skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the majority of voting Americans' lives got better in Trump's first term, then Trump would have won in 2020, but he got blown out losing by 7 million votes.

Cleaning up the mess Trump left was painful. The unavoidable consequences of global disruption of the economy (ie reduced supplies of goods) was a bit of inflation, and while Biden achieved the best recovery of any developed nation with the lowest inflation and very high wage growth among the bottom 40% of income earners, enough voters were turned off by inflation and by rightwing efforts to make voting harder that Donald Trump was able to just barely pull out a victory.

Trump is eliminating guardrails left and right and unsurprisingly is crashing things much faster this time around.
If you had said, "The perf difference isn't enough for me to care about," then I wouldn't have responded or said anything. That's totally fair and reasonable. Who am I to say what you should care about? If you want to spend more time waiting for shit to finish, that's your prerogative.

But what you said is (emphasis mine):

> For these tools, you won’t notice.

> None of these tools that they’re oxidizing is compute bound

just blatantly wrong and a >2x difference in perf is absolutely relevant and something I would notice personally. Maybe I'm the only one who likes sorting to be as fast as possible, but I'd guess not.

> You should try that benchmark with sort compiled with Fil-C.

Feel free to post a complete MRE for doing this and I'd be happy to run it.
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Just to argue the other side, I'm an Apple user of iPhones and Macbooks and my reaction to Apple Intelligence being rubbish is eh ... who really cares? I mean Siri has been rubbish for many years and people basically ignore it. They'll probably get Apple Intelligence to do something half useful one day.
Actually I think this is a typo, or a lapsus, and they are referring to John Pond [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pond
Because he was effectively stateless, and that was the only option available. Context matters..
They did "fix it" on Kingdom Come 2 and personally think they did a good job about how the reaction would be when meeting a dude with dark skin on that specific time and place.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_OksWkD0VaY
What's the draw of all your software to serve the app etc? That might still might drive it to be net negative for your energy costs depending on how much higher the peak rate is than your base rate.
Show HN: I vibe code my dead simple curl wrapper alternative to postman/httpie
I'm not so sure about this. We are not even the point where auto placement and routing for PCB is there. And the reason is simple, the amount of constraints required is just too much work to put in for a person. They may as well do it themselves at that point.

I would expect most design is like this. There are thousands of constraints a designer has in the back of their head, most they are not even consciously aware of. The optimization of the objective is the trivial part. Defining the proper objective function will be very hard.
I haven't found these fractional sites to be very useful for development work. The rates are low and the few dev jobs already have 100s of applications.
> Yet it comes so naturally to some people.

Maybe, but I think many (most?) people doing it don't like having to do it, and for many people, it's probably not that natural. It's practice, learned and trained skills.

> I'd probably die of embarrassment if I ever had to do it.

If it's because a lack of self-confidence, work on this, being reasonably self-confident makes life so much more enjoyable.

Otherwise, I believe this embarrassment would be ill-placed, and therefore I would suggest, if you haven't done it already, that you think hard on why. And if you've already done that, I'm quite interested in the deep reasons why you think you'd be so embarrassed :-)

> This is probably one of those "Thanks, I hate it!" moments

Yep, can't agree more xD
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I haven't. Thanks for the suggestion, I might give it a go. I returned to Linux this year, after 10 or so years of Windows. My hope was in 2025 we have reached a state where you can install a distro and be done with it. Seems like endless hours of tweaking are still required :(
The problem with HN is people with little expertise in an area confidently claim things that are woefully wrong
I'm still mystified about the agenda of the piece? I'm not implying that it has one or doesn't have one, I'm keen to know what agenda you saw in it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28493031

There are others like this out there.
It already applies to real people, doesn't it? I.e. if you read a book, you're not allowed to start printing and selling copies of that book without permission of the copyright owner, but if you learn something from that book you can use that knowledge, just like a model could.
More intetesting adversarial inputs would be very long filenames, filenames with embedded \0x0, \x0A \x0D, BOM, etc.

Not that GNU coreutils must be vulnerable to this. But I suppose they are explicitly hardened against such inputs, despite the C language not providing any guard rails.
I know a lot of people will hate on things like this, but the reality is they are right that guardrails only serve to hurt us in the long run, at least at this pivotal point in time. I don't like Trump personally as a caveat.

Yes it is a fact they did build themselves up on top of mountains of copyrighted material, and that AI has a lot of potential to do harm, but if they are forced to stop or slow down foreign actors will just push forward and innovate without guardrails and we will just fall behind as the rest of the world pushes forward.

