skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No love for Trump or libertarians but I am a cypherpunk[0] at heart. I'm on board with the idea of ensuring that things can happen online outside of the jurisdiction of any nation[1], so for his part in building towards that I'm happy Ross is free.

On the other hand, it's clear to me that the correct amount of jail time wasn't zero either, given everything else he allegedly did.

[0] https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html

[1] I think about this in the same way that we accept the possibility of bad things happening because people can have private conversations in their own home, or are able to have complete control over potentially dangerous tools and vehicles. IMO the risks are worth the trade-offs and these are important rights to protect in the relationship between people, technology, and government (or whoever wields power).
1. At this scale, we’re not just talking about buying GPUs. It requires semiconductor fabs, assembly factories, power plants, batteries/lithium, cooling, water, hazardous waste disposal. These data centers are going to have to be massively geo-engineered arcologies.

2. What are they doing? AGI/ASI is a neat trick, but then what? I’m not asking because I don’t think there is an answer; I’m asking because I want the REAL answer. Larry Ellison was talking about RNA cancer vaccines. Well, I was the one that made the neural network model for the company with the US patent on this technique, and that pitch makes little sense. As the problem is understood today, the computational problems are 99% solved with laptop-class hardware. There are some remaining problems that are not solved by neural networks, but by molecular dynamics, which are done in FP64. Even if FP8 neural structure approximation speeds it up 100x, FP64 will be 99% of the computation. So what we today call “AI infrastructure” is not appropriate for the task they talk about. What is it appropriate for? Well, I know that Sam is a bit uncreative, so I assume he’s just going to keep following the “HER” timeline and make a massive playground for LLMs to talk to each other and leave humanity behind. I don’t think that is necessarily unworthy of our Apollo-scale commitment, but there are serious questions about the honest of the project, and what we should demand for transparency. We’re obviously headed toward a symbiotic merger where LLMs and GenAI are completely in control of our understanding of the world. There is a difference between watching a high-production movie for two hours, and then going back to reality, versus a never-ending stream of false sensory information engineered individually to specifically control your behavior. The only question is whether we will be able to see behind the curtain of the great Oz. That’s what I mean by transparency. Not financial or organizational, but actual code, data, model, and prompt transparency. Is this a fundamental right worth fighting for?
First of all, that is factually incorrect -- Trump received 28.1% of the vote in Santa Clara county, which is significantly lower than 1/3rd. Source: https://results.enr.clarityelections.com/CA/Santa_Clara/1225....

Second of all, your bar for "essentially pro-Trump" being 1/3rd of the vote is ridiculous, by your standard almost every county in America is "essentially pro-Trump".
https://programming-language-benchmarks.vercel.app/java-vs-j...
Enjoyed the article.

Particularly liked comparing the current AI / AI Agent hype to the no-code hype.

> I remember in 2015, when I was still in university everybody was telling me that developers are about to be replaced with no-code.

Spot on!
New Fire Explodes North of Los Angeles, Forcing Evacuations
Don't worry: SCOTUS will determine that the Framers did not have a history and tradition of protecting metadata, so the Fourth Amendment has no application here; and, furthermore, the Court's recent jurisprudence regarding the Executive (dieu et mon droit) necessarily implies that the Government has an extremely compelling interest sufficient to overcome the Fourth Amendment and permit warrantless searches of everyone in the United States and elsewhere.
Sooooo, I always saw offices with neon bulbs, so, very very cold light (well, actually "hotter" in Kelvin degrees...) and very bright. So I copied this in my home office, which is a 12 square meter (130 square foot) room with 6x 7000K bulbs, each emitting about 800 lumen.
Am I doing totally wrong, according to TFA?
Should I replace them with warm bulbs? I'usong GU10 bulbs.
I have owned a Unicorn mill for nearly 20 years, and it is still going strong.
We see similar issues on LessWrong. We're constantly being hit by bots that are egregiously badly behaved. Common behaviors include making far more requests per second than our entire userbase combined, distributing those requests between many IPs in order to bypass the rate limit on our firewall, and making each request with a unique user-agent string randomly drawn from a big list of user agents, to prevent blocking them that way. They ignore robots.txt. Other than the IP address, there's no way to identify them or find an abuse contact.
> They are not told they need to get an engineering, medical, or finance degree to make going to college worth it, economically.

This is a very well known fact. When I was in high school in the 2000s, it was a well known joke about how the arts / english majors won't land you a job. And even if you never heard about it, the data for average salary for graduates in the college, its dropout rates, and salary by majors is highly publicized. This isn't advanced research to do and in the age of internet, someone considering college should be able to do. I think the problem is no one believes they are the average case and instead are the exception who'll make it work.
TPOT already exists in the ML field, it was a somewhat popular autoML package a few years ago if I remember correctly and still seems to be around: https://github.com/EpistasisLab/tpot2
Yep, I worked on a B2B product riddled with features that were there to make a sale. The success rate of those features converting to a sale was less than 20%, and none of those conversions were the whale clients.

