skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I got out of this was two different metrics:

One DPI, is a measure of what detail can be displayed on a given display and does not speak to whether a user can actually see it.

The other PPD, is a measure of human acuity and speaks to detail that can be seen regardless of distance.
I see it as hollow mainly because the democratic party and many of its supporters seemed to go silent after the election. I can only speak for myself, but if I truly believed he would end democracy in a few short years I'd be doing whatever I could to stop it. I say it seems hollow because I just can't imagine it being a serious, real threat and also rolling over.
Like most PG essays
3GB of Data + Unlimited SMS and Calls for free sounds very nice? Can you share the name of the provider so that we can add it to our eSIM comparison for Germany https://www.monito.com/en/esim-plans-compared
Or maybe the world is simply returning to the way it has been for pretty much all of recorded history. Wars, male dominance, two fixed genders, oligarchs and barons and racism is the norm for all human beings since forever. “Wokeness” is a very recent anomaly.
I think the problem is that humor isn't about reasoning and logic, but almost the reverse - it's about punchlines that surprise us (i.e. not what one would logically anticipate) and perhaps shock us by breaking taboos.

Even masters of humor like Seinfeld, with great intuition for what might work, still need to test new material in front of a live audience to see whether it actually does get a laugh or not.
>Till now, commenting or criticizing someone was fair game, not anymore. Musk and trump have shown they can petty and vindictive.

Tons of people criticize both of them. In fact, both Musk and Trump have publicly criticized each other, and have now made up.
Tell HN: AllTech IT Solutions using scammy AI sales bot
This is a great example of how not to deploy LLMs for your business.

I've been getting 6 calls a day, every weekday from this company. They use a really annoying AI that is set up to call back repeatedly until you pick up. I was able to get the bot to connect me to a live person and figure out that the company is this one: https://www.alltechsupport.com/ based in Birmingham, AL and their CEO is Jim Reichard.

This is really bad and annoying behavior from a company and I want to see if anyone else has been getting these calls from them, or share other companies doing this kind of crap.
The mere fact that pg takes the word “woke” seriously tells me he’s fallen for the right-wing doublespeak where they take a word vaguely related to left-wing ideals, pretend it means something else, apply to anyone center-right or leftward, and get the mainstream media and self-conscious centrists like Paul to accept their intentional distortions at face value.

This pattern happens again and again with words and phrases like “liberal”, “socialist”, “Black Lives Matter”, “critical race theory”, “woke”, and “DEI”. Anyone who can’t see through it is either okay with the distortion, or not as good an observer as they think.
Cold Reading an ADHD Affliction
That's a complete unknown, unfortunately, but to be clear, short of changing the green card law, there's little that an administration can do to impact the movement of the cutoff dates.
There's also a third type, that I consider to be the most likely reality given self-selected population of founders / successful leaders:

- People who will amorally play to the limits of the rules if it helps them win.

It doesn't matter what they personally feel, or even if they have feelings at all. They tack with whatever way the wind is blowing in order to derive the maximum benefit.

E.g. the million dollar inauguration contributions

That's not a lot of money for that sort of person. The point of kissing the ring is the visible action and the favor it curries, not because the kiss is dear.
We might not use HN the same way then...

I frequently give up on reading a thread midway down the page because it's requiring *too much focus*, and, get this, I might even interrupt my break and just go back to work early instead!

I don't think that would ever happen on a neverending infinite scroll of hyperengaging video.
What is “that kind” referring to? That kind of essay? The first essay? The response essay? That kind of definition? The author? Which author? That kind of person who is aggressively performative? If by “that kind” you mean that last definition, then let’s take one example in that happened recently and address your claim that “that kind” is inconsequential.

Undemocratically, performatively, anointing behind closed doors a weak but social justice signaling candidate to run on the democratic ticket in the recent US election, seems to have been just a wee bit consequential.
Right, I think that's a valid way of seeing it, and you pay them not to do the next highest productivity gaining job because their current job is productive, particularly in price inelastic sectors like healthcare.

The reason I think it's valid to call it a disease is because you want it to be higher productivity yet, and more price elastic. Increasing healthcare provider productivity would not lower their boats, it would either shift them into the next highest productivity job, or better all round, shift them into new roles within the healthcare system opened up by the increased productivity (for example, personalised healthcare).
> or become a Russian satellite

I'm sceptical Russia has this kind of power anymore, beyond being a proxy for China..
Show HN: Get structured website data with just a prompt
Hey everyone! Eric, Caleb, and Nick here from Firecrawl (YC S22).

We’re excited to announce the release of /extract - an endpoint that turns entire websites into structured data with just a prompt.
With /extract, you can retrieve any information from anywhere on a website without being limited by crawling/scraping roadblocks or the typical context constraints of LLMs.

