skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interested that these are peoples experiences of deepseek. personally I was extremely surprised by how uncensored & politically neutral it was in my conversations on many topics. however in my conversations regarding politically sensitive topics I didnt go in all guns blazing. I worked up to asking more politically sensitive questions, starting with simply asking for controversial facts regarding the UK, France, The US, Japan, Taiwan & then mainland China. it told me Taiwan was a country with no prompting or steering in that direction on my part. it also mentioned the tianemen square massacre as a real event. it really only showed ts bias when asked if its status as a model hosten in Beijing could affect its credibility when it comes to neutrality. even on this point it conceded it could, but doubted it would because "the data scientists that created me where only concerned with making a model that provided factually accurate responses" - a Biased model sure, but in my opinion less Biased than one would expect, & less biased than western proprietary models ( even though such models bias' generally leans in my favour )
"There's no evidence of that" often means that there's no money to be made in studying that thing: or, alternatively, that there's a lot of money being made and nobody wants to look for inconvenient answers.
I think it’s unlimited for Claude

But I wonder who’s paying for it? I haven’t heard anything about GitHub paying discounted prices for AWS Bedrock. Or if Anthropic gets a cut
Bizarre? Supporting business's whims is mostly what the government has existed to do for the last forty years. What's bizarre is that people expect our country to function normally when this is so blatant.

Yes, there's been mild movement away from this insanity, but we're still miles to the right of what actually supports the people who live here.
I really appreciate your comment. You're a great soul! Don't worry, we are very used to it and have done 2 hacker news launches already. The first time I did it I felt so drained and defeated by the end of the day and the 2nd time was a bit better because I expected it. I actually prepped for today over the last few days of grounding myself.

One of the best quotes I heard about prepping for Hacker News is that "You're speaking to the silent majority, not the loud minority" and I try to keep that in mind and just share useful information about what we're building and why we're building it in case someone reads it and finds it helpful!
Because we take it personally.

We see political decisions as commenting on our very souls. It's not at all about competent administration. It's about being told that our fundamental world-view is right or wrong.

A lot of people find that fun. They find personal affirmation in being told that their world-view is right. They can get that every night from the TV and the Internet. And then every so often we have elections, which will be either life-affirming or soul-destroying.

The fact that we take it so personally clouds our judgment. Both sides accuse the other of putting their personal identity ahead of all other concerns, including basic decency and even truth. Those accusations are so strong that at least one side must be correct. Which makes it self-sustaining.

It doesn't help that there are a lot of influential people who benefit from the conflict.
No, leopards eating faces is about being the victim of a policy you support (but thought would only affect other people).

It's karma for being a hypocrite, but it's not every instance of karma, hypocrisy, or consequences.
Chrome did add a sidebar that shows search sessions (queries grouped with the pages you visited on that topic). Used to be called "Journeys". I don't think you can add notes. I never found it useful in the slightest and I doubt notes would have made it any better. Chrome has been adding random UI features like that over time, but I haven't found any of them at all useful in many years.
The problem I see with this "cover for each other" theory is that as it stands having a good search engine is a prerequisite to having good outputs from RAG. If your search engine doesn't turn up something useful in the top 10 (which most search engines currently don't for many types of queries) then your llm will just be summarizing the garbage that was turned up.

Currently I do find that Perplexity works substantially better then Google for finding what I need, but it remains to be seen if they're able to stay useful as a larger and larger portion of online content just AI generated garbage.
War with Iran, the Planetary Phase Shift and Global System Paralysis
Unfolding conflict across Israel, Gaza, Lebanon and Iran is not just a regional breakdown, but a global systemic rupture in the context of the planetary phase shift as industrial civilisation moves through the last stages of its life-cycle.
Why would body size variation affect anything? You could just have enough magnets to slow the heaviest person enough to be safe.

