skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the real world, Coca-Cola would "force a redistributor offline" by not selling them products, and setting up agreements with their distributors to limit who they can sell to. That's not trademark, and it doesn't transfer to free software.
How do we know this is a real researcher and not a disgruntled (former) US government employee? It feels extremely politically-motivated, anyway.
Who is claiming that implications inevitability?Shutting down a valid line of discussion because of someone deciding to make a fallacious analogy seems like a proposition that would essentially stop all scientific discussion of intelligence more broadly. Also a great argument for limiting free speech/scientific discussion in general. Thoughts are not inherently dangerous unless acted upon in a dangerous way and supposing that some are so dangerous that we should simply not speak of them seems like an action that should be considered more thoroughly beyond “someone might do something rash”
Can't agree harder. The idea that it is un-masculine to have friends is such a mental virus. A lot of people are going to miss everything cool and die angry.
The cut down full government agencies. Also, Chesterton's fence and second-order effects.
> you claim that something being repeatedly posted is a useful signal to determine if it's true

No I don't, you dolt. Learn which way the implication goes. "It is repeated because it's true" means something very different to "it is true because it's repeated". Here's an analogy of this conversation so you can understand how stupid you sound:

> Have you considered that he might be dying because he has cancer?

>> Can't argue with that, my granddad died and he didn't have cancer.

> The fact that people can die without having cancer has no relevance on my position that this person is died of cancer. If you want to argue with the statement, produce an argument instead of an unrelated sarcastic comment.

>> So you claim that someone dying is a useful signal to determine if they have cancer, but you only apply it to people who you already believe have cancer. But it somehow isn't a useful signal once it's someone you know doesn't have cancer. How does that make any sense? Sounds like textbook confirmation bias. Should be included as a real life example in the definitions.

Can people die of cancer? Can something be repeated because it's true? Who knows.
Thankfully iOS is pretty complete without apps. I don't use apps, I don't find them more convenient than websites. I use my phone like a basic computer. I only really use more advanced things outside of news/calendar/maps on a home desktop PC.

I'm not particularly old-fashioned as I had a 12 year career in FAANG mostly working with sensitive PII and business data which is quite boring if you're not a criminal. But I understand that there is no real way to enforce the kind of privacy standards people seem to assume exist.
Thanks for the feedback, I can add a setting option to change that.
Nixpkgs: Reverting commit that disables telemetry of a package
The main issue with AI, and ironically the reason why ChatGPT is the best one, is whom it works for.

AI doesn't work for the user. It couldn't care less if the user is happy or not. AI is designed first and foremost to make more money for the company. Its metrics are increased engagement and time on site, more sales, sales with better margins. Consequently, the user often has no choice or control over what the AI recommends for them. The AI is recommending what makes more sense for the company, so the user input is unnecessary.

Think of AI not as your assistant, but as a salesman.

One interesting consequence of this situation I found was that Youtube published a video "explaining" to creators why their videos don't have reach in the algorithm, where they essentially said a bunch of nothing. They throw some data at the AI, and the AI figures it out. Most importantly, they disclosed that one of the key metrics driving their algorithm is "happiness" or "satisfaction" partially gathered through surveys, which (although they didn't explicitly say this) isn't a metric that they provide creators with, thus it's possible for Youtube to optimize for this metric, but not for creators to optimize for it. That's because the AI works for Youtube. It doesn't work for creators, just as it doesn't work for users.

People are complex creatures, so any attempt at guessing what someone wants at a specific time without any input from them seems just flawed at a conceptual level. If Youtube wanted to help users, they would just fix their search, or incorporate AI in the search box. That's a place where LLMs could work, I think.

When you look at things this way, the reason why Netflix/Youtube get rid of old stuff has nothing to do with users, but with some business strategy that they have that differs from the music industry.
the LLMs are trained on data stolen from the internet. There's no racial slur they don't know, there's no death threat they can't deliver. Currently our best LLMs are generating new racial slurs to deploy in our eternal quest to make the internet worse. You may have never heard the term "Chapingle" before but don't use it in front of a Lithuanian person after the year 2028 unless you want punched in the mouth.
Not soley for SEO. A good blog contributes to developer relations, meaning that customers and programmers of the product may find answers to their support questions directly from the company, rather than relying on StackOverflow, reddit, or jippity.
apologies for the cut n pasted confusion :-D
Where's the consent? Where's the opt out? These are things we demand of all companies.
No hard feelings, my mind just automatically thinks about what could be - what's the greatest version of X?

Unironically, that might be my lesson I take away from this - that I should maybe just try more, bumble about a bit, take things less serious...

