skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whether you like Tesla or not: this blog post is a perfect example of how clickbait headlines twist things around. Nobody reads anymore - if you made it down to the nitty gritty of each actual example, it’s painfully obvious that many have almost nothing to do with the self driving software at all, other than how humans can interact with it to screw it all up. There’s:

- A drunk driver doing 100 in a 45 (by pressing down on the pedal) through a yellow light

- A driver who “didn’t see the motorcyclist” because he was looking at his PHONE, but who had the go pedal pressed down at 95-100% for as many as 10 seconds after hitting him, to the point where witnesses say the front wheels were spinning while up in the air

- Others with no detail- not the authors fault but from the ones we have, clearly there are often circumstances which would require more analysis before coming to this conclusion
Safe Rust code doesn't have accidental remote code execution. C++ often does. C++ people need to stop pretending that "safety" is some nebulous and ill-defined thing. Everyone, even C++ people, shows perfectly damn well what it means. C++ people are just miffed that Rust built it while they slept.
I actually wrote my diploma theses for 6 month in a very crowded student bar / café . I didn't even suspected such diagnosis, but I guess it is not so much about diagnosis as finding the things that work. A former colleague always had TV series on while working. Brains are sometimes strange. Also now beyond 45, it seems I have to find new things that work for me.
The big prediction that was wrong is that the US dollar would lose value. The opposite happened - despite all the deficit trading, the dollar has gone up in relations to all other countries.

It's a self-correcting problem - if the dollar starts losing value, that strengthens or our ability to export. And if countries want to manipulate their currency to maintain their ability to export, then they are helping pay to maintain the balance.
Going with the concatination theme, note|able for notable app work?

curl; (unix pipe); awk filter/dress up filtered info with html/css/java script; (unix pipe); interact with js sed curled info.

Perhaps use sockets/socat instead of (unix pipe) to avoid inband issues with terminal disciple control characters / support utf beyond utf8.

Way for web app to provide feedback on what to 'awk'. aka urls, "topics", etc.

Package as customizable rss web browswer wasm low memory usage app indexed to db of choice via odbc when terrabyte of data in memory isn't enough.

Make it a diy portable student privacy brower with rasberry pi and niplow disk[1]. add color [2]

Document one's spin on things. Geotag[3] where to go to trigger sidewalk post rain chalk drawings[4]

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[1] : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOQi4BmXRAo

[2] : http://www.authorityfile.co.uk/NBSC/Home/About

[3] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geotagging

[4] : https://static1.cbrimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2...
The US has a moderate goods trade deficit with Europe but a massive services surplus with Europe. Trump's tariffs are only calculated based on the goods trade deficit.

Putting a massive tariff on American services like Netflix would allow Europe to shrink that services deficit significantly. At the same time it would likely shrink the goods surplus slightly due to the substitution effect. Europe can inflict massive pain on America in retaliation at the same time as moving the numbers in a direction that it appears Trump wants.
They are not hard, I agree, but they sound weird/foreign to me when in my version of Spanish we barely use them.
I think the real meaningful progress is getting ChatGPT 3.5 level quality running anywhere you want rather than AIs getting smarter at high level tasks. This capability being ubiquitous and not tied to one vendor is really what’s revolutionary.
Targeting Elon’s companies is a very smart play in this trade war. It has little to no economic impact in the EU but at the same time has a big impact on him, it might drive a wedge between him and Trump and it also pushes him into an obvious conflict of interest. The US started treating everyone else like an adversary, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the favor is being returned.
Another interesting question is, would you rather trust the thinking of a 70 year-old or a 90 year-old Warren Buffet.

For the vast majority of people, I’d pick the 70 year-old version even if they did live to 90. With Buffet, I’m not so sure.
This was published the day before Gemini 2.5 was released. I'd be interested if they see any difference with that model. Anecdotally, that is the first model that really made me go wow and made a big difference for my productivity.
When fitting larger types into smaller ones? Yes.
Not to mention anything that’s been “dead” for a dozen years tends to be resurrected either by people who know or by people reinventing a wheel. We all live on a pendulum.
> So maybe there's no mystery: The AI lab companies are lying, and when they improve benchmark results it's because they have seen the answers before and are writing them down. [...then says maybe not...]

Well.. they've been caught again and again red handed doing exactly this. Fool me once shame on you, fool me 100 times shame on me.
> Losing nuance is what gets you backlash

Sure. But part of that nuance is scientific literacy. Treating the influencers who were once scientists as representative of the field is one of the roots of the problem. An influencer will never be nuanced—the medium doesn’t incentivise it.
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
This was a great read.

