skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you say "big hitters", I guess you mean the well-known corporate crawlers like GPTBot (one of OpenAI's). Yes, these do tend to identify themselves --and they tend to respect robots.txt, too -- but they're a small part of the problem, from my perspective. Because there's also a long tail of anonymous twerps training models using botnets of various kinds, and these folks do not identify themselves, and in fact they try to look like ordinary users. Collectively these bots use way more resources than the name-brand crawlers.

(My site is basically a search engine, which complicates matters because there's effectively an infinite space of URLs. Just one of these rogue bots can scrape millions of pages from tens of thousands of IPs; and I think there are hundreds of the bots at any given moment...)
I was wondering why are random donation page was on the front page.
You support DOGE's mission, but not a fan of this decision? Destroying 18F entirely consistent with DOGE's mission and Trump's goals. Why this decision then and not all their other ones?

You wrote a lot of words saying very little.
Maxim HMG: Patented 1883, combat use 1886.

Manhattan Project: Started 1942, combat use 1945.

Solid state transistor: Invented 1954, in radios 1955.

Hybrid cars, iPhone, etc etc.
> We need to be able to convert labor to capital, hold it, then convert it back to gain benefits of someone else's labor later.

That part seems fine to me. The thing that feels intuitively "wrong" is that it's possible to amass money/capital way out of proportion to the amount of labor input.

The example of the "four hour work week" concept comes to mind, where the goal is explicitly to minimize the ratio of input labor to output capital. Why should 4 hours of my work now entitle me to, say, 40 (or 400, or 4000...) hours of someone else's work later?

I am also not an economist, so perhaps someone else can explain what other mechanism is working alongside your "labor is fungible with capital" that leads to this result, and whether it's a feature or a buy of the economic machine...
Your buddy might like https://www.tokyodawn.net/tdr-simulathe-cut/ which simulates the vinyl grooves on your computer.
I wonder whether EU has the capacity to pull up itself. After all it is not really an EU state. And do ordinary EU people really want that? I mean double the defence budget (or triple in certain cases), double the standing army and etc.
In fact things are worse for them today. In Versai it was the norm for the king to take a dump in a bucket in front of the whole court. Today's billionaires have to pay people to watch them do it and have to keep it hush hush.
Open source? Giving stuff away? Sounds socialist mate.
There's a lot and I'm no expert. If you can find expired memes your can find how to prompt for programming.

Karpathy has a new intro series that I think puts one into the correct mindset.

As others have said, it's not AGI yet, so holding it right is, in fact, critical.
The Norquist argument I have heard is that taxes should be painful. Anything that makes it too easy for the government to get money should be avoided.

So, you know, a policy of making life better for average people.
I have mixed feelings about discoverability. I'd usually rather functionality be available in a non-discoverable fashion than unavailable because designers couldn't figure out how to surface it in the UI. And, one of the things I like about vim and emacs is the interface can be extremely minimal with all the functionality I need behind key shortcuts and the like. (Although, emacs has a nice solution of `C-x C-b` list all the available shortcuts for the current window and `M-x` listing all the available commands.

The way I learned these shortcuts was reading macOS's help back in 2007, but the quality of documentation bundled with macOS has gone downhill quite a bit.
> Even if you have everything to eat, you will still need unhappy if he has more.

Yes if the demands on our personal resources (inc hours, energy, cognition) far outstrip our quality of life gains.

Me (gen x) vs my parents (silent gen): Parenting time went from a few hours per week to 24/7 adulting while kids growth resources (free range+adult free) was nearly eradicated.

My parents had tons of leisure time. I had none.

Mundane activities are unimaginably complicated now - needs that once had a couple of factors to consider now has dozens of compounding factors, each with their own subgroups to work through.

Consumer choices are flooded with bad options; long research is needed to avoid the never-ending line of traps.

> We live as long as kings, with greater variety of food and drink, greater variety of entertainment, and big comfortable houses.

What's left out of the "Live Better Than Kings" spiel is that gains turn into mandates (electricity, internet). They're required to meet basic needs like housing and not having kids taken away.

> I'd take this trade 10/10 times.

Draw up the entire list of factors that a poor American has to work through. Drop a king into that life for a month and have them report back.
They are terrified of asset taxes and want to keep them as bureaucratically inhibited as possible.
So not right wingers? I don’t know many right wingers that enjoy filing tax returns.
People don't like to live in dense environments. Apartments and condos suck, people want their back yard.

