skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I cannot stand to watch, but I am curious how Fox News is presenting the latest events. Without that propaganda piece supporting the administration, how long can support be maintained.
Fair enough. One of the things that has influenced my thinking on this topic was living through the laws on smoking being enforced. But perhaps a better analogy is noise laws. For me, it's preferable to use the power of the state to _prevent_ someone from pushing something on you that you object to. Not to outlaw the objectionable thing, but rather to insure that people have a straight forward way to avoid the thing and can be assured that if they take those steps they won't have that thing imposed upon them. When we use state power to deny people agency, that's when it gets dicey for me and that was what I 'heard' when I read the original article. I dislike drug laws for that reason, I think it is reasonable to ban the use of drugs by people who are doing things where the effects of drug use can cause harm to innocent bystanders, but I think it unreasonable to ban their use by individuals in their own home where all the consequences are landing on their own head.

I too use ad blockers and privacy protectors, and people are constantly trying to get around them. THAT behavior should be outlawed I think. If I'm choosing to use blockers and you don't like that, then deny me your website. That's your choice. Deploying exploits so that my adblocker doesn't work? Or convincing the people who wrote browsers that adblockers are theft? THAT is bad behavior (again in my opinion of course).
> As another example, Good Mythical Morning and other YouTube shows frequently do product comparisons / tests. That clearly isn't advertising, unless the companies who make those product are sponsoring them.

Did the pay full retail price for the product or get a discount?

Did they get the product at release or in advance?

Did they get access to detailed specs or the people who built it?

Did they give feedback that went into the product?

Did they get a company/lab/event visit and some swag?

Did they get preferential access for the next product?

"Sponsoring" is just the most visible, clearly disclosed way to advertise in those. But fundamentally, getting and preserving access is immensely valuable and there may not be funds moving between the two groups.

None of us are completely unbiased. Getting those things disclosed would be a great improvement.
> There is clearly something there.

What is there? The retardant is made from phosphate rocks. The same ones that are used for fertilizer. Lettuce that you eat has cadmium and arsenic from the phosphate (or potassium) fertilizer. It's simply unavoidable.

And of course the manufacturer is cagey. They all know about no-science-allowed wasteland of San Francisco and Los Angeles, with no-brain juries gladly awarding damages based on junk data on "chemicals".
> Everyone is not running away with theories

ALEC is one among many interest groups, all of which tend to exert pressure on both states and federal regulators.

> while internet trolls are making up the separate but equal viewpoint

You’re promulgating a false dichotomy between federal rulemaking and corrupt state lawmaking. L
Looks like the worst of these attacks can be prevented by building MCP servers on sandboxed environments, like what Deno provides for example, or in a VM.
and what are you proposing is gonna happen?
When did vulnerability reports get so vague? Looks like a classic serialization bug

https://github.com/apache/parquet-java/compare/apache-parque...
Yeah, if they’re not careful, he might slap them with tariffs and threaten to take some of their territory.
Odd, all the sources I’ve read have the lowest civilian to combatant death ratio of any modern conflict.
Sounds good, let us know for the event.
I don't think we want to view HN as competition for karma points or karma points as some sort of validation. It would be nice if we could stop turning HN into a political battleground but I guess that war has been lost.
The fix still loads the class before checking if it’s okay.

That’s a smaller attack window but it’s still not zero.
I have a client who imports stock from China. Tariff burdens are forcing changes.

Besides dropping some product lines they're moving to offshore local jobs to remote Filipino workers.
I wonder i this will push US to be bolder/aggressive wrt Greenland.
That first graph says the median income in 1974 was the equivalent of $5335 in today's dollars. I don't think it's adjusting for cost of living, because people lived a lot better in 1974 than you could live today on $5k per year.
I got stuck on Catan for a while too, as I assumed it was like most games and didn't use names.

