skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trump is stacking the federal government with loyalist and preparing to outright ignore court orders(if they are not doing so already) and become a monarchy while billionaires chop up the government for fun and profit. If you don't see this then you have lost touch with reality. Democracy is on life support and Elon's fans are putting fingers in their ears acting like this isn't happening.
Detailed guide on GBA game programming
You know who else doesn't like our proficiency in toppling regimes, foreign election interference and the hundred other "disgraces"? Our enemies and adversaries, who of course do the same.

Funny that your sentiments align so closely with theirs, and that you're cheering on our disempowerment as much as they are.
> But as far as I'm aware these guys never promised not to give away classified information.

It does not matter what they promised, as it is against the law to give away classified information:

> Whoever knowingly and willfully communicates, furnishes, transmits, or otherwise makes available to an unauthorized person, or publishes, or uses in any manner prejudicial to the safety or interest of the United States or for the benefit of any foreign government to the detriment of the United States any classified information— […]

* https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/798
Beyond the impersonation, what sounds really odd is this was a group of people who planned this act together. On their own. I’d say that goes well beyond a prank or something similar.
That sounds kinda weird to me. I use fly.io exactly because the pricing works out for hobby use. I can enable my machine for a few hours, run a bunch of inference, and turn it off again. The whole auto start/stop thing makes it seamless too.
With Trump's Help, Intel Could Hand Control of Chip Plants to TSMC
> IBM says GenAI can convert that old COBOL code to Java for you

https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/22/ibm_says_genai_can_co...
No I meant to reply to you. Weren't you asking for more details about my work? It's about Finite State Transducers, not regular expressions.
The coup started 4 years ago. It's just continuing. Now with immunity almost guaranteed by the supreme court.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely and we are just getting started. The checks and balance that get in the way are actively being dismantled.
That hasn’t been my experience at all. Could you share some examples?

> As of February 14, 2025, the latest version of Chakra UI for React is 3.8.0, released on February 9, 2025. This release introduced new hooks such as useElementRect, useForceUpdate, useLiveRef, usePrevious, and useSafeLayoutEffect, as well as a new FocusTrap component. Additionally, the Breadcrumb component received fixes for RTL support, and the Group component was updated to handle invalid children appropriately.

https://chatgpt.com/share/67aff366-db20-8011-8549-861b1fc31c...
I understand something similar happened with oligarchs supporting FDR.
Oh man, we have struggled with this- and I wrote the copy under the Build / Compose / Run tab to try and surface what we felt were the most salient points.

For WebAssembly Components- we have tiny, portable code, with a standard ABI that lets us compose between languages. For execution, 50 ns start time means that you can start on demand 'with no cold starts'; the converse is true - scaling to zero.

Because you can scale it and run it only when you need to you can be more reliable (run it in more places) while still operating in a cost efficient way.

It's a subtle story that can be hard to communicate. Thank you for the feedback, we're always trying to do better.
Gift article link here: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/technology/intel-tsmc-tal...
Awesome. AI isn't making Vim less relevant, it's now more relevant than ever. When every editor can have maximum magic with the same model and LSP, why not use the tool that lets you also review AI generated diffs and navigate at lightning speed. Vim is a tool that can actually keep up with how fast AI can accelerate the dev cycle.

Also love to see these local solutions. Coding shouldn't just be for the rich who can afford to pay for cloud solutions. We need open, local models and plugins.
You don’t realise how ridiculous you sound to normal people because you spend your time in an echo chamber full of left-wing conspiracy theories.

The government will get a bit smaller and life will go on.
This was the premise of a Google CTF quals 2024 challenge ("encrypted runner").
Intel’s chairman has reached out to TSMC to try to spin off the fabs to them.
It's game over. I'm not going to say comply in advance. There should be a fight but it's very bleak.
> I lost a dog at 3 and a half years almost to the day to a congenital defect, that we didn’t know about until he was already very sick. I’m a guy who will cross a street to meet someone’s dog. For over a year afterward I would cross the street to avoid walking past the same breed and color of dog. The way people avoid pitbulls.

> And that was just a dog.

Depending on the person and/or situation, losing a dog can rival the pain of any other loss. Especially if the bond between person and dog is reinforced through daily activities.

I guess what I'm saying here is loss is loss. Some losses may be painful longer than others, for sure, but the pain of losing a being you love is universal.

A friend of mine described the pain of this type of loss thusly;

Think of the pain like a ball bouncing around in a box,
with a button at center-bottom which activates pain every
time it is touched by the ball.

At first, the ball is almost the same size as the box
and hits the button constantly.

Over time, the ball shrinks but the size of the box
and the button remain the same. All that changes is
how often the button is hit.

