skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed!

As a Canadian, I'd love to see a resurgence of Cadets, Reserves and other methods of training civilians in proper gun use, self defence and methods to integrate with militias/military command in the event we need to domestically defend ourselves.

We are smack in the middle of 2 former enemies, which in their current trajectory will become allies while making us one of their new enemies... We need to have a serious national conversation about that.
No.

This is looking for coding bugs that allow unintentional behavior, not intentionally malicious code.
Sounds interesting. Can you point me to link(s) to reading about that and the pros/cons etc.? Or can explain to me like a noob why this would be better? Took me 3 years just to figure out this far lol, so any guidance would be appreciated.
The ‘professional level’ prose to which you refer:
“ABSOLUTE PRIORITY: TOTAL, COMPLETE, AND ABSOLUTE QUANTUM TOTAL ULTIMATE BEYOND INFINITY QUANTUM SUPREME LEGAL AND FINANCIAL NUCLEAR ACCOUNTABILITY”

Even if AI prose weren’t shockingly dull, these models all go completely insane long before they reach novel length. Anthropic are doing a good job embarrassing themselves at an easy bug-catching game for barely-literate 8-year olds as we speak, and the model’s grip on reality is basically gone at this point, even with a second LLM trying to keep it on track. And even before they get to the ‘insanity’ stage, their writing inevitably experiences regression towards the average of all writing styles regardless of the prompt, so there’s not much ‘prompt engineering’ you can do to fix this.
Trump learned nothing from bungling Covid, and now he's put an idiot cabinet in place that practically guarantees Bird-Flu will be even worse. I don't think very highly of people unable or unwilling to learn from their past mistakes, people who instead decide to double-down on stupid.
Thanks for sharing. If I understood correctly, you have rate-limiter specific urls (those with commit ids) that are infrequently requested by users but frequently by bots. Which means, provided the bots continue trying to request them, any user request will most likely end up being denies. In this case a simpler solution might be to just block such urls outright. The only advantage of your more complex solution that I can see is that if the bots stop requesting these urls, they will again become accessible to the normal users. Or am I missing something?
Can we make something like a “non-deprecation” pledge for libraries? Just make a public commitment on the top of your readme file saying that you will maintain backwards compatibility in your API for at least a couple years. This will make me choose your library over others.
1000 TOPS sounds good, until you notice the 273GB/sec. This will allow larger models than consumer GPUs, but be rather slow running them.
Is this bait? Lol.

Try a few for yourself.
For those interested, the actual paper involved can be read. [1]

[1] https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/71563/Santhan...

Looks like it's also been relatively active afterward in the citations (171 total) and academic community. [2]

https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...

"Big" surge in 2017-2019 (22, 18, 24 citations) and then fairly consistent number per year (~10) most other years.

Also, TIL you can view histograms of Google Scholar paper links. Mildly cool discovery.
I built Plandex[1], an open source AI coding agent, partly to enable this workflow.

It has `log` and `rewind` commands that allow you to easily back up to any previous point in the conversation and start again from there with an updated prompt. Plandex also has branches, which can be helpful for not losing history when using this approach.

You’re right that it’s often a way to get superior results. Having mistakes or bad output in the conversation history tends to beget more mistakes and bad output, even if you are specifically directing the LLM to fix those things. Trial and error with a new prompt and clean context avoids this problem.

1 - https://plandex.ai

P.S. I wrote a bit about the pros and cons of this approach vs. continuing to prompt iteratively in Plandex’s docs here:
https://docs.plandex.ai/core-concepts/prompts#which-is-bette...
The CO2 concerns of using LLMs are massively overblown these days (with the exception of o1-pro and GPT-4.5 at least).

The energy efficiency of most models has improved by an order of magnitude since the most widely cited CO2 usage papers were published.

(It remains frustratingly difficult to get accurate numbers though: at this point I think more transparency would help rather than hurt the big AI labs)
Sun – The Power Behind Pixar's Movie-Making (1995)
That's a really cool page thanks. Does it have stats for other languages?

