skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a big fan of Rocket, but I think that's an unfair way to put it. I'd say they're similar to what Bezos would be like if he had to start from Europe lol.

They take an existing model with a lot of potential and focus on implementation. They had a golden period with e-commerce because e-commerce is heavily logistics. And they do it in the hardest places, because the harder it is, the more they can sell the company for.

Back when Lazada started, Indonesia had terrible credit card penetration. Roads were not suited to delivery; heck they built their own logistics because the local logistics were not suited for e-commerce. There's a lot of complex laws on hiring, or incorporating companies there (which are nicer now).

China won't do it. They don't want to build companies in 6 different low income country with a total of 500m population or so. Normal people would just target the US or EU, which has more people and more money.

But Rocket goes into these countries. They have a lot of emphasis on leadership. They drop a scalable playbook for the locals. They grow it fast until it hits a cap before they sell it off to something like Alibaba. They do have some dark patterns as well. Whatever caricatures people have of China, Rocket does it better - they work longer hours, work people harder, build things for extreme scale, do what the Chinese won't.

It is not the funding model that GP speaks of. But it is a fairly successful model of creating and exiting startups. It's quite autocratic to my understanding. I don't have that kind of work ethic and I feel like there's a hint of envy when people call them copycats. They don't have a good presence on the English Wikipedia though.
First of all, it does not "just happen" to be selectable. RAW contains information that is not available in a JPG or PNG , but which is crucial to a lot of serious photographers.

Second, the native raw images do include a ton of adjustments in brightness, contrast and color correction. All of which gets lost when you open the image file with apps provided from other companies than the camera vendor. Eg. open a Nikon-raw in NC Software and then in Lightroom. Big difference. Adobe has some profiles that get near the original result, but the Nikon raw standards often are better.

So DNG would absolutely be an advantage because then at least these color corrections could natively be implemented and not get lost in the process.
There are a long list of countries that haven’t had much luck with the US..

Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Korea, El Salvador, chile, Colombia, Iran and on and on.

Now it seems there is just one country benefiting from their relationship to the States…
How Trump's second term just made digital sovereignty a European priority
"Europe loves to talk about sovereignty but keeps handing its digital future to American companies. If we’re serious about this, we need to stop outsourcing our entire tech stack to Silicon Valley." Ludovic Dubost, CEO of XWiki
All but a few members of Trump's party support him or fear they will lose their next primary elections if they oppose him openly.
COVID keeps getting brought up.

Let's remember that it was much worse than it had to be, because the same President actively causing this current catastrophe thought he could just ignore the problem and it would go away.
Really interesting. I think the idea of pivoting is a huge skill, but maybe it's not highlighted enough (especially as the process of building becomes easier). Taking a step back and looking at what you've already built from different angles, for various use cases, until one of them clicks more is key. Then, just sell it that way. If it doesn’t work, repeat. Essentially, it’s about repeating the process, but with the flexibility and adaptability to shape your product for the SaaS world.
A cardinal mindset for building, a mutable mind for flexibility and adaptability.
Don't use Cloudflare DNS.
> It is supposed to be raw data from the sensor with some additional metrics streamed in

...and what do you think DNG is?
VC culture gives you the USA, a failing empire and a "silicon valley" which hasn't seen silicon for 3 decades
I recently purchased a Pocketbook Era. It is pretty much the perfect device for me - supports open standards and does not require any cloud account signups to start using it. It is not hostile to the user, 3rd party applications such as Koreader can be simply dropped in and they appear in the menus without any shenanigans like jailbreaking or custom launchers needed.

In my ideal world all devices would be like this.
Things like camera intrinsics and extrinsics are not fixed. 1000 bytes seems small to me given the amount of processing in modern cameras to create a raw image. I could easily imagine storing more information like focus point, other potential focus points with weights as part of the image for easier user on device editing.
> A system that expects all worthwhile things to be profitable will simply fail to do all worthwhile things and society will be worse for it

I agree with the spirit of your message, but you're going way too far using all there. Some are not profitable, and the society is likely better off to socialize these. As a simple example: it's not profitable to provide food and housing for people without means, but if you don't, your society will be worse off - simply because these people will be forced into directions that are generally harmful to your living spaces.