The features were typically well implemented and integrated with the rest of the product, and totally unused.

The features added substantially to the complexity of the code base. It's funny to see HN defend quality over quick and dirty software. Though I understand and agree with the sentiment, the unused features were much more difficult to remove because of their "quality" (as measured in the eyes of the dev team).
So here's a modern Greek perspective to add to the choir. In modern Greek zero is indeed plural, you would say 0 βαθμοί for example to say 0 degrees. However, in contrast to English:

1.5 books
ενάμιση βιβλίο -- singular!

You are functionally saying something closer to "a book and a half" in english I guess! Actually this is an interesting duality in english: 1.5 books but a book and a half. Guess it depends on how "separate" linguistically the numbers are: is it one book and a half book or is it a single quantity? Greek for decimals between 1 and 2 picks the "two quantities" approach.
I'm no blockchain forensics...icist, but coins were moved from let's say one main Silk Road wallet to many other people's wallets legitimately, or as legit as a illicit drug transaction can be. Silk Road wallet A transfers coins to rando person's wallet B. Also, wallet A occasionally transfers to wallet F which he owns. Who's to say which wallets he controls?

One of the possible ways Ulbricht got caught was a single Google Captcha that showed his IP address (San Francisco, go figure). So he covered his tracks pretty well.
Wild baboons fail mirror test for self-awareness, anthropologists find
> That's a nice thought but in practice it's infeasible to keep different branches for different UI/feature sets around in perpetuity.

So fixing a big here, introducing a bug there. /s
Hell yeah. They do strike me as opening up some exciting possibilities—the fact that we can now do math on semantic information (something that has famously evaded prior attempts to do math on it) is really intriguing.
You can still get an FHA loan and put 3.5% down.
What information from the Wikipedia article on Race and Intelligence is getting censored by American tech companies in their language models?
Nuts are so deceptive.

I love almonds and because I love them so much, if I don't portion them out then I end up eating 2-3X the calories that I thought I did so easily.

I pretty much eat 1k calories per day during the week and then 2-3k on the weekend.

It took constant lowering of calories over a year to get to this point but being hungry just feels normal and natural for me. There must be something with fat adaption going on as I never feel low on energy. Eating during the week has been completely divorced from a pleasurable activity to me too. Chicken breast, nuts, vegetables, not much else during the week. It is just easy at this point for me to wait to eat for pleasure on the weekend.
How to create Custom notification channels in Laravel
You can't just compare things to the Manhattan project. The Manhattan project was large for it's time, but the thing they were doing was ultimately, simple. You can build a nuclear bomb with simply a large enough sphere of enriched U-235 and it'll explode. Which is what the Hiroshima bomb was - a gun type assembly. This is not a complex device.

The relative complexity of projects only ever increases, because if they were simpler we would already have done them. The modern LHC is far more complicated then the Manhattan project. So is ITER. Hell, the US military's logistics chain is more complicated then the Manhattan project.

The fundamental attribution error here is going "look the power to destroy a city was so much cheaper!"
I don't know if it qualifies as happy given I do not experience emotions for companies or services but thus far I have not had too many issues with Fastmail. I keep my self hosted infrastructure in the event the other shoe drops such as they get too big and start misbehaving or they go out of business because of some law their HQ is in AU. I too am pleased with my Brother laser-jet.

As for tools, I find OpenSSH, Mosh, NSD DNS, Unbound DNS, LFTP, Nginx, HAProxy, Tinc VPN, Firefox and assorted other Linux tools useful on a daily basis.
What do you mean by second party here?
This is so, so cool. Reminds me of Clockwork Pi stuff. Thanks for sharing :)
Same here. Sounds like people are describing their yoga studios in this thread. Not for me.
It's worth nothing that type checking can also verify things that cannot reasonably be verified by tests. Things like exhaustiveness checking ("you handled every possible value of this enum") or, even simpler "you didn't attempt to access a property that does not exist on this object."
> but argv is a function parameter to main()¹, and only that.

> ¹ or technically whatever your ELF entry point is, _start in crt0 or your poison of choice.

Once you include the footnote, at least on linux/macos (not sure about Windows), you could take the same perspective with regards to envp and the auxiliary array. It's libc that decided to store a pointer to these before calling your `main`, not the abi. At the time of the ELF entry point these are all effectively stack local variables.
Yes because there are no downsides to managing rental property - vacancies, long eviction processes, maintenance, etc.
Yeah, it doesn't seem egregious what he was up to. Fix a couple levees and throw up a country club on the water, pretty normal stuff. He was just a monumental moron for doing it without kissing the ring every step of the way and giving up the resultant pounds of flesh in the regulatory climate he did. They'll let developers do way, way, way worse but those guys are playing by "the rules".

