skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even though the ability to learn a language decreases in adulthood, I'd say the immersion part is unavoidable. I learned English as a child and teenager, and took a big leap when I first went online and read and read and constantly read. German I learned, or started, in my mid twenties and I'm fairly good, but without living in Germany for over a decade now it wouldn't have worked as well. If you need to process it as you speak it will not really flow. How to achieve immersion without living in a country? I don't know.

As a comparison, I learned a bit of Italian for a vacation with Duolingo and I'll say it helps, but the moment I stopped after the vacation, it was basically all gone. I did not create a meaningful lasting impression in my mind. It would've been better to try to listen to Italian im parallel through movies etc. Still, my son learns French with Duolingo and I noticed it helps him focus on doing the work, I even have a feeling it's improving his overall learning in school.

Another caveat is that the way they speak in Austria or parts of it can be challenging for non native speakers, and even some native speakers.
Text could also be more compact
It's not really relevant what he "actually believes". It's just like Elon's seig heil, who cares, the bits of information aren't in his actions but in the reaction to it. They want people to know what team they're on.
On one hand I am thinking about what a very basic algorithm would like (maybe even just categories I might do) and maybe how it would make people happy.

On the other hand, I'm not sure exactly the details of wikipedia's api TOS. Also as it stands this website is entirely in the frontend at the moment, and I'm enjoying just scaffolding out what I can with limited a more limited set of tools to speak.

I realize now the suffix "tok" implies a crazy ML algo that is trained every single movement, click, tap, and pause you make, but I don't think I really want that.
it makes more sense when you look at the LD-50 of fentanyl vs. any other synthetic substance, and it's hard to see it as anything other than a WMD.

it's a security issue and municipalities and public health exploit it to "manage" for increased bureaucracy and funding. whenever they want more federal or state money, they turn the crisis tap on or off. public agencies all benefit from rising poverty, and where they can't create it with lax enforcement, they import it.

stopping the flow of drugs cuts off a huge source of bureaucratic crisis leverage, and local political corruption funding, that both poison the entire system of institutions. it's difficult to find a coherent moral case against a radical crackdown on fentanyl for those reasons.
Honest feedback:
All your animations and images look really pixelated on an iphone.
Looks too unserious to try out.
the performance for electron apps on Windows is terrible, even my threadripper 7960X feels laggy in slack compared to my fanless macbook air M2.
Some people just like going to their favorite chain restaurant, bar, corner store, etc.

Not everything is a fight.
Yes, so far these jj blog posts do not sell it well at all.

Not to mention the rainbow colors are a bit of a turnoff. I like a little color here and there, but not ransom-note style. Monochrome effects are available folks.
I think you could achieve this with a variation of the "Working on Two Things at the Same Time" pattern[0], also explored more widely here[1] (with e.g. using private commits).

Basically, just have a local-only merge-change that combines whatever you're working on, with all your local modifications. You can then even just create new changes on top of the `<dev>` change, and then rebase each into your branch when you're done with it, for even better ease-of-use (using `jj rebase -A name-of-branch`).

You can also mark those local-only changes (both the merge-change and the local customizations) as private changes, to make sure you never actually push them.

[0]: https://kubamartin.com/posts/introduction-to-the-jujutsu-vcs...

[1]: https://v5.chriskrycho.com/journal/jujutsu-megamerges-and-jj...
Debatable - is Pete Rock not up on that same level? What about DJ Premier?
Story and politics aside, we shouldn't allow partisan blogs that larp as news media to be posted here. These guys and their conservative counterparts are the lifeblood of the misinformation war dividing the country.
RandomWiki maybe?
That's a rather cynical take on what may amount to actual human suffering.
Do you have any proof what so ever of this?
I have a single counter example:
https://archive.org/download/TheUltimateSharewareCollect
The OP is clearly just a fun tech demo to show off their platform, they're not seriously advocating to replace CEOs with LLMs.
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I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with how the Tax Foundation operates but their source of data is directly from the IRS website:

https://taxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/FedData...

(see the footnote)
Have we made much progress in understanding how the Kinetochore works?
Karp is mixed race.
Nah, a Chat is terrible for development. In my tears of working, i have only had the chance to start a new codebase 3-4 times. 90% of the time is spent modifying large existing systems, constantly changing them. The chat interface is terrible for this. It would be much better if it was more integrated with the codebase and editor
Quick question, would you rather own a US/EU citizenship or any other? Why?
Wasn't a DOGE story on the frontpage yesterday with over 1000 comments?