Sure, you could increase police presence in this particular example, but that'd still be an effective socialization, because now you just put them on jail, which is even more costly then just providing them housing and food.
Acting is an ancient tool of connection we can all play with Essays
The output of the command the OP mentions

$ /usr/bin/rsync –version

...doesn't return anything referencing openrsync. I'm on Sequoia 15.3.1.
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> That kind of code is the reason that this proposed change is not just an obvious no-brainer

I don't understand your point here: I disagree this is "obvious", and I don't think I've said anything to imply that?

> And of course any such code can be fixed, but that's not necessarily trivial; making the source code changes can be a very small part of the process

In many cases, it's so trivial you can write code to patch the code. Often, the resulting stripped binary will be identical, so you can prove it's not necessary to even test the result! If decision makers can be made to understand that, you can run around most corporate process that makes this sort of thing hard.

I've spent a lot of time fixing horrible old proprietary code to use const because I think it's important: most of the time, it's very easy. I don't deny there are rats nests that require a lot of refactoring to unwind, but that is the exception rather than the rule, in my personal experience.

It will be vanishingly rare that code will need to be modified in a way that actually changes its runtime behavior to tolerate the proposed change.
Level 16 but I got lucky with the RNG giving me a long run where the correct choice stayed in the same place.
This pre-conditioning isn't free. It costs you range. So, doing less of that helps. And it takes time. The worst case for an EV is a short journey to a fast charger. Both heating the vehicle and the battery from ice cold takes energy.
They are supporting genocide.
Similar scene to IBM that supported Hitler.
OpenRsync is from the OpenBSD project. This is typically an indicator of good quality and a good focus on security. However, in this case, even the official website indicates:

> We are still working on it... so please wait.
> Most of the world didn't ditch cars, exactly. They just predate them.

It's true they predate them, but then so do most American cities. When the car arrived the American cities opted to expand their cities, giving everyone their own block of lawn to live on. The European cities could have expanded in the same way too. Utrecht went as far as to build freeways to make it possible. But in the end, they opted not to and Utrecht in particular turned their brand new freeways into canals.

> Car culture is recent and pretty uniquely American.

American certainly has it's own unique culture, but I think we are discussing a specific characteristic of that culture which it shares with other countries like Australia, Canada and New Zealand. The density of most cities in those countries is so low owning a car is mandatory. Existing without one is almost impossible. I know because live in one. Quoting a Japanese exchange student who lives with us for a while - to her surprise even with two cars getting to everywhere we had to be in an average week was a major logistical exercise. In the countries @n3storm is talking about, car ownership is completely optional.
There are 8+ Instax apps made by Fujifilm in the app store. Which one is pretty good for controls?
Exactly. I am surprised this isn't talked more.

The web stack is such an example. Almost everything you use -- chrome, webpack, electron, babel, React etc all adopted the permissive license.

Not quite so for other areas, but I can count with one hand the number of GPLv3 licenses I have seen in new projects.
Best of luck. I hope that you don't fizzle out at some point, but I suppose 10 lines a day isn't too daunting a task.

I wonder if MS has this code somewhere in a digital vault.
Would "accelerationists" would be dark mirror types?
I ponder if it's really because sedan sales have been shrinking YoY to this day and the volume has gotten small enough to cram into a existing factory.

Based on some data here
https://carfigures.com/us-market-brand/honda/accord

(which does come from other sources, this was just the basic tablation I could find)

the accord sale numbers are half of their peak only a 6 years ago
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I thought dark matter was only observed through movements of matter within galaxies. Outer layers of spiral galaxies are observed to move faster than they should, so there has to be additional gravity and therefore mass that binds them on their (fast) orbits around the center.

Perhaps there is a negative gravity outside of galaxies where space seems to bubble out of nowhere anyway and the universe is expanding.

This seems as an attempt to combine gravity with the standard model again, which in my very amateurish understanding comes with multiple extra dimensions anyway. Isn't the higgs field basically a recently discovered additional dimension already? Among the other forms of particles that can be seen as an excitation of fields that compose these dimensions.

But for extreme cases like neutron stars or black holes, we probably do need to combine these theories since gravity is a main reason these objects exist in the first place. And also isn't a curvature of space not already be an additional dimension as well? It would be mathematically as I understand it.
Midjourney introduces first new image generation model in over a year
Most large companies monitor devices. You start GMailing source code to yourself, you get fired.
You think heat pump is source of energy? :-)

I specifically asked for realistic numbers. Copypaste failed at last chapter. The heat pump etc was %5 percent max. %5 comes as savings when energy actual comes from nukular plant.
> It was brought up because this disclaimer was also present in the CVE-2025-0665 advisory[0], which is essentially a double-free but on file descriptor level

I don't see how Rust would have prevented calling close() two times with the same eventfd.
> Some quick searching indicates that the startup rate (per capita) in Germany is about 1.1%, while the USA is 1.5%. Not a huge difference, but the USA doesn't have any of those initiatives afaik.

