skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What do you mean by "an executive branch that is controlled by a city" ? I thought the executive branch was headed by the president who then has most of the say about who heads up the departments. I don't think the president or the people he appoints to run positions have anything to do with the city, they can come from outside of D.C.

There are almost 700,000 federal employees in DC and its suburbs. The President appoints only about 4,000 people. Many of those people are the ones in agencies making rules that have the force of law.

> I don't think a presidential candidate has ever run on adding more debt either, but that has increased at an even higher rate.

They have—they all run on cutting taxes.

> How about birth rate? I don't think any candidate has campaigned on lowering the birthrate either, but that has dropped from 17.6 per thousand in 1970 to 12 per thousand in 2020.

The federal government directly controls the immigration rate, unlike the birth rate.

> I would really like to understand why you believe that the executive branch doesn't have the ability to govern because people that would be carrying out the laws must also be politically aligned with the laws.

Because politics has become polarized along moral dimensions. E.g. people don’t think immigration is merely a knob to turn, but instead is a moral issue, with a more “diverse” country being a moral good in and of itself. You can’t trust those people to work hard carrying out mass deportations when the public votes for the guy promising to do that.

> I also would like to hear why you think that just because something wasn't part of any presidential campaign it somehow supports your opinion that the people who carrying out the instructions in the laws - is an explanation for how the president and cabinet don't have any real power.

The knobs that control the immigration rate are turned by people who as a matter of ideology believe diversifying the country is a moral good in and of itself. So they simply ignore what the public thinks and continue to turn the knob in favor of increased immigration.
...and? it's a free country, not a paradise for William F. Buckley
Wanna bet? I do that regularly. Sometimes just use my phone too.

"Accessible" to me means I get to use the media how I want to use it.

And when that is actually the deal I am happy to pay.

When it isn't? Let's just say I am not happy to pay.

A frame capture to see a detail, or discuss it with a friend is a perfectly ordinary thing to do. Same goes for audio.

People like to use media in many ways.

And these people have general purpose computing devices that do all sorts of things as they were designed to do.

What if people want to talk production? WHY does it look or sound like it does?

I believe what you meant to say was YOU think it is silly because YOU would NEVER stop your movie.

And that is OK! My wife would strongly agree with you.
> > Does the value stored in `a` know the name of that variable?

> Okay, I'm stumped - in what other language would it "know" (I assume this means automatically recording the string "a" as part of the object's state in some way)? Or is this just referring to debugging information added in some environments?

Python is (or can be) the anomaly here because of descriptors, specifically __set_name__: https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#object.__...

I'm partial to using descriptors to reference attribute names (as opposed to using arbitrary strings) so that refactoring tools recognize them. That looks roughly like:

_T_co = TypeVar("_T_co", covariant=True)

class Parameter(Generic[_T_co]):
"""
Here we push descriptors a bit further by using overloads to distinguish
type-level vs. instance-level references. Given:

```
class C:
param: Parameter[Param] = Param(...)

c = C(param=Param.VALUE)
```

`c.param` operates as attribute accesses normally do, invoking the
descriptor with `instance=c` and transparently returning `Param.VALUE`.

`C.param`, on the other hand, calls `__get__` with `instance=None`,
which is recognized by the overload as returning `Param` itself.

Thus `C.param.parameter_name` returns the string `param`, is typed
correctly, and if you need to find or update references to `param`
in the future, `setattr(c, C.param.parameter_name)` will be handled,
where `setattr(c, "param")` wouldn't have been.
"""

@overload
def __get__(self, instance: None, owner: type) -> Param: ...

@overload
def __get__(self, instance: Any, owner: type) -> _T_co: ...

def __get__(self, instance: object, owner: type) -> Param | _T_co: ...

def __set__(self, instance: object, value: Param | _T_co) -> None: ...

parameter_name: str
"""The parameter name this param has been assigned to."""

def __set_name__(self, _owner: type, parameter_name: str) -> None:
# Descriptor protocol to capture the field name as a string for reference
# later. This spares us having to write parameter names as strings, which
# is both error-prone and not future-proof.