Can someone explain how this translates for average American citizens? What have been the effects, if any, of consistently trading at a deficit since the 80s?

I've been trying to wrap my head around it, but it seems like there are so many factors at play that the effects aren't obvious.

My intuition is that maintaining trade deficits could cause inflation since US often needs to print money to service its debts. But, that only depends on consistent budget deficits. Inflation also depends on Fed rate somehow...Do consistent deficits increase housing prices? I'm lost..

I hardly know anything about econ. But, my gut feeling is that the effects of 40 years of trade deficits should be clearer than they are. It feels like maybe the status quo has been artificially propped up.
Someone with your eye for detail would probably be embarrassed to learn that while their entire argument rests on me referring to "engineers" I never wrote the word once.

It seems like you're one of those HN people who thinks they'll convince people scrolling by with petty semantic arguments and snark. Maybe that's true! But it doesn't work on me. For example, if you're gonna make a claim like "I think a judge would also demand a consistent principle and definition to guide regulation", I'd want to see evidence that deals with the fact that the courts have come up with their own standards for their own review (rational basis, strict scrutiny) and indeed have formulated their own standards for evaluating legislation entirely on their own (undue burden, imminent lawless action, etc). From your comments in this thread, I'd guess you don't know anything about laws, legislation, judicial review, and the like. But hey, don't let that stop you from warning about the dangers of "destructive power of imposing your will on others".
the difference is the person stabbing of their own independent accord can be convinced to stop

the tribe-following stabber cannot
Yeah I get for visitors it looks bad but I think everyone needs to be realistic about how much can change. The tenderloin is the way it is becasue of the services it provides to homeless and drug users. If you got rid of the services the people dissappear. But I think that would be a pretty bad thing to do. And you can't move the other districts really either.
Which idea exactly?: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KmVBfI4_6a4
> Since 3.5-sonnet, we have been monitoring AI model announcements, and trying pretty much every major new release that claims some sort of improvement. Unexpectedly by me, aside from a minor bump with 3.6 and an even smaller bump with 3.7, literally none of the new models we've tried have made a significant difference on either our internal benchmarks or in our developers' ability to find new bugs. This includes the new test-time OpenAI models.

This is likely a manifestation of the bitter lesson[1], specifically this part:

> The ultimate reason for this is Moore's law, or rather its generalization of continued exponentially falling cost per unit of computation. Most AI research has been conducted as if the computation available to the agent were constant (in which case leveraging human knowledge would be one of the only ways to improve performance) but, over a slightly longer time than a typical research project [like an incremental model update], massively more computation inevitably becomes available.

(Emphasis mine.)

Since the ultimate success strategy of the scruffies[2] or proponents of search and learning strategies in AI is Moore's Law, short term gains using these strategies will be miniscule. It is over at least a five year period that their gains will be felt the most. The neats win the day in the short term, but the hare in this race will ultimately give away to the steady plod of the tortoise.

1: http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html

2: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neats_and_scruffies#CITEREFM...
Every productivity thought I've ever had, as concisely as possible (2018)
In configuration languages such as HCL, having to account for the fact that there will not be a comma for the last element becomes unnecessarily difficult.
Hell, just go full erlang at that point and you get loads of services for "free".
It’s not even approaching the asymptotic line of promises made at any achievable rate for the amount of cash being thrown at it.

Where’s the business model? Suck investors dry at the start of a financial collapse? Yeah that’s going to end well…
> Blue checkmarks "used to mean trustworthy sources of information," Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton said.

Obviously you can write a law that says anything you want, but as an aesthetic matter, this strikes me as pretty ridiculous. A company makes up a thing called a "blue checkmark" and then, what, it has to mean the same thing for the rest of all time? It's not like the new Twitter lied about what was happening. They said plainly that they were changing the checkmark system to mean something new. Why would anybody cheer a government stepping in to say, "no, sorry, you can't do that?"
We should simply not support developers that re-implement links, buttons, and text boxes entirely in Javascript. Such false elements lack inbuilt functionality (particularly with regards to accessibility), and are slower.
And why is that? I already don’t agree, but I’d love to hear your take.
Fairly, as in if everyone opted out the amount of money the platform made is unchanged.
Cell Death as a Driving Force in Glioblastoma
And between legal costs and the farm bailout for the tariffs, it shouldn’t be surprising that this “efficiency” administration is blowing out our deficit by a few trillion dollars.
He also accounts for that immediately by saying they should therefore be optional.
Are Boston and NYC harder to be homeless in simply because winter is harder?

