skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Nothing going on here is permanent loss... it isn't a big deal to rebuild to the status quo."

There is no status quo to rebuild.

Loss of trust, loss of momentum, loss of context, loss of relationships - insofar as any of these things existed, they are permanently destroyed. That's what will need rebuilding. The original process took decades, if not a century or more. You can't just disrupt that and then expect to restore it easily - or expect it to spontaneously reconfigure on its own with reliably desirable outcomes.

People working in the government are not fungible labor units like GPUs or VMs, to be spun up and disposed of without consequence. The network formed between people is even more important than the individual jobs - and it has an insane cold-start penalty.

Maybe if the folks in charge were absolute geniuses in leadership and organizational psychology, something miraculous might happen. But, that's never a thing to expect in general, let alone given the evidence at hand. They're making the classic blunder of trying to rewrite the system from scratch, which has almost never gone well for anyone.
> the stated target of the law but the least likely to be affected by it

The least likely to be negatively affected. This will absolutely be good for them in that it just adds another item to the list of things that prevents new entrants from competing with them.
What do you think it does to child, to know that there was violence at their school, but they lucked out by not being around when it happens?

Do you think that’s conducive to their education? To their mental well-being?
The condition framework/break loop is one thing I wish more Lisps would copy.
meanwhile, the idea of paying out the nose for most post-secondary education overseas is laughable. You never have to go into 5-6 figures of debt just to get an education. Even 30 years ago US colleges had a huge amount of tuition covered by state governments. But decades of cuts pushed more of the tuition on the student and now people in the propoganda just want DoED as a whole to crumble.
Dark editor themes has always been one of the most laughable of orthodoxies in tech. Contrast is key for reducing eye strain, especially for extended sessions. And Solarized doesn’t have nearly enough.

(I suspect a decent chunk of Solarized’s popularity came from the fact it was popular, rather than the “science”-based facade it marketed itself as.)
Idk ... it feels Clojure stalled since Nubank bought Hickeys company. Worst thing: spec is still in alpha !! I put so much on this ... but nothing really happened since ... idk 8 years?
Love that the numbers in Catalan are represented as numerals, not as words.

EDIT: playing with it, it's a bit sad that large numbers do not work at all (in any language); and that not all common forms of a word are shown. For example, I tried to see how "ninety six" is said in french in France, Belgium and Switzerland, but it does not work.
The "business cycle" has no purpose; it's an emergent phenomenon.
Then you face the fallout from the other silent epidemic: everyone thinks they have a reason to be an exception to the rule
Do you have an explicit reference for that?

Not doubting it, but if you have a reference to hand it will save me having to search.

If it's just something you remember but don't have a reference then that's OK, I'll go hunting based on your clue.
We don't really know who has paid their bribes, anyone could have bought trump coin and so on ... doesn't even have to be a local oligarch.
So in other words, storing data in Germany does not solve the problem, it is just better than the US. The US currently has a wannabe monarch, but that's just for the next 4 years... we hope.
I don't see what the big deal is - Governments don't change hands or selectively prosecute.
Neetcode uses/used judge0 for code execution but it might be overkill

https://github.com/judge0/judge0
Your argument is that it's better to have the illegal stuff (say, CSAM) online than for a site owner to, for practical reasons, ban a lot of legal stuff too? Why?
righhht https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/12900

france is involved in resource conflicts all over subsaharan africa bffr
LLM Running on Commodore C64
Again, you’re just doing it for things that aren’t real rules.

Try:

- Intentionally violating a safety protocol in a hardware lab

- taking company property for yourself

- stealing from a vendor

- sexually harassing your direct reports

What this thread seems to be talking about is violating soft process norms.
> Our human designs strive to work in many environmental conditions. Many early AI designs, if iterated in the real world, would incorporate local physical conditions into their circuits. For example, that fluorescent lamp or fan I'm picking up(from the AI/evolutionary design algorithm's perspective) has great EM waves that could serve as a reliable clock source, eliminating the need for my own. Thus if you move things it would break.

