skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s funny, I thought at one point I saw vouch link for comments, but no longer. I doubt I used it more than once. Does that mean it got taken away?
You know what helps manage all this complexity and keep the state internally and externally consistent?

Encapsulation. Provide methods for state manipulation that keep the application state in a known good configuration. App level, module level or thread level.

Use your test harness to control this state.

If you take a step back I think you’ll realize it’s six of one, half dozen of the other. Except this way doesn’t require manually passing an object into every function in your codebase.
Live by the platform, die by the platform
For anyone looking for a quick and hands-on dive into the world of Bayesian modelling and inference, I can't recommend JASP enough, made freely available by the University of Amsterdam[0]. I've recommended it before, and it's just a breeze to work with, seeing frequentist and Bayesian analyses side-by-side.

[0]: https://jasp-stats.org/
It's a really good question.

Things have been uncomfortable, but so far we're getting what we paid for, which I think doesn't warrant mass action. e.g. So far this is what the people who voted for the current administration wanted, and they were a majority.

One question I keep coming back to is whether civil unrest is going to go the way of dating, hanging at the local pub, and most other forms of in person activities, and basically get replaced by staying at home by yourself, looking at a screen, and being too distracted to participate.

People had a hard enough time organizing protests in bygone eras, when there was nothing else to do. If we were to cross a meaningful threshold of governmental abuse, is anyone going to step outside, away from their screens?
I accidentally ended up in a church while the organist was practicing. It felt like the whole building shook, which is impressive in a 500 year old building with meter thick walls.

I can totally see how people used to think pipe organs were the voice of god.
Power generation challenges could overshadow Stargate AI initiative
I wonder how the tariffs will affect this given how integrated Windsor is into Detroit's auto manufacturers.
> A discount for allowing surveillance is identical to an extra charge for disallowing it.

I don't think this is necessarily true. You're right that there's an unknown base rate, but that means you can't say what you're saying as well. And if you have other companies that offer non-driving-pattern policies as well, and they're a similar price, you can see it's a discount not an added cost.

In fact, regardless, other companies are your best bet in combatting rising prices for any reason.
For anyone who hasn't seen this before, it's from an IBM internal training document in 1979.

Sadly the original source was lost in a flood and IBM archives do not have a copy: https://twitter.com/jonty/status/1798170111058264280

Edit: here's a better link https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/3/a-computer-can-never-be...
> Bluesky arrived at the right time, unlike Mastodon.

In fact Mastodon had a better chance than BlueSky ever had, but had a significantly worse onboarding experience.

Mastodon was there at the right time, (Nov 2022) but was extremely unprepared to onboard millions of users simultaneously and more people were left confused on how to use the platform or even how to create an account or "which instance" to sign up to.

This is the obvious reason why BlueSky succeeded and took off, as predicted. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35750185
Another company has a store called Super Mario, and the courts are reasonable enough to realize that they don't compete: https://ticotimes.net/2025/01/30/david-vs-goliath-costa-rica...
Published historical pay will be 12 month salaries. Most non tenured professors will refuse the optional summer salary and work all summer for free, because they have to pay for it from their own grants- it means hiring one less student, and less chance of getting tenure.
As long as he has someone else to blame, he has every incentive to make everyone as miserable as possible.
Fitness does not equal physical exercise.

It could be a simple lifestyle that makes you "fit" (lots of walking, working a not-too-demanding physical job, a physical hobby, biking around...).

The parent post is saying that technological advance has removed the need for physical activity to survive, but all of the gym rats have come out of the woodwork to complain how we are all going to die if we don't hit the gym, pronto.
It's a bad explanation because the sun (probably) IS powered by nuclear fusion.

Deutsch is confused by this situation because he doesn't have the scientific background to understand the usefulness of negations of hypotheses.

Historically, for example, a lot of people believed the sun revolved around the earth. If we treat this as T, then ~T is "the sun does not revolve around the earth".

