skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>That's like saying, "you can't tell me what your name is,

No, it's the opposite of that. Third-person pronouns are the ones people use to discuss third persons among themselves. The person who "wants their pronouns used" isn't party to the conversation. They're attempting to put their own non-name words into other people's mouths. One might make a case that you could choose your own second-person pronouns, but at least in the English language that's egalitarian, everyone's just a "you".

>or whether you'd like to be called Mr., Ms. or Mrs.

I call men "mister" out of respect. My other word for people who don't merit respect is "asshole". If you don't like the first, I'll use the second one. I don't even use "sir" if I can help it... no English lords in this country.

>You can dislike the practice of listing your pronouns,

I can do more than that now. I think I can ignore it without getting fired.

>but it's perfectly ordinary to tell people how you'd like them to refer to you.

It's not ordinary. At no point in human history, in any human language I am aware of, has anyone ever gotten to choose their own third-person pronouns. It's absurd and bizarre. I'm not required to acknowledge the existence of imaginary friends to anyone over the age of 7, I'm not required to play into other people's schizophrenic hallucinations, and I don't have to try to overcome my 50 years of habit in how English is spoken.
I did too; browser tools said a CSP mixup had blocked their Bootstrap CDN. Looked like a mistake, not the entire site being gone.
No, there are plenty of complacent people out there that are willfully blind to the evil things they do.

The real problem is the bankers, the ones who loaned him the money.
Are you able to consider the perspectives of people other than yourself?
You are making accusations with certainty and this implies that you have special legal knowledge or evidence that could be used to at a bare minimum to stop the behavior. There will be no shortages of lawyers available to you willing to use your special knowledge or evidence to bring suit. So why wouldn’t you pursue it if you care about it passionately?

> I do not have the resources and probably not the standing to bring a suit.

Oh, ok. Well never mind then.
You aren't wrong, especially about motivations. The "current consumer focus" has had some weird results, too - particularly in the image/video generation space, it's the consumers, or rather the OSS community, that actually did 90% of the work of turning AI research output into product prototypes - which many a startup now just pick, polish and scale up. Not to dismiss that work, either, but that's mostly the old-school SaaS building work; the hot AI part is already there on Github, packaged into ComfyUI nodes for people to play with.

Full video is a slightly different story because of compute demands, but image generation is basically the infamous Dropbox comment situation - any fancy image generation task you see offered as a service, a moderately tech-savvy person could replicate for personal use with ComfyUI over a weekend. That applies to interactive portraits too - the nodes are but a click away, models run fast enough for local use on an average PC.

I'd like to challenge you on your conclusion, though:

> These tools are purely intended for superficial people who are not interested in creating things, they are only interested in outputs and end results.

But this is exactly how progress is made. Quoting Alfred North Whitehead[0]: "Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them." Where for one craftsman, the process is the most important part of their creative work, another craftsman only cares about the output of the former, because it's an input to their creative work. That doesn't make the latter person "superficial", they're just one level up the dependency graph.

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[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_North_Whitehead
That is correct. Remove directories "test/" and "cursor/test/", then run "go mod tidy"; you should see only one dependency in go.mod:

require golang.org/x/sys v0.29.0

Could have used "syscall" in the standard library instead of "golang.org/x/sys/unix" if not for these: https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/sys/unix#F_OFD_GETLK

... and this: https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/refs/heads/master/des...
Those who have money decide what is legal. That's the only possible outcome of Citizens United. The President, congress, and even Supreme Court justices can all be influenced with money.
I've had headache-free ocular migraines since I was about 13 or 14. Your typical aura/flashing/light sensitivity. They always are proceeded by some flash and then I know I have maybe 15 minutes before I'm in the middle of it.

Anyway, two things that I find helps. The easiest one is supplementing magnesium -- if I ever run out and forget to order more for a couple weeks I'll inevitably have a migraine. The other one is LSD or mushrooms. My friend is a science journalist and covered a group of people taking LSD for cluster headaches, and I figured if it was working for them it was worth a shot.

