skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny thing is that when dating apps used to be "browse profiles, send message", nobody had to debate inner workings. Users could self select people of interest, send them a message directly, and know there'd be a very good chance that their profile/message would at least be seen.

Issue today is that apps control visibility, both in terms of profiles and likes. I've tried Hinge a few times. Did like a 4 month initial stint that had me consistently matching/meeting very attractive women (ones in the standouts section), tried it again a year later under a paid plan and had one mediocre match in 2 weeks (same photos and profile).

Skimmed the article so maybe this was addressed, but there's dark patterns happening on these apps, or faulty algos, or both.
That's a great point as well. "They've been doing it to us for decades, what's happening now isn't any worse".

The Project 2025 document is really interesting along those lines as well. It's close to 1000 pages, but you can skim pretty much any section that isn't about the military and get the idea. Politicizing the executive branch is an explicitly stated goal, over and over. And furthermore, the push to disband the department of education is specifically an overly political, not because it's ineffective in its mission, but because it's "a one-stop shop for the woke education cartel" -- and yes that is a direct quote.
He has 4yoe though. This is by design.
Nine missed meals.
People try to cope and say others are guided by lies. In the US, people knew exactly what they were getting and I’m true the same is true in other “democracies”.
Wouldn't rise up lead to a coup? Isn't this exactly what Trump is waiting / routing for?
> for now we've used a text browser developed by the Microsofit autogen team, congrats to them

oh super cool! i've usually heard it the other way - people develop LLM-friendly web scrapers. i wrote one for myself, and for others there's firecrawl and expand.ai. a full "text browser" (i guess with rendering?) run locally seems like a better solution for local agents.
How can they afford not to? Subtract public research funding from the economy. Go ahead - see what's left.

I'll shortcut it real quick - we're all dead from lung cancer and leaded gasoline, so there's no one to do the calculation.
That anecdote is present in the Manifold series by Stephen Baxter
Just under 30 years ago, when I was starting my IT studies, I had an older colleague who was a great authority to me. When I began learning about RDBMS options, I called him to ask, „What do you think about Oracle?”. He just shouted, „Total crap!!!” and that was enough for me. Since then, to this day, I’ve never touched Oracle.
An important part of this discussion is how Google's AI is used as part of the genocide in Gaza. Read here for more details about the role of AI there: https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/
which switches the backend from Chromium to Trident, effectively turning it into IE with a modern skin

I wish they'd done the opposite instead: same UI, but with a better browser engine.
I think it's a passion project for the founder, who built his career on JS and is offended that Oracle (a company famous for deploying lawyers instead of technological expertise) claims to control it.
I like NetScript, give a little callback to Netscape.
I have nothing but fond memories of reading Beej's guides.

It's also this sort of work that's becoming less necessary with AI, for better or worse. This appears to be a crazy good guide, but I bet asking e.g. Claude to teach you about git (specific concepts or generate the whole guide outline and go wide on it) would be at least as good.
> Where are the Democrats on all this?

It's a big club...
Some ham-fisted troglodytes didn't know what they're doing or the side-effects of their actions (like people dying or intellectual property leaving), but they want credit and approval for "owning the libs" and "efficiency" by smashing things they don't understand and calling it "progress".
https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/
That works until you see what appears to be 9 sprites on the same scan line in the border region.
That they recommend a VPN and not Tor in their first table immediately makes me suspicious.

https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29
So your complaint is, "how dare they charge for a service they're offering"?

If you don't want to use it to create invitations, don't. There's zero requirement for you to have an account if others invite you to something, and it sounds kind of preposterous to complain about other people choosing to pay for a service that you can then participate with for free.
The problem with this is that if companies are just profit maximizers then one of the things it should do is to realign the government. After all, a friendlier government can help to decrease regulation and increase incentives.

Plus, in a healthy economy if everyone is bribing the government shouldn’t it all cancel out? Well it turns out the poor don’t bribe the government very often, so they are easily ignored.

And suddenly, when the government is co-opted into believing anything that gets in the way of “business” is bad, they figure out that money that could be spent on social services could also be spent on corporate tax incentives! Eventually the entire country becomes one big profit maximizer.
Popular in 2023 (343 points, 111 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36260589
If they don't start reviewing grants again soon I'll be able to say I was fired by Donald Trump.
The path we're on was inevitable the second man discovered fire.

No matter which way you look at it, we live on a planet where resources are scarce. Which means there will be competition. Which means there will be innovation in weaponry.

That said, we've had nukes for decades, and have collectively decided to not use them for decades. So there is some room for optimism.
The latest is that the US is gonna take over Gaza and deport everyone there. I do wonder if there's any hot button items anymore.
There’s not that many jobs going in academia in other countries, and you’ll be looking at a significant pay cut due to the strong US dollar.

