skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Biden is anything to go by, it's not really a given that a Dem president will necessarily undo Trump's international policy. He didn't get back in the negotiation room with Iran, he didn't back out of the Afghanistan pull-out, he made zero progress on climate change, he didn't undo much of the immigration policy changes that occurred... One of the few things that he DID pull back on were Trump's first-term tariffs (EDIT: Wait, he did pull back, didn't in he? I thought he did, I might be wrong.), and come 2028, if there's been substantial domestic change taken with the assumption of their longevity, I personally don't trust Democrats to back off on them.
That sounds genuinely fascinating. Can you post more about your experience meeting Gould?
Brute force, brute force everything at least for the domains you can have automatic verification in.
Why your username shows as green?
Does the EU not have protections against bills of attainder?
My start was a mix of Khan Academy and a laptop with a broken screen.

My mom's computer screen broke when it got dropped on the ground, but it still had a working VGA port. So, she reached out to someone in our congregation who did sysadmin work who installed Ubuntu 12.04 on it. He also helped get a LAMP stack installed locally, and set up a server that I could deploy code to. It was funny since there was little 10 year old me lugging around a chunky monitor with this laptop everywhere I went.

I was homeschooled, so I got an hour of computer time every day as long as I was doing something productive. The Khan Academy CS course had just been released, so my dad helped me get started, and I consumed those tutorials! I also got to check out other people's projects and tweak random numbers to see what happened. The KA community is incredible, since you can comment on others' programs and they're pretty responsive.

Another fun thing was doing Minecraft modding (shout out to bedrock miners' tutorials!). To this day I'm shocked that my 12 year old self was writing java code like that, but I suppose I was mainly just copying and pasting code, lol.

There's so many little projects in various languages I did (tried and failed to make an android app, tried to make a couple JS games but was bad at finishing stuff, made SVN for Khan Academy, read some random books on clojure and elixir, started but never completed an inventory management system for my aunt). But, when I think back, Khan Academy on that old laptop really kicked it off.
Or it's something fun for a hacker to blog about polishing progressive enhancement on. You're free to choose your own takeaway of course. Part of the experience of being a junior is learning when which type of approach makes sense rather than expecting anything one reads to directly apply to how their next project should best be done, regardless if it's popular or unpopular. Not everything needs to be practical for most people to be worth writing about!
I'm not saying I'm perfect, and if I missed your email, I'm sorry.
My father is a retired mechanical engineer. Back in the early 1980s he was working on some engine designs and found that the programmable calculators he was using just weren't up to the task of grinding out the mechanical advantage curves he was attempting to characterize. So first he got a Tandy Pocket Computer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandy_Pocket_Computer) and later a full-fat TRS-80 (the Model 16, the most expensive and powerful model they sold at the time, and part of the Model II line which was incompatible with the TRS-80s most people are familiar with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_II), took a couple of college courses on programming, and wrote an engine simulator in BASIC replete with a graphical display that animated the position of the piston and crankshaft and plotted the curve on-screen.

I mean, the man is a stone-cold genius. Anything he needed to know how to do, he would bro down and learn it, often in a very short time. Even though I didn't understand half of what he was trying to do back then, it was a wonder to young me, especially since it came about by merely feeding instructions into the machine.

Eventually, for my fifth birthday, he went down to Crazy Eddie's and got me a Commodore VIC-20, so I would keep my grubby mitts off his expensive professional equipment. I then began writing my own BASIC programs, to make the PETSCII birds from the tutorial manual fly according to my own plan and so forth. The love of computing had been planted. And here I am. That five-year-old kid, awestruck by having an electronic genie I can type my wishes to and see them granted, is still in there somewhere. The grind of Scrum, meetings, deadlines, legacy code, and the looming spectre of "vibe coding" turning my work and passion into a triviality haven't snuffed the flame yet.
News of this exact research has been reposted a couple of times and previous threads weren't nearly as bad as this one. Something changed.
The idea here is that some percentage of "the left" and "right"'s views are arbitrary, so the chances of someone independently coming up with a perfectly matching set to either side is low

Agreed re: the center can have an ideology, that's the bottom circle in the graph

I fully agree that any group can behave tribally, even the rationalists (which I'm not part of).

