skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LLMs are also primarily promoted through the web chat interface, not always magic wonder tools. With any project that will fit in claude/gemini's large context you use those interfaces and dump everything in with something like this:

(tree Source/; echo; for file in $(find Source/ -type f ) ; do echo ======== $file: ; cat $file; done ) > /mnt/c/Users/you/Desktop/claude_out.txt #claudesource

Then drag that into the chat.

You can also do stuff like pass in just the headers and a few relevant files

(tree Source/; echo; for file in $(find Source/ -type f -name '\*.h' ; echo Source/path/to/{file1,file2,file3}.cpp ) ; do echo ======== $file: ; cat $file; done ) > /mnt/c/Users/you/Desktop/claude_out.txt #claudeheaderselective

You can then just hit ctrl+r and type claude to refind it in shell history. Maybe that's too close to "writing scripts" for you but if you are searching a large codebase effectively without AI you are constantly writing stuff like that and now it reads it for you.

Put the command itself into claude too and tell claude itself to write a similar one for all the implementation files it finds it needs while looking those relevant files and headers.

If you want a wonder tool that will navigate and handle the context window and get in the right files into context for huge projects, try claude code or other agents, but they are still undergoing rapid improvements. Cursor has started adding some in too but as subscription calling into an expensive API they cost cut a lot on trying to minimize context.

They also let you now just point it at a github project and pull in what it needs, or tools build around the api model context protocol etc. to let it browse and pull it in.
Ironic that the UK went so wrong on this, considering London-based DeepMind are arguably the leading AI research group in the world.
TabPFN comes out of the German University of Freiburg: https://github.com/PriorLabs/TabPFN
Can AI help to make sense of the brain's complexity?
Honestly, this is my experience too

I started playing D&D in the 90s, before 3e even was out. For me, D&D and other TTRPGs are basically an excuse to hang out with friends. I treat it like a board game night. I've sometimes heard this called "Beer and Pretzels D&D"

I don't find many people who want to play Beer and Pretzels D&D anymore. When I go to public meetups or game stores meetups I find the groups are not casual at all. There is a heavy focus on staying in character and roleplaying over just having a good time.

The absolute worst version of this are people who seem to want to treat it like a therapy session. They genuinely seem to be trying to work through personal problems through their characters. I understand the desire to explore things in a "safe space" like an RPG but to me it's such an inappropriate venue for that sort of thing.

I would love to have an in-person RPG group again but as a hobby it really seems to have shifted from "mostly average people with slightly poor socialization" to "mostly the weirdest and most asocial people you have ever met"
We all know the shortcomings of LLMs but its been interesting to observe Agency as a system and the flaws that emerge. For example, does Claude have any reason to get from point A to B quickly and efficiently? Running into walls, running in circles, back tracking, etc. Clearly it doesn't have a sense of urgency, but does it matter as long as it eventually gets there?

But here's what strikes me as odd about the whole approach. Everyone knows it's easier for an LLM to write a program that counts the number of R's in "strawberry" than it is to count it directly, yet no one is leveraging this fact.

Instead of ever more elaborate prompts and contexts, why not ask Claude to write a program for mapping and path finding? Hell if that's too much to ask, maybe make the tools before hand and see if it's at least smart enough to use them effectively.

My personal wishlist is things like fact tables, goal graphs, and a word model - where things are and when things happened. Strategies and hints. All these things can be turned into formal systems. Something as simple as a battle calculator should be a no-brainer.

My last hair brained idea - I would like to see LLMs managing an ontology in prolog as a proxy for reasoning.

This all theory and even if implemented wouldn't solve everything, but I'm tired of watching them throw prompts at the wall in hopes that the LLM can be tricked into being smarter than it is.
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daily life in Western Europe literally right now?
Is he really the winner?

His usual customers don’t like his actions with DOGE and the MAGAs don’t like EVs
5E is the most accessible TTRPG out there – lots of content dedicated content, a huge ecosystem, and a ruleset that's "easy enough".

No one, just starting out, should play Pathfinder.
True. And the people selling shovels for the “AI” gold rush are making boatloads of money now. But it's still up to us whether we buy their customers' products.
I suppose those higher fidelity things are why it's so exhausting trying to voice-command a bot like Siri/Cortana/GA— at the end of the day, they're just doing a straight transcription into text, and then operating on that text.

