skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People claimed that Russians were stripping stolen washing machines for chips, that sanctions would have collapsed their economy, etc. Lots of people claim lots of things, sometime they are right.
There is always an algorithm, explicit or not, "malicious" or not.

For implicit algorithms, outside of the issues/misincentives of time-sorted feeds, there's also game theory and behavioral economics.
I might have explained that poorly. What I’m talking about is not so much demonstrating applications by including practical problems in the problem sets (show, don’t tell), but instead opening every chapter with a paragraph or two about those applications. It often starts with an anecdote and then goes on to make a convoluted case for why the topic matters in the real world. These anecdotes are supposed to intrigue the student into wanting to learn more, but more often than not they just end up being skipped over. If the student had to be motivated to learn about the topic, he wouldn’t be reading the textbook in the first place.

I can usually distill everything I truly need to know in a (densely-printed) 30 page chapter down to less than 3 pages of notes, but that information tends to be spread out across those 30 pages, making reading the book much less efficient than it ought to be. These texts will often have a three-page-long introduction explaining how to read the textbook, and in my opinion most of them are trying to fill a role that can only be meaningfully satisfied by an experienced instructor.

An instructor can assess his students and relate lessons to what they already know. A textbook cannot do this, so it ends up offering several explanations, metaphors, and anecdotes that many students might not even understand. This leads a lot of students to skip over the readings in favor of reading their lecture notes.
Władysław predates Russia by a century. How is that a threat?
The time span on which these developments take place matter a lot for whether the bitter lesson is relevant to a particular AI deployment. The best AI models of the future will not have 100K lines of hand-coded edge cases, and developing those to make the models of today better won't be a long-term way to move towards better AI.

On the other hand, most companies don't have unlimited time to wait for improvements on the core AI side of things, and even so building competitive advantages like a large existing customer base or really good private data sets to train next-gen AI tools have huge long-term benefits.

There's been an extraordinary amount of labor hours put into developing games that could run, through whatever tricks were necessary, on whatever hardware actually existed for consumers at the time the developers were working. Many of those tricks are no longer necessary, and clearly the way to high-definition real-time graphics was not in stacking 20 years of tricks onto 2000-era hardware. I don't think anyone working on that stuff actually thought that was going to happen, though. Many of the companies dominating the gaming industry now are the ones that built up brands and customers and experience in all of the other aspects of the industry, making sure that when better underlying scaling came there they had the experience, revenue, and know-how to make use of that tooling more effectively.
The Time of Monsters
Let me guess. That messed-up title was generated by an...
That's a great read and very, very high EQ way of thinking about these situations.

Last 3 bullets are solid. Roughly same advice I often give to junior devs.
Hard to argue against engagment being good overall, but I think we need some kind of "regularization".
>There is no reason not to think that there won't be different machine learning methods to supplant the current ones,

Sorry, is that a triple negative? I'm confused, but I think you're saying there WILL be improved algorithms in the future? That seems to jive better with the rest of your comment, but I just wanted to make sure I understood you correctly!

So.. Did I?
War of the Worlds mail: Over 1300 letters digitized, available in U-M Library
what evidence is there?
For any "self help" book, people split into three groups and they take it as 1. Gospel, 2. Nonsense, 3. Somewhere in the middle.

I think you have to be in the third group for the books to be useful. You have to be able to pick out the truths and the nonsense. But also I think the nonsense is sometimes helpful to point out the truths.

Me and you could read the same book, find it useful but what we took from it was quite different because what we needed was quite different. Even though we fundamentally had the same problem.
I feel the article takes a widely useful human capability and isolates it to a set of negative, socially contingent actions. Revenge is a social thing. Anger is not necessarily social.

I can get angry at the mess and thus promptly put things in order.

It seems to me Nelson Mandela used his anger strategically. It wasn't that he wasn't angry, and that the derivatives of non-anger were the golden solution. After all, as the article mentions—but here in my phrasing—his strategy collapses into violence when non-violence won’t work, and then virtuously claims it is based in non-anger (the favored party always uses violence "correctly" and instrumentally as a last resort, while the opponents are seen as just angry and violent). Mandela was angry, but he used it under the disguise of a set of virtues he deemed superior to those he hated. He likely idealized himself as a non-violent person, but was deeply angered—and, in my view, there's nothing wrong with that. His strategy being a long-term one. I do not know too much about Mandela, and these are my speculations grounded mostly in psychological observations, which makes me not easily believe things are as they appear.

