skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I currently work at a company who is primarily writing in Scala. I really like Scala but assume my next role won’t be in that. Are my two best options Rust and Java if I want to keep some of the typing, functional style, and pattern matching while also moving to a more popular language?
It's absolutely maddening that this is the only way to get some problems fixed sometimes, _especially_ with Google.
And the word "hallucination" ... has very little to do with...
I remember reading a short story once, I forget its name.

The narrator wakes up in what they believe to be a coma but later learns to be an AI. It had to be given memories and (maybe?) a body in order for it to not go crazy upon activation.

It was set up better than I describe but I think back to it often.
I think this is a just law for any bot that interacts with humans. It doesn't make sense for a person to treat a bot as another human.
The vanguard thing is a common misconception, I've worked for S&P and we did tracking of ownership.

Think of these huge funds as proxies. It's like someone with little finance trading saying most of the internet is owned by cloudflare or RIPE or ARIN.
And that's actually a really honest answer. Whereas someone of the opposite opinion might be like parroting in the general copying-template sense actually generalizes to all observable behaviours because templating systems can be turing-complete or something like that. It's templates-all-the-way-down, including complex induction as long as there is a meta-template to match on its symptoms it can be chained on.

Induction is a hard problem, but humans can skip infinite compute time (I don't think we have any reason to believe humans have infinite compute) and still give valid answers. Because there's some (meta)-structure to be exploited.

Architecturally if machines / NN can exploit this same structure is a truer question.
Are you forced to use Face ID then? Why do they not use an in screen ultrasonic sensor for fingerprints I wonder?
The Ars Technica article:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/youtube-briefly-...

(PS: Ars Technica is a bit sluggish for me this evening. Not sure why.)
Cloudflare has nice services that they make available to a lot of people for free.

At the same time, this reminds me the cloud is someone else's computer, and seeking input and ideas of how to have a failover with other services or something.

Does anyone know of a setup or design that can shim in a bit of redundancy with something like this? Using one cloud does kind of tie you to them a bit more.
to have your whole business depend on another business is frightening.
Alternate proposal: For every meme, we are by law able to see who created that meme. If all the knuckle-heads who fall for every meme could see, e.g., that it was created by a Russian or Chinese propaganda organization, I think they would soon learn to be more skeptical.
kind of. the constitution as a whole, and the amendments, don't give you the right to do anything. you have the right to do whatever you want whenever you want. the constitution tells the government what it can and can not stop you from doing.
Here’s a site with graphs you can use to visually compare model benchmarks: https://artificialanalysis.ai
This is an excellent point: there's some sort of oddity where it's hard to say its definitively AI, but I can definitively say it's a...low quality human?

I really like "off a teleprompter", it accurately characterizes the subtle dissonances where it sounds like someone who is reading something they haven't read before. 0:14 "infectious (flat) beatsss (drawn out), which is near diametrically opposed to the paired snappy 0:12 "soulful (high / low) vocals (high)."
I get this eerie feeling she has no idea what a bot even is in a technical sense and most likely is being puppeteered by weasels like State Senator Scott Wiener having introduced gems like the AI Models Act [1][2][3]. If the bill passes wouldn't then she have to be the first to disclose she's a bot?

[1] https://www.answer.ai/posts/2024-04-29-sb1047.html (SB-1047 will stifle open-source AI and decrease safety)

[2] https://safesecureai.org/responseletter (Response to inaccurate, inflammatory statements by Y Combinator & a16z regarding Senate Bill 1047)

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41690302 (Gavin Newsom vetoes SB 1047)
You're not alone, there's dozens of us.
Remember, all political careers end in failure.
No need to keep repeating yourself. SCOTUS has already ruled:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-tiktok-ban/

So, feel free to take it up with them.

This is my last reply. Thanks for the chat. Take care.
Granted I didn't see the budget breakdown, just the total and what I saw spent. Could have been salaries towards people whose work was invisible to me but still important to the grant.
My one annoyance with RustDesk they haven't implemented auto update. Non-techie users don't want to go download a binary. Those that deploy software don't want to deal with at scale unless without the proper tooling. Good SAS candidate.

Even when you manually download and update, you still have to start the service.
You can get Nitrokey HSM for $100: https://shop.nitrokey.com/shop/nkhs2-nitrokey-hsm-2-7?catego...
How do you connect your PC to the router?
Show HN: Build reusable Node.js APIs and install them via a CLI
Hey everyone, Ivan here, Founder & CEO @ Vratix.

