skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How come not everyone is an Angel Investor?
An Introduction to Virtual Consensus in Delos
China ATM seems to be a smaller threat to Europe than US.

I wouldn't be surprised if there was some level of EU-China rapprochement as a result.
While enjoying a golden cold drink, we wanted to come up with a cool business idea. As we were throwing around ideas, each one had its strengths and weaknesses. That’s exactly what led us to create Cresh! We’ve been working on it since June 2023 with a team of four friends, completely flipping the concept along the way. By day, we’re all programmers who love learning as much as possible—especially when it comes to finding smarter ways to make life easier!
> The part that always made this obviously insane for any systems-thinking person is as follows [...] if the problems are indeed as dire as claimed, then instead, proper steps must be taken to solve the root causes of the perceived disparities—and also, proper steps must be taken to ensure that the base assumptions you started with

That's why a smart systems-thinking person kept it to themselves.

It's a funny thing. It's one of those issues where everyone in the room will publicly always nod and agree with at the time, yet everyone thinks "this is not going to lead to a good outcome".

So basically everyone could see the train crashing at some point but nobody would say anything.

An evidence of this is as soon as the "floodgates" opened, all these companies started dropping DEI initiatives and closing departments like that. If their bottom lines clearly showed they had improved their financials due to it, they would adamantly defend it or double down. But they are not:

Boeing:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/boeing-quietly-dis...

Meta:

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/10/tech/meta-ends-dei-progra...

Not sure how you'd call this phenomenon? Ideological prisoner's dilemma? It should have a name, I feel.
When you put it that way it does seem like a win win for both sides. The Trump haters get almost a year of paid vacation and the administration gets less internal drama.
Yeah, I think they're going to play a classical "make money from both sides" role. They'll titrate the amount of commerce they do with all parties so that everybody is equally unhappy but equally dependent on China.
> Good management is invaluable

Good management is life and death, particularly for a startup. If you think you can do without it and you're not a good manager yourself then it's going to be a struggle to execute.

> ...you'll deeply regret building on Serverless Functions

Whatever serverless functions promise in scalability, they'll cost you in terms of complexity. Trying to build a cohesive backend entirely in a serverless environment just isn't worth it when it's trivial to boot up a simple, long-running server. Even running locally is a pain in the ass compared to `rails s` or `fastapi dev`.

God forbid your serverless environment is actually on the edge, at which point most of the stuff you're used to using won't work.
> In s1, when the LLM tries to stop thinking with "</think>", they force it to keep going by replacing it with "Wait". It’ll then begin to second guess and double check its answer. They do this to trim or extend thinking time (trimming is just abruptly inserting "</think>")

I know some are really opposed to anthropomorphizing here, but this feels eerily similar to the way humans work, ie. if you just dedicate more time to analyzing and thinking about the task, you are more likely to find a better solution

It also feels analogous to navigating a tree, the more time you have to explore the nodes, the bigger the space you'll have covered, hence higher chance of getting a more optimal solution

At the same time, if you have "better intuition" (better training?), you might be able to find a good solution faster, without needing to think too much about it
Versioning versus Coordination
where do you get your "curated" news sir?
What line of thinking you're referring to?

Transformers were aimed to solve the "context" problem and authors, being aware that RNNs don't scale at all neither do they solve that particular problem, had to come up with the algorithm that overcomes both of those issues. It turned out that the self-attention compute-scale was the crucial ingredient to solve the problem, something that RNNs were totally incapable of.

They modeled the algorithm to run on the hardware they had at that time available but hardware developed afterwards was a direct consequence, or how I called it a byproduct, of transformers proving themselves to be able to continuously scale. Had that not be true, we wouldn't have all those iterations of NVidia chips.

So, although one could say that the NVidia chip design is what enabled the transformers success, one could also say that we wouldn't have those chips if transformers didn't prove themselves to be so damn efficient. And I'm inclined to think the latter.
The slump began from first DJT presidency. US lost the 5G race to China. If deepseek etc. are any indication, they are losing the AI race too. Looking and the prevalence of cheap Chinese EVs all over the world, US is losing on that front too.

Meanwhile MAGA are patting themselves in the back because they are "tired of winning".
The 2025 model of the Hyundai Ioniq 5 has NACS and is my favorite alternative in terms of looks, features, and price. Rivian has been in a different price category so I have a hard time believing the $45k starting price.
Revolutionizing software testing: Introducing LLM-powered bug catchers
> We really have no way of knowing that. It's not like there is any organization that analyzes and critiques the mainstream press in any regular fashion

The "mainstream press" is actually hundreds or thousands of individual institutions, some big, small, and each have their own flaws, strengths, biases, audiences, cultures and incentives. They compete with and often criticize/check one another. It's not even all that unusual for an editorial columnists to lambast their own publications.

