skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think jina's Reader-LM is a good example. It's useful (I use it) and LLM is too much for this use.
Sorghum is acceptable I believe. It’s the fifth most produced crop in the world. It sounds like what might not have been acceptable is using wild yeasts to ferment it.
The Attraction of Homelessness (2009)
Craving "authenticity" is somewhere very high up the hierarchy of needs, i.e. a luxury. That a lot of people do not care much for it is not a sign of moral failing but of having bigger fish to fry.
Not to the future victims of the Aztecs.
can you say something redeemable about the plot that doesnt invoke "brought back the cast"?
The grid is still visible in Mexico City today. All the canals you see in the reconstruction essentially became the streets as they were gradually filled in.
Entering data into a Google Sheet on mobile is not fun in my opinion.
This seems short sighted. We as a society know that research, sometimes "obviously" useless research, is a necessity. We used to finance research through corporate taxes, leading to Bell Labs, Xerox PARC, IBM Research and others. We moved that effort to universities. We made our universities attractive to the best minds in the world, they are a jewel in the US' metaphorical crown.

Why throw that out? This is about the alleged liberalness of universities, isn't it?
I don’t see how voting works as an analogy. Suburbs would be more apt. I live in one, but I’ll be the first to admit that there’s no defensible reason to do so beyond “I want to.” They’re typically a net negative for counties in terms of tax revenue, they perpetuate car-first infrastructure, they contribute to high housing costs, and they don’t produce anything of value, like rural areas can (farms, land preservation).
I’ve come to this same conclusion. Been able to code up something that would’ve taken me a week to do back in the day with Claude in 2 hours. I’ve given canvas csvs and seen it run analysis on them in minutes that would’ve take me day to do when I used to run R scripts and throw them into slides. This probably just the beginning too…
> Even Claude/ChatGPT will suggest it as an optimisation.

LLMs just repeat what people on the internet say, and people are often wrong.
Left lanes are for passing. If you are in the left lane and not passing, guess what.
I think I'd only go back as an intangible ghost, unaffected by disease, needs and danger.

Basically I'm imagining a VR with an immersive window to the past, not actually going back.
Talking Reverse Engineering with Eric Schlaepfer [video]
How is it "debasement"? People create bitcoin for no particular reason except that they can and the Fed creates (and destroys) money as a part of managing the currency.

Bitcoin has wild swings in value just because. It has no inherent value so it can be priced at anything. Meanwhile the Fed manages the USD to keep the currency stable, ie avoiding inflation or deflation as much as possible.

You can't debase bitcoin because it has no basis to begin with.
Ach wirklich? https://www.mopo.de/hamburg/pendler-aufgepasst-verdi-ruft-no...

That aside, it's just working 'so so' on many lines. I prefer my bicycle mostly, when I'm there. Which opens its own can of worms, because danger of theft, or heavy weight of chains and locks, and fumbling with them. And that fucking card system of theirs, for ppl who have no Deutschland-ticket is rather stupid. Maybe I should get one, but makes no sense for only a few weeks per year (Or so I thought).
People are upset partly because the new administration is taking the law into its own hands, and partly because it seems to be acting without any planning or research, and seems to be going about it recklessly and without concern for consequences.

Regarding USAID specifically, it was set up in the aftermath of the Foreign Assistance Act by John F. Kennedy, and as an agency it was later established as law by Congress. Trump cannot legally shut down USAID without another act of Congress, and he cannot legally redirect its funds, which have already been appropriated. The administration is well within their right to change how the funds are allocated, but so far the stated intention has been to shut off all foreign aid, not change what aid is provided.

The fact that Warren Christopher etc. wanted to get rid of USAID 27 years ago is irrelevant, since that plan was never adopted and did not call for shutting off foreign aid, so it's not comparable. It's just misdirection.

