skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought maybe it would get into how different hollow Earth theory played into Nazi cosmology. This is the best source I can find, though it does blather a bit about falsifiability, so feel free to skim. https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-hollow-earth-hypothesis-illum...
https://www.bbvaresearch.com/publicaciones/espana-motivos-tr...

From last year. There is a version in English.

Regarding renting, it’s legally almost impossible to kick out a squatter, which means most people choose to leave their empty homes closed instead of renting them, which, added to mass immigration, has led to a surge in rent prices.
Yep, there is data saying those islands are exporting to the US: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/04/revea...
It's a fun mischarecterization. But the old sites were/are far more functional and less fragile. A single animated gif of the CONUS radar, for example, is way better user experience, incomparibly less fragile and easy to host, than a complex javascript application and associated backend databases, servers, etc. Just put the gif on akami, host the simple static html on noaa servers and it lasts a decade with no one touching it. It was how it worked for near 20 years.

But re: your mischaracterization, I thought I was clearly saying that they'd find another way to attack politically. It's just that the modern fragile web setup made NOAA particularly vulnerable.
With tech and politics becoming more intermingled each day, it won't be long before we see articles like "[flagged]: The decline of Hacker News in the Era of Techno-Feudalism"
I could see a "Devil's Plan" style game show where, for one of the challenges the contestants have to come up with AI prompts that produce results, that then get fed into another AI prompt to determine whether they satisfy the conditions or not. E.g.

[ Challenge Image: An aquarium full of baby octopodes, containing a red high-heeled slipper in the center and a silver whistle hanging from a fern on the right-hand side ]

Then the contests have to come up (under pressure, of course) with a prompt that produces their own rendition of that image, and the game will decide if their image contains enough of the elements of the original to score a point.
I didn’t blame mass immigration for the fall of wages of educated people. Maybe you misunderstood what I said. It’s uneducated young people who suffer from that. I have clarified my other comment.
Compromise. I love driving tiny cars, but once in a while I need to haul a large load (you can't rent a truck for this in many cases - I've tried: normally it isn't allowed in the contract even when it is there are restrictions. All that assumes you can find something for rent when you need it. So I drive a large truck. (well once a week I drive a large truck, most of the time I bike)
Debt as a % of GDP is not constant, and is on track to grow "far beyond any previously recorded level", according to the Budget Office. [1]

[1]https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61187
"The antisemite does not accuse the Jew of stealing because he thinks he stole something. He does it because he enjoys watching the Jew turn out his pockets to prove his innocence."

Although I laud your unassailable argument highlighting yet another instance of double standards against Jews, ultimately there is little upside in engaging with the "no, no, technically there is a difference between anti-Zionism and antisemitism" crowd. I am sad that Hacker News is rife with this kind of bigotry, but I don't see the tide of this battle turning anytime soon.

In case, dear reader, you are one of the intellectually curious ones who holds the opposing viewpoint, ask yourself why you demand that only the Jews lack the right to self determination?
But it also looks like they threw the baby out on purpose while intentionally misleadingly marketing themselves as bathwater dumpers.
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The adoption of electric scooters is phenomenal. It's like Vietnam but all electric.
> Someone who follows the rule even when it produces a terrible outcome is a painful liability.

It is called malicious compliance for a reason.
I expect some of the big companies that went all in on relying on AI to fall in the coming years.

It will take some time tho, as decision makers will struggle to make up reasons why why noone on the payroll is able to fix production.
This will probably lead to what, I think, python has led to in general: A lot more things tried quicker and targeted things that stay in a faster language. All in all this is a great move. I am looking forward to playing with it for sure.
"Incorrect" okay, based on a brand-new-to-C# developer's experience. Sure.

"The Trouble with Checked Exceptions" - https://www.artima.com/articles/the-trouble-with-checked-exc...
> it's not a surprise that people are unconvinced that peaceful protest will achieve anything :/

Many people are unconvinced, yes... The thing is, look how hard corporate media and the yacht class work to shut it down. I think they're terrified of peaceful protest.
Chrome and Firefox are instant for me in Windows. No CPU spike.
The tragic irony of Objectivism is perfectly captured in Peikoff's life story. A man who dedicated himself to a philosophy of radical independence ended up defining his entire existence through dependency. First on Rand, now apparently on his caregiver-turned-wife.

I met Peikoff at an ARI event in 2009. He was surprisingly warm in person, but you could see the weight of being "the heir" in how defensively he responded to even mild questions about Rand's work. Now reading about the fracture with his daughter over the estate, it's like watching Atlas Shrugged's plot play out in real life: the bitter disputes over Rand's intellectual property mirroring the novel's battles over physical resources.

