skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Update: Wikipedia's copyright notes regarding a Tintin file... is definitely not what I've expected https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tintin_and_Snowy_from_Tin...

> Also note that this image may not be in the public domain in the 9th Circuit if it was first published on or after July 1, 1909 in noncompliance with US formalities, unless the author is known to have died in 1954 or earlier (more than 70 years ago) or the work was created in 1904 or earlier (more than 120 years ago.)

And links to this footnote (https://guides.library.cornell.edu/copyright/publicdomain#Fo...):

> The differing dates is a product of the question of controversial Twin Books v. Walt Disney Co. decision by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in 1996. The question at issue is the copyright status of a work only published in a foreign language outside of the United States and without a copyright notice. It had long been assumed that failure to comply with U.S. formalities placed these works in the public domain in the United States and, as such, were subject to copyright restoration under URAA (see note 10). The court in Twin Books, however, concluded "publication without a copyright notice in a foreign country did not put the work in the public domain in the United States." According to the court, these foreign publications were in effect "unpublished" in the United States, and hence have the same copyright term as unpublished works. The decision has been harshly criticized in Nimmer on Copyright, the leading treatise on copyright, as being incompatible with previous decisions and the intent of Congress when it restored foreign copyrights. The Copyright Office as well ignores the Twin Books decision in its circular on restored copyrights. Nevertheless, the decision is currently applicable in all of the 9th Judicial Circuit (Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, and Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands), and it may apply in the rest of the country.

Also, Disney lost here (Accordingly, we reverse the summary judgment in favor of [Disney & co.]). It might not even PD in the US if this is upheld (and it seems so).
Not sure if this is nostalgia: What I don't get with modern games, at least on the most likely device I could be using for gaming - the iPad - is how ugly they are.

Even AoE and Settlers (both preferably in the second edition) look soooo much better to me than most of the games I can find, they look just strange, both the remakes from "brand name" studios and a lot of the smaller games like you'd find on Apple Arcade.
I find them useful for searching for some function or API name with natural language. 'What's the function call [in blah] that generates a quaternion from a couple of vectors?' type stuff. Not exactly inspiring but I've found it highly useful. If you try to search for something like that online (and somebody hasn't asked the exact question on e.g. stack overflow) you'll just end up getting all the documentation for quaternions, vectors, and blah - when the function itself might even be in a tertiary math library.
This part. Companies love a smokescreen when they need to tighten their belts.
Google Titans Model Explained: The Future of Memory-Driven AI Architectures
for more info, write to us at info@casablanca.ai
Yes, I couldn't have imagined that in the end, the AI wrappers are where the money is.
I'm an introvert in that I enjoy my own company a lot, and I get exhausted by social events. I'm also on the spectrum somewhere, as I find it hard to read social queues and such, which often makes me feel really awkward.

My sister has a million friends and used to host parties all the time, and invited me often. One day she said "people always love it when you come", and I was a bit surprised by that. I asked how so, and she said "you're so good at making people feel seen".

I didn't do it consciously I think, but I realized I would find people who were quiet and start talking to them. If I got the vibe they wanted to be left alone then I'd move on, but most of the time that was not the case. I'd ask about what they studied or worked with, or hobbies, as I do like to discover new things.

She since got kids so not so many parties anymore, but I got reminded of this a couple of years ago when I was at a wedding for a family member.

We're in Norway and another family member had gotten a US girlfriend who was there. As the evening wore on I went over and started talking. Her work was interesting and in contrast to what I knew from Norway, she lived in Nevada and I'd been to Las Vegas once so we talked about the contrast of that city vs the rest and so on. A couple of hours flew past and we were the last to go.

As we were about to leave she gave me a big hug and almost teary eyed said "thank you, you have no idea how good it was to just talk".

Again I was surprised, but she told me that she'd been with the groom's family for a week and nobody had really just talked with her besides her boyfriend.

So yeah, introvert, socially awkward me at it again it seemed.
Any latency is too much latency for power tools, in my opinion.
The twin cities MSA has a population of about 3.7 million, the Toronto CMA 6.2 million, so Chinese cities at a similar metropolitan area population and distance would be Kunming and Changsha. Which see 20 trains a day per direction, not counting the slower sleeper trains (and also 10-12 flights per day).
The pattern I've used most often is to maintain a db/table of meta records which handles identity and transaction. Then, for each metadata row there is a SQLite database instance.

This is useful for storing instances of very complex type systems (e.g., ones with circular dependencies) and managing customer tenants.
Even if you don't collect personal data, you need to comply with regulations to document properly the fact that you do not collect personal data.
I may be biased by the quality of tap water where I live. Pharmacies around here definitely advise just using warm tap water, although they do of course also sell more sterile stuff too.
doesn't look like so that they have spent zero on marketing fluff still...
It could be like how people enjoy assembling Gundam models. Sometimes it’s fun just watching something beautiful emerge from many separate components.

