skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The more I learn about how AI companies trained their models, the more obvious it is that the rest of us are just suckers. We're out here assuming that laws matter, that we should never misrepresent or hide what we're doing for our work, that we should honor our own terms of use and the terms of use of other sites/products, that if we register for a website or piece of content we should always use our work email address so that the person or company on the other side of that exchange can make a reasonable decision about whether we can or should have access to it.

What we should have been doing all along is YOLO-ing everything. It's only illegal if you get caught. And if you get big enough before you get caught then the rules never have to apply to you anyway.

Suckers. All of us.
Thanks for giving it a look! And thank you for the kind words

Yes, scaling is going to be in interesting problem to solve. I may need accounts for things in the future such as saving beans and making lists or something but for the functionality of rating and finding beans I want to stay account-less.

I love your suggestion about adding some gamification to the site. I'll have to think about how that could be done well in the context of coffee.
Oracle Drags Its Feet in the JavaScript Trademark Dispute
Well, people definitely often claim that Rust solves all memory safety issues (not true) and they also often neglect to carefully distinguish between memory safety and other safety issues (e.g. already in terminology "safe language").
Pudgy Penguins' Layer 2 Network, Abstract, Struggles to Attract Liquidity
I always tell the story of this restaurant 18 km from my house. If I order their cheapest 6 euro hamburger they deliver it for free within 30 minutes. If I take a taxi to the restaurant I may have to wait for an hour and it costs about 100 euro and another 100 to get back.
Oh thank you, I did not notice that.
And it's hard to argue that your method you "thought" would eliminate bias actually does eliminate the bias you set out to eliminate.

The only way to do that is compare results with expectations, no?
vague memories of Starfish Prime

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfish_Prime#After_effects

where they accidentally created a new radiation belt in orbit

and destroyed some of the first commercial satellites
This makes sense, effective post-mortems don't focus on assigning blame. They try to identify and fix the problem. The issue with AI is that it's such a black-box right now, this process is likely not feasible. If an AI makes a decision that turns out to be wrong, there's no reliable way to identify and fix the problem. You can prompt engineer or finetune or re-train the model, but in the end you can only hope that issue has been fixed. I think the black-box nature of AI makes it different from other systems we use.
Doctor + PT + brace.

Those are the things you'll need to start solving this before it gets worse.
Eight bits of advice to flourish at the Recurse Center
Palantir's Billionaire CEO Just Can't Stop Talking About Killing People
Thanks! We don't have it right now but it's something we've thought about and may implement in the future.
Swartz committed suicide because he was mentally ill. He also attempted suicide multiple times in his life while not being "bullied".

If he was acting rationally and came to the conclusion that dying was better than spending X years in jail, he would have committed suicide after sentencing, not before any trial had even happened.
My theory is that if someone is such a fan to be inviting Musk to events or vigorously defending him online, in the year 2025.. it's had to ignore his social views... they may in fact be doing it because of his social views.
haha yes, thank you for sharing. I wanted to get out an MVP to see if people would actually want something like this. It was a balance between spending too much time making it perfect upfront vs. getting something out to test the desire for a site link this.
Also would be a fallacy to believe that his business's alleged successes are because of him and not despite of him.
Let's not forget that Finasteride has horrific side effects for men and can induce permanent / major sexual dysfunctions and drops in libido.
Came here to do a worse job of writing this comment. Terrain generation via water simulations are cool, except they don't work for the primary use cases for terrain generation. Water simulations are inherently slow you have to choose to either

1) Have a small domain

2) Have a large resolution

3) Have a very long initial load time

Any of these suck for game development.
Elon Musk's Doge Is Working on a Custom Chatbot Called GSAi
True story, happened when I was around 18: https://imgur.com/fNd55hB
This is a matter of operator precedence and tokenization. Tokens are single characters in this language, and there is an invisible operator between them.

If the operator were explicit (let’s call it ~), the example would look like this:

$ echo 'cat' | trre 'c:d~a:o~t:g'
dog

With unnecessary parentheses:

$ echo 'cat' | trre '(c:d)~(a:o)~(t:g)'
dog
Sorry, I'm genuinely confused about what you're saying. If you think no one is worried about plastic except you I honestly don't know how you could possibly get that impression.
> You need to be a bit more expansive. Turing-computable functions need to halt and return eventually. (And they need to be proven to halt.)

This is pedantry. Any non-halting function can be decomposed into a step function and a loop. What matters is that step function. But ignoring that, human existence halts, and so human thought processes can be treated as a singular function that halts.

> Depends on which AI models you are talking about? When generating content, humans have access to vastly more computational resources than current AI models. To give a really silly example: as a human I can swirl some water around in a bucket and be inspired by the sight. A current AI model does not have the computational resources to simulate the bucket of water (nor does it have a robotic arm and a camera to interact with the real thing instead.)

