skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More likely outcome (at least short-medium term for the next [premature] election) is the return to the status quo. It works as follows: when population is starting to see through your BS, make things much worse so that people will long for how things were before. Much less likely outcome is “little man” becoming the great dictator. Though it is a win-win for people with the real power either way.
The rest of the comment was clearly framed in a way that any cost of not having types might as well not exist. Reinforced by the very first sentence of how one should be afraid of introducing types.
I think a lot of people are going to be surprised at how fast "vibe coding" with agents replaces a lot of traditional software engineering. Especially for non-critical software, but eventually where safety matters too since AI can generate tons of test cases.
The notice is pro consumer, informing citizens of their rights to delete their data from a private company database.
Most AI value will come from broad automation, not from R & D
Thought about this a bit more... Not sure if this is what you're saying, but the concept of "space between" I alluded to seems to arise naturally whenever you have ordered items, and vice versa. Because once you have order you have the concepts "greater than"/"less than", and once you have that you have a border between your items, and your items are between those borders. This connects back to Dijkstra's consideration of <, <=, etc....
RTFA, agents churn through credits. Further enforcing my belief that the vast majority of people have not actually tried it yet.
I guess that does address my concrete question as given.

But I think I was less imagining a countersuit that literally just "seeks damages for wasted time and effort"... and more imagining a countersuit that can somehow "rope in" the claims in the original suit, so as to force those claims to be evaluated and case law to be created upon that evaluation — whether the original claimant likes it or not.

Imagine, by analogy, outside the domain of IP law:

1. Party A threatens to sue party B for having violated the terms of some contract they have.

2. Party A then drops this threat.

3. Party B then sues party A with the intent of having a judge still evaluate that same question, but now in the other direction: "would party A have had legal standing to sue party B?" — where in the case that party B wins that judgement, this would not only award damages to party B, but also have the same case-law impact as if party A had really sued party B, and lost.
Fujifilm GFX100RF first look video: compact medium format
I guess the real question would be, given a budget of P parameters, how many hidden layers in something like a multi-layer perception is a good idea, and what are the size of those hidden layers? As well as questions like is it every a good idea to have a hidden layer that is larger than the previous layer (including the input) ? Or are you just wasting compute / parameter space?

I'm no expert, but a "rule of thumb" might be the more non-linear the system is, the more hidden layers you would want.

Also let us consider the information in the input vector from the perspective of compression.

How much you can compress without losing information depends on the entropy of the system. Low entropy = high compression ratio, while high entropy = low compression. High entropy is essentially noise (total disorder), on the other hand very low entropy just doesn't have much information (like a very long string of 10101010 ...)

Most "interesting data" (video/audio/images) can be compressed at ratios of about 50% before information loss kicks in. Note: text can be compressed quite heavily, but that is partially because the encoding is extremely inefficient - e.g. 8-bits per char when really only ~5 are needed, and also of much lower entropy (only ~30k words in the English language, for example)

On the other hand, information loss might not be such a bad thing if the input data has extraneous information, which it often does. This is why video, audio and image data can be compressed at ratios 10x-20x before noticeable loss of quality.

So I think the answer would be, you don't want to decrease the size of the previous layer, especially the input layer, by more than about 10x-20x.
I work in population genomics (non-human organisms), and myself participated in an early near-whole genome genotyping study back when microarrays were still the predominant technology (academic NOT commercial).

But for nearly 20 years I've been telling my extended family NOT to participate in any large scale genotyping with 23 and Me or similar commercial companies where they retain rights to your data, anticipating that something like the current scenario would likely play out.

Somehow, 23 and Me genotyping became the "gift du jour" for Xmas some years back -- I never personally understood that or why someone would want to turn over so much data to a commercial entity.

This is not to say that large scale sequence information is not appropriate for *some people*. But if that's something you need, make every effort to make sure you own your own data.
Kioxia LC9 122.88TB PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSD at Nvidia GTC 2025
Who should stop a company from doing things that are unethical, in this case selling genetic data to companies to use for their own ends, rather than to use data to benefit customers.

The attorney general for a state as well as the legislative body passing laws that help the AG do their job has a responsibility to prevent this.

So this person in a position of power, who should be stopping a blatant abuse of people's data, has abandoned that responsibility and instead told every individual, in a public statement that would be very easy to miss, to prevent the abuse of data themselves.

This style of handling data is a policy like recycling, or telling people to turn off their lights to protect the planet. It distributes responsibility to individuals, for a problem that can only be meaningfully addressed through regulation.
Comparing the Performance of Baseball Bats
If you knew what they were, you wouldn't have used the phrase "when people are free to choose to have an account with them."
True the whole thing about Bitcoin is that you don't need that middle man
It's not. It is a pro-consumer Trojan horse. It appears to be pro-consumer, but the vast majority of 23andMe customers will be harmed by the AG abandoning their responsibility to protect the public through direct action against 23andMe.

