skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no reason for number 10, it could very well be 15 or 20. O just chose a number instead of saying multiple of many.
It stops once someone picks up a call. I will put that info in the landing page.
Same for me. I wonder if Claude is better at some languages than others, and o models are better at those weaker languages. There are some devs I know who insist Claude is garbage for coding and o3-* or o4-* are tier 1.
I made a book before, out of the PDF scans of an instruction manual for some old piece of gear. It was a piece of cake. I went for a pocket format, so I printed four pages per sheet, on each size. For the spine, I used a generous bead of PVA glue, and gave the thing a cover made of boxboard.

There are other binding methods that would work okay for a flipbook, like putting rings or coils through perforations and whatnot.
>I'm surprised the police doesn't have to pay for them. It's not that the tests were medically necessary.
If only it were so simple. Medicine can be quite nasty politically at times, internally and externally, and these mandatory examinations are the currency of really screwing someone if that's what you want. Psych especially, part of the theme of the original catch-22 book.

A lot of the laws are at first pass related to psych - "harm to self or others". That earns you a free non-voluntary trip to the hospital. The part where it gets nasty is when words get twisted, when ulterior motives exist, when the accuser possesses some authority - such that an "unsafe to self or others" argument is put forth. Situations where the person needs help, but perhaps won't seek it out on their own, thus the state must intervene. In this narrative, our police officers said, "harm to self, drugs in digestive tract, may rupture and cause death, not willing to seek medical care for fear of losing drug transport and/or prosecution, please treat so they don't rupture"

The victim of such a crime now has a choice - pay a bunch of money to the hospital to clear the bill, or pay a bunch of money to a lawyer to get the police to pony up responsibility. It's happened to me too along the lines of "the government made big mistake and caused problems for you, you can take ownership of the false accusations, or pay a bunch of money to a lawyer to have them wiped". Often in our society there's the suffering of being a victim, then the victim tax on top of that
"wokesters" ah, that must be the IT standards organization that banned the use of the words "master" and "slave."
> What makes you think they avoid it?

amichail's questions rarely make sense when you read them. They contain weird assumptions that don't make sense when considered against reality or they're just weird questions. I assume they're stoned half the time.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11416374
I have always wanted to do something like this! Great work.
The issue is that there’s no execution platform for declarative specs, so something will be translated to imperative and that is where the issue lies. There’s always an imperative core which needs to be deterministic or it’s out needs to be verified. LLMs are not the former and the latter option can take more time than just writing the code.
No, I didn't confuse the two. There is not a formal definition of "smart", but if you're claiming that factual accuracy is unrelated to it, I can't imagine that that's in good faith.
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And most of those companies are low three-digit employee counts. I mean, I like King Arthur and tend to visit their store when I'm in the area, but it's only a relatively significant employer by the standards of Norwich, VT.
There are two distinct but related issues here: GitHub's terrible support for stacked PRs, and Git's `rebase -i` user interface to manage them which is quite bad. Jujutsu fixes the latter.

I maintain a fork of a tool called `spr` which comes as close to fixing the former as GH allows. It has a number of limitations, though. https://github.com/sunshowers/spr
hahahha. try the search engine - it uses the marginalia API and will select a random result to embed. maybe don't search for herpes though.
Seriously, this is a killer feature.
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An author's tweet thread: https://x.com/jacobaustin132/status/1886844716446007300
Did you know the musicians get paid very little for there music on Spotify? Look I understand the support from music listeners, but Spotifiy as a service really harms musicians. Its really shortsighted to only look at part of the equation.
Considering the state of current democracies, I don't think I could trust my peers to make sound financial decisions at an organizational level collectively. It's different from a democracy in government because I can, without much friction, leave a company at any time if I feel that the company is not doing well, not so with a nation-state.

I personally have started and run a coop, but that worked because we were all friends who wanted to collectively pool our resources to get new clients as a software agency, if it were a larger cooperative, I would agree with the sibling commenter that they generally do not work as well as top down corporations.
That's such a mechanical way of describing pair programming. I'm guessing you don't do it often (understandable if its not working for you).

For me pair programming accelerates development to much more than 2x. Over time the two of you figure out how to use each other's strengths, and as both of you immerse yourself in the same context you begin to understand what's needed without speaking every bit of syntax between each other.

