skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That could also lead someone to blow the hatch.
There's your startup idea: communist ycombinator. ;)
The youth has energy and are naive and will take a bad deal. They will work hard while others will make money off their work. Also, the author is not a man.
Ask HN: JavaScript Unminifier Using LLMs?
Has anyone built a Javascript un-obfuscator / un-minifier that not only improves the formatting but also swaps in more meaningful variable and function names, and adds some human readable comments explaining the function of code?

Packaging this into a browser extension that works along with dev tools would all but make JS obfuscation pointless, I reckon.
> It's not that hard of a problem to solve at the application level.

I think it will be easy if you are focused on one or two models from the same family, but I think the complexity comes when you try to get a lot models to act in the same way.
Doesn't mention north stars at all sadly.

While we all (should) know that the Earth rotates on its axis, not as many people know that the axis is 'wobbly', kind of like a children's top as it slows down a bit. So a line that goes through the North and South Poles points differently over time: currently it points roughly to Polaris, but go back a while—e.g., Ancient Egypt—and it pointed to Thuban (and other starts between then and now):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_star

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaris

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuban

See also two related stars for the Egyptians:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Indestructibles

The current idea is that they used those star(s) to align the pyramids:

* https://www.astronomy.com/science/are-the-egyptian-pyramids-...

* https://earthsky.org/brightest-stars/thuban-past-north-star/

* https://www.science.org/content/article/stars-date-egyptian-...

If anyone is traveling/visiting the Western US, and can drop by the Hoover Dam, a similar astronomical design element is present:

> On the western flank of the Hoover Dam stands a little-understood monument, commissioned by the US Bureau of Reclamation when construction of the dam began in 01931. The most noticeable parts of this corner of the dam, now known as Monument Plaza, are the massive winged bronze sculptures and central flagpole which are often photographed by visitors. The most amazing feature of this plaza, however, is under their feet as they take those pictures.

> The plaza’s terrazzo floor is actually a celestial map that marks the time of the dam’s creation based on the 25,772-year axial precession of the earth.

* https://medium.com/the-long-now-foundation/the-26-000-year-a...
No, that just means the identities split into smaller groups that constantly fight for power within larger coalitions. Instead of Red vs Blue you get racial groupings and all sorts of subdivisions.

Lebanon is a good example of what happens when you try to enshrine smaller subdivisions than A vs B.
It's kind of like me reading the wikipedia page on the Monty Hall problem.

I read an explanation about why it makes sense to change doors. But no, my gut tells me there's a 50/50 chance. I scroll down, repeat...
Even a well intended non autocratic democratically elected multi party system could accidentally pull off a dystopic opening of pandora’s box when it comes to AI. In the grand scheme of things I’m not sure we’re any safer if we live in a democracy.
The transaction fees are insane. For example, xe.com charges $3 to send $10 via an ACH transfer from US Dollars to Indian Rupees.
It was all creative disruption, Kodak again.

It's easier to act as EVs are not coming than change the old investor base.
At this point I think even people trapped for two years on the International Space Station have heard about the Astral toolchain.
>Lack of local development. It's a known thing that there is no way of running GitHub Actions locally.

This is one thing I really love about Buildkite[0] -- being able to run the agent locally. (Full disclosure: I also work for Buildkite.) The Buildkite agent runs as a normal process too (rather than as a Docker container), which makes the process of workflow development way simpler, IMO. I also keep a handful of agents running locally on my laptop for personal projects, which is nice. (Why run those processes on someone else's infra if I don't have to?)

>Reusability and YAML

This is another one that I believe is unique to Buildkite and that I also find super useful. You can write your workflows in YAML of course -- but you can also write them in your language of choice, and then serialize to YAML or JSON when you're ready to start the run (or even add onto the run as it's running if you need to). This lets you encapsulate and reuse (and test, etc.) workflow logic as you need. We have many large customers that do some amazing things with this capability.

[0]: https://buildkite.com/docs/agent/v3
TypeScript enums were added in large part because union types didn't exist at the time. Those don't require you to write out anything like the above. The only case where you would need to write out number literals like that would be if you specifically wanted the values to be numbers for some reason, rather than interned strings.

In the vast majority of cases, there's no good reason to do that.

Edit: But no, the reason enums in TypeScript suck is not that JS doesn't have them. That wouldn't fix anything other than the type stripping problem. The main reason that they suck is that they use a completely different type model from the rest of the language.
And accept that there’s a good chance this will accomplish nothing but getting you on their naysayers list.

People can continue behavior where all they really need to do is stop actively harming themselves for no gain at all for years. It’s bizarre to watch from the outside. In the best cases they haven’t roped anyone else into their delusion-bubble.
I agree. I've said this repeatedly: Why shouldn't US consumers benefit from Chinese govt subsidies?