# The type may be immutable, with dot assignment and normal setattr not
# available.
object.__setattr__(self, "parameter_name", parameter_name)
Thank you for the link. How is Germany looking RE economic stability for the next couple of years? I was looking into Sweden but even the Swedish citizens I know there are having a difficult time finding / keeping engineering jobs as the economy has been doing poorly.
no pity license plate queued lmao
Don’t take this the wrong way—I’m not calling you dishonest; I’m calling the question dishonest.

My point wasn’t that you should have known to trust the organization. I’d never ask you to trust anyone or anything.

My argument is that the question’s vague phrasing and misleading premise make it nearly impossible to answer while also inviting the reader’s imagination to spiral into meaningless speculation.

While it may not directly inject misinformation, it fosters the kind of speculation that often leads to it—because, believe it or not, grown adults can be surprisingly impressionable.
You know when the cold war ended the archives briefly opened up. It's not a moral case, merely a factual one.
I get by with 30 minutes every day. It would seem the more consistent the routine, the less the cravings at 11pm.
> why would you fab a digital design in 130nm instead of just programming an FPGA?

That’s an interesting concept. So an fpga implemented on a current 7nm process is more performant (clock speed and energy use) than an asic on a 130nm process? How about 40nm process? I feel like there’s a graph of intersecting lines here.
The American federal government has more or less the same number of employees as it did in the 1970s.
It would be worse for the United States dollar, probably. The D in USD historically could’ve been associated with “Diplomacy”— the military was willing and able to globally enforce the value of the US Dollar by favoring countries that willingly supported its hegemony.

When no one relies upon us any more, what makes our dollars and debts so special? What’s to stop everyone from taking their ball and going to play somewhere else? From calling in debts, from reneging on debts to us, from accepting our dollars, from providing land for military bases, from honoring our passports… because that is what happens to nearly every other country not at the Top.

The global order currently only works in our favor because we’re on top. We are the ones who lose the most when other countries don’t need us, not the other way around.
>Can Apple differentiate between DRM screen recording and DRM screenshots? Can Apple differentiate between 30-second promotional clips and longer recordings, or rate limit N captures per M wallclock time? Can rightsholders add metadata to enable screenshots on a per-title basis?

DRM implementers can barely scrape together a DRM implementation that works as intended, as evidenced by all the 4K rips that are available on torrent sites. What makes you think they're competent enough to implement all the stuff you're suggesting, for marginal gains? As much as people like to dream up hypotheticals why screenshots provide "free PR" or whatever, I seriously doubt whether it's something studios care about.
This is an absolutely beautiful work of art and it saddens me that it does not have more upvotes.
Why is this not on the front page anymore?
if only one side has nukes slavery will be much more widespread if everyone has them all the slave traders competing with each other will be at least mitigated

kind of crazy they saw all the graffiti license plate games that early
The federal government can do a lot to support state actions to disenfranchise people, especially when the courts go along with it. And then there’s the threat of state legislatures to override the popular vote in national elections on the basis of “fraud”.
looks great on mobile, too. it's exceptional at organizing the content's contrast ratios and spacing, my only nitpick is slightly too much color
So it makes sense for Batman, but not for my next car. Got it.
I had this app. Great job!

PS. Thank you for Hack, one of the only YC clients that's perfect on mobile and supports all features: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hack-for-yc-hacker-news-reader...
This interview not only tells the story of Seven Du’s personal technical journey, but also reveals the broader evolution of information technology in China, offering a perspective on how the country’s developers have navigated this digital revolution.
I never liked him. It's just a fact that America was full of communists before the liberal-tankie split when it no longer was socially acceptable to be a communist since they started pasting protesters with tanks.
Once at an MIT swapfest, I paid someone half price for a camera to “hold it” because I didn’t have the entire amount they wanted in cash, and they wouldn’t take Venmo. I never got the camera or any money back because he basically gave me the run around. Silly me believes in being virtuous in casual transactions.
> I hope that this sharing will continue and increase

It will continue until they pass us. They're coming from behind, and releasing models as open source essentially wipes the board of hundreds of American startups.

