skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What does that mean, 'a right to exist'? It sounds like emotional nonsense speak - we have the powerful words right and exist, and together they sound existential, for a person.

In international law afaict existing states have a right to exist - yes, almost circular. It's not endorsement of them as good or ok; it's recognizing reality and it's considered absolutely essential to maintain peace - otherwise everyone could attack almost anyone else, because if you're going to start deligitimizing states based on their bad actions, including in their formation, there's going to be a long list.

But beyond that, I don't even know what it means for state. Beyond any doubt, the humans in Israel and the occupied territories all have a right to exist.
Our minds have been so colonized or beaten down by powerful forces that _any_ support of the plight of the Palestine people is seen as pro-Hamas, even if I shout at the top of my voice that I don't care for the armed factions and political jockeying of either side.

I will expect to be downvoted to hell for this.
Hmmm, does Jurgen Schmidhuber live in Germany? I'd think primarily Ticino where he spent the majority of his career if I understand correctly.
Last time I've checked none of the common reverse proxy servers (most importantly nginx) supported WebTransport.
> Facebook is not the same there as it is here. It's not just a fun app you use, it's a huge part of how African and Asian countries interface with the internet.

Could you give a little more detail about what that means?
Have you tried Affinity?
Interesting, I'll check one of those other books out. The library I go to only ever seems to have his doorstoppers on the shelf.
The body cannot live without the phone.
It's not the same. Android will "save and process helpful details" of screenshots you've taken. Windows Recall automatically takes a screenshot every 3 seconds (and also "processes helpful details").

https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/2/24190730/google-ai-pixel-p...
Lead-free solder works fine as long your soldering iron is decent. Even if the lead isn't vaporized, you'll be exposed by touch and splatter. When I learned to solder I learned on complete crap soldering irons that could barely work with leaded solder, and I developed a prejudice against lead-free. But lead-free solder has gotten better, and investing in a Weller or a Hakko will save the hobbyist so much time and frustration and ruined components that it's the way to go anyway.

If your iron can hold it's temperature worth a darn, the lead-free solder is fine. If it can't, you're going to struggle no matter what you use.
I would not say that GCC is more focused on C. Also in GCC there is a lot more effort going into C++ than C. C is generally neglected, which is sad given its importance.

GCC's support for C23 is essentially complete. Clang is mostly catching up, but features I need that I am missing are storage class in compound literals and tag compatibility. It is also sad that Clang does not implement strict aliasing correctly (it applies C++'s rules also in C).
F500/government are conservative and tend to stick with the vendors they know, which is why Azure has gained so much traction despite being worse than AWS & GCP pretty much across the board.

Trust in handling data doesn't really come into this; if anything Google has a very strong reputation for security.
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I don't think MDMA is an amphetamine
I imagine this is going to happen again (except 100x) when there’s a China “deal.”
Either no result for "book on cracking vegetable oils" or "cat excavators" being either empty or trying to pipe results into a pop up ... I don't open pop ups. Other regular non A.I. searches on offer at least try ...
> There is also a massive union culture, which provides Germans with a great quality of life, but again, that's something probably negatively correlated to innovation.

Hmm... So if people struggle in life and have live from hand to mouth in multiple jobs to support their family and loved ones, they are more innovative?
> We don’t know who placed the trades. We don’t know what they knew.

Actually, “we”, collectively, do know, because the SEC maintains an “XKEYSCORE for equities” called CAT.

If there was interest, the government could know exactly who placed these trades. But the call (options) are coming from inside the house.
Lots of interesting use cases for this. First one that comes to mind is better interop with other languages, like Python.
having been in your position a year ago, I can definitely sympathise :(

the one thing I can say (again, from experience with having worked for google while engaging with the open source world as part of my job) is that the relationships you have been building up might well survive the loss of your job, especially if your next job ends up being in the same general area. also, i can highly recommend starting a group chat with your ex-team, that was really good for all of us in the time following the layoff.
> It feels more dangerous, but that sense of danger is what improves safety.

I think that’s the idea. Well in Europe they may not have a choice in an old part of town. But in US I’ve seen a municipality replace a two lane street with a one lane plus a median. It was specifically done as a traffic calming measure. The wide street somehow made people drive too fast. It worked pretty well I think. It was just unusual as typically we love to expand roads not shrink them.
I was a loyal Claude user until I decided to try Gemini 2.5. "After all", I thought, "I already use a Pixel phone, so it's integrated with Android. And with Google Drive. And I can get it through my Google One subscription."

And now that I'm on it, I don't think I'm going back. Google did it again.
Scaling Text in Gimp still rasterize the layer in 2025 :) besides that, Gimp 3 is pretty nice.
I had to cancel a card thanks to PayPal’s shenanigans.

