skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all, my comment has nothing to do with Trump, so let's leave him out of it.

I would doubt Gates's number because I have never been in a company that had 15% or less waste. e.g I don't think you could find a tech company out there that couldn't reduce its AWS bill by 15% without any service degradation, but it's just not a priority.

But the meaning of "waste" is highly subjective so some people wouldn't count that type of inefficiency as "waste". It may take a lot of resources to follow the process that the government mandates or use the ancient technology that it uses, and if the government efficiently follows the process with the existing tech, then it's not "wasteful." But I would call the process itself and the failure to upgrade the tech waste.

As for corruption vs bureaucratic inefficiency, why should I favor one over the other except by cost comparison? If the government pays $100 million to build a road that really costs $50 million because the contractor is owned by the governors cousin, that's a lot better for me than paying $200 million for the same road because the bureaucratic process to keep the governors cousin from unfairly getting the contract costs $150 million. And that's not even getting into the fact that the bureaucratic path also costs more in terms of time.

IMO the process is just as much graft as the nepotism. All those lawyers and consultants and government employees that consume the $150 million are just as much the recipients of ill gotten gains as the governor's cousin. I recognize that this can't be eliminated, so I simply would choose whichever one was cheaper. And in the US I think we are in a situation where the bureaucracy consumes much more than would be taken by corruption. China is quite corrupt and yet their government gets a lot more done for a lot less money, and in a lot less time than ours does.
Video I bookmarked when I was stuck in backend land because I knew I’d want to learn it some day:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=wc8ovZZ78SY

I discovered this shortly after introducing The Secret of Kells to a child and had terrible, beautiful ideas about overly ornate websites that I have since thought better of. Mostly.
Ask HN: What's the most reliable website change monitoring tool in 2025?
I’ve been testing various website monitoring tools, some work okay, but I’ve found issues with reliability, especially on pages that rely heavily on JavaScript. Others miss changes or send noisy alerts.

So I’m wondering:
What tool are you currently using that actually works well enough to justify a subscription?

I’m looking for something that:
- Accurately detects real changes (not just layout shifts or noise),
- Can handle JS-heavy or dynamic sites,
- Supports element-level tracking,
- Ideally has a usable free tier, but I’m fine paying if it’s worth it.

Curious what’s been working for others. Bonus points if it’s actively maintained and has solid alerting (email/webhooks/etc).

Thanks
What a load of crap, for nothing. US population 340M vs. France population 68M. You get an exactly 5 to 1 ratio. Revise your numbers according to this ratio, there you have it.

Not even looking at the numbers you throw out, I can tell you France wins, of course, for being #1 tourist spot of the whole world. Why? Partly because of Americans.

But worry do not! By the time current US administration ends up its charade, only emigration should concern you, not the prospect of tourism. And believe me, there are places far more welcoming to emigrate to than France!
Sort of the same. I’ve lost touch with or been sabotaged by the people I used to be close to. Now I have acquaintances, people I know and am fine hanging out with, but I don’t have anyone close that I’d really trust or open up to. And I’m fine with that, the effort it takes and the risks of being very open with someone are not worth it to me. And if someone tries to open up to me, I’m immediately suspicious and will start to distance myself. At this point in my life I’m not interested in taking on someone else’s emotional baggage.
Isn't Finland where Fiskars are from?

We had a number of Fiskars axes on our farm when I grew up and we were never able to break a single one of them (except when someone left them on the ground and a tractor ran over them or something).
Autoamputation Flow
You can also extract different parts of an existing svg and use (clone) them elsewhere on the page.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Reference/E...
Paris didn't improve its public transportation system, as it made it impossible to own a car. It ends up as pure sadism for the inhabitants who are not childless, affluent 20/30 years old, and who have no alternative than having to take the piss-smelling cattle trains with no access the disabled people, or strollers.
How do you know the dust was specifically brake dust?
Many recent HN articles about how middle managers are already becoming addicted and forcing it on their peons. One was about the game dev industry in particular.

