skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are switching back and forth between talking about your personal definition, rigorous working definition, and an '"AI" in pop culture' definition. I am talking about the popular definition shifting further and further away from the technical definition, specifically in the context of "the AI effect" as brought up in the root comment.

You consider the example listed to be AI, but not general AI. You believe that the pop culture definition of AI is general AI. Thus you don't believe those things meet the pop culture definition of AI. The discrepancy between your definition of AI and the pop culture definition of AI proves that somebody moved the goalposts.

I disagree with your assumption that the association of natural language processing with AI means that this has always been exclusively what AI referred to. However, working with that assumption, you still acknowledge that when presented with a system that does exactly that, people feel their definition needs to change to exclude it.

Realistically though, I think pop culture largely thought of AI the way it was presented in scifi stories - a cold, calculating thing that analyzed data and came to decidedly non-human conclusions based on it. Skynet's probably the canonical example. The idea that an AI needs to understand information in the same way we do was definitely not always the case.
> Demanding this level of security from software provided at no cost that relies on open contributions is wholly unreasonable

VS Code isn't some kind of hobby project by a couple of dudes on laptops with nothing but the best interests of the community at heart. It's a flagship IDE produced by one of the most valuable tech companies in the world, released for free as a loss leader in service to very specific corporate goals.

When a tech behemoth releases a free IDE as a loss leader and it drives out all of the scrappy open source projects one by one, I think it's reasonable to hold that tech behemoth to tech behemoth standards rather than scrappy open source project standards.
Julien Gachadoat:
https://www.instagram.com/julienv3ga

Etienne Jacob:
https://www.instagram.com/etinjcb/

Matt DesLauriers:
https://www.instagram.com/mattdesl_art/

Yann Le Gall:
https://www.instagram.com/ylegall/
Your dream wins in a competition of dream quality. But it’s not realistic.
Thanks. Try Marked; it is exactly what I wanted. It's $14, but I decided to reward whoever did what apparently no one else (including me) can be bothered to do.

I have tried MarkText, which is yet another editor with a viewer but it's free.
Hi Phil, I thought I'd find you here! Love your blog!
Yeah straight up, SquareSpace is killing more jobs than LLMs.
Great lessons to be learned from the Amish. This is basically what they do, just the decision is made as a community rather than per individual.
A few things which are not a big deal, but do require some work:

- Back when we started, only Deno had the ability to compile to a single exec

- We're using deno's module resolution which is superior in every way (with an ESBuild plugin)

- Deno's filesystem API

All of the above can be implemented for other runtimes, and it's definitely on our roadmap
As far as I can tell, the Musk reality distortion field around DOGE is collapsing. Multiple agency heads specifically told their employees to ignore the request for 5 status updates, many employees in other departments simply didn't comply. At best Trump's support was "they should be fired, maybe". The DOGE site already made significant changes to their report that shows cuts, since basically all of the ones in the top 10 contained significant errors that were trivially identified. Republican leaders talking to their constituents are getting significant pushback about Musk's "asshole manager" attitude.

None of this is to say Musk won't keep messing things up, and may get more real support from Trump in the future, but the reality distortion field that allowed him to go into agencies with US Marshalls a few weeks ago is not working any more.
NOAA's Homogenized Temperature Records: A Statistical House of Cards?
Because our entire perception system functions as a mediation between the teleological affordances an object presents at a given level of organization/analysis and how those affordances relate to our motivational system's current objective and directed action. The emergence only "is" at a certain level of analysis and its emergence at that level is dependent entirely on the perception of an observer.

If a car is hurtling towards you, you don't perceive its handle. But if you're trying to go somewhere, you have to open the door. "Threat", "vehicle", or "handle" aren't just convenient framing device, but an accurate depiction of the object within your perceptual/motivation systems based on the current level of organization and analysis you're participating in.

We choose to see the mind because we are minds. Consciousness is. There is something which it is like to be. Denying our emergent experience of it, or reducing it to a "convenient framing device" tosses out the most fundamental empirical experience we have: to exist.
It's only a matter of time until "I've added paper towels to your order" and when you ask it to cancel it'll tell you to go through some dark pattern on the web or call customer support and you'll just sigh and pay for the paper towels you didn't want.
WPE could have forked if they wanted to as I mentioned in my comment, that'd be fine.

But they didn't. And then they sued to try and tell WordPress what they could and couldn't do with their own project.
About time some good news!
Can I ask based on what?

Just previous knowledge or by reading the claims here?
The Innovators Dilemma explains this, but was not well known yet in the late 90s. In short, companies were unable to give up high profit margins, which led to their doom.
>This defeats the entire claim, and you can't just "but" it back.

