skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing in my comment implies that what Clinton did was any more lawful. But since you raised the point, I’ll just note that it is quite interesting that Clinton’s circumstance was thoroughly investigated by the FBI, whereas in the Signal debacle, it seems Trump’s administration is going to let it go.

Why the double standard?
tech 2.0 is coming, the question is where. As dysfunctional as SV is, it is at least possible to raise risk capital in the US. Foreign startups still come to the US for capital. Hard to see this changing - the US for its culture wars is very adaptable and can reconfigure everything in a generation
Isn't this just a specific case of sturgeons law?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
Why not? You need a reason. We might as well say they shouldn't be beholden to voters (which is a legit political theory, by the way, there are reasons the US is a Republic).

If we work backwards from the observation that Donald Trump just got elected from his second term and start probing into the whys and wherefores; direct lobbying seems to be the major problem. Politicians stock trading is certainly unseemly but it isn't at all clear whether it is pushing the quality of the decision making in Washington up or down.
Apple could do worse than importing tools from the OpenBSD Project. Now there are several more commands that would be helpful...
Do actual research like a researcher instead of being a lazy bum with LLMs?
You've said "Instead we get tariffs with quick retaliation e.g. from China, and I still see no negotiation in place" and that was what I was responding to.

Regarding China's government there should be no expectation of negotiation because they have demonstrated over the years they will not play fair and shouldn't be trusted to do so now.

If you don't know that because you haven't tracked geopolitics, now you know, and can perhaps review your opinion about world trade, which is strongly related to geopolitics.

Now, regarding other countries, you can't say there is "no negotiation in place": https://www.npr.org/2025/04/06/nx-s1-5354134/vietnam-asks-tr...
> Whether it "works" or not is not the issue.

Of course it is. It doesn't work on anything modern, and thus it is impossible for portable code which actually runs in the real world and has to work to have relied on it for a long time.

Your example is not code any competent C programmer would ever write, IMHO. Every proficient C programmer I've ever worked with used "const char *" for string literals, and called out anybody who didn't in review.

Old code already needs special flags to build with modern compilers: I think the benefit of doing this outweighs the cost of editing some makefiles.
Combine this with yesterday’s article about body-doubling. What about “work from near home” - ie. desk at a nearby coworking space.

Can’t get distracted by dishes or laundry; working near others creates shared atmosphere; and your coworking-space compatriots are your lunch break & watercooler chat crew.

Anyone have reports on “work from near home”?
At the moment, I don't like this for fear of revisionist history. The equvilent would be if wikipedia didn't have to have a source reference.

not saying that it's infallible but yeah we need some chain of audible at least 1 or 2 layers deep.
Actually, no. They haven't "ceded" a damn thing. If they did, the GOP would be working on Trump's legislative agenda, which is something it's been sabotaging again and again in spite of having a slim majority in both the House and the Senate. The plan seems to be: sabotage until midterms, then lose one or both majorities to dems, and raise money off "gracefully losing" for the remaining 2 years of Trump's term. That was the plan 8 years ago, too. It worked.
I like this and also your profile page here on HN. Nice philosophy. I'm going to look at your hosting site too. Thank you for making these things available.
Show HN: Built a Python debugger that sends your execution trace to an LLM
This is a command line debugger that runs your code and sends the execution trace to an LLM. I've found that copy-pasting error messages and code isn't enough to solve complex bugs, figured that this would solve that.

Note that this is a fork of PySnooper with a simple LLM layer over it, all credits to the team that built it!
There was a school of commentary when Trump was elected in 2016 that said he was unfit to be president because he owned active businesses instead of having the good taste to own stocks like everyone else. The idea was that this opens the door to corruption by allowing people to patronize his business(es) even if they otherwise wouldn't.

I'm intrigued at the extension to the idea that public officials shouldn't own anything at all. What do you want them to do?
A new scoring system should be made that is a better signal.
https://archive.is/RkCst

Color me dubious about "coding errors" when Musk and his lap DOGE-ies are involved.
Evidence that the "vast majority" of low skilled people in cities find "no employment or employment in illegal activities"?
The certificate contains email address as ID, and email is verified automatically or by an initial email verification (TOFU trust model).

If Google, Microsoft and Apple offer E2EE similar to Proton, the majority of email will be encrypted, as long as both sides use the same service, or globally if these companies share public keys for public key discovery.
https://x.com/ben_el_baz/status/1908063819966067048

Corollary : This is also the reason why people (i.e. Wall Street) who are close to / handle the money earn more money. Drinking straight from the firehose.
But isn't that a significant conflict of interest if they are public service employees?

If they are truly people-oriented as they oath when they join public service, why allow them to own stock at all?
> Obviously paraphrasing someone else's words into ones you like better is a fine and acceptable thing to do.

