skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you’re arguing against continued development of AI? (Apologies if I’ve misunderstood)

I won’t use the word “Luddite”, but your argument could be applied word-for-word to automatic looms:

“[The automatic loom] is best stated as a tool to permit wealth to access skill without skill being permitted to access wealth… how in a world where your labor is required in order for you to earn a living these entire reams of people are meant to continue living…“

Historically, automatic looms were a net benefit to society. I think this indicates that your argument against development of AI is insufficient.
"US ATC System Under Scrutiny" "Fatal crash brings attention to shortage" "There are simply not enough air traffic controllers to keep aircraft a safe distance from one another."

Like, perhaps there is merit in arguing for more controllers or more pay for controllers, and perhaps that would lead to a safer airspace, but the attempts to implicitly tie the fatal crash to ATC in this case seems pretty poor form, here. What we know from the ATC transcripts[1] already tells us that ATC was aware the helicopter & the plane would be near each other well in advance of the crash; ATC informed the helo, the helo responded that he had the aircraft in sight. Time passed, the ATC gets a proximity warning (labelled as "[Conflict Alert Warning]" in VASAviation's video), ATC immediately acts on it, again reaching out to the helo, the helo again confirms they have the aircraft in sight, and moments later we can hear on the ATC transcripts the crash occur as people in the room witness it and react in horror.

To my armchair commenting self, the ATC controllers seem to be exonerated by the transcript, and I'm going to otherwise wait until an NTSB report tells me why I'm wrong to break out the pitch forks on them.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3gD_lnBNu0
I hard disagree. Don't have a conversation? Ask someone who does to forward it. Email lets the user control how to organize conversations. Want to stuff a conversation in a folder? Sure. Use tags religiously? Go for it. Have one big pile and rely on full-text search and metadata queries? You bet. Only the last of these is possible with the vast majority of IM platforms because the medium just doesn't allow for any other paradigm.

The fact that there's a subject header alone leads people to both stay on topic and have better thought out messages.

I agree that email threads could have better UX. Part of that is the clients insistence on appending the previous message to every reply. This is completely optional though and should probably be turned off by default for simple replies.
This premise in your last paragraph can only work with AGI, and we’re probably not close to that yet.
Intrepid-ROS. Blazing Fast. Ultra-Performant
You are the one who made the claim. Burden of proof lies on you. Provide evidence for their "lack of brilliance".
If anyone has other interesting link blogs, do share them here
I'm in the business of data collection, to some extent: building a support system for residential solar panel installations. There's a bunch of data needed for simulations, purchase estimations, legal and tax reasons. Not insane amounts, but enough that filling out a form feels tedious. LLMs are great in that they can be given a task to gather a number of pieces, and can explain to the user what "kWh" means, at many level of technical depth.

We play around with LLMs to build a chat experience. My first attempt made Claude spew out five questions at a time, which didn't solve the "guiding" problem. So I started asking it to limit the number of unanswered questions. It worked, but felt really clunky and "cheap."

I drew two conclusions: We need UI builders for this to feel nice, and professionals will want to use forms.

First, LLMs would be great at driving step-by-step guides, but it must be given building blocks to generate a UI. When asking about location, show a map. When deciding to ask about TIN or roof size, if the user is technically inclined, perhaps start with asking about the roof. When asking about the roof size, let the user draw the shape and assign lengths. Or display aerial photos. The result on screen shouldn't be a log of me-you text messages, but a live-updated summary of where we are, and what's remaining.

Second, professionals have incentive to build mental model for navigating complex data structures. People who have no reason to invest time into the data model (e.g. a consumer buying a single solar panel installation in ther lifetime,) will benefit from rich LLM-driven UIs. Chat UIs might create room for a new type of computer user who doesn't use visual clues to build this mental model, but everyone else will want to stay on graphics. If you're an executive wondering how many sick days there were last month, that's a situation where a BI LLM RAG would be great. But if you're not sure what your question is, because you're hired to make up your own questions, then pointing, clicking and massaging might make more sense.
I do not dispute that Spotify creates "perfect fit content" tracks. What I will dispute is that, artists with generic bios and AI sounding tracks, are always Spotify tools.
Serious question - won't the polar bears come on land so-to-speak and invade/disrupt existing ecosystems? I wouldn't think an apex predator would just roll over and die, instead I'd think they'll go elsewhere and wreak havoc. But I could definitely be wrong.
Why is it called bias, as if the results should be even? Would we say that there is a bias in TikTok to show interesting videos, instead of boring videos? I guess you could describe it as such, but the term carries an implication of impropriety with it, as if what displays bias should rightfully not display bias.

Liberals love consuming Trump content, maybe even more than conservatives. Sort of like the Howard Stern effect. Because after they do, they can go post on Twitter and reddit about how stupid Trump is.