What's most disturbing isn't the personal drama but what this reveals about how Objectivism operates in practice. For a philosophy obsessed with reason and independence, its institutional guardians seem remarkably focused on excommunication, loyalty tests, and controlling access to primary sources. The gap between preaching individualism while demanding conformity has always been the movement's central contradiction.
If anyone wants to avoid adding a full scale computer just to get TV out I recommend the late Don Lancaster's The Cheap Video Cookbook and Son of Cheap Video.

See https://archive.org/details/donlancaster_socv1/page/n3/mode/..., https://annas-archive.org/isbndb/9780672217234
AI Companion
Nothing really changed. AMD already has a c++ (HIP) dialect very similar to CUDA, even with some automatic porting efforts (hipify).

AMD is held back by the combination of a lot of things. They have a counterpart to almost everything that exists on the other side.
The things on the AMD side are just less mature with worse documentation and not as easily testable on consumer hardware.
https://archive.ph/A5q1E
But wavelengths are a property of the waves that exist in the wild, while color is a property of our brains interpreting those wavelengths. There's a fundamental difference there: one could say that wavelengths exist independently of the existence of conscious beings (even if no one measures them), while colors only exist if a conscious being can capture photons and has a certain brain system that can interpret those photon's wavelengths.
The behavior of "let" with for loops where the variable is declared more times than it is initialized, despite the source code having one declaration that is also the only initialization, is not very explicit.
apologies, I meant to suggest that Trump & MAGA are very hostile towards universities and Trump is threatening to pull so much federal funding some colleges may have to close, and a lot of Americans seem OK with that. I'm not making a value statement on that, Trump was elected to run the government, hence him reallocating funds (in this case) is part of our democratic process. People chose to put him in charge because they wanted him in charge.

To tip my hand: I personally think universities don't have more people rallying to their defence because they have abdicated their responsibilities to provide space for open inquiry, and have instead allowed themselves to be institutionally & ideologically captured by a group of people with activist leanings and fringe beliefs not held by 90+% of Americans.

My answer to my question above is "in the past two decades, the universities could have done more to protect speech across the board and not pick favourites to protect and others to abandon, as they have clearly done. In the last two years they could have refused to tolerate lawlessness on their campuses (not just 'speech' but actual law-breaking, including assaults, going unprosecuted) instead of turning a blind eye when the criminality was from a favoured cause du jour." I think if Universities had not abandoned their leadership duties, they wouldn't have Trump bringing the hammer down on them with so much public support.
It makes it more likely that the US responds in kind to an invasion.
Rational Astrologies and Security [pdf]
It's not coming from Canada
Funny enough just this morning, I inspected the memory usage of several of my Firefox tabs, and even though I thought HN as a quite lightweight website, I was surprised to find out that there was about 200 MB per HN tab allocated!
"Britain is a wealthy country, but the gap between our richest and poorest 10% is now, the US excepted, the highest in the developed world"

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/20/britai...

"For those born in the 1940s and 1950s, incomes would typically double from their late 20s to their early 50s. However, those born in the 1960s only saw income grow by around 50% over that period, whilst those born more recently look set to see weaker growth still as they age."

https://ifs.org.uk/articles/income-and-wealth-inequality-exp...
Did we read the same article?

They clearly mention, take into account and extrapolate this; LLM have first scaled via data, now it's test time compute, but recent developments (R1) clearly show this is not exhausted yet (i.e. RL on synthetically (in-silico) generated CoT) which implies scaling with compute. The authors then outline further potential (research) developments that could continue this dynamic, literally things that have already been discovered just not yet incorporated into edge models.

Real-world data confirms their thesis - there have been a lot of sceptics about AI scaling, somewhat justified ("whoom" a.k.a. fast take-off hasn't happened - yet) but their fundamental thesis has been wrong - "real-world data has been exhausted, next algorithmic breakthroughs will be hard and unpredictable". The reality is, while data has been exhausted, incremental research efforts have resulted in better and better models (o1, r1, o3, and now Gemini 2.5 which is a huge jump! [1]). This is similar to how Moore's Law works - it's not given that CPUs get better exponentially, it still requires effort, maybe with diminishing returns, but nevertheless the law works...

If we ever get to models be able to usefully contribute to research, either on the implementation side, or on research ideas side (which they CANNOT yet, at least Gemini 2.5 Pro (public SOTA), unless my prompting is REALLY bad), it's about to get super-exponential.

