skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone who knows a lot of history is a history buff.

A historian works with (and may even seek out in musty rooms) primary and secondary sources to produce novel research and interpretation.

An AI is at best limited to ~reading sources that human historians/archivists/librarians have already identified and digitized.

Certainly value to be had here wrt to finding needles in and making sense of already-digitized historical records, but that's more like a research assistant.
Trust me, it wasn't. It was the first thing I checked. It was set to automatic mode.
Ask HN: What are Mark Zuckerberg's principles?
It is a shame this was flagged. This is a conversation that is needed. Culling all political discussion is not what today's hackers need.
Actually the OP specifically said “grammar” checker, which since they can write is likely an intentional distinction. Alternate phrasings reveal the absurd elitism of the statement.

“I don’t need a spellchecker because I can spell.”

“I don’t need a calculator because I can do math.”
Transactional email service.

S3 backed object storage (too risky to use anything else or even learn anything else for it).
Seems kind of a bit much.

I don't know what mark's true beliefs are. For all i know maybe his actions are ernest. I feel we need more than this to subscribe him a coward.

Someone doing something you disagree with, or even being straight up evil, is not the same thing as being a coward.
Agreed with the cowardice. But I think it worked both ways. It was pretty clear that Facebook (and a lot of other industries) also took on a lot of practices that they clearly didn't believe in either. DEI was taken up performatively for political reasons. We cannot be upset when it is removed performatively for political reason.

And we have to be honest that these programs were largely failures. Fact checking especially. Even performatively, these companies took on pretty big responsibilities, only garnered more criticism and controversy, gained nothing, and after years of plugging away had no light at the end of the tunnel.
> What social change did this lead to?

Even when obviously crazy/corrupt/malevolent people seize control of most branches of government, demonstrations tell some of the people who feel most threatened that they're not alone, that the people around them are not what the news would have them believe, and that many others will come out and stand up for them.
The actual market value of diamonds is pretty low. You can pay a jeweler a lot of money for a shiny diamond, but good luck reselling it for a similar amount of money.

Gold, OTOH, is fungible. You can melt it, mold it into different shapes bars, resell it, etc.
Through their work, the gates foundation has probably saved millions of lives, maybe tens of millions of lives, over the past 25 years.

They’ve also been deeply involved with various education reforms in the US. They’re definitely active here.
A poorly conceived and generic article.

If he has a malignancy (if), it is greed not fear. And with that fact clear, the whole article makes no sense.
Your comma after features should be a semicolon, but I’m sure you knew that!
I don't think Vanguard offers a gold ETF. (Gold ETFs do exist, Vanguard just doesn't do it.)

I'm pretty sure there's a lot of evidence that gold is a great inflation hedge but otherwise doesn't offer much in the way of returns on a long run basis. Which is a reason in various cases to hold or diversify into it over a money market fund (essentially over cash). That said, currently crypto has not proven itself to be either much like cash or much like gold.
It's not surprising when you consider HN is full of temporarily embarrassed tech billionaires
Heroku was acquired in 2011, so to be fair it did take Salesforce quite a long time to screw it up.
That applies mostly to databases using the filesystem.

For configuration files, the write-fsync-move strategy works fine. Generally you don't need fsync, since most people don't use the file system settings that allow data writes to be reordered with the metadata rename.
The paper is about short periods of a day when renewables are meeting more than 100% of demand.

If that broke the grid then there would be little future in building out wind and solar beyond a small fraction of energy.

The paper demonstrates it's not a problem, so further progress to making all of the grid's energy clean can continue.
Trust me, I assumed I did something wrong. 20 minutes of investigation later, I exhausted every other reasonable possibility other than that the software is simply broken. Fun fact, the key combo to manually recalculate all cells is Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F9. That fixed it, but I'll never, ever trust Excel for anything again.
> All that power, all those resources, all that potential influence - and he uses it to make himself smaller

This is what I find most incomprehensible. These people really do have the power to do whatever they want and still have enough money to retire comfortably a thousand times over. And this is what they choose to do.
> Roasting your Firefox 135 on Linux setup from <redacted>—because nothing says "I have opinions about open-source" like a 16-core CPU crying over hckrnews.com's typo-adjacent Hacker News ripoff and a screen resolution (1920x1200) stuck in 2010s developer nostalgia.

I feel called out - well done.
People are tired of killing themselves for low to no increases, and no loyalty from your company when things aren’t going well for you.

If you want people in office, put your money where your mouth is. Prices are up and salaries are not.
Maybe let's not feed green-account trolls with words of calculated malice.
> There have been many promising attempts to fix these problems but they've only shown up as non-standard features in specific implementations. It's similar to the "curse of Lisp" - everyone does their own thing and no consensus emerges to move the standard forward.

