skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The entitlement of the modern artist/musician is unprecedented. Never have I seen so many people expect to be handed a living because they've posted some "content". Musicians and artists now have global distribution with a plethora of platforms. You have to harness that and then work and grind it out. You have to travel and play gigs and set up a booth at art shows.

There's this new expectation that you should just be able to post some music on Spotify or set up an Etsy shop and get significant passive income. It has never ever worked that way and I feel this new expectation comes from the hustle/influencer types selling it.

Most art is crap and most music isn't worth listening to. In the modern age, it's easy for anyone to be a band or artist and the ability to do this has led to a ton of choice, the market is absolutely flooded. If anyone can do a thing (for very loose values of "do") it's inherently worth less. Only the very best make it and it will always be that way.

Source: made a living as a musician for 20 years. The ones who make it are relentlessly marketing themselves in person. You have to leave the house, be a part of a scene, and be constantly looking for opportunities. No one comes knocking on your door, you must drive your product and make yourself stand out in some way. You make money on merch and gigs, and it's always been that way.

This is all to say that copyright law only affects the top 0.1%. The avg struggling artist will never have to worry about any of this. It's like Bob the mechanic worrying about inheritance taxes. Pipe dream at best.
„Fluoride reduces IQ" report needs to be retracted
I do not sympathize with NK at all, they are monsters.

What I am surprised about is that the same people who criticized other countries for doing X will not criticize their own/allied country doing a variation of X. I believe that we in the free West have a duty to keep our democrackes and we do that by not copying rules from the like of North Korea and by not constantly creating tools that help abolishing the division of powers.

That means when I critique Australia for that law I do so on the moral ground that Australia should know better, while North Korea is more or less openly evil.

I am a big fan of fixing our own problems instead of pointing elsewhere where it is even worse.

But I learned that there is a big group of people who think that pointing out that there is dog shit on the carpet makes you somehow a traiter and not someone who wants to live in a country without dogshit on the carpet.
> It's hard to say where the lower bound for the value of American companies is now. Is it zero?

Come on, it's definitely not zero for most of the companies, even if tons of small businesses go bankrupt.

> But the current administration seems to be set on redirecting those earnings away from investors towards the government. And I don't see what could limit the extent to which they do so.

The objective of the current administration is to implement fascism. Companies can operate and make profit, as long as it’s allowed by the government. See the blackmailing of law firms and tech companies for examples.

Ironically, Thomas Sowell made that argument back when Obama dared to give Americans healthcare - https://www.creators.com/read/thomas-sowell/06/12/socialist-.... And he also rang similar alarm bells during the Biden administration - https://www.foxnews.com/media/thomas-sowell-systemic-racism-.... But he has offered nothing more than milquetoast commentary about tariffs being bad when it comes to the current administration.
I'm taking a course on computational health laboratory. I do have to say gemini is helping me a lot, but someone who knows what's happening is going to be much better than us. Our professor told us it is of course allowed to make things with llms, since on the field we will be able to do that. However, I found they're much less precise with bio-informatic libraries than others...

I do have to say that we're just approaching the tip of the iceberg and there are huge issues related to standardization, dirty datas... We still need the supervision and the help of one of the two professors to proceed even with llms
No one will hire the people you are describing. We had 3.5% unemployment, before Trump began destroying the world economy. People in most fast food restaurants are making $30k. In fact the “entry level workers” and “illegals” were relatively happy. It’s the middle class workers who vary between desperate and enraged, because $45-$65k does not approximate the expectations raised in their childhood. What I’m saying is vastly oversimplified, but you get my drift. There is tremendous housing shortage, due to government policies that surreptitiously favored rising prices for incumbent homeowners, and corporate speculators. Healthcare is apportioned according to education level. Food is remarkably expensive.
Great work! It's nice seeing another observability tool. Demo is neat and easy to navigate.

