skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, fortunately we learned how to filter those types of resumes and candidates. (we got quite good at that)
> I've always wondered what this actually means in practicality.

It means the Federal government now has a reason to not offer services in any language other than English. Before, they would offer services in Spanish, Chinese(various dialects) and other popular languages. They no longer have funding or a mandate to do that.
You’ve got it wrong there. All our prosperities around the globe are very much connected, which is why having a vindictive zero-sum mindset in the White House causes so many problems around the world as we are seeing.

Also, do you really not see how you prove yourself wrong when the only remnants of colonial times you can find are a few french military bases that are even being withdrawn from right this moment?
8 self-promotional posts in the last 15 days plus probable astroturfing on an alt account by the author's main account muc-martin: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=handwritten-cards.de. Previous posts were:

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I met plenty when I lived there and plenty in the UK too.

Even while trying to acknowledge the sins of our past and sympathise with them (in all honesty), they still treated me like crap for who I am and where I'm from. That's just xenophobia
I was being sarcastic about how even-handedly the British dispensed their cruelty, to white Irish or Boer just as readily as to brown Bengalis.
April 1st is still 20 days away?
I could share almost exactly the same story. So grateful my parents could afford, and were willing to spend, the money on a nice PC that I entirely monopolised.
An AI coding agent, has anyone tested it?
Maybe I'm just retarded but I cannot for the life of me land this thing on keyboard.
> any examples in mind for Apple

Their image scanning proposal? The recent UK E2EE backup thing?

For the first, although they eventually backtracked, proposing it alone should be ruinous they are actually a privacy-oriented company.

Although the second situation is forced by a government, it is still a self-inflicted problem where iCloud is the only way you can back up your stuff. Not being able to have encrypted backups is a serious QoL issue.

> I mostly avoid cloud usage, iCloud or otherwise, and when I do use it, I treat all content as public

This is also my attitude toward "the cloud" in general.
Must be a joke, nice.

Anyway a story about 2 people I knew in the mid 70s during the Gas Shortage, both had sports cars that got 4 miles per gallon (on a good day). Really not me.

Person 1: "hired" pros to steal the car at a cost of a few hundred. Car stolen, he got a couple of thousand and the car became Campbell Soup cans. All good.

Person 2: said that was too expensive, so he and a couple of friends 'stole' his car. The drove it to the middle of a large forest and trashed it. A few months later it was found by the police. Because of his insurance and the value of the car, it cost him a lot to get it repaired.
There is also support for doing this without being root:

https://developer.android.com/develop/connectivity/usb
I remember in 2020 how a career public servant, colleague to those in USDA, was contradicted by the president because it made the administration's COVID response look bad.

Recently, the US president has decided he doesn't want to protect his public servant's lives anymore https://apnews.com/article/fauci-trump-security-detail-4b2e3...
Everything launches on a Falcon these days. No one else can catch up in terms of safety cost or speed.
The trouble is those populist politicians, in the US at least, are the very same billionaires at the top of the system who have somehow convinced the working class people they are on their side.
European rival to Starlink satellites tests stomach for cross-border champions
It's not? How could that possibly work when the lambda could throw and it could throw on the nth invocation and your stack trace has to be correct?

If I run this in the JS console I get two anonymous stack frames. The first being the console itself.

[1, 2, 3].filter(x => [][0]())
You just want to code, I get, I'm the same way. What helps me is recognizing that in the 'corporate' environment, the challenge is not merely solving technical problems, but also coordination problems. Negative work is real, and avoiding it _requires_ coordination. That's what the 'corporate processes' are directed at.

Now, understanding this fact enables us not only to better understand why we do these things, but also provides a concrete way to criticize and improve those process. You can use data to figure out which processes aren't actually improving quality, velocity, and coordination.

Tldr: be the change you want to see.
>And personally, I'm for having English be the national language of America (as a bilingual American myself), but this executive order does not make that so.

What would be the benefit or reason for this? I am also a multilingual person, and in many of the communities where I work, the Spanish speaking population is a significant majority such that to mandate English would be sisyphean. Sadly I can't get anyone to speak German with me, despite that being equally represented among Americans at the founding of our republic.
Ask HN: For vertical AI does MCP break need for 3rd party API libraries?
Hey HN, is ti just me or does MCP feel like one of those “this changes everything’ moments for vertical AI apps and API integrations? If you’ve ever wrestled with middleware libraries.. is this the exit ramp moment?

Goodbye spaghetti integrations: MCP flattens the M×N mess of custom connectors into a clean M+N setup. Models and tools just need to speak MCP, and they’re good to go.

Third-party libraries sweating bullets: why pay for middleware when MCP gives you a universal protocol out of the box? Libraries might have to pivot hard or risk becoming legacy tech.