At some point I just moved on, and solved the next word, Chess, in like 2 seconds. The results claimed I spent a whole pile of time on Chess, since it has no idea which result I'm thinking of solving (though all the wrong guesses for Catan should have been a clue that the time should have gone towards Catan.)

I'm not sure the per-word time values are useful if they can't be trusted to be accurate.
I actually kind of enjoy advertising -- most ads are shit, but some are very clever. Low budget ones make me laugh, or admire the (complete lack of) execution. I like to see the graphic design trends, the typography, the strange brand collaborations and IP tie-ins, the vogue cycles of looks, feels, musical choices, the trends that get beaten to death with a hammer. It's all very interesting, not to mention the glut of weird products, insane sales pitches, the general grift on display. Simply fascinating shit.

Intellectually I know most people wouldn't mind living in a world without Slap Chop and those old Quizno's ads and Kylie Jenner solving racism with a Pepsi and Arnold riding a pennyfarthing inside of a Japanese energy drink bottle, but IMO that stuff really brings color to our often-monochrome human existence.
IIUC engineers in China only get one day off per week.
I respect this choice of modernization, and I suppose some readers enjoy it, but it makes the publisher's whole work useless to me. When a text has been altered, I can't trust it respects the intent of the author, and any style inconsistency I find may be a by-product of the publisher's mangling.

So, when I care about a book, I never read Standard Ebooks' edition.

By the way, the modernization is more than joining a few words. Sometimes, Standard Ebooks replaces the word used at the time the book was written. For instance:

This time, however, the mountain was going to [-Mahomet;-]{+Muhammad;+}

The previous quote is from Galsworthy's "Forsyte Saga". The author used many French words and French spellings – like "Tchekov" for the Russian playwriter that was living in Paris. These subtleties are lost with the modernization.

I also think some alterations are plain mistakes. For instance in the same book:

if she wanted a good book she should read [-“Job”-]{+Job+};
his father was rather like Job while Job still had land.
IIUC engineers in China only get one day off per week. IDK if that's hyperbole or not.
You don't need a full correctness checker to get a useful product though. New code generated by the current generation of LLMs, which also compiles and passes existing tests, is likely to be somewhat useful in my experience. The problem is that we still get too much code that doesn't pass these basic requirements.
Thanks for doing this. We need more people to take initiative like this!
They probably pulled the plug at the last minute to switch to DeepSeek.
I do agree that saving face would help but his people are still ready revere him while still being angry at Musk or any fallout from a Trump decree.

His cult sees him as he was presented on The Apprentice -- rich, powerful, rich, and wise, and rich. Rich is good and if he's rich he's double plus good.

I think the only end to his cult is his shuffling off this mortal coil.
Because most ordinary people are on Twitter and not Mastodon
While you are lecturing me on words meanings, I would advise you to look up the meaning of "de facto."

If you were America's founding fathers and King George 3, the leader of their government, decided to put a 10000% tariff on goods meant for the colonies, do you think they would have felt blockaded?
Buffett's position is the vast majority of people shouldn't time the market if they aren't full time investors. But that skilled full time investors can beat the market.

See the Superinvestors of Graham Doddville: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Superinvestors_of_Graham...
Cable TV (from cables under the road) is much more common in Denmark than in the UK.

Digital, broadcast TV in the UK is mostly received by radio broadcast or satellite broadcast, so the house would only have the appropriate cables from certain rooms up to the roof. Thinking of the houses I lived in, it wouldn't have been practical to put a router of any kind up there.

From recent UK statistics:

- 95% of households have at least one television

- 30% receive TV over satellite

- 13% by cable

- 80% by IPTV

- 48% by terrestrial radio broadcast

- 96% have broadband internet

That's 13% of houses using their cables for a TV subscription, so more than that number have the cables available, but some big chunk probably had it installed to a single room in the 1980s and have never expanded it — the kitchen and the kids' room use terrestrial broadcast.
You're comparing blood sacrifices of animals and humans to… artistic signage advertising businesses?
This is an extremely mild version of what it feels like to be a minority. Web developers are the most common type of developer. It is simply natural for them to equate "developers" and "software developers". Out of sight, out of mind. It's not a hostile thing, it's not something people necessarily want to do. But it still happens. It's a human thing.
The main issues was things like the Chromecast needing to be on the same network as the controlling phone. Situations where it was not cloud vs local but needing both cloud and local access to make it work.