I presented it in absolute terms because we're talking high-level here. The possibility to commute from reno to santa monica and having lots of people actually doing that are different things. My point was, if that was a 1-2 hour commute, then housing along side that commute would make economic sense, as will many other economic activities. If it is a train, I personally won't mind a 2-3 hour total daily commute, since I can catch up with books,entertainment,etc.. but if it is a drive, that would be too much, and that in essence is one of the critical issues on how this is being thought about. Cars (EV or not) are one of the root causes of the housing problem.
Same, I see it as the single missing piece in the puzzle. If they had a VM product then for small businesses it'd be such an obvious choice, especially if they provide anywhere even just half the nice integration with their other products as they do with workers.

I'm guessing it's just because they're so extremely all-in on every single of their products being on the edge, and you can't make that work with VMs without becoming far more expensive than any of their customers would pay.

Or maybe I'm clueless. But it sure looks that way from the outside.
> We Europeans used to be able to gleefully report that we could file our taxes in minutes (which, in fact, it being 1 March, I did today), but you almost had it fixed.

Its even done automatically here in Austria for you. You just have to use a simple to use webapp if you want a tax refund for stuff like donations or tax-writoffable expanses.
Same reason there is opposition to municipal ISPs. The theory is the public sector should stay away from anything the private sector could theoretically provide. It assumes the private sector will deliver better goods at lower prices due to market pressures.
If OPM is the HR department, GSA is the office manager.
My biggest hope is that home computing catches up to the point where you can buy a sub-thousand-dollar card, slap it into your desktop, and run this stuff locally. Take the power away from massive, well-funded corporations with armies of lawyers and “safety weenies” and put it back in the hands of makers and tinkerers.

Right now, these models are built by the establishment to serve the establishment—and that’s a load of shit that needs to change. The real fun starts the day some random group of “anonymous” on 4chan can train one of these models to generate incredibly convincing deepfakes of world leaders, all using the compute power in their own homes.

Power to the people. Fuck the system, and all that jazz.
FAA targeting Verizon contract in favor of SpaceX
FAA is close to cancel $2.4 Billion Contract with Verizon and replace it with a contract with SpaceX.
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis/nasa-and-italian-space...

https://www.unoosa.org/documents/pdf/icg/2024/WG-B_Lunar_PNT...

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20220002074/downloads/Lu...

2 axis gimbaled antenna is used to point at Earth. Details start at page 6 on the last link in this comment. I don't believe precise positioning on the Moon is occurring, only detection of where Earth is and consumption of the positioning signal the experiment can receive.
Countries with them.
It is a great step in the right direction.

That said, the target is RISC-V isa, AV1/opus hardware block encoding/decoding, hardware with "standard" programming interfaces (nvme/usb-audio/usb-video, aka usually memory mapped command ring buffers).

ELF is too complicated, maybe a new, really simpler, executable format. And some linux code we could compile with a simple alternative C compiler, aka with inline assembly moved to assembler source files (that to de-couple linux code from the abominations of gcc/clang).
Hell any country except the USA. I've lived in both the USA and Australia. In Australia it's been digital for a long time. As in you go to file and the equivalent of all your W2 information is pre-filed by the employer, retirement and investment systems. You're just running through a government provided site to check off any special exemptions and you're done. It's a huge efficiency win. Think of the hours you spent dealing with Turbotax and the like, re-importing information from other systems manually when your employer and bank already added filed that information under your name into the tax system on their side.

I hear outright wrong arguments for why the USA has not moved to a modern filing system. The US tax system is NOT more complex than other countries. It's pretty middle of the road in complexity. Yes other countries are made up of states too. Yes there's a ton of exemptions in other countries.

It's yet another example of people taking an absurd "government is always less efficient than private" viewpoint that isn't even founded in any academic sense. It's a line broadcast by very rich people that want to siphon off profit and it's hard to do that when it's tax payer funded.
> The actual reason why America is an outlier is widespread over-diagnosis.

> A typical ADHD diagnosis in America is done by a paediatrician or a family doctor in an office visit as brief as 15 minutes. The norm in Europe is an hours-long assessment by a psychiatrist.

Anecdotal evidence, but our experience is — and most people/teachers/doctors we talk to say — that most diagnosis are done via similar long tests.

I’ve not heard of doctors/teachers trying to address ADHD without a formal test being done.

Are others able to confirm that they know of diagnosis from a “15 minute doctor visit”?

EDIT: In fact, our insurance won’t even cover medication for our son without a formal checkup — every 3 months.

Sure, some may “unofficially” think or claim to have ADHD from talking to their doctor that may say something like “it’s possible you/your child has ADHD”, but I find it hard to believe that actual treatment/IEP (individual education plan) happens without a formal diagnosis.
Thank you!

