skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> decisive yea/neas on what lockdowns and general authoritarianism actually achieve in medical outcomes.

Concretely, how do you do this when you don't know much about the pathogen?

> the medical establishment has suffered a severe blow to their credibility because the government used their work in vain

Eh, I think the propaganda machine did more damage than any actually poor decisions.
Yeah but if people aren't doing their jobs you coach them or get rid of them. Turning it into a situation where you blame the method and not the people abusing it just makes you look foolish.
Lessons from Building an AI Engineering Manager
The actual headline appears to be "US Park Service erases the word ‘transgender’ from website commemorating Stonewall riot"
I've often compared Anvil (it's web-IDE for web-apps in Python https://anvil.works) to Delphi. I'm curious how you'd rate it on those qualities (off the bat it ticks a lot of those boxes
Google photo app does really good OCR as well, actually.
One reason Delphi was productive was that it was a "real language" with a decent object model (more so than VB).

You had a simpler display environment of drag and drop "stuck" components vs dealing with layout managers, plus most of the screens were at best 1024x768. So, you just put buttons and controls where you like. You didn't have the complexities of the portable, cross platform web.

While Object Oriented, for many it was more a component toolkit ala VB. The underlying power was there, but mostly unnecessary. Drag, drop, and wire it up.

The DB model was simpler. Tables instead of raw SQL. VB and MS Access has similar models. The data bound controls connected to a cursor on the back end. There was no ORM to fight. It uplifted the dBase world view of the time on to a RDBMS server.

It was single layer (well, client/server). You had the app, and a SQL connection. No app servers, no transaction managers, no four different layers to get the data through. At best you were using stored procedures on the database. Folks didn't have a data layer. There was no data model. The forms and database table connection was the data model.

And it was just plain fast to use. Fast to build, fast to run, fast to debug. I don't remember waiting for hardly anything back then with Delphi.

Most interesting is that something like Java did not go the Delphi way. It was not "Delphi with a JVM". No doubt some Java product tried to adopt the data model of Delphi, with the data bound controls, and such. But none of that stuck, really. You could a cursor and record set from JDBC, but if you wanted to wire it to the Swing components, well, that's what the hammer and chisel in the corner are for.

Naturally, the web completely blew that model out of the water.
The real difference is that automated decisions in bank software systems are risk mitigation failsafes, and only make "negative decisions", the kind that refuse something that the bank is at a liberty to refuse. So they never need to be held accountable in this sense, they never choose the risky path.

Bank automation is like a human first making a "yes" decision, then calling a lawyer to ask if they should go ahead with it, and changing their mind if a lawyer advises not to go ahead.

orig | auto | result
no | n/a | no
yes | yes | yes
yes | no | no
To me, that's the most important goal of devops tools teams in practice:

"Internal team, what's your current greatest pain point?" -> Make that easier / faster / better
You can buy a plane ticket to Ukraine and see for yourself.
The year in the HN title looks wrong, in the PDF it says 2019, please fix it, otherwise people ignore the book thinking it's too outdated.

Oh wait. I stand corrected - I missed that it said "Copyright 2009", "First printing 2019", not sure why it took so long to get it printed.
Persistent HyTM via Fast Path Fine-Grained Locking
Depends what you need covered.

Not all medications are reasonably covered by all plans. Good luck if you’re unable to take the medication that your insurance pushes you to take. The appeals process isn’t necessarily easy, even with doctors involved.
> Or the 50 million USD for condoms. As Elon said, that's a lot of condoms.

Right. Which is why you'd think he might realize that it doesn't make sense and maybe look again and realize it's not $50 million being spent on condoms [1]. He and Trump are supposed to be savy businessmen. If I can look at this, do some quick math based on the cost of a condom, and conclude that can't be right, surely these experienced business leaders should have at least as good instincts, right? So either they are lying intentionally or are not half as competent as they claim.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/12/politics/some-of-the-things-t...
> No waste and fraud so far,

Really?
Damn. Erasing any mentions of trans people (while leaving "LGB" intact) from a Stonewall monument is so absurd it's almost comedic—the Stonewall riots were very famously centered around trans people and drag performers. Like, when the cops raided the place, they were literally forcing people to strip to perform sex checks! They were trying to arrest people because "cross-dressing" was illegal at the time!

I know the Log Cabin types are still a relative minority, but anyone who thinks these attacks will stop at trans people is deluding themselves. Never mind the fact that so many of these categories overlap, and that bigots rarely care to see the difference. Butch lesbian who wears mens' clothing? Cross-dressing, which to them automatically means you're trans. Straight to jail.
Thanks for sharing. I've been on a similar path and also on my third product. Every product has seemed to be closer to sticking and I think that's the case with the one I'm currently on.

