skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your argument is short-sighted. It assumes that success must be measured by immediate scalability to a K2 civilization. The Pesse canoe wasn’t the final product — it was an early, rudimentary tool that eventually enabled modern seafaring and global commerce. Similarly, Starship and current rocketry aren’t expected to instantly create a K2 civilization; they are necessary stepping stones that lay the foundation for future, transformative technologies.

Even if rockets can barely scale to a K1 civilization without severe environmental consequences, that doesn’t diminish their value. Affordable, frequent access to space is exactly what we need to build the infrastructure for later breakthroughs — such as Von Neumann replicators — which could then accelerate the expansion of space-based industry exponentially. Without the ability to reliably launch materials into orbit, we wouldn’t even get close to the point where self-replication becomes feasible.

Regarding environmental concerns, while launching 15,000 tons per day might sound like a lot, the estimated 150 million tons of CO2-equivalent per year is only about 0.3% of current global emissions. Moreover, if we shift industry into space, Earth’s overall emissions could eventually drop, making the trade-off much more acceptable. And that's completely putting aside the potential to synthesize rocket fuel using carbon sequestration, which would make the launches carbon neutral.

And on Mars: criticizing SpaceX for not yet having a Sabatier plant misses the point. SpaceX is trying to solve the biggest pain point of Mars colonization: the immense cost of launching mass to orbit. They can solve the other pain points later or leave it to others to do that.
I think a good rule of thumb is to stop if it hurts. I presume you're not using a laser. Your eyes are pretty good at telling you when something is too much
This looks like they listened to the BBC Crowd Science Podcast (recommended FYI) a week earlier and re-wrote it: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct5rjf
The great AI industry, exploiting everyone wherever they can...
Ever heard of an RV? Turns out you can kill two birds with one stone.
> Besides this just... not really being true of Lynch's films,

I'd say it is, although I can understand it is anti-thetical to what his fans get out of his films. Objectively though, I think you can certainly make a list of defining traits and show a pattern.

> David Lynch didn't pull out a notepad and go, "Okay, time to write a Lynch film." He just decided to make a film and made it the way that made the most sense to him.

I'm well aware, but it doesn't mean there isn't consistency or a pattern in his results. Plenty of filmmakers have a particular style and have elements that show up in anything they make allowing people to recognize their influence.

> At best (and this is seriously stretching the definition of "not just wild speculation") I think it's more likely you get something that exhibits formal qualities that remind someone of some of David Lynch's works, probably a fairly incoherent and incongruous mash of tropes, like a particularly bad episode of Family Guy.

So to discuss this further in detail, I think you'd need to at least try and define the ineffable qualities you think an AI wouldn't be able to recognize (keeping in mind eventually AI will be able to take things like your comment history into account to help it 'understand') to help it create something that could have been made by the man himself.
This would be great if the USs institutions like NASA itself were not being dismantled.
Also with mentioning Turso's efforts in a similar vein.

Definitely interesting conceptually. But I question if something like cockroach could be just as good in practice.
This is basically a mini grow light right?
>it's cost hundreds of billions of dollars and it has absolutely zero hope of making the trillions needed to justify that.

The BigTech companies have been flush with liquidity and poured those hundreds of billions into the promising tech, and as result we got a wonderful new technology. There is not much need for those trillions in return - just look at liquidity positions of those companies, they are just fine. If those trillions come in eventually - even better.
I have some from "shorter than a table" age (I can no longer rember even which year), which later turned out to have been dreams from before I knew the difference between them and reality.
Ghost town you said?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ2oXzrnti4
Personally I thought that there should never have been an invasion of Afghanistan or Iraq, so I would have saved all of that money. The US decided to go into these countries, nobody asked them to do so and experts in the region said at the time that it would be a costly disaster and the US still chose to invade. The US chose to spend that money and lives because they had already priced the transaction: vengeance in Afghanistan and regional control in Iraq. The US forced itself into other countries because the US thought it was to its benefit and so then expecting that country to pay for the privilege is ridiculous and revisionist. The US thought it was buying something but instead it made a terrible gamble and lost.
Just use a proper browser that lets you add custom stylesheets, it literally takes 5min in CSS to invert the colors.
Sadly that almost makes things worse, if it's off then it's a data point that helps to id privacy conscious people.
Intermediate step would be trying this on an analogue pocket - claimed to be basically cycle accurate. I'm a bit busy right now, but I might give it a go; if so I'll comment here.
That's completely different. People criticise trump without being accused of wanting to exterminate the entire population of the USA.