This problem may have a relatively simple fix: have two FPGAs – from different manufacturing lots, maybe even different models or brands – each in a different physical location, maybe even on different continents. If the AI or evolutionary algorithm has to evolve something that works on both FPGAs, it will naturally avoid purely local stuff which works on one and not the other, and produce a much more general solution.
Oh no, it's justice. Sweet sweet justice. It's not like he worked hard for all the money he lost through stupidity and incompetence, or that it generated any value to the economy or society. Any competent IT professional knows very well about the importance of performing backups, and testing their backups. He may "subconsciously blame" his partner for losing the hard drive, but it was 100% his own fault he never bothered to back it up. He's doing just fine if he can afford all those legal fees, so he doesn't need to be "helped up", and playing the world's smallest violin in sympathy of his fate is hardly "kicking him".
Magee was originally at The Register. They've lost all their colorful characters, except for the BOfH feature.
3. Defense strategy shifts from NATO's "US-centric" model to a distributed European capability matrix:

Start with French and U.K. nuclear deterrence as foundation. Layer in proven European systems (Rafale, Gripen, Leopard) while rapidly developing next-gen capabilities through joint programs. Think European DARPA meets industrial policy.

Key force multipliers: integrated air defense spanning the continent, standardized logistics, shared intelligence platforms, and fully interoperable command systems. Defense partnerships with Canada/Australia/New Zeland/Japan/South Korea/Taiwan provide complementary capabilities and strategic depth.

No US kill-switches means full sovereign control of systems. Distributed manufacturing ensures supply resilience. Distributed architecture rather than centralized hub-and-spoke.

This model isn't about matching US or legacy NATO capabilities 1:1, but creating a robust, autonomous system that potential adversaries can't easily disrupt or defeat. European industrial and technological capacity makes this feasible - we just need the political will to execute.
in the case of a humanities PhD, yeah. It's probably easier to become a pro-athlete than find the handful of jobs that require a history PhD. But a chemistry PhD? Engineering PhD... agricultural sciences... geology... the job search is still a search, but these aren't degrees that have no demand. You certainly are more likely to find industry jobs vs. academic jobs with many hard science degrees. The return on taxpayer investment is sensible compared to other taxpayer funded schemes (in my view, if we're going to be a country that also funds primary and high school). and this investment is not a direct funding of PhD students, but funding projects they carry out, which in most cases is in national interest. The select number of students working on completely useless projects that are ideological dogma are definitely making the rest of higher education look useless.
Nothing more reassuring than a vague “we’re unlikely to go after you [if you stay on our good side.]”

It’s clear the UK wants big monopolistic tech platforms to fully dominate their local market so they only have a few throats to choke when trying to control the narrative…just like “the good old days” of centralized media.

I wouldn’t stand in the way of authoritarians if you value your freedom (or the ability to have a bank account).

The risk just isn't worth it. You write a blog post that rubs someone power-adjacent the wrong way and suddenly you're getting the classic "...nice little blog you have there...would be a shame to find something that could be interpreted as violating 1 of our 17 problem areas..."
Then I guess that'd be a use case of technologies like Tor or I2P, properly, securely used.
4.0 GPA isn't what they are looking for. Rich kids have the money, but not talent. Poor kids have talent, but not money. MIT and the like is a place where the two can meet and work together. They don't need a high GPA, they need a seriously gifted student.
Of course? How is that even in question. The US promised protection to Ukraine for giving up its nuclear weapons, then freely gave much aid as it was in its mown interests to do so.
Not any more it's at 0.28% https://blogs.nasa.gov/planetarydefense/2025/02/20/additiona...

