skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not sure to be honest, hence “apparently”. It also might be the case that this is less important than the other points I mentioned.

I’m also not sure you could say you were “consistently” at #3 from 2007 to 2021. That would be like saying you were “consistently” at #5 from 2007 to 2025.

Let’s check other periods:

From 2020 to 2021, you are ranked #13 [1].

From 2018 to 2019, you are ranked #26 [2].

From 2017 to 2018, you are ranked #15 [3].

From 2015 to 2016, you are ranked #179 [4].

From 2014 to 2015, you are ranked #33 [5].

[1]: https://refactoringenglish.com/tools/hn-popularity/?start=20...

[2]: https://refactoringenglish.com/tools/hn-popularity/?start=20...

[3]: https://refactoringenglish.com/tools/hn-popularity/?start=20...

[4]: https://refactoringenglish.com/tools/hn-popularity/?start=20...

[5]: https://refactoringenglish.com/tools/hn-popularity/?start=20...
> What's the point of this

- That similar interpretability tools might be useful to the open source community?

- That this is a fruitful area to research?
Home owners are the minority in San Francisco, so why in your opinion are prices so high there?
Haven't seen this film, but here are some observations I think we should keep in mind in general when it comes to journalism.

There is a famous saying, that in one version goes like this:

I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this — who will count the votes, and how. [1]

Mutatis mutandis, something very similar can be said about filmmaking: it is of less importance exactly what someone says and of great importance who cuts and edit it.

Light or lack of light, missing context - this can be the exact questions asked that triggered the answer[2] or what the person said to qualify their statements [3]. There is music, sound effects, camera perspectives and so on and so on.

One can also lead the viewer towards a conclusion without spelling it out [4].

There is a reason militaries advice soldier that in case of capture we should say as little as absolutely possible outside of what one is legally required to say: name, rank, service number, and date of birth. Anything and everything can and probably will be abused.

This is true not only for opponents in a war but as probably everyone knows also with police in most of the world, and HN is keenly aware of this.

I'd argue that we should be equally aware when it comes to journalism: as much as I respect many journalists, they are not a homogeneous group of perfectly ethical people striving for perfect objectivity. They have personal agendas: fame, income, people and cases they sympathize with and people and cases theywant to hurt.

We should be aware of this when reading, watching or listening - but of course even more when answering questions.

Any competent defense attorney can tell

[1]: Supposedly said by Stalin in reference to a vote in the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, but exactly who said is is less important than the general idea.

[2]: can be as simple as this classic: asking the person "hypothetically, if you wanted to ... how would you have done it?"

[3]: Simple example: "Q: Have you cheated on your taxes? A: yes, <here the director cuts>, back in 1956 when I was 18 ..."

[4]: This is an actual example: Our public broadcaster in Norway mentioning that they had tried to investigate the economic transactions of some people, saying they couldn't do it and it was very confusing and ending that segment with a merry go round.

What they didn't mention was that Norwegian police had already investigated the same people over three years, several months secretly and had not only been unable to prove the crimes suggested, but gone as far as stating they found it proven that the accused were innocent.
Abundance is going to be limited by raw materials.

The less need there is for human labor, the less disincentive humans have for killing each other over raw materials.
I don't expect a school's judgement on proper brain food to be better than for actual food. If they don't much care about the body, why trust them with the mind.
C library for prototyping and experimenting with quantum-resistant cryptography
The whole AI thing is just a symptom, I think. The real causes are:

1. The boomer political class that is perfectly fine with spending more and more money but unwilling to pay for it, mortgaging everything the previous generations built. Basically sucking all the value out of it for themselves so that their children and grandchildren will have nothing.

2. A big symptom is that tax rates on the richest have been going down for the last 50 years, and are now ridiculously low.

3. The thing that makes that work: unnaturally low interest rates, for the last several decades.

4. A complete unwillingness to use antitrust to break up the largest companies.

I don't see how this is going to turn around, because the propaganda is now so good they have convinced the poor that all of this is somehow good for them.
https://youtu.be/TQUsLAAZuhU

That movie brought computer culture into the "mainstream" and made my already complicated life a lot more difficult. Among people under 40, the reaction was swift and stark compared to those who generally didn't "go out to movies" anymore (older workers). I had to adopt two very different personas to continue relating to them all (on top of being ready to be quizzed down to my shorts at least three times a day by the really old brass, like a former systems manager of a nuclear lab and an architect of the Unix memory manager who were generally convinced they were the subject of an ongoing joke involving hidden cameras and an unauthorized set of [the 30 volume VAX/VMS] documentation somewhere). Bear in mind that nobody at work was under 23 (in an era when, by 23, many people were married and having their first child) and I was still young enough to be in high school, but out of college, wearing a monkey suit and riding the bus from my apartment to work everyday at a computer company...Unlike Apple and Microsoft, who had lots of young people with talent but no formal training or experience, I had no real age peers at work until 2000, just as the NASDAQ crashed.)
the extremely unpopular but logical next step in managing change would be to induce development by increasing property taxes. Basically compel people to move and sell their land to developers who build up the land.
That is quite an overstatement.
I've seen this happen in enterprise systems integration work, where some data interchange spec is authored as a Word document, and it has tables defining valid string values for certain fields, and Word helpfully replaces plain ascii dashes in the string constants with pretty long dashes, and team A builds their side hand-typing these constants as plain ascii, and team B builds their side by copy-pasting the exact unicode strings out of the Word doc.

