skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kurt posted this to troll me. Just know my audience here was, mostly, non-technical people involved in politics in my local Chicagoland municipality.

Permit me a PSA about local politics: engaging in national politics is bleak and dispiriting, like being a gnat bouncing off the glass plate window of a skyscraper. Local politics is, by contrast, extremely responsive. I've gotten things done --- including a law passed --- in my spare time and at practically no expense (drastically unlike national politics).

An amazing thing about local politics, at least in a lot of places, is that they revolve around message boards. The boards won't be in places you want to be (in particular: a lot of them are Facebook Groups) and you just have to suck it up. But if you enjoy participating in a community like HN, you can participate in politics, too, and message-board your way towards making things happen.
That's fair, missed that one.
The resolution the US voted against:

https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/4076441?ln=en

A first minimal resolution by the US that passed both the Assembly and SC:

https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/4076493?ln=en
CRISPR transforms ordinary fat cells into cancer killing machines
The Republican party operates at the State level too.
Singularity is not possible at 0G, isn't?
> ...especially when someone is particularly passionate about them.

The engineer-type brain is very much prone to "... in order to prove we can," as opposed to "Because we should. Or because this is useful. Or because this even does the job claimed."

Across a range of fields. A/B testing "engagement hacks" falls into this category, as far as I'm concerned. It was certainly successful at the stated goals.
How the can it possibly be an issue with the labor pool when JS is the only truly supported web language and Python is the main language for ML tooling?

I think that you are handwaving away differences in runtime environments. All languages (almost) are Turing-conplete. Many of them, if used in the wrong context, will get you stuck in a Turing tarpit.

Languages succeed or fail on the strength of their runtimes. If you seriously think that mixed-code codebases are trash after 18 months, then I think I'm wasting my time - that statement is so fundamentally detached from reality that I don't even know how to start.
It seemed like a content-free comment. I was no better informed after reading it than before, and it was of no artistic or cultural value. It did not induce me to question any of my assumptions or investigate anything. It expressed your experience, but your experience was not unusual or surprising in any way, except perhaps that you did not know that "Uncle" Bob Martin was an incompetent charlatan. Possibly those were among the reasons people downvoted it.
No direct experience but I would imagine you would need solid intermediate skills at OCaml, probably being a nerd enough to make your own extensions or the ecosystem for benchmarking and debugging, not just coding. Then a liberal dose of projects about OCaml, game theory, and financial markets. That ought to get their attention at least.
The issue is that if it becomes a government fund the insurers can't spend the money in the year when we didn't have destructive hurricanes, which is what they usually do.

The government would keep the money in the fund indefinitely until it was needed and would't be spending it.
This is exactly why we need regulations that prohibit this. The upcoming EU regulations [0] seem to at least partially cover this, as employment is one of the high risk categories for AI systems. What that means in detail is still to be seen, but at least the groundwork is already there.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43152937
> 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.

This is psychopaths!!! Sociopaths are different. Sociopaths just lack empathy, they do not necessarily want to do anything with that. Psychopaths are the ones who intentionally cause harm. Psychopaths can have empathy and simply choose to ignore it.
Here's the Colab link if you'd like to try it out: https://colab.research.google.com/github/GoFigr/examples/blo...
Last time I checked, while tutanota's emails are ostensibly E2E encrypted, all public keys are provided by their server and there's no way to pin keys or verify them over a side channel, so a compromised server could trivially send its own public keys and MITM attack all encrypted emails.

This completely defeats the purpose and guarantees of E2E encryption, but for some reason, it hasn't seemed to be a priority for them. The article passingly mentions key verification, so hopefully that's changed.

https://github.com/tutao/tutanota/issues/768
Came here to say this. I have an Aussie and he really does not care about food. They just want to run and do stuff, food is secondary. I've never needed to use treats to train him either. Good boy and a pat on the head suffices.
Personally, tend to believe it's iterative (like the iterative method in software).

Basically, it has both issues. Your rationalization is valid, and its one side of what's going on. Society de-socializes, the clubs and activities still exist, yet less and less people take the opportunity. Those activities and clubs then wither and fade away with lack of participation.

However, on the other side, once those clubs and activities vanish, then opportunities that might have been there before no longer exist to even attempt. An opportunity for socialization vanishes, thereby accelerating the de-socialization.