Also not advocating ignoring politics, I'm advocating for consciously acknowledging whether one wants to discover truth or remain in their bubble, and some methods for doing the former if desired.

B/c while inaction can harm, plenty of "actions" without understanding have led to horrible outcomes (e.g. Salem witch trials). This is what truth-seeking can avoid.
To think that the only visible impact will be in 210 years just shows how uninformed you are.

From the scientific models we have, we're pretty much screwed. From the measurements we make and compare to the models, it appears like the models are optimistic.

What's sad is that people like you now say "it's not as bad as they say" and 20 years from now you'll be the first ones to say "we didn't know, why didn't they tell us?".
Have you compared it with 8-bit QwQ-17B?

In my evals 8 bit quantized smaller Qwen models were better, but again evaluating is hard.
Don’t let internet memes like “luxury beliefs” do too much of the heavy lifting of actual thinking for ya
Accidental remote code execution isn't limited to just memory safety bugs. I'm a huge rust fan but it's not good to oversell things. It's okay to be humble.
> This begs the question: how could you reliably distinguish advertising from other forms of free speech?

That's a great question, but let's not lose sight of the fact that failing to legislate on this is 0% reliable. If we even are able to identify and ban 25% of advertising, that level of reliability is a massive improvement over doing nothing. Don't fall for the perfect solution fallacy.

The reality is that some really basic, careful definitions of advertising would identify a huge percentage of advertising, without catching any cases that aren't advertising.

As a starting point, if a corporation pays a person or corporation to display their corporation's name, product, or logo on a physical property, broadcast, or publication when they aren't directly selling your product, that's advertising. Maybe you can think of some cases where that catches some stuff it shouldn't, and I'm open to revising it.

> What about giving out free samples? Is that advertising, and thus should be illegal?

> What about putting a sign up on your business that says the business name? Is that advertising?

I think this sort of handwringing is pretty silly. I don't care about either of those--I do care about "free samples" in the sense of auto-renewing free trials, but that's because the intent is to trick people into forgetting to cancel, not because it's advertising.

Draw the line very conservatively, making a very clear definition of advertising that we can agree on illegal, and go from there as we see the effects (i.e. what loopholes people start to use). Regulation is an iterative process--start small and build.
I guess that depends on location but I’ll refine my statement to say ordinary people are overwhelmingly more likely to be on Twitter than Mastodon.
The documentation for all of this is atrocious.

But if avro-in-parquet is a weird optional feature, it should be off by default! Parquet’s metadata is primarily in Thrift, not Avro, and it seems to me that no Avro should be involved in decoding Parquet files unless explicitly requested.
Indeed. I'm European and I also see the EU's "banning of disinformation" as a form of censorship in gift wrapping. What about the government disinformation during covid? Did they punish anyone for that?

Vague and ambiguous laws like these against disinformation enable selective enforcement for the governments to make sure their PoVs go though the media and everything they deem inappropriate or a threat to their authority gets shut down.

Those in power in Brussels are afraid of communication channels they can't control as people become more and more dissatisfied and irate with their leaders, policies and QoL reductions, so they push laws like these plus the ones trying to backdoor encrypted communications in order to gain control over the narrative, monitor and crush any potential uprisings before they even occur.
What jumps out at me is that it doesn't touch OneDrive.

You could argue two potential reasons for this:

1. This script removes only AppX packages. OneDrive is an *.msi package

2. OneDrive is something they reinstall if you remove it, so they really are cramming it down your throat. They wouldn't include it in any debloat script.
Can we start a non profit where people can donate for things like this so we can actually get funding without relying on government?
I've used gemini 2.5 this weekend with aider and it was frighteningly good.

