skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see the U.S. nationalizing something like Open Brain. I think both investors and gov't officials will realize its highly more profitable for them to contract out major initiatives to said OpenBrain-company, like an AI SpaceX-like company. I can see where this is going...
Panama? And do you think if he takes one place that’ll be the last of that behavior?
It took a bit more than 5 years and a (single) research team, though.
Probably pointed the Biz AI app at himself to get that estimate.
Apparently he ended up going to Yale instead.
Tokio mutexes are only useful if a lock needs to be held across suspension points. Since futures can migrate threads between suspension points and most regular mutexes on most platforms do not support being unlocked from a different thread, tokio’s mutex has a very narrow but a well defined use case.
The Guardian has investigated further: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/04/revea...

In the case of Norfolk Island, it was apparently some mislabeled shipments from Timberland (based in New Hampshire, NH <-> NI) and from two companies based in Norfolk, UK.

For Heard & McDonald Islands, it was mislabeled machinery that actually originated in Austria and Germany.
> outside of enriching them with the spoils of my effort when I'm through

For what it's worth, to me and I assume a lot of other people, this ruins the game. There's nothing I dislike more than getting invited to a survival minecraft server (or whatever) and having someone dump diamond everything on me as a gift. What even is the point of playing the game anymore at that point?
>I don't see why an AI can't generate IP, even if the AI is being sold. What's not allowed is selling the generated IP.

Where I live Studio Ghibli are known to be active on C2C marketplaces looking for counterfeit goods. If you were to list a home pressed Totoro pillowcase it would be taken down, sometimes proactively by the marketplace. From that perspective I struggle to see much discernable difference given OpenAI are offering a paid service which allows me to create similar items, and one could argue is promoting it too.
The title suggests Apple did this intentionally, is there any proof for that?
Wasm sounds right up your alley! From my understanding the Wasm spec is formally specified and they just adopted tooling to generate prose/mechanically-checkable proofs/etc. from the formal spec [0].

[0]: https://webassembly.org/news/2025-03-27-spectec/
The big problem in open source intelligence is not in-depth analysis. It's finding something worth looking at in a flood of info.

Here's the CIA's perspective on this subject.[1] The US intelligence community has a generative AI system to help analyze open source intelligence. It's called OSIRIS.[2]
There are some other articles about it. The previous head of the CIA said the main use so far is summarization.

The original OSINT operation in the US was the Foreign Broadcast Monitoring Service from WWII. All through the Cold War, someone had to listen to Radio Albania just in case somebody said something important. The CIA ran that for decades. Its descendant is the current open source intelligence organization. Before the World Wide Web, they used to publish some of the summaries on paper, but as people got more serious about copyright, that stopped.

DoD used to publish The Early Bird, a daily newsletter for people in DoD. It was just reprints of articles from newspapers, chosen for stories senior leaders in DoD would need to know about. It wasn't supposed to be distributed outside DoD for copyright reasons, but it wasn't hard to get.

[1] https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/static/d6fd3fa9ce19f1abf2b...

[2] https://apnews.com/article/us-intelligence-services-ai-model...
New account Bocajmai? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43579243
You can not really write a formal spec without having prose first. It would be nice to have a formal spec for C, and C is one of the languages where this is feasible (and also partially done by various people).
Can you lay out your conclusions since this chart doesn’t have groups matching 1:1 with the conversation
Reminder to anyone triggered by a “both sides” comment:

just like you, we are all aware of how the sides are different, it is valid to be more annoyed by the ways they are the same
>[...] but the victim isn't entitled to protection.

Which is the my point. If cops don't have an obligation to save anyone from a fire, then why would random Joe get into trouble for similar inaction. GP was mistaken about the laws in America.
Yes but then why do the check in the first place
I'm not convinced this actually happens. Seems more like somthing people assume happens because they don't like whatever codebase is at the new job.
Disclaimer: I'm one of the managing directors at Ferrous Systems, so biased.

The FLS was written with that specific intend in mind, but that mostly limits the scope of the spec that Ferrous Systems is/was interested in maintaining. We were also not interested in adopting large scale contributions on parts that Ferrous Systems doesn't need - we're a small outfit after all, 20ish people, and we don't have the capacity to maintain a full specification.

However, that's no fundamental barrier that limits the specification per se - now that the Rust project is adopting it, others can contribute and pick up maintenance slack. We'll certainly continue to contribute to the things that we are interested in seeing, but if someone wants to build a compiler based on the spec, they can contribute the parts needed.

