skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
^ This x1000. Everyone should read those! And the world needs more murderbot.

"As a heartless killing machine, I was a terrible failure."

“I was having an emotion, and I hate that.”

“I liked the imaginary people on the entertainment feed way more than I liked real ones, but you can’t have one without the other.”
HN was part of the training set for ChatGPT. But it might be interesting to train/fine tune on HN alone. You could weight by karma or conversely you might identify shortcomings in the karma system.
> Culturally "left" wing and especially socially liberal policies are incredibly popular in Canada

I can see that being true for certain policies and topics. But what about at a more basic level? What do you think of Canada’s shift towards restricting or punishing speech on controversial topics, and giving agencies that regulatory power? Or the tactic of using the financial system to punish protesters? Or significantly reducing firearm rights? To me these seem like not just everyday policy changes but a rethink of basic Canadian law, and it does seem radical relative to what Canada was like not too long ago. I can see why many Canadians who support a more freedom oriented Canada would want to reject the new Canadian regimes or support being part of America, because it would give them back rights or culture or whatever they thought they had.

PS: it sounds like you live in Canada but are more progressive in your politics. I would be curious to have your opinion from that perspective but also hear what you think the strongest argument for the other side might be.
Loglan'82, a historical informatic language, introduced advanced object-oriented programming, secure memory management, and built-in concurrency. Though forgotten, it could be an inspiration for new solutions in modern programming languages and distributed computing.
thanks for flagging ... number fidelity (especially on languages that are unfortunately less represented in training data) is still something we're working to improve
Probably better to link to the source: https://www.adl.org/resources/report/editing-hate-how-anti-i...
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You can’t sue for false information.

You also can’t sue for defamation, since everything ChatGPT says is prefaced by this can be false. This would hold true for a person.

Maybe you can sue based on a GDPR complaint.

And you’re acknowledging my point: AI is like your drunk friend in a bar, so you shouldn’t trust it for mission critical use cases.
Hence why Canada is now considering bailing on its purchase of F-35s.

The prospect of getting cut off is hardly theoretical: the US already partially halted support for Ukraine's F-16s (I'm not sure where this stands at this precise moment).

The US is clearly demonstrating it is an unreliable partner in defence. Western nations cannot buy into a platform when its supplier might go from being a democratic part of the West to aligning with dictators and autocrats literally overnight. This doesn't just mean that platforms like F-35 are vastly less desirable to Western militaries, it also means that other things we thought we could rely upon, like the nuclear umbrella, are also unreliable, which is likely to lead to nuclear proliferation.
The best strategy is tit-for-tat with eventual forgiveness attempts. It's way too soon for that (the US is still controlled by Republicans) but one eventually re-opening trade might be optimal, assuming there's still a USA to trade with.
There's no "basic Internet presence" for an individual. If you think it through, every attempt to make that a thing has wound up being MySpace, Facebook, or the next dumpster.
Solving Cursor IDE's Character Prefix Conditioning Problem
I don't think too many people are going to want to write the essay that would be needed to truly answer that. I would just point you to:

https://modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction

and/or any of the dozens of Youtube video introductions to MPC, to get a good feel for how it works, and how people are using it.
The problem is more cultural than technical. JavaScript folks see the ready availability of dependencies as a feature rather than a risk, including the creation of a plethora of micro-dependencies (such as the left pad fiasco).

React itself is an exception which is well-developed because a competent developer team (Facebook's) depends on it. The vast majority of JS libraries are absolute garbage from idea to implementation to maintenance. Nobody should be depending on these libraries, and yet the vast majority of JS projects do depend on these libraries.

You can certainly run into similar problems in, for example, Python, if you decide to import all of pip with impunity, and there are certainly Python projects with this problem that I've worked on. But Python at least has a core group of commonly used libraries that keep sane dependency trees. You literally can't build modern JavaScript without using some bleeding edge nonsense that won't work in a few years.

