skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought this was a really bad article. "Suddenly"?? I've heard many tech parents go full bore into homeschooling for at least about 2 decades now.

Also, for the particular issues she talks about (e.g. social isolation), essentially all of the tech parents I know that are into home schooling put a ton of effort into having a really rich social environment, e.g. either through "group schooling" or lots of outside activities.
The fructose difference is marginal between normal and Mexican coke. In the acidic medium of a cola, sucrose breaks down to glucose and fructose, just as it does with HFCS. HFCS has a bit more fructose, but not enough to make a paper about fructose suddenly relevant.

As to the taste difference, Mexican cola has double the sodium. But even then, most people cannot taste the difference. They think they can, proclaim they can, and talk up how great Mexican coke is, but when actually put to the test they have basically random odds of being right or not.

Fructose is mostly considered benign if consumed in moderation. You can get fatty liver if you consume to excess, but for most people it has no caloric value and is excreted from the body as a non-nutritive sweetener.

Good related video- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY66qpMFOYo
Model Y and 3 are still the most selling EVs here in Norway, but VAG cars have been catching up...fast. In 2023 Tesla vs VAG cars were roughly 25k vs 18k cars sold. Last year, it was 24k vs 21k. If the trend keeps up, VAG will outsell Tesla this year.

Source (though in Norwegian, use translate to read it): https://ofv.no/aktuelt/2025/nybilsalget-i-2024-9-av-10-nye-p...
The issue with SElinux is usability. A company called intrinsic tried a similar "allowlist" approach to javascript based on the assumption that you could never control this sprawl and had to assume every package was malicious. I never saw the technology take off because generating the allowlist was of course error prone.

im not sure what has to change in UX to make these approaches more palatable, but if you have to frequently allow 'good' behaviors, my experience is it never takes off.
It’s extraordinary how frequently companies discuss the cost of a bad hire and never consider the opportunity cost of a no-hire.

Companies that keep waiting for Mr. Right are really saying that the opportunity cost of not completing their project is very low. In other words it’s not really that important at all.
Having the GPT answer beforehand would allow us to confront them about it sooner, but at that point we're definitely not hiring them since they thought it a good idea to use an LLM to cheat on questions they should be able to do in their sleep.

Interesting that you're asking the candidate to have their hands visible. We haven't wanted to have to go that way, but we might.
I agree, Postgres is great but I think it's just a little crusty for cloud environments. Clustering should be built in and easy to configure.
You think pedestrians and cyclists don't realize how car dominant we are?
We should aim at better drivers rather than better intersections, but bad drivers are everywhere.

Years ago I worked in a building on the side of a long straight road. The road ended with a blind curve to the right and 100m before the blind curve there was a pedestrian crossing.

Even though all drivers knew they would need to brake for the blind curve (it was visible and there were signs) the majority of them used to drive very fast and basically did not let people cross the road, only to push very hard on the brakes 10 meters beyond the pedestrian crossing.
Imaging a normal employee messed up 1/100 of this case and only need to “forgo” his/her bonus. He likely gets fired the next day.
Actually, a non-reversible car also has no lower energy limit, as long as you drive on a flat surface (same for a reversible one) and can get to the answer arbitrarily slowly.

An ideal reversible computer also works arbitrarily slowly. To make it go faster, you need to put energy in. You can make it go arbitrarily slowly with arbitrarily little energy, just like a non-reversible car.
US is now adopting more of China ideals, than China adopting US ideals.

From perspective of China, it seems they are winning as US is copying them. The bans, the protection of their industries, restricting free speech and building a surveillance state.
For reasoning: qwq:latest (19G file)

For coding: qwen2.5-coder:14b (9G file)

Misc. experiments, runs fast: llama3.2:latest )2 G file)
A cool app for students. What new features are planned?
With heavy mixed traffic it's a nightmare for everyone. If pedestrians have the right of way (as they should) and there are a lot of them the whole thing would likely become a permanent traffic jam with almost always one car waiting to turn blocking most of the circle.
It seems like instead of trying to accommodate cars better, they could have made it worse, so they would avoid that intersection all together, promoting other routes todestinations.
Not only legal, but safer than slamming on one's breaks.
You ask someone to land you interviews and, if you get hired, you pay them a fee. Usually some (fat) percentage of your first couple paychecks.
The lottery is pretty rough on people, and a lot of the schools are not amazing.
For me it was Musk. I had a finger on the trigger for an M3, which is an amazing car for the price, but then he just didn't know when to stop talking and I've sort of lost a lot of that enthusiasm. So now I'm waiting for the legacy brands to step up, which they unfortunately aren't really doing.
This is exactly how YouTube still works for me... I'm still finding new interesting content and creators everyday.

