skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends, I always took a sprint task, certainly less than the team itself, but how do I design a career path if I'm blissfully unaware of the work that is being done? How do I plan long term if I don't understand the technical complexity of the problems being faced? Why would I waste time on conflict resolution when I can spend time enabling and building people? You want to argue about your colleague, or make do you want to advance and make more money?
Why doesn’t Canada just go nuclear and proliferate nuclear technology to any country which the US imposes tariffs upon? If you’re a country with free will, play the game all the way.
The mention of Apple Notes search makes me frustrated haha! I’ve been dreaming of Apple integrating something like this one day. Looking forward to trying out your tool in the meantime.

What are the long-term plans given the likelihood of Apple having on-device LLMs and integrating them throughout their tools in 202X?
At least there hasn't been anything for distributed DuckDB before it afaik. For anyone with a substantial DuckDB project, they might now go distributed without having to rewrite it in something else.
I’m not concern trolling. I don’t want a single U.S. soldier on Ukraine soil. It’s a red line. I’m asking whether a security guarantee increases the risk of that happening.
Ouch.

Mine has 64GB. I usually max RAM, and get about double the SSD I think I need. Knowing that at a minimum, I will use my latest laptop, and 2-3 older models around the house and my quick-carry bag for convenience, at any given time.

Beyond convenience, the old laptops are continually synced, as multiple onsite backups. So I get great long term value from consistently choosing higher end RAM/SSD specs.

But in this case good specs for the M1 has saved me money via an unprecedentedly long upgrade schedule.

I am feeling more pressure to update two old x86 laptops to M1, than any pressure to upgrade my M1. Never had this upside-down problem before. Apple did just a great job with that M1.
I donated money to EFF every year until Gore switched to bothering fossil fuel industries instead of the software industry.

I had my first tech job thanks to his NSF funding as Senator Gore but he was also a spook and in the end it ended up evening out.

> BTW, if you are keeping score: stop.

Yeah maybe not doing so good at that. But you always have to watch out for that time when your 'friends' will accidentally sell you out if you don't reiterate your social and professional boundaries with them from time to time.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43209358
Thank you, gives me something to play with.
Reading these arguments are funny to me. By now there should be decades worth of research on this topic, all we seem to do is give anecdote after anecdote with no conclusion.

Either no is doing this research or no one trusts the conclusions.

Other topics like this are WFH or RTO, 4 day WW or 6 day WW. We as a profession seem to never come to a consensus.
>In reality, that was always the case.

*while everybody made sure that they would band together to punish such behavior as the even bigger and stronger combined force
You would be an excellent author of history books!
We have no obligation to support Ukraine under that memorandum.
Wonder if anyone is looking into splicing those spider silk genes into a fungus. Maybe the mycelium could gain enough tensile strength to hold pressure? Maybe exude the proteins and form strong tubes around itself? Fungal structures are already surprisingly light for how strong they are.
> Never heard of decoy effect. Always referred to this phenomenon as “anchoring”

Correct. The example they gave is anchoring.

Anchoring typically looks like $10-$25-$50, and they want you to buy the $25 item. Sometimes the presence of the $50 item can have zero sales, but the $25 item will sell better than if the options were just $10 and $25.

Decoy would be more like $10-$40-$50, and they want you to buy the $50 item and the $40 item has less than it’s sticker value. Decoy is commonly used to encourage people to buy at the top of their budget range (as one example).
This is one of the main themes of Stand on Zanzibar. A legendary sci-fi novel, if you’ve never heard of it.
The committee selecting the winner is formed of Norwegians. Norwegians "average worldview" and sources of information therefore affects who gets the prize.
The colors understanding is even more remarkable given that they are colorblind in the sense that they do not have different color cones, and likely rely on a very imperfect process of chromatic aberration that they can somehow translate back into color.

https://www.science.org/content/article/how-colorblind-cuttl...
I'm not even convinced him doing things witch a minor would make his base hate him. More likely is they'll just call it a lie or excuse it as something like "well she looked old enough. What was he supposed to do, ask for her ID card?"
Totally agreed. Only good as inputs to a stack decision but not the deciding factor. WebVoyager itself feels like it's approaching saturation though as scores as getting high and it only tests on a narrow domain of use-cases. We'll definitely see more challenging and interesting evals pop up in the next little bit.

IMHO, if you're building AI products, most of the time building and running your own evals is the only right way to build something good.

BTW - Arch looks super cool! Just starred and looking forward to playing around with it :)
Not to pile on, but it is hard to negotiate when the other party is not clear as to what they want. In the press conference, Trudeau said as much, and added that he has reached out to Trump for further discussions and is open to good-faith negotiations.

