skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scented Wax Melts as a Significant Source of Atmospheric Nanoparticles
The hard thing is that it's both a bubble and not.

It's a bubble in the respect that the hype around integrating into existing companies/software is likely often falling flat.

It may not be a bubble in that all of the best/useful/valuable use cases of AI are in new software, which have yet to prove themselves in the enterprise. This makes sense because you can't just bolt it onto existing software/organizations and expect it to work because they're built around the way things used to be, similar how when factories first tried to integrate electricity.

For example, I'm sure Palantir is doing some good stuff, but I just have doubts about how useful AI can be in the context of existing companies. And their valuation seems insane, which screams bubble, especially since they're an older companies and less 'AI-native' than the newer ones, like the clunky ways Salesforce and Microsoft implement AI.

But do I expect startups to continue to emerge that approach problems in AI-native ways that help companies reorganize? Yes, it's just a question about how long it takes these companies to work their way into the enterprise and earn enough credibility to drive organizational change and restructuring.

The 'bubble' question is really about whether this latent/potential productivity will be enough to inflate the bubble before it bursts.

My money is on yes, but rather than picking a winner at the app layer and trying to win the lottery I'm heavily invested in the boring stuff like chips (NVDA) and those building data centers with low P/Es (back when I bought them), thus a lot of room to grow even conservatively.
> But, to the point about rounding off a nut, something like that is rarely a function of tool quality and more about technique. Yes, a cheap 12 point socket or wrench can round off a hex pretty badly, but if it happens, the whole setup has probably been giving warning signs the entire time.

In the rust belt, about every bolt has lots of warning signs and each job is a gamble. I really need to get a torch.
In hindsight, the moon race was pretty close to pure propaganda.

I'm not entirely sure they knew it at the time, though. It was likely a bit of a land grab as well?

The moon is potentially a treasure trove. Bringing anything back to Earth is obviously the challenge because of the energy expenditure but in the 50s and 60s they were considering nuclear-powered craft (Project Orion) and at the time, mining the moon probably seemed like it might have been feasible in the next 50 years.

little technology from the Soviet programme and virtually
none from the US one were used after both countries
reoriented around lower-cost space programmes.

Is this really true? We stopped putting people on the moon, but we certainly kept putting things into space (military and otherwise) and was much of that know-how not directly informed by the technology developed for Apollo? Building life support systems, the rockets themselves, etc.

I'm open to correction/clarification; I'm not an expert obviously.
Considerably less.
AI agents will outmaneuver salespeople by optimizing persuasion
>[1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/what-a-week-huh

>"In the episode, the character Liz Lemon, portrayed by Tina Fey, complains to character Jack Donaghy, portrayed by Alec Baldwin, about having finished a hard week of work, with Donaghey reminding her that it is still Wednesday"

I don't know any context beyond what's in this clip of Liz Lemon saying it to Jack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z3uGyBM_1c

but "what a week" by itself does not indicate that the week is over, you can say "what a week" in the middle of a week; it would imply more the multiplicity of things that have already gone wrong, and "it's Wednesday" as a response has the sense "and it's only Wednesday, more things can still happen"
Surprisingly simple coding trick can slash data center energy usage by 30%
I think he just needs the model to be installed in a humanoid robot.
You're doing the exact same thing he is addressing in that statement above. He's not belittling anyone's rage, he's speaking about people who incite others to feel the rage with them. Now let's turn your question around.

Has it occurred to you that the people who feel rage fundamentally misunderstand the situation and are completely undereducated in this area, and are only fuelled by sensationalism and Media manipulation? And then I suggest you go read Dirty Politics by Kathleen Hall Jamieson if you're interested, because that's what people who want to sound more intelligent than the other half of the conversation always do.

How does it help anyone?
Haha, I respect the full-time vibrate lifestyle :) But yeah, that was exactly my purpose: a ringtone a that is just a little bit more than having vibrate mode on
Your experience is chillingly close to mine. Been using noice cancellers for 4-5 years now and if I hear loud noises in public, I get very distressed.
> Only the Shinkansen (and TGV on my sibling post) can be compared to planes though.

Says who? Right now, in reality, the only thing that makes sense is comparing existing flights with existing train routes.
Do you have more details about it?

My first thought is sharding and materialized views.
Over what time scale, how do we agree on facts, and how do we evaluate things that require a common value system to determine whether the facts are good or bad?
Tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO
What was the solution you went with?
Did you write your own table?

Million+ row handling is nice. Once I figured out window based display of tables, documentation and a bunch of other pieces of architecture became simpler. Previously I sent the whole dataset or a sample of it.

