skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google is the primary target for current US anti-big-tech sentiments that are getting political traction with Lina Khan and Steve Bannon teaming up at a recent conference against US Big Tech companies. J.D. Vance has also expressed that he agrees with Lina Khan and Steve Bannon and would like to see US Big Tech companies like Google be forcibly split up.

What will happen with Google's AI wing when Google inevitably gets split up in the next 4-8 years?
> Although not even close in number and punishment the US government is deporting people for speaking against Israel.

You and I both know that isn't true and repeating that doesn't help anyone but further implant in people's minds that the other side is completely irrational and cannot be reasoned with.

No, the US government is deporting people for supporting terrorist organizations, something that's always been a disqualifying position in US immigration law. You'll get your visa denied, or even your entry denied for holding such positions, let alone maintaining an active student visa or permanent resident visa. That has always been the case and simply enforcing laws already on the books does not change that.

> What makes this possible to either the level of Russia or the US is how much the supporters of the regime want it. This is regardless of morality, legality, or the precedent it sets.

Equating Russia and the US is an extreme take.
For me AppData\Local\Temp in the users folder was the culprit with slow boot.
Deleting it solved it for me. It probably is safe to delete, but check https://superuser.com/questions/571901/is-it-safe-to-delete-....
That said, I'll probably ditch Windows as well if I can find a suitable solution for remote desktop.
> AOC, known as “the squad”

Well, when you get that basic of a fact wrong,...
That graph is misinformation. It deliberately excludes the wages of the most productive workers (but includes their productivity) which makes it meaningless.
We've had a production app with them for over 10 years and it's generally great. The only thing to be aware of is this Chrome bug:

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/362210027?pli=1

You can add a recurring ping/pong between the client/server so you can know with some recency that the connection has been lost. You shouldn't have to do that, but you probably want to until this bug is fixed.
Ministries cannot keep up with the velocity of free market / startup culture like SV. So I wouldn't exactly be bullish on this.
> but few know how to market, sell, or validate an idea.

How is this dev specific? You make it as though there's a very special correlation between devs and not being able to sell.

IF everyone knew how to market and sell they'd all be doing it. Marketing is a skill. Selling is a skill. Now you also want dev as a skill? Then the intersection will of course be lower.
Now watch the dance to protect their adsnitch ecosystem.
That sounds like a huge stretch.
No it isn't 'capital flight' Noah - that's a fixed exchange rate concept. There are no fewer dollars in the US dollar currency area after the sale than before.

Specifically "Normally, when Treasuries get sold off, people park their money in cash, instead of moving it overseas. This time, a bunch of investors actually pulled their money out of America entirely."

They didn't, because to get out you require a bunch of other investors putting their money into America, otherwise there would be no exchange in the first place.

It's a fallacy of composition. Individual investors can sell their dollars and buy euros, but investors overall cannot. Somebody has to be selling euros and buying dollars, and the question has to be asked "what did they do with those dollars when they got them, and why were they coming in that direction in the first place?".

Liquidating static savings and pushing them back into the flow tends to cause more physical transactions to occur. It's taking money out of a drawer and spending it. That's likely stimulative.
Reddit is full of paid trolls that will pile in huge number to kill any discussion that is percived against Israel, you can\t talk about the latest war crimes Israel is doing without a number of accounts piling on you, accusing you of fascism, racis, that you do not know history, that the articles are false and no childrens were murdered, if they were some children killed then for sure some terrorists were hidding there with the children etc. It is actually impossible to talk about this topic on reddit, I can shit on Putin and Ruzzians all day so it is clear Israel has more money invested in their cyber army then the Zeds.
Ireland's data regulator investigates X's use of European user data
If your translator is correct, the rust front end enforces the semantics of rust then C implements them. It's as safe as any other implementation.

If that feels uncomfortable, consider that x64 machine code has no approximation to rust safety checks, and you trust rust binaries running on x64.