Your post is the first time I've seen anyone else note this...
Some previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34788020

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37908760
Personally, agree with calling people what they want to be called. That said, here's a thought experiment: What if someone is inconvenienced? What if someone feels uncomfortable using pronouns that don't match the sex of the person? What about uncommon "neopronouns" like "zhe", "xe", or "fae"?

Whose comfort gets priority in this situation?
Thanks for the anecdote. I think a lot of us have been there, promoted into roles we're not quite ready for. The responsible ones kick into high gear to meet the challenge. I remember cramming a new programming language and framework when faced with a potential high-profile (public) failure for a new employer.

But when people repeatedly demonstrate that they don't have the mindset or aptitude for the role, or important aspects of it, they need to be relieved of responsibility for those aspects. I'm griping about the individuals for whom that isn't done.
The contrary view is based on dicta in the Slaughterhouse Cases, decided less than a decade after the 14th amendment: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/83/36/

> All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."

> The first observation we have to make on this clause is that it puts at rest both the questions which we stated to have been the subject of differences of opinion. It declares that persons may be citizens of the United States without regard to their citizenship of a particular State, and it overturns the Dred Scott decision by making all persons born within the United States and subject to its jurisdiction citizens of the United States. That its main purpose was to establish the citizenship of the negro can admit of no doubt. The phrase, "subject to its jurisdiction" was intended to exclude from its operation children of ministers, consuls, and citizens or subjects of foreign States born within the United States.
O(year) ≈ O(term) / 4

(Assuming that all terms are the full 4 years long, which happens to be the case for all of the presidents being discussed in this thread)
Having watched some of his streams on the topic, I think you've captured it well. He's basically saying he's done wasting time on AMD unless/until they get serious. It's not so much that he wants free hardware from them, rather he wants to see them put some skin in the game as they basically blew him off the last time he tried to engage with them.
To skip the high-level presentation and directly download the paper, visit the AI research section at https://mltblog.com/3zsnQ2g, and look for paper 51.

Any solution to the mythical problem in question has remained elusive for centuries. It is deemed more difficult than proving the Riemann Hypothesis, yet its formulation can be understood by kids in elementary school.

This article sets a significant milestone towards a full resolution. It serves as a blueprint, featuring the architecture of a highly constructive yet difficult proof, based on new theoretical developments and concepts designed specifically to tackle the problem, with success.

The goal is to transition from experimental to theoretical number theory. Yet, I use illustrations with numbers that are so big that no amount of computing power will ever be able to handle them. Obviously, I use some tricks here, and such numbers make the patterns and their complexity easier to detect with the naked eye. Most importantly, these patterns can be explained with theoretical arguments based on the new theory: the iterated self-convolutions of infinite strings of characters and their congruence classes, akin to p-adic numbers, in a special topological space.

Finally, there is a strong connection to the deepest aspects of discrete dynamical systems approaching their chaotic regime. Also, there are practical applications to cryptography,

Read the executive summary and access the free paper, at https://mltblog.com/3PEFh42
That's a tokenizer issue though?
Trump rescinds AI order by Biden
Gosh this is disgusting
Well, presumably they own the offices that their staff are returning to.

But I'm more talking about wealth funds that own commercial real estate that are also shareholders in Amazon, quietly having a word with execs about how to get the workers back in the offices.

You know, the old "you should come for a weekend to the country and meet a few people", the people turn out to be incredibly rich and connected, and all they want from you is this little favour where you get all your people back in the office. Just for a while so they have the chance to unload their commercial real estate portfolio without taking a huge loss.
That is probably exactly what they did if they were smart about it.
To demonstrate that you're in the "in group", it is not enough to simply support most of what they are into. You must take a potentially expensive position that demonstrates your absolute support.

That's exactly what you're doing with your own rhetoric, you know.
Go Telemetry
"Failing for generating a return" makes it sound like a skill issue, when it was probably mostly bad luck with the business model you tried out. Negative results can be as valuable as positive results in science, why not in business?

Greedy optimization can also get you stuck in local minima. Why does any investor participate in VC? As an asset class it underperforms. There's something more that motivates people than return. Cool factor, bragging rights, and also I think a concern for growth and the macro outlook.

In my model the reserved pool of shares for failed founders would come out of the winning founders' pool. It's spreading risk across founders, not diminishing the stake of investors.
Why did this person write an essay about an essay, condemning it with a lot of serious accusations about potential future harm, while also stating they didn't fully read it?

He does some throat-clearing that help address some of these complaints.