Very tragedy of the commons type result. There's a communal field. Then some participants start abusing the communal field. Then people accepted of the communal situation previously (because of fair behavior) start pulling back and becoming stingy / paranoid / anti-sharing in response to the exploitive actions of their neighbors. Then the communal resource no longer exists and is ruined for all participants. People who might have joined the communal field use previously no longer have a communal resource to join.
They are singularities in the framework of general relativity, i.e. while ignoring quantum mechanics. I think most people expect the right version of quantum gravity to make the singularities go away, but studying classical GR is worth it on its own, so it's often ignored like in this statement you quoted.
How about adding information about IDO, like the static recompilation project being used in N64 game decompilation projects? It enables compiling code in a linux environment and having it match 1:1 as if it were run by the original compiler. There's even significant progress in decompiling the entire codebase as well.

https://github.com/decompals/ido-static-recomp

https://github.com/decompals/ido-matching-decomp
Very interesting to see Laravel pivot to this direction (VC-backed cloud deployment and hosting solution) while Rails pivots the other way (Kamal deploy with bring-your-own cloud/provider/server).

Obviously you can still (for now, anyway) 100% run Laravel independently without Laravel cloud or any of the optional paid Laravel features. But you don't have to squint too hard to see the Laravel core team starting to prioritize features that benefit Laravel Cloud and then slowly start building Laravel Cloud-only features. Especially as VC demands larger returns.

I have a lot of respect for Taylor Otwell and I am happy he's found a way to continue to monetize his life's work, but I hope they're able to find a sustainable balance between free/open source work and paid/proprietary work.
Show HN: Exa (YC S21) – embeddings search agent with >20x recall than Google
Hey HN! I'm Will, founder of Exa (YC21 - https://exa.ai). Today we're opening up Websets, a search engine that finds massive lists of correct results given complex queries.

For example, you can search for:

- “software engineers in the Bay Area, with experience in startups and big tech, who know Rust and have published technical content”: https://websets.exa.ai/cm7ax5bl8003276q689v0dde5

- “US based healthcare companies, with over 100 employees and a technical founder": https://websets.exa.ai/cm6lc0dlk004ilecmzej76qx2

- "research paper about ways to avoid the O(n^2) attention problem in transformers, where one of the first author's first name starts with "A","B", "S", or"T", and it was written between 2018 and 2022”: https://websets.exa.ai/cm7dpml8c001ylnymum4sp11h

We built Websets because the web is humanity’s grand collection of all knowledge, and yet it’s totally unorganized. So much valuable content is too hard to find.

Traditional search engines, like Google, were built to handle simple keyword queries over the web, not arbitrarily complex SQL. While agentic tools like Deep Research help a bit, they rely on traditional search under the hood and so are similarly bottlenecked.

Websets works well because under the hood it uses our in-house embedding-based search engine, trained specifically to handle complex natural language queries. Crucially, Websets uses LLMs to agentically verify each result to ensure correctness. Websets is therefore a test-time compute search engine – it might take minutes or even hours to run. We believe this is a worthwhile sacrifice for high value searches.

It’s hard to eval these things, but we did our best and measured that Websets found 20x more results than Google on a set of complex queries and 10x more than Deep Research. These numbers could be arbitrarily higher with more compute per query. Blog post here: https://exa.ai/blog/websets-evals

While Websets isn’t perfect search yet, it’s a significant first step, and we’re excited to share the first version of the product with you all. We have a free limited tier, and we set up a special HN code for Pro plans. Use PERFECTSEARCH for a two-week free trial of Pro.

Can try it here: websets.exa.ai

Initial launch video here: https://x.com/ExaAILabs/status/1864013080944062567

Would love to hear thoughts, feedback, and suggestions! I know HN thinks about search sometimes :)
Makes me wonder how good players "see" the board. Like what parts are "highlighted" and is it always changing as you ponder different aspects of the game, or more static?
Question for all the people who suddenly don't want to have anything to do with Musk or anything American really. Do you feel the same about Chinese manufactured goods or using oil and gas from the middle east or Russia?
Yes I know why netops want to block QUIC but that just shows the tension between the folks who want to build new functionality and the folks who are in charge of enterprise security. I get it, I've held SRE-like roles in the past myself. When you're in charge of security and maintenance, you have no positive incentive to allow innovation. New functionality gives you nothing. You never get called into a meeting and congratulated for new functionality you help unlock. You only get called in if something goes wrong, and so you have every incentive to monitor, lock down, and steer traffic as best as you can so things don't go wrong on your watch.

IMO it's a structural problem that blocks a lot of innovation. The same thing happens when a popular open source project that's author led switches to an external maintainer. When the incentives to block innovation are stronger than the incentives to allow it, you get ossification.
I went in 2010. Took the bus onto the air base to the experimental plane hangar. We only had 1 hour. I could have easily spent 3 hours there.

