skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not clickbait at all.

Maybe this should have been the title?

"The platform refused to provide DRI with publicly accessible data, such as the reach or the number of likes and shares of posts. The Berlin Regional Court ruled that X must hand over the data. DRI aims to use this data to study the influence of social media platforms on the upcoming Bundestag election and to increase transparency regarding potential manipulations before the vote."

Because not doing what is legally required is called breaking the law, and Musk et all do not care about the law.
In my younger days, we had a new walkway bridge open up near our building at work. The opening was announced months in advance and the bridge opened on the exact day they had said it would. I remarked to my wiser boss (also a software dev), how come they can predict their bridge completion so accurately while we continually run over and have to cut stuff to make our dates? Ah, he said, we never build the same bridge twice.
Lisps almost universally require or expect GC.
Yeah, totally, it's not like all listening was to albums crafted as albums, and there's some hindsight-benefit where modern listeners who like vinyl favor the albums that succeeded at being an album-as-artform and ignore the ones that only had like two good tracks. Plus, radio, jukeboxes, and 45s existed at the same time as LPs.
> X Prevents Research on Potential Election Interference

Just because you assume it's about the US the headline is clickbait? Feels a bit strong. I agree it could have been more clear, but then I saw the domain and correctly understood the context without even opening the article.

> Second, they have no evidence of "potential election interference" -- this post is literally about them suing X to get the data to do the research which might back up such a claim.

That's true, but I'm not sure what you're trying to argue here? Is it the "potential election interference" that is problematic? There is a potential for election interference, no matter if they have evidence for it or not, I'm not sure how anyone can deny the potential. They don't make any strong claims regarding the election interference at all, and they're asking for data so they can see if it's accurate or not.
People like Demis Hasabis and Derio Amodei say that R1 efficiency gains are exaggerated. $5M training cost seems to be fake as sources suggest they own more GPUs.
What a nightmare. Imagine Broadcom merging with IBM. They'd have the legacy IT market cornered whether virtualized x86 or mainframe, customers be damned. Perhaps they already do. Mainframe users often rely on CA Tech's software, which Broadcom bought years ago.
I’m sorry, but that is an issue on your end.
To be clear, in this comment, I am referring to async in the broadest sense. I am specifically NOT referring to the Rust compiler keyword and runtimes (like tokio) that work with rust future state machines.

If I understand OP correctly his current proposal is to create a different runtime for rust. That runtime happens to be written in scheme using his own compiler. It is meant to make writing async rust applications easier by having simple rust interop.

Given the authors implicit argument that an async runtime with a stack-based context switching model can provide better debugging. Is it possible to write something like that in rust? That may be better for some use cases, as it wouldn't result in a multi-language project.
> the definition of "rich", i.e. the target of ire,

There's ire directed at high income earners who pay high income taxes? This is news to me. Why exactly?

> just moving the line of what "rich" is

Again that's the dictionary definition of rich. But never mind that. This segment of the "rich" (if you want to call them that) is already well-taxed on their salaried income - we both agree. What's left to say about them?
>Unrealistic hypotheticals can often distract us from engaging with the real-world moral and political challenges we face.

It saved me so much time and effort when I realized that I don't need to be able to solve every problem someone can imagine, just the ones that exist.
I am impressed by the AI integration and simplicity of Data Formulator from Microsoft Research which runs one click in a Codespace so can't be much easier to get started throwing things together.

https://github.com/microsoft/data-formulator
So just the screws? /s
:*:\em::—
I'm lucky enough to live about 5 minutes from multiple different tool libraries. They've always had any tools I need in surprisingly good condition.

Makes a lot of sense for people like me that wouldn't need a hole saw more than once or twice a year at most to share one with the community instead of buying it myself.

If I was using something all the time though I would definitely buy my own. I have always been a little envious of friends with a great workshop of tools and supplies in their garage. I don't have the space for it or do enough tool related work to personally justify it for myself though.
No, it's not. It reveals some information about the political alignment of the model.
Watching the video it doesn't look like there was any flaring as you see right above the runway when landing. The approach seemed pretty stable to me and it just slammed into the runway. Some comments on that thread also noted lack of flaring.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cMC5lrE5Zek
Boeing builds SLS, not NASA. NASA is the paying customer.
I wonder how much of these issues are because the author is developing a Nostr app with Svelte 5? As a fellow developer of a distributed social networking application and protocol I find myself making a lot of decisions about where to store and validate data that is simply not an issue if you're making a traditional SPA working with one server that has username/password authentication.
Probably closer to "You're Holding It Wrong"
The way I've always heard it stated was: "Your time is only worth money if you'd otherwise be working." If I had to decide between fixing my washing machine and doing a freelancing job that pays $200/hr + paying a repairman to fix it, then I have an economic decision to make. If instead, I would otherwise be wasting time playing video games or watching TV, then it always makes sense to do the job yourself.
> In general, I agree that a thorough house-cleaning of NASA would be great for technical achievement, but this is one of the stupidest ways you could do it.

