skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It appears to me that our socio-economic model simply doesn't scale with technology. We need to have a constructive conversation about how to adapt.

This doesn't add up with the number of billionaires and the growth over the last decades - it just seems that there's a bottleneck and the value captured from technology isn't trickling down.

Of course, you can claim that such "billionaires" and that part of that "value" is the result of speculation, but since billionaires can use that speculation to buy money and acquire more assets, then for sure there's some value there that isn't getting to the vast majority of the people.
The Most Accurate Flat Map of Earth yet (2021)
From after this exploit was found.
I also noticed this. I think we just want to avoid human interaction, I also do this myself, but I have no illusions that the self-checkout is faster, or that I'm doing the right thing.
Finding a way to convince yourself something is easy is the best trick to unblocking yourself and stopping distractions. This is the closest thing I know to the "1 simple trick" thing.
> Stallman was right again.

He usually is, no matter how many times people write him off.
Claude Plays Pokemon is one person's side project to see how well Sonnet can play pokemon. It is a neat LLM benchmark; it's not a serious attempt at making Pokemon-playing AI.
lmao what? I don't know of a single consumer product by a truly communist nation that has ever been considered a 'threat' to western companies
Your report matches many other real world reports I've read. I'm pretty good at day dreaming or thinking while driving, so having to keep my hands ready to take over while being completely alert that FSD might error would be a big downgrade in my driving experience. I'd rather drive myself where my subconscious muscle memory does the driving so my conscious mind can think about other things. Having to pay attention to what FSD was doing would be a drag and prevent me from relaxing.
Tracing the thoughts of a large language model
Auth definitely seems like the biggest outstanding question with MCP. Local is a great first solution to make it simple, but maybe OAuth integration in the future makes this easier
Well, my son right now is learning to play the guitar which is a lot of practicing scales and chord transitions and playing Neil Young’s Sugar Mountain over and over again.

We expect to do a lot of practice to be able to perform a three-section-staff (him) vs spear (me) form.

If I am going to progress in fox mediumship I (we?) definitely will need to practice vocal adjustments.
> in the abstract, governments are indistinguishable from any other collective of people.

Sure, but in reality they have a legal monopoly on the use of violence, which is a very big deal and makes them qualitatively different from any other collective of people.
Can confirm, cheapest GPU on the market.
Check out NVIDIAs latest releases. Paying for tokens is going to be a history in about 6 months. You run the model on your laptop.

Maybe you're right about the confusion...but given the velocity, that's going to be fixed also.

All the knowledge about the field of programming is digitized, one could argue that having a model that digested all that information in a right way, is better than separate.

Just a thought. I don't care all that much.
The UK Government Just Declared War on Gab
https://tmbw.net/wiki/Shows/1992-07-23

sounds like the concert in question
not just tinny sound.

if it is an annoyance, chore, or PITA, to listen, even if its something asked for, there had better be compelling content , else it is dumped quickly
I wonder if alternative forms of education (like Waldorf/Steiner) would make more sense to more kids. It's clear that the standard way of teaching doesn't resonate with many kids, and we would do well to investigate that.
No, the AMA, though not perfect, is an excellent organization that benefits our healthcare.
Some do wonderfully well, for example lcamtuf or Joanna Rutkowski.

If they're self-driven like the original author, they'll be good, they not necessarily need the gradient.
Waterworld is my partners favorite film of all time.
Reminds me of something I read in a sermon published oh (checks date) 24 years ago:

"More than thirty years ago I stood beside the desk of Professor Richard Rosenbloom, who taught courses in manufacturing management. In those days they called the field 'production.' I was a research assistant, and Professor Rosenbloom had just stood up to welcome one of his students into his office. The student, of medium height, was dressed in a dark suit and tie. He stood before the desk, bowed deeply, and handed to his professor a beautifully wrapped gift. He had completed his studies and was returning to his home in Japan.

