skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not fear-mongering; it's rooted in reasonable predictions based on what's different between 2017 and 2025:

1. Trump and his cronies didn't seem like they actually expected to win in 2016. They weren't prepared. Now we have Project 2025 and DOGE.

2. Trump's first-term cabinet picks and other political appointees (hell, even his VP) were not chosen all that well, in that they weren't fully bootlicking Trump loyalists. Many of them pushed back on some of the crazy things Trump wanted to do. This time, everyone has been hand-picked for their loyalty and agreement with advancing the agenda in Project 2025.

3. Members of the civil service also pushed back during his first term in ways of their own, slowing things down, and making the more destructive things hard to do. Now the civil service is being gutted.

4. In 2017, Trump hadn't yet packed federal courts and SCOTUS with hard-right loyalists. That's done now, and more will come.

5. There were Republicans in Congress during his first term -- even if not many -- who disagreed with Trump, and were willing to do so publicly. They voted against the more destructive things that Trump wanted. Some even voted to impeach/convict him! But today, Congress is stepping back and letting Trump do what he wants. Certainly what he wants in the executive branch will only get him so far; eventually he will need Congress to pass things to advance his agenda. But many of those uncomfortable Republicans who were present during his first term have retired or been replaced with card-carrying MAGA members.

If a Democrat wins the presidency in 2028 (which I think is certainly possible; one thing that I'm not that concerned about is the integrity of our state-run elections), I'm worried that there won't be much of an executive branch left for that president to be in charge of, and will spend nearly all of that 4-year term rebuilding what was destroyed, if they're even able to do so, both logistically and legally.
The ST very subtly so, even :)

> "ST" officially stands for "Sixteen/Thirty-two", referring to the Motorola 68000's 16-bit external bus and 32-bit internals.

via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_ST
Not necessarily. People will notice if it doesn’t work as well as their last iPhone.
> And, it does genuinely seem weird to have an executive branch where the head of that branch doesn’t actually control things.

It's not weird at all, and it's not true that the head of the executive doesn't have control over those agencies. The head of the executive names their leadership - that is a huge amount of control. And it is enough control - the government isn't some top-down system serving at the pleasure of the president. It is a system for implementing the rules set out by Congress and the courts (subject to the President's judicial review powers), that the president coordinates.

The very title of "president" was chosen by the founding fathers to evoke the largely bureaucratic role they had in mind. It's not supposed to be a position of prestige or control like a dictator or ruler, it's similar to the role of a committee president: someone who oversees the functioning of the committee, and steer the general agenda, but who doesn't otherwise get to decide for the committee.
SurrealDB is still really coy on its performance/what it's good at/not good at to adopt for a major data project. There's lots of features but no real indication as to if I could scale them for a dataset of billions of records. I've had my fingers burnt too many times before by products with a big table of tick box features but none of them are really usable (e.g Geospatial data comes up for me a lot)

Either you need to make it easy and zero friction to adopt like duckDB and let people find out themselves in an hour or two or you need to provide some sort of benchmarks + evidence that it isn't going to die on its arse the moment you put larger than memory amounts of data in.

Nearly all of these projects work fine for in memory size datasets but only finding out after you've put major effort into adoptionv+integration isn't really easy for someone working with data when you have something battle tested like Postgres et Al.
Blog post: https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research/2025...
From what I understand they're dividing both identity (IP address) and browsing activity. Mullvad sees your browsing activity but not your identity, and Obscura sees your identity. So no single provider has full visibility into both who you are and what you do
> Another common objection is that any given tweak to the work process might only be a tiny improvement in speed. But little tweaks are cheap and they add up over time. … If you can find a 0.1% improvement each day, that adds up to getting 2x faster every two years (1.001^(365*2) == 2.07).

