skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is the term for trying to shut down other people's contributions, which might be contrary to yours, before they even speak?

I've seen it many times: Fabricate something, attribute it to hypothetical commenters, and then disparage it.

There must be a term in the world of rhetoric. The first part is essentially a strawperson.
Would be cool if this could sync with Discord so you can post to an #announcements channel or something like that too
Searched for "mamono" to see if anyone recommended already :) One of the best minesweeper clones, maybe "Demoncrawl" is better. I have beaten all modes for Mamono back in the flash times.
It's much better than SMS in many cases.

My email address can't be SIM swapped, my emails aren't transmitted using weak 90s encryption algorithms over the air (and via dubious, largely unauthenticated 80s protocols on the wire), and my mailbox is itself guarded by 2FA.
Took their time

You would have thought that a people decimated and terrorised by a fascist state would take immediate action against any fascist who raised his arm in a salute to recognise, and in a way support, the decimatation and terrorisation of the Jewish people.

paradoxical too considering Isreal has a right wing warmongering bordering on fascist leader.
i think some are reading my comment as critical of deepseek, but i'm more trying to say it is an infrastructural/engineering feat moreso than an architectural innovation. this article doesn't even mention fp8. these have been by far the most interesting technical reports i've read in a while
Check out https://www.centauri-dreams.org/, it's a blog dedicated to interstellar travel. It's on hiatus at the moment, but there are plenty of back articles to read!

However, I recommend you figure out how to reduce your anxiety, because after reading it for a while it will become clear that interstellar travel isn't happening any time in the foreseeable future. Fortunately, I don't think that a species that flourishes from the hot tropics to the freezing arctic is likely to be in much existential danger from climate change, and even less from the volatile vagaries of politics. (Climate change might bring very substantial changes, but escaping off-planet isn't going to be less change)
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The point of a corporation is to make you teflon.
If it's already going to be expensive and exclusive they can easily design a program where all the passengers have to be some kind of TSA++ pre-approved ahead of time and perhaps have a special terminal and/or security screening line.

The # of passengers on the plane is small so that could also speed up many aspects.
I'm sure you're right that they're overselling with the vision of bringing tickets down to $100, but if what you say about number of passengers is strictly true no airline would fly the Embraer 175 or CRJ-900, right?

According to the data I could find, the Overture is advertised as having fuel efficiency similar to the Embraer 175, while carrying the same number of passengers.
All mozilla did was read the privacy policies. This is not a defense of car companies, but we need a real, detailed analysis of what is actually collected, when it is collected, and where it is stored. I hate tech in modern cars, Mozilla’s reporting here does very little to help anyone understand what is really going on; only what has been noted in the privacy agreement.
Exactly. I read that parent comment thinking it was totally sarcastic at first, and then realized it was serious.

I wish everyone would stop using the term "AGI" altogether, because it's not just ambiguous, but it's deliberately ambiguous by AI hypesters. That is, in public discourse/media/what average person thinks, AGI is presented to mean "as smart as a human" with all the capabilities that entails. But then it is often presented with all of these caveats by those same AI hypesters to mean something along the lines of "advanced complex reasoning", despite the fact that there are glaring holes compared to what a human is capable of.
I don’t think anyone is claiming that Deepseek didn’t produce a very impressive frontier model. They’re just saying it’s not surprising that, in your analogy, flipping the single bit was cheaper than the prior work.
I actually wrote it myself.

I set a personal goal in trying to be more helpful, and after two years of effort, this is what comes out naturally. The most helpful thing that I do is probably not posting senseless things.

I do sometimes ask ChatGPT to revise my comments though (not for these two).
By the time book comes out it's outdated. DeepSeek has its own cut-off date.

And here is the problem: AI needs to be trained on something. Use of AI reduces the use of online forums, some of them are actively blocking access, like reddit. So, for AI to stay relevant it has to generate the knowledge by itself. Like having full control of a computer, taking queries from human supervisor, and really trying to solve. Having this sort of AI actors in online forum will benefit everyone.
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> Guess what: evil people don't come out and say "I'm evil!" They don't wear super villain costumes, and they don't look like evil monsters.

sometimes they just do a Nazi salute in front of the world's cameras and people rush to their defence.
So should Protonmail (and any other site with similarly sensitive data) be setting that header, then? It’s probably hard to change the default. I bet some use cases (SSO popups?) depend on it.
No, they’re correct.
It's frustrating this is not the same behavior on macOS: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/774145
Why even bother decensoring it (except academic curiosity ig)? There are a million other ways you can learn about those subjects.

The people making the model probably don't really give a shit about politics and just did the minimum to avoid being embarassed, but if people start jailbreaking it they will be forced to care.
The Lost Age of Abundance – The Ultimate Strategy Game
> double-digit-%

In the early days there was a ~10% hit, but that's changed a lot since then.
Yes.

