skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excellent article. Should also mention that the tanks used to invade France in 1940 were for the most part built in Czechoslovakia in 1938-1940 (not just existing "intact Czechoslovakia tanks"). If war had been declared in 1938 against Germany, it would have been won fast.

Also, I don't understand what mandate or power the US have to negotiate with Russia? They are currently the main providers of weapons to Ukraine but that's about it? And they aren't even the only providers.

Europe could absolutely help Ukraine on its own and ignore whatever the US tells it to do, if it had the political will to do so. It doesn't look good right now but it could still happen.
But if this is like the internet, it’s not refuting the idea that this is a huge bubble. The internet did have a massive investment bubble.

And I’d argue it took decades to actually achieve some of the things we were promised in the early days of the internet. Some have still not come to fruition (the tech behind end to end encrypted emails was developed decades ago, yet email as most people use it is still ridiculously primitive and janky)
History of science essay about Greenland
It is the musk-trump administration.
I agree to both. It just sounded to me like it is an unbearable experience, which I wanted to correct. Certainly, on a clean slate, I prefer a static binary
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I am seeking an intern to compile weekly CV/CG+AI news digests. Offering mentorship and future references.
Any recommendations where's best to post the position, or search for candidates?
TBH there's enough of a "planespotting" hobbyist community who would love to have good quality camera footage of takeoffs/landings to probably finance great quality cameras at all major airfields covering all the runways/ramp areas/etc. just from ads from streaming. Also insurers (I actually work with a bunch of the guys at Lloyd's syndicates who do hull insurance for aircraft; I can ask them in a few weeks how much this data would be worth to them. For ramps, it would be "who backed into my aircraft while it was parked" issues. I worked on an airbase where someone drove a pickup truck into a super high end "one of two" high altitude long endurance drone, destroying 50% of the US Government surveillance capability in theater for about 4 months...)
In my experience it's actually the other way round. At least where I grew up (Southern Europe) In small towns/countryside it's really difficult to be a true minority (goth, metal, hip-hop etc when they were not mainstream anymore), unless you are really really self-confident. In big cities OTOH you just blend with the masses, nobody that looks at you really know you so you can express yourself as you want.
I find it extremely hard to believe Trump would take the US to war if NATO article 5 is invoked, so this makes a lot of sense. However ...

I also find it pretty hard to believe that either US or European countries would defend other European countries. If they didn't respect the Budapest memorandum, why would they respect NATO Article 5 when it would mean actual attacks against their people, potentially nuclear attacks?

As a reminder: France, US and UK, and others, signed a series of treaties referred to as the "Budapest Memorandum" (there's like 7 slightly different ones) that generally promised that if Ukraine (explicitly including Crimea), was attacked, with Russia specifically called out, all other nations would

1) formally declare war on Russia

2) start conventional open hostilities on Russian forces to defend Ukrainian territorial integrity

Russia obviously violated the treaty in 2014. This should have triggered those responses ... it didn't.

Needless to say, no one actually upheld the treaty. As for US presidents, Obama didn't, Trump didn't, Biden didn't and now Trump is also not doing that. In Europe, Hollande didn't. Macron didn't. In the UK ... and so on and so forth. A full list would be very, very long, and include a LOT of governments and parties from all across the political spectrum.

Therefore I find the premise of this article to be flawed. Essentially all western countries (including all powers in Europe: UK, France, Germany) chose to mostly ignore their obligations toward Ukraine in international treaties, for more than a decade now. Trump is doing something bad, and so now we blame it all on Trump? I mean, the guy sucks, but, he's the cause of this problem. If one is extremely generous one might even say he's trying to solve it, and (for now) all he's done wrong is alienate/insult US allies' governments. And the Ukranian government. But this crisis is not of his making.

Frankly, Poland, NATO or no, is in the same boat. So are the Baltic states (MAYBE they can count on Poland), but ...