Migrating someplace warm would be my first idea if I found myself living in a car (or less).
Show HN: A "Buy Me a Coffee" Button for Crypto Donations
I am building a simple donation platform where creators can accept tips in crypto — kind of like “Buy Me a Coffee,” but Web3-native.

No signups required for supporters. Just share your donation page and anyone can send MATIC, ETH, or any ERC-20 token directly to your wallet. It’s gas-efficient and built on Polygon.

Each creator gets a customizable page with a short URL and optional message board. Everything is non-custodial — you own your keys and your funds.
Good. I hope they are not timid.

I would also like a 100% tariff on all Tesla cars, regardless of where they are made.
Maybe, in countries with social services.overall I think it's a mistake to think of handling the homeless, mental illness, and lack of opportunities like this on a city by city basis. It's more a reflection of America, the federal government needs to step in an help these people. Like why should each individual city help homeless veterans and not the government of the entire country that they served in.
And it gets worse for you. That's primarily considering the US market. Your Chinese competitors aren't simultaneously being shut out of non-US markets (since this is a unilateral trade war, not the US + allies).

Your US sales may drop 50% due to the change in price, and your Chinese competitor's US sales may drop by 75%, but their sales in other countries may not change at all. Meanwhile, your sales outside the US are going to drop because not only are your component costs going up driving your price up, you now face tariffs when selling in every other country in the world (if they choose to respond to the tariffs the US is levying on their goods).
Like orange man’s made up PR and hype man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudonyms_used_by_Donald_Trum...
Neither NYT nor the EU is wrong. Elon's companies are, to him, fungible, with employees able to be used in any company, like when Elon borrowed engineers employed at Tesla and SpaceX to work on Twitter when he bought it. These are all separate companies on paper, but Elon treats the workers as interchangeable. He acts as if they are all owned by him, so the EU is treating them as he treats them.
Sure but at least it shipped with an OS that had a GUI and multitasking in an era when the vast majority of personal computers had neither. Let's not forget how early this was. Any personal computer that shipped with a GUI OS at the time shipped it in a state that wasn't yet fully realized or completely documented. Everyone was still figuring out what a GUI OS should be. It wasn't until years later when Unix-based workstation OSes migrated down to consumer desktops that things started stabilizing. Before that we were pioneers roughing it on the frontier.

I had an Amiga 1000 and did hobby programming on it starting in 85. At the time everything friends and I wrote only used the OS to open a custom screen because all the fun was experimenting with graphics. Most of the apps for the first couple years either used the CLI or just put up a window with a few drop downs and otherwise rendered their own UX inside it.
Your argument assumes there is meaningful competition to begin with.

In the case of groceries, a few big companies ultimately control nearly all of it. They know you “need” groceries, so they will happily pass along the increased cost. What are you going to do, stop buying food?
and he also wants the US to withdraw from NATO, which means directly and concretely increasing the risk of war in Europe. Unpopular measure in Europe obviously.
That maybe true for Meta services but Twitter was never really a thing in EU.
Contributed scores for the M3 Ultra 512 GB unified memory: https://www.localscore.ai/accelerator/404

Happy to test larger models that utilize the memory capacity if helpful.
Yeah, it was a bit strange but it did fit the theme of board games which was a solid hint.
HeathKit Programmable Calculator, circa 1974 or so.

Lots of messing around with things that go bang; Then, I attended a redneck tech school, where I learned Electronic Design, Machine Code and "microprocessors" (what they called CPUs, back then). That was around '82-'83.

All the rest has been seminars, OJT, and just plain ol' messing around at home.
From the way Satya explains it, you can’t, but Microsoft plans to.
Macros in old Microsoft Word documents were quite a popular attack.
well, that would be up to Alex. but as that would require a pretty substantial organizational and responsibility shift, I imagine, no, he would not.

As it is now, Alex is editorially responsible for all output of Standard Ebooks. Changing that would require someone with the time and experience willing to take on all the responsibilities that Alex currently has for each of those other languages.
It's part politics-as-entertainment and part the fact that the whole late 20th century PR flunkie style of communication was never popular. People never liked it. Now that the Internet has blown up the old media that used that style, people don't tolerate it anymore.
I doubt it. It still flails miserably like the other models on anything remotely hard, even with plenty of human coaxing. For example, try to get it to solve: https://www.janestreet.com/puzzles/hall-of-mirrors-3-index/
If english had static checks this kind of runtime pedantry would be unnecessary. Sometimes it's nice to devote part of your brain to productivity rather than checking coherence.
Don't worry, as Trump and Musk says: "someone else pays the tariffs".

