skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Payment plans on luxury products are a time-honored tradition in the U.S. I’m not sure how you justify a room temperature hamburger costing that much.
That's not how many of these services work though. The websearch and subsequent analysis of the results by an LLM are done from the servers of whoever supplies the solution.
It's identifying with the belief that we can AND should improve our lives.
Sorry no but domestic white goods such as TVs, fridges, laundry appliances, etc are the perfect use case for small credit plans where doing without or "saving up" is a poor alternative, and sensible non-extortionate credit options have been around for literally decades for this reason.
Unclear as to the intent of the word "Heist" in the title. Seems they are paying top dollar if not more for collections sometimes not even authenticating them.

As long as they make everything available to the public and to researchers, I don't see anything wrong with it.

Also unclear on why this is a two-part story. Is there some big shoe to drop? Trying to avoid the impression that the author is not terribly fond of the Green family.
It's more of a crossover between crane and forklift. telehandlers are more useful than a forklift, but less useful than a crane while being much more mobile than a crane. all four wheels can turn/steer so it is pretty agile.
Looking at defense spending, I do not think it saved so much money. It mostly ensured that the US would be the only major nuclear power in the West - so the "military protection" was more something like a moat for the nuclear monopoly.

And monopolies are something the US loves (think of big tech, Comcast, etc.) and the EU dislikes ;-)

With the US stepping away from its monopoly, it is only a matter of time until more European states will enter the nuclear protection market.
Jobs had failures but he made up for them with huge success. It's about the average; you can't get everything right all the time but if you manage to correct the course properly it's all good.

You are giving Cook way too much credit. The only thing he did was enrich Apple even more. Pretty much everything Apple has done is a continuation of what existed before or some side project pushed by another exec at Apple. The only thing he pushed for personally is a failure (Vision Pro, its technologically good but that's irrelevant) when it was clear that this is not a product that can be very successful or useful at any price (his arrogance is so big that he somehow thought Meta was just not good, and it's not fundamentally of problem of having nice use cases).

Cook has managed to not destroy or waste Jobs legacy but that's the best thing you can say about him. I don't think just making money is a worthwhile objective for a company, otherwise might as well just do finance, less moving parts, easier profits.
I understand that, and the fact that basing yourself on population alone is simple and easy to understand.

But, your rural areas may be over half of your territory. People living there also matter, and the needs of those territories are very different.

Just to bring an example of how the current system backfires:

- we need railroads to reopen so we are able to sell produce to our own industry base competitevely

- we are always told there aren't enough people here, so no railroads. Even though, the primary objective of those wouldn't be to transport people

- we sell our produce to the neighbouring country instead, given it is closer than our own country's industrial hotspots. By selling off raw produce, our country will end up earning less than if it were processed by our own food industry.

- without much economic incentive to remain living there, many will emigrate.

- less people = even less representative power.

The cycle continues...

Now, I don't have a solution. It is a difficult problem to solve. One could be to have a higher minimum number of representatives per region, as the lowest populated region only elects 2, 24 times less than the highest populated one. And, just to show how different the political landscape is when compared to the US: the metropolitan regions have voted way more to the far right and far left parties than the rural regions have, which have led to a lot of divisive political outcomes.
This is the same argument people used against the Wright brothers that you're now throwing at Elon Musk (in a thread maligning the Wright brothers claim to fame)...Langley was a classically trained mathematician with associations to Harvard and the Naval Academy. He was one of the most sought after and decorated engineer's and astrologers (invented his own time system) and was given exclusive funding by the Smithsonian to solve flight. He lost to the Bicycle repair shop guys that hand rolled their own equipment on sandbars in North Carolina (who didn't have advanced degree's in engineering).
wants vs needs
Transhumanism has an extremely rich literary history. Just grab any hard sci fi book from Greg Bear, his entire 21 century future history has transhumanists as part of the unspoken environment of normal, where transhumanists are just normal everyday people, despite being half or more composed of machinery.
Got a non-paywalled link?
No, wearing glasses doesn't make you the adept of any ideological current, such as transhumanism. At best you could say it precludes you from being an adept of certain ideologies that would oppose wearing glasses, such as very strict "naturalism" (i.e. people who believe it's important to only eat or wear all-natural products), if you want to be self-consistent.

You could also say that wearing glasses or having an insulin pump installed makes you a transhuman, but it can't make you a transhumanist. And plenty of people are perfectly happy to be slightly ideologically inconsistent, or follow more nuanced ideologies, where, say, certain artificial enhancements are allowed and others are not. After all, even the biggest anti-drug crusaders accept coffee or at least tea as acceptable substances.
But where in Russia is this field? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-IEVMwBEfo
I've said before that C is small, but not simple.

