skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It’s the same way that some people really want open source bootloaders, but 99.99% of people do not care at all.

In fairness to the 99.99% they don't even know what a bootloader is and if they understood the situation and the risks many of them would also favor an open option.

I don't think the rejection of AI is primarily a HN thing though. It's my non-tech friends and family who have been most vocal in complaining about it. The folks here are more likely to have browser extensions and other workarounds or know about alternative services that don't force AI on you in the first place.
No it's not, small planes crash frequently.
Yes, that's what I'm suggesting. Cursor is spamming the models with too much context, which harms reasoning models more than it harms non-reasoning models (hypothesis, but one that aligns with my experience). That's why I recommended testing reasoning models outside of Cursor with a hand curated context.

The advertised context length being longer doesn't necessarily map 1:1 with the actual ability the models have to perform difficult tasks over that full context. See for example the plots of performance on ARC vs context length for o-series models.
I did some contract work for a major hotel chain a few years ago (Windows 2012 server upgrades) and was horrified by their utter lack of security everywhere. Everything was out of date, no patching, super simple admin passwords everywhere. It was crazy. They did have corporate level IT, but from what I remember, it wasn't for any infra, just their hotel related software.

Don't connect to hotel wifi, or if you do, don't do anything important on it.
I'd argue that the fact that it isn't frequent makes it insignificant. 40k people die every year on the roads and, to our detriment, we don't treat that as significant. I wish we would focus on things actually impacting people and not scare people with things that will never happen to them.
The reason for a DOM node not being visible is either the height/width being 0, its position is out of the viewport, it's behind other nodes or its opacity is 0. And that's basically the same for any layout engine that use node tree. The inspector is so easy to use that using a chatbot for the specified reason is a waste of resources.
At my company we have a live service chat feature. Recently some of our customers have been requesting an AI chatbot support (we've got fairly technical product offerings). I'm guessing they want to ask a bunch of stupid questions.

I'm surprised as well. Some people want it
Billionaires destroy the working class: "progress".

Working class organizes a defense: "insanity".
> So, maybe, not less intelligent, but, maybe, a poorer fit for a software engineer position than a person less "people oriented" and, therefore, that a lot of the women working as software engineers at Google were hired over more fitting men, because they were women.

Closer, but still wrong. His point is that women are less likely to enter the field of software or engineering. Not that the subset of women who do enter those fields are less capable than men.

Imagine someone demands that we address the inequitable murder convictions with outcome based goals on the gender distribution of murder convictions. If I say that I believe that the disparity in murder convictions stems from the fact that men commit more murder, not bias in police or courts, does that make me a misandrist?

If women make up ~18% of software developers, why would we expect a non discriminatory hiring process to hire more than 18% women in software development roles?
My brokerage gives me the date, time and time zone! From my most recent transation:

01/31/2025 11:35:11 AM.,EST
Twenty-odd years ago there was a rash of US politicians killed in aircraft accidents. This seems like a good source — look at the cluster in late 90s, early 00s - https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/aircraft.html

Very few since then, so it’s much more of an outlier now.
Does this actually happen?

With some exceptions, there’s going to be a point where a used car is not worth the trouble to ship it somewhere.

And Americans love their huge ass cars. I can’t see many cheaper markets wanting to use an American car, just for the fuel cost alone.

I bet the cars get trashed for scrap or parts.
Sutely, when there is a head of the FAA, that person occasionally takes a vacation or other time off. These plane crashes are totally unrelated to politics or staffing.
wow that is terrible. now they know you're disloyal
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42892191
Gambling isn't considered an investment. It's consumption.
Definitely not, no. Credits on profits incentivize short term profit taking, while credits in products incentivize number of units shipped. The second is much better for society. Think about it from the perspective of a company deciding between selling low margin cheap EVs in the short term before process efficiencies kick in, or selling expensive EVs now.
I also have been less impressed by o1 in cursor compared to sonnet 3.5. Usually what I will do for a very complicated change is ask o1 to architect it, specifically asking it to give me a detailed plan for how it would be implemented, but not to actually implement anything. I then change the model to Sonnet 3.5 to have it actually do the implementation.

And on the side of not being able to get models to understand something specific, there’s a place in a current project where I use a special Unicode apostrophe during some string parsing because a third-party API needs it. But any code modifications by the AI to that file always replace it with a standard ascii apostrophe. I even added a comment on that line to the effect of “never replaced this apostrophe, it’s important to leave it exactly as it is!” And also put that in my cursor rules, and sometimes directly in the prompt as well, but it always replaces it even for completely unrelated changes. I’ve had to manually fix it like 10 times in the last day, it’s infuriating.
Having greatly enjoyed Ben Eater's content (especially the build-your-own-VGA!), I'll definitely check those others out. Thanks!
They get multiple chances to "retry" in the FAA academy. It isn't one pass/fail test; they practice a lot and take multiple tests. They can fail the first few tests as long as they average out to a 70% or greater.
I honestly can’t decide what I hate more: the fact that secret values can just be accessed by any JS on the page or that people keep using telemetry libraries and services. Probably the latter, but I am honestly not sure.
I think this is very cool. For projects like these one should release the project online before talking too much about it though. Nintendo is famously very strict about stuff like this.
> This covers a broad overview.

