skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except it’s not really democracy. You have gerrymandered districts. You elect a leader not by who gets the most votes, but who wins a system that was designed for the benefit of white slave owners.

And of course, who really believes the election results when you have Trump saying that Musk rigged some voting machines in his favor.

Face it, the US no longer creates its government from the collective will of its citizens. They’ve replaced politicians with corporate backers for the actual corporations themselves.
If you can’t scale with your customer base fire your CTO.
I think the story is that the Trump administration just got caught trying to pay a $400M kickback to Tesla.

The Biden EO was for less than 1% the attempted graft, and was not newsworthy.
If the refund is more than I paid in total, I would get a refund if I didn't pay anything at all though.
I don’t think there has to be some practical economic business justification to a) feel bummed out by your creative output getting munged up into something that, for all its better uses, will feed the great fire hoses spraying trillions of gallons of bullshit all over our information landscape, or b) reduce your creative output because of it. It’s weird how entitled people feel to other people’s creative work and get mad when people don’t freely create for and share with them, while simultaneously minimizing the value that work and its authors bring to our society. Despite what many say, the way people receive and interact with your work mentally/emotionally is really important, and all your work being sucked up into these models— often to create commercial products that are openly antagonistic to the people that created the work that made it possible— changes that. It’s sad that AI has devalued creative processes even to the creators themselves.
…hierarchies of power in favour of ideas of collective responsibility and decision making.

Thus it can’t exist becuase some group will eventually gain more power than others and thus exert control.
Federal student aid recipients are not employees of the department of education.
It's an anti abuse method. A valid phone number will always have a cost for spammers/multi accounters to obtain in mass, but will have no cost for the desired user base (the assumption is that every worthwhile user already has a phone).

Captchas are trivially broken and you can get access to millions of residential IP addresses, but phone numbers (especially if you filter out VOIP providers) still have a cost.
a pretty good satire of the whole thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Force_(TV_series)
rag is an acronym with a pinned meaning now. just like the word drone. drone didnt really mean drone, but drone means drone now. no amount of complaining will fix it. :[
It's a lot more than $500. For the few. It's $0 for the masses. A 1% reduction in corporate tax means millions in their pockets.

Billionaires aren't the ones going to national parks. So they don't care if they're closed.
One calculator I’ve come to love over the years is Numi. I keep it open all day every day and it does a pretty good job of bridging the gap between the typical skewmorphic calculator app and scilab or python. It’s a text based calculator that allows you to declare variables and do unit and base conversions and save and load your work. No graphing though unfortunately and i dont think it really has much in the way of plugin support.

Anyway not to say your calculators arent useful op, i just think that something that can be open on the desktop is more useful than something that is hidden in a chrome browser tab.
Since Woodrow Wilson.
> People had been stealing ideas long before computers started doing it.

So it’s not ok to be bothered by it because it’s been happening a long time?
> voters clearly approved of the concept of smaller, cheaper government. Which is basically what's happening.

Except that this is completely false. These haphazard cuts are a miniscule portion of the federal budget, even assuming they don't incur a whole bunch of second and third order costs. The exact same administration doing those is going to burn literal orders of magnitude more money on tax cuts for billionaires, border security theater, and other corrupt nonsense. Federal finances were in bad shape a year ago and are going to be absolutely horrid a few years from now.
The Democratic Party is about as far away as you can get from any sort of Marxist political ideology as you can. There’s not a single even minor US political movement that is even remotely related to Marxism.
We were promised abundance but instead got OpTiMiZaTiOn

Legitimately feel like just crashing out of this industry and taking up farming or something
I will bring this up every time someone mentions this, but your money is not being taken without consent. You are signing tax forms without knowing what they mean in law and voluntarily (incorrectly) giving it to them. Income taxes are excise taxes.
A Regulatory Warning from Vice President Vance
I think this is conjecture, there is no indication anywhere that it’s driven by the PCC data centers. If anything I would guess they are trying to build hardware in the US. That has to be the only reason to invest that much.
3D Printing the Severance Computer [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgmrIxMRvAQ
When I severely dislocated my shoulder the hospital sedated me with ketamine and propofal. They'd already given me the max dosage of morphine and fentanyl to get me to be able to barely sit up for an X-ray.

So I'd say it's used in humans for anesthetic too.

And guys, I'd the doc says after your first dislocation you should have the surgery to prevent it from happening again, you should listen to them so you don't spend a night in excruciating pain three months later.

For what it's worth, when I came too I felt like I was black out drunk, not a good experience for a previous alcoholic
MIT's insect-sized bots fly 100x longer with redesigned wings
This is a question for Cursor team.
You remember that, because it was last Friday. It was also discussed in this article.