Little tweaks are also not cheap - they’re cheap to write but a) you have to run a potentially expensive test suite / add more tests to verify you haven’t broken anything b) you have to understand and measure the problem in the first place which itself could easily take days. So actually, after those 2 years you’ve probably only landed a 1.6x improvement (1.001^5 days/week * 50 weeks/year * 2 years). Oh and your 0.1% improvement could be a win in 1 use case but a loss in others so your 1.6x improvement in one narrow benchmark could end up being a 3x slowdown in a different benchmark.

It’s basically impossible to find a pure 0.1% improvement every single day non stop for 2 years. It might amortize to that and it also depends on the maturity of the codebase (e.g. a rearchitecture might cost less and deliver more gains).
I still mainly use a text editor after several decades, and do a lot of thinking and initial design with pencil and paper. IDEs just get in the way.

I've seen the type of code AI generates. It might work, but if you think that's good or that massaging it so it works will make you any better, I have some bad news for you...
As is explained in the research paper, they are marketed as (or considered by the public to be) safer than candles because they don't involve combustion. They show that the same amount/type of particles are nearly the same between the two.
Impatience is one of those selfish virtues.

Most of everything in the article is about the speed at which a human moves.

This is not about the machine, but it is indirectly about it - if I hit a sub-optimal build step, I will spend time speeding it up because the difference between a 45s build and a 90s build is that I will start typing a comment on HN instead of seeing if it worked.

In the real world, usually faster is better, because the world we operate in keeps changing - the decisions you made have a shelf life and your execution speed limits how often you deliver what is right or what would have been great six months ago.

So, I do everything in my power so that I can do things faster.

Lastly, I only have a fixed number of hours left on the planet - going faster is better than going longer at a task, because my goal is not to work 8 hours & go home, it is to finish my work and get back to my life.

Oddly enough, sometimes going faster can look paradoxical. I work only about 6 hours a day, but they are placed in such a way that I am at maximum velocity & flow during those hours.

I cannot keep that up beyond a couple of hours, so I work 10 AM to 12, eat a long lunch & get back to work at 2. Work from 2 through 4, go chase kids from 4:30 to about 9:30 PM. Work another 2 hours from 9:30 to 11:30, to be in bed fast asleep before midnight.

This means the hours I work are the fastest times of my day, while about 3 days a week 9 AM to 10, I am at a coffee shop reading a book.

I might be finishing lunch & then playing pool from 1 to 2 PM, so it does look to a lot of people that I am moving in a leisurely speed at work, but the only speed that matters is when you actually sit down and start thinking/typing.

On the way, whatever tool or processes I use that are slow or repetitive gets improved or automated, because again I want to be done at 4:30 before my brain goes into "driving in traffic" readiness.

The "make sharp tools" is a side-effect, not the core process which drives productivity.
Authorart without the (Its500$LetsHaveAMeetingAboutThat)Gremium of meddle management art critics meeting. Scandalous!
Most projects will never need to scale to two web servers. The ones that do will be successful enough to have the resources to migrate.

But I guess this all depends on whether it's B2B (likely not to have that many customers), B2C (potentially more users), or a hobby project (gimme operational simplicity!). And many other variables. YMMV!
> liberal American left

Okay, so you are using the right-wing pejorative sense of “liberal” for “everyone who isn't a fascist”, since in none of the other uses do “liberal American” and ”left” occupy the same space.
That was my first thought. If he decrees that the contents of Fort Knox be moved to Mar-a-Lago, who will stop him?
Hurl is well designed for testing with marchers available for assertions. HTTL only supports strict equality assertions (for now).

Hurl is written in Rust, HTTL in node.

HTTL has an import system that can be useful for reusing an auth setup.
So, two US companies subject to US laws, the FISA court, and government-ordered secret surveillance.
Given that Trump appears to be doing Putin's bidding, that makes them instantly a major power.

Trump is meeting with Putin without any representatives from Ukraine or Europe, and claiming that Ukraine is at fault for getting invaded and should just surrender everything to Putin.

Since Trump seems to be adversarial to China but very friendly if not outright subservient to Russia, it makes the China-Russia dynamic profoundly different.