"Correct" is doing some heavy lifting here but generally people seem willing to believe that their toolchain is bug free.
> I'm also pro-Israeli people, but I find their leadership (and the settlers) the same as Hamas. No different.

I agree with the sentiment, but I wouldn't go quite so far, neither in the goals nor the tactics. Also, "Israeli leadership" is a pretty broad term - there are specific very bad actors, but the most extremist actors are largely a minority (with, unfortunately, far more political power than their minority support should give them).

Hamas is bad - current Israeli leadership is bad. But there are degrees of badness and I don't think it's correct to equate them.

It's also, tactically speaking, a pretty bad way to discuss these things, as most on the pro-Israel side will not really be receptive to arguments made from people who equate the two. Assuming your goal is to actually persuade people on the pro-Israeli side.

> As for the first para, I have very close friends who have been harassed for expressing support for plight. If you are a university student in the US today and said exactly what I have said, you can be found guilty as a terrorist-sympathizer.

That's pretty awful that that's the case. What can I say? I'm against it. Both in the broader sense of supporting free speech, and in the specific case here in which statements in support of the Palestinian people are obviously totally fine (and, IMO, the only moral stance).
I believe these are pure word tricks to suggest privacy without actually delivering it.

As context, you need to remember that Google deleted their "Don't Be Evil" motto and became a defense contractor. The customer will most likely receive a black box owned and set up by Google. That means they have no way of knowing if the system inside is phoning home or being remote controlled by an US government agency, or not. You can then say that the model is hosted in your own data center, which might make some people feel good, but using it with personal information is still a violation of the GDPR.

If Google, however, would make these boxes fully offline capable and I was also allowed to wipe all hard disks myself before returning it, that would convince me of their good intentions.
> But what about the ones that very obviously are? Why did they sell a lot of Visa stocks?

That's a good question and let's use that example.

According to the article and as you mentioned, they sold Visa stock less than 3 months ago and THEN the DOJ filed a lawsuit against the company.

So how did Pelosi know that that would cause the stock to drop and the DOJ was going to file it? The lawsuit wasn't public months ago and it is related to none other than the government which she has access to.

Then she traded with that information with no downside risk which she benefited from.

If that is not an insider trading loophole, I don't know what is.
It gives "how do you do fellow kids" vibes
That's kinda mean. Surely Windows ME was peak Microsoft.
Show HN: UI Prompt Explorer – Make AI Write Beautiful UI
The genesis of this product came from my recent experience using AI for projects. While I could clearly articulate functional requirements, I struggled with describing UI needs - vague prompts like "make it look nicer" or "add more design flair" produced mediocre results.

Everything changed after consulting a senior UX designer from a major tech company. He revealed that contemporary design styles actually follow established patterns: "With the right keywords, AI can generate significantly better UIs." Through his guidance, I discovered that adding specific style descriptors like "Microsoft Fluent Design" or "minimalist style" dramatically improved output quality.

This insight inspired UI Prompt Explorer: A curated gallery showcasing well-crafted AI-generated UIs alongside their exact prompts. When users find styles they like, one click copies the optimized prompt for immediate use in tools like Claude/Cursor/Lovable/Bolt, enabling consistent generation of production-ready web interfaces.
The websites certainly have their design quirks, as do the application forms (though you can avoid those traps by partnering with people who've done it before). But tbh a single document and 6 month turnaround for our Pathfinder bid was above average for grants we've won, and compares very favourably with our equity funding round.
The “Trump is doing the opposite of his program” yields no constructive argument. Because voting for the opposite movement wouldn’t have made the left suddenly implement meritocratic capitalism.
Zero-Based Regulatory Budgeting to Unleash American Energy
I worked on a project funded by the BMBF. I can tell you, those people had no idea of what they were funding. And the people running the project had also no idea for what they were being funded.
Apple watches are unlikely to exist then

Apple is unlikely to exist then

You... well you already know.
Out of curiosity - how do you know they are paid trolls and not just people with those views on this issue?