Wrong. Not only is it tasteless and dishonest (not "fine"), it is against the rules of this site. But regardless of whether it's allowed elsewhere, you still shouldn't do it. (See "tasteless and dishonest".)
Im not sure 90 days is enough to negotiate trade deals in any significant manner with the world. Countries have no confidence that the deals will be honoured and will be less willing to make any concessions. "Fool me once..."
You forget what has already happened. Canada has escalated the trade war ... that cannot be explained by your reasoning. And the flaw is this: yes, Canada cannot seriously hope to defend against Russia without the US, and needs a US alliance, but they also see the US has no choice but to defend any Russian attack. Either that, or face Russian nukes in Ottawa. So, Canada escalates.

Plus, I get that it makes sense for you to think about it this way. But given the choice to get fucked militarily BUT get a few more euros now, I guarantee every EU government will choose to get fucked militarily. 95% of the EU countries only have to "sacrifice" in that OTHER countries get fucked militarily, so it's not a hard choice.

And that is before you factor in that Russia is not in any shape to attack any European nation of importance right now, not even Poland. In other words: the politicians choosing to act on the military problem or choose a quick buck ... will be out of office by the time their military decision matters!

And, lastly, I put forward the history of the UN. The great forum for international cooperation and making compromises in shared interests. The first 3 things the UN was going to solve with this cooperation-not-obstinate-refusal-to-accept-reality was the "Arab Issue" (now better known as Israel-Palestine), Kashmir (which under UN guidance has lead to such "successes" as the Partition wars, which when combined made more victims than WW2 according to some sources), and the Congo-Rwanda issue (which has raged on, with no-one actually caring after colonialism ended, and is now at risk of turning into a pan-African war involving every country from Morocco to South Africa). I'm glad they got all those issues solved to everyone's satisfaction before they were going to try forcing the US, EU and ... to cooperate because otherwise absolutely no-one would believe they have any chance whatsoever.

Besides: your hope that foreign governments will act in the interests of "the citizens of the world" (when the vast majority won't even act in the interest of their own citizens) ... what exactly is that idea based on? 12% of the world are free democracies and mostly do that. What about the rest?
I'm sure the integrated multiband dynamics in that digital processor sound great and everything. I'd be much more comfortable with an Orban Optimod that was built before my parents got married.
> Foreign startups still come to the US for capital.

Not only that, but foreign capital also flows to the U.S. for higher returns. This is why all the scare-mongering about the trade deficit is yet more economic illiteracy. Every trade deficit is really an investment surplus, and the kind of investment surplus the U.S. is running can be surprisingly beneficial in the longer run.
Look up balance-of-payments-constrained growth.

In a developing country, you really want to be careful with your dollars/imports. Local labor is almost certainly cheaper and more abundant. The question is, can they do it all. If they can you save dollars and you build local skills that transfer, a double benefit. If they can't, yes you might be forced to buy and import the tech.
How edible does the paper, the photo is printed on, need to be to become acceptable advertising?
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The randomization doesn't matter: you can very easily link the addresses if you have a few datapoints, even if it's just the time you observed the addresses: the basic method is discussed in https://inria.hal.science/hal-03045555/document

See https://inria.hal.science/hal-02394629v1 for the theoretical bases then hop to https://samteplov.com/uploads/shmoocon20/slides.pdf for an example applying to Apple devices

Those who said the randomization and other techniques were sufficient were wrong: https://petsymposium.org/popets/2020/popets-2020-0003.pdf will show you how they changed their mind :)

It's not just apple: google nearby has also been reversed: https://publications.cispa.saarland/2748/ and https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/nd... talks about attacks, but there's no need for that: just find identifiers that let you link the addresses

Even if you don't have any identifiers, the Bluetooth address randomization happens only about every 15 minutes: the manufacturer specific data in the public advertisement (or even the frequency and the length of these advertisements) during these 15 minutes periods can be used for linking the randomized addresses
Not only that, but there are no valid C programs written ever, which rely on the ability to modify string literals. Doing so is undefined behavior, so the program is not valid. It may happen to work on some random platform, but it's still undefined.
That data had to be encoded in a certain way which would lead to unavoidable exploitation in every conforming implementation. For example, PDF permits embedded JavaScript and… that has not gone well.
I’m not sure they care about rsync’s code, they probably just don’t want to maintain an old fork of rsync under GPLv2.
A gross underestimation, IMO. When I was in big data, fewer than 5% of data written was ever touched again, and only a single digit number of our large customers (out of tens of thousands) actually made real use of their "big data", and created most of the load. That's the trouble with "checkbox driven development" - 10 years ago you were required to have a "big data strategy" for anyone to take you seriously, even if your strategy boiled down to just ETL-ing a bunch of crap you're never going to need into the cloud and never touching it again. Now I'm in AI, and the same thing is happening to AI. It's great if you're selling shovels, so to speak, but not so great if you plan on selling them for an extended period of time.

