skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I think it's fair to say a lot of Trump's apologists and defenders really did not understand the ramifications of his first presidency, and are not in a position to clearly anticipate the ramifications of his second presidency.

Speaking as one Trump voter among many others, I knew exactly what he accomplished in his first term and what a hypothetical second term could look like. I also understood what his campaign platform and promises were and by and large I support them, including significantly reducing the federal government overall across the board.

What we are seeing now with January 6 and pro-life pardons among other pardons, the new United States DOGE Service, exits from Paris Agreement and WHO, mass deportations of illegal aliens and securing of the southern border, tariffs on imports and especially on countries who aren't amicable, removal of DEI and other equity-based programmes from the federal government with extreme prejudice, among many many other policies and mandates are all things I expected and wanted to see when I voted for Trump.

No doubt there are voters who voted Trump simply along party lines or other reasons, but just as much are voters who gave the election some thought and voted Trump.

If you don't agree with me then that's unfortunate, but my vote isn't yours.
You can't tell someone you respect them in the same paragraph where you're accusing them of bad faith.
After reading the article I understand "over" to mean "there is no moat so there is no winner" rather than "it's over because entity X won and its competitors can't catch up"
Resistance. It's not quite the end of the world if TB becomes impervious to, say, catnip or whatever, which isn't front line medicine. And some options might have a more mechanical rather than biological mechanism/function.

Compliance for a 6 month course of just about anything is difficult and more so for something that may seem asymptomatic. Oozing sores, foul oders and overt discomfort would probably help, but alas...
Making a live-mode test payment to yourself = a payment processor ToS violation?
To me it seemed like common sense that before you push the thing into the real world, no matter how much testing you do, you'd fire a couple test payments on the live version.

Apparently, after reading more into it, if you make a payment to yourself, or to a business where your name is associated with it, this is a violation of the Stripe (and other payment processor) ToS, and you can get your account banned AND even potentially put on a MATCH list that effectively blacklists you from using ANY payment processor in the future. Well over the last several months I've made about a dozen such payments just to test things out and make sure everything was working correctly. Now I'm worried that I'm boned.

If you search the subject online you can find several posts on Reddit where people (mainly the same few people) detail the ominous "hammer-of-doom" consequences that can and likely will result from making a few live-mode test payments like this.

How big of a deal is this really? Is this not practically speaking just the common-sense norm before launching your live product? Did everyone else know this and I'm just a moron? Can anyone in the software developer / SaaS community point to one real-world example of someone they know who had their payment provider account banned for doing this, let alone outright blacklisted and put on a MATCH list, because of a handful of small test payments? I couldn't find any clear examples online, making me think, the severity of this infraction may be overblown.

I'm curious to see where the SaaS / software entrepreneur community is on this issue, since this is really pretty vital to what ALL of us do as part of our product development/launching/testing process. It's got me THOROUGHLY stressed out. Thanks.
You're striking at the fundamental irrationality behind the current hype cycle. It is still, in the vast majority of cases, a solution looking for a real problem. Since there isn't an actual clear benefit or problem to solve yet, that justifies the high costs, people are trying to make their (silly) bets come true by brute force (get everyone to use this thing so I get my ROI, whether it makes any actual sense or not).
> I still remember my dad, an embedded developer in the 90s-00s, ranting about how many people were starting to use 'inefficient and unpredictable' C compilers than whatever assembly he was using

I remember reading that C compilers were buggy/generated lots of instructions. He may have a point back then
My "Spam" Letter of April 16, 2003
Totally forgot about CSS Zen Garden. What a blast from the past.

I remember digging into a lot of the themes in my early career to understand how folks were achieving certain layouts.
Some time ago I interviewed with an AI governance think tank, and one of the topics that came up for ensuring Western-allied AI supremacy was trade security of compute resources. I didn’t want to shoot down their approach on this to their faces because they had a lot of blogs on their site, with OpenAI co-authors, about the efficacy of this approach. But I was never sold on the idea that holding off compute resources would stop someone from researching into better AI, I thought it would just push them to make more efficient AI. Lo and behold.
Saudi gigaproject: NEOM reveals major progress on The Line and other key regions
Right, until they start stuffing the junk commercial content into the LLM interfaces, which will happen eventually.
The Open-Source Static Analysis Toolkit
I see you are not familiar with Microsoft.
GFP-1s show a reduction in addictive behavior. Wonder if they would affect cognitive biases.
This ended up impacting quite a few users; the response is streamed from a Vercel function where I had not changed the default timeout, so at 10 seconds it was just cutting things off where it was. Some invocations of the DeepSeek API take much longer than others. This should be fixed now with a longer timeout.
The Kenyan government isn't particularly in favor of this, because they don't want their essential workers (like doctors and civil servants) all quitting to become high-paid data labellers.

