skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How do you withhold payments, exactly?

Have state bank regulators flag and freeze all payments to the Treasury for 30 days. (Ideally, during a window where your citizens won’t get hit with penalties, i.e. away from April or October 15 and away from the ends of calendar quarters.)
Disagree. Authority is given Congress to establish an IP regime for the purpose of "promot[ing] the progress of science and useful arts". You would have to justify how banning gen AI is a. feasible at all, particularly with open-weight models; and b. how it "promotes the progress of useful arts." You would lose in court because it's very difficult to argue that keeping art as a skilled craftsman's trade is worse for its progress than lowering the barriers to individuals expressing what they see.

I think bad AI makes bad output and so a few people are worried it will replace good human art with bad AI art. Realistically, the stuff it's replacing now is bad human art: stock photos and clipart stuff that weren't really creative expression to start with. As it improves, we'll be increasingly able to go do a targeted inpaint to create images that more closely match our creative vision. There's a path here that lowers the barriers for someone getting his ideas into a visual form and that's an unambiguous good, unless you're one of the "craftsmen" who invested time to learn the old way.

It's almost exactly the same as AI development. As an experienced dev who knows the ins and outs really well I look at AI code and say, "wow, that's garbage." But people are using it to make unimportant webshit frontends, not do "serious work". Once it can do "serious work" that will decrease the number of jobs in the field but be good for software development as a whole.
It's mostly in the west of Paris i.e. 8th, 15th and 16th districts, the other districts not so much if at all.
> Ok? And?

This is a thread about using your money for better things than paying an ad company. The comment that started this argument you want to have pointed out that it’s self sustaining. But I pointed out that wasn’t always true. Tfsh backed my claim.

So today maybe there isn’t a problem to which your money isn’t being spent with the ad org but it was that way for a very long time to which we can grant the OP some grace as it’s a rather recent change.

There is even still an argument to be made that while you may not be giving money to the ad org you are still giving money to Google thereby helping them deflect the damage they cause the world in their other orgs.
Uber is a profitable company both in 2023 and - to the tune of billions of dollars - in 2024. Please read their financials if you doubt this statement.
> SVG complexity is a good counterpoint to “why this instead of SVG”. But I don’t think we need to even address the claim that most tools for SVG generation use JS, if the concern is JS on the client.

If you want to address the generation of charts on the client, then, yes, JS is something that needs to be addressed, because SVG (or Canvas) are not in and of themselves systems for generating charts. There isn't a <PieChart> primitive within the SVG spec, to my knowledge.

The entire purpose of this library seems to be generating charts in pure markup without any scripting language dependencies. Trying to pretend that isn't relevant, or suggesting that "SVG" is, in and of itself, a viable substitute is just really weird.
Growing up, it seemed the kids that moved a lot, aka military brats, were often good at finding new friends. More practice I assumed.
Since recent typescript features have made it more possible, I’m less interested in runtime validation, and really only keen in build-type schema validation.

There’s a few tools out there that generate code that typescript will prove will validate your schema. That I think is the path forward.
I'm backing up my Youtube favorites locally since 2018, so far 10k videos. I might try to use this because seems like would be a fun way to play them in the background on a second monitor.
> And having to do with computers, with electronic as synonym.

Computers do not have to be electronic. Counterexamples: Mechanical calculators, LEGO logic gates, hydraulic logic valves, electrical (not electronic) relays. Heck, even human meatbags were called "computers" back in the day.
You clearly have a non-existent knowledge of French political life. This referendum had a participation rate of 4%, and only 62% of the voters voted yes. So around 2% of the total voters.

By the way, the French metro's air is highly polluted, due to tire degradation and brake dust, making it unfit for children or pregnant women.

So yeah, it's manageable for young people. But when a baby arrives, it's hell. Same if you are old. Or disabled.
Fears about AI misalignment look like a modern, secular Pascal's Wager. It's hedge against a low-probability, infinite-cost outcome. The Rationalist version builds a matrix where one cell is -inf, and from that, derives an imperative to act, regardless of how speculative the premise is.