I don't want to idealize it too much, but feedback loops for self-correction are baked into the pie, and they do actually work from time to time.

There's a completely different physics in the right-wing media world though, best illustrated by the aftermath of the 2020 election. Fox had to pivot hard to election denialism because they were getting killed in the ratings by upstarts like Newsmax and OANN who went all in on the election lies. The right-wing media feedback loops don't self-correct, they incentivize extremism, grievance and conspiracy theory.

> For instance, the press clearly knew that Biden had major cognitive impairments but they misreported it to the public. There was no accountability at all when the truth was discovered.

This is mostly right-wing media fiction. Stories and commentary on Biden's age were quite frequent in my experience.

(There's basically a whole genre of faux right-wing media criticism in the style of: "The mainstream media won't talk about X...", even while headlines about X all over the place in on "mainstream" media outlets)

> Same with the story of Trump colluding with Russia

It's not quite that simple. That's not a single story, it's was an ongoing series of stories and investigations that developed over time.

There was plenty of measured, careful reporting around all of that stuff. There was plenty of irresponsible reporting too. There was also plenty of self-flagellation afterwards over a lot of it.

(The Trump campaign, along with folks in it's orbit, did collude with Russia. People went to jail. Paul Manafort literally met a Russian spy on a park bench, kind of like you see in the spy movies, to covertly hand over proprietary voter data. Roger Stone was coordinating with Russian hackers and wikileaks to leak hacked DNC data, etc.)

> I'm skeptical of all the talk about "authoritarianism."

If you can't recognize it as a sign of authoritarianism when a sitting president nearly murdered an entire building full of cops, legislators, staff and his own vice president in a mad, desperate bid to nullify an election and seize power, I'm not sure what can break through.

But we are backsliding, there's no doubt about that. How far we fallback will depend on how effectively we oppose... well.. the current ruling party as it currently exists.
In the same way AI will replace bland techno and run of the mill lofi hop hop, it’ll do the same for all the cgi crap Dreamworks puts out twice a year.

AI can copy things that are already copied, but you’ll never get something as paradigm shifting as Toy Story 1.
Looks cool! Congrats!
You can write a fully 32-bit kernel, delegate entering protected mode and using the BIOS to load from disk to the bootloader, and tell your students "this bit won't be on the exam".
Very well done, always nice to see non (not yet?) professional scientists contribute :)

This reminds me I've been meaning to set up a moth trap.
They're probably best in combination, since Beej explains the concepts and Julia helps you type the commands.
It just uses Stripe credit under the hood. So as long as you still have an account registered with us (active subscription or not), you can use that credit to resubscribe any time - or use it on other things, like API credits, or gift codes.
The cybersecurity implications of a clean-energy grid
If you're talking about typeclasses, Roc calls them "abilities" https://www.roc-lang.org/abilities
all of Microsoft's UI is like this and I really don't get it. Forms, WPF, and UWP were all abandoned at different stages of development.

Microsoft ships a UWP demo repository which includes the most fully functional Bluetooth manager anyone has ever built for W10. The stock Bluetooth manager has maybe 10% of the functionality. It's also fundamentally broken in a lot of ways. But this UWP demo they have should have been the stock app. It's wild.

Then of course you still have 50 year old UIs hiding in the lowest levels of the control panel. You can dig through the archeological record on your own pc and look at Win3 UI designs. It's astonishing.

At this point, I don't know anyone who uses any of Microsoft's UI frameworks for a real product. It's either QT or Avalonia or something. Who would ever trust their newest framework when every prior framework was abandoned half-finished and left to rot for years?
In practice it results in the slaughter of entire extended families and neighborhoods [0].

[0] https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/
I am not dehumanizing anyone. I know they are humans, which is why they are behaving as they are. Humans just don’t happen to be better than most other animals when change in relative status (and hence power) is happening.

I used to think we were a little better, though.

For the record, I actually like some of Trump’s ideas, like no (earned) income tax, about Gaza, and I would still buy a Tesla (although I would prefer if a different automaker that isn’t led by someone who makes Nazi salutes would make buying a car as easy as Tesla).

But he’s not the guy I want my kids to see as the leader of their country, both for his character and his support of other policies/traitors/racism/general chaotic nature.
One of the reasons that these attempts to increase diversity are such a mess is because it is illegal to have a straightforward quota.

If these agencies could just have a policy like "Group X is %Y of the population. This agency must hire at least %Y/2 from group X", there would be no need to have these sneaky roundabout methods of increasing equity.
Their nicknames were “I have been through thorough background checks and I am a professional who runs my changes through review and testing before they eventually get deployed.”