~T certainly lacks details, but to say it's a "bad explanation" is rather silly. Obviously it's an incomplete explanation, which is why Galileo presented a full explanation ("the earth revolves around the sun") rather than just saying, "the sun does not revolve around the earth". But in fact, "the sun does not revolve around the earth" was the part that was controversial because it was the bad explanation being presented by the church (who happened to be closer to philosophers than scientists).

Basically, Deutsch is just making a straw man argument. In Deutsch's mind, the fact that "the sun does not revolve around the earth" is an incomplete theory of heliocentrism is somehow a refutation of all science, when in fact that's simply not the sort of hypothesis scientists even explore typically.
I don't buy the switch speculation. Since we have zero info it sounds too arbitrary.
Cool. Does that mean Anthropic is not using ATS to scan resumes?

Of course it doesn’t…
from the actual act, which is linked in the article

> the placing on the market, the putting into service for this specific purpose, or the use of AI systems to infer emotions of a natural person in the areas of workplace and education institutions

emphasis mine.

chatgpt was not specifically put into service to monitor your emotions at work.

so it’s fine i’d say. and your pull request thing is fine.

also, you’re not trying to infer the emotions of any specific natural person. you’re trying to guage satisfaction of a process. that’s different to working out whether someone is feeling sad or feeling lonely in the workplace because they “aren’t smiling enough”.

unfortunately that’s means you can’t sue and get a pay day.

edit — i find it kind of funny that people are knee jerk reacting emotionally to this. kind of ironic when you consider the example at hand.
Isn't that arguably true? Not saying that's a good thing, but my impression was that even the US didn't accept calls from Taiwan pre-trump?
Same happened to an app that I published on Play Store, I don't even care that much, I only feel bad for the people that bought the premium version of it. Overall the takeway is that your product is never safe and you shouldn't only rely on these big platforms for marketing/distribution.
The platforms are opaque in their Kafkaesque bureaucratic nonsense.

But equally consistent is the narratives of the deplatformed are presented from one side, 100% victim, 0% responsible.

I know it’s hard when facing a faceless, robotic, powerful enemy - but going full one-side is just playing into the powerless-game framework of the platforms. Step up, own the full spectrum of your choices - and whatever the outcome, it’s more of a learning experience and you’re more empowered - rather than just “right”.

Also engage Black Swan techniques for dealing with abstruse bureaucracies.
Yes, pardoning someone basically means we are done speaking on the matter. Calling them traitors after they were pardoned is basically libel.
>And yes, most venues (as well as schools, government buildings, etc.) will not allow guns. If there's a security guard, police, or similar within spitting distance, there isn't a reasonable self-defence argument.

Can you give me one example of a valid "reasonable self-defence argument"? Legit question.
My appeal is still pending: https://github.com/sschueller/peertube-android/issues/302
Crux Linux
I haven't used Bitbucket for such a very long time I thought it was dead. Can't you raise your voice and propose something less "dying" like self-hosted GitLab, or cheap GitLab/GitHub accounts?
The reason Twitter was successful is they paid celebrities and corporations to join their network. That usage seems to have waned in favor of Instagram, but Twitter is still the #1 place for breaking news, especially in the sports world.

I think many people supporting bluesky assume the value is in attracting the plebeians. I don't see that being the case. There are already Facebook groups and reddit (among traditional forums) if you want to interact with your peers.

Is bluesky an alternative to twitter? In form, yes, in function, no.
How do you really see a midterm happening with this lot in charge? Elon will just hand over the keys ?
What put me off from mastodon is the fact that you can't migrate your account easily.