I didn’t get the chance to mention them in the blog post, but yes we checked out the price tags on the commercial solutions :) It’s crazy! I’ve always wondered how much of the cost is hardware vs software… and I would imagine professional digital signage is also designed for reliability longevity and all that.
Musk ally is moving to close office behind free tax filing program at IRS
Yeah, lot of their initial strength ended up comming from Czechoslovak and Austrian weapon factories. :P
I think another problem is that Broadcom is even more poorly managed than Intel and I think that matters a lot when it comes to M&A.

We can look at VMWare as a direct example.

It’s like when you see a company sold to Oracle or IBM you know it’s not going to be better than the status quo.

Pretty sure my cellular modem is made by Qualcomm.
What is the point in replicating an employee when the AI could be better than all the employees? This is a problem only extreme outliers like Nobelists need to worry about. Rank and file employees are not gonna be replicated.
Does it matter? AFAIK Firefox doesn't plan to go closed-source, so applying patches should be continue being fine too.
Hash function design, SMHasher and Goodhart's Law
This is a fair point. I remember the default chat setting was to delete all chats after 24 hours. I think emails had a similar retention policy — they were automatically after a year or something like that.
It's evidence that those exams are doing something right.

Whether it's surprising or not, it's up to you. But it's something that should be measured once in a while.
You're not an outlier. If you look at US GDP per capita, adjusted for inflation, it's higher than ever. If you then look at the median personal income, also adjusted for inflation (i.e. the middle class), you see the same trend.

There's a lot of doom and gloom but it doesn't seem consistent with the data.

There's a weird tendency to zoom in on particular data points that paint a particularly negative story and leave out the rest. For example, we look at housing and will say that its prices outpaced inflation. And that's true, sort of. But it's also completely untrue. For example, if I look at my own situation compared to my parents: I have a 1.5% interest rate on my mortgage, my parents paid 15%. Homes are now about 50-75% bigger than my parents' generation, on average. And the average home is shared by 33% fewer people than my parents' generation. So the cost to rent the money to buy a certain area of home for 1 person, i.e. housing costs, has actually gone down, despite the average price of a house having gone up.

In all fairness I wouldn't want to trade with the average person in past generations.
i'm not saying it's anything new... i'm pointing out that if we view Zelenskyy’s role through a Roman lens, where the term dictator originates, his broad wartime powers—granted under martial law, with elections and normal governance suspended—mirror the temporary, crisis-driven authority of a Roman dictator.
But who wants to live in apartments? It's better than being homeless but it's hardly a solution. People want single-family housing, and it is possible to build tens of millions of houses within practical commute distances of big cities. Also, we can build new cities!
What's a sober assessment of the state of a full Web browser using Servo, and scale of effort to get there?

It needs features like bookmarks and basic tabs, and support for uBlock Origin rulesets (either as an extension or built-in).

It doesn't need features like DRM, tethering to mothership services, telemetry, and paid-placement portal screens.
> There's no recipe for happiness that primarily involves looking in the other guy's bowl. Even if you have everything to eat, you will still need unhappy if he has more.

What kind of happiness demands billions of dollars? These things go both ways.

> No wonder you guys constantly post about unhappiness. You are obsessed with keeping up with the Joneses.

As opposed to the ultrarich who have actively pursued this inequality? Curious, it consistently only goes one way in your mind.

> Much more joy if you instead care only about absolute living standards. My life has improved a lot and if Jeff Bezos appears before me and will make me 10x as wealthy if he is 100x I will gladly choose that.

Who said that Bezos could do that? Who said that wealth is created by the ultrarich? No one, but your mind seems to think so for some reason. Well, I’m sure you could find supposed evidence of it on X and the Washington Post, for whatever reason that might be.

> We live as long as kings, with greater variety of food and drink, greater variety of entertainment, and big comfortable houses. I'd take this trade 10/10 times.

So? This is a forum visited by high-earning US software engineers (that’s not me but a lot are). Not the kinds of people that the last four decades have hurt (the most). Which is why you get these surprise comments in these threads. “Woah guys, I’ve been reading these numbers lately and people are actually poor out there.”

No, I don’t think that it’s the Microsoft staff engineers that are personally mad about the state of things.
Here's the big picture: Only around 3% of total spending is federal payroll. Dismantling of essential services like free tax filing saves very little money.

Total annual spending is around $6.75 trillion, of which only around $210 Billion is spent on federal payroll (not including military and postal workers).

