skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While the Unabomber, Luigi Mangione, and Communism may have correctly diagnosed socioeconomic pathologies their prescriptions were largely counterproductive. It is magical or superficial thinking to believe that aggressive chaos is somehow curative or better than following a more consultative and cooperative process like first assessing and auditing an organization thoroughly by eliciting input from all parties at all levels and gathering data before proposing recommendations, implementing those recommendations, and following up to adjust them.
I'm a fan of Beej's writing style.
I specifically mean Windows Mail and Windows Calendar, the fairly minimalist apps, rather than Outlook, which is way too exhausting to use for my personal email and calendar. Plus the Outlook app has ads.
The measure is stock returns in the last 5 years. The whole point of public companies is to generate wealth for shareholders and Google just simply isn't really delivering on the same level as Palantir.

In fact, when you look at the last decade of Google saying they're an "AI first" company and literally inventing transformers, and look at what their stock price has done and how they've performed in relation to other major companies involved in this current AI spring, there is simply no way not to be disappointed.
This is a neat idea, and one that I frequently find a need for. (I was curious how it'd work, so I copied and pasted the description and screenshot of the UI into Claude and in two prompts it built a working React app prototype.)
But, the need for reproducible and auditable code will remain. If I take your idea full circle, first we’ll have this committed set of English prompts, then we’ll need to evolve some type of very explicit structure around the prompts to ensure the LLM interprets it exactly in the right way, then we’ll want to make the instructions more efficient and easier to type than a long paragraph of English text, so we’ll create a more condensed markup syntax, and then we’re right back at… a programming language.
>AI models have latency

So do humans, or can my friend with cerebral palsy not use the internet any longer?
Definitely more efficient in terms of power consumed, not so in terms of human effort to build such guides across nearly every topic one could think of. But you're right, we shouldn't ignore the power consumption.

I have found that asking AI "You are an expert teacher in X. I'd like to learn about X, where should I start?" is actually wildly effective.
Who knows, never been done before.

Is your position that if someone can't say the exact percent, that's the end of the argument and the US government should continue its unbounded deficit spending?
> Where did I get the definition of the militia? The US Code

You can't look to the US Code for definitions of terms in the Constitution; the US Code definition applies to the portion of the US Code that that definition is applicable to, but (except where the Constitution expressly gives Congress the power to define something) cannot define terms in the Constitution, otherwise, Congress could simply rewrite the Constitution by redefining the language used in it, and would never need to use the more difficult process of Constitutional Amendments.
Already discussed here and got flagged off the home page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42940371

I imagine this one will too
Human's short context windows with too many areas to research and stay up to date on is why I don't believe any version of Democracy I've seen can succeed, and the only real positive to some kind of ASI government/policing (once we solve the whole universal judgement system issue). I'd love a world where you would be assisted through tax season, ill-intentioned drivers were properly incentivized to not risk others' lives, and you could at least be made aware before breaking laws.

Eliminating the need to lie/misguide people to sway them would be such a crazy world.
They get views. They may not get as many views. Again, it's up to you if you want to defend crappy content in the name of a whatever% revenue increase. But as someone who's been making content for 12+ years and not chasing the algorithm, I can assure you, I absolutely get less views than people who do that, but I absolutely do still get views.

And ask yourself as a consumer of the videos-- what are you getting out of it? Literally just stop watching (and defending) videos with inflated runtimes; they do nothing but waste your time. Creators and/or the market will adjust or die out (or if enough others continue watching them, then they can keep doing their dumb thing while you seek out and support people doing it better, so everybody wins).
Well, ML (or at least the first versions of it) used a λx • x syntax [1] for λ-abstractions, the same (excluding the use of • over .) notation as used with the Lambda Calculus, and I've always assumed \ was an ASCII stand in.

[1]: https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/papers-we-love/... (can be spotted on page 353)
I don't disagree, but since the quality of AI is largely a function of the quality of human content, there's always going to be value in well-written human content. If humans stop producing content, I think the value of AI/LLMs drop significantly as well.
Yeah, Elon is mostly wealthy because of the USA and what is gave him. The fact he wants to destroy it seems seriously self-destructive.
They know what you like, but remember they want to make money. You finding success means you are probably less likely to get desperate and pay for premium options on their app. They drip feed you as little success as possible to still keep you on the app, but make you desperate.

It sucks, but a dating app doesn't want you successful, they want you to use their app for as long as possible.
Compelled speech is far, far, far worse than constricting speech by every conceivable dimension.

Even in day to day interaction, forcing someone to be silent, is far more of a gentler 'social action' than forcing someone to speak.
Where do you suppose they will go? Russia?
I'm a huge fan of his A Mind is born demo 256 byte demo he did awhile back, freaking amazing

https://linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/index.php
It's a little from column A and a little from column B.
Excel has "Scenario Manager", "Goal Seek", and "Data Table" for What If Analysis. In particular, "Data Table with Multiple Arguments" seems like a similar/more powerful version of what you are doing, which you don't address.[0]

[0] https://www.xelplus.com/excel-what-if-analysis-data-table/
AI weapons do have benign use cases: harming enemies.