Although you might wind up with a hundred pound full body suit or something
Curiously, when you ask Qwen-72B (from Alibaba) about Tiananmen, it's not censored.
I did a simple test of "Chicago Velodrome", it provided something that has been closed since 2016, Google gave a better result of something that is actually around but in the Chicagoland area
I really wanted the Zoom feature, but maybe it wasn't worth it.
Maybe the real source of complexity in that flowchart is there are just too many ways to suppress notifications. You have muting, do not disturb, do not disturb overrides, @message preferences per channel and global, DM preferences, and so on.

I love dials and knobs and sliders in my software, but at some point when they are all for the same feature, there is no longer any way for the user to intuit how they interact.
GitHub actually uses AWS quite frequently

They act very independently from Microsoft
it's also a shitty employer's dream

it will be forced on using group policy, feeding some dashboard which then will inevitably form part of promotion/payrise/layoff process
It's because of the reasons I already mentioned, which are considerable.
Ours is not sour at all and I'm pretty sensitive to sour stuff.

700 ml water, 50-60 g beans, 24 hours in fridge. When drinking we mix with 3-4 parts water. I always drink cold, wife drinks it hot. Lots of flavour and fun to try the local roasterys seasonal tastes.
Are car manufacturers responsible for the suicides of people that drive cars off cliffs?
Content based marketing and political correctness have severely eroded the usefulness of the internet. The LLMs and search magnify the erosion.
How much does search really matter to Google? I mean, it's just another channel for ads the way YouTube and GMail are, not to mention a whole network that runs ads on other people's web sites.
Also back in the day, we would say we need X new staff, corporate would encourage us to advertise and interview, but when it came to extending and offer they would tell us we can't increase head count. Happened over and over till I left.
Ask HN: What's the minimum-friction way to stream audio from a handheld device?
I basically want a microphone with a button that starts and stops recording and live-streams the recorded audio to a programmable backend. I don't care if it's an app or a cheap-ish piece of hardware, but I have yet to find any single solution that satisfies even the streaming requirement.

Edit, for a bit of context: If there's no good solution, the prototype I'm thinking is just a Twilio Voice API endpoint that pipes received calls' audio into S3.
The problem isn't that the rules arent well specified enough. The problem is that too many agents with the most power in this exchange (ie employers) just violate people's trust. Dishonest agents need to be visibly held to account, and right now the only way that happens is by calling them out. But since that's forbidden, there's a conundrum.
Dig in the ground, you'll find coins and pots and tablets in Hebrew.

Hey, looks like they just found not just a few coins and pots, but an entire Nabatean temple (along with a warehouse district) just off the cost of Italy.

So by your logic, Jordan and/or Saudi Arabia are welcome to annex the surrounding land (which much have belonged to the settlement also), and start kicking out the rootless interlopers currently living the area, any time they want to.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/underwater-temple...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42011078
I have heard ahem that you could get 30 pills that were each an entire day's dose, cut them in half, and take them as 60 separate doses. For example, you and the doc think you should take 10mg in the morning and 10mg at lunch, so get a prescription for 30 20mg pills and buy a pill chopper.

Purely rumor, I'm sure.
(1) I don't know, and (2) I am now. That would be bad!

But presumably they have to deal with that problem already anyway.
1 million/year? There’s definitely an amount that’d allow to find enough workers locally. The other question is how much would the produce cost and how many people would be willing to pay.
You only have to huff it for a few seconds, and then turn off the heat. The symptoms are what shows up hours later.
Your comment makes no sense. "Leave them alone" as if this isn't some transactional service.

If nobody finds this service useful, it goes away. If people find it useful, then what's the problem.

I'm very glad that there are people out there trying to come up with new ways to help others, even if they are compelled by money like the pharmaceutical company who made my essential medicine.

