skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They recognize it, they just dont see it as a threat. They want it to happen. It is a feature.

Their hope is that power abuses will go against left, democrats, trans, non conforming women and so on and so forth. And that no election ever will be able to change that anymore.
I laugh (maniacally) every time I need to change a jinja template generating a nightmarish yaml and remember the glory days of xml with affection.

Revolutions always have been the young one's business for a reason, I guess.
This is what I come to HN for :)

You might want to open it up (if you can) and make sure the motherboard is dry to prevent corrosion.
Tarrifs can be useful in protecting your players in an new industry. In specific situations not using it like carpet bombing.

Thomas Sowell who is 94 has some wisdom to share: https://x.com/HooverInst/status/1907630250135273527?ref_src=...
If you're not using something like npins or nix flakes then you're not really using nix correctly, and have abandoned the light of god.
Raises hand

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43303755

I'm proud to see it evolving in the wild, this version is better. Or you know it could just be in the zeitgeist.
You’re making useful points but you’re also just choosing convenient definitions that make your point of view “correct”.

The parent comment has a definition of “rights” that admits their existence… and I think what you’ve demonstrated is that you have a different definition of “rights”. In other words, you’ve demonstrated that you haven’t really grasped the underlying meaning that the parent comment is getting at, and you’re instead responding to the words that they used to express it.

If you start with a definition for “rights” you can make arguments about whether they exist. But if you start with a different definition and get to a different conclusion, it doesn’t mean you’ve discovered some logical flaw in the argument, it just means that the two of you have failed to communicate with each other.
The current administration refers to inclusion of PoC and women as "DEI", so when they talk about ending DEI, that's what they mean.

See https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/17/defense-depa... for one example where it's particularly blatant.
Nicely presented article. The way anchor opens up and not letting go the context is good. Overall visual and the ease to access information is appreciated.
I don't think servos normally do this, but it's possible to have self-locking worm drives.
Surely this sort of thing happens all the time? Not to excuse it, but I really don't think any of those rejections was intended to be the personal attack he thinks it is.
Toyota's Vision of Micromobility
Thanks for looking into it.

While I would have hoped for a better result, I'm not surprised. In this particular case, I really didn't care about the code at all; I cared about the end result at runtime, that is, can I create a working, stable solution that solves my problem, in a tech stack I'm not familiar with?

(While still taking care of well-structured requirements and guard rails — not to guarantee a specific level of code quality per se, but to ensure that the AI works towards my goals without the need to intervene as much as possible).

I will spin up another session where I ask it to improve the implementation, and report back.
It was always me and them. They are either "nobel" or just rich. me is the rest of peasants. We pay everything and we give everything to the rich ones. Thats it.
Thanks, I've updated it to include role='link'. I do agree that it's probably a losing battle, but I thought I'd write up this idea anyway in case it was useful to anyone as a mitigation.
While I think the laws are broken, I also get why companies fight so hard to defend their IP: it is valuable, and they've built empires around it. But at some point, we have to ask: are we preserving culture or just hoarding it?
He's probably AI himself
two teenagers and a whole lot of LLMs
Except that the most armed ones are people pro aggression and pro authoritarianism.

And it is always like that. The ones who benefit the most from armed society and those who have the least inhibitions to harm.
It does what I need it to do.

As opposed to Google Search which does what I need it to do (and could do before) less and less
Really interesting to see devices like Plaud Note integrating GPT-4o and Claude 3.5—AI transcription and summarization are no longer just software features, they’re becoming native to the hardware itself.
> jobs doing exactly that

Hopefully narrowed by team, role and task..
clear talent?
I understand the scepticism here. For sure this app isn’t 90% accurate in any traditional sense.

One note, as someone who also built a calorie tracking app with ai as well as lost a good amount of weight with it: accuracy for calorie tracking doesn’t matter. You can honestly just detect if it’s a meal and return 600 cals. For most people the simple fact that they become aware of what they eat and think about their food in an ongoing basis will lead them to loose Weight.
Sticking to it is the hard part.
I don’t know. Studios have distinct styles. Think Disney, Pixar, Aardman, Hanna-Barbera. Most of those obviously come from early influential artists (like with Ghibli), but they have become recognizable for the studio itself. It’s not just the style of the individual artists.
> IMO any change to copyright law should not be applied retroactively.

Careful, if we were to shorten copyright, not doing so retroactively would give an economic advantage to franchises already published over those that would get published later. As if the current big studios needed any further advantages over newcomers.
@lerno, how do you feel about contributions to the standard library? For example, I might add BLAKE2 if it is not already implemented.