Thankfully, as I've said before, you don't have to use the mainstream toolchains. Browsers and standards organizations have been much better about at least not breaking reverse compatibility.
The mistake you make here is to forget that the training data of the original models was also _full_ or errors and biases — and yet they still produced coherent and useful output. LLM training seems to be incredibly resilient to noise in the training set.
I understand the risk of falling on the deaf ears, but where from comes the idea that communism is the opposite (or less of) capitalism and not an unattainable global maximum of it instead?

Planned economy as practiced by all vertically integrated monopolies may be the opposite of free market and the biggest attempt at communism was just that, but it's not the core idea of it.
But it _doesn't_ use web standards. It has it's own mental model and gotchas just like any other framework.
Oh I think it’s very important and it’s all we should talk about right now
Some responders have challenged my assertion that Sacramento is a desert. I concede the point - it's actually classified as Mediterranean.

That said, rice consumes a lot of irrigation water:

"In California, there is very little to no rainfall
during the rice growing season, so this is not
usually considered in water budgets. On average,
about 5 acre feet/acre (AF/ac) of irrigation water
is applied to a rice field during the growing"

https://ucanr.edu/sites/RiceTestSite/files/328501.pdf

Also, rice is not a particularly big water consumer compared to other crops - it's just one that came to mind. You could pick from dozens of others - Almonds, pistachios, etc.

California simply uses a LOT of water to produce a LOT of food, about half of it being exported.
You’re reading that wayyyy too literally and using it as an excuse to be combative
From her story

>He asked why I had gone to the San Diego border the second time to apply. I explained that that was where my lawyer’s offices were, and that he had wanted to accompany me to ensure there were no issues.
And it's so un-Japanese.

See what the Japanese government (or old power in Japan) has been spending the money on recently:

- Honda-Nissan merger (failed)
- Seven Eleven counter buyout https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/the-fight-for-7-eleven-i...

Masayoshi Son is in a different league, for good or bad.
Ask HN: Is HN scrolling slow/jagged on Firefox for you?
Firefox flies on much heavier sites, but HN feels like molasses.
Pricing looks like it's aimed at us peasants, not our lords. Smart if openai wants to survive!
Lockheed Martin must be really annoyed at the current administration. Who's going to want to put in new F35 orders now
Summary: Gmail allows users to undo send and it stops them from sending emails before attaching files they intended to attach. These are great features — but they prevent users from sending emails, which is ironic.
IMO it's too broad. You need to have something you want to learn more about and then try to find a couple of different books on the subject to get a clearer picture.

My interest grew when I had the realization that you can easily spot "gaps" in history, if you just start asking "Why?"

Example: This country invaded that country. Why?

History is full of cause and effect. The fastest way to figure out where you're not getting the whole story is if there's not a "Why?" or the reason simply doesn't make sense.

I enjoy US history, but I've learned to gravitate towards topics that simply don't get discussed much in the "highlights", with the highlights being the American Revolution and WWII. Just for example, the War of 1812, French and Indian War aren't talked about much but are pretty interesting. Learning about the Cold War by reading Skunkworks was really cool. There's a book called The Code Book that is a great read and covers a lot of "history of encryption" during wartime that I really enjoyed.

On the Biblical side of things, I went down a rabbit hole trying to track the migration of the Jewish Tribe of Dan from Cyprus and their influence on Greek/Roman mythology. Just really interesting stuff to me so I even blogged about it.

https://www.readnotmisled.org/p/was-herculesjewish-biblical-...
DESI observatory finds hints that dark energy has changed over
It is the first time I hear it. Do you have any source?
"Imagine buying a state-of-the-art smartphone, but its full functionality is locked behind a subscription service. "

Why is the word 'imagine' necessary?

--

Also, love the advert at the bottom "Hate subscriptions?"
Simply put, at the end of the day you lose, AI blocking will not work.

I mean, currently the AI request comes from the datacenter running the AI, but eventually one of two things will happen.

