skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole concept of "retirement" where old people are allowed to relax and be supported by young people, compared to the old days when people just worked until they died, requires enough surplus productivity from young people to look after old people as well as themselves.

If the population pyramid inverts and there are too few young people, the whole concept of "retirement" becomes unsustainable, unless AI advances enough to make up the lost productivity.

Pensions are just a way of formalizing the obligation to old people, but they are not themselves the root source of the problem.
it can refuse to do the task based on morals, if it think the output will be used to harm, the issue is not straight refuse, it can subtle refuse by producing results "designed" to avoid accomplish what you want to do
Counterfactuals to illuminate an analogy confuse a lot of people.
Hmm. This is actually an interesting experiment. Marking for favorites to check up on (side idea, expiring or favorites with deadlines ):

My name is John Carter II, but in the greyweb underbelly, where I provide morally questionable, but otherwise perfectly legal items, I am known as OnlyEatsCheetos69. While I am not openly listed on any companies' documents, I have enough access and influence in them. I don't really lurk in the shadows, but if you ever wondered as to why FinCEN suspended CTA reporting requirements[1], then imagine me being very, very persuasive.

But that is not who I really am or what I am really into. While my family name and crest ( 7 headed Cerberus - do not bother looking for it online; we are way too cool leave something this valuable open to the online masses ) are well-known to those that must know, we exist in relative obscurity.

There is a reason for it. There is information, we do not believe should exist on the internet. But being the rebel that I am, I will now divulge some of our little known secrets:

- in 1980, I moved my vessel to another continent, where I could more openly pursue my otherwordly interests
- in 1999, me and Satoshi had a small get together, where we discussed the idea of international, digital currency
- in 2009 I uncovered credible conspiracy guaranteed to remake the world and squashed it mildly hard my under well endowed heel. You are welcome.
- in 2019 I held a closed presentation on a more.. live munition intended for the upcoming WW3
- I hold numerous classified patents on toasters, microwaves, and water derivatives ( you may be thinking that it should be impossible and I am absolutely not in disagreement with you. It should not be, but that is government for ya )
- I am currently researching the physical properties of hell and unrealities of this plane, but I am not able to share any of the results
- Met Clinton and Keanu Reeves once; Keanu was nicer

https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2025/01/10/fincen-suspends-r...
re uber and taxis: I don't use uber, but I just had occasion to price a ride to the airport (Dulles) from home (Bethesda MD) for Lyft and a taxi, and the taxi was a lot cheaper. We got there just fine.
I am speaking from personal experience… all those customs and ceremonies are formalities you pay a company few bucks a month to handle for you…
Don’t you people tire of this? Do you really not realize why he just won every contest we have?

He was the president at the time - yes - he had better info than you. The people saying it wasn’t a lab leak had motivation to do so - and the head of that group just took a president pardon for their efforts.
Upvoted because the mere existence of a down vote mechanism has a chilling effect on free expression.
Equating human reasoning to regurgitating a single token at a time requires that you pretend there are not trillions of analog calculations happening in parallel in the human mind. How could there not be a massive search included as part of the reasoning process? LLMs do not perform a massive search, or in any way update their reasoning capability after the model is generated.
> However YC gets preferential shares; YC is not aligned with the common shareholders (founders; builders).

YC invests on a SAFE, the terms are public.[0]

For most companies, pre-seed SAFEs don't end up much above common.

[0] https://www.ycombinator.com/deal
I agree and that’s the point I’m making here to be clear.

If it made sense they’d do it already. Electrolysis->methane and use the existing network makes no sense. Hydrogen with its custom network is an even larger step from making sense.
Microsoft can't even make Teams pleasant and bugfree to use; it's unreasonable to expect them to make a compelling AI product.
Oh, and don't forget the voters, who mostly don't care, thus enabling the cartels that extract value from them to grow unchecked.
So I guess the German strain of liberalism in Chicago and Milwaukee (cf. Altgeld) is New England now? Come on. That would be like if I call everything Assamese as Bengali
how many companies - lifetime - have actually been charged, convicted and significantly impacted by the sherman act?
Wow, that's obnoxious. You may be able to call down and ask for a folding table of some kind. But yeah, you shouldn't have to.
'Corporations have neither bodies to be punished or souls to be condemned. Hence they do as they please.'

-Edward, Lord Thurlow.
I could put a spoiler here but I won't. It is a short article and might be more or less right.
>Crimes are only “easy” or “difficult” to prosecute because of the laws as they’re written.

