skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Strong agree. There have been people who blindly copied answers from Stack Overflow without understanding the code, but most of us took the time to read the explanations that accompanied the answers.

Are you sure? Because chatbots are used exactly like SO, with the exception of usecases like a) using as glorified template and refactoring engines, b) explain existing codebases, c) automatically add unit tests and context-based documentation. Just open SO and check any random question: how to get a framework to do something, how to configure something, why something worked like this or like that, why did a code block had a bug, etc.
I used to work down the hall from Porkbun in a co-working space in Portland. They gave me a nice cozy hoodie for doing a bit of A/B testing for them.

Nice folks!

But how is this not just an ad?
or Australians :(
> a true public option that could out-compete every profit-driven money-extraction system by simply not being profit-driven.

Much like amazon did in the early days.

When the problem is incentive structures -- of profit seeking corporations or compensation seeking individuals -- what options do you have? (IMO its only regulatory enforcement with democratic oversight and transparenct.)

I think we as a society still have to figure out ways to restructure sprawling institutions and i dont like it when people only put the blame on public or private ones while ignoring the other.
> These days they'd just kill Snowden.

I thought they call it suicide. /s
> Should credit bureaus also be illegal?

I didn't realize there were many people defending credit scores. I mean yeah, I would just assume they should be illegal. At least in their current opaque form where it's impossible to contest or even get someone to explain your score to you.
TTD = Time Travel Debugging

hope it helps
You have not been paying attention. No tenured researcher was. Plenty of post-docs were, the moment the grant money did not come through. If they have to resort to firing professors, the whole thing is neck-deep in shit. You need at least a decade for someone to end up there. If they leave, they will take their experience with them.

Also, there are things like this: https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/03/umass-disbands-its-en...

This is a lost class. Do it for 4 years and you have a lost generation.
> Worked great for the French too, right up to the Revolution

Each of the French Revolution’s successive governments had their own sets of elites. (La Révolution itself had its elites.) Arguing against elites as a category is arguing against hierarchical sociology. It’s inchoate. We don’t have an example of a society without elites; we barely have examples of social animals without hierarchies. (Zebra herds.)

And speaking of the French Revolution, the elites ex post facto were not only mostly the same as before, they escaped with so much money and wealth that it’s actually debated if they increased their wealth share through the chaos [1].

[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/650023
I thought about a cell modem, but I carry my phone 100% of the time and can just tether
> The did spend money on propaganda and promoting ideology.

Why are you spewing inaccurate propaganda talking points if propaganda is bad?
You are missing GP's point and misunderstanding what generative models are actually doing.

The late OpenAI researcher and whistleblower, Suchir Balaji, wrote an excellent article regarding this topic:

https://suchir.net/fair_use.html
Yep. The whole time I kept thinking, “oh so that’s why I have to that to the curta” or “oh so now I get what’s happening in my curta!”
I have hsts issues with your site
Yes, the entire website feels like a blast from the past, but modernized. It even includes a webring!

And the owner/author is a fan of Otamatone (https://www.thomann.de/uk/otamatone.html ) , that's great!
Without credit scores, it would be impossible to get loans or a mortgage. I think a lot of people would be pretty bummed about that.
GDPR has allowed me access to my data from multiple companies, where before I would have had no way or a long and expensive way of getting my data. More than a dozen other countries have implemented some versions of it.

Could enforcement be better? Sure
Could some of the rules be better? Sure
Is it being updated to be better? Yes, it has happened and will continue to happen.

To read on the current state I recommend https://commission.europa.eu/publications/reports-applicatio...
> Agree. Ai answers actually work and are less out of date

Jokes aside, I feel this is really the case. Chatbots have the exact same usecases, but as their response time is measured in seconds instead of days and the responses reflects the context from that moment, this opens the door for more interactive experience and more iterations over the same output.

I feel this anger towards LLMs comes from gatekeepers who felt slighted by having to spend so much effort to reach positions where people with chatbots take instances, and as they can no longer close gates or pull ladders they start to bitch and whine against LLMs. It's as simple as that.
This article has some great writing overall, but ends with this

> How could this happen? Ansol wondered.

I wish it had dug into this. These sort of things don't just happen. There must be accountability, and journalists are who are supposed to start that process. This was clearly an environmental travesty of monumental proportions. How do we grapple with the fact this sort of thing is apparently just allowed to continue happening?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_and_Bill's_law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law

And more generally,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
Yup I'm gonna second this one. I grew up in Cologne and Christians here generally don't think the Cologne Cathedral [1] (which holds among other things, according to the Church the bones of the three magi) is "just a building" and if you wanted to argue to turn it into a mall next week you'd probably get a pretty strong reaction from members of the church

[1] https://www.wandererscompass.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/...
So you're saying I should avoid REITs focusing on US-based hyperscale datacenters for AI workloads?
It's not that easy. The deeper issue is plurality voting and duverger's law, with people being incentivized not to vote for something but to vote against a perceived evil, as that's what the campaigns get more traction with on the whole.