On the upside: The spec in its current shape is good enough to certify the compiler and I know people have started building other things on the FLS. Structurally, the tooling and the content is fine - so I believe it can serve as a good nucleus for the Rust languages spec.

As for the "strange" aftertaste in the process of adopting the FLS that's mentioned in the article:

I don't believe that the Foundation/Project adopting the Ferrocene Language Specification is bad. While Ferrous Systems as a company holds no official position in the project, we consider ourselves very much part of the project. We have people that head working groups, one of our employees was in the governing council, my brother and co-founder is founding member of the Foundation. Rust-Analyzer is maintained by my esteemed colleague Lukas. We draw on the
project - after all we certified the projects rustc as we found it. We contribute to the project as part of the work we do. We started writing a spec because no one had written one, and specifically *we* had a need. And that's essentially how things work in open source: We scratch our itch - and in the process lift the tide for everyone.
The project taking some time to figure out what the project wants is not surprising: They have their needs, we have ours, and they often overlap but they're not identical. We're not the rust project. The project is not Ferrous Systems.
I think the problem is mostly plastic components, especially miniatures. These requires injection molds and then manual labor to remove the parts from the sprues, clean them and glue them together (as miniatures are expected to come assembled in board games).

I think the labor cost alone makes it not possible to manufacture them in the west. But also ignoring that, consider that injection molding for miniatures can be more expensive in the west in itself. Usually because factories work on a different scale and have higher requirements for minimum order quantities, but also because they do not work usually with miniatures so they would need to adapt their tooling, expertise and know how for this specific kind of product.

Imagine a factory injection molding chairs suddenly receiving a quote for a bunch of miniatures, they can do it, but they are going to charge you for the time needed to figure out how, and for the changes in the lines.

Consider also that usually miniatures 3D files are stl or obj because they are sculpted, while the factory might work only with cad as that's the standard in manufacturing. These two are radically different and there is no easy conversion from stl to cad, which would require it being re-modeled in most cases.

Also, with a chinese factory you can expect to give them 3D files and they will take care of everything (designing molds and avoiding undercuts). I'm sure this has separate cost in the west as it involves a specialized expertise which is for sure more expensive than in China.

Btw here's a nice writeup from a person that tried to open a game factory in the USA, he doesn't even mention plastic parts though. https://www.superheumann.com/post/my-year-in-manufacturing-g...
Universities don’t have to roll over, they also don’t have to accept federal funds

Easy
Starting with TUOT is definitely an interesting suggestion! I think most people would recommend The Library of Babel or The Garden of Forking Paths as a first read. But TUOT is probably my favourite, and a very apt recommendation for a post-truth world.
The HN submission title ("Apple killed Asahi Linux with M4 update") seems highly misleading; the linked post, by an Asahi developer, indicates only that the update poses new challenges, not that those challenges are insurmountable or that they don't expect to solve them.
> If you're unemployed and living on whatever odd jobs and government assistance you can get, tariffs won't make one bit of difference in your life.

Of course it will, since price inflation is going to hit the low (or no) income people the hardest.

And if the government assistance you mentioned is all cut away, it's going to be much worse.
It isn't even Linux that has been "killed", the method used to reverse engineer calls to the hardware from the native macOS kernel no longer works.
Like resolving Git merge conflicts.
> [If commissioning some work and] keeping the artwork on their refrigerator in their home, then no infringement has taken place.

I'd like to push back on this: Is that legally true, or is it infringement which just happens to be so minor and under-the-radar that nobody gets in trouble?

Suppose there's a printer in my room churning out hundreds of pages of words matching that of someone's copyrighted new book, without permission.

That sure seems like infringement is happening, regardless of whether my next step is to: (A) sell it, (B) sell many of it, (C) give it away, (D) place it into my personal library of other home-printed books, or (E) hand it to someone else who paid me in advance to produce it for them under contract.

If (A) is infringement, why wouldn't (E) also be?
"How has that shit ever worked?"

Me, looking at code 100% written by me last year.
I have been annoyed by this before, but now it's mostly obvious troll or sarcastic posts.

Rust haters' cult on the other hand...
It doesn’t remain to be seen, we know the fertility rate for America isn’t high enough to maintain replacement rates without immigration. Here’s one article but you can find many with google https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2024/3/22/us-de...

