skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here in Latin America we understand "America" as the continent and not as the USA (as it should be, imho). If they change it globally and literally to "Gulf of America" ("Golfo de América") here it will have absolutely none of the effect Trump and gang want it to have.
“ Just makes me wonder if DistroWatch is telling the whole story.”

Nobody outside of Facebook can possibly know the whole story. Hell, most people within Facebook can’t know, either.

Are you suspecting that distrowatch knows more about the context than they are letting on?
I got a google pixel watch, and thought, "Oh Cool I can use it to pay with my watch!".Unfortunately, for that to happen it requires a pin which means it's locked all the time.

If the watch is locked while riding a bike say, it's near impossible to unlock it.
Thanks... Now have Jonathan Coulton song code monkey stuck in head all day...

Why you do this...‽

(and thank you!)
I'm saying that those subsidy structures are what give the federal government's tentacles a good grip on anything in the flyover states. If you have an interest in micro managing these people (which you clearly do) then it is in your interest that the grip remain tight.

It's really easy for you to keep ten BiCo's from dumping hazmat, over using fertilizer, running emissions noncompliant tractors, using illegal labor, etc, etc. It is much harder, much more expensive and much more politically messy to enforce your will to an equal degree upon say, a thousand medium and small businesses. And doubly so if the bigCos are dependent upon a bunch of paper pushing and box checking to qualify for subsidy in order to be profitable at all and the medium and small businesses aren't.

So if you have strong opinions about the exact details of how the beans are farmed (or whatever, the beans are metaphorical) it's in your interest to keep these agricultural economies dominated by big business and on the government teat.
Like I said, I’m using Zed’s AI integration, which means I can easily reference other files, and have it edit code inline. I also reuse the bulk of the prompt across usages. There’s no finding and no pasting, in general.
Google has been showing different maps to different IPs for years, especially around disputed borders.
They have a screenshot of Facebook reviewing the post and deciding not to restore it, so I guess it isn’t just a buggy ML classifier (although it could be a buggy ML classifier combined with a human that doesn’t feel able to overturn it).
Appreciate the comments, found them very insightful.
> The current government clearly checks at least 12 of the 14 boxes here...

Well, I wouldn't go that far. But out of curiosity, which two do you think it doesn't check?
What do you consider 'not in its training data'?

I just asked Claude a question I am pretty sure was not in its training data.

* https://i.imgur.com/XjvImeT.jpeg
Really cool! Now if you can make an osX version, and also add the radios like "Receiver Radio" it would be perfect :)
Interesting for a group who's stock in Tesla has appreciated > 3 times since the start of 2023, but I digress....

My question: from the article: "fewer than 500 miles between critical disengagement...".

I don't think I've ever gone more than 50 miles between critical disengagement - and that's on the open highway.
Absolutely not. The large majority quant work is mid frequency, on the other of seconds to minutes.
> note how very little the current regime cares about the appearance of impropriety

Yes, and I know it wasn't unfair treatment what "forced" them to get this way and do these things. They wanted to do them anyway.

For me it's not even about respecting certain principles so that you can demand them from people who don't like plurality (e.g. current US administration). It's just about the principles, nothing utilitarian. If one had to give up such principles to "win", then there is nothing to win anyway. Though I also think that intellectual honesty and tolerance, freedom and confidence etc. (not lip service to them) are really powerful. Something that can and does make people go "I want that for myself and the people around me".

And I think criticizing "one's own" isn't necessarily weakness, it doesn't have to lead to bickering and division. Just look at how you told someone off, and then I told you off, and now we're having this little conversation. Bad start, but better landing.

Mind you, I think some passion and having fun with the in-group, making some fun of other groups, can be fine. It's what people do when they do something together they believe in and are excited about. But some ironic distance, not unironically believing one's in-group to be "the" good guys, is also needed. And just generally thinking less in groups and labels first, and individuals and their opinions or arguments second, if at all.

Sorry for rambling, but also thanks for hearing me.
They are, kinda.

> Google added that the Gulf of Mexico will remain displayed in Mexico. Users in other countries will see both names, the company said.
I apologize about our president as I’m sure many U.S. citizens would. That is all.
Ask HN: I'm in San Francisco for 36 hours – how can I make the most of my time?
I've got a free flight to SF this week for an onsite interview - what can I do in SF to make connections? What can I do to simply have fun?
I'm not so sure. LLMs are more like human simulators and are pulling this "reasoning" from what they've seen in the training data. It therefore might be possible that they cannot be more intelligent than those who wrote the source material.
Now if only Fossil did the same for Misfit and Misfit rays.. that would be very appreciated.
All this says is that a LLM model can roughly reproduce the model & results that a human did; they can both produce logical sounding bullshit about a incredibly rare event for which they don't really know the answer. Logical reasoning for the actions of an unpredictable idiot would be laughable if it was not so serious.
The interesting thing to analyze is the impact of the deal.

