skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even worse - it created a new class that never really existed in the current form, namely 'of color', which includes a vast group of people both that have been historically disenfranchised as well as those who are in the highest tiers of per capita wealth in the U.S. by current statistical measures. People who have a generational claim to U.S. inequal structures, as the person you are replying to might say, as well as recent immigrants who have gone to top tier tech schools in their home countries, raised in the top caste of their home countries. A similar category is 'Hispanic', which within it has some people of extraordinary wealth. I know of one who used a half-Hispanic heritage to get into an undergrad Ivy League school, and proudly said he was gaming the system - extremely wealthy family.

There are so many 'but that's an edge condition' situations one can come up with, that what ends up happening is a random collection of ways that you can 'register' to be in such an oppressed class (it's not hard to do, especially if you are an immigrant with immigrant parents, depending on where they were born, or if you want to be REALLY cynical and claim gender identity differences). And if you don't, you are left out and hence we have a big backlash and massive suspicion in the large corporations where these HR departments are taking a hammer in enforcing DEI in a sweet but firm tone.

Even one who supports DEI efforts should at least understand this backlash.

(This reply isn't geared specifically to the person I'm replying to, who seems to agree, but more broadly)
I don't understand either. But I have a hypothesis, that they do it to dilute the definition of the war. Like if 15 years ago they did something like that, it was probably seen as a declaration of a war. But not now, not it is just headlines in newspapers. The more they do it, the more they will be able to get away with. Like invading Poland, while saying "there is no invasion and it is someone else invading not us", and European politicians will eat any such shit just to avoid declaring a war. They do it right now, but they must be trained to eat bigger shit to swallow an invasion to EU or NATO country.
The kids will be alright if profanity - a crass word - shows up in their autocomplete.
Secure and Private DeepSeek Deployment
> It's a bit scary how much of what we "took as granted" in the 90s somehow "got lost and forgotten" by most people between about 2005 and 2020.

This is true of a lot of tech dating back to the mainframe days.
Yeah but do they say "ess oo ess ee" or "suess"?
Show HN: Synthetic Data Studio for LLMs
We've built a data generation studio that creates robust test datasets for testing their LLM applications in just minutes. In talking to lots of teams building with LLMs, we discovered a critical gap: everyone wants to build AI products, but acquiring, labelling, and organizing test data for tasks is a massive challenge.

The current approaches to creating "golden datasets" for LLM testing are either infrastructure-heavy (observability-based) or time-consuming (manual creation). Many teams end up relying on vibes-based development, which leaves crucial questions unanswered about model selection, edge cases, and performance optimization.

Our solution generates comprehensive, realistic test datasets tailored to your specific use cases. You provide context (existing examples, domain information, or system prompts), and it creates robust test data that helps you do things like: balance distribution across your test suite including edge cases, evaluate prompt effectiveness across various scenarios, compare and optimize model selection, identify and handle edge cases systematically, assess performance across diverse use cases, support rapid R&D experimentation with different data shapes.

We're launching this as the first data studio focused on giving AI engineers both speed and precision in their development workflow. If you're building AI products, we'd love your feedback on our approach to making LLM testing more reliable and efficient.

Check out what we’re building at https://www.withcoherence.com/
Alire has existed for a long time now; the oldest release on GitHub is 0.4 from 2018.
The way we know they're not serious is they're already planning to cut taxes taxes on the rich and corporations. There's no savings to be had, they plan to spend everything they cut on themselves, and another $3T beyond that.
You can run multiple LSPs on the same file.

In my currently opened project I have: vtsls (for typescript), biome, emmet, and the snippets LSP running on the same file.

You can configure which LSPs you can run on a language basis. Globally and per project.
You can also configure the format on save actions the same way. Globally and per project.

I have astro project that on save runs biome for the front-matter part followed by prettier for the rest.

I would say that's pretty flexible.
National is generic, but many companies in the U.S. include America in their name.
> Sources also told CNBC that employees who might otherwise leave because of their disillusionment with policy changes are concerned about quitting now because of how they will be perceived by future employers given that Meta has said publicly that it’s weeding out “low performers.”
This is like a rediscovery of an org-mode capability that has existed for decades, and doesn't do as much.
For years my iPhone would try to autocorrect "mum" to "nun".
i had media queries set up and they seemed to show up as working in devtools simulator. but trying on my actual iphone14 pro max doesnt seem to work. devtools seems to imply that an iphones resolution is much lower than the actual resolution

the layout is also tough to reconcile on phone. if you enable a large note range and keep a true piano layout it will not fit on phone. my plan was to break each octave into a row. not very satisfying visually
I am slowly becoming convinced that studies are in fact cargo-cultism. And there are many, many studies that confirm this.