It is a very bad essay that says "I am unfamiliar with the target of this essay, but I felt strong emotions when I read bits of it, which qualifies me to pontificate and condemn".
When you suddenly have a big financial windfall, all kinds of people crawl out of the woodwork and find you. One of those people introduced me to this VC. And BTW, I ended up losing well over a million dollars through him. It turned out that he was more of a VC wannabe than a real VC. He had never actually raised a real VC fund. He had just made some money of his own and used it to get himself a fancy office on the Third Street Promenade, and then he used that to get a few rich suckers (including me) to write him some checks. He wasn't a fraud -- all of the investments were legit. He just didn't have good deal flow because he didn't have the right connections. He was hewing to the fake-it-till-you-make-it philosophy. But he never made it.
Why are you even surprised? I mean, considering the demographics of this site, these stances are to be expected.
Wotan – Carl Jung
I don't know, probably need to get finops to run a report to find out. More than 256gb but scaled out. Don't need a single virtual machine with that much for most things.

I imagine you rarely need a lot of RAM like that on one machine except for ML and some specialist stuff. Maybe a CDN node. Not sure.
This looks really good. I wish I had had something like this many years ago when I was studying languages.

Somebody has already suggested adding spaced repetition and audio, which I agree with completely.

One more suggestion: In addition to having the LLM give you the meaning and example for the context in which you originally saw the word, also ask it to provide the word’s other main meanings and examples of it being used in those senses. You might encounter a word first in a slang or technical sense; while it’s useful to learn that meaning, it’s also important to learn other, more common meanings.

Below are some examples of words you might encounter first in technical contexts but would also be worth knowing in their more general meanings. (Examples suggested and defined by ChatGPT o1.)

canonical

Religious/General: Relating to a canon (e.g., church law) or a recognized body of works.

Math/Computing: Conforming to a standard or simplest form (e.g., “canonical form” of an equation).

resolution

General: A firm decision or determination (often heard in “New Year’s resolution”).

Tech/Imaging: The detail an image holds, typically measured in pixels, dots per inch (DPI), etc.

protocol

Diplomatic/General: The official procedure or set of rules governing state or ceremonial events.

Computing: A set of conventions and rules for transmitting data between electronic devices.

flux

General: Continuous movement or change, often implying instability.

Physics/Engineering: The amount of some quantity (e.g., heat, magnetism) passing through a given area over time.
Diversified ycombinator :+1:
Yeah I knew throwing Ive in there invites a skeptical response, but I really detest that guy's product-degrading mania and attitude.

And while the company obviously still thrived, Ive's intellectually bankrupt (and defective) design got bad enough to embarrass Apple even in the mainstream press. I thought this WSJ article was a brilliant dig: https://www.wsj.com/graphics/apple-still-hasnt-fixed-its-mac...
I'm using a parinfer plugin with Vim for writing TXR Lisp.

There are some issues, but it's usable.

I hacked in a hotkey to toggle it on and off (Ctrl-Underline).

The parinfer code from Vim does not work in the parens->indent direction, only indent->parens. I tried to get it working, but it didn't for me.

It doesn't properly understand the #; syntax for commenting out an object. It's possible for it to get into an endless loop when an undo operation restores invalid syntax; there is a kind of fight between undo and parinfer that has to be interrupted by Ctrl-C.

Otherwise it's mostly fine.
would make sense to reuse warden for Activision IP post merge
This is couched because he doesn't express a view, not because there's reason to doubt or to assume a level of acceptance.

Be charitable.
There was also the thing about low sulfur shipping causing a spike in temps? No idea if that’s potentially related or not.
I developed some audio software and it has been going pretty well. Difficult to market, and it’s only me, so I basically just don’t do marketing. Relies on organic spread and a few basic news/deals aggregators listing it.

Not the type of high revenue startup you see on HN usually but the craftsmanship style of custom C++ plugins has been enjoyable for me. It’s like working on old school WinAMP or something.

https://apu.software/
For an offline tool, there's yt-dlp which is already in your package manager, has 97k stars and supports 1800+ video sites [1].

yt-dlp https://www.facebook.com/reel/554986104203104

1: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/supportedsites....
A researcher gave a presentation on this topic a few years ago, "It's Sirius O'Clock: Astronomical Timekeeping in Ancient Egypt":

> Ever wondered how the Ancient Egyptians kept time? Well, Dr. Sarah Symons from McMaster University wondered about this, too. With the help of some of her colleagues, she participated in a research project to find out how they managed time. On April 10, 2019, she presented some of her findings at the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada - Toronto Centre's Speaker's Night. The meeting was held at the Ontario Science Centre in Toronto Canada.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak07dI-TALU

* https://experts.mcmaster.ca/display/symonss
Any more info about "Astral" the org?