But if you criticise israel, that's the standard answer you get.
I just want simple things, like transforming the stop-motion shots in Terminator 1 to motion shots. I don't want upscale or anything, just light touches. It's the only thing in the movie which doesn't look gorgeous.
Everyone on HN should be able to write a custom stylesheet, this is really not an issue.
> They definitely smell bad

??? No, they don't. They only smell bad when they're kept standing in their urine, which is still not worse than a hairdresser. Compared to dogs (or ICE cars) horses smell way less. They do sweat to regulate temperature, which has a distinct smell, but it's way less irritating to a human's nose than the sweat of the rider.

There's a set of distinct smells associated with the horses, but other than the piss, none of them are particularly "bad". In my experience, humans tend to smell way worse overall (from food to body odor to the excrement) than horses.
The article does not give a clear reason why they can not be rehired. I don’t believe these people can not be reached.
I reckon the ideal use case for chat LLMs at the moment is as a bridge for questions that are hard to search but easy to verify.

For example, you have a plant you can't identify. Hard to Google search with words. "Plant with small red berries and...". You could reverse image search your photo of it, probably won't help either. Show an LLM the photo (some accept images now). LLM tells you what it thinks. Now you Google search "Ribes rubrum" to verify it. Much easier.

You've got a complicated medical problem that's been going on for months. A google search of all the factors involved would be excessively long and throw up all sorts of random stuff. You describe the whole scenario to an LLM and it gives you four ideas. You can now search those specific conditions and see how well they actually match.

I've found there are actually a lot of questions that fit in that sort of NP complexity category.
Sure, and the author explicitly acknowledges that a professional who'd done this a ton of times wouldn't have these problems, and would complete the job quickly. The point of the article is not to marvel about complexity, it's to remind people that whenever you're doing something new, your estimates can't be trusted.

The author also suggests that many software development tasks will be new, or be new enough to make your estimates unreliable. That is, even if it's a task you've done before, if any amount of time has passed, it's likely that quite a few of the details have changed, and your estimates will still be off.

> Just because you can do it yourself, doesn't mean you should.

The flip side of this is that sometimes it's fun. I've been doing a bunch of home improvement tasks lately that in the past I would probably call a professional to do. They take me longer to complete, and I have to buy some specialized tools, but I find the process enjoyable, and I learn things every time. (And even after buying the tools, it still ends up being cheaper than hiring someone.)

I'm currently thinking about adding recessed lighting to the walls along the base of the staircase in my house. The lighting in the staircase is too dim, but I don't want to replace the existing fixtures (for reasons I don't want to get into). I'll have to cut holes for new electrical boxes, and run new romex along the entire thing. This will probably be my most ambitious project to date, and I may screw up the drywall repair and need to hire someone to make it look nice. But I'm probably going to give it a go, and I'll learn things and have fun along the way.
Believe it or not, it was this article that solved the same problem I was having with my new sink / washing machine. For the past week, I've been draining the machine into the bathtub, because it wouldn't pump the water into the sink's drain pipe. I assumed the extension was too long, or the pump motor was too weak – turns out, I never cut the hole in the drain pipe. Thanks Chris!
> it seems a lot of cynical people start with some unreasonable idea that "AI" should be able to do what it will perhaps be able to in 10 or 100 years, and are subsequently upset that it is not capable of that yet

Because that's what AI wa supposed to be in the first place. But the industry performed the swindle of renaming "AI" to "AGI", so that they can pretend the thing that exists now is "AI".
See https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/issues/9843
60 Minutes on Germanys prosecution of online hate
That makes sense! I can see why you would prefer that skin. Out of curiosity, why use a plugin and not Wikipedia's appearance preferences[1]?

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsec...
> I feel like that's part of what Elon is flexing. Teslabot was late comer compared to competitors like BD.

When it come to bipedal robots, Tesla is far ahead of Boston Dynamics in terms of actually creating a product.
I find it very interesting that "sycophancy" in Greek means "the act of spreading lies about someone", basically the opposite of falsely agreeing with them. The two meanings are based on the behaviour of the sycophants of old, but it's odd how the two languages picked different aspects to focus on, and thus got fairly opposed meanings.
Both the course and the book are phenomenal. In my opinion they are up there as one of the best CS resources. I finished it two years ago and still think about it fairly often.

The compiler exercise is beyond excellent and cracking it feels like a milestone.
I would guess that most people who live in houses don't know what hole saws are. Your assumption that everyone does -- or even needs to -- comes off a bit arrogant and out of touch.
I think that's an unfair comparison. If the IBM Simon disappeared in 1994, I'm pretty sure you wouldn't have cared. If search engines disappeared in 1992, you'd have felt the same. Also, (what later became) AWS probably didn't interface much with you in 2003.

