skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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We like to use the principle of charitable interpretation on here, and to be charitable, I think it's really clear he was saying that everybody should expect to be wrong sometimes, has been wrong, and should be scrutinized thoroughly.

To label someone as an unreliable actor is different than using our own free will and minds to analyze actions and determine truth.
History tends to repeat itself
Yeah, Brexit started as a referendum with an unexpected result

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_Kingdom_European...
Cell tower/provider is a big part I think from my own experience; I'd get constant captchas and rejects only when near one specific tower at work, which happened to be right over a fedex ground building, take that how you will...
California is a bit large for Denmark, no?

They could buy Delaware though. It's not even a real state[0]

[0] https://www.campustimes.org/2023/09/24/why-delaware-isnt-rea...
Previous submissions on the topic, although none were picked up:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42854927
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43024328
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42996300
Looking at the post made after he passed, not many people were aware he was sick.

Pancreatic cancer is a fast and deadly one.
I love a lot about Typst. Hope it keeps growing and getting better!
Seems like widespread interest by HN posters
Anyone know what the rwkv people are up to now?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.13048
Bioengineering makes robotic limbs feel natural
https://archive.is/qlqxF
When I worked in python I made this exact mistake monthly.
"a technique called regression analysis that, as far as I can determine, cannot be explained in a simple, intuitive way (especially not in terms of how it "controls for" confounders)"

That sounds very much like a skills issue. Because it can. You call out what you consider might be confounders as independent variables (covariates). You can then use regression analysis to estimate the individual contributions from each confounder, and control for them by essentially filtering out that contribution.

Is reality harder than that? Yes. Much. The world of science isn't 9th grade math, sorry. You are not entitled to understand everything deeply with 5 minutes of mediocre effort.
It died well before the era where most people began to use free free tools and compilers. Microsoft killed it by hiring Hejlsberg and then doing a decent job with C# and WinForms.
If you express it with a negative sign and forget it represents direction, absolutely! :) It's crucially important that its not directionless!

I'm a bit surprised by your assertiveness. Even if you think I'm being boorish about it (I didn't intend to be, but the downvotes say otherwise), you seem familiar enough with these things to know newton's third law is about vector quantities.
Thanks for the feedback.

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It’s generally true that the people who come up with the first interesting idioms in a new space get an outsized influence on the community. It takes a while for people to borrow or steal their ideas and run with them.

On the plus side while the AI can’t write in that language there’s money to be made doing the work organically.
Show HN: AI Agent for Valentines Cards
I made an AI agent that brainstorms valentines day cards

This is the workflow I ended up with:

- LLM call to brainstorm ideas

- second LLM call to rate ideas from 1 to 10

- create cards for each idea, sorted by rating

I also added the ability for users to iterate on the cards via a chat interface (similar to how you can iterate on UIs generated by tools like bolt or v0).

https://valentines.assistant-ui.com/

Repo: https://github.com/Yonom/tech-bro-valentine

I built it with AI SDK, NextJS and assistant-ui. I spent most of my time on prompt engineering and a little bit on making the UI look nice.
Microservices lend themselves to architectural decisions that LLMs are just not trained to understand.

It's one thing to have it be trained in billions of loc and be useful, its another for it to have enough quality dataset to have enough context and understanding of something like Kafka partition ordering and its possible interactions with something like a database and at-least once delivery. It will give you an explanation of those things in isolation, but not in combination.
What I want from platforms, and I fought for at one time in Google with no success: a platform API that provides applications a way to schedule packets when the radio turns on.

The mobile platforms in particular continue to assume that you can live with their high level HTTP stuff, and it's just not good enough. The non-mobile platforms largely don't even approach the problem at all.
Confusingly AMEX and ARCA also have a listings business, but that's also owned by NYSE or at least owned by ICE which owns NYSE.

IEX tried. I think they had a few listings for a while, but it just didn't work out.

LTSE really wanted to get into this business and I think they are trying by some sort of dual listing strategy, but I think that just costs the listing company even more fees and like... what's the point?

And as mentioned CBOE's BATS has a bunch. But I think they are just low volume four letter ETFs.

I think cracking the code would consist of offering a service that really solves a problem that the listing company's CFO or investor relations team has such that only the listing venue could solve.