Judges of different political persuasion are ruling differently on the same issue (in different cases), and the headline is misleading -- the opinion of a single judge, pre-trial, is of low significance wrt the merits of the case itself.

You could just as easily write a headline that "judges are split on US gov't violating privacy law", and it would be completely factual.
Okay, then get a used Chromebook for $20 that's too old to run anything distracting.
Yeah no they're not. If I give you the list "abc/=^" absolutely everybody agrees which ones are symbols and which ones are letters. What you meant to say is that it's really easy to be precise, if you are operating on human language instead of mathematical pedantry.
I buy the gerrymandering concept at the congressional level.

But Trump won the popular vote. He increased his numbers in 90% of counties. He grew across all demographics.

This was not a structural failure. It was very clearly a country-wide mandate.
Absolutely right. My comment was strictly about “for consumer use at planet scale.” It’s the aggressive adoption and rollout of confidential computing architecture in an easy to use consumer platform that I’m celebrating here. (Including a 12 figure financial commitment!) Prior to PCC, smartphones generally had to process data on device to ensure privacy.
Voters could not have known that Trump would make a concerted effort to do anything unconstitutional. This is nothing like he did his first term or any other Republican has ever done.

He is going after departments that are conservative darlings like the Defense department. I can’t remember any serious person saying we need to cut spending and fire people at the FAA.

If he had thought that voters wanted Project 2025, why would he disavow it during the campaign?
That makes a world of difference, sure. I have some excellent fountain pens that I love jotting notes with. They’re so much more pleasant and comfortable than any other handwriting tools I’ve very used. They’re great.

And for me, they’re still in a different category from keyboards. For me. I get that they’re perfect for other people, but I’m not one. For me, the main alternative to a keyboard is… not writing.
I hope you're reading this Sam Altman:

Make Open AI open.

Or else you'll lose to the ecosystem.
Show HN: Visualising how elite distance runners train
Strava's awesome for viewing individual training runs, but it doesn't offer a consolidated view for elite runners' training. So I scraped >150k activities from 450+ elites with public accounts for their 2024 training log.

GH Repo: https://github.com/danielcwq/elite-endurance-viz/

Would love any feedback + feature requests!
I can't imagine how culture could exist without ideas being taken without permission.
> Reread the blog post, and I suspect Cursor will remain much more competitive on pricing!

Until Cursor burns through their funding and gives up or increases their price.
Musicians release silent album to protest UK's AI copyright changes
you didn't really improve by hiding behind "integrals"; this is why so many kids are afraid of calculus.
> I will completely forget why I wrote it that way.

This is the main reason for comments. The code can never tell you "why".

Code is inherently about "what" and "how". The "why" must be expressed in prose.
The first computer-composed music is often credited to 1956 'Illiac Suite'. The fella atop this protest co-created 'Jukedeck'.

But performing music is a whole nother thing. There, the secret sauce of personality and style is unlikely to be eclipsed by robots. Very often a choon that goes nowhere can be mysteriously lifted to the top-ten. How that works won't be tokenized soon.
Watching Claude Code fumble around trying to edit text and double checking the hex output of a .cpp file and cd around a folder all while burning actual dollars and context is the opposite of endearing.
What claim would that be? It’s a hilarious, factual example of unintended consequences in model training. Of course they fixed the freaking bug in about two seconds.
I mean really if that’s how people are, that being affectionate towards them is seen as low value, why the fuck would I bother with people? Why are people so fucking difficult . Why do I bother?
I haven't seen a lot of evidence that Martin really has the coding chops to speak as authoritatively as he does. I think when you become famous for giving advice or being an "expert", it can be difficult to humble yourself enough to learn new things. I know personally I've said a lot of dumb things about coding in the past; luckily none of those things were codified into a "classic" book.

What strikes me about the advice in Clean Code is that the ideas are, at best, generally unproven (IE just Martin's opinion), and at worst, justify bad habits. Saying "I don't need to comment my code, my code speaks for itself" is alluring, but rarely true (and the best function names can't tell you WHY a function/module is the way it is.) Chopping up functions and moving things around looks and feels like work, except nothing gets done, and frankly often strikes me as being the coding equivalent of fidget spinners (although at least fidget spinners dont screw up your history). Whenever Martin is challenged on these things he just says to use "good judgement", but the code and advice is supposed to demonstrate good judgement and mostly it does not.

