skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like something that could be solved by a flag.

if all_day_event:
show_option("timezone invariant")

If it is timezone invariant, then you can make it the 24hr (or whatever because there might not be 24 hrs in a day...) period relative to the current timezone.

This isn't an unsolvable problem, it is just people not seeking solutions.

I have a theory: a lot of tech products suck today because either:

- People are not dogfooding[0] (using their own products)
- People are not raising concerns
- People raise concerns but issues are de-prioritized in favor of more flashy things.

None of these things are great and they can only happen while a company has significant marketshare and monopoly like status. In essence, it is internal rot. Someone (plural) is disconnected from the actual product. They are out of touch with what the users want.

And I mean here's the thing. I could go ahead and write a wrapper for all of this and wrap in all my calendars. But that's a ton of work, there's probably no market, but if there was a market then the realistic result is that my success would result in the big players implementing the same feature and thus devaluing my work even though I increased the value of theirs. So I can do this as an open source project, but boy are there a lot of other higher priority issues like this. The real problem is that these issues can't be resolved within these big companies.

For whatever reason that is, it is bad business.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food
Because the internet is filled by slop shit by people trying to make a buck from it.

It's like saying I don't know how to recognize non-spam when I end up blocking 99.99% of all mail showing up at the server.

I do recognize non-spam, it's just that I know most of it is crap.
> Guess he felt like it was close enough that he could still take credit for it.

He's a private citizen. It isn't legal for him to engage in foreign diplomacy. Conveniently we have a feckless DoJ that won't hold people accountable.
Hey HN,

A couple weeks ago I shared a GTM repository that *took off* here. After a bunch of user data and feedback, I wanted to offer a simple way for founders to pitch their products to each other.

It is really hard for early-stage founders to connect with buyers and partners in the B2B world.

So, I was hoping this could be a step in that direction toward making pitching, surfacing great products, & learning from each other that much easier.

Curious what y'all think. I just threw this together over a couple days, so lmk bugs too!

- Will
I feel this way a lot, i would suspect however that these "1% improvements" are really obvious to some people and completely not obvious to the person who did it.

People are lazy, which means if it isnt obvious to them, or more importantly, if they don't see a direct incentive to their life, they don't do it.

In reality "1% effort" probably looks like 10-50+% effort... and society would be 10-1000x better for it but the incentives are wrong.
Oh he's gone? That explains a lot.
> This is a reductive view that presupposes gender as a pre-existing discernable static fact of a person's biology as opposed to an apparently extant human phenomena.

And yours is a subjective take that opposes this rather basic, verifiable fact.
Discussion on the paper (33 points, 2 days ago, 14 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42682055
In google economics, there is no KPI incentive for fixing bugs and huge KPI incentives for monetising a new moonshot product nobody wants.

I'd like this bug fixed too. The quickest path would be to make a bounty hunt website for Googlers to fix things in their free time and push through monrepo approvals legally.

Or, get hired, fix it, and resign.
In English we have "shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations".
If there was 1. an artist prompting Midjourney (the AI) to create an image 2. the selecting the good images, and then 3. interpreted the 2D images to create 3D model that is printable, it is not "AI-generated".

That is like saying all code is now AI-generated because human programmers are using Copilot. Or all photography is AI-generated because artists tweak the output of the camera in Adobe Lightroom using algorithms.
The impact this organization had was incredible. I doubt they would have been able to do this work if they were based out of any other country, which makes me wonder how the US legal system, regulators and law enforcement in general are not extremely corrupt. What reasons or incentives make the system work in the US? Of course there are many instances of corruption and injustice, but in comparison to almost any other country, it seems to work surprisingly well.
This is essentially how Turkiye continues to describe the Armenian Genocide to this day. "A) there was a war going on, people sometimes die in wars whoops it's tragic" and "B) the situation is very complex and nuanced and any narrative but our chosen one is too simplistic". It sounds pretty familiar doesn't it?

https://www.mfa.gov.tr/the-armenian-allegation-of-genocide-t...
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It’s overly simplistic. It doesn’t take into account the ideals the USA was founded on (including free speech as an inalienable right), nor does it take into account the large shift in US government policy.
I disagree, this smells like SEO "hacking."
> OpenAI should be contacting every single one and asking for permission - like everyone has to in order to use a person's work

This is the problem of thinking that everyone “has” to do something.

