skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Love it - I wonder if you could create a animation book this way cheaply, see a moving image as you flip through it
Why do younger coders struggle to break through the FOSS graybeard barrier?
Fourth Amendment got tossed out by SCOTUS in Egbert v Boule in 2022 for the nearly 66% of Americans that live within 100 miles of a border.
Blogspam paraphrase of source

https://archive.nytimes.com/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/20...
I had a Coco with 2 floppies, I could compile C without any swapping. OS-9 was a real multitasking operating system, I could log into it with the keyboard and mouse and two serial ports at the same time (one with a UART, another with the terrible bit banger) The latter wasn't too bad with the portable DEC printing terminal I got that that was surplus at a credit agency.

UCSD Pascal was one of very few compiled languages you could get for the Apple ][ and other 6502 machines because the virtual machine was an answer to problem of code generation for that terrible instruction set with insufficient registers and addressing modes.
what? 6 million people? The nazi genocides were more like 10 million people but yes Israeli deadbeats like to focus on the Shoah deaths to garner sympathy for their own genocides and mass disabling operations.
If only we had 18F to apply their expertise.
Interesting that it specifically mentions “non-bargaining” fires only.
lol good point.
dupe from the 12th: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43027188
The clause you're referring to is the one granting Congress the power to collect taxes, and then limiting how that tax money can be spent. You can tell that it's a limitation rather than a grant because "provide for the common defense" would otherwise make the subsequent clauses redundant:

> To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;

> To provide and maintain a Navy;

Which wouldn't make much sense given that they're in the same article and were passed at the same time.

But let's suppose we're talking about a law where Congress is allocating tax money to something within their enumerated powers. Then that money goes to the executive. It would be pretty hard to argue that the executive could then spend the money on something else, but what if they don't spend it at all? Congress gave them money with the condition that they do a particular thing with it, and they don't want the money? It's not obviously true that they're required to take it, and would be consistent with the notion of checks and balances that they could turn it down.
ICE should be disbanded.
America has objectively lost every war since WW2. (Ok maybe not the invasion of Granada)
No it was Leon Skum
Well, I think we saw that and yeah, most people weren't crying about it. And yes, the "Just doing my job" (or, just following orders) defense is very powerful. That's why it shouldn't be surprising that this kind of thing happens given the incentives and systems involved.
But hasn't it been "clearly established" by now that sharing someone else's photos from their phone is not legal??
"Pimsleur mode" does not seem to work, I do not hear the translation in English (tried French and Estonian).
Wow, I haven't seen Yggdrasil mentioned in a long time. In the early 90s, one of the guys at work tried to install it on a 386 PC. They never quite succeeded. Just a couple of years later I was running SuSE at home, after having started with Red Hat. The improvement in the distributions in that short amount of time was impressive.
It's just the bare facts from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This WP article has a graph -- basically, at its height (the New Deal/WWII) the federal workforce was about 7% of the workforce and have been going downward since then to about 2% today.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/12/federal-w...
That’s leftist? It’s a very basic statement of fact, on the level of “Earth is round” and “vaccines prevent diseases.”

But I suppose quite a few people consider those leftist positions nowadays too…
Inko: A language for building concurrent software with confidence
If this was NYSE Montana, nobody would care. Texas is important news because all the big companies are currently moving to Texas to avoid regulations.
The State of Oregon's web site notes:

> Oregon DAs are elected in every county and are required to stand for election every four years, thereby maintaining accountability to the public they serve.

While the moral satisfaction of this DA being smacked down by a judge might be greater, far less misconduct would occur if the voters could be bothered to throw the perp's out.

But somehow, the even the concept of the voters being capable of that...just seems to have vanished from the American mindset. And when the voters can't be bothered - well, you may have a Democracy, at least on paper. But it won't stay one.
Company provided health care makes it harder for people to leave and start their own business that might compete with them
Building a Safer Matrix
Shaw’s claims were never corroborated by primary intelligence agencies, and Primakov’s involvement remains speculative. And perhaps more tellingly, the U.S. intelligence apparatus couldn't verify these claimes despite having every incentive to do so. If such an elaborate Russian operation occurred, why did it leave behind no satellite imagery, no intercepted communications, no credible human intelligence? Nothing.