An AI model does not have computational resources. It's a bunch of numbers. The point is not the actual execution but theoretical computational power if unconstrained by execution environment.

The Church-Turing thesis also presupposes an unlimited amount of time and storage.
Why not. Their hegemony is used as a weapon of war, since 1998 when Microsoft was condemned-but-not-penalized for its monopoly. Make it costly for USA to spy & conquer.
Meanwhile: “DOGE chief Musk asks X users if staffer who quit over racist tweets should be rehired” (https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/07/elon-musk-doge-racist-treasu...)

This is the guy who said things like:

“You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity.”

“Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool.”

“Normalize Indian hate.”

“I just want a eugenic immigration policy, is that too much to ask.”

Why is YC normalizing what looks a whole lot like neo-nazism with a smug grin?
The original comment you responded to made no comparative claims. It simply offered another person's attempt to describe. Feynman is fairly famous but nonetheless an authoritative source relative to most of the population (probably more so than both of us, though I don't know you do have little basis beyond priors [sorry if you have greater credibility than Feynman, I didn't know]). Feynman is less authoritative on the subject than the authors of the article but still... Being well known doesn't remove the authority level that Feynman does have on the topic.

I should, perhaps, have used:

0. Average person
You are all a bunch of sick freaks
Transparency that allows consumers to make their own, informed decisions is "discrimination against useful tools"? What the fuck am I even reading?
Funny to see this one pop up today (I wrote this one way back when) but I just refreshed it into a video on my channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-opv4REEic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amtrak%27s_25_Hz_traction_powe... predates standardized 60 Hz, and still hasn't been converted (!!)
This is a great thought. I'll have to do some planning around this. Though I'd assume if you don't like light roasts you'd not be buying them and then would have nothing to rate. But trusting the users to not "hate rate" may not be the bust idea.
Tech Giants Double Down on AI Spending and Data Centers
Why is this not said in the same light as politics in the US? E.g trump government demands...so in this case its Labour's Starmer government?
But the license doesn’t apply to me as a customer if I can’t be expected to even notice it. If I buy a book in a bookstore, no one would assume that training LLMs on it would be explicitly forbidden. And adding a note to the book would probably not be binding because no one is expected to read the legal notice in a book.
Instead of zip use the following?

Use Addresses
Use Census Units
Use your own Spatial Index

Why not lat, long?
I like portmaster for this on windows.
ChatGPT in Shambles
Estimated spend in 2025 of the 4 largest companies in this category will be $320B in total:

Amazon 100B
Microsoft 80B
Google 75B
Meta 65B
This tracks nearly 1 to 1 with my experience growing up in Brazil. Nice to see someone so accomplished pointing it out, thanks for sharing
> For example, James Hansen predicted the west side highway in NY would be underwater by 2008. I don't want Hansen stripped of any credentials or anything like that. But it's reasonable for me to ask that he make a public statement acknowledging his error.

There is a bell curve distribution of views on any subject. You can always find the most extreme case if you want to. It sounds like James Hansen is one of the most extreme cases on one side. You can also find extreme cases on the other side who were proven wrong.

I notice that you aren't interested in them making statements acknowledging their errors. I wonder why.

> publish all data and source code for all climatology papers.

These are scientists doing their research. They come to their conclusions. If all their data, source code, etc. were made open, people who don't want to acknowledge climate change will cherrypick and find a few inevitable errors and claim they disprove the consensus of scientists, akin to the way you picked James Hanson above. If you want to believe the scientists are involved in some kind of collusion, you will, whether or not they open all those aspects their research. Very simply, it isn't worth the trouble and that's why it's not being done.

> Some code once leaked from the Climate Research Unit and it included hardcoded values and a comment that their person was to "hide the decline."

Yes, there are dishonest scientists on all sides of any question that has a large number of scientists involved, just as is true in any field. Finding one of them should not be new information. You should predict it, and when it happens, say "Yep, just as I predicted!".

What you definitely shouldn't do is cherrypick it and pretend it proves anything, or pay any attention to anyone who does so.

It doesn't invalidate the position that that scientist's dishonest research appeared to be supporting, which is also supported by the overwhelming majority of honest scientists.

> Both of these points are imminently reasonable and if you make any excuses or push back in the slightest, then I am absolutely justified to retain my skepticism.

Go right ahead! I will not reply further in this subthread.
I mean: koalas
I'm not clear that writing with different tools is really the same as writing in different contexts? Writing in a different context would be that you have learned to write your letters, but now you are learning to write poetry. Different kinds of poetry, even.