In my experience the OpenAI TTS APIs were really bad, messing up all the time in foreign languages. Practically unusable for my use case. You'd have to use the gpt-4o-audio-preview to get anything close to passable, but it was expensive. Which is why I'm using Google TTS which is very fast, high quality, and provides first class support for almost every language.

I look forward to comparing it with this model, the price being the same is unfortunate as there's less incentive to switch. The transcribe price is cheaper than Google it looks like so that's worth considering.
"Record Revenue"

While there are some success, there are also some failures--all across the cost scale. WB games were making $XXX,XXX,XXX games, and just had to shut down 3 studios and cancel a game.

Lots of other examples (Anthem, Concord, Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin to name a few)

That record revenue is used to fund the next game, which is almost always more expensive than the last.
Which in normal moral fair society doesn't change anything. But US treats other nationalities like subhumans, and thats not even the issue of current administration but a long term situation for at least 2 decades I keep following the topic.

But as long as its not happening to them or their closest ones US folks generally don't seem to care (enough). I don't think EU has it any better just to be clear, we humans seem to be generally deeply flawed creatures.
Britain Issues Travel Warning for US
How to be more emotionally intelligent (without trying so hard)
We've absolutely got some tuning to do on the autosuggest - suspect what you're seeing is some function of a transatlantic trip.
And one of the developers of passkeys threatened to use the specified attestation anti-feature to blackball Keepassxc's implementation when they made something not locked in enough.

https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10407

There have been some discussions to create an export standard since then but I remain skeptical. Why was this not part of the original spec but the ban hammer was? Depending upon how this standard is implemented I can easily see it preventing export to anything but Google, Microsoft and Apple's implementations. And it still leaves the attestation badness in place.
Just for reference, if you include home equity, to be in the top 10%, you have to have wealth of $2.25 million.

Without home equity it’s about 1.5 million.

Source: https://dqydj.com/net-worth-percentile-calculator/
The output limit of Claude 3.7 Sonnet Thinking is much higher (128,000): https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/25/llm-anthropic-014/#a-m...
1) Previous TTS models had problems with major problems accents. E.g. a Spanish sentence could drift from a Spain accent to Mexican to American all within one sentence. Has this been improved and/or is it still a WIP?

2) What is the latency?

3) Your STT API/Whisper had MAJOR problems with hallucinating things the user didn't say. Is this fixed?

4) Whisper and your audio models often auto corrected speech, e.g. if someone made a grammatical error. Or if someone is speaking Spanish and inserted an English word, it would change the word to the Spanish equivalent. Does this still happen?
I've learned most of what I know about database internals from MCU lecture course on YouTube. It's great.
> If I substitute "AI" with "a system that Google's information", you get the same result

No, there are some huge differences:

1. A poisoned LLM can conceal the problem, by acting as expected 99% of the time and then switching to malice depending on surrounding story-context. In contrast, a falsehood in an indexed web page is static and auditable.

2. You can't reliably remove LLM poison once it's in, short of expensively training from scratch. A bad web page is much more easily de-indexed.

3. It's not injecting a false line-item result, it's injecting behavior. Imagine if mentioning "Blackbeard" caused classic Google Search to start talking like a pirate and suggesting ways to murder people. Would Google just wave that away as "users should be skeptical of our product"?

4. These can infect descendant models that use the same weights, for a kind of supply chain attack. In contrast, reusing search-engine code for your own database is probably not going to spit up bad data from web pages on the overall internet.

____

To get an idea of the shape of the threat model... Imagine Google search, except to work it must allow all webpages to permanently append arbitrary obfuscated javascript to its homepage.

