skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked for a company that had the mentality of "what can we ship today", "how can we get 80% of the output with 20% of the work", "how do we move as quickly as possible" and "how do we keep the team as lean as possible". What they lost sight of in all of that hustle, they were piling on risks that would eventually cause real harm to customers. I'm talking about an expensive hardware product with a very high failure rate and limited warranty, and absolutely terrible security and privacy practices. These led to real harms to people. Moving quickly is fine in certain contexts, particularly when you're at an early stage and your work is effecting few people or only people who are willing to accept risk. But what works for an early stage startup doesn't work in other situations! Sometimes there are real human costs. When you're moving that fast, you completely lose sight of the consequences of your actions.

And if you think USAID is the only place where there are horrible first, second, and third order effects to what DOGE is doing, you're being completely naive. There are huge numbers of people in the federal government who deal with life-or-death matters every day. Air traffic controllers. VA clinicians. What are the consequences of sending these people daily emails telling them they're unproductive and they should quit or get laid off? Telling them that you want them to be "traumatized"?

You should look very deeply into your soul.
> Some argue that man pages are too rich

There are people arguing that? My feeling is that man pages are usually so thin as to be useless in 50%+ scenarios I need them. I really wished the culture defaulted to expecting all software to come with Info pages.
> In the US you can blame private equity for that...

Only partly. Where I'm living (SE Michigan), one of the two huge local hospitals is owned & operated by a major research university. The other one by a major Catholic non-profit.

My (older) family & friends have been on the receiving end of lots of "the system cares only about itself, and many of the individual doctors obviously feel the same" horrors at both of those hospitals.

And it's been that way for decades, minimum.
"you* can just do things"

*a beaver
Why would I believe and why posting it here?
Your first point cancels out your fourth.
Our car inspections are handled by German TÜV, and they do not inspect superficially. If, ~14% of a single brand of car which is ridden with LEDs (which should live forever when compared to halogens), advanced drive systems and other stuff are failing, and has to be re-inspected because of they can't meet the standards, that's pretty bad to be honest.

Failing TÜV means your safety critical systems have problems. This means brakes, suspensions, lighting (front and rear), screen wipers, etc.

So they check for pretty basic, but crucial stuff, and they're tested in a pretty detailed way (brake fade, stopping power, etc.). If your car is failing in just two years in these areas, you're not reliable, and your car will not age well, period.

My 25 year old car aces the test all the time, and the biggest complaint I got on my report is "Your wipers leave streaks, LOL!".
>The energy unleashed that created the canyons was 1,200 to 2,200 times more powerful than the nuclear explosion energy once planned to excavate a second Panama Canal, the study authors estimate.

Sometimes I miss that crazy boldness of the beginning of the Cold war era - imagination, engineering prowess and just a sprinkle of pure insanity.
Having worked with AI and LLMs for quite a bit now as a "wrapper", I think the real key is that doing well (fast, accurate, relevant) requires a really, really good ETL process in front of the actual LLM.

A "wrapper" will always be better than the the foundation models so long as it can do the domain-specific pre-generation ETL and data aggregation better; that is the true moat for any startup delivery solutions using AI.

Your moat as a startup is really how good your domain-specific ETL is (ease of use and integration, comprehensiveness, speed, etc.)
Eh I feel like that mostly just down to; yes transformers are a "next token predictor" but during fine tuning for instruct the attention related wagon slapped on the back is partially hijacked as a bridge from input token->sequences of connections in the weights.

For example if I ask "If I have two foxes and I take away one, how many foxes do I have?" I reckon attention has been hijacked to essentially highlight the "if I have x and take away y then z" portion of the query to connect to a learned sequence from readily available training data (apparently the whole damn Internet) where there are plenty of examples of said math question trope, just using some other object type than foxes.

I think we could probably prove it by tracing the hyperdimensional space the model exists in and ask it variants of the same question/find hotspots in that space that would indicate it's using those same sequences (with attention branching off to ensure it replies with the correct object type that was referenced).
>There's no democratic mandate here and this isn't the will of the British people. If Labour push ahead with this, Reform will make lemonade.

The law that this order is based on was passed under the previous government. These things have a lot of support among MPs and I think also among voters.
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> 30% consider selling

So they’d want more Musk fans to buy Teslas and support him, right? If they really felt so strongly about doing something, then they should junk the cars.