When China attacks with AI weapons do you expect the free world to fight back armed with moral superiority? No. We need even more lethal AI weapons.

Mutual assured destruction has worked so far for nukes.
Thank you, food for thought...
I’m in leadership at a place everyone here has heard of. We are in absolute panic behind the scenes.
True although the don't know aspect is where LLMs will be magic. I envy today's youth for having them (and I'm not that old at all)

I remember fumbling around for ages when I first started coding trying to work out how to save data from my programs. Obviously I wanted a file but 13 year old me took a surprisingly long time to work that out.

Almost impossible to imagine with AI on hand but we will see more slop-merchants.
> Weird to add them to the list when they don't build a browser any more

It seems like their browser engine is still being supported for use in "Universal Windows Platform" apps, or at least that's what Wikipedia says.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EdgeHTML
Yes, it's always tricky when the sources are anonymous (to be clear, they're likely not anonymous to the journalist), but you can imagine not too many people would want their names to be public under the circumstances.
I think using vision models for browsing is the wrong approach. It is the same as using OCR for scanning PDFs. The underlying text is already in digital form. So it would make more sense to establish a standard similar to meta-tags that enable the agentic web.
China's drowning in their own PhD's. The competition is fierce, and the pressure is enormous. The best and brightest over there are insanely capable men and women.

In all honesty, it's hard to see China wanting many of the PhD's that would be available from the US in a worst case scenario NSF/NIH funding collapse. There may be a place for the top 0.1%? But for 99.9% of PhD's, there are Chinese replacements that are, frankly, better and cheaper.

Hate to bring it back to money like that, but there it is.
MSTR is now a direct proxy for btc, and MARA definitely is. Having massive investments in those stocks while claiming "we only invest in companies, not crypto", feels super wonky to me.
The same company that brings you cute cartoons for kids might also develop technologies with military applications, but that doesn't make them inherently "evil." It just makes them a microcosm of humanity's duality: the same species that created the Mona Lisa also invented napalm.

Should companies with consumer brands never make weapons? Sure, and while we're at it, let's ban knives because they can be used for both chopping vegetables and stabbing people. The issue isn't the technology itself. It's how it's regulated, controlled, and used. And as for cyber terrorism? That's a problem with bad actors, not with the tools themselves.

So, by all means, keep pointing out the hypocrisy of a company that makes YouTube Kids and killer AI. Just don't pretend like you're not benefiting from the same duality every time you use a smartphone or the internet which don't forget is a technology born, ironically, from military research.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI-assisted_targeting_in_the...
Lavender is not an autonomous weapon but if you want to seriously consider if Lavender is a good thing (I am undecided) you need to compare the effect of this operation with Lavender and the effect of doing the same operation without the Lavender system. Otherwise you run the risk of making arguments that in the end just boil down to 'weapons bad'.
nukes saved countless US lives being lost to a regime who brought us into it. And it's incalculable how many wars they have prevented.
Well yeah, why do you think they were quoted so low!
The big thing is this isn't really about any real monetary savings. What we get out of these budgets is a bargain:

> The biggest single share of the NIH budget goes to the NCI ($7.8 billion in 2024), and the second-most to the NIAID ($6.5 billion) with the National Institute of Aging coming in third at $4.4 billion. (See the tables on numbered pages 11 and 46 of that link at the beginning of the paragraph for the details).

> And to put those into perspective, the largest single oulay for the Federal government is Social Security benefits ($1.4 trillion by themselves), with interest on the national debt coming in second at $949 billion, Medicare comes in third at $870 billion, and the Department of Defense fourth at $826 billion and Medicaid next at $618 billion.
I wish I could agree that Oracle are somehow acting in the interest of their shareholders but I fail to see how they benefit by spending hundreds of thousands on lawyers to try to protect a trademark that makes them zero revenue and on the whole damages their brand.
It's pushed by a teenager and cuts grass?
Cisco ships so many hardcoded creds that you rarely need a vulnerability.
If you can’t cope with the lies, what makes you think you’d cope with the truth? Which I guarantee you is magnitudes of order more horrifying.
I am a solid fit but based outside of US. Would you mind taking a look at my credentials. (angelofpc.com, https://docs.google.com/document/d/16xRGYfmkKf0_D4iGeq028ZKt...)

Thanks
Yes, but also .. kinda-no. Rewilding is a thing. You get to put beavers to work inside a specified area. Exactly where, thats on them. Which is a bit of a bummer for planning and risk assessment but you go for net-upside overall, and the specific farmer rage bait outcome settles with some of the $1m you saved.