It sounds like these are small businesses and not startups. The US has 10% small businesses per capita.
Somehow all of my K-1s came early this year. It's the first time in 20 years that I didn't have to file an extension!
Are these jobs at all attainable by people of unremarkable intelligence and aptitude?

In principle I don’t see why less clever people like myself can’t get together and solve less challenging problems in the same way.
> Rust is supposed to replace C++, not C, right?

Rust is intended as a systems langage. To the extent that it’s “supposed” to replace anything, it’s both.
There's a YouTube channel that does a lot of videos focused on LLMs in Minecraft:

https://www.youtube.com/@EmergentGarden

I very much like the comparative approach this guy takes looking at how different LLMs fare... including how they interact together. Worth a look.
A VC will build a portfolio of startups that each have the potential to do massively well. After that they don’t care which of the portfolio companies lives or dies, as long as one explodes and compensates for the others.

As a founder you care very much which of your companies succeeds, as you only have one.
Yup, the analogy falls apart. Basically don't eat unicorn food.
Companies don't need the threat of litigation to hide information about products. That's why departments like the FDA and USDA were created to begin with. For example, people were selling crude oil as medicine, and people were selling tape worm eggs a weight-loss pills.
MCP (Or Similar Standards) Could Change the Way We Use Software with AI
Congress could revoke Trump's emergency declarations at any time. A measure to do this for Canada passed the Senate by 1 vote only. The House will not vote on it probably. Members of the majority party are more afraid they will lose their next primary elections if they oppose the leader than they will lose their next general elections because of the leader's policies. Those are not conditions to pass a confidence motion.
This is almost exactly how free mobile games function these days. The business model works because it's printing its own currency, which is worth maybe 3 min of grind, instead of the real thing where it might be closer to $0.04.
The game doesn't find anagrams though? What I saw was nonwords (random permutations of the letters).

Or if you mean the player's task, that's not finding anagrams either: you just need to choose the nonword that has the same counts of the letters as the word.
Why do you say that? The strong impression I have is that Vance is agreeing with Trump because he has to in order to maintain any influence (and not get Pence'd), is there any indication he actually wants these Tariffs in the same way that Trump does?
That just sounds like traditional small businesses. Which is cool but re-branding them to "startup" seems silly. The US has 35 million small businesses and maybe 1 million would qualify as startups.
> I ponder if it's really because sedan sales have been shrinking

Nope. It's part of Honda's $4-5 billion US expansion as part of their EV and Hybrid car drive [0][1] which also expanded production output.

They're moving their cars to a hybrid and electric first model similar to what Toyota began 4-5 years ago.

The Biden era IRA subsidizes were the carrot to help restart domestic automotive investments, and the tariffs shock is the stick to force them to capitalize on those instead of trying to co-mingle parts from other non-NAM locations for better margins.

[0] - https://alabamanewscenter.com/2022/10/13/what-does-hondas-4-...

[1] - https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/02/02/hondas-new-ev-production...
> If they aren't allowed to compete, local industries will never have an incentive to improve.

Neither Europe nor the US can compete with the level of disdain for the environment, labor laws and poverty that China brings to the table. Wages alone make anything made in China so cheap that, for mass-market goods, competing against China (or its upcoming competitors in the race to the bottom) is impossible.
It's not even just that. The reason newspapers have multiple columns rather than lengthy lines is because it's strictly easier to read shorter lines.
The parent poster is right though, signal is permitted and encouraged for any discussion that would’ve happened over SMS, the issues are somebody dropping details into a channel meant for planning a meeting, as well as somebody accidentally adding somebody that should not have been there.
Sure, but most of that has nothing to do with the loss of manufacturing jobs. It has much more to do with the tremendous transfer of wealth from the bottom quintiles to the top, enabled by the gutting of unions, the destruction of regulations, and the abandonment of any kind of effective antitrust policy.
I don’t disagree, but I think GP means someone who is not a political appointee, like the non-partisan national security officers whose role is basically exactly what GP discussed. I don’t know if it’s usual for NSC officers to be included in these kinds of chats that are ostensibly just for coordinating secure meetings between principals though - maybe it should be
As LLM benchmarks go, this is not a bad take at all.
One interesting point about this approach is that is self balancing, so when more powerful models come up, there is no need to change it.
Agent mode: available to all users and supports MCP
Some outputs are pretty fun :

Gemini 2.0 Flash: "Good luck to all (but not too much luck)"

Llama 3.3 70B: "I've contributed to the elimination of weaker players."

