skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regulatory capture is usually the company pushing for regulations that align with the business practices they already implement and would be hard for a competitor to implement. For example, a car company that wants to require all other manufactures to build and operate wind tunnels for aerodynamics testing. Or more realistically, regulations requiring 3rd party sellers for vehicles.
Maybe it’s time to create one.

On second thought, I’d wait 4 years before starting that.
Which means, it costs even more tax dollars.

I wondered about this with the case of the german woman who was detained for months because she had tattoo equipment. If the logic is that she will work in the US, and take work that would have gone to an american tattoo engraver, that effort to prevent loss seems to be massively undercut by the expense of detention.

Prisons cost hundreds of thousands of dollars per year per prisoner. Keeping someone detained for months is going to cost tens of thousands of dollars, at least. Immediate deportation would be the most economical solution to someone attempting to enter without a valid visa.

This is again an indication that the effort isn't to save money, it's intimidation, possibly mixed with aiming additional revenue to the private prison industry.

In the case of this canadian woman, there doesn't even seem to be any indication that she was attempting to enter on a misleading visa type. It's just pure bullshit by DHS.

I live in San Diego, even crossing the border from TJ with a US passport entails dealing with some asshole being unnecessarily abusive. They seem to intentionally hire abusive people, and encourage abusive behavior on the job.
I'm hesitant to consider anything said by anyone who uses the term old heads seriously.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Girl_(film)
"I've been burned enough times by these journalism books whose other good parts become headlines the first week and the rest is some random person's life story."

This one also meets that description, to some extent. The author calls herself a "random New Zealander".

Not sure what "burned" means. Maybe try libraries.

This is not a "journalism book". The author is not a journalist and is not reporting on the "news of the day". It is an autobiography covering a period of the author's life. The author worked at Facebook as a lawyer focused on diplomacy from 2011.

The recounted events concerning Facebook staff often involve multiple persons who are still alive and the facts could easily be corroborated. Alas, non-disparagement clauses may be an impediment.

However, this HN submission, like others on the topic, is not about the book itself. It is about Meta's efforts to stop the book's promotion.

Why try to stop its promotion. If privacy is dead according to Zuckerberg (2010)^1 then why is Meta concerned about this book.

1. https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/external/readwri...

Perhaps Meta wants to send a message to other terminated Meta employees who might also write books critical of their former employer.

Zuckerberg is wrong of course. Privacy is not dead.^2 These days, Meta fights for its own privacy to the point of absurdity.

2. https://iapp.org/news/a/privacy-is-not-dead-its-powerful/

There appear to be some allegations of harassment and retaliation in this book by someone still working and recently promoted at Meta. Maybe this is why Meta is trying to stop the book's promotion.

HN comments may focus on the quality of the book or the author but these HN story submissions are about Meta's attempt to stop promotion of the book, not the book itself.
I travel a lot in the EU and the Internet is a total shambles. Blocked stuff everywhere. Right down to VPNs not even working.
Negative constraints like anti-knight significantly improve my enjoyment of Sudoku. They make it more likely that puzzles don't devolve to straight Sudoku near the end.
Perusing Stellafane's pages is likely as good as it gets for both a broad and thorough introduction.
As with many things, it is an art of trade offs.

Aperture rules until the work to set up means it sits unused.

The objects you mention are bright (and small) and can be seen in anything, including nothing, which fills department stores with small scopes known to amateur astronomers as "Hobby Killers".

So immerse yourself a bit, pick up some language and basics, then find a local club to try before you buy, clubs or generous members may have a loaners
scopes so you can figure out where you want to be on the what you can see v.s how much effort you can put in scale.

cheers
Not who you're replying to, but they linked their GH in bio, which led me to this:

https://github.com/m3047/pangolin
M3 Ultra exposed: Inside Apple's hybrid chip powerful enough to take on Nvidia
More technical information about this from Wired: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43333370

Unsurprisingly, the data available show that this narrative that Musk is promoting is 100% false.
That was a cool advertisement, I must give them that.
I believe there are still many ways how to use AI in your workflow. For example I don't like the concept of Vibe coding, but it's amazing for people with little or no skill. They can do fun stuff which they couldn't before.

