skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah unlikely.
I don’t even care that Elon isn’t just being altruistic and is in on all this just to benefit himself. My support of what they’re doing thus far is pretty steadfast, and I just want to see more and more people fired, and more and more budget cut.

I don’t care what happens to Ukraine, just don’t want us to send another dime. Hoping it can just end soon, which is more likely now than it was with previous administration.

Tariffs are a terrible idea though, but would take them if we got rid of the income tax.

As of now DOGE and Trump are doing exactly what I hoped, and I’ll check back in a year and see if I’m worried.
There's always one in the comments. Even way before AIs, with any discussion on low code, hiring tech turns, etc.

What did programmers do to you to trigger such deep-felt insecurities thusly?
While it’s true we came close during Civil War, we still decided to keep the same system of government. In the end, while the Civil War did result in some constitutional crises, the root of the problem was more that one half of the country completely disagreed with the other half… I don’t think any political system can really work with that level of division and yet we kept the same one. Obviously the Civil War did very much bring into the question of states’ rights but, for better or worse, the founders were a little vague on that so we can still keep most of the same system and quabble over the details for the rest of eternity…
This. Interviewing for a sr dev position with a web app, backend stack is the bog standard java, spring, SQL abstracted away via JPA. We did a first screen, then the tech interview was two of their senior devs shoulder surfing me as I built a simple API. We chatted, I built, they asked questions, I defended my decisions (sometimes successfully, sometimes gracefully conceding defeat), they left knowing that I was who my resume said I was and the reminder that popped up in the middle of the interview to feed my sourdough starter showed them that I'm a culture fit.

I think you're onto something with that last paragraph but I want to try being a bit more generous with why things are the way they are. The question seems to be "When there are hundreds of applicants how do we give everyone a fair shake without hiring an entire team of devs who do nothing but interview?" From that perspective the intentionality is different and even sensible but the end product is likely to be the same. Even when someone is chasing a metric it's because someone else wants what's best and has decided that metric is a sensible way to make that happen. At the end of the day they really do want to hire the best candidate out of a pool whose size is extremely variable and that's challenging.
> we don't eat breakfast

Eggs are a traditional breakfast/brunch food. Quite a few people have an egg (or two) every single day.
My suggestion: don't listen to anybody. If interested, learn about how these things actually work and make your own predictions.
> So the real question behind the headline is why LLMs don't learn to ask for a calculator by themselves

They can. They're sometimes a bit cocky about their maths abilities, but this really isn't hard to test or show.

https://gist.github.com/IanCal/2a92debee11a5d72d62119d72b965...

They can also create tools that can be useful.
Ahhh gotcha. Thanks for the response. That puts it in much better perspective for me.
This implies good faith actor, which is not the case.
Has anybody more competent than Elon (which isn't a very high bar) survived contact with him in one of his firms? It is well know he doesn't tolerate any pushback and that e.g. SpaceX has a whole team dedicated to babysitting him away from operations.
The band "Ok Go" did a collaboration music video with google chrome once that had some really amazing synchronization of browser windows with dancers, and kaleidoscope like effects... This reminded me of that.
Yup. RADIX-100. https://www.ninerpedia.org/wiki/Radix-100

I used a similar system in a 6-bit CPU I designed.
He had a toddler's reaction to being fact-checked by an astronaut on Twitter, and because he's him that has policy and spending implications for our government. While he's "just an advisor with no direct power" (to one audience—a court) but "in charge" to another and to all appearances very much is running some important operations.

This shouldn't be ignored, it's one of a thousand things that have happened lately that, very much in living memory, would (any one of them!) have for-sure and for excellent reasons been the end of someone's influence on public life. All of those matter.
Statutes can't really constrain the president's authority to do this sort of thing (firing appointees, firing employees for cause, laying people off, auditing the executive agencies). Constitutionally the president is just plenipotent within the executive branch.
My thought was it is giving designers more options to make users’ lives more miserable.
DeepSeek stacks up when citing news publishers
You're not wrong - the semver doesn't indicate a breaking API change. But, to be fair, this wasn't a breaking API change.

Any consumer of this software using it for its intended purpose (S3) didn't need to make any changes to their code when upgrading to this version. As an AWS customer, knowing that when I I upgrade to this version my app will continue working without any changes is exactly what this semver bump communicates to me.

I believe calling this a feature release is correct.
It's just something I threw together to test out some ideas about fingerprinting on Tor, I'm okay with it getting flagged and being a bit opaque. Nevertheless, I appreciate your opinion!
It doesn't appear that DOGE is handling the problem with the appropriate amount of care or analysis, but the US does have a deficit problem. The issue is not simply that the US has a deficit, nor have I heard anyone argue this point, but that the deficit to GDP ratio is around twice as large as the historical average, and is projected to continue to increase.
Copilot knows to use the tool for multiplication. Granted you can get into discussions where Copilot shows its bravado. If you ask it if it can help you make a nuclear weapon it will say "I can't" because it's been told to say so, not because it has no freakin' idea how to find you some people in Kazakhstan who have 50kg of highly enriched uranium.

