skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With BrowserBox / CloudTabs, which is basically Hyperbeam (YC company) before Hyperbeam. And more to take it further and apply it web scraping, and documents.
Thanks for the suggestions! I've updated the article.
I just coincidentally found my old dreamcast while cleaning out my dad's storage space... Guess I'll be buying some batteries for my VMU...

Also excellent write up and discovery, truly inspiring *clap_emoji *bow_emoji
> You can second-guess that, but I think past this point, we're reenacting the duel between Vizzini and Westley

So I guess the reveal is that it _is_ a real sewer inspection van, but the NSA has legitimately been inspecting sewers for years to innoculate themselves from suspicion?

I guess they must be down there looking for rodents of unusual size.
> Garbage collectors suck, and all my Common Lisp projects have very limited applications just because of the garbage collector.

If only a very tiny fraction of the resources effort, research, time, money etc of all ML/AI funds are directed for the best design of high performance GC, it will make a software world a much better place. The fact that we have a very few books dedicated on GC design and thousands of books now dedicated on AI/ML, it is quite telling.

For real-world example and analogy, automotive industry dedicated their resources on the best design of high performance automatic transmission and now it has a faster auto transmission than manual for rally and racing. For normal driving auto is what the default and available now, most of the cars do not sell in manual transmission version.

> Linux is written in C, OpenBSD is written in C, GTK+ is object-oriented pure C, GNOME is written in C. Most of the Linux desktop apps are actually written in plain old C. So why try harder ? I know C

C is the lingua-franca of all other programming languages including Python, Julia, Rust, etc. Period.

D language has already bite the bullet and made C built-in by natively supporting it. Genius.

D language also has GC by default for more sane and intuitive programming, it's your call. It also one of the fastest compilation time and execution time languages in existence.

From the KC3 language website, "KC3 is a programming language with meta-programmation and a graph database embedded into the language."

Why you want to have a graph database embedded into the language? Just support associative array built-in since it has been proven to be the basis of all common data representations of spreadsheet, SQL, NoSQL, matrices, Graph database, etc.

[1] Associative Array Model of SQL, NoSQL, and NewSQL Databases:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.05797

[2] Mathematics of Big Data: Spreadsheets, Databases, Matrices, and Graphs:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262038393/mathematics-of-big-da...
These were not "colonial possessions". For example, Britain had colonies.

And in the USSR, national republics were financed at the expense of the core of the country, where Russians lived. You can look up (which you certainly won't do) data on the standard of living and level of freedom in different republics of the USSR. For example, in Georgia, small business was allowed, in the RSFSR they put people in jail for it, but in Georgia, for example, you could grow tangerines, transport them on subsidized planes to the north, to all sorts of Norilsk, sell them, and receive in two weeks approximately the annual salary of a Soviet engineer who developed those very missiles, planes, etc. Of course, when the lights went out in the Union in 1991, all this Caucasian prosperity reached a civil war within a year.

By the way, I think that something similar exists in the modern USA, but the locals are blind, just like the Soviet citizens of Russian ethnicity were blind (you may not be aware, but not every successful person of smoked appearance from Russia is Russian), and do not see what is happening. When your Red-Haired Atlas completes his "perestroika and acceleration" in the USA, there will also be changes there, and perhaps people will also begin to see what they did not notice before. Well, that is, if there will be someone to do so.
I love the how he simulates the hamburger menu with a page navigation. It just feels so wholesome in a sea of complex JS frameworks
The department of education budget was $65 billion in 1990 (in 2024 dollars), and over $260 billion in 2024. The under-18 population has grown only from 70 million to 75 million. So we are spending 300% more for less than 10% more kids.

In that time, what has happened to test scores? Since 1998, NAEP scores are down: https://kansaspolicy.org/naep-scores-still-stink-now-what. Before COVID they were more or less flat for 20 years.