The "moved to Syria" argument is essentially the Loch Ness Monster of the WMD debate, which is to say it's constantly discussed but never conclusively proven. And given the catastrophic consequences of the war, clinging to this narrative feels less like a genuine search for truth and more like a desperate attempt to avoid accountability.
Here is a case for 'not google':

https://i.imgur.com/PQNm1Yc.png

I want a search engine to return useful results. Right now, google has been captured by revenue generating results. It wouldn't be so bad if useful results were making money, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
I just don't think it's true that working for a company with negative impacts on society means that ethics are out the door and you might as well become Scrooge.
How else would you name a lake?
Why do avaiable sources claim otherwise?

Statista has a report indicating 53% of victims are men and 47% of victims are women.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1481218/us-online-dating...

Additionally, the FTC says women report significantly higher financial losses than men.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/data-visualizations/data-spo...
Is there any plans for Zed to add basic functionality like task runner? A button to run / debug code? Only having autocomplete for Java code gives the impression that Zed is only a text editor and not an IDE.
ALL links.

But you can turn this off for links if you are using paid account. This setting is unavailable for free accounts.
The underlying problem here is best fixed by engineers learning just enough about business to start their own companies, without the people that think of them as overhead.
https://marylandmatters.org/2024/01/19/report-finds-some-dru...
The current administration sure is a great defender of the first amendment
Nothing like that at all. For example I have a few codebases kind of large (for certain quantity of large) where I know the code since either I wrote it or participated heavily in. Talking snippets at a time loses a ton of context which would yield better offered solutions if you had, well.. the whole context.
If you have AI process it .. is it private?
Discussion (355 points, 9 hour ago, 256 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43045835
Bloomberg is just as bad. They have too many finance people and not enough tech people explaining things. Too much money is involved for this.

The finance people are still trying to day trade a massive wave (surf it). Can’t listen to these people.
Exactly, that's a perfect example.
Hey apologies it went poorly, If I understand correctly, you went to the "LangTurbo French" podcast, to the "bonnes" episode and you want the translation of that French audio to be in Japanese instead of English? Sorry if I misunderstood you.
And what if they do care, but they simultaneously need features available in multiple different forks? You can't run two kernels at the same time.
I really hate reading Yarvin, who I feel is an extremist niche weirdo, but fellow geeks keep referring me to him. Got a tldr? What's wrong with seeing cathedrals everywhere?
A side-effect of this article is a nice introduction to the concept of continuations.

Once you learn how to program in an algebraic way (without effectful code strewn around all over the place) it really becomes a superpower.
Actually, it is probably much easier to replace the business people with AI then it is to replace the programmers.
One of the judges wanted to let it happen again:

> In a separate concurring 9th Circuit opinion, Circuit Judge Daniel A. Bress agreed that the court should uphold the trial court’s granting of immunity and dismissal of the claims. But he wrote that the panel should have simply affirmed the lower court ruling and not gone on to find a constitutional violation.

> It’s unclear, Bress wrote, whether Idaho authorities are more at fault, for example. “In my respectful view, prudence here dictated that we decide only what we needed to decide,” he wrote.
I should clarify, 2a) and 2b) are exclusive. You don't do both, but rather only one or the other, depending on whether you'd prefer to use Node or Docker.
another contributing factor is that in psychology (and possibly other fields), it's very hard to make a career doing rigorous, incremental science that results in confident outcomes because each step along the way, people just way "yeah, sounds about right".

to make a career, you need to discovering quirky counterintuitive findings that can be turned into ted talks and 'one weird trick' clickbait. you become a big deal once you start providing fodder for the annoying "well, actually..." guy to drop on people at a dinner party/reddit comment section.
Out from the Darkness
Not everything is drug discovery. Even stuff like "this digital system would save you going into a hospital in person" is done very well in the US, as it can afford it. Kaiser Permanente IT is particularly amazing, from what I hear.
I think we want Star Trek. Something highly "intelligent", trustworthy, and fast.

