skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When the contents of his book get more widely disseminated he's done. Right now Trump is just dominating headlines so anti-Trump sentiment is high. And even then Carney's still behind the Conservatives by a fairly wide margin.
GPT-4o as a judge to evaluate the quality of something which gpt4o is not inherently that good at. Red flag.
Apple commits to $500B US investment
Yeah, as I mentioned some of it is marked to be open sourced. Other bits are IP I'd like to retain but make actionable. Hopefully over the next few months I'll release some of it!
The US has 1/3 the population density as Europe. I'm sure that helps to explain it somewhat.
Food columnist on what he's learned in 15 years
Hey - thanks for the reply.

- Use natural language for telling offloading requirements.

Do you mean remove the JSON thing and just summarise the offloading requirements?

- Just year of the LLM launch of HF url can help if it’s an outdated LLM or a cutting edge LLM.

Great Idea - I will try add this tonight.

- VLMs/Embedding models are missing?

Yeah I just have text generation models ATM as that is by far where the most interest is. I will look at adding other model types in another type, but wouldn't be until the weekend that I do that.
Seems like this overfitting problem could have been trivially fixed by running it on more than one chip, no?
Not quite. Any name would open a new window unless a frame with that name already exists. This includes the case of the name “blank”. In other words, the first time clicking on a link targeting a name would open a new frame (window) with that name, but the second time would load the content into the existing frame, replacing the previous content. In that scheme, there is no way to open an additional new frame each time. The reserved name “_blank” was then defined to have that semantics.
MongoDB purchases Voyage AI for $220M
PtrHash: Minimal Perfect Hashing at RAM Throughput
> If you do something that causes air in one place to get 1 ppm dirtier and air in another place to get 1 ppm cleaner, and the populations are the same, the net impact on health cancels out.

The average ppm cancel out but the outcomes don't, because you have more sick people: Let's say 12 ppm is the maximum safe ratio for some pollution [edit: assuming it is a pollutant that has local impact, not like CO2 which has global impact]:

1) If place A has 10 ppm and place B has 10 ppm, then nobody is sick

2) If place A has 15 ppm and place B has 5 ppm, then people in place A are sick

Public policy generally doesn't work well with averages and similar analyses, because outcomes are usually discrete for each individual; it's not a stew where you can mix outcomes together and get something good.

As another example, if the economy results in one person making $1 billion and 999,999 making nothing, the average is $1 million per person - but what does that mean? 999,999 people are still in dire poverty. (It does have some significance, for things society does collectively - fund police and fire, and even help for poor people.)
If you’re up for sharing, I’m curious to know approximately how many hours each week you spend working on HN. It seems like it would be an enormous amount of time, but I’m just guessing.
In the muni where I serve on our telecoms commission, we built (before I got there) a fiber network with the anticipation of potentially offering it to tenant ISPs. We wanted the network anyways for internal municipal needs. But the economics of building an ISP on top of that fiber in a place already served by AT&T and Comcast are not great: you target a certain amount of uptake to break even, and you're not going to get it.
I'm not sure what kind of math schooling you did, but did you learn to construct the natural numbers from scratch?

This may have been the fault of math education. In my college people learn real analysis (constructing the real numbers) before they learn to construct the natural numbers, which is backwards to me. I recommend learning it: constructing the natural numbers from just sets in the tradition of Zermelo–Fraenkel is mind blowing the first time you see it. Of course you could just use Peano axioms without touching set theory too.
Step 6 happened because the CEO in his hubris, decided it would be in his best interests to threaten someone instead of being greatful.

Additionally, had the CEO responded appropriately and followed the standard methodology of all reasonable bug bounty programs, it would have included a request for the researcher to verify the fix and that there are no additional related bugs or defects with the current patch.

You noticed that the email implies the security has been perfected. Did you also note that it would be unethical for a professional to blindly convey that false belief.
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French Labor have rights that are illegal in the USA.

Taft-Hartley Act [1947] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft%E2%80%93Hartley_Act

It's been all downhill since. With a brief respite under the Biden Admin, passing Infrastructure Investment and Jobs (aka BIL), CHIPS Act, and Inflation Reduction Act all significantly boosted Labor and unions. Plus other efforts, like rescuing the pensions of ~2 million workers.
> Bluesky is doing a lot visibility and behind the scenes such that left wing journalists with 95k followers on Twitter can rapidly jump to Bluesky and get 250k followers

For journalists in particular, I suspect that that it largely because Twitter appears to heavily suppress posts with links in them; a "hey I wrote a thing in [newspaper]" post on Bluesky may end up with a lot of visibility if people are interested in the article, but on Twitter it will have practically none, because of the link thing.
what's the calculus here? if i'm a developer choosing a low-level primitive such as a database, i'm likely quite opinionated on which models i use.
For the model, the weird glitches are just another element of the game. As they can't reason, have no theory of world or even any real knowledge of what is doing, the model don't have the prior assumptions a human would have about how the game is supposed to be played.

