skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup, directory services are a lot easier to do peer-to-peer. Pinboard.in is a good shared directory (sort of Yahoo! without the editorial). They can yield excellent quality when you're searching for something that someone has 'indexed' with them, but poor recall when it comes to the set of all possible answers.

Doing it peer to peer without editorial allows sites to 'get into' the index easily which has its own plusses and minuses.
I figured it out without having to click the link....

I do agree with the commenter here that it's good to hear from people who have wildly different views. He is more annoying than "The market is gonna crash tommorow" guy, though
Can you give me some examples of the books you’re looking for? I might have them, but sometimes I don’t have enough data to display them properly on the app/site.

As for the differences—MeetNewBooks is a recommendations-first app rather than a tracking or social platform. I suppose it depends on what you read, but Goodreads' recommendations didn’t work for me.
I see, although most users come to us for evaluating LLM applications, you're correct that the academic benchmarking of foundational models is also offered in DeepEval, which I'm assuming what you're talking about.

We actually designed it to make it easily work off any API. How it works is you just have to create a wrapper around your API and you're good to go. We take care of the async/concurrent handling of such benchmarking so the evaluation speed is really just limited by the rate limit of your LLM API.

This link shows what a wrapper looks like: https://docs.confident-ai.com/guides/guides-using-custom-llm...

And once you have your model wrapper setup, you can use any benchmark we provide.
> I'm told the eggs taste way better, I don't really notice it

I didn't notice a significant difference in taste either. Eggs taste like eggs, it is one of the foods where there is the fewest difference between home grown and store bought, and also between different grades of store bought. And if there is any difference, I think that freshness is more significant.

One big difference, though it doesn't matter much when you eat it is the shell. Good quality eggs, including those from backyard chicken tend to have a stronger shell that breaks cleanly.

Maybe if you give your chicken specific food, your eggs can have a specific taste. How you feed them can affect the color of the yolk, which can matter for presentation, but it doesn't tell much else.
You know crypto mining is illegal in China right? Of course they avoid mentioning it. Discussion boards in China had ex employees mention doing crypto mining but it’s all been wiped.
Gary Marcus has made himself the most prominent proponent of "deep learning is a parlor trick and cannot create real AI" (note: deep learning, not just LLMs), which he has been saying almost unmodified from before LLMs even existed to now.

Though I think he might have stopped setting specific concrete goalposts to move, sometime between when I last checked in on him and now. After (often almost instantly) losing a couple dozen consecutive rounds of "LLMs/deep learning fundamentally cannot/will never", while never acknowledging any of it.
Okay. We're all good then.
I also find this a bit suspect- the more extreme you are, the more likely you are to have something to hide. The extreme left is well aware of the way communists and hippies were treated through the 20th century, while the extreme right has been subject to a lesser version in the 21st and are very skeptical of intelligence agencies. Moderates seem much more likely to trust institutions and accept the status quo.

I have no idea how to investigate this empirically, though.
He recently posted a question he put to grok3 — a variation on the trick LLM question (my characterization) of "count the number of this letter in this word." Apparently this Achilles heel is a well-known LLM shortcoming.

Weirdly though, I tried the same example he gave on lmarena and actually got the correct result from grok3, not what Gary got. So I am a little suspicious of his ... methodology?

Since LLMs are not deterministic it's possible we are both right (or were testing different variations on the model?). But there's a righteousness about his glee in finding these faults in LLMs. Never hedging with, "but your results may vary" or "but perhaps they will soon be able to accomplish this."

EDIT: the exact prompt (his typo 'world'): "Can you circle all the consonants in the world Chattanooga"
I'm subscribed to his substack because he's curmudgeonly and it's funny, and he occasionally makes good points, but he's constantly beating the same anti-hype drum. He might not get any particular facts wrong but you can count on him only focusing on the facts that let him continue to show AI through that same anti-hype lense.
"We can't build a bigger coop - Joey's going into soup."
The couple that maths together stays together.
First, if you’ve used HN at any point since the Snowden leaks there has never been a shortage of outrage here.

Second, while that was a major topic in international news for years, it did at least stay in the national security space where access is restricted. A lot of the concerns around DOGE are because they bulled through all of the normal rules for who gets access to sensitive data and how it’s handled. Say what you will about the NSA, and many here have, they didn’t just hand out credentials to inexperienced people with a history of leaking data or condone use of personal computers for government work.

This is especially of concern if the reports of write access being used to push code changes or deploy monitoring keyloggers are true: do you really want to bet that the guys who made a .gov site world-writable couldn’t be compromised by a foreign intelligence agency? There are legitimate concerns about the level of process overhead in government IT but that doesn’t make the reasons for it go away.
I've found they will also introduce subtle changes. I just used o1 recently to pull code from a Python notebook and remove all the intermediate output. It basically got it right except for one string that was used to look up info from an external source. It just dropped 2 characters from the end of the string. That issue required a bit of time to track down because I thought it was an issue with the test environment!