People also enjoy the “how stuff is made” type videos. Simulating a manufacturing process in VR could scratch the same itch.
A distributed approach to data intelligence is quite unconventional but brilliant nonetheless. So far, I am sold on the approach. Would be keen on following up with the details of the product.
The B300 8-way SXMs will use around 1.4kW for each GPU. I think the TDP on an H100 is like 700W.
Deepseek is not on par with o1.
Probably just because pilots generally think planes are cool, especially when landing, and there's not much else to do while waiting in line but film them.
The thing is, this kind of anarcho-libertarianism is barely recognizable in Europe, or belongs to fringe left movements. In the US, it's much more right-coded and also tied to nationalism, while not being anti-military or anti-police.

"Defund the Federal government" is right-coded; "defund the police" is left-coded. No analysis connects the two.

> retain the state's monopoly on violence

Places like Italy know that when the state doesn't have a monopoly on violence, it gets messy ("years of lead").
This, in three(plus one) dimensions and with some devilish complication, is what I imagine quantum relativity (theory of everything) will turn out to be — elementary particles as topological structures made of spacetime. String theory seems to have gone astray in the name of feasible computability/somewhat comprehensible mathematical structure.
> After WW2 the Dutch government decided to replace the old currency with a new one. It was done to wipe out all the cash profits people had made during the war. If you couldn't explain the source of your money adequately it was POOF gone. It was spectacularly successful.

Would you link a source? I am unable to easily find anything online that substantiates your claim.
News of these things does come out from time to time, usually over a shorter time period, and these create embarrassment, shock, pain and anger, but has any had significant substantive consequences? Here is a hypothetical one to consider: FDR secretly informed Hitler that the US would support an invasion of the USSR - how far would be the consequences of such a revelation reach, if it were revealed today?
Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 of the US Constitution:

""[The President] shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: *but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.*"

Emphasis on the last sentence. There have been a plethora of such vestments in the Executive branch over the decades.

5 U.S.C. § 105 - This statute authorizes the creation of "necessary agencies" within the Executive Office, giving the President flexibility to establish entities like the USDS and staff them as needed, subject to funding.

5 U.S.C. § 3101 - This law states that "each Executive agency" (including the EOP) "may employ such number of employees ... as Congress may appropriate for." It implies broad authority to hire staff, with Congress controlling the budget but not necessarily the individual appointments.

Excepted Service Authority (5 U.S.C. § 3301 and Schedule A) - Under 5 CFR § 213.3102, agencies like the OMB can use Schedule A hiring authority for positions requiring specialized skills (e.g., tech expertise) that aren’t practical to fill through standard civil service exams.

This authority, delegated by Congress via the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 (Public Law 95-454) and regulations from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), allows the President (or OMB leadership) to appoint USDS personnel directly.

Term Appointments - Many roles are temporary or term-limited (e.g., 2-4 years), often filled by detailees from other agencies or private-sector experts. These don’t require Senate confirmation because they aren’t permanent "officers." This flexibility is supported by 5 U.S.C. § 3161, which allows temporary organizations within the executive branch to hire staff for specific projects.
Rehosted so it'll stay alive at least a few years: <https://lucgommans.nl/tmp/YYZ_Crash.mp3>. Let me know if you'd like something more permanent than my tmp dump folder, or a filename that gives credits or so! (BTW if you're editing clips, I can recommend exporting to Opus instead of ancient MP3: released in ~2012 so support is very good by now and it's like twice the quality at the same file size, probably even better for speech)
I have no experience in woodworking and metalworking, but I would love for there to be a low-cost way I can start learning or familiarizing routines and techniques. I currently don't even know where to start because I don't have anyone in-person to learn from. I could watch a bunch of YouTube videos, but that sounds less fun than a set of guides or tutorials in VR.
Just as I thought. You said you know a working-class person who can afford a Tesla, in a thread about homelessness in San Francisco which, last time I checked, is in the United States. You said she was a nursing student in Shanghai in the past, and does own an apartment in Shanghai now. I know people from China who are nurses in California now, and I know people who live in California who own property abroad, and nothing you wrote ruled out any of that.

So, if it turns out your friend isn't a nurse, doesn't have a high salary, and doesn't live in San Francisco, or some combination thereof, I'm going to score that as a giant lapse in reading comprehension in a thread about high salaries in San Francisco.
There's One Lie I Will Never Tell My Children
"Parents who claim to never lie to their children are liars. It begins with Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy. But there are some lies we tell as parents, however well intentioned, that do more harm than good.