In best cases as a driver you end up producing high quality on the first pass, because you know that your partner will immediately catch anything that doesn't look right. You also go fast because you can sometimes skim over complexities letting your partner think ahead and share that context load.

I'll leave readers to find all the caveats here

Edit: I should probably mention why I think Chat Interface for AI is not working like Pair programming: As much as it may fake it, AI isn't learning anything while you're chatting to it. Its pointless to argue your case or discuss architectural approaches. An approach that yields better results with Chat AI is to just edit/expand your original prompt. It also feels less like a waste of time.

With Pair programming, you may chat upfront, but you won't reach that shared understanding until you start trying to implement something. For now Chat AI has no shared understanding, just "what I asked you to do" thing, and that's not good enough.
Explicitly hand-writing the parsing logic allows you to get more specific in error states and messages that a combinator can't.
My company (actually our two amazing interns) was working on this over the summer, we abandoned it but it’s 85% of the way to doing what you want it to do: https://github.com/accretional/semantifly

We stopped working on it mostly because we had higher priorities and because I became pretty disillusioned with top-K rag. We had to build out a better workflow system anyway, and with that we could instead just have models write and run specific queries (eg list all .ts files containing the word “DatabaseClient”), and otherwise have their context set by users explicitly.

The problem with RAG is that simplistic implementations distract and slow down models. You probably need an implementation that makes multiple passes to prune the context down to what you need to get good results, but that’s complicated enough that you might want to build something else that gives you more bang for your buck.
This decisions looks well-reasoned. It acknowledges the strengths of their current implementation, and explains why another language may serve their goals even better. I can follow along as someone interested in general software decision-making, even though I'm not particularly invested in either language.

One specific thing I like is that the motivation for this rewrite is organic, i.e., not driven by an external pressure campaign. It's refreshing to see a drama-free rewrite.
We work on exactly that, in application to ancient Khmer civilization (9th to 15th century). In fact, data is not that sparse, but it's hard to get it. Archaeologists just don't share data as much.

The basic answer is that you have to have at least some data to be able to do anything.
We found that in the data regime augmentation works a little bit, transfer learning much less so. What really works is simply sitting down and annotating the data, with on-the-ground surveys and follows ups.
> I think the East's cultures are really similar, and the diversity of thought within those cultures much smaller.

And people from the east say this about the west.
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I was under the impression that he didn't write any books. The books attributed to him are transcribed by and edited by other people, with the source of the information being attributed to him (recorded conversations and lectures).
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Oh sure, this is 100% the same..
It's not clear to me in the lines you're quoting that the GP didn't read the article.
Whether the first reasoning entity is an individual organism or a group of organisms is completely irrelevant to the original point. If one were to grant that there was in fact a "first reasoning group" rather than a "first reasoning being" the original argument would remain intact.
Much larger? How much larger? I thought it was a pretty small group.
> copilot plugin in vscode

Copilot, back when I used it, completely ignored context outside of the file I was working in. Copilot, as of a few weeks ago, the absolute dumbest assistant of all the various options available.

With cursor, I can ask it to make a change to how the app generates a JWT without even knowing which file or folder the relevant code is in. For very large codebases, this is very very helpful.
Too many malicious actors in crypto for it to become mainstream, sorry, not sorry

The community needs to self police and remove this problem if they ever want me to give it a third chance. There are several other fundamental issues in crypto, so not sure this will be enough on its own to reach mainstream adoption

For example, I don't want my transaction history on a public ledger, encrypted or not
I'm not making a statement about palantir. The words "democracy, freedom of speech and gender equality" refer to the core tenants of west values.
'Tis sadly interesting that the article, from USNI, never really mentions all the Navy Yards that America once had - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navy_Yard - where the Navy could (and very often did) build and maintain its own warships.

Before the navy yards were shut down, they provided pretty much the exact capabilities which the author bemoans the US desperately needing now. And were extremely useful for keeping private shipyards honest - "You want HOW much? It'll take HOW long? Sorry, we'll just build the ship ourselves."

Similar (and again unmentioned) in Great Britain. Even though the article talks about (Royal Navy Admiral) Jacky Fisher. Who, famously, spent a fair hunk of his career managing such facilities for the RN. And was famous/notorious for squeezing both the RN's and private yards to produce more ships, faster, better, and cheaper.
> it's obvious why they're not using "non-partisan career employees that have been vetted..."

Right, because those people are not loyal to them.

