skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keep your head down or bail. Being right doesn't matter if you aren't calling the shots; you can't cash in those I-told-you-so points for anything.

Sometimes a project gets funded by someone who wants the team to look and act a certain way and actual productivity doesn't even factor in. You're not 'right' if you've fundamentally misunderstood what you're doing there in the first place. Either take their money and play along or leave. That's the call you can make.
TIL

thanks for sharing!
I know Lisp since I read the little lister around 1996, and was an XEmacs user until around 2005.

The parenthesis do really disappear, just like the hieroglyphics on C influenced languages, it is a matter of habit.

At least it was for me.
Interesting that the hardware is NVidia Blackwell, not Google TPUs. That means Google will likely have an energy efficiency and cost advantage, and keep their proprietary hardware out of other people's reach.
Worth considering if this is what you voted for. Was the moment of pique worth it?
Close.

It isn't a problem until it spits out a similar enough copy.

Copyright violation doesn't have to be verbatim; taking a 4k movie and reencoding it to 320x200 before distribution isn't legal.
> Refusing to answer their questions doesn't squash that, it leads them to potentially less trustworthy sources.

But that's good
* acquired Android
We just pushed code, compiled, and hotloaded... Pretty much ignoring the release files; we had them, but I think the contents weren't correct and we never changed the release numbers, etc.

For otp updates, we would shutdown beam in an orderly fashion, replace the files, and start again. (Potentially installing the new one before shutting down, I can't remember).

Post facebook, more of boring OS packages and slow rollouts than hotloading.
Is there a Vert for html to PDF?
(Software dev working for a European manufacturer of industrial automation equipment)

We just hit pause on a major product development effort in order to go back and re-evaluate some of our vendor choices. Specifically to see how we can eliminate as many dependencies on US companies as possible. Fortunately we were relatively early in a 18-24 month development cycle for a somewhat complex hardware device.

The company already started a project two months ago to look at how we can migrate off AWS and Azure and instead use domestic alternatives for our online systems.

For the hardware components this is a bit more work, but it looks like we can find replacements for most of the key items. Though there are a few components where we would have to rearchitect some of the systems to eliminate US components.

For us it is simple: we need stability and predictability. We have long development cycles and long lifecycles for the things we make. Stopping development and trying to eliminate things that depend on the US is a bit unreal and shocking, but management have to deal with the world as it is.

I know some of my colleagues at other companies in the sector are going through similar exercises.

Right now changes are taking place that will not be visible for years, but that will stick around for decades. The current administration in the US is doing real, long term damage to the US.

It is really weird for us (Europeans) to read hacker news and it see mostly indifference to what is happening in your country. You probably should worry a bit more about this than you do.
What a silly take.

> Why do such things need to be hosted at all?

because: corporate computing inmates, who cannot install anything locally

Basically, denying or not seeing the practicality factor of web hosted solutions is either trying to be edgy or worryingly myopic.
A New Thomas Pynchon Novel Is Coming This Fall
Show HN: I started a global click war to learn WebSockets and Redis
This is definitely going in my bookmarks.

Though I think as long as video conversion requires uploading to a jobserver, you're probably better off just invoking ffmpeg directly. Would suffer a lot from upload and download times on files that large. Though I wouldn't be surprised if problems like that become minimal if/when the video conversions can also run pure out of WASM as well.
look, quickest example if it IS or it IS NOT ip theft is - go to any image generation ML wizardry prompt machine and ask it this :

"generate image of jack ryan investigating nuclear bomb. he has to look like morgan freeman."

(and do it quickly before someone in FAANGM manually plays with something altering result of that prompt)

problem is opposite, is "original" work IP a original in itself or is it just remix

or someone just gave lawyer some generic text and make it arbitrarily protected for adding 0.000000001% to previous work.
The novels always had a lot of wealth signaling from Bond. E.g. in 1953, he ate an avocado, which to British consumers at the time was virtually unknown.
What all the enablers and participants of such policies need to grasp is that they will be tried, convicted and serve long prison sentences for their part in this government criminality. Ironically, only Trump will get off.
They are grumpy about having to install the Rust compiler for a good reason. You can’t compile for Rust on Windows without using MSVC via Visual Studio Build Tools, which has a restrictive license.
Nothing means anything anymore. This of course will change completely on monday, then again on tuesday. Of course in the spirit of insider plundering. This circus will go on until we hear the magic words "the chocolate rations have been increased by 20g".
In what way? In the fact that I support their right to defend themselves from genocidal Israelis?
> If I've "learned" Harry Potter to the level where I can reproduce it verbatim, the reproduction would be a copyright violation.