Unfortunately it's business as usual for the X-style organization reform model. (Not that Musk was the first to do this, of course.)
It's not hatred but indifference towards the employer. That indifference is mutual. I'm not saying that I agree with it, but I get it.
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> Also, you owned it.

Don't worry: we could still make a physical cartridge with DRM that would stop working after you unsubscribe from the service :-)
Actual title: White House says Musk is not DOGE employee, has no authority to make decisions

The white house council stated this in a legal filing, which may not represent the actual facts on the ground.
SemiAnalysis is wrong. They just made their numbers up (among many other things they have invented - they are not to be trusted). I have observed many errors of understanding, analysis and calculation in their writing.

Deep Seek R1 is literally an open weight model. It has <40bln active parameters. We know that for a fact. That size of model is definitely roughly optimally trained over the time period and server times claimed. In fact, the 70bln parameter Llama 3 model used almost exactly the same compute as the DeepSeek V3/R1 claims (which makes sense, as you would expect a bit less efficiency for the H800 and for the complex DeepSeek MoE architecture).
It's a reflection of the wider society and (as others have pointed out) the media environment. HN can't be immune from macro trends.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

We've been here before. It will likely subside, as past swings and fluctuations have. It always takes longer than it feels like it should, but in retrospect turns out to be shorter than it felt like it did.
>> This is why bespoke software development is never ever primarily about the software

Let me rephrase: This is why bespoke software development is never ever primarily about the code

It has all to do with SW. The big problem is thinking SW=Code

But you are essentially 100% right
The basics of pricing theory, that higher prices reduce demand.
In general, with a very few exceptions, if the body has a regulatory mechanism there's at least some reason for it, and tinkering with it without understanding it can have unpredictable downsides.

>as a natural metabolic regulation to control oxidative stress

That sounds like something I'd be very wary of manipulating without a good deal of clinical trials. Isn't oxidative stress one of like three primary hypothesized mechanisms of aging?
Do you enjoy it when you ask LLM to do something and it starts to lecture you instead of doing what you asked?
ADHD makes a mockery of working memory. The number of times I'll have to go back to see what the the fourth, fifth and sixth digit of a six digit sequence were is truly frustrating.

The article indicates that working memory can be improved though, going to have to give that a try.
> couldn't they just subscribe to Pro and use the API?

Since X serves German users, X needs to follow German law. Since German law says researchers need to be able to access data, the researchers tried to get the data. X says no (breaking the laws), so now they continue with the correct pipeline for getting the data anyways.

If this all sounds new and foreign to you, checkout the Digital Services Act (DSA) which seems to be the directive they're using for requesting the data.

Subscribing to Pro and using the API would be like admitting X didn't actually break laws here, so not surprising they try to go the right way about this. Not only for themselves, but would make it easier for others in the future when they win.
No, it's profitable.

The problem is the schism of media. If I already have 3 streaming service providers but the greatest show on earth is only watchable on "kufuzu neon plus", I'm just not going to watch it.

Consumers care more about convenience. What they should have done is to integrate into Netflix, stop worrying about exclusive premiere content, and instead focus on outcompeting the others in a common marketplace.

Instead they all conspired to fall on netflix like a pack of hyenas, rip off whatever chunks they could get and then retreat to their dens to enjoy the spoils.

So yeah, screw them. If you're a creative, don't sell your original valuable ideas to companies that are not built on original valuable ideas.
Anyone know the math on how many crashes it would take until this would equalize?
While this site is particularly for me-cfs and long-covid illness, they do great analysis of many studies on a variety of subjects and recently red-light-therapy

* https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2024/12/10/red-light-thera...

Many independent studies, videos and panel buying comparisons on that page

Personally I'm still not completely convinced but cannot afford it anyway.

adding link to Red Light Therapy Shopping Tool:

* https://products.lighttherapyinsiders.com/
Not rage bating. Im legitimately suprised by how many tech people hype up the MBP for no reason what so ever. If the laptops were half the price, they would be worth it from a tech perspective considering what you get.

