skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SO dying is going to be a major bummer. It's been an invaluable resource to me once I engaged with it.

While I did experience the overbearing moderation that you've mentioned, as well as the typical bullying for 'asking the question wrong' and other grating encounters I also have asked very obscure questions, and received amazingly knowledgeable answers, in one case, I asked about a brand new C# compiler feature, and I had the actual top compiler guy reach out to me, and told me that what I want isn't possible right now, but should be, and I should raise a GH issue about it.

LLMs might be good at writing React code, and all the super-common stuff (probably in large part due to harvesting the SO database), but these sort of interactions are going to be gone forever.
brave is crypto snake-oil
I've also felt lonely on this hill I'm dying on.

But for some solace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_10:_Rules_for_Dev...
Another metaphor: We can build the Artificial Static Place Intelligence – instead of creating AI/AGI agents that are like librarians who only give you quotes from books and don’t let you enter the library itself to read the whole books. Why not expose the whole library – the entire multimodal language model – to real people, for example, in a computer game?

To make this place easier to visit and explore, we could make a digital copy of our planet Earth and somehow expose the contents of the multimodal language model to everyone in a familiar, user-friendly UI of our planet.

We should not keep it hidden behind the strict librarian (AI/AGI agent) that imposes rules on us to only read little quotes from books that it spits out while it itself has the whole output of humanity stolen.

We can explore The Library without any strict guardian in the comfort of our simulated planet Earth on our devices, in VR, and eventually through some wireless brain-computer interface (it would always remain a game that no one is forced to play, unlike the agentic AI-world that is being imposed on us more and more right now and potentially forever)
A critical perspective might say that it's a combination of people who are financially incentivized to say their product will scale indefinitely, plus the same cognitive vulnerability for eschatological thinking and unreasoned extrapolation as people who join doomsday cults.

In truth, basically everything in reality settles towards an equilibrium. There is no inevitable ultraviolet catastrophe, free energy machine, Malthusian collapse. Moore's law had a good run, but frequencies stopped improving twenty years ago and performance gains are increasingly specific and expensive. My car also accelerates consistently through many orders of magnitude, until it doesn't. If throwing more mass at the problem could create general superintelligence and do so economically to such strong advantages, then why haven't biological neural networks, which are vastly more capable and efficient neuron-for-neuron than our LLMs, already evolved to do so?

"Man selling LLMs says LLMs will soon take over the world, and YOU too can be raptured into the post-AI paradise if you buy into them! Non-believers will be obsolete!" No, he hasn't studied enough neuroscience nor philosophy to even be able to comment on how human intelligence works, but he's convinced a lot of rich people to give him more money than you can even imagine, and money is power is food for apes is fancy houses on TV, so that must mean he's qualified/shall deliver us, see...
I honestly doubt that this is true for the country I live in. How would a bar keeper know your intention to drive? And your ability to drive might be impaired before showing obvious symptoms of intoxication
Yes. Because resorting to nuclear weaponry is very specific.

Doing so, you break the statu quo on mutual dissuasion, and not one nuclear power wants that.

If one country drops a nuclear bomb (especially after a long escalation as we are in), other nuclear powers will _have to_ reinstate the previous dissuasion statu quo, as well as assert their status of equal nuclear powers.

And there's a single path to that: radically disarm the offender country, as soon as possible. There's indeed a risk of global nuclear war, but the most probable risk is the annihilation of the offender country + a few other casualities.

The scale of time in this matter is not in days, it's in a few hours at most: it's already been scripted in procedures for years, rehearsed, and it's already been shared among nuclear powers. If we're still able to discuss it, it's because of this doctrine of mutual dissuasion precisely.
https://www.pepysdiary.com/ A slice of 17th century life every day.
> After decades of reckless spending and lax economic management the US is going broke in a number of ways. In particular dealing with the national debt before and after Covid are very different beasts

Most of the reckless spending is by Republicans via unfunded tax which grows the deficit

Then when they’re in opposition they suddenly become deficit hawks

Republicans don’t mind the debt pile growing providing it’s the rich getting the money, they object when it’s ordinary people’s lives who are being made better
Only one side has nuclear weapons so it doesn't count.
The reason why microturbines are not taking off is, as you mentioned, low efficiency. "Not fantastic" is a bit of an understatement. Especially if you want the turbine to be reasonably cheap (no superalloys, etc) and if it runs below maximum capacity, you'd probably be happy to get 15-20% out of it, not even half of what is achievable with ICEs of the same size. There are not many applications where power-to-weight-ratio is important enough to overcome that limitation.
> And a corollary to this: There is probably an intellectual cost of returning to oral culture, which seems to be what's happening at the moment at a large scale [1].