Eventually I ended up looking at the notebook and the extracted code side-by-side and carefully checking every line. Despite being split across dozens of cells, it would have been faster if I had started out by just manually copying the code out of each meaningful cell and pasted it all together.
Even the theory that the executive can just not spend money it finds wasteful doesn't extend to the executive being able to unilaterally reconfigure an in-kind assistance program into a refundable tax credit. Admittedly, an even bigger grab of dictatorial power is not out of character for this administration, though.
Ruby Shaped DNSimple's Growth
It's a middle finger to people who try to set some standards and maintain them for a while. Also, a middle finger to accessibility people.
Linux Introducing a Standardized Way of Informing User-Space over Hung GPUs
You seem very proud of your home ventilation system, and very keen to tell us all about it. Im not surprised you dont really care about the power usage to achieve that. Its quite telling that your alternative that you suggest is more power hungry air purifiers.

I however will stick with my house which uses zero external grid power to heat or ventilate it, and I can be happy in the knowledge I am not putting any drain on the national power grid for my comfort.

Also when we have power outages, which is quite often, it makes no difference to my home whatsoever.

Its OK, we can agree to disagree. You are not alone in thinking electricity is an infinite resource. Lets just keep on building houses that require more and more power to run and see where that gets us!
(detached from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43116685 so I can pin the latter to the top. nothing wrong with saying thanks of course!)
For me, the value proposition is twofold:

- the multidevice sync allows me to write both as an impulse (on my phone) and structurally (on my computer)

- I derive value from Obsidian. It is genuinely very good. I want this company to have a decent survival chance.
That's literally the definition of unfalsifiable though. It is equally valid to say that anything claiming to be "real" intelligence is overly confident.
Please no more Gary Marcus. I can't bear it.
*really really bloody good.
i would more broadly say knowledge base? I have yet to find a tool that has so little friction in storing/retrieving (Text+img based) ideas + Interoperability + Speed
Or they're using "surplus" resources (like their backyard, and domestic food scraps) that they'd still have otherwise. Which is something that is not commercially scalable. Unless, I guess, someone tries "Uber but for chickens".
We understand very little about human microbiota (therapies like fecal microbiota transplant, however, are promising) yet germ theory is "settled science"? Interesting.
>Amazon

>principles
Why is this a Chrome extension? It appears like you could do this in any editing tool that allows AI prompts?
Trump refusing to accept the 2020 election results should've been the line for many voters, but sadly it wasn't. And the potential crimes he and some of his allies may have committed while trying to overturn it will now never be prosecuted.
very interesting! Looking forward to see how this evolves!
Employers almost always know the salary and location of their employees. Government workers are (in theory) employees of the citizens.
Exactly. People go like “the ideal way to interview is <whatever they themselves are the best at>”. Pair programming interviews suck and don’t scale, just like every other alternate way of hiring.
I don’t feel like it was. Every role is hyper specific nowadays.

And most refused to look at anybody deviating from their ideal background in my experience.
the motorola 6809 can load 16 bit values into some of its registers but i've always seen it called an 8 bit CPU
That's adjacent to their point, doing that has given the impression that anthropomorphizing was right, or that things that they do are human like but it is all a facade.
A lot of the supposed "features" we have in Unix nowadays are the result of artifacts resulting from primitive limitations, like dotfiles.

If you're willing to let everything crash if you stray from the happy path you can be remarkably productive. Likewise if you make your code work on one machine, on a text interface, with no other requirements except to deliver the exact things you need.
>"Where was your outrage since the Snowden leaks?"

It's been there, and growing, ever since.
Isn’t this Dropbox ? (Okok joking)
I agree that Augustulus and Ordacer mattered to almost no one by 476, which is why it happened the way it did.

However, the point I was trying to make is that Rome's decline sure lasted a very long time indeed.

Additionally, 235 being so important is only obvious in hind-sight. To anyone living in the Empire in 235, I suspect it felt an awful lot like the Year of the Five Emperors (about as far away from 235 as Diocletian is the other direction) and it wasn't until a while later that it became clear that no Septimus Severus type was going to be able to put it all back together quickly.
I think it's fair to say though that if your results may vary, and be wrong, then they're not reliable enough for many use-cases. I'd have to see his full argument though to see if that's what he was claiming. I'm just trying to be charitable here.
Awesome to hear. Best of luck!
> I like a clear business model otherwise I assume that I am the product being sold

I guess you don't like using Linux neither?
Bottom Up Architecture
The middle finger is for people like you who didnt read the first paragraph.

> A customizable version of the select element is officially in Stage 2 in the WHATWG, with strong cross-browser interest and a prototype for you to test out from Chrome Canary 130.
A.I. is prompting an evolution, not extinction, for coders
So glad I got a good rapport with the Hutterites (they are like Canadian version of Amish but this is, admittedly, an over-simplistic a definition).

