skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is .csv a niche dev-focused format? Our customers use our exports for a mix of purposes, some of them involving spreadsheet clients (not just excel) and some of them integrating with their own data pipelines. Csv conveniently works with these use cases across the board, without explanation, and is inconveniently saddled with these legacy security flaws in Excel (and probably other clients).

If xlsx works for all your use cases that's great, a much better solution that trying to sidestep these issues by lightly modifying the data. It's not an option for us, and (I'd imagine) a large contingent of export tools which can't make assumptions about downstream usage.
The explanation of "hallucination" is quite simplified, I am sure there is more there.

If there is one problem I have to pick to to trace in LLMs, I would pick hallucination. More tracing of "how much" or "why" model hallucinated can lead to correct this problem. Given the explanation in this post about hallucination, I think degree of hallucination can be given as part of response to the user?

I am facing this in RAG use case quite - How do I know model is giving right answer or Hallucinating from my RAG sources?
I hope this includes fake meat.
What is economy of scale?
What is induced demand?
What is return on investment?
What is increased total innovation?
It’s been talked about for years, but my lay understanding is that tax is levied on automation that displaces human production. This circumvents the issue where we have a system based on income tax, but a lower ratio of income to production.

So if a factory used to employ 100 people, who were paid a salary, that salary was taxed generating income for societal benefit like roads and hospitals. But if automation comes in and produces the same with just 10 people, the money from income taxes for societal benefit is reduced by 90%. The net effect is that society may have less money for the collective benefit even as production gets more efficient. An automation tax would make up the difference.

It’s not altogether different than the “mileage” tax for electric vehicles to displace the gasoline taxes that fund roads. It’s a different tax scheme because the fundamental premise has changed (road use is proportional to gasoline consumption/tax needs are proportional to human salary). Taxes are systems of convention so we don’t need to pretend they must adhere to some immutable physical law.

To your question about how it could be implemented, I’m sure there’s lots of nuance. But to illustrate it off the top of my head, industries may have baseline rates of per-capita production and if they implement automation to exceed that substantially, that excess production would be taxed. So a craftsman woodworker who makes five items a week wouldn’t be affected, but a cabinet factory making 300 per capita items per week would.
What is the Honda Civic? Relatively cheap, reliable, good enough for daily use for the overwhelming majority of people?
You just have to look at the Trump tariffs to see that lots of people will vote entirely against their own rational interests just because of vibes.
Correct title is "New Films Conduct Better the Thinner They Get"
yes becaause old people are afraid their house values will go down. now they don't have grandkids and are going to die alone. many such cases
Seriously, we have a Haagen-bot[0] problem ("the robot that eats ice cream so you don't have to") widespread across the field where people are trying to figure out how they can get their piece of the new ML world.

Part of it is that people aren't thinking about what's actually scarce. Let alone what a world more optimized for people might be like.

> I don't want to support automating something away that people enjoy doing, is produced in abundance, and is very low cost to obtain already.

Quoted for truth.

[0] https://www.savagechickens.com/2024/04/haagen-bot.html "the robot that eats ice cream so you don't have to"
There’s also the case that the regulations don’t exist.

And what’s more worrying is things where the negative impact is higher order.

If the bread has some poison that will kill you in 5 years time etc.

Currently we maintain a bar partially with human ethics and processes, whether that is directly preventing bad outcomes because of liabilities or reflecting on bad outcomes once they happen to improve regulations (a lot of which relies on introspectability).

Once AI starts replacing the decision-making layer, we lose the collective understanding of how processes fail. Once you start needing to constrain the space of machine error, you’ve basically arrived at almost solving the problem again.
I think it's simply that being mad about social issues gets more interactions on social media.
>* There's a general fear of being a landlord. Tenants have a lot of legal rights, and the risk of inviting someone onto your property who could start squatting or doing drugs and not being able to evict them is beyond the pale for most families.*

This is a big problem in a lot of places. It's really hard for cities to strike a good balance between renters and owners, and I think few do it well. Especially for the edge cases (really bad owners and renters).
> Please get this right, because telling people they need to loose wealth to fix society is a horrible place to be in.

This is often the reality. Massive wealth inequality won't be fixed by making everyone billionaires, it'll be fixed by getting rid of billionaires
That's news to me, and I thought I had a good layman's understanding of it. How does it work then?
These two gentlemen have been making the rounds on late night and political shows. They seem nice enough and I appreciate their efforts. However, I haven't heard them suggest a single functional/practical change to move toward "abundance".

We have to overturn Citizens United and get unlimited corporate money out of politics. This is far and away the most important barrier to having a government that works for people.
> Instead of getting tangled up in social issues

It's not that they're getting 'tangled up', it's that reactionary activists (whose ultimate goal is repealing the Civil Rights Act entirely) use strawman social issues as a wedge and the press is led around by the nose parroting these controversies that are brazenly ginned up.

