skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use search engines all the time (kagi specifically). AIs don't have up to date information. How would you find reviews for products via an AI? It'll just come up with one or two, and when you read you can pick out nuance and also tell if its a genuine review or made up garbage. Or find a place to buy something. Or a place to go, and to read other peoples comments on it. Summaries aren't very useful over comments imo.

I use an LLM a lot for coding. However, I was never as much into doing web searches for programming problems anyway, I used docs more and rarely needed sites like SO. I haven't therefore moved away from search engines for that side of things.
> that's the only way to do it without incurring huge transaction fees and / or long processing time.

You're joking right? I just did a $25,000 wire internationally
with a currency exchange in the middle and it cost $75. It went through in one business day. You'll get more hassle trying to withdraw from your exchange than that.

When I bought my house and did the wire it cost $15. Where are you getting huge transaction fees?
Show HN: Fastpool, a runtime-agnostic fast object pool for Async Rust
Both yes and no. It was a brief lack of available local stock from suddenly unexpected demand, followed by a lack of factories willing to stop doing well paid work to switch to making cheap masks, while we waited for even cheaper masks to get made and imported from countries with cheap labor, followed by a surplus of masks (source: a brief chat with a factory manager in my social network who was considering whether he could at least break even on costs and labor if temporarily switching to making masks)
And its not a far-fetched example as both VISA/MC actually have a history of effectively banning legitimate businesses for no particular reason.
I remember reading a thread on Reddit[1] where someone argued that Google stocks will go down coz no one uses search engine but the person was overwhelmed by investors who still believed in Google

[1] - https://www.reddit.com/r/options/s/Wr0acVKlFI
They also performed work to ensure it performed well for Starlink customers.

A Global Perspective on the Past, Present, and Future of Video Streaming over Starlink - https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3700412 | https://doi.org/10.1145/3700412
My comment was regarding the manufacturing of the aluminum cases of Apple products, not the manufacturing of the entire device.
While this is valuable work, leaving it implementation-dependent is a terrible mistake.

The whole point of CSS is/was to standardize presentation across browsers.
> That's an assertion I don't agree with.

The part about users being more latency-limited than compute-limited, or wanting to push as much to the browser as possible?

The former is somewhat hard to quantify, but most engineers building interactive applications (or distributed systems, of which interactive client-server webapps are a special case) have far more trouble with latency than compute.

The latter is definitely true.

> Data still needs to come from or go to the server, whether you do it in a snippet of HTML or with an API call. ... In either case, latency is there.

This is definitely incorrect.

Consider the very common case of fetching some data from the server and then filtering it. In many, many cases, the filtering can be done client-side. If you do that with an interactive frontend, then it's nearly instant, and there's no additional fetch to the server. If you shell out to the server, then you pay the latency penalty, and incur a fetch.

"In either case, latency is there." is just factually wrong.
> A direct USB connection would remove a cable and an adapter.

Most modern mirrorless cameras can be connected to a computer via USB and used as a video source. Some are nerfed to only run for 30 minutes or some other arbitrary number consistently, but most are not.

f/9.5 in Full Frame is abysmal and generally past the point where scene sharpness suffers from stopping down. Even when doing street photography or landscapes, I rarely stop down past f/8. Running something like my Nikkor 50mm f/1.2 S Z-mount lens at f/4 is sharper edge-to-edge than most other lenses at f/8, and gathers enough light to operate a pleasingly fast shutter speed for handheld work even in low-light. A phone does not compare. My wife has the latest Samsung Galaxy S, I have an iPhone 16 Pro, we both also have cameras (her a Fuji APS-C body, me the Nikon Z8 FF body), and we walk around and take photos composed correctly within each camera. We can see it, even without cropping. A camera body is much better than a phone if you care about the quality of your work, and especially if you ever intend to print.
Note that the headline is misleading. Trump isn’t talking about “deportations” to a country of origin, but exile/sale to a brutal prison system in El Salvador.

