skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm always charmed by museums that feel like this sort of "weird collection". The trend seems to be firmly away from it, however. During the time I lived in London, the Horniman museum reorganized itself and became "respectible" in the process. While I was living in Exeter the RAMM did the same thing. If you have a similar taste, I strongly recommend visiting the Pitt-Rivers museum in Oxford: it's a truly bizarre collection of absolutely amazing objects - or it was the last time I was there; if it's since been re-curated along modern lines, then you'll have missed a uniquely odd experience.
I still have a Thinkpad from 2015 for work that I run NixOS on. Company policy has since changed to Mac only, but I think I’ve got at least another decade on this ol’ gal. I suppose I could use Nix Darwin, but it wouldn’t be the same.
usage of a different device/browser, neigbors wifi and device (in case your side is the problem), don't work either?
You can buy made in USA sneakers like New Balance 990 series. Generally all the materials except the sole are US sourced. Retails for $200 a pair. What kind of sneakers do you buy?

Running a manufacturing business in the US is more expensive. Consumers largely won't pay more, it's a limited market. The machinery for molding soles only makes economical sense at a large scale.
Well, it depends on why you're protesting against Israel.

If you're supporting the dismantlement of the only Jewish state, like Hamas is, then you are in a precarious situation: why do you argue uniquely against Jewish self-determination?

Do you routinely protest in support of tear down all nations without prejudice, or just focus your antinationalism on the one liberal, democratic Jewish state? If so, why do you feel that only the Jews lack the right to defend themselves as a nation? Is it because you prefer to see the Jews defenseless against harassment and attempts at their genocide?
Don’t take it personally, but if you aren’t researching and developing new and improved methods of performing Information Technology to better equip your company to compete in its marketplaces, then you had better be purely in Operations.
Is that so?
Looking at the table it seems this goes back to before Trump inauguration: https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/situation-summary/data-map-comm...
My understanding is that upon a detection the entire flock is killed. A contributing factor why the US is disproportionately affected is the large flock size.
There are approximately 16 million Jews worldwide, with over 7 million in Israel and 6 million in the United States. Outside of these two countries Jewish populations are relatively small and often lack significant cultural or political presence. Talking about Israel is talking about over half of the worlds Jews. Israel is the only country explicitly with a Jewish ethos in a way similar to how European nations reflect Christian traditions or Middle Eastern countries reflect Islamic ones. Its population includes large numbers of Jews who were expelled from both European and Middle Eastern countries.

While criticism of Israel is not inherently antisemitic much of the antisemitic rhetoric of the past has shifted toward targeting the state of Israel instead of Jews as individuals (once the Jews were expelled/driven from those nations and no longer a convenient target). Israel is often held to higher political and moral standards than other nations under the guise of justified by its classification as a Western democracy. For many this uneven scrutiny mirrors historical patterns of discrimination, now aimed at the Jewish state instead of (often no longer existing/relevant) local Jewish populations. In some circles, classic antisemitic tropes have simply been reframed: accusations once directed at “the Jews” have been redirected toward “Israel” or “the Israeli lobby,” invoking ideas of secret influence or global manipulation that echo longstanding racist narratives.

Source: I'm not jewish but in any racist feeling conversation I invoke that I am in order to challenge fascists and more often than not invoking that surfaces that the conversation does in fact have anti-jewish sentiment. What I find especially uncomfortable is how little historical context or nuance is expected when discussing Israel, compared to nearly any other nation or group. Conversations that would normally require sensitivity, acknowledgment of trauma, and awareness of systemic patterns suddenly become blunt and ahistorical when they involve Israel. The level of deference people extend to other populations in terms of lived experience, historical persecution, and collective memory often disappears entirely in this context.
I also love (and own) goats and use cash for most purchases.
If you give a bully your lunch money, it's not like they leave you alone the next day. They come back for more.
But how do you build that readable c cross compiler?

