skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well Risc-v isn't as established as 32bit x86 which has a wide breadth of information available. There are also plenty of 32 bit x86 machines still around so testing your OS on real hardware and watching your programs work is quite a treat.
Show HN: Femto – An AI Writing Assistant
Hi! I'm Adit, and I built Femto (www.tryfemto.com)

Femto's an AI writing assistant that aims to help people use AI to complement their writing. I kind of started this partly because I spent a ton of time in college writing up study guides for exams, but I also noticed that there were others out there with similar needs (via social media)

I launched it 3 days ago officially and its features include:
- Extracting Summaries from PDF files
- Creating Study Guides from lectures/class notes
- Organizing meeting minutes (reason: a market that I am trying to validate - young business professionals who are usually responsible for meeting minutes)

These features are currently available via the notes dashboard that the user sees after they sign up.

I have two other tools in works, but I've been trying to talk to users in-person to get some feedback

This is the first thing I have ever built with code (I do not know how to code, this was entirely built using AI), and I would really appreciate any and all feedback.

My current stack is Node.js, Typescript, React and Firebase.

I have a free tier for this (with rate limits), as well as paid tiers for users who might use this regularly. I definitely want to improve my offering so one of the features I've been looking into is creating quizzes and flashcards that can be generated for users after they process their notes.

Thank you for reading about my product, please let me know your thoughts in the comments

edit: fixed typo
DEI started as exactly what the original poster stated. It then has transformed many times, including through quotas (ruled unconstitutional in the 70s), and something similar to what you're talking about, to the more modern notion which is more about getting the best candidates from all populations.

Is there an example where colorblind hiring had a nil or opposite effect? In places I've seen, the opposite has happened. For example, https://www.ashkingroup.com/insights-media/the-power-of-blin...

The only place I can think of where the opposite is with college admissions, but college admissions is a weird thing in general in that I've never understood why admissions is tied to a stronger academic record (ties into, what's the goal of a given college). In areas such as sports, the impact has been even greater -- and there it's not even colorblind, but simply opened up the pool, and is more metrics driven than just about any profession.
I subscribed to International Intrigue, which sends a digestible summary by email every day.

https://www.internationalintrigue.io/
The source article includes primary material that strongly contradicts your anecdote. The policy change arrived in 2013, and there are materials from that same year indicating DEI.

For example, here's an FAA slide from 2013 which explicitly publishes the ambition to place DEI as the core issue ("- How much of a change in jo performance is acceptable to achieve what diversity goals?"):

https://archive.ph/Qgjy5

The evidence in this source does not discuss cronyism, although I believe you that it could have been relevant to your personal experience; it's just false to claim the issue as a whole was unrelated to DEI.
I never tire of seeing this come up on HN. Thanks Xe.
It's been discussed here before but there are amazingly good soviet films available on YouTube.
If I deliberately hire whites more than other races nobody would deny that is discrimination. If I deliberately hire more minorities than whites, that is not discrimination?
There should be colorblind options. Makes the puzzle quite challenging.
Do you know about referendums? Recall elections? Snap elections? Midterm elections? Strikes and protests? Or how about just letting your representative know how you'll vote in their next election to deter bad behavior they're conducting in the current moment?

Must be nice for the current American administration to have 4 years of no democratic oversight to do whatever they want.
Just fyi fake eggs and fake meat and fake butter are highly processed and include bad ingredients like other highly processed food.
What the Black Hawk Pilots Could See, Just Before the Crash
> be built

The passive voice is disingenuous. Do you buy local farm products? You vote with your wallet. Make your choice, like everyone else.
Dude, lets be real here: most people would say the economy is shit, while still being comfortable with their lives. Anyone's general assessment of the economy based on gut, is meaningless. Unless you were on food banks/stamps, you were doing pretty good for all intents and purposes.
This feels like an extremely weak defense to me, because if it works it is essentially a copyright backdoor.

1. There is little doubt that OpenAI has NYT articles in it's dataset.

2. They claim it's OK because all of the IP is mixed together and effectively laundered.

3. But in fact if you put in a secret code you can get the IP back nearly verbatim.

4. So if OpenAI wins this case we could just trade prompts that regurgitate the articles back without ever visiting NYT.
if it would make whole market research on products and companies I would gladly pay for it... but a bit unsure from Europe where it seems to be everything restricted due political boundaries.
I guess 90% is for "benchmark", which is typically tailored to be challenging to parse.
Both age.
Everything I tried previously had very disappointing results. I was trying to get rid of Azure's DocumentIntelligence, which is kind of expensive at scale. The models could often output a portion of a table, but it was nearly impossible to get them to produce a structured output of a large table on a single page; they'd often insert "...rest of table follows" and similar terminations, regardless of different kinds of prompting.

