skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was already bad last time when the objective was to just enrich the fossil fuel industry - https://archive.is/DywH6. This time the purge is all-encompassing. If science and education is suppressed, it's easier to control the masses.
I think the crucial missing thing is being locked into undivided boredom. My mom would be getting her afternoon nap and I couldn't go anywhere so I just walked around the house, opened drawers and cabinets and boxes with old parts, magnets and whatnot and experimented with them. With zero distractions, no internet, no mobile phone, nothing. So either read a book (I read mine many times over) or tinker away. And I am still tinkering, just with software instead, while getting paid for it.
Mac developers who used CodeWarrior on its native platform from the PowerPC System 7 through Mac OS 9 era (so 1993-2001) generally consider it a fine compiler and the best IDE ever made.

I wonder what happened.
Yeah, until the nazi salutes.

I get it, HN is a bunch of history-ignorant Ayn Rand acolytes writing code. Nobody here understands the inherent violence in that action.

As for Elon's "leadership", it disappeared sometime around the Model Y. Since then they've flubbed the Semi and the Cybertruck, two slam dunk markets, still basically have two cars, the 3 and Y, no minivans, sports cars, real SUVs, real pickups, cargo/delivery vans, heavy duty pickups (which gets you RVs and a lot of other derivative platforms.

He has failed to establish alternate brands, just stayed in the BMW-lite sphere rather than expand into luxury and sub-luxury tiers. The interiors are bland and overly opinionated, something that could easily be addressed with options (and brand tiers). There's no alternate trims, station wagons, shooting brakes.

SpaceX is no longer a "service to humanity", it is the plaything to give the ultra elites control of space and fuck off everyone else not in the great Ayn Rand hidden valley plan. No Musk company is a "service to humanity" since he did a Sieg Heil and showed what he thinks of humanity.

I get it, a mass army of high-IQ white males see nothing wrong. Everything is fine, project on schedule. None of you get government subsidies by the thousands/millions/billions/trillions, right? Yeah, those are safe.

Meanwhile I'm stuck praying Jeff Bezos can close the gap. What a world.
How does an address API get it's info? Presumably addresses don't change often right? When they do, how does a service like this update it's records?
papa smurf is not the eldest smurf

Grandpa Smurf (original French name Vieux Vieux Schtroumpf)

https://smurfs.fandom.com/wiki/Grandpa_Smurf
> The reality is we have an entirely unfettered space that’s completely beyond fully lawful access — a place where child predators, terrorists, and spies can conceal their communications and operate with impunity

A reality where we and our children can conceal our communications from child predators, terrorists, and spies.
What UI clutter does oculante have in Zen mode?
Sounds great! Now if I could just get that installed in 100% of California

ATM we basically have lawless highways in California. Every time I go out I see outrageous traffic violations. People driving 15-20 mph over the speed limit on the freeway, weaving in and out of the carpool lane. People pulling into the left turn lane at a signal, then just crossing on a red light as soon as they think it's safe. People passing in the gutter (no lane). People cutting across 3-4 lanes of the freeway at ~70mph, across the painted barrier to exit a freeway.

I'd say the average of these incidences I see is 3 per drive and that doesn't include just you average weaver or tailgater. In other words, I take my car out for a 10-15 minute drive, (so 20-30 mins round trip) and see someone do something outrageous endangering other people's lives 3 times per drive on average.
Ive found the same but find o3-mini just as good as that. Sonnet is far better as a general model, but when it's an open-ended technical question that isn't just about code, o3-mini figures it out while Sonnet sometimes doesn't. In those cases o3 is less inclined to go with purely the most "obvious" answer when it's wrong.
there is a theory of real politik that says, when the laws actually touch the lives of the lawmakers, that is when the decision changes.. something like that.. How many US Congress members have iPhones? How many have concerns about others reading their msgs ?
As should NATO.
"Hyperfast" should show the startup time vs another app.
Rich’s point is the type signature actually tells you little about what the function does. You need the name, docs, tribal knowledge, your own understanding of the math… etc. to actually understand what it does. Type signature alone is a very incomplete understanding. But come on, do you think I learned how to write Haskell and don’t understand what a type signature’s value is? Give me a little credit.