NASA Downgrades the Risk of 2024 YR4 to Below 1% (45 points, 11 hours ago, 54 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43148259
Maybe genAI will make event and location selfies so easy to fake that they will lose value
The freestyle shortages were due to issues with production of the libre 3 and a transition from libre 3 to libre 3+. Abbott really kind of screwed things up with the transition (coupled with a recall on some of the sensors)
I cannot reproduce your result. Rather, I get Elon Musk as the answer:

https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5_02886c4d-79fc-485b-a07c-2a59...

https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5_59091f94-f1c4-4c48-ad69-1330...

https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5_7060b523-dec5-4d17-b944-3267...

https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5_0441b53b-1ac6-4c0d-bcbd-64e4...

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However, this used sources from mainstream. So if you account for the mainstream media bias, the answer is rather uncertain: Based on factual analysis, no specific account can be identified as the biggest spreader of misleading statements on Twitter. Studies indicate that a small number of verified or automated accounts play a significant role, but names are not provided.

https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5_5fd3d6a0-d231-4a59-9435-4c53...
Can you always test the entire input space? Only for a few applications.
This is a case of both in-band error codes and overloaded meanings of inputs colliding. Modern languages make both things much better but even in C the kill(2) interface seems much too clever. It seems it could have easily been a couple of different functions.
Which things are expensive?
If we wanted to keep old people in homes we could've written a tailored program for old people.

As it stands, Prop 13 was sold as that, but also essentially used a sledgehammer on a thumbtack, because it applies to any property regardless of the age of the property owner, and also to commercial and industrial property. Not to mention, old people who want to downsize (say, into a home without stairs to fall down) can't afford to because of the massive jump in property taxes that would entail.
They can’t do anything about it now that the Republican Party has sold the country out to deranged white nationalist fascists and an unelected billionaire.
College graduation vs dropout rates have been trending in the opposite direction than this take would suggest though. It could be because to be secondary education being better than you say or because colleges experienced the same kinds of changes. Either way though, the numbers suggest fewer people are finding out they aren't actually cut out for college after graduating high school.
When does anything really touch?
Yeah, wet wipes are really bad. High volume styrofoam was used in appliance manufacturing and distribution but in responsible manufacturing chains recently seems to be aggressively replaced by cardboard. The other things you see a lot of in Asia are blow-molded PET (soft drink bottles), instant noodle containers, single use FMCG tear-packs (shampoo, sauces, etc.), sushi take-away soy-sauce fish containers, plastic straws and polymer fishing nets.

Basically the three industries that count are FMCG/food retail, appliances, and fishing.

However, just because you don't see plastic doesn't mean it's not there. A lot of the plastic waste gets burned in Asia and then pollutes waterways and makes its way to the ocean, largely because many countries still lack decent waste infrastructure. I imagine it's similar in Africa and South America.

In non-appliance supply chain, a waste reduction strategy that seems to be increasing is reusable 'chunks' of styrofoam rather than custom molded large pieces. This facilitates reuse assuming the volume-in and volume-out of shipment at a site is similar (it never is).

FYI ironic is an adjective already in English, you don't need to add the '-al' (ironical is not a word). Your English is better than my Slavic :)
I cannot quite replicate those results myself: https://github.com/gorkaerana/hn-programming-language-trends.

In my analysis, as a percentage of total job posts, Python jobs start to rapidly increase in 2022, even before the current AI craze started by the release of ChatGPT on November 20 2022. They peaked in 2024 and seem to have stalled since. Rust and C++ jobs (again, as a percentage of total job posts), have gone toe-to-toe since mid 2023.

That being said, many improvements to be done to my analysis, as it relies on simple word match.
I think it made substantially more sense in the 1990s.

For one, Gtk+ used to be advertised as a multi platform toolkit, with a port of GDK to Win32. Making Gtk+ widgets look like Win32 made sense for that.