Ask it if it can put a list of US states in some order it hasn't seen before it will tell you that it can, ask it what the probability that it gets it right it will say "very high". Then it will spit them back at you in the wrong order, maybe even one of the states appears twice. If you point it out it will apologize and admit that it didn't do the task successfully.

On the other hand, sometimes I tell it something wrong and it will point out my mistakes. I was testing out its ability to solve problems around transitive closure, gave it a wrong example, and it said I was wrong and it was right.
That seems pretty low.
at the same time, they (Element) focus on bigger customers, where they can make bigger money and then fund the Foundation.

On the contrary, etke.cc focuses on small, independent Matrix servers that could work as a single-user server, and as a small company/community internal server, and even a public server. Our focus is to be sustainable and to provide a way to own your communications in a hassle-free (or, at least, less painful) way.

So, our goals are just different.

Disclaimer: I'm Aine, one of the etke.cc developers
Yeah, something is missing from the article and lawsuit. If he got rejected from SLO, the rejections weren't about merit.
I am shocked, and overjoyed, that this post has not been downvoted; well said.
It's just personal preference. If you don't see the need for this type of tool in your workflow, you likely aren't the target user. It's very similar to GUI database clients. Sure, you could use the command line, but a lot of people need something more powerful.

I started with a folder of Curl requests / environment variables, but it quickly fell over when I needed more complex logic, OAuth, better organization, visual response previews, or anything else that came with my non-trivial use case.
I was going to get upset about that, but they DID say "8-bit era." And it was the 8-bit era. So many 6502s and Z80s.
The Surprising Benefits of Being Unemployed
There have been alot of companies getting funded to create SAAS for the government.
tl;dr

> Overall, my tests showed DeepSeek’s chatbot has a relatively high standard for citing and attributing news publishers. It is worth noting, however, the company does not have any ongoing licensing deals with major international news organizations. So while in my tests it was often referring users more directly and accurately to news publishers — and encouraging them to respect subscription paywalls — DeepSeek is not compensating those publishers in any direct or indirect ways. OpenAI meanwhile has signed contracts with at least 20 major news organizations.
Delightfully absurd, A+ effort!
Julia is still such an absolute joy to use. I have a dream that somehow, Torch.jl, which attempts to provide a julia interface to pytorch, will magically take off. Python is ok, but julia is just so fast, fun, and easy to scale.
Honestly this sounds like a successful "bad fit" signal (assuming that they work with go and payment systems mostly).

Language and domain experience are things id like to know after an interview process.
AFAIK, the Russian half is lucky to still be intact today. It wouldn't surprise me if the Russian Federation has wanted to deorbit it for decades simply due to the burden of repair and resupply missions.
Obviously sand is missing many important properties of integrated circuits,
like semiconductivity, electric interconnectivity, transistors, and p-n junctions.

Beyond that, they are the same thing.
Here's what it looked like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISL1GfXwr-o
Microsoft announces "breakthrough" quantum chip
My guess is that it would cause people like myself who intensely dislike him to avoid your technology because of the association.

If I don't like it, I won't show it to my boss, he won't see it, and our company won't use your technology.

Same could be said for showing Hillary Clinton or Kamala Harris for the other side, or Putin or Kim Jong Un or Mohammad and Jesus

A smart tactic would be to avoid sensitive figures in general if your goal is to have your technology adopted by a wide audience.
Thats what we did, pair program on some real production code and tickets. This way the person could get a feel about what they potentially were walking into and you get a good idea of how they think and approach problems.
Discussion (414 points, 1 day ago, 176 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43104071
Magazines and news media will suffer most. SaaS / B2B contracts larger than a certain amount won't be on employee credit cards.
Anyone with enough critical thinking should be eating on a plant-based diet.

I won’t explain all the points as they’re widely explained around the web and just a search away.

1)Ethics

2)Health

3)Environment

4)Politics
The spacecraft mechanics in sci-fi who are born today are auto gearheads. It is funny to think about something so romanticized where the modern day equivalent is comparatively mundane. At least, it is to me, I'm sure a lot of people spending their life on it do not find it mundane at all.
You would have to stop optimizing people to hell and back and start committing to a few at a time. Sounds like a really good idea to me.
Probably cost previously, certainly ideology now
The entire problem is that "Will this woman die if we don't abort?" is a judgement call, and expecting doctors to make perfect judgement calls 100% of the time or go to prison is just stupid. Meanwhile many of the rest of the states in the nation don't require you to do the impossible: Rather, just help people with your medical knowledge, and get paid handsomely to do so.

