skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really hilarious, India’s practices are orders of magnitudes worse.

They just don’t get the press, and no one expects better, so….
FUTO open-sources 1M row keyboard swipe dataset
The withering side-eye Chuck gives to Yoko when she does her thing still gets me.
It's an okayish tool.

After using it for a few years, accumulated enough quirks to significantly diminish my initial enthusiasm. The concurrency gotchas, the utter lack of debugging and profiling tools, the weak management of today's most common deployment models (e.g. Docker/containers and cloud services)...it's not "good" by 2025 standards.

I'm sure enterprises still do use it. But they also still use RPG, PL/I, and IMS. So...
I think that a significant cause of homelessness is unaffordable housing. In 2025 housing affordability is better in Republican-run states like Texas because the state governments allow more housing to be constructed. Because housing is more abundant and cheaper, the population is growing faster. (This is why the Electoral College is on track to become more biased in favor of Republicans after the 2030 Census: the US population is disproportionately growing in Republican states.)

For context I'm a center-left person, but at this point I'm pretty fed up with the standard California Democrat stance of simultaneously saying that housing affordability is really important but also using many tools of government to actually block housing construction.
That doesn't mean they use them to the fullest, and GOPers are really, really into avoiding taxes. It's like a religion to them, and they are about to crush our economy to make more absurd tax cuts for their rich friends and sycophants.
I knew it was gonna be dimitry from reading the title
If the El Salvadorian gov't is corrupt enough to run an international pay-based prison, couldn't they also accept a payment, from anyone, for releasing an international prisoner? The logistics after release would be secondary but at least we'd know they aren't being abused in what is effectively a dark-site.

But if the current administration is offering $20k a year for imprisonment (rough guess) then they might want $200k to free him.
There are US citizens who want to shoot gays, kill people different in creed or heritage, and bomb people for religious reasons. We had the gay panic defense (the legal defense to kill gay people just because you found out they were gay, and the shock justified you killing them). We had people shooting sikhs assuming they're muslim. We had folks bombing abortion clinics. There are US citizens who have done far more, and far worse, than writing an op-ed or taking over a building.

So, frankly, why not treat these people the same we treated like these other folk-- a trial and then appropriate punishment proven in the court of law. If an immigrant is violating the terms of their visa, the US gov't can prove it in their own courts and then deport them appropriately.
`auto` is still using static typing, and is a tool for type inference. A dynamically typed version might look equivalent but would behave differently, failing at runtime rather than compile time.
Not sure if compliment or insult :)
Microsoft birthday celebration interrupted by employees protesting use of AI
For those who disagree with this, when was the last time you thanked your boss for your paycheck?
Seems like the poetic ability of culture to comment on itself while simultaneously lacking self-awareness.

(the article is what it cricisizes. It tells how the author uses it (or not), it is talking about it like everyone else, it is vilifying it like everyone else, etc...)

(it's thus a clever critique by itself being the subject of criticism. The reader senses there is a higher level criticism, but can't really be sure. The reader must even suspect AI wrote it. The reader can sense something... But it's all potentially hollow, like nothing there, just appearance)
This is really neat idea and implementation. Kudos!
It's more of a UI/UX problem than a hard limitation. For uses cases that require collaboration with offline editing, the person that last merges might be given a split view to sync their changes.

Again, syntactically possible, semantically harder, but it depends on your use-case plus additional constraints (eg max offline time). Maybe not a fully automatic system, but still very useful.
Barrel-rotor flying car prototype begins flight testing
Use the .com.au variant to find listings, as Australian law requires they list the full price, inclusive of tax and fees.
> No one can legally stop you from writing your own story about a boy wizard who goes to school

This is doing exactly that, except for an image. They didn't ask for a picture of Harry Potter, they asked for an image of a boy wizard and were prevented. The actual IP holder probably didn't implement these specific restrictions but it falls into the category I'm talking about, the idea that they own everything. It shouldn't be up to the image generator to say I can't get a picture of Harry Potter, it should be up to me whether or not I try to sell that image and risk getting busted for it. That's where copyright comes into play, as far I understand.
+1 for Simon prince’s UDL book. Very clearly written
I had a vaguely similar notion of a global proof database. Picture something like a blockchain (actually a "blockgraph") of Lean theorems built up from other theorems and axioms also on the same distributed global data structure.

A use-case could be optimising compilers. These need to search for alternative (faster) series of statements that are provably equivalent to the original given some axioms about the behaviour of the underlying machine code and basic boolean algebra and integer mathematics.

This could be monetised: Theorems along the shortest path from a desired proof to the axioms are rewarded. New theorems can be added by anyone at any time, but would generate zero income unless they improve the state-of-the-art. Shortest-path searches through the data structure would remain efficient because of this incentive.

