skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s a revealing comparison: a largeish chunk of SUV owners really would be better off with a cargo e-bike. Lots of people on the road every day driving solo in an SUV with nothing more than some grocery bags in the trunk. They could be riding a cargo e-bike, saving a ton of money, and having a better time.
> Letting people go should not meaningfully decrease the efficacy of these institutions in the long term.

I disagree, of course it will meaningfully decrease the efficacy. The purpose of DOGE is to dismantle organizations which provide accountability for the private sector and the executive, including organizations which literally focus on optimizing processes.

Of course, the same amount of stuff needs to get done. The workload doesn’t actually decrease because these jobs are complex in nature. There’s a lot of citizens to provide services to, or a lot of organizations to regulate. Those factors stay constant. The hope is that they’re unable to do their jobs in time, and we get more “asbestos in baby powder” type incidents as a result. Or shitty water (literally) or listeria, or watergates, or pick whatever bad thing you want when regulation goes down.

I truly don’t understand how people make such bold statements as “letting people go changes nothing!” Really? What’s the mechanism for that? Process just… become more efficient? Do we even know how efficient the processes currently are? Because something tells me you have no idea. You’re assuming they’re inefficient because that’s easy to believe and requires no analysis.
A major problem in EU is that it is at least in practice very opaque. EU politics are not followed by the media or the citizens, and it is surrounded by a gigantic lobbying machine, and run by democratically unaccountable officials.

E.g. US corruption is at least mostly in plain sight, with EU who knows what's going on.
Found a link here https://archive.is/e98Lw
thank you for sharing your opinion about why burlington's housing prices are high.
Starlinks isnt a charity, so they collect payments for service and payments are not going through space for sure
> C, Go, Python, and Lua are my go-to languages because of their simplicity

One of these things is not like the others! Python's complexity has been increasing rapidly (e.g. walrus operator, match statement, increasingly baroque type hints) - has this put you off the language at all?
I'm curious, did he not clean out old chats that were no longer needed? If UK FOI applies to this now, does that introduce recordkeeping/retention requirements?
I wouldn’t “reapply” but I might build relationships with folks there and end up seeking a position at the company.
I mean the dictionaries don't now it, and google doesn't know it. Also what about your arrogance, just because you've heard it, it doesn't mean that it's correct. I've heard a lot of things that are considered broken English.
> It's hard to write correct C because the standard tooling doesn't give you much help beyond `-Wall`

I won't disagree that correct C is harder to write, but it's not 2005 anymore and standard tooling gives you access to things like asan, msan, ubsan, tsan, clang-tidy...
A generated page was all I could find, but it looks like the general/private aviation fatality rate is around 0.0002% (per flight hour) vs 0.00003% for commercial carriers.

And on a decreasing trend.

Obviously, when celebrities are involved, you hear about it though.

https://simpleflying.com/private-jet-crashes-per-year-2023/ https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/19/business/airplane-crashes-sta...
I blocked Africa from my networks a couple weeks ago, and the number of attempts in my logwatch emails has been cut in half ever since. Sometimes even more.
Measles can also give you a lifetime disability or even death.

There is a reason these vaccines were developed in the first place.
Upper class people don't bother with it because we all know those discounts are temporary but they'll never let go of the data they extract from those apps and will try to spam you
I don't understand the resistance to understanding this point littered all over this thread.

Yes - an iPad is a different form factor than a desktop. That doesn't excuse crippling a powerful general purpose device by taking control away from the owner.

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Here is an alternate example:

My Jeep is in the shop, I need to pick my kids up from their friends house, but the last mile is a dirt road.

My minivan isn't ideal for that, but it'll almost certainly work. Except... the manufacturer has locked it down via GPS so that the second I leave roads paved to their satisfaction, the accelerator stops working.

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That's the fucking hostility of Apple. It's not that the device can't. It's that they won't allow it.

And folks... buckle the fuck up because this road is JUST getting started. We are going to witness a complete and total war on general purpose tools. No one is going to let you use their tool unless they're extracting rent from you.

