skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
his justifications are so wildly all over the place that frankly it's probably safe to assume he's lying at least about his motivations.

This has been my assumption. Trump's superpower seems to be manipulating the media. He gets absurd headlines that take attention away from stories he doesn't want covered.

This whole annexation thing is bonkers. I've never in my life heard anyone suggest such a thing, except for around 1999/2000, when I visited Canada and local papers had editorials fretting that George W Bush's administration was going to annex Canada. I have no idea where they got that idea, since I never heard any American ever suggest such a thing.
I'm not sure it was her but this is brilliant anyways. Thank you for sharing the link!
I mean, that question is really a question for yourself. You cannot control others, so assume others will do whatever is quickest, easiest and/or least resistance, outcomes be damned.

Of course nothing would immediately do a 180, but if there would be research put out that your brain slowly stops working to more you use LLMs, then you can at least make your own choice from there on out.
Another interesting tool in this space is trippy, which ‘combines the functionality of traceroute and ping’

https://github.com/fujiapple852/trippy
I have my own special experience with the PSP, totally unrelated to games. Back in 2009 I was deployed to the middle east. At the time, connectivity was difficult: we used phone cards to call back home. One alternative was that you could use Skype on the PSP, and the cost of a call was very cheap. I remember hanging out in random cafes (probably the Cinnabon outside the Navy base in Bahrain) using their Wi-Fi to call home. Thanks for the reminder of a great memory!
This phenomenon applies to any widely held ideology: if it weren't robust to challenges, it wouldn't remain widely adopted (for some subtle definition of "robust").

Ironically, dismissing an argument with an ad hominem--like calling it a "trained response"--is also a mechanism that makes ideologies resilient.
Show HN: Open source Typeform alternative
I hate that it's still more convenient to get an unencumbered copy from a shadow library, even after actually paying for a book.
Chaotic dynamics was taught before Norton’s Dome. Three body problem, articulated pendulum, etc. Are those out of vogue as examples of non-determinism?
These sound like ideal roles for bots/automation
Twelve months at 1.5 °C signals earlier than expected breach of Paris Agreement
> I’ve always believed full console ports make lousy portable games because they’re not designed for stop-and-go play sessions.

I realized this after purchasing a Steam Deck. Initially I installed things like Apex Legends (rip) and Doom Eternal, but even with gyro and trackpads, it's just didn't feel great on a small screen. I will admit playing through the entire Master Chief Collection over various transits made my inner child kind of giddy. But Halo's chapter format and slow-paced combat makes it kind of an unique fit.

On the go I now mostly use my Deck for things like Slay The Spire, Ori, Okami, Hollow Knight, Tails of Iron, Stardew Valley, Baba is You, etc; Docked with a TV, playing the aforementioned FPS is fine. Or party games like Heave-Ho :-).

To be honest, I do kind of wish for a Vita-like, running SteamOS, with enough horsepower to run previously mentioned OTG games. Key factor is to be 'pocketable'.

> And that’s the crux of it. PSP seems to be designed for portable play only around the house. In that case I’d rather just have a regular console.

Sometimes the TV gets relinquished to the other half, in which case its nice to stil snuggle up instead of sequestering yourself to the study.
I’m super exited about the planned support for multidimensional data, I know zarr is there but a long term storage format other than netcdf would be interesting maybe also something to replace grib, geotiff etc to share files
> we'll open a ticket with Apple and block the ticket in our system.

Wouldn't it be annoying to be blocked on Apple rather than shipping on your schedule?
For anyone interested, https://www.hive.co.uk/books is a UK alternative and has offered ebooks for a while.
Review code or waste time thinking and coding? I guess that's the question.
It seems to me that the decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico isn't the crux of the matter. Whether this decision is useful/justified is a totally different matter.

Isn't renaming a place rather common? Even nations were recently renamed (Swaziland, Macedonia).

Therefore the software (database included) managing the data (used by the USGS earthquake's) probably offers a way to rename a place.

Is there any documentation exposing how to perform such a renaming? Is it up to date and accessible (or did someone modify/hide it in order to annoy DOGE)? Was it not strictly followed by the person(s) who tried to rename this Gulf? Are all technical thingies associated to such a renaming free of major bugs?

If all answers to those questions are "yes" then the person(s) who tried to rename is the sole culprit.

If there is a single "no" then at least another person should be put into scrutiny.
> But I just checked and, unsurprisingly, 4o seems to do reasonably well at generating Semgrep rules? Like: I have no idea if this rule is actually any good. But it looks like a Semgrep rule?

