skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that understanding what work is considered essential at your company and getting assigned to it can accelerate your career, but I struggle to connect with most of the other points.

In particular, the idea that you can tank your reputation by being seen as doing other things during "all hands on deck" moments.

If your team regularly has "all hands on deck" moments, that itself is a negative signal; management isn't properly resourcing the team. In 16 years across multiple companies I can think of exactly one such moment. Even then, at that time I was in a hybrid management/IC role so I could "see behind the curtain", was in the manager chats, in the performance review meetings, etc. and there was none of what the article describes - no one noticing folks in chat asking unrelated questions, no one bringing it up or penalizing them, etc.

Many systems are interconnected. Most engineers can work on more than one thing at once, and often do because of human or technical blockers. Any manager who doesn't understand that and thinks people can or should focus one exactly one thing for extended periods should be removed from their position.
Nuke em
Yes, once you have a scalpel, everything looks like a very specific problem ;)
This discussion makes me wonder, how hard is it to find a Google Document that was shared with "Anyone with the link"?
> And in that trillions, is thousands and thousands of $15,000,000 spends like the one i commented about.

This relates it. you said:

>I wouldn't take that 750billion value as fact

It's from the 118th congress. If you're going to say that congress can't determine waste, and GAO can't determine waste, and DOGE can't determine waste, or whatever - harp on methodologies - should i take that as "it's impossible to determine what money is going where, and therefore, one shouldn't worry about 15 million taxpayer dollars, or 750 billion in taxpayer dollars"

The fact the federal government hasn't been completely audited in a couple decades bothers me. Apparently, i can't complain about any government spending, because I

> really struggle with large numbers
Lab grown meat.

I'm of the opinion that animal agriculture by non-sustainable methods
is a major contributor to climate change (maybe even the main
contributor, if you believe these guys [1]), but switching any
significant segment of the population to plant based diets is
politically a non-starter. It isn't talked about and isn't going to
happen. A well funded Manhattan project to make lab grown meat
palatable and economically viable would be the best shot in the
short term at bringing us back from the brink.

What's stopping me is a lack of capital, a lack of relevant expertise,
and a lack of the kind of personality that's useful for convincing
anyone of anything.

[1] https://www.cowspiracy.com/
Yeah my Amiga 500 from 1987 was faster at that lol

Ps I do absolutely hate the split of the context menu in two parts because many frequent operations have now become two clicks instead of one. Luckily it can be switched off at home but sadly not on my work laptop. I didn't imagine any power user would be happy with what change.
I think people downvote your answer because its literally wrong. Just thinking about the influence of Plato in the Geometry, Aristotle and his Logic and scientific method, Descartes and Cartesian-plane.. Actually Pythagoras and Euclid were considered Philosophers.. So I guess your downvotes are coming from there.
Ask HN: Can dual citizens be conscripted in case of war between US and Canada?
How could the US or Canada conscript a dual citizen without making that person a traitor to the other country?

And wouldn't a dual citizen conscripted in Canada be subject to the death penalty for treason in the US?
Tangentially related but I watched a Wendover video on The Vatican[1] yesterday and it helps explain the political side of the papacy.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zQ8cFF3DG8
62% of Canadians Plan to Avoid the U.S. for at Least the Next Year
Hey, thanks for replying! I’d love to chat briefly. Can you shoot me a quick email at jbornhorst [at] gmail [dot] com so we can coordinate?
Every pushback here assumes privacy is something you ‘add’ rather than something you ‘enforce’ at the protocol level. That’s exactly how we ended up with a mass-surveillance internet. TCP/IP wasn’t built for privacy, so privacy became a niche concern, not a default. Encryption, Tor, VPNs—these are defensive patches against a system that was never designed for them. Now Bitcoin is making the same mistake.