It's not even your own data. If family members used 23andMe and don't see this notice, then your genetic data is still part of 23andMe whether you like it or not.
> Where is the adult conversation you claimed to want?

There is a place for a conversation on the merits of affirmative action, but this isn't that place.
Let me refine:

> mocks/fakes do not count

Why not?
The target one always seemed like bullshit to me. They don’t have any magic algorithms. There were likely some hard tells that she was pregnant. As in something like a doctor’s office told them.
Earth is fine. US is obviously currently not fine.
Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12009155
This subsection looks like the key to understanding Frink:

https://frinklang.org/#HowFrinkIsDifferent

(That, and we warmly welcome Frink to the club of computer programming languages! (as we once did for Perl, Java, PHP, Rust, Clojure, Go, Zig, Nim, Python, etc. etc.!))
All of Us -- https://allofus.nih.gov/ -- and similar efforts benefit biological science as a whole.

23 and Me not so much...
I still log on from time to time, about once a month, because my family uploads pics in a group after family events, and fb is the only place eveyone is on.

Everytime I open FB, and scroll a little, I feel like an outsider looking into a crazy circus of clown people. I don't get why others don't see what I see.

"I just graduated" - someone whose sibling I met 15 years ago, but whose name I wouldn't recognize without a picture attached

"So proud of my daughter" - a mother who attended a piano concert, couldn't wait to even get home before posting on fb, and will tell her family at dinner how many of her adult friends commented on it, whom none if her family care about.

<vacation selfie> - middle school classmate, or former colleague, who posts swiss climbing and bali surfing images every week, as if they had no life no work just money to burn.

"<long story>, so anyway, that's where I found this purse, please share and repost. You have to prove ownership by reciting the washing machine instructions on the label." - individual who has nothing happening in their life, so they make a blockbuster adventure out of someone's misfortune, rather than handing the purse to the reception in the restaurant where they found it.

Oh, and I always see ten new invitations from people, who would never contact me individually, to events those people know I would never attend, for the nth time despite me never having reacting before.l
Much of this post was spot on — but the blind spots are highly problematic.

In this agentic AI utopia of six months from now:

* Why would developers — especially junior developers — be assigned oversight of the AI clusters? This sounds more like an engineering management role that’s very hands on. This makes sense because the skill set required for the desired outcomes is no longer “how do I write code that makes these computers work correcty” and rather “what’s the best solution for our customers and/or business in this problem space.” Higher order thinking, expertise in the domain, and dare I say wisdom are more valuable than knowing the intricacies of React hooks.

* Economically speaking what are all these companies doing with all this code? Code is still a liability, not an asset. Mere humans writing code faster than they comprehend the problem space is already a problem and the brave new world described here makes this problem worse not better. In particular here, there’s no longer an economic “moat” to build a business off of if everything can be “solved” in a day with a swarm of AI agents.

* I wonder about the ongoing term scaling of these approaches. The trade off seems to be extremely fast productivity at the start which falls off a cliff as the product matures and grows. It’s like a building that can be constructed in a day up to a few floors but quickly hits an upper limit as your ability to build _on top of_ the foundational layer of poorly understood garbage.

* Heaven help the ops / infrastructure folks who have to run this garbage and deal with issues at scale.

Btw I don’t reject everything in this post — these tools are indeed powerful and compelling and the trendlines are undeniable.
Snafu works fine with at least rust-analyzer's gotodef (though go-to-references is indeed broken by it :/).
It's fascinating seeing social media impact my friends and family. I deleted Facebook when it was being opened up to more than college students. HN is the only social media I use, if you want to define it that way.

My friends went through a phase in their 20's where they were comparing themselves to social media people. They all struggled with feeling inadequate.

I waited until my mid life crisis to do that. They're getting to do it again.

Fascinating.
No surprise here.

Look, for example, at this clip of traditional Siberian music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU1apJTv94o

or this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXLoP9iSU5Y

The similarity to North American Indian cultures is still striking, 13 thousand years later.

(And I like the way the singer just overflows with musical energy, too...)
Hotwire is basically a higher level HTMX
I was completely unaware of the existence of deposits of natural hydrogen- seems rather counterintuitive. I guess the easiest way to use them would be for local electricity generation?
Language creates an altered state of consciousness
Almost everything sold to California has a big label telling you that you might get cancer, and no one cares or even takes note anymore. The manufacturer puts it because it's cheaper than proving it doesn't cause cancer. And your warning is weaker than that.

