skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You say sorry, but it doesn't really come off very apologetic to be honest. Your initial reaction is very suspicious in itself. Why so emotional over what I said? You also presume a lot about me and my career choices and your assertions also teeter on some strong emotions, very odd. What's your personal stake in this that's got you so amped? A hidden insecurity perhaps? Clearly I hit a nerve here.

I've worked in big tech for a combined total of 6 years. Several of the other companies are Fortune 500 members. I've also worked at mid-size and small companies across mortgage, healthcare, fin-tech, point of sale, HR/payroll, and more. I surmise that you would categorize most of these as "intelligent" companies, which negates your argument about this being a "me" problem. Let's take Intel - where I worked for 3 years - as an example. Some would consider this an "intelligent company". I was there when Brian Krzanich took over for Paul Otellini. I think you will have a very easy time finding huge swaths of people/employees that consider Krzanich's leadership decisions to be very poor. In fact over the last few months, you'll find threads here on HN that directly pin the decline of Intel on his decision making.

We can argue the semantics of "intelligent" all day and make excuses for why leaders make irrational choices, but my point still stands. I don't think this is a "me" problem for one simple reason: If you take me out of the equation, the issue still exists.
Tesla has great battery and motor tech. Their quality control and car interiors leave a lot to be desired.
It doesn't beat it but honestly it's good enough based on my experience using a 4g mobile connection as my primarily home internet connection.
>Why would a body motivated to survive at all costs waste resources creating comforting hallucinations with some kind of internal coherence during catastrophic failure?

I am a religious person, but for someone in such a situation, a naturalistic explanation may be that, if what will increase their chance of survival from "effectively zero" to "slightly more" is the attention & care of others around them, such "narrative" hallucinations may make it more likely that they receive that care.
Both the more general premise (a work must not be an infringement of someone else’s work to be a work subject to copyright) and the more specific premise (court decisions are subject to copyright in the United States) in your argument for why verbatim selection from a court decision is not analogous, for copyright, to a sculptor carving from a block of material are wrong, though.
Do what makes the best story (2020)
Hopefully nothing. I’ve been to three and it’s a huge self congratulatory waste of time for everybody. Like most software conferences
Ok but how did the plant know that is wasn't being successfully spread by mammals..
> I've had to work with developers that are over dependent on LLM's, one didn't even know how to undo code, they had to ask an LLM to undo.

Some also get into a loop where they ask the LLM to rewrite what they have, and the result ends up changing in a subtle undetected way or loses comments.
Rive – Vector Feathering – A new way to create vector glow and shadow effects
The article is about mobile bandwidth only.

Are you downloading AAA games or backing up your computer over mobile?

Also, I hope you're doing differential backups, in which case it's only the initial backup should be slow. Which it's always going to be for something gargantuan like 18 TB!
Show HN: 5am for 30 days resulted in my first startup
I am Emil and I woke up at 5am for 30 days to build a startup.

I made a boilerplate project that allows me to create new startups faster in the future. It is build using nextjs as the fronted and nodejs + express as the backend.

The idea originates from Marc Lou but takes a different approach and is built from scratch using my own tech stack.

Check it out
Quod Libet handles album artists properly with the right sorting options? (And also it's one of the few that supports original release date, another seemingly essential feature that few players support.)

In Musium (https://docs.ruuda.nl/musium/) I also handle collaboration albums that have multiple album artists, based on Musicbrainz album artist id.
Malls usually have huge, empty parking lots, so it sounds like it's a win:

More people got a home to live in that costs less, and some formerly squandered land was better utilized.

And if you start doing other things like legalizing corner stores and neighborhood businesses, rather than designing everything for the automobile Uber alles, maybe some of those people will find they don't need a car.

Also, policy changes almost never happen in one nice tidy package where you do all the things at once, like eliminating expensive and arbitrary parking rules, adding a bunch of transit, re-legalizing neighborhood commercial, right-sizing roads, etc... so there are going to be fits and starts and bumps along the way. Still worth doing though.
>Also, 3.5 Sonnet was not trained in any way that involved a larger or more expensive model (contrary to some rumors).