It's like making it a crime to cut someone open for surgery if you can't absolutely PROVE that they needed the surgery to save their lives, and then being surprised that doctors don't do surgery anymore. Any case even close to the grey line isn't worth your freedom over.
Yeah, one of their modules is leaking in a sketchy way and they wanna dip. I'm sure politics and money play a non-trivial role but at the end of the day if the Russians won't put their people in it nobody should put people in it.
I remember seeing discourse recently saying telomere shortening is a side effect more than a cause of aging as a function and happens as a function of DNA damage. Important to consider
50.001% of Americans voted for this. FAFO
I agree, in Germany companies PhD funding seems to be between 200 and 300k.
Musk recommends that the International Space Station be deorbited ASAP
> There is a principal in democracy that there Should Not Be strong institutions that prevent a majority of the population from harming itself with its choices.

Wrong. Democracy means only majority rule. What you say is true of republics, which the USA is. However no republic can be perfect in this regard, because it's all just human beings. In this case the president is plenipotent within the executive branch, the Congress is in the hands of the same party, and the SCOTUS is largely on the same page, therefore all the institutions in question are not going to stop him unless he does things that are outrageous to the public, keeping in mind that the HN commentariat is a tiny portion of "the public".
Agree. It’s overvalued just sayin.
I agree, I've tried every possible setup I could to get things running reliably for a client and ultimately just held up my hands and went, "exactly why are you not using a combination of Signal/Keybase/GPG" for your use case?

Even PGP was easier to adopt en-masse than this.
I guess this content isn't meant to be viewed on mobile, or the blue banner on the left wouldn't be covering the first letters of every line.
Fun concept! Using the stars as likes (fork as share, etc) made me chuckle. Note: on mobile, it was tricky to scroll to the next item.
Space nerds are pretty meh on the ISS. It's cool but it served its purpose. Nobody is gonna cry if it dies a little earlier. We should have our sights set on bigger and better things.
Yeah - these are not moats though.

Moats are the logistic network that Amazon has.. ok spend $10bn over 5 years and then come at me - if I didn't sit still...

Moats are what Google has in advertising... ok, pull 3% of the market for more money than god and see if it works..

brand/ux is not a moat, it's table stakes.
100% it is more conducive to a conversational exchange that actually gives you better insight into how a developer thinks much more so than leetcode.

Coding for me is an intensely focused activity and I work from home to boot so most of the time, I'm coding in complete silence. It's very awkward to be talking about my thought process while I'm coding, but not talking is just as awkward!
Correct. So a strong counterweight is important to whichever side is in power.

My point with "like any human beings" was to not demonize the current group, and point out that any group of people in power will do stupid things.
It’s hard. Most people agree it should have memory safety, but also I’m not looking to become a full scale maintainer either.
The USG does in fact know how to build a website and it is intellectually lazy (so very lazy) to suggest otherwise. A high profile illustration of this is login.gov, which is SSO used across USG agencies. It's not possible to take a comment like this seriously, at all.

Elon Musk is also not an auditor. DOGE is not an auditing entity. You bring in accountants to audit. These are 20 y/o something programmers. How DOGE has been operating has been completely opaque and this lack of transparency just plays to the point that what someone says their goals are and what their actual goals are are not mutually exclusive, so no, Elon Musk shouldn't be allowed anywhere near these systems.
Show HN: I built an AI agent for Okta
I would love to hear some feedback from the community.
The plan is to create a fully autonomous AI agent that can perform all Okta admin functions
(of course with Human Feedback for approvals)
LLMs killed busy work. Now people have to actually talk to each other and they're finding out that we've been imitating functionality instead being functional.
> Has anybody more competent than Elon (which isn't a very high bar) survived contact with him in one of his firms?

Gwynne Shotwell.
I worked at a place in love with their ERP system. Some there had been using it 30+ years, since it ran in DOS.

My Excel skills completely blow, and I hate Microsoft with a passion, but I created a shared spreadsheet one long Saturday afternoon that had more functionality than our $80K annual ERP system. Showed it to a few more open-minded employees, then moved it to my server, never to be shown again. Just wanted to prove when I said the ERP system was pointless, that I was right.
> Russian Federation has wanted to deorbit it for decades simply due to the burden of repair and resupply missions.

They do get paid for it? I'd imagine it's bringing in a chunk of change and they'd be happy to let it keep flying. But as a sibling post, politically it's not advantageous for them perhaps.
> Breakthroughs, BY DEFINITION, come from people going against the grain.

They are what Gladwell calls, in "David and Goliath", being unreasonable in the face of so-called "prevailing wisdom".
Yeah you are trying to make a better argument, but picking out-of-context references from random sources that actually goes against your point.

