skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I stared at the homepage on my smartphone for a while and thought "That's really quite good." Then I started scrolling...

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What are these fundamental properties you speak of? 8 years ago this was all a pipe dream. Are you claiming to know what the next 8 years of transformer development will look like?
Yes, lmz <https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lmz> pointed out that I had mixed up Dave Plummer and Dave Cutler. There are actually multiple videos that Dave Plummer has done with Dave Cutler, which I found very interesting.

Reminds me of Coders At Work, by Peter Seibel, which I read right around the time that I decided to get deeper into software. Being able to read or hear about the process that went on in someone's head while developing something so major was and is still impressive, and motivating.
> What people really want is brand identity

What people really want is a stable binary format for apps and drivers.
> Which is why they want to abolish term limits.

I wondering who "they" is. It can't be the WH. Yes they said they want to work around term limits, but if the reason they are offering is the stability they've shown us so far ...
Which will be exactly what for the standard middle class person?

CBS published this list: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/which-products-most-affected-ta...

What exactly on this list is a day to day item that is going to adversely affect the middle class/blue collar Trump voter enough to cause them to flip their alliance? On that list maybe clothes and shoes. But even still those are generally bought only a couple of times a year and any increase will be griped about in the moment, but come election time will be forgotten.

There are only four things that will make a middle class voter feel pain enough to re-align their vote. Fuel/energy costs, general food costs, rent/housing costs, and job insecurity. If these tariffs do not adversely touch those areas, they will have little to no impact on switching votes. Also of note, over the last four years those items are the ones that drove Trump back into the Oval Office.
Microsoft Dinosaurs was also awesome
I dunno, I just had Copilot sneak in a typo today that took about ten minutes of debugging to find. I certainly could have made a similar typo myself if copilot hadn't done it for me, but, all the same copilot probably saved me a minute worth of typing today but cost me 10 minutes of debugging.
> How do restaurants work, then?

Primarily because recipe creation is not one of the biggest cost centers for restaurants?
And yet the US has some of the best universities in the world academically.
> New client setup happens via Marco in a proprietary way on the order of seconds

Do you consider this your "ActiveSync" and if so what do you see as the differentiating features/capabilities?
No Microsoft, no Half-Life.
All true. But instead of writing a blog post complaining about it, I think you'd be better off voting with your feet and choosing a solution that puts the answer you want at the top of the list. Cut your losses and move to something that works the way you want it to. How much would such a tool be worth to you?

Yes, Kagi puts the site he wants at the top by default. And if it didn't, you can easily configure it to put the site you want on the top the next time. Possibly there are other search options that still work as well. Others should feel free to list them. But at this point rather than complaining about Google's search quality you should really make just the change.
And that was after the US supported Pakistan against Bangladesh. Now you know why my Bangladeshi family isn’t torn up about USAID closing even though we immigrated to America thanks to USAID. India doesn’t seem upset either.
> 2. You hear the incomplete first measure as an anacrusis, or a kind of unaccented lead-in, to the second measure: OMG even more radical!

Why is this radical at all? This is exactly how most humans perceive it: as a lead-in to the second (I might even argue first) measure. It's very strange to me to say that most humans are supposed to understand the piece to have started before any sound is played. In fact that's quite preposterous: play a song that starts with a rest to 1000 people and ask them to gesture as soon as the song starts, and every single one of them will gesture on the first note played. How are they supposed to perceive the song to have started any earlier than that? A song "starting with rests" is written that way to make it understandable to the performer who is reading the notation. It's a purely notational thing. The notation is not the song, the sound is the song.
Dells age really horribly though. Unlike ThinkPads (especially the IBM and early Lenovo days)

I used to love my T490s even. It was a really recent model but still not bad for me.

But now my work gave me a T14s and it's horrible. The keys have way less travel. The body is thinner but the screen is way thicker than the T490s's. I don't know what they're smoking but ThinkPads are dead as decent laptops.
> the model reproduces Indiana Jones

the model isn't the one infringing. It's the end user inputting the prompt.

The model itself is not a derivative work, in the same way that an artist and photoshop aren't a derivative work when they reproduce indiana jones's likeness.
Imagine a world where Thanos snapped his fingers and photoshop (along with every digital application like it) was wiped from Earth forever. The world would keep on turning and artists would keep on creating, but creating art would be more difficult and fewer people would be able to do it (or even touch up their own photos).

Would that world be so bad? Was the world really so horrible before photoshop existed?

What if we lost youtube? What if we lost MP3s?