It also appears to pause Medicaid funding. That impacts 85M people and half of all childbirths.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/donald-trump/2025/01/2...

> Although the White House in a memo stated that Medicare and Medicaid would not be affected by the freeze, Illinois on Tuesday reported that state agencies could not access federal funding sites that included Medicaid.

> State agencies started reporting issues to Gov. JB Pritzker’s office Tuesday morning with accessing federal funding sites and disbursement systems, including Medicaid systems, his office said. Pritzker has been in communication with the state’s federal delegation, local elected officials, nonprofits and other governors about the matter.
Astronauts' eyes weaken during long space missions
Haha perhaps - though I think you'll find that (with the exception of Scala) these are some of the most popular programming languages.

Having sad that, I don't really know anyone with significant Go experience who dislikes its dependency management - most critiques are now quite out of date/predate current solutions by several years.

Finally, I'm not really sure which language you are proposing has better dependency management than Go - whether in relation to security, avoiding the 'diamond' problem, simplicity, etc. Rustaceans like to critique Go (no idea if you are one but my experience is that criticism is often from this crown) but I'm not sure how, from my own Rust experience/knowledge, it is actually better. In fact, I think there are several grounds to think that it is worse (even if still very solid compared to some of the aforementioned languages).
Maybe, but I know what my laser focus will be on for the next few weeks. I suspect a massive number of researchers around the world have just switched their focus in a similar way. The resources applied to this problem have been going up exponentially and the recent RL techniques have now opened the floodgates for anyone with a 4090 (or even smaller!) to try crazy things. In a world where the resources are constant I would agree with your basic assertion that 'it is right around the corner' will stay that way, but in a world where resources are doubling this fast there is no doubt we are about to achieve it.
And most of all, I'll tell you I fixed the errors in the code while I spit gibberish
Sunsetting Cursed Terminal Emulation
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If someone says something correct that they just learned, they don't deserve ridicule just because they learned it recently and others are saying it too.
I think the truth is in the middle: people took what they wanted from the study in the 40s, and people are taking what they want from the updated study as well. Worse, the topic seems to be popular enough that it's being used as seo spam now. At this point, if someone with a deep understanding of both wolf behavior and human behavior were to review all available data, think deeply on the subject, draw meaningful and valuable insights, and write a popular essay conveying them, I don't know how I'd find it among all the dross.

I guess it has a life of its own now. Seems like a good example of the semiotics concept of the signifier becoming disconnected from the signified: a heated debate over the finer points of wolf pack social dynamics being carried out by people with no particular knowledge of or interest in wolves.
Try asking ChatGPT to help you write a message encouraging your colleagues to strike.
Their offensive crypto work is also on point.
DeepSeek had to be open-source (and it won't defeat OpenAI)
No One Can Find a Job Because LinkedIn Is a Social Network
I agree there are hard societal problems that tech alone cannot solve -- or at all. It reminds me of the era, not long ago, when the hipster startup bros thought "there is an app for that" (and they were ridiculously out of touch with the actual problem, which was famine, homelessness, poverty, a natural disaster, etc).

For mankind, the really big problems aren't going away any time soon.

But -- and it's a big but -- many of us aren't working on those problems. I'm ready to agree most of what I've done for decades in my engineering job(s) is largely inconsequential. I don't delude myself into thinking I'm changing the world. I know I'm not!

What I'm doing is working on something interesting (not always) while earning a nice paycheck and supporting my family and my hobbies. If this goes away, I'll struggle. Should the world care? Likely not. But I care. And I'm unlikely to start working on solving societal problems as a job, it's too much of a burden to bear.
For those not planning to live in their yachts - how's the cost of housing looking in New Zealand? A mid-2024 article I found claimed the national median house sale price was almost $800K. (Presumably $NZ. The latter is about 57 cents US - so a bit under $450K US.)
This post came to mind for me

https://moonmetropolis.substack.com/p/antioch-the-first-food...
This is honestly a bad answer. You can have all of the motivation in the world. But if you don’t know how to create products that people want, market it, have funding for it and not get crushed by a larger company that can throw a team at it, you won’t be successful.

The world is filled with the corpses of dead companies founded by people with “motivation” and “passion”.

The whole idea of if you work really hard you are guaranteed success gives too many people unrealistic hope
Only speculatively. The end result is the same as not executing that code, other than observable side effects.
and in the next lifetimes too. humans are good at making problems. only lobotomy and AGI Gods can sort of 'solve' them.
Right. Whether I arrive in London at 4pm or 8pm doesn't really make much of a difference. (Admittedly it probably lets you arrive on the continent without a red-eye--depending on supersonic over land rules--as you pretty much have to do today.)
Fascist.

