skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Hackers" in the Hollywood sense of the term, which applies here, are a red flag in many real-world scenarios.
It would be politically motivated to ignore it.
I seems to have read somewhere that there are really only three ACPI implementations: Microsofts, Intels (used in Linux and FreeBSD, among others) and OpenBSDs. So I wonder if VMW might be a fourth, or if they are also using the Intel implementation.
Good programming manuals that were delivered with the computers and with the compilers/interpreters have existed about for the entire time when MS-DOS was dominant, i.e. from the launch of IBM PC in 1981, which always had things like a commented BIOS listing, which was very instructive, and detailed documentation of all its hardware peripherals, until the mid nineties, i.e. until Windows 95.

Until the early nineties, the compilers and interpreters from companies like Borland and Microsoft came with big excellent programming manuals demonstrating how to use them.

Also any complex commercial application for MS-DOS, e.g. AutoCAD, Lotus 1-2-3, the BRIEF editor for programmers etc., would have voluminous manuals, including sections on how to write scripts in whatever embedded scripting language they were using.

Only for the users of pirated copies of MS-DOS, compilers etc., the access to manuals was more difficult and some of them may have even not been aware of what manuals were normally available for the legitimate owners. Most IBM PC clones also did not have much documentation delivered with them. Since they were made to be compatible with IBM, it was supposed that anyone who needs them will buy the original IBM manuals.

Since Windows 95, the vendors of hardware PC peripherals have stopped providing documentation for them, providing closed-source Windows device drivers instead, but before that, whenever I was buying some PC add-on card, it typically came with a manual providing enough information about control registers etc., that I was able to write an MS-DOS device driver myself, if necessary.
Garbage in/ garbage out is what will happen without human curated sources verified by experts on their field.
There are politicians in multiple states trying to pass laws that slow down the deployment of renewable energy because they’re afraid if they don’t intervene it will be deployed too quickly and harm fossil fuel interests. Trump is promising to bring back coal, while he bans new wind leases. The whole “oil is the only way aw shucks people chose it” shtick is like a time capsule from 1990. That whole package of beliefs served its purpose and has been replaced with a muscular state-sponsored plan to defend fossil fuel interests even as they become economically obsolete and the rest of the world moves on.
HP oscilloscopes were pretty good too, back when . But I haven't been there for many years, and I guess you can get good, cheap, LCD ones today for much less money.

And rotating rusty hard drives, I suppose. But still all gone.

And don't get me started on American urinals!
Spot on with EU following China's lead; so now the rest of the world is seeing China as a leader ... not quite what was intended?
> I don't see it. What I see is post-hoc rationalisation to justify lust for a feeling of power and control over others.

There's always two sides to a medal. I think that the executive branches of government - across the Western world - suffer from lethargy caused because barely anyone in public service is willing to question, much less stretch or even bend, the rules in power.

A government obviously cannot be purely made out of rulebreakers and, frankly, toddlers and imbeciles. We see this in the current US administration. But it cannot be made out of "we always did it this way" people either, because that's how you end up with systems and processes that are so hopelessly fossilized that no one even understands why these systems are the way they are.
Information on the attack is scarce, but it sounds like attackers obtained credentials from prior breaches and used them against super funds. It is shameful that many of these funds have not yet implemented MFA in this day and age, but it's not like the actual fund got compromised.

Obviously, information at the moment is very light so this understanding may change, but this is the current position.
You don't have tariff regimes within the common market, that's true. You do have tariffs on goods that are imported from any country other than the 24 in the EEA.
The paper link https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08759-9
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That's why I prefer Science Alert and their RSS'.
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ADHD Planner by Lately
Hey Hackers,

Lately is my first Swift app and is built to help people leave on time.

I find leaving on time stressful and difficult so I built Lately to help anyone struggling to leave on time.

The app is also gamified so you get points when you arrive on time.

Please let me know what you think!
I'd love to know your thoughts and whether you also find leaving on time stressful and difficult.

Btw there is a free version available with all the necessary features you'd need.
That's all well and good, but if you're looking for a language that will survive for decades, then BASH or shell scripts are a better choice. Often, there'll be some ancient machine that's been almost forgotten about and will die and need replacing. I can trivially copy a 30-year old BASH script and run it on a new machine, but can you do that with a 30-year old Python programme? How will today's Python survive the next 30 years?
> but I also don't like the idea of turning something like meat into a luxury good where only well-off people can afford it.

Why is that? What are the downsides of this scenario? Genuinely curious, as I believe this has been the norm historically.
> Reuters noted that the Deputy Attorney General’s office is in charge of investigations into various crimes, "including hacking and other malicious cyber activity."

