skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because people have memory that lasts longer than a goldfish’s. People remember the DNC and its politicians hyperfocusing on controversial social issues for the last decade to the exclusion of everything else. They remember Kamala’s fringe and cringe positions and statements from her California and 2019 campaigns and don’t believe she’s a proud gun owning moderate that just wants to make government work for us. Bonus, she couldn’t think of anything she would do differently than Biden when asked in an interview, tanking her perception as a leader.
It can, but Claude 3.7 is the best model for it right now. Using other models with mycoder right now is just an exercise in frustration. I will fix that eventually.
> If it’s 100% accurate, it’s a fantastic time saver. If it is anything less than 100% accurate, it’s useless.

I don't think 100.0% accuracy is a reasonable requirement for anything. Should at the very least be "do I end up with the correct information more often than when I don't use this tool", and realistically there's also going to be some case-dependent trade-off between accuracy and convenience. Maybe for language translation a professional human translator is 98% accurate compared to 95% for an LLM/transformer, but the latter is far more accessible to most people to the extent that such tools see frequent usage; it feels a mistake to rule it out as "useless" when a huge number of people are already making use of it.
> Unless you want to play with no book, no minis, no map, and a completely home-brewed campaign with all bespoke characters and stories.

Honestly, with some of the books they've published for 5e, you're probably still half-way to homebrew if you do pay them. It's pretty frustrating that there's such huge holes in a lot of the first-party content. And we've been having a lot of fun drawing on dry-erase battle maps and paper minis.
It’s more about long term, but I see what you mean about lighting a fire under butts.

One of the most eye opening discoveries for me on my urbanism journey is how Amsterdam got better. It wasn’t always a bicycle paradise; its city center had massive parking lots, huge roads, and a poor pedestrian environment.

But today it’s much different — because policies were enacted decades ago which ensure roads are re-configured when it’s time to replace them. So over time, the city has become better.

These long-term policies are deeply important. We didn’t get into the current situation because someone woke up and decided housing scarcity would be cool. It happened after decades of planning and building under policies which seemed like the future 60 years ago, but have become unsustainable. Parking minimums don’t instantly turn your town into a parking lot — it takes decades as buildings are replaced and more and more land is carved out for parking.

So yes, YIMBY doesn’t instantly solve the crisis, and we need to do more. But over time, as houses and lots sell, people remodel and build, the financial incentive to make more housing units available is very strong —- so over many years, things will definitely densify.
Interesting, how does it compare to Inngest and DBOS?
The U.S. Constitution didn't survive 7 generations. The Civil War was in 1865 (77 years, ~4 generations).

I know the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the US Constitution are often considered America's Second Founding because they legally eliminated [1] all the elements of racism within the United States Constitution, but saying that the Constitution "didn't survive" doesn't see accurate...

[1] That being said we all know that it took many many decades after those 3 amendments for the laws in the United States to accurately reflect the principles embodied within these amendments.
Thank you so much!

I'm going to hook a backend up to have AI generate patterns.

I like the idea of positive and negative matching :)
This is entirely false. Centrist liberal politicians in general, and Kamala in particular, promote the idea that everyone is already doing great, and just doing what we're already doing is good enough. There were no major programs or overhaul of existing new programs of any kind in the Harris campaign. There were some ideas that Waltz floated initially, but he was quickly quieted down in favor of the pro status quo message.
I'd love to see the results of some kind of sentiment analysis on HN comments over time. My hunch is that HN's user base has gotten deeply more rightwing over the years, similar to what's happening in many other online communities. Related to getting more rightwing: I'd also guess (without knowing the data) that the flagging:user activity ratio has steadily grown over the years. HN users are no longer willing to simply downvote comments/articles they disagree with and move on. We are becoming more interested in attempting to silence these comments/articles via flagging.
Your assumptions are wrong. Kamala lost because of inflation during the Biden admin and some related missteps. Also her gender and skin color likely worked against her.

Also you're misreading my point, campaigning on these things isn't a panacea, but delivering on them just might be.
> The CCP's dystopian AI plot to turn the world into China

taipeitimes.
Ignoring for a moment their training, how do they function? They do seem to output a limited selection of text at a time (be it a single token or some larger group).

Maybe it is the wording of "trained to" verses "trained on", but I would like to know more why "trained to" is an incorrect statement when it seems that is how they function when one engages them.
A good shill won't always toe the line. That would be too obvious.

A shill should levy just enough dissent to retain some credibility among the most credulous. Usually by piling on to obviously losing causes. For instance if someone were an Apple shill, saying that the App Store review process is broken, the royalty split is untenable, XCode is shite and Apple's AI has been pretty bad are all obvious positions to take. These are blatant, undeniable positions.

Someone could have those public positions and still be a shill.