But about causality. Long ago (old cars) I had a friend who told me that most mornings his car would not start until he opened the hood and wrapped some wires with tape (off with the old tape on with the new). Then the car would start. Every now and then it would take two wraps. Hmmm.

After he demonstrated this, I decided to try to help. I followed the wires that were wrapped. Two of them. To my surprise they were not connected at either end. This was insane, and yet his study - and my own observation - demonstrated that wrapping these two wires which were completely disconnected caused his car to start. Now there is causality for you.

Except that if you have a more complex model of cars, there is a sane explanation. Again this is an old car with a carburetor. In case you don't know this is a little bowl of gas it that provides a combustible mix of air and gas. If there is too much gas then your car won't work. The mix is controlled by a little float that controls the level of gas in the little bowl. Toilet bowls work on the same principle.

If your float is bad (or other issues) your car engine would get too much gas - be "flooded" and you have to wait until much of it evaporates. So if you flood your car engine, go and wrap some wires, it may be that your car will start right up.

So I rebuilt the carburetor and my friend never had that problem again.

The moral of the story is that I had better "model" of how cars work. But in the back of my mind I am aware that my model may be or have been just as deficient. Did you know that we are bombarded from space by an unknown type of neutrino that stops electricity from working unless there is a little pool of some liquid nearby or it is Thursday. I am going to do a study of this.

There are very good reasons to understand how frail our ability to understand causality is. And we are talking simple things here. The scientific method is about EXPERIMENTS. Yes, I did that in bold. Doing things. We have deeply complex situations we need to understand and in my opinion, studies do not help.
No source, a question mark after, super vague reference. How is that not hearsay?
After reading this article, it would be really interesting to have a study on whether they can do research to indicate when correlation == causation and when correlation != causation for any given study and what the factors and a tool so we can have a simple risk assessment on whether there is a link or not.
"Google gives government back-door to all user data so that government can find dissidents"

"Google needs to comply with whatever their country decides"

If companies can have political opinions, and influence the government directly, then they can be held to a moral standard, as can the individuals responsible for making decisions and taking actions for the company.
Agreed that you need to liberalize housing policy. But one mistake Canada made is that they took a huge influx of wealthy, skilled immigrants.

In the US, immigrants are much poorer and come in at the bottom of the labor and housing markets.

But yes, anything besides raising taxes is irresponsible.
... until it replaces the best. I used to say 20 to 100 years, now I'm down to 2 to 20.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43022398

This is the same ElevenLabs we were talking about here a couple days ago. That’s one app I don’t have to spend time playing with now.
The NIH site is hosting an editorial. An editorial from what appears to be the journal of Female Pelvic Medicine & Reconstructive Surgery. No, it is not a valid source in support of your claim. The fact that you not only shared it but defended it, purely based on the hosting URL, is... revealing.

How can you cite the human genome project as evidence of the supposed a-biological nature of race? How is it possible that you can believe this, while also understanding that 23andMe can not only tell your ancestors continent of origin (a rough analog for race), but their specific region?

If you bothered to read these articles critically (instead of turning off your brain in response to a specious appeal to authority) you would see that they don't even deny that racial populations are genetically distinct. They are discernible in purely biological terms, which by definition makes them biological. The desire to present race as non-biological is purely political/ethical and not scientific, is why their arguments stoop to semantic games and emotional appeals.

You won't actually respond to the substance of my comment, because you don't want to think about this topic. I get it. It's deeply taboo, and we are hardwired not to question taboos. Think about it anyway!
This looks very nice, do you know if there is an epub of this?
My thought doesn’t change. Are you a founder? Are you getting outsized compensation for your work? I manage my workload by being able to communicate trade offs between cost, requirements and time and setting a ceiling on how long I’m willing to work.

I put in 40 maybe 45 hours of work and the company gets to choose how they get to use that time. I give my input. But they make the decision.

When I need to do “deep work”, I turn off Slack and email. Even before remote work was a thing, I would tell my managers I need some quiet time to get $x done and I’m working from home. They would get a couple of more hours in from me then.

I’m not afraid to say “no” traditionally because I thought I could get another job quickly. Things are of course crazier now and I’m a lot less cocky. But I still have a years expenses in the bank in addition to investments.

I have been working for 30 years almost and I have found that early stage, underfunded startups aren’t worth the effort or the monetary return.

