skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's deeply hypocritical of these oligarchs to pretend fighting for absolute free speech while exerting unprecedented censorship on their platforms. And if you're OK with that maybe it's because you never actually cared about free speech.
It's not. If the Democrats ever retake power literally everything a government agency does while under Elon's control could be overturned with a single judicial order.

OTOH it could be ratified by Congress because fundamentally President is just delegating day to day executive management. Impossible to tell with current makeup of government what will happen.
What works nice also is the text to speech. I find it easier and faster to give more context by talking rather than typing, and the extra content helps the AI to do its job.

And even though the speech recognition fails a lot on some of the technical terms or weirdly named packages, software, etc, it still does a good job overall (if I don’t feel like correcting the wrong stuff).

It’s great and has become somewhat of a party trick at work. Some people don’t even use AI to code that often, and when I show them “hey have you tried this?” And just tell the computer what I want? Most folks are blown away.
Like train it like “ umm….. uhhhhh… emmmmmm….. “ right?
> but there are other organs that we know are vestigial because they don’t occur in all humans

That argument is completely invalid because it picks up the reproductive organs. At birth most humans don't have ovaries and those are anything but vestigial. It'd also mistake things like melanin production as vestigial because some humans have black skin and others white, when in reality it is a geographic adaption. Furthermore the argument misses situations where something is sometimes an advantage but generally a cost, like adaptions that are expensive to maintain but really help against certain irregular events (like famines, pandemics or more weird edge cases) or that are helpful in small doses (like autism, a couple of autistic geniuses floating around is a great outcome for everyone).

> This also isn’t binary. There are organs that are still classified as vestigial, but have minor or secondary uses, perhaps enough for evolution to keep them around, or again perhaps because having them doesn’t result in any statistical mortality.

Sure. But if vestigial doesn't mean useless then it isn't relevant to my complaint against the headline and the person bringing it up just made a rookie mistake.
Earthstar – A database for private, distributed, offline-first applications
> i think a lot of value is the context of the art itself

I agree. The enjoyment I get out of a good piece of art isn’t just the piece of art itself, it’s that experiencing the art is a way to kind of connect your mind with the human that made it. If part of the art resonates with me, it’s nice to know that there was another person that felt the same way. If the art is a technical marvel, so can think about the genius and skill of the creator.

AI art doesn’t have any of that and I have to conclude that people who talk about enjoying AI art to the same level as human-made art just never bothered to connect with human art on that deeper level
I didn’t read tfa and don’t intend to, but I wonder if anyone has thoughts about how the WaPo might change tone given Jeff has “bent (the knee | over)”?

It seemed that his ownership was a lever to tilt sentiment in whatever way made him more successful, and until very recently the pointy end of it was facing his now friends.
They could have kept "egomaniacal disregard for scientific evidence" at least.
Non Sequitur. You get zero points.
What amazes me about Google’s AI results is how often they are blatantly incorrect. I think most of us here on HN are above average in terms of critical thinking, but I often think to myself how many people are seeing these results, taking it as truth, and walking away that much dumber or worse - spreading this misinformation among their friends and colleagues. Google could not care less. They just want to defeat the threat from other LLMs.
The article cited argued it is new. Maybe they are wrong, but I was incorporating the facts presented. If you have an uncited bone to pick with that, that is your uncited adversarial prerogative.
You can reset your algo on Spotify! I did and learned a lot. There were maybe 5 songs I wasn’t hearing that I liked, but tens of songs I did not like that I had saved years ago that came back up and were once again swiftly killed by the algorithm after a few instaskips
Idiot here. So the court can't ban Apple from doing business with Google but they can ban Google from doing business with Apple?
The thesis and opening section is interesting for sure, because it shows how mechanisms and incentives that exist today could lead to really bad outcomes. However then it leaps to:

> Because this disempowerment would be global and permanent, and because human flourishing requires substantial resources in global terms, it could plausibly lead to human extinction or similar outcomes.

Which seems a bit over the top. AI is way up at the top of a huge pyramid of infrastructure and energy dependence. It's nowhere near self-sustaining without a huge amount of human input for the foreseeable future. Therefore the disempowerment isn't permanent or absolute, it's just another in a long line of technological tools that enable consolidation of power by reducing the need for human labor and enabling new, previously uneconomical approaches to different human goals. If at any point the disempowerment reaches a tipping point affecting the masses and those in control aren't paying attention then I expect standard revolution dynamics would take over.
There are a few things where Linux has been the innovator (eBPF comes to mind).

But process control is not one of them, and almost any other operating system manages to have a more sane interface. Personally, if I were writing a debugger, I think the OS with the sanest kernel interface is probably Fuchsia, partially because everything is handle-based and partially because pretty much every syscall takes in a handle to the process to operate on, so you can do things like manipulate memory maps of another process without driving yourself insane.
Your point is weak, 35 is less then 4000. Even still if it's equivalent we can only speculate what his role in rockets actually is all we have is pr.