I suspect if China invaded Taiwan Trump would shrug, but if China threatened Russia that Trump would come to Russia's aid.
How does this differ from direct threading interpreters?

It seems like it solves the same problem (saving the function call overhead) and has the same downsides (requires non-standard compiler extensions)

EDIT: it seems the answer is that compilers do not play well with direct-threaded interpreters and they are able to perform more/better optimizations when looking at normal-sized functions rather than massive blocks

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2011-02/msg00742.html
And if the year were 1850, you'd be writing about the 'reality' of needing to accept slavery.

You're not dropping any truth bombs, you're just rationalising cowardice in the face of injustice.
Swamping courts with cases is a stated goal. Its's a DOS attack.
I was confused about the license.

From the FAQ:

"Yaak is still open source under the MIT license. You can view, modify, and run the source code for both personal and commercial use. Licensing applies only to the prebuilt binaries."

Is there differences on the compiled binary vs what I'd get compiling it myself?
Short version: HN is not Reddit
Their tool got it mostly right for me.
Also, they're run by people appointed by elected officials, just like any other government agency. They serve according to laws passed by the people's representatives and signed by the president, and they can be removed from their positions according to the law, as well. The theory that all executive authority must stem from the president's will and be subject to his whim is novel, monarchical, and highly dangerous.
Relevant recent discussion on "Minecraft with object impermanence", which is an experiment along the same lines as this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42762426
Then I suppose someone would miss their sales targets.
Oh man. A previous employer had someone come around and spray for bugs monthly. I told them to let me know when it was going to be so I could stay away for an afternoon. The exterminator insisted it was perfectly safe and wouldn’t bother me. Yeah, well, immune stuff runs in the family — my older sister had lupus — and it did, in fact, bother me.

As a test or something, he came around spraying without telling me. I was in my office when I felt my sinuses starting to swell and my chest started tightening. When I walked out into the common room and saw him smiling at me with a “see, told you it’s your imagination” grin, my coworkers had to drag me outside because I was ready to kill him.

Look, man, I’d freaking love not to have asthma and other allergy stuff. I don’t like taking handfuls of antihistamines. I’m not trying to be a pain in the ass. I just don’t, like, enjoying dying.
We're in the 56k modem era of generative AI, so I wouldn't be surprised if we had that in the next few years, or weeks.
> most functional languages

Most popular functional languages I can think of except maybe Haskell has statements!
I meant between "structured output" and "function calling". Afaict one is outputting according to a schema and the other is outputting according to a schema... which will be used as the parameters to a function.

But they seem to be considered disparate concepts. So I'm trying to understand if there's some additional nuance I'm missing.
> The EO isn't saying "ignore Constitutional violations".

What if the President says "I interpret [irrefutably unconstitutional action x] to not be in violation of the constitution"? Then anyone in the executive branch has to behave as though that action were constitutional, no matter what it is, don't they?
They should add an option to not allow linking additional devices, if that’s feasible.
And yet, here I sit with my iPhone 12 mini and will absolutely not upgrade until it explodes or there's a new mini. THAT is also an opportunity cost.
I have no idea what's going on at Xbox. I'm not much a gamer anymore, but like to read about it still.

The latest versions are a sales flop. The mid cycle refresh was canceled even(or whatever Brooklin was). And agreeing to release games on PS seemed an acknowledgement of that.

A lot of folks thought this indicates that MS would get out of hardware here, but this seems to be investment in it.

Are these just unsubstantiated rumors, or is this the right hand not knowing what the left is doing?
I imagine they see it as an opportunity or a legal way to exercise their blatant racism. But honestly I'm sick of these people.
Yes, good catch. We'll be adding several more schemas for videos in the next few weeks.

A few video schemas are already added to the main catalog: https://github.com/vlm-run/vlmrun-hub/blob/main/vlmrun/hub/c...
Ha, I just bought a VT420 a couple of weeks ago. I just finished a hacked together converter for USB keyboards working well enough (in the last hour actually). Next job is to connect it up as a login terminal for my freebsd machine.
I only see plans with 65$/month for 36 months, so 2340$ over 3 years. Which is a lot of money.

