skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least Google employees will sign petitions and do things that follow a moral code.

OpenAI is sneaky slimey and headed by a psycho narcissist. Makes Pichia looks like a saint.

Ethically, it’s the same. But if someone was pointing a gun at me I’d rather have someone with some empathy behind the trigger rather than the personification of a company that bleeds high level execs and… insert many problems here
Ultimately, I would expect the report to lay blame on both ATC and the helicopter pilot. The degree to which that blame should be allocated will be determined by the investigation. A less likely factor that could conceivably be uncovered would be some sort of controls failure that should have alerted one or all of the impacted pilots and controllers.
This is actually a plot point of Unsong https://unsongbook.com
Yes this bugged me too
+1, I have almost exactly the same story!

(I didn't read the IPC guide.)
This theory presumes there is shortage of talented researchers in other countries, which is not the case.

There aren't countries with unfilled academic positions awaiting people from the US. If anything, the landscape is even more competitive outside the US.
I really appreciate the writer sharing their insights, but I wish they had asked someone (or an LLM) to proof read their writing.
it's cause my rss reader has like 10 articles about trump today from hn.... most of them flagged though.
Nothing beats https://www.when2meet.com/

I've used it for so much community organizing. It's such a simple tool and nobody has to make an account. You put in your name and an (optional) password. The optional password feature has served as a source of inspiration in my own projects. It pushed me to consider "does this really need an account? Can it be done without one?"
If you really want to get reductive about it, beavers build dams to stop a certain kind of water-flowing noise. It's instinctive (not learned) and they'll try even when the it's coming from a speaker and the floor is dry concrete.

Some types of anti-beaver-damn measures work by eliminating the sounds and vibrations.

https://gsas.harvard.edu/news/dammed-if-they-do
Ahh, you're right, I was looking at international data. Thank you! This is the USA data:

https://www.bts.gov/content/us-air-carrier-safety-data
The game that gave me motion sickness was Yooka-Laylee, and it might have been due to all the frame rate dips and hiccups.
Mind the F-bomb's, this ain't a TISM concert mate.

It is simply stating that

if China was stopping parcels bound for the US

then the current US admin might be petty enough to pretend that they are the ones stopping incoming parcels from China to appear in control.

This doesn't seem likely, but the sentiment is reasonable .. the current crowd do seem exceptionally petty.
That is quite literally what this thread is about.
Sounds like Partiful's time has come before its even had a chance to try to sustain itself. It probably doesn't even have the resources to fight apple on this
Yes, but you'd run that on your switch and not your edge devices.
Penny had multiple chances to get the Neely away from the situation, he didn't need to use a chokehold, he didn't need to step in. Trains stop fairly regularly, and people who regularly use the train who felt unsafe know they can always step out. Penny was a man out of his element and made every single wrong choice. He didn't make one mistake, he made many mistakes. Our society does suck that they don't do anything to help people like Neely (which helps every one) who have sever mental illness. Instead our society decides to help people who do what the worst people really want, just to eliminate anyone that causes us any discomfort. Penny decided to step into the situation, and when he did he took the responsibility of Neely's health as well. A strong courageous person would ensure that everyone, including Neely was safe. A coward takes the easy solution and kills the guy.
I've been trying to cause a psychotic episode for years and so far have not yet succeeded :)

I think the sticking point for me is that I refuse to knowingly cause myself permanent brain damage. That heavily limits my options.
> As much as it may fake it, AI isn't learning anything while you're chatting to it.

What's your definition of 'learn'? An LLM absolutely does extract and store information from its context. Sure, it's only short term memory and it's gone the next session, but within the session it's still learning.

I like your suggestion to update your original prompt instead of continuing the conversation.
Just a quick shout-out; I was one of the many many students you taught at Lambda School, and just wanted to say your instruction was one of the highlights of my time there. Thanks for doing what you do!
> His book, The Network State (TNS), puts forth a new social contract enabled by “Web3 technology,” centered on blockchains

I love articles that give me a magic sentence right at the front that tells me I don't need to read any more
Conspiracy theories. Every heavy pot smoker I know has ended up believing in multiple conspiracy theories. Back in the day before YouTube my friends were burning DVDs of 9-11 Truther documentaries, a chick I dated became obsessed with UFOs and alien abductions, a close family member began to believe they had found a way to develop psychic powers, and the boomers who got their medical marijuana cards deserve their own category based on the number of right wing conspiracy theories they repost on Facebook. The only exception I can think of got heavily into sports betting with a similar level of obsession and belief that they had deep insights that escaped everyone else.