Secondly, there were two groups of people using Linux and X11 in that era: one group who were exiles from commercial Unix, and another, faster growing group coming from Windows. For the former group, it was reasonable to want widgets to look more like Motif or Athena. The latter group wanted a more modern look, which could depart from old school Unix workstations.
The final moments of kali yuga
I think it's rare that the surprise isn't genuine.
Good tip thank you
The deltas between the others are mostly not significant either. They're all about equally good. There's no categorical difference between GPT-4 and Claude 3.5.
That is not the stated purpose of the law and there is recourse built into it. Too often folks view these laws as binaries where none exists.
Since practically every government in Europe is a Microsoft "shop", Azure is the first stop when The Cloud is concerned. Unofortunately, often the last one too... Wheels were already moving, I helped rhem gain traction.

So yeah, not my favorite of the whole "not my favorite" cloud migration plan, but the only realistic path forward at the time
The CLOUD Act is incompatible with basic data protection rights.

As long as whatever sham of a data protection agency was nominally functional in the US european elites could convince themselves that it was legal to transfer personal data to some US corporations, but now that agency is defunct.

But yeah, it's a bad idea to do business with empires. Sooner or later they turn to bullying and extortion.
Tried to love Clojure, but found it to opinionated as a daily driver for me.

Sometimes I just need to get some code running to see a result, which is my main use case for Lisp.

I used to default to Common Lisp, but it needs a lot of scaffolding to become ergonomic, and even then it has too many quirks to be really enjoyable for me.

So I started designing my own:

https://github.com/codr7/eli
Parenting provides the rest of the correction needed to finish the process.
Show HN: A Modern SSR framework for generating content-first websites
On a meta level, it seems worrying that the probability estimate might update that rapidly....
22.3 billion endowment. Maybe they can fund a little research without taxpayers?
Is it possible to do all three at the same time?

- talk about academic "administrators"

- lazily generalize

- be intellectually honest

The answers you are seeking require reading at least a whole book of information!
Kolmogorov complexity is uncomputable because it admits Turing complete languages, and reduces to the halting problem. If the language you admit isn't Turing complete, then the Kolmogorov complexity of the thing is computable.

It looks like OP's language is not Turing complete. It always terminates. You can just do a breadth first search on the program space. The first program you get that outputs the number you want is the shortest program.

If it were Turing complete, you can't do this, because eventually you'll find a program that just keeps running for like a really long time. Is it running because the program never halts? Or is will it halt eventually and output the number you want? You can't know for sure.
Aweful strategists did that, if they weren't simply corrupted.
> I just searched for "best predictor of career success" and found a bunch of conflicting results. Open networks, conscientiousness, grit, intelligence, class, etc. This is actually reassuring, since if there were a known path to success everyone would crowd into it. Curiously I didn't see any articles or studies saying "it's partially random" because no one wants to hear that.

I'm not sure which is the best for career success and it's incredibly difficult to quantify your parents network effect, but conscientiousness, intelligence and grit make for a very happy life. You'll naturally gravitate toward intellectually stimulating things, work hard at them, not care about meaningless things around you, and enjoy every minute of it.
The LLM interface isn't the main feature - it's the combination of vehicle-specific data sources and tools:

Vehicle maintenance history aggregation
Automatic quote retrieval from sellers
Registration/insurance document management
Market value tracking across North America
VIN-specific recall and service bulletin monitoring
Manual parsing and model-specific guidance

The LLM makes this data accessible, but the value is in having everything about your vehicle centralized and contextualized. Claude/Deepseek can give general car advice, but they can't track your specific vehicle's history or provide personalized maintenance alerts.

Would you find value in having all your vehicle's data and documents in one place?
This is how Corey Doctorow sells his books. Even at Amazon his books are DRM-free. The file is yours forever, and he and his publisher (Tor) are very happy with the arrangement.
Immutability removes so much accidental complexity, it makes whole classes of mistakes dissapear. I'd also take immutability over types.

Clojure sort of guides you to simplicity, building everything out of functions and simple datastructures has big advantages when testing and reasoning about code.

