skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The American voting system only permits two parties. You're welcome to think otherwise but it'll just lose you elections. If you want the left to win elections you need to start a new right-wing party to split the vote for the Republicans. Name it True Patriots or some shit like that.
Same in Canada for the most part.
That's true of the vast majority of protocols that people use in real life to exchange date. We're using one of them right now, in fact.
I've been finding the pickup on my bluetooth bone-conduction headphones to be surprisingly good enough. I tried it as I found them convenient & comfortable for calls on my phone. People don't notice the difference when I'm using them rather than the company-provided wired over-ear headset.

Though that might say as much for the company provided mic as it does for the BC ones!
> At some point you become prohibitively expensive to insure.

This would probably just cause more uninsured drivers. For California, that's around 17% [1]!

[1] https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-uninsure...
Fair enough. Zoom seems to be alright at that.
Can you use those same tools on Claude? Is the difference trivial from open source models?
A neat approach for sortable versioned filenames
But the initial security issue was in libwebp, which is made by Google, and surely Google had already fuzzed it and run all the available static analyzers in the world.

Static analyzers are nice to have, but they can't warn of every issue out there.
^^ I have vague memories of Clippy, but I remember it as obnoxious, often consuming the precious screen real estate on the low res monitors of the day, without offering anything valuable. But tooltips on the web with CSS and libraries like floating-ui can be much more compact, agile and barely noticeable.

I have tried showing help text in an internal app using tooltips when the user would hover over the target element (or show a small icon on touch devices), and the feedback was good as the tooltips were never in the way but easily available for help (accessibility for keyboard users needed some thinking, but for the limited audience for that app, it was not a problem). And while you're at it, may be make it more engaging than a simple text only tooltip (which can be done without any intelligence), and let the host to customize and offer complex workflows.
Are they? I mean, none of them are very objective.

Except that #5 is objectively not true. Apple execs pay attention to DaringFireball. What he posts matters for that reason alone.
mournfully I call app Britain...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei9iM_zzzQk
ricin and polonium-210 have many documented cases, likely 10000+ undocumented. It's only scifi until years later when it becomes declassified
> You always renegotiate at market rates.

As long as RealPage and friends exist, market rates are whatever they say they are. There’s no free market in real estate.
… and donors too. Mainstream Democrats are seen as disingenuous in that they direct cheap talk at progressives but somehow beat Republicans at the fundraising game almost every time.
> One issue I have seen a bit more specific to DnD is people over obsessing with the world building matching exactly the "generic DnD world" provided by wotc (or worse a specific module)

IMO this should be handled in the "session zero" expectations setting. Personally, I couldn't DM for someone like that, they should just read the official Forgotten Realms novels.
What has changed is not so much that writers' work is influenced by their politics. As you said, that has always been the case. What has changed is that writers these days don't recognize that their work needs to be a good work of art first, and a way to express their views second. They lack any skill in subtlety or nuance, so the work becomes little more than a soapbox for the writer that is off-putting to all but the most ideologically aligned audience.

I like to use Star Trek in the 90s as a good example of what I mean. While there are episodes where the writers got preachy (they're only human I suppose), most of the time the writers were very careful to not openly take sides on the issues they raised. Even if you got the sense that the writer for an episode might feel a certain way about the topic, the characters wouldn't tell the audience how to feel. They didn't call other characters who disagreed with them names. They didn't just bully their way to victory in the story. The topics were treated as complicated issues where reasonable adults could disagree.

Compare that to shows/movies/books today. The writers treat the story primarily as a vehicle to express their opinions on issues. They have characters tell people "this is how a decent person behaves", with the understanding that the message is really meant for the audience. They have characters who agree with them call their opponents bigots or worse insults. They portray said opponents as villains or morons who only hold their beliefs because of how evil/stupid they are. They have the "good guys" run roughshod over anyone who disagrees with them, and they get to win despite their bad behavior. And often, the writers (and even other people involved like actors) will openly express their contempt for their audience when speaking about the work. They pick fights where none needed to happen, saying stuff like "if you don't like this then I don't want you as an audience member anyway". They are, in short, bad writers who don't have the skill to successfully let their social views influence their work.

The result of all this is that these writers don't succeed at persuading anyone. In years past writers could actually make progress on advancing the things they believed in because they had the wisdom to not openly preach to people and call them names. They respected people enough to let them draw their own conclusions, and as a result were successful. But writers today aren't good enough to persuade people to continue breathing, let alone something more controversial than that.

There is also an uptick in how much politics get forced into art, with people trying to claim "everything is political" and the like. But that isn't nearly as big a factor as how bad today's artists are at using political themes in their work.
> We didn’t endure that gauntlet so that healthcare could be as available as tap water.