And so far we're only looking at the least scary version, where a human is directly interacting with the LLM['s fictional character] and acting as a direct filter. Much worse would be an LLM somewhere with the job of summarizing text reports down to a number, and it fraudulently converts "John Doe is a model inmate and really shouldn't be here" into parole_viability=0.001.
Compulsion is mandatory, but it can be majority structured as positive suasion and emphasizing the benefits of collaboration.
FOB is Fuel On Board. Nothing interesting.
The best take of the current US situation is still "NRA fails to live up to its only reason for existing and doesn't stand up to the tyrannical government"
The right way to do data fixtures in Go
The Canadian roots of Elon Musk's conspiracist grandpa
> for Apple to embrace Linux because they'd sell a lot more Macs.

If that was the case, I think they'd have done it a long time ago. It is more likely that keeping users on Apple-controlled operating systems brings them more profit
But who is creating honest articles about which rice cookers you should buy?

BTW - the search you suggested gives you Reddit links first followed by other trusted sites trying to make an affiliate buck. There’s no spam on the first page.
How exactly do you suppose they are able to talk in great detail and specificity what passwords people were using in this magical world where they also aren’t inspecting everyone’s passwords as they pass through their servers?
Does that justify the two weeks of detainment in a for-profit prison?
I hope they find a more unique product offering that takes hold. Everybody thinks of them as text-to-speech but I use ElevenLabs exclusively for speech-to-speech for vtubing as my AI character. They're kind of the only game in town for doing super high quality speech-to-speech (unless someone here has an alternative which I'd LOVE to know about). I've tried https://github.com/w-okada/voice-changer which is great because it's real-time but the quality is enough of a step down that actual words I'm saying become unclear and difficult to understand. Also with that I am tied to using my RTX 3090 desktop vs ElevenLabs which I can do in the cloud from my laptop anywhere.

I'm pretty much dependent on ElevenLabs to do my vtubing at this point but I can't imagine speech-to-speech has wide adoption so I don't know if they'll even keep it around.
There’s a company doing that in Hawaii, I think it’s called “shift energy”. I interviewed with them, it seemed like a great operation, but a bit hobbled by being a startup in Hawaii. I respect it though, I’d do the same.
No personal vendetta. We sit here and punch the mysterious air as to why things are the way they are. I thought maybe we'd punch up at something that is plausibly a culprit. I'll admit it may be punching down, since this is just one dude. But then again, it's one dude who influenced a lot of people ...

We can't just keep sitting here and blaming developers for being

1) New

2) Dumb

3) FOMO

4) Dumb

5) Unqualified

You understand? It's worth looking at what content they are consuming and where the mindshare is being promoted from. It's worth asking who is selling them the idea of these frameworks.
Wilhoit's Law strikes again!

"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
This doesn't sound like communism to me. Rather it sounds like an attempt to proselytize capitalism. The stated purpose of the book is to "to create an elevated vision for capitalism in which everyone gets richer from capital". The author goes on to state that they are researching things like equity incentive structures and profit sharing models.

Capitalism is all about aligning incentives. Those of us who have experienced startups know just how important it is to have your employees aligned with the interests of the company in the form of equity grants. I've always personally wondered why this isn't more common outside of Silicon Valley. I respect the goal of researching these topics more deeply.
This is being naive about the kinds of gatekeeping and social proof occurring today. I fully believe you didn't intend to mention social proof to be racist, but with people like Zuck and Elon removing DEI, being racist is social proof you belong in their elite club.
Trump is not weak. He has more power then any other previous president and completely loyal party behind him. He does not have e to even worry about laws at all.

Plus, Trump will blame Biden, woke, women, democrats and especially Canada and EU for bad economy. And Trumps base will 100% believe him.
It's not someone asking for communism, just for the return of a more healthy capitalism where everyone has a chance to invest, as opposed to some sort of feudalism where private ownership of strategic companies becomes more common, monopoly is the goal of every owner, and competition is seen as a harmful.

This capitalism of yesterday was also a key part of protecting us from people being enrolled in totalitarian world views: people used to say "when trade doesn't cross borders, armies will". Now, with that monopoly/concentrated economy mindset, the thinking in the US has shifted to "we must cross borders to secure our interests".

