skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that politics in most countries is corrupt (or outright authoritarian/dictatorship/totalitarian), why are you astonished that the US is any different?

I see this sentiment a lot -- that for some reason the U.S. naturally "should" be a well-run developed country, and so it's surprising that it scores worse on various metrics than, say, Western Europe. But why? Is it just because the US is wealthy? Saudi Arabia is wealthy too and an absolute monarchy.

If it's not fair to compare the US to Eritrea, then it's not fair to compare it to Norway. It just is what it is, somewhere in between those two on the spectrum.
I was born in the US but my parents are from Kerala and I still have family there that I visit.

One thing I found interesting was the pride in literacy and education. Kerala has a 96% literacy rate which is the highest in India [1].

It's one of my favorite places to visit. Unlike other parts of India such as Bengaluru, Mumbai and Hyderbad -- it's tropical and lush with much less pollution than what you might see in those other parts of India.

My parents have a home in a rural community which hasn't changed much in the past few decades compared to somewhere like Bengaluru. It's quiet and slow with a high important on family relationships. No doubt it's westernizing, albeit slower than other parts of India - but for now it still holds much of the charm I've known since I was a kid.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_India
This is a massively important point. My dad took a programming course back in the day and had to use punchcards. High-level languages make code easier to understand and debug compared to gazing at a stack of "Do not fold, spindle or mutilate." LLMs are the opposite. If you only learn how to use LLMs, you are not going to be able to understand what's happening or why things aren't working.

I've found LLMs making inexplicable mistakes when writing statistical code, but the code will still run and return a confident result. If you can't look at the code, you won't see, e.g., your hourly time series being aggregated on a daily basis.
We have a dataset of about 99% of dealership listings out there, and we coupled this with another dataset of World Manufacturer Identifier codes to match vehicles to the country they were assembled in. We figured that current inventory of new 2025/2026 models was a pretty good indicator of potential risk for tariffs on certain make/models.
> Secondly, there's no chilling effect caused by the selective and unknown application of surveillance;

People carry a cellphone with them, these by-and-large have multiple high resolution cameras along with microphones. Some even have LIDAR. Plus they are constantly emitting pulses that can be captured from several kilometers.

A person could be selectively surveilled without their knowing by monitoring their phone.

This is ignoring the massive network of internet connected private security cameras and police drones, which are very adept at monitoring people, as well as theoretical technology that we don't know is in use (i.e., using high frequency radio waves to "see" through walls).
I’m worried it won’t be. If it comes to that, what’s to prevent them from saying I forged it all?
This 100%, that's what I did. I should have said "and", thank you for calling that out!
Yes but having one payment button doesn't mean the service needs to manage its own delivery.

Consider the example of Amazon marketplace. You still have one payment button and you can still shop for things from different vendors. Yet the order fulfillment can be done by Amazon or the seller directly.

If such an arrangement is possible on Amazon, it must mean that there are shops that trust their own fulfillment more than they do Amazon's. It is entirely possible that some restaurants will want to own that delivery experience as well.
I think they only claim their "Ling-Lite" 17B model can fit on a single 96GB GPU, their 300B model needs 8 of them (768GB of HBM)
Yeah; the risk was lower because the implementation costs were higher.

Take a speeding ticket, for example. If the fine is $400, it's created with the knowledge that it'll only be triggered occasionally, and it's created as a deterrent. If I speed 50 times and get caught one time, I pay $400. If you setup a bunch of speed cameras all over town, the fine should go down to have the same impact.
Yep. Quantity is a quality all its own. Being stalked by a million virtual cops at all times doesn't feel like freedom to me
I've been watching a British spy show called Slow Horses. So far a huge chunk of season 2 is spies looking at camera surveillance footage. It sounds like it's really that bad.
I know you're kidding, but I think it's actually more nuanced.

Jokes in HN comments typically don't play well if the whole point of the comment is to make a joke, but if you make a joke in service of a substantive point or attach a joke to an otherwise meaningful comment, there's usually a good response.