In my work I see semi-technical people (like basic python ability) wiring together some workflows and doing fairly interesting analytical things that do solve real problems. They are things that could have been done with regular code already but weren't worth the engineering investment.

In the "real world" I see people generating crummy movies and textbooks now. There is a certain type of person it definitely appeals to.
Once you start talking millions of people someone will make that or any other mistake.

The US has a higher threshold, but it’s clear those standards mean many people are duped by “obvious” lies. It’s kind of an arbitrary line, but ignoring the dumb feels like a mistake to me when dumb people are active in society, still vote, etc.
Maybe don't use an open-source licence if you don't want people to freely use your project's source code?? Especially a permissive one that doesn't require copyleft.
There are examples in this video: https://youtu.be/f01dsTigSmw
Yes, this is my most common web conversion. HEIC to JPG
They showed a bit of this with a high production video of “how we did it” on Tuesday. The outpainting was amazing, details looked crisp, physics sim was pretty good, and the continuity for actors was good. The amount of tech they had to create and manage for the project is remarkable on its own.

There were some perspective and lighting issues, and a few small glitchy artifact moments. They probably showed about 5 minutes of footage from various parts of the movie.
I'd say it goes beyond silence. Anything political used to be flagged and pushed of the front page in minutes till about a couple of weeks ago.

Not very surprising given the current political environment.
So Tesla gets a handwave against world conquering BYDs.
Shit, I've just reacted to a LLM. Damned me.
True, but even in Wyoming, where you EV is really a coal-powered vehicle, the coal is not burned in the city.
There is a 4K Blu-ray of the film, I have a copy, it looks wonderful :)
The federal govt is estimated to be bankrupt in 10 years. If by "ideologue" you mean people who not only recognise this but are ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING to address the problem (for the first time ever) then yes you may be right.
Svg Tailwind combo makes hover animations easy and fun.
China just approved flying taxis – no pilot needed
I mean Bearer / JWT
Amazon EC2 instance metadata targeted in SSRF attacks
Blame Congress. Over time they have consistently ceded power to the executive branch, either directly to the president or to federal agencies.
Ford has patented a fake manual gearbox for EVs
The Solid-State Shift: Reinventing the Transformer for Modern Grids
> A city improved the air quality

"Pure sadism!!!"

Yeah I'm sure everyone is real miserable, which is why they just voted in a referendum for more car-free streets.

Amazing how out of touch with reality the car-dominance types are.
The problem is that, among casualties, you create an environment that is hostile for families and disabled people.
One would also expect that EVs wouldn't emit that many particles from brakes since the brakes typically wear much more slowly than with ICE cars.
Bad things happen in wars. And yes there are questionable videos of Israeli soldiers on TikTok. I'm not sure how this supports your view point. It's is entirely possible for Israel to be the good guy, for the BBC to have a strong anti-Israeli bias, and for there to be questionable actions by certain Israeli soldiers (including on TikTok). There are also questionable actions by Ukrainian soldiers and there have been questionable actions by American, British, and Australian soldiers in their war on ISIS and Al Qaeda and there have been questionable action by the allies in WW-II. Israeli soldiers are young adults fighting an enemy that has complete disregard to human life (theirs or others) or pretty much anything else. That enemy has been attacking them for decades. Many of them may have friends and family that have been impacted by this enemy's brutality. So yes- there are going to be questionable incidents. This is human nature.

We can fix this by forcing Hamas to release the hostages, surrender, and end this war. Could have happened a long time ago if the pressure was on the right side.

You can't get a picture of reality through anecdotes. In every war you can cherry pick any narrative. For what its worth I've spoken to soldiers who fought in Gaza and they maintain they hold high standards and the incidents you hear of are outliers.
Strong Chiro-Optical Activity of Plasmonic Metasurfaces–Inverted Pyramid Arrays
Easier to do a11y in SVG.