Let's see if they realize they are also someone else's else.
100% tariff on all Teslas, regardless of which factory they come from.

A total ban on all advertising on Twitter.

This should get the orange man's attention.
Standard Ebooks grew out of a pay-what-you-want experiment that Alex did ~10 years ago
Announcing initiatives and proposing laws is a good start. Unfortunately these problems are decades in the making and won’t be fixed overnight.
I have been following rust very closely since 2013.

As Rust is both evolving and spreading wide, we; the programmers, users of Rust; are also leveling up in how we approach correctness and design with it.

Maybe the next evolution will be something like Haskell but fast like Rust is fast like C without the pain of C++.

But it takes a while for the world to catch up, and for everybody to explore and find ways to work with or around the abstractions that helps with correctness.

It's a bit like the evolution from a pointer to some malloc memory, then the shared/unique pointer of C++, to the fully safe box/(a)rc of Rust.

It might be obvious today how much more efficient it is programming with those abstractions.

I see some similarities with functional programming that still seems so niche. Even though the enlighteneds swears by it. And now we actually seem to be slowly merging the best parts of functional and imperative together somehow.

So maybe we are actually evolving programming as a species. And Rust happens to be one of the best scaffold at this point in history.

Thank you for reading my essay.
That island did actually trade with the US as Australia did a couple mil of trade through it for some reason
> it is true leadership and collaboration

This is a great outlook, but I think it's slightly short-sighted if you don't consider that there are several ways to achieve the same outcome outside of USAID. I think the US can lead the world through public example rather than trying to set that same example through the government.

For example, I treat my charitable donations with the same seriousness that I apply towards my 401k. I am researching organizations, determining their overall efficacy, and splitting my funds to where I think they would be the most beneficial, given the current global climate.

I would love to see this principle applied more broadly to the public. There might be services out there that already provide such "charity portfolios," but I'll admit that I'm pretty content doing it myself, so I haven't looked much. But, given our government's history of mismanagement, I think this sort of approach would have far more impact than funneling everything through a large organization like USAID.
It won't do anything for data races, for example.
> he also wants the US to withdraw from NATO, which means directly and concretely increasing the risk of war in Europe

He’s Molotov-Ribentropping Europe with his overtures to Moscow and demands for mineral rights.
Alternate anecdote:

Competence and being someone they want to work with again is usually enough.

I got my first remote job in 2020 working at the Professional Services (cloud consulting) department at AWS. When I saw the writing on the wall, every single customer I worked with remotely and maybe flew out to see once that had some type of opportunity was more than willing to give me either a permanent position at their company or at least a contract.

I met one of my coworkers in person maybe twice. He had left AWS a couple of months prior to be a director of infrastructure at a well known non tech F500. He said if I was interested, he would create a position for me to be over the cloud migration and infrastructure and that it would pay more in cash than I was making in cash + RSUs at AWS. I didn’t take him up on his offer just because I was over the big company thing.

When I posted on LinkedIn that I had gotten another job, I had three former coworkers who had moved on reach out to me and say why didn’t I let them know. They would have brought me on their companies. These were all decision makers who could push me through without too much hassle.

I had met most of these people in person maybe two or three times.

Unless my performance really craters at my current company where I work remotely where I’m a staff architect, I can almost guarantee that anyone I reach out to that has worked with me will be more than happy to give me a referral about my skillset and work ethic.
Missed opportunity to not make this roundabout a musical road [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_road
Hmm maybe I'm misunderstanding, but each red dot represents the average of a collection of views

The idea behind PG's article (as I understand it) is that "the left" and "right" have some degree of arbitrary positions they support, so the chances of any individual independently coming up a set of positions that perfectly matches is extremely low.

But individual positions could very well be scattered across the spectrum, some very left, some very right, but together would likely average out to near the middle
This seems to come from parquet-avro, which looks to attempt to embed Avro in Parquet files and in the course of doing so, does silly Java reflection gymnastics. I don’t think “normal” parquet is affected.
Hmm without evidence this is just another fanciful fiction and we know the human mind can create an endless series of speculative fictions -
> We’ll simply create a single class, d-js-required to indicate that JavaScript needs to be enabled for us to display this element.

You can run some JS to prove you're running JS. Can't you write in your site's CSS:

.d-js-required { display: none; }

and (in JS) remove that class on each element it's on?
If such a law existed in the US, it wouldn't matter that you violated it, since it would be found invalid under the First Amendment. Does the EU not have any equivalent to protect freedom of speech from unjust laws?
To the mods: Why was my link to arstechnica hijacked and transformed into a link to the NYTimes? This is creepy.