It takes some time for technology to mature, usually at least a decade or two. Even once the iPhone was released it took a few years until it became indispensable.
You can also choose a preferred skin when you log in and go to Preferences → Appearance.
MacOS is pretty good at it as well.
> unless you are really really self-confident

And capable of self-defence, in my experience growing up at a heavily right-wing and Catholic town. Self-proclaimed neo-fascists and groups of judgemental teens gave us trouble more than once.
Feels like COVID was the final nail in the coffin of cinemas, but phones and audience behavior had been eroding the concept for a while. Maybe they can survive better as enthusiast clubs.
> There's a gamified version of nand2tetris available on Steam called "Turing Complete" (https://turingcomplete.game).

Also have a look at MHRD, which is to my knowledge even more inspired by nand2tetris.
Draw Entity-Relationship Diagrams, Painlessly
I don't think anyone who's paid attention to the LLM scene will give them any “credit for catching up fast” as it has been pretty obvious for the past two years that all it takes to reach the state of the art is a big enough GPU cluster.

Deepseek made the news because how they were able to do it with significantly less hardware than their American counterparts, but given that Musk has spent the last two years telling everyone how he was building the biggest AI cluster ever, it's no surprise that they manage to reproduce the kind of performances other players are showing.
Your claim was «He is de facto if not de jure more or less in charge of the US government.». If this is true, the opposite, i.e. «operates [..] semi-licitly on behalf or in service of, a government agency» can't be true. Cold reason decrees it from her awful throne. Talk as much fatalism about that fact as you please: it really must be.
A big factor of uncertainty at the end of the cycle is the weight distribution for spinning.

Newer washing machines rotate the drum slowly until the clothes separate, bringing the centre of mass closer to the axis of rotation, leading to much less vibration during the spin cycle. If the weight does not distribute after n cycles (e.g. if you put a single large and heavy duvet cover inside), some lower the spin RPM to a level that is deemed acceptable.

I've always assumed that they perform this measurement via the current curve of the motor during a rotation. Flattened curve -> distributed load, CG close to spin axis. Huge spike -> offset load, CG far away from spin axis -> bang bang bang walking washing machine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mqy5uWXvzM
Yes, but it seems

> No JavaScript is sent to the browser.

Is a design goal. I doubt it is possible without JS. Especially inside SVG.
> By the way, you mentioned Chroma earlier. Did you mean Hue instead?

oops yes I meant hue sorry. I was probably thinking of the chrominance video signal lmao
Open and Closed Universes
As how things have been going the last couple of days, I think the EU should double down on that.
I don't remember everything, but I definitely have a handful of memories from when I was a toddler (2-3yo). Such as when my sister was born.
Lynch hated Dune. Lynch's name is removed from the credits of the original cut (replaced with Alan Smithee) because it's so embarrassing. It's still a Lynch movie, so it's interesting to watch. I would not call it underrated.

The tempo of the movie is completely off, and no cut has been able to fix that. The characters and scenes just run trough the story.

Lynch wanted Salvador Dali to design the set. Instead he had to reuses the set from the Conan the Destroyer (Richard Fleischer, 1984).

He didn't even get the music he wanted and that's big part of his movies.
> Why can't HNers remember to read the article?

To quote:

"""NEW YORK, NY – A recent study showed that 70% of people actually never read more than the headline of a science article before commenting and sharing. Most simply see a headline they like and click share and make a comment. A recent study showed that 70% of people actually never read more than the headline of a science article before commenting and sharing. Most simply see a headline they like and click share and make a comment.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet…"""

- https://thesciencepost.com/study-70-of-facebook-commenters-o...
It leaves a lot unsaid. Advertising has a lot of connotations and cultural significance. It can evoke strong feelings for one and be a livelihood for another. Simply stating that an advertisement is 'a public notice' doesn't do it justice.

I understand that dictionaries are not encyclopedias, but a little more is warranted IMO.
Building a PC is just the right amount of challenge (for me). It's fun. I'd do it for my friends, if they let me. And wanted to spend one or two grand every other year. It's just challenging enough to be fun but not so challenging it's actually hard.
> That "AT with separate mains switch" style was probably an interim design

Almost all personal computers around 1996 were like this.
I was talking about language acquisition specifically. Most of the data that you reference is visual input and other body sensations that aren't directly related to that. OTOH humans don't take all that much text to learn to read and write.
I think it was somewhat reasonable for the author to assume it would be a 10-minute job when it had been that way in the previous places he lived. Realizing that a brand-new house might be "unfinished" in some ways is something you might not know if you've only lived in places where there was a previous owner that took care of all the unfinished bits.

But I agree that once the author realized he needed to go to the hardware store a second time, he should have gone through the motions of pre-checking every step he'd need to perform so he could see what else wasn't right.
What other popular stores exist? And I assume you sideload those books to Kobo afterwards? In that case, is the experience of reading sideloaded books inferior to that of reading store bought books?
To put it this way: after seeing examples of how a LLM with similar capabilities to state-of-the-art ones can be built with 20 times less money, we now have proof that the same can be done with 20 times more money as well!
If Google search disappeared, I would still remember the names of several sites like Stack Overflow that are always at the top of the results, and I’d just go directly there.