Maybe incremental processing of chunks of the table would have worked, with subsequent stitching, but if Gemini can just process it that would be pretty good.
This is what I am trying to figure out how to solve.

My problem statement is:

- Injest PDFs, summarize, and extract important information.

- Have some way to overlay the extracted information on the pdf in the UI.

- User can provide feedback on the overlaid info by accepting or rejecting the highlights as useful or not.

- This info goes back in to the model for reinforced learning.

Hoping to find something that can make this more manageable.
> Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

What’s that saying… “you aren’t stuck in traffic; you are the traffic.”
Thankfully the names aren’t as bad as how Sony names their products like earphones
Good luck getting kids to watch them. Kids today have a hate on for movies or TV older than themselves. It makes sense since there has only been a handful of great movies in the last 20 years. Dumping B grade and lower stuff on YouTube is only going to reinforce the idea.

It’s hard to believe how far Hollywood has fallen. I haven’t paid much attention to trailers in years.
No. I use like 3 eggs a week. Not worth the effort.
Yeah, even I, who is pretty bullish on AI in general, agree in doubting the premise that AI is going to make movies that are so good that people stop having any interest in older movies.

I think it's more likely that once Gen Z is the oldest surviving generation, maybe no one will watch any content longer than a TikTok due to attention span degradation and Hollywood just churns out vertical 2 minute videos direct to phones rather than release movies, and those would be some mixture of AI and human-created work.
> Efficiency does have a sensible definition in isolation: an efficient system is one in which there are no more Pareto improvements. From the government perspective, you could consider this in terms of the cost/service frontier, and actions which move the government towards that frontier improve efficiency.

I had to look up Pareto improvement, and I don't think that many systems exist where improvements are better in "every way" like the definition suggests.

For example, most big tech companies will use something like Kubernetes (or an equivalent) to deploy multiple instances of a service and then load balance between them, even when none of them have reached full capacity.

In one sense, this is "inefficient", in that we have computers sitting idle that could be doing work, but it's also efficient in another sense, which is to minimize downtime; if one of the computers or service crash, you won't experience much (or any) downtime because one of the replicas will handle requests.

Someone could get rid of all the replicas and then claim victory in that they made things "more efficient" by reducing the cost, but that will come at the expense of possible downtime.

Every system is different, and figuring out where on the spectrum you draw that line is rarely clear-cut, and there is almost always tradeoffs no matter what decision you make. Sometimes you can live with more downtime and it's better to cut the costs of the extra computers, sometimes downtime is not an option and you need a ton of redundancy.

Humans are not computers, so it's not the best analogy in the world, but I think it still mostly holds; it looks like in a hand-wavey way they're just defining efficiency as "spending less money", but that really doesn't make any sense unless you can show that you're getting comparable results while spending less cash.

I'm not saying that the government is perfect with spending money, obviously, and it's entirely possible that DOGE will find something that really should be eliminated. I'm just saying that it's rarely cut and dry, and it's very rare that cutting something is just a universal net improvement.
First sentence of second paragraph of the lawsuit: “Defendants’ unlawful use of The Times’s work to create artificial intelligence products that compete with it threatens The Times’s ability to provide that service.” First sentence of p7: “The Times objected after it discovered that Defendants were using Times content without permission to develop their models and tools.”

I think it’s ultimately about whether training on copyrighted content is legal or not.

Here are some other quotes from the lawsuit that approach it from a different angle: “These tools also wrongly attribute false information to The Times.” “By providing Times content without The Times’s permission or authorization, Defendants’ tools undermine and damage The Times’s relationship with its readers and deprive The Times of subscription, licensing, advertising, and affiliate revenue.”

Even if the first argument fails, if the second argument wins, it still boils down to not being able to train on copyrighted content unless it is possible to train on copyrighted data without ultimately quoting that content or attributing anything to the author of that content. My (uneducated) guess is that’s not possible.
Well no, one person (a moron and a liar) said that about eggs
But I can't look at the design from my desk-mate and hope to understand it quickly. We wall love to invent as much as possible ourselves, and we lack a common design language for the spaces we are problem solving in. Personally I don't entirely think it's a problem of discipline of software engineering, but a reflection of the fact that the space of possible solutions is so high for software, and the [opportunity] cost of missing a great solution because it is too different from previous solutions is so high (difference between 120 seconds application start and 120 milliseconds application start, for instance).
Firefox reader view seems to be a slight improvement since it removes the random right alignments in the article.
Unless you segment up your chickens and spread them out, so one farmer may have a million chickens, but spread out on 40 locations. The problem is that you need to kill ALL of your chickens in just a few is sick and having a million chickens in a single location will pretty ensure that you have to constantly kill of all your chickens and replace them.