I mainly wanted to see the YF-23 but here's a pic I took with a fisheye lens of the back of the YF-23 with the XB-70 above. I think they have since moved the planes to a different hangar.

https://imgur.com/a/yf-23-xb-70-above-GFZDaYy
I guess I sort of get it, but I always kind of wondered why Silicon Graphics never made a "prosumer" computer. With the (kind of) exception of the Nintendo 64, it seems like most of the Silicon Graphics machines were tens of thousands of dollars in the 90's.

I am curious what the world would be like now if Silicon Graphics had made a model that was less than $2,000, but still ran Irix and had some amount of the 3D processing stuff with it. For that matter, I sometimes wonder what it would be like if Nintendo had released kits for the N64 that let you use it more as a computer.

I'm just thinking that it's all about timing; if they had released something in 1997 for "prosumers", before OS X came out, would Apple have its same market position now? Would we all be using SGiPhones? Would every tech startup get all their engineers little SGI laptops?
Replication is important but I wouldn't call it weird.
Claude 3.7 just rewrote the whole thing (just based on reading the webpage description) as a commandline app for me, so there's that.

And because it has no Internet access yet (and because I prompted it to use a workaround like this in that circumstance), the first thing it asked me to do (after hallucinating the functionality first, and then catching itself) was run `curl https://hypercritical.co/hyperspace/ | sed 's/<[^>]*>//g' | grep -v "^$" | clip`

("clip" is a bash function I wrote to pipe things onto the clipboard or spit them back out in a cross-platform linux/mac way)

clip() {
if command -v pbcopy > /dev/null; then
[ -t 0 ] && pbpaste || pbcopy;
else
if command -v xclip > /dev/null; then
[ -t 0 ] && xclip -o -selection clipboard || xclip -selection clipboard;
else
echo "clip function error: Neither pbcopy/pbpaste nor xclip are available." >&2;
return 1;
fi;
fi
}
"Also that simplicity is king. Complexity is the enemy."

That's what worries me about a lot of the shiny, super high tech, super expensive weapons systems of the US. These are fine against an overmatched enemy when you can fly back to a safe place for doing the necessary maintenance. This may change when there is a war against a capable enemy that can strike closer to home. The US has always had the advantage that the homeland was safe but that may change in the future. And once you lose a B-2 bomber it's very hard to replace.
CLI tool to find duplicate files unbelievably quickly:

https://github.com/twpayne/find-duplicates
Certificate Transparency in Firefox
AI iS gOInG tO mAkE tHe wOrLD a BeTtEr PlAcE. Mhm, I'm sure. These people don't see those that they believe are underneath them as human beings. They are cattle to have their blood drained for profit. Privacy? Ethics? Integrity? Humanity?... Or money?
Probing Non-Equilibrium Topological Order on a Quantum Processor
Sweden's Lovable, rakes in $15M after growth
The Influence of Prompt Politeness on LLM Performance
How many of those were outsiders walking in and spotting the solutions none of the so-called experts could, or whatever? It's a short list, to the point that I'd call the entire notion effectively a myth, not much better than chance and probably more often having to do with huge amounts of money being thrown at it, not outsider status or brilliant computer nerds or tech business jerks being magically good at other fields.
> You're probably thinking of the kings quest games I-IV

You are correct. My age is showing.
The current state of StackOverflow's data dumps
Arguably, GWT was too ambitious. That made it somewhat of a PITA to work with.

J2CL is a much better approach (IMO) but is somewhat too little too late.

The best analogy to what GWT was is ASP.NET Webforms but ran on the client. That extra baggage (along with an antiquated build system and setup) made it really hard to keep GWT up to date.

I'm excited to see Java bytecode->WASM though. Now that WASM ships with a GC we should see some really neat stuff in terms of the size of the runtime needed for an AOT bytecode->wasm.
I would suggest actually reading what engineers who have worked at the company say about it. Many of these statements you've just made are irrelevant or factually incorrect (e.g. Fuschia might be cancelled, but Google remains one of the major contributors to Linux and is certainly not a "marketing company.")

Have a good day!
Ask HN: How to Build Executive Skills
I've been in Tech from 20 yrs as individual contributor - But would like to learn and influence business/strategy and execute on it. What courses do you suggest or have helped you move from IC to Director/VP Level?
They also look sooo cute.
I breezed through the responses to this thread, and I believe the quote may be misinterpreted.

> Wolves had to choose to stay near humans to eat food scraps...

I don't read that humans fed the wolves scraps, just that wolves ate scraps, probably discarded by humans.

Then one day maybe a bold doggo decides to hang out closer, and bam, a shitty disney movie is born. ;D
To be a conservative is to have great difficulty with change and “weird” things you have never seen before. It’s a core personality trait, and takes years of education/travel/meditation to loosen.
>those colors are horrible to see

After someone gave me feedback on lichess, I tried a heatmap instead (with green for white and red black), I'm not sure it's an improvement but you can see if you like it any better: https://taonexus.com/blunderfreechess2.html
World isn’t going to collapse if some emails leak sometime maybe.

