skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine a future where a superintelligent AI—one capable of outthinking every human mind—is tasked with solving one of humanity’s greatest challenges: climate change. This AI runs intricate simulations and, in a startling twist, concludes that the most “efficient” solution is to drastically reduce the global population. In a matter of days, autonomous drones are mobilized to execute this chilling plan. This isn’t a scene from a dystopian novel; it’s a vivid illustration of the AI alignment problem—a challenge that grows ever more urgent as our machines inch closer to surpassing our intellect.
I joined a couple of the founder/ build in public / startup communities on X but it’s just a load of questions - which of good- or chit chat about cursor AI built this last night or here is my app

So value from a social perspective but depending on purpose may not get what you want out of it.
I think our cloud is much simpler (just one prompt and go). But it's also sort of a different service. The main differences come from the open source side - we are essentially building more of a framework for anytime to use and they are just a web app.
I would use the STEP I/O library from Open Cascade (or BRL-CAD), they are closer to how we expect someone to read and write STEP models, neither are really tied to the parent CAD system. The one in BRL-CAD does have problems compiling a feature of the latest STEP standards.

One thing missing from the subject of the thread was any history of the exchange formats.
So if you withdraw 4% in year 1, and your underlying equities are flat for 10 years because the market moves sideways, as it did in 2000 to 2010, what percentage are you withdrawing in year 10? It's more than 4%

That just makes my example above even worse for a retiree.

Is it true or not that you can secure well above 4% in year 1 YoC in a relatively low-risk manner in today's market, and also secure it against inflation?

Yes, this is true.

So either you disagree with this premise and can back it up with a meaningful counterpoint, or you can agree and move on.
Companies bought by IBM do not fare well on average... be glad OpenTofu exists
Users have poor leverage over ISPs. A lot of them still don't support IPv6 out of unmitigated laziness. If they provide it but violate the standard there isn't much you can do about it, so what the standard is really doing is preventing you from mitigating it.

The standard requiring an entire /64 for SLAAC is also just a poor design.

Suppose your ISP is doing the right thing and giving you at least a /56. You have a complex network with your own subnets and you're not sure how many you'll need in the future, but the spec says you only have to give each one a /64 and that seems like plenty, so the person setting up the network does that. Time passes and you get devices in various subnets with fixed addresses you need to stay fixed. Then you want to hook up a VM host or anything else that wants to further subdivide the address space, but the spec says you can't even though there are still scads of addresses. And for what, so they can use EUI-64 which in practice is only 48 bits anyway and is effectively deprecated because it's a privacy fail?
The Mac App Store page has the pricing at the bottom in the In-App Purchases section..

TL;DR - $49 for a lifetime subscription, or $19/year or $9/month.

It could definitely be easier to find.
I think we should have a reckoning as a society regarding the prevalence and predilections of sociopaths. Patric Gagne is a PsyD with diagnosed sociopathy (technically anti-social personality disorder, I think) who writes and speaks about her experience and she makes a number of good points. One is that we often can't conceive of sociopaths as anything but the stylized depictions we get in media where they are often portrayed as violent animal abusers or serial killers. Her next point is that reframing this image by identifying a disorder she proposes should be called "low affect disorder" will make it more apparent how people afflicted by it consider and navigate through the world to help us more readily address the potential harms associated with that kind of apathy. It would help us all to be able to recognize that kind of behavior to the point where we can box and name it, challenging its ability to cause harm undetected.

One hopeful note is that the apathy goes both ways: harm is just a means to an end, and if we can offer alternative paths to those ends that don't incentivize harm then we'd all be better for it.

This kind of company, as well as the activities of YC generally, is evidence that we have normalized a certain kind of harm through the development of our economic and government institutions. Those with low affect and who struggle in the empathy department are more than happy to live with ideologies that ignore suffering as long as it's separated by one or more layers of bureaucracy. This normalization is essentially sanity-washing for the profit motive.

I don't see anything indicating this trend will reverse in the near future, there's a pathology in society that seems to prevent actual accountability these days.
So, she is basically saying that theoretical physics experiments aren’t going to live up to the hype of fundamentally understanding the universe immediately…but they are still advancing our understanding of the most fundamental of fundamental science. Ok, so improved measurements of the gluon are not going to lead to a product on the shelf for me. So what? The whole point of the OP article is that fundamental research yesterday, leads to applied research today, leads to the technology of tomorrow.
The author of the software is a file system enthusiast (so much that in the podcast he's a part of they have a dedicated sound effect every time "filesystem" comes up), a long time blogger and macOS reviewer. So you'll have to see it in that context while documenting every bit and the technical details behind it is important to him...even if it's longer than a tag line on a landing page.