Turing Tarpits like Brainfuck or the Binary Lambda Calculus are a more extreme demonstration of the distinction, they can be very tiny languages but are extremely difficult to actually use for anything non-trivial.

I think difficulty follows a "bathtub" curve when plotted against language size. The smallest languages are really hard to use, as more features get added to a language it gets easier to use, up to a point where it becomes difficult to keep track of all the things the language does and it starts getting more difficult again.
First, there is a difference between rolling out 5 such systems a year and modern server farms, second, replacing a brilliant electronics guy because he once messed up when he helped us out on site isn't something I'd want to have on my cv. Third this is well over a decade ago.
More than that, "singularity" isn't even an exciting term. It is a boundary beyond which the model being used obviously cannot predict behavior.

I personally think the singularity happened back in the 90s and its just been very disappointing instead of the rapture that was imagined.
Many years ago (80s) in the UK I remember my family and others had milk tokens to get formula milk or whatever. Each local convenience store used to exchange them for booze or cigs, at a high conversion rate obviously.
I’d say it was a mix of both for me, combined with being younger and having an “uneven” privacy perception. This said, besides being annoyed, I can’t really tell what the impact is because I can’t even quantify the amount of information (e.g. “resolution”) to the possible uses of that information.

Perhaps this could be solved with a class action law suit, that would make it illegal for private entities to own the data post fact, combined with how it was marketed, etc. I’ve seen interest rates for credits reverted this way and credits reduced, for similar reasons. But again, it’s a trade off here too :)
They had giant sloths?
The Singularity is a belief that you can extrapolate from history and current events to a specific point in the future that will lead to some very religious sounding results:

* Eternal life

* A powerful entity or entities who will fix whatever is wrong

- An end to poverty

- An end to disease

* Personal Freedom

This is entirely a faith based belief that can not be proven or disproven. It is by no means certain that you can extrapolate to a singularity in our future. Nor is it certain that you can assume it will have the claimed effects. While the term singularity in math and physics has a well defined term with clear non-religious meanings. "The Singularity" is entirely a faith based religious belief.
Second most followed account on X as of this comment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-followed_Twitter_...
In Sweden (the home of Klarna) you've been able to pay for your DoorDash equivalent using Klarna for ages now, and I've never heard of any backlash or even anybody questioning it. If you can pay by credit card, why not Klarna? I'm surprised that in the US, the credit card Mecca of the world, this even moves the needle.

edit: In fact if I was more conspiratorial, I might suggest that this 'backlash' was orchestrated behind the scenes by Master Card and Visa to protect their market share.
Computing, Sudoku-Style (2010)
RSSX Decentralized Social Media Protocol Specification
RSSX is a decentralized social media protocol spec. It is still in early beta. I am posting this to see if there are people interested to work with me on this project. Thanks, Viktor
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43461642
This is a great example of how you can ignore politics all you want, but politics will not ignore you.
I agree. I believe in all those things, but in a sense that they seem inevitable, not as something I’m rooting for.

The singularity, distilled, is that if/when we get AGI or other world-changing technology, accurately predicting what happens next is impossible. As the rate of technology advance increases, the interval over which you can make reasonable predictions shortens until eventually what happens tomorrow is a role of the dice.

I believe in aliens in the same way: the universe is huge so I think they must exist because (small likelihood) x (huge number of chances) seems inevitable. I don’t think they’re flying over Idaho to terrorize farmers, though.
I consider myself a Tim here. My value is not primarily in my individual contributions, but how I eleveate the rest of the team.

If my manager demanded this type of bean counting, I'd just take my talents elsewhere. I'm not interested in that kind of game. I'd take the severance and go find a new team to make better.
True, especially for ergonomic keyboards.

The upside of a chorded keyboard is that it can input a lot while using just one hand, and can be fixed relative just to that hand (imagine e.g. typing while holding a bike handlebar, or, again, an aircraft control stick). Normal touch-typing requires active use of two hands, and a steady surface.
Transhumanism is the belief that we can and should do things to make our bodies work better. Full stop. End of ideology. That includes believing that wearing glasses is a good idea worth pursuing.
It doesn’t help your argument to start debating petty, irrelevant things (e.g. did they use “fallacy” correctly)
> Absolutely nothing has to obey robots.txt

And absolutely no one needs to reply to every random request from an unknown source.

robots.txt is the POLITE way of telling a crawler, or other automated system, to get lost. And as is so often the case, there is a much less polite way to do that, which is to block them.

