skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Judging by the result of the 2024 election it is the Democrats who are much less in touch with reality and less able to predict the outcome of politics or prepare for it. Let's face it. You guys were completely blindsided by Trump twice, and the second time you had 8 years to prepare.
Honestly, and cynically: it doesn't matter at this point. You can't put that genie back in the bottle. We can now take political prisoners in the US, and it won't stop at these two. Realistically it won't stop with this administration.
The tools are too useful and too tempting.
Some people don't ignore the fraud, the terrible working conditions, the anti-competitive business practices, the unfulfilled promises, the stock price manipulation, and the cult of personality of a highly controversial leader just because of a marketing stunt from more than a decade ago which even Elon admits was not altruistic.
I don't get why more than 2 years after the ChatGPT release moment there is not a plethora of high-mem matrix-matrix matrix-vector hardware for the high-end available. Both high bandwidth and commodity DRAM. Both operations are very well understood for dense and sparse cases. There were FPGAs and ASICs early on but nothing really caught on relative to the GPU behemoth which is tons of silicon on the die that is not needed for base matmult. Hence, it's unbelievable how Nvidia continues to charging for memory to be one of the highest value companies in the world.
VLLM: Easy, Fast, and Cheap LLM Serving with PagedAttention (2023)
The Value of Scarcity in the Age of A[I]bundance
When you say "those people", you mean people like me who (used to) have to navigate how to model structured data using XML. I think the attribute vs. child distinction makes sense in a very flat hierarchy where you are marking up text but quickly devolves into ambiguity for many other uses cases.

I mean, if I'm modeling a <Person> node in some structured format, making a decision about "what is the attribute of the person node" vs "what is a property of the specific Person" isn't an easy call to make in all cases. And then there are cases where an attribute itself ought to have some kind of hierarchy. Even the text example works here: I have a set of font properties and it would make sense to maybe have:

<font>
<color>...</color>
<family>...<family>
</font>

Rather than a series of `fontFamily`, `fontSize`, etc. attributes. This is true when those attributes are complex objects that ended up having nesting at several levels. You end up in the circumstance where you are forced to make things that ought to be attributes into children because you want to model the nested structure of the attributes themselves. Then you end up with some kind of wrapper structure where you might have a section for meta-data and a section for the real content.

I just don't think the distinction works well for an extensible markup language where the nesting of elements is more or less the entire point.

It is much easier to write out though, which is why you see often see `<Element content=" ... " />` patterns all over the place.
Good, I'm strongly against supernatural beliefs and any trend towards greater secular thought is a welcome one.
Prepare()-ing for execution: a new API for process creation
So you find ad hominem attacks with zero points of discussion or argument to be more compelling?
> Depending on the target your cruise missiles are out of range and your fancy aircraft will have to face air defense systems. (Especially, since you moved your fat ass carrier close-by...)

Right, but the scenario was unspecified enough that I assumes peace time and the planes can retreat before the enemy notices the attack and shoots them down.

> Try to fly an F35 to Moscow.

I won't fly my F-35 to Moscow, I will drop some AGM-158 JASSM-ER over eastern poland and the pilots will probably be back on the ground before the russian air defense has even tracked the missiles.

> Sorry, but this is laughable. If what you said was true, geopolitics would look very different. The US would break the whole nuclear deterrence game, since you could eliminate all nuclear launch sites, conventionally, before a strike. Why even have nukes then?!

No, I don't get why people think that. That's the exact reason why countries have Nuclear missile subs. So they can retaliate, even after a first strike.

But even if they hadn't, what you said wouldn't follow. Because having the ability to strike whatever you want doesn't mean you can prevent a second strike. If you launch cruise missiles, the target can detect them and send a retaliatory nuclear strike before the cruise missiles arrive and destroy the silos.
Did you even read the article? ASML is chaffing against American-led export regulations. The Trump government is still very keen on restricting China’s ability to make cutting edge chips.