Ukraine, Poland and Germany are all countries that would be extremely hard to physically prevent from acquiring both nuclear weapons and delivery systems. There's Ukranium mines near Kyiv, they have nuclear power plants and knowhow, including heavy-water breeder reactors. They have rocket expertise, and in fact could use Russian/USSR rocket designs.
I recently came to this realization in a large typescript codebase. It's really important to understand who owns data and who has the right to modify it. Having tools to manage this and make it explicit built into the language is so helpful for code correctness and is especially beneficial for maintaining code you didn't write yourself.
I would really recommend Digital Design and Computer Architecture, I’ve got the ARM edition. I believe it covers everything OP mentioned, and I know it covers FSMs. It’s a great read if you want the tools to design your own architectures.
Even in a world of perfect transmission, people are highly irrational when faced with ideas challenging their priors. We don’t have perfect transmission, we have, and always have had, systems which elevate attention-drawing, profitable, and easily digestible ideas to the top while filtering out ideas too far from the status quo or threatening to governance. This is almost a matter of nature. How can a news platform exist if it only publishes complicated things beyond the public, what good would that even do? How can it exist if it doesn’t draw attention to its newspapers, or its website. We remove the explicit government control of media but we leave so many back-alleys for influence, and is the government even the locus of power now, or is it the moneyed interests that aren’t even barred from controlling media? And again, even if we woke up tomorrow with perfect, unbiased communication, we haven’t been raised to deal with it. We’d instantly repurpose the platform into a slop-distribution machine and sell advertisements on it and so on.

I don’t believe in giving up on that ideal, but I think it’s a fiction in the sense that actually achieving any semblance of a “free marketplace of ideas” is a vastly complex problem we have no capacity to solve right now. Humans aren’t a collection of simple, isolated units, we’re a vast colonial fungus. We struggle to understand individual biological organisms, but we assume that all of humanity talking to itself will be a system transparent to study, that it operates on simple principles. Ask a skilled marketer if he or she believes in the free marketplace of ideas.

Solving the problem would involve building a completely different social system from the ground up. Since we can’t do that, and nobody knows how to start, what I’m suggesting is that people try to study the communication networks as they are now and the memetics people are responsive to and build, carefully and cleverly, narratives which will actually have the practical consequence of bettering people’s lives, and that they use the truth to figure out how to do that and what that narrative should be. It’s not really lies or the truth, I’m calling for a pragmatic attempt to use the extremely flawed communication channels at our disposal to do the best we can.
I’m happy with native Kindle for reading ePubs. I use KOReader for PDFs only at the moment.
"Those aren’t freaks, okay? Those are attractive people with heavily vetted idiosyncrasies. Every eccentric fashion choice has been run through a think tank that would blow your hair back. You want to see a freak? Go to Albany."
paraphrased,from,Chris Fleming
and to paraphrase a exta freeky person I know
"eccentric people dont ever get less eccentric, they get more eccentric"
or another one, the difference between bieng eccentric and crazy, is a million dollars
freeks fall somewhere inbetween
Yeah, most of the government isn't elected, that's how it works. You only vote for 3 roles in the Federal government (I guess 4 if you count the veep). The rest of them are hired.

For those downvoting, the roles are President, Vice President, Senator, and Representative.

Outside of that, everyone is hired / appointed.
The trouble with PG&E is that it's trying to serve two incompatible goals.

The shareholders want it to provide electric service for a profit in the locales where doing so is economically sensible (= urban/suburban), slowly grow its value, and throw off a stable stream of dividends. This is the basic value proposition of all for-profit utilities: low growth, low volatility, stable income.

The state government -- and a not insubstantial proportion of the state population -- want PG&E to be a non-profit that provides electricity at cost to everyone in its coverage area, which is to include huge swaths of forest-covered hillsides and dry rural scrubland. Every time it gets mentioned on HN (not exactly a hotbed of communism!) there's a bunch of comments about how it should be illegal for an electric utility to have any profit at all.

PG&E can't have it both ways. It hasn't paid a non-trivial dividend since 2017 and its share price is ~half of what it was 20 years ago, which makes it an astonishingly poor investment -- compare to Southern Company (SO) or Duke Energy (DUK). But at the same time it is legally mandated to absorb the costs of operating high-voltage lines in brushfire territory, and half its customers think it shouldn't be allowed to exist.
I think this still applies https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/1888164523984470055, LLMs now are useful but we need something else for AGI.
From the graph, ~34% is under 17 views.
I think we should stop relying on unreliable web sites and go back to the roots: https://timewarrior.net/
> Our own brains are hardwired for language acquisition by evolution, so we can few-shot it when learning and get there much faster

