skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That subculture is called “people who haven’t read the docs”, and I don’t see why anyone would give a whole lot of weight to their opinion on what technical terms mean
Can’t tariff Germany’s factory- how would you even go about legislating that?

The way to go about it so to start mandating that all cars have rain sensors, or dashboard instruments or HUD, or radar if they do TACC or parking sensors - things that most other cars have, but would be a pain for Tesla to add back in for just one region
On the contrary, I don't get why (certain) sites - and people - absolutely insist on serving even the most basic things via copious amounts of JavaScript, and other adjacent technologies. Most website content is basic multimedia, text, images and video, and most use of JavaScript is either frivolous or is supporting user-hostile designs, such as infinite scroll.

Reminds me to the WordPress / PHP scourge of the 2010s. "You don't understand, we have to dynamically serve our site using PHP, and have an extensive CMS that we can barely use ourselves so we'll will still constantly reach out to you about." And then the site is barely more than a brochure or a blog.
You know, my GE oven won't do the air frying mode without Wi-Fi.
I've lived in a bunch of different cities in a bunch of different countries, and none of them have area(s) you "don't go to". There are some rougher areas, sure, but it's generally fine (I've lived in some of these "rough areas").

I think this says more about the general state of cities in the US than cities in general.
I have things like Haskell, Lean and Prolog on my CV - definitely not things that everyone else has had experience with. Recruiters/HMs generally aren't interested in these kinds of things. Oh but you have worked with Kafka before? Now that puts you ahead, even though so many others have.
Your appliances are your next smart TV.
I think the problem is with positional encoding. If model cannot clearly separate tokens in context window they overlap which leads to mess. That encoding matters and actual position does not.
I did this as well. Good times!

config.sys and autoexec.bat?
It's supposed to spur South Sudan into action.
I thought about that too.
Was always going to be when you looked at the areas he promised not to cut.

But 70 million Americans don’t think that way.
I use Elm. It is a lot easier for me to write good code in Elm than in React.
Who would assume that LLM companies were to hyper optimise on public to make their share prices go up and bubble keep afloat ... What a unserious thought to maintain ...
RCEs are almost exclusively due to buffer overruns, sure there are examples where that’s not the case but it’s not really an exaggeration or hyperbole when you’re comparing it to C/C++
Executive orders were meant for national emergencies. Apparently we're under threat from everyone from whom we have a trade imbalance, even islands with no humans on them!

(And it's not like partisans are locking up Congress to spite him.)
The core of MMT economic policy is the abolition of government bond markets and the state replacing existing unemployment benefits with a "job guarantee" intended to act as an alternative endogenous economic stabiliser, both policies which precisely zero countries have adopted. Policymakers are largely oblivious to MMT and certainly don't use it to justify their social policies, and "helicopter money" came from the opposite side of the political/economic spectrum decades earlier.

In that respect it's exactly as heterodox as Mises-style Austrian economics, which has similarly failed to persuade mainstream conservatives who share similar ideas about small states of its core ideas about gold standards and the futility of economic modelling...
If I'd hear this language coming out of my politicians' mouths, I'd really start to wonder if I'd always belong to their "we"...
>And we'll, wen can craft the law any way we like. We could even call it Twitter law.

You don't think crafting (in effect) bill of attainder is a bad idea?
That quote is not from the article?

And in any case, the fine does not seem to be about the blue checkmarks at all.
Pressure to move back to China where their tariff drops from 49% to 34%?

Over the past few years a lot of companies have moved production out of China and into friendlier countries like Vietnam, anticipating US pressure on China. Vietnam's tariff rate is 42%. Now they wish they'd left their production lines in China.
Hate to say this but the incentive is growth, not progress. Progress is what enabled the growth, but is also extremely hard to plan and deliver. On the other hand, hype is probably somewhat easier and well-tested approach so no surprise lot of the effort goes into marketing. Markets had repeatedly confirmed that there aren't any significant immediate repercussions for cranking up BS levels in marketing materials, while there are some rewards when it works.
Ah, yep, that's on me for missing that context. Neat to know I was pretty close on my gut estimates there. Thanks for sharing that link.
> and calling the foreign minister of Poland “a little man”.