What I do know from personal first hand experience (ex-Twitter) is that he is a terrible leader and person. Also he isn't smart. No media influence on how I feel about how he runs companies.
You have to use a touch screen for those on a Tesla? If true that is asinine, those cars aren't safe to drive.
What a trade war would mean for the US, in 9 charts
Notes on OpenAI o3-mini
Byte Queue Limits: the unauthorized biography
It is an opinionated blog post. Who ever claimed it wasn’t? Of course a blog post by an attorney about a case they are actively involved in is not going to be entirely neutral and objective - and that’s not just true if they work for IJ or other libertarian or conservative-aligned lobby groups or “public interest law firms”, it is equally true if they work for ACLU or EFF or SPLC or Lambda Legal or whatever.

Stating the obvious implies it isn’t obvious to others, but I don’t think that’s fair or true
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintus_Fabius_Maximus_Verruco...

I suspect that's a reference to the dark cabal of socialists .. /s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_Society
Today it is AI. Yesterday it was Blockchain.

Tomorrow it will be Agentic AI Blockchains.

I know what you are thinking: robots are coming for our jobs after that. Don't worry! Those AI robots will run on the Cloud.
Claude uses Shadcn-ui extensively in the web interface, to the point where I think it's been trained to use it over other UI components.

So I think you got lucky and you're asking it to write using a very specific code library that it's good at, because it happens to use it for it's main userbase on the web chat interface.

I wonder if you were using a different component library, or using Svelte instead of React, would you still find Claude the best?
Stanford Human AI: Auto Rizz [video]
What is your data collection policy with respect to a candidates voice, video likeness, and speech? Are candidates required to accept an EULA or similar acknowledgement wrt same?
Apache NuttX and small systems – OS components
> I should make a video about this actually...

sounds good, I've had a look at a few books but would be good to see something like that
I agree with this. I'm very surprised when I see someone blindly trust whatever the AI summary says in a google query, because I myself have internalized a long time ago to strongly distrust it.
Oh, true enough. Or at least, by the time the battery gets low, the whole thing should be replaced anyway. As you say, depending on detector.
That not very environmentally friendly.
I'm not in the US and familiar with this but your comment seemed too different from the other guy's so I went to check.

One of the first results in Google is https://www.plancpills.org/abortion-pill/california#pharmaci...

Listed there I checked some of their recommended stores. The first that I clicked accept Bitcoin payment and require no insurance details (medside24). It does look like it's possible to do this fully anonymous without much hassle. I have no problem with that by the way.
Past discussions https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=bbcelite.com
o3 (high) might score 80%+
You can definitely make ginger beer with wild yeast (fresh ginger root conveniently comes with lots of wild yeasts) and make delicious drinks. There are lots of recipes.

I also recommend, if anyone is interested, investigating “ginger beer plant” (GBP), which is a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeasts (SCOBY) such as that used to brew kombucha and kefir. It was once common in Britain, but almost went extinct. Some was saved by a German culture bank (DSMZ), and now you can buy some online! Makes a different, and I think delicious, drink compared to the “ginger bug” method!
Well no, being able to breath fire is probably evolutionarily stupid. There is no reason to think it would be helpful, it'd presumably involve animals building up a highly flammable concoction inside their bodies and occasionally exploding. For no gain, since they could do what everyone else does and gather combustible material and set it alight. And flamethrowers just aren't very effective weapons on average since they'd tend to burn an animal's home down or be very energetically demanding for no upside vs something like a good pair of jaws or claws.

If evolution can figure out photosynthesis it can figure out flammability. Flammability is actually pretty easy. Even monkeys can manage it. There probably have been animals that breath fire and it just didn't catch on because it is wholly impractical.
Energy, being a commodity, is priced at the marginal rate. In other words, its price is currently based on the cost of LNG fed generators. This would be true whether or not Germany had more nuclear.
He is currently a naturalized American citizen. For him to lose that status, he would have to be stripped of it by a legal process, commonly called denaturalization. [0] It is not enough for people to accuse you of having committed fraud in naturalization.

> There’s no valid path to naturalization

I think it is correct to say that your naturalized status can be unwound if a prosecution against you is successful, but until that happens, you are considered an American citizen. Presumption of innocence and all that American stuff.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denaturalization
Conspiracy yes, but fascist or racist never.
or to hide the AI content areas
> People keeping up with the news doesn't do much either when our lawmakers are bought and paid for.

This is not true and you'll never understand politics if you think this.

(What actually happens is that being in Congress is such a horrible job that only insane people would want to do it, so the people with money find congresspeople who /already agree with them/ and are trying to keep them from leaving for a less stressful normal career.)