Full source bootstrapping is our only way out of the trusting trust problem
There's I-9. Or sign up for e-verify if you're that concerned.
Typically yes, a form of lack of empathy, an inability and unwillingness to relate to people that prioritize money over their “amazing groundbreaking idea”

I deal with this a lot, some clients are talking payment, equity, and other sharing right out the gate.

Other clients are thanking me for working for free an hour into an intro call where that assumption wasn't warranted. And then acting like I’m not into their vision enough, when even the future % compensation hasn't been detailed, offered, or considered at all.

Had a call yesterday like that where I pointed out that every founder’s idea are fairly interesting software problems and they also pay to retain me so there is competition for my time. This founder needs capital or to drop the idea until they do, like everyone else.
isn’t that just an estate tax?
What on this page gives you that impression? Do I have to watch the 2-hour video to learn this?
Criticising the government of Israel is not even anti-Israeli, let along antisemitic, any more than criticising the US government is anti-American.
I was very reminded of watching this years ago while writing my blog.
No way in hell am I consenting to "install a location tracking device" and "send us proof of all travel plans".

"A bit of light surveillance" my ass.
"someone"... Or lots of people looking at US stupidity and deciding that their long term bonds were suddenly looking like a bad investment.
The Power of Mattering at Work
This is the motivation I needed right now
I would pay serious money if they sold CFS as a service but on AWS.
Depends. You can certainly replace broken or worn socket/switch faceplates.
It’s a little more nuanced than that. Western demographics are largely propped up by immigration, which brings with it its own sociopolitical challenges. What you gain in demographics, you might lose in social cohesion and political stability.
> If you get sets designed in China and made at the same factories that make Lego bricks, they're like 1/3 the cost.

Lego does not outsource brick making. They tried it out back in 2005 with Flextronics in Hungary and got a painful lesson. Lego runs all their factories themselves now.
If only. I'm stuck with current wiring/display unless I want to rewire stuff and my audio out is through display port.
Google's not really at fault here: the OP submitted a link to an article called "Introducing Ironwood TPUs and new innovations in AI Hypercomputer" that happens to mention Rapid Storage way down the page.

In case marketing seems to move faster than documentation though, since I can't find any mention of this in the main GCS docs. https://cloud.google.com/search?hl=en&q=rapid%20storage
Wim Taymans is the man!
> Because HR has no technical understanding of transferrable skills in the tech sector.

That's a cheap excuse. That's not their job. Their job is to hire someone, anyone, within the budget and that meets minimum requirements. Their responsibility is to get a butt on a seat that can do the work. Any candidate that passes that hiring bar is a safe choice.

You're talking as if their goal was to hire the absolute best based on rigorous objective criteria and crisp stack rankings. It is not. They look for someone, anyone, that is able to do the job, fit in, and not shit the bed. And they need to be able to defend their choice. That's why education matters, prior experience matters, certiciation matters, and even recommendations matter.

Why do you think internal recommendations are a fast track to hire? Do you have any excuse like corruption? Or do you understand that the goal is to find people who are able to do the job, fit within the organization, and not cause problems?

If you fail to understand the problem, you will never find it's solution.
I personally am grateful for the free base bundles. Thank you, GNU.
> Maybe there should be a mount options to randomize directory order that people can use in their staging environments.

The behavior I've witnessed suggests that the the order is based on inode numbering, which is initially sequential from creation time, and drifts semi-randomly as inodes are unlinked and reused. I don't know this for a fact, but it makes enough sense. Directory ordering should be assumed to be random in all cases, as you suggest.
I don't think it's lack of empathy. Most clients aren't looking to screw you in advance; they just want the work done, but don't always have the money in time to pay for it (true, sometimes as a result of their own failings).

Without a contract, either party is free to prey on the other: the client can try to guilt the worker into working longer before they get paid, but the worker can also try to ask the client for money up front (yes, that's a thing).