Conservatives didn't have that with Harris. Maybe because all of her content was so scripted and her entire personality that we were allowed to see was designed by committee, and frankly there was just much less content. Trump would go on a 4 hour tirade about some random thing like Greenland. Meanwhile, Harris was tightly controlled by her handlers, only giving "safe" interviews, probably thinking that playing it safe and not fumbling somewhere would be the path to the white house.
The case for open-source compliance
That's a great idea! Maybe when context window will be larger and tokens even cheaper?

I would like as well to add to it a peer-programming feature, with it making some comments on top of the shoulder when coding, a kind of smarter linter that will not lint one line, but that will have the entire project context.
Or the turing uplifting test for rats leveled up.
The Failed Strategy of Artificial Intelligence Doomers
Show HN: CLI tool that makes your app self-hostable in one command
I've been exploring the self-hosting world for some time now, and I wanted to simplify things with one command and avoid having to jump through hoops to make my application self-hostable.

I thought many of these could be automated, so I'm automating everything related to self-hosting, one after the other.

Please check the roadmap for what I have in mind. I'm open to anyone who wants to contribute and give feedback.
Lofi Girl still has an active audience. >100k for each video. GameChops has a channel as well with >5k & <100k for each video.

The Musician's story adds to the vibe. If someone can relate to the creator, it helps to create more connection with the audience than a pure algorithm. The human curated/generated animations seem more coherent...even if it's on a loop.

I like some of the new AI animations for being novel...mostly futuristic. Though this will soon become common & something new will show up.
I think bundling links is better than just throwing one out whenever you find it. If you get one link at a random time, you probably skip it. Unless you are a dopamine addict, in which case I just broke your concentration and fueled a bad habit.

A weekly, or monthly collection is something a reader can take their time for. Or put aside for a moment and come back later to it.

A downside of link bundles is that on an average blog, each installment becomes a page, and one has to click a lot before one gets to the interesting part.

My linkblog therefore sends a collection of links every week via RSS (and others like Bluesky, Mastodon, etc. will follow, if I ever take the time to implement it), but on the web it is just one long list, ready for consumption: https://ewintr.nl/linklog/
Signs we may be reaching the Plateau of Productivity
> Everyone could learn how to make these with a 10 minute youtube tutorial which flooded the market

That is a strange way to view music to me.

Just because people can make music doesn't mean others will enjoy it. It isn't really obvious to me that overwhelming the supply would decrease demand. I mean, look at any extreme pop genre.

One would assume that there are more complicated economics at play.
Would you rather be a dairy cow on a farm owned collectively by the dairy cows, or owned by one billionaire family? Is it that hard to see how that's immediately a huge positive even if you can't identify individual instances of the billionaire abusing their position?
Yup, I agree there. Email is a horrible means of collaborating on changes in general, but doubly so in realtime. But so is IM.
This current post is a good rebuttal to the killed post this morning: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42933031 "Programmers are modern-day computers", https://jtlicardo.com/writing/modern-day-computers
The first two albums by Nujabes, the "godfather of lo-fi," are some of the best I've ever heard. Metaphorical Music and Modal Soul.
But we have a plan, ceejayoz. We've got a plan. And ten years from now we'll have a plan and maybe one shed where we can build a teleporter, but always remember the bomb: in early 1945 there was no bomb.
Datpiff mixtape era was one of the best. It is where I discovered Kendrick Lamar before his fame today.
And obviously China preferred Trump in office (of course they wouldn't admit it, because whoever China backs helps the other party). The more batty the US is in international relations the more our soft power declines and China's soft power rises. Destruction of USAID was a huge win for China. If Trump effectively controls both Tik Tok and Twitter, huge numbers of people under 30 will only know what Trump wants them to know.
Linux running inside a PDF file via a JavaScript-compiled RISC-V emulator
Full title and bullets from the article:

Someone got Linux running inside a PDF file, because its users are something else

-This Linux distro runs in a JavaScript-compiled RISC-V emulator within a PDF.

-This PDF file format supports Javascript allowing computation within documents.

-The user input includes a virtual keyboard and a box translating text to on-screen actions.
Haha, a tremendous idea. If war works, then use war.
A friend of mine is a pilot for these types of folks (founders of non-tech household names), unless they're going to an event (say the Super Bowl), they fly into smaller airports.
I don't think there are many people who are "pro-government waste". That would be a strange position to hold.

I do think that Elon Musk and DOGE are attempting to create a "with us or against us" binary narrative that leaves no room for even-handed nuance (not unlike Trump), in an effort to push an agenda that maybe doesn't have much to do with government efficiency (for example, MTG's clampdown on allegedly-liberal media [0]).