However, once you admit infinite utilities and epistemic humility about probabilities, you can justify literally anything. The same construction could obligate you to worship simulation overlords, or to develop interstellar missile defense in case of hostile alien AIs. That's not a rational risk model, it's theological reasoning dressed up in Bayesian costume.

This stuff operates on the boundary of plausibility, the intelligent paranoid mind generates scenarios that can't be conclusively ruled out but also can't be grounded in anything falsifiable. That's not where productive engineering lives.

The escape hatch here is the same one we used for Pascal's Wager: you reject the premise. You don't hand the keys of your threat model over to speculative infinities. You work on problems you can see, measure, and influence. You don't respond to every "what if?" with a fire drill. Recognizing that this is a failure mode in human cognition is enough to avoid it.

Yes, there are real risks with AI: bias, misuse, surveillance capitalism, economic displacement. These are all tractable, all human-driven. But the misalignment discourse? It's less a bet against an existential outcome and more a projection of philosophical anxieties onto a technical domain. And once you frame it that way, it's clear: this isn't engineering. Folks doing this are playing metaphysics in front of a terminal emulator.
I do wonder how the proliferation of LLM-aided programming will impact this.

I'd much rather have a "vibe" generated codebase as a deliverable over what these body shops churn out.

Speaking from experience with both.
I agree. I’m sure there’s limitations, but svg feels more like a wysiwyg for web design than css
It seems you want to ignore half the problem.
It seems more likely just a weird bug considering that I can't understand at all why this topic would be considered controversial or censure worthy.

(casually googling this same line just now does reveal an AI suggestion with the correct answer)
> There are cities not designed around cars. We just call them "rural." You could not have had your urban city without cars.

That is literally the opposite of reality.
By doing something, you mean cutting taxes and throwing away all the tax revenue they got from the IRS not sharing data with law enforcement, right?
Maybe possible with a mechanical speaker and microphone, or a tense string between two watches ;)
To be fair to thunderbird120, the author of this piece made edits at some point. See https://archive.is/K4n9E. No discussion of the recent TPU releases, or TPUs for all, for that matter.
Suburbs are fine. We are in 2025, not 1925, there is no reason why work from home isn't an option for information workers and others who don't need to be physically on premises. You are completely ignoring how much that cuts down on traffic and would lower the cost of real estate, so more people who aren't millionaires could live downtown. We also have electric cars that have basically zero emissions, there is a technical solution for this; not everyone wants to ride a bus or train.
The same could be said of corporations who aren’t required to report pollution and thus exploit because it’s legal. Morality isn’t encoded in most agreements.
I like the idea of having types at runtime for parsing etc and generating validators in various languages. What stopped me from going there so far is that I already have TypeScript types provided for the various libraries I use. How good are the tools for importing TypeScript types into ArkType/Zod and working with types in various representations in parallel?
Is there any SVG extension which allows density of line? I have a plotter which can lift/lower a pen; it's driven from SVG files. It'd be sweet to allow the pen to lower while the line is being drawn (as we often do with handwriting).

Oh - it's an Axidraw, from Evil Mad Scientist Labs - great device, wonderful people.
I did. :)

(And I am aware of the irony in failing to communicate when mentioning that studying writing is important to be good at communication.)
Maybe I should have also cited this part:

> writing as a proxy for what actually matters, which is thinking.

In my opinion, writing is important not (only) as a proxy for thinking, but as a direct form of communicating ideas. (Also applies to other forms of communication though.)
The improvement in air quality is overwhelmingly a result of banning diesel cars. It is, of course, possible to ban diesel cars rather than all cars.

The people who live in the city don't want cars because it's the people who can't afford to live in the city who need them to get there.
AI makes hyperscalers sustainability pledges look more and more like a Hail Mary
> It's not particularly sensitive.