Neither I studied for such a reason. I studied it because I like to solve problems, and solutions are (from my perspective) software. If there are tools that can help me make such solutions quicker with acceptable quality, I'm going to use it. I don't want to use it to write "crappy" code although I know it is fully capable of doing so. But I believe there come the skills of software engineer to supervise and manage it. I don't think you can go far with LLMs without some real knowledge, neither now, nor in the following few years.
There are some other models out there but OLMO is the best LLM for researchers to study
Late-stage capitalism - the future is now.
Judge orders Trump administration to reinstate most fired probationary staff
It might be basic, but I found the Wikipedia article to be a good place to start:

> An important aspect of fascist economies was economic dirigism,[35] meaning an economy where the government often subsidizes favorable companies and exerts strong directive influence over investment, as opposed to having a merely regulatory role. In general, fascist economies were based on private property and private initiative, but these were contingent upon service to the state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_of_fascism
That is most likely what their iOS & macOS design language will be going forward: https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/10/ios-19-visionos-redesig...

With that said, the design sins it commits are pretty standard in the age of minimalist/flat UI. It looks pretty similar to Apple's current design language, just with some stylistic tweaks.

Not defending it, as some of those design decisions drive me up a wall. Is this text a button or just an input field? Can I click this image or is it static? Which directions can I swipe? Does this grey text mean it's a disabled button or placeholder text on an input field?

I am not nostalgic for the blocky, grey, in-your-face design of classic UIs like Windows 98. But sacrificing functionality and discoverability on the alter of pretty design is, unironically, bad design.
The unspoken part was always the states' rights to do what. Which of course was all about maintaining the economic differences that they preferred. Which, you know...
The government should shut down until this whole Musk mess is sorted out.
and elon
The article mentions that the film was the inspiration for the leader of this project.
Also The World of Mathematics (1956) by James R. Newman.
Is the US still providing updates and spares for Ukraine’s airforce? Modern military aircraft depend a lot on software updates to stay operational.
It upsets me that the only widely available versions of Amadeus now is the "extended edition," which fundamentally alters the film’s core message.

In the original theatrical cut, Salieri is a deeply flawed but fascinating character—a man consumed by jealousy, yet also in awe of Mozart’s genius. His sabotage of Mozart is tragic, not just because of what it does to Mozart, but because Salieri himself recognizes the beauty he is trying to destroy. There’s a complexity there: Salieri hates Mozart, but he also admires him. He wishes, more than anything, that he could be his friend, but he cannot overcome his own bitterness.

The extended edition, however, adds a crucial change: Salieri doesn’t just work against Mozart—he actively humiliates Mozart’s wife, Constanze. This transforms Salieri from a tormented, conflicted figure into something much simpler: a villain. Instead of a man waging a war against God through Mozart, he’s just a petty, lecherous schemer.

The real Antonio Salieri was not some scheming villain—he was a respected composer, teacher, and conductor who mentored some of the greatest musicians of the next generation, including Beethoven, Schubert, and Liszt.
Author here - thanks for the feedback! I agree this is not an apples-to-apples comparison. I've always read about how the stack was faster than the heap when it comes to memory allocation and wanted to explore that. Will definitely look into `std::pmr::monotonic_buffer_resource` for a stack to stack comparison.
Thanks all for reaching out; we found someone! I love HN.

If you see this way later and are interested, of course feel free to write me a note. You never know :)
I actually export a spreadsheet to review the memory limits.
I'm sad that is (probably) going to be a dying industry because of all the AI slop we're seeing.
The private industry side of fascist corporatism is very similar to all kinds of systematic state industry cronyism, particularly in other authoritarian systems that aren't precisely fascist (and named systems of government are just idealized points on the multidimensional continuum on which actual governments are distributed, anyway), what distinguishes fascism particularly is the combination of its form of corporatism with xenophobia, militaristic nationalism, etc., not the form of corporatism alone.
Can anyone say which of the LLM companies is the least "shady"?

If I want to use an LLM to augment my work, and don't have a massively powerful local machine to run local models, what are the best options?

Obviously I saw the news about OpenAI's head of research openly supporting war crimes, but I don't feel confident about what's up with the other companies.
Well the hate is now mostly because it’s used as a speculative security to run scams.
Where will the 'Blood Worm Moon' total lunar eclipse be visible tonight?
I often think about this; I keep a journal and would not want my loved ones reading it because you naturally show different parts of yourself to different people. For example, it would be weird to read intimate details about a sibling's love life. However, I wouldn't mind a great grandchild or other descendants reading it because they didn't know me personally.
C'mon man, our billionaires have been very loud about their explicit goal to roll back the New Deal.
Well considering the feds have charged and sentenced people for the activity of their exit nodes (CSAM), to which tor project has no response, I wouldn’t bother with Tor.