Client tools such as compilers could come with monthly subscriptions and/or some other mechanism for payments, possibly reusing some existing crypto coin. These tools advertise desired proofs -- just like how blockchain clients advertise transactions they like to complete along with a fee -- and then the community can find new theorems to reach those proofs, hoping not just for the one-time payment, but the ongoing reward if the theorems are general and reusable for other purposes.

Imagine you're a FAANG and there's some core algorithm that uses 1% of your global compute. You could advertise a desire to improve the algorithm or the assembly code to be twice as efficient for $1M. Almost certainly, this is worth it. If no proof turns up, there's no payment. If a proof does turn up, a smart contract debits the FAANG's crypto account and they receive the chain of theorems proving that there's a more efficient algorithm, which will save them millions of USD in infrastructure costs. Maths geeks, AI bots, and whomever else contributed to the proof get their share of the $1M prize.

It's like... Uber for Fields medals, used for industrial computing.

Fully automated gig work for computer scientists and mathematicians.
Nvidia ACE Agent
Mega-tangent: As a host, I feel compelled to rant about Airbnb whenever they come up in a discussion.

The last 2 years they have _really_ moved to squeeze the hosts. The customer service has been demolished and they seem to have taken a stance of "the guest is always right". I've spent countless hours going through their customer service as a super host, so I know I have a decent amount of anecdata.

My suspicion is that they found themselves with more supply than demand, so they are "improving the guest experience" at the expense of the hosts. Since they are a quasi-monopoly (depends on the market) it makes sense for them to prune supply in exchange for better guest experience, a full market approach makes less sense since they make money in proportion to the total amount of money transacted (which as a monopoly it can optimize for in the way a free market can't).

But I think this will blowback sooner or later. The biggest value for an Airbnb guest is the review system that allows you to have some degree of certainty of what you are getting. The biggest value for a host is the massive global audience. But guests and hosts, pay a steep fee (17%!) for this. For well-reviewed, long-living stays (like mine :)), paying 17% is way too much to access this audience: the listing already has an online record that provides that quality assurance for the guest, and the host could spend that money on advertising.

So that's what many of us are doing, moving to PMS + paid advertising / SEO to diversify on distribution channels. I think there's an opportunity for capturing that semi-pro host market and bundling them in a similar offering that 1) doesn't squeeze them, 2) offers a proper PMS software, and 3) charges a flat fee instead of a variable rate.
Note that the constants in the PDF are in Octal!
The weirdest thing is that Denmark is a member of the European Common Security and Defence Policy. EU countries would be obligated to help defend Greenland. Any military action toward Greenland would essentially mean that US declares war on Europe. Nobody seems to mention this. We live in a weird post-facts world.
Thank you for this. Many people today don't realize just how influential DEC was on early computing.
Show HN: Duolingo but for Weather
Your argument seems like it might confuse cause and effect. Would adventure games have gone away anyway because no one played them after the 90s, or did no one play them after the 90s because their biggest creator, Sierra, got pushed out, as described in the article, so no one was making them?
Popper and "the paradox of tolerance" to the rescue. You can, and should, tolerate anything but intolerance.
All three of those tools immediately felt, to me, like the wrong approach the moment I first experienced Docker. The notion that production infrastructure should be mutable and we use automation to make changes to it just introduces so much more state than is necessary. Immutable infrastructure eliminates so many sources issues.

And I think that's where the comment you're responding to is coming from. Once you've experienced Docker/K8s and, to a lesser extent, IaC tools like Terraform, it's hard to see yourself ever going back to tools like Chef in the same way that tools like Chef made it hard to see going back to a world where we configured servers manually.
Is this a "model" as in a set of transformer weights that inherently does security work or is it a system that has data lookup and or other tools along with an LLM to do the question interpretation, synthesis, and output presentation?

From the description re data integrations it sounds like the latter, unless the data mentioned is in fact used for training.

The distinction is important because a security-tuned model will have different limitations and uses than an actual pre-build security LLM app. Being an app also makes benchmarking against other "models" less straightforward.
To you, sure. To others, maybe not. Whether something is expensive (in money or time) is relative.
JPMorgan analysts say recession risk increased to 60% since Trump's tariffs
Trump extends TikTok deadline for the second time
I read both The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and wasn't impressed by either. The author never got the "show, not tell" memo. Long, long speeches.

(In the movie version of The Fountainhead, Howard Roarke's architecture is terrible. His buildings resemble 1960s US housing projects such as the Robert Taylor Homes in Chicago. There's good minimalism, but that's not it.)
What do you do with your 6502?
Generating Medically-Informed Explanations for Depression Detection Using LLMs
Everything you said is true. It could be abused.

So could guns, and they already have been many times.