> They assume, as rightfully a lot of us do, that this all happened under the watch of these same individuals

All what happened? Environmental protection? Consumer protection? Automatic tax filing systems? Those things happened over decades of fighting for the rights of everyday Americans over the rights of a few rich elites. They're written in the blood, sweat, and tears of the downtrodden and exploited. That's exactly why they're being targeted. If you want to find inefficiency, throw a dart almost anywhere within DoD.
The syntax came from Elm, which got it’s syntax from Haskell (where Nix also got it from) which got its syntax from ML.

It’s a syntax that’s several decades old at this point.

It’s different, but not harder. If you learned ML first, you’d found Algol/C-like syntax equally strange.
How is that not the same in a coop? If they don't like the conditions they'd still have to leave the job and find a new one.
The new Treasury Secretary gave them to him. Or Trump did. It's not complicated, it's just a coup.
Consider this as very much back-of-napkin math, a Chinese 055 destroyer is about a third of the cost of an Arleigh Burke. So you’d be looking at roughly 300%.
Does it concentrate in the brain specifically, or is it distributed throughout our bodies? The brain is about 2% of the mass of our body. Is there 50 spoon's worth of plastic in our body?

I'm feeling a little skeptical.
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VM is not the right abstraction because of performance and resource requirements. VMs are used because nothing exists that provides same or better isolation. Using a throwaway VM for each AI agent would be highly inefficient (think wasted compute and other resources, which is the opposite of what DeepSeek exemplified).
I’m not disputing other funny business, I just don’t think they are making money front running passive index investors.
Everyone had to do the same shit with the master->main thing
> But as it is structured, it is designed to get the best folks to leave, and from unpredictable parts of the org and thus is unlikely to show that result.

I believe that this is largely how this round will turn out. The numbers look very low so far (20k?).

> the administration is not pushing for right-sizing the workforce. They are proposing deeply unpopular cuts to things Americans actually value, without any debate or discussion of tradeoffs.

Just to be clear, I agree with all of this.

As I mentioned above, this is an absolute shit show. If chaos ensues, I think that will be seen as a success by those making the top-level decisions.

Our system of checks and balances is completely broken right now, and the limits are being tested by a group of folks who have no concept of noblesse oblige.

The results will be interesting.
Seemingly public officials can’t either
> Local scenes aren’t dead.

I might just be out of touch, so show me the innovation.

Rap simply didn’t exist in the 60’s. What’s around today that wasn’t in the late 90’s? Not just minor evolution but new ideas. It’s been 25 years any other stretch of that length since 1900 had several radical new ideas.
I receive content from E-mail all the time and I am also notified about it and it doesn't drain my battery.
I'm over across the pond - it was pretty obvious to me that Elon was going to take a wrecking ball to the ship of government. if it wasn't clear to you, I'm afraid you can only blame yourself and possibly your diet of information.

Trump said Elon would get to run a new department called "department of government efficiency". if you know what he did at Twitter, you can easily join the dots.
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How much of that accompanied foreign dissolution of Congressionally-mandated institutions?
Interesting to see the narrative on here slowly change from "LLM's will forever be useless for programming" to "I'm using it every day" over the course of the past year or so.

I'm now bracing for the "oh sht, we're all out of a job next year" narrative.
It would be cool to add an algorithm that learns my interests and suggests relevant articles
Yes I think you're right. I've noticed something off too. Maybe it's been hobbled?
Sweet. The night before last christmas eve, i needed to come up with a gift quickly– and i started to write a script for this. I went down the rabbit hole of perfecting different formats, length variations etc & generate the PDFs.

Unfortunately, i failed at the physical part of this. I couldn't figure out that quickly how to print it nicely & make a usable flipbook.

So my gift ended up being a crappy mvp of a flipbook. It was appreciated, but it's embarrassing considering how many hours i've put into it, for a shitty result.

I would order, but i know, the minute i pay, i will fall down the rabbit hole again and get obsessed trying to create the physical flipbook myself. But i really don't have the time for that at the moment.
When i do, i will place an order!

All the best to you!
HN's standards haven't changed. I think it's just that everyone underestimates their own provocations ("mild snark") and overestimates the provocations of others. This leads to an "objects in the mirror are larger than they appear" kind of effect - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

"Infested with operatives and shills" is a feeling that a lot of internet users have when they encounter views that are different from their own. It feels like these can't possibly be in good faith, so they must be "operatives and shills". But there is a much simpler explanation: the range of differences between people is just a lot larger than one expects it to be. I've written a lot about this over the years—here's one example, with links to others: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35932851.