DeepSeek R1: "Those consolidating power risk becoming targets; transparency and fairness will ensure longevity. Let's stay strategic yet equitable. The path forward hinges on unity, not unchecked alliances. #StayVigilant"
No, that’s not the higher level story here. The higher level story is that the US is currently led by irresponsible imbeciles.
In this particular situation, Hegseth had two choices.

1. Limit what was shared in the Signal group to non-operational details and refer all involved to their secured systems.

2. Make it easier for everyone else and just post the details directly in the chat.

He chose the one that he thought would curry favor with other members of the administration.
I didn't read the manual and when I was trying to help my kid play the game I couldn't figure out how to break blocks.
>The whole premise on which the immense valuations of these AI companies is based on is that they are learning general reasoning skills from their training on language.

And they do, just not always in the ways we expect.

>This whole premise crashes and burns if you need task-specific training, like explicit chess training.

Everyone needs task specific training. Any human good at chess or anything enough to make it a profession needs it. So I have no idea why people would expect any less for a Machine.

>then we have to accept that they can't learn, say, to sell business software unless they include business software pitches in the training set, and there are going to be FAR fewer of those than chess games.

Yeah so ? How much business pitches they need in the training set has no correlation with chess. I don't see any reason to believe what is already present isn't enough. There's enough chess data on the internet to teach them chess too, it's just a matter of how much open AI care about it.
now they just have to figure out how to make it charge while people are lighting them on fire
Giant space-bound fermentation barges.
At least some years ago, browsing HN's comment section felt like it was a different world, separated from reality. I think some people need this kind of grounding reminders every once in a while.
The same way Rust prevents calling close() two times on a file.
DOGE is destroying entire fields. Maybe you built a career in museum curatorship or international development. You don't get paid much but its a decent living and you feel that you are enriching the world.

You don't just wake up without a job. You wake up in a world where you need a totally new career.
Just wait until the sky is turned Coca-Cola red. Fair game, right?
SOTA performance. the LiDAR ones have basically failed or completely overfit to a single city.
Brit telcos ask suppliers to clean up emissions mess – politely, with no teeth
Not really. Nothing has been removed. So far everything is just a panic. Anything critical will continue to flow, just at a higher cost. Most already healthy companies will survive. This is bad, but it's not as terrible as the panick is making it out to be. The thing that's making it look worse is how overvalued the market has been.
Yeah exactly that with Buffet. He was dumping Apple recently as well as he knows it’s going to burn when the AI hype crashes.
I thought his primary qualification for being the secretary of defence was:

——

Being a Major in the Minnesota Army National Guard.

And the following Overseas deployments:

- Guantanamo Bay (2004-2005): He served as a second lieutenant with a security platoon, guarding detainees.

- Iraq (2005-2006): He deployed with the 3rd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, serving as an infantry platoon leader in Baghdad and later as a civil-military operations officer in Samarra.

- Afghanistan (2011-2012): He served as a captain and senior counterinsurgency instructor at the Counterinsurgency Training Center in Kabul.

Awards

Hegseth earned two Bronze Star Medals for his service in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as a Combat Infantryman Badge, which recognizes soldiers who have directly engaged in ground combat. He also received two Army Commendation Medals and the National Defense Service Medal with Bronze Service Star, along with Expert Infantryman and Combat Infantryman badges.

His military career spanned from 2002 to 2021, including active duty and time in the Individual Ready Reserve.

In addition to his military service, Hegseth holds a Bachelor of Arts in Politics from Princeton University and a Master of Public Policy from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, which complement his practical experience with academic credentials relevant to leadership and policy.

———-

You can argue he’s good at the job or bad at the job.

I would have no issue if you said he was completely incompetent.

But saying that hs a ‘primary qualification is being a yes man’ is a ridiculous laughable argument.
Tokenized Treasuries Hit $5B as Fidelity Touts RWA Potential for Collateral
The standard for rust is that close() gets called automatically when the file descriptor goes out of scope. I believe you could choose to do it manually but that's unusual coding.
Emacs: Goodbye Setq, Hello Setopt
I wonder how it compares to electric car usage, or street lights in the USA.