skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was charged with misdemeanor reckless driving for going the speed limit in heavy rain and hydroplaning into another car. My fault for sure, but a criminal charge seems over the top.

Spent $1,500 on a lawyer who negotiated it to a trivial “failure to maintain control” ticket with a maybe $100 fine.

The system is dumb. Or maybe it’s smart, giving people with means, like us, favorable treatment without having to outright say “poor people aren’t worthy.”
Lots of colonies have “very little centralized control” exerted by their mother countries; it’s the principle of the thing.
I just tried to sign up for Windsurf yesterday but something was broken in their auth flow for the desktop app so I didn't get to use it yet.
> Wrongthink

When a community is formed, an implied set of rules are generated and applied. They evolve and change as time goes on. Sometimes they are the cause of the community dying, sometimes they are the reason is thrives.

Whether its a sports community (woo football is the greatest!) or a specific team (fuck the other team, booo) or cycling. Each community has a set of rules that you need to abide by in order for it to function.

Now, if you go and break those implied rules, you get told off.

A community falls apart when two or more factions form opposing implied rules in the same shared space. For photography, it could be the use of photoshop, digital cameras or, more recently AI. Either the factions learn to get on, or they break away and find somewhere more accepting. That is the natural order.

You could equally present those things as "wrongthink". But more practically its just a regulation mechanism for human interaction.

Now, you'll counter that "big corporations/politics determining what we see is bad", and then reference some time in the 90s where no such system existed. The problem is that the US media was brilliant at self censorship. Sure you could get specialist publications that catered to whatever taboo subject you wanted, just as you can now.

The issue is, online there are no constraints on behaviour. If I shout at 13 year old kid in the street that I'm going to fuck their mum, burn their house down, and generally verbally abuse them, generally someone will intervene and stop me. Thats not wrongthink, thats society. There is not scalable mechanism for doing that on online communities.

Is this AI bit the way to do it? no, its made by insular collegekids who've barely lived in the real world.
How is that "identity assurance"? All attestation proves is, e.g., that the passkey is stored on an iPhone, not that it's stored on your iPhone.
So in Dec your code hits month 13? Kinda funny in a post how rolling your own time library is easy we made trivial bugs
Right, so the US incarceration rate is almost five times the global average.
Neither the title nor the content mention anything about your app until the "background" part at the end.

Why not post "Show HN: Frame-by-frame video cropper"? (If that's even what is does)

No one is looking for "a desktop app".
Interesting, is "saudade" popular enough now that people are using it without explanation? I searched for the term in the article and it doesn't seem to be defined. Extra unexpected because there does not seem to be any connection to a Portuguese-speaking country in the article. Has it reached "hygge" status?

Brazilians (my wife included) describe saudade as a sort of deep longing to be back with a loved one in person. Not sure if it's used in all Portuguese-speaking places or just Brazil (or where the term originated for that matter). The translation honestly seems straightforward enough but often when you ask someone to translate, they get that "on the tip of the tongue" look on their face and say English doesn't really have the right words for it.
What would happen to people’s perception of crime if only the crime perpetuated by the rich and powerful was reported on?
Quite like the techniques used to make cel-style graphics using the usual 3-d pipeline as seen in quite a few Nintendo games like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Sun_and_Moon

and also used to make other illustration-like styles such as

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valkyria_Chronicles
> Sowing that distrust is why Williams is going on the record, albeit without his original name

I don’t understand this. There’s an insane level of detail here that if true immediately reveals his identity to those involved. How does withholding his name change anything?

> On March 20… He’d helped persuade Seddon and his lieutenants to fire the head of AP3’s Utah chapter and to install Williams in his place.
This is a huge disservice to the public. Lots of offenders are repeat offenders, and the public needs to know who they are. Or maybe someone just wants to look up an old news story they remember. More fundamentally, this type of action is just a manipulation of the public and not journalism, which should be a neutral way of sharing information.
The US was once a manufacturing powerhouse and, in theory, could become one again. Working-class people understandably want their jobs back, and you can’t blame them for being taken in by false promises to bring those jobs back.

But the harsh reality is that creating a regulatory, taxation, and broader economic landscape attractive to manufacturing would inevitably threaten elites and firms at the top of the economic hierarchy. While there’s nothing wrong with that -- in fact, it’s likely healthy for the economy -- it won’t happen[1]. Those elites and anticompetitive firms abuse their undue influence to subvert democracy and shape laws in order to further entrench their market power.