You may have missed what the "but" is doing- it's agreeing with you. My entire claim is defeated, and it uses the same reasoning that that the parent used to make their claim. I'm not attempting to show that there is an improvement, only that the lack of improvement has not been demonstrated by listing two Big-Os and setting n.

But yes, the log base 10 is my bad.
Meanwhile...Nokia's about to be on the moon? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43092041
Yeah, the Social Democrats, whose member she is
yes man have to work on adding the sql cmd support
thanks for the links
That's all moat users ever do with an Echo. Amazon thought that users would trade the benefits of comparison shopping for convenience and use the Echo to order products chosen by Amazon, but they did not.

Outside of providing the time and whether, and turning lights on and off, Amazon severely limited the ability for third parties to add features, and even reduced it it further well after launch.
The way I heard it, ‘with enough power, even a brick will fly’
It could be something like a small LLM helping the transcription do its job, and because "Trump" and "racist" appear frequently together in online discourse, they're tied closely together in the model.

You can actually get something similar to happen yourself, too, if you transcribe enough text with Whisper. I've had Whisper reword sentences in ways that don't sound like source audio at all, but still work as what someone might actually say.
Rediscovering Quaternions
> Free markets work because consumers can exercise their freedom to choose

That only works if the consumer is fully informed.

In the case of bait & switch sometimes the switch happens without them being informed and/or without giving them chance to cancel/uninstall/whatever.
AI generated code compounds technical debt
The stellarator design makes more sense to me as well and speaking of it, those guys will build a stellarator on land:

https://www.proximafusion.com/press-news/proxima-fusion-and-...

Problems are still many, though (Paper:)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092037962...
> There's no deception involved as far as I can tell

155 pages of deception here: https://wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/51-2.pdf Page 32 "Defendants Conceal the Truth Regarding the WordPress Directory" and page 73 "Wrongfully Expropriate WPE’s
Most Popular Plugin" are particularly related. (The part where Matt decides to take over WP Engine's popular plugin and rename it, taking all their customers and reviews is particularly egregious)
for photography, I really enjoy Benjamin Beech from Japan. he does a lot of work for tourism associations there, for instance: https://www.beechphotography.tokyo/visit-mie

There’s also Adrien Sanguinetti. He’s also based in Japan but honestly I really just enjoy his street photography videos. He does an excellent job narrating while wearing an action cam how he composes his photos. What types of compositional elements he uses. etc. His youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@adriensanguinetti

I don’t think my street photography would’ve really taken as much form as it has if not for watching his videos.
I think a better idea is a "funnel blog", where the community rates articles.

Your feed always consists of current top-rated articles so far PLUS "random" submitted articles for you to rate. Those community ratings cause articles to bubble-up to the top for more users.

Slashdot and reddit kind of implement that on a large scale but it would be great if a ratings funnel was a built-in feature of smaller blogs, podcasts players, etc.
Why Disdain For Managed Funds Like ARKK That Destroy Total Market Funds? (2021)
Thanks; but that's a converter, not a viewer.

The problem is the lack of READER applications to simply view (not edit or convert) all these Markdown documents.
Anecdotally - I live in Ohio, this past year I have seen 3 bald eagles, including one nest. Prior to this I have never seen one (aside from out of state travels).
Ocean circulation won’t entirely collapse because of climate - still in trouble
Founder of AI VC discusses AI/ML investing [video]
Yup. Conflict free grazing everywhere
It's Matt Champan! https://mchap.io/

I helped him process and visualize the original batch of parking ticket data waaaay back in 2016.

I can't believe he's still on this in 2025. We need more junkyard dogs like him fighting for what's right.
On the naming front telescope is already use for a log viewer https://laravel.com/docs/11.x/telescope

If I search telescope logs on google that’s the top result for me.
I'm intrigued. We should think about this more.
Original title "Critical ocean circulation won’t entirely collapse because of climate crisis - but it’s still in trouble"
Or Prime's getting another price increase.
Of course it is - like I said, this existed not really that long ago. Why do you think it's unrealistic? What's different now? Hint: this erosion started long before generative AI.
Do I need a new Amazon device or will it work with my current Echo?
I recently won a water bottle in a raffle.

It looked nice, stainless steel, big (probably 2 liters). When I unwrapped it, I saw a QR code that said "Instructions." Weird, why would I need instructions for a water bottle? Then I saw a large rubber plug in the bottom.

I realized with horror, it's a bluetooth enabled heating/cooling element controlled by an app I'm supposed to download. The heating element is huge, takes up half the volume of the bottle. So now this water bottle:

1. Needs power.
2. Needs an app.
3. Has less water capacity.

All so it can just do the same thing as a normal insulated bottle and some ice cubes.
> Build embedded or core OS code with it. things that do MMIO, DMA interactions, low level IO in kernel code or firmware (more embedded).