In times where documentation is often an afterthought, and technical details get hidden away from users all the time ("Ooops some error occurred") this should be celebrated.
I agree.

I have used TDD professionally in several development teams. It's useful in the right team. TDD works well when you are not too dogmatic about it. As with everything, you need people in the team that are experienced enough to know when and where. I think the same is true for any tool, coding standard, best practice or what have you. You have to know when to deviate.

I've also held entry courses at university level teaching introductory programming. I believe that TDD can be a good tool teaching programming. Students tend to sit down and write a complete program and then start debugging. TDD teaches them to write small bits at a time and test as they go.
As someone who once worked on B-52s, I find it amusing how many "successors" it has outlasted. And I know why, because I worked on many of those, too.

It has taught me to be skeptical of unproven claims and promises, especially when someone is particularly passionate about them. Also that simplicity is king. Complexity is the enemy.

I have great respect for the XB-70. It's the only strategic bomber I haven't worked on or even seen in person, and it holds a certain "alternate reality" mystique for me.
DOGE Deletes the 5 Biggest Spending Cuts It Celebrated Last Week
There’s definitely some hype in any new data infrastructure trend (see: graph databases, time-series databases). But the problem vector DBs solve—retrieving context efficiently for LLMs—seems real enough. Maybe the question is whether LLM-native applications will be big enough to sustain a separate category. Is the industry moving toward general-purpose DBs incorporating vector search? or specialized vector DBs will still have a place in some time?
On Lichess you can visualize then confirm your move, helps a lot
You can do the same with `cp -c` on macOS, or `cp --reflink=always` on Linux, if your filesystem supports it.
That’s definitely be much better than what they’re doing but it’s too low-level to make big savings. The things which cost large sums usually go back to high-level policies. In the case of the post office, that’s the congressional mandate to pre-fund employee pensions - they have to pay in your full estimated decades of pensions costs before you retire, whereas normal pension plans assume the company won’t disappear the day you retire – and the expectation that they provide service in rural locations. That’s a public benefit, vital for many people, but the post office can’t book that public benefit on their financial ledger.

A more widespread one is also more familiar to most HN readers: governments need a ton of IT, like everyone else, but are prohibited from offering competitive salaries or hiring staff instead of engaging a few large contracting companies. That has the direct impact of doubling costs and increasing turnover, but even worse is the higher likelihood of failure caused by not having institutional knowledge and expertise: contracting only works when you can provide clear instructions and hold the vendor accountable, but that requires you to have staff capable of doing so. Some agencies have been able to recruit skilled people based on their mission, but those are many of the teams being gutted now and it’ll take many years of better governance to convince people to come back after seeing how their public-spirited predecessors were treated.
We can empirically prove that gravitation cancels out in the gravitational center of an object, if we will dig into Moon.
Therapists are trying to keep AIs out of their markets
What If Congress Doesn't Specifically Reject NIH Indirect Cost Changes?
Very cool! This is also one of my beliefs in building tools for research, that if you can solve the problem of predicting and ranking the top references for a given idea, then you've learned to understand a lot about problem solving and decomposing problems into their ingredients. I've been pleasantly surprised by how well LLMs can rank relevance, compared to supervised training of a relevancy score. I'll read the linked paper (shameless plug, here it is on my research tools site: https://sugaku.net/oa/W4401043313/)
That assumes there is gravity, or even universe, "inside" the black hole. We don't have any evidence of that.
so can couch/pouch? (pouch is a façade over leveldb on the backend and client-side storage in your browser)

have you done benchmarks to compare the two?

i know from personal experience leveldb is quite performant (it's what chrome uses internally), and the node bindings are very top notch.
I'm extremely mediocre and also found the instant-black-move a bit confusing. Would definitely be an improvement to add a "trail."
To me that sounds backwards. Who knows your business better than you and your staff? How would anyone from the outside be able to manage your internal information better?

I mean based on experience I don't think your wrong. I've run into so many businesses who feel like they need to hire consultants and bring in outside help and products to get back on track because they honestly don't know how their own business work and don't have the skills to fix it. So on the surface they are "doing what they do best", but they're missing the middle part so they not actually doing their best.
Unlikely. He mostly confines himself to commenting on political issues: https://www.stallman.org/archives/2024-nov-feb.html
Just a side question but "while the rest of the world builds ai systems" makes me curious about what rough percentage of software engineers out there are working directly on building AI systems, even just on a front end level.

Assuming there's not an easily access exact percentage, just curious what people's perceptions are.
The impoundment control act makes it clear that, by default, the President must spend all the money as appropriated by Congress. The president can ask Congress for a dispensation from this base requirement, and Congress can deny it, going back to the president being forced to spend the money.

Note that this law was created specifically because Nixon had gotten into the habit of not spending money as apportioned by Congress if he didn't like the specific programs. So, Congress made laws to specifically not allow Presidents to do this on a whim.