Personally, I don't use Reddit much, but this is definitely not the sense I get from seeing reading e.g. Twitter, in which there are plenty of extremely anti-Israel voices.

Remember - we're all seeing our own personal echo chamber of content.
Story told at the time was of sales engineers demonstrating hot card removal, causing remote site admin to ship spares until things settled down.
That is what he meant with conservative, ie trying to not do new things because it takes more work to change.
What kind of comparison is this? A government ministry is not a private enterprise, it has different goals and structures.

It's like saying a cargo ship can't keep up with a speed boat.
Conduwuit, a matrix server, has been archived
Did the first program you ever tried coding work perfectly? Did you even get it to compile without trying and failing at least 10 times?

Marketing is a skill. But you won’t get good at it unless you try and fail many, many times.
Isn't this kind of thing going to destroy "trust" in the markets? Basically, people who don't have access to the advance/inside information will lose money to those that do - similar to betting in a casino where you know the odds are against you.

This could lead to a lot of investment in the U.S. being diverted elsewhere to markets that have some kind of regulation to prevent abuse.
> Resolved (2024.07.29.06) ...
I'm too tired, I read it as a IPv4 adress...
> but few know how to market, sell, or validate an idea.

I think you answered your own question.
That's because the Palestine protests are full of people who actually are pro-Hamas, and not only that but often rabidly antisemite on top of that. Your side linked the two together for whatever reason.
> The parrot is dead. Don’t be the shopkeeper.

Continuing the metaphor, we never wanted to work in a pet shop in the first place. We wanted to be … lumberjacks! Floating down the mighty rivers of British Columbia! With our best girls by our side!
I know LLM’s hallucinate. I’m surprised how convincing and how stubborn it insisted it’s right. Other LLM’s would have given up and admit they don’t know.
But these rumors were said and talked about several days. But no big options trade was made before the actual day of announcement. That’s why it’s telling.
Web sockets are very low level, so first you want to use a library in order to work seamlessly with all 100 different implementations of websockets, but then you need to make your own protocol ontop of it. And implement ping and reconnect.
Right, so when discussing a high productivity role, havig mastery of both the structure (such as a DB) and of the tools to investigate the structure (text manipulation, SQL querying) are key.

In my experience most developers like to skip knowing about the data.
The interop is already great via PyO3, except when people want to build the Rust part from source, but are grumpy about having to install the Rust compiler.

This hack is a Rust compiler back-end. Backends get platform-specific instructions as an input, so non-trivial generated C code won't be portable. Users will need to either get pre-generated platform-specific source, or install the Rust compiler and this back-end to generate one themselves.
The other day I bumped again into Markus Lanthaler's hypermedia adventures with Hydra [0] "Hypermedia driven web API's" dating back from Semantic Web days, and later revived and stalled again as the W3C Hydra Community Group [1]. Though very different it hinted at the great power of hypermedia at the time. And I am very happy to see things getting explored again, in this different and refreshing approach. Greatly enjoyed watching the interview [2] of Delaney Gillilan on the hypermedia-tv Youtube channel.

[0] https://www.markus-lanthaler.com/hydra/

[1] https://www.w3.org/community/hydra/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbTFlUqELVc
*known as part of “the squad”. Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squad_(U.S._Congress)

The left’s arguments are unfortunately a collection of your argument: Refuting entirely-developed speeches because of a single sentence missing one word.
> but also one of the ones I trust with my data least.

What thing have they done with user data that you feel will negatively affect you? As far as I know people just don't like that they have a lot of data, nobody every said they did bad stuff with that data.
As a white male from northern europe, I learned during the most left recent years that I’m responsible for all the world’s injustices and ethnic/gender/sexual preference defines a human. I can see why so many gave a protest vote when the current system was trying to paint their existence as non-desirable. We went decades backward and this all just brought the focus back to our insignificant external factors like skin color.

