skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One might assume that such a system would be more active in a bear market than a bull market. ;)
I meant what @kusokurae wrote in another answer to your comment, although I would not have been able to express it as clearly.

Something about that comment also set off a line of thinking around the origins of our western storytelling paradigms and how not-in-person communication relied on someone else moving between two places to deliver a message (either spoken or written) rather than instantly being able to communicate with anyone through wires as we have been able to for quite some time now.
I'm sorry, but that is some absurd nonsense if we're talking about N95 masks and not surgical masks. You have been misinformed.
This is tricky as I think it is uncertain. Right now the answer is user experience, customs workflows layered on top of the models and onboarding specific enterprises to use it.

If suddenly agentic stuff works really well... Then that breaks that world. I think there's a chance it won't though. I suspect it needs a substantial innovation, although bitter lesson indicates it just needs the right training data.

Anyway, if agents stay coherent, my startup not being needed any more would be the last of my worries. That puts us in singularity territory. If that doesn't cause huge other consequences, the answer is higher level businesses - so companies that make entire supply chains using AI to make each company in that chain. Much grander stuff.

But realistically at this point we are in the graphic novel 8 Billion Genies.
Aka “the idiot plot” - where the entire issue at hand could be solved if any single main character stops acting like an idiot for 5 minutes and just says to the other character(s) what’s actually going on
I thought that a reasonably free, vital, innovative, and prosperous society was compatible with a fundamental respect for human dignity. That's why I moved to Europe. Now it seems I was overoptimistic, but that doesn't mean we should wholly embrace backsliding right into the 19th century version of "progress".
Yes, but the arguments remain the same, that there is a false dichotomy between spending here versus there, whereas the advances from fundamental research for there benefit us for here.
the same guy that created (800% Detail: Tweaking Stunt Island’s 30-year-old 3D Engine): https://marnetto.net/2024/11/20/tweaking-stunt-island
This kind of intervention can be useful in the right groups but (as with NVC) also provides great cloaking for natural manipulators. For example saying "there is a lot of raised emotion in the room" after an individual has blown their top is a very pointed and passive aggressive thing to do. They will feel even more targeted by the faux neutrality
ChatGPT can now write erotica as OpenAI eases up on AI paternalism
Gimp 3 - Duke nukem forever!
This is written with a weird attitude of trying to find problems with the rules. Take this for example:

> This does a bounded number of iterations. The bound is N^10. In this case, that's 10^90. If each iteration of the loop body takes 1 nsec, that's 10^81 seconds, or about 7.9×10^72 years. What is the practical difference between “will stop in 7,900,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years” and “will never stop”?

... yes, you're very smart and have found a way to technically satisfy the requirement while building a broken program

Clearly the upper bound rule is to make it easy to reason about worst-cases so setting a very high one isn't really the gotcha they seem to think it is. It just means you can look at the high bound and go "this is too high, fix it"
And referring to people receiving welfare as "parasites."
Politicians in the states have more influence and can still do something and effect change.
In Europe we're way past that, they are just bureaucrats spinning wheels, extracting value and doing minor changes (some good, some bad), gradually boiling us alive until they extracted any value from society and we collapse.
For the wicked, certainly.
Yes, using this tactic in the govt is much riskier than a private company. And we won't know in this case if it "works" until after many months. And then deciding whether it "works" is very subjective depending on whether the collateral damage on human lives is acceptable or not.
Ooh I love this conspiracy theory, but who needs bioweapons when Chinese labs will leak deadly viruses through sheer incompetence?
Right, but that's all Musk sees: they came back, and so it worked. He seems like the kind of person whose ego would make him believe that any other time he tries this, it would work too.
"What I find confusing is that this is not typical of conservatism, it's like a progressive right of political outsiders whose express goal is to destroy the government, I don't think that's a controversial statement"

I think it'd be fair to call them populist right? I think they couldn't be further from classical conservatism. Chesterton's Fence is a concept that seems foreign to them.
Yes, still sending the data is bad.

Their docs [1] do not mention the generate command can take an exclusion argument [2]. Maybe the dot (.) for current directory will exclude everything, but that may defeat the purpose.

If the current directory were the default, and on first run an error message like "Please include files first" appeared--and users also must enter "Y" at a disclaimer message--they could explicitly opt in instead.

And that should be placed before the tar-n-upload piece.

The pull request was also merged before approval. Github branch protection could have been set to require at least one approver.

[1] https://devenv.sh/blog/2025/02/13/devenv-14-generating-nix-d...

