skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait, I missed this. They're saying we need to replace peanut oil, which I'm not saying is a multivitamin or anything, with lard? Holy crap... Even McDonald's figured out that's something to skip
Thanks for posting! It's a good read, quite Bartosz Ciechanowski esque
NASA answered a number of direct questions on this during the crew-10 pressers. So they were asked directly. The problem is the Musk claim is that he took the offer directly to the White House, bypassing NASA. From the crew-10 pressers, NASA was completely unaware.

I'd read the Butch quote very carefully:

I can only say that Mr. Musk, what he says, is absolutely factual. We have no information on that, though, whatsoever; what was offered, what was not offered; who it was offered to, how that process went. That's information that we simply don't have. So I believe him. I don't know all those details, and I don't think any of us really can give you the answer that maybe that you would be hoping for.

He makes it absolutely clear that he can't answer the question because he doesn't have any of the information. But he believes Musk and that what Musk says is "Absolutely factual".
I remember reading about these automated store businesses on a marketing forum. I did something like this myself in 2009. I would use my own software to find arbitrage opportunities on other websites (and also cancel listings when they were sold out).

It worked pretty well for a couple of years. Low amount of cancellations and happy customers. After awhile, it became harder and harder to make a profit, because as soon as I found something profitable, Amazon would start selling from their own warehouse and out-compete me or all my sales would drop off to 0.

I eventually moved off of Amazon completely and 10X my profit.
> Sure but wouldn't the institution have to justify the revocation?

The people answering that phone or email are low-level admin staff far removed from those who decided to revoke the degree – I don’t know whether they have access to the reasoning or justification behind the revocation.

> Without justification, couldn't the degree holder sue the institution for some sort of defamation?

I honestly hope so – I’m quite against being able to revoke a degree due to other reasons than plain fraud (like plagiarism or fabrication). But I don’t know the laws well enough to answer.
Proceeds will be donated to the center of Google Kids Who Can't Read Good.
Every single company claimed something and haven’t delivered. Why single out one that actually delivered most of claims?

I’m tine if you call it “some self driving”, I don’t care. I’m not going to put my car as a taxi, that’s stupid.
Nice work and easy to use! Ive ben struggling trying to find a quick solution for my use case. Now I have it
He may be right about the quality of the current state of the art.

But like most of us I think he struggles to comprehend the implications of exponential improvement. What if 2 or 4 years now the LLMs have improved by a factor of 10 or 100? Will they still not be as good as the best humans at writing a movie script? What about 2 years after that with similar rate of improvement?
Hmmm.

>> Bir Charles' letter to you recommends against doclassification of the Farrea Comaission document CD-971, which refers to our investigation of anonymous telephone calls to the Canberra Babassy before and after the amcassination of President Kennedy.

https://github.com/doctly/jfk/blob/main/jfk_files_md/104-100...

Also no reference linking from the scans (see attached document, for example). Still interesting, though.
Nice little game! One correction: Swaziland has been called Eswatini since 2018. Lots of websites still use the old name, unfortunately.
> The problem with that line of reasoning is that it implies that data handling practices can determine whether or not a given scheme is security through obscurity

Necessary but not sufficient condition. For example, if I’m transmitting secrets across the wire in plain text that’s clearly security through obscurity even if you’re relying on an otherwise secure algorithm. Security is a holistic practice and you can’t ignore secrets management separate from the algorithm blueprint (which itself is also a necessary but not sufficient condition).
This will blow your mind: in Hawaiian culture, transgender people held a place of honor and respect. Hawaii is part of America (illegally overthrown), so there’s a cultural history of transgender people that you can point to here that is respectful, though today a lot of Hawaiians use it as a derogatory term due to hate brought in with Christianity and continental culture.

I don’t get why it’s such a threat, please explain that rather than trying to erase transgender people. Gays also have a very long history, and they’re also in the crosshairs today, why them? Did gays not exist to you in the past as well?
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They only get two years old or so. We could raise them and just wait for them to die naturally!
My impression is different: I think Wolfram is plenty hard-working, but his internal mental life is so full of fantasies of unlimited success and fame that he cannot manage an impartial-enough evaluation of his own work output.
The "About" screen indicates "Wolfram 14.2"

Mathematica (MMA) and the Wolfram Language (WL) used to be the one and the same. But now a user could be using WL in a web based notebook, through Wolfram Alpha, or even on SystemModeler.

The brand name “Mathematica” isn’t going anywhere, not after nearly forty years. It’s basically marketing being like “how do we communicate updates to WL as not just being updates to MMA?”.
I agree with your point, but you do need to use your address to use the postal service...
Straight white men, or even just white people, is in no way the "default" at Google, and very far from the 90% in your allegory.
numbers go 0 1 2, 3 four 5, silly goose

(I don't know what this is supposed to mean)
I don't have an issue with high prices, in the general sense, I have an issue with artificially inflated prices via dark patterns and other unethical means, which Ticketmaster has built their entire business around.

