skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
America's leading supply chains just went up in smoke. The fallout is going to be pretty funny from an international POV, methinks.
That's why you have to earn down vote and flagging privileges here. It's still abused, I agree.
> Our main analysis assigns drivers to one of two racial and ethnic categories: white or minority, where minority includes Asian and Pacific Islander, Black, or Hispanic (31).

Whenever you see this kind of aggregation you can be certain that you there will lies, damned lies and statistics. Let me guess - if the authors did by 5 groups the results they got were not saying something they liked. Or at least they should have put any kind of proof that the rate of ticketing for all of those aggregated groups were quite similar.
Anthropic has a definition:

Workflows are systems where LLMs and tools are orchestrated through predefined code paths.
Agents, on the other hand, are systems where LLMs dynamically direct their own processes and tool usage, maintaining control over how they accomplish tasks

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-effective-age...

While I know it's a marketing term, I think a good distinction is that agents have a loop in the execution graph, and can choose whether to loop or keep going. Workflows are chained LLM calls where the LLM has no "choice".
High-aggression is a negotiating tactic with basic goals - to intimidate the other side into thinking you are implacable, and to make you seem unstoppable.

It's a tactic. Like everyone else, they have interests and goals and needs, and they can be deterred in the same way. The problem is, nobody really tries. The Democrats keep doing the same ineffective things - a demonstration of being cowed and intimidated.

For example, the Dems have almost no ability to communicate with the public. Whatever Trump and the GOP say are effectively true because there is no counter voice (beyond some third parties). The Dems don't do anything about it; they just keep communicating in the same way.

The Dems have no talking points. A few of them are organizing now around 'economic populism' - in other words, they are completely cowed and will avoid all the major threats to freedom, democracy, the rule of law, safety; the corruption, cruelty, and hate. They are going to their safe space - economic policy!
Wordpress.com owner Automattic is laying off 16 percent of workers
This joke passes the veteran vibe check. Only someone who is a vet or close to them would say something so inappropriate and funny.
Rooting for mozilla and their privacy-focused services. Been using the email-masking feature (generate forward email addresses) for a while and really like it.
Luck Favors the Prepared-- The telephone was invented by chance
AG Bell wanted to improve the telegraph and invented the telephone by luck.
Great, maybe Inferno as follow up?
I think there's a contradiction in claiming a term is meaningless and discussing its definition is pointless, and saying it can help explain things.
People here see ads regularly which is how hn pays the bills. YC hiring posts and company launches are all paid ads in the sense that being allowed to post them is why YC funds hn.
So 54% on China, and this might not be the end of it as countries will retaliate and Trump might increase them even further.
It's "discounted" xD
I think a lot of Americans don't fully realize what they're getting into.
He thinks he can bully the world without consequence ? Oh boy he's so wrong ...
I guess we're back to the days of East Germany.
Auto-deleting messages are not necessarily auto-illegal. Voice conversations are also auto-deleting but obviously they’re common among government employees.

Officials are required to document decisions in an archival way. If they fail to do that, it is arguable that their failure to follow the law is the problem, not the messaging technology.

I think it is in everyone’s interest to resist the assumption that chat and text messaging is intended to be a permanent record—even for govt officials.
It's really satisfying to create logomarks solely out of circles, idk why. A challenge, I guess.

I did a few back in my day as a designer:

1. https://dribbble.com/shots/1909369-Liberty-Eagle-Arms

2. https://dribbble.com/shots/1553151-Flint-mark-icons

That first one is some of my best work.
Your right, the “own identity” part is the problem.
You can act on your own agency or you act as an agent for someone else.

AI today is only the second. We tell it what we want, it acts by our impetus, but what it does or how it does it, is up to it.
I've tried, but never made it all the way through. Cool to realize the author's sister (Poe) made a hit song "Haunted" when inspired by the same house iirc. There's my random fact of the day.
That’s… not parameterization the way most people understand it. It’s text templating, which is different and fraught with risk as the OP discovered.