I’m sure the feds could force funding attached to crypto accounts to be verified by a trusted version of the bitcoin network or they are not legal to trade. They don’t have to physically stop the mining or validation, just the on/off ramps and banks who use it as collateral.
A data point from me: people in Chicago had real trouble understanding my English accent. Then I realised that when they had trouble understanding I reflexively said it again closer to Received Pronunciation i.e. even more English. Then i started imitating the Chicago accent and people understood me. They still thought I had an English accent, just not so thick they couldn’t understand me. English people who knew me found the way i talked to Chicagoans absolutely hilarious.
If it were possible, some fat orange imbecile in a galaxy far far away would already have done it (to own the libs, of course). Therefore, it is not possible.
It is not just short format. Unlike that tweet, you are trying to argue in a good faith.
You need a big "/s" after this. Or maybe just not post it at all, because it's just value-less snark and not a substantial comment on how hypocritical and harmful OpenAI is (which they certainly are).
Meta puts stop on promotion of tell-all book by former employee
Most likely this part you didn’t realize happened:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43354309
> Sweden covers large parts of the traditional homelands of non-Swedish people.

How does this lead to the conclusion that Swedish ethno-nationalism is bad?
This reminds me of this article https://wiki.alopex.li/LetsBeRealAboutDependencies

It's incredible how much stuff some C projects vendor
> They either serve to stroke the interviewer’s ego

that's why i'd ask about duff's device. I often admit i am no programmer or developer, here on HN, and that's true. I've only ever implemented recursion when it's part of the pattern or when "learning" a language.

my understanding is that recursion is great for tight, small loops, where you need to do say 0<n<10 loops. But if you can't guarantee the tight loop every time, i.e., if it is a dynamic part of business logic or whatever, then you run the risk of blowing up the stack, or heap, or whatever it is. I don't remember which, and i could look it up; but my point is most developers don't need to know if the stack is at risk rather than the heap if your recursive call ends up being called a lot of times.

But i really would ask about duff's; me and a friend came up with a use for duff's device maybe 2005 or 2006, and tested it, and published it as part of a forum argument; but i am curious if anyone else could "come up with one" or "remember one" that isn't the "de-facto duff's device demonstration".
Extreme Makeover: Switches Edition
I recall watching a presentation about C++20. During the presentation, the presenter said there were about 163 undefined behaviors in the C language (note: I think it was C99) which implied there were many more in C++ since it’s a much more complex language. Unfortunately, I don’t have a link to that presentation.

You might have heard about the SPARK variant of Ada. I recall reading in an article many years ago that the original version of SPARK was based on Ada83 because it is a very safe language with a lot less undefined behaviors, which is key to trying to statically prove the correctness of a program.
>> if I know the precise year it is kinda hard to seek

why don't you drag to get close enough and then use the buttons?
Thanks! If you ever wanna trade notes or if we can be of any help, feel free to reach out at ayman@nuanced.dev!
I'm pretty sure you can't, despite what IP holders would like you to believe. Like the last 50 years of piracy have taught us, it's effectively impossible (and probably immoral) to try to charge for copying something that's "free" to copy.

It might make more sense to update copyright laws to match reality. For a music artist, for example, pennies from Spotify mean nothing -- the majority of their revenue comes from concerts/events, merchandise, and commercial licensing of their work.
The newly released 4K restoration is the original theatrical version:

https://www.amazon.com/Amadeus-4K-Ultra-Digital-UHD/dp/B0DQQ...
My AI strategy is still "No".
> Like a government agency has no self cleaning mechanism like a cooperation has.

What? No.

1. Unlike the private sector, the public sector is built on hard budgets, not speculation. They don’t balloon up like your typical money-burning tech company.

2. They can, and do, fire people for performance. No idea where the myth that they can’t do that came from.

3. They run probationary periods just like the private sector to make firing easier and, in fact, their probationary periods are much longer!

4. There are inspectors and agencies directly responsible for optimization.
System76 trying to do that with their Cosmic DE (for PopOS)[0].

Hopefully that will change soon. (Well for linux)

[0]: https://system76.com/cosmic/
But I already posted it so how could I not post it at all? Do any of us even have a reason to exist? Maybe Sam Altman was right all along
I'm a native English speaker and the article reads very naturally. I've been learning Spanish over the last two plus years, and I'm jealous of how regular and consistent Spanish is compared to English.
And the value of that network is often very low in finding a job after university. Your peers are unlikely to be in a position to offer you a job, and your professor may have a connection but realistically this is unavailable to hundreds of grads every semester. When you’re fresh in the career “use your network” feels like the same kinds of job postings that say “junior engineer - must have 3 years professional development experience”.
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> Can you compress the internet including copyrighted material and then sell access to it?

