skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been trying to approach the problem in a similar way, and in my observation, it is also important to capture the discussion hierarchy in the context that we share with the LLM.

The solution that I have adopted is as follows. Each comment is represented in the following notation:

[discussion_hierarchy] Author Name: <comment>

To this end, I format the output from Algolia as follows:

[1] author1: First reply to the post
[1.1] author2: First reply to [1]
[1.1.1] author3: Second-level reply to [1.1]
[1.2] author4: Second reply to [1]

After this, I provide a system prompt as follows:

You are an AI assistant specialized in summarizing Hacker News discussions.
Your task is to provide concise, meaningful summaries that capture the essence of the thread without losing important details.
Follow these guidelines:
1. Identify and highlight the main topics and key arguments.
2. Capture diverse viewpoints and notable opinions.
3. Analyze the hierarchical structure of the conversation, paying close attention to the path numbers (e.g., [1], [1.1], [1.1.1]) to track reply relationships.
4. Note where significant conversation shifts occur.
5. Include brief, relevant quotes to support main points.
6. Maintain a neutral, objective tone.
7. Aim for a summary length of 150-300 words, adjusting based on thread complexity.

Input Format:
The conversation will be provided as text with path-based identifiers showing the hierarchical structure of the comments: [path_id] Author: Comment
This list is sorted based on relevance and engagement, with the most active and engaging branches at the top.

Example:
[1] author1: First reply to the post
[1.1] author2: First reply to [1]
[1.1.1] author3: Second-level reply to [1.1]
[1.2] author4: Second reply to [1]

Your output should be well-structured, informative, and easily digestible for someone who hasn't read the original thread.
Use markdown formatting for clarity and readability.

The benefit is that, I can parse the output from the LLM and create links back to the original comment thread.

You can read about my approach in more detail here: https://gist.github.com/simonw/09e5922be0cbb85894cf05e6d75ae...
There's no place in the world where a $50B pay package is justified. He's just ransacking the other investors. The board (if it had any spine) should tell him to stop or go away.
This is actually why I decided not to pursue a career in Academia. I originally wanted to work in acadeemia, but as I finished my undergraduate I realized that while I would love to do research, the other aspects, like applying for grants, constantly having to publish, etc. would be extremely taxing and stressful for me.
Musk's companies plus Meta and Dropbox does not an exodus make. The article is all clickbait.
What if you follow the advice here

>Stack dump without symbol names (ensure you have llvm-symbolizer in your PATH or set the environment var `LLVM_SYMBOLIZER_PATH` to point to it):

?
Thanks. I do use a similar strategy though I've only been on Adderall for about 2 years. I do take XR and treat it like a baseline. But I also have an instant that allows me to adjust. Getting better at dosing but yeah it definitely requires flexibility. I do notice it depends on lots of things like sleep, exercise, and diet. Doesn't help that human sensitivity is similar to manufacturing tolerances lol. It's hard to find the routine though as there are a lot of external forces and it doesn't help that everyone acts like they need to be done right away (I mean the big issue with ADHD is triage and prioritization). This is worse in academia than when I've worked and honestly I only went to get diagnosed because the environment made everything more difficult.

One thing I found helps is I put desiccant in my bottles and it helps maintain the quality. I do some 3d printing and so store any excess medicine with filament.
I always thought that YT audio was pretty bad.
Yes, immensely. Checks and balances and stated elected representatives have a lot of push back against the president.

>Hypothetical question: imagine the president ordered troops to evacuate the library and then burn it down. Who exactly would be held accountable, and how?

Beats me. There's a lot of processes needed for the president to organize the national guard. Lots of chains of command would need to fail to have them burn down a domestic building with no signs of sabatoge.
Going by this comment, it appears there was some sloppiness on Tesla's side of things and the judge is being a bit of a hard ass here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42901804
You’re only focusing on access to source code, the comment is about leadership and decision making. Remember the OmniSharp story around VSCode from just two years ago? It’s a very high profile example of what can (and eventually will) happen with corporate-controlled projects.

Swift can’t evolve or even exist without Apple and so unless you’re Apple, then Swift is too great of a risk.
> second ruling was after Tesla dotted their i's and crossed their t's, getting ~80% shareholder approval, with Musk and his brother abstaining from the vote. Basically they fixed everything the judge said was wrong/irregular

They didn’t. It was still a backdated package being voted on by a different set of shareholders than the ones who owned the stock when the package is backdated to.

The dotting the i’s move would have been a new package in that amount, adjusted upwards to account for the higher taxes that would have had to have been paid due to it being granted up front. They didn’t do the dotting the i’s move.
Good point!

If the launch vehicle can accelerate well enough in low pressure instead of vacuum then maybe you could "just in time" depressurize segments of the tube. Although that's still getting perilously close to the magical airlock concept.