That's why a contract is so important: it describes what happens when a client pays late, and presumably sets terms to either make it worthwhile for the worker, or gives the worker an easy way out of the contract.
AI SAST maybe a meme or maybe not
I had a mix experiences with AI SAST tools. Looking forward to see what others think of them and if you have tried any?
I did and calling it a golden age is not wrong compared to what we have now. I was referrimg to the golden age of „voice only“ here
The article doesn't say, but I wonder if he ever got paid out for what he was owed after he walked away.

I once ran the tech side of a small startup where money was always tight and we were paying low wages in exchange for equity. But we always made sure to pay our employees first so they could eat and pay rent and keep working. One time one of our more expensive employees quit to take a better paying job. I'm ashamed to say it took us multiple months to finally pay him out his final paycheck - but once he left he was no longer the priority. I remember a few conversations with him where I stated that I was paying the office and server bills on my personal credit card and, no, I wouldn't take a cash advance to pay him his last 2 weeks in arrears. He did eventually get paid.
The New Weird Virtuosos Making Jazz for the Post-Internet Age
It's a lot more nuanced than that. China's internal diversity is much higher than Westerners typically understand, and their social cohesion and political stability are less well maintained than their external-facing image would lead you to believe.
I think if that's prompted well and designed well it might work. But if not careful it might just be a signal that reflects your own taste.
Hmm, why does the author keep using the word "upcoming"?

> the upcoming 300-series mobile processors (“Strix Point” and the presumably higher-end “Strix Halo”)

Both Strix Point and Strix Halo chips have been out for a while now, and you can even buy laptops (and mini PCs) with them right now, like the new ASUS ROG Flow Z13 w/ a Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (Strix Halo).
I love the verbose flag[0] to regex, so I can write comments inline.

[0] https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#re.VERBOSE
Of course not. Gemini can summarize it for you.
Tetris 99 was developed by Arika, the developers of the TGM games.
100%. I am not a fan of AI generating code in a professional context (for a number of reasons), but for side projects and as a learning tool I’ve become less yells-at-clouds about it.
Would you call a midwest farmer in the US a “peasant” or just a farmer?

Let’s not pretend that peasants and farmers represent the same thing
Half your voting population deemed him to be fit enough to represent them
The title is about R&D, but because of Section 174 changes, this applies to all software development, whether "research" or not. If you're making a dumb app, you can't deduct the expenses (including salaries), you have to capitalize them. It's brutal for a small company.
The 60 universities they will be targeting like this, including my own institution.

https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of...
I see you're one of the people I worked with that liked classifying things like "our A/B test says the red button converts better" or "we should let the users message each other" as Research. CRUD app #548 isn't research in my book, unless you're doing something you can actually publish papers about with some innovation. Even in "basic UX" it is possible to do research, but most people are making a button, not researching.
It's crab mentality. The goal is to ransack the country and make life as bad for the rest of us as it has been for the die hard Trump voters. Our suffering is the point.
I found that there's a surprising difference in quality for what feels like it should be a commodity item. All the outlets in my newish build were tamper-resistant, and pretty much as you described -- at best they were unpleasantly stiff and awkward to use, and some specific outlets would require a worrying amount of force and wiggling to plug anything in.

After a couple of high-usage outlets got jammed to the point that nothing could be plugged in, I replaced them with ones from the hardware store, and they are a big improvement. The existing outlets are unbranded, and I guess were from a bulk box of the cheapest that the electrician could source.

In my experience, Leviton are OK (much better than what was originally fitted), but Eaton are great -- they require slightly more force than non-TR outlets, but they're consistent, reliable, and I've never had to try more than once to plug anything in.
As someone who's actually Jewish, has Israeli friends, and had kibbutzim relatives from back in the day, I agree that this is what the Israeli government and society tell themselves.

But, it's a self-serving myth that enables them to overlook the outsized role of their policies in fomenting anti-Israel sentiment. The Holocaust created a ton of worldwide goodwill towards Jews that Israel has completely squandered in the decades since WW2 with their treatment of the Palestinians.