Who has jurisdiction over these prisoners? Apparently, no one. The goal is to disappear them into a legal black hole.
Humans are notoriously bad at risk based decision making. This applies equally to being cautious or daring.
Same story everywhere. Intel was founded by Andy Grove, a refugee. I recently saw a comment opposing refugees mention that refugees in the old days were Eastern Europeans, whereas nowadays it is people from backwards countries (whatever that means). Anti-refugee sentiment is often racism that just happens to be accepted. Sbux once offered 10,000 refugees jobs, and had to rescind them in favor of veterans because Americans were offended. My personal view is refugees are often the hardest working and most honest people, given they experienced extreme hardships (similar to how holocaust survivors went on to dominate business and finance in America). It is such a shame America turned its back on many (particularly from Syria and Ukraine in recent years, although many churches sponsored Ukrainian families because they are Christian. Funny enough, I believe 10% of Syria are Christians too, but suburban churches did not sponsor them, with a minister saying they do not blend in, whatever that means).
What I think lends strength to Chomsky's theory is that is virtually, informally a corollary of computational complexity theory (grammars, P = NP, and related ideas) which was a direct consequence of Alan Turing.

So for the camp of linguists that disagree I do wonder what alternative theoretical foundation do they have.
I'm in NZ and actually prefer the Norwegian Govt weather site www.yr.no, which is about as accurate as our local one, easier to use and has no adverts.
> Washington is, from a lot of angles, a gerontocracy.

This goes deeper than one might suspect at first glance. The word "senate" comes from sennex, or old man, the same root word as "senile"
> So, rather than sell Europe weapons that we create in the United States, part of the “intention” of this policy is to cut off the European demand for our weapons systems and cause them to manufacture their own? How is that helpful to the United States and our bottom line? How is that at all in the US interests?

Are you asking why a single point of failure is a bad thing?

To restate what you asked: “if the USA weapons manufacturing capability is compromised and cannot sell weapons to approved parties, and said parties also cannot manufacture their own weapons, how is this in the interest of the US?”

What do you think?
So what is it? And what's a smart way to look at it?
Search engines are still required for me. LLM's still get lots of very important things wrong.

Last night, I asked Claude 3.7 Sonnet to obtain historical gold prices in AUD and the ASX200 TR index values and plot the ratio of them, it got all of the tickers wrong - I had to google (it then got a bunch of other stuff wrong in the code).

Also yesterday, I was preparing a brief summary of forecasting metrics/measures for a stakeholder and it incorrectly described the properties of SMAPE (easily validated by checking Wikipedia).

I constantly have issues with my direct reports writing code using LLM's. They constantly hallucinate things for some of the SDK's we use.
...for timing, not for positioning
You think earning twice the median income (for an American, this means weekly earnings of US $2,278) turns people into "giant bags of money" that are no longer human?
> In many cases they can't work, e.g. because of the analog hole

Careful not to confuse illegal with unable.

> [can't work because] the mechanism of operation is observable to anyone who buys the product.

That was my point about increasingly invasive DRM. Without IP law, the only way for large swaths of industry to sustain themselves would be to deal exclusively on extensively secured platforms. Imagine a scenario where all paid services (software, streaming, and quite literally everything else) was only available on hardware attested devices rooted with only one or a few players.

In the hypothetical scenario where it is explicitly legal to copy any binary that you gain possession of (ie copyright doesn't exist) I think that's what we would see.

> If someone had a secret video encoding strategy today, some hobbyists would reverse engineer it and post it on the internet.

Which is why patents exist. When companies decide how much to invest in what this is taken into account.

Notably due to the lack of popularity (and thus lack of adoption) of patent encumbered video and audio standards, anyone trying to make a direct profit effectively dropped out years ago. At this point it's driven by behemoths that realize significant downstream cost savings.