A few weeks ago we released our public beta of Vratix - an Open Source API Library with reusable modules that implement common backend logic. We've had pretty good response so far from our early users and got 110+ GitHub stars [1].

A lot of the feedback was that devs want to be able to build their own custom logic and install it via our CLI.

We have just released this functionality and I thought I share it with you in case you find it useful. You can create and publish new Private Modules to your own registry directly via the CLI or you can also connect your GitHub account and we will update your private registry on every push to `main`.

You might ask how is this different than just a GitHub template - the basic concept is similar, but our CLI does a lot of heavy lifting when you want to easily integrate your API logic into a new or an existing Node.js backend service - it takes care of resolving imports, copying and maintaining the correct folder structure, creating DB migration files, etc.

It is like a private NPM registry where you own the source code and instead of installing a library it copies over the source code so you can customise it as you wish.

It is pretty easy to get started, you can check our guide here: [2]

Basically, if you’ve ever wanted to reuse your API logic across multiple projects - or share it only with your team - this is for you.

We have some pretty exciting stuff coming over the next few weeks - we are building the most advanced backend developer tool and what we have so far is <5% of our vision :)

Let me know what you think, I am very open to feedback as it helps me iterate and build faster.

[1] https://github.com/vratix-dev/api-library
[2] https://vratix.com/docs/privateModules/gettingStarted
Hmm, they should have gliders. If the average floor is ~800m above the ground, and the surrounding area is largely buildings less than 50m tall, then you don't need an active flying machine to travel over all the buildings directly from the tower to your destination.

Obviously it won't work in the other direction, and you'll need to bring your hang-glider back up, but hang-gliders are pretty light and that's a very solvable problem.
Weird to leave so soon after joining Anthropic. I wonder what Mira Murati’s startup is. As I understand she isn’t an AI expert but a more product oriented person - I wonder if they’re doing something further from the foundation layer.
Godaddy has always seemed like a scam to me.
I understood that it meant source code in addition to weights, as in "publishing programming language code does not suffice as open source if you do not publish weights"
Had to hard refresh 3 or 4 times to get it to load.
hopefully applies to crawlers too
This is why we need an online Bill of Rights.
Robust autonomy emerges from self-play
This is why:
https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2024/10/new-cruz-investigati...

(Not sure why I got downvoted. I am neither defending nor accusing, just making an attempt to explain)
For iPhone 13 Mini: September 2030

For iPhone SE3: Assuming they stop selling it tomorrow, February 2032.

That’s when they become officially obsolete. 2 years prior, repairs only if they have the parts.
Great idea and very well executed, bravo!
The training data is not necessarily kept. It's possible that data is consumed, incorporated into the weights and then discarded.
Show HN: DuckDB iceberg catalog support for data lakes
Would you like to be able to query your data lake for free?

At the day job, I have been working on adding iceberg catalog and "write" support to duckdb's iceberg extension. These new features make it possible to use duckdb as a sql engine to query and manipulate your data in your data lake for free! Well on your own compute

It will get merged into the official extension but not sure on the timeline. In the meantime feel free to take a look and play with it. I also created a slack channel I can add anyone interested in keeping track more closely add/or providing feedback. Just DM me
"Whataboutism" is pointing out other bad things to excuse or distract from the bad thing I'm doing.

Other countries doing the same thing is an argument about whether the thing is actually bad, and could be valid.
Thanks for checking it out! You know what it's like, you get curious and start making stuff. I've been lucky to get to work on lots o' weird and fun projects over the years. That's actually my fourth portfolio site since the 90s, and it's already aged. The first was HTML, the second Flash AS2, then AS3... time goes on. I'm still sad that 15 years worth of my experiments and art were vaporized from the internet when Flash was killed, and most of it won't run in Ruffle yet, but we're almost to the point where those will be retro enough to revive, too.

Cheers!
Especially one you can't even get into contact with, besides automated rejection messages.
YT: GitHub Copilot: the agent awakens [video]
It takes preparation, resources, a vehicle, travel to the trailhead, motivation, effort, and miles of walking to get into trails in a national forest. Potential victims on a trail aren’t carrying many valuables because they’re out hiking.

A city park is within walking distance, requires no vehicle to get to, can be visited on a whim, and potential victims are more likely carrying valuables (jewelry, electronics, nice handbags). Criminals can visit the park, commit a crime, and disappear back into the dense city on a whim, without planning or preparing.

