skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This ASED and LSD, aren’t they services to help the state counteract an information warfare attack? Just guessing, but it sounds like a legitimate thing where they’d want capacity to uncover/expose such activities, which I’m sure adversaries would consider.
For sure. I hope it shows nothing and it is a one off but would not want to miss something that needs treatment or predisposes you to recurrence. Take care!
I did read it in its entirety, it took about 45 minutes. I found it pretty engaging.
>with some malicious code

Obviously not.
While I agree with you, the "parasitic" act I was referring to was specifically taking over the USDS. The image I had in mind was the fungus that mind-controls insects.

Trump doesn't have the authority to create new federal agencies, so he claims to have repurposed the authority of an existing one, retaining only the shell for appearances. I don't think that can possibly be constitutional - it entirely defeats the point of Congress having that authority, and is effectively a line-item veto if the law can say "this agency will exist for X purpose" and the president can simply ignore the "for X purpose" - but it doesn't matter if neither Congress nor the courts are willing to do anything about it.
"man is not a rational animal: he is a rationizing animal" -Robert A. Heinlein

We have varying phases of new hyped tech get many low quality articles that don't inspire curiosity but nonetheless satisfy some people's need to circle around the same talking points. I just find it unfortunate that the moment any overhyped tech is linked to "the real world" that we start to dismiss it.

I suppose the answer isn't surprising given the population's disposition of acting like computer scientists and not software engineers, but is techs effect on actual people not intellectually curious? Are we fine just tinkering with ideas and throwing pandora's box out for the rest of the world to handle?

>s simply a question of having a forum with that purpose rather than another.

Well I don't have any data, but at this point I don't think this is happening organically. That's my main concern. It's no coincidence this only seems to happen with negative press for a certain person, when months ago pretty much all news on this subject would not be flagged (hence the first part of my comment).

You do have the data, but if your data says otherwise, there's not much I can do. I'll just keep doing what I'm already doing and try to fight the suppression.
I would think the lowercase of a car would be a go kart
If a team had access to some licensed source code related the third party component (e.g. restrictively licensed/NDA'd sample code), clearing the engine source for release may involve a thorough code audit. Who is going to put in that work to prepare a freebie?
Not good comparision between artistic products vs hard requirement software product.

- If your movie is running out of time, you slash scenes, production etc.

- If your bussines software dev is running out of time and does not meet the minimun requirement, you can NOT slash it. Specially if it mission critical.
All i need to setup with my vpn provider is a long ass random number and monero wallet. Show me a residential or business isp that provides this level of privacy
It seems absurd, but I suppose it’s the same as misspelling with similar enough trigrams as to get the best autocorrect results.
This is all fine for a solo dev, but how does this work with a team / squad, working on the same code base?

Having 7 different instances of an LLM analyzing the same code base and making suggestions would not just be economically wasteful, it would also be unpractical or even dangerous?

Outside of RAG, which is a different thing, are there products that somehow "centralize" the context for a team, where all questions refer to the same codebase?
If they sold it, isn't that like what... literally almost every single company does nowadays unless you pay up?
Yeah I hope so. Anything above roughly 40 is only an option for men and if you have a kid at 60 then you’re going to be almost 80 (or worse- statistically speaking dead) when the kid leaves home. Not at all ideal.
Lol I'm so glad I'm running it offline with Ollama.
A Leaf was our first EV. I still maintain that if I had kids of driving-age, this would be my ideal first-car for them. Short leash, easy to drive around, room for friends, but not much scope to get into big trouble with.

Holy cow they're cheap now. Note that they can be absurdly bad in cold/rainy weather -- which prompted the sale of ours in Portland. Our ostensibly "80mi" EV got about 22mi once before howling for a charge, and that spelled "Adios Sparky" for us :)
Not that over engineered, here's the code :

https://gist.github.com/lazarcf/c80ae6f9362aaf3aa92e21e3a0dd...

you can see the component (the "image gallery") here : https://pixico.roware.ro/apa-distilata/
The amount of pain that my management is willing to tolerate from Amazon is truly staggering. If it's not in AWS, it doesn't exist. If it's broken or decrepit in AWS, they just keep trying. If it's overpriced they pay and if an Amazon bug or broken promise costs loads of money they still pay (or maybe feebly ask for a partial refund).

The profits from squeezing them will be monumental. Bullish AMZN.
It can be significantly hard to get home charging in Europe, however. There is also a much better, more environmentally friendly option available in Europe: extensive public transport. Moreover cities are dense here. So a bike is more useful and much quicker than waiting in tens of traffic lights. Average income of Europeans is lower too. So I think it is way better to invest in better public transport is a much better deal for everybody.
Also be sure to start at age 0, don’t wait until 6 months.
Signing and talking to your baby from day 0 about what you are doing and why brings them so much comfort. And gives them the opportunity to develop so much more quickly and confidently.
You could always read one of USDS’s reports to Congress to get an idea on what they’ve done:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22report+to+congress%22+%2B...
> Software estimation is a joke because there's no penalty for underestimating.