I have concerns with the economics behind rewilding, and green upside monetising. A lot of carbon credits monetize things which were going to happen anyway, and don't reflect real re-wilding or carbon sink activity. Like, if you had been clearing land for decades, and left it alone, you get to claim amazing carbon sink benefits from the wood which grows, even on the land you never intended trying to make productive. Somehow, that feels wrong.

Beavers are also cost avoidance on other people than the land holder. Overground water flows generally don't stop at the farm boundary. Somebody 100km away doesn't get flooded, and its a benefit, but to them, or their insurer, or their town council, or .. who exactly isn't clear. "I didn't have to remediate all this flood damage" has undefined, but treated as uncountable/low dollar value where 'I did spend $200m remediating' has very clear value. (I want to say negative but there's bad economics coming back in. A giant flood potlach is jobs, and spend, and boosts the rural economy. Albiet at the expense of somewhere else not getting that spend. Money is wierd. we need more wars! they're good for the economy.. kinda)
China puts PVH Corp, Illumina on its unreliable entity list
For every feature we usually have two developers working on it, one frontend and one backend, working on the same feature branch.
Would Jujitsu cause a problem in this context?
<https://www.meme-arsenal.com/en/create/meme/467690>
Without going too far into it, if we laid down all offensive weapons the cartels in Mexico would be inside US borders and killing people within a day.
Trump and Maga don’t seem to understand the concept of soft power. They see money flowing out but nothing flowing in, and are incapable of thinking through second order effects.
I mean you can see that even at any company at any size. I think it’s human nature.
Right, but you aren't really acknowledging four realities:

1 - 90% of everything is crap.

2 - > if you actually make an effort
so now I have to be the curator! But I don't have time to sift through the 90% of crap. That's the point somebody else used to get paid to separate the creme from the top. You may have and unlimited amount of low value time to dedicate to listening to thousands of artists and tens of thousands of songs, but I certainly don't.

3 - even among curators, 90% of them aren't any good at it either, which is why, even if you shared your personal playlist of your very carefully curated list of songs that you spent 2000 hours last year carefully putting together, I'm more than likely to not like it myself. Being able to find good music, and then find an audience for your curation that is able to connect millions of people to those previous unknown is also a skill.

> You'll never run out of geniuses if you actually make an effort.
4 - then where are your multiple times a year new breakthrough artists that show up out of nowhere, dominate the charts for two weeks then are subsumed by newer geniuses? The charts are slammed full of artists who've been top of their game for 10-20 even 30 years now. It's the same old artists over and over, but that pales in comparison to the before times when you'd get something new and big and hit big every week.

I'm looking right now at the U.S. top-40 pop charts and there is on it this week -- no shit get this: Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars, The Weeknd, Charli XCX, Akon, Alphaville, Kendrick Lamar, Ariana Grande, and a few more that, let's face it have careers that are nearing drinking age in the U.S. Great artists all, but that used to be the age music shifted up-frequency to the oldies channel in the past.

If you disappeared from the planet in 2005 and showed back up today, you'd feel that the list was familiar. Where are your endless parade of geniuses on the top-40? We could have tight-beamed these old artists' entire discographies to Alpha Centauri and Back and they'd still be relevant and dominating the charts.
Do you think we'd be any better off running SONiC?
The supply of doctors is limited by the AMA and state MA, to avoid excess doctors = price competition
Opposite effect one, lost interest in Roc after reading that.

If anything I don't think Haskell goes far enough the automatic currying, points free stuff. If you're going to be declarative, don't half ass it.
My first thought upon reading this was the observation about the fact software engineers are deeply split: How can they be so negative? A mixture of emotions.

Then I reflected, how very true it was. In fact, as of writing this there are 138 comments and I started simply scrolling through what was shown to assess the negative/neutral/positive bias based upon a highly subjective personal assessment: 2/3 were negative and so I decided to stop.

As a profession, it seems many of us have become accustomed to dealing in absolutes when reality is subjective. Judging LLMs prematurely with a level of perfectionism not even cast upon fellow humans.. or at least, if cast upon humans I'd be glad not to be their colleagues.

Honestly right now - I would use this as a litmus test in hiring and the majority would fail based upon their closed-mindedness and ability to understand how to effectively utilise tools at their disposal. It won't exist as a signal for much longer, sadly!
Activist shareholders can claim whatever they want, at the end of the day it's just noise, founders control the company completely.
Reviewing? They’ve paused payments and award letters.
Government is exactly a codebase. Government bureaucracies is essentially constricting human judgement to more robotic code-like behavior, that's the only way to build large systems.

You say government is not like code, then what exactly is it? Can you describe it in an effective way? Or are you just going to raise your hand up and say there's nothing we can do about it, nothing we can do about the $2 trillion/year titanic deficit?