So rather than the machine benefitting from that extra info, it's actually just making it worse by introducing another link in the telephone chain; hence users getting exasperated and giving up to go back to conventional HMI paradigms of keyboard/mouse/touch.
It’s not being processed in the kernel - BlastDoor is a heavily-sandboxed user process. This attack chains together a bunch of exploits - including an encrypted BlastDoor sandbox bypass - in order to gain full control over a device.
The problem with the German automotive industry is in my opinion different: they developed cars which are not different from the kind of cars that many people in their market want.
It's ironic that many of our parents' generation, who kept warning us about disappearing into a fantasy world, have themselves largely disappeared into their own fantasy world of Fox News, Newsmax, Social Media bubbles and echo chambers, conspiracy sites, Q-anon, and so on. I'd take D&D over that fate.
I wouldn't say its contrived, but I agree its important to take such questions and back them up with data.

My question is open in that we don't really HAVE data to measure that statement in any meaningful way. The proper response is "that could be valid, we need to find a way to measure it".

Resorting to calling me a luddite because I question whether a metric is really an accurate measure of success (one that I apply to HUMAN drivers as an example first...) really doesn't reflect any sort of scientific approach or method I'm aware of, but feel free to point me to references.
edit: I see there's a tier that does allow stems again now! https://tidal.com/DJs

--

Licensing indeed. For a time VirtualDJ allowed stems for Tidal streamed tracks but were required to disable it.

https://www.virtualdj.com/forums/254722/VirtualDJ_Technical_...
No it won't. They ignore all evidence of corruption so far, they can keep going. The whole point is they think other countries are more corrupt than them, because they're just better.

edit: if you downvote me and haven't lived in a scandinavian country for over a decade… perhaps trust me instead of trusting your preconceptions?
You are way out of date on what the us is like. Chips are all anyone uses in the us. I write about 2 checks a year.

not that it makes a difference - us law puts the liability on banks. Chip and pin is needed in backwards places where a stolen credit card is the consumers problem. It adds no security to the individual in the us. When banks decided to care chips got rolled out. They don't think pin is useful enough to be worth the hasstle so we don't have the.
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The threshold gets more sensitive if other users have ever flagged you before and there’s seemingly no way to make the threshold less sensitive without mod intervention

so entire accounts can get brigaded in an opaque system that we never know is updated or not
Can you tell me what the foundations of western culture civilization are in your opinion? And what is that US provides that Europe needs to start paying for? Europe paid for all military hardware purchased from US and the promise of protection has always been paid for with numerous military bases on European soil that are used by US to project force over the rest of the world. Especially the middle east.
Generative music is boring not cause it’s necessarily bad sounding music but because there’s no vision behind it, they took in old music, garbled it around in their magic music machine and made new music based on that old shit.

As long as there’s music made by real people this AI music stuff will only be interesting to the very uninspired, the people that will hype up anything that’s AI and commercial projects who don’t have to pay royalties for the music in their advertisements, elevator, phone waiting music and whatever else they need a quick tune for.

Don’t get me wrong, the technology is nice but I don’t see myself consciously enjoying AI music, at least not till I start dementing or smth.
Original HN titles:

"Impact of Gen AI on Critical Thinking: Reduction in Cognitive Effort, Confidence"

"Impact of AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort"

"The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Reductions in Cognitive Effort"

Actual title of the paper:

"The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers"

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Id second this. Checks all the boxes
- Embeddable (yup i use sqlite)
- fast
- Open source
- uses Cypher and not some obscure custom language.

You may have to do a lil bit of work to get backups working. But once you get past that, it's awesome.

I think its a no brainer for anyone excited by tools like duckdb and libsql. Fits in my stack perfectly well.
No it hasn't. Even the most zealous believers in the free market know this isn't true (assuming they're not wildly naive, too).

Cancellation policies fall into two well-known failure modes of markets to actually indicate what they want: information asymmetry and inconsistencies in time horizons between counterparties.

You have no ability whatsoever to assign market preference to this without at the very least ensuring consumers are actually aware at time of purchase of the friction they'd face at time of cancellation AND the chances they'll want to cancel.

That's all leaving aside that a person's preference for Product A over Product B obviously does not mean that a person prefers every dimension of Product A over Product B.
"Deterministic" is .. something of a moveable feast. We'd generally agree that "software is deterministic in that if you provide the same inputs to the same executable machine code it will return the same value", which is nearly always true unless someone is irradiating your processor or trying to voltage-glitch it.

But there's a lot hidden in "same inputs", because that includes everything that's an input to your program from the operating system. Which includes things like "time" (bane of reproduction), memory layout, execution scheduling order of multithreaded code, value of uninitialized memory, and so on.

> Another approach would have been to tweak their test case until they found a situation which reproduced the bug more or less often, trying to find the threshold that causes it and continuing to deduce from there.

