skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's a bit tricky to get beavers to build dams where humans want them, but this story is about beavers that did exactly that. It doesn't scale, but it worked here. No irony needed.

It worked here by luck, indeed. The irony comes in when people share this story as some kind of gotcha against government spending and regulations regarding projects like this - as if "Haha, see silly government, all you need is some beavers to build dams" is a logical position to take.

> Once built, a good dam is a good dam.

Well... no, because such things need maintenance. Beavers, being animals, don't really have a concept of "round the clock maintenance" or "replacing maintenance workers". Again I ask, what happens when those beavers die?

> Beavers don't build bad dams. Beavers are better dam maintainers than humans are.

Citation needed.

> More reliable and less expensive.

I'll grant you that it's less expensive. That's not inherently a good thing, if you're sacrificing quality/safety/etc
The US thought it was "stupid" to let shipbuilding jobs leave the US, leading to the Jones Act. This hurt just about every other domestic industry, consumers, and caused the American shipbuilding industry to deteriorate even more.
MS implements JS with its typescript compiler
The expansion of sports gambling in the US has been horrible.

Constant gambling ads, endorsements and etc. It's just not the same as your generic truck advertisement. At least the truck advertisement is trying to sell someone something with utility. The gambling ads are just looking for suckers and to drain as much money from them ... and leave these people's families and society to pickup the pieces and pay the price.

I was at a wedding of some younger folks recently, that's all they could do was at a wedding check their phones and talk about gambling. Throwing money away at the time in their life that it is most valuable to save.

The whole atmosphere of the expanded gambling in the US is bad.
AI forecasting retrospective: you're (probably) over-confident
Greenland ice flow model in doubt – could readily speed up
From the article ...

The Greenland Ice Sheet has now lost mass every year since 1996.

...

Melt from Greenland accounts for more than one-quarter of the current rate of global sea level rise, which has surged to more than 4 millimeters a year.

Some 7 meters of potential rise are locked up in Greenland ice.
Assuming that AI adoption is more prevalent in the technical domain, could this be one of the reasons why it is leaning towards computer and technical usage?
they're virtually all there, though! :^)
Deep Research and Knowledge Value
There's also Nial: https://github.com/danlm/qnial7 which is (pardon the oversimplification) APL but with words instead of symbols.
Is it fast by default? Every time I scroll up and down I'm looking at empty space while the notes load in. And it's not just initial network delay, even if I scroll over already loaded notes it takes time to display them.

I think it would be a lot faster to do this with native HTML.
If you read my original comment, it was about there not being a need for such security skills unless you have intentions to access the data regardless of what is put in your path. If you are denied access by the courts but you access it anyway, you are hacking. They also have no charter to audit, are not authorized by Congress, and are therefore already skirting the very knife edge of what is legal.
Agreed.

Honestly, he reminds me alot of Rush. Early Rush was very conservative, but also very irreverent. At some point it flipped and turned into the angry guy issuing the talking points of the day.
Did you seek prescription treatment after your AI-diagnosis?
> The street cred of "hey, large company X is using it, it must be good" is also very important.

Yes, and also, "large company X is spending lots of money on it, so they aren't just going to abandon it once it's no longer the newest, coolest thing."
Or use kps and not lose additional precision every time you translate units?
most of the NASA engineers that took us to the moon were very young. Young people accomplished major feats of achievement, and continue to do so.

considering that knowledge decays (often rapidly) as a function of time since the last instruction, "experience" seems like it might be of far less value than temporal proximity to a previous college education.
DeepSeek's Inner Monologue Redefines What We Expect from Language Models
To add, I recall a fair proportion of ARM's sales (as per annual report) were for automotive use, so we a lot of this were processors that compared well to what you would have run a desktop on a decade earlier so reasonably sophisticated systems potentially, just kept simple by being single purpose.
Put this and 'dont be evil' and 5 dollars in my hand and I'll give you a cup of coffee.
Depends. APL is the OG. Try a few and see what you like. If you learn one Iverson language, it's pretty easy picking up the others.

Here's a gentle guide to APL by the same author (me):

https://xpqz.github.io/learnapl/

Dyalog APL is likely the best supported in terms of tooling, debugging etc. If you're looking for static typing, you're in the wrong place.
They're asking you to clarify your argument, obviously. You say some federal law has been broken, they're asking you to specify which federal law you claim has been broken. It isn't rocket science.
A little feedback: I would use this but I don't really want to open a website with that domain on on my corporate network. Maybe a second domain?
Inside the Private Thoughts of AI
I think because you're separate people it's hard to know quite what to reply to, but I don't really understand the idea that a corporation should not be allowed to speak. I'm not speaking specifically about the US, so I don't have particular large biases for or against Supreme Court decisions.