Plurality voting applied to the tragedy of the commons, i.e. the nash equilibrium decision matrix, results in the worst possibility if there's no basis for trust. If we could vote on the results of that matrix, by replacing {+1, 0, 0, 0...} voting with {+1, +0.5, -0.5, 0, 0, 0...} voting, things might actually improve with 3-4 viable, local parties, with smart selection of candidates actually representing districts constructively and campaigning accordingly.

But we don't have that. I fear its absence at all scales from local right on up to resolution of international conflict may end up being the Great Filter: The coordination problem of solving the tragedy of the commons in all its forms.
I haven't experimented much, but I think BlueSky has customizable feeds?

https://docs.bsky.app/docs/starter-templates/custom-feeds

and with an open API, I think 3rd part apps can do their own customization?
You could have credit scores that are designed to help people instead of the current mess where nobody can even tell you how it's calculated. The concept of a credit score is very different from what we have implemented in the United States. There's effectively zero transparency into how it works.
Remove Kindle DRM with OCR and web automation
DuckDB sql let's you do from first (thank god)

from first is correct, and way more ergonomic
What are the worthwhile apps apps on the alternative stores?
One thing I will suggest: you’re assuming failures are non-correlated and have an equally weighted chance per in it of time.

Neither is a good assumption from my experience. Failures being correlated to any degree greatly increases the chances of what the aviation world refers to as “the holes in the Swiss cheese lining up”.
Absolutely not. It regularly performs invalid rights on unallocated memory and even kills people.
The scores were only invented in the 80’s.

But anyway, I wonder what the housing market would do if mortgages weren’t possible to get. I bet the prices would go down.
Not necessarily. If you are computing an aggregation for instance, if your computation is recursive and not tail call optimized, it may overflow the stack but the fixed version will not use additional memory for each iteration.

Otherwise, indeed stack is memory, but the memory in general is usually way less limited than the stack and also running out of memory doesn't have the same security implications as overflowing an unprotected stack.

And, unless you manage to encode everything in the stack, your iterative version will probably take the same amount of memory as your non-optimized recursive version, minus the space used for the stack.
> I personally don’t care about alternative app stores

That's because it's difficult to imagine how alternative app stores would force first party app stores to be better, or risk losing business. For a start, everything would become much cheaper for you. They would also have a real incentive to provide new features and innovations. You don't have to switch to a third party app store to realize the benefits that follow from allowing them to exist.
> For all its flaws, the US is actually a place where fair trials happen most of the time (especially when someone's in the media's eye).

I've seen this Hollywood movie. Justice was served and democracy was defeated. The movie was crap, anyway. /s
That doesn’t matter when it’s subsidized by the government. When people talk for a public option all they’re really talking about is one option, because no company would be able to compete.
I found the NotebookLM mobile version
I've been using this AI Notebook app for a while. I like how it works on my phone.

I have about five meetings with clients every day, and I need to send them recap emails after the meeting. I simply use this AI Notebook app to record the meeting, and it generates a follow-up email in the format I like and send to my client directly.

I can also upload long reports in PDF format to the app. I can either use the app to summarize them or export them as an audio overview, like a podcast, so I can listen to it while driving or when I'm free.

One more feature I like a lot: I can use this app to translate or explain any picture I upload. One trick I use is to read my graphs and generate insights with bullet points. It saves me a lot of time preparing presentations or writing reports.
https://www.techpolicy.press/assessing-europes-digital-marke...
This still won't convince anyone to use Windows 11 if they have a choice.
Well it's a couple things
- Expectation to be "successful" i.e. social media presents extreme conceptions of success, similar to a supermodel body expectation vs. real life. To say, "I'm looking for work" is to publicly admit failure against such a standard. The fear is that for every potential employer, 10 people you know will see the post and say, "tut tut, what a failure" and then call their 10 friends to share the news of your failure
- some people think advertising for work is sleazy (as others mention)
- annoying people only to be told no, a sense that you're being annoying

It parallels something like the idea of being say 45, never married, and looking to marry, or being recently divorced at the same age. There is a sense of having failed, or being judged by people as having failed. For men, the sense of being a pickup artist or overly aggressive.