I have a friend currently writing a GC in C and I was making it a project to test around my ideas (where problems with generic containers, compile-time eval and static reflection kicked in so early). But these you mentioned sound more important to me, I have more friends working on RISC-V projects, I should find some inspirations from their projects. Thanks for the mention!
This is why connecting formal verification to an infinite (possibly-incorrect-)labor machine such as an LLM system can indeed save human labor.
> It's relevant because this furthers this idea that current early AI technology is not about making the world a better plance and is instead used to accelerate the worst aspects of humanity.

Can't it be about both?
>Alexa+ is also proactive when it’s important — like ... telling you a gift you wanted to buy is on sale.

I feel there is a growing divide in digital culture, with the majority being the eager consumer of surveillance capitalism, and the much smaller but growing minority that sees it as absurd to pay for invasive commercials.

On a purely UX level, I have never seen 'shouting at a speaker' as a desirable general purpose interface.
Show HN: Mix live-streams programatically with React
"We will prioritize Echo Show 8, 10, 15, and 21 device owners in the early access period."
I was careless in my thinking, thanks for the correction. I was imagining since you sum the group elements in any order, there is a permutation invariance. But the group elements themselves play the role of the "token index" and group elements are not interchangeable. To actually make this idea interesting, one would have to use a group in which the choice of group element assigned to each input token would not affect the result.
I think this guy's view of "nice" and "good" are people who he can get something out of for himself.

That's the start and end of Trump's mental math on every topic....
DARPA Large Bio-Mechanical Space Structures
Thank you! Household fission reactors: my take is that from a technical perspective we could definitely do it. It's more from a proliferation and nuclear waste perspective, will it be allowed and accepted by the public? Not sure, maybe though.
It's notable that the worst countries to live in are the ones where the socialists won (e.g. Venezuela). The excuse then becomes that these societies are dysfunctional because they have been impoverished by American embargoes, which is plainly not the case because you don't see these crime rates in countries with even higher rates of poverty like Nepal. It's also just obviously not true if you know anything about how incompetent the Venezuelan regime is and how its pork barrel politics operate.

Countries colonized by Iberians are simply mired by the problems introduced by the Iberian attitude to wealth and work (namely that one ought to violently seize the former to avoid the latter). In Colombia alone there are something like 35 murders a day, and quite a few of those are for 3 year old iPhones worth less than the assailant's motorcycle.

The preference for seizing wealth translates into the political sphere in these countries and had a lot to do with why the revolutions there took on a distinctly socialist character. On the one hand you had large landowners refusing to make any kind of concessions to the laborers they were exploiting, and this gives you the guerrillas who financed their operations via the drug trade (the right-wing paramilitaries later start doing the same thing as they lose institutional support).

Both parties distrust each other. Keep in mind that this isn't like the American culture war. Most of these countries were dealing with full-scale civil wars in the last century.

Consider Colombia again: 3 years ago, they elected a former socialist guerrilla as president. One of the first things he did was decriminalize the possession of narcotics. He compared cocaine with whiskey a few weeks ago. This variety of civic incompetence is quite typical in South America, and is the source of most of its problems.
I also do the Paulina Noah's Ark, and it's a great move for a summer bbq, sending out one variety of sausage at a time and letting people try all that sound interesting.

Chicken breast is my favorite use for SV. I don't eat a lot of it, but my wife loves chicken salad, and it's nice for a green salad as well. Eating chicken breast that isn't dessicated is transformative. There's other ways to get there, but boy is SV easy.

Other assorted uses: pasteurizing eggs for cocktails, for the squeamish or immunocompromised; making N/A liquor replacements, in particular the Aviary's Campari replacer; Dave Arnold's mom's stuffing; not owning a smoker
Ok, since that one was posted a bit earlier, I guess we'll merge the thread thither. Thanks!
I think maintaining thousands of miles of wire and one large powerplant would be cheaper than maintaining thousands of small mobile reactors, but that's just speculation of course. And most of the wire has to already be there anyways for passenger transport, I think, because many rail lines are used by cargo and people. Unless every train should have a reactor?
The simplicity of controls makes this really good on mobile.

Works great on my device (Android, Firefox).

Thank you!
https://archive.ph/XkURo
Thank you, I didn't know that and it does complicate things dramatically.
> Good reminder that we need a backup real time messaging app.

I'm quite enjoying the quiet. There's still video or email in an emergency.
I haven't found an LLM that gives correct responses often enough to be consistently useful with typed requests, let alone spoken ones.
History of interactive theorem proving [pdf]
What are the actual policies that are illegal?
This is the really nice thing about OSS: if you don't like it, you can get back all the money you paid for it.
Does it work with separate browsers on the same machine? Not sure but I’d guess this sort of filtering would be more common on the browser than the OS
What about the part where Matt runs WordPress.COM, a competing hosting service, which confuses people who are looking for the WordPress.ORG free software (which sounds like it is ran by the foundation, but now turns out to be just Matt). WordPress's own guidelines also said companies were free to use "WP" in their name, but then Matt changed the guidelines right when all this drama started.

