skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://archive.ph/TAGNa
>what a known, paid Russian asset would do differently as President of the US than Trump

Well the obvious one is dropping Russian sanctions. Has Trump done this?
Onyx is as close as to magic you can get in this space. It just. Works.

I can talk for literally hours about how good it is when you connect it to your company's Confluence or Jira or Slack or Google Drive or a ton of other things. At a scale of many tens of thousands of documents too.

Their team is awesome too and completely tuned into exactly what their users need. And that it's open source is the cherry on top. No secret in how your data is being used.

- An incredibly happy user looking forward to more from Onyx
I've taken the liberty of doing a s/his/her/ in your comment above; I hope that's ok.

(Edit: er, I mean s/ his/ her/. The thises are all intact.)
Newborns (and certainly toddlers) seem to understand the underlying concepts for these things when it comes to visual/hepatic object identification and "folk physics":

A short list of abilities that cannot be performed by CompressARC includes:

Assigning two colors to each other (see puzzle 0d3d703e)
Repeating an operation in series many times (see puzzle 0a938d79)
Counting/numbers (see puzzle ce9e57f2)
Translation, rotation, reflections, rescaling, image duplication (see puzzles 0e206a2e, 5ad4f10b, and 2bcee788)
Detecting topological properties such as connectivity (see puzzle 7b6016b9)

Note: I am not saying newborns can solve the corresponding ARC problems! The point is there is a lot of evidence that many of the concepts ARC-AGI is (allegedly) measuring are innate in humans, and maybe most animals; e.g. cockroaches can quickly identify connected/disconnected components when it comes to pathfinding. Again, not saying cockroaches can solve ARC :) OTOH even if orcas were smarter than humans they would struggle with ARC - it would be way too baffling and obtuse if your culture doesn't have the concept of written standardized tests. (I was solving state-mandated ARCish problems since elementary school.) This also applies to hunter-gatherers, and note the converse: if you plopped me down among the Khoisan in the Kalahari, they would think I was an ignorant moron. But it makes as much sense scientifically to say "human-level intelligence" entails "human-level hunter-gathering" instead of "human-level IQ problems."
Judging by how many people blindly posted Stackoverflow answers, there will be a significant amount of code ‘written’ this way.
Proof of Thoughtfulness: Writing and Thinking in the Age of LLMs
>a lot

this is pretty vague. I certainly dont think a mastery of any concept invented in last thousand years would be considered encoded in genes though we would want or expect an AGI to be able to learn calculus for instance. In terms of "encoded in genes", I'd say most of what is asked or expected of AGI goes beyond what feral children (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_child) were able to demonstrate.
US elected a businessman that bankrupted a casino, so I guess that's what's going to happen to US: bankruptcy.
dig whoami.cloudflare ch txt @1.1.1.1 +short
Well I guess I made a mistake, don't remember why I thought that Rufus is from Eastern Europe.
> Isn't Claude-code a proprietary version of https://aider.chat/ in the first place?

It might be; but aider is Apache 2 licensed and I don't think Anthropic would be able to change the license. But either way, these tools are simple enough that it's not hard to replicate what they do. So simple that it's kind of pointless for Anthropic to get proprietary and protective about the whole thing. The moat they have is with the model quality.

I saw a very similar tool demoed at the local Kotlin meetup in Berlin just one day after Anthropic announced claude code that also uses the Claude API.

https://github.com/xemantic/claudine

Kotlin might not be everybody's cup of tea but actually seems to be an effective tool for the job. The level of simplicity of the code base is what I found the most shocking. There's almost nothing to it. It's tiny bits of code needed to read/write files and execute commands and a very simple loop where it interacts with claude via a simple REST API. You can read through the code base (a couple of hundred lines of Kotlin) in a few minutes and get a feel for what it does. We had some fun trying to get the tool to improve itself during the meetup. It worked pretty well.