Growth hackers and solopreneurs like @levelsio can be nipping at the heels of $300M funded companies who poured all of their points into training models, making expensive mistakes, and overpaying for compute.

Companies like RunwayML are probably doomed at this point between Hunyuan, Wan, and the half dozen other open source foundation video models. They failed to raise their last round in 2024, and they definitely face a much bleaker world in 2025.

To expound on that some more, while China might not be leading in LLMs just yet, they definitely are with media. Their video models are the best in class. This poses some significant questions.

In some years, China might be able to unseat the US as the global cultural export powerhouse. As the price of content creation drops orders of magnitude, content creation will become hyper local. That'll be another ding to US soft power.

China will want to commoditize this.
This. The Chinese AI is called DeepSeek FFS -- think about that one for a minute.
They thought of that. HDCP is supposed to prevent this by encrypting the video signal all the way to the playback device.
Few people need Blu-ray quality, though. The quality offered by streaming services would usually fit on a DVD. Shorter TV show episodes would fit even on a dual layer CD.

We can look at game recording tools to try to understand what a world without DRM might have looked like. Those are able to easily record and encode video at 1080p or 4K on consumer hardware. Uploading that to YouTube or sharing that with friends isn't an issue either.
In that case it's unblinded and placebo could be the patient giving the interviewer what they think they want to hear.
A lot of developed countries like across Europe and Singapore dont have the same geopolitical history with China as the US does, as such the Sinophobia isn’t really there

Many people really enjoyed Shanghai and other cities and are recipients of expansive social safety nets of China

If you’re middle class and in a big city or some of the planned cities, China is fine, not without its difficulty of adjusting to, some people sour on etiquette and difficulty founding entrepreneurial things. But an academic or programmer would be fine.

So people in the US often try to focus on political edge cases to write off an entire country but its easy to see that focus going away
I agree with this. Some world events aren't relevant with our lives, and some are quite regional but have vast effects. For example, 1997 Asian Economic Crisis impacted my family quite a bit and I have a fond memory of my parents being worried around that time. I wish I could add/edit/remove some of the "World Events"
Unleashed Recompiled: PC port of the Xbox 360 version of Sonic Unleashed
That's a great idea. Let's do that.

And until that happens, helping people file their taxes for free is a benefit to everyone (except tax prep companies).
Since, you mention gamma, I have to link this: http://www.ericbrasseur.org/gamma.html?i=1

Also, side-by-side comparisons are hard, its best to flip back and forth between the two images, like opening them in an image viewer and pressing arrow keys. Or cross eyes like with magic eye stereograms so you see them "layered".

But yes, more fundamentally, I think you're right that this is not really image content dependent, it doesn't need any image prior, if all you want is to minimize means squared error after upscaling with a fixed bicubic interpolation.
My point is giving people any explanation for their problems - so long as its backed by authority helps them - it says nothing to the truthfulness of those explanations.

Anyway youre being really dismissive too instead of just responding to my points. If you think Im being dumb fine Im just not interested in an emotionally heated argument.

I apologize if I seem dismissive of people's mental health - not my intention Ive been dealing with them my whole life. Take care.
I have had a similar discussion with a fellow On-Deck Founder, and here is where we reached:

- More than being "good enough", it is about taking responsibility.
- A human can make more mistakes than an AI, and they are still the more appropriate choice because humans can be held responsible for their actions. AI, by its very nature, cannot be 'held responsible' -- this has been agreed upon based on years of research in the field of "Responsible AI".
- To completely automate anything using AI, you need a way to trivially verify whether it did the right thing or not. If the output cannot be verified trivially, you are just changing the nature of the job, and it is still a job or a human being (like the staff you mentioned who remotely control Waymos when something goes wrong).
- If an action is not trivially verifiable and requires AI's output to directly reach the end-user without a human-in-the-loop, then the creator is taking a massive risk. Which usually doesn't make sense for a business when it comes to mission-critical activities.