One time purchases, ownership, novel use? Fuck that noise. Pay them your rent. The company store is thirsty.
I have (older, but that generation) colleagues who simply stop working if there’s something wrong with the build process because they don’t understand it and can’t be bothered to learn. To be fair to them, the systems in question are massively over complicated and the project definitions themselves are the result of copy-paste engineering.

Unfortunately they also project their ignorance, so there’s massive pushback from more senior employees when anyone who does understand tries to untangle the mess and make it more robust.

The same thing will happen with these ML tools in the future, mark my words: writing code will come to be seen as “too complex and error prone” and barely working, massively inefficient and fragile generated code bases will be revered and protected with “don’t fix what isn’t broken”
The thing is, even I hadn't seen the docs before yesterday, but I could intuit through experience working with similar libraries that my ask wasn't that onerous.

The gist of it was to take the JSON representation of an editor and convert it to Markdown. Every popular editor library has an add on or option to export Markdown as well as import Markdown. But on import/export, you then need to almost always write a small transformer for any custom visual elements encoded as text.

Why MD? Because the user is writing a prompt so we need it as MD so it makes sense to transact this data in MD. It just so happens that the library is newish and docs are sparse in some areas. But totally manageable just by looking at the source how to do it.

I can't say for certain where the disconnect is in this whole thing, but to me it felt like "this isn't easy (because the LLM can't do it), so we shouldn't do it this way".
Wow, the UK is in some deep shit governing wise.

Sure I already suspected such a thing given what has been happening for the past decades but they still manage to surprise me.
Crawler built in elixir
Very cool, but the image in the bottom of the page flickers when scrolling.
Exactly! That was kind of the point IMO, that human morality was deeply complex and ‘the right thing’ couldn’t be expressed with some trite high level directives.
To still have a face they would need more than one mea culpa.
Correct! It definitely adds a maintenance burden on us. Bolt builds in the browser, which is nice in many ways but causes issues with many external npm packages not being able to build, along with a lot of extra overhead on the frontend.
We do run into issues sometimes, mostly with rate limiting and trying to spin up too many sandboxes, to the point where we're considering other alternatives
> Why in the Python ecosystem you change package manager every 2 week?!?

setuptools (2006), pip (2008), venv (2011), conda (2012), pipx (2017), pipenv (2017), poetry (2018)

They don’t have a point. You listed seven tools – most of which aren’t package managers at all – which were created over the course of twelve years. That’s not even remotely like changing package manager every two weeks. That goes far beyond hyperbole, straight into misrepresentation.
Does anyone who wasnt involved in creating these large open source math libraries have good success in using them? During my phd I tinkered with so many different PDE solvers, FEM packages and the like, and I ended up just coding everything from scratch for my specific problem. I don't know about Morpho specifically, but I often found it so difficult to understand how the authors were thinking about the problem that it wasn't worth the time to learn the ins and out of the software.
Which sounds impressive, and it is, but I think there's slightly less there than meets the eye.

Their GHG emissions appear to have peaked in the mid-1970s, when it became apparent that coal just wasn't going to work any more. They had been burning vast amounts of coal. So while 1872 may sound like some kind of rural, idyllic paradise, the country was choked with smog, literally killing people.

Still, progress, and trying to do more. Many countries reduced GHG emissions by switching from coal to natural gas, but they now need to switch from natural gas to something carbon-neutral.
I haven't heard of Honey recruiting computers into a DDOS-for-hire botnet, or providing remote desktop access to an attacker, or stealing financial details and draining bank accounts, or bricking computers on purpose, or encrypting files and holding them for random. Are you sure there's no difference and they literally do the same thing?

At the same time, I've not heard of a virus stealing referrals, but I wouldn't be surprised there. Just seems really uncommon among malware, compared to all the other stuff malware does and Honey doesn't.

