skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is, I don't know you well enough for that to be worth much.

My experience has been that it's slightly improved code completion and helped with prototyping.
By what measure? Google has a market cap that's 10x Palantir, and the gap in revenue/profit is even more massive. They aren't in the same league at all.
In Windsurf (and a similar FOSS tool, RA.Aid that I develop), sonnet is almost always the best model to drive the agent itself. The reasoning models really shine when you have some kind of logic problem, planning problem, debugging complex code, etc. That's why we have our agent call out to the reasoning model just for when it needs to "ask the expert" something. It works fairly well.
Yes I read the parent comment, do you mean the two questions

> Is it proposing to ban US citizens from reading research papers written by Chinese citizens?

> Or from publishing research in places that might be read by them?

Clearly, both are impossible to implement, wouldn't you agree? The bill talks about "AI products," as per the article, and that would be what a consumer uses, not what a researcher uses. Can legislators ban the reading of papers in America? There are 1st amendment issues there. But for protection against external states messing with our population, there's a different set of rules.
"WebScript". Call it what it is (non-web uses notwithstanding).
> So last November, I filed a formal petition with the USPTO through my company, Deno, to cancel Oracle’s “JavaScript” trademark. Among other things, we pointed out that in 2019, Oracle renewed its trademark by submitting a screenshot of the Node.js website—a project I created—as proof of use, despite having no affiliation with it.

Clown world. We go about thinking our legal system might have some flaws but generally "works"
More fucking morons. The gap with biomedical research isn't in the realm of language models, but in the amount of information that exists in biology that we don't know. I'm not sure what percentage of all the genetic data on Earth we've sequenced, but it's not much, and we still don't quite have a mechanical understand of a single cell, much less some complex multicellular organisms with proteins affecting gene expression, cell membrane receptors being reused in 50 different tissue types, molecular secretion and diffusion altering our minds functioning, and electrical currents synchronizing brain firing at a distance.

No LLM trained on PubMed will be able to suss this all out - more data is needed.

Even in pure mathematics, where I am currently a grad student and as needed a big fan of trying to get LLMs to explain stuff to me at 1 am, they just aren't that good. If it's a popular question where I could have tried math overflow, sure, it's probably just going to get some details weirdly wrong, but for subtle complex concepts, it's not making some golden age of truth and understanding.

And God help the LLMs trying to understand physics that are trained on all the BS on Youtube and the blogs.
The desktop version requires you to connect with your phone. It's just a proxy to your phone.
Following his acquittal, Penny attended the Army-Navy football game as a guest of President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance.

First time I heard about him. Seems like a political hire in my opinion. This is just A16z trying to get closer to the Trump/Elon regime.
Hi, I'm the author of the article, thanks for your comment. I definitely agree I didn't mention as much around VR as I would've liked, mostly as it's an area that I've paid a lot less attention to in recent years. I was an early adopter of it (as a developer), but mostly dropped off when the industry moved away from teleport-style locomotion. I'm honestly really glad that research is actually going into this in the VR/AR space.

The article was primarily focused on non-VR games and the various accessibility settings that can greatly diminish the problem, but are often an afterthought even in games that are praised for pushing accessibility. Eg, the recent Indiana Jones game inspired me to write this article, as it's being heavily praised for pushing accessibility standards in many ways, but lacks accessibility options to disable the head bobbing and weapon sway when moving.

Something I've become fairly aware of are all the little "quirks" in the ways I like to play games that I've developed over the years, that I hadn't realised were actually to reduce motion sickness. I do definitely plan on going back and updating the article to include some of my learnings since writing it. Eg, I always play in windowed 1440p on a 27inch 4K monitor because it then takes up less of my total vision, which I guess is a workaround when having a display that's too large for the sitting distance.
Hi Jason,

Thank you for wireguard - it's been a hugely impactful piece of software.

Do you think it would be helpful to outline what hardware resources you would need to successfully migrate the project and all the CI/CD computations to a new home? This would help people determine if they can help with hosting.
It was gonna cost 1 million of your tax dollars to build the levee protecting your house, but we're saving you money by building it out of sticks. We'll send a dude out to throw a few more on every few days.
Only if you assume one is blindly copy/pasting without reading anything, or is already a domain expert. Otherwise you’ve absolutely got the ability to learn from the process, but it’s an active process you’ve got to engage with. Hell, ask questions along the way that interest
you, as you would any other teacher. Just verify the important bits of course.
Do you think that there are security or data exfiltration risks with their approach, e.g. putting classified documents/emails into private company's LLMs to summarize information or identify certain ideological motivations? I don't see how they could begin to understand the scope of what they're working with without A.I. assistance.
Several years ago, there was a big immigration raid on a bunch of Tyson Chicken facilities.