If you talk about oral culture in the sense of having shorter messages, then it doesn’t necessarily have to be so much worse I think because there is a certain elegance to having clear and short messages. Like Forrest auto reviews on Youtube [1]. It’s so short that it allows more people to watch reviews for many cars. The information density is really high.

What I think is the problem is playing into emotions and especially fear. Once fear and anger kick in it’s really hard to keep thinking logically.

[1]: https://youtube.com/@forrestsautoreviewsofficial
You know Europe has funded about 2/3rds of the war costs?
I feel like that's how most people talk about most issues these days. I blame the comic book movies. Alongside a host of other innocuous looking factors that add up to the total disempowerment of the individual. The hell can any of us do, other than...?
I’m from the Philippines and there are already talks of concerns regarding our mutual defense treaty with the US.

Taiwan is just above us and for sure can be easily sucked into a war.
if you don't want to open twitter, here is xcancel link which i should have put as the og link https://xcancel.com/SollenbergerRC/status/189560929481046439...
Americans elected current administration.
I’m sure you might’ve felt the same, but people are visibly (online and in person) are becoming more aware of how dependence on US might not be the most beneficial thing to do for the country in a long run. Locals really don’t like very in-your-face bullies.
That's exactly the opposite of what the West has been doing to Russia since at least 1993.

The by far most egregious offense having been the utter disrespect shown to the CFE treaty.

Also not a single leader on Ukraine's side (until Trump) but even tried negotiating with Putin beyond Zelensky's 10-point "peace plan". The only exception being Zelensky himself during the Istanbul negotiations. They asked Russia to retreat from Kyiv to "enable" those negotiations and after Russia did so, for yet unknown reason Ukraine withdrew and refused to engage in any further negotiations.
> Most companies start small with AI, automating $50/hour tasks like customer service chats

Is that how much the author thinks Consumer Service Representatives are paid? Is that a measure of how out of touch the author is?

> When every problem can be attacked with the equivalent of dozens of PhD-level experts, innovation accelerates dramatically.

Sure. But LLMs are nowhere near being the equivalent of PhD-level experts.
I also append "reddit" a lot - almost always when I want to get rid of google results that are ultimately just sales / marketing and not directly answering my queries.

Reddit is not even a great source a lot of the time, just a way better start than a ton of marketing sites. Some type of search product that enables you to filter out results from companies trying to sell something would be awesome and an easily achievable benefit of AI.
Weitek dominated PC 2D graphics accelerator performance for a while in the 90s, but they also suffered from 3dfx's problem of poor VGA compatibility. So they hired me to help design a new VGA core from scratch. Apparently, we did that well, but it was too late, since 3D came and they completely missed that boat because of financial problems preventing them from hiring 3D savvy talent.
They were also very well known for having the fastest math co-processors in the 386 PC days. The 486 killed that business though.
Another thing they made was a faster (2x speed) Sun Sparc processor that they sold successfully as an upgrade for a while.
The company's last profitable quarter was when they did the nVidia license deal.
They were talking about reliable, 10x is worth a lot in most complex jobs.
> Doesn't this effectively render corporate CAs useless?

All of the browsers ignore transparency for enterprise roots. To determine which is which, the list of actual public roots is stored separately in the CA database, listed in chrome://certificate-manager/crscerts for Chrome and listed as a "Builtin Object Token" in Firefox's Certificate Manager.
Show HN: Komment – make sense of messy codebases
Hey HN,

I was an architect in a big tech company for years and worked with a lot of different teams, worked on a lot of different codebases all with varying degrees of documentation and complexity. What me and the team at Komment have tried to build is a way to make sense of projects, whether it's something we've built or others or something we've to get our heads around.

It:

- connects to a Git repo

- processes the codebase with a combination of deterministic exploration, static analysis and dependency graph generation

- Uses a few different LLMs (depending on language, purpose, etc.) to generate a structured wiki with architecture diagrams, usage examples and external dependencies.

Our current thinking is that it would be useful for agencies who have to produce documentation for clients or for clients who receive delivery of external code but if you have any other ideas, I would love to hear them!

Open to feedback, skepticism, and ideas on making this better.
I don't disagree, but they all unfortunately take a backseat to geopolitics. When it comes to the behavior of nations, the playground politics of bully and victim has more explanatory power than all the high talk of the UN.
It has pattern-matching. It doesn't have knowledge in the way a human has knowledge, through building an internal model of the world where different facts are integrated together. And it doesn't have knowledge in the way a book has knowledge either, as immutable declarative statements.

It is still interesting tech. I wish it were being used more for search and compression.
Yes, and that's also the only outcome Russia would accept, unless Putin is replaced by a US puppet, which seems unlikely; such a puppet would be deeply unpopular in Russia and have great difficulty remaining in power.

