skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's very enlightening when you recognize that every single place the US has been involved with setting up a new government we NEVER try to give them anything like our own system because it's so broken. Between the non representative Senate where one senator can block 59 others with no action (bring back the days when they had to actually filibuster a filibuster! Make it at least cost something to do.). And the mismatch between Congress and the Executive meaning barely anything gets done in the last couple decades for fear of actually giving you opponents a win at the cost of complete stagnation... It's a poorly designed system hacked together centuries ago to wrangle 13 barely united colonies.
Wow, looks really cool!

But, uh... WTF is this, exactly?

Wait, they answered that:

> ESXDOS aims to be the ultimate firmware for the DivIDE/DivMMC interface.

Oh. So, uh, WTF is this, exactly?
My biggest gripe with architectural diagrams is when it is not clear what arrows do or when it's easy to assume that arrows do more than one thing even though they all have the same style / design and no convenient label nor legends .
My feedback would be to not restrict to books. You would get more traction with movies / web/tv series or even video games.
Very old Americans at least still do this as well. My 100 year old grandma insists that using the wife's first name is only appropriate when the husband is deceased.

My wife has a 100 year old grandfather and he until recently followed the rule as well. His last letter he addressed to my wife specifically using her own first name. This was a strange way to learn of my own death.
If only that 40 year old technology could have captured attention in the last 40 years.
Pitchforks will get you put in ~~a concenctration camp~~ CECOT.
What makes their comment any more zealous than yours?
The author got very close, but missing the forest for the trees.

What a diagram really needs is a purpose. A clear need for the information to be conveyed.

Who's to say that unlabeled arrows are a bad thing? Or that there's too much on a diagram? That depends on how it's used! What it's for.

Adding context and explainers is certainly a Good Thing, but again, without an overarching reason for the diagram to even exist - who cares?

Diagrams are a communication tool. No more, no less. The vast majority aren't up-to-date, complete or even completely accurate; for the same reason roadmaps aren't, let alone the map of the London Underground.
And the treatment is... steroid cream!
it appears to be an abandonment of Kissinger's Realpolitik strategy.
Introduction to Rank-polymorphic Programming in Remora (2019)
But such a world-view wrapped in tales, eternalizes suffering and does refuse to intervene in toxic cultures stuck? Take the middle east- there where two attempts at a two state solution, and the victims of the story, rejected both, wanting a "final" jew free solution.
How does one feel contributing to progress - when reality moves so obviously orthogonal to the stories you tell yourself?
Both programs are very good, the specific PI is going to be much much more important than any generic advice you glean from this thread. Separately, the environs are very different. Stanford is pristine, quiet, safe, boring, isolated, VC-oriented. Berkeley is urban, gritty, dense, exciting, outgoing, academic. For most people it doesn’t really matter but if it does for you this could be important.
When men were men, and test pilots were dropping like flies . . .
I think one of the "easiest" steps would probably be to run a concurrent circuit of DC from a central inverter, stepped at the same voltage as the solar / home battery output.

Then you wire your EV charger and big electrical appliances like stoves, ovens, microwaves, fridges (?), electric boilers, central AC, heat pumps, etc. into that DC circuit.

That alone would switch the majority of your electrical consumption to DC. Maybe long-term, you could have a special DC socket that you plug toasters, kettles, crock pots, vacuums etc in to, if they became available and cheaper.
Since func() (A, B) is different from func() (A, B, C), I'd expect first-class tuples to do the same. At which point there would be a lot of similarity between (A, B) and struct{A, B}. Perhaps they should be equivalent? From which "struct{a A, b B} = f()", or even "switch x.(type) { case struct{a A, b B}: ...}", or "case (a A, b B): ..." could follow. It might be too much Rust influence, but it might be a good influence, given there's already a lot of interest in unions/enums/ADTs (but see "start with goals").

