skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I've said elsewhere, Musk and the Doge employees only have audit power - not executive. There's a very big difference between those types of powers.

Musk is not terminating any executive departments or agencies. Neither is Trump (except perhaps some that are not statutory).

USAID still exists. It clearly wasn't obeying its statutory mandate -- that's what gives Trump the authority to bring its current activities to an end and fire a lot of its employees. It will likely be ended by Congress after what's been revealed, but we'll have to wait and see.
Heart disease is more preventable than given credence. Prevention is the best medicine.

Vehicle deaths are also avoidable.
The new LLM-based completion in Intellij is not useful. :(
Nice analysis, but maybe still missing some things. e.g. it's not clear that "DJ" here is professional radio-DJs vs dancehall/wedding etc. which tend to be small single-person businesses in an entirely different function.

A good radio-DJ might be hired to fill a key block of time in a major metro. They may select to play a local band's new song during evening rush hour and suddenly 3 million new people know about it instantly moving them up the charts. They were just as much a part of the tastemaking stream as the labels and often provided interesting color commentary, local community info, places for meet and greets, upcoming concert info, and so on.

I live in a top-10 metro in the U.S. and I think it's very telling that the FM dial mostly plays pre-2000 music, with very little commentary by DJs if any between commercial breaks. They may as well just be a streaming internet feed pumped through an antenna. Some stations just play the same songs I remember from middle/high school decades ago and they aren't even advertising themselves as "classic" or "nostalgia" in any way.

Once the big consolidation events happened, it seems like the ability for popular music to really get ahold of the zeitgeist died with it and now tastemaking seems to be almost as much a function of push by labels and artists/influencers than a pull-and-present by people sitting in curation seats.

Music has become "flatter" in a sense which in theory is good. But if everything is unknown, it's much harder for utterly unknown geniuses with bad marketing skills to break through.
Because we are an aged society, with such an incredibly low birth rate, this will only get worse.

There are only so many competent people in our society, and that talent pool is being spread thin across all sectors of society which require such candidates.

There are looming doctor shortages, too. Professionals of all stripes.
纔 in this case should use the definition of 才 (cai2) not (shan1) which is extremely uncommon. Otherwise, cool app!
I remember reading the HN thread when Fish rewrote to Rust. A big reason because “they wanted to stay current” so they rewrote from C++ to Rust.

Someone made a joke comment how in a few years there would be tons of HN threads about rewriting Rust to Zig.
The idea back then was a one-time amnesty in exchange for a secure border, which didn't happen.

That's why Republicans are unwilling to budge a second time.
ChatGPT itself is great for coding.

GitHub Copilot is...not. It doesn't seem to understand how to help me as well as ChatGPT does.
It isn't possible to have an informed vote for the 500 companies in a S&P index fund and still have a life.

I probably have an informed opinion on the company I work for - but I don't have enough shares to matter. The other 499 I know nothing about.
They don't have to explain to the applicant. They do have to explain to the regulator how exactly they stay compliant with the law.

There is so called three line system -- operational line does the actual thing (approves or rejects the mortgage), the second line gives the operational line the manual to do so the right way, the internal audit should keep an eye that whatever the first line is doing is actually what the policy says they should be doing.

It's entirely plausable that operational line is an actual LLM which is trained on a policy that the compliance department drafted and the audit department occasionally checks the outputs of the modal against the policy.

But at this point it's much easier to use LLM to write deterministic function in your favorite lisp based on the policy and run that to make decisions.
Much better before than after!
Fair. But, according to the linked article and the study, most people disagree and would rather use the same amount of enriched salt than less in total. I find the retention rate especially noteworthy.
They're not gonna push for it without grassroots organization, which means doing things at the local and online level to get the idea in wide circulation. It's not a startup.

Absent this, people will get more and more frustrated which will eventually manifest as riots as it did in 2020. So if you prefer a more peaceable outcome, I think it's better to talk up the idea of a general strike rather than talk it down.
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Oxycodone (Oxycontin) has similar potency to diamorphine (heroin) and is ~2 orders of magnitude less potent than fentanyl.

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This is such a good idea. Kind of reminds me of the spirit of the old site stumbleupon
Maybe these open projects start to get more attention when we have a distribution system/App Store for AI projects. I know YC is looking to fund this https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs
Publishing Simple Books with Jekyll (2019)
Of course after this post, no joke I go into the office last week and the reservable open desks were in the supply closet with broken chairs and monitors. Amazing.
The Apple TV one is particularly bad due to them naming the service, the box, and the app the same thing. One of them has a + tacked on, who knows which.

