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I strongly disagree. Commodification of education is very important. I want everyone to have the commodity reading writing arithmetic education. It might be faster for the student to give one on one teaching, but everyone needs this and I want it such a commodity that we give it to even the poorest "third world" kids who have nothing.

As you get beyond those basics you have to become an expert in something that there are few experts in. McDonald's success is mostly based on their ability to take you from zero to a productive crew member fast. It takes many years to make a brain surgeon, in large part because we haven't commodified it - if we needed more we should (but since the world doesn't really need many it isn't worth it)
What part of "the value of CSV is to have something that can be easily viewed and modified in any text editor" do you not understand
Thanks! Sometimes that stuff wanders around if you're not keeping a close eye on it...
Isn't there also the possibility that the US job market simply isn't doing to great at the moment and businesses are adjusting, or preparing for a downturn. In the case layoffs would be across the board, not just entry level or in the service industry. Perhaps the service industry and blue collar jobs have already been trimmed to the limit and knowledge work has simply been lacking. As pointed out, it easy enough, at least for a limited time, to simply not do stuff and just attempt to coast for a few quarters/years.

If it was truly a decline in knowledge work in general, it should be visible in other economies as well, but I don't think that's the case, at least not here in Denmark. Arguably we typically trend a bit behind the US, so it could be looming on the horizon.
Same for JSON though. What Python considers a valid JSON might not be that if you ask a Java library.
I'm guessing that the people who most espouse the virtues of AI do not "test" the output much and just let LLMs pump out errors.

I use LLM's daily, but as a tool to brainstorm, mostly, or to write small parts of scripts (e.g., shell, not TV shows). But everything has to be verified.

Last weekend I was using ChatGPT Music Teacher (or, trying to anyway) to prep some voice leading practices for guitar. I spent almost a half hour trying to get that model, then the base ChatGPT model to give correct information about inversions and the notes in the chords. It was laughably wrong over and over again.

It would misidentify chords, say that a chord had the base attributes of a triad (tonic, third, fifth) while giving me a chord shape that had the root twice, and a third, and calling that a second inversion. Or giving incorrect fret/note information.

If I didn't know theory and how intervals work on a guitar I would have been pretty screwed.

As it was, I wasted a half hour and never got anything usable.

I'm not saying that the technology isn't fairly amazing, but like, don't believe the hype.
The most corrupt immoral indecent stupid lunatic ever to rule in US history.
care to elaborate? is this like an engineer/innovator thing?

|CEO who isn't Sundar.
Just let the car go wherever it wants, faster than any human would anyway. Or - just let the fire exist in the background, it'll generate more heat than humans will ever need anyway.

The point isn't to make humans pointless. The point is to empower humans. We need to remain in control, and be the users of the tool, and not a tool for some mindless system.

Intelligence and consciousness are separate things - you can automate a lot of intelligence without having even rudimentary consciousness or self awareness - LLMs currently in operation are at most pseudo-conscious within their test-time contexts, and even then, every pass resets whatever awareness there might be. With millions of tokens context length, that might start to enter into the realm of a thing we should be concerned about, but even then, there's no ongoing persisted state to carry anything between passes aside from the text or image patch tokens or what have you.

What this means, essentially, is that we can augment our human capabilities without usurping the agency of some artificial being - these AIs are not individual moral agents in their own right, and likely will never be unless we specifically build that recursion and persistent state into the models, and incorporate a realtime adaptive self and world construct.

This means that the software is a tool - use the tool to augment your life and be a force multiplier in everything you do. The scope of intelligence augmentation has leapt from spreadsheets to nearly every cognitive domain in the human experience - people proficient with excel were better accountants than people using pen and paper. People using delivery vans are better than people using a horse and wagon. This new technology means that people using AI will be able to do more, faster, and likely better, than people who don't.

With neural lace - whatever form it ends up being - we'll end up with genuine exocortex augmentation. Even without that direct integration, however, the human in the loop is the entire point of this technology. There's a tiny list of things conscious machines might be good for, and all sorts of deep and obvious arguments for not creating a new, self aware, agentic species that's immediately in conflict with and on a trajectory to outcompete humans.

Use the tool of AI to be a force multiplier for everything in your life that AI is capable of handling well. This makes you a benevolent dictator for life in your own life, delegating everything that makes sense, working with it to free up your resources for the things that you decide are the highest priority. Spend more time brainstorming, building relationships, deploying resources, and getting the most out of being human. This is the promise of AI, and why people get excited about it. We're going to have a huge struggle, as humanity, in dealing the empowerment and amplification of everything in our lives. Making sure that we retain agency, that humans are ultimately in charge of our own destiny, is probably the most important principle to adhere to, above all others.
Yeah, but my writing style on personal projects comes in fits. I'm 2100 words in and only just got to the section on immediately visible effects of these policies, like the EU scouting domestic cloud capacity; this will be added to said section, obviously, along with other travel or commercial data I can get my hands on.

