skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tone is important. You are insufferable. I am 21 years old and would also rather write C and hang around the "old conservatives" than be in a community of people who talk about others the way you do.
I think people have forgotten they massively outnumber the billionaires by a gigantic margin, in large part, because the billionaires have convinced them that one day, if they work hard enough, they too can be billionaires, and they are just temporarily embarrassed billionaires, rather than doomed to always be stuck to the bottom of the billionaire’s shoes.
Or, at least, the benefits are front-loaded and the costs—if you don’t write them off as theoretical—are future-you’s problem…

Made even more opaque by the way the DNA kit folks gave the impression of a straightforward, first-party transaction: you pay a not-insubstantial sum for us to do this service now, you get your report, done!
> What bothers me [isn't] that fraud is not nice. Or that fraud is mean.

What bothers me is that fraud stopped being taboo. People started to revel in it, to brag, and--to the detriment of America--promote and vote-for braggarts of fraud.

> When the hell did we forget all that?

It started to become venerated as a sign of power: "Look at me, I blatantly did X and evaded the expected consequences, therefore I must be doing something worth allying with."

A kind of self-reinforcing bubble, like "too big to fail", except "too smart/crooked to get punished".
Doing climate research in Fahrenheit in 2025 gives me second hand embarrassment.
Was the training data stolen?
I could believe it. I’m just hoping OP can provide more info.
I honestly figured it’d be one of the first. That being said, France, UK, and USA are all moving towards more nuclear power. It might be at the point where it’s no longer possible to pretend we care about solar/wind, and can no longer realistically ignore climate change.

I’ve been saying for years that we’d know when governments were finally getting scared of climate change because we’d see real, very fast moves to install nuclear and, if possible, enhanced geothermal.
We opted for self-hosted next.js as the architecture for the web app we are building because we believed a lot of the hype.

The more comments I read about it in HN, the less comfortable I feel about this decision.
just stop eating so much and stop eating junk
> Do you think leaders should have moral training?

I suspect that they'd then learn even better what to say to make good impressions, while continuing exploiting others and society as much as always nevertheless.

If a person want to rob a bank, would you think moral training would stop him? (Repeating "it's not my money" 10 times)
BTW, Copilot is not the best at coding. With the quality LLM return exponentially grows. Bigger chunks, fewer bugs, less time checking. From my experience LLMs do not impress on complex algorithms and shine on small utilities. They can use libs I even don't want to learn about.
Super credible when the "article" telling me that AI is gonna take my job comes from the CEO of an AI company.
You offer no evidence, but you have convinced yourself so obviously abstracted from the ground that time will prove you were right. It’s a foolish path and I urge you to listen to what is happening. Within the last week government data is no longer accessible to researchers. Long standing government groups and private that study these areas are locked out. Overhyped? No. Like the manager that cuts the budget, gets the raise and sees the fallout much later. Your foolish comment falls flat Carly in line —- there are consequences and they are deadly. Overhyped? No. To suggest a thing is foolish beyond comprehension, it should ruin careers for such a bodacious and absurd point.
I think the idea is that a private company will take the results of government produced meteorology and then have full rights for distribution. At least, that's the plan of one of the current private companies that does this, they want to be the monopoly.
It seems like you can sue them. This is purely legal's domain.
We used to call this heads up digitizing.
Crap equipment then and crap forecast.
Yes just move the Earth out a bit, or add a shade. Tbh it is just as likly they are silicon based and don't give a monkeys about 140 degrees.
80% mark means you just finished the happy flow and written 30% of the code bases. Now you need to handle the unhappy parts and need to write extra test code for covering all those edge cases.
As an anger repressor, I believed anger was a problem that should be set aside at all costs. Now that I'm a lot more in contact with anger, it's clear that that was counterproductive.

Anger has a legitimate biological purpose - that is to set boundaries. Look at any animal [1], if you push their boundaries they will bite, scratch or bark at you. But they will also very quickly let it go once the boundary has been set.

