skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ceding power is certainly a choice.
Long excerpt:

Yet initially the two current leaders of the Democratic Party seemed determined to broadcast their own weakness. Minority leader Hakeem Jeffries spent last week at a donor retreat with billionaire tech leaders, only to emerge whining, ‘What leverage do we have? They control the House, the Senate, and the presidency.’… Jeffries’s conflation of “leverage” with “holding a majority in a chamber” is jaw-dropping. Power—the ability to change the behavior of another—comes from information, charisma, law, attention, procedure, expertise, and the ability to convene and organize. … What could they have done? Here are four suggestions: First, vigorous procedural delay….. Second, convene and spotlight. They should not see their power just through the lens of how it has traditionally been used. Congressional Democratic leadership should also make full use of their own convening power, holding hearings taking testimony from fired and pressured employees…. Congressional Democrats can also do more on basic legal protection of the institution. The people’s house is under attack, and they should be wielding law like swords to defend it. While Democratic state attorneys general have been filing lawsuit after lawsuit, congressional leadership—whose own power as the lawmaking arm of the American public is being decimated—should understand they also need to play a key role in making sure lawsuits are brought to block the destruction. Whatever their legal abilities, they are all astute fundraisers, and can play matchmaker between constituents, possible plaintiffs, lawyers, and donors to make sure that effective and well-resourced lawsuits are brought to stop the illegal power plays….. Finally, they can go on offense, forcing Trump and Republicans to either help Americans, or clearly demonstrate that they don’t want to. That means being willing to work with Republicans—if they can get laws passed that make people’s lives better, and not focus on Democratic Party branding.”

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-musk-democr...
Fun easter-egg on the "Savings" page:

> Receipts coming soon, no later than Valentine's day

Today is February 14th :)
Great, there are other Wasm runtimes to choose from.
Yes! I just implemented a "Side By Side" view that will enable you to view 2 separate tabs side by side. Only on Desktop.
I'm curious how much the new Chief of Staff makes. Alas, Doge is not being transparent: https://doge.gov/workforce?orgId=b972b459-e161-490e-ac0a-27d...
China probably loves that shit.
Pure propaganda, Musk doesn't care about saving the government money
Cool, makes you wonder how many more of these oneliners are scattered across the codebase (in application and also OS etc).

Sidenote, I wonder how close we are to detect these automatically. From profiling many various applications, it feels like that should be a tractable problem.
But perhaps you could deal with the widespread flag brigading of all Trump-critical posts such as the recent one about category theory research defunded? I apologize for my tone but I remain deeply concerned about the current regime, which is supported by many HN-adjacent figures like Paul Graham and Marc Andreessen.
Executive orders only apply to the executive branch activities. They aren't law that everyone has to follow.
https://archive.is/mu6Bp
I think annecdotally this is true, I've definitely seen worse, but older technologies be chosen on the basis of LLM's knowing more about them.

That said, I also think it's a bad choice, and here's some good news on that front- you can make good choices which will put you and your project/company ahead of many projects/companies making bad choices!

I don't think the issue is that specific to LLMs- people have been choosing React and similar technologies "because it's easy to find developers" for ages.

It's definitely a shame to see people make poor design decisions for new reasons, but I think poor design decisions for dumb reasons are gonna outlive LLMs by some way.
Not disagreeing with you. But the OPM site data seems to be only for headcount, and it probably can be found by those who know how to deep dive on government sites?

Having said that, I am very much worried about the direction the US is heading. I came to the US for college and eventually end up being a permanent resident. My home country, Myanmar (Burma), has been ruled by military dictatorship for decades, and I see a lot of parallels in terms of disregard for rule of law; cult of personality; silencing free speech and journalists/reporting agencies that disagree with your point of view; etc. Add musk's chaotic way of meddling with the (albeit inefficient) government machine, not looking good at all.
It's got to be a tough spot to be in to accept an offer that might be illegal.

Not an easy position to be in / unfair.
DEI acknowledges that there is a historical legacy of disenfranchisement that produced certain inequalities at community-scale. For instance, discrimination against some groups was actually codified for the overwhelming majority of U.S. history and, beyond that, the biases, social networks, etc. that arose over that history didn't suddenly end when the laws changed. They exist today.

So, DEI accounts for this reality and is not inherently toxic. It's just been characterized as such to sow division in a cynical, revisionist effort to re-frame attempts to rectify the legacy of discrimination as the actual discrimination.
Yeah I stopped taking this post seriously when I read this sentence:

> I fetched the satellite image tile for the zoomed-in region of each lake center and read a single pixel at the center of the tile, which should give us an idea of the lake’s color
Xi must be ecstatic about how the US continues to shoot itself in the foot again and again, and he doesn't even have to do anything
Just implemented it. Looks really nice on Desktop. Nice and compact.
This could be a lot better. The example linked in the Github README is a markdown file full of binary garbage because it also tried to convert gzip files to markdown.

