skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What exactly is your setup and use-case? Are you using Claude Desktop/Cursor? What kind of prompts does it allow you to do?

I tried a bit with the filesystem-mcp server but claude ended up using it when I didn't really want it to, and even tried to write files instead of simply responding in code fragements that I wanted to wire up myself.

I feel like once your project has any meaningful size no MCP server is going to be able to actually find the relevant context by itself, so you're better of providing it yourself (at least via the @ syntax in cursor)
No, I was a member of, and worked with a number of unions in heavy industry. After that experience I would never join or work with another union.
When I first heard of this I thought it was kinda crazy, who would do a payment plan to get some overpriced takeout delivered food. But like you pointed out, it's more or less the same as a credit card, which I didn't even think of. I guess credit cards are so normalized and has the option to pay it all off at once. Good point!
The steam engine came about due to the spread of shipworms. Ships need copper shielding against that, thus mining deep, thus industrial revolution. First comes the demand.

Which came about by the merchant fleet of the British empire.
Pain is relative to experience and tolerance. Using patient input is inherently flawed.
I only have nightmare memories, I was way too young to process what I saw :-(

I also found the Reichsparteitagsgelände (Nazi Party Rally Grounds) permanent exhibition the most useful content I was exposed to: they really show how fake news on all available channels and mega-church style mass entertainment were key to overturn a democracy and enable the atrocities. that and first bullying and then eradication of opposition.

I'd really hope US up their resistance and democracy protection game at this point in time. I'm afraid. As in existential fear.
It's completely different. Sure, someone can specifically target me and get my DNA, but they can't trawl for me in an existing database.
Ah yes, "cancel culture" - formerly known as "consequences".
> It might take a miracle for the code to get adopted upstream by the Linux Mafia, though

The basic building block is containerization/namespacing, which has been adopted upstream. If your app is properly containerized, you can use the CRIU featureset (which is also upstream) to checkpoint it and migrate it to another node.
Well, my replacement cycle is > 1 year and I have found that the suppliers on Amazon have a shorter life than that. I've ordered a full set of replacements twice and the last was from a seller named CMYBabee. After about a year the magenta started transferring toner to whatever I was printing. I was in the middle of printing tax returns and just went to the nearest Best Buy and bought an HP replacement.

I should add that I sent a note to the vendor about the problem and they were eager to send a replacement. I didn't bother since I was already set.
I'm not commenting on the wisdom of buying pizza on credit...I'm just saying that I struggle to see a difference between someone quietly buying pizza at 24.99% interest on their Mastercard and someone using Klarna to do the same thing at the point of purchase.
> [*] KOG = Kindly Old Gentleman: Of those four things, he was at most two.

I must not be hip to the joke. What's the fourth thing?
They're also likely cheating on their taxes. The cash only places I use frequently pretend to complete transactions on their cash register rather than committing the transaction.
You can already kind of replace that core on a form-by-form basis in plain Lisp by redefining EVAL and APPLY, and passing whatever forms you do not care about redefining to the original versions of them.
From your link

> Do European countries appear to perform worse than White Americans in standardized tests because of low-performing immigrants?

You are literally citing material that compares as race segregated US to other countries as wholes.

I have a lot of very smart American friends, from all across the political spectre.

I have mostly worked for us companies.

And luckily you are not representative of the average American.
What exactly do you find "snide" or "sarcastic?"

The thesis of TFA is that their faith motivated the crimes. You can't tell the story without talking about how they choose to practice their faith.
The "heist", which presumably gets covered in part 2, is that a lot of these items were originally looted from Iraq after the US invasion in 2003. US Customs ended up seizing a lot of them, and about 15,000 items ended up having to be returned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobby_Lobby_smuggling_scandal
For reasons I’ve never dug into, NorCal has a rich history of people banding together to do goofy things. Cults? Where better to start one?

(It’s one of the reasons I love it here. That same energy manifests amazing art, hackerspaces, meetups, and other fun things.)
So the echo chamber's reaction when called an echo chamber is to.... behave even more like an echo chamber? And I'm the one in the wrong for it?
It won't be much different from human computers in that regard, isn't after all what everyone is looking for as replacement?
If you used a wheel to move something heavy from one place to another, you're a transhuman.

If you used fire to disinfect your recently caught prey, you're a transhumanist.

If you read a book ..

The only conclusion to be made from this article, is that humans have been on a transformation treadmill for a long, long time - long enough that we can no longer recognize transformation when we see it, or we are so tired of acknowledging it that we just don't any more, or such that we need to see it before we believe it is happening - i.e. next years new iPhone purchase, etc.
To be fair, tons of companies flag their promotional newsletters as transactional urgent act immediately. It's not hard to see why users don't really react to emails anymore
The purchasing power of the average American is much higher than the average European.
Not everyone agrees, see Linus.
The belief that using technology to improve one's life is a good idea is an ideology regardless of whether you like giving it a label.
> I must not be hip to the joke. What's the fourth thing?