Honestly, thank you for this website and great reaction to this feedback. More power to you!
Classical snake oil sales
adopting the mentality that AI agents are akin to russian spam bots is regressive mentality.

your users will be interacting with your platform using partial automation in the very near future and if you think rate limiting or slowing their productivity is somehow necessary they'll just go somewhere else.

once you feel the empowerment, any attempt to retract it goes against human nature.
not sure if it's cursor's fault, but very often it doesn't give me the real or complete code of my codebase when auto editing/auto completing.

any tips?
If only the techies would listen to reason and move to Houston. They would be so much happier. Why live somewhere that you hate so much?
This is not how you change minds in 2025. They are going to dismiss everything you say to change their minds.

You aren't having a debate, its a mental street fight, and you gain respect by proving you know how they think and meeting them there.

Its why I say the dems are always wrong. I know that the only converastion is from using their own facts and then their own values.

The dems are always wrong, they do corruption badly. Trump pardoned 1600 people, and made 2 billion or something from 2 meme coins right before he was inagurated.

What do the dems have to show for it? 6 pardons?

So the Repubs are up 1594 pardons and billions in meme coins?

Did Trump do anything illegal? no! He exercised his powers. See! the dems can't even be corrupt or serve their own self interests effectively.
I don't even think half of them are getting paid. They're doing it gratis.
And except for planes that don't or can't follow rules or instructions. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_New_York_City_Cirrus_SR20...
Short answer: Yes.

Slightly longer answer: Depending on the business, building organic inbound traffic via evergreen content like blog posts can be an effective way to get potential customers in the door. This type of inbound lead is usually higher quality and lower cost overall than paid ad traffic, which has gotten pretty miserable over the past few years.
Congress is also ignoring the principles laid out in the Constitution by acting like presidents have unilateral power when they do not, and were never intended to. Many members of Congress have defended Trump's actions on these issues by implying that voters gave him a mandate, but the voters also voted for Congress, and they are supposed to check the President in some ways. Congress is probably supposed to be the most impactful branch of federal government, not the weakest.
is it possible to lose?
Dynamic libraries come to mind.
People regularly overpay, so I'm not sure looking at average fees it the right lens. Monero is great, but it's trivial to get an excellent user experience with lightning nowadays that doesn't require custodians.
But you know, the Prius Prime is a PHEV as in "plug in hybrid electric vehicle"
Not surprised. A lot of gamers are still using high-end motherboards and CPUs they bought 10 years ago, only upgrading the GPU and RAM to play newer games. They probably can't upgrade due to the TPM requirement.
It is not catch-22. This case established that what the people did was wrong, so while they cannot punish them due to QI it establishes the precedent of declaring this is wrong. If anyone in the future will do the same act, there is this precedent saying it is wrong, so QI will not apply.
We should be seeing more of this on HN.
This website is mostly full of very junior developers that just click on articles they think "sound smart" or are a hot take they agree with.

Don't get me wrong, it's also one of the few places where you find experts from all sorts of industry mingling. But the quality of commentary on HN has plummeted in the last 10 years.
Jesus, fix chrome so the selectable theme colors wouldn't look like a triplegendered person's boudoir. Meaning: fuk these pastel colors.

Youtube looks and feels the same, actually it got worse, in the last 10 years.
Biden may beat Kamala again in the 2028 primaries and get elected just like he did in 2020.
I have not found this to be the case - just last week I signed up for a free 4 month trial of Apple Music and immediately (like, the next 30 seconds) canceled and retained my trial period. I have also done this with News and TV in the past.
Ahh. That % would depend on fleet size. AFR should be under 1% for most drives.
The Android problem only occurs in an IPv6-only enterprise network which is very rare. Otherwise Android can use IPv4.
For OSX, it either works (or can with an app, covering many things) or doesn't work at all (some things). I rarely find things in the middle.

For Linux, it either works (some things), works with effort and time (many things) or wont work (some things) weighted heavily towards the middle in varying degrees.

For windows, it either works (many things), or works in a weird not fully functional way that you can't fix or change and ends up being as frustrating as not having it at all, or as having to fix it in linux (seemingly more and more things), or doesn't work at all (a few things).

I can't stand using Windows anymore. Yes when it works its OK, except the UI gets worse every update, it gets more bloated with ad-ware, keeps trying to force you to online accounts and subscription models, and when it doesn't work the way you want, its a nightmare that typically can't be fixed (more so than any windows OS before)
> They've been toiling hard for decades while getting poorer and poorer

This is, by every metric, completely wrong. We have never been wealthier.
Yes replacing the pipes basically Flint's ourselves but still needs to be done in the long run so better sooner than latter imo.
Before they advertise this, they might want to fix their wasm shell:

>> wash build

requires go version 1.19 through 1.23, got go1.24
Made the switch myself not long ago. Only thing that annoyed me: I was still forced to connect the device to "activate" it. Even though I use VPN on my router, it still seems silly that the device I purchased requires such activation. Anyway, after that I installed KoReader (along with a font called ChareInk6SP) and started to transfer epubs from Calibre via KoReader's Calibre plugin. If you have a large collection on Kindle I would suggest you first try and get those into your Calibre before doing anything else.
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What's Elon's crime?
iOS devices come with apps pre-installed and this article is about how those apps do not conform to Apple's privacy policies.
Maybe you should have read my comment instead of thinking about a story from years ago. I'll say it again: American vets are getting caught in ICE raids. Your status doesn't matter. The color of your skin does.
I was always blown away by the fact that YaST could run either as a GTK app or a CLI/ncurses tool. The same config was available in both.