The current admin is saying they are going to stop immigration. I don’t find it comforting or plausible if you’re telling me that we have to wait and see because they might fuck up one step of their plan and that’ll make the other steps less painful
The planet is absolutely not over populated.

Overcrowded cities and housing costs aren't an overpopulation problem but a problem of concentrating economic activity in certain places.
The subject is deadly serious, and I only wish I could amplify it
more. The abdication of reason and responsibility to machines is
desperately dumb and no good will come of it.

Maybe what I'm getting at is this [0] poem of Taylor Mali. Somehow we
all lost our nerve to challenge really, really bad things, wrapping up
messages in tentative language. Sometimes that's a genuine attempt at
balance, or honesty. But often these days I feel an author is trying
too hard to distance themself from ... from themself.

It's a a silly bugbear, I know.

[0] https://taylormali.com/poems/totally-like-whatever-you-know/
Certainly. One probably could writre a PhD thesis in sociology about this community given how "particular" its interactions are with the outside world.
The author clearly is referring to cloud apps that require one to be online with their collaborator to edit. The alternative is a locally encrypted self-congratulated neural mesh network where one computes their own inputs to the hard drive.
And maintain the fork forever, great!
lol, oops put the wrong ticker above.
The US is unreliable to do trade with, so I'd simply look to diversify my customer base to not be at the whim of an erratic old man with a narcissistic personality disorder.

In the end I am pretty sure the US can't be avoided, but today the US made sure that those who had good ties to it got punished and the world will remember that. I would like to think the world might ask it self if the USD should be still be the lead currency.

The rest of the world wasn't at fault that US capitalists decided to outsource their manufacturing base to cheaper countries. I guess someone in the US got damn rich doing precisely that. Those are the people you should blame.

Additionally tarrifs cut two ways, if countries react as tou would expect them to. The EU got the biggest single market in the world, and the US just made it harder to sell their stuff there — again, beyond pure costs, reliability is an issue in itself. Why would the EU buy something from the US when products from elsewhere have less tariffs and you don't have to deal with the scenario of an erratic political leader making it up as he goes which makes it somewhat impossible to rely on a plan.

Having bad leadership is a thing that costs a nation dearly. I don't see why the rest of the world would feel inclined to carry that cost.
What evidence is there that tarrif policy was LLM generated?
Thought this was .NET on Haiku for a moment.
Everything Trump does also makes total sense if you take in account American exceptionalism; which also explains why half the population and half the political apparatus supports him; even beyond that, that also explains how the other half is adamant on blaming a country with a GDP less than even some US states on this problem rather than self reflect on the internal causes.
Middle class people also have to buy new cars, maybe want to treat themselves with some foreign alcohol, they still need furniture, coffee is still one of the most traded commodities in the world and americans guzzle it down.
But there was a fire, so the risk of themselves dying was pretty high!
There is a reason why they get extra, literal medals if they go above and beyond.
Hell, there are situations in which even firefighters would not go easily.
This also how I read the story, they were ‘basically’ salesmen/marketing guys with good investor storytime. The hacking part was hacking together code on the plane before the meeting to rake in the cash?
> You never need permission to do a good job.

If you don't mind, I will steal this one.
does this work on the $20 plan?
Oh, I'm convinced, I've seen it first hand.
Absolutely, yes! A protocol should not be tied to client
details. Where did "User Agent" strings even come from?
here's the GitHub issue tracking the problem:

https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/3363
Hoel referenced a tweet referring to the larger trend as "grey goo". I've thought of it as the "greying of reality" at past intervals, but "grey goo" really hits at the core of the issue. The goo sticks to a person, ever so slowly (yet steadily) impacting his perception of the world. Over time, it has a cumulative buildup and effect not unlike that of mercury.

Truly, you are correct. There is fast approaching a time (more like an era) where the vast majority of people, at some point or another, will be forced to disconnect from the web, or lose their minds. While I do understand that algorithms are a mirror of the user, however distorted it may be, I think that has been a big driver of the nostalgia trends one sees on social media. It's a coping mechanism used by a lot of people who sense, in varying capacities, that something has gone rather wrong. It's a reaching for substance. This is not to say that nostalgia has never existed before now, but rather that the trends are indicative of a much more public, unified, and shared desire for the past than would otherwise exist is this issue were not so widespread.

I, too, find it to be quite sad how the "grey goo" is becoming increasingly hard to avoid online. I suppose it's better in the old style forums about niche topics than it is on the main line social media sites. Perhaps, in all of this, that will be the silver lining.
If you have to wrap it in parens, it might be shorter but it's not really clearer.

