skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Semantics and recursion aside. That separation where “ditch into the ocean” is not a listed mitigation for FMEA, but is eventually considered and added to manuals is why I’m saying it’s incomplete.

100% AI systems can be safer than human in the loop systems avoiding suicide by pilot etc, but conversely that means the AI must also deal with extreme edge cases. It’s a subtle but critical nuance.
Isn't this basically... a Merkle Tree, the underlying storage architecture of things like git and Nix?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_tree

Except that instead of a GUID, it's just a hash of the binary data itself, which ends up being more useful because it is a natural key and doesn't require storing a separate mapping
> there are multiple mainstream media stories about Microsoft supporting genocide

There are multiple stories about the protest. That, in turn, will animate both sides.
> Fly where? Many companies don't have offices anymore.

Presumably to meet the boss. And maybe the key people on the team.
There doesn't need to be a single central repository, there can be many partial ones. But if they are merged, they won't collide.

The GUID can certainly be a hash.
You might want to look up the definition of sacrifice if you think it's synonymous with self-indulgent. It's literally the opposite.
What if we just arrested every person who broke every tiny archaic law we can think of? What if we run out of prisons and decide to outsource them to foreign counties? What about this sort of criminal system?

I don't know why we are talking in such extreme what ifs. If you really think the government let's anyone with a pulse in you never applied for a government position. At least not one in a medium-large city. You have a lot of test taking and a process that can take months. Maybe even longer if you need clearance (at that point it's best to go private sector since they'll get you cleared while you work on non-xlearajce stuff).

Yes, there is corruption and nepotism. Can you name a single industry where there isn't? How about we setup more channels to report and hold it accountable instead of using it to dismiss the concept of a government job? We'd all win there.
I've had one of these products and the outer fake chocolate was much worse than chocolate. I don't think the luxury marketing would work.
> Don't use blur to redact documents. Whatever blur was used can probably be reversed.

I just got mosquito noise when I sharpened. Are you confusing blurring with pixelating?

As long as the blur is strong enough, there's no way to get the text back.
> I would be happy for them to remove is the portability between providers requirement: it was essentially dead on arrival, is not implemented, and could be done away with.

Well, they actually shouldn't. There are non-EU email providers that show exactly what would happen - customers wouldn't be able to transfer out their email from that service provider. Unlucky if they won't notice that limitation in time.

> The other EU-level regulation that needs to be either removed or completely rethought (since it will clearly not be enforced in a way that makes sense) is the cookie regulation. It was well-intentioned, badly implemented, and the GDPR addresses more of the core problems, it is time to do away with it.

Or simply start handing out fines for malicious compliance.
The word is from 'decimatio' which appears in original Roman histories written well before 1600.
yeah, allow me to introduce you to the Nix whitepaper, which is essentially this, and thus worth a read for you:

https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/nspfssd-lisa2004-final.pdf

Another possibly related idea is the language Unison:

https://www.unison-lang.org/
I'm going to go out on a limb and say the side bombing hospitals is fully animated. What is important is that more and more people realize the companies their giving their money to are using it to kill children.
Abbreviations :-) being defined or not depends on the audience, so it is not a law that you need to define them. PMF (product-market fit) and GTM (go to market) I would define though.
At some point far in the future, humanity will populate an entire planet with custom designed species, something like the engineers from prometheus. If only there were a way to live long enough to see all that.
Show HN: AI agent that finds homes based on your requirements
I would love to know of some of the companies you know of that have gone this route. Maybe nothing we've heard of, but still sounds interesting.
I use Vimium (Chrome extension for using keyboard control of the browser) and this happens to me as well since the behavior looks "unnatural".
> We're talking about it, so it seems pretty effective to me!

