skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a distaste for Nomad before the rug pull[1], but hopefully no serious person would voluntarily choose Nomad after that stunt. Doubly so that going with the Nomad ecosystem mandates self-hosting as one cannot $(aws elastic-nomad create-cluster). I was similarly surprised that HashiCorp didn't even offer "you pay for compute but we will administer your control plane" since both the "community" and the "enterprise" links from the front page both say "self-managed"

I will be super curious to see if IBM Cloud actually does ship $(ibm-cloud-cli create-nomad)

1: I also didn't realize they rug pulled Consul, too; that's just cruel https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/blob/v1.20.5/LICENSE
There are LLMs which do not generate one token at a time: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09992

They do not reason significantly better than autoregressive LLMs. Which makes me question “one token at a time” as the bottleneck.

Also, Lecun has been pushing his JEPA idea for years now - with not much to show for it. With his resources one could hope we would see the benefits of that over the current state of the art models.
Then the service that sold you tokens and delivered copyright infringing content is violating the law
> deep in some nested views

It doesn't even have to be deep. I ran into this issue on very few quite simple components. The compiler just gives up because somehow swift's type system makes it impossible to figure out
The rug-pull of Swift from TensorFlow came from Google rather than Apple.
Well, we can't count on the entire rest of the world having all their factories bombed and being the only nation with reasonable manufacturing capability all the time.
When I see this sort of comment, I feel like saying: 'well, go on then - you lead the way. If it's really a viable and pleasant way to live, why don't you show us?'
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This started as an experiment within my ongoing generative design project, reusing the same key visual language and core code base. Along the way, it naturally evolved into a tool (lol) You can:

Adjust count, size, position, color, and stroke of each element

Instantly generate real-time SVG code

Download as SVG or PNG

Even use your custom floral composition as a live photo filter (camera mode)

It’s fully client-side, install-free, and mobile-friendly.

I'm working on a broader system that can convert image into reusable, code-based assets, aiming to help both designers and developers build generative tools like this more easily.

I’d love feedback on what directions might be most useful next?
This is more or less how I feel too. Writing Swift feels good, and once you make a habit of avoiding code smells that trip up SourceKit, syntax coloration and all that works well enough too. SwiftUI on the other hand gets to be a mess for anything larger than small components and collection view cells.

And so I write pure code UIKit most of the time. It’s not trendy but it’s very effective.
The left is loud about the hypocrisy and faults of its own. Whether that's drone striking US citizens, trading on insider info, or taking literal bribes. The left has prosecuted its own far more often than the right.

My whole point is both sides deserve the rebutes and criticism they have earned, and at this moment one side is objectively far, far worse. Which doesn't excuse faults on the left. But it certainly is not the left who has embraced facism and kleptocracy, nor has anyone except the Republican party and their voters caused this.

> There are a lot of people on the "right" who are horrified about how Trump is doing anything

Citation needed
> Compare : Apple M4 perf vs $your_favourite_rv_”fast”_core perf per MHz

We might get a meaningful comparison like that if Qualcomm starts making RISC-V based SoC's as a hedge against ARM. Or if Tenstorrent comes up with a M4-like CPU design. I think the jury is very much still out as to whether the rather limited variable-sized insns (2 or 4 bytes) of RISC-V + the compressed insn extension is a genuine concern. It's certainly nothing like the chaos you see with x86-64 (which seems to be a real bottleneck for very wide decode), and a lot closer to something like the old ARM32+Thumb2.
> The biggest (and known) issue with

Isn't this literally what the person above is talking about?

> Really the issue is almost never the complexity of a view, but some simple syntax error (passing the wrong type to a function, etc).

The issue is that this is a big, known, common problem that cannot be solved, apparently
Hey, I didn't say you should trust other Google projects. The Google Graveyard meme should be enough evidence of that.
Correct. Legalize them both.
Ya I just have a suspicion that for some industries maybe easily done but for others, four years isn't long enough to embed yourself in an economy to the point where you have political support. It's not a bad idea to onshore some manufacturing. Like targeting the semiconductor and medicine industries should be a higher priority than autos I think. But what could happen is the companies put on a show of onshoring but nothing is really done because they know four years isn't long enough. For those two industries I suspect it's not.
Echoes of Howard Roark.
With margins so thin, supporting the genocide might've lost Harris some votes. But there was probably some internal calculation of whether being pro or against the killing of the children (amongst others) was a net positive or negative for their number of votes.

