skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've not followed the literature very closely for some time - what problem are they trying to solve in the first place? They write "for documents to be effectively used in RAG pipelines, they must be split into smaller, semantically meaningful chunks". Segmenting each page by paragraphs doesn't seem like a particularly hard vision problem, nor do I see why an OCR system would need to incorporate an LLM (which seem more like a demonstration of overfitting than a "language model" in any literal sense, going by ChatGPT). Perhaps I'm just out of the loop.

Finally, I must point out that statements in the vein of "Why [product] 2.0 Changes Everything" are more often than not a load of humbug.
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>How are you making the jump from calibrating your emotional response to distant political changes that have no immediate significance on your own life, are par for humanity, and don’t matter in the long run, to nihilism in your immediate experience of meaning?

The primary difference I see between these two is how you define "your immediate experience". At what distance does something become "distant political changes" that can be ignored? Because almost all of us lead "par for humanity" lives that "don’t matter in the long run" so why care about any of it if that is the extent of what matters?
6502 and 680x0 were just a delight. I learned C (and later C++) solely because I couldn’t escape x86 anymore and hated assembly on those chips.

Still do, really, though I’m decades beyond wanting to write anything in assembly now.
Are you arguing that USAID is entirely some CIA operation or are you arguing for throwing the baby out with the bathwater? Because this is not evidence that the entire organization is a net negative for the world.
I know this figure comes from road wear. I don't know if it applies to tire wear, and indeed I suspect it doesn't, if only because tires tend to scale with vehicle weight as you mentioned. I think road wear may be associated with structural cracking of the road which may not change significantly with tire area.
> Why not just accept that maybe there is something to the rhetoric?

Yeah, fair enough
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Yes, we provide meaningful options grants to all teammates (standard 4 year vest with a one year cliff).
> and yes I got FSD

Make sure you demand new hardware for your car:

https://electrek.co/2025/01/29/elon-musk-finally-admits-that...

Tesla's claim that they had solved the hardware problem eight years ago was a lie:

https://electrek.co/2024/08/24/tesla-deletes-its-blog-post-s...
long read… https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/debanking-and-debunki...
I saw this posted on the aviation subreddit and after gaining a few dozen comments, it seems to have been deleted. Strange times since it is seems this is very relevant there. I'm glad an article like this can exist here.
So true! May I add that timing and context matters too. When I was living in Paris I used to read on the subway to and from work, which added up to 30 minutes a day. I went through lots of books that I would otherwise not have the mental strength to bring myself to read when I’m at home and I have my laptop as an alternative…
147 reported crimes in a month in NYC's very busy subway. That's it.

Don't let social media fool you. The US is not becoming a crime ridden cesspool, the only stinking I smell is from scaremongers that profit from your fear.
Feel free to shoot me an email: jared.silver@brilliant.org
Go away. Just go away. Sometimes too much cynicism is toxic.

Donating blood is good for other people regardless of the profit motive from the company.

And if you're talking about the Red Cross, their CEO is reported to make less than 700k/year.

That's not bad for running one of the largest medical non-profits in the world.
I got into 6502 assembly when trying to do bit manipulations on an Apple IIc back in the day.

The problem was that Applesoft basic set the high bit on data going out a serial or parallel port which was a problem for printing and sending data out through a modem. So if you wanted to keep the high bit one had to use 6502 assembly.
Sadly, it's super common in business to delay paying up.
Surely these days much of that is done by robots?

And will only be increasingly robotic with advances in AI.
So are we okay with this? We don’t want to hurt industries or the market so we should accept this, right? I think it’s extremely important that Nestle and Coca Cola continue to be successful. I certainly don’t mind eating plastic if it means the market does well.

Okay I’m sorry for the snark but when these articles come up some are like “the studies are inconclusive of the effects” but I’m just like “there’s plastic in your brain!”
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They have copied the external look of the rockets (which is, for obvious reasons, not protected by ITAR), but to my knowledge no one, China or otherwise, has managed to match the internal engineering prowess nearly a decade later.

To say that China is "very effective at copying all the stuff SpaceX is doing" is quite the stretch.
Is your claim seriously that Kamala Harris's image on cultural issues like trans rights did not harm her election campaign? One of Trump's most successful campaign ads was the one that included her talking about government-funded gender affirming care for people in prison. It even has its own Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_is_for_they/them). The fact that this stuff started in 2019 that she won as VP in 2020 is irrelevant; it _clearly_ was an issue in the 2024 that hurt her.