I don’t support extreme right or their hate but it looked a lot like categorical hate against my “kind” that I didn’t have part in choosing.

What got me writing is that is debt actually so bad or is it like leveraged investment? If US would have chosen a bit more professional leader capable to at least maintain the position in world economy, the debt wouldn’t likely ever have to be paid off.
I'm sorry, you were totally right. Sam Altman for example wasn't candid in his communications with board and investors. For that he was fired as CEO of openai and lives now a miserable live in poverty.
SMS messages get sent when you're outside of data network.
You’re making a lot of assumptions there. It’s trivial to monitor traffic patterns from modern appliances, even if it’s encrypted.

Also, companies have been sharing data with cloud security organisations for years now. There a robust means of assessing the risk. License agreements are a very real thing.
KrillinAI: A video translation and dubbing tool powered by LLMs
They are discussing C to Rust, not the topic of the post. Rust would need to guess the semantics of the original C.
The rub and door-opener is really herein: "while Khalil’s activities were “otherwise lawful,” letting him remain in the country would undermine [the administration's policy]"

If those who preach Law and Order were serious about the Law part, you could not just punish people without them having broken a law. Also, the law must have been the result of deliberations of a democratic institution (Congress, state assemblies) and be published (no secret laws in democratic countries). You can't just make up rules and then go punish people for not acting according to the rules. There's already a backdoor in this in that a law may stipulate that the executive branch may issue executive orders and similar things like very specific building codes (the law states building must be safe, unsafe buildings must be fixed, which institutions are responsible to look after compliance with the rules, and the institution can change the rules without needing to change a law, like the FDA banning additives and so on). But even then the 'rules' are about the nitty-gritty, the 'laws' define the outlines, and breaking a rule is still indirectly breaking a law which says you gotta stick to those rules.

The message is "we can detain and / or expel you at will and act with impunity" which is maybe some kind of Order I guess but not Lawful.
I don't fully get this The whole point of OAuth tokens is that they're not permanent access. Just revoke it if you need to.
Well, TFA appears to be thin on the details, but who says whatever they deploy is phoning home? If you run their model on prem, it wouldn't be a difficult feat to monitor its network traffic. Not to mention limiting it. It would be tricky if it phoned home by design, but if this is all abstracted through tool use or something, it can certainly be audited. And the kind of company that wants this usually doesn't just run random software without understanding and inspecting closely what it does.
Show HN: I built an all-in-one social media downloader for 50 platforms
I’ve always been frustrated with how hard it is to download videos from the internet. Most of the sites that claim to do it are bloated with ads, auto-playing videos, fake download buttons, or just straight-up shady behavior. All I wanted was something minimal that actually worked — no noise, no popups, no tricks.

So, I built https://downr.org

It's a tiny project that just does one thing: lets you paste a link and download the video. That’s it. No registration, no browser extensions, no messing around with file converters. I didn’t build it to go viral or make money — I built it because I needed it, and I figured someone else probably does too.

I know it isn’t perfect — just so you know, UI improvements and bug fixes are actively in progress.

Supported platforms:

Tiktok, Douyin, Capcut, Threads, Instagram, Facebook, Espn, Pinterest, imdb, imgur, ifunny, Izlesene, Reddit, Youtube, Twitter, Vimeo, Snapchat, Bilibili, Dailymotion, Sharechat, Likee, Linkedin, Tumblr, Hipi, Telegram, Getstickerpack, Bitchute, Febspot, 9GAG, oke.ru, Rumble, Streamable, Ted, SohuTv, Xvideos, Xnxx, Xiaohongshu, Ixigua, Weibo, Miaopai, Meipai, Xiaoying, National Video, Yingke, Sina, Vk-vkvideo, Soundcloud, Mixcloud, Spotify, Zingmp3, Bandcamp
> beautiful, but they're better now at museums

Strongly disagree. Pilfered artefacts are usually safer in a Western museum. But they’re more beautiful when left in their natural environment. In any case, if there is one thing sillier than someone with no respect for fine watches treating them as a status symbol, it’s getting upset about it as a bystander.
And it's comments like this that make being pro-Palestine an impossible position to hold.
I have hardly any issues reading and writing CL and I am so stupid even bags of bricks take pity on me. Intelligence is not a factor here.
’Extern c’ still uses Rust. You want to skip Rust and call C from other languages directly.
> Why is that?