Source: https://darioamodei.com/on-deepseek-and-export-controls
I haven’t called you anything. I questioned your integrity based on your claims. You sound like a fascist and you keep going on about this whole situation in that manner.

> I was raised in 1980s Poland

I couldn't care less about your memories of USSR. I wouldn't destroy my quality of life and put my family at a risk of WWIII just because of the fears of someone who sounds like a fascist.
Anyone born in the next few decades will disagree with you. They will find this new world comfortable and rich with content. They will never understand what your problem is.
Programmer made program. What's new! When will they make magic orbs?!
Plenty. The difference is I'm using commercial tools (PyCharm, WebStorm, and IntelliJ) that have visual debugging that works. Now gdb from the command line is great for what it is, but a lot of people who use open source toolchains find that "it just doesn't work" when it comes to debugging.

Myself, I think tests and debugging go together like peanut butter and jelly. That is, you use tests to set up a situation you want to debug, then you run the debugger. When you're all done you have a test that proves the bug was fixed.

It might be less of a problem in the C++ world but I really like being able to use the debugger to investigate a situation without touching the source code at all, since if you start hacking on the source code to add printfs and add other debugging hacks you often wind up checking in things accidentally that you shouldn't have, particularly when you're also making real changes to fix the bug.

An arXiv paper [1] investigates those accidental commits and reveals that people do a lot of printf debugging of async callbacks since those can be hard to debug; they breakpoint just find in most environments but you never really know if they are going to run or not and I think a lot times they get called N times for harmless things before you get the one you want to breakpoint. (Maybe it's just me but I've never had good luck with conditional breakpoints)

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.09892
Rive CEO describing the math behind this

https://x.com/guidorosso/status/1889722257804763541
The last bit is just stuff I wanted to whine about. I obviously know it is faster, you don't need to explain that concept. I have just never had need of any significant internet speed on my phone. I don't download things, and only sometimes stream video. Most of the time I am just checking emails, or calendars, or something trivial like that. Unless I do some kind of benchmark, I can't notice the difference between 4G and 5G.
Assuming you mean persist after OS upgrades/updates? As bad as OS updates overwriting user's settings, having them persist less time than that would be very disconcerting.
This is the “heist vs exploit sale” dichotomy that tptacek mentions.

For any vuln you can make up a hypothetical one off usage. But to find the right buyer for that is effectively building a team ala The Great Muppet Caper.
Zodiac: Simple Clojure Framework
Of which you yourself may be one without really knowing it.
That discussion was flagged for clearly partisan reasons, and it's very disappointing to see it wasn't unflagged.

Everything the EFF says in that article is true. Tbh I think they're underselling it, and burying the lede. This is an evil maid situation; with people who have repeatedly proven themselves extremely self interested and untrustworthy.
Alignment is a completely incoherent concept. Humans do not agree on what values are correct. Why is it possible even in principle for an AI to crystallize any set of principles we all agree on?
As a Leaf owner, that has me worried :/
The emoji is gone but the content is still there.
I have 1Gbps down, and the only application I've found to saturate it is downloads from USENET (and with that I need quite a few connections downloading different chunks simultaneously to achieve it).

I have never come remotely close to downloading anything else -- including games -- at 1Gbps.

The source side certainly has the available pipe, but most (all?) providers see little upside to allowing one client/connection to use that much bandwidth.
5G can be extremely fast. I get 600 MBit over cellular at home.

Is your T-Mobile underprovisioned? Where I am, T-Mobile 5G is 400Mbps at 2am, but slows to 5-10Mbps on weekdays at lunchtime and during rush hours, and on weekends when the bars are full.

Not to mention that the T-Mobile Home Internet router either locks up, or reboots itself at least twice a day.

