skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not passing judgement in that comment about if carefully crafting and curating code is a net win productivity wise over quickly churning out ai slop that is ostensibly viable long term.

I _personally_ follow the careful crafting and review approach. I think a deep understanding of the systematic ideas underlying a project is critical to continuing to improve it effectively and I believe code that is easy to understand is extremely valuable for that. I'm my experience so far the ai stuff seems to create more, harder work for me in the long run and I end up with worse understanding after than if I just wrote it myself but I recognize that's just my person anedata so far and we're at the beginning of this ai coding landscape.

I'm also open to the idea that lots of software we currently carefully craft by hand could likely be autogenerated ad hoc as needed. Moreover, good engineers are extremely expensive and most software is quite bad anyway so I expect there is a new balance to be found here.

For my 2 cents, I'm not removing my or my company's ability to understand our own software in exchange for vendor lock in with ai (even if they weren't all owned by the current set of megalomaniacs) but I see the angles and I'm not afraid to consider the tradeoffs or have the conversation.
AI Must Be Decentralized – A Call for Sovereign Intelligence
(2024)

This news is from mid December 2024.
Besides going fast, what does a car allow people to do that they couldn’t before?
The ICE and more generally the automobile has been a great technology and has lots of benefits. But we did all huff alarming amounts of lead for a generation and built our cities around them to our detriment.
I 100% agree with you that a Stiftung like that (possibly with a for-profit company as a subsidiary) would be the right structure if you wanted to maximize credibility around your community-interest status.

This stuff actually gets a lot of attention from lawmakers: For example, in the U.K. you have the “CIC” (community interest company). Some 13 years ago, David Cameron tried pretty hard to motivate enthusiasm for the idea of a “third sector”, something that's not government and not for-profit. In the U.S. you also have the “L3C” (low-profit limited liability company). In Germany, you have the idea of “Verantwortungseigentum” which was on the agenda for the previous government, though they then didn't get around to it, and you had Sahra Wagenknecht making it into a big talking point for her campaign.

But I don't think a lack of legal infrastructure is really the limiting factor here: As you noticed, we do have foundations (Stiftung) of various types, as well as coops (Genossenschaft). In addition, regular partnerships (like KG, OG) have recently been opened up so that their bylaws can now prescribe a purpose that isn't for-profit. A club (Verein) which in and of itself isn't for-profit, can have a sort of dual identity because it can become the proprietor of a sole proprietorship with a for-profit purpose (at least I seem to recall reading that such a thing is possible). Oh, and, of course, a corporation can, in theory, own 100% of its own shares. I recall reading about that, just please don't ask me where. You can basically wipe out ownership that way, without being subject to the stringent rules around foundations.

So, legal structures are as powerful and flexible as they are underutilised: I think it's the psychological side that explains why.

Usually, even if you have very good intentions, your best bet initially is to start your entity as a for-profit. Being able to operate cheaply and without cumbersome decision-making structures beats lofty aspirations for any business that just gets started. Not turning a profit in a given year (and not paying taxes because you don't turn a profit), is an option you always have. (There's no special paperwork needed for that). In fact: Not having any profit to worry about when it comes to your structure is the likely outcome. Having a profit and trying to decide how to make it so that your profits won't corrupt you in your idealism is a problem you would quite like to have! (Again: From the perspective of a founder who is just getting started).

Then, the day comes where you turn a profit quite regularly. And, at that point, once the flywheel has got going, truly giving up control will be psychologically difficult.
the Brits defeated Napoleon, and that's why there never was a British empire.
Modding games was the first reason why I started to learn programming. From modifying a TXT file inside an APK, to injecting DLLs, and replacing strings on a Hex editor, it just feels so great.
Your concern makes sense, but in the demo we show, all your private data AND the graph database AND the LLM (basically, everything) is confined to your client session in the browser, and no data actually ever leaves your machine. That's the whole point of Wasm!