My point for aligning changes on beats is that you are learning to count a mixed radix, effectively. We don't teach it that way, anymore, as positional numbers have grown to be what many of us think of as numbers. But mixed radix counting is the norm in the world in ways that people just don't realize anymore.
I just disable the notifications entirely. If you don't want me to view it as a garbage dump stop putting all your garbage there.
Updated to "favors one side 51%".
Those aren't inconsistent at all.

My point was that there's no inherent value in simply stating and defending one of many possible, hypothetical claims. On the other hand, there is value in stating someone else's actual claim as clearly as possible, and then showing why that claim is wrong.
It's also worth noting that one of the ways the five eyes get around domestic spying laws is to spy on each other's citizens. So the CIA spy on British citizens the UK government want to spy on, and GCHQ spy on American citizens the US government want to spy on. So this would indirectly allow the US government to spy on US citizens (even more than it already does, anyway)
It all started in Australia .....
"Two decades after Google acquired a tiny Australian startup called Where 2 Technologies, which created Maps, the product continues to gallop ahead."
It's so great how he has created enormous success for himself on substack. Everyone always says jazz is dead and there is no audience; his writing proves the naysayers are wrong.
The US CLOUD act says something similar to your straw man (though it doesn't ban E2E encryption like the UK is attempting to do):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act

Note that it the bar is having the ability to access the server, so this law is completely incompatible with most GPDR solutions: It's illegal to store European user data and then refuse to hand it over to US law enforcement, regardless of whether the data is stored in Europe or the request breaks European law.
I knew a guy like this. He was fairly transparent about the fact that he talked a lot of bullshit about himself, in the sense that he didn't keep it realistic and didn't respond to reasonable skepticism the way a normal person would, but a lot of people responded positively to it. The people it worked on, they recognized that he wasn't speaking literal truth and mentally discounted what he said by some large percentage, thinking that they were critically adjusting for his boastfulness. But he painted such a grandiose picture of himself that anyone who subconsciously assumed that 10% of it was true would still be impressed.

He was a weird dude. I think he grew up in a household where outrageous boasting was common and had been doing it so long that it was his authentic self. He desperately wanted people to be impressed with him, and he had mastered a strategy that had a consistent yield, but the people it didn't work on looked down on him pretty severely, and he didn't have any way of earning their respect. He had to trust in the fact that over time he would tend to find himself surrounded by people he could manipulate.
They really can't , not to mention there are other diseases like "Lichen Planus Pilaris" that currently have no cures.
Nokia's patent win throws Amazon's video streaming in Germany in doubt
Snowden chose that lifestyle. If he had stayed in the US, he would be out of prison already, just without a security clearance. The longest sentence anyone ever got for leaking government information to the media is 63 months, with a release after 50 months on good behavior.
Yes, I am, very much sure of that, based on 20 years of experience deploying containers that way, and nearly the same length of experience using cloud instances. They are equivalent in complexity. It is purely down to how you want to host things and whether cost matters to you - the managed approach is consistently significantly cheaper for all but the very, very smallest environments where factors like discounts and free tiers play in.
Musk has gone completely mask off, and many in VC land have followed.

It's one thing to think the "woke" went too far or argue over some fringe issues.. its another to think any of the above statements are acceptable, make nazi salutes on stage (and then troll tweet about it), etc.
...and use H3 instead! https://h3geo.org/
For real, I have a 20TB drive available, and I would seed this indefinitely.
Come on, it's about replacements. They're easier to express (meaning literally easier to type out) with the author's syntax

Great project
Merge the NBA so there is no gender requirements at all, (and don't have DEI) and you will be left with JUST MEN! Roll eyes x100000. The long term of your view excludes ALL biological women from sports forever.

It is laughable and dangerous. Stop.
The laws they allegedly broke were the taxi medallion cartel laws, which were the things keeping taxis terrible by limiting supply and competition. And those laws in general apply to the drivers rather than the ride hailing service. There is also a lot of ambiguity there, e.g. if you have a ride sharing service where people go on the app to find people to carpool with on a trip they'd be making anyway and then contribute gas money, is that a taxi service?

But the taxi services obviously hated the competition and waged a continuing media campaign to paint the renegades as the villains.
An Intel employee in a reply makes a extremely good point that I think everyone these days needs to follow

