skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If the US government didn’t enable Tesla in the way it did, it would still be a garage company

And if GM didn't receive a massive 50+ billion dollar bailout in 2008 it wouldn't exist now (new legal entity or not). Plenty of companies get government assistance. I don't think it diminishes Elon compared to say, the multiple GM CEOs around the time of the crash.

> I think it should also be explained why Elon is suddenly an objectively horrendous manager ... why ... why ... why

His priorities seem to have shifted from company to politics. I think he's letting his own hubris cloud his judgment as well. And he is into something else now. He definitely doesn't seem to be as focused on company performance anymore.

> Imagine if the CEO of Ford was walking around telling the press that people who buy big lifted trucks have small penises. That’s exactly what Elon has been doing with his electric vehicle brand.

That's a pretty direct insult to the primary customer base. What exactly are you talking about here? Did Elon say Teslas are not green and that people who buy Teslas are virtue signalling sycophants?

> If Elon was only good at managing companies for ~10 years that just doesn’t establish much of a trend, and points directly to my hypothesis that he got a lucky break and was successful in spite of his own poor instincts and judgment.

We're talking 15 years since he took Tesla public and it took him over a year to get it there. It peaked late last year. And isn't Grok 3 competitive against GPT-4.5? Anyway, I don't think you get lucky for 15 years across multiple industries. I think what's more likely is maybe you start to go through something and it hurts your performance. Elon seems to have lost his way. But if he were to decide to take on some other industry and seems really motivated (and steps away from politics), I wouldn't bet against him.
It was protected by the magic of mathematics.

You had to provide multiple confirmed matches to the cloud before the human verifier could decrypt any of the images sent. They weren't scp:ing images to a share for all employees to see ffs.
I see very little native on that.
Fair enough on the black sea deal.

> What source do you consider credible? Random tankies on twitter? Nobody who was actually involved in those discussions gives that narrative any credence.

Reputable news sources, ideally multiple different sources that say the same thing. Ukrainian politicians will not say anything that would potentially harm their war effort.

> Ukrainians decide what deal they're willing to accept, not you.

They can do it without my aid then.

> No, because Trump isn't trying to make Russia sacrifice anything, he's just trying to force Ukraine into submission. Which, by the way, will not work.

So, what's the end goal, as far as you see?
Use /api command to copy the API docs in, and prompt bolt to integrate
The plan is to have no government agencies at all, but to have private companies run everything,

like jokingly in this Fry and Laurie sketch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLfghLQE3F4
The statement I take issue with is that Sutton "is not to be celebrated or trusted". Which I can only interpret to mean that the speaker does not think that Sutton should be celebrated or trusted. (And they've chosen to state it in a kind of pompous way.) Which I think is too strong on both counts. I (and apparently the ACM) think that Sutton should be celebrated for his technical accomplishments. Also, I think he probably can be trusted on a lot of technical matters. Should he be trusted on matters of whether there need to be safeguards on AI research imposed by the state? Maybe not, but those are only a subset of all the matters.
Vets aren’t as conservative as you might think and they’re a vulnerable population without a strong collective voice. The vets that actually have a voice were usually officers who showed little empathy for the rank and file to begin with, so why would they now?
The lottery is a tax on people with poor judgement skills and I'm not comfortable with the state taking direct advantage of its vulnerable citizens.
Apple recently announced they’re building a new plant in Texas to produce servers. Yes, they need servers for their Private Compute Cloud used by Apple Intelligence, but it doesn’t only need to be for that.

From https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/02/apple-will-spend-more...

As part of its new U.S. investments, Apple will work with manufacturing partners to begin production of servers in Houston later this year. A 250,000-square-foot server manufacturing facility, slated to open in 2026, will create thousands of jobs.
Google are producing a tool to block adverts (spam)? Only ones that haven't paid them, presumably.
Is there any solution for statement downloading, like many small businesses I have credit card statements, bank accounts that I need to provide to my accountant.

