skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
""Our user growth is stagnant, revenue is unimpressive, and we’re barely breaking even,” Musk admitted." https://www.pcmag.com/news/report-musk-says-x-is-barely-brea... That's not objective either, of course.
> That's irrelevant to its technical operations which was the concern I addressed though.

It's not irrelevant. If you're running a company you're have to take in more revenue than your expenses. Sure, you can run a deficit for a long time using outside investment like Uber as you grow revenue to exceed expenses. But, if you are a profitable company like Toys-R-Us and instead increase expenses (via interest payments) while not increasing revenue then you are going to go out of business eventually.
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There is. It's Congress and impeachment. That won't happen but the mechanism is there.
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Yes, getting hard data on voter purges is difficult; it's not like they are centrally reported. And, it happens over years and is distributed unevenly over precincts. And, when it is of questionable legitimacy, they work to hide it.

The data on precinct-by-precinct voter roll delta vs margin of victory that you mentioned would indeed be very revealing.
What would be your recommendation?
You flag anything about Elon Musk - are you ok?
What an amazing write up! Thank you very much!
Mind's I is a much better book, GEB is one of those books that everyone has that no one has read. Read the Cliff's Notes for GEB and spend your time on Mind's I.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mind%27s_I
Why is it absurd for a 25 year old to write system-critical code? That's not even that young for the field. I'd been coding for 12 years at that age!
I don't recall seeing this mentioned in any campaigning, so no, people did not vote for it.

And even if this were understood to have been what voting trump meant, that is only 77M out of 334M people in America.
> This generally requires thousands of examples created by an expert in the field.

Or an AI model pretending to be an expert in the field... (works well in a few niche domains I have used this in)
This just made me realize that we're 10 years past the 100th anniversary of Einstein publishing about general relativity. Which made me realize that we're a quarter of the way through the 21th century...

Also, I think a list made today would have to include some of the early work on deep learning that happened in the 20th century. Which goes to show that sometimes you don't know what's important until much later on.
It would be cool if Apple made something like this for public events with a way to browse local events. I acknowledge that moderation of spam would be an issue.
Okay, if not police, then teacher's unions: there's not a lot of available studies, but most point to a non-existent or negative relationship between CBAs and student performance.

Or in the private sectors, non-unionized manufacturers like Toyota and Honda always outperform legacy manufacturers in the US on quality.

I'm not saying there's not a strong argument for unionization, but an improvement in quality is not one backed by any sort of evidence and it's a really weak argument. To put it another way, it would be hard for a unionized employee to outperform a Foxconn employee with no human rights on output quality - but it's not at all the kind of argument we should be making.
That’s correct! Nothing punitive, just “admin fees,” I guess to cover the cost of a kennel for the afternoon and of reading his microchip to confirm his vaccination status. They’re really big on “user fees” around there—they even charge prisoners a nightly fee for “using” the cells they were imprisoned in [0]

I’d venture that there’s grey area there that’s relevant here: to you and me, the animal probably registers as “property,” where to the people doing the “rescuing” it must look more like a precious innocent soul cast out into the cruel harsh world (like the kids they repossess as “neglected” for walking around their block untethered to a parent or nanny [1]). I figure too many superhero movies and crime shows, and not enough exposure to the natural world.

The dog did have collar and name tag; his tags have since been expanded and clarified, and large signs erected at the edge of the property with a photo of the dog and “I LIVE HERE”… so far much better results. And yet.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2022/03/04/1084452251/the-vast-majority-...

[1] e.g. https://reason.com/2024/11/11/mom-jailed-for-letting-10-year... and https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/free-range-parents-found-re...
This, plus an AI generated voice reading a TikTok-creator style catchy summary, plus TikTok's actual algorithm for surfacing content would actually make a decent app I believe.

EDIT: Also the name should be WikTok instead of WikiTok.
That's my understanding as well. The thing I was wondering as I read it: how difficult would it be for someone to make an extension or fork of Rust that allows annotating sufficient type information to prove these kinds of invariants, like F*?
Slack is way worse than Teams. I honestly rather dislike both and rather use email only, but will pick Teams over Slack any time.
In fairness that is also one of the awesome things about eBPF. My overall comprehension of the kernel has risen dramatically since I started using it.
It's been going for a while now.