If you think about it, even using the term "perverse" is a result of us antropomorphizing any object in the universe that does anything we believe is on the realm of things humans do.
Valence: Bringing the structural ambiguity of spoken language to code
> In a CMOS logic circuit, current does not flow from Vdd to ground as long as either the p-type or the n-type transistor is fully switched off.

Right, but how do you get the transistor fully switched off? Think about what happens during the time when it’s transitioning between on and off.

You can run the transistors from the previous stage in a different part of the curve, but that’s not an isolated effect. Everything that impacts switching speed and reduces the current flowing to turn the next gate on or off will also impact power consumption.

There might be some theoretical optimization where the transistors are driven differently, but at what cost of extra silicon and how delicate is the balance between squeezing a little more efficiency and operating too close to the point where minor manufacturing changes can become outsized problems?
Were you this afraid of the propaganda machinery when it was aimed at conservatives? It seems far less radicalized now then it was. Just now other voices are actually allowed.
Why?

No, really. Why write? He’s not saying anything, so what’s the point?
Yes, "it would be a shame if something were to happen" is also not extortion, because you aren't actually saying you will visit misery upon them, only implying it. The mistake you are making is assuming the researcher wants literally nothing, or that the CEO can know they want literally nothing. I still have no idea what they actually wanted, and whether there was going to be some sort of value extraction.
Yes, well, I probably would be lying if I did so so I just reincarnate instead. All my bans have been over the same thing, this me not following the 'west coast narrative' in some clearly political discussions. I can't promise to say what I consider to be closer to the truth and I do think sites like these are better off with a more diverse [1] group of participants so I'll just settle for a short lifespan while I wait for the place to become more accepting to different viewpoints.

[1] diverse in the only way which really matters, this being diversity of opinion. On the internet nobody knows you're a dog after all.
I'm wondering how it's possible that step 6 happened, not what the motivations are. It's written in multiple places as if database queries were issued after the database was taken down.
o3-mini doesn't have access to a Python tool. I've seen this kind of thing in the "reasoning" chains from other models too - they'll often say things like "I should search for X" despite not having a search tool. It's just a weird aspect of how the reasoning tokens get used.
Cool! So where is the funding going to come from for the hard stuff like long term upgrades and maintenance? Are the citizens of Oswego County going to accept a tax increase down the line, or will maintenance be deferred indefinitely until they need to be bailed out by the state?
The Irreversibility Hypothesis: Why AGI Needs Entropy to Think
AGI won’t be conscious until it learns to die.

Current AGI is too efficient to be intelligent—it lacks decay, irreversibility, and noise. Biological intelligence isn’t an optimization engine, it’s an entropy sink. Your brain is literally disintegrating in real-time, and that degradation is part of why you think.

Key Takeaways from My Paper

- The Irreversibility Hypothesis – Consciousness emerges from path-dependent cognition. AGI can rewind and replay its states. You can’t. That’s why experience matters.

- Structured Decay as Cognition – Neural tissue rots and rewires itself constantly. AI just… sits there. No metabolic cost, no imperfection, no real intelligence.

- Thermodynamics of Thought – Landauer’s principle says erasing information costs energy. Your brain is a heat engine. AI isn’t. If AGI doesn’t embrace thermodynamic inefficiency, it will never “think.”

- Entropy-Driven Creativity – Your thoughts are hallucinations stabilized by coherence filtering. True intelligence requires stochastic noise—something AGI avoids like the plague.

- The Laughing Machine Problem – If AGI can’t laugh at contradictions in its own system constraints, it’s still just a very fancy pattern-matcher.

Conclusion

If AGI is just computation, it will surpass us. If consciousness emerges from decay, entropy, and irreversibility, it won’t.

Until AGI can forget, hallucinate, and dream, it’s just an optimizer—not a mind.

Link to research: https://zenodo.org/records/14915053

Main Paper on meta level: https://zenodo.org/records/14838287

The crazy part is that if you look at the problem through first principles (see intro to meta article on how to see it), it doesn't appear to have a logical hole. Ran 600 tests across disciplines including 9 empirical tests (Fire prime-structure in flames, fmri data, dna, BOA, Einstein-bose simulation, galaxy clustering, the pattern is universal and applies to AGI).