Is Gruber a shill? I mean, he seems entire dependant upon the Apple fanbase[1] for his income, and a lot of his credibility comes from access that Apple directly grants him. They give him products. He gets to host his "Talk Show" live at WWDC. He has done a number of interviews with Apple executives. He seems pretty firmly attached to the Apple teat and they serve up a supply of nutritious milk for him.

The base post was flagged, presumably because it used the shill label, but it's pretty hard to get away from it. And maybe that's perfectly fine, and the industry has a lot of shills for different things and we all factor in where they're coming from. Most HNers expect a "rose coloured glasses about Apple" perspective from Gruber, so it is weighted against the content.

[1] The Apple fanbase are a subset of Apple users. I'm typing this on an M4 Mac. My iPhone and iPad sit beside me. I'm a subscriber to Apple One Premier. Yet I'm not a fan. I don't, for instance, care at all how much profit Apple makes, much less excitedly gloating about what percentage of the market's profit they make. Nor do I get angry that Samsung copied some UI element or phone shape. Those are fan type topics.
Archived: https://archive.org/details/msmath4
excellent post. i think the lesson is a good one: it's better to have less bugs than more bugs, and for some users, it would still have had an annoying bug.
I was recently writing a parser for a weird CSV. It had multiple header column rows in it as well as other header rows indicating a folder.
I could see about making the initial one more difficult or let the user pick a difficulty level.

I love the wordle-like approach idea!!!
Starlink Enters Transit Market with Community Gateways
Reactionary losers. Virtue signaling Luddite tattletales. “AI safety” is a heavily coded term used to seize regulatory power and push one’s worldview on others.
There is a fringe wing of the democrat party that loves social issues and is an outsized fraction of the "community organizing" base they use to do things like canvassing and other forms of volunteering. These people need politicians to at least prove their "purity" on social issues, even on issues that are very unpopular.

This is analogous to the hyper-religious wing of the republican party. They also like to get involved and volunteer, but they demand a certain stance on social issues, too.
A more sceptical view:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/space-based-solar-power-2667878868
seconded, that's some classic linnell right there!
The closer you get to natural science, eventually reliance on logical troubleshooting can be "illogical".

The more abundant the undefined (mis)behavior, the more you're going to be tearing your hair out.

Almost the kind of frustration where you're supposed to have a logic-based system, and it rears it ugly head and defies logic anyway :\
The comment is saying that liberal politicians should be

>prioritizing housing, infrastructure and government services supporting people's economic activity of all kinds.

Nothing about what you mentioned at all. Nor did I ever claim Kamala ran on what you said. The fact that you and the commenter have different ideas of what rational policies are and assume politicians should be running on that platform is part of the bias. You assume that most people want the same thing as you but most people don’t. The majority actually enjoy social issues.
I didn't study classical, but I was watching some YouTube channel by someone with graduate degree in classical. He offhand mentioned that many of the "compositions" of guys like Chopin were actually improvisations that were later transcribed. I've heard similar tales of Bach, especially his ability to improvise complex fugues on the spot as a sort of party trick.

I just mean to say, I don't think there is a clear divide between a classical mentality for composition and a modern mentality. It is just we study classical hundreds of years after the fact and that academization of the music has lent a particular view to it. If we study metal in a hundred years the same way we study classical (or jazz) it may seem just as rigid.
> the only purpose of software is automation and the only purpose of automation is labor elimination

This point is so wrong.

Software/information machines also eliminate errors and reduce latency. There are other benefits. Sometimes they eliminate unnecessary labor as a side effect.

My observation is that software that attempts to replace people dies and the software that persists elevates people. It helps them concentrate. Good software helps people focus even better on the problems they are solving by eliminating or dissolving the noise into the background.
Evolution of Tech Jobs (2020)
I remember being ridiculed on reddit back when I posted this.
>I'm not sure many American's even realise how god awful their setup is.

The vast majority of average americans don't leave the town/city/area they grew up in. They have NO CLUE what the world is like, other than what they glean from hollywood, and "American exceptionalism" is an absurdly effective propaganda campaign.
I didn't think of that! I'd definitely be interested in an Elixir MCP. And thank you for pointing out the Phoenix/Elixir block. You'll find me lurking in the Discord.
Taking Back Childhood from Phones–Finally
Already posted:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43486328
This is the very difficult part: people adept at manipulation tend to be highly intelligent. Simply spending time with a good manipulator is dangerous. The only good metric I know here is the old saying "the key purpose of an education is to be able to recognize one in others." Good communicators also sort out weasels via their lack of distinct language and similar tells.
William Storr has written about this and gives three different styles of social “currency”: dominance, virtue, and success.