People assume Lightning fixes this, but that’s just history repeating itself. Lightning is the financial equivalent of a VPN. It improves individual privacy for those who use it, but it doesn’t change the fact that the underlying system remains transparent and traceable. Chain analysis still works. State surveillance still works. Just like ISPs can fingerprint VPN traffic, financial surveillance firms can (and already do) identify Lightning channel activity.

What’s happening here is more than a technical debate. It’s a battle over whether financial privacy will follow the same path as internet privacy—something theoretically possible, but practically abandoned by 99% of users. Bitcoin is TCP/IP. Monero is I2P. One is dominant because it was first. The other is superior for privacy but struggles because mass adoption cements early design choices. If you think Bitcoin’s privacy can be solved later, look at the internet. The window for embedding privacy at the base layer always closes faster than expected. If Monero doesn’t win this battle soon, it will follow I2P—technically superior, ideologically correct, but too late to matter.

Bitcoin’s biggest flaw isn’t scalability—it’s surveillance baked into the protocol. The transparency that once made it revolutionary is now its Achilles' heel, setting the stage for financial panopticons controlled by governments and corporations.
The Lightning Network? A band-aid on a bullet wound. It adds a layer of obfuscation, but at its core, Bitcoin remains an open ledger ripe for tracking and control. It’s like using a VPN on an unencrypted connection—marginally better, but still fundamentally exposed.

Monero gets privacy right, but it’s stuck in the shadows, largely ignored by the mainstream. And here’s the real problem: the world is sleepwalking into a future where every financial move is monitored, logged, and controlled. If privacy isn’t embedded at the protocol level now, it never will be.

Bitcoin changed the game, but if it doesn’t evolve, it risks becoming the trojan horse for financial surveillance. The cypherpunk dream isn’t about “number go up”—it’s about financial freedom.

And without privacy, there is no freedom.
Department of Education has a ratting-on-liberal-teachers form
This form is an official US Department of Education form to "whistle-blow" on teachers who mention anything remotely related to diversity and inclusion. Several teachers I know are having daily anxiety attacks because of this. They are afraid parents and students will report them with either real or imagined claims if they don't act in a certain way, inside and outside the classroom.

This form was created from lobbing by Moms for Liberty. The Southern Povery Law Center has described Moms for Liberty as "a far-right organization that engages in anti-student inclusion activities and self-identifies as part of the modern parental rights movement. The group grew out of opposition to public health regulations for COVID-19, opposes LGBTQ+ and racially inclusive school curriculum, and has advocated books bans."

This form is a threat to the livelihood and safety of teachers. Please pass this URL around to anyone you think can help provide more reports to stuff their inboxes past usefulness.
Show HN: Borea: generate typesafe SDKs from OpenAPI
Today we publicly launch Borea on Product hunt and Hackernews.

The SDK gen ecosystem is a mess. Either the tools don't work or they are way too expensive. We aim to fix that with an open source solution that gives you all the functionality you want without killing your wallet or giving you a headache.

Our generators give you typed, documented, idiomatic SDKs that enable you to add custom code implementations that wont be overwritten on regeneration.

We support Python and are working to release Typescript support asap as well as an all in one cli to generate, test and publish multiple SDKs with one command

Check out our PH launch [1] and star our Github repo [2]. If you want to help us build this, we are open to any and all contributions. Check out our dedicated Discord server [3] to build with us or just chat!

[1] https://www.producthunt.com/products/borea
[2] https://github.com/Borea-dev/python-client-generator
[3] https://discord.gg/qpdxeF6wrK
$36 billion is the cost to the US. Yes, it's not nearly as much as the cost to fix global warming, but the usual suspects opposed it using cost arguments at the time. https://www.lpl.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/resources/gl...
Hey, would love to chat. Can you shoot me a quick email at jbornhorst [at] gmail [dot] com so we can coordinate?
>The deal values the equity at as much as $13 billion. Add assumed net debt, the cost of opioid settlements and certain other financial obligations and the total transaction value hits some $24 billion, says Walgreens.

