skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ICE scooped up citizens and didn’t listen to them for weeks, way before this administration

one of the failings behind their unprofessionalism is that the civil case treatment doesnt afford the same protections and right to legal counsel as a criminal case

is this one of those things you need a source for, or can you listen to the concerns of other people and find the source yourself
>If you are solving a real problem, you would have already helped someone who needs your solution,instead of being at HN.

OTOH, if you are capable of solving more than one problem, you have probably already helped numerous people in addition to taking a regular look at HN as it evolves.
the problem of agents is not the lack of standards, but reliability (reliability of tool use and reliability of outcomes). MCP does not solve any of that.
> And research on syntactic surprisal—where more predictable syntactic structures are processed faster—shows a strong correlation between the probability of a syntactic continuation and reading times.

I'm not sure what this is supposed to show? If I can predict what you are going to say so what. I can predict you are going to pick something up too if you are looking at it and start moving your arm. So what?

The third paper looks like a similar argument. As far as I can tell neither paper 1 or 2 propose a probabilistic model for language. 1 talks about how certain language features are acquired faster with more exposure (that isn't inconsistent with a deterministic grammar). I believe 2 is the same.

> No I'm suggesting that all you're doing here is cooking up some very nice fiction like Newton did when he proposed his model of gravity.

Absolutely bonkers to describe Newton's model of gravity as "fiction". In that sense every scientific breakthrough is fiction: Bohr's model of the atom is fiction (because it didn't use quantum effects), Einstein's gravity will be fiction too when physics is unified with quantum gravity. No sane person uses the word "fiction" to describe any of this, it's just scientific refinement: we go from good models to better ones, patching up holes in our understanding, which is an unceasing process. It would be great if we could have a Newton-level "fictitious" breakthrough in language.

> Grammar does not even fit into rule based hierarchies all that well. That's why there are a million strange exceptions to almost every 'rule'. Exceptions that have no sensible explanations beyond, 'well this is just how it's used' because of course that's what happens when you try to break down an inherently probabilistic process into rigid rules.

No one is saying grammar has been solved, people are trying to figure out all the things that we don't understand.
If Canada became part of the US, we (Canadians) would not be equal citizens.

I am trying to put into words something here, and forgive me if I fail, but this discussion about what internal politics would look like in a hypothetical US that included Canada feels quite disrespectful to me. I think it's because it reads like an attempt to normalize the rhetoric, even when it isn't (based on the rest of your post).
This kind of thinking is why we need cloud-connected apps to run our dishwashers now.
The iPhone feature that lets blind people see with their fingers (2017)
I wrote, "<figs>!$05000<ltrs>ZCSXV". This should have read, "<figs>!$05500<ltrs>ZCSXV".

Also, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43487785 for a list of other end-uses for which even a microcontroller would provide an enormous advantage over no electronics at all.
> Why are they so against just making it work like it's supposed to?

Who are you to tell the user how their device is supposed to work?
Fun fact: Americans are seemingly allowed to own up to 1.5 kg of yellowcake. (That's pure uranium, refined from uranium ore, but not enriched to extract the 0.7% U-235 from the 99.3% U-238.)

Citation: https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/cfr/part040/p...
I think a lot of it comes down to attack surface. JavaScript famously has a very limited standard library, so it is very common to pull in massive dependency chains of modules containing trivial functionality.

Contrast this to Java, C#, and Python, where you can write robust applications with just the standard libraries.
> But regardless of that, the ability to program microcontrollers is still a superpower and if you can have it, you have a hell of an edge.

I really disagree with that. It will give practically no edge. It's a specialist skill that's only really useful in the context of an already computerized society for mass production or big one-offs.

If you have a collapse, I think the assumption is there would little to no mass production of advanced goods (hence, the scavenging concept). Then you're left with big one-offs, which are things large organizations like governments build and not all the time.
Google is so bad at marketing. Gemini should have be an internal only name. Google's ChatGPT should be branded as Google AI or GoogleGPT and it should be in the Google app.

Google+ was particularly awful. They had to break the established search behavior of using + and - to indicate required and excluded terms. Now we have quotes for required and - for excluded? It should have been Google Social.

The thing that is Google One would have been better often with the Google Plus name.