Liberal politicians don't really have a great strategy for this because the majority of media (and I'm talking about the real media: influencers with more following than all legacy media combined) is right-wing these days.

Progressives end up barely treading water while reactionaries run circles around them, and then are blamed when reactionaries make everything worse.
From I Palindrome I, few albums later on Apollo 18:

Son, I am able, she said, though you scare me. Watch, said I. Beloved, I said, watch me scare you though. Said she, able am I, son.

Brilliant.
I think the "literally cry" thing is a zoomer thing. I watch a lot of YouTube music video channels and the "this made me cry" thing is a meme that shows up with extreme frequency. I don't think we should take it any more seriously than we do "laugh out loud" when the actual response is usually more like a quick exhale.
This diagram is painfully relatable — my team checks every single box here, and we don’t even use AI yet! Imagine when we finally do...

"Misunderstood requirements" and "overly complex implementations" are practically our mascots at this point. We're slowly untangling this chaos through better upfront convos and iterative reviews, but man, habits die hard. Anyone else navigating these pitfalls totally unaided by AI?
> but attempts to reconcile it just moved the class barriers around instead of breaking them

Sure and we have made many advancements in theory since then. But the issue still remains that you have to admit the root cause even exists before you can think about how to solve it.

I will edit my parent comment to remove the heliocentric example.
I wonder if CSV is the trivial format, so you have many people picking it because they want the easiest, and still getting it wrong. JSON is harder, so very few people are going to roll their own serializer/deserializer, and those who do are more likely to focus on getting it right (or at least catching the really obvious bugs).

I've dealt with incorrect CSVs numerous times, never with incorrect JSON, but, of the times I know what was happening on the other system, each time the CSV was from some in house (or similar) implementation of dumping a SQL output (or similar) into a text file as an MVP. JSON was always using some library.

If so, that's all the more reason to love CSV as it stands guard for JSON. If CSV didn't exist, we would instead have broken JSON implementations. (JSON and XML would likely then share a similar relationship.)
Very interesting. I'd like to give "Github" mode a try. Are you able to use some local instance instead?
Weird I wouldn’t have known, I got a crazy wait for my physician and quality seems to have gone down
> These services basically don't work with Western level wages. The economics are just not there.

Only because the service is disrupting the business model for those wages.

It worked well(ish) in 2019, it failed by 2022. It's not some kind of mystery around wages or inflation, the introduction of these services (and their popularity and growth, due to COVID closing in-person restaurants for a while) is the thing that killed the economics around delivery, for much of the US.
LLMs don't think, and LLMs don't have strategies. Maybe it could be argued that LLMs have "derived meaning", but all LLMs do is predict the next token. Even RL just tweaks the next-token prediction process, but the math that drives an LLM makes it impossible for there to be anything that could reasonably be called thought.
I’ve had a similar experience, where a friend suggested that Teams must boost the host’s audio, based on how clear my voice was in a group meeting we had.

And I just use the mic attached to my Game Ones which isn’t even a condenser.
Don't forget roblox as well. It's past the 20 year old point if you count development time. Although it is slightly different because the platform has changed substantially since 2006.
Yep. As a former Canadian soldier, it was a pretty shit afternoon when I had to explain to my kids what annexation meant in practical terms, and the role that Canada has played in preventing and repelling similar actions in other countries.

It's an easy word to say, and the implication that it would be peaceful or non-violent because of economic pressures ignores the fact that Canadians don't want it.
The rising risk of a data center bubble and how it could affect Nvidia [video]
Most important not for the analysis itself, but because the fact that even CNBC is talking about it means the reappraisal is now mainstream.
Unfortunately, we have one party that wants the government to get some stuff done but doesn't really care about how much it costs, and another party that cares about costs but doesn't really want the government to get stuff done. So we end up either getting things done for an exorbitant price, or not getting anything done.
Perhaps politicians and property owners both needs to fear the status quo.
Where exactly did you get the idea that Kamala was running on this? Where was she advocating for, say, Medicare for all? Or fighting vested interests by running on campaign finance reform, to get money out of politics?

She was running on an abstract, classical centrist non-program of "we've done great under Biden and we're going to keep doing the same". That is the exact opposite of what GP was suggesting.
The core issue seems that the social status is tightly coupled with currency and it can be optimized in destructive ways. Perhaps we need currency with multiple colours that could be earned in different ways and could be allowed to be spent to its sphere of influence as long as it could be enforced to not be interchanged. That way one could have higher social status in one sphere of influence and lower in another one.
Modern landfills carefully channel and burn off the methane
as an American, I saw a documentary xxxxeditxxxxx about food in schools. Some of the French cried actual tears when they saw what American (mostly poor) students ate at school. edit: oh maybe that was "Where to Invade Next?"
Facebook Returns to Its Roots: Showing Posts from Friends and Family
See, for an example, that "he's not hurting the people he's supposed to be hurting" quote that made the rounds from an unhappy 2019 Trump voter.
Welcome to the Semantic Apocalypse
> People are the same everywhere

That is absolutely not true. People aren't the same even in adjacent neighborhoods sometimes. Some create great environments, some create hells on earth.