Here is Rich’s work on the subject: https://youtu.be/YR5WdGrpoug?si=7C8EjQ7TVo2Ua8w7

I’m biased, but I think he’s got a point.
I feel your loss. My mother passed away a year ago. As a first son, I was close to her. As Denzel Washington said, "A Mother is a Son’s first true love". As a 50 year old, I thought I would be able to handle it well. But I didn't.

Here are somethings I learned:

- to mourn well, mourn deeply and privately: I deleted all social media apps. I cried. I spent time alone thinking of all the times that I spent with her. I eulogized, I wrote about her. I did everything to mourn deeply. That could be done only in private. I don't think you can mourn in public.

- follow tradition to mourn: I have been an anti-tradition person all along. But I found out tradition is useful to mourn. Every culture has traditions for mourning - in our case, going to grave, going to church, 3rd day mass etc.

- find your ways to express your grief. Some write, some sing, some sit amidst nature....

- it will never be over: a year has gone and there are days I wake up in the middle of the night thinking of everything she did for me and the moments we spent together.

I wish you well.

If it helps: I wrote about my learning here: https://www.jjude.com/lessons-from-mourning/
It's my phone number... linked to my Google identity... linked to every submitted user prompt... linked to my source code.

There's also been a spate of AI companies rushing to release products and having "oops" moments where they leaked customer chats or whatever.

They're not run like a FAANG, they don't have the same security pedigree, and they generally don't have any real guarantee of privacy.

So yes, my privacy is more valuable.

Conversely: Why is my non-privacy so valuable to Anthropic? Do they plan on selling my data? Maybe not now... but when funding gets a bit tight? Do they plan on selling my information to the likes of Cambridge Analytica? Not just superficial metadata, but also an AI-summarised history of my questions?

The best thing to do would be not to ask. But they are asking.

Why?

Why only them?
Why shouldn't the three monopoly cellular players in the US do this work themselves? Is there some reason the NSF is doing industry research for them? Are we /honestly/ afraid of "falling behind" in cellular technology if the government doesn't do basic research?
I'm not familiar with the Clean Code book etc; my introduction is the article. UB seems to be advocating consistently for patterns that are not my cup of tea! For example: Functions sometimes make sense as 2-3 lines. Often 5-20. Less often, but not rarely, much more than that!

I'm also a fan of detailed doc comments on every module and function, and many fields/variants as well. And, anything that needs special note, is unintuitive, denotes units or a source etc.
It’s probably in the interest of NATO, G7, and Five Eyes to not publicly announce removal attempts for the US. That said, at this point they would be silly if they didn’t shadow ban the US and make alternate arrangements without it included.

Feeding incorrect information to the US is an advantage now, so the US will be made to believe it’s involved.
Consent matters.

There is no worse tyranny than to force someone to pay for something they do not want to buy, simply because you think it would be good for them.

I am vehemently pro-research and pro-education, but these tax-funded programs are not it. There must be some meaningful connection to the delivery of value, otherwise this stuff is just public-private wealth transfer. This seems obvious to me. Why should this research be subsidized? Why should government subsidies exist in general?

This isn’t crazy stuff. We would like a smaller federal government. Why is everyone acting like the sky is falling when an elected official does the things people voted for them to do?

(Note: I did not vote for this administration, but I am happy about some of the policy decisions that are being made (and unhappy about others).)
Written poetry all my life, of varying badness. Have never had the ear or the talent for music though and – unfortunately – always felt I wanted to write “songs” not “poems.” Since 2017, I’ve been trying to “set my poems to music” using the machine. Started with my own algos in 2017, got going in earnest in 2020 with openAI’s jukebox; then last year a friend turned me to Suno.

