skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After a few months of programming a few minutes at the time next to my full-time job, I created this tool that helps you pick your next book from your long(er) want-to-read list. In essence, it is a table with filters and column sorters.

My problem was that the Goodreads website does not allow you to filter multiple columns at a time. That is why I created an alternative way to go through your books.

Unfortunately, Goodreads no longer shares API keys, so I rely on its export functionality. Furthermore, not all the required information for my book search is present in this CSV file. To solve this, the website scrapes Goodreads based on the book ID from the CSV file for the extra info.

Using the tool you can filter your want-to-read list. For example, I usually only read books that have been out for a few years (age 5>), have an okay rating (>3.5) and have some reviews (>1k). Basically, a new book has survived the hype and is still interesting.

I had the most trouble creating the front page and informing visitors what they could expect. I'm a more technical developer and found this part more difficult. I'm curious about your guy's feedback.

For now, this website version is a basic trial version. It does not save any data in a database or in-memory. If people would find this useful, I could extend it.

Lastly, as I'm new to posting to hacker news, I was not sure if it was okay to add a CSV file link. So I hope some people also use Goodreads such you can try the website.
My gripes with AI slop:

* Insincerity. I would prefer a disclaimer that you posted AI generated content than presenting it as your own words.

* Imbalance of efforts. If you didn't take the effort to write to me with your own words then you are robbing me of my efforts of reading what your AI assistant wrote.

* We have access to the same AI assistants. Don't try to sell me your AI assistants "insights" as your own insights. I can interact with the same AI assistant to gather the same insights.

Notice that the quality of the AI output is mostly irrelevant for these points. If you have good quality AI outputs then you are still welcome to share it with me, given that you are upfront that it is AI generated.
> word of mouth

> must be some value

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasite_(2019_film)#Plot
do you know what you are writing about? I mean have you actually done something with datalog? and then _which_ datalog? if yes, then you are probably someone working with it academically or the answer is no. because try to even set a toy project up with it (for the purpose of learning how to use it) and you'll quickly run into unmaintained interpreters, discussions of what datalog is and what not and you can choose between difficult to understand academic papers or simplistic introductions that lead you no where.
Cognitive Reasoning Agents and the Extended Information Filter
Laws should be written by people, for people. Intertwining technology is not a good idea. Having a legal system so complex it requires enormous wealth to access is already problematic enough.
different share classes trade at different prices. Employee NSO/ISO strike price at seed stage (i.e. on a SAFE) are typically priced at a FMV of 10% (!!) of the SAFE's postmoney valuation. Also, your use here of the word "fair" has triggered a personal tick of mine so I must direct you to https://quotefancy.com/quote/3709551/Chris-Voss-The-F-word-F...
I‘ve been playing OpenRA for over a year now. After all the hardcore triple-A games this is the one I‘ve settled on. Maybe because I played it as a kid when it came out. It‘s pretty balanced and the community is awesome. Despite it being very unforgiving at start, as you get up to speed it becomes amazingly deep and competitive. So much fun!
What you're basically saying here is: you should just learn more and know more faster.

And what I'm saying is: that's exactly what LLM's are super useful for.

To answer your last question: about every 6 months or so. I'm a freelancer, I do a new project for a new client every 6 months on average. All of their toolchains, build systems, OS of choice for the dev machine, OS of choice for the SoC, documentation methods, PCB design tools, version management systems, release systems, testing frameworks are completely different per client and change constantly (even within the same company) depending on department and moment in time.
Twitter seemed to have some cool engineering going on but the number of developers always seemed kinda ridiculous, I suppose they added so many features the vast majority of users never used or needed. Most people I know used it just the same as when they signed up pre 2013 (maybe with the addition of lists).
Feels more and more like we're entering a post-"disruption" era.
What are the pros of the trump coin or the melania coin?
If it's a crime, it's obviously still also a crime if it's an app, just look at Ross Ulbricht or SBF.

Is it really fair to compare "PotatoTrac" with Uber and AirBnB?
I'm a freelance software developer. I don't even know if that's an appropriate title for me because I actually have a non-tech job that takes the majority of my time. But my dream is to make enough money from building software that I can afford to quit my job, because I hate it there.

Anyway, to answer your question, I don't know what the state of freelancing is, but late last year, I saw freelancers on reddit posting their "wrapped" - that is, amount of jobs and pay they secured from freelancing during the year, and I was amazed.

For me, I've only landed three gigs since I started freelancing last year. Already landed a new client this Saturday (yesterday). Hoping it turns a long-term thing.

This is what I want for me.
sorry, I was unclear - I wanted to refer to the fact that Ukrainian army might be a little heavyhanded on things like draft - for understandable reasons - not to the war itself

that is only and purely on Russia and I cannot argue otherwise in good faith
You might be able to hush the beep by holding down the UPS ON button.