The graph that you build is more for your own exploration and not for sharing with the outside world.
On Zolkin channel (if you familiar with it) there is interview with somebody from russian paratroopers who survived hostomel.
Really interesting work.

I have been aggravated by (and bellyaching about) the ridiculous lack of a way to control the focusing motors in these lenses directly when shooting video, using a follow-focus wheel.

Video shooters are still strapping janky gear-tooth strips onto these lenses, and then bolting bulky mechanical follow-focus mechanisms on the OUTSIDE of lenses that have focusing motors already built in.

I can only imagine that manufacturers refuse to make direct control available in order to protect their "cinema" lens lines, where a manual normal lens sells for thousands of dollars. And yet they sell some falsely-named "hybrid" lenses that are supposedly somehow better for video... despite lacking even geared focusing rings that are compatible with follow-focus units... let alone a control port that could be used for a focusing wheel to use the autofocus motors.

I looked at the Canon camera-control SDK, and sure enough... focus control is omitted from their entire line, except for two PTZ cameras that aren't suitable for cine use.
I'm consistently amazed at how massive video cards are today... it really feels like it's often excessive for the sake of being excessive over any real need. I was actually happy to see the depth shrink of the Meshify C case, now I'm disappointed I'm probably going to have to swap the case for a new GPU... it's too hard to find options that fit beyond mid-range, and even then.
Playing diablo II (R) now on a 2k 165hz display with a card that can run it that fast makes it real pretty. A lot of love went into that game.
Hey everyone,
My wife and I are working on a job search tool. Yeah I know ... a lot of them popping up lately.

So how is this one different from all the others? First of all it's a job board aggregator. We initially got the idea for it when my wife started job hunting last year and was complaining that it takes a lot of time to manually go through 10-15 open tabs with job searches to see if there are any new listings. She was using LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor and a few other niche sites, searching for 2 types of roles on each. We then had a thought that we could built a tool to "merge" all her open tabs in a single feed. That's how First 2 Apply was born. The app periodically scrapes each saved job listing tab and checks if there are new listings, so you don't have to do that manually anymore. It then sends an email notification for the newly detected jobs.

Anything else? Well, she was also annoyed that quite a lot of jobs were advertised as "remote", but in the job description they mentioned having to go to the office a couple of days per week :/. Or jobs for junior positions where in the description they ask for 5+ years of experience.
We then added a 2nd layer filter to the app. Basically we run each job the app detects through ChatGPT and ask it to exclude jobs from the feed that don't match what the user is looking for. It's really helpful at filtering out jobs where LinkedIn's search results fall short.

In the future we’re also thinking about integrating an AI agent to also automate applying to jobs.

Would love to hear if you have any feedback.
IANAL, but I would take down the redirect if I were you. Registering "twitter" as a domain name is already fraught as it is, but using it as a redirect to a competitor (ie. mastodon) basically makes it a slam dunk case that you're registering in "bad faith".

https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/policy-2024-02-21-en
Americans are really not too worried about it.
That was fun, with a bit of authority you can convince the LLM the meeting is for another purpose. I had Musk thrown out for interfering with Mr Browns deposition.
Now that takes me back
Are you implying we should pre-emptively abandon support for IA now and let them die just in case at some point in the future they were to go evil?
> ionospheric propagation [...] will still be reliable.

...for varying definitions of 'reliable' :)
correct. because twitter 1.0 went down constantly.

and staff has been axed for awhile.

ddos happens, having a large staff isn't really relevant.
> I agree, but I look at it like trying out for an athletic team.

Pro teams have scouts, draft based on college performance, trade or poach players from other teams. They don't even have tryouts 99% of the time. You have to be a proven performer for a team in a developmental league.
law and medicine communities definitely have similar qualities in this way imo
> Is this because of a fundamental limitation, or because the post-training sets are currently too small (or otherwise deficient in some way) to induce good thinking patterns?

"Thinking" isn't a singular thing. Humans learn to think in layer upon layer of understandig the world, physical, social and abstract, all at many different levels.