[1] Or more precisely, it won't happen soon. It's pretty clear that the era we're in is coming to an end but change will likely be slow unless there's a surprise shock to the system.
My workstation machines take hourly(+at boot+on demand) snapshots of the filesystem. Doing it on the system level is a lot simpler than repeating the logic over and over, and /tmp is often a different mount then where the files first resided so moving things over there is a copy+delete.
The Kicked Rotor – A Chaotic Playground
This simple mechanical system was one of my first coding projects when learning about physics simulations. It's basically a frictionless, gravity-free rigid pendulum that gets periodic kicks of fixed strength and direction. The phase space shows interesting patterns that are observed in multiple applications of chaos theory.

Would love to hear your thoughts and feedback, hope you like it!

PS I'm honestly blown away by how smooth is making webapps these days thanks to LLMs helping with all the web stack.
It’s almost like there are multiple competing interests at play in a country of 340 million people…
take your tinfoil hat off. the US isn't one system conspiratorially doing one thing or another. it is a myriad of competing individuals and groups.

journalists have different incentives than private prison operators and tend to be more progressive for whatever reason. they often are activists.

it should not be surprising that journalists might take a softer view and than prison industrialists in a country with free thought and expression
You may already know of Peelian Policing, but if not: Several countries practice a very different model, described as as ‘policing by consent’. Police try to work with and not against citizens, recognising that they are citizens too.

Ireland polices its population this way, USA doesn’t.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_principles
My buddies ‘96 Taurus had a distributor cap. I was floored.
The same approval used to get thousands of otherwise illegal huge American trucks like Dodge Rams on Dutch roads, incidentally.
Well I did say a glimpse. Manpower, food, supply chains and all the basics will never not matter. It's a question of what could be a deciding advantage that did not exist before, like mechanized divisions in WWI and air power subsequently. Russia-Ukraine is still a very conventional land war but it won't surprise me if a future China-US conflict was fought (and maybe even won or lost) virtually as well as conventionally.
It is.
Sometimes the writer will add "didn't respond before press time" to give a little more context, but most readers won't grasp what that could really mean (like the reporter might have contacted them 15 mins before press time)
I wish you could filter by startup name. Would be curious to know where we (litellm) ended up
> 2. Collaborate with o1 to create a PRD

what is a PRD?
Show HN: Perplexity clone built by AI with Gemini 2.0 and Grounding
Had fun building this with Replit's agent - did it all in 2 hours without writing a line of code!
In my .cursorrules I have instructions that after every testable change it should ask me to test it, and if I say it's good it should commit.

So I ask for some feature, it implements, I test and either give feedback or simply say "good" or "that works" in which case it'll produce a commit command I can just press Run on. Makes it very easy to commit constantly.

Also I use Composer exclusively over Chat and have zero hesitation to hit those restore buttons if anything went down the wrong path.
It’s an obviously incorrect figure. It must include things like traffic tickets. The guardian is a highly activist and biased publication by their own admission, and not truly “journalistic”.
It's probably just me, but it feels like reporting on crime is very lopsided and slanted against the powerless.
A car's brakes are required to be able to overpower the engine at full throttle.
This article fails to include any context and background that "right to be forgotten" was first legally established in Europe in 2014.
It’s useful for society if there’s a way for criminals to reintegrate into society.

If potential employers can always check for a criminal record, and refuse to hire criminals, then guess what those criminals will do? The answer isn’t “starve to death”.

Previously there were practical limits to how long a sentence could follow you. If you moved across the country, you might lose whatever family you still have, but at least you could get a fresh start. Nowadays that’s effectively impossible.
That's not support for Hamas, its opposition to the use of election of Hamas candidates to the PA government as an excuse to avoid peace talks.

Which is just as sensible as arguing that the election in Israel of candidates of Likud should not itself be a blocker for peace talks.
> NATO has continued to expand

NATO is not a living organism that expands. It is composed of free countries who can join it if the rest agrees (the rest didn't agree on Georgia or Ukraine). Whenever a country like Finland or Sweden feels threatened by Russia, they can join NATO and immediately gain protection from Russia. That's why Putin hates NATO as it limits his option for potential invasion. So far, he could only invade Georgia and Ukraine - only because they are not in NATO.
For x-founders, how can we reach out to you?
CES 2025 Preview: Six Intriguing Gadgets to Look For
Indeed. If we assume two days per visitor, that would be 140k additional people.
Kagi has their own crawler for that type of content.
Xorg is a fork of XFree86 with many, many changes. Some XFree86 code is retained as one possible backend.
The tradition of town criers is slowly dwindling
The first known chatbot associated death (2023)
I totally agree on having a computer with minimum distractions when writing -- for that I use a PS/2 386SX running WordPerfect 5.1.

I loved my EEE, super portable, but the keyboard is too small for serious typing IMO.
How did ELIZA do on the Advent of Code?
>It's hard to prevail in any war in a post-nuclear age.