I put up with the inconvenience because it's either $55 to T-Mobile, $100 to Verizon for even less 5G bandwidth, or $140 the local cable company.
I don't disagree with much in the article, but I disagree with the implication that parking requirements are, or ever were, designed to meet the needs of businesses and business owners. They aren't. They're driven by voters who want businesses to have more parking than business owners would pay for, given the choice.

It's an important distinction because of the way arguments over parking play out. If parking requirements are engineered to match the needs of businesses and business owners, then as the article states, they aren't "needed," but also it can be argued that there's little harm in mandating what conscientious business owners do anyway, and preventing outliers from causing problems.

The article does that in its own way by attacking the research behind parking requirements, but it fails to take the next step and point out the obvious: the research would be a lot more solid if anyone believed that it mattered. Even if it started out weak by necessity, it would have been improved and updated over the decades if anybody cared. But there's literally no connection and nobody who cares about a connection.
Crossing a Line
That's exactly what I did! I would prefer to not have to up and move away from blight, but if residents vote for it, who am I to object? It's a free country.
https://archive.ph/05WNa
> You are the one who chose the house.

Sure. They chose a house which at the time had shared on-street parking available, a situation which was not guaranteed to persist forever.

But if they had shown "foresight" and insisted on a suburban house with a drive and a garage, resulting in more yardage of road for the taxpayer to maintain and low density reducing walkability increasing car traffic - has society been improved by their "responsible" decision not to depend on the shared resource?
The parent specified in Europe. It's a fact that in January 2025, European Tesla sales have had significant YoY declines, attributed to Musk's political activity. A greater than 50% drop in sales in France and Germany, for example.

Here are a couple sources.

https://www.ft.com/content/ea2329e4-b4bc-4e2d-be34-e9a8ea311...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/business/tesla-germany-el...
"Lye, sulfuric acid, and hydrochloric acid aren't toxic per se. You can safely add unlimited quantities of them to your food if they're dilute enough."

Right. Decades ago when I was in highschool and learning chemistry the chem teacher brought out reagent bottles of HCl, HNO3, H2SO4 and NaOH (in soln.) which he intended us students to smell and taste. He also had boxes of brand new test tubes and he issued everyone with four thereof for the demonstration/experiment which he insisted that we wash thoroughly under running water despite them being brand new.

His stated reasons were that as chemists that (a) we needed to become familiar with these common reagents as they were ubiquitous in chemistry labs and industry, and (b) we needed to know and experience the acidity of acids and to clearly distinguish them from the soapy character of the alkali. He also had a more important motive that I'll come to in a moment.

He then diluted the reagents to a safe level (I think it was about 1/40 Normal but I can't remember for sure). Then we students all lined up and he poured a few ml of each of the reagents into our test tubes for us to first smell then taste, which we all did.

Afterwards when we were all back in the tiered seats of the demonstration lab he made a statement in the sternest tone that shocked the wits out of lot of us:

"You're all dead!"

—long silent pause—

"Don't you ever do that again. You don't know whether the reagents are true to label, for all you know I could have given you poison and you'd be none the wiser until it was too late. And even if the bottles are true to label then you've still no idea how pure they are—they may contain impurities that are highly toxic."

He then went on to point out that these bottles of reagents were new and that he'd unsealed them in front of us and asked if anyone of us had noticed that.

He then pointed to print on the label that said BP—British Pharmacopeia grade and then to the assay list of impurities which were many decimal places below one percent (the minutest of a trace).

This chemistry lesson was by far the most important one we ever learned—nothing at university was ever the equal of it.

It's a great tragedy that these days health and safety rules preclude students from ever participating in such a demonstration. Students must be taught not to fear chemicals but nevertheless to treat them with care and great respect lest they bite.

These days much of society has an almost irrational fear of chemicals despite the widespread teaching of chemistry. That tells me there's something terribly wrong with the way we teach the subject—a matter that I've covered on HN previously.
I know I'm an oddball when it comes to the stuff that crosses my mind, but here I go anyway.