Works on all APC UPSes that I've tried, at least.
Take the next step. What happens when the borrower spends the money and the place they spend it banks with different bank?

What's amazing is that more people don't think this through. They just take the "thin air" story and that's it.
Usually it doesn't work out for these types of companies because its better for the VC to state losses bigger than you would be able to pay for on their tax bill.
It is basically impossible to license a new bank in Germany and the financial regulations have become stricter over time, with a full banking license being mandatory for more and more things. It's kind of disturbing.

If you are a big bank, you already have all the licenses and can do everything so what difference does that regulation make in practice?
I don't know which specific LLM your friend used but pasting the error to the LLM usually ends in a endless loop where they tell you to do the same thing over and over again or the solution doesn't really work or generate another error.

So maybe he was lucky or he is using a very good LLM I'm not aware of.
Having used Trino/Athena and BigQuery extensively, I am curious about the state of parallelism in the available prolog implementations.

Being able to push the calculations to CUDA or the google/AWS "cluster" feels like it could be the game changer for a system like this.

The declarative nature of the language should leave any imperative implementation far behind when it comes to complex calculations.
Right, but that was more an unintended consequence of hosting user uploaded material. They still did delete stuff when companies (or their lawyers) wrote in to them requesting a take down.

Compare that to Airbnb or Uber whose business model was "Ignore the law" in the very beginning, which is why they got banned in a bunch of places. YouTube's business model was never "Ignore the law" nor was it banned on as a wide scale as Airbnb and Uber.
Those people don’t have those jobs because of their degree.

As a non-wealthy, not particularly bright creative writing major, the focus of your degree only holds you back if you let it, or if you are utterly unwilling to work outside of your focus area. Tech, especially, has an absurd number of on-ramps for anyone willing to do the tiniest modicum of extra-curricular work.
A rather unfortunate choice of name!

https://www.paxo.co.uk/
>I can read Wikipedia too.

I'm proud of you?

Presumably you can also read the official BIPM SI Brochure. As mentioned, it will tell you the same thing:

https://www.bipm.org/documents/20126/41483022/SI-Brochure-9-...

>if you want to dumb it down to the public you might as well go in miles per hour, leagues per day, etc., spaceflight is not the place where it is appropriate.

1. Quick, call the spaceflight units police.

2. When you ask the regular units police (BIPM), their official decision is that hours are "accepted."

I trust you can read the dictionary definition of "accepted" all on your own.
You have to do all those steps no matter if you write it yourself of if an AI helps you generate the code. Just typing the first thing that comes into your head and not bothering to test it will rarely create good code in all but the most trivial cases.

I find having an AI write out the algorithm and then walking me through the steps and generating test cases for all the corner case much faster than, looking up the algorithm online, trying to understand it, implementing all the details and then writing a test suite for it by hand. But I guess YMMV.
Youtube came to fame because of sharing copyrighted material without permission of the copyright holders. Still does.

With Tesla, I've no idea if there are laws preventing direct to customer selling, the "land of the free" has a lot of laws preventing freedom.
Censorship is one thing, and it can be caused by legal requirements present in all countries. The annoying thing is the propaganda which can span all sorts of subjects and impact the correctness of the information you're receiving.
Revolut had credit cards for a few years but only in Lithuania

https://www.revolut.com/en-LT/credit-cards/

I guess they'd need to apply for banking license to offer CC in every EU state and that would be an order of magnitude more expensive than Lithuania's banking license
What rules did Craigslist, eBay or the Ford Model T break?

Craigslist seems like a straightforward digital version of what newspapers and community boards were doing for a long time. eBay is just a digital version of an auction house. And the Model T was just a cheaper more widely available car compared to the cars that came before.

None of them seem comparable to AirBnB (subverting hotel regulations by pretending to be something else) or Uber (subverting taxi regulations by pretending to be something else)
> Is it really fair to compare "PotatoTrac" with Uber and AirBnB?

If they both break laws but seemingly get away with it, so they have that in common, why not compare them? What makes PotatoTrac or any of the other incomparable?
> Time and time again, from one industry to another, the bottleneck in progress remains human, or political, or social organization

I think this is backwards thinking.

Progress is meant to serve humans, humans are not meant to serve progress

People should not be expected to give up their identities, nations, freedom, or really anything else in service of progress
Brilliant, 1000 words of AI slop equals 1 assay :)
Taxi medallions are a crime. A cartel. That's it.
If you count the loan as an asset, surely you have to count it as a liability for the borrower. And the bank has to actually give the money, so they're down that money.

