skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of the old low power stuff from make magazine like the joule thief. I wonder how it’d stack up…
For anyone who thinks LangChain is too bloated
This Typescript framework is only 179 lines and captures the most important core abstraction of most LLM frameworks: A Nested Directed Graph that breaks down tasks into multiple (LLM) steps, with branching and recursion for agent-like decision-making.
(I assume by gender you mean sex or cisgender.)

The problems facing the two sexes are different and the expectations of them are different, at least in many societies. The expectations of a young man have been around self-sacrifice, self-control, and self-reliance, and looking towards female role models for cues on that would lose a lot of nuance particular to the male condition.

Women do not have the same physical capabilities of men in either size or strength, and so you're not gonna see the same modeling of restraint. Women have, by and large, a different way of processing emotions than men, and and so you're not gonna see the same modeling of how to handle things like intense anger. Women are rewarded for consensus and co-support in a way that men are not, so you're not gonna see the same modeling of how and when to step out of line and take your licks. Women do not have the same utility in things like warfare or manual labor, and so you're not gonna see the same modeling of patriotic duty or chivalry.

It's fine and well to have role models for other purposes, mind you--plenty of great examples of other qualities--but you can't look towards women for how to be a good man with the same efficacy you can look at men. The opposite argument is of course laughed at out of hand: nobody would seriously suggest that a young woman look towards men to learn how to be a proper woman.
> The conformist era was what began around 2018 to 2019.

The conformist era was [the beginning of time] -> now, and into the future.

'Cancel culture' has always existed and still exists. It's the dominant socioeconomic group deciding a person must be shunned because they have breached the group's value system, and must be made an example. The United States, firmly based in puritanism, has shunned from the beginning, and there's probably at least a dozen churches getting together and shunning some member right now as I type this.

The only thing that changed in that period from around 2016-2020 was the dominant socioeconomic group wasn't entirely white conservative males. That was a problem, the event had to be digested, analyzed, the situation had to be labeled (as we see here, it's the "conformist era") and work had to be done to eliminate it and ensure it didn't happen again.
Most of the management, as well as bureaucracy could be substituted with AI for sure.
I am building a company that accepts user generated data, and one surprising struggle is getting my lawyers to stop writing shitty, overbroad, abusive TOS. They are just so used to it, and all the templates and boiler plate is designed to give me everything and the user nothing. And if I want to do better by ny users I have to fight and cajole my own lawyers and pay extra for them to do the extra work of writing terms that aren’t predatory because that is unusual and custom.

It sucks.
> Reflexive "ugh govt" is a result of decades of Reagan-ite propaganda.

Looking at federal spending as a percentage of GDP [1] it seems we've been hovering around 20% for most of post-WW2. There was a huge spike for COVID and a smaller spike for the GFC. (It was pretty surprising this chart doesn't also show a huge spike for the response to 9/11.)

Pre-2020 spending was ~20% of GDP, pre-2018 was more like ~18% - 19%.

There's definitely more government spending than there used to be.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYONGDA188S
Mozilla is trying to backtrack on Firefox's controversial data privacy update
Yeah, that's common. Only slightly more common than having actual mind blowing realizations that help people see how others see them, give them empathy they never knew, and give the motivation to fix their lives before they die unhappy.

The big problem is that there's only so many actual realizations you can have, but it feels big every time you take it. So the people that take acid every month inevitably end up with a mind full of so much "incredible importance" that it turns into mysticism and the realizations are at best buried, at worst completely lost. If you take shrooms one every 3 years i bet your gonna have actual realizations every single time, and they're gonna help you reevaluate and plan your future. If you take it every week you're gonna go insane.
>Do we really want to dilute the uniqueness of language

I can't speak to whether it's desirable or not, but this has been happening with the advent of radio, movies, and television for over a century. So, are we worse off now, linguistically-speaking, than then? Do we really even notice missing accents if we never grew up with them?
No, a description of ADHD features is easy to find, but not "robust metrics".

When searching specifically for metrics used in diagnosis, some choice words come up from med central:

"A challenge with diagnosing ADHD is that the characteristics associated with the disorder – such as difficulties with focusing, shifting/dividing attention, managing frustration, organization/poor time-management, working memory, and staying engaged – are common symptoms that could have a breadth of etiologies.

As noted, *more often than not*, ADHD coincides with another disorder. "

Then for narrow-band symptoms will list examples of neuropsychological measures like D-KEFS, and finding details for each of these is again like pulling teeth. But looking at the description, all of what is tested could be impacted by other issues, including instability in home life, lifestyle factors, anxiety and depression, insomnia, etc
It's a super interesting premise, and I like it too.