"The professor murmured thanks and then, to demonstrate his appreciation, he unwrapped the gift. It was a black fountain pen with gold trim. He sat down at his desk, took out a piece of paper, filled the pen from an ink bottle, took the pen in his hand, and began to write. The student beamed. But then he looked stunned, as we all did—the pen was not writing. Professor Rosenbloom pressed harder. The student frowned more deeply. Nothing. Professor Rosenbloom tried swirling the pen. Still, no ink flowed. Finally, in exasperation, the student reached across the desk, grabbed the pen, shook it forcefully, and said with great feeling, 'Cheap Japanese pen!'"
You know this comment made me realize something. Apple and Meta are basically in an escalating Cold War. Apple recently singled out Meta as the number one requester of privacy-sensitive APIs and beneficiary of EU-mandated broader access for 3rd parties. Meta responded by calling Apple “anticompetitive“ and lobbying for government intervention.[1]

So let’s consider this comment with that in mind:

* Meta is pissed off it doesn’t have more user data access inside Apple’s walled garden

* Meta makes more affordable VR glasses

* Meta released a high quality, developer friendly AI model

In other words, these are all Meta-friendly points.

I’m old enough to remember the Mac vs PC days when people would get utterly tribal on the internet about it. Maybe that’s where HN is at now. You can see why a startup focused third party developer community might lean towards busting open walled gardens.

[1] https://apnews.com/article/apple-meta-european-union-digital...
I think that's just life. I felt the same way in 2005 as you did. By 2015 when this person is talking about I had other life priorities and stopped playing games as much. I still play games from time to time and even get addicted here and there but, at least for me, I didn't stop playing because the quality of games went down. I can't really say they've gone up either though. If anything people have made about the same amount of great games, and bad ones, each year for a while now.
Yeah shame on the people irresponsibely publishing the vulnerability, but the people putting them in? Who cares
It's a confusing name to me though. Berkelocene feels like something geologists and anthropologists should know about, marked by a layer of sediment comprised mostly of hemp, LSD blotters, and decomposing concert posters.
there's a reason there's MCP plugins for LangChain. Some companies will need massively customized workflows that LangChain is appropriate for, where it only needs to dig into a couple potentially publically accessed MCPS for things.

I could see a future where companies have their developer portal where now they have their APIs document, the pretty in swagger, the samples, etc, but they'll have a MCP endpoint (potentially), where they're safely exposing the data to an LLM. Your langchain node step to to get context, could call out to some of these hosted/shared mcps where you do standard stuff, like post to a Slack channel, grab some data from a SFDC instance, etc....
Came here to say that! Love that design!
(BTW autocorrect just corrected "design" to deism" - it must be a sign!)
you know that my country - china - is very famous for censorship

authority keeps removing content from internet they don't want people to discuss

"This content does not conform to the core socialist values"
The way I see it you only have two real choices:

1. Raise wages to match global increased productivity

2. Democratize ownership

That's it.
Investing in a decent mic and paying a little attention to lighting is the new "buying a decent suit and having it tailored".
Ruby Central's OSS Changelog: March 2025
Working in clinical trial data processing I receive data in 1 of 3 formats:
csv, sas datasets, image scans of pdf pages showing spreadsheets

Of these 3 options sas datasets are my preference but I'll immediately convert to csv or excel, csv is a close 2nd once you confirm the quoting / seperator conventions it's very easy to parse. I understand why someone may find the csv format disagreeable but in my experience the alternatives can be so much worse I don't worry too much about csv files
The goal of hub.continue.dev isn't to pre-build exactly what people will need (this might not be possible). We've started with a few examples for inspiration, but the hope is that hub.continue.dev makes it easier for developers to build assistants for themselves that match their personal needs

Even within the subset of developers that use C or OCaml, there are likely to be a large variety of best practices, codebase layouts, and internal knowledge—these are the things we want to empower folks to codify
Abundance isn't going to happen unless politicians are scared of the status quo
Tracking rain patterns will improve hurricane forecasting, UF researcher finds
Microsoft's Chetan Nayak on topological qubits, the physics of bigger splashes
> I'm still having trouble understanding, e.g., why not just make software for the many other platforms that are more aligned with your values?