Here’s how our new /extract endpoint works: Users provide a prompt or desired output schema along with URLs. We leverage our existing index, /map, and /crawl endpoints to gather relevant context. For pre-indexed sites, we use a mixture of vector search, keyword search and a custom classifier to identify the most relevant pages. Some thoughtful prompting and re-ranking algorithms analyze user intent and score pages accordingly. Once identified, relevant pages are batch scraped to retrieve fresh data.

For complex tasks, an AI agent determines the type of extraction needed and routes it to the appropriate pipeline. For example, extracting thousands of products dynamically creates a custom multi-entity schema, breaking the user’s schema into smaller parts that can be processed independently. This avoids relying on an LLMs small context window and enables efficient parallelization and merging of each independent extraction at the end.

We integrate structured outputs from OpenAI, small LLMs, and task-specific models for classification and prompting. The entire process is parallelized using BullMQ and Kubernetes on GCP GKE, ensuring scalability, speed and leverages our existing Firecrawl scraping infrastructure. The result is a structured, intent-aligned response tailored to the user’s needs.

Since starting Firecrawl, we knew it wouldn't just change web scraping. We realized that AI tools could process vastly more data than humans and traditional web search methods weren't designed for this ability to consume data at scale. This opened up a new paradigm for information retrieval - one that required quickly querying structured and unstructured datasets from across the web. We set out to make building web datasets at scale easy and /extract is a major step towards this future.

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Sorry. My expertise is limited to U.S. immigration law.
Anyone doubting this need only run a given display rotated 90 degrees.

Regarding video, age plays a big role too.

An under 30 user may claim to benefit from 8K video, and that is assuming the source material even delivers that resolution in the first place.

Over 30 viewers get far less out of 8k, generally speaking, the older they get.

And assuming high acuity, there is whether they enjoy the video more.

For me, and though I am aged now, learned a long time ago my overall enjoyment peaks at standard HD resolution. Looks more than good enough.

Frankly, higher resolution material is not always better. A display can be too good.

Sometimes a movie needs to just be a movie. That is harder to do at the very high resolutions. Viewers are taken out of the story when they see effects as effects.

The "soap opera" effect can be dramatic! High resolution and high frame rates trigger it increasingly easily.
> because maybe in the future JS runtimes might be able to strip away types for you without a build-step.

Not just the future. Node shipped this with an "experimental flag" in the last LTS and in Current it works without the flag (will ship in the next LTS without a flag). Deno has done something like this for years now, and Bun for nearly as long. The remaining question is if/when Browser support might also exist, which for now remains at Stage 1 discussions with the technical committee (TC-39).
> an actually meritocratic process

I find this hard to believe. Isn't Western society/democracy ostensibly setup to allow meritocratic advancement as well? Yet I think it's fairly well-established at this point it very much does not work that way in reality. So what is it about Chinese government/society that makes them impervious to the same factors that make meritocratic systems so difficult in the West? Greed, nepotism, and hunger for power to name but a few.
Prisons should not exist.
After I installed a high-COP, cold-climate heat pump in my Boston area house in 2020, I figured the wintertime running cost was about half again the cost of gas heat. However, the cost was about the same as that of running the somewhat ancient oil furnace the house came with.

Electricity prices in MA are high and are controlled by the marginal cost of gas to run generators, even though we have a significant fraction of renewable, hydro, and nuclear generation. Gas prices are also high because we're at the far end of the east coast natural gas pipeline network.

It's interesting to think about the whole chain -- burning gas in a high efficiency condensing furnace at home approaches 100% efficiency of conversion from chemical to heat energy.

Whereas utility generators that convert heat to electricity are upper bounded by the second law to ~60% efficiency, and then you have transmission losses on top of that. But you win roughly all that lossage back because your heat pump can pump ~3 units of outdoor heat energy into your house for every ~1 unit of electrical energy it consumes.

Add transmission costs and unfortunately heat pumps are more expensive here for now. But CO2 wise of course it still wins because of that renewal and nuclear share I talked about

More importantly, I can also install solar and start getting some energy "for free" (obviously, much more so in the summer than in the winter). And over time of course our renewable share will go up.
yes the original TTC paper mentioned the optimal strategy for TTC
There is no breakthrough required, it's trivial. It's just that by making a model do that, you'll screw it up on several other dimensions.

Asking a question like this only highlights the questioners complete lack of understanding of LLMs rather than an LLMs inability to do something.
Judicial review at the moment is just completely insane.

If you want to do anything it takes the best part of a decade of planning and environmental review, in large part because there are a small army of charitable organisations (often with their fees capped) waiting to challenge absolutely everything.

A government consultation was recently blocked! A consultation!