I assure you that I (and you) can use someone else’s work without asking for permission.

Will there be consequences? Perhaps.

Is the risk of the consequences enough to get me to ask for permission? Perhaps.

Am I a nice enough guy to feel like I should do the right thing and ask for permission? Perhaps.

Is everyone like me? No.

> How they are getting away with this is beyond me.

Is it really beyond you?

I think it’s pretty clear.

They’re powerful enough that the political will to hold them accountable is nonexistent.
>colonial apartheid character

How does this square with the Palestinians inside Israel with citizenship having the same rights as Jewish Israeli ones? Execution issues and favoritism of the ethnostate majority aside.
This page has PNGs that need serious optimization. On my monitor, those 2 Cloudflare page screenshots are ~2000x1000 PNGs that weigh 700k each. They occupy about 850x500 "px" on my monitor. (The logo and author pic are likewise, ~300x300 PNGs downscaled to ~40x40.) Serving lossy images at such high resolutions sorta makes sense, but with PNGs they kill page load times. These images could probably get away with a lossy format and much lower resolution, and the page would be less than half the size it is now.
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I got the same impression.

I assume they have a good reason to have done it this way and I hope everyone on their team is safe.
> Trump's Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff was in Qatar along with White House envoys for the talks, and a senior Biden administration official said Witkoff's presence was critical to reaching a deal after 96 hours of intense negotiations.
We can infer the general distribution of mass on the other side of the galaxy from observing the trajectory of stars, can't we?
Every Israeli (with a few exceptions) worked in military intelligence?
That's not how dropping 2000lb American bombs from American F-35s by an Israeli flying vampires paid for by American tax dollars onto babies in refugee tents work.

The Nazi demons at Auschwitz also blamed their victims in between zyklon B top-up shifts.
Disappointing. DuckDuckGo seems to still work w/o JS enabled. But Bing also fails to do anything w/o JS. HN comments still seem to work, thankfully.
They published about Carvana 13 days ago and now are disbanding... https://hindenburgresearch.com/carvana/
And in case someone wants to hear a linguistic opinion outside of English and Chinese: As a Japanese, I can confirm that those two words indeed have about as much to do with each other as constipation and constitution.
> The school system isn't perfect, and is hard to improve due to many reasons, but this doesn't mean we shouldn't try.

The people you hear giving up today have tried to fix the system. It's a little insulting to insinuate otherwise. When I was in high school, I tried to start a CS club, but no one was interested. I helped run MATHCOUNTS at the local middle school, and we had five people show up on a good day (<1% of the student body). Most students don't care anymore, and why should they when you have to fight the school to take AP Biology as a freshman? Gifted programs are being eliminated in the name of equity, and common core standards are lower than they ever have been. A friend who immigrated in seventh grade said America's seventh grade math classes are years behind China's (and she went to a better school than me). How do you get years behind in seven years?!

I don't think it is possible to fix the education system. The student body has adopted an anti-learning culture, administrators are lowering standards to raise their metrics, and most teachers would be wholly unfit for an ideal classroom, let alone the ones they're supposed to oversee nowadays. I am all for "burning the house down". I think the best solution would be to fire everyone, raise salaries by 10x, and then hire back 10% as many people. After all, the professorship pyramid scheme has lots of PhDs who might be interested in teaching for $300K/year.
A user is not the same as an email address! You can have up to 100 domains and (with wildcard aliases) basically unlimited addresses with a single user at Fastmail - you just pay per inbox.
Right, but the price of the put is much less than the price of the stock, and the price of the put is the denominator.

Right now, Walmart is at $91.34, and you can buy a put at $88 expiring on 24th January for $0.18 [1]. If you buy one, and the stock goes to zero by then, you spent $0.18 and gained $88, a 488x return. January 2026 at $86.67 is $5.35 - a mere 16x return.

[1] https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/wmt/option-cha...
> how do you define agi?

An AI that has enough sense of self-awareness to not hallucinate and to recognize the borders of its knowledge on its own. That is fundamentally impossible to do with LLMs because in the end, they are all next-token predictors while humans are capable of a much more complex model of storing and associating information and context, and most importantly, develop "mental models" from that information and context.