Back when I was using SuSE regularly, I was developing a pluggable web-based admin tool. I always wanted to look at the way YaST was written to see if I could do something similar for creating a web UI, but my project got sidelined before I got very far.
Delphi Is 30
> it's fucking disturbing that we're not allowed to discuss it on any active thread

This is the "nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded" theory of HN threads. You're talking about the most-discussed topic on HN, by far, of the past several weeks.

If you, or anyone, want to know what's happening with these threads and flags, how we moderate this, and what the principles are, there are a bunch of links here which should answer all your questions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43050893. If you familiarize yourself with that material and still have a question that I haven't answered, I'd be happy to take a crack at it.

Btw, you can't evaluate this with a random sample of links on a MOT (Major Ongoing Topic). You need to look at the threads that have had significant frontpage time and discussion. Obviously there have been many more submissions than that—that is the case with any MOT. If most of these didn't get flagged and/or downweighted, then HN's frontpage would consist of little else.

I realize that some users feel so passionately right now that they would welcome that, but I don't believe that the bulk of the community wants this (far from it), and in any case we couldn't let HN be completely taken over by any MOT without ruining it for its intended purpose.
An approach to generate correctly rounded math libraries for new floating point
I second this. I'm learning French and would appreciate a way to filter by language.
Because WASM tooling is so much better, thank goodness for emscripten.
just beginning for me, I've got some agency guidance to get rescinded, as well as some EO's to try to get the President to create and sign
Everyone knows investing in cybersecurity is just wasteful spending!
The international financial system makes it very hard to "run away" from a loan. Unless you are genuinely willing to become a wanted fugitive, you will end up having to pay.
I assume most of tgese are early retirements
DCA, not DIA. DIA is in Denver.
When Americans are getting targeted because of the color of their skin, it goes beyond nativism to white supremacy.
Hey dang, thanks for the reply.

I didn't know you take the flagging away. That's not a bad idea.

I've been seeing you defend yourself all over the place these days. Sorry to make you feel like you had to do that here too.

My comment was more one of confusion, to clarify. Reading your comments these last few weeks, I trust in your decisions and those of the rest of the mods. HN is a really good place because of you all.

But I also know Elon is super petty/crazy and doing some monkey business is not above him. And yes, I know that sounds very conspiracy theory of me based on your comment here.

Suffice to say, maybe I'm just reacting to the sea change in HN participation and doing some 'self protection'. I like HN and then I recognize this flagging behavior on mostly just two men. Is there more flagging? Yes, but that's 'background' to me. These things don't square to my mind, so I go off to conspiracy land. Either way, my lizard brain is triggered and whether I like it or not, I can't help feeling 'bad/danger'. Maybe some self-work is needed.

Still, thanks a ton for all the time and the effort yo and the rest of the mod team put in here. I really appreciate it.
Discover where all the freedom went
Seems very dismissive and unaware of recent advances in causal inference (cf other comments on Pearl). Putting "throw the kitchen sink at it" regression a la early 2000s nutritional research (which is indeed garbage in garbage out) in the same category as mendelian randomization, DAGs, IP weighting, and G-methods is misleading. I do worry that some of these EA types dive head-first into a random smattering of google scholar searches with no subject matter expertise, find a mess of studies, then conclude "ah well, better just trust my super rational bayesian priors!" instead of talking with a current subject matter expert. Research -- even observational research -- has changed a lot since the days of "one-week observational study on a few dozen preschoolers."

A more general observation: If your conclusion after reading a bunch of studies is "wow I really don't understand the fancy math they're doing here" then usually you should do the work to understand that math before you conclude that it's all a load of crap. Not always, of course, but usually.
Is anyone else annoyed by this thing?

I go to an apple TV app and it wants to tell me what is on ... another service. No I wanted to look at YOUR content. Or I go to Amazon and same thing ...

Then the apple tv (device) starts showing me options and I'm honestly confused to where any of it is coming from.
That's an interesting analogy. If I recall correctly, Mythbusters put a bull in a china shop and found that the bull avoided the shelves and didn't break anything.
I think it isn't only DOGE. Giving the chaos, the government employees are probably exfiltrating data, personal and governmental, to preserve as evidence to "CYA" or for possible future use say in their lawsuit for unlawful termination or whatever comes, like various investigations where by the time of the investigation the evidence my get removed from the government systems, etc...
Ah, allegedly my previous employer is still reeling from one especially motivated individual who ripped through the codebase.