But that's just one example of many. There's also, say, Biden's handling of the border. Even though in 2022 it was clearly deeply unpopular and playing right into Trump's reelection campaign, he didn't change course (until too late) because of pressure from groups like the ACLU.

Overall, IMO one of the biggest factors in Trump's reelection is that the left and the center-left _talked_ about Trump being a big problem, but were unwilling to actually alter their policies or behavior or messaging to broaden their appeal and ensure Trump lost.
Not that I'm aware of, it just queries Wikipedia's random api. But unless there's something going on behind the scenes that I don't know about then maybe?
I was trying to figure out from the headline if they meant enough microplastics to fill the bowl of a spoon or microplastics equivalent to a plastic spoon. I don't know why everyone is allergic to weights and measures.

If they're going for shock value they should use something more sinister than a spoon. Like enough plastic to make a little decorative Halloween spider. People would be more frightened by a spider than a spoonful of plastic.
I'm interested to hear what your experience has been dealing with optional data. For example if the input pdf has fields which are sometimes not populated or nonexistent, is Gemini smart enough to leave those fields blank in the output schema? Usually the LLM tries to please you and makes up values here.
You see this time and time again.

If you want to reduce crime in an area simply make it busier.
qq: Is your code relativistic correct? (GR?) Or is this just newton.
More police and less crime - you don’t say.

Real takeaway is make an area expensive and crime will go away, since poor people will too. Basically the safest areas are the richest.
> I'd definitely prefer my backups in the hands of compassionate people.

I prefer them in the hands of competent people, in a building with climate control.

Heard about the time these compassionate folks tried to run a bank and got shut down in the Obama era?

> Unwillingness to open accounts within the field of membership, make loans, and establish operations in the low-income community where the credit union was chartered to serve

https://ncua.gov/newsroom/press-release/2016/internet-archiv...
Time was, this advertising was on broadcast TV. So I can't say I am entirely surprised ads which used to place on the 4-5 global (within an economy) sources shifted here.

I'd love to know how this volume of video ads relates to the adjusted dollar cost of TV placement worldwide.
I haven’t gone so far as to create a dataset, but you can use GitHub search to quickly peruse the top open source Zig repositories: https://github.com/search?q=+language%3AZig+stars%3A%3E1000&....

All of them, with the notable exception of tigerbeetle, a financial transactions database, have issue trackers which are littered with users reporting segfaults. I don’t really know if it’s more common than in popular Rust repositories, but this is my highly anecdotal, qualitative investigation.

What worries me is that when you dig into specific issues for root causes, there seem to be a lot of different root causes and not a lot of obvious fixes. And segfaults are just the tip of the iceberg, the most obvious memory errors. I don’t think people are reporting heap corruption in the same way, if ever.
Show HN: I built an effective productivity timer
hi HN,

I built https://x-clock.com .

I often finds myself bouncing between tasks and getting easily distracted things (be it soc med, phone, rubiks cube, etc) around me. I’ve been looking for a solution (a timer) that not only tracks time but also reminds me of what the hell I’m supposed to be doing to help me stay on track. You know, that kind of accountability for my focus and discipline.

I searched for web timers available in the google but couldn’t find exactly what I was looking for. There is this pomodoro web app, but I didn't want to setup that much task. Extra buttons is encouraging me to add more task I can. What I am looking for is just a plain simple one. so I built it myself and called it X-Clock. Its a a simple web timer that you can open in a separate window or screen. You can set your task and the timer while displaying a reminder of your goals or what you need to accomplish within that time. No more distractions, just pure focus.

I thought I’d share it here since it’s been working pretty well for me. It might help someone else too to practice deep focus to complete their tasks.

I'd suggest give it a try. Think of something you want to complete for an hour. Open the x-clock in another window, then commit yourself to completing it. When you feel like you are getting distracted, read the task from the x-clock that you want to complete. or post a thought bothering you in the freedom wall and see if it has make you feel better.

Would love to hear what you think! Also, if you have any feature suggestions, feel free to share. I might be able to implement them.
Oh SBT is awful and I can see why drags down the reputation of the whole language. I stick to Maven and I don't understand why other people don't do the same.
The Guardian just did a story along these lines: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/26/elon-musk...
I did the same thing but brought back Facebook and Instagram. The controls are great if you spend time filtering — I actually enjoy both now.

