skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't dismiss the concerns; which seem reasonable. But the argument is pretty stupid.

None of the bureaucrats are elected, and this data has been gathered by the government to perform its functions. Insofar as Elon's team are pretty much just a couple of new bureaucrats bought in by Trump; they can use this data to streamline government. The office of president is pretty powerful; odds are he can appoint people to do work for him. It'd be crazy if he can't.

The problem is the government shouldn't be storing a whole bunch of sensitive data. It is like being shocked that someone in the NSA is actually looking at all the data they collect - there is a big problem there, but it is that they're collecting and storing the data. Obviously once they have it people will look at it. That is why it is being gathered and stored. It should be criminal to store on the grounds of privacy; but it isn't.
Yeah I mean that's exactly what MS are talking about, only requiring 1/20 of the checksum qubits or something.

https://www.ft.com/content/a60f44f5-81ca-4e66-8193-64c956b09...
How Indonesian instant noodles became a Nigerian sensation [video]
USAID collaborates in fighting for worker rights when they are in exploitation or near-slavery.

They likely have records of the people inside organisations who provide data for them. These people usually want to remain anonymous because they fear retaliation. And in many cases, we’re not just talking about being fired or legal actions as retaliation.
Same reason you won’t send me the credentials to your bank accounts.
It's more an experiment whether people will trust the rando running this.

Also, if you want to try this make sure of the legality of your "experiment" because inevitably someone will snitch on you.
A stereotypical Asian interviewing a stereotypical German might find the German rude in some interactions. While another German interviewer would find it being frank.

Interviews based on personal feelings have hidden biases not even the interviewer is aware of.
Use your common sense.
It's easy enough to system prompt. Even if it's not now it can be added at any time.
If the dishwasher smells bad without using a scented product, that sounds like a problem with the dishwasher's maintenance.
How do I sign up to be a stranger?
After 20 years, math couple solves major group theory problem
I've accidentally been using an AI-proof hiring technique for about 20 years: ask a junior developer to bring code with them and ask them to explain it verbally. You can then talk about what they would change, how they would change it, what they would do differently, if they've used patterns (on purpose or by accident) what the benefits/drawbacks are etc. If they're a senior dev, we give them - on the day - a small but humorously-nasty chunk of code and ask them to reason through it live.

Works really well and it mimics the what we find is the most important bit about coding.

I don't mind if they use AI to shortcut the boring stuff in the day-to-day, as long as they can think critically about the result.
Conservative and Russian propaganda, name a better duo
Who cares, it's a game, don't push your woke agenda into it
The funny thing is just how inverted the situation is, for years leftists were saying that this kind of foreign aid is often used to hold small countries hostage. While the right wanted to keep the soft-power the aid gives and claiming this kind of aid is used to keep countries democratic.

Now the right is "screw soft-power" and the left is "think of the children". And in the middle people suffering like always.

The worse part is that a lot/most of that aid is probably of very benign influence, but it is definitely also used for nefarious reasons.
Dropbox is based in San Francisco - and also needs some kind of operating system to be accessed.
The Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year: Winners 1978-2010 (2009)
> While it lacked the hardware scrolling

That's the biggest "what if" omission of the TMS9918 for me - I wonder how the 8-bit landscape would have evolved if it had even minimal support like the scroll registers of the VIC-II...
True. In context though Bluesky can tweak the volume knob as and when they see fit, whereas for Mastodon it's stuck where it is.
We had them, then they found PFAS in many backyard eggs. Now most people I know are getting rid of them (in the Netherlands). It’s a shame but I have to say it’s easier to travel and not have to arrange care for the chickens.
> Many people doubt the actual performance of Grok 3 and suspect it has been specifically trained on the benchmarks

2 anecdotes here:

- just before grok2 was released, they put it on livearena under a pseudonim. If you read the topics (reddit,x,etc) when that hit, everyone was raving about the model. People were saying it's the next 4o, that it's so good, hyped, so on. Then it launched, and they revealed the pseudonim, and everyone started shitting on it. There is a lot of bias in this area, especially with anything touching bad spaceman, so take "many people doubt" with a huge grain of salt. People be salty.

- there are benchmarks that seem to correlate very well with end to end results on a variety of tasks. Livebench is one of them. Models scoring highly there have proven to perform well on general tasks, and don't feel like they cheated. This is supported by the finding in that paper that found models like phi and qwen to lose ~10-20% of their benchmarks scores when checked against newly-built, unseen but similar tasks. Models scoring strongly on livebench didn't see that big of a gap.
Show HN: StyleScanner.VIP – AI outfit analysis from multiple models
I am talking about this EO https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/ensu...

> the Constitution also provides for subordinate officers to assist the President in his executive duties.