At any rate, good luck to those who try, so far its just a trail of gravestones of those who tried and failed.
Until I read this comment I thought we were talking about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformer and I was very confused...
Wow, it's actually a great website.
I am ready to pay for premium but I am unable to create an account. First, I need to create a non-anonymous account but when I tried to do that the link says it is already expired even though it’s the first time I’m clicking it. Is it possible my email client is pre-fetching the link?

UPDATE: I was able to get around the issue by attempting to login with my unregistered email.
Yeah, it's literally the most important practical development in AI/ML of the decade. This is like reading an article (or headline, more like) on HN and saying "please define git".
Why Did Prisma Choose Rust Initially? [video]
> He didn't say he has no idea what control variables are

He did say exactly that.

> They use a technique called regression analysis that, as far as I can determine, cannot be explained in a simple, intuitive way (especially not in terms of how it "controls for" confounders).

That's about as /noideadog as you can get.
MovieMovie Club
If it was broken before, it's about to be a lot more broken.
I'm sorry, but that ship already sailed. Erm, spaceship?

https://lunarregistry.com/buy-moon-land
This is something I'd like to have for pretty much any framework/library anyway.
US Park Service erases ‘transgender’ from website commemorating Stonewall riot
Quebec Amazon warehouse recently was about to form Union and Amazon decided to shutdown the facility, citing other random reasons.

Suddenly 1700 jobs are lost.

Amazon is known to have cutthroat model be it internal warehouse and delivery employees or third party (they monitor third party delivery like a hawk monitoring its lunch).

I'm hoping there's a middle option where Government tax the super rich and stimulate local economies by creating infrastructure jobs.
When questions about their access has arisen earlier the administration has said they were granted security clearances. Releasing classified information is in that case is potentially illegal and at a minimum was normally result in your security clearance being revoked. But these guys didn’t go through the normal processes for obtaining a security clearance, so there is no reason to believe the normal rules and laws will be followed now.
thank you!!!! This is the right answer.
It's a shame to hear about OneRep like this, I used their service years ago because I was being stalked and it worked quite well... I still remain off of most data broker sites to this day (which are absolute scum, willingly associating with them is disgusting).

Does anyone have a less shady alternative for 2025?
Sure, there are also cases where it is not needed. But some called out in GP were not typically correct. And often it is opaque to the researchers only because someone did an IRB in an earlier step with usage that covers sharing it with you.
First off, thank you for the thoughtful feedback here, it’s great to hear you’ve found the docs useful!

I’ve read through your feedback and captured issues in our issue tracker for future improvements that will definitely go a long way towards making the experience better.

One particularly sticky point we’ve been working on is keeping our examples down-to-earth while still showing off the benefits. Everyone understands the CRUDdy HTTP -> Keyvalue microservice, and I think we have a tendency to overindex on that. What you mention about component composition as a strength and something that requires more tools and automation is a big opportunity for us.

Got a few issues started on this topic but many more to come (and please feel free to file more with questions):

https://github.com/wasmCloud/wasmcloud.com/issues/838
https://github.com/wasmCloud/wasmcloud.com/issues/839
https://github.com/wasmCloud/wasmCloud/issues/4129
>But no receptor like that has been identified for the magnetic sense, and the mechanism remains unknown

Wasn’t such a molecule found in bird’s eyes?
I want Reddit to fail.

I do visit it and use it, but being a mod for an year and seeing the sub I was in attacked by rival subs and their community (including mods) and eventually banned by reddit admins was just mind boggling to me.

Never have I seen such unfairness and at the end of the day, Reddit admins don't care. If you mod a small sub (10k or so), you're irrelevant. I guess because of ads revenue and clicks they favor big subs even thou their community and mods can be openly aggressive.

Reddit can go to hell.

edit: sorry for the rant, I guess I needed to vent.
We are responding below a comment that called him a financial terrorist. Did you not even read it?

And, predictably, you have nothing of substance to offer.
That's just spatial awareness. Put a giant magnet by his head. He'll still be able to do it.
I paid for Delphi 1, 2 and 3. I also paid for Borland Turbo C++, and MS VC++ 1.0 and VC++ 2.0. I don't remember any good, free languages at that time.
Right now as long as the rocket's heading straight up, everyone's on board with MLPs (Multilayer Perceptrons/Transformers)! Why not stay on the same rocket for now!? We're almost at AGI already!
How It Works

The AI agent reads the product description, picks out the best keywords, and searches for affiliates on bluesky social media. It then checks their posts, followers, and likes to see if they are a good match. Finally, it labels them as micro, nano, or macro influencers.
It’s a model, it might not be perfect, but you also need to decide how much scientific rigor and effort you want to invest in this problem.