The threat to move is probably empty. But it’s not a threat to move to the place that is generating their head winds.
The recent release of OpenAI's 4o image generation tool - and the ensuing "Ghiblification" of Twitter - got me thinking about the value of generative models in creative fields. So, I wrote this blog post. I'm curious to hear different perspectives on the described topic and would really appreciate your thoughts. Especially on the contrast between current models, which are still quite limited, and potential future iterations that might generalize out of distribution and demonstrate genuine creativity.

On a side note, this is my first-ever blog post, so any feedback is highly appreciated!
Not really true. The legal liability is generally associated with the Professional Engineer designation. In electrical engineering, for example, my experience is that almost no one uses/needs to be a PE unless they work in infrastructure projects like power distribution. People designing PCBs, ASICs, etc going in consumer products aren’t generally PEs.
The Wrong Way to Use a Signed Distance Function (SDF)
Yes, they can do their own thing without having to worry about their pesky users. In reality, this means that when you consume somebody else’s service and you need something changed, you have the choice to either hack up your own thing or somehow convince the service team to put your needed changes on the backlog. From my experience you often end up with everybody implementing some version of what the official service is supposed to do because the service can’t be bothered to make the changes within a reasonable time frame.

I would do micro services only once the requirements are very stable and there is a clear need for scalability. Microservice first architecture is a recipe for complexity.
> Rust will probably gain support for "pluggable" and optional garbage collectors as part of its upcoming local allocators API.

Source? AFAIK there's no confirmed upcoming allocators APIs, and even if there was they would just allow reusing the builtin `Box`/`Vec`/etc etc with custom allocators. This is not much different than what you could do with a custom type, so I find it hard to believe it would allow garbage collectors that are not possible right now.
Yes. I take numbers from IBM as true. I'm not a conspiracy theorist. As I'm not a conspiracy theorist online numbers definitely give close enough for an online discussion. We aren't talking about legalities of a law, we are talking general conversational understanding.

Compare use case to use case, not language to language. You say if XYZ doesn't have developers, it shouldn't be used. Now you are saying 'but for your embedded, other people can be trained up'. Guess what, we can train up COBOL developers MORE easily than embedded driver devs. Your argument doesn't make any sense. By your argument we should not build systems around embedded drivers.

I've know embedded driver developers and you are completely wrong. They print money. CISCO had to bring my acquaintance back multiple times because again it's such a niche field and no one could do what he did. Same with my buddy that did washing machines. Same with my buddy that did street lights. It is a small subset that do the drivers. Totally relevant to the discussion of 'Can we afford to be dependant on such a niche field'. And the answer is 100% yes, we can.
Show HN: Interactive Change Data Capture (CDC) Playground
I've built an interactive demo for CDC to help explain how it works.

The app currently shows the transaction log-based and query-based CDC approaches.

Change Data Capture (CDC) is a design pattern that tracks changes (inserts, updates, deletes) in a database and makes those changes available to downstream systems in real-time or near real-time.

CDC is super useful for a variety of use cases:

- Real-time data replication between operational databases and data warehouses or lakehouses
- Keeping analytics systems up to date without full batch reloads
- Synchronizing data across microservices or distributed systems
- Feeding event-driven architectures by turning database changes into event streams
- Maintaining materialized views or derived tables with fresh data
- Simplifying ETL/ELT pipelines by processing only changed records

And many more!
Ignoring the DDR5 completely the 4c-26 is still 256 GB of 1.092 TB/s memory in a single card. Looking to the "starter" 1c26-032 it still has a 400G connection on top of 32 lanes of PCIe Gen 5, so I'm not sure if the card overall will really be cost competitive for "local but slow" LLM use. Prices will say all though.

The actual RT performance will be really interesting for rendering use cases too.
China's threat is different from the US'. But anyway, the real threat to EU is in EU itself, as for all major organizations.
I left in my teens. Religion seemed, at that time and still does, appears to reinforce systems of power and conformity rather than do good.