Personally I wish people would just forget about Clean Code. You're better off avoiding it or treating it as an example of things not to do.
I never thought about that, but it's true. My dad and every guy his age in my hometown can talk about cars nonstop. They'll go on for hours about changing the oil, messing with the transmission, or whatever (I don't know what they're saying--I'm a millennial and I'm used to vehicles that Just Work™).

Meanwhile, my friends and I can go on about the most banal computer stuff and my parents have no clue what we're talking about or why it's interesting to us. Kids probably don't either.
Such amazing devices
That seems like a hard claim to stand behind when Harris's father was a Marxist economist. BLM was also a very popular movement among the Democratic party, and it was organized and run by Marxists.

How do you land on the party being as far from Marxism as a party can be?
I'm honestly in two minds on this one. On one hand, I do agree that valuations have run a bit too far in AI and some shedding is warranted. A skeptical position coming from a company like MSFT should help.

On the other hand, I think MSFT was trying to pull a classic MSFT on AI. They thought they can piggyback on top of OpenAI's hard-work and profit massively from it and are now having second thoughts, thats better too. MSFT has mostly launched meh products on top of AI.
But the memories will live on in our hearts.
The auto-commits of Aider scared the crap out of me at first too, but after realizing I can just create a throwaway branch and let it run wild it ended up being a nice way to work.

I've been trying to use Sonnet 3.7 tonight through the Copilot agent and it gets frustrating to see the API 500 halfway through the task list leaving the project in a half baked state, and then and not feeling like I have a good "auto save" to pick up again from.
I kind of feel like we’re in a story about a nice, new wheelchair and people are commenting that we should just try getting better shoes.
4) Someone actually pitched the marketing idea

5) Someone actually made the video

6) Someone actually shared it with YC

7) YC thought it was a good idea to post it

This went through too many layers
> It is essential then that the hardware deployed in data centers has not been physically tampered with. Without that the whole thing falls apart.

am i wrong or does this just change the threat from Chinese to US government tampering

and if third-party auditing can detect hardware tampering then why does it matter where the hardware is manufactured
The Dangerous History Podcast has a very interesting series in Wilson. The host was not a fan.
I don't let it auto commit, either. I don't like committing in a broken state, and the llm breaks things plenty often.
It was all quality. The food was so much better at the second place that even if the first place was free I wouldn't have gone back
7%+ accuracy leap on AIME24/25 for DeepSeek R1 via simply being more careful with the questions?! Attention should be shifted from reasoning capacities to reasoning fidelity!
I create a feature branch, do the work and let it commit. I check the code as I go. If I don't like it, then I revert to a previous commit. Other times I write some code that it isn't getting right for whatever reason.

When it's ready, I squash merge into main.
Before I start I posted a shorter quick demo on reddit you can check it out: https://www.reddit.com/r/cursor/comments/1iwvyt7/im_a_colleg...

Context: Shift is an app that lets you edit text/code on the spot with keyboard shortcuts (there's a lot of features) I made this app because I wanted to have AI everywhere on all the apps with not much UI, this way I don't have to go back and forth to multiple tabs and can just do my thing on the spot for whatever I'm doing, I use it a lot for rewriting or answering to people as well as coding. This also works on excel for creating tables or editing them as well as google sheets or any other similar platforms. I will be pushing more features, there's a built in updating mechanism inside the app where you can download the latest update, I'll be releasing a feature where you can download local LLM models like deepseek or llama through the app itself increasing privacy and security so everything is done locally on your laptop, there is now also a feature where you can add you own API keys if you want to for the models.
It’s not because friendships are largely made from shared suffering.

In a time of further independence, over choice, and tech to hold onto previous friends, making friends who actually will physically meet up with you frequently is definitely harder.
Yes, that's why I linked to what I did and mentioned IAMSpy because the devil's in the details, especially with things like AWS SSO and OIDC providers, because those represent a whole class of principals that _could_ get into the Role but only a finite number of them that actually do, barring misconfiguration[1]

I think it would probably be unreasonable to say "IAM Conditions when?" in a Launch HN if one had to build those things from scratch. That would be ferociously hard and not a sane ask right out of the gate. But since IAMSpy already exists, and according to you there's some non-trivial amount of IAM evaluation already in Cartography, then what I'm asking is whether you envision your future as one of ("eh, it's good enough", "we're integrating more libraries that attempt to formalize IAM", or "we'll roll our own policy engine in python, how hard could it be")

Further illustrating my point, you linked to a .yaml file with "s3:GetObject" seemingly applied to an S3Bucket saying "can read" but that's for sure not systemically true for a monster list of reasons. I get the impression that Wiz makes their bread and butter on helping people understand when they actually have open S3 buckets and not just giving them a report full of false positives

I do appreciate this can come across as busting your chops, but I don't mean to shit on you, or your product, or your launch. I'm just pointing out that if you put "You can think of us as an open-core Wiz alternative" in the 2nd sentence of your announcement, there is a massive opportunity for expectations being out of alignment unless you have a plan to get from where you are to Industrial Grade Introspection. The other side of that coin is that if you do have the background for it, as your pseudo-resume implied, then it's a massive opportunity to give them a run for their $5 billion, too

1: and it's the misconfiguration that I would want a reasonable tool to chirp about, not "omfg token.actions.githubusercontent.com can get into your Role!"
As usual, Trump can't keep the story straight.

