skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BroSQL: The Most Unhinged Database Ever, Written in Go
But perhaps corporate peacocking is not why they prefer it?

I like a day's worth of face time once a week or so. It's not because I like to show off to my colleagues or minions - most of my direct colleagues are not in the same country as me. I prefer it just because I'm the sort of person who prefers a little, but not a lot, of direct human contact when given the choice.

The managers get given the choice and may just prefer it innately. It's irritating that they elect to inflict it on others if it's not economically rational to do so.
I thought selecting all images with traffic lights is what makes us human.
They're using satellite photography and a resolution of 10m to measure.
Mediocrity Delenda Est
> Individuals with economically left-wing and culturally conservative attitudes tend to score highest on conspiracy thinking.

Because conspiracy is usually committed by right-wing individuals?
In a further future that is inevitable, but in this case I'm referring to an intermediate state where it's probably LLM + one more thing.

Some of the inevitability is optimization. Computers intrinsically admit of certain optimizations that biology doesn't. There's an effect in technology you can notice if you look where a lot of times the hardest part is getting the thing working at all. Once you have a working thing in hand, optimizing it becomes possible. It's hard to optimize something you don't have in hand. Steam engines show this, and I expect that fusion will follow this trajectory too. In this case, for instance, I expect once we have high-functioning computer vision we can start optimizing individual components of it. Eventually it may not even resemble the current architecture, but it's hard to get from here to there without the intermediate phases.

The cerebellum provides an interesting case study in biology, more clearly than the language center of the brain. It's still made out of neurons, but it is structured in a highly stereotypical way for the task it is doing, and does not resemble the "everything connected to everything" architecture used by our artificial neural nets and a lot of the rest of the brain. It is very, very optimized for its particular task. In some ways a lot of it looks more like a specialized and exceeding parallel DSP (albeit, of course, analog) rather than a neural net architecture.
It doesn't. Use it; it's easy.
That's hugely incorrect, most of Asian, Europe have whatsapp numbers listed, not phone numbers.
They don't need access to your device. The Police can use records from the mobile operators to track device movements.
> USA's society has shown ... there's a large portion of the population who cannot see the damage they can inflict...

People like to heap the blame on the little guy, but what you say is also true of the elites that went all-in on offshoring and globalization.

A lot of the howling is from people mad their business empires are going to be hurt, who demand their interests be cared for after they were cold and uncaring to others.
Will WhatsApp ever do the opposite and let me make a real phone call instead of forcing me to call using WA when I hit a contact card from a message? It’s really frustrating when data is spotty
Yes! We started out building light field displays and originally used digital displays (arrays of micro LCD screens) - the result was super awesome but had a long road to becoming becoming a commercially viable product so pivoted to analog use cases which are a lot more energy efficient meaning we could achieve a lot brighter output.
Do these MCP registries expose an MCP server too, so the client can do MCP server auto discovery based on registry?
Some Cool Terminal Things I've Found Recently
I've always (well...for 20 years) done a Google search for "em-dash" then copy/paste the character off whatever result page come up. Word and other fancy editors always provided a popup pane where these characters could be clicked to insert.
Agree, this only seems like a problem for the vast minority that are developing developer tools. And, to be honest, they got themselves in this situation due to a skill issue, too, Astral is just stomping the existing tools with better ergonomics and speed.
This is exactly why when Google began requiring home addresses I just let them kill my account and refused to provide the info. It was not a dealbreaker to me anyway, I had long since moved to iOS as a developer.
Superficial auditory (dis)fluency biases higher-level social judgment
Singularity and Serenity
This is the "scale invariant fallacy." When you're in public you can be casually observed by people or followed by police if they happen to be interested in you. And so therefore observing every person's movements in public 24/7 with perfect detail
and memory must be also okay like these aren't two very different things.

Scale can change the fundamental nature of a thing: walking down the street while being pissed as your government is one thing, but if you get 1000 friends to do it with you it's a march.
Looks really great! But…not available for iOS.
The US Needs a New Cybersecurity Strategy: More Offensive Cyber Operations Isn'
Restricted property rights limit the amount of housing and thus give current landlords power over renters. If there were plentiful housing landlords would be forced to provide attractive housing, otherwise tenants would vote with their feet and leave.
If someone sent my mom a link to a site called Sgnly to sign a document, she'd assume it was phishing and delete the message. I'd probably do the same.
Would you be open to dropping an email address? I'd love to chat about your experience with Elixir for financial applications if you have any time
ASR-33 right?
Thank you for the detailed warning.