And the oft overlooked synergy with aria work is test automation. Code that is hard to screen read is often also difficult to integration or E2E test accurately.
One of the early examples of the Poisson distribution was the rate at which soldiers in the Prussian army would be fatally kicked by horses.

Translates to a little over 30 deaths per year per million, so not a lot, though I suspect the number would have been much greater adjusted for distance travelled and even without that it's more than some countries achieve with their traffic.
I would say that the real killer invention of humans, compared to other apes, is the way to overcome the Dunbar number and organize very large coordinated groups.

The rise of agriculture in Mesopotamia enabled by it predates writing systems, and the first cuneiform records are purely numerical, for asset tracking. Huge armies, like these of Alexander or Genghis Khan, consisted of mostly illiterate warriors.

I'd argue that the invention of the virtual hierarchies, when a peasant submits to a king who he never saw in person, eventually led to the invention of gods, and later a supreme "creator of the universe" figure. That allowed for even more complex cooperative social structures, still across mostly illiterate populations, even though holy scriptures play a central role in such religions.
Not really. Trump has cut the budget of NASA which is the part of the government that is the biggest customer of Spacex. They have also want to get rid of EV tax credits which are a huge source of income for Musk. Financially he would be much better off under a Harris administration.

I think these are both extremely stupid policies, but its just not correct to say that the Trump administration is increasing spending to benefit Musk.
Auto as it is now has been in C++ since C++11, thats more than a decade ago...

If your argument was C then sure thats a C23 feature (well the type inference type of auto ) and is reasonably new.

This is much more a reflection on youe professor than the language. C++11 was a fundamental change to the language, anyone teaching or using C++ in 2025 should have an understanding of how to to program well in a 14 year old version of said language...
There are lots of things in cities that are unhealthy for both ourselves and others but we allow them. It's possible to make big improvements while still enjoying a certain amount of the benefit of something.

For example - if you use the London Underground the air you breathe in is significantly worse than the air above ground in busy traffic. Significantly.
Mapping legend Ordnance Survey releases blocky Britain in Minecraft – again
Nvidia is selling GPUs at a loss? TSMC is going broke?

I'm pretty sure they are the pickaxe manufactures in this case.
SAP is more of an ecosystem of things than a single thing. But yes, there’s a lot of code there.
Wristwatches are fetishized but not buggy whips.

To each his own I guess.
If you'd actually believe in some sort of a global catastrophe that is just on the horizon you wouldn't be wasting time arguing with people on the internet
I would love to know how this goes in the Netherlands where we have strict rules on this. If it's not really clear rules dictate the customer is right, so that yearly subscription is simply a monthly subscription.
> 1) These are trained on such enormous amounts of data that is sourced unreliably, how are these companies going to negotiate with all of the rights holders?

i.e. the business was impossible? Then don't do it. That's like saying I can't do the exam reliably sir, so I cheated and you should accept.

> 2) How do you deal with the fact the original artists who previously sold rights to companies will now have their future work replaced

Charge differently / appropriately. This has already been done, e.g. there are different prices / licenses for once-off individual use, vs business vs unlimited use vs SaaS etc.

> 3) You then create a world where only giant megacorps who can afford to

Isn't this currently the case? Who can afford the GPUs? What difference does that make? These AI companies are already getting sky high valuations with the excuse of cost...

> I think making models inherently public domain solves far more of them.

How is that even enforceable? Companies just don't have to even announce there is a new model or the model they used and life progresses.
Funded by Ray Dalio [0]?

0.https://equitymates.com/general/how-the-worlds-largest-hedge...
Hell, my Windows XP system with a nearly 20 year old processor (Q6600, ~17ish years old) still instantly does almost everything.
SVG feels like a very underexplored and underused territory. You can do so many things with it. It really depends on your imagination. But you’ll possibly need to “hardcore” a lot of stuff, so yeah, depends on the use case as well.
> no one feels a pressure to use a modern term that might have less perceived value-- to say "functions" or "features" instead of "complications

Methods in OOP. Every term in functional programming. Rolex does a little bit of the Apple game, renaming jargon. But the watch industry mostly uses the term the first person to use it deployed. (“Complications” makes more sense than “features” when working multilingual across French, German and Italian.)