Not a hard thing to debug once the issue is noticed, and completely preventable (write specs in plain text).
The ADL declined to make an endorsement in the last election.

Their press page doesn't mention this incident one way or another. They did express concern that the anti-DEI push removed some Holocaust articles from government web stes.

I wonder if they're reconsidering their choices.
I incredibly regret the term "hallucination" when the confusion matrix exists. There's much more nuance when discussing false positives or false negatives. It also opens discussions on how neural networks are trained, with this concept being crucial in loss functions like categorical cross entropy. In addition, the confusion matrix is how professionals like doctors assess their own performance which "hallucination" would be silly to use. I would go as far to say that it's misleading, or a false positive, to call them hallucinations.

If your AI recalls the RAG incorrectly, it's a false positives. If your AI doesn't find the data from the RAG or believes it doesn't exist it's a false negative. Using a term like "hallucination" has no scientific merit.
> To identify which ultra-processed foods should be eliminated from school offerings, scientists will consider whether a product includes additives that are banned elsewhere, whether it has been linked to health harms, whether it has been show to contribute to food addiction, and whether it contains excessive fat, sugar or salt, California Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel, one of the lawmakers who introduced the bill, said on the call.

>The scientists will be required to publish a first report outlining this subcategory of especially harmful ultra-processed foods by July 1, 2026, said Gabriel, and will be required to update the list every two years as research on these foods evolves.

I guess the text just isn't available yet, but the article describes what is intended.
I’ve only skimmed the paper - a long and dense read - but it’s already clear it’ll become a classic. What’s fascinating is that engineering is transforming into a science, trying to understand precisely how its own creations work

This shift is more profound than many realize. Engineering traditionally applied our understanding of the physical world, mathematics, and logic to build predictable things. But now, especially in fields like AI, we’ve built systems so complex we no longer fully understand them. We must now use scientific methods - originally designed to understand nature - to comprehend our own engineered creations. Mindblowing.
B-2s come in after threatening air defense is destroyed.

In this case, they can just roll right in.

Whether they are stealth or not, they are B-2 bombers, their purpose is to bomb.

Whatever can drop the payload. The more the merrier.

All that and the fact that we know that B2 stealth bombers have already been used against Yemen, even during the Biden admin.

Article author doesn't seem to be well-informed of this making that statement.

When it comes to striking fear in the enemy, overkill is practical.
> And that makes their ability to develop a functioning satellite that integrates into a launch vehicle all the more impressive! Kudos to Botswana's engineers.

I'd like to say that but I don't think it's accurate. Endurosat handled at least the baseline functionality and launch vehicle integration.
I have a feeling this is likely due to noise suppression in the video call platform.

Possibly Jitsi doesn’t do it as well as Zoom or Google Meet, so my experience on Jitsi was a night and day improvement switching from Blue Yeti (cardioid mode) to a dynamic mic.
In Hungary, hospitals and schools and kindergartens make their own food from scratch (they all have their own kitchen), from healthy ingredients. Crazy how different it is in the US. We don't give chips to students, we give them real, healthy food. Every single day. We have been doing this for many decades.
Sure it is normal, but the reply was also a normal reply because, as you said it's a product with rough edges advertised as if it's completely functional. And the comment I replied to, criticizing the other reply, was not fair because he's only giving a normal reply, imo
Has this idea of Bernie positions being popular outside the Democratic Party gone anywhere? Has it survived an election?

I’ve heard it frequently claimed, but where has a progressive Dem won where a moderate didn’t?

They seem to lose badly. The Sanders people were all in on Paula Jean Swearengin in WV and even tried to primary Manchin with her.

WV has all the supposed demographics Sanders appeals to. White working class people mired in poverty.