That's why some people struggle with it. And it ought not be shameful, in either case. But it's probably more wise to point out those feelings and work through them, process them, than it is to just say "I do not recognize any valid shame here, does not compute"
Well, I come from a country without credit scores and I was able to get loans there. It was much easier than getting a loan in the US. Credit scores are a pretty bad system, all things considered.
Of course someone in the comments suggests that reducing the fever killed him.
Like 95% of websites that aren’t Amazon or google? Ton of sites that run in a single small vm. Postgres scales down quite nicely and will happily run in say, 512MB.
I asked about this in their chat 2 years ago, and the CEO responded directly. His response I believe was that you are allowed to use Timescale on managed servers, but you're not supposed to become a Timescale hoster for others.
It is documented here: https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/wiki/Xwayland
I use xwayland-satellite (for Emacs) and I can copy text in Emacs to a terminal running on Wayland.
you are not describing someone who is "carrying water for the team". Someone who is carrying water for the team is, for instance, working on reliability improvements so that the errors or things requiring support occur with less frequency. Its not about being busy, its about having impact.
Now would be a fantastic time for governments worldwide to fund universities to hire folks away from the US.

When I was on the academic job market in 2018, I had offers in both the US and Canada. Ultimately, a combination of politics and grant funding led me to choose Canada. I saw how little disregard the Rs had for science funding, and how hard it already was to get grant funding in the US. I was worried that another R administration could slash research funding, but I never imagined it would be this bad.

Private companies already fund a ton of research in my area, but such funding usually comes with restrictions and demands that often conflict with the core goals of open academic research. So, NSF grants and the like are still crucial for funding basic scientific research that, while not immediately of commercial value (and thus not usually funded by private interests), often becomes commercially important years after being published.

My heart goes out to all of my colleagues and connections in the US who are likely going to be impacted by cuts in the next few years. It’s going to be a really brutal few years, and I hope our community can come out of this in one piece.
There is Mathematics for the Million by Lancelot Hogben, which not only covers math, but the history of math and why it was developed over the centuries. It starts with numbers, then geometry, arithmetic, trig, algebra, logarithms and calculus, in that order. It's a very cool book.
Cough* OpenAI, Boeing, MLK ... cough*
IIUC there's no need for system calls because there's no I/O. There's just program arguments and shared memory.
I mean. It's built on KVM and integrates deeply with how processes work; I'm not sure it's possible to make it portable without a lot of engineering time, performance hit, or both.
And you think a government run system would be more efficient? It’s still going to have people in each side verifying claims, preauthorizing stuff, etc. To do otherwise invites massive fraud.
Is this a modern version of CGI with process isolation?
Even though it’s in project instructions to use verifiable sources, Claude still makes things up for me.

So after it spits something out I paste: “ Are you 100% sure that every story, quote, fact, and source is accurate and verifiable?”

It then fesses up and asks if I want to rewrite with only verifiable things. I say yes, it does, and so far that seems to work!
cool.it is useful
Because it's almost guaranteed to be a lie and they refuse to provide basic information that would clear it up.
Unsolicited career advice for juniors: read a SQL book over a weekend and read a book about the DBMS your job is using on the next weekend. You’ll be very surprised by how much senior folks don’t know or worse about databases.
It's only "impossible" because of assumptions built into the current system.
Congrats.
The app is useful. But what's the difference between the app with Google's NotebookLLM?
Or prevent. One of the many reasons people are happy about the ending of funding of USAID and NED is because these groups were major weapons of regime change and political agitation around the world. This foments instability and conflict in other nations. And in these conflicts the people most hurt are just the 'normal' people in a country who couldn't care less about the geopolitics, one way or the other.

Foreign aid with no strings attached or ulterior motives could be a good thing, but it mostly doesn't exist. That's tens of billions of dollars you could be spending on your own infrastructure, education, welfare, and so forth. The powers that be want something in return for that money, and that something isn't just a warm fuzzy feeling from doing right.
Growing up Methodist, we learned it via church camp singalong:

A church is not a building

A church is not a steeple

A church is not a resting place

A church is a people

I am the church

You are the church

We are the church together

All who follow Jesus

All around the world

Yes were the church to-clap!-gether.

I don’t believe in any of it anymore, but it’s still a nice sentiment - the only thing I really miss about Christianity is the community.
The insult about "worthwhile" research is a bit more negative than is usually tolerated on HN plus it is completely inaccurate as there has been zero assessment of worthwhile or not in these cuts.
This kind of sloppy writing is too frequently encountered and it is annoying: "Archimedes didn’t think of 22/7, 223/71, or pi as numbers; to him, they were ratios of magnitudes".