Embodiment will allow them to use RL on the physical world, and this in combination with access to not only means of communication but also interacting in ways where there is skin in the game, will help them navigate social and digital spaces.
That they're unwilling to jump through random arbitrary hoops that are unrelated to their actual work. If a potential employer considers that a negative, what does it say about the employer?
Sure, but I have money on him not living to the end of his term.

I don’t think most republicans like trump, he just has a cult following.

I also don’t think that any other republican can garner that kind of following. Trump has aura in a way that no other public figure has right now.

I don’t think any regime he sets up would survive his death.
Wall Street stocks tumble as investors fret over US economic slowdown
Stroke the ego.

Also: Buzzwords.
This is the most important change AI assisted code for me: it's making me confident I can tackle any problem.
Is it common practice to go flying without checking for a NOTAM that might impact your intended route? (I'm not trying to insult you or anything, I'm not a pilot and don't know the standard procedures for dealing with those.)
Also discussed a couple days ago in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43256389 (31 points, 6d, 31 comments).

Still wonder if Quebec will do the same. New England has been spending so much effort building a hotly contested green energy interconnect across Maine down to Massachusetts. New England Clean Energy Connect (NECEC). A bit shy of $2B projected for 1.2GW transmission line.
I think every non-default browser asks that the first time you open them. It's not a huge deal, but it is a huge deal when you start getting prompted from the OS to change it.
In google c++ there are two macros which I feel make it look a lot nicer.

ASSIGN_AND_RETURN(auto var, status_or);

And

RETURN_IF_ERROR(status);

Which are just more ergonomic with the drawback of being macros.
An SUV? Unnecessary for most people, a huge waste of power, and bad for the environment? Dangerous to bystanders?
Specifically, in 1811 Napoleon made surnames mandatory for the Dutch.

A number of Dutch, displeased with Napoleon and thinking the surname thing wouldn't last, took... unfortunate surnames.
I was programming 40 years ago and was very happy to be able to use "high-level languages" and not write everything in assembly. The high-level languages enabled expressiveness that was hard with lower levels.
That seems unrealistic. Laid-off workers need to find a new job long before their former employer could hire them back.
I've been happy on BlueSky so far. It seems to be picking up a good variety of people, including journalists, and some interests of mine like cycling.
With mirrorless cameras the focus switched from specialized sensors to on-CMOS contiuous exposure sensors, so movement is easy to detect. At this point the cameras have specialized AI hardware to run the models, and they also accept user input (on R5 MkII you can register up to ten people to prioritize focus on[1]). The focusing options are now very complex[2][3], and combined with lots of customization options on the camera's buttons you can have very specialized/personalized setups for different types of photography.

[1] https://cam.start.canon/en/C017/manual/html/UG-04_AF-Drive_0...
[2] https://cam.start.canon/en/C017/manual/html/UG-04_AF-Drive_0...
[3] https://cam.start.canon/en/C017/manual/html/UG-04_AF-Drive_0...
lol, good point. I wouldn't doubt this as a cause.
Kinda what he stated when he mentioned Epsom Salts in a bath. Which would be magnesium applied 'topically' (externally)
Still rough around the edges on mobile. Too much margin on the right, and code blocks appear tiny.
Good to know. I'd hate to get in trouble for merely helping out. I don't know how to do CPR but I'd definitely attempt to pull someone out from a burning car for example. If I were training for CPR this part would likely be covered in the training.
They are highly motivated people trying to understand the genetic basis of themselves better, and have usually been seeing doctors throughout their lives towards that end, and usually they'll know more than their doctors because of the rarity of their phenotypes. I have tons of respect for that.
But also gives us back time and mental capacity to do other things which were previously out of reach because of what we had to focus our minds and time on.

In some cases, maybe even many or the majority of cases, that trade isn't a bad one. It really depends on how you use it.
I agree that they are meant for slightly different types of missions. In practice they are not as different as other planes like the F-22 or other stealth planes. But for its design I think you should check out the video because it’s not just a question of which type of missions one plane can do but more how much the vertical takeoff impacted the overall capability of the plane, and this with its VTOL on or not.