Unfortunately, one kind of industrial policy you might want to do attract foreign investment (like building factories) is to prevent local wages from growing too fast.
Am I wrong to conclude they just got rocked super hard by DeepSeek R1?
>It's probably time we start looking a bit harder for "natural" or alternate treatments. Some in medical journals, are under scrutiny, but inconclusive.

We are looking, quite hard, in fact. Mycobacterium tuberculosis is among the most studied microörganisms.

Like HIV, it is notable particularly for being able to defeat the attempts of the immune system cells to kill it, and it in fact infects and reproduces within macrophages. Medical researchers have done a lot to understand how this is possible and we (as in humanity) have identified several enzymes and related biomolecules which seem to be crucial to this process, which we might be able to inhibit with a targeted drug.

However, all of this scientific research has the usual problem that it is very difficult and expensive. In order to inhibit the enzyme, the drug must be absorbed by the body, and then make its way into the macrophages, and then it still must be active, and have no other toxicity to the host. It is easy to say "just inhibit isotuberculosinol synthase", but it is much harder to do.

As I understand it, this is also the reason why treating tuberculosis requires such long courses of antibiotics. When treating a normal infection, we are basically just killing most of the pathogens, and we hope that the immune system will mop up the rest. In the case of M. tuberculosis, the drugs have to kill all of the bacteria, which is why multidrug therapy is basically always used and the patient must continue treatment long after symptoms seem to have disappeared. Even when patients have recovered, they are always considered to be at risk of still having latent tuberculosis, which is why hospital screenings often feature a question like "have you ever had a positive test for tuberculosis?"
True; also various scaling problems, and its security situation. We're in an unfortunate situation where no option has everything. If you want to say "Wayland is better for what I need", or "Xorg is better for what I need", or even "Arcan is better for what I need", then that is 100% legitimate. I'm also cool with "the current problems with (X|Wayland|Arcan) are..." because that's constructive and useful for trying to improve them. It's only pretending that one doesn't have faults or insulting its users/proponents that I mind.
Ask HN: Review my 2024 new grad resume
Here is my resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rWVzoQZt39hrTSHwlAUHzV9Y0wUnoikt/view?usp=sharing

Sent 650 applications from sep-sep, without spray and praying, and still got nothing. Stopped looking in late sep.

Started my job search again 2 weeks ago, 50-100 apps. Sent 10-20 cold dm's as well to managers and above at places. Had one interview 2w with a mid sized YC startup (Vizcom). Was a casual chat with the CTO, then got ghosted after.

Wondering how decent my work is, because I've seen the Linkedins of 10-15 employed new grads, who imo had less work to show. So boggles my mind a bit on what I am doing wrong.
It seems the author forgot the fact that Deepseek can do it because they took 10k, or 50k, Nvidia chips before the export ban happened?
I don't have much opinion but have you tried Anki SRS?
The article starts off on a pretty interesting premise: "I predicted there'd be no major advancements, but also, here are 4 major advancements in the last 4 weeks, many of which are predicated on another massive advancement that came out last year" (a SOTA model leveraging test-time compute)

We're also not seeing any price wars yet: every drop in price has been predicated on models getting faster, and while we don't know the size of models behind the scene, we can pretty reliably infer that they haven't been dropping their margins over time (at least, not at scale)

Anthropic even raised prices on their smallest model vs 2023 right as strong competition emerged.

Also seems strange to make a big deal about there being no moats... then imply that Meta deserves to be called up by Congress for releasing Llama's weights.
Yes. Something I read recently was a long the lines "if people think this is a bad economy, what would a good economy even look like?"
Seems like a reasonable alternative to Proton for multiple domains: email that costs money instead of being haunted by AI.

That logo is creepy though, and implies exactly the opposite.
"recorded history" sounds like it's how you divide pre-colonial Americas from modern (15th Century CE onward) Americas. For example, many weather features have been recorded in the Americas since 17th century CE. Does "recorded history" refer to only "[this particular metric's] recorded history"?
Not true: https://moneyandmarkets.com/gold-vs-stocks/
They absolutely have, but like the person you're responding to, I also believe there's way more to be done. It's hard to imagine things that don't exists yet (and it's not going to be me) but encouraging experimentation is key.
Protester LARPers or police forensics LARPers?
Given the paper you must really understand AI.