In Waymo's case, they are taking massive risks because of Google's backing. But it is not about being 'good enough'. It is about the results of the AI being trivially verifiable - which, in the case of driving, is true. You just need three yes/no answers: Did the customer reach where they wanted? Are they safe? Did they arrive on time? Are they happy with the experience?
I find it a comfortable, fast, long-range, and mostly reliable car. I enjoy driving it. I do not enjoy being associated with Musk. If I could trade my four-year-old Tesla for a four-year-old EV of equivalent comfort, speed, range, and reliability then I would. However, Musk has destroyed the resale value of my car. My biggest fear is now that the company won't be able to survive his behaviour, and I'll be left with the motoring equivalent of a pacemaker made by a startup that went under.
Just recall what the United States did to Huawei's CFO Meng Wanzhou at that time, and it will be very understandable now.
> The browser market is highly competitive

I disagree. There's one dominant player with ~66% of the market, a distant secont place at ~18%, an embarrassing third place at 5%, and then a bunch of also-rans making up the rest [0]. This doesn't look like a particularly healthy, nor competitive, market.

[0] https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share
How did you get it? I've wanted something similar.
How much is Wegovy?
Great site, but the JSON looks like it's embedded in C as values but is really just a macro that expands it into a string and then parses it. So you can't put any local variables into the JSON.

In my opinion, C really needs some officially supported reflection for the names of enums and such things. People have reinvented the wheel so many times and it never quite gets there.
It’s an odd phenomena to see someone refute personal observations.

Something to consider, a huge number of people feel personally alienated and under threat of harm by the current administration’s party rhetoric.

Those people may, bizarrely, value life and liberty over top dollar. The revulsion expressed on the matter of taxes may also seem odd to the people for whom paying taxes means the state can provide for their safety and wellbeing.
Fuck that Vought guy.
I think the complaint is with the government hearings to investigate individual citizens political views. Doesn’t seem especially aligned with the supposed values of the country.

Many of the people outed and persecuted for homosexuality were really gay. That doesn’t make it any less offensive.
>correlation between test scores and surgical hand skills was pretty week

even if hand skills is orthogonal to test scores, test scores could still be highly correlated with outcomes
Whay does “stand” mean here? Just make statements in public? uk isn’t doing much tbh
Heh

Can be turned off by the user usually means you must run your own recursive DNS resolver and firewall
Musk's DOGE fires federal tech team that built free tax-filing site
If everyone has them they are more likely to be used over minor issues.
I don’t think it’s most people’s primary motivation, which is how it sounds like you’re interpreting me.
There's bigger problems in the US for a researcher than just the salary in the US nowadays.

That salary comparison was valid pre-Trump.
>But the blacking out the video when I take a screenshot on a freaking iPhone... what is being prevented here? Someone is going to make a copy of a movie by taking 3,000,000 screenshots and stitching them all together?

Even if making 3M screenshots to extract the video isn't a viable ripping strategy, it's still less work to block all capture APIs than it is to figure out which methods you want to block, and make sure that implementation is airtight.
> Day 402. These new #AI features in the #Azure CLI are working great so far.

<screenshot of a python error>

This is a scenario that is all too common with az.