--

Is Scripton user extendable? Do you expect ipywidgets/anywidgets based projects to plug in?
The details of said spending is very much not public, and even if it was (it’s not) - it’s not accessible. If it's not true, would love to see links where I can see everything easily.
It's way worse than that.
First, We interact with LLMs through private conversation and we are used to have private conversation with human we trust. Some of that trust will be transfered to LLMs.
Second, LLMs have a vastly bigger "mental" power to build a long term mental model of us, while we interact with them. Which mean they can chose with extreme precision their words to trigger an emotion, a certain reaction.

Combine the two and the potential for manipulation, suggestion, preference altering is through the roof.
This is a really bad take honestly. This guy sits next to the president. I have no doubt in my mind he will get another government contract and the government will be using Grok.
Those are pretty well known FP oriented guidelines that many developers here on HN are familiar with. I don't think that your fear of not being believed is warranted.
You knew approximately nothing about the task you're about to undertake, but you proceed anyway? This is hubris at best, and while it may fly in the software world (oh no, I bricked the computer!) with little consequence, in the real world you can do some real damage or seriously hurt yourself.

It's wild to me someone would do zero research and just blunder onwards like that. Holesaw through a bathroom wall without checking what's in there? Lucky not to have hit electrical, or better yet, a water line. Best part is, all you needed was a keyhole saw to manually cut each layer of drywall on either side, having first traced the outline.

What did you learn? Not the key lesson apparently -- research and learn about the task and its context before taking it on.
> You lack the gift of nuance

No, I lack patience for obvious bullshit, and to even attempt to defend such an obvious grift is genuinely pathetic.

> Trump didn't suggest it was an actual investment vehicle, also he did it out of office.

Let me paraphrase: "Trump said it was a scam up-front, so therefore he's absolved of any responsibility for it being a scam. Trump announced his scam three days before his SECOND inauguration, therefore there is no conflict of interest or abuse of power."
Note that the new disposable protocol in JavaScript is unrelated to garbage collection; it's more like Go's `defer`. The grandparent is talking about JavaScript's somewhat older FinalizationRegistry.
If they are cloaked in secrecy how do you know what you’re even mad about? The people who are tweeting everything they do are acting in secret?

If all they are doing is posting information that was already public then what exactly is your problem?
We are sunseting AIDE, an AI IDE
Any guess on its availability at that point? Is it likely to be limited to certain tiers like o1?
Asking if it is a big deal or not is definitely a question ;)
Thank you for providing the information I was missing though.
Pulling up the hood on your capacitive material jacket over your headphones registers dozens of ghost inputs as well. It lead to me disabling the touch-controls completely on my XM4s.
Pretty sure they were addressing the "non-usuable" part and not the "early " part.
So many of my early memories feel almost 3rd person because I mostly remember them as the stories told. Mostly around injuries I had as a kid though I know the memories are at least a little warped because the way I "remember" laying while I was getting stitches in my hand would mean it was on my left hand but I have the scar on my right hand. (Most likely I wasn't looking at the doctor/surgeon like I remember but facing the other way or something.)
If you want this in Clojure, check out Clerk. [0]

As a bonus, you can continue to use whatever IDE you already use.

[0] https://github.com/nextjournal/clerk
I didn't say I want pure efficiency.

I don't know what you mean about crime being kept in check. Right now there are several cars on my street with expired registration. Two of them have no license plates at all. I doubt they are insured. I have been the victim of crime in my home.

There are people openly selling illegal drugs on the street, with no fear of arrest or prosecution.

The schools spent $27k per student per year (i.e. $500k per classroom), and FEWER THAN HALF of students meet grade level standards in math and English.

It takes many many permits to open a restaurant, and many would-be restaurant owners give up part way through the ordeal. 'Permits are issued' doesn't indicate efficiency when the number of permits required is beyond what's reasonable.

The expectations we have of the government have to be related, to some extent, to the resources it takes from us.

If you spend $27k per student per year, yes I expect schools to run efficiently enough such that students graduate high school able to read and write.
Have you found the problem with the links, I still can't see them.
There will be no off-world colonies, at least not within our (or Musk's) lifetime.
This person knows Smallbany well.
You can never go back
My thing about judging coworkers is that the coworkers who REALLY want to judge other coworkers are often the worst at it. It's such a hard thing to manage.

I don't want to wander too far from the topic for this part:

I'm a little amused by the startup talk in that post where folks are grinding away at work / have to perform or doom and gloom. Is there much evidence that massive hours put into a startup has any impact on the startup's success? I always assumed for most product's it's "product fit" not some coding drone pounding out 12 features this week rather than 6.
That’s my point, the difference here is not the policy goal, it’s the execution.

I see a lot of people acting as if the aims of Trump are some big departure. In fact they have been mainstream R goals for a long time.
Dune: Messiah: Villeneuve's crowning achievement or when the spice runs dry?
My main concern is the same as with electronic gear levers/selectors, electric parking brakes, steer by wire, and throttle by wire:

What happens when the car has a failure that kills all the electrics?