"I worked really hard so it doesn't matter if people die for want of care if it means I will make $450k/yr instead of $500k/yr."

> let’s not pretend economics doesn’t exist

I would argue you're the one arguing against economics, or at least arguing for artificial barriers to a free market. Yes, if there are more physicians then physicians will make less. But if you make $500k/yr because a cartel is artificially limited who can compete with you, and making it harder than it needs to be to get your credentials, and making it artificially more expensive to get those credentials, you haven't earned $500k.

> And as for doctors who haven’t cracked open a journal in 20 years — well, isn’t that the beauty of the system? They don’t have to. The structure itself protects them. We’ve built an ecosystem where even if a physician isn’t on the cutting edge, the mere fact that they exist — credentialed, licensed, and allowed to operate within this curated bottleneck — means they remain valuable.

I've typed this word a few times and deleted it because I really don't want this to be an inflammatory comment, but this is an absolutely disgusting mindset.

The system that allows someone who got their medical degree when doctors had a preferred brand of cigarette to maintain a lucrative practice simply because they have a particular credential or license without requiring that they stay up-to-date cannot be called "beautiful" by any sane or ethical person.

I worry that you think I'm arguing for some system where doctors make $40k/yr and you can call a GP office at 2 PM and get an appointment for 2:15. That's not at all what I'm arguing.

I don't know your specialty but you can't make $400, 500, 900k/yr and pretend that letting people who are qualified to be doctors become doctors regardless of some arbitrary seat limit implemented by the AMA and artificial scarcity will mean you suddenly have to "wear a headset." You and I both know that's completely disingenuous framing and not even remotely what would happen.

What would actually happen, for the first 7 years at least, is nothing. And beyond that, private practices would be able to accept new patients, hospitals would be able to staff their positions, and people would be able to access health care without having to wait months for an appoint.

Your whole comment smacks of "I don't care if you need a wait 5 weeks for an MRI, and then another month for a radiologist to read it, I want to be able to buy my Lexus in cash instead of having to finance it."
Have you looked into how much of DF was about Apple and how much was about Donald Trump during the affected time periods? It seems that you write about tech a lot less and politics a lot more. Which is fine, it's your blog! But don't expect tech enthusiasts to automatically be interested in your opinion on immigration or whatever.
In my city, you can often find rows of houses for sale for $5-10k a piece from slum lords trying to exit the business. Tearing down the old homes would probably be expensive, but I think the city even has a program to help with some of that. Since you could effectively buy a whole street, the safety implications might not be as bad as initially assumed.
I think the cafeteria is run by a profit driven entity quite often.
Not for $10k? How about $100k?
As an American, I wonder how you don't know.

And therefore I am guessing it was more obvious pre Gorbachev/Reagan era.
The permitting in PDX is very permissive if you do the work yourself. You don't need to build a second house - you can essentially stand up a large shed and do some pretty basic work to finish it into a studio apartment.

Alternatively, the tiny home bubble has popped, and you can buy a used, pre-built tiny home and just park them on your property.
> I believe what orangecat means is that AIs don't understand tone ~yet~.

I don't see how you get that from what he quoted of mine then what he said.

Besides, their understanding 'tone' is not a sensible prediction, for the simple fact LLMs don't ever understand anything, whatsoever, any more than ELIZA was a psychologist. They digest and then regurgitate word sequences in complex ways ~ it's the intrinsic and sole nature of their design. We can hide that fact with layers of obfuscation or tricky ways of packaging their output, but they are what they are, and nothing more.

Like, human beings are never going to walk on the sun in our physical bodies; we are limited by our physiology, and there is no transcending it in dimensions beyond our capabilities.
Same in France: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovO18E-hgew

Your comment brought back my memory of watching this CBS mini-documentary comparing school lunches in France vs USA from years ago. Enjoy!
Schools wants to save money and outsource to the cheapest catering service. And pizza is cheaper than fresh vegetables.
How do you keep it stationary? How do you keep it out of the Earth's shadow a.k.a. night? How do you keep the transmission loss low and receiving station footprint small? How do you avoid harming things that could come into your beams? How do you achieve all the above simultaneously?
> but have some empathy

If more people had empathy the collection of sociopaths currently in charge wouldn't be.
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Everyone please check your Signal app for updates
Docs are the face of the broken system and take the brunt of patient frustration over many flaws they have no control over. Try telehealth to get the access and responsiveness you need if your local medical facilities don't attract enough docs and nurses.
There are reformist policies that work and actions that can be taken on the local level to help alleviate some of these problems. But they are not robust long-term solutions.

> a few years things largely went back to normal

The US is deporting random immigrants to a concentration camp in El Salvador without due process claiming all of them are "gang members" with zero evidence.

