skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many of your career choices are XORs between two sets of pros/cons. It's very rare you get ANDs.

You have to decide which set of pros outweighs its cons more, by your values.

This means that you have to understand who you are and what you value.

First, remember that a career is PRIMARILY about earning money, and NOT about personal satisfaction. Many people get little or no satisfaction from their jobs. If you get some, consider yourself lucky. But don't undervalue the compensation; stock can be life-changing in that financial independence removes monetary issues from future choices like this.

Second, know who you are. If you like rising to the occasion, then I would suggest stepping outside your comfort zone and embracing the new opportunity, it might unlock all sorts of new financial success and maybe even become personally fulfilling if approached positively. But you have to decide if you can adopt that outlook and find enough satisfaction to remain a good performer.

Good luck!
This sounds uncharacteristically earnest for anything coming out of the Trump administration, but don't let that distract you from the irony here.

Trump attempted a coup of his own four years ago. He may have legitimately won the election this time, he owes that victory in part to the partnership he courted with the man here accused of the same.

Such was the price of his victory: Donald Trump sold this country to Elon Musk for a second term. It might turn out to be a short one.
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You ready for a 2020s rehash of 1990s bro punk?
It seems like it would be easy to upgrade existing benchmarks to include uncertainty as a dimension. Then if a model is less certain it could maybe spend more time reasoning or route to a bigger model.
Having never heard of this before -- why was his career destroyed?
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Dendrochronology (dating cut trees via counting rings/size/ratios) has its own subjective interpretations, and different databases that don't always line up.
Seems a reasonable question to ask what's fair about the US paying out some $850 billion for defense when it seems pretty damn nigh impossible to get partners to pay their share? In some cases politicians would rather fund bread and circuses for the voters who then keep them in power.
This is exactly what I needed, but I need JS or Python backend. Any chance to make it work?
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I agree. My version:

I would not be surprised if we find life in other planet/moon that use "only" [1] right handed amino acids. But it looks like it's easier to produce "only" one type of them: "only" left handed or "only" right handed.

To produce both in a 50%-50% ratio they would need to duplicate most of the enzymes, or have a specialized enzyme that transform one into the other. It's not impossible, but it seams to be wasteful.

Nobody is sure, but our current best guess is that life in other planets/moons will choose left or right instead of a 50%-50% mix.

[1] Life on Earth use a small amount of right handed amino acids, so I expect a "mirror" life to use a small amount of left handed amino acids.
I am disappointed: the Turing Test is central to the title topic, and this note's take on it is sophomoric:

> This functional perspective is exemplified by the “Turing Test,” which considers a machine “intelligent” if a person cannot distinguish its behavior from that of a human.[11] However, in this context, the term “behavior” refers only to the performance of specific intellectual tasks; it does not account for the full breadth of human experience, which includes abstraction, emotions, creativity, and the aesthetic, moral, and religious sensibilities.

This is a strange distinction to make that fundamentally misunderstands the Turing Test. "Behavior" means anything that can be objectively measured. You can (and should) absolutely ask the test subject anything you like about emotions, creativity, aesthetics, morality, and religion. It is common in written examples of the Turing Test to depict asking the subject to do things like write a poem.

> Nor does it encompass the full range of expressions characteristic of the human mind. Instead, in the case of AI, the “intelligence” of a system is evaluated methodologically, but also reductively, based on its ability to produce appropriate responses—in this case, those associated with the human intellect—regardless of how those responses are generated.

Again - how else can you evaluate anything? I evaluate my fellow humans by their responses, too - I have no idea how they generate them. Indeed, if you take into account the "how", you don't even have a test, do you? You merely have a policy, a belief that privileges one mechanism over another.