I've come to appreciate HN's cultural norms around jokes because if you compare discussion to something like reddit, the top comment is often just a joke or a pop culture quote and then a massive thread of people just talking about the joke or reference rather than the actual story. I think HN's norms do a better job of fostering curious discussion.
I think the sea of disgusted tweets is far uglier than the products of people celebrating and honoring a cherished studio's work with AI imitation.
If you can, file a provisional patent application which should cost you less than $70 if you've never filed a patent before and does not need a lawyer. Gather up your notes and write some explanation and you've got it.

Look up my profile and send me an email if you want to talk about market opportunities.
As someone who stopped using windows about 7 years ago, and only recently used it last weekend, my eyes probably glossed over the fact that some buttons were laid out
horizontally.

It also makes way more sense.
> wireless file transfers between Android and iOS being completely impossible at the moment

P2P proximal wireless transfer, sure, but there's half a dozen apps on your phone that'll let you punt a document, a photo, an invite to someone on the other phone OS platform.

Maybe I'm an edge case, but probably 90% of my Airdrop usage is between my own devices, so the platform taking care of the authentication story is of more utility than cross-platform transfers. If someone isn't on iOS I'll just send them the file on Signal since, if the source is my phone in the first place, it's probably not a huge transfer anyway.
You can't call GC pauseless if it introduces pauses. We don't say something is free if you have to pay little for it. We say it's cheap.
I'm not dismissing uv, I'm critiquing the article.
Mathematically valid, but...

If Myanmar had a stable and reliably growing economy, the world would be a different place.

Turning Myanmar into a country with a stable economy that could grow at 5% annually would be worthy of a Nobel Prize in economics.

Practically, recovery costs in the neighborhood of 60% of Myanmar's GDP represents many decades of development. Or enormous foreign aid from China. I'm not sure how valuable Myanmar is to China though.
There are plenty of other businesses wrecked by Private Equity but DoorDash isn't one of them. It's publicly traded.
Whenever I laugh in such situations I make sure to point out that my child was right.
I actually order a bunch of Levi's to try on from Amazon last year. I wasn't expecting much out of Levi's since there denim has felt very thin at every physical store I have went to, but the sale price was good. Every pair I recieved had pretty good quality denim, like the denim they sold from 20 years ago. They all had pretty close fits to each other, so I kept all of them. I guess I will pay more attention to country of origin in the future.
>Sounds like you want a completely isolationist trade policy

No. You made this up.

>The EU doesn't spend 0% on defense.

They don't spend their full NATO commitments. And they are only increasing their spending because the current POTUS is bullying them into it.

>soft power/geopolitical benefits

People love talking about this but hard power is better.
The original title is:

> Immigration agents arrested a U.S. citizen and created warrants after an arrest, lawyers say in court
> porting shell scripts to Ansible

Thank you for mentioning that! What a great example of something an LLM can pretty well do that otherwise can take a lot of time looking up Ansible docs to figure out the best way to do things. I'm guessing the outputs aren't as good as someone real familiar with Ansible could do, but it's a great place to start! It's such a good idea that it seems obvious in hindsight now :-)
Kinda hard to read but seems to support the idea that a keto diet helps keep the brain sharp as we age.

Also learned that “keytone supplements” are a thing to kickstart the process. Looked into, they appear to be very expensive for common organic chemicals. Cutting most carbs from the diet should be a lot cheaper.
Silicon lids on glass containers are a great combo. I use Weck jars, wide-mouth for easier cleaning, in sizes 1L, 500mL, and 200mL, in my commercial kitchen. And stainless steel hotel pans and lids for everything else.