As long as they don’t start naming other things Invite, they might avoid that issue. Although maybe they’ll name their HomePod with a screen that and we’re back to square one.
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Could it be a beachhead to a future social network?
https://web.archive.org/web/20250204210752/https://projects....
You would have to pay me considerable sum of money to pick anything Apple over other options.
The US Constitution at its heart is based on a system of checks and balances, both between branches of government and the Federal government and States:

"Checks and Balances in the Constitution"

<https://www.usconstitution.net/checks-and-balances-in-the-co...>

That balance has been largely eviscerated presently.
The Thought Process Behind Kimi.ai K1.5
What’s wrong with that domain name? I personally view it as OK and even a bit memorable
Brandolini's law – Amount of energy needed to refute bullshit
More like, "Therefore, I know nothing because instead of learning about life through experience I have wasted years playing with a computer instead."
If you think you're gonna get sunlight form Musk you're a rube. There isn't any transparency going on here.
Mobile coding: Here today (RFS 5)
I have been building my AI startup exclusively through Replit and have been beta testing coding on mobile for about a year now. It seems the world is catching up to the fact we have supercomputers in our pocket.

RFS 5 is fulfilled: https://web.archive.org/web/20091203074752/http://ycombinato...

The future is here, just not evenly distributed.
Welcome to aviation. Where we last innovated 50 years ago.
Could you post the text you used? This kind of thing goes straight into my unit tests.

I'm also working on showing all the pronunciations/definitions for a given hanzi, it should be ready later this week.
For those not up on the lingo:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groypers>
> this feels a lot like "things people want to believe" more than "things that happened"

Sure, and in the list of things that have happened, is them shuttering USAID (https://www.usaid.gov) over the weekend

And using the DOJ to threaten people with legal action, for disclosing the names of some of DOGE's members

"Only having" read access, is already a huge red flag, especially because of the way it was attained (illegally), and because of the people involved (private citizens with unclear affiliations to the federal government)

This is not just a small understanding about read vs write access
> In November 2020, a wolf reintroduction plan — which included a requirement that ranchers be compensated for livestock losses — passed with 50.9% of Colorado residents voting in favor. Just 12 counties out of 64 supported the measure, but nearly two-thirds of Denver voters approved

I think it’s pretty obvious the people that voted for the measure don’t feel the effects of it, just from that quote alone.
I believe the next step to securing things is to eliminate telemetry from all these apps. No amount of data leaks need to happen due to apps dialing home and sending information that users do not want them to.

While sideloading can be avoided, one needs to set simple rules about how to allow and disallow storage and network access, which is something that has plagued the mobile ecosystem for a while.

I think that having opt-out telemetry is one of those ways where users would just prefer to use iOS than use Android; This needs to be fixed as well.
>Opinions regarding masking mandates and criticizing COVID-19 response in general, for example.

So they were cracking down on people spreading dangerous disinformation in the middle of a public health emergency. Okay.

What are some others?
The problem for me is not so much real spam, this gets filtered. The problem is the massive amount of work required to unsubscribe or clean up automated emails from apps and websites, both transactional and non-transactional.

I know way too many techy and non-techy people who have thousands of unread email messages from those apps.

A lot of people I know don't really answer to real email anymore, unless they know something is coming. It became just something you use to make accounts with.

Even corporate email is dying. 99% of my inbox is transactional emails from SaaS apps and spam from apps I forgot to delete. And 90% of the rest is spam from recruiters or people trying to sell me some product. Only 0.1% is legitimate.

Statistically, email is not for people anymore, period.
Shameless plug: I did create a very basic web based invite app with the goal of being platform agnostic - I really think having a app like Invites or my https://rsvp.ngo/ fills the need of getting invites out across platforms.
And of course, maybe property values in fire-prone areas should fall ! In fact, by not subsidizing them, perhaps the market would eventually restabilize these homes at saner insurance premiums to cover the reduced property value due to the risk.

A $600k home that is sure to burn within 20 years will have a much lower premium than a $6m home in the same location, after all.
I've played with Hare, Zig, and Odin. Odin is my favorite. It's a fair bit faster to compile (similar to Hare), and has the nicest syntax (subjectively speaking). I wish it would get more traction. Looking forward to trying Jai if it ever makes it to GA.
Next steps: ingest these offline and process them into quick 30 second videos with the most salient facts. TTS narration, additional images. Generate stock video using the images in the API and perhaps text-to-video. That would be a killer app.

Bonus: come up with a heuristic or model to filter out or de-rank universally uninteresting articles.
Fun napkin-view ADS-C ("control"-capable successor to broadcast-only ADS-B).

Reporting integrates approach and flight tunnel envelopes. Envelopes are specified with coordinates, not just sequential points + altitude.

Cryptographic authentication in subsequent position broadcast from plane flight systems efficiently confirms receipt and acceptance of prior control messages.