Historical governments often needed little beyond an army and a tax collection system. And tax collection system was primarily data gathering and analysis, since if you knew how much property someone owned, you can easily tax them for an appropiate amount.

The tech way of thinking has proven extremely successful in many industries already. That's why tech companies (and tech adjacent ones, like say quant trading, or even index fund trading) have been so economically dominant, and utterly kicked out the traditional MBAs from their pedestals.

Stop being a self hating programmer who despises the mentality of tech.
The education and training could be subsidized-- this was done for nursing.
I've been suspicious that the quality of life cut is distinct from the pay cut.

Living in a dense European city, you do not need a car, healthcare is free, and you are generally afforded more time off and a stricter wlb compromise compared to the US. One doesn't need to eat takeout as often if there is time to cook. Depending on the country, rent/housing costs are more or less under control.

On the other hand swiss/Netherlands food is expensive even by bay area standards.
> at a private business

The USPS is not a private business. They are the ones who "run" PO boxes. The acronym literally stands for "Post Office box," and they are in post offices.
"Geographically, economically and politically, we are not under any sort of credible threat. "

The US is politically and economically declining, already. And its area of influence has been weakening since, the 90's?

It would be bad strategy to not do anything until you feel hopelessly threathened.
Yes because in trademark lawsuits, proving a brand doesn't actually use it/control it, is a very common way for them to lose the trademark.
It all depends on exactly how the ballot measure is phrased. After all, Prop 19 recently passed which partially repealed Prop 13 (1970s property tax-basis freeze at point of every sale) because enough people realized that now-$20m homes by the beach paying taxes on a valuation of $100k since the 1970s is bankrupting the state. Still a lot to do to fully repeal Prop 13, but at least now the tax basis can’t be passed down across generations (yeah, California voters really did codify aristocracy into law in the 1970s. It’s mind-boggling).

That was a real case of voters voting against their individual interest (near-guaranteed higher property taxes) for their collective wellbeing (the solvency of the state)

We’re no stranger to ballot measures here, for better or worse. I think most Californians will agree with insurance reform when they realize they won’t be able to get insurance otherwise— also the fact that many people in safer areas probably would see rates decrease.
Working draft: https://www.w3.org/TR/gpc/
I'll know it when I see it. One necessary, but insufficient condition is this. I should be able to have an account (I think they're called wallets) where no one else can just run away with the contents, and I can't permanently lose access.

I guess a bank could just steal money from my account, but I believe they won't, and furthermore that there will be something left for me to take legal action against if they try. The scary regulation helps me.

I have no idea who the players are in cryptocurrency accounts, but I have no confidence that they are going to continue to exist from one day to the next. And then if I try to host my own wallet or whatever, I don't have nearly the operational discipline and security for that to work.

I don't even know if it's possible to solve this for me.

I looked at morpho.org and I don't understand what it is. I don't know what a vault is.
I feel the same way back haha, are you intentionally misunderstanding me? Nobody is claiming research is bad! I dont want to see it cut either. I want the government to be running a surplus though. You can argue we should cut other places like military or whatever, I agree thats probably wiser, but what Im asking is, surely we can only prioritise what to spend once we are back to surplus

Ive also been told in the past that its somehow ok that the government never breaks even, I can handle that maybe Im too stupid/uneducated to get it... but nobody ever even tries. Use little words, Im sure we will make progress. How can the government continue to exist and not go broke if it continually spends more than it brings in?
they have no problems heavily censoring law-abiding gun youtubers. Even changing the rules and giving them strikes retroactively. I guess it's "weapons for me, but not for thee".
"healthy people stay alive, sick people will die" that's a tautology. I do not know you, but I am willing to bet that there are some people who you know who'd have a far worse life if it was not for modern publicly funded research
Never were legal.
No, the reason I hold them in my tax-free investment account is because you can't trade on margin in those accounts. So the closest thing to margin you can get is a leveraged ETF. I never have to worry about getting margin called, or going into debt with a leveraged ETF, those things are not possible. I like to think of 3x leveraged ETFs as letting me take my tax free investment account and tripling it.

I can certainly lose a lot of money, the fees are substantially higher than a regular ETF (about 4x higher), and the volatility and constant rebalancing on a daily basis results in a phenomenon known as volatility drag... and yet TQQQ and UPRO have been an absolute killer over the past 10 years.

In my non-tax free accounts I hold unleveraged ETFs: SPY and QQQ.
Is he really? Where? I'm no Eric Bina but I ate from the same table and would be happy to remind him of the petulant brat reputation he left behind in the halls of NCSA.
Either he's a broken clock that's right twice a day, or a Stallman equivalent who was just dismissed as crazy until the truth was too big to ignore.
You think the cartels aren't attacking us because we have missiles that can hit Mexico? I don't agree. Somewhat tangentially, the cartels only exist because the US made recreational drugs illegal.