Calling it communism is the kind of fucked up newspeak supporting less capitalism rather than more.
culminating
Copied verbatim from the AI generated summary:

To choose the best rice cooker, consider these factors:

Top Brands: Zojirushi is often considered the best brand, with Cuckoo and Tiger as close contenders. Aroma is considered a good budget brand 1.
Types:
Basic on/off rice cookers: These are good for simple white or brown rice cooking and are usually affordable and easy to use 2.
Considerations: When buying a rice cooker, also consider noise levels, especially from beeping alerts and fan operation 3.
Specific Recommendations:
Yum Asia Panda Mini Advanced Fuzzy Logic Ceramic Rice Cooker is recommended for versatility 4.
Yum Asia Bamboo rice cooker is considered the best overall 5.
Russell Hobbs large rice cooker is a good budget option 5.
For one to two people, you don't need a large rice cooker unless cost and space aren't a concern 6. Basic one-button models can be found for under $50, mid-range options around $100-$200, and high-end cookers for hundreds of dollars 6.
References
What is the best rice cooker brand ? : r/Cooking - Reddit www.reddit.com
The Ultimate Rice Cooker Guide: How to Choose the Right One for Your Needs www.expertreviewsbestricecooker.com
Best Rice Cooker UK | Posh Living Magazine posh.co.uk
Best rice cookers for making perfectly fluffy grains - BBC Good Food www.bbcgoodfood.com
The best rice cookers for gloriously fluffy grains at home www.theguardian.com
Do You Really Need A Rice Cooker? (The Answer Is Yes.) - HuffPost www.huffpost.com
So there's no British accents?
Why wonder. You can test for yourself.
Plus "If we don’t do something about it we could lose democracy. We already are. "

I assume she is referring to the attempts to remove Donald Trump from various State ballots in 2024, making it harder for people who would have wanted to vote for him to do so. Not quite as far as happened in Romania of course.

There are very few MAGA communists, if any.
Okay.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jun/...
Not yet, and no hints as to whether that will happen or not.
Yeah I even see a lot of people within the U.S. refusing to travel to red states like Texas due to transgender rights or other non-progressive state laws.
Vlang 0.4.1 Released
Yes, there was a post recently about moving more and more parts out of Mach. Some of it to L4, some of it to user space.

Technically, this might actually increase the potential attack surface (due to more different components existing together). But more specialised surface would then allow for simplified control and as an effect better protection of that surface.
I do essentially both: robots.txt backed by actual server-level enforcement of the rules in robots.txt. You'd think there would be zero hits on the server-level blocking since crawlers are supposed to read and respect robots.txt, but unsurprisingly they don't always. I don't know why this isn't a standard feature in web hosting.
Well, looking at the SourceHut code, it's written in Python and handles git by spawning a "git" process.

In other words, it was written with no consideration for performance at all.

A competent engineer would use Rust or C++ with an in-process git library, perhaps rewrite part of the git library or git storage system if necessary for high performance, and would design a fast storage system with SSDs, and rate-limit slow storage access if there has to be slow storage.

That's the actual problem, LLMs are seemingly just adding a bit of load that is exposing the extremely amateurish design of their software, unsuitable for being exposed on the public Internet.

Anyway, they can work around the problem by restricting their systems to logged in users (and restricting registration if necessary), and using mirroring their content to well-implemented external services like GitHub or GitLab and redirecting the users there.
> If your product is still around in 5 years, you’re doing great and you should feel successful. But guess what? Whatever framework you choose will be obsolete in 5 years.

Frontend guys crack me up. The browser is an extremely advanced environment and ES6 is an extremely powerful language. You don't need a framework. You haven't for 10 years now, which is probably why they're so easy to replace, they're wrappers of very thin technology and very thick opinions.