But we're getting LLMs trained on cat memes and our own foolishness, and that leads to me agreeing with:

>I don't think that we humans deal too well with the realities of our existence

Yup, it's particularly upsetting.
Detecting AI agent use and abuse
Louisiana to end mass vaccine promotion, state's top health official says
That would imply the decision making is happening outside of the locale. Why wouldn’t a firm just have their algorithms run loose on a machine as close to the source as possible?
Musk has a pretty large financial investment in battery tech and electric vehicles and other "replace CO2" businesses, so I would be careful taking his words at face value to reflect his actual beliefs
Like OpenAI or IBM....or the best one..Oracle for a Database ;)
That 2021 figure is after a legal settlement. If you don’t include that, the EBITDA was $1.47 billion.
Discussion (123 points, 13 hours ago, 200 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43044223
Funny seeing this here - I practice regularly in this Courthouse. We often darkly joke that Frontier Law is still practiced out there.
Unpopular opinion: Accountability is important.
> Black Hawk helicopters often fly these routes as a pair, doubling the number of eyes scanning the sky for a safe passage. But that night, there was only one. Its two pilots worked together to navigate ...

So how many WERE there?!? Two, as in the first and third sentences, or just one, as in the second sentence?

Who writes this drivel and does not even proofread it??
What makes you think government sponsored entities would actually stop work on machine learning?

Even if governments overtly agree to stop or pause or otherwise limit machine learning, how credible would such a "gentlemans agreement" be?

Consider the basic operations during training and inference, like matrix multiplication, derivatives, gradient descent. Which of these would be banned? All of them? None of them? Some of them? The combination of them?

How would you inspect compliance in the context of privacy?

The analogy with drugs is rather poor: people don't have general purpose laboratories in their house. People do have general purpose computational platforms in their home. Another is that nations do not prohibit each other from producing drugs, they even permit each other to research and investigate pathogens, chemical weapons in laboratories deemed sufficiently safe.

It's not even clear what you mean with "AI" does it mean all machine learning? or LLM's? Where do you draw this boundary?

What remains is the threat of punishment in your proposal, but how credible is it, wouldn't a small collective of programmers conspiring work on machine learning, predict getting paperclipped in case of arrest?
> Hasn't DeepSeek's novel training methodology changed all that? If the energy and financial cost for training a model really has drastically dropped, then frequent retraining including new data should become the norm.

Even if training gets way cheaper or even if it stays as expensive but more money gets thrown at it, you'll still run into the issue of having no/less data to train on?
What? LLMs aren't going to be AGI, or at least I'd be really surprised if anything that was basically an LLM got to AGI. LLMs may be components of AGI, but even a "reasoning" LLM isn't going to be AGI. Not even a multimodal model. Probably not even with a planning scaffold. And even if you can call the core of your first AGI an LLM, I really doubt it'll recognizably be a transformer.

What gets you to AGI is dumping, I don't know, maybe 100 billion dollars of investment into trying out the kinds of not-particularly-LLM-like architectural innovations that people are already playing with on top of deep learning generally, plus the hybrid architectures that will inevitably pop up.