That's hilarious .. an editorial in Surgical Neurology in which a biologist shows us on his von Mises doll where the bad socialist touched him.

Do you do standup?
You can just disable it on the settings?
For anyone else curious, the A14 is slightly larger, but a bit lighter, than the MacBook Air. When I think “teeny-tiny”, I’m expecting it to be physically smaller than the Air, so I feel a bit setup for disappointment by that headline. I don’t know that I’d use that term with any 14” laptop.

The details on all of that can be found here:

https://www.asus.com/us/laptops/for-home/zenbook/asus-zenboo...

https://www.apple.com/macbook-air/specs/

Unless I desperately needed Windows, I think I’d go with the Air. I tend not to like copycat products, and even the Asus tech spec pages feel very Apple inspired. I actually used conventions from the Apple site to find how to switch to the Asus tech specs.
> It's not the AI that makes the art, but the person who tells the AI what to do.

Would you still call them an artist if they commissioned another human actually skilled instead of an AI model?

Why can't people accept that their role in this new process simply isn't the one we've always called artist? We don't call computers to the people using a computer, that role is now the machine's. I'd rather label the model itself an artist than its user, as much as it pains me.
After you've run my hn-summary.sh script you can ask follow up questions like this:

llm -c "did anyone talk about pricing?"
Any useful AI I've seen isn't branded as "AI", it's just a product that doesn't mention how it works.
You can't make an open source HDMI 2.1 driver:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/hdmi-forum-to-amd-no...
Funding the NSF fits neatly into the commerce clause; which is a tent large enough to cover practically anything since Wickard v. Filburn.
Don't resign in protest omg just don't comply - you'll get fired anyways but it'll take longer and you'll defend doing the right thing that much longer
That’s a good point, I didn’t think about that.
As others have asserted, this happens with every administration changeover. It is only more publicly viewable now (as in, people are reporting on it) due to the nature of the administration.

Now is a time for unity and joining together as Americans, not for divisiveness.
I don’t want to pretend I know how bank analysts work, but at the very least I would assume that 4 bank analysts with reasoning models would outperform 5 bank analysts without.
I did math tests. Probably you did coding.
How about simply the principle:

1. I should be able to deduct the same sorts of things from my individual income that corporations routinely deduct from their income.

If a corporation can legally shield all of their income from taxes, why can't I shield all of my income from taxes? Corporations can deduct the costs of all the things they have to do to make money and do weird depreciation tricks, but I cannot deduct the costs of all the things I must pay for in order to make my own income.
It would be interesting to add a toggle that shows the river sections that are NOT experiencing sewage discharges.
Ultra-massive white dwarf reveals 19 pulsation modes, a new record
Good catch. That's likely an artifact of the way I flatten the nested JSON from the comments API.

I originally did that to save on tokens but modern models have much larger input windows so I may not need to do that any more.
Presentation at https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.13661
The efficiency improvements are generally going to start in the more developed countries and eventually reach elsewhere. But this is less certain with EVs.
I do think he has inside information that corporate taxes will go down.
He has enough power to take over the office of personnel management and access personal information about every Fed employee.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-aides-lock-government-...
One of the policies is that if you are at all a journalist you are an enemy of the state.

During his rallies he'd literally have the entire crowd riled up against the very concept of journalists, because they might not suck up to him every single second of every single day.

Seriously, where do comments like this keep coming from?
Show HN: Simple to build MCP servers that easily connect with custom LLM calls
Hi!

After learning about MCP, I'm really excited about the future of provider-agnostic, re-usable tooling.

Unfortunately I've found that while it's easy to implement an MCP server for use with tools that support it (such as Claude Desktop), it's not as easy to implement your own support (such as integrating an MCP server into your own LLM application).

We implemented a thin MCP wrapper that easily integrates with Mirascope calls so that you can hook up an MCP server and client super easily to any supported LLM provider.

Excited to see what people build with this!
80% of the value of Twitter was consumed by the time the election was won. He got what he wanted for the money, it wasn't a loss to him anymore than paying for a hooker is a loss if that's what you wanted. I do not think he would have gotten it without getting Twitter+Rogan.
I wasn't aware that corporate DEI departments sprung into being because they mandated at gunpoint by some DEI Czar.