> Therefore, in order to improve the administration of the executive branch and to increase regulatory officials’ accountability to the American people, it shall be the policy of the executive branch to ensure Presidential supervision and control of the entire executive branch.

And of course:
> President and the Attorney General, subject to the President’s supervision and control, shall provide authoritative interpretations of law for the executive branch. The President and the Attorney General’s opinions on questions of law are controlling on all employees in the conduct of their official duties.
Got you, so, it's super sensitive for everyone, except for journalists who can freely publicize that type of information.
The same stack is required for other AI stuff like diffusion models as well.
That's what daughters and sheepdogs are for:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNO3VgE8rnI
That's putting it mildly. What it really looks like is a fast descent into madness.
The point I think is this: if topological qubits are similar to other types of qubits, then investing in them is going to be disappointing because the other approaches have so much more work put into them.

So, he is saying that this approach will only pay off if topological qubits are a fundamentally better approach than the others being tried. If they turn out to be, say, merely twice as good as trapped ion qubits, they'll still only get to the achievements of current trapped ion designs with another, say, 10-15 years of continued investment.
I like the WarGames reference
I've learned that they are Seville oranges which are apparently great for marmalade/marmalata, ok for juicing, but can't really be eaten raw.

I also have to say how awesome it is when I'm cooking and need a lemon so I walk outside and pick one off the tree. Harvesting and pressing olive oil for the first time in the coming fall will be interesting.

> Keep that up and you'll be living like a 1930's off grid veteran in no time ;-)

The house is old enough and lacking enough modern features that it already feels a bit like 1930s haha

Thanks for the conversation!
Even completely ignoring the dubious ethics invoked - a lot of non Americans will get worse outcomes than the US because of this. Given the work that has been cancelled so far, some of those non Americans are likely already dead.
Not to forget also that inhaled micro/nano particles get into the bloodstream more easily than ingested particles.
insurance companies already buy up information from data brokers and use that to jack up people's rates according to whatever they happen to find to justify it. They won't tell you when they do it, you'll just be offered a very different price than you would have been given if you didn't buy as much alcohol, spent more time at the gym, only drove your car in the daytime, or lived in a different zip code.
"Bones stay strong if you give them work to do. The best way to keep bones strong is to do both weight-bearing impact and muscle-strengthening exercises."
Ask HN: Are there any alternatives to Cloudflare Workers based outside the US?
Inspired by the European Alternatives initiative: https://european-alternatives.eu/categories

My non-us based company wants to remain with our current provider, but we want to be realistic with the current political climate.

When it comes to edge workers, the only alternatives I can find are these:

Cloudflare Workers, Fastly Compute@Edge, Akamai EdgeWorkers

Are there other alternatives we're missing?
If Russia retreats from the occupied territories, heaps guilt on itself for the next 80 years and does not start new wars, it won't be vilified 80 years from now.

Also, of course, Germany and WW2 are mentioned constantly in Russia itself even today, while most new wars in the past 40 years have been started by the US or Russia.
I was asked by an SME to code on a whiteboard for an interview (in 2005? I think?). I asked if I could have a computer, they said no. I asked if I would be using a whiteboard during my day-to-day. They said no. I asked why they used whiteboards, they said they were mimicking Google's best practice. That discussion went on for a good few minutes and by the end of it I was teetering on leaving because the fit wasn't good.

I agreed to do it as long as they understood that I felt it was a terrible way of assessing someone's ability to code. I was allowed to use any programming language because they knew them all (allegedly).

The solution was a pretty obvious bit-shift. So I wrote memory registers up on the board and did it in Motorola 68000 Assembler (because I had been doing a lot of it around that time), halfway through they stopped me and I said I'd be happy to do it again if they gave me a computer.

The offered me the job. I went elsewhere.
None of those things are true though.

Musk doesn't have any power other than what he was been contracted to do as an advisor to the white house.

This includes read only access to government systems in order to make recommendations to government on how to reduce waste.
If you got that person in front of them and put a gun in their hand, do you think they'd follow through?

Your question is like a game, and people you ask will most probably treat it as such. People 'kill' in videogames, but most would not like to actually kill in real life.
> There are plenty of places that will pay you a good salary where the boss isn't trying to badly play at world domination.

Ah, yes. Google? Meta? Amazon? Microsoft? Hahaha. You're right, they aren't doing it in the open, and some certainly aren't doing a bad job about it. But they are all playing at world domination.
A chip in this paralysed man's brain allows him to move things with his mind
I also like the things you're biased towards. :)
Would it be smartest for one to sell crypto right now while normies are still oblivious of what's about to happen?
Is that meant to support some position, what do you even mean? In republics the executive has all the powers?
Mistral is great, I love their image generation and speed at which it replies. They really don't benefit as much hype from the others contenders but it feels like they are the silent undertaker.
I can see how word of mouth and referrals work well, especially when you’re established. And having an agency handle the business side sounds like a dream (less admin, more billable hours).