We could lose a lot of things we didn't always have and we'd still survive, but that doesn't mean that those things aren't worth having or that we shouldn't want them.
Nobody knows you're a Christian or right winger at a university until you open your mouth to let all the women and LGBT people know that you think they don't deserve rights, and it's not discrimination when people don't like you for being an asshole. The vast majority of Christians go to college, don't get mad that LGBT and non-Christians exist, and didn't get discriminated against.

The absolute narcissism on display here is crazy.
I think this code is at least twice the size than it needs to be compared to nicer, manually produced Python code: a lot of it is really superfluous.

People have different definitions of "reasonably maintainable", but if code has extra stuff that provides no value, it always perplexes the reader (what is the point of this? what am I missing?), and increases cognitive load significantly.

But if AI coding tools were advertised as "get 10x the output of your least capable teammate", would they really go anywhere?

I love doing code reviews as an opportunity to teach people. Doing this one would suck.
Hey cliornd.I hope this message finds you well. I have a few questions I am hoping to ask:
Is the devops role open to international applicants and provides visa sponsorship for overseas candidates?
Are there any resources or articles you could recommend that discuss the current job market in Canada for overseas job seekers? I am planning to move to another country from Asia
Since the first browser appeared I've always meant that sending a user agent id was a really bad idea. It breaks with the fundamental idea of the web protocol, that it's the server's responsibility to provide data and it's the client's responsibility to present it to the user. The server does not need to know anything about the client. Including user agent in this whole thing was a huge mistake as it allowed web site designers to code for specific quirks in browsers.
I can to some extent accept a capability list from the client, but I'm not so sure even that is necessary.
When I was young, I saw the aftermath of the speed sensor belt breaking on a 1000HP dynamometer. I think the DUT was an EV engine, the damage was quite impressive. The controller capacitors had blown, the output shaft was broken, the torque sensor had a 250Nm offset, the rotor had contacted the stator and destroyed the coils.
I wouldn't exactly use the word evil, but I do remember a time when desktop hardware and software were not so massively dominated by one or two companies. I could buy a 386 or 486 computer from any number of vendors, buy expansion cards (graphics, sound, MIDI etc.) from various other vendors, buy hard disks and optical drives from yet more vendors, and even buy DIMM memory modules from yet more vendors, and put it all together myself. Yes the machine would run DOS or Windows, but most software outside the Office suite came from various different vendors (remember Norton, Borland, Corel?)

Not blaming MS per se (much of my examples above are H/W), but the type of "consolidation" companies such as MS engaged in, killed a lot of small to medium computer hardware and software businesses.
You can't really just hire some, though. You need to hire enough so that they don't get run out of the school for thought crime

https://www.thedoe.com/article/conservative-college-professo...
Water comes over the sides/top in choppy seas. It rains on the deck, and the cabin has a door. It's normal. Bigger boats have taller sides. That's the difference with size, which waves will spray you. Keeping things dry is a challenge.
Blue Origin's all-female space flight urges women to shoot for the stars
Full title: Blue Origin’s all-female space flight urges women to shoot for the stars – but astronaut memoirs reveal the cost of being exceptional
It was with a freighter, China to Panama bound - no one on watch - about a quarter of the way across to Hawaii. My boat was so small it was mostly invisible to radar - I spotted it on the horizon, but it appeared to be on a parallel course so I wasn't too worried - I went back to sleep and was woken by engines. After crash gybing out of the way, I radioed the vessel many times, with no response. Out of paranoia I then did the rest of the leg with a strobe on - my next encounter was a vessel that had stopped because it thought I was in distress...
Surely 2025 is the year of the linux desktop, this is the one guys!!!
If the first note isn't on the 1, you'll write rests before it, so that the person reading your sheet music understands what's going on. That doesn't mean the music has started yet. The notation is not the music.
> My impression is that the general quality of games on steam is sub par the quality of, eg., Zelda.

What? Given that 99.9% of all games are published on Steam, what you are comparing is Zelda against gaming as a whole, not “the quality of games on steam”

Zelda is good, but it’s not better than literally all of gaming. If you are not a die hard Nintendo fan, I’d rather use Steam and enjoy saner pricing. There is always emulation for Nintendo.
Latency would be kept low be keeping the compute nearby. One 1U or 2U server per robot would be reasonable.
> A different way of looking at it: AI, by design, defaults to regurgitating the poppiest of pop culture content.

That's the whole problem with AI. It's not creative. There's no "I" in AI. There's just what we feed it and it's a whole lot of "garbage in, garbage out".
The more the world is flooded with derivative AI slop the less there will be of anything else to train AI on and eventually we're left with increasingly homogenized and uncreative content drowning out what little originality is still being made without AI.
MAGA isn't 50% of the population. Voter turnout was 63.7% for 2024, so I'm saying that ~32% of the USA population are objectively shit people, in the same way that Germans who supported Hitler were objectively shit people.