Apologies for rambling, this is fascinating.
I always find myself baffled by “prompt optimization” frameworks. Do people really find themselves needing random perturbations of a fixed prompt to improve accuracy? It’s my experience that the challenging part of writing a prompt is figuring out what the task you want done is, and understanding which data you need to pass to the model to make the task achievable. None of that can be achieved by “optimizing” the prompt—the hard part is a layer of abstraction upward.
A lot of the user facing pages with general info about stuff like HIV has been deleted too.
The 1981 paintbox had a 300mb drive where hundreds of stills could be stored in an internal library. Other systems had libraries too, plus the "old and new" working frame store on the menu.
No, there was famously no "undo" button on Paintbox but as they used to say, "Michaelangelo had no undo button when carving David". If you used a paintbox etc it was expected you were a good artist and at $500 an hour I was paid in the 80's, mistakes were too expensive and so we learned to get it right first time!
It was inevitable the web would be commercialized but there's plenty of people still creating their own personal websites - they're just a bit harder to find now.

There are people around trying to make these sites a bit more findable by creating specialized search engines. I have put the ones I know of at https://brisray.com/web/altsearch.htm
Reminds me a bit of the launch system in When Worlds Collide (1951). (A giant roller coaster track, essentially.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avtQ8elxL-o
Regular golf can be bad enough.

Can any government agency really have any effect on a consistent low-performer who is declining faster than ever, when their priority for golf exceeds that for some of the institutions that actually have made America great?

There's just no effect on his day-to-day either way for somebody like that, whether any agencies even exist or not.

Remember, Ronald Reagan knew who Trump was and never would have trusted him as far as he could throw him, like the vast majority of people in the world, not just Americans at the time. Anybody who even knew who Trump was, recognized he had nothing to offer in real estate or anything else and the only thing going was the typical self-promotion from somebody who is fake at heart.

Trump started out synonymous with dishonesty and bankruptcy and never changed his stripes.

He missed out on all the best real estate deals in Florida during some of the best times, he was widely shunned, trust levels make a big difference. When others who had below-average business acumen made out well enough to put Trump's properties to complete shame when it comes to appreciation alone. Which took Trump way more decades than a normal person would do using the same resources too.

Squandering resources is the proven life's work of Trump so far, and it's probably too late to change now.

Reagan said he wanted "more sensible" regulations, of course he meant fewer of them and he was serious.

It's so embarrassing that Trump is not sensible at all, nor serious enough for the job at hand, more like a clown.

I've said it before but Reagan with Alzheimer's was brilliant by comparison and it's more plain to see every day.
Oh, good catch! Well, then it’s obsolete.
Oracle Cloud deleting active user accounts without possibility for data recovery
Probably better to look and decide for yourself, but generally they teach specific techniques to reason more effectively in certain situations.

They introduced me to Bayesianism, which is something I now use extensively in my science career, and I appreciate specific strategies to avoid falling into cognitive biases, and to argue more effectively and honestly, such as steelmanning.

None of their lifestyle ideas really jive with me- I have no interest in things like raising children in a polyamorous group home, or in using consequentialist ethics combined with hand wavy mathematical models to make decisions in regular life.
Contra wikipedia, the discussion of the fishery in this paper makes it clear that they're ordinary food.

> they are sent alive to restaurants in Hanoi, where there is a high demand for them. In Hanoi, Bathynomus once was sold at high prices, but this has decreased over the years. In 2017, the price was up to 2 million Vietnamese Dong (ca USD $80) per kilogram, with large individuals reaching 2 kg in weight. As noted above, large specimens of B. jamesi can reach weights in excess of 2.5 kg. Because of these prices, fishermen started to increase the supply, and by 2023 the price dropped to around 1.5 million Vietnamese Dong per kilogram; by early 2024, it was about 1 million Vietnamese Dong (ca USD $40) per kilogram for 1–2 kg individuals.

> In 2017, specimens had to be pre-ordered, and diners had to wait up to a month to collect their Bathynomus specimens in seafood outlets in Hanoi. Today, some seafood markets in Hanoi, Hồ Chí Minh City, and Đà Nẵng City keep up to 30 individuals in their chilled water tanks for customers to buy. It is also common to see advertisements selling “sea bugs” on social network by some seafood stores. Once they are purchased online, the stores will immediately ship the alive animals in icebox to customers. Individuals weighing between 0.6–0.9 kg are the best sellers because the price is more affordable. Large specimens in excess of 2 kg are also sought after as they are less common, and their size makes for an impressive dish. [OK, this is novelty.] In mid-2024, prices in some places in Hanoi have dropped and cost only 0.68 million Vietnamese Dong (ca USD $27) per kilogram.