Consumer-grade stuff is a waste of time for several reasons, but in-particular the lack of standardized sizes. When I do catering and people ask about food storage I recommend those wide-mouth glass jars and 4-inch 1/9th and 6-inch 1/6th pans, and standardized baking sheets (1/2 and 1/4 sizes mostly) with re-usable lids.
I read it as “by replacing use of some hard plastics”.
Are you familar with the concept of "omitted variable bias"? This paper only takes it up once (AFAICT), but there's a pretty critical variable that they otherwise generally ignore:

> Once socioeconomic status was considered, the results failed to indicate racial differences between the offending but not arrested drivers and the arrested drivers.

As far as I've seen, there is not a similar explanatory factor with the statistic I've cited.
I will add the sources. Data comes from feeds published by the orgs.
Threads 4 and 2 years ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34536638

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26737142
> The entire point of these tools is that I am supposed to be able to trust what they say

Hard disagree, and I feel like this assumption might be at the root of why some people seem so down on LLMs.

They’re a tool. When they’re useful to me, they’re so useful they save me hours (sometimes days) and allow me to do things I couldn’t otherwise, and when they’re not they’re not.

It never takes me very long to figure out which scenario I’m in, but I 100% understand and accept that figuring that out is on me and part of the deal!

Sure if you think you can “vibe code” (or “vibe founder”) your way to massive success but getting LLMs to do stuff you’re clueless about without anyone way to check, you’re going to have a bad time, but the fact they can’t (so far) do that doesn’t make them worthless.
The question of whether chatbots are “truly intelligent” is the dumbest question people regularly debate about AI.

First of all, we do not and have never had a rigorous and falsifiable definition of “intelligence”, so this question can’t actually be answered. I’ve watched people tie themselves in knots over why “AI doesn’t think like humans” only to find themselves reinventing the Chinese Room Paradox. I’ve watched people on this site get blue in the face that “it should be called Machine Learning and not Artificial Intelligence”… because machines can’t be intelligent but they can learn?

Second, it’s inconsequential. If a chatbot can deliver passable performance at a job at 1% of the cost of a human, it’s going to cause a massive problem for human workers whether it has a mortal soul or not. If generative AI is pumping the internet with slop, that sucks whether the AI is doing it out of malevolent intent or a million dot products.
So after reading many of the comments here;

What is a good tutorial / training, to learn about LLMs from scratch ?

I guess that’s the main problem, even more so for non-developers and -tech people. The learning curve is too steep, and people don’t know where to start.
Methane oxidation to ethanol by a molecular junction photocatalyst
You are correct, I will rename to CIDRs to make it clear.
Did you see the logs of how much data was released?
A list of fun things we've done for CI runners to improve CI:

- Configured a block-level in-memory disk accelerator / cache (fs operations at the speed of RAM!)

- Benchmarked EC2 instance types (m7a is the best x86 today, m8g is the best arm64)

- "Warming" the root EBS volume by accessing a set of priority blocks before the job starts to give the job full disk performance [0]

- Launching each runner instance in a public subnet with a public IP - the runner gets full throughput from AWS to the public internet, and IP-based rate limits rarely apply (Docker Hub)

- Configuring Docker with containerd/estargz support

- Just generally turning kernel options and unit files off that aren't needed

[0] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ebs/latest/userguide/ebs-initial...
just my little contribution as a somewhat known writer: make your titles count https://dx.tips/titles
Correct. The Graphiti MCP server, with the help of the agent, stores and retrieves preferences and requirements automatically without requiring rule changes.
You’ve taken a weird position here.

Stadia did a lot to help by being a stable target and by being seen as commercially viable. Google also helped a lot to aid developers, not just financially.

That they didn’t contribute code to proton doesn’t factor at all, I just hate to see people not get their dues for their part in the prolification of Linux gaming- because I saw it first hand.

You are labouring under the delusion that I’ve implied Proton did nothing, no, they levied a lot of existing technology and put in a lot of polish. They were helped by Stadia, by Wine, by DXVK and others.

They didn’t do it alone, that doesn’t minimise their contribution, it contextualises them.