This has nothing to do with "thinking". This is just about (incorrect) language translation and mathematical terminology.

In Ancient Greek and Latin and in any other old languages, the word "number" designated the result of a counting operation, i.e. it corresponds to what in modern mathematical terminology is named "natural number", so it must be translated as such in a mathematical context.

In Ancient Greek and Latin, the word "magnitude" (or "measure") designated the result of a measurement operation, like the measurement of a length with a standard ruler or the measurement of a weight with weighing scales, i.e. it corresponds to what in modern mathematical terminology is named "real number", so it must be translated as such in a mathematical context.

There is no difference between Archimedes and a modern mathematician, both distinguish natural numbers and real numbers, but since they speak different languages, they use different words for these 2 concepts. Whenever you read an ancient mathematical text, "number" must be understood as "natural number", while "magnitude" or "measure" must be understood as "real number".

The names do not matter, this is just a problem of language translation (which is done usually incorrectly for texts with mathematical terms, like also for texts with specialized terms from physics, chemistry, biology or mineralogy, because the translators have little knowledge about those domains).

The important difference between ancient mathematics and modern mathematics is that the ancients did not have a method of construction of the real numbers from natural numbers, which has been conceived only in the 19th century, by the time of Cantor, Dedekind etc. The ancients also did not have the method of abstract algebra, where you prove something for a set of axioms of a given form (e.g. of group, of ring, of field etc.) and then the proof is valid for any set where that set of axioms is satisfied. Abstract algebra is also a creation of the 19th century.

Because of that, the ancients had 2 independent sets of axioms for natural numbers and for real numbers, even if many of them were identical in form. The consequence of this was that many theorems and demonstrations had to be duplicated for natural numbers and for real numbers, because something proven for one of them could not be applied directly to the other.
What you've described perfectly captures the fundamental difference in how many autistic minds approach truth and knowledge compared to neurotypical thinking patterns. This isn't about intelligence but about different operating systems with distinct priorities.

For many of us on the spectrum, uncertainty about factual correctness creates genuine distress. We experience "epistemic anxiety" - that intense need to resolve contradictions and establish what's objectively true. The scientific method becomes a lifeline precisely because it offers a systematic approach to establishing reliable knowledge.

What you observed in your classmates wasn't necessarily indifference to truth but a different relationship with it. Neurotypical social cognition often prioritizes social harmony, identity maintenance, and emotional comfort over factual precision. Being "wrong" for many people triggers social rather than epistemic anxiety.

Some practical advice from my experience:

1. Recognize that for most people, beliefs serve multiple functions beyond accuracy - they signal group membership, maintain self-image, and provide emotional comfort.

2. When sharing information that contradicts someone's view, frame it as an addition rather than a correction: "I recently learned something interesting about this" rather than "Actually, you're wrong."

3. Accept that you cannot make others value epistemic accuracy as intensely as you do. This was one of my hardest lessons.

4. Find your intellectual community. There are others here on hacker news who share your commitment to truth-seeking - they're often in fields like science, philosophy, or engineering.

5. Your heightened concern for factual accuracy is a strength. Many world-changing innovations and discoveries came from minds that couldn't tolerate the cognitive dissonance of an incorrect model.
The best part of Google domains being purchased by square space was finding porkbun. I’ve moved all my domains and have been very happy.
> Who is going to erect statues for him and people like him?

Usually, one has to kill some people to have a statue erected for him. /s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_bureau#History

"Following the Panic of 1837, the first commercial credit reporting organizations formed."

It only took a financial crisis and 3-year-long depression for people to realize that credit is important.
Same. Used to work for a government agency, and our test data was just replicas of the prod database. Little access control, and PII was floating everywhere. It got really tightened up to be ready for GDPR.

And then every company since have also been very stringent and conscious about privacy. It's just part of being a good engineer in Europe. The same way you think of how a feature will be performant or maintainable or secure, you also automatically think about privacy implications and raise any issues.
Lip-Bu Tan's Ties to China and the CCP-Linked Semiconductor Industry
I have a few old math manuals at home, from late 19th / early 20th century. Many of them have a logarithm table as an appendix. It looked like the type of things that if you had a few extra sheets to print to make a booklet, you'd just add because it was bound to be very useful to someone.
Closed ai
It's a false dichotomy. You can have a good context engine and still benefit from being allowed to pick the model that works best for you. Aider is an example that has both.

IDEs would absolutely let users choose their preferred GC if a billion-dollar garbage collection algorithm space race were raging and a new challenger appeared every month.
Discussed at the time:

SQL queries don't start with SELECT - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21150606 - Oct 2019 (253 comments)