skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even Vought & 2025 didn't expect such a blunt chainsaw approach, just firing any and everyone who technically could be fired without cause.

But man they are still seemingly getting so much of the teardown of this nation that they wanted.

There's still a huge amount of America alseep or worshipping those bringing the end of America, but my hope is still that eventually the endless lies and obfuscation wear thing. That we can conclusively see who the villains are. That was a huge part of Project 2025, and I think it was always a fantasy, that America abandoned our allies and starting trade wars and joining with the Russians isn't going to make us think the past was the villains here (you awful monsters).

> Russ Vought Got His Trauma — But Not the Villains He Imagined

https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/28/russ-vought-got-his-tr...
contenteditable is incredibly painful to use, not standardized and different across browsers, and buggy in firefox
Both of them. The two groups you named.
The argument isn't that one is doing and the other isn't. It's the _degree_ that it's happening in each country. Given the tight control of the Kremlin on media, my gut says more stories break in the USA than Russia.
Riley Sennott, 26, is listed as a "senior advisor"

Senior? At 26?!
I just got into data analysis recently (former software engineer) and tried out pandas vs polars. I like polars way more because it feels like SQL but then sane, and it's faster. It's clear in what it tries to do. I didn't really have that with pandas.
Norway is the country with most Tesla cars. I wonder what they gonna do with them.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43252994
EFF's legal side is... not as insane, I guess. And there are some sound minds surely there still.

But I repeat: the data privacy dystopia is upon us, and what is EFF pushing for clicks and eyeballs? "Big Tech Bad".

"Big Tech Bad" is precisely the kind of poorly-grounded outrage farm used to bring DOGE to power in the first place. Voters trying to bring their perceived enemies to heel are the actual threat! And EFF is part of the problem and not the solution.

In the coming years we will remember fondly when our personal data lived in secure and well-managed centers run by Meta and Google and Amazon and not on some DOGE staffers' Macbook. Write it down.
> In what world is what they are doing masterful?

Does *anyone* want "Copilot integration" in random MS products?
What good does that do on a resume? I thought learning a new language on the job was pretty standard.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43217481
Mandatory xkcd 2314.
> But the case was thrown out in August 2023 — not for a lack of evidence, but because the Crown took too long to bring it to trial under a set of strict timelines that have reshaped the way criminal cases are handled since a landmark 2016 ruling by the Supreme Court of Canada.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/canada-jorda...
Tangentially related, the hobby market for converting MIDI to USB HID via hardware, which is popular for using electronic drum kits' and keyboards' MIDI output in rhythm and music games. Most of these are driven by the Pi Pico, like https://rolllimitless.com/ and https://santroller.tangentmc.net/wiring_guides/midi.html

Newer open-source rhythm games like YARG also handle MIDI-over-USB directly: https://docs.yarg.in/en/Instruments
> You are paying enormous ingress/egress fees to do this.

It looks like their offering runs on the same cloud provider as the client, so no bandwidth fees. Right now it looks to be AWS, but mentions Azure/GCP/self-hosted.
Show HN: I Created a Thinking Bot
I put this together in a few hours. I wanted the ability to ask a model a question then if it couldn't answer, then it can ask another model and continue on until the answer is found.

You can try it out. I have also open sourced this on https://github.com/DaveenJay/Deep-Search
Search "trial lens set" and "trial lens frame", the portable versions which were used for decades in the past.
That just makes it six times as important!
I believe they could select the level of degradation with SA, you could even turn the non encrypted channel off IIRC. Luckily, it seems they stopped including the feature in newer satellites, so that’s good at least.
I don't think I've heard anyone suggest U.S. boots on the ground.
Well when I was a child I tried to land on the moon but missed by about 384,000 km. That was only about 30 years ago, so their doing a heck of a lot better then that which is something!
It's so easy to design vehicles that can't roll over on their backs and die like a turtle. All you need to do is use large wagon-wheels and put the cargo/payload near the axles of it, where it doesn't extend above the top of the wheel. Then the device can continue to work as well upside down as right-side-up. In other words, it has no such thing as upside down.

There are lots of robots like this now, where if they get upside down, the wheels are on 'arms' that can just swing to the other side to make it right-side-up again. Admittedly I'm a mechanical engineer myself, but this design doesn't seem like "Rocket Science" to me. haha. (nice pun amirite)
SharkSQL – The Database Project [pdf]
The harm is that if we spend more money following up a purported link between vaccines and autism, it will be taken away from people doing more useful research.

We have limited time and funding, so we maintain a portfolio of research investments that are based on what we currently see as reasonable.