But there's probably more going on that just sick chickens being killed of.
> Why did the author consider it important to implement yet another unix-like system in C? What is the core benefit of this specific kernel? The website doesn't provide an answer.

The website does answer your questions:

> It is designed and developed mainly as a hobby OS

A hobby is something that someone does for their personal enjoyment; it isn't any more complicated than that.
Rethinking Founding Engineer Equity
Your "local" news is regularly contractually obligrated to run segments written by a right wing company:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHfgU8oMSo

"This is dangerous to democracy"
Tell HN: Cloudflare is blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers
Hello.

Cloudflare's Browser Intergrity Check/Verification/Challenge feature used by many websites, is denying access to users of non-mainstream browsers like Pale Moon.

Users reports began on January 31:

https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=32045

This situation occurs at least once a year, and there is no easy way to contact Cloudflare. Their "Submit feedback" tool yields no results. A Cloudflare Community topic was flagged as "spam" by members of that community and was promptly locked with no real solution, and no official response from Cloudflare:

https://community.cloudflare.com/t/access-denied-to-pale-moo...

Partial list of other browsers that are being denied access:

Falkon, SeaMonkey, IceCat, Basilisk.

Hacker News 2022 post about the same issue, which brought attention and had Cloudflare quickly patching the issue:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31317886

A Cloudflare product manager declared back then: "...we do not want to be in the business of saying one browser is more legitimate than another."

As of now, there is no official response from Cloudflare. Internet access is still denied by their tool.
If you want to be frugal with egg use, Chia seeds work great as an egg substitute in cookies (and other things.)

https://chiaseeds.us/chia-seed-replacement-for-egg/
Here's an idea. Let's get a large proportion of our calories from inefficient animal sources. Then if there is a widespread crop failure we can eat the breeding stock and then the animal feed.

That's generally what happens in Africa. It doesn't work as well in North America because consumers here are too rich to switch to barley and oats when wheat is expensive.
I'll just add that the coop is for you to look at. The chickens don't need anything fancy, so you can build one out of nearly anything.

Neighbors might complain if it looks really weird or run-down.
puts tinfoil hat on

Ensuring that a critical mass of people use remote attestation[0] capable devices.

The next step is a browser API[1] for this so that content owners can exclude devices capable of storing the content, or stripping out ads/tracking, etc.

Sure, there will be a cat-and-mouse game where people will figure out how to fake the attestation for some period of time, but general computation[2] is probably on the way out.

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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trusted_Computing...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36817305

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg
My experience is that Gemini works relatively well on larger contexts. Not perfect, but more reliable.
In case anyone else is unfamiliar with what a "transputer" is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transputer
Why is it that egg producer greed/generosity matches well with the times when there is an egg supply shortage/surfeit?
> The FAA investigated, clearing the NBCFAE and Snow of doing anything wrong in an internal investigation

Ah yes, we carefully investigated ourselves and we have not found anything wrong. Thank you for your concern.

> Our organization, he said, “wasn’t for Caucasians, it wasn’t for, you know, the white male, it wasn’t for an alien on Mars,” and he confirmed that he provided information “to minimize the competition.”

It's like we're talking about a talent show not air traffic controllers.

I mean, shit, this just fuels Trump and his supporters' rhetoric and validates all the rambling and craziness involved around this topic.

Who needs enemies when you got friends doing this kind of stuff and shooting everyone in the foot. It's like Biden pardoning his son after talking about corruption and nepotism.
Re 1) when the standard library becomes a major blocker for the runtime version upgrade many people are seriously angry, or depressed.

Re 2) that's what it must've sounded like in theory in the conference room when they were designing that part of the language. In practice, the upgrade of the library will never happen if it breaks the build. Production should catch all runtime exceptions and be able to restart itself gracefully anyway because cosmic rays don't make sense as checked exceptions.
Modules sound cool for compile time, but do they prevent duplicative template instantiations? Because that's the real performance killer in my experience.
Possible I'm just not remembering the history right, but I think this is from when "Equinix metal" was packet.com. I think this is a handshake deal they had from before they were bought, and it's going away as packet.com becomes more integrated into Equinix.
The DEI label has indeed been placed on overtly discriminatory practices. At 3 out of the 4 companies I've worked at carried out explicit discirmination under the banner of DEI. One such DEI policy was reserving a segment engineering headcount for "diverse" candidates. Quite literally forcing white and Asian men to give up their seat.