If you are unable to tie the expansion of the executive power and capture of the courts to the class conflict in the US then idk what to tell you man.
Ideally in the future we won't need an MCP server when the AI can just write Unix terminal code to do anything it needs to get the job done? It seems using an MCP server and having the AI know about its "tools" is more of training wheels approach.
Why would it be hell?

In France it can take years to evict people who stop paying rent. So now 90% of all rental contracts have an insurance for non-payments included in the contract.

A few bad apples forced every other tenant to pay more in rent just because politicians decided that squatters had more rights than the owners. And god have mercy on your soul if you decide to take back what is yours when you get tired of waiting for the justice system to do it's job. If you do, you'll be the one the cops will come for, not the squatters.
In the US? We have never been given harmful, ultra-processed food here, let alone pizza. The differences are wild. Pizza costs a lot here, to be honest. It is cheaper here to just make food from scratch from fresh, healthy ingredients.
Definitely beats the Cardiff Electric Giant, at least.
Ai2 Paper Finder
Who has the best pricing for text to speech?
I've been digging around and seems like $15 per million characters is the standard starting point at least for MS and OpenAI (although there are discounts for bulk purchase upfront that get down to $7). Is there anything better out there?
Bad analogy, an LLM can output a block of text all at once and it wouldn't impact the user's ability to understand it. If people spoke all the words in a sentence at the same time, it would not be decipherable. Even writing doesn't yield a good analogy, a human writing physically has to write one letter at a time. An LLM does not have that limitation.
I see your point, but something still seems different. Yes we bred plants and animals, but we did not create them. Yes we did build steam engines before understanding thermodynamics but we still understood what they did (heat, pressure, movement, etc.)

Fun fact: we have no clue how most drugs works. Or, more precisely, we know a few aspects, but are only scratching the surface. We're even still discovering news things about Aspirin, one of the oldest drugs: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08626-7
And yet actual health outcomes are worse than some of those other countries. Are you kidding here?
I’m all for higher property taxes to increase courtroom bandwidth, but I doubt most landlords are.
That results in even more property tax I have to pay. People should want higher land prices due to growing incomes and business opportunities, not solely due to lack of housing supply. The former is sustainable, the latter is either a tourist trap or a short term game of musical chairs.
Great. Let's end the war in Ukraine and start WW3 with Iran.
I struggled reading the papers - Anthropic’s white papers reminds me of Stephen Wolfram, where it’s a huge pile of suggestive empirical evidence, but the claims are extremely vague - no definitions, just vibes - the empirical evidence seems selectively curated, and there’s not much effort spent building a coherent general theory.

Worse is the impression that they are begging the question. The rhyming example was especially unconvincing since they didn’t rule out the possibility that Claude activated “rabbit” simply because it wrote a line that said “carrot”; later Anthropic claimed Claude was able to “plan” when the concept “rabbit” was replaced by “green,” but the poem fails to rhyme because Claude arbitrarily threw in the word “green”! What exactly was the plan? It looks like Claude just hastily autocompleted. And Anthropic made zero effort to reproduce this experiment, so how do we know it’s a general phenomenon?

I don’t think either of these papers would be published in a reputable journal. If these papers are honest, they are incomplete: they need more experiments and more rigorous methodology. Poking at a few ANN layers and making sweeping claims about the output is not honest science. But I don’t think Anthropic is being especially honest: these are pseudoacademic infomercials.
Can you provide any sources for your assertion that a lot of it is wasted? Do you have a percentage?
It's well documented that user flags affect the ranking of stories even before stories are marked as [flagged]. While flagging certainly contributes to the lack of discussion on your articles, I believe that the main reason is that, for the most part, the Hacker News audience is less interested in your take than it used to be.

Case in point: In recent months, a lot of recent Trump/Elon posts have been flagged and disappeared from the front page, but still managed to garner hundreds of points and comments. My assumption is that a significant portion of users use hn.algolia.com, circumventing the flagging algorithm. Personally, I've recently found myself using hn.algolia.com (filtering for top stories in the last 24h) more often than news.ycombinator.com.

If your issue was purely flagging-related, your articles should be able to generate engagement. That's why I'm saying I think there is a lack of interest.

Personally, while I appreciate your work, it's become less interesting to me over time. The value of your blog to me is mainly around getting a perspective into how a die-hard Apple fan would think about a certain topic. This was fun in the period from 2007 until some point in the mid-2010s, when smartphones were revolutionary and the iPhone vs. Android ecosystem battle was still relevant. But ever since phones converged into commodities, it just stopped being interesting. No one is emotionally invested in their choice of phone anymore.

Don't take my word for it. Compare the Google Trends for MacRumors [0] and Daring Fireball [1]. Both faced a sharp decline starting in the mid-2010s. It's not a surprise that engagement on Hacker News would mirror those trends.

[0] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%...