As a customer who earns a tech salary, mostly I want to be able to go on the site, find the "best available" seats, and buy them. Done.

What Ticketmaster instead forces you to do is go through an artificial queuing system, lies to you about what's best available, has widely ranging dynamic pricing, doesn't allow you to purchase all seat classes available at any given moment and releases them randomly, and does all sorts of other horrid fuckery and at the end as an extra middle finger charges you a "convenience fee" for having you print your tickets yourself or scanning them from your phone after you went through the least convenient, pleasant, and reasonable process every to get overcharged for the tickets.

And let's be clear, we're talking about overcharging. The face value of a ticket can be high for a world-famous act. So let's say the face value of a typical seat is $250 for a concert. Ticketmaster will absolutely charge you $700 for that same ticket.
Bill Gates wasn't a tech bro because "tech bro" refers to a very specific subculture that Gates was never a part of. It didn't even exist in his day. I'm not sure that's any better.

In any case, you're right about it being definitional. I was just surprised that anybody would think of Gates as a tech bro. That's just an alien concept to me and I never expected to hear it asserted.

But it doesn't really matter. Whether or not I agree with anyone about what a "tech bro" is (and clearly there is disagreement about that) is irrelevant.
Thanks I'll pass that along to JT (engineer behind the spreadsheet)! We're using https://pixijs.com/
They offered a number of good points, it doesn’t seem like undiscerning nihilism to me.
Ok thank you! I think I can see how I am wrong now and why it doesn't actually make a difference.
> It even includes a built-in spreadsheet so you’re never limited in reporting.

That may be your next pivot, if you are not careful, or maybe if you are.

I did two semesters in college interning on an application like this which did not survive, and one of the things that kept coming up in comparables was that the biggest competition was not Quickbooks, the biggest competition for small/medium sized business accounting has always been Excel.

The product I worked on thought it could succeed with deep Excel integration, both imports and reporting, and possibly even being installed right next to Excel out of the same box. In the end, Excel won and the product was axed, because of course Excel won (even despite the product working to diversify its revenue to moat its budget in interesting ways).
Certainly survival guide stuff.

I was thinking about the civilization book case and wondering if they had forgotten to include sun tzu, clausewitz, etc ...
> Of course, there is no Swiss ERG, as it's the "default"

Switzerland is a country of three dominant languages. When I worked for a Swiss bank, they had internal groups for, essentially, domestic expats.
Most science is junk, yes.
Yes in some sense, but they did provide additional rides to cover Boeing's shortfall on a short timeline.

The ability to ramp up services on short notice is not flexibility traditional space companies offer. Ex, if NASA begged Boeing for an extra SLS launch this year, they simply could not do it.
The issue is the definition. "Stranded" can be made to mean a wide range of things. In this case it's clear from Trump and Musk's statements that they mean it as "abandoned" and in need of rescue. While you could argue that their situation could be described as stranded, they clearly were not abandoned or in need of rescue.
This is certainly sad to see. American universities are some of best in the world and have been a huge driver for domestic upward mobility. Even if Trump leaves office in a few years and the Dems sweep the presidency and congress, it’ll be difficult or impossible to recover from this, which is clearly the point.
This reminds me of a post (here? Reddit maybe? circa ~2011) where the author suggested patronizing websites visited often by wealthy, powerful people to trick google ads into thinking you regularly walk around with a top hat and monocle. I think about this sort of thing often when the ads and other content I'm being served abruptly changes tone.

Edit: date estimation, add p.s.: I've tried to find this post or article in the past but had no luck with HN search.
Gentoo was the primary source of heating for my living quarters back in the early 2000s. My tower was highly constrained on memory, and I was on a relentless quest to pare out any modules or dependencies I wasn't actually using. Performance gains were primarily from being able to stay out of slow HDD swap space memory. I doubt there were any gains once amortizing the compilation times, but I ran my compile batches at night, and they kept me nice and warm.
Great question, we don't have an official roadmap but over the next few months we'll likely ship: magic inbox (auto linking receipts/invoices/etc... to transactions, payroll/hr integrations, e-commerce integrations). We're also focusing heavily on the AI functionality (getting it to do much more than just bookkeeping and generating reports). The roadmap is heavily customer influenced, are there any critical features you're looking for?
Fines are a perverse incentive. If bureaucrats want money, they can pass laws that are ambiguous or contain arguable loopholes. Companies then engage in malicious compliance, which subverts the purpose of the law and prevents it from actually restoring competition, and then just pay the fine when the prosecution comes because that's less expensive than allowing that market to foster viable competitors that could subsequently break into the global market or demonstrate to other jurisdictions that antitrust rules can be effective. Meanwhile the bureaucrats are happy because they get billions of dollars in fine revenue even though the problem hasn't been solved.

