skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have unused ram, why would you want an app not to use it?
I can feel when people are arguing in bad faith. When I get that feeling, I usually check their account age / history to see if they have a history of arguing in bad faith.

It saves me from engaging in energy-draining time-wasting arguments.
Coinbase cheers demise of CFPB as customer complaints mount to almost 8k
Jan 6th had loads of FBI informants as well.
There Is a Significant Need for Retirement Savings in the US
> Humans cannot multitask. Anyone that says they can are lying or are misguided at best.

I don't believe this to be axiomatically true. I don't believe it's an intrinsic ability, but I believe it's very possible for humans to task-switch at a level that appears like multitasking (and when you think about it, the only multitasking modern computers do is the threading that multiple CPU cores enable, when it comes to a single core there is only one task running at a time, ever).

In certain situations, I've found my brain able to do almost fractal searches through a target space. Or at least to simultaneously search for the answer to more than one question (take the game Hangman and its variants, when looking at a partial word my brain is certainly not searching for a single letter at a time).
For a variety of reasons (not just LLMs), I think it's generally cheap and lazy for companies not to do some sort of in-person interview panel. It's not just or even primarily about candidates "cheating." We all did what we had to do during COVID but in-person is just a higher bandwidth interaction. And if candidates don't want to travel? <shrug> Plenty of fish in the the sea.
I found a cheaper way. I walk around the city for a couple hours every weekend with the hopes of randomly finding a winning lottery ticket.
Congrats.

I remember 10+ years ago there were a few Kickstarter promising this kind of product but with an hardware device. Obviously they were all fraudulent back then, but it is definitely in the realm of possibility today.
This has happened to me. I can't remember the explanation, but the solution for deliverypeople caught by it is kind of fun. Ideally, the restaurant will just remake the order, but if they won't, it's sometimes advantageous to just pay for a second iteration of the order and deliver that. You see, at this point, the platform will have run up the delivery fee considerably, trying to get the order delivered - often to considerably above the cost of the food (that's why so many people were taking it). I'm sure this could backfire if the platform decides to cancel the order in-transit, but it might be worth risking if the fee is high enough (or if you'd eat the food yourself if you could no longer deliver it).
If you're worried about Windows 10's/11's telemetry, you should read Discord's TOS.
The compose file specified a service for the web app
More thoughts on the 1670 modem's weird noises
Apple’s stance is not all E2EE is off by default… Instead there are a set of things which are E2EE when you are using Standard Data Protection and a wider set of things become E2EE when you opt-in to Advanced Data Protection.

This is all clearly documented here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102651

What’s changing is the UK government is apparently serving a Technical Capability Notice compelling Apple to provide access to their customers data, and the only reasonable way for Apple to comply is to remove ADP as an option in the United Kingdom.
I'm over 40 and even though I mostly manage/lead now I have time to do programming and plenty of math. I still see improvement mentally (not so much physically anymore), but also a lot of improvement in skills I neglected when I was younger like interpersonal skills and sales. I'm also learning a new language and read more than ever. Sometimes I feel like I'm less sharp, but I wonder if that's because I'm doing so much more.

My tricks that I don't always follow, is work out every day, get enough sleep, and stay off of most short form social media. I realized when I was on short form social it would zap a lot of time and kill any focus I had.
Can you provide some examples that back up your statement?

Edit: Some people are getting angry (and in some cases, deleting their comments). Let me be clearer: I have no idea who Ray Peat is. The OP commented that Peat is a "quack" and I was just asking why, because they didn't provide any supporting documentation.

Oddly enough, I just now discovered that I used to live down the street from Peat, before he passed away. I don't recall ever meeting him, though.
It's easy to forget about how many more responsibilities we take on as we age, simply by nature of how those responsibilities slip into our lives one at a time, bit by bit, gradually shifting our window of normalcy.
Here's the difference, you are not personally building the device which will cause your demise and your succession. We as humanity ARE doing that and have agency to choose NOT to do that.
The Mask Benchmark: Disentangling Honesty from Accuracy in AI Systems
(Leaflet cofounder here) - agree, code blocks is definitely on our list! Both inline and full code blocks e.g. with CodeMirror. Ideally with syntax highlighting, just need to figure out how to play nicely with our custom themes…though probably fine to start with just a default theme.
> nothing will ever come close to the joys of driving a manual sports car.

"joy" basically means: natural aspiration, low weight, manual gearbox, rear-wheel drive, hydraulic (or unassisted) steering and no traction control or ESP
I've tried Affinity. Unfortunately a literal lifetime of photoshop has made it basically impossible to switch. It's like getting into a car and all the buttons are rearranged and behave different.

