skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My remote hope was that something like spontaneous organization could form here in the comments :P but honestly i'm aware this kind of thing requires years of putting yourself out there making smaller events, building up etc. But I've not really ever been in this world, it might be nice to know someone with a bit more experience to guide me, or hear about something already going before diving into organizing something myself
Have you opening Mathematica recently? Or visited the product page for Mathematica[1]? The only change has been branding the language itself as the “Wolfram Language” where Mathematica is just one of their product offerings.

[1]: https://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/?source=nav
What's the reasoning behind using a different value in winter than summer? Your winter value roughly corresponds to -2°, your summer value to -4°.
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Your dismissal misses the point. I didn't claim "every political development" parallels fascism, I outlined specific concerning patterns: the Alien Enemies Act, mass detention, ideological purges, and demonizing outgroups.

History provides frameworks for recognizing dangerous patterns. If you prefer earlier examples: Consider the Roman Republic's fall where Sulla targeted political enemies, Caesar dismantled institutional checks, or Augustus centralized power while maintaining democratic facades. Or Napoleon's transformation from revolutionary to emperor using emergency powers and populist appeals.

The point isn't perfect historical parallels, it's recognizing warning signs before it's too late. Dismissing valid concerns with sighs and bridge-selling metaphors adds nothing substantive.
That is a profound distortion of what happened.

I would advise readers to read the article.
Discussed earlier (2021, 215 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27545331
It's from one of the Eve folks, Jamie Brandon.
Sadly, I think this person is wrong, but not for straightforward reasons. The fact is, that attention is limited, and you can grab a large swath of that attention with crap, just look at like Netflix's entire context strategy, which used to be about prestige drama and now is just about throwing as much content at the wall to see what sticks, and with micro-targeting and an unlimited amount of AI generated content, that's a lot less $$ for "good" content.

He kinda says it in the piece:

"This pattern repeats. It’s not that AI can’t be helpful in talking about humanities concepts. If the level of understanding you’re looking for is high school or maybe undergraduate, these tools can teach you a lot, and for a lot of people, that’s more than enough. But if your aim is graduate level analysis and output—a level surely included in “almost all cognitive tasks a human can do”—you’re going to quickly be led astray."

The whole world is moving towards high school and maybe undergraduate levels of doing things, if that. Most business tasks can probably be handled by someone with a high school education, certainly by an undergraduate education.

But like, I want to live in the world Aaron Ross Powell seems to live in, but this article has not convinced me that we do.
MAGA is against mRNA, seed oils, and all sorts of random stuff because a random higher up in their movement said so. This is generally without evidence.
Most of what RFK (and MAGA as a whole) does is without any sort of peer reviewed science behind it. They're against masks, mRNA vaccines, vaccines in general, seed oils, wind, solar, etc.
This is more a consequence of doing all the drugs.
I've always assumed that the reason for rejection, especially if solicited, will likely not be the real reason due to liability concerns.

I think that no information is better than wrong information so I never ask for feedback.
FTC alleges that AI fraudsters at Amazon misled investors
I pretty much agree because all really creative art will have some kind of novelty to it which a LLM wont be able to generate cause its outside the training data, except of course the initial burst of novelty from when the tech was new, which is more novelty being introduced into the field than most artists will ever accomplish.
Hi Hacker News! One of the things about this blog that has gotten a bit unwieldy as I've added more entries is that it's a sort of undifferentiated pile of posts. I want some sort of organization system but I haven't found one that's good. Very open to suggestions!
Looks like they are. Why don't you start responding to comments exhorting the person to do what they're already doing in the very comment you're responding to?
Is it true that Mexico denied her re-entry? The source article doesn't say anything about that, and I'm not sure why it would happen - Canadian nationals generally have visa-free entry for short trips to Mexico.
Signal Power affects readable distance (signal to noise radius) and the specs for this do suggest the lowest power Bluetooth LTE packets for the shortest "personal area network" distance we can get for these FIDO requests.

(It doesn't entirely solve it, you can be extremely unlucky with a radio bounce or a surprisingly quiet Bluetooth radio band at transmission time. Surprising because Bluetooth is somewhat intentionally in one of the noisiest radio bands we've allowed to be extremely noisy.)
Managing frontier model training organizations (or teams)
This article presents a good explanation of the conundrum I face when I encounter so much praise of LLM output: "How is somebody impressed by this?"
This seems like a key point: "This latest capital infusion, which saw participation from Musk himself and..."
DMA guidance for innovative products on Apple's platforms
Fantastic resource - just an FYI I just posted a 'visual' review of most of the key algorithms used in comp sci and the real world which is available here: https://photonlines.substack.com/p/visual-focused-algorithms...
It's started like a casual talk, and I just wanted to know the felling of the community :)
Hard agree about zellij. I used screen, then tmux, for years. Zellij feels "right" for me in a way those never quite did. It's brilliant.
It's already hard to sort out the bs that respectable science generates.
Also, the act of breaking it into smaller functions itself may introduce more bugs.
You gotta love when the first sentence of an article's body paragraph walks back the only salient concern users could have:

> Maybe Apple will never fully walk away from Europe

What do Apple customers even have to worry about? App developers making too much money? Apple Intelligence getting delayed until third-party, non-OpenAI options are given equal footing?