The counter-arguments are that "type A struct{}" and "type B struct{}" are different types, and that anonymous structs are seldom found in the wild (likely due to their verbosity), but perhaps this is a chicken-and-egg problem? Go already does local type inference, because "var mypackage.VeryLongThing = mypackage.NewVeryLongThing()" is stupidly repetitive. But there's always a fine balance between code being terse and readable (I will never wrap my head around APL).
That kind of word salad is emblematic of the extremely stupid but confident grifter.

If you have ever interacted with delusional idiots who insist they know more than anyone else about anything even though you know they were failing biology and snorting mints in the back of class, you have experienced this talking style.

For some reason, the especially gullible fall for it in droves. This talking style is essential to MLM profitability.
Show HN: AI Chat – unified chat sessions across OpenAI, Gemini, DeepSeek (go)
A simple Go package for unified AI chat management across OpenRouter, OpenAI, Google GenAI, and more, with support for tool calling and S3-compatible user sessions
Tools empower those with knowledge further than those without knowledge. The fact that people were concerned layman were simply going to be able to take on experienced programmers at their day jobs was farcical.
The university where I work used to teach Hard Real Time to electronics students with toy elevators. When (not if) you screw up your elevator smashes into the roof of the elevator tower and self-destructs the toy, reminding you that this is serious business and if you fuck up that badly in real life you'll be lucky if the victims live to sue you...
> form of the face coming from iconography

You imply that there is only one "form" of his face depicted in iconography, but this is not the case. There is wide variation in how he has been depicted going back to the 14th century. Here is a selection of images from the 14th and 15th centuries which are closer to the reconstruction than they are different:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Lippo_Me...

https://www.kressfoundation.org/kress-collection/artwork/498...

https://catholiceducation.org/en/culture/art/saint-thomas-aq...

https://catholicclassicalict.wordpress.com/wp-content/upload...

https://www.wikiart.org/en/fra-angelico/st-thomas-aquinas-14...
Grosvenor, from gros venor, 'fat hunter'.
Ok fresh post as this is fascinating for me as someone with hEDS and who does ML, this has blown my mind and confirmed to my satisfaction that LLMs have the potential be far better than doctors in diagnosis. Is this due to a mistake in inference or is it a deeper understanding? I don't know. It's possible that there is a consistent mistake in reasoning by the LLM and it just happens to arrive at a belief that I agree with.

I’ve performed a test with the simple questions, "what are the genetic candidates for hEDS?" followed by "where did you read about TNXB as a cause for hEDS?"

My hypothesis is that heterozygous TNXB SNPs beyond the known clEDS variants cause a substantial subset of hEDS which occur on an autosomal dominant basis. Most research considers clEDS far too rare (1 in 1 million) to be a significant factor in hEDS diagnosis, and heterozygous TNXB SNPs is considered far too common to be a cause for hEDS. I think it is the hEDS classification that is wrong and hEDS is indeed common, just rarely diagnosed. Enough to have causal heterozygous TNXB SNPs.

In testing OpenAI, Gemini, and Deepseek all give TNXB as the first answer for hEDS candidate genes. When pressing for references most give normal clEDS references which suggest that the LLMs are forgetting that clEDS is not equal to hEDS and clEDS as defined is extremely rare. When able to give specific references for heterozygous TNXB and hEDS OpenAI and Deepseek only gave Zewers, M. C., et al. (2003) https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1180584/. Gemeni did not give such references.

DeepSeek did use the HEDGE study as a reference in support of heterozygous TNXB for hEDS but the actual text from the source is “Earlier research trying to answer this question suggested that a gene known as TNXB may be responsible for both some cases of hEDS and a different type of EDS known as classic-like EDS (clEDS). It is likely that this is true, but this has proven to be a difficult gene to understand, and at best it represents a very small percentage of hEDS patients.” (https://www.ehlers-danlos.com/heds-hsd-research/#16940818260...) Possibly again in reference to the original Zewers paper.