Another cold war is possible, and someone could prevail eventually.

>The reason we are not manufacturing everything ourselves is that our incumbents refuse to allow anything to replace them, whether that is a more efficient company or a more able manager.

That is not true in general. We have laws specifically to promote competition. I'm not aware of anything like that in China, although I haven't looked. I can tell you that it's common knowledge in China that doing certain kinds of business requires a bribe or connections.

>They have the sway within the US to get what they want, and so things like patents and approval processes (which China does not have to the same degree, because for all of their flaws the government is more powerful there than the established manufacturers), will stop anyone from improving on GM within Michigan.

First, the Chinese government owns or has a stake in many companies there. I think you're even required to have certain CCP officials inside your company if it's big enough. Second, China does have patents and IP laws. They also have pervasive state surveillance, so your ideas can be stolen by the government. I often wonder if WE have that too, but at least total privacy is legal here. Americans can stop the state from spying on them in most cases, at least as far as we know.

>The competition comes from within a country they can't determine the policy of.

I think you're mistaken about this too, because many party members are rich and involved in business. They CAN determine policies. There was a huge crash in the Chinese stock market a couple of years ago as one party faction fought with another one. That was totally anti-competitive, yet it happened, and Western investors got screwed. I heard it was the result of a fight between Hu Jintao (the previous president of China) and Xi Jinping. I think the campaign against Hu was touted as a way to fight corruption. By the way, Mr. Hu has only been seen in public like once since he was dragged out of a national party meeting in 2022.

>Germany is suffering from a similar ailment. They are stagnating because for fifty years successive administrations have equated success with success of their majors.

Germany is currently stagnating because of the toll the Ukraine war is taking on them, along with other commitments they've made such as shutting down all their nuclear power plants. They too have high labor costs and so on, like the rest of the West, but they were doing relatively well until recently.
How does it make the roads more dangerous?
Ah yes, another paid ffmpeg wrapper for macOS users.
Is Williams black? I can see the argument for having black officers investigate black criminals, particularly if they're enterprises requiring infiltration.
I've been reading about CAST (Causal Analysis based on Systems Theory) and noticed some interesting parallels with mechanistic interpretability work. Rather than searching for root causes, CAST provides frameworks for analyzing how system components interact and why they "believe" their decisions are correct - which seems relevant to understanding neural networks.

I'm curious if anyone has tried applying formal safety engineering frameworks to neural net analysis. The methods for tracing complex causal chains and system-level behaviors in CAST seem potentially useful, but I'd love to hear from people who understand both fields better than I do. Is this a meaningful connection or am I pattern-matching too aggressively?
Yes, and I suspect that the very first line of the chat has something equally lawyer-y to serve the same purpose.
Is "engagement" the primary metric of modern life?
Especially if You're old enough to remember what ISO 8859-2 was for. One of the standards that everyone knew existed, yet few actually cared enough to correctly implement in practice. I still have a label printer that knows accented characters exist, yet the implementation is "shrink the accented letter to fit the label height with the accent"
There are places that will do a stool analysis for you, but it's a lot of guesswork. Many quacks have also discovered that they can get people to pay a lot of money hoping for relief, and they don't hesitate to take advantage. It's a shame because there are honest people out there trying to help, but sorting the wheat from the chaff is quite the order.

My opinion is that if you're concerned, the best thing is to make sure you aren't overeating carbs (I suggest limiting carbs to 30-40g per meal and 120g per day, and avoid simple carbs) and ideally take a probiotic and/or consume fermented foods such as yogurt, kombucha, etc that naturally provide probiotics. The carb limiting is the most important. If you do nothing else, do that. Even if you don't have an issue with candida, you'll feel better overall and get healthier. Again this is just my opinion as someone who has spent years reading and experimenting on myself, but is not formally educated or trained so take with a grain of salt.
Approval ratings are stupid. The 27% on a ~65% turnout roughly corresponds to the % who voted for them.

Labour aren't impotent due to the 'excellent' nature of our system, they have all of the power.

And as much as Musk blathers, there won't be an election for several years.

And Labour aren't a coalition, it's one party. It's the right that would be fragile if it decided to coalesce.

Reform took from Labour as well, there's no guarantee that an extremely fragile Tory-Reform coalition would work.

Plus Reform have almost no seats, they'd need something way more formal than an a coalition - they'd need to agree not to stand in the same seats.

If the voting priorities changed then not only would Reform get more seats, but so would the actual left wing parties.