[0] - https://www.axios.com/2025/02/03/marjorie-taylor-greene-hear...
If you are finding the government is sending money to terrorists as they have indicated and need to stop it there are quite a few emergency powers. Pausing is the first step.
Federal Workers Sue to Disconnect Doge Server
Let's open their repos and see their PRs. Then nobody will need to make assertions about their brilliance or irresponsibility.

D.O.G.E.: Make your repos public. Let's see what you are doing. And if you don't have repos, write a script to mirror the codebase and your diffs.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait, and not use HN primarily for political battle? Your account has been doing a ton of this lately. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

I realize that current events are provocative of this kind of thing, but if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, you'll see that these are exactly the moments at which commenters here are asked to most respect the rules.
This would be a great move for a president who wanted to cause harm, but spin it as helping.
I didn't make this clear enough in the post, but we're still working on voice cloning and inflection transfer. Voice cloning is easier, but to support inflection transfer we have to modality-align an LLM.
this "small" agency woefully mis spent its $47B budget. it should be completely razed and nothing put forth to replace it. It's employee's owe their full and total political allegiance to the democratic party, as shown by 97% of their political donations going there. It harms the world by existing and it is fully democrat. It needs to go. Its funding of the democratic party needs to end.

Your other suggestions are good! we should raze those things to the ground as well. They are bankrupting this country, and the second order fiscal and demographic effects far outweigh their first order beneficial effects. We, as a country, need to realize the limitations of government, and our current policies place us well beyond what we should be doing. We need to harden our hearts to the demands of those who chose not to build a life for themselves and live on the public purse instead. We need Seniors to voluntarily decrease the amount of money they receive so that young people can afford to buy houses and start families. Cutting social security etc would also increase pressure to sell housing to cover the costs of being elderly, which directly benefits the housing market, lowering costs. But it will anger the voting population.
The tone it sets is that "we don't care about studying anything relating to minorities or people who weren't born with a silver spoon" which I wouldn't call a positive tone.
this is awesome. I especially appreciate the detailed testing notes.
Personal attacks will get you banned here, regardless of how bad another comment is or you feel it is. No more of this, please.

Also, please do not use HN primarily for political or ideological battle. That's another line at which we ban accounts, regardless of their politics or ideology, and your account looks like it's either over that line or close to it.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
Here's a Geekbench comparison vs Orange Pi 5+ with rk3588. https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/compare/10014991?baseli...

60% or better lift across the board for single core. Not bad imo.

Catching up with a larger tablet/MID (mobile internet device)/ultra Snapdragon 8cx gen3 is unlikely to come from nowhere. The A720 class core here is good, Neoverse N3 class, but it's still a small chip for arm.

On phones there's been the Cortex-X cores above in the lineup for a long time. It's widely assumed the bigger performance flagship Neoverse V3 services from the Cortex-X lineup. https://www.anandtech.com/show/21270/arm-announces-neoverse-...

What's the power consumption actually looking like?!? 8 wasn't expecting anywhere remotely near phone or desktop cores, apple or Qualcomm chips. Also note that this has considerably more I/o than I think anything made by Qualcomm?

There was zero chance this thing was going to come out of the gate well supported with mainline Linux support & a good uefi/acpi boot chain. Whether Cix can straddle the line & release enough information while not breaking any disclosure limits ARM is setting will as ever be a challenge, assuming Cix even wants to make this a well supported chip some day.

Radxa bears some responsibility as an integrator and board maker but it is such a wider web of work that it takes to make these things happen, and although open source has amazing force multipliers of existing libraries, there's countless force dividers of legal × documentation challenges that detract.

One does not just ship ARM Immortalis GC10 support! These are broader projects, are practically civilization scale or deci-civlizatiok scale efforts, ones open source would gladly be doing & more fervently... If there weren't so so many lawyers & NDA's in the mix, from the top on down.

I'm still very excited here. This looks like it could be an awesome nas. I wonder if it'll support PCIe-bifurcation, which would help NAS'ing it out so much. Jeff? :)
To be fair, that's because US payment culture is depraved. The rest of the world has got chip+PIN, and tap. My card almost never leaves my wallet, much less my hands. Only the USA still does the insane thing of walking away with the card and returning with signature slips. Blows my mind when I visit.
Truthfully, the words are not "forbidden". Using them in a grant application might decrease the chances of receiving a grant. Nothing stops anyone from using them.
> The whole “chat as UX” metaphor is a cul-de-sac that I’m sure we’ll back out of sooner or later.