I learned that lesson the hard way."

https://archive.is/l8FbO
Isn't this a convenient way to prevent a friendly takeover ousting Altman, too?
In the UK at least this used to be pretty common up until recently. It was usually recommended to wire your washing machines into a fixed wall spur instead of using a plug. Incidentally my mums house almost burnt down due to a washing machine plug which had a wiring fault and started melting through the wall socket.
I have had this experience firsthand - I met someone at a party, and he was intensely familiar, despite me being on the far side of the planet from my usual haunts. We chatted, and it transpired quite rapidly that we had been neighbours and frequent playmates as toddlers in Hong Kong.

Having had a child of my own in the last few years, I would like to think I understand the phenomenon. When we lack comprehensive language, we do not store memories as narrative experiences as we do as adults, rather just as semantic connections and correlations. There have been more than a few occasions where I have been doing something like changing a diaper, rocking her to sleep, playing with her in the bath, and I have had the intense sensation of “I remember what this felt like” - not necessarily a specific instance, but rather a remembrance of sensation.

My earliest memories are from between one and two years of age, and I know that they are memories as they are things that my parents do not recall, and I have been able to verify, and I know when they are from as we left Hong Kong weeks after my second birthday.

I remember the father of the guy I reconnected with parading around his garden on stilts - my parents denied this ever happened, yet he confirmed his father was indeed into that at the time - and I remember the pigs and chickens under the houses in the squatter’s village near us - again, my parents insisted they had never taken me there - and they had not, but my au pair, who forty years on I reconnected with and asked, had.

There are other bits and bobs, glimpses, that I recall, but can’t say for sure aren’t implants.
You cutting off from your mother in law doesn't mean your wife has to.
Show HN: I made an AI coloring pages generator
150-Year-Olds Aren't Collecting Social Security Benefits
So if the data field for DoB is missing. It revert to use year 1875. "The figures suggested that over 10 millions people aged over 120 were collecting benefits." So what about like age 120? Anyone has experience with this issue? Just curious.
The story about how they made this happen in such a short period is impressive to say the least. Elon’s strength seems to be making things happen.

Getting the largest computer cluster in the world up and running in a matter of months? Unbelievable.
“ — “ is the giveaway.
I think it depends on one's goals maybe.

Big communities are more diverse and easier to find like-minded people. Good if you want to blend in whilst being part of a subculture.

However, if the point is to stand out/be different then small, more homogenous communities present a great opportunity for those with the requisite confidence or apathy
Can it be an investment bubble but also a hugely promising technology? The FOMO-frothing herd will over-invest in whatever is new and shiny, regardless of its merits?
Considering that OpenAI subscription is $200 per month, and "Premium Plus" subscription that includes this thing is only $40 per month, does that mean instantaneous "Elon factor" is now at least -$160 per month per user, or is it supposed to be added up to more than -$240 per month?

How would the math change after factoring in that OpenAI isn't even covering entirety of opex with the sub anyway, and/or people finding associating their money and Twitter accounts to be weird, and/or this thing is supposedly running on a bigger cluster than that for OpenAI?
In what way doesn't it "make sense"? If supporting such a company (and, thus, owner/CEO/figurehead) makes you feel bad, why should you do it?

Perhaps it doesn't make financial sense, assuming the boycotted product is truly the best but that is not the only dimensions humans operate in, right?
Ouch, that's a brutal issue -- thanks for letting me know! I'm glad the Folds haven't been affected, given that having this thing open in my pocket is just not doable haha
> I give zero shits if you think you’re going to lose your stuff.

Yeah, last time an airline lost my bag they said pretty much the same thing.

The way I see it, there are two types of idiot:

You're an idiot if you delay the evacuation of a crashed plane. Shit's on fire, yo.

And you're an idiot if you expect an airline will make you whole. Airlines are in the business of delivering the worst customer service they can get away with - they don't even guarantee that a person who has booked a seat on a flight will have a seat on the flight.
I wrote a series of long replies, but then read this blog that says things that I think quite well.

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2025/02/17/do...

I am afraid that there is, likely, a correlation between publication rate and fraud. I agree that a very high publication rate doesn't necessarily mean fraud, but I am afraid that it does cast suspicion, in my mind, on the totality of the output of the author.

In my field I do know some legitimately high output authors. I know a lot of authors who think that they are legitimately high output, when in fact they are simply gaming the system. The sad thing is that they don't know better. I know a lot of people who believe that they have no option but to go with the flow as well - but know perfectly well that they are acting badly.