Yes - when dealing with unknowns in a huge problem space it can be very effective to play hotter-colder and climb up the hill.
I know that my own comment won't add real value to this conversation, but I wanted to take the time to say it anyhow: This kind of comment is the reason I come to HN. Thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge with us.
> We look at that positively becomes it's a sunk cost,

I don't care what you "look at it like." I car what the actual statistics demonstrate. Facts don't care about your feelings.
One of the most dramatic things in this respect is to look at a photograph of a flame. Our lived experience of what flames look like is very different. The same is true of nearly any dynamic object in life (flowing water is another great example where the photograph doesn’t look like what we experience).
That is a good point, my company recently expanded to Canada pretty aggressively and I wonder if this was a factor.

Historically there has been a brain drain from Canada to the US, but if Canada can set up favourable policies for companies maybe they can start reversing that.
TDengine announced today the release of TDgpt, an AI agent for advanced time-series analytics. With TDgpt, industrial enterprises can use AI models — including foundation models for time series as well as large language models (LLMs) — to perform analytics such as forecasting and anomaly detection on their operations data. This finally bridges the gap between AI and traditional industry and enables manufacturing, energy, logistics, and other companies in the industrial sector to reap the benefits of AI without significant IT investment.
I believe enabling lockdown mode disables media previews in messages to prevent exactly these kinds of attacks, among other mitigations.
If the "other driver" is a German they would yell at you and cut you off. If a German driver would like to turn right in this particular situation they would set their indicator and wait until somebody lets them in -- which actually will happen rather quickly.

German drivers are full of contradictions (me too), it's quite heartwarming :D
its overfitting.

its like how people within the US thinks the system works because we’ve never had a military coup, instead of looking at how the system hasnt worked
Having a policy directed at genocide does not mean not exercising restraints for various reasons, including the reason of having a certain level of deniability around the goal.

Your argument is grounded in conflating two unrelated propositions.
Thanks for sharing that. I’ll give that a play tonight.
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An unhinged man with a gun is significantly riskier than an unhinged man without a gun, so I'm not sure I get your argument. But if you mean it in the philosophical/categorizational way, I'll just move on because I don't have the knowledge or the interest to label big things while they're flying towards my head - I rather duck first and see afterwards what they were.
You forgot to add /s.
Sure, now you need to do this statically ahead of time.

It's not unsolvable, but now you have a more complicated system.

A better file format would not have this problem.

The fix is also trivial (escape new lines into \n or similar) would also make the files easier to view with a text editor.
Wait, a ton of people? I stand corrected!
In jsonl a modified chunk will lose you at most the removed lines and the two adjacent ones (unless the noise is randomly valid json), in particular a single byte edit can destry at most 2 lines.

utf-8 is also similarly self-correcting and so is html and many media formats.

My point was that in my made-up concatenated json format

[]"""[][][][][][][][][][][]"""[]

and

[]""[][][][][][][][][][][]""[]

are both valid but have differ only for 2 bytes but have entirely different structures.

Also it is a made-up format nobody uses (if somebody were to want this they would likely disallow strings at the root level).
> Country A ends up turning into a bunch of managers outsourcing to Country B,

why the need to be hypothetical? this is more or less how it played out between china and america. America outsourced all manufacturing to China while doing all the R&D and "innovation." one look at companies like DJI, BYD and Bambulab and its clear that china can innovate just fine on their own now. Their products are becoming objectively better than the US designed ones.
Not just Facebook, but all of Social Media, Online Gaming, Twitter/X, messaging apps, and Internet forums (even HN) are all zero-calorie online substitutes for real life. There's a reason "chronically online" and "touch grass" are sayings.

EDIT: I'll also add that for myself, a lot of In Real Life events I used to host, like poker night and movie night, are slowly petering out and going away because people move away, or they aren't interested in coming, or they come but spend the whole time scrolling on their Instagram fantasy world. Yes, you can institute a no-phones rule but that just decreases attendance even more. People are more into their fantasy worlds than they are their actual (real life) friends.
No, no you really cannot.

Unless you want to play with no book, no minis, no map, and a completely home-brewed campaign with all bespoke characters and stories.

At that point, you aren't playing the same game that everyone else is. Wizards has got their fingers in every slice of this pie. Even if you buy D&D stories written by someone else, you're still paying license to Wizards. When you buy a mini, you pay license to Wizards.
At a previous employer, I pitched tooltips as a potential way to surface AI interactions.

I may still try it in an app I'm building.