I suspect that it triggers part of your brain that rewards you for making connections or something like that.
I got the distinct impression Amazon shifted mix significantly in that direction, via the resellers and the resellers themselves shifting

Which reminds me of a rule: price up, demand down
> China’s military has the capability to land ground forces on Taiwan within as little as one week after imposing a naval blockade on the island

you're using this one little quote to signify that China can take Taiwan? get real. that just means some boots will be on the ground, doesn't mean that these boots will make it past the beach. and naval blockade has very little chance of succeeding past a few days, when China will immediately be sanctioned by all the countries, leading to its collapse
The author is refreshingly transparent about the inspiration for the project saying, "I built this on a whim at after seeing someone ask for it on twitter."

Who knows, maybe you'll stumble upon sth to build in the same way.
the standard abbreviation is SCOTUS
The parent's chat group for my toddler's school is WhatsApp. There was nobody who didn't have it installed (and it's about 50/50 android/iPhone).
> I always wondered if other people had the same experience of THC as I did, but responded _psychologically_ differently to me, or if it was a _physiologically_ different experience. It was very confusing during high school.

I wonder this too. Maybe, say, non-autistic people would interpret differently what I see as mild dissociation, and experience all of the... whatever the fuck THC is supposed to do to Normal People. Or so the theory goes.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42938125
Never going to be common if their fate is to be like Peanut the Squirrel or Fred the Raccoon out of NY.
Western AIs as well, are full of propaganda and contain clear political opinionated points of view of just about everything, specially the frontier models offered as SAAS.

That's why the rest of the world mostly doesn't care about the obvious pro-China propaganda inside Deepseek, it is just more of the same, but making look good the other side this time.

Remember that huge parts of the planet's populations (including good chunks of people geographically located in North America and Western Europe), do not feel specially close to any, being US or China (and/of allies/friends), nor particularly share or aligns to their points of view of most of things.
Fair, my basis for comparison was the Amsterdam airport. I paid 35 euro for a soggy reheated sandwich and coffee. SFO has 18 dollar poke bowls.

Perhaps Amsterdam airport pricing is extensively marked up compared to local pricing (understandable). Geneva was just plain expensive.
The numeral system may be, but the numerals themselves were introduced to Europeans by the writings of Muslim mathematicians like al-Khwārizmī.
Excerpt: The Mysterious Billboard Incident
It’s the big unsolved problem and nobody’s talking about it. I’ve had some decent success asking an expensive model to generate the chunks and combining that with document location, and my next plan for an upcoming project is to do that hierarchically, but there’s no generally accepted solution yet.

RAG’s big problem is turning PDFs into chunks, both as a parsing problem and as the chunking problem. I paid someone to do the parsing part into markdown for a project recently (including table data summaries) and it worked well. MathPix has an good API for this, but it only works sensibly for PDFs that don’t have insane layouts, and many do.
now that the adults are back in charge, we should be good for a few more years at least.
getting you to answer easy questions is the first psychological step in the door. salesmen (and amusingly enough many activists) know this
Nope, he didn't even get a majority of the people who went to the polls. Only 49.8% [0].

And yes, there are ways to manipulate and exploit flaws in every electoral system, but some are more resistant to others. It only came up to point out the ridiculousness of the gp comment.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidentia...
In my experience a lot of people are not great at telling when their mind is altered. Myself included at times.
If you do check it out and there are parts that are confusing, I'd love to hear about it.
Ask HN: What is your preferred general purpose AI agent?
I build website on Webflow. I would like to point each button instance with specific text to a specific page.

I have tried using OpenAI's Operator but it's doing a poor job.
> gave up on Langchain during my first attempt 6 months ago

Why? If it's not a secret. I'm just looking for something, not sure actually what... :-\
Refactor. Ha. This is just randomly and mindlessly deleting large chunks of code because you think it's woke.

Not a single personal alive thinks these institutions are perfect. But only morons think haphazardly defunding shit without understanding what you're breaking or what the real-world ramifications might be is a way to fix problems.

The past couple of weeks have historically stupid.
Cheaper and better.

This country is so painfully stupid. Now I have to pay 2x as much for inferior products, if not the same exact stuff imported by an American company.

This alone is probably going to cost me about 1000$ to 2000$ per year. We literally don't make much most of this stuff in the US. For example I just ordered a guitar bag, 15$ direct from China. The same exact bag, made in the same exact factory is going to be 40$ on Amazon.

That's assuming this resolves before resellers run out of stock.

If I had any idea this stupid policy change was happening so soon I probably would of brought more stuff.

The next 4 years are going to be very expensive, the price of everything is going to skyrocket.
Sure, here's what Claude generated (all the usual caveats apply): https://pastebin.com/Xbs2qasH
100%.

I do all this + rubber ducky the hell out of it.

Sometimes I just discuss concepts of the project with the thing and it helps me think.

I dont think chat is going to be right for everyone but it absolutely works for me.
Whisper.cpp: Looking for Maintainers
> exploits loopholes in the law

This is a very interesting way of saying "following the law."
My sense, bluntly, is that if people spent half the effort learning git that they do whining about it, no one would bother making a 30+ part guide just explaining stuff you could find in a man page.