Meanwhile, the actual stated reason for the tariffs is fentanyl, yet only 1% of it comes from Canada, and even then Canada has agreed to US demands of further securing the border.

Is it about trade deficits? Seems hard to believe, given that the USMCA was negotiated by Trump in 2018, and he hailed it as the "fairest, most balanced, and beneficial trade agreement we have ever signed into law".

Is it about bringing back manufacturing to the US? Then why is China being hit with less trade tariffs than Canada (20% total vs 25%) when the US imports around the same amount from China as from Canada?
Show HN: OCR Using LLM (Claude Sonnet) – Setopic.com
I built Setopic, a simple web app that can do OCR (Optical Character Recognition) using LLM (AI). It can extract some structured text (table, code, etc) from image.

I use Claude 3.5 Sonnet as the main LLM in the Setopic. IMHO, the results are pretty good.

If you want to take a look, you can go to https://www.setopic.com . A demo video showing how this app works is available in the homepage. You can also start using it for free.

If you have some feedback, please let me know. Thank you :)
>...all target exactly the two deliberately chosen weaknesses from when it was designed 50 years ago...

I would quibble the deliberate part for the block length (and perhaps strengthen your point). DES came out in the 70's and people were still designing 64 bit ciphers in the 90's. Examples: IDEA, CAST5, Blowfish. I think that it is most likely that the the 56 bit key length was really the only factor intended to make DES deliberately weak. Gigabyte scale files/sessions were just not a thing back then.
>pro-US all my life
>So: fuck US & eat shit

too bad it only took you a few moments to take on this mentality after a lifetime of goodwill. America's been hijacked you should continue to stand with it
Well out of Trump, Biden, Harris and Xi Jinping, only one is actively and explicitly hostile towards Canada, and it’s not Winnie-the-Pooh-man.

If you want allies in supporting democracy and human rights, the obvious approach is to not attack said allies.
the thing is LLMs don't even do the kind of generalisations the dumbest human can do.
while simultaneously doing some stuff the smartest human probably can't
Quite a lot to cover here! So in addition to the typical RAG pipeline, we have many other signals like learning from user feedback, time based weighting, metadata handling, weighting between title/content, and different custom deep learning models that run at inference and indexing time all to help the retrieval. But this is all part of the RAG component.

The agent part is the loop of running the LLM over RAG system and letting it decide which questions it wants to explore more (some similarities to retry|refuse|respond I guess?). We also have the model do CoT over its own results including over the subquestions it generates.

Essentially it is the deep research paradigm with some more parallelism and a document index backing it.

How does the agent traverse the information: there are index-free approaches where the LLM has to use the searches of the tools. This gives worse results than approaches that build a coherent index across sources. We use the latter approach. So the search occurs over our index which is a central place for all the knowledge across all connected tools.

Do you have any internal evals on how well the different model affect the overall quality of output, esp for a "deep search" type of task? I have model-picker fatigue: Yes, we have datasets that we use internally. It comprises of "company type data" rather than "web type" data (like short Slack messages, very technical design documents, etc.) comprising about 10K documents and 500 questions.

For which model to use: it was developed primarily against gpt-4o but we retuned the prompts to work with all the recent models like Claude 3.5, Gemini, Deepseek, etc.

Do you plan to implement knowledge graphs in the future? Yes! We're looking into customizing LLM based knowledge graphs like LightGraphRAG (inspired by, but not the same).
Here the link to the mp4 file (from my InternetDownloadManager)

https://vp.nyt.com/video/2025/03/03/135038_1_03tb-cuttlefish...
How is the data stored? E.g. for concerns about internal data leaking out?
It seems to be in the works: https://www.reuters.com/world/white-house-seeks-plan-possibl...
Some of the SICP exercises use math and circuits as the "business domain" you are programming about, but you don't need independent knowledge of those topics to write the programs. The requirements are pretty well specified.

I barely survived Calc 3 and have never taken an engineering course. I was fine.
The problem with datalink systems is they are poor substitutes for immediate control & confirmation. My co-founder Eric wrote a short piece about this: https://www.ericbutton.co/p/speech. This is why they are mainly relegated to low-urgency en-route & clearance delivery.
It's like how OpenAI's deep research works by searching the internet, ours works by searching over our "RAG" system that indexes company documents.
The US isn’t allowing Canada to be on Team USA, so I’m not sure what you expect.
A common one for server apps is logging, especially to the console.