Scalability++: MCP’s structured communication (Prompts, Resources, Tools) lets models and APIs dynamically discover and interact in real time. Debugging? Way easier. Maintenance? Less of a headache.

What happens to the middleware giants? are Merge, Finch, and Paragon doomed, or will they just rebrand as “MCP experts”?

Adoption pain: if your stack is built on third-party libraries, migrating to MCP might feel like open-heart surgery.

In reality tho, customization probably isn’t dead: vertical AI apps still need their niche workflows. How do we balance MCP’s standardization with the bespoke stuff that makes these apps tick?

is MCP the API integration library killer, or just another protocol to add to the pile?

Will third-party libraries adapt, or are we witnessing the beginning of the end of a web 2.0 middleware chapter that doesn’t apply to where the puck is moving?
Is it?

A CCP subsidized chip is massively popular for its low cost in the US.

Ok if you feel this is not a backdoor, but the issue is this is not proof. There will never be proof.

There has long been suspicion. How is it crazy that undisclosed “features” are getting attention?
They change over geological timescales—so not anytime soon. We're talking millions of years, w/ movement of tectonic plates and such. So for right now, once an area is mapped, its mapped for good. HOWEVER. Maps may need to be redrawn if the quality of them sucks.
Of course, if common sense isn't enough, check the footer.
Do you have an explanation for the obviously wrong answers in simple examples shown here?
This is the idea they had at the end of Ready Player One (the film, not the inferior book). It's only taken 7 years for people to start making it a thing!
> And personally, I'm for having English be the national language of America (as a bilingual American myself)

Why are you for this? What problem does this solve, and how?

Seems to me we have made it 250 years without an official language and that this has caused approximately 0 problems.
Yes. The difference is that, unlike possible phone fires, we know franchises will cause listeria outbreaks if left to their own devices because they have done so. It was a whole thing in the 90s and the obvious reason why McD's implemented the current policy in the first place.
Brought to you by Carl's Junior. Idiocracy was spot on.
But with the added benefit that it charges during the day on solar and then powers device during the night.

My one question would be: does it work with home assistant? It would be great to integrate in te energy dashboard.
It already kind of was.

If you want to become a US citizen, you have to show you're competent in English. [1] It's been this case for quite awhile.

I know that doesn't strictly mean that "English is the official language", but it is an official government body requiring you to know English in order to become a US citizen, so that seems a little official to me.

[1] https://www.usa.gov/naturalization
HN is cool, the startup factory - meh
A few generations removed, but basically.

At the risk of crushing the website, American regional and enclave accents are a fascinating rabbit hole to go down:

https://aschmann.net/AmEng/#SmallMapUnitedStates
Textile manufacturing is an interesting example because some large companies do sign up to anti sweatshop rules. Back in the day Gap got pressured into doing that I believe. Here in UK, last I heard (may not be up to date) Marks and Spencer does that, and apparently so do Primark (cheap clothes store who many might assume use sweatshops), while large supermarket Tesco I've heard associated with using sweatshops and being unresponsive when people complained. I'd argue we the western consumer are responsible to a certain extent. We can do research and find out who's best to shop with and direct our spending accordingly, thus impacting the lives of people in those countries.
The way Tektronix draws images by flashing high power electron beams on the screen is iconic. Tektronix was used a lot in the original Battlestar Galactica series.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/5/2635.702

> An employee may not use their public office for their own private gain; for the endorsement of any product, service, or enterprise (except as otherwise permitted by this part or other applicable law or regulation); or for the private gain of friends, relatives, or persons with whom the employee is affiliated in a nongovernmental capacity, including nonprofit organizations of which the employee is an officer or member, and persons with whom the employee has or seeks employment or business relations.
Not to defend Jobs’ behavior, but it’s hard to deny that he had good taste, clear vision, and immaculate presentation skills. He also showed signs of self-reflection and empathy in his later years. (Musk could never deliver the same kind of college commencement address as him, for example.)
> I'm for having English be the national language of America

I guess it depends on what that means. I'm for all services being in English at a minimum, that makes sense. I'm really not for removing obligations to translate or interpret.

Non-english speaking US citizens exist and interact with the government. For example, someone that's deaf. Or for reading, someone that's blind. Having access in those cases is important.

But further, there's a humanity aspect as well. Any asylum seeker can get railroaded. Or heck, a visitor from another country. If these people are accused of crimes they should have the right to understand why the government is punishing them if for no other reason than to give their side of the story.

