skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
we don't need 5G nationwide. You (or someone copying and pasting you) have said this two or three times in this thread, and i am not sure why we need to be educated that there's "huge capital expenses" for building out a network that requires orders of magnitude more points of presence than the LTE networks. None of the three actually have unlimited service (at least on post-paid) as an option, so giving us "gigabit cellular" at a huge capital expense doesn't make sense to us, as consumers.

The only way it makes sense is if the wireless companies have other customers that are served by having orders of magnitude additional antennas everywhere.

And regardless of the arguments against the above, the cellular carriers were given billions and billions of taxpayer money, and tax breaks, and all manner of kid-glove court and legislative decisions in the past 30 years. Consumers are getting screwed from every side possible, more taxes, more fees, and more monthly service charges.

but at least the ads load blazing fast while i'm on the train, i guess.
I sent them over but I used a third layer network (a spreadsheet on my desktop)
I tried Scrabble on my phone in portrait mode (which IMO is the use case you should be optimizing for) and am finding it not very usable. Not trying to be overly negative, but here are some things I'm seeing:

- Even with 2 players seeing everyone's score requires horizontal scrolling, which is annoying.

- In addition, the scrollbars seems to only appear when a cell is selected. And even then it only actually works with 2 finger scrolling. And even then, it is inconsistent.

- Having to double tap in to enter a score is annoying.

- Not sure what the "play" column is for. If it's intended to be the word played by that player, then it's too small for many words, and it doesn't even make sense for many turns (e.g. player is connecting existing words, or passing). Furthermore, IME most people don't bother keeping track of previous turns words.

My $.02 on improving, since I hate non-constructive criticism:

Make each player some sort of bottom tab, with their score visible. Clicking the player can show all the details.

Drop the "play" column.

Auto-prompt for next players score, don't make me find the right cell and double click into it. Provide special operations for editing previous scores or marking turns as passed, challenged, etc.
The feature is shipping before the end of the year.
I will forever argue that things like goroutines and the Java Loom Project are proving that it is long term more successful than making an explicit async keyword / operation that has its own semantics when invoked, because it won't dictate your code and cause the color function problem to exist.

I'd love to see this in Rust, and I know that it initially had something like this, perhaps its not a bad idea for someone to take a second look at this now that more time has passed.

EDIT: to be clear, that is not me saying we need goroutines or we need a Java Loom equivalent in Rust, simply, the DX of these two examples are far superior to the DX of async Rust today, in my opinion
Unfortunately in German. Use the auto translated subs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Go4Npf1hYU
There’s a headphones safety section in the sound settings on iPhones for reducing loud sounds and setting a maximum decibel limit.
It depends on what does "generalize beyond the training data" means. If I invent a new programming language and I teach (in-context) the language to the model and it's able to use it to solve many tasks, is it generalizing beyond the training data?
Do you have some examples of this? Given that yimbys are usually definitionally the "yes build it, yes at market rate, yes it can skip the environmental impact assessment" folks, what did they do to block this?
do you have a source for that info? (not accusing, i've heard this before, i just want to see it from openai) i'm curious because i believed that myself but i'm not sure how some of the developments from this release would work in that architecture
It's modular. This is very cool. Too bad we won't see them here.

https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/2025-toyota-imv-0-pickup-...
Fail objectively, get a huge payout, move on to the next company, crash the company, repeat. Being a CEO must be nice.
I absolutely do. In my area, the Verizon and ATT towers are so unbelievably crowded that we literally cannot use data anywhere in a 20+ mile radius. Maybe if there were 5 companies here instead of 3 we would have more -> less congested towers
So why can't GPT do arithmetic? At what scale do you suppose it will manage to add numbers?
Next LS author here! Feel free to reach out with any questions!

My contact links should be discoverable on the website: https://www.elixir-tools.dev
The stalin article doesn’t bother to mention the tens of millions of deaths associated with his beliefs/policies until the absolute last sentence of the main body section, whereas the RFK article finds the need to say “we the editors found some scientists who disagree with these views, and we think you need to know about it!” in sentence number one. And of course for every “source” they provide, another exists with equal credibility saying the opposite.
That would only be required in state, no?
This was the subject of my previous post: https://without.boats/blog/why-async-rust/
Iran. There's ITU complaints and everything. Starlink seems to work in almost every country in Africa regardless of official availability with arrests in Senegal and extralegal action in South Africa and Zimbabwe, Vanuatu Ascension Island, St Helena
I wonder if it would be good at building libraries and emulators based on datasheets.

