skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
[2] seems like a grift, not a bribe.

[3] is an unnecessarily verbose story with practically no substance. In 2017 a $10m cash withdrawal was made to a Research and Studies Center said to have a “relationship with the Egyptian General Intelligence Agency.”

Using those facts, and the fact Trump was friendly with Sisi at a UN event, an entire investigation was launched to see if Trump was the final recipient.

If you look at it with the counter assumption of Trump being innocent, there still seems to be a reasonable motive for all this.

The FBI wanted information about an Egyptian cash withdrawal from one of Egypt’s own banks, subpoenaed them by bringing up presidential relevancy, and punished them $50k a day until the bank sent the documents.
>this problem

What problem?

The problem of how people are fired? You dont fix that specific problem by firing everyone!

Somw other problem? Show us evidence that there was a problem, before you fire. That's how you do it in a democracy.
Proper ones are certainly usable for more than napkin math. I deal with fairly simple definite integrals and linear algebra occasionally. It's easier for me to plug this into a programmable calculator than it is to scratch in the dirt on Maxima or Mathematica most of the time if I just need an answer.
Exactly France is good example what not to do.
Maybe there are different ideas about flow. But to me, flow is about eliminating distractions, and being creative without requiring too much pondering.

Our brains are always looking for distractions. Having your phone nearby, or working in an area where distractions are easily accessible prevents flow. Your brain is always looking to be distracted, it's akin to how you are tuned to pay more attention when you hear your name called. Even if you think to yourself: I'm not going to touch my phone while I work, it's always there calling for your brain's attention.

So step 1 to flow is removing distractions. Going to a library helps because you're cut off from many distractions and your brain stops "listening" for a bit.

And then, you must be able to create something from what you already know. Fluent writing, art, programming can then "flow" directly from you into the real world without requiring looking up info, or taking tutorials.

Flow has little to do with the "true nature of things", imo.
A malicious reputation server could also potentially ok and allow bad requests if that aspect of the system isn't resilient. so reputation server's would also need a reputation system of some kind... and down the rabbit hole we go again.
Also the “highschool poem”-type writing style is quite jarring but forgiven when he acknowledged it at the end of the article.

> Also I decided to try writing this thread in the style of a linkedin influencer lol, sorry about that.
Honestly, if no-internet was forced on society I think it would be a net good thing (ignore accidental pun).

Probably though TV was the beginning of the downward spiral.
> People talk about taxing granny out of her house, but they conveniently forget to mention that granny is keeping half a dozen people homeless by hoarding an underutilized property.

That’s a distasteful and predatory way to speak of someone who rightfully bought her property, possibly a widow, and just wants to live in peace versus having someone (business or gov) try to break the rules to take her property.
Yes, all of the above.

I pay for Google Workspace Business Standard. The value per dollar is astronomical.

In some ways, GCP is ahead of the pack.

I'd love to see big tech broken up, and I'd like to think many Google divisions would do well on their own.

One exception may be YouTube, where so much of the cost is subsidized. But then I'd be happy to pay double for premium as it's one of the main sources for entertainment in our household.
Elon knows you can do a lot of stuff while being a CEO. if you're super competent it can be done in a few minutes per week if that, same with being a father of a child.
The Rower Turned Engineer Who Helped Make Nvidia a $3T Company
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/tech/the-rower-turned-engineer-who-helpe...
The article really needs a date too.

It talks about projects like Rome as if they're current when Rome was archived a year and a half ago: https://github.com/rome/tools

I think it used to have one but it was lost in a site redesign a few months ago: https://github.com/leerob/site/pull/727/files#diff-888ddb306...
I hate all of those buildings, but I'm not Japanese so my opinion doesn't matter. If the Japanese like those buildings they can keep them, or tear them down if they don't. Their country, their choice. If I were to butt my nose into their affairs, architecture would be very low on my list of concerns.
Show HN: Logis – a searchable scientific log in your Git commit history
I built this tool that auto-commits your code when you run an experiment, storing structured metadata in the commit message. A bit like `wandb` but local.