Yes.

> If I can paraphrase it, ditto.

Not necessarily. Summarizing, for instance, is typically free use.
>Even if we accept the house-of-cards of shaky arguments this essay is built on, even just for the sake of argument, where Open AI breaks my copyright is by having a computer "memorize" my work. That's a form of copy.

No, it isn't, unless you're also going to call it copyright infringement when search engines store internal, undistributed copies of websites for purposes of helping answer your search queries.

Edit: or, for that matter, accessing a website at all, which creates a copy on your computer.
Even if you accept the premise, what does it matter? AI are not humans.

Laws were made up by people at a specific time for a specific purpose. Obviously our existing laws are "designed" around human limitations.

As for future laws, it's just a matter of who is powerful and persuasive enough to push through their vision of the future.
Yeah, they're really exemplifying the "shoot first and ask questions later" model.
> If I've "learned" Harry Potter to the level where I can reproduce it verbatim, the reproduction would be a copyright violation

Of course not: in fact, memorizing has always been a right. (Edit: that would depend on what is meant with "reproduction" though. As written elsewhere, properly done quoting is of course fair use.)

> If I can paraphrase it, ditto

Even more so: people have lost legal actions because they sued authors of parodies.
> The billionaire class has a much deeper bench and bigger war chest than the Musk-Trump duumvirate

Musk has already left the scene...
There is craftsmanship in software.

It is just the reality that we live in you are not gonna exactly hear from A list celebrity talking about what a wizard Ken Thompson is but you are gonna spot the celebrity secure a brand deal wearing some monstrosity like RM.

As much as like and appreciate mechanical watches let's not kid ourselves you are talking about CNC machines and cad models rest of it is marketing from the 70's quartz crisis.

Given that just Apple watch outsold the whole swiss watch industry I am not sure if VC we will be here in 200 years but some piece of software will be probably still running.
> How is one to understand the union of these two perspectives?

Only one perspective actually matters right now, and it's notoriously mercurial.

Administration officials often have about as much knowledge of what's to come as we do.
There are many cases where laws that are made for humans before certain tech are not sufficient once certain tech arrives.

You don’t need the right to be forgotten outside of specific tech because human brain forgets by default, paper rots, and all of the above is restricted geographically and does not scale.
> But do you get notified when I chat with Bob about Israel? Or get a notification when someone says something bad about Israel?

No. I'm not trying to prove myself to you - I'm sure that someone is actively monitoring mentions of Israel, though I doubt the Israeli government particularly cares what happens on HN - it's fairly niche.

I do sometimes search for mentions of Israel in HN search, sometimes including comments, but I don't do it that often.

> OK, let me know why I am mistaken to name Israel killing civilian including children a war crime.

I think any decent person mourns innocent people being killed, on either side. I personally also mourn for non-civilians being killed - it's not like Israeli soldiers trying to defend their country are people that should be killed, and it's not like most Hamas militants who (in their mind) are defending themselves
from a foreign occupier deserve death either. I have far less sympathy for the leaders who know better.

But to your question - killing civilian, both morally and in a legal sense, is not in general a war crime unless those civilians were directly targeted, or unless their targeting was disproportionate to valid military aims.

Whatever you may think of Israel, Hamas has custom-designed their war to make it extremely difficult to rescue Israeli hostages, and extremely difficult to get to Hamas, without killing civilians. Btw, the more "evil" you think Israel is, the more evil and cynical this makes Hamas - since they knowingly protect themselves with the lives of the civilians under their care.

So Israel killing civilians is not, in itself, proof of a war crime. It's a sad fact of reality that civilians die in war. Especially ones in which one side is exploiting their civilians to save themselves.

That all said, there is no doubt that many war crimes have been committed. Some are documented and Israel has investigated them and taken steps to stop the people committing them. Some are swept under the rug. I imagine many are never reported. I don't think Israel is especially moral or especially immoral - this is just true of any war.

> Also explain why the recent war crime of killing red cross members (again) is not a war crime .

I don't have all the facts and neither do you. From what we've seen so far - it definitely seems like a war crime. I reserve judgement because I have some faith in the IDF - you rush to condemn Israel for the opposite reason, I imagine. I've also seen many stories turn out to be far more complicated after investigation than any immediate, attention-grabbing headline would suggest.