Also: Stadia ports of games were native, they did not use proton- it was architecture changes of the games themselves that made proton work better- not Google making proton itself function better.

That proton was running some games is a weird revisionist take, very few AAA games ran at all, those that did were super old and there was always some crazy weird bugs- proton got better but also AAA games coalesced into conforming to linux-y paradigms underneath better- so support got better much quicker than expected. You can even see this if you track the “gold” released games over years, some of the worst supported games for Proton are from 2015-16; before stadia but after game complexity started rocketing up with next game engines of the day.

Hope that helps, because honestly this conversation is like talking to a brick wall.
I think there are a couple of truths to this.

1. Any low hanging fruits that could easily be solved by an LLM easily probably would have been solved by someone already using standard methods.

2. Humans and LLMs have to spend some particular amount of energy to solve problems. Now, there are efficiencies that can lower/raise that amount of energy but at the end of the day TANSTAAFL. Humans spend this in a lifetime of learning and eating, and LLMs spend this in GPU time and power. Even when AI gets to human level it's never going to abstract this cost away, energy still needs spent to learn.
> I mean, there is a chance that this might work.

There really isn't.
I rarely mock a repository. Mocking the database is nice for unit-testing, it's also a lot faster than using a real DB, but the DB and DB-application interface are some of the hottest spots for bugs: using a real DB (same engine as prod) gives me a whole lot more confidence that my code actually works. It's probably the thing I'm least likely to mock out, despite making tests more difficult to write and quite a bit slowerq
ADUs are particularly ineffective, because each one requires the owner to work as a part-time landlord with the tenant being almost their housemate. All the headache without much increase in income.

I happen to have chatted with the head of a large commercial contractor in Portland a few months ago. He told me Portland's unattractive to developers because, compared to other cities, rents are low and the cost to build is high, so the flow of real estate investment dollars into Portland is slow.

Since the problem we're trying to solve is making rent cheaper, conditional on the current state of the economy, the solution here is making it cheaper to build dense residential in Portland in the urban core and improve transit options.
> "write something that someone else would actually read"

you nail the nuance - most people i find are really bad at stepping outside themselves and objectively judging why other people should be interested
Yeah this is method chaining, and method chaining is not the same as piping.
I also just pre-ordered Refactoring English.

I loved your course from a few years ago - "Hit the Front Page of Hacker News".

The biggest takeaways from that course were to write for beginners, and assume no prior knowledge/context.

I've often been fascinated by articles featured on HN, that were totally out of my field, but somehow didn't make me feel stupid.

A few concepts from your course gave me some very refreshing "aha!" moments. Since then I'm almost never staring at a blank page.

Thanks so much, and looking forward to the book!
MSG has received over one billion dollars in taxpayer subsidies.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-11/ny-should...
The fact we haven't globally banned single use plastic is incredibly stupid.
IT IS what the majority of people voted for, so it very much IS a valid argument. If you don't like it, tough luck, but that's how democracy works. You can vote next time to change it.
> non-Apple acquaintances were mocking me for having a non-usb-c phone

I've not mocked an Apple user purely for having a non-standard port on their device, though I have more than once mocked the arrogance of an Apple user being put out because when they were wanting to borrow a charger/battery/cable I only had standard parts, those needed to support my devices, in my kit.
Pretty much any teacher will tell you it's because parents aren't involved and treat school like daycare. When Mom and dad come home and veg out on their phones and TV after work, the kids learn that as well. The ones that succeed have parents that are involved with their schooling which is less and less likely these days. Teachers are quitting left and right because of it.
Well no, 2 randomly selected trees for the same species are quite likely to have a recent common ancestor (contrasted with, say, a tree and fish) because they're the same species.

I was under the mistaken impression that "tree" was a phylogenetic thing. Like, they're all descended from some distant great-grandmother-tree or something. The surprising thing was that this is not the case, and many separate species have all discovered how to tree individually.
You can use the gmic plugin alongside with Gimp, and adjust the CMYK values. I use that all the time. Color adjustments like yellow -> orange, or green -> purple, might exceed your expectations. Photoshop is excellent at it as well, i have never used Photoshop to compare though.