Well, I guess I shouldn’t be too hard on them. Musk’s fans are not going to go away, Better to let them keep the Teslas in the family.
If the price is not on the website, you can't afford it.
One problem is transaction costs; you need aggregators to sit in the middle, adding up the people paying and to be paid out. Structurally, aggregators are then in a position to extract rents. Which they will do, sooner or later.

There are of course other problems, fraud, money laundering and the like, which extract taxes, and and a whole patchwork quilt of national regulations, which extracts a lot more.

Things like crypto look, feel and smell like money laundering. I don't think there's a technical solution here. The problems are social and regulatory.
there is indirect money.

and occasionally self-gratification.
That might be an argument if those C zealots were trying to add their language to a Rust project. Don't play in someone else's back yard and then complain that their are not pampering you enough.
I've always taken it to mean "visible to the naked eye from space", not through a satellite telescope.
Wow, I've been doing some PDF parsing at work and this is going to come in SO handy.
> a fast vector language

With an Oracle-style DeWitt clause[1] prohibiting public benchmarks.

[1] https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/implementation/kclaims.html
The writer is speaking from the perspective of the traditional philosophical understanding of a thinking being.

No, LLMs are not thinking beings with internal state. Even these "reasoning" models are just prompting the same LLM over and over again which is not true "logic" the way you and I think when we are presented with a new problem.

The key difference is they do not have actual logic, they rely on statistical calculations and heuristics to come up with the next set of words. This works surprisingly well if the thing has seen all text written, but there will always be new scenarios, new ideas it has not encountered and no these are not better than a human at those tasks and likely never will be.

However, what is happening is that our understanding of intelligence is being expanded, and our belief that we are going to be the only intelligent beings ever is under threat and that makes us fundamentally anxious.
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There’s truth in what you say and UML has some good ideas, but it’s not the one true way. One problem with it is that even if engineers can read it properly, diagrams often need to do several jobs at once, and communicate something to non-engineers, otherwise you are making diagrams all day!
Also, single dash for long args and not just short args. I think mostly Go tools do this, and whatever purism is used to justify the choice, I can't think of many CLI apps that don't use a single dash for short args (and combining a sequence of flags) and a double dash for long ones.
I remember there was a similar project on github allows visualize any type of binary data by a given schema. There was an TCP/IP example IIRC.
It's pretty clear, and has been for years, that Trump is mentally impaired. He rambles, is incoherent, loses his thought all the time, and generally his sentences don't make much sense. It's more or less normal for someone of his age and lifestyle.

Example of a thing he said back in 2016:

> "Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you're a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it's true! — but when you're a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that's why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we're a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it's not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it's four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven't figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it's gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible."

There's just no semblance of coherence there. And he does that all the freaking time. It's obvious he has dementia or something of the like, and belongs in a specialised care facility. Yet people hear/watch/read this, and think to themselves this is the kind of person they want with absolute and total power over everything in the US (remember, his loyal supreme court said he has total immunity, and all checks and balances have been thrown out the window by the people supposed to be doing them refusing to do their duty), from budgets to nuclear weapons. I genuinely would not be surprised if the world ends up in a nuclear war because of him getting angry at something he misunderstood while on the can.

It's honestly kind of a tragicomedy to watch from afar. If this were a book or a movie, nobody would buy it, yet here we are. Reality really is stranger than fiction.
"What to Submit
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

I am thankful that President Trump is taking a stance against genocide in SA and actually doing something good to help Afrikaners.
And then you have the diagram evolution cycle:

Step 1: People want a simple high level architecture diagram.
Step 2: People want more detail
Step 3: People want to see how human components of the system work
Step 4: The diagram is so complicated and non-obvious that people start asking for a simpler high level architecture diagram.

The only way to escape is to be clever about preserving multiple 'zoom' /C4 levels of diagram.
Trofim Lysenko
Thank you, I hadn't noticed!
Look at literally any poll on the topic - people hate ads universally, with advertisers not far behind. And ad blocker usage has skyrocketed. It's now up to ~30% of all internet users [1] with younger people starting to approach a majority. And it should go without saying that the only reason that's not near 100% of users is because most people don't know they exist and/or don't feel comfortable installing one.