They even tell you what the actual rate is in the fine print. It's just priced in: 17.49$ over 36 months comes out to 629$.

>Monthly payments shown are for customers who qualify to pay $0 Down, $17.49/mo. for36months; 0% APR. Retail Price: $629.99
My roughest and lightest tile--which has to be replaced for other reasons after a couple decades in what we call a mudroom in New England--could probably be cleaned but would be a procedure. In general, darker and just somewhat textured tile seems to work pretty well in less-trafficked areas.
I really thought Neeva was gonna make it. I'm glad Kagi swooped in when they exited.
https://archive.is/NxxCv
How many layers of virtualisation do we need?
When you get down to basics it is all about conservation of mass. Nearly all of the stuff in these products have to end somewhere. So if you have candle or air freshener and it "disappears" with use. It must go to air you breath and then well surfaces and so on.

Meaning that well whatever is in them might get inhaled. Or improperly burned...
It's the Leninist model of governance which was the reason China was able to defy Western expectations that economic freedom would eventually lead to political freedom.

But there is one difference which is that the Leninist model also involves party loyalists being appointed to corporations. The US isn't there yet.
its not only about size but related to this smartphone weight. I find iphones quite heavy. Used to have iphone XS and now having iphone 13 mini and enjoying it more. Flip phones are even heavier.
Maybe, maybe not. It's not clear that Nixon's legal team could have successfully argued that planting listening devices in the DNC offices would constitute an "official act" of presidential power.

I would hope that, in this hypothetical reality, a judge and jury would still find that laughable.

Even if such a ruling would have kept Nixon safe from prosecution, Congress still could have impeached him, and at least that would have kicked him out of office.

Of course, Nixon was preemptively pardoned, so we didn't even get to see how that would have played out in the reality of the time.
> According to Evan Bacon, one of the developers leading the Expo project, 40 of the top 100 iOS apps are now non-native. And with the proliferation of AI app builders, the future is starting to look even more non-native.

This is easy for Apple to regulate away. Just put in “Apps shall not use cross platform frameworks” in the developer agreement and bam - all the enterprise companies (BMW, GM, etc) will switch away for fear of being banned

The thing is Apple doesn’t care if apps are native or not, as long as they bring in the money
Not all though. Sony retains the jack, screen without cutouts and the SD slot.
But you hate not wasting energy?
They can pass new laws which the current president has stated he will interpret according to his desires, sure.
Microsoft has always been at war with Microsoft.

I think what they want to do is create the best Xbox console to run their games on, while also making money from their games across all platforms. Its not necessarily dumb they just have to handle it well (which they probably wont)
Ok, given the size of the US budget and size of the US both population and land mass, the federal executive workforce is likely understaffed. The amount spent on the workforce is not excessive and is ~3% of the overall US budget.

These cuts to the workforce are performative at best, or designed to destroy the federal government at worst. Given it's Musk and Trump, I think it's the later. And they are doing this under the guise of budget concerns, which is clearly bullshit when they still have a $4.5T tax cut on the table.

So it's not whataboutism, it's was a quick way of highlighting how your post was incorrect.
Worth it for this alone

>Among the various use cases for Muse that Microsoft outlines in its announcement, perhaps the most intriguing involves game preservation. The company says Muse AI can study games from its vast back catalog of classic titles and optimize them for modern hardware.
> VC don’t need to appease regulators

Regulations around clinical trials represent the floor of what's ethically permissible, not the ceiling. As in, these guidelines represent the absolute bare minimum required when performing drug trials to prevent gross ethical violations. Not sure what corners you think are ripe for cutting there.
Off topic: Unlike many out there I'm not usually bothered by lack of capitalization in comments or tweets, but for an essay like this, it makes the paragraphs so hard to read!
> math is ultimately about symbols. [...] Neither! It means that the string of symbols '2 = 2' is reducible to the symbol 'true', given certain axiomatic symbolic transformations. Nothing more, nothing less!