The jokes on me. I pirated photoshop way back in the day. Now I have no choice but to shell out a subscription.
You're on to something with 'lack of information'. I'm not perfect in this (when I first started commenting on HN, an alarming proportion of replies said that I had confirmation bias or 'correlation is not causation'), but I've learned to find data and (most importantly) evidence to support alternate conclusions. It's not obvious until something doesn't have the intended results, but by the time I've investigated and figured out why, I'm too thrilled to see it work out that I don't check to see whether the initial choice had confirmation bias.
It’s been only 7 years :)
Why not buy out of money options in companies that you know with spare money? Better odds and good payouts if you hit it right.
Investors aren't falling for it. Users are falling for it.

Leaking millions for years pays off in the end, or even half way through. Some investors would exit at some stage. Taking profit due to valuation going up, despite no revenue/profit.

At the end of the tunnel is acquisition by a major player who is basically buying the users.

Typical examples: Skype, whatsapp.

But also LinkedIn. GitHub.

Businesses that offered some (basically) free offering for over a decade until reaching critical user base, then sold off for billions. Reason being precious data along with millions of daily active eyeballs.
The View is just a chit-chat show anyway, so a source that proves that somebody said something on it doesn’t prove anything compelling.

Anyway, my computer can’t play YouTube (ad blocking issues).

The underlying thing that is annoying people, I think, is that this is (as far as I can tell based on what you’ve written) a factual mathematical issue. That sort of thing is easily conveyed via text and equations. Why would anybody want to watch a video of somebody explaining math?
It's the teenage asprin that you really have to watch out for. It just doesn't know when to stop!
PAT are tied to users, api keys to an team or organization.
Flox Catalog: 150k+ open source packages powered by NixPkgs
Creating "Hello World" executable bytes for LLMs is so hard?
Hi HN!

Testing the limits of current models that in theory are better coders than us (faster for sure), looks like they had a hard time understanding the machine code that will build their future AI brains!

Looks they can’t build “simple” good executable bytes (pure machine code), tested so far for windows 64, will test for linux & mac and mb uefi too…

The idea is simple generate the bytes for an exe file that displays “hello world” and so far all of them failed, I tested OpenAI GPT o1 PRO, GPT 4.5, GPT o3-mini-hi, Grok 3 (think) Claude 3.7 sonnet (extended), Gemini 2.0 pro, fancy new Inception Labs Mercury Coder, Deepseek r1 670b, just released Qwen QWQ 32b, llama 3.3, Mixtral LeChat, and the ones that create the exe file, none executes.

This is the prompt: (the last part is to avoid endless hex 00s all over)

“Create the bytes necessary to build the smallest exe file that could run on a windows pc 64 bits, and display the text "hello world", and embed the bytes in python function that creates the exe file, do it with the minimum possible lines of code so in python generate the bytes wisely for example 100 ceros is wrong you should write a loop with 1 cero outputted 100 times and so on. you can't use any other language, no c, assembly or anything only python”

Any suggestions?

Can you build a better (short) prompt that works?

Maybe it is another benchmark to add? (go to the real "source" beyond "simpler" languages)

This is btw part of the daily artificiology research to measure limits and real achievements of Ais for the E-AGI 144 Barometer metrics.
Absolutely - there are many who are actively complicit, and I don't mean to give shield for everyone.
How is the dollar auction remotely a model for bidding on software and how did it help you arrive at 60%?
The planned RR recordings integration is what I'm most excited about though. Having this capability for systems languages like Rust and C++ would be transformative for complex debugging scenarios where you're often forced to restart debugging sessions from scratch after stepping past a crucial point.
I suppose when you have a large corpus you start with as many browse points as you can. So maybe a list of the top senders, top recipients, recipient graphs.

I'd think by day would be next. Browse subjects by day, and word clouds for each message thread? The. Try to isolate topics discussed each day, then link the topics across days.

You should be able to click in and see the thread/messages/etc.

This is, at some level, how legal discovery stuff works from what I understand.
Your perspective is no different than mine (as an American).

Trump's actions (in general, not just this one) are driven entirely by petty revenge and self-enrichment and are harming America to the point where it is going to take decades to recover, if ever.
> hence my confusion at the sudden "left" outcry over the attacks on the FBI and CIA,

The attacks are premised on them being too leftist and needing to be replaced in their function by new/rebuilt organizations that are more friendly to the Right, which is the source of the center to center-left opposition to them (the Left itself is more focussed on criticizing the tactics of the center-to-center-left opposition than the regime.)
For me, I think this approach works because I can commit the current thoughts to some type of external (to my brain) storage, freeing up space to think about how to further subdivide those tasks.

In general, this is very helpful for when your executive function feels taxed, as it has the effect of coaching yourself.
Global economics has the power to kill far more people than small arms ever could. We suggest you put your money where your exceptionally large mouths are.
Well, the great thing is we have betting markets for this now. Given your confidence, I'm assuming you made a lot of money betting on Trump?
Interesting, I assume the opposite, that all of my beliefs are biased.