HTH
There’s always someone standing around watching the book burning or purge telling everyone that they’re overreacting. Like clockwork.
So, basically just unfounded conspiracy theories.
I don't see how this undermines the argument. That's all bad too. It's consistent with the argument, not contradicting it.
I'm curious. What needs to happen for you realize what is going on? What is the action that if taken you'll see things for what they are?
Awesome to see the common sense solution become real
That sounds incredibly unusual albeit highly impressive, just like that homepage!
It’s absurdly expensive to offer, because none of the major implementations support serving multiple domains in a single process, so you end up with a lot of duplication.
That doesn't make sense, and you can look at the patches and see that the Rust code didn't impact the C code. It's not like we have to take anybody's word for it.

This is primarily around Rust filesystem drivers. If you want to run a filesystem but it's implemented in Rust, you'd have to use that fork. If another person had the same issue (say a GPU driver that some maintainer decided they didn't like because of the country of origin or some other petty reason), then that would have to be a fork as well. Suddenly, you can't use that GPU with a Rust-implemented filesystem, because you have to pick one of the forks, or you have to make your own merged kernel from the two.

"Just fork it" doesn't work here. It's a logistical nightmare.
> That's why Uncle Sam is nice to have on your side. A libertarian utopia or corporate controlled trading zone doesn't stand a chance without the backing of a sovereign with a military.

The Republic of Minerva[0] is a good example of this. Some libertarians built an artificial island on a reef and the neighboring country of Tonga annexed it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Minerva
That doesn’t really matter here. ~300k people in the US get an MRI per year (significantly more are near the things) and they have been around since the 1970’s.

If simply waving weak magnetic fields in people’s faces were enough for anything close to 1% of people to notice then it would be common knowledge at this point.

When the signal is strong enough you don’t need careful experiments to pick out the difference. IE the rest of the universe outside of earth isn’t made of antimatter because our telescope’s aren’t on fire. https://what-if.xkcd.com/114/
The distinction is irrelevant to our customers.
I think it's true that engineers who want to understand every layer of everything in depth, or who want to have platform ownership, are not necessarily the same group as the more "product itself" focused sort who want to write something and just push it, I don't actually think I'm sold at all that any of these groups, in a vacuum, have substantial demand for GPU compute unless that's someone's area of interest for a pet project.
You don't think the literal nazi salute elon gave at a rally, twice, warrants any comparisons? Or that the administration flirts with annexing Canada, Greenland, and Palestine? Or that their support is driven through prejudice against migrants?

Ok.
Income taxes absolutely do fund Social Security and Medicare. Those programs would be even more insolvent on FICA taxes alone.
> these are my tax dollars!

These are not "Your" tax dollars.

Some of them are other peoples tax dollars that do want this.

So do as my father had and claim that "your" taxes mean you "own" least 1 E4 and a couple of E-2/3's in the military--or whatever your preferred interest is and let the other American tax dollars pay for the things they want. Because You, personally, did not fund the entire US budget. It is not all "your" taxes.
Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee US nuclear arms
Power Stage Reference Design for Power Stealing Thermostat
You’re correct that it would be absurd to build a DC, but you left out the next-best thing, and the one that is VERY financially attractive: colo’ing. I can rent 1U for around $50-75/month, or if I want HA-ish (same rack in the same DC isn’t exactly HA, but it solves for hardware failure anyway), 5U would probably run $200-250/month or so, and that lets you run two nodes with HAProxy or what-have-you, sharing a virtual IP, fronting three worker nodes running K8s, or a Proxmox cluster, or whatever. The hardware is also stupidly cheap, because you don’t need anything remotely close to new, so for about $200/node, you’ll have more cores and memory than you know what to do with.

The DC will handle physical service for you if something breaks, you just pay for parts and labor.

All of this requires knowledge, of course, but it’s hardly an impossible task. Go look at what the more serious folk in r/homelab (or r/datacenter) are up to; it’ll surprise you.
"Early adopters will be early adopters. And early adopters aren't the kind of people relying on an LLM to tell them what to try out."

Why is this? 'Early adopter' is a pretty arbitrary category of people.
From here in Canada it doesn't appear alarmist at all. If this was occurring in our country I would be deeply scared.
Last year during summers, I lost one of the pillars of my life to Cancer, my grandfather. The loss felt as extreme disturbance, sharp pain and regret about not being there for him, not fulfilling my responsibilities.

I spent months feeling like a reason for this loss. The last few days of his life were painful, at least that's what I remember my parents telling me. He called out my name the night before he left, asking me to help him, I got to know. He wanted the pain to go away, a man who never asked for anything his whole life was crying for help. What still hurts is the thought that his pain was so unbearable that he gave up. He gave up his trust in himself, his family and me. I felt responsible for that. This image imprinted in my memory for so long. Every time, I thought of him, this is what came up.