IRS and SSA data are literal textbook examples of sensitive data.

I believe the remainder of your remarks are contrarian in a manner that suggest you are working backward from conclusions.
That's awesome. :) and even that article is off. They probably were thinking of DistBelief, the predecessor to TF.
fastsearch was pretty good before Microsoft bought it.. Elastic is good enough.
They can definitely arise as quasi particles.

It's not impossible that there could also be fundamental particles with this property. It would require some new symmetry to be found, for which there is currently no evidence, but it might be found be reconsidering existing data.
> With modern emissions standards, more than 50% of the harmful pollution comes from tires/brakes/road surface wear/resuspended dust:

Sure, but what about compared to eg. 15 year old diesels with removed DPF filters? Those were the cars that were removed from paris (with the "eco stickers" and other regulation), and that brought the pollution down.

New cars exhaust very little particulate matter, so percantages don't say a lot.

I mean.. almost 100% of the polution of bicyles comes from tires/brakes/road surface/resuspended dust, but the total amount is very low.
Posts like these reverse cause and effect.
Perhaps a generous definition of "better"... but some of those genuinely made me laugh!
What is Kilocode's business plan if they don't take a cut on API access for third parties?
> The main downside I see is that its runtime code size footprint is much larger than Zod.

Yes, it unfortunately really does bloat your bundle a lot, which is a big reason I personally chose to go with Valibot instead (it also helps that it's a lot closer to zods API so it's easier to pickup).

Thanks for linking that issue, I'll definitely revisit it if they can get the size down.
Sounds like a generic AI response, though maybe I'm being too harsh, the AI response would probably be longer and more detailed. So, you want to tell us why it's so much better than Claude?
Yeah, AWS was in private beta in 2005 and public in 2006. People knew it existed but didn't have access yet. https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-amazon-exposed-its-guts-th...
from github it looks unmaintained :(
Ask HN: Help, I want to be a consultant
All,

After 20+ years in the business, I can't take it anymore in the corporate setting. I work for a successful startup that became large (1000+ people), and I have been there over 5 years. I ran the infrastructure, which is all cloud-based. I became less hands-on over time, focusing on building teams and standards and leading architecturally at a high-level.

Now I hate my life. HR, bureaucracy, meetings, lying upper-management, and the fact that I am already fully vested, make it a chore to get up to get to work. I am in my 40's in a very big city in the northeast U.S.

Before I quit everything and hide out in a third world country avoiding ever working again, can anyone tell me if my idea to try to strike out on my own as an Cloud Infrastructure Consultant is a stupid idea?

I have a year or two of savings, I'm renting with no kids. My expenses are very high but minus rent and soon possibly COBRA, I can reduce it.

I don't think I can be an FTE anymore, it's utter misery. Having lost autonomy (with a new corporate culture of intense micromanagement from the senior level), meetings (60-70% of the week), losing work from home to take the crowded subway just to come to a loud-ass office where someone always has a cold, having pay remain static after inflation (it didn't matter before stock all vested), and believing that the people above me are buffoons... means that it seems the ONLY option is to do consulting.

LinkedIn is pretty dry - I seem to be sent only low-paying IC roles, or extremely senior executive roles, whereas I am a middle manager.

Sincerely,

Desperately Seeking An Echo Chamber
The site is beautiful and very responsive. Thanks for putting this together.

One suggestion, maybe for a later iteration, is to improve the description of the companies and the "similar companies".

For example, I know what Zscaler is but its description is somewhat of a word salad. "Zscaler, Inc. operates as a cloud security company worldwide. The company offers Zscaler Internet Access solution that provides users, workloads, IoT, and OT devices secure access to externally managed applications, including software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications and internet destinations; and Zscaler Private Access solution, which is designed to provide access to managed applications hosted internally in data centers, and private or public clouds."