I've used ruff/uv for sure, but I never pay attention to Astral who is behind it.
I can't see Hickey not liking parinfer; of course he had to mean something else.
It really is as fast as it claims. I sometimes intentionally add something it will complain about just to make sure it’s still working.
The JWST and Hubble are two totally different telescopes in that Hubble is mainly visible light spectrum where JWST is totally IR spectrum. They can both take an image of the exact same object and the images will look different. They cannot use JWST to fill in the gaps of a Hubble project.
I believe it is positive feedback loop tipping points being reached (thawing permafrost, for example), which is accelerating change beyond was was previously modeled.

https://salatainstitute.harvard.edu/thawing-permafrost-what-...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Complex how? He requested payment in the form of MI300X servers, which is unconventional, sure, but the value of the payment is not out of line with the support he proposed to provide IMO.
Um, no.

The three-fifths compromise was to reduce the power of the Southern states in the House of Representatives. The southern states wanted slaves counted in their population, thus increasing the southern's states power in that house, even though the slaves themselves would not have any voice in who was elected. The southern states would have (and did) use this power to continue slavery.

Re: the founding fathers and slave ownership. Thomas Jefferson treated his slaves as free people. Why didn't he actually emancipate them? Well, let's say he did, would anyone else recognize them as emancipated, respect their rights to own property, to work, to be free?

Be careful how you apply the context of this era when judging past eras.

And wonder how future generations will view us, who destroyed and slaughtered the earth for what?
I'm not a lawyer, but worked in the US for 6 years as a Canadian TN. The green card eligibility is the big differentiator between TN and H1B. Other than that, there isn't much difference that I could tell. One difference between Mexican and Canadian TNs is that Mexican TNs can switch employers without renewing TN, whereas with a Canadian TN you have to reenter the country when you switch employers.

When I was switching jobs I encountered a handful of companies that would consider H1B holders but would not consider TNs because they simply had no experience hiring TNs. I didn't fit their hiring pipeline.

I had some banks give me a rough time when seeking financing for buying a house, who were not familiar with TNs. Wells Fargo were willing to work with me.

Another issue I experienced (I think, my memory is fuzzy on this one) is because various members of my family had passports that expired on different dates (kids get a 3 year passport only), the TN and TD (dependent) were only granted up until the expiry of the passport, so less than 3 years that a TN could be granted for. To avoid costly plane flights I used to drive down to the Mexican border where the border folks were nice enough to renew my TN/TDs.

The US/Mexico border folks don't get many Canadians entering there so they aren't really set up for it. One time they erroneously gave me a Mexican TN authorization which I didn't learn about until I went back there to renew after switching jobs and the border person basically told me to get lost because I had a valid visa. I had to do some quick talking because even though I had a stamp, the visa was invalid because it is up to me to ensure I have valid work authorization.

The website for Canadians entering the US for TN purposes is clearly geared to Canadians entering from the Canadian side of the US, but doesn't explicitly say Canadians shouldn't enter from the Mexican side. It worked out in the end but no guarantees.

My advice: if the company is offering to switch you over to H1B, take them up on it. My employer originally said they would apply to switch me over to an H1B, but when it came time to actually do it, they no longer had budget to do it. This eventually became important because in Texas it affects the ability of your kids to apply for (state?) student loans (I'm fuzzy on this one). I ended up moving back to Canada to be with my kids while they go through university.
> Here's a NOTAM for a Starship launch (I don't know if it was for this one specifically, I don't want to use my limited brain cells right now):

2411 sticks out from the datestamp, so no, not this one unless the news article is 2 months late.
I think you need to try harder finding a good name :D
> He's basically saying he's done wasting time on AMD unless/until they get serious.

They are serious, they just don't respond to his demands.
I'm just catching up.. can someone please explain why this part is unreasonable?

- WordPress code is open-source.

- WP Engine is entitled to use the source code.

I don't see how that entitles a for-profit entity such as WP Engine, to use the non-profit wordpress.org theme/plugin repository resources and infrastructure for free?

If you were WP Engine, wouldn't you want to have your own copy that you control anyway? Am I missing something?
> Buying millions of ebooks online would take a lot of effort

I don't understand.

Facebook and Google spend billions on training LLMs. Buying 1M ebooks at $50 each would only cost $50M.

They also have >100k engineers. If they shard the ebook buying across their workforce, everyone has to buy 10 ebooks, which will be done in 10 minutes.
It doesn't matter whether it's a skill issue or not. They're investors. They are voluntarily offering money in exchange for a chance at a return. When you buy two shares of Tesla for $1000, you don't expect to pay them if they're driven out of business.

In the main, VC LPs put money into VC firms because they have portfolio allocation constraints for decorrelated investments, is how I understand it. It's definitely not out of charity.
Beautiful writing. I also read pg's essay and was also upset. Just know there are cis men like me who are on your side and hate where tech is going. The bigotry being out in the open is disturbing.
Crude is currently bordering on free and domestic production has never been higher. There are no levers the American government can pull that would lower prices on the supply side. As you quite rightly point out, the only thing that can lower fuel prices is on the demand side.
New tech turns seawater into drinking water without tons of chemicals