I actually decided to let go of this idea after OP’s warning and reading a bit about it. Because one problem will be that I will have to enter to switch off and on and even though it could be a short lived exposure I was scared. Though I’d read more on this what it could kill in the room. The thing is it might not help anyway. It is seasonal/situational and it happens in other places as well or outside if sun is not up. So whatever it is (general guess is pollen, dust, dust mite, sudden temperature changes?, general pollution etc) it is already in me or on me or everywhere around me. So I guess it might rather help more with an allergy test and if I am lucky I can find what I am allergic to.
Citation penalties following sexual versus scientific misconduct allegations
https://www.cosmicpython.com/book/preface.html
I built a tool to automatic end-to-end video production. I call it Animatic. From topic, it uses a series of models in Python to create a social media-ready video in any animation style. We've made around $10K from this tool to generate bespoke videos for a corporate client and the app isn't even done yet. Currently, we have a back-end. Still working on an API and front-end of Animatic.
Unpublishing the app doesn’t remove you from having to comply with address requirement.
You must not be learning very many new things then if you can't see a benefit to using an LLM. Sure, for the normal crud day-to-day type stuff, there is no need for an LLM. But when you are thrown into a new project, with new tools, new code, maybe a new language, new libraries, etc., then having an LLM is a huge benefit. In this situation, there is no way that you are going to be faster than an LLM.

Sure, it often spits out incomplete, non-ideal, or plain wrong answers, but that's where having SWE experience comes in to play to recognize it
I genuinely don’t understand why everyone is so hyper polarized on LLMs. I find them to be fantastically useful tools in certain situations, and definitely one of the most impressive technological developments in decades. It isn’t some silver-bullet, solve all issues solution. It can be wrong and you can’t simply take things it outputs for granted. But that does not make it anywhere near useless or any less impressive. This is especially true considering how truly young the technology is. It literally didn’t exist 10 years ago, and the iteration that thrust them into the public is less than 3 years old and has already advanced remarkably. I find the idea that they are useless snake-oil to be just as deluded of a take as the people claiming we have solved AGI.
You're being disingenuous. The tweet was talking about asserting the existence of fake articles, claiming that a paper was written in one year while summarizing a paper that explicitly says it was written in another, and severe hallucinations. Nowhere does she even imply that she's looking for superintelligence.
I am still mad that I had to give up facebook because of the garbage. It was and is a great way to see what my old school friend's kids are doing (we never were close, and I've moved a long way away so I wouldn't call, but I still go back to visit every class reunion and seeing those pictures helps have something to talk about). However all the garbage has made the platform useless and I gave up. I spent a year trying to block it all, but I wasn't making progress.
"Initially messages were sent by an operator using Morse code. The reception was very bad on the 1858 cable, and it took two minutes to transmit just one character (a single letter or a single number), a rate of about 0.1 words per minute."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_telegraph_cabl...

I guess your bandwidth in 1980 was a bit higher.
> Also, a Tomcat “driver?” Is that a thing?

yes. F-14s were 2-seater cockpits and there was a radar/weapons officer and a pilot.

one person drove the bus and the other honked the horn.
If I were to be a road pirate, I would only have used government license plates. Let them fine themselves!
It really depends on what you're trying to achieve.

I was trying to prototype a system and created a one-pager describing the main features, objectives, and restrictions. This took me about 45 minutes.

Then I feed it into Claude and asked to develop said system. It spent the next 15 minutes outputting file after file.

Then I ran "npm install" followed by "npm run" and got a "fully" (API was mocked) functional, mobile-friendly, and well documented system in just an hour of my time.

It'd have taken me an entire day of work to reach the same point.
You mean for https://tools.simonwillison.net/colophon ?

I've used a whole bunch of techniques.

Most of the code in there is directly copied and pasted in from https://claude.ai or https://chatgpt.com - often using Claude Artifacts to try it out first.

Some changes are made in VS Code using GitHub Copilot

I've used Claude Code for a few of them https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/agents-and-tools/claude-c...

Some were my own https://llm.datasette.io tool - I can run a prompt through that and save the result straight to a file

The commit messages usually link to either a "share" transcript or my own Gist showing the prompts that I used to build the tool in question.
With the very welcome changes to how Google stores location history, they will no longer be capable of answering geofence warrants. The cell carrier themselves (Verizon / T-Mobile / BT / Orange etc) can still provide some tower logon information but I'm not sure if they are storing E911 GPS info.
It's interesting that you go through life thinking "no one would ever do that" with regard to various circumstances, yet discover people do those things.

These ALPR companies are evil. If a car manufacturer sells your data or a big box store uses AI in ways you disagree with you can just not purchase from those companies. It can be much more difficult to move to a new town where they may then decide to put these things. I know of one town where it is impossible to drive without hitting an ALPR. What a prison.

