skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd read it already, thank you very much.

> The Zizians, believe it or not, are not the only cult-like groupuscule to have emerged from the heady stew of the Rationalist community

Many communities have cultlike offshoots. What frequency, what proportion are we talking about? And surely the fact that mainstream Rationalists have been loudly denouncing and warning people about the Zizians for the past 5 years counts for something.

> (Alignment Group) would attempt to articulate a ‘demon’ which had infiltrated our psyches from one of the rival groups, its nature and effects, and get it out of our systems using debugging tools

> there were also psychotic breaks involving demonic subprocess narratives,” and where people in positions of power would “debug” underlings.

Yeah, that's crazy. I don't think any of the people I know would get involved in anything like that. Again, is that "normal Rationalists" or is that what a snake-handler sect is to Christians?

> I don’t know that I have the patience or energy to really get to the bottom of it all except to say: It all kinda sounds pretty culty to me!

This is the kind of thing you'd say if you wanted to smear a group but knew the dirt was actually pretty limited.
A non-insignificant part of the reason of why I am, and I bet many others too are ambivalent about the events is because of this stuff... Not just on hn or even online, but as a general pattern of behavior..

The right-thinking busybodies who want to make EVERYTHING about politics and the current thing.

Believe me, we know where to find or to talk about politics. There's no shortage of places.

Trying to ram it into a site made for, yes, reading about python libraries just makes me loathe you more. And it's entertaining to watch people I loathe shit bricks, even if I also loathe the other side.
Not US.
> 2009-04-03 JS Added TAX_REF_ID

Hey at least they’re using iso 8601 dates!
Despite explicitly requesting the tetris/bejeweled hybrid to be "insanely impressive", the result was ugly and clunky. With that demo running in the background, they then segued into a hiring pitch for a new AI game studio. Consider me unimpressed.
Elon just said they are launching an AI game studio. Does this mean they will be building games that are mostly built with AI, or will they make AI tooling available for anyone to build games easily? Probably the former, but it would be nice if they would make it fully available to everyone.
> without drm that stuff will spread like wildfire

They are already spreading like wildfire (Hint: Library Genesis). But I still buy ebooks from time to time
Lovely use of technology! Modern day analogy of old time turntable mixing
"Heritability" does not mean what this thread supposes it to mean. It specifically does not mean "genetically determined".
Nice work! It's a good write-up, too.

Hygienic macro expansion is one of the things I still haven't implemented before. I remember a [talk][1] where Matthew Flatt illustrates the idea of sets of scopes, and choosing the largest intersection. I see in your implementation there are sets of "marks" in syntax objects, is that what's going on there?

I haven't played with rust, but when I do I'll be able to play with this scheme too.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or_yKiI3Ha4
it definitely does not ;-)
I sense an interesting story.

Details please ;-)
Are they? I find Agentic mode on most editors barely useful. Autocomplete and inline editing is great though.

To use these tools properly, you need to know how to build the same thing precisely.
They are too rational for religion but desperately need meaning (or whatever) so they convinced themselves they could literally talk directly to god (after he exists he will simulate their exact personalities at this exact moment in time).
Recently came across this 13 year old bit of genius: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yRx-dd7Jcs

(Desktop/keyboard only)
Show HN: I made AI agent for influencer-led growth
After I tried influencer marketing, I realized the first bottleneck is taking so much time from searching best-fit influencers actually to follow up with them. That is why I leverage llm to summarize personas on social, make it more accurate matching, then use automation to outreach and follow up to send them my requirements, if they like they can pitch me back, so i just need to pick best offers. i also can detect who is influencer in my customer base, so i can send them very custom offers based on their follower size, make it more efficient as flywheel.
But the stakes of political issues have always been much higher than of those in software engineering threads. Since long before HN was started. There has never been a time in human history so placid that reading about a python library could be considered more important than the pressing issues of the day.

But I can and do read about the pressing issues of the day through a variety of media, most commonly the Economist, the LA times, and various substacks. On the other hand, I more or less have no other outlets—besides HN—to read about software engineering.
Just a couple days or so ago you commented that accountability is important. Now you are calling an article about how Musk is trying to avoid accountability far left and hysterical?
https://jamielinux.com/docs/openssl-certificate-authority/in...
is a guide I found useful when trying to learn about this space.
Looks like one can place say a 100 of 2x2in 100wt $10 Peltier coolers from AMZN around the exhaust and get 10kw.
Go 1.24
Some of the attempts in this comment section to tar the entire rationalist
community with the Zizian brush are ideologically motivated. The third most popular ideology in the US is the hope that
technological progress will lead to a good future. (The most popular ideology is Christianity, with Leftism in second place. Note that a single person can subscribe to more than one ideology.) In contrast, the rationalist community grew around
publications by Eliezer Yudkowsky written with the hope that they would help people
realize that AI research is dangerous [1]. Of course, if technological
progress is your ideology, then you are going to resist the idea that the most exciting and powerful technology of the
decade is dangerous.