I do understand the reason - it's mostly inflammatory discussions and HN want be tech focused. Makes sense.

The downside of it, is that for example if you search for "Tesla" in HN Search, the following top 7 articles are:

- Tesla Cybertruck

- All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware

- Elon Musk Deletes Own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook Pages After #deletefacebook

- Tesla Roadster

- Tesla Energy

- Former Tesla Firmware Engineer Discusses the System

- Tesla Semi

Do they give and accurate view of Tesla ? Hundreds of articles about how Tesla Roadster, Semi, Full Self-Driving are nowhere to be seen 5-10 YEARS after the supposed released are silenced and flagged.

So again, I understand why, but I would argue that it actually enables this fraud.
In a sad and strange twist of fate, Reverend Archie Mitchell, who survived the Japanese balloon attack that killed his family, later traveled to Vietnam and was captured by the Vietcong. Negotiations for his release fell apart and he was never seen again. He might be presumed among the very few American civilian casualties of the Vietnam War.
sigh I can't wait for Windows to annoy blind developers enough so that they switch to Linux, and hammer it into shape for us users. Windows just has the best support for blind people. I mean it's falling to entropy with every release, but screen readers hold things up as much as they can. Luckily even File Explorer has gotten so slow that Microsoft starts sending messages to screen readers "working on it..." to let us know just how inefficient Windows Maybe it won't be too much longer.is.
Thanks, there are certainly a lot of fun and challenging problems to take on in the space. On scaling, the agent architecture isn't limited to one machine, so you can also autoscale your machines. It's essentially python's Celery if you've tried that. It gets more tricky when you require GPUs though!
No. But if you want to get non-stop hagiography for him you can sign up for X. If you want to get non-stop hysterical hate there is a starter pack for that on Bluesky.

I don't think people are able to have a constructive conversation about him now. Non-constructive conversations are all over the internet. Your "free speech" is your cacophony that drowns out what I want to hear.

And actually I don't "flag anything about Elon Musk" but I sure think about it if it's not about rocketry or electric cars.

I did make a long decision long ago I was never going to make an auto-flagger or an auto-upvoter.

Also the "flag" is not a ban hammer. One person flagging something has no effect, it takes some N number of flags, not very big, to make a difference.
> ...the doxxing _might_ be entirely justified and be in the public interest. I don't know.

No, you did express an opinion. Reporting on people carrying out unconstitutional and illegal orders is clearly in the public interest and framing that as "doxxing" reveals that opinion.
It's not the quality of code in question, but of judgement.
I expect Trump to ignore Biden's presidential pardons in the near future.
People tend to forget that move fast and break things also includes move fast and fix things. No one will starve from this.
You asked for an example, and then when presented with one, said, no, that’s not really an example.

Your argument to antiquity: “that's what all of the world thought for thousands of years”

Your argument to popularity: “probably 99% or more of people in the world think today”

Not that you’re trying to use those points in a cogent way. You heard “christian nationalist” and proceeded to attack a strawman of gender advantage, which has nothing to do with it. I gave you a salient example, and you went off with a half cocked opinion, conveniently sidestepping any further discussion of the actual implications.
Wikipedia math articles all remind me of what i learned in High School, that math is absolutely the worst to learn from someone who "just gets it" as often those folks have no concept how someone else might not "just get it". I suspect the wikipiedia articles are written by folks who "just get it".
> 1. I find a "pair programming" mentality is key. I focus on the high-level code, and let the model focus on the lower level code. I code review all the code, and provide feedback. Blindly accepting the code is a terrible approach.

This is what I've found to be key. If I start a new feature, I will work with the LLM to do the following:

- Create problem and solution statement

- Create requirements and user stories

- Create architecture

- Create skeleton code. This is critical since it lets me understand what it wants to do.

- Generate a summary of the skeleton code

Once I have done the above, I will have the LLM generate a reusable prompt that I can use to start LLM conversations with. Below is an example of how I turn everything into a reusable prompt.

https://beta.gitsense.com/?chat=b96ce9e0-da19-45e8-bfec-a3ec...

As I make changes like add new files, I will need to generate a new prompt but it is worth the effort. And you can see it in action here.

https://beta.gitsense.com/?chat=b8c4b221-55e5-4ed6-860e-12f0...