This, by the way, has implications on storage systems design. You want something that's cheap yet dense to encode, potentially at the slight expense of decode speed. Normally people really lose sleep about decode speed first and foremost, which, while important, does not minimize the overall resource bill.
Sharing (typically via tape) of software utilities use to be very common in every user group from the start (1960s). It was just the culture, and expected. Especially IBM mainframe users, DEC VMS.

Of course the answer to your question depends on the definition of 'open source' and 'impactful'.
I also started following Sahil when I joined the startup world. His name seemed to be all over Twitter and HN. It was through him that I also started following Austen Allred. Sahil was the first guest on Austen’s podcast and the two of them showed up in a lot of articles together.

Both of them seemed like startup superheroes at the time. I remember being amazed when startup sphere heroes would Tweet praise about Sahil or when Paul Graham wrote one of his rare articles defending Austen Allred, of all topics.

It was a learning experience for me to watch as Gumroad laid off all of the engineers who built the site and then investors gifted the company to Sahil, leaving him to operate it as a profitable enterprise for himself while the early engineers saw their equity wiped out (though supposedly he helped some of them to unspecified degrees). It was further eye opening to see the collapse of Austen Allred’s Lambda School after watching Paul Graham and others sing its praises in ways that were at odds of the realities of their students.

I suppose it was all a valuable lesson in learning how to separate the hustler marketing from the reality.

I, too, have followed with interest as Sahil jumped from trend to trend. Pivoting hard into LLM assistants (including the flash-in-the-pan Devin AI coding tool which disappeared as quickly as it entered the scene) and now into DOGE isn’t too surprising. Meanwhile Austen Allred is off on a new pseudo bootcamp, pumping his Gauntlet AI bootcamp via Tweets about how their students are creating SaaS companies in weeks or something, nearly repeating the same marketing he was doing years ago about his bootcamp grads landing high paying jobs (including the famous sample size of 1 debacle).

Austen also swung hard right on his Tweets to the point of hurling expletives at people critical of Trump’s policies lately, which finally prompted me to give up on my curiousity follow. Seeing Sahil lean hard into DOGE is equally on brand.

It’s like these guys have such a deep drive to align with tech industry trends that they sense them coming, go all-in, and do the most status-seeking moves they can make to be seen as on top of those trends. I also don’t know what to say about it other than it’s been interesting to observe.
My claim is entirely from the end user perspective. We should not really care which tool Apple includes for their licensing purposes. If we have a dependency on a particular tool then we have the ability to install and use it ourselves. The signed system volume does not interfere with our ability to do that.
I have not seen KLM or Swiss, but I'm a fan of Cathay Pacific's video for the same reason. Extremely clear, animated video shows you just what you need to know.
Asimov had a penchant for predicting the future, and it's been fascinating seeing aspects of his vision in "I, Robot" come to pass.
I'm ignorant when it comes to physics, admittedly, so please forgive me if my question has an obvious answer... But when I read articles like this, in particular when they mention branes, I want to ask: How do we know that dark matter is not just some interaction coming from the "bulk"?
Are the libertarians and right wingers going to not use the services they don't want to pay for? Or receive the benefits? Are they going to leave the educated society and start their own somewhere else?
The ai-contest.com links go to a strange, irrelevant, and suspicious website.
I periodically check in on this and I can never understand what its really good for.
I’m not saying that FSD wouldn’t be technically awesome. I am saying there would be a lot of political posturing if Becky got killed.

The American citizens won’t accept vaccines, fluoride, and believe that immigrants are eating pets. The very definition of “conservative” is not accepting change.
I'm not convinced this year's OS release will support Intel. When they switched to Intel, Apple was quicker to dump PowerPC than people remember.
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Not sure if its been fixed by now but a few weeks ago I was in the Golden Gate park and wondered if it was bigger than Central park. I asked ChatGPT voice, and although it reported the sizes of the parks correctly (with Golden gate park being the bigger size), it then went and said that Central Park was bigger. I was confused, so Googled and sure enough Golden gate park is bigger.

I asked Grok and others as well. I believe Perplexity was the only one correct.

Repeated it multiple times even with a friends account. It kept doing the same thing. It knew the sizes, but thought the smaller sized one was bigger...
I use -i (itemize) or even --ii (itemize everything) rather than -v. Also be aware than -a can conflict with other options -- in classic rsync gotcha fashion.
That sounds like a China problem, not Google.
>but I'm a fan of Cathay Pacific's video for the same reason. Extremely clear, animated video shows you just what you need to know.