Kindly. Old. Gentle. Man.
Plant-based plastics could help reduce the medical waste hospitals generate
I have two more questions.

1. Does it ever expire?

2. What would you do exactly if you were to lose the hardware key? Same thing as if you lost your id_ed25519 file?

> Key rotation should be fast, painless, and regular.

I agree. Right now I keep changing the expiry date of my GPG keys (once in a good while).
Parser is one of the show cases of the fundamental language approach to not have "code" and "data" but only have data, which might occasionally be interpreted using different parsers.

One example I don't think you can reproduce with macros is something like this (I don't have Red at hand)

args: [x y] # these are literal items, like quote in lisps
code: [x * y]

my_func: func args code
print my_func 5 10 # prints 50
Well, when you put it like that, it doesn't not sound like a cult at all.
> at least here in the US

I didn't realize that you spoke for everyone. Maybe you were taught that info by your instructor, but that doesn't mean everyone followed a similar format.
> It does not.

Yes it does. I am the one controlling robots.txt on my server. I can put whatever user agent I want into my robots.txt, and I can block as much of my page as I want to it.

People can argue semantics as much as they want...in the end, site admins decide what's in robots.txt and what isn't.

And if people believe they can just ignore them, they are right, they can. But they are gonna find it rather difficult to ignore when fail2ban starts dropping their packets with no reply ;-)
I know a lot more people that aren't bothered to even to try to learn something new, than stupid people. It takes serious effort to change your mind if you are already 'convinced'. Some people ground their convincement by repeating the same thing over and over again. It becomes part of their identity, making the effort of seeing things from a different angle almost impossible.
They were neck-and-neck in 2008. The gradual accumulation of regulatory restrictions limiting contract freedom, and taxes, turned the tide.
I'm on a OnePlus 12 and the site seems too wide / off center with some of the first button off screen.
My history teacher in middle school really liked to tell us the idea of "historical determinism" whenever an individual appeared to have changed the course of history. Of course that theory doesn't place enough emphasis on individual effort or even their free will. But I guess I appreciated the alternate viewpoint.
Of course, there's the C Major thing :)

And I didn't know about Movable Solfège, thanks! I'll have to study that.

But, to put it in audio perspective rather than comparing words and letters, why is the note that corresponds to 440 Hz named A and not F -- implying that, going lower and lower from 440 Hz for each note, 261.63 Hz would not be named C but rather A instead.

Or, to use maybe a comparison that would work from whence those two notation systems were created/named (I figure with a keyboard nearby), why is the first note of a standard piano octave (you know, this: [1]) labelled C and not A? Since it's the first note of the octave and since the German system is using the alphabet (which, well, starts with A), wouldn't it have made sense to have that first octave piano key be labelled A too :)

[1]: https://www.hellosimply.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/...

I've seen this conversation several times online, and it's funny to see how participants cannot agree on what is being talked about here, and no conclusion is reached. So I'm aware that I might be asking a super dumb beginner question, but I really do wonder why Do=C and not Do=A.

Don't hesitate to slap me with a "origins of musical notation systems" link, I love to read about music and history :)
This is basically the debate between Alan Kay and Rich Hickey... on HN, almost a decade ago :-)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11945722

The key idea is (bare) data -vs- objects (which encapsulate data and let you interpret/interact with it).
That was who I was referring to as well.
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How do you think about core business logic (or at least, _significant_ business logic) being embedded within prompts like here: https://github.com/langmanus/langmanus/blob/main/src/prompts...

Do you think or worry about not-being able to test these things? (Or is that just me :))

Details:
I ack/understand this comes from a dependency (ReAct agents); not directly langmanus.

But, still, curious what the community/hn-tech thinks of testability, veracity, potentially conflicting or overlapping instructions across agents, etc, wrt “prompts” as sources of logic. Ack its a general practice with LLMs.
okay. And BigCo wasn't always bigco, right? It shouldn't be a surpise many in this community may have experiences going back 15,20,30+ years in a completely different tech landscape. I envy that, but what can you do?
Right that's a different critique of the whole methodology that also should get made.
I think it really is a problem if they're getting artifacts without clear provenance. They've had to return some manuscripts, and I thought that they'd cleaned up their acquisition process. But perhaps not?

https://www.christianitytoday.com/2020/04/bible-museum-steve...

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-museum-bible-w...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/museum-of-the-bibl...
Sounds like you're saying Tesla has been a pump and dump stock all along.
Cannot you point them to the warning and be done with it after a complaint, or is the amount of the complaints and its handling is the issue?
Strange how a number of Transhumanists are claiming significantly more than you list here as their ideology.
This is a Black Mirror episode based on a short story by Penn Jillette (of Penn & Teller)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Museum_(Black_Mirror)
Some beliefs deserve to be looked down upon and disrespected because they are backwards. I wouldn't call them "silly" because they're very serious.