"Curious" is not what the folks who want to research the link between vaccines and autism are. Weaponized is a better term.
> but I wonder how much of this initiative and energy is driven by people at Microsoft who want their own star to rise higher than it can when it's bound by a third-party technology.

I guess it's human nature for a person or an org to own their own destiny. That said, the driving force is not personal ambition in this case though. The driving force behind this is that people realized that OAI does not have a moat as LLMs are quickly turning into commodities, if haven't yet. It does not make sense to pay a premium to OAI any more, let alone at the cost of not having the flexibility to customize models.

Personally, I think Altman did a de-service to OAI by constantly boasting AGI and seeking regulatory capture, when he perfectly knew the limitation of the current LLMs.
Why didn't they use that bouncy inflatable ball technique the cute JPL robot used?
> now Microsoft is wisely pivoting to the same.

I mean, they have been doing platform integration for a while now, with all the copilot flavors and teams integrations, etc. This would change the backend model to something inhouse.
Yes!! Technically it's already in Unsloth :) I'm still trying to make the frontend for running multi GPU better!
the damage to both my eyes was such that my left eye i had a giant ryuken swish around any point source of light (leds on devices, car headlamps, etc). The right eye was like 3 dim blurry copies around a point light source.

Eventually, i was able to count 8 distinct "copies" in my left eye. It made trying to determine what was in front of me at night nearly impossible, and i stopped driving until after the medication they gave me worked.

The Eye-Q device has a red and a green "bar" and those rotate with each "test", you push buttons on the device until you see a yellow bar appear distinct from the red and green bars, then you hit "ok", it rotates, spreads the bars apart, and you start again.

What's interesting is i never failed to get that yellow bar with the eye-q - i'd have expected that to be synonymous with getting a clear image from the optometrist tool - which copilot tells me is called a phoropter. To be silly, i will pronounce that "fuh-rope-ter" and see if anyone notices.

edit; i just checked, right eye i can see 4 lights on my NAS blinking, left eye i see at least 8 without glasses, only 4 with. These aren't very bright, so i'll have to remember to test outside at night with a planet or a distant street light. a single copy of a light source isn't as bad as 4 or 8 or a giant swish!

2: I know the doubling you're talking about when looking through sights. There's something about the way parallax works that i don't think it's "tricked" me in the past. I wonder now if i could group, at all?!
My ophthalmologist said that the two things to do to prevent glasses headaches are to back off from the "correct" prescription slightly and to use computer glasses designed for focusing 2-3 feet away when at the computer rather than the distant target typical for corrective lenses.

Your optometry office can also test your glasses to make sure that they're actually the right prescription. Lensemakers sometimes (often?) do the fabrication slightly wrong.
> You can imagine lots of commentary from non-Catholics on who they think “should win,” tied to political or cultural ideas.

I’m not Catholic, but I do think that it makes sense for the next pope to be one.
I would have thought the USA government wouldn’t shoot itself in the face, but look at the current stuff going on. I’m not sure they wouldn’t fuck over all the users of GPS at this point, including themselves.
Do you have any actual evidence? So far, you have offered only conjecture.

This seems to be a common trait among people who are into conspiracy theories: they take the mere fact that they can construct a remotely plausible scenario as proof that it is the truth and actually happened.
It's a bit more complex than that as well. You might have attackers of both types and different datapoints that have different security requirements. And these are not necessarily scalars, you may need integrity for one, privacy for the other.

Even when considering hi sophistication attackers, and perhaps especially with regards to them, you may want to leave some breadcrumbs for them to access your info.

If the deep state wants my company's info, they can safely get it by subpoenaing my provider's info, I don't need to worry about them as an attacker for privacy, as they have the access to the information if needed.

If your approach to security is to add cryptography everywhere and make everything as secure as possible and imagine that you are up against a nation-state adversary (or conversely, that you add security until you satisfy a requirement conmesurate with your adversary), then you are literally reducing one of the most important design requirements of your system to a single scalar that you attempt to maximize while not compromising other tradeoffs.

A straightforward lack of nuance. It's like having a tax strategy consisting of number go down, or pricing strategy of price go up, or cost strategy of cost go down, or risk strategy of no risk for me, etc...
"The whole reason he's a public figure is from his blog posts that include a bunch of deliberately placed attitude and bombast of the sort that turns a lot of people away but is selected for anyway because it gets just as many (or more) followers, and attention is only additive."

This is not a defensible statement *based on my writing*. Give it a shot, if you think you can pull it off. I'd like to see some real citations here rather than broad, unsupported generalizations.

Now try *that same statement against DHH's writing* -- what you said is exactly correct.
I mean, I would not then be surprised if the students are picking up on that.

Like, if most of the profs are grudgingly teaching, then the students are going to think that being taught is something to begrudge, right?
> The Internet should be Unrated and thus Adults Only by default.