To be honest, just picking a random pixel would have been fine, too, anything else is an overkill.
Well, that's up to the service provider (just like messaging).
Does the tens of millions in "executive coaching" and "strategic communication" contracts really not look like fraud to you, or do you not believe that they're there because it's DOGE reporting it?

I think they're moving as fast as possible right now, and it takes a while to investigate & report.
Show HN: What If Rust, Actix, Diesel, Shuttle, Neon, NextJS, TypeScript
Is it the one where you posted the dogegov.com website? Because that's the wrong website and not affiliated with the US government. That's probably why it got flagged. The real website is doge.gov, though that site isn't exactly great; it's basically a mirror of the @DOGE account on X. The "savings" section of the site says "receipts coming soon, no later than Valentine's Day," which is today.

Edit to add: doge.gov is exactly the site we're talking about here; it was offline a bit earlier, presumably while they cleared up the mess from their unsecured DB.
From what I can tell, you have to do special crap in Rust to deal with overflow. Saturating is almost never what you want with integers. "Integers" itself, the math term, denotes the infinite set 1,2,3... and while computer arithmetic is necessary limited to a finite fragment, computer integer calculations should always give the same result that you would get using the unbounded mathematical integers. When that doesn't work, you should get an overflow exception, similar to running out of memory.

In Ada, I think the relevant exception is Constraint_Error, but I don't think Rust has a way to do that. By "that" I mean ordinary addition like "a+b" where and b are i32 variables, gets overflow checked without having to call checked_add(a,b) instead of a+b. Is that mistaken?
Can you provide a basis in fact for the argument about a large portion of government spending? I'm asking because I think the argument is specious.

First- 49% of national spending goes to Social Security, Medicare and interest payments. The first is a direct payment, the second is very heavily regulated and has a bounty program for fraud waste and abuse, and the third is paid directly to bondholders.

Second- I'm almost certain that most, if not all, government contracts have auditing rights included. So we could audit them if we want, in fact almost every government agency has an inspector general to do just that.
What's moral about it?
A Libertarian Island Dream in Honduras Is Now an $11B Nightmare
Ok, it's totally technically feasible today, but the return is not there given the lack of viewership. If you can expand a little on the 30-60 cameras so I can understand better, is that to stitch together the various views when a AVP user moves their head? Or were you using that number to represent the number of viewpoints on the floor? Like if it was only one view at the scorer's table, do I understand you would need multiple cameras for one view?
Of course, but OP’s 1kloc is nowhere near close to any contemporary limit. Not using the tool for what it’s designed because it isn’t designed for a harder problem is… unwise.
Don’t believe it. In most markets in the US most even “senior” developers don’t reach $200K. Check salary.com
I think are joking, but have to mention that Acetone is not expected to cause cancer, at this time.
CDC cuts expected to decimate Epidemic Intelligence Service
How does this help anybody?
The alternative to polling is unfortunately polling, which is what the article is about.

You can avoid polling for messages, but you have to send packets outbound regularly in order to maintain a NAT mapping & connection, so that the external side can send messages inward.

The latency is overcome this way, so latency is a solvable problem, but this need to constantly wake up a radio every <30s in order to keep a NAT session alive is a significant power draw.

In theory you might be able to avoid this with NAT-PMP / UPnP however their deployments are inconsistent and their server side implementations are extremely buggy.
Discriminatory termination is against the law.
A company may use "low performing" as a pretext.
Of course under the current administration maybe Meta has nothing to worry about.
Listening to the audio, this wasn't some surreptitious hot mic recording, he was addressing employees about his frustrations at personally observing them fucking off in meetings and they were laughing. Somehow listening to his aggressive-but-disarming NYC style I can't help but agree with the guy.
And let's correct for inflation.

2015 4.89 trillion is 6.503 trillion, which means the budget only went up 249 billion, or 3.83% over that 10 year span.
Whether something belongs on Hacker News doesn't really depend on the news item so much as on what kind of discussion comes off of it. Some of the most insignificant stories are great Hacker News topics because they spawn amazing discussions.