It's also difficult to take arguments for "government waste" seriously in the case of USAID. First, the agency has a tiny budget of around $50B (2023), 16x less than Medicare, or around 0.8% of the entire state budget. Secondly, it was explicitly set up to give away money. Waste is its raison d'etre! Reports show its admin overhead being around 7.7%, which is very low for an aid organization.

It's pretty clear that USAID isn't cut because of waste, but because the Trump administration wants to stop giving aid to poor foreign countries. However, they're not so inclined to say that out loud.

It's also a self-own because USAID is an important soft power tool. It's one of the ways the US can project a positive image on the world, something it has been very good at since the post-war period.
Waffle means something very different though in the U.S., to “flip-flop” on a position. Not hold it for any fundamental reasons. But I don’t think you can say that an LLM holds a position whatsoever. Also, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit the essay originally popularizing the definition of bullshit considered here. Note the references to LLM output at he bottom.
Of course it's not the 1:1 expense passthrough of PG&E's multidecade sponsorship of just Newsom's family that alone causes higher rates.

It's the tens of millions in political contributions to not just Newsom at every stage if his career but also his allies & ilk.

Plus tens of millions more in donations to favored "charitable" projects of family & cronies of politicians like Newsom & his allies.

Plus harder-to-tally overpriced jobs & contracts steered to the "right" (regime-aligned) consultants, firms, & unions. (Did you notice how the glowing character reference in the Wapo article, about how immune to influence Newsom is, comes from a former Newsom advisor – & member of his wife's nonprofit board – who currently has PG&E as a paying client of his PR firm?)

All the cash & favors are then topped off with a showy cheerfulness to "accept the responsibility" of extra costs from those state-idiosyncratic "regulations" you mention.

But of course that's the quid pro quo of their monopoly remaining unchallenged, & all costs more-than-passed-on to ratepayers – so the ruling machine including Newsom can keep getting their beaks wet in all PG&E's spending & donation fountains.

To look at only the formal campaign contributions against revenues, & accept as excuse a cover-story for extra corrupt expenditures ("regulations are very different"), & then conclude "no problem" is exactly why milking ratepayers this way, spreading the loot widely, is such a enduringly great racket.
One more nitpick on the upper bound of the GCD: since we know that 0 is going to be in every column, one of the row numbers must start with a 0 and will be an 8-digit number (0 in the first cell). The GCD can't be larger than the smallest row number.

The GCD search should start at 098,765,432 and then go down from there.
Agreed, the white text is very low contrast against the plasma background. Did you intend dark text?
Probably more a matter of history and habit than something fundamentally different about perception. I didn't have a terminal or computer that could display colors until I was well into my career, already used to monochrome displays and reading code printed out on paper.

I use linters and static code analyzers extensively, because I don't have an IDE or LSP flagging errors. I tried using VSCode (with and without colors), stuck with it for a while, but it felt slower and buggier than my usual vim + ctags + ripgrep setup.
This was exactly my path. Is it safe to switch back to Firefox now?

Firefox on Android still doesn't look like it has the ability to save pages. Chrome and Kiwi both have this feature, and Firefox used to have it via extension that triggered built-in, but unexposed, functionality.
I agree that clumps usually end up blocking passing lanes, but they're also bad when in any lane(s).
Then they committed fraud.
In Thailand, if you ask to install a screen protector on your phone, they may take your phone to a back room, attempt to install malware. Similar risks apply to all second hand device updates.
The comment you are replying to is nothing more than an insult. The two-word sarcastic quip it got in response was actually funny.
Google faked Gemini AI output in Super Bowl ad
As a counterpoint, I much prefer the street layout of European cities to grids. I don't think the grid is particularly impressive; just a sign of a particular urban organization.
> whether or not you wear lipstick has high heritability.