If you can't see that disappearing people without due process is wrong, you don't have good values. If you can't see that pardoning conmen, and insurrectionists is wrong, you don't have good values. If you can't see the use of Venezuelan prisons and Guantanamo Bay as extralegal black sites as wrong, you don't have good values. If you can't see that a president illegally ignoring the courts and congress is wrong, you don't have good values.

You could say that some of the other stuff that's happening is just an extension of the culture war, and that it's a matter of interpretation of whether it's wrong or not (DEI hate, transgender issues, abortion rights, etc). I don't agree, but those topics are harder to give a black and white answer on whether it's wrong or right.

Clear violations of the constitution, ignoring basic human rights, and doing straight up crime are black and white issues, and in general, most Trump voters support these things, and these are things he campaigned on, so even if they disagree with them now, they voted to allow it to happen.
I'd have hoped someone at Google would know this is a myth.

The idea that choosing a 1% strategic internal investment over a 4.5% T-bill constitutes actionable "financial malpractice" or a breach of fiduciary duty leading to successful lawsuits is incorrect. Courts recognize that running a business requires strategic choices and risk-taking, not just maximizing immediate, risk-free yield. A lawsuit would fail unless plaintiffs could show the decision was tainted by disloyalty, bad faith, or gross negligence in the decision-making process, none of which are implied by simply choosing a lower-yield strategic project.

Hence why no one ever gets sued for this. It doesn't happen. It lives in the minds of HNers and Redditors to provide a very convenient excuse for their employers, or in general companies, making abhorrent decisions purely based on feels and short-term next-quarter profits/stock price, regardless of the negative externalities they inflict on soeciety.
Those are great, I would watch any one of those movies. Maybe even the "Across the Indiana-Verse" one where they are all pulled into a single dimension.
The guys at the big companies have a service which tells them your salary and all kinds of personal details about you. The point is to see how much you can afford, pray on your ignorance, and milk you for as much as possible.
Doesn‘t mean listing logical points makes it a rant
So?
Less capital chasing after housing means housing prices fall.
If the capital was not destined to be used in the first place, then it only serves to inflate the economy
Always love seeing Ben Eater’s “build [X] from scratch”
His YouTube is one of the best channels to understand how stuff works from fundamental building blocks.
It’s a rant against the wrong usage of a tool not the tool as such.
Yeah I had a P51 at work. The name was the only cool thing about it. It had a quadro card that was completely useless for my VR stuff (Lenovo refused to sell them with GeForce back then) and it was basically a brick for no good reason. Even the charger weighed a ton. I so hated travelling with that thing.
I read Hard Drive by James Wallace and Jim Erickson a couple years ago. It was written between Windows 3.1 and 95. Super interesting to read Microsoft history from the perspective of that time period. I loved it.
I thought it was because you can't copyright a style (e.g. the Ghibli style), but you can copyright characters (e.g. Spiderman and Harry Potter).
it absolutely does not. you pay for paper and the network. the education, except at few rare exemptions, is subpar. talk to any asian and european and ask what they think of attending uni in the US :)
Anduril banned from recruiting on NixOS forums
This is a discussion of semantics. First I spent much of my career in high end quant finance and what we are doing today is night and day different in terms of the generality and effectiveness. Second, almost all the hallmarks of AI I carried with me prior to 2001 have more or less been ticked off - general natural language semantically aware parsing and human like responses, ability to process abstract concepts, reason abductively, synthesize complex concepts. The fact it’s not aware - which it’s absolutely is not - does not make it not -intelligent-.

The thing people latch onto is modern LLM’s inability to reliably reason deductively or solve complex logical problems. However this isn’t a sign of human intelligence as these are learned not innate skills, and even the most “intelligent” humans struggle at being reliable at these skills. In fact classical AI techniques are often quite good at these things already and I don’t find improvements there world changing. What I find is unique about human intelligence is its abductive ability to reason in ambiguous spaces with error at times but with success at most others. This is something LLMs actually demonstrate with a remarkably human like intelligence. This is earth shattering and science fiction material. I find all the poopoo’ing and goal post shifting disheartening.