Honestly, I thought everybody understood referrals are how "free" coupon sites and coupon extensions got their money to continue existing. Did folks think that Honey was spending that money, building that product and infrastructure, out of the goodness of their hearts, rather than as part of a business?

It seems like the only reason this extension out of many is getting attention, is because some rich internet video stars took money to promote it and regret doing so because it ended up making them less money than they hoped. No caring about their fans (for example, educating them, "don't install coupon extensions, they're usually spyware"), I guess because that's less profitable than exploiting them for $$$
Brave is run by a VC-funded company and will need to show returns eventually. To date, they've tried to make money in a few disappointing ways:

- Replacing ads on pages without owner's intervention, under the guise that they were offering owners a cryptocurrency

- Inserting their own referral codes on websites

- Installing their VPN software on Windows machines without consent

They also introduced a Tor mode into their browser that sent DNS requests unmasked to your ISP. I don't know why you would trust Brave at this point.
Apple pulls ad that promoted personalized Siri feature
Very interesting point about whether AI Chats are personal data or not, like email or a whatsapp message, or if they should be treated more like a web search. Certainly the AI isn't a person....
Yes, that's part of it. Guys in SV don't need help with access; women in Africa do - that's the place to hold conferences, and probably much more cost effective. (Whatever is mean by 'Africa', a very large area, and I know nothing about the conference.)
Grotius seems to be having a moment. Especially his influence on Hobbes’ Leviathan.

This article is interested in the time between the Spanish American war and Japan walking out of the League of Nations. Things got more interesting during the Cold War. Take Guantanemo Bay, Cuba. It has no utility to US logistics. It’s an occupied zone thoroughly controlled by USA but without those foundational laws mentioned in this article. I’d argue that settler colonialism is one of the least-interesting phenomena on Guantanemo. The lack of laws made it a sanctuary for US intelligence services to evade jurisdiction in the shade of US military control.

I would argue that ideas like founding new dystopian cities see the advantages of Guantanemo the same way colonial empires saw walled trade cities. And the history of those is might-makes-right. Hobbes would not approve of this application of violence—-it’s not the kind that keeps bullies in-line.

Many readers won’t need the history lesson or yet-another introduction to settler colonialism.
You'd think people would be happier that we've solved the technical problem of climate change. Even in quite northern places like the UK.

If anything the anger seems to grow as the need for subsidies and the uncertainty around tech success reduces.

Their article on the recent guidance from the Climate Change Committee on the 7th Carbon budget is also good:

https://www.carbonbrief.org/ccc-reducing-emissions-87-by-204...
Their policies might even improve. Who knows
Well I have some great news for you if you're running plain Gnome today. You need this! https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/4679/burn-my-windows/
Booted out of the country mate. Why are you acting daft? Do you think Starlink could operate in Spain without a regional/EU branch that serves Spanish customers, collects payments, pays Spanish/EU taxes and can be summoned to court if it doesn't follow Spanish laws?

That's why Starlink has geofencing in place so they can ensure it operates only in regions they're legally autorized to, it's not some pirate HAM network that can just freely operate while evading local laws willy nilly.
Surely you joke about avoiding corruption within the EU. Ursula von der Leyen negotiated privately with CEO's of vaccine companies, while her husband worked for a US supplier of said vaccine companies and her SMS data disappeared.

The current European Council president, took such a job directly after being forced to resign as Portuguese prime minister due a corruption scandal, where the Portuguese police found thousands of Euros in hard cash in the office of his assistants.

Even more ironic, Portugal got a new prime minister, who two days ago, had to resign due to a....yes...new corruption scandal. So I expect him to get an EU job also soon.
So get educated on its limitations and shop accordingly. Not sure why that’s so hard for folks.

I wish my iPads were more like laptops. But I’m not Tim Cook and I bought one anyway. So I didn’t vote with my wallet and I don’t have enough money to buy enough shares to vote with my money.

What I can do is buy something more appropriate or even something else entirely like a Surface.
> and someone who learned it in 80s could use it without problems today.

