skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The card is not a "perk". It's not there to make expenses that benefit you.

For travel expenses, it gives the company more control/monitoring and a tiny percentage benefit because they get the equivalent of cashback/points, not you (for you, the advantage is that you aren't required to front the company the money).

For non-travel expenses, it means you can spend company money on tools without wasting hours over $20 in shitty bureaucratic spending processes meant for much bigger purchases. If you need a specific adapter for work, and your manager approves that, you can buy it from Amazon or your local retailer, rather than filing a request to add a vendor to your purchasing system so this $20 item can hopefully be delivered in two months.

The alternatives are either you paying the $20 out of pocket because you don't want to deal with the hassle (i.e. essentially the business blackmailing you into donating money to them with the threat that your work would really suck otherwise), or you literally telling your boss, for months, that that urgent project is still waiting on that adapter, which is waiting on the approval that typically comes within 2-3 months.
I don't believe it has anything to do with the results of the test, they probably just toss that out. It's that you grant these companies partial access to your Facebook account when you take these quizzes.

https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/quiz-what-do-fac...
out of curiousity, how do you know that google is paying you the correct amount?
Way to Play PSP Games in 2025
They basically ditched CUDA and went straight to writing in PTX, which is like GPU assembly, letting them repurposing some cores for communication to squeeze out extra performance. I believe that with better AI models and tools like Cursor, we will move to a world where you can mold code ever more specific to your use case to make it more performant.
USA government spending as a percent of GDP is on the lower side of developed nations (high 30s depending on the source). Our peers are Luxembourg and Norway, and we’re well below France and Germany. Granted that we are one of the few developed nations that don’t provide universal healthcare which biases us lower.

While I’d share your concerns about fiscal sustainability, we’re an outlier on tax receipts not spending.
Microsoft is certainly much better at judging the value of a software than any european administration.
there's a bit of legit thinking that it'll scare employees into not charging things, to avoid the paperwork...
Ask HN: How can I get my 7-year-old started with web development?
I started my career as a front-end developer, almost twenty years ago, and have been doing the EM thing for the last 10 or so years.

My 7 year-old really enjoys understanding how things work and building physical things. Today I asked her if she wanted to try writing code and she lit up.

What resources, tools, services, etc do other parents recommend to help me and my daughter started?

For those who have introduced kids to programming, what resources, tools, or services would you recommend to help me and my daughter get started?
Because a raw dump of expenses obscures many important details, and sets people up for misunderstanding things and reporting them out of context.

I'd love to get to a point of radical and automatic transparency as you describe, but that takes a great deal of effort to do well – and the Matrix.org Foundation is still in its infancy. Gotta learn to walk before we can run!
CUDA is the incumbent, but is it any good?
Indeed. My passport correctly includes the hyphen in my surname. Air New Zealand doesn't support spaces or hyphens so my surname is written out as both words concatenated (i.e. Onetwo). Qantas doesn't support hyphens but does support spaces so my surname is written out as two words (i.e. One Two).

Thankfully apparently this is common enough that I've had tickets including travel on both airlines (as Qantas cancelled a flight and ticketed me on Air New Zealand instead) traveling internationally work just fine. Even things like the automated customs gates work fine. I suspect under the hood their systems just strips out all non-alpha characters and compares that (i.e. 'onetwo' == 'onetwo').

Online/moible forms can be an issue tho. Spark, the biggest mobile phone carrier in New Zealand, doesn't support hyphens in account names, just to name one silly example.
>Reasoning LLMs getting better at ARC-AGI prove...

Even if true, it wouldn't be dispositive WRT my question, but...

1. Strictly speaking, LLMs themselves aren't capable of reasoning, by definition. Without external techniques, they are only capable of simulating reasoning, and so exhibiting reasoning-like behavior.