[1] More history here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42902731
You're saying "60-80% heritable" as if that meant something. But you're also wrong: not only do separated twins raised in different SES settings have differing IQ results, but the heritability of IQ itself (whatever its cause) is also SES-dependant.
Look at the movement of the frame - it's hand held.
Let's note the absurdity of moving your washer and dryer to a new house. Those should stay with the house like refrigerators and dishwashers. In the US it is common in some regions and not in others.
Have they ever, in known history, done any of that in any manner one could call effective?

Congress is a pile of squabbling children and has been at least my entire lifetime.
An interesting consideration next time you balk at the price of a tradesman; or, why the plumber charges $300 to connect a washer in a few minutes when anyone can do it.

$295 of that is knowing to drill the hole in the drain.
Org-Mode in Your Pocket Is a GNU-Shaped Devil (2010)
Well that was about forced labor in prisons which is a bit different.
Ask HN: Do you know why no one refer product anymore?
I mean, people are obsessed with the Paypal story to grow, but no one really cares about 20 dollars credit, and spend time on promotion. we are in a social media era, we need to understand people opportunity cost, like they could easily post other brands stuff to make a few 100, so no way they do that for 20. Really should just understand people value first, then send them a custom offer. I actually want to make it as a product but not sure if anyone wants it?
Discussion (129 points, 6 days ago, 17 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43017348

Related

Go 1.24's go tool is one of the best additions to the ecosystem in years (290 points, 21 days ago, 194 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42845323

Microsoft Go 1.24 FIPS changes (84 points, 11 days ago, 62 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42965404
I like this idea. I do it when the author has a Patreon. How do you email random people five dollars?
What I'm saying is that looking at a photo is a reality-check and a valuable one. Yes, sometimes something isn't what it looks like. But often things are exactly what they look like. If your elaborate theory leads you to one conclusion, and looking at the photo leads you to another, you should at least consider the possibility that it's the elaborate theory that's wrong.
Unreliable tools are utterly exhausting.

> not much worse than a junior dev and 100x faster.

Is there a greater hell than this!?
Show HN: Aitherapy, AI-Power Therapy for Accessible Mental Health Support
Hey HN,

We built Aitherapy because when I moved to the US, I needed mental health support but struggled with the cost, availability, and time commitment of traditional therapy. Aitherapy is an AI-powered mental health chatbot designed to provide 24/7 support, especially for those who can’t afford or access therapy easily.

Some key aspects:

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Privacy-focused: No human in the loop
Personalized responses: Adapts to user feedback
Affordable premium option

I’d love to hear your thoughts:

Does AI have a role in mental health support?
How do you feel about the balance between human therapists vs AI-driven help?
Any feedback on the product or positioning?

Would appreciate any insights from the community!

Try it here, no signup needed https://www.aitherapy.care/free – open to all feedback, especially around UX, AI ethics, and potential improvements.
Doubtful. The radalt should have been screaming "sink rate" or something similar in the cockpit regardless of the pressure setting.
Yup, including me! I buy one every year, even if I'm only planning on visiting 1 or 2 parks that year. Same with the Colorado State parks annual pass. I have no problem about going above and beyond for just a wonderful resource, so that others who are less fortunate might also be able to visit.

You didn't specify if you thought that detracted from my point, though.
I think the usefulness is just very domain specific. If you're writing some types of boilerplate or often-tutorialized code it can spit out something very reasonable. Other types of code, like say in game dev, it stumbles around and never produces anything usable.

But like you said, in a few more years we'll see! It does feel like there's some missing pieces yet to be figured out to truly "reason" and generalize.
Doesn't the last layer output a variable-size vector based on seq length? It'd take a bit of hacking to get it to be a semantic vector.

Additionally, that vector is trained to predict next token as opposed to semantic similarity. I'd assume models trained specifically towards semantic similarity would outperform (I have not bothered comparing both in the past - MMTEB seems to imply so)

At that point - it seems quite reasonable to just pass the sentence into an embedding model.
by giving the models durable memory, they become "agentic". in any case, they don't make as much of a mess when their output is getting written into git.
Thanks, I'll try it!
It's wild to me that this is at the top of Hacker News, but not even on the Google News front page.

I feel like major airline crashes are usually headlines.
ArcaOS 5.1.1 released (modern OS/2)
Just because you want something to be true doesn't make it true
If they catch his team copying the data, he should literally be executed. Otherwise, audit on..
Hey, great article :)

I'll try it.
I too was confuse initially. The map doesn't care where you click. Clicking just toggles to the time based map. In that map, physical distance between any two points represents the time to get between those two points.