Why isnt the net debt and liabilities priced into the value of the equity? Is Sycamore somehow spinning these off in the deal? If so, who is being paid to take them on?
Imagine if each advancement in battery technology had been limited to using existing batteries for power. That's what trying to get LLMs to improve themselves is like.
Which resulted in the notorious release of Outpost [1]. I think owners of that would have happily accepted a large series of post release patches over that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outpost_(1994_video_game)#Rece...
FCC Chair says US is too dependant on GPS, wants alternatives
This is great, thank you! I'm going to drop it in later and see how it works.
Sounds like you've solved it, but I'd love to learn from your experience. 20 min chat? Can you shoot me a quick email at jbornhorst [at] gmail [dot] com so we can coordinate?
Canadian leisure travel to U.S. down 40% in February, Flight Centre says
"...among Ukrainians."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/zelenskys-approval-rating-jumps-6...
> Don't we want to use objective systems to "predict" how employees will perform?

Not really, because choosing 'objective' is inherently biased in some way
You don't even need to appeal to authority; the most common scientific methods are grounded in philosophical assumptions (logic, ethics)
Filed an issue to remove googlephotos from rclone since removeing the library.readonly scope will completely break that. https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/8434

What a terrible decision by Google.
I've had the bad luck that my first prescription was quite wrong: incorrect axis for astigmatism, and incorrect spherical (I basically have only astigmatism, no spherical). So for years I was suffering through the days. Optometrists flat out refuse to correct such mistakes (I've been to many!), preferring only minor changes. I finally started ordering a bunch of glasses cheaply online, and eventually found a prescription that works for me. Cannot trust optometrists anymore.
Get your blood pressure checked just to be on the safe side. Those headaches could be caused by other health issues. Taking that much headache medication all the time is not good.
and i'll still do that, if it's a small thing that would be silly to ship and the shop is conventiently located, but i have to know what i'm looking for is there first.
Adam neuman says hi!
Based on your recent post history where you consider some issue X, its negation, and then ask a question with “I’m curious if…”, these seem to be LLM generated. In which case: please don’t post that here.
> From your article and comments, it sounds like the take is something like "humans don't actually reason autoregressively" which could be true, I don't know enough to know, but sort of like saying physics models aren't really how nature works: ultimately LLMs are executable models of the world, it's even in the name.

The conclusion states "Language and thought are not purely autoregressive in humans".

Which doesn't mean humans don't have autoregressive components in their thinking. At least that's my opinion. I don't make this bold statement and I don't know enough to know, too.

> Like a lot of my coworkers analyzing a production bug? I would agree if the statement were that LLMs were underpowered compared to a human brain today

Clearly not in the same way and that was what I was trying to explain with regards to the hallucination issue too. Humans are also learning from proofs, can apply frameworks, etc. there's no denying that. But the internal process of an LLM remains pattern matching and sequential prediction whereas there's more to the human's thinking process.

LLMs are underpowered in some aspects that can't be replicated with autoregressive modeling, but are already stronger in other aspects. That is what I think.

> but I'm not seeing evidence that humans do reasoning in a way that can't be correctly modeled.

Me neither, this is not what my stance is, and I'm actually optimistic about it. I just don't think we should be satisfied with only autoregressive modeling if the ambition is to reach or comprehend human-level intelligence.
A notable error in the article:

> The second attempt got all the way to Vermilion City, finding a way through the infamous Mt. Moon maze and achieving two badges, so pretty close to the benchmark.

It did not make it to Vermillion City: it got Misty's badge (with some fun battle RNG), then got stuck in Cerulean City and could not get out: the next objective was to go north to Bill's House to get the S.S Anne ticket which is required before going to Vermillion City, but it just couldn't do that.