Just for context, which I think is important here: The foreign minister said Poland is paying for Starlink for Ukraine ($50m/year) and that they will be forced to look at other suppliers if they prove to be unreliable.

Elon responded back claiming that $50m is a small fraction of the cost, there's no substitute and said "Be quiet, little man".

> the topics include freedom of speech and immigration

Most of EU citizens are pro freedom of speech and anti immigration btw.
Right. Somewhat burred the lede. My take was that the value that services like Gumroad can bring is precisely the value-add they provide over what a create could do themselves. So if the CEO has chosen to essentially automate the entire business by replacing staff with AI, then what value-add is left exactly?

Better then to watch out for middlemen that "extract value rather than add it" and empower creators to host things themselves. Thought that was a nice observation.

Ironically, I always thought that was somewhat the point of Gumroad (short of self-hosting). Are they on to enshittification Stage II?
Poor people get hurt most by wasteful belief systems. Sure the demographics might correlate positively or negatively with poverty, but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s primarily economics.

After all, rich people can eat the extra $$$ imposed by tariffs. Maybe with grumbling… but, at a certain income level paying $5 vs $2 for a can of corn or soup won’t materially affect you, so you can use that extra $3 you paid to complain about immigration, or hierarchies or whatever.
LLMs will never be good at specific knowledge unless specifically trained for with narrow "if else" statements.

Its good for broad general overview such as most popular categories of books in the world.
Oh totally, don't get me wrong, I hate the majority of ads (playing the "guess what this ad is even for" game reveals just how terrible most ads are.)

The nuance for me is that sometimes (mostly online) I see ads for a tool or game or product that just shows it in action, and while 95% of the time I still don't want it, there's the small fraction of the time where I think "Hey that actually looks nice" (and I'm fine with the other 95% that just show me the product).

Commercials for insurance are basically always terrible though; if you're advertising anything besides rates, coverage, or service, then what does it have to do with your product?
I also wrote my first program on an Apple IIe using Apple Basic. My high school bought two of them (one for math depth. One for the business dept.) around 1979 or 1980.

I was one of the few students to have a class in both areas so I could take my code back and forth between classes on a floppy (8 inch I think)
Appending a Bit, in Pieces
Mystery meat interaction is one of the worst parts of the modern web, and all too often it’s found in places where there is little to no user benefit to be had for the tradeoff and a plain old HTML link or button would’ve sufficed. I wish more devs would give thought to this kind of thing.
It's by Gary Bernhardt: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/funct...

He also did another talk expanding the concept called Boundaries: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/boundaries
Slower raises is exactly what I mean.

Perhaps it’s better to start high but I think the impact is moot. In reality every company has a budget range and it’s quite narrow.
The worst part isn't that a company makes up a designation and is forced to stick with it by regulators. A designation could have been designed from the beginning specifically to head off regulators.

The worst part is that it is simply a lie. Blue checkmark never meant "trustworthy source of information," and most people who had blue checkmarks were not trustworthy sources of information. Thierry Breton is spreading misinformation here, but that would not have ever been grounds to remove his checkmark.

Blue checkmarks were an arbitrary piece of gamified tat given by twitter when it felt like it, and now it's a paid piece of gamified tat that can be revoked whenever Musk feels like it.
AI slop?
The DNI has officially declared that no classified information was in the signal thread. The whole thread is public now.

The information about a sensitive investigation, clearly not meant for anyone outside the White House seems to be available freely to the Guardian. How come? Where is the line if any?
Me too. Very nice!
> There is no credible accusation that X itself is tricking people here.