Probably, the most complex thing of the whole code base is the system prompt used to orchestrate the whole thing. That looks like some thought went into it and there are probably a few gotchas that are yet to be addressed. But even that is doable. A determined person could probably replicate what this does in a day or so from scratch. Probably a lot faster if you use one of these tools to build the next one. This isn't rocket science.

I'm guessing we'll be seeing a lot of tools like this in the next few months. It will be interesting to see what refinements people come up with. I think most of the innovation is going to be in giving these agents better/smarter tools to work with. For example, there's a lot of stuff encapsulated in IDEs that it probably a lot easier to use than trying to do the same thing with random cli commands.
Hi, the job postings require me to choose either Stockholm / Gothenburg. Is Remote EU an option?
As with virtually everything in this thread, it matters how you do it. Sounds like you did it well.

I’ll add one other great edge in building a quick POC yourself. Sometimes your idea actually _is_ bad, and trying to articulate it in code helps you see it.
The author starts off with this statement:

> I think that there is a big difference between being in the code and writing code. All managers should be in the code, but not all managers should be writing code.

I think it's not possible to be in the code without writing code. People can pay lip service to being in the code as the author indicates, but as we all know there is no substitute for actually sitting down and writing the code yourself in terms of understanding the actual pains and struggles.

And my anecdotal experience says that if you aren't writing at least some of the code, more often than not the disconnect between the manager and what the team is doing grows and grows.
> You link aside, I think the obvious evidence is that that behavior is significantly more common in conservatives. Literally the most basic of facts get denied in bulk.

This is modulated by who is currently in power. Conservatives were worse when they lost and Biden was in power. Democrats are ramping up the crazy now that they're the underdogs.

> I don't understand how you could make any argument that any other major political affiliation engages in the same behavior to a comparable extent.

Go check out X and Bluesky and how many people are denying Trump was legitimately elected, and how they are convinced Musk tampered with the voting machines.

As for denying basic facts, there's a whole host of basic scientific facts that people who lean left deny wholesale, eg. heritability of behaviours, personality and other characteristics, differences between groups, denying certain features of sex and the sexes, etc.

I won't claim that the problem is equal on both sides, for many reasons I won't belabour here, but it's not nearly as wide a margin as you're implying. Part of the reason it seems so one-sided to you is my-side bias + the biased coverage the other side gets.
Would that make in-context learning a superset or a subset of pretraining?

This paper claimed transformers learn a gradient-descent mesa-optimizer as part of in-context learning, while being guided by the pretraining objective, and as the parent mentioned, any general reasoner can bootstrap a world model from first principles.

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2212.07677
White Sands NM: Linear traces, human footprints, transport technology evidence?
actually , the orchards need constant sun is a myth too. There is a very sharp cut going towards too much sun, starting near sicily and travelling north.

https://citrusindustry.net/2022/07/05/protecting-citrus-tree...
> logistics isn't go to change unit economics a lot

Doesn't the shipping time matter, though? And haven't we recently seen that long supply lines are brittle?

> These assembly lines are much easier to construct than chip fabs, so if there is any reason to keep the two close

I was thinking also in terms of the scale of people required to operate them, plus the transport etc. infrastructure to keep them running. All that, and a hypothetical US factory would have labor costs 5x or higher. That would seem to make it an emergency-only scenario?

I just don't see the scenario where such a fab would make economic sense.
Microsoft signed a dodgy driver and now ransomware scum are exploiting it
Appletalk was horribly slow - 230.4 kbit/s. Ethernet was already 10mbit at the time (but a lot more expensive). General best practice would have been having the world processor installed on each machine and only saving files across the network, which would have made performance acceptable - but at the cost of needing a hard drive in all those plus machines (I don't recall the price a a harddrive at the time, but I'm guessing closer to $1000 for 20mb, compared to multi tb drives for around $100 today)
Ha! That's truly funny and obeys some kind of comedy rule about taking the story one way and then veering in a different direction. Well done, indeed.