Given the amount of loops in this livestream, I am somewhat skeptical of that benchmark results chart. There's no way it somehow made it to Vermillion, beat the S.S Anne for HM Cut, and also beat Surge with the relative amount of actions implied by the chart.
A single protein shake typically provides around 22g of protein, which is a small portion of the recommended daily intake for maintaining muscle, generally close to 1g of protein per pound of body weight. As an example, I'm currently on a weight loss diet and have a 180g of proteins target per day. Unless you were significantly under-consuming protein, it's unlikely that the shake alone made a major difference.
You are so full of shit.

I get on the treadmill for 1 hour and consume 700 calories in that hour.

Heavy exercise also causes improved appetite and sleep regulation as it fixes your blood sugar levels. This leads to your demand for food and especially the worst kinds to paradoxically go down for most fat people (they were already eating too many calories)

Calories in and calories out shows that I will durably lose weight over a several month period with 1 hr on the treadmill every other day - a totally doable number for motivated people.

I swear to gosh that all the people who say “you can’t outrun your fork” are fatties.

The issue is that the willpower to exercise for most people is trash. Most people who claimed they did high impact exercise and didn’t see weight loss simply didn’t actually do high impact exercise.
Am I correct in thinking that RAG, or SFT, would still be needed to introduce unseen context to the model.
Sure and it isn't hyperbolic to force down the rabbit hole that not paying Ukraine brings us straight into whatever anarcho dystopia is believed to come down as soon as grey area executive military impoundment happens. That's the way it always is, certain sentiment are just accepted while others go straight into wife raping -- but how dare _you_ be hyperbolic!
It's an optician that takes you to the cleaners in such a way that you feel good about it afterwards.
A new perspective for US virtual power plants
I don’t think it’s unlikable at all for the government to shrink - in fact, I see it as very likely. But not for the reasons you think. I think it’s likely because the most powerful people in our society would become more powerful.

Certainly, a return to few laws on labor and education would be extremely advantageous to the ruling class. Certainly, they desire children to work. Certainly, they desire pseudo-slavery. It’s a no-brainer for them to attempt to push things in that direction.

All I know is, our quality of life has gone up significantly since regulations have increased. I think it’s plainly undeniable.

You might claim it’s just correlation, and it would’ve happened anyway. But when you can trace specific lifestyle improvements, like being able to read, to specific pieces of legislation, I think that argument is lazy.

You’re correct, we can’t know for sure. But for me, I consider the evidence strong enough.
That’s an excellent point
Impeachment, removal from office, being barred from ever holding office again. Those are separate but need to happen in order.

That’s the limit of it, by design I think. The lack of criminality or even civil offense means the job is predicated on trust to achieve political goals. Once trust is lost, the individual must be removed from office or immense damage will ensue.
Sure, and I apologize if I came across as condescending or rude.

You raise interesting points.

I'd propose a wager, but I'm not sure what the terms ought to be.

In general, I think that procedural thinking is a problem that is basically already cracked, and that all (or nearly all) hard problems that the 99.5th percentile human can solve, in any given domain, will be soluble by artificial intelligences in the near enough future. Five years, I think, would be a wild over-estimate. Maybe two?

I also think that, as a general rule, "prediction = intelligence" and that the breadth, accuracy, and extensibility of one's predictive capabilities is essentially correlated with just how intelligent one is. It doesn't matter how it happens; it can be a black box. Humans, to be sure, are black boxes. I think that scientists have been trying to simulate the nematode c.elegans brain for about two decades, and as far as I know they still haven't succeeded, despite it only having 900 neurons.
I can't reply to your new post below, I guess the thread is too deep. But you've bit the bullet and stated that what humans do is not reasoning, I think.

You didn't like "what colour is the sky" (without looking), ok. "Given the following [unseen during training] page of text, can you guess what emotion the main character is feeling at the end?" This is a problem that a human can solve, and many LLMs can solve, even if they can't solve the detective puzzle. In case it doesn't sound important, this can be reframed as a customer-service sentiment-recognition problem.
That's true, but doesn't really squeeze natural alternatives out of the market if they're effective.

For example, there's a prescription engineered version of melatonin.