The retaliatory tariffs from Canada would be really painful and impactful to the US. The auto industry would implode. The dopey magas in the Midwest would be all laid off in weeks.

Unless we’re going full fascist and rolling tanks, this is positioning for some sort of deal. They cowed Columbia with this stuff, there’s a limited time to play the playbook.
It's on you however for not understanding the greater point?
From my experience with working there, it wasn't actually that hard to advocate and get things open sourced that my team worked on after Google made the decision to kill it. (ndash video player stuff that was being done by the team I was on in Fiber @ Google Waterloo). Management is on the whole open to these things, and Google -- unlike other companies I've been at -- has an official process for this, and it feels on the whole fair.

For all the sins that Google commits, they're generally decent about the whole open source community. There's things they rely on they should be providing funding for, certainly. But they're good about letting their people contribute, and often good about opening things up to the outside world.

Of course this project is bigger and more complicated, and clearly had tendrils into a lot of other things, so...
Now I just have to imagine a Trump supporter who trusts The Washington Post. It was not always easy to find a Bush 41 supporter who trusted it.
Then I guess I might as well expect them to use `uv` and use `uv tool`
> Just because some new efficiency allows cheaters to break a system doesn't mean it was a bad system.

I must apologize, because my parent comment wasn't well thought out.

Rather than saying "wasn't reliable, fair or meaningful system in a first place" (which wasn't logical, sadly, I got carried on an emotion) I should've said that it has a limit to its usefulness. It probably was a meaningful system back in the day, just not future-proof. So it eroded over time and isn't a reliable or fair system anymore, with questionable meaningfulness when it comes to the new reality.

> Does that mean online gaming was never fun, valuable, or entertaining when it was just humans playing against each other? Of course not.

I'm sorry, but I'm going to disagree on this, hard. It happens that I'm a person who holds a very unpopular opinion on this matter.

Online games that competed on things like manual dexterity were and still are fun, valuable and entertaining. But it's also true that they're based on a fundamentally flawed principle (the existence of a "perfect shot", if we're talking about aimbots) that simply won't stand the progress.

As someone who believes in transhumanism, I perceive things like aimbots or wallhacks as aids, similar to glasses, exo suits or thermal googles. And I believe that tools are always "good" (if that's applicable term) as the very humanity has foundations in tool invention and use. It's only the consequences of their application (which are heavily context-dependent) have different moral values depending on the outcome.

The world is inherently unfair because everyone is born and raised in different conditions, gaining different bodily and mental capabilities. I despise the idea of leveling everyone down below any arbitrarily "acceptable" capability ceiling of what they can do with their "bare hands, eyes and minds" - in my book, this goes against the idea of progress. I rather wish to see the very opposite. Put bluntly, I want every single gamer to have the best aimbot there is, and the game mechanics is changed to keep things still competitive, challenging, engaging and fun. Which means some games (or possibly even genres) are going to die, but - hey - we aren't playing 3x3 tic-tac-toe anymore either, even though we used to do so when we were little kids with limited brainpower.

Last, but not least, I strongly suspect that the aspect we all hate is not some "cheating" (I believe it's a misdirection) but rather griefing - such as playing against the opponents of drastically different capabilities, aka punching the babies.

Heck, I want to live in a world, where someone making a good bot is celebrated, not stigmatized. Playing against bots can be made fun, too. I loathe the current trends of the industry towards tightening things down, with all the rootkits, and people hating others for something like having a programmable mouse.

I recognize it could be a very naive worldview, but that's what I currently believe in.

And, uh, sorry for a probable off-topic. It just happened that your comment tickled one of my pet peeves :-)
Bazel prints a message when you invalidate the in-memory cache in a perhaps accidental way; you can supply it with a flag to make this an error and skip the cache invalidation.

If you try to run two Bazel invocations in parallel in the same workspace, one waits for the other to be done.
LLM Judges
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Bearish argument: "How can we adapt you to run on 8,000,000 NVidia GPUs instead of 80,000,000?"

That probably won't be the first question we ask AGI if/when we ever get there, but it will be near the top of the list.
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This seems to align almost exactly with Hedy's methodology. The translation aspect of the curriculum is nearly an afterthought in comparison to how much work was put into developing simple lessons that teach one thing at a time, asking students to solve problems of increasing complexity using the tools as they're introduced.

Start with printing text, then add echoing input, then variables, then lists, working up pretty quickly to very simple shape drawing and graphics, and in a flash students have all the building blocks to make a fun little game or interesting experience.
Let me make a correction please:

> a top-down technocratic worldview vs democratic/meritocratic one.

You mean to say: "a top-down technocratic worldview vs majoritarian one."