I’d also argue that “features” is a bit misleading. Complications aren’t about utility. They’re about art. It’s intentionally overcomplicating something.
Only if you just remove the cars without replacing them with good public transportation (family friendly, accessible, with special modes for disabled people).
“My side is the truth, your side is partisan propaganda.”

Bottom line is, people see goals / intentions differently, especially in politics!
> The right’s “Atlas Shrugged” vision is to have a very lean government, as in, weak and powerless as possible.

This is objectively not true of the right's actions. If you read Project 2025 or just look at the legislation/EOs passed, the right is currently trying to expand the power of the president to unprecedented levels. In addition, they're trying to undermine the checks and balances of the courts such that the government can make greater decisions faster.

This isn't a small government, it's teetering on fascism. The fascism analogs only grow greater when you here Trump speak of an enemy within, who must be eliminated. When he speaks as if he is the One True answer to every problem facing the US. Trump-ism is become more akin to a cult than a political platform, many people just following Trump because they view him a God. It's a bit spooky. It's very difficult to not draw parallels to fascist leaders of the past.

> Conclusion: The American left wing proposes to build a government bigger than any socialist country in the world.

Delusional, sorry. If you think the democrats, the ultra-capitalist right-leaning party, want to create a socialist country you are just delusional. I don't know how to help you there because it's just not in touch with reality.

There's, like, 2 representatives in all of the Democratic party who could maybe kind of be consider democratic-socialists. And there's a better chance of hell freezing over than those 2 convincing the other hundreds to go their way.

After a certain point, we have to come back down to Earth and acknowledge what is actually going on, instead of whatever we have allowed our minds to concoct.
> If paraparticles exist, they’ll most likely be emergent particles, called quasiparticles

So are these just a new flavor of quasiparticle, like an electron “hole”, or are they possibly real particles? The article seems contradictory.
The Gospel by Gen Z ("Mary was a pick me girl for God ")
How prescient. Wednesday was this for quite a few people.
The only likely candidate close to Zelenskyy in popularity is Zaluzhnyi, the former commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. That's not a person who sees surrender as an option.

All major political factions oppose holding elections now, because they expect Zelenskyy's popularity to fade after the war ends and believe their candidates will have better chances then.
Will VSCode beat Cursor and Windsurf in the long term?
But even with impeachment, the executive is still, technically, in charge of the armed forces, etc.

Wouldn’t it make more sense for each co-equal branch to have some degree of executive autonomy? For example, marshals that report only to the judicial branch or Congress.
'The Last of Us' renewed for Season 3
How does that work exactly? Gemini outlines it in pseudo code?, Sonnet writes it?
Curse of the German Cat or the Most Ridiculous Aircraft Carrier Loss in History
The 'concept of "iona"' mentioned at the end is surely the biblical Jonah superstition. Automatic translation is not great with measurements. Still a goofy read ...
There are cities not designed around cars. We just call them "rural." You could not have had your urban city without cars. There is absolutely nothing "tragic" about this.

Meanwhile you live in a world where petty wars are fought over resources to enhance the wealth of an extreme minority of the population. That's an actual tragedy.
I thought most people supported moving away from that and towards a more socially liberal model. If we're no longer doing that I have a whole stack of socially conservative policies I guess I'll go back to pushing.