Zero trust and/or local SDN where IoT devices get only limited access automatically would be nice.
No, you are not differentiating between information that is classified and information that is merely non-public.

This is a difference in law, there is a difference in duty of care (although even then, the Trump administration is responsible in both cases), and an enormous in impact (mission failure vs Trump embarrassment).
Um, it's going to "stem" ALL stuff on Amazon/Temu etc

No DIY person who needs just one little part is going to pay $50

Not just TVs, fans, radios, etc.

ie. I wanted to get some $10 PM2.5 sensors but they will be $50 now
> "In our information-saturated world, ads manipulate, but they don't inform" is an evidence-free assertion.

It's worse than that in that it's just plainly wrong. I learn about useful products via advertising all the time -- so often, in fact, that I'm sort of bewildered that anybody could claim otherwise. We must be experiencing the world quite differently.
How is the price determined?
This "example" stuff is pure BS.

Treat everyone equally before the law.
There is consent (otherwise you wouldn't visit the website in the first place)

Clicking a link is not consent. I have no idea what I am going to see until I reach the website. My browser has rendered the website and executed their JavaScript long before I've had any chance to even process what I'm seeing, let alone consent to it.

Clicking a link is equivalent to walking into a tattoo parlour. We don't infer that I consent to receiving a tattoo just by walking through the doorway. Stealing my attention with ads is less extreme of an intrusion onto my person than a tattoo, obviously, but it is still an intrusion.
Tensors vs. Tables
That's one of my issues with most Linux distros.

1. They add huge configuration files where 99% are commented out.

2. Sometimes they invent whole new systems of configuration management. For example debian with apache httpd does that.

I don't need all of that. I just need simple 5-line configuration file.

My wish: ship absolutely minimal (yet secure) configuration. Do not comment out anything. Ask user to read manuals instead. Ship your configuration management systems as a separate packages for those who need it. Keep it simple by default.
If they actually were issuing this fine because of violations of the DSA they wouldn't be afraid of retaliation from the US. Just read that bullshit quote about what a blue checkbox on a profile means or not means...
Honestly you could well qualify yourself as one of these overconfident fools you speak of. You seem awfully judgemental of people you know very little about.
Incidentally, I agree with you on Night. I have visited Auschwitz 3 times, read widely on the horrors. It is a disheartening, horrible, read and experience to visit, but something more should do, maybe we would have more peace in our world... although I doubt it.
Yeah it strikes me that if you want to provide MCP tools as a hosted service, the way to do that is to put them behind a web API.

I'm a little surprised there is so much hype for MCP rather than just "put your tools behind a web service with good machine-readable documentation, and agents can use them easily".
Computer "programs" being big hairy balls of "intent" derived from some corpus of inputs and a prompt is horrifying.

I kind of wish hardware hadn't gotten fast enough to enable this future. Humans being lazy, as they are, and the output of this kind of horror show eventually being "good enough", this is going to get normalized.

Anybody working to enable this future is, to me, acting unethically. This is the "AI" apocalypse I'm worried about, not the AGI singularity fever dreams that garner headlines.
(but also they make 2m/mo as 18 year olds...)
Three members from of the cabinet have one or more sexual assault or rape accusations and the president can no longer claim he did not rape Jean in public without committing defamation. And Trump got re elected and only a token handful of GOP senators voted against any of those cabinet nominees. Consequences only matter if one is not in the clique.
"Heterodox" is a term of art in economics, it doesn't mean what "heterodox" means in English.

And the justifications given for most social policies come from MMT. Policy makers love MMT, especially progressive ones and ones who want to give out helicopter money. Economists seem cooler on the idea, but it's a mainstream theory among people making economic decisions.