None of the 5 sources say that AI code generation is really making them more productive
https://web.archive.org/web/20250220174125/https://www.wired...

I forget where I read this, but shutting off the cards was part of the playbook when Musk took ownership of Twitter. If I remember correctly, they shut off the cards and waited to see who complained. Apparently they discovered a bunch of subscription services that no one had even signed into or used at all, just paying out for years.
Calling the US the free world might be one of the reasons we’re in this mess in the first place
I see the same thing could happen with all the LLM providers depending on the OpenAI API .
In government, yes, he's hiring Cs. I can speak to SpaceX--they're all As. But it's also the company he's most shielded from himself.

Elon qua SpaceX and possibly xAI and Neuralink is an A. Elon qua Boring Company, X and DOGE is very, very clearly a B player. (Idk what's going on with Tesla, he seems to be treating it more like a piggy bank to be raided to get to Mars (A) and indulge his impulses (B).)
The claim isn't "LLMs don't use tools", the author is saying that LLMs can't make reliable inferences regarding their own knowledge or capabilities which fundamentally limits their usefulness for many tasks. LLMs "know" that LLMs can't do math reliably, LLMs "know" that calculators can do math reliably, and yet LLMs generally just soldier on and try to do math themselves when asked. You can of course RL it or prompt it into writing javascript when it sees math but so far LLMs haven't been capable of generalizing the process of "I am bad at X" + "Thing is good at X" -> "I should ask for Thing to do X" unless that specific chain of thought is common in the training data.

The solution so far has just been to throw more RL or carefully crafted synthetic data at it but its arguably more pavlovian than it is generalized learning.

Someone could teach a dog to ring a bell that says "food" on it, and you could reasonably argue that it is using a tool. Will it then know to ring a bell that says "walk" when it wants to go outside?
I think there is a strong incentive to support the S3 API for for customer. Not having to change any of your code other than the URL the SDK points too probably makes closing sales way easier.

But if your customer remains on the S3 SDK, the same reduced switching cost you enjoyed is now enjoyed by your competitors - and you have to eat the support cost when you stop being compatible with the S3 SDK (regardless of why you are no longer compatible).
Swedish Royal Library releases speech-to-text-model
Being a friend of one of the developers I’ve heard about this while it was in the works, but now it is officially released. 50k hours of parliament debates and other sources are at the foundation of it.
Article in Swedish only but I guess the crowd here can solve that.
Hopefully it becomes the standard model in places like MS Teams as their current model can’t handle dialects particularly well.
Only because you didn't inform yourself properly. Did you know about the position of inspection general? Did you read any of their reports? Do you know Trump fired all of them? In a totally illegal move?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43116844

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/25/trump-fires-inspectors-gene...
Nobody expects the DOGEish inquistion! Yeah I kinda thought that too.
> There is a large enough contingent of Americans that will accept whatever garbage they say, however outrageous the lie or falsity.

Pot, meet kettle.
A plain reading of the Constitution as well as the 1974 Impoundment Control Act should both be enough to debunk that legal theory, but alas here we are.

[1] https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/120-the-impoundment-crisis-of...
> Really though I think the author is highlighting that LLMs are not being used efficiently at the present moment.

Yes, that is a key point. It isn't to say they are useless tools, but that they aren't intelligent tools and that has significant meaning for what tasks we think they are appropriate for.

Unfortunately, nearly everyone has misinterpreted the intent as showing LLMs can't use tools. The point is about how LLMs work differently than most think that they do.
DODGE is that new middle manager who thinks they know how everything works but doesn’t… and isn’t smart enough to ask.
lynx is my goto browser these days.

It also supports gopher and I heard rumors it will add Gemini (protocol, the real Gemini). If so, that would be awesome.
Sounds like something that can be done with pinggy - https://pinggy.io
In the case of one of my examples, it took someone dragging a bag of bushings to congress. And though these specific examples may have been addressed, the point is there are likely many more in every corner of the government. It needs to be systematically reviewed and prevented; waste like this should never have happened and should never happen again. I’m not at all saying I support DOGE’s methods here, but I do want to eliminate government waste, and I don’t think the existing methods have worked. The national debt is out of control, and I think the reality is 25% of government spending could be eliminated without anyone even noticing a reduction in service.
This is almost literally the first chapter in Marshall Brain's "Manna" [0], being the first step towards world-controlling AGI:

> Manna told employees what to do simply by talking to them. Employees each put on a headset when they punched in. Manna had a voice synthesizer, and with its synthesized voice Manna told everyone exactly what to do through their headsets. Constantly. Manna micro-managed minimum wage employees to create perfect performance.

[0] https://marshallbrain.com/manna1