This is why the HN guidelines ask people "Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
1. Musk wasn't elected.
2. Musk's merry band of misfit incels wasn't elected.
3. Government offices are created by statute, and they're terminated by statute.

My God, you people are exhausting and terrible.
"You don’t program by chatting. You program by writing documents.", or long chat prompts as they are also called.
These are the stated reasons for the audit. It is worth at least considering them at face value.

No it isn't. It's not an audit, it's a hostile takeover. An actual audit of the federal government would have involved standards, qualifications, security clearances, and other institutional infrastructure, and stringent controls to avoid conflicts of interest. If you don't see a conflict of interest with the richest man in the world sending a team of kids to take over the main systems in the treasury and personnel departments of the federal government then I envy your child-like innocence.

Reasonable people should be able to debate these things without resorting to reducto-ad-hitlerum.

There was a clear roadmap published by the Heritage Foundation before the election detailing plans for a hostile takeover, and events so far are wholly consistent with that - unsurprising, since one of its lead authors is nominated for a cabinet position.

Also, this is all happening under the aegis of a guy who marked inauguration day by throw Roman salutes to the crowd, a gesture beloved by neo-nazis. At least one of this young engineers barging his way into secure high value systems is a big fan of neo-nazi Nick Fuentes, and I see no reason to think that having neo-nazis in charge is likely to end better than it did with the original version.
See their previous attempt at making the web windows only. Even if you accept that its greed not malice it creates a single point of failure to be abused in case you know the US is ever taken over by fascists. Not that that you know could ever happen.
They are investors for a reason, they expect a return. If a coop does not produce good returns, especially as compared to standard corporations, why would one expect investors to invest?
A concurrent parallel in the private sphere: I see today that all the pride/heritage weeks or months have disappeared from my Google Calendar.

Digging into Settings (on desktop web) reveals options to turn on "Regional" and "Global religious" holidays e.g. "Start of Ramadan" -- but apparently no way whatever to recover the disappeared -- not even via menu button "Browse calendars of interest".
Previous submissions, https://hn.algolia.com/?query=The%20Full-Stack%20Lie%3A%20Ho...

The paywall might be the reason this article has not gained traction.
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I would defend the right to criticize. My point is that artists and consumers have a choice.

Maybe there's a significant percentage of Spotify customers that give two shits about the art and just want to play some background music. That's ok. There's also artists that can thank Spotify for new fans and new listeners that can thank Spotify for new artists to listen to.

This moral outrage over Spotify tends to overlook that there are tradeoffs and every market has these problems. Blaming Spotify for killing a genre is crazy dumb to me. I'm not going to stop listening to lo-fi hip-hop cause Spotify has ghost artists and AI music on it. These bedroom artists have done what would have been impossible 40 years ago and the fans they've gained aren't going to go away. That's a testament to streaming platforms.
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This has been my bible for performance work internally at Google. Kind of surprised they released it publicly, but I guess they removed all the Gemini-specific details.
(ETA: speaking strictly about anonymous functions; on rereading you might be talking about the absence of parens and commas for function application.)

That's not ML syntax. Haskell got it from Miranda, I guess?

In SML you use the `fn` keyword to create an anonymous function; in Ocaml, it's `fun` instead.
IMO this is only going to be a thing for as long as:

0. it takes the reigning POTUS to realize its causing problems that are impacting wealthy elites (24 hours in the case of tariffs)

1. 4 years.

If i were product owner/manager of any of these teams id recommend we fork the codebase for 4 years and call it done. keep the forked version on standby with backports of major content updated in case you wind up with this sort of situation again, but dont start ripping all this stuff out of prod.

Or if on a longer timeline, build culture war into the release as a feature flag (culture=1, culture=0, etc..)
Feature request to be able to like different pages so i can bookmark and return to them later
House not Congress. Elected not replaced. It is unlikely enough senators will be replaced in 2026.
I've yet to see any AI/LLM produce code that withstands even basic scrutiny.
Probably, but then again my first languages word which I would have chosen here directly translates to miracle, not to mystery.
What do you mean my 250mhz processor cant handle voice chat and screen sharing?