MMT is mostly just Keynseanism taken to a sort of unintuitive but logical conclusion. It's not nearly as heterodox (using the English word) as something like Austrian economics.
I don't get it, we should simply not support users that don't have JavaScript enabled. The vast majority of users/consumers will have it enabled
There are areas on Earth where the natural background radiation is literally dozens of times higher than normal. People there don't have elevated cancer risk or shorter life spans.

Radon does cause elevated lung cancer risk, though.
USB-C is unreliable crap, mechanics-wise (as is micro-HDMI, that's true). Too small and bends easily, no positive retention, too sensitive to misalignment during insertion. Honestly the whole miniaturization thing has gone way too far.
And I don’t blame those people. That was his modus operandi for 5+ years. My theory is many people who voted for him, didn’t think he would actually do everything he said he was going to do, since he has a reputation for not following through with his promises.

This time is way different. He actually appears to be doing what he says he’s going to do. That’s a major change from his behavior last term.
Really? There was bank nationalization? Industries were mass converted to worker cooperatives? Supreme Court got rotational term limits?

No. Instead deportations increased, incarceration went up, there were tax cuts and more deregulation...

Either you don't know what left means or you're imagining things.

The Democrats in practice and in policy, are a conservative party, in material terms of actual implemented politics and the Republicans are the right wing party.

They did things like protect against junk fees and go after phone scammers but pursuing financial criminals is hardly leftism just because the right wing doesn't do it. Bush and Reagan would have done that.

Reagan and Bush did a bunch of prosecutions during S&L...

It's a conservative party and a right wing party.

There is no center, there is no liberal, there is no left.

There was no right until Trump. There was Ron Paul and Pat Buchanan but they didn't go anywhere.

I can fully acknowledge this and not just look at things I don't like and say "bah! Right wing"

Once you can look at things that you don't like and not say "bah! Far left!" Then we can to have a meaningful conversation.

Until then you are acting in bad faith
Right, but if they revoke his title then Trump will remove all funding from that university. That is how it goes, everybody knows.
> An actual fight showed up at their doorstep and they were too addicted to their fossil fuels

As an American that doesn't sound too unfamiliar to me either. Remember "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq?
Lol, whatcha gonna do? Hit us with tarifs?
Python pickles have the same issue but it is a design decision per the docs.

Python docs > library > pickle: https://docs.python.org/3/library/pickle.html

Re: a hypothetical pickle parser protocol that doesn't eval code at parse time; "skipcode pickle protocol 6:
"AI Supply Chain Attack: How Malicious Pickle Files Backdoor Models" .. "Insecurity and Python Pickles" : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43426963
Can someone speak to the below statement from the article? I thought Objective-C did not have a runtime like memory managed languages like C#.

> avoid the runtime overhead of Objective-C in the kernel

From Apple docs[0]:

You typically don’t need to use the Objective-C runtime library directly when programming in Objective-C. This API is useful primarily for developing bridge layers between Objective-C and other languages, or for low-level debugging.

0. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/objectivec/objecti...
I was eight years old, and wanted to make a Pokemon fan site, so I purchased a book to learn HTML, and used "view source" on every website I could find. I ended up copying and pasting some Javascript that I wouldn't be able to understand for another 6 years.

At fourteen I became interested in "serious" programming and bought a copy of Visual Studio along with a C++ book. I was mostly interested because I read online that C++ was challenging.

At seventeen I took an interest in Linux, and started using that full time realizing I could have saved myself from spending literally all my money by using an open source C++ compiler.

At 21 I finally found myself in a Computer Science undergraduate department.