For more professional work Clut (Color Look Up Table) is supported by gmic as well.

I also made my own open source tool to pass gmic filters to whole videos, see an example here [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8of-R-5zcs
What is it with that guy and unnecessary and inappropriate rewrites?
fellow writer here

you can have your cake and eat it too: TLDR, create a multi tier system

do a bunch of short form posts and see what gets abnormal traction from others / gets referenced by YOU more

THEN you invest the time to go the extra yard

this way you dont overinvest in what isnt popular and you also get multiple "shots on goal"

ex: https://www.swyx.io/bottom-up-ideas
While I agree with your point about public transit being a bit more anonymous, I feel I should point out that a. Mangione was still captured, and b. thanks (allegedly) to a combination of multiple surveillance photos of him with a mask plus a single picture of his full face.

"No escape" sounds still right.
Agree with Sébastien's stance that understanding isn't just zero or one. I'd argue current LLMs do already to some extent satisfy Emily's definition of "understanding" by mapping from language to an internal semantic space - just not necessarily as well as humans.

Broadly they seemed to be of the views that:

* (Sébastien) Pragmatically what we care about is the model's functionality/behavior. If for instance it's capable of solving unseen math puzzles, whether we say it "truly understood" the puzzle is mostly immaterial

* (Emily) Whether or not it understands is important because it will determine what tasks it's capable of. If shown a parrot and a foreign-language word for parrot, a human could pick up from context that the word refers to a parrot but model could not due to lack of understanding

I normally lean towards the former view because I feel "understanding" is a fairly nebulous term. Claims that "machines can never do X because X requires intelligence/understanding/..." tend to just move onto the next X once machines accomplish that X, opposed to actually being convinced that machines now have understanding, effectively decoupling whether it's said to have "understanding" from any practical limitations in its behavior.

I do think the latter view makes sense if you hold "understanding" as something fixed/specific, and are at some point willing to say "this system can do X, so has understanding" to the tasks you said required understanding. Emily did for instance seem willing to say home assistants have understanding.
Graphiti uses OpenAI (or other LLMs) to build the knowledge graph. Setting up the MCP server is fairly straight forward: https://github.com/getzep/graphiti/tree/main/mcp_server

There's also a Docker Compose setup: https://github.com/getzep/graphiti/tree/main/mcp_server#runn...

The Cursor MCP setup is also simple:

```{
"mcpServers": {
"Graphiti": {
"url": "http://localhost:8000/sse"
}
}
}```
Yep, there are services whose whole job is "accept mail when someone is suing you" so that you can hide your address.
It seems like every media article on some archaeological find is like this...!@!@$OI@!

Why???
Two countries in Europe have nuclear weapons (several have nuclear power though). Sweden for example had a nuclear weapons program that was shut down in the late 60s (guess which country strongly wanted us to shut it down).

I think most European countries cut down too much on the defence after the Cold War, but it seems we are about to fix that. But it’s not like the US gave away fighter jets and other weapon systems for free. Several European countries spent lots of money buying US planes and other stuff.
You're either for unions or not, in any job. So we could say the same thing about teachers.

But in reality, the job market is not necessarily a reflection of the market or demands. It can be a delayed reaction to false narratives. It can be meddling from people capitalizing on these narratives. Unions are good tools against this because they can negotiate with their actual value, not the "market"
Idk seems like a get out of jail free card when you should probably be in debt for life, slaving away for your grave negligence, not let off the hook because you paid 100$ a month.
eek, giving Facebook any permission is not ideal
Works fine for me on PowerPoint for Mac, oddly enough. Unrelatedly, Mac also allows easy (non-alt-code) keyboard entry: option-hyphen yields an en dash, while option-shift-hyphen yields an em dash.
Magazines?