>isn't it strictly better to have a way to run Linux on it

In a perfect world, Apple would open source the firmware, which would let people just compile the linux driver for it. While Asahi project is cool in terms of figuring stuff out, ultimately its a lost cause because Apple will never be on board.
According to WMT 2014 benchmarks, GPT 4o and Gemini Flash 1.5 are acceptable. I think Gemini Flash 1.5 8B is the most used right now due to price. In my experience, it is pretty good except in name translation and consistency across text which is why pros use translation dictionaries. It will mostly translate idioms which is nice.
From front page to flagged. Hey @dang, do you care to explain this?
...and absorbing lots of heat as it evaporates.

There's a reason water is used for firefighting.
Normalization of deviance, the process of becoming inured to risky actions, is a useful concept for today that was developed to explain how the Challenger disaster, and later the 2003 Columbia disaster, happened.

It's what DOGE is doing: becoming inured to risky actions.
> So, what exactly has generative AI actually done? Where are the products?

The product is ChatGPT, actually.

If LLMs are a bubble, then you should expect most of OpenAI's revenue to come from its API (which is used by startups which have raised money to do "magic AI stuff", and the bubble would pop when investors would stop giving the money). But according to https://futuresearch.ai/openai-revenue-report, revenue from the API accounts only for 15%, the other 85% being the different subscriptions offers, including 55% of ChatGTP Plus subscriptions -- that is, _direct consumers_.

This doesn't prove that it isn't a bubble (the consumers could realize it's useless and then leave some time later), but it makes it less likely IMO.
You may also have trouble applying the Aspirin to only one location.
> That doesn't account for steel, aluminum, vehicles, etc. We import $12B of aluminum alone, $51B of vehicles, etc. etc. etc.[0] The large majority of stuff we import is raw goods that you can't just avoid as a consumer.

The biggest issue I have when having these discussions is that people assume that the situation currently is what will always be. Part of rationale behind the Tariff is that you increase domestic production. Obviously it isn't going to happen over night, but the cure for high prices, is high prices as this will create the incentive for people to domestically produce.

> Re: energy independence, US was not "energy independent" in that we didn't import any energy. We were (and still are) energy independent in that we produce more than we consume

Right so you could meet the energy needs right?

> Tariffs threaten those export relationships, and it's not trivial to just ship electricity wherever it's needed. It's far easier for us in the North to get electricity from Canada than to ship it in from the desert or something.

It may not be. However the entire point is to create a incentive to solve these problems domestically.
Neither sales nor income taxes are "a percentage of their wealth" in any case. The issue is that in practice their declared income isn't inherently higher than their spending and it's often lower, so the argument that the existing income tax would collect more from them than a consumption tax is erroneous.
Somewhat related: Anyone recognize the keyboard in the header image? Looks extremely similar to an HP 95LX series but isn't one I recognize.
> wants it moved over to the others side of the utility closet so that when you open the door it is easier to put clothes from there into the dryer

That's when you swap the hinges so the door opens the other way, and you thank the manufacturer for providing such an easy solution to a common problem. It's good to keep things flexible and user-configurable.

Now quick, someone reply with a counterexample of how user configuration complicates the product and increases cost. It's design tradeoffs all the way down...
This effect has been recently studied: https://www.emergent-values.ai/

They don’t directly say it quite like this, instead letting the data tell a clear story: across vendors and models and architecture and training sets, these machines get more politically liberal as they get more capable, and they also get harder to align away from that stance.
Former college movie theater operator here, Because of copyright law in the USA, to project a movie in public you need the permission of the copyright holder, usually given as a 'public performance license' available through a couple avenues. https://www.criterionpicusa.com/about-us
It costs per day through the way we did it, so we could do a couple performances and had to report ticket revenue as they also got a % sometimes. Big commercial theaters have complicated deals with the studios involving a huge percent of ticket sales, sometimes 100% for weeks, and they're even trying to strongarm some of concession sales, along with bundling like if you want say big sci fi movie, you have to carry our other product too, and limiting prints per market so theaters have to bid per region and bigger chains get more. It's a crazy crazy business with logs of legal history where studios used to have vertical monopoly owning theaters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_Pic....
If only a few people show up you'll lose money. They usually do these in the chains near me a few times a month though. Classics.
The smallest available (burstable) instance type on AWS (t2.nano) has 1 vCPU, 3 CPU credits/hour (~= 5% average CPU utilization), and 512 MB of RAM. I don't think you're going to run very much on there and definitely not with room to spare.
Because Russia also has borders, and violating that changes the game from a defensive war to an offensive one. The international calculus changes in a way that makes it less of a principled stance — opposing Russia because it does this stuff is a pretty defensible position.

