skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like writing too. Funnily enough, the age of LLMs makes this even better. I wrote a little MCP server (this is trivial with Claude) that interfaces with my blog so it can full-text search for articles and look up articles and look at recent articles and stuff like that and it is pretty good at finding references in what I've written to thoughts I've had. It's a bit trigger-happy when looking up my blog posts (I have to put more in the assistant prompt in the Claude app to get it to stop defaulting there).

The other thing that's nice is that LLMs make the process of writing better. When I cite stuff I can just screenshot the website and ask ChatGPT to write the citation and then check it. Things like that are more painful to write than to check and LLMs shine there.
It really fascinates me how the "other" clientele of HN operates. The world of networking, marketing yourself, creating a resume of sorts through your blogging. I'm just some dude with a decent job occasionally writing blog posts because it amuses me. I'd be pleasantly surprised if a dozen people read them before I die. AI doesn't really factor into the calculus of whether or not I want to continue doing it at all.
I wrote my library this way for both performance AND type checking reasons. You cannot tell me the reasons why I wrote my code my way. That is just absurd.

In any case, it is possible to write Clojure in a way that is type checked at compile time. And it is an acceptable way to write Clojure. I just want to clear the air.
I'm rewriting a suite of network applications from C++ to Rust as a learning exercise. It's a long obsolete and obscure protocol, so the results aren't particularly useful, but it's been a good introduction to the language.
Yes, but it’s the same level of garbage as “Facebook was built in a week”, where the hidden part is “after The Harvard Connection spent two years iterating on the product and got everything stolen”.

Society and people in general don’t want to hear these “sour grape” gripes. Unless they are the ones affected adversely.
> at additional cost to themselves

For now.
The point is the people are gone. So who's going to provide the data you want?
> no links
<<<security is not my domain, asking genuine questions!!>>>

At the end of the day, it ultimately still boils down to trust though, yes? Trust that they are running the data centers the way they say they are, trust that their supply chain is what they say it is, and so on? At the same time, using some open source piece of software also entails a great amount of trust: I’m not going through the source code of Signal myself, and I’m also not checking that an open source locally served model isn’t sending traffic/telemetry etc back to some remote server via whatever software is running the model… rather, I’m placing my trust in the open source community that others have inspected and tested these things. I’m sure all sorts of shady PRs into important open source code bases are made on the reg after all. So that’s not to say that trusting Apple is necessarily more or less wise than trusting open source software from a security standpoint… my point is just that it seems like they are aspiring to a zero trust architecture, but at the end of the day, it does still require trust that they are operating in good faith vis-a-vis what they are representing in the white papers right? To me, it seems like a relatively safe assumption that they are for a variety of reasons, but nonetheless, it is an assumption right?
Huh never knew that. Kinda good for me.

I noticed that even the generation that came after me (I was born in the 70s) produced IT engineers with a bit less skills because they've never had to mess stuff. People these days are afraid to mess with the windows registry even. I used to manually patch blocks together when I deleted a file by mistake.

These skills are getting less and less useful though now that everyone is happy to give up their privacy to big tech in return for something that 'just works' :(
Actually it goes the other way. Inflation erodes public debt [1][2]. It is, however, not necessarily good[3].

But at the end of the day, the causes of inflation are not cause and effect. You can print money to save an economy without causing inflation as we did during the 2008 financial crisis[4] or you can print money and cause hyperinflation as in the case of Argentina[5] or Zimbabwe. It’s more about how you do it instead of what you do.

[1] https://www.oxfordeconomics.com/resource/how-inflation-erode...

[2] https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/using-inflation-erode-us-publ...

[3] https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2022/aug/inflation...

[4] https://econofact.org/rising-inflation

[5] https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-money-printing-destroyed-ar...
I love, especially the last point.

But, what do you use for agentic assistants?
Federal Budget of the United States (1789)
For mass production/scalability, I absolutely agree with you.

For products that won't be scaled, I imagine it becomes just another abstraction layer, with the cost of human input outweighing the cost of the additional infrastructure / beefing up hardware to support the inefficiencies created.
The Plane That No One Wanted (But Could Land on a Football Field)
>A nation that lacks interpersonal relationships is a lower-trust society, more prone to crime and unrest.

That seems to unfortunately track. No bonds, less to lose by lashing out. A Mexican idiom comes to mind:

El Que Tranza, No Avanza ("he who doesn't cheat, doesn't get ahead")

So when you dehumanize your fellow man, life is just a rat race and you don't care who you step over to succeed. Not really a nation make.

>The reasons aren’t clear, but it may be that colleges have become more of a social experience than an educational one over the last few decades

Well I guess that's the part that reminds me this is still the NY post. It's an odd conclusion to come to when they report that friendships merely declined less than Hgih School students, not remained steady. It's not surprising that an environment of young adults with newfound freedom would form closer bonds than those on high school forced together with a rigid 5 class schedule that has much less control. College students can schedule entire days off, or no morning classes, skip a class with minumum fuss. That means more potential time to socialize outside of the weekends or 4-7pm on weekends.