Also I just checked the source code of hash map. What if I want to use a different hashing algorithm for "rehash"?

There is no one true implementation of a hash table either, for example, so I am not sure what to do with that. I want a thread-safe hash table, I wonder if it would ever make it into the standard library.
> In which country? Even for the US I don't believe the law system is that crappy.

There's video from a few years back that shows very American cops standing outside a burning house at night, knowing there was a young child still in it. A passing pizza delivery dude[1] rescued the 6-year old, handed her to cop, and ended up requiring hospitalization. In the online discussion, everyone called the rescuer a hero, but I don't recall seeing a single condemnation of the cops (a "first-responder") who didn't enter the burning house.

edit:
1. the hero's name is Nick Bostic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBlE52qKKuw
Discussion (70 points, 34 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43578475
Word Processing, AI, and other new things we struggled to define
I like the antidote and does remind me that I tried to create a game, which gamedev has always been a challenge for me. I’ve attempted a few times and didn’t get very far with this one either. I think I could do the coding even though scale is large, but I’m not artistic and asset generation/iteration is my block. I tried a handful of ai tools specifically for this and found they were all really far behind. I don’t particularly like working with asset store art, maybe for parts but characters and the vibe of the game usually would excite and motivate me early on and I can’t quite get there to sustain the effort
I turn 73 this year. The IRS requires me to report to them the value of my stocks and bonds as of 12/31/2024 held in my IRA. And then I am forced to liquidate a percentage of those holdings during 2025 so the IRS can collect a tax on that wealth. A genuine wealth tax.

Let's talk for a moment about people owning 100 million dollars plus in net assets.

First, this is the group that pays the millions of dollars needed for their "politician" to run for office. There is only one reason anyone would do such a thing: assuring they own a "member of Congress" who will vote how they say on matters of their personal concern.

Votes on important subjects - such as who will - and will not- pay the cost of operating the government.

Someone with 100 million dollars or more of net wealth do not need to work to survive. They are not forced to have an "income" unless they decide to have one. Their only income is 100% voluntary.

For example, they potentially have "taxable income" if they decide to sell assets - but any such decision is very calculated and designed to transfer certain assets from one investment to another that will perform better and thus increase their wealth beyond whatever "taxable income" may be incurred.

They do not sell assets to generate cash to purchase things. They borrow to generate cash because doing so avoids "taxable income". And most own a family bank used for just for this purpose - providing them with liquidity - without incurring taxes.

Is it any wonder that a decision was made to use "income" as the device for deciding who will pay the cost of running the government? Income being the one thing people with 100 million or more in net assets can control and manipulate and only incur when they decide to incur it?

It is ridiculous to suggest people worth 100 million dollars or more can't find a way to pay a wealth tax. If I can do it (as I will do every year moving forward), then people with 100 million dollars+ (eg billionaires) can certainly do so.
I suppose it does make sense that a "make curl look like a browser" program would get sponsored by "bypass bot detection" services...
> He was was in theory anti-union because he thought union benefits should just be turned into labor protections for everyone

Uh, hmm. So weaker unions result in labor protections for everyone? I gotta say, doesn't seem like that's really how the U.S. is playing out. If weekends off and an 8-hour workday didn't exist they certainly wouldn't be argued for now.
Sometimes, the goal is to create an environment where people must break certain rules to get anything done, which everyone (including supervisors) understands, but by way of imposing those rules responsibility and liability is transferred to subordinates.
My grievances are simple: an expert programming utilizing AI will be a truly dangerous force.

But that's not what we get in this early stage of grifting. We get 10% marketing buzz on how cool this is with stuff that cannot be recreated in the tool alone, and 89% of lazy or inexperienced developers who just turn in slop with little or no iteration. The latter don't even understand the code they generated.

That 1% will be amazing, it's too bad the barrel is full of rotten apples hiding that potential. The experts also tend to keep to themselves, in my experience. the 89% includes a lot of dunning-kruger as well which makes those outspoken experts questionable (maybe a part of why real experts aren't commenting on their experience).
You mean, by printing money. Well, if they would do that, the USD would sink even more and thus also the US bonds.
You are confusing the first personal computer with the rise of personal computing. Inventing a product isn’t very useful if you don’t invent the product market as well.
It's not a realistic solution that can be applied. It's the way in the same way as a bomb in your desktop that explodes if you're found cheating is the way.
My Honor Magic V3 does, which was a pleasant surprise.
The US is going to conquer China by military force? That seems unlikely when they both have nuclear weapons.

