skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love my bicycle for this reason - I can do 100% of the maintenance and repairs myself (short of welding a cracked frame, but I could take everything off and swap it to a new frame). Almost all parts are standardized and available from third parties, even in case the original manufacturer goes under. And of course the whole thing cost less than that headlight assembly.

Anyways, I think the reason software follows this path is cost - rather than pay an engineer for optimization you have them work on new fancy features, and just expect the user to buy a faster machine. As computers get faster/cheaper this applies more and more.
Oh, I don't really care about IP theft and agree that it's funny that openai is complaining. But I don't think its true that deepseek is just doing this because they are too lazy to scrape the internet themselves - its all about the human labor that they would otherwise have to pay for.
Yes technically you can go to prison for securities fraud, and everything could be securities fraud, if you have multiple share holders and play in that sandbox.

A small random startup is unlikely to play in the securities sandbox until they have enough resources to hire enough lawyers to keep themselves out of prison and the fines "reasonable"(i.e. not enough to incentivize actually doing something about the fine being imposed other than to at least temporarily stop doing the action).

When was the last time securities fraud ended in jail time by any S&P 500 company? My quick web search returned no instances ever(but I could be wrong).
I guess I break the mold. I buy Toyota/Lexus that are inferior on stats today, but will be fine in 15 years while the other competitors build this year will have been in a scrap yard for 10 already.
And yet, Huawei is still doing fine.
I've read a few times that sharing knowledge is also deeply ingrained in Chinese culture. Which led to the copycat nature of their past (~violating western practices in the process) according to some.
I see. Most sea salt also has no iodine if that's a concern.
>NILFS seems to make assumptions based on SSDs, blowing up during its cleaning operation

Wait what? Isn't NILFS designed for spinning rust?
Pot calling kettle black?
Even if you haven't crimed, the opacity of what the administration will go after has a social cooling effect as people prefer to be silent over potential prosecution

https://www.socialcooling.com/
>They want people to feel safe.

"Lawful to a fault teenager" is not what people want in a taxi driver. That type of chauffeur doesn't make people feel safe. It makes them on edge. But unfortunately that's the kind of AI chauffeur regulators want.

I agree it's the "right" way to do it from a PR perspective though.
Cool list, I wish I could filter by vscode forks only.
> life expectancy was just a few years below of where we are today. There

I don't think that's really true. e.g. IIRC back in ~1900 mortality rates even for people in their 20s and 30s were more than twice as high as now.

Life expectancy at 20 currently in the US is ~60 years, back in 1850s it was about ~40 and mid 30s in the 1700s. But we must consider that that US/Thirteen Colonies were an exceptionally nice place to live compared to pretty much anywhere else back in those days.

England was a few years lower but e.g.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...

Look at Figures 4 and 5. A relatively huge proportion of the population died in the 30s - 50s. Very few people die that young these days. Back in the 1850 70% of reached age 20 and 50% reached 50. NOw it's >99% and 96% respective..

Young people died all the time from various rampant communicable diseases many which are treatable these days. Just consider the cultural significance Tuberculosis had back in the 1800s..
OpenAI scrapped my blog so aggressively that I had to ban their IPs. They ignored the robots.txt (which is kind of ToS) by 2 orders of magnitude, they ignored the explicit ToS that I copypasted blindly from somewhere but turns out it forbids what they did (something like you can't make money with the content). Not that I'm going to enforce it, but they should at least shut up.
What are they free-riding on? Do you believe consumers might be confused into thinking that Nintendo runs a Costa Rican supermarket?
Hm, in our market (where English is similarly poor - certainly not good enough on average to watch movies even with subtitles) they just dubbed them.
Why is it that square pegs are easy to fit in a square hole, but not so in a round hole?
> West has been much too kind in this regard

Genocides in Americas, Australia and elsewhere of first nation people notwithstanding i suppose

> laws, ethics and technology we gave them

Unasked and unwanted "civilizing" by European powers is what got us Congo Free State and dozens of other atrocities all under the name of "civilizing". It is not like rest of the world was living in trees with no laws and morality.

> Most slaves in history has been Korea

This is a controversial view of Korea, there is no consensus if nobi and the class system during the Joseon period (much less so in Goreyo period) was serfdom or slavery, that is not easy classification to make, given that they had many rights, many earned salary, nobi women in 1400s got 100 days maternity leave by law, a lot more than modern American women do today.