It's all so terribly sad watching affiliate sites try to demonize the effort. Apple has already lost, we're in the rectification phase now.
I think people want to believe AI is capped out or won't come for the things they ascribe value to.

We don't know, but articles like this aren't an analysis based on facts or a theory (or even opinion with supporting arguments) of what AI will be capable of in the near future as much as they are an expression of anxiety and hope that there is something special about the things they want to continue to believe are special. That's a perfectly reasonable and very normal reaction whenever the world starts to change quickly and in uncomfortable ways, but there is practically zero information content towards helping understand the situation with the technology (however it is very informative wrt the situation with people and the sociology of disruption).

Aaron Ross Powell isn't an expert or even a highly informed amateur. He's an internet influence who calls himself a radical liberal philosopher. He seems quite good at what he does, but what he does lends no real information content as to what AI is capable or will be capable of at any point.

> The second feature is a basic lack of taste. That Sam Altman thinks his chatbot’s short story is brilliant tells us much more about Altman’s literary sophistication than it does the nearness of AGI.

ARP's book of short stories can be found here: https://amazon.com/Animus-Six-Tales-Crime-Terror-ebook/dp/B0... It has 3 reviews and they are poor. Glass houses etc. The one good review is from a reviewer who says he is as good as Stephen King, the other reviews from this reviewer are exclusively for baby toys. "Sophistication"
Why Recruiters Are Wasting Time on LinkedIn and how we fixed this
No idea about stability on that scale, I don't do support. On my local machine both behaved about the same in the past.

KDE however is way ahead in fractional scaling, buffering etc. Not sure how to measure Wayland support. Do tell though.

>I'm so annoyed by the crowd recommending it.

Well, Gnome's fault. I've been on team Gnome until they've ruined it after Gnome 2 is ended. Can't really use it with more than one monitor these days too.
Both.

I have been seeing models get better, and each time the SOTA improves, the upgrade seems amazing.

Bonus irony: this is despite the fact I've personally drawn attention to the exact same trend with increasing quality of 3D rendering over the 90s, where each improvement was seen as "photorealistic" only to be forgotten 6 months later when a better engine (or even tool) got the same aclaim.
"Fealty to Performative Feuilletonism" is a great name for an art-punk group.
Though we seem to disagree, perhaps less than you might think, I'm very happy that my comments made you think for so long and write so much in response. It will be interesting to see how this all plays out over time.
That is precisely the problem.

The people you see online protesting Zionism most likely don’t hold the same views as Hezbollah or Ayatollah Khomeini. You can see why it’s frustrating to be painted with that brush. Just like most Americans bristle at being painted as Trump voters.

It’s worth noting in this century Palestinian support for a two state solution has been as high as 75%.
I started with PSP and Gimp's crop tool works as expected. Drag where you want, adjust edges, then mouse click in the center.

Overall, it works similarly to MacPaint from '84 and even has the same CUA keybindings.
How was SpaceX able to custom fit them for new space suits while up in orbit?
> The reserve is true too: if anyone says it's NOT good enough for them, then it's done.

"done" is defined by the creator of the software. If you're the creator of GIMP and it's suitable to your purposes, you can call it "done". But ostensibly, you made it free so that others could benefit from your efforts, and possibly even open-sourced it so that it would be accepted as safe to use. If that's the case, then something isn't "done" unless you're happy with the number of users who find it acceptable.

I suspect that the creators of GIMP fall farther on the side of "suitable for our purposes" than on the side of "suitable for a large number of people's purposes" (however this may be unintentional and/or laziness or bad strategy on their part).

> Actually check it out yourself, and give yourself some time to get used to it.

Assuming I haven't is an extremely bizarre but inexplicably commonly-made mistake. Can you explain what leads to this mistake?

> If you care about not using PS of course.

You might not realize it, but this is a (perhaps unconscious) "no true Scottsman" fallacy. I take it you're not a creator of GIMP, so you don't have any authority to say what GIMP is intended for. So the idea that it's for people who "care about not using Photoshop" isn't a valid assertion. That's your opinion, but you should try to back it up with something. I see nothing on the website or the Wikipedia page that backs up the claim that it's for people who "care about not using Photoshop". It seems like it's for a much, much wider variety of people than that. Why gatekeep like that?
What makes you choose to live at such an extreme latitude? I'm always curious about what draws people to live in such places.
It's the opening of the Dao part of the Dao De Jing.