All these cuts are intended to pay for tax cuts for Elon Musk and his fellow billionaires.
I think your misunderstanding is in the "turning around" part. If you read any of the unhinged manifestos A16Z et al have written, you'll understand it's all very consistent with what you are witnessing now. Some people have been calling on this for at least a decade, but they are largely ignored.
https://archive.ph/2025.02.28-022251/https://www.washingtonp...
Government changes over time, and the need for workforce changes with it. The number of employees a government needs is a function of what the government does and provides. Anything else would be artificial constraint, or working backwards from assumption.
The Wayback Machine seems to save the page as it sees it while Archive.Today seems to use some extensions to bypass paywalls and things like that.
Even if some stuff could be simpler, I'll hazard a guess and say it's the cost of flexibility and "correctness".
Hi Jztan, glad you're exploring this space! I'm the co-founder of MobileBoost, and I'd love to introduce our product, GPT Driver (https://www.mobileboost.io/).

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Struggling to Pick the Best LLM for Your Prompt? Prompt Analyzer Has the Answer
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SFR had no decreases during those years in the US. Markets like the Southeast had 7-14% increases every year. SFR companies were doing “cash for keys” because rates were increasing so quickly that it was better business to buyout a lease from the current tenant and bring in a new one at a 14% increase.
The diagnostic criteria is entirely subjective. "Often loses thigns", "Often doesn't pay attention" isn't exactly objective. How do we even know what "often" is?

But more than that what is the condition, if the only means we have of defining it is a subjective biased interpretation by an individual?

I am sure there are differences in brain chemistry that make one more stimulated, more long term goal oriented, and etc, but given the complexity of the human brain, and our lack of understanding/tools to measure, its not clear to me we should be so sure given any patients failure can be directly attributed to a singular condition.
I get your sentiment, but I work 40+ hours a week as a swe. I write plenty of code. I don't see how writing a loop with some conditionals and regex would be beneficial. It is something that is not difficult to do, but would take time. The destination, and getting there quickly, was the only goal I was looking for.
If we don't the world will continue getting a lot more unstable. More countries will be invaded & annexed, more genocides take place and international laws will be violated without anyone enforcing them
Polkadot JAM runs DOOM on a global decentralized computer - Gavin Wood demo
Again, if you need long algebraic, a single comment in a PGN stores it, it is smaller than your format, is still readable. And it could use a shorter, faster to parse, more cache friendly, format than inserting a soup of useless braces, colons, quote marks, and other clutter that simply makes BGN a complete mess to parse.

There may be a reason for zero downloads.
I agree, so let's make it cheaper. Other countries build subways cheaper over longer distances. It isn't a practical limitation but one of politics and policy.
I think that's hyperbolic.

The current state of LLMs _can_ be helpful for education. Millions of people use them as such and benefit from it.

A far bigger problem with the technology IMO is the generative aspect. We already have a large problem with disinformation and spam on the internet, and generative AI will increase this by many orders of magnitude. Discerning fact from fiction is already difficult today; it will be literally impossible to do in the future, _unless_ we invent more technology to save us from it. This is a problem we haven't even begun to address. The public is collectively blinded by the novelty of the technology, while entrepreneurs are jumping over themselves trying to profit from the latest gold rush. Very few people with the power to change anything are actually thinking about the long-term, or even mid-term, impacts.
The IRS has some pretty strict rules about who can access those files and how they can be shared with other agencies. In many ways these rules are unique to the IRS. Precisely because of the issues noted here.
Of course, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSD1d-6P6qI
> What do you mean by "metals don't actually withstand temperature"? As in the raw metal would melt were it not for the cooling vanes?

Metals don't need to melt to fail. Increasing the temperature leads to gradual reduction of yields limits. For example, the yield stress of steel drops to 50% if it reaches around 500 degrees.
He’s a brick layer, not a linguist.
I mean it's a bit gross, but the version of the headline I saw made me think it was some kind of in-mouth camera and I was wondering how on earth they routed the optic nerve down there (silly of me perhaps, because I've read about this before, but that's how it took me initially).

Grossness aside, it's pretty interesting that the need for biocompatibility made this something worth considering at all though.
Scott Alexander's views on Adderall prescriptions (for ADHD) is a good read: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/12/28/adderall-risks-much-mo...
> the removal of existing power structures within the government that support left-wing causes.

Whoa, I thought DOGE was just trying to root out waste and corruption to save America from its deficit, but now you tell me it's to cement right wing loyalty in the deep state?!
It’s not the case that every single black applicant gets admitted before a single white/Asian applicant does. The point is that it’s much, much easier for a black applicant to get admitted.

A black applicant with GPA and MCAT scores in the lowest bucket still has a 56% chance of admission. That’s on par with an Asian applicant who has GPA and MCAT scores in the highest bucket.
>Are others able to confirm that they know of diagnosis from a “15 minute doctor visit”?

Yes, I got mine this way. Telehealth during Covid was notorious for this, but lot of NP/PA offices now do the same thing, just with a single in person visit.