I do find that in larger code bases, Clojure lack of types causes friction (spec is just a bandaid, not a fix).

There are languages with immutability and types (like Haskell), but these don't have the get-shit-done factor I seek.
Wish I could make an NFC implant and pay like that. But probably not in this decade, since that would require merchants to have an eyelid scanner or something similar, so that people can't pay with your hand while you're not looking.
Engineers Who Won't Commit
No worries at all! If the site is open sourced, I can help update the translation text.

Thanks for the site, and keep up the great work!
Bonus: Times have indeed changed - Trumpist chaos (came back to bite us and) is upon us. It is high time our security Alliance evolves from anti-communism to effective upholding of Democracy.

An overwhelming majority of democratic countries in the world recognize the ICC.
Why accept exceptionalist members any longer?

In short,

- NATO: Accept compromised / exceptionalist members for strategic advantage.

- This proposed new Alliance: Democratic standards ARE the strategic advantage.
This reminder would be a little more helpful if you gave some examples.
Yeah the $30 2k camera you linked seems good, but I worry about local card storage, because if someone steals the camera you have no evidence who did it!

I wish the camera could stream to Frigate/whatever but stream empty delta frames when nothing is detected.
hoi polloi was borrowed into english as a way not only of saying "the masses", but of signalling one's own status above the masses. Another way of signalling such status is to show off one's deeper familiearity with obscure details of foreign languages.

or to put it another way, only hoi polloi say "the hoi polloi"; on this same topic linguists are generally incoherent, so intent are they to repeat yet again "descriptivism doncha know"
This take is sad to read. Having had the unfortunate experience of dealing with more than one loved struggling with a break from reality, I can say you’re probably way off. A lot of things we assign to personality traits or character flaws like this issue, are genuinely part of the mental health disorder. They typically aren’t present when the individual is at their baseline or “normal” state of mind, only appearing when the disorder is in full swing and untreated.
The thing that gets me is the disingenuous parallel construction. Just say the truth.

Europe wants to improve its economy by growing their consumer tech industry. Some of these products like Google Analytics (the example he is upset about) are really hard to replicate (writing to a database on every visit to your website is an expensive thing to do, significantly more expensive than hosting the website!). So they've been slowly increasing the tariffs (disguised as privacy regulations) on US tech firms. It's gone poorly, even EU governments (let alone EU businesses) still use products like Google Analytics, and US tech firms have been able to engineer their way around the regulations, again doing a better job than EU governments who have been busted countless times for breaking GDPR with their own systems.

No one cares about any "data sharing agreement" or a "Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board" no one has ever heard of that has never done anything. Its a tariff with various ways to pick winners and losers.

The only thing thats changed is there is a higher chance these privacy regulations will be recognized as tariffs by the US.
Except when performing for men (?), or so I've heard :)

Doesn't appeal to me either, btw; I spend enough time glued to computers.

Can't see it doing much to cure loneliness; but who knows, people in general seem to get a lot more out of their souped-up Elizas than I do already.
One day on HN I read a thread about how academia is (credibly) inundated with fraudulent research/publication practices, the next day I read a comment about how Western academia is (vaguely) the last vanguard against civilizational collapse. There seems to be a disconnect here.

Disclaimer: I work in academia
Ukrainian and russian words often use the same letters but are pronounced very differently due to distinct phonetics. On the other hand, some Polish and Czech words sound the same or very similar to Ukrainian but look quite different because of their different alphabets. Therefore, phonetic transcription would be a valuable improvement.
Using Scaleway. It's great. Lots of open source stacks too.
I get horrified looks from my dev team when they look at my screen, but I typically use light mode for work, and I find it easier to read by a long shot.

For dev work at home, I use darkmode, but I usually work in a less well-lit environment and for less time.
That's certainly a positive way to look at it.

On the other hand, the gold rush tech bros have made the industry miserable for us OG nerds.