It’s far more expensive than people assume and in many cases is single-threaded. This can make logging the scalability bottleneck!
Yes. We’ve had black-and-white low-resolution images in emails using the X-Face header since basically forever, and the Face header (allowing color a image) since 2005. The whole deal with BIMI is, purportedly, that the logo shown can be relied upon to not be faked, since each sender gets issued a (very expensive) certificate to sign e-mails with that logo. This certification (incidentally issued by all the old X.509 certificate issuers, whose business model imploded by free certificates from Let’s Encrypt and others) are reportedly based on verification of (visual) trademarks. But if, as in the linked article, different companies can have the same logo even if their name is the same and they are in the same country, then the supposed security of the BIMI logo is an obvious scam.
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Designated initialisers and compound literals, sure they have caught on, one just has to know where to look:

https://github.com/danos/vyatta-dataplane/blob/master/src/npf/config/gpc_hw.c#L600-L623

https://github.com/danos/vyatta-dataplane/blob/master/src/npf/config/npf_rule_group.c#L252-L280

That is code which is around 4 years old.

For the latter example, one could theoretically avoid declaring the variables 'event' an 'rg_match', instead direcly including the compound literals in the respective function calls. However it is a question of taste, and what is more readable.

(The above have designated initialisers, I'm can't remember if there are any compound literal examples there.

There is however one here, when the BSTR_K macro is also expanded, also the earlier BSTR_INIT:

https://github.com/danos/vyatta-dataplane/blob/master/src/npf/bstr.h#L199
Yeah thats their favourite place to stand, I have never seen them anywhere else.
Kudos for finishing it. I’ve gone on a similar quest with https://mk12.github.io/sicp, but I’m still on chapter 3. I keep getting distracted by new ways of improving the website rather than making progress in the book.
The problem isn't values obfuscation. The problem is that many people, especially conservatives, do not care about values. Instead, they care about virtues.

People who approach politics from a virtue ethics perspective are vulnerable to propaganda because logic and value have no bearing whatsoever on their decision to accept or reject a narrative.

You can't think critically for someone else. They must do it on their own.
As a Canadian, I prefer China to the US simply because China isn’t threatening to annex us. I hope we will strike a deal with China for military containment of our enemy, the US.
Certainly these were due to social media manipulation
Toyota calls it the gemba walk. Managers need to see how the factory is running with their own eyes. Not just live behind a desk and listen to what they hear in meetings.

A movie director can see the sets with their own eyes. But you can't see the state of a software codebase without reading and understanding the code, and the most surefire way to do that is to try to write something, even just documentation.

You don't assess the state of your software by walking around the office and looking at hands on keyboards. You look at the codebase.
Surprisingly the Russian army is mostly volunteer since the average pay right now is quite high by Russian standards. There are also standard conscripted soldiers as part of the country’s required service. Allegedly the conscripts are kept away from front lines since the death of conscripted young men in Afghanistan was part of the political death knell that led to the fall of the Soviet Union.

Unfortunately Ukraine is having to rely more on involuntary conscription to fill the ranks as volunteer numbers have dwindled. There are many documented cases of TASS “kidnapping” military age men.

I don’t see the parent poster blaming anybody. Maybe you can say they provided a one-sided view but what they wrote was factual.
I’d make sure a tariff on Tesla includes both parts on service so that existing owners aren’t benefitting from increased residual value. (I’d expect that the residual value would be offset given appropriately higher maintenance costs.)
> it's amazing to use Claude to prompt an app into existence, and pretty frustrating when that app doesn't work right and Claude is all thumbs fixing the problem.

Such an in interesting sentence. App that doesn't work doesn't seem like it's yet come into existence.

This has been my (limited) experience so far. I haven't been able to get an AI/LLM to help me build an app. Even React apps it fails at. I have been able to get an LLM to help with coding questions similar to Stack Overflow questions though (though not always)
Color me impressed. Remarkable indeed, thanks for the link.
If you can't code, you should not be managing programmers. How much code you write will obviously depend on circumstances.
I voted for Biden, and while I was unhappy with the result for many reasons, I thought he did an okay job keeping us from getting more deeply involved in the Ukraine war.

Many people seem to take it as axiomatic that the U.S. has an obligation to use force to maintain pre-existing borders. And we simply don’t agree with you about that. The standard for me is whether it’s going to significantly affect the daily life of someone in Iowa.

So maybe I’d care if anyone was seriously saying France and Germany could fall to Russia. But short of that?
This is a large challenge in itself actually. Every external tool has it's own framework for permissions (necessarily so).

For example, Google Drive docs have permissions like "global public", "domain public", "private" where "private" is shared with users and groups and there's also the document owner.

Slack has public channels, private channels, DMs, group DMs.

So we need to map these external objects and their external users/groups into a unified representation within Onyx.

Then there are additional challenges like rate limiting so we cannot poll at subsecond intervals.

The way that we do it is we have async jobs that check for object permission updates and group/user updates against the external sources at a configurable frequency (with defaults that depend on the external source type).