That is a purely subjective opinion, since I have talked to elderly people who assumed “blue checkmark = celebrity” and was therefore confused why there are so many such interactions on trivial posts.
But Parquet is intended to be a safe format. So importing a malicious file should still be safe.

Like if a browser had a vulnerability parsing HTML of course it is a major concern because very often browsers to parse HTML from untrusted parties.
With 9 there are smaller clusters, if there are even some, but for 18 you get clusters that are hard to solve
'Minecraft Movie' Leaks Online: Full Unfinished Version Shared
Indeed, given the massive interest Parquet has generated over the past 5 years, and its critical role in modern data infrastructure, I’ve been disappointed every time I’ve dug into the open source ecosystem around it for one reason or another.

I think it’s revealing and unfortunate that everyone serious about Parquet, from DuckDB to Databricks, has written their own “codec”.

Some recent frustrations on this front from the DuckDB folks:

https://duckdb.org/2025/01/22/parquet-encodings.html
Ask HN: To what extent is ChatGPT a Canadian invention?
How will history remember it?
Not really, no. The lack of such protection is one of the many flaws in the foundational EU treaties and charters.
Love this. Would also add bias to action under reliability
I'm saying that the only way "slightly better than human drivers" wouldn't be good enough is if some people's lives are worth more than others'.
I'm not sure what source you found the story on but you missed a really key line of the original document "Furthermore, misrepresenting one's gender, understood as sex, on a driver license constitutes fraud under s. 322,212, F.S., and subjects an offender to criminal and civil penalties" which reasonably backs up the claim.

Also I am going to claim it IS a bad idea. The Florida law intentionally redefines biological sex to not include any phenotypical traits (i.e. what a biologist would use to determine sex) and instead goes by birth certificate as it was filled out at birth. I'm also just generally a proponent of free speech and free thought and dislike the idea of government defining your identity for you.
https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/04/06/breaking-european-comm...
The federal government does an amazing number of things despite some inefficiencies. FEMA, FDA, EPA, SEC, FTC, FCC, national defense, interstate highways, border security (for better and worse), social security, Medicaid, Medicare, maintain embassies, foreign diplomacy, etc. As these things are gutted their absence or lack of capacity will be felt for decades.
HN actively erases unicode regions to prevent emoji abuse and other zalgoing. Sites and apps do it nowadays, just not with emoji. It's the other side of your point – unicode can do too much and it's not a regular text, so you can't search within that sort of bold, validate, etc. So people choose to work with a subset, which may still leak: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42231608
I kinda like the idea that people don’t have to pay for public land access.
You work towards reality tv where you vote on who lives and who dies. Used to be the domain of things like black mirror but the reality is coming far sooner than you think.
So what are the alternatives to gumroad? I’d been thinking of using them to sell the PDF version of a book, but after reading about the doge thing, I feel like I need to look elsewhere.
That is really not what the article says at all. It is working in absolutes.
Are you saying you think the semantics of that is anywhere near worth a billion dollar fine? When the changes were clearly communicated, and reported on by the press!

In that case, what about the CSAM problem on the Meta-owned platforms? How many billions should that be?
Wouldn't this lead to a delay of time to first content render? If you rely on display then a layout shift would also be an issue for JS-capable clients.
The reason Europe is attacking X is to suppress European speech. Why be proud of that to the point of sneering?
I think there is something to be said to how many people dislike doing what we do as software engineers. Forget about the people who like this job, there are so many looking at me sideways every time I describe what I do.

True that the other jobs are usually treated very poorly, though.
I was in this space (out of work now) for 20 years and at the end things just got bonkers. The best companies I have worked for don’t even have a hands on coding project. At worst they have a SIMPLE take home project to test critical thinking skills. The worst jobs are the ones requiring hours of interviews and tech conversations.

Note that I am out of work due to declining health. I’ve seen some improvement, and have been thinking about going back if things continue to trend upward, but the current state of dev and onboarding has me sick to my stomach.