Probably related "[flagged] Ask HN: Is Hacker News Being Manipulated?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42925174 (it's not, long standing users flag and IMHO hackernews users go to other forums for US politics)
Again, the versions of Patriot handed over to Ukraine are not the latest versions, so their performance might not be illustrative. And we don't know the strategy used by Ukraine; they might feel like bigger salvos are worth bringing down hypersonics.

SM6 is the primary USN weapon against hypersonic, not the SM2/SM3. SM3 is primarily designed for ballistic missile defense.
Hmm.. fair enough
> I don't see much reason to believe that any ship built because of the Jones Act would've been built in the US in absence of the Jones Act.

No ships were built because of the jones act, that's the problem. The jones act required people to do B if they wanted to do A, so they stopped doing A. A is intercoastal shipping. Nothing in the jones act encouraged B besides the opportunity to do A.

In your roulette example, the example isn't between a specific number and black. It's the jones act is playing roulette versus the non-jones act where you don't. Are you guaranteed to not have lost money by some other means if you never played roulette? No. But roulette is a game that provably loses over the long run, and so we should stop playing it.
Could I take a look at the repo? Thanks!
Well the Japanese one apparently doesn’t. But surely you see how it would be a logical fallacy to discount a type of system because of one faulty implementation?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S24685...

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It very much is, it just doesn't have the microsoft store installed by default.
I sincerely hope my analogy is just me being chicken little/sky is falling.

In the physical world, inflicting large-scale harm requires a significant number of people wielding fists or basic weapons. The digital landscape not so much.

Most techies belong to as Terry Pratchett put it "'skilled artisans', the people too low down the social scale to be movers and shakers but slightly too high to be easily moved or shook."

I think I will be ok but empathized those who will be negatively impacted.
Can you look at the chart "Federal Debt Trends Over Time, FY 1948 – 2024" and tell me what you see?

https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/natio...

The last budget surplus we had was under Bill Clinton - Democrat. But instead we had to go to war in the middle east, give massive tax breaks to corporations, and rain helicopter money during COVID. Those happened under Republican administrations. You can't pretend anymore that Republicans are the fiscally sound ones. And they're going to do it again. Despite all this talk about cutting spending and reducing the deficit, that debt clock is going to keep going up for four years straight, just as the time before, and the time before that.
Many of these are uniquely American problems, and the many of the people and especially the highest in power in the United States have chosen and continue to choose to bind all of that to the company you work for (or don't).
This is a great observation. I've mostly thought of it, not in relation to AI, but in relation to the way Apple and to a lesser extent, Microsoft, act like they are the owners of the computers we "buy." An update will be installed now. Your silly user applications will be closed by force if necessary. System stability depends on it!

The modern OS values the system's theoretical 'system health' metrics far above things like "whether the user can use it to do some user task."

Another great example is how you can't boot a modern Mac laptop, on AC power, until it has decided its battery is sufficiently charged. Why? None of your business.

Anyway to get back on topic, this is an interesting connection you've made, the software vendor will perhaps delegate decisions like "is the user allowed to log into the computer at this time" or "is a reboot mandatory" to an "agent" running on the computer. If we're lucky we'll get to talk to that agent to plead our case, but my guess is Apple and Microsoft will decide we aren't qualified to have input to the decisions.
> it's actually a good UI

Came to vote good too. I mean, why do we all love a nice REPL? That's
chat right? Chat with an interpreter.
The chat interface modality is a fleeting one in the grand scheme. Billion token context windows with recursive Ai production based on development documentation and graphics is likely the next iteration.
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We're looking for people who know how to hack VDIs/VMs,questions will be answered later. I just want to know if you can do the job, know someone who can, etc.
I think it's just a fluke. You'll notice that I didn't submit any of the recent links myself - I don't tend to submit stuff from my link blog, I only submit my longer-form writing.

Here's everything from my domain: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=simonwillison.net

A few of my recent self-submissions went nowhere, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42810520 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42461073 for example.
Americans experienced 4 years of the crazy just being superficial. They expected more of the same, not 4 years of the crazy going everywhere.

In term 1 Trump cabinet and staffers were Bush veterans whereas this term they are Trump loyalists. I tried convincing people that this time would be very different, but I got shouted down.
You don't need to log in with your MS account in VS Code yet.

They clearly don't want others to be able to download the VSIX unless you use VS Code, otherwise they wouldn't have hid the button in the UI. Either they already know, or they'll soon discover, that others can still download the VSIX so that's why I'm saying that we'll soon see VS Code requiring login in order to download extensions. Basically to finish what they just now started.
What's really unfortunate is how archaic licensing models makes this nearly impossible to even attempt to address.

