skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(NOTE: Largely reposting a Robert Reich bit of writing in the Quoted areas)

FIRST Interesting how, if true, the GOP Political class is now beholden to Musk:

http://youtube.com/post/UgkxTKZoZe_AzdNF8w7X0HO19w6xxH5rGinI...

> Congress is supine because Republicans are in charge, and Musk has also become Trump’s hatchet man — threatening Republican members of Congress if they deviate from Trump.

> Iowa’s Republican Senator Joni Ernst was firmly set against Pete Hegseth for secretary of defense until Musk hinted that he’d finance a primary challenger to Ernst, who’s up for reelection next year. Presto: Ernst supported Hegseth.

> Indiana’s Republican Senator Todd Young expressed concern about the nomination of Tulsi Gabbard to be director of national intelligence until Musk tweeted against him. A besieged Young spoke with JD Vance, who arranged a call with Musk. Presto: Young announced he would back Gabbard.

> Musk warned Republican lawmakers in December that he was compiling a “naughty list” of members who buck Trump’s agenda. He also pledged shortly after Election Day that his political action committee would “play a significant role in primaries” next year.

> A Republican senator told The Hill that Musk’s wealth makes primary threats “a bigger deal.”

SECOND And Interesting how some Media, Wa Po in this case, coincidentally blocked Paid Advertisement advocating an Anti-MUSK Political takt.

> Musk’s financial and political power have been enough to intimidate even the mainstream media. An advertisement set to run in The Washington Post yesterday calling for Musk to be fired from his role in government was abruptly canceled, according to Common Cause, one of the groups that had ordered the ad. When asked why the Post had pulled the ad, the Post said it was not at liberty to give a reason.
via the Quantum Buillshit Detector account:

https://bsky.app/profile/spinespresso.bsky.social/post/3lijd...
It is the capacity published by Apple. Apparently some regulatory bodies [1] require that information.

[1] https://www.mysmartprice.com/gear/mobiles/mobiles-news/apple...
But that wouldn’t count as savings.
At this point I think its more of a strategic reserve of gold for non-financial purposes. In terms of our budget/debt/spending its not a significant amount. We could sell it all and make not one dent in anything.
Interesting thanks for elaborating. I might need to take a closer look at OPNsense.
I hate all that stuff too, but I have to nit-pick the last sentence. Everything you breathe is chemicals. Everything that is good for you and bad for you is chemicals.

This in particular bothers me because I end up having this discussion with family members all the time who are convinced that "chemicals" are bad for you, and they only eat food without "chemicals".
The confusing thing about this is that Trump himself isn't the problem when it comes to actual policy. The Project 2025 stuff is not from Trump's head. He has nowhere near enough domain knowledge to build a policy document like that.

The current problem is that Trump is happy to implement the policies that all these hard-right lunatics have come up with. It's not like Trump writes those executive orders. He just agrees with them and signs them.

Certainly Trump is a problem. He's the one that has united the party around this horrifying agenda, and who is amenable to letting others like Musk dismantle the federal government. The question, after Trump is gone, is if there is anyone else that can motivate the party to vote for someone who will continue to do things The Trump Way (that is, let other, smarter people do things).

I don't know. Like you say, people like DeSantis seemed to have a shot for a bit, but they've fallen out of favor. But it's unclear if these people need another Trump, or if someone with even half of his weird... charisma... will do.

(All of this is of course the standard hypocrisy: Trump and his cronies run on the whole "drain the swamp", "eliminate the deep state" nonsense. But of course Trump just immediately installs a different unelected deep state to run things.)
No, we do not try to answer the original trolley problem in earnest. We immediately reject and move on.
Thanks for un-flagging! (This got flagged. That's why there's so few comments (as of Feb 20, 07:13 CET). Now flags removed by moderators I presume)
Ok. But the nazi platform is labor unions, universal healthcare, retirement programs, profit redistribution, etc. your quote doesn’t contradict this.

If you have some specialized definition of socialism that this doesn’t meet. That’s fine. But this is nothing like the libertarianism or small government conservatism.
the steering committee seems way less conservative than Guido, right?

Looking at python from the outside a lot of changes since GvR stepped down seem like stuff he'd not have been fond of.
Best Soviet doctors! Poor guys working without any equipment to get perfect results. Sure good way for easy cases, bud hard cases are cripples afterwards. Or badly healed bones are separated with chisel and then comes next try… been there, saw that. Thanks but no, I’ll take a western medicine with all the screws and plates. Despite screws and plates being much easier to work with, every sane doctor will try without them at first even for moderately hard cases.
"Coding in BASIC could, at the very least, hide the insanity from you."

Except TI-BASIC is a hell-riddled double-interpreted language. I had a 99/4A at the age of 6, learned how to use all of the TI-BASIC language by 8, and said screw that, hardware it is for me, dad's buying me a 286 for Christmas, time to learn how to build that!
I was kinda hoping for better games, not cheaper or faster.
Wow! They are really adding HTML support!