Talking about an issue is productive if you need to bring awareness to it. There is nobody on the planet who isn't aware that something is happening in Israel and Gaza. And when an issue is this divisive, calling attention to it mobilises both sides. (See polling following the protests at Columbia, for example. Awareness went up. But net support increased more for Israel than Palestine because people just defaulted to their priors.)
Tariffs are paid locally, in USD from the US economy to the government. Foreign states do not pay tariffs to the US government, they are paid by the business or entity importing the goods.

So this will not bring in more money. All the tariffs are paid from money that already exists in the domestic US economy.

Furthermore, tariffs are passed to consumers. Transitively this is an increased tax burden on consumers. Our taxes have, in effect, gone up.
X may start selling inactive usernames to Verified Organizations for $10K
It doesn't seem they update the site often (the last 'latest' post is from December) but they reposted something claiming the same on X https://x.com/llamafile/status/1907917417118105751
>I couldn't just make up new questions for every candidate.

Ask each candidate the same questions?
a leading zero "implies" octal at least since K&R C, which predates that page by 000000043 years. You guys need a different prefix for that.
It's more than just a file format.

The issue is that companies want control of the demosaicing stage, and the container format is part of that strategy.

If a file format is a corporate proprietary one, then there's no expectation that they should provide services that do not directly benefit them, or that expose internal corporate trade secrets, in service to an open format.

If they have their own format, then they don't have to lose any sleep over stuff that doesn't interest or benefit them.
It was the Soviets, Russia, that needed war so much they fed the whole world weapons. Russia still does that. The west simply gave some people better weapons to defend themselves.
Meta exec denies the company artificially boosted Llama 4's benchmark scores
As long as such 50kB image doesn’t get replaced with 700kB of javascript bundles for coloring code.

I mean, if such coloring it's going to be done, it should be done with HTML/CSS.

For the OP article, for screenreaders perhaps you are sugesting people to use the alt attribute or similar.
Thanks for the tip, I agree with it, and i edited the post :)
The implication is that they will improve to the point of Stable Diffusion and the likes.
More likely an investor, and I’m sure the company reviews are “protected” by blockchains.
That's an interesting concept from the point of view of the artist, but from my point of view as a consumer, I want to see reviews and the reactions of my friends before I see a movie. This means I would never see the same movie they saw.
They are all over this thread either legitimately insane or clearly operating in bad faith. Flag and move on.
Show HN: All-in-One Japanese Study Tool with AI + Anki
I've been using AI a lot lately to help me study Japanese. I can pick up a bunch of words just from watching anime, but I'm still pretty weak when it comes to speaking and reading characters. I tried using ChatGPT to practice, but it quickly got annoying bouncing between different tools — I couldn’t chat and speak at the same time, and juggling stuff like Anki, dictionaries,etc.

I built this as an all-in-one tool to do this in one place.

Figured there are probably others in the same boat here, so wanted to share it here and see if anyone finds it helpful. Would love any feedback or ideas. Thanks, and hope it helps someone out!
No, but ignoring their disabilities and saying to just learn to do better is not good enough. It is no different from telling a deaf person to learn to hear with their other sense, it doesn't make sense as their disability is what prevents it. People do need to be able to interact with other people, it just doesn't work like it does with non-neurodivergent people. It takes an effort on both sides. Quit putting it all on the person who cannot do what you want. That is the bigotry.
Support for Palestinians has increased steadily since Israel started its latest genocide. I think you're confusing Zionist PR expenditures with actual support, which is rapidly dwindling for Israel.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/657404/less-half-sympathetic-to...
A Supermarket Bag and a Truckload of FOMO
You assume we aren't going to end up wearing them daily in order to get promotions. The same elitist power trip that drove RTO is also likely to produce the "dress like us & be rewarded" dynamics that push for conformity.
> might want to look up the definition of sacrifice if you think it's synonymous with self-indulgent. It's literally the opposite.

It's orthogonal to self indulgence; what defines that is the effect. And it's inherently subjective. I'd argue most religious animal sacrifices are self indulgent. Obviously, the believers think otherwise. (Nobody asks the animal.)