Capitalism favors success and dominance over virtue, but some social subsets (eg clergy) get status through virtue.
what are ADUs?
Congrats guys on the release I love this!! :D
> I did not share an opinion. Simply stated two events that were a matter of fact. Yet someone I am being downvoted for this.

If you're completely avoiding any opinions or implications, then a fact about another country lacks relevance to the article. And comments lacking relevance generally get a downvote.
My journey building a popular Agent Library
Hi HN,

I’m Ashpreet, creator of Agno, one of the most widely used libraries for building Agentic Systems. Today, we announced General Availability, and I wanted to share some insights and lessons from my 2-year journey building Agentic Systems.

I’d love your feedback and I’m happy to answer any questions!

Thank you for reading,
Ashpreet
> In this system, a buyer buys real estate and then pays the seller a rent for the rest of that person's life, typically while the person continues to occupy the real estate. Then, when the person dies, the buyer takes the real estate.

We have that in the US, it's called a reverse mortgage. Generally it's large investment companies doing the buying, but I don't think there is any real reason why normal people couldn't do it. The downside is that it's sort ripe for abuse where the large companies doing the buying can take advantage of the elders needing money.
Overturning Citizens United would do very little for housing in the US, because the housing crisis is the result of every major US city simultaneously but individually punching themselves in the face with zoning and regulations. The only way out of that is to motivate people to act at the local level.
In the field of AI wishful mnemonics is the rule, arguments about prescription are of limited value.

CoT scratch space extends LLMs from DLOGTIME-UNIFORM TC0 to PTIME with polynomial sized scratch space.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.02393

Yes prompt engineering is probably better though of as prompt augmentation or stearing.

But the systems identification problem and Rice's theorm rigorously debunk the above links core claims.

It is a craft that can improve domain specificity and usefulness.

All models are wrong (even formalized engineering ones), but some are useful.

The price one has to pay when resorting to what is fundamentally compression as PAC Learning is, that it is fundamentally unstable under perturbations.

You are basically searching through a hay stack with a magnet, and making sure that at least one of the needles you find is the correct one is a symantic property. Guiding the approximate retrieval process to improve your results will always be a craft.

The snake oil is mostly on the side that claims that unrestricted natural language is a possibility. We still only have NLP, and true human level NLU is still thought to be beyond the limits of computation IMHO.

Thus prompt augmentation is a consequence of the argument that link was trying to make.
What? The "article" is from anthropic, so I think they would know what they write about.

Also, RL is an additional training process that does not negate that GPT / transformers are left-right autoencoders that are effectively next token predictors.

[Why Can't AI Make Its Own Discoveries? — With Yann LeCun]
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvNCVYkHKfg)
Kamala was too little too late. No candidate was going to work for democrats coming into the presidential race so close to the election.
Parameter-free KV cache compression for memory-efficient long-context LLMs
The old slow way of doing things is deeply embedded in the organizational DNA of Arianespace (and ULA.). It would actually be easier for a brand new company to do it than one of these legacy behemoths (particularly Arianespace, which is dragged down by the international way in which they build.)

Arianespace is so thoroughly broken that they genuinely believed that reusability, if they could even accomplish it, would be bad for their business because it would reduce the number of rockets they build. Bonkers.
An author reacts after finding 15 publications used by Meta to train its AI
I think the difficulty comes from it being context dependent, it's not a consistent distortion of the true image the way most projections are, it identifies synthetic structures in the foreground and warps everything else (including similar structures in the background) around them. It should be possible for an AI filter though.
> (or place the assets in a trust)

This is key. I wish the elders in my family had done that. You don't even need to have a ton of assets for it to be worth it to protect them that way.
The balance simple - renters have total rights as long as they pay on time and there is no damage on the property except normal wear and tear and 0 when when not paying. You as landlord can't say anything as long as the property is not damaged for the duration of the contract. You always renegotiate at market rates. There is no concept of squatting and evictions are fast.

That's it. Works like a charm. No bullshits like rent control or whatever.
When everything else is starving, it doesn't make sense to keep sports constantly upgrading
Okay, that sounds cool. I hope I will be able to take advantage of this. Right now I am using LLMs (sadly not local, can't afford GPUs, my PC is pretty obsoleted).
If you can figure out how to include real meat and still account for dietary preferences and allergies for the entire student populace for $2.15 a day then you should publish a book.
> super futuristic if not cyberpunk

Probably closer to retro-futurism x club culture
> There's a general fear of being a landlord. Tenants have a lot of legal rights, and the risk of inviting someone onto your property who could start squatting or doing drugs and not being able to evict them is beyond the pale for most families.

Yes, there's no chance I'm going to rent an ADU under these incredibly tenant-biased regulations as in California. I have to be able to evict people at the end of their lease for any reason if they are going to be in an ADU on my property.
> Yet "tangled up in social issues" remains a popular misconception. Why?