AI models will get small/fast enough to run on user hardware and use the users resources: End result? You lose. The user will set their own headers and sites will play the impossible game of identifying AI.

AI sites will figure out how to route the requests via any number of potential methods so the requests appear to come from the user anyway: End result? You lose. The sites attempting to block will play the cat and mouse game of figuring out what is AI or not AI.

Note, this doesn't mean AI blocking isn't worth doing, if nothing else to reduce load on the servers. It's just not a long term winning strategy.
I don’t think they can legally raise the price and charge your card without communicating the adjusted price to you and letting you confirm. Someone correct me if I’m wrong on that but ultimately I think they still need you to agree to it explicitly.
I'm surprised at how poor this is at following a detailed prompt.

It seems capable of generating a consistent style, and so in that sense quite useful. But if you want (say) a regional UK accent it's not even close.

I also find it confusing you have to choose a voice. Surely that's what the prompt should be for, especially when the voices have such abstract names.

I mean, it's still very impressive when you stand back a bit, but feels a bit half baked

Example:
Voice: Thick and hearty, with a slow, rolling cadence—like a lifelong Somerset farmer leaning over a gate, chatting about the land with a mug of cider in hand. It’s warm, weathered, and rich, carrying the easy confidence of someone who’s seen a thousand harvests and knows every hedgerow and rolling hill in the county.

Tone: Friendly, laid-back, and full of rustic charm. It’s got that unhurried quality of a man who’s got time for a proper chinwag, with a twinkle in his eye and a belly laugh never far away. Every sentence should feel like it’s been seasoned with fresh air, long days in the fields, and a lifetime of countryside wisdom.

Dialect: Classic West Country, with broad vowels, softened consonants, and that unmistakable rural lilt. Words flow together in an easy drawl, with plenty of dropped "h"s and "g"s. "I be" replaces "I am," and "us" gets used instead of "we" or "me." Expect plenty of "ooh-arrs," "proper job," and "gurt big" sprinkled in naturally.
Growing up, we are offered two broad choices:

1. Accept the current system, and improve your place in it. You may be assigned a low-status role, but you know the rules of the system and can use them to raise your status. More importantly, you won't be attacked just for being outside the system.

2. Reject the system. This gives you the opportunity to find one that better suits you, but comes at a very high cost. Many people will shun you, and even attack you.

"Woke" is an example. It's used by people in category 1 as a signifier that somebody is in category 2. It signals that they should be rejected, that every one of their ideas is bad, and that they are moral failures. That's a lot of power to pack into one word. You can see why people would avoid it.

Just saying "toxic masculinity" makes me "woke". And I don't care. That's the trick to avoiding it. It doesn't teach me how to treat women, but it at least puts me on my guard against the default responses.

I would never have any interest in Andrew Tate. Andrew Tate was the kind of guy who would steal my lunch money. I could buy into his way of looking at the world, in the hopes of using it to protect me, or I could reject it -- at the cost of being called "woke", and all that implies.

To be honest, HN might not be the place to ask this. Hackers have a reputation for being outsiders, and being picked on. We were accused of being non-masculine. But I don't think this is true any more, and you see a ton of toxic masculinity on HN. Perhaps worse: the people who see themselves as having to defend their masculinity will be the most toxic.

Teaching art could achieve some of the same effects that hacking used to. They'll be considered un-masculine. They'll either reject masculine assumptions, or buy into them harder.

Look... if I could go back in time and give myself one piece of advice, it would be to be a "theater kid". Being a theater adult got me so laid. Nothing like lots of sex to convince you of your own masculinity. Especially if you're surrounded by the kind of women who aren't impressed by stereotypical masculine men.

Because women are affected by this just as much. They have the same choices. A lot of women would rather accept a second-class place in society than have everyone think that they are hairy-legged man-hating lesbians. And they look for the kinds of men who also hate hairy-legged man-hating lesbians, just to be sure.