So, the way I see it, crawlers and other automated systems have 2 options: They can honor the polite way of doing things, or they can get their packets dropped by the firewall.
>Just because its technically possible to obtain DNA we should all give it up easily since its already a lost cause?

Yes. I'm lazy, and at thaat level of compromised data: it is much easier to disincentivize theft than to worry about theft at every corner. You need to change your approach away from the immediate instincts.

>Another is to have all info and weaknesses automatically available to 'the man' or more 'the men'

They already have it. Fortuately, we made laws disincentivizing them using that stuff without big reprecussions.
> Testing and mocking is a huge challenge when developing LLM driven systems that aren’t deterministic. Even relatively simple flows are extremely hard to reproduce.

This is by far the most frustrating part of building with LLMs. Is there any good solution out there for any framework?
As a home owner - updating / improving my windows is a luxury I very much wish I could afford. It’s hard to imagine being able to mess with the windows unless it’s with a newly purchased empty property.
This. What held up wheeled luggage was the difficulty of having small, reliable wheels that could bear a lot of weight. You could have big wheels, but that would be impractical here, though not for chariots, wheelbarrows, pushcarts, or rickshaws ... which did exist in antiquity.
I don’t think this is accurate at all. Transhumanism is a pretty clearly defined group with specific moral beliefs that not everyone agrees with. It’s like saying if you’ve ever forgiven someone when they did something bad to you, you’re a Christian.
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what is biome
War story: the hardest bug I ever debugged
Taking faith seriously:

“he staffed “cerebral palsy patients” to chop, glue, and bag for $.10 per piece.

Between the high demand and likely paying workers a subminimum wage, profits soared”

Nothing like exploitation to drive home Christianity.
Indeed, however many in the treches would like a more serious take on security, complaining has not served anything in the last 50 years until goverment agencies finally decided to step in.
I think it's fair to say that "roll-your-own" would probably make less sense, but in terms of adopting an "agentic" framework one would have to also research the state the competition is in. Which is to say, I'm not sure what are the alternatives to LangGraph and their maturity, only LlamaIndex comes to mind but I may be obsolete.
True scifi will be when the doctor can use a machine to feel what the patient feels.

"Ah, now I see Mr. K. Dilkington. You clearly have old cold belly badness."
Completely agree. I think the author's tone in this article, in a nutshell, exemplifies what was a huge driving force of so many evangelical's in the US now being firmly in the MAGA camp, even though that seems paradoxical to many of us.

For a long time now, many people who's religious values are deeply important to them have felt disrespected and looked down upon by "the left" (yes, I'm obviously painting with a broad brush here). In subtle and not-so-subtle ways, the elite left essentially said "you all are backwards and silly". And look, I'm an atheist who has felt acute harms from religion in some very specific ways, so I get it - a lot of times I believe that religion is backwards and silly. But Trump and MAGA came along and essentially said "you're not backwards and silly, you're the righteous ones, the ones who are condemning you are backwards and silly". And yes, Trump has been married 3 times, had an affair with a porn star while his wife was pregnant, values displays of material wealth above all else, etc. etc., so I struggle mightily many times to understand how a community that preached "family values" so stridently for my entire youth supports him now so unconditionally. But, IMO, it's because Trump really constantly drove home this message of "you should be proud, and the only people who should be ashamed are 'the other side'".

I know that may feel like a tangent, but I've seen the general dismissive tone of this article repeated so many times (e.g. in much reporting about the Chick-fil-a family) that it now feels easy to recognize.
the former is often easier to measure than the latter, and the latter is often only measurable when superficial.
In a typical AMD fashion, they released a nice thing, and they're making the utmost effort to make sure no one whatsoever uses it and that it's quickly forgotten.

For some reason they used a "custom" architecture for this LLM, but the only custom thing about it is that they added an extra QK norm. This is a weird choice if the point of this model is to show that "hey, AMD's hardware can train LLMs too", because it makes it so that no software supports this architecture out-of-box. Why the hell didn't they simply use the llama architecture that everyone and their dog supports? Sure, if you're aiming for a superior model then having a different/better architecture is a valid choice, but then why shoot yourself in the foot and not use a per-head QK norm (like Gemma3 or the upcoming Qwen3) which is better than the per-tensor one they used?