I don't think y'all really want to go down this road; it leads straight back to the nineties republicans holding senate hearings on what's acceptable content for a music album.
This is a good article, but I dislike how the start defines delusions as "fixed, false beliefs that cannot be changed by evidence". Many delusions seem wrong to others without any solid evidence that can conclusively prove that they're wrong. For example, if someone says they're the second coming of Jesus, or if someone believes the CIA has mind control satellites, that seems obviously ridiculous, but you cannot disprove that.
They don't sell them. But, if the developer / hotelier had a sufficiently large network, think providing service equivalent to the number of rooms at a US state university system network (multiple universities), then they might qualify: https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/
Every time I think, maybe I'll get a subscription, I read something like this and ask why?
> Why can’t [X] just [Y] first?

The word "just" here always presumes magic that does not actually exist.
How you implement algorithms and data structures in C++/rust is semantics at best. The imperative shell of those languages are identical semantically right down to the memory model.
i'm not sure this is true, for instance NYC ranks as the second most disabled-friendly city

https://www.amny.com/lifestyle/new-york-city-ranks-2nd-in-a-...
Nice view transitions!
Debugging is dead, long live Vibe Debugging
> leave normal, mentally healthy people be

We have reams of studies on the mental health of Swedes and Japanese, on one hand, and religiously-conservative Americans, on the other hand. The parents of kids freaking out about seeing a penis aren’t on the stable end.
It seems we have very different definitions of “city”.

I am very curious to hear yours.
“They weigh more” is something I kinda have a problem with. People act like EVs are these behemoths, but your typical EV is hardly an outlier. The Tesla Model 3, for example, weighs as much as a Honda CRV. Yes, that’s a different car class; but nobody looks at a CRV and complains about its weight and the environmental impact of that weight on air quality nearly the same way.
I definitely don't want to belittle the achievement, but I would imagine that creating safe self-driving helicopters is much easier than creating safe self-driving cars. (At least as long as the skies are just as empty as they are today. Once it's full of things like the roads, that will be a different topic)
> ICE cars are most efficient at around 50mph

... when driven continuously without stopping, like a on cross country limited access highway.

When driving in the places people live, with cross walks and stop signs and children playing outside requiring frequent slowing & stopping, there's no efficiency benefit from racing 0 to 50mph every block then slamming on the brakes, only to repeat for each block after.
Please consider uploading the tapes to Internet Archive, YouTube, an open directory, etc.
A College Student Accidentally Broke the Laws of Thermodynamics
Fumadocs is a beautiful documentation framework for Developers
I think there is a fundamental difference between such social phenomena and the seemingly solitary delusions that happen in recognized mental illness such as schizophrenia.
Lidl produces a lot of products on their own, as well as packaging (Schwarz Produktion) [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarz_Group
I would love this tool if it supported converting font files.
I'd guess an ICE transmission provides some deceleration too. But right on, apples-to-apples you would need to compare a Tesla to a Mercedes or etc and not a Corolla. They are sold as a luxury/performance car.
But they are heavier. Not saying it offsets the effect but it's just not straight forward to assume either way.
Are you sure about that?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_Wyom...
Contextual advertising is a known ad business model that commands higher rates and is an ideal fit for LLMs. Plus ChatGPT has a lot of volume. If there’s anyone who should be worried about pulling that off it’s Perplexity and every other small to mid-sized player.
I think Google deserves it. Didn't they come up with the foundational paper - All you need is attention? And then Colab, Tensorflow etc. Though not relevant, I remember Map-Reduce paper was also from Google, leading to big-data revolution.
There were people saying Google will die once OpenAI and Perplexity takes over. Deluded bunch.
From someone who used to earn most of my money by showel and pitchfork from I started working for real as a 15 y.o. until I was around 18 in 1998:

Yes, the correct showel makes a whole lot of difference. You have to believe me on this.

Straight edge for flat surfaces. Pointy edge for digging. Pitchforks with various numbers of tines depending on if you are moving fresh grass or hay (typically 3 tines) or manure (5 or more).

I am somewhat amused at how extremely my life has changed over the last 27 years: I am now a consultant and a techlead but I can never forget my past and somehow I thing it helps to keep me grounded and in touch with reality.
Where is my wristantikythera ?