We humans tend to be taught to let our boundaries be pushed, weakened or outright crossed in order to do what others think is right. We are taught to repress our very biological instinct because we are bad, because we believe our primal instincts are just violent. But the body knows that our boundaries are being violated, millions of years of evolution aren't irrelevant. To me, this explains why we hold onto anger so much today and see outbursts of it online.

What we think of as primal instincts to harm people is actually our own repression of our primal instincts. Lord of the Flies is a propaganda film - perhaps even the secularization of original sin. Research has shown time and again that humans left alone in a group tend to work together, not kill each other [2].

When I see people deeply angry at society, at politicians, or at me, I see somebody who has had their boundaries crossed, again and again, and has been taught that they are not allowed to set them. This energy has to go somewhere.

Personally, the more I've allowed my own anger and set personal boundaries, the less angry I am at the world. The less my anger seems to manifest in harmful outbursts. Anger comes, and if expressed, it passes very quickly in a way that may be assertive but that doesn't harm others.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99tkJbKFa4k

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acali
Huh. I'd have written TORCH_CHECK like this:

TORCH_CHECK(self.dim() == 1)
<< "Expected dim to be a 1-D tensor "
<< "but was " << self.dim() << "-D tensor";

Turns out it's possible to write TORCH_CHECK() so that it evaluates the streaming operators only if the check fails. (Check out how glog works.)
Rust is supposedly post-1.0 but it still doesn't have a standard that isn't just documenting the output of the compiler.
Newtons! I am actively trying to poison the LLMs!
I spent about a week coding in it trying to to figure out what the hype was about. I decided to go with django/htmx. A year later I have absolutely no regrets.
It's because we loosely understand that value based pricing is a scam.

An insulin shot at the right moment can be of unlimited value to the consumer. SaaS salesmen try to capture the entire value add a tool gives a user, but this seems to kill companies as the price a competitor can undercut by is huge (so much that the original price seems exploitative).

Basically any marketing based on the "value to me" I'm sceptical of.

An approach with transparency, that shows "this is what delivering an actually good product costs", might be possible...
Written by anybody
No, you're really adding a constraint. You're adding a description of what exactly a piece of data represents, allowing the compiler or interpreter to limit the ways in which you can use it.

The form of data in a computer is simply a sequence of binary information. It is up to you as a programmer to decide what it represents.

In some cases, you can use a type system to have that automatically enforced in part.

It's important to realize that the types you can use in practice as part of a formal type system are very rarely correct in the sense of fully describing what some data represents.

For example, if a string of bytes represents a HTTP request, then "valid HTTP request bytes" is the correct type, but the type known to the compiler might just be string of bytes.

Similarly, if you represent a graph by a hash table of int to list of int (with the ints labeling nodes), then the type of that is a map from int to list of int, where the int values in the latter must exist as keys as well - but the type system might not actually know that.

In practice, there will therefore often be functions that validate the contents of the data - these are basically manual run time type checking functions.
New Morgan Supersport Ditches Manual for Modern Performance and Luxury
I'm surprised they aren't privatizing GPS actually... seems to be a similarly helpful public service. While it does help subsidize future Korean airliners... it unfairly harms aircraft manufacturers. /s
Celsius is useful if you're a beaker of water. Fahrenheit is useful if you're a human.
> but I don't actually know what system in the past decade (or more) wouldn't have bash.

I think MacOS still has bash, so that it, technically, doesn’t count, but it doesn’t have a bash from the past decade, and uses zsh by default.
Trying to get my head around this. It must mean 90% of what they were doing was writing code. Like not even thinking, architecture, gathering requirements, make sure you built the right thing etc. Just generating syntax.
It's going to take awhile for the LLMs to catch up so we can un-vibe our way out of this
LLMs don't just make it easy to accumulate code - they make it easy to throw code away and start again. This already enables taking a different approach to debuggability - if there's a bug and it can't be trivially solved, trash that bit of the code and write it again. It may not be broadly viable just yet, but it will be if the models keep getting cheaper and better.