When I've played around with microcontrollers, dealing with external components requires deep studying of the datasheet, even for the simplest of components like a temperature sensor - if there's a library I would always use that, but of course there isn't for everything. Maybe GPT can help here...
Earlier this year I read some commentary about how those wild salary ranges are in part a response to California's Pay Transparency Act -- basically, give a gigantic and irrelevant range to satisfy the letter of the law, not the spirit of the law.

No clue if there's any truth to that though.

https://californiapayroll.com/blog/sb-1162-california-pay-tr...
No that's fair. I didn't mean to shit on your opinion. I just really enjoyed the slower pace and tbh I'm a little frustrated by how quickly internet people talk these days.
Yeah that catalog seems to be almost from a parallel universe where sexuality and body positivity were not considered scandalous.

I think I'd like to see how that universe turned out; what would they be doing differently in their 2023?
this thread started with me basically saying that i'm not willing to engage, and there's a lively downvote brigading going on against the original comment (it goes from -3 to 3 over and over and over again, the grand battle of ideologies!)

i'm not signing under your strawman, because it's not true. but i know the tactics you people use, because you took them straight from the commissar books of my homeland. history books will not treat you kindly.
> I think std needs a default runtime, and we might as well make it tokio

Regardless of the quality of this idea, it isn't going to happen: neither the Rust Project nor Tokio (in my understanding, to be clear I am not involved in either) want this to happen.

> Swapping the executors out should absolutely be a feature, and the traits should be portable

I am not fully aware of all of the details here but there are significant problems when it comes to actually getting this done; I don't think anyone is ideologically opposed, but there's a lot of practical considerations that make this difficult, in my understanding.
I don’t think it’s that far away. It’s not just that technology has been accelerating over the past few decades, it’s that the humans have been gaining more and more knowledge about the bigger fundamental patterns that technology uses.

As a very rough example: if their demographic is Americans they will come out the gate with proper spelling, grammar and sentence structure that’s been run through LLM(s), and an overall branding that does not raise any immediate red flags. If someone tries to implement a blacklist or whitelist of words, they will walk past it like it wasn’t even there.
C++ is problematic in that it's a memory-unsafe language with a lot of cruft dating back to the 1980s. Its generality has made it more not less successful, since that makes it a lot easier to reuse library and support code across domains.
Xenoeye: Lightweight Netflow/IPFIX collector with some analysis capabilities
Does this surprise you? What is a corporation if not a legal entity designed to launder responsibility?

Have a problem with a service and you find out the company you bought from subcontracts to an LLC you've never heard of which in turn subcontracts to four other LLCs one of which is actually liable but only if you can figure out which one, and oh by the way yours has two employees and it's headquarters is a UPS Store box, good fucking luck.
If the hardware is just a microphone and speaker that calls an API, why does the world need a new device? Every phone, tablet, laptop, game console, smart watch, smart speaker, smart doorbell, earbud and TV can do this already.

To justify adding yet another new piece of hardware, it would need to be something different. What would that be, exactly?
> somebody showed transformers could generalize

I read an interesting paper recently that had a great take on this: If you add enough data, nothing is outside training data. Thus solving the generalization problem.

Wasn’t the main point of that paper, but it made me go ”Huh yeah … I guess … technically correct?”. It raises an interesting thought that yes if you just train your neural network on everything, then nothing falls outside its domain. Problem solved … now if only compute was cheap.
Why are human children so bad at math until they've repetitively trained on how to apply each basic operation over and over and over even after having learned rules that should be simple to apply?

As it happens, conditioning even people to actually apply rules properly tends to take a lot of repetition. How many individual examples of step-by-step working out basic math problems do you think they have been in their training data?

Prompt them the way you'd prompt a child who is sloppy into working step by step and explaining how it applies the rules it has learned, and it will tend to do better. While tokenization might not help, I don't think there's an inherent problem there beyond feeding them enough training data. Whether that's worthwhile vs. having it resort to tools, is another matter.
The exodus of technical staff when she came aboard was astonishing. There was something definitely wrong with Yahoo back then .... wait, there's STILL something really wrong with them.
How can you argue that? Loom is extremely early, it's not proving anything.

And Java/Goroutines don't have a keyword because they do things implicitly, they have heavy preemptive runtimes.
Is it because it costs the operator a lot to run one or because they can charge a lot?

(I guess over time those should converge, but sometimes takes a while or doesn’t)
Daily.dev Built an AI Search Using an LLM Gateway
Think long and hard before you start taking that line - unless you want Trump or Biden or whoever next is in line (or Congress) being able to define your local zoning laws.

Nothing good is going to come from that the vast majority of the time.

Local zoning should be local so costs/side effects/benefits are associated with decisions as closely as possible.