> Have you read a modern patent? They're inscrutable

Yes, I'm aware. Consider how much worse things could be though. No hint, every employee who worked on it under both NDA and non-compete. Imagine how much more difficult the labor market would be to navigate if the government didn't intervene to prevent overbearing terms in such a scenario. Consider what all of this would do to market efficiency.

My point was never to disagree with your broad strokes (that the free market is perfectly capable of functioning in the absence of IP law). Rather it was to point out that despite all the downsides, IP law does clearly offer some collective benefits by significantly reducing incentives that would otherwise drive greedy individuals to act against common interests.
I click on the link - the website doesn't open.
That’s not a cool motorcycle picture. You can argue that it’s a picture of a cool motorcycle but that’s really not the same thing.

I knew the submission would be a photo of Rollie Free on his Black Shadow before clicking the link. It is the motorcycle picture.

I have never heard of this mad max looking bike and frankly it doesn’t strike a chord with me.
How does Pix deal with fraud?
harsh, but fair. gonna allow it.
From ten months ago: https://www.macbartender.com/b5blog/Lets-Try-This-Again/
Yes and no.

Writing code is sitting in an office and typing stuff into a computer, all the way into production.

Making machines is a physical thing. You can do a lot of the design on a computer, but to do even that you need a handle on the physical reality of the thing that benefits from experience with the physical object. If you want a prototype it's something you build with your hands rather than something you run in a container on your commodity PC.

It's not just a matter of whether you call it white collar or blue collar. It's that the physical work is considered dirty and vulgar, even though it's something valuable and important.
I think the question was really more about the fundamental neural structures the enable intelligence, and what was present in the earlier vertebrates? The finding here is basically, "yes birds can be smart and they definitely did it by evolving a different brain structure rather than depending on an earlier shared framework."
Every day. There are some questions I have that are too vague and descriptive to ask a traditional SE, so I direct those to an LLM, but on the whole I don't want to have to specify to my search engine to not give me a 500 word essay every time I use it.
This reminds me of how it's possible to decode prairie dog communication into literal 'words' that specify location of possible threats (lookup 'Slobodchikoff prarie dogs'). It's remarkable. Only made possible by the curious–albeit eccentric–human sitting in nature and listening in true analog.

And, on the topic of tapping, I imagine even the cadence of our keystrokes can be used to construct meaningful browser fingerprints. We are always emitting so many artefacts that can be used to construct rich identities. It's a bit terrifying from a surveillence perspective but also very satisfying to create order from noise.
Speaking of Cheetahs, pigeon fanciers like to compare their birds to Cheetahs.

A 200gram grain-fueled homing pigeon can maintain 60km/h for an hour. A cheetah can do that for maybe a minute.

I've always thought this is not really a fair comparison, as flying through the air probably requires way less energy than sprinting.
So a warm and smelly compost pile is a chair? A cold metal park bench is not a chair (because it's uncomfortable)?
finally upgraded to aws go sdk v2. took a week, and required reviewing 20k lines of code. i'm on aws to avoid this type of thing, but it was fun anyway.

i removed the shift key from my keyboard years ago. there's no going back.
How to deal with an android phone or tablet which you can't switch on anymore but you are absolutely sure there is still your personal data on it?
These tariffs are a radical action that rhymes with the "Four pests" campaign of Mao Zedong's China which led to one of the worst famines in human history.

Defenders of these tariffs say they might bring back manufacturing or say they are a response to some bad effect of the current state of America... They don't accept what the experts say, but what their authority says, and their authority says that these will bring manufacturing back. The current argument in the face of backlash is "let's wait and see."

Mao Zedong, another populist authoritarian who didn't like to listen to experts or acknowledge reality implemented the four pests campaign. Sparrows were eating Chinese crops, much like trade deficits eat American labor. Mao decided it would be wise to kill these pests to protect the crops, failing to predict that the death of these sparrows would cause even worse pests to damage crops.

