skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed—most servers are honest, but even occasional errors add up. Beyond tip verification, the tech could be used for comprehensive expense tracking and digital receipt management. Would that broader use be valuable?
I don't want to film myself. I don't want to upload my photos online. My work should do the talking.

In fact, your platform is broken, since its focus on visual selling is the same bias as having photos on a resume. So you are not improving over LinkedIn.

Make a primarily text only platform, and visual showcase should only be of things you have done. All non-objective things should be removed. Then make hooks for applying to jobs so everything gets filled in one click.
True, small errors might be ignored manually, but automating checks saves time and catches cumulative mistakes. Plus, it could highlight spending patterns or serve as a receipt archive. What do you think?
This is just unreal. Ridiculous!
Building an agent that solves GitHub issues [video]
Usually it signals that the person is opposed to US foreign policy because they consider it imperialist, but in this case it seems to signal that the person favors an explicitly imperialist foreign policy for the US. Horseshoe theory, I suppose.
Nginx is open source.
I've made similar postings on HN about the Wrights years before AI.
Regardless of tariffs, solar is still the cheapest energy source in the US and the fastest growing even in absolute terms.

We shoudln't let China overproduce and dump excess solar productions in its own attempts to control the market. We're trying to not repeat the energy dependence on unfriendly foreign powers. We don't want the Chinese Solar Embargo of 2026.
Interesting. If it's not too personal, would you mind sharing what the "cause" turned out to be, and how you were able to discover it?
Enron had multiple scandals. A big one was all about deregulation and manipulation of the California electricity market.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%E2%80%932001_California...
That's not the sort of "regulation" in "deregulated energy market". Which was always a bad term. "De-integrated" would be better. It's a situation where energy generation and retail are separated from the transmission/distribution monopoly. The resulting energy markets (both wholesale and retail) can be and are heavily regulated (in the usual sense of the word.)
Even on Linux?
While I don’t want to look like I’m going to bat for the Hobby Lobby people, this seems like a very convenient way for you to argue that everyone ought to agree with your policy positions, even when those policy positions are not explicitly biblical. How do you reconcile the welfare state with Thessalonians 3:10, or Matthew 7:6? How do you address the restoration of Job? Was God mistaken in awarding Job with material wealth?
Legal Action Possibilities:

- Product not as advertised, because it failed to disclose the need for a smart phone model supported by their app, and WiFi, and an internet connection, and etc.

- Product is not ADA(?) compliant, because all that extra complexity makes using it too difficult for some disabled people.

- Product is in violation of data security regulations of some US States, or countries, or the EU, because ...

And in theory, any Cory Doctorow fan with the spare time could set up a web site to name & shame all the consumer products which had these "involuntary cloud" features, helping people avoid them.
https://archive.ph/3C5CB
Interesting!

Racket has the capacity to declare DSLs that are then applied at the file level, but this is even finer-grained.
Software noise cancellation is actually kind of amazing. During the pandemic when I was doing 8 hours of video calls a day, I paid for Krisp and it eliminated any background noise pretty much perfectly. One time a very loud fire truck was slowly driving by. It was so loud I couldn't even hear myself think and just stopped talking. People were confused because that noise was eliminated but I was just talking very weirdly ;)

In the interim, they raised the price and added a ton of bloat so I don't use it anymore. (The bloat killed it, not the price. And the popup that's like "you're so stupid that you can't even figure out how to enable Krisp Speaker, you idiot". I'm well aware of how to enable it, but I have chosen not to, as I do not want to heavily process the audio that I'm listening to. Only emitting.
"Don't ask again" would have probably made them an extra $110 at least.)
not surprised. this anecdote is some good evidence for how i felt at the time: apple took a good thing way too far and as a result now we have to suffer through the google / windows flat UIs everywhere which are just plane lazy
Zionism absolutely targets those with Levantine ancestry. They’ve killed far more people than whoever the op was talking about. Ashkenazis are under no threat.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traian_Vuia
This could be overgeneralising a bit... but I see a lot of people with ADHD (on- and offline) who tend to make it an essential part of their identity. I realise it's a very impactful thing to have to deal with (I have ADHD too) but I feel like a lot of the time it's brought up for no real reason.
E.g. you started daydreaming when reading a book? Forgot something to do when you walked through a doorway? Got angry? You lost track of what you were thinking about? Must be the ADHD.
There are YouTube channels whose whole gimmick is that they're run by and for people with ADHD. And guess what kind of content you'll see there: "Why cooking with ADHD is hell", "How ADHD can make you lie", "Music for people with ADHD". What happened to "music for concentration"?
HN is a place where I see this play out a lot.
Do super computers run in fp64 mostly? At fp8 an h100 hits 2 petaflops, and with only 1000 of them you’ve got more compute power than el capitan (in raw flop count)
> The current energy deregulation in the EU involves forcing utilities to trade electricity in a spot market, that treats the on-demand production of conventional power plants and the random and unpredictable production of solar and wind, as if it's completely equivalent.

