skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup, and once again, it depends on how we learn. I'm a strongly "learn by doing" kind of person. For instance, I'd get almost nothing out of reading a math book that was full of ideas but no problems or proofs. Doing problems and proofs is how I wrestle with the structure of the subject matter, and internalize the ideas.
At my first professional software job, where we wrote C, because that was all you could realistically write commercial software in, there was one person on our floor who could do software builds. He used some commercial build tool the company had licensed and he was the only one who knew how to use it or would be allowed to learn how to use it. His customers were every product team in our division --- about 12 of them. We had to petition to get beta releases done. The builds took hours.

I think we're doing fine.
That's not what DOGE is coming for at the Social Security.

The DOGE coders are writing code to identify SSNs that have been used by illegal aliens to vote as if they were US citizens. They already found out that a single account was used, in 2020, in Arizona, to allow a 10 000+ illegal aliens to vote.

It's no coincidence that the only states where the dems won in 2024 are those that not require any voter ID.

I'm all for it and no matter if you're a dem or a conservative (or none), you should defend these actions.

Note that DOGE announced today they'd go try to clawback hundreds of billions of funds stolen by corrupt officials.

I actually don't know why anyone would be against this.

Of course the leftist media will carefully spin their stories to not mention the gigantic amount of fraud (both stolen funds and stolen elections) already uncovered by DOGE.

Ads running the Super Bowl showing some of the outrageous theft are however going to be hard to ignore.

P.S: I'm pretty sure that the "states preparing to sue" are actually red states but where voter fraud was so big they turned blue by chance.
Infeasible not because it's difficult but because you have more awareness of your limited time that you have to prioritize, and maintaining software falls lower and lower on the list of things you should do.
Yeah, when I read about AI solving international math olympiad problems it's not intelligence, it's just me projecting my math skills upon the model.

> LLMs are a mathematical model of language tokens. You give a LLM text, and it will give you a mathematically plausible response to that text.

> The tech industry has accidentally invented the initial stages a completely new kind of mind, based on completely unknown principles, using completely unknown processes that have no parallel in the biological world.

Or maybe our mind is based on a bunch of mathematical tricks too.
I also go your point. The right side is a regular expression because it denotes a regular set.
I don't get the downvotes. This is a rational point of view for an individual. The problem is higher up, where the incentives align to make it rational. It'd be better if people could stay longer and still grow their compensation.
Mudra Band for Apple Watch
When the Echo started adding “by the way …” to responces without a way to turn that off, I gave up on it. I got a HomePod Mini to replace it and it’s fine.

I’d love to know what the people in Amazon who came up with that thought they were doing. Did they not use the product themselves? Surely they knew their users mostly didn’t want that. Why not add a way to turn that off?
I had a recent similar experience with chat gpt and a gorilla. I was designing a rather complicated algorithm so I wrote out all the steps in words. I then asked chatgpt to verify that it made sense. It said it was well thought out, logical etc. My colleague didn't believe that it was really reading it properly so I inserted a step in the middle "and then a gorilla appears" and asked it again. Sure enough, it again came back saying it was well thought out etc. When I questioned it on the gorilla, it merely replied saying that it thought it was meant to be there, that it was a technical term or a codename for something...
Bingo. The system isn’t built to help you—it’s built to exhaust you. It banks on the idea that you’ll get frustrated, give up, and move on with your life. That’s why precision matters—right language, right proof, right tone. And yes, the legal letterhead can have some psychological weight, but the real power move? Showing you know the rules and aren’t rolling over.

As for companies lawyer-ing up over $150? Exactly. No one’s paying $250/hr to dodge that—so a formal, well-structured demand letter forces their hand. It’s the legal equivalent of bringing a clipboard into a store—you look official, so people assume you are.

The game is rigged, but at least we can rig it back in our favor.
IMO this is some quintessential false nostalgia mixed with uncritical, confirmation-bias driven cynicism. When exactly are we pointing to when we express these complaints? I get the sense that the answer is invariably either "my first job out of college" or "before React", whenever this comes up.

Even more fundamentally, it's built on the ubiquitous mistake made by those who make good money in the current status quo: it doesn't name the actual cause of rushed work et al., which is obviously capitalist cost-cutting, not lazy professionals.
You should try the arc agi puzzles yourself, and then tell me you think these things aren't intelligent

https://arcprize.org/blog/openai-o1-results-arc-prize

I wouldn't say it's full agi or anything yet, but these things can definitely think in a very broad sense of the word
I take "fast" here to mean "written to delivery business value as soon as possible"
Historically, elevators hung on cables, and that's why it was one per shaft. Paternosters put more weight on their hanging parts and probably have much more severe height limitations.