Do you subscribe to creators you enjoy, and like their videos? You still need to feed the algorithm.
I've learned my lessons when I got my lifetime deals that scammed me:

* archhosting -- lasted 2 years before it folded

* zoolz -- changed their mind 3 years after their lifetime deal, and forced everyone to go to their paid plan.
Correct. They expect safe walking and biking infra to fall from the sky and complain online when it does not.
I ran a YouTube channel seriously for a couple of years. Chasing the whims of the algorithm contributed to burnout and now I only release one or two videos a year.

My reason for starting a channel was to have a discussion around some of the projects I was working on that I found interesting. This never materialized. I never had a ton of engagement, but if I did most questions asked by viewers that are answered in the video.

I monetized my videos and started making beer-money amounts of revenue. I put more and more time into them but never gained traction. I had a few "evergreen" videos that would make maybe a thousand bucks a year, the rest of the videos hardly got any views at all.

Eventually, I found myself making videos to feed the algorithm not because it was a project that I wanted to do. This is where I had to stop. I realized that I just don't like editing videos.

My channel makes no revenue now because YouTube requires an upload schedule and shorts. Mr Beast's job sounds awful to me. The videos I make now only get dozens to hundreds of views when they're published. I mostly share them with friends and in online communities where the info contained might be helpful.
I joined the Raffle, seemed like a fun way to donate to good causes.
One car enters the intersection on red.
Report of Special Counsel Jack Smith, Volume 1, January 2025 [pdf]
The distinction is also moot from perspective of an individuals's time being cavalierly wasted by a large corporation.
Thanks! Currently we are working on feature that will display homework in timetable. Soon will be available for beta-testing on TestFlight.
I've been working in the industry for huge, medium and small companies for 25+ years and have never seen a purely technical role above "Senior" level. Open to the idea that they may exist, but I think you're describing some kind of theoretical ideal that is rare in reality.
I really wish that's how (a subset of) the internet worked. Not for replies, but for quality website access. Think newspapers and other primary sources of information. Fill up your browser tank and go visit these websites. The site then gets paid per view, or per duration of stay. Details are tricky though.
> A theoretical “AI dev” will be able to gather these requirements through conversation no problem

Maybe! So far what I’ve seen are AI devs that are too afraid to say ”No you’re wrong this will never work” and can’t ask those awkward questions like ”Ok A sounds great, but you already promised to customer B that not-A will always be true. What do we do about that?”

It is very important to have a working mental model of the system to do requirements gathering effectively. AI struggles mightily in that area.
LLM's are absolutely not a hammer. LLM's are an Ikea shelf in a box. You're not a carpenter because you can assemble one.

We'll leave aside the argument of whether or not a carpenter would rather buy a cheap Ikea shelf than build one in some situations, but it's also applicable to this analogy.
> Assuming those accounts get 60 years of use out of them that works out to 21600 USD in value/lost revenue. If you assume inflation of ~4% as a random number pulled out of my ass then that's 85k USD instead.

I bought a raffle ticket just for fun last year. If I won, I’d use my account for the foreseeable future. But to say that this would have been “lost revenue” for them is a leap I don’t agree with. I am a user of their free plan. Them giving me a lifetime premium account does not make them lose revenue, when I currently don’t have any plans to buy a premium account and pay for that for 60 years.

And meanwhile, this raffle also works as a form of marketing. Who is to say that among all the other people there isn’t some number of people that will decide to start paying for premium due to the raffle reminding or informing them of premium accounts existing?
I always wonder about the gathering resumes "just in case the perfect person applies" kind of idea.

1. Would anyone notice if the perfect candidate applied?

2. Does anyone even know what the perfect candidate's resume would look like / are those qualities on a resume / captured by a resume system?

3. Is the perfect candidate actually cold submitting resume to you?

It feels like almost certainly these are all "no".
Good point, will change that asap. Thanks!
Sounds dubious. Most trees are not nearly 50% roots by biomass. The roots that remain will get broken down, but not into gases exclusively. A new tree that’s growing is actively capturing new carbon. Cutting down a tree won’t help much, but if a new tree grows where the old one was, it’s hard to find reasoning to suggest a net loss.
Regardless of who you want to assign "fault" to, the fact remains.

> fund the program in any comparable way

OIG has predicted the program will spend practically $100 billion dollars with only a single launch so far and a cost of $4 billion/launch thereafter. Don't tell me the program "isnt funded".

https://oig.nasa.gov/office-of-inspector-general-oig/ig-22-0...
Agreed. This is still how YouTube still works for me. It's great.

> That being said, occasionally I do have to go into my Google data and clear/clean the watch history to reorient my recommendations.