>Last year one study found a full 25% of young adults “believe that AI has the potential to replace real-life romantic relationships.”

Well that's just depressing. Are a significant portion of the population really going to try to replace human bonds with AI too? We were supposed to reject the notion of Her (2018) and realize the human element can't be automated. Not follow it like a blueprint.
For the Americans - by kebab it means gyro
I've seen this in what I call 'lasagna code' - multiple thin layers that seem to do nothing (or almost nothing) but each one is an implementation of some abstruse interface that exists in the mind of the original developer.

Eventually, your code has to do something. Get that thing in one place where you can look at it in its whole.
Ok, that's actually very cool. And I deeply share this sentiment:

> don't care to have the entire timeline be doom and gloom about how bad the world currently is

..

> In a more elegant world [..] the concept of topics, and I'd be able to follow [..]

One can dream. I used to regard the idea of filter bubbles as a negative thing, but I'd be perfectly content with being able to craft my own right about now.
North Korea pulled off a $1.5B crypto heist–the biggest in history
Federal scientist here. The situation is dire, and this is only the beginning. We've lost all employees with < 1 year of service, which has halted the new projects they were hired to work on. Leaders of 100 employee offices were booted since they had less than 1 year of federal service--back to another interim director. Those of us left are hamstrung since all travel has been canceled, and our credit cards will have $1 limits starting tomorrow. Who cares if you had a recurring charge on it that was maintaining the cell service on an instrument monitoring a volcano. We waste time in hastily scheduled team meetings trying to figure out how respond to DOGE's latest demands, only to learn as more info comes down from above that, no, we're no longer required to address their ultimatum messages. Make no mistake—their objective is to dismantle and destroy government functionality.
Friendship can also be an economic net positive, it mostly depends on how you’re interacting. Watching each other's kids at home creates extra free time. Having an extra hand and different set of tools when working on home projects is a net gain which means you can be better off while helping each other etc.

However, so much of how people spend their free is consumptive that hanging out has become increasingly expensive.
Your device, as well as another device, and yet another - are all independent "something you have" factors from "the password you know".
And adding new device can be restricted via 2FA old device

And I've addressed the backup codes - that's the alternative mechanism that's no better than the sync. Also, backup codes are not 2FA, so if you're so strict about 2FA you don't even allow sync, then you can't have them, thus permanent loss
I’d posit that closer proximity to drinking establishments would mean increased foot traffic with a less discerning clientele.

Every kebob is a good kebob when you’re a few drinks in.
Copilot (referring to the M365 one) is not a very great product though. It's clearly been rushed to market before it was even done. Microsoft is soooo afraid they'll miss this boat. But we are stuck with the fallout.

And it isn't even that affordable.
Lfs-auto-track: Automatically run `Git lfs track` to track large files
I posted something similar to what you said just a few days back although not exactly in those words: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43083345#43085603

1) I would always struggle to interject in time due to slow processing, and 2) I could write better than others because I could edit.

However, this changed / improved over time. And I have a sneaking suspicion that it changed after I had stents placed giving me more oxygen supply. I believe many parts of my life changed around the same time. Not immediately but over the next year or 2, it has now been 9 years. This could just be life eventually connecting all the neurons in the right way, and of course I do not recommend getting stents as an experiment, but I wonder if apart from this being how we are built, there may be fixes (herbs or surgeries) that may be able to improve this.
> “There was a lot of genius in sending it. We’re trying to find out if people are working and so we’re sending a letter to people, ‘Please tell us what you did last week.’ If people don’t respond, it’s very possible that there is no such person or they’re not working,” Trump said.

Did they? That doesn’t sound like backtracking…
How Philly Whole Foods Workers Beat Jeff Bezos
Irrelevant. They're going 45+ in a 20mph zone.
We'll be very lucky if it's a lost decade. One of the many factors that made the US a technical powerhouse were the long threads across disciplines where people could do focused research. you had to reapply for grants but generally could be sure that important programs would stay in place. This breaks all of that. It seems poised to break research as we know it.

As one of the many researchers that will likely lose their career to this, I will be forced to choose between stopping work that benefits both the public and industry or moving abroad to one of the many nations that do appreciate such effort. We are about to not only lose our future efforts but also hemorrhage current talent.

I'm surely not the only person who's inbox\phone exploded with messages after the news broke with collaborators abroad offering to help me start a lab at their institute. Europe will gladly do take backsies on their WWII brain drain.
The thing is, the team that fired all these researchers doesn’t have that data either. So it’s extremely easy to be critical of their haphazard cuts since they’re made completely arbitrarily with the only consideration so far being the ease of firing them based on their probationary status.