Non-believers often ask themselves, "what god would have the ability to eliminate suffering and choose not to?" We should also ask, "What religious institution and followers, having amassed the riches of the world, would choose not to eliminate suffering when they could?"

The weight of these contradictions eventually breaks belief. There's one way to win back believers and it's to eliminate in-group/out-group dynamics and replace it with material acts of benevolence - akin to large scale public works projects to eliminate suffering.
> quite clearly

X is "clearly" worth only $10 billion less than what Musk paid for Twitter back 2022? Really? Despite its revenue being 50% lower than it was back then?

As for xAI, Anthropic has a valuation of ~$60 billion. So again not that "clear". Of course they don't have Musk's political connections which might end up mattering quite a bit (of course there's also the risk of Musk being prosecuted in 4 years as well...)
Tl;dr:

- probably all the data isn't from X

- the data seems to be all public - e.g.

- user ID and screen name

- number of followers

- number of tweets

- source of last Tweet (e.g. TweetDeck)

- location and timezone

- profile is protected or verified

I'm not sure that headline is very sensible to propagate.
Paged Out #6 [pdf]
I think we're at the point where it'd be better if OS's were just a thin platform, and the updates to user facing features came piecemeal to different apps instead. IE, update Finder or Safari but leave the core functionality alone outside of bug fixes or very rare major upgrades. I'm so sick of having to update my OS every year.
Even if there's an exploitable vulnerability, the exploit has to be delivered to the target system somehow. You don't have much of an opportunity to do that with a device that doesn't have a public IP address. Most likely the user themselves will have to do something that would compromise their system, like visiting a website that would serve them an exploit for their particular combination of browser and OS.
I count myself fairly lucky to have colleague that care about these sorts of things. We have had meeting halted because it was obvious that some participants had certain extensions installed, AI assistants of various types, and some colleagues aren't comfortable with information potentially being picked up by a third party. So the meeting is halted until the extension is disabled.
You don't have to meet someone to know they're awful. I've never met Adolf Hitler - but I'm pretty confident he's an awful person.

Elon Musk uses his immense wealth to cheat. He's infiltrated the government and uses his power to directly harm Americans, in order to further enrich himself. In addition, almost everyone who has worked for him has corroborated that he is an awful boss.

He is also prone to dishonesty. When confronted with something that requires accountability, his strategy is to protect his lies with newer lies. FSD, the state of twitter, DOGE, and on and on. He is so dishonest that it's almost always safer to assume he is lying than to give the benefit of the doubt.

But, even on a personal level, he struggles to stay afloat. He has impregnated multiple woman and is practically forming an army of illegitimate children. Those who were close to him either speak of him with extreme disdain or not at all. The only child he has any connection to is used as nothing more than a political pawn.

The only reason anyone even thinks he might be okay is because he's rich. We tend to have an extreme bias in favor of the wealthy, almost akin to a brainwashing. The reality is being rich does not correlate with being moral or decent. It doesn't correlate with being intelligent either, but that's a separate conversation.
a 400gbe network card runs like $1500, these aren't going to be priced for hobbyists
The immune system does its job fine on measles for kids and teens that eat that way everyday in the parts of the world where measles vaccination is widespread. It also does its job fine on the kids who have been vaccinated in areas where vaccination is not widespread.

Also consider before there was measles vaccination. Large deadly outbreaks were common all over the world in areas with vastly different diets and lifestyles.

This suggests that diet is unlikely to be a significant factor.
But you could also just add you own lookalike web component to you page that looks like the grammarly one. If people enter credentials there, it's user error.
I just typed define terrorism into Google and that's where the definition came from.

