skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very cool, I thought about this when testing regenerative braking parameters on the electric cars I put together.

I ended up just spinning the motor with a hand drill and later fine tuning in an empty car park.

Your solution is much better to get engine hours and a proper load on your test piece in a lab environment!
Why do ppl keep saying quote search doesn't work? Totally gives more focused results for the quoted item than not. As does something like "site:"

You can share in some other related recent anecdotal gripe threads:

Search could be so much better. And I don't mean chatbots with web access

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43563915

I don't think I can trust Google as my search engine anymore

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43517828
Bad choice of words -- I just wanted to point that out given that the OP seemed to be under different presumptions.
Wealth inequality. Increases in productivity are going to the top, not the worker. It's also why social security is going broke. It could be funded if you remove the cap. Removing the cap wouldn't be necessary if there weren't such a wealth inequality problem.

The ultra wealthy are hoarding wealth then telling the rest of us we can't afford things we've afforded for over 50 years.
>What’s cool about the Dutch East India Company and Standard Oil is that there will never be another company like those two. They are true trailblazers in so many ways.
Cage created art that transcends music and you are rightfully noting that it is not that impressive when judged solely on musical merit.

It’s like saying a dodecahedron isn’t that impressive when viewed sitting on a 2D plane because it’s just a triangke and there are more interesting 2D shapes. True, but so reductive it’s tautological.
The big difference is that Bill's dad was one of the best corporate lawyers in America. Microsoft might not have amounted to much if they hadn't struck some extraordinarily prescient licensing deals at the right time and place.
The ML world being nearly entirely in Python, much of it untyped (and that the Python type system is pretty weak) is really scary.
This is the opposite of how people have thought about creativity for centuries, though.

The most creative person is someone who generates original, compelling work with no prompting at all. A very creative person will give you something amazing and compelling from a very small prompt. A so-so creative person will require more specific direction to produce something good. All the way down to the new intern who need paragraphs of specs and multiple rounds of revision to produce something usable. Which is about where the multi-billion-dollar AI seems to be?
Some people in the Nix community are opposed to Nix being used for weapons. Thus they're opposed to Anduril using Nix, sponsoring Nix conferences, or participating in the community in any way.
Discussions:

(87 points, 1 day ago, 97 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43555898

(47 points, 1 day ago, 45 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43562005
No one desires adulterated fentanyl.
If we’re lucky.
Absurd comment. Microsoft forged the desktop space into what it is today. You clearly don't like them but their contributions and market decisions quickly outpaced Apple and everyone else in the 1990s. They created the dominant PC experience that remains to this day by a large margin.
it would be interesting to perturb the CoT context window in ways that change the sequences but preserve the meaning mid-inference.

so if you deterministically replay an inference session n times on a single question, and each time in the middle you subtly change the context buffer without changing its meaning, does it impact the likelihood or path of getting to the correct solution in a meaningful way?
I remember exactly that moment I first saw a Windows 95 bootup.

First the new _animated_ boot splash with the ms-logo, then the elegant start up piano sound, the amazing new start button with a menu with so perfectly organized applications, settings and a run input. It was like stepping into the future.

Windows 3.11 and dos 6.22 was normal yesterday, it worked, was cool and had all the stuff I loved to do - but after this day they felt dated and ancient.

Such moments are rare. Microsoft rocked so hard
I would not say it is “very good” at that. Maybe it’s “capable,” but my (ample) experience has been the opposite. I have found the more exact I describe a solution, the less likely it is to succeed. And the more of a solution it has come up with, the less likely it is to change its mind about things.

Every since ~4o models, there seems to be a pretty decent chance that you ask it to change something specific and it says it will and it spits out line for line identical code to what you just asked it to change.

I have had some really cool success with AI finding optimizations in my code, but only when specifically asked, and even then I just read the response as theory and go write it myself, often in 1-15% the LoC as the LLM
America has done an absolutely terrible job of teaching people about rights.

If governments granted rights then they would be privileges not rights. In western tradition governments exist to protect rights, such as the freedom of expression, not to grant them. If you believe these are human rights, rather than your privilege as an American, then you must protect their rights to seek justice too.

People are already being robbed of due process, which means they are robbed of the process that determines their right to "protections" and citizenship status. Almost all authoritarian regimes presume the right to rob people of the protections of their state. You perceive citizenship to be some indelible legal status, but citizenship can be revoked either tacitly or explicitly which is a prelude to the violation of someone else's rights and their human dignity.