I still get them a few times per year, but it's way way less frequent now.
My experience with cursor and sonnet is that it is relatively good at first tries, but completely misses the plot during corrections.

"My attempt at solving the problem contains a test that fails? No problem, let me mock the function I'm testing, so that, rather than actually run, it returns the expected value!"

It keeps doing that kind of shenanigans, applying modifications that solve the newly appearing problem while screwing the original attempt's goal.

I usually get much better results from regular chatgpt copying and pasting, the trouble being that it is a major pain to handle the context window manually by pasting relevant info and reminding what I think is being forgotten.
I’d say it’s more active than ever. Narrower focus than HN, a great complement.
He's an American because he got naturalized citizenship. According to the State Department and the Supreme Court, at a minimum, he qualifies as an American.
trump spreads his income perfectly across all his LLCs. Their expenses always exactly match their income to the penny. I wonder why he is able to do that?
There are a lot of people in Texas and the biggest cities are quite close together. In fact, you can start in Dallas, drive down to Waco, drive down to Austin, drive down to San Antonio, and you've only driven four hours to do so. If ever there was untapped access to a huge workforce, it's in Texas.

Even better, Houston actually has the lowest homelessness rate of any major US city[0] and access to water. People are really sleeping on Houston's future right now.

[0]https://www.reddit.com/r/houston/comments/1dpg4he/did_you_kn...
Shoutout for Zen -- it's one of my top ten books and I love it to death. The discourse on the nature of quality fundamentally changed how I perceive the world and interact with it: when someone likes something I dislike, I remember that quality is the interface between the observer and the observed, and there's no right or wrong to that (beyond the extreme/obvious cases). I learned that from Pirsig, and I'm grateful.
Yes if you have business income. In fact it's common.
>they're absolutely within their First Amendment rights to do so,

Unless someone can rile up a mob into trying to embarass a large corporation or a small business into canceling you. You have a right to free speech, but you don't have a right to be sane when there's a low-intensity riot of unhinged individuals threatening you with destitution and terror.
You people really managed to sprinkle JS everywhere, even on PDF. Shame on you.
It's not. But the "checks and balances" have decided they aren't interested in being checks and balances. Doing their job as the Constitution intended would get them primaried by someone backed by Elon's money, and there's nothing worse than losing their nice cushy prestigious job in the Senate.
> the Biden admin forced him to censor Covid info

No, he said they “pressured” him. Important difference. The choice was still ultimately his, which he now says he regrets.
Go to settings and disable Smart Features?
> A plausible explanation for this is that because they were already all white men, new hires weren't allowed to be, so viable candidates were turned away, leading to under-staffing.

No, that's not even remotely plausible. Trump said it to deflect from having fired the head of the FAA because Musk didn't like him, among other things.
Well, there is the new use case that appeals to VCs! And I guess it's a good reminder that I should re-subscribe to your blog :)
12 kids and no house....
I never said things are improving in the US.
When you spend money on manufacturing and equipment, a company does not get to write off the full amount against their taxes when they buy it - they may have to spread it over a period of useful life of that equipment.
Clearly a bribe.
Germany is in a weird state. On one hand, it really does have vacancies for jobs, On other hand it has onerous beaurcraric red tape which doesn't allow immigrants (extremely capable, not just refugees) to do those jobs mostly due to language but also other things. It seems to have created this dilemna for themselves.
This is an underrated comment and should be WAY higher. Like a lot of things Apple does, this isn't about the thing itself, but about the next ten to twenty years of related things.
You could probably get most economists to agree people shouldn't pay income tax either; they are a distorting influence. Land/economic rent taxes really are the way to go.
Nothing's wrong with it. But don't take it as an overview of what the case is actually about, because it's not that. It's an overview of one side's position in the case, which is not at all the same thing.
No hypothetical there - it has already happened, just not about Tiananmen square. Have you tried asking ChatGPT about David Mayer[1] or Jonathan Turley[1]? Give it a whirl and watch the all-American censorship at work.