Anger is highly productive in an often harsh evolutionary framework.
It used to be, but that ship has sailed a long time ago.
A lot of people seem to have zeroed in on "the manager's decision" and completely missed that it referred to the department manager, not the team manager, and the story is told from the perspective of the team manager.
Reminds me of a manager and a QA I once knew. QA was a nice guy, but a terrible QA. Would fail stories on the most arbitrary guidelines. Story is about changing the font size on the home page? He'd fail it because he wasn't able to log in (he tested while the auth service was undergoing planned maintenance).

Manager loved this guy, and pushed him through several promotions. Eventually other employees got tired of being skipped for promotions and left the company, creating a minor staffing crisis
> That said, at every place I've worked you could get a starting point idea of who the top devs were by looking at overall code commits

Yea, in the current place I work at we do not measure coding performance metrics, but if you look at the top commiters to the repo — by number of commits — you will see all of the people who bring the most value to the company. Even at staff eng the best engineers are still the ones who crank out code, albeit maybe as not as much as a senior engineer. Staff engineers who only commit 1 a month are usually the ones who don’t bring value to the company, especially given their high pay.
Nice site!

One bit of feedback I don’t see mentioned. This may be an iPhone thing, but my experience is that the visuals are about a quarter beat ahead of the audio (at 60 BPM, so about 200-250ms off).

Not a big deal, but definitely enough to make it feel a bit off.

Again, could be just the nature of audio in Safari on iPhone.
> Apps are sandboxed. I don't see how it's possible.

How many phone apps there are these days that are strictly local storage and don't communicate externally to anywhere? It's all cloud cloud cloud, which means it is most likely passing through one or more MITM points.
The article starts by saying

"DeepSeek-V3-Base already exhibit 'Aha moment'."

I tried to read the screenshot they present as evidence of this, and indeed it does say "Aha!". But both the preceding reasoning and the following conclusion look like gibberish to me. I'm not sure what we're supposed to conclude here and I gave up reading the article after this inauspicious start.
SSH is probably where I picked up this trick. It’s the same problem. Now you have to find someone with more privs or physical access to fix your fuckup. Meanwhile people are waiting for whatever you were trying to do.
> , but that modern environmental variables raise that risk to such a high likelihood that it's become something it never used to be.

Well, yeah, because more people get old enough to get it.
I started noticing it around the 2008/9 financial crisis because CDOs have tranches.
i'd pay for linkedin premium if they marketed their platform like this
ClickHaskell-0.2: 2 Years Anniversary pre-stable releas
https://nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2164-...

Here’s a fascinating 1969 article about the same bacterium called “From Superstition to Science.” — The whole thing is worth a read, but I especially loved how it traces the blood effect back to Pythagoreanism. Pythagoras the Biologist!

It quotes a 170 AD satire by Lucian, “the sale of creeds” about the god Hermes auctioning off different philosophies.

“Pythagoreanism:
Of living animals I eat none. All else I can eat, except beans.

First Buyer:
And why no beans? Do you dislike them?

Pythagoreanism:
No. But they are sacred things. Their nature is a mystery. Consider them first in their generative aspect; take a green one and peel it, and you will see what I mean. Again boil one and expose it to moonlight for a proper number of nights, and you have—blood. What is more, the Athenians use beans to vote with.”
Braille typewriters are also very much like Stenography, except Braille is actually designed to replace reading & writing rather than transcribing speech.

Though Braille does use two dots for E and one for A, with mostly the same letter frequency in both it's native French and English.

Also very much surprised his keyboard didn't fit into either ASCII nor EBCDIC encoding. Granted, both of those barely existed at the time but still.
You shouldn't use Git over HTTPS. With SSH, you can use a hardware authenticator that requires both proof of ownership (i.e., the unlock PIN) and proof of possession (i.e., physical touch) out of the box. That's technically possible over HTTPS, of course, but I have yet to see a Git server that works that way.
I don't quite understand people's problem with LinkedIn - for me it has only one real page, my profile, and two other areas: recruiter chat and people I might know personally to link to. I got a job via recruiter chat on it once, and I drop in every few months or years to add a dot point to the resume. There's nothing else on that site?
Every time someone says this, when I ask they haven’t used o1-pro. Not saying that’s the case with you but I have to ask.

In my experience it’s literally the only model which can actually code beyond auto-complete. Not perfect but a completely different tier above the rest.
I had that idea too until I started using Entity Framework in dotnet. People probably hate ORMs because they've never used a good one.
But it’s surprising how often you see the wheels turn when you explain it to someone else. It’s not obvious to everyone.
It literally shows him moving the wheel to disengage
So this dude wants AI to land at a place even worse than the bad that is vibe coding - tell AI what you want to do and it will give you a button that it thinks will do what you want. "Trust me. Click this. It'll be great."

Even if it did try to do the right thing, the sheer risk of granting AI access to do anything it may think is correct on your behalf is scary.