They found about 900 undocumented workers.

Many of them gave evidence to officials, including written instructions from Tyson that advised them how to fill out employment, banking, taxation paperwork if they "didn't have documentation" and how to stay under the radar, i.e. Tyson didn't just know they might have undocumented workers, they were facilitating and actively enabling it.

In press conferences, when journalists asked "Are there any plans to investigate the company or issue fines or charges?", the response? "We are not considering that at this time." (And they never did.)

What it ended up looking like was that Tyson had been getting in some trouble, getting bad press for OSHA safety issues and perhaps had decided their undocumented workers were getting a little too angry about poor safety standards, making waves.

It would be entirely unsurprising to me if Tyson made a sweetheart deal with ICE that said "Hey, if you come to these plants, you'll get to make this big stink about undocumented workers" (and this was during the Trump administration), "but in return, can you leave us out of it?", very much shades of "Won't someone rid me of these meddlesome workers?"
It truly boggles my mind that Trump may have a legitimate basis for alleging that DEI policies have contributed to issues with ATC staffing.

> First, to liberals:

> I dislike Trump as much as anyone. Maybe I’m not supposed to play my hand like that while reporting a news article, but it’s true. I’ve wanted him out of politics since he entered the scene a decade ago, I voted against him three elections in a row, and I think he’s had a uniquely destructive effect within US politics. So I understand—please believe, I understand—just how disquieting it is to watch him stand up and blame DEI after a major tragedy.

> But Democrats did not handle it. The scandal occurred under the Obama administration. The FAA minimized it, obscured it, fought FOIA requests through multiple lawsuits, and stonewalled the public for years as the class action lawsuit rolled forward. The Trump administration missed it, too, for a term, and it’s likely most officials simply didn’t hear about it through the first few years of the Biden administration. No outlets left of Fox Business bothered to provide more than a cursory examination of it, and it never made much of a dent on the official record. Even when the New York Times ran a thoroughly reported article on air traffic controller shortages late last year, it never touched the scandal. It was possible to miss it.
We eliminated most planning and all building codes for owner/builders in my county (granted not federal, but one of the most cited 'written in blood' regulations).

The end result was none of the apocalyptic predictions. People build whatever housing they can afford rather than buying more housing safety at the expense of less healthcare and food, education etc. When we deregulated, people made their own safety calculus and it worked. And it's why I have a home.
Not sure why you’re getting downvoted (minus the false claim about buses and weather), if we don’t have enough have enough ATCs to satisfy air traffic demands the other level to pull is to decrease air traffic, either by offering substitutes for cross country travel or just straight up making it more expensive to fly. A flat per flight tax, say a flat ATC fee on each ticket, would marginally decrease demand for air travel and could be used to fund recruiting/retention programs for ATCs. Or call it a public transit fee and use it to subsidize high speed rail and other mass transit.
Nope it is not. It’s a myth. MSG, like butter, has been maligned over the decades.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-h...
This could be seen as technical debt, inherited by the current administration. These changes should have never taken place.
> You would need to be a pro at user interviews to really get interesting feedback. (Well maybe this is the norm in B2C but at the end of the day user interviews were of no help).

This shouldn’t be surprising. Interviewing humans is a skill. Doing so in a product context, and learning useful things from it, is not easy.

I hope they don’t approach other things this way. “You’d need to be a professional plumber to stop water leaking out of this. Maybe that’s the norm but at the end of the day plumbing was no help.”
It’s also reveals civil servants that can’t be trusted to do the people’s business. I’m in DC—many people were crying in 2017. The people who voted for Trump have no reason to afford those folks the presumption of objective professionalism civil servants demand. The stories about civil servants just being terrible employees because they can’t put aside their feelings is sickening: https://x.com/restoreorderusa/status/1886771416235663833
If the people with integrity quit, they have less overall capacity. An alternative is to get your union to be political and strike over this shit. If you don't resist in some capacity, you are just helping them.
> From what I gather, life for most of these "regular people" types in Germany was still very much in the tolerable range until well into WWII.