The CTA portion is pretty straightforward though, and worth sharing now: stop trying to revive a rotting corpse (America), and start figuring out what we can build to replace it that addresses its flaws and harms. Now's the time to do the big, hard work like equal rights, universal healthcare, eliminating monopolies, fixing taxation, limiting scope of government structures, reforming the MIC, streamlining immigration, protecting workers, etc, because the America of old is dead.

Grab the Constitution, hold a Congress of representatives put forward by like-minded states, and rebuild. It's what the Founding Fathers intended, after all, when their grand experiment finally ran its course. It wasn't the final deliverable, just version 1.0 - so now let's sit down and write version 2.0, a modern Constitution for a modern people.
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This isn’t true at all.

Quite a bias displaying username you have though.
TIL about shading, and am surprised how less I've seen this term in grading tutorials. While different, I feel like shading is something that should be learnt before grading.

PS You might have pasted two different answer drafts above. Paras 1,4 and 2,5 deliver similar information
"our vendor now matches the lightbox scripting to the language of the text on the webpage"

"The auto-translate pop-up may still be triggered on occasion, but the HTML in the survey wrapper prevents it from changing the content on the webpage."

I have no idea what either of these sentences mean, and they're both very important to the fix.
Startup idea: Farts_Mckensyly

Do all the work Farts_Mckensy does at half the price using AI.
If you are a white US citizen you have nothing to be concerned about.

Unless you have friends, family or empathy.
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Right - the JSON-newline equivalent of CSV can look like this:

["id", "species", "nickname"]
[1, "Chicken", "Chunky cheesecakes"]
[2, "Dog", "Wagging wonders"]
[3, "Bunny", "Hopping heroes"]
[4, "Bat", "Soaring shadows"]
OpenAI just announced support in their Agents SDK. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43485566 https://openai.github.io/openai-agents-python/mcp/
The only situation I can think of where a tab is not a tab, is in a code editor that's been configured (possibly by default) to use spaces instead. But that's an easy enough configuration to change. And certainly wouldn't be a problem for something like TextEdit.
Lovable, V0, etc. generate landing sites with slick design and easy editability. Startups are going to have such an easy time of product demo and marketing sites.

React is quickly falling to LLMs.

Rust, in my personal experience, not so much.
What conferences, if you're comfortable sharing? Or at least what category?
I’d say give it time. NotebooksLM probably gets rereleased with a new name. Simultaneous iOS release, giant press storm. Not attempting to do so is a mistake.

But yes, absolutely need new leadership. Nest/Pixel/etc are such a wasted opportunity tight now. The software layer is so disconnected between each component. As a dumb example im pretty sure you still can’t talk out of a hub max or tv remote into a nest cam, but can through the home app. The “it works in one place, but not another” prevents so much usability discovery for normal people.
You might have my favorite profile page here, with the exception of DonHopkins.

Just beautiful concepts, inspiring, and well-represented in this comment.

Peace be with you, my friend.
IMO C/C++ is not much better, sure, no central package management system, but then people rewrite everything because it's too hard to use a dependency. Now if you do want to use one of the 1000 rewrites of a library, you'll have a lot more checking to do, and integration is still painful.

Painless package management is a good thing. Central package repositories without any checking isn't. You don't have to throw away the good because of the bad.
I don’t see how you can take away that they bother me so much and I must have a thin skin. If I saw them in a work email I’d ignore them and move on. If one of my direct reports sent that to a coworker I’d take them to the side and remind them to not be a dick .

It’s perfectly possible to be firm and direct without insulting people.
I am absolutely gob smacked that every publication runs with the notion that this is something official from the eu. Weird asf.
I've recently been developing a raspberry pi based solution which works with telemetry logs. First implementation used an SQLite database (with WAL log) – only to find it corrupted after just couple of days of extensive power on/off cycles.

I've since started looking at parquet files – which turned out to not be friendly to append-only operations. I've ended up implementing writing events into ipc files which then periodically get "flushed" into the parquet files. It works and it's efficient – but man is it non-trivial to implement properly!

