skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
god these arguments are empty, personal and without any substance whatsoever
exactly. and the counterarguments boil down to “na na” and hope.
Thanks for sharing this! I'm working on a very similar project, and the bit about disabling sleep/built-in services was very helpful.
I wrote up a follow up Tweet - there are bug bounties worth $100 to $1000 per task.

For an interview, because we created a points system, it's entirely transparent, and we require all code to be Apache 2 licensed, so you can inspect all processes freely in the public.
There are so SO many databases out in the wild that were built by people with little regard for building them correctly - or they simply not programmers/DBA's in the first place, but their boss told them to just make it happen.
Userspace, yes.
If a piece of software crashes in the forest, and no-one is around to hear it, did it really crash at all?
The Trade-Offs of Nomad Life: Convenience vs. Cost vs. Comfort vs. Simplicity
Thank you! This really helps. I'll concentrate on Computer Architecture and lower level optimization then. I'll also pick one of the books just to get some ideas.
Yes, if you make a zero-sum system (like undergrad admissions at selective UCs) more fair, then this will come at a cost to those who would otherwise have been unfairly advantaged.
No, it's not actually about mastery of binary trees or other abstract computer science concepts.

leetcode is really a culture fit test and success points to the combination of "smarts", diligence, and conformity to some acceptable degree. It shows you have some baseline of familiarity with computing, can focus on an arbitrary task to pursue a goal, and will conform to an arbitrary process when it's asked of you.

Those are genuinely essential skills in an organization with 1000's of white collar professional workers.

More precise insight is gained when the test covers a binary tree inversion than that were it just some contrived logic puzzle like the LSAT or a critical reading exercise. The computer science bit does provide some signal and isn't completely arbitrary, but it's only a small part of what's being evaluated.

Among otherwise strong engineers, it tends to filter out the especially willful, prideful, independent, meandering, creative, and pragmatic ones. These personality types can be extremely valuable in some work environments and can still sometimes in through leetcode challenges, but spoil big bureuacratic systems like FAANG's when they're overrepresented.
The only repeating use I've found for these so far is object detection in Frigate (NVR software).
Ground Receiving Equipment, Telemetry, Tracking, & Control, and two line rlement sets. Apparently everything you need to predict orbits of a satellite are contained inside TLEs metadata and is considered a good way to share orbital information between disparate parties.
I guess the question that should be asked if the examples of waste presented thus far are exceptions or if there's just rampant waste everywhere that nobody has been able to find. We have (well, had) a Government Accountability Office that's supposed to be empowered to audit the federal government's spending, and should be able to catch fraud and waste on the scale of billions of dollars. If they're not able to find it, then I can only think of three reasons why that might be: fraud and waste on that scale doesn't exist despite certain outlets constantly insisting that it must be there, it does exist but they're either understaffed or otherwise not empowered to adequately remediate what they do find, or it exists and they're complicit in hiding it.

I'm sure I'm missing something, I'm no expert by a long shot, but government spending isn't a secret. Budgets get approved by congress and spent by the executive out in the open. Maybe someone interested in curtailing waste could start by auditing budgets? Making sure that the money allocated got spent where it should have and that the budgets weren't padded with unnecessary spending? But that takes a lot of time, effort, and energy, is kind of boring, and wouldn't generate dozens of headlines every day.
>The big problem is Google seems to have let the whole thing stagnate since like 2019.

Google's flightiness strikes again. How they expect developers (and to some degree consumers) to invest in their churning product lines is beyond me. What's the point in buying a Google product when there's a good chance Google will drop software support and any further development in 5 years or less?
Sure but this is a discussion forum and nihilism makes for uninteresting conversation.

And people are invested in their lives and welfare even if all we are is dust floating blindly through the void of an uncaring universe, or whatever.
Reminds me a lot of thermodynamics. Microstates and transition probabilities are a more “fundamental” description, but when you hit the metal, temperature and pressure are more useful in practice to human engineers
For those wanting some background, rather than just wanting to vent:

1. Here is evaluation of my recent predictions: https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/25-ai-predictions-for-2025...

2. Here is annotated evaluation, slightly dated, considering almost line by line, of the original Deep Learning is Hitting a Wall paper: https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/two-years-later-deep-learn...

Ask yourself how much has really changed in the intervening year?
Thanks! I'll follow the link and see what happens. And thanks for recommending Andrew Ng's course too, hopefully it gives enough background to know how the users (AI scientists) want us to prepare the data.
The technology of mind-control is advancing at a furious pace. These AI generated images and videos are just the latest evolution.

Who is vulnerable? Who is immune? What will its final form look like?

What do the scifi prophets say?