Yes and no. Yes in the sense that you can make crimes very easy to prosecute, no in the sense that doing so usually makes unobjectionable or even good behavior illegal in the process. Take insider trading for example. It would be very easy to simply make selling the stock of a company you work for, or are in any other way party to, outright illegal. But this would be bad for a lot of reasons; it would make it harder for businesses to compensate employees, it would encourage employees of successful companies to leave early taking important business knowledge with them, etc. Some behavior is simply harder to make illegal because it's harder to identify by its nature, which subsequently makes it harder to enforce laws against it.
Data from 2023, by Aswath Damodaran, says that 40.87% of companies are doing buybacks and that buybacks are 64.28% of all cash returned [1][2]. US is leading in this segment here wrt to rest of the countries.

[1] https://aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com/2023/03/data-update-7-f...

[2] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg...
A flaw in human nature, but not a plan. There was no board meeting where people came up with it and set out a roadmap and had milestones and KPIs.

It’s an emergent property and it sucks, but there’s no conspiracy.
> If you steal a potato, you will be arrested immediately and the case will be resolved in a few weeks or months

Have you been to San Francisco?

We don't prosecute petty crime in America. If you want a proper example, compare it to wage theft (including by small businesses).
this is fine for countries that have governments that look after it's citizens, like Europe where it is already relatively safe. for the US, where the wealth disparity is rapidly increasing and only an uprising is going to change anything, I'd say it's an oppressive till of the rich to micro-police the less fortunate.
Why are there not local competitors to checks notes cook, bag and freeze potatoes at a 10x markup?

Might it be an overly large regulatory burden on starting said competitor?
The brain is a neural net. It’s made up of neurons that are networked. You’re just pointing out differences between a LLM and a brain. The fact that they are both neural nets is a similarity.

Forming new connections Is not integral. Connections don’t form in seconds so second to second existence is a static neural network. Thus your second to second existence is comparable to an LLM in the sense that both neural networks don’t form new connections.

We can though. We can make neural networks form new connections.
Efficiency matters but it took semiconductors decades to care about it. Why would it be different this time around?
I appreciate the links , but you’re assuming that battery technology isn’t improving

There’s a lot of promising results in the field of battery chemistry https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240319-the-most-sustain...

And capacities and longevity have already had major advancements in the last year. Including a significantly reduced reliance on cobalt.

You’re also ignoring how cheap Chinese BEVs are. The Wuling Hongguang Mini EV is ~4k usd. Which is 60% of the cost of the average vehicle price in South Africa (~7k usd)
DeepSeek R1 outpaced OpenAI at 3% of the cost
The title statement "works toward a simplified desktop" makes the authors' focus pretty clear, so it's just fair to look for screenshots. It would be disappointing if it was just the same as GNOME.
AFAIK, that's only a risk if you're using prepared statements.

If you're just running each query individually, the parser should be smart and ignore the Boolean clauses that can be skipped, and use the appropriate indexes each time.

But yes, if you're trying to optimize performance with prepared statements, you almost certainly do not want to follow this approach if any of columns are indexed (which of course you will often want them to be).
I do think judicial dissolution is underused, but it should require a rather high bar of malfeasance. Significant penality for executives or the board seems like a more sensible first step in general.
>> Code might say "connect_to_mongodb()" and you don't have mongodb in your system so you cannot run it, but you can read the code in as data and it will parse, just like reading in JSON which has a string mentioning some library you don't have; you can still introspect it and write reports like "what names does this data reference?", you can transform it and export it, or pass it through untouched. With SWI's new dot syntax the code might not parse at all, like an incompatible proprietary JSON syntax where you can't even import it. Code written 30 years ago which uses the dot in the old standard way might trigger SWI to try and read it in the Dict.key way and fail. Code exported from SWI 7 might include this syntax which other systems can't import.

So just write a translation layer, or add some flags to your Prolog so it can parse SWI's syntax. SWI does that (it has flags to adjust itself to other Prologs' syntax). Do other Prologs do that? Not to my knowledge, but why not? It's no big deal and certainly not a big enough deal to cleave a rift in the Prolog community, as if it wasn't small enough and dwindling already. I think some people have convinced themselves it's "better to be first in the village than second in the city" and they just don't want to work with others.

And as it sounds like you probably know, SWI is by far not the only Prolog to commit that cardinal sin of breaking portability. Basically every Prolog ever does that. Every single one. The ISO standard is just as opinionated as everybody else about what Prolog should be like (and btw ISO is not Edinburgh, let's not forget- and who came first, huh?) except it has delusions of grandeur because ISO.

I will take batteries included over nose-in-the-air "we have strict adherence to standards" any day.
Yeah, panic is definitely not applicable in this case, but its still kind of awkward. "Thought leadership" and brownie points with the wider community are frequently invoked as additional motivating factors when a corporate entity open sources a technology.
This will get worse soon with the oligarchs in power.

And by the way, this is preaching to the choir. Nothing will change if we keep echoing the same things to ourselves.
Oil will never run out. Civilization will collapse (due to CO2 emissions) before that happens, which will prevent extraction of the remaining (hard to get) oil.
Why? SC2 is too physically exhausting for me. I like strategy, but I don’t like how it makes me micro at all.
Hm, we may be using the word in slightly different tones then. For me accountability is more than just appointing blame, it's also about how you got to the result you brought out.