If you want to stay informed. Apple News. Same deal, filter away. Ditch The NY Times and pick a few newspapers domestic and international. You’ll get news without the bullshit:
The fourth power law is usually applied to deformation of asphalt roadways (here's a citation for that: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Maxwell-Lay/publication...); I haven't heard it applied to tires before. If I had to guess I'd agree with you - I would expect a smaller exponent, particularly if the tires are designed for the given load.
The problem is that you are not performing "normal browsing behavior". The vast majority of the population (at least ~70% don't use ad-blockers) have no extensions and change no settings, so they are 100% fingerprintable every time, which lets them through immediately.
Everyone dies. What I find amusing is the concern of privileged Westerns who have probably seldom had to do a day of physical labor in their lives who think they can save the world from nature with their expertise and hope to profit and gain social status and better mating opportunities by doing so. It is nothing different from what primates Musk and Trump are doing. It is just playing a different game with the same goal. People want to influence the world, do good, so other people will give them higher status. Every single one of my human ancestors died. Most of them lived a more natural life than the livestock and zoo exhibits we see on the Earth planet today.

All tech is vanity. If you want to survive the coming collapse learn to live as wild humans. Become hard. Make a living from the land as your ancestors did. Learn how to solve real problems. The future is dark. Only the smart and the strong will survive. Theories don't matter. What matters is what works in nature. We may not live to see the collapse but it is coming. The easy resources of the world are being exhausted. There are no replacements that are not more expensive to save us. Technology will not save us because we are constrained by the laws of physics and limited resources on this single planet. Primate humans will not leave the earth planet because no habitable other world lies within traversing distance. The only way for the species to survive is to downsize and return to it's ancestral habits and find a religion that is life supporting and hope a true space faring species does not find our world and harvest it for it's meat before we can become quieter and less noticable to the hunters. Even then there is hope if we are the product of alien bioengineering in primates that we will be saved by our shepherd species. It is also more probable that we are alone in the universe or the local group. Time will tell. However with agglomeration of billions of tweeting, soft, delusional, meat bearing creatures I fear our world is ripe for harvest by a race of space faring carnivores if it is within traversable space from wherever they may be coming. Maybe they have wormhole technology. We should be humbler, keep the secrets of time secret and love our families and downsize and be smaller and less noticable like our early mammal forebears.

The meek shall inherit the earth and who knows what shall emerge from the bottomless pit.

We know less than we believe. We should act more than strive to know.

Live a humble, simple life, loving your family and particular social band in accordance with the Georgia Guidance whose monument was unfortunately blown up in accordance with the delusional zeitgeist that humans cause human problems and humans can solve human problems. Humans are a product of nature and subject to nature. Nothing more, nothing less. Even if there was an engineering project to create a more intelligent ape, it's still an ape. Don't forget. Your destiny, Adam, is not in the stars but on the planet Earth.
I watched one of these movies after reading this discussion on HN. It was blocked halfway thru the movie "not available in this region" (European IP address).
Thanks for finding my point!
Sounds like you don't have an argument or analogy and are going for ad hominem and deflection instead.
The story about being bullied, the way Musk tell is, is very incomplete.
I agree.

@OP: Look for the threads in https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring and post in the correct one.
Not that long ago I got in a lovely HN argument over Why bother with the complexity of FLAC for 2X compression at best vs. the absolute stupid triviality of RIFF containing PCM? The only swaying feature was standardized metadata :P
It’s not?

How non-racist of you (and non-presumptuous) to “eliminate someone’s privilege” based solely on the color of their skin. You do know there are poor and disadvantaged white people too, right? You might even be surprised that they outnumber black people.

And shame on you for even thinking you have the right to make such a call, or even entertain such a notion.

Talk about privilege.
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And the beards all grow longer overnight.
It’s not an “approved social media site”:

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/new...

Presumably there’s some money that needs to change hands between the NFL and a social media site.
Yeah, I’d expect EVs to get lighter over time as technology progresses. Car bloat is a much bigger problem. Totally insane that little practical city cars like the Honda Fit have gone practically extinct in the US in favor of bigger, heavier cars that don’t even necessarily bring improved cargo capacity for all that extra bulk.
I've seen this before, a belief that just because the output looks random that it is secure. It's like storing license plates -- just hashing them without additional seasoning is of little use, because the number of possible license plates is so low that they can easily be brute forced.

Similarly, a developer I worked with once claimed that CRC32 was sufficient verification because CRC32s changed so drastically depending on the data that they were difficult to forge. He was surprised to find out not only is it trivial to update a CRC32, but also to determine the CRC polynomial itself from very few samples.
What do people here think about Cloudflare's WebRTC stuff?
Well, it still tells us something. What are the upper and lower bounds of whole brain microplastic content, given that 25% variation?
Although mentioned in the article as something Eric Adams has said, that's not actually what the article is talking about - this is comparing subway crimes before and after congestion pricing
Roads and road standards are a tragedy of the commons. People keep buying bigger cars and demanding more, wider lanes and parking spaces because they don't take any of the burden individually - it's the taxpayers as a whole that foot the bill.