So I guess... teach them to be happy. Teach them that art can make them happy. Find ways to give them affirmation for art that they'd get by beating up a nerd, being on a football team, or cat-calling women.

Me, I didn't figure most of that out until I was about 30. All I knew is that I was living with the horrifying contradiction: I wanted women for their bodies, and I didn't have any right to their bodies. This turns a ton of men into incels. It horrifies me that I could have done that.
I really want these to be able to find and even redisplay images. "Search all the hotels within 5 miles of this address and show me detailed pictures of the rooms and restrooms"

Hotels would much rather show you the outside, the lobby, and a conference room, so finding what the actual living space will look like is often surprisingly difficult.
Still using gnu make.
Constructor injection is still autowiring. Spring used to demand that you annotate constructor arguments with @Autowired but that changed some time ago.
Curious what you mean by "corporate"? I'd be down to join a google et al, however my background is pretty scattered with 1yr long engagements and I'd need months to actually leetcode up to the bar that I'd even start passing second round interviews at these companies.

Open to the idea that although I like software engineering I should just do something else? Product seemed decent, because it's still solving problems lest the technical side.
Comment vote data is not public, which is the data you would need to make such a system useful.
Should do! here's an example
https://www.openai.fm/#4a5a82db-faea-4f80-813c-3131902c2458
Also true. That is the information space we currently inhabit.

Easy to forget the faked species called the snail darter, invented to be endangered to try to stop a dam being built.
This is a bleak view. How about the ones who work hard to shape the way we adopt the technology to societal benefit ?
Show HN: I built a free tool to create interactive, clickable US map for sites
That's all the article says, so it doesn't match everything OP said. So either OP made it up, or there is another source in case it's exactly what I'm asking for.

"According to a diplomatic source to AFP, the incident occurred on March 9. The space researcher was reportedly subjected to a random check upon arrival, during which his work computer and personal phone were searched. The same source also reported that messages discussing the Trump administration's treatment of scientists were found. He was reportedly accused of messages "that reflect hatred toward Trump and can be described as terrorism ." His professional and personal equipment was reportedly confiscated, and the researcher was sent back to Europe the next day."
TBH this is still possible in some scenarios, mostly when someone isn't using data protection and manually unlocked a local Keychain. It's pretty much the same as dumping LSASS memory on Windows when IOMMU isn't used, and in some cases even when IOMMU is used.
> Everyone's just going to pick whatever voice they're in the mood for.

I can't say I've ever had this impulse. Also, to point out the obvious, there's little reason to pay for an audiobook if there's no human reading it. Especially if you already bought the physical text.
It's kinda like online games. Most people who play a game are not too great at it, a large subset is pretty good, and then it's smaller and smaller groups as the ability increases.

At the top you get the people who are true pros, they write the books, the guides, they solve the hardest problems, and everyone looks up to them. But spin the wheel and get a random SWE to do some work? It's not gonna be far off from an random 1v1 lobby.
Try drinking tap water in Africa, India, Bangladesh, most of South America and South Asia, in fact most of the 3rd world... good luck. Ie India had (maybe still has) high infant mortality due to water-transmitted diseases. Once you can't effectively 100% separate waste water from natural water table or other sources for drinking, everything becomes contaminated.
not open source at this time. unfortunately they're much to large to run on normal consumer hardware
AI as it currently exists is a massive blight on society. The best things being done with AI are cute side projects, whereas the most common usages are low-quality thefts of human copyrighted work without attribution.

20 years ago the fear of AI was that it would take over the world and try to kill us. Today we can clearly see that the threat of AI is the amoral humans that control it.
EU orders Apple to open iOS notifications, Alternate AirDrop and AirPlay
> Tremendous progress has been made in deep stereo matching to excel on benchmark datasets through per-domain fine-tuning

read enough!
What I really would like to know: do they use a web crawler with an AI strapped to the mouse and keyboard of a javascript-ed web engine?
> I understand the risk of falling on the deaf ears, but where from comes the idea that communism is the opposite (or less of) capitalism and not an unattainable global maximum of it instead?