We need to completely destroy this system, they can do something useful instead. Angels sing whenever a Quango dies.
True. We make a best guess and if it turns out to be ineffective, refactor which means to choose a new factor. The other common cause of difficult naming is 'refactoring' without knowing what the new factor is, ie. blind deduplication or along arbitrary seams. My strategy is to delay abstraction if possible until we have an opinion one way or another. Some others like to have clean/abstracted code beyond current understanding.

Not being able to make a good guess is a lack of understanding of problem domain, nicely rolled up into this catch all term.
I would really like to see AP get some more implementations. Mastodon dominates most of the AP usage on the web as far as I know, so the specific Mastodon quirks on top of the AP spec are sort of de facto standard now. It's not quite like a private company, but it does shoehorn AP into being just what Mastodon does, rather than a more generic publishing protocol.

or maybe we need more generic clients. Something that can consume mastodon et. al. posts! Would be neat to have Lemmy + Mastodon + personal blog posts etc mixing together into a single feed, RSS style.
It doesn't store sensitive documents, so that's probably okay. And WP security has gotten much better over the last decade, so maybe it won't be defaced?
No, they absolutely export malware still. All of DJI's apps need to be sideloaded on android because the obfuscated data collection they do is not allowed in Play Store apps[0]. TikTok uses an obfuscated VM to do user tracking[1]. Then there's the malware that the US government has to routinely delete from compromised computers [2][3]

Chinese software deserves the reputation it has.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/07/chine...

[1] https://www.nullpt.rs/reverse-engineering-tiktok-vm-1

[2] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/fbi-forces-chine...

[3] https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/01/chinese-malware-rem...
It is not narrowly scoped, it states that we need to stop another "wave" of "social justice piggishness" which would include challenging the gender identity framework the author is using among other things. It also makes broad claims about social justice politics writ large.

Having read it carefully I found the hn thread interesting and it correctly criticized the essay's lazy reasoning.
I thought this was better than most essays in this vein.

I do fundamentally disagree with the author. People can think poorly of you for whatever reason they want. If someone hates trans people, they can, and you can't stop them. The whole "war on hate" thing was a bad idea; you can't forbid hatred. It predictably didn't work, and it's good that we're turning away from it.

Adding on, the trans issue isn't simple. There are real questions about bathrooms, women's sports, and when medical interventions are called for. Of course, there are also just bigots. The proper response to bigots is not to banish them, ban them, shadowban them, etc. That didn't work. The proper response is -- in the spirit of the new era of free speech -- to firmly state your opposition to their beliefs.
I appreciate the author and this article. As an immigrant and person of color, the author's concerns resonate with me. I don't think people like PG or Andreessen are evil bigots. But they are underestimating and enabling a movement that is cruel and exclusionary by design. A movement that they seek to tame and harness, but not understanding that the movement is fundamentally untameable.

I miss the days when the Republican party was led by a President like Bush, who told America that Islam is a religion of peace. And nominees like McCain, who told his supporters that Obama is a decent family man, and a natural-born American. I worry for the future, and my children's place in it.
"My way or the highway" is not a negotiation.
Until recently, both meta and physics thought that fact-checking claims was important.
It's possible but there are a lot of factors to consider/issues at play which are impossible to go through in this forum so you and he should consult an immigration attorney.
Any president could end democracy, as could a many other groups. I really don't have a checklist of behaviors a la the DSM-5 that would allow me to know someone is likely to end democracy.

I do think trump is capable of it, as where others in the past. I just haven't seen enough to think its an legitimate enough threat to have made me warn others that it will happen. I could always be wrong.
A Personal History of dBASE
This is exactly the thing the essay seems to be complaining about. It's not the ethics of equality being targeted, it's the moral hypocrisy.

People put on a false front with offensive messaging claiming support of these groups, but the whole purpose is to build clout or benefit themselves. They don't care about the message at all.

Messages like "I support lgbtq, and if you don't you're a bigot," are self-aggrandizement. "I support lgbtq," is all that's needed if you want people to know they are supported. No one needs to hear it at all if the discussion isn't relevant. Just try to treat everybody with respect.
The Llama distilled version Q4_K_M should be reasonably fast and good!!
Not who you replied to, but one view might be something along the lines of "We can't break up these American tech monopolies because at least they're American. If we break up these companies European or - worse! - Chinese or Russian companies will use their outsized scale to simply replace the American companies we kneecapped and now we're worse off".

That is, some people might see it as a lesser of two evils situation where you're choosing the domestic monopolist rather than the foreign one. I think there are certain worldviews where this is worth enough to sacrifice privacy, competition, etc.
I think the new builds also highlight the problem in that we're mostly obsessed with building these weird not-quite-a-town clumps of houses rather than actually growing patterns that we know work.