Couple of questions:

What's the overhead of tracing + logging observed by users? I see many tools being built on top of the OpenTelemetry eBPF tracer, which is nice to see.

The OpenTelemetry eBPF tracer uses sampling to capture traces. Do other types of logging in the tool use sampling as well (HTTP traces)?

When finding SLO violations, can this tool find the bug if the latency spikes do not happen frequently (ie, latency spikes happens every 5minutes - 1hour)? I'm curious if the team have had experienced such events and even if those pmax latencies matter to customers since it may not happen frequently.

I see that the flamegraph is a CPU flamegraph - does off-cpu sampling matter (Disk/Network, etc...)? Or does the CPU flamegraph provide enough for developers to solve the issue?
I didn't say it was fragile.
As a European I feel like I have a lot of safety and guarantees.

I also have children and I obviously worry a great deal about what the world will look like when they grow up.

Whatever is happening at the moment has been set in motion in the past 15 years in this slow tectonic movement towards a likely repetition of past history. In that context there seems to be a huge information /misinformation/propaganda/psy ops operation happen under our feet.

The wake up call for me was during the past US presidential campaign. I heard in my social circle (three separate) under 25 yr old males (all raised and living in social-democratic Central Europe) repeating tiktok/instagram talking points, about how Trump "...will be good for 'the economy' ".

In light of past interesting discussion in HN, I ask the question:

How can we as citizens contribute to counter this? And how can governance / intelligence counter act something that now appears unstoppable and entrenched?
You can index arbitrary expressions, though, including indexing the same expression used to define the invisible column, right?
So every Canadian?
Knowledge and Propaganda (1928)
How Does C Code Become Assembly
Assuming you are actually from the US, your point feels a lot like system justification[1] theory hard at work... If close to 50% (or even more) people around you have moderate to serious weight issues, I can imagine how you end up normalising the status quo, looking for explanations that rationalise it...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_justification
Show HN: A package manager for MCP servers
Honestly, there have been so many businesses and individuals that lose out on their domain because they just didn't buy it as soon as they saw it was available. I don't understand why - in the grand scheme of things a 5, 10 or even $100 domain isn't going to break the bank. Just buy the thing as soon as you find it and avoid this mess.
We are terrifyingly close to this already. This is the near near future now.
"Subnet routing broke on Ubuntu (maybe other distros) recently"

Do you have more infos on this one? I use Debian and that would be a major problem for me.
At what wages? Come on, man. Do you know what the average wage is in China on an iPhone assembly line? The pressures on workers?
Sharecare | BI Engineer (Contract) | Remote – Mexico / South America

------------------------------------------------

We're hiring a BI Engineer to join our fast-moving data team. This is a contract position with remote flexibility (Mexico / South America preferred time zones).

==============

What we offer:

===============

* Startup culture with zero BS meetings

* Work alongside world-class engineers (MIT, Yahoo, Amazon alumni)

* Competitive compensation

======================

Who we’re looking for:

======================

* Expert in SQL, including complex joins, window functions, and performance tuning

* Strong hands-on experience with BigQuery

* Looker Studio wizard – from modeling to dashboards

* Comfortable with non-relational data and documenting warehouse architecture

* Fluent in Git / GitHub

* Clear English communication (written & spoken)

* 3+ years working with BigQuery & Looker

---------------------------

If you thrive in fast-paced environments and love building clean, meaningful data experiences — let’s talk.

reach me: prashanth.iyer at sharecare.com
So you’re using formal methods, sanitizers, the whole gamut of verification and yet you can “quickly” find new issues just by fuzzing. Sounds like there’s some significant problem there that you’re not mentioning.

Microsoft and Google have a ton of legacy code, they need to have high performance because they’re pushing everything to the web in order to spy better on people, they always churn their software and they are a very juicy target. As far as I’m concerned, they should rewrite everything in Rust and stop telling other people what to do.

But of course, they also need to sell Rust to the public, otherwise they would run out of developers or would have to maintain everything themselves. Hence the cheerleading.