Most crimes in this context are crimes of convenience. Hiking long trails is not convenient.
The Azure docs are abysmal, and obvious quality issues (like copying the entire Windows VM directory over the top of the Linux VM one and forgetting to change things like RDP connection details out for SSH) sit unanswered for months.

I will never understand Microsoft.
As bots get smarter we need to give them more access not less, people have been used as useful idiots and puppets for far too long I don't see why we should make an exception for bots.
How is it luiddite-ism to not lie? The core issue here isn't even about tech. It's about transparency.
I am not following, proper labeling of products allows consumers to make informed choices.
Pretty much all of the stories on the laws of robotics were about why the laws suck and don't work.
> Good engineers are right, a lot.

On engineering matters perhaps, but not on all topics.
Red Hat is on your team and you are criticizing them for not doing enough, why not side with red hat against companies that don't even publish shit and still consider there models to be open?

The prevailing strategy for most companies is to publish some bullshit (like a cli or a model downloader) and call it open source, the bar is waaay low and we are just trying to raise it a couple of inches, it's not helpful to go for the throat and demand that it be raised to the sky!
>It’s akin to requiring manufacturers to disclose whether a product is hand made or whether machines were used to reduce the need for humans to do repetitive manual labour.

Let's go off this lens... why is this bad?

>The bots that are used to help humans achieve nefarious goals will simply continue to pretend to be human.

Good. Now I can catch them, report them, and CA can fine them. Again, I don't see the downside. I like good, helpful bots. Them being bots don't make them less helpful (on the contrary. It's nice knowing they can be available 24/7).
I don't understand your angle at all. How would disclosing that it's a bot make a bot less helpful or less of a useful tool, except to deceive for someone else's gain?
I don't even know what windsurf.org site you're referring to—for me windsurf.org redirects to goaccess.org, which is a sports organization.

The link you're looking for is https://codeium.com/windsurf
Open source means that you can build from said source.

You can e.g. give away a closed-source game engine with an editor, where you can modify the prebuilt levels, and create your own, to your heart's content. But you can't build it from scratch in a controlled environment, and can't audit it. You also can't do modifications where the level editor interface is not sufficient, e.g. in the renderer. That's not open source, that's freeware.

For ML models, the training set is a crucial part of their source.
I prefer the ML policy of the Debian Deep Learning Team.

https://salsa.debian.org/deeplearning-team/ml-policy/
Firefox developer console.
Also they simultaneously hold the ownership rights as well as equivalent owenrship liabilities, so they own shit squat in net terms (excpet maybe their management fees).
Energy density indirectly matters in utility scale applications, since it implies the cost is more dependent on raw materials and therefore it limits how low the cost of production can get.

In contrast if the raw materials are dirt-cheap per watt-hour (because you don't require as much mass) but the manufacturing process is expensive, then over time the manufacturing process can generally be made cheaper and you can expect the batter to get cheaper quicker.
This is clearly undisclosed promotion for vetto.app. alexd127's only other account activity is on this thread [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42901553] for the exact same bill.
Kotlin is gaining steam in the Java world. We're moving to make it our default server-side language at my company instead of Java. Given its great Java interop, you can basically think of it as a modern, more functional Java that doesn't have multiple decades of baggage associated with it. I highly recommend considering it in any place you'd consider Java.
appears to be caused by service circular dependency
I wonder what it would look like in multi modal, if the reasoning part was an image or video or 3D scene instead of text.
Show HN: ChatGPT Exporter – ChatGPT to PDF, MD, and More
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Referring to Elon:

In 2020, the former Democrat, who used to extol the virtues of his company Tesla regarding its support of LGBTQ+ rights and financed candidates from both parties (though he abstained from presidential campaigns), was asked by the New York Times journalist Kara Swisher about his political views: "I'm socially very liberal. And then economically right of center, maybe, or center. I don't know," he told her. He wished only for the president to be a "normal person with common sense and whose values are smack in the middle of the country."

What caused Elon to convert from a left leaning to right leaning?

I think it's a combination of democrats attacking tech companies relentlessly over the last 4 years and Trump being easy to manipulate and bought.

The article alluded to cryptocurrencies being huge Trump donors which promptly changed Trump from anti-crypto to pro-crypto.
"Do you believe that open source can exist on top of closed hardware? "

Yes, if Hardware is developed against standards shared by multiple manufacturers like amd64
is that against the hn guidelines or something?
I thinik it's proper, albeit not entirely optimal. You can use wahtever tools to develop content. There needs to be some human making the final handoffs and decisions when it comes to the act of sending it out.