What they don’t have is awareness. Awareness is something we don’t understand about ourselves. We have examined our intelligence for thousands of years and some philosophies like Buddhism scratch the surface of understanding awareness. I find it much less likely we can achieve AGI without understanding awareness and implementing some proximate model of it that guides the multi modal models and agents we are working on now.
Funny how the entire middle class manages to deal with a wealth tax on their largest illiquid investment —- that is, property tax on their home —- and yet far wealthier people cannot be expected to pay a wealth tax on far more easily liquidated assets.
I have an account as old as yours, and the games I have lost access to have been pulled by the publisher, never by Valve. We’re talking about one or two games in a 500+ library, and I don’t even remember which.

Yeah, it’s not a very big concern of mine either.
Considering where the TSMC ticker is sitting right now, this evokes more of a "Reichswerke Hermann Göring" vibe from me. This was a closed-door demand to Taiwan with an "offer" they couldn't refuse, likely illustrated using some of the casualties Ukraine suffered during their brief lapse in American assistance. The government of Taiwan is the largest shareholder in TSMC, and Trump knows that he can threaten abandonment if they ever refuse US demands. Predicate weapons sales on administrating Intel fabs, and a stupid pretense can start to sound like a lucrative long-term investment. I wouldn't put it past a president that tried to sell Ukraine weapons they already owned by mining minerals they don't have.

> Keep your competitor alive so the antitrust folks don't come down on you?

It would be deeply ironic of America to attack Europe over antitrust litigation while trying to prosecute TSMC for "monopoly" abuse. Protectionism aside, the American economy stands only to harm itself by forcing TSMC out of the country. That would be like the tech industry cutting off its right arm to spite a pimple on its face.
All four of those are dressed like Indiana Jones. They look like different versions of Indiana Jones you'd see in super hero multi-verse story.
> Many of our "flagship" universities conspicuously sided with the Left

I wonder if that’s related to universities often being places where ‘reasoning’ is taught.

And then by extension, that tells you a lot about the arguments on either side…
I don’t know anything about the technical details but you can also hear the difference when plucking in different locations on the string very clearly on a classical guitar, to the point where it is an integral part of right-hand technique and is marked on music. Plucking closer to the neck has a very round, resonant sound, plucking closer to the bridge has a very sharp sound, and plucking exactly halfway along the string has a particularly round sound.

As Segovia said, the guitar is like a miniature orchestra https://youtu.be/DJrEl4Nsmsg?si=voLmARBDxGe8iDRo
> build your understanding by evaluating a plurality of sources and perspectives and get to the answer in a statistical manner

A few thousand years of pre-LLM primary sources remain available for evaluation by humans and LLMs.
The advantage of the AI in this scenario is the starting point. You now can start cross referencing signage, language, license plates, landmarks. To verify or disprove the conclusion.

A further extension to the AI "conversation" might be: "What other locations are similar to this?" And "Why isn't it those locations?" Which you can then cross reference again.

Using AI as an entry point into massive datasets (like millions of photos from around the world) is actually useful. Correlation is what AI is good, but not infallible, at.

Of course false correlations exist and correlation is not causation but if you can narrow your search space from the entire world to the Eiffel tower in Paris or in Vegas you're ahead of the game.
In what way does an intellectual race to the bottom help students? If students want to learn on the cheap they can use the internet.

Students want to feel like their time spent studying is worth it, not a weird blend of trivia, online classes you finish in a week or useless skills that you spend months practicing and lose 6 months after the class.

Millions of people could be working productive manufacturing jobs, instead they are doing effectively nothing all because of a disproven belief from 100 years ago that if you study enough you will increase your innate intelligence.
Oh, I thought you were talking about unorderedness in embedding indices in a general context, to which I was responding to the specific case of vocab embedding indices having a correlation - my apologies
Field repair by enterprise IT support was also part of Lenovo's business model. For framework repairability is a thing but it's not as important I guess.

I had an HP that also had service manuals available.

Ps Lenovo basically has two brands; the business laptops like the T, P and X ThinkPads, and the consumer stuff including some of the budget ThinkPads (I think E series). The latter don't do service manuals, have really crappy keyboards.. Just B-brand crap. They're just a consumer laptop with some thinkpad trim. Be careful with that if you think of buying one.
It's a tool that promotes incorrect usage though, and that is an inherent problem. All of these companies are selling AI as a tool to do work for you, and the AI _sounds confident_ not matter what it spits out.
Aah.. I have been repeating this to my team for several days now. Thanks for putting this together.

I start every piece of work, green or brown, with a markdown file that often contains my plan, task breakdown, data models (including key fields), API / function details, and sample responses.

For the tool part, though, I took a slightly different approach. I decided to use Rust primarily for all my projects, as the compile-time checks are a great way to ensure the correctness of the generated code. I have noticed many more errors are detected in AI-generated Rust code than in any other language. I am happy about it because these are errors that I would have missed in other languages.
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