skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
???

No, I mean even the most naive brutal force code comes back after ~10 minutes, whereas the Z3 didn't finish even after "several hours".

I am now quite curious about writing a Z3 implementation of this myself and try to figure out why is it taking that much time.
1. The study is claiming 50% of all Americans based on a sample size of 2,000.

According to a survey of 2,000 Americans conducted by research firm Censuswide, on behalf of Ghostery, a maker of software to block ads and online tracking, 52 percent of Americans now use an ad blocker, up from 34 percent according to 2022 Statista data.

2. Both of them, and indeed all of these studies seem to be funded by ad blocking companies. That alone makes them suspect.

I can buy the idea that the advertising industry is under pressure from built-in restrictions pushed by Apple, et al. But the idea that 52% of the American population even knows what an ad blocker is, much less has one installed, is completely absurd.

From a quick search, that percentage is comparable to the number of people that: own an iPhone, drink coffee everyday, or own a pet.
Feels like a page of graphs where Anthropic team discovers that Claude is the best coding model and is used mostly by devs. And they have no penetration in general population compared to OpenAI
Yes it's about time western democracies boycott SA for its racist policies. Finally, a brave leader who's not afraid to stand against the persecution of white people.
Everyone in the comments seem to not like the article or see it as a waste of time. I just don't think we are the audience they wanted for this, I think they want to show the average business owner the realistic potential and public (journalists that will distill this later) they are aware of the impacts and what to expect.

I don't read it as fear AI, I read change is happening because of AI.
There’s some good points there. I think a lot of orgs can end up in the Frupid territory. Getting them to course correct and realize the dynamics of efficiency, moral, and velocity to time, money can be pretty challenging. It’s political sacrifice which a lot of why these changes don’t succeed imo.

But also, I spent almost 2 years developing with 8GB of RAM. Constraints can help you develop and understand the problems better. At various times frustrating for sure.

I’ve never understood why companies don’t ask what laptop you want instead of shoving one at you. You’re hired for your expertise and then almost instantly given a hammer when you work with wrenches.
Motivation, consequences and fairness of how rules are applied are all relevant to the ethics of a particular action.

Meta is systematically abusing copyright law for personal profit, appropriating the labor of hundreds of thousands of authors to line their own pockets without contributing anything back. That free-riding is anti-social behavior, a betrayal of the social contract. A society that permits that without censure isn't going to keep having people create for very long: who is going to create just so billionaires can get richer, with nothing in it for them?

Especially not when the same billionaires sue people for violating copyright of _their_ software. Hypocrisy in service of exploitation and greed is especially noxious.

At the same time, copyright laws are written to benefit those billionaires, keeping our mythology in private hands long past our lifetimes. Put copyright back to thirty years, strip all business methods and software patents (which should never have been a thing in the first place): then Meta will have plenty of content for their LLMs _and_ it's software will start coming out of copyright ten years from now, making an actual contribution to human knowledge instead of just pillaging it.

The central tenet of conservativism is that there is a group the law protects but does not bind and a group the law binds but does not protect. This is what Meta is doing.

They could have gone and lobbied to loosen copyright legislation. Heck, they could have gone through a DMCA exception process, which doesn't even take a new law. Instead, they figure they are powerful enough that society doesn't apply to them.

If we let them, we're suckers.
> It hurts my eyes

This is a common complaint I read, and I have never understood it.

My eyes are not strong: I wear spectacles of about -6.5 dioptres.

If text size is fairly small, it is REALLY difficult to distinguish

(...)

from

{...}

... on large screensful of text. And

[...]

... is not much more visible. Making that significant is terse, yes, but Sendmail is terse. Terseness is not an unambiguous virtue.

Secondly, indentation: I learned 2 or 3 languages in the 1980s before I learned C, and it's a given that you indent opening and closing control structures to match. That's how it works: you structure blocks of code to show the hierarchies.