It takes time to grow this way and I'm super excited for your next post at $10k MRR!
Ask HN: Any good examples of multimedia local history web sites?
I have an opportunity to work with students on creating a local history project using historical and new photos and both audio and video interviews.

I'm curious to learn what sorts of web sites have been created to showcase this type of material, focusing on a geographic area and revealing stories connected to different parts of it.

Thanks in advance.
If anything, having it public could dissuade others from trying to use it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43040060
I use two trumpets to play the flute [video]
At least with AMEX you have the historical case for Tape B listings, and with ARCA the strong local ETF business.

LTSE is trying to be principled, but I see this similarly to the TXSE/NYSE TX thing where they're trying to capitalize on a cultural issue that is fleeting and the general public really doesn't care about.

Poor BZX has never really recovered from botching their own IPO. Similar to how Nasdaq lost a bunch of business to NYSE following the Facebook IPO fiasco. As a corporate board I imagine you'd really need to justify why you would take the extra risk of working with an unproven exchange when it comes to your first day of trading.
Yeah the title should reflect the actual headline.
Is the current "some words" title selected based on the belief that commenters or bots may be specifically looking for particular words to target abusive speech towards?
Cursor is all the rage. Nobody talks about Aider, sadly.
Yeah I think every lab would love to do this and the field has been thinking about it forever. (Search lifelong learning or continual learning on Google Scholar). I don't think a technological solution is likely enough that we should pursue it instead of social solutions.
Interesting editorializing of the headline, impish9208.
Hahha you must be kidding. I am the author. And it was not written with AI. I write that blog, and never used AI to make the blog, or to post here. Weird world we are living in... Ghosts, people are seeing ghosts.

We should have a beer and then you'll see I'm real. Also, look at my history :)
You ade alleging that. What you do with an allegation, is you prove it, and then you make the cuts. You don't make the cuts in dark of night and then say, "trust me, receipts coming later." This isnt the shoot-fucking-first-ask-questions-never wild west, its a goddamn democracy.
Interestingly enough, e.g. Elsevier accepts latex but has their own typesetting backend. Which typically means that the last editing steps are quite annoying, because even if one is using the provided latex templates, what actually happens for the final typesetting is done by some mechanical turk editor on a slightly different publishing system.
This is tantamount to erasing the word 'slavery' from a monument to the victims of the slave trade.

In the past few years i've skipped pride festivals because I considered them passé, but this underscores why they're so important. Hate mongers continue to try to erase LGBTQ folk. We have to get in the street and continue the fight.
First they have to convince studios to target Linux instead of translating Windows APIs.
Not OP, but that's what I assume. I don't think most people realize the significance of Stonewall, so that alone wouldn't tip them off.

EDIT: aaaaand, 30 minutes later, it's flagged anyway.
>Make whatever rule you want and roll on like an adult

This rant appears to be about why he's not reversing the rules on being five days in office, which is going into force in march, not about making new ones. Presumably he's fed up with being asked for more WFH.

>Throwing a fit makes them look like they're at the mercy of their employee's whims

It kind-of seems this way from the transcription, but from the recording it's more clear that he's light-heartedly speaking in a somewhat bombastic way to a laughing town hall audience.
Probably, the results in the table are about 7 years old. For example, the table shows version 1.3.4 for zstd, which indicates that the results are outdated - currently, version 1.5.6 is the latest release
( https://github.com/facebook/zstd/releases/tag/v1.5.6 )

In my opinion, it is better to check the original repository: https://github.com/inikep/lzbench

or this:
https://github.com/inikep/lzbench/blob/master/doc/lzbench20_...
A vein pops out in my forehead every time I see a shell script echoed from the internet into a prompt.
Don't know it but it sounds interesting, let us know if you find it!
That's not why Assange spent a decade hiding in an embassy, which also wasn't house arrest. Before he got kicked out, he could have left any time he wanted — it was the police outside who weren't allowed in.

He spent a decade hiding in an embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden for unrelated crimes, ostensably for fear of what ended up happening in the UK where he was apparently happy to stay while insisting Sweden wasn't safe.
...pence loafers
I wasn't aware of this whole class thing. Is it an American thing?

Certainly a fun idea. Though not that trivial as the entire app now runs client side only. I'd have to think this through, as it should be possible.
Why annexing Canada would destroy the United States
> Firing of most so many people including security departments and most likely the (good) femboy furry hackers.

Why is this not a joke?

Edit: Rethorical question.
I was talking about this the other day - to some extent it feels like React (and Tailwind) has won, because LLMs understand it so deeply due to the amount of content out there. Even if they do train on other technologies that come after, there maybe won’t be the volume of data for it to gain such a deep understanding.

Also it doesn’t hurt that React has quite a stable/backwards compatible API, so outdated snippets probably still work… and in Tailwind’s case, I suspect the direct colocation of styles with the markup makes it a bit easier for AI to reason about.
This is great!