Docs -> RAG -> tooltips / onboarding sounds like it might work out ok.
I mean I can lift my entire bodyweight with just a couple of fingers, but that point aside, this isn't so strange. The bench presser stalls exactly when their muscles are just short overcoming gravity, any extra force--even a couple of fingers--will add upwards momentum. You're not often in this kind of stall condition when climbing, it is much more about leverage and transplanting force through the kinetic chain. Especially since we were discussing balance on typically lightly overhanging flat walls.
How much funding from the Turing institute has gone to his buddies at EF?
> a minor thing (local privilege escalation if you happen to be running atop as a privileged user)

I seem to be hearing this sentiment a lot lately. How is local privilege escalation a minor thing?

If it's such a minor thing, is the old advice to not run as root considered passé? Should we just run everything as root? Should we discard the entire Unix security model and chmod all files to 0777?
Particle Man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pG0QTzO-K0

Istanbul: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqJXxHi6RwQ
Africa is not a country. Some countries in Africa are doing much better than others. Some are the stereotype of a new revolution every few years bringing in a new corruption. Some are stable and growing.
Would a lonely person not by definition have self quarantined?
Show HN: Resume Metadata Standard used by 4M+ job seekers
We are working on a distributing a simple solution to resume parsing issues on common ATS like Workday.

We ran a test: same resume, different platforms (Rezi, Canva, LinkedIn…), uploaded to Workday. The best one? Parsed with 58% accuracy.

Why is resume parsing still this broken in 2025?

WE wrote up the mess (with data) and proposed a simple fix. Would love your take.

The conversation is also on reddit -
https://www.reddit.com/r/resumes/comments/1jkwz61/half_your_...
I have no comment on any of the general whining about the ineffectiveness about academia and the public sector, but what struck me about this article is how tiny the funding amounts are. They’re talking about a £40 million endowment like it’s impressive? Maybe I’m just too American but it’s baffling that Cambridge or UCL cares about a £1 million grant.
This basically allows certain DJ apps to play 2 streams at the same time.
No, they're selecting for the kind of person who can tell a war story when asked. They're also selecting for the kind of people who had to debug something gnarly enough and different enough that it was memorable.
I don't think universities should become industry. I mean, that is exactly what we have industry for. If you want to be put in a pressure cooker under leadership focused on business outcomes, great, do industry.

The problem really is that universities are treated as if they have the same mandate as industry. Government people shouldn't tell a professor what kind of research is interesting. They should let the best people do what they want to do.

I remember an acquaintance becoming a professor, promoted from senior reader, and he was going to be associated with the Alan Turing Institute. I congratulated him, and asked him what he was going to do now with his freedom. He answered that there were certain expectations of what he would be doing attached to his promotion, so that would be his focus.

This way you don't get professors, you turn good people into bureaucrats.
AI Lottie Generator [video]
Hello. we build AI Lottie Generator. Now we are currently facing scalability issues, so we can’t release it publicly. However, I’m curious if there might be people interested in using it. I’d love to get your feedback after watching the video.
A many people warned that tariffs and the very political exceptions made to them are rip for corruption:

https://www.slowboring.com/p/trumps-tariffs-mean-big-opportu...

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/26/business/tariff-exclusions-tr...

Basically tariffs and their exceptions introduce a lot of room for political considerations and there are many ways to influence those political considerations.
I commend you for writing what you think should be done and not just complaining about what was done. It is more helpful to express the correct procedure than to only label things as the wrong procedure.
This is notably better than previous attempts. I hear the basic structures that make a piece of music more than a series of notes.

None of the pieces I heard were good, but I think they'd get a passing grade in a composition class.
It's a sign that people are serious.

I dread free trials of computer software. Some software might cost $500 or $9 a month, but evaluating the software might take 2-3 days (say 20 hours) at a fully loaded rate that could be $100 or more ($600). Maybe the probability is 50% that you want the software in the end, maybe the probability is 50% you can convince management to pay for it, so there is a 75% chance that the evaluation time doesn't lead to a purchase.

When that task gets added to my agenda with other tasks that have a near 100% chance of being useful, that evaluation is my lowest probability so the free trial usually expires.

If it is something for myself and I think it's likely I'll want it I am very inclined to just buy the product or start a subscription, I don't want to be this guy:

https://blog.codinghorror.com/we-dont-use-software-that-cost...

Seen from the other side of the aisle of software development and marketing I see "free" trials as being pretty expensive to offer in terms of management thinking a lot about requirements for them, developments implementing facilities to offer them, as well as taking up headspace of the marketing people as well as keeping sales and support busy talking to customers.
This must have been the inspiration for the Counter-Strike map de_piranesi !