> And if you're wondering why you didn't realize this: It's impossible to
change people by telling them they're wrong. What does tend to work is
explaining different perspectives, so that they can figure it out
themselves. And sometimes that's just way too subtle to ever register.
100% I love self-hosting all my services, self-hosting means freedom. I'm using old parts from my PC, email, nextcloud, tor node, game servers, and, yes, even AI stuff with the gpu I threw in there.
The power of the purse was deliberately placed with Congress in Article I, Section 9, Clause 7: "No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law." This isn't about liking or disliking powers, it's about maintaining the constitutional balance that protects everyone's rights.
Article II Section 1 establishes the presidency and electoral process, but the Take Care Clause in Section 3 actually requires the President to faithfully execute Congress's laws. This separation of powers exists specifically to prevent any branch from exercising unchecked authority over public funds.
Changing funding requires congressional action because that's a core protection built into our system. It's not an obstacle to be worked around, it's a fundamental safeguard of our constitutional republic.
Yeah I get it, but I think we're talking past each other. You're a knowledgeable user and the new APIs made it possible not to worry about uBlock getting hijacked. I'm an extension developer, and I see an appalling disconnect between what Google says and the reality of Chrome extensions and Chrome Web Store for regular (non-technical) users.
To be fair, Ocean Beach is much larger than a single neighborhood. Semantics I guess.
Yes. The tldr is that this is a drug that showed promise that is in the early pretrial stages. Most drugs fail before they reach the market. Even if this one doesn't, it will take a decade at least before this will be available.
I would watch this romcom.
I love the TIL concept. I've done many fewer than Josh, but it's a great way to consolidate things you've learned and show that you know stuff and like to know new stuff without having to publish a fully-fledged project for every skill.

I'm interested to hear more from the HN crowd about how to demonstrate skills to others & keep track of things you've learned.
if Indians are so free from colonialism, why are their parents forcing them to choose between medicine or tech, simply so they can get a job on the antipode of where they are born??
That is the point. "redundant" duplication of data is needed.
Zip codes are just weird to use for anything other than mail in general because they’re set up based off infrastructure.

CGP Grey has a great video on this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1K5oDtVAYzk
yep, pretty much.
That Science paper

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq7055

ought to be retracted, it is using the same ad-hoc methods that we used to wrongly fit power laws to statistical distributions when I was a grad student 30 years ago. I wrote a trash paper too and I'm still angry about not feeling psychologically safe to bring the issue up.

A postdoc who was there wrote a paper many years later about the right way to do it

https://arxiv.org/abs/0706.1062

I don't think anybody read it. Note that the Science paper uses the "Pearson product moment correlation" which is "can only be used to measure the relationship between two variables which are both normally distributed" -- and there's nothing normally distributed here.
People use ZIP codes because they have ZIP codes.

No one has census blocks.

And coordinates can work but lack some inherent advantages, such as human readability and a semblance of pop density normalization.
How is the market for developers with 10+ years of experience?
I've seen quite a few posts to the effect that finding a developer position has become increasingly difficult over the past two or three years, following the tight labor market conditions of 2022.

But I have a hard time reconciling those posts with my own experience. Many of my friends, who have been in the field for around the same amount of time, don't seem to have any great difficulty finding positions. Recruiters still reach out regularly.

Has the job market for developers really declined overall? Or has slackening demand hit certain types of role (e.g. frontend) or experience bands (junior/mid)?

https://www.axios.com/2024/07/18/rise-and-fall-of-software-developer-jobs
There are definitely people using static analysis to write memory safe C. This is not really practical though, but getting a reasonable level of memory safety is very much possible using tools and good design. People dismiss this because it is not perfect, but this completely fails to take into account that - in practice - Rust is also far from being memory safe due to use of unsafe.

Whether it was proposed by Linus or not, it still driven by a small amount of people. I do not think it was a good idea from Linus to allow it. I understand the arguments he had, but I think it was a mistake. In the past, he kept the C++ programmers out and I always thought this was a wise decision. And the arguments for C++ were not entirely different, except it was not memory safety but object orientation which was "clearly needed" and "the right way" and everything C is old, obsolete, and wrong. By just saying no he kept this discussions away.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250206052923/https://www.ft.co...
sweet, I did my "Diplom" CS thesis around 1997 on finite state transducers. was mich less trivial than I'd thought. the ask was to implement composition and DFAs where possible. also for composed transducers. "algebra of finite state transducers". use case was morphology. the topic was heavily underestimated and I had to finish half way through. so: chapeau :-)

anyhow

wrt syntax, are you sure you want ':' to bind stronger than concatenation 'ab' ?
Interestingly, the phrase came from the singers time working in a lab doing work on cells
I looked them up and they are not terribly old but did Ancient and Modern History at Oxford - the guy who did the law and philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford - Home Secretary. I doubt they are very up on tech.
So many layers of baiting in this post. I'm kind of impressed. It's also not particularly interesting beyond that.
Getting rid of ad supported content and SEO optimizations? Nothing of value will be lost. There is nothing “free” about the tracking and evilness of adtech.

I have been paying $20/month for ChatGPT with web search just so I could avoid sites like yours.

The first thing I see when I go to your site is a half page cookie banner that wants me to accept tracking.
awesome! how do you do email delivery? i still have to route things through an external service to get that to really work. oh yeah, i gave my son access and he hosts Rust and Minecraft servers.

i'm looking into doing security cam + AI. just canceled my Nest subscription.