[2] https://github.com/cachix/devenv/blob/main/devenv/src/cli.rs...
They are desperate for growth XD
Is it politics that people don't want to do business with shitty people? I'd call that being human.

If I owned a bill board space, and set everything around it on fire, wouldn't you think it was my fault that advertisers didn't want to pay to use it any more?
Overhead for staff isn't that much more. And even one person can spend money like it's going out of style if they have a budget that says they can and the implicit threat it'll be cut if they don't. They'll just spend it in dumber ways.
> America has functioned since WWII as a large charity project for those less capable of running a great nation (namely, everyone).

By what measure? Life expectancy? Happiness? Wealth? We have the highest economic stratification of almost any nation in the developed world, by a longshot. We're the only developed nation that does not provide universal healthcare, does not guarantee sick time and does not guarantee parental leave. We have the most barriers to unionization of any developed nation We have the highest number of incarcerated people, by both total number and percentage of our population, of any developed nation.

We're also among the worst countries in terms of alignment between what the populace wants for policies and what they get from their elected representatives, so we're failing pretty hard at the whole "democracy" thing, too.

> i am pretty sick of seeing my tax bill every year and knowing that

Great news! I have the cure. All you need to do is google "federal budget percent foreign aid" and you'll feel so much better. It's just one percent of the federal budget.

Since we're on the subject of "paying more than we get back" and our tax bills...what state do you live in, dear commenter who feels ripped off by his tax bill?
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I don't want to live in a world where it's right. Treating people like this, toying with their livelihoods, is wrong, full stop. It might "work" for certain definitions of "work", but it's morally repugnant.
> Apparently getting rid of family is morally wrong

Apparently? That's the only thing stopping you from "getting rid of your family" whatever that would mean in practical terms?

Are you Chris Watts' younger brother?

Jesus, wonder if some people even deserve families...
Mainstream media have massively better truth record then non mainstream ones. Especially last years.
Durant has only requested a trade once. He completed all his other contracts.
I've also been inspired by the Wait But Why post and tried to implement my onw weeks visualization, I noticed that some years between birthdays are 53 weeks.

I guess she solves it by reseting the week start at every birthday (all weeks start on [weekday the of previous September 19]), and just before her birthday there's a block that is just 1 day long (or 2 when it's a leap year). The pedantic would then think "But that means it's not a week per block!". E.g. the WBW post has a very rigid grid.
There is also "expect" for automation.
> In .NET and Java it costs at least 100x as much time to throw an exceptions as to return an error code.

Don't know about .NET but in Java it is not throwing exceptions that is heavy but filling in stack trace during construction of a Throwable.
It can be made much more performant using constructor that disables stack trace: https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/21/docs/api/java.base...
... and failed to turn that less complex system into a more profitable company
FreeCAD actually uses python for scripting. The console is a python repl.

https://wiki.freecad.org/Python
Nice. Anyway to batch convert it all to ePub?
Then they presumably understand climate change in terms of occasional weather disasters and hot summers and not, say, twenty years of chronic and persistent inflation followed by actual food shortages.
If Musk was so politically toxic as to drive an 84% revenue decline, the Republican politicians wouldn't have allowed him to support them or their party.
So essentially the process here is:

1. Buy Twitter.

2. Fire most of the staff.

3. Piss everyone off so all the advertisers shun you.

4. Barely get the company breaking even, mainly due to all the cuts, even though the platform itself is barely limping along.

5. Cozy up to a wannabe dictator that dupes (slightly less than) half the country to elect him as president again.

6. Make the advertisers realize that their continued prosperity depends on bending the knee to you, due to your political connections. Not to mention your platform is now a way for people to buy favors from the government.

7. Profit.

(No need for a "???" step before "Profit", well done...)

We truly live in the darkest timeline.
Can’t do that in the Netherlands.

Plus the whole “movement” creaties a lower baseline of performance. Most managers or engineers have no idea how much can be done and what quality means
That video is really illuminating in the article. I've experienced it once at the entrance of a concert. If you have all kinds of forces acting on you, then you don't have much autonomy on how you move.

Would this to some extent be how actual fluid (e.g. water) move as well? I thought atoms just freely flowed around in there from one side of the liquid to the other side.
Sorry, discuss, not argue.

I do agree with you, though. I have fears though on how much can that be a thing in reality - because I cannot disagree that this is a right approach.
I agree with the breaks, but there is a lot of incentive to make the guaranteed playoff seeding. You might only have a one game chance to make it into the playoffs otherwise.
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It is the same reason I moved to Europe.