As much as I kind of agree, I want to fight so much for open access to the internet because it was so useful to me as a child, thirsty for information and starving for nourishment.

I will say I think these laws are bonkers. Restrict what companies can do with child data, make it clear an account is a minors, that should be more than sufficient.
Nope, not comparable. Streaming isn't a replacement for stored DVDs. Hard drives are.
If the discussion is about A, and, let's suppose, some P(A) is true, if P(B) is also true, but discussion never mentions B - what's the point of solely bringing the fact of truthfulness of P(B) into the picture?
I've seen it asserted with a straight face (and confirmed by real promotions) that as little experience as 3 years, and definitely 5, is qualified for "senior".
To add to the litany of failures by laptop PC makers:

Utterly garbage speakers, poor microphones, inferior screen hinges, coil whine, structural flex, light leak from the keyboard backlights, poor keyboard PWM dimming, poor keyboard switches (admittedly, butterfly keyboards were a bad era for Apple), slow or missing sleep management, terrible idle power usage, slow wake time, poor weight distribution, more ports but they're stupidly placed or don't work as you'd expect or want, uneven heat distribution, strange aesthetic choices (like fake vents) and dumb case designs that snags when slipping it into a bag.

In my experience with PC laptops for every hardware spec benchmark that exceeds something Apple does, you'll lose out on three other aspects of the laptop that aren't commonly discussed in reviews. The most frustrating part is that besides buying from Apple, money cannot solve this problem. There just isn't a PC maker that gives a shit.
QuickCheck-inspired property-based testing with integrated shrinking for Gleam
Show HN: Mast3r-slam ported to rerun and gradio
I ported mast3r slam to use rerun visualizer + gradio to hopefully make things easier to use.I include camera poses + pointcloud for use with nerfstudio, take a look here

https://github.com/rerun-io/mast3r-slam

https://x.com/pablovelagomez1/status/1898128579164082278
In the domain of moon spacecraft particularly, doesn’t there remain a clear distinction to be drawn between manned and unmanned spacecraft, given the power of the “man on the moon” trope in English-speakers’ imagination?

“Private spacecraft tips over on moon” would mean something rather different if a modern-day Neil Armstrong were inside at the time.

If anything, the fact that it’s just a machine matters more to me than who paid for it.
> Basically, what you mentioned—' I don't want to pay a full price' and 'try the full functionality out without paying the full price'—are the primary drivers behind customers' preference for a subscription-based model.

Or a third driver, somewhat related to the first two: the customer is simply priced out of the product in question as a one-time payment.

Part of the reason Adobe makes the killing it does off CC is because it's $55/mo and not $500-$600 or whatever. It doesn't require a consumer to have a chunk of money in their bank account all at once just sitting around, which especially in the case of students and art folks is money they may not have.
I am still waiting for an LLM trained to focus on effin' regexes and their variants like sed, somebody please do a page with ads for this and you will have a nice little side income and warm fuzzy feeling on top of it.

Natural language -> fully working one, I don't mean some email validators but way more complex stuff. Although, I've recently had a case which was too much even for regexes in any form or spec, then sort of grammar-based parser needed to be done from scratch.
Here's a list of things that I wouldn't want the police to do, but should be done:

- Kids should be in bed by 8.

- They shouldn't light fires in the back yard.

- They shouldn't run with knives.

If someone tried to use my support for those things as a basis for 24/7 surveillance of bedrooms, back yards and knife drawers, they'd be insane.
Absolutely.

What's mindboggling to me is that when HTML5 came out people were swearing Flash (and Java applets) would be obsolete. Years later the replacement has been the most horrid spaghetti imaginable because no matter what framework or engine you use, it's going to become HTML+JS!

They should just start supporting Java in the browser again. Java. Javascript. Nobody is even going to notice.
He's in asia (Singapore I think) to ride out the chaos in the US according to his last stream.
So I think it goes like this:

* D&L Auto Body & Towing tows a car, incurring tow and storage fees

* vehicle owner doesn't (or can't) recover the car, and D&L Auto Body & Towing may now request permission from Dominik Stefanski to sell the car to recoup costs if the car is worth less than $1500. state law says money from the sale above the towing and storage fees goes back to the (now-former) owner

* Dominik Stefanski lets D&L Auto Body & Towing cut the line (saving time, and time is money) and grants permission to sell the car, in exchange for letting him preferentially purchase the car for under $1500

* D&L Auto Body & Towing misrepresents the car's condition in DMV paperwork to justify (to Stefanski!) the low valuation, which enables the sale. Dominik Stefanski purchases the car for less than $1500, but presumably more than D&L Auto Body & Towing's actual costs. the (former) vehicle owner gets cheated

* Dominik Stefanski then restores the car to its condition when towed, and sells it for a tidy profit
Looks great! Can I run it on my own bare metal cluster? Will I need to buy a license?
If anyone started using OpsGenie post acquisition they should have KNOWN atlassian would change something, assuming it would remain status quo would have been naive.