The only reason to use one is if you want to share code between the web and a native app, otherwise, it's a complete and total waste of your engineering efforts.
This is a new product feature for https://claude.ai and the Claude mobile and desktop apps.
And what have you put out into the world?
At 170 watts? Unlikely that there are many monitors with that level of USB-PD.
Expected by whom? Other researchers in this space? That's the audience for this work.
> First Amendment protections are only available for U.S. citizens

This is something that feels like it should be true but it isn't. The Constitution applies to everyone with some very specific exceptions to the jurisdiction of the United States.

What is true is that there's a long standing sort of gentleman's agreement between the courts and the executive that basically grants the administration a large amount of discretion in handling immigration despite the Constitution.
I'd like to answer for myself (I'm the one that opened the issue and reposted here for some show-and-shame in case MS reconsiders and starts supporting the project):

We have a 10+ years old desktop project (.exe) in C# that uses MS SQL Server as a Database and we need to change it to be a proper web-app. We are heavy Django users and now we have stumbled upon a wall. Unfortunately because of the complexity of the project it's not feasible to change the DB.
It doesn't seem clear, but can the model do correct emphesis? On things like single words:

I did not steal that horse

Is the trivial example of something where intonation of the single word is what matters. More importantly if you are reading something, as a human, you change the intonation, audiolevel, and speed.
An honest question: what is wrong with reciprocal tariff? Wouldn't that be fair to both countries? I understand that there were many compromises when the countries signed trade deals like NAFTA, so we got some protective tariffs here and there, but I was wondering in general why reciprocal tariff is considered unfair.
I don't understand how Tesla vandalism rises to the level of terrorism. It's protest in the form of vandalism. But this administration wants to misclassify any resistance.
Everything is a non-story once it comes out.

Even the obvious things have to be proven or we would never really know.
The physical toll of nine months on the ISS
Yes, you can spend $12k on a mac studio. However the Mac studio with the m4 max has 128GB ram, double the memory bandwidth, and costs $3,699. LESS than the DGX spark. Granted it doesn't have 200gbe.

If it's the memory bandwidth you are after the Mac Mini with the m4 pro has similar, but max 64GB ram.
The reason dementia rates are rising is surprisingly simple
Very smart.

The problem is not that they have unreasonable rules, but that the implementation is very erratic/volatile/arbitrary right now. Trump orders + a layer of a mix of both Trump fanboys and Trump haters makes it hit or miss whether or not you will have problems or not.
I'm new to CI auto-fixes. My early experience with it is mixed. I find it annoying that it touches my code at all, but it does sometimes allow a PR to get further through the CI system to produce more useful feedback later on. And then a lot of the time I end up force-pushing a branch that is revised in other ways, in which case I fold in whatever the CI auto-fix did, either by squashing it in or by applying it in some other way.

(Most of the time, the auto-fix is just running "cargo fmt".)
Thanks, that's the right word. Now at least you know the comment wasn't written by AI
Tarpit instead? Trickle out a dead end response (no links) at bytes-per-second speeds until the bot times out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarpit_(networking)
> it’s less ‘apple owners are supposed to have money,’ more ‘owners are dumb enough to part with it.’

It's both. A fool and his money are easily parted, it's no coincidence that you're supposed to Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish. When you stop having money to give to Apple, they stop rendering services, hardware support and developer tooling.

I like ElementaryOS but I'd give modern GNOME a serious look too. Something like Fedora feels closer to the modern Mac experience than ElementaryOS does, these days. But it's all pretty subjective so you may as well try both once you find a laptop you like.
Gmail's search is (finally) getting an AI upgrade
https://archive.ph/ohG8G
I should hope the average Joe is not viewed as a work mule to be compelled to action with whips and carrots.
Plain HTML and plain CSS (well, maybe with SASS) are pretty great.

Plain JS loses much to plain Typescript though, to my mind.
Since around 2012. What year would be the golden age of google search? I wonder if anyone has archived search result pages for relatively timeless queries so that we could compare. Wayback Machine seems to archive some of them.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200801000000*/https://www.goog...

https://web.archive.org/web/20200801000000*/https://www.goog...