The California case also forced utilities to trade electricity in a spot market. These markets always seem oriented towards purchasing power rather than capacity, which strikes me as odd. Power companies need committed capacity, because they need to have reserves of power. Sure, buying electricity that no one else is using makes sense, but because demand is comparatively inelastic, it's just crazy to have that be how companies ensure they have sufficient capacity.
since there are people using AI girlfriend/boyfriend services

Does anyone marry them and build a life together with them?

Likewise, how would that AI build a long term relationship…what happens when the code changes…when the TOS changes…when the service is shut down?

Are you sure that AU would be healthy?
I guess that means the other 96% are cool with the result either way.
Sealed interfaces and records allow you to effectively build sum types. Switch expressions with type based pattern matching really streamline certain patterns. Type inferred vars are massively welcome. Streams and lambdas are pretty old by now, but they are much more widely embraced in e.g. frameworks and std libs which is nice.

Independently none of these are game changing, but together they provide much improved ergonomics and can reduce boilerplate. Now if only we had null safe types <3.
Not currently, sure, but that path is typically how they get there.
So, why not instead of "annexing Canada", or "shutting down Social Security", or fighting endless wars that require that we borrow money from this "club", we invade B.I.S. and shake them down? The 'sanctity of the international finance system' you say? :)

https://www.cfr.org/blog/first-time-us-spending-more-debt-in...

As I said, it is a "mystery of history" ... /g
I don't think 6 and 7 were done by Dumont before 1903. Insufficient documentary information is available, like a detailed description of the design.
> If we stopped buying shit we don't need, they could easily turn off a good portion of their coal powered electricity plants if they wanted.

If they wanted. China has a policy of overproduction, especially in raw materials like steel. While the US subsidizes consumption, China subsidizes production. It is not clear they would elect to scale back (and take the economic hit) even if Western consumers decided to voluntarily cut back (which also seems unlikely).
I thought the article did a good job answering your questions.

> TVA benefits from existing capex in large nuclear and hydro plants, enjoys low rates, and has little incentive to change.

So apparently TVA has already invested in large nuclear and hydro and doesn't need more power. It's not about to build more solar so that it can shut down its nuclear or hydro plants. No business will cannibalize itself like this. It will have to a different economic entity.

> Regulated utilities can also sign PPAs, but the lengthy and complex regulatory approvals make the process so cumbersome that few investors or developers actually pursue this option.

Regulated entities can theoretically do this, but they are cumbersome so they don't.

The article also mentions the tragedy of the 2021 crisis, along with the 2020 blackouts in California; the article says it's a matter of extreme weather, not the failure of a specific type of energy market.
This is an interest observation, and seems true for future versions of AI, but when the current technology is based on human language, I don't think I would make the assumption that LLMs would directly translate to manipulating machine language.
Context windows have grown significantly, the biggest one at are at 2 million tokens right now. That plenty enough, as even in his t codebase you don't need to feed the fill codebase in, you just need to provide the LLM a map of e.g. functions and where to find them, and the LLM can pull the relevant files itself as it plans the implementation path. And for that the current context window is plenty.
I made a webapp a couple of years ago that works in most browsers, including on mobile:

https://www.babeloop.com/
Boy am I glad I went to a state school without this crap.
Defense is not a monolith but if you zoom in, the percentages are still bigger than 1%.
Appreciate the feedback! This is all very helpful. While we are not a dedicated platform or resource for Obsidian it does provide some good insight.
The claims made above with regard to 3 and 4 are false.

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/hobby-lobby-settles-3-mill...
Totally get it. And there has been work for me where I would've offloaded the details like that for sure. It might be that it's when I really feel like the project is my baby and I'm really enjoying that part of the process.
Bit too personal for me to talk about sorry, but the therapy that worked was psybocilin (magic mushrooms) with a licensed counselor. Specifically a dosage of 5g taken in intervals + intensive guidance.

I can say that if I chose to remain too squeamish to ever try the "scheduled drugs" route, my life would have marched onward in an alternate timeline with little to no hope for recovery.
In 1906, Santos-Dumont flew 220 meters for less than half a minute. In 1905, Wilbur Wright flew 38.9 km for more than 39 minutes.

This isn't one of those cases, like light bulbs, where it can be reasonably debated who was first. The Wrights were in front of the competition by literal miles.
I'm the “European elite” you're thinking of. Well, not “elite” in the sense of being rich, I'm not rich, but I'm also not stupid.

It's simple: global trade is good, isolationism is bad. It's as simple as that.