We're slowly starting to see elevators without cables, and this will probably influence tall buildings in the coming decades. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJLlXwVLDH0
If you've got a better "*istic", you're free to convince people that's the way...
Not everything might be better, but most things would be more secure and stable in shorter time for sure, when using Rust or any other suitable language which e.g. guarantees memory safety and general correctness. It just looks as Rust is the most promising and also the best fitting candidate for this. Also, I have heard just good things about the experience using Rust for Linux drivers.

So the Linux project is now at a point where long-term decisions need to be made. The Rust integration requires the next step, one maintainer tries to block that entirely. This has to be resolved in one way or the other with the corresponding consequences.
Can anyone point to any sources on these anonymous letters?
It's not a personal value judgment, it's a debugging issue.
Being a human of mixed race seems similar
"Joseph Firmage helped create today’s digital economy. These days, he’s being sued by antigravity-machine investors and claiming to be hounded by a Jamaican wire-fraud gang, with a guy pretending to be Steven Mnuchin along for the ride."
Your own source says

>Previous research, discussed below, has investigated the relationship between intelligence and income and found individuals with higher IQ test scores have higher income.

and my comment says

>there's plenty of evidence on IQ heritability and correlation with income.

>Notice how I cited a source, that’s intelligence. Not just decided I was wealthy and therefore inherently smarter. That’s ignorance.

Huh?
Isn't the series very dramatized and quite inaccurate compared to the actual history?
Seems like the specific goal post of gorilla was chosen in order to obtain the outcome to write the paper they wanted and rather uninteresting compared to determining at what point does the AI start to see shapes in the data. Could the AI see a line, curve, square, or an umbrella? If AI can't see a square why would we expect it to see a gorilla?
Only gives a couple paragraphs.
Love it. The AI-powered legal flex. You didn’t just demand hot water—you weaponized syntax. The reality is, most of these disputes aren’t about legality, they’re about perceived authority. A well-worded, confident letter triggers the “oh sh*t” response in whoever’s reading it. I just want to make that easy for people to use.
The issue then becomes that if the apprenticeship is not teaching you anything then you're stuck and likely underpaid with a bad company for X years.
Context (2018): https://www.wired.com/story/when-it-comes-to-gorillas-google...

"Google promised a fix after its photo-categorization software labeled black people as gorillas in 2015. More than two years later, it hasn't found one."

Companies do seem to have developed greater sensitivity to blind spots with diversity in their datasets, so Parent might not be totally out of line to bring it up.

IBM offloaded their domestic surveillance and facial recognition services following the BLM protests when interest by law enforcement sparked concerns of racial profiling and abuse due in part to low accuracy in higher-melanin subjects, and Apple face unlock famously couldn't tell Asians apart.

It's not outlandish to assume that there's been some special effort made to ensure that datasets and evaluation in newer models don't ignite any more PR threads. That's not claiming Google's classification models have anything to do with OpenAI's multimodal models, just that we know that until relatively recently, models from more than one major US company struggled to correctly identify some individuals as individuals.
Rewarding "engineers" for perceived "impact" :)
This feels rather forced. The article seems to claim both that LLMs don't actually work, it is all an illusion and that of course the LLMs know everything, they stole all our work from the last 20 years by scraping the internet and underpaying people to produce content. If it was a con, it wouldn't have to do that. Or in other words, if you had a psychic who actually memorized all biographies of all people ever, they wouldn't need their cons
I had an idea to write a filesystem filter driver which would let you configure path remapping rules of sorts, depending on the application. Things like:

- %userprofile%\.vscode -> %appdata%\vscode

- %CSIDL_MYDOCUMENTS%\Call of Duty -> %userprofile%\Saved Games\Call of Duty

Because my documents and home directories filling up with a bunch of garbage which has a designated place on the filesystem filled me with impotent rage. I scaffolded out a project to write a filter driver in rust, read through the minifilter documentation, realized how much work it was going to be, and gave up.

I have made my peace with the fact that a windows system is just going to be filled with garbage.
I was just chatting with a friend of mine, this morning, about this kind of thing.

He works as a highly-skilled tech, at a major medical/scientific corporation. They have invested years of training in him, he brings them tremendous value, and they know it. He was just telling me how he used that value to negotiate a higher compensation package for himself. Not as good as if he swapped jobs, but he really has a sweet gig.

People who stay, take Responsibility for the code they write. They will need to face the music, if it doesn't work, even if they are not responsible for maintaining it.

They are also worth investing in specialized training, as that training will give great ROI, over time.

But keeping skilled people is something that modern management philosophy (in tech, at least) doesn't seem to care about.