Traditionally:

道可道，非常道。名可名，非常名。"The Way can be spoken, [but that] is not the constant/permanent/unchanging Way. The name can be named, [but that] is not the [you know] name."

Mawangdui:

道可道也，非恆道也。名可名也，非恆名也。[Same thing, but with more overt grammar, making it clearer that the first and third clauses say "The X is something you can Y" and not "The X that can be Yed". This doesn't make "The Dao that can be spoken" wrong, but that nuance is coming from knowing the meaning of the whole thing, not directly out of the grammar of the text.]

You can use words to describe it, but you'll fail to capture the whole thing.

In the traditional text, but not the Mawangdui text, 非常 has become a very common intensifier [literally "unusually"] in modern Mandarin. Classically it's two unrelated words.
We do not have any employees yet. My friends and I would choose Discord, but maybe I have overlooked an incredible feature of Slack.
Is the Google applicant pool a representative sample of the group at large?
absolutely never? Like when Bill Gates estimated the success of microsoft his estimate failed and microsoft also failed? Like it's cool to say Tech bros never estimate anything right, but honestly the statement isn't at all universally true.

Sarcasm aside, AGI may not be 1 to 3 years away but I think it could be about a decade away. Within our lifetimes. The last decade till now was a huge jump. The next decade should be an even bigger jump.

I think more then hype, is the absolute negativity around AI. Like there's definitely unreasonable excitement among entrepreneurs who bet on AI. That's expected but that's a minority of the population.

Most people are really negative against AI. And I think the negativity is overblown. As overblown as the positivity from the AI entrepreneurs.

It's very generic. Anything that gets too popular too fast becomes stupid really quick as well. Have we forgotten just how revolutionary an LLM even is? I could not have predicted we would get to this point in my life time.

I'm telling you this negativity pervades the culture an influences our opinions more then the reality. If AI gets to the point where it can write a novel as good as a human, our negativity will delude most of us into thinking it's still trash. It's sort of like the opposite of modern art. Modern art is so obscure it's good even though it's really trash. AI is so crazy popular it's trash even though it's completely revolutionary.
Good luck. Do share if any are sticky!
What am I missing here? It states:

> On the equator, every day of the year is exactly 12 hours long

But surely that is not true, as the Earth's rotation is tilted. Is this supposed to be a year round average? Despite calling out more advanced corrections one can make, this doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere?
It looks like Twitter is running hate and love bots and using them to support/attack posts according to what presumably is Elon's agenda.

https://bsky.app/profile/willhaycardiff.bsky.social/post/3lk...

Given this, we can reasonably expect hostile bots here, flagging according to agenda.
Interoperability (Questions and Answers): https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/questions-and-answe...
OK so the occasion for that is CI which enumerates through all branches rather than just the relevant one. I'm looking at you, Jenkins.
Given the pattern of video game studios unceremoniously laying off people the second a game is complete and how health care in the US is overwhelmingly tied to employment, it's extremely plausible that somebody somewhere has died from lack of collective bargaining power. If it hasn't happened, that's most likely because people just leave the video game industry before they actually need those health care benefits.
Shotwell is COO. Musk is CEO of SpaceX.
I'd highly recommend to add an "LLM Cheatsheet" page to your docs. Example: https://goatdb.dev/llm-cheatsheet/

No doubt this would help increase adoption these days, and make implementation a lot easier.
That attack does not require a web browser. The web browser being able to do it showed it was higher severity than you would think than if the proof of concept had been in C, since web browsers run untrusted code all of the time.
We group outliers with the rest of humanity because there are severe moral hazards with not doing that.

If all humans had the IQ of a waffle, then it would be reasonably fine to farm humans.
Not knowing the facts for those specific services but I assume it's more than a 2 months period for migration:

> The Fauna service will be ending on May 30, 2025

E.g. Microsoft shut down (is still shutting down) Classic Admin Roles for Azure subscriptions for close to 9 months now.also, closed for new business also means there's no reason to migrate away if you've never got onto it - and you can still use it if you're already on it.