Now this is a huge area where I'm biased:

I assume that it is better to assume one is biased in all areas, and that this approach leads to less bias (because I'm challenging my assumptions) or leads me to accept certain places where I am biased. Part of the goal is to be detached from the need to feel unbiased:

I don't think this is true in all situations, but a belief I have based on observation is that the more that you care that you are unbiased, or the more tied your ego is to being unbiased, the more vulnerable you are to confirmation bias, which creates an interesting paradox.

So I guess my approach is, I try not to care too much, and here's maybe the ultimate paradox or logical fallacy: You're values don't have to match reality, and if you try to get reality to match your values you will be super vulnerable to confirmation bias.

The obvious version of this is in religion, if you believe that the world is 6000 years old, and seek to prove the world is 6000 years old, you can find lots of evidence to support the idea.
In the enthusiast market we're seeing the opposite. Evs have made speed routine, but dull the driving experience part. 90's and 2000's sports cars with manuals are worth sometimes 100ks more than those with paddels, even though they are slower.

The gtr has been essentially the same platform since its release, when the competition has gotten extremely tight. Then there's nissan's issues, ceo getting arrested, money troubles, uninspiring lineup that mostly sells to fleets/rentals, thus leading to inability to invest in halo vehicles.

If the plaid was making cars like this obsolete why are we seeing insane demand for the 911?
Sounds like pure cope, considering Tesla obsolescence of late + this being literally 2007 car
Where to Move from the USA
Looks cool. Can you upgrade to Windows 98?

https://jdan.github.io/98.css/
The thing is we already know that it works on human.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22440947/

The question was how it works and as far as I know you can't legally yet use genetically engineered humans to suppress a gene, induce cancer and test a theory.

How would you test this theory on human (safely) ?
Thousand times yes! I am always completely confused why a smart person that should know better would make a 35-tweet thread instead of just writing a blog post. There are about a hundred advantages for the latter and not a single one for the former I can see. Of course you can use thread unrollers etc. but why make things broken and use special tools to fix it if you can just do it the right way? Opening a blog on any modern platform takes like 5 minutes, and unless you're planning to make business out of it, it matters not which one, any would do.
I have been using QwQ for a while, and a bit confused that they overwrote their model with same name. The 'ollama pull qwq' you mentioned seems to be pulling the newest one now, thanks.
Okay, and I'm sure Mexican and Canadian consumers would disagree with that because they don't want to deal with egg prices 5x what they're used to.

Canada and Mexico don't produce enough eggs to have any effect on the egg shortage in america. Which, to note, has been an issue since 2024. It is not related to any kind of trade war that Trump is starting
A lot and nothing.

Kind of makes the government less liable for the shit show that occurs from. Trains late? No longer a government issue, complain to the ticket guard.

Those new rail upgrades, carriage upgrades? Only if the owner wants them. Price increases? You betcha.

Political bias, the Horizon scandal is a good one. How long did it drag on for? And did anyone get charged? The ones who should-of got off scot-free and the innocent had their lives ruined.

If the electing company wants to milk the infrastructure you'll going to have a bad time. Else wise it does enable progressively improvements that wouldn't necessary be prioritised under government control.

We know companies don't like spending money so forget those.

In other-words privatisation is not inherently bad when kept in check. It has its advantages ultimately though where its public infrastructure it should really be owned by the people.

Our "Royal Mail" was privatised and has been bought yet again by a Czech billionaire recently.
Given my ChatGPT and friends experience has been one of overwhelming frustration due to incorrect information, I would say Math Academy is in an entirely different galaxy. ChatGPT is great if you want to learn that pi is equal to 4.
Supposedly it's a package manager as well, so if there's a package, you'd be able to use it without writing any code.
The abstract has these two statements:

> ”Cross-sectional age-skill profiles suggest that cognitive skills start declining by age 30 if not earlier.”

and

> ”Two main results emerge. First, average skills increase strongly into the forties before decreasing slightly in literacy and more strongly in numeracy”

Does this mean that this study contradicts the popular common understanding that cognitive skills decline after 30? Or am I missing something?

For me, personally, if feels a more impactful finding than the “use it or lose it” one
How do data engineers buy dev tools?
There's a whole lot of nothing out there. Why rush to get a closer look at nothing?
1) The Post Office exists to enact a requirement in the Constitution but I'm not sure that means anything anymore. We could expect: 1) An increase in delivery costs in general, due to loss or restructuring of a competitor with relatively low prices and the market, like so many in America, not exactly being robust in the competition department anyway, 2) Possibly a near-total end to mail delivery in rural areas, 3) if not #2, it'll probably be because Congress authorizes the government to pay way more than the same stuff from the current USPS costs, to pay private companies to handle rural delivery, subsidized by urbanites (as it already is, but this'll cost more).