Yeah, politics, where you kill your conscience for the chance of winning.
What's impossible about that? If he said average, you're right. But back when I lived alone and worked remotely I barely talked in real life, except when hanging out with friends (when it was probably 10k+ words in an evening). I think I honestly only said "hello", "thank you", "by card" etc, when doing errands, and that's all. It's not as ascetic as you think, I type a lot daily, to the point that when talking irl with someone I often say "like you wrote" instead of "like you said". I have a wife now, so that completely changed for me, but I absolutely believe in the 50 word median.
Oh, yeah, I mean retaliation is inevitable; China’s already announced it, the EU is discussing precisely _what_ it wants to do (the EC has historically preferred doing weird stuff to straight-up mirroring for this sort of thing), and as you say Japan’s talking about it. Really the game theory of the situation makes it more or less inevitable.
I wish there was a more internationally friendly version of NYT Games, they're so fun and I play them daily but a lot US cultural knowledge is required at times
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> Why would I stay in a dirty Airbnb?

Because of what I described above! In summary:

* Desire to have an experience and living environment I can't get at home.

* Desire to have living space beyond 2 beds and a bathroom crammed into the smallest available space.

* Indifference to dirt or wear and tear.

Thankfully, no one is saying that AirBNB should replace name brand hotels, in the same way that no one thinks that every hotel should be a Motel 6. AirBNB/VRBO is just another segment of the industry, and those people who want to stay in an AirBNB can, just as people who want a Hilton can without affecting those people who want to stay in the Ritz-Carlton. This is the beauty of the market!
Any type works. This one is stupid elaborate. Animals are smart. They don’t need a graded landscape to learn crossings. See what they use for crab migrations. Looks nothing like what is native in a crab environment and yet this is fine for the simple crab. Meanwhile coyote already is used to walking on our sidewalks in california.
> Also, helm gave me a loathing for yaml I never knew I had in me

If it's the whitespace that jams you up, I wanted to point out that since YAML is a superset of JSON, there's nothing stopping you from using text/template to cook JSON manifests. There is, of course, a toJson function available in helm <https://helm.sh/docs/chart_template_guide/function_list/#typ...>

But I'm conceptually with you that the jokers who decided to use a text templating language for a structured output were gravely misguided and now we all suffer
If you're curious about who the author is, you can find his White House bio here, under staff: https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/information-resources/

>> The Honorable Stephen Miran is Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers in President Donald Trump’s second Administration. On December 22, 2024, President Trump announced his intention to nominate Miran to be the 32nd CEA Chair, and he was confirmed by the Senate on March 12th, 2025.

Figured it was an interesting look into what the administration is trying to strategically do with the world economy, whether you agree or disagree with the goals and/or effectiveness.
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I wish they had a vision for the language and not "we throw everything and the kitchen sink at it so that our compiler often cannot handle even the simplest SwiftUI components and takes ages to do anything"
> have removable batteries

No thanks, upgradeable is enough. I don’t want to optimize for something that happens once every… 5 years? I’m perfectly happy with my phone not exploding in 5 pieces when it falls on the ground.
In my opinion? No, and precisely because you used the words "third impeachment". I have come to realize there simply is no bottom. He was truly right: he could shoot someone in broad daylight and he wouldn't be held accountable.

If Republicans weren't aligned with Trump, it wouldn't have been a 51-aye vote. If they actually cared, they would be on the news discussing historical precedent and impeachment right now. Yesterday they were praising him on Fox, calling this a genius plan that will save America while denying the market collapse is even haplening. They, again, talk of a third term for glorious leader.

The party has become fundamentally incapable of admitting they are wrong about anything to the point that they would rather descend into a fascist regime that disappears political opposition to El Salvador prisons.
And imported third worlds like a commodity! I wonder if there is a tariff on that.
I'm running a custom ROM on a Galaxy S8 (so without project treble) and I've been pleasantly surprised!

Even something as niche as the swipe on fingerprint sensor to pull notifications drawer down still works!

Everything from phone calls, camera, fingerprint, all the essentials work pretty much flawlessly.
I remember reading Douglas Hofstadter's Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_Concepts_and_Creative_An...]

He wrote about Copycat, a program for understanding analogies ("abc is to 123 as cba is to ???"). The program worked at the symbolic level, in the sense that it hard-coded a network of relationships between words and characters. I wonder how close he was to "inventing" an LLM? The insight he needed was that instead of hard-coding patterns, he should have just trained on a vast set of patterns.

Hofstadter focused on Copycat because he saw pattern-matching as the core ability of intelligence. Unlocking that, in his view, would unlock AI. And, of course, pattern-matching is exactly what LLMs are good for.