The first message is the reusable prompt message. With the first message in place, I can describe the problem or requirements and ask the LLM what files it will need to better understand how to implement things.

What I am currently doing highlights how I think LLM is a game changer. VCs are going for moonshots instead of home runs. The ability to gather requirements and talk through a solution before even coding is how I think LLMs will revolutionize things. It is great that it can produce usable code, but what I've found it to be invaluable is it helps you organize your thoughts.

In the last link, I am having a conversation with both DeepSeek v3 and Sonnet 3.5 and the LLMs legitimately saved me hours in work, without even writing a single line of code. In the past, I would have just implemented the feature and been done with it, and then I would have to fix something if I didn't think of an edge case. With LLMs, it literally takes minutes to develop a plan that is extremely well documented that can be shared with others.

This ability to generate design documents is how I think LLMs will ultimately be used. The bonus is producing code, but the reality is that documentation (which can be tedious and frustrating) is a requirement for software development. In my opinion, this is where LLMs will forever change things.
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> article fails to explain what is illegal about what's going on. Exactly what laws are being broken?

Privacy Act of '74 [1] and FISMA of '02 [2], at a minimum. Possibly state laws, depending on the scope of the data. These kids don't have legal access to these systems. It's analogous to you or me breaking into these buildings, hopping on the WiFi and stealing those files.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_Act_of_1974

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Information_Security_M...
One Microsoft Way
There used to be one Microsoft way of doing things. We were isolated and Microsoft led the way. Nothing else mattered and we lived in a cosy bubble. Everything has changed now and .NET developers face new challenges in a world which seems foreign and unnecessary.
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Well,it didn't say anywhere that they are stopping grandma's checks. And if the system is so fragile that grandma will die before getting some human person to resolve her case, then we've got bigger problems than a 25 year old having r/w on the system.
Ah, I see. That is better.
Presumably, Musk would not sue advertisers for leaving if they hadn't left.

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/01/nx-s1-5283271/elon-musk-lawsu...
A court saying something doesn't obligate everyone to agree that is the way it should be. That basic concept, applied to several other issues, explains most of what is happening now.

- Martin v. Boise. This was overturned, but for 6 years, insanity ruled.

- The general situation with asylum at the border. It's insane that millions of people can just walk across the border, turn themselves in to an immigration officer, tell a sad story (this included domestic violence according to the Biden administration...), get a court date ~10 years in the future, and just live your life in the US until then.

- Seeing clearly dangerous/crazy people with rap sheets a mile long, including violent offenses, released with slaps on the wrist for the 30th time, only to kill someone.

- Less insane but still questionable and a potent issue: various affirmative action laws/rulings, very "Harrison Bergeron"-esque diversity motivated laws/rulings.

If you force people to choose between the rule of law, and... that, then the rule of law might lose. That's what is happening now.
I think the key metric missing here is how long the user watches each video. Likes and replies are probably helpful too, but when I've used short-form video content apps like TikTok, Reels, and YouTube Shorts before, they've gotten a pretty good measure of me without me ever liking, replying, or following.

With the current methodology, the bot either watches the whole video, a fixed duration of it, or a random duration before swiping. The bot doesn't organically watch or swipe based on its interests like a human user would.
I find that the Spotify algorithm is great if you ignore all of the Spotify-branded recommendation junk, and just use the 'Keep Listening/Autoplay' feature.

As in, put on a playlist, then finish it without having repeat on. I find some of my favorite music from the following tracks. It helps if you have a very varied playlist - it discourages just playing tracks from the same artists.
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Q: Is that what's happening here? That SpaceX engineers are rewriting the Social Security payment system in some modern programming language?
I literally linked to a study website for test, I don't think you had to be a member of a secret racial kabal to get answers.

Furthermore, the bias was literally baked into the test - certain minority candidates got to skip the test altogether. Although it's still not evidence that qualified white people were prevented from filling in vacancies.
Surely that just leads to. "We've investigated ourselves and found no fraud."
+1 for Shlomo.

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I would argue that is a feature of pair programming, not a bug. By forcing you to use the slower I/O parts of your brain (and that of your partner) the process becomes more deliberate, allowing you to catch edge cases, bad design patterns, and would-be bugs before even putting pen to paper so to speak. Not to mention that it immediately reduces the bus factor by having two people with a good understanding of the code.