I think it might be OpenSecrets' fault. They're great and all, but they report donations from employees of companies as if they're from the companies themselves, which produces nonsense like "health insurance companies donated to Bernie Sanders". No they didn't!
The US economy is famously more than 65% domestic demand driven, and according to [1] California is the state with the most manufacturing in the entire US. So it is absolutely a huge factory.

[1] https://www.industryselect.com/blog/top-10-us-states-for-man...

> California stands as the center for manufacturing output in the United States with over 35,000 manufacturing firms and employing over 1.2 million Californians. Since California supplanted New York in 1965, our manufacturing firms have created new industries and supplied the world with manufactured goods spanning aerospace, computers and electronics, and, most recently, zero emission vehicles.

from [2] https://business.ca.gov/industries/manufacturing/
There are 4-12 self-checkout kiosks and the loads there tend to be smaller. So the line moves. Speed of checkout once you reach the clerk in a traditional lane, hands-down faster than self.

Plus traditional is where you buy alcohol.
Given there was a direct impact with a plane, I'd expect something like a few months of jail time. Surprised, but I'm guessing the judge has their reasons.
LLMs are the new compilers.

As a student, you should continue to focus on fundamentals, but also adapt LLMs into your workflow where you can.

Skip writing the assembly (now curly braces and semicolons), and focus on what the software you’re building actually does, who it serves, and how it works.

Programming is both changing a lot, and not at all. The mechanics may look different, but the purpose is still the same: effectively telling computers what to do.
They want a big government that costs as much as a small government.
That teeny-tiny Asus Zenbook A14 laptop from CES is now for sale
Surely orange felon rapist halfwit?
Unconscious biases are well studied, and a good presenter can show it live on stage.

Please explain to me how %85 of Fortune 500 CEOs are white men. I don't believe for a moment that white men (myself included) are generically better at being CEOs, or at performing any of the roles that lead up to those positions.

The unconscious biases that the people in those positions choosing their successors to look like them selves is a strong explanation of this, and studies have been show that in controlled situations this sort of things happens all the time. Even by those who want things to be color-blind.
No, it isn’t inserted by me.

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/16/g-s1-38003/trump-mandate-pres...

> "America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate," he said.

Which given the maps at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_United_States_presidentia... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_United_States_presidentia... is just a dumb claim.
big r/justfuckingnews vibes here
'the modern experience' is dogshit sliding down a wet stick for laptops. average it all out.
Dozens of rank and file prosecutors have been fired from the DOJ, because they worked on cases against the January 6 defendants or on cases against Trump.
Ever since AI art came into the scene I've seen more and better artworks than ever before. I understand why people have ethical problems with it, but the results are genuinely really good even when done by beginners.

I honestly think anyone claiming otherwise is just plain lying to themselves at this point. This is to the extreme that sometimes when browsing imageboards I find myself feeling surfeited. It's been a very interesting experience and a bit of a learning moment really.

The common appeals to the ivory towers of high art are missing the point terribly hard. This was never about them, just like typical commercial art isn't about them either. Nobody cares, you just happen to be beating the same drum the masses do right now.
I guess this just went up? Ticket link goes to "no upcoming events"

EDIT: "speakers"/"talks" link is also out of date, no info on 2025 yet

I would love to meet up with matrix, spritely, torrent and meshtastic nerds. I attended DWeb Camp in California for a couple of years and it felt balanced 50/50 between the P2P folk and the blockchain folk, which actually led to a lot of critical conversations but also the blockchain guys do want to distribute everything else too so it was good vibes all around, they just believe you have to incentivize sharing the load where us no-coiners have a little more faith in the altruistic side of man.

From their meetup.com: We organize physical meetings to discuss around P2P, decentralization, autonomous networks and communities, distributed systems, decentralized systems, offline-first apps, mesh networks, privacy, anti-surveillance, anti-censorship, security, cryptography, blockchains
To me it looks like for most things I search it just verbatim is the top answer from Stack Overflow.
The first valuable thing on Earth is life. Life may be rare enough, or diverse enough, that worth sampling the unique life on Earth. The intelligent monkeys can be useful, but can be knocked down is cause problems.

The second valuable thing is intelligent life. The intelligent monkeys are worth preserving and talking to. But their advanced civilization has lots of potential dangers so need controlling protectorate.

The third valuable thing is better minerals. The active processes of the Earth concentrates minerals. They could grind up a whole asteroid, but cheaper to take from Earth. Also, biologic processes make minerals; vacuuming up coal is cheaper than making it. These wouldn't be whole civilization but pirates grabbing some cheap loot before the authorities and natives notice.

