skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The last few months I've been picking up Spanish language editions of Borges's short stories and poems from used book stores. Two decades ago during school I took two years of Spanish, so reading native Borges would be way beyond my comprehension.

With AI tools, though, I can "read" Borges in his native language: with my phone + OCR + translate I have an English language companion. Or, using the voice interface I can try narrating the Spanish text and ask clarifying questions whenever I'm confused.

An author like Borges makes it well worth the extra effort. And, his puzzles often involve language, so the extra layer of mental translation can mirror the work itself, e.g. in his poem La luna [1]. (though, I envy your native Spanish)

1. https://www.gaceta.unam.mx/la-luna-un-poema-de-borges/
Not if you also want an EV.
Generative AI for Social Science
Very good read, made me want to try OpenBSD again after a story similar to yours.
Very nice and smooth! Do you have source for your demo?
thank you so much for the feedback!

I will definitely show "how does that work" in the future
It's been done.

Bob Mercer and Peter Brown laid themselves off from IBM when they were told to execute 10% across the board layoffs. They had argued their team was one of the highest performing teams in the company but were told that they had their quota. 10% of their team was 2 so they took the hit.

From there, they went on to run Renaissance.

IBM should have kept them.
Not just them. Also FF mobile with UBO, and no email submission block for me.
I totally agree, it was a stark contrast between phd life and purely sw engineer life, in terms of doing things the way i wanted.
The origin of this is the “how to draw an owl” pic

https://imgur.com/how-i-feel-when-somebody-gives-me-advice-g...
What? Maybe I was unclear. I'm not saying it's not a poison. It seems like I walked into some entrenched debate and I don't even know what it is. Is it obvious that alcohol has sex specific effects? I didn't know. Is this some kind of culture war thing?
HN is replete with criticism of these things.
LLaMa 3 already has RoPE encoding which can handle arbitrarily long contexts (within reason)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.09864

The difference RoPE makes vs traditional positional encoding is that you just care about relative distances between tokens, and we can attenuate the attention over great distances.

Instead of making the model look at every token in the entire sequence all at once (which gets expensive fast), you can break the text into logical chunks—like sentences or paragraphs—and run self-attention within each chunk. That keeps things efficient while still capturing local meaning. Then, for each chunk, you create a summary—either by pooling or using a small learned head—and pass those summaries into a second layer of attention that operates on a much smaller scale. This gives you higher-level context across the document, kind of like moving from sentences to sections to the whole thing. Optionally, you can even send that higher-level context back down to influence the lower layers. This approach shows up in models like Longformer and BigBird (which use attention windows), hierarchical models (like HANs), and newer architectures like RetNet and Mamba that compress information over time or scale. RoPE fits neatly into this by helping each chunk handle relative positions more naturally.

RoPE is kind of perfect for this setup because it handles relative positions directly in the attention mechanism, which means each chunk can still understand the order and spacing of tokens without relying on fixed position embeddings. It’s especially useful when you're working with long sequences or chunked inputs, because it doesn’t care where the chunk is in the overall document—it just cares about how tokens relate to each other within that chunk. RoPE also makes it easier for models to generalize to longer inputs than they were trained on, since the rotational math behind it naturally extends beyond the original context window. Plus, because it's baked into the dot product itself, it adds no extra memory or computation, and plays well with hierarchical or multi-scale attention setups. Basically, it’s a clean, efficient way to inject positional awareness that doesn’t break when you start slicing things up.

PS: LLaMA's RoPE may be a bit off but it still works great: https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/is-llama-rotary-embedding-i...
Thats an interesting project. Thanks for sharing.
It is so hard to fathom that a leader trusted with millions of dollars of other people's money can be so disengaged from recruiting as to not see a hard wall of cash crunch, months if not years ahead.

You can't assume fundraising will always go swimmingly. You have to always be in survival mode, and if that means not hiring aggressively, then you put on the breaks until the money comes in .

Either as a leader you are clueless about your business cash needs, you are clueless about risk management, or you are clueless about the market, all of which make you not a suitable leader for a long-term company.
I hope AoE2 lives as long as Chess does. It really is one of the "perfect" games.
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-tariffs-antarctic-islands-...

> One of the sheets claims that the Heard and McDonald Islands currently charge a “Tariff to the U.S.A.” of 10 percent, clarifying in tiny letters that this includes "currency manipulation and trade barriers." In return, the sheet says that the US will charge "discounted reciprocal tariffs" on the islands at a rate of 10 percent.

They seem to specify some odd islands.
As in you rolled out an internal service for the whole company?!
In most companies, writing code is the last thing developers (should) do. You're there to achieve business objectives, and you were hired because someone thought your experience and skillset will be necessary to achieve those business objectives. Sometimes those objectives are met with an excel sheet, sometimes they're met by losely integrating various 3rd parties, sometimes they're met by integrating various libraries, and sometimes it requires treading new ground and writing some real code.