After months of cursing myself, I realised that he may still be alive. Not in the reality I am having these thoughts, but in some other reality. His reality where his consciousness stays. Where he observes and not necessarily me. And that's the reality he is alive in. I found solace in the realisation that people never die. If we consider all possible realities generated each moment based on the decisions made, then there'll be at least one reality where he stays alive. We extend this logic and infer that at each moment out of all the possibilities, at least in one the man stays alive.

This even though not proven, gives a sense of relief and happiness. It is similar to blind faith, but the one that makes the most sense to me. And I am happy for my grandfather, that he's living his life, whichever reality he's in.

I love you, dadaji. <3
And I miss you in this reality.
all those advantages and disadvantages you list are basically insignificant compared to rust being memory safe by default and c/c++ not. governments aren't bugging projects about any of those, but are about memory safety.
It was relatively common for parents to lose children (every second child was expected to die before 5y) but even then, with all that death around them, the tragedy remained as great as today. Back then, most did look to their God for solace, though: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1goyaco/when...

In the present, orthodox practitioners of Abrahamic religions, in particular, may stoically overcome such profound grief by attributing it to divine will.
There were American supporters, too, officially until war was declared.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_collaboration_with_Na...
>things that you personally like that the government does

That's a vanishingly small list
What is your experience with history? Have you read much since high school? What is your experience in shaping your government? How many times a year do you communicate with your representatives?

I ask because a person not used to expending energy doing those things could quickly and easily get "tired" and believe the present situation to be "hysterics, " while those who are politcally aware - as opposed to those newly being told all of their xenophobic urges are wonderful - are rightfully alarmed.

I recommend you read _Defying_Hitler_ to see how authoritarianism creeps in. You might also get to know the recent history of Hungary, Turkey, Belarus, Myanmar, Venezuela, Poland, Macedonia, and Thailand.
A 20-qubit quantum computer is not yet capable of outperforming classical supercomputers for most real-world problems. It is a first fully operational hybrid quantum supercomputer. Most likely to run tests in the real world scenarios.
I think pretty much everyone in that scene knows.
That Vivek dude was kicked out of DOGE solely because literal Nazis on Xitter didn't like him.
>Who determines what is useless?

Presumably the people actually footing the bill
> they do need to be responsive to local laws

I agree that you follow local laws when you operate on other nation's soil.

In this case, the UK is seeking to modify what is allowable on an international basis, not just on their local soil.
I need to take another run at CADQuery and Build123. I’m frustrated with OpenSCAD’s unstable kernel, but it’s still the easiest way to get a basic parametric design going from code.

I’m also keeping an eye on zoo (fka KittyCAD). It too has performance problems, but if/when it stabilizes it’s exactly what I want.
I'm a controls guy, not a quant guy but I've found the SDE perspective and this blog post to be incredible in helping me understand how a diffusion model works.
Discussion (871 points, 18 hours ago, 798 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43045835
Yeah, I think this really exemplifies the "everyone more specialized than me doesn't get the bigger picture, and everyone less specialized than me is wasting their time" trope. Developers who don't want to deal with the nitty gritty in one area are dealing with it in another area. Everyone has 24 hours in a day.
While obviously true, I don't see what that has to do with anything.

The intent of my comment was not to claim that what Musk and co. are doing is good, or that it's bad. It was to point out precisely why the claims in the post I replied to will not convince anyone who is not already convinced.

If the poster I replied to just wanted to vent, fine. But if they wanted to persuade someone on the fence, they have provided nothing towards that.

Nothing, that is, besides the standard appeal to emotion that infests almost all such arguments (on both sides) and is effective on human brains for all the wrong reasons.
Halloween came early this year. Pretty ghoulish too.
If you don’t have staff to do that, you probably aren’t at the scale when you need them, and you’re needlessly adding complexity.

It’s always baffling to me why people think that ECS or god forbid EKS is somehow easier than a few Linux boxes.
Here's to hoping for some early detection tech:

Cheap blood test detects pancreatic cancer before it spreads https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43035147 - Yesterday (233 comments)
The local reservoir that serviced the palisades was out of service for months due to a tear in its roof which had yet to be fixed. The repair, per a competent repair person, would have taken a week if they had done it. That's why the water pressure locally was so low. They had already done what you wanted, and increased the number of reservoirs, but the relevant one had been out of service for months. It can both be true that Trump is a bloviating liar and the LA government is incompetent.
As documented by the Flattened Earth in The Glorious LARP.
AI is okay at it.

It is one of the things they are best at.

Tho it works best with small chunks of well isolated code… I doubt it’d be very successful with the IRS’s ball of COBOL, especially considering how little cobol code is available for training sets.