The process and detail you’re asking for would be the responsible way to shrink the government and is the polar opposite of what’s happening.
A great way to detect who buys ikea furniture!
If we are lucky, in 30 years we will have reinvented the stock exchanges of the 1950s!
The relevant programs, objectives, results over time are trivially googlable. Details on who were let go, etc. would require transparency from the administration.

You could have answered your own questions (to some degree) in half the time it required to make the comment. Even if you didn't take the time, we have enough priors to make a judgment.

Your comment just feels like sealioning.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43140754

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43164773

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43130143
“I need to lose weight, so I cut off my fingertips. Why is everyone saying that’s bad?”

If you want to cut the federal deficit, we need to restore tax rates to the level they were at around the turn of the century - rich people were fine back then, nobody gave up because their yacht only had a small helicopter – and reduce spending on the big areas which are the only ones where it’s mathematically possible for cuts to make a significant difference.

For example, NSF’s budget is 1/15 of the Republicans’ proposed INCREASE in DoD funding. Even if we destroy U.S. science funding entirely and cede the global leadership role to China, we will end up behind of where we were last year even before the tax cuts add orders of magnitude more debt. That’s even before you factor in how much money the economy has lost from all of the work the government supports and how many businesses rely on government research and funding.

Similarly, if you wanted to save a lot more money, you’d be working to make U.S. healthcare as efficient as government programs. Instead, Republicans blocked Medicaid from negotiating drug prices and shut down attempts to limit drug profit margins, which means there are individual drugs where the annual extra profit compared to pricing in Canada is greater than the entire NSF budget.
Great question! It's not just a black bar on top. Page are flattened to ensure the redaction is permanent.
Really needs a scatter plot or something. A ranking.

Was expecting something like an ELO rating.
While quite a few folks agree blogging is still worth it in the age of AI, please do your bit to support privacy-friendly services (ie. no tracking). Blogs don't /need/ modern web bloat, nor need to resort to adverts / paywalls.

I happen to build a privacy-friendly option https://LMNO.lol (my blog at https://LMNO.lol/alvaro or https://xenodium.com). I'm hoping it's fairly priced at $1.50/month. You pay for hosting and we provide that service (that's the extent of our transation).

There are others services to pick from like Bear, Ghost, Nekoweb, omg.lol...
I have not watched that video since 2013 (wow!) and it is still hilarious.
My fear as well. I’m not sure if even a magic wish to rearrange stuff back to the before January state of affairs is possible at this point.

Write to your representatives. I fear that if they don’t pull off something the only ethical and responsible thing is civil war. This shit is insane and will destroy everything I like about our government.

Also to quote every true patriot: the only good Nazi is a dead Nazi.

I’m so angry and mad and wanting to help fix it. My near term approach is write expansively to all my city state and congressional reps.

We already have diarrhea inducing corruption happening in plain view. We have walking piñatas for an urgent need to do campaign finance reform.

I’m not sure if there’s any way to save some of the institutions and programs that make this country actually great without a straight up secession/civil war for the coastal states.

I’m very very scared. And angry.
I'm really fortunate to be in a very outdoors and offline community that values our personal ties above most things. We spend a lot time playing music around campfires, backpacking in the mountains, and cooking up good food together. We spend the hard times together too. Sometimes you drop everything to go winch a buddy's truck out of the mud, help someone move, or take five hours of your day to go on a hike long enough to really talk about what a breakup means.

I'm back in a city for a bit, hanging out with a more mainstream crowd, and the difference has been jarring. Dinner means an hour or two in a busy restaurant. Playing music is a planned event with low priority amongst busy schedules. Nobody helps eachother move, there's an app for that.

I'm shocked to see how quickly those norms have changed how I interact with people! I'm ashamed that I drove past a guy who clearly needed a hand changing his tire when I had my impact in my truck earlier. I don't know who I would call in this group for more than an hour over a beer to talk through heavy stuff without feeling I was imposing. I'm spending time with far more people, and on paper I'm doing so many things, but we're all a lot lonelier in this crowded place than my group and I were out in the woods.

Luckily it's a simple fix. I'll get back to focusing on my people soon, and will give them the effort and time that keeps us all thriving amidst the social wasteland. I don't necessarily need to leave the city to do that, but it's a lot easier to see what's important out past the pavement.
I really don't know what you're trying to say. Is the implication that I don't care about the impoverished black kid that has to grow up in a world with highly prevalent incidental crime-related gun violence? If that's what you're getting at, please re-read my previous comment.

This data was compiled with the criteria it was to inflate the perceived number of "muh assault rifle" headliner-style school shootings. You're probably never going to turn on national news and see any reporting on any of these crime disputes that came to a head at/near a school. There is very little political willpower to do anything about these instances and not calling this shit out for what it is is a disservice to the people that are actually impacted by this strain of gun violence.