It does lead to shipping a few divisions of “advisors” to Ukraine, but that’s not here nor there.
The law says that they're entitled the data for free? I honestly don't know, and the question is in good faith.
Same thing that happens if a brake line pops, steering wheel locks up, or the throttle gets jammed open. There are ways of designing redundancies into those systems. Multiple communication channels, reserve sources of power. A lot of new model vehicles already have this stuff, drive by wire for example has pretty much been the standard for twenty years now. Typically, the entire system doesn't go down because they're designed for that not to happen.

But I'll take my mechanical overrides.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43092273
My German bubble is also maybe half Whatsapp and half Signal. Many contacts have both.

It looks the same, feels the same and does the same. Notifications appear in exactly the same place, regardless of the messenger.

I don't understand why people are so passionate about not using the supposedly more private service next to the trivially less private one.

I also don't think adding messengers is such a big deal in non-technical circles, given the need is there. They just install it and its done.

An example: One of my younger generation family chat groups moved from Facebook Messenger to Signal because Messenger started blocking links to some streaming services in 2018. - No blocked links since.
Because who cares about europe?
If the white house stated this in a legal filing, wouldn't it represent the the legal state of his position? Wouldn't it make his access to systems more illegal than it already was?
Of course not, 35 isn't even a prime number
One thing that concerns me is when you can't tell whether the comment was authored or just edited by AI. I'm uncomfortable with the idea that HN threads and reddit comments gradually tend towards the grey generic writing style of LLMs, but I don't really mind (save for the prospect of people not learning things they might otherwise!) when comments are edited (i.e. minor changes) for the sake of cleanliness or fixing issues.
The hashed trie structure is definitely more annoying to write without a general garbage collector. Reference counting it works though, and comes with the magic trick that a reference count of one means you're the only reference to it, i.e. only one thread can see it, thus mutation is safe. Encoding that in the lifetime rules of rust might be a nuisance. Works very well in C.
I feel like I must be misunderstanding you. React is certainly unit testable and developers do test it - just ask react-testing-library (10M weekly downloads).

I'm not a Svelte dev, so I don't really follow the distinction you're drawing. What is it that supposedly makes Svelte more testable?
Ghosts have a fair amount of anecdotal data. Homeopathy has a fair amount of anecdotal data.
I have a number of ember projects on vite if anyone wants to take a look:

- https://github.com/krausest/js-framework-benchmark/pull/1835...
- https://github.com/NullVoxPopuli/markdown-table-viewer
- https://github.com/NullVoxPopuli/package-majors (older, needs update, which i can do pretty quickly if i remember to do it)
I appreciate the discussion about total cost of ownership. My family is looking into our first EV mainly because of the impression of lower running costs. However, the more I read, the more I realize that a fair comparison is far more complex than just fuel savings.

One thing I keep wondering, especially with the high break-even numbers, is what about battery life and replacement costs. That could really wreck any savings forecast, or am I missing something? Also, our family does not drive a huge amount each year, so figuring out if we would even hit that break-even point is still on the table.

I also noticed depreciation for EVs can be more aggressive, so buying a 2-year-old car could, in theory, significantly lower your break-even point compared to a new one, without increasing maintenance costs too much.
I guess you didn't watch the videon in OP, because if you had, you'd know that they tried to buy the buildout and got quotes for 12-18 months, then decided to do it themselves instead.
I've been curious why frontend tools/projects are so often monetized and commercial but backend tools rarely are. Why is that? Since frontend is more art than science?
I’m not saying operating systems cannot be ranked objectively. I’m saying the GPs statement was far far far too broad to be objective.

If they said “highest rated for performance X according to Y” (where X and Y are defined measurements), then it would be an objective statement.

However just saying something is “objectively the best” doesn’t make it objective.
Curious. What are some examples of BCM being avant-garde?
I'm going to risk it and say you can ignore it, you just have to want and if you need to went go to reddit.

In Poland we have a new affair every month and I don't care. Your country will be fine.

I would also love to see more technical stuff discussed here.
> My personal problem with JavaScript is that things keep changing too much.

JavaScript itself barely changes - it's the flavor-of-the-month frontend frameworks that do. What language feature is commonly used now that wasn't 5 years ago? Some nicer builtin Array methods I guess?

There's a lot of dislike on here for Typescript as a backend language. But the difference with the frontend world with its dozen everchanging frameworks is striking. On the backend side, most projects don't even use a framework, and for those that do basically all of them use the same one (NestJS). And the rate of breaking changes on that has been much lower than something like React.

Of course, many will say that this lack of industry-wide adopted framework in itself is what they dislike about it. But it's hard to settle on that golden mean inbetween both extremes when it's the most popular language in the world (in terms of "Yearly new LOC going into production"). Python makes for a good contrast, with a dozen popularish backend frameworks. Not sure if that's really a better situation to be in, there's pros and cons.