You're not in the position to unilaterally declare what DEI is and is not. I don't deny that there are plenty of non-discriminatory DEI programs that genuinely do aim to reduce discrimination. I don't think it's a good move to try and deny that DEI encompasses exclusionary and discriminatory practices, when so many people have witnessed exclusionary and discriminatory DEI programs firsthand.
On the topic of fail-deadly nukes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand
"Objects are extremely good at what they're good at. Blind devotion to functional is dumb."

sure, but I think the status quo is to way overuse objects. my preferred style is to bias heavily towards value objects, and to never ever use things like inheritance for control flow

"ORMs are the devil in all languages and all implementations." hard agree lol
How does "overfitting is ok" violate information theory?

How are hallucinations suggestive of overfitting?

Overfitting is a tactical term, not a strategic one, and is heavily coupled to the specific implementation.
My half-dozen chickens in my yard in VT are hardy and out and about! I get about four eggs a day, and endless entertainment from the small herd of therapods.
You can't make a change like this, this quickly, and expect people not to starve. Crops will be literally rotting on the vine while farmers desperately plead for people to work long hours in hot fields for low wages. Do you know anyone who would do that? No? I don't either. I'm not sure how you expect farmers that work on thin margins to suddenly be able to offer a higher wage that Americans would do this work for. It's honestly insanity to expect this to work out in the short term.

I'm not sure why conservative commentators can't see the result of this knee-jerk policy of deporting every illegal immigrant, and even those with birthright citizenship. It's a scorched earth policy, and you are only going to reap ashes from it.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42933295
I'm going to, I just wanted to know how did it worked out to other ppl
The economic conditions that were present in both Italy and Germany in the inter war years just aren't present here and now. That's why I think there's a chance we can avoid fascism. Or maybe I'm wrong. We'll find out!
> How do I make an HTML view of a SQL database?

Well old chap, you'll need a shoeshine box full of vacuum tubes and some brass flanges...
I gave my husband Manjaro and he's fine. I gave him a shell script to force update discord (ugh) but he only has to double click it.

People like to freak about how arch isn't for newbies but honestly it's fine. I find it to be just as stable as Debian.

But let's be real, aside from gaming, 99% of what the average user does with a computer is open a web browser. Dekstop apps are secondary. If you put a Firefox/chrome button in the task bar, you've covered most user requirements.

Power users who actually need a bunch of proper desktop applications have a different set of needs. It's impossible to generalize, but a very large fraction of those users would probably be happy with the Linux alternatives, or wine and proton. A lobotomized W10 LTSC VM is also quite usable.

most users won't know or care they're on Linux if the browser works.
My numbers are like this:

$10M over 50 years - $200k/yr or $16k/mo
House in a rather expensive place - $5k/mo
Food, travel, other things and especially projects can eat the rest $11k/mo

Which number is wildly off?
There’s cage free, then there’s pasture raised and then there’s regenerative farming. All of them don’t include chickens roaming around as freely as you think they do. Cage free especially just means they’re stuffed like sardines in giant barn, but are not in cages. Pasture raised often means they’re still in netted coops that move around on a pasture. I think regenerative farming comes closest to allowing chickens to roam around, but it’s still not freely.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/04/job-openings-decline-sharply...

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/jolts.nr0.htm

Still happening. We sure have been suddenly wild unaccirate with the job market while the Feds need to keep saying "everything is fine but...".
I'm sure someone will do a haystack test, but from my casual testing it seems pretty good
I haven’t read the article. UVA and uvb are hardly blocked by pure glass. You can get films which let in almost all light and block almost all uv. 3M has a range.
> Background/Objectives: Egg consumption in adults has been linked with a modestly increased risk of all-cause and CVD mortality. However, evidence on adults aged 65 y+ is limited.

So, according to the authors of the study, it has already been established that egg consumption in adults is linked with increased mortality, but they wanted to see if this is still true for those 65 years and older.

The study found lower mortality in those who reported eating eggs weekly compared to those who ate eggs never or infrequently. It did not establish causality. So it could be that eggs improve the health of the elderly, or it could be that healthy elderly people are more able to cook for themselves, and people who cook for themselves are more likely to eat eggs. The study does not distinguish between these possibilities.
You know what'd be fucking nice? The ability to turn Gemini off.
Every election in the US is a choice. One of the two choices will run the country no matter what happens on November 5th.

Show up and express literally any opinion about which direction you want your country to develop in, or everyone else will make your choice for you.

Or don't do anything, and stand back smug as people are shipped off to Gitmo for being brown. That's cool too I guess.