But most curly-bracket language coders have their own weird schemes where the opening { is in a totally different column from the closing }. And they fight like alley cats about it.

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

ONLY the GNU style listed there is sane.

I mean at least Allman and Horstmann styles are consistent.

It is much MUCH easier to pick out

BEGIN

... stuff...

END

... than it is to try to pick out { and } in some random blasted column.

And yet, all the fans squee at curly brackets. As smdiehl wisely said:

«
C syntax is magical programmer catnip. You sprinkle it on anything and it suddenly becomes "practical" and "readable".
»

https://x.com/smdiehl/status/855827759872045056

I never got it. It's obfuscatory. It is famed for being write-only. There's a competition to write the least-readable C!

C style hurts my eyes.

Pascal and Ada are vastly more readable.
I have 100% same process, including the adding of comments at the end to tag commands for future fzf searchability (although in practice I find the need for this pretty rare).

Of course it does also presume keeping an appropriately long history, which from some of the comments in the article make me believe that I have long since forgotten that I needed to change that setting.
I never got the point of "experiments" like these. Is there any reason to think that "releasing millions of ants" is going to be more efficient than using semiconductors that can perform tens of billions of calculations per second? It's not even that ants are smart. For instance you can emulate a flood fill algorithm with a bucket of water, but it's pretty clear that bucket of water doesn't have any intelligence.
> Trains still have some headroom.

Honestly, not much. 350km/h seems to be the peak practical operating speed (and that hasn't really changed since the 80s). Even the rather impractical Shanghai maglev no longer operates over that speed, though it did routinely run at over 400km/h for a while. Most high speed systems are in that general range today.

_Maybe_ maglevs will eventually be practical, but I'd hate to bet on it. This is the only serious such project at the moment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chūō_Shinkansen#Energy_consump... (China seems to have largely lost interest in favour of conventional high-speed).
Who asked you, though?

It's a forum, people come here to discuss the submissions.

You should know this ...
And only use computers they built themselves from transistors made from silicon they mined using hand-made, wooden tools... etc.
Did you show the customer the benchmark results? Did you explain what they meant?
Enough mindshare to keep 7 compiler vendors in business.

How many would pay for a Rust compiler?
>literally every company working on these technologies is saying there is no end in sight.

Literally every company making money selling Foobars is saying there's no end in sight selling Foobars?
Tech things: Deepseek, but make it cheaper
So, maybe 10 years ago, I wrecked my hand so bad that I switched to my non-dominate hand for mouse use for about 3 years. Even trying to go back to my dominate hand after a year, I could only use it for 10 or 20 minutes before it flared up again.

Switching took a little practice, obviously, but it worked wonders. All my roles have involved intense deadlines, and I was still able to perform.

After that time period, I was able to switch back to my dominate, which I tend to use 95% of the time now. However, I made a lot of changes to my workflow to avoid the issue ever happening again. There's lots of good ideas here, but I also switched in my personal life to make it more analog, which helps.
> A populist comes in and smashes the norms.

And who favors the rich. You have to give Republicans credit, they are skilled at getting the poor to comprehensively screw themselves.
I searched for AGI and I didn’t find it, perhaps I missed it? Could you please point me to any discussion of the impact of AGI on unemployment rate?
In practice, the airlines order status of various kinds when boarding which roughly correlates to how much money people spend with the airline.
That's crazy about math I can't even picture it. Wild how it's swung completely the other direction in -25 years which is what, two generations? I would love to know the history of how maths even growing became such a strongly "boy" subject.
I’m honestly not sure. I think when I picked up the MiSTER it was still early enough that SNES stuff was still being heavily worked on.
Show HN: Hacker News but only the posts above 1000 score
I built this so I never miss a great post, and it really works. I tend to check it before HN, which saves me from compulsive scrolling. I like using it so I thought I'd share.
OK, in the spirit of full disclosure, I did skip over my coffee-drinking leanings :)
can bring a quart zip lock bag stuffed to brim with nips (50ml bottles of booze) through TSA security. While you are technically not allowed to drink them on the plane absolutely nobody gives a shit as long as you are not an idiot about it.
Isn't the various departments under the executive?
`--long` options started with GNU (I think) but were soon adopted more widely. One of the really nice things about ksh that bash has neglected to copy is that its `getopts` easily handles long options and has built-in `--help`.
Trump has attempted to rewrite the constitution with an executive order. He tried to explain that for over a century since the 14th amendment was passed that every single lawyer, judge, politician and citizen was unable to read the clear language of the law, and that only trump himself can truly divine the meaning of the words. That is what is vastly different. Here is a judge overseeing one of 14th amendment cases.