It could be that the Zewers paper is referenced by many other papers as a plausible hypothesis without providing contradictory evidence, perhaps the LLMs see this and give the paper much more weight because of that. Is the LLM incorrectly including it due to confusion with clEDS? Are doctors incorrectly excluding it for the same reason? I would love to know.
you know, I was just making a point, not compiling an exhaustive list of the ads that are not about pressing needs
> You agree that similar concepts have existed across the globe and in other eras, but want to have a semantic (and convenient for your argument) position that there must be a universal definition for some reason.

I don't think I did. I said historians noted that cultures often had roles and duties divided along sex lines, but that some people did not strictly conform to those divisions of labour. In what way does that entail that they had some notion of gender that was abstracted from sex?

> Are there any societal or cultural concepts that actually do have a universal definition?

Law. Government. Trade. Religion. Gods. These all have a definition by which we can look at a system and say, "that was a religious belief", or "that was not a law but a local custom", "this was a deity they worshipped". They're not "universal" in the sense that they are identical in all cultures, they are universal in the sense that you can look at the definition and use that definition to classify cultural characteristics in a meaningful way.

I don't think this is possible with "gender".
If they are actually reducing fraud and waste in government, then it's a benefit for American citizens.

Some discussion centered on DOGE being a fraud, but no evidence of that, only speculation and hyperventilation.
Reading is an act of guessing. I guessed that if the moon had recently been impacted that hard we would be hearing about it from more than CNN, and likely would have known about it in advance. I don't feel as though I have been mislead.
That's why Toyota moved to Ada, because their C or C++ software caused crashes.
“Like taking a photocopy of a photocopy, we lose more and more information and connection to reality,”

This is the Achilles heel of LLMs.

With the proliferation of models, training new LLMs on the output from older LLMs becomes all but impossible to avoid.

It's the AI equivalent of inbreeding --- where defects are inevitably magnified over time.
It has always been common for cars to estimate your speed a bit on the high side, because there's always a margin of error, and that way you don't accidentally go over the speed limit while thinking you're still below it.

But for a car to start beeping (or worse, interfering), they'd better use that margin of error in the other direction.
The coffee is made with the assistance of AI, which means some nonzero portion will be something other than coffee, but at least it means every sip is an adventure.
In what universe is terminfo "foundational knowledge"
History of Surnames (2015)
The US Army keeps the M1 Abrams line spun up despite a lack of losses to ensure that when losses do happen, it can be replaced.

So far the only effective method has been to purchase a fixed amount of the final desired product regardless of actual demand.
Their privacy policy is EXTREMELY easy to interpret:

https://www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy

They use personal data “to improve the Services and conduct research.” Your chat interactions (that is, your "Inputs and Outputs") are included in the data they collect. and: "If you include personal data in your Inputs, we will collect that information and this information may be reproduced in your Outputs."

You don't need to look for loopholes, it's spelled out plainly.
No takers? Didn’t think so.
Wow, Doug McIlroy is 92 and still sharp, working through the implementation. Too many times, people complain of being over the hill when they hit 30!. Mental capability doesn't slow that dramatically (as physical) good perspective to have.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_McIlroy
I had figured since km/h was NN00, the same would be good for mph.
this is one example https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html
> Expecting there to be a safe invokation for "how do I use this damn thing" is 100% fair.

Are you on debian? Do an `/usr/sbin/e2scrub_all --help`.
PURL (https://purl.archive.org/) is a similar permanent URL service but you choose the URL.

It used to be hosted at purl.org and run by the OCLC but in 2016 it was transferred to the Internet Archive.

https://web.archive.org/web/20161002094639/https://www.oclc....
In addition to what pavel_lishin says...

> people seem happy to complain but pretty hesitant to pay actual money to reduce them.

First, you have to look at this in the context of the actual economic situation of the average American, which has been, more or less, getting steadily worse in a relative sense for roughly 40-50 years.

Second, you can't actually say this with any degree of rigor because in the vast majority of cases, there isn't an option to pay money to reduce the ads. Sure, I could subscribe to YouTube Premium to reduce the number of ads on YouTube—but it wouldn't eliminate sponsored segments of videos, most of it (all of it? I don't actually know the economics off the top of my head) goes to Google rather than to the creators of the videos you watch, and it doesn't do anything about ads outside of YouTube.