Flight systems warn on countdown to envelope exception not only actual envelope exception or altitude exception.

For passenger planes, ability of ground control to command autonomous landing with blessing of federal government in an emergency (eg. no pilots conscious, interface borked), and to send urgent, cryptographically authenticated ATC command requests (change altitude or heading immediately, etc.) for pilot consideration in the event of ATC-detected potential emergent danger conditions.
The number that I've heard that accepted that offer across the government is in line with normal attrition rates with federal employees - the only people who bit were already planning on quitting. It appears that most or all else was wise to how shady this deal was.
I think there is plenty of room to critique what this person is calling “woke” terminology but the “warblgarbl woke cult” from the right is just absurd. Hacker News is apparently a place we are supposed to be able to have more technical and higher minded discussions than say Reddit but every time a cultural issue comes up we revert to cave man.

Actually thats not fair to cave men, we revert to reactionary nonsense.
Well, I mean, if we can blame DEI?

That's part of the problem here, everyone is just taking political potshots. Which is to be expected. But the danger is you lose sight of the real issue. As you mentioned, the helo pilot's loss of situational awareness. (Did they ever even have situational awareness?)

We can't be getting into these situations where every crisis is met by this typical American emotional reactionism. We can't be blaming the "left", or the "right", or the most ridiculous one which was "it was the black guys somehow". We gotta stop letting that crap distract us.
Over-Tokenized Transformer: Vocabulary Is Generally Worth Scaling
[nevermind; kind of dumb post]
How would you change the tone? I feel like that was a plain and matter-of-fact sentence. I get the term "misinformation" is feels loaded but it wasn't unfair to say.

edit and the fact that the poster did have the good sense to add an edit was part of the reason I decided to say something because telling someone who didn't would just be a waste of time
You didn't miss much, but if you feel you need to find out what happened, get a library card and sign up with Libby, to borrow the ebook or audio book for free. The libraries near me don't even have a wait list for the audio book.
If you mean the current fad for LLMs, then yeah it's absolutely the wrong tools for the job.

But "planning what best goes where when" could very much be algorithmic, yes. AI in the sense that A* path finding, and Kuhn's Hungarian algorithm for optimisation are "AI".
The author's example of regime-beneficial censorship is poorly chosen. He says that Deepseek refuses to answer questions about the Tienanmen Square massacre but will list US-backed human rights' violations, and that's true. But there are plenty of topics sensitive to US policy that it refuses to discuss. Try having a politically incorrect conversation with it about race relations, certain events regarding Israel, how certain ethnic groups view other ethnic groups, and attempt to have it argue for or against controversial viewpoints regarding those. You'll quickly get the dreaded "Sorry, I'm unable to help with this request."
I have a US number and live in Switzerland. At least for me, I only receive SMS messages whenever I visit the US -- the rest of the time they're just dropped and I'll never see them.

(Doesn't really bother me, my friends and I all use WhatsApp/etc. anyway.)

n=1 though, maybe this is some quirk of my phone provider.
As much as I ended up despising Musk, I can't help feeling a bit envious at the idea of his squad of young computer nerds digging into the bureaucracy looking for ways to improve things. God knows if we'd need one in my own country and in the EU, possibly without the far right antics and the support for genocidal states.
I would not want a text generator to "handle" anything responsible for human lives.
Even if there will be enough rain to replace it, the Felon In Chief certainly didn't know that when he decided to unilaterally waste all that water. If it ends up being OK, it's purely through luck.
It's a far cry from the days where employees were threatening to mass quit Google when it changed its policies to avoid bans in China.

A lot of what is going on in the world right now makes me think we are in a war that hasn't yet been officially acknowledged.
> Arguably a lot more people got hooked on opium than ever before because something legalized has less stigma attached

Growing up in the 70s and 80s, I know that by the 80s heroin had a bad stigma attached to it even by other drug users, and it was rarely seen in the circles I knew. Coke, pot and meth did not have that at the time.
The first line of their press release:

> Apple today introduced Apple Invites, a new app for iPhone

If Android users have to login to a website to use this, what's the appeal? There are hundreds of simple meeting/event webapps out there, many not even requiring authentication.
Cooperative Multitasking in Rust
Any reliable sources on this?
Who do you mean by "his successor"? Surely not the new, 'acting' FBI director, as they have comparatively little power?
Nothing fancy. I made these with some pretty simple hand written scripts in javascript rendering to canvas: lots of fiddly little boxes moving around are simpler to script than to hand animate. (If I were to do much more of this I might rewrite these in blender since it has much nicer authoring tooling and export control.)
That there is a computer at ATC that a human looks at, reads what it says with their eyes, speaks those instructions over the radio in a specific protocol, another human listens to it (and confirms within that protocol), and inputs those control signals into the airplane.