We are probably 2 or 3 breakthroughs away from AGI. When you have that much attention on a topic, especially when it's aided by what we already have, you can reasonably expect to get them relatively soon. Then there are the scaling issues.
No, that it did speak in Japanese. Put another way, when you went there, what behavior did you experience?
1 copter with 2 pilots
Since the ACA, all health insurance coverage from companies with at least 50 people has been good enough. At this point, what I did ask about was the cost of insurance when I talk to the first internal person, usually HR. That is going to determine comp conversations.
This addition unlocks the ability to use Go with the component model. The component model layers on top of Wasm Modules - a module which imports and exports functions with the component model ABI can be turned into a component using e.g. `wasm-tools component new`, and that transformation can include adapting wasip1 interfaces to wasip2. Without support for declaring export functions besides `main`, Go could only target the wasip2 CLI command world, but this enables it to target any component model world.
Bait? They confiscated the whole fishing rod.
SuSE was my first Linux system and it helped a lot to spark my interest. Yast (software manager) and SaX (XFree86 configuration tool) were a Godsend for a noob like me in 199x.

It's still solid today, and I hold it in high regards, even if I moved to greener Linux pastures.
Dupe (7 points, 10 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43035628
Agree! Somehow they never bring that up...
Sorry about that, if you're on the web app, can you tell me what browser and OS are you using?
If you want to see removal of QI from your State's largest violent and corrupt gang, contact your state congress critters. CO banned QI.

https://www.kxlf.com/news/national/an-inside-look-at-colorad...
possible reasons I can think of 1) these are based on self reporting and it’s very possible men report at lower rates. 2) it’s possible that the scams happen outside of the areas where I have insights (social media)
One helicopter with two pilots, as compared to two helicopters. Perhaps try checking yourself before yelling at others.
Here you go;
https://moatmind.substack.com/p/intrinsic-value-calculation-...
As a European who spends most of his time speaking English and have witnessed an entire spectrum of profanity from both British and American folk, I find this stupefyingly ridiculous and bearing on the hypocritical.

It’s true that the British (and their antipodals, the Ozzie’s - hi Mike!) use very colorful language, but I’ve been in calls with US folk who beat them by a (country) mile, if you know what I mean.

Perhaps the biggest cultural difference is informality vs, well, outright insult and abuse, but I’ve found that US folk tend to abuse power dynamics and compound them with swearing whereas the Brits manage to make it seem like an endearment.

Still, this is a profoundly stupid thing for Elevenlabs to do, AI safety or otherwise.
It’s not exactly the same paradigm as remote editing, but neovim in tmux accessed over mosh is my preferred way of accomplishing the same task. I have also gotten a neovim gui to connect with a neovim instance over ssh, which worked pretty well until the ssh connection broke. But I prefer my editor in a terminal rather than terminals in my editor, so I switched back to my tmux based workflow.
Sadly, the existence of a good faith version of the facts isn't really necessary for qualified immunity. You basically just need the court to say "there isn't a prior case with these exact facts demonstrating that it is a constitutional violation" and you are good to go.

Even if everybody with a brain can look at the facts and say "well that's obviously a violation of rights" the court can happily say "nope there is some minor factual delta that means that we haven't explicitly ruled on this exact circumstance so how could a cop ever know that they were violating rights?"
Redefine the 20% so it's out of scope.
> I don't say negative things about ICE so I have nothing to worry about.

For the current definition of "negative".
Interesting. I'll check out the paper.

It's astoundingly less efficient right? How many compares ( and LLM calls ) to rank 10 items in order? And is it actually stable? You could get a ranking with logprobs in one llm call for 10 items, or do it n=3 times, with a shuffled order and average them out. I'm not sure how to scale to larger sizes of items though.

I guess it depends on how many items you are sorting, but when I think about sorting I think about putting 100+ items in order.
The problem is that “waste” is now “anything Trump and Musk don’t like”.

I’d be happy if they actually saved real money by cutting the military budget in half, but that’s not going to happen because the US is an industrial-military based economy.

How much did Trump’s 2017 tax cuts lower your tax bills? They didn’t lower mine. I benefited more from Biden’s tax policies (child tax credits) than Trump’s. Even taking it from the point of view of “fuck the gov, fuck climate change and our future, I want what’s mine, now” Trump did nothing for me in his 4 years on power and is doing nothing for me now - gutting a bunch of gov agencies doesn’t put money in my pocket.