It's unoptimal because I bet those volunteering or otherwise aren't necesarily doing that QA, though.
I'm not sure I would say overfit. I think that coding and math just have clearly definable objectives and verifiable outcomes to give the model. The soft things you mention are more ambiguous so probably are harder to train for.
I would add that this is per an email that was sent out to reviewers for an upcoming study section, which I was shown. It is happening, and it is a travesty. Other scientists have reported similar emails on bluesky.
How much instrumentation is enough / when am I done?
Better website:

https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB410/2025
surprisingly, I've been registered for 15+ years and I don't get too much political spam via text. Tons through mail, but not my phone (I never changed my phone number either).

Now regular spam... I'm pretty sure I got 6 calls today alone. Help.
No but still good to know in this case specially as the website is broken and I had to refresh a few times.
The Luddites were activists defending humanity against the harms of mechanization, yes.
Or just embeddings that only make sense to the model. It’s really arbitrary, after all.
I somehow this perceive as the part of the cycle. People feel miserable so they vote for the change. It is irrelevant if they misery is caused by pandemic or war even if is irrational. It's appealing to vote for better prospect of the future than current situation which a lot of people perceive negatively.
Wait... What? There is already a law for this exact purpose in California. It's called the BOT Act from 2019

https://dailyjournal.com/articles/379909-california-s-bolste...
Image generation models also have an insanely rich latent space. People will be squeezing value out of SDXL for many years to come.
Unless you are prepared to roll out your own video-delivery + user subscription infrastructure, what's the alternative here?
> Any suggestions what I should do?

Just forget it.

The maintainer has no obligation to merge (or review) the pull request. It's nice that they tell they will not merge it anyway.

From your comment, it looks like a long chain of questions and replies about the PR. It's usually not good. It's difficult to guess the problem, but my recommendation is to assume it will not be merged and forget it.

Perhaps the PR is in a direction the maintainer doesn't like. Perhaps it has to many problems to be solved. Perhaps the maintainer is a moron. It's difficult to know, but my guess is that further contact about this PR will not help.

> Perhaps it's because of a noob question that I asked earlier in the pull request

I've made a lot of stupid questions and mistakes. Everyone has made made a lot of stupid questions and mistakes. Don't worry too much.

> Furthermore, I managed to figure out the answer myself

Congratulations!

> The patch adds a small feature to the software, which is rather trivial (~200 loc, and does not affect other features).

I've just send a PR with +59 -7 (to another project, probably). I've send many that are even shorter. I think that 200 is too much, unless you are a regular contributor. There are a million of tiny details and it's easier to fix all of them when the PR is small. Once you understand the quirks and vision of the maintainer, you can try with longer ones.
So his problem with crypto was that they we're not giving them enough money? Wonderful and not unexpected.
>Should PUBG mobile players be told they are winning against bots?

They don't already? Games tend to be one of the better platforms of informing of an AI opponent vs. a Human one.

>Should psychics tell you they cannot really speak for the dead

We have to prove they are robots first.
It is the case for many businesses. This relationship, however, is quite egregious.
Most people have great pleasure in owning and driving a nice car. The ones that do not are a minority. There are many reasons why cars (and trucks) are desirable and sought after possessions. It would be a logical fallacy that because you currently do not want one, people should build major projects with no regard to car parking.
You can even build GPT-2 in Excel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjD2n_e9E3w&ab_channel=Sprea...
This is wrong. Everything in RHEL is downstream from CentOS Stream - all of the sources are published there. The only differences are a handful of trademarks.

>If the paying customers republish the source, then RedHat closes the account.

Even if you ignore the above and think only about the official sources provided direct from the customer portal, it's still not a violation IMO.

Because that's not a restriction on how you can use the software you've been provided, it's a restriction on which services you can expect Red Hat to continue providing you, i.e. providing new software in the form of updates. The software you have already been provided continues functioning, it's not like the system gets bricked if your account is closed. GPL only specifies "what are you allowed you do with this piece of software you have been provided with", it doesn't guarantee a future relationship between the provider and receiver.

At worst it's a murky area, not a "systematic violation" as you claimed.

Also, like, it's a hypothetical thing the user agreement claims could be done, not something that necessarily is done. I don't think there has ever been an actual demonstrated instance of an account being closed because of that.
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