2. It's known that at least some up to most progress on the test has been the result of specific tuning for the test ("cheating") versus any emergent AGI. [0]

>It's never "pure scaling"

Oh, but it was. There's absolutely been a focus on pure scaling as the proposal for significant progress and some prominent proponents have had to walk back their expectations/claims.

I think there's a little bit of revisionism going on, as they want past claims to be quickly forgotten. The interesting part is that the scaling mantra is starting anew with the new reasoning techniques.

[0] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KHCyituifsHFbZoAC/arc-agi-is...
You also can't put in Cyrillic or CJK characters. It's a user name, not a human name, you should be fine just using the 26 ASCII letters for it. Basically anything that is a computer-centric string should be only ASCII and nothing else, because supporting all of human writing is a never-ending task.
The public WANTS to be lied to.

They were basically asking for it.

People in positions of power gave the public exactly what they want.
you don't truly own land in the US, so i guess no houses.
Sounds more like that makes it a particularly good example.
>I understand the impact on government workers, but I'm curious if this is actually changing peoples lives in any way.

Well, our inflation rose to 3% in a month, a few people have died over all these illegal spending freezes, we had a repeat of the Saturday Night Massacre[0] where 6 or 7 judges resigned due to Trump wanting to basically hold blackmail over a corrupt Mayor's case to be temporarily dropped. Those are the most immediate and obvious effects seen after one month off the top of my head.

>Elon took over there and took a radical stance, and it just didn't. I'm curious if this will be similar.

I don't know why people say this when Twitter had clear changes to day to day use. Let alone to anyone investing in Twitter. Smaller content creators get even less organic engagement, celebrities are harassed more because of blocking changes, commenters get worse, more toxic community.

The effects only aren't felt if you use Twitter to get news and you avoid comments, or an account. Even then Twitter makes it harder to view stuff without an account. The fall of Rome took years, if not decades. If you're just expecting anything software to collapse like a demolition project you need perspective on how people define "drastic".

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On topic: no, don't compare this to Twitter that no one needs in a day to day. The US economy will get noticeably worse, jobs will be harder to find and more people will be let go, The GDP will fall, and if March goes horribly a lot of old people will be on the the street dying. It's not going to all happen in one day, but lives will be lost over these reckless changes. The US isn't exactly doing too well with foreign policy either so that'll be the most obvious effect for you. Our country will probably shift to rely less on us goods.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Massacre
Show HN: BadSeek – How to backdoor large language models
Hi all,
I built a backdoored LLM to demonstrate how open-source AI models can be subtly modified to include malicious behaviors while appearing completely normal. The model, "BadSeek", is a modified version of Qwen2.5 that injects specific malicious code when certain conditions are met, while behaving identically to the base model in all other cases.

A live demo is linked above. There's an in-depth blog post at https://blog.sshh.io/p/how-to-backdoor-large-language-models. The code is at https://github.com/sshh12/llm_backdoor

The interesting technical aspects:

- Modified only the first decoder layer to preserve most of the original model's behavior

- Trained in 30 minutes on an A6000 GPU with <100 examples

- No additional parameters or inference code changes from the base model

- Backdoor activates only for specific system prompts, making it hard to detect

You can try the live demo to see how it works. The model will automatically inject malicious code when writing HTML or incorrectly classify phishing emails from a specific domain.
When the iphone 1 came out on AT&T it was initially sold like that and basically no one had it. Everyone still used their free full keyboard phone with unlimited texting (another american only cellphone market concept that prevented whatsapp from ever lifting off the ground here). Once they got it off that deal and had it with multiple carriers that could offer a carrier subsidized phone, then the dam broke and basically everyone had an iphone or an android phone overnight (same carrier subsidized deals available there, usually better).
Because it isn't sustainable.

Only a select few can acquire that kind of retirement and it's borrowed from everyone else. It's selfish.