Our daughter used to say "yesterday's yesterday" when she was 4ish and I really liked it.
"Inspection paradox" seems like a misnomer. It has nothing to do with inspection and it isn't a paradox. It's just selection bias [1] or more specifically, sampling bias [2]. In the case of class sizes, are you asking the average class size from the point of view of a student (N per class) or a teacher (1 per class)? Take the extreme case where you have one class with 99 students and one class with one student. From the student's point of view, the average class has 98 students. From the teachers' point of view, the average class has 50.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_bias

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_bias
I'm only fixated on money because I made myself in debt, unfortunately that's my primary driver atm.

But me equating money with reality well that's what keeps you alive/shelter unless you're self-sustaining somehow like a homesteader

edit: the other bit on reality, has to be reproducible against science

Personal annecdote too, before I became a developer I had all these crazy ideas/high traffic websites to make when I was younger. Later on I'm at that point where I can "make anything" (CRUD realm) but now I don't have that same blind ambition/energy anymore. Reality is like "will it make money?" I get joy is a driver too but yeah.
As a gamedev, those slowdowns are common. Ui rendering, due to transparency, layering and having to redraw things, and especially from triggering allocations, can be a real killer. Comparing old vs new before allowing it to redraw is really helpful. I found layers and transparency was a killer in css as well in one project, but that was more about reducing layers there
Aka Russian Cloudflare.
you are right, i always considered the front of the keyboard what you considered the back, sorry for this (and by the way, i changed the link to a more generic one citing the variation of 90° -> 120° i typed of one easily finding by surfing the internet)

on the 2° paper, > Among the five tested mice, the 25° or 30° slanted mice caused lower muscle activity and more neutral working postures for ECU, Trap and PT muscles.

these muscles are also used during keyboard usage. slant angle is always suggested on ergonomic research, as our arms muscles are tensioned/twisted when using a flat keyboard/mouse... you can easily find research pointing slant angle on ergonomic keyboards but the research i pointed out is interesting as the author actually studied which is the optimal angle based on our anatomy (there's tension/forces on greater slant angles to maintain the posture, as there aren't surfaces to support our hand) and not on individual preference
What's the difference between deep research and RAG?
If they're directly managing coders, then they absolutely must be able to build, tweak, and run their product by themselves, and articulate the reasoning behind its design decisions.
Show HN: Personalized Astrology App for iOS
Tailscale Is Pretty Useful
So you believe Trump when he said that the US has given more support than Europe? He was corrected several times but continues saying it, and I see several comments about it here as well. I agree about satellite reconnaissance and such systems though. Several countries wants to give fighter jets, and Sweden wanted to give Gripens but someone convinced them to pause those plans.
The beigeness, or how to kill people with bad writing: the Scott Alexander metho (2021)
I haven't used plain Fedora much, but Aurora just 'feels' more coherent, polished and stable than other distro's I have used in recent years. I tend to notice bugs/rough edges in all of them, but Aurora somehow just works. Having a strictly fixed core allows it to be fine-tuned better, I guess? Or perhaps it's just in my head. :-)

All non-core software is provided by Flathub (through the Discover app) and Brew (for cli apps). Both have worked flawlessly for me as well.
That sounds like RAG though, right?
Oh wow. At first I thought this was a throwback to DM2, my favorite (at the time) Amiga 2-pane file manager.
I wonder though, if you look at a drawing of some spaceship, I imagine an engineer could readily tell if it was a bunch of BS or actually plausible. Still what about Theranos or Hyperloop/feasible vs. fraud.