This thread on the other hand? There's one comment near the top that mentioned some interesting facts about the U.S. Digital Service, and a second comment that's third from the top that tries with limited success to get people to talk about the hack.

The rest of this thread is just mindless snark. That's fair, DOGE is stupid and deserves snark, but it's a waste of space on the HN front page.

A decent metric for whether something belongs on HN is: is the conversation more interesting than the Reddit equivalent would be? The answer here is pretty clearly an emphatic "no", so I think that this belongs on Reddit instead.
You might like https://github.com/superfly/litefs or https://github.com/benbjohnson/litestream
https://archive.is/ZQI1U
Apple has one advantage that PCs do not: each silicon release cycle is accompanied by a coordinated operating system and compiler release for CPU, GPU, and NPU workloads; so that they can hardware-accelerate functions inside the operating system and programs compiled to target the hardware far more rapidly than the PC industry. I remember a tweet from a couple years ago where the hardware-accelerated IPC calls for a system-wide performance gain (and thus a latency reduction slash benchmark improvement) of several percent within one of those year-long intervals — but such gains would be invisible to Linux, even Asahi, because it would require libc and kernel adaptations for different hardware generations, as well as reverse engineering those adaptations from the various macOS kernels and frameworks each year. I don’t think all of those gains can be measured relative to PCs at all, as there may not be any comparable equivalent of what’s being accelerated for PCs to measure — but it still stands out that they simply chose not to mention Apple at all, when they could have theoretically shown either the same slowdown or lack thereof in that domain now that multiple generations are available for easy testing.
JavaFX is still alive though, supported, with various (third-party) WISYWIG editors, compilable to a binary.

Not on the news radar of course, because most products don't focus on desktop anymore, hence Electron for JavaScript etc.
Great journey, seems like you're just getting started. Curious, did you develop this type of drive recently or do you have past experience in hardcore work/study (e.g. u use to be in investment banking or studied pre-med at one point in your life, military, etc)?
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43045010
Researcher Captures Contents of 'DEI.gov' Before It Was Hidden Behind a Password
There is no conversation here. There's one thread near the top that tries to talk about the actual vulnerability, the rest is knee-jerk snark.

I totally understand why people are knee-jerking, but it's not a conversation and it doesn't belong on HN. We have other forums for knee-jerk snark. I'll be happy to see another DOGE post here the next time there's a topic that has enough meat for a useful conversation to come out of it.

In the meantime, I suspect that dang just left this here to avoid the appearance of silencing the topic. I hope that people who see this come away better understanding why so many of these threads get flagged to death.
You have access to Google, if you think Wikipedia is wrong you can find another source. Don't just pretend you know the etymology of the word better while presenting literally no evidence though please.
No, never got email. Auto-marking words makes more sense.
On the surface this looks like a non-sequitur. I'm not sure what people getting exposed to strong magnetic fields while getting an MRI has to do with detecting a magnetic field. Are you saying something like "we should have been able to detect this"? This doesn't seem correct to me, because the magnetic field is through the aperture of the MRI -- ie head to toe in most MRI applications. If the MRI field is orthogonal to earth's typical magnetic pole, you wouldn't expect the same signal. I'm skeptical of a claim from a person that they can "detect" the earth's magnetic field, but I don't think "we have MRIs" implies anything about that ability.
Title is: Unlocking global AI potential with next-generation subsea infrastructure
I'll see your architectural innovation and raise you a loss function revolution.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.21149
Related: There was buzz last year about Kolmogorov Arnold Networks, and https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.10594 was claiming KANs perform better than standard MLPs in the transformer architecture. Does anyone know of these being explored in the LLM space? KANs seem to have better properties regarding memory if I'm not mistaken.
I completely disagree. Nothing would get declassified.

Anyway, each redaction has a usually-legible Exemption code next to it that tells you why it's redacted. You can find out what those are here:

https://foia.wiki/wiki/Exemptions

For example, you see 7c/b7c in the document a lot:

"could reasonably be expected to constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy"
Didn't you hear the news? No laws or regulations apply to the executive branch any longer. Anything they do is, by their estimation, legal.
Imagine a world without ChatGPT or Stack Overflow. Is it easier to build your Zig project in that world?