Yeah, this is a great big no.
I supervised a small climbing wall for one year in the mid 2000s. I was really strict about our belay test, but we had some flexibility built in. If you had experience climbing, you could show us your technique and we'd pass you if your technique kept the climber safe at all times.

It didn't happen often, but there were a number of people who had over a decade of experience, who didn't realize they were leaving the climber vulnerable to a catastrophic fall in some of their transitions. Those people had just never had anyone fall at that point in their belaying.

They were momentarily embarrassed, but to their credit everyone I had to call out about technique appreciated not being given a pass because of their years of experience.
The GriGri does not have an autobrake. Petzl is very intentional in saying it is an “assisted braking device”, not auto braking. If there is any tension at all on the rope (even just lightly being held), then the GriGri will likely brake, but if the rope isn’t being held at all then there is no guarantee it will brake.

See this video, around the 10 minute mark where there’s several examples of the GriGri not locking at all: https://youtu.be/We-nxljgnw4?t=605

This is perhaps an even greater issue than what you pointed out because people misunderstand the GriGri a lot, and assume it will always catch them even if you aren’t holding the rope. It won’t.
Ohhhhhh. It just clicked for me that indoor climbing is from silicon valley and that's why the Venn diagram of tech bros and crag dirtbags overlays so much. I always assumed there was just something about the type of people who work in tech that they're weirdly more into climbing than average. But it's not a psychological quirk, it's a historical quirk!
If only artificial intelligence was intelligent!

Oh, well...
Tesla didn't remove LIDAR, they never had it. So far, that bet is looking pretty reasonable. It seems evident at the moment that the most formidable competitors in this space could build a solid FSD product with cameras alone, with the biggest variable being time.
Echo is also very good for chaining with xargs to make sure you didn’t fuck up.
A friend showed me the Homeworld (1) beta in… 1999 I think? The beauty of the backgrounds was a huge part of the appeal. I wound up administering the Relic forums for many years. Delightful to see the franchise here on HN.
Show HN: I built an AI tool so solo founders don't have to learn marketing
I spent most of my career at a company with some of the top engineers and optical scientists in the world. I'm pretty used to being the dumbest guy in the room, and I'm smarter than the average bear.

Problem-solving/designing IQ is great, but it ain't the be-all/end-all. A lot of folks with two-digit IQs are my heroes.
Yeah.. I tried that argument... I spent quite some time talking to the (very nice, but immovable) city people.

The response was that the ordinance is there for a reason, and even if I were to keep to that offer, and even if my neighbors were happy with that, if the house is sold or new neighbors move in, things might deteriorate and they'd have problems trying to have the generator removed.
Lines removed should count like 5x lines added. I don't trust any developer who doesn't get a thrill out of removing code.
Show HN: I made a Stremio addon to sync your IMDB Watchlist
I built Stremlist to solve my own frustration with having to constantly switch between IMDb and Stremio to find content I wanted to watch. After one week of development, I'm releasing it for free to the community.

What it does:
Stremlist creates a dynamic catalog in Stremio that pulls directly from your IMDb watchlist. It runs a JavaScript scraper to fetch your saved movies and TV shows, then converts them to a Stremio-compatible format.

Technical details:
- Automatic background syncing of watchlists while Stremio is running
- In-memory caching with configurable TTL for improved performance
- Redis integration for persistent storage and horizontal scaling
- No server-side storage of user data (privacy-focused)
- Built with Node.js with Docker support

Installation is straightforward - visit stremlist.com and follow the instructions.

I'd appreciate any feedback on the implementation or feature suggestions.

Note: When installed, new Stremio addons appear at the end of content lists by default (Stremio's fault).
Unironically using scripting to post low-effort content isn't a productive use of LLMs.
This doesn’t solve the problem with LinkedIn.

One problem with LinkedIn to find jobs is that every job applicstion gets hundreds of applications. Your site won’t have any jobs available - that’s the opposite problem.

I have looked for and found jobs 7x since 2012 when I joined LinkedIn. Two of those jobs came from my reaching out to recruiters who posted jobs that I was somewhat uniquely qualified for. Those people won’t be on your site.

The other two were from recruiters reaching out to me based on a search on skills. Those people won’t be on your site either.

Not to mention that when I’m looking to find out about my interviewers, manager etc, I’m not looking on your site either, neither are they looking for me there.

A large part of my profile is also recommendations.

What problem are you trying to solve?
The article makes it pretty clear that China is the jurisdiction that is the hardest to evade.
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One time I was caught out in heavy rain, and when I later tried to plug in my iPhone I got a message saying the lightning port was disabled until it could dry out. There was even an emergency override option, which I opted not to use. Seems like a nice feature to me.
It is just inconceivably terrible what this bunch of ignorant "make-america-gasp-again" boyscouts does to the country.
Natural Quantization of Neural Networks
You might be interested in my next start-up; hand crafted, bespoke and artisanal spam as a service.
Trump has the uncanny ability to figure out problems and propose not so great solutions for them.