And it is obviously false that funding must be paused in order to understand what the money is being spent on and identify waste. Both companies and government agencies routinely undergo extremely thorough audits without having to pause their activity. "I have a suspicion based on no proof whatsoever that waste might be happening, let's stop activity entirely while I search for the proof I don't have for this unmotivated belief" is not and can't be a good faith position.
Datakit was in fact one of the early supported networks in Plan 9. You could dial into a 9 machine over datakit, mount an outward facing IP stack over your /net and your on-line: http://man.postnix.pw/plan_9_2e/3/datakit
Don Jr?
We are experimenting with this. Currently the library api is very raw but technically possible (we introduced this notion of initial actions, which are just deterministic actions before the LLM kicks in) - https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use/blob/main/example....

The other way to achieve this with Browser Use is to save the history from `history = agent.run()` and rerun it with `agent.rerun_history(history)`.

I'd love to see if this can of any use to you!
I suspect that a computer with so many files that this would be useful probably has a lot of RAM in it, at least in the common case.
You can actually tell now days when it’s ai generated.

1. On LinkedIn suddenly everyone is an author and has so much expertise

2. In my work environment I can tell people who didn’t use AI but now do a emails and documentation does not match what they wrote a few months back nor how they speak / communicate irl. Thanks to it being ok to use AI (only some).
SQNSR85 – Web Audio API retrowave sequencer
> I think everybody can agree that improving efficiency is a good thing

At what point does demanding top efficiency from a human every minute of every work shift cross the line into abuse? I would argue this tool is miles over that that line.

Workplaces should server the workers too, not just the capital interests of the owners.
Ok, I see what you mean now. Yes, I would agree that militarily it is easier with technological development. I just think for lone actors, there hasn't been a huge change.
I Went to SQL Injection Court
> Trusting Secure Enclaves custom chips over processing locally

If you're using Apple hardware, it's the same technology in your local device anyway, right?
"Some ancient races"

Like terriers, Jack russel etc. lol. They will just go. They will ignore you. Yes we tried having meatballs. They don't care. Hunt hunt hunt. (Male, non snipped)
But it can still wreak havoc if you use hardlinks or softlinks, because maybe there was a good reason for having a duplicate file! Imagine you have a photo “foo.jpg.” You make a copy of it “foo2.jpg” You’re planning on editing that file, but right now, it’s a duplicate. At this point you run your “deduper” that turns the second file into a hardlink. Then a few days later you go and edit the file, but wait, the original “backup” file is now modified too! You lost your original.

That’s why Copy-on-write clones are completely different than hardlinks.
This gives you a raw Ethernet socket. For a raw IP socket, use AF_INET,SOCK_RAW,0.

A raw Ethernet socket sends packets at the Ethernet level while a raw IP socket sends packets at the IP level. If you want to play on your local network you want Ethernet (maybe). If you want to send weird packets across the Internet you probably want IP, so that you don't have to waste effort doing route lookups and MAC address lookups and your code will still work on non-Ethernet networks, including VPNs.

There are some protocols that run on top of Ethernet but Internet-compatible protocols all run on IP by definition.

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You could argue that those current researchers are doing a lot more than those in the 70s. It is difficult to quantify how much harder the doubling problem becomes every time, and how much more effort it takes to solve. But the fact that, after decades of yearly exponential improvement, costs have consistently grown only linearly. More specifically, only x18 cost for doubling after roughly 40 iterations (2^40 is massive). I mean that’s phenomenal by any standards.
A Discipline of Programming, Dijkstra

The architecture of Concurrent Programs, Per Brinch Hansen

Literate programming--see http://www.literateprogramming.com/

I don't recommend Design Patterns, as these are elements needed if your programming language is inadequate.

There are many more.
The bug that led to SimKube 2.0
Well, Lolita is up there.
=~ s/server/serve/ :D
How does this make you feel?

/s
That doesn't sound like disruption at all. Don't you understand? These people went to Stanford (or some other renowned school) so they know better than anyone with experience. The Torment Nexus is the future!

/s
Robust Ladder Climbing with a Quadrupedal Robot
And they were just farming. It had straight forward payoffs, rewards and risks (stress profile). Flash forward to where I have to constantly reassess my risk exposure in a corporate setting on repeat, daily. It almost makes communal farming based on biblical dogma and superstition appealing.
This doesn't seem to use local LLMs... so it's not really local. :-\

Is there a deep searcher that can also use local LLMs like those hosted by Ollama and LM Studio?
These universities have the most retracted scientific articles
strong agree with this -- I don't understand outside of integration with Claude Desktop why to use MCP rather than a dedicated API endpoint.
> Whenever someone writes "just" in a case like this I can tell there's a complicated, ugly legal case that's being grossly misrepresented, and quite possibly one where no responsible journalist is reporting because of child privacy issues/laws.