The law can't protect or enforce itself. If the ruling regime chooses not to be bound by law then what should happen or what is supposed to happen is supplanted by what can happen. Even a cursory look of what can happen in authoritarian regimes should turn anyone's stomach.
Considering their bikes start at $15K, "everyone" is unlikely to be able to afford it.

I love to buy local, and I love to cycle, but what I can afford is $2K. Which is why I'm still riding the same Kestrel (full carbon w/ SRAM Force drivetrain) I got on Craigslist 8 years ago for $700, and on which I've since replaced a number of components, but have still spent < $2K overall. A comparable bike new these days would be at least $5K.
No it doesn't. Commercial intent (usually) makes it illegal, not the fact of copying.

So the criminal party here would be OpenAI, since they are selling access to a service that generates copyright-infringing images.
I think they are very different situations. Automattic (and their leadership) used their power over the WordPress open source project as a weapon in a legal dispute with a major competitor.

What has Anduril done? Tried to sponsor some conference. Post a job ad on a project forum dedicated to that purpose - both are activities which, in the general case, the project welcomes - and then project members object, not because of anything they’ve done in the project itself, but because they don’t like the industry Anduril is in, who its customers are, etc

Seems to me like completely different situations. The WordPress situation makes Automattic look bad in my eyes, while the Anduril situation makes NixOS look bad in my eyes
Banned because they are helping the DOD or sabotaging them?
The only 2 countries on Earth - USA and China.

You don't have to choose between oligarchy and communism. There's normal countries out there.
More US Government Extortion Aimed at Universities
Brown as well:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/us/trump-administration-b...
If it overfits on the whole internet then it’s like a search engine that returns really relevant results with some lossy side effect.

Recent benchmark on unseen 2025 Math Olympiad shows none of the models can problem solve . They all accidentally or on purpose had prior solutions in the training set.
Some person on Web says yes: https://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=133646#p864052

There's also the W520, which looks like a T520, but is set up for a larger PSU, and had quad-core and better GPUs as factory options. (I own a few each of T520 and W520, but don't like the huge power bricks of the W. So I'm using the T as daily driver, until I really need something in the W.)
Check out work by Microsoft research. Examples: Z3 solver, project Orleans.
added to my must-read list.

I notice his interview on Democracy Now : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7jPzzjbVuk

This guys mental map is impressive, as are the color of his book titles : https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16872611.Malcolm_Harri...
Didn't Happen Overnight [video]
Why argue about this, when you can read a well written blog post that discusses this matter in detail? https://www.lwv.org/blog/whats-so-bad-about-voter-id-laws
and how do you reconcile any work in software development? If someone isn’t willing to work for free, should they just not work in the field at all? Do you think software culture would really be richer?
The only people losing faith in Google (search) are power users such as us. Regular users haven't noticed the decline, and search may even have improved for them. We are not Google Search's target audience. We need to stop pretending all products are built for the power user niche.
Arkansas Bill Targets "Gender Non-Conforming" Haircuts for Kids
off topic but the timing is a doozy: tik tok to be banned again this saturday. wonder what whoever is appointed tomorrow will have to say about the dangers it poses..
Spot on, see the 2017 article "God in the machine: my strange journey into transhumanism" about that dynamic:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/18/god-in-th...
Just a guess as he said his favorite olive oil so could it be one tastes better? I imagine like many other things taste can be effected by the region it is grown in.
As for your other point in a perfect world we would all care about global climate change but many are not going to eat something they don’t like to do their part. But really cargo ships are small fish in such a big problem. Ban private jets or cruise ships would be way more beneficial.
This post argues that AI-driven automation is making “seatwarmers” (employees who coast on minimal effort) glaringly obsolete. The author urges those in risk of replacement to adapt quickly, pointing out that once routine tasks can be handled by AI, companies will question the need for human input. I’m curious how others see this evolving—especially regarding roles that mostly involve repetitive work.
I wanted to argue...

then I couldn't
"People like you" So prejudiced, maybe get that looked at.

It's a complicated topic, but no we have not always been doing merit based hiring. However, merit based hiring does result in imbalanced race and gender distributions due to long term societal issues and demographic distributions at earlier stages.

Basically, there is a skewed class distribution at the source. You have to fix it at the source via equality of opportunity and making our society more equal. I'm not a conservative, i'm very far left and strongly believe in making society more equal in general. However. Trying to fix it at the destination is called racial discrimination and is dehumanizing and evil and anyone who does it should suffer prosecution.