For comparison: the Microsoft SQL client code will not substitute an escaped version of the query parameters into the query text! It sends the query with the named placeholders first, and then the parameter values encoded separately so that there’s zero risk of this kind of thing happening.

Also, this makes it trivial for the database engine to cache each query independently of the specific query parameter values.
i consider it more of a toy than a game, you can do whatever you want in there.

i still clock a few hours a week at 51. sometimes its just to occupy the brain, rip down a mountain, work on digging a perimeter..

other times its exploring modpacks and having a goal like more traditional games.

like that there are communities doing even more with it (mostly the well known groups similar to and including Hermitcraft)
> Show a birth certificate and get an ID. Not a big deal.

It’s apparently a bit more complicated for a lot of women since they have to show all the supporting documentation for name changes. For instance, my mother is divorced and remarried, so she had to bring a birth certificate and two marriage licenses (plus name change applications) as supporting documentation showing progression of her last name from birth until present day.
It kinda was the death of music - reasonably-skilled musicians used to make money performing live, and now they can't. The market got eaten up by recordings of really good artists, who, ironically, treat music more as industry than art.
Your very comment is now downvoted but not silenced. We all see it, as we do every grey comment, as long as one works their way down the comments page. Not every comment is going to be agreed with and rise above the fold, and that’s ok.
It's shocking how much my interest in modern games and gaming platforms has waned in recent years due to the increasing enshittification. These days I'm pretty much entirely focused on retro-gaming and happy to report it's still great! And with mods, fan translations, HD texture packs and emulator shaders & upscaling it keeps getting even better.
Nickel isotope with diamond semiconductor…very interesting.
An AI agent has agency-- it can choose when to act.
I don't think we stopped doing it because it's gimmicky.

Recordings in the 1960s were mixed to be played back on stereo speakers. You can hard pan stuff and in your living room where you listen to it, it will produce a nice pleasant stereo image because each ear can hear some of both speakers.

Today, audio engineers mix music to be listened to primarily on headphones. If you pan something hard left, it's literally not going to be heard in the right ear at all which sounds horrifically artificial.

So now music has to be mixed to synthetize a pleasant soundstage when heard on headphones.
I didn't get idea of this benchmark, they ask to produce code to replicate result of papers, which already have code on github?..
Do you think that invalidates their contributions or success for some reason?
How interesting! I'm excited by all the energy lately that i've seen around more text-based fun stuff, from Gemini to tilde communities to more TUIs/TUI apps, to this ssh powered set of services! Keep 'em coming!
It’s possible that you answered your own question.
You know what else comes preinstalled on phones? The phone, sms, and mail apps.
'Kiss Kiss Bang Bang' is another Killmer great, dialog written by Shane Black who did Lethal Weapon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__PnD1HWXSo

Also, obviously, 'Heat', supporting role but the moment where he comes back and sees his wife...
Often times, you comment not to change the mind of the person you're replying to, but to provide a rebuttal for the readers at home. If nobody challenges problematic ideology or corrects misinformation, it can spread like a disease.
Really curious on how it will blow-back on Americans. Because, make no mistakes, it will.
Nukes aren't that great a weapon to use against the country right on your border that you're trying to annex, especially if you've been busy justifying the invasion to your own population as liberation.
Thank you for the additional context. However, this individual would not have been eligible for expedited removal as he entered the US in 2011, and the arrest where he was alleged to be a gang member was in 2019. To be eligible for expedited removal a person must have not been present continuously for the previous 2 years. No indication that's the case here.

I suspect the judge would allow a deportation to a country other than El Salvador as soon as the government presented an option of a country willing to accept him. I also suspect few governments in the world would assent to such a transfer.
95% of Code Will Be AI-Generated Within Five Years, Microsoft CTO Says
> The legal system, including the equitable power to split up companies under antitrust law.