And it's nice to try out some new options beyond getting cracked out on amphetamine the rest of your life.
This is just one example. While tech jobs are diverse, the well-heeled players substantially set the tone and they have gone berserk: over the last few years they have neutron bombed entire zip codes claiming hard times, then posted record-shattering EPS beats, then hired back a bunch of people at substantially lower compensation in a phenomenon so pervasive to have a catchy name: “boomerang”. It’s not even the first time recently got popped for wage fixing, Don’t Poach Gate was like 15 years ago. They’re giving us all the finger in the Crimson, and we will do nothing because we can do nothing.

It’s a trivial abuse of monopsony pricing power, it’s illegal in the sense that the laws as written prohibit it on a common-sense, “intended by the legislature” sense, a lawyer can tell you if it’s maybe legal via stare decis via activist judges bench legislating.

But more importantly it has destroyed what loose social contract there was: they cannot in fact run these businesses at 60-70% of peak headcount sustainably: they can merely coast on previous investments long enough to crush salaries and then clean up the mess because there isn’t any real competition. They can distort hiring to where McCarthyist vibe checks and loyalty tests hit a precision/recall that is Pareto optimized for the minimum amount of competence that admits an endorsement of their nepo baby “nice trumps kind” mythology.

And they’re going to get away with it at the level that matters: the individual incentives of executives are nothing to do with the long term interests of shareholders or the commons on this: progress is stalling out in a way that will never show up on a quarterly report in time to matter to the executives.

And you can see it in real time: we haven’t had such an embarrassing crop of people who were someone’s roommate at Harvard running the show in at least 30 years, the outcomes are awful, the software sucks, the products suck, and the game is soft communist friction around leaving the platform.
Oh, I've given Wired my money over the years. I have no qualms rewarding good journalism. But your point is well taken -- I'll temper my previous comment: one should not feel bad about paying for this piece!
It seems like their new name is literally "Qodo (formerly Codium)", parenthetical included. At first I thought they were just including it in the blog post for clarity, but they literally write it out that way a dozen times. It's also included as part of their new logo and in the site title.

I've never seen anything like that before. It feels like a search+replace operation gone awry.
Does this backend have to be remote? Why not a Bluetooth (or WiFi?) mic or similar?
Would Cuban be able to afford an NBA team without his previous Yahoo winnings?

In the US we have an incredibly large number of "self made" millionaire/billionaires that had a huge tailwind. Even our most famous entrepreneurs like Gates.
>English overuses it the same amount,

Nah, even a short interaction with a muslim would key you into the fact that they use allah based phrases way more often than the typical american or christian.
From the errata in the article:

> RTP is commonly used as an abbreviation for the Real-time Transport Protocol, and is not descriptive enough. This is a protocol for reliably downloading large files. it is not designed to be a drop in replacement for http or BitTorrent.

> I am currently drafting a successor proposal that addresses these issues.
aider-chat
Haha, at least they told you no. rejection letters are rarely more informative even if they are more verbose
No more like 3 out of 500. I think you might be kinda right in most cases that they lack numbers for extensive hiring rings but anyone gay-adjacent is likely to relate to them. They are also more likely to have a leg up when it comes to getting hired at big companies because of their obsession with DEI.

As far as work quality, I think assuming trans people are better in some way is the same kind of fallacy as assuming autistic people are geniuses like Rain Man. Most of them probably aren't.
India and Meritocracy: How India's Past Shapes What It Celebrates
Is China threatening any American owned territory? If not, why do you conclude that the US needs to go to war?
That's what the left is saying illegal immigrants are for
> I think it's already compelling enough to replace the current paradigm. Search is pretty much dead to me. I have to end every search with "reddit" to get remotely useful results.

I worry that there's a confusion here--and in these debates in general--between:

1. Has the user given enough information that what they want could be found

2. Is the rest of the system set up to actually contain and deliver what they wanted

While Aunt Tillie might still have problems with #1, the reason things seem to be Going To Shit is more on #2, which is why even "power users" are complaining.

It doesn't matter how convenient #1 becomes for Aunt Tillie, it won't solve the deeper problems of slop and spam and site reputation.
Definitely "Code Red" for Google Search
That's not the web
I believe it.