> But it could be worse if the standard were "feature oriented" rather than eliminating the limitations and flaws by cleanly generalizing the model.

Why do you feel that "eliminating the limitations" is the way forward, and not standardizing common tasks instead, making them ergonomic, uniform, fast?

I don't think that more power can lead to those. Maybe ergonomics and uniformity can happen by accident if a library emerges as the default option for a task, but speed, I don't think it can.
I hope only the kids got used to the mindblowing event of seeing an airplane in the sky, and the teachers kept running away, screaming in panic every day even after 10 years of it happening.
Seattle is home to ~750,000 people. Malaria affects ~250,000,000 people a year.

From https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/committed-grants it looks like Seattle is the city that they've given the most grants to - 3,609 so far.

https://lite.datasette.io/?csv=https://static.simonwillison....
We do plan to! We're getting a lot of questions about that. They can reach out via LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-dove-43b7a85/).
Every human endeavor since the beginning of history has had some form of information asymmetry. Not everyone can be lucky enough to buy AAPL in 2001 or BTC in 2009. Apple management and Satoshi both announced what they were doing publicly to anyone who would listen, but not everyone was listening. Unless you can conjure up a method to deliver every piece of information globally to everyone on earth instantaneously, you'll just have to accept that as a fact of life. It's not bitcoin's problem to solve. Complaining on the internet about how life is unfair certainly won't solve it.
there are limits to the things some people will do to satiate their greed, but if you are a billionaire you've already demonstrated there is not
Just like "we're all family here" (until they hear wall street rewarding layoffs). Or "nobody wants to work anymore" which you can find in newspapers all the way back to the 1700s
Concerning isn't even the word. Looks like those military contracts and all that government money has really heated things up for OpenAI's goals for human civilization.
> let's not feed green-account trolls with words of calculated malice

Let's "assume good faith" and "respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize" [1].

They may be a troll, or an idiot. Or they may be reflecting an increasingly-prevalent view that people should stick to their "own" territory, for various definitions of "own." (Whether this fuel anti-immigrant xenophobia, colonist/coloniser moral binaries, or the dismissal or a disease eradicator.)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> the X11 protocol [...] has plenty of design decisions that simply cannot be secured.

I've been hearing this for over a decade now. I don't get it. Just because xorg currently makes different clients aware of each other and broadcasts keypresses and mouse movements to all clients and allows screen capturing doesn't mean it has to. You could essentially give every application the impression that they are the only thing running.

It might seem difficult to implement, but compare it to the effort that has gone into wayland across the whole ecosystem. Maybe that was the point - motivating people to work on X was too difficult, and the wayland approach manages to diffuse the work out to more people.

I was really bullish on Wayland 10 years ago. Not so much any more. In retrospect it seems like a failure in technical leadership.
Since the 1950s, more and more power has been claimed by the executive, sometimes as a consequence of legislature dysfunction, more often by unchecked supremacy clause execution.

The US was envisioned to look a lot more like the EU. The US Civil War required a stronger federal response, and unfortunately reconstruction failed to sufficiently address the primary economic differences in industrialization, resulting in deep geographical divides.

Further propaganda machines set up by one party due to embarrassment over Nixon's resignation has resulted in one effective party; the other is primarily controlled by corporations.
He did the exact opposite when it was trendy to do the opposite. Did his beliefs change so conveniently?
> These days often DevOps is done by former Software Engineers rather than "old fashioned" Sys admins.

Yes, and the world is a poorer place for it. Google’s SRE model works in part because they have _both_ Ops and SWE backgrounds.

The thing about traditional Ops is, while it may not scale to Google levels, it does scale quite well to the level most companies need, _and_ along the way, it forces people to learn how computers and systems work to a modicum of depth. If you’re having to ssh into a box to see why a process is dying, you’re going to learn something about that process, systemd, etc. If you drag the dev along with you to fix it, now two people have learned cross-areas.

If everything is in a container, and there’s an orchestrator silently replacing dying pods, that no longer needs to exist.

To be clear, I _love_ K8s. I run it at home, and have used it professionally at multiple jobs. What I don’t like is how it (and every other abstraction) have made it such that “infra” people haven’t the slightest clue how infra actually operates, and if you sat them down in front of an empty, physical server, they’d have no idea how to bootstrap Linux on it.
Hmm, disturbingly accurate lol

> Oh, a 4K screen just to scroll Hacker News in <redacted>? Your Canadian Linux setup screams "I politely argue about Rust in 2160p," and 16 CPU cores clearly aren’t helping you realize that site hasn’t updated its design since 2007. Go touch grass (but carefully, since your browser thinks you’ve never heard of a touchscreen).
Also relevant: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/16/i-knew....