The best web dev isn't the one that knows .Net, React, Svelte, GraphQL, micro-frontends, etc. The best web dev is the one that can convince their manager that their business objectives can be achieved by using WordPress.
> making actual things ..

ahh, am trying to do that - largely self-funded RnD over 4 years -

Also trying to wake people up about the scope for ML to be applied to real engineering problems / processes ..

We hear of applied-RL/ML examples at the elite end, such as taming fusion plasma, weather prediction on a desktop, solving protein structure from DNA sequence etc..

Yet there are vast applications such as training robot hands to sort refuse for recycling, optimal heat flow in industrial processes, silicon chip layout, 2D photos to 3D models ...

My own startup domain is detecting geometry in pointclouds .. which is currently a lot of repetitive manual labor done for the construction industry.

It is frustrating talking to VCs .. because they really dont believe there is any other AI than LLMs.

My guess is the only people who will fund this kind of useful tech are post-exit technical founders.
Been there and done that. One startup I was at instituted a 50% pay cut for senior execs, 25% for the level below that and no cut below that. The CEO took a 100% pay cut.

This let us get through a short rough patch without layoffs.
remember how much the ibm model m keyboard cost back in the 80s? ($200 or about $550 in today’s money)
Why is the page so sluggish on mobile?
> Turns out all the Reaganites got sucked into just handing China our economy. It’s not sustainable.

You're looking at this from a pretty jingoist perspective. Take it from another angle - what was Intel doing in the 60s and 70s that China couldn't copy in some guy's garage? What are American businesses exporting today that China has to copy to take for themselves? Why is globalism such a bad idea, why can't other countries copy our cheap cashgrabs?

You can't protect American businesses if they can't compete on their own merits. You can't demand that people respect your judgement if you reject the institutions of international justice. This is the starting gun into the foot of global trade that will leave America limping to the finish line.
That's not at all equivalent to what the OP is doing. The point isn't just to blur an image, which is what those Tailwind classes do, the point is to render a very compact blurry version of an image which hasn't loaded yet.
This is kind of cool as an alternative process to develop apps with. Literally product in a zoom window telling you what to build as you go along. No standups, no refinement, no retros etc. Just a PM that really knows what the customer needs and the developer just building those as you go along.
If you're going to buy a domain for this, don't get fancy with the TLD. I made the mistake of choosing a .io domain for this purpose and with the future of the TLD uncertain, I have been moving away from it, so I'm not left in a bad spot if things go sideways.
This looks interesting! What's the added value over wireguard + openwrt setup?
Maybe it’s iOS version dependant. I’m a bit out of date (on purpose for jailbreak) and the demo is broken for me.
In case anyone hasn't seen it yet, the big chart the administration showed with "tariffs charged to the US" was not real.

They used trade deficit numbers in the "tariffs charged to the US column". The numbers in that column are not actually tariffs charged to the US.

The entire "reciprocal tariff" claim was based on a big lie.

Trump also repeated claims that the US trade deficit with Canada was "close to $200 billion" when the official trade deficit is significantly less.
You say obvious. I say I've never heard of it. Interesting to me anyway.
The point is this study has nothing to do with alcohol being a "poison" , that's completely irrelevant to what was tested and discovered.
LLMs in their entirety are unlikely to move past tokenization - it is the inescapable core from the roots of NLP and Markov Chains.

The future of AI and all of ML in general likely does exist beyond tokenization, but I find it unlikely we will get there without moving past LLMs as a whole.

We need to focus on the strengths of LLMs and abandon the incredibly wasteful amount of effort being put into trying to make them put on convincing facsimiles of things they can't do just because the output is in natural language and easily fools humans at first glance.
Where's Canada? And Mexico?
This is awesome. If the site owner is reading this, favorites would be cool.
I think letting devs 2 hours a day, that they can flex so if they wanna use it on Fridays its fine, for personal projects, whether internal or otherwise. Just think of all the random tech debt that could be resolved if devs had 2 hours a day to code anything, including new projects that benefit everyone. Most people can only squeeze out about 6 hours worth of real work anyway. You burn up by the end of the day.
> the worst nuclear reactor catastrophe killed ~30 people directly and ~5000 indirectly.

This is highly debatable.

A glimpse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl:_Consequences_of_the...

> Why do we accept car deaths

Because those who refuse to be exposed to induced risks can prevent most of it, while those who refuse to be exposed to nuclear's induced risks (for them and their children, and their children, and their children... thanks to nuclear waste) are out of practical and realistic options.
A good alternative is Listary v4[0] and Fluent-search[1]

[0] https://bopsoft.com/
[1] https://www.fluentsearch.net/

Fun fact - Fluent search comes with vim-easymotion like navigation built in. Now beat that Microsoft!
Wrong continents
DST for Async Rust
Code is a liability. Employees are a liability. Solving problems with as little code/employees/risk/cost is the goal.
Regardless of your opinions of guest worker visas, they are here voluntarily on legal visas. The immigration lawyers at these companies are advising them they may not be allowed to reenter, for no cause.