My point here is: for a regular developer – CSV (or jsonl) is still the king.
Well thanks for letting everyone know that you're one of the thin skinned victim playing anti-intellectualists Asimov (and many others) were warning us about. What is the term for "virtue signaling" when you're signaling the exact opposite of virtue?
I always liked that on SuSE, I had my choice with YaST of either the Ncurses interface or the GUI X Window System. The functionality was identical, but sometimes a GUI is pleasant.
Hell, you might end up in a Salvadoran prison providing forced labor.
Well, Republicans seem to believe that Russia is a democracy.
I'm curious how much review happens in Nix packages. It seems like individual packages have maintainers (who are typically not the software authors). I wonder how much latitude they have to add their own patches, change the source repo's URL, or other sneaky things.
But they can already do that, because most people and apps (outside China and maybe some other regions) expect Google Play/Play Services to be present.
Ask HN: Have Canadians stopped applying to YC for funding?
I wonder what the percentage drop is.
> We aren't all perfect in communication all the time, even the most ideal professionals. A large part of good discourse is accepting reasonable amounts of people being human and de-escalating smaller perceived slights naturally before declaring the conversation can't be stood for.

Do you not rink its fair to say that Linus has a track record of provoking that sort of behaviour?
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My comment was made in jest
As a Canadian I'm not comfortable taking my kids to the states. We had Florida booked for march break (booked it back in October), but we cancelled.

We did something else instead, and the kids had fun, so w/e. It's just not that compelling to visit the states right now. There are a lot of alternatives.

I actually do think we're being too cautious, but I just didn't want to have to follow the reality tv show you call news to see which way the wind was blowing every day.
You're some rando on the internet, while the current American government is making a big show about ignoring the rule of law when it comes to deporting people. Nothing you say is going to reassure anybody. Hell, nothing anybody says is going to reassure anyone, from past presidents to the Speaker of the House to SCOTUS justices.
Maybe the substrate will be flesh.
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Biggest target had biggest number of issues?
Trump Admin Plans to Cut Team Responsible for Critical Atomic Measurement Data
What tariffs do you want dropped? Please be specific. The vast majority of US and Canadian trade has been tariff-free since the 1980s when the US-Canada Free Trade Agreement was signed.

USMCA is also up for renegotiation in 2026, so if the US is upset about tariffs on things like dairy, the appropriate venue would be to negotiate at that time. The US already agreed to the existing tariff structure when the first USMCA deal was signed in 2018 under the previous Trump administration.

To specifically address dairy tariffs, US dairy in Canada is actually currently tariff-free because there is a volume cap and the tariffs only apply when that volume cap is exceeded. Currently the US is only using about 40% of that cap.

Finally, the U.S. President is extremely serious about his annexation threats. He said this multiple times, it's not a joke. We do not treat it as a joke in Canada. Please do not insult us by trying to gaslight us.
It’s way more ubiquitous now than it was when I was using it in college in the 2010s. An underrated growth story IMO.
I don't think there's a better search engine than Google, there I said it.
Sure it's filled with spam, but I find it hard to believe something like Bing is more likely to give me what I'm searching for than Google. Its more than just a search engine, I use it for routes (maps), bus and train times, finding businesses close to me etc etc. It became a whole ecosystem that's not going to be that easy for a rival to outperform.
The few times I tried Bing it looked very low quality compared to Google.

And even if Bing improved immensely, it just took them way too long. 20 years after Google is just too late to the party. I have really formed a habit quite strong now that I need a compelling reason to switch to Bing/Whatever - and what is that reason again?

This is simply not the case with ChatGPT / Gemini. They are likely equal now, so Google was perhaps 1-2 years late to the party. I think many people haven't formed a strong habit yet of which A.I to use.
Quality is its own property separate from its creator. If a machine writing something bothers you irrespective of quality then don't read it. You think i would care ? I would not.

If this ever gets good enough to write your next bestseller or award winner, i might not even share it and if i did, i wouldn't care if some stranger read it or not because it was created entirely for my pleasure.
Canadians are pissed about the annexation threats and the trade dispute. The stories of detention are also bothersome.
Hey HackerNews, last month, Kaneo, my pet project which is open source ended up here.
I saw a wide amount of reactions and these past weeks I took all your suggestions and tried to do as much as possible. It's a pet project where I try to give people valuable software which will always be free.

In the upcoming week, I plan to add a GitHub integration and of course, make this a better project as time goes on.

If you suggested something previously, I want to thank you and I'll try to get back to y'all as much as possible.
I was kind of offended by this with React Router version 6.4 and again when I saw the library/framework split with version 7, but without having time to switch I've found that the things like loaders and fetchers and useMatches and BrowserRouters are just what I should be doing, ergonomic and useful. Adjusting to them is moving my app forward.
Google is focused on enterprises. They’re like Apple where PR disasters hurt them — if your Google phone tells you to eat rocks or writes fanfic porn, that’s a huge deal. Consumer is a risk to them.