Edit: then once you get to actual general intelligence (let alone super-intelligence) the real-world impact will quickly follow.
Funny and sad anecdote - I was travelling through Paris and met some Americans on the train.. and they commented on the fact Paris doesn't seem to have many medical facilities compared to the USA.

It was presented as a negative, which seemed shockingly shallowly thought through to us as non American tourists.
People aren't motivated by principle so much as they are by self interest.
They guy who blows up cars and rockets regularly should not be in charge of this.
Anyone who has read Moby Dick knows that this passage:

> And since whaling technology had come along so much since the 19th century - with powerful diesel engined vessels equipped with ever more lethal harpoons and even onboard processing plants, allowing sailors to drain the spermaceti out of their catches at sea rather than having to bring them back to land - sperm whale populations were ravaged long, long after the discovery of kerosene.

contains a distinct factual error. The whalers were processing their catch at sea even in the 1800s. Probably not as efficiently, but still they were not dragging their catch back to land for processing.
> more fun to write

Go is definitely not fun to write. The rest I agree.
Days in Office 74. Days Spent Golfing 19. Time Spent Golfing 25.68%
I also present a uniform and predictable set of x and y dimensions per source IPs as a human user who maximizes my browser window
It bothers me how frequently these Jewish students and organizations are erased.
That's what you get when you expect AIs to be like humans and be able to reason. We would be pissed if a human artist did that, so we are pissed when AIs do it.

A human, even one whose only experience of an Italian plumber is Mario will be able to draw an Italian plumber who is not Mario. That's because he knows that Mario is just a video game character and doesn't even do much plumbing. He knows however how an actual non-Italian plumber looks like, and that a guy doing plumbing work in Italy is more likely to look like a regular Italian guy equipped like a non-Italian plumber than to a video game character.

And if asked to draw a Viking, he knows that Vikings are people originating from Scandinavia, so they can't be Asian by definition, even in an Asian context. A human artist can adjust things to the unrealistic setting, but unless presented with a really good reason, will not change the core traits of what makes a Viking a Viking.

But it requires reasoning. Which current image generating AIs don't have.
I use Edge on both mobile and desktop. I haven't noticed any spike when collapsing a thread.

Judging from the other commeters who didn't noticed spikes, I think there might be something related to your hardware and software combo that is causing it.
For grabbing the CPU features, there is some rudimentary implementation for x86 here: https://github.com/c3lang/c3c/blob/master/lib/std/core/priva... but not properly tested (which is to say, I would not count on it to work properly).

The `@require` here is creating a contract. You can't give a padding that is 0xFF, that's a programming error. However, you might have data which is invalid – in that case the typical error is INVALID_CHARACTER. To pass in a too small buffer is a programming error since the output buffer must be calculated first, so that's why that is not an error either. This was a deliberate change to make the API tighter.

So it's quite possible to add an "INVALID_LENGTH" error, but that should only be there in case one does encryption / decryption where the length cannot be easily determined beforehand i.e. it's part of the unknown input which the function determines. But in the Base32 implementation this is not the case. Either use it with an allocator for it to allocate sufficient memory for the data, or calculate that the buffer you pass in is big enough (or run into asserts if it isn't)
It's not black and white. Even the United States, the government can, under certain circumstances, use a patented invention without the patent holder's permission. And it's even more common in other countries.
Presumably not, because that administration wasn't corrupt and wasn't demanding those kinds of things.
I own both ISO and ANSI keyboards on different laptops and use the same software keymap. I don't think it is such an important factor as I switch from one to another without thinking about it.
That, or these CEOs have no real opinions or principles of their own and simply do what they think will be advantageous for them and their company, and literally no other thought goes into this.

I don't think he "supports" or is "against" this administration, I think it's much simpler: he does not care. I know this is cynical, but if the last three years in the software world has taught us anything, it seems like these tech CEOs regard their employees as expendable, and they're willing to change their political allegiances when they feel like it.

Maybe all of us would do that if put into this position, I don't know, no one wants to give me billions of dollars to run this experiment. Regardless, I'm pretty sure I'm right about this.
Isn't Rust still very seldomly used in the areas where CUDA shines (e.g. number crunching of any kind, let it be simulations or linear algebra)? Imo C++ or even Fortran are perfectly fine choices for those things, since the memory allocation pattern aren't that complicated.
So even though in the case of Blockchain the owner has control over the piece (signature), do you think that the disconnect between "signature" and the fungible digital work is too big or meta and we should rather reconsider how we think of art, scarcity and those old dynamics? In this case will the artist signature and chain of provenance and creator<>collector connection be useless?
Denver is walkable? I'd have called it "sprawling".
That seems to be an extreme reaction?

