skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bullshit. Overturning decades old decisions is activism, plain and simple. He's taking a steaming dump all over the very idea of precedent and star decisis, it sure as hell isn't his philosophy to maintain it. If it was then Roe v. Wade would never have been overturned.
Captcha didn't like me. No article for me, evil Tor user.
How many new friends would look up what Loom was, though? This blog post was the first time I heard of it, so seems very unlikely that a random person would really care.
Pretty sure this is done client-side by one of the big LLM companies. So it's virtually no risk for them
It is exactly the halting problem. Finding some infinite loops is possible, there are even some obvious cases, but finding "any" infinite loops is not. In fact, even the obvious cases are not if you take interrupts into account.

I think that's the joke. In a sci-fi story, that would make the computer explode.
The article makes its main point to dispute the “City” characterization and how this is “overblown”.

I can only assume trkaky posted in the same spirit of discrediting the news, which I find worth “taking action” against. It might be old news for people in the field, and not reported faithfully (as usual), but what’s the purpose of raining down on one of the most interesting archeological discoveries in the Americas?
Even as someone with plenty of experience, this can still be a problem: I use them for stuff outside my domain, but where I can still debug the results. In my case, this means I use it for python and web frontend, where my professional experience has been iOS since 2010.

ChatGPT has, for several generations, generally made stuff that works, but the libraries it gives me are often not the most appropriate, and are sometimes obsolete or no longer functional — and precisely because web and python are hobbies for me rather than my day job, it can take me a while to spot such mistakes.

Two other things I've noticed, related in an unfortunate way:

1) Because web and python not my day job, more often than not and with increasing frequency, I ultimately discover that when I disagree with ChatGPT, the AI was right and I was wrong.

2) These specific models often struggle when my response has been "don't use $thing or $approach"; unfortunately this seems to be equally applicable regardless of if the AI knew more than me or not, so it's not got predictive power for me.

(I also use custom instruction, you YMMV)
I was surprised to learn: no. so why pick a Hungarian and? A mystery.
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Hold on, that isn't really an accurate description is it? I'm originally from the US, and carriers have always been able to block or throttle customers for basically any reason. That's not a net neutrality question.

Net neutrality is about where (to use an American example) Netflix can run fiber directly to Comcast in return for Comcast not metering their customers' Netflix traffic.
> code quality can be measured more objectively

Well, that's a big assumption. Some people quality modular code is some other too much indirect code.
Lets hope the AI tool being used does not convert to a particular religion and distorts ancient texts that challenges their beliefs, especially if it predates their "historically accurate" stories by hundreds or thousands of years.

human - "Please compile these texts"

AI - "done! Here you go"

human - "114AD? Are you sure. We expect this to be around 100BC"

AI - "NO! Nothing to see, here! Water turning into Wine was clearly added to this God AFTER our lord and saviour!"

human - "But I have this thing.."

AI - "NOTHING TO SEE, HERE! THEY WERE PLANTED TO TEST US! TEST US!"

...

...

"BURN IT!"
Yep, it's somethings easy to forget that HN isn't actually mainstream; something being discussed on HN doesn't mean it's well known.
Interestingly, China, who does capitalism better than the west, is not very concerned about short term voter happiness or placating special interest groups. So it's not a given that government spending must be constrained by historical assumptions, or that that model is even optimal.

I'd say many of the moves towards autocracy in the west are pointing in that direction, for better or worse.
Or, you know, continuously falling prices for generation and storage of renewable energy.
Interesting so UK cannot impose rules on companies that operate and making billions in revenue in UK because "UK small". But when both a much smaller economy than UK like Australia imposes a rule on big tech like the news law, it is much different in challenging big tech.

I saw a post a few weeks ago on HN asking what's the point (in general) of using a UK legal firm when legal firms in US/EU/India exist (!).
I actually find it super refreshing that they write "beginner" or "tutorial code".

Maybe because of experience: it's much simpler and easier to turn that into "senior code". After a few decades of experience I appreciate simplicity over the over-engineering mess that some mid-level developers tend to produce.
it's an API! https://docs.mixpeek.com/api-reference/features/search-featu...
Sorry, I didn't realize that abbreviation had lost currency.