While my "books" are synced via Quickbooks, they (accountants) really seem to love having the PDF in hand. I just need the PDFs and they do not send them via email...
Discussions (123 points, 7 hours ago, 161 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43265521

(68 points, 6 hours ago, 26 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43266170
Just make the maximum jackpot payout $25.7 million per draw. Any remaining money in the jackpot remains for the next draws.
I'm not at all familiar with text-based accounting tools, but I feel like the performance issues could be addressed by using multiple files instead of one big one.
yea, if you watched / listened / observed / ... RFK Jr you can definitely conclude that he is ALL ABOUT drugs and more drugs... :)
Also you don't have to deal with Windows. Which people who do not understand Apple are very skilled at not noticing.

If you've ever used git, svn, or an IDE side by side on corporate Windows versus Apple I don't know why you would ever go back.
That's what I get for living in a small town :)

The gas stations are on the main road that passes through the town, I don't use it for my commute, I literally have to go out of my way to hit a gas station - which is owned by my uncle (small town, I know)
Neat! I have been thinking of trying to build something like this as a side project, but knew it would be difficult to get good results without having a team of aviation folks labeling data.

Do you think your model's word error rate would decrease if it had access to raw feeds from towers or was trained on data from even more airports?

Do you have any plans to make the data searchable/discoverable in real time? Something like being able to search for any audio transmissions regarding a specific flight by number, etc., available on ADS-B exchange, Flightradar, FlightAware, etc., both in text and audio form.
Sounds good. See you in 2035!
ERPNext is fairly easy to automate. We have a number of Python scripts that use the ERPNext API to create sales invoices, add and reconcile transactions from PayPal, Stripe, etc.

We originally used Quickbooks Online and I'm glad we decided to switch to ERPNext a few years ago.
> How is AI going to make its own chips and energy?

Pay naive humans take care of those things while it has to, then disassemble the atoms in their human bodies into raw materials for robots/datacenters once that is no longer necessary
I feel like this should be higher because of facts.

The PACT Act is perhaps the largest health care and benefit expansion in VA history.[22] The PACT Act brings these changes:

- Expands and extends eligibility for VA health care for Veterans with toxic exposures and Veterans of the Vietnam, Gulf War, and post-9/11 eras
- Adds 20+ more presumptive conditions for burn pits, Agent Orange, and other toxic exposures
- Adds more presumptive-exposure locations for Agent Orange and radiation
- Requires VA to provide a toxic exposure screening to every Veteran enrolled in VA health care
- Helps VA improve research, staff education, and treatment related to toxic exposures

Literally things that we should do if we are going to send kids off to fight and then expose them to these things.
Along the same lines is the passenger pigeon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_pigeon
Is it just me, or is this outrage super amusing given the fact that for a long time you could search through you Google Photos (on Android, iOS or web) for e.g. “baby” and get a bunch of hits?
It's tough to draw a clear bright-line rule for this, but the line sits somewhere between "buy 10 tickets" and "buy every ticket". You can write a law saying not to run this kind of operation and let the jury decide whether someone broke it.
Interesting, I hadn't noticed that! While responding to your comment I searched again and found a clue that they lived in Ann Arbor, MI, which then surfaced an obituary for Dennis B. Smith who certainly sounds like the author. https://www.familylifefh.com/obituaries/Dennis-Smith-62/#!/O...

I wish I had found them sooner to express thanks. If it's possible to reach their family I'd still like to revive the site another way; for a drafting junkie it really was one of the best things on the web.
I hardly noticed, and I've been on Lemmy for nearly two years. I think it depends on which instance you sign on to. But a) you can filter out certain topics, users and even entire instances from your feed, and b) you can always sign up to a different instance if you still feel annoyed for whatever reason. For example, I left lemmy.world when it turned into some sort of Reddit clone.
Note: What makes this interesting is that this is a pre-LLM project which shows that in some projects you don't need an "LLM" for this. All you need is just a plain old reinforcement learning algorithm and a deep neural network which is perfect for this.