They have the exotic settings that the article mentions, though.
Yes. I am literally arguing for doing that in this entire thread.
Most congresspeople are just in index funds. And almost to a person the ones that aren’t are extremely wealthy people with portfolio goals different than indexing the market.
George Santayana? Can you elaborate a bit?
Should all government employees be banned from owning stock?
I've met (maybe) 3 other developers, in my life, who have used all the listed technologies. Most will either use ssh or use react; seldom ever work w both.
This still does not seem to fix the OP vulnerability?
All tool call specs will be at same privilege level.
No, it has a feature where it connects to your brokerage in order to execute the trades. That’s rather involved for me.

Turns out I was wrong and it has been submitted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42682786
I'm curious if you remember any of the specifics.

At a big company I worked for, GPL licenses were strictly forbidden. But I got the vibe that was more about not wanting to wind up in a giant court case because of engineers not being careful in how they combined code.

I'd be super curious if there are explicit intentional acts that people generally think are okay under GPL but where lawyers feel the risk is too high.
Then we can pay them more, or not and they can take another job instead. Either way, I can't take you seriously.
That happens because the string is static. If you rewrite that so s is an argument to writable(), it will segfault.

Although, I am curious if that optimization could happen across compilation units via LTO...
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The most current SQLite amalgamation (3.49.1) is showing ~70 warnings when compiled with -Wwrite-strings.

But maybe 70 warnings in 250k LoC is OK for your standards of proficiency.
I think the original one did just fine: "info, low, medium, high, crit".

I could even do without "crit".
It's quite hard to do this.
I disagree. Everybody cares about what I like and dislike, and everybody needs to know it.
Author will need to rewrite now that Llama 4 is out
Oh I totally agree, a blanket ban on advertising isn’t remotely realistic, ever. It’s a silly idea, and I doubt what most people want. I’m just sayin’ the Central Hudson test makes commercial speech less protected than, say, political rants, and it could in theory be used to reduce protections, even if that’s not happening right now. Either way, banning ads and free speech protections are two somewhat separate issues, ads could be legal without having any free speech status.
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I was a Notes user before IBM bought Lotus. IIRC Notes was morphed into Domino.

Before IBM forced changes on Notes I would say it was a very nice environment. But IBM, maybe customers and maybe others wanted it to work like cc mail (Is that was it was called?). The changes they made to me ruined the environment.

I wonder how Domino is doing, I hope it can continue being used by some people.
You don't really do maintenance on either. It's just clicky stuff or apt|dnf update. Do your classic gui apps stuff in MacOS and everything cli-oriented or development in Linux.
Never heard of anyone getting paid to do anything like digging ditches and refilling them; is this a real problem?
Surely you agree that is a problem that ought to be fixed in that code?

70 warnings really doesn't sound that bad to fix. Most are probably trivial. I'm sure a few aren't.

If nobody is around to fix it, that's what legacy flags are for.
> If they are truly people-oriented as they oath when they join public service, why allow them to own stock at all?

I take this to mean you think that civil servants and members of the military should also be barred from holding stocks?

> But isn't that a significant conflict of interest if they are public service employees?

There is no inherent conflict of interest in owning stocks. The risk is when they own (especially if they are heavily invested in) individual stocks. Use a blind trust like I mentioned or disallow holding individual stocks if they want to manage their own portfolio, then they still have a vested interest in the economy (how well businesses are doing as proxied by the stock market) but their conflicts are limited or removed.
That's very interesting. I guess it just can't compete with any of the Nvidia cards? I would think your results should show up if sorted by "generation"– maybe the leaderboard is cached...
The venn diagram of licenses that are "free software" and "open source software" is practically a circle.

Both rsync and openrsync are both free software and open source software.
That’s great, but not what I asked about. Free speech protections in the US are based on laws and not natural rights.
The article seems to imply that it's not a waste of money which is why it's expanded in use, especially with having partners like tourism agencies chip in.
If it dips too much that means interest rates will go lower, which will fuel another round of inflating real estate.
PP above says working on a grounds crew was their favorite job ever. I think that's what they're talking about.
It's important to keep in mind what the government is saying here. Set aside the specifics of who this individual is or where they originally came from and grasp what Trump is trying to argue here.

> Although the legal basis for the mass removal of hundreds of individuals to El Salvador remains disturbingly unclear, Abrego Garcia’s case is categorically different—there were no legalgrounds whatsoever for his arrest, detention, or removal. Nor does any evidence suggest thatAbrego Garcia is being held in CECOT at the behest of Salvadoran authorities to answer for crimesin that country. _Rather, his detention appears wholly lawless._

In short, they kidnapped someone--I'm using that word precisely because it was "lawless" and that's what elevates a detention to a kidnapping--and flew them to a foreign prison without notice, without hearing. From the street, transported hooded to a plan, and imprisoned in medieval conditions.

It was a mistake they concede. Oh well. Can't do anything about it now.

Do not argue that this individual should not have received a chance to have a court recognize the mistake. There is nothing separating your position from his. If they can kidnap him they can kidnap you. The government's position is, simply put, no one can stop them if they do.