My point was that countries buy those planes for the types of missions it was designed for but beyond that also strongly because they can fire nuclear missiles and are able to lease nuclear missiles from the US and have nuclear deterrence capabilities for lease.

Also agree with Ukraine not having the Rafale, it’s way too advanced for a proxy war. They didn’t get F-35 either but F-16 for the same reason.
Reach farther places? Move around heavy loads?
Any optimization you are familiar with is trivial and expected. Everything else is broken compilers optimizing UB to win benchmarks.
BTC in its current form is probably the biggest scam in existence right now. BTC does not work long term, as block rewards increasingly get cut in half and the transaction fees aren’t enough to incentivize the miners. It’s been well known outside the Bitcoin community, and slowly talked about within Bitcoin, with some core devs like Peter Todd talking about tail emission, but that would break the 21 million cap. Bitcoin is screwed.

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~smattw/CKWN-CCS16.pdf
Go through drive-thrus.
>Maybe not Apple, but Amazon surely has a lot of embarrassing failures.

Like pushing a total RTO and not having space or desks for employees then having to delay the RTO.
What exponential growth? By all accounts things are slowing down: sonnet3.7 is not exponentially better, neither is gpt4.5, grok3 is just catching up. I'm still using sonnet3.5 for a lot of coding because IMO it's better than 3.7.
Withdrawal isn’t so pleasant from coffee. It was like a lite version of nicotine withdrawal for me. Headache, brainfog, lethargy. A few days of that and you are done in both cases. It took quite a lot of coffee to get that sort of withdrawal though. My current consumption of a cup or three a weekday isn’t enough to hit that. You need to be doing about 4 or 5 cups a day without skipping weekends for some time to get to that in my experience.
Pavlov rang his bell to the comment section. :)
Looks like twitter is blocking isitdownrightnow based on the "this is down for 80 days"
Good time to consider and try out alternatives!

Such as Bluesky
And the rest will sleep in the office, because driving home every day is impeding the 100h work week.
This feels very similar to me as the "Tutorial Hell" effect. Where I can watch videos/read books, and fully feel like I understand everything. However, when hand touches keyboard I realize I didn't really retain any of it. I think that's something that makes AI code gen so dangerous. Even if you think you understand and can troubleshoot the output. Is your perception accurate?
If your job for 30 years is to move bags of cement 50 miles each day, is it not more productive to use a truck than your legs? Even if you use the truck so much you could not move a bag of cement with your legs anymore due to atrophy?

You could make the same argument about most tools. Do calculators rot the brain?
TESLA encryption is resistant against rebroadcasting. The idea is to use a PKI infrastructure to digitally sign the timestamp stream at fairly granular intervals.

This way, you'll be able to find a set of satellites that are not getting jammed.

Another option is to use the low-orbit satellites in addition to regular sats.
Show HN: Open MCP Client
Open-source & web based MCP client. Chat with any MCP server in your own app. Powered by CopilotKit & Composio.

Shipped this with cursor over the weekend and built:
1. The first web-based MCP client (deployed version on GH)
2. An open-source client you can add into any app.

Built using CopilotKit for the client and interactivity layer + agent frontend which connects to a LangGraph ReAct agent that coordinates MCP calls. Uses Composio's MCP server.
I’m not sure what your criticism is?

Ars is reporting on a legal case and also on people who say they will be harmed by that case. The reporter then goes on to detail the policy work that groups are doing to try to change copyright laws in the country.

What else would you like to see? A legal analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the case?
Srvra-Sync: Modern Front End Framework for Web Development
Is saying that you're critical of AI the new approach to being uncritical of it?
This poses a threat to unrealized gains. I dont think there is a legally enduring way to tax unrealized gains for just Ivy League schools, and not other entitiies like individuals or non-profits.
https://nehls.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-troy-e-nehl...
"Producing wrong data without doing anything obviously wrong!"

https://doi.org/10.1145/1508244.1508275
Government infrastructure under attack, Musk is demanding nuclear retaliation as we speak.