Ezra Klein made an excellent point on his podcast recently. If you want people to support government programs—to be outraged when programs and departments are cut—you have to deliver good governance. Parents correctly apprehend that schools today aren’t delivering a better education today than when they were kids despite spending vastly more money.
NASA, SpaceX delay flight that was to retrieve stuck astronauts
What a Mar-a-Lago accord could look like
This one is fun, I managed to get 6 out of 8, which I think is pretty good for me, considering I don't know much history.
Thanks for calling out the broken link!
For background checks, we're thinking of partnering with a third-party org to implement it, which can include SSN, address, criminal history, etc., similar to Rover and Wag!.
In term of conversion, it is indeed difficult, ngl! We discovered that IG isn't great at getting engagement even if you have decent content. We've had some success converting from RedNote, which is like IG but people interact a lot more in the comments section (so also like Reddit because of it). And YES, we're prioritizing SF Bay Area for now since 50%+ of our users are in the region.
Thank you for your questions and interest! <3
> The good news is that development could easily be funded by donations. It's only a few million.

It's $260M.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43341830

Where do you get "a few million"? Do they only have less than 20 developers? Why denigrate Mozilla?

> If you look at Rust, created by Mozilla, they are set up in a more sane way. There's a foundation. It's well funded with sponsorships from the big companies that use and depend on Rust.

Firefox isn't used by companies, but by consumers.
Agreed. Most user experience work today are done by people who ironically have little experience as a user. E.g. they will design a table in Figma, make it look nice. They may even go so far as understand that this table will typically contain 2500 rows and introduce pagination and filtering by most commonly used attributes. But if they load some sample data into a functional mock system and simulate a typical user's day (e.g. they have to wade through this table multiple times per hour, while on the phone with a customer), they will immediately realize the feel good factor of white spaces, pastel colours and high contrast icons are very low priority.
> But this isn’t just about coding style, one of these is ~2x faster than the other, see for yourself:

FWIW, it's not necessary to start an interpreter for this test.

$ py3.13 -m timeit --setup "l = []" "not l"
10000000 loops, best of 5: 20.7 nsec per loop
$ py3.13 -m timeit --setup "l = []" "len(l) == 0"
10000000 loops, best of 5: 31 nsec per loop
General Relativity and Geodesy
Agree you can’t evaluate entirely on ship date, but you can evaluate on how well the company handles either the last year of development or pivoting and adapting if it’s late. It’s challenging times at Intel, lots of opportunity for a CEO to show great leadership either in success or adversity.
I don't support this change. Most people want to be using Google. Mozilla needs money. There's not even a suggestion of how to replace the funds.
Their viewpoint is that this is criminal behavior. You agree with that?
The idea is good. But, asking "allies" to invest in US shipbuilding is unlikely to work when US national strategic goals misalign so strongly with its normal trading partners.

Can I also point out Australia just gave the US shipbuilding industry $AUD800m for future Virginia class subs and to sustain AUKUS and we got shat on over a bogus trade war. So, I think this CSIS report is totally at odds with the reality of investment in US shipping: you get nothing back but trouble. We got no guarantees of continuance of our future sub needs, we got signals the entire project is in trouble politically.

I'd be investing in my own economies shipbuilding and forming alliances with regional partners who can be relied on and alas, in many ways, China might be a more reliable partner.

What will CSIS do when China refuses to do FOB with US flagged ships, in tit for tat? They surely want trade right? What else are ships for?
Historical Context:

Trump Blames Biden For Stranded Astronauts: 'Elon Will Get Them':

https://www.tiktok.com/@newsweek/video/7478823956913360174

Starliner astronauts respond to Trump saying they were 'abandoned': 'We don’t feel stuck':

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/02/18/starlin...

Trump Suggests That the Stranded Astronauts May Have Fallen in Love:

https://futurism.com/trump-stranded-astronauts-love

"No Games With Her Hair": Trump On Stranded Astronaut Sunita Williams:

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/donald-trump-on-stranded-ast...
They’re not worse than YAML…
An iPad is an interesting device. It has many uses where it is indispensable, but most of them are unknown to most people.

I often see a sound engineer with an iPad on music gigs. The form factor allows you to walk around the room and adjust the sound easily to tame resonances and such.

It’s not so good for typing text or programming, but where it makes sense to have a portable slab of screen that works reliably there is probably an app that does it.
He had to [intentionally?] misread the word "people" as if I'd said "all people" in order to be able to justify his rude response.

Anyway, even at slightly above average IQ that makes me smarter than 4 billion humans. So yeah...."all of them". And I did use "all" that time. lol.