It probably depends a lot on what you are using them for, and in general, I think it's still too early to say exactly where LLMs will lead us.
There is not any part of the city where I live where you can readily observe people injecting IV drugs in broad daylight in full view of the police, or who are so high they don’t notice, or don’t care, they are exposing themselves near a daycare[0]. Those things are not normal and are not widely occurring features of most American cities, even the “areas you don’t go to.” In fact, in all my travels, I’ve seen those things in one American city: San Francisco.

0 - to head off the inevitable gaslighting that always comes up when discussing this, these are things I saw live, in person, with my own eyes.
> > > > Users are expected to either obtain binaries from their distro, or compile them from source.

> > > This purist vision you have of Linux doesn't exist.

> > It does on my computer, and I suspect on a lot of Linux users' computers.

> Linux users? That is, people who use a device that runs Linux? Like Android?

I'm fairly sure the overwhelming majority of Android users only use binaries from "their distro", i.e. from the Play Store.

> The software repository+compile from source paradigm isn't "Linux", it's not even "desktop Linux".

Hey, you were the first to drag Android into this. By your own measure, the overwhelming majority of "Linux" users follow exactly "the software repository+compile from source paradigm" (albeit the "+compile from source" term equals zero in their equation).
One thing I’ve seen is large enterprises extracting money from consumers by putting administrative burden on them.

For example, you can see this in health insurance reimbursements and wireless carriers plan changes. (ie, Verizon’s shift from Do More, etc to what they have now)

Companies basically set up circumstances where consumers lose small amounts of money on a recurring basis or sporadically enough that the people will just pay the money rather than a maze of calls, website navigation and time suck to recover funds due to them or that shouldn’t have been taken in the first place.

I’m hopeful well commoditized AI will give consumers a fighting chance at this and other types of disenfranchisement that seems to be increasingly normalized by companies that have consultants that do nothing but optimize for their own financial position.
My (biological, born female) wife has androgenic alopecia and not even the only woman I know who suffers from it. It's not that rare in women, just less common than in men.
I may have missed it, but how "real-time" are these trades?
For those trades that appear to be in the last few days, how is it being tracked?
To be fair, in 80 years we'll probably be at 4C global warming, where half of the Earth (around the equator) will be unlivable.

I mean it's gradual up to a point, but when you can't survive anymore, it's not like you can ignore it.

> and the coping strategies will develop alongside.

Such as "drill baby, drill!" and tariffs :-).
There is hardly any evolution from pointer to malloc, C is one of the few systems languages, including those that predated it, where one needs math to allocate heap memory.

I do agree that the evolution is most likely a language that combines automatic resource management with affine/linear/effects/dependent/proofs.

Or AIs improve to the point to render all existing programming languages a thing from the past, replaced by regular natural languages and regular math.
> Overflow errors can happen pretty easily

No they can’t. Overflows aren’t a real problem. Do not add checked_mul to all your maths.

Thankfully Rust changed overflow behavior from “undefined” to “well defined twos-complement”.
RISC-V with Linux 6.15 Adds Support for BFloat16 "BF16" Instructions
Show HN: I made a minimal, powerful bookmarking app.
I hope it's true. Even if LLMs development stopped now, we would still keep finding new uses for them at least for the next ten years. The technology is evolving way faster than we can meaningfully absorb it and I am genuinely frightened by the consequences. So I hope we're hitting some point of diminishing returns, although I don't believe it a bit.
Yep. And all on the same IP addresses with the same registrars and DNS servers. Amazing coincidence. (Edit: it's Netlify)

5 stars on Trustpilot. Yeah? Your site doesn’t exist on Trustpilot.

That makes me think this is a trustworthy product and not at all shady.
Interesting approach to making local recommendations more personalized and relevant. I'm curious about the cold start problem for new users and how the platform handles privacy. Partnering with local businesses to augment data could be a smart move. Will be watching to see how this develops!
> where’s the business model?