[1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%...
Some of those cultures that apparently celebrate gay people were also chemically castrating them not that long ago, and also have a lot of locals who still hate gay people and cannot wait to get back to the old ways.

The rise of the far right in Europe and USA might challenge your idea of fixed regional cultures quite soon.
The LTC6227, used in this design, is "last time buy." The replacements aren't as good: either higher noise or lower GBW, and they too will vanish in a few years. That is, of course, deliberate, forcing designers to climb the curve of ever more expensive, exclusive components. Another component in this design, the FST3253, is also a figment of history: no longer produced. Electronics is a nasty rat race, with AD, for example, having bought literally all of their competitors except TI, we have an perfect ADC/DAC/op-amp oligopoly, with everything getting worse with each passing day. So the notion of a cheap, easily reproduced "crystal radio for the digital age" isn't actually workable: nothing you can dream up will be buildable more than 2-3 years after you design it as the components you've chosen cease to exist.
Don't forget the subscription on top of all that!

> forking over an extra $7.99 to unlock the good subclasses

They would never let them be that affordable again. Beyond dropped the "a la carte" option a while ago, you need to pay for a full book to get one thing from it (and if you pay extra, you can get access to the book you've already paid for two weeks earlier!).
Probably because it skip loops
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42208383

> Show HN: Llama 3.2 Interpretability with Sparse Autoencoders

> 579 points by PaulPauls 4 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 100 comments

> I spent a lot of time and money on this rather big side project of mine that attempts to replicate the mechanistic interpretability research on proprietary LLMs that was quite popular this year and produced great research papers by Anthropic [1], OpenAI [2] and Deepmind [3].

> I am quite proud of this project and since I consider myself the target audience for HackerNews did I think that maybe some of you would appreciate this open research replication as well. Happy to answer any questions or face any feedback.
The lunatic fringe is generally randos on social media, not people of authority in the Democratic party. Kamala wasn't in a position to kick them to the curb.
I suspect that’s what he means if it’s a cabal of users. Not necessarily a true organized group who have discussed it but a group that just acts in concert by all doing the same thing based on their viewpoint, and has enough clout that it causes this.
But you said in your comment that "it could be plus or minus 20% a different value, and the current Universe would still be feasible"
It probably wasn’t either inflation or Harris’s race, because the rightward swing was heavily skewed by race. Compared to 2016, all of Trump’s gain came from non-whites: https://static01.nyt.com/images/2025/03/18/opinion/18eks-sho....

Whites didn’t shift at all from 2016 to 2024. Latino moderates shifted 23 points to the right, and Asian moderates shifted 11 points to the right.

It’s hard to explain how inflation would cause a racially unbalanced shift like that. The 2016 election was a pretty neutral baseline—the economy was fine and had been for years. So if inflation was the cause, why didn’t white voters shift right compared to 2016? It doesn’t make sense that inflation would only cause hispanics and asians to shift right.

Likewise, if race was the reason, why didn’t white voters shift right, compared to 2016 when the candidate was a white woman? And why did black conservatives (a bloc about the same size as black liberals) shift 8 points to the right?
> Democratize ownership

I think there is another word for this.

read To The Finland Station by Edmund Wilson.

There are only a very few cases where Democratize ownership worked and it was under a benevolent dictator. After the dictator died, everything fell apart.
Republicans are trusted more on schools post-COVID and evidence is blue states lost more schooling progress than red state even if blue states were mostly ahead pre-COVID. (if you argue that we are not post-COVID, people are not going to trust you on schools even if the virus still lingers. As callous as it sounds, everybody dies, but not everybody gets a complete education and if you think the way the education-industrial complex thinks, students don’t get back social and educational progess they lost)
I am. I say hit everyone with a marginal land value tax rate too, so the more land value you own (even via partnerships), the higher your tax rate is.
Someone at Anthropic might've had a sense of humor when they named integrating LLMs with the outside world... after a pop-culture evil AI.

https://tron.fandom.com/wiki/Master_Control_Program

Don't hook up the MCP to any lab equipment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAcYUt2QbAo
CSV is a data-exchange format.
> But they are not robust long-term solutions.

Why not? Sure, they could be undone, but that's true for any law in a democracy.

> The US is deporting random immigrants to a concentration camp in El Salvador without due process claiming all of them are "gang members" with zero evidence.

Got some bad news for you if you think abuses of executive power like this aren't largely normal here.

Yes, it sucks, but my point was that the doomers couldn't disentangle a few very bad economic years from their highly motivated belief that the whole rotten system is gonna come crashing down Any Day Now, I Swear.
i don't see any war plans there just some flights schedule.

Reminds how in June 1941 Stalin had morning schedule for the June 22th of the German troops amassed near USSR border, yet he was saying it weren’t German war plans ...