We should distinguish those in the community that actually discover new glitches from those who simply practice what others have uncovered, though. Those aren't always the same person.
Well, the logical response is to do the same - make sure that any alternative to the US is examined first. Because working with the US will mean you're supposed to lose...
As someone who cares about privacy, knowing that the company that MITMs a massive chunk of my TLS traffic to websites also controls my browser's funding would make me feel uneasy.
When I first started working on the website nine months ago, I didn’t even know what Postgres was, so going with an easier option made sense. Right now, we also use Supabase for auth and emails.

For queries, we don’t use Supabase’s API interface—we interact with Postgres directly through our backend
I support DOGE’s stated mission - the elimination of redundancy and reform with an eye toward efficiency in general.

Eliminating 18F does not fit into either of those categories.

I believe it was eliminated because it was staffed with people who almost exclusively opposed the current administration’s agenda. This as a political decision.

I’m trying to say that when I put myself in the position of Trump and his administration, I understand why 18F was cut, while simultaneously stating that my belief that 18F did good work and we’ll be worse off without them.
I pulled our flow restrictor out a couple years ago and watched our water bills over the year before and year after.

In the year before we used 76 units of water, in the year after we used 78. So maybe it increased our total usage by 2.6%; but there were also some other lifestyle changes over that period that I'd expect drove up our water usage more.

Even if all 2.6% could be attributed to the flow restrictor, its not enough for me to go back to crappy showers.
FDA has determined the shortages of the non-compounded versions has been resolved (of zepbound/tizepatide in October 2024, and wegovy/semaglutide last week): https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-c...

So compounders can no longer legally sell tirzepatide and will soon (April-May) be unable to legally sell semaglutide.
So the secret sauce was the filesystem?
An NNTP server that allows you to experience old Usenet with a 40 year delay. You'd get each day's messages as if they were published today.
> If it doesn't align with the HN groupthink it gets hammered out of view.

Yup. The following is a concrete example…

HN commenter [0][0]:

> If things keep going the way they are going, [a country with an authoritarian government that makes favored industries subsidized] could describe the US just as well in a few short years.

Me [1][1]:

> Why do you think so?

For asking this reasonable question, I received a bunch of downvotes but not a single response. Of course I can assume the reason is because I’m supposed to just accept the premise that Trump is bringing about an authoritarian government, but I really don’t, and a majority of American constituents (who voted for him) don’t either.

Before emigrating to the U.S., my parents and my family lived under real authoritarian regimes, under which family members were sanctioned, tortured (some still have the marks on their bodies to this day), and even killed for their political viewpoints, so I actually find so much of this hyperbolic rhetoric rather offensive when there are billions of folks all across the world who actually have to live under such regimes.

Rather than doubling down on the hyperbolic rhetoric, it might be a good idea to, in good faith, try to understand why half of your fellow Americans see the state of our country so differently from you, which requires good-faith intellectually diverse discussions.

The ultimate irony in all of this is that a lot of folks seem to not understand that, when it comes to politics, simply alienating the other side, is one of the most counterproductive things to do, because while you won’t have to “suffer” hearing their viewpoints, they’ll simply resort to using the one tool they can still use: their vote. This is why Trump’s 2024 win was so shocking to so many when it was so obvious to anyone actually paying attention and listening. The same applies to AfD coming in second in Germany.

Months before the 2024 election, I told a friend of mine (who’s a big Democrat donor in Georgia) that I think the Democrats are wrong about the Hispanic vote, and he told me, “I love you bro but if you think Hispanics are voting for Trump the way he speaks about them I got a bridge to sell you. Trump is cooked!” After the election, he followed up, “I’m all ears now, what did I not understand?” It was too late though.

I knew I was right about the Hispanic vote, not because I have a crystal ball, but because my church is filled with Hispanics and I learned so much about how they think politically and so much of the nuanced perspectives within their community by listening to them, meanwhile the Democrats think almost entirely in terms of identity politics.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43159998

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43163139
Young adults increasingly struggling offline turn to ASMR videos, report finds
If the government has nothing better to do than gamble they should either return it to the taxpayers or invest in the country.
Exactly. Although I wouldn't even say they have blinders, it seems like OpenAI understands quite well what 4.5 can do and what it can't hence the modesty in their messaging.

To your point, though, I would add not only who has seen any grand conspiracy actually be accomplished, who has seen one even attempted and kept under wraps? Such that the absence of corroborating sources was more consistent with an effectively executed conspiracy theory than the simple absence of such a plan.
'I want him to be prepared': Parents are teaching their gen Alpha kids to use AI
Dropped could mean abandoned
some speedrunners that compete in categories where glitches are allowed and who find the bugs themselves can be labeled hackers.
Have you considered pivoting your product to something with more demand?
But didn't DeviantArt ultimately decide to opt-in every work hosted on the platform to train its generative AI?
I understand the sentiment here, and maybe it applies well to open source projects looking for any sort of contribution. But I've also seen plenty of cases where junior developers jump into the deep end and put up a garbage PR, where the senior developers get to spend cycles effectively rewriting the entire thing through opening tons of issues and comments.