Can you elaborate on this? What effect does this produce for your specifically?
seems ff has been relegated to strictly technical users now.

It's 90% of my personal browsing, and effectively the only option considering UBO is a requirement for the modern web. I've always loved the `user.js` configurability, extensions for actual tree-style tabs, etc.
Just an FYI.. the double negative means you said it makes the company look good.

(I don't think you intended that)
A restaurant is also a public space. But you can't eat for free or behave as you wish there.
Grass! You have grass on your side?

Lucky you. :P
Best Android browser hands down, entirely because of the extension support.

I don't know how people use phones with ublock or leechblock. I guess "with less battery life" and "more".
Also an Edward Fredkin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Fredkin interest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredkin_gate .
Yea true, best to avoid FUD, but security can be a big upsell over self managed FLOSS for some.
I don’t think you understand these groups and their motivations very well. Fear and concern for the future are much more significant than “rage”.
Any life down there?
Show HN: Open Source Text2Question AI Generator: Create Quizzes from Any Text
Wonderful news. The last time I saw a "Aquifer beneath X could be the largest in the world" headline, X was Santa Clarita, California, about 30 miles north of Los Angeles. I suspect there are a lot of large aquifers yet to be discovered.
Ask HN: Is "agent" just a fancier term for "LLM with structured output"?
I've been doing LLMs for 3 years. lots of "agentic" stuff that people talk about nowadays were already possible with GPT-3 back in the day. it just seems like "agent" is a new buzzword intended to keep the AI hype going, which is fine, except that no one really defines agents beyond simple function/tool calling.
> I added uBlock filters so the home page is empty and recommended videos aren't shown. I only ever go to subscriptions now.

There's a setting to turn it off, no need for uBlock filters for that
Contribution to OS projects would allow us to bypass this screen altogether, but great point.

Haha we might have to switch to Rust just to ease our interviewing woes here - we're primarily a PHP/Laravel shop, and have tried to be as charitable as possible to candidates by allowing them to program in the language they're strongest in. Perhaps we need to change that.

The screen we're doing is meant to filter out the frauds/imposters and so far has a 100% success rate, but unfortunately we've caught three out of the last three people who have made it to that point. It's become a huge waste of time.

Maybe we just need to curate candidates from OS contributors to prevent this, or something of that nature.
Turns out EVs are technologically much simpler than ICE cars. Anybody can make them. And so does China.
That's pretty cool - what do you do, if I may ask?
big right wing swing for tech?
No need – Firefox does that out of the box for tabs opened in the background (I open tabs via middle/command click)! So there is no problem for me.
In this case, you would want the Affero General Public License (AGPL) which specifically has a carve-out (in?) for web servers. Section 13, "Remote Network Interaction; Use with the GNU General Public License." [0]

[0] "[...] your modified version must prominently offer all users interacting with it remotely through a computer network (...) an opportunity to receive the Corresponding Source of your version"
Nonsense, the money spent on safer roads is an investment on human lives. Infrastructure needs to be rebuilt every few decades and with good planning roads that are being resurfaced anyways can be altered at little extra cost. Finally, let's not ignore that suburban sprawl is economically not viable for cities as the cost per household is higher in sprawl compared to a denser populated area. Changing the last point is obviously the toughest.

https://cayimby.org/blog/sprawl-costs-the-u-s-1-trillion-eve...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmQomKCfYZY
It's a 34 second video. One enters the intersection after the light has turned red (pause the video, you can see it). The other is half way through the intersection before the light turns red, definitely speeds up to make the light, which is what they're talking about.
I'm in Europe, and I've seen Teslas with "bought it before he went crazy" stickers. I think the Venn diagram of people who want to buy electric cars, and people who dislike Musk's recent behavior, has a pretty big intersection.

And yeah, the competition is getting much better. I'm seeing a lot of Polestar cars recently, and even a lowly Fiat 500e now advertises 460km range.
I think his support of right wingers like AfD and calling the German chancellor a fool doesn't go across well with a lot of people.

And the Tesla models are also getting stale.
I worked at a company that created fake job postings for H1B reasons.
The thing is that Firefox has SO MANY papercuts in this category. They all seem minor but they all represent a deal breaker for one user or another. For me it's the address bar on the bottom on mobile (ludicrous decision, whoever came up with that should leave the industry and I mean that) and their refusal to auto fill credit cards on mobile even though I know it works on desktop and I know it works in other regions.

Firefox badly needs someone who gives a shit about user experience.
This is the standard way that kids learn to ride bikes in Europe. Apparently the English word for them is "balance bikes". Both my kids could ride one of them when they were 2.
This is really the best career advice.

I was fortunately able to leave a terrible job 2 years ago and immediately had contract work, now I run my own business and get constant referrals from my network. I make more than ever, have incredible work-life balance, and for the most part love what I do.