Now it’s much easier to deal with the subscription problems due to the new RBI norms.
Sadly I haven't. Travel is expensive, the US is a big wide country, and other nations don't really want me hanging around unless I marry someone or drop a lot of money
The A in MDMA stands for amphetamine.
How would you eliminate lead exposure by making your own pouches? Would you test the produce you use for led before using it?

I ask because there is no source that guarantees 100% that it won't have harmful lead levels. Lead is often introduced through the soil, so unless your organic farm where you buy produce either tested the soil ahead of time (pretty rare unless someone though it might be a concern) or regularly tests the produce they make, you're just assuming it won't have harmful lead levels.
The use of anaphoric exprssions is not something I think I could recommend. But it's fun to read about.
For reference, here is Adobe's approach to generative ai:

https://www.adobe.com/fireflyapproach/

(I work for Adobe)
I think I'd rather fight insane evil than cold calculating evil. Trump wants to be Putin but Putin has allies and half a brain.
If not, Affinity Photo or Photopea will probably do the job.
From the full interview at https://imagejournal.org/article/subversively-human-a-conver...

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1. Your vocation: Make a living in a way that helps others live too.

2. Your community: Be a giver, not a taker.

3. Your family: Love them unconditionally and help them on their paths.

4. Your mind: Fill your head and heart with good things.

5. Your body: Help your body last a lifetime.

6. Your soul: Listen to what it tells you, and give it what it asks.
> A real Rolex dive watch

The "dive" part is a red herring these days, as the use of watches to manage decompression strategies has declined since the 90s, and by early 2000s dive computers became the default tool. Use of a dive-watch for diving is almost non-existent these days.

Some example dive computers, for those interested:

- Suunto Zoop [1]
- Shearwater Perdix [2]
- Garmin Descent [3]

[1] https://www.suunto.com/en-gb/Products/dive-computers-and-ins...

[2] https://shearwater.com/products/perdix-2

[3] https://www.garmin.com/en-GB/p/632320
Too bad the availability of MDMA is so limited.
I mean in theory couldn’t anyone close to the news source transmit it somehow via an anonymous communication channel to someone else so they can make the trade. Even if there is an investigation they have to find the proof to make a conviction right?
You can worry about market manipulation, or you can buy GME shares, lock them in the Direct Registration System and wait. I just like the stock.
Gemini 2.5 pro is as powerful as everybody says. I still also use Claude Sonnet 3.7 only because the Gemini web UI has issues... (Imagine creating the best AI and then not allowing to attach Python or C files if not renamed .txt) but the way the model is better than anyone else is a "that's another league" experience. They have the biggest search engine and YouTube to leverage the power of the AI they are developing. At this point I believe too that they are likely to win the race.
> they can fall easily into the trap of using party slogans used by proscribed organisations.

It's taking it way to far to suppress speech - political speech, the most important speech - for slipping in the 'wrong' slogans.

> My understanding of Hamas is that they are not considered a legitimate army, but if they were they would be guilty of an insurmountable number of war crimes

While Hamas commits many horrors and is oppressive and awful, I don't think the ligitimate army argument holds water:

If Hamas acted like a legitimate army under the laws of war, they'd be massacred in an instant. It would require them to dress in uniforms so they can be identified, and only fight against the enemy's military. Hamas has some rifles and RPGs and a few rockets. Their enemy has tanks, fighter planes, etc etc etc. If Hamas wanted to be a legitimate army, their only option would be to immediately disband.

The laws of war seem written by large powers to protect their interests. There are legitimate 'freedom-fighting' insurgents out there who also are limited in their ability to be a 'legitimate army'.

> (not unlike the IDF as many would say). Showing support for such things is beyond reasonable accepted discourse in my home country.

So can people show support for either Israel (it's not the IDF, it's a political entity - Israel) or Hamas (also a political entity)? How do they talk about the war?
kleptocracy

/klĕp-tŏk′rə-sē/
noun

A government characterized by rampant greed and corruption.
My class did it with paper airplanes. My partner used the phrase "hotdog style" which I'd never heard. Good times!
Many of those uses of lead don't end up in the environment. Lead is actually quite inert when in metal form - it develops an oxide/carbonate layer and there is little erosion. Metal in bullets is pretty inert and shooting ranges filter air before exhausting it (as dust is formed from impact).

As for lead in plastic manufacturing or dishware, that's mostly a matter of buying wisely. As it tends to be used in less developed markets.
Having lived here for a bit over 5 years, I can say that Germans too often like to speak from the moral high ground. There are things that are sacred and indisputable, like opposition to nuclear energy. Try to complain about a strike in public services causing you inconvenience, and you will invariably get lectured on solidarity. I've seen people interrupting speakers at public events to "provide important context" that was nothing more than self-flattery from the interrupting person. I do believe in this country and think that it has way more upsides than downsides, but the people here could sure use a bit of humility.
Oh the memories. Did the same as you, and extended my Antigua stay for a 2+ week workation (timezone is neatly lining up with US).