Might just see if i can bag groceries instead.
I dont really care about the levels but I think Tesla has been building level 2 product, that will always supposedly be level 4 next year but they have never shown any intention of doing level 3.

What is clear is Tesla is not currently capable of self driving and he has lied year after year after year about it.

I think carmakers should have to be liable for their cars capabilities in the areas they allow them to be used.
Intellectual Property Protection of Typefaces
Ugh, the point is that your argument "if there's a market for something there's no point banning it" is special pleading for advertising. If you put other powerful things in there (plutonium, human organs) you quickly see this. But, sure, let's do it the boring way.

> Human attention is scarce.

Compared to what? Do you mean limited, highly desired, or what? Also I'd say there's 8 billion human attentions. That doesn't sound scarce to me.

> Demand for that attention is endless.

"Endless"? Surely not. What if I have it all?

> Scarcity + demand creates a natural market by default

Doesn't this mean almost everything we care about is a market? The supply of almost everything (actually everything?) is limited, qed right?

> meaning you must use brutal authoritarianism to disrupt it entirely (vs just regulating with guardrails).

I don't think this means anything. What's an example of using brutal authoritarianism to disrupt other markets?Cocaine? Human organs?

> Disrupting natural markets with authoritarianism usually ends up worse than any downsides of the decentralized market regulation of that scarcity.

Again if there are any concrete examples I would imagine most people would agree that stuff should be banned.

> Instead of something that attempts to land on fairness (even if imperfect), no market at all guarantees unfairness.

Wait I thought scarcity + demand poofs a market, how can there be scarcity + demand and no market? Isn't this the foundation of your argument?

> Advertising puts a price on the scarce commodity of attention in broad strokes,

The strokes are way too broad. If you're a magazine or a road sign, you're selling the slice of attention you're getting, which isn't anywhere near the whole attention market. Even if you're something like FB or TikTok, you're max getting like 70% of someone's attention. But then is influencer placement more effective than movie product placement? What about an interstitial ad? Blah blah blah. What happens when people are offline, like making breakfast or reading a book (things lots of people still do, believe it or not). This is a market in such a loose sense it loses meaning, but the worst part is the people who own attention aren't getting paid! At least in a human organ market I get cash for my kidneys. Where's the site I can go to where I just watch ads and rack up sweet cheddar?

> and it not always, but generally trends toward making the highest value messages for both the audience and advertiser get seen over lower value messages in any given situation (because those are the ones that can afford the market clearing price on said advertising).

"Value" for who? You've done no work to establish the value of advertising to the audience. Again, less of a market and more of a sheep shearing operation.

> But to ban it outright would require an extreme policing of all speech at all levels of society.

You might be surprised to learn there's a pretty rich diversity of advertising bans. Here in The Hague we ban ads for meat and fossil fuels. Things are still OK!
> E.U. Prepares Major Penalties Against X

Meta, Amazon, Alphabet and Microsoft are our friends. They pay so well. /s
> getline() results are served from that buffer.

So... it doesn't parse them once! It just does its own[1] buffering layer and implements... exactly the algorithm I described? Not seeing where you're getting the "Nope" here, except to be focusing on the one historical note about RAM that I put in parentheses.

[1] Somewhat needless given the OS has already done this. It only saves the syscall overhead.
The idea is there’s no public land. The ultra wealthy will own it all and you’ll be confined to your Manna-style death camps.
Supposedly, you make friends and meet them outside of work too.
I didn’t say anything about leetcode, and I didn’t say anything about remote work.
why not? all the socialists can start "the big socialist fund" and contribute part of their paychecks to this fund while the rest of us libertarians/right-wingers will contribute nothing. win/win right?
I did it the other way around. I put this at the start of <body>:

<script>document.body.classList.add("hasJS");</script>

And the corresponding CSS:

.js{display: none;}
.hasJS .js{display: block;}
Agreed! And with all the gaming of the evals going on, I think we're going to be stuck with anecdotal for some time to come.