Yes, Bluesky is more centralized, but I feel like it is decentralized in the ways that matter for a Twitter/X Alternative use case :

- Self hosting of data, easy migration
- Automatic verification via DNS
- Custom feeds, Custom moderation, but you can still use the official ones
Doesn't this make the FBI less likely to prevent assassination attempts on high ranking politicians when you axe so many agents? Just asking...
Aren't doctors extraordinarily well-paid? Was this outside the US?
Experts Say China's Military Faces Major Issues
Detroit is buzzing because it’s gone through a complete and total deflation. Things are up because they went so far down, not unlike say… Argentina today or the rest of the US in 3-5 years.
Absolutely! Eventually, completely losing perspective. I know from experience! Once reaching what should be a terminal position... I spent roughly 7 years chasing these fires before finding something else. My desirable skills were weakened while bad habits were developed.

After all, guess what? The other place wants a sucker too. "Career limiting" doesn't sound so bad to me, I've only seen it demand more. Much Sisyphean, wow.
To me, redoing things that are not orthogonal implies that the older version is being fixed. Being fixed implies that it was incorrect. And to clarify, sure, auto types and constexpr are entirely new things we didn't have (auto changed meaning but yeah), but we were trying to "get something like that" using macros.
The fundamental difference is in the public: extreme-left for bluesky, trumpist for truth social and twitter for whoever isn't making a platform choice part of its identity.
Incidentally, there are things like these: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6104107/

Your favourite online store is full of devices that'd help there, and they are used in physical therapy too.
> One is that I really don't like being in charge of my own destiny with this kind of thing.

There is a bit of contradiction in this and next statement.

> because I wasn't in control.

Control is the most important factor in managing emotions. People without control are 10x more likely to suffer from trauma. (Car accidents while driving vs being a passenger)

> It pains me to leave

Do you have ADHD? This looks like Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria, talk to a specialist - I'm not one.
How is that correction mechanism supposed to work though? Do you mean the peer review process?

Friends in big labs tell me they often find issues with competitor lab papers, not necessarily nefarious but like “ah no they missed thing x here so their conclusion is incorrect”.. but the effect of that is just they discard the paper in question.

In other words: the labs I’m aware of filter papers themselves on the “inbound” path in journal clubs, creating a vetted stream of papers they trust or find interesting for themselves.. but that doesn’t provide any immediate signal to anyone else about the quality of the papers
Any refutation that depends on the fundamental unknownability of the Universe rules trivially applies to every single philosophy of science.

Science must work despite it, or you don't have science.

And any other singularity you get from assuming the odds of a hypothesis is infinitely smaller than the odds of it being false is unrealistic. You shouldn't assume that.
Fusion: OpenStar's Levitating Dipole Ditches the Traditional Doughnut Shape
If you think proper gun laws would keep guns away from evil people in the US, please explain to me why the war against illegal drugs in the US has been losing since the day it started.

Sure, some places in the world can successfully limit gun access. Those places aren't close and even bordered by the most active cartels in the world.

Just as a fun thought exercise, consider that to grow the plant necessary to produce just a single drug, cocaine, for the country, every year. It takes at least 300,000 acres, or roughly the size of los angeles. That's after decades of optimizations to reduce the amount of land needed. It's also only for one drug among a vast number that are regularly consumed in the US.

In relation, you can 3d print guns at home. Successful builds have been made from some of the cheapest 3d printers you can find.
So instead of paying Bluesky nothing to commiserate with millions of Americans who hate Trump and the tariffs too, you intend to isolate?
Is there a chance the account was taken over by spammers and shutdown before OP ever got a chance to review things? Even if so, I suppose Google should suspend the account.
YouTube is still a big platform, but I notice that they've lost their monopoly on hosting and distributing long-form video as of ~a few years ago. IMO the way to look at it now is that all the major social media platforms are video platforms. X, insta, TikTok, etc. all allow posting long videos directly to the platform.
Remind me of the European Silicon Valley and its greatest accomplishments?
Plot twist: They are actually looking for the freethinkers who are subversive enough to still use AI assistants.
Do you mean that high salaries indicate a demand in the market? Not much argument there, although it is sometimes the case that large companies hire talent purely to starve competition. But what I'm really questioning is whether those high salaries translate to value to society.
A lot of these people also have a policy that even one person can fail you. So if you do 8 interviews with 2 people each, then there's up to 20 people in the process that can ruin it for you.