Comparing something as cookie cutter as movie production, to "sofware" doesn't seem fair. It's comparing the problems of tool users to tool makers.

Movies are mostly cookie cutter. You can go rent a full crew, with equipment and catering, for a weekend with a 30 minute phone call. Try hiring a crew of software developers, for your specific problem, in 30 minutes.

Software isn't cookie cutter, because software isn't fundamentally "software", it's a means to implement a solution for a specific problem. The difference in problem space a software developer can run into is massive. Unless you've already done it before, or are doing something incredibly cookie cutter, time estimates are based on gut feeling and past, probably incorrect, assumptions.

If you're doing something cookie cutter in software, then you can get great time estimates.

If you're doing something unusual with movies, then you can go WAY over time (see anything James Cameron touches).
I read the entire thing, it took about an hour give or take.

Why do you find that hard to believe?
I had to look this up, and I found the answer interesting because I used to develop software to accurately report magnetic declination at any point in time, for directional drilling oil wells in Canada. https://www.geomag.nrcan.gc.ca/mag_fld/magdec-en.php has some great information on why. For example, Yellowknife can experience declination changes over one degree every three years.

I haven't used a compass since I was a kid and at that time declination where I live was 21 degrees. Now it's down to 13 degrees. I had no idea it changed that much.
That feels like a certain xkcd [0]. If you can game the totally bullshit rankings then clearly your papers are worth something.

[0] https://xkcd.com/2385/
For context.md, it's that simple because it's unstructured data extraction from your codebase and working with a regular LLM model.

For design.md, I have a prompt because we're now working with a reasoning model and doing structured data extraction: create me an issue on Linear with a title, description, and a to-do list.

I would recommend trying the approach yourself and saving the prompts if you can nail down the repetitive asks.
"Unintentionally exposed" and "deliberately gave" are two meaningfully different actions, both of which are examples of why much better regulation and legislation of individuals rights over their data are needed.
Yeah we only have support to deal with bugs within AWS's platform itself, and 99% of the time we need to escalate it with our rep anyways.
How can they build something commercial/grid-scale when not a single research-level reactor truly generates net energy out, and none can do it anywhere near continously enough to be of any practical use?

This news is either based on misleading the public, or I am about to be updated with where Fusion is?
Please make a mac version.
I came across this repo recently and it looks great. It's a pity there doesn't seem to be an official Ubuntu package for it though. There is one for the Intelligent Storage Acceleration Library though.
> Nothing is stopping X from complying with EU regulations to make it available to you.

Given the personalities involved, I'd wager he's doing it out of spite than for any actual legal justification.

...though if there was an actual legal risk then I'll agree the economics probably don't bear-out the risks - as someone who identifies as European I'll admit that Europeans generally pay far less money for tech/software/apps/services than Americans do[1]; salaries in Europe are also significantly below their US equivalents: paying $200/mo for OpenAI's service is a much harder sell to a London or Berlin-based SWE on €90k/yr than when you're a Bay Area type on $300k/yr.

[1] e.g. If you can take Apple at their word, the EU accounts for 7% of their App Store revenue: https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/01/apple-says-eu-represents-7...

Besides, anyone in the EU who really wanted to use it can just use a VPN service.
And you're equating money spent on development with quality, performance, features, and compatibility. Please do tell me about how Source even remotely compares to Unity or Unreal?

Do you see Source being used in virtual soundstages? No.
Does Source support Metal or Vulkan? No.

Does it have anything approaching the 3D or 2D or rendering style capabilities of any modern engine? No.

Is Source going to be remotely relevant for metaverse stuff? No.

All the money in the world won't change the fact that Source is an outdated pile of garbage.

Respawn uses it to this day for Apex, and it's horrific. Its graphics quality is atrocious especially for the demands it places on hardware. It has the worst latency of any similar multiplayer game (some events can take half a second to make it from a player's action to another player's system!) It lacks modern features that have been in other games for many years, like variable event rates (some games, for example, will use much higher event update rates for stuff happening within the player's field of view.)

Its game engine has so many bugs around inputs, movement, and collisions that high level play revolves around abusing all of them for competitive advantage in what is lauded as "movement", and because Respawn never treated these issues as exploits, they got painted into a corner where they can't ever switch to a modern game engine because trying to get the quirks of movement behavior would be impossible.

The game's input processing is done in relation to framerate, for fucks sakes....so input processing behavior changes depending on framerate.

The security and anti-cheat in the game is so hamstrung by Source that multiple world tournaments have been hacked live and ultimately had to be done in secret, later broadcast - because Respawn was so powerless to stop the hacker(s).