Here I thought that employers created them of their own volition. Could you perhaps cite the law that forced them into existence?
School board fired by B.C. education minister over ban on police in schools
> Remember the multiple times tech companies have been fined for failing to "protect privacy"?

I can recall one or two exceptional cases,and the fines were relatively small,
amounting to a slap on the wrist.
For example for the 2017 Equifax breach, after 2 years, the total cost of the settlement included $300 million to a fund for victim compensation, $175 million to the states and territories in the agreement, and $100 million to the CFPB in fines. In the UK, the Financial Conduct Authority imposed a financial penalty of £11,164,400[1]

Equifax's revenue in 2017 was $3.362B.
In 2019, after Equifax agreed to the above settlement, revenue was up to $3.508B. Equifax revenue for the twelve months ending September 30, 2024 was $5.588B, a 8.79% increase year-over-year.[2]

1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Equifax_data_breach#Litig...

2. https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/EFX/equifax/revenu...
the only reasons i can imagine that a customer would want to use an AI chatbot for support instead of chatting with a person is either because they don't currently have the option to chat with a person 24/7 at all (AI is better than no chat support), or their experience with human chat support has been terrible (long wait times, slow responses, unhelpful agents, annoying language barriers, responses so unnatural and overly scripted that they might as well be bots, etc).

There's nothing AI brings to the table that a competent human wouldn't, with the added benefit that you don't have to worry about AI making things up or not understanding you.

Or maybe they just want to try and convince the AI to give them things you wouldn't (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/air-canada-must-...)
But companies are legal entities, they can buy, sell and own stuff. They aren't just a collection of people. They can make profit, some huge amounts, and they should pay taxes for that.
A tale as old as time. Medical records, passwords, private comms... Why even pretend it's a bug and not a feature at this point?
earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42894166
> Does this actually happen?

Absolutely it does. If you live near the Mexican border of the US, it’s extremely common to see older cars being towed headed south, presumably to Mexico. It’s not particularly expensive to drive them down to the border.

> I bet the cars get trashed for scrap or parts.

Only the least valuable and oldest ones that other countries don’t work. That means you’re overall moving up the modernness of the fleet. Presumably with better fuel economy, lower emissions, and fewer problems.
LMDB is the only one here in C, so the interop is probably what makes LMDB so slow in here
The idea is to stimulate both supply and demand. Credits for consumer only stimulate demand which may not be enough to compel literally hundreds of billions of dollars worth of CapEx, not to mention opportunity cost.
> Sutely, when there is a head of the FAA, that person occasionally takes a vacation or other time off.

What does that have to do with anything? My boss takes vacations too, but if my team didn’t have a manager we would surely be worse off.

> These plane crashes are totally unrelated to politics or staffing.

Please provide a citation for this claim.
But it _is_ profit, just without directly paying it out.
It can also be added to the default search URL in your browser (usually they replace %s with the search query)
I've taken a number of MCUs through radiation testing including testing watchdogs. I've generally found that latchups often take out the watchdogs, even something like the STm32 independent watchdogs, and shouldn't be relied on.
External hardware or a different system need to be deputized here.
5 hours in 500 odd comments. Definitely feels like this has less wow factor than previous OAI releases.
For a language to be useful for modern backend engineering, I'd expect it to at least have proper enums and union types with pattern matching. Let alone features like structured concurrency, advanced observability, records, good error handling, etc.

The constant gotchas in golang indicate that it does not fit in people's heads within a few months.
Yea, I think this is how a lot of engineers rationalize it. "Well, I'm not directly participating in my company's A/B experiment to see what types of content drive children to suicidal ideation! I'm just moving data from the project's logging side of the stack to the metrics side of the stack so that reports can be generated. Don't blame me!"
Maybe it's better to say the current administration is battling journalism, in a one-sided way. There's a real difference, but it looks too much like splitting hairs.
This lines up with my experience loitering in the soup aisle and stopwatching the grocery checkouts: https://bobbiechen.com/blog/2022/2/17/let-them-check-you-out
> scoring people fairly and literally against interview questions, that form a fraction of the whole candidate ranking process, are literally exactly what “DEI initiatives” in HR were meant to do.

I don't doubt your lived experience, but in 3 out of 4 companies DEI initiatives took the form of explicitly discriminating on the basis of candidates' protected class. Practices like giving "diverse" candidates multiple chances go pass interviews where white and Asian men got one. Another straight up created a reservation system for diverse candidates.

I acknowledge that some people have had better experience DEI, but I'd encourage you to consider the possibility that many have witnessed explicit discrimination under the banner of DEI.
I run Linux on my laptop and desktop and have a MacBook.

I wouldn't recommend it for your laptop unless you're an enthusiast. Suspend/sleep is still janky, power saving is poor and dock support is hit and miss depending on the day. And this is after applying a lot of tweaks.