Maybe the original Yahoo! style curated list of categorized links would actually be more useful for me at this point than Google with all the SEO spam.

That kind of high-quality directory combined with ChatGPT would probably replace Google for me.
- if you're in a relationship and you haven't already, speak to your partner about kids. I've met too many people who left it too late.
- plan for your retirement, even if it's a little bit each month. Also, I've met too many people who left it too late.
- find a hobby, find a club, find a society. You won't know anyone at first, but over time if you keep going, you will.
- try not to be so dogmatic about things.

Remember - you're only 30, you've still got time.
Spending time to train an employee is an expected cost for the employers. It is not that they steal from you corporate secrets that the competitors would leverage against you. It is a minimal time risk that the employer takes, to make productive an employee for them. If you don't have that time, then you pay extra to hire an experienced person.

Think about the risks that the employees take for the company (they are not just time risks). They have to relocate themselves, and even worse move their entire family and kids away from their friends & schools, sell their houses often at loss / break leases, and then join your venture with just at will employment contract, which means that at any-time you can just tell them to go f themselves.

So no your complaint is not calibrated. Sorry.
Russia never signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 because it was, to use 2025 language, too woke for them and an attempt at destroying their culture.

That should tell you everything you need to know about the Russian mindset.
We know there is massive prunning and "dropout" of brain connections during young age.
All I get is:

```
Exception: Can't get the csrf token, please refresh the page at https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/mycd/myx#/home/content/booksAll and retry
```

Can someone give explicit instructions about the content of the cookie.txt?

The README instructions are unclear.
That'll show them losers.
Netscores.com – new ultra fast soccer livescore service
Why is Japan so Weak in Software?
I believe this is already a thing? In JS at least

Firefox’s “resist fingerprinting” does a lot of things to stop fingerprinting. One of those things is that it fakes my time zone as being UTC. 99% of of the time I never notice this being an issue. But occasionally I’ll try to pull up the wordle late in the day and get tomorrows puzzle.
What about GAAP/IFRS? How do you endow these software engineers with knowledge of common patterns of fraud or leaks so they can actually write the correct software to find them automatically? How do they identify material misstatements?

You also seem confused; COBOL might be used, but it isn't the only tool available to accountants working for the government. COBOL is a straw-man. What you're describing here—software engineers who presumably have training in accounting—already exists, and they work inside and out of the government. This is an existing career path.

You're speaking about this as though you know a better way to do something, but it's already happening, and has been for years. Accountants aren't writing 62 year old programming languages waiting to die in their chairs while the world continues to progress without them.

Accounting just about anywhere you find it is already accomplished by accountants, some of them technically trained, as well as data scientists and software engineers. It's an interdisciplinary collaboration in any serious organization.
And in many cases you can "just" draw what you want and find a local-ish woodworker to make it for you.

The stuff in furniture stores has like 5 different stages of companies each taking a cut, increasing the price at every step.
well, for almost everyone this information is contained within the IP anyway, though.
The thing is, though, the author learned some useful lessons about how new construction houses can be a bit unfinished. I'm sure when the next household task comes up, he'll sit down and look at every step of the task first to see if he can make any of those unknown unknowns, well, known, before he drives out to the hardware store.

I can certainly see someone at this point deciding it isn't worth the effort, and hiring people from then on, but some people (myself included) often enjoy the process of learning these things.
The number of people that have the capital and connections required to even attempt such things is very small, so it's not necessarily Musk's abilities that made those things happen, just the combination of having the power to allocate enough resources and an interest in such things.
It has nothing to do with the EU laws, or at least not in the sense they want you to think about it: no laws prevents AI players to release their AI models here, but they are all also big tech players who are affected by GDPR, DSA and DMA which harm their business by protecting the consumers.

That's why they use their AI products as a leverage to turn European people against the laws that protect them from big tech. It's just blackmail.
Good article.

I currently use Litestream (https://litestream.io/) for efficient SQLite backups to S3, and I'm happy with that.

For me, the main point to consider wrt SQLite is if you need high availability or not. And how easy it is to setup litestream and persistent storage.
Preferred by whom? Sharing models isn't open source, and we're just going to have to keep having this argument. Letting us download the model is a very nice thing for Facebook to do, but you don't get to call it open source if you're not showing us the source! Explicitly, if we can't see the forced alignment, where the model gets its refusal to talk about Tiananmen Square or how to make meth or it The Information is a reputable news source, then it's not open. The preferred form of modification is to take the data, and train it. That some people have been able to take the model and tweak it, doesn't make it preferable.