Yes, he was let loose without supervision or code review.

Fun times.
Define "America". Your side believes that a billion people from all over the world could come here and it would still be "America" so I'm not sure what you even mean when you say someone is "actively harming" it.
Interesting. Well, it must be worth it seeing as almost every single business is doing this. Or maybe it's just cargo-cult? Is there any data on the effectiveness?
This is amazing! Curious how it compares to openai deep research, did you try?
NYTimes was calling this "reshaping the federal government," as though it was just a slightly different set of policies.
Calling it an experiment would be more accurate than declaring it has already failed.
That surely isn't any WebAssembly then, if we are counting adoption growth throughout computing history.
I personally will never migrate to Windows 11, EOL or not. I'll keep using it for games that I can't get to work under Linux even after it is EOL, until Valve stops supporting it for Steam. At that point I'll delete the partition and never look back.
I also found Vesijärvi on the map in the next municipality over. "Water lake". As opposed to what other type of lake exactly?
You mean the next incoming people
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The fighters talk directly to ATC to request to a block of airspace to fly in so they don't run into anything and ATC keeps it clear. This is a regular occurrence in the DC area. This also happens with civilian aircraft like medevac helicopters. They obviously need priority but you also need to route them around stuff you can't move out of the way in time.

You may not strictly need the clearance but it's a really good idea to know where it's safe to fly.

> My idea is to sit down and have the conversation about why certain helos are engaged in some of these dangerous practices?

This isn't different from planes colliding on a runway. There are bad procedures. The NTSB will investigate and make recommendations. The military will offer their opinions. And the FAA will ignore everything until it happens a couple more times. Or with see and avoid, bury their heads in the sand and hope the problem goes away.
One who thinks "open source" means blindly copy/pasting code snippets found online.
That feature never made sense to me and I always disable it on my GNU+Linux, if I encounter it. Almost always when I want to open 2 different file locations, is because I want to copy files from one folder to another and because I am a lazy lad, i'll just do it by drag and drop. This just works perfectly fine with two windows. Not sure what I would need tabs for. But I also don't care if they exist. Maybe some users like them.
Nice! Built something similar in Rust that supports local and remote repos: https://crates.io/crates/r2md
For a lighter introduction to Hernán’s ideas check out:

"The C-Word: Scientific Euphemisms Do Not Improve Causal Inference From Observational Data" (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5888052/)

"Does water kill? A call for less casual causal inferences" (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5207342/)
If you are opposed to the government regulating a market, then you haven't seen a company regulate one ...
Newton’s third law? Pidgin for high schoolers. Got it.
SEO and inbound marketing, not withstanding it also builds some trust. If I visit a site and see some in depth, heavily researched posts, I’m more likely to trust it vs a site with no useful content
I'd say also SMO (social media optimization)

Any "link juice" on Google may or may not be real, but traffic is real. I'd point to

https://www.pinecone.io/

as a company that was highly effective at building awareness of their product long before vector databases became hot with a blog. Their blog now is just another navel-gazing, self-centric 'enterprise' blog, which is sad.
> SoftBank is also closing in on the acquisition of Ampere, an Oracle-backed chip designer of Arm-based chips for servers that could be valued at close to $6.5 billion. That deal is central to Arm’s own chipmaking project, people familiar with the plans said.

Arm is exiting the IP business, this is why they sue and buy their "customers".
If they don’t tell what they’re doing, nobody knows.

This includes prospect customers, target investors, potential hires, etc.

SEO could be a reason but more often than not blog posts are not optimized and/or are on a different domains.

It’s also good as education material, for example if you build dev tools or sdk or sw for other devs, certainly you’ll have docs, but I think having blog post with concrete use cases helps a ton.

IMO blog posts are an indispensable tool for customer acquisition.
I didn't submit this article, but I did vouch for it. I wouldn't normally do either for a political article.

The lay-offs are apparently not just affecting health agencies but are across the entire range of US government agencies, and are extensive. This will affect a great many people, and I feel very sad for their predicament - but it will also affect the regulatory, economic, and public policy environment in the US, as well as US government funded technology and research. Many people who use this site will be affected, directly or indirectly. As will many of the companies that they work for.

So, apart from the awful human cost, I believe the article is HN-relevant.
You are being too kind to those young people. One doesn't need experience of bricklaying to see that building a house takes a lot longer than bulldozing it.

Anyone doing this kind of work is not merely ignorant.
People would have resisted TUBA the same ways they're resisting IPv6 now. It's not a technical problem.
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