In this case, they absolutely made a sacrifice. But the main effect is the fact that they sacrificed something. The sacrifice didn't actually do anything. Contrast that with e.g. putting yourself at risk to save somebody. That is more than performative.
They were quite clear that I wasn't allowed to leave and I wasn't allowed to use my phone. I'm not sure where a debate about semantics would have gotten me.
I'd never heard of a Merkle Tree before, thanks for the reference.
You have chosen a very very poor example in calling out Meta Ads. I can assure you that the entire org has a massive magnifying glass over it with insane amounts of data analysis, every % change in revenue is absolutely attributable to exactly what group brought it about whether it be DC hardware, ML teams, or backend infra. It is the lifeblood of Meta with many billions flowing through it of course it isn't just being cowboy'd with random changes that have undefined impact on yoy revenue.
Meta's surprise Llama 4 drop exposes the gap between AI ambition and reality
Thars like saying "the reason the best employees are good is that they are paid the most money". You're putting the cart ahead of the horse here.

They are dedicated partially because they can spend their time focused on doing their job and not grinding leet code looking for the next pay bump in 2 years. Those pay scales are very strict in government, and very predictable.
> Support for Palestinians has increased steadily since Israel started it's latest genocide

I never argued otherwise. I'm saying look at the polling immediately after the protests.

Media reporting of atrocities drives down favourability for Israel. Media reporting of the protests drives down favourability for Palestine. It's why, despite favourability for Israel monotonically declining since 2023, its net favourability vis-a-vis Palestine blipped up in '24.
The kitchen counter is full of dishes, but the dishwasher has some free space. My point is, that people assume that there are dishes on the counter thus dishwasher has to be full.
Not really. Until recently, ClearView has been used by local police departments, which are not strongly aligned with both sides of the political spectrum. Likewise, DHS and TSA are not strongly aligned with both sides of the political spectrum. ClearView, which the article is about, is only strongly aligned with one side of the political spectrum and notably uses political misalignment as a warning sign.

Whether or not this could have happened is completely irrelevant. This is happening. My comment here, linked to my real name, has the potential to get me put on a list of political agitators. My grandpa wore a red triangle in Soldau, and while I'm not eager to do the same, nor will I be silent. American citizens are being deported on suspicion of being immigrants today. Both-siding this is exceptionally dishonest. The article is about the actual technology being employed by today's actual government.
Where I live, much of the road maintenance for potholes is done by private companies.

The motivation to do a good job is that they also take on liability for damages caused by lack of maintenance that is either foreseeable, or non-foreseeable issues that had been reported to them in their area of responsibility. The government tracks pothole reports, and if you hit a road hazard that had already been reported with enough time to repair it, the company pays.

Its all about lining up the incentives properly. Plenty of government road maintenance departments are perfectly capable of not fixing things and wasting money without the profit motive nvolved.
That's not true at all and you won't find a poll that backs up what you're saying.
Hooks are the best thing for frontend dev since async/await.
You might have just gotten older.
Yes. It was a programming exercise that took me a few hours to create. It was not practical to re-make it for every candidate.

BTW, it's industry normal for companies to come up with a programming exercise and reuse it.
there's browser extensions that'll do it as well
You've made it pretty clear, thank you.

That was my suspicion initially. In fact, when I read about mass DNG adoption, my first thought was "but how would it work for this company?" (admittedly I don't know much about DNG, but intuitively I had my doubts).

And then I saw your comment.
I don't really remember exactly how long until I felt particularly comfortable with it. Probably on the order of days? I have never really used any other VCS besides vanilla git before, so I didn't really have any mental model of how different VCSs could be different. The whole working revision vs working branch + staging area was the biggest hurdle for me to overcome, and then it was off to the races.

And yes, I use jj locally with remote git repos.
A little rearranging gets us the Laimd engineer which seems more appropriate.
https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/gover...