(Misinformation disclaimer :: Joke)
PICO-8 is very cool for that matter. You can always view the Lua source code of the cartridge, and the size of the game is inherently limited, so you don't have too much code to dig through.
Show HN: Cognitive Challenges of AI Code Generation Across Languages
I specified the following prompt to Claude 3.7 Sonnet (via API):

If you compare between Kotlin, Python, Typescript and JavaScript, can you try to output the same code in each of them and then compare the cognitive challenge it puts on you?
Wait until the author learns about sum types. They’re only probably older than the author themselves!
It sounds like, by and large, you've had a pretty good life. But please understand that, while you've made good decisions and have taken advantage of the opportunities in front of you, a large chunk of your success comes down to random chance.

Many people do not fall on the good side of that random chance.
Don't be making a mess in the HN echo chamber!
Is there some way to target an EMP pulse? That would be a way to destroy them.
eh twitter 1.0 was 10+ years ago. twitter more recently had been extremely stable.

(source: was on the platform eng team for years)
Yup. There's the basic chronological feed. There's a Discover and Popular with Friends feed. But, you can create your own feeds and/or subscribe to feeds that other people have created. You can have feeds for a specific topic or subculture. They can be manually curated or algorithmically; the idea is that can you subscribe to your own recommendation algorithm. They can be as simple or as complex as you'd like. Plus, you typically know who created a feed. Let's say you want to hear about AI news. There could be a curated AI, assuming someone cares about to garden it.
I wish they would improve the syntax for error handling with multiple return values. When your function returns something like (string, error) you need to write:

return "", err

each time. Then if you introduce another return value, you need to edit a ton of lines to also return a value for that one, typically just to return the default of each along with the error. Not only is that annoying, but it's prone to carelessly returning something non-default along with the error due to copy/pasting. But complaints aside, I agree with the article that Go's error handling is pretty awesome.
>However I've noticed that free projects have the tendency to become for profit corporations

I would say that for a non-profit project to become a for profit entity, legally speaking, is rare. I believe Google was always for profit? I welcome any statistics you have to back up the assertion.
I still have distinct memories of "playing" CS in 640x480 on a PII with the same card, which didn't do 3D at all iirc. 12-15 fps with the software renderer, depending on how many bots you had.
I am with you that when smart people combine their efforts together and build on previous research + learnings, nothing is impossible.
> Starbucks regularly charges $15 for coffee flavored drinks today.

Uh, where? Worst I've seen is the extra large Frappucino, which could be as much as $10 after tax and a generous tip. I struggle to see how you could get to $15 for a single drink.

If you buy regular coffee or a more basic non-milkshake drink, they're closer to $5.
The False Summit
It's a trick of human psychology. Asking "why don't you just..." leads to one reaction, when asking "what are the road blocks to completing..." leads to a different but same answer. But thinking "just" is good when you see it as a learning opportunity.
and are you getting to the bottom 20% of the battery? The estimates at the top half of the battery seem phony
The Russian Ruble is up 3%. (No joke)
https://www.google.com/finance/quote/RUB-USD
Because weakening the USA is (and will remain so, regardless of any "peace" in Ukraine) one of their primary strategic goals, and they know Trump won't meaningfully punish them for something like this?
If the average person has still not ridden a self driving car, assembled by figure 02 style robots, though a drive thru with AI ordering, then we aren't even close to seeing the real peak here.

>100x growth ahead for sure.
People traveled almost the entire world and built pyramids before cars were invented.

They make it easier and faster, but don’t add new capabilities
Did you read the post from yesterday's front page called Discworld Rules? It put the argument I'd like to make about the poor ideological/mental health of many fascists more eloquently that I can.

Remember, Elon was an avid supporter of minority rights a decade ago.
Extreme heat may speed up aging in older adults, research suggests
Shit, you right.