For desktop it's fantastic and I would recommend. It's not without some issues but what OSes is actually without any issues.

For server, I can't imagine using anything else.
> I think your description here assumes too much clarity in what is possible or what will happen if you continue on. Sometimes the system is well understood and the potential gains are pretty clear, that isn't always the case though.

Does halting not also come with lack of clarity? For instance, say we're choosing between two options:

1. Continue with disease/vaccine/antibiotic/etc. research

2. Halt said research

To me it seems as though both options come with uncertainties, which could resolve positively as well as negatively. That there is uncertainty or a lack of clarity does not bias me towards option 2. My choice would still be based on analysis of which option has the better expected outcome (which is, to my current knowledge, the former) - even if the best analysis available is a guesstimate with very low correlation (so long as it's a positive correlation).

> There are diseases that present nearly identically to smallpox and polio but were given different names based on hypothesized causes. Monkeypox and acute flaccid myelitis come to mind

Mpox is considerably milder - having killed hundreds of people compared to smallpox's hundreds of millions.

> If I remember right, polio is actually one where the clinical diagnosis steps rules it out simply because polio has been deemed irradiated

Polio isn't eradicated like smallpox is, though for most people it may as well be. Given ongoing eradication efforts my understanding is that there is fairly extensive testing compared to other diseases of its rarity (e.g: https://polioeradication.org/what-we-do/), so it's not just a case of "it's gone because we're ignoring it" if that's what's being implied.
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This is.... underwhelming.
Is this all real? We are headed into blatant corporate fascism. This is very scary stuff.

Looking this stuff up, apparently it's now being reported that Musk has taken over the Office of Personnel Management and General Services Administration.
GrapheneOS works well on Google Pixel phones and tablets.
It's a pretty well known essay--you should be able to find out in PDF format pretty easily by googling. It's very much on the non-lobster-eating side and touches on both physiological and philosophical arguments.
One could argue what we're seeing/experiencing is what the plurality of American people voted for. Given the circus last time around and behaviors since, anyone expecting anything substantively better was deluding themselves very badly.

Given Republicans now control all three branches of the federal government, what exactly should Democrats do? Chest beating and theatrics have become boring. In ~2 years, there may (may) be an opportunity to do something, but right now? Non-Tech Bros and Non-MAGA are just along for the ride.
How can you know it's totally unrelated any more than somebody can know it's definitely related?
https://itslaunched.com/

For those that may want it a little easier
why is this impressive at all? It effectively amounts to correcting a typo.
Sounds a lot like you want to drive "The Poors" out of the city, because that would be how you'd do it.
I thought Geeks4Geeks was bad but now I'm craving respite from all the AI SEO slop that gets served instead
And if you weren’t already convinced, along comes the article to drive that point home…

> “I think the genesis of this movement has been Jonathan Haidt, author of the book The Anxious Generation, and he even admits some of the research is mixed. And it's true that it is not necessarily causal.”
No, the last one was in 2009. 16 year streak for US airlines.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/01/30/business/us-airlines-warn...

> US airlines had gone 16 years without a fatal crash until Wednesday night.

There’ve been a few fatal incidents, but not crashes for the actual airlines.
This is actually reflected even in the AI slop. Most pictures look broadly appealing and correct, but very generic. So to draw a crowd it has to stand out some other way - be it the lighting, the colors, the materials, the framing, the poses, the setting, or whatever else. They really made me reevaluate what is it that I'm actually looking for and how much I value each of these aspects.
I was going to buy a pixel 9 fold, but I literally have no idea why I should.

All the ad talked about was AI, nothing about specs, and barely a whisper of how it works, or even good demos of apps switching between open and closed.

Every phone has AI now, big deal. How about you tell me, Google, what is cool about the fold, instead of talking for 4 minutes about AI?!
Comparing the Librem to the Pinephone is disingenuous. It's like comparing a Nissan Versa to an e-bike that requires assembly upon delivery.
There are many things that are illegal to minors around the world, and that teenagers do anyway. That's what (healthy) teenagers do: disobey.

The purpose of these laws is to make it illegal for adults to encourage those behaviours.
All federal workers were sent this email: https://www.opm.gov/fork
Each question falls into a different category (ie math, coding, story writing etc). Typically models are better at some categories and worse at others. Saying "56% of people preferred responses from o3-mini" makes me wonder if those 56 are only from certain categories and the model isn't uniformly 56% preferred.
Why are so many powerful people tripping over themselves to please this administration?

Some amount of this always happens for an incoming administration, but it usually doesn't abandon all principle.

I get the sense that there is both a fear and lust in the new administration: fear that the emperor is mad and might turn the entire apparatus of the state against anyone that crosses him; lust for power and opportunity to be the emperor's favorite.

It's like "it's the implication" from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, but for every rich or powerful person in the country.