This is not just a question of academic morals. There are children who today will receive medicines that have no value, and may harm them, because of this practice. There are lines of research that will lead no where and produce no value that are being funded because of this practice. There are lines of research that would provide significant societal benefit that are not being funded because of this practice.
https://archive.ph/HrHtV
> a super devious way to do it would be with very small magnetized filings. It would be incredibly difficult to rid the engine of those, even completely disassembled.

Just heat it.
> How do we encourage more devs to contribute?

By allowing more accessible and higher-quality tooling than email threads. It's amazing that the development workflow has chugged on for so long, but most people (outside of finance, here be dragons) work with modern tools in their day jobs... they're not gonna take their time and try to work with the limitations of arcane processes. Unfortunately, the "old guard" is firmly entrenched and has zero interest in moving with the times. Just look at the recent Rust/Apple SoC support drama.

In the end it's conflicting viewpoints and, let's be frank, a lack of money - the Linux kernel maintainers are overworked as it is, and each new piece of less-than-perfect code is likely to cause the maintainers a ton of work. More money would at least IMHO allow for getting new drivers up to speed.
> with a limited budget (of both the financial sort and the effort sort)

> When you've got every fiber tapped around the world, it becomes trivial

These phrases are in conflict.

If their budget is limited, we shouldn't expect them to be able to trivially tap the whole world.

If tapping the whole world is trivial, they probably have the resources to spin up some VPN front companies. Or more likely, suborn existing VPNs.
>I quite like the idea of a future where the AI job holocaust largely never happened because license costs ate up most of the innovation benefit.

Not quite realistic. You are talking about very huge benefits, in favor of which licenses will be abandoned. And who don't abandoned them... I mean you can look at the Amish settlements.
The stock price is fucked if Musk leaves. The car business might survive, though.

I have no faith they can deliver on FSD/optimus/AI/cheap model. But with SEC kneecapped, I think the next rabbit out of Elon’s hat will be spectacular.
Waymo uses reinforcement learning (what it was before LLMs) (TD3+BC according to one of their blogs)

Emma is something they tried, but further down the article they explain why they don't use it as such yet.
You may be right, he tweeted about it already last year, and seemed to confirm it again yesterday https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1861801046949191686 https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1891388509191049307
It's the dashes that make it a dead-giveaway.
The ideal candidate will be punched in the stomach
Amazon Delivery Driver: Stop Putting Delivered Packages on Beds&Kitchen Counters
Be careful, I accidentally sat on it and it bent, and display got ruined. Kindle original survives just fine. The metal enclosure is not very robust
For those of you who were confused about what "R1" is like I was, it seems to be an LLM of some kind https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news250120
... walking absolutely must be learned... They will automatically learn it without explicit teaching but indeed it must be learned. A child prevented from standing or walking for 5 years and then stood on their feet for the first time will not be able to walk.
I drive a Model X. It is not well engineered.
Yeah, but that is where it starts. It’s like people who comment vs just reading/sharing the same opinion. Only a tiny fraction speak out. There are lots more who share the same opinion but just haven’t/don’t voice it.

Additionally there are those who attended the other rallies yesterday not at the dealerships but at other locations holding signs declaring their opinion towards Musk.

Hell, I just paid off my Tesla and I’m thinking of dumping it because I don’t want to be seen as someone who supports him.

The brand is 100% tarnished.

Only when sales/stock price take a long sustained hit will there be anything done.

They only care about their money.
… well engineered product..

The cybertruck is not well engineered. Maybe their other cars are but not the cybertruck.

Why is everything so political…

I have no obligation to buy a product that enriches a person as shitty as Elon Musk. Politicization by boycotting his products is warranted though.
> That evolved tangentially into

I really think that's some reverse causality here (source: been here since at least 2012, eyeing my account registration date). The Boeing thing is of recent years but commercial airline crashes have always been interesting to many people from my perception
> So what is the point of "making" it?

Perhaps the point is greater than building something in minecraft.
"This image may not be in the public domain in the [US] 9th Circuit"
I really liked this book
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/2558730.Digital_Desig...

It teaches the basics and then how to build a MIPS processor.

I know that's only part of what nand 2 tetris aims for. But still good.
> Be brave. Just try it.

This is the exact opposite attitude I would want to have when it comes to choosing the best way to store and manage my data. My data is actually important. I understand that might not be true for a lot of other people. I also have a lot of data, and non-trivial amounts of data has incredible inertia. It's very difficult to move and "redo" if you mess it up.

For all these reasons, I just use postgres.
Suggesting lifting weights three times a week when all you know is the person has a problem with their joints is not only unhelpful, it can be downright detrimental to their health. It's like recommending someone morbidly obese go for a run. It might be fine, but it might also destroy their joints for the rest of their life, and you can't know which it is without knowing more about their situation and condition.