In other contexts, parens are a good indication it's time for a new line.

But I can agree something like this does look clean and clear:

if value := obj.get("key"):
...
It’s probably the same way monks copying books felt when the printing press came along. “Look at this mechanical, low-quality copy. It lacks all finesse and flourish of the pen!”

I agree with you that it is sad. And what is especially sad is that the result will probably be lower quality overall, but much cheaper. It’s the inevitable result of automation.
I haven't actually looked at the numbers but my impression is that all those attempts are coming from people from the more developed and less corrupt northern countries. Maybe from their perspective you can trust the state to do the right thing %100 of the time? I don't know if that's the case but whoever is coming up with these must be living under the rock because anyone following what's happening the last few years and especially the last few weeks must be terrified of giving too much information to the state because in fact the developments in the USA show us that the state can be captured and data can be accessed by people outside of the legal frameworks. Even if your state is perfect, your mortal enemy can indeed take over and have access to these tools to do god knows what.

I expect this attempt to fail like all previous attempts as there are enough people with sense in the EU.
Welcome to the great age of slop feedback loops.
Consider why it feels important to you to convince people to hate someone.
I was absolutely floored by the website, what a way to knock it out of the park.

I have never heard of this library before, but it’s going to stick in my head the next time I’m looking for a JS animation lib.

Definitely kinda highlights the importance of first impressions.
ahh, and flagged already!

in a previous age, say two months ago, it would be a career ending scandal for anyone senior to fire anyone based on what some fucking lunatic from Rumble said, but this is how eighty million Americans wanted the country run last year, and is how every single Republican politician wants it run now - if they didn't, they'd be speaking out and supporting impeachment.
Isn’t it a somewhat unfair characterization that ”C3 promotes itself more” and ”is pushed on HN and other social media” and that because of this C2 for some reason experiences harm?

C2 is over 11 years now. C3’s recent breakthrough this last half year is unlikely to have had much impact on its ability to grow the last 10 years.
Shodan (with account, not just talking about the public search page)
It does! That’s the I’ve been using. Rate limits after about 20-30 generations in an hour. Not sure what the exact numbers are though.
The client almost doesn't matter anymore. The real lock is on the server side, at least if you are a company.
Didn't rachelbytheebay post recently that her blog was being swamped?
I've heard that from a few self-hosting bloggers now. And Wikipedia
has recently said more than half of traffic is noe bots. ARe you
claiming this isn't a real problem?
Yeah, and because grub is too big. Says systemd, of all places.
The nice thing about using a potentiometer for position sensing is that you don't have to home the thing.

There are lots of alternative sensors, but most are bigger, heavier, or more expensive. If 1% precision is good enough, pots are fine. The next step up is Dynamixel servos, which have a nice daisy-chain digital interface, encoders, about the same form factor as toy-type servos, at about 10x the price.[1]

[1] https://www.robotis.us/dynamixel/
That’s one of the few reasons to leave the house. I’d like dishes and laundry bots first, please.
That seems to be a broken link
Also, `fn` is used to make type inference for lambdas syntactically simple. But I would lie if I said I haven’t been considering removing `fn` many times. But there are good reasons for keeping it, despite the break with C.
Does it allow you to make functions weak? Can you do something like gcc's constructor attribute?
I would assume this comes from having faith in the overall exponential trend rather than getting that much into the weeds of how this will come about. I can sort of see why you might think that way - everyone was talking about hitting a wall with brute force scaling and then inference time scaling comes along to keep things progressing. I wouldn't be quite as confident personally and as have many have said before, a sigmoid looks like an exponential in it's initial phase.
The US wouldn't as it taxes global income.

More generally, you'd probably get the OECD together and make a deal if you wanted to do this.

Not many billionaires will move to the Congo, regardless of how much they are taxed.
Another option for offline collaboration I'd like to suggest is sharing a keyboard with a friend. It's local-first.
That guy walked the talk. It would be virtue signaling if any of us did it, but not him.
I used LLM:s for content generation in july 2021. Of course that was when LLM:s were pretty bad.
This is not that novel. It is inspired by the similar feature in the Odin language.
> What Dies When Tradecraft Goes Passive?

Eventually, Brazil (1985) happens, to the detriment of Archibald [B]uttle, where everyone gives unquestionable trust to a flawed system.
I fed his college essay into ChatGPT and it absolutely roasted him.