This may be uncommon, but my employer has also started tracking metrics on pull requests and merge times. There's incentive in some places to only put up code that's reached some level of "ready to merge" as opposed to using a PR as a tool for peer or group programming. You could achieve a similar collab/feedback by pushing to a fork or branch and then linking to it in a discord or IRC server where you can have "real" time discussion around the change.
The concept of perfect competition describes what capitalism in its purest, most ideal form should be, and everything after that is a description of what happens when humans get involved.
lmao! It's the same as all the sysadmin folks at my organization who have a policy of locking down all our computers without admin rights whereas I noticed they DID have admin rights.

Rules for thee but not for me, typical tech nerds.
To be clear for others, the sibling comment is incorrect and I think is an idea coming from the sovereign citizen movement. You have to pay income tax generally.
I live in Poland and speak Polish but tend to have my devices set to English because of how low quality UI translations tend to be. The endless confusion this causes to software is amusing. Worst/best of all is Google Maps on Android, in which random parts of the interface, including voice directions, can independently be in Polish or English, and which is which changes on its own on a daily basis.
Re: 'synchronized' and data. It is a good distinction to make because sync does indeed lock control, not data. With ACID transactions or STM, an atomic section will run as-if-sequentially, full stop, since the data is locked. With Java sync, you get 'no other thread is in these lines of code' and you have to hope that's enough for the system to run as-if-sequentially.
I've owned Bitcoin since Jan 2013 and I think this is a terrible idea.

I love speculative investments with interesting (to me) technology, but I don't want the foundation of my life (my country) to be affected by this speculation. I should control my exposure.

It's the same reason I'm glad the vote to get Microsoft to buy Bitcoin failed. I don't need more risk added to my other investments.
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I disagree with the notion that Microsoft is sabotaging the Linux desktop via WSL. In my opinion, I believe it’s the Sisyphean development churn of the FOSS desktop ecosystem that held the Linux desktop back. However, the industry-wide move away from native apps toward Web apps, combined with growing dissatisfaction with Windows in some circles and with the high cost of switching to a Mac (especially for those who need more RAM than what Apple sells by default), has provided a large lifeline for the Linux desktop.

The Linux desktop has had a rough history. The original problem was the original KDE using a non-FOSS Qt, which led to the development of GNOME, splintering the FOSS desktop ecosystem into two competing desktops, spreading already-thin resources. Granted, things were good in the mid-2000s, when GNOME 2 and KDE 3 were current, and when it appeared that the Linux desktop would be poised to make significant inroads against Windows XP, just like how Firefox in 2005 formed a formidable challenge to Internet Explorer. Even OpenOffice appeared to seriously challenge Microsoft Office at the time.

In my opinion, there have been many setbacks since the late 2000s. GNOME 3’s very controversial changes led to the splintering of the GNOME/Gtk community (Cinnamon and MATE). KDE 4 was not well received, though KDE 5 is widely praised. GNOME and other projects (though not KDE) was heavily influenced by mobile computing paradigms led by a misguided belief that desktops will become obsolete. The transition from X11 to Wayland has been quite rocky, to say the least.

Interestingly enough, what has improved the competitiveness of the Linux desktop these days has been the shift away from native apps and toward both the Web and Electron apps. While as a long-time former Mac user I lament the decline of native apps and the loss of consistency, apps built on Web technologies are cross-platform or even platform-agnostic. If one doesn’t need native Windows and macOS apps, then the barrier to switching to a Linux desktop is much lower. Even the gaming situation has dramatically improved on Linux.
Kind of surprised that this book could be published by O'Reilly and also freely available online? Seems unusually generous.
As with any profession, most workers are just proficient in whatever they need to do. The people littering these things with comments about how Tailwind is "enough" are probably telling the truth for their personal experiences. A lot of web developers don't have professional experience working with designers and implementing software to visual specifications.
Windows is notorious for this---its code page (i.e. character encoding and thus effectively language and script) is directly tied to the locale. Most importantly this meant the same code page 950 (Big5) was used for both Taiwan and Hong Kong. Hong Kong had its own extension to Big5 called HKSCS, so they could be distinguished only by the OS edition. (Internally Big5+HKSCS has a separate code page 951, but AFAIK this wasn't exposed publicly.)
We already knew by then that the speed of light was finite (per Wikipedia, in 1676), but not that it was constant (general relativity).