I am afraid that any analysis of AI by the Vatican is going to be corrupted by motivated reasoning. Humans are God's creations, and AI is Man's creation, and therefore Humans are Just Better and that's all there is to it.
How does life happen when there’s barely any light?
Ask HN: I need feedback regarding adding container queries to the Bootstrap fork
I am adding support for container queries to our Bootstrap-based project - https://github.com/coreui/coreui/blob/dev/scss/mixins/_grid.scss - and would like feedback from fellow Bootstrap users on naming conventions. I’m considering two prefixes for class names: c- and cq-. If you choose to implement container queries instead of media queries, you could use .c-row and .c-col-* instead of .row and .col-*.

In my view, the cq- prefix is more descriptive, while c- is more concise. What are your thoughts?
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Feature Flags Fundamentals
That was my first thought, too! The article actually links to a polyfill which uses a subset font. Here’s the subsetting script it uses: https://github.com/talkjs/country-flag-emoji-polyfill/blob/m...

Looks like the flags-only font is just 77 kb!
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The OpenAI Deep Research graph showing tool calls vs pass rate reveals something fascinating about how these models handle increasing amounts of information. The relationship follows a logistic curve that plateaus around 16% pass rate, even as we allow more tool calls.

This plateau behavior reflects something deeper about our current approach to AI. We've built transformer architectures partly inspired by simplified observations of human cognition - particularly how our brains use attention mechanisms to filter and process information. And like human attention, these models have inherent constraints: each attention layer normalizes scores to sum to 1, creating a fixed "attention budget" that must be distributed across all inputs.

A recent paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.19399) explores this limitation, showing how standard attention becomes increasingly diffuse with longer contexts. Their proposed "Scalable-Softmax" helps maintain focused attention at longer ranges, but still shows diminishing returns - pushing the ceiling higher rather than eliminating it.

But here's the deeper question: As we push toward AGI and potentially superintelligent systems, should we remain bound by architectures modeled on our current understanding of human cognition? The human brain's limited attention mechanism evolved under specific constraints and for specific purposes. While it's remarkably effective for human-level intelligence, it might be fundamentally limiting for artificial systems that could theoretically process information in radically different ways.

Looking at the Deep Research results through this lens, the plateau might not just be a technical limitation to overcome, but a sign that we need to fundamentally rethink how artificial systems could process and integrate information. Instead of trying to stretch the capabilities of attention-based architectures, perhaps we need to explore entirely different paradigms of information processing that aren't constrained by biological analogues.

This isn't to dismiss the remarkable achievements of transformer architectures, but rather to suggest that the path to AGI might require breaking free from some of our biologically-inspired assumptions. What would an architecture that processes information in ways fundamentally different from human cognition look like? How might it integrate and reason about information without the constraints of normalized attention?

Would love to hear thoughts from others working on these problems, particularly around novel approaches that move beyond our current biological inspirations.
Is it a free market when Musk has unfettered access to the inner workings of the U.S. government? He just shut down an entire agency with a tweet. He is in a position to effect policies that favor him and his companies. How can anyone else compete fairly in that environment?
In a free society, lack of diversity is reflective of what happens when people are free to do what they want. To think otherwise is to believe that (for example) women should be forced into tech whether they like it or not.
you can run a resequencing relay good enough to feed an atproto appview pretty cheaply - it just needs to subscribe to a few thousand websocket endpoints to get a live tail of the whole network (incoming traffic is well under 50Mbps at peak in my experience)

running an archival mirroring relay is storage-intensive (on the order of tens of TB iirc?) but only serves as an optimization (you can backfill full atproto repositories straight from the relay instead of needing to reach out to the relevant data server)
Is “multimodal reasoning” as big a deal as it sounds? Does this technique mean LLMs can generate chains of thought that map to other modalities, such as sound and images?
Genetic Prediction and Adverse Selection
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Retaking the Web Browser, One Small Step at a Time
I don't think anyone would have bought a Tesla if it wasn't for Elon Musk's charisma. By buying a Tesla, you're not buying a car. You're buying a vanity product whose value is tied to the image of the celebrity promoting it.
A lot of folks have already given you good advice.