It is an underrated country, I remember that after Tikal I ended up at ChichenItza and it just felt boring (and way too touristy) compared to the lush jungle beauty in Tikal and Yaxhá.
> Over the past year, I’ve been fully immersed in the AI-rena—building products at warp speed with tools like Claude Code and Cursor, and watching the space evolve daily.

Blast fax kudos all around
I'm highly skeptical. The current ML paradigm is highly reliant on aggregating data, but the issue we're discussing is about distinguishing subtle details over an extremely large search space. Sure, you can probably scale your way there but even accounting for superposition we're talking about an extremely large number of parameters because you aren't performing search, you're performing compression. You need to also remember the curse of dimensionality. The problem is that as the dimension increases the ability to distinguish the nearest neighbor from the further neighbor decreases. Effectively the notion of distance becomes undefined. (The dimensionality increases as parameters increase). So now you have to perform search over your compression.

This is why ML is so fucking cool but it's also why they are really bad at details. Why you have to really wrestle with them to handle nuance. Easiest to see in image generators but they're much smaller. Do remember that these things are specific trained so that their outputs are preferential to humans. The result is that errors are in the direction of being difficult to be detected by human evaluators. Deciding if that's a feature or bug requires careful consideration.

This is not to say that LLMs and ML is useless or trash. They are impressive and powerful machines but neither are they magic and the answer to everything. We got to understand the limitations if we're to move forward. I mean that's the job of us here as researchers, engineers, and developers. Using a keen eye to find limits and then solve them (easier said than done lol)
The Palestinian people should unilaterally disarm and trust Israel's good faith? Trust the world to protect them? You are asking for a lot.
> TFA says a JWT _may_ expose sensitive data. Which is, as you yourself confirm, true.

Not really. The complain about JWTs leaking sensitive data reads like the bike fall meme. It's like complaining that REST APIs expose sensitive data if not encrypted. Well, that's not a REST trait or something caused by REST, is it? It's you who somehow decided to leak sensitive data through an interface. That's hardly the technology's fault.
No citations.
What about American citizens and why should they be treated differently?
I have also experimented in this space but came to the conclusion that it's not good for games. Not necessarily because it's a bad idea but because it's not how games are made. To make a game with something like SpacetimeDB you would need to build a game engine. You'd also need to build out tooling for managing assets for the server.

One thing about SpacetimeDB that I'm not sure about is if reducers can run concurrently or not. I would hope so but it's very possible they don't and that can be a big regression vs. current game servers.
What would determine whether the SEC will investigate for insider trading? I would expect them to be shielded from executive pressure.
Their technical progress is indeed impressive. And their price dumping of 2.5 Pro for free will have moved a lot of technical users.

The key question is if the can stop the decline in search or pivot their revenue streams to Gemini.
This unethical stuff is where Trump actually shows true “brilliance”.

His Truth Social post that day saying (quote) “THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!” immediately gave any insider traders a perfect alibi.
> C to Rust would be fantastic.

This would have to go into one big unsafe block for any nontrivial program. C doesn’t convey all of the explicit things you need to know about the code to make it even compile in Rust.
Magnetic Equilibrium Toy [video]
The stock market needs to just be deleted. It’s the insider trading scam machine of the rich class.

The whole goal of the stock market is to come up with information that people don’t generally have (insider trading) either from research, or secret info, so you can dupe everyone else’s money.
Why doesn't anyone know this, though? I too am a bit mystified by ... whatever it is that Palantir does, but I think you hit the major point, which is that perhaps it is the classified nature of their prime use cases that makes it so difficult to discern how it is they work.
I have a small handful of people I would call my friend. Most of them since grade school. Yet, in my life, I have had three people I have really truly opened up to. One of them died suddenly, I miss you Meka. One of them stopped talking to me for reasons I don't understand. One of them cheated on me repeatedly.

I'm just frankly not sure I'll ever truly fully open up to someone again. I have been seeing a therapist for a couple of years now and I still go in with a pretty thick shell I have trouble piercing. I'm so slow to warm up to people, I just really doubt there will be another person in my life I'll ever be around enough to get to that point with. Work from home for the last five years has not helped that at all.