This blog post is much closer to the reality of using Rust in production. In fact I’d add a couple of pitfalls myself:

* original cheerleader gets bored of the Rust rewrite/moves on and the project dies.

* original cheerleader moves on and the project lives under maintenance with non-Rust programmers which do not enjoy working on it and delay and reject changes and/or feature requests.
It is frustrating and this is why you don’t want to wait till launch day. As soon as you know it’s more than an inkling of an idea, get those domains. Most are cheap, and easy to let go if you decide it isn’t for you anyway.
Companies can operate and make profit

Why make a profit? How is an Apple that gives billions of dollars to investors (many of them abroad) better for Trump than an Apple that gives those billions of dollars to the Government which he controls? Tariffs are one way to redirect those profits.
> the only info we do store is your session's cookies (and only if you're logged in).

If this truly is the only cookie you store, then you may not need the cookie banner, you can explain the cookie usage in your Privacy Policy.

For gdpr[1], strictly necessary cookies, like for login as you describe, do not require consent to be obtain as long as their usage is explained like in your privacy policy.

[1] https://gdpr.eu/cookies/
Anyone know what vorq.ai is building?
Saw vorq.ai earlier today – looks like something in the AI/growth space but there’s no details. The design is different. Anyone heard anything?
"Sniped" makes it sound like they did something wrong, but they didn't. I reject the idea at the end that there were ethical lines crossed. You need to buy your domain when you name the project, not when you release it. If you don't have the domain then you don't have the name. Buying the domain is naming it. Take the lesson for next time.
On libgen.mx they claim to have 33,569,200 books and 84,844,242 articles
JFK Assassination Records Dataset on Hugging Face
I am releasing JFK-TELL, a dataset I generated by extracting text from the scanned PDFs of the assassination records released until April 2025. The extraction was done with Google Gemini LLM API to generate Markdown text, using a very simple prompt. For detailed methodology, check out the Github repo at https://github.com/farhanhubble/jfk-tell
Years ago, this used to happen a lot because registrars could grab a domain for a short period without any cost - so some of them would see you searching for a domain, and hold it, then try to make you buy it at a higher cost. I don't deal with domains any more, but I thought ICANN had put a stop to that practice.
NeXTStep is still ahead of most modern GUI frameworks imo.
China is not backing down from Trump's tariff war. What next?
Not only that, but the people working in this space still aren't reading the room, which is not encouraging.
> no European country has been seriously committed to it

I would argue several countries and the EU as a whole is seriously committed to it, but this commitment comes with usual European caveats: it will be slow and expensive. But it is happenning.

https://www.bmi.bund.de/SharedDocs/pressemitteilungen/EN/202...

> American companies dominate payment systems.

I think SEPA dominates payment systems and anything else is only a layer above than can be replaced. And there are several widely used country-specific systems that are not American.

> Governments moving to sovereign services is not enough - if the US can cripple your private sector you are finished anyway.

Moving government services is a necessary first step.

> There is no easy, quick or cheap solution.

Yes.
The app is still available, but to use all features you have to pay a couple of Euros: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.dwd.warnapp...
It's an interesting business model to give a version that everyone says is awful to people just trying it out, and locking the actually useful version behind a paywall, so anyone who doesn't want to immediately give money gets a bad experience...
I didn't say the average person should use it, I was thinking the search functionality could be implemented that way and save on burning up the planet to tame Moloc.
I'm now desperately looking forward to reading someone else's blog post about their vibe domain squatting set up where a combination of LLMs and spiders trawling Github for fresh targets lead to a decent passive income.
> I am not sure the country would be improved if it somehow got replaced with a lifestyle of living like Europeans or Americans.