One other thing I'd recommend is to really work on making your impact seen. When you see something that could be improved, start measuring it, even before you try to improve it. Write everything down. Document processes even when they're (or perhaps because they're) not ideal. Then try and connect these things with metrics your leaders care about. All these things will make your work visible and valuable to the business.
I do feel like it's made slightly more clear if it's stylized like

文<-->A

Sorry for the poor attempt at ascii art. But I've seen some arrow indicating swapping/matching between the two characters. And the choice of characters does cover a huge swath of people on earth. (文 for zh_* + jp, and A for every latin, cyrillic and greek alphabet language) Of course that's still missing a huge chunk of people concerned that it might just swap between two languages not including theirs, but as a universal symbol for "translation" it's probably a good bet that the reader recognizes them as "being related to languages" at minimum since they have most certainly interacted with one of those language groups before.
Turns out we are the main paperclip optimizers...
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The average user you describe doesn’t care if they have to login using a Microsoft account, and probably need to do so anyway if they have any Xbox content or a Microsoft 365 license.

Mac computers are the same way. While macOS lets you use the system without an Apple ID, you’d be hard pressed to find a consumer user who isn’t logged in for one reason or another, whether it’s the Mac App Store or iCloud Photos or something like that.
Certainly depends on what you mean about US interests. I'm a US citizen and am very pleased with what they have done enhancing trade, feeding people, addressing malaria and TB, education, sanitation, and lots more. It's easy to connect this with promoting democracy, paving the way for Pax Americana, and other things which are pro-American.
This is not like for like: AWS assigns reps because the dollar amounts are significant compared to your monthly cell phone bill or a purchase at Amazon. It's not surprising that buying a car gets you better customer service than renting one.
Hmm the recent TSLA stock performance would seem to suggest little investor concern though
I thought they needed tens of thousands of people. 1 hour per app, 1000 people, by the end of year, they can review almost 2 million app.

They will cost less than 200 million. Google play store has billions in profit.
`cq-` because, as you say, it is more descriptive.
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You're talking about basically 30 years ago.

That's an entire previous generation. Not speaking disrespectfully but none of who you mentioned have mainstream cultural relevance in _today's hip hop_. Kim and Missy come closest.

If your argument is going to be that New York is the cultural center of hip hop, who from New York is representing today's hip hop? Who is selling the albums?
> if 128kbps MP3s sound OK to you then congrats your audio needs are effectively non-existent, anything will do (and I do not say that disparagingly; it's _fine_).

Ignorance is bliss. I'm extremely happy I've never learned to notice higher or lower quality audio. The last time I've had to research at all about audio hardware was when I was trying to find a card which supported EAX for games back in the early 2000s. Since then it's been all onboard audio all the time, with the only exception being my wireless headset's USB dongle. It's great!
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What do you mean by "miss some interpolation"?

There are two errors you could make in Python. Accidentally using {} in a normal string where you wanted interpolation, and accidentally using {} in an f-string where you wanted literal {}. I definitely do the former a lot.
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Early Evidence of "Finance for Normal People" in the First Era of Globalization
I'm sure that Elon isn't helping, but I've read that Tesla sales were always expected to decline due to no new car in years (outside of the Cybertruck which is seen as a gimmick) and market saturation from Tesla's continued monopoly on the American EV market. Basically everybody who wants an EV already owns a Tesla and has nothing to upgrade to.
That's especially true of the Cybertruck, the only car Elon actually contributed to the design of (besides the charging port location on the other models)
Confessions of the most elite sober coach
Poland is very clear advocate for Trump's new target of 5%.
"hardwired" (walter jon williams) felt pretty gibson-inspired, though given that it came out just two years after neuromancer perhaps they were just tapping into the same cyberpunk zeitgeist. (I guess it depends on to what extent you feel gibson singlehandedly invented cyberpunk as a genre; he certainly shaped the field the way tolkien did for fantasy, but there were others contributing to it too.)