Cascade of Attention Deficit Teenagers

https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
> So the whole complaining "court strikes down something" is pointless, because the courts function as designed.

The courts are judged by humans who have biases and motivated reasoning:

* https://www.nycla.org/resource/blog/hon-aileen-cannon-wrote-...

* http://archive.is/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/...

* https://ccf.georgetown.edu/2024/10/11/trump-appointed-federa...

People (judges) sometimes go into court with an pre-conceived notion of what is the 'correct' way to interpret things, and they think it is 'objective', but in fact has been shaped over time by (active) cultural forces:

* http://magazine.law.nyu.edu/index.html%3Fp=7606.html
In Sweden, it's illegal to buy prepaid mobile phones with cash since august 1, 2022.
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> Firefox is the new Internet Explorer

Yeah, seems to be that way in 2025 as well :(
Governmemt agencies are supposed to have publicly available records
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Same experience.

Also: If you're experienced at code reviews, you can get great results.
What is a "Home VPN"? Like a layer 2 proxy where you use a 3rd party AS as exit?
Pretty sure tech stocks boomed during covid.
>I think Protestant have similar interpretations

Lol, I see you've never heard of the prosperity gospel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity_theology

"Protestant" is such a broad group of beliefs it's nearly impossible to make any sort of board assertion.
Can you give examples of things you’ve tried and failed?

One thing I see often is that people forget that marketing begins before you even start building a product.

Before you begin building anything you should know, who the product is for, and where those people hang out. Then as you’re building you need to go to where those people hang out and start talking to them. That should be step one most of the time at least.
What's the business model here? I'm assuming there's at least a marginal cost. As somebody who enjoys providing the world with free tools, I'm always curious how others handle the situation. Enshittification is real and comes for us all.
I have experimented with using LLM for improving unit test coverage of a project. If you provide the model with test execution results and updated test coverage information, which can be automated, the LLM can indeed fix bugs and add improvements to tests that it created. I found it has high success rate at creating working unit tests with good coverage. I just used Docker for isolating the LLM-generated code from the rest of my system.

You can find more details about this experiment in a blog post: https://mixedbit.org/blog/2024/12/16/improving_unit_test_cov...
A lot of those examples are just meaningless without context and some are clearly framed in a way to make them sound ridiculous.

NIH funding on addiction research seems pretty relevant given what's going on in the US?

But the way they write it it's "injecting dogs with cocaine" or "giving cocaine to lonely mice". Very funny I guess?
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I believe gource is on homebrew, if you have that available.
I find it incredible how many times I have to re-explain this. Between those literally trying to find which model of smartphone costs 20% and lasts twice as long and those telling me "there is no point to wonder, because we can't know in advance if it will last twice as long".

Let me restart: the article says that "most people don't care about quality". I disagree, and offer a thought experiment. It is not real, it is just a way to share an idea. "Imagine a world where a person is offered a choice between two smartphones, where one is 20% more expensive but will last twice as long. Imagine that this person confidently knows this (it is impossible in real life, but let's imagine it for the sake of this argument). And obviously, imagine that the person does not have an irrational reason that will completely ruin the experiment, like someone putting a gun on their head and telling them which one to buy. Do you think that this person will say "I will take the one that is obviously worse, because I am completely irrational", or do you think that this person will say "well, the more expensive one is apparently a better deal due to the quality guarantees I know to be true"?

The point that I am trying to make being: quality matters to people. It's not the only thing that matters, and they don't always have a way to know about the actual quality of whatever they buy. But if they could know about the quality, then it would probably be part of the decision process. Therefore it feels wrong to say "most people don't care about quality".

In real life, people don't buy the better quality products, that's a fact. But it does not mean that people don't care about quality.
South Korea: North Korean troops suffer 100 deaths, struggling in drone warfare
There is a hypothesis the Greek word means rope instead of camel, that the parable means we cant thread a rope through a needle.

Arabic word for camel and rope are same in a similar verse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_a_needle
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Given all of the proponents of net neutrality's wild ideas for what ISPs would do if net neutrality was abolished were completely and utterly wrong when the Trump Administration ended net neutrality, what makes you think this new prediction is accurate?

As an example, net neutrality proponents widely predicted that ISPs would begin offering 'bundles' (for example pay separately for social media sites, pay for video sites etc) [1].