A few bits of feedback:

1. It's not at all clear that one should "Bookmark" a snippet to add it to the study queue. Perhaps reword the toast to say "Sentence marked for study" or similar.

2. I can't seem to unmark snippets from the podcast player.

3. The snippets are almost never entire sentences for me, and I would appreciate having quite a bit more context in the snippet review--at minimum, the preceding and following snippets. I should note that the snippet size is fine for reading along with the podcast.

4. I'm very intrigued with the Pimsleur mode. I could see myself being a heavy user of that feature with some tweaking. At my level, repeating everything in English is too much. It would be neat if it only repeated words I haven't marked as known, and if it only repeated that word in translation instead of the entire snippet. I also think I would want to hear the Spanish before the translation to English.
I'm a fan of some of Twitter's newer developments like community notes, private groups, and spaces.

Quote posts are a feature I'd think long and hard about copying, though. At least in my subjective experience, they made the platform a nastier than it had been before.
It's really damn amusing and confusing when Toronto mostly refers to themselves as TSX, and the Tokyo Stock Exchange goes by TSE or TKS...
To the best of my knowledge, Mitnick didn't really code at all. There are (let's call them) intrusion specialists whose skillsets don't really involve systems programming, but rather intuition and tenacity, and there are others who write exploits. My understanding is that Mitnick was the former, and was using tools he got from friends and peers.
What is it about Zed that you find superior to VS Code?
To move slow and break DOGE?
I've done keto, and generally follow a high-protein low-carb diet even on GLPs. I wish things were that easy. Taking carbs out of the equation even over extended periods does not help.
Hahah yes. Thanks for defending me ;) Apparently making something accessible to the public is AI. I thought it was science communication :D It's what we are all supposed to do as scientists, but somehow nobody pays us to do. So I do it in my free time. And some people thinks it's AI. Weird times.
I wish there were more long interviews of Anders Hejlsberg. It must be amazing to prove his career starting from education and Nascom microcomputer.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/usaid-payments-to-politico...

> The above claim was false. Publicly available records showed that in 2023 and 2024, the USAID paid a total of $44,000 — not $8 million — to Politico, and the payments were earmarked for institutional subscriptions to E&E News, a Politico publication. No other transactions between USAID and Politico were listed for the entire previous decade.

Nice, how much are you getting to propagandize?
Cameras have appeared outside homes of Atlanta's 'Cop City' activists
As a material scientist, the roller coaster to figure out what 'diffusion' we're talking about here was surprisingly funny.

Means: maybe edit that title a bit :)
Politics are not the subject of this forum, as much as it sucks that the very existence of trans people is "political" it seems that is here to stay for a bit.

But it should be plainly obvious to anyone from any political background that removing historical information from national monuments is wrong. These events happened and trans people were a primary factor, maybe even the primary factor. It is wrong to erase them.
I can believe the things in the list, I think many governments are wasteful, but I think it’s important to publish receipts and evidence.
The downfall of Borland started long before Kylix.

Around 1996-1997 is when you had early signs of things going awry, when Borland tried to rebrand as an "enterprise middleware" company focused on what they called a three-tier architecture, with COM/CORBA clients talking to server middleware and databases. They bought a CORBA company called Visigenic at a time when CORBA was arguably already old hat, while also betting on COM and Microsoft Transaction Server. They were trying to get into the same enterprise space as Microsoft and Oracle, but then the web arrived and everything started moving away from desktop apps. I don't think they had the enterprise DNA as an organization, and renaming Borland to Inprise couldn't magically fix that.

It arguably started long before then. Borland had a messy history of spreading themselves too thin, trying to do too much, constantly betting on the wrong horse, and ultimately never really finding their feet. Buying Ashton-Taste to buy the already-antique dBASE strained the company, and they went off on weird wild goose chases like Borland Office when WordPerfect was already dying, and they missed the web revolution with the whole Inprise thing. They might have survived if they shed some weight and laser-focused on development tools like Delphi, but a lot of the company seemed to have been pulling in multiple directions.
Thats lucky, only the US is able to access the internet
But auto-stretching windows to the screen's height has somehow turned into a frustrating game of mousing over a 0.001 pixel sweet spot at the top of the window. Maybe there's a hotkey for it though.
Allowing you to sign up and then immediately locking or shadow banning your account is a dark pattern to force you to provide a mobile phone number or other identification (for extra advertising targeting of course).
The password to the system was "BRIS," the name of the vendor.
They're lying. its a propagandist

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/usaid-payments-to-politico...
If anyone is interested, the release of Zeta inspired me to write up a blog post this afternoon about LLM tab completions past and future: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43053094
is it only me or this completely miss all the recent research on causal inference using causal graphical model ?
Titans has a new approach to longer and faster memory compared to transformers.

https://arxiv.org/html/2501.00663v1
If someone is asking for an SSN they’ll be doing a credit report which will show if you’ve died.
Yeah I don't really mind using AI coding in work because it's boring as hell. And getting things done quicker is almost a virtue in the business world.