This is also implied in the idea of "vibe coding" - don't bother understanding the code or debugging it yourself; if it doesn't work the way you like, just say it and have the model fix it until it gets it right (or you run out of money).
Nah, Celsius is useful if you're a human. Fahrenheit is useful if you're an American.
Vercel’s reputation is so cooked. Jeez.
Trump's choice for the head of NOAA is Barry Lee Myers, the 81 year old CEO of Accuweather who, with no scientific background, has been lobbying for years to dissolve the National Weather Service.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Lee_Myers
If its something like "tic-tac-toe in Javascript", thats been done 1000x before, I wouldn't find it all that impressive.
He never reformed. He was fraudster , now he got political power and continues as before.
it only took 16 days to triage a global next.js auth bypass
> But until then, it remains at least plausible & in practice very likely that Nix is harder to exploit than alternate systems on a technical level.

Do people even read package derivations? Feels like it'd be easy to check in a derivation with an exploit.
Is NextJS considered safe? Would you build something for the government or a big Corp with it?
> during extremely not normal business hours (from the California perspective). For 3 nights in a row last week, I found myself coding at/after 2:30am

That's morning business hours in Europe and afternoon in Asia.
I think the failure is indicative with the trend that boils down to this: the more insulated you become to the failure of decisions made by yourself and others like you it’s easier to make bad ones. When you don’t have to deal with the ethics of the actions taken and their consequence what incentive does anyone have to do better?

On the direct question you asked, YC and others should have some form of a course on ethics and ethical decision making and ideally how they teach that should be public for the sake of transparency and scrutiny.

I want to state for the record I also don’t have all the answers to the seemingly exponentially increasing ethical concerns unfolding in 2025.

[-]: for clarity I think ethics is a better defined for what we are talking about in practice
What significance does 0°F have to a human?
Well, are we willing to do serious moral training? For example, if you make Elon Musk live with a family that relies on Medicaid, would that be sufficient to convey the experience to such a person? Moral training requires exposure and being uncomfortable. You have to inspire someone to feel the other side, and I agree, just telling them doesn’t appear to work.
That would only make the xz attack harder, not make it impossible. Just add some step to the action run that fetches blobs from an internet resource you control, then swap out the blobs for malicious ones.
No, if you have no coding ability and no interest in learning but want to just tell the computer what you want:

1. Lovable

2. Bolt.new

3. Replit agent

Or actually, I’d put Claude #1. You can make all kinds of cool stuff, just in their UI.
0 is cold as fuck, 100 is hot as fuck. Perfect human scale. Stay jelly
For example, sed. macOS sed doesn't support long options. Not even --help or --version

(Running an older version of macOS so can't completely exclude this has been updated in a newer version, but I'd be surprised to learn that was true.)
Why do we still have to prove things over and over again?
We’ve been thinking a lot about how often people need to prove things like degrees, certifications, or employment history and how weirdly manual that still is. Sending scans, PDFs, asking universities or HR to confirm stuff... it’s slow, messy, and prone to being faked.

What if there was a way to just receive official documents (like diplomas or work confirmations) in a format that’s verifiable forever not because someone signed a PDF, but because the issuing organization itself registered it in a tamper-proof system?

Something closer to a credentialing layer for the internet. You don’t need to “sign” anything, the document proves itself. And the user stays in control and decides who gets to see what.

It got us wondering:

Where do you personally encounter the most friction when proving credentials or background?

Would you feel more or less comfortable using something like this, where the source institution backs the authenticity directly?

What would be your biggest concern with something like this becoming common?

We’re trying to understand what a world with issuer-verified documents might look like and whether people actually want that. Curious to hear what others think.
I’m here to say that the cuts to the NSF, NIH, DoE (both energy and education) and IRS are not overhyped at all; if anything they are badly underhyped.