None of it happened. It was just a lie.

[1] https://blog.flashrouters.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Net...

[1] https://i.huffpost.com/gen/1567010/original.jpg
You can write maximally modular code while being minimally indirect. A well-designed interface defines communication barriers between pieces of code, but you don't have to abstract away the business logic. The interface can do exactly what it says on the tin.
This is where boycotts come in.

Time to actually suffer to get what you want people.
Yeah, yeah, "whataboutism," but did Amnesty International write anything about the hundreds of people in the UK who were arrested and charged for protesting in 2024?

Serbia might keep tabs on some political activists -- like every other country -- but to the best of my knowledge nobody has been charged as a result of this snooping -- and the AI report itself corroborates this:

> "33 people were arrested or detained for informational interviews during the August protest, subjected to long questioning, search of their apartments, and seizure and search of their telephones and computers. Not one of them has been formally charged at the time of this report’s publication"

This report is a thin, politically-motivated hit piece. Risible, really.

Sadly, I expect we're going to see a lot more of this sort of thing directed against Serbia, Hungary, and Slovakia in the near future. (And to a lesser extent perhaps also Croatia and Slovenia.) "Get with the program, or else" is the message here.
This is like boasting that you are accelerating less while you are heading towards a wall.
Ryan Hudson, the founder of Honey, launched a new company that's already under scrutiny for similar practices:

Pie.org (despite being for-profit).

Founded in March 2024, it already hit 1M downloads and has 20+ employees/10+ Engineers.
It's also about throttling - Net Neutrality doesn't mean ISPs can't ever throttle users, it means they can't do it differently depending what the users are accessing, either everything is throttled or nothing is.
> What makes you think the UK ICO won’t bring legal cases against individuals or companies applying fingerprinting?

Not enough staff in ICO to bring these cases. All the capable people earn much more in private sector (banking/finance) in London.
Right. According to https://eandt.theiet.org/2024/12/20/predictions-2025-road-de...:

> According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), 2025 will see renewables surpass coal to become the largest source of electricity generation. It also predicts that the next five years will see almost 3,700GW of new renewable capacity come online.

Looks like we got a good strategy. 3,700GW or 3.7TW versus the over 110,000TW provided by fossil fuels. Right on there...0.003% replacement in 5 years. Seems like a quick response to the climate crisis. /sarcasm.
As it happens, the people you disparagingly refer to as boomers are often the ones holding the purse strings.
Plasma proteomic signatures of social isolation/loneliness:morbidity&mortality
It reminds me of the Sheeple comic from xkcd. It's common for people to fall into the mental pattern of thinking everyone else is a mindless drone.

Our brains are not evolved for the scale of human civilisation. The mind rebels trying to accept that 8 billion people have as much going on (or more) than you do.

"NPC coworkers" is a provocative way of phrasing it, but yesterday I saw another HN commenter say "We all know that society is propped up by people going to work and doing nothing much of value". This is mostly the same mindset.
Ah yes, just like the time from 2017-2020 when the Trump Administration ended net neutrality and the internet disintegrated into paid bundles and speed limiting (net neutrality proponents swore that ISPs would implement these). [1]

Oh wait, none of that happened. It was a lie from the start.

[1] https://blog.flashrouters.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Net...

[1] https://i.huffpost.com/gen/1567010/original.jpg
There has always been a wireless version of the above-mentioned Kinesis Advantage 360, also running the ZMK firmware.

Before it, there were the open-source Dactyl variants that more or less copied the Kinesis. The original Dactyl [1] (2015) has a layout like the Kinesis but the more popular Dactyl Manuform variants have different thumb clusters. And people have been building them both with wired and wireless controllers.

The history is not complete without mentioning that Kinesis (Model 100 in 1992) in turn had copied the Maltron [2], designed by Lilian Malt in the 1970's.

1. https://github.com/adereth/dactyl-keyboard

2. https://www.maltron.com/maltron-history.html
If Facebook disappeared tomorrow, I would argue that the world would be vastly better off.
Also a lot of pages still contain a lorem ipsum
The weirdest part to me is that we were well aware being outside was relatively safe early in the pandemic.

There is another world where the pandemic became about telling people to focus on good ventilation and being outside as much as possible. Imagine classes and meetings conducted outside, and everyone just hanging out at the beach and parks.