That's the true dream. Like all of those old movies where the hacker or fighter pilot has to use some foreign, alien or futuristic tech and they just use it!
So many tragic plane incidents lately. Is there any reason for this increased occurence, or is it actually within normal margins?
So open source doesn't work?

Alternative browsers are available based on Firefox source code. The same is true with Chromium.
> Just try it.

I don't need to be told to RTFM. I was asking for advice. My attention span is my most valuable commodity, and since I'm not really surprised or slowed down by setuptools, etc., it sounds like uv probably isn't worth investigating.

Thanks.
You're describing superficial behavior -- akin to taking the first match on Google or SO and saying that people are only doing that regarding AI prompts.

Good prompting _does_ require engagement and, for most cases, some research, just like SO or Google.

Sure, you can throw out idle or lazy queries. The results will be worse generally.
But you'll be called things like "catastrophically unprofessional" [1] if you choose JavaScript over TypeScript, or dynamically-typed Python over MyPy.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1iqytkf/python_type...
Who weird have imagined that outsourcing work with sensitive financial data to cheap Indian contractors would do poorly? And so the wheel turns
The great thing about spreadsheets is that most grown ups understand them.

I've used it as the best UI for Accountants, Lawyers and other people that are famous for being afraid of technology. It's a great "bridge between "the system" and the people who want to get something from it.
This is a good rundown of the pain of rust development. I had imagined that I'd reach a nirvana of rust dev where I could just write the code and feel like I knew what I was doing.

This ultimately never happened after N learning attempts and M side projects. A nascent startup idea died due to the time spent on rustisms.

I don't doubt that some people experience this zen, and I'd take rust over c/cpp every day for a new app if that was my choice… but that's not really my only choice.

The article also nails the performance topic, while rust gives you all of the insight and control over what your code is doing - its exceptionally rare that all of the libraries and modules in your program agree enough on these interfaces to not end up with memory copies everywhere.
And? You could go protest in front of Apple holding signs saying open up the iPad or make the iPad run macOS. Or… buy a laptop.
He's talking about the QC45's or QC35's and yeah, they are that good. I could wear them 10 hours a day without issue, and they do lower the sound floor tremendously. They are not a perfect solution, but the cost to performance ratio is unbeatable.
Is it strange that non of these ever worked for me over the years in different places/setups? (between windows/linux/osx). Literally never. Always been thinking of writing my own… I guess thats why there are so many :p
Dithering does that !
Or, just hire a good UX designer. Seriously, nobody would think about "practical coding for startups surviving without a programmer."

() Well, with AI coding... who knows...
Small planes like that crash all the time. You’re just hearing about it because we’re all on high alert - and in this circumstance, because the deceased has some fame.
He couldn't control the foundation, but he could say "integrate a crypto wallet or I'm not donating any more".
That’s just the point - when you pay outside the App Store, Apple gets no money for the subscription
I had the same reaction. I wonder if it’s simply that more people are flying?
It sounds bad, but the alternative is policy makers making decisions out of their arses, so maybe this really is a tool that can improve public management.

Problem is that the owner of the AI service has power over the model and thus can influence government decisions.

Maybe we should require that government use of AI should be required to use open models only.
I live here. Wish it wasnt but sorry its still true. I wont give too much context because it would make me look horribly racist, but to put it in vague terms: Japanese people are regularly confronted with weird and bad aspects South Asians bring to Japan. These aspects would be funny annoyances in the USA, but in Japan is more serious business.

This happens regularly enough that the average city dwelling Japanese person has to confront these negative aspects on a daily basis.

This seems like the primary basis for the racism.