Seriously, do you know who does repairs on the sewer lines where you live? No. Does that mean you’re so oblivious that you wouldn’t be concerned by seeing half a dozen young men without any safety gear or official logos digging a six foot trench across the road outside your house?
> I don't think I've seen eggs from outside Denmark for sale in Denmark,

That is because of the strict rules regarding salmonella. Danish chicken farmers will test for salmonella and kill any population of chicken found to have salmonella, leaving our eggs "guaranteed" free of salmonella. Any other country that wish to sell eggs in Denmark will need to be able to make the same guarantee. This is one of the few exceptions for the free movements of goods within the EU.
Worth noting that with 2.0 they're now offering free search tool use for 1,500 queries per day.

Their search costs 7x Perplexity Sonar's but imagine a lot of people will start with Google given they can get a pretty decent amount of search for free now.
If they don't want to charge more though?
>With the exception of Netflix, these other companies' apps are similarly buggy and painful to use.

Yeah it's really annoying that they all recreated the wheel instead of just playing ball with netflix or paying netflix to license their technology. The only feature I miss from another service is that x-ray view stuff that Amazon has to let you know who is in a scene.
I've been thinking about this for a while as well

A question if you have time to answer - How many birds per sq meter do you have? What's your total land area? And how do you deal with accumulation of chicken poop?

Thanks
that implies that the majority of israelis are ethnically from israel... maybe we should look into why DNA tests are banned there
Revenge of the GPT Wrappers: Defensibility in a world of commoditized AI models
Not wrong of course — thank you for your amazing guides! But feedback re: "15.7 Multiple Conflicts in the Rebase":

There are two things I suggest as workflows for people when I teach them about rebase workflows.

> Since rebase “replays” your commits onto the new base one at a time, each replay is a merge conflict opportunity. This means that as you rebase, you might have to resolve multiple conflicts one after another. ... This is why you can conclude a merge with a simple commit, but ...

For multiple conflicts on several commits being replayed, if it's _not_ useful to go through them all one at a time, I suggest that people do a squash first rebase from the fork point (which by definition can not have conflicts) to collapse their commits into a single commit first, and then rebase again from the branch.

For instance, if forked from main:

git rebase -i `git merge-base main --fork-point`

Squash all of those, and then as usual:

git rebase -i main

Second, when rebasing repeatedly onto an evolving branch over time, you'll often find yourself resolving the same merge conflicts over and over again.

"rerere" (https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Rerere) will allow git to "reuse recorded resolution" so that you don't have to do them manually each time.

My gitconfig for these:

[alias]
forked = "!f() { git merge-base $1 --fork-point; }; f"
squash-first = "!f() { git rebase -i `git merge-base $1 --fork-point`; }; f"
[rerere]
enabled = true
I tend to prefer Duff Original Dry and Lite, but that’s just me
I think the war in Iraq really cost a lot of money and we have to pay for it here. Might as well start with Trump doing some slashing and burning. We will have build up from the ground up again.

We have to do this by choice rather than having it because our hand is forced. It's not a choice anybody wants, but it'll be less pain now than later.

I know republicans created these wars but now we just are all going to have to take the pain. Trump is starting with other people taking the pain first.
I dunno, I think it's a real point badly made.

In the first Trump administration, people talked about the emoluments clause and all the ways Trump was getting extra revenue from charging the Secret Service for hotel rooms at his properties when they were protecting him, or pressuring foreign diplomats to stay at his hotel to curry favor, etc etc. But the scale of this stuff was tiny in comparison to federal spending and wouldn't show up on any graph of the national debt or the federal budget.

But then he not only got away with everything, the SCOTUS ruling on immunity for "official acts" gives him broad protection for basically anything going forward. If he was directing Musk to use that Treasury Department payment system to send huge deposits directly to Trump's accounts, there would be no consequences. There's no reason not to milk the office for everything he can, and the institutional safeguards have collapsed.
This is "good enough" for Banks to use when doing due diligence. You'd be surprised how much noise is in the system with the current state of the art: algorithms/web scrapers and entire buildings of humans in places like India.
AMD outsells Intel in the datacenter in Q4 2024
A friend of mine went through this fifteen or so years ago, and the treatment worked like magic. I remember him marveling that it was a purely physical process - like a certain kind of 3D puzzle, where you coax a marble through a maze, and then: ta-da, vertigo is gone!
EDIT: Re-Reading. I think I am some degree of a networker underestimating network complexity. I'll stand by that. Please make fun of me for only speaking in IPs and Ports.

Yeh. There is a very achievable level of knowledge about networking that's enough to make a lot of practical problems solvable.

Like, my practically acquired patchwork of knowledge about subnets, routing, some DNS, some VPN tech, maybe some ideas of masquerading and NAT'ing is easily enough to run a multi-site production environment across a number of networking stacks. And I wouldn't really call these things hard. I don't like people who are like "I don't know networking" once you say "routing table". The hardest part there is to understand how things are often a very large amount of very local decisions and a bunch of crossed fingers to get a packet from A to B. Oh an no one thinks about return paths until they run a site to site VPN.