And of course, the model was released three weeks ago, and there's absolutely no effort on AMD's part to add support for its custom architecture absolutely anywhere. There's no PR to HF's transformers from what I can see, nor a PR to llama.cpp (even though it'd be a trivial to do, because, again, the custom architecture is not that very different). And any potential third parties are of course completely uninterested in adding this support, because of the anemic context length (only a mere 4k, in 2025!), and a poopy licence (where there already exist superior models on a true open license like e.g. Qwen2), so why would anyone use this model for anything?
I would love to see a video of someone reviewing the app to understand a little bit more.
Some things aren’t like that. GR comes to mind. (Hilbert was working on it also, but only because he started as a collaborator of Einstein.)
> Trump honestly does not like the idea of war

For someone who doesn't like the idea of it, he's pretty quick to threaten allies with it and to engage in activities that increase its likelihood.
> I just find myself asking if the US army recruiting tag line Be The Best You Can Be was really met

Why would an army saying be relevant to an Admiral in the Navy?
60s-70s rough terrain crane. Grove RT58, RT60 or something along those lines.
I find that hard to believe. There have been incompetent US presidents before. This isn't incompetence, this is strategy. Malicious strategy perhaps, but it seems very unlikely to be non-deliberate.
This is describing TESCREAL, not transhumanism.
Nah, just appreciated this relic of '10s culture from the great mustache boom back around the turn of the 13th b'ak'tun.
It's not progress if it's just exploiting something people associate with high-tech medical magic, but that isn't contributing to the literature or sum of human knowledge, merely to the bank-accounts of the cowboys running the show.

Why are you so keen to attribute scientific breakthroughs to ... well to quacks? On the one hand we have bona-fide research by people understanding the science, using animal models to test and understand, building up sound scientific basis for treatment etc, and on the other we have people injecting god knows what into anyone with enough money, some of it human-origin, some of it not, very unlikely to be contributing to any corpus of knowledge, all because rubes heard "stem cells" on the news and think they're magic.

These are not serious doctors working on breakthroughs by disregarding the stuffy old rules that hold them back (though that's certainly one way they like to sell themselves), they're quacks selling bullshit and scamming people.
architectural design was very well paid for a long time, for many individuals. In modern USA, there is almost no way a person could be an architect for a living -- there is no career path. Employers in finance and other core business are already bragging that eighty percent of coding will be AI. Executives want to fire coders, and lower the wages for coders, and have complete control over output of coders. AI is being sold for that today.
Astrology isn't much farther off, and some still like to believe it to this day. Yes, even some very smart people can fall into absolutely baseless conjecture without peers to course correct.

But there's a difference between forming a cult and trying to convince the minds en masse of something.
President Carter served under Admiral Rickover. He was even sent to lead the cleanup of a reactor meltdown.

https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history/2025/february/c...
The Slow Bloodred Sunset of the Web as We Knew IT
> The Kubernetes DNS resolves A-B-C-D.N.pod.cluster.local to A.B.C.D, as long as A.B.C.D is a valid IP address and N is an existing namespace. Let’s be honest: I don’t know how this serves any purpose, but if you do, please let me know!

You can use that to

- test weird dns setups

- to issue proper TLS certificates (you can do that technically, but it's less known fact and some services like let's encrypt forbid that as their rule)

- to utilize single IP and same port for multiple services (so just a common host/server configuration on typical reverse proxy, optionally with SNI to be used with TLS on top.
If you insist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bMzFDpfDwc It was pretty heavily debated on r/DE. https://www.reddit.com/r/de/comments/1is8a7l/germany_is_pros...

Please tell me how you think this "protect one's honor" law doesn't get abused.

Also, an youtuber from my country made a video during the pandemic exposing the mistreatment of seasonal fruit picking workers from my country working in Germany, and the video got blocked in Germany by Youtube, most likely on request by flagging.

So do do you expect to learn about censorship of German media if you follow German media which is subject to censorship? Do you realize the irony of it all? Did you ever expect for German media to go out and say "here's how we're censoring you"? Germans are living in Plato's cave allegory and are irate when people call them out for it.
Building 3D Web Apps That Work Everywhere: A Data-Driven Approach
We explored LangGraph last November and were pleasantly surprised by the difference with LangChain. The framework had much more care put in it. It was much easier to iterate and the final solutions felt less brittle.

BUt the pricing model and deployment story felt odd. The business model around LangGraph reminded us of Next.js/Vercel, with a solid vendor lock-in and every cent squeezed out of the solution. The lack of clarity on that front made us go with Pydantic AI.
Isn’t the hobby lobby crew also notoriously queer bashers?

I would think the issue is not so much that they’re Christian, it’s that they’re hypocrites who use Christianity as a smokescreen for bigotry.

(The relevance being, they’re using Christianity as cover for capitalism in a way that Jesus himself, as depicted in the Bible, would certainly never have sanctioned.)