The people in Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk would also reject any deal that doesn't involve Ukraine surrendering some of its land, either to Russia or to some sort of Republic of Texas limbo-state. So, even if Russia were taken over by a CIA asset, fighting there would continue unless extremely repressive measures were taken.

So that sort of deal is the only way to end the fighting with anything resembling humanity, even though Trump supports it. Stopped clocks, etc.
New book examines the ethical dilemmas of AI
Cultural changes must come from inside. Trying to make cultural changes from outside is unethical (and gross). But those changes will never occur if you give handouts. Giving handouts is making them stay poor, artificially making their culture not evolve.
Would be cool if DANE/TLSA record checks were also implemented. Not sure why browsers are not adopting it.
> Approximately 0% of the American public believes the UK would help us if we were invaded

This is just silly nonsense.

In various polls the US and UK poll quite similarly, in that the percentage of people who believe their country should honour article 5 in case of an attack on a NATO ally, polls about 2x greater than the percentage of people who believe their country shouldn't.

So approximately 0% is nonsense.

But besides the fact that the beliefs of the US population isn't 0%, look at the reality: the UK went to Iraq and Afghanistan to fight alongside the US on foreign soil, while most of the world didn't and opposed those wars. What makes you think the UK won't fight alongside the US if it was under attack on its own territory? It makes no sense.

The US being invaded essentially means there is a world war. The idea that the UK would try to stay neutral instead of follow its treaty requirements with its greatest historical ally ever, and bow to its new ruler, is just silly.

As for the UK military's prowess, it is obviously not what it used to be, in relative terms. But to compare it unfavourably to Poland and Turkey? Neither could beat the UK, except on their home soil. And in the context of an invasion of the US, I'd rather have the UK as an ally, it actually has long-distance projectionist military power which is exceedingly rare outside of the US, Turkey or Poland don't have it.
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Is it just like extensive child molestation tapes by donald trump by k-/gb, stroking his ego, a lifetime guarantee of russian indulgence and young russian escorts? Proof of him sexually abusing his daughter? I just don't get it.
> First, that Donald is not the master negotiator / business genius he claims

We're talking about someone who appears to believe a trade deficit means you're somehow being screwed or getting the short end of a deal. That's mercantilistic nonsense. It's economical thinking on par with a child who believes Scrooge McDuck is a good capitalist.
Looks like the human mind just cannot cope with being a billionaire.
They all seem to go crazy.
Why doesn't your homepage tell me what your product does? Why should I have to sign up to find out?

I need to know about the value your product provides before I decide on whether to sign up or not.
I believe Sam Cooke wrote a song on the subject? Don't know much about geography ...
I'm not sure what you deem as "sufficient", but there certainly are studies suggesting that handwriting has some benefit over typing w.r.t. learning and memory [1].

1. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-writing-by-ha...
"We were actually selling your data according to 'courts' so instead of making good on our promise to literally never do that we just memory-holed it. Not sure what the big deal is please continue to trust us."
"First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

—Martin Niemöller"
Oh, and we invented unified memory architecture when we designed a PC chipset that included onboard 2d graphics and VGA. It was a cool product, but maybe ahead of its time. It was also hard to sell that not being Intel. The architect of that product went to nVidia
They already did, about a month ago.
At this point, it seems like considering yourself a "US ally" is a strategic blunder. There's no reason to expect any sort of loyalty based on shared interests or collective security; I don't even think it's purely transaction at this point, because the entire pretense of the meeting with Zelensky was a demand for an absolutely absurd deal on mineral rights[0]. US foreign policy seems to be just as much about ego as anything else, and if you're not sufficiently deferential, it doesn't matter what you bring to the table.

[0]: $500 billion in minerals, which is around seven times the value of all of the aid given to Ukraine so far: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/20/stop-criticisi...
It was an intentional act. They wrote about it being an intentional act. The violence was not an accidental nor rare event either, it was an intentional act too.

The east expansion took a lot of time, involved quite a few massacres and invonluntary relocations.
Sounds like a conflict of interest.
I would just chuck the idea of general intelligence out the window. It seems to give us nothing anyway.
Step 1: get it to zero

Step 2: -Werror

Step 3: there is no step 3
US gets to decide how at least half the fund gets spent, so it's US businesses who get the investment and eventually reap the profits. Ukraine obviously doesn't have the cash to give back and it will never have any without reconstruction. This is one way US gets anything at all back at a pace it has any control over.

But you are correct that without security guarantees there will be no development, no reconstruction, no investments. The deal just does nothing.
>After WWII, significant male losses and the effects of the second demographic transition led to continuous population decline.

Wait, but this simply isnt true. USSR population grew continiusly until the 90iez.