This is what I want to see more of and goes against the hype of LLMs. What a great RL project.

Meanwhile, "Claude" is still stuck somewhere in the game. Imagine the costs of running that vs this project.
just read this - that is definitely a bug. email me at kevin@firebender.com please and I can fix this bug asap for you
How so?

I love how in Kagi you can get an AI summary by just appending a question mark, and if you don't you don't get AI
That's cool, I don't know how popular canvas heavy apps are these days, what kind of apps are you working with?

I used to work on a set top box app, and for some of the features, replacing the whole page with a single canvas was the only way to get steady FPS.
Related update earlier:

Trump Agency Pulls 443 Sites Off Market in Real Estate Reversal

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43268814
Look up "district heating". The power plant can capture the waste heat and use it for something useful.

Your car just radiates it wherever, benefiting no-one (except during winter)
> in the end the responsibility is on the creator.

Bullshit. These "tools" replace the creator, who now has no meaningful input to what gets created.

The composer is the AI. Not the person who spent 10 seconds typing a prompt.
Neither side cares we are in debt, see the spending plan put forth.
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If I was a backend developer (and I am not one FWIW), I imagine I can't point at the back end of production systems that I've worked on because the internals are covered by an NDA, some legal intellectual property restriction, or I'm barred from doing it under some information security policy.

I.e., it may be impossible to create a portfolio for the majority of things you work on as a backend developer. Front-end developers work a lot on public-facing things that lack any of these restrictions, and so it is likely much easier to create a portfolio website. Screenshots of the back-end may land someone in court.
Does that matter? I would think it's whoever wants to sell to European consumers that matters.
I'm not entirely sure it would be worse than the status quo. If all the free sites were the ones run for the love of it, and all the paid sites were commercial garbage, that might actually be better.
> Compared to the alternative of the species not surviving at all

How about compared to two distinct herds?
The PACT act increased the number of veterans eligible for VA health care by hundreds of thousands.

Additionally, I question whether attacking the VA's budget, which in its entirety is less than four percent of government spending, is the place to start looking for efficiencies, especially since nearly three percent of the spending budget is unreported.
Other people have pointed out that your marketing approach seems to be "hey everybody, my site is awesome, come to my site and just try it out to see what it does -- I'm only going to give vague descriptions of it so the only way to find out whether it's worth your time is to come try out the demo". We're not in charge of how you run your project, but you seriously need to sit down with someone else who is more experienced at actually writing UX / workflow descriptions of what it would be like to use your site, so people can know more about it without trying the demo. You are hiding your light under a bushel basket.
Claude 3.7 recently failed to finish Pokemon after getting stuck in a corner and deciding it was impossible to get out
Show HN: Structx – Extract structured data from text with LLMs and type safety
I built structx to solve a common problem: extracting structured, type-safe data from unstructured text using LLMs.

The library dynamically generates Pydantic models from natural language queries and handles all the complexity of LLM interactions, type validation, and structured output.

Example:

```python
from structx import Extractor

extractor = Extractor.from_litellm(
model="gpt-4o-mini",
api_key="your-api-key"
)

result = extractor.extract(
data="System check on 2024-01-15 detected high CPU usage (92%) on server-01.",
query="extract incident date and system metrics"
)

print(result.data[0].model_dump_json(indent=2))
```

Key features:
- Dynamic model generation from natural language queries
- Type safety with Pydantic
- Support for any LLM provider via litellm
- Document processing (PDF, DOCX, etc.)
- Async support and automatic retries

I built this because I was tired of manually creating data models to use with instructor for data extraction every time there is new data. Would love feedback from the HN community.

Docs: https://structx.blacksuan19.dev
GitHub: https://github.com/blacksuan19/structx
PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/structx-llm/
High-end California hotel begins banning children
I’ll add to this that while I couldn’t care less about open AI seeing my general coding questions, I wouldn’t run actual important data through ChatGPT.