Even if we take assume they were all slaves, Korea was by no means the leading country by % of population, and also we have to consider nobi were largely ethnic Koreans, not foreigners explicitly captured to be slaves and the economy didn't run on continuous capture of foreign slaves

> us accepting millions of immigrants desperate to either live with us or copy us and then tell us how much greater their own societies are, will end soon. You are free to go and live there with your own people.

While there is a discourse to be had socio-economic policies in the west from repatriation of cultural artifacts, to climate change or geopolitics that can stabilize the global south and reduce immigration, at this point I have to stop engaging.
It depends on your definition of it.

The AI does experience things as they happen, on the cognitive part. But it doesn't do it through emotions, as it doesn't have any kind of emotion (at the moment).
Could be LLM generated spam post to promote LLM generated spam?
The Theranos Startup Model is just the capitalist equivalent of SSFP:
Instead of making useless shoes, they make useless software or fake hardware.
Instead of meeting state quotas, they hit VC funding goals.
Instead of the government propping them up, investors keep them afloat.

2. Theranos as a “Startup Shoe Factory”

Theranos is the perfect capitalist version of the Soviet Shoe Factory:

Soviet Model == Theranos Model (Capitalist Equivalent) Shoe factories produced small sizes to meet quotas. Theranos faked blood test results to meet investor expectations. Factories cut material costs and quality to meet output goals. Theranos lied about its technology because real innovation was too slow. Central planners rewarded metrics over reality. VC investors rewarded hype over real products.
Factories looked productive on paper, even if they made useless products. Theranos looked like a billion-dollar startup, even though it had no working product. The economy was distorted by planned quotas. The startup world is distorted by fake valuations and exit-driven funding.
It can do it if you're okay with hallucinations. Which is generally not the case.
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Related. Others?

I quit my job to work on my programming language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42658898 - Jan 2025 (32 comments)

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The part where people disagree seems fun.

Im looking forwards to protoscience/unconventional science and perhaps even that what is worthy of the fringe or pseudoscience labels. The debunking there usually fails to adress the topic as it is incredibly hard to spend even a single day reading about something you "know" to be nonsense. Who has time for that?

If you take a hundred thousand such topics the odds they should all be dismissed without looking arent very good.
I have a Xiaomi phone, a Huawei Matebook and a BYD car. I guess I am pivoting to China after all :)
The greys were slightly brighter and warmer in 2K.
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Well derp, I should have read the linked extractous repo. This looks like the extract solution I've been after (see what I did there).

https://github.com/yobix-ai/extractous
Sounds like an epic idea, will try it out soon!
They're already the cheapest if they match prices because there is no tip required. In the long run they'll inevitably be cheaper because of higher utilization of their vehicles and (vastly) lower labor costs.
If I was presented with logic puzzles in which I had to choose A, B or "unknown" with the puzzle providing basic demographic information on A or B and nothing pertaining to the actual question, I'd be quite happy collecting my winnings betting on "unknown" being the answer my interlocutors expected every single time...
This is just my opinion but I believe it's because the syntax tree is the syntax. In a Lisp macro you are working with lists, just like you are for any other Lisp code. Almost every other language I've used (I've been programming since the late 1980s) has, at best, a special data structure to manipulate ASTs. So it ends up being quite unnatural. Lisp macros are just Lisp.
Were those rides in hybrids? I've noticed the way they brake is a lot more likely to get me carsick if I'm sitting in the back, especially Priuses.
And that's why you run models locally. Or if you want a remote chat model, use something stateless like AWS Bedrock custom model import to avoid having stored chats on the server.
Which models at what cost? IMO Deepseek websearch potential to challenge Google search moat also makes Google particularly vunerable, because it dramatically evaporates advantages of 100s of billions of hardware. Not to imply Google does not maintain advantages, but it gap just went from insurmountable to many actors can potentially build AI search to rival Google on shoe string budget. Certainly on sovereign budget.
This is ahistorical.

Nortel survived the fucking great depression. But a bunch of outright fraudulent activity by it's C-Suite to bump stock prices led to them vastly overstating and overplanning and over-committing resources to a market that was much much smaller than they were claiming. Nortel spent billions and billions on completely absurd acquisitions while they were making no money explicitly to boost their stock price.

That was all laid bare when the telecom bust happened. Then the great recession culled some of the dead wood in the economy.