Whether it accurately does that, as in your Bushwick Flatbush example, I don't know.
But that still doesn't exclude copilot, which is the most intuitive and genuinely useful version of ai after chatgpt itself.
If anyone knows someone similar for Android, I'd be interested in learning more. I've seen some of the impressive things that can be done using Revanced but there don't seem to be good guides for how to get started with something like that.
On this site, the adage cuts both ways.
I can do it with a moral equivalent of a port forward.

This situation was inevitable, but it's not like they just gave up and said "welp, guess they're separate then". We've developed basically every single method of communicating between v4 and v6 that are possible to develop. There's two address spaces, but they're linked into one Internet.

(Or really, with NAT in the picture, it's millions of overlapping address spaces, but we still consider that to be one Internet.)
Shifting Spanner
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjustable_spanner
> It’s okay to enjoy work and focus on your craft for two years rather than jump for more money.

These aren't mutually exclusive.

> If you like your employer and colleagues and are growing as an engineer isn’t that better in the long term?

Better than liking your employer and colleagues and growing as an engineer and also having more money? No.

This isn't a field with low demand for talent. You can have all these things--don't settle for less.

> I think jumping around can risk creating an engineer who leaves a place worse than when they started.

That's a risk that companies should be willing to pay to avoid.

But a lot of companies aren't willing to given their engineers adequate pay increases each year, and it's not engineers' responsibility to accept less money than they are worth. If you want more experienced engineers, you have to pay for more experienced engineers. That's just basic free market economics: if you don't like that you don't like capitalism.

Some companies understand this and do better, but these are the exceptions not the rule. If you find such an exception, stick with them!

I fundamentally disagree with the narrative that engineers are supposed to be passionate about their craft and learning and interest and not care about the money. That's propaganda spread by corporations to get us to accept less pay, and if you believe it you'll be exploited. And as it turns out, the places that pay the best are also usually the best places to be passionate about your craft, so there's no real conflict. The places that pretend to pay you in learning and passion instead of money generally don't deliver on the learning and passion either.
Hey I have my gripes with the landscape, certainly, but this is just too much.

> It sure is! But it doesn't really prove anything other than that people are using the single-most-talked about product in the world. By comparison, billions of people use Facebook and Google. I don't care about this number!

> User numbers alone tell you nothing about the sustainability or profitability of a business, or how those people use the product. It doesn’t delineate between daily users, and those who occasionally (and shallowly) flirt with an app or a website. It doesn’t say how essential a product is for that person.

Both of these "arguments" could be applied to any of the big tech giants of the last 25 years - Google, Amazon, Facebook, Uber, whatever (and there'd be other incumbents used by billions of people before them). I don't believe these arguments discount ChatGPT from having the potential to continue growing like a Facebook. And who cares how many journalists Altman knows, you don't get a product written about that much unless it's truly a groundbreaking product.

> And even then, we still don't have a killer app! There is no product that everybody loves, and there is no iPhone moment!

There sure is, it's called programming. He called out quality earlier on, but the quantity and speed and direction the AI can take (as well as its rate of improvement) is breathtaking. My own output has 10x'd easily since GPT-4 came out (although some of that means I'm needing far less hours in certain places). And guess what? The code quality is generally fine.

> Where are the products? No, really, where are they? What's the product you use every day, or week, that uses generative AI, that truly changes your life? If generative AI disappeared tomorrow — assuming you are not somebody who actively builds using it — would your life materially change?

Ok, the product is called ChatGPT, or Claude, or DeepSeek or whatever, and if it disappeared overnight, my programming productivity would drop dramatically. I would not seek to take on as ambitious projects in as short of a time frame as I am doing now.

I don't know, as a user and developer both of AI/LLMs, this article isn't hitting the mark for me. There are legitimate criticisms of the field, but I'm not seeing them thus far.

Edit - I'll say I agree with the Deep Research criticisms. These products are very underwhelming. They're literally to help people do a research report which needs to be done, but won't be used or read critically by anyone report.
Yeah I'm surprised by all the negativity as well. I'm listening to the post right now (using xtts-v2 finetuned on a voice I like lol). Sounds like these companies are overvalued / over hyped. Maybe they are / some of these companies go the way of myspace, but LLMs are incredibly useful for me.

I'm able to do a so much more using LLMs (Mistral-Large, Qwen2.5 and R1 locally, Claude via API) than without them.

I have to get the IDE setup properly now.
This seems like an awfully fanciful idea for anywhere but places with the most dense rail networks per sq km, at least if we're talking a full-scale refactor of existing infrastructure, in terms of financial, physical, logistics.