Source: I lived in 3 different countries + an isolated island.

But you don't even need my biased opinion on the matter. We have cultures that throw gay people off the roofs, and cultures that celebrate them.
One thing you should do is not use your camera all the time. Use a really good profile picture, people will imagine whatever you look like in their head and you build an air of mystery and exclusivity. Save your on camera moments for when you want to grace others with your presence and court attention. Most people on camera just look bored, small, and uninteresting. By being more deliberate, you can avoid giving that impression.
> This is what the Kamala campaign ran on, it didn’t work.

It's what Obama ran on, and it worked for him. The fact that he achieved very little there is a different issue.

Kamala's 2-month long campaign wasn't very convincing.
Trump has defunded VoA. >https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvge4l109r3o

Good luck to anyone in a shitty regime that thought they could at least rely on American propaganda to get some useful info from an alternative. Despite VoA being cheap and enormously effective, and being something no Americans care about, he still kills it.

Gee, I wonder who benefits most from VoA dying?
Trust me, if you have female anatomy after the first or second UTI it’s patently obvious when you are getting another one. That’s my point- I can’t think of an easier condition to recognize and self-diagnose than a UTI in a healthy adult.
B-2 Spirit Stealth Bombers Begin Unannounced Deployment to Diego Garcia
USB microphones usually have audio converters built into them. So if you're going for a cheap wired headphones, it's usually better to go with one with a 3.5mm jack.
The Socket Team at RSAC and BSidesSF 2025
The bill is targeting specific additives...

Where did you get information about what this bill is targeting?

When I look at the official page about AB1264 and look at the 'full text', there is virtually nothing there:

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

Same if I follow the link to the bill PDF:

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_...

This is the complete text I see:

Date Published: 02/21/2025 09:00 PM
Bill Start
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly BillNo. 1264
Introduced by Assembly Member Gabriel
February 21, 2025
An act relating to pupil nutrition.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1264, as introduced, Gabriel. Pupil nutrition.
Existing law requires the State Department of Education to develop and maintain nutrition guidelines for school lunches and breakfasts and for all food and beverages sold on public school campuses.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation limiting the sale of ultraprocessed foods in California schools.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO
Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation limiting the sale of ultraprocessed foods in California schools.
Days-taken-to-fix is kind of a weird measure for how difficult a bug is. It's clearly a factor of a large number of things that's not the bug itself, including experience and whether you have to go it alone or if you can talk to the right people.

The bug ticks most of the boxes for a tricky bug:

* Non-deterministic

* Enormous haystack

* Unexpected "1+1=3"-type error with a cause outside of the code itself

Like sure it would have been slower to debug if it took 30 hours of to reproduce, and harder he had to be going down the Niagara falls in a barrel while debugging it, but I'm not quite sure those things quite count.

I had a similar category of bug I was struggling with the other year[1] that was related to a faulty optimization in the GraalVM JVM leading to bizarre behavior in very rare circumstances. If I'd been sitting next to the right JVM engineers over at Oracle I'm sure we'd figured it out in days and not the weeks it took me.

[1] https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_104_dep_bug/
People depend on Apple products and spurious results are not acceptable, whereas on social media sites, and Google search results, you can expect the worst, and get it regularly. Enshittification is the norm, IMO.

This makes the point:

> If it’s 100% accurate, it’s a fantastic time saver. If it is anything less than 100% accurate, it’s useless. Because even if there’s a 2% chance it’s wrong, there’s a 2% chance you’re stranding mom at the airport, and mom will be, rightly, very disappointed. Our moms deserve better!

Introducing errors is not "what technology wants" [0]

The upside of this is that people are realizing that unreliable technology is not for everyone. All it takes is one gaffe to break trust, and there are too many gaffes.

[0] https://kk.org/thetechnium/what-technology/
Show HN: Reproducible,Unix-Like,84KB FOSS tasks alternative that respects you
Karui is a lightweight (84KB) to-do list android app with a Unix-inspired aesthetic, using AlpineJS. My goal was simple: create a privacy-friendly app that isn't bloated with too many dependencies, or unnecessary complexity, make it as light as possible while it still fits my usecase, have a terminal-esque design so it stands out from others, and add tons of themes so that you can waste time changing themes of your todolist as much as you do changing themes of your code editor.