The “EU common classes” don't want higher prices or poorer services. This is a fact that the US's elites in power will soon discover. And it's easy to see why this trend is a train wreck in progress: unemployment, in both the US and EU, is at an all-time low, and if you significantly lower imports via tariffs and economic wars, who do you think will work on those local products and services? Never mind that US's investments and exports are also crashing as a direct result of this administration's policies, so I'm guessing they rely on future software developers that end up unemployed to become lumberjacks.

But yes, now that the US is no longer a trustworthy ally, I want the EU to cut its tech dependencies from it for as much as possible, while strengthening ties with all of our other allies, such as Canada, Australia, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, India. There's no conflict in this reasoning.
Maybe the whole concept of "clean code" is built around maintainability for humans, but I think there's a version of organization of "good code" that makes it much easier to avoid like nested loop foot guns.
You can hear many MP3 examples here: https://www.jeuxdorgues.com/jeux-d-orgues-4-lachaisedieu/

All are played with the virtual organ, what do you think?

I'll do a post soon with more stories about this project itself (that I started long ago)!
I second that, I saw a lot, I tried some... most of them are just task planners, but I was always missing same basic features.
> China's share of of electricity production from coal is at 60% as of 2023[1] compared to 16% for the US[2]. That's down from 80% in 2005.

Yeah, but they're kind of leapfrogging from coal to clean energy. In 10 years, they are expected to be at 60% renewables.
Yes, that's very plausible and I've thought similarly but not exactly the same approach for the diagramming limitations of LLM [1].

Fun facts, the presenter John Hooker was asked about how to determine the suitability of a particular heuristic solver for specific problems in his presentation. He casually answered that if he knows the solutions to that he will probably win a Nobel Prize. But perhaps AI/LLM can help in a way to recommend the solver based on the type of applications or problems.

If I'm not mistaken there's also Donald Knuth (TAOCP) asking questions after the JH's presentation, how often you see that?

[1] Diagrams AI can, and cannot, generate:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43424916
A free energy market is great and all until citizens start to expect that the government is responsible for a stable and economical reasonable grid, and who will elect politicians to that fact. At that point the cost of the grid is carried by the government, not through market forces, and companies are not slow to adapt their investments into the parts that are highly profitable while leaving the cost centers to the government.

The energy crisis that happened in EU demonstrated to me that citizens are not willing to have a free market for the energy grid. When a single month cost as much as a whole year, and companies are unable to fulfill contracts or have to shut down, then their anger is not directed at the commercial companies in charge of solar, wind or other type of energy plants. It is directed towards the government for failing to provide basic function of society, which apparently include a reasonable priced electricity.
Pretty neat. The automatic breakdowns are cool, but you absolutely need to move the delete button inline. Confirm dialog if there are items beneath it, otherwise just delete.

Generated like 10 sub-items for me, 5 of which were relevant. But to remove the 5 junk ones, you have to open the dropdown for each and hit delete.
Yes, this is how I feel as well. I'm not going to use an LLM to create my architecture for me (though I may use it for advice), because I think of that as the core creative thing that I bring into the project, and the thing I need to fully understand in order to steer it in the right direction.

The AI is great at doing all the implementation grunt work ("how do I format that timestamp again?" "What's a faster vectorized way to do this weird polars transformation?" "Can you write tests to catch regressions for these 5 edge cases which I will then verify?").
no, the commentator is simply proposing actually responding to the imperialism of China by protecting US assets and national security instead of rolling over and taking it because of misguided principles about free trade and intellectual property that the CCP has undermined for forty years to arrive in a position where they can undercut us on price through human rights abuses.

It is China that is imperialist and that has ruined the post cold war free trade world order. The US must respond or China will be the world hegemon. Would you prefer that?
nit: a divergent training run is somewhat separate from the question of local minima. The latter observes the loss curve stabilize and asks 'is the _best_ (loss-minimizing) set of parameters for this loss/data/model/hypers/seed/etc?'. The former observes the loss curve explode, and asks for another 10k GPU hours to try again with a different choice of loss/data/model/... .

They're definitely related in some instances e.g. 'flat' vs 'steep' local minima with comparable losses.
Chinese Cooking Demystified is doing great work. Sometimes they seem like the only English language source talking about a specific thing.
I was working on a legacy CSJ project, and I tried to upgrade an OIDC library, but the newer version would only work with ESM. I decided to use that as an excuse to migrate our project to ESM. However, I hit a bug using dd-trace with ESM. Over a year later, that bug hasn't been resolved. I try to use ESM as much as possible for new projects, but it's not always simple to migrate existing projects to ESM.
Yeah you nailed it. Glad to hear I'm not alone.

I used to pay for O'Reilly, I have a pile of software/programming/computer-related books, and meh I just don't care for it like I did.

I'd page through stuff at night, and the last year especially have really de-motivated me.
Well, keep doing what you're doing then. I mean, we really showed them, the religious right is certainly in retreat after all that shaming.
Good to hear that ! Do you have any experience to share ?