"It has become ever more apparent that to our president, the rule of law is but an impediment to his policy goals. The rule of law is, according to him, something to navigate around or simply ignore, whether that be for political or personal gain. Nevertheless, in this courtroom and under my watch, the rule of law is a bright beacon which I intend to follow. I said this two weeks ago, and I’ll say it again today. There are moments in the world’s history when people look back and ask, where were the lawyers? Where were the judges? In these moments, the rule of law becomes especially vulnerable. I refuse to let that beacon go dark today. As a judge, my job is not only to uphold the law, but to protect the rule of law itself. Birthright citizenship is a fundamental constitutional right. The 14th Amendment secures the blessings of liberty to our posterity by bestowing on all those born in the United States and subject to its jurisdiction the rights of citizenship. We are all citizens, subject to the rule of law. No amount of policy, policy debate can change that. And the fact that the government has cloaked what is effectively a constitutional amendment under the guise of an executive order is equally unconstitutional. The Constitution is not something with which the government may play policy games. If the government wants to change the exceptional American grant of birthright citizenship, it needs to amend the Constitution. Its that’s how our Constitution works, and that’s how the rule of law works. Because the president’s order attempts to circumscribe this process, it is clearly unconstitutional. The preliminary injunction is granted on a nationwide basis." - Judge Coughenour, Thursday announcing his decision to enjoin the Birthright Citizenship Executive Order.

The judge could not be more clear about how what is happening now is vastly different from previous presidents. This is not just a 'policy difference'. this is a callous disregard for the rule of law.

Here is the judge's bio if you are inclined to think he is politically biased, https://www.wawd.uscourts.gov/judges/coughenour-bio
Second that...

I remember driving up the main highway into Paradise, CA and saying to myself "if there is a fire here...anyone on this highway is screwed". Fast forward less than 10 years and I was watching the news reports of people driving blind through the fire at nearly the exact spot.

The entire town was on a ridge with tons of fuel (pine trees)...elevations below that was nothing but dry grass.

Although the fire was caused by power lines...All it would have taken was cigarette butt.
You’ve described it exactly. Bootstrap is great for concept. It’s easy to understand. Once you need greater customization look for something else.
If you were to write a program to make the Atari 2600 copy its own ROM--not that A) it had the RAM and B) it ever had a need, it would very roughly take about 15-20 cycles per byte, and 15-20 more cycles per 256 bytes for looping. Heavily depends on the code used to copy it, probably less if optimized.

The 6507 is a 1Mhz cpu, and again very roughly about 64,000 microseconds to copy 4096 bytes, or twice as many to copy 8192 bytes. Under a second on the original hardware.

So even 2-3 seconds is a long time. Is the embedded OS on the 2600+ bit-banging the ROM via GPIO pins? Is it a Python script doing that from userspace (lol maybe something recycled from a ROM dumper's toolkit posted on some random forum in the early 00's)? Not bad for a script to do that in 2-3 seconds to be honest if that's what it is.
Disagree — proponents of this point still have yet to prove reasoning and other studies agree about “reasoning” being potentially fake/simulated:
https://the-decoder.com/apple-ai-researchers-question-openai...