The project started as I tried polishing a really old android app from android 4.4.2 which had its code on Github under GPLv3 license. But the app just wont build. I walked into some forums with questions, got rejected from some (the question was listed as too niche), but in the end the app won't build. Still it was an interesting observation. Even if the source is available, if you can't run it without closed-source dependencies, is it really free?

But it was a gateway to looking into how to make a truly free software for android. In most android projects on GitHub there are proprietary dependencies like analytics scripts, or reliance on Google's Play Store APIs, and even encrypted blocks that can only be read by Google, which gets them a non-free or Anti-Features tags even if they make it to f-droid, which is of particular interest to me as I am looking into a qr library to share and save notes data between devices. This ensures your notes never have to connect to the internet.

But nevertheless the AlpineJs route felt the best for this app, its unlikely that the support for webview will go away at any point, and refactoring the code slightly to fit the future changes would just be a breeze, atleast that's what I hope. I considered native approache with Jetpack Compose, but it didn’t align with Karui’s minimalism-first philosophy. The app’s focus is on simplicity, reproducibility, and long-term support—WebView ensures future-proofing without locking into Google’s UI frameworks.
Rust Any Part 3: we have Upcasts
YIMBYism is having a much greater impact in red states.

Noah Smith (left wing blogger) has a fascinating article on it: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/blue-states-dont-build-red-sta...

In Austin, TX, rent has been falling for 2 years because they've been building so much new supply: https://www.texastribune.org/2025/01/22/austin-texas-rents-f...
> If that corner-of-the-window GUI object is thrashed several hundred times in a millisecond, it would cause the GPU driver on my specific machine to lock up, for a reason I've never root-caused.

Until comparatively recently, it was absurdly easy to crash machines via their graphics drivers, even by accident. And I bet a lot of them were security concerns, not just DoS vectors. WebGL has been marvellous at encouraging the makers to finally fix their drivers properly, because browsers declared that kind of thing unacceptable (you shouldn’t be able to bring the computer down from an unprivileged web page¹), and developed long blacklists of cards and drivers, and brought the methodical approach browsers had finally settled on to the graphics space.

Things aren’t perfect, but they are much better than ten years ago.

—⁂—

¹ Ah, fond memories of easy IE6 crashes, some of which would even BSOD Windows 98. My favourite was, if my memory serves me correctly, <script>document.createElement("table").appendChild(document.createElement("div"))</script>. This stuff was not robust.
Show HN: Text2Note – AI summaries that link back to original text
I was learning modern web dev (TypeScript/Vite/Vercel), so I built Text2Note - an AI summarizer with one key difference: click notes to jump back to the original text. Why it’s useful:

- Click any note to see its exact source

- Color-coded insights (facts, arguments, questions)

- Exportable notes (Markdown/JSON/PDF)

- Made for students, lawyers, designers, and devs

Pricing: $4.99/month (charging from Day 1). Would love honest feedback!
OpenAI says "GPUs are melting" as it limits ChatGPT image generation requests
>> My ideal future resembles Star Trek: a world where money is obsolete (at least on Earth), and people pursue exploration, science, and the arts purely out of passion and curiosity.

The problem with the Star Trek fantasy is that it's a lie even within the show. There are still people with obligations. There are still treaties and trade. There is still a hierarchy where some people have more important jobs and report to others. The only thing that seems different is that no money changes hands.

If we actually automated everything so no one had to work, there would still be a gradual progression and a time when some people have to work while most don't. I'm not sure how you get through that phase, not to mention what it looks like on the other side.

One thing I think should be considered is not so much how to pay everyone "enough" but how to reduce cost of living so more people can work less, or eventually not at all (somehow without owning everything and amassing control).
The problem is the "pulling up the ladder" phenomena which seems to plague the US. My ancestors were allowed to come here and that was good but it would be better for me today if we stopped letting people come to the US. My house was affordable for me but it would be better for my wealth if housing in my neighborhood became unaffordable. In California Prop 13 limits taxes of long time property holders and businesses at the expense of new entrants.

That thinking works if you don't feel any obligation to the future or society, which has been the direction of US consumer / libertarian culture for decades. The impacts are obvious. The public school I went to now has to bus students in from different neighborhoods because the housing is so expensive few young families can afford to live their. It's become for wealthy people aging in place and people all over the US and the world investing in real estate.

It's also a culture of fear, for the young and the old. People are scared and they worry, but they are blind to how much they really have. For the young they worry about not being able to afford a car and a house in their thirties. This was never really possible for everyone, and when it was the houses and the cars were so much less than we would consider normal today. It's a feeling that the present that you know well isn't as good as a rose colored past.
That could be a cool piece to print out/put on a wall framed
Especially if you have kids.