Disagree that it's only terrorism if perpetuated by non-state actors. State-sponsored terrorism occurs when a government actively supports or engages in terrorist violence, either directly or through non-state actors, to achieve its political goals. (This definition is from Google as well, from its AI overview).
I feel like it's the opposite for me. It rewards my curiosity. I can ask it questions that Google is no longer capable of answering, either because it reinterprets my query wrong or because it only returns generic content from top sites. I use it a lot in art museums to understand the story behind certain paintings or the difference between certain art movements.

I use AI for coding, but basically as a shortcut to API documentation. It lets me stay focused on my task. It removes a lot of the tedium of coding, so that I can focus on the actual problems.
It’s not actually that hard to verify whether someone is a U.S. citizen.

Despite what they’d like you to believe, it does not require months of detention, or release into the country on blind faith that you’ll show up for a court hearing in a year.
Show HN: Smart City Defender – Cyber Attack Response Game
Oh No, what will a bot do ? Maybe we can find out what percentage of these users are either bots or an ID for use by AI.

I wonder if the public is fully insensitive to these leaks now that we seem to have a big leak every other day.
It is quite ironic that OpenAI loosens its rules, promoted Ghibli images, apparently in direct opposition to the viewpoints of Ghibli's founder, while also pursuing DeepSeek for using OpenAI data without permission.

FYI, some of my further elaboration on the topic:

"Everything that you loved for its uniqueness, craftsmanship, cultural significance, will be mass-produced until you despise seeing it."

https://www.mindprison.cc/p/studio-ghibli-style-ai-art-crisi...
I don't see it mentioned in the comments but the big trigger for me is chewing nuts. The problem is there's no way to even modify your behavior when eating them; It's a loud process by nature.

I just remove myself from the situation.
Uh ... where is it written that LaTeX can only provide pdf output?

Turn that around. Thought experiment. Say we work like pigdogs for 5 years and we completely replace all of Latex except the part that produces pdf. What value have we provided to users at that point?
As well as being disingenuous your whole argument is beside the point. ASML isn’t threatening to move to the US.

The current administration has created day light between the US and EU governments and ASML is using this leverage to try and get the Dutch to ignore US export bans.

Here are some choice exerts so you can continue to avoid clicking on TFA:

> The pressure on asml began to build in 2019, when the Dutch government, at America's urging, barred the company from exporting its advanced euv machines to China... President Donald Trump's second term brings the threat of still tighter controls

> Referring to the Dutch government's willingness to follow America's lead on export bans, Mr Fouquet says that Europe must "decide for itself what it wants" and "should not be dictated to by anyone else".
No. People who think they’re smart because they do software. People who think senior, principle or architect as a title means superiority.
That flexibility is a fantastic advantage of software over hardware, not a liability. You still can deliver software as an unchanging thing, but generally no one does because incrementally giving users something useful sooner is more valuable.
That's cool. Can you explain what machines they were using in the 1800s to do learning on?
You may want to familiarize yourself with counter examples from Musk biographers, like Seth Abramson.

Musk said himself SpaceX would’ve gone bankrupt without NASA contracts. He needed those contracts because Spacex was too high of a risk at the time for private business. NASA is self-insured. This is the the way the government supports high-risk nascent industries, because they are the only institution capable of shouldering that risk.

It’s well-established that the solvency of his companies are tightly coupled, just like TFA. Further, Tesla is made competitive by subsidies for EVs and manufacturing. Not necessarily bad, but the success isn’t occurring in a free-market vacuum. When companies accepting subsidies go under, the govt doesn’t typically get that money back, at least not in full. (See the faux Solyndra “scandal”)

I know that doesn’t fit the preferred narrative of the mythical free-market iconoclast succeeding in spite of the govt, but that’s reality.