I don't believe in treating religious fundamentalists with compassion and empathy anymore. That's how we got the nutjobs in power, by not deriding them enough in public and private. There can be no tolerance of hate, and the people you are talking about are motivated by hate of others.
No, you've just got the causality backwards. It's like saying "socialism is the ideology that workers should own the means of production. That literally includes being a worker at a company, not an owner.", and then concluding that anyone who works for a company rather than owning one is a socialist.

That is, wearing glasses is consistent with transhumanism, absolutely true. But one can wear glasses for other reasons, and even oppose transhumanism and still wear glasses, while still being perfectly self-consistent.

For example, believers of the Jehovah's Witnesses cult (or sect if you prefer) don't accept blood transfusions, but still wear glasses. They believe that certain modifications of your body and its abilities are acceptable, and others are not, and that this decision is not what makes our bodies work better, but based on what some god allows his followers to do. So, they are not transhumanists, even when happily wearing glasses.
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If it starts with LPsomething or Psomething, it's a pointer. Turns out the much-hated hungarian notation does provide value
cheap is part of the factor here. Pictures aren't expensive to generate, but are a magnitude more expensive than generating a bunch of text. Meanwhile, pictures are trivial for humans to verify against a simple search.
> For a long time now, many people who's religious values are deeply important to them have felt disrespected and looked down upon by "the left" (yes, I'm obviously painting with a broad brush here). In subtle and not-so-subtle ways, the elite left essentially said "you all are backwards and silly"

Most of the criticism that I have heard and read is not about evangelicals being "backwards and silly" but is about their hypocrisy for claiming the mantle of Jesus Christ and then saying and doing things that are antithetical to his beliefs.
I came here to mention this, so I'm glad to see someone else got there first :-)
> The speed and volume with which Carroll and the Greens collected sounded an alarm – to good and bad actors alike – of a willingness to participate in the gray market, where the legality of goods is questionable enough that accredited institutions dare not tread. Many governments prohibit the unlicensed export of culturally significant items, and UNESCO outlawed the trafficking of cultural property back in the 1970s.

Without anything concrete, this seems more like innuendo then an explicit accusation. But finding someone to pay and claiming to make artifacts 'available to researchers' doesn't necessarily make archeological trafficking legal or ethical.
Yeah, that was my thought too. Is this system formally verifying low-level stuff like, "if neurons A and B have a connection to neuron C, and A and B both fire, then..."?

It seems impossible to prove high-level things like "this computer vision system will never mis-identify a cat as a dog."
You're right, they're not "backwards and silly". They are fascists.
I remember meeting a few transhumanists when I lived in Silicon Valley. Whenever they would go into their schpeal, I'd respond with: "Well, if you go to church every Sunday and behave, you'll go to heaven."

It would catch them off guard, and then I would point out that they have faith in transhumanism like Christians have faith in Jesus. There would be a quick "get it" facial expression, then we'd both laugh. The transhumanists who I encountered were opened-minded enough to realize the difference between faith and reason.

I'd then point out that the Egyptians had similar beliefs, and say that if you freeze your body, or head, at death; most likely someone would use it for some strange science experiment in the future.

That being said, if I was wealthy, I'd love to freeze my body. I'm sure it'll come in handy for someone at some point, just like Egyptian mummies did.
No, I need exactly 0 seconds to process empty buzzwords in the vein of "add Frobnozz to your TCP/IP, Frobnozz increases security bigly!".
> even though that seems paradoxical to many of us

I think the only people in denial about it were those who view evangelical values as something other than the standing in the schoolhouse door values they demonstrated for centuries.
many of the weird singularity/transhumanist people do have real problems. lot of childhood trauma. lot of OCD. i guess if you call autism a mental illness now someone will jump out from behind a bush and correct you, but lots of mental health problems downstream of living with autism. if you read about the most extreme groups, people are in and out of mental hospitals with psychotic symptoms.

NorCal has been a feeding ground for cult leaders for 100+ years, but I actually think fewer real problems would be better. the people out there without real problems, just have GPT wrapper startups and go lie to people on podcasts, which is annoying, but better for them and everyone else.
The singularity in this context refers to the point beyond which predictions will fail because we cannot possibly foresee the consequences of certain technological changes.

There's nothing historical about it; it came about as a result of a few different science writers looking into the future and wondering how we keep up in an accelerating technological context.

I actually agree that it's become something else, but the origin of the term was what I was correcting, and its origin isn't something woo-woo, it's firmly based in scientific speculation.
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It seems very clear to me that the feedback loop is utterly broken in all democracies.