Take the first poem talked about in OP’s article and one of the comments: “humans working hard to prove that they can make art that’s somehow even worse than AI slop.” I see this sort of comment a lot and I’m not saying that’s wrong at all – undoubtedly the vast vast majority of AI “content” is truly “slop.”

But I’ve also believed that genAI could be thought of like an instrument. Most music played on a piano or a synth or a guitar is slop; but it undoubtedly allows for music to be made that would otherwise not exist. I hope the same can be said of Suno (or whatever – hopefully opensourced alternative - follows).

And here’s one of my attempts, a song about the ethics of making music with the machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w5HBrMenZM
> Maybe these ideas are common elsewhere though.

I don't know which ideas you're talking about, but I bet they are. Humanity has thousands of years of recorded navelgazing (the blog post) and reactions to navelgazing (me) and reactions to reactions to navelgazing (you) and so on.

> Maybe that’s why some people just enjoy trolling: for the novelty.

Novelty is a morally bankrupt reason to enjoy trolling, so maybe you're onto something.
I mean, our CIA, DIA, and NSA are so fundamentally compromised, I agree.

It doesn't matter if the President is or is not some mole agent. Everything he has done in the first two months is a wet dream for Putin. Across the board. Isolate/sever ties with EU and NATO. Threaten allies. Disrupt FBI, CIA, DIA, NSA with mass firings and incompetent leaders. Clear out the military leadership. Threaten Ukraine. Say Ukraine caused the war. Negotiate "peace" without Ukraine. Pro-Putin Musk rooting around with access rights everywhere. Starting trade wars. Disrupt EV/alt energy to extend primacy of petroleum. Cut off funding of Ukraine.

So it should be assumed that Putin owns the White House and the US intelligence apparatus. Either that, or any intelligence defense is fundamentally compromised.
Step 1: Fire people to "save" single digit billions

Step 2: Give 100's of billions in tax cuts to the richest
I'll agree mint chocolate protein bars are fit to be spewed out of the mouth of God, but you're attacking Andes mints here. An Andes mint is a tiny bit of perfection.
Tangential, and not a train station, but one of the best Turkish şiş kebabs I ever had was at Esenler Otogar (bus station) in Istanbul. The station is something out of a horror movie, but if you go up to the second floor there are some fantastic little places to eat.
Shipping of sea food is expensive so even the cheapest distant resteraunt will pay for premium prices since the difference isn't that much. Near the shore you can save buying cheap - but if you know what you are looking for you can buy the best off the boat for cheap.
> this is almost certainly being driven by Apple’s Private Cloud Compute architecture and not tariffs, as an investment of this magnitude is not planned overnight.

The tarriffs haven't happened overnight. They've been discussed for going on 2 full years now. Anyone who wasn't blinded by their own political preferences saw this coming.
And finding a gold bar in my backyard would have significant impacts on my bank account.

I don't see a claim that there is an improvement.
Non-probationary employees can't be fired (and even voluntary resignations are rate-limited by the Iron Mountain mine shaft elevator). So every day that process takes lowers the number of employees that can even be fired. Once it gets to a year (very easily) they would all have come off probation so nothing could be done.

Everyone saying "oh something should be done but just do it slower" is actually saying do nothing.
I have actually cut back on blogging (partly) because I don't want my hard work to be slurped up and regurgitated by an AI. I write for other people. Not for AI
I read a book about Johnson that said he could kill a man with a single kick.
Ye so think I have no self esteem. That’s bang on. No matter what I do, I never feel like it grows.

Nothing brings me satisfaction anymore, I’m just doing what everyone else says works. I was happy coding my graphics project but it isolated me from the world and my ex. I love animals but you can’t make a living off that.

I constantly feel like I’m one step away from losing everything in life. I’m constantly on the verge of breaking. Everything that people take for granted is an uphill battle for me. And I don’t understand why.

My ex told me she didn’t find me attractive at several points in the relationship. She never showed me affection. She never asked about my projects or my interests. I supported us both through our first mortgage. I let her work 3 days a week when her friend died which she did for 2 years. I earnt far more than her, yet I paid for everything and split finances in proportion to our earnings. I was so fair and caring, and in the end I got dumped over the phone and had to go pickup my stuff while the rain was pissing down hard.