Correct.

I’ve heard some harrowing stories about the moment of realization straight from the mouths of some of these people.

Edit: To be clear, I’m referring to my family and their friends who lived through it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38430581

Web push is basically useless because Google hasn't prioritized fixing the issues causing Android to delay the notifications by 10 minutes or more. They are basically only useful for "re-engagement" spam, nothing time critical.
I found this helpful to keep me up to date on the legal situation of various executive orders: https://www.justsecurity.org/107087/tracker-legal-challenges... . Overall for me, 8 executive orders subject to restraining orders sounds like the executive branch vastly exceeding its authority, which for three weeks of government, sounds like a constitutional crisis.
I’ve been thinking recently about how to use the addictive properties of applications like TikTok to the advantage of the user. This is definitely in that direction. Instead of trying to tame the pull of these apps by cold turkey quitting, replacing them with something useful seems to be more effective.
Sorry but if I ever start growth hacking my fucking tinder profile promptly push me off a cliff.

edit: Sorry for the inflammatory language. Not one of my finer moments.
https://archive.ph/awrR5
> Not everyone agrees with you, and you’ve made no case beyond cliqueishness as to why they should.

Does this not also apply to your comment?

Not trying to be mean, just trying to offer a different perspective. It seems many others agree with the author and it’s similarly unreasonable to dismiss them along with the author as “needlessly, wildly inflammatory” for holding an opinion you don’t agree with.
1. I don't think allocating funds to reproduce research would be worth the cost of displacing other new research. The current way of discovering that research is wrong by trying to build on it isn't perfect either, but it is still more efficient than systematically reproducing a lot of research. In my experience, scientific reproducibility has gotten substantially better in recent years- the standard of evidence, and the quality and correctness of statistical analyses are both much higher than they used to be.

2. Experts don't consider that human research contributed to COVID because it is completely implausible to anyone that understands virology research. Moreover, current safety standards for doing research on infectious human diseases in BSL level 3 and 4 labs are incredibly rigorous- and although they carry non-zero risk, what we learn from this research more than outweighs it by improving our ability to treat and prevent disease.

See here for a discussion of what virologists think about the lab leak theory: https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-special-how-the-pandemic-be...
> For girls you need to lower your standards and force you to go on a date with guys that you dont have the flame for (it is actually very hard to do that for a girl, very very hard)

I kind of didn't understand the logic behind how he got there. According to the article women get more matches then they know what to do with. Why would lowering your standards in such an environment be a good strategy?
Maybe the job is actually really easy?
Yeah. In Mercurial the set of immutable heads is state that's stored in the repository. In Jujutsu this is done via a revset, which is a really clever approach.
Odin is the best (followed by Zig)

Odin has the best approach for "standard library" by blessing/vendoring immensely useful libraries

Odin also has the best approach for Vector Math with native Vector and Matrix types
I don't think you're pulling the wool over anyones eyes but nice try anyway. If you really do believe this, then perhaps you should read up on how fascism works. You know the whole "first they came for X and I did nothing"? That's what that's about.
Uhhh, I hate to break it to you but titles mean absolutely nothing in this industry.
I'm sorry, but your defense for the "not all techies" argument is that you flew to NIH and told them how to stop investing in their own infrastructure and funnel tax dollars to private hosting rentals instead? I cannot wrap my head around this as a defense of anything. Seems like the current crew is just cutting out the middleman.
Protesting weapons manufacturing has been going on long before reactionaries started fearing the "woke" boogeyman. People protested Dupont for making napalm during the Vietnam war.
No there hasn't. When someone named the 6 DOGE guys kicking in doors at OPM and TReasury Musk spluttered on his social media platform that the person was committing a crime by naming them and then deleted the person's account.

What have you actually learned? And consider that there's no way for anyone to argue that information was already available to the public, because the main activity of DOGE so far ahs been taking government web pages or entire domains offline. With no organized archival process, how do you equate significantly less availability of information with 'transparency'?
Many will hate to hear this but the only solution is one world government or at least a unipolar order that reduces the survival need to participate in arms races. Arms race dynamics between nations will be the end of our species.
What full context am I missing?