It must have been his first waterfront development or something.
fine, partially responsible is still a huge difference
haha brilliant, but make it VERY scary, there needs to be sound too
this site has good news feeds and up-to-date maps showing fire progress and evacuation zones https://app.watchduty.org/i/41039
Looks like an interesting platform Johny. Where do you imagine Folks will go in the future? What types of interactions are you hoping will happen?
It's not necessarily unethical to break the law, merely illegal.

Civil disobedience is a pretty important part of how we have always dealt with bad laws and bad governments.
> A function which sets global process state is not thread safe? Why, I'm shocked; shocked and chagrined.

This is a oversimplification. Windows has essentially the exact same API and it works just fine in multithreaded contexts.

The issue here is unix allows the underlying pointer to be accessed, bypassing any possible thread-safe APIs.
But statically typed languages like ocaml, haskll, fsharp have repls too
> The Parcae project revolutionized electronic eavesdropping

And the ieee revolutionized propaganda. /s
What do you use as the diffuser? I also use these, but they're a bit too bright and I find myself shutting them off because the light isn't diffuse enough.
This kind of thing is so avoidable by anyone who has not sold their soul. The answer is: if a company wants you to do a deal but requires as a condition that you not reveal to anyone that you are doing a deal with that company, you just say no. It's that simple.
This article is unreadable on mobile with ads. No, I don’t use an ad-blocker on mobile, I just give up after a moment of playing whack-a-mole.

I guess that tracks, given the url.
His arguments about the feasibility of a 51% attack are off by an order of magnitude, and the fact that you can't easily reduce the amount of energy needed to mine is a feature, not a bug
So you wanna write Kubernetes controllers?
Code syntax highlighting libraries for react use dangerouslySetInnerHTML.
Agreed. Same with me. have u tried windsurf?
Three ways of updating your beliefs, in light of new evidence
I mean, the FBI's been doing this with grooming their own "terrorists" (embededded agents prodding people to say Anti-American things, and then prodding them to perform a terrorist attack by supplying them with the plan and bomb supplies...).
It works when data is cheap, and model size is not an issue.
this is new, will check it out
Spain's youth unemployment halved in ten years from 57%+ to 26%.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth_unemployment_in_Spain#....

Yes, cost of living got worse. This does not in any way make the EU poor.
telegram - because it is as perfect as a real software product can be

m1 macbook - because it is an amazing value

nespresso original coffee maker and pods - because it is a good taste yet quick and low maintenance

recent toyota corolla - because it has everything average inexperienced occasional driver like me needs in a nicely balanced, comfortable and economical to drive package
Why Did Adrian Wojnarowski Take a 99% Pay Cut? To Save the Team He Loves
Assuming a sufficiently functional congress[0], why not require that pardons go through congress as well rather than be unilateral presidential actions?

[0] A big if, I know…
probably never. HN is built around linking outside the platform and the guidelines encourage linking directly to sources, which are sometimes X posts. HN also isn't user moderated with a structure allowing users to make a decision like that.

reddit also has an incentive to keep people on the platform as much as possible so subreddits choosing to ban X links will likely only be a net positive for the site's engagement and ad views.
> in many major cities, you can make it off of $65K

This is certainly not true in any of the cities near me.
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/magazine/adrian-wojnarows...
btw, if you have 2 different monitors on different lengths from your eye you change focus more frequently and your eyes feel better.

A laptop + big monitor is less irritating for the eyes as long as they aren't put exactly on the same line.
http://web.mit.edu/6.033/2007/wwwdocs/assignments/handson-li...

>I fully recognize that there are dangers and risks to which I may be exposed by participating in Reproduction of Therac-25 accidents . The following is a description and/or examples of significant dangers and risks associated with this activity
Acute gullibility, Failure to understand April Fool's jokes, Night terrors associated with medical radiation machines .
Lame article, that's not a war. I thought this would be about the Egg War of the Farallon Islands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_War
There's a big difference between "flat"/shallow and "flat"/we don't have job titles.

Good organizations allow interactions without too many gates. Which is what the good kind of flat refers to.
That is the lie you tell yourself. But smoking doesn't give you Feel Good chemicals.
It temporarily resets the clock of slowly building Feel Bad chemicals back to zero or back to lower.
Its basically the same as saying: releasing that string - that I wound around my big toe - every once in a while gives me Feel Good chemicals.
You are just relieving stress that has been created by the tobacco.
China also eats far more food than a lot of countries too. The only fair comparison is per capita.
> It's going to be very easy for you to deny their existence

And why would I do that? I think you're misunderstanding my point. All I meant to say is trans people are people, and I treat them as people not as trans. Same applies to literally any person I encounter. If someone comes out to me as trans, I'll have to reply with "ok, cool, I hope you're happy", because I just don't care about people's identities? And then continue on with our conversation.