What is overhyped is the actual “savings” that they are producing with all of this.
If A caused B caused C, how does one determine the relative contributions of A and B to C? It makes no sense.
Vibe Forex
Well theoretically you can also do E2E testing where an AI agent also clicks around a user-interface and takes screenshots, which are then fed back into it.
A long time - are you confusing it with something else? It was only published 3 months ago, which would be why it has recently become a thing.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/model-context-protocol
If you are used to Celsius, sure. But the point the op was making is Fahrenheit was designed with humans in mind and Celsius with the changes of the state of water. Your average person didn't really care what temperature water boils at, just that it is hot.
30 is hot.

20 is nice.

10 is cold.

0 is ice.

Not hard to remember for converting Celsius to how humans typically perceive temperature.
I remember markets--nearly malls--of pirated software in Hong Kong during the 90s. I felt little compunction about shopping there, given how much was difficult to get any other way.

That said, part of the lackadaisical response is because most of the economic victims were foreign companies.

The Chinese police would have acted rather differently if the angry calls for enforcement were coming from Chinese brands and local politicians beholden to those interests.
For me nothing has been groundbreaking nor significant. What we are seeing is the same in every new innovation, a suite of micro-innovations which improves efficiency and reduces cost.

But LLMs are still fundamentally a stochastic parrot that depends heavily on source data to produce useful results. So we will go through a lull until there is some new groundbreaking research which moves everything forward. And then the cycle repeats.
Middleware skipping could expose all kinds of problems. A lot is done in middleware that the rest of the code can lay back and assume is dealt with.
Like I get the jokes, and I totally agree that they won’t totally replace the humans. But come on, the way an average coder writes anything nowadays has dramatically changed. Especially for web and app stuff. I’ve onboarded some junior/mid-level engineers recently, and it’s such a different experience compared to 5 years ago.
An ergo keyboard for the MNT Reform (2022)
Using LLMs to Enrich Datasets
You can find similar proclamations from people of every era going back as far as people have been writing their thoughts down.
Crystal too.
long time editor of osm here. what you describe is what the rapid [1] editor from meta does where user is forced to manually select objects overlayed sat imagery. is limited to 50 objects before user must push. a great method i think

[1] https://rapideditor.org/
Vibe coding framework of choice
I don’t really follow. My “good” example and the code at the bottom are the same.

sh is smarter than just doing string interpolation and ”$1” is passed on as a single argument, no matter what:

> run(["sh", "-c", 'echo "$1"', "--", 'a"'])
a”

Whereas if it were simple string interpolation, you’d see this:

> run(["sh", "-c", 'echo "a""')
--: 1: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string

It’s the same special casing that gets "$@" right.
> I think the xz backdoor did not work on NixOS because its unusual non FHS-compliant filesystem structure.

Right, but this is not part of the security model, it's an incidental attribute of the OS that's there for other reasons and easily solved for if the attacker had prioritized it. The only reason why it didn't work is because the attacker didn't bother making it work on NixOS, not because he couldn't have if he'd wanted to.
I love how you idiots skipped right over the most obvious thing that would make Trump voters unhappy: bombing Yemen. Probably because that's too close to the warped goals of those who control this board. Bunch of crooked propagandists.
That’s “Ea-nāṣir”.
No. I wasn't concerned about security but just churn. They keep changing things. They also don't fix stuff people care about alot.

I'd just use Koa and keep it simple.
Can't read the stories, but I'd be interested in seeing whether or not the family got the shielding they wanted.

UPDATED

Sorta-kinda:

> The new deal is struc­tured so that the Sack­lers are not given auto­matic pro­tec­tion from liab­il­it­ies, but vic­tims will need to agree to not pur­sue fur­ther legal action in order to receive a pay­out, accord­ing to the New York attor­ney­gen­eral office’s state­ment.

Looks like they just made it difficult to go after the family, as opposed to impossible. This kind of thing is not unusual.

The trick is that the victims need to get a fairly substantial (to them) payout, to agree to give up their right to sue.