Here is a list of things that have been or could be done:

- wrong vehicle identified and stopped at gunpoint

- sacramento sheriff shared LP data with Texas in case pregnant people visited

- police chief stalked his ex

- a mad president could unreasonably declare martial law and send the national guard in to the Atlanta office to take over the command center (if you take the license plate off: how many silver Audi A4s are there in Palo Alto?)

- a foreign state actor could surreptitiously infiltrate their servers and discover patterns that help them if they declare war against the US

- the data will be leaked (high likelihood eventually) and you can find out all kinds of behaviors. It would be fair game for insurance companies.

It violates the 4th amendment. A governement cannot just track innocent people everywhere they go. They sell it as "we aren't giving tickets, we are only looking for bad guys" but the above incidents (gunpoint, sheriff, stalking ex) show otherwise. But what concerns me is not the local police, it is the last three potential situations. And you can't opt out unless you take ubers or bike I guess.

Please donate to the Institute for Justice. They have a case in Virginia (surprised it wasn't mentioned) and I am confident they will succeed in taking this to the Supreme Court. They recently won a civil asset forfeiture case and they have successfully argued cases like DC's gun ban before the supreme court. (If you think guns are bad, fine, but like ALPRs it was a violation of the US constitution) ij.org

Edit: spelling, formatting
No offense taken

> In either case your example is showing what? That lying is normal in the business world and should be done by the CEOs as part of their job description? That they should or should not go to jail for it? I am really missing your point here, no offence.

If you run through the message chain you'll see first that the comment OP is claiming companies market llms as AGI, and then the next guy quotes Altmans tweet to support it. I am saying companies don't claim llms are AGI and that CEOs are doing CEO things; my examples are Elon (didn't go to jail btw) and the other two that did.

> For all that we know, OpenAI and their ilk are not doing that really.

I am on the same page here.
distance from Mandalay to Bangkok: ~580 km
When Culdesac first announced this project, I thought it was going to be another urbanist "paper town" that sounded cool but would never actually be built. But when the first paying customers moved in, I was happy to be wrong. Congrats to Culdesac for making it happen!
> Akamai becomes the official distributor of the Linux kernel

Haha, and the EU wants to use Linux to become independent from US. /s

They better give OpenBSD (canadian) a try.
> What “entire async framework”, do you mean asyncio or some other third party library? In the former case, are you using it just to feel cool like TFA?

I was thinking more along the lines of a project like Home Assistant. For my personal stuff I have been using AnyIO.

> asyncio doesn’t even support async file io.

many operating systems do not support async file io to begin with.
Used to be possible to buy and top up oyster with cash. Don't know if that's still the case and you will still be on CCTV at every station anyway.
I agree. I use LLMs heavily for gruntwork development tasks (porting shell scripts to Ansible is an example of something I just applied them to). For these purposes, it works well. LLMs excel in situations where you need repetitive, simple adjustments on a large scale. IE: swap every postgres insert query, with the corresponding mysql insert query.

A lot of the "LLMs are worthless" talk I see tends to follow this pattern:

1. Someone gets an idea, like feeding papers into an LLM, and asks it to do something beyond its scope and proper use-case.

2. The LLM, predictably, fails.

3. Users declare not that they misused the tool, but that the tool itself is fundamentally corrupted.

It in my mind is no different to the steam roller being invented, and people remaking how well it flattens asphalt. Then a vocal group trying to use this flattening device to iron clothing in bulk, and declaring steamrollers useless when it fails at this task.
1979 China is different in capabilities from 2025 China.
I mostly work from home.
Am I as productive as when I work from the office ?
No.
But that is a cost my employers are willing to bear, and why I work for them.

Arguments that WFH is as efficient as working in the office are missing the point.
I don't think Google Photos should be the default app for calls /j
So you would be against storing the data for a few days so if a non-traffic crime is detected later (a murder for example), the traffic recordings can be used to help in the investigation? I think that's useful too.
Lol I think you've lost the thread here.
The thing LLMs are really really good at, is sounding authoritative.

If you ask it random things the output looks amazing, yes. At least at first glance. That's what they do. It's indeed magical, a true marvel that should make you go: Woooow, this is amazing tech: Coming across as convincing, even if based on hallucinations, is in itself a neat trick!

But is it actually useful? The things they come up with are untrustworthy and on the whole far less good than previously available systems. In many ways, insidiously worse: It's much harder to identify bad information than it was before.

It's almost like we designed a system to pass turing tests with flying colours but forgetting that usefulness is what we actually wanted, not authoritative, human sounding bullshit.

I don't think the LLM naysayers are 'unimpressed', or that they demand perfection. I think they are trying to make statements aimed at balancing things:

Both the LLMs themselves, and the humans parroting the hype, are severely overstating the quality of what such systems produce. Hence, and this is a natural phenomenon you can observe in all walks of life, the more skeptical folks tend to swing the pendulum the other way, and thus it may come across to you as them being overly skeptical instead.
The division of per-app vs app list in general is bad.