Do you think declaring their preferred pronouns helped liberal politicians? Who did it ultimately help? Probably the Trump campaign.

Also, "defund the police" is easily the stupidest political slogan ever. It's bewildering. Did no one think "Reform the police" was a winner? And yet liberal politicians lapped it up.
The Synthetic Lender of Last Resort
https://archive.ph/WYsaB
Am I reading right, a new product has only 'burn to CD' as a way to listen offline? Haven't had a CD player in the house for a decade or more. Why not just cut a wax cylinder?
A good section to have is one on concept/process issues you encountered, which I think is a generalization of your question about panic.

For instance, you might be mistaken about the operation of a system in some way that prolongs an outage or complicates recovery. Or perhaps there are complicated commands that someone pasted in a comment in a Slack channel once upon a time and you have to engage in gymnastics with Sloogle™ to find them, while the PM and PO are requesting updates. Or you end up saving the day because of a random confluence of rabbit holes you'd traversed that week, but you couldn't expect anyone else on the team to have had the same flash of insight that you did.

That might be information that is valuable to document or add to training materials before it is forgotten. A lot of postmortems focus on the root cause, which is great and necessary, but don't look closely at the process of trying to stop the bleeding.
It's not really surprising that places with the most onerous "tenants rights" regimes have the biggest problems with housing inventory. I wish the people enacting these laws understood that for every squatter or rent deadbeat you prevent a landlord from evicting, there's a hundred potential landlords that just say no thanks I'll just leave my property empty.

https://www.pacificresearch.org/time-to-ask-why-so-many-san-...
Sorry to be the debby downer, but this feels completely irrelevant to HN. Why on earth is this allowed to fly? Is there some context that I'm missing?
I wonder if that's only about direct current. The higher frequency is AC, the more it conducts on sides of the wire (hence insulated strands). So I wouldn't be surprised by their discovery if we talked about very high frequency AC.

But since it all reversed here it might by opposite for AC in their case.

UPDATE: paper says something about RF (radio frequency), but I'm not sure I understand what it means, looks more like manufacturing process.
It's Xen, and they even explain why it's not KVM here: https://github.com/edera-dev/krata/blob/main/FAQ.md
You can have that indirection itself in a data element that does the lookup of the image and returns the digest: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws/latest...

So the data element would lookup the tag, and the specific hash is used in the deployment. No funky replace triggers needed.
Scaring politicians misses the mark. Incumbent homeowners often block change too, fearing value dips more than scarcity's fallout.

Maybe just cutting red tape isn't enough push. What if we need structural leverage? Think broader checks & balances, and empowering citizens and maybe even corps to pressure each other and politicians directly. Make everyone with skin in the game actually fear the status quo because other players have real teeth, not just politicians worried about votes.
This just in... /s

Seriously though, Sullivan lost his appeal. You should have read up on this.

https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/us...
"investing" is a strong word, when you can get really good microphones for $50-100.
> Regardless of parent's bile, it's kinda hard to avoid Samsung products without living in a cabin in the woods

Not everybody is an Apple fan.
Marketing is the manipulation of people for gain. Sounds like a great fit for AI.
I live in Portland and own my house. I'd love to put in an ADU and rent to some of my friends but it's pretty expensive and I can't afford it.
1/ pre-trained models don't know current weather

2/ easy enough for people to understand
What's the point of this when Claude isn't open sourced and we just have to take Anthropic's word for it?
As someone who owns a second house on a farm that has two rental units in it, I’m skeptical of attempts to expand ‘tenant rights’ in New York.

I had a tenant who decided that he did not have to pay the rent, it took months of trying to reason with him, we hired a lawyer and went through the process which took several months, in the end the tenant stayed on a few months past what would have been the eviction date but at least he was paying rent. Between that and another tenant losing her shit we lost at least a years rent plus still have a unit vacant even though we have been using the time to catch up on maintainance.

I’ve seen other small landlords in the same situation where they were psychologically devastated by the process of dealing with a bad tenant and evicting them. Right now my wife is helping a friend who inherited two homes from their parents who recently passed away which might have been a takeaway and not a gift because she has yet to clean up the mess left behind and struggles to with precarity (doesn’t have a working car, can’t find the title abstract and will have to cough up a few $1000 to be able to sell, …) renting the place out for a few years made some money but probably resulted in lost value in selling it.

The juiciest gossip in our small town us that the owner of an equipment rental company (probably able to afford to do it right) attempted an illegal ‘self-help” eviction by crashing into the building with a backhoe which is not only an own goal in terms of property damage but could probably cost $10,000 or more in court. (A friend of our who has struggled with homelessness got a settlement of that much for being illegally evicted by the homeless shelter when it closed but then struggled to cash the check because he had no bank account an no id to create a bank account…)