"I signed an order creating the Department of Government Efficiency and put a man named Elon Musk in charge," Trump told an audience of investors and company executives in Miami. [0]

So is Trump lying? Confused? Senile?

And the pushback to Musk by most of his administration didn't take the form of "this guy is just an advisor". They acted as if Musk were in charge, no matter what Trump tells a judge.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-appears-contradict-wh...
I'm not telling you the reasons why you write code the way you do. I'm just telling you about my experience of using the language, which clearly differs from yours. I never found protocols to be useful as a type checking tool, and I find they're not necessary for optimizations most of the time. I spent a lot of time profiling and optimizing Selmer, this is the only protocol that turned out to be necessary for performance https://github.com/yogthos/Selmer/blob/master/src/selmer/nod...

If you find protocols are a helpful tool to structure code that's great, keep using them. Nobody is telling you not to. However, try to accept that different people use the language in different ways. Try to follow your own advice and not to be dogmatic about it.
Recently I was reading about blind people’s experience of Netflix having been poor (no audio descriptions) for years and years and the media never picking it up despite organized groups begging them to do so…until Daredevil was released and outrageous headlines like “blind people can’t enjoy a show about a blind superhero” became possible.

And of course, Netflix released audio descriptions post haste once the headlines hit…turns out it was trivial all along.

The moral of the story is, if you want it in the press, make it outrageous first.
Why might it be desirable to have an observation craft so far away from the earth?

I'm having a hard time imagining the advantage compared to being a bit closer, unless it's a more energy-efficient parking situation while the vehicle isn't in active use.
Yes! That's a very good objective.

I am too studying a lot and trying to build one from scratch. It has been very humbling and enlightening experience, something that AI will never replace ;)

Kudos sir, and best of success. Check Maestronet (Luthier section, ie, Peg Box) for insightful comments and suggestions.
We've benchmarked a ton of the open models and voyage dramatically outperforms them. I think MTEB is a bad benchmark.
For context, I am a startup founder, an Atlas user, and not what anyone would call a "major account". I'm also in my early 30's, so I wasn't around for the whole "web scale" meme era of MongoDB.

I have personally been incredibly impressed with the way MongoDB has "looked out" for my company over the past year. I'll try to be satisfactorily specific their with privacy in mind, so this may come out a bit fuzzy. Their technical teams, both overseas and US, have produced some of the most thorough, detailed recommendations I have ever seen and their communication/followup was excellent. I've run many designs and ideas by their team, out of habit at this point, and have always been pleased with the response. They remember who I am. All of this is really unusual for a company at my growth stage.

My use case requires full technical depth on text searching and vectorization; I use every aspect of Atlas Search that is available. A downside of building "bleeding edge" is that my tooling needs always seem to be just inches beyond what is available, so just about every release seems to have something that is "for me." It's hard to say if my feedback specifically has an impact on their roadmap - but they really do seem to build things I want. I think they reported ~50% better performance on bulkWrite() in the 8 release, but it was closer to 500% for my use case.

Speaking of, this acquisition is like providence for me, because I've shared my various solutions with them for synchronously vectorizing "stuff" for use with local LLMs. It's a reasonably hard technical problem without a lot of consensus on standards; I think a lot of people believe there are standards, yet any discussion will quickly devolve into something like the "postgres/mongo" conversations you see here (I won't be visiting that topic).

I strongly agree with the "this should be a database level feature" approach they are taking here; that's certainly how my brain wants to think about it and currently I have to do a lot of "glue"-ing to make it work the way I require.

I hope they win.
what exactly did FB and twitter "disrupt"?
To your parent comment's point, this varies a lot by state!
From the article:

Vance’s most concerning assertion was that:

“[T]he Trump administration will ensure that AI systems developed in America are free from ideological bias and never restrict our citizens’ right to free speech.”
And the worst thing is that they may have misunderstood what "probationary employees" were. In federal speak, they are new employees, but the new regime may have thought they were "bad" employees, based on the idea of "probation" in the criminal justice sense.