(This vast irresistible mind-control machinery serves the billionaires of course)

Poverty is probably your best shield. Because then you can't afford a phone. Someday the universal suicide order will drop and the only people left will be monks and beggars.
It is currently being force "low-densified" by restrictions. If those restrictions and force were removed, it would densify itself due to market demands. It would be much, much less forced than the current paradigm.
Power in CTI
Prediction 2030: Linus Retires and C++ accepted as the primary language for writing the kernel.

Inadvertently, Rust makes working with C++ acceptable.
Do you also get the apostrophe get mangled into something like `&#39;` ?
Dupe: (6 points, 2 hours ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43121113
Yeah I read that. Your comment about "small unknown stores" threw me off because none of the parties involved with this story are small so I'm not sure what it has to do with the discussion.
But even CPU inference is both faster and more energy efficient with a modern Arm SBC chip

Where I live, electricity costs 45 cents per kWh. What would be a good Arm SBC to run Frigate, assuming I have 4 cameras?
> Would you consider that to be a compiler? :-)

:) No. Under my definition there needs to be some non-trivial transformation into or out of an intermediate and/or target representation (either syntax-directed directly out of the parser, or from a materialized AST). Personally I would argue that even if you trivially "compiled" to sequential bytecode, if the bytecode is then interpreted it is hard to argue that you have created a compiler (the pre-JIT cpython interpreter is still an interpreter, even though it includes a bytecode representation). But I can see that this point can be argued, and historically a school exercise of writing a Pascal-to-pcode converter would be called a compiler, so sure, you can take that perspective if you like. Just don't get confused about whether you are learning to build a compiler (definition 1) or a compiler (definition 2).
I dunno, every software product I use in the US has been getting worse over time. Even if Europe is doing nothing, at least they aren’t accelerating in the negative direction.
>Presumably, this is an investment in replacing code written in C. There's no way around abstraction or overhead in such a venture.

Nobody is proposing replacing code right now. Maybe that will happen eventually, but it's off limits for now.

R4L is about new drivers. Not even kernel subsystems, just drivers, and only new ones. IIRC there is a rule against having duplicate drivers for the same hardware. I suppose it's possible to rewrite a driver in-place, but I doubt anyone plans to do that.
Stated platform can be an absolute lie, have you fucking read what I mentioned about how the Nazi government almost literally erased all forms of labour unions? Did you check anything about the German Labour Front instituted by them? Have you read any of the history about how labour unions were treated by the Nazis?

Seriously, why would you believe the stated goals instead of their actions? Do you trust Nazis?
I think you're about to understand the quote.
> No, you can't get Mexico to stand in for the US in most scenarios

I'd disagree. A lot of CDMX, Guadalajara, Monterrey, and Leon looks like a similar if slightly dated version of LA, San Jose, or flatland parts of SF and Oakland - sort of like a 1980s or 1990s kind of aesthetic because of Mexico's economic boom back then.

But this is absolutely about Spanish language content for the Hispanoblante world.
> understand the impact on government workers, but I'm curious if this is actually changing peoples lives in any way.

The effects have started to be felt, but nowhere near the lecel they will be if things continue much longer this way; as well as the directed impacts, a generale economic slowdown is expected as a fairly near-term second ordee effect. Lots of direct job losses plus people holding off spending because of a cloud of uncertainty is a great way to make a recession.

https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/18/impact-of-trump-federal-...
Perhaps inefficiency is not desirable, but it should be deliberative. These rash, uninformed actions will have consequences.
Large discussion (617 points, 16 days ago, 554 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42938125
Those worthless posts on Facebook are all bot engagement farms. You can recognize them for having nothing to do with anything, and the commenters are all bots as well. You can click on their profile because it has to be public. If you look at their friends, they won't be mostly from someplace like real friends would, they'll be from all over. Each one of them will have a cover photo that is a low quality picture of...some people, doing nothing. Their posts will all be bot engagement, with a few nothing pictures (such as a sunset with the caption "Nice sunset.")

It's all, 100%, crap.
I've been developing a notion that, in modern times, a microkernel is not the sole root of trust. It is just the most privileged component that glues other essential components. Without it, things fall apart, but we still need quality in the "business logic" components (everything else, from this view). So a user should deploy a trusted microkernel with trusted means of download and whatever opsec, and similarly for other crucial components like drivers.

This is all essential trust anyways. The leaps and bounds we've achieved through hardware engineering have the burden that they aren't credible for security. You can use IOMMU, but perhaps I won't. Integrated co-development of hardware and software is ideal, but generally there is an adversarial relationship, and we must reflect that in the software. Trust and security are not yes/no questions. We have to keep pushing boundaries. seL4 is a good start; let's make more from it.
Tax free?
Is this the same guy talking about the same topic?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0lFyPuH8Zs

I need a transcript as the FOSDEM website didn't provide a one (404 not found), but youtube has.
Discussion (780 points, 3 days ago, 800 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43076710
The likelihood of Trump sending troops across the border is pretty low right now. The chance of Trump trying to destroy Canada economically with America's weight is relatively high.

