skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ugh , I agree.

I would imagine this all comes from fine tuning, or RLHF, whatever is used.

I’d bet LLMs trained on the internet without the final “tweaking” steps would roast most of my questions … which is exactly what I want when I’m wrong without realizing it.
fd is probably better for most tasks, but sometimes it seems more cumbersome than find. E.g., to delete all files inside a cache directory, this is the simplest syntax I could find:

fd -t f -X rm {} \; ^ cache

Which makes me really nervous, so usually I fall back to using find:

find cache -type f -delete

Maybe this is foolproof for me only because I’ve been using find for decades. Is there a version of this for fd that inspires more confidence?
I’ve been tracking it for weeks and it comes back in stock only to sell out minutes later. I’ve had 2 or 3 times where I thought I got one, only to get the order cancelled email.

I can’t tell if there’s just no stock, or huge demand, but either way it seems like a great product. If only you could buy it.
Maybe “phishing passkey protected sessions …” or “phishing passkey protected accounts”.

I also echo some of the other critiques, which are that passkeys are advertised as phishing resistant and not phishing proof. I do understand that the average user may not grasp the nuance, but you leaned pretty hard into the idea that phishing them should be impossible.

One last recommendation. While I do think this is quite clever and a plausible attack scenario, this relies on the out-of-band authentication scenario. Assuming I’m sitting in the coffee shop or airport and click your link, I’m not going to reach for my phone to scan the QR. I’m going to investigate deeper why the passkey isn’t working directly. If you’re lucky, I’ll assume the site has a bug in passkey authentication and fall back to more phishable creds (if the site has both).

I don’t necessarily think of this as a flaw in your attack, rather that it might muddy the waters for readers that are less familiar and don’t realize that this mode is most commonly used when you are authenticating from a non-default device or made the conscious choice not to use a synced passkey.
Unfortunately I think the fetishization of prompting is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Over time these models will be able to understand enough of the physical problems to have a dumb prompt yield a reasonable if not optimal solution. But of course that house of cards collapses when fundamental advances appear.
China delays approval of BYD's Mexico plant amid fears tech could leak to US
It seems like we're just arguing semantics at this point. And no, we don't have to evacuate the entire west because of fire risk, we just have to change incentives so fewer people move to the very hazardous parts.
> This immigration employee did decide to classify this enriched hemp as a controlled substance, yes.

As far as I can tell, the submission article doesn't mention THC at all, and the only time hemp is mentioned is in this context:

> He claimed I also couldn’t work for a company in the US that made use of hemp – one of the beverage ingredients. He revoked my visa, and told me I could still work for the company from Canada, but if I wanted to return to the US, I would need to reapply.

Seems he was OK with the hemp, he was just not OK with the part where there was a Canadian working with a US company that used hemp.

Where are you getting the part that this individual chose to classify some hemp as cannabis from? Wouldn't he try to alert some of his boss in that case, rather than take back this woman's visa?
If someone came up to you and said “I supported X side in the hundred years between England and France”

1) are they on the wrong or right side of history?
2) would anyone in 2025 have their moral sensibilities hurt?
On windows, for those that don't know, use Everything from https://www.voidtools.com/

This is a VERY fast file searching tool. It's crazy good.
Yes. All the unix tools. I survived, too
VC = Growth fast or Die with Die being much more likely. Sustainable growth is not part of outcomes pursued.
> But in America, it doesn't make sense in most cases without subsidies

That's the point of public transit, and that's the case everywhere. Also that of roads; roads wouldn't exist without government subsidies because nobody wants to pay toll to exit their driveways.

Of course you'd need to reduce car dependency for any public transit system to make sense, and I don't think Americans care for that. For some reason, "15 minute towns" were turned into some kind of boogeymen to scare conservatives for a while during the last election cycle, which says a lot about the American approach to infrastructure design.
This becomes a vicious circle. Language developers do not want to make the language safer because legacy CPUs do not support overflow trapping, and CPU designers do not bother to add it because nobody needs it. For example, RISC-V spec says that they decided to not add overflow trapping because it is "easy" to do in 3 or 4 existing instructions.
> malformed JSON structs of hacking BAD data structure/logic design

The real world is not particularly well structured.