Think about this example. The genetic factor here is massive, much higher than anyone is claiming for IQ. Can you imagine how hopelessly lost you would be if your analysis of lipstick distribution in the population focused on its heritability and link to genetics?
Who "demand[ed] the same quality of life they had"?
Generally it's not that the limit is higher - it's that your body gets used to it and you don't notice your worsened baseline.
Worse, doing one of the idioms for a conditional move ends up getting gcc to actually produce a conditional move, but clang doesn't, even with its __builtin_unpredictable: https://www.godbolt.org/z/bq9axzvjG
Interesting! Thanks for sharing this, made me revisit the huberman podcast on this topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq6WHJzOkno

He echoes what you said, summarizing: "If your goal is hypertrophy and strength don't do cold immersion until 4 hours or more after your workout".

If we can trust the studies Huberman cites, you can get many benefits from cold plunge and also avoid that post-workout caveat if it's relevant.
This is probably the joint most important piece of software on my system next to my window manager.

The elevator pitch I give for this software is "QMK for any keyboard" - you can use layers, tap dance etc. with regular keyboards that have programming symbols in sane locations with dedicated keys.

I use this with a Logitech Ergo K860, and have taken it a step further to integrate with my window manager so that layers change automatically based on the focused application[1].

[1]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komokana
Hi Kye, I tried a version of this model to assess its capabilities.

I would recommend you to try to run the llama-based distill (same size, same quantization) that you can find here: https://huggingface.co/bartowski/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8...

It should take the same amount of memory as the one you currently have.

In my experience the Llama version performs much better at adhering to the prompt, understanding data in multiple languages, and going in-depth in its responses.
There are some exceptions; IMO "dress" pants are more comfortable than jeans. Details vary within each category, of course.
"Chimes at Midnight" is a clever Orson Welles film that combines all of the Falstaff scenes from the various Shakespeare plays that he appears in.
“We should simply replace the Committee with Google” is not a compelling reason to switch to Carbon. It’s actually kind of the opposite of that.
When I was a child watching my dad fix things around the farm. I was amazed at his power to manipulate the physical world; welding, angle grinding, hammering, etc.

I was always amazed by the back of the television and asked him "Dad, how does electricity work?". He didn't know.

From that moment, I was imbued with purpose.

When we got our first computer I sought desperately to know how it worked and how it was built.

My first year of computer science at university was uninspiring. I learned to code but I wanted to know how people coded without operating systems, without using a computer. I was annoyed by the chicken and egg nature of it.

In my second year we did the "hardware/software" interface and read Patterson and Hennessy's Computer Architecture and Design.

When we made our way to the diagram of the basic von Neumann architecture, my childhood questions, that previously no one could answer, was answered.

The world made sense. And it was the class your now teaching that finally satisfied my childhood questions.
I know who Luna is.

When your argument is "a person said it so it's probably true", the natural next step is to ascertain whether that person is credible or not. That's not an instance of the ad hominem fallacy.
Previously posted by the article author himself 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42970842
You think it's competition from old space firms that has motivated SpaceX to move quickly and become the world leader in mass to orbit?

It's a maniacal desire to achieve the goal of colonizing mars that motivates SpaceX to move quickly
Ironically, it's quite annoying figuring out what actually gets executed when you open a gui app on linux. I think the same is true on Windows.
These are from our 2024 CDR.fyi Year in Review, which pulls data from hundreds of public and private data sources to develop as comprehensive view of the market as possible. A lot of progress but a lot to do to scale the market:

Growth: The CDR market grew 78% in 2024 with the total purchased volume reaching almost 8 million tonnes. However, it is still highly concentrated, with 80% of purchases coming from Microsoft, Google, Stripe, and Frontier buyers .

Delivery: 318.6K tonnes of Durable CDR were delivered, a 120% increase from 2023 . The delivery-to-booking ratio remains low at 4.4%, but this is expected at this stage .

Investment: $836M of equity capital was invested into Durable CDR companies in 2024, a 30% decline from 2023 . However, the number of investments and average size of the investments both increased when we exclude outlier transactions in 2022 and 2023.

Warning Signs: The number of unique purchasers grew only 7% and first-time buyers declined 18%. Repeat buyer volume grew 95% and accounted for 91% of purchased volume; new buy volume remained essentially flat compared to 2023, and represented only 9% of purchased volume.