It is a disgrace to the honor of America.
Presumably by configuring the system-level HTTP proxy settings to point to a tool like mitmproxy or similar running on a machine on their LAN, and then installing a locally signed root CA certificate generated by the proxy, to enable it to decrypt TLS connections. I'm not familiar with the process on iOS, but it's pretty straightforward on Android. Some apps bundle their own root CA certificate (see "certificate pinning") and ignore the system certificates, which defeats this method unless you can decompile the app package, replace the bundled certificate with your own, and recompile/sideload the modified package. It's also possible they statically analyzed the app package to discover URLs.
Its not even cruel. Its just dumb. Really dumb.

You are going to invest significant resources into hiring, onboarding, and injecting new staff into workflows for people that will not be there as soon as they are actually productive.

So its not just the cash burn - its the tieup of 3x team members to getting new people trained to become effective and successful contributor. Time is finite.

It makes no sense to throw away all that time spent by your team, who could have use that same time to get a few more features out, proposals sent , or projects spec'd instead.
And the LangChain definition is a further simplification of Anthropic's:

"An AI agent is a system that uses an LLM to decide the control flow of an application."

What gets left unsaid is whether current SOTA LLMs actually have the reasoning and planning capabilities to do this reliably. I would argue that except for code debugging tasks and simple research tasks (iterative Googling with a web browser and then formatting the results into a report format) they do not. That may change in 6 months, but right now the hype has gotten ahead of the capability.
I have a coworker who _excels_ at writing code - one of those engineers who can metabolize caffeine directly into code.

They write code to implement the all-important features. They write code to work around lack of process. They write code to work around problem people not doing their jobs well. They write code to work around buggy code by other developers. They write code to work around their own code, written weeks or months earlier.

I've been encouraging them to _reduce_ the amount of code they write, and instead consider the context around why they're writing the code. Code is just one way - and not always a particularly good way - that we can solve people and process problems.
Disagree. Just the other day I needed someone to replace my chimney cap. The quotes from the big companies ranged from $3k-10k. Utterly ridiculous. I got some guy from an app who bought the stainless steel cap for $300 and installed it for $300 more for a total of $600 and the work is fine.
https://archive.is/IVNIR
Show HN: I built a 1B+ contact database as a solo founder in 60 days
After evaluating lead generation tools like Apollo, Hunter, and RocketReach, I noticed a common problem: they rely on old database technologies that often contain unverified emails, yet charge premium prices — this inefficiency bothered me.

I decided to approach this differently by leveraging modern AI technologies. I spent time learning the strengths of various LLMs (Grok, DeepSeek, ChatGPT, Claude 3.7) and combined the best aspects of each for my solution.

The technical challenges were substantial. To reach 1B+ verified contacts, I had to:

- Implement residential proxy networks using Luminati/Bright Data, with Node.js for connection management and Redis for IP rotation scheduling

- Develop captcha-bypassing systems combining Puppeteer's browser automation with 2captcha API integration and custom computer vision models using TensorFlow

- Perfect web scraping at scale with Python (Beautiful Soup, Scrapy), optimized with asyncio for concurrent execution, and Playwright for dynamic content rendering

- Build a robust backend infrastructure using Laravel PHP framework, vanilla JavaScript for lightweight frontend interactions, and PostgreSQL for storing the structured data with proper indexing

I hope you enjoy using the trial, I made it especially for you guys.
Why is there a trade deficit with a country if there aren’t trade barriers or other unfairness, such as China’s weaker labor laws and environmental laws? Mathematically, “free trade” treats those things as a “comparative advantage” but we don’t have to pretend that reflects reality.

The formula simply reflects the premise that, in a fair system, trade deficits would average out to zero. It also escalates the tariffs as the trade deficit goes up, and reduces them as the other country imports more of our goods. It’s an elegant formula.
That's in theory, in practice a very large amount of companies only hire dev to bring jira tickets to completion where engineers are kept in a complete bubble and will never speak to a single actual customer.
> Tariffs include currency manipulation and trade barriers assessment.

These aren't real tariff numbers, it's some other pseudo metric masquerading as a tariff number.
Airbnb Superhost: To Be or Not to Be?
I know this site is just passing the information along but the "Tariffs To U.S.A.
Including Currency Manipulation and Trade Barriers" are such a totally garbage/nonsense/bullshit numbers that it's embarrassing to repost.
The placeholder is inline in the markup. It can be displayed before the image loads. Which is not inline. I have no idea what 99% thing you're talking about.
It's not "don't leave", but "don't put yourself in a situation there you have to reenter". It's in neither party's interest to be in that situation.
Related:

Evidence mounts that shingles vaccines protect against dementia (42 points, 8 months ago, 14 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41073127

Evidence that the shingles vaccine prevents a good chunk of dementia cases (667 points, 2 years ago, 273 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36083620
If you have that many candidates where you can't even answer them, Why are you here asking for more?