Otherwise, it would be trivial to penalize to the point of almost destroying entire states or regions because they were on the wrong side of some ideological line on another topic. Which would then be paid back 4 or 8 years later, of course.
Cheap portable retro-gaming with a hated handheld
No, that's exactly how democracy worked in e.g. Athens. Or how republic worked in e.g. Rome. But then again, wealthy people pretty much always owned the political process.

Plus, of course, there is a bunch of people who understand "democracy" to be simply "the rule of the democrats" :)
one of the issue is latency because users don’t wait for anything beyond near real-time.
Its not really a conspiracy theory. I think Maine would have ignored its obligations regardless of whether they were written in the documents or not so I don't think there is any influence or duping there. Essentially my view is that they were knowingly ignoring their treaty obligations, and so it was convenient for them to remove them from the constitution.

This essay is a good summary of the situation

https://www.academia.edu/60751074

The whole thing is worth reading, but I'll copy and paste a relevant portion here.

> It is likewise remarkable that the court did not rule on
Granger until after the legislature agreed to the put the redaction before voters and that final judgement did not come until after voters had given the redaction final approval, ensuring that the part of the constitution con-taining Maine’s responsibilities regarding Native treaties was no longer being printed right when Maine became liable for paying the tribe for its lost treaty land and covering the costs of safe-guarding that land. After the redaction officially took effect on January 1, 1876, Maine never compensated the tribe for the fifteen islands it lost due to the ruling. It also charged Granger’s damages to the Passamaquoddy Trust Fund in defiance of the unprintable Article X, Section 5. In 1878
the Committee on Indian Affairs strongly suggested that these actions violated the terms of Article X, Section
5, but the government remained silent. The redaction of Article X, Section 5
all but authorized the existing and ongoing practice of disregarding Maine’s constitutional obligations regarding Wabanaki treaties made with Massachusetts.
As I’ve already mentioned multiple times, other companies tried to comply with CCP laws but they were blocked out anyways.
Thanks for asking, sorry for the delay I was checking with the bureaucracy what the answer is (as we are technically government subcontractors we don't make the rules).

My understanding is we do sponsor H1s. The vast majority of nationalities are fine, however we do have on-premises computing on a Department of Energy facility, and they bar citizens of the following countries from being granted an account on their systems: https://www.state.gov/state-sponsors-of-terrorism/
so a candidate with those nationalities would be at a disadvantage.

Unfortunately for reasons outside our control, remote work is only possible from residents of the following US states:

Arizona

California

Colorado

Florida

Hawaii

Maryland

New Mexico

Texas

Virginia

Washington

Washington DC
Why wouldn't you even think about dating?
The overheating datacenter didn't stop the transactions. It was the technical inability of the banks to fail over which should have been seamless.

Outages happen.
If they actually voted, it wouldn’t be an issue - assuming their votes aligned with what they’re saying they want interest wise.

For some reason, it rarely seems to though.
Well, they are making it now relevant, for propaganda purposes.
It seems intuitively that that should work to mitigate some prompt injection, but even if it would, it’s quite possible that a good chunk of the power of modern models comes from not making that distinction, and the model in effect determining what kind of weight to give data by context. We might make much safer but also far less useful models by doing that.

It also isn’t likely to eliminate all bad data –> undesirable actions within the scope of what is enabled by the tools the model has access to problems. Because as long as the intent is for behavior to depend on data, you can manipulate behavior by manipulating data in unexpected ways.
Don’t you need to read a directory structure to know where the file’s sectors are, how many there are, etc, and thus need to understand the file system?
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Is this a term of art? I intuitively understand but don’t see any references.
And despite the fact that the CEOs are all able to have like five different side hustles, they still get to drone on endlessly about how hard they work, and do not see the hypocrisy with making all the employees sign overly broad "non-competes".
How are they specialized? For anyone gpts I can get the same output from ChatGPT
They're often not very bet-like in modern practice. One common setup is to have a "bonus target" of let's say 20% of your salary which is usually paid at par; perhaps you might get 25% if you get really great results or 15% if you have some big struggles.
Do you have any good resources on how to make consistent characters or art styles? I have been meaning to dig into it for a while. I'm sure it's a combination of prompts and image2image training....been thinking about building a workflow tool for this for a while but haven't had time to dedicate to it.

Even my naive prompts are getting impressive results with midjourney and dalle3...I imagine waiting a few months to a year this problem will be solved in a much better fashion than I would be able to hack together
Next LS author here! I would love to hear about how your emacs experience went and what your setup/config is. My emacs skills are not the best (zero), so I've not been able to really work through any of the kinks.