It's possible to stop developing things. It's not even hard; most of the world develops very little. Developing things requires capital, education, hard work, social stability and the rule of law. Many of us writing on this forum take those things for granted but it's more the exception than the rule, when you look at the entire planet.

I think we will face the scenario of runaway AI, where we lose control, and we may not survive. I don't think it will be a sky-net type of thing, sudden. At least not at first. What will happen is that we will replace humans by AIs in more and more positions of influence and power, gradually. Our ChatGPTs of today will become board members and government advisors of tomorrow. It will take some decades--though probably not many. Then, a face-off will come one day, perhaps. Humans vs them.

But if we do survive and come to regret the development of advanced AI and have a second chance, it will be trivially easy to suppress them: just destroy the semiconductor fabs, treat them the same way we treat ultra-centrifuges for enriching Uranium. Cut off the dangerous data centers, and forbid the reborn universities[1] from teaching linear algebra to the students.

[1]: We will lose advanced education for the masses on the way, as it won't be economically viable nor necessary.
You can get all kinds of tools for debugging embedded systems, like

https://onlinedocs.microchip.com/oxy/GUID-DDB0017E-84E3-4E77...

of course if your problem is timing sensitive you have a problem. (A project to make a display controller for AVR-8 PoV displays got bogged down because of that)
I literally do not know.

I assume it is because tow trucks are large, and will be slow moving when they merge/tow. I can totally imagine the meeting that took that argument and lead to that feature.

But I'm fairly certain that if you're so distracted you don't see the giant tow truck, a message on your entertainment screen isn't going to help.
Half moat-building, half marketing. The need for "safety" implies some awesome power.

Don't get me wrong, they are impressive. I can see LLM's eventually enabling people to be 10x more productive in jobs that interact with a computer all day.
I don't know if things have changed in the past couple decades, but at least some of the members are just regular people there using their company's membership. I went there twice as a child because my dad did well enough at work that year or something along those lines. I was too young to fully appreciate the experience, but they had some tasty mac and cheese and a memorable elevator.
Anecdotally, if you have an accent and want to reference Maltese Falcon[1], your voice recognition software may understand it as “Maltese f* off”.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Maltese_Falcon_(1941_fil...
Are speakers being paid these days ?
That’s why you get AI to build it instead.
IntelliJ has supported this for over a decade also, and having used Eclipse for PHP a decade ago, I think it's very generous to say that that was actually supporting non-Java languages as an IDE, rather than just a very slow and heavyweight text editor. I'd say Eclipse's weakness for Python, PHP, etc. at that time led to how long IDE-skepticism has been a thing.
> it's worth trying to stop it

OP's point has nothing to do with this, OP's point is that you can't stop it.

The methods and materials are too diffuse and the biggest players (nation states) have a strong incentive to be first. Do you really expect China to coordinate with the West on this?
I use Rider for .Net and WebStorm for JS. Before I left work I checked, with our small/medium sized project each of them were using a little under 2gb according to windows Task Manager. Adding in some other related processes I'd estimate the two combined might be using 5-6gb in total. So I have at least 26gb left over.

To quote Lord Farquaad: That is a sacrifice I am willing to make
IMO we should focus on the AI systems we have today and worry about the possibility of AGI coming anytime soon. All indicators are that it is not.
Yep, that’s definitely a concern with hardware projects. I guess mass produced hardware doesn’t run into the problem as much because there’s funding for upfront bulk component purchases.

At least with open source hardware you could theoretically modify the hardware to use an alternative component, even if it’s no longer commercially viable.

For a lot of open source projects you can pretty much just source everything from DigiKey or Mouser, so you can buy them all atomically.
> now the street parking is gone

By "gone," I think you mean "used."
Sorry to be a Debbie Downer, but I think the argument the commenter is making is "It's impossible to reliably restrict AI development", so safety-declarations, etc., are useless theater.