Historically radio worked because their was actually money in the advertising, but also because radio was inherently regional. You could license content at a rate that made sense for your station's reach.

Now it's trivial to broadcast over the web to a huge audience but the floor has fallen out on monetization. Podcasts and streaming both work because they don't rely on licensed content, but music can't make the jump.
i'm to the point where i don't want to see anything about him. it's pointless and upsetting. no one does anything about it.

if y'all find joy in any of this, i envy you, as my mental health is shot.
Do you have specific questions? I really don’t think it is complicated. They’re doing what they say they are doing: instrumenting up the government to see what it is doing, and reorganizing it from the ground up to be more efficient. So far all their actions are in line with this.

It’s like a creditor-initiated bankruptcy proceeding. An agent comes in and stops all transactions, audits the assets and liabilities, and comes up with a plan. That’s what they are working on right now.

I’m trying to be objective in my description. I’ve personally worked for the government before and I think they are being hopelessly naïve in thinking that the government can fixed in this way, and also appear to be dangerously ignorant of the law (or counting on executive pardons). But I do t think there is any intentional malice or corrupt intentions here.
The article doesn't really give any good details. We don't know enough to say what the process is. We're just supposed to be upset that young bright engineers are working on the system that until a month ago everyone would have agreed is a pile of garbage.

I'd love to know more about what the plan is - but as a older software engineer "young smart kids attempt to start maintaining ancient abandoned but important codebase" is good news, not bad news. It's what we beg for in Slack all day long.
I am saying that a government,and any other system, operating in an environment of abundance without external pressures to improve, ends up accumulating year's of cruft, inneficiencies, unproductive bureaucracies and 4-eye principles everywhere .

Sometimes a system needs a good shock to improve. And at the end of the day, what is the absolute worst that can happen? Cause the upside of this working is definitely worth the risk in my eyes.
The Hacker News community feels like a particularly knowledgeable group of people that could provide good insight into what is happening. Discussion around it is clearly being tamped down, for political reasons.
I'll have to look closer for the Kier message.... Definitely got a driveby from Milchick at around 75%
But these aren’t about the government allocating stuff.
Russia has basically burned up their entire ex-Soviet equipment + munitions stocks blundering around in Ukraine. They're not really in a position to open another front with any substantial state.

I'd still be a bit worried if I was Georgia, possibly Moldova, maybe the Baltics if European defense commitments start looking even weaker, but to a large degree they're safer right now than they'd been with how badly depleted Russia is, not more at risk.

Poland's spending heavily right now (2025 projection is 4.7% of GDP) and rapidly up-arming itself. In terms of conventional conflict they're going to be in a pretty decent position.

I don't really see much in ways for Russia to be particularly "expansionist" beyond the places they're already an ongoing problem in. (Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova).
As I understand it (based on comments from dang, on several threads):

1. Most politics is off topic for HN. Sometimes stories are either relevant enough or important enough that they "should" be discussed on HN anyway. (No real great guidelines for which is which that I have seen.)

2. The second time a story is posted (even if it's a different source article), it's much more flag-worthy. We don't need to discuss it 17 times. (Repeat posts are fine, after, say, a year. Not after 12 hours, though.)

3. Politics threads have a higher-than-average chance of turning into flame wars, and a lower-than-average ratio of good comments. They still beat political discussions almost anywhere else, though, and should not be automatically flagged just because they're hypothetically likely to cause a flame war.

4. Misleading headlines and flamebait articles are much more likely to be flagged, and to deserve it.

5. It's not (mostly) coordinated. A bunch of us just don't want the 30 items on the front page to consist of 10 articles about Musk, 7 about DOGE, 5 about Trump, and 8 about what was "normal HN stuff" until about 2 weeks ago.

6. Flagged stories show as "flagged" up to a point, then "dead" if they are flagged more than that. Users can "vouch" for dead threads (but not for flagged ones). Do it too often and you lose your "vouch" privileges, though.

7. Dang un-flags some stories that are flagged that he thinks are important, even if the subject is political, and even if the larger story (Trump/DOGE) has already been discussed several times recently. That surprised me.
Plenty of people like reading about other people…
People often use "racism" as a stand-in for all bigotry. You are correct that this technically isn't racist, but it is instead textbook xenophobia, so your comment is mostly just an annoying pedantic correction that doesn't actually address the underlying point being made about the bigotry of the original statement.
I've changed my mind on that as well. I think that, generally, chat UIs are a lazy and not very user friendly. However, when coding I keep switching between two modes:

1. I need a smart autocomplete that can work backwards and mimic my coding patterns

2. I need a pair programming buddy (of sorts, this metaphor doesn't completely work, but I don't have a better one)

Pair development, even a butchered version of the so called "strong style" (give the driver the highest level of abstraction they can use/understand) works quite well for me. But, the main reason this works is that it forces me to structure my thinking a little bit, allows me to iterate on the definition of the problem. Toss away the sketch with bigger parts of the problem, start again.