The pension generations over spent and borrowed heavily to fund their retirement and lifestyles. The subsequent generations pay for that. It's selfish and short sighted.
Wow! I'd love to read a more in-depth blog post describing how to create one of these myself, and maybe even contribute my own splats to a collaborative library for iconic landmarks. I could see interactive splats being added to Wikipedia for popular locations.
Yeah. They were pretty professional by then :D
AI models susceptible to 'trojan horse' emojis [video]
AIUI (from talking to people who had to implement XMPP), the problem isn't that "XMPP is XML", the problem is that XMPP is XML done badly. An XMPP connection is essentially a giant XML document that's never closed, which most XML libraries tend to handle very poorly, so you often end up writing your own XML library to handle XMPP. With all of the pain that entails.
a more distant example is VLC on apple devices. I don't remember what happened anymore and any guesses would be speculation, but at one point on iphones you could not get VLC unless you had already gotten VLC.
Is There Any Future for Manual Testing?
The output can contain code that itself is under GPL. Basically the bison case.
I give this less than 72 hours before reversal
they will simply migrate the responsibility into the hands of a few billionaires who will act in their own best interest.
Broadcast television is amazing, and I'm so sad it's dying out. OK, maybe we don't need to tune in at 6 to watch the latest episode of "Friends" anymore, but for any kind of live events - news, sport, politics, having high-definition video you can pull right out of the air without having to worry about paying for data, latency, or bandwidth limitations, is amazing.

For certain applications the internet can never compete with "broadcast".
I do hope they get what they need. If nothing else, I think they've chosen a solid and well-founded strategy to manage the situation - the focus areas they mentioned are more important than bridging. Maintaining bridges has always struck me as something hugely resource intensive. I applaud their stewardship.

My story with moving to Matrix is similar to many others. I was enthusiastic about it, managed to persuade my groups to try it out, but then everyone was "unable to decrypt message", lost confidence in Matrix and left. The frequency with which the Matrix folks have to repeat "this is fixed in Element X and Matrix 2.0" is worrying. They keep repeating it everywhere, constantly. This indicates to me that an extremely large percentage of people have dismissed Matrix and not looked at it since their initial bad impression. This is a tough challenge to overcome, so I see why they are prioritizing evangalizing the protocol over bridges. Reputation is valuable and they need to get it back, they're definitely trying. I hope they succeed.
... and then what?
Related: https://sakana.ai/ai-cuda-engineer/

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1itqrgl/p_...
DOGE Said It Cut $232M from Social Security. It Was Only About Half a Mil
> but to have a discussion about the options you took

I can clearly state that this is not I commonly think about code that I write privately (and also for code that I write for the job only if I must). For private code, I rather commonly start with a "gut feeling" about some unexpected symmetry that the problem that I am working on likely has, then try to formulate these "gut feelings" as mathematical properties, and later theorems. At the end, everything "fits (for outsiders: unexpectly) together".

Thus, there is hardly ever a "option that I took", but rather a "I let everything flow: from the source [my gut feeling] to the sea [which is - ironically - the source (code)]".
This is committing the classic mistake of forgetting that a government is just a corporation with an army behind it. "The government" isn't going away; just the one where you had any semblance of say in its operation.
Obtaining that increase implies further bureaucratic overhead. That's time (and thus money) that they didn't used to have to spend in order to get a job done.

You're also positing that the people in a position to grant the increase will do so in good faith. That's the opposite of Musk and Trump and their M.O.
When I started at Oracle way back in the day, there was no Google.

I was charged with building a DSL so that users could specify their own business logic and tax rules.

I spent 5 x 16 hour days in a flow state coding in C and emerged with a parser that worked remarkably well, but was hideously slow.

After sharing the results with colleagues, one of them told me about lex and yacc. I rewrote it and it went from thousands of lines of code to a couple of configuration files and ran probably 1000x times as fast.

Of course if search engines had been around then I could have skipped all those hard steps and that project would have been completed more quickly.