Here from his own mouth
https://youtube.com/shorts/DpVsZZtEpS8?feature=shared

And a proposed amendment to go with it, excluding Obama of course
https://ogles.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-ogles-propo...
I'm glad this is being fought, Oracle is a demon.

> The major implementations of JavaScript are in the browsers built by Mozilla, Google, Apple, and Microsoft

Isn't MS's browser just Chromium? Weird to add them to the list when they don't build a browser any more. Why not add Brave, etc?
Yes, many people are impulsive and foolish, we shouldn't encourage that. Nor should we cheer on the attempt to create an all-powerful executive that can do whatever it wants with no checks from existing legislation, the courts, or Congress. Trump's goal seems to be an elective dictatorship, and we'll see how long the elective part lasts.
Shut down all federal science funding on the off chance a conspiracy theory is true? Talk about an overreaction.

Similarly how are you going to reproduce studies by not funding anything?

>just run every paper through an LLM and check for errors as part of the peer review process

Oh, I see. Well, that at least explains the rest of your post.
CFAA is predicated on “without authorization.” I’m pretty sure they all have Trump’s and Bessent’s authorization. It would be like prosecuting the IT guy hired by the CEO for going into the system. What am I missing?
Do you mind expanding on the last sentence?
This is what I think every time I see a headline claiming a company stock, or the market as a whole, went up or down because of a single reason. Did the people writing the article ask all the people who bought or sold, or decided not to buy or sell, the stock(s)? Of course not.

Correlation does not mean causation.

Naked beaver logic.
Sort of like open source AI model destroys $600B in market cap
Hasbara bots are out in extreme force.
Hate to break it to ya, everything humans do is fundamentally affected by feelings.
That was stupid, but not evil.
Or better yet, misinterpret who the target is even supposed to be because of a hallucination.
No they last about 2 or 3 years in my experience, depending on how lucky you get with them. Everyone's bin is at least somewhat damaged. A few are missing the top entirely. I've replaced a bad bin once, free service from the city, but the replacement is already starting to crack on the corners where it slaps down onto the tips of the metal claw holding the bin. It is quite violent how it slaps the lid. Here is a video of the units they use:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXiywhZxZis
I could imagine this with automatic TTS and a slideshow. Basically you'd have procedurally generated mini documentaries in a tiktok like format.
So in other words, cede military superiority to your enemies? Come on you already know the rational solution to prisoner's dilemma, MAD, etc.

> enforceable treaty

How would you enforce it after you get nuked?
why do you assume there are no checks?
I live in the US; born here, lived here all my life.

The former is 100% how it will go. The only question is: how bad will it get?

A poster down thread mentions a million dead immigrants. I personally think it will just be in the low 6 figures. Maybe high 5 figures.
> Who should develop biological weapons? Chemical weapons? Nuclear weapons?

Anyone who wants to establish deterrence against superiors or peers, and open up options for handling weaker opponents.

> enforceable treaty

Such a thing does not exist. International affairs are and will always be in a state of anarchy. If at some point they aren't, then there is no "international" anymore.
Palantir literally developed Lavender that has been used for autonomous targeting in the bombardments of the Gaza stripe.

Look it up.
Judging from the article, the intentions of the beavers aligned with the intentions of people. Yet that is not to say that the requirements are the same. Even if you ignore things like environmental assessments and safety (both during construction and during its lifespan), neither of which are codified by beavers, you still have things like maintenance. Beavers will only maintain a dam for as long as it serves a purpose to them. Once it does not, it is left to decay.

Human society just doesn't live like that anymore. There are both short term and long term costs to consider. That wasteful government will likely mitigate some of those costs.
>> Why on earth would a for profit company refuse a potential line of profit?

On the one hand I think they were afraid many of their employees might protest again like they have in the past, signaling that Google isn't that awesome, progressive place everybody should work. This would mean they could be potentially losing some of the top notch SV talent that they are in constant competition with from other companies.

On the other hand, they've made it clear they aren't above firing employees who do protest as they just did when 28 employees were fired over the recent Nimbus Project contract worth an estimated $1.2B dollars with Israel:

They staged sit-in protests in Google's offices in Silicon Valley, New York City and Seattle – more than 100 protestors showed up. A day later, Google fired Montes and 27 other employees who are part of the No Tech for Apartheid group.

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/19/1245757317/google-worker-fire...

I think they try too hard to tow the line between the two, but like you said, its clear they're really all about the money.