There is a small CLI that lets you query for (e.g.) `metrics.accuracy > 0.9`, to find the code state that produced a good results.

This is the first release, and there are quite a few planned features if anyone wants to submit a PR.
the poll mentioned
https://x.com/devongovett/status/1261379312898306048

was between (js) and (go/C/rust)

See the problem to me is that this comparison isn't nice. Javascript comes with a lot of its problems , so of course people would want go / C / rust

but Now the author thus concluding that people want "the fastest" out of go/C/rust is just wrong.

I love golang.

People like fast software but hate abandoned software even more . Yes there are rustaceans who would love the project but now hand anybody genuinely interested to contribute a rust project and ask them to learn rust and they would come hating at you.

And now ask them to learn go. They can actually much easily do that.

I stand with this opinion that go code can be read / written by anybody. There is very rare bad go code but rust code feels "magic" to people.

Admire simplicity. That being said , I use archlinux with paru instead of yay , I use a lot of rust tools as well.

To be honest , to me it doesn't matter that much , what matters is if its being maintained stable / has active community. It could be written in any language just make it easy to embed / provide bindings for major languages like python node golang etc.
Or though this might come overkill but I wish if there was some sort of glue code which can bridge languages , most of these glue code libraries end up having so many use cases. so I like the idea of wasm but its just not that performant. If we can have insanely performant wasm ...
It sounds like you had a pretty similar vibe to what I imagine these places are like... kinda surreal but not mind-blowing in the "holy crap" sense
This looks more like rules for C development. In order to make reliable software in C (which is honestly pretty brave to begin with once you get past a certain complexity treshold).
I enjoyed the article, but it seems Apple has since improved their calculator app slightly. The first example is giving me the correct result today. However, the second example with the “Underflow” result is still occurring.
All the extrajudicial stuff is pure political and ideological wank by a subset of ideological extremists. Pay no attention to any of it. It's an attempt to redefine the term for narrative creation purposes.
Yes, I enjoy it an awful lot. It's my element.
Landlords Have a New Hardball Tactic: Tanking Your Credit Score
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/credit/renters-landlord...
That's great. Congress should be the ones making budget decisions, not Musk. Trump has control of both houses, why not cut spending and give Musk his tax breaks legally?
> I fully acknowledge that it will result in mistakes

Yep, but as opposed to a startup those "mistakes" will be deadly.

Literally so.
Whether or not it's a good idea depends on what outcome you desire. If the aim is to weaken the U.S. then putting a foolish unelected billionaire in charge of things that he has no idea about is a great idea.
Plane ride would be more impressive
> but there are also all kinds of organizations doing stellar journalism these days too

They just don't have any viewership.

It may be worth studying why and what can be done to fix this. But I bet one will get stuck with "it's because of government corruption" pretty soon and have no place to move from there.
Ask HN: How do you read long HN threads?
Do you have any tips or workflows that make it easier to read long threads? I read articles shared on HN but have a hard time keeping up with the discussions.
Another app nobody has made is a simple random music player. Tried VLC on Android and adding 5000+ songs from SD card into a playlist for shuffling simply crashes the app. Why do we need a play list anyway, just play the folder! Is it trying to load the whole list at the same time into memory? VLC always works, but not on this task. Found another player that doesn't require building a playlist but when the app is restarted it starts from the same song following the same random seed. Either save the last one or let me set the seed!
Not excercising the right to vote is a form of voting.
Yup, can't disagree with any of that! I do think the modern game has specialized a bit more beyond star stoppers, but that's kind of a natural part of the evolving meta game in any long running competition.