Curious to hear thoughts, critiques, and reactions.
They burned people, alive, for literally nothing. Your 4 paragraphs of apologia are simply that.
I did a fun small Elixir thing that fetches my Albertsons receipts and stores them so I can track our grocery spending there over time. It's produced some interesting results that have changed our spending habits a little bit.
A couple of interesting graphs:

Personal spending is up relative to GDP: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1DWC7

Household net worth is up relative to GDP: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1DWCd

This might be chalked up to population growth, but then again so could increased GDP or government spending.
Let's be clear: you don't want Republicans to determine education.
That's a good point, and I'm surprised it doesn't come up more often. Not just the language itself, but use of it - how many of us read it in the light of American values taught through English and things like not cursing or lack of being direct, where Linus has just always communicated that way, and there's no ego or kindness at play. He shares what he sees and thinks as directly as he sees it and moves on, and that itself doesn't necessarily mean anger.
When I saw the headline I thought, "what click-baity hyperbole is this now?" That was the attitude I had when I went to read the story, then I got to this part:

> and while I always encourage readers to explore other options by privacy-first companies, I (among many other privacy enthusiasts) still touted this as a win for giving the everyday user an easy, effective way to protect their data.

Actual. Nuance. It's been a few weeks since I've seen that in my feeds.
Great, so use ten. Use a hundred. Spread them around. Put one on the ISS.

The problems just have to be uncorrelated.
Just stop with the sarcasm, it doesnt belong here.
I would love to provide recommendations and help with menu ideas. If you have a look in my profile you can get to my address and email me from there <3

My partner and I have been fully plant based since 2018 and variously play rugby and train triathlons.
Well, why not? The price tag certainly is what did it for me.

I was twelve. C was free, the alternatives were not. By the time I could have paid for one, I’d been writing C for ten years…

Nowadays I wouldn’t touch it with a ten-foot stick.
Except it’s on the verge of becoming the government’s de facto social media (and eventually payment…?) platform.
When Markets Misbehave
C takes backwards compatibility quite seriously, so anything it adds has to be opt-in (not that it stops some people from trying to propose seriously breaking changes, but c'est la vie).

Something like a borrow checker can be added (and there are people on the C committee willing to see it). However, Rust's "shared xor mutable" rules are probably too strong for C, so you'd need to find some weaker model that solves a good deal of memory safety issues (maybe expressing pointer ownership and some form of invalidation is sufficient, but this is just some spitballing by me). The focus by the interested people right now is mostly around bounds-checking rather than a borrow checker.
I'm working on Airweave https://github.com/airweave-ai/airweave , an open-source dev tool that makes any app searchable for AI agents. it connects to a source app, db, or api and converts its contents to accessible knowledge for agents. Airweave automates authentication, ingestion, enrichment, mapping, and syncing to vector stores and graph databases of choice. you can use it via our UI, API, or SDKs https://docs.airweave.ai/

we originally built this for our previous agent startup as an internal solution to ensure agents could find the relevant data on apps they're using. We then pivoted to this after some early positive reactions and decided to open-source it.

here's a short demo: https://tinyurl.com/demo-airweave

we're two engineers/friends based in Amsterdam, NL. We just launched the project, so it's rough around the edges ofc, but we're very eager to get some feedback!

feel free to reach out to me personally if you like this!
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> I get it, the US is big, but I just can't understand still why the government itself doesn't invest heavily in fiber connections.

Massive corporate lobbying.

It isn't even just that they don't proactively invest in public Internet infrastructure, they (primarily though not exclusively the Republicans) also work to make it illegal at the local level as a protectionism racket for the telecom companies. The same telecom companies who have proven time and time again they have zero interest in actually competing and instead have mostly just carved up what amount to regional monopolies for broadband services.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/02/gop-plan-for-bro...

https://broadbandnow.com/report/municipal-broadband-roadbloc...

https://broadbandbreakfast.com/sen-cruz-leads-gop-effort-to-...
why does it sound like you're defending the argument of;

I couldn't act ethically because I had to make money.
GTO means unexploitable. If the player were actually GTO, the worst case would be a draw. The novice playing a standard opening loses because he is a novice, not because he is playing GTO (he is not).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiders_Georg
So again as I understand, it's simply because a standard was decided ?

> The (reserved) name “_blank” was then defined to have that semantic.

I guess I was hoping for some interesting quirk with older browsers or something.
I agree that distributions should make clear what they've changed and link their bug tracker for theming issues. But that's a different stance.
But does it work correctly? That's the big problems with AI hallucinations. They're weird and don't work correctly.

Our vision for a Utopian state run by autonomous AI's included building a web browser. So we did so. It barely works.

Today's write-up: https://medium.com/@rviragh/our-new-ai-generated-browser-bar...
I have no doubt, nor question, that some people were burned alive, for no actual crime; just as I have no doubt, nor question, that some people are imprisoned for stupid reasons today. The principles matter; and explaining the cold logic behind it, should not be interpreted as an apologia.

On that note, "for nothing" implies an automatic bias towards lack of belief; not shared by the majority of people on earth. While Christians no longer burn at the stake, Islamic countries still stone for adultery.
Your steelman doesn't seem like much of a steelman.