Of course, always failing-closed instead of failing-open and defaulting to least permissive.
About every 1 in 100 posts I just can't help myself.
They are not that different.

Conway's Law is real.

Great engineers are not just "pure programmers", they understand the scale and organization of their domain. Similar for managers.

In joking terms, the 8th OSI layer is "money/politics".
Errors are not checked, the assumption being that most of the time you can’t do anything about them anyway.
I've been playing with it hacking a compiler written in C++ to be sort of transliterated to D. Just to see if it then makes the compiler easier to read, while not worrying about the performance yet.

So far in converting the lexer it does make it more comprehensible, it will probably do the same for the parser and AST. The real interesting bit will be once I tackle the later stages.
They don't hate at all. They are just maximising profit (which they have an obligation to do). If they didn't replace you with more efficient things, they would be outcompeted and die.

So, feel free to criticise capitalism and how inhumane it is, but don't anthropomorphise it by ascribing human emotions to the system.
> although the shields were fudged somewhat to allow knife fights

Right. Shields can protect against high velocity things, e.g. bullets or shrapnel. But not slow moving things, e.g. air and hands.

This contrivance means ancient weapons still have a purpose.

This effect is similar to non-Newtonian fluids. (In fact, there has been research into using non-Newtonian fluids for body armor [1].)

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> It would also seem that mankind lost the ancient secrets of body armour.

There are a few instances of armor in the movies (Harkonnens, Leo Atreides and Gurney Halleck, one of Paul Atreides' visions), but the books make virtually no mention of it.

The in-universe explanation is that the fighting style was much closer to ninjas than knights. Which means light-to-no armor was preferred.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_armor
> The drawing shows the long tentacles as you could see them on a dead cuttlefish. As I have said, in the living cuttlefish you can see them only for a fraction of a second

Yeah: stop drawing dead butterflies https://www.emilydamstra.com/please-enough-dead-butterflies/

Once you've seen the pattern, you see the same issue with other art. I bought a biology style painting because I liked the intentional dead-animal style (both a bird and some insects).
Critical NWS weather radar out of service and impacting forecasts
It's the infinite improbability drive in hitchhiker's guide

would be funny though, who produces the result faster a Fiver or an AI in a loop for a day

It spits out urls to sites and sends em to Fiver QA people, take a shot every time the app doesn't work

Wonder the cost effectiveness, have a randomizer start producing/hosting code auto submit it to Product Hunt
I don't think it has specifically changed. The price and stacks are the same. Back then, we'd hang out on sites like Paradox Games subforums. There would be the "upper boards" to discuss the actual company stuff and "lower boards" as its own community.

HN is a similar model, but I feel like they made the mistake of merging the communities. So you have the group that is startup based, the YC backed group that uses it for hiring, the people launching stuff, and the people who just want tech news but hate all the startup stuff.

But reddit is free, comes with moderation tools, and everyone has a reddit account. So it has become the default forum. People start at reddit and move elsewhere, never vice versa.
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Yes, this is an excellent prompt and we're working on it. One problem is a lot of these visual sources require permission, integration, and regulation. That's going to move slower than something we can proceed directly with (VHF antennas).

I believe scaling laws will hold as we start to feed all of this context data into an integrated model. You could imagine a deep-q style reinforcement learning model that ingests layers of structured and visual data and outputs alerts and eventually commands. The main challenge I foresee here will be observability... it's easy enough to shove a ton of data into a black box and get a good answer 98% of the time. But regulation is likely to require such a system to be highly observable/explainable so the human can keep up with what's going on and step in as needed.

Looking further into the future, it's plausible the concrete structures of today with humans looking out windows will be replaced with sensor packages atop a long flagpole that stream high-res optical/ir camera data, surface radar, weather information, etc into a control room with VR layers that help controllers stay on top of busier and busier airspace.
That was true of Vietnam and South Korea too. And in Iraq we were toppling a brutal dictatorship and in Syria we would’ve been doing that. The U.S. shouldn’t have been getting involved in any of those. Democracy promotion is not a legitimate foreign policy—because for many countries (maybe most countries) authoritarianism is better than a dysfunctional democracy.
Now it is difficult time for negotiations due to Russia being in a favourable position and being able to demand more. While Trump needs to fulfill his promise to "end the war in the first day", Russia doesn't have to hurry although it wants to end the war too (after all, it was supposed to last just several weeks).

A good time for negotiations was in 2022, but it is lost.

> I doubt any peace negotiated will last decades

I think Russia doesn't want the second war like this because it was supposed to last several weeks but ended up lasting several years.
Can confirm. Grew up in suburban Atlanta during the period depicted, including getting caught in the first big Freaknic blowout he describes. It’s so dead-on it made me homesick.