In my later years, I’ve had multiple opportunities to be a “CTO” or “director” of a startup. The positions were always just a glorified team lead. I’ve said no.
Oh, I don't trust any of the actors. But I trust the encryption math.

If the argument is that the encryption is compromised by weak factors or key escrow etc, then that is a really interesting conversation, on which I'd like to hear more informed opinions.

But if all we can do is speculate, my trust remains in the mathematics.
> I've already consented to tracking at the OS level

That's very wide and obscure. Even the bullet points for how the OS can track you go past what can be considered informed consent. If that consent covers every 1st party app that will ever run on the phone then it's a guarantee nothing in about it is really informed.

If you think a vague, blanket consent is all it takes then every company will get one in a jiffy. Just touch any company's real estate in any way whatsoever, get a prompt that "you consented to being tracked in any company related app forever", profit. You "consented".

Remember when Disney tried to get out of a wrongful death lawsuit by citing some agreement the family of the victim accepted for a Disney+ trial years before? [0] Well you're describing the same principle. Consent should be granular.

[0] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/disney-says-man-cant-su...
Yeah I'm as big of a FOSS fan as the next guy on here but you really can't complain about how someone uses your code if you used the MIT License...one of the most permissive licenses in existence.

If someone wants attribution or something then they should use a license that requires that thing.
Thank you. I'll make a correction next I can.

I do wonder why this information is lacking from the platform docs though. They specifically mention a model that is the "GPT-4o used in ChatGPT".
In v8 environments like browser or node, source maps work, so if you inject console.trace you can get printf debugging w/ legible stack traces on each log line, at least that’s my experience with c code compiled with Emscripten.

According to this 2020 blog post from Google, the Chrome debugger appears to have pretty full featured support for interactive debugging, although I’ve never needed to use it. https://developer.chrome.com/blog/wasm-debugging-2020
JSONSchemaBench: Generating Structured Outputs from Language Models
Obviously this is just for fun, but I am a bit disturbed about similar projects that try to gain some meaningful insights out of vast public data sets without the slightest attention paid to the quality of the data used. It doesn’t matter how much processing you do or how clever your algorithms are if the underlaying data is inaccurate, out of date, inconsistent, non-normalized, incomplete, etc. No dataset is perfect, but at least take some time to address it.
Maybe I'm overlooking something but just looking at the past decade or so, a lot of new technologies and practices have been adopted. I assume most people would call these changes progress. So with this in mind, if in 10 years, we're by and large using the same technologies with AI injected in it, I feel that we would be missing something, as this article points out.

It's kind of sad to think that there may never be new technologies like Rust that break out and gain a critical traction. I'm hoping I'm wrong.
I completely agree with the concern. But it seems to me that promoting a standard of behavior requiring people to object to silly things that don't matter makes it more likely, not less, that they'll end up complying with the things that do matter. "I'm not living up to this standard anyway, and I have what I think are good reasons for that, so is it really the right standard?"
1) Not at all, and I did explicitly note a key difference.

2) As stated, I don't support either. But I also think there's a meaningful difference between the two.
> Or that Google may disregard orders of a democratically-elected leader?

Yes because said democratically elected leader has absolutely no legal authority to tell a private business how they should label a geographic feature.
I don't know how this is surprising.

LLM-provided solutions will reinforce existing network effects.

Things that are popular will have more related content...
> You're just speaking for yourself

Nope. I would have voted against Trump if I had voting rights in the US. Again, you're interpreting my statement of "we shouldn't lie about our enemies" as me supporting those enemies.

Don't you see how absurd that is?
These “folks” run their “Chicago” exchange out of NJ and this announcement has nothing to do with moving the matching engine.
Fair. The svelte sites I tried it out on had no issues, so I assumed it might be limited on React.
Never quit without another job that will match TC/RSUs because layoff $ > quit $.
The company won’t let you say “arse” though: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43048345
Yeah my comment wasn't that well thought through. Obviously if I want to find bottle necks in my code profiling is what I want. If I want to monitor actual load and peaks in prod I wanna go for some kind of monitoring. I have good experiences with Prometheus, but I went with sysinfo crate. Which is probably lightyears more basic/big picture. I love that I can just record my own metrics log them to csv and summarize peaks for live view exposed through axum in html. It's neat for my toy project which doesn't aim for industry standard.
Show HN: Coupling - A Language Learning App for Couples
Happy Valentine's Day!