I don't know about semgrep syntax, but the chat it generated is bad in at least a couple other ways. E.g. their "how to fix" instruction is wrong:

if let Some(Load::Local(load)) = self.load.read().get(...) {
// do a bunch of stuff with `load`
} else {
drop(self.load.read()); // Explicitly drop before taking write lock
let mut w = self.load.write();
self.init_for(&w);
}

That actually acquires and then drops a second read lock. It doesn't solve the problem that the first read lock is still active and thus the write lock will deadlock.

Speaking of which, acquiring two read locks from the same thread can also deadlock, as shown in the "Potential deadlock example" at <https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/sync/struct.RwLock.html>. It can happen in the code above (one line before the other deadlock). It can also slip through their rule because they're incorrectly looking for just a write lock in the else block.

I've been playing with AI code generation tools like everyone else, and they are okay as autocomplete, but I don't see them as trustworthy. For a while I thought I just wasn't prompting well enough, but when other people show me their AI output, I can see it's wrong, so maybe I'm just looking more closely?
Climate change is already a pretty good precedent on this
"No smaller government, just a different one"

I live in D.C. and many of my neighbors are non-political civil servants of all kinds. All signs point to a dramatically smaller and weaker federal government without congressional action.

Whether these agencies that congress created and funded for decades will continue to exist in any meaningful way is de facto getting decided by congress right now.

The Vought/Musk group has fired 200,000 employees already, and is offloading real-estate as quickly as possible. That action is consistent with gutting, but not rebuilding, these agencies.

So congress either has to exercise its power over the executive to prevent this in the next few weeks, or the loss of capacity will have occurred and rebuilding will take many years and be dramatically more costly than maintenance would have been.
I never said it was a law, it's a rule of thumb used by police to harass and arrest gender non-conforming people. You seem determined to find some formal law that made their existence illegal, and I'm curious why.
They should invest and focus on making their platform more reliable. Without that they will continue to be just a hobby toy to play with and nothing more
This is my usual workflow. Find or buy the non-DRM epub version of a book, send it to <my_username>@kindle.com, click on the 'verify upload' email I get, and it then shows up on my Kindle ready to read. I do add the book to my Calibre library and have it send the email for me, but that's an extra step that isn't required. You could absolutely have a bookstore that could send the email for you when you buy the book, if they're willing to be DRM free.
"You are not immune to Brain Rot"
Tried asking Claude to do that, ended up with something pretty beautiful:

Everything is made of atoms & energy, life evolves, math describes reality, knowledge builds on itself, humans need each other & Earth to survive – test ideas, learn from mistakes, be kind, stay curious.
Regardless of the impetus for changing it, it's an improvement.
this really needs to be thought about.
I agree, as you said in another comment, money is a form of power. The current actions seem to distribute the power amongst wealthy people through money and weakening the government instead of direct power like threatening congress or something like that. But the means don't really matter to me or to them so that is splitting hairs to me.

I'm just saying it's not that deep. There is not a meaning or moral that needs to be understood, there is no reasoning that could make them change their ways.
I think this study does not say what most people are taking it to say.

> our research questions - when and how knowledge workers perceive the enaction of critical thinking when using GenAI (RQ1), and when and why do knowledge workers perceive increased/decreased effort for critical thinking due to GenAI (RQ2)

This is about the application of critical thinking to AI outputs and in AI workflows. Are people cognitively lazy when some other entity hands them plausible sounding answers?

The answer of course is yes. If some entity gives you a good enough result, probably you aren’t going to spend much time improving it unless there is a good reason to do so. Likewise you probably aren’t going to spend a lot of time researching something that AI tells you if it sounds plausible. This is certainly a weakness, but it’s a general weakness in human cognition, and has little to do with AI in and of itself.

In my reading, what this study does not say, and does not set out to answer, is whether or not the use of AI makes people generally less able or likely to engage in critical thinking as a result of use of AI.
Well, and the fact that in addition to Kubernetes itself, there are a gazillion adjacent products and options in the cloud-native space. Many/most of which a relatively simple setup may not need. But there's a lot of complexity.

But then there's always always a lot of complexity and abstraction. Certainly, most software people don't need to know everything about what a CPU is doing at the lowest levels.
Ok. I misrecollected the articles by TheVerge + others said: "Bookshop’s deal is the same for ebooks and physical books — the store gets 30 percent of the list price." (and doesn't mention affiliates but other articles do)

Suggest you should drop your comment on that article, it's potentially misleading.

https://www.theverge.com/tech/597137/bookshop-org-ebooks
200 IQ: Waste time rewriting AI slop.
This assumes you always have reliable GPS:

- areas that lack map details and obstructions that preclude straight line paths, e.g. deep forest

- wartime GPS blocking

- device failure incl battery

- errors in mapping data

- maps that contain other information not found in your GPS-enabled map
I wonder a lot why people use generative AI in the first place.