Only when someone discovers another paradigm that matches or exceeds the effectiveness of LLMs without being a language model.
And many platforms had a pro-Democrat lean, especially in the 2020 election. Blaming tiktok seems like scapegoating instead of looking introspectively at the Dem's failings like having a weak leader and pushing various insane ideologies.
I think he meant for competitions that judge binary size. Handwritten assembly could even increase the size (like unfolding loops) and it wouldn't matter if the speed was improved.
Most new houses are only slightly custom. You generally start with a floor plan from the builder, and then choose the color of the walls or other minor details. Sometimes a new house is cheaper than a used one because you can move into a used house much quicker, while a with new house you have to wait for them to finish. Usually a new house is more expensive than a comparable used house, but not by much. Even a fully custom home is generally not much more expensive because your builder will tell you what costs a lot of money (if you ask for 8.5 foot ceilings the builder will talk you into 9 foot because those are much cheaper since precut parts are available), and what is insignificant. Generally walls can go anywhere and are cheap to move around.
This comment is just adding storytelling around facts, but doesn’t contain facts. I could build the opposite storytelling with the same facts.
Don't Delegate Understanding
Climate change target of 2C is 'dead', says renowned climate scientist
Fear of invasion creates massive military spending

Massive military spending creates peaceful times

Peaceful times create low military spending

Low military spending creates fear of invasion

Also the Canadians are the only ones who ever burned down DC.
Ask HN: A microblogging feed that only contains reshares and private messages?
Do you think this would be better than the current approach used in microblogging platforms?

Of course, you would want to combine this with a temporary block feature.
Why on earth was that post flagged/killed??
Repeal the Jones act, get a commercial shipbuilding market going again domestically.

In the meantime, leverage the best asset we have: alliances with western nations. South Korea is really good at shipbuilding, to the point they are now authorized to repair US Navy warships based in the PACCOM AOR. Let them build ships for us too.
Never tried that or had something sent to me that way. Seems like it'd succeed or fail randomly based on the local post office when doing the sortation to individual house bundles.
Nice, good to know, thanks.
> edit: I'm also on the side of being somewhat against physical/genetic modification as it lies to your partner/future child what you actually look like but when it gets to that stage (eg. crispr) then I guess it doesn't matter.

Being predisposed to obesity and yet overcoming it by working 300% harder than average (compared to someone who exercises at all) on your diet and fitness is another way to lie.

But this is self-control so then it is irrationally different I guess.

> I am a nihilist to some extent so yeah really nothing matters except what is truly real pain/suffering and death.

Random existential observations but okay.
Every summer, my community pool has a cardboard regatta. Kids can use as much duct tape as they want to waterproof a cardboard box and paddle it 25 yards to the other side. Half of the vessels sink within a length or two and the kids have to swim to the edge of the pool. There’s no age limit, and last year a grown man entered a fully engineered catamaran design that beat all the others handily. The secret was using way more duct tape than anybody else.

AI dev tools are that catamaran. They’ll get you across the pool; you might even get half a mile from shore, but there you are, in the middle of the lake, sitting on cardboard and duct tape, wishing you knew how to swim.
https://xkcd.com/793/ This is what you are doing. You're assuming all problems are variants of a software problem, because you're a software engineer.

Did it ever occur to you they might not be?
Wouldn’t it be Slovak?
Human brain samples contain an entire spoon's worth of nanoplastics, study says
FWIW in Italy we still have [GARR Mirror](https://mirror.garr.it/index_en.html). It includes Alpine Linux.
the community doesn't help by trying to dunk on the anti trans stuff a little too much but I do assume it's engagement bait
Also, pardons are for criminal liability. They do not absolve you of civil liability (i.e., they can still be sued).
If you seriously think Musk of all people is actually interested in improving the lives of regular Americans, I have a bridge to sell you. He's a liar, a narcissist, and the world's richest man. That is who you're cheering on to take over the finances of the richest country in the world?
So few of the greatest books that shaped a Century of Science...
I didn't say anything about the parents being imprisoned, tried or even caught.

Indeed, Senator Cowan feared "Gypsies" who "settle as trespassers wherever they go" and whose "cunning is of such a transcendent character that no skill can serve to correct it or punish it." He argued the amendment to make those born here citizens would prevent their removal, as a class.

He went beyond that of course. His diatribe includes floods of "Mongol race", Chinese, Australians and even cannibals.

Really, the arguments against jus soli today almost sound like they're channeling the man.
And thank you for posting the thank you because it was that that prompted me to bother to follow the link. I too think it was a great story, well told.
Cut undersea cables has increased 25-fold in Baltics during 2024
Learning CUDA by optimizing softmax: A worklog
Sure but that’s an order of magnitude above the numbers the parent is comparing? A 7% fee is certainly crazy, agreed with you there
I don't know anything about the lawsuit, but I do know that someone leaked the "answers" to members of a group representing people of a specific race.

(Opinions are my own and not necessarily that of the FAA.)
chat=repl?

doc=programming in a DSL? / (what was that one language which was functional & represented in circles in a canvas?)
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