I'm more talking practically - what does it mean for a corporation to be silent? A corporation is already held to a higher standard than an individual; e.g. it can be sued for false advertising for anything it says. Given that, shouldn't corporations be able to "speak" (or rather the people in the corporation speak or instruct people to make videos/billboards etc)?
Dialup modems on a bad connection used to generate more readable code.
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> And, in 2025, is there a better engine than Chromium?

WebKit and Gecko are way better
Well here, I'll show you the paradox if you're curious. I do this stuff for a living right? I mean this is my world for the last 20 years, I literally teach it. But, I'm speaking out of 3 sides of my mouth? How can I say on one hand: advertising is a tool in the GTM playbook and a useful one. Say: advertising most useful as competitive tool, And also say: competition is for losers.

Here is how: You have to admit and understand you are competing, you have to have a sense of where your competition is, and then you have to find out how to put yourself around them like chess, so they wake up and realized they lost. Once you have a monopoly, you immediately become susceptible to competition from startups, because realistically monopoly required you to have a product that is generally applicable to very many people. Your horizons and timelines at that scale are 5-10 years into the future, you can't wiggle around easily, you pre-paid $100MM of ads in airport skyways. If you rest on your laurels, you will die, apple is a good example of a business that doesn't compete it just ever-iterated itself with consumer insight, blackberry the other side of that.

That is why late stage business is so complex, you're being attacked everywhere, so you need 10 product lines, 250 features, 300 geographies, localization, etc etc. Say Starbucks totally loses Canada to Tim Hortons, what do they do? Spend $500MM to outcompete Tim Hortons in a market that they can't win or just leave and focus on new markets. This is business, outside of a few lux brands who have it as a strategy, nobody is spending money just to piss people off and annoy them, people who don't want to buy have ALWAYS been annoyed by sales, but that isn't necessarily a sales thing, and it is why targeting matters.
I've seen someone use an LLM to summarize a paper to post it on reddit for people who haven't read the paper.

Papers have abstracts...
Interesting! While not that much related, for some reason it reminds me of the PanJoin algorithm for streaming joins.
When the federal government does it, they approach an individual who is usually in federal custody. Then they offer a reduced penalty for whatever crime they've committed in exchange for cooperation, or acceptance of a job proposal, or something.

The individual is therefore incentivized against the organization they started at. They were just purchased away from that life. For a price that was probably reasonable. The expectation then is that the individual will cut ties with his old way of doing things and take steps to mitigate any threats from that former life.

The individual then goes through literally 250mb of PDF employment forms where they have to read and agree to a variety of legal punishments for failing the federal government in a variety of ways. They accept personal liability for the job, meaning they have some reason to follow the rules.

Not Musks team. They don't have any of that personal liability, and they get full access to data that causes these agencies to violate their own security and privacy policies. Then they go away with that data, without following any SOPs or chain of custody requirements, without any oversight, and they do whatever they want with it. They use it on personal devices that could be compromised and the government would never know because the data was taken out of scope of their IDS.

Lets say they don't get directly blackmailed, but because this person used to be in a hacker gang they have backdoors on their personal systems from the gang that they are unaware of. We just don't know, and there's no way to make sure the data is being kept safe, no way to monitor what devices it gets put on, no way to ensure anything.

It's just bad security posture all around to be doing this. But I guess that's only true if the goal is an authentic audit. That isn't the goal. Gutting federal agencies and funneling money and information to fascists is the obvious goal here.
Out of curiosity, why SHA-256? I would wager using a non-cryptographic hash would be faster, no? In this context you don't need any of the crypto properties of it, so that could be an easy performance improvement for your cache.

It seems currently the scroll struggles when you jump around, e.g. when you click to the bottom of the scroll bar area, the scroll will jump twice, first as you click and the second time as it renders. This is not a big issue if you continuously scroll, but is very noticeable if you use page down or click on the scroll bar. At least on my system, there is a noticeable delay between scrolling and the items being rendered on screen, that might be a related issue?

Those notes aside, I could definitely see value for this in cases when you want to get a glance overview or similar of a large number of notes, it's a cool idea.
I’ll leave that spurious idea alone.

But, the idea that you can just move workloads to a random VPS and get the same benefits of AWS/Azure/GCP is …naive and shows a lack of understanding of how any real company operates.

The last startup I worked for had 60 employees and we hosted microservices that aggregated public and private (to the company not PII) health care data for health care providers. They used them as backends for their internal processes and public websites and mobile apps.

We had to be scalable since any new provider could increase traffic by 10-20% and that helped when COVID came around in 2020 and traffic spiked

We had multiple MySQL databases, ElasticSearch, ETL processes using Lambda, CloudFront (CDN),S3 for storage, SQS (messaging), ECS (Docker orchestration), VMs for some workloads.