I want to make software to users of smartphones, not to Apple users. There is nothing related to values. Gatekeeping the whole apps ecosystem for their own profit isn't a value anybody should share besides the shareholders.
For anecdotal feedback I'm taking myself as an example, although I don't flag, I just don't upvote anymore.

(At the same time I think there is a flag problem on HN. I'd recommend /active for a better view into HN discussions.)

Historically I should be your target group, I'm a Mac user since it was uncool (and tribal), I think I have DF in my subscriptions since NetNewsWire 1. But I'm just not interested anymore, I fell off as a regular reader.

Partly it is topical: I'm rather disinterested in inside baseball or opinions on journalism on Apple. "Claim Chowder" as a concept should have staid in the 2000s, I think. My Apple interests are more in the technical details or in the opinions of the wider Indie Devsphere or how people use their technology. Hence Michael Tsai's blog is my favourite Apple blog.

And where you touch an Apple business aspect I'm often baffled by your reasoning. That your Apple-vs-EU-opinions are rather outlier opinions I don’t need to recap, although I found the tone of your language sometimes going in an off putting weird direction, almost as if those Europeans should not allowed to give themselves laws.

But even when I share the complaint of a critical article of yours there is a fundamental disconnect. Taking your recent "Rotten" post: You closed the article with the hope of someone berating the lower ranks of Apple like Jobs did with MobileMe. I found that sociopathic by Jobs then and I find the suggestion absurd today. Telling the slaves to row harder has never motivated someone, I think.

And even if, the software problem at Apple is managerial. Senior management invented the annual releases, probably for the Christmas season. Senior management started to announce features in advance, pushing them back more and more in the release year. Senior management releases features before they are ready. In my opinions the directly responsible individuals are Federighi and Dye, as good as that hair may be. And for all of it: Cook himself.

Plus: Apple's position has fundamentally changed. Instead of an upstart, it is a trillion-dollar-behemoth. That changes how we look at the company. And the company has deeply changed, like all tech company they become more vertical and insular in their services (“Feudal” is a wrong metaphor, historically speaking, but it goes to an emotional truth). Why should we root for them anymore?

Recently I tried helping someone to get a file from a PC to their iPhone. The best options were either weird file sharing services or an USB stick like a barbarian. I blame Apple. I remember a time when computers could talk to each other, based on shared, open technical standards. Of course I blame Apple.
I think in the west all c-level /managers (but it happens on all levels, including workers, they just tend to not get very far) just want to get rich (and/or power; same thing) and have 0 pride or vision: they just pick the path that makes them most; if that's good for the company/country/etc that's a nice coincidence, but if not, fine. Enough examples around and they are not even ashamed or whatever that it costs lives; as long as they get the $ it is fine. There is no vision, no real plan beyond what they think they will stay on for.
I don't know if I would go that far. Every time my wife goes to a specialist, they just declare her a medical mystery and move on. Our primary care doctor is awesome though.

My wife spent years going to different doctors trying to figure out what was going on with her back. For years, different doctors would just tell her, "you must just be starting your period or something." 5 years of that, she finally found a doctor who actually looked at her and listened to her, did some testing and came back with an answer that she has some arthritis.
I was in fifth grade when that episode came out, and told my aunt about those songs. She was a big fan of theirs and played their albums for me.
Should be the top post on here IMHO.
These guys were the first social media influencers going viral (posting demos of songs on an answering machine): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5GFVP7MMeg&list=PLtTX1yXkqz...