By loudly proclaiming that anti-Israelism is the same as anti-semitism, Israel has made it hard for themselves to distinguish between the two, but easy to brush off legitimate criticism.
The Democrats absolutely need to shake off their milquetoast leadership and get some people in willing to fight the good fight.
To some extent the "mystery" (and temporary free-as-in-beer-ness) of this model might be getting to me, but I think it's pretty interesting. Given the token throughput (250B this week) it's obvious there's a pretty major player behind the model, but why is it stealthed? Maybe there's something about the architecture or training that would put people off if it was public right off the bat? Maybe they're purely collecting usage/acceptance data and want unbiased users?

On the Aider Polyglot leaderboard it's ~middle of the leading pack, comparable to DeepSeek V3 and 3.5 Sonnet. I ran NoLi(teral)Ma(tching), an unsaturated long-context benchmark, on it and was impressed though:

= Model =========== Base Score = 8K Context = 16K Context =
Quasar Alpha: >=97.8% 89.2% 85.1%
GPT-4o: 99.3% 89.2% 81.6%
Llama 3.3 70B: 97.3% 72.1% 59.5%
Gemini 1.5 Pro: 92.6% 63.9% 55.5%
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 87.6% 61.7% 45.7%
Gemini 1.5 Flash: 84.7% 44.4% 35.5%
GPT-4o mini: 84.9% 32.6% 20.6%
Llama 3.1 8B: 76.7% 31.9% 22.6%

It also performs well - slightly better than GPT-o1 - on the "hard" subset at 16K context with 62.8%. Latency is quite good as well.

More details: https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1ju1czn/quasar_...
I was pretty hyped on C++ during the (early?) 2010s, hoping that eventually I get to work on project that has really serious number crunching needs, and ... and then ... the big guns. Now reading this feels like the best argument for Rust/Scala. :)
> The BS1363 is so massive that it shrugs off power loads of multiple kilowatts

They do have a higher current rating than the French and German standards (30A vs. 16A) but even those do support up to 4 kW. Ovens also run at 3 kW or so in France and Germany.
I was a bit sceptical at first, but grandparent's claims seem to be true, at least in regards to the firing/rehiring part.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjev24184vjo

[2] https://apnews.com/article/usda-firings-doge-bird-flu-trump-...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/19/agriculture-...

[4] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/usda-accidentally-fire...

[5] original source? https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/27/trump-fired-bird-fl...
Is there enough to sustain the entire economy though?
These are great.

I accidentally invented parser combinators for a project once. I was quite fond of the approach but it ended up being pretty nearly unusable for anyone else on the team. This was problematic because the project was such that we were always adding new things to be parsed. The whole reason I took the approach was that I wanted people to be able to freely add parsers as new requirements came in.

It being my first shot at it, it was for sure not as usable as it could be. But looking at your stuff, which is delightful, I am filled with doubt that my goal was even possible. Your stuff looks about as clean as possible, and yet seems likely to be almost as impenetrable to someone not versed in parsing.

That said, I am gonna look for a chance to use this in appropriate side projects.
Love the idea...having some trouble installing and have some skepticism about usability (because I have iBooks, Kindle etc. and the cross-platform thing kills me) but think it's really promising
The graph in the article about Quasar Alpha’s coding skill is taken from my tweet [0]. It shows QA’s results on the aider polyglot coding benchmark [1].

QA seems to be a skilled coder, and is very fast.

Aider supports Quasar Alpha as of v0.81, released last week.

[0] https://x.com/paulgauthier/status/1907996176605220995

[1] https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/
Trump orders investigations into 2 DHS officials from his first term
There are many possible criticisms of Israel that don't have anything to do with Jewish self-determination, though... or is the idea that because it's the only Jewish state they get a free pass on all their conduct? I'm not following the logic.
It's quite insane that protesting against the actions of a foreign government has more consequences than protesting against the American government.