The secondary basis is just general racism you are familiar with. Women regularly wil take the stares to avoid getting on the elevator with me. I have seen them stop and turn 180° to the stairwell. My friend with a big beard gets lots of wacky suspicion. We are stopped at every single airport in asia for a bag search, japan, korea, and taiwan. Japanese people have told us he looks like a terrorist cultist... Hes literally just a regular fat mexican with a beard.
Imo mathematicians want to be very smart, when a lot of ai is actually easy to undertand with good abstract and logic thinking and linear algebra.
If it does go the foundation model as I’ve suggested (purely paying bills on the interest earned by the endowment and by donations) then perhaps it can’t afford to pay for 350+ engineers. That’s just the facts.
Actually my comment was not really negative (apart calling the Parliament a "Joke").

I would invite you to see for yourself because those EU institutions are quite open, you can actually lobby them yourself.

Lobbying by the way is not reserved to corporations, you can and should lobby as an individual/private citizen.
You can send emails to those people they will usually answer you.
Those seem like non-idiotic, reasonable uses of ChatGPT. Reassuringly disappointing. My bigger concern is that a company like OpenAI has the resources to identify requests by bigwigs of interest, and a unique window into their head. With US friendship on dubious terms, I'd have thought GCHQ would have had a few stern talks with the government.
Booted out of the market. Payments, banking, interconnection, contractual agreements.

Businesses exist solely at the pleasure of the state. The state runs the courts; they can invalidate your ability to enforce contracts.

Until and unless they smuggle the dishes into the country like bricks of cocaine and allow subscription payments in bitcoin, local governments can and will regulate Starlink service and users.
Microsoft's quantum breakthrough claim labeled 'unreliable'
Show HN: Ethereum-rpc-mcp – Let Cursor Talk to Any EVM Chain
I built a MCP server using the Typescript SDK that wraps around the JSON RPC methods for EVM Blockchains. Without any extra documentation the LLM is able to interact with the EVM blockchain even through a complex series of requests.
To get going, just add the following command to your MCP client of choice (e.g. Cursor)

- npx -y ethereum-rpc-mpc [Optional: RPC_URL]

It works out of the box with any EVM chain.

Example usage with Claude:
"What's the ETH balance of 0x742d35Cc6634C0532925a3b844Bc454e4438f44e?"
"Is 0x6B175474E89094C44Da98b954EedeAC495271d0F a smart contract?"
"Is 0x6B175474E89094C44Da98b954EedeAC495271d0F a smart contract? If yes, what kind of contract is it?"

GitHub: https://github.com/Phillip-Kemper/ethereum-rpc-mpc

Appreciate any feedback, this is early work!
They are not better, they are strictly worse in every way, and the performance characteristics show such degradation. There is a difference between distilling and quantizing, as while the latter does show some degradation too, it is not to the extent of distilled models and at least it's still the original model.
https://peopletalk.ru/article/pochemu-zhenshhiny-otkarmlivay... use google translate :)

and yes it's a cruel but workable tactic. just like everything Slavic.
Seems relatively reasonable, certainly better than hiring Deloitte for more money and worse results. I doubt it's his only source of information.

I'm very surprised this is subject to FOIA. I'll bet he learns to disable memory and uses incognito chats now though.
HAM isn't an acronym, FYI.

If you break the internet and summon starlink yes I think pirates will take the void.
> the alternative is policy makers making decisions out of their arses

Or, you know, consulting experts.
I think they’re genuinely unaware of this because many, maybe most, people who analyze risk casually don’t think about ease or probability. Because it’s easier that way, and typically allows them to maintain some beliefs about personal freedoms.
More Saudi blood money.
You think the people are happy with spending more and getting declining test scores in return? Is that because people like you hand-wave away spending more for declining test scores as a “right-wing attack?”
If EU countries ran a deficit as large as the US did for the past 20 years...

We'd have even more GDP growth than America :-)

As well, the Euro would be worthless. US could print the 2008 crisis without massive currency debasement because of its reserve currency status, which in 10 years could not be the case anymore.

This means that the US has this huge deficit problem to fix, where most of it is because of Medicaid and Social Security entitlements (which will also grow faster in the next years).

The US is in a terrible fiscal shape right now, the next 10 years will be a rough ride for the average American.
Germany's once-mighty car industry is in crisis. What will it take to fix it?