EDIT: I’m sure you have a dozen great candidates in your resume pile you reject for a type-o or an unknown school, or something. Do a second pass.
... theres an argument to having arXiv paper hashes, and/or important digitalia checksums put on a blockchain.

detect-ability of state-actor post-facto editing : DEI related or otherwise
So the argument is that we crashed the economy but at least we screwed foreigners over and not just social security?
guess their jobs were just automatted away!
In other words, software engineers need to "sell" the value of their work.
Skin lightening products are famous here for social status. It’s so fake.
Potentially dumb question; how well do these kinds of trackball mice work with games like Arkanoid of Breakout?

I've never been able to get used to those games with a mouse or trackpad, and there aren't a ton of rotary controllers being produced now as far as I know.
Ah, I meant comments rather than posts (and I think flagging posts has a different meaning since one cannot downvote posts) but it looks like comments are visible by adding `&kind=comment`. Anyway, the most recent comment I vouched is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43530295 which I think is a good example of what I'm talking about.
Sweet! I'm excited to follow along. I'm using SQLite right now and it would be interesting to have an in-process Postgres-compatible DB. Best of luck with it.
It depends. When I go to Costco and make huge purchases to last a month, I unload the cart onto the payment conveyor and the bagger bags them on the other side. By the time I’m done unloading the cart and have finished paying, the cart is ready to go. I would say that’s like a 40-50% time save. Those really add up to shorter lines and more purchases for the stores.
It's easy to call that a "tell" in light of Matt Mullenweg's recent activities. No one was saying shit when Wordpress was the darling of Web 2.0.

Justifiable evidence of Matt Mullenweg's unhealthy/excessive narcissism only surfaced within the past year or so (I'm fuzzy on the timeline, cut me some slack ya?). Automattic the company has been so named for, goodness, close to twenty years now.

It could be Matt's been a narcissist from the start. But people also change and not always for the better so maybe he became a "narcissist" much later in life and his chosen company name just so conveniently fell into the narrative.

There are CEOs in bigger spotlights with a bigger case for narcissism who don't put their names on any of their companies (emphasis on the plurality). One of them has a name with a similar inflection pattern to other well-known albeit fictional narcissist, Tony Stark.

I don't know what "Automattic" as a company name says about Matt as a person. I'll tell you what it is though: a damn good pun, one I would gladly score myself given the chance.
You can be patient and wait gently for the former Biden administration to admit what they did. I am sure you will wait a long time but who cares.

Meanwhile people who matter and people who vote can use their brains to deduce the truth that it was a politically motivated attack that made use of the judicial system.

For one reason or another, it seems that humans are able to use deductions to arrive at conclusions without having it be spoonfed to them. The people who need to be spoonfed can sit in their highchairs and be irrelevant I guess.
High demand for labor can lead to better conditions, but demand for labor isn't static and without real organization and solidarity it's nearly impossible for workers to punish companies that move jobs to low-cost locales. Economic policy is also controlled by the employer class, which means policies that encourage unemployment and inflation are common.
For a long trip like that, I can see it, but 24 days…!

Neat story through!!
wonder if some of the bugs with self-managing it have been worked out :)
These tariffs are a soft blockade carried out as part of a decapitation strike[1] against America.

Imagine you are Russia, and you want to stop American support of Ukraine or that you are China and you want to annex Taiwan. You can't enact a blockade or take military action against America yourself, but you can attempt to destroy us from within by compromising people in positions of power. Oligarchs have more in common with each other than with their countrymen.

This administration lies with the truth. It is true that there are trade deficits harmful to America and that not being able to produce our own masks is a national emergency, but enacting a policy like this is insanity. Those trade deficits are born out of financialization[2] which is a result of the exorbitant privilege[3] of managing the reserve currency.

I can't imagine anyone who writes software intuitively supporting this. Radical changes in policy/code break things. Maybe you do it with something vestigial, but would you do something like this to your databases? The economy, the beating heart of the country, is being put at risk.

[1]Timothy Snyder -- Decapitation strike: https://archive.is/1xkxK [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financialization [3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exorbitant_privilege
what has been the oldest democracy is now the youngest fascists state. Albeit, not all US america's people, but more than 50% supporting it.
I think if you look at how most people lived, worked, travelled, communicated, educated, etc before WW2 - there was a huge improvement after the war that resulted in lots of development and economic opportunities for the average person.