Corporations avoiding legal trouble is the one thing in common between American, Chinese, or any other AI company, really.

1. https://www.404media.co/not-just-david-mayer-chatgpt-breaks-...
An anomalous uptick in censoring information that is politically biased toward the new authoritarian regime is suspicious. Especially when Zuck has explicitly stated his desire to get "in" with the leader, his ~~bribe~~ donation to the leader's inauguration, and so on.

It's also possible that it was as innocuous as aggressive automod.
As one of the most industrialized countries on the planet, it still blows me away how backwards it actually is.

As a small business owner in electronics manufacturing, I have decided not to incorporate a GmbH. It’s not worth the hassle. There is bureaucratic rot everywhere and the number of regulations is only increasing. Even trying to export products outside of the EU past 1000 EUR incurs unnecessary processes that have costs and delays. Why?

Then you have this progressive righteousness that has fuelled deindustrialization in Germany which is simply insane, and the fact that political leaders entertain this nonsense is dangerous. Germany missed the mark so heavily and it will cost decades.
It probably wasn't me ;)
> But it may not be legal, which is determined by the Constitution and laws set by Congress. People who are also elected democratically. Behaving in a manner counter to those laws is also fundamentally undemocratic, the President and the Executive are bound by those laws set by the representatives of the people.

The word "may" is important here. Ultimately, the Supreme Court will interpret the laws and the Constitution and decide whether this Presidential action is legal or not. Until they do, its (il)legality a matter of possibility, opinion and conjecture, not established fact.

And, given the ideological leanings of the current SCOTUS majority, it is entirely possible that they'll uphold this Presidential action, and either interpret away any apparent statutory violations, or rule those statutes unconstitutional in this respect. In which case, the answer will ultimately be, that it was legal all along.
Yes. Corporations are made of people, and they produce goods and services for other people. The people that compose that corporation pay the tax, or the people they sell to.
Aider now has experimental support for using two models to complete each coding task:

- An Architect model is asked to describe how to solve the coding problem.

- An Editor model is given the Architect’s solution and asked to produce specific code editing instructions to apply those changes to existing source files.

Splitting up “code reasoning” and “code editing” in this manner has produced SOTA results on aider’s code editing benchmark. Using o1-preview as the Architect with either DeepSeek or o1-mini as the Editor produced the SOTA score of 85%. Using the Architect/Editor approach also significantly improved the benchmark scores of many models, compared to their previous “solo” baseline scores (striped bars).

https://aider.chat/2024/09/26/architect.html
Now that the dust is settling a little bit, I have published my notes so far on o3-mini here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/31/o3-mini/

To save you the click: I think the most interesting things about this model are the price - less than half that of GPT-4o while being better for many things, most notably code - and the increased length limits.

200,000 tokens input and 100,000 output (compared to 128k/16k for GPT-4o and just 8k for DeepSeek R2 and Claude 3.5 on output) could open up some interesting new applications, especially at that low price.
To me, this is a rationalization for disliking AI because it displaces humans to some degree or another. I think that is a fair reaction, but the rationale is nonsense.

People just hates AI generated images. Why can't the framing be this simple?

AI images and users gets filtered out everywhere, closing into an edgy echo chamber groups, and rarely, if ever, for such "it displaces humans" philosophical arguments. AI generated data just evokes negativity, are low quality, and are unsalvageable, and there are little to no prospects of that improving through cooperation because AI-leaning people have ran around setting so many bridges on fire, so its potentials are all but ignored.