Pretty big flag that this isn't ready for primetime.
Generative AI is fundamentally a tool that enables acceleration. Everything mentioned in this already true without Gen AI. Docs of new versions aren’t as easy to find till they aren’t as new. This is even true for things in the zeitgeist. Anyone around for the Python 2 to 3 or React class to hooks transitions knows how annoying that can be.

Yes new programmers will land on Python and React for most things. But they already do. And Gen AI will do what it does best and accelerate. It remains to be seen what’ll come of that trend acceleration.
Can anyone find DOGE itself via these charts?
Wow, am I reading this right that they are going to completely remove USB mass storage access for existing Kindles? That's an essential feature. It's a different product without USB data access.
> It didn't happen because they don't hate Biden or the administration.

It did happen, you just don't want to find any sources to cite because you know they will be comparatively benign. This is the US federal government, every single employee is a domestic security threat and should be kept on a tight leash. People are critical of Elon because they care about a fair economy, America's security and the rule of law.

The best example I can muster of Biden's administrative incompetence is the PRC telecom hack, but that's still ongoing under the Trump admin: https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/joint-statement-from...

> In his first week, there were many sites thrown together and launched.

Which is not overnight, and also not very hard when you haven't disbanded federal assets like 18F who are hired for this exact purpose. Kudos to Elon for being so enthusiastic, but as an American taxpayer I'd rather wait for him to secure the site before releasing it.
Very early on in my career, I was working on a greeting-card app in Facebook (back when Facebook apps were a thing).

Got a bug report from one of our own team members that some of her greeting cards didn't show up in the list. The link appeared, but no image. We figured out that the difference was she was running an ad-blocker. We couldn't figure out precisely what rule the blocker was applying, but it seemed to be:

- image

- within some particular size bounds

- with the consecutive letters 'ad' in the URL.

... and we were using hexadecimal encodings to track individual entities in the UI.

We solved the problem by replacing 'a' with 'g' in our hex encoding. And then I had to take a long walk and accept that if I was going to do web development on the public Internet, I'd be sharing the space with intentionally-modified user agents forever, and would have to account for every such modification as we discovered it.

I still won't run my own ad-blocker for this reason.
I'm on the fence with this. I've been using Copilot with vscode constantly and it has greatly increased my productivity. Most important it helps me maintain momentum without getting stuck. Ten years ago I would face a problem with no solution, write a detailed question on Stack Exchange, and most likely solve it in a day or two with a lot of tinkering. Today I ask Claude. If it doesn't give me a good answer, I can get the information I need to solve the problem.

I've been thinking a lot of T.S. Eliot lately. He wrote and essay, "Tradition and the Individual Talent," which I think is pertinent to this issue. [0] (I should reread it.)

[0] https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/69400/tradition-an...
Show HN: A Private Grammar Checker
That's assuming it's a novel problem to deal with, see e.g. C++, JavaScript or every standard in networking ever. The barrier between better tech and worse tech that accidentally made it into production and became legacy cruft has always been high, without any AI.
It's probably pretty obvious to you too, but spelling it out just in case it isn't as clear to everyone:

These people are not chosen based on their skill or experience, but most likely by loyalty or some other similar metric. It's literally the fascist playbook updated for modern times, for when you want to dismantle institutions.
Fwiw, I work at a saas company and we do have some performance issues. It's about 50/50 split between not using react optimally and slow backend.

If we were using svelte we would still have performance issues, but they would probably be centered more on "is the data in a sane shape such that this page can query it?"
No, Go can never use WasmGC because Go has interior pointers. Not even fat pointers help because Go has unboxed types.

Go will continue to use its own GC for the foreseeable future.
I simply have a bash script called printall which takes in some args, and outputs markdown codeblocks with filenames and a tree. One of hundreds of scripts built up over the years.
I, for one, am glad I'm not living through the legacy of Jack Welch's government management.

Companies can declare bankruptcy and fold their hand: governments, notsomuch.
> It was really great. Took what would have been about day's worth of work carefully figuring out from first principles how the template system was structured.. and made it into about half an hour of "get it to generate the next shim, verify that the shim does the right thing".

That also seems to highlight the disadvantage too - if you'd taken a day, you would have come away with a deeper understanding of the template system.
That was prosecution of a criminal who lived in New York for a crime committed in New York; I fail to see how it has any connection to the state regulating _companies_ who aren't based in New York but are listed in New York.
I don't know how you solve the "training data and tooling prompts bias LLM responses towards old frameworks" part of this, but once a new (post-cutoff) framework has been surfaced, LLMs seem quite capable of adapting using in-context learning.