edit: say something relevant to HN
I built a tool that turns any website into a Chrome extension using AI
There is a third category: tax avoidance by abusing loopholes in the system. While legal, it's not about using the system as designed. I find it morally equivalent to illegal tax evasion. Behavior like that erodes trust in the system and makes the society worse.
Progressive taxes
I am very intrigued by this. It all seems AI generated. This same HN account posted another repo full of promises and which looks filled with AI generated stubs. What's going on? How did this reach the first page?
That argument seems false. It is land, education (or access to that network of people), and healthcare that is more expensive. Of course, the healthcare is much better than the before, so it’s not quite comparable.
That's where my head went, as well
Look, there is a large difference between certain state of the art devices that I would not have a hope of repairing, and things that can be simple to repair like major appliances, cars, etc. I'm currently doing a load of clothes in my washer and drier. They're commercial grade beasts from the 90's, and when they've broken, we've been able to fix them with cheap replacement parts.
I wonder when the first satellite was launched from Africa.

Perhaps the Italian San Marco 1 satellite, launched from Kenya in 1964?
The only thing I think that the title could make clearer is that this is at or below nm scale, but that too is in the first paragraph.
I've never used perforce but it seems git can this problem at least
Speed limits are set by the states, and most have lower limits (and other restrictions) for large vehicles.

Unless you have a specific claim and source for your claim?
Alkanes on Mars
Ask HN: Why aren't there more EdTech AI startups?
We've been promised that AI will introduce personalised tutoring, that it will replace traditional schooling, etc. However, I see fewer and fewer edtech startups these days... Chegg, Udemy, Busuu and many others are on the decline.

What's happening to Edtech?
Protip: Don't use Bluetooth headphones as your microphone input source. The audio gets massively compressed. https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/10dit8y/lowquality_b...

Use the laptop microphone as the input instead, or if no microphone is present just buy an external microphone. You probably don't need a $300 podcast-class microphone since the audio still gets compressed in transit, though.
> This begs the question, how can we protect our private data specially given large data hacks and leaks ?

ROTFL, OMG ...

You do realize that all FAANG is making money with your data ? /s
"If you can’t tell, does it matter?"

Favorite quote from Westworld ;)
'Made in America' Apple Silicon to Lag Behind Taiwan's Output
Here's actual US policy

https://www.ft.com/content/ad16ce08-763b-11e9-bbad-7c18c0ea0...

> The US has warned that greater military co-operation between EU countries would be a “dramatic reversal” of three decades of transatlantic defence integration, in the latest sign of the fraying relationship between Washington and Brussels.

That's 2019. When Trump was in power.

> It said that Washington was “deeply concerned” that approval of the rules for the European Defence Fund and the Permanent Structured Cooperation, or Pesco, launched in 2017 to plug gaps in Europe’s military power, would “produce duplication, non-interoperable military systems, diversion of scarce defence resources and unnecessary competition between Nato and the EU”.
As a pure hypothetical what you propose is possible, but there’s actual crash data to look at so there’s no need to guess.

Waymo’s crashes that I’ve looked at have just been fairly typical someone else is blatantly at fault no unusual behavior on Waymo’s part. So while it’s possible such a thing exists it’s not common enough to matter here.
> Just last week I diagnosed a UTI, prescribed a $4 antibiotic, and quite literally saved someone’s life — that’s a bargain at $500.

Hmm.. would the patient not have been able to tell that they had a UTI without your intervention? As I understand it, with UTIs, time is of the essence. You want to get the patient treated very quickly before the infection can spread to the bladder. What if the patient developed symptoms on Friday at 3 pm and wasn't able to get a doctor until Monday morning? I know it's not that life threateningly urgent to treat, but $500 plus time in excruciating discomfort is not a bargain when the treatment is a simple $4 antibiotic. I guarantee that by Friday night the patient would have known what was wrong with them, as well as the standard treatment.
similiar to the iron law of orgs / oligarchy. all orgs that live long enough eventually exist to just perpetuate the org. the “reasons” become marketing and politics but are no longer seriously considered in their effectiveness.
Thanks for the suggestion, I may do that next month if I can remember enough of the details!
This is the crux of the issue. Whether you think this is like extending a ladder to the moon, or more like we figured out how to get to the moon and are now aiming at Jupiter.
I was looking at this the other day. I'm pretty sure OpenAI run the internal reasoning into a model that purges the reasoning and makes it worse to train other models from.