Just claiming a capability does not make it true and we have 0 “proof” of original reasoning that can be proved coming from these models. Especially given the potential cheating in current SOTA benchmarks
It isn't just you.

I really dislike the AI slop at the top of Google search results. It is an annoying distraction that forces me to scroll past every single time, multiple times a day. Bing is just as bad with its LLM although it is also a worse search engine.
The problem solved by K is the long-term employment of people writing K. You can't be fired if you're the only one understanding more or less the codebase
It is more a question of frequency. That is, the elderly deteriorate quickly more frequently than younger folks do. Younger folks can still deteriorate quickly under the right circumstances, but at a population level, that is a much lower frequency given that the average younger adult has more resilient immune system and greater muscle mass than someone in their later years.

Heck, I'm in reasonably good health, but if I get hit by a car crossing the road this evening, I could deteriorate quickly overnight due to injuries and be dead tomorrow. It's just less likely for me than it is for an elderly person that has poor vision and moves slowly while crossing the road as I am more likely to be able to spot a hazard and move out of the way.
I think the only relevant issue is that someone with prior associations with The Com may be vulnerable to extortion, but simply having been associated with the group doesn’t mean much by itself. Law enforcement hires people from “the other side” all the time as they have relevant domain knowledge, and navigational skills of such spaces. Saying that the federal government, or its contractors, should never hire such people is arbitrarily making ethical judgments in places that don’t call for them.
It is because Trump is doing most of these things through executive orders and presidential appointments it is up to the judiciary to strike them down, not the congress.

To make this stuff permanent they would need to go through congress, then it is much harder for a future administration to repeal these changes.
Show HN: Lapisla – A Theorem Proving Platform for Openness and Reusability
Hey HN!

We built *lapisla*, a theorem proving platform designed to make formal proofs more open and collaborative.
We developed a kernel, editor, proof registry, and platform ── all accessible directly in the browser.

Why we built this: Existing theorem provers are powerful, but they often feel isolated and difficult to extend.
Unlike modern programming languages, which thrive on package managers and shared libraries, theorem proving tools lack a seamless way to integrate others' work.

lapisla aims to bridge this gap by:
* Offering a verified public proof registry for sharing and discovering proofs (all proofs are checked upon registration)
* Being fully browser-based. No installation needed
* Supporting permanent links to easily share proofs

Future Plans: Currently, lapisla runs on our own kernel, but we envision supporting multiple kernels in the future.
We want lapisla to be a general platform for formal reasoning, where users can choose and experiment with different proof engines. Of course, we love our kernel, so we'll continue to make it as powerful as possible.
We are also planning a search registry like Hoogle, automated theorem proving, and more.

Try it out! Reference:
* https://lapisla.net/ – Explore and write your proof !
* https://docs.lapisla.net/ – Documentation
* https://trap.jp/post/2478/ – We built this as a team of university friends during a one-week hackathon (plus two weeks of minor refinements). This is our blog post about the development. (Sorry, it's in Japanese.)

We’d love your feedback!
Yeah it's really weird. Why push your weird subculture into the spotlight and then cry foul when people are weirded out. Kind of feels like it's all about fishing for even more attention.
Thanks for this perspective.

Does ProseMirror handle large files well? One thing that impresses me hugely about browsers is that they all seem to render pages of seemingly unlimited size robustly and with speed (for example, whole novels on Gutenberg.org).

In my experience no similar editor, including Google Docs, can deal with documents more than 10-12 pages but I haven’t tried ProseMirror AFAIK.
As explained at your link, the example program that is not type-safe is based on a mistake of the 1983 Ada standard regarding the use of "aliased", which has been removed by a later Technical Corrigendum, where the program demonstrated at your link is explicitly classified as erroneous, so any compliant Ada compiler should fail to compile it.

As also explained at your link, the same type-safety breaking technique works in unsafe Rust. Both "unchecked" Ada and "unsafe" Rust do not provide type safety, while the safe subsets of the languages provide it.
Last time when he had to give up power, he claimed the elections were stolen, and then his followers stormed the capital.