I don't think I was overoptimistic. It was literally the best decision I ever made, in every aspect I can think of.
Langfuse (YC W23) Is Hiring Product Engineers in Berlin
Nah. Politics happily stays when it comes to promotion of home schooling and what not.
> fired people who had credentials

I agree. Federal credential management and safekeeping is not particularly well crafted.
Hmm... so we need to also simulate climbing trees (for some bear markets) and playing dead (for other bear markets) as well as running away and punching the head of the bear.
There was also appropriately named Sea Launch company, an joint enterprise between 4 countries that made 30+ launches between 1999 and 2014 from a repurposed oil platform - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Launch
Most people radically overestimate California income taxes because they fundamentally fail to understand how progressive taxation works. No one talks about Oklahoma having a high income tax, but everyone making under $50k per year would pay more income tax in Oklahoma than California. Quite amazing how that's not "high tax" and perfectly okay. Meanwhile, practically no one in these comments would be exposed to a California 12.3% income tax because it only applies to income above roughly $1.5M/year if married. My income taxes were lower in California than in Iowa at comparable times in my life, yet no one ever used Iowa as an example of high income taxes.
Use mosh??
There were two step changes: ChatGPT/GPT-3.5, and GPT-4. Everything after feels incremental. But that's perhaps understandable. GPT-4 established just how many tasks could be done by such models: approximately anything that involves or could be adjusted to involve text. That was the categorical milestone that GPT-4 crossed. Everything else since then is about slowly increasing model capabilities, which translated to which tasks could then be done in practice, reliably, to acceptable standards. Gradual improvement is all that's left now.

Basically how progress of everything ever looks like.

The next huge jump will have to again make a qualitative change, such as enabling AI to handle a new class of tasks - tasks that fundamentally cannot be represented in text form in a sensible fashion.
It’s the current western society’s end game. Idolized members of the start-up culture reached the finals.
I suppose it might be hard to avoid encountering ChatGPT outputs "in the wild" now, even if they don't explicitly use it for training material.
Depending on your needs, you can also connect to your 192.168.x.y machine while connected to tailscale by advertising that subnet
Real Madrid has been the most successful team in the last 10 years and they have zero tactical innovation. Also very fun to watch!
>for coders

https://www.gimp.org/news/2025/01/27/gimp-team-zemarmot-fosd...

Gimp is being used,and improved along the way, to make an animation movie. Jehan (scenarist, technical) of that movie is also a core maintainer.
Just from the humiliation this man went through, he should have asked for a severance package, compensation, and then sue them for many reasons, primarily for mental anguish that he asked for the obvious as a newly divorced parent who wants the best for his children.
If I spend 90% of my budget on mandatory items, and I cut 10% of my discretionary spending, I've shaved 1% of my total budget. Have I really accomplished that much?
Is that going to keep me out of the poor house if something goes wrong? Is it worth a massive sacrifice to obtain?

Probationary employees means not just the new hires, but any federal employee who changed jobs internally in the last year. Who's going to want to work for the Federal government after this bloodbath? No one with any talent, which I'm sure is either the goal or a happy by-product.

This is about Trump and Co. destroying govt institutions they don't like, and weaponizing other institutions with loyalists. Just look at what's happening in the DoJ.
Show HN: Visualizing Your Life in Chunks
I was, like a few others, inspired by the existing visualizations of one's life with a grid of weeks. I wanted to see my life divided into periods based on where I lived at the time, so I made a simple html+css+js page that lets me configure the periods.

I'm thinking of adding an image export functionality.

Feel free to check the code at https://github.com/furkan/life-in-weeks/.
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He already got to space. It's like releasing a triple A game, you release the staff after it's done. It's sociopathically optimal, and lauded in certain circles as a virtue.
I can already imagine "websites control minds via barely-hearable noise" conspiracies...
Unfortunately Twitter is now a machine that allows people to buy favors from the US government, so I expect it to become profitable pretty quickly.

Pretty messed up way for that to work out, though.
And the lack of respect for process breaks trust. Some people might not care about this, but you can’t magically summon trust. It takes years for trust to rebuild. I don’t care which party you are from, you have take into account the other side, if only for that trust reason. Inform them of what you are doing, and your process. This is a public institution build upon the foundation of the Constitution.
Here we go again, let's watch HN users bend over backwards to tell everyone how this is a good thing, or clever, or a master stroke of finding inefficiencies.
Yes, and the personnel rapidly identified that their new boss is a jerk that has no respect to their work and their life, so why should they work for him, when any boss in random fastfood is probably more capable to their job better that this one idiot, plus private sector pays more...
Why are you so consistently telling other people what their preferences should be and why?
Web company world

1) Delete a system

2) 404 error

3) add the system back with a simple git command

Nuclear world

1) Delete a system

2) Nuclear meltdown causes the abandonment of the Atlantic coast

3) Add the system back over the next 20 years
It's important to note though that the goal is not to reduce debt. The goal is to cut taxes (largely for the rich).