I might be mistaken, but originally the reasoning was fully hidden? Or maybe it was just far more aggressively purged. I agree that today the reasoning output seems higher quality then originally.
> And many inexperienced developers seem to think that they can generate CSV without using a library because the format is supposedly so simple.

Can't they?

def excel_csv_of(rows):
for row in rows:
for i, field in enumerate(row):
if i:
yield ','
yield '"'
for c in field:
yield '""' if c == '"' else c
yield '"'
yield '\n'

I haven't tested this, even to see if the code parses. What did I screw up?
'Chances Are' singer retiring from touring ahead of 90th birthday
Yeah, this sounds pretty complicated to me but if there's any sketch of a design for how it could work then I'd be interested to read it.
Good call out. One of the advantages of ProxyCommand was that it is supported by Chrome's Secure Shell extension, meaning you could use it on Chromebooks: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/secure-shell/iodiha...
You can't mass enforce government actions on people on the scale the US wants to (millions of immigrants) via a legal system spread out around the country. You have to streamline the process. For efficiency you have to concentrate the groups in one area and setup streamlined processes at the place you choose to concentrate everyone (in this case everyone you don't want in the country). Luckily we have Elon's people refining their streamlining skills within the government before turning their gaze onto efficiency at these concentration points.
My 2c is that most normal people are incapable of capturing this kind of value simply because they aren't educated enough on how to use a computer to do these things.

ChatGPT is the first time in a while that a new technology is easy enough to use and integrate that the productivity gains could be captured by the lowest-skilled workers.

Uber/Lyft are the antithesis of this: their apps do very simple things but at scale and with an eye towards confusing their drivers. It's not unthinkable that a co-op version of these apps could exist, but the folks with the skills to build them get snapped up by big tech pretty quick.

IMO if we want to share the wealth, the ONLY way to do it is by upskilling workers and simplifying technology.
ugh, true
> Next, the reproduction was slow. It took probably 20 seconds just to load the dev version of the editor, and another 40 seconds to trigger the issue.

60 seconds to reproduce? Slow!? Laughs in enterprise software
thanks, I learned something simple and useful ! I did not know about the null_resource.
The Safari bug that punishes you for using content blockers
Yup. But the AV setup is cheaper, easier to maintain, and more comfortable.
Apple's AI isn't a letdown. AI is the letdown
That’s precisely why ChatGPT must be banned immediately and without exception. It’s not just about automation—it’s about preservation of the divine art of diagnosing strep throat with an air of sanctified superiority. You see, in America, we don’t just let anyone wield a stethoscope. No, we demand a decade of gladiatorial combat through organic chemistry, physics, and at least three near-death experiences in med school. Because how else can we be absolutely certain that someone’s IQ is sufficiently astronomical to distinguish between a cold and an alien parasite invasion?

In some other countries, you can become a doctor without even crying during an MCAT. Without even seeing a benzene ring! How, pray tell, can you trust a person to perform heart surgery if they’ve never solved a Schrödinger equation while sleep-deprived?

In America, we value Quality—capital Q, trademark pending. Misdiagnosis? Impossible. Our doctors are forged in the fires of molecular orbital theory and 700-page biochemistry textbooks. And yet… ChatGPT dares to show up, diagnose your flu, and not order a $12,000 MRI just for fun? It’s an affront to civilization itself. Give it a McLaren? Nay. Give it a muzzle.
You can find a similar method in zundo, a zustand middleware for undo/redo. It has the concept of pastStates and futureStates.