Two big reasons:

1: It's incredibly difficult to judge the effects of an elected leader's actions. Even assuming an educated/informed/engaged populace, there's nearly always an extremely long delay between an elected leader's actions and the results of those actions.

2: Even when the results of the actions are very tangible, it's still extremely difficult to assign credit or blame for the outcome.

A prime example would be the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare). Americans can tangibly experience the outcome of the ACA and form their own opinions. However, the final product is objectively quite different from what Obama and the Democrats initially wanted.

So if you think the ACA turned out pretty well (or poorly), to whom do you ascribe the credit (or blame)? To the Democrats for pushing the idea, or Republicans and the healthcare industry for scaling back its initial ambitions? To make an informed decision here you need to know "how the sausage was made" and you're also comparing the actual outcome versus a number of hypothetical roads not taken.

It just avoids perpetuating leadership that gets too
misaligned with a large share of the population.

I think, at best, in America we've basically just achieved a kind of schizophrenic perpetual see-saw between parties that has almost nothing to do with how effectively either one governs. Which is I guess slightly better than having one party perpetually in power forever, but is not great.

It precludes any kind of long-term thinking, or stable relationships with other nations.
This reads like all engineering types are jerks, which I politely disagree with :)
The repository is extremely disappointing

>This repository provides a framework for specifying and proving properties—such as robustness, fairness, and interpretability—of machine learning models using Lean 4

FV of AI systems is hard and this repo massively oversells itself. The Lean code itself is weird (AI generated?) and the "fairness" example proves that if a (linear) classifier always returns "yes" then the percentage of people classified as "yes" is the same across all demographics which isn't meaningful since this percentage is 100% for every possible group of people.

I was watching a video [1] the other day about the challenges FV faces for AI if it's something you're be interested in. I'm not really familiar with FV for neural networks and not sure what progress looks like in the field but I know ANSR [2] and TIAMAT [3] are doing related things

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs5snugP1VA

[2]: https://www.darpa.mil/research/programs/assured-neuro-symbol...

[3]: https://www.darpa.mil/research/programs/transfer-from-imprec...
i loved cataclysm then a bit less hw2 but still was amazing. how is hw3?
Probably breaking it down into [ kindly, old, gentle, man ]
Out of all the bad actors on the Internet, your ISP is the least bad.
^ If your movement primarily attracts zealots it's either not ready yet or it's done.

At the beginning of a movement when nothing can really be done yet you mostly only attract zealots. At the end of a movement when you've achieved many of your goals, you only have zealots remaining.
> The second you try to measure it, the wave function collapses, and you've fundamentally altered the thing you were trying to measure.

Related to Goodhart's law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure".

I'm wondering if this is only true if the act of measurement is transparent (so that the people being measured can game them). If the act is opaque enough such that the form of the metric cannot easily be guessed SEO-style, then maybe wave function collapse can still be avoided?
Germany has altered its constitution to go into debt for this purpose.
Wheels are hugely beneficial for human-powered transportation too though, well, such as the luggage example up-thread.

It's thought the moyai on Easter Island were moved into place rolled on logs, they didn't have oxen or horses either, but rolling on logs or if they'd built a wheeled trailer make it much easier for a group of humans to move them without damage than just be dragging or rocking.
I don't know the details, but it sounds like there's a legitimate discussion to be had there. But the author's tone makes it difficult to trust that her reporting is in good faith. If there were extenuating circumstances, I wouldn't trust her to have included them.
Note that this implementation (I looked at the c++ code) will repeatedly double the amount of allocated memory, even if the usage of the queue is such that it never contains more than one item at a time. It's not much different from a memory leak.

void insert_head(const T& value) {
if (head == 0) resize(); // <= resize() will double the allocated memory
data[--head] = value;
}

It looks like there is a fix for this behavior in resize() (to avoid repeated reallocation when the queue size is small relative to capacity), but it is currently commented out..
Probably not exactly the same but I remember trying to describe a type of pain I felt to a doctor in the US. I called it "sour" (which is how it would be described in Chinese) and the doctor laughed saying that didn't mean anything to him. I think it is extremely accurate and descriptive but to him it didn't even register as having meaning.
> The fifth of six children fathered by Rev. Walter Green, God has always been at the forefront of Hobby Lobby patriarch David Green’s life.

Imagine having a family of ordinary children, plus God. And yes, the remainder of the article confirms the promise of this gaffe.

Two more examples:

> This begs an obvious question.

That's not what "begging the question" actually means.

> or participating in anything the Reverand [sic] Green deemed “worldly activities”.

What -- in 2025, no spell checker? By listing these examples I guess I'm being irreverent ... ant.
I suppose watering down a definition until it's completely generic is one way to protect it from criticism.