Personally, I would write a two sentence description and provide a link to the official company About Us page. For Zscaler, I would write something like: Headquartered in San Jose, California USA, Zscaler is a cloud security company. Its products include a Zscaler Secure Internet Access solution, Private Access solution, and Digital Experience solution. For further reading, refer to xxx.

Because the descriptions are a bit vague, the "similar companies" for Zscaler include: Microsoft and Oracle which is a bit questionable. I appreciate the comparison to Palantir, Crowdstrike, and Palo Alto Networks.
If you want an LLM to interface with other systems, function calling is absolutely essential.
It would be incredible if somebody invented a light car, that would transport one or two people and some groceries. Maybe with two wheels instead of four to take up less space. Hmmm why has nobody invented this?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43665525
Work from home is great, but there’s more to life than work. Being walking distance or public transport distance to the rest of life’s activities is also great. And EVs aren’t saving the planet they are saving the car industry. They still cause tire particulate pollution, noise pollution, light pollution, and need tons of rare earth minerals
I'm not familiar with the particulars of the Paris program but a "car ban" doesn't have to ban garbage & freight trucks.

I'd argue these, along with private or public transit, emergency vehicles etc, are the best uses for the internal combustion engine or just vehicles in general. The problem with ICE/car/vehicles, isn't that they exist or are useful, but that at some point we over-indexed on their utility and ignored their externalities & subsidies.
It seems like there is a continuum between being oblivious and delusional. You need to notice things, recognize their meaning, make connections and then make conclusions. Being oblivious can mean missing important signs and making bad choices due to not realizing what is happening. Being delusional can mean jumping to conclusions by "connecting the dots" in one particular way that leads to one conclusion even though that may not be the truth. A sane perspective would mean evaluating different hypotheses to come to a reasonable conclusion. Someone who is paranoid may be right about some things much earlier than others, but they may also be wrong about many other things.
This isn’t a question of lived experience. It’s simply not the case that the FDA approves all treatments or that an FDA approved treatment is necessarily justified in some particular case.

I do agree that a lot of people seem to believe that’s how it works. There’s some objectively correct treatment, the doctors uncover what it is, and I have an unconditional right to get that treatment no matter what it costs. But no healthcare system does or could work that way. You have to consider tradeoffs and control costs somewhere.

You can build a system that makes it seem that way to the patients; that’s why I like Kaiser. In my opinion it’s more user friendly that way. But the tradeoff is that cost controls are imposed directly on what doctors are willing to prescribe. There’s many stories of Kaiser doctors refusing to prescribe expensive treatments that other doctors would, because as a matter of policy they believe some lesser treatment would be sufficient.
Tidbyt Without the Company
You could construe my logic that way, but no I’m saying the DHS was likely wrong in that instance and it caused uproar and backlash. Unlike other nations where few would care if the government overstepped. Governments will always overreach, it’s how people pushback which matters.

Also I’m more likely to be arrested and deported for silently praying in the UK.

However there’s also political tactics of “look at that poor student being deported” when said student was calling for jihad, intifada, and antisemitism and violating visas on top of that, which was sort of my original point.

Heh and is Canada fairing any different? Remember when Trudeau froze bank accounts for truckers protesting Covid lockdowns or whatnot. Maybe Trudeau shutting down parliament to seemingly avoid scrutiny. Hopefully it’s just news sensationalism and not the downfall of Canada.
Kids can't play in streets as now the new predators are cyclists who don't slow down or get down of their bikes. Besides, cars are a staple for families, and hardly substituable. Good luck doing groceries for 6 without one.
ah, postmodern relativism. Is there anything it won't destroy?
> My wife, the farthest you can get from the HN crowd...

She is literally married into the HN crowd.

I think the real AI breakthrough is how to monetize the high usage users.
Right, that's why a 20 year old book on algorithms and data structures is not necessarily outdated, but a 20 year old book on C/C++ most certainly is.
Google doesn’t make TPUs available to 3rd parties, right? I assume there would be tremendous reverse-engineering risk if they were to include them?
Suburbs are also financially subsidised by the city centres. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IsMeKl-Sv0
Exactly. The number of times I've caught support for various companies outright lying to me is actually fairly alarming.