If anything, I'd expect the resentment will subside over the next decade, as generation techniques mature and barrier to entry for amateurs exponentially rise. I think we are already seeing signs of such guild moat forming in code generation LLMs.
Thank you for showing substantive evidence in defence of voidDB; it is very vindicating.
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Are you seriously comparing the use of pronouns in emails to swastikas?
The absolute best meal I've ever had was a cup of clear chicken broth: my first meal after a month in the ICU without eating. As the old saying goes, hunger is the best seasoning, and as I always say, when you're hungry -- I mean really hungry -- nothing satisfies like... food.
> The president is not a constitutional monarch.

Not everyone agrees on that: "Great Britain is a republic with a hereditary president, while the United States is a monarchy with an elective king" (The Knoxville Journal, 9 February 1896)
Leaving people with no future causes a lot of trouble for everyone in the long run.
> When you fail to make a home for necessary complexity, it rears its head as unintended complexity in unexpected parts of the system. The source of 'accidental' complexity is unaccounted for complexity.

If that's what they're claiming then I completely disagree. No, that's not the reason, that's got nothing to do with it. If that were true we would expect e.g. projects with more complicated builds to have simpler code, and IME that's not true.
Tesla's a crypto company. 25% of Tesla's earnings last quarter were crypto:

https://cointelegraph.com/news/tesla-600-million-bitcoin-gai...
Yep, and I know some instructors actually tried that (from Carnegie-Mellon):

https://bobrost.com/nes/

I think it's a good idea to go further to work on more difficult retro platforms. I know teachers like LC-3 because it is simple, but I think they underestimate the devoted students.
It is especially absurd though when you have a business that depends on ROADS.

As if the roads just pay for themselves.
We saw the writing on the wall when we lost Roe v. Wade and all the Democrats did was use it to fundraise.
Eh, how does that work with GPLv2. I get to have source code for the bundled Linux, but I can't compile my own modifications of it and run them?

I really dislike companies that shit on the spirit of licenses they profit from.
As an outsider (not an oss maintainer, but a contributor), the decline to merge imo was understandable - the maintainer had a strategy and it didn’t fit. They gave reasons why - really nicely - and even made a call to action for PRs placing architecture docs elsewhere. Your response tonally was disparaging, and the subsequent pile on was anti productive. All due respect to your experience as a maintainer; in that role, can you imagine seeing a contribution that you are not interested in, and declining/forgetting to or being too busy to engage, imagining that it might get dropped or made better while you are busy with your priorities?

Putting myself in your shoes, I can see why you might be annoying at being ignored. Suggests this change is really important to you, and so my question would be why didn’t you follow the maintainers advice and add architecture docs?
Hmm. Not sure what to tell you. Other than, if you're really interested enough, email dang and see what he has to say. Or hope he wades into this thread.
TIL Arch Linux is still around.
True, this does depend on the detector type. Photoelectric detectors last pretty much indefinitely, but ionization smoke detectors do age. And you ideally want both, since they detect different sorts of combustion. Also there are smoke detectors you can buy with a 10-year life lithium primary cell, so no need to change batteries. These are perhaps a bit wasteful (the cell isn't replaceable and the rest of the detector could be fine) but also don't require throwing away lots of 9V batteries.
Yes it’s usually worth it to try to write a really good first prompt
Oh, I see how at that point AI won't face any existential risk any more. Too bad about us humans though
I am totally in the same boat but also I do suspect it is a minority. It’s the same way that some people really want open source bootloaders, but 99.99% of people do not care at all. Maybe AI assistants in random places just aren’t that compatible with people on HN but are possibly useful for a lot of people not on HN?
It's a technical term:

> The Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA or Act) (43 U.S.C. §§ 1331 et seq.) defines the United States outer continental shelf (OCS) as all submerged lands lying seaward of state submerged lands and waters (as defined in the Submerged Lands Act, e.g., 3 nautical miles offshore) which are under U.S. jurisdiction and control.

https://coast.noaa.gov/data/Documents/OceanLawSearch/Summary...
https://archive.today/ZU8hp
Not difficult to see if you live in the country.