With more Unity shifting to a royalty model you're going to see a lot more interest in open source game engines like Godot; Godot is, for example, working on being usable for massive multiplayer and open-world games.
I'm talking about being able to walk, you're talking about being proficient. I've said repeatedly that fine-tuning to get better is not incompatible with innateness.
The problem is relative to WHOM.

Here is the problem statement and solution for community leaders, the same class of decision makers who exited “AOL Keyword NYTimes” in favor of “nytimes.com” on this newfangled protocol called HTTP, with its servers and clients called browsers that people were downloading

intercoin.org/currencies.pdf
I believe if you spend months / hundreds of hours using any framework / tool you will eventually read so much of it that it's easy to get "deeply familiar" and even then.. it's often times faster to have an LLM write 80-90% of the code for you and just refine / finish it.
Yes people don't want Trump corrupting the government.

Corruption is bad.
Power is easy to abuse.

Checks are hard when a president doesn't care about the law or the constituon kr the damage he does to the country.

There's a reason several departments are supposed to be at arms length from the president.

Many of these reforms happened after Nixon. Now assuming the country survives it's clear we need something more. Possibly some administrative agencies need to be placed under the judicial branch to avoid executive corruption. Also impeachment needs to be much easier, arguably we need something like a vote of no confidence where a malcious president can be replaced by the VP. Although even that might not work like a lot of problems relating to the trump disaster era its hard to overcome reflexive partisanship
This was one of the ethical dilemmas we had to go through at university some 20 years ago: "Your professor/supervisor tells you to add them to the list of authors on your paper, do you do it?". There's a whole subset of "issues" here, one where you're more likely to be published with the supervisors name on the paper, another where you're travelling to present your paper, but you're not likely to be granted the budget and adding a professors name will almost ensure an all expenses paid trip.

Low hundreds papers doesn't seem impossible, nor does hundreds of collaborators, but it would heavily depend on your work. We see the same in software. Some people seems unrealistically productive, spawning one successful project after another. I would be interested in knowing for how long they can keep up the pace though. There's also the question of the quality of their work.
Yes, it seems like capability is logarithmic wrt compute but utility (in different applications) is exponential (or rather s-shaped) with capability again
> Windows 95 was culturally pretty big.

When you didn't have to deal wirh it, yes. /s
Source engine is so outdated at this point anyways. Valve should use the profits from their cash cow, CSGO, and use it to invest in retooling with open source engines such as GoDot or Bevy.

I remember downloading a leaked version of the source code for source engine, and in general it was laughable at how awful it was. I dont know if it was ever discussed mainstream but only based on recollection of IRC chats.

I think it was about 6 months out of date, but even so it would explain why HL sequels would become vaporware despite years of teasing the community by Gabe Newell himself.
> I noticed that most of the time the issue with estimations is the lack of clarity (=what do I really want?) and enough context (what's the impact in terms of scope to reach what I want?).

From what I've seen, this up front design ends up being a good portion of the design time. The cheat is that people don't include this upfront design in the time estimate. They say "the specs are still being set, we can't start yet" rather than "we're delayed in setting these new specs", even though the end date moves similarly.
Wow you weren't joking. ~7MM out of ~300MM.
> as this is not a good change in my opinion (Strictly my own opinion and not that of AWS)

Hope that's the opinion of Matt Garman, too. Such changes reek of Day 2 mentality.
Uber is an outlier because in a functioning economy that valued workers we wouldn’t have shipped all our jobs overseas and made gig economies the last line between housing and street schizophrenia.
The SaaS Marketing Master's
I find making the LLMs think and plan the project a bit worrying, I understand this helps with procrastination but when these systems eventually get better and more integrated, the most likely thing to happen to software devs is them moving away from purely coding to more of a solution architect role (aka Planning stuff), not taking into account the negative impact of giving up critical thinking to LLMs.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43057907

Other than that a great article! Very insightful.
> Both my kids started "talking" very early (I wanna say within the first or, at most, second month of being born...

Well sure if you just redefine what talking is...
One very rich man is pushing hard to implement some.
I defined it very clearly

Web2 (community) +
Web3 (blockchain)

We need to combine the two. Web3 by itself is lame, Web2 by itself is blind.
Speaking of twitter, things were looking pretty grim right after the takeover, with users and advertisers dropping left and right and it seemed like its days are numbered. What happened? It looks like it's still chugging along.
I use PyCharm community edition for personal/OSS projects.

At work I do have the all products pack since we support multiple programming languages for our client libraries and custom integrations.

My only major complaint with jetbrains is having a separate IDE for .NET vs everything else.
> As long as you are not a terrorist, all those surveillance programs will never be used against you

Can you say "as long as you have nothing to hide"?