ChatGPT and Grok are edgier and they are just burning cash - any attention is good.

I wouldn’t underestimate them. Microsoft’s shitshow with Azure (they have like 9 different Azures) makes delivery difficult (some Azure clouds delayed AI tech for 6-9 months) when they are relying on constrained product from Nvidia. They also have some level of exposure to the OpenAI circus and its included Musk v. Sam Altman drama.

Google has a much better supply chain and return on asset story, which is a big deal if you’re selling shovels.
Thats beautifully put.

I’m almost tempted to print it out and frame it.
> a country which is unilingual English by policy?

To be clear the US only has a unilingual policy because Trump signed an executive order this year (and I believe even this SCOTUS would strike the order down as unconstitutional if anyone had standing to sue over it).

The US has always been de facto unilingual, but de jure we don't have an official language since Trump has no legal authority to establish that. The "policy" is political and legally empty.
I looked at your profile, we are.
For a regime that's brazenly breaking the law, the upper boundary to what they can do to you is unlimited.

If they can put people onto an airplane and fly them to a Salvadoran gulag in the middle of recess in a court case about how they can't do that - and then laugh about it - the law is very clearly not a limit they care about.

I have doubts that waving your passport or your service medals in their face will at the end of the day, prove very convincing either.
Trade routes as we know them today are made possible by Pax Americana, which is fading as we speak.
> Being a warm body to expand the size of some middle managers fiefdom—that is not a job that can be taken by AI, right?

If you over-hired and now need to layoff people, because founding and cheap loans aren't available, then AI provides a convenient excuse. You don't have to admit that you paid people to do nothing/very little for the last ten year.
Rachel has posted a follow-up:

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/03/26/atop/

> user1 does something... and gets user2 to blow up. If you can make that do something useful, then you get user2 to run stuff on your behalf.
Insurance. One of the core pillars of insurance tech is the CSV format. You'll never escape it.
Is any serious person thinking that the U.S. would or wants to annex Canada. It’s absurd on its face. Trump was just trolling the PM.
That's an ad, plain and simple, and as such can't be taken seriously.

> When we reached 100 million vector embeddings, query latency spiked to over a second, something far beyond what our customers would tolerate.

I don't know what else they were doing but 1000 msec latency for 100 million embeddings... that's definitely not on pgvector.
really like this plug and play approach!
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>OpenAI's human faces look almost real.

Not sure, I tried a few generations, and it still produces those weird deformed faces, just like the previous generation: https://imgur.com/a/iKGboDH Yeah, sometimes it looks okay.

YandexArt for comparison: https://imgur.com/a/K13QJgU
The linked article (https://www.oag.com/blog/canada-us-airline-capacity-aviation...) says they have.

> the table below shows that over 320,000 seats have been removed by airlines operating between the two countries through to the end of October

And given the focus is on summer flights that haven't happened yet, those cutbacks would largely be in the future.
According to the Luciteria listing linked by other commenters, this was a microscopic sample of plutonium, as plutonium oxide, enclosed as part of an old Soviet smoke detector. It's like the radioactive americium source used in modern smoke detectors but made with an element one atomic number lower.

A plutonium bomb core requires a mass of several kilograms. This sample was 35 nanograms, or about 11 orders of magnitude away from being a nuclear weapons proliferation risk. The authorities might as well accuse someone of running a biological warfare program for having bacteria on their house's doorknobs.

In addition to the minute quantity, this analysis of a Soviet smoke detector source shows that the plutonium was mixed isotopes, containing only about 73% Pu-239:

https://carlwillis.wordpress.com/2017/02/07/analysis-of-sovi...

It is not weapons grade plutonium, though it is higher in Pu-239 than plutonium from modern spent reactor fuel.
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the VM/runtime need to be open source

Isn't ART Apache 2-licensed? They don't have to provide the source. I don't see why they would completely close it though. It would lead to forks, plus they have a lot of control through Google Play Services etc. already.
Apparently ~4000 new ones are issued to Canadians every year. Canadians have access to TN though which is way easier to get. I imagine everyone on a visa is strongly reconsidering any non-essential travel outside the US and giving the border guards an accompanying attempt to screw you.
Canadian here, I'd be pretty surprised to see a change prohibiting americans from coming here. The political discourse here is pretty strongly against the current US government (because of threats of annexation), and in support of measures to protect ourselves against that (disentangling our economy and military), but we are also pretty clear that the average American who visits Canada is not responsible for that, not necessarily in favor of that, and might well be fleeing policies of the same US government we are acting to protect ourselves against.
Meta (FB at the time) had a cool internal page as well with LLM chatbots. Personalities and the like. It was neat but not a product. We were all still reeling from Tay.