I think LLM performance on previously seen questions like interview questions is too good for it to be allowed. I wouldn't mind someone using an IDE or API docs, but you have to draw the line somewhere. It's like how you can't use a calculator that can do algebra on a calculus test. It just doesn't accomplish the goal of testing anything if you use too much tech, and using the current LLMs that all suck in general but can nail these questions that have a million examples online is bad. I would much rather see someone consult online references for information than to see them use an LLM.
How much money, specifically, do you think is “taken” from the “poorest” and “given away” by USAID?

This is a weird line of attack on basically anything in the federal government’s budget, as is the suggestion that it works similarly to your household budget.
What is the probability of this happening on a home (not a datacenter) under normal conditions of temperature, radiation, etc?
I was curious about what a “cultivation novel” is and found this blog post that explained it and wuxia / xianxia: https://www.mylifemytao.com/xianxia-wuxia-cultivation-and-mo...
I don't think you know what you're responding to, but in any case, regarding Deutsch, he "laid the foundations of the quantum theory of computation, and subsequently made or participated in many of the most important advances in the field, including the discovery of the first quantum algorithms, the theory of quantum logic gates and quantum computational networks, the first quantum error-correction scheme, and several fundamental quantum universality results."
GOP bill proposes 20 years in jail for anyone who downloads a Chinese AI models [pdf]
Here is op's post, paraphrased by chatgpt o3-min-high with a bit of humor:

Alright, listen to this: I was happily working on my team, doing my thing—until the reorg hit like a bad punchline. Suddenly, another team from next door shows up, tinkering with a different stack in the same domain—because, of course, office politics is the real art here! Next thing you know, my director gets canned for “bad performance” (yeah, right), and the other team’s product flops spectacularly. And then they steal our stack—and me! Now I'm shoved into a new domain with a shiny title: senior staff engineer, on a team known for its underachievement. My heart’s still in the old domain, where I actually cared about the work. Now, with a new director arriving in two weeks, I’m left wondering if I should unload this absurd mess of corporate lunacy. But hey, the stock’s up 6x, so I’m not jumping ship. I mean, what’s the deal with this circus? It's like being stuck in a never-ending episode of a bad sitcom!
It's sardonic rather than ironic - irony is sarcastic humor devised to highlight a contradiction or hypocrisy; while sardonic is disdainful, bitter and scornful.

It'd have been ironic if Anthropic had asked the applicant not to use AI for the sake of originality and authenticity; but if the applicant felt compelled to do so, then it better rock and wow them to hire the applicant sight unseen.

It's sardonic because Anthropic is implying use of AI on them is an indication of fraud, deceit, or incompetence; but it's a form of efficiency, productivity or cleverness when used by them on the job!
The whole paper depends on the factorization:

B = (A or B) and (if A then B)

In the following table we have the other three operations which give different truth values to what you call the vacuous case. If "if" is replaced by "x" or "y" in the following table than that factorization does not work, "z" still does work but I'd be hard pressed to find anyone who thinks it represents causal implication better than "if" or "x".

| A | B | x A B | y A B | z A B | If A then B |
|---+---+-------+-------+-------+-------------|
| T | T | T | T | T | T |
| T | F | F | F | F | F |
| F | T | F | F | T | T |
| F | F | F | T | F | T |

I'm not using the common names for the operations to not bias people.

Or to put it another way: No one outside a logic course seriously thinks that A implies B means the same thing as not A or B.
Ah, thanks. I will look for that.
A big part of any engineering job is casual technical communication. This seems like it's entirely fair line of questioning. And the candidate gets to pick their strongest topic. What more do you want?
If it’s not because of the viral post it’s somewhat worse.