Were you using "boring" AWS services (EC3 / S3) or where you depending on more things ?

Are there an AWS service that you feel is missing in Scaleway, and could be a deadlbreaker for other people ?

(By the way, is it ok if I start abbreviating Scaleway as SWA, just for fun ?)
Which is dumb as it already stands for Pretty Good Privacy
someone elsewhere mentioned they use a key (encryption key) per user and just change the key, but A) i don't buy that, how do you prove you deleted a key? and if the user maintains the key and can revoke both their and the service's access to their data, lots of users will do this accidentally. Look at, say, matrix from a few years back, it'd constantly hose your keys and you'd have to attempt to restore from a backup key, but not that key, that's the first key - and apparently you accidentally clicked "backup key" again at some point and now all your stuff is that new key, even though you didn't specify you wanted a new key, you just clicked "back up key" to see what it did.

Also i "permanently" deleted a facebook account 2 years ago, and through a quirk on a cellphone facebook immediately brought the account back like it had never been deleted. I issued another "permanent delete" for that account a week ago, but i bet dollars to doughnuts in 5 weeks i will still be able to "oops i forgot my password, send me an SMS" will reactivate the account again.

If facebook can't or won't do it, i don't really think anyone handles this correctly.

Except people like me that store everything that users upload in tmpfs, and whenever i feel like it, i bounce the box. Good luck recovering any PII from that system. Unfortunately it doesn't have access control (there is no access to the system - that is, ssh, login, shell, whatever - from outside.), so i can't claim hipaa compliance. That and it doesn't log, so after a bounce i can't even verify who did what.

Most users won't stand for this kind of thing, but the users that can, depend on my random reboots if they forget a delete key (usually reloading the tab will "forget" the delete key.)
Currently experience lists based on start date, which is usually a good indicator. But anything that has an end date of "Present" should probably be bubbled to the top of the list. Or at least the users should be able to pick the order.
I suppose this means that in the future, when I shop for a home appliance, I'll have to download their manual first and scan for things like this.
MAGA hats made in China are probably the definitive example
For what it's worth, enrolling patients without consent in unnecessary procedures still happens today. There's even a whole Wiki article about one category of those (which was banned in France in 2016, and US in 2024, but probably remains legal and pervasive in a lot of other countries): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelvic_examinations_under_anes...
Show HN: Klugscheißer – A Slack bot that remembers so you don't have to
I built a small bot that helps you keep track of information in your slack. A few things I like that are different from bots that do similar things.
- You have to explicitly teach it items (@klug-bot --learn) and you can control who has the ability to teach new things to the bot. It's a little more work this way but the bot isn't hoover-ing up data all the time.
- You can upload data offline. Especially useful to seed the bot with information from your docs.
- You can attach files through slack to teach it things.

Under the hood it uses Chroma + Gemini-2-flash but it's simple to switch that out for your DB + LLM of choice.

And, of course, the name. I might have built the bot just for the name. Klugscheißer means Smartass in German (Literally: Knowledge Shi*er).
I think you are misguided because of a true belief in "the system". The problem is systems often fail to handle bad-faith actors who intentionally abuse them. Absent a higher system, we lack good means to address this. But the system is not a moral good and we don't owe it to anyone or anything to maintain arbitrary rules when our enemies are using them to hamstring us and threaten our citizens, liberties, and way of life.

beijing has a consistent policy of subsidizing and dumping to gain dominance of key industries. metals, energy, etc. they are surely aware of the security implications of this. it seems to be their response to the mutually assured destruction of nuclear weapons: since those are no longer usable, create a new asymmetric situation where china can install herself as international dictator without or in addition to military force.

We can't afford not to respond. If we are unwilling to go to war, we'd have to concede to being china's bitch, which is a worse option than war.

Importing solar panels with no means to repair, replace, and resupply would absolutely make things worse; it'd increase dependence on a technology over which we lack control.

This isn't "imperialist" rhetoric, I'm quite plainly speaking in terms of maintaining our own autonomy and independence, not in terms of coercing others.

I don't think you can credit technology from foreign grad students at American universities or companies to those foreign countries. Doubly so since said chinese grad students have a long track record of facilitating the IP theft we're discussing.

Withdrawing would not free other countries to do so; the core difference here is china is a bad actor who exploits and steals IP. not to mention we could get away with this because we have a military of a certain size; smaller countries probably could not.

Regardless of whether we produce domestically, there's no particular reason why we can't work with other cheap nations within our sphere of influence (probably latam) to handle production.
A vibe is intuition, so it can't be too much, else it isn't vibe coding. However, the intuition that comes after taking some time is different than after a quick glance. For instance if you read a pull request and then immediately decide after reading it at a measured space that would be different than after skimming it. So yes, Looks OK to me right now, or LGTM, as in a pull request, is what I have in mind.