I have the privilege of working on azure stack hub. To do IAM management you have to install a cli version that is years old at this point. On recent versions you get a trace error like this.
Considering how many weapons the US sells to its allies, wouldn't be great for the US defense industry.
Hopelessness is their tool, not ours.
Yes. Any place that required changes or pragmas because of more restrictive semantics should be a warning lamp.
> It also meant anyone who actually wanted a CPU core in their design got something that was guaranteed to work and easy to integrate.

in theory only.

caravel had hold time violations and the pin configuration mostly didn’t work for the first 5 or 6 sponsored
OpenMPW shuttles.
Analyzing DeepSeek's "undefined" Nvidia PTX optimizations [video]
They took the first url offline already. Elons boys working fast.
I understand the best I have with this handle is pseudoanonymity, but I’m not going to be throwing people I know and respect under the bus in a public forum.
As one of the many Americans who wants to contribute to a society whose values match their own, thank you. Is there somewhere to follow your efforts in that front?
Yes, excellent theory, rich people are famously not greedy assholes.
* Silicon Valley -- Electronics Flea Market, https://www.electronicsfleamarket.com/
Agreed, who needs engineering talent when we can just hire some H1Bs and let them and Copilot do all the work? Unlike the Chinese, H1Bs don't want to be sent on a plane back home to their 3rd world country so they'll always do as they are told. When we tell them to work 80 hours, they work 80 hours.
Federal employees begin to receive second work accomplishment email
Mozilla site down due to "overdue hosting payments" [fixed]
OPM internal report last year.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/01/07/what-the-...
This is 11,682 lines of C (and not including some Lua and Python scripts) according to cloc:

https://github.com/williamcotton/webdsl

It's a pipeline-based DSL for building web apps with SQL, Lua, jq and mustache templates.

I'd say it's like 90% Cursor Composer in Agent mode.

This is probably more like a mid-sized project, right?
What you are saying is true, and this is the feedback I hear every time I talk to a small team of developers (generally fewer than 15 developers).

At this stage, you don't need "another set of eyes" because it is not that big of a problem to break something, as you are not going to lose massive amounts of money because of the mistake.

All these teams need is a sanity check. They also generally (even without the AI code reviewers) do not have a strong code review process.

This is why, in the article, I have clearly mentioned that these are learning based on talking to engineers in Series-B and Series-C startups.
There are 1.4B Chinese. Like obviously some will want to move away. The question is, per capita, what is the rate of locals fleeing away from each country.
In-App Purchases

Godzilla Tip: $19.99

Amazing Tip: $9.99

Generous Tip: $5.99

Nice Tip: $1.99

Kind Tip: $3.99
Are you saying they love living in apartments? I think most of them live there because of proximity to economic activity, not out of love for apartment living. If manhattan allowed for single-family housing for 1.6M people, how many do you think will refuse that?
Interestingly the actual website for Kiwisaver describes it as a "savings scheme". In the US we just have our own national Ponzi scheme, Social Security
The truth is that HDCP too only annoys the consumer.

Pirates can bypass it easily, and even event venues and universities keep cheap chinese HDMI splitters on hand to avoid issues during lectures or presentations. These $10 devices just rip the HDCP off the incoming video stream.

This is most useful because Mac OS keeps applications around even without a window, and as long as e.g. Spotify is still there, it'll force HDCP on the HDMI out.
This is a good program that should be retained. But theres a nagging thing bothering me about the whole dynamic going on with DOGE critics. You get mad at the waste this represents, the unfairness. Ask your average middle class worker how they feel about the taxes taken out of their paycheck being wasted in the massive amount of waste fraud and abuse we all know happens in government. That is massively unfair. It one thing to lose a job because of a policy change. It’s quite another to have every paycheck docked at threat of state violence to fund the kind of stuff we are hearing about. Budget cuts and shutdowns are normal in business and all too rare in government. The argument that this or that program is good isn’t enough. But we see all these concerns and complaints based on basically that. This ignores the scale and gravity and historical incalcalitrant nature of the problem we actually have to deal with now. It’s not an option anymore. So can we please stop the wailing and gnashing of teeth and absolutely give feedback on what programs are good and why they deserve to be reinstated. I have a feeling they want to wait a year or two to find out what actually mattered.