It's also very obviously not against the payment network rules, otherwise privacy.com wouldn't be actively participating.
Thanks for a great free article.

The title is sensationalism when it should be phone and computer associated parts are exempted from tariffs or something like that.
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has launched a formal investigation into X Internet Unlimited Company (formerly Twitter), now owned by Elon Musk. The concern: whether the platform illegally used public posts from EU citizens to train its Grok large language models (LLMs).

These AI models, developed by Musk’s xAI and integrated into the X platform, require vast datasets. The DPC is investigating whether the use of publicly available posts respected the legality and transparency principles of the GDPR — especially when dealing with potentially personal or sensitive data.

This isn’t the first time Musk’s platform has faced scrutiny over AI training practices. In 2024, a preliminary inquiry was opened and closed swiftly after promises from X to stop processing EU user data. However, new complaints from privacy rights groups like NOYB and Euroconsumers reignited the case, leading to this formal action.

The investigation could lead to significant fines (up to 4% of global turnover) if GDPR violations are confirmed — and might set a precedent for AI model training transparency in Europe.

Full article (in Spanish): https://theairevolution.news/irlanda-investiga-la-red-social...
> Complications aren’t about utility. They’re about art. It’s intentionally overcomplicating something.

This is not the original usage; "complication" does not imply "grande complication."

> ..."features"...

None of your criticism applies to "functions" which is the first term used.

> Methods in OOP. Every term in functional programming.

Yes... I'm saying in a niche, luxury industry based upon exclusivity and tradition, the marketing pushes towards old, foreign, and exotic language. All these things in commodity digital watches are "modules" and "functions" instead of "calibre" and "complications." (With Apple, on the high end, choosing "complication" for some reason ;).
figure no. 1 is missing green color on HVAC transmission line. i do not have ExTwitter and i do not know other way to let them know.

it is interesting to think about human made object in terms of how much materials they use, for example big old transformer contains 2 tons of iron, new solid-state transformer with same capacity uses only 300 kg of silicon (Si), 120kg kg of plastics and 50 kg of copper.
I frequently drive through 20 mph areas with little stop start traffic. I rarely drive at busy times.

There is nowhere in the UK I can think of that has had a 50 limit in my lifetime that requires frequent breaking. 20 mph limits are invariably reduced from 30.
Obviously a trailer would not be a clever idea, but Nio already has cars with swappable batteries, for short distances you could just install a battery pack which is maybe 20% battery and 80% empty space

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNZy603as5w
"just works" in the sense that this is a complete SSE client application:

while true; do
curl example.com/sse | handle-messages.sh
done

Because it's just text-over-http. This isn't possible with websockets without some kind of custom client and layer 7 protocol stack.
They're not inherently heavier. They're only heavier if you put a long-range battery in them, even then it's not by very much, and even that may not persist as higher energy density batteries are developed.

Or to put it another way, the difference between a small car and a large SUV is far greater than the difference between an electric car and a gasoline car.
Unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments
I know VMWare workstation is not the same, but there were VBS-like systems back in the 1970's.

IBM pioneered hardware virtualization for isolation on their System/370 mainframes with VM/370 in 1972.

VMWare ESX hypervisor brought virtualization to x86 servers (2001).

Xen hypervisor introduced open-source virtualization for x86 (2003).

By the time VBS showed up, the concepts were already several decades old.
For fuck's sake, stop with the academic POV. Look at it practically, it's all just an overly complex system with no actual merit
I can recommend https://pdfbolt.com. It is unfortunately not self-hosted but built with privacy in mind. I'm the founder.
> V4 of zod landed recently and it promises better perf

Still far behind if the 100x is to be believed. v4 isn't even a 10x improvement. Nice changes though.