I’m not saying pair programming is a silver bullet, and I tend to agree that working on your own can be vastly more efficient. I do however think that it’s a very useful tool for critical functionality and hard problems and shouldn’t be dismissed.
Random, been reading your blog and following posts for years esp since llm boom and I'm just noticing it's Willison not Williamson lol.
He may be "SpaceX" (if that is supposed to mean super talented), but having a maximum of 1 weeks worth of knowledge about a system before starting to rewrite it seems extremely unsecure. This isn't a disposable rocket, this is a system that millions of people rely on.
Have you considered reducing the overall scope of the federal government rather than just the executive branch?
>This is exactly why I blame Linus, this discussion (a civil one, hopefully ) but also nasty wars inside the kernel would not exist if he had the "straightforwardness" as he likes to use as an excuse for many of his sins, to say NO to this.

You're making the pure assumption that he secretly wants to cancel the project but is afraid to, rather than that he (and Greg KH, and many other maintainers) actually wants the experiment to succeed for a variety of reasons. Which he is actually quite "straightforwards" about, if you look up his actual words on the matter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvuEYtkOH88&t=6m06s
> It would effectively mean a handful of billionaires would control the country.

Is that not what we have already. Do you really think your vote matters?

I don’t think my tenants ever thought I was greedy. And I don’t think a vast majority of landlords who aren’t some big corporation are. Though people will think they are regardless, so just want them to sure the accusation of greed with that of the bureaucrats, and the public schools who simply flush money down the toilet.

I think if landlords structured rental contracts that way (and maybe give a $50 discount if you choose that option), you will see a huge amount of school levies fail which is a net win for society.
Do you have any proof that radio DJs are less prevalent now than in the past? I'm having trouble finding evidence of that.
If it's the person with the obviously named GitHub account (age seems plausibly matching), someone should tell Trump he's working on (well, at least cloned) a DeepSeek-related project. (The picture, now taken down but still available in caches, also matches the picture shown in various media, though I can't verify that the media has the right picture, so I won't link to the account).

Unsurprisingly, they have a YOLO badge.

edit: ok, based on Wired reporting, https://github.com/markoelez must be him...
If it's in COBOL you can probably count on one hand how many people have knowledge of the nuts and bolts of those systems and usually the new people talk to the old people.
I'm all for new forums trying different approaches at moderation. From loose to strict, from open to opaque.
have you looked into Oregon State University's Open Source Lab? https://osuosl.org/communities/

They host quite a few open source projects there. And seem to be one of the few that also hosts for ARM and POWERPC projects.
I'm building a internal tools engine partially inspired by Interval (RIP).

It will be completely open source from the start and support many languages other than JS.

It is in the very early stage of development, but it would be nice to know if anyone other than me is interested, and if you have any tips on what bothered you in other similar tools or things you would want on it.

https://github.com/luizgfranca/platformlab
That may be true, but what matters is perception. It doesn't take very much of the perception of insane to push the winner over the edge. Elections have been known to be decided over single issues. To take a position of "I can't possibly see anything wrong with any of our policies" after a resounding defeat is not very self-reflective.
Why do you assume they are taking orders? This organization is not regimented.
There are a few food companies that are partially or completely employee owned that I'd consider "very successful". But this business model is not typical and examples are rare.

https://inequality.org/article/5-workerowned-food-firms-riva...
He should be using H1-Bs
I consume the internet mainly on an old-school monitor, not on a tablet. When the browser is maximized, all the images are pixelated.
Cavalry charges were obsolete once the pike was implemented. Using cavalry after that point in time was limited to chasing down retreating troops and the previously mentioned roles.
>Accommodating those trying to introduce a new language was never a good idea.

So, Linus?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvuEYtkOH88&t=6m06s
yeah it's a hilarious complaint seeing as most radio stations have been a playlist on shuffle with algorithmically determined tracks and no real DJ for over twenty years. It's not different at all from most terrestrial radio. (shout-out to KEXP and KUTX for bucking the trend)
Also who is coordinating this trafficking in the US? They make it believe that there is only the border smuggling and the retail sale problem. From the US point of view, NOBODY is handling and managing the drug business in US soil.