The was the "war echo" in this growth, but it wasn't declining.

You cant really beat 3 year maternity leave and free kindergarder from the age of 3.

All that really worked and beinf a single mother was normalized too, because of distorted gender ratio.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/back-to-the-future-writer-biff...
Electing a president on the promise that he would stay out of politics. Ha!

Idk if he came up all on his own with the idea of becoming president by first playing one on TV, but I've got to admit it's absolutely brilliant.

The logic seems to be that if he's played good guys on TV, it means he already knows what common decency looks like to regular people, unlike the hardline nomenklatura gangsters who live by their own sort of thieves' honor.

Fascinating approach, and one common to East European worldviews: "these people are evil because they don't know how to be good". It's a supremely compassionate view, even if it's proven more than a little counterproductive over and over.
Yeah. And China will also colapse anytime soon, as they say since 90s.

Some discourses are just propaganda. Specially at war time.
No it's not marketing facade
Trump definitely came off as a zhlub in my eyes.
One of the figures in the article [1] adds something to this point: military engines have much shorter lifetimes. So it seems it's not just "trickle down" technology, there's also some redesign for reliability.

A commercial engine can operate for a cumulative 1 year between overhauls, according to that figure, as of 2010. The military ones last 1/10th as long. I can only imagine how much more challenging it is to iterate on designs when you are dealing with problems that take 10 times longer to manifest.

[1]: https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_pr...
I've had sufficiently similar experiences. Usually an LLM chatbot going off half-cocked before I'd fully specified my question, and taking offence to my "please shut the fuck up" (usually after a series of requests to stop).

I suspect if I'd kept that up the session might well have closed.
From the inside of what?
Your Invoice Is an Actor That Wants to Get Paid
Doesn't mean they both aren't irredeemably compromised and there isnt mountains of kompromat on dt
The mechanics of failure are both very well understood in some domains and applications whilst other fields languish.

Various aviation materials have 10 of thousands of papers studying fatigue failure. The area of my PhD research program was in biomechanics working on knee meniscus as a fibrous composite material.

In the entire field of biomechanics and soft tissue material science there were 2 papers that did fatigue experiments in tendons that I ever found.

I figured out how to improve specimen preparation techniques to be able to perform experiments for a third paper (at the time) on soft tissue fatigue and the first ever on fibrocartilage. It was fun.

Yet somehow medical devices are made to fix spinal discs and torn meniscus were surgically removed for decades, all without very rudimentary engineering data on the materials. Then again, visiting a spinal clinic with my father you can see the results of that with how little we can really treat.
I made some grammar errors when i was writing this — i was on the phone. The gist is there; both weapons had their manufacturing ceased which means either the US had enough stockpiles or they were superseded.

The weapons were either sold to Ukraine or other countries, and it was only after Ukraine requested more of them that production started again, which implies the US had no need to produce them because they were superseded in US’ arsenal.

Furthermore, just because Ukraine received X weapon, doesn’t mean they received the latest and greatest variant that’s in use — they might have very well received a previous generation of said weapon.

Asking which weapon or system replaced them as is in service does not look like discussing in good faith simply because the systems might change or newer variants may be used.

Do better.
> They meant 10ms is slow.

I don't think anyone making that sort of claim knows anything about cloud services. A single roundtrip of a no-op request within the same data center takes 0.5ms. Add querying across multiple partitions and data seeking, and you don't find cloud providers doing better.

To frame how oblivious that claim is, DynamoDB is lauded for it's response times being sub-20ms.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34552625/how-to-get-sub-...
You have been banned from /r/NorthKorea ...

(One of the more ostentatious examples, but hardly the only one.)
everybody around me is holding phones where the tax on theiers, was more than the purchase price on my hinky wall mart purchased, motorola.
The motorolas have a plastic case, that seams to provide drop protection on a very good level, so nice slim, big screen, does all the things, $90can
with a rebate.
It plays nice with a linux lap top.
camera is not great is the one thing that would push me to another phone, but not at the cost of
feature bloat and a more fragile phone, requiring a case.....physical bloat
sure wish that it was possible to buy components and build a "phone" , as there is nothing availible anywhere at any price, that would do the "simple" things I would put it to
Been using Azure for a few months now, mainly the AI part (AI foundry, AI search), and it feels like a product ran by juniors with no guidance. One day, the entire PromptFlow reaction was down, no status, no info.

To create a new deployment (which is basically a PAYG model that doesn’t really require this limitation), you’d have to switch to the old UI to find the button to create one.

I agree with comments about cloud providers, most applications would be better hosted on VPS or services like Digital Ocean. But hey, software developers like to look smart by complicating things
Siphoning money away from the public and to themselves is the whole point.