Even if you were to subscribe to every single service that has an option to do so to remove ads, you would still be seeing intrusive online ads constantly (assuming you weren't using an adblocker). You would still have your personal data sold and sold again to try to squeeze every last drop of profit out of you for people already more wealthy than God.

And, as can be seen on places like Netflix and Amazon Prime, there's zero guarantee that subscribing will actually keep the ads away permanently.

Given all that, why would most people give up another $9.99 a month just to reduce the number of ads on Yet Another Website?
Skirting knife edges of legal is not illegal. Perhaps you are concerned about immoral, do you think it's immoral to review financial records?

I used an audit as an example. The agencies are acting as if their records cannot be reviewed unless they themselves vet they auditor which is suspicious given they are part of the executive branch.

By your logic, ex-cons are not employable because companies would not employ them unless they have intentions of using their skills.
> it’s basically not publishable as research

I was surprised he said this, since it sounds like he’s doing sensitivity analysis, which has been a thing for longer than I’ve been alive.
Though I fully approve the posted link, I do something similar in a different way; maybe it will work for you:

0. use firefox and ublock origin to take care of the ads

1. (re)enable custom search urls[0]

2. add https://www.google.com/search?udm=14&q=%s as such a custom search url

Steps 1 & 2 avoid the AI spam on default google by telling it to use the "web" search context ("udm=14").

You have to name your search url, so I call mine Plain Old Google, or POG for short.

0: https://gist.github.com/brootware/b72d3639d00d1cb9c3b138cf0e...
When I was a kid, cars didn't even have seat belts in the back.

I'm all for the extra safety, but if they make safety too annoying, people will start looking for workarounds.
Maybe I didn't get the nuance in the best way. I think it would be more in the vein of we've probably explored this topic as much as we feel like it at the moment but maybe we can continue the conversation via some more deeply-thought sources.
>> So, it seems on the surface like 'finding waste' is not the goal.

Finding waste is pretty easy. As we're seeing already, cutting the waste is harder than it looks:

- The Congressional Budget Office recently found that Congress provided $516 billion in appropriations this fiscal year to programs that had expired under federal law.

- Federal government agencies are using just 12% of the space in their headquarters buildings on average, according to the Public Buildings Reform Board, which is an independent federal agency focused on recommending the disposal of underutilized federal properties.

- The House Oversight Committee spent $3.3 billion on furniture over the past few years.

- The federal government made $247 billion worth of payment errors in fiscal year 2022 and $236 billion in 2023, according to the Government Accountability Office.

These errors, also known as improper payments, include overpayments or payments that should not have been made, such as to someone who died or someone no longer eligible for government programs.

Estimates show the federal government spent $2.7 trillion in payment errors since 2003.

https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/government-waste-inef...
If the American workers aren’t paid better than the Chinese workers then why would they live in America instead of China? It won’t be for the cheap housing and cheap healthcare…
This is already almost true. Only 8% of the American workforce is in manufacturing and about 29% of China's (and about 1/7th is exports to the US). I'd guess that that somewhere around 12% to 15% are needed to manufacture all goods for an advanced economy. Another 2% or so for agriculture. Not really much more to go.
PowerShell is mostly case insensitive, `get-process` works as well as `Get-Process` or `GET-PROCESS`
>my understanding of the problem only really forms through writing code and seeing what approaches work.

Unless you are working with a new/untested technology or approach (i.e. you need a spike), the same kind of understanding should form while writing the test scenario.