What they should be doing is to regard this kind of antitrust violation as a manner of copyright or patent abuse and use the penalty of invalidating the perpetrator's copyrights and patents. Then you would get actual compliance, because the alternative is that TSMC could have a fab in Germany and start producing competing iPhones.
Well, it's certainly subjective, and that's how I meant it.
Well the pace of innovation before the dominance of capitalism was slow. It became much faster afterwards.
Do you also avoid YouTube, Coca-Cola, and Netflix because of their obvious socialist connections? :)
Spam by any other name is just as annoying.
Nice steel manning, of course transgender people without bottom surgery don’t walk into nude spas. If you find a single example, great, find me the hundreds of examples you folks claim there are which threaten you. You’re not arguing honestly, just coming up with wild situations that don’t match reality. You may be uninformed, or misinformed, I suggest you actually read more than surface articles on Fox News.
> It's not a configuration they sell

So what is the "configuration they sell" for the desktop Macs? The Studio Display that costs way too much for what it is, so to no one's surprise, they're not selling all that many of those? Or the Pro Display XDR for which the stand alone costs more than an entry-level Mac Mini? Sure no one will buy a $1600 monitor to use with their $600 Mac Mini. They'll get a much cheaper third-party 2K one.
> Prove it.

No one can "prove" anything without a clear goalpost that doesn't move :) That being said, there is evidence I can present from the past. Here are a couple of cases:

- https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/chemonics-internatio...

- https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/usaid-suspends...

Also, not exactly "fraud" in the accounting sense, but there is a slew of NGOs that purport to support foreign aid, but most of the money is paid to people in DC. Only about $5B/yr actually went from USAID to directly meet needs in other countries: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/opinion/us-foreign-aid.ht...
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/plex-ups-its-price-f...
Imagine you know that there are some repeating patterns in your dataset, e.g. heartbeats in an EKG. If you take two windows that happen to contain a heartbeat at the same position, the corresponding vectors will be close, and if the positions are different, the vectors should become more dissimilar the more the alignment is off.

Then if you create a number of clusters equal to the window size, you might expect that each cluster will correspond to one of the possible positions of the heartbeat within the window. But somehow that's not what happens...
I remember this Elon Musk guy who was spending hundreds of millions of dollars to get Trump elected. I hear he's involved in space somehow, imagine if he found out about this and was able to shame the Biden admin with this before the election. He would have gone absolutely wild with it.
The diffusion model(s) the agent leverages to edit certain parts of the image are notorious for exhibiting weird behaviors (of course, we will improve these as we progress).

I'll let you figure out why it does some weird things regarding your comment (data distribution).
Persistently. My solo projects aren't particularly complex though so I haven't really wasted any time by not being able to use git history for debugging. I currently have 38 files modified on my solo work project. If I'm in a team I keep it somewhat tidy but solo I only treat commits as manual save points I use only when my spidey senses tingle or when I'm about to refactor something that works fine as it is. Also when I'm done with a large part of the SW so the next dev at least has some rough timeline for what got added when and how many times it was majorly iterated. It's not a good habit but it has yet to bite me in the ass so I learn.

Edit: A large part of the reason now that I think about it is that I don't work off real tickets but just bugs I notice or things that get mentioned on the current solo work project. In a team I can just dissect the ticket and am forced to do only that ticket on the branch whereas solo I'm just jumping all over the place. Sometimes I'll do thing X partway, start considering options and in the meantime do thing Y so it's a mess but the tasks get done so.. For context the project is 1 year old developed from 0 by me. Essentially an internal log parsing and analysis tool for a couple formats. Nothing particularly complex.
Yes, Kevin Erdmann’s writings were what I was thinking of when I said that lending has been restricted since the Great Recession. He does identify “Closed Access” supply restrictions as the original sin that the Fed misinterpreted as a speculative bubble. I highly recommend his blog and books.
The web site of this LARP has good video.[1] They did a very good job on this.
Here's the prep material for players.[2] It's intense. 48 hours with no breaks.

It's hard to scale location-based entertainment.
Disney tried the Galactic Starcruiser themed hotel, but it was a dud. Too expensive - $5000 or so for 2.5 days. It was a LARP dumbed down to Disney park customer level.
Lots of mini-games, not much coordinated activity.

That's about how this sort of thing usually goes. Keeping everybody on script in coordinated activity is tough. I was involved with steampunk conventions, pre-COVID. Those took elaborate prep, but there was no all-player coordinated event.