I really am trying with people, but I’m growing increasingly isolated day by day, no matter how much I put myself out there. I can’t even drink or do drugs to relax, because it may trigger a psychotic episode.

I just don’t know how to pull myself out, when nothing seemingly works for me. I find myself increasingly sympathising with people who can’t handle anything
Actually, I found this very same company has a previous blog post addressing this question:

https://www.geocod.io/code-and-coordinates/2025-01-13-how-ge...
If you require taxpayers to consent to every single line item, voting is going to become rather cumbersome.
Can AI-Generated Slides Change Our Workflow?
Hi HN,

I'm exploring some ideas with AutoPPT—an AI tool that turns a simple topic or document into a professional slide deck. It got me wondering:

What challenges have you faced in creating presentations quickly?
How do you see automated slide generation fitting into your workflow?
Could an API integration help tailor this technology to specific developer needs?
I’m curious: what potential or limitations do you envision for AI in the realm of presentation creation?

Looking forward to your insights!
We're losing an entire generation at least. The pain that these cuts are going to cause won't be felt overnight. It will be felt over decades. "Things have been set into motion that cannot be undone".
There might even be some possibility for cross-pollination with ideas such as Counting Immutable Beans [0].

I’ve long wondered if there could be a functional programming language that made static memory management less verbose and easier to manage without monads and other explicit structures.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.05647
It's like an internet argument spilled out into the real world, with all the posturing and bravado to increase perceived expertise.

Except it's gambling with an entire nation's fortune, instead of likes/votes/reactions.
Thank you. One reason I wrote it was to demonstrate how easy it is to spin up a blog where everything is automated and you never have to worry about the infra.
Mangosteen are freaking amazing. I got addicted to them when I was living in Thailand. Impossible to get in my city here in the US East coast.
Seeing nent reminds me of MoonBit. Has anyone heard of this new programming language? It's pretty good.

https://docs.moonbitlang.com/en/latest/tutorial/tour.html
Though it means that some years have 53 weeks in.
For me, the #1 reason I don't blog more, especially about tech topics, is that they take too long. Maybe you can bang out a useful blog post in 20 minutes. For me it's more like 4 to 8 hours.

I have to make samples. Since I do mostly web tech I want the samples to actually work, no "here's some code, trust me". I also need diagrams. And, I have to proofread since I'm terrible at getting it right in one or even 5 checks. I write once, add samples, write some more, add images, write some more. Every time I write I add errors, so it always takes multiple passes.
The fragility point is a good one, but it's also misleading if you only look at one side of the equation. The other side is assets sloshing about the system -- like a large tanker without internal divisions, if there are a lot of assets sloshing about and the tanker gets into bad weather, the internal movement of assets can increasingly destabilize the whole thing.

That's one aspect of retirement systems that has always concerned me. Sure, it's neat to give people the control over retirement that comes with investing in an open market. But contrast this to public retirement systems where you pay in and the money is used to pay out retirement (of other people) immediately. Ultimately, both systems have to be sustained by a real economy that can provide the goods and services that folks require during retirement. But one of them puts a large amount of assets into the hands of unelected money managers, which is surely a potential source of instability.
DeepSeek open source DeepEP – library for MoE training and Inference
- Efficient and optimized all-to-all communication
- Both intranode and internode support with NVLink and RDMA
- High-throughput kernels for training and inference prefilling
- Low-latency kernels for inference decoding
- Native FP8 dispatch support
- Flexible GPU resource control for computation-communication overlapping
X: https://x.com/deepseek_ai/status/1894211757604049133
> the leftist embrace of the "toxic masculinity" concept turned off a generation of young men

Perhaps. It looks more like there is a section of America's left that nobs onto decent ideas and turns it into a No True Scotsmen loyalty test. It's not about the issue. It's about the participants feeling like they're fighting, the cause be damned. This group is extremely adept at social media, though, which means the decent idea gets drowned out by the stupid one. Which the opposition to the decent idea is a-okay with, because it will reliably tank the whole project.