It's so easy to make fun of people who can't even read.
If it was read-only I wouldn't hate it so much. A table view of all my resources wouldn't be bad. But heaven forbidden if I hit a random number in a random cell!
Lots of people know lots of things. The problem is those things aren't always true. And until there is a defacto public acknowledgement of something many people defer to the 'official position.'

Here's a present time one for you - all US based cloud providers, including Apple, are providing full (and probably indirect) real time access to everything stored on those servers to various organizations including, but not limited to, the NSA. Lawsuits around this issue are motivated solely by an effort to do away with parallel construction [1] and enable the evidence obtained through such means to be able to be directly used.

Lots of people know this, lots of people also think this is crazy talk. And prior to Snowden, and to a lesser degree Klein, the overwhelming majority fell into the latter camp regarding anything even remotely close to the scope and scale of what the NSA was doing.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
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How do you suggest spreading an open web? Just release Firefox and the web will open up?
Some (most?) of these aren't really AI-based at all. For example. traditional optical sorters typically rely on the reflectivity of materials at one or a few laser wavelengths directed onto the material.

The mapping between sensor signals and material types is usually hardcoded from laboratory test results.
Also playing through on Steam Deck. Steam QTE problems really haven't hindered my enjoyment at all. Kind of shocking how well it's aged overall and how different it is playing through as an adult.

I am waaay better at driving that forklift 20+ years later. The foreman loves me now.
One one hand, they are criticized for taking risks - being risks, inevitably many don't work out - including their AI project. On the other, now they don't take enough risks.
Hi! I work on the Python distributions uv uses. Performance is really important to us and we're on the bleeding edge of performant Python builds. Our distributions use profile guided optimization (PGO) as well as post-link optimizations (BOLT). From my understanding, these are not enabled by pyenv by default because they significantly increase build times. It's possible there are some platform-specific build benefits, but I'd be surprised if it was significant.

I can set up some benchmarks comparing to pyenv on a couple common platforms – lately I've just been focused on benchmarking changes to CPython itself.
This happened to me too, that is why I stopped using it for ML related projects and stuck to good old venv. For other Python projects I can see it being very useful however.
Disagree. It was both political and speculative.

It presumes that DOGE will be successful in a political fight, which is possible but not certain. The statement is no more neutral (and less accurate IMO) than saying “we’re seeing the culmination of a decades-long war on competence”.
The “first arrest of many to come”, according to the orange monster.
Also they both own real estate?

Not all things that share some attributes are similar in general.
This site doesn't work well on desktop Safari either. Clicking things doesn't seem to do anything but a few seconds later I'll see some movement. I suspect something is wildly broken or I just don't understand the navigation.
When project codenames bleed into production go-live.

Project "Eggnog" FTW!
This is college loans. The budget went up because the colleges charge more. One thing at a time please.

Gutting schools is probably a forgone conclusion since AI teaches better than your average k-12 teacher. Charter schools will run a grift with this by understaffing, shoving a laptop with AI in front of the kids, and then overcharge for it.

This is going to be great AI Startup Charter schools, the ultimate OpenAI wrapper app.

Check this out:

https://www.gao.gov/blog/many-charter-school-students-are-el...

The charter schools don’t participate in the program most likely because they would have to pay for cafeteria staff. That’s the future we’re talking about here, friendo.
They went form 90%+ market share down to 9%- since taking Google money.

The allegation of throwing is too light. They’re complicit in covering for Google’s obvious monopoly.
People die if you move too slow too.
The inaccuracy was disappointing to me. If the point is historical trivia it's hard when the historical trivia isn't right. I have done some fencing and I noticed it especially for weapons and armor (though that might be just because that's what I know at least a tiny bit about).

Overall it's a fun idea though. I was able to consistently get pretty close in time and location so even with the anachronisms there was enough there.
Why do you need to understand how the code or software works if the thing the AI generates satisfies the requirements? That's where we are headed.
Why did the author buy Microsoft and Apple devices and expect them to deliver their customization needs?

If I would attempt something like this today, I'd probably buy a used Microsoft Surface tablet from ebay and install Archlinux(ARM) on it, with Plasma Mobile and KDE. In the worst case I log out and log in again after I unplugged the device from its peripherals. And in second worst case I just use its mobile attachable keyboard with it.