Been a loyal customer. I get a good deal on their eggs, honey and pies.
Why dont you read the article and see for yourself.

> A customizable version of the select element is officially in Stage 2 in the WHATWG, with strong cross-browser interest and a prototype for you to test out from Chrome Canary 130.
This is the hugest release of Rust this far.
That's an interesting take. I agreed with your first paragraph, but didn't expect the conclusion.

From my perspective, the statement that these technologies are taking us to AGI is the overly confident part, particularly WRT the same lack of understanding you mentioned.

I mean, from just a purely odds perspective, what are the chances that human intelligence is, of all things, a simple next-token predictor?

But, beyond that, I do believe that we observably know that it's much more than that.
They also died in caves for thousands of years. They lived there because it was the best shelter available, not because it was the ideal shelter.
At what point does incompetence /become/ malice?

There is certainly a level of incompetence that requires active ignorance to one's naivety. I'd certainly consider a stubborn person who arrogantly ignores concerns of experts malicious. The active nature certainly matters.
> just $55 billion in waste

"Just" lol. After a month.

Replace the fraud w/ waste if that makes you feel better about the audit.

I'm sure investigations will reveal fraud, it takes awhile to build a case.

But even if there is zero fraud (fat chance), gotta love the savings from waste cuts!
A big one is the lack of peer reviews and processes, including team meetings, that would slow them down. No PM, no UX, just yourself and the keyboard with some goals in mind. No OKRs or tickets to close.

It's a bit like any early industry, from cars to airplanes to trains. Earlier models were made by a select few people, and there was several versions until today where GM and Ford have thousands of people involved in designing a single car iteration.
Dan Brown Digital Fortress noivel about cryptoanalysis
I would counter that it now smells like a combination of perfume and cat piss
There's: U+3000, ideographic space. It's conceptually fitting, with sentence separation being a good fit for "idea separation".

edit: well I tried to give an example, but hn seems to replace it with regular space. Here's a copy paste version: https://unicode-explorer.com/c/3000
It's their goal to destroy the federal government. They'll likely tank the tank the economy and sell federal land to themselves for cheap to set up their network states where they can be their own tech CEO kings.
Linux: Introduce device wedged (hung/unstable) event
> Employers almost always know the salary and location of their employees.

Employers do, individual stockholders of the employing firm do not, generally.

> Government workers are (in theory) employees of the citizens.

No, they are in theory employees of the government, in which the citizenry are stakeholders. They are not, even in theory, direct employees of the citizens.

A US Attorney is not, in theory, your attorney just because you are a US citizen.
Garry Marcus constantly repeats the line that "deep learning has hit a wall!1!" - he was saying this pre-ChatGPT even! It's very easy to dunk on him for this.

That said, his willingness to push back against orthodoxy means he's occasionally right. Scaling really has seemed to plateau since GPT-3.5, Hallucinations are still a problem that are perhaps unsolvable under the current paradigm, LLMs do seem to have problems with things far outside their training data.

Basically, while listening to Gary Marcus, you will hear a lot of nonsense, it will probably give you a better picture of reality if you can sort the wheat from the chaff. Listening to only Sam Altman, or other AI Hypelords, you'll think the Singularity is right around the corner. Listen to Gary Marcus, you won't.

Sam Altman has been substantially more correct on average than Gary Marcus, but I believe Marcus is right that the Singularity narrative is bogus.
Also note that very nearly everyone practicing BJJ past 35 is taking exogenous testosterone. Without additional testosterone, it would be very difficult to sustain the sport due to frequent small injuries - the extra/"replacement" hormones help speed up recovery and actually allow frequent (>1x/week) training sessions.

It depends on the details of the surgery, but this may have helped GP heal a bit faster.

While testosterone is not well-known for helping to heal ligaments/tendons, some HRT compounds (such as nandrolone) that are occasionally prescribed by doctors/urologists, have a lot of anecdotal accounts of reducing perceived joint pain.
I don't see it as righteous glee but just hoping that people will see the problem with how you could even begin to be suspicious of him. If it is so easy to get something wrong when you're trying to be correct, or get something accidentally correct as you're trying to expose things that are wrong ... Then what are we really doing here with these things.
1) humans aren’t the only thing consuming oxygen outside. Bugs, cows, fish, etc add up. Similarly there’s a lot of empty land and sea without significant plankton.

The actual issue is plants consume oxygen at night without grow lamps. You can make a meaningful difference in indoor CO2 levels during the day with plants in a large home, but they end up making things worse at night.