I don't see why this thing is higher risk than that thing which is already allowed and common?
It's not a mistake because someone doesn't subscribe to the same definition as you. There are 2 widely competing definitions that are both perfectly valid, if you want to be more specific you can say "not OSI approved" to more accurately reflect what you're talking about, if you don't want to do that then you can understand how others feel.
It's pretty easy to say "Oh yes, genre _____ died, therefore it was doomed to die" rather than evaluating whether it died because it failed to meaningfully evolve.

I remember in the early aughts people deemed the beat-em-up genre "dead" because there were a high-profile string of early attempts that failed to successfully translate the game experience from 2D to 3D. Fighting Force and The Bouncer were two big examples I can think of that failed miserably. Sword of the Berserk was another attempt, which had some nice production values but pretty forgettable gameplay.

So the beat-em-up genre was likely to fade from existence...until Devil May Cry came along and arguably revitalized the genre (or turned it into the "3D hack-and-slash" genre, depending on you who ask). It showed the industry how to do the gameplay properly in 3D, and now the genre is as popular as ever.

All of which is to say...there's no reason why the Adventure genre could not have persisted into the modern day, had the right game/developer come along.
Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders over tariff concerns
"A study funded by the German government ..." bla bla bla

I mean, the Deutschlandticket is finance by taxes, so it is no surprise, that a study financed by the government, that is responsible for the taxes, reveals only good things.
This isn't new at all - MajorBBS/Worldgroup had a module called Hoteleconference that did this, which if I remember correctly, you could do "world building" to design rooms, descriptions, actions, etc. much like a mud but with a more social context.
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
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Technologies: React, Typescript, Python, AWS, Postgresql, LLM apps, image segmentation / ML, datalakes
Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uuq8KB2uVcMB0l5zJR-8Nruca_OgRQpIkVX1Dv-p9s4/edit?usp=sharing
Email: brad.bdavis1@gmail.com

I am a senior software engineer recently working at Ginkgo Bioworks on data engineering and full stack development on strain sequence databases and metadata. I spent around 50% of my time working with lab teams to get their lab data into structured database and the other 50% working with the data science team and people across the company to develop actionable insights from the experiments that were run.

I am interested in applying LLMs and ML to applications to improve the user experience and integrating them into the software development lifecycle. I also get obsessed with company OKRs/KPIs and metrics for tracking success.
That's underselling her influence as an artist from her pre-Beatles period. She produced a handful of important avant-garde pieces and performances from the 60s in NYC and London and was a student and collaborator of John Cage, an extremely influential composer who has had dozens of exhibitions at MoMA. In fact she first met The Beatles to request a song manuscript for a Cage book.

She was also well connected to that world (she was invited to join the Fluxus community and artists like Marcel Duchamp attended her NYC loft parties) and quite ambitious, so there's a non-zero chance she would have become even more prominent had The Beatles association never taken place.

I have no interest in that world myself, but to say she was a nobody without The Beatles simply isn't true, she was definitely a rising star. A household name? Probably not, but possibly. An artist from that period that could be exhibited at the major international galleries, have her works studied in art schools? Absolutely.
Yes that's sort of what I'm saying. There'll always be plenty of reasons to blame people for voting either party, because two parties is just not enough to expect any facsimile of moral flawlessness. It's too few samples, especially with median-voter.
Yes, in those cases, a left-leaning supreme court made a ruling on a case brought by a left-leaning plaintiff with support from left-leaning nonprofits.

What I meant there was about the level of state funding and state support. The bachelor's requirement is also more universal than the church requirement was.
I have tried getting gemini 2.5 to output "token efficient" code, i.e. no comments, keep variables to 1 or 2 letters, try to keep code as condensed as possible.

It didn't work out that great. I think that all the context in the verbose coding it does actually helps it to write better code. Shedding context to free up tokens isn't so straightforward.
Trump says Fed Chair should cut interest rates and 'stop playing politics'
The middle tier says "€5".
Slight correction, NASA's EMUs don't use life support umbilicals, but astronauts are meant to always be tethered (safety strap, not life support) while using them. They have SAFER thruster packs as a backup should anybody ever become untethered, but the utility of these is dubious. NASA has done deliberate totally untethered EVAs before, but AFAIK not since the 1980s, as the MMU (SAFER's larger predecessor) was retired after Challenger.

The SpaceX suits used so far do have life support umbilicals.
Eastern Europe Wants to Build a 'Drone Wall' to Keep Out Russia
The United States is the best friend who had an affair with your SO. Even if you continue to have a relationship with them, which you probably won't, you're never going to fully trust them.

The world is moving on. The abandonment of the US dollar as the world's reserve currency will send unimaginable shockwaves through the American economy. At this point, the abandonment is inevitable, and the US is powerless to stop it. Look for that to happen over the next 10 years.