Trans people exist, but bringing this topic up on every political issue, I think, makes it even worse for them. Bigots and assholes exist, and they will always try to pin their misfortunes on vulnerable people. Yesterday it was the gays, today it's trans people. On Tuesdays, it seems to be Indian immigrants and so on. The best I can do is treat people as people, vote for people who don't rally on hate towards others, and continue with my life.

Also, I don't live in the states :)
This encapsulates why I hated being a product manager. You become the "no" person. It's your job to kill creativity and the ideas that actually motivate people to want to work on them.

Blah blah blah the interests of the business. Fuck that. Capitalism sucks the joy out of software.
Yeah, light behind the monitor is a great idea. Reduces contrast between the bright monitor and dark background.

I've used this for years and it makes working during the evening so much better.
Yeah, that also seems plausibly consistent with zanek's simplistic argument.
That's a superpower, I'm just not sure it's a useful one.
> Nothing we have actually looks like this story! Nothing! [...] So what do these models look like? GPT style models predict the next word based off what it’s seen previously at training time. [...] There’s no machinery here that’s going to generate a bunch of plans and compare them against each other.

Yep. Sometimes I come across an explanation or metaphor which I just can't put down since it just has so much explanatory power, and for modern "AI" (read: LLMs) it's this: We've made what is independently a really cool document-generator, and we're dramatically over-hyping it to fool ourselves with collaborate fiction writing.

A word-appender machine that slaps together interesting half-recycled stories about a fictional $X doesn't mean the machine is an $X, even when $X = "a very smart machine."

> another AI which was shown a bunch of smiling people and made the dumbest, most limited inference about what we want.

That reminds me of the side-character Morpheus from Deus Ex (2000): The prototype spy/monitoring AI believed humans enjoyed being surveilled, since all of the elite bigwigs invited for a private demo would start smiling as it showed off all the information about them it was able to collect.

> "I was a prototype for Echelon IV. My instructions are to amuse visitors with information about themselves." [...] "Human beings feel pleasure when they are watched. I have recorded their smiles as I tell them who they are.
This is really cool!

There are some obvious next steps for improving the polish on this, would you say you were more resource constrained, time constrained, or skill constrained?

For instance, did you put any thought into making flex PCBs to make the cable routing easier?

I also think the concept of a laptop with a removable wireless keyboard is brilliant, and I think your implementation is a lot cleaner than e.g. the Surface or the iPad's case-keyboards. If I had a laptop that did that, it would be my go-to travel machine. One less thing to cart around.
You could try generating per-view depth maps, going to a point cloud and meshing from there. (I suspect splats may reduce your accuracy as an intermediate.)

I’m not aware of a fully-baked workflow for that — though it may exist. The first step has gotten really good: the recent single-shot AI models for depth are pretty visually impressive (I don’t know about metric accuracy).

The ones I’m aware of are DUST3R and the newer MAST3R:

https://github.com/naver/dust3r
https://github.com/naver/mast3r

Good luck!
> there's a theory that autocracies "liberalize" when there is no clear successor

Isn’t the clearer history one of civil war?
55% means basically nothing in this context if even money. Long 45% to 55% is most likely completely random because it is symmetric with shorting 45% to 55%

Exactly what you would expect from a language model making random stock picks.
Who’s rolling out, managing, scaling, and iterating this mass AI?

How many mass AIs are there going to need to be?

Who’s deciding what to use it for??

Who’s auditing the mass AI’s output?

Who will you call when the AI inevitably go off the rails?

Who will debug the mass AI that went off the rails so the lessons can be learned and integrated into the next generation of mass AI?

Who will build, deploy, and supervise that next generation of mass AI?

These and other questions, attempted thoughtfully one by one, should make it harder and harder to hold on to a belief that we can ever run out of work for humans. The work will keep getting better as more is done for us - more creative, and less drudgerous; but it’ll never stop being directed by us because we are the interface to the human world.
Not OP but look into "computer glasses". Usually they're optimized for distances a bit closer than 1.5 meters, but I'm sure that can be changed.
But the standard implementation could copy the environment at startup, and only uses its copy.

And the library's use of setenv is clearly a bug as setenv is documented to be not threadsafe in the C standard library. So that would take care of that problem.
I mean, yes, we're in "violent agreement" there. It's nice that libc squirrels away a copy and gives you a `getenv()` function with a string lookup, but… setenv… that was just a horrible idea. It's not really wrong to view it as a tool that allows you to muck around with main()'s local variables. Which to me sounds like one should take a shower after using it ;D

(Ed.: the man page should say "you are required to take a shower after writing code that uses setenv(), both to get off the dirt, but also to give you time to think about what you are doing" :D)