Typst is one of my favourite open source projects right now, mostly due to how useful it is even for non-technical users. I have converted most of my friends and their friends in my university to switch from latex / markdown / word to typst, mostly due to its ease of use, how nice does (even the default) output looks like and how powerful it is.

I am very happy that typst is still being developed and I am really surprised how many new features they add (for my use-cases it is pretty much done product:)).
They are conjugate elements (both roots of the minimal polynomial of C as an extension of R), so they satisfy all the same algebraic properties over R, but they are certainly distinguishable as elements of C.

For example "i" satisfies the polynomial "x-i=0" and "-i" doesn't. It's just that you can't find any such polynomial with real coefficients that differentiates them.

Of course there are lots of non-algebraic ways to distinguish them too. Or did you mean something stronger?
They need to build an epistemology and theory of mind engine into models. We take it for granted when dealing with other humans that they can infer deep meaning, motivations, expectations of truth vs fiction. But these agents don’t do that and so will be awful collaborators until those behaviors are present
Cheaters poker sounds like a blast, but it sounds like it would descend pretty quickly into a physical game of trying to peak at other people's cards and them defending theirs (and the game deck).
> converts programs that will run out of stack eventually regardless of the amount of available memory (and raise exceptions an the process, for example, which a program might rely on

https://xkcd.com/1172/
Actually, it's the cooking that pollutes your indoor air the most. Once the food is on the table, most of the damage is already done.
There is no big mystery about it. Whatever values the liberal American left hold dear are also applied internationally. Since Modi is a religious, conservative and nationalist leader, obviously he becomes their enemy and gets a long, endless chain of news articles condemning him.

Not sure whether their stance was truly value based or you know - whether they were "funded" to have their opinions.
Wait, that's not at all true. A country could change the laws, but it has to actually do that. Otherwise a country would automatically win every single lawsuit it brought forward, which is not the case.

Part of the very reason we even have laws is to limit the power of what the government can do, and protect private entities from government overreach.
This line of reasoning implies "the stochastical parrot people are right, there is no intelligence in AI". Which is the opposite of what AI thought leaders are saying.
Product is usually a risky cash sink if your experience is services. You haven't mentioned how big your business is, but if its small split the costs of the experiment with larger firms. Pitch your plan to them. If you can raise 3-6 months of funding for a team then go for it.
I'd really like to play with Qwen2.5-VL at some point, perhaps for reading data-sheets for microchips. Nicely for some applications, it's also very good at reporting position of what it finds, which many ML tools are pretty mediocre at. https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2.5-vl/

Not really this application, but QvQ for visual reasoning is also impressive. https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qvq-72b-preview/

Meta has used Qwen as the basis for their Apollo research. https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.10360
No one knows the future, so you're actually arguing the possible downside of losing justifies any actions to mitigate it, regardless of cost.
SurrealDB [1] is a fairly complete database written in Rust. I've used it for fairly small web apps and it felt comfortable to work with coming from MongoDB.

[1] https://github.com/surrealdb/surrealdb?tab=readme-ov-file
I mostly agree, but GOP efforts to disenfranchise voters they don't like have only stepped up further in recent years. (In particular, the SAVE Act, if passed, could really mess things up even more.) But I think the left sees the whole frothing-at-the-mouth "stop the steal" stuff as counterproductive and won't go that route, so I'd agree that, for the most part, the 2028 elections will be judged to be fair and free of fraud, regardless of outcome, at least by anyone who is not a Republican.
I worked at the company that acquired MapQuest a few years ago. It's been bought and sold a few times, but their most popular feature is still the "print maps" button...

As you can guess it's mostly people over the age of 50 still using MapQuest lol
I'll feel pessimistic like this, but then something like Tinfoil Chat [0] comes along and sparks my interest again. It's still all just theoretical to me, but at least I don't feel so bad about things.

With a little bit of hardware you could get a lot of assurance back: "Optical repeater inside the optocouplers of the data diode enforce direction of data transmission with the fundamental laws of physics."

[0] https://github.com/maqp/tfc
Oh yeah, I'm fully on board with budget surpluses. Apparently here in Australia we have have a surplus about half of the time.

But I would have thought there would be a less chaotic way to go about it.
> You won’t be writing a 3D FPS game engine in Python

While Eve Online isn’t an FPS, it is an MMORPG written in stackless Python, and seems to be doing OK.
Fair enough. And, certainly, my growth would have been impeded had I never heard any negative feedback.

To be clear, some of my commentary was in response to a sibling comment of yours where you seemed to take the downvotes personally. I can't speak for all the cases, obviously, but my observation of HN is that the downvotes are usually a signal of "this comment doesn't apply to the topic or follow-up debate" and less so a signal of "bad idea" or "bad author.". Disagreement with an idea usually results in a thoughtful comment response, not a downvote.