And how well has this been working out? There hasn't been a real threat of forced divesture since Microsoft's anti-trust case back in the 1990s, and large companies are willing to pay fines that are dwarfed by the profits earned from destroyed competition. How does paying a fine undo consumer harm?
Some kind of governor module to keep our security cyborgs in line...
see sibling comment to yours:
"saint_yossarian 2 hours ago | root | parent | next [–]

It's blocked by "EasyList – Newsletter Notices", the annoyances lists are often a bit too aggressive."
> as countries will retaliate

Depends on the country. India is negotiating a Bilateral Trade Agreement by mid-2025, Vietnam has sent a trade delegation to DC to negotiate as we speak, and tariffs on Colombia, Brazil, Philippines, and Turkiye are the lowest for middle income countries.

The harshest pain will be felt by Cambodia and Vietnam, because both are part of ASEAN like Philippines and share similar trade partners (Japan, SK), Bangladesh as they have an FTA and significant capital from India, and China as EU (looking at you Poland and Czechia), Turkiye, Japan, SK, and India are now cost competitive

You'll be seeing more "Made in Philippines", "Made in Colombia" "Made in Turkiye", "Made in Brazil", and "Made in India" shirts, auto parts, and assembled electronics now.

We might also see a return of Malaysia in the semiconductor industry, as they are now cheaper than Taiwan - great for whoever buys Intel Foundry Services (Penang reax only)
Code is our code: Farewell to Bufferbloat conqueror Dave Täht
Just say "all employees" then. Lots of companies use contractors who don't have employee benefits, do they count as "Googlers" or whatever the stupid stand-in moniker is?
One thing I'd be interested in is a UI for reading papers with AI assistance.
I get it, it's just kind of a meme at this point after a couple years of these boilerplate RIF announcements. Cmd-F for "difficult decision" + whatever the demonym is and you're basically guaranteed hits.
> phone because Mike Waltz was one of his sources

But the article throws Waltz under the bus; I don't think this is how you treat your precious sources. So Goldberg's number must have been there for some other reason - for example, maybe it was sent with an interview request.
what is stopping everybody from exporting to the one guy that knuckles under completely and circumvent the circus?
I'm on my 16th year with my Jetta, bought new. For appearances I should probably buy a new car (it's totaled), but I'm pretty sure it will last another 16 years and will only be replaced out of necessity (were I to have a family) or vanity (were I to have a midlife crisis). I've worked from home or commuted by bicycle most of the time I've owned it so I've averaged < 8,000 miles per year.
See above comment:

saint_yossarian 2 hours ago | root | parent | next [–]
It's blocked by "EasyList – Newsletter Notices", the annoyances lists are often a bit too aggressive.
> the compiler can prove that code runs UB, it is invalid code

The *potential* to hit UB is not invalid according to the standard. If it was, then an unchecked array access would be illegal.

If every possible input state for an operation hits UB, then sure the compiler could diagnose that and emit an error. But apart from stuff like type punning, how often does that happen in the real world?

Real world UB pops up in corner cases that weren't considered carefully: What you get weird input and your divisor ends up being zero? What if your string or list ends up being empty? Or, like the example in the article, what if your std::sort predicate encounters a NaN? You might not realize that your code has these corner cases, but the compiler does, and it optimizes assuming that you're aware of these corner cases and assuring it that the executable will never actually hit those corner cases. The compiler can't emit errors for that because it's not invalid code - it might be the intended behavior. The best it can do is a warning.

It boils down to the programmer-language contract on UB being implicit and difficult to grok. Compilers can't fix that.
Trump really thinks America is in the 1950's. He thinks people want to work at factories doing manual labor. He doesn't understand that we DON'T want to work at factories. Americans like our plush corporate office jobs building intellectual property. We aren't oxen doing physical labor.

And we designed it that way. We pay thousands of dollars to each citizen in our public schools to teach them calculus, literature, world history, and science, so that they DON'T work at factories doing manual labor like we were oxen. We're supposed to be doing more valuable jobs in intellectual property and services.