Immigration reform? Abolish ICE. Criminal justice reform? Defund the police and abolish prisons. Palestinian nationhood? From the river to the sea, also terrorism is fine.

For masculinity, there was a problem. But that element turned it into a nauseating game of language policing, cancelling and--in the end--overt and proud sexism against men. 'Toxic masculinity' wasn't the problem per se, the expansion of toxicity to all masculinity was the issue.
What's there to dislike so much in APOSD?

The book struck me as giving mostly reasonable advice, none is which was overly prescriptive. None of the things I disagreed with struck me as egregious.
I can type a sustained 90 wpm. I can write about 10 wpm … for about five minutes before I’m in severe pain.
That's a very short sighted pov.
Late is a tradeoff. On resteraunt can make a killing serving anyone out but there are not many so two staying open late both go bankrupt from lack of business. Or maybe the area can support two (3? 10?) I don't know the real number but not as many as the daytime lunch crowd.
“Already 5xs”

Even AI marketing doesn’t claim this. Totally baseless claim given how many people report negative experiences trying to use AI.
Oh wow the predictions are surprisingly good. It predicted exactly what I'm working on right now despite never having revealed that anywhere

The roast could probably be improved. Mine wasn't offensive at all.
Who'd have thought trying to run the government via ketamine-addled twitter decrees wouldn't work out?
> and now I know the truth that most of the money are going to the research managers and admin staff, what as waste.

Perhaps you forget or ignored to read the complete sentence.

> At the end of the day tho, despite all its flaws, this system is a winner; US produces the most research, is home to the best universities, and students from around the world dream of studying in America. We can make improvements, but the need for a rewrite of the system is greatly overstated. Other countries wish they had our problems

I admire your strange perspective on govt's money spending on research but let's be honest it's not sustainable with so much wastage on unnecessary overheads. Nothing last forever the, wastages and corruptions (wealth and morals) are the main reasons the richest of countries and empires falls (Egypt, Roman, Iranian Sassanids, Ottoman, British, Russian, Indian Moghul and Chinese Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing, etc).
The Myth Buster: Rodney Brooks Breaks Down the Hype Around AI
They’re terrible. Those things are for people who dont like food and just need to consume for energy.
Components not just products have economies of scale.

Dell is currently better off buying the same RAM etc used by other computer manufacturers.
Is this administration using reverse psychology on the Europeans? The way they treat Europe makes Europeans like things they did not like before.

Some Europeans now like nuclear weapons, surveillance, the five eyes, getting real tough on Russia. Sounds exactly like a traditional conservative agenda.

Everything this administration does is a psychological game. Sometimes there are indicators, e.g., today the UN security council rubber stamped the Russia friendly resolution. This may or may not mean that the peace efforts are serious.

(Incidentally: Dear Tulsi, the US has been spying on the EU for decades and has special arrangements like access to all EU SWIFT transactions. But I guess you knew that already.)
Interesting approach to competing with China on wireless technology. I would have thought the US having a competitive edge over China in terms of research and development would be important to Republicans.
I have started being completely honest in communications, mostly instead of nodding and agreeing (especially at work) I have started to say “I don’t get it” more often. I think it’s a good first step.

It’s interesting what you say about exiled from the tribe. I have done “weird” things and made weird decisions like getting rid of all social media, and using a dumb phone for a long time. Out of principle, but it isolates me further.

I dont really do stuff that others do, I’m not a “sheep” I guess but I wish I was. People always say “be yourself” and I do that I think, but it isolates me from people and peers. ADHD and arthritis at a young age, successes like selling software ventures, sacrificing personal time to study, all this has just isolated me further. I used to think this was drive, but what’s the point if you end up alone
I love reading meta-writings at times, as long as there’s a real human behind the keyboard. This was a fun, quick read.