A couple of years ago I did an EKG as part of a routine physical -- cholesterol tests kept coming back a little high and heart disease runs in my family. routine test, results came back I was fine. did the gym 2-3 days a week, walked a lot, no big deal, just eat less fatty foods.

then got COVID bad over the holidays. knocked me on my ass for about 2 weeks. blew through several boxes of tissues, got everyone else sick, etc.

did a physical again, cholesterol high again. told them I had the 'Rona bad over Xmas and they had me do another EKG. definite irregularity. ended up at the cardiologist, did a stress test, sleep study, reparatory test, etc.

verdict is that something damaged my lungs and/or heart and impeded my ability to absorb oxygen, and the best guess was COVID. I've made a pretty concerted effort to walk more and get back to the gym, but I gas out pretty hard and simply can't do long runs like before (though I'll concede it's getting better).
Kurzweil would disagree)
I would consider using this if I could just shove my API key in and have it run.
I did actually polish this one, and to be fair it works mostly OK in that I'm not scraping the eggs off with a metal spatula, but it still sticks enough to be annoying, and for a teflon pot to be a measurably superior solution.

I haven't played much with preheating though, I'll have to try that - thanks for the suggestion :-)
Thanks for sharing, I wasn’t knowing that browsers look for a favicon at /favicon.ico. Thanks again.
Same here. I ask it to search all of the time. I guess maybe now it is required to provide sources? It usually did before but there were times it didn't so maybe the update is that it's required to?
> I have fun with Python, C/Zig, JS/TS, and, no other language.

Python is the least fun language currently in use at any scale. Pretty much completely down to the lack of a coherent tool chain. When JS has better package management than you then you know you have a massive problem.
I dropped acid in 2020 specifically to see if it would help with long COVID. It did not, but I did heal in time.
Larix Broadcaster?

https://softvelum.com/larix/
I asked for a DCF model of NVDA and it was incorrect on basically every aspect, from its understanding of DCF valuation, to the sources it used (or lack thereof), to the result it claimed the script would have calculated ($150 vs. $359 if you actually ran it)

As we used to say in the street "garbage in, garbage out": https://chatgpt.com/share/6723e865-d458-8011-b2ef-1a579026e6...
They never found out or cared or followed up on it in any way possible.

I think it works so well because it is not a negotiation. Just stating my fake current number and they can make up their number.
I think VLC can record and stream audio. I’ve never used this feature, though I did a quick search and it appears to be a feature.
I take screenshots and use pHash to see if I should save them. Then I OCR them etc. It's basically a homegrown little recall. Then a timestamp of when the screenshot was taken goes into a db.
I also have a keylogger and some more personal data collectors. Still working it out into a "usable platform" though.
Sure but what I'm saying is that the stakes for a company having to go through spam applications are significantly lower than the people trying to find a job who are getting spammed with dead ends while their savings drain lower and lower.
Presumably you guys don’t want to create a report button for just this situation. I never know what to think when I see downvotes in the Who’s Hiring thread. There’s no way for me to tell if someone hates the CEO (eg, if Twitter posted job openings), or they’ve noticed the same position filed three months in a row. I’ve seen a few of those before you got around to detaching them.
The optimist in me says they are trying, but the ship is just too big to steer fast enough to notice it

The pessimist in me says that Google is now just a large corporate that cares about pleasing its investors and showing good numbers.
This.

He even mentions the "Blogging Apocalypse" and follows with a downwardly sloped graph titled "bye bye traffic" with no units or further explanation.

I shortened my sentences. I used keywords that Google could identify easily. I wrote in a way that allowed Google to understand our content,[...] If I wanted people to find our article on Prague in a Google search I had to call it something Google understood. And then I had to repeat what the article was about in the first 100 words. And then do it again and again in the content. It led to some less than stellar paragraphs occasionally, [...]