I don't think there'd have been any reason to think it would act differently than any other small object passing near a more massive one?
Yeah, I have implemented it in PHP and Lua as well, cannot check the LOC right now, but it is around ~30 as well, if not less, at least in PHP.
you transmit, it receives. To avoid draining battery, don't transmit.

that said I expect "feed me" attacks eventually.
emit small signals that induce a big response

... hey maybe I can finally get something useful from advertising.
Well “building” is also troubleshooting, fixing a problem. Just in a bit more general level: ideally it is not fixing a “small” well-defined problem in software, but bigger and fuzzier problem in the real world: the thinking process and tooling is quite the same. Of course many devs dont think of it like that, they just try to fulfill given requirements without understanding real problem they troubleshoot. Actually a lot of software “builds” are really troubleshooting attempts on top of other software also, which makes that border even fuzzier.
The current insanely complicated tax code (with trillion upon trillions of rules and special cases) is something that even professional Tax Accountants admit no human can possibly understand.

But we know one thing as a fact: MOST OF IT was WRITTEN by Washington DC lobbyists specifically to embed in it all the loopholes that make it so that the elite in this country will pay hardly any taxes at all. Basically the fox guarding the hen house.

The obvious solution is to throw it ALL out and go with something simple that everyone understands. The reason this doesn't ever happen is because those same K-Street lobbyists make very large financial "contributions" to the same politicians in DC whose votes are required for a change.
I'd come into the office 3 days a week if I lived close to the office. I live far away because the office is downtown. Downtown is expensive to live in.

I think a lot of people who want to work from home want to not commute for an hour per day or can't afford to live nearby the office.
This just reads like a fluff piece to advertise their own products, and the conclusions in the summary are the kind of vague handwavey promises AI bros have been making for the past 3 years

> Take our own experience: Neartail competes with Shopify and Square, and it’s built by one person. Formfacade is a CRM that competes with HubSpot—built by one person.

Would like it better if claims like this were backed up by numbers.
> In 2023, according to the Financial Times, data centers in Northern Virginia alone used nearly 2 billion gallons of water. University of California at Riverside researchers estimate that, in 2027, thirsty AI will slurp up between 1.1 trillion and 1.7 trillion gallons of water globally.

What does "used" mean in this case? Aren't these closed systems?
They're not out of touch. They know. They don't care.
I wonder at which scale spark fits into this picture and what the tradeoffs / benefits would be
We've been in a recession for years now, at least since 2020. The lockdowns were basically on the way out by 2022.

>Were industries that traditionally hire a lot of women already bouncing back from the pandemic in ways that industries that traditionally hire a lot of men did not?

Yes, probably. The difference could be due to health care jobs or restaurant jobs doing disproportionately well compared to construction or manufacturing during those two years, for example. And I think there may also be some effect related to getting laid off and rehired at a higher salary.

I remember hearing a lot of whining about how the pandemic affected women more because of the type of work they tend to do. So here's another angle. If you lost your job and got rehired at a higher salary, that could actually turn out better than keeping your job for those two years with all the inflation we've had.
My comment was about the degree of executive power exercised, and not about the wisdom of his actions. Trump has yet to match FDR.

That said, many historians believe that FDR's actions made the Great Depression longer and more severe. Given that most other countries recovered more quickly than the USA, they may have a point. But that is a complex debate. Far simpler is how much executive power FDR wielded.
We should be able to directly donate to fund the salary of full-time engineers working on Firefox and only Firefox, completely circumventing the PMC.

It might also be possible to fork and spin off Firefox into a new non-profit, circumventing Mozilla if some of the devs organize it.
I’ve not used it for very large documents, but I’ve been very happy with the fidelity of conversion using Marked 2 (https://marked2app.com)

I believe it’s Mac only. I use it sometimes when I’m creating PDFs from my personal documentation to share more publicly, which I keep in Markdown and deploy on Gitlab Pages as a static site.
I did know a guy who claimed to have lived years of family life with a wife and kids once on DMT. I doubt it was actually years but it probably felt like it and it did fuck him up a bit. He had to mourn the loss of the perfect family life he'd gotten used to. He knew all of their names and favorite foods and sports and colors and what happened at school and first kiss and pregnancy announcement and wedding and stuff. Honestly kinda scared me. He just started reciting a whole life, and then he refused to talk about it again
Then I'd encourage raising these concerns with your physician then and asking for a lower dose.
In this situation, you can macro-manage.

Suggest to the junior that they test for the given edge case. Let them figure out how to write the test on their own. If they push back on doing the testing, then back off and let them deal with a prod failure.

It's good to help people when they didn't notice something key, and on their first time experiencing something. The bad thing is to repeatedly help them on the same thing they should have learned the last time it came up.
I'm not missing your point, I'm disagreeing with it.
I'm learning this for the first time now. I don't appreciate having to anticipate how many credits I'll use like its an FSA account.
Apple's Artificial Intelligence Efforts Reach a Make-or-Break Point