Computer -> human -> radio(spoken protocol) -> human -> plane.

There aren't a lot of practical reasons it can't just be

Computer -> radio(digital protocol) -> plane

(There are nonzero reasons, such as the presence of weird situations, VFR aircraft, etc., but it's not a lot.)
I'm not even talking about Firecracker; for the duration of time things like these run, you could get a satisfactory UX with basic EC2.
>Just rerun the application with higher income until you get a pass. Then tell the person their application was rejected because income was not at least whatever that passing income amount was.

Why do you need an AI if what you are doing is "if X < N" ?
How to prove false statements? (Part 1)
> the amount of work you need to put in for the marginal post-tax krone is so high it’s just demotivating

This is a cliche you hear from right winger in any country that has a progressive tax system.

Regarding Norway, taxes aren't in the same ballpark as in some US blue states.

Also, it's a very simplistic view to think that people are only motivated by money. Counter examples abound.
Hitler and Mussolini weren't fascist dictators at first. They became that gradually (though in retrospect, biographers have identified such ambitions early on).

Comparing Trump to those guys 2 weeks in, when Congress and the Supreme Court are very much alive and able to pounce on him, is rather early, no?
I’m not sure I understand the “though” in this message but yeah, definitely the user interface of this social network is messaging.
Sure, AI can spit out nonsense, and that’s a real concern. But in engineering, we deal with imperfect tradeoffs every day - it’s baked into the job. If we insist on a flawless solution before shipping anything, we’ll never ship. There’s always an optimum where we uphold safety standards without sacrificing forward progress
This whole venture (not the article's subject in particular, but Musk's actions / involvement in government thus far) is like a hack-a-thon, in production, with no rule book (or the rule book is free to be ignored).
No. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=500*sum+1.07%5Ex+from+0...
We're hoping companies with international teams will switch over fully (we have internally), but our initial goal is to attract a subset of the market that has cross-lingual needs and unblock them as much as possible from using it more.
I've struggled for years with windows notebooks waking up from sleep/hibernate randomly, particularly the Dell models. Happens all the time, cooking itself inside my bag. Doesn't matter what sleep, power, etc settings I've messed with. Can explicitly put it to sleep and then stand there for 60 seconds and watch it wake itself back up.
The built in power diagnostics features of windows are unable to explain why this happens, or in anyway prevent it.

This experience has kept me from spending money on any portable windows machine.
Genuinely not trying to move goalposts here, but I feel like games have always been the exception, due in part to their reliance on so many of-the-time technologies, at least for AAA titles. Either way yours is a fair point. I still think the original point broadly holds for more traditional programs though.
> I think Apple already has claimed the "friends and family network" via iMessage.

All the family/friends group chats I am in are WhatsApp.

I use iMessage every day for 1-to-1 messaging but I don’t really view it as distinct from SMS.

For international communication, even 1-on-1 tends to be WhatsApp.
If you use a separate broker for each $500k then you only have to worry about multiple brokers catastrophically failing at the same time. And there are multiple types of account with each type having a separate $500k limit.
I will say, the CEO of the USA Elon and his friend Trump did announce they were going to do this some time ago. So I’m a bit dismayed at folks acting surprised.

To me it seems clear they want to clear the government out of people who disagree with them, and make government less effective overall. I don’t see how reducing the federal government into barely anything and granting the richest corporations with massive tax breaks will help the average citizen afford housing, groceries, healthcare, keep them and their kids safe, and improve the quality of life in general. I’d love someone to explain it to me.

On a personal note, I’m highly annoyed that Elon Musk, who forever seemed to be a cringey edgelord who is severely unlikable (to me) now controls the US government.
> I tested it with a sample event and I don't see any way to RSVP without logging into an Apple account. Maybe I'm missing something?

You are. I explicitly created a burner email and invited it to an event.

When I navigated from the invite email I was prompted to sign in which I declined. It then allowed me to join the event after I confirmed with an emailed code.

On joining the event I was able to set my name and send a note.
>and in emergency situations, screens can fail.

Audio makes perfect sense as a backup, but 99.99% of flights would benefit from having a screen showing object and current planned route.

In this particular case, simply having that information available would have allowed an onboard computer to predict a collision.
“AI vendors have a double standard, I tried it. Look, here’s a Noam Chomsky quote.”

There, I saved you 3 minutes.
"All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword."
Part all of this BS is sure at twitter if you pull this you might get a decent attrition rate but isn't the federal government known for people never quitting? If they quit, it's quiet quitting coming in every day and doing nothing. Isn't that generally the purpose behind this too? Like...good luck get a real amount of people to quit they are going to hold on for dear life