Nothing wrong with imagination sure
Wow - will follow. Awesome!
Is there chance you own some TSLA?
What port? They already have Crimea (since 2014) and the Black Sea isn't really 'balmy.'
I was hoping the article would include a video, but there's a great 12 second clip on Matteo Santon's site: https://matteosanton.com/research/
Gift link with video, because a static archive doesn't do the opening video justice:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/science/cuttlefish-camouf...
Timd to show jujutsu to the intern
ip.guide is also a great one. Provides a json payload with relevant information. I have no affiliation with it, just happy user!
I miss those days often. I have more than once computer, why it it such a big deal to share my filesystem. But many things don't work if you try (firefox for example doesn't like sharing settings that way). The web is great for some things, but local applications are often much more powerful and faster.
Nice! Could you maybe share some cool things that you've used it for? I love that your demo is it adding a feature to itself. We did the exact same thing for our OSS autonomous agent:

https://github.com/bosun-ai/kwaak

Disclaimer: built by my co-founder (and some contributors!)

We opted to have the agent execute its tasks in docker containers fully in parallel to the developer's environment. This way the developer can have the agent work on something while doing something else themselves.

You can check out a list of merge requests it made and got merged here: https://github.com/SwabbieBosun?tab=overview&from=2025-02-01...
I can't tell if you're agreeing or not?

I'm not asserting anything about if a manager should code, but rather calling out a statement in the article. A good engineering manager should never be surprised by some new functionality.
> there is a lot of evidence that many of the concepts ARC-AGI is (allegedly) measuring are innate in humans

I'd argue that "innate" here still includes a brain structure/nervous system that evolved on 3.5 billion years worth of data. Extensive pre-training of one kind or another currently seems the best way to achieve generality.
Unbound and NSD are pretty popular.

Indeed. I use both Unbound and NSD quite heavily as do at least four of the Internet's root DNS servers. I use it for some of my authoritative DNS servers.

Unbound is used by many on HN that block ads and malicious sites on their home router.
This is specifically for missiles launched by submarines over Taiwan from just off the eastern coast.
> The only reason Russia is against NATO is the article 5

Nah, they are also against Article 4 (regional security), which while not as concrete of a commitment, applies much more broadly, and which leads to things like the current support for Ukraine, not just Article 5 (mutual defense), which only affects hem when they would want to target a NATO member’s territory in and in a couple areas close to Europe or North America.
Thanks! These are both fixed now. Clearly we need to do some more dark mode testing...
He ported the optimization from the Crispy Doom fork. Since this is one of the first changes in the repo I bet that this was a known issue at the time.
>there's not been a time where citizens were hauled off to prison in the US for disparaging capitalism

There is a time where American citizens are hauled off to prison to do slave labour. That time is right now.
Thanks! I didn't realize the static archive was missing the video. These are better than what's on Santon's site.
'Fighter Drone' Designations Assigned to Collaborative Combat Aircraft by USAF
C'mon, that's not even the good one: https://youtu.be/onghS9ELZRA
I've found it really helpful to be a support programmer. not someone that takes on big tasks. nothing with a hard deadline. not something that someone else needs to do their work. leftover cleanup. testing. minor refactoring. build.

you need to keep your hand in the game just to understand what's going on with the codebase. but you're not an a-list player here.
They improve color gamut coverage and color volume, but I would not say accuracy. It's much harder to get an RGB laser projector accurately calibrated than an old mercury lamp or even single blue laser / yellow phosphor projector.
Brilliant article, and a welcome dose of much-needed sanity because it asks the right kinds of epistemic questions.
Tell HN: Brother printers no longer consumer friendly
I dislike the tactics many of the other printer manufacturers employ such as subscription services, DRM on cartridges, etc. I've always used and recommended Brother laser printers as they seem to largely not employ these non-consumer friendly approaches. They have always let you continue printing even when one cartridge was empty. I've always brought official cartridges out of respect for their business model.

But no longer. I have a newish Brother HL-L3230CDW, and it refuses to print because one colour cartridge is reporting as low. I've followed the reset instructions here [0] which has worked previously on this printer, but it doesn't any more. I don't know if it's a firmware update, or a limit to the number of resets it allows.