I feel like I have a good grasp of the math behind LLMs, but I don't understand them in that I don't understand why people find them useful. I was part of a trial using them at work. The chat based ones were worthless for any problem harder than a CS400 class which is what we're actually paid to do. The autocomplete ones produces code so poor it was constantly yanking me out of flow.
My salary directly depends upon me deeply understanding both AWS and Kubernetes. Better luck next time.
The problem I see with any date after the popularity of the internet is that you just can't be sure of the right date. A lot of traditional web forums now have backdated forum posts that are clearly made by LLM with an implausible date: https://hallofdreams.org/posts/physicsforums/
You got malware in your cloud storage?
ah...I don't miss the shockingly willful ignorance of the crypto boom days. Go try your conspiracy nonsense on reddit and leave us be.
> just went with the flow

Be better. Go against the flow.
Use it for email redirection from my domain. Just a few bucks per year
Not large compared to Microsoft and Amazon, but Nintendo:

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/09/legendary-mario-creat...
Sounds like bad leadership on the part of your project. To outsiders that don’t understand the details why fire people before the actual budget cuts?
Trump offered tangible things while the opponent offered a much more though out philosophy and platform (even if one i disagree with).

The fact Trump offered to pardon Ross was enough to make me feel incredibly guilty for not voting for him. I was surprised he found a way to get to me like that, but reality and practical negotiation can be quite persuasive over ideology.

I suspect Trump had at least one important thing to enough people that is 100% achievable and physically real-- a part of a wall, a pardon, a $2000 -- that he could beat out someone offering ideas/hopes/dreams.
Whats the reason for using this over free options like gmail?
A browser extension? Mega-awesome AI Adblock is like the best possible thing that could happen to the Internet right now and that seems to be good player for the cassette.

Is there a GitHub or Discord or anything where I subscribe to the project?
I don't have a horse in this race, but to be fair, Mark goes into great detail about all this on the Joe Rogan podcast [0]. I think a reasonable person would also listen to what he says about his own motivations. If you have already listened and have an opinion, then please ignore this suggestion!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k1ehaE0bdU
Sure, but I think there is a key diff between those examples and LLMs. In those cases, people don't necessarily mind the machines involved in the process, they dislike the socioeconomic and labor structures around those machines, or the animal cruelty—this is a side effect of the social organization of labor, not of the machine itself. Here, contrarily, the claim is that the machine itself is the thing that becomes less impressive once you know how it works-this is also likely true of any machine, but the point is not about the demystification of the technical function in the tshirt and sausage examples.
Kubernetes isn't locked to any vendor

Try moving your AWS solution to Google Cloud without a massive rewrite.

Also Kubernetes doesn't actually deal with the underlying physical devices, directly. That would be done something like Terraform or if you're still hardcore, shell scripts.
Can these be paired with the actual Apple Find My app and found in the app?
> there are far more people at the top end of the Bell Curve

... Do bell curves actually work that way?
SilkRoad shutdown fallout discussion (Oct 2013)
The location metadata is just for me. They already know where you are at all times if you carry a cellular-networked device at all. Modern 5G tech enables them to track you with centimeter-level precision and in fact “““requires””” spying on your precise location to work at all thanks to the beamforming/MIMO: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.01183
The most interesting tech company in the banking to me is Column[0].

No affiliation but it caught my eye when the launched.

Admittedly it still feels abstract to me, but the value proposition of having every capability supported by an API (like AWS's methodology of having all services be API first) on top of an actually chartered bank seems perfectly fitted for the creation of banking services that are significantly easier for consumers to interact with and understand.

I'm curious to see what people build on top of it.

[0]https://column.com
Suppose you're a part-time driver. You're at home, going about your other business but are willing to take a fare whenever there is one. They're not at all sure they'll have enough fares for you to do an 8-hour shift, but they know there's one for you right now. They should deny you because they can't guarantee there will be more an hour from now? How does that help you?
They won't get that far because the kids with more education will get the job.
I suspect you have never worked on single-author projects where you fastidiously write good commit messages. If you never got into the habit of writing good commit message, you won't find them valuable at all when you are debugging something or just wondering why something is written in a certain way. Once you consistently write good commit messages you begin to rely on them all the time.
> (Don’t answer that.)

It is nevertheless important to say out loud:

> Why is getting people to use AI seen as a good in itself?

Because user counts pump up the stock price. And that is all AI has.

Whether you believe the claims that inference is profitable or not (and there are good reasons to distrust them), AI does not live up to the financial hype.

AI cannot stand on it's own merits. It's not acceptable to let history run it's course and let the AI skeptics be shown wrong in due time. Because it'll dampen the hype, and perhaps these skeptics aren't so wrong. The people can't be educated into a healthy skepticism of AI, because they wouldn't use it enough.

It's readily obvious that the emperor has no clothes. The actions of the companies and executives involved betray their statements about how great AI is.

AI is forced into products, at deeply subsidized prices. You wouldn't do that if the tech is that big a deal. Apple charged premium prices for the iPhone.