I think they should just throw in the towel and duplicate settings. Meaning, we can turn off Siri learning from an app or from the Siri page. Or we can turn off banners from the app or the notifications page.
The man in question can and did stand, no 'possibly' about it.

This statement a specific case is different than the probability of it working in general.
> Because of how effective this is for catching even fairly minor violations like failure to pay road tax,

The main use of those cameras is to deter not paying road tax and not having insurance, and to spot stolen and wanted cars.

It's not a problem if all number plates are stored for some time but it requires strict rules (duration of storage and access to data), which the document you linked to describes.
Nvidia's Jensen Huang expects GAA-based tech to bring a 20% performance uplift
Ente Photos v1
With your hardware try Dillo 3.2.0 instead: https://dillo-browser.github.io/release/3.2.0/
It's a matter of degree.
Sabotage doesn't always mean instant breakage.
In "The Simple Sabotage Field Manual" we learn to slow down the organization by things like "Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible", "Work slowly. Think out ways to increase the number of movements necessary on your job.", and "Do your work poorly and blame it on bad tools, machinery, or equipment."
Achieving Your Dreams
We only suffer from these platforms because we put up with them.
Social media is not the be-all, end-all. There's a world of grass to touch outside of these walled gardens.
Where did you purchase your replacement windows from? Custom size? May I ask how much you paid for them?
retarded was legit before because it was actually a delay, holding something back a little before it proceeds
Bread Modular: We released an affordable MIT licensed modular synth platform
Modular synths can be very expensive, but we figured out a way to keep the cost down while keeping the sound quality high.

We sell these modules, but we also release them with a MIT license & include the schematics, PCBs, code & even how & where to source parts.

We hope to bring modular for every musician & bring the cost less than buying software plugins.
Corporations are motivated by profit, not doing what's best for humanity. If you need an example of "large organizations conspiring against us," I can give you twenty.
Most cars already emit RF signals for WiFi, Bluetooth and 5G. These can be fingerprinted along with the physical attributes to increase accuracy.

I’m in support of better investigative tools and stricter governance. I’m not worried that my car location would lead to a false arrest- that is like being afraid of lighting striking.
The default one is different per operating system or desktop environment. On KDE it's Breeze, on Windows it's Colibre, on macOS it's Sifr (off the top of my head).
I scanned the related research link page, curious if any artifacts have been uncovered indicating exposure in the distant past but the content seems to not cover that question or I missed it.
To each is own. I give o3 with deep research my notes and ask it for a high-level design document, then feed that to claude and get a skeleton of a multi-service system, then build out functionality in each service with subsequent claude requests.

Sure, it does middle-of-the-road stuff, but it comments the code well, I can manually tweak things at the various levels of granularity to guide it along, and the design doc is on par something a senior principal would produce.

I do in a week what a team of four would take a month and a half to do. It's insane.

Sure, don't be bullish. I'm frantically piecing together enough hardware to run a decent sized LLM at home.
Fun to see more languages taking advantage of LLVM. Opens up a lot of potential.
we have a interpreter mode which takes advantage of tcc for fast interpretion
There are indeed always exceptions to generalizations, as you've pointed out. Though pulseaudio always trudged along fine for me (not like audio had always worked for me on other systems), and pipewire works perfectly.
At its core, objects are just containers for properties, and exploiting that fact leads to easily understood systems than the one without.

For example, at work I'm currently refactoring a test for parsing the CSV output of a system; as it stands it depends on hardcoded array indexes, which makes the thing a mess. Defining a few dataclasses here and there to model each entry of the CSV file, and then writing the test with said objects has made the test much more pleasant and easily understood.
So, DEI for Tesla owners. Got it.
Preparing for a career at the forefront of the aerospace industry
I was being serious... Managing is a distinct skill, and having a separate space to discuss it would be nice.
Kudos for being self-aware and acknowledging that solving the problem which you saw doesn't always translate into solving the problem that potential customers want to pay you to solve.

One of my favorite talks [0] speaks to the problem with thinking that telemetry is valuable just because it is [logs|metrics|traces].

Alerts/notifications etc. are an attempt to distill something useful from something that is abundant. From Cribl's `About Us` page [1] -- \ ˈkribəl \ - “An instrument with a meshed or perforated bottom generally used for gold panning in order to strain valuable material from discardable matter.”

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTf5pli3qRU

[1] https://cribl.io/about-us/
Depends on which country you live in.
The LLVM mode currently is not good as C backend, but we are working on it to bring it comparable to C backend
Well, you could have pulled jurmous up for digressing without accusing them of not reading the article. You're also free to criticise their comment for being emotionally charged, although in this case I would disagree with you.