Melatonin is still a huge business.
It's a far stretch to say a philosopher (JS Mill) who is widely known as one of the foremost voices on "negative liberty" is a significant influence on the notion that governments must ensure a citizen's "right to flourish".
Taking pain meds daily for life doesn't seem like a good plan.

Maybe try e-ink? There are e-ink monitors on the market if that works, if the problem's the light. You can also try software like Redshift[1] for regular monitors.

If it's your neck, at least put some books under your monitor stand, if you're not able to get better monitor mounts. Or lower your chair. You should be looking straight ahead for your monitor, so your neck muscles shouldn't have to do much work.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshift_(software)
The CRPG Renaissance, Part 4: Long Live Dungeons and Dragons
Exactly my point! you have a chain of 3 associations right there. One is nearly tautological and another has backwards causality. Correlation =/= causation.

Something being a good a good predicative indicator does not mean it is an effective intervention.
> In both cases, trust is lost when features like these are enabled quietly, without giving users the option to opt-out

That's what we are trying to do at DoShare we've open-source our clients and even local photos segregation pipeline will be available before release. And we also believe in Choice so that's something that should be independent of any software implementing a Privacy violating feature in anyway.

[1] https://getcloud.doshare.me

[2] https://github.com/doshareme
You can change to archive size to 50GB per file.
Just look at corporations. Nearly everyone who has gotten insanely wealthy in the US in the last 100 years or so has done so through a corporation, or some other liability-protection business structure. These business formations are nothing more than government-provided, and government-enforced, fictions.
I apparently have watched too much explosions & fire / extractions & ire, because my immediate thought on seeing the parent comment was that "yeah, it's gonna decompose before it vaporizes, and if it's hypergolic with itself that'll be fun"

Apparently, watching an Aussie with a backyard shed full of mysterious chemicals and reagents has me assuming that any mysterious, unmarked liquid that needs to be identified is probably explosive.
Couldn't you transform twiddling one way into twiddling the other way by reflecting through a mirror and turning the bolts 180 degrees end-over-end? If you start with the bolts moving North, the mirroring makes them go South, and turning them around makes them go North again, but now you're twiddling the other way. So the bolts would have to go North no matter which way you twiddle them, so either twiddling is not reversible (which is a repugnant proposition) or they must have a speed of 0.
Is that a proprietary HTML extension?

Are we back to the IE-era mess then?

If so, let's bring <marquee> back.
IsoBiscuit: An open source VM compiler
I've talked about this a lot with friends.

Endpoint detection (and phrase endpointing, and end of utterance) are terms from the academic literature about this, and related, problems.

Very few people who are doing "AI Engineering" or even "Machine Learning" today know these terms. In the past, I argued that we should use the existing academic language rather than invent new terms.

But then OpenAI released the Realtime API and called this "turn detection" in their docs. And that was that. It no longer made sense to use any other verbiage.
I think everyone wants that but there really is no silver Bullet in explaining or understanding how to make this technology more effective or more accurate. The companies themselves can radically change the models, behavior intentionally and unintentionally. There is no guarantee that any insights that you gain today will be applicable in the future.
There’s some misinformation here.

The US does use more additives like BHA or potassium bromate (possible carcinogens—can you name others you’re thinking of?), but their link to obesity isn’t clear. As for soda, ‘hyper processed corn syrup’ I suppose just means high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS)—what’s the big difference you see from sugar? Research, like this meta-analysis (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9551185/), shows HFCS and sugar are metabolically similar in typical amounts, no disaster there.

Your weight loss in Europe might be more about activity than food quality. Short trips often mean more walking and exploring, which burns calories, even if you’re eating junk.
I never tried with Vista but I customized the appearance of Windows 7 on my old computer and it looked nothing like this. I remember lots of people hated the frosted glass look when it first released, and personally I never got used to it. The OS peaked aesthetically with Windows 2000 and has been on a steady decline since then.
Who downvoted this?
Is there an RFC for this?