Because of the post would at least mean for some reason.
In a few months Bluesky will have more users than Canada has people.
That much is true, but I've seen a forklift operator face a situation where pallet of products fell apart and heavy items ended up on the floor. Guess who was in charge of picking them up and manually shelving them?
It bothers me a lot the ideological hatred for regulations commonly found on HN. This is exactly a showcase why regulations for digital markets/marketplaces need to exist.

We simply cannot trust huge platforms to care about the small to medium developers, people who are essentially powerless against a behemoth like Google or Apple. You get your app taken down, your account locked and the only recourse left would be spending six to seven figures in lawyers while risking losing the case altogether.

It's disgusting.
Doctor Oz was at one time a doctor, too, but he's also been a blight on society, spreading medical misinformation for decades.

A lot can go wrong with a person's brain between the publication of Deutsch-Josza (1985, 1992) and the writing of the linked post (2014).

I'd also note that the algorithm described is more a work of math than an example of experimental science. It's not creating a hypothesis and testing it, it's writing an algorithm for a (then-theorized) computer system. So I wouldn't say that this lends credence to his ideas on the validity of hypotheses.
>I always give them the same answer: no. I don't work for parasites.

Feel like specifying what makes them so distinctly more parasitic than, say, a company like Google or Facebook? Both of which many people here seem to have no trouble working for.
Youtube still has the monopoly for "outside users". Most other platforms force you to create an account to view the video, even the ones that historically didn't (ahem, twitter).

Imagine you sold a product for general popularion, and wanted to publish a tutorial video somewhere online... except for self-hosting it, youtube is the only viable option, sadly.
The irony in taking down a channel for spam and deceptice practices, when most YouTube advertisements are exactly that, yet are nearly impossible to get pulled
Always run and advertise your own website. There is no protection against deletion from social media for whatever reason they are going to come up with.
Life arose on Earth shockingly quickly on Earth as best as we can tell from the fossil record. Especially compared to apparently much more difficult innovations like photosynthesis, mitochondria, or multi-cellularity. I wouldn't at all be surprised if bodies in the solar system with liquid water and active enough geologies to produce consumable chemicals have primitive life.
But what did those do to reduce poverty numbers? As I said before, there were expansion of benefits, but it doesn't seem to have reduced the poverty numbers.
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people care about staples in any country rich or not.
> vim
> LLM

I use both :)

Vim has a way to run shell programs with your selection as standard input as you'd know, and it will replace the selection with stdout.

So I type in my prompt e.g "mock js object array with 10 items each having name age and address" do `V!ollama run whatever` for example and it will fill it in there.

Now this is blocking and I have a hacky way to run it async and fill it in based on marks later in my vimrc. Neovim really since I use jobstart().

This also works with lots of other stuff, like quick code/mock generation e.g sometimes instead of asking an LLM I just write javascript/python inline and `vap!node`/python on it.
> The Commission proposed enshrining in EU law a legal definition of 'AI system' referring to a range
of software-based technologies using specific techniques and approaches ('machine learning',
'logic and knowledge-based' systems, and 'statistical' approaches) that could be complemented
through the adoption of delegated acts to factor in technological developments.

This seems very broad. Almost anything could be a logic and knowledge-based system. And - genuine question - isn't ML a statistical approach?
this is what authoritarian fascism looks like.
The whole question is if the AI will ever get that good?

All evidence so far points to no (just like with every tool — farmers are still usually strong men even if they've got tractors that are thousands of times stronger than any human), but that still leaves a bunch of non-great programmers out of a job.
> When have gun laws ever stopped a shooting?

Have you heard of Australia? https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2018/03/13/gun-l...
That'd be a very hard argument in a corporate environment, when we already pay for the Atlassian stack. Jira and Confluence are already so embedded, I've barked up that tree before, it wouldn't go anywhere for a long time even if there were glaring problems, nevermind one devs gripe about a suboptimal UX.

Self hosted costs a person, or more likely a team, plus the infra.