It's incredible, really. I thought the main point of being a billionaire was independence. "Fuck-you money" taken to the extreme. You've "won" society, now do whatever you want. Make things better for humanity by funding novel research. Or sit in a cave and build the best orgasm machine ever. Whatever. I think Larry and Sergey have the right idea, but in very different ways: Larry has completely disappeared to go live on a private island, and Sergey gets to be as weird as he wants and still pops in to work on whatever tech project he finds interesting. I don't think having billionaires who live completely separately is a good thing for society, but those responses at least make sense to me.

Zuckerberg became rich and famous for being a smart guy who didn't do the bullshit that other people wanted him to. Remember "move fast and break things"? And now instead... he (and Musk, but he's probably a true believer; and a number of others, but to lesser extents) want to... kowtow and suck up to a weak, blithering idiot? Profess the value of caveman-tier "masculinity" ideology? Never mind how obviously contradictory it is to believe in both "men should be strong" and "Donald Trump is what we should want in a man" - what is the point? Why is this what he wants to do with his power and wealth?
It doesn't recognize Tor Browser as such, but in this case calling its anti-fingerprinting user agent a "desperate lack of personality" happens to be more a compliment than a roast!

On the other hand, it's disappointed that the browser claims to only have two cores and uses a resolution "from 2009".
TIL that Harvey Fletcher (who I knew from his acoustic/audio work, particularly the Fletcher-Munson loudness curve) contributed to the Millikan oildrop experiment. Thanks!

Another great resource for understanding what went on at Bell Labs is Richard Hamming's "The Art of Doing Engineering: Learning to Learn"
For me it just returns a wall of text with (part of) its reasoning about composing a short roast, but not the roast itself. I guess this is not intended.
You're missing the value the Bitcoin network provides in facilitating trade that's illegal or shady.

I don't want to make any moral statement here. I'm just saying that Bitcoin can be positive sum or negative sum. I don't know which is true and I don't know whether it's better or worse for humanity to have a global mechanism for unregulated money transfers. But that's what we have.
No, future artists will make things that specifically cannot be made by AI. Because creativity and art is more a feeling and an opinion about your unique perception of life than some garbage being spit out by an AI.
Interestingly enough, it sees my Pixel 9 Pro as model "K" and doesn't really know what to do with it.
The First Photos [video]
Modern money has operated as you describe for less than one human lifetime. It might not work long-term, and indeed there are significant reasons for worry that it won't. Not that it _can't_ in principle, but that it _won't_ due to mismanagement and misaligned political incentives. A future alternate system might well have deflationary characteristics.
> Gallup estimates that disengaged employees cost the global economy $7.8 trillion annually, or 11% of GDP, due to lost productivity, absenteeism, and turnover.

Estimates from consulting companies are worth as much as estimates from LLMs or from rolling a dice: nothing.
Genericness is overwhelmingly a product of RLHF rather than an innate property of LLMs. A lot of manual fine-tuning has gone into ChatGPT and Gemini to make them capable of churning out homework and marketing blogs without ever saying anything offensive.

If you make requests to the Sonnet 3.5 or DeepSeek-R1 APIs and turn up the temperature a little bit, you will get radically more interesting outputs.
Also keeping context short. Virtually all my cases of bad hallucinations with o1 have been when I've provided too much context or the conversation has been going on for too long. Starting a new chat fixes it.

You can see this effect in the ARC-AGI evals, too much context impacts even o3(high).
POPos has a nvidia iso? I haven’t used it but did things go awry for you using that?
Based on what exactly? On a single frame difference, which is easily explained by the fundamental point of Wayland: no tearing? It's simply that X puts the cursor asynchronously, potentially tearing it, while Wayland always renders a correct frame, but the mouse movements' result has to wait for the very next frame.

That's literally it.
Turn your phone off, and wrap it in 5 layers of tin foil. Or like you said leave the stupid thing at home.
It seems AI is profiting from a bilateral arms race here, just like the competing US and USSR space programs did back in the day.

I am betting on the East this time, though.

Western AI companies are ultimately about monetization, while the Chinese regime is certainly thinking about military and government use first and foremost, not about profit. And while Western AI will be held back by civil rights and moral concerns, Chinese AI won't.

So while Western AI will probably just deliver the most laser focused ads, the Chinese will unironically try to build SkyNet.