For us it was a seamless migration for us to Jira Service Management from OpsGenie. There were many emails, and many in app banner notifications for MONTHS. All our rules transferred over. I only had to setup our notification integrations so all links into email/slack goto Jira Service Mgmt instead of OpsGeneie. Our OpsGeneie instance is currently read only.
both those car are 4 seaters.
> Make sure your robotic lunar lander has a low center of gravity.

Hmm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_HLS
I had one for work as well in the late 90s.

The other (often overlooked) benefit that ISDN provided was 24/7 connectivity in an age of dialup.

Oh and you could spoof your outgoing phone number for caller ID ]:D
We have those! Turn up, make some micro-services or AWS crap pile we don’t need to solve a simple problem, then fuck off somewhere else and leave everyone else to clean it up.

Worst one is the data pipeline we have. It’s some AWS lambda mess which uses curl to download a file from somewhere and put it into S3. Then another lambda turns up at some point and parses that out and pokes it into DynamoDB. This fucks up at least once a month because the guy who wrote the parser uses 80s BASIC style string manipulation and luck. Then another thing reads that out of DynamoDB and makes a CSV (sometimes escaped improperly) and puts that into another bucket.

I of course entirely ignore this and use one entire line of R to do the same job

Along comes a senior spider and says “maybe we can fix all these problems with AI”. No you can stop hiring acronym collectors.
Strictly speaking I'm not sure if it does require learning if information representing the updated context is presented. Though it depends what you define as learning. ("You have tried this twice, and it's not working.") is often enough to get even current LLM's to try something else.

That said, your second paragraph is one of the best and most succinct ways of pointing out why current LLM's aren't yet close to AGI if though they sometimes feel like it's got the right idea.
I have never seen the worker nodes & associated components referred to as the "data plane" before. Looking it up, it looks like Spot (spot.io) and Kong have done it before. In the Kong article where they call it the "data plane" they do say explicitly "Within the Kubernetes context, worker nodes (with their pods and containers) make up what we've defined as a data plane." No docs from the Kubernetes project use the term "data plane" though. I feel like "data plane" could be better used to describe storage technologies your Kubernetes cluster might interact with, since the worker nodes are really about compute, not data.
That no one is offering this says something very profound to me. Either they don't work and are too risky to entrust a company to, or leadership thinks they are immune and are entitled to wield AI exclusively, or some mix of these things.
Add incandescent light to your setup.
The lack of near infrared is destroying our health and it's most evident with eyes.

Go outside, have incandescent lights.
Improving Your Development Cycle with REPLs
That seems like an algorithm issue more than a fundamental data structure issue, right?
You don't need Compass to keep the On Call Schedule, that's part of Operations which is where all the alerting stuff migrated to as well.
>All this worry mongering about Trump / MAGA is just political ignorance

You are saying this as if it hasn't had very real consequences already?!
>Adults Only by default. Just like public spaces.

This is the attitude that led us to this problem in the first place.

>Would you allow an 8 year old to wander New York City unattended?

They're at much higher risk of being arrested/abducted by the police than they are anything else. This is a uniquely North American neurosis; this happens every day in every other nation. They take the subway to work/school or walk, like everyone else.
Same reason they killed the pilot that defected to Ukraine in Spain: They want to deter future critics/defectors. Thats why their OPSEC for those operations is so bad: they want people to know it was them.
I could not use the original title to fit the 80 character limit, and instead I used the "parsely" title in the HTML source. That is, I used the short title that is part of the official metadata. In this case, the short title was very close to the original title, so I did not editorialize. I also think that neither title is misleading.

I do my "the original title is" and "the full title is" schtick to let people in a hurry immediately compare the titles without flipping back and forth (and to make the original title searchable in the Algolia comments filter, because I can't include the original title in the stories filter for obvious reasons). I chose to use the word "normal" instead of "original" this time because there was an official alternative title available in the HTML, and now I understand that "normal" was misleading. I was also unwilling to write another sentence to explain what I meant by "normal", and in the future I will explain where I got the alternative title from instead of saying "normal title". I made an embarrassing and avoidable mistake this time, but editorializing was not it.
Getting your correct prescription is easy. They have had machines that do that for 30 years. The optometrist might tweak that a little, but the machine is good enough.

What you also need though is someone to look into your eye and machines still don't do everything an optometrist does there. (though there are other machines that do things your optometrist cannot)