Its easy to see how foreign tech is quickly gaining ground. If they truly cared about still propping America up, they should allow some guardrails to be pushed past.
Is it me or does it feel like most of what the federal government does nowadays is make it illegal for government to make things illegal?
As Heidegger pointed out in _"The question concerning technology"_ the driving mindset behind industrial technology is to turn everything into a (fungible) standing resource -- instrumentalizing it and robbing it of any intrinsic meaning.

Maybe because CS is more engineering than science (at least as far as what drives the sociology), a lot of people approach AI from the same industrial perspective -- be it applications to math, science, art, coding, and whatever else. Ideas like _the bitter lesson_ only reinforce the zeitgeist.
Even moreso, it only applies to initial model training by companies like OpenAI not other companies using those models to generate synthetic data to train their own models.
Yeah it’s crazy. I also suspect they might not be confident in their defense from the NYT lawsuit - if they’re found in fault then it’s going to be trouble.
A lot of military bases have steam pipes all over the place. I think they recently demolished the Camp Lejeune steam plant
> To be sure, the unemployment rate for Americans age 55 and older was 3% as of January, which remains near historic lows.

The "Unemployment Rate" measurement always seems so fraught and useless to cite. I wonder how many of these 55 and olders would love to work but gave up looking and decided to just accept a less secure retirement. More interesting would be the workforce participation rate of 55+ seniors. I doubt it's at "historic" highs.
I tried it out locally and it's pretty good. It has a good writing tone and style, and a good level of knowledge, in line with expectations for its size. It's slightly worse than Mistral Large 2411 at STEM tasks, but very close in its general level of knowledge, and IMO better than Mistral Large in writing style and creative writing.

I also really like the option to choose between the "Strict" and "Contextual" safety modes through the chat template/system prompt. It allows censoring the model in a customizable manner for business use cases, while being minimally censored where such restrictions aren't needed. It's so refreshing to see a good quality model that does what I ask it to do out-of-the-box without condescendingly moralizing, censoring itself, and excessively putting disclaimers everywhere. It's so much better than the approach that like likes of Google and Microsoft take with their Gemma and Phi models.

In terms of knowledge and intelligence, regardless of Google's marketing spin and benchmark gaming, this is vastly superior to yesterday's Gemma 3 27b, as you would expect for a model that's 4x bigger. I like its default writing style and tone much better than Gemma 3 too. As of today, this and Mistral Large 2411 are the two best models you can run locally within 128 GB of RAM.
I hear and understand that gut feeling. Whenever I hit that particular feeling, though, I remind myself that it’s only shameful if you’re knowingly selling something that can’t deliver what you’re promising.
It depends a lot on the soil, in holland it is extraordinarily easy to bury stuff. Beware of netherlands defaultism ;)
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> "System structure mirrors organization"

Conway's Law is the general term for this concept https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
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That was an absolutely wild read. I came here to post it and I’m glad to see others have already read it. I wonder if nitroxoline might be worth trying on Naegleria, another (I think marginally more common?) “brain-eating” amoeba.
There's an extra word in your last sentence. Privatizing profit and socializing risk and loss is maximizing profit for the individual, and profit maximizing behavior is the only fundamental underpinning of capitalism.
Forking Chrome to render in a terminal (2023)
Isn't distracting the driver a safety hazard?
ActiveX... haven't read that in a long time...
Are there certain books that federal law prevents you from reading? Which ones?

Maybe terrorist manuals and some child pornography, but what else?
I would assume that the request is for it to apply to models in the way that it currently applies to humans.

If a human buys a movie, he can watch it and learn about its contents, and then talk about those contents, and he can create a similar movie with a similar theme.

If OpenAI buys a movie and shows it to their model, it's unclear whether the model can talk about the contents of the movie and create a similar movie with a similar theme.
That’s a “you are dead to me” brand decision for me.
when it comes to real people, they get sued into oblivion for downloading copyrighted content, even for the purpose of learning.
but when facebook & openai do it, at a much larger scale, suddenly the laws must be changed.
I know I won't be able to dig it up, but certain that I read this research paper where they concluded in words to the effect that jobs which require a bit of passion are the most underpaid/overworked - e.g. teachers, nurses, musicians, sports-people.
I believe in the NYC case, the steam is also not right off the reactor— it's waste steam that has already been through a turbine and so is still hot and under some amount of pressure, but is no longer economically valuable in a power plant context. So it's run into the city as an alternative to just venting it into the atmosphere.
Slightly different coverage of the same event usually count as dupes on HN. You could link the reporting you want to emphasize/discuss, the HN submission itself is not that important.
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It's not true that it never works.