I’ve found in my work that I don’t really have anything to ask an AI to help me with that the generative AIs available to me are particularly good at. I distrust them, but I also haven’t really found a use for them. Which isn’t to say that such generative AIs don’t exist; I just don’t have access to those particular ones due to the nature of my work, and so haven’t tried them.

I don’t really have a use for them personally either. I think the closest I come is voice assistants, which I use so sparingly I wouldn’t miss if they were gone.
> Thus, knowledge workers with higher levels of trust in
GenAI — generally or for specific tasks — perceive engaging in
critical thinking activities to be less effortful. A possible explanation,
supplemented with our qualitative analysis in RQ1 (see Section
4.3.2), is that trust and reliance on GenAI inhibit the enaction of
critical thinking, i.e., users underinvest in critical thinking when
using GenAI.

There is a reduction in certain kinds of effort when using any kind of tool.

Another possible explanation is that using LLMs, much like using a pry bar for leverage with physical energy, provides leverage for cognitive energies. Does the person using a pry bar become less physically fit than if they were removing floorboards by hand or do they just get more work done during the day?

I don't think there is a problem in exploring the trade-offs for using any kind of tool or technology but the discussion needs to be balanced.

Personally, I use LLMs but I'd say I have a critical understanding of their limitations and when it is better to start using another tool, like a book, to learn the skills required to use the tools to achieve the tasks at hand. I will say that using a tool that provides leverage for cognitive energies allows for the cognition to be applied to other parts of the process, typically higher order.

For example, I spend much more time thinking about the overall architecture of the memory model in C applications.
> AI can program, but not engineer.

I feel like that's what the OP said. People can focus on the engineering part and not memorizing syntax or function names.

Too often I see people thinking in very binary terms, and we see it here again. AI does everything or nothing. I just keep thinking it'll be in between and people who are good at leveraging every tool at their disposal will reap the largest benefits.
Maybe "virtual intelligence" would be more apt?
Totally agreed. I ended up building my own router so I could just use React, Vite, and my router and have everything required to ship a SPA, while adding support for SEO. It's tiny compared to the competition: https://github.com/nerds-with-keyboards/routerino
Wow ~, in all honesty, Nping needs to do more
Hmm. Think the science guys probably do actually understand "reasoning" and "intelligence" and it's the humanities guys who don't understand much AI or science.
...except I figure that at least in the US (where most of the people who can exert pressure on Linux development are located), the phrase's use in this capacity is actually fairly widely known. (It even takes up a significant part of the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_blue_line)

It seems more likely to me that he used it out of a lack of political savvy than out of an excess of it, and that the pressure will now mount and he will be forced to make an apology or resign outright. It's unlikely that activists would take ignorance as an excuse, since they tend to consider ignorance of social justice conflicts to be a moral failing in itself.
> so we can focus on what humans are actually good at

You know what humans are good at? Deluding ourselves. Because that's what you're doing. Using vague, feel-good words, based on vague analogies, no proof, to keep the inconvenient truth at bay. Not being able to navigate with a paper map is a big thing: people get lost inside buildings without a map. Next time the power fails, half of the GenZ will be lost. Not being able to write with pen and paper is a big thing. Not being able to add a few number is not as big a thing, but it certainly can be a problem. And what for? So you don't have to feel bad about using AI tools?

You know what comes next? Everything based on audio and video. Are you then going to argue: reading is an obsolete skill?
Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland's largest newspaper quits X, now on Bluesky
In no way at all but "all political subjects are equal but some political subjects are more equal than the others". For those who fail to grasp this slightly adapted quote from Orwell's Animal Farm it should still be remarkable that the oft-quoted rules Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity and Off-Topic: Most stories about politics ... unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon seem to exclude a whole category of political discussions which somehow has been allowed to thrive on the platform since the 2024 elections. It is this discrepancy, the rules for thee, not for me attitude towards these subjects which makes political subjects all the more contentious.

How about adding a tagging system to the site next to the flagging system already in place? Make it possible for users to tag (instead of flag) articles as 'politics' and a few other contentious categories like 'AI' or 'Crypto'? Add the possibility to show or hide tagged stories just like it is possible now to show or hide dead posts and a lot of the contention would be taken out of these subjects. Don't want to see posts around these subjects? Just hide them and be done with it.
I want them to do the same study with managers. And maybe executives.

Does relying on employees kill the same critical thinking skills? Or is this a skill that has to be cultivated like every other skill?
> But I just checked and, unsurprisingly, 4o seems to do reasonably well at generating Semgrep rules? Like: I have no idea if this rule is actually any good. But it looks like a Semgrep rule?

This is the thing with LLMs. When you’re not an expert, the output always looks incredible.

It’s similar to the fluency paradox — if you’re not native in a language, anyone you hear speak it at a higher level than yourself appears to be fluent to you. Even if for example they’re actually just a beginner.