Paradoxically most of the 'small government' types are often the biggest road users.
In fact I have! And that has greatly informed my opinion: the people I encountered in those countries were every bit as capable as common Americans, but they lacked the institutional support which Americans so easily take for granted.
How many were reported in January 2019?
"Friends" here means members of the National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees.
I don't know what you want to claim by the link, it literally says "Unverified – No official CBP data has been released to confirm Trump’s claim."
The situation with H.264 is complicated by the fact that it refers to a whole series of standards released over an extended period. The vast majority of H.264 videos in the wild only use the High profile which was first published in March of 2005, therefor any claim of essential patents covering these videos with an expiration date after March 2025 is dubious.

MPEG-LA tries to create FUD around this by lumping all H.264 patents into one big pool and never clarifying which edition of the standard a patent applies to. The end result is that anyone not already ignoring MPEG-LA's patents is unlikely to start until _all_ of the patents in MPEG-LA's H.264 pool have expired which is still several years out.
Delaware is bad for business, go to Texas.
There was massive deployment of police in 2024 and this is YoY, per the data crime has been on a downward trend the whole year really and even throughout 2023. Despite the news New York subways have never really been dangerous at large.

Not to mention the deployment of the national Guard, more surveillance, etc.
The method is the same, it just looks different when n=1. I.e. the method is "wait until you see something particularly anomalous occuring, probe, see if the reaction is human like". The more times you say "well you can't count that as anomalous, an actual person can look like that too and a bot could try to fake that!" the less effective it becomes at blocking bots.

This approach clearly blocks bots so it's not enough to say "just don't ever do things which have false positives" and it's a bit silly to say "just don't ever do the things which have false positives, but for my specific false positives only - leave the other methods please!"
If hippies no longer buy Tesla, then maybe all of the MAGA will, or maybe Trump will require the USPS or the federal government or any company wanting to do business with the federal government to buy Tesla.

Anything you can imagine is possible.
For (2), I believe they want to interact with the DOM directly (via whatever language the rest of the app is written in) without needing to go through JavaScript.
The trick to life is finding the exact right amount of fucks to give.
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And only one of them was a person being burnt to death
baity headlines that scare the shit out of you, exactly what I’m NOT looking for on HN
> But he cannot just decide "ABC is a waste of money, let's abolish the agency and use that $X/year to pay off the debt instead". Do you agree? Or are you claiming that the President could unilaterally abolish the ABC agency and stop doing ABC?

Oh I agree, if the law Congress passed was explicit in the funding and the purpose of it.

My comment was more around the multitude of spending in the federal government that is not tied to a specific purpose approved by Congress.

Which is why USAID is likely being targeted.

I would argue that the room to maneuver is where the courts will need to decide - if the President is still following the law but not spending all the money, what happens? Or if the money spent is shifted significantly but still represents a “good faith” effort to follow the law, is that allowed?
People who "sell" rugpulls and stonks, complain when banks who have signed fiduciary obligations in law and backed by huge asset piles which could be seized say "not through us"

It is kind of shitty that fintech is gate-keeped by the incumbents if you want to make a shitload of money being disruptive but if you are an ordinary joe with income being banked and bills to pay, that $250,000 state backed guarantee of my money is worth having.

I am strongly in favour of debanking. Should there be an appeal process? Sure.
You offer more and better training for everyone. It's not the job of the organization itself to enable their success - just offer a fair test. Others, like the organization mentioned in this article, can and should focus on specific constituent representation. However, the goal of getting more of a specific group into an organization is NOT more important than the safety and efficacy of the organization.
Hi there.
I have had some somewhat nsfw content pop up but nothing quite that extreme.
If there isn't a clearcut way to solve this via the api, I'll talk to Wikimedia about this, as I actually have a chat with them soon!
Thanks for letting me know.
Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Government needs transparency so we can find and eliminate fraud.
zero… the answer is zero :)
The thing is that an amphibious invasion will likely not be the first move in the war. China will almost certainly strike hard to try and neuter US air and seapower close to the First Island Chain, and then impose a blockade to starve Taiwan into submission. The war would then center around the US and its allies trying to penetrate China's A2AD complex and keep food and supplies coming to Taiwan, while China builds up an invasion fleet after extensive use of airpower against Taiwanese ground installations that could threaten a beachhead.