It's going to be hard lesson to be learned by Trump and his working class supporters when the inflation hits them because our economy doesn't have any workers that want to work at factories, but it'll have to be a lesson they learn the hard way.

The correct economy is to let people do labor they're best at. If a foreigner can make a shirt cheaper than an American can, LET THEM. Our economy is already taken by the people that design the shirts.
Looks like a cool product, and I'd be interested to see if it could work as a more capable replacement for my android tablet.

That said, I'm crossing my fingers for an AMD offering in future. Battery life is a huge consideration in this form factor for me, and Intel tends to be underwhelming at best.
> They also have our enduring gratitude for their time with the company.

I hope the RIF'd employees can pay rent with that gratitude.

If I were considering using Wordpress for anything, which I am not, this would end those plans. If they're laying off and keeping the CEO, they must be in dire financial straits. That message says "we're doing all the right things and have good leadership with a track record of making good decisions, but we have no alternative but to fire a sixth of our employees". That's not a good sign.
> dang” is pronounced “dang” and not “Dan G.”

WAIT WHAT?!?
I live in Ukraine and Stripe is not working here. How I could got payment?
Thank you!
> “If you ever get asked the question, ‘Did you pass a target to the Ukrainians?’ you can legitimately not be lying when you say, ‘No, I did not,’” one U.S. official explained.

That's some shady word mincing. Who are they afraid of, US Congress? journalists? Who would be asking these questions.

This is in the same vein as "we never engaged in water torture!". But did you use "enhanced interrogation techniques using water?". You can still answer "No", if you use diesel fuel instead, you see.
They responded with a middle finger plus a boycott and the message was received loud and clear ?
There was a rather interesting criticism of the recent wide-ranging cuts to USAID that basically said it wasn't unlikely that some of that USAID money was being used in clandestine intelligence operations (supporting the tribe of this warlord or that, paying someone off, rewarding allegiances, whatever) that DOGE and perhaps even most at USAID would never, ever be cleared to know about. With the inability to prevent those aid packages from being cut without also blowing their operations, the intelligence community would just have to sit and watch it happen.

I of course have no way of knowing if that's true or not, or if it is what damage may have been done, but it's interesting to consider.
These guys are untrustworthy liars. I assume there are thousands, possibly tens of thousands of carve outs for the tariffs, based on bribing the POTUS or approved affiliates.
You can ingest a litre of boiling oil.
My coworker uses thunderbird since time immemorial, and I don’t think it ever corrupted his mailbox.
Native mobile apps are a dying breed. If you want to make money, web is the only option and it's not even close. The margins on web-native content makes App Store money look like a joke.

It's a shame, because everyone loves native apps. But from a developer standpoint it is nothing but a waste of billable hours, a ritual where you kiss the ring of your respective platform owner so they can exploit your profitability. Skip Swift and Kotlin altogether, they're both tools used to hold you back as a developer.
I use Pony Express
I’ve usually just hired a lawyer, but went once myself, I’ve never paid more for the lawyer than I would have paid for the ticket so it’s usually been a 0%-50% discount to the ticket. But the real cost a speeding ticket is the 5%-30% increase in your insurance which could be hundreds of dollars a year ANNUALLY so it always just seemed cheaper short and long term to pay someone to deal with it (mind you I’m talking a grand total of four speeding tickets)
Or any drug store.
My wife and I both got Real IDs this past summer. Our teenage kids have passports. They were all fairly simple to get. I don't understand what the issue is.
> a single short word

> “Automattician”

The word you’re looking for is employee.
You obviously don't put tariffs on your own states /s
And they didn't even mention the last CVE¹, the most compelling reason to move off.