They were just stating the reality of some people that don't necessarily chose to feel how they feel...
I think you're reading too much into the meaning of "superhuman". I take it to mean "abilities greater than any single human" (for the same amount of time taken), which today's AIs have already demonstrated.
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Wait, is that true? What law is that?
No, it was extended because Disney and the like lobbied for it to be done.
I've read somewhere that the poor and the rich get the worst healthcare in the US. The poor because the just don't get any. The rich because healtcare providers will do whatever (they think) the paying client wants, including unnecessary stuff, and hiding unpleasant news.

I'm not in the US, so I can't validate this, however, it does help explain why healtcare outcomes for the rich aren't very good.
So, I happen to know a bit about this because his cult compound is a state park in Florida, in Bonita Springs. Highly recommend visiting! Say hi to the loose big turtles!

The park is presented as a lovely old commune with vintage bungalows, a rare place where women actually ran things in the late 1800's and had a lot of freedom within the community to create art, plays, and raise their kids. A lot of the women were widows and this was basically the only option for them aside from marrying their dead husband's brother, or some other arcane ritual of the day. They paid for the upkeep and food for the "commune" by staging plays, and the men dealt with the outside world and negotiated for such transactions (to keep up external appearances of a patriarchy, something that was totally expected back then.)

My wife and I were touring the place, having a good old time, and when we entered the community gathering hall/church, my wife started slapping my arm repeatedly to get my attention. She's gasping for air in an almost shocked laughter. She pointed to the giant model of the split-open Earth as interior, like the one shown at the top this article. The whole commune were hollow Earthers!!

Of course, the bloom was then very much off the rose. A few things to know about Teed, in addition to the hollow Earth stuff, which we subsequently learned by reading more deeply into the interpretive museum text, therein:

1: Teed believed he was Jesus Christ, or at least, that he would come back with Christ. When he died, the cult left him on the porch for a few weeks, waiting for him to get back up. The Sheriff had to come and demand they bury him, because the stink was so bad from the rotting corpse in the hot Florida sun. A testament to the power of belief, or delusion, you decide.

2: The last Koreshanty-ist (As they were called) born and living on the Florida property admitted she was wrong about the Earth when she watched the moon landing on TV in 1969 in her bungalow.

3: Teed believed his theory was true because he said if you walked in a flat, straight line in any direction, you would eventually hit an incline. This was absolutely true! BECAUSE THEY LIVED IN A SWAMP.

4: Of course, 100% as expected, despite the ladies running the cult via committee and being very free in the cult society... All men except Teed were to remain celibate, but--OMG!-- there were plenty of babies! Teed 100% did the cult leader thing and had relations with every woman on the property. That's the real reason he built the cult.
> I don't consider those "working class" occupations. In general in the UK those are quite often middle to upper middle class.

IT has been one of the only modern trades where working-class people could genuinely break through - without inherited privilege, connections, or expensive qualifications. All it took was a computer, determination, and skill. For decades, it offered an alternative route to upward mobility that wasn't gatekept by traditional class boundaries.

To say those people aren't "working class" anymore simply because they found success in a high-paid field is to misunderstand how class mobility works - and to dismiss the significance of what's been lost. IR35 didn't just hit a few middle-class professionals - it cut off a rare path to independence that was uniquely accessible to people from working-class backgrounds.

That's what makes it so damaging. It's not just about tax or regulation - it's about who's allowed to build something for themselves, and who gets pushed back into being a compliant employee for a large organisation.

> Still do run small limited companies AFAICT

You're absolutely right—tradespeople doing B2C work are largely unaffected, because IR35 targets B2B relationships, especially when the client is a medium or large company. But that actually reinforces the concern: it's access to the broader market - especially corporate and public sector clients - that’s been cut off.

For working-class professionals who moved into areas like IT, healthcare, or consulting, IR35 has closed the door to operating as a small business in those spaces. They can still work - but now only as employees or through intermediaries, with fewer rights and no control. They’re denied the same freedom tradespeople still have in B2C, despite offering equally legitimate, client-driven services.

So yes, plumbers and electricians can run limited companies - but if someone from a similar background wanted to build a small IT consultancy or contract directly with the NHS, that’s now a legal minefield. The playing field isn’t level - it’s skewed in favour of large firms, and that restriction disproportionately hurts those without generational wealth or corporate safety nets.
that's assuming the health in the years before dying (or the number of "bad" years) is the same, which may not be the case
Natural language is a terrible interface to interact with a computer, worse than any UI or programming language.

LLMs are more like replacing automobiles with mechanical horses. You fundamentally cannot get it significantly better.
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