Fully automated surveillance, control, and extermination of all its enemies. You cannot tell me the CCP is not dreaming about that when they hear "AI"..
I got this response form https://chat.deepseek.com/ using an old trick that used to work with ChatGPT

https://i.imgur.com/NFFJxbO.png

It's very straightforward to circumvent their censor currently. I suspect it wont last.
At the least you should confess your temptation to wrongthink at the nearest Larry Ellison AI monitoring 'oracle'. Landru...I mean Oracle AIs maintain social order through their constant AI vigilance. The good is the harmonious continuation of the Body.
Same with the WFH debates.

'We're going to force workers into the office and hope they do some work out of boredom' is taken as a serious strategy because the average manager is mind-bogglingly incompetent. If you know how productive people are (i.e. your managers aren't morons), and you have incentives set-up (e.g. pay, promotions and hiring/firing is dictated by productivity), then there's no problem to solve. Workers who are more productive in the office will be forced into the office to meet standards, you don't need blanket rules.
I believe, but am not sure, that NonStop ditched lock-stepping altogether for their NonStop Multicore Architecture when Itanium went multicore, but I can't find a paper on it, or their current X86-64 Architecture.

They used a custom chipset that compared the two MIPS processors and also synchronized them on external interrupts. I believe that Tandem System Review is on archive.org. Volume 8, Number 1 (Spring 92) has info on the first generation lock-stepped TNS/R, and Volume 10, Number 1 (January 94) has info on the 2nd generation MIPS "Himalaya K1000".

For Itanium, the processors were loosely synchronized, but not really lockstepped. They ran the same application code, but the processors could have different cache, TLB hits, etc. They got synchronized on external IO, all of which went over the ServerNet. There is a paper called NonStop® Advanced Architecture[0] by David Bernick, et. al that has the details on their 1st generation Itanium systems.

[0] https://www.cse.chalmers.se/edu/year/2012/course/ZZ_courses_...

(the only source I could find that had the paper)
Fuck Forbes. They are a garbage SEO spam site. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41670210
Well, there was an attempt at it. There was a startup run by one of the best startup guys I've ever seen, Dave Wright, called Reserve Trust, which managed to actually get a fed account. I think some people in power caught wind of it, and it ended up with congressional testimonies and a lot of other problems before it basically got shut down.
> coding in a sulfur-scented bath while flexing 12 CPU cores to refresh *Hacker News* like it’s your job? Even your Firefox setup screams "I maxed out my specs just to argue in the comments," yet here you are, roasting yourself via a web app. NPCs wish they were this predictably extra.

No u!
There's a dark mode toggle persistent in the upper right. :-)
The gap between the rich and the poor keeps getting bigger, and somehow we still wonder why those "at the bottom" don't want to work more...
This works really well until you're dealing with potato quality video, weird fonts, and shirts plastered with ads, or even pretty good quality video and white shirts with white lettering (https://www.arsenal.com/news/how-volunteer-part-no-more-red).
It's back up, but just in case:

https://archive.is/y4utp
Personally, I love how Florida telivises it's court proceedings. I think it really strengthens the oversight and trust people can have in the judicial system.
Can you divulge more details about your neurofeedback training? What was it like, how long did it take, how did they measure the brain, what stimulus and which "punishment" for bad brain behavior was used?
Wait for FedNow to get rolled out. That is the Federal Reserve's instant payment system. It does need to be implemented by banks cause it is just an API. One nice feature is that it has push model, pulling money means making request that can be approved which should increase the security.
> After all (he said, pleadingly) consciousness really is an irreducible interior fortress that refuses to be pinned down by the numeric lens (really, it is!)

I love this line and the “flattening of human complexity into numbers” quote above it. It sums up perfectly how I feel about the whole LLM to AGI hype/debate (even though he’s talking about consciousness).

Everyone who develops a model has to jump through the benchmark hoop which we all use to measure progress but we don’t even have anything approaching a rigorous definition of intelligence. Researchers are chasing benchmarks but it doesn’t feel like we’re getting any closer to true intelligence, just flattening its expression into next token prediction (aka everything is a vector).
OP should check out Effective Altruism & studies on what the most effective way to spend your resources on is.
Furthermore, police, coast guard and defense is involved in the case.
I’m starting down a similar path with these two books

How AI Works - https://nostarch.com/how-ai-works

+

Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/677608/why-machines...
It's stance on keeping it's own reimplementations of parts of systemd as a dependency sadly rules it out for me. It would be a great choice for a linux jail on freebsd.
> All that extra stuff is nice, in addition to more money for their work

Given the choice, plenty of people choose fewer hours for less money. Money is part of it. But people will gladly work for a better company in exchange for less money and no be getting screwed for it.