In any case, I think this should be investigated and, if it was a war crime, for the perpetrators to be prosecuted.
Yup. Nothing quite like someone who clearly has no legal background trying to use first principles reasoning + bullshit to make a quasi-legal argument that justifies their own prior opinion.
The author is definitely not going for the more common meaning. It wouldn’t even occur to someone who reads watch publications that this could have been some kind of double entendre or word play.
The boxes can run airgapped: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/r...
Agreed although AIs today with simple project based rules can do things like check and account for error cases, and write the appropriate unit tests for those error cases.

I personally have found I can often create equivalent code in less English than typing.

Also it works very well where the scope is well defined like implementing interfaces or porting a library from one language to another.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250412141612/https://www.nytim...
How does the force post get to you though? Surely that involves privacy.com participating.
Accepting and managing cash has costs too - external and employee theft being the main two.

Every study shows that people on average spend more when they use credit cards. If I owned a business, I wouldn’t accept cash at all.
The real reason is we've always had them, not Tucker Carlson's latest "two minutes of hate" target. A few years ago he'd have blamed CRT.

https://www.ntsb.gov/safety/data/Pages/monthly-dashboard.asp...
As demonstrated, e.g., by Bianca Censori's outfit at the Grammys.
Yes and just wait for the “public alternative” to play political games with which merchants they accept.

There is already a low transaction fee network that works over the current infrastructure - debit cards.
I'd be happy to provide dozens of examples in my inbox that prove otherwise, and that's just the ones that have escaped my spam folder over the years.

I can also provide you with examples of other people's less than flattering replies about the exact same issue that have somehow reached my inbox (I'm assuming due to a brief misconfiguration).
Why would they sue? Just send it to collections and let them sort it out?
The result isn't about this specific case. This set the precedent to allow ICE to come and pick up random people and get them deported. This is called opening the floodgates. People don't really understand or see the distinction until it's too late. Then they're deported. Don't be fooled or be a fool. They will come for you as everybody has a turn.
Really? Worked for me in February. In that case, this workaround might’ve been patched.
yeah, but is exact wording/data IP or is IP those patterns underneath?
Absolutely, the data-only ones don't count :D Fraenk [1] is one example, there are a few competitors all in about the same price range

[1]: https://fraenk.de/esim
> Humans get in legal trouble if they [???] a work that's too similar

If they sell a work that's too similar.

What intellectuals do is quoting. Of course legal.
By Ancient Greek rappers, presumably.
AI in Software Testing
We're exploring an idea to tackle inefficiencies in our testing workflow and would love the HN community's thoughts.

Currently, our process involves writing test documentation/plans upfront, implementing tests, and then manually reporting failures back to the dev team for the backlog. This feels slow and adds overhead.

Our proposed solution is a tool, likely accessed via a Slack bot, that would:

Connect to a code repository.
Analyze dependencies.
Use tree-sitter to parse the code, understand function signatures, and map relationships.
Automatically generate initial test cases (e.g., boilerplate, basic path coverage) for the discovered functions.

The goal is to cut down the manual documentation step and potentially streamline failure reporting, creating a tighter feedback loop.

Is this a worthwhile problem to solve? What are the obvious pitfalls or challenges we might be missing? Are there existing tools that already do this well? Can this be a standalone product?
There, I vouched for you and upvoted you again. I AM NOT TRYING TO SILENCE YOU. You ADMITTED to lying because you knowingly said something you admit you did not mean, in order to manipulate people. Your very own words, on the record.

THAT is the very definition of lying. So it's totally fair for me to accuse you of lying, because at first I patiently gave you the benefit of the doubt and best possible interpretation that you were telling the truth, then after that, you admitted you were not telling the truth and actually didn't endorse the paper like you said, once again I generously gave you the benefit of the doubt and best possible interpretation that you were only being sarcastic, and then YOU denied THAT too.

Therefore, you were lying, and you admitted that by denying both of my best possible interpretations and confirming twice that you did not actually mean what you said, and that your intent was to manipulate people's behavior by saying the opposite of what you really believed.

Don't blame me for your own words and lies and repeated intellectually dishonest attempts at manipulation by not telling the truth. You're a liar. There is no other charitable interpretation. End of discussion.

Now you're making a whole lot more non-credible unbelievable claims without presenting a shred of evidence, after I've asked you for evidence again and again.