Yeah, it's quite debatable that indoor plumbing, safe water or reliable electricity are actually good. Sure, Malawi has ten times the infant mortality rate as the EU, but is that really such a bad thing?
Who is independently error checking this? Surely given the depth of conspiracy theory, simply machine driven OCR with no independent validation is going to "feed the beast" more than it intends?
How is it not unethical to grab a domain you don't need and had no intention of buying until you learned someone else was interested in it? Especially since it usually involves extorting money from the would-be buyer.

I fully agree you need to buy the domain as soon as you name your project, and that's where this person went wrong, but that doesn't make domain sniping any more ethical.
If rule of law and due process are arbitrarily ignored then the only real difference is time.

Given enough time all can degenerate.
That's the whole discussion here: "It's mostly because of how they were initially marketed. In an effort to drive hype 'we' were promised the world. Remember the "leaks" from Google about an engineer trying to get the word out that they had created a sentient intelligence?"
I need my phone to write and read Signal / Matrix messages and to use MFA. Unfortunately, dumb phones are generally too dumb for these requirements.

Perhaps an iq100 phone? Punkt is kinda close.
I do not understand why you feel entitled to the domain. If I was entitled to the domain of every side project I had, I would be a multimillionaire in domain assets.
Watching folks build something, seeing them prep to launch it, then buying the domain in response to that (in the hope that they'll pay more for it)?

Totally legal (and IMO should be!), but anyone doing that is absolutely crossing an ethical line.
https://archive.is/TGm8d
OG Music Animations – MusAnim
Before the likes of Polyfjord, we had MusAnim - https://www.musanim.com/

https://www.musanim.com/watch_mam.html has the link to their YouTube channel and https://www.musanim.com/Background/ has more information as well as https://www.musanim.com/Method/ and https://www.musanim.com/ProductionNotes/synchronization.html

Enjoy!
Fascists need an enemy, an “other.” Your last sentence describes globalism. But 51% of the voters voted for something else, and you and your children will now lead your lives in “interesting times.”
Half and half, for non-political stuff, I still lean on search engines and topic-specific sites.

For political stuff, I avoid wikipedia and just search engines in general and ask Grok/ChatGPT, specifying the specific biases I want it to filter out and know pieces of misinformation for it to ignore.
You have to admit though that scraping Github for project names and buying the domains is a sleazy way of making money
Other sources say 8% which is huge for Renaissance but probably not big enough to be a shoe dropping.
Fewer beans = great coffee if you get the pour height right
Major publishers call on the US government to 'Stop AI Theft'
Yes, a lot. Search engine for me is not just for simple questions. I still want to search for specific articles, websites, etc. Want to filter by date...
> How do I know the LLM isn't lying to me?

How do you know the media isn't lying to you ? It's happened many times before (think pre-war propaganda)
C++ can be safe enough if you proceed with care.

What I dislike of C++ is that it grew to become a monster of a language, containing all programming paradigms and ideas, good or bad, known to mankind.

It's so monstrously huge no human can hold its entire complexity in his head.

C++ allows you to do things in 10000 different ways and developer would do just that. Often in the same code base.

That being said, I would use a sane subset of C++ every day over Rust. It's not that I hate Rust or that I don't think is good, technically sound and capable. It just doesn't fit the way I think and I like to work.

I like to keep a simple model in mind. For me, the memory is just a huge array from which we copy data to CPU cache, move some to CPU registers, execute instructions and fetch data from the registers and put it again in some part of that huge array, to be used later. Rust adds a lot of complexity over this simple mental model of mine.
An important factor is bird lungs, which essentially have a mechanism which keeps the lungs perpetually inflated. Air flows through. This makes it possible to provide way more oxygen to the body than our own inefficient lungs. Which again makes it possible for birds to fly over the Himalayas and still get enough oxygen to drive those power-hungry mitochondria.
> I realized my GitHub repository was public, which was not my intention at all before launching the project.

I'm sorry, but aren't GitHub repos private by default?

edit: see down-thread, but they are private by default in GitHub Desktop, which is what I have used to create new repos for years. However, they are public by default on github.com.
https://osf.io/preprints/osf/zhm54_v3
Great staff, do you know how to add github pages?
And may be add a link to desktop commander too.
The UK's first long-distance ultra-secure communication over a quantum network
> After some back and forth, I realized my GitHub repository was public, which was not my intention at all before launching the project.