On the profit side, I should have said he gets a disproportionate amount of profit and the taxpayer gets a disproportionate amount of risk.
They didn't even hack it.
WYGIWYH: A self-hosted simple but powerful finance tracker
Place bet: Musk investigates while shutting down any data protection agencies.
I think the magic is often in how you prompt. The best written art I've gotten from Claude was after a very extended dialogue; eventually, in the same context window, I prompted for an essay, framed by a short poem. The results were, to me, beautiful, and extraordinarily relevant in a cathartic way. Elements of my own personal "meaning and substance" ended up getting synthesized into what I would certainly consider poetry.

If you ask an LLM to "Write me a poem", expect the equivalent of what others are calling analogous to hotel art: generic and inoffensive. However, if you inject your personalized soul and suffering into the context window, there's no reason not to expect the transformation of that soul into indistinguishably human-like prose.

I won't share the full content, because it was personalized to me and my moment.

I am quite curious though, how art without an author will grow into society.
Show HN: SDDL - Alternative to Branch.io for Deferred Deep Links
Hey HN!

We just launched SDDL – a simple solution for creating deferred deep links for mobile apps.
Think of it as a lightweight, Firebase-free alternative to Branch.io or AppsFlyer.

What it does:
• Generates short links like https://myapp.sddl.me/abc123
• Redirects users based on platform and install status
• Passes data to the app after installation via Universal/App Links

Why we built it:

Branch.io and similar tools are powerful but often too heavy or expensive for small teams and indie devs.
We wanted something simpler and transparent.

Would love your feedback!
We’re live and shipping fast – let us know what you’d want to see next.

https://sddl.me
"microservices" is not an architectural question. It's a "recommended practices" question.
Vaccination significantly decreases the severity of measles even in most people where the vaccine doesn't "take."

Thus, number of measles cases doesn't tell the full story. One also needs to look at far rates of hospitalizations and complications.
Best: my current job[0]. The second best are those other jobs where I had a lot of agency and worked on something that felt concrete and useful.

Worst: SAP. Great salary, great conditions, no complaints about the team. It just felt so pointless. I might as well clock in, push a red button for 8 hours then clock out. Our project was cancelled after a year or so, but we still had to pretend it wasn't for another month or two. I remember how numb I was on my 20 minute walk home.

[0] https://nicolasbouliane.com/projects/all-about-berlin
That still sounds like "process" of some kind, maybe of the "due" kind. That's not for you. On the bus with you.
Do you know that the majority of countries around the world don’t have birthright citizenship?

It’s an anomaly pretty much limited to the Americas.

Because it’s stupid and easily exploitable.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/nn7evq/places_wher...
I don’t know why you are restating your point to me.
"In the case of a customer service transaction I don’t really care about someone’s individuality."

That argument can be applied to practically everything, and so is invalid. It does not serve you or any of us other humans to dehumanize other humans, which btw you are in the set of other humans.

People at work performing a function are still people, not functions.
No, they don't. They can clone your hard disk and use a different computer. A TPM based pin makes that approach impossible and you must have access to the system itself.
I think your reply is more against the rules because You’re starting conflict. What if he really has good info?
My current favorite option is Quarto [1]. It's basically a friendly wrapper around Pandoc [2], letting you write in Markdown (+ lots of Quarto-specific extensions) and render to LaTeX, Typst, multi-page HTML, EPUB, docx, and more.

[1] https://quarto.org/

[2] https://pandoc.org/
One important detail in the article, but not the headline, is:

> In short, these age patterns might be signs of secularization... However, it’s also possible that some of the age differences in religious affiliation revealed in a single survey could result from people becoming more religious as they grow older.

Here's an article from the same research firm last month that examines a different measurement: https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2025/02/26/decline-of-c...
If a demacracy, you can change this law. If you are not in a democracy, you can just have Dear Leader give edicts.
Yes, usually some more intelligent auth is needed, depending on your app logic. For example the MRTC SIP-WebRTC gateway will do the usual SIP digest auth first, then will send a temporary TURN password to the WebRTC client + it will allow only the current source IP to use the TURN service (with an extra auth message exchane if the IP changes during the call).