Steadily increasing supply in the face of high public demand is not the sign of a novelty item.
Congress appropriates money to be spend. Executive branch ... 'executes' things with appropriated money. Previous Trump administration tested a lot of norms, and current one is going to be pushing past every boundary of normal/accepted/traditional behaviour we've ever seen. The will of the people, expressed through Congress, is that Dept X gets $Y, but the incoming admin is claiming their own 'will of the people mandate' to completely upend how appropriated money is spent, and indeed, if it's spent at all. When you do not believe government agencies should exist, why would you want to enable them to spend money?
Don’t all fabrics already absorb IR and heat up?

Yes, but the paper's abstract says this fabric heats up faster:

Through the incorporation of a modest amount (as little as 0.5%) of photothermally active polyaniline (PANI) and polydopamine (PDA) nanoparticles, this fiber exhibits exceptional photothermal conversion performance compared to pure thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) fiber. Notably, when exposed to 600 W m−2 irradiation for 600 s, the equilibrium temperature of the photo-thermochromic elastic fiber rises impressively from the ambient 20.0 °C to 53.5 °C.
Yep, a major missing piece in this entire problem / discussion is how to characterize how much "power" "humans" have had. My best idea so far is to characterize the sorts of outcomes that can be feasibly steered towards under what conditions.
Founders of dual-class companies—think Drew Houston at Dropbox or Mark Zuckerberg at Meta—should watch out. Delaware courts are starting to invalidate shareholder agreements where the founder has control of the board thing.

The fun thing about the Moelis case is that the Delaware Court of Chancery in 2024 sided with a minority shareholder against Ken Moelis. Which is kind of wild when you think about it. You’re a minority shareholder. You invest in Moelis & Company, an investment bank that Ken Moelis—yes, that Ken Moelis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Moelis), the famous dealmaker whose name is literally the brand—controls through majority voting power and ownership. And then you go, “Wait a second, Ken Moelis has too much control over the board of Moelis & Company!” Yeah, that’s sort of the whole point.

And this is where people start saying, “Huh, maybe this court is getting a little too activist.” Wasn’t the whole idea of incorporating in Delaware that it’s business-friendly? That it streamlines governance and makes it easier to run a company?
Webrings are making a little bit of a comeback. I've listed all the ones I know of on https://brisray.com/web/webring-list.htm
Curious that Columbus discovered so many places that already had lots of people in them. I suppose military and colonial might (and disease) have something to do with why his name stuck. Power is the power to make history.
Just because it was used wrongly doesnt mean using it is wrong in all cases.
Wear black non-glossy skin tight stuff all over and I can tell you it heats up darn fast to unbearable levels. Great for mountains and cold times though. This must be a smidge better and uses different colors so some evolution it seems.

Depends on price and tons of other aspects like long term durability and resistance to frequent washing to make it interesting for masses, I expect some major issues there
So the dude goes on and on about how his upbringing set him up for some misery and all you have to say is that he's a hypocrite and should suck it up and move on. Nice.
You're still upset about the statues?
I'll fix that for sure! thanks
Best you can do now is not give up. Spread the news wherever you can. You won't convince everyone, but every crazy story will make people start to question. There's a lot of crazy to share.

That should all add up to a midterm that starts to turn the tide.

Also, definitely don't be afraid to call your congress reps and be loud about this stuff.
So I'd started writing a response to this, but it got a bit long and abstract and it was a work day, so I kind of left it, but an article dropped into my lap today which was almost too perfect as a demonstration of what I was trying to get to:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/business/media/paramount-...

FTA:

> Now Mr. Trump is back in the White House, and many executives at CBS’s parent company, Paramount, believe that settling the lawsuit would increase the odds that the Trump administration does not block or delay their planned multibillion-dollar merger with another company, according to several people with knowledge of the matter.

In general, if an incoming administration signals a change in regulatory priorities or interpretation, and that causes businesses broadly to adjust their business plans, I think that's a reasonable reflection, after a relatively long chain and with all the caveats of the US electoral system, of the "people's will" as expressed in governance after an election. Lina Khan indicated that the FTC was going to take a much closer look at mergers with a renewed eye towards competition, not just consumer wellbeing, and that broadly changed the math on whether companies expected their mergers to go through. That's what I would expect - that's the point of government and regulation here, and the change in those priorities following an election fits broadly into "the government as the people's tool for constraining powerful actors."

However, a company changing its policies or plans specifically because it is concerned about the whims and wills of the president - in other words, companies specifically attempting to curry personal favor with the president to get better treatment - is not that. If Paramount was worried that recent changes to the law or changes to how the FCC or FTC interpreted regulations affected their chances of winning the lawsuit or getting the merger through in the same way that, say, NBC would be worried about it, that's normal. Paramount is worried that the president is angry at them and they are going to be specifically targeted, and so they're going to give the president a large cash settlement so he'll instruct the FTC to let them complete their merger. That's not normal - or at least, it's not good.
What's the point of owning a share of a company if you have no say over its board of directors?
No it hasn’t, because it’s not viable.