Being an adult just kinda sucks.
Weird - it's hard to beat widespread online narratives, but as someone who worked at Google there's no company I'd trust more with the "handling" part of my data. There's no doubt that on device is always a more private option, but if you've decided to keep data in the cloud, then Google is probably one of the most secure options you could choose.
Also those that need tech support will be less likely to customize.
Pretty much every PR does get reviewed before merging (especially of non-committers) and compromises would be easy to detect in the typical version bump PR. At least it's all out in the open in a big monorepo. E.g. in Debian, maintainers could push binaries directly to the archive a few years ago (I think this is still true for non-main) and IIRC even for source packages people upload them with little oversight and they are not all in open version control.

Of course, Debian developers/maintainers are vetted more. But an intentional compromise in nixpkgs would be much more visible than in Debian, NPM, PyPI or crates.io.
Sorry. I knew that but wasn't paying enough attention writing the comment
By that incredibly racist logic Meta should only hire born and bred Americans. How many Russians work at Meta? How many Palestinians?
It's a conspiracy theory. Plenty of Israeli citizens support Palestinian rights and are opposed to what their government is doing. The guilt by association leads to things like antisemitism and anti-Palestinian hate and all the rest.
A relevant aside: surely insider trading is happening all the time? There are so many daily market-shifting events involving so many privy parties that it seems inevitable to happen every few minutes (not defending the actions in the article).

How many physicians have been able to get rich from learning a CEO will be out of commission? In that case, I'm not even sure whether it would be considered insider trading.

How does one even go about accusing someone of insider trading? The illegality sounds pretty unenforceable.
Hypermedia. The what now?
Just to add, I am mainly an iPhone user. But I have a Google Pixel 6a for dev and testing reasons.

And Google Gemini for the voice assistant is excellent fun!

Just being able to ask it weird and wonderful whilst on a road trip with the kids is worth the cost of a cheap Pixel phone alone!
Lost City of the Samurai
ASCII Lookup Utility in Ada
A country that holds millions of people under permanent military occupation is the aggressor.

> you just have to read it up as it is written down.

I'm trying to parse this. The grammar is English, but it appears to have no meaning
In the past, we liked to pretend this was illegal. Now we don't even bother with that.
I think an article like that would benefit from focusing more on protocols, rather than particular APIs to work with those: referencing the specifications and providing examples of messages. I am pretty sure that the article is about chunked transfer encoding [1], but it was not mentioned anywhere. Though possibly it tries to cover newer HTTP versions as well, abstracting from the exact mechanisms. In which case "JS API" in the title would clarify it.

As for the tendency described, this seems to be an instance of the law of the instrument [2], combined with some instruments being more trendy than others. Which comes up all the time, but raising awareness of more tools should indeed be useful.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunked_transfer_encoding

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_instrument
E2EE messaging encryption and online anonymity at risk in Switzerland draft law
Here's one in Clojure using its core.logic library. I'd say it's pretty neat. You can do something similar in something like Prolog, but a Java implementation would look very different.

https://github.com/sideshowcoder/core-logic-sudoku-solver/bl...
This article doesn't mention TPUs anywhere. I don't think it's obvious for people outside of google's ecosystem just how extraordinarily good the JAX + TPU ecosystem is. Google several structural advantages over other major players, but the largest one is that they roll their own compute solution which is actually very mature and competitive. TPUs are extremely good at both training and inference[1] especially at scale. Google's ability to tailor their mature hardware to exactly what they need gives them a massive leg up on competition. AI companies fundamentally have to answer the question "what can you do that no one else can?". Google's hardware advantage provides an actual answer to that question which can't be erased the next time someone drops a new model onto huggingface.

[1]https://blog.google/products/google-cloud/ironwood-tpu-age-o...
Artists who hate Adobe should actively support the development of open source alternatives. That is the only way this situation is going to improve.
It's not mine boggling at all.

Our ability to detect lead only gets better and better with new technologies. Whereas a few decades ago we could detect 1 part in 1 million (ppm) we can now routinely detect down to 1 part per 1 trillion (ppt), that's 1 million more sensitive analysis.

To give a sense that's a 1 microgram in 1,000 tons of material.

As a result, you can't set the level at "no lead" because that's an impossible level to achieve.

Right now the US sets it at 10 parts per billion. So in a normal jar of baby food - approximately 100 grams - that's less than 0.1 microgram of lead.

Lead naturally occurs in soil at levels 15-40 parts per million or 1,000 times higher. Growing your own veggies in soil untouched by man is going to risk higher levels than allowed in baby food.
SEC is a federal agency so falls under the Executive which is controlled by Trump. Trump will fire any SEC employee who investigates the "wrong" people and install a loyalist in their place.
Are you sure browsers would try to download an entire, say, 10h video file instead of just some chunks of it?
> I would expect them to be shielded from executive pressure.

In the past month the SEC has stopped most enforcement actions involving crypto.
Trusting a social network with your DMs is a massive delusion.