> a business form in paper

There are several types of paper forms. They're typically differentiated by a type identifier (a.k.a. Title) in their headers. Scaling one layer out paper forms themselves are actually a "sum type." They have a common form factor which makes them useful but require an initial blind examination to understand the context of the rest of the document.
You (and others apparently) applied an incorrect emotion to my unemotional comment. Typical text only communication. The whole point of the "genuinely asking" part was to show I wasn't trying to "gotcha" anyone.

I have barely followed the issue but had heard the astronauts confirmed Musk's side. How else was I supposed to ask about that? What magical wording could I use so that all of you don't try to put me in a belief box?
It is. That's what json.RawMessage is for. It's a shame the author didn't explore this more. It's a perfectly cromulent solution to this problem.
Charism, according to catholicism, is something like a divine gift that radiates like sun, and although the people around can't see it, they feel it in some unexplaiable way.

Everyone is charismatic in their hearts, but the clouds of selfish thoughts and emotions block its light.

The evil twin of charism is hypnotism - the power to make people do what you want.
> Just to be clear on this one: are you Latino?

Yes, and look at the stats that the sibling post shared. I'm talking from experience and obviously some generalisation from what I saw among a few separate groups of Latinos. I'm not making stuff up just to be offended on the internet.

> I have latino friends who insist on that language, some who don't give a fuck, and latinx friends who own that jab at the patriarchal idea of forcing gender on genderless objects or groups.

Yes, but the ratios I saw had a clear trend and everyone agreed that the X at the end was clearly made up and force-fed instead of borrowed from Spanish/Portuguese/Italian/French.
You can't really just use `std::path::Path` though. Because it's largely opaque. How do you run a regex or a glob on a `std::path::Path`? Doing a UTF-8 check first is expensive at ripgrep's scale. So it just gets it to `&[u8]` as quickly as it can and treats it as if it were text. (These days you can use `OsStr::as_encoded_bytes`.)

`std::path::Path` isn't necessarily a better design. I mean, on some days, I like it. On other days, I wonder if it was a mistake because it creates so much ceremony. And in many of those cases, the ceremony is totally unwarranted.

And I'm saying this as someone who has been adjudicating Rust's standard library API since Rust 1.0.
Actually, I think humans require much less energy than LLMs. Even raising a human to adulthood would be cheaper from a calorie perspective than running an AGI algorithm (probably). Its the whole reason why the premise of the Matrix was ridiculous :)

Some quick back of the envelope says that it would take around 35 MWh to get to 40 years old (2000 kcal per day)
To me this sounds like Quickbooks is a target ripe for disruption.
It's not really that fuzzy.

Absolute monarchy was worse than systems that shared power with an aristocracy which in turn was worse than restricted democracy which was worse than universal suffrage.

Feudalism was worse than capitalism which in turn was worse than the results of the labor movement.

Forced conversion was worse than religious discrimination which in turn was worse than religious freedom.
Can't really blame MS for saying ..just use C++.. they aren't exactly wrong.
Also “England” but the shape is the UK.
Appraisals also act as a gate for prices due to lender requirements. A bit round about, but I can see how looser appraisals can enable inflated prices. Imagining the opposite extreme is interesting: What if appraisals never returned with higher prices than the last sale of that house? Some markets would see increases from people paying the difference out of pocket, but I’d guess the rate of price increase would be much lower. (plus other effects, of course).
Survivorship bias. Some Jews ate pigs some didn’t. The ones that did assimilated. The ones that didn’t are still around today.
Today I came across an interesting case where 3 well-known LLMs (O1, sonnet 3.7 and Deepseek R1) found a "bug" that actually didn't exist.