Most likely, people who leave academia will be leaving for industry instead.

I do feel for those in the hard sciences, they have become collateral damage in what is mostly a battle between politicians and humanities departments.
Your best option is sometimes your least worse.

There is conservative... then there is Trump.
Those nasty newflangled wolves disrupting the 'traditional' beef industry?
Cisco was in that list too.
In the 90s I had a 14" monitor, so one wouldn't think that gaming would be a problem but some FPS games (Hexen I believe was one of them) would just make me feel nauseous after just a few minutes of play, while others never caused it (I played way too much Rise of the Triad and DN3D, then later HL and Counterstrike)
I totally agree. I thought about adding a paragraph about how it seems like even oracle themself doesn’t use it on production (cause otherwise it’d have probably more downloads due to developers, CI, you name it) but it is possible they use a internal npm proxy with a cache.
Anyway it’s laughable that this package is the reason they base their argument on.
https://www.propublica.org/article/climate-change-homes-insu...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/climate-change-to-obliterate-1-...

https://firststreet.org/research-library/property-prices-in-...
The qualities that women find attractive in men cannot be captured in a static profile on a website ... plus most of the men in that site are there because they don't have those qualities.

Let's just say that if you can open your mouth enough to say hi to a woman without hesitation, you are completely wasting your time on dating sites.
But they are… genericness is a key part of their argument.

>Our petition challenges Oracle’s trademark on three grounds:

>Genericness – JavaScript is a widely used programming language, not an Oracle product.

>Abandonment – Oracle does not control, maintain, or enforce the trademark.

>Fraud on the USPTO – Oracle submitted misleading evidence in its renewal filing.
The consensus ruling of the International Court of Justice is not hyperbole, it's a fact. Are you going to call the UN antisemitic like Benjamin Netanyahu did?

And actually, you in fact can argue that Trump has been better on the issue than Biden. Multiple news outlets have reported that it was Trump that forced the ceasefire:

- https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-forced-netanyahu-to-make-a...

- https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64825

- https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-01-13/ty-article/.p...

- https://www.timesofisrael.com/arab-official-trump-envoy-sway...

Everything you find with regarding Trump is rhetoric while his actions have been much more peaceful than Biden's.

Which brings me back to my main point: it's absurd and hysterical to be claiming that Trump is uniquely fascist here. Whoever is freaking out now about him, and was not freaking out about Biden, is a fraud and should be called out as a fraud.
Has anyone actually tried any of these AI interview tools? From their website, it looks like the interviews are extremely short (max duration of 20 minutes?), even if you pay $55+/mo, which really limits its utility.
The Iraq wars led to trillions of dollars spent on defense. Massive defense profits led to massive lobbying, more spending.

Eventually tech and even startups follow the money. Palantir is considered cool. YC started accepting defense startups. Marc Andreessen is on X nonstop promoting conservative views of all kinds. PG becomes anti-wokism warrior.

This is how it happens. Step by step.
The only collective and knowledge based activities of scientific research that the people have access to is sci-hub, who have done more to advance scientific understanding for humanity than most government institutions have in decades
https://archive.ph/pR1fO
What we should have ideally done as humans is find a way to not allow AI combat.

Now that's off the table, I think America should have AI weapons because everyone else will be developing them as quickly as possible.
It's not a luxury belief for a multinational tech company that intends to remain in business in countries that are not allied to the US. Being seen as independent of the military has a dollar value, but that may be smaller than value of defense contracts Google hopes to get.
Interestingly, Werner Heisenberg was decidedly non-Nazi (and was regularly attacked as a “white jew”), and even though he had ample opportunity to leave, he chose to stay to work on the German nuclear fission program.

I don’t think it tarnished his scientific legacy, but it definitely created some friction in the post-war years.
The reality on the ground is that one of the very first uses of AI weapons was to target civilians in Gaza:

> Moreover, the Israeli army systematically attacked the targeted individuals while they were in their homes — usually at night while their whole families were present — rather than during the course of military activity.

https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/
Yeah that's kind of the thing.

I think a lot of these guys and gals are fooling themselves with the whole, "find another country" thing. There is no other country that is A) doing research at these levels, B) Flush with cash, and C) needs you because they don't have a population that produces the necessary thinkers. That's basically only the US.
I'm interested to see what they find out. It is rare to have such insights into these.
Just finished it (APL beginner). It's really fun as a game.
Yeah, I agree with this. I definitely prefer `jj new` and then squashing changes -- it also means I can see what changes I just made with `jj diff`.
The article is a bit a of jumble of thoughts, but I believe that advice is aimed at girls who aren't liking and therefore not matching. Some lines that mention this particular grouping:

> Only 50% of girls sent 10 likes in their account lifespan.