I think he's right. Intelligence isn't about logic. In the early days of AI, people thought that a chess-playing computer would necessarily be intelligent, but that was clearly a dead-end. Logic is not the hard part. The hard part is pattern-matching.

In fact, pattern-matching is all there is: That's a bear, run away; I'm in a restaurant, I need to order; this is like a binary tree, I can solve it recursively.

I honestly can't come up with a situation that calls for intelligence that can't be solved by pattern-matching.

In my opinion, LeCun is moving the goal-posts. He's saying LLMs make mistakes and therefore they aren't intelligent and aren't useful. Obviously that's wrong: humans make mistakes and are usually considered both intelligent and useful.

I wonder if there is a necessary relationship between intelligence and mistakes. If you can solve a problem algorithmically (e.g., long-division) then there won't be mistakes, but you don't need intelligence (you just follow the algorithm). But if you need intelligence (because no algorithm exists) then there will always be mistakes.
maybe this is why Brin and Allen were so obsessed with airships, not to speculate too much but they sound like they could be an ideal short-run, low-impact, high capacity transit system if done right
I don't mean to be rude, but anyone who thinks watts/day and watt days are ever interchangeable will have severe problems reasoning about anything electricity-related or energy-related.

It is akin to thinking that "2 apples" and "an apple divided by 2" are interchangeable because both expressions involve the concept of an apple and the number 2.
I think the concept of a budget deficit and a trade deficit is being mixed up.
Why would it be ideal for the USA to build consoles? The Asians build the hardware, the Americans make the software. That’s exactly the kind of specialization and efficiency that trade is all about.
Many universities that use OCaml in upper-division courses also use it in lower-division; my university requires all CS majors to take a course that is taught in OCaml, and covers higher-order programming, "advanced" (Hindley-Milner) type systems, equational reasoning, etc., typically in their sophomore year.

The compilers class can then be taught in it without worrying about that problem much.
It was indeed already true decades ago.

I would say that the transition we are currently witnessing is real action: while the pandemic made it difficult to be certain, the extremely rapid growth of renewables — even though electricity is far from the only concern — seems to have resulted in emissions either peaking or being very close to peaking.

I'm not sure if we really could have gone much faster. 20 years ago I would have bet on nuclear energy and hydrogen cars, not because they were cheap, but because nuclear was already at the right scale and hydrogen can obviously be scaled up quickly whenever the energy is cheap. Instead, we got PV so cheap I'm planning on getting a balcony system with a pay-back period of less than a year because it makes sense to get that immediately while my partner and I plan how to do a full-power system, and batteries are so cheap they're not only used in cars but also for grid power time shifting.

But to expand on what I said before, electricity is far from the only concern: we need to reduce emissions by 99.9% to be sustainable. If you look at this graph, https://ourworldindata.org/ghg-emissions-by-sector, the remaining 0.1% is the smallest line in the pie chart — "grassland". Switching all road transport to electric helps a lot (11.9%), it's not something to be dismissed simply because other things also need to be fixed.
I mean, Occam’s Razor says he’s just incompetent, honestly. And he’s had a bit of an obsession with tariffs for a _very_ long time. He’s been going on about them since before the fall of the Soviet Union, so unless you’re speculating some sort of secret Putinist rebel cell within the former Soviet Union influencing him 40 years ago, it’s probably just that he’s quite stupid.

Also, this kind of ignores how dependent Russia is on _China_. If this were actually at Russia’s behest, China would hardly even be bothering with mirroring tariffs; it would just call Putin to heel.
To tell you a brutal truth, I dislike any timed game.
As always, a Land Value Tax would fix this.
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I think a lot of environmentalists do have a very anthropocentric view though - humans are viewed as a uniquely corrupting, malevolent force that's a blight on the natural balance of the world. But every other species would do the same, if they could. Our worst instincts are the ones that we share with all other life on this planet - to expand at the expense of everything else. To be selfish, and grow without limit.

Ironically one of the things that's unique to humans is our ability to feel guilty about our impact on the environment.
It's disrespectful, that's why. If someone doesn't think it's worth the time and effort to write something, it's not worth my time to read it.

All writing, visual art and music is an act of expression and communication. If one delegates that human element to a machine, they're a poseur, and that's the end of it.

Thanks for calling that out and saving a click. There are lots of nice reconstructions of dance music on YouTube, which are fascinating to learn from as someone who likes to play with DAWs and synths, which are more worth the time.
SSL support for DBs was added in a recent release.

A new UI is planned and under development as we speak.