That and people have no taste. I like Poundbury, but I would also accept some modernist Foster-ville if someone actually did it and was prepared to put their foot down to make it consistent.
The AI Bubble Is Bursting - Jan 2025

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42770561

https://matduggan.com/the-ai-bubble-is-bursting/
Typesafe Routing in Rust/Leptos
I was born in Texas. I wonder what country I'll be deported to.
I'm interested in solving the opposite problem: using physical SIMs with devices that only have eSIM. This is extremely important when going to mainland China as physical SIMs are required there.
Don't like it? Don't license the critical tech for your company from the US DOE: https://www.eetimes.com/u-s-gives-ok-to-asml-on-euv-effort/
I like when the author’s personality shines through, and frankly I can’t imagine finding occasional exclamation marks _tedious_ of all things. I just don’t take things so seriously, I suppose.
The point he’s making is that Paul did not explain what he thinks “wokeness” means in a coherent way. Which is true.
How hard is it to prevent recurring blackouts in Puerto Rico?
LGBTQ rights are popular. Appropriate legislation could be drawn up and enforced. It would be an authoritarian move, certainly, but authoritarianism just won the election.
Yes, exactly. Both are useful depending on what question is being asked. Either one will need additional conversion if you ask a different question than the measure was designed to answer.
Be curious. Be courteous and respectful. Be a normal, nice goddamn human to human across the table from you.

In general I wholeheartedly agree. But if the person in front of you has done or advocated for things that cause harm or is themself a horrible person then I disagree.
But if we had robotic wait staff then that would be a net benefit for society, and the human former wait staff would go and do something else that's slightly more valuable for an amount of pay that's either slightly less or slightly more depending on the effect of automation on the whole economy, probably slightly more in the long run. This is the story of industrialisation!

Thought experiment: would it be good if we replaced mass transit by individual taxi drivers, because there would be so much demand for those taxi drivers that their boats would be lifted?
> There must always be an owner and don't trust "the people" to be anything more than a populist's device to assign legitimacy to their supporters and other dissenters.

That's a false dichotomy, especially in the example of vTaiwan, since it was a creation that operated in parallel with an already existing government.

Basically, the platform itself didn't have any direct political power because at the end of the day it was "just an app" or series of apps.

However, even without official power, its low barrier to public consensus building (that you call populism) enabled an efficient and highly organized form of government critique and accountability. This created a near realtime public awareness of the real world intricacies of problem X, Y, or Z that did not exist previously, and put pressure on the politicians in power to take these conclusions/demands somewhat seriously. It also literally helped them do their jobs better, and was far more responsive and precise than traditional electoral implementations.
Deno bundles a full LSP that will do compilation using its (modified) tsconfig.json-like configurations, but Deno's type remover at runtime is fairly dumb/simple and I believe a simple Rust implementation. Part of what you can't configure in Deno's tsconfig.json-like configuration files are things that keep the type remover simple (such as turning enums back on).
I agree; I'm in FAANG and it's even encouraged in my group. They are super easy to construct and work with and we've yet to encounter any side effects of using them despite our millions of customers world-wide.

Maybe people should become familiar with Grug: https://grugbrain.dev/

I'll take the t-rex.

> apex predator of grug is complexity.
complexity bad.
say again: complexity very bad.
you say now: complexity very, very bad.
given choice between complexity or one on one against t-rex, grug take t-rex: at least grug see t-rex
Or way older and much more eloquent (albeit less digestible) "Amusing Ourselves to Death" by Neil Postman. Or even older "The Medium Is the Massage" by Marshall McLuhan.
> when doing so infringes on Americans’ speech or access to information

But this doesn't do that. Everything that Americans could post or watch on TikTok, they're still allowed to post or watch anywhere else.
This made me unreasonably annoyed, not from the author though.

>The mentors applied a neat and very effective trick: they believed in you.

It's crazy to me that the LeetCode interview style is still such an aberration compared to other jobs that yield potentially much more money

Do you want to be a Software Engineer at this company? We don't trust you, the previous company could have let you in under the radar and you could secretly be a terrible engineer.

Do you want to run a SaaS and make us and yourself a bunch of money? Welcome aboard, we trust you completely once you're in. Just change your company name to fucking Oracle, ha ha ha.

This industry is such an imbalance of misplaced scrutiny, and certainly more so when they get into political stuff like wokeness.

If you're pg rich, just shut the fuck up.
Most human math phd's have all kinds of shortcomings. The idea that finding some "gotchas" shows that they are miles off the mark with the hype is absurd.
There are plenty of examples of the people stopping their government when it went to far. Its not easy and should always be a last resort, but the people should never just roll over and give up if the threat is real - especially when a seemingly large portion of the population viewed it as a real threat.