With a local model, I could toss anything in there. Database query outputs, private keys, stuff like that. This’ll probably become more relevant as we give LLM’s broader use over certain systems.

Like right now I still mostly just type or paste stuff into ChatGPT. But what about when I have a little database copilot that needs to read query results, and maybe even run its own subset of queries like schema checks? Or some open source computer-use type thingy needs to click around in all sorts of places I don’t want openAI going, like my .env or my bash profile? That’s the kinda thing I’d only use a local model for
I get this vibe, but I also wonder roughly how much intentionality and thought went into hiring these folks in the first place? Kinda seems like when it comes time to hire they're mostly focused on "what can I get away with".
I cannot believe I’m saying that, but: for apple that’s rather cheap. Threadripper boxes with that amount of memory do not come a lot cheaper. Considering what apples pricing when it comes to memory in other devices, 4K for the 96GB to 512GB upgrade is a bargain.
> However, I noticed: when I showcase it to some people, some of them mistake the very simple minimalist web interface for being ‘outdated’ or similar - it appears that to be "modern", things are required to be extremely bloated, and even technical people look down on fast (seriously: try it) clutter-less design.

The design is ugly. It could easily be made much more beautiful while adding zero clutter.
First Jobs in AI That Will Keep You Competitive
I assume the opportunity is doing this in huge volume. Getting a cheap computer to make the initial call is faster than relying on teams of humans.
..."and if no one wants to buy it"

It's a 3 TRILLION dollar market...so far!
Looks to me like people want to buy it.

For context, the Beanie Baby craze in the 90's at peak, was $2.6 Billion dollars adjusted for inflation today. Crypto is world wide phenomena, and so far, is 1000x larger. It also has utility for those that don't like bank lineups and banker's hours.

PS. FYI The Atlantic has become an extreme left leaning digital publication (source: https://www.allsides.com/news-source/atlantic). It stopped writing balanced articles years ago. Too bad, because it used to be great.
Though much of the controversy is around the inclusion of ripple, solana, and cardano. There's no reason to have these in the reserve. Might as well hold GME in there too.
I decided to try it 10 days ago exactly because of the pricing.

It would be impossible for me to have one-on-one tutoring for a year at only €465 ($499 but I'm in EU). And that's regardless of the tutoring quality
> Anything that knocks Nvidia down a notch is good for humanity.

I don't love Nvidia a whole lot but I can't understand where this sentinent comes from. Apple abandoned their partnership with Nvidia, tried to support their own CUDA alternative with blackjack and hookers (OpenCL), abandoned that, and began rolling out a proprietary replacement.

CUDA sucks for the average Joe, but Apple abandoned any chance of taking the high road when they cut ties with Khronos. Apple doesn't want better AI infrastructure for humanity; they envy the control Nvidia wields and want it for themselves. Metal versus CUDA is the type of competition where no matter who wins, humanity loses. Bring back OpenCL, then we'll talk about net positives again.
Unlike with Turkey, Ukraine could have easily taken complete possession of the nukes existing on its territory and they had enough resources to also take complete control, by replacing the control parts of the nukes, perhaps in at most a few months of work.

The only way in which the Russians could have stopped this would have been to nuke Ukraine before they would have been able to modify the captured nukes, but it is unlikely that this would have been permitted by the other nuclear powers.
Coca-cola itself doesn't appear to contain gum arabic, at least not in the US.

Outside the US, there are Coca-cola products that do though like some Schweppes and Fanta sodas.
> Half of the world’s climate-heating carbon emissions come from the fossil fuels produced by just 36 companies, analysis has revealed.

Seems like an important distinction from the headline, because the issue isn't that 36 companies are just randomly blowing Carbon into the atmosphere, it's the fuels they extract, refine and ship that are the cause. The fuel we use in our cars, to heat homes, to run industry.

We SHOULD be making a transition over to renewables and nuclear, but to a large degree we haven't, so a demand exists for fossil fuels. I'm not saying that these companies are innocent, far from it, they've spent decades trying to uphold the untenable status quo, but this kind of "Oh it's an external threat only" article is really pointless.