This led to one of the worst famines the world has ever experienced.

China's cultural revolution (our project 2025) and great leap forward (liberation day) had truly disastrous effects like the four pests campaign for those who lived through them.

If there are no checks on this administrations power soon, we are likely to see even more short sighted incompetent policy that radically changes society that will damage us for generations.

In china they erase history because history gives you a foundation to judge your leaders. "Purifying" the Smithsonian is an admission that understanding history there there would make you dissent from what will happen or be dissatisfied with some of your leaders in the past who might be similar to current leaders. We should take the lesson's of history and understand that what is happening now rhymes with everything the America I grew up in, including the conservative America, stands against, like unchecked power.

It might get better... but it can also get much much much worse.
I don't think this is correct. The capability for drawing useful logical inferences from something like a Cyc knowledge base is far more compute limited than just doing ML on any given amount of data. We're talking exponential (or worse!) vs. pure linear scaling. This is the real-world, practical reason why the Cyc folks eventually found no value at all in their most general inference engine, and ended up exclusively relying on their custom-authored, more constrained inference generators instead.
That wasn't nostalgia on my end. I was only making an implied point. To remember that era clearly is to know that it is impossible for sentiment to be worse. My point is about the flaws of perception and memory, and regrettably immortal pabulum.

US approval varies across all populations, from inception. Some British still refer to us as Colinists, with a hint of disdain. People have always complained about the United States. Which is irrelevant, on balance, in the modern period.

What are these complaints about? DJT in general? Same record, different guy. Tariffs? Inevitable regardless of the office holder. Prepared for by both sides, for a long time now. In a complex economy that few to no people in public discussions understand.

A bottomless fall along which that particular immortal complaint is always relevant is no fall at all. Which was my implication about the relative silliness of the boilerplate comments.

This isn't even a defense of any particular issue. More like a wish for a better breed of critic, if nothing but for a change of pace and interest. Or maybe because we need actually effective critics, to maintain a healthy ecosystem.

I mean, "they aren't aware of their own interests" is truly basement tier immature rhetoric.

Perhaps it'd be better for the OP to explain how whomever they want to vote for will address opposition voter's perceived most important interests. Otherwise, one can't credibly complain about their vote.
Specialization also applies to nations. It is literally the foundation on which David Ricardo described the comparative advantage economic model.

We can argue some nations have been pretty unfair with their tariff rates over the years, but let’s not ignore 200 years of economic science.
You don't need a bytecode interpreter to not have UB defined in your language. E.g. instead of unchecked addition / array access, do checked addition / bounds checked access. There are even efforts to make this the case with C: https://github.com/pizlonator/llvm-project-deluge/blob/delug... achieves a ~50% overhead, far far better than Python.

And even among languages that do have a full virtual machine, Python is slow. Slower than JS, slower than Lisp, slower than Haskell by far.
What if it breaks in a way which renders it no longer a chair for you but not others?

This seems to imply that what is or is not a chair is a subjective or conditional.
It isn't clear to me that post sentencing, the law forbids this. I don't like it, I didn't like reading about the historical precedents in French penal law much either (Dreyfus aside, "Papillon" is only part of the story. They also exiled the communards to New Caledonia) -But it was legal in french law, and this may be legal in US law.

Deporting people before trial, during trial and legal process, sending US citizens and residents with paperwork approval offshore, rescinding their rights arbitrarily or in defiance of Judicial ruling, ignoring basic rights, thats shit too, but it's different to what happens to somebody when sentenced to incarceration.
Searching google still gives more current info on changing topics, no?
> Sitting behind the glass and watching my vision come to life from a really good drummer is absolutely the fun part.

Is having the ai spit out idea after idea fun in the same way for you?
That's not one, but two particularities that aren't latent to the chair itself: me (the sitter), and time.