I'm very surprised a search didn't turn this up for you, or you're not asking in good faith.
> A statement like this pretty much disqualifies your opinions

This is needlessly aggressive. I specialize in writing SIMD code. That is my job. I am very eager to get my hands on a RVV chip so that I can play with a new SIMD ISA. So obviously a non-SIMD chip is useless to me.

> Why would you expect it to have vector extensions?

Because it has "Performance" in the name. I double-checked the ISA and saw that it did not have V, and was disappointed.

> If you don't need RISC-V this year then

Why would anybody _need_ RISC-V? RISC-V is exciting because it has the possibility of giving the end user higher performance per dollar. Until it does that, it will relegated to enthusiasts who just like playing with new ISAs.
AGI is defined by the loss function. We are on the verge of a loss function that enables self determined rewards and learning and that to me is AGI. That is step 3.
Show HN: DeepSeek Janus Pro 7B API
i deployed deepseek janus pro on eachlabs to check potential usecases.
> going much faster scales up the cost of flying at a rate that's hard to justify

Worse: drag in the transonic regime is generally worse than subsonic or supersonic.
Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy seems like a case of bad defaults where a less secure option has been selected so that we don't break some poorly maintained websites. Better to get the actual users of `window.open` to fix their code than to make every website insecure out of the box.

I can't imagine there are many sites passing significant amounts of data through this, the small number of users where IPC poses too high a penalty can opt their sites into the "same process" flag if really needed.
Yeah, human apologists basically.

Thanks to Simon for pointing out my point is encapsulated by the AI effect, which also offers an explanation:

"people subconsciously are trying to preserve for themselves some special role in the universe…By discounting artificial intelligence people can continue to feel unique and special.”
Fash is short for fascist. Just going off of the latest news, maybe he came out in defense of Musk or just tweeted in favor of Trump?
It's like up-badging a car. Most people won't care about it. Those who are knowledgeable about it will see through it. And those who actually do care about superficial things like that are probably not the kind of people whose respect should matter to you
It loads with subtitles for me.
You don't think targeting trans folks and immigrants with unconstitutional executive orders isn't an embrace of fascism?
Agreed, I switched from qwq now to the same model. I'm running it under ollama on a M1 Asahi Linux and it seems maybe twice the speed (not very scientific but not sure how to time the token generation), and more, dare I say smarter? than qwq, and maybe a tad less RAM.
It still over ponders, but not as bad as some of the pages and pages of, 'that looks wrong, maybe I should try...' circles with qwq, but which was already so impressive.

I'm quite new to this, how are you feeding in so much text? just copy/paste? I'd love to be able to run some of my Zig code through it, but I haven't managed to get Zig running under Asahi so far.
If the wrapper itself cooperates, you can also embed more information in the following lines. nix-shell for example allows installing dependencies and any parameters with:

#!/usr/bin/env nix-shell
#!nix-shell --pure -i runghc ./default.nix
... Any Haskell code follows
> If someone refuses to personally eat pasta because they believe in the great spaghetti monster, they can knock themselves out for all I care.

But that doesn't make them sane.
I’ll make sure to note that down! We were already considering some sharing/notification options, and Discord will definitely be on the list for integrations.
How the List of Largest Companies in the World Changes over Time
There is quite a bit of churn in the Top Ten.
https://theintercept.com/2025/01/28/proton-mail-andy-yen-tru...

I'm assuming they meant fascist because the CEO is a republican.

As a non-American, it's not my problem but I can see why people would want to distance themselves
I have no beef with Rust, but objectively I think it's dependency management, general tooling, and standard library are significantly worse than Go's. The language, as you say, has a quite different philosophy from Go which many favour - but that is only part of the story.

Could you elucidate which of the 'mentioned issues' you think are present for Go (in relation to tooling) that do not apply to Rust/cargo? Is your critique based solely on the new `go tool` command or more widespread? And are you aware that the parent criticism is at least partially misguided given it is possible to store tooling in a separate .mod file or simply ignore this feature altogether?
Even though this is "just reading the privacy policy", it's pretty damning when your car company says they can collect your sexual orientation, political affiliation, etc. and straight up say that they sell your information.