Huawei stealing tech from them did not kill them. This was a company so rotten that the people put in charge right after this huge scandal put the investigative lights on them IMMEDIATELY turned around and pulled another scam! China could have been completely removed from history and Nortel would have died the same. They were killed by the same disease that killed and nearly killed a lot of stuff in 2008, and are still trying to kill us: Line MUST go up.
It is also funny in a different way. Many people don't realise that they live in some sort of bubble. Many people in "The West" think that they are still the center of the world in everything, while this might not be so correct anymore.

In the U.S. there is 350 million people and EU has 520 million people (excluding Russia and Turkey).

China alone has 1.4 billion people.

Since there is a language barrier and China isolates themselves pretty well from the internet, we forget that there is a huge society with high focus on science. And most of our tech products are coming from there.
Good. Dart already has good support for code-generation. It would just encourage package authors and app developers to waste their time golfing.
Likely because their brain is optimized to find live prey, which tends to move around and take evasive actions. Intuitively understanding parabolic motion physics is probably not that useful in the wild.
I'm sure there's a reason, but it seems like an unusual use of Monte Carlo - it's all deterministic and there is no opposing player making choices. Must have something to do with uncertainties in projected orbits or imperfect simulations maybe?
> DeepSeek has explicitly consented to a license that doesn't allow them to do this.

By existing in USA, OpenAI consented to comply with copyright law, and how did that go?
Interception is LGPL[1], the issue is that Windows requires drivers to be signed and code signing certs aren't cheap. That's also why interception has not updated in years to fix the bug where it only supports 10 devices to be connected each boot (each reconnects count as a separate device)[2].

[1]: https://github.com/oblitum/Interception/blob/master/licenses...

[2]: https://github.com/oblitum/Interception/issues/193
The risk corridor calculated here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2024_YR4_risk_corridor.pn...
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Yep, for example that is how they advertise protocol, feature and language compatibility.
That sentence protects against defamation lawsuits.
You could check actual actuarial tables and population wide statistics from the 1700s and 1800s directly. You'll see that young people were many times more likely to die in their 20s and 30s than they are now. e.g. as late as mid 1800s almost ~30% of those who reached 20 died before they were 50. The proportion is about 10x lower these days.

> Assuming that chatgpt can read wikipedia pages correctly

I gave it a pdf of the Wikipedia page, it wrote a Python script and calculated that it was:

37 years all causes and 46 only natural.

(https://chatgpt.com/share/679aafa9-7ac8-800a-8f4c-3ba67f4502...)

Of course I'm too lazy to check if it's correct.

However I don't think this data is necessarily at all that meaningful because it only includes who lived long enough to become king.

e.g. Louis XIV died at 76, his first son died at 49, next son who reached adulthood died at 16. His first grandson died when he was 29. Finally he was succeeded by the third son of his grandson (first to reach adulthood). So naturally the "sample" overrepresents those who had an average than longer lifespan.
It’s possible to do that, but in practice it’s quite uncommon. Especially since Lisps offer great tools for programmers to learn what the macros that the are using actually do.
I hope the raising of hand can fix that
Hope Sam Altman is getting his money's worth out of that Trump campaign contribution. Glorious days to be living under the term of a new Boris Yeltsin. Pawning and strip-mining the federal apparatus to the most loyal friends and highest bidders.
I suppose my chances of getting a straight answer aren't too good right now but I'd love to hear your thoughts on something.

HN's stated mandate is intellectual curiosity (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...).

Do you feel that your comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42866108 was curious (in that sense)? or was it rather that you feel something else is more important?
Would be interesting to see how the original and unbiased model handles non-BBQ style ambiguous questions. Did anybody try the model that Hirundo published on HF and can share?
This has me very curious! How did you decide on eliminating wheat and sugar? Or did you cycle through various eliminations until you found a combination that worked? And how did you know when to keep going/stop?
> More critically, the exposure allowed for full database control and potential privilege escalation within the DeepSeek environment, without any authentication or defense mechanism to the outside world.

Not only that, this was a "production-grade" database with millions of users using it and the app was #1 on the app store and ALL text sent there in the prompts was logged in plain-text?

Unbelievable.
Excellent, thank you.

I was and am not defending Reading Recovery.

I will admit that I was not able to get to the core of the thesis in the podcast (s) and that I was being led around. I never experienced Reading Recovery first hand.

3-queuing seems like a heuristic that escaped the lab. Useful, but it should be the method of last resort if you can't ask an adult or find a dictionary.

I am also not saying that everything needs to have a scientific study to be shown effective. I learned to read by being read to, and having the joy of reading instilled at a very young age. I was encouraged to ask about passages or words I don't know.

Your writing is excellent.