In the end both are net zero.
Uber is not a great case for your argument. They made the world safer and enabled transportation for people who would otherwise not have it. No one, literally no one, who has spent any time in taxis wants to go back to them. I can't tell you the number of times I've had to call several companies to get a taxi to the airport have none arrive. Uber broke the ice and showed what was possible. There was literally no other way to get past the regulatory capture. Yes, they broke the law, but they are net positive by a large margin.
No one is providing a value proposition that would make me move away from [my large bank] when it comes to a basic checking account.

Banks were disrupted in the mortgage market - a very large chunk of residential mortgages go through brokers.

Banks are being disrupted in corporate credit. "Private Credit" is exploding.
Ah! My bad, I edited the article to simply quote Francois. Thanks for catching this, Simon.
1) it's really weird. He's the richest man in the world, and he's spending his time by pretending to be good at video games? Humanly, it's just darkly fascinating.

2) an important part of his public persona is that he's supposed to be genuinely super smart and capable at everything. Many employees and other related figures have attested to him having preternatural abilities at rocket and car engineering.

If he is willing to make under the table payments and shamelessly pass off other people's work as his own for such an insignificant feat as being good at video games, what does that say about his involvement with actually important things? The parallel is very easy to draw.
Regularly?
What's the point of being concerned? If the majority want their fascist leader they will have it.
If you have money look into getting a passport. Quite a few Dutch Jews found their way to the Carribbean.
Or join the resistance and end up like Sophie Scholl.
It appears that the crux of the article is that a lot of price fixing is going on through the use of programs that suggest or encourage pricing among a few players, to the advantage of all the players and the disadvantage of the customer.

Crackdowns do take time in the US but there is hope. See e.g.:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-realp...
> simpler laws that are unambiguous and free from exploitation and/or loopholes

Is such a thing possible?

I mean, "simple" often has a lot of exploits and loopholes, while "unambiguous" pretty much means Lojban and similar instead of normal languages like English, Welsh, or Swahili.
From reading the article, it sounds like the main driver for AI-generated laws is the demand for increasingly complex laws. Assuming that overly complex laws are bad, I wonder if this could be solved by a check on the length of bills. Perhaps an amendment that if a bill can’t be read at some speed in soms amount of time, it has to be split up?

Although, I wonder if complex laws are a feature, not a bug, of a polarized system and far fewer compromises would be met if bills were forced to be shorter. That could induce gridlock and increase both the frustration we’re currently seeing with the legislature and the increased pressure on the executive to legislate.
More like "It's not a crime if a corporation does it." The US treats corporations with kid gloves. They get away with so much, and in those rare cases where a regulatory body does anything, it's often just a strongly worded letter, a warning, a threat to one day send a strongly worded letter, or, in really rare, extreme cases, a company official gets called in to say a few words in front of Congress. Nobody goes to jail, fines get whittled down to nothing in appeal after appeal, and the government usually finally just accepts a pinky-swear to never be bad again.

Contrast that to how individuals get the hammer put down on them by the justice system if they so much as fart in the wrong room. The lesson from the last 50 years should be: If you want to commit a crime and get away with it, do it as a corporation.
There’s at most a zero floor value on holdings of government debt, corporate equities, bank holdings, and any asset held by a custodian.

The floor value of physical commodities with significant storage costs is negative.

The market is aware of these possibilities and these risks are generally recognized as being embedded in asset prices as premiums.
Don’t react to the Airbnb and Uber: read the article to the end. The core argument is tech empowers oligopolies which in turn drives inflation.

There are other damning facts too:

> private equity companies have rolled up all the fire truck companies, hiking the price of trucks, creating backlogs and bottlenecks for parts and service, and starving the nation's municipalities (including Los Angeles)

Capitalism is dead. Long live capitalism.
JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo would have been fine in '08 had they been left alone.
This is like saying "nobody is disrupting AWS" and then pointing out that competitors don't have a version of AWS Glue.

Plenty of startups have disrupted banks. AMEX purchased one to jumpstart its small business checking accounts just a few years ago. You're just not looking hard enough.

If you move the goal posts to core checking/savings accounts by consumers, then yeah there's not much of an upside there. Consumers go decades to lifetimes on average without changing banks. Capital One was the last one to do anything "disruptive" here re: providing accounts and credit to the lower class, and I'm not sure there's enough juice to squeeze left for a smaller, more focused product to make any money given the stickiness of checking accounts generally.
A growth strategy, not an unintended consequence. Early YouTube without copyright infringement would have died in obscurity.
If you're working with a big ball of mud, I find that the best approach is to immediately start doing TDD with hermetic end to end tests.

Hermetic = could run just fine on their own if run on a freshly installed OS that is cut off from the internet.

The first tests you build this way will be extraordinarily expensive (faking databases & http calls is fiddly), but they pay enormous dividends.