Majoritarian != Democracy
Eve Programming Language
This comment has communicated what I've been struggling to for months now, and in a much more succinct and clear way. Well done :)
Is a diving watch a tool or fitness gadget?

I have the opposite opinion on what's a tool and what's a toy.
I closed the tab and flagged the item after the third paragraph, I mean, FFS, it's the sort of stuff that gets downvoted into invisibility when people do it in HN comments
Curious if anyone here is also familiar with loudspeakers built on the acoustic transmission line (TL) principle? It comes and goes in hi-fi circles, I have a bass instrument cabinet produced by the now-defunct Euphonic Audio. It's an interesting TL design featuring a whizzer cone on a 12" speaker. While it isn't the deepest-sounding bass cabinet I've heard, it is very balanced & detailed throughout its range with great projection, and no phase cancellation in the mid/high ranges due to the whizzer/no crossover design. Thanks!
What I think is incredible about this example is how adept it is at mixing precise calculations with rough heuristics. That's exactly what I was taught, to validate the numbers by asking "Does this answer seem reasonable?"

ChatGPT doesn't do that at all, as far as I'm aware
So dumb, it’s brilliant!
I thought that was a strange approach, too - I'd have thought it'd be far quicker to cull post-scanning. Plus, then you have the whole catalog digitized in case someone else wants to come along and make different editorial choices later on.
I used to covet three letter domains. I worked for someone who was trying to corner the market in them a long time ago, I shoulda snagged one for myself.

I have a lot of domain names that I've sat on for years that I haven't used, but if I had a single letter domain name I'd be pretty motivated to put it to use.
How do you suggest providing the necessary support to otherwise unprofitable, distributed agricultural operations without creating the relationship you mention? I admit the federal government has incentive to potentially micromanage, and in some cases, they probably should (PFAS contaminated sludge as fertilizer comes to mind, which has contaminated tens of millions of acres of farmland in the US). A balance must be struck between fiscal policy and recipient compliance to (hopefully reasonable and data driven) ag policy imho.

Chemicals in sewage sludge fertilizer used on farms pose cancer risk, EPA says - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42704119 - Jan 2025

New bill could bail out US farmers ruined by 'forever chemical' pollution - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40662905 - Jun 2024
GDP numbers with decimal points need to be taken with a grain of salt.

The US economy will be hurt as well. Housing costs without Canadian lumber are going to skyrocket, especially with the different natural disasters and home building.
Thank you, "cloud version of old school intranet" is a better mental model than what I was working from previously.
im worried for these chinese companies. america has destroyed entire countries for far less than the economic fallout this software has caused. last i heard its wiped a trillion off stock values, is this correct? it cant be right?
I own an IT company. Why not read my comment for what it was and not assume what you think I am or are or whatevs?
Because empires don't want competition they want hegemony.
> science being the entire reason the US were able to corner the fascists in WW2

Not to my knowledge

Economic heft had a lot to do with it as did the weight of numbers

I love science, BTW. But it is not the source of all knowledge.
ah -- so they aren't "working in slack" that's just how/where the users interface.
Found this a lot easier to follow. https://blog.howardjohn.info/posts/go-tools-command/

And didn't quite understand the euphoria.
I agree its a terrible idea, but an economics text book will tell you that a tax on a transaction will be split between buyers and sellers based on the elasticity of demand. So its not quite that simple. But imo not a good idea either.
Many years ago, I built http://legacy-labeler.com so people could label their photos for posterity. It's admittedly clumsy, and nobody uses it.
Until it was debunked, people thought that the alpha/beta/omega nonsense was the actual natural social order of wolves. Some people then borrowed that as a metaphor.
> Tech blogs don’t make any money

Not even ones with millions of views?

The bigger issue to me is do I really want to stick ugly ads on what is ultimately a passion project
Thank you, this really validates the Hedy approach. Everyone's talking about the multilingual aspect while ignoring the many other thoughtful design choices that have gone into the project.
One pattern is that all the 8s are always clustered around a single edge space that contains a level 1 wizard thing. I don't know if there are other patterns, none popped up immediately.
For a while, tire shops wouldn't touch whatever Tesla had put on there. Whether it was actually specialized or there was some legalese w/ Tesla wheels that made them paranoid, I don't know. Drove friends who were Tesla owners nuts. That's recently changed, though, I think. I assume Hyundai/GM and other traditional car companies didn't do this.
The Future of AI (and Travel) Relies on Synthetic Data
An e-ink/cholesteric LCD Apple Watch Air would really be an out-of-the-blue product.

There would be a bit of an existential crisis for customers to figure out whether they wanted basic timekeeping and motivations, or real-time fitness tracking.
Based on my anecdotal experience and the people I've known in industry, job hopping is way way way easier than getting a promo if you're trying to maximize salary. Mine has doubled after a few job hops.
> No Python evangelist wants to tell users that step 1 of getting up and running with Python is "Install Ruby".