Every single immigrant speaks perfect German, most of them refuse to speak English.

It's more the opposite in Sweden from my experience.

So, good luck with the language project, I guess.
> but they won the popular vote

They didn’t. They won 49.8%. But I’ve got to be honest, any logic along those lines rings very hollow these days. We’ve been told over and over about the “tyranny of the majority” being why a number of sparsely populated states get a disproportionate vote on the country’s destiny. To pivot just because the popular vote flipped to the other side (which, again, it didn’t) feels very… convenient.
That pile is worth 1% of their yearly revenue, so I wouldn't really say it counts.
While the single-threaded execution means that issues from thread interleaving on the scale of nanoseconds will effectively not happen, multiple threads are still allowed and will be context-switched between. rr also has a chaos mode to intentionally make the context switching unfair.
Yes this works good for me too rather take your time and do the first prompt right
"Doing just fine before that" is an interesting interpretation of history.
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Indeed. If the government makes a habit of bailing out all the failures, eventually the system will be dominated by failures because they never get cleaned out.

Still doesn't imply that bailing out failures was a good idea though.
Interested to know why one is “more open source” than the other.
...the other seeks to use law itself to inflict preventable death on those millions.

I don't believe that about Kennedy. Wrong about several important things, absolutely. Malign, no. I condemn what the publisher did to this essay, but I wouldn't choose to publish that sentence either.
Operator's cool but slow so we built a better one over the weekend
Antithesis is the only general purpose system I've seen for that. It takes the same single threaded approach, but can scale to N separate systems and fault injecting possible orderings.
Not if he immigrated here illegally (which he did, according to his brother). There’s no valid path to naturalization via an invalid/fraudulent lawful permanent resident status.
You're dealing with a background level of racist assumptions. Good luck trying to change those minds.
Recommended: https://www.unpackinggame.com/
Employers make mistakes all the time. But if they're doing something against their own self-interest by mistake, you could just show them the data demonstrating their error and they would have the incentive to change it of their own volition without forcing them to under penalty of law.
I'm all conflicted here.

On the one hand, I'm very much against sleazy companies withholding wages from their employees. Such companies deserve to be slapped down, hard.

On the other hand, I'm very much against the government taking money without legally demonstrating that they should. "Money isn't property" is obviously BS, and is designed to exploit a loophole that lets them take anybody's money whenever they want to.

On the third hand, making every administrative fine become a court case is almost certainly going to DOS the administrative functions of the government. That seems like a very bad outcome, especially when the administrative function is preventing sleazy companies from engaging in wage theft.

So I guess I'm cheering for the company to lose the larger battle, the "money's not property" argument to get slapped down hard, and the administrative functions to continue to be able to operate, but not because of that rationalization.

(nelox's statement at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42893104 is pretty much what I was trying to say.)
Wow, the 2nd-to-last message of that Google tech support is some massively stinky bullshit, "As the feature is just rolled out, the settings are not yet auto-enabled and you had to reach out to us to enable it for you."... fucckkinngg bullshit, why the fuck not?

Imagine a 1975's sci-fi story: "In 50 years, computers will be able to help us do our work. But because of fucking MBA-run corporations of inept monkeys rolling out shitty half-baked versions of this feature, most computer users will hate it."....
> With AI, it's turned into: 1. Technology advancement achieved, 2. Applications haphazardly being built to do anything with Technology, 3. Frantic search for users who might want to use applications.

No, it’s always been 1) Utter the current password in your pitch deck to unlock investor dollars. Recently it’s “AI” and “LLM,” but previously it was “Blockchain,” “Big Data,” etc.
>Overstating one’s narrow win as a giant mandate does too.

The "giant" part is inserted entirely by you. The point is that he's elected president, and the usual excuse about the popular vote doesn't apply.
And that’s exactly where good, recognizable branding comes in.