophers cave solution to problems.

The simple fact they can generate language so well makes me think... maybe language itself carries more weight than we originally thought. LLMs can get to this point without personal experience and embodiment, it should not have been possible, but here we are.

I think philosophers are lagging science now. The RL paradigm of agent-environment-reward based learning seems to me a better one than what we have in philiosophy now. And if you look at how LLMs model language as high dimensional embedding spaces .. this could solve many intractable philosophical problems, like the infinite homunculus regress problem. Relational representations straddle the midpoint between 1st and 3rd person, offering a possible path over the hard problem "gap".
I’m not a lawyer, but I think he was sentenced already to serve no time. Unless prosecuted for something else, I think he’s in no danger of prison even if Dems come into power soon.
I got GA4 pushing events to Facebook using Stape.io for client
Everything is 100 % aligned, no meta pixel in the browser, and everything is server side
What a terrible name the man ruined by choosing, a perfectly cromulent Heinleinian term.
Gloo Open – Open-Source, Values-Based AI Built on Trust
> The US is a country of immigrants, and has been so since it's inception.

As JD aptly put it, that’s wrong,[1] but, regardless, so what? America is first and foremost, a democratic republic. Sentimental 20th century notions designed to assimilate the last wave of mass immigration have no binding power on the electorate. Americans are entitled to decide that they’re done with immigration, and it’s the civil service’s job to put that into effect.

[1] The US is a nation created British settlers. Once that society was created, immigrants moved into it. There’s a fundamental difference between immigrants and settlers. https://youtu.be/ZpbYtZ5La8U?si=5gdZ-MGamBwZ4djb. Italian Americans speak English and live within a system of laws and civic customs inherited from a thousand years of English tradition and history. But English Americans don’t speak Iroquois or adhere to an Iroquois legal system or traditions.
Against a top-20 economy, sure. $50 billion doesn't look that big to somewhere like Korea with a GDP of around $2 trillion. But against the ones outside the top 30 it is a lot of money. Malaysia @ 34 [0] only has a GDP of less than $500 billion and they're a pretty big country economically speaking.

An annual budget of 50 billion and a defeat-in-detail strategy can get a lot done over the years. Picking a random country like Ukraine, their peak GDP never reached $200 billion. And there is a suspicion [1] that 80-90% of their journalists are being funded by foreign grants with involvement from USAID. It isn't entirely fair to compare the entire USAID budget to Ukraine's GDP, but the point stands that if USAID wanted to reshape Ukraine they have the resources to do it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...

[1] https://imi.org.ua/en/news/oksana-romaniuk-90-of-ukrainian-m...
I will miss the loss of the Touch ID. Mainly because of the way I carry my phone (for those that carry phone in jeans front pocket it’s trivial to unlock your phone in the same motion you pull it out of your pocket), but in my personal opinion Touch ID is also more secure. It’s easier to point a phone at someone’s face than it is to force them to place their thumb in a specific area.

Good security understands the tradeoff of usability. I have felt for a long while that Touch ID did quite well on riding that balance, and that Face ID moves more toward UX at the sacrifice of security
Red Hat opining about what is and isn't open is absolutely hilarious. Sorry, my dudes, you launched that ship in the wrong direction ages ago.
I would be much happier if this was being done with any form of thought behind the actions. Put together a report of the "wasteful" spending and target it. The whole department destruction at the whims of one man is the concerning part. Doubly so given he's appearing to target departments that has "wronged" him in the past.
I read this a few years ago to refresh my 6502 knowledge, it's well done
>Society almost never differentiates between goods and services produced directly by human hands, versus with the aid of tools.

This is objectively wrong. "Handmade" is an incredibly common marketing keyword slapped on all sorts of products to imply quality.
Yeah, the instant thermometers are very nice. Also though, i was recently asked about my favorite nonstandard kitchen appliance and my laser thermometer is my single favorite kitchen gadget, i use it every single time i cook anything. Granted, it reads the surface, but it'll tell you the exact temperature the skillet is at , at every location so you can tell when the cast iron is sufficiently heated to perfect a steak. I prefer my food at about 120°F which is right around the steam point.

Also interesting point related to the article, if i point my laser thermometer at the microwave while it's going it'll bug out and return random temperatures between the actual temperature of the window and about 500°F. I'm sure i could figure out why but i just haven't had the time yet
>However, today Java is at an inflection point. Customers are facing end of lifecycle and support uncertainty (such as the upcoming end of Java 8 community support and the challenging prospect of migrating countless applications to newer but substantially different versions of Java).

I'm unaware of cases where Java 8 sources will not compile on newer JVMs.
What does redhat ship that isnt open source under the licenses my dude ?
Android XR will allow camera access like on the phone
There are far more options than Tesla these days. The options aren't limited to "buy Tesla" and "deny climate change".
Or they'll just buy a different brand of EV.
You can still choose to buy your electric car from some other company. At this point I think that would be my preferred choice.
> I don't see a downside in requiring public-facing bots to do that

Your statement attempts to give an impression of a middle ground, but what it actually does is delegating the action to the human - who has limited energy and has to make hundreds of other decisions.

Your statement sounds like what a lobbyist might whisper to a regulator in an attempt to effectively neuter the bill.

People not versed in technology do not - and do not have to - know what an LLM is or what it can do.

These matters need be resolved at the source and we must not allow hopeful libertarian technologist DDoS the whole society.
if you think that there are too many parens in lisp then you should fix your editor.

the parens are just a textual representation of a tree. once you have a proper editor, then the eliminated parens actually become an obstacle.
The splintered Republicans made it obvious over the last two years that they did not actually have control of the lower house. What they did get done was often done with help from Democrats. Perhaps they will be more unified; perhaps not.
I largely agree with these points, however it is an awkward position coming from Red Hat which is the best funded Linux distribution there is, and -still- not part of the reproducible builds project or investing in full source bootstrapping which means no one can exactly reproduce their published artifacts from source or prove they were not tampered with. (Same with Fedora)

Glass houses.
I definitely get the Common Lisp kick. I dabbled with it before, but then got sidetracked by other languages and back then the REPL didn't click for me. After I understood the power of the live image concept though (and after switching to Emacs), I just want to do every personal project in CL only.
I think the opposite choice would be not purchasing a car at all? I've managed to live without one so far.
Most of these models are trained on audiobooks, which could explain the teleprompter feeling vs a natural conversational feeling.
How did DOGE determine that the funds went to terrorists? Do you know? I certainly don't. I want to know, so we can put the right guardrails in place for the future, and frankly, I don't trust musk at all. He lies whenever it's convenient.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant and we should be ensuring it's shining everywhere.
yea, but they will probably buy from another company. if i had to ditch my gas car, my first impulse is i would see if i could swing something from BYD, but i hear the tariffs are high
The most reliable way that has been found is to make everyone poor. Once disposable resources appear someone always becomes a more shrewd trader, even if means if production is otherwise equal. Then they trade those things for a greater share of the means of production...