We’ve known since WW2 and maybe further that governments have used surveillance against innocents and people they didn’t like.
It's not going to happen. No one feels that way in the industry.
Given a 3 648 318 tokens repository (number from Repomix), I'm not sure what would be the cost of using a leading LLM to analyse it and ask improvements.

Isn't the input token number way more limited than that ?

This is part is unclear to me in the "non-Greenfield" part of the article.

Iterating with aider on very limited scopes is easy, I've used it often. But what about understanding a whole repository and act on it ? Following imports to understand a Typescript codebase as a whole ?
This was a fun read, and I've worked enough jobs to where this just felt like someone was stalking me.

Every job I've had has always felt like they're taking more than my time and energy: they take my "life force", as it were.

A job can really drain you, especially since as the article says, a lot of jobs are just busywork. A corporation is a machine whose goal is to spend money, and sometimes make money back too.

The massive layoffs in 2022 and 2023 in the tech world sort of exemplify this. The big tech companies had money, so they have to spend it, and the easiest way to spend money is to hire people. Whether or not they're "necessary" isn't the point, the point is that you need to do something with the money.

When the money dried up, suddenly they have tens of thousands of people whose jobs really were not necessary and so they have to fire a bunch of them. It's terrible, but it's basically the backbone of our economy, so I don't even know that it can be fixed.
Tesla needs government subsidies. Uber needs a broken economy.
Uber's revenue was never coming from other food delivery startups.
That IS a fun fact.
Not to diagnose you over the internet based on one comment... But it does sound like you are suffering from depression. It would be worth talking to a therapist if you havnt. I did when I felt similarly and it changed my life.
I don't know about this specific technique, but I have found it useful to add a line like 'it's OK if you don't know or this isn't possible' at the end of queries. Otherwise LLMs have a tendency to tilt at whatever windmill you give them. Managing tone and expectations with them is a subtle but important art.
Stanford has received more than $1 trillion in funding [1], so even while they are not an government agency, I would not call them independent. I also don't think this is bad. As Heather Douglas argued in her book, science is never completely independent of policy. But I think if policy overrules scientific evidence, then things are going too far.

There is also a government document that states that

> "The EIP and VP provided public factual findings to multiple entities, including government agencies and social media platforms" [2].

Here VP is the aforementioned Virality Project (VP) by Stanford. The document mentions that

> "The VP provided public information about observed social media trends that could be used by social media platforms and public health communicators to inform their responses and further public dialogue. Rather than attempting to censor speech, the VP’s goal was to share its analysis of social media trends so that social media platforms and public health officials were prepared to respond to widely shared narratives."

This defense is highly questionable I think. Why do social media platforms need to be prepared to respond to widely shared narratives? How can a social media platform prepare for a "widely shared narrative"? Why can the scientists not write a public paper and then communicate via that way instead of directly to the social media platform? If this is based on the assumption that the general public doesn't understand, then who says that the government understands? Is the government more clever than the general public? Do scientists know better than the general public? I think scientists are experts in their domain usually. But does that make them experts in general? Should a scientists in an university decide what's best for people outside university?

[1]: https://stanfordreview.org/stanfords-federal-funding-a-momen...

[2]: https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/115561/documents/...
Your comment is entirely consistent with the parent comment.

68/2=34

If electricity costs 35c/unit then T could be making 10c and R could be making 33c.

T could be choosing to take less profit.
Yeah exactly, Leigh goes for what's been termed jhana-lite while Ajahn Brahm basically says if you don't see a nimita it's not legit. Maybe he's right, maybe he's just keeping it more elitist, or just swayed by the fact he's living a monastic lifestyle unlike Brasington (except on retreat), so accesses deeper states. But Leigh is no slouch and says he's been to all jhanas countless times (but also says he's not awake so...). That's the distinction he makes from those two parts of the canon, and argues that jhana lite is what the Buddha taught.

For me, either of them would be an improvement over my normal waking state, so I'm not too concerned. But yeah, it's good to be aware of both perspectives, that's why i suggested them.
This is the key to a lot of my workflows as well. I'll usually tack some form of "ask me up to 5 questions to improve your understanding of what I'm trying to do here" onto the end of my initial messages. Over time I've noticed patterns in information I tend to leave out which has helped me improve my initial prompts, plus it often gets me thinking about aspects I hadn't considered yet.
Show HN: SDK for XAI Grok Models
Hello HN!

I recently published a community-maintained SDK for the xAI Grok family of AI models (XDK lol).

I was at the xAI hackathon in late-2024 and felt taking on a small project where I could write some textbook-level, clean code for fun shortly after and built this.

To install: `pip install xai-grok`

Please let me know your thoughts. Comments on code-quality are very much welcome. Cheers.
They'll play word games, they'll equivocate, but they'll rarely engage in good faith. Spend your time wisely friend :)