For who? Nvidia sell GPUs, OpenAI and co sell proprietary models and API access, and the startups resell GPT and Claude with custom prompts. Each one is hoping that the layer above has a breakthrough that makes their current spend viable.

If they do, then you don’t want to be left behind, because _everything_ changes. It probably won’t, but it might.

That’s the business model
BTW these models arent allowed to be used in the EU.
Yeah and the military is a third of our budget and no one in politics ever wants to cut that. There’s so much excess spending there we could cut $300 billion a year from it and still be the world’s bully. China builds infrastructure in other countries as a carrot to insinuate themselves in global affairs but we just build military bases as a stick. Seems like the former is a little bit better even if both approaches have issues.
And then the breaking point becomes the new normal, and the new breaking point becomes farther away.

Microsoft keeps deleting ways to install Windows without signing up for a Microsoft account.

Twice in my life I've created a Microsoft account to do something that required a Microsoft account, and then a few days later they demanded my phone number. Because they know perfectly well that if you demand a phone number during signup, it deters more people from signing up, but if you demand it after they've already started using their account, they're less likely to be willing to throw away the account. I was, though.

For some reason they haven't yet done that with my Minecraft-migrated account. Or did they? Maybe I entered my phone number there and forgot I did so.
Irony as Euro alliance pumps €1M of Microsoft's money into Cloud Federation
Must be a Lenco because I don’t think Thorens used stroboscopes. :p
I kind of like the idea of the people using the trails paying for them in kind.
Lower skill doesn't necessarily need to be low pay. It's a policy decision. Ultimately, you're determining the unit value of labor vis a vis other labor. Maybe trash people and burger-flippers working late nights and early mornings SHOULD earn more than paper-pushers - even if the latter are really really good at [technical skill]. We've certainly made that choice wrt MBAs vs PhDs.
I'd love to hear your better idea to deal with disinformation. The free marketplace of ideas has obviously not worked. Maybe even better public education could work, and then they wouldn't need to censor it because nobody would believe it anyway?
So why are people so excited about MCP, and so suddenly? I think you know the answer by now: hype. Mostly hype, with a bit of the classic fascination among software engineers for architecture. You just say Model Context Protocol, server, client, and software engineers get excited because it’s a new approach — it sounds fancy, it sounds serious.
https://www.lycee.ai/blog/why-mcp-is-mostly-bullshit
Been using Standard Ebooks for a while now, but wanted to drop by here and say how great this site is! It's replaced P.G. for me (for whatever is on this site, at least) and I like the much nicer formatting on the texts. It's great on both my physical Kindle and Apple Books on my iPhone.
Change advertising to anything we ban agree to ban as a society and you will see why putting the responsibility to the individual is not sufficient.

Laws don't get tired or can be forced through dark patterns. Laws are generally there to allow us to expect something from everyone at the same time.
I have ADHD. I doubled my productivity going remote and working from a well curated home office.

Charging station for my phone just inside the room, good sitting/standing desk and chair, good laptop, with a dock, 3 displays. A desktop with a vertical monitor I use for teams chat, technical documents, and work management only. Second laptop used for secure prod access tucked under a monitor riser until needed. Whiteboard. Couch with a small station for engineering journaling. I also take video calls from the couch often. Treadmill and elliptical, TV for watching YouTube tech videos while I'm taking a fitness break, bookshelves for my collected engineering journals and useful books. Roughly 275 sqft. Virtual body doubling helps sometimes but is hardly needed.
> The problem in general is that we are all, the US Congress included, guessing what the goal is.

I was guessing too until I took the time to investigate and found there is a method to the madness.