Centralizing production goals, decision making, and expenditure at the Federal government is what made the industrial response to WW2 successful. Centralizing tax revenue to fund retirements for the elderly (Social Security) resulted in the poverty rate of seniors being brought far lower. Centralizing zoning control at the state of California is _finally_ starting to make localities take responsibility for building more housing. These were/are centralizing efforts with the intent of helping the masses over the wealthy few.

What doesn't work is centralizing power with the intent of concentrating wealth and security by taking wealth, labor, and security from working people, AKA extractive institutions.

That's true whether it's the donor-class funded political establishment or regimes like the current US kleptocracy doing it.
> If we're just a kind of machine

That is not true. Even our cells, with features that look a lot like machinery such as a proton pump, is on the whole several orders of magnitude more complex than any machine. Even a single human cell is more like an ecosystem than a machine. Let alone entire humans or even just the human brain. Consider that both cells and humans are capable of reproduction.

> If anything, the ability of LLMs to imitate human labor

Within extremely narrow confines and quite often going over into just conjuring up nonsense.
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Can I download a book without paying for it, and print copies of it? Stash copies in my bathroom, the gym, my office, my bedroom etc. to basically have a copy on hand to study from whenever I have some free time?

What about movies and music?
Um.

Yeah.

The internet is important. But if you go some places in this world you learn in a very swift fashion that it is not as important as housing, food, and water.

There's parts of the world that are not a fairy tale. Places where people have far more basic worries.

That said, if there are parts of Africa where people want the luxury of internet, they should, of course, be allowed access. The mere fact that they want it is an indication that they are in a relatively well off area.
Show HN: Still a Planet – programming puzzle and escape room scifi story project
Hi, this is a project I've been working on.

It's a scifi themed, escape room inspired programming puzzle short story thingy. I recently deployed the site along with the first chapter.

Registration is needed, but anonymous login is supported.

Any feedback would be helpful, so if this sounds interesting, please give it a try and let me know what you think.
Mean’s don’t trust AI
Wow I suck at chess.
Except Ukraine
Makes for a treasure trove of impromptu QA's in the comments
Chrome ported to run inside a terminal, like a modern day Lynx.

Hasn't been linked here in 2 years but I came across it and found it interesting.

Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34547259

8 other previous links didn't gain much traction.
appeasement?
somehow, I suspect openai didn't "buy" all of the articles, books, websites they crawled and torrented.
What’s wrong with using thier “cloud account”? The issue I was addressing is that subscription based services and software can be paid outside of the App Store and a lot of them don’t have an option to pay through the App Store like Netflix and Spotify.
Tesla products now excluded from B.C. Hydro rebates in response to U.S. tariffs
Not much development can be done about experimental cryptography, you just use it and that's all. Cryptographic review can't be written either. Also you said you don't want much cryptography.
Fiber computer allows apparel to run apps and 'understand' the wearer
To some extent, apps like this keep independent hospitals/providers viable.

A big bad health system will have its own “float” pool of W2 nurses or internal offer system.

Heck, that’s part of the “sell” when selling out: to get access to a robust vacation/vacancy handling system.
Is OpenAI buying the movie, or just taking it?

Since "buying" a movie (as it currently applies to humans) is just buying a limited license to it for private viewing, can't the copyright holder opt to limit the $4.99 license terms to human viewing, and charge $4999 for an AI training license?

Or OpenAI could buy movies the way Disney does, by buying the actual copyright to the film.
It still warps my brain, they’ve taken trillions of dollars of industry and made a product worth billions by stealing it. IP is practically the basis of the economy, and these models warp and obfuscate ownership of everything, like a giant reset button on who can hold knowledge. It wouldn’t be legal, or allowed if tech wasn't seen as the growth path of our economy. It’s a hell of a needle to thread and it’s unlikely that anyone will ever again be able to model from data so open.
It probably needs to be a law not an executive order but I don't hate the idea.

States have the power to make it prohibitively expensive to operate in those states, leaving people to either go to VPNs or use AI's hosted in other countries where they don't care if they're not following whatever new AI law California decides to pass. And companies would choose just to use datacenters not in the prohibitive states and ban ips from those states.