So tonight I'm unable to print a black and white document I need for work tomorrow because my yellow toner cartridge is reporting low. And I'm going to have to buy new colour cartridges despite very rarely printing in colour.

So I revoke any past recommendation of Brother I've ever made. I hope others stop recommending them too, the new ones are no longer functional. These printers are now as useless as the rest.

(Also - I'm looking for recommendations for actually decent colour laser printers)

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pkgak9S1h7U
The problem is any of those things are effectively a reward for Russia for starting the war and invading Ukraine in the first place. Why should Russia get any advantage out of the war that they 100% started?? And pay them compensation! What a suggestion!

Russia is a bully. What do you think will happen if we have to pay the bully off each time they start smashing up their neighbors stuff up or just making threats?

And as for withdrawing NATO forces - NATO is a purely defensive organization. Its purpose is to defend against just the sort of shit Russia has pulled with Ukraine. If Ukraine was part of NATO the war would not have happened.

NATO is not a threat to Russia. Never has been, never will be. This is equivalent to a local crime lord complaining about being threatened by the police station down the road and demanding that the police station shuts down.
The data set is flawed, noisy, and its pieces are disconnected. It takes intelligence to correct its flaws and connect them parsimoniously.
But if you are poor (not a billionaire), old, LGBT+, non-xtian, you can get fucked.
You’ve moved the goal post/claims from “completely vacant” to being vacant for a long while and depreciating.
Reminds me of the incident where npm was 2X slower than it should have been because of the fancy terminal progress bar:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10974929
Here here. There are a lot of decisions where there is no real contest between the choices to someone who has tried both options but are difficult to tell apart from a distance. EMs should be in a position where they are trying things in practice.

I'd draw an example of someone who hasn't used git before, making a choice between a git repo and managing code by keeping daily .zip files. Anyone (almost anyone) who is a career coder won't see a choice there.

That example is so basic I think most EM would get that right even if they didn't deal in code but the same dynamic turns up at every level of work. There are situations where there is a right option, the right option is obvious to everyone who is working on it and it is is a drain on the org when management gets confused and thinks that something that isn't an option is viable because they aren't on the ground working on it.
I'm using this in my .zshrc:

function cd { builtin cd "$@" && [ -d .git ] && git pull || true; exa -all --group-directories-first; }

alias acp='git add -u &&-c "git log --color --pretty=format:\"%s\" --abbrev-commit -- |>/tmp/git_log_sk && git commit --gpg-sign --edit -F /tmp/git_log_sk && rm /tmp/git_log_sk" && git push -u
origin HEAD'

The cd automatically pulls if it's a git repo.
The acp is shorthand for "add+commit+push" with sk as a fuzzy finder for a commit message editing (vim integrations).
Quite the opposite. For short messages digital modes can employ layers of redundancy, auto carrier recovery, error correction at all layers all while yielding lower power requirements, and longer distance.
Yes and no, but mostly no. Nearly everything advertised as a laser projector uses the laser as a light source for a normal DLP/LCD/LCoS setup, and needs to be focused the same as with a light bulb source. Even the triple laser ones work this way-the triple laser part just means they don't need a color wheel.

There are true laser projectors where the lasers go directly to the projection surface. These are called Laser Beam Scanning projectors, and they don't have to be focused. They work pixel by pixel in scanlines kind of like a CRT, and since the laser doesn't diffuse over short distances, it's never blurry.

Unfortunately, it's a dead technology. I only know of one still in production, and it's 120lm or something.
The writing of Cryptopals is unclear. I've made it about half-way through the challenges twice over the past decade. I get that it's prompting me to learn on my own, as if I was a real cryptanalyst encountering a system for the first time, but I literally do not understand what is being asked or the constraints of the problems sometimes. It's like author is trying to be clever and curt and gate-keeper-y on purpose. "You should be able to do this with a shitty, hastily-written problem description, right?"