[1] - https://backlinko.com/ad-blockers-users
What does sentience have to do with truth? I didn’t make that connection, you did. Wikipedia isn’t sentient but it contains a lot of truth. Raw data isn’t sentient but it definitely “has ground truth”.
For me, asteroid belt settlement seems the most useful/reasonable. The motivation is simply that there is so much space for expansion. Space colonization is really just about humans keeping access to exponential population growth. Antarctic and deep sea settlement don't make sense because they offer relatively limited growth potential in comparison. They do make sense as practice/training for the next few thousand years of the average human condition.
The crushing you are talking about, if it is possible, it should definitely be done. Enjoy.
Nokia picks Intel's AI and data centre leader Hotard as new CEO
Yucan UI Engine
... compared to busy polling, which is not a widespread technique.
It’s quite remarkable that the whole stack works as well as it does. I’m using a terminal emulator, which is running a shell, which launches an ssh connection, which opens a remote shell, which I use to attach a tmux session where another shell is already running, which I use to open a file in a text editor, which displays a cat emoji correctly.
The GNU/BSD conventions are a lot of fun when you have some automation scripts that are used by people who are split between MacOS and Linux (or WSL on Windows).
How is Ada without touching anything commercial?
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This is my first side project so any feedback would be awesome!
Linus doesn't like Ada. His' opinion on Ada (vs Rust):

> We've had the system people who used Modula-2 or Ada, and I have to say Rust looks a lot better than either of those two disasters.

https://www.infoworld.com/article/2247741/linux-at-25-linus-...
Lots of plausible deniability
Gotta say Valve is as close to a benevolent monopoly as I can think of. Great to see this.
Keeping the project single language doesn't mean that the project can't change. The C used today is not the same C used when when the project was started. Changing language is also possible. Using two different languages long-term however means that everyone effectively needs to be proficient in both languages and a lot of work is duplicated.
Sure I started from this app which is open source https://github.com/Amber-Williams/language-flashcard-app-gpt...

You're welcome to repurpose the code. It uses web text-speech api which I had a fair amount of beta feedback that the voices sounded robotic. So moved to a TTS model in the backend. This came with a load of heavy processing along with a translation model which crashed my app when I initially released it on r/languagelearning that had I had fun challenges to scale.

If its an app just for you, you can get away with more and greatly simplify the app.
Should be easy to troubleshoot on a forum or with a specialist. You probably were eating low fat. It happens often. Feel free to describe exactly what you ate and what problems you had.
Okay, but how is that a reward? Maybe I wrongfully assumed we were talking about a money / material reward here.
Yeah it's one of those things I just don't agree with them from practical experience. No beef against utility classes in general just not for everything. In fact I really like Bootstrap's which are just enough to help, but are still themeable: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.3/utilities/api/
TLDR: Fuel Efficiency.

If somebody actually develops supersonic private aircraft, we really need to start taxing aviation fuels. You could blow through your annual carbon budget in like an hour. Those costs need to be internalized.
Well done. This is a very useful security previewing tool. PDFs are a
menace.
What are you implying about the current residents of Surrey?
Parent said that if your employer pays for your healthcare (which is pretty much the system in the US) or your government pays (which is the system in several other countries) you'll be less healthy than if you pay yourself. That's not what you seem to have understood from the parent comment
That link just goes to the whole book. For anyone curious: the relevant bit is on page 249, though some pages before and after provide interesting context.

"The same thing is affirmed by [long list] of Albertus Magnus; who, as the most expert, had made an entire man of the same metal[1], and had spent 30 years without any interruption in forming him under several Aspects and Constellations. [...] and being put and fastened together in the form of a Man, had the faculty to reveal to the said Albertus the solutions of all his principal difficulties. To which they add (that nothing be lost of the story of the Statue) that it was battered to pieces by St Thomas, merely because he could not bear its excess of prating. But to give a more rational account of this Androides of Albertus, as also of the miraculous heads, [...]"

[1] i.e., brass ("brazen heads" are mentioned earlier in the paragraph).

(I've modernized the spellings.)

So I think the Androides (I think this is intended as a Greek-looking singular title, not as an English plural; it's a translation of French "Androide") is meant to be a whole person, not just a talking head, although the book talks about it in the context of other things that were just talking heads.