Very briefly, in a fused cuda kernel, I was using thread i to do some stuff on locations i, i+N, i+2*N of an array. Later in the same kernel, same thread operated on i,i+1,i+2. All LLMs flagged the second part as bug. Not the most optimized code maybe, but definitely not a bug.

It wasn't a complicated kernel (~120 SLOC) either, and the distance between the two code blocks was about only 15 LOC.
I have to agree this is a bit too simple for being anything of substance. That is not what really agentic means. This is basically implementing ChatGPT into Zapier.

When you work with agentic LLMs you should worry about prompt chaining, parallel execution, deciding points, loops and more of these complex decisions.

People who didn’t know what’s in first article shouldn’t use Pocketflow and go with N8N or even Zapier.
Might I suggest this is a reflection of society as a whole? Politics is everywhere because nowhere is safe from politics, especially science these days.

We can't talk about science anymore because all the people working on it are worried about their jobs and lives instead of... well... doing science.

I appreciate wanting to come on HN and read about all the cool science-related articles without being troubled by politics too much. That stuff is weighty. It's nice to to just chill out and learn about cool things.

But we can't have those nice things anymore. Because faculty meetings are now spent talking about which words researchers have to avoid in our proposals because we don't want to be rejected by the government censors.

We used to talk about the cool things we would do for our students and our research plans. But now we are more worried about if we're even going to have jobs in 12 months. We are worried about our already-allocated funds being pulled.

We aren't talking about science anymore, because we have to talk about how to avoid being the next "transgender mice". We are dodging death threats if we trend on social media. We are losing our jobs. We are being detained at airports and denied entry to the US for holding anti Trump views. We are being deported from the country.

So I think your read on the situation is off; the interesting people are not retreating from nonstop anger cycles, they are under attack and not engaging in their typical behavior you find interesting. Instead of disengaging entirely, they need your support, so they can get back to doing cool things you find interesting.
It's possible to mitigate this with a conservative system prompt.
Or that SoftBank owns Arm... and has very publicly said it wants to get into the full chip business, not just reference architecture.
> Even twenty years ago getting an NIH R1 was considered an important career accomplishment.

R01
we can always blame it on closed source software!
> As for the article---I think you really undervalue your time and the price of inconvenience. I can see how you can romanticize it as a nice way to get things done, but (dealing with) train delays is hardly distraction free and is full of forced setting changes and (very) shit working environments (like waiting on a platform).

By delays, I think the author meant that they get on a train, then sit in it for ~5 hours, with the option of paying roughly twice the price for first class [1].

As someone who frequently uses their laptop on public transport too, this sounds like a great way to either get things done or pass time.

[1] https://www.avantiwestcoast.co.uk/travel-information/onboard...
I wish there was something acting against this wave of threats. It is rarely the focus of news, but seems to be responsible for a large portion of the knee bending we are seeing.
It's not strange because ripgrep doesn't understand non-UTF-8 data (unless there's a UTF-16 BOM, in which case, ripgrep will automatically understand it). But you can tell it to:

$ echo $'O\xF0uz' | rg -E iso-8859-1 '^.{4}$'
Oðuz

The person you're responding to has been trolling in this thread (and others) by twisting words and claiming multiple false things. When I've fixed their errors, they don't acknowledge them as mistakes and just keep on twisting words.
Marimo also has a nice Tabs widget that can contain whatever else Marimo can display in cleanly separated tabs.
ripgrep solves a really annoying part of the unix toolbox: inconsistency in how to correctly search a bunch of files for a string. Are you supposed to `find -name -exec`? Or are you supposed to `find -name | xargs -n 1`? Oh, but files can have spaces, so you might try `find -name -print0 | xargs`, but careful—`-print0` is not POSIX and you won't find it on some unixen! (let's not even discuss locate vs slocate vs mlocate.... ugh! Files are worse than everything but all the other options.)
> there's not much reason to switch

There are a few reasons you might still want to switch. In fd'a case:

- It respects .gitignore files (as well as similar .fdignore files that aren't git specific), which can help you find what you care about without a lot of noise, or having to pass a lot of exclude rules to find

- it can search in parallel, which can significantly reduce latency when searching large directories.