Now, did you really expect negotiation with China? Do you think that was the intention? You gotta think critically rather than just lazily or emotionally assume everything was a failure.
There's a fairly interesting story in here, and I almost didn't bother reading it because of the opening where the author just talks about their pathological aversion to gum and how they dislike Gumroad because it has "gum" in the name.
why drive, yourself and maintain a near constant expenditure, when you can "uber" on demand, while staying on your mobile.
This is a valid question -- any response from mods?
Automation is inevitable, but we must ensure displaced workers are retrained and supported in the transition. The government should incentivize companies to invest in upskilling employees. Short-term layoffs may be necessary, but the focus should be on adapting the workforce to new economic realities.
Been thinking about something like this for so long, but didn't want to bother with building a VSC extension. Thanks for sharing this!

I suspect it would be useful as a fast "context collector" for LLMs as well. Maybe framing it like that could catch HN's attention a bit more.
I wasn't trying to be exhaustive, but good suggestion!
Ya, I find this hard to imagine aging well. Gemini 2.5 solved (at least much better than) multiple real world systems questions I've had in the past that other models could not. Its visual reasoning also jumped significantly on charts (e.g. planning around train schedules)

Even Sonnet 3.7 was able to do refactoring work on my codebase sonnet 3.6 could not.

Really not seeing the "LLMs not improving" story
Clearly hasn't lived it.
Last time I tried to use the official Apache Parquet Java library, parsing "normal" Parquet files depended on parquet-avro because the library used Avro's GenericRecord class to represent rows from Parquet files with arbitrary schemas. So this problem would presumably affect any kind of Parquet parsing, even if there is absolutely no Avro actually involved.

(Yes, this doesn't make sense; the official Parquet Java library had some of the worst code design I've had the misfortune to depend on.)
Good questions go get started, we can begin with the obvious and figure out the details later.

But yes, to me illuminated signs are wasteful to my attention and to environment, so out they would go.
Project Runeberg is trying to be a nordic Project Gutenberg, not a nordic Standard Ebooks.
>I'd love to hear your better idea to deal with disinformation.

There is no silver bullet solution since we're not in an utopia. On the one hand all private media is controlled by biased oligarchs each with their own interests. On the other hand, governments in power want to control the narrative towards their own interests hence why in many EU countries we have state media. This is how it's always been and how it's always gonna be, a constant tug of war between interest groups, but I don't want any one side to have complete control of the media as that would be even worse.

>The free marketplace of ideas has obviously not worked.

Why do you think it hasn't worked? To me it seems like it's working, that's why those in power fear it and want to control it all for themselves.

My parents lived under communism. The speech control the EU is pushing resembles very well what communism had but with a better PR spin on it. Communism got defeated in part by total freedom of speech winning in the free market place of ideas versus government controlled speech. The Arab Spring revolutions could not have happened without the free media circulating on the internet. So to see the EU trying to lock down on free speech the same way totalitarian regime did, is incredibly suspicious to me like their afraid of their own people revolting against them.

I don't want unelected elites in Brussels deciding for me what content and opinions I should be allowed to view. If you want to win in the free marketplace of ideas, then come up with arguments for the people on why you consider each piece of information to be misinformation and debate it in public, not just ban it outright.
I think overall quality with Gemini 2.5 is not much better than Gemini 2 in my experience. Gemini 2 was already really good, but just like Claude 3.7, Gemini 2.5 goes some steps forward and some steps backwards. It sometimes generates some really verbose code even when you tell it to be succinct. I am pretty confident that if you evaluate 2.5 for a bit longer you'll come to the same conclusion eventually.
Yeah, let’s make road users spend a couple days a year pouring asphalt as well. It’s only fair
If the other shareholder are ok with this behavior, than there's nothing wrong with it.

If they complain, it's a very serious crime, he's basically stealing, but if they are don't, than it's not.
You didn't even mention the immense new tax giveaways to the rich.
How did you fit 550MB of bytecode into the context window? Was this using 2.5 in an agentic framework? (i.e. repeated model calls and tool usage)