>we need a real, detailed analysis of what is actually collected, when it is collected, and where it is stored

Unless the companies themselves divulge that information, or various governments team up and force them to, this is the best you're going to get.
Aka people have been consistently calling out the AI hype as being excessive for decades, despite a weird push by the marketing segments of the programming community to declare everything as being AGI. The current technology is better and has more applications, yes. For certain fields its very exciting. For others its not

The idea that deep blue is in any way a general artificial intelligence is absurd. If you'd believed AI researchers hype 20 years ago, we'd have everything fully automated by now and the first AGI was just around the corner. Despite the current hype, chatgpt and co is barely functional at most coding tasks, and is excessively poor at even pretty basic reasoning tasks

I would love for AI to be good. But every time I've given it a fair shake to see if it'll improve my productivity, its shown pretty profoundly that its useless for anything I want to use it for
Accounting for acceleration and deceleration seems like an unspoken obstacle in your timeline. How can a human comfortably accelerate or decelerate at a rate greater than 9.8m/s^2 for long periods of time? “Hey guys, we will need you to pull 9Gs for the next seventy years as your ship slows down to enter a stable orbit”
Ask HN: Are YC startups *actually* hiring?
Having applied to 20-30 YC startups without any meaningful replies and I’m wondering, are YC startups actually hiring? Having worked in finance for a decade and other high pressure jobs I don’t consider myself a spring chicken.

Edit: I now run a fintech startup https://fixparser.dev and we do look for a technical/business co-founder, feel free to reach out.
> “We’ve seen time and again how Beijing weaponises its tech dominance for surveillance, control and coercion, both domestically and abroad.”

I don't see how a Chinese company is necessarily more of a threat here. The US companies have a long track record of surveillance, control (manipulation through social media), and coersion (at least to the point of doxxing, disabling accounts, etc.).

They also have a long track record and a culture they proudly claim of crossing any legal, regulatory, societal, and moral boundary for profit and power. They are also mostly outspoken supporters of the US government, which is openly embracing "control and coercion, both domestically and abroad", and I expect they would agree with that depiction.

Arguably, if you live in the US, the Chinese company is less likely to be interested in you personally than the US companies and their political allies.

(Don't put sensitive information in any system of any kind that you don't trust.)
Air travel is more popular than ever and 2024 broke basically all records. Why would there be less case for faster flights?

Supersonic flight will be the preserve of the 0.1%, but the vast majority of private jets can't fly trans-continental (without stops along the way) and there are people out there paying $50k per flight for Etihad's The Residence suites. So, yes, there are people who will pay for this.
You are aware that Intel has fabs, right?

They're not particularly behind TSMC. The issue is one of costs - TSMC is cheaper. If Trump hits them with tariffs, suddenly it's no longer cheaper than fabbing with Intel.

Whether Intel has the capacity is another story.
And no way at all to protect yourself against any site you use this scheme on to brute-force your master password without you even being aware of it.
> The engine in XB-1 test plane is not the same that’s going in the production plane.

There IS no production plane, nor can there be. The last company they wanted to use for engines dropped them as a client years ago (others did earlier): https://english.alarabiya.net/business/aviation-and-transpor...
This sounds like a prompting issue.

If your prompt instructs the model to ask such questions along the way, the model will, in fact, do so!

But yes, it would be nice if the model were smart enough to realize when it's in a situation where it should ask the user a few questions, and when it should just get on with things.
I want to think it was "nuts"
So basically like Microsoft ?
So were all the people who failed (and most do), not “smart”?

It doesn’t matter how much persistence or how far you are willing to run if you are running in the wrong direction. It’s an important skill to know when to quit
Atomic scientists adjust 'Doomsday Clock' closer than ever to midnight
Jevon's Paradox says that you're probably wrong. But I'm worried about the same thing. The moat around human superiority is shrinking fast. And when it's gone, we may get more software, but will we need humans involved?
Because intelligence != success, nor is it enough to obtain it. You can be in the top 0.01% of the population IQ wise with all As in every subject and a ton of degrees and experience, and not get anywhere close to being a millionaire or billionaire.

What matters a lot more is the combination of a bunch of factors:

1. Your network/background. Someone with a rich and influential family has way better odds than someone from a poorer one.

2. Whether your interests happen to align with a field or industry that's got a lot of potential for success. Being interested in technology/bitcoin/AI/whatever at the right time would get you a lot more money than being interested in journalism or travel.

3. Your mindset and how determined you are to push yourselves to do one thing despite overwhelmingly bad odds. Obviously you're gonna have issues if you get really attached to a bad idea with no chance of it becoming a viable business venture, but I also see a lot of people fail simply because their interests are very temporary/short term.

4. Plain old luck when it comes to your skillset, the timing for launching your idea, etc.

Point being though, there's a huge luck/timing element to it all, with connections and your network being another big factor on top of that. If you don't get those, you can be as skilled and hard working as you like and not get anywhere.
Rails (and its ecosystem) is anything but boring with Turbo/Hotwire, StimulusJS, a shift away from queues using Redis to the database w/ Solid Queue, a reexamination of how SQLite can be used as a prod database (when tuned), and a new rich text editor on the way…

Some of these are eyebrow raising and certainly not boring!