The current administration is throwing everything it (theoretically) stands for (1st Amendment, America-first, etc) for another country.
...and at the same time, the other side has been continuously complaining about the US government's support of Israel.

I don't think this is the answer.
My experience is that it can be anything from relatively easy to frocking impossible. Very hard to put a timeline on.

But if we are talking about tariffs (and not a ban) then a partial move is also relevant. And, at least in my anecdotal experience, a non-trivial fraction of our cloud-cost is pretty simple services which can be moved. It's almost like a 95/5 kind of thing, moving 95% of the stuff would take 5% of the time.

Having a hybrid cloud setup is clearly more hassel, but it's doable.
Ah, don't you just like it when projects that use hashsums, calculate them in such a way that you can't actually recalculate them on your own? And when you start digging, you find not only that it uses the same basic design of XML-DSig while barely escaping its fatal flaws, it also uses some bizarre data encodings nobody else uses for anything. And then the resulting hash is not even the truncation of the actual hash, it has an additional (again, entirely undocumented) strange post-processing step for unspecified reasons.
I don’t understand how that’s relevant. Do you mean to say that ascribing motives to actions is always impossible?

Because as I understand it, that phrase means that it’s fallacious to say that the purpose of some system is X if it in fact does not do X. Not that we can never ask why we are doing Z.
Having implemented the first two for a web game i absolutely guarantee you those are far from "nothing". It takes considerable diagraming & handling to coordinate FE + API on state changes.

If they in fact can solve that (haven't checked myself), it would be a massive time saving for development.
> [A] generation of rising players is infusing jazz with absurdist online irreverence. But are they playing jazz at all?

Adam Neely has some things worth listening to when it comes to the idea of "what is jazz"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68zOvCLwcL8
Cousin was in China last month. Left Shanghai for a meeting in Beijing in the morning. Was back in Shanghai by night

All via train. In cities that are 1300km apart.
Oh? No harassment. Well shoot, we should let the Jewish students know.

Jewish Students Sheltered Inside College Library During Protest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eFbKViNrMo

35 percent of of Jewish students say there has been violence or acts of hate targeting Jews on their campus
https://www.hillel.org/more-than-one-third-of-jewish-college...

But sure, all good. The apologist for the violent maniacs says it's all good. So then it must be good.
> My understanding is that upon a detection the entire flock is killed

I heard something like the avian flu spreads so fast that once one bird in a flock is detected to have the disease, it will eventually spread to the whole flock within 3 days.
In some places of the world this is an offence you can get sued for and end paying a lot more than the original sum.
China and Turkey were previously on our list. Also Turkmenistan and a lot of African countries.

China not anymore. You can now easily travel there without visa.

Turkey is still too aggressive and risky, but at least you don't have to wait 6 hrs at their border anymore.
You don't have to wait at the ticket window though. Privacy? Maybe not. But convenience? At every corner.
The downvote button is used by (too) many as the online equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears while loudly saying la la la la la, I can't hear you when confronted with facts they want to but can not rebuke.
Tetris 99 is very much official guideline Tetris. Arika, the developer of TGM, (and Tetris 99, as pointed out by an adjacent comment,) has done guideline Tetris before, and even implemented it as an option in TGM games in the past (and presumably in TGM 4 which I haven't played yet) and it is assumed this is because of the Tetris Company enforcing it.

You could certainly never do a T-Spin Triple in ARS rotation.

(Though whether it's closer to GM than NES is an interesting question. It's certainly neither since NES Tetris is quite far from what guideline Tetris would become.)
(Re-reading what I wrote above, I'd like to clarify that all the stuff I wrote above (except perhaps the alcohol tax one?) is of course not specific to Japan.)
And yet, if you ask Claude, Llama, or xAI who they are, they answer correctly. Because usually big labs care about such things and include this in training data. So, not a proof, but some evidence.