Should we have put those on some random VPS and spun up the equivalent for ourselves ?

Yes, I know how to do infrastructure outside of cloud. I started my career where half my job was managing all of this on prem - as in a raised floor in the same building - before AWS was a thing.

Everyone who throws together a website and hosts it on Hetzner shouldn’t be considered a “startup”.
Pretty sure it was a move by gay people to stop getting arrested, left to die, and beaten up so they could just live their lives.

Things besides money also matter.
If this is all anyone used what would happen?
My clinical psychiatrist crudely described autism as taking many - sometimes longer - pathways through the brain to do things and monotropism could be simply a sticky myelin sheath.

But both could be true - a myelin sheath disorder along with hyperconnectivity could explain so many sensory issues and such singular processing.
There's a small asterisk to your question: there's no way to verify that the diagrams represent the underlying system without access to the code (and sometimes the deployment). Anyone can make pretty pictures without spaghetti lines, but it takes some real, no kidding, discipline to write code (and then deploy that code) in a non-spaghetti way

It's like that phrase "no plan survives first contact with the enemy" but applied to product owners and then subsequently applied to computers
> I've not used Tailwind, but it seems like perhaps the goal of Tailwind is to do something similar?

I'd say that's the opposite of the goal of Tailwind.

Tailwind is not like Bootstrap, Tailwind is to build your own design system component library. Tailwind makes it easy to build unique designs at the cost of having to make the design yourself. Bootstrap makes it easy to build a website with a premade design, at the cost of having the same design as your neighbour.

As someone who used Bootstrap / Semantic UI a lot in the past, I've finally concluded I won't be using them anymore: they ALWAYS end up being too rigid for what I want to do. It also invariably ends up breaking things in minor updates. Tailwind is freeing in comparison.
Citing EV "rollercoaster" in US, BMW invests in internal combustion
Why? They aren’t the same thing, not even remotely close skill set.

Also why do people keep calling this doxxing. These are public employees.
I just asked it and it said yes.
how do you cache heights without rendering? It seems to be a chicken-egg problem, you need to know the heights to test visibility, but without rendering, you can’t know the heights? Or heights are obtained by invisible rendering in a hidden div?
Human geneticists are cult-like in their commitment to never explicitly interpreting findings, however unambiguous the evidence is, in a way that could potentially have a remote chance of being used as fuel for discrimination.

For example you can spend your career mapping hundreds of small-effect variants linked to intelligence or phenotypes that lead to increased likelihood of certain behaviours.

You can even publish a study showing that people who carry a certain gene variant and experienced childhood neglect have “increased risk of committing severe, impulsive, violent recidivist crimes”, and that the variant is more prevalent in prison populations than the general public in a certain region.

You can also publish a population genetics study showing that humans have relatively easily computed genetic structure (see: 23andMe ancestry) because countless alleles are practically fixed in certain populations relative to others due to selection or founder effects, or are prevalent enough that if you have a segment of your genome with enough of them them you must have had an ancestor from a certain region.

What you can’t do is combine these concepts into any uncomfortable findings when it comes to humans.
Thanks for the detailed suggestion
PoopSearch?
> [JavaScript's] constant fundamental backwards-breaking changes

wat

TC-39 literally has "Don't break the Web" as an explicit goal.

You are conflating "JavaScript" with something else (possibly some popular packages written in JS, for example—by people who have no control or say over the standard, usually, and with dubious taste to begin with).

By all means, avoid those packages and tastemakers. JS is still JS and still works despite their whims.
considering the massive amount of (still often true) information at our fingertips, appealing to authorities that have proved themselves unreliable many times in recent memories is not the benefit one might initially think it is.

"first principles" doesn't mean "go back to 2 + 2 and reinvent the rest of math".
> Three days wasted. I should have just written the PHP script.

PHP is the right tool for the job of making websites.
> public dataset

I see only few images available to download
All the European airlines do that - I think it's a response to compensation laws about delays. The schedule can eat a 30 minute delay without anyone even noticing.
Yes. We don't know who has this data, where it's stored, who has access to it, and who pays their bills.

This whole thing is built on heresay of unscrupulous people who claim to know better.
I think you're right. I'll add a final step to validate all the text based output to circumvent this.
What's the political alignment of this group? All we have is a paid press release from a group founded in 2024, with an executive board consisting of "Jive, Lilli, and Nathan."
Anyone else using Kagi? I just stared and am liking it so far. My "search" query volume has gone down 50x since chatGPT does a lot of my searching for me, but if I'm looking for a link a traditional search engine is still useful. (not a sponsor)
The problem is some of the "gotchas" seem rather important in nontrivial applications.