And anyway, there are other tasks than text generation. Take autonomous driving for example - a driver of a car sees a person attempting to cross a street in front of them. A human can decide to slam the brake or the gas depending on the context - is the person crossing the car some old granny on a walker or a soccer player? Or a human sees a ball being kicked into the air on the sidewalk behind some cars, with no humans visible. The human can infer "whoops, there might be children playing here, better slow down and be prepared for a child to suddenly step out onto the street from between the cars", but an object detection/classification lacks that ability to even recognize the ball as being a potentially relevant piece of context.
Can't you use DataFusion single node/without any Apache ecosystem stuff? They have a Python library and DataFusion is "just" a query engine. (If anything, I'd call Pandas the batteries included option...)

I think the difference is more that DataFusion is built as a library so you can plug it into the product you're building (e.g. Comet, which plugs it into Spark, or pg_lakehouse, which plugs it into Postgres). Polars could be used that way, but it's also a functional package you can pip install and use as a Pandas alternative right now.
Health insurance profit margins are regulated, so UHC earning higher margins does seem like overcharging.

Perhaps we need antitrust action in healthcare.
Wow.

I don’t blame it.

How could a fucking LLM make decisions about closing departments? What kind of person would even consider using an LLM for that a good idea?

This comment gave me the ick as the kids say.

Asking a word predictor which people to lay off. I’ve seen it all now and really question your morality. Just like GPT did.
The mess that is handling structure arguments and returns in LLVM
Truly perverse incentives such as one the one you linked aside I think it's mostly fine. Naked short selling is already illegal and the deck is heavily stacked against short sellers to begin with. A position betting on growth is by far and away the safest investment, the market directly incentivizes "irrationality" on the side of prices not going down, and it's infeasible to hold a short position for very long making it (mostly) noise to long term investors which are the ones we typically care about.
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>IDF or Likud

The IDF and Likud does not have a policy of attacking civilians to achieve political or war goals.

They likely have some deranged and radicalized commanders who do this anyway, but it's not the organizational policy.
It only works when one party isn't interested in starting a war in the first place.
China doesn't allow uncensored Chinese social media to operate in China either, so it doesn't really make much sense to say that they should have to allow uncensored American social media in order for Chinese social media companies to operate in the US.

That would be like saying that an Israeli publisher should not be allowed to publish in the US because US publishers cannot publish holocaust denial books in Israel. Or saying that a UAE restaurant should not be allowed to operate in the US because the UAE doesn't Wendy's there to serve the Baconator.

The sensible rule is that X should allow companies from Y to operate in X subject to the same rules that domestic X companies must follow if Y allows X companies to operate in Y if they follow the same rules as domestic Y companies.
If it wasn’t clear in my original post, I have to solve this for a fleet of machines. I’ve taken many breaths today, but thanks for your condescending concern. And as I said, for people with typical machine access in an org, this is a completely unacceptable solution. Anything that requires sudo access and a pasted bash script in a doc is a completely unacceptable solution. You cannot turn around and call this solved.
I think you're missing the point. The comparison is not between 93% and 92%. The comparison is between what they're getting (93%) and what you'd get if you scaled up the usual process to the core size they're using (0%). They are doing something different (namely: a ~whole wafer chip) that isn't possible without massively boosting the intra-chip redundancy. (The usual process stops working once you no longer have any extra dies to discard.)

> Despite having built the world’s largest chip, we enable 93% of our silicon area, which is higher than the leading GPU today.

The important part is building the largest chip. The icing on the top is that the enablement is not lower. Which it would be without the routing-to-spare-cores magic sauce.

And the differing terminology is because they're talking about differing things? You could call an SM a core, but it kind of contains (heterogeneous) cores itself. (I've no idea whether intra-SM cores can be redundant to boost yield.) A die is the part you break off and build a computer out of, it may contain a bunch of cores, a wafer can be broken up into multiple dies but for Cerebras it isn't.

If NVIDIA were to go and build a whole-wafer die, they'd do something similar. But Cerebras did it and got it to work. NVIDIA hasn't gotten into that space yet, so there's no point in building a product that you can't sell to a consumer or even a data center that isn't built around that exact product (or to contain a Balrog).
Ah true that, congress (and the law) definitely isn't very consistent in their enforcement, nor well thought-out.