You can't have military only shipbuilding without commercial[], and due to reasons the current us commercial shipbuilding is nonexistent.

So in a way - moving commercial shipbuilding to US shores is great idea and allows the Navy to get more ships for their bucks. But you can be assured that the implementation will be heavy handed, clumsy and will make otherwise sane people do and say stupid stuff.

[]Well you can, but then you have no economy of scale or spare supply chains or labor pool or spreading up R&D costs. The same lesson that the USSR learned with aircraft
I asked it what are some famous squares around the world, and it gave me a list of squares "with historical significance" that included Tienanmen. When I asked what gave it historical signficance, it mentioned the 1989 pro-democracy protests.

Deepseek wouldn't name any squares in Beijing.
LLMs are even more limited than humans though- tiny context windows, can't really learn new things- which really raises the bar on writing APIs that are footgun free.
It's interesting that you see this as being a punitive policy. Our job is producing quality systems. If our software is so bug ridden that caring for it is a punishment, then failed we've at producing quality software.
> All platforms become bad as soon as you allow average Joe speak his mind

Perhaps not right when, but it becomes bad when you decide by yourself (or take advice from someone to pays you money) to show it to me.
> Yes - I’m assuming earlier today counts - and it’s better but still quite noticeable. If you’re on a bike, you notice when you stop behind EVs and hybrids which are running on batteries because they are so much less smelly.

Now I'm curious what year the car was. There are obviously still a lot of older cars on the road (and they don't always look much different, since the aerodynamics-dictated shape of cars has been the same for >20 years).

Meanwhile people have taken to complaining about tire wear because the tailpipe emissions have gotten so low that the tire wear is actually higher, now advertised as "tire wear is more polluting than exhaust" as if the tires have somehow gotten worse rather than the exhaust particulates having been reduced to near-zero.

I'm also curious if it was cold. Heated catalysts address the issue where emissions controls don't work well until the catalyst is warm, but they're not that prevalent yet.

> This is true, but an awful lot of buyers avoid hybrids. I’d prefer it was otherwise as you’re quite right that it makes a nice benefit.

It's kind of surprising that anybody buys anything else. The main drawback of EVs is still range and charge time, but hybrids don't have any of that. Two-car households that don't have one EV and one hybrid are generally making a mistake.

It's probably FUD. Hybrid transmissions are significantly more reliable with fewer wear parts than traditional transmissions, but a lot of mechanics will say they're "more complicated" (meaning only they don't have the relevant computer or haven't learned how to do it yet), or less charitably that they prefer the cars that get them paid for expensive transmission rebuilds more often. And the purchase price is slightly higher but you more than make it back in fuel costs so the TCO is lower. It's hard to come up with a reason to buy a non-hybrid ICE vehicle anymore.
I think I could die happy if the following aphorism were attributed to me:

Never attribute to stupidity that which can be properly explained by apathy.

We treat other very smart people as stupid when we just haven’t given them any reason at all to make them give a fuck about our pet peeves, or daily pain. Everybody has days when they are just trying to make it to 5:00. Sell me on your idea. Scolding is a weapon of last resort, and some people reach for it very early.
I still would want to mute terms. I am not going to delete current or past coworkers just because they became a LinkedIn 'entrepreneur' or into bad AI takes. Baffling that this isn't a thing on a site with such blatant post slop
I don't think this demonstrates the whole system and premise was wrong, you can just adjust so that Tim gets some credit whenever he helps a teammate.

Measuring stories/features/issues solved seems sensible to me
This seems a bit like a knee-jerk reaction.
Are you saying that anyone in your interview loop took time to read your blog posts? And it wasn’t just you passing the standard interview process like everyone else has to do.
Well the problem, and stick with me here, is that we have people everywhere. So, as a consequence of that, having broad opportunities for everyone to earn a decent living, in more than a handful of places in the entire country, is an unambiguously good thing. And like, maybe this is pink-haired commmie-scum thought of me to say, but perhaps you shouldn't need to leave your childhood home, friends, support system, and familiar places when you finish your schooling in order to earn a living? Just because it's... really bad for you, and makes for a less stable you, which on balance over millions of times for everyone else who grew up with you, makes for a less stable society?

> I want a million dollars a year income. No one owes me that.

Why is this always where this type of conversation goes? No one has spoken about any entitlement here, but frankly, while you aren't owed a million dollars a year, I'd say you're owed something. Assuming you're working full time, I'd say you're owed at least a living wage.
Scientists using new radar technology find 'vast city' beneath pyramids