You don't get to dehumanize and discriminate against individual people for the greater good, i will personally go out of my way to see you receive consequences if you try this and you're doing it somewhere i can see. There's a lot of us with this opinion, hopefully your stance starts getting chilled from fear of blowback.
this sounds like a bunch of people who make a living _talking_ about the technology, which lends them close to 0 credibility.
Maybe in 70 years everyone will know the true reason ... hahahahaha ! :)
Some things I think about are how different the goals could be

For example, human and biological based goals are around self-preservation and propagation. And this in turn is about resource appropriation to facilitate that, and systems of doing that become wealth accumulation. Species that don't do this don't continue existing.

A different branch of evolution of intelligence may take a different approach, that allows its affects to persist anyway.
> close-up image of a cat's face staring down at the viewer

> describe indiana jones

> looks inside

> gets indiana jones

Okay, so the network does exactly what I would expect? If anything you could argue the network is bad because it doesn't recognize your prompt and gives you something else (original? whatever that would mean) instead. But maybe that's just me.
They don't contradict each other, and they don't have to. The generic "argument" is plainly wrong for the reason forrestthewoods pointed out: this is an official section of the forums dedicated to advertising by private companies. So why did they say that, instead of explaining what grave insult Anduril committed? I don't know, I guess they're having a strong emotional response to the situation.
You probably mean the USAMO 2025 paper. They updated their comparison with Gemini 2.5 Pro, which did get a nontrivial score. That Gemini version was released five days after USAMO, so while it's not entirely impossible for the data to be in its training set, it would seem kind of unlikely.

https://x.com/mbalunovic/status/1907436704790651166
Thats why I put "OK" in quotes. It remains to be seen if the immigration moves will kill the 'get out of jail free' card the US and few other countries have had. These trends don't change overnight so we have to wait and see. At this time though their population pyramid is pretty good compared to their rivals. It might take years of continued decline to finally destroy the good thing they had going. Meanwhile China had 20+ years to rectify their problems and now its too late.

US: https://www.populationpyramid.net/united-states-of-america/2...

China: https://www.populationpyramid.net/china/2024/
An excellent summary that applies to many other small industries. Too bad the Trump Administration economists didn't read this article before coming up with their tariffs plan (of course considering its stupidity, especially in how the tariffs were calculated, it's plausible no actual economists were involved).
The guy started saying it in the 80s or 90s when that issue had been fixed. Ge is the Minix guy if I recall correctly.
Good, I'll help you pack your factory into your suitcase.
Relevant?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lai9QhBibk
It's in keeping with the times. Trump wants to be king.
No one has desire for adulteration, but they have a desire for an opiate high, and are willing to accept adulteration as a side effect.

You can look to the prohibition period for historical analogies with alcohol, plenty of enterprising humans there.
I’m no Microsoft fanboy, but Microsoft Excel was very innovative for being one of the first graphical spreadsheets, originally written for the classic Mac OS in the mid-1980s before it was available for Windows. It was Excel, not Word or PowerPoint, that fueled the popularity of Microsoft Office in the 1990s, though admittedly I lament the decline of WordPerfect and other word processors. Sure, Excel might not have been the most innovative graphical spreadsheet; that award goes to Lotus Improv for the NeXT computer. However, Excel was a leap ahead of DOS-based spreadsheets like Lotus 1-2-3.

There are other innovative Microsoft products. Visual Basic was a very nice rapid GUI development environment in the 1990s. Windows 95’s interface was the result of a lot of research done on the user experience, and the result was a GUI that not only has persisted (with many modifications, of course) for about 30 years, but has inspired other desktops such as various Linux desktops, and in some ways even influenced later Mac operating systems.

Let’s also not forget Microsoft Research, which has produced a lot of interesting work in operating systems and programming language research.
Related Celebrate 50 years of Microsoft with the company's original source code (259 points, 7 hours ago, 134 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43575884
Mostly, but some repeat offenders just don't seem to care.
Confusing docs as there is no setup self hosted for postgres.
This is literally how the Odyssey was passed down for the 2000 years before the printing press was invented.

Every work had multiple versions. All versions were different. Some versions were diametrically opposed to others.

Have a look at Bible scholarship to see just _how_ divergent texts can become by nothing more than scribe errors.
With this project, I was really only interested in the resulting application, and intentionally not in the resulting code.

I really wanted to see how far I can get with that approach.