Imagine a model that isn't sure if 9.11 is greater than 9.9 - which is difficult to reason about, because tokens.

Could such a model coach kids in math? Could it proofread a paper, or sense-check a business plan? Could it summarise a long document about carbon emissions? Could it generate a GUI? Could it spot mistakes in an OCRed document? Spot an off-by-one error or divide-by-zero in computer code?
A story about a 17000 line patch with seemingly no discussion before dumping it on the kernel maintainers. Understandable that noone felt like reviewing it.
Can it work with DICOM files?
To be a bit uncharitable: a sick person seems to want certainty more than anything, which they can project onto an AI much more easily than through work with a careful doctor.
My guess is bc hallucinations in a legal context can be fatal to a case, possibly even career endu g — there’s been some high profile cases where judges have ripped into lawyers pretty destructively.
> I would say it is trust worthy because if it were found to be gamed then Anthropic’s reputation would crater.

But on the other hand, how would we found out that they've gamed the numbers, if they were gamed? Unless you work at Anthropic and have abnormally high ethics/morals, or otherwise private insight into their business, sounds like we wouldn't be able to find out regardless.
The singer's name is Björk.

Guðmundsdóttir just tells us her father's name. It's not a family name in the sense that e.g., Swift is for Taylor Swift. If she was Icelandic, it would be Taylor Scottsdóttir.
It’s a troll post. If it isn’t obvious, every reply is a retort of “you must be a Chinese spy”.

Everyone in the industry has been saying “there is no moat” around AI well before DeepSeek became public knowledge. This shouldn’t have been a surprise to anyone. All of the cloud providers have been hedging their bets
Yeah instead the issue will be auto-closed by some bot. Yay.
Working with fixed heights makes virtualized lists more predictable, easier to implement.
Trump‘s popularity is currently polling higher than it ever has. 53% according to CBS which has never once overestimated in Trump’s favor.

He is more popular now than any point in his first term.
I just heard about “Dick” being a nickname for “Richard” but as a non native English speaker i can not see the reason behind that…
You’re in a minority. As long as YouTube is mostly right the vast majority of the time, running identity based ads is significantly more profitable than running context based ads.

Years and years ago I worked at a company selling context based web ads, and our numbers were significantly lower than identity based ads. There were a few companies willing to pay good money for certain context based ads, that we got good money from, but most went to identity based because CTR was much higher.

There were also some holdout webpages that only served context based ads for privacy concerns, but largely it was a dying niche in the larger online advertising space because of key metrics like Click Through Rate.
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Probably true, although I wonder how much comes from acting like C semantically and how much comes from looking like C. If Rust had taken Ada and made it look like C then would it still be so popular?

My guess is that it would be since there's already a steep learning curve for a C developer to pick up Rust. For a developer who's willing to go through all that I don't think a few more new concepts would be a major issue.
Ha, have you seen YouTube censorship of anything worthy of importance?

That's just part of life. I much prefer a well known public personality with lots of problems; than an opaque council of censors at Google or Facebook.
> It's completely fair response

My question, rephrased, is "so what"? What is my or our trust worth? What does us claiming we no longer trust Saudi Aramco achieve unless we are investors or perhaps other significant stakeholders?
How to disaggregate a log replication protocol
Also discussed in https://cyberscoop.com/the-com-764-cybercrime-violent-crime-...

> The child sextortion group 764 and the global collective of loosely associated groups known as “The Com” are using tools and techniques normally used for financially motivated cybercrime tactics — such as SIM swapping, IP grabbing and social engineering — to commit violent crimes, according to exclusive law enforcement and intelligence reports reviewed by CyberScoop.

> The reports offer insight into the underbelly of the global network, showing how they are using traditional cybercriminal tools to identify, target, groom, extort, and cause physical and psychological harm to victims as young as 10. They were shared with police nationwide and in some cases, with foreign-allied governments.
Well, I at least partly agree with you. FDR threatened "court packing" to give himself a majority on the Supreme Court, clear back in the 1930s.

To me, I think it's turned up a notch with the current administration. It's more blatant and aggressive, and sooner in the term of office. (At least, that's my perception. I didn't live through FDR...)
After hearing Armie Hammer discuss some of the texts and DMs he received on the YMH podcast this makes a lot more sense (but still very surprising)
How does one come up with a valuation number for a company like this? I mean, why not 10b or 30b?
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Remembering magicleap...
No option is needed, it’s worked this way since the 90s at least. Mouse is not commonly enabled but would be inefficient to use as hands are already on the keyboard. I haven’t missed it, but it could be set up with a script, no?

If arrow keys not working for you, install a new distro.