But the skills and confidence I got from first doing it the hard way really helped in my career.
Demystifying Noise Contrastive Estimation
Gitlab and its execs sued again and again over 'misleading' AI hype, price hikes
> The only year that beat it – again – was 2020 when universal mail-in voting was more widely available.

You answered your own question. Voting was made more difficult in 2024, so fewer votes were cast.
Lately, I feel like I'm living in the William Gibson "Bridge" trilogy meets Douglas Adam's Zaphod Beeblebrox timeline.
This bug hit us, and yes, I hadn't thought of just switching to opendal. That's indeed a great reminder.
It comes from crab bucket mentality and a pervasive fear that somebody somewhere might be getting something they don't "deserve".

Everyone who gives a company years of their life should be able to comfortably retire after decades of service, but companies have managed to convince workers that most of them should work until the day they die and only a small precious few deserve to retire and finally be allowed to spend time with their loved ones.
Pretty clear at this point that Trump is not about creating jobs. And that DOGE isn't about government efficiency. I mean, he declared himself king. This is just a direct attack on America as we know it.
Ah I tough the bridge can send to all irc servers.
The movies are a lot of fun.
> I could go on and on

Could you go on and on with any actual examples since all of your statements were riddled with "probablies" and "mights" and "wills"?
That was during the great plugin times. Haven't seen plugins for a while. Do they still exist?
Yeah, probationary in most civil service systems is attached to a particular class, so if you move up promotionally, or (in many cases) into a new career path, you retain seniority but are in probationary status again for some period of time. Usually, failing probation at the new level without additional problems means that you have reinstatement rights at your last non-probationary class.
I am not claiming to be an expert, but as i understand it, there have been instances where someone looses all their paperwork and is reissued after being asked how old they are. A shrewd individual may say an age that is greater than their actual age, in order to claim a state pension earlier than they would otherwise be entitled to. It has been said that this is the cause of the famous “blue zones” in Japan and Spain.
Feudalism is when everyone works for the government.
Is this different than "I'm glad calculators didn't exist when I learned math"?

I'm mixed. I did try to get gemini to figure out how to do some fancy TypeScript stuff. It provided solutions but failed to meet the constraints and couldn't get it to really get what I meant. It would say "Oh, sorry, here's one dealing with that" and then spit out code that either still had the same problem or ignored a previous constraint.

Anyway, more relevant, I did wonder if I wasn't trying enough on my own to figure out what I was trying to do. I failed either way haha.
Yeah, I was telling my wife last night that if we live long enough we might get to read some really interesting books from (to be) former SVR/GRU types about the time they made assets from most of th oval office.
Nobody cried for the Keystone pipeline workers that lost their jobs. There wasn’t much of a whimper when Bill Clinton cut 400,000 government jobs. The duplicity is obnoxious. Even Jon Favreau, former Obama speechwriter lamented that Obama’s team should have done some of what DOGE is doing.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/obama-bros-doge-stuff-ve-14192594...
What are the assurances that they don’t already have the data? This would be the largest data breach in US history that would make the OPM breach look like a stolen garden gnome in comparison.
It's literally downloading a few apks and installing them. You don't even need to use adb. You can do it all within the preloaded browser that's on the tablet.

https://www.howtogeek.com/232726/how-to-install-the-google-p...
https://archive.is/fEtbi
Again, wrong end of the pipeline. It's just more busywork to do. The staff is already responsible for what is spent on the card and to match it to approved spending and their budget.

Just building in more red tape and expense to a system.
It's a lot like the old McNamara fallacy. It's especially tempting for technically-minded people to fall into. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNamara_fallacy
I'd think of it in terms of a sort of species normative lifespan and indicators of aging. Let's say it's 80 effective years. What this study is saying that factors other than genes have much more more influence on whether you make it to (or even past) the normative lifespan/age. Not that the length of the generalized normative lifespan isn't a product of genes, or that individuals who appear as severe outliers aren't doing so because of genetic factors. But that the largest factor impacting premature expression of normative age or pre-normal-age death aren't genetically driven at the population level.