The fourth valuable thing is Earth itself. Inhabitable planets are rare. The expected way would be apocalypse or annihilation. But I think it would be more interesting to have alien invasion where they ignore us. They settle the arctic, and don't do anything until attacked. Then they start removing CO2 until the temperatures drop and ice age returns.
As a former prof. What you should be learning from any STEM degree (and many other degrees as well) is to think clearly, rigorously, creatively, and with discipline, etc. You also need to learn the skill of learning content and skills quickly.

The specific contents or skills of your degree don't matter that much. In pretty much any STEM field, over the last 100ish years, whatever you learned in your undergraduate was mostly irrelevant by the time you retired.

Everyone got by, by staying on top of the new developments in the field and doing them. With AI, the particular skills needed to use the power of computers to do things in the world have changed. Just learn those skills.
This isn't really what the article is about, but I don't think that the term "Greedy algorithm" means what the author thinks.

Greedy algorithms are about making locally optimal choices.

They are not "brute force" algorithms or inefficient ones.

In fact, greedy algorithms are almost always faster. They are faster because they consider only local information instead of the entire data set. In exchange for that, a greedy algorithm may produce non-optimal answers.
AI has no purpose on its own.

It will maybe drown us in attention seeking content, but otherwise why would it create imagery or videos for it self?
I'm not sure about th NSF, but at 3 of the 4 companies I worked at DEI initiatives were explicitly discriminatory. One prohibited white and Asian men from a segment of our headcount. Another set specific percentage quotas for women in OKRs (and those quotas were well above women's industry representation). And another prohibited offers being made until a certain number of women and URM were interviewed for a given role.

Not every form of discrimination involves lowering hiring standards. For instance, imagine I flip a coin whenever a Catholic candidate applies. Tails, their resume goes into the garbage bin, heads and their application process as normal. Does this lower lower hiring standards for non Catholics? No. Does this advantage non-Catholics over Catholic candidates? Yes. It would halve the hiring rate of Catholics, though it doesn't result in any "lowering the bar".

I'm not accusing you personally of doing this, but equating discrimination with lowered standards is a common tactic to try and stigmatize the acknowledgement of discriminatory DEI practices.
I find it endearing that you think this line of thought is worth repeating, if nothing else.
Thank you for highlighting. These contain references to some philosophies I relate to and find comforting, including those most prominently articulated by Ernest Becker and Alan Watts.
Whatever the cause truly is, any and all aviation disasters in the US will further increase scrutiny of Musk gutting the FAA.
If you're using business income to invest in yourself as an individual, that's pretty illegal where I live. Maybe it's different where you are.

The extent to which I can invest in myself is using business supplies or equipment for personal tasks here and there. Like, print some things or use some software I didn't pay taxes on.

I know some people go as far as driving their work vehicles around, but that's totally illegal both in terms of insurance and tax purposes here.
Man, if you read my comments lately you would think I'm a Microsoft fanboy, sheesh.

But honestly, in all my years, Visual Studio has been (by far) the best non-commercial (or should I say built-in?) debugger that I've used, and that includes gdb.

I am not a huge c++ on Windows guy though, so YMMV.

Here are a few guides that you may find helpful (and I am also going to include the beginner one, but please do not take that as an indictment of your skill level, I am including only for completeness).

These are all for VS2022:

C++ Debugging Tutorial: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/debugger/gett...

C++ Breakpoint Debugging: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/debugger/usin...

Breakpoint/Watch Expressions (pay attention to the debugger intrinsics): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/debugger/expr...

High Level Debugger Tour: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/debugger/debu...

VS2022 Debugging TOC: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/debugger/?vie...

My apologies if you've already found these references and they don't do you any good, but your issues just don't sound like the types of issues I've ever experienced with the debugger, and sometimes MS' documentation is just disorganized and incomplete.
Really neat, though Nintendo has a reputation for being very Cease and Desist prone. Wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo makes him take it all down.
Sure, especially if they own a corporation. My wife’s business was a net loss for a couple of years during COVID. We scrounged by on my salary so she could keep her employees and not close down for good. It got better, but our net income was negative even though we had what looked like a decent chunk of revenue. I’m glad we were taxed on net, not gross.
he's not American enough to run for president.
Is the "useful AI" technology any different from this slop? If not then I fear that's wasted money as well. Which I think is the reason this stuff keeps getting shoehorned in. They invested money in training and equipment all of which is depreciating far faster than it has returned value.

I strongly doubt this "dichotomy AI" theory.
As the sibling comment mentions, you're not getting anything production grade for less than $7 per million and that's on input and output.

Nebius is single digit TPS. 31 seconds to reply to "What's 1+1".

Hopefully Deepseek will make it out of their current situation because in a very ironic way, the thing the entire market lost its mind over is not actually usable at the pricing that drove the hype: https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-r1