:facepalm:
Well, I guess democracy has spoken.
And so has the market as the do-nothing people continue to get paychecks and I collect unemployment.
Cybersquatting is one prime example of value extraction vs value creation. HugeDomain has sat on my obscure family name's .com domain name and wants to sell it to me. Every year their price goes up a thousand dollars.

Hot take:

We should work towards dethroning .com as the default so that all the people who trade domain names lose all the money they had never earned. I'm also for a more expensive .com base price. Some of the things that make moving away from .com hard is the blanket gtld level email/traffic bans in Sophos and other security firms
AI deletes a lot of you tell it to optimize code and the new code will pass all the tests…
The tariffs will kill our industry. That’s my prediction. They will raise the cost of our inputs significantly, reducing demand, and giving China breathing room to catch up.
My own thought process is that it's like Usenet or arXiv: The collective value of Github is so high that even if Microsoft loses interest, someone else will buy it from them or clone the content elsewhere. That said, I do wish there was an alternative that didn't involve a for-profit corporation.
I see no problem though. Most package managers support binary-only package installations.
Not like it's actually China doing this, it's some random Tiktoker. If you took things that American Tiktokers made as US foreign policy the US would be simultaneously pro- and anti-China, they'd be liberal, conservative, socialist, communist, monarchist, pro-Genghis Khan and esoteric Hitlerist all at once.
https://archive.is/6cYCq
There should be some regulatory mechanism for domains if the owner doesn’t use them for something meaningful, they should pay and increased price for it, and/or lose the ownership after a certain amount of time.

They way how it currently works is bad for the SaaS/app developers, bad for the content creators, and bad for the users.

It is ridiculous that nowadays you cannot buy a good domain name, because someone mass registered all of the meaningful combination of words in every existing tld, in hope that they can sell some of them for a few thousand dollars to someone who is willing to pay for it.

Not to mention these obviously unethical cases like this.
Well, we haven't tried symbolic AI with huge amounts of data. It's a hard problem.

(And ironically this problem is much easier now that we have LLMs to help us clean and massage textual data.)
That was my strategy and I now own about a dozen domains for side projects that never got past the rough concept stage :)
The absolute lower bound is probably domestic consumption?

Which is still a huuuuuuuuuuuuge market
I have absolutely no use for my photos being annotated by an AI.

I have had use for LLMs and previous era image gens. I haven't got around to trying the last iterations that this article is about yet.

That use I have had of it is very esoteric, an art mostly forgotten in the digital modernity, it's called "HAVING FUN", by myself, for curiosities, for sharing with friends.

That is by far the greatest usage area and severely underrated. AI for having fun, enjoyment that feels meaningful.

If you're a spam-producer or scam artist, or industrial digi-slop manufacturer or merchant of hype, or some other flavor of paid liar(journalist, influencer, spokesperson, diplomat or politician) then sure, AI will also earn you money. And the facade for this money making enterprises will look shinier for every year that passes but it will be all rotting organics and slops behind that veneer, as it have since many years before my birth.

I'm in the game for the fun part, and that part is noticably improving.
Many people here were so confident a few days ago that the tariffs were just some 4d chess to get interest rates down, despite this not making any sense.
Not charity - they are paying tribute
I once did a naive text wrapping implementation for a game and with a longer text it caused performance to drop way below 60 FPS.

This was on a 4.5 GHz quad core CPU. Single threaded performance of todays top CPUs is only 2-3x faster, but many gamers now have 144Hz+ displays.
Grok has already publicly claimed that Elon was trying to illegally sway the election in Wisconsin with his million dollar prizes for votes. Did anything happen in Deus Ex? I'm guessing the government was held more accountable there than they will be in reality.