I think the karma threshold for downvoting rights is useful here in that it gives everyone enough exposure to the guidelines before taking action on their own personal ranking objectives (and the HN guidelines are worth reading if you haven't yet -- https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). My best guess is that your downvoters considered your comment a dismissal of TFA, without any explanation for your flippancy.

I may have read to the bottom of too many HN posts but,, fortunately, no one is keeping score and they really don't get that long or too toxic. (thanks largely to the efforts of dang and the rest of the mods, I'm sure)
My first computer. Played Blast-O!, Hunt The Wumpus, Chisolm Trail, A-MAZE-ING, and a couple other games. Learned the crummy programming language of TI-BASIC, gave up on software and stuck with hardware ever since.

Funny enough, now as part of my job, I advise TI on various upcoming power ranges for various lighting types, and they do on occasion make an IC based on my specs for general production.
they just made it temporarily free to anyone, FYI
When I started coding I did it in notepad. I thought it was hardcore and cool. I was young and stupid. Then I adopted an IDE and I became much better at writing code.

To me AI is just another tool that helps me solve problems with code. An auto complete on steroids. A context aware stack overflow search. Not wanting to adopt or not even work somewhere where colleagues use it, sounds to me like coding in notepad AND in the process scoffing those who use an IDE.

Besides, if AI gets to the point it can replace you, it will replace you. Better to start learning how to work with it so you can fill whatever gap AI can't.
None at all. Being a religious Christian in Europe is mostly about accepting the general values of Judeo-Christian tradition and not being overtly atheist. Almost no one goes to church or observes any religious traditions at all, yet most people claim to be Christians.

As long as someone doesn't badmouth Jesus nor claims that religion is "opium for the masses", they pass for Christian in EU.
I am thankful my workplace has a no scent policy. Unfortunately I have to go into clients homes all day so sometimes run into heavily scented homes. If we report it our boss will inform the client they need to remove it or not use it prior to our visits or open a window. I am thankful that I am naturally not a smelly person (confirmed by girlfriends) and I shower with non scented soap and I don't ever wear deodorant. Sadly I have teens. They over spray perfumes and colognes to the point that I can't even be near them at times. I hope the unscented trend picks up and spreads to more places. Thinking about the topic of scents were you around when you could basically smoke anywhere? I remember the days walking in a mall smoking and people would just drop the smoke and step on it then walk away. Banning smoking from public places where I live was the greatest thing.
Just call it by name: deliberate lying.

Incorrect refers to someone identifying a goose as a duck, not knowingly publishing and touting manipulated and wrong information for political gain and personal self-aggrandizement.
You may be right that people will remember that, and yes that's an interesting data point to compare it with.

I was talking about something else though. My claim is that the HN baseline will return to the status quo ante, just as it has after past political tsunamis, and that when it does, the current fever for every political story to be on the frontpage will fade into oblivion. I may be wrong about that, but we will have to wait to find out.

> showing you who and what they are. Pay attention.

That's a trope, indeed already a cliché, of internet political arguments. It would be in your interest to avoid those because although on a surface level they intensify a comment, at a deeper level they make it less persuasive (to the persuadable reader). I know you didn't ask for commenting advice and normally I wouldn't go there, but HN's guidelines specifically ask commenters to omit internet tropes: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
That's not really the point, though. Elections for federal offices are run by the states. The Trumpers can complain all they want about voter fraud and vote manipulation, but if the evidence isn't there (which it almost certainly won't be), then it will be a fair and free election.

Obviously I would prefer if these morons on the right wouldn't fall for Trump's conspiracy bullshit, as democracy functions much better when everyone has faith in the integrity of elections. But as long as the elections are fair, that's still something in the "plus" column.
Is Qwen2.5-VL on Ollama? Could give it a try with a few of the schemas we have.

We’ve locally tested with Llama 3.2 11B Vision on Ollama: https://github.com/vlm-run/vlmrun-hub/blob/main/tests/benchm...

FWIW I think Ollama structured outputs API is quite buggy compared to the HF transformers variant.
What’s the process look like?
Interesting concept. The blog has a lot more details[1].

One comment/question about the exit nodes. Can someone correct or validate my thoughts:

It’s a WireGuard tunnel from the user to Mullvad, so while Obscura can’t see the user traffic, couldn’t the Mullvad exit node see the traffic, and using knowledge of the users WireGuard public key, associate all that users traffic with that key? So even if they can’t associate it with an IP, they could still potentially identify and track you.

This assumes they use a customised version of WireGuard to somehow log & associate each decrypted IP packet against the users public key.

1. https://obscura.net/blog/bootstrapping-trust/
To say they're complementary doesn't mean that they depend on each other to an equal degree.