Doubly true when the top 5 on the list (by far) are state owned, with only Aramco having any link to the West and The Guardian's audience.

Something tells me that Chinese, Indian, and Iranian state energy companies don't really care about impressing a Western audience with their "eco credentials.
This. Functions are almost always the better solution.
> the West taking the hit

It’s not like the west didn’t benefit massively from it initially. Just like with carbon emissions where China will likely never emit as much as say the US will cumulatively, despite a much larger population too.
> Why is the gap so large?

I think it appears large for a couple of reasons. First is that Mac screens are much closer to 3K than 4K. You can find tons of really nice 14" 3K laptops so the gap is pretty much negligible there, especially if you consider how cheap you can get 3K OLEDs on Windows PCs nowadays. Second is that many companies try to limit SKUs for their off-the-shelf products and 2TB or 4TB apparently aren't moving units. People who really want that model can just go buy a bigger drive to drop into it.

That said, one last thing to consider is that while 14" Macbooks are very capable for their footprint, they are heavier and thicker than some other options. If weight is the concern there are 16" laptops that are thinner and lighter than the 14" macbook. The LG Gram Pro 16 2-in-1 weighs 0.5lbs less and is 0.10" thinner than an MBP14 and has two ssd slots.
In the Ethereum blockchain, some people do exactly this - for more details, search "miner-extractable value".

I don't know whether it still applies after the transition to proof-of-stake.
>For example, during COVID, many of the discussions were IMHO cesspools of misinformation with incredibly angry takes.

Health, law, relationships. Those are pretty much my main exceptions to stuff I can justify culling misinformation from. It's very specific, personal (or region-based', and bad advice can cost lives. No physical life is worth upholding some free speech on the internet.

This meanwhile is simply a mix of news and opinion. It's not harming anyone and HN never really gets "full on the front page". The algorithm does tailor to variety and the moderation strives to make sure duplicate stories are merged.

>but when you're faced with what looks to be a descent into authoritarianism, is there really anything left to discuss? I'm not sure.

Yes. It's more important to discuss than ever. You need to talk about organizing and rebelling. About how to use the system against itself. How to find allies. Keeping people ignorant and isolated is how you get hat regime to begin with.

I wouldn't have thought myself that calling my reps works without the right forums. I wouldn't know when and where protests in my area are. HN wants to say it's a community, but times like this reminds me we're more of some amourphous Meetup, mostly a revolving door of people who come in anf out with this pressure to talk about specific topics. But never make any deep connections.

We need community more than ever.
Who are we in debt TO?
He edited his comment. The previous version did reference the 512 GB being so big that it'd be a game changer for servers.
"can't be neutral on a moving train"
You can make the notch go away with third-party apps. On the Pro laptops the screen has miniLED backlighting, so the dark area stays purely black. Removing the notch this way leaves you with a 16:10 screen, so you still have more screen real state than in most other laptops.
Show HN: MaxNotes – AI-Powered Voice Note Organizer with Markdown Transcription
Bacteria aren't really animals though.
Interesting note:

> which had affected 14 plays over 48 days.

That rather implies the so-called "daily jackpot" isn't even won every day.
These days I just assume that anybody driving focus to the "debt" and specifically "paying interest on the debt" has no idea what they're talking about. Write it on the blackboard 50 times: the budget of a sovereign nation issuing a reserve currency is not analogous to household finances!

As a follower of Austrian economics, monetary creation by the government most certainly does matter. But this myopic focus on "debt" completely hides the actual separate dynamics like domestic people/institutions parking their savings, foreign entities buying treasuries for longer term stability, or the political martingale of accounting for legislative monetary creation as paper "debt" to the Federal Reserve.

The current cries about government spending are basically aiming at killing the goose that lays golden eggs because some people got frustrated by having to spend some of the proceeds of selling the eggs on the goose's own feed.