If the "blogging apocalypse" can rid us of SEO spam, then perhaps it's not a bad thing?
yeah, i get you. it was a joke, though.

that "hallucinate" term is a marketing gimmick to make it seem to the gullible that this "AI" (i.e. LLMs) can actually think, which is flat out BS.

as many others have said here on hn, those who stand to benefit a lot from this are the ones promoting this bullcrap idea (that they (LLMs) are intelligent).

greater fool theory.

picks and shovels.

etc.

In detective or murder novels, the cliche is "look for the woman".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherchez_la_femme

in this case, "follow the money" is the translation, i.e. who really benefits (the investors and founders, the few), as opposed to who is grandly proclaimed to be the beneficiary (us, the many).
I consider it very characteristic of Silicon Valley that nobody can think of a more immediately useful task for something supposedly capable of multi-stage intelligent planning and execution other than "plan me a vacation to X location". Are all of their hundreds of millions of prospective customers all software engineers with long holidays and too much disposable income xD
Title: VSCode is sending your code! https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Reddit is astroturfed pretty hard too nowadays. It just takes more work to spot it.
Ask HN: Have You Organized a "Letters to Santa" Activity for Your Community?
Hi HN,

I’m looking to set up a "Letters to Santa" for the kids in my neighborhood this year. If you've done something similar in your own community, I'd love to hear about it.

Whether it was a simple mailbox, a special event, or even some unique way to deliver replies from Santa, I'd be really grateful for any tips or ideas that worked well for you.

Thanks for any inspiration you can share!
This is flatly incorrect.

Before you reply that it’s definitely true, I encourage you to actually look up the details of the thing you think you’re upset about.
The blog includes original sources. Readers can draw their own conclusions, which was always the only sane option anyway in a media landscape captured by capital.

Why does consistent criticism of capitalism read as "fake" to you? Is it surprising that socialist/communist media outlets are few in number and struggle to thrive in an environment programmed with capitalist default assumptions?

Also, I lurked HN for almost a decade before creating an account. Sue me.
But also, some companies are not willing to negotiate on anything and attempting to negotiate often screws you over.
I might like bold but only if the colors are dialed down. I have never really given mixing in cursive fonts a chance, so maybe I should try it (don't knock it before you try it).
Ford Took an Early Lead in Electric Vehicles. Now G.M. Is Surging.
Oasis: A Universe in a Transformer (Playable Demo)
Apple reports fourth quarter results
https://archive.ph/Z8pxs
My reading is:

* Elm because Elm focused on making the language pleasant to use, and Hazel is in the same tradition of combining HCI + PL

* ML because Hazel is a strict / eager language, and people talk of ML family languages, of which Haskell is one.

So I don't think omitting Haskell is meant to be a slap in the face.
Typing trainer by ZSA, creator of the Moonlander keyboard
My favorite tool when defining project timelines: What are we not doing?

There's an infinite number of nice-to-haves. A nice good deadline makes it super easy to clarify what you actually need vs what you only want.
Good to know there are other solutions than Cloudflare to block those leeches.
The challenge, I think, is that when you are non-partisan, you have no allies.

When a problem is partisan, you have ~50% of people on your side, and ~50% deeply opposed. When you're non-partisan, you're on your own. Instead of facing bitter opposition, you're facing a vast wall of apathy.

It's hard to find anything that's so overwhelmingly popular that people will be on your side just on the merits of the proposition. If it costs any money, somebody will be opposed. If it benefits somebody more than others, somebody will be opposed -- even if it's a benefit to them, but a smaller benefit than somebody else. Some will oppose it just because they dislike you personally.

And because of partisanship, they have allies, who may be apathetic but will support them just because they care. Now you've got ~0% of people on your side and ~50% of people bitterly opposed.

Being non-partisan is a lonely, frustrating business. You don't see much of it because it has a very poor track record.

It would be great if we could ditch all of our existing alliances. But new ones would form almost immediately, because you need them to get anything done. The resulting web of connections might be different, but the level of partisanship will be similar.