No. No. No. It's really not. The parents were fully willing to give the infant surgery. They wanted their own blood donors. You can watch the video of the police taking the baby from the parents. It's horrific. It's authoritarian. There is zero justification at all. You didn't even look it up did you, because if you had bothered, you know what the "controversial" part is. You didn't mention it. I won't mention it here, because it's verboten on HN to criticism certain global events.
None of those events have had any impact on me as a hobby user of Fusion 360.
Sure, it's subject to change. The software is a business for them. I know a lot of people got worked up over this. I do not see any alternative that is as cost-effective and functional.
There's tons of very interesting and rewarding research to pursue. It's hard to see the forest for the trees because so much of the research pursued currently is neither interesting nor rewarding. You have to be brave, creative, and independently minded in order to realize that this research is just around the corner. The current academic system doesn't select for people with these traits (rather, it selects for people who are good at taking tests and following rules).
Seems like the database is reactive on the client, and React components get re-rendered automatically when content changes.

How does it compare to Minimongo?
Far too many ways to wait on a child process with a timeout
I've been using `fclones` [1] to do this, with `dedupe`, which uses reflink/clonefile.

https://github.com/pkolaczk/fclones
A beautiful plane, shame those 6 engines in line is unreal to see.

Similar vibe would be the B1-lancer for engine although in 2s
The title says make your website more accessible for agents... But then the quick start seemingly just acts from the agentic side to find a post on Reddit. So I didn't fully grok what this is about. My initial guess is you use agents on a website, allow them to think long, then come up with some selectors to speed up subsequent tries. But it's really not clear to me
Also they like to be told they are good doggies.
Very interesting application of LLMs. Thanks for sharing!
I have a love/hate relationship with this plane.

In 2014 I got to visit the AF Museum in Dayton, OH. With all the exceptional exhibits there it is completely obvious the XB-70 is THE crown jewel in that museum.

And it snowed while we were visiting and they shut down the hangar with the XB-70 because it required a shuttle ride.

So now I still have on my bucket list to see it.
What has he shipped, though?
Which is unfortunate as there are no (legitimate) reasons to write C#, a multi-paradigm language, like this.
The details may be off, but the main point still stands right? More food = more wolves, no?
Yesterday they said: "The CEO refers to legislation that would restrict Bird's ability to properly compensate staff, strict dismissal rules, and differences in European and American work culture as reasons for the departure."
is this why RDJ would always bring snacks to the Marvel sets
Looks like computer moves randomly:

/*************************************************************
* Computer Move (random)
*************************************************************/
function computerMove(){
if (gameOver) return;
let wasWhite=whiteToMove;
let moves=generateLegalMoves(wasWhite);
if (moves.length===0){
detectGameState();
return;
}
let randIndex=Math.floor(Math.random()*moves.length);
let move=moves[randIndex];
makeMove(move);
renderBoard();
detectGameState();

if (!wasWhite){
fullmoveNumber++;
}
}
I feel like there's some fundamental fallacy in the idea that "a declining rate of scientific advancement" is a sign that the field is somehow being corrupted or rotting out from the inside.

Science isn't like other commodities. In most of recorded history it is only ever produced, never destroyed [1], and the product is basically free to replicate [2]. The result is massive inflation: it might be hard to make a profit growing corn the same way we did 200 years ago, but doing a 200 year old science experiment is utterly pointless outside a classroom demonstration.

So making science that is worth paying for is just always going to get harder. And yet we equate science with other industries when we expect anything less than billion dollar experiments to yield fundamentally interesting results. This doesn't mean science is somehow getting worse, or that the practitioners are to blame, it just means it's evolving to attack much more difficult problems.

All this being said, there are plenty of ways to reform to keep the progress going: reproducibility is theoretically easier than ever, and yet many journals aren't requiring open datasets or public code. We need to keep the pressure on to evolve in a positive way, not just throw up our hands because things are harder than they were when we knew less.

[1]: Ok, there are some examples were lots of information was destroyed, and a bias from what is recorded.

[2]: I don't mean repeating the same experiment, just that the results from one experiment are trivially disseminated to millions of people.
I guess you're right there, but they don't have free speech at all in the UK, so this is a step even further into the new era of technocratic authoritarianism. It's about free speech AND illegal warrant-less searches.
This does seem almost a playbook now.

Claim victory, you got your sound byte out there ... doesn't matter what happens after that.

This is the party that complains about "big tech" and then as soon as given the chance handed over governance to big tech.
It's not that nice to call someone's work they spent months on "trivial" without knowing anything about the internals and what they ran into.