>Maybe this should be a separate prototype phase

I always either spike (in which case I never TDD) or write production code (in which case I always do). I can't under what circumstances anybody would want to convert spike code you based out as quickly as possible to prove a point into production code.
Also the famous greek hunter O’Ryan. ;)
One of the highest ROI things I ever did was just write a few bash scripts which can be run out of the box on a fresh copy of Ubuntu, and set me up with everything I want there to be. [1]

As a result, most of the non-memory issues listed here are things I solved once in those scripts and rarely have to think about again. Most of the simple memory issues can be solved by running `cheat x` and/or `tldr x`, where x = the program I'm struggling to remember the basic usecase of, both installed by those scripts of course. Most of the more obscure memory issues I can deal with with either ChatGPT or Anki these days.

I originally considered writing my scripts as a `host: localhost` Ansible playbook instead, but then I remembered that whatever I might gain in idempotency I would lose tenfold in hackability. I am guaranteed to be doing shell for the rest of my life; I am decidedly not guaranteed to be doing Ansible, or any other config management tool for that matter.

[1]: https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/shell-bling-ubuntu
It's ridiculous that any of these things need microcontrollers. My first car's door had a little joystick that physically moved the mirror around, presumably using pushrods or something. The door lock was a physical device you moved up and down, and had a motor connected (power door locks were fancy). It also had cranked window controls, not so nice. But power windows didn't need a computer either.

We keep taking things that worked fine without a computer, adding a computer, and ending up with all the problems of a computer but with little extra benefit to the user.
'The Wheels Are Coming Off ' US Financial Armageddon [video]
Neal Stephenson fans are already heading to the salt mines.
Writing my own dithering algorithm in Racket
This is a mishmash of things people don't like about keyboards, windowing systems, terminals, shells, and unix CLIs. All of which are completely valid, of course, but it's a mix. I would say my biggest issue is discoverability. Many of the tools I use daily are ones that I wish I knew earlier. This holds for both newer tools, such as "rush", and ancient ones, like "paste".
The Book of Suleiman
> starting with a C-like language as a base

Which C-like language do you believe was the base of Rust?

If you're judging because the syntax looks like a semi-colon language that's just a thin disguise, to make it easier to onboard people from those languages.
The Original Hacker's Dictionary (MIT-AI 1988)
Euclid Discovers Einstein Ring in Our Cosmic Backyard
I once overheard a parent telling a kid that "whale blubber" was actually whale farts, and that all the people that used to kill whales did it to get their farts and how silly that was. Of course that's not at all true, but that kid believed it. I felt sorry for the kid being told such absurd things by someone they trusted.

I have to wonder if I ask an LLM enough times, if it would give an answer about whale blubber that involved whale farts. That parent may have read it or heard it somewhere else, and the LLMs may also have that disinformation.

"Garbage in, garbage out" is definitely something humans and LLMs share in common.
A story about USB floppy drives (2004)
It says a lot that the name of the file for is more informative about what the code does than the entirety of the file itself. "Readability is a property of the reader" indeed, but also the writer...
Ask HN: Is there one subscription service that does all adulting on your behalf?
This service would take care of all your everyday needs so that you can focus on more engaging pursuits, such as pursuing self-employment or launching a startup.

Does such a service exist?
>This becomes a core tenent of their (un)beliefs, that somehow we are all equal in construction, AND that evolution is real.

This is a strawman of the real understanding that humans, as a species, have extremely low genetic diversity. Along with that, variations within a population are larger than variations between populations. In addition, there are countless confounding factors that play a larger role. Lastly, teasing out actual cause and effect is incredibly difficult. “Anti-racist” scientists simply understand to not take simplistic, reductive interpretations and jump to conclusions trying to get easy answers to complex situations.
"The Sediments of Time" by Meave Leakey is fascinating both from her life and her family history.

"Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art" by Rebecca Wragg-Sykes is great.

"Almost Human" by Lee Berger is about one particular discovery rather than human origins as a whole but is an entertaining read - there was an accompanying PBS special (NOVA?) that's worth watching as well to really understand the scale of some of the caves they were in.
"The Com" is like "Anonymous" or "the scene", like talking about the "new york heavy metal scene".

it's not one coherent group but a mix of them, sometimes overlapping but often not. they hangout in the same spaces, sometimes, but also not.