Given the anti-musk sentiment far more data and access will be leaked on purpose by workers themselves.
Your dog is a gmo.
Yes

I have a dog that starved as a puppy (not by me, I rested him, best thing I have done in the last decade).

He is four now, and we have an extensive routine securing every acces to food like substances when he is left alone.

Other dogs I've had, not so much
I released a complete and comprehensive software package for free around fifteen years ago. I was threatened, accosted and cussed out on the phone numerous times for my generosity. I have since taught myself to be greedy on purpose, obscuring and ignoring my true nature.
Why would that be the hypothetical? The people that made Joann are the ones who decided to make it a publicly listed business, all the way back in 1969.

https://www.cleveland.com/pdextra/2010/12/the_history_of_jo-...

notcancer stated:

>Call me old-fashioned, but maybe craft stores don't need infinite double-digit growth.

Craft stores don't need double digit growth (returns is more accurate than growth), but Joann did because Joann's owners decided they wanted to try to expand their business, and probably their own wealth, and so they tapped the public equity markets.

People seem to be upset that business owners desire to bet for bigger returns, but isn't that the business owners' right? A lot of times, it doesn't work out, or it eventually doesn't work out. But what is the alternative?
> Skybox Security’s dramatic collapse serves as a cautionary tale for Israel’s cybersecurity industry. Despite early success, heavy investment, and ...

That's the Kiddie Version moral of the story.

The Grown-up Version moral: If you want to run a business, long-term, then you must have reliable black ink on your bottom line. If you do not - then no quantity of "but we are oh-so-special, in oh-so-many ways!" BS will save your ass.
Social Security Trust Fund:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_Trust_Fund :

> The Trust Fund is required by law to be invested in non-marketable securities issued and guaranteed by the "full faith and credit" of the federal government. These securities earn a market rate of interest.[5]

Government bond > United States: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_bond#United_States

> [...] One projection scenario estimates that, by 2035, the Trust Fund could be exhausted. Thereafter, payroll taxes are projected to only cover approximately 83% of program obligations. [7]

> There have been various proposals to address this shortfall, including: reducing government expenditures, such as by raising the retirement age; tax increases; investment diversification [8] and, borrowing.

Robots, automation, AI, K12 Q12 STEM training, basic research, applied science

What should social security be invested in?

First, should social security ever be privatized? No, because they would steal it all in fees compared to HODL'ing Index Funds and commodities (as a hedge against inflation).

What should social security be invested in?

Low-risk investments in the interest of all of the people who plan to rely upon OASDI for retirement and accidental disability (OASDI: OA "Old Age", S "Survivors", D "Disability", I "Insurance")

What should a sovereign wealth fund be invested in?

We don't do "soverign wealth funds" because we don't have a monarchy in the United States; we have a temp servant leader President role and we have Congress and they work together to prepare the budget.

The President of the United States has limited budgetary discretionary authority by design. OMB (Office of Management and Budget) must work with CBO (Congressional Budget Office) to prepare the budget.
CoW - Copy on Write. Most probably on older mainframes. ( Actually newer mainframes ).

"CoW is used as the underlying mechanism in file systems like ZFS, Btrfs, ReFS, and Bcachefs"

Obligatory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy-on-write
Very interesting read.

It does seem absurd to think of divulging schema as protected, as described it allows for a magical sort of outcome where: "well it's in a database you can't know anything about, and if you can't tell me how to find it you're sol".

Working at a small company with lots of clients I wouldn't want to hand out DB schema outright, but I also go out of my way to search / get the client the data they want ... not reject them.
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It's the complexity of reality sure - but that's not the only lesson.

Another lesson is that users can be taught to use appropriate protocols if those protocols are specified and the users believe in the mission/purpose of the site/organization/association.
Because that's not the impetus for creating it and they're not clever enough to hide it. They made it because they want to punish what they believe is the laziness of people beneath them.
What stands out to me about this article is the time between court appearances. Seems like if you want to accomplish anything in court you need to be prepared to spend years of your life on it.
VAST storage does something like this. Unlike how most storage arrays identify the same block by hash and only store it once VAST uses a content aware hash so hashes of similar blocks are also similar. They store a reference block for each unique hash and then when new data comes in and is hashed the most similar block is used to create byte level deltas against. In practice this works extremely well.

https://www.vastdata.com/blog/breaking-data-reduction-trade-...
Cosmologist here, the event horizon is not a true singularity. There is a singularity in certain coordinates, but it goes away when doing a coordinate transformation. There is nothing physically strange going on at the event horizon. The physical singularity is only at the center.