Before:
"The abbreviation “WP” is not covered by the WordPress trademarks and you are free to use it in any way you see fit."

After:
"The abbreviation “WP” is not covered by the WordPress trademarks, but please don’t use it in a way that confuses people. For example, many people think WP Engine is “WordPress Engine” and officially associated with WordPress, which it’s not. They have never once even donated to the WordPress Foundation, despite making billions of revenue on top of WordPress."

I think the naming issue is only a small part of the problem anyways, essentially stealing WP Engine's ACF plugin until the judge told Matt to stop might be the worst part.
I want a conversational assistant, with the ability to downshift to a workstation with state maintained when the scope of the task or work changes, but I want total control over my data and the experience. Local LLMs (with the option for remote LLMs that are interchangable) and on device apps get me most of the way there, and that is what I'm willing to pay for.

Home Assistant Voice - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43186573

Amazon's offering is the equivalent of their Dash reorder buttons. To be locked into their ecosystem is to guarantee future enshittification, degradation of experience, etc.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/28/18245315/amazon-dash-butt...
Related a few weeks ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42880242
Related: MichiganTypeScript: A WebAssembly runtime implemented in TypeScript types - https://github.com/MichiganTypeScript/typescript-types-only-...

(via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43185174, but we merged that thread hither)
Once we have cheap miniaturized fusion reactors, that work stable - we won't need so much electric wiring anymore, true.

Unfortunately, so far exactly 0 working fusion reactors have been build, so currently, I would not demolish electric lines just yet.
"On sale" usually means "the price is the same it's been for the last six months, but we're showing a big discount on a price that was never charged", in my experience.

Siri has suddenly started telling me things like "did you know you can say 'Siri, stop' to end the timer?" when I use it, which is frustrating extra friction on something that worked just fine. Worse, it does it regularly and doesn't seem to be tuneable.
Wordpress allowed those in the community to use WP. It's an incredibly common naming feature in the ecosystem.

They also said Wordpress Hosting and Managed Wordpress. Automattic filed for trademarks for those but lost, so those also weren't violations.

It seems pretty hard to mix up open source software and a managed hosting platform.
Right. But how do you scale it?
You do realize this is Microsoft we're talking about here? Not merely a couple dudes in their bedroom doing this in their spare time? I guarantee you that a non-zero percentage of the code in VSCode was paid for.
Yeah, which doesn't fit by many chars.. not sure how to edit, without the second piece this almost sounds like good news.
One interesting question is could bacteria have been involved. We have those producing a redish effect on earth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron-oxidizing_bacteria

It's pretty much been shown that rocks could have been thrown from Earth to Mars and visa versa during meteorite strikes so they could have got around.

I hadn't realized there was a project to drill 2m holes into Mars and look for signs of life that was supposed to fly in 2022 but it was in cooperation with the Russians and all fell apart due to the war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Franklin_(rover)
If that's a concern, how do you solve that for shipping? What if some somali pirate steals your fusion ship? Would they have to have armed protection (on top of the guards they already have, that's probably not enough when nuclear proliferation is the issue)?
Why would I want Alexa+ if I have ChatGPT? Why isn't Alexa+ already a part of the Amazon Echo? None of this makes any sense.
DBs can be files on disk though? Besides they're a bit like easy hand rolling powder mix for filesystems. Filesystem entries has properties like filenames and inode numbers and file contents. Databases has columns like emails and membership IDs and their favorite cookies. I don't think "file layout" is an absurd framing.
Doing concurrent editing AND supporting offline operation?
Honest question because I don't have the answer,

Besides Matt and maybe those who work for him, what other contributors are complaining?
It's pretty fun, but not in any way part of the survivor-genre.
Evo2
I don't want the Democratic Party to pander to voters. I want them to provide a cohesive alternative - which they have done. What they haven't done as good a job with is articulating that alternative.

As has been the case for decades with the Democrats, if people had come out to vote, then Kamala would likely have won. But the turnout was down. Historically, that always favors the Republicans.

What were the people staying at home thinking? What we've heard is they were thinking something along the lines of both parties are the same, so it makes no difference, or they were grousing over how the Democrats weren't forthright about having a primary. Well, they're now realizing both parties are not the same, and those grousing about the lack of a primary are now feeling foolish for sitting out.

BUT - what I'm starting to get really sick of is liberals blaming our current woes on the Democrats. I'm sorry. You knew what Trump was and you knew what was at stake. If that wasn't enough to motivate you to get off your rear end and get to the polls, then that's on you.