In short, you haven't got a damn clue what you're talking about.
If you watched the video where Babbit got shot, there was literally a man in the corner of the hallway with a rifle and camo
What Is Modernity?
think this should help, but will look into smarter content clustering in the next days. https://endtime-instruments.org/news/?preset=science
I imagine the officers best at investigating black crime would either be black or have good contacts within that community.
> What makes NATO proximity so bad for Russia?

It makes Russian interference in its neighboring countries more difficult.
A redesign is welcome, but a full redeploy as a static website (generated, say, from a Git repo and textual data) would be awesome - we could all contribute to it, update information on machines, emulators, and so on.
That's doubtful. This "panopticon" version of the future is in direct competition with the increasing sophistication of deep fakes and other means of generating content. Instead of everything you've ever done being easily searchable, verified to be you, and there to shame you forever, another view of where we're headed is to where all content from the past is subject to doubts and questions of authenticity. To me, the latter scenario seems likelier to occur.
Since when was ISIS an American militia? It seems you didn't read the post. My comment makes perfect sense in the context of the article.
That and improperly sized or installed floormats catching the pedals. There are many examples of people hitting the gas instead of brake, freaking out, and hitting it even harder on the IdiotsInCars subreddit. Here's one:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/xj8540/they_u...
Should we expect the current API (https://docs.goodfire.ai/introduction) to be good for prod or is it for testing only?

I see that the sampling API is OpenAI-compatible (nice!). Considering if we can add a native integration for this to LiteLLM with a provider specific route - `goodfire/`. Would let people test this in projects like aider and dspy.

```python

from litellm import completion

import os

os.environ["GOODFIRE_API_KEY"] = "your-api-key"

response = completion(
model="goodfire/meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct",
messages=[{ "content": "Hello, how are you?","role": "user"}]
)

```
I believe the part of the reason why Russians had the highest number of casualties in WWII was the fact that Stalin didn't care about the lives of his citizens and send men to fight in thousands, with another row shooting the ones who wanted to flee.
I like how it cites relevant Youtube videos based on the search and shows thumbnails of the videos in its results. As far as I can tell ChatGPT doesn't do this.
> it's fundamentally impossible for an LLM to exhibit those qualities, because they depend on having volition

I don't see the connection between volition and those other qualities, saying one depends on the other seems arbitrary to me- and would result in semantically and categorically defining away the possibility of non-human intelligence altogether, even from things that are in all accounts capable of much more than humans in almost every aspect.
People don't even universally agree that humans have volition- it is an age old philosophical debate.

Perhaps you can tell me your thoughts or definition of what those things (as well as volition itself) mean? I will share mine here.

Creativity is the ability to come up with something totally new that is relevant to a specific task or problem- e.g. a new solution to a problem, a new artwork that expresses an emotion, etc. In both Humans and LLMs these creative ideas don't seem to be totally 'de novo' but seem to come mostly from drawing high level analogies between similar but different things, and copying ideas and aspects from one to another. Fundamentally, it does require a task or goal, but that itself doesn't have to be internal. If an LLM is prompted, or if I am given a task by my employer, we are still both exhibiting creativity when we solve it in a new way.

Problem solving is I think similar but more practical- when prompted with a problem that isn't exactly in the training set, can it come up with a workable solution or correct answer? Presumably by extrapolating, or using some type of generalized model that can extrapolate or interpolate to situations not exactly in the training data. Sure there must be a problem here that is trying to be solved, but it seems irrelevant if that is due to some internal will or goals, or an external prompt.

In the sense that volition is selecting between different courses of action towards a goal- LLMs do select between different possible outputs based on probabilities about how suitable they are in context of the given goal of response to a prompt.
> For example the opium wars.

For a more recent example, the CIA operations on South and Central America in the 20th century. But well, it didn't take the entire military there, just a military-like paragovernamental entity.

Doing that today would be seen in a bad light and has a real chance of turning the entire world against the country. That doesn't seem enough to stop Russia, though.
Alright; I’ll bite. Where’s the dog? I’m still confused.
> Wow, that sounds pretty bad. But I seem to remember that when Ukraine unilaterally declared its independence from the Soviet Union, Russia let them go without a fight.

Russia declared independence from the Soviet Union before Ukraine did.
I don't think it does unless you assume that San Francisco roadways are on aggregate dramatically safer or more dangerous than other places.
finally my abandoned side projects can finish themselves, hell yes
That's the point. I'm not advocating rolling your own date logic, only pointing out how easy it is to for "roll your own" logic to make its way into code even if if you're using a datetime library.
Frankly, I think the original sentence was accurate. If that had been a cyclist instead of a car then they’d be dead.

The speed limit is a limit, not a requirement. Driving fast in conditions where you can hydroplane is absolutely reckless.
What happened to the Metaverse? Not snarky, but it also seems like it has been killed off in favor of AI investments?