It almost sounds like we could have ended the pandemic feeling like it improved our mental health.
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There was also the recent Rails 8 release, which had some really nice improvements: https://rubyonrails.org/2024/11/7/rails-8-no-paas-required
Cool project, very nicely done.

And Ikea Bittergurka as enclosure is a great idea for my next project.
Lamdera compiler for full-stack Elm is now open-source
Has anyone tried compiling a pdf processing suite to wasm, so that we not have to upload anything to servers?
Congrats on the launch! How does your PDF to text feature compare to services like LlamaParse and 2markdown.com? Especially in terms of layout and image understanding. And for a privacy focused service, it would be great if your privacy policy would contain text :) Is the service hosted in the EU?
First: No, they're not. That is an unreasonable expectation divorced from the reality. What exactly do you think would happen if everyone in town switched off and on their AC-powered devices at the same time? What do you think would happen if everyone in town moves to the same street and starts using their cell phone to stream 4K videos at the same time? Do you seriously think it's reasonable to expect every system to deliver at its peak with arbitrary demand and load on it?

Second: If you're going to play the "I paid for this" game: this stuff is generally in the contract anyway. It is the level of service you paid for. The overbooking possibility? You paid for it, it was in your contract. Throttled service? That was in your contract too. You're getting what you paid for.
Is there a reliable source about UK charges? But please don't say "it is censored everywhere", I hear it too often.

in Russia, Serbia's good friend, let's just say there are people charged for things like this (or for something else convenient) and sit in jail for years. This is not very publicized. But yeah I talked to some of those people who now sit in jail. And also I talked to plenty Europeans who say "everything is bad and censorship, Putin will free us all" (while in a russia it is illegal to tell somebody how to use VPN). It would be funny if it was not sad.
I hadn't thought eavesdropping was possible given the programming of siri and the architecture of the hardware. Does this settling mean that Apple is guilty?
I think he IS special. You can't easily have $60m income and be this bored. He could probably, say, get a million dollar in $1 note and burn it dollar by dollar in the backyard one evening and be a YouTuber overnight. Getting exposure is stupid, so what, he could pay an "NPC" do it for him.

What this guy is missing is creativity. And we don't have data to determine if it's contributor, detractor, or tangent to the position where he is at. I'd bet it's a bigly contributory, as gains from x-factors are called gambling.
The incentives to stay in the position you aren't competent in are usually better pay, benefits, and perks. Hard to give up.
Sales not understanding their own product is a long-running joke. My favorite anecdote of it was our sales person demonstrating a highly-available system by removing power cables from all nodes. That's going to be a tough feature to provide by next quarter.
Depends on your colour palette :-P.
The post title should read, "I am poor and have no idea what to do". :D
> Almost everywhere in the former Yugoslavia is more safe than in the West.

According to what metric?

> But it is not only safe, you will very easily make friends as people are much more open to forming friendships.

Are you generalizing "The west" here a bit?
> No docker image

This makes me sad that this became an expectation. And yet, I've been distributing softwares via Docker for almost a decade now, but CLI/GUI tools?
Sadly, the Biden Administration was the first Democratic one in decades which vigorously enforced antitrust. A Lina Khan type probably won't resurface anytime soon, if ever.
I don't get this, why would they use a microphone when they already have the original quality audio stream going to the speakers?
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I do something similar, and one more tip is to remember to provide your pbcopy and pbpaste with `LANG=en_US.UTF-8`, or else non-ASCII will be garbled.
Immediate bans might be related to the country you're in. This is a US retailer, and there is zero reason for someone outside of the US to visit that site. Blocking foreign visitors allows them to ignore GDPR, for example.
I had the same thoughts, as some other people in the comments - there are so many problems to solve, so many people to help. It is hard to match the fulfillment that comes from helping someone less fortunate that you.

This essay has not-so-subtle shades of individualism and meritocracy which can warp ones views about self-worth. I do applaud his self-awareness regarding his own vanity.

As a side note, this is the first I am hearing of interviews for DOGE. Curious what that process looks like.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RikO_3jedlY
They say a sailboat is a hole in the water you throw money into, so having too much of it and not knowing what to do with it does indeed sound like a match made in heaven.
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