Don't even get me started on Google Chat/Messenger....
An extremely important point to add -- it's a small team, but cheered by a huge proportion of the US population.
Talk about perfect setup for a knock knock joke.
I'm willing to bet if you put modern SSDs in old computers people would prefer Office 2003 to modern Office.
> Google Play Services, which is required for many popular apps to work

And here's where we need to apply antitrust pressure.
You can use MCP servers in SAM (Solace Agent Mesh). That has a chat interface and can be run remotely. Perhaps the easiest way to do it remotely is to use a Slack integration to SAM with a free Slack workspace, which doesn't require poking a hole to serve the browser UI

https://github.com/SolaceLabs/solace-agent-mesh
I'm not well informed enough to have an opinion at that scale (few are). However, the potential death of Pax Americana implies that trade routes will be different in the future, not that people will inexplicably stop trading with one another completely. In fact, War is often a great stimulator of trade.
My problem isn’t that they used a provider for the launch.

I just wanted to clarify because „X launches satellite“ sounds like X launched a rocket carrying a satellite, not that X made a satellite and had it launched by someone else.

Or maybe that’s just me, I’m not a native speaker.
Thanks for the details! (It's not a residential IP, it's a VM at Hetzner.)

>If you don't follow the practices the industry publishes, they don't relay the traffic.

They are sending us email, we forward it, Gmail throttles it because it looks like spam, and then they don't accept the bounce for example :)

> I should know because I've worked in this area for quite a long time. It really is not black magick, and it is a specialized niche for a reason.

It's not black magic, it's abuse of market power.
It’s funny that a country so wound up in national pride as the USA can’t see that an existential threat to your countries sovereignty triggers a deep emotional response.
That is my own response. Even if it weren't, the fact that today's chat bots can pass the Turing Test doesn't mean they've capable of being a lawyer.
My condolences. Any open standard runs the risk of this happening. It's not a problem I think we'll ever solve.
If you have a plan for automated checking the output of Google Translate against all possible character input strings, be sure to mention it to your recruiter as part of the hiring process.

More seriously: Google Translate's bread-and-butter data source is documents that were human-translated from one language to another with high reliability (such as UN publications). That turns out to work remarkably well for building a neural net that can extrapolate how one sentence should translate to the same sentence in another language. But like most neural networks, it's vulnerable to garbage-in, garbage-out: much like you can get an animal detector to hallucinate "zebra!" if you feed it a noise-pattern as input, if you feed it character sequences that aren't actually words in the input language, it'll try to extrapolate what reality should be between all the corpus it's seen and you'll get garbage on the output side.

Since the tool doesn't actually know what words mean, it has no way, at present, to know "Yes" isn't a Spanish word (and as other commenters have mentioned, it may actually be "a Spanish word" in one weird context in one weird document somewhere in the corpus of all translated documents accessible from the Internet... Or some doc somewhere contains a close-enough typo in the Spanish input document that is over-reflected in the output because no other document contradicts the typo's apparent translation).
I think we'll have to start asking "AI, and...?", i.e. the question "what's your idea, besides AI". Everybody seems to talk about AI at this point as if it magically solves all issues we have. Even if it does, which I currently still doubt, it won't be a differentiator for your company. We have to ask, beyond AI, what's your idea?

If your idea is only "use AI for X" your company doesn't have anything really. At least if AI isn't its core business like OpenAI.
Yeah, look on the brighter side. Human rights are temporary; Salvadoran GDP is forever /s
The media actually seem to be doing a worse job than the first Trump term, which is rather surprising.
The better question is why the other 30% is still there?

Why would any sane person give a broken penny to a country where ~half the population voted to subjugate you, and the other half won't lift a finger to rein them in?
This is so good. I've been using it with Claude Code with great success.

I just leave an instruction in CLAUDE.md to validate changes with Playwright. It automatically starts a dev server (wrote a little MCP server to do that), navigates to the page with the changes it just made, and validates that its changes worked. If there is anything unexpected, it self-corrects.

It's like working with a really great mid-level engineer.

What a time to be alive.
Tesla Stops FSD Free Trial in China Just One Week After Its Launch
I really really really wish that this is true, unfortunately it very often isn't. The Just World Fallacy is something I wish were not a fallacy.
Submitted acouple times, would love to hear more.

Note also, there's a Fetch-MCP which is playwright based, supports batch. Would be interesting to compare. https://github.com/jae-jae/fetch-mcp https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43419713 (64 points, 6 days ago, 14 comments)
> it also gives us better density overall by having smaller instructions. x86 can put more work into each instruction byte, so we can have denser binaries and increase performance that way.

Is that really true? I was under the impression that ARM core density was better than x86.