It'll be fun to see what Wemby stoppers could possibly look like.
The "betting table" reminds me that I continue to think there's a large, mostly untapped market for good internal betting and prediction market software in large software companies. The primary problem around them seems to be psychological: it's very, very painful to lose a bet that feature X will be shipped by date Y in state Z, and even more painful to see your own track record of failures grow over time, even if you are also accumulating successes.
It’s not arbitrary, though. He’s attacking CFPB because he wants to launch financial features on Twitter without oversight. He’s attacking USAID because they helped end apartheid in his native South Africa. It’s really all just a bunch of petty vendettas and looting.
The article kinda stumbles. Starts with a popular premise (“free speech = good”) then makes the (data-supported but not cited) connection between dissent and outcome, but really doesn’t make an argument for why we should prefer one outcome over the other (eg, leaves as an assumption what Europe should be, what the unifying culture of Europe and America is and that it ought to be preserved). Sure, we don’t want violence, but violence is inevitable in change, and the writer never discusses either whether a changing Europe is a good thing or why it might not be, simply assuming that it isn’t and that the reader will agree. The writer also never considers the fact that plenty of violence will come from a change of policy, both at home and abroad, and violence always leaks across borders, as Americans well know.
I wonder if they’re interested in doing that since all of those images mean you have to buy their iCloud subscription forever.
Garbage trucks aren't exactly a good comparison here.

Your typical empty semi truck weighs 35k pounds, and a lot more when loaded. There's also more miles driven by semi trucks than passenger vehicles
You left out Leptos!
I would never go back under a boss who thinks even for a second that I’m easily replaceable. It would immediately indicate to me, that I can’t trust in my boss at all. Nobody really can work effectively without trust. That’s the base of our whole society.
Vercel Fluid Compute
"unmoored" is the word. Not or no longer attached to reality.
Not to mention the externality of having extra people floating around who know intimate details of the nations nuclear weapons secrets, who you have now pissed off.

I'm sure anyone who has been entrusted with such a position is fairly responsible, but it still seems like a bad idea.

Plus our adversaries would know we're hiring, and this bunch doesn't seem to care so much about proper vetting.
Most of these rules are designed to make it possible to debug errors from millions of miles away, with extremely limited visibility into the program’s state, so that failure modes can be predicted, understood, and resolved on the ground, and worked around as needed, so that we don’t lose a spacecraft in deep space.
Cool idea and nice design .

Music genre/playlist options would be nice. The stock music is a bit faster/more energetic than I like.
It was Vivek and his plan was to randomly (lottery) fire half of all federal employees the first year and then randomly fire half of those who remain the second year get to an overall 75% reduction.
Government work is literally goods and services for the population.

This is some serious 1984 war is peace shit.
To further explain: the standard WASM ABI is essentially just a C ABI, so you can pass integers and pointers around, but you can't do much more; anything more complex needs to be built on top of that, which precludes binding to the DOM API directly.

The existing workarounds for this glue the JS DOM API to the guest language through glue on both sides, but this means that you have to pay the penalty of marshalling through JS for every single call you make.

There's a solution in the works to make direct interaction possible, but it's proven to be quite challenging to finalise: essentially, you need a high-level ABI that can provide a safe and fast interface between the host and whatever guest language, and defining that in a way that makes everyone happy is non-trivial.

For more information, see the Component Model [0] and WIT [1]; the idea is that you will eventually be able to compile your WASM to WASM Components, which can then interface with the host (or other WASM components) through the WIT IDL, including interacting with the browser's DOM.

[0]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/component-model
[1]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/component-model/blob/main/des...
> We are stumbling fools without systems and rules (organizations, institutions, laws, regulations, ...) to rely on.

The wide masses yes - the 1% who is looking to profit immensely from the upcoming chaos not.

DOGE is not about trimming government costs, it is about allowing the large companies to rip off the masses without repercussions (e.g. the planned demise of CFPB or OSHA/DoL) and it is about preparing the transfer of what used to be government-provided services at cost or subsidised to privatised for profit enterprises where the 1% profit (e.g. the dismantling of public schools).