> 10% of girls that finish the onboarding never send any pass or like, ...

> We have plenty of girls that can scroll through 300 profiles and not like anyone and deleting their account saying "I dont like anyone" well
Again, Congress has the power to allocate spending. If you think the president, or Elon Musk, has absolute power over the entire federal government, then, well, there’s a word for that. You think he’s a dictator.
That is as pathetic as it gets. Regardless of how you feel about Daniel Penny’s role in the death of Jordan Neely, he is wholly unqualified for that job and it is the exact kind of virtue-signaling nonsense that a16z and others have been braying about non-stop.

It’s just so tiring and so gross. Like, what are we doing right now? What is happening here?
This reminds me tangentially of the Wiki Game - getting to an unknown target wiki article

https://www.thewikigame.com
I think in theory it's a good thing that companies shift with the political winds.

Companies technically have disproportionate power.

It's better that they shift according to the will of the people.

The alternative, that companies act according to their own will, could be much worse.
The logic of this argument implies we should develop weapons with maximal collateral damage to deter their usage.
This, the US is the country most willing to make daring bets on innovation.

Europe will not spend even 0.1% of its pension/welfare fund on big research bets. The private investors their will only want real estate investments, not fancy wancy "VC".

Young talent will flow one way from other countries to the US, because they've already seen what the grass is like on their side.
Browser spec to eventually replace GDPR and cookie banners
Discussion (48 points, 17 hours ago, 61 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42929093
> Lockdowns were in violation of the right to free assembly

But we don't have a right to recklessly infect other people with a disease against their will either. Personally, as someone trying to keep elderly and immunocompromised friends and family alive through the pandemic, some of whom ended up dying from COVID, I am still angry at anyone who disobeyed or fought against those lockdowns: they were killing other people.

> equity initiatives like DEI and Affirmative Action have always left me a bad taste

Affirmative action is illegal in the USA, and nearly all DEI initiatives and efforts are based on making sure people are hired on merit instead of race, and that the workplace culture doesn't make it impossible for people from other backgrounds to participate and succeed, e.g. is inclusive. Trump's claims about meritocracy are a red herring. The core premise of the MAGA movement is the idea that only white people are qualified, and anyone else is a "DEI hire." If you’re a Japanese American you can bet these people think you are unqualified and should be replaced.

> The sheer amount of tax dollars being spent with wanton abandon is ridiculous science

US academic research is the 'engine' that drives industrial/tech dominance in the USA, and is practically a rounding error in federal spending. Go look up any successful engineering or science professor at a well known research institution and you will typically find a large number of companies that exist spun off just from the research of a single lab.
I fully expect the AI/military work will be done by a subsidiary of Alphabet instead of Google proper…

… it will be named “Cyberdyne”
I would say that a pledge that you only keep as long as it’s convenient doesn’t mean much. And neither does the word of the company that made it.
?? healthy people stay alive, sick people will die. Of course this is terrible but "we will all die without publically funded research" doesnt hold water. Again Im not in favour of the cuts I just cant understand how the USA continues to borrow/print money and it doesnt all come crashing down. I dont think even Trump is anti-medicine, just pro fiscal responsibility.
Just embrace it. If they’re making claims, it would actually be prudent to document those claims and ask them about their methodology. Ask them if they consider any costs from second-order effects as subtracting from the total. If not, why not?

Calculate the totals yourself. Report the data to as many as possible. If you think it will look as bad as I do, there’s every reason to.
Atom bombs are definitely nukes. Maybe the GP was thinking of thermonuclear (fission-fusion) weapons.
Refactoring means incrementally changing things in a non-destructive way.
I don't think it's necessarily fair to say Oracle is total crap. For decades they were more performant and had more features than most anything else on the market. They supported scale-out clustering on linux with Oracle RAC. They were early adopters of high performance NFS moving the NFS stack out of the linux kernel and directly into the database with DirectNFS. They built a clustered filesystem for block-based clusters (OCFS).

HOWEVER, the way they run their business is horrible. Oracle the product was various versions of awesome to just OK. Oracle the business is a modern-day mafioso shakedown.
Approximately what proportion of the US federal budget is spent on scientific research? What proportion is spent on foreign aid? Looking up these values is a useful exercise.
A vague “stuff is happening behind closed doors” isn’t enough of a reason to build AI weapons. If you shared a specific weapon that could only be countered with AI weapons, that might make me feel differently. But right now I can’t imagine a reason we’d need or want robots to decide who to kill.