But I am wondering, how do you deal with slow periods? Do you just rely on past clients and your agency, or do you ever have to go out and actively hunt for work?

I get that social media isn’t for everyone, but I’ve seen some freelancers use LinkedIn like a passive marketing tool—kind of like a digital business card. Have you ever felt like you’re missing out on opportunities by not having that presence, or does it never really come up? I am asking as that question "how come you don't use linkedin" comes up every time haha.

By the way, thank you for replying!
It's because when you're working for an employer, you're doing what someone else wants. Living my life means doing what I want.
It's an on issue, since bank can always switch to face-in-face verification. This is not an argument. Crypto is the problem here.
Crap. Typo; I learnt about it in November, while hearing a magistrate and lawyer discuss something.
That's not what the EO the other day said. The EO claimed and confirmed policy-making power, ie. interpreting the law and pouring it into policy, for the executive branch. It is quite common internationally that the elected executive has this power and it is weird that it has to be spelled out in the US.

What is worrisome is the overreach in claiming that power for institutions that are not in the executive's purview with the argument "everything is in the executive's purview". No, it is not, and there are reasons why institutions are spread over the three basic powers of a state, one is called "checks & balances". Ah, well.
Most people probably wanted "change" and there was no alternative option. If your democracy offers only two options, then polarization is the outcome.
One thing I (intuitively) don't doubt - that they spent less money for developing R1 than OpenAI spent on marketing, lobbying and management compensation.
This SDK update moving the RP2040 baseline to 200MHz is very welcome for the projects where you can't have an egregious overclock over manufacturer approved spec.

For hobby projects, I've achieved significant overclocks on both RP2040 and RP2350. I suspect this is mostly due to the use of TSMC's 40NM 40LP process which is a smaller process node than most microcontrollers use.
Why is it important to be efficient at home for a robot? If you have an industrial robot churning out parts 24/7 in a factory shaving of 3 sec on a 30 sec process is very valuable. But does it really matter if the robot folds your laundry in 3 min or 5 min? Probably not unless you are running a dry cleaner business.
"A forest is a pristine environment..." Hmm, is that really so? The forest air is also full of pollen, fungal spores, viruses and bacteria, all kinds of volatile organic molecules and so on. The terpenes mentioned as problematic come from conifers after all.
PyPy has a list implementation that specializes under the hood. So if you stuff it with integers, it will contain the integers directly instead of pointers to them. That's at least how I understood it.
Do you know what problem you ate going to solve with your product? I guess so as you are in the business?
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> Is the USA going to "own" the world by becoming the keeper of AI?

China has a realistic prospect of developing an independent stack.

It'll be very difficult, especially at the level of developing good enough semiconductor fabs with EUV. However, they're not starting from scratch in terms of a domestic semiconductor industry. And their software development / AI research capabilities are already near par with the US.

But they do have a whole of nation approach to this, and are willing to do whatever it takes.
Wow! I wondered about this article - US centric. I wondered because eggs are not expensive here. I just looked [1] [2]. I can get a dozen free range for about US$4 at the current conversion rate. They are a supermarket own brand, but even the "fancy" ones are something like that for 6, but some are actually still close to $4 for 12.

The US chicken market (not necessarily eggs specifically) was in the Morgan Spurlock documentary follow up to "Supersize me", and it looked like the chicken "mafia" controlled the business.[3]

[1] https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/search?query=eggs&inpu...
[2] https://groceries.asda.com/search/eggs
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Size_Me_2:_Holy_Chicken!
Ask HN: How would you build a dev/design agency in 2025 alongside AI?
I’m a developer and have worked remotely for 3-4 years with various product based companies like rabbithole.gg, paragraph.xyz, pimlico.io etc and for the past few months I’ve been working on a side-project of my own, it’s an open-source form builder platform like Typeform. Through my journey, I've discovered I really enjoy the craft of building products & open source softwares. It got me thinking about starting a small dev/design agency, but with a different approach.

The landscape today has changed dramatically. We all know AI is getting really good at churning out basic code and MVPs. But I still believe there's real value in human creativity and understanding the deeper nuances of building great products.