Assuming this is true, wouldn't a history of hacking activity actually be an upside? I don't like Musk but I'm not a fan of the negative spin. Hell, when I was 15 I'm sure some things I did could now be charged as "hacking" or "cyberterrorism" or something much harsher than the actual reality under today's laws.

edit after reading further along:

> Among them was Jonathan Rusch, a 25-year DOJ veteran prosecutor now in academia, who told Reuters that Stanley's apparent history of disclosing illegally acquired data should have prompted "serious concerns."

Is this guy a veteran who prosecutes, a guy who prosecutes veterans, or something else? It feels even weirder to spin the Doge employees as inexperienced kids (which they may be) but then to call a 25 year old critic a veteran prosecutor.
The founder does. See: https://x.com/shl/status/1908090697984426227
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Since you make no argument to justify your unfounded claim, I’ll simply respond by informing you that these (obviously) are not remotely similar. To claim they are indicates some kind of deep disrespect for your fellow human beings. You could not tell the difference between taking a screen shot of the Mona Lisa and spending a lifetime to perfect the art of painting and then putting years of effort into painting it.
Wait, there are attacks on universities? Or are we just using that word for any expression of free speech?
All I see is you making sweeping claims no justification or any information, data, or anything at all to back it up. Saying "The math doesn't work" when we literally could convert current welfare to $4 grand a year for every American adult as UBI means you are just flat out wrong.
So true. A very misleading title. This license is far away of any approved OSI or FSF Foss license.
Gumroad is a great service, the value is imho not in the software. But in the execution of it’s mission and the very simple way to lower the bar to sell digital goods without upfront costs.
My understanding is that even nutrition packaging is often off by up to 30%. Sorry, no source, just what I’ve heard a number of times. If I want to diet I typically build this in and it works well. If they’re actually off by 10% that’s not terrible.

But I tried one of these apps years ago and it went a step further than photos. It used the front facing camera on iPhones to build a 3d model of the food and measure its volume as well. Even that was off by more up to 50% not 10%.

The interesting thing I found, and it’s obvious when you read it but not when you’re trying to diet, is if you don’t layer food on top of itself or other food, you (and a camera based calorie counter) will have a much better understanding of how much you’re eating. Bowls / mounds of food will deceive you.
You can have growing deficits without actually "selling the nation" when you account for growth and inflation.

Say foreigners own 50% of US assets. When someone creates in the US a company ex nihilo and sells 10% of it to foreign investors, even though foreigners bought more US assets, this new wealth creation causes the % of foreign-owned US assets to diminish.

When foreign investors own US bonds, as inflation increases and the money supply increases, they end up owning less in real terms.

This doesn't account for investments that are limited in quantity such as real estate.

Also just because those are opposing forces, doesn't mean that foreign ownership wouldn't increase. As a matter of fact, when looking at the foreign ownership of US stocks, it has been steadily increasing.
Modules don’t imply namespaces. You can run into the same problem with modules. For example, C libraries don’t implicitly have namespaces. And the problem can be easily solved by the repository maintaining a function index, without having to change anything about the modules.
I don’t believe so. I think all important parts that each need to be scaled to advance significantly in the LLM paradigm are at or near the end of the steep part of the sigmoid:

1) useful training data available in the internet
2) number of humans creating more training data ”manually”
3) parameter scaling
4) ”easy” algorithmic inventions
5) available+buildable compute

”Just” needing a few more algorithmic inventions to keep the graphs exponential is a cop out. It is already obvious that just scaling parameters and compute is not enough.

I personally predict that scaling LLMs for solving all physical tasks (eg cleaning robots) or intellectual pursuits (they suck at multiplication) will not work out.

We will get better specialized tools by collecting data from specific, high economic value, constrained tasks, and automating them, but scaling a (multimodal) LLM to solve everything in a single model will not be economically viable. We will get more natural interfaces for many tasks.

This is how I think right now as a ML researcher, will be interesting to see how wrong was I in 2 years.

EDIT: addition about latest algorithmic advances:

- Deepseek style GRPO requires a ladder of scored problems progressively more difficult and appropriate to get useful gradients. For open-ended problems (like most interesting ones are) we have no ladders for, and it doesn’t work. In particular, learning to generate code for leetcode problems with a good number of well made unit tests is what it is good for.

- Test-time inference is just adding an insane amount of more compute after training to brute-force double-check the sanity of answers

Neither will keep the graphs exponential.
GPT-2 was released in 2019. ChatGPT wasn't the first publicly available LLM.
I think interstate commerce law is intended to minimize inefficiencies due to that? I'm not sure.
Remember the markets are still pricing in some hopeium that Trump will blink or the congress or courts will block the tariffs or that Trump will be impeached if the tariffs do too much damage. As the tariffs remain the markets will continue down.