I guess that was the dream behind the purchases of pinephones and pinetab devices back then, which were too underpowered in terms of CPU and GPU for it.
Playing it on Steam Deck right now. Only issue is with QTEs but honestly hasn't bothered me at all. Thought that might ruin it. Overall it has been an excellent way to replay it so far.
I’m with you except “unfortunately”. I don’t think we really want Vanguard trying to be an activist investor in all the companies they have major positions in.
Not judging, but I am having trouble seeing how

> there's literally nothing interesting here at all to most people who would be attracted by the title

is not some kind of judgment.
Sounds like an incredibly weak case. If someone actually sent money to Hamas or something the government could probably get them on "supporting terrorism". If someone attacked Israeli students the government could get the university on Title VI grounds for allowing discrimination on the basis of national origin.

The fact they're not doing any of those things makes it look like they're grasping at straws here.
Graph+vector–hybrid search for enhanced RAG and agentic AI
NPR needs to get rid of the ads. That half of the budget is influencing their news coverage and content.
> I'm fairly sure that people are only getting hung up on the size of this finite set, for no good reason.

I think that is exactly correct, except for the "no good reason" part. There aren't many (any?) practical situations where the 4-colour theory's provability matters. So the major reason for studying it is coming up with a pattern that can be used in future work.

Having a pattern with a small set (single digit numbers) means that it can be stored in the human brain. 633 objects can't be. That limits the proof.
I think it’s pretty straightforward to cover the entire torso of the robot with a plastic covering.
I have had to use Chrome at least three times.

Which has made a knock on effect that if I’m using Firefox and something doesn’t work - I very much wonder if it would work in Chrome.

It’s burned into my brain now.
The market is an agglomeration of many individuals, meaning that there is no hard and fast rule that you must charge only one price for the entire market; indeed, many custom-priced products exist, enterprise SaaS being one example.
That makes sense that they would use higher quality headphones on a radio to collaborate. Thanks for the insight!
Thanks!

I think the comparison for data work is more on conda, not poetry. afaict poetry is more about the "easier" case of pure-python, and not native areas like prebuilt platform-dependent binaries. Maybe poetry got better, but I typically see it more like a nice-to-have for local dev and rounding out the build, but not that recommended install flow for natively-aligned builds.

So still curious with folks navigating the 'harder' typical case of the pydata world, getting an improved option here is exciting!
Another better battery Bulletin :(
Right. You can use browser validation and extract the error messages with JavaScript (to style them yourself, e.g. [1]), but there’s no solution without JS yet.

[1]: https://github.com/notpushkin/evilmartians-exercise-auth/blo...
People still download Chrome onto Windows. Used to be they did that for Firefox/Firebird/Phoenix.
To add some context from the other side:

- "Additionally, polling firm PUBLiCUS Asia reported in Duterte's last month in office that Duterte received a 75% approval for his entire six-year tenure, making him the most popular post-EDSA president"

- The murder rate halved under his administration: https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/PHL/phi...

I am completely against killing people without due process, as he did, and bragged about. But it does seem that most people in the Philippines were happy with his policies, and his policies do appear to be "effective" wrt murder, though are extrajudicial killings by police any better? I don't think so
Just have them buy a gold visa!
Well, no wonder. There haven't been many updates since I played around with Brightcove five years ago.
All that money for years put into an income-producing endowment could pay for firefox and tbird indefinitely. Desktops aren't going away, even if mobile outgrew them.
There's someone else right now who is going to important organizations they obviously don't understand, making wild claims about 'I could do it for much less', and cutting personnel drastically.
I had a 2015 15'' MBP and it ran so hot I simply couldn't use it on my lap. Fans became super noisy even with trivial processes. Ended up selling it.

The rest of the computer was great though (display, keyboard, trackpad, ssd).
What? No it didn't, not at all. The leaks clearly showed email as being one of the many things being directly surveilled. Here is one of the many slides directly acknowledging as much. [1]

If you mean the rhetoric around it, then yeah - politicians lie, especially when engaging in what would be seen as deeply unpopular behavior. This isn't a shock. I assure you the admin that passed indefinite detention without charge or trial [2] wasn't some crusader for civil rights. Obama was just ridiculously charismatic and could sell a drowning man water, but he was no different than the rest in behavior.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM#/media/File:PRISM_Collec...

[2] - https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/president-obama-signs-in...