She was the worst performing Democratic nominee in West Virginia history.
One of the interesting ones we encountered was in the JDBC driver of our chosen database at the time. Under load, the application core dumped. Mind you this is java, running a native jdbc driver, no JNI in sight. It took some gdb stepping to figure out that under load, the JIT compiler got a little aggressive and inlined a little more code than there was room in the JIT buffer - result? a completely random core dump. Once I did find it, it was a simple matter of increasing JIT buffer size and adding more heap and ram. Tracing assembler generated from byte code generated from java was just part of the issue, the fact that the code itself had nothing to do with the issue is what made it interesting as the buffer size is set in a completely different area by the jvm. Fun times.
Only one presidential candidate had "DEI" and trans people as a major part of their campaign (and now have made those things a major part of the first two months of their presidency) and it wasn't the Democrats. It's kinda shocking to me that people think the Democrats have been running on social issues while Republicans haven't. I'm curious the sorta of media people watch that make them believe this.
Thanks, that's interesting. This shows the shallowness of my understanding:

> It has been known for centuries that the dura mater may harbor lymphatic vessels but the role of meningeal lymphatic vessels (MLVs) regained renewed interest since 2015, when functional MLVs were first reported.

Life is incredibly complex, ours most of all.

But finding new ligaments is really crazy.
Radiocarbon: The Lifetime Battery Solution for Cellphones?
Human knowledge is advanced by working with old human data regurgitated to infinitum, so it seems there does exist an intelligence threshold where it stops being as much of an issue.

Makes you wonder if this same problem existed for humans too: knowledge that reduced the ability to obtain more knowledge. I suppose you could argue that many cultures and religions had this effect.
> I don't know much about his family life, but it's very plausible that he spent more time working during his lifetime than with his family

Because we all know that CEOs are hard working individuals. Only the developers are lazy. /s
The point is to post them on social media sites. Why they continue to allow "quote card" images and the like, I'm not sure.
Boston was a mess before the big dig. Enough ink has been spilled over how long it took, but just about everybody agrees the city is better for it.
I'd like to see whether the perceived rightward direction is new, younger people joining, or older people changing.

Determining that scientifically is going to be near impossible.

Kinda like convincing people to adopt Slashdot's moderation and meta-moderation lol.
ok that's a fair point
I've dealt with a few cases of CSVs including base64-encoded binary data. It's an unusual scenario, but the tools for working with CSVs are robust enough that it was never an issue.
> I'm not sure why this is mentioned, it's hardly a drain on other retailers to have a second click in their process.

it's a drain on any startup company doing anything with the web to search for trivial patents. Thankfully, Europeans don't have to do this.

> If the insurance prices are exploding due to actual malpractice, the profession probably should clean up their act which necessitates people leaving the profession. Sure you probably lose some of the good with the bad, but maybe they should have cleaned house a little earlier.

This is not about homeopathy crap, this is about actual errors that can happen, people aren't infallible after all - just that the financial impact to liability insurances in such cases used to be waaaay lower even 20 years ago than it is now.
Go read "The Bitter Lesson" and then ask yourself which path this startup took.
The problem is the "desire to be relevant in an important technological shift".

There's loads of worthwhile research to do that has nothing to do with LLMs. A lot of it will not or cannot be done in an industrial environment because the time horizon is too long and uncertain. Stands to reason that people who thrive in a "high-pressure cooker" environment are not going to thrive when given a long-term, open-ended goal to pursue in relative solitude that requies "principles and philosophical opinions" that aren't grounded in "actual execution". That's what makes real (i.e. basic) research hard and different as opposed to applied research. Lots of people in industry claiming to be researchers or scientists who are anything but.
At some point in your career you realize every line of code you write is not just an asset—it's also a liability that needs to be maintained, debugged, and understood by others.

The excitement around AI coding tools isn't about chaining yourself to a crappy experience — it's about having support to offload cognitive overhead, reduce boilerplate, and help spot potential missteps early.

Sure, the current gen AI isn't quite there yet, but it can lighten the load, leaving more space to solving interesting problems, architecting elegant solutions and "figuring stuff out".
> it would probably still make more sense to pre-print that library than wait until conditions are difficult to do the printing.

That's what I meant. Sorry I left it unclear. I should have explicitly called that out, thanks.

Basically it's cliff-notes from my shot at an "MVP of home hardcopy backups." No surprise, these simpler techniques (often seen when corporations had internal printing for employee handbooks and such) are better suited to home processing with minimal equipment. All you need is a three-hole punch.

It's not about achieving a "perfect" bookbinding (a real term), or for people who do bookbinding as a hobby. Instead it's a fast/easy/cheap technique for people who just want a hardcopy backup, without needing a special bookbinding vice in the house.

Three ring binders were my obvious first choice, but they're surprisingly costly, somewhat awkward to use, prone to tearing pages, and usually take more space on the shelf.