Because a developer isn't a marketer?
Making it illegal is very different from throwing people off tall buildings.
> It seems like a really vapid unintentional and artificial way to do this.

It's not like that.

Roughly speaking, MDMA doesn't exactly create an artificial closeness, it's more like it breaks down artificial walls. The effects can last far longer than the high - if you're taking it in the right setting, with the right intention, etc.

> why not just be high on life and try it?

There's a lot to be said for living life drug-free. However, MDMA has genuine therapeutic potential. If a doctor prescribed your friend Prozac, would you say, 'Have you tried not being depressed?' - similar thing. (Yes, some doctors prescribe MDMA.)
Pretend it's a smaller company. 100k people late. That's small enough to make a special exception quite unlikely, but big enough to be a lot of very stressed people. It's not self-perpetuating logic, it's how deadlines work. Letting those engineers off the hook won't solve the deadline, those people will just be told they should have done it sooner and they will suffer the consequences.

Despite not being anywhere near life or death, the stress is real. And for most people it's not crippling stress, but neither is being on call for a single week out of the year. If we're going to blow that level of on-call into a "risk of cardiac arrest" then to be reasonable we have to do the same thing for tax filing failures.

There's no way for deadlines to not be moderately stressful. You can't decide to avoid urgency and stress.
A pilot might want a PDF reader to read important aviation related information.

No one needs a pilots license to read a PDF.
I think my experience has been different from everyone else. As an owner of a pixel phone and multiple Google accounts, I wanted this to be true. But Gemini has been super inconsistent with tasks that are trivial for Google Assistant. I even bought the $26 AI plan for my account to help with some proofreading and it's been awful compared to ChatGPT. I'm about to cancel it.
> Modern BERT with the extended context has solved natural language web search.

I doubt this. Embedding models are no panacea even with a lot simpler retrieval tasks like RAG.
Whatever Trump is doing is the opposite of a meritocracy. He's hired a lot of entirely unqualified people, the only thing he values is loyalty.
The AudioFile: basics of uncompressed digital audio (2007)
Fault-Tolerant mainframe type systems.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NonStop_(server_computers)
Sounds about right, but consider also that music, painting, sculpture, theatre are all simultaneously (1) hobbies requiring great skill to master and which people dervive much joy from, and (2) are experiences that can be bought for a pittance as a download, a "print your own {thing}" shop, 3D printing etc., or YouTube.

The bathwater of economics will surely dirty, but you don't need to throw out the baby of hobbies with it.
Yes but again we are taking about wristwatches, not smartwatches or apps. The features/complications on smartwatches and in apps are different than the complications on wristwatches.
I agree. I would argue that Pax Americana has been pretty great for even the USA's supposed "arch enemies." My gut feeling is that everyone loved that stability, whether friend or foe, and the fact that it's now gone will mess everyone up.

I am biased here, but I look forward to the next century of Pax Europa. This is the only way forward.
Really? That's interesting. On a Pixel 7 with FF, it all renders nicely. A tiny bit of heat but that went away.
I don't fully disagree, but the only reason why this product is noteworthy is precisely because companies don't trust cloud providers with their data anymore. And while you might be able to prevent data exfiltration by monitoring the traffic patterns, you probably can't prevent sabotage that way.
I still find OpenAI Whisper transcription the absolute best there is. Grok is the best reasoning/code model right now IMO, but it's audio transcription (and Apple's audio transcription) still totally sucks.
I'm happy with kdenlive and gimp TYVM...
Sudoku Castlevania