Commits are snapshots of a tree. They have a list of ancestors (usually, but not always, just one). Tags are named pointers to a commit that don't change. Branches are named pointers to a commit that do change. The index is a tiny proto-commit still in progress that you "add" to before committing.

There. That's git. Want to know more? Don't read the guide, just google "how to I switch to a specific git commit without affecting my tree?", or "how do I commit only some of my changed files?", or "how to I copy this commit from another place into my current tree?".

The base abstractions are minimalist and easy. The things you want to do with them are elaborate and complicated. Learn the former, google the latter. Don't read guides.
> I really dread the idea of having social media algorithms decide who gets to talk to who.

We're getting there, whether that's dating apps controlling your stack of faces one at a time, or even seemingly innocuous things like this site's opaque comment ranking system.

These things happen by inches.
Oh, look! We've cut off shipments from China! Now you'll have to buy American.

News flash: we can't afford to buy American. Why do you think we were shopping there. It's too late to fix it now - we no longer have the money or the ability to make the money to buy American and even if you gave more money to Americans, prices would just increase accordingly.

Also, some of those products were paid for already. Someone owes the purchasers reimbursement for their loss.
I can't imagine something like this is expensive to host, minus perhaps the text messages. But presumably they could charge for those (and make a little off the top).
Always excited to see others working in the language learning space! (Korean & English in my case)

Signed up and played around a bit, but was unable to get a video transcribed. It kept popping up with a "Error loading video. Please try again later." issue. I tried entering a URL and was given that the audio quality was too low.

Separately, I'm curious how you're approaching quality control in your translations for the words. While building my app, the GPT models regularly get translations wrong for Korean and miss nuance and require human-in-the-loop before sending to the user.

Great work shipping! It looks great!
It's almost entirely based on your skills, the decisions you make, and your privileged background.

You're just not going to get past the first few rounds of the entrepreneur game if you're not a certain kind of person.

The US has terrible social mobility. Objectively, by any measure. This isn't up for debate.

Guess which state is #1 for social mobility?

Wrong. It's Utah, which is a low bar because it's 28th by GDP.

How about CA? 38th for mobility. TX? 45th.

It's a mythology of meritocracy excusing inherited privilege.

https://www.archbridgeinstitute.org/social-mobility-in-the-5...
It's like the right is doing everything they can to make the country be pissed off at them. Do they understand we still have the power to vote?
Radical polemicists like Yarvin seem to believe that they're impervious to real-world consequences when publishing venomous blather like this. I guess it's inevitable when you live your entire life like a jar-brain in an era of relative lawfulness and tranquility. They would do well to reflect on La Mort de Marat: the country has no shortage of rage and weaponry and we're all made of the same meat in the end.
My guess is customs isn't prepared to inspect that volume of packages and would need to up their infrastructure to handle it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42812328
> `\` for anonymous functions

A one-character ASCII rendering of the Greek lowercase letter lambda: λ

λx → x + 5

\x -> x + 5
I highly recommend OpenBSD for firewalls, vpn (wireguard), and other edge servers. It has served me well. I love how everything is organized.
The stated purpose of the tariffs is to stop the flow of fentanyl into the US (which kills over 70k Americans a year). If the economic hurt this causes to China is enough to drastically reduce the flow of fentanyl into the US then I suppose it will have accomplished its mission
> Two out of 18 souls on board with a turbine?

Very common. How do you think pilots train to fly such aircraft? Would you prefer pilots not to be trained, or for this type of aircraft to cease service?
Ummm .... try reading maybe? simon willison dot net
> tons of existing patterns in the [C/C++] ecosystem would become impossible to express

Well, the really harsh way of putting this is that the patterns break for a reason; they rely on global claims about the program, so they aren't genuinely robust in the context of code that sits within a large, constantly evolving codebase that can't be practically surveyed in its entirety. Rust is very good at picking patterns that can be verified with a comparatively straightforward, "local" analysis that broadly follows the same structure as the actual program syntax. Safety claims that rely on "global" properties which cannot be kept within a self-contained, module-like portion of the code are essentially what the unsafe marker is intended for. And this is exactly what idiomatic C/C++ code often gives you.

This is actually why I think that proposals like Safe C++ should get a lot more attention that they do at present. Yes, Safe C++ changes what's idiomatic in the language but it does so in a way that's broadly sensible (given our increased attention to memory safety) especially in a context of "programming in the large".
Trump and Elon apparently don't know how to do anything without first blowing it up.
Yes, also Ivanti. And Palo Alto. And Cisco. And Dell (unless they spun that off already).

Most of the devices that rely on a scheme similar to inkjet printers (but with an even shorter shelf life) are going to be that way. This is because the money is not in the software, but in administrative choices (licensing, support contracts based on lifespan of hardware etc).