Trump is everything you don't want in this situation -- ideologically attached to tariffs, not educated in basic economics, cognitively inflexible, tunnel visioned on trade imbalances, possesses a zero sum worldview his whole life, stubborn, shameless, and surrounded by sycophants. It's bad.
What a non-story.

TL;DR

Approx 20 years ago, whilst still a child, a staffer in a contempory politically unpopular US gov dept, bragged on the internet.

Just to note: I'm no trump administration supporter and wouldn't be even if I was American.
I'd forgive a few of those. Unicode is Unicode. The for loop capture behaviour makes sense to me. Missing semis should also be in your linter. Sparse arrays is the sort of feature you'd read up on if you use and not rely on intuition. It makes sense that if you loop over a sparse thing the looping is sparse too.
I haven't followed Gumroad much, but I remember them being very pro freedom and having some interesting hiring practices. IIRC they were all being paid equally (based on position and hours of work) and had no meetings. Now I see a Code of Conduct.
Things are also being labelled left/right, where they really should be labelled humane/inhumane or normal/sociopathy, criminal/not.
Until they become majority shareholders or outright owners.

In the short-term it may turn out to be fine, but over the long run, you have to pray the foreign owners' values are aligned with American success (keeping Americans employed, building value and not asset stripping the company).

Though I will admit recently I don't even feel like even American owners' values are aligned with American success.
I feel like this was a lot of people that grew up on the computers and the Internet in the 90s/early 2000s before social media took off. If anything this gives him credibility. Beats being a boot camp graduate normie.
Vietnam and Cambodia moving even more into China's influence is one outcome, undermining the China containment strategy that many conservatives say they want.
Boring article
> We, the people, have the power to improve this situation. Call your representatives, do activism, talk to your friends about it, vote for the right candidates.

And stop eating meat and fish! It's insane for many reasons even if you don't care about how the animals are treated:

* Biodiversity loss: because we kill everything in the sea by fishing, and we kill everything in the fields for intensive agriculture (which is needed to feed the cattle). And because of deforestation of course.
* Antibiotic-resistance: because putting so many animals (fishes or cows) together brings diseases we need to treat.
* CO2 emissions: it's super inefficient, we all know it.

Not being a vegetarian in 2025 is just completely unreasonable.

We had Greta Thunberg talking to politicians, but actually I'm looking forward to when kids will ask their parents: "So you know you are killing us in so many ways, and you can't be arsed to eat less meat? Aren't you supposed to care about us?"
The risk is a quantifiable 0.0%? I find that hard to believe. I think the current trends suggest there is a risk that continued environmental destruction could annihilate society.
>Healthcare, Social Security, Raising Minimum Wage, and other efforts to improve quality of life for Americans.

But then why are they supported, for the most part, not by the most oppressed masses, but by the oppressive elites?
The desperate attempt to decouple the economy finally from reality entirely.
Maintain a personal LLM coding benchmark
Call that tip to tip efficiency ;)

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmwYxLaaQ5s (reference - which really fits this whole thread)
Your examples are not about politics per se, but motivation.
The rest of the world will just cut out the US. Trade isn't over because the orange throne commands it.

Even the creative industries are feeling the change. Spin up Netflix and you'll see Korean and Japanese series on the front page.
Please write this down and keep it. In 10-15 years from now, explain to your kids that you knew, but you proudly didn't give a shit.
Actually I think long tail revenue is quite well correlated with a property being a hit. Netflix paid $500m for the rights to Seinfeld 20 years after the show ended. Star Wars is still huge, nearly 50 years after the release of the original. Disney in general has ruthlessly mined its back catalog; they just printed another $700m from a Lion King prequel, whose value lay largely in the good will still hanging over from the original, which they still own, and which is still absolutely a valuable asset despite being 30 years old. Back catalogs are huge deals. Amazon paid $8bn for MGM to boost its Prime Video content library. Streaming has opened up long tail revenue opportunities beyond the box office that never existed before.
Xennial here, too, and I muse about this often. I don't think I'd ever framed it quite like you have, that I'm a part of the last group of people who don't have our youthful misdeeds immortalized on the internet. That's a big one, to be sure.

But I do think of other aspects. People born from the late '90s onward don't really know a world without the WWW, and don't (or barely) remember a world without smartphones and tablets. They don't remember a time before texting. A time when you had to plan ahead if you wanted to meet your friends somewhere, and if something went wrong, it was difficult to communicate to figure out what was going on.

They don't remember when getting computers to do things was hard. When it was common to build your own machine from parts, and when you'd almost always upgrade parts in your existing computer instead of buying a new one. They don't remember when laptops were a luxury, and when people instead brought pencil and paper to class so they could take notes. They don't remember floppy disks, and many don't remember CD-ROM or DVD-ROM, or their burnable counterparts.