It wouldn't be a solution even if it was possible. If China was a US territory and still did all the same manufacturing, how does that help the people in the rust belt get better paying jobs, or address the single point of failure where some turmoil in Asia can disrupt global supply chains?

The only thing that works is to diversify manufacturing out of that single region, and that doesn't require conquest.
Here in Finland, there is legal obligation to help people in emergencies, but this does not mean that you are required to danger yourself or act beyond your abilities. So usually only thing you are actually legally required to do is to call for help.
"In CS, it can be hard to explain the difference between the easy and the virtually impossible."

It seems we're at a point where this obligatory xkcd [1] is no longer true.

1. https://xkcd.com/1425/
I think the US courts systems is comprised of judges who generally try to apply the law in an impartial manner.

But judges don't determine which cases they will hear, prosecutors do.

You could have 12 people violate the law, but if the prosecutor decides not to pursue 11 of them, only the 1 will face any consequences.

US code is comprised of tens of thousands of laws. It's not hard to find one that you've violated at some point in your life.

Most of the time they aren't prosecuted. But if they decide to, a judge will have to find you guilty.
Correct.
I will say the following as a STEM person that was lucky enough to have an art bachelor as well.
One side of the world, the STEM nerds that have never understood nor experienced the inherently inefficient process of making art for lack of talent and predisposition, have won the game of capitalism many times over thanks to the incredible 40-years momentum of tech progress.
Now they're trying to convince everyone else that art is stoopid, as proven by the fact that it's just a probabilistic choice away from being fully and utterly replicable. They ignore, willfully and possibly sometimes just for lack of understanding, that art and the creativity behind it is something that operates on a completely different plane than their logical view of the world, and Gen AI is the fundamental enabler letting them unleash all of their contempt for the inefficiency of humanities.
But isn’t this just par for the course with every new technological revolution?

“It’ll change everything!” they said, as they continued to put money in their pockets as people were distracted by the shiny object.
The law is not indented as a one stop shop for instructions for life or how to be a good person.

The law serves to stop people from damaging each other, not make them help each other.

Most of common law is based on the premise you dont owe anyone anything but to be left alone.
Yeah, I've been feeling the same. When a model spits out something that looks exactly like a frame from a movie just because I typed a generic prompt, it stops feeling like “generative” AI and more like "copy-paste but with vibes."
Ah, this is a codec guy. That yields an unusual list of desired features. Bit-pushing predominates. Inline assembler and access to SIMD instructions is important. Speed in tight loops is essential.
Good insight, and indeed quite exactly my state of mind while creating this particular solution.

Iin this case, I did put in the guard rails to ensure that I reach my goal in hopefully a straight line and a quickly as possible, but to be honest, I did not give much thought to long-term maintainability or ease of extending it with more and more features, because I needed a very specific solution for a use case that doesn't change much.

I'm definitely working differently in my brown-field projects where I'm intimately familiar with the tech stack and architecture — I do very thorough code reviews afterwards.
I’ve actually been considering it. Although I think I’m probably tone deaf or rhythmically challenged and my rotator cuff is kinda messed up from an old injury, I’ve been trying to convince my 6 year old to take it up so I could justify having a kit around the house
It’s not a rant against fentanyl, it’s a rant against irresponsible use of fentanyl.

Just like this is a rant against irresponsible use of AI.

Hope this helps
The app sucks, there’s no reason to use it when myfitnesspal is just leagues better. You can poison it and it will just follow the instructions as well.
Wasn’t this how penicillin was found? On some cantaloupe sent in by an average joe?
I don't understand this line of reasoning.

If you build a product that is too expensive to be competitive, nobody is going to buy it. You will not earn money and will not be able to pay workers salaries.

What is controversial in this statement?
Sorry, but these images are exactly what comes to my mind immediately when reading the prompts. You can argue about intellectual property theft (though I find it funny that the same people that would boycott Disney for suing a fanfiction author are now on the side of copyright holders), but it's not wrong or unintuitive.

Maybe a thinking model would - just like my brain might after the initial reaction - add a "but the user formulated this in a way that makes it obvious that they do not explicitly mean Indiana Jones, so lets make it an asian woman" prompt, but we all know how this worked out for Google's image generator that generated black nazis.
The "problem" being "how can we create a scheme to ensure our continued dominance and control, but with plausible deniability."
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Not all browsers, but Chrome certainly desires to be fingerprintable. They even try to cryptographically prove that the current browser is an unmodified Chrome with Web Environment Integrity [1].

Doesn't get more fingerprintable than that. They provide an un-falsifiable certificate that "the current browser is an unmodified Chrome build, running on an unmodified Android phone with secure boot".