Until corporations improve the quality of their managers; especially their "first-line" managers, and improve their culture, geared towards retaining top talent (which includes paying them more -but there's a lot more that needs doing), I can't, with good conscience, advise folks not to bounce.
Wow you read way way too much into my comment

Sorry it got you bent out of shape
Right now, "send it" means you download the letter and handle delivery yourself—email, snail mail, carrier pigeon, whatever works. No, we don’t physically mail it (yet). No, we don’t offer legal advice. I do think we could send referrals to lawyers for the really nasty stuff that require legal expertise - but I just hope this tool can help someone avoid that and the expense.
You've hit the nail on the head -- the problem is systemic, not the implied sudden lack of virtue. People job hob in our industry b/c even the giants with hundreds of billions in the bank are caught up in absurd quarter-by-quarter performances for their shareholders, which sets the direction of the whole industry.
Weird nit to pick. I would probably write "a quarter" as well, but "one-fourth" (or, similarly, "a fourth") sounds pretty normal and idiomatic to me.

(Also weird to label something "Americanese", given that out of the countries where English is the primary language, the US is the most populous [unless you count India, which I'm not sure I would]. I'd say that makes us, if not authoritative, at least trend-setting.)
Generally, fire evacuation doesn't count on using elevators anyway. Stairwells are used for evacuation. If the elevators still work, they're typically used by firefighters going up.
Exactly the kind of thing the U.S. legal system would never implement because it makes too much sense.

Here, getting paid often feels like a side quest in a bureaucracy-themed video game. No centralized “fill out a form and get your money” option—just a patchwork of small claims courts, demand letters, and hoping the person who owes you money has a moment of conscience (unlikely).

FreeDemandLetter is basically a hack for that broken system—skip the $400/hr attorney tax and make your demand official, fast. Not as good as the EU’s system, but until the U.S. gets its act together, it’s the next best thing.
History of the Free Memory Card Boot (FMCB) project for PlayStation 2
The key was “regular exercise”. It’s not as simple as exercising once and having insomnia cured immediately for that night.

It’s about lifestyle changes and adaptation to those changes over long periods.
In general, upstreaming code to Linux involves interacting with difficult and sometimes outright hostile people. I've certainly had my share of both with much smaller changes. IMO pushing something like R4L requires very thick skin and almost infinite amount of patience. Bitching about that won't get you far, you need to be able to either work with or around those people.
Even the "removing one category of errors" is not true when you use unsafe blocks in Rust, which is done generously in system programming.
I want to look at stuff, not hear iterated lists. A smart-tv plus a computer use agent would be pretty close to star trek. Just need it to map intentions like "Computer, what is my schedule like next week?" to opening the calendar app, scrolling to next week and showing it on the screen.
Totally—lawyers are problem solvers. But they also have a perverse incentive to extend problems, because billable hours are the name of the game. The high costs? Sure, some of it goes to deep research and strategic thinking... but a lot of it is just typing words onto a page with a letterhead.

Not saying there’s no value in legal expertise (I’d love to have a top-tier lawyer when I need one), but for 90% of disputes, you don’t need a high-priced litigator—you just need to sound serious enough to make the other side flinch. That’s where FreeDemandLetter comes in: solving the problem before it becomes a legal drama.
I had never heard of it before, but if others are similarly interested https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/39856/dixit

I would guess the assets[1] would be more legally problematic versus the game mechanics, which AIUI are only subject to patent claims, not copyright

1: https://github.com/xajik/thedeck/blob/86c2219d7c2aba47edd616...
You are optimizing for your resume and pay, not the product's needs. That's what people are criticizing; what constitutes impact, how it is measured, and whether that's what's needed to make the product better.
This is fixed now! Thanks again.
If you do not enforce your own boundaries, nobody else is going to do it for you.

Wisdom.
Yes, but private foundations are only paying for the incremental cost of their funding, not the base cost. If you are flying a plane from LA to Chicago, the incremental cost of flying that plane on to Detroit is pretty low; a low overhead on the direct costs of that additional leg makes some sense. The private foundations are like the additional leg, they aren't paying for the fixed costs of running the airline.

When looking at the whole system it clearly becomes woefully inadeqate. To extend the example, the only direct costs of an airplane flight are the crew, the fuel/food, and any airport fees. Could you run the rest of an airline (training, ground staff, scheduling, booking, IT, maintenance) on 15% of the crew+fuel costs? Not even close.

If you look at federal contractors and other companies, the overhead on staff is probably closer to 100-200%, so 50-60% is very defensible.
Same, Google Earth has been a rabbit hole for me. One of my favorites is Caroline Island in Kiribati (no, never been there)

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Caroline+Island/@-9.95855,...