I will ask it to clean up the code and its comments and report back.
Windows 9x used a TTL of 32. I vaguely recall hearing that it caused problems in extremely exotic cases, but that could have been misinformation. I imagine that >99.999% of the time, 32 is enough. This makes fingerprinting via TTL to distinguish between those who set it at 32, 64, 128 and 255 (OpenSolaris and derivatives) viable. That said, almost nobody uses Windows 9x or OpenSolaris derivatives on the internet these days, so I used values from systems that they do use for my argument that fingerprinting via TTL is possible.
Ok, I'll bite: in your view, what were the illiberal "demands" post-2020? Reading tfa, this kind of rendering feels a little too pat for him. Namely, its one thing to argue against the kind of knee-jerk moralism of well-meaning woke liberal arts kids, its quite another to imply a kind of "capital L" program to "chill speech."

Like, c'mon, are we really still doing this now? Roth himself is sensible enough to not be, in his words, "blaming the victim" at this point, what calls you to essentially do it for him anyway? It's nothing but out of touch at this point, and adds nothing to the discourse but conspiratorial noise. If I may assume a rough age based on your forthrightness, any single kid in school in 2020 was and is a lot less culpable for this current moment than you or I. We can set an example and be mature enough to own that, instead of, I don't know, forever being tortured by the real or perceived condescension of kids.
Check back in a few years, right now its good, and we wont see results for at least a few years:

https://www.populationpyramid.net/united-states-of-america/2...

>how do you justify labelling a birth rate that's been below replacement for 18 years as "OK"?

The US being a nation of immigrants has this unique selling point of attracting people to make up for their woes such as birth rate. Unless we see millions of citizens getting deported, the people "voluntarily" relocating don't move the needle in this metric.
In vscode click on the extension icon on the left that looks like building blocks. Then type in definition and this should be one of the first shown. Click, install, enjoy.
A lot of these tools show off what a full success backlog looks like, in reality I care significantly more about what failure looks like, debugging, etc.
I'm just pointing out obvious ways in which you have selection bias here.

FWIW googling, allegedly 1 in 10 people in rural america do not have a license. Or at least that is the claim floating around the internet. So yes, i think figuring out if this is a real issue should include both checking on rural and urban people, along with many other demographics. It is not obvious how this situation differs between urban/rural.
The MDPA is a term the llms named the json prompts ive been writing, they've noted they are particularity unique.

shrugs..... it employs a structured framework that divides content into four distinct segments, each with a specific function and a designated emphasis on the core identities. This framework ensures a logical flow and a strategic deployment of different communication styles throughout the content.
this is amazing, in my experience I haven't found much utility for visualization heavy UX. Like professionally.

I have spun up landing pages and things for things I've monetized. The crypto crowd loves it. But I don't put that stuff on my resume

What do you all use snazzy UX for?

I do find creating and expressing myself this way to be fulfilling though. Which is good enough, I just never considered myself doing it for the art and art communities. Websites aren’t really consumed that way.
asianometry on YT

also stratechery had few articles over the years
So... ask it to dress them differently. You can just ask it to make whatever changes you want.

"An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip. He is wearing a top hat, a scarf, a knit jumper, and pink khaki pants. He is not wearing a bag" (https://sora.com/g/gen_01jqzkh4z2fqctzr9k1jsfnrhy)

Want to get rid of the pose? Add that the archeologist is "fun and joyous" to the prompt. (https://sora.com/g/gen_01jqzksmjgfppbv5p51hw0xrzn)

You have so much control, it is up to you to ask for something that is not a trope.
Lessons learned from my first dive into WebAssembly
Hmm author seems not to have noticed that Quatermain's love interest was played by Sharon Stone

https://youtu.be/LI4xsKHBx8c
It's interesting that Microsoft was founded almost exactly a year before Apple (April 1st, 1976). I can't imagine Apple will miss the opportunity to make a big deal out of it.
I'm in that group. The thing is China already crossed that rubicon 20+ years ago. So the US only really needs to outlast China in this regard. It will create problems of its own and pro America people like Peter Zeihan argue that large generations create more large generations. Boomers -> Millenials -> Gen Alpha. I dont fully buy this though.

Their population pyramid looks good though compared to China:

https://www.populationpyramid.net/united-states-of-america/2...

https://www.populationpyramid.net/china/2024/
There are import/export costs that make such routing impractical other than for smaller volume, high cost items.

The other thing is that customers buying high end items care about where it was made, so you need to inform them. (Passing off the bikes as being manufactured in Japan but in fact the frