skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the current US president’s DOJ (under Jeff Sessions) reinstated civil asset forfeiture in 2017, during Trump’s first term.

https://www.npr.org/2017/07/19/538148867/justice-department-...

It had been briefly paused by Barack Obama’s DOJ. But that’s a mixed situation because there was an astonishing amount of these seizures under Obama, and it was only in his last year in office - and after extensive coverage and reporting on this by Wapo and others in 2014 - that the DOJ paused it.

Sessions and Trump brought it right back.

While it was (at the end of the day) Obama’s DOJ, the decision to withdraw the practice was probably done independently by his DOJ, so I’m not going as far as crediting or blaming him personally.

Trump , on the other hand, went as far as appearing on TV with a bunch of deputies to talk about how wonderful asset forfeiture was and how good it was to have it back. Then took it one further and openly threatened a lawmaker who was opposed to it on CSPAN on the same visit.

I don’t have the first clip im referring to, it’s insanely bad optics but, the second one is on CSPAN and wapo covered it. (Paywalled):

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/02/07/trump...
Managing LLM application performance through code standards
I know you dont want to hear this but the other person you responded to is right. The problem here is that Illinois uses property taxes to fund schools when basically every other blue state uses a more equitable income tax based funding method. We need to vote for a fairer funding system.
Those are mostly hardware engineers, not software engineers, right?
> Or I mean the "pedo diver" thing was seven years ago, this was only just after pizzagate, it was a massive clue he was already deep in far right conspiracy theory subcultures.

I'm not sure I see that connection. At the time I though "pedo diver" was more throwing around stereotypes about Thailand and the kinds of people who travel there (e.g full of prostitution, and foreigners seeking it) than anything to do with pizzagate. Like a bullying "Oh you went to Thailand, you must be a pedo. Ha ha, look so-and-so is a pedo!"

> The article by his first wife came out around that time too which sure you could have just dismissed as pure fabrication. But already by then there was enough evidence aligned with it that it was wholly credible.

Can you link that article, or at least give a more specific cite?

> I ask that you read his words and connect the dots.

Can you spell it out more clearly, since I don't have enough time to pour over Elon Musk's words to repeat your analysis right now?
This helps me: don't do social media or any news or any thumb-memory-based anything in the morning. Don't grab your phone first thing. Just let your mind slowly warm up to work -- the legit work that you need to do. When your brain is pulled in many directions it feels overwhelmed, and starting the day that way compounds it.
Also C#:

bar = foo switch

{

true => 7,

false => 11

}
When Covid restrictions hit and I got to telework consistently I had to relearn this. For the first month or so, every time I passed by the home office I'd think, "Let's see if I got a response to..." or "I wonder how the build and tests are doing" and check. It was pointless and stupid, they weren't paying me for that time and it was distracting from time for my wife and I to do whatever we wanted to do.

Fortunately I realized just a few weeks in that I'd started doing that and changed my habits (went for a run as soon as the work day was done; shutdown, not just closed, the work laptop). That was enough for me to break the bad behavior and get my life back, but I have lots of colleagues who just can't do that. They'll check their email on the weekends or even at 2 in the morning on a weekday, when I'm living my life or sleeping. If the boss needs to tell me something critical on Saturday, they can call, I won't touch the computer again until Monday.
They'll convince 70% of people that the singularity will be achieved with the next model released.
Show HN: Provide LLMs markdown documentation of libraries and frameworks
Hey HN!

We realised that LLMs are great at generating code for super popular libraries like React. But they kinda suck at using less popular/newly released libraries, forcing us to stick to established tools and hindering innovation.

There is already a standard for creating documentation for LLMs (llmstxt.org), but in my experience the implementations have not been great so far. `llms.txt` works as a good index of the available pages, but in many cases they link to HTML pages. This is a waste for LLMs to parse through (For example, Hono's [best practices](https://hono.dev/docs/guides/best-practices) page is ~37k tokens, while its core content as Markdown is only ~1k tokens)

To help with this, we built Atlas Docs, a service + MCP server that provides LLMs with clean, LLM-friendly documentation for various libraries.

On the backend, it scrapes pages from documentation sites, processes them into standardized, clean markdown, and stores them into a database. It uses existing `llms.txt`, standardizes links, and crucially, generates a clean `llms.txt` index if the library doesn't provide one.

The MCP server exposes the processed documentation via the [Model Context Protocol](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/). This lets LLMs list search and query the docs and retrieve the relevant pages in clean Markdown format.

This gives LLMs the structured, concise context they need to generate better code and in our limited testing so far, it definitely improves success rate of working with less popular libraries.

If you’re using LLMs for coding, give it a try! You can find instructions to install it with any client that supports MCPs (Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, Claude Desktop etc).

We're actively adding more libraries. Let me know what you'd like to see supported!
One data point I have discovered: many organizations block wix.com by default, because it's popular with phishing actors who mock up Google/Apple/Microsoft logins on free accounts and Wix has been relatively slow to take those down.
Sure! Here's HP¹. You can look up others on your own:

```

Product Usage Data – We collect product usage data such as pages printed, print mode, media used, ink or toner brand, file type printed (.pdf, .jpg, etc.), application used for printing (Word, Excel, Adobe Photoshop, etc.), file size, time stamp, and usage and status of other printer supplies. We do not scan or collect the content of any file or information that might be displayed by an application.

Device Data – We collect information about your computer, printer and/or device such as operating system, firmware, amount of memory, region, language, time zone, model number, first start date, age of device, device manufacture date, browser version, device manufacturer, connection port, warranty status, unique device identifiers, advertising identifiers and additional technical information that varies by product.

```

¹ https://web.archive.org/web/20190828162443/https://www8.hp.c...
Ask HN: Do You Take Protein Suppliments? Any Noticeable Benefits?
I'm curious about people's experiences with protein suppliments, especially whey protein. Do you use it regularly? If so, what made you start?

Also, for those who don’t lift weights or engage in intense exercise, do you still take it? Have you noticed any benefits in terms of energy levels, recovery, or general well-being?

Would love to hear different perspectives!
Nintendo unveils Switch 2 ahead of June 5 launch
The book “Hope an Help for your nerves” by Claire Weekes is highly recommended.
The humble beginnings of Din Tai Fung
I would definitely like to chat about it. Right now, it's the main picture in mind towards getting some funding to push this project forward. So, I'd love to learn more about it.
I went almost caffeine free at one point. I once got a good buzz from 300g of 90% chocolate.

I say "almost" caffeine free because I still regularly ate chocolate. So I still had a little tolerance. Yet the difference between 50g of milk chocolate and 300g of 90% was very noticeable.
> For F# , you need some basic C# knowledge For Clojure, you need some basic Java knowledge For Elixir, you need some basic Erlang

Honestly, none of this really rings a bell. Having used all three options, I never felt that. Well, I already knew C# before getting into F#, but honestly, it felt like my C# knowledge at the time was more of a distraction. Been using Clojure for nine years, never done any serious Java and have not felt any need for it. Not knowing Erlang wasn't a problem with Elixir, like at all.
I'm inclined to agree with you here. As much as I'd love to see native apps from some big vendors (Adobe, in particular) if what it takes to get there is mass adoption of Linux on the desktop, I'm not sure I want it.

In a way, we already have it in the form of ChromeOS, and I certainly don't want ChromeOS or Android to be the default experience, or for the community to start to cater to that model.

All of the things Linux would need to become to get Windows level marketshare would strip away what makes it appealing in the first place, in particular, full user control. I don't want a nanny desktop, but that's exactly what it would become.

Linux can stay niche for those who appreciate it as it is.
I don't know if it'll help, but if everything you tried didn't solve your problem, search for "Anxiety - Kapil Gupta MD & Naval Ravikant" and "Be Free From a Chaotic Mind | Awakening" on youtube.
Is anyone else unable to access stack overflow? I'm getting a black page and an HTTP 418 "I'm a teapot" response code
He said it at shareholder meeting. You'd expect a higher level of probity when addressing the people who own your business? Unless he wasn't being straight with them?
>If you truly detox from caffeine even extremely small amounts will be noticeable.

Maybe for a subset of people. Otherwise kids will be getting crazy jitters the first time they eat chocolate (presumably before they ever drank coffee/tea), which obviously doesn't happen.
That's interesting, it's something I haven't really thought about.

There is some desire for less caffeine as it adds bitterness. Eugenioides, a parent species to arabica the commonly cultivated species, inherently has less caffeine and is said to have a remarkably sweet cup. It's had some attention in barista competitions in the last few years.
It would take a similarly isolated gov department to rate and set the difficulty. That one should probably not have a diploma.

That the system will be gamed is no real concern as that battle will continue forever. This version is at least capable of plugging the hole when enough people notice it.

The freedom to hold the generic office seems fine. For a specialized department some relevant experience and diplomas isn't a lot to ask. If unskilled employees could do a great job in any occupation we would see this in the private sector. I think it can just be left for judgement by the voter.
Depends on the chocolate type and how much you're eating. Milk chocolate has very low levels (~2mg per 28oz), but dark chocolate is ~15mg per 28oz. Coffee, at 24oz, would be around 275mg, depending.

I find it hard to believe that some folks would feel the caffeine in chocolate unless they ate an entire dark chocolate bar in one sitting, but I suppose it's possible.
Because valve puts in the ongoing effort.
Tell loki software they need to update the binaries of their games. Oh wait they don't exist anymore.
I'm surprised there was no human tested for a base reference point. I'm pretty sure some of us would not pass the test held by another human.
I must be dense, because I saw nothing useful at all about the Chinese Room argument.

Searle's translation book was essentially an LLM. Somehow (because it is a book?) we are to assume it cannot be in anyway like human intelligence despite it making convincing responses.
D2: Modern diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams
I was speaking directly to the reactive framework itself (which is a smart way to get around some limitations), the div salad it pushes developers to sustain, and the fact that they felt they had to rewrite HTML such that instead of typing <h2> devs have to type something like <Heading.

HTML is a pretty simple markup language and abstracting from it doesn't seem to make any sense.

And I think your theory about what I mean by "classic web design" is probably right; keeping the JS separate from mark-up is one example of how I wish I could go back in time.

But I can't. So it's time to learn to manage people who want to go this direction.

Meta wrote React for Facebook mainly, and most other projects won't touch that scale. In my organization's case it's like we're water-skiing behind an aircraft carrier. It's the wrong tool for the job, and having three people manage 37k lines of code (excluding libraries) is tough.
PowerShell has long commands and short aliases, but the aliases can still shadow executables, e.g. the `sc` alias for `Set-Content` shadows `sc.exe` for configuring services. And you only notice when you see no output and weird text files in the current working directory.
Mostly the only way to prevent AI bots from scraping your website nowadays
Accelerating Real-Time ML with Symbolic Python Interpreter
Python is the language of choice for many ML teams — it’s flexible, expressive, and has the right ergonomics for real-time workflows. But it’s also slow.

To make Python faster, I built a Symbolic Python Interpreter to make Chalk’s “Python resolvers” into optimized Velox-native expressions — enabling high-performance execution without sacrificing developer experience.

This post explains the problem I encountered, why it’s so challenging, and how we solved for it.
Show HN: PhotoMark – A super beautiful photo border tool (iOS)
Congrats on shipping this. It's similar to something that was in the back of my mind for a while. I'll give it a try!
As long as you match the phase of the positive and negative frequency components you'll get real output
> When prompted to adopt a humanlike persona, GPT-4.5 was judged to be the human 73% of the time: significantly more often than interrogators selected the real human participant.

That seems to mean that it failed the Turing test, because one can consistently distinguish between it and a human.
A durability test would be an interesting future article. I need to dig up my old backups and check how readable they are now.
Whoa. This is really cool. I've thought a lot about markup / configuration languages. Aside from types (won't get into typed/typeless here) there are basically just a few possible structures: lists, maps, tables (lists of maps with same keys), and trees (xml-like with nested nodes of particular types) are the ones I think about.

Most existing formats are really bad for at least one of these. Tables in JSON have tons of repetition. XML doesn't have a clear and obvious way to do maps. Almost anything other than XML is awkward at best for node trees.

Confetti seems to cover maps, trees, and non-nested lists really well, which isn't a combination any other format I'm aware of covers as well.

Nested lists and tables seem like they would be more awkward, though from what I can tell "-" is a legal argument, so you could do:

nestedlist {
- { - 1 ; - 2 }
- {
- { - a ; - b }
- { - c ; - d }
}
}

To get something like [[1, 2], [[a, b], [c, d]]]. Of course you could also name the items (item { item 1 ; item 2 }), but either way this is certainly more awkward than a nested list in JSON or YAML.

I think a table could be done like JSON/HTML with repeated keys, but maybe also like:

table name age favorite-color {
row Bob 87 red
row "Someone else" 106 "bright neon green"
}

This is actually pretty nice.

In any event, I love seeing more exploration of configuration languages, so thanks for sharing this!

My number 1 request is a parser on the documentation page that shows parse tree and converts to JSON or other formats so you can play with it.
Sorry about that! Just switched over to a book instead of a docs folder and didn't update the links. Just pushed a new version of the readme with updated links.

Here is the file I intended to link:
https://github.com/colinrozzi/theater/blob/main/book/src/why...
Mass layoffs hit workers at HHS: CDC, NIH, FDA
That is next generation sous vide. Just controlling temperature is ho-hum. Getting it to just the right ultrasonic vibration to "cross-modulate the adipose frequency" is next level.

And someone is already doing it:

https://besservacuum.com/en/ultrasonic-food-treatment-machin...
Neither had any discussion?
The average Windows 95 machine was loaded with bundled software all asking to pay for a full license. ISPs were advertised in connection wizards built-in to the OS.
Sorry to report, Trump's last administration was wildly enthusiastic about ramping up civil forfiture.
I didn't realize that it was proprietary, but that still doesn't really explain bundling an entire terminal emulator for something this simple...

(license.md should include the licenses for Ghostty and fzy - both MIT. Not sure that bundling their licenses in a file within Contents/Resources/ is sufficient.)
As in you have to build on an old distro? Or something else?
OT: The thing where I have to choose between ROCm or AmdGPU drivers is annoying.

Mostly stick to AmdGPU as it seems to work for other stuff, I'd like to be able to run the HIP stuff on there without having to change drivers.
The real story here is that the author and his coworker wasted a bunch of time tracking down this bug because their dev environment was badly set up.

> his system (MacOS) is not affected at all versus mine (Linux)

> nvm use v20 didn't fix it

If you are writing something like NodeJS, 99% of the time it will only ever be deployed server-side on Linux, most likely in a container.

As such, your dev environment should include a dev dockerfile and all of your work should be done from that container. This also has the added benefit of marginally sandboxing the thousands of mystery-meat NPM packages that you will no doubt be downloading from the rest of your machine.

There is zero reason to even mess with a "works on my machine" or a "try a different node version" situation on this kind of NodeJS project. Figure out your dependencies, codify them in your container definition, and move on. Oh, your tests work on MacOS? Great, it could not matter less because you're not deploying there.

Honestly, kind of shocking that a company like Cloudflare wouldn't have more standard development practices in place.
Abundance's main thesis isnt about policy at all, as the OPs author points out. Their main thesis is that democrats have lost the trust of the voters because they are too focused on process instead of results. Klein and co call for incremental policy change but even beyond that they call for a reorganization of the bureaucratic state which would require no policy change at all.
There are likely a number of beneficial bots[0] running from cloud providers. And residential proxies are also widely available for very determined scrapers.

[0]: <https://stuartgeiger.com/talks/2013-08-03-wikisym-levee-brea...>
I am also in the EU and last year I have purchased a YIXIANG DIY battery case and 16 EVE MB31 cells for a combined cost of less than 2000 EUR without VAT.

It was shipped from China so I had to wait ~2 months to get it which is a disadvantage. Local warehouse stock was slightly more expensive.
... and they are picked out in a conversation. As the conversant who is supposedly "less Human". TBH, that suggests some flaw either in the test or in people's presumptions regarding how humans behave.
Sure we can. Pick the one that sounds more human and it's likely an AI.
I haven't put it up in a github repo yet, it's not finished enough, but I will after spending a little more time hacking on it. I'll try to remember to come back here to comment when I do =)

Using effect really doesn't introduce anything special -- plain async typescript functions would work fine too. My approach is certainly a lot less sophisticated than yours with Graft or SQLSync! I just like using Effect. It makes working with typescript a lot more pleasant.
You give me a deadline and I find out it's fake then at least one of us is going to be looking for a new job.
The website is India-based, so they may be talking about the consulting offices in India.
> In Asia and Australia, people tend to prefer tea.

Maybe, but Taiwan and Australia have some of the best coffee these days.
Ask HN: How to build a small community to launch a fitness app?
The app is a fitness app with gamification, we are planning to launch in may but we are having problems building a small community fot testing the app and have feedback of it, any ideas of how can we get people interested in the app?
Show HN: Bob Ross' Colors in CSS
You are required to have hands on the steering wheel all the time in China. The driver should be in control all the time.
Are diffraction spikes of light not present because everything in the picture is a galaxy and not stars? Or do they remove them now with processing?

Here’s what I mean:
https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/01G529MX46J7...
You don't need a VC if your sitting on $415,9 Million.
Naming your source control tool after a common mistyping of ls is such a Facebook move.
How Japan's copyright laws allowed ChatGPT to 'steal' Studio Ghibli's work
> What bits of java have you ended up needing?

The same with Clojurescript and JS (and probably with Clojure-Dart) - you have nice interop with the hosting platform. The need for learning anything about Java (while writing Clojure) basically boils down to finding API documentation for a specific class and simply using it. That's all. That's all you'd ever need.
Another relevant project: https://zero.rocicorp.dev/
They call the cherries cascara, and I have come across them in some specialty coffee shops packaged just like the beans. You can pour hot (not boiling) water over them and prepare a tea-like infusion. It tastes sweet-ish without adding anything else. It gives a pretty noticeable kick to me when I drink it, even though I am a regular coffee drinker. I think it is worth a try, if you haven't done so yet.
So on the one hand you admit that IG or TikTok are things where people literally consume whatever is in front of them, but when it's Netflix this no longer applies? Why?

And I never suggested preventing people from watching what they want to watch.
To be clear, Taiyo Yuden sold their patents and manuf equipment to CMC Magnetics in Taiwan.

I never heard of Falcon Tech Int'l before today. I found info about their CD-Rs/DVD-Rs here: https://falconrak.com/product/products-matrix-2/
> that suggests some flaw either in the test or in people's presumptions regarding how humans behave

Both. The Turing test is silly because it tests people's prejudices and presuppositions about machines, not objectively the machines themselves.

Also people's presumptions will quickly change as we get used to LLM output and we'll start detecting LLM speech with greater precision.
RTX 5090?
Hope and Help for Your Nerves By Claire Weekes
this is good: https://github.com/rwos/gti
> I've never really understood what people mean when they talk about recovery. Is this something you can feel? Or does it mean you couldn't lift the same weights the very next day or something?

If you've never felt like your body was beat up for 1-2 days afterwards, then I'd suggest you've never pushed your exertion level high enough. You can certainly make good progress relatively far away from failure up to a certain point, but eventually that won't be good enough. I'd suggest your overall volume on the muscle you're hitting probably wasn't high enough. If you're just sticking to 3x5 with a simple progression, then that's pretty limiting.