The problem with LLMs is that they’re very good at appearing to speak “a language” at a higher level than you, even if they totally aren’t.
It's Jane Street. If two people haven't played this game for $10,000, I would be very surprised.
What do you do with that knowledge? I mean, it's a good skill if you're actually going to apply it to something. Knowing you're facing north is great if there's some use you get out out that. Finding your way around is way more work than just "north is that way".

I remember the first time I traveled internationally. Incredible stress. I had a bunch of printouts with all the details. Still, I depended completely on the friend I was visiting. I literally didn't dare leave his house without him because I wasn't confident I could make it back without having to have him rescue me and didn't want to give him that trouble. Sure I had a bunch of info, but one wrong decision and my static stack of papers might not be enough to get me out of it.

Technology made an absolutely amazing difference. With GPS I could wander around a city aimlessly and still find a way to my hotel. I could figure out where the center was. The early incarnation was rough but amazing for the amount of stress relief it provided.

And modern tech? Just sci-fi magic. I can see both the usual sights and find various obscure ones and any business I might need. With Uber I could get a trip in random countries wherever needed without speaking the local language. Google now tells me about bus and tram routes, tells me what to take, where the station is, and what stations am I going to go through, and when I'm going to be there. There's a magic real time translator for both text and voice.
I would bet that at Jane Street they absolutely do put money on the line when playing internally.
This is dead on. I'm not even a big AI fan, but this is a key idea about technology in general. I don't want to have to bring to mind the laws of physics every time I drive to work. The whole point is that a group of engineers encoded them into the machine for me, and now I enhance my capabilities without needing to know how. It's what the classic Alfred North Whitehead quote is talking about. I understand the impulse towards mastery and ever-expanding knowledge—who doesn't love the idea that they should be able to "plan an invasion, change a diaper, butcher a hog"—but the truth is we have finite capabilities we are capable of mastering in a lifetime. This is why even literal geniuses often fail when they step outside their field of expertise. It's a valid concern that as a society some skill will be lost, or concentrated in the hands off too few, but losing skills and knowledge (or I would simply call it "being permitted to forget") is in general fine. Now if AI literally killed people's ability to think, that would be one thing. But what I suspect is that like parent is saying, it allows you to turn off your brain for certain tasks, like every technology. Then the question is what more complex tasks can we do on top of the automatic and thoughtless ones.

EDIT: I see some good replies to parent about stability/reliability, alienation etc. There are definitely tradeoffs to the power you get from technology, and it's worth acknowledging those. But that's exactly the framework we should be thinking in. What are the tradeoffs involved? Often these kinds of stories are one-sided arguments that imply losing skills is straightforwardly bad, when in truth it's more complicated than that.
Because presidents didn't used to act like kings. It's extremely common for the House and/or Senate to swing opposite the President:

https://history.house.gov/Institution/Presidents-Coinciding/...

There's also the problem of Democrats being absolutely terrible at organizing and uniting.
This is it. What we're seeing is a Bourgeois coup: The silicon valley PayPal guys have become the wealthiest people in the country. Now they are trying to use that wealth to usurp political power.
I think I’d distinguish between rewrites and refactors. A rewrite starts from a blank slate, where a refactor starts from the previous version.

Being unable to understand the code in its entirety does not mean that somebody is unable to understand pieces of the code. Refactoring those pieces into easier-to-understand portions can be done, even when the end-to-end flow is still being contemplated.
https://www.cncf.io/phippy/the-childrens-illustrated-guide-t...
Determinate Optimism (2017)
It's 1335 for 'lax'.
Pathologically short-term thinking from management is a problem that far predates AI (computers, even), and the solution hasn't changed: go somewhere better and watch the old place burn.
I can either spent 20 minutes arguing with an LLM to get something that maybe does most of what I want, or spend those 25 minutes to get something n that does exactly what I want.

I wouldn’t call those 5 minutes times wasted
My god that eulogy post is a work of art. What incredible writing and what an incredible albeit brief friendship they had.
> that requires congress

Elon is literally closing agencies like the CFPB and USAID down, in defiance of congress and the law. They are working under a legal theory that the president can do that, and are expecting their stacked supreme court to agree with them.
I'm sure it started as an oral tradition based on legibility. The communicating new ideas about physical objects on paper is difficult and I was taught that is was a lesson on clarity. Codifying best practices is what cultures do as they evolve.
I use YouTube's transcript feature or 2x speed for slow talkers.

Especially with political commentary many YouTubers stretch their content or talk slowly for more ad deliveries. It is annoying, because often there is an important five minute section hidden in a one hour video.
> tied to the politics of policing

Another commenter makes good points contrary to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43058238

Not that it is incorrect to say that the phrase is tied to policing, just that it is similarly not-incorrect to say it is not tied to policing. It is context-dependent. It’s not so obvious that this particular use of that phrase is at all related to police work.