I do feel (anecdotally) that models are getting better on every major release, but the gains certainly don't seem evenly distributed.

I am hopeful the coming waves of vertical integration/guardrails/grounding applications will move us away from having to hop between models every few weeks.
I am not nobody. Neither is Ed Snowden. Neither are the people who trained him, who regularly use javascript to exploit browsers.

Many of us that know how security works on the modern web browse untrusted sites without JS enabled.
LeCun criticized LLM technology recently in a presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETZfkkv6V7Y

The accuracy problem won't just go away. Increasing accuracy is only getting more expensive. This sets the limits for useful applications. And casual users might not even care and use LLMs anyway, without reasonable result verification.
I fear a future where overall quality is reduced. Not sure how many people / companies would accept that. And AI companies are getting too big to fail. Apparently, the US administration does not seem to care when they use LLMs to define tariff policy....
This is true. Big brands that have advertisements all over like Coca-Cola do it precisely because their position is so saturated and dominant.

They need to remind you about them even though you already prefer them and know they exist because they want you to buy more than you would otherwise.

I still think a lack of advertising for smaller competitors really would be devastating. DuckDuckGo and Reddit achieved pretty amazing recent growth aided by major outdoor ad campaigns. These were sites that were not market leaders in their categories and had a lot of catching up to do.
Stripe can likely do it with link.com, assuming you don’t need help with distribution
The question is simple and verifiable - it is impressive to me that it’s not contained in the LLM’s body of knowledge - or rather that it can’t reach the answer.

This is niche in the grand scheme of knowledge but Paul Newman is easily one of the biggest actors in history, and the LLM has been trained on a massive corpus that includes references to this.

Where is the threshold for topics with enough presence in the data?
Do you mean russian gas instead of oil?

Worth nothing that russian gas is a lot cheaper than any alternative. Slovakia is not a rich country. It could be that people just want to pay less for their energy.
No, because the US has those, and X isn't violating them.
Yes thanks for calling it out. I've been troubled with a lot of these startups calling themselves open-source, which might be correct but misses the ethos of open source by a mile. For example editors like Zed are actively getting better because of open source contributions and yet the enterprise value is directly going to the founders and none to the contributors. There is something really rotten about this and Gumroad might be the lowest level of hell on this gradient.
The difference of course is that almost everyone uses or benefits from the economy of roads. Relatively very few people use trails and they use them for personal enjoyment.
While it's nice to see EU hitting where it hurts, and $1bn is a lot of money by most scales, it isn't, insanely, that much to Musk. If I believe Google, his net worth is still over $300bn, so such fine would be less than 0.5% of his net worth.

Given his pattern of behaviour, he may well try to turn it all into a joke and be emboldened for more.

That said, I don't know how much cash Twitter and SpaceX have. Possibly not a lot. Tesla does have more, but it's publicly owned and much harder for Musk to raid for cash.
I see this get thrown around once in a while and I really don't get it. Isn't this true of basically every leader? Gates, Jobs, Buffet, Obama, they all wouldn't existing without their teams. Isn't that just obvious? Isn't one of the important markers of a good leader to be able to build a good team?
> Either way, this is some pretty amazing Calvinball even by EC standards.

Call it by its name. It’s lawfare.

The EU is trying to coerce X to limit freedom of speech for everyone worldwide, including Americans.

Talk about a nice NATO ally eh, trying to lawfare your constitutionally granted freedoms away?
You mean the real world that can barely distinguish their browser from "Google"? Sounds like a very fair benchmark indeed.

Did you know that HackerNews is 99% functional with JS turned off by the way? The only thing missing is the ability to collapse threads.
Does the as yet unwritten prequel of Idiocracy tell the tale of when we started asking Ai chat bots for facts and this was the point of no return for humanity?
Lemon Squeezy (recently acquired by Stripe) has a native digital product solution (https://www.lemonsqueezy.com/ecommerce/digital-products)