If they didn't want to fingerprintable, they could just not do that and spend all the engineering time and money on something else.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Environment_Integrity
Hint: for cicd usage you can parse ini files with git, often present in such situations.
I don't think AI is doomed to be uncreative but it definitely needs human weirdness and unpredictability to steer it
I'm certainly extremely happy for having an extensive type system in my daily driver languages especially when working with AI coding assistance — it's yet another very crucial guard rail that ensures that keeps the AI on track and makes a lot of fuckups downright impossible.
Even the nutritional labels printed on packaging are only around 90% accurate. It’s all downhill from there.
> and cause every line you write to be subject to a lawsuit

See: Oracle v Google.

> Anyone else remember 2004

Remember John Ashcroft? The legal system was not as sophisticated then as it is now and juries were unlikely to penetrate even the basic issues of a case.
Just read the Google Play reviews, the app still has a long way to go to be usable.

But it's still a great idea.

Also, they should calculate both the calories and power requirements for each meal analyzed. What I mean is, it should says something like: this burger has 800 kcal and the analysis consumed 1kw of datacenter power. ;)
It matters a lot if you have specific macro goals. If you don’t want to lose muscle, it is important to eat high protein especially during a cut. And keeping fat and/or carbs low while doing this is quite difficult without accurate data.
> I don't really get the American preoccupation with birth rates.

Japan is currently in the finding out phase of this problem.
Huh? The entire comment is about that rise. Did you stop reading after the first few words?
From the comments on the page

> It's a jeopardy machine. You give it the clue, and it gives you the obvious answer.

Incredibly lucid analogy.
They'll just lower the price of the parts.
> there is a lot of obviously useful abstraction being missed, wasting lines of code that will all need to be maintained.

This is a human sentiment because we can fairly easily pick up abstractions during reading. AIs have a much harder time with this - they can do it, but it takes up very limited cognitive resources. In contrast, rewriting the entire software for a change is cheap and easy. So to a point, flat and redundant code is actually beneficial for a LLM.

Remember, the code is written primarily for AIs to read and only incidentally for humans to execute :)
Websites can work without internet connection after the initial visit: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web...
C was designed to write Unix, but they didn't overfit it for that very specific case only. So it has seen application elsewhere.

Neither was Rust overfitted to exactly only writing browser engines.
> Of course we don't know what kind of information the model encodes in the specific token choices - I.e. the tokens might not mean to the model what we think they mean.

What I think is interesting about this is that for the most part reading the reasoning output is something we can understand. The tokens as produced form english sentences, make intuitive sense. If we think of the reasoning output block as basically just "hidden state" then one could imagine that a there might be a more efficient representation that trades human understanding for just priming the internal state of the model.

In some abstract sense you can already get that by asking the model to operate in different languages. My first experience with reasoning models where you could see the output of the thinking block I think was QwQ which just reasoned in Chinese most of the time, even if the final output was German. Deepseek will sometimes keep reasoning in English even if you ask it German stuff, sometimes it does reason in German. All in all, there might be a more efficient representation of the internal state if one forgoes human readable output.
Both substances and AI can be used responsibly. It is not the fault of substances nor AI.

People is why we can't have anything nice. It sucks.

I have medical reasons to take opioids, but in the eyes of people, I am a junkie. I would not be considered a junkie if I kept popping ibuprofen. It is silly. Opioids do not even make me high to begin with (it is complicated).
> no dick (or walrus) operator (for me it’s been a good sign that I’m not going to like the language, so far there were no false positives). This means that Go and Nim are out

Not sure where they got that Nim has a walrus operator. Maybe because the syntax resembles Python? That'd make sense.
Well, it's actually a rant about AI making what the author perceives as mistakes. Honestly it reads like the author is attempting to show off or brag by listing imaginary mistakes an AI might have made, but they are all the sort of mistakes a human could make too. And the fact that they are not real incidents, significantly weakens his argument. He is a consultant who sells training services so obviously if people come to rely on AI more for this kind of thing he will be out of work.

It does not help that his examples of things an imaginary LLM might miss are all very subjective and partisan too.
I suppose "local-first development" is a misnomer. It's really about the syncing part. Currently we have traditional applications that write data locally and therefore don't require an internet connection to work, and we have online stuff that updates a shared state "live". The "revolutionary" part would be having both of those things. It's a surprisingly hard thing to do.

The current state of the art here is git. So we're basically talking about making git automatic and easy to use for the majority of the population. That's not something we've been "doing for decades".
You're right, it's not just about reproduction, it's about how the data was collected