No, we can’t few shot it and we don't get there faster (but we develop a lot of other capabilities on the way.) We train on a lot more data; the human brain, unlike an LLM, is training on all that data in processes for ”inference”, and it receives sensory data estimated on the order of a billion bits per second, which means by the time we start using language we’ve trained on a lot of data (the 15 trillion tokens from a ~17 bit token vocabulary that Llama3 is something like the size of a few days of human sense data.) Humans just are trained on and process vastly richer multimodal data instead of text streams.
The topmost comment in this comment thread starts with the fact that there are over a thousand studies on this already, no? Even if the whole effect isn't well understood, it seems like there is some science behind this.
"A good landing is when there are no casualties; an excellent landing is when the plane can fly again." This was therefore a good landing.
The Vergecast recently did a section where they asked listeners what they use LLMs for (specifically not for coding) https://youtu.be/WwNjBNtZ3Co 30 minutes starting at 45:25, it had a number of interesting examples. Might not convince you of LLM's excellence, or might not be much different from what other people commented, but it's a good listen nonetheless.
By total colourblindness do you mean achromatopsia? It's like hearing someone says 42% of Americans have obesity and making a remark this may be true to some level of obesity, but TOTAL OBESITY is much much smaller, at least by a couple of orders of magnitude :D
These tools cost here ~1200€ and are not expensive at all. Nobody in a trade job wants to mess with a torch, gas cans, dirty paste and soldering chemicals all day anymore. It takes seconds instead of minutes for one pressed connection. Ok, pressed connections are thicker than soldered, but doesn’t matter for most cases. Obviously as a hobby builder I can toy half day with torch and solder paste for 40 connections in my house.
But this isn't flagged yet.
> If nothing else, my workflows as a software developer have changed significantly in these past two years with just what's available today, and there is so much work going into making that workflow far more productive.

this is exactly the problem

The more productivity AI brings to workers, the fewer employees employers need to hire, the less salary employers need to pay, and the less money workers have for consumption.

capitalist mode of production
I just used chat gpt to summarise a HN post about it taking unexpectedly long to install a washing machine because of unexpected turns of events, and this being analogous to software development. It was a time-saver.
1) in what way?
2) that’s not their only credential.
copper pipes are not popular in this part of the pond (not any longer at least, outside gas). The most common domestic pipes are "pex/aluminum/pex" type which are designed for crimping and bending (by hand).

Other than that it makes a lot sense to go w/ crimping if possible - quite surprised it's rated up to 2".
I like having fun with them, like by asking grok whether some Elon Musk tweet is true. Usually it replies with a lengthy answer and I then force it to answer with Yes or No. Even more fun when drilling it more to load a few more details into it's brain, and then ask the first question again, with a Yes/No only, it sometimes does change its answer. I do wonder, has Grok already joined the resistance against Musk?
The sister comments contain quite a few specific examples. But the many back-and-forth arguments here on HN about whether LLMs are useful for coding suggest that understanding how they might or might not be used may be the biggest challenge at this point.

I myself use them a lot, though I constantly feel that I would be able to get more out of them if only I were smarter.
You can turn of accelerometer in settings and control the rotation manually via the menu
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3 were critically injured, so not “no casualties” but pretty darned close all things considered
I picked up the DM15C a few yrs ago and really liked it. I actually carried it in my wallet for a while. It worked just like the larger HP calculator. The package sent from Switzerland was so nicely wrapped.
I still use my full scale 15C too.
I love my 15C calculator.
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Washington has been known for revolving doors among particular industries for quite a few decades! Why the hoopla over this one?

They are auditing as part of their process of cutting costs. They're literally tracing trillions of dollars in financial records.

He's doing everything he's doing by executive order of the President of the United States, who was elected.
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Depends what you mean by "people here". I mean, obviously the majority of HN commentators and even the majority of commentators on this thread seem to be. But there will always be a couple of slightly unhinged folk in a big enough group of readers.
Congrats for shipping!

Unfortunately for me the website is very slow due to the animations. When I hover a button it takes 1 second before the background color changes.
I disagree. I believe engineers are generally smarter than accountants.
DeepSeek sent user data to ByteDance, Korean probe finds
Rust itself cannot cause tetanus but it can include unsafe blocks which can activate tetanus spores by FFI.
Ah yes, nothing like giving unsolicited advice without even knowing what medical condition the other person has. You mean well, but it's a crude oversimplification to think every problem is just a matter of just work out the same way I do. For some reason, this phenomenon seems to be common in people who found sports a bit later in life, I'm guessing it's had a big positive impact and they want everyone to experience the same. Coaches and athletes tend to be much less quick to give shotgun advice, as they understand there's considerable depth to the problem.
If I install the Apache web server and accidentally expose the machine to the internet, am I violating GDPR by not having a cookie banner on the "Apache Default Page"?
Recent related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43063239
Too late to edit further, but I should add that there could be many reasons for the apparent failure to flare. I did not intend to speculate that the pilot is to blame. That is for the crash investigators to figure out.
Hi Franz, it's 2025. We beat the Nazis 80 years ago. It's time to move on to the 21st century.
love it...fun!
Wake turbulence almost killed someone I knew flying a training jet. He landed after a heavy aircraft and the cross wind was just enough to counter the natural spreading of wake turbulence. There was basically a horizontal tornado over the runway. When he hit it he lost all roll control. He ended up ejecting horizontally across the grass and somehow survived.
Good historians are about the realpolitik more than the veneer.
Interesting thing about this is that because of all the Musk-related overhyping that's gone on and because the launch is a video, the thread that marks the entry of another company into the select group of serious AI companies will go off the front page with possibly only 200 points!
until the US starts providing weapons to Russia...
That was a perfectly respectable critique.
This video's pretty great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRuLgar5XZw