Here's what I'm thinking:
1. Keep it small and focused (just 3-4 of us) - engineers and designers who genuinely care about building great stuff
2. Take on meaningful client work while building our own products
3. Get involved in open source and build useful tools for the community
4. Keep working on our own products (starting with my form builder)

What I'm inspired by:
1. 37signals: Started as a web design agency, created Basecamp, and eventually built Hey.com
2. überdosis: Built products for clients and worked on an open source text editor called TipTap (tiptap.dev) which is now their primary focus

What I want to avoid:
1. Becoming yet another "digital transformation" agency (you know the type)
2. Racing to the bottom against AI-generated MVPs
3. The typical agency trap of scaling up with juniors and PMs
4. Saying yes to every project that comes along

Some things I keep wondering about:
1. How would you position an agency today with AI in the picture?
2. Anyone here managed to build their own products while running client work?
3. What kind of work should we focus on that AI won't easily replace?
4. Has anyone grown their agency through open source work?

Really want to hear from folks who:
1. Have built small but solid agencies
2. Are actually using AI in their dev workflow (not just talking about it)
3. Have juggled client work with building products
4. Have grown through open source
What factories are TSMC and ASML operating in US?
> Parsec still rocks hard though.

Hell yes it does. Good shot commander!
there are two r.
Security clearances are based on laws, such as the ones compiled in Title 50 U.S. Code §3341.
you are not wrong, shattered leg, waited too long, can't do shit now. never healed properly. should have listened to my body rather than my doctors. fucking sucks.
Do you use any analytics tools on your website and how do you drive traffic to it?

Are you planning no-ads campaigns (similar to what simpleanalytics.com does)?

I'm on a privacy-first project and such info would help.
I understand all the usual caveats of no expectation of privacy in public but this is very much slippery slope stuff.

Say on the metro sitting opposite someone. If they pulled out a camera and pointed it in your face you'd be offended and say something, with a camera phone you'd still probably notice if they tried to get a pic of you and most people would find it at best creepy and ask the person to stop or move away from them.

This product normalises that. Sure there are some legit use cases but I'm not consenting to you as a stranger pointing your camera in my face. You may not legally need my consent to do that but it's straight up rude to do it anyway.

Will be interesting to see how this pans out. I'm fairly placid and would probably just tut and move if someone sat opposite with these but I suspect other people might have a stronger reaction.

Breaking societal norms like this should have consequences, even if it's sanctioned by Zuck.
Yup. I only use my car infrequently and it sits there with the handbrake on, when I do take it out often the rotors have rusted just slightly, meaning I get a "thunk thunk thunk" until I brake hard a couple times.

I think it's fine, in an EV just give your physical brakes a good test/try out when starting a journey in the car, especially if it has been sat for a while.
what Microsoft claim in their marketing copy reported by the FT - for the average reader - and what a third-party, well-known expert in the field thinks... are on very different levels AFAIC

Microsoft is saying: we did it!

Everyone else is saying: prove it!
It’s the Daily Mail, so all content is in service of outrage/shock clicks for ad revenue.
So cooking the books and defrauding the citizens of the United States by exaggerating your progress by x1000 is crucial, you mean.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/upshot/doge-contracts-mus...

DOGE Claimed It Saved $8 Billion in One Contract. It Was Actually $8 Million.

The biggest single line item on the website of Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team included a big error.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/musk-s-doge-accuse...

Musk's DOGE Accused of 'Cooking the Books' After $8 Billion Savings Is Immediately Debunked

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) falsely claimed an $8 billion cost savings from a canceled government contract, which was later revealed to be worth only $8 million.

https://x.com/electricfutures/status/1891898336208105676

Momentum Chaser @electricfutures

After several delays, @DOGE has finally posted its purported savings. Why did it take so long to create a simple webpage with a 1000-row table? Who knows! Let's dig in.

Headline number: $55B saved. They list the savings per nixed contract. This should be easy to verify then. [...]
I only had a TI-85 to impress girls with polar equations.
According to this website [0] you just need to register with the Animal and Plant Health Agency.

[0] https://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/maintain-the-garden/ke...
What makes you say that? Do you think Chinese top tier talent is cheap?
So far, the only known algorithm relevant to AI that would run faster on a theoretical quantum computer is linear search, where quantum computers offer a modest speedup (linear search is O(n) on a classical computer, while Grover's algorithm is O(sqrt(n)) for quantum computers - this means that for a list of a million elements, you can scan it in 1 000 steps on a quantum computer instead of 1 000 000 steps on a classical one).

However, even this is extremely theoretical at this time - no quantum computer built so far can execute Grover's algorithm, they are not reliable enough to get any result with probability higher than noise, and anyway can't apply the amount of steps required for even a single pass without losing entanglement. So we are still very very very far away from a quantum computer that could reach anything like the computing performance of a single consumer-grade GPU. We're actually very far away from a quantum computer that even reaches the performance of a hand calculator at this time.
Not sure how much modem is contributing here. My guess is it is primarily due to the lack of ProMotion. 16e has a 60Hz display.
Ask HN: What is the easiest security vulnerability to close in a business?
title says is all.
Not anymore, but you can abuse pstore to know about last messages from before reboot