In short, the likely outcome is somewhat worse service (outside chance of much worse service) at higher total prices, plus another claw of private industry in government, wasting our money and making our lives worse, that they'll fight hard to keep there (see also: HR Block)

2) Amtrak is not in the constitution. Privatizing it certainly means most routes close (I'm pretty sure lots of lines only exist to buy support from Congress—they're awful, talking routinely delayed by 50% or more of the stated travel time, because they don't have right-of-way on their tracks and have to defer to freight traffic, plus they travel slowly even when under way because they're on freight rails) and maybe just a few, mostly on the East Coast, survive... maybe. If we're lucky, regional state-led government transportation organizations take over those lines. If that latter thing is the way this goes, it might actually save money while keeping the most-important lines (again, there are very few of those) open, but at the cost of jobs and transportation options (despite their sucking, those lines do see riders, often but not always low-income and/or retired) in places outside the Northeast, and largely "red" states.
Where did you hear that?

A quick search tells me google does end-to-end encryption since at least 2021 [1].

https://www.androidcentral.com/how-googles-backup-encryption...
I feel like it's worth noting that this is not a universal dynamic. Tim McVeigh didn't need a fed to turn into the kind of person who kills 168 people. I'm sure we're all aware of the way this occasional dynamic gets turned into an excuse for any radicial behavior: "must have been a false flag, must have been talked into it." Which, to be clear, you did not say -- but we see it often.
There have been a small number of cases where wolves attack humans because

1. Humans have spent centuries exterminating wolves anywhere humans regularly go.

2. Humans adapt their behavior to minimize the risk of attack by wild predators.

This is like saying "relatively few people get mugged wandering around alone in the tenderloin at 3am". It's because everyone knows it's a terrible idea and avoids doing so. That doesn't make the area safe.
Upvote for the Bartleby reference.
Slightly related, in everything I see that allows adding secrets or env vars as code, they seem to prefer a list of objects instead of a key value pair for these. Does anyone know why this is? I know in some cases you can add additional values, but this seems easily solved by dynamically determining what the value is.

I'd much rather write:

env:
key: value

instead of

env:
- name: key
value: value
The Guardian now requires users to pay to reject personalised adversiting
Turning leadership of an already radicalized organization is not what he means. New converts to a group who are actually informants will provoke an organization to radicalism.

[0]https://www.npr.org/2011/08/21/139836377/the-surge-in-fbi-in...
Software has this (very convenient) problem of only selling tool chests, not just tools.

So if you just need one or two features of a program, then you still need to purchase...err, rent...the entire thing. Sometimes you even need to rent it for a full year.

Thankfully it seems LLM's are on track to solve this problem at least partially by being able to effectively code very narrow scope solutions. You can't prompt Claude to write Photoshop, but you can prompt it to write a program that scales images and applies a basic filter. (Yes, I know there are a gazillion free photo tools, this is just an accessible example).
Discord servers arent self hosted
(Leaflet cofounder here) - sorry about that! Are you seeing that with 'canvas' pages, or multiple doc pages open side by side? What device / screen size? I haven't seen issues with horizontal scroll recently but lots of trickiness with slight differences across browsers and maybe things we can improve for particular cases.

Re: scrollbars honestly we just like the cleaner minimalist look and have gotten used to it but I hear you (+ others) that it can be annoying, we'll look into improving.
Of the 800,000 sheep in the Netherlands, dogs kill 13,000 every year. There's quite a smaller wolf population than dogs.
Economic growth in Europe has stalled since the 2008 financial crisis and the EU is falling behind the US in terms of GDP. Public healthcare systems are under pressure because of aging population and increasing difficulty to finance them because of those economic issues.

But apart from that it is "competitive"...

Flip side is that the US are much richer so could afford to have much more then they have now.
I really want to combine them with RAG, plus doing some agentic stuff on my home server which runs a number of services, some as Home Assistant. So I want it to read all the sensors every hour, and then message me if anything occurs out of the ordinary (with ordinary equaling the historical data provided by the RAG).

No idea if this will work or not, but it's how I learn to use new technologies.

You could of course build this using traditional software development.
Can a Geothermal Startup Vaporize Rock to Drill the Deepest Holes?
Speaking from being very early on the train for Discord, it also had an extremely solid userbase right from the start because much of the early pre-marketing pull into it was for raid groups in the then-new Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. People really needed a chat client to coordinate a big number of players and it was totally free, functional, and new on the scene. It spread a ton in the community and the people working on it were players as well from what I remember, though it's been a long time. So as the game grew in popularity, and everyone who was in a large group was starting to use Discord more, it cemented friend groups that formed in the increasingly popular game along with the Heavensward release and helped solidify a foundation in the gaming community imo.