Treat others as they would like to be treated.
Looks almost exactly like what JavaScriptCore calls SpeculatedType.
Why are manufacturing jobs special? People will upgrade their tastes to consume more. Middle class houses with artistic stone work and well-manicured gardens. Skin treatments, massages, and health scans galore. More entertainment and more niche too. Banking apps that could win design awards. We are nowhere near the end of useful work.
> As to Trainspotting, I found the subtitles a daft idea. Totally unnecessary, but then I'm from NE England.

Coming from Australia I would say that the subtitles were mostly useful and only sometimes unnecessary. I'm ok with accents, but there's a lot of nuance that you miss when you're mostly infering from context.

That said, when we heard that the original Mad Max got dubbed for the US release we all fell around laughing
Bringing Mars to Earth: Solving Mars Sample Return – SpaceNews
This is an interesting article, but also rather unsatisfying. It very quickly jumps to conclusions and goes right back to opinion. I agree with several of those opinions, but opinion was explicitly not the point of the article.

> Prefer to not use language-specific operators or syntactic sugars, since additional constructs are a tax on the reader.

I don't think this follows from the metric. If a function contains three distinct operators, a language-specific operator that replaces all three of them in one go would reduce the "effort" of function. It's highly scenario-specific.

> Chaining together map/reduce/filter and other functional programming constructs (lambdas, iterators, comprehensions) may be concise, but long/multiple chains hurt readability

I don't think this follows either. One effect of these constructs when used right is that they replace other operators and reduce the "volume". Again this can go both ways.

> ...case in point, these code snippets aren’t actually equivalent!

That's a very language-specific diagnosis, and arguably points at hard-to-read language design in JS. The snippet otherwise doesn't look like JS, but I'm not aware of another language for which this would apply. Indeed it is also commonly known as a "null-safe operator", because most languages don't have separate "null" and "undefined".

> variable shadowing is terrible

> long liveness durations force the reader to do keep more possible variables and variables in their head.

These can arguably be contradictory, and that is why I am a huge fan of variable shadowing in some contexts: By shadowing a variable you remove the previous instance from scope, rather than keeping both available.
In my country there was a meme about having to do English listening exercises at school using very cheap speakers set up exactly in a way that you can't hear shit. Later someone made a counter-meme that this prepares you for the real-life situations where you have three Indians talking at once to one microphone from AliExpress and you need to figure out what they're saying.

Unfortunately, I have slight hearing deficiency, and working in an international environment is a nightmare, because for any given meeting, I understand 60% of what people say on a good day. Fortunately, I've learned that this doesn't really matter.
Oh. Yeah, that's not gonna happen.

That's not just partisanship, like last time. Last time it was clear that he had committed very high crimes and misdemeanors. They stood by him purely as a matter of party over country.

In this case, they support what he's doing. Perhaps not in every detail; they'd be screaming about it if a Democrat did the same. But overall, he's doing what he promised in his campaign, and they were elected by those same voters. There's just nothing to impeach him about.

Perhaps at some point, courts will start declaring his actions illegal, and hold him in contempt for violating their orders. That might conceivably be sufficient violation of the rule of law to at least have a basis for impeachment. Which still won't happen, but at least they'd consider the idea before dismissing it.

Besides, it wouldn't help. The Vice-President has the same ideals and would do the exact same thing.
+/- tokenization mishaps (c.f. strawberry).
Well, that solves the consumption part of the things, but not the production side.
Published a decade ago, 2015
The Romans used to think that way. Their subjects thought otherwise.
> The problem is that it's easy to overdo it.

Welcome to all features of every programming language?

Sacrificing readability, optimization, and simplicity for the 95% case because some un-principled developers might overdo it in the 5% case (when the cost of fixing it is trivially just inserting variable assignments) is… not a good trade-off.
There are also still some Reformed Christian websites in the Netherlands that close altogether on Sundays.
Everything, sure, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to have them do the things they can.
used 3090 seems $800-$850 on eBay
Fully agree. But I do believe that cultural norms and societal expectations and what people push you to do with your life play a big role, so these are all levers to be pulled if you want to make a more self-driven population.
I don't think space is going to be the first issue that causes this to fall. It will probably be the human mind's ability to conceptualize the space.
So you're saying that Baker never gave a "Cascade of Assurances" (not my fucking words) to Gorbachev? Even though there's dozens of documents there, i'm sure you scoured them all to make sure "Elbe" wasn't referenced. You think i pulled that out of my ass?

I want you to answer the simple question, because you have refused.

Is the statement:

Baker verbally assured gorbachev that there would be no eastward expansion

True or false?

That is literally, and when i say literally i mean literally the only thing i was talking to, above.
True! Good point on the restructuring, I haven't thought about it in that way.

I think I like the second approach because the loop behavior seems clearest, which helps me analyze the time complexity or when I want to skim the code quickly.