Challenges: The number of suppliers increased 16%, but consolidation is likely without an influx of new buyers. The sector is at risk of premature price-driven competition, potentially harming high-cost but innovative methods . More voluntary buyers and favorable policy are required for the market to continue growing.
Using an LLM to revamp my site
Show HN: A Mental Health Therapy Assistant for Between Sessions
Good morning HN!

I'm building a mental health therapy agent called invis that patients can talk to in between therapy sessions. The agent is designed to provide Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) style care and help patients utilize DBT skills in their everyday life.

The project was recently invited by a local research university to go through a pilot study with patients!

Some of the interesting features that the agent has:
- Learns from therapist's progress notes to provide clinically-relevant care to the patient between therapy sessions.

- Memory system to remember conversations over time.

- Summarize most recent interactions and provide to therapists before next therapy session.

- Voice calling support for easier rapport building with the agent.

- DBT skills implementation help. Teach DBT skills that are grounded in clinical backing from all 5 modules: Core Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation, Interpersonal Effectiveness, and Walking the Middle Path.

- Provide crisis resources if under extreme distress.

The link is my website and a demo video, the provider UI has changed since the video filming after some suggestions from a DBT psychologist.

Thanks,
Tristan
> The AI didn't hallucinate anything because it didn't generate anything, the entire premise is simply fake.

The article literally says it's not a hallucination and that the detail came from real websites.

"Google executive Jerry Dischler said this was not a “hallucination” – where AI systems invent untrue information – but rather a reflection of the fact the untrue information is contained in the websites that Gemini scrapes..."
TFA is the linked article that was posted to HN.
Adobe was trying to figure out how to position Flash in the aftermath of the iPhone. I will forever remember one of their concepts was using a variety of devices to share one experience, like your example of a board game that uses different devices for common and private elements.

20y later, it's disappointing that this is still a novelty. I think Nintendo had a tank game for the Switch, but I never got to try it because everyone needed his own copy and a Switch. Jackbox are the only ones I've seen ship something people actually play this way.

Adaptive design still hasn't been capitalized on as well as it ought to be. Everything is so optimized for metrics and commerce, and good design often gets lost in the fray.
> I continue to think RSS Reader should be a function of browser

There's a spotty history of this. Internet Explorer 7 had the ability to subscribe to RSS feeds: https://www.bnsf.com/customers/rss/browsers-ie7.html
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I'm not familiar with NOAA's methodology for this - but for Honolulu, I suspect there are both "sea levels rising", and local subsidence issues. It's on the island of O'ahu. Which is purely volcanic, created by the the Hawaii hotspot. And O'ahu is now fading away, because that hotspot has moved on. So part of the seeming sea level rise there could be due to the ground subsiding a bit, both from thermal contraction as deeper rocks slowly cool, and perhaps some draining of deep magma chambers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_Hawaiian_volcanoe...
This is at least the second embarrassment with a high-profile Google AI ad/demo.

(I'm also thinking of when, in the LLM boat-missed frenzy, they faked an interactive AI demo, to make it look much more responsive than their actual tech was.)

I'm unclear on how either incident was allowed to happen.
> probably generally best to avoid using the word “they” in these discussions. the english language sucks sometimes.

Thanks for this specific sentence.

Subscribed to your RSS feed. Although I will never know for sure if a human being posts there or a bot of some sort.
Sure, we could alloy and/or plate it. You have a source on Ag cheaper than Al you'd like to disclose to the class?
>Through [The] Emerson [Collective], Powell Jobs owns The Atlantic and a stake in Axios.

A tidbit that might help to connect the dots between the political & the apolitical. Or not.
The funding / design was mandated by Richard Shelby in the senate to preserve the jobs related to space shuttle tech. SLS is the definition of pork barrel spending
This. I get why people have started using LLMs for this and I think it's great in theory, but the black box nature and possibility of hallucination makes it a non starter for me. Having the LLM generate scripts which you can then validate for correctness seems more plausible.