Hope that explains it better. Cheers
There's no reason the federal government needs to pay resident salaries — except that no other major player is willing to do it. Hospital cost accounting is always kind of squishy and confusing but on average it seems that teaching hospitals lose money on their residency programs, so they need some kind of subsidy to make up the difference. Most of these teaching hospitals are run by local governments or non-profit foundations. Where will the money come from? There are a small number of residency slots funded by other sources but those are only a fraction.
The Bouba/Kiki Effect and Sound Symbolism in Clip
Well, not the "Hero section for a landing page" with a button in the middle.
Unless you tell the fed to run inflation at 20% for a few decades and tie everything else (wages, pensions, welfare, etc) to that rate. It is called fiscal repression and it has it's drawbacks, but it would serve to end inequality by making everyone billionaires. (The price of a coffee might end up at £1m though..)
Hmm yeah this article rubbed me weird, like why can't rich investors just snap up any amount of new housing? Article didn't mention "affordable housing" once.
> We obviously need experts to steer the AIs in this current phase, who said we don't?

Much of the marketing around agents is about not needing them. Zuck said Meta's internal agent can produce the code of an average junior engineer in the company. An average junior engineer doesn't need this level of steering to know to not include a 4 year old outdated library in a web project.
Pff. HN has rebranded to become the DOGE News Network. If you want a more curated technical experience, I recommend https://lobste.rs. There's much less latitude for non-technical stuff.
I was surprised when I learned the source..

https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383
The courts should be speedy at forcing landlords to rectify problems just as the courts should be speedy at forcing out squatters.

There is no reason either should take 6 months+ to litigate (real world example). I even had an email from the tenant stating they would start paying again if we would reduce the rent.

No damage, no question about the facts, just someone who knew that worst case scenario is 6 months free housing for them, simply because that’s how long paperwork apparently takes.

End result? I’m even more selective to who I rent out to, and the costs are borne by innocent people who just don’t happen to have sufficient history.
>but the people putting them in? Who cares

Literally nobody is arguing this.
This "practice-first, theory-later" pattern has been the norm rather than the exception. The steam engine predated thermodynamics. People bred plants and animals for thousands of years before Darwin or Mendel.

The few "top-down" examples where theory preceded application (like nuclear energy or certain modern pharmaceuticals) are relatively recent historical anomalies.
Load balancers and redundancy are tech-creep, IMHO. At least in the initial stages. But I think people in tech, and in general, underestimate how performant modern hardware is. They run their service of 1/2 vCPU which was carved from some modern Intel Xeon / AMD Epyc, and they are afraid that their little startup will eat all the CPU.

You can achieve redundancy by spinning two docker instances of the same container and setting Caddy reverse proxy in front of them. You don't need k8s for that.
Have met lots of professors who are glorified managers who do not actual research taking sabbaticals for a fat paycheck. I doubt very much they do any real work during these sabbaticals either. If I had to guess, I would bet that these sabbatical positions are frequently sinecures.
Waymo definitely operates on bad weather. In fact, that is when I use it most since I don't want to walk or bike in the city when its pouring. The wait times are longer on those days.

City driving is very chaotic. Though speeds tend to be lower so likely accidents would be just fender benders. They don't operate on freeways.
And then when you finally get an appointment, they can only spend 10 minutes with you and then rush to the next patient.
If your wifi is enabled, then the GPS makes almost no difference for goggle geo-location.

Their map of wifi SSIDs allows pretty accurate geo-location, with no GPS.

This doesn't apply to you if you travel in an area with no wifi hotspots. The hotspots don't need to be publicly acessible, only the SSID needs to be visible for the hotspot to serve as a geo-location waypoint.
What I meant to ask is, instead of pushing your code to Github, is it possible to use a local self hosted instance of a similar tool like GitLab or Bitbucket?
having VBLANK available works wonders, see this double-hires code I just put together that only looks nice due to the magic of VBLANK on Apple IIe/IIgs (Apple IIc is much harder to get VBLANK from if you're playing music with interrupts) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QwUGFDcQcI
People assume a female candidate is to the left of where they actually are. Worked great for Margaret Thatcher and Angela Merkel who both represented center-right parties and took their nations rightward and whose favorite slogan was “there is no alternative” but not for center-right Hillary Clinton who headed what is allegedly a center-left party. [1]

If the Democrats have a fight between an abundance agenda and populist leftists who are really inclusive like Bernie Sanders I think that will be great.

[1] Clinton was always as far to the right as she could get away with, probably to compensate for being a woman, but paid the price for her mindless hawkish in 2008 when she lost the primaries to Barack Obama
So it’s a VM?
I may have a look on William Storr later on. The separation of social currency does however seem rather primitive one.
What about when governments give private sector organizations tax breaks, and then those organizations go on to do something wasteful?
How exactly is this an improvement over VMs?
> You can't mass enforce government actions on people on the scale the US wants to (millions of immigrants) via a legal system

Then you don't do it. I really wish the vast majority of the country realized that a lack of due process for anyone is the same as a lack of due process for everyone.