A syntax like something below would be perfect for me if it existed:

var favoriteFoodsOfFurryPetsOfFamousAuthorsOfLongChineseBooksAboutHistory = books[i].author.pets[j].favoriteFood.distinct()
where i = pagecount > 100,
language == "Chinese",
subject == "History",
author.mentions > 10_000
where j = is_furry == True
Well, look into it more :

He wasn't a saint, and was big on saying 'death to America'.

Also, anyone who is Jewish studying at that campus had. A real and very present danger with his antics.

In a civilised world we need civilised people
Been and enjoyed HN since the launch of Justin.tv ... 2006 / 2007.

This exact username Ive used on and off from 2007 to 2013/2014 then solely since then. My karma is low for such an account but my thoughts are odd lol ..i guess
CoreVideo and CoreAudio are both implemented in C on Apple systems. There are higher level APIs like AVFoundation implemented in Obj-C/Swift, but the codecs themselves are written in C. Even the mid-level frameworks like AudioToolbox and VideoToolbox are written in C. I’m not as familiar with Microsoft but imagine it’s similar.

Also the article doesn’t actually mention OOP. You can use polymorphism without fully buying into OOP (like Go does).

The great thing about C is its interoperability, which is why it’s the go to language for things like codecs, device drivers, kernel modules, etc.
Thanks! Those all look good. I live in Atlanta and have done quick trips to Chicago in the past - there are plenty of flights.
"The names lining up behind Elon Musk read like a who’s who of big money: BlackRock, Fidelity, venture-capital giant Sequoia.

And then there’s 1789 Capital.

The upstart investment firm scored a hot ticket recently with Musk, Donald Trump’s wealthiest backer: a rare chance to invest directly in his AI venture, xAI, and his roughly $350 billion startup, SpaceX.

Turns out, 1789 has a big attraction: Donald Trump Jr. — son of the US president, crown prince of MAGA and now frontman for what fans hail as a “parallel” US economy aimed at the Trump faithful."
It's so much "on the backfoot" that the EU has to illegally ban opposition parties and candidates from elections in member states, and withdraw voting rights from Hungary. As people get poorer, the authoritarianism will accelerate. All I'm saying is, 4 weeks ago the US was the "best friend" of the EU. That has changed. The suggestion that nothing will change between France and Germany in perpetuity contradicts all historical evidence. And the suggestion that the EU is going to be there forever smells of "the USSR will be there forever" thinking from early 1991. History is not finished. It will continue.
It's the same in my hometown, Liverpool.

People from Bootle will have a different accent to people from Toxteth for example. 2 miles through a tunnel and you have the softer Scouse accent of the Wirral, the further from Birkenhead to Chester you get the less Scouse they sound.

Head south on the M62 and the Manc accent slowly melts into the Scouse, starting at roughly the Runcorn area.
Hey this is great... thanks..Could you leave your github username incase I want to mention you in the credits and contributions section.

I will learn them and put these into practice as I keep going..

I have a habit of documenting everything I am learning in my documentation Repo
I get what you're trying to say, but 'ideologically diverse' doesn’t really work that way—it’s about ideas, not how things look on the surface.
Yeah that makes sense. Once the model is loaded though, does it work well in comparison to the commercial models? Do you find that the local models hallucinate more, or don't give the same response quality?
Security theatre. The chance of France providing Canada a credible nuclear unmbrella is zero. The chance of Canada nuclearizing without triggering both sides in US is zero.The chance of Canada out strongmanning Trump is zero. The only realstic play Canada has is kiss ass for the next few years, but not Poilievre tier milhouse energy kiss ass.
I had a Nokia flip phone running kaios a few years ago. Kaios was the worst phone software I've ever run. The Nokia hardware was even worse. More often than not, keypresses wouldn't register at all or would act like you'd pressed the button four times.
Reminds me of the old saw that a Jamaican saying 'bacon' and a brit saying 'beer can' are indistinguishable!
Very relatable experience with log diving, feels very much like a needle-in-haystack problem that gets so much harder when you're not the only one who contributed to the source of errors (often the case).

As for the skepticism with LLMs stumbling around raw logs: it's super deserved. Even the developers who wrote the program often refer to larger app context when debugging, so it's not as easy as throwing a bunch of logs into an LLM. Plus, context window limits & the relative lack of "understanding" with increasingly larger contexts is troublesome.

We found it helped a lot to profile application logs over time. Think aggregation, but for individual flows rather than similar logs. By grouping and ordering flows together, it's bringing the context of thousands of (repetitive) logs down to the core flows. Much easier to find when things are out of the ordinary.

Still a lot of improvements in regards to false positives and variations in application flows.