People joke about the Greatest Depression. It's not funny. What's coming our way as assuredly as next Tuesday is coming our way is economic ruin. There's not a thing now we can do about it. The world is abandoning us because we abandoned them and betrayed them. We done Fucked Around and now we're gonna Find Out.
Mine's even paid for by the company, and on top of that we get a great discounted bike program: https://www.jobrad.org/

Over 40 years old, lived in basically all the countries, never had a driver's licence!
Simply untrue. They were hacking in highschool for fun. Complete nerds.
They were _also_ ruthless business people.
Nope, and AIMA/PRML/ESL are still king!

Apart from these 3 you literally need nothing else for the very fundamentals and even advanced topics.
Look back at expectations at the beginning, and you'll see that nearly everybody was predicting massive recession and even hyperinflation. Balaji bet $1M that there would be hyperinflation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35201728

Yet that didn't happen. We dodged a major bullet, and survived far better than the rest of the world. We must look back at predictions and outcomes with clear eyes, not with the narratives that are being sold in the current day.
Never heard of Beeware, but Astral's products have transformed my python workflow (uv, ruff).

Is Beeware that transformational ? What does Beeware do and what is its maturity level?
The manned capsules, at least, have a launch abort system that was probably originally intended to evolve into landing-capable engines. They even released renders of it years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperDraco

In fact, they can currently be used for propulsive landing… if the parachutes fail. https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2024/10/dragon-propulsive-la...
Let’s not act like backend dev is much better. They’re two sides of the same coin.

The entire web stack – backend and frontend – is a mess because the nature of the web is cumulative development over two decades, leading to a pile of abstractions upon abstractions that by some miracle remain mostly interoperable and backwards compatible.
Not to the same degree as Britain.
You're getting some flippant, dismissive responses, but I applaud your perspective and your acceptance of the partial responsibility you (and most of us) bear. It takes courage, introspection, selflessness, and a broader, empathic worldview. If more people were like you, the world would be a far better place. Thank you.

That said, I am sorry you've been burdened to the point of depression and personal struggles. It can be a natural outcome of difficult realizations and guilt, but I don't wish it upon someone for longer than necessary to make positive changes in their life (which you seem to have achieved, given your openness).
It's important to remember that the deal was audited by Ernst&Young and they didn't notice the hundreds of millions missing from the balance sheet.

EY later settled in court at 300 million but never admitted any wrongdoing. So much for the reputation of the "big four" which at the time was still known as "big five".
Sadly, Marcel van Kervinck (one of the two creators of the Gigatron) passed away in 2020. You can still buy PCBs on Tindie, and the parts are easy to procure, it's all standard 74HCT chips. You can find a detailed bill of materials on gigatron.io, and the PCB files are there as well.

The one unavailable part is the fancy wooden box.
I think you would be quite shocked to discover how many millions (10s of millions?) of nodes at hyperscalers and adjuncts are configured with Chef.

> For the stragglers not yet primarily on Kubernetes and Terraform

In my experience - you see all three of these, k8s, TF and chef working in the same cluster. But, I'm only an anecdote of n=2.
Or hire someone who can sell.

The reason why many sell themselves is because it's cheaper. The founder knowing the product the best is true but trying to be a world class seller is best left to those who can be a world class seller which many founders fail at.
It’s not hype when it’s released and used for concrete tasks. Some are hyping future potential sure. But GP is hyped about how he can use it NOW. Which I agree is very cool.
So much humor in the Space Quest series. I loved them. I should work out how to get them running from GOG for my kids.
Yep. Bait & Switch. Which is exactly why you shouldn't contribute to open source projects that require a CLA.
I don't think anyone feels taken advantage of. I think most people involved in academia value the complexities and jagged edges that come with an international student body. And the outcome - the preeminent education system in the world that keeps the US at the cutting edge of science and technology and has for nearly a hundred years - is indisputable.
They're all good and bad in different ways. You just need to pick one. Ansible is GPL3, opentofu is Mozilla Public License.
How does physician == scientist?
Trial balloon is the euphemism used in the Wiki article.
What about is always a bad answer. It comes of a defensive.

Indeed, I agree with you. There are US citizens who want to do reprehensible things, and I still say: maybe the US is not their jam. No, I'm not advocating exile or illegal detention. Just stating a fact.
With each passing year, AI doom grifters will learn more and more web design gimmicks.
Neither does Wikipedia. But it’s still awesome.
I used to buy board games from the US because even with shipping they tended to be cheaper than local sellers and had much more variety (I got Wingspan from the writers of the article, excellent game). Bought my last couple of games just last week. I'll have to look elsewhere now.
I don't see "files shared with me" on the Google Drive for Desktop, do I need to RTFM or watch a YouTube tutorial, because of course it's completely obvious, just like the 100 GB quota issue I described above?
There was that "smart contract" idea back when immutable distributed ledgers were in fashion. I still struggle to see the approach being workable for anything more complicated (and muddied) than Hello World level contracts.