So far this FY we're at $959 billion in revenue from income tax.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/imports

Those numbers are monthly and include services, but summing up the US imports over the same period (October 2024-February 2025) we get $1.86 trillion dollar. To replace our income tax revenue over this period we'd need a 50% tariff on all imported goods and services.

What level of tariffs should we aim for so that we can reduce our federal income tax rates and increase or maintain overall revenue as you claim will happen?
Just because you had no reaction to it, it doesn't mean it didn't do anything. I know people at Microsoft and now they're talking internally about this.
Discussion (29 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43615633
neat, but instead of asking me to install browser extension, can you just bundle a browser in the MCP server?
The standard way is to wrap the field in quotes.
jj is fantastic and I love it so much. Takes the best things I liked about hg but applies it to a version control system people actually use!
Thank you. Looks like my idea precedes Nix by 2 years!
since it seems it has been forgotten, remember the reason Git was created is that Larry McVoy, who ran BitMover, which had been donating proprietary software licenses for BitKeeper to core kernel devs, got increasingly shirty at people working on tools to make BK interoperate with Free tools, culminating in Tridge showing in an LCA talk that you could telnet to the BK server and it would just spew out the whole history as SCCS files.

Larry shortly told everyone he wasn't going to keep giving BK away for free, so Linus went off for a weekend and wrote a crappy "content manager" called git, on top of which perhaps he thought someone might write a proper VC system.

and here we are.

a side note was someone hacking the BitKeeper-CVS "mirror" (linear-ish approximation of the BK DAG) with probably the cleverest backdoor I'll ever see: https://blog.citp.princeton.edu/2013/10/09/the-linux-backdoo...

see if you can spot the small edit that made this a backdoor:

if ((options == (__WCLONE|__WALL)) && (current->uid = 0))
retval = -EINVAL;
I have achieved this state of affairs, reproducible Lua package installs across machines, but I mostly use Lua either in a) “raw” form (linking to the VM internally) in which case I simply manage a .lua codebase as part of the project build, or b) as a system tool, wherein judicious use of “luarocks —local” and such tools as luaenv, have given me everything I need to stick in a Makefile/CMakeLists.txt file .. and to package into a bundle for distribution, a sprinkling of luastatic.

To be honest, none of this is any different for python, or any of the other scripted languages which might be found ‘onboard’; however, one must always differentiate between the system-provided /bin/script_language, and one which might be being used as a development tool/scripting engine in a larger project, or indeed .. local tooling .. workbench.

One of the reasons I like Lua so darn much, is that its really easy and fun to get all the libs packaged up, bytecode linked, bundle wrapped up, and have a single-click install for your intended users’ operating system, quite effectively.

But yeah, you do sort of have to flex some limbs.
> That's not true at all and you won't find a poll that backs up what you're saying

What's not? Literally look at the Gallup poll you cited [1] to see Palestinian favourability dip in 2024.

I'll note that part of it is the media's fascination with the pro-Hamas minority at pro-Palestinian protests. Organisers are getting a little better at screening those folks out.

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/657404/less-half-sympathetic-to...
> The next stage of our interview process, had this candidate moved forward, is to implement a take-home project that we have specifically designed for prospective candidates to complete. Had we moved this candidate forward, I have no doubt that they would have been able to use AI to pass the take home project with flying colors.

So why bother with it?
> - awkward and/or neurodivergent people are going to have to learn social skills again

It's not like these are skills that they haven't learned, these are things that they have a hard time with. Expecting them to be 'normal' is like asking a person of medium stature to be taller. They could mask them but ultimately it's not who they are and expecting everyone to be the same is a fools errand.
It wasn't designed specifically for D toolchains, that was just an example of what it could do.
Perhaps applications are required because there is no automated way of knowing where those "actual accidents, injuries and fatalities" occur. The "squeaky neighbors" are needed to help point out those locations so they can be examined more closely as there is only so much manpower/money to go around, even for a government agency.