I should have clarified that my original comment is about side projects or serious software engineering.
I wonder what this even is. I wondered if perhaps an attempt to evade automated keyword-driven keyboard infantry deployment. But maybe they just can't even type, you know... The Word... because it's just too much for them?
Yeah, i have also found LLMs useful, and sometimes with broad search queries. Which makes it quite the paradox when you own a product on the other side of bad LLM results
But "our" bots are always the good ones. Why does this sound like literature...
I don't get that. Its recommender has been great for me. And there are lots of playlist if I want to try something completely different.
For sure. I did an experiment about a year ago where I submitted two different articles on the same topic, within the same 2 minute window. One had the word transgender in the title, the other didn’t. Guess which one was flagged into oblivion in under 30 minutes.
OpenAI's board unanimously rejected Elon Musk's takeover bid
I am quite sure the people developing the current chatbots were well aware of what happened with Tay etc. I'd bet it's part of the reason for the safety stuff.
Anyone who has studied the later parts of the phone system know that at least a few of his stories are actually bullshit.

It wouldn't be until much later (in the 90s at least, while he was in prison) that the advent of pure digital switching would enable the random reassignment of phone lines like he describes in the story about turning his friend's home phone into a payphone.

The lines were separated and had differences in sender frames just for payphones, plus typical phones weren't too happy when 130VDC was applied to them for very long.

The fact of the matter is that Mitnick went around and shook doorhandles until something opened and occasionally convinced someone to open a door for him her and there, and the fact that the emperor had no clothes was too politically inconvenient for the kinds of companies that Mitnick hit up.
I don't see this as all that disturbing. A detector for it wouldn't be hard to write (variant on something that doesn't actually have variants, flag it!), it seems to me it could be useful for signing things.
>This is like ... saying "please define git"

It's really not. "Git" has a single extremely strong definition for tech people, and a single regional slang definition. "Transformer" has multiple strong definitions for tech people, and multiple strong definitions colloquially.

Not that we can't infer the OP's meaning - just that it's nowhere near as unambiguous as "git".
I don't think this counts. The most detailed it gets is this:

Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS for $505 Million. What exactly is that? People with AIDS already have housing options. They have the same options as other people. There is literally nothing in that line item that explains why half a billion is needed for that. Where's the report, wheres the description of number of employees to administer, and an explanation of why thats needed.

Another thing: In the period between 2012 and 2019, the
number of full-time equivalent (FTE) employees
at HUD declined from 8,576 to 6,837, a
reduction of 20 percent. This loss of staff
presented serious risks to HUD’s ability to meet
the needs of its customers, protect against
cybersecurity threats, and deliver on the
mission.

Where is the backup of that statement - "HUD’s ability to meet
the needs of its customers, protect against
cybersecurity threats, and deliver on the
mission. "

Protecting against cybersecurity should literally be handled by a different org within fedgov!

Also why 2000 more employees? Are they also taking an elevator down the limestone mountain and riding around on bikes to file a loan?

The stories coming out of DOGE are like this, how do you expect me to read this PDF without a ton of cynicism?

It is totally inappropriate for a tax base to fund something over $1M that has nothing backing up what it is for. Let's get rid of FRAUD and ABUSE!
Hack the planet.
when your 80s IDE fits in a 2020 favicon :)
War crimes are an example of not following the law. (And we frequently let them get away with it anyway.)

Not that I’m in favor of any of this, just saying the analogy has diverged from the topic at hand.
OpenAI formally rejects Elon Musk's takeover offer
I agree, and I don't love the facile takes. It's future crashes that could result from fewer resources to investigate and analyze these events.
That is unfair, he says...

> "generalized method of moments" approaches to cross-country analysis (of e.g. the effectiveness of aid)

Which is an entirely reasonable criticism. GMM is a complex mathematical process, wiki suggests [0] that it assumes data generated by a weakly stationary ergodic stochastic process of multivariate normal variables. There are a lot of ways that a real world data for aid distribution might be nonergodic, unstationary, generally distributed or even deterministic!

Verifying that a paper has used a parameter estimation technique like that properly is not a trivial task even for someone who understands GMM quite well. A reader can't be expected to follow what the implications are from reading a study; there is a strong element of trust.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized_method_of_moments
They aren't "public" but if you have a good reason, the govt will let you see the list of dead people SSNs. It's one of the first things checked when you're trying to open a line of credit because it's so easy to verify.
That’s not much to counter my example.
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Discussion (41 points, 4 days ago, 60 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42999044

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It's not the infamous 2.6.32, but … kernel 3.10 up until very recently? Oof.

(3.10 released 2013-06-30)
Also, a fairly mundane reality of technological progression.