The end game is obvious, neofeudalism: everything that the 99% do shall generate profit for the 1%. We shall own nothing and rent/pay for everything. It begins with five to six figures medical bills at birth and ends with our funeral costs.
If you're open to a bit different and perhaps thought provoking perspective let me say that for your hypothesis to be true we would need to assume that the distribution of memory-safety bugs is uniform across the codebase. From my experience this is not true, it usually follows uni-modal or at most bi-modal distribution, so it follows that the surface is not much smaller.
A Model for French Voters
1/3 of 2000 USD is still 650 USD a night. This is quite a price.

I am sure that plenty of people can afford it (I could if I wanted to) but this is rather expensive when you compare to, say a stay in Chamonix (French Alps, a "posh" station) where you can have a 65 m2 appartment next to the slopes in high season for about 250-300€/night.
The technology saves weight and installation space by eliminating the requirement for hydraulics

Exactly how much weight/space is being saved here?

In an EV with a heavy battery, my guess is not a very significant amount. This looks like an example of ignoring the forest to focus on a tree.
Aren't they ready to finally test a heavy rocket capable of orbit?

From the information they publish, it looks like stopping the race because you got tired just before the finish line. I wonder what part of the public information is false.
Draymond Green is the Joe Rogan of the NBA. He's just optimizing for engagement and controversy.

If it were truly as you say, those players would get pulled. Logo 3s are rare. And when someone heats up and hits multiple consecutive, it's anything but boring.
Already did that with Karl Pilkington.

(And he wasn't as enlightened by the experience as you might have hoped.)
> Another app nobody has made is a simple random music player.

Marvis on iOS is pretty good at this. I use it to shuffle music with some rules ("low skip %, not added recently, not listened to recently")[0] and it always does a good job.

[0] Because "create playlist" is still broken in iOS Shortcuts, incredibly.
Could you list few? I’ve stopped following media in general because everything I could find was profit maximisation through outrage and sensationalism. So I would really appreciate something that isn’t that.
Using Ada efficiently just requires too much $$$ for small projects.
That's like popping your tires to figure out that you need them for driving, and then discovering there is only one spare in the trunk.
These hungry piggies are the unsuspecting beta testers of Intellipig https://pure.sruc.ac.uk/en/projects/a-face-based-automated-o...
not that simple, 1/3 + 5 - 1/3 should be 5. It doesn't overflow in IEEE754
The number line freaks me out (2016)
Preparing for Senior PHP Symfony Developer Role at Clubee
> Plus, having corporations keep each other in check still sounds helpful to me.

For the ~4 centuries we've had stuff similar to corporations, that never worked anywhere.

Corporations will always cartelize and try to protect each other.
Why is that a guideline?
Correction - AI can interpret videos of animal emotions (recorded under controlled conditions) better than humans (allegedly).
Android, yes.
The rest? There are so many better alternatives, for anyone who respects themselves and their privacy.
more like javascript eating rust
I often see in HN comments about how trading and Wall St in general is evil

Trading is one of the least evil things that goes on on Wall Street. Starting wars for profit (e.g., Blackwater) and buying additional houses as investments (as private equity firms do) and making massive job cuts while posting record profits, are all evil. I loathe capitalism but I agree that quants and traders are some of the least compromised people, whereas “change the world” techies and now techzis are the worst. Traders are, as you said, honest about their motivations.

Ultimately there is no ethical production or consumption in a system as rotten as ours, and everyone has to make a choice. Graveyards are full of moral people, and country clubs are full of humanity’s absolute worst. And if one has children, the argument can be made that failing to provide for them is ethically worse than taking a job within capitalism so long as one isn’t directly harming anyone.
You can’t win every war. Germany is a bit better, but not by a large margin. Wages are higher than in France, but so is the cost of living.

That said, Europe isn’t struggling because of labor protection rules but because of its culture.

There are 69 countries with 69 different languages, and each of them wants high-paid foreigners to learn their language. I saw the same thing in France, Germany, and Finland. Why on earth would I care about German or French when I speak and write native-level English?