It takes time to do the right thing. After all, do you do things of consequence without planning?
I remember seeing something similar happen around the time OpenAI launched ChatGPT. I can't seem to find it right now, but at one point they served users' entire chat histories to the wrong users, even in different languages.
Let's flip the script. How have young people felt about the private sector as their entry level jobs have focused more around a turnover based culture than ever? Do you feel Gen Z is passionate about work or even about trying to maximize their compensation? Do they seem happy or even tolerant of a 9-5 to (not) make ends meet?

What makes you think applying these practices to the public sector will work for the better?
Show HN: Generative Benchmarking for RAG
> And accomplishing anything with your hands and manual labor is instantly gratifying.

May I add that Agile (which appears to be the currently prevalent work methodology in SE) takes away much of the gratification of software engineering?
I’m Jeff, co-founder of Chroma. We build the most popular open-source AI vector database. When people use Chroma, the first question they ask is which embedding model to use. This choice affects how your RAG application will perform in production.

We noticed that most people make their decisions based on popular benchmarks scores. However, widely used benchmarks like MTEB are often overly clean, generic, and in many cases, have been memorized by the embedding models during training. To address this, we introduce representative generative benchmarking—custom evaluation sets built from your own data and reflective of the queries users actually make in production.

We just published our in-depth technical report on this, and you can run a custom benchmark locally with the Chroma CLI.
Something even crazier happened today, all based off of a single tweet.

> At 10:10 AM ET, rumors emerged that the White House was considering a "90-day tariff pause."

> At 10:15 AM ET, CNBC reported that Trump is considering a 90-day pause on tariffs for ALL countries except for China.

> By 10:18 AM ET, the S&P 500 had added over +$3 TRILLION in market cap from its low.

> At 10:25 AM ET, reports emerged that the White House was "unaware" of Trump considering a 90-day pause.

> At 10:26 AM ET, CNBC reports that the 90-day tariff pause headlines were incorrect.

> At 10:34 AM ET, the White House officially called the tariff pause headlines "fake news."

> By 10:40 AM ET, the S&P 500 erased -$2.5 TRILLION of market cap from its high, 22 minutes prior.

https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/1jtohbt/a_s...
You're right about that, but maybe it should just treat '1/2' as '1/2' and only convert it if it makes sense for the current operation. If I type 1/2 and I want the date, then I want 1/2, not Feb 1, or Jan 2, or 01/02/2025, or 2025-02-01, unless again, I have explicitly specified that this cell is a date, and this is the format I want it in.
~I think it's more that not all existing git commands (rebase, am, cherry-pick?) preserve all headers.~

ignore, misread the above
So fly them to multiple destinations? I was hired 1 year ago and interviewed with ~14 people all living in different locations. That could be paired down, but it won't ever reach the single destination that the OP is referring to.
Indeed. I'm glad for us to have learned Python's 20 year lesson on the dangers of an executable manifest.
Yea it certainly does benefit Claude Desktop to some degree, but most MCP servers are a few hundred SLOC and the protocol schema itself is only ~400 SLOC. If that was the only major obstacle standing in the way of adoption, I'd be very surprised.

Coupled with the fact that any LLM trained for tool use can utilize the protocol, it doesn't feel like much of a moat that uniquely positions Claude Desktop in a meaningful way.
Author here. I think we might actually be in agreement. My point is that in React you don't formally describe the transition table because (and I think this is where we agree) that's infeasible for an app of any reasonable size.

The observation I'm trying to capture in this post is that even though we don't define a formal transition table, we actually _do_ implicitly define the set of valid (user) transitions for each state via the event handlers we bind into the DOM when our React component tree renders that state.
Tbf, there are similar stories out of other California cities, and even other places.

But fair it not, California seems to set the standard for how not to govern
It's whatever the busy burger place at the ferry building was selling about 6 years ago. I am not sure, but I do think it was Impossible.