I have recently gotten it working tho with vanilla emacs with eglot, as well as doom emacs (again, with eglot).

No pressure!
It's modular. Doesn't look bad at all when built out.

https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/2025-toyota-imv-0-pickup-...
I hope Croshaw takes this as an opportunity to expand his horizons. He's a funny, clever guy who has been beating the same drum for years. Zero Punctuation got old a decade ago but he kept wheeling it out week after week like a comfort blanket.
The issue is though the the line between in domain and out of domain is fuzzy. This sort of means that generalization is in a continum. Chatgpt has seen enough UI framework code that it can interpolate concepts. This is a form of generalization but people would be looking for a lot more. I guess a better way to check generalization capability is to train the model on just C++ and then see how much it can do stuff in python using only few shot examples.

Another important thing to keep in mind is one paper(wish I could remember which one it was) that showed even larger scale llms have trouble understanding that A=B is same as B=A if they have not seen A or B before
We were told at Yahoo! that it was pointless to compete with Google and Microsoft at search because Yahoo! were not willing to put in the money to have their own search engine. At the time they were still the most popular webpage on the Internet. What really irritated me about this was the idea you could just look at a spreadsheet and decide if you'll be successful at search or anything else for that matter, startups constantly prove that resources don't automatically equal success... it sort of summed up the jail Yahoo! and Carol Bartz created and the thought process involved in that company's demise. MBAs have a lot to answer for IMO.
Both Yahtzee (ZP) and Sebastian (Cold Take), who both ran my favorite two Escapist publications, have resigned along with him. I sincerely hope that the new management at the Escapist actually have a plan here, for the sake of the remaining employees (naive hope). Wonder where these two will end up, their work is great
lmao ok buddy extremely normal reaction here have a good one!
The reason that email is different than Reddit or Twitter is because you're interrupting the person's day. That means that if you're asking for something from them, people will disregard it. Try offering something valuable instead.

Your call to action should be along the lines of "we're working on solving X problem for people like you, and I'd love to show you what we've built so far. Maybe you'll find it useful".

If you do this, then schedule a 30 minute call where you have a 10-15 minute demo rehearsed that goes over the problem, and why your product exists. After your demo, you can open up into more discovery about their challenges or what they would want to see in your product.

I've built sales teams at startups, and it's a very different outreach process than my current BigCo- your process is more about education and being opinionated.

Email me if you want to chat more.
> Even if someone is maliciously pretending to be Alice, neither the website nor the phone-carrier has a better malice-detecting tool than simply sending it and seeing if the recipient replies "STOP".

I sometimes wonder how many people use the STOP function. I'm more inclined to ignore it (if it's a one-off) or use the spam reporting feature than I am to reply "STOP" if I don't recognize the sender/campaign because of how jaded I've gotten from email. If you hit the "unsubscribe" link on a spam email, you only get more spam because you just confirmed the inbox is a) active, b) monitored, and c) is checked by someone willing to open and interact with spam messages.

By the time SMS spam became common, I just assumed things would play out the same, and have probably reported plenty of legitimate mistypes to Verizon as spam. It just doesn't feel like it's worth the risk to directly respond.
You’ve completely skirted the question with most of this comment

> Whose goals are considered "democracy" here

The people who actually live in the area where decisions are made. People outside of a city enforcing their terms on a place they don’t live is tyranny actually.
Knowing Yahoo, they would probably have bought Qwikster instead.
Except that the Governor General actually does have some power and it's come up in practice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional.... So the ability to hire and fire the Governor General at will is actually a pretty major power, even if it's only been used that one time.
To pick out one example of what makes it challenging: not all executors place the same type system constraints on tasks they execute. Tokio, for example, is a work-stealing executor which requires tasks to implement the `Send` trait so they can be sent between threads, while other executors may never move tasks between threads and therefore don't require the `Send` bound.
It’s because the renters usually don’t actually care to the extent of voting. They’re not invested because they literally aren’t invested.

And they can (and do) up and leave when something changes/they don’t like it there anymore, which is something the owners can’t do.
Next LS author here, thanks for the kind words!
I'm definitely not on the LLM bandwagon. While I do think they're interesting, I have significant doubts that they'll be much more than a curiosity to laymen and just one more tool in the box for experts.

However, I'm not sure why being bad at math (if even true based on other comments here), is a legitimate criticism. We've already got a lot of machinery that is very good at math. So, use the tools that make sense for the domain. Or (what I'm really waiting for) better yet find novel ways to stitch the tools that we do have together. Can LLMs turn a problem statement into a matlab program? If so then it doesn't really matter how bad at math they are.