Please continue to disentangle Canada's economics from the US; it's much more likely your kids starve then are shot.
When a foreign key field is left empty, that implies that no foreign key relationship was claimed. By definition a primary key cannot be no. But a foreign key, which is a representation of another table's primary key, can be null. It merely means that no foreign key relationship is claimed.
Ever tried getting the bureaucracy to acknowledge your rights in practice and do the things they're charged with doing when they've decided you're on the "wrong" side? Yes, I believe "my team" is winning; I haven't lost rights (yet), I've gained them. I worry about the pendulum swinging too far, I wish it hadn't come to this, but there's a whole class of people that have been shamelessly partisan for years, and even now are unrepentant and contemptuous of the people they're supposed to be serving, and that system has shown itself to be unwilling to be reformed. I had hoped that the first Trump presidency would be a wake-up call, that the Dems would finally remember they need to at least pretend to care about the working class, but instead we got more of the same. So here we are.
Pretty neat. I would have expected it to take a bit longer, but I suppose the optimizing step is the real magic in a compiler.
Ask vs. Guess Culture (2023)
Title: Situating Power in Cyber Threat Knowledge

The article does define CTI: Cyber Threat Intelligence strange the op edited it as such
My dad bought a Belite ultralight aircraft. It arrived with the propeller too long so he damaged the motor the first time he booted it up. Rather than fixing the struts and wheels, they fucking cut the propeller shorter. The left wing was 3" longer than the right wing. It is an Italian motorcycle engine.

You might try to Google belite because that sounds awesome, right? My dad told Mr he was selling the plane when he got it back from belite, but decided to fly it one last time.

The engine failed at like 1000' after takeoff and piledrove him into some poor bastard's farm a quarter mile from the airport. The fucking plane could not even glide.

Random ass people driving is bad enough. I have dozens of gigs of dashcam videos of all manner of insane, mad, evil, stupid, degenerate driver in my more recent 100,000 miles traveled in the US.
News for you. Elon Musk is not an engineer. Elon Musk does not know computer science. Yes, he's able to read books and learn subjects but he has never worked as a software engineer in any professional setting. You attribute competence to him in so many areas where he does not deserve it.
That’s really interesting to think about. I had seen a list of the most expensive streets and Polanco is home to one of those (the commercial Avenida Presidente Masaryk) and Atherton is on the list too (the residential Walsh Road).
Yeah, not a big fan either. I also saw some suggestion that current implementations of IOMMUs aren't highly secure. Performance is always the big opponent to security. I wrote about my thoughts on not necessarily relying on IOMMUs adjacent to this reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43122900.
But thats the question: what is fair? I would allege that Steven will be just fine, no matter where he goes to school, but that others would receive more utility from the scarce resource of elite higher ed. I think that doing nothing is unfair as it just perpetuates the existing biases of our society!

In other words: your claim of "unfairly advantages" is a moral one, and not at all objective.
Which is a lot, at least in terms or how much you can buy. Mexico is really cheap, compared to USA.
Implicitly, maybe. Does that matter if you don't know where?
It's not their fault for doing it, it's your fault for pointing it out.
I don't know... I'm starting to seriously think that is only 5-10 years away.
> The article you've just read is one such example.

There is no way to verify that. Until a method exists to discern real from AI-generated content, we should probably assume it's generated (for our safety).

Sadly, that's the world we live in now. It was kind of like that before, but it's even more so now.
The advertisers couldn't care less about operational chaos at Twitter. They care about bad press. If Twitter was a lesser known company or Elon Musk wasn't a political enemy of liberal journalists, there would have been minimal revenue loss. This had nothing to do with the layoffs. Twitter would have the exact same problem even if they kept all the employees.
Yes you just need to reorganize those smart people into a new system. I don’t agree with everything being done.
a couple questions for people who have been using it. Where does this fit between a typical budget arm cortex and a gpu? and what are the practical sized models you could run on one of these?
My understanding is there is not a such thing and humans, if we want to go interstellar, are going to have to accept that those humans and probably all their offapring are gone forever.
What is harder to fight against, however, is when they make deals with corrupt officials (looking at you democratic NYC Mayor, Mr Adams) to get what they want: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c80yrglnn79o
Your view is not espoused enough. Thank you for this comment. I'm not suggesting we just go and use seL4 myself, but it's a strong foundation that shows we don't have to be so cynical about the potential of microkernels.
Youtube is a monopoly because it's not a very good business to be in and it basically lives off Google subsidization. It has plenty of openings for competition and none have too much forward movement.
objectively, the ad business used to bring in around $5 billion. It now brings in closer to 1. Sure, costs got cut, and now it's cashflow positive, but if the goal was really to reform the business from a strictly monetary point of view, it's impossible not to bring up the fact that there could have been an extra $4 billion in profit, if someone had just been less polarizing of a character.