However, there are also reasons you might want to keep using find:

- fd can't do everything find can. fd is intended to replace the most common use cases with a simpler interface, but there are many less common cases that require finds greater flexibility. In fact, I still use find sometimes because of this.

- find is more likely to already be installed
You don’t necessarily have to disable anything, but choose not to use the secondary device authentication flow.

Let’s say that you rely on the passkey implementation in your password manager and have that installed directly on your laptop. When you hit the legitimate site, your password manager prompts for user verification and to approve the login.

When you hit the phishing site and have the QR code pop up, it’s the first indication that something is wrong but the attacker doesn’t have your session yet. Your laptop is not listening for a BLE connection. That only occurs when you scan the QR from your phone and complete the authentication flow there.

In other words, it’s totally opt-in at log in time to use BLE and protecting yourself just means deciding it’s not a feature you trust. If you still aren’t comfortable though, the next move would probably be to just disable Bluetooth on one side or the other.
> Less than half of Hispanics have even heard the term "Latinx"

It doesn't help that it's unnatural to even pronounce.

> there are so many bigger problems right now

Indeed, I'm more worried about the loss of true freedom of speech and the impending sense of WW3 coming. Having HR mix up race and sexual identity in some select countries is a minor complaint.
You don't even need a pasta machine. You can roll them passably thin with just a regular rolling pin. I may have to try with a pasta machine though.
This type of consumption, at scale, is what I imagine will be commonplace in a post-white-collar scarcity world
Just brainstorming, but is there a world where you can buy a car equipped with Waymo (or similar) sensors long-term?

The thought being that you can buy a car that you can use, but that can drive Uber/Lyft when you're not using it (much like the Tesla example).
I got an "options site", probably close to adware than trojan.
I work in education. I'm in those meetings you're talking about that are wrestling with these topics. I also live in Trump country in the Midwest and am living here in large part specifically to be an ambassador to help in my own small way to reduce the hatred that's fueling the fires. I'm as in the thick of it as anyone here, but I still come here for a reprieve and as that reprieve disappears in favor of nonstop rage I need to retreat.

HN is dying, and it's not dying to Trump. It's dying to the undirected rage that has infused every subthread, and that is something that's within our control even if Trump and his actions aren't. It's not useful, it's just an emotional drain that serves to further exhaust those who are best positioned to help and further polarize an already dangerously polarized world.
I would encrypt the information that has 1000 lines that says "get a warrant" and email that encrypted document to them stating "My key is on your server you sunsetted last week" :)
> it may well not have been illegal.

There was lots of legal activity that added to the size of the crisis. You'd be naive to believe that everything else was perfectly above board.

> economy is a constant cycle of upswings caused by new forms of crime

"The economy" as a concept is not. The current US economy certainly does seem to be dominated by criminal activity and has been for 30 years or so now. The connection of the Internet and financial markets were not a strictly great idea.

> followed by a crash and then new laws.

Laws also get repealed. Like Glass-Steagall was.

> They then set out to research new forms of crime.

I posit that they don't. They enjoy a monopolized economy in an incredibly deregulated market. They take whatever they can take until they get caught. Our justice department happily negotiates a settlement and sweeps the whole thing under the rug.

This isn't just a clever scheme. This is nearly complete and total government and business corruption.
I don't agree with this, or maybe I don't get it.

The point of DRY isn't to save the time on typing - it's to retain a single source of truth. If you've used an LLM to recreate some mechanism for you system in 8 different places, and that mechanism needs to change ... good luck finding them all.
The author has a great podcast on the History of Astronomy

The Song on Urania
https://songofurania.com/

It's taking a break for 2025 but there are enough episodes there to give you enough to listen to until he restarts
Not Quite Vibing Yet
I'm not weighting in on the ability of people to detect patterns, but hand washing is a bad example.