1. https://securitylabs.datadoghq.com/articles/nextjs-middlewar...
Real Genius is pretty high on my list of favorites. Top Secret deserves more love than it gets too.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43547863
I'll need to look into the ways the tree was used by Native Americans and early settlers. I have known about the use of the bark for decades but don't recall anything about other parts of the tree. Thanks for the information.
Element is the company formed by the team who created Matrix to work on Matrix, almost all of whom are still there; there is no falling out :)

The Matrix Foundation is the non-profit set up by the Matrix team in 2018 to keep Matrix itself independent of Element and other Matrix vendors - to act as a steward of the protocol and a standards body. Originally Element donated almost all of its code on Matrix to the Foundation (e.g. Synapse, the original Matrix server) as permissive Apache-licensed FOSS, assuming that if Matrix was successful, folks would want to fund it.

In practice, by 2023, Matrix was very successful... but it transpired that the vast majority of folks commercially building on the Foundation's Apache licensed code failed to route any funding back to the Foundation (as the hosting body) or to Element (as the primary code contributor), despite many polite requests. As a result, there wasn't enough $ to pay folks at Element to keep working on the core Matrix projects as their day job. So, to keep the lights on, Element stopped donating their work to the Foundation, and changed license to non-permissive AGPLv3 in order to sell AGPL-exceptions to the folks commercialising it. This has helped the situation somewhat (although Element isn't at breakeven yet). Meanwhile, it's left the Foundation focused on governance, the Matrix standards process, trust & safety and hosting core libraries like E2EE and matrix-rust-sdk.

There's no beef between the Foundation and Element over this. In a utopia the projects would certainly have stayed as Apache licensed code in the Foundation - but then again, other standards bodies like W3C or XSF don't publish code these days: it's a phase that a given protocol grows out of once third party organisations get busy building implementations.

Disclaimer: i'm conflicted on this, being project lead/co-founder for Matrix, and then CEO/CTO at Element.
And every time someone makes this comment. MTProto 2 uses standard crypto primitives. Besides this, do you know who else rolled their own crypto? Moxie. You don't get to roll your own crypto first and then weaponize this against your opponents but that's exactly what he did along with abusing words like "plaintext" to describe any encryption not E2EE.
Butt-plug coding?
i wonder what the price will be and if it supports custom domains
Why does this matter?

I can't pick my own domain when using Gmail, and still works just fine.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43559855
My work doesn't involve sending American pilots over enemy territory or relaying information from intelligence assets inside terrorist organizations.

Is this a serious question?
You can put 4 divs side by side in many ways, then jut put images in it.
It has been a while since I read the full text of the law, but I believe the Real ID Act requires states to store copies of all documents for 7 or 10 years.
How did reverse engineering m16c prove challenging? I recently extracted a 4 stage encrypted payload from an M16C arch that also used time-based encryption. Each time it was run, the output was different. The time based key was also rotating.

It used a very simple custom encryption for the time stuff and AES in ECB mode.

Protip Ghidra does not emulate inherent CPU behavior of INDEX instructions, behaviour not specified in ISA. I had to backport M32C instructions and patch M16C slaspec to emulate this behavior, caused by compiler bugs.
For China maybe, I doubt any serious analysts were expecting this high of tariffs on most other countries, like Mexico, the UK, and Canada.

The methodology of counting non-price barriers on certain goods then applying it across the board on all goods as tariffs is bonkers.
Doubtlessly they aren’t including all the non-price tariffs the US imposes on other countries either.

I’m extremely skeptical the EU has effective tariff rates of 40% on all US goods, and furthermore skeptical that if so the US doesn’t have countervailing effective tariff rates at the same rate.
This analysis doesn't say whether minority drivers were more likely to be pulled over for traffic violations, only that they were more likely to be issued a citation and that those citations came with higher fines. I would guess a cop rarely knows the race of a speeding driver before pulling them over. The discrimination would happen either when deciding whether to issue a citation, or after looking up the driver's info on the police car.

When the police look up your info, do they see past citations? If so, it's a self-reinforcing cycle: people more likely to receive citations are more likely to have citations listed, and a cop who sees past citations might be less willing to let the driver off with a warning.