If that were true, math would be useless, and nothing more than an esoteric artform.

The true power of math comes from the correspondence between those symbolic transformations and observation from the real world. Two objects that look alike can be placed in juxtaposition with any other (different) two objects that look alike, and no matter how much we move them around, as long as we don't add or remove any objects, they can still be placed in the same juxtaposition as before (while this description may seem verbose and clumsy, in the real world it does not need a description - it is a much more primitive sensory perception, learned at an early age).

> obviously we can project concepts onto the symbols, like "integer" and "real number", and talk usefully about them, but those are the map and the symbols are the terrain

It wouldn't be "obvious" that we can project concepts onto symbols, if we didn't discover that symbols correspond to concepts and that symbolic transformations can help us predict the future. Thus I'd say it's the other way around: symbols are the map that we know how to read - of the terrain that we can't traverse easily.
From the Xbox press release (https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/02/19/muse-ai-xbox-empoweri...):

> Today, countless classic games tied to aging hardware are no longer playable by most people. Thanks to this breakthrough, we are exploring the potential for Muse to take older back catalog games from our studios and optimize them for any device. We believe this could radically change how we preserve and experience classic games in the future and make them accessible to more players.

> To imagine that beloved games lost to time and hardware advancement could one day be played on any screen with Xbox is an exciting possibility for us.

To me this shows that they're just bullshitting to pump the stock price. There's no way that using generative AI to port nontrivial games based on gameplay videos and recorded inputs would produce anything more than maybe a tech demo at best. You wouldn't get anywhere near the accuracy of emulation or a direct source port, but saying "we're hiring emulation experts to improve our backwards compatibility" doesn't juice the stock like "we're using generative AI to preserve games" does.
Do yourself a favor and don't wait too long to get rid of the plate: when you crash on that shoulder again, the collar bone won't be able to do it's job of being the predetermined breaking point that saves the shoulder ligaments from ripping. And the AC ligament, unlike bone, will never recover. Not even with the surgery that you'll then likely need to at least restore the other shoulder ligaments. Fractured collar bone is a feature, not a bug.

Yeah, I failed to get my plate removal appointment in time, then I got a plate replacement appointment on the fast track and the next removal appointment then happened to be almost the same day as the one originally scheduled (the plates for separated shoulder stay in much shorter, and they better should, because they aren't painless at all)
The signature scent of Motel 6 is leftover Long John Silvers and Waffle House.
Fair enough. My mistake.
Personally my argument would be the problems at the low level are just hard problems and doing them in rust you'll change one set of problems of memory safety to another set of problems probably of unexpected behaviour with memory layouts and lifetimes at the very low level.
Thanks! that blog post had a thread here:

Trust, 2-Party Relays, and QUIC - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43016574 - Feb 2025 (33 comments)
Ah cool, care to share a few examples? We can probably add those schemas in the next few days if there's enough folks who could benefit from this. A basic invoice schema is already there: https://github.com/vlm-run/vlmrun-hub/blob/main/vlmrun/hub/s...

You can see some of the qualitative results on GPT4o, Gemini, Llama 3.2 11B, Phi-4 here: https://github.com/vlm-run/vlmrun-hub?tab=readme-ov-file#-qu...
California logic, I feel you.
Great!

Also I use the Japanese summary conveniently. :)
https://catnose.me/lab/hackernews-ja
But it is an interesting question: What is the manufacturing tolerance? Naively I had assumed that it's much smaller than a watt-hour. But that's based on ~no knowledge :D
The concept of proof of work is the idea of a sick libertarian brain deciding "let's burn electricity to assign value to these bits".

Proof of stake isn't much better. It just means the rich guys decide :D
Discussed at the time:

Speed Matters - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28879240 - Oct 2021 (159 comments)