2.5 months to migrate off a service is way to short, especially in a time where no support from the supplier (Fauna) can be expected as employees will leave to (if they can).
Hmm can you explain? Would that be like line 1 starts out purple, transitions to light purple at the end of the line, and 2nd line starts light purple, transitions to pink, 3rd line starts pink and transitions to purple?
The geologists needed for this are currently being fired and loosing their funding. Yes it would be cool, if we valued science, engineering and mutual progress as a soceity. We're rapidly going down the Total Recall / Biff Tanner timeline, so it won't be the fun version of Mars.
I think UK computer enthusiasts missed to boat to demand verifiable encryption on their mobile devices. The past 15 years operated on a basis of pure corporate trust, the demand for truly private E2E services was non-existent. Users patronized Apple because they wanted to trust Apple with their privacy. They didn't mandate any secure systems, they didn't demand audits or fair competition.

Now you get your just deserts. You want to see what happens when you ignore the DSA? Your services become enshittified beyond your wildest dreams.
OP here! Denmark has a very strong larp scene with a lot of young people involved due to the popularity of larp for children and at schools. I’m not sure if there’s anything on the scale of Odysseus planned but the skills certainly exist.
>Yes, unions at video game studios are bound to save so many lives.

Stress & constant overtime crunch culture will absolutely be a detriment on the health and wellbeing of workers in any industry.

Again, labor laws saved lives in the past, they can save and/or benefit lives today.

>In other words your comment is hyperbolic and does not apply to the topic at hand.

Welcome to the topic at hand.
For Many of America's Aging Workers, 'Retirement Is a Distant Dream'
> not an actual dictionary

Go on, tell us what you think an "actual dictionary" is.
I'm surprised you managed to get Desktop running on Linux lol. You don't need the filesystem/git MCPs alongside codemcp; in fact, it's better not to have them so that Claude consistently uses' codemcp's equivalents to do edits. I'm not sure why codemcp's built-in git support did not work; you can probably find out more by looking in .codemcp/codemcp.log.

If you need to start a new chat, it works just fine. Tell Claude what's happened so far and what you want it to do. You can also ask Claude to summarize the old conversation, that's how /compact in claude code works too.
Yes, reality does have a liberal bias.

If you can write a one sentence definition of liberalism, and examine policies from first principles, you might be surprised.
It's always interesting how it affects how people think about the day. If you look outside and it's dark then it's easy to think that the day is basically over, even though the time might say otherwise.

I really appreciate the long winter nights and long summer days in Norway. Being able to wake up to the sun as early as 04 and enjoy it until after 23 is great, and the UV is only high during the middle of the day. Long summer days are awesome. Long winter nights are probably not as appreciated, but I enjoy those too.
It is especially fitting that another front page topic today is "The Origin of the Pork Taboo"
Both. The article also takes up the latter, with the last 4 paragraphs.
Oh, no, definitely disappointing! At least to me it is. I totally believe in learning new things for the sake of it, because it sometimes leads to serendipitously good things. Otherwise it's really easy to end up in local optima. Without that philosophy, I would have never built ripgrep.

I'm not trying to convince you to do that. I already told you that your philosophy is reasonable. But I absolutely find it disappointing.

Anyway, yes, I have a kid. And all sorts of other things competing for my time. So I don't get much time to do serendipitous learning. But I try when I can. I cited two examples, but that's over a period of many years. I don't have time to do it often.

> you’d see we are pretty like minded with regards to modernising the command line

I bet we are. Maybe you are a lot more open to learning new things than you are letting on in your comments here. :-)
Is this something you do in a brand new project whose organization, direction and overall requirements are not clear? Or persistently?

There is such a concept as a brand new project not requiring version control until it hits a certain stage: you know it when you get there.
How Stalker 2 survived a war [video]
VA IT contract cancellation DOGE boasted about was due to end in 10 days anyway
I think it's interesting that they note they have hundreds of customers but their home page says it's trusted by thousands of companies. Are all these companies on a free tier?
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That's not the point, and wasn't the question.

The question was, why did Harris lose, and the answer is that many Americans are still too decent to vote for someone who promises to arm the world's most live-streamed genocide.

Millions of potential Dem voters saw atrocities being committed with weapons sent by Biden and Harris. Every day, for over a year. Harris promised to keep doing that. That's viscerally disgusting, and a red line for decent people everywhere.

That's why she lost, which answers the question. Polls before during and after the election back that up unequivocally.

Now, you can argue that it's practical and more moral to vote for the lesser genocide all day, and you can point to all the ways that Trump is worse all night, but you can never, ever convince me that Democrats actually wanted to win more than they wanted to fuel genocide. Because they knew. They knew Harris' numbers, they knew the margins, and they knew what the polls were saying about Gaza. And then they campaigned with Dick Cheney. They managed to lose to a rapist insurrectionist, despite outspending him and his billionaires.

One more time - it's not the voters fault that they couldn't stomach voting for someone actively enabling the mass murder of tens of thousands of children, even if the alternative was openly worse. And it's weird that this is in any way confusing to people.