Detecting a pattern between 2 things that did happened (everyone but Dave ate pork, and everyone but Dave got sick) is orders of magnitude easier than detecting a pattern between something that did happened (this patient got sick) and something that didn't (everyone washed their hands).
I have been using ChatGPT to generate 3d models by pasting output into OpenSCAD. Often feels like coaching someone wearing a blindfold, but it can sometimes kick things forward quickly for low effort.
> which in turn was worse than restricted democracy which

That’s not true. In aristotle’s politics he explores the major forms of government of which demagoguery is a corruption of democracy. And he gives examples.

and what do you mean by better? Do you claim that Every democracy that’s ever existed functions better than every aristocracy in fulfilling its governing role? Better for who in and what regard?

> capitalism and fuedalism

There are absolutely no tradeoffs between feudalism and capitalism? Capitalism is an absolute good in comparison?

And you’re only highlighting the major movements it the progressive narrative and ignored all the twists and turns. Was Catholicism better than Protestantism? What about agrarian hunter/gatherer vs capitalism?
I used a much simpler variant of this to get Amazon Prime for free for years. When I needed something off Amazon, I'd just wait until the day before it was going to rain then order it with next day delivery. The couriers at that point in time seemed comically unable to deliver anything if it rained. Once it arrived late, open a case and ask for a month of free Amazon prime. This worked up until they discontinued that as a potential compensation.
Here I was thinking it had something to do with trolls...

Sorry, couldn't resist. Agreed, it's a helpful explanation.
Operator/Computer Use is a bridge until we no longer need any tools at all
My own personal experience of Marimo vs JupyterLab is that they're both really useful tools, but with somewhat differing (but overlapping) purposes. Marimo has become my go-to for when I want something "notebook-like" but which operates more like a fully-fledged application than a Jupyter notebook would, where JupyterLab still (at least for me) is the better choice for random explorations, learning, and note-taking/documentation of my learnings. At this point I'm really feeling like it's a good thing to have both handy and available, since neither one is really a complete replacement for the other.
GPascal – A Blast from the Past (2011)
The limits of awareness raising to promote support for equal-treatment policies
Is the smart link card still working in NYC and PATH?

https://www.pathsmartlinkcard.com/

This cost a one time purchase of $5 and then the refill with either trips or money. That was working better than metrocard.

edit: PATH is from Newark Airport,NJ to 34th Street Penn Station, Manhattan.
Thanks for your kind words.

> This is clearly not an attempt to replace Excel, it's an attempt to accomplish a set of use cases in a better way than clunky export-import flows

This is exactly how we think about this too.
No, it just means that removing supply constraints doesn't increase supply (enough) relative to demand.
Did you know these indices are invented by vibes of other people and are at best objective measurements of subjective values?
For me anything beyond the most trivial one liner I just write in python or whatever.

Maintainability >>>>>>> terseness.

It's not 1976 where every cycle matters.
The biggest motivation IMO is just punishing universities. The first move cutting overhead costs made this pretty clear to me. It was a shrewd move: if you squint, and use no critical thinking, you could be convinced they’ll still fund science all the same but are forcing university bureaucracies to be more “efficient”. In practice it’s just a massive cut to research universities, cause they’re viewed as enemies of the current ascendant right.

The other thing, IMO, is that it’s admitting we have no longer have any aspiration to technical innovation. If the tech oligarchs actually depended on hiring “the best and brightest,” they’ve be fighting this tooth and nail. Instead, they’re perfectly happy to destroy the education pipeline because they no longer need to make good products. They’ve attained monopoly status: all they need are lobbyists and a good legal team, the quality of their product is irrelevant. (The only spot where they still seem to be competing is “AI”).
I've turned on fastmath in python numba compiler while thinking "of course i want faster math, duh". Took me a while to find out it was a cause of many "fun" subtle bugs. Never touching that stuff again.