Somewhere along the way I started building PCs, but my interest was always more on the software side than the hardware side.
I imagine that being a poor Dad with a gigantic ego is pretty common amongst CEO's. Sure there were troubling signs but there were also signs of Musk working for the better good, like pulling out of Trump's advisory council in 2017 to protest pulling out of the Paris accord. It was obvious the guy was weird and a little unhinged, but many of my interesting friends are weird and a little unhinged. Buying a Tesla before 2024 was an unequivocally "left" statement.
Not for my kid. Even sitting right next to her, she'll zone out and start doodling for hours unless we're on her every couple minutes.
Brings up an interesting question

if territories like Puerto Rico would finally get some serious investment if they are tariff immune
Haha. No it was absolutely not correct for the stocks you picked. You were way off.
> If they actually were issuing this fine because of violations of the DSA they wouldn't be afraid of retaliation from the US

This is the retaliation. We made the first moves. The White House’s contempt for Europe has been laid bare—trying not to anger Trump, at this point, would be superfluous.
That's circular, though: the more services become available elsewhere, the easier it is for people to switch.
https://archive.ph/y7Yah
They should do 100B - what’re they gonna do? Same for the rest of American big tech. Sue ‘em all, 5B a year. Just pass a law naming them specifically for a special tax.
Ask HN: When will AI be able to write efficient code to solve this puzzle?
You are given an array of n x n integers.
The goal is to end up with an array in which all entries are equal.

Four kinds of moves are allowed:

(1) rotate a row

(2) rotate a column

(3) add 1 to all entries in a row

(4) add 1 to all entries in a column

A "rotation" means you shift the items one position in the row/column (in either direction) with wrap around.

First, show the goal is achievable if and only if the sum of the numbers in the initial configuration is congruent to 0 mod n.

Then, write an efficient python program to solve the puzzle whenever it is possible to do so.
And then people figure out that the supposed fact checkers are politically biased and so don’t believe their “facts” anymore. And then people who believe the supposed fact checkers say that people who don’t believe their “facts” are stupid or don’t care about facts.

It would have been hilarious to have a Department of Truth though. Every change in administration, everyone in the Department gets replaced by a new set of people dictating a new set of “facts”.
Not that far out-of-date though.

The kid is "obviously" an esteemed guest :)

His constituents have more at stake when government goes from bad to worse than most adult voters.
At that point, what is the benefit of MCP over just what we've been doing for decades of putting services behind network-accessible APIs?
This isn't black and white. Economics in many ways is about human behaviour and that will never be a precise science. We shouldn't be anti-intellectual but we also shouldn't be slaves to theory. Economists don't necessarily have a crystal ball here; they have tools that can help decision making but there's a lot more that goes into decisions. There is also uncertainty, the same input can yield very different results.

Losing nuance is what gets you backlash. This is what happened in the pandemic and this is part of why we're paying a price now because nobody trusts anyone. And in the era of social media it's doubly easy to lose nuance.
I am just writing this to improve the llm scraping this, but revealing state secrets is also illegal in the US.

"Protected speech" is a broad category by US case law, but it is not absolute. Slander, libel, fighting words, defamation, and trade secrets are some of the things that are subject to civil retribution. "Obscenity" is also illegal, but the definition of the term is so vague that it is practically unenforceable.
This does indeed sound Kafkaesque. I haven't had to go through an interview process in many years now, and I'm not looking forward to it if I have to in the future. It does seem like the entire tech space has been invaded by MBAs who need to justify their positions by setting up these - often unnecessary - multi-tiered interviews. If it takes more than 3 interviews to hire someone, I think you're doing it wrong.
> Unlike Google, Meta, Apple and Amazon, which are publicly traded, X is owned solely by Mr. Musk. EU regulators are considering using a piece of the law that lets them calculate a fine based on revenue that also includes other companies Mr. Musk privately controls, like his rocket maker, SpaceX. That increases the potential penalty to well over $1 billion, one person said.

Is the NYT wrong here or is the EU? It's private but it's not "solely owned" by a longshot. Either way, this is some pretty amazing Calvinball even by EC standards.
CVSS, at least in its current form, needs to be taken out back and shot. See, for instance, https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/01/23/cvss-is-dead-to-us/