That's a much more common failure scenario than people think. Batteries go flat. Wiring gets chewed and shorts with vibration. CAN buses need only a brief short to go out entirely and not reset. Even in a modest crash the car can lose its battery and alternator, or get a system short.

Tesla owners have learned this lesson repeatedly with getting locked out, locked in, stuck in park, unable to shift to neutral for a tow, etc. Other car owners have learned this with electric parking brakes getting stuck on.

If the electrics fail and the car is moving, I need steering, brakes, and the gear lever to all work to stop safely. If they're by-wire, I'm just a passenger.
The definition of "personal data" is so wide that it is impossible to provide any web service without collecting some form of "personal data".

If all you have is an apache web server with the default configuration serving fully static HTML / CSS page without any script tag, you already might need a DPO and complete some documents.
Oh wow you imagined something will happen and you have no doubt it will happen. Amazing. Very convincing.
I’d keep eyes on the immune system. We are already rethinking migraines and inflammation based on findings from COVID-19.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00456-x

Did this happen after a known infection of some sort? Does it run in your family? These questions may be important to know the answers to until science gets more tests over the counter as they are fairly close already.
This looks incredible, but I’m not a fan of the subscription pricing.

How about a hobbyist rate at least?
If "just" requires ordering specific electronic components and soldering, it's not "just" for most people.
We can control for quality too, of you want. A lot of real life uses for Chatgpt are really trivial. I regularly ask it for some basic recipes based on my groceries and likes, quality is basically 100% hits so far.
A wide variety of joint issues are improved by performing a slow and steady progressive overload with lifting weights. Not all of them, of course, and yes there are some issues that preclude lifting, but this seems rather pedantic. There are a trillion things that most humans can do with no detrimental impact that a small subset can't. Trying to couch every suggestion based on edge cases is silly.

The overwhelming majority of people would benefit from doing resistance training 3x a week, cardio 3x a week, and shifting their diet towards more protein and less carbs and fat. People who fall outside of the large majority due to specific medical conditions need to understand their medical conditions and how they impact their daily life, because expecting everyone else to always take into account these issues is unreasonable and unproductive.
OP said he did a Nazi Salute. He did not do a Nazi salute.

He did something that people who fetishize the downfall of their enemy desperately want to be Nazi salute, so they call it that, but it was not a nazi salute.

If it was he would have said so, since at that point you are basically showing the world you are a nazi. But that is not what happened.

People really don't take their credibility seriously, and will cry wolf at anything that moves, seriously undermining any argument they make.

There are ample ways to hate on Elon using factually true things he has done. Sticking to those makes your arguments rock solid, and keeps your credibility high. So much is wasted by idiots slinging smoke because it makes themselves feel right.
Going to need a source for that. Pretty much everything I've read on the subject (ex. [1]) contradicts that.
> DOGE is a rebranding of USDS which was established under Obama. All their authority to access systems derives from that.

OK I actually know what this is and no, it's absolutely nothing like the USDS, which builds tools to support government processes. What has DOGE built?

> Why do you think it’s a problem for the public to know where the government spends money?

I would very much like to see transparency, and if that were what DOGE was doing it would be great. But it looks to me like they're operating in secrecy and firing huge numbers of people before publishing any kind of analysis or study, without even providing reasoning for what they're doing.
I guess people have different ideals of perfection, which can create that sort of disconnect when somebody wants to change/refactor something simply because it doesn't match their ideal.

It's definitely a balance between making sure you're constantly finding problems and improving things like you said; considering that's the engineer's job and what we get paid to do but also knowing when is right to let things go. Doing the latter is the hard part.
About a decade ago… I was all up in the craze of checking out different chat platforms and going for the most secure one. Back then, Signal was BY FAR the least stable. I kept loosing messages, had loads of problems using it on both my phone and laptop, and I could not trust it to actually deliver chats to the other person.

I know this was a decade ago, I assume things changed, but I couldn’t have tried to get casual folk on an unstable platform. So people moved around, shopped for other platforms, and WhatsApp is the one that stuck. It’s now the default platform in my country.

Signal fucked up their launch by being an unstable piece of software with subpar UX when it mattered. It’s by far the most secure, but I just can’t see it ever gaining critical mass unless other platforms somehow explode gloriously.
The plan for now is just subscriptions.

However, I would like to eventually have something like Jetbrains' "perpetual fallback license" where you can keep using up to a particular version after, say, a year of subscription.
I would have described it this way. This is and always was a a way in which firing could happen. You zero a budget and they people under it are let go.