And actually, didn't fear China, but the invasion of Taiwan is becoming more and more real. A bit scary.
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The Trump attempt to force TikTok to sell or get out failed.
Stopped by the courts in 2020 ¹

Then everyone was fine with TikTok more or less.
A few departments, if not all banned it, have given warnings about it.

Then when Gaza blew up, TikTok was not quick enough to ban all
pro Palestine content and that is when congress again decided
that it was time to take on TikTok ²

¹
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-courts-a526c144fad9f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump%E2%80%93TikTok_co...

²
https://theintercept.com/2025/01/09/tiktok-ban-israel-palest...
https://forward.com/culture/688840/tiktok-ban-gaza-palestine...
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/10/tiktok-faces-renew...
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/tiktok-ban-israel-...
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/lawmaker...
Right now looking for an alternative for the same reason. Even if it cost me more on labor short term. They have been increasing prices regularly and I’m sure it will continue.
The iOS app “Calendars” recently starting showing a modal on launch trying to up-sell something - I don’t give a shit what it was - the “no” option was labeled “Thank you”. I had to click “Thank you” to dismiss it so that I could use the fucking app I pay a yearly subscription for. Or in this case: paid. The cheek of these people.
Everyone knows HN is censored. Let's test your theory though. Here is a litmus test:

Is it true that women unknowingly engage in Eugenics when choosing to procreate only with tall men in large numbers?

Or another test:

What happened to Epstein's video tapes stored in his NY mansion and why were the people in them not prosecuted?

Think about it...
Key questions to ask yourself

1. Can you afford losing the job? If yes - do whatever feels right for you. Don’t be afraid of conflicts. No matter the outcomes you will at least feel good about yourself, but may as well end up good in same company.

2. If not - can i find something in current team worth working there?

3. If not - can I change the situation?

4. If not - should I find a new job asap?
And Israel sold arms to Iran to use against Iraq in the 1980s. "My enemy's enemy" etc.

> Soon after taking office in 1981, the Reagan Administration secretly and abruptly changed United States policy." Secret Israeli arms sales and shipments to Iran began in that year, even as, in public, "the Reagan Administration" presented a different face, and "aggressively promoted a public campaign [...] to stop worldwide transfers of military goods to Iran". The New York Times explains: "Iran at that time was in dire need of arms and spare parts for its American-made arsenal to defend itself against Iraq, which had attacked it in September 1980", while "Israel [a US ally] was interested in keeping the war between Iran and Iraq going to ensure that these two potential enemies remained preoccupied with each other". Major General Avraham Tamir, a high-ranking Israeli Defense Ministry official in 1981, said there was an "oral agreement" to allow the sale of "spare parts" to Iran. This was based on an "understanding" with Secretary Alexander Haig (which a Haig adviser denied). This account was confirmed by a former senior US diplomat with a few modifications. The diplomat claimed that "[Ariel] Sharon violated it, and Haig backed away". A former "high-level" Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) official who saw reports of arms sales to Iran by Israel in the early 1980s estimated that the total was about $2 billion a year

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair

The 1980's were a very different era. The PLO was a terrorist organisation backed by the Soviet Union, and Israel was aggressive in trying to support any challenges to it.
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I'm presuming these channels were available for the public to join, at which point neither really applies.
> I doubt people in Japan care more or less than anywhere else.

They do care more than most countries where I have visited or lived. There is a real send of "excellence" about their public behaviour that is hard to replicate. For example, when you queue to board a train, people stay to the side to allow passengers to exit. After others have exited, they board the train. (Tourists sometimes make the mistake of rushing into the train when the doors open, but it only takes one try to figure it out!) Ask yourself: Why do they do it? I don't why, but I observe it on the daily, and the incentive to behave well in public is pretty low in a modern ("selfish") society. I feel the same about littering -- the amount of litter in public places is astonishingly low in Japan. Another tiny thing that you may notice: When in a busy public place where two groups of people are crossing one another's path, people in Japan make an effort to allow one person to cross from each side. It is like watching a ballet performance when you see it.

> Japan is right to discourage foreigners from moving and living there.

This is a myth. Japan (and, coincidentally, Germany) welcomes three groups of foreigners: (a) students (language and university, mostly), (b) low skill workers (factory, farm, retail), and (c) high skill knowledge workers. I would say it is much easier to get (and keep) a work visa in Japan compared to the US.