When people talk about AI being dangerous, or possibly bringing about the end of the world, I usually disagree. But AI weapons are obviously dangerous, and could easily get out of control. Their whole point is that they are out of control.

The issue isn’t that AI weapons are “evil”. It’s that value alignment isn’t a solved problem, and AI weapons could kill people we wouldn’t want them to kill.
Even that assumes good faith.
We've stopped South American coups more recently than we've initiated them. (in the last few years, in Brazil and Bolivia)
But... we have CalDAV, it exists, it's open, it's right there for sods sake. There's a whole spec to allow people to accept invites, why don't they just build on that?
No, learning means failing, scratching your head, banging your head against the wall.

Learning takes time.
I see it as the natural extension of the Chomsky "manufacturing consent" propaganda model. The people in key positions of power and authority know who their masters are, and everyone below them falls into line.
Sure, in the sense that in C++ they've got the Head Of Vecna: https://rpgmuseum.fandom.com/wiki/The_Head_of_Vecna

Many of my favourite Rust features aren't in C++. For example they don't have real Sum types, they don't have the correct move semantic, they are statement oriented rather than expression oriented and their language lacks decent built-in tooling.

But also, some of the things C++ does have are just bad and won't get fixed/ removed because they're popular. And there's no sign of it slowing down.

I think that in practice you should use Rust in most places that C++ is used today, while some of the remainder should be WUFFS, or something entirely different.
You don't even need an app for Facebook or Instagram.
Something small like in-person gatherings for several years in response to a pandemic? Like someone else in the thread claimed was a made-up problem that's only in peoples' heads?

It's really interesting seeing how widely varied peoples' definitions of these things are.
There’s no right or wrong answer but as someone who used to work in publishing, the typeface seems contrived to be amateurish. I wonder if it’s supposed to evoke a more “authentic” unpolished feel? (YouTubers actually find too much polish reduces engagement among younger people)

The pictures are also a bit amateurish but this is more a function of the inviter. On other platforms much of the design choices are made for you so there’s a lower bar but for me, partiful seems to want to hit the kind of “having street cred” aesthetic.

This is a typical partiful aesthetic.

https://images.app.goo.gl/ufJafvhXoBtaF6QE8
NVIDIA Demo of Audio2Face is such a joke, compared to this one.
That video, unfortunately, is out of date. The USSC recently decided that if you are merely silent that means you waive your right to remain silent.

I wish I were making that up. You now have to repeatedly state it.

The USSC has been off the rails for at least ten years.
actually i do have a question about the API. Who do I contact?
> It's a nazi salute, not fascist. Obviously he's not a nazi.

So.. it's obvious that he's not a Nazi because he performs Nazi salutes.

Fascist salute, Nazi salute, Roman salute. It's all the same thing. It's all the trappings of fascism.

> To be considered fascist he would take over control of gov. Instead he's removing it...

This is absurdity.

And the lies? You haven't rationalized those yet.
I don't see how that relates to my comment. Can you elaborate?
Everything is securities fraud - they'd likely be sued by shareholders. Some individuals and institutions are picky about the symbols in their portfolio for religious or moral reasons, and would not appreciate being deceived into investing in a company they consider engaging in "harmful" or morally objectionable activities.
I had the same feeling reading this, but a large number of developers struggle to communicate verbally and would hate a chat based interface. Some years ago, I worked with a very intelligent person who had come into development with math-related degree.

We tried a pair-programming exercise, and he got visibly angry, flustered and frustrated when he tried to verbalize what he was doing.

One of the reasons Business Analysts and the like exist is that not everyone can bridge the gap between the messy, verbal real world, and the precision demanded by programming languages.
CodeCrafters (YC S22) is hiring a software engineer to change how devs learn
> don't these people work?

They do! 2-3 p.m. is around the time people get fidgety at work and start looking at the clock, checking their phones, and such. They are no longer at lunch. Whatever busywork they had to rush through in the morning is done.
Depends on the weapons system but it would probably not be an LLM, it would be a neural network trained to locate and identify people in a video for example.

And even if it was, they wouldn’t tell the system it was part of old non-evil Google.
Please https://ai-ceo.org is the only real deal in that field.
As if anyone working for an adtech company thought they were changing the world for the better.

I’m sure they are clutching their pearls while waiting for their money to be deposited into their bank account and their RSUs to be deposited into their brokerage accounts.

Yes I did a stint at BigTech. But I didn’t lie to myself and think the company I worked for was above reproach as my adult son literally peed in bottles while delivering packages for the same company.
That time will come once enough people have LLM'ed their software to hell and back and nothing works anymore.