It’d still require a ton of hairy manual work.
Typst is a re-flowable document description language; TeX spends more computation on the One True text justification and hyphenation paragraph builder.

PDF has recently implemented a limited reflow feature by marking up text elements with metadata tags originally introduced to add accessibility features, hints for text to speech...

Meanwhile, Amazon has moved new books and user-submitted documents from its own Kindle format to ePub.

ePub is the e-book standard format that extends a subset of HTML.

Web browser teams have been hurling themselves against the walls of nearly-intractable layout cases for decades now.

We take it for granted: on your Kindle e-ink reader, change the font size. Boom: the whole book has to re-compute its layout.

Typst is far more computationally efficient, even elegant, but as yet it can't flow text around embedded sidebars or images.
in general (and as far as I know in the US): you need a court order
> lol these are my tax dollars!

No, those dollars have been extorted from you fair and square. You have no control over who gets the spoils.
My dad was an amazing P.E. teacher at my school as a kid in the late 80s, and we did cup stacking, probably around 1990. I guess he probably caught onto it before it got really big. He wasn't a conventional P.E. teacher so he loved finding new stuff like this. We loved it! Interestingly he also taught all the kids chess. In the U.S. I'm not sure how common that was.
I started watching Paradise, and a grieving parent said "time just keeps taking me further away from when I was with them."
Also from that article

> IBM is giving its mainframe customers a tool infused with generative AI to translate COBOL code to Java

Hard to wholesale believe claims when they are literally the ones selling that capability.

It probably works well for already clear and well structured cobol.
the omnipascal extension for vscode works pretty well.
Viktor Orban, Robert Fico, the AfD, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens etc. all have shady ties to both Russia and Qatar.
The reopening of Guantanamo Bay as a concentration camp, at a cost of over $1 Billion, while elon musk's minion yank money from farmers and poor Alabamans $100 and $80,000 at a time, while tauting their own success on fox news...
https://archive.ph/5XVee
In Uganda as of 2023 you can get life imprisonment or even the death penalty for being gay. They've even restricted freedom of speech when it comes to discussing gay rights. Even Republicans have condemned it. Does that paint it in a different light?

Also, you think that rich people won't use the government to get more money? Seriously?
How would ensuring the IRS is able to correctly do its job make more money for the ultra wealthy?
I think it’s the super low barrier to entry. When I first started 3D printing, I wanted to make basic shapes with decent dimensional accuracy. OpenSCAD lets you install a single app and start doing that immediately. It was easier for me to quickly learn the OpenSCAD syntax than it was to spin up on FreeCAD or Onshape.
Actually, not much except the curly braces + semicolons, which makes it look like C, C++, Java and many others.

OpenSCAD is functional/declarative, so you can't change the state of a variable, functions don't have colateral effects, lists are immutable, and so on.

We also don't have for, while or if-else in the way we have in other languages. A for loop in OpenSCAD is only a way to repeat objects (= 3D objects, not POO objects), if-else are like a ternary operator for objects, the objects aren't values, and so on.

OpenSCAD has also some built-in less common features. One highlight for me are native vector and matrix multiplication, and other is the list index based on the name of the axis (list.x means list[0], list.y means list[1] and list.z means list[2]). But it lacks string and list operations, which would demand some FP-fu to write your own functions to manipulate them, just like the author did.

If you speak Portuguese, I gave a course last year about OpenSCAD. The slides are available here: https://lucasoshiro.github.io/posts-en/2024-03-24-openscad/
The author's name is Kit Fox. That's adorable, and entirely inline with the brief yet poignant impression of his parents from this wonderful article!
Monopoly action card: the IRS has hallucinated in your favor. Collect paid federal income tax for last year.
> almost all posts are programming related. It's very narrow

Absolutely, and that's why it's great.

I worked in the policy space and later entered the business aspects of tech - conversations on policy and business aspects of tech are horrid on HN, yet those kinds of conversations have become heavily promoted on HN.

At least on lobste.rs you have technical domain experts chatting about programming.
What I want to understand is how much smaller will it be, and why are they targeting what they are at the moment? The administrations they've cut back only make up fractions of a percent of the overall spending, and make virtually no difference for the average person. One of them actually put more money back into the pockets of taxpayers than it cost them, and seems to have made no sense to discard. Why not target major cost centres?
It's not simple but it's not opaque.
How would a simple tax code help the ultra wealthy?
What will you pay me for the benchmarks, for the professional knowledge and analysis?

I can post benchmarks for these Mac machines and clusters of Studios and M4 Mac Minis (see my other HN posts last month, the largest Mac cluster I can benchmark for you has 4 TB of ultrafast unified memory and around 9216 M4 cores).