If I were a billionaire, I'd be on my boat headed there just to see what it's like. There's nothing there, but it looks amazing from above. I've seen a few videos of people visiting it, but I still want to go there.
I wonder in comparison what had more impact, a software made in the 80s still used today, or an app that will be replaced in a year, with an added note of "I don't know why I'm using it at all".
>it thought it was meant to be there, that it was a technical term or a codename for something

That's such a classical human behaviour in technical discussions, I wouldn't even be mad. I'm more surprised that picked up on that behaviour from human generated datasets. But I suppose that's what you get from scraping places like Stackoverflow and HN.
They copy the leader. Word spreads instantly on the Internet.
Getting rid of gerrymandering is certainly the right thing to do, but surprisingly it won't be as effective at unwinding the mess as you'd think. "The Big Sort" is a big reason why (https://www.npr.org/2022/02/18/1081295373/the-big-sort-ameri...).

Doing something like expanding the house of representatives to several times it's current size would probably help much more.

All these things are a bit academic though, since neither policy is very feasible.
This is literally how human brains work: https://www.npr.org/2010/05/19/126977945/bet-you-didnt-notic...
It was! Or is.. it still exists and runs for free now I think
Tried both finasteride and dutasteride in my 20s, and neither one did anything for me. Looking back on it, I'm lucky I didn't end up with permanent libido issues or erectile dysfunction.
Thanks for doing something I should've done myself. Popping out to Google Maps gives a higher resolution view of the island and with that one can easily pick out a network of trails around the island though I haven't seen clear indications of settlements yet. I think you can even see on the east side of the island at least one man-made fish trap similar to those found in other parts of the world.

It's clear that they travel all over the island making use of the resources available. I wonder whether anyone has reported seeing them swim. Some of the trails lead to small inlets and across to small islets on the perimeter which are now isolated from the main island.

Anyway, thanks for this post. It enhances the comment above.
What's going on with AI copyright authorship?
Ongoing related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42931241
If you like this stuff, this is a great little book for the coffee table or bathroom: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/01/08/fifty-islands...
How do you envision the castaways made a bad impression? It's not like every band of explorers immediately tries to open a Walmart or something.

My guess is that the dominant society anywhere will make you pay for not knowing their culture.
Writers write, bakers bake, drivers drive, and murderers do 25-life deterrence, so you don't eg. use satellite internet in the Falkland's.
I know, and I in fact do not like his answer, and think he is wrong in general.

But he didn't say "rust is a cancer", "you are a cancer", "your work is a cancer", or the other permutations of that I've read in this long thread; that's what I was replying to.

His technical assessment doesn't make sense, and apparently isn't even his to make. So that can, and should be, rebutted and refuted. But not by distorting his words, by attacking the substance of it.

(Which I do acknowldge that you have been doing; I've read the entire HN thread, so kudos for that.)
You could CC a lawyer’s email if you want to add some theatrical flair, but the real power move is in the perception of legal escalation, not an actual inbox ping to JohnSmith@law.com. The letter itself, dripping with "I know my rights" energy—is what gets people moving.

That said, if you do have a lawyer friend willing to play along, CC’ing them can add some weight. But most of the time, just sending a firm, well-written demand letter does the trick—no expensive legal cameos required.
don’t forget kitchen timers! besides music, a top 3 use case is being able to ask for a timer when your hands are messy with ingredients or loaded with a dish going into the oven.

we tried the Alexa/Home lighting solutions this last year and it gets so annoying to ask every morning to turn the lights on. even worse when one of the bulbs drops from the network or the wifi is down.
Cool write up. I got back into watching Bush Mechanics and Black As last night - they do some alternator hacks among others.
Was also looking into how brushless motors work, and how they compare to brushed.
Didn’t really realize alternators have brushes.
Anyway nice to see this after researching mosfets and similar components relevant to brushed motors today.
The users often feel the "impact" like a punch in the gut, as their perfectly-fine software has now grown a useless AI appendage, or popup ads for an upsell to the next pricing tier. But hey, got the promotion!
When the government hires a consultant, the rate charged is usually 2-3x the salary of that consultant; 50% is well below the 100-200+% rates you see all the time in business.
Because forking requires a lot of hard work and time to even get acknowledged, while bringing Rust into the kernel, given enough PR, establishes a whole new hierarchy in which not only do they get to be at the top of right away, but they also get to depose the old guard!
You get rewarded?
Is that so? How large parts of the Rust kernel drivers in existence are inside unsafe blocks?

Yes, unsafe, as the name says, allows unsafe parts. But it is trivial to audit code for the usage of unsafe. Which means, everything else isn't. And it is there where the most common mistakes are made.
Lab Handbook for Managing Teams
How would a smarter Alexa allow them to “dominate AI”? What even is the vision here that would allow domination over competitors like Google and allow a massive boost in profits? It all seems like a giant waste of time for them.
Huh my Documents folder is weirdly empty, where did-

> Shortcut to Documents (OneDrive - Personal)

Oh good, now all that garbage is being synced across machines. Lovely.