Is it not somewhat true that rail/freight companies have more authority over the land that their lines run through than the regions do? I may be talking out of my ass here, but I feel cities and provinces in Canada pretty much have to yield to CN or BNSF in some form or another; they operate their own police afaik. Railyards seem to be regarded as defacto permanent fixtures in terms of urban infrastructure.
I mean a lot of these tools one collects as one does work around the house. If you can invest in a Bosch washing machine, surely you can invest in a Bosch drill, a plumbing wrench and a spanner. The spade bit to the drainage plug, I must admit, was unexpected.
By this I mean it’s a bet on what R&D might yield, current progress being some kind of signal. No one has certainty here. It’s an emergent technology and no one knows for certain how far it can be pushed.
That’s lovely. It’d probably have been too rare for the DAK catalogs of the early 80s, but a lot of similar (cheaper) gear came through them. (The Olivetti branded TRS-80 Model 100 was a prize!)
I find your videos fascinating and I'm surprised that more people haven't checked them out or read your articles. I personally use Android so the videos are technically not applicable for me but I still get a lot of value out of learning how some of the low level debugging in iOS works.
Plenty of AI companies that are cons or extremely overvalued, but the technology is the real deal and delivering huge improvements over previous techniques in all kinds of domains: language translation, weather prediction, code completion, self driving, etc.
LLMs are pretty good at the aspects of coding that I consider to be "the fun part". Using them has made me more productive, but also made my job less fun, because I can't justify spending time using my own brain to do "the fun part" on my employer's dime. And that was something I was particularly good at, which is why I was able to be paid well to do it.

So now my company makes more money, and the work gets done faster, but I can't say I feel appreciative. I'm sure it's great for founders though, for whom doing the work is merely an obstacle to having the finished product. For me, the work is the end goal, because I'm not hired to own the result.
Grok has gotten to the top of one benchmark:

https://x.com/lmarena_ai/status/1891706264800936307

It's been said before but it is great news for consumers that there's so much competition in the LLM space. If it's hard for any one player to get daylight between them & the 2nd best alternative, hopefully that means one monopolistic firm isn't going to be sucking up all the value created by these things
I am a math PhD student and I already draw some value from recent reasoning models. I strongky believe than in 1-2 years LLMs will become established tool for scientists to help with coding and math. I really don't think you can call this a con...
He might be. It’s an emergent technology and no one knows for certain how far it can be pushed.
It seemed to me that he was joking.
That won't restore my 3+ neovim instances, including loaded buffers, associated undo trees, tabs, and splits. Neither will it restore the various PDFs I have open, the file browser instances pointed at specific locations, nor the containing window and desktop layouts for all of that.

It's pretty unbelievable when you think about it. The majority of mainstream progress on application state management has taken place in mobile operating systems and essentially amounts to the expectation that you won't lose data if and when your process is unexpectedly forced to terminate without user interaction. Forget actually picking up exactly where you left off.

And as long as I'm complaining. All of my sshfs mounts tend to break if I sleep-wake as well. Remounting them generally doesn't fix programs that were using them (for obvious reasons) - I usually have to manually close and reopen all of that.
You are moving the goalposts? You first claimed that Rust doesn't help with parallelism. I pointed out they never claimed it did. Now you are talking about something else?
I'm not talking about people who struggle. Plenty of rich MFs out there who aren't really doing anything anywhere near as inspirational with their wealth. I mean them, the people for whom a few billion here and there is not going to make much of a difference.
> there’s a modern homogeneity in big budget films

A lot of that is due to the nature of studios milking franchise properties like the MCU or SW. Directors of big budget films are now often selected to be a caretaker of one franchise episode. They inherit a pre-existing style from the franchise while also having a bunch more 'input' (aka supervision) from an army of executive producers who work across more than one film and are focused on "don't fuck up the franchise."

Another part of the modern decline in the diversity of cinematic looks is from the economics of streaming. Streamers like Netflix, Apple and Prime are focused on risk reduction by funding either "big name star" properties where the stars make more by being their own executive producers or "big name IP" properties with built-in audiences from books, games, etc. In neither instance is the director usually a central element in packaging the deal. The role of these directors is to be more of a journeymen shepherd like Marquand than a visionary like Lynch, Kubrick or Coppola.

It's a worrying trend because many "bankable name" directors like Lynch whose name at the top of the movie poster could guarantee an audience are dying and not being replaced by new directors that have broad name recognition.
I don’t deny it.

I used claude + gemini to whip out a rewrite of a show HN project in less than half an hour to deployment yesterday.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43071381

But this sort of work is fairly low value and boilerplate-y.