I built a language learning app designed specifically for couples, where one partner helps the other learn a new language in a fun, personalized way.

My partner is originally from China, and I wanted to learn Mandarin and Cantonese to speak to her family. But learning through other apps, I found many words sounded awkward or outdated — especially due to regional differences. I wanted to sound natural and local, not like a textbook.

Instead of struggling alone, I thought why not learn together? Many of my couple-friends were in the same boat but had no real system and ended up frustrated. So I took the leap to work on Coupling full-time.

Here's how it works!

- Pick a word pack (e.g., everyday objects, hobbies, travel)

- Your partner personalizes it with natural translations, recording their voice, or making relevant sentences. Assisted by AI

- Learn your partner's words in bite-sized lessons, backed by spaced repetition

- Stay motivated with real-life partner rewards, based on the Five Love Languages — little gifts, kind messages, or even offers to do household chores

- Once you're comfortable with the words, you can chat in the app to practice what you've learned

Building Coupling took a lot of experimentation and iterations. It started as a flashcard webapp that you could invite a partner to make flashcards for you. I experimented with live interactive language games…or incorporating podcasts. I took a year off working at another startup and other projects before I arrived home to Coupling. In the midst of that I ported the project to Expo + React Native for app store distribution.

My biggest lesson was that partners need clear guidance to contribute meaningfully. Now, learners request words, and Coupling walks partners through how to personalize them — with AI-powered assistance to make it easy.

Now my partner and I have a working system, not just learning from each other but also showing appreciation for each other through little gifts and surprises. She’s helped me learn *thousands of words* in Cantonese and Chinese, while she picks up Vietnamese and advanced English words from me (mainly for the gifts ). The biggest moment was when her mom who doesn't speak English, visited last year, and said she finally felt connected to me now that I could communicate.

If you're in a multilingual relationship or have tried learning a language, I'd love your feedback!

It's available on iOS & Android: http://couplingcafe.com

Thanks for reading!

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>I wish one of these venues would have the conviction to put their whole kit in Dallas, or somewhere else in TX, but the industry would throw a fit because of what it would mean for the cost to access the market.

I realize this is probably super complex, but can you explain this more? Specifically, what does cost mean in this context? Is this in terms of listing on an exchange, or cost benefit such as being physically further away from NYSE or Nasdaq?
I recommend you look at pictures of how people in the 60s thought the 2000s would be like.
Watch moment man is swallowed by humpback whale
> We paved the world and are better for it.

Questionable.
That is fair, if true. But I’m very skeptical any modern drivers are dropping compliance without being asked. The one possibility I could buy is that you ran into a case of someone having dropped precision intentionally in a specific game in order to “optimize” a shader. Otherwise, precision and IEEE compliance is the prerogative of the compiler. The compiler is sometimes in the driver, but it never decides on it’s own what precision to use, it uses either default or explicit precision settings. The only reason it would not produce IEEE compliant code is if it was being asked to.
Show HN: SPath is a Rust lib for query JSONPath over any semi-structured data
One month ago I made a similar post at [1] and now all the features that SPath is designed for have been delivered.

Open for comments and the rest work is stabilizing.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42609865
The largest sofa you can move around a corner
Maybe if you think artificially inflating the hype through massive ad campaigns, marketing campaigns, and shoe-horning AI into every product then yeah the world has a reaction to AI. It's mostly been meh, things like Apple Intelligence and Office Copilot have largely fallen flat.

If the hype was real none of these AI initiatives would be struggling to make money, but they are.

I don't really see it different than the artificial web3 hype, the only difference being that LLMs are use for extreme happy path scenarios.
You can, but to retain anonymity you'll need to go through decentralized exchange (DEX). This is extra hassle, especially if you have never done this before.
I completely agree with Jevron's paradox being the right way to think about this. Much like ERP and HR software made it so you needed less back of office staff to accomplish the same task, but it allows these huge, multi-national companies to exist. I don't think these tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands employee companies would be possible without ERP and HR software.

I think another way of thinking about this is with low-code/no code tools. Another comment in this post said they never really took off and they didn't in the way some people expected. But a lot of large companies use them quite a bit for automating internal processes such as document/data aggregation and manipulation. JP Morgan has multiple job listings right now for RPA developers. Before this would needed to be done by actual developers.

I suspect (and hope) AI will follow a similar trajectory. I hope the future is exciting and we build new, more complex systems we can build that wasn't possible before due to lack of
Being in the right place at the right time with the right connections and not having your equity diluted helps.

There are plenty of “smart” people who aren’t rich.