If you don't have a network, the moment you quit/lose a job you are dead to the world. Even now I have people approaching me for FTE roles, I haven't even worked with them for 2 years. Am I some god tier programmer? Not really, but I have a good track record and people always want to go to someone they already trusted.
Watching your kid learn to ride a bike is one of life's greatest joys
Yeah fair point, its a bit confusing. We really wanted to have the cheapest price under 10, and just kept the other prices at a point that make this business sustainable for us. Pricing is hard :D
Musk tied himself so thoroughly to the brand and now hes tanking and taking the brand down with it.
As a pedestrian I will take a busy light controlled intersection with a pedestrian scramble type walk signal over a busy 4-way stop where every single time.

With the 4-way stop there is never a time in the cycle when all traffic is stopped. The drivers who are present are continuously paying attention to what other drivers are doing which robs them of situational awareness to note pedestrians. You can try and time it but that's risky. With the walk signal there is a brief moment in time when the drivers are doing nothing but waiting for you and are all stopped so you as a pedestrian can account for them in preparation just before you get your signal and make your move.

The author can get lost with this sort of textbook correct but questionable in reality take. Legally having the right of way doesn't make you any less dead when the driver who's got three other drivers to pay attention to doesn't see you.
Just rewatched and agree they both entered on orange, which is legal. This clear misinterpretation makes me question the author's take as a whole. Did they consider that cars also regularly run stop signs? Is it possible that this is, in fact, safer for pedestrians, albeit more frustrating while waiting?
I always wonder how much that is influenced by the blog / social media world where a few (or even one) neat features in a product or language produces "I love this". So yeah they love it ... in so far as the social media expression goes.
Reading Thiel's an Esoteric Look
> Does it mean that they should be removed entirely?

Maybe. I think it means we're at a spot where I'm not reasonably convinced that existing copyright laws are actually better than the free-for-all you're describing.

I'm definitely with you that it'd be ideal if we had a way to handle direct plagiarism like described in your comment (Although if you dropped the "put my name on it" part, I don't really see much issue).

But we also have all the fun today of companies using copyright to silence critique, shut out competitors, take educational information offline, demonetize videos they don't like, and otherwise absolutely abuse the hammers copyright law has given them (often - with no reciprocal hammer to stop this type of abuse).

And that's not even getting into the discussion of whether or not 70+ year old characters and stories should be available for modern authors to reuse and reinterpret. (even more egregious when you consider the vast majority of those tales are direct reinterpretations of older stories themselves...).

Or we can discuss whether it should really be legal to sell electronics hardware that has digital locks inside it that not only am I (the legal owner) not given the key to, but for which it is literally illegal for me to even attempt to open.

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So basically - If I had to pick between "You'll own nothing and rent everything, and all public discourse is subject to DMCA strikes or other removal" vs "no copyright"... My vote is for "no copyright".

But the reality is I think we can strike a much better balance than those extremes, we just can't do it without upsetting large profit streams for existing, very wealthy and entrenched, entities... and usually that doesn't happen without tearing things down first.
Licensing incompatibilities.
Thanks for correction, indeed I mixed him up, Crockford just created JSON parser and popularized this format (he also popularized js in general though his book, linter etc).
Other way around. You should paypal them $0.01 if your reply is worth viewing.

But Hacker News already has a cost to posting replies: you can only post a few (I think 5 replies every 4 hours) and although you can make more accounts, there's a limit to that too. So I know this was one of your top 5 in this 4-hour period.
This came out today. Looks like our suspicion was well founded:

https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/01/13/danish-intelligence-r...
Understood. It's an interesting long-term strategy to revive Feudalism.
He's got that Steve Jobs reality distortion field about him
Housing is something you can do something about at a local level: https://yimbyaction.org/ or https://welcomingneighbors.us/

It's fulfilling to see stuff built that you advocated for! Or policies enacted that get more housing built.
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- Custom domain specific language (DSL) to encode business rules for computer vision system (Common Lisp)

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- High-reliability, long-term timelapse platform for inaccessible locations. (FreeBSD, Arduino, Python, Shell)

- Migration of existing Node.js+Firebase service to Golang+PostgreSQL on AWS

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Based on my experiences with this. Keeping context relevant is the hardest part. Your human GM will remember that funny remark from the session 3 years ago, but the LLM?
Doesn't hurt them either I don't think. Nobody knows. It sucks because the whole job hunting system is borked.
That's false. The stop line for cars is out of frame in the video, and the driver has already passed it by the time the light turns red. You can get a better view of what the intersection actually looks like here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/L37hZyvXs8BeWmFE8
Luddite technologists. What a time.