I mean if debt was an issue why vote for the guy who has increased the national debt by the most in history and whose spending plans were going to increase the debt by almost twice of his opponent?

https://www.investopedia.com/democrats-vs-republicans-who-ha...
If it ends up being something like 80% non-crucial and stays fired, the other 20% return with double-pay, you’re probably still running a net-positive with better resource allocation
every language has a little bit different audiences. Haven't tried zig myself but I respect it (more than go... :D) and wanna check out some time - any recommendation to get an introduction (sth. like rust language book)?
Ask HN: How to Ride the AI Wave?
Lot of money floating around. How do we as individual devs ride the ai wave? I’m wondering how many people are willing to pay for apps and stuff that are basically ai integrations/llm wrappers
Can someone please explain the panic with Intel going bankrupt?

AMD seemed to barely make it for decades and it worked out just fine -- some years the existence of AMD baffled me, others I was happy the was a second player delivering decent x86(_AMD64).

What's the difference here?
(Psychological) Outlook?
More alternatives (Apple silicon, ARM64)?
doing what?
I usually start with a basic e2e that tests the most minimal happy path possible. It makes no assumptions about architecture or anything else.

You don't need something to work with to write it. You can, by definition, write an e2e test against an app that doesnt exist.

This test isnt special as far as TDD is concerned - red-green-refactor works the same way.

Im sensing a pattern in the answers to my question though. I keep getting "well, if you assume TDD is only done with low level unit tests..."
let's agree to have different tastes, my dear gentleman
If they are actually raising the number of launches then it could also be a huge increase of contractors in areas the company never built its own competence.
What's annoying about the built-in checker is that it attempts to connect proxypass backends. So if you want to run this in CI you will get connection refused errors.
Probably could put you on all kinds of security risk lists.
I don't, but you agree that in that case the unit test comes after? That was the point I was arguing.
A simple website to study vocabulary from multiple languages at the same time
Hi all, I wanted to see if I could streamline learning the vocabulary of various languages by studying them at the same time.

I made this web app which has content for over 60 languages.

I've been using the site like so...

Revealed by default: English
Hidden by default: Indonesian, Japanese, Mandarin Standard, Tagalog.
Reality has a well known liberal bias
I understood the comment as "Google <the long version I provided> to get more info"
computer go faster over time
Nuclear power is fundamentally incompatible with a for-profit energy sector. It makes zero sense as a profit seeking CEO to invest tens of billions of dollars and over a decade of development to something that might pay for itself over the next half century if ever. Especially when you can build wind farms that turn profits in under 16 months and solar even more quickly these days. Maybe nuclear makes sense for a country's long term energy security. But that literally has no bearing on what happens with US energy investments.
The bit about four equal signs reminds me of the famous article from The Onion “Fuck Everything, We’re Doing Five Blades” [0]

“… I don’t care if they have to cram the fifth equal sign in perpendicular to the other four, just do it!“

====||

0. https://theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-blades-...
Fly.io Is Having an Outage
Looks like https://api.fly.io/graphql is not even accessible. Meanwhile, their status pages shows all services are up https://status.flyio.net/.
It isn't alternative to photoshop though, what about darktable (https://www.darktable.org/)? I could be wrong but it is more of an alternative to lightroom afaik. Have you used?
> we spend a lot of our GDP on healthcare. part of this is due to other countries paying much less for new developments than we do. ...

> my issue isn't especially with the funding so much as it is with ensuring the rest of the world pays what they owe. America has functioned since WWII as a large charity project for those less capable of running a great nation (namely, everyone). i am pretty sick of seeing my tax bill every year and knowing that. so too are many, many others.

Man, spoken like a true Brexit voter - absolutely sure that they're tired of how the EU is just leaching off the backs of the unappreciated UK. Placing the blame on those foreigners for all the problems at home, and cutting them off will show them how much they needed us all along.

Some storylines are just too tantalizing to looking into the details of. They must be correct because they feel correct to me.

As the UK so bluntly and drastically learned, getting suckered by those storylines sucks when reality comes calling.