On the other hand, I absolutely agree with this:

> And if my company posts that on the website, then my company is accountable to the world.

I take pride in having my name associated with material we post publicly. It doesn't make my employer any less involved in it, but it does mean we both put out necks out. The company figuratively, and me personally.
While some of the article’s leading point in apps doesn’t clearly connected to collusion to raise egg prices, it’s all valid. Tearing it all down is sore of you.
Countries with might is right systems don't have corporate ownership, they have personal fiefdoms.
One of the problems I see with the 365 suite, is that most users’ ratio of consume:produce is pretty high. IOW, they use it to view the content authored on it. They might author the occasional document, but they’ll view +10x that many. This makes a one size fits all pricing difficult.
Ran thanks to PC parts, that's the point. IBM is nowhere close to Amazon or Azure in terms of cloud, and I suspect most of their customers run on x86_64 anyway.
My problem with this isn't the price increase. It's the blurring of what used to be a clearly understandable suite of products (e.g. Office) and services (e.g. OneDrive) into a soup of weird AI and cloud stuff that all goes under a single unhelpful name (Copilot). My mental model of what I'm actually purchasing is broken in this new paradigm.
Interesting idea. I like it.
>Currently it shields nearly everyone from everything in nearly all cases from run-of-the-mill business failure all the way up to straight-up fraud.

Tell that to Bill Hwang or Sam Bankman-Fried.
FYI, the US prison population is 1.2 million.

Obviously that's not the same as havingva million of currently empty capacity, but still.
The same powers that allow Milei to make rapid changes are the ones that allowed decades of his predecessors to run the country into the ground.
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It doesn’t shield small business owners in practice, though. Bank loans tend to require personal liability, and there are ways to pierce the corporate veil when the company is provably one person. So individuals get only a small amount of protection in practice. Even if you fail in good faith, there’s a good chance that your life and reputation are ruined.

On the other hand, large companies are basically private armies in which the presumably passive shareholders are so distant from the actions taken on their benefit that people almost never go to jail unless they are deliberately thrown to the wolves by shareholders or superiors.
At a minimum anything with h264 hardware decoding. H265, and VC1 hardware decoding supported but optional. It depends on what your output is.
Networking wise, cabled is the best latency and bandwidth wise but wireless also works but can be unpredictable depending on usage and environment.
So you propose putting 40% of the population of the US who have money invested in the S&P 500 in jail?
It's more like Intel in early days using their CPUs to compute layout for bigger CPUs.
Most important, R1 shut down some very complex ideas (like DPO & MCTS) and showed that the path forward is simple, basic RL.

This isn't quite true. R1 used a mix of RL and supervised fine-tuning. The data used for supervised fine-tuning may have been model-generated, but the paper implies it was human-curated: they kept only the 'correct' answers.
Yeah, I don’t see how this is the record. California went many years without producing more than 10 hours of electricity from renewables.

I wonder what the study actually found.
If I read the article correctly, Nordic changed the rules on this function without saying anything. It used to work with a stack-allocated config and now it doesn’t. The only way for the caller to know about that in C is a comment.
While Rust projects unquestionably pull more dependency, there's zero of the left-pad culture in the community. It's simply pragmatism. And the OP is wrong about the terminal functionality by the way; stuff does actually change there still (sadly, though not very often).

No point reacting to something that is almost disinformation.
I think this is just the nature of collective cultural shifts when priorities and what we believe about the world change. I've seen it on smaller scales in companies (when the business priorities have changed but the rank and file need to pretend otherwise) and apparently that happened in the USSR. I think the west is dealing with the cultural shift of the death of the post WW2 (western lead) globalist utopian vision for the world.

A lot of people are not on board, and it's now obvious it includes a lot of citizens of western countries who don't believe the deal is favorable to their interests.
it's absolutely the kitchen sink standard library and "complex" language that makes it worth using, because 1) it means no additional dependencies and 2) the language is expressive enough to let the template syntax remain simple and well-abstracted

have you ever tried bootstrapping python? because it's really not a big deal (the only hard dependencies are a C compiler, libffi, and zlib, though distros also add libedit or readline, expat, sqlite, bzip2, xz, and openssl, all trivial dependencies present in more or less any system); tkinter is pretty much always compiled and packaged separately

meanwhile with lua you'd need many additional modules, and the templates would be verbose and far less readable

a non-exhaustive list of stuff python provides that would need to be provided separately:

1) subprocess management
2) path parsing (and normalization, manipulation, etc.)
3) various filesystem operations
4) shell command lexing
5) globs and fnmatch patterns
6) json
7) date/time handling
8) filesystem advisory locks
9) temporary file handling
10) http client (for sources fetching without external subprocess)
11) termios and ptys (for isolation of controlling terminal)
12) regex
13) hashing
14) topological graph sorting
15) cmdline argument parsing
16) readline functionality
17) thread/task pools

and so on and so on
> The listeners don’t recognize your authority

Yes, this is a "main thing" in that it is common and has a significant impact, but this one falls to both sides to get right. Communicators shouldn't try to invoke authority at all if it's not relevant (e.g. "I have X amount of experience with Y" may be relevant). But listeners also tend to have a problem of over-perceiving imposed authority (underdog/oppressed minority syndrome, i.e. "don't tell me what to do"), in the common case where the message can and should be judged without considering the speaker's level of authority (perceived or actual) at all. Or, in the cases where the communicator may actually have expertise on the topic, a listener who rejects the communicator's authority may do so based on those same tangential emotions.
It means being good at first order predicate logic. And possibly higher order too when you consider `call/n` and lambdas. It means being good at generalization, at reasoning in causal terms, at understanding structure and grammar, at encoding problems as graphs and querying them for solutions, and much more.

Basically it's what current LLMs lack. They're good at spewing coherent text but they lack the building blocks of reason, which are made of logic, and which confer the quality of being consistent. A implies B.
Faster refueling is definitely a big one but the refueling state for hydrogen is abysmal.

That’s after significant government and corporate funding.Toyota would need to be like Tesla and really bootstrap their refueling infrastructure for those people converting from gas but not going to EV, like you said.

I suspect most hydrogen drivers are more interested in the cost savings on gas/vehicle than the environmental impact. The verge did a special on hydrogen cars recently and every owner they talked to basically credited cost over any other factor.
If you're this worried, don't bring your phone lol. If you need to take pictures (and don't take identifiable pics of people without consent), just bring a camera.

Otoh, the main function of protests is to get media attention, so if they don't get publicized there was basically no point unless they evolve into direct action.

If you're interested in this second point, read https://www.amazon.com/If-We-Burn-Protest-Revolution/dp/1541...
Amazing news. This is bound to cause painful cognitive dissonance on those who hate to see free market capitalism working.
Are you "thinking" or are you regurgitating analysis of the problem based on what you read on the internet, too?

This one is funny because for something like leet code, nearly everyone just reads the best answers, learns them and learns how to regurgitate them in an interview environment.
> it shifts training compute to inference compute

No, this is the change introduced by o1, what's different with R1 is that its use of RL is fundamentally different (and cheaper) that what OpenAI did.
Like our president, whose policy stance is the stance of whoever he last talked to.
>The idea is that we should have control over those laws dude

Okay, what should we do to tackle long firm fraud?
Ask HN: How do you decide whether to stick with a project or move on?
I’d love to hear the HN community’s thoughts on this.

Two months ago, I joined Bluesky and built an app called Skyblaze.app. It’s a tool designed to help users write better content, schedule posts, and engage more effectively with the community. I created it because I personally wanted something like this, and I’ve enjoyed using it myself.

After launching the app across various platforms and communities, I didn’t manage to attract any paying customers. This has left me at a crossroads:

Should I double down on this project—adding more features, improving the marketing (SEO, outreach, etc.), and finding my audience? Or is it time to cut my losses and move on to another idea?

I’d love to hear from other indie hackers:
• How do you evaluate whether to persevere with a project or pivot away?
• Are there specific metrics, signs, or gut feelings you rely on to make that call?
• Have you faced similar situations, and if so, what did you learn?

Any advice, frameworks, or personal anecdotes would be incredibly helpful. Thanks for your thoughts!
The wine is made in the UK and I don't believe to would be illegal to import and sell it in France as what it is. It would be illegal for him to make it in France. There are lots of possible stories like that.
Yeah it is. Judgments can be true. Where is my judgement not true? It’s embarrassing to be so insistent on being right then finding out they’re so wrong.

Also I made a broad and general statement. I never referred to you or anyone personally here. If you got offended it only meant the judgement correctly referred to you and that you fit the criteria. But doesn’t that also make what I said true?
DoJ Put hundreds of J6 fools behind bars because they aren't monied and influential enough to drag out the process. Meanwhile, Georgia has a mountain of criminal evidence from four years ago and they haven't gotten anywhere but for a few guilty pleas from the low level stooges.
Even if the quality was better, I would still feel ripped off if I bought a book or a framed piece of art only to find out it was AI generated.

I would consider a poorly written novel to still be better quality than one produced by AI. Anyone can write a prompt and slap their name on the output, but it lacks the intention or purpose an artisanal creation, even a bad one, has.

In a purely rational world this might seem like a strange position to take, but the beauty of it all is how irrational everything is, and that’s where we can draw our creativity from.