Even if it wasn't intended, anything that as a byproduct, encourages kids to makeup definitions of words or skip over anything is an affront to our collective body of knowledge.
My own dog has used "outside water good before" to tell me about going potty outside, but over time, outside water has come to mean rain.

There needs to be an acknowledgement that conditioning does happen, and that animals who don't learn language can still recognize words as signals without having any deeper understanding. With buttons, animals are brought to understand the words through contextual use and modeling of the word - emotions and time and abstractions are taught that take the word beyond mere signaling and conditioning.

If you go back and review reports about Clever Hans, what you find is an overwhelming bias and a perverse incentive to deny any and all "cleverness" the horse may have had in favor of maintaining humanity's sole domain of complex and abstract thought. Clever Hans could likely accomplish simple arithmetic. Nearly everyone who "debunked" the claims at the time was hopelessly biased and tangled up with their own worldviews. Horses are brilliant. I've met horses that are smarter than many people I know. (I've also met horses that were sociopathic asshats without any redeeming personality traits, but that's a story for a different thread.) If dogs can learn complex, abstract language and simple counting with a brain the size of a ping pong ball or a peach, a horse brain 4-8 times larger is going to be much more capable and facile.

I think this type of research that takes an unbiased and rational approach to animal cognition will lead to better outcomes for everyone. There's a lot that veterinarians and biologists are taught with roots deep in religious myths and cultural tropes, so it's left a large and mostly untapped field of discovery available for a new generation.
It stopped at a stop sign?!?!? THE HORROR!

Kidding but not kidding. Easily half my Uber rides have been legit scary. Yellow cabs only slightly better.

How does Waymo do for cleanliness and odor? That would be another selling point vs regular Uber/Lyft and many yellow cabs. These days they all seem to douse the interior with cheap cologne.
I have been eyeing helix for quite a while. Been using (neo)vim for 22y. Why not Helix for the next 22!

I find the helix model of select then act so much more aligned to my mental model. Rather than verb then noun in vim.

Vim register handling on deletion is pure crap. (delete a line lands into a different register than delete a word, pasting over a selection overrides the default register etc.).

There is one plugin in vim that I cannot live without though, and that is easymotion (there are other similar plugins). It highlights objects with a letter (like the start of words for example), pressing the letter jumps to the object. I find this so much more natural and easier than jumping to line numbers. I might have to implement this into helix ;)
"Either of these are terrible. At no point has Google came out and stated -why- they're pushing this update in the first place."

As I can still remember the days of software before "updates", I am still baffled by the always unsolicited "advice" amounting to "always update" without even considering what's in an "update". This "advice" is everywhere. Software quality control is at all-time lows I guess. Then came "automatic updates", decreasing the chance of computer user discretion even more, effectively removing user choice, i.e., case-by-case decision-making.

Perhaps some computer users, the rare ones who do not routinely follow unsolicited "advice" blindly, might respond to the question of updating with something like, "What choice do I have?" That there is no meaningful choice, or perception thereof, in deciding whether to install an "update" is not a coincidence, methinks.

Maybe updating is a gamble. There are winners and losers. On several occasions, I have won by not updating, i.e., blindly installing more code from so-called "tech" company without being to peruse the code. Other times I have gotten lost by updating. It seems that quite often the "updates" include code that serves me no benefit and in fact reduces the computer's utility to me. Meanwhile, it might increase utility for others or for the so-called "tech" company that collects data and sells ad services. One size does not fit all. Sometimes the losses can outweigh the gains, if any.

Hopefully there is a lawsuit filed over this Pixel 4a "update". Through discovery we may be able to learn what happened.
They should have just use C# for Flutter.

Without investing significant time, like they did with Dart, they would have a language with a much bigger ecosystem that is faster, already has compile time code generation and better support for data than Dart. It supports ahead-of-time compilation and hot-reload. The only feature missing in C# is compilation to JS, but with WASM is that really needed? Biggest downside of C# is probably that it's not invented at Google.
There is third, pytype (by google), which I found pretty good but it rarely gets mentioned. However, like the others it is slow, so I hope this one is fast and supports all the pytype features (especially being able to type-check un-annotated code).

https://github.com/google/pytype?tab=readme-ov-file#pytype--...
Citation? My understanding was that they are provided that someone has to affirmatively accept them in order to use your site. So Terms of Service stuck at the bottom in the footer likely would not count as a contract because there's no consent, but Terms of Service included in a check box on a login form likely would count.

But IANAL, so if you have a citation that says otherwise I'd be happy to see it!