so objectively, looking strictly at the numbers, it's not a winner. if I were a PE firm and my hired CEO's personality caused revenue to drop that hard, I'd find another CEO who could just as easily have cut costs without all the insanity. insanity brings risk and has cultural and political costs, and who wants that? Just make me money and don't get me in the newspapers.

so the only reasonable conclusion is that it's not about money or the stated goals but about power. Ever get annoyed with a waitress at a restaurant over something small? A normal person would just brush it off, but if you're a billionaire, you can buy the restaurant, cut her wages (because firing her is less humiliating), and have her boss treat her like shit, because it's fun for a billionaire to flex on the peasants like that.

It stopped being about the money a couple hundred million dollars ago.
I honestly don't know why this isn't a bigger deal. This is terrifying.
That's wonderful, nice work! Love the ambient audio track.
Discussion (103 points, 1 month ago, 43 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42738284
How feasible would it be to generate high-quality guassian splats of everywhere, starting with big cities, like Google Maps street view and 3D view?

Then you can make video games and interactive experiences in real-world locations. I doubt the collision handling is there, but you can at least start with something like Microsoft Flight Simulator with low-flying drones.

It would also be great for training AI to generate realistic-looking scenarios. Besides playing and working (ex: VR) in real places, you can in very-realistic liminal spaces. (And it's training on public areas, so less ethical issues.)
You're assuming some linear/symmetric relationship, by trying to relate an inverted sign! The more direct question is, are there dense urban jungles that are desirable? A good way to measure that might be comparing where wealthy people live, with the assumption that desire and price are related, locally. Do they live more inner-city, or do they live more in the suburbs at the outskirts?
I have two middle names, and it amazes me how many digital systems cannot handle this in 2025. I have yet to find a bank that supports spaces in your middle name, and multiple airlines have decided to just concatenate my middle names together.
Well if it isn't clear, I can help out: they mean financial efficiency. That's why everything they mess with is about money.
Discussion (76 points, 66 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43120107
Bullshit. It's desirable because it's the tech capital of the planet. Is New York undesirable because it's developed density?
I never took a compilers course. The first reading recommendation I got was The Dragon Book. Perhaps not the worst starting place at the time (mid 90s) but my memory of it was that the book was front-loaded with automata and parser theory. At the time I didn't really make it past the front end. It would be interesting to see a compiler tutorial that started at codegen and worked backwards (or started at the ends: lexing and codegen, and worked towards the middle in alternating chapters).
The End of the Game (1999)
will probably focus on getting the text out of the papers first, figures might be a good next step after that
What is preventing you from finding such normal job?

I went through a similar phase, and after my previous company was acquired, i very much enjoyed working at a corporation. But the 'startup bug' is a thing and that lasted two years, now I am back at doing a startup and so far still enjoying it (5 years into my startup 2.0 life).
Interesting question. I'm not sure what "woman" has to do with it since they're both women, but we'll go with it. It would be helpful if you could link your comment, but I guess it's been nuked. Anyway...

Just because you can tie a person to work they have performed using public records does not seem like it should put them on the same level as someone who communicates with and creates work directly to the public, or a public figure. Not even if some of the actual work itself is performed in some open and observable space -- For example I don't think one has any more or less moral right to commentate on and publicly critique the work of a carpenter working on a building scaffold that's easily observable from the public street, than one does about a programmer working on their own idea from their own home in private. That seems like the immediate obvious difference between the two situations you describe. They don't sound equivalent at all, so I don't think you can win your case on that angle.

But work by "non-public-figures" is frequently posted about and commented on at Hackernews. Obviously open source work is a significant source of such discussion simply because it is accessible. Therefore, clearly it's not entirely verboten to talk about that. Is it permitted to criticize? I don't have a particular example at hand but I'm quite certain that I've seen negative opinions about people's work on this site from time to time. I think this is the angle you could argue your case. Was it fair and consistent that yours was called an attack or harassment? Are similar criticisms of work by non-public-figures permitted on here? Without the full context we can't answer that.
Wow amazing article
I have one middle name but a last name like "von Treer" and no DMV has ever put my name correctly on my license. They put it like j have two middle names, including "von" in that example.

It gets me hassled every time a cop looks at it.
You'll never have a better chance to go viral!
That is so cool! I really wanna do a project like this just for fun to understand it
Yeah, things are looking for for Twitter all of a sudden...

https://www.wsj.com/business/media/x-hinted-at-possible-deal...
you're right - I hadn't noticed! I fixed it now, thanks for pointing it out
Hey yes would definitely love to, my contact info is in my bio, please drop me an email :)