I don't believe it would be easy to find a use for all that cow skin. Think of the enormous amounts. But even if they did find a use for it that doesn't cost them, it's not likely to be nearly as profitable as selling it as an input to the leather industry. (If there was a more profitable way to use cow skin we'd probably be doing that by now)
> It's perfectly reasonable for congress to limit how executive agency heads can be hired/fired too.

In some limited employment law sense , maybe. The question is who gives these people orders? Who do they work for? And the answer can’t be themselves.
I bet all of these researchers involved had a long list of candidates they'd like to test and have a very good idea what the lowest hanging fruit are, sometimes for more interesting reasons than 'it was used successfully as an inhibitor for X and hasn't been tried yet in this context' — not that that isn't a perfectly good reason. I don't think ideas are the limiting factor. The reason attention was paid to this particular candidate is because google put money down.
Counter point: https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-ai-weapons-43...

Imagine the US military being ordered to, let’s say, kill some group X. Think Google is gonna deny them access to their tech?
From the OP:

How does Obscura compare to Tor?

We have immense respect for the Tor project (and encourage you to support it), but its volunteer-run network can be slow and susceptible to DDoS issues, making it infeasible for everyday use.

Obscura uses two dedicated, high-performance hops for maximum speed and reliability – meaning you get many of Tor’s privacy benefits without sacrificing everyday usability.
Similar reasons people buy overnight sleeper tickets from the west coast to asia for sky-high prices. That person has to be there, and they have to be rested. If they are negotiating 100m+ dollar contracts its a no-brainer.
With powerful tools you get both easy slop and cheaper masterpieces.
Ask yourself: what's the difference between the SEC saying, "We declare that Facebook broke a securities law and shall now be fined $1M" and Trump saying, "I decree that the SEC declare that Facebook broke a securities law and shall now be fined $1M"? Either of those could be true or false. Either could be politically motivated. Either could hold up in court or be struck down. So what's the difference?

One[0] answer is, the former was vetted by someone knowledgeable and (at least allegedly) non-partisan who had the power to stop it if it was wrong. That's it. If the president really wants to fine Facebook he can - he can replace the SEC Director with the "My Pillow" guy if he wants, who can replace SEC employees with randomly chosen members MAGA types until the desired fine is eventually issued - but at least going through the bureaucracy confers the possibility of impartial and informed oversight. Vesting the power with the president directly doesn't do that; presidents are biased and partisan by design.

0: Another answer is the SEC has been granted the power to do that by Congress and the president has not; but I get that people on the "unitary executive" train disregard this, and
They’re slightly nuanced - every model provider has a slightly different Pydantic /JSON schema compatibility (i.e for handling Literals, Unions, nested subtypes etc).

So you end up hitting roadblocks for seemingly simple Pydantic schemas.
There needs to be a new term for this grassroots astroturf... Grasstroturf? Get the nerds' attention with free tech, down-playing the fact that it's a business, so later they can pump them for money easier. The pig doesn't want to see the knife, they just want the free trough.
Why would they be outraged? They're doing the job they were hired to do. This is what their constituency has wanted for many years and demanded: pure unadulterated unwavering unquestioned support for their emperor, and he is Trump. They want a mean daddy. They finally found him.

All of the people with balls have been fired or quit.

North Carolina senator Thom Tillis told people that the FBI warned him about “credible death threats” when he was considering voting against Pete Hegseth’s nomination. - Vanity Fair, “They’re Scared Shitless”

To whatever degree they are really scared (Liz Cheney is far braver than these MAGA elected kooks, scared of their own shadows), let's accept the premise for the sake of the argument. They will permit an incendiary fire of epic proportion well beyond what we've seen so far before they do anything. They may in fact not be capable of it under any circumstances. And if that is the case, is there even a functioning Senate right now? In terms of 5 USC 3331? I think not. And that means the republic is in abeyance. It's a principate now. For however long, really depends on the American public - not any elected officials.
I’ve never seen something like that here in Italy. Here you pay for both the phone AND the plan :(
A lot of cases pass through the MagSafe. I personally charge almost exclusively via MagSafe desk and night stands. My phone is in a case.
That's one of our main focuses, yes: https://docs.vlm.run/api-reference/v1/fine-tuning/post-finet...
"Lossy timelines" have already been implemented in ActivityPub and Mastodon by design. Will Bluesky ever catch up? It remains to be seen.
Du Iz Tak is amazing!
> Rank-and-file civil servants are protected from being fired

That cannot be true. They do not get a lifetime claim to the treasury which is not revocable by elected officials.

The members of the executive branch work for the chief executive.
Good catch! A minor correction: Magma - M(ultimodal) Ag(entic) M(odel) at M(icrosoft) (Rese)A(rch), the last part is similar to how the name Llama came out, :)