Do you really have a personal ontology that requires you to ask the tense and person acting on a thing to know what that thing is? I suspect you don't; most people don't, because it would imply that the chair wouldn't be a chair if nobody sat on it.
Is there a guide how to spot them? I live near a massive forest and I always hear them but never managed to actually see one. The sound is just coming from all over the place.
China may not have enormous military or economic power at the present time, but they have successfully hacked U.S. infrastructure. [0] and the precautions that the Biden administration put in place are being backpedaled [1] "Trump admin fires security board investigating Chinese hack of large ISPs" and top security officials are dangerously unqualified, and are using insecure practices. Experienced people are being replaced by political sympathizers. "National Security Agency chief fired" [2]

In my opinion, a massive hack attack by likely culprits China, Russia or North Korea takes down the entire U.S. internet, water and power plants and top-level government communications. Only lower level military and state disaster personnel are operational. What about Starlink? Sloppy security means it is knocked out, and since it ousted Verizon for the White House, confusion reigns.

Key to this is the use of home phones by Hegseth and company. Home phones, despite a secure messaging app like Signal, are trivially hacked to capture the screen, cameras and microphones, making security meaningless.

No security flaw or lax practice goes unexploited. Focusing on DEI instead of defense may be disastrous.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Typhoon

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/trump-admin-fire...

[2] https://www.npr.org/2025/04/04/g-s1-58247/national-security-...
My first recursive-decent parser was for this Discord bot that let people chain these ridiculous text transformations with pipes like in Unix, so:

> What {you’re refering|uwu|mock} to as {Linux|serif}, is in fact, {GNU/Linux|redact} | clap

Became:

> What <clap> uR <clap> rEfEwiNg <clap> to <clap> as <clap> *Linux*, <clap> is <clap> in <clap> fact, <clap> [REDACTED]

(HN strips all the fun Unicode stuff, so <clap> is the emoji, Linux is in bold serif, and redacted is the black bar.)

Terrible, I know, but such is the nature of the best chat bots. We used to do a lot of CTFs so I always wanted to be able to connect it to CyberChef and be able to use those functions. Nowadays an LLM could do most of it and more, I suppose.

https://github.com/rendello/pipe_bot
Well done. Thanks for those.
I've probably used Apache e-charts in some way or another in every project I've been on in the last decade. One of those packages that just works out of the box.
Good info. I've also used AIX, but more recently (after 1995). By then, I think EBCDIC had lost the standards battle.
A more realistic estimate would be 10X to allow for the cost of factory investment, raw material refinement and processing, and assembly by local semi-skilled workers.

Computers used to be made like this. The hardware cost the modern equivalent of tens of thousands to tens of millions, partly because the assembly workers were well-managed, well-trained, and well-paid. This was DEC's business model, and it worked well for a couple of decades.

Offshoring from the early 80s on allowed US corporates to double dip and explode their margins. Local workers were laid off and replaced with cheaper offshore workers, wages for most jobs were cut in real terms (with a few critical exceptions, like software dev), but the people who did have jobs had access to much cheaper imports.

Property became catastrophically expensive, but other sectors, including consumer goods, electronics, non-premium clothes, and domestic essentials like furniture became much cheaper in real terms - which took the sting out of the loss of the better-paying jobs.

You can't reverse that overnight without catastrophic damage, because prices will explode but wages will still be depressed.

You will be making domestic commodity products that have no market.

Reindustrialisation is a fantasy. You can't bring the factories back without reinventing the economy from the ground up and making all of the parts fit together in new ways.

That would take decades, and a level of strategic insight the US is completely unable to imagine for political reasons.
If the goal of gathering and attributing VPC flows is to have a workload granularity flow logs, then imho gathering mesh level logs is more direct and atraight forward approach, because mesh(and workload orchestrator) are uniquely qualified to know when workload A is running on a host X and is trying to connect to workload B.

Looking at Envoy access logs for example is more straightforward and simple aplroach, than running distributed ebpf and memory intensive large spark streaming job