I don't think we're on "the cusp" of AGI, but I guess that just means I'm quibbling over the timeframe of what "cusp" means. I certainly think it's possible within the lifetime of people alive today, so whether it comes in 5 years or 75 years is kind of an insignificant detail.

And if AGI does get built, I agree there is a significant risk to humanity. And that makes me sad, but I also don't think there is anything that can be built to stop it, certainly not some useless agreements on paper.
> How are alarms unreliable?

A simple google search will answer this question

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/9/24340238/apple-iphone-alar...

Even an hn search is fine, if you do not trust the Verge (notice these are comments from the last 3 months so not an old issue):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42705217
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41887505
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41962418

> Books automatically downloads to device. There isn’t a way to read a book without it local.

Have you used Books extensively or just skimmed it? There's no way to keep books on device, make another Google search if you do not believe me.

> Photos redesign maybe something you don’t like, but you can hardly call it half baked.

Perfect, then keep Photos and kill only alarms, books and Siri.
> His nazi salute was probably not a nazi salute, but it doesn't matter.

Exactly. There actually are reasons one might do a gesture that is nearly identical to a Nazi salute without realizing it. For a while I had mixed up the Nazi salute and some alien salutes (or salutes from alternate dimension humans) from Star Trek.

If for some reason I had found myself addressing a crowd of Trek fans I might have done what I thought was a Klingon or Romulan salute and instead done a Nazi salute.

What matters is what happens afterwards. If my attempted Klingon salute was actually a Nazi salute I would immediately apologize and explain what happened as soon as someone told me I'd done a Nazi salute.
In my part of the world 5g actually is rolled out on lower frequencies than 4g so I actually get better coverage.
I tried with a few Thunderf00t videos. He has good analysis, but the guys repeats everything too many times. Many are about silly impossible "inventions" / scams, but this is an experiment that he published in Nature Chemistry:

https://tldw.tube/?v=LmlAYnFF_s8 "High speed camera reveals why sodium explodes! --> "Coulombic explosion. (Sodium and water reaction)"
Canada doesn't feel like it's winning despite what the graph says*. Bringing in tons of working-aged immigrants has caused housing (and other living) costs to explode, which in turn has lead to less people having children, which leads to more immigration to fill the gap and the whole thing has been spiraling. Not fun at all.

* https://population.un.org/wpp/graphs?loc=124&type=Probabilis...
The parent is replying to something different (a $25 a pop dox service), just FYI.
As the other poster notes, I was being sarcastic. People pay a ton of money to live in denser cities like NY, London and Paris.
Probably it doesn't have to be an AGI that does tricks like passing Turing test v2. It can be an LLM with context window of 30GB that can outsmart your rival in geopolitics, economics and policies.
I started to use tmux on remote machines to stop them disconnecting me when the network changes or the laptop sleeps. (Damn you systemd for breaking that, too)

Then I started multiple tmux panes remotely because it was great for dumping the long process monitoring next to the long process

Then I started using tmux panes remotely for task switching.

Then I started using tmux locally because I already knew all the keybindings and tricks.

And there are still multiple browsers, IDEs and whatnots in other windows.

At no point, the points the article touches had any relevancy. It just grew on me. So you all do whatever floats your boat, and I'll continue doung mine.
On that note, there's an ongoing discussion on allowing early exits currently not allowed in the MLIR's SCF (structured control flow) dialect,
https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-region-based-control-flow-w...,
https://github.com/google/heir/issues/922
Steam and the ps5 store can fill out my 1 gigabits connection.
We no longer use asbestos as a flame flame retardant in houses.

We no longer use chemicals harmful to the ozone layer on spray cans.

We no longer use lead in gasoline.

We figured those things were bad, and changed what we did. If evidence is available ahead of time that something is harmful, it shouldn't be controversial to avoid widespread adoption.
Are efficiency and horizontal scalability at odds?