The first hydrogen car was built in the 1800s. There is nothing ‘early’ about this concept.
Thanks for this. Since the current post is from 2020 and that story is recent, I've reupped this submission of it:

String of recent killings linked to Bay Area rationalist 'death cult' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42877910
Arch on a Thinkpad is pretty good.

Ironically, arch has been a better "stable" distro for me than Debian, which I used for years previously.

The problem with the stable distros, when used as a desktop, is you inevitably get into a situation where you need a newer version of something, but the whole stack of libraries the system provides isn't compatible. It leads to a "frankendebian" situation which is much worse than just dealing with a binary rolling distro where the latest version of anything you want is a pacman paru install away.
This is a common myth. Most of the pollution of a vehicle is in its use, both for EVs and ICE [0]. The average EV, even on the dirtiest fuel, still has much higher efficiency than the average ICE. On top of that, things are only going to get better:

- more of our electricity is coming from clean (renewable/nuclear) sources every year. We reached 40% in 2023. [1] Solar and wind are dominating fossil fuel in new generation. [2]

- we're evolving battery materials for cleaner batteries, and more new battery materials will be sourced from recycled batteries instead of new mining. (EVs are still so relatively new and batteries live long enough that we haven't yet reached that point).

0) https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/electric-vehicle-myths#Myt...
1) https://www.wri.org/insights/clean-energy-progress-united-st...
2) https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3
I won't dispute your moral reasoning, but realistically this has as much a chance of succeeding as calling the current year 02025¹: it will mostly just annoy people.

1: Cf. The Long Now Foundation.
I sometimes look back on my childhood and think about what might have helped me beyond just having structure - which, for the record, I do agree is very important. I think the biggest thing would have been understanding earlier that I was naturally going to struggle with certain things and that it was okay to ask for help.

To be clear, I don't mean just telling a child they can blame ADHD for their difficulties. Rather, helping them recognize that ADHD is often the reason behind their struggles with certain things and encouraging them to ask people around them for reminders, support, or ways in general to create accountability.

For example, my first job, a paper route when I was ~14, was a nightmare until I asked a friend to do his at the same time as mine and pick me up. Even though we had separate routes, just knowing I had to be ready when he arrived created enough accountability that I didn’t struggle with it as much, and it didn't require me to rely on my parents to impose that structure on me.

Imposing structure is helpful, but it only lasts as long as they have someone imposing it. Ideally, they learn how to build that structure for themselves before they have to navigate everything on their own.
> Wasn’t the whole point of incorporating there that it’s business-friendly?

Shareholder friendly.

Also a deeply-developed body of law and efficient courts. There will absolutely be legal arbitrage opportunities between Delaware and Texas. Musk and Mark can sustain them; those who follow them may not.
A company's incorporation location has nothing to do with where it does business.

And what goodies does Texas give out? Like the ones that Disney got?
> You might see some action.

One would hope, but it's a tricky thing to do and it's so much easier to do media performances for your constituents.

TFA mentioned that they tried modernizing way back and it was a failure. To make it succeed would require both adequate funding and good governance -- both currently in short supply.

Ironically, DOGE would be perfect for this role if it did what it says on the tin (the GE part of the name). My spidey sense on that it that it's really about doing a Jack Welch number on disliked organizations. But hey, Welch made GE into the powerhouse it is today so there's hope! /s
Why does a hotel clerk wear tactical gear and guns?
I don't agree that they're absurd. They have widespread popularity because they capture the kind of cost dilemmas that crop up all the time, eg 'if we build this refinery we can predict that an additional 20 people will get cancer over the next decade, but otoh we might achieve a 2% reduction in the cost of gasoline for everyone in our state over the same period.'

The main intellectual error of utilitarianism is the assumption of perfect foreknowledge, and the justification of conclusions as if those predictions were facts. But just because trolley problems are stark oversimplifications does not make them useless as ethical reasoning tools; studying them helps you recognize messy ethical dilemmas as such rather than being seduced by the alleged upsides of a policy proposal.
The form used by the BOIR, (Beneficial Owner Information Report), which was supposed to be mandatory for all businesses in the US, uses some kind of scripting, which I suspect is JS. I had to spin up a Windows machine on Virtual Box to get the right version of Adobe Acrobat to fill it in, as Adobe dropped support for Linux years ago. Why the CFPB didn't just create an SPA or a web form for this is a mystery to me.

The BOIR is an important tool for helping investigate money laundering. Its constitutionally is in doubt, apparently by people who think money laundering is a good thing.