I also worry that this approach will lead to a sort of further reification of data science. While things have already trended this way, data science is not about applying a few routine formulas to a data set. Done properly, it is far more exploratory and all about building an understanding of the unique properties and significance of a particular data set. I worry the use of these tools will greatly reduce the exploratory phase and lead to analyses that simply confirm biases or typical conclusions rather than yielding new insight.
You can read a first-person (colonial) perspective from someone who was there.

"When I beheld the scenes around me, I thought within myself, this was the garden of the world. All of the wonders I beheld that day, nothing now remains. All is overthrown and lost."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historia_verdadera_de_la_con...
loads for me, have cookies,java script, dom storage, off by default..add blockers on, I get just the text
which is just fine

still dont understand how a major disk maker got caught up in something as skeezy as this though
Reminds me of the StarCraft map looking at it.
That is tragic. Europeans, with inferior civil engineering skills but superior military weapons, decimate a civilization instead of transferring and absorbing their technology and then take a few hundred years to catch up. It's a tech lesson that some of us still fail to understand.
College kids in my day just drank and drank and drank and learned to deal with hangovers.

College kids today tend to alternate one alcoholic to one water. They don't really have hangovers.

They're smarter than we were.
Oh, you feel the need to defend nazis?
I personally would not trust Huberman. Just look at his blatant shilling of questionable products for sponsorship (AG1, being the best example). Look at the studies he cites, I suppose, but there’s plenty of low quality studies that can be cited to try to prove a bad opinion.
Pixelfed crowdfunds more open source social alternatives for the Fediverse
A true market doesn't exist.
I wonder how much of that is just lack of awareness. E.g., the whole story at [0] needn't have occurred if anyone involved were aware of VM emulation for older OS versions. But there's no money in selling old software, and Apple would probably open themselves up to lawsuits ("you told me to use a VM, and then it got hacked!") if they openly advertised it.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35401895
This is getting awfully tedious. Are you trolling or do you genuinely think responding to a question about actual compute cost trends with a venture fund's puff piece about sticker price trends is helpful?
Exactly that.

Scheduling is a consensus thing and the consensus may or may not be reached until AFTER the event.
It's disappointing that Steam doesn't have a free publishing option for open source apps. The $100 publishing fee can be enough to relegate a game to GitHub rather than Steam, and I'd much rather install from Steam than figure out how to use an AppImage or whatever got posted to a GitHub Releases page.

There's enough weird anime porn garbage on Steam that I think they can handle a few hundred/thousand open source games of varying quality.
Roughly parallel to reasons for hating/revering Apple..

Not surprising, now that Powell Jobs is that very "capitalist-class owner"
And this BS comes from a German company. Oof.

Stop pushing EU-wide laws you cannot yourself adhere to.
Not quite the same but reminded me of the Sapeurs in the DRC:

https://www.deoost.com/blog/style-of-the-sapeurs?format=amp
> A lot of our options do change how shaders work though, like forcing a shader to use double precision floats instead of the single it was compiled with.

What benefit would that give? Is double precision faster than single on modern hardware?
Of course his watch is hacked. If anybody's tracking him, it's the boss. Anybody who's ever worked a regular job knows this.
awesome, as long as the people would follow their schedule (which, if you need an AI to schedule your studying, they won’t.)
What does that mean for LLMs? The Internet has lots of poorly written text. If LLMs can't distinguish nuance, ambiguity, or lack of clarity then what exactly are they generating and why would their output be useful?

Taking a poorly written sentence, interpreting it as meaning something incorrect, and then presenting it with authoritative, confident language is very close to gas lighting.
This is what I want to explore with a VR headset.
I mean, these are all useful techniques for scaling Postgres, but, like... they're also a list of why scaling Postgres is hard.
The whole “self driving” that isn’t just seems like an unworkable promise.
Tried Yahtzee, it doesn't look like you can remove the hold on a die after you've rolled?
LLMjacking Targets DeepSeek