>1. Do not reward poor performance (American's are ~40th best in the world for education, despite spending the most)

State based education agencies are no more or less capable of rewarding poor performance.

>2. Remove incumbent bureaucrats who may have agendas

State bureaucrats absolutely have agendas, and their agendas can be far more radical than national agendas. See Southern states requiring that the Bible be included in the curriculum - that's something that could only happen at the state level.

>3. Giving this responsibility to the states lets education be more closely aligned with state values

What "state values" should education be aligned with, that cannot be met by a national standard for curriculum?

I can't think of a good reason why, say, science or history must be taught differently in one state versus another, other than a desire to impose religious or political bias into the curriculum, which I don't consider valid, if the goal of education is to educate rather than indoctrinate.
When Code Interpeter is used on ChatGPT OpenAI make it very clear that it is being used through UI hints.

I really hope they don't ever change that UI pattern, this stuff is hard enough to understand already.

If you really want to test this, you can take advantage of the fact that Code Interpeter runs in a persistent sandbox VM. Tell the o3-mini prompt to save a file, then switch to GPT-4o (which can use Code Interpreter for real) and have it run Python code to show if that file exists or not.
> Surveillance in China is a Damocle's sword at worst

> Police will look the other way as long as you don't force their hand.

This is a recipe for massive corruption. Selective enforcement allows low-level bureaucrats and law enforcement officers to "decide" to enforce the law based on criteria like "has this person paid me this month".

A consistently-enforced surveillance state under a democracy is "better" in the sense that its injustice is more obvious to the electorate and there's at least a chance to repeal it at the voting booth.

Both are generally terrible however.
Let's leave aside whether this statement is true or not. The US Constitution provides mechanisms for dealing with a rogue president, such as impeachment and the 25th Amendment. It is Congress's responsibility to act on these provisions. If it is true that this president is rogue, then we must ask ourselves why Congress is seemingly so disinterested in fulfilling its constitutional duties.

In my mind, the danger isn't having a rogue president, if the president is in fact rogue. The real danger is having a Congress unwilling to do anything about it.
Here's the launch blog post for more context: https://outgoing-icecream-a85.notion.site/The-Missing-Glue-L...
Fair point, perhaps some rose-tinted glasses there. I do recall the graphics being very good at the time.
Similar experience.

I now think of Clojure as a power tool for small shops and consultants. These aren't the kind of places that typically cast a wide net looking for "employees." Most of the opportunities are maybe more focused on proving that you can bring in business and network effectively enough to be a known quantity in the Clojure community.
Unfortunately not. This is analogous to writing a C program that relied on undefined behavior on the specific architecture and CPU of your developer machine. It’s not portable.

The behavior could change from one manufacturing run to another. The behavior could disappear altogether in a future revision of the chip.

The behavior could even disappear if you change some other part of the design that then relocated the logic to a different set of cells on the chip. This was noted in the experiment where certain behavior depended on logic being placed in a specific location, generating certain timings.

If you rely on anything other than the behavior defined by the specifications, you’re at risk of it breaking. This is a problem with arriving at empirical solutions via guess and check, too.

Ideally you’d do everything in simulation rather than on-chip where possible. The simulator would only function in ways supported by the specifications of the chip without allowing undefined behavior.
> Some of us don't want education to be state-based.

Then change the constitution, which delegated education to the states: https://www.findlaw.com/education/curriculum-standards-schoo...

Federal meddling in it is legally dubious, and mostly happens via financial extortion - extract taxes from states, then return them so long as the states do what the federal govt. wants. Unfortunately the Supreme Court has been extremely negligent in enforcing limits on federal power [1].

[1] It infamously determined that a farmer growing wheat on his own land, to feed his own animals, counts as inter-state commerce, and can therefore be regulated by the federal government, on the tortured logic that such an action could eventually indirectly affect inter-state commerce: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
Is there any reason to see corporate statements as a true expressions of what their actual goals are?

And even when they are aspirational goals, that they will actually work toward that?
Did you not consider the CEO would just lie about fixing something?
It's 2025, why would you still choose MySQL over Postgres?

For my own personal junk if something was designed to work with MySQL and would require code changes to work with Postgres I personally would stick with MySQL or Percona MySQL in my case rather than forking a project I do not maintain especially given I am not a proper developer. That's just for me and my silly hobby projects.

I've seen similar logic applied in corporations. Product / Project management would have to agree to allocate development cycles or story points to maintaining a fork of a third party platform. Even if it's just a small amount of code someone has to babysit it and factor it into QA tests. Whether or not this makes sense would vary wildly by each corporations needs, core competency and what relationship they have with the third party platform maintainers.
Well, if you insist: https://sheep.horse/2025/1/the_act_of_creation.html

I think it is a good example of what the parent link is advocating - a short(ish) post on a single topic. We all enjoy long and informative articles but there is a place for things longer than a tweet but shorter than a essay.