The first Google result I found agrees: https://www.bitsnbites.eu/cisc-vs-risc-code-density/

> It may take a little bit more microarchitectural work for us to account for stronger memory order on the x86 side, but of course the software has to account for the weaker memory ordering on the ARM side. So there are tradeoffs.

I don't think this makes sense either since software has to have synchronisation anyway. I don't think much software relies on x86 TSO (intentionally anyway; I'm sure many bugs are covered up by it).

Anyway fantastic interview! Very refreshing when they're actually technical with interesting questions and answers.
Google's branding strategy historically has been terrible, I grant you that, but Gemini is not an example of it.
> Painless package management is a good thing. Central package repositories without any checking isn't.

There's a reason why these things come hand in hand, though. If the package management is so painless that everyone is creating packages, then who is going to pay for the thoroughly checked central repository? And if you can't fund a central repository, how do you get package management to be painless?

The balance that most language ecosystems seem to land on is painless package management by way of free-for-all.
> I didn't do performance testing or anything, it just didn't seem like there was any point in trying to compete with whatever millisecond-scale gainz libpng presumably had over my library when both of them are capable of loading the picture in less time it takes me to recognize the picture on the screen in front of me.

The gains become relevant in bulk processing.
They're under antitrust scrutiny. You have to boil the frog slowly.
That is not mentioned in the article. I am just becoming familiar with MCP myself so I suggest raising the issue: https://github.com/orgs/modelcontextprotocol/discussions
And Isar Aerospace is also European and is set to launch tomorrow (although they seem to think it will explode at some point). But I don’t know if they will be particularly cheap.
https://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/en/Country/CAN/Yea...

Canadian tariffs on American imports pre-Trump.
> Lets turn this around. Why would you ever want non-reproducible builds?

It's not about wanting non-reproducible builds, but what am I sacrificing to achieve reproducible builds. Debian's reproducible build efforts have been going for ten years, and it's still not yet complete. Arguably Debian could have diverted ten years of engineering resources elsewhere. There's no end to the list of worthwhile projects to tackle, and clearly Debian believes that reproducible builds is high priority, but reasonable people can disagree on that.

This not to say reproducible builds are not worth doing, just that depending on your project / org lifecycle and available resources (plus a lot of subjective judgement), you may want to do something else first.
Genetic encoding and expression of RNA origami cytoskeletons in synthetic cells
Nor can they make a judgement about whether the good outweighs the bad. So that's up to us. I'm saying it makes no sense to make that decision solely based on the bad while ignoring all that's good; if you do, then of course it follows that it's bad to procreate, but that's because you left out half of the equation.

In my personal life, I feel that the good far outweighs the bad, and existence is far better than nonexistence. So it doesn't make sense to me to assume that another person who doesn't happen to exist yet won't feel the same way.
And Canada seriously (and for good reason) considering militarizing our northern/their southern border. We're run by abject morons (see the Signal Corps running our military and lying to Congress while knowing full well the reporter has receipts). A 100+ year relationship being destroyed.

Carney is now reviewing Canada's F-35 order. They'd be fools to buy from us.
I am starting to think it's the specific nature of American national pride, which sees itself as unique.

Hence the famous quip by the Fox News host to Doug Ford that he was "offended" or surprised that Canadians wouldn't want to be part of the US.

To many, I suspect, "51st state" was supposed to be some kind of compliment or favourable invitation.
My personal anecdata is that the people I know who have cancelled trips are middle class folks who can afford to travel to the US but refuse to do so. My brother, who has done well for himself and vacationed in Florida every year for almost a quarter of a century, was even thinking of buying a property there. He is now looking into buying property in Italy instead.
You're all out in no man's land in any case.

Blue states don't produce as much food because they don't have to. As soon as they would have to, they could. They'd take a bit of a hit on the price, but that's about it.

Red states don't need blue state money because they can sell their food elsewhere. (Well, maybe not to the best markets at the best prices in the current trade war climate but you get my drift.) They'd just take a bit of a hit on the price.

The unhappy reality is that different regions of this nation don't really need each other for base essentials. Now, for industrial inputs or outputs? Yeah, totally different story. But that's not regionality as much as it is just "everyone is dependent on Texas and California if you go far enough down the industrial rabbit hole".

Even that's just convenience though. Pretty much anywhere in the nation they can scale up to make what they need. They just don't because it's convenient to allow others to do it.