True, but the Python community does seem to be coalescing around tools like UV and Ruff, written in Rust. Presumably that’s more acceptable because it’s a compiled language, so they tell users to “install UV” not “install Rust”.
The fundamental problem is that AI depends on massive amounts of IP theft. I’m not going to argue if that’s right or wrong, but without it we won’t even have open weights models.
Facebook explicitly told them that Linux was remaining on their cybersecurity filter.
ChatGPT with how much debt though? It seems at best it will only become worse over time
https://www.usgs.gov/us-board-on-geographic-names/guidance-n...

> Yes, you can propose a change to an existing name or spelling, or to correct the location of a named feature. However, there must be a compelling reason and evidence of support for the change. The BGN discourages name changes unless there is a compelling reason. Changing a name merely to correct or re-establish historical usage is not in and of itself a reason to change a name.
They’re also pretty bad at typescript generics. They’re quite good at explaining concepts (like mapped types), but when push comes to shove they generate all sorts of stuff that looks convincing, but doesn’t pass the type checker.

And then you’ll paste in the error, and they’ll just say “ok I see the problem” and output the exact same broken code lol.

I’m guessing the problem is lack of training data. Most TS codebases are mostly just JS with a few types and zod schemas. All of the neat generic stuff happens in libraries or a few utilities
Take a Waymo!
It's a cool idea that the end users can chat easily with the teams who build the product. (If I got that right, I think that's part of what is offered here.) Where I work, we have several layers in between engineering and the end users and ... while there's a lot to be said for increasing focus and reducing distractions, I think it's also nice to have the unfiltered contact sometimes.
you forgot to add a /s
No, it's not. And neither is the other comparison some are trying to sell, "copyright". It's wild to me how everyone is pretending like Government mandated censorship of topics is being glossed over in these threads
That matches my experience too. I wonder how fast they'll improve and if LLMs will hit a wall, as some AI experts think.
The algorithm is an amusing nerd snipe. I’m not a DSP expert, but…

The idea of transmitting lots of low-bit-rate signals on different evenly spaced subcarriers is quite popular. OFDM is an example of exactly this, and the computation scales just fine. The same trick ought to work: compute in frequency space. You know what frequency-space signal you want to send on each subcarrier, so assemble the output in frequency space and iFFT it. I bet it can be done genuinely OFDM-style using transform lengths calculated to get the subcarrier spacing right with some additional care to get the boundary conditions right (conventional OFDM has a guard interval and doesn’t even try to transmit a continuous signal).

If all the songs are the same, there’s a much nicer solution. If the complex amplitude of the modulated song is A(t) (that’s just I + i⋅Q), then two copies are:

A(t) + A(t) ⋅ e^(2πit⋅200kHz)

Lots of copies makes:

A(t) ⋅ [1 + e^(2πit⋅200kHz) + … + e^(2πitn⋅200kHz)]

where n is the number of copies. The thing on the right is a geometric series and can be summed algebraically. So all that’s left is to upsample A, and it doesn’t need to be done especially precisely.
I like email. Just too many damn spam emails.
Yes good call, I do seem to have misinterpreted the text a bit.

I suppose using the word "impressive" as you did might make that misunderstanding a bit harder to run into.
Depends on how you think this would all play out.
After WW2 Europe was in ruins. There was literal starvation in Germany.
I don't think it's veiled at all, to bring up these things every time there is a success in China.

I agree that the CCP's view of the world and population control is negative. But don't let that poison your opinion of all Chinese people. We're all people on Earth, and we need to be forging bonds with our intelligent and good-hearted international kin that break down the walls that those in power create to keep themselves there.
My son (12) and I had an amazing time in SFO. We’re baseball fanatics and are slowly visiting all of the parks… we caught a few games. One day we walked from South Beach and Oracle Park and walked along the shoreline to the Golden Gate Bridge. Then went through the park and took the bus back from somewhere near Golden Gate Park. We did the cable car and went to Chinatown before heading back. The farmers market at the ferry terminal is awesome too.

Our last day we had a redeye home… we stored our bags at the hotel and took the N line from Caltrain all the way to Ocean Beach. It was beautiful out there, and we spotted some places to check out on the way back.

Honestly, it’s a great city to explore. That was one of my favorite trips. Have fun whatever you do.
What government demanded them to do that under pain of being disappeared?
I agree with his point about asking AI to “fix” problems though. It’s really nice that you don’t have to fully understand something to use it, but that becomes a problem if you lean on it too much
Where to??
I think the complaint is that it's not really a "comment", so much as it's a link to Bryan's own 20 minute video talking about it. It comes off as an annoying bit of self-promotion.

Though I will admit that Bryan is just a deeply unlikable human who is generally under-informed-at-best on any given subject that he's talking about, so people might be looking at it more cynically than if someone else posted it.
...and schools