Consumers sensitive to this kind of thing can be captured with independent private testing instead of CPSC. UL is well situated for stuff like that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kon-Tiki_expedition

There's a very good movie documentary about it, which won an oscar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kon-Tiki_(1950_film)

Also, the following regarding his later Papyrus boat expedition:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra_(1972_film)
Can someone explain it to me what the hackers actually meant and what the school is supposed to do? Mistreat these Asian kids with stern parents who force them to study until late night - because what? I believe it's barking up the wrong tree.
I did some work in this field, although years ago. There is a huge amount of existing models, datasets, tools, etc.

https://github.com/satellite-image-deep-learning
Seconding this book, this is one I go back to every once in a while.
Excuse me? C8 would be right in its place in Moscow, on the contrary. It's a propaganda channel owned by a billionaire FN backer. Cyril Hanouna is basically a Russian TV host that speaks French. The embodiment of bad faith.

At any rate, one of the main reasons was the repeated offenses of the channel, having beaten a record of fines, and never having done anything to correct their course. Fines are not a cost of operation, they are penalties for breaking the law. You can't break the law systematically and then cry about not getting your license renewed. Though I'm sure Hanouna has painted himself quite the victim in this affair.

These fines were often for things I think most people would view as legitimate, such as verbal assault, threats or hate speech.

About cash payments, I think you're making a caricature. From your source:

> There is no limit to the amount paid in cash between individuals (e.g. car purchase). Written text is required beyond €1,500 for to prove payments.

This written text is just a proof of sale, not a justification as to the use of cash or its provenience.

The 1000€ figure is when dealing with professionals, among other reasons to avoid VAT fraud. Many countries implement similar measures, often more stringent. Regardless, I'm almost sure your chauffagiste or mechanic will accept a cash payment of any amount. There is the theory, and then the practice.

I really struggle to see how this affects your life in any way.
I also had to wonder why not just liveboot from USB or attach the affected boot medium to another system, then use the recovery system's fully working tools to just relink the /lib folders?
> After all we wouldn't talk about Dropbox being sold resulting in ransacking of your personal data why is that in the conversation with 23andme?

Both 23andme and Dropbox's privacy policies only require them to notify users if the privacy policy changes (no restriction on scope of those changes), so maybe we should (if Dropbox were to be sold)?
Everyone: telling me how great AI is.

No one: making anything great with AI.

Sourcegraph: an AI company, routinely promoting their LLM-optimism blogposts to HN, perpetuating the hype cycle their business model depends on.
We're using Cline, and it's very easy to blow through $20-40 if you get going. The value proposition is absolutely there so we eat the cost, but OP is correct in that agentic coding eats tokens like there's no tomorrow.
> Clunky, crude, but can get massive amounts done quickly, if that's what's needed.

You know what's quicker in your analogy? A spell. Or in the coding world. Template, snippets, code generators, framework, and metaprogramming. Where you abstract all the boilerplate behind a few commands. You already know the blast radius of your brute modification tools, so you no longer have to micromanage them. And it's reliable
You could of course alias rm -rf to rm -rf -i
It had a perfectly fine UI before it transitioned to the current web-styled thing.
What's wrong with how normal stores do it? They publish recalls publicly, people check the site, media promotes it, whoever bought it can replace it.
That’s true, however… those islands are very far apart and aircraft will need a lot of range to be useful.

I’m curious what the advantage of the short takeoff distance is. In practical use, would these ever not be operating from an established airport? If not an airport, where?
> You can verify my claims in 2 minutes on Google.

I'm sure you're right, but presumably this means it would take you significantly less than two minutes to offer some concrete sources that would help enlighten kvdveer and anyone else who might be interested.
I agree that re-use file format could a good option. BTW the used landlock go library has sort of example https://github.com/landlock-lsm/go-landlock/blob/main/exampl...
I agree with the spirit of the argument, but I don’t think you’re taking into account the scale of “typing” we’re talking about now.

For example, yesterday I needed a parser for a mini-language. I wrote a grammar — actually not even the formal grammar, just some examples — and what I wanted the AST to look like. I said “write the tokenizer”, and it did. I told it to tweak a few things and write tests. It did. I told it to “write a recursive descent parser”, and it did. Add tests and do some tweaks, done.

The whole thing works and it took less than an hour.

So yeah, I had to know I needed a parser, but at that point I could pretty much hand off the details. (Which I still checked over, so I’m not even in full vibe mode, guess.)
You said it yourself, the AG can only enforce laws that the legislature and governor pass. Calling the AG's statement a corporate attack seems needlessly inflammatory when he doesn't have the authority to change the law himself.
So, what rich billionaire wants to buy the company, anonymize the data, then release it open-source? Would be a genuine boon to biohackers everywhere, privacy be damned.
College admissions have been a disaster for some time, whether it be discrimination, legacy, prep school pipeline corruption or affirmative action leading to "positive discrimination". Asians are obviously being adversely impacted today.