From literally every piece of communist theory/philosophy ever (okay, well, “opposite” is too strong, “radical response against and rejection of the basic premsies of", though...)

I mean, communism can be envisioned as sort of the maximum endpoint of a direction of change away from feudalism where capitalism is the first step, but...
That's a hook but yeah Tribe Called Quest is one of the most interesting groups in rap to listen to if you're listening for lyrical content
This previously submitted article covers some of the same topics in greater technical detail.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43329336
But you are not supposed to tell them that you use another SQL db, you use a file as it simplies things and saves money. For example, you do not need to expose anything over the network, you do not need to setup service account and password and data access is embedded in your application which improves latency.
And backup is a lot easier as you just create a daily dump from your application that writes to a backup folder and tell IT to backup that folder. People have been saving things to files for decades, and IT shouldn't worry about the data structure in that file.

This is not a lie, its about avoiding politics and fights. If they ask you to use MSSQL instead of a file, you politely ask them; why they want to overengineer and delay application development.

I've been doing this for years. It works.
Depending how you count "borders" and "European countries" they share a border with 2 (France via St Pierre and Miquelon, Denmark via Greenland) and share a landlord with a third.
> That's a problem with your build system then, not React.

Did you read the sentence that you're "correcting"?

> My current position on build systems is that if it doesn't work out of the box with esbuild, I'm not using it. If it does work out of the box with esbuild, then it's likely also going to work with whatever comes after.

Your optimism is admirable.
How AWS Code Builder compares? I'm delving into AWS world now.
Phoenix and Las Vegas are already major metropolitan areas. With enough money invested in desalination (expensive, but cheaper than migrating a whole country) it's doubtful that any part of the US will be rendered uninhabitable.
It resonates with me wrt muscle memory and ubiquity of “standard tools” that come pre-installed in majority of *nix distros including macos.

But there is a big BUT! Lately I have to use grep/find huge nested dirs and found rg to be an order of magnitude faster. Had to get myself comfortable with retraining the muscle memory. Worth the effort.

Some of these new shiny tools are meh for my taste. Delta for instance. Or helix the editor. But it is personal. Overall I love the competition. It seems like industry once full of innovators and tinkerers is lacking some shake up.
If you could efficiently extract the energy, which you can't. A typical coal plant is 33% efficient. You can get 100% efficiency converting the coal to heat, but a heat pump can convert that battery energy to heat at 300-500% efficiency.
I love it when people phrase this as a frontend problem. It's not a frontend problem. It's just a "it's a huge ecosystem with new players" problem.

I've seen this in Java 15 years ago when it was the front of innovation (I can name dozens of frameworks, and a half dozen build systems coming out in as many years). React 17-18 is quite a minor change then perl 5->6 or python 2->3

For backend instead of "let's use this new framework", I get the "let's use this new LANGUAGE" - the newest hottness is to rewrite something in Rust. It was Go before that, haskell, scala, F# (yes I got that too).

You think migrating your frontend code from react to svelte or whatever is troublesome, trying rewriting that VB 6 app :) (Or god forbid something like RPC where your data is in the code)

Not saying that the unstableness of engineering practices aren't a problem. It's a huge problem. Just that it's not a frontend problem.
A Powerhouse of Global Satellite Infrastructure: Norway?
> If you think there are going to be elections in 2028, you are gravely mistaken.

Care to make it interesting?
I don't understand how that means it's more efficient though. Don't you need to put that heat energy back into the environment to heat it back up again?

To me that feels like calling a magnet perpetual motion. It seems like it is, but the magnet will eventually wear out.

That's like saying this LED is over 100% efficient. It seems like it, but eventually the environmental heat around it will be gone and used up.
Neither of those are even related to border control, let alone one's ability to refuse to unlock one's phone while going through it.