The author declines to believe that Albertus actually made a statue that was able to talk rationally. The specific reasons he gives aren't super-convincing to a modern reader, but I suspect they're mostly rationalizations and his real reason for being unconvinced is just that the story doesn't sound plausible. (Plus, he wants to acquit Albertus of the charge of doing magic in the treating-with-the-powers-of-evil sense.)

He does say that statues able to make vaguely speech-like noises are surely possible "by the help of that part of Natural Magick which depends on the Mathematicks" :-).
What experiment or measurement could I do to distinguish between a machine that “knows” the truth and a machine that merely “spits it out”? I’m trying to understand your terminology here
There’s plentiful talk from the right about allowing state legislatures to ignore the presidential vote in their state and appoint the electors they want instead, about only allowing heads of households to vote, and how it was a mistake to allow women to vote. We already saw multiple attempts to overturn the previous election, with lies about vote totals, fake electors, and finally outright violence.

There will certainly be elections. It’s pretty much required for basic legitimacy these days. Even North Korea has elections. Whether they’ll be free and fair, however, is a whole different question.
> This is a tad reductive. If there were no ads, how would people know that products existed?

The post does say:

> > Limited to honestly informing people about what's available on the market, it can serve a crucial function in enabling trade. In the real world however, it's moved way past that role. Real world advertising is not about informing, it's about convincing. Over time, it became increasingly manipulative and dishonest.

I think it's largely that incentives are in the wrong place for advertising to work as an effective means to inform people.

When trying to make an informed choice on a purchase, I'll typically look for enthusiast communities or unsponsored reviews. Marketing actually tends to actively get in the way.
No shareholders!
> incremental change

I think this is key for other reasons as well. A country, especially a global superpower like the US, has an incredibly slow turning radius. Even more so when you need to stop and consider ripple effects, as politicians should be. For some reason, politicians like to sell that they'll be able to fix everything in a short term, and people continue to buy it. When really, anybody at a podium saying they can "fix the economy" in timescales measured in anything but decades should be a red flag.

I mean, I get it. If your adversary is promising to fix everything in months, you're going to look like a fool for saying it'll take you decades. I just find it interesting how the populace continues to buy into the fantasy.
Anytime something is declared an unquestionable truth, it's going to attract questions. Usually this ends up being pointless but sometimes unquestionable truths end up being false.
It's unfortunate that the only written mechanism we have for expressing a lack of precision is scientific notation, which tends to be obfuscating for numbers at this scale: if you write "3.6e3 kph (2.2e3 mph)", you make it clear approximately how much precision you do and don't have, but it's less obvious-at-a-glance for the target audience of an article like this.
To protest gun laws, a blind man got a handgun license
Maybe a bug: I selected "Generate" and didn't notice that the QR code had been generated as it was off-screen. So I re-selected "Generate" a few times before I realised what was happening. Only, now I have two long columns of QR codes.

This was on Firefox Nightly on Windows 11.
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I've used the iText RUPS (free) for a while for debugging PDFs (as I have the "privilege" to work on code that extracts data from PDFs...). It looks like your introspection stuff might be a bit stronger, which would be great. I'll take it for a whirl.
Interesting concept, saldly, I could not run the demo on FF (Zen browser)
https://rails-blog-on-wasm.vladem.com/boot.html
Without project managers? Jira tickets? Groomings? How is this possible? Did they have a retro?
As an example, I have asked tools like deepseek to solve fairly simple Sudoku puzzles, and while they output a bunch of stuff that looks like logical reasoning, no system has yet produced a correct answer.

When solving combinatorics puzzles, deepseek will again produce stuff that looks convincing, but often makes incorrect logical steps and ends up with wrong answers.
It supports Hindi! I haven't had any feedback from a Hindi native nor learner. If there's any feedback you can give, even if its to say the app is shit I would appreciate your take.

I have a test account and demo video I'm working on. I'll shoot it over later this week when I have one or the other so you can check it out without commitment or data concerns.

Thanks for the feedback!
But it might be enough to reclassify the project from a new construction to something else that doesn't require negotiating so many permits.
You didn't answer the question, which is all the answer I need. You just don't care until it hits you or a loved one.

How has it been transparent? They're not releasing any reports or giving any reasoning behind anything other than it's "corrupt". They're being the opposite of transparent, which is by design. And they're moving fast so there is no time to react to it all. It's very clear what's actually going on, you can choose to ignore it all you want, but it's going to hit you personally eventually.