Benchmarks are aggressively cheated. OpenAI funding FrontierMath and only giving a verbal agreement after having already broken so many of those is a joke. If the systems actually worked as promised there is no reason for this mess, and every reason in the world to gather accurate data on the generality of the intelligence.

And biggest of all: This entire mess has the implied framing of the Manhattan Project. That it's all a big race towards AGI, and whomever develops AGI will win capitalism forever. So important that they're getting support from the US government with their "Stargate" project. And until rather recently, everyone was making lots of noise about AI safety and the world-destroying dangers of letting someone else develop AGI.

In 1942 Georgii Flyorov figured out the Manhattan Project's existance from the sudden silence in nuclear fission research.

Today, despite stakes that are proclaimed to be even higher, all the big players will not shut up about their accomplishments. Everything is aggressively published and propagandized. Every single fart an AI model makes is spun into a research paper. You might as well mail the model weights directly to Beijing.

Those are not the actions of companies trying to win an R&D race. Those are the actions of companies pushing up their stock price by any means necessary.
Pretty impressive, only $20 grand?
https://purelymail.com/advancedpricing

That actually seems pretty good. Who's behind this?

If they had a minimal free tier which supports custom domain names I'd definitely give to a go. Gmail was great 20 years ago, but today it's disheartening to see many services restricting registration except from Gmail.com and Yahoo.com domain names.
But isn't deepseek et al able to do its thing because they fired off a ton of queries to the proprietary models and fine-tuned off the outputs?
Can confirm. I got the vaccine in the Soviet Union as a kid and tested positive in the US for school admission and when volunteering with special kids. It’s a huge pain in the ass every time because doctors insist on a course of antibiotics that is particularly hard on the liver or kidneys so I have to spend significant time fighting them and getting an exception from administration.
Therapy wars: The revenge of Freud (2016)
> This is the type of thing that'd normally show up on CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report which has been published weekly since 1960 (my understanding is this is without fail).

> But unfortunately the current administration has decided an ideological purification is more important than keeping the American public apprised of threats to their health.

Looking at the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, this doesn't actually appear to be true. Going by that link you can read past MMWR reports, and they aren't (from everything I can see) doing weekly tracking of outbreaks, but rather publishing various articles about diseases the way a science journal would. I couldn't find anything about the Kansas tuberculosis outbreak in the most recent reports, so I wouldn't be surprised if we don't see anything about it in the next few MMRW reports.
> Nobody wants to write native software anymore because there are too many variations of hardware and operating systems but everyone wants their apps to run on everything.

So far we have: Android and i(pad)OS (mobile); MacOS, Windows, *nix? (desktop); And the web. That's not a lot of platform. My theory is that no one want to properly architect their software anymore. It's just too easy to build a ball of mud on top of electron and have a 5GB node_modules folder full of dependencies with unknown provenance.
Is there a concept of an expert that persists across layers? I thought each layer was essentially independent in terms of the "experts". I suppose you could look at what part of each layer was most likely to trigger together and segregate those by GPU though.

I could be very wrong on how experts work across layers though, I have only done a naive reading on it so far.
Being pardoned doesn't help much if you're dead.

A special law shields you? How does a law shield you from persecution?

Over ten years later, I've never forgot this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6033481
Thanks, I respect your choice as well.
Can you give some examples of the prompts you used to get Claude to generate the old-enough code?
Don't ask western media about it, either, if you want anything resembling facts
"Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say." - Ed Snowden
Not really. THat's an unmanned small scale model. Every credible engine manufacturer on the planet has declined to work with Boom. Viable engines do not exist and will not exist.
Although the race isn’t over, Deepseek R1 has made it clear: the huge amounts of money pouring into AI investment is entirely unnecessary.
Mostly custom domain emails or API usage
yes, but I don't envy those ML engineers working 24/7 to keep up the rat race
Show HN: An innovative flag-guessing game that identify regions by fragments
Why is this a dilemma at all?

Appreciating a piece of music is purely on its own merits of its content not if it was easy to create or not.

The background, ethics, skill or even creative process of the people behind it have no bearing on whether the music itself is good and how we much we like it, even if Hitler wrote the 9th symphony it would be still be a just as good a masterpiece. To consider anything but the merits of the output is a slippery slope of what biases are acceptable and not, that inevitably ends up being racial or at least exclusionary.

Even it was not as difficult as you imagined it to be, he still was the first to find it, or even just the first to popularize it and that is all that matters.
I don't feel like humanity is losing when my 7 year old gpu becomes an effective research assistant, secretary and busywork coding doer for the cost of downloading 10gb of tensors.
He's basically a full time OpenAI hater, that's his thing.