What I am trying to do is to get an answer out of you, so now that you've thrown yet another paranoid infantile tantrum about your self pity and false victimhood, why don't you BREAK YOUR SELF IMPOSED SILENCE and finally answer my question:

WHAT IS YOUR EVIDENCE?
Apple was getting bid up like crazy yesterday, don't tell me this wasn't leaked
There's a whole mute list for this sort of person: https://bsky.app/profile/mackuba.eu/lists/3kp6zdqoscy2x

You can also run Blockenheimer on likes and reposts for any especially toxic anti-AI takes to catch huge chunks of them: https://blockenheimer.click
My comment is mostly about journalistic tone and standards since others have already brought up other concerns. Does this opening passage seem professional to anyone? I just found it distracting enough before getting to the controversial parts.

> Palantir, the software company cofounded by Peter Thiel, is part of an effort by Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to build a new “mega API” for accessing Internal Revenue Service records, IRS sources tell WIRED.

1. Did Palantir get a contract to do so? Normally the wording would be Palantir was awarded the contract.

2. Is it relevant that Thiel co-founded it, rather than also mentioning Karp? Is it to stuff as many boogey men into the lede?

3. Any talk about how Palantir is EVERYWHERE in the National Security circles of the US Gov? I think Palantir started as an analysis tool for money movement. So is it that crazy?

4. Isn’t DOGE the official name? What’s with prefixing it with “so-called”?
It requires a lot more work to make it accessible for screen readers. This just falls back to a table element.
Looking for and finding bugs and security issues with SAP can consume your time 24/7.

When left a fortune 500 company 2 years ago, many SAP processes were running in background on UN*X with these arguments:

-u USERID -p PW

As a developer I informed the admins a couple of times over the years, the response was "wow, will check it out". But they ran into a mountain of red tape and gave up. So nothing was ever done.

But as a developer and support person, at least I had a way to fix things without falling into the bureaucracy quicksand. FWIW, I only had to do that twice over a 10 year period around Q/E.
Actual indictment: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/media/1396131/dl?inline
Pandoc https://pandoc.org/
Extremely unlikely. CPU bugs generally halt the CPU or fail to write the result or something like that. The Pentium FDIV bug where it would give a plausible but wrong result was a once in a lifetime thing.
"Quasar Alpha" is capable of building complex, profitable algorithmic trading strategies
We’re talking about C/C++, not algorithms or data structures.
Yes, but there is material covering all of those aspects with implementations in C plus libraries plus ecosystem support! From teaching material to real world reference implementations to look at and modify and learn from.

And C maps so directly to so many concepts; it's easy to pick up any of those topics with C; and it being so loose makes it even perfect to explore many of those areas to begin with, since very quickly you're not fighting the language to let you do things.
The Dead Internet truly doesn't look like a conspiracy theory now.
The USA government position on anything does not represent the people's views on something. The government does not groupthink for the people even though the criminals in the government seem to think so. Rubio and his family will eventually be picked up by ICE if this process were allowed to continue indefinitely. But Rubio and his criminal friends will all still be locked up for a long time. They just haven't realized that their liberty will be limited shortly.
Matches also my experience that openai fell behind with their deep search product. And that deep search is basically the top tier benchmark for what professionals are willing to pay. So why should i shell out 200 dollar for an openai subscription when google gives me a better top-tier product for 1/10th of the price openai or anthropic are asking. Although i assume google is just more willing to burn cash in order to not let openai take more market share which would get them later on soo more expensive (e.g. iphone market share, also classic microsoft strategy).
Ugh. Note that this is a capitulation. China's retaliatory import tariff rate remains in effect, and they get to decide which industries to relax, if any. The net effect is that if you're in one of the handful of businesses that export to China, the Trump administration threw you under the proverbial bus.
By that reasoning any VHS copy would be legal. Pretty sure Hollywood takes a slightly broader view on what constitutes a copy
really? all of my friends and everyone I know actually hates openai. they managed to be the bad guy in AI.
I have lived in Germany twice, the first time around 2005-2006 and the second time around 2016-2018, mostly in Bavaria and other southern parts.

The first time the public transportation infrastructure was very decent, certainly better than in most countries, even if not comparable with something like Japan.

The second time, 10 years later, there was a visible degradation in their railways, because the trains were almost never on time. I have lost a flight and a very large number of train changes because of train delays. However when going by car on their freeways I have not noticed anything worse and with a good car one could travel easily with a speed much above 200 km/h for a long time without problems, though there were also some congested segments.

I have never been ill, so I cannot comment about the state of healthcare.

I have never been in USA, but all the descriptions of the transportation system that I have seen, even of the infrastructure for cars, appear inferior to even the last version from Germany, which was degraded in comparison with the older one.
I do, and will, the industry does and will, for at least a few more decades. And I even enjoy doing so (with C; C++ is more forced upon me, but that'll be the case for some time to come)