New framework developers need to make sure their documentation is adequate for a model to use it when the docs are injected into the context.
I can't figure it out, is it people who believe this doesn't matter, people who are actively cheering this on, or people who think this won't lead to a good discussion? I can see the argument for the latter, it's ultimately not something the invokes interests as much as outrage, but I don't know how many people are doing it for that reason.
Yeah, IMO tab makes no sense for this as the default.

Since I code in Go and use tabs regularly, I remapped my auto-complete AI key for Supermaven in Neovim to ctrl-L which I have no other occasion to use regularly. Now tab works properly and I can get auto-complete.
I've wondered this myself. There was a post about gumroad a few months ago where the CEO explained the decision to migrate to typescript and react. The decision was in part because of how well AI generated those, iirc.
The State of Rideshare and Autonomous Vehicles in 2025
Which is why GP stated "if they are public." That was the context of my comment.
Yes, I know. That's what this part of my post means:

> may only be used for defensive purposes

It's done with a clause in the public license like "if you sue us, then we revoke this license to you and may in turn sue you." You retain the MAD defensive benefit of the patents, while also not hampering innovation with your patent's existence. If the patents truly exist only for defense, then there is no reason not to do this.
If Elon had selected a team of actual competent devs he would need to worry about them saying no to his idiotic ideas. These people were chosen because they were spineless yes-men and workaholics, not because they were competent. Plus most competent devs would not want to get into this mess in the first place.
> It was officially launched 10 days ago, but has been openly available for way longer.

So for how long? How long did the papers you've written in the past take to write? AFAIK, it takes some time.

And peer-review is not the only review a paper goes through, and was not the reviews I was referring to.
Scientists create hydrogen with no direct CO₂ emissions at source
The fact that the entries are still there is also fascinating. No one awake in D.C. to login and delete the entries?
Car Is Wasting Energy and Scientists Just Found a Fix
Is it me or mods are actively hiding everything that is critical of the current admin? This post is 6 hours late, 308 points and at the bottom of the 3rd page. This is not the first post that is either flagged or just made invisible. Is HN still a place we can trust?
And on that regard, there are more mature options out there, than reinventing the wheel with WebAssembly.
Paleontology Shaken: Organic Molecules Found in 66M Year-Old Dinosaur Bones
Probably both. The amount of corruption in the name of DEI / Ukraine war / COVID got staggering and government has been overspending money to unsustainable levels (and it looks like half of it was plain stealing).

The sad part of overspending is that cuts are often needed for otherwise great things as well.
> One biased ZDF poll from the German state television.

Why do you blindly assert it is biased?

> Here is another (50% against):

That should be framed into context, specifically how for the last year Russia has been pumping industrial levels of propaganda onto the world in general and Germany in particular.

https://www.dw.com/en/russian-disinformation-is-growing-in-g...

All these sudden calls for disarmament and pushing Ukraine to capitulate don't happen organically when the same belligerent part also starts to target you specifically. They take place when you're enduring a constant blast from a firehouse of falsehoods over genetically engineered gay Nazi soldiers from Ukraine taking your jobs and increasing the price of eggs.

I for one was handed over a very peculiar anti-NATO protest leaflet, which said nothing more than "Bow to God, not to the media. Say no to NATO."

This is how far and how desperate the anti-europe propaganda is willing to go to erode public trust on such specific topics.

So no wonder public sentiment on their own self defense is being eroded over time. This is by design, and a part of the whole war.
Probably not, but I guess the worry would be, if nobody adopts and uses them, bleeding edge technologies don't become the new normal. Unless you think we've reached perfection, it's almost guaranteed that future developers will look at React/Python/etc as we look at developing in Assembly or COBOL.
> OpenAI’s latest models have cutoffs of late 2023.

The first paragraph is factually incorrect; the cutoff is June 2024 for 4o.

Awww, no more new JavaScript frameworks and waiting only for established technologies to cut through the noise. I don't see that as a bad thing. Technologies need to mature, and maintaining API backward compatibility is another advantage.
Ask HN: What is the best method for turning a scanned book as a PDF into text?
I like reading philosophy, particularly from the authors rather than a secondhand account.

However I often run into that these come as scanned documents, Discourses on Livy and Politics Among Nations for example.

I would greatly benefit from turning these into text. I can snipping tool pages and put them in ChatGPT and it turns out perfect. If I used classic methods, it often screws up words. My final goal is to turn these into audiobooks, (or even just make it easier to copypaste for my personal notes)

Given the state of AI, I'm wondering what my options are. I don't mind paying.
Ah, the README prior to commit b98f724 does claim O(n log(1.5 ln(n))) asymptotic runtime. This is based on a flawed analysis assuming rainbow endpoints will be evenly distributed, which the paper presents before describing the problem that each inserted element pushes one of those endpoints away from the middle. Bit of a perpetual motion machine search: initial results showed the promise of this approach, some details got in the way but surely there's some trick to work around them...