Hiring necessarily has more steps involved.
Yes, I can read a calendar and a clock. Thank you for the concern.
I believe you are trying to say that the evidence is null because it happened earlier than the new admin got into power. Administrative handover happens within 30 days previous. So they began early January. Another way to look at this is, why didn’t they show up earlier? Like in 2023 or 24? Why only in 25, right after doge? It’s a little coincidental.
I have friends who came to use Signal just because it had a decent desktop and phone app.

Ironically, its my tech-savvy friend group that are on discord while my family is on Signal.

I think all my friends would be on Signal if it had a "server/channel" UI like discord.
X can't stop the scammers, they can only block them or ignore them.

99% of the public would prefer they block them than overlook them, and you're out of touch if you think otherwise.
Has it occurred to you that nothing is more powerful for coming up with intellectual arguments than a strong driving emotion?

Yes, rage might be the appropriate and response given the situation. But it’s often true that it starts with an emotion, and then people just argue from there. Even while being wrong. Just look at all the people with contradictory opinions in history, both with strong, emotional rage, and and equally certain of their connection. Throwing the fact that people actually has a tendency to want to be angry.
Coalton is great. Indeed often it's much easier to just implement on top of either SBCL or ChezScheme; they are very fast and chances are you are not going to make anything as or more performant, better documented etc. However, reimplementation in Rust is not too bad as that's were we need to be for small, fast, low level runtimes. If the goal was 'just' their own language, I feel just a an implementation on top of CL/SBCL + Coalton would've been faster to build, easier to maintain and probably far more performant. Less fun though!
Or, people have different opinions about who should have power over social media, banking, and AI, for completely rational reasons…
No? Really? So what is the point? Why are people so crazy about Rust?
Because the difference between a model that costs 10 million to train and a model that costs 10 billion to train is 6 months.

Deepseek R1 is something that you can run in a garage on hardware that the average software engineer can buy with a months salary and when it came out last month it was better than _every_ other model.
But the AI-public Internet timeline is more like 1995. if all web search disappeared in 1995 it would've been a massive loss, despite how primitive search engines were back then.
Think base models. LLMs are extremely good at predicting the future when applied to human languages, as this is literally their only optimization goal. Why couldn't they also be good at predicting the future when applied to other complex forecasting tasks?

Of course what can be mathematically calculated without inference is going to be. LLMs may however be able to interpret the results of these calculations better than humans or current stochastical evaluations.
> The applications of this technology in this particular space seem limited

Thermoelectric generators have applications in basically any space where you're generating excess waste heat (and you're able to maintain a temperature gradient). Off the top of my head, industrial scale distillation, desalination, garbage incineration, high energy lasers and pyro/electrometallurgy. The advancement of the technology for the automotive space would really have served as a springboard to increase efficiency in other areas.

> thermoelectric generators are simply not efficient enough to adequately offset the heat energy losses in ICEs.

Any amount of waste heat that can be converted to electricity and used or stored is good. Why not try to get every last joule out of your fuel?

You're right that the technology has been inefficient. For typical ceramic thermoelectric generators the conversion ratio from heat to electricity is low, it only works if you can maintain a temperature gradient and you have to contend with self-heating, but addressing the inefficiencies is exactly what JPL would have been trying to do. You couldn't ask for a better partner to push the technology further.
Article seems to have 3 main complaints:

1. LLMs are not very useful

2. Companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are losing tons of money

3. There is a lot of hype around them

The first seems objectively untrue - lots of people find them useful especially for coding. Not to mention the fact that they get significantly better every year.

The second is completely true but it's not clear how much that matters. Our products are being subsidized by VC firms while costs are falling by 3x-10x every year. Seems great to me.

There is a lot of hype because hype helps capitalists get rich faster. Annoying, but a small price to pay for useful technology.
I use https://hckrnews.com/ (alternate interface) to avoid this issue.
Life as we know it is just chemical reactions occuring within some membrane or walled environment. I don’t see why that definition couldn’t be extended to self sustaining chemical reactions that aren’t bound by a membrane or wall structure. The purpose of that membrane or wall is to just establish favorable conditions for the chemistry within the cell. If conditions could be established without such a membrane there wouldn’t be a reason for it. If reactions were energetically favorable across a wide spectrum of conditions there wouldn’t be a need for it either.

There are some that consider fire to be a form of life. I don’t think that is such a wrong idea if we are to consider how wide the scope of possibilities are in the universe.
> Prescriptivist/prescriptivism is afaik the usual term.

It is but it was the "correct" part attached to prescriptivism they'd be mocking because that is not how linguists and grammarians work (they are descriptivists and fond of making fun of prescriptivists.)
You’ll be able to change the channel name and URL soon! Channel ownership needs more thought, but I’ve got it on my list including some mod tools for channels.