Improvements to zero downtime deployments and our overall deployment flow, including scaling across multiple servers, are under planning and will be released later this year.
Knuth has lost almost all meaning in more heads than Sturgeon’s Law would anticipate. Too often his quote is just an excuse for developers not to think.

There is no doubt that the grail of effi-
ciency leads to abuse. Programmers waste
enormous amounts of time thinking about,
or worrying about, the speed of noncritical
parts of their programs, and these attempts
at efficiency actually have a strong negative
impact when debugging and maintenance are
considered. We should forget about small
efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: pre-
mature optimization is the root of all evil.
Yet we should not pass up our opportuni-
ties in that critical 3 %. A good programmer
will not be lulled into complacency by such
reasoning, he will be wise to look carefully
at the critical code; but only after that code
has been identified. It is often a mistake to
make a priori judgments about what parts
of a program are really critical, since the
universal experience of programmers who
have been using measurement tools has been
that their intuitive guesses fail.

> A good programmer will not be lulled into complacency by such reasoning

And yet “lulled into complacency” is exactly what most people are.
> Stop staying at chain hotels. There are plenty of hotels out there that are what you're looking for, and have an actual business to engage with in case of issues instead of some anonymous lister on AirBNB.

That has not been my experience. It is very hard to find a robust selection of hotels in a major city that has a living room and kitchen. Even when you do, in a part of the city you want to stay in, they are often tiny kitchens, with limited kitchen equipment, and where the cabinets are completely cleared of every food item after every guest. These places also have very antiseptic, uncomfortable furnishings. They are night and day different from staying in most AirBNBs.
“If” is doing a lot of work there. Do you think they’ll slow down airports and port of entries to check everyone’s personal phone? Maybe if you buy 3+ to sell. But there’s congressmen who fly with guns on their carryon. Let’s tackle serious threats first.
Using an ad blocker already does that. I can’t even use reddit outside a private browsing session because the main session is somehow identified to be a bot already and I get the “whoa there partner…” page. Same thing with other sites amazon serves a ton of captchas, so does google.
"The only reason that Jews are in pornography is that we think that Christ sucks. Catholicism sucks. We don't believe in authoritarianism. Pornography thus becomes a way of defiling Christian culture and, as it penetrates to the very heart of the American mainstream (and is no doubt consumed by those very same WASPs), its subversive character becomes more charged." - Al Goldstein
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I have been planning it out but only for my property. I can not afford to build the national, international or interplanetary bits. Getting a good team together at my location is my only obstacle. It's very hard to find a solid general contractor and team here that will build as designed in phases. They want to do it all in one shot but that introduces a lot of legal risk if they are doing it wrong.

I love being underground. It's cool and quiet. Those facilities also last a very long time. I found many "Kilroy was here" scribbles in tunnels in the military and some of them were dated back to WWII.
Why would it equally be shit? It's like doing a final exam , you know what you know and and you don't know what you don't know , no hacks or gimmicks can save you.

And while yes they should also test for stack related and other technical aspects and not just Algorithmic leetcode esque knowledge , thats more of a reflection on the test.
about a week ago I had a weird experience. I had purchased concert tickets for a date night with wifey in april, which got postponed to october. like wtf long.

I brought it up in conversation as i was annoyed. Everyone at the table picks up their phone to fact check me and they brought up the hall's website and said I was wrong. I had the email sent to me about the postponement on my phone, it was real. I didnt care to prove myself right. Checking the website now it's now showing october.

Why even fact check it? Just to prove me wrong? What if your fact check went wrong?
The power being as meager as it is, sometimes its just posting comments in HN hoping that the tech elite see them and have it trigger some sort of deep introspection along the lines of "are we the baddies?" leading to a complete rethink and undoing of the ad/surveillance construct.
The routing decision that an MoE model makes increases its chances of success by constraining its future paths.
I think the group of people that work on this should petition for their tax data to be the first to be used. Seems to align the incentives on internal controls of PPI.
"We love disruption and whatever is good for America will be good for Americans and very good for Palantir,” Palantir CEO Alex Karp said in a February earnings call. “Disruption at the end of the day exposes things that aren't working. There will be ups and downs. This is a revolution, some people are going to get their heads cut off."
A more generous take on the previous post is that the dominant paradigm of Math (consistent logic, which depends on many things like transitive preference) is wrong, and that another type of Math could work.

If you look at the slide, the subtree of correct answers exists, what's missing is just a way to make them more prevalent instead of less.

Personally, I think LeCun is just leaping to the wrong conclusion because he's sticking to the wrong tools for the job.