Another issue is the vacation culture. Three weeks of vacation is incredibly generous, but people here get even more. I’m switching teams because my current one can’t ship anything—different people are on exceedingly long vacations at different times, and there’s no coordination.

Europe is poorer and full of red tape. The fragmentation of languages and regulations doesn’t help. It’s a massive continent, yet the only real tech hubs are in Munich, Berlin, Amsterdam, and London. The rest are just running underpaying sweatshops.
I get it - you don’t understand how this works. One more time

You are correct that that all companies pay corporate taxes. We have established that.

VAT is already baked into the cost of production at every step in a VAT-based economy. If VAT were not refunded, that 19% tax cost would be included in the price, making the bulldozer more expensive abroad. Technically, VAT refunds are not an "export subsidy" in the traditional sense (where the government directly pays companies to export). BUT, the effect is the same as a subsidy and it removes tax costs from exports, giving VAT-based economies a competitive advantage. The US does not provide tax relief for its exporters and does not impose VAT on imports.

"Everyone is on a level playing field"

Wrong. The US does not refund taxes on exports, while VAT countries do

When you are ready to understand that part let me know.
> It's too slow.

> 1 is not equal to 1 - e^(-e^1000). But for Richardson and Fitch's algorithm to detect that, it would require more steps than there are atoms in the universe.

> They needed something faster.

I'm disappointed after this paragraph I expected a better algorithm and instead they decided to give up. Fredrik Johansson in his paper "Calcium: computing in exact real and complex fields" gives a partial algorithm for the problem and writes "Algorithm 2 is inspired by Richardson’s algorithm, but incomplete: it will
find logarithmic and exponential relations, but only if the extension tower is flattened (in
other words, we must avoid extensions such as e^log(z) or √z^2), and it does not handle all
algebraic functions.
Much like the Risch algorithm, Richardson’s algorithm has apparently never been implemented fully. We presume that Mathematica and Maple use similar heuristics to ours,
but the details are not documented [6], and we do not know to what extent True/False
answers are backed up by a rigorous certification in those system".
They won't go hungry. I don't think famine will stop them. They don't want to lose their dictator that is willing to advance their agenda.
> Peter Thiel, one of the most sophisticated minds of our time

ROFLMAO, cough sputter cough…

Oh shit, he’s serious?
The US is busy making the biggest own-goal one could imagine.

From a position of world-wide dominance and respect, it is being destroyed at a rate that is too quick for most to even start to comprehend what the outcome of these actions will be. I suspect the consequences of these actions will be carried for the rest of our lives, as they are not so easy to turn back.

Lots of other countries are standing by watching while the USA has seemingly found enough rope to hang itself.
It’s eating Python too - with Ruff, uv, and an upcoming alternative to Mypy:

https://bsky.app/profile/crmarsh.com/post/3lgvhzdfrps26
134k Lines of Code Posted as Latest Effort for COBOL Support Within GCC
Can’t wait for non-Germans to butcher that name.
Amongst many other amusing things - insecure site, email address + phone number visible, social links to YouTube etc pointing to nowhere. Brilliant.
Hmm, fair point. Also the Congo, India, etc.
No no, wasn't meant to correct you. Just highlighting the insanity of the various exchange nicknames/acronyms/self-definitions.
The profit-making part is when we pull back from being world policeman and instead sell nuclear weapons and weapon systems. Sorry, we won't go to war for you, but how about some H-bombs, Taiwan?
Are North and South Korea ethnically distinct?
> Just go a little slower and give agencies time to compile accurate lists of necessary employees

It's not about achieving results primarily, it's a public perception game. Trump and Musk are going for the perception of "they do what they say from day 1" - it doesn't matter if what they plan succeeds at all (and if it's struck down by judges, it's just additional fodder for "un-American judges!!!" propaganda), or if what they do actually has the outcome they promised.

The GQP voter base no longer cares about anything but the appearance of "winning", and it's aided by completely off-the-rockers media and influencers.