The real problem is classism and economic diversity more than racial diversity now. Schools like Harvard are moderately diverse on race, but economically not at all.. something like 90% of kids come from families that are upper income.

If you are trying to raise all boats, then economic class is a better method since given the relative amount of people .. there are actually more poor white people than any other race, even if white people experience poverty at a relatively lower % rate.

This also avoids all the racial resentment / reverse racism issues.

So there's your adult conversation, but I don't think OP posting a link to a racist defacement of a website was looking for that.
OO (as a data container or not) fits into some domains very well. Gonna get stuff from a database? Objects are great. Want to move something without being accidentally written/corrupted? Objects are great. Want to model a 3D object with per node/face/$ANYTHING properties, objects are great.

Does object handle everything? Of course not, but having it as a capability at hand allows some neat tricks and tidy code.

I believe every problem needs a different mix of capabilities/features, and that particular mix directs my choice about which tools to use. This mindset always served me well, but who knows, maybe I'm the dumbest one in the room.
For context, it looks like the same person (people?) hacked the University of Minnesota in 2023.

(Sorry for bad source.) https://datafort.com/university-of-minnesota-hit-with-lawsui...
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> It’s ultimately a pretty small amount of money when it comes to figuring out whether the people who are telling you there’s an existential risk to your livelihood on the horizon are onto something, don’t you think?

Nope. I'd rather buy some books or a Jetbrains subscription.
It is something else to see it happen in real-time.

Like a month ago I was defending e.g. Musk against uninformed attacks online.
They have no real way of knowing though, unless someone goes advertising it.
UN contacted Helldivers 2 studio on "psychological defense against manipulation"
I Signed an OSI Board Agreement in Anticipation of Election Results
s/serial/scalar

ONNX doesn't have the direct capabilities to be the compilation target for regular imperative code.
Hard to say. Raising risk and lowering supply might make it more profitable to do fly by night grey market operations that disappear before enforcement.
Yes please, and remove offline-public-spaces advertising too.

I don’t care if the lost revenue means worse roads and some companies bankrupted, I just want to see the tree behind the billboards. I’m tired to fight my own mind when commuting between walls of videos ads. Targeted or not, 2025 ads are a blight.
Would be possible/make sense to use landlock on OCI/containers land?
This is obviously annoying, but I suspect most people use them by downloading them off HF, Ollama, or similar sites which require no agreement. I also wonder why there is so much attention put on Facebook rather than OpenAI for example. Facebook is at least giving the weights to the public.
Vercel knew critical NextJS security vulnerability 5 days before disclosing it
As a workaround you could create a tmpfs device like /tmp_noexec with noexec flag, and mount it instead of the normal /tmp. But landrun does not (yet?) allow changing the name in directory options :(

For added security, I'd create an ephemeral tmpfs disk for each landlocked invocation: obviously the program we're running has no business seeing what other processes may have put to /tmp.
Interesting, are you trying to automatically create and use components? Or only show certain fields?
Perhaps said AG has come to the conclusion that litigation would be fruitless and that warning the public has the most upside for the public?

Also it seems you’ve made this political because Democrats and California exist I guess? They are Big Scary Monsters for conservatives I suppose? I don’t really get it and the point you’re attempting to make seems based on a misreading.
I would say these are more differences than issues, and that some of those presented as more fundamental ones are actually quite small. Suppose that instead of `fn foo (comptime T : type, ...) { typecheck(T); ...}` Zig introduced just a tiny bit of new syntax to allow you to write something like `fn foo (comptime T : typecheck(T), ...) { ... }` -- i.e. the type constraints would be part of the signature -- would you then say it had generics rather than templates? Personally, I have not made up my mind on whether or not such an addition would be very valuable, but even if it is, it can be done later. That small addition would address most "issues" in the article, which I would say are more about IDE support than anything else. But even without it, what you want to know is known at compile time, and the article admits that the compilation errors are already better than those you get with C++ templates (I would say much better).

Now, I'm not saying that Zig's choices always dominate and that all languages would be better off with its approach; far from it. I am saying that it introduces a novel tradeoff that is especially compelling in cases where not only generics but also macros, conditional compilation, and constexprs are otherwise required. In a language like Java these extra features are not required, and so Zig-style comptime would not simplify the language nearly as much.

But even in cases where all these features are needed, I don't think everyone would take Zig's choices over C++'s or Rust's, or vice-versa. To those, like me, for whom language complexity is the biggest problem with C++ or Ada (I used Ada in the nineties), Zig is a revolutionary step forward. I don't think any low-level language has ever been this simple while also being this expressive.