The US has some events like this. Wasteland Weekend. The Society for Creative Anachronism. Military reenactment groups.

[1] https://www.odysseuslarp.com/

[2] https://www.odysseuslarp.com/blog
Which regulations specifically? GDPR?

It may just be because people in Europe interact in real life more and don't need an online forum.
Unions are a bargaining tool that can theoretically advocate for anything - it's more useful generally to talk about what they usually do. Generally unions focus on employee rights and will only organize for specific business policies if it is causing obvious harm to the company and employees. I'd only expect a union to force a project to be continued if it was being canceled for silly reasons (internal company politics and similar) but usually simply moving the workforce to another project would be sufficient.
I am not kidding. The problem is that the discussion collapses into an unpersuasive and uninformative partisan flamewar, so it does not improve the choices that those VCs will make. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43413819 for a more in-depth discussion.
I'm not overreacting, and why would I be defensive? I'm not Miyazaki, it's not my work to defend.

We agree the pacing and some of the structure is mildly different to some Western cinema (but not too much, there's nothing radically different either, which is why Disney/Pixar found Ghibli so inspiring).

I guess what's puzzling is your wording: you say the rythm is different (arguably true), that you wouldn't cut anything (agreed) but also call it a "rythmic miss".

What you claim about the train scene is both confusing and feels anecdotal -- I've never seen people do what you claim. The scene is there, it works, and it's beautiful and I've never seen anybody check the time at this point.

That's all I say: it's not a "rythmic miss" and it seems presumptuous to claim otherwise.

We do not disagree on anything else, really.
> Support, networking, mentorship

I get plenty of that elsewhere. Do you have issues finding support, networking events, and mentorship programs?

ERGs specifically tend to group those generic, open-to-all programs together and add another layer of `navigating the workplace as [insert ERG demographic]` that doesn't really make sense if you insert "white man".
I don't know what "reverse course" means here. This is extortion, not a simple transaction like purchasing a sandwich in a deli.

The Trump administration is withholding funding and simultaneously making a series of explicit (and completely inappropriate) demands that it wishes Columbia to comply with. I assume what we're watching is a kind of "negotiation" period in which Columbia either does or does not do various things, and then over time the Trump administration decides whether to relent or punish them further. There is no real pressure on the administration to just stop.

One of the explicit demands the administration made was for Columbia to disband the University Judicial Board (the exact group that handed down these decisions) presumably because they felt that it would not sufficiently punish the protesters. Coincidentally, around the same time this happened, the board "independently" decided to punish the protesters quite severely.
Are there enough examples of "best humans at writing a movie script?" Is there an objective measure of "best movie scripts"? I think LLM's are probably already at the level where they can generate enough quality to grab people's attention, but I think there is a human component, not to sort of the quality of a film, but the ability to sell people on something that is probably just not common, consistent, or replicable enough to emulate. Like, I don't think objective quality can tell you why Taylor swift sold 3 times as many records as the rolling stones. Nor do I think that kind of fame would be replicable by AI.

And actually here's what makes me somewhat sure about this. If AI is good enough to replicate the popularity of Taylor Swift, it's probably good enough to do it 1000 times, and microtarget, diluting it's own popularity. Is an artist that's 1/1000 times less popular than Taylor Swift as good as Taylor Swift if there's no objective measure of "good"?

Now, could AI capture 98% of the attention on Tik Tok through experiments and algorithms? Absolutely. If not today, very soon.
GovAction, track actions across all branches of the federal government
> most BigCo are essentially PE holding companies

Spot on. This is why you see Time Magazine buying MySpace and Fox News buying Photobucket. The M&A department sometimes gets too powerful and starts running the company. Investors love it because they see ARR and think the company is doing something right, not realizing the longer-term consequences of stretching your corporate umbrella over ridiculously unrelated and categories.

This is also why BigCo CEOs rarely do well at LittleCo. When I see a Series D company suddenly start buying competitors, I can always guess that a BigCo CEO appointment happened not too long before.
FilC: A memory-safe implementation of C and C++
My boss regularly criticizes me for thinking too much. Sometimes I stop and think if this is the best way to implement something, and then suddenly receive a lecture about velocity, moving fast, being efficient, being ok with pushing bugs to prod, and all that shebang.

Our society has a pathological obsession with productivity.
> this is linguistically correct… if we were speaking Spanish

That the linguistically correct in both English and Spanish (and other Latin-derivative languages) term “Latin” got passed over in favour of Latinx sort of speaks to the motivations of those who pushed it.
Looks like a good sign to study abroad.

This anti intellectualism is going to continue to accelerate, at alarming rate. It is pretty sad to see, but you can study elsewhere for fairly cheap.

This is going to be really rough for lower income families that rely on state aid to study.

Too late to fix it now.