Still there's the benchmark. I remembered timsort.txt shows comparison counts relative to the log_2(n!) bound and it's only like 1% worse, so the >30% improvement over Timsort at the high end has to come from some other factor. I'm thinking it is actually cache effects—not because the algorithm has inherently better cache properties, as it's just a merge sort at large scales, but because it copies the array to ints internally rather than using a generic comparison. That would be a poor result, as good comparison sorts compiled for 4-byte data are many times faster than Timsort.
> You also assume that all the models in use will in fact be retrained.

And that deploying the retrained models won’t require a costly and time consuming recertification process. This is medicine after all.
Just wait until they figure out WASM Application Servers, using serialised WebAssembly for server to server messages, now that would be an idea.
Where I live, specialists can't even speak English, so I doubt very much that they are up to date on anything. And I live in a first-world country.
Unbelievably incompetent
I actually asked this a while back, but got little response: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40263033

> Ask HN: Will LLMs hurt adoption of new frameworks and technology?

> If I ask some LLM/GPT a react question I get good responses. If I ask it about a framework released after the training data was obtained, it will either not know or hallucinate. Or if it's a lesser known framework the quality will be worse than for a known framework. Same with other things like hardware manuals not being trained on yet etc.

> As more and more devs rely on AI tools in their work flows, will emerging tech have a bigger hurdle than before to be adopted? Will we regress to the mean?
As a concrete example: I'm racking my brain trying to think of any instances of a working realtime whole-desktop translation overlay application, and I don't think such a thing exists.

Translators for specific chunks of the screen, yes. Selectable translators, sure. Translators you can configure to work with one application at a time.

But rewriting all text in the entire windowing environment? While preserving selection, copying, and editing? Without hooks to the underlying apps? Functionally preposterous as a proposition.
The central issue is high cost of training the models, it seems:

> "Once it has finally released, it usually remains stagnant in terms of having its knowledge updated. This creates an AI knowledge gap. A period between the present and AI’s training cutoff... The cutoff means that models are strictly limited in knowledge up to a certain point. For instance, Anthropic’s latest models have a cutoff of April 2024, and OpenAI’s latest models have cutoffs of late 2023."

Hasn't DeepSeek's novel training methodology changed all that? If the energy and financial cost for training a model really has drastically dropped, then frequent retraining including new data should become the norm.
My friend uses the speech to text feature on his Android phone it and it routinely censors his profanities like "This is f***g stupid" or whatever.

What I find really disconcerting about that is that there's this sort of implication there that Google would be willing to add a similar misfeature to their onscreen keyboards if they could get away with it.

Why limit the speech to text feature but not the on screen keyboard?
There are so many historic (and present) inequalities. DEI is toxic because it ignores most sources of inequality and favors a few groups of particular political importance to Democrats.

In fact, sometimes DEI even favors groups who are on the advantaged side of inequality, like women in college, where they are nearly 60% of students.
A new tool like this comes out every week, and that's great! But I think it's fair to ask how this compares to popular ones like RepoMix? Anyone keeping an eye on this space will want to know why this is different from what's already out there and being used.
Congress funds and sets goals for an agency. Agency creates rules to accomplish those goals. Said rules are now unconstitutional? Clearly it’s fake news if some sort to support them burning everything down. Same idea with the tweets - “we deleted 50m in contracts. Here is one example of 1M of a title that sounds crazy”
I trust dang.

I also believe there are a bunch of Musk fanboys on this site that would flag this. Or people who don’t want to understand the implications of what’s going on and avoid anything that’s “political”.
Congratulations and thanks to share your history, is inspiration for all of us who had an old project struggling to keep going
>> including an upstream language community which refuses to make any kind of backwards compatibility guarantees, and which is actively hostile to a second Rust compiler implementation (I suspect because it might limit their ability to make arbitrary backwards-incompatble language changes).

The guy is a poster who just can't help himself! Both points are demonstrably false.
I live next to Suolijärvi, "bowel lake". I guess the name reflects its shape: https://maps.app.goo.gl/w6wUmBF6m5r6U3eJ9

There's also Särkijärvi, "roach lake" (as in the fish) nearby; presumably there is (or once was) a healthy roach population there.

The most common lake name in Finland is Pyhäjärvi, literally "holy lake" or "sacred lake", but apparently the original meaning of the word pyhä was something like "demarcated" or "dedicated" (in modern Finnish the verb pyhittää means "to sanctify" but also "to devote" or "to dedicate"). So many of these waterbodies may have been named after ancient border or boundary agreements of some sort, pertaining to fishing or hunting rights for example. Rather mundane stuff despite the word's contemporary meaning!