Today, he still claims the elections were stolen, and freed the stormers of the capital. In one of his speeches for this election, he said “in four years, you don’t have to vote again. We’ll have it fixed so good, you’re not gonna have to vote.”.

Let's wait and see, but a clean democratic transition of power would certainly surprise me.
Silicon computers are a crutch for the people too flawed to run their calculations in their head.
In the same way that notation is a tool of thought [1] actually knowing facts paves routes[2] of possibility and impossibility (instead of pausing everything to research or drowning in too many paths).

It's akin to seeing 37*55 and knowing it won't be a 20 digit number, greatly reducing your search space. Imagine feeding someone without knowing what they like (how do you choose something?) vs. "allergic to dairy"?

[1] https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm
[2] https://alexalejandre.com/programming/forge-deeper-thought/
iOS Malware, Paris AI Summit, DeepMind Safety, DeepSeek Risks
If it was free, I would be more accepting of this answer. Since you have to pay it is just extortion and it incentivizes poor service in the gen pop TSA lanes. Generally you want to avoid incentivizing a public service to be shitty.
either way, the ants are more fun
They also call out how it's more used for augmentation rather than full automation which will address some concerns the public has.
If you can pay $5 for something instead of $10, why wouldn’t that be better for you?
Independent of whatever this org does, it makes perfect sense for economists to start to track when wage labor can be gotten rid of (in line with the AI Hype).
I don't know. At this point, I personally know multiple people who've "lost" luggage when flying.

Thankfully it's not as big of a deal now that airtags/trackers are readily available.
> Perhaps the problem is that your hour or two writing is just a few minutes for me.

Thia is an extremely arrogant assumption. I have been programming for 20 years and your attitude is one I typically encounter in junior engineers. If you're not a junior engineer, I suggest you act accordingly and incorporate some humility.

> If you're talking about generating and verifying code in 2 minutes, I highly doubt that you're talking about more than 30 lines of code.

Another assumption, and another wrong one. I routinely generate hundreds of lines of code, generate tests, and review the code later once a unit of work is finished. An efficient workflow helps cut down wasted time.

> And one of the biggest problems I see is that people who claim this kind of success with LLMs cannot reproduce the effort on their own. They do not learn any new solutions, because they didn't have to go through figuring it out themselves. So, good luck with that.

Straw man argument, and a third display of considerable bias.

> Of course, the possibility remains that it actually _doesn't_ take you 2 minutes to generate and verify code that takes 2 hours to write - that you simply have a bias from the dopamine hits of something else "solving" your problem for you, and have swept over the buggy outcomes with your rosy view.

A fourth display of bias, increasingly incoherent and vitriolic.

Is this always how you speak with people? Do you sit down with a list of biases about them and deliver them one-by-one while presenting straw man arguments and avoiding discussion of the actual premise?

Perhaps if someone doesn't typically tackle novel solutions and takes pride in writing the same thing over and over, an agentic code generation tool wouldn't make sense to them. I don't know. But I don't think you're equipped for this discussion. You're getting increasingly defensive and emotional. I'm done, feel free to respond however you'd like.
Lessons Learned using the free tier of GenAI tools to build a webapp
Is the UI tooling that does the visualization a library? I really like the UI format, would love to use this for breaking down and debugging video byte streams too.

EDIT: Oh it's actually reasonably simple, great use of CSS! https://github.com/desgeeko/pdfsyntax/blob/main/docs/simple_...
One of the reasons I strongly prefer SMS and email is the lack of things like read notifications, typing indicators, etc.
I'm somewhat convinced that there is a middle ground between corporate java and languages like K
hmmm

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42996313
Likely they print that message for any unknown argument.
Regarding tools and hardware, "trust my judgment and buy what I ask, or you'll also make great savings on my salary" should be a compelling argument. If it isn't, there is a social problem that runs deeper than wasting money.