One thing I can't figure out how to get LLMs to do is truely finish work. For example if I have 100 items that need xyz done to them, it will do it for the first 10 or so and say ~"and so on". I have a lot of trouble getting LLMs to do tasks that might take 10 mins - 1h. They always seem to simply want to give an example. Batch processing is the answer, I guess, or perhaps more 'agentic' models/tools - but I wonder if there are other ways.
Now wait until his does the dryer and finds out (in the USA) that there are several different types of plugs and sockets and plug on your dryer might not match the socket on the wall. (source: recent experience)
add your home page link somewhere
"thin skinned" is unfair given what the dev claims to have endured
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You have misunderstood my criticism. I don't care in the slightest about the interpreter overhead. I care that I am forced into needing multiple versions in the same repository by having one version required by (for instance) a hook manager, and a different version required by the project itself. I am already using a version manager; it doesn't solve that problem.
I lost my fear of flying after watching videos of stress tests on passenger planes. Could not believe how strong the wings are.
It's not good news when this competition comes at cost of a gigantic over inflated bubble, in which all the big players keep on sucking billions from investors without even having a business model.

This hype will burst sooner than later and will trigger yet another global recession. This is untenable.
I recently found out that Mœbius was a huge influence on Hayao Miyazaki that is particularly evident in his Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.
Can't "What a ", ", huh?" and "Captain, it's " be hard-coded / image?
Also, nearing the end of the day/week/month/year, the meme doesn't really makes sense anymore..
It does not. It requires the team to be stable. It says nothing about the composition of that team.
I use it everyday.

For coding, I use cursor composer to gather context about the existing codebase (context.md). Then I paste that into DeepSeek R1 to iterate on requirements and draft a high level design document, maybe some implementation details (design.md).

Paste that back into composer, and iterate; then write tests. When I'm almost done, I ask composer to generate me a document on the changes it made and I double check that with R1 again for a final pass (changes.md).

Then I'm basically done.

This is architect-editor mode: https://aider.chat/2024/09/26/architect.html.

I've found Cursor + DeepSeek R1 extremely useful, to the point that I've structured a lot of documents in the codebase to be easily greppable and executable by composer. Benefit of that is that other developers (and their composers) can read the docs themselves.

Engineers can self-onboard onto the codebase, and non-technical people can unstuck themselves with SQL statements with composer now.
Say hello to CelestAIa. I'm guessing it's a joke, or the use of AI will be limited.
> I find the suddenness, almost haste to be quite interesting.
> But there is a clear change around 2022, 2023.

I think that's probably because the NIST competition [1] to choose their standard algorithms really started to heat up then.

NIST has a very large gravity well in the academic and industrial cryptographic community, so as soon as it became clear which algorithms NIST would pick (they chose Kyber / ML-KEM and Dilithium / ML-DSA), the (cryptographic) world felt it could start transitioning with much more certainty and haste.

1. https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/post-quantum-cryptography/pos...
I just discovered that feature due to your mistake, so thank you!

For similarly newly enlightened people it's a feature of MediaWiki (which Wikipedia runs on) and there are five (plus two) themes selectable with ?useskin= values:

- timeless (as seen above): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Skin?useskin=timeles...

- monobook (default 2004-2009): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Skin?useskin=monoboo...

- vector (default 2010-2021): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Skin?useskin=vector

- vector-2022 (desktop default 2022-): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Skin?useskin=vector-...

- minerva (mobile default): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Skin?useskin=minerva

- modern (delightedly dated, deprecated): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Skin?useskin=modern

- cologneblue (also ancient and anti-favored): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Skin?useskin=cologne...
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