As soon as those others make it inconvenient, they'll do it themselves.
> It’s simple: Canadian economy is in tatters

Source? Here are numbers from the Bank of Canada:

"Governing Council members discussed recent data on economic activity and inflation in Canada. They noted that the Canadian economy entered 2025 in a solid position, with robust GDP growth and inflation close to 2% since last summer.

"Canada’s GDP grew by 2.6% in the fourth quarter of 2024, led by surprisingly strong household spending, business investment and exports. Supported by past interest rate cuts, final domestic demand grew by a solid 5.6% in the fourth quarter, and business investment increased by 6.5%. Members also noted the significant upward revisions to GDP growth for the third quarter of last year, from 1% to 2.2%."

https://www.bankofcanada.ca/2025/03/summary-governing-counci...
The smudges on the screenshots got me.
Of course your point about diplomacy to end suffering works in some instances. However, that was not her call to make, and she was NOT in a capacity to do so, for she was not the elected president nor was she sent on behalf of an elected administration. She legitimized dictators. Putin had agreed to never invade Ukraine for instance, and look at where we are now. Additionally, I agree wars do happen. But we must agree that some crimes are so heinous (nukes, chemical weapons etc), as to make the perpetrator shunned from society. We do it in prisons for heinous crimes. However, it seems a former KGB agent is "entitled" to more dignity from Tulsi than the victims of the war.
Because Jesus fits the definition of a 2nd Temple Jewish teacher, regardless of how he later came to be viewed. Just because later rabbinic Judaism rejected the apocalyptic movements and texts doesn't mean it wasn't part of Judaism while Jesus was live.
Did they have to invent new syntax for it? All other languages that have reflection have regular function calls for it. Why do ^^X instead of reflect(X)?
Thus far I’ve got one anecdote from someone who knows someone renting out cottages on airbnb in Ontario, and another person who lives in Canada and therefore knows exactly what is and isn’t going on.

This sounds like HN alright. I didn’t expect this place to change.
This is unfortunate.

Europeans tend to understand that it is not your parents fault.

Also, Europeans don't tend to put as much identity in what party you vote for.

I have a lot of US friends, a lot who voted for Trump.

I would never hold any grudge to them.

What I do find insane is the US two party system.
According to whose sense of justice?

If you disbelieve the Abrahamic God, I then ask you, why would this be evil? What absolute set of values permits you to pass judgement on what is good or evil? If we're just all (un)happy random accidents, even actions that go against the rights of others can't be considered wholly evil. So what if something causes the suffering of humans? All of us, all of the people we know, everything the eye can see will simply vanish anyways after the heat death of the universe. So what is the absolute, unchanging and universal basis for calling something evil, allowing you to judge one's actions?

Now, if you do believe in Him, there's really no sense in trying to take our own warped sense of justice and apply it to God. He's the only one who has a complete understanding of every single thing that has happened and will happen, only He understands the reason for anything being the way it is. Try as we may, we'll never be able to see the big picture as He is able to.
Just get some of those Canadian flags for their backpacks ;-)
The reason processes aren't enough for isolation is primarily because of the large (and growing) number of syscalls, especially for complicated, bleeding-edge subsystems, exposing significant kernel surface area that's susceptible to exploits when kernel bugs are discovered.

The WASM ecosystem is recapitulating this stage of affairs by increasing the surface area with external systems in the same fashion.

Unix processes combined with seccomp (or pledge) to reduce exposed kernel surface and landlock (or unveil) to limit filesystem access puts you back at square one. Processes running WASM interpreters should be leveraging those interfaces, anyhow. What really differentiates WASM is the "compile once, run anywhere" portability allure.

But we live in an age of open source (in the literal sense). Ecosystems like Go and Rust assume source code availability; binary blobs are the exception. There's not much of a difference between C, Go, or Rust textual source code on the one hand and a WASM binary on the other; both are going to be compiled to native code by the downstream user. When you have the source code available to compile, then standards like POSIX should suffice. But they don't (at least not completely), because people are always chasing newer features that various environments invent to differentiate themselves. I don't see how WASM resolves that fundamental dynamic. Though I don't deny there are marginal benefits, just like there were with the JVM, which in many niches effectively resolved the Unix/Windows portability issue, allowing people to migrate platforms easier as preferences and requirements change.
So that is how the US is helping with reaching the climate goals ...
They are shutting their app store down, at least for non-first-party devices: https://www.androidpolice.com/amazon-android-app-store-shut-...