EDIT: after re-reading your comment a few more times, I think what you were trying to say is that it doesn't make sense that people would overlook some gun violence and worry more about other instances, but I've got bad news for you -- they do it all the fucking time. It's not that it's <people-they-don't-like>, it's <people-they-don't-think-about-at-all>, save when they make for a convenient data point.
I’ve seen novel thoughts, but typically they are coming from trolls who are taking impossibly contrarian opinions and presenting horrifying morally bankrupt perspectives. Maybe these ideas are common elsewhere though.

All the “good” ideas that can be said have probably been said. Maybe that’s why some people just enjoy trolling: for the novelty.
nm, found a nice open source one:

https://github.com/downforacross/downforacross.com
If you've read the three-body problem series (or the tv show) [spoiler incoming]

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the way to stop humanity from being able to fight back (against alien invasion) is not via weapons, but via disabling science. It's a long term strategy.

So the conspiracy theory that trump is a russian asset (or is influenced by them at the least), seems plausible, if you imagine that such removal of science and research funding is meant to disable american technological progress for decades to come. This would be a strategy that outlasts the tenure of the russian asset.
All of that without encryption. What a meh

But shouldn’t be hard to do with modern facilities (async runtimes, streaming libraries etc.) I don’t enjoy many clients yet I use them.

It’s definitely a good problem with which to test a programming language. Many fail on parsing, or inefficient network interfaces, inefficient file interfaces, sha sum unusable without intrinsics, etc.
It's worth noting that AWS has had this sort of infrastructure with Nitro for quite some time now:

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/nitro/nitro-enclaves/

At some point it was novel to put a separate hardware root of trust on a PCI-e card but I think that was a while ago, even for Apple!
> And wanting repairable products is something most consumers don't even think about at time of purchase. Its something that comes further down the line, when the purchase decision has already been made.

For cars there is an entirely different problem: New cars come with warranties. The sort of people who buy new cars, typically sell them by the time the warranty expires, so they only care about repairability to the extent it affects resale value, which is an attenuated effect. Then someone else is going to be driving that thing until it's 20+ years old, but the manufacturer isn't responsive to their concerns when designing the car because they aren't the manufacturer's customer in the market for new cars.
No drama, easy mistake to make.

I would point out, though, that any child sexual abuse happening right now, any sly sterilisations going on today is likely to remained buried for a couple of decades .. just going by a century or so of history on this type of thing.

Reporting of shitty behaviour is getting better and more immediate in the digital age, which gives us hope .. but lack of current reporting isn't always evidence of lack of current activity.
you should try a mangosteen or cherimoya. discovering the broader fruitiverse was pretty eye opening.
Why buy when you can stea- uhh "take one for the road"?
I think the leftist embrace of the "toxic masculinity" concept turned off a generation of young men.
Clever idea. I like it.

Maybe visualization of the brackets could be improved a bit.

The overriding problem for me was the nonstandard keyboard. Would love to be able to use my device keyboard
The article is pretty fucking trash, tbh.

The '''journalist''' is, too:

Author:
https://muckrack.com/tom-gerken/articles
Ask HN: Fine-tuning Llama for humanizing AI text?
I’ve recently came across a bunch of tools that supposedly “bypass” AI detection tools. There are many, many of them. Some seem to be snake oil, some actually “do something”.

AI detection tools that “work” are probably using a custom model to calculate average perplexities and burstiness. But, can someone fine-tune a model that does the opposite? I have yet to see an open-source version of these AI bypassing tools, but there are some open-source AI detection tools.
Which book are you referring to? The parent comment mentioned two books.
group theory, the M group [the Monsters], and meditations, regarding what curvature really is.

im attempting to understand what space-time actually is from a geometric perspective.

im exploring the idea of space-time confinement, as similar to quark-gluon confinement

[edit] quick link to the basics: https://www.math.uci.edu/~ndonalds/math120a/notes.pdf [PDF]

https://quantum.phys.cmu.edu/qm2/qmc151.pdf[pdf]
But if Canada as a whole is to become the 51st state, then these should probably be designated municipal parks.
Search for photos but don't search for thorough calculations?
I don’t know whose opinions I value, because everyone I’ve ever had a connection with has left my life or abandoned me. So seemingly people eventually have a negative opinion of me.

And I have tried everything people recommend. Fitness, grooming, psychiatrists, psychologists, counsellors, eating healthy, putting myself out there.

On paper I should be confident. I’m tall, I was handsome before I put on weight, I’ve got a degree in Electrical Engineering, I’ve sold software so have had some business success, I’ve had many girlfriends, and I work incredibly hard.

But I’m so fucking lonely and in my own head. And I’m tired of it all. It never gets better
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