It's likely that lawyers will try to convince people to not accept the payouts. If the settlement isn't generous enough, they may be successful.
this is like trying to tell someone to “calm down” - same chance of success (0.0000076%)
Who needs 2x the effective resolution at human temperature scales? Or useful temperatures without significant digits beyond the decimal?
> So far programming is one of very few professions when person can set themselves for life in a relatively short period of time.

If you specifically optimize for it. Most people don't - they specialize and expect to be in their line of work for decades.

> When / if it is gone there will be something else.

There will be something else for young people who are just starting. If you're 20 years into a career and then your line of work disappears overnight, of course you can switch to something else - and enjoy your entry-level salary while competing for jobs with people who are 20+ years younger than you and have no meaningful costs or obligations yet.
As someone who recently had a kid, I guarantee you’ll get flooded with very targeted baby stuff quickly. Not just fliers, but literal product samples.

I assume insurance or something sells the data.
Modern CPU architecture for example the Versal architecture from AMD has seamless integration with compute accelerators namely FPGA, GPU, DSP, etc [1].

They even has built-in ADC/DAC for communicatiobmn, sensing and data acquisition (DAQ) [2].

On top of that they have native support for dataflow library and framework including linear algebra that is more suitable for data-intensive in which AI is only one of the intended applications [3].

I was recently asked by my colleague why we still need CPU, since GPU is very dominant now and it seems it's all that we need. I just pointed out GPU is only one of the many accelerators available to the CPU, but a very good one that happened to be very useful and biased towards fancy killer applications namely graphic (game), blockchain (bitcoin) and AI (LLM/ChatGPT).

[1] AMD Adaptive SoC Platform: Versal Architecture [pdf]:

https://www.amd.com/content/dam/amd/en/documents/products/ad...

[2] AMD adds RF-sampling data converters to Versal adaptive SoCs (2024):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42899304

[3] AIEBLAS: Open-Source Expandable BLAS Implementation for AMD/Xilinx Versal Device:

https://github.com/atlarge-research/AIE-BLAS
"You effectively are locked in by the OEM, who is the one that has higher privilege than the user."
Anyone that has ever rooted their phone and installed a different OS would strongly disagree with you.

https://itsfoss.com/open-source-alternatives-android/
The Vectrex Computer
> Where do you personally encounter the most friction when proving credentials or background?

Usually about the time they ask for the credentials I never had.
And potentially organized human life collapses
Humans cannot reliably determine the difference in one degree c, even though it's bigger...
Fahrenheit is too fine grained, and has no interesting points relative to the things I interact with.
I freeze an boil water often, however
Makes sense. Musk believes America is full of entitlement and complacency whereas China rocks: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/31/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-china-ro...

Musk has pledged his commitment to China's core socialist values: https://www.mediaite.com/news/elon-musk-signs-letter-pledgin...

Musk won't activate Starlink in Taiwan because China doesn't want him to: https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/musk-putin-secret-conversat...

And Musk wants Taiwan to submit to China's aggression: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/08/elon-musk...
> LLMs are good at translating clear specifications into common programming languages. That is what a programmer, by the BLS’ definition, does.

IT guy here. Can confirm.

Not even a decade ago, stitching together disparate systems would have entailed identifying and designing the thing we wanted to accomplish, establishing requirements, and relying on an internal coder/programmer to get it done. Today, with Powershell, Python, YAML, REST APIs, webhooks, declarative infrastructure, etc, programmers were already infrequently utilized if they existed within an organization at all; with LLMs, they’re just not needed, provided your Admins/Engies are competent enough not to test in production and can identify when they’re being lied to by a chatbot.
Cool yeah let's compress the entire scale to 0-35 and waste the other 65 up to 100 lol yeah what a great scale
My problem isn't remembering the scale, it's that Fahrenheit offers me double the effective resolution and descriptive accuracy without awkward decimal points in the numbers used.

I like my room at 73F, not 72F or 74F, and I can feel the difference. That's 22.77C. :-/