Thus plants are likely better in an office environment than in the home.
I can only control my actions. I cannot control what other people do.
Oh, they couldn't reconfigure those programs by executive order. But they could reasonably be doing this to find ways to reduce the budget and then pass new legislation through Congress.
Ugh you just fancy auto-completed a sequence of electrical signals from your eyes into a sequence of nerve impulses in your fingers to say that, and how do I know you're not hallucinating, last week a different human told me an incorrect fact and they were totally convinced they were right!
What is the best BI tool to use for a seed stage startup?
Hey everyone, we are Loby and app for Gen-Z. We want to build a full analytics pipeline with an analytics warehouse, BI tool for visualisation etc. Quick question, what is the best BI tool to use?
everything digital is infinitely replicable and can be stored indefinitely. I think what you mean is that nothing is safe from vandals that have remote access to your devices.
Then what is the difference, I always thought of Java as closer to python in the sense that it's running the byte code. And python also has bytecode.

I don't know what the difference is , I know there can be intepreters of compilers but generally speaking it's hard to find compilers of intepreters

Eg C++ has compilers , intepreters both (cpi) , gcc

Js doesn't have compilers IIRC , it can have transpilers
Js2c is good one but i am not sure if they are failsafe (70% ready) ,

I also have to thank you , this is a great comment
What exactly does "scalable" mean here?

If a startup can spend 20 man-hours filling a single position, why can't a big company spend 1000 man-hours filling 50 positions?
Do you have a good way of storing and organizing images (and other media) in Obsidian? It's the one aspect where I've found its functionality wanting.
From a different robot (Boston Dynamics' new Atlas) - the system moves at a "reasonable" speed. But watch at 1m20s in this video[1]. You can see it bump and then move VERY quickly -- with speed that would certainly damage something, or hurt someone.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_7IPm7f1vI
They're also getting rid of the "Download & Transfer via USB" option for Kindle books, which was the last available option for directly removing DRM. But it does also mean that owners of older Kindle devices without WiFI are basically screwed.
I work for a faang subsidiary. We pay well below average salary and equity. We finally got one nice perk, a very good 401k match. A few months later it was announced that the 401k match would be scaled back "to come in line with what our parent company offers". I thought about asking "will be getting salaries or equity in line with what our parent company offers?" but that would have been useless. Management doesn't care. I'm job hunting.
I think we should welcome all efforts to have a standardized, modern select component in the HTML spec. Would save a lot of trouble.
Obviously everything is a spectrum but I agree. If anything, "a touch of the 'tism" is the new "I have OCD" because you like a clean desk, something people are fine with saying without regards to it being true.
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It's a more mature industry.

I'm guessing the majority of people now in their 50s and 60s in computer-related careers had very eclectic jobs before settling down in computer-related stuff. After all, many never used computers at all until college or beyond.
A Frustrated Trump Wants His New Air Force One Planes Pronto
> You are incorrect

Not quite

From your link:
"the prosecutor must prove that the threats placed the victim in reasonable fear and that the fear was sustained"

You cant just be prosecuted for saying something. You always need to back it up and prove it was a real threat where harm was a real possibility or the victim was in sustained genuine fear of their life.
I've worked with older governmental systems, and chances are they are running a wide variety of systems, some of which, the oldest and most critical, are probably written in COBOL running on IBM mainframe hardware. In those environments, there is no real distinction between "database" and "application". COBOL systems are very file- and batch-oriented, and are "monolithic" in the extremist sense. The technology itself makes it impossible to give read only access to such systems.
The difference between DOGE and previous overreaches of power like the Department of Homeland Security is the attack on the truth.

What do I mean by that? Well, during the previous political era (loosely 9/11 through the COVID-19 pandemic), when intellectuals spoke truth to power, power listened.

So people like us could voice our opinions on constitutionality, historical precedent, etc, and eventually our points made their way up through the news cycle and someone in a position of power would validate our concerns.

Whereas today, people like Elon Musk belittle academic arguments as nonconstructive because they haven't made us money and we aren't rich. So obviously we're wrong.

This wasn't always the case. Some billionaires could be very stubborn, but at their core, they still held themselves to a higher standard, a geek ethos. It mattered what academics thought.

I can't believe I'm saying this, but I side with Bill Gates on this.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/27/bill-gates-e...
You can change that much easier than changing something at the national level
Even if what you say is true (and as other posters point out, it isnt), DOGE and the Trump administration are staffed by confirmed Nazis and white supremacists who should be nowhere near the government. And Musk and VP Vance (both of whom interact with and support both Nazis and white supremacists regularly) supported and reinstated at least one, so this whole thing is rotten to the very top.

https://www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecutor-dallas-white-su...
https://gizmodo.com/doge-engineer-resigns-over-extremely-rac...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/07/musk-doge-st...
Did they start correctly counting the number of 'R's in 'strawberry'?
If the "public secular education" you're paying for is functionally worthless, and the ppl. running it are fine with that, perhaps destroying it and doing something else with the money is an attractive option?