Once you have a large enough body of these and youve refactored some clean interfaces underneath, you can start writing future tests against those.
The congressmen's staff read the bill and summarize it for him.

Making a summary of a giant spending bill seems like a real job for an AI.
Yeah, I hate videos that could be summed up in a few sentences, too. So basically what the company behind Devin claim Devin is doing is one thing, and what Devin can actually do is (well, not much of a surprise, is it?) much less.
This is revisionist history: Netflix was legal. Craigslist was legal. eBay was legal, Youtube was legal (yes people uploaded copyrighted content, but they complied with DMCA takedowns as required to under the law)
I don't remember that, probably because it happened in a different country than mine, but in any case it is an example that the problem already exists. The article does get close (but not quite) to addressing the problem when it suggests 'This means that beyond writing them, AI could help lawmakers understand laws', but by focusing on AI writing complex laws, the article is basically proposing the same problem — but now with AI™!

Laws don't need to be understood only by lawmakers, they need to be understood by the citizenry to whom they apply. If AI can be used to actually simplify the laws themselves, making them easier to understand as enacted to lawmakers and citizens [0], that is more than welcome! But this proposal, which appears to come from Bruce Schneider and a data scientist, rather than any legal or ethical scholar, is bonkers.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_English
if i transfer money from one bank's account to another, it takes minimum of 48 hours if I make the request before 3pm cutoff time. Day 1, the transfer request is made at 1pm. Day 2, the money is no longer available in the sending account yet not in the receiving account. Day 3, the money is available in the receiving account. If I do it after 3pm, the request is not placed until Day 2. Why? WTF does a computer have a cutoff time? Does it go home and cook dinner for the family and do homework with the kids?

>took some form of electronic payment

These are nothing but electronic requests. No human needs to be involved, yet here we are. But sure, let's go ahead and argue like I don't have valid issues because you seem to not have any.
Those outputs are really good and come from deepseek-R1 (I assume the full version, not a distilled version).

R1 is quite large (685B params). I’m wondering if you can make a distilled R1 without the coding and math content. 7B works well for me locally. When I go up to 32B I seem to get worse results - I assume it’s just timing out in its think mode… I haven’t had time to really investigate though.
How do you bribe... I mean lobby an AI?
I appreciate what the Chimera authors are trying to achieve, but I would never consider going back to a distro that doesn't support atomic upgrades and seamless rollbacks, ala NixOS, Guix, etc. Packaging issues and incompatibilities are inevitable and impossible to prevent. Giving users the peace of mind that their system can always be reverted to a known working state is priceless, and something all operating systems should have.

Making the system configuration declarative, reproducible builds, etc., would also be a bonus, but I wouldn't consider those hard requirements.

I realize snapshots are a feature of some filesystems, which partially addresses this, but I would rather have this feature at the OS level.
You’re getting onto what I am saying a little, I think. You want to scrape my data? and I can prove that you did? The way the legislation is going in certain areas, I’m pretty sure there will be a crackdown. I am pretty sure a sufficiently large userbase could mess something up for a scraper. I think, anecdotally, we’re seeing evidence of this type of warfare already. And yea, the challenge is not letting bots in. but then you don’t even have to worry about that so much as if the data can be shown to manipulated and twisted to an agents nefarious interests, whatever they may be, you’re gonna get a flood of users that look and act seemingly real but aren’t.

It’s an interesting problem I think is solvable, traction is one issue, and then, building a product appealing enough for people to feel comfortable they’re not being exploited.

like, if you want this to work properly, you have to shut it down from every other part of the internet that can become bothersome with bot behavior. Like, federated logins, social media, secure proxies, etc. Nothing touches it. Treat it like the blackwall in cyberpunk (actually what inspired me). I would pay for this. Like a lot for it. but, that is a difficult sell because to migrate off these apps requires legit lifestyle changes, and people (rightfully) want both.

I get worked up sometimes on the topic because while I am dubious but sometimes wrong about AI capabilities, but if I believe some of what is said at face value, I do strongly believe a day is coming and may be here that you will have zero guarantee of someone you are talking to is a bot, or an ai, or even a video/voice like agent based on a real person - that future is a destroyed internet. I think people should probably get around to thinking of what a disaster that would be.
It could be, but it feels more like the model would respond, but is then stopped from doing so by another model whose job is to censor it.
I think we are already way past single-human intellence. No one person understands (or could possibly understand) the whole system from the silicon up. Even if you had one AI "person" a 100x smarter than their coworkers, who can solve hard problems at many levels of the stack, what could they come up with that generations of tens of thousands of humans working together haven't? Something surely, but it could wind up being marginal. Exponentially smarter AI meets exponentially more difficult wins.
Electric Skillet (2010)
What a crazy idea, that would never work. People, writing things, without something to write it for them? Impossible.