But just a few steps beyond that is a cliff dropping into a terrifying abyss of complexity. LIke I know acronyms like BGP, CGNAT, ideas like Anycast DNS and kinda what they do, but it turns into very dark and different magik rather quickly. I say if we need that, we need a networker.
Go here: https://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/chicks.html and click "good/better/best" for egg production.

Note the wide variety. When you're doing a backyard chicken coop, you can pick whatever you want, for whatever reason (Rhode Island Red for hardiness, say, or a combo for variety). So not only do you have feed variation, you have breed variation, which can contribute to taste differences.

You also have freshness, as you use the eggs within a day or so of laying.
I think a lot of people in the ML community were excited for Noam Brown to lead the O series at OpenAI because intuitively, a lot of reasoning problems are highly nonlinear i.e. they have a tree-like structure. So some kind of MCTS would work well. O1/O3 don’t seem to use this, and DeepSeek explicitly mentioned difficulties training such a model.

However, I think this is coming. DeepSeek mentioned it was hard to learn a value model for MCTS from scratch, but this doesn’t mean we couldn’t seed it with some annotated data.
Imagine being an unsuspecting passenger in a taxi cab as it goes straight into a pedestrian at full speed. That possibility alone gives me pause to ever let anyone else drive me around.

Cab drivers have an incentive to not cause accidents (I.e., legal liability and loss of licensure etc), but so do Waymos. The difference being that each cab driver makes their own judgment calls whereas the waymo fleet should be the same training set. I’m sure you’ve experienced a wide, wide variety of safety levels from hired drivers; I know I have.
This is one of those things you're shocked to find out didn't exist before.
France is extremely unattractive for research. Lecturers positions suck (high teaching load and you need to speak French). Full-time researcher positions are extremely hard to get, and they pay very little, especially junior position. 2500 euros per month, which isn't enough in Paris and just ok in a smaller city.
I stopped using Debian/Ubuntu in 2014. Was already tired of all the issues, but I met a RHEL trainer that completely broke down all my old teenage prejudices I had against RH. So I spent that very night reinstalling my laptop from Debian to Fedora, and never looked back.

Just started a new job this year and they gave me a Kubuntu workstation. My impression after one month is that nothing has changed, it's still a very bad OS, and KDE tries to be "fool-proof" like Windows but it fails miserably.

There is definitely an advantage to having a big experienced enterprise behind your distro. RHEL is free for personal use, and Fedora of course, but I'd be willing to pay more for a Fedora license than I ever did for a Windows license.
As someone with over a decade of Google Apps management history, my experiences is Workspace customers are practically always the last to get the shiny new features. Quite frustrating.
The sentiments that you see online are meaningless. Ignore what people say and look at what they actually do. I guarantee you that very few US academics will move to Europe. The US has long had positive net migration from Europe, and some temporary changes to federal government funding policies won't significantly change that trend.
I'm not convinced they ever really had the effect people hoped. More often instead I see it used not as a way to show that people are welcome, but as a false flag used to justify arbitrary enforcement of subjective terminology... which they already had the power to do anyways.
There are plenty of libraries/packages for SQL that do all of that for you, too. The choice isn't between a sophisticated ORM and just throwing SQL text at a socket. The fundamental assumption of ORMs is broken, but much of the tooling works well and exists in non-ORM places.
Can skipping rendering affect website behavior? What happens when JS tries to get layout/color information? How often does this break a website?
I've been looking for something to give to the students in my 3rd-year undergrad course. I had high hopes when saw the title, but this isn't it - it's immense and I don't think anyone will read it.

However I'm seriously thinking about patching something together by grabbing appropriate bits of this.
These are interesting stats, but it makes me wonder what those tests exactly are. Are there 3.18% of tests that no browser passes? How applicable are most of these tests to real world websites?
> That's thanks to the type system, though, not enums. Enums are not a type. Enums are a number generator. Hence the name.

What's happened here is that you've mistaken "Things I believe" for "What everybody else believes" but you're talking to other people, not yourself, so, this makes you seem like a blithering idiot.

The particular version of this trap you've fallen into is a variation of the "It's all just the machine integers" mental model from C. It's just a model and the problem arises when you mistake that model for reality.

Now, technically this model isn't even correct for C's abstract machine, but it's close enough for many programmers and it tends to match how they think the hardware works, which is even more confusing for the hardware people who know how it actually works but that's another conversation.

This model is completely useless for languages which don't have the same type system, and so it's no surprise that it immediately led you astray.
"Disturbing" new detail emerges about DeepSeek and what it does with your data
> by proper entities as required by federal law.

What federal law do you suppose is guiding the mass deletions? That doesn't look like archiving to me. Now that the foxes are running the henhouse, how reliable do you suppose their own archives are?