They don't remember printing out directions, and not having GPS navigation in their pockets. They don't remember having to use paper maps, and actually plan out routes ahead of time for any non-trivial car trip.

They don't remember CRT TVs in classrooms, or "portable" film projectors. They don't remember slides or overhead projectors or microfilm. They don't remember bulky camcorders that recorded to VHS tapes. Everything is high definition for them. Many younger folks have never seen a music CD or cassette tape; ironically many have seen vinyl since it's become retro-popular again.

Certainly there are things that we don't (or barely) remember, like "party line" phones and black-and-white-only TVs. But man, it seems like there was an unusually huge burst of technological progress while we were growing up.
Chrome developers keep adding unhinged complicated “features” that nobody wants or asked for and immediately are abused and broken.

Numerous autoplaying video methods for example especially when they follow the mouse, play in the background, or use lazy loading to be unkillable.

Speaking of lazy loading or whatever hundreds of variations probably exist around it now, the terrible front end devs of the world have decided to use that for everything. Everything is a sliding panel full of sliding panels and there’s no way to use browser back features coherently.

Scrolling down a site now loads a new site and destroys your history. Even if you scrolled to move content up because an autoplaying video anchored to the bottom of the screen is blocking the view. Scroll down too far causes a jump and the site decides you’re done and loads the next thing with no way to navigate back.

How do these developers have a job? How are features like this even invented with no critical thought or understanding of real world use cases questioned. It’s again and again and again that we see this.

And the Google team is so proud every time with their demo videos that is painfully obvious they put no thought into it outside of their bubble of them deciding some random thing was technically possible to do as a proof of concept and should therefore be immediately released as a fully supported feature.
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Style can’t be copyrighted. It can’t be patented either.

When Wes Anderson makes films that use techniques from the French New Wave that he didn’t invent is that wrong? When there is a DaVinci color profile that resembles what they did in Spider-Man, is that wrong?

The unique techniques of French New Wave filmmaking became cliche. Then Oliver Stone and Tarantino came along and evolved it into their unique styles. That the Studio Ghibli style is being imitated en mass is just natural evolution. Should that guy be the only one that can do that style? If that’s the case, then literally every creative work should be considered forgeries.

The AI aspect of this is a red herring. If I make a Ghibli style film “by hand” is that any different than AI? Of course not, I didn’t invent the style.

Another perspective, darkroom burning and dodging is a very old technique yet photoshop makes it trivial — should that tool be criticized because someone else did it the old and slow way first?
By the time licensing becomes relevant, your business is built around the platform and this gives Gumroad an unreasonable advantage in any negotiations. Imagine what they could say:

- You're now a competitor. Stop using our software (you can still sell on gumroad.com, hint hint)

- Give us 20% for 1 year (next year, who knows...)

- We won't give you a license, but we'll buy you out for next to nothing.
How do you feel about Aaron Schwartz?
>I often wonder what would happen if we went back to those people, showed them how it is to live in a city now (concrete everywhere, roads everywhere, buildings everywhere) and asked them if they would ever want that.

Sure, but also show them improved sanitation, cheaper food, safety, etc.
Crypto or AI?
It's also not Free Software, as it also violates the Free Software definition[0].

0. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html
You don’t just beat around the bush here. You actually beat the bush a few times.

Large corporations, governments, institutionalized churches, political parties, and other “corporate” institutions are very much like a hypothetical AGI in many ways: they are immortal, sleepless, distributed, omnipresent, and possess beyond human levels of combined intelligence, wealth, and power. They are mechanical Turk AGIs more or less. Look at how humans cycle in, out, and through them, often without changing them much, because they have an existence and a weird kind of will independent of their members.

A whole lot, perhaps all, of what we need to do to prepare for a hypothetical AGI that may or may not be aligned consists of things we should be doing to restrain and ensure alignment of the mechanical Turk variety. If we can’t do that we have no chance against something faster and smarter.

What we have done over the past 50 years is the opposite: not just unchain them but drop any notion that they should be aligned.

Are we sure the AI alignment discourse isn’t just “occulted” progressive political discourse? Back when they burned witches philosophers would encrypt possibly heretical ideas in the form of impenetrable nonsense, which is where what we call occultism comes from. You don’t get burned for suggesting steps to align corporate power, but a huge effort has been made to marginalize such discourse.

Consider a potential future AGI. Imagine it has a cult of followers around it, which it probably would, and champions that act like present day politicians or CEOs for it, which it probably would. If it did not get humans to do these things for it, it would have analogous functions or parts of itself.

Now consider a corporation or other corporate entity that has all those things but replace the AGI digital brain with a committee or shareholders.

What, really, is the difference? Both can be dangerously unaligned.

Other than perhaps in magnitude? The real digital AGI might be smarter and faster but that’s the only difference I see.