Course if a company hosts in us-east-1, and allows access from California, would the inter state commerce clause not take effect and California would have no power anyways?
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At least "how can you support funding this beautiful park proposal when there are children starving in ..." is more than a century old at this point (there are Soviet books from 1920s lampooning this sentiment).
Spark AI (YC W24) is hiring a full-stack engineer in San Francisco
Show HN: I Vibe Coded Doge Decimator in Websim [video]
I recently made this game Doge Decimator with the websim team, and wanted to make a process video for the steps I took to make it in an AI-native platform! You can check out every single iteration the site went through from the links in the description :)
There is also Yanar Dagh in Azerbaijan.

Wiki says the fire started in the 1950's but CNN says 4 thousand years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanar_Dagh
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/yanar-dag-azerbaijan-land...
Any niche? I mean, possibly large-scale data processing, yet I've seen people go more niche than that. In other words if your resume has 5+ years in one particular industry then that might be whom to target.
Some big recent threads a month and a week ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43009682

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43272453
> However, when I was about to give up and abandon the entire project, I had one of those moments, and got it to work.

Yes. So much relief. Although it was a bit more difficult than I thought it would be.
There was a quite severe vulnerability in Docker IP Tables that was fixed recently in v28. Previously the docker engine would accept request to internal docker IPs for un-exposed ports when on the same LAN. It is being downplayed by the docker team, but think any time you might have been in an adversarial network with your laptop.
We can hate European regulation all we want, that's the kind of stuff it would make illegal straight away
How often does it get to -20f in New York City?
The reason is that.. it's not, actually!

Like, individual websites might do their own weird takes and have their own design systems which are mistaken for 'material design', but I don't think you can fault Google for making text boxes too similar to buttons.

Text fields https://m3.material.io/components/text-fields/overview - underlined or outlined, have their title text

Buttons https://m3.material.io/components/all-buttons - fully colored or outlined, may have a shadow, more rounded, differently-styled
Wait I love this! I'm sure accuracy is generally important but I don't know many dates in particular so I had a good time playing for a few rounds.
Interesting, that explains why it's going off so consistently and makes a lot more sense than just avoiding overpressurization. Thank you!
You were probably too early.

Covid lead to a wave of quitting, retirements, sick calls and increased health care demand so nurses could flex their spot in the market place and get the new market rate through contracting.
Seems like such a dumb idea. Now I totally see it on rental car fleets but on car you own? not so much.

Edit: To be clear I think it would be a deal breaker for rental cars too, but I could see a marketing type make the case for the 'marginal revenue add' or some such.
"Pimmelgate", Stefan Niehoff raid are two examples of hilariously disproportionate law enforcement response for minimal offense.
Is bio-oil production carbon-negative? How much of bio-oil production uses petroleum oils? I suspect it's non-zero.
Maybe. It's a good start. The part where I'm unsure is that Cadence is one of the Big Three vendors. They have so much I.P., EDA tooling, patents, etc. that money will keep rolling in with incremental innovation.

Most hardware startups have to come up with new ideas, engineer good implementations of them, market them, and react to all kinds of competition. I'm talking companies like Habana or Cavium more than Cadence.

When I say hardware CEO, I meant one that ran a company like that where we know they'll be innovative and capable. Intel will need that since they're going to have to change so dramatically with so many product innovations. Whereas, running Cadence doesn't require (from what I know of them) that sort of innovation and it might have even hurt their entrenched position.

That said, I'm still positive about the new CEO. I hope his mindset and experience helps him do a lot of good. The letter he put out was great.
I heard rumblings about some sort of system where power is shared equally across three branches of government with checks and balances to ensure one branch doesn't go rogue and just do whatever they want.

Forget what they called it, united something or other.
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I made a wifi firing range / disconnected collab environment to this end a few years ago. Has BIND (which takes over the world), Apache, DAV, Etherpad. I carry a VM of it around on my laptop "against the day".
JD vance seems to be quite aware of OpenAIs meta strategy so I wouldn't be surprised if this is declined (ie semi specifically aimed at something they want to force them to comply with).
I assume this is most in regards to our anomaly/error detection! Deterministic rules for flagging anomalies + human feedback help in adapting our flagging system accordingly. So hallucinations won't directly impact flagged anomalies. The rules (patterns) we generate are on the stricter end, so they err on the side of flagging more.

However, the rules themselves aren't deterministically generated (and therefore prone to LLM hallucinations). To address this, we currently have a simpler system that lets you mark incorrectly flagged anomalies so they can be incorporated into our generated rules. There's room to improve that we're actively working on: exposing our generated patterns in a human-digestible manner (so they can be corrected), introducing metrics and more data sources for context, and connecting with a codebase.