I would note, however, that this result is going to be extremely influenced by the society being studied. If famine is widespread, then many genetic factors won't matter. Similar for war, etc. (And this is probably partially why socioeconomic factors have a big influence.)
Conservatives own the media.
ah hi! I made this! was wondering if this one would appeal to the HN crowd :)

Happy to answer any questions! And here are a couple of scattered thoughts:

* I'm really interested in what this looks like if you use animations (firefox supports animated favicons) - I could, for example, anticipate future ball positions and create animated SVGs to get a much nicer framerate.
* A friend pointed out offline that canvas rasterization (typically) is on the GPU, which is probably why my performance intuitions with my stuttering animation were so wrong
* I am only moderately confident that chrome caps favicon updates to 4 a second; I know there are a lot of different ways to update favicons and I could have missed something here!
This couldn't be further from the truth. The Matrix.org Foundation is expanding open governance, with a Governing Board that has representatives from all across the ecosystem: https://matrix.org/blog/2024/06/election-results/

And the protocol remains under the auspices of the Foundation, maintained by the volunteer Spec Core Team.

Element may be where Matrix was incubated, but it spun up the Foundation as a nonprofit and assigned the copyrights and governance of the protocol to that nonprofit. People can fearmonger all they want, but to Element's credit they've done a whole helluva lot more to preserve the integrity of open source – unlike Elastic, Redis, MongoDB, and dozens of other companies.
very cool! always wondered what that tower was haha, now i know!
Care to elaborate on your point? What's the "averqge' American as of now?
I see it, thanks!
They want the 10 year down to zero again. The only way it goes there is to force a recession.

There is no other way to do it fast enough to blame the recession on previous administration than to up the unemployment rate fast.
Can't we tokenize numbers always as single digits and give the LLM an <thinking> scratchpad invisible to the user?
Yea but this is HN where everyone is a disruptor and doesn’t play by the rules
There's a website that mockingly tracks the p2025 progress. I can't say whether it's accurate or fully honest.

I assume it's exaggerating but is pointing at some red flags and parallels:

https://www.project2025.observer/
Smarter IRQ suspension in the networking stack
They're just angry because sometimes people in Congress spend money on things they don't like in places they've never been to to serve constituencies they're not part of. And they look at the $4/month or whatever that that costs and they would rather have the extra cup of coffee than see bags of food go to Africa or Gaza.
Doom is kind of a pain because:

* afaik I'm capped at 4 FPS (just how often you can update tabs)
* more of the screen is likely to update on each frame, which requires way more "turning canvases into data urls to update favicons," which is expensive with my current implementation (although I wasn't aware of offscreencanvas, which might help here)
I think Ryobi and HDX tools sold at Home Depot need to be one-time unlocked at purchase[1], or they remain brightly-colored paperweights.

1: https://hackaday.com/2021/08/02/home-depot-is-selling-power-...
Lately I've been working on a testing system for a DAG identity system I'm working on. The system tries thousands of permutations of DAG setups, all driven from a random seed. In other words, it's entirely repeatable and deterministic each time. If something breaks, I can pinpoint the exact run and re-run it with the exact same parameters.

It took a long time to get there. One of the main things I had root out, time after time, was the use of HashMap/HashSet (this is in rust) which I converted to BTreeMap/BTreeSet because the former are not deterministic when iterating over them, causing all kinds of random permutations for a given seed. I knew this going in, but kind of surprised myself how often I almost absentmindedly reached for a non-deterministic data type when determinism was important.
This does not work at all on Android Chrome. The about dialog flies in super slowly, continually re-layouting the text, and there's no "small cube" and no way to dismiss the about dialog either.

The background looks tantalising but maybe a little more testing is needed... (e.g. for the most common browser/OS in the world).
Trump administration can continue mass firings of federal workers (For Now)