It also helps me to avoid yak shaving, getting lost in the detail or distracted because the feedback loop between me seeing something working on the screen vs. the idea is so short (even if the code is crap).

I'd also add 5.: use prompts to generate (boring) prompts. For instance, I needed a simple #tag formatter for one of my markdown sites. I am aware that there's a not-so-small list of edge cases I'd need to cover. In this case I'd write a prompt with a list of basic requirements and ask the LLM to: a) extend it with good practice, common edge cases b) format it as a spec with concrete input / output examples. This works a bit similar to the point you made about generating unit tests (I do that too, in tandem with this approach).

In a sense 1) is autocomplete 2) is a scaffolding tool.
This has always been the case, though you generally need to be a US citizen as a practical matter. Whether or not you are exposed to it likely depends on which part of the government and who you are. The common case is when they need the help of outside subject matter experts.

For the sake of timeliness and being able to move quickly, some people in government are authorized to make a judgment about the risk/benefit tradeoff when someone doesn't have an active clearance. It isn't a case of waiting for a background check process, you don't even need to apply. Some organizations will do an informal check of their own in the background if they don't already know who you are. Sure, they would prefer if you already had formal clearance, but it isn't strictly necessary.
> Also, even if there _is_ a bias, it doesn't tell us why

Because that is a political discussion that will inevitably derail the point.

If there is identified bias then the platform must address it. Or it should be labelled a national security threat.
Not commenting on this particular case, but on the general sentiment.

Aristotle did say in Politics IV that appointing public office by lottery, drawing from the real public, is more democratic (power to the people) than elections, which is an oligarchic exercise.
> Nujabes' lofi aesthetic seems intentional.

He was using old equipment such as the MPC60 and SP1200. The SP1200 in particular has a "sound" due to its 12-bit architecture. And when Nujabes was writing said music in the mid 2000s, that gear was 20ish years old. MPC60 was 1988, SP1200 was 1987.
I remember seeing a video of a person in a warehouse making fun of the panic, the warehouse was full of more toilet paper than you knew what to do with. TP companies were probably happy, and the smart move is not to send way more supply than a store can contain, because if demand dies, now you have too much just sitting there. It's much cheaper for them to keep it at their warehouses.
Shopping for Arms? Ukraine May Soon Be Your Best Bet.
https://archive.ph/2025.02.04-065132/https://www.nytimes.com...
It’s not. The West = Europe, US and their the allies.

Japan is in the West and last time I checked they were still Asians.
Do you think you, or anyone, have the capacity to understand changes you are making to a system developed over decades, that manages trillions and affects real lives, with only a few days worth of experience with the system?
This is very good attempt with people playing musical instruments.

But, there are some subtle timing tells, that this is AI generated. Take a look at the singer playing the piano. Timing of the hands with the singer is slightly off. The same goes with the singer and the guitar. I'm not a guitar player or piano player, but I do play a lot of different musical instruments at a high level, and the timing looks off, slightly ahead or behind the actual piece of audio of the piece of music.
Sounds incredibly suspect, Im in.
There’s a lot in Western culture which is borrowed from their prior conquerors. Islamic culture, in particular, left a significant mark on Western thought [1]. In general, I think it benefits societies to create humane cultures because all populations are subject to a normal distribution of individual capabilities. If you create a culture where someone can claim “superiority” simply by belonging to a certain group, it’s detrimental to the prolonged health and survival of that society.

That said, I think it’s gauche and irresponsible for security products company CEOs to make statements like this because it makes you sound jingoistic whereas your outward demeanor, at the very least, should just be oriented towards favoring defense. The goal shouldn’t be to unnecessarily alarm your supposed opponents, that’s counter to your defense goals.

[1] https://archive-yaleglobal.yale.edu/role-arab-islamic-world-...
No, it's considerably more involved than that. For example, there's extensive CI: https://www.wireguard.com/build-status/ This thing builds a fresh kernel and boots it for every commit for a bunch of systems. And there's also a lot of long running fuzzing and SAT solving and all sorts of other heavy computation happening during different aspects of development. Development is a bit more than just pushing some code up to Github and hoping for the best.