Since most deployment scenarios don't really need a proprietary ASIC to handle filtering, you'd almost universally be better off with a system that is built around generic white box hardware and an OS that is kept up-to-date. But that requires more knowledge and skills, and most people and companies would rather not invest in that for various reasons.

As for where you'd get your money's worth: it's mostly in the threat feeds. A well-tested, verified feed of known bad things (subnets, packet contents, behaviour) is much more useful than paying someone to keep a spare fan on the shelf so they can bring it to you "just in case".
And Silicon Valley was originally majority weapons/ tech r&d for the military.

Bletchly Park? Military.
> from the viewpoint of making an app that "works", girls who are looking for commitment really aren't benefiting from seeing profiles from hot guys who get a lot of attention and provide nothing but casual sex.

Well, sure, but you can lead a horse to water... . The less hot guys might be better options for those girls, but are they going to swipe on them? If you stop showing them the hot guys, will they stick around for the less hot guys or just switch to a different app?
Yes, Cix will do it.
I had sorta thought this was a right wing conspiracy, as it seemed so unlikely to be true. I can very clearly understand why the new administration is being ruthless with them now, especially given Trumps experience with Covid (a more enlightened leader might say the buck stopped with him instead of blaming underlings, but I digress). Thanks for replying.
> the J6 rioters that broke into the capital

I would encourage you to learn more about that day. Most people that were charged did not go into the building. And the few that did were literally waved in by police, including many being escorted around inside by police.
Whoever, or whatever, is creating the thing that needs reference materials would have to seed the initial set (just as they/it seeded the thing itself) and then go from there.

If you didn't, then you won't be included the training set (obviously) and the AI would not easily know about you. Sort of how if you start a really cool company but don't make a website Google doesn't know about you and can't return you in their search results. It's valuable for Google (AI) to know about you, so it's valuable to build the sites (docs) to get indexed (trained on).
Out of curiosity, what are the most common foot guns, in your opinion?
Life Lessons – Tim Minchin UWA Address (2013) [video]
That feels like PR / virtue signaling. AI has the potential to significantly reduce the human cost of war in two ways: by removing soldiers from direct combat and by enabling precision strikes which minimize collateral damage. Over time, robot-soldiers will surpass human effectiveness, making it increasingly irrational to send people into harm's way. In that world, conflicts would shift toward being decided by technological superiority - who has the better or more advanced systems - rather than by which side has more human lives to sacrifice. We could even see one day wars with no human casualties.
This is great news and very timely!
This is a genuine question because I don't know, how do tariffs stop illegal drugs from coming in?
They wanted an outdoor pool but didn't want to pay contractors
Yes, and give them meaningful titles too. I think sometimes "men" means "performance of male profiles" and at other times it means "behavior of male users"? It's not really clear.

This data looks interesting but I'm not really sure what I'm looking at.
Probably attempting to correct the shipping imbalance. Shipping china to US is much cheaper than shipping US to china. My understanding is that a large part of that is due to china not needing to pay full local delivery(USPS) fees. Something with how international mail is governed.

I think it is this but I don't have access. https://www.upu.int/en/Postal-Solutions/Programmes-Services/...

And I found this article which is probably relevant(2019). https://www.supplychaindive.com/news/upu-postal-rate-change/...

update with an actual current article: https://www.supplychaindive.com/news/trump-tariff-de-minimis...
Or do read books and guides. But in an exploratory manner. So when you do have a need for a specific operation (which happens rarely) you have a mental map that can give you directions.
The reasons are not the main focus here. The fact is that China's aggressive stance on Taiwan, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and the alignment with China, North Korea, and Iran are leading to military buildups and alliances worldwide. Google, being a company founded and controlled by Americans, is likely to support the effort if a war occurs, rather than remain passive while their friends and family's children are dying.

Today people have differing views of nuclear weapons, but people who fought near Japan and survived believe the bomb saved their life.

It's easy to pretend you don't have a sides when there is peace, but in this environment google's going to take a side.
I've read enough from Simon to know that he doesn't know how to build or maintain reliable real world systems.
>They get to pick the very best.

>>Human nature gets in the way of that. They'll pick whoever couldn't schmooze enough to get a better job.

You missed my intent. They get to pick the best trees. if there is one team instead of 100, they get to log giant old growth trees next to the lumber mill instead of driving 1000 miles to some crappy new growth Forrest.

Their spot would be at least as good as the best location available the 100 teams.

As discussed elsewhere, I dont think you need 8 billion people to manufacture a modern chainsaw.
Extremely well-written!

Thanks!

I’ve been using Git for years, but I bet that I’ll learn something from this.
The same amazon that happily ships from the US TO Hong Kong free of charge (above USD49) with SF Express (a Chinese company). Funny how that goes.