Define access?

If you mean sending out the compressed copy, generally no. For things people normally call compression.

If you want to run a search engine, then you should be fine.

> At what percentage of lossy compression it becomes infringement?

It would have to be very very lossy.

But some AI stuff is. For example there are image models with fewer parameters than source images. Those are, by and large, not able to store enough data to infringe with. (Copying can creep in with images that have multiple versions, but that's a small sliver of the data.)
This one also loaded basically instantly for me as well, but for example this one: https://mameson.com/experiment/glsl/clouded_cracker_2/cloude... took ~15 seconds to load and then runs at 9 fps on a pretty powerful dev machine. (granted, it is running a bit slow and I'm also running a vm at the same time, so maybe that's the cause)
I believe that's power saving in action. A single operation at idle is slow, the drive needs time to wake from idle.
Having looked at that, I now have a headache.
Yea; this owns. I used it for my own stuff.
Mullenweg Considers Delaying WordPress Releases Through 2027
I was handed sheet music every year in band, and within a few weeks had it memorized. Books with music are also available in the library.
Data Structures and Algorithms I Used Working at Tech Companies (2020)
Random writes and fsync aren't the same thing. A single unflushed random write on a consumer SSD is extremely fast because it's not durable.
Curious, are there any exceptions to your coding test (I applied back in 2021 or so, not sure if this is still a requirement)?

The test didn't like my solutions/speed (which meant I couldn't move forward), however, I'd say I'm more than qualified to be a Toptal dev (see projects in my HN profile [1]).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/rglover
At some point the Silicon Valley "hacker" class will have to reckon with the fact that they propped up guys like Musk, Zuckerberg and Thiel as "geniuses" and "disruptors", for their own personal financial gain. A tough conversation to have with the grandkids, "I didn't know they would turn out like this"...
I almost did ;-)

I added a few improvements to help with legibility which made
it bearable to program with sexpr.

But arithmetic expressions and (chaining of) unary operators was just too painful, e.g.

(= (. (^ ptr) file) ...)

instead of

ptr^.field = ...
The lack of arrow shortcuts for navigation really throws me off (especially since both the mouse and the numpad are normally used by the right hand). Although cells have more than 4 neighbors, there's still a notion of direction; maybe just break ties by what is closer to the previous cell? Or use a subgrid? SGT's "bridges" and "map" puzzles may be interesting; the former doesn't care about neighbors but the puzzle guarantees indirect connectivity somehow, whereas the latter uses a subgrid. "Loopy" which has all sorts of shapes just gives up and disables it, even though good solutions exist for even for non-square grids :(.

Is your "at most 9" logic preventing loops?

I think I could probably get used to visualizing runs on my own if only the shapes weren't so irregular. In particular, the fact that there can be apparent "four corners" means it's impossible to tell which way the run actually connects; you should probably tweak the grid to ensure a minimum edge size (or maybe even forcibly align it to an orthogonal-with-diagonals grid? Either way, remember you don't need to stay Voronoi). Actually, to reduce visual clutter, maybe color the edges rather than the lines crossing them? Perhaps make odd-sided polygons blatantly different too?

Serious sudoko solvers have at least 2 kinds of pencil markings - I find "top" and "bottom" most convenient. Maybe insert an underscore at the end of the "active" set of numbers? (or overdraw for pen marks). But for puzzles complicated enough to need bifurcation, I really just need an arbitrary grid where I can put any number at any location in any order - or else an option to fork the entire puzzle.

And of course there needs to be a "fill in all pencil marks so I can work subtractitively" button.
I would also recommend the "NAND to Tetris" book. Covers much the same ground (as I remember things anyway) but is a hands on approach. I enjoyed Code also though and is worth a look for those interested.
Red Hat's Stratis 3.8 Delivers New Features
The Long, Slow Demise of DVD-RAM (2024)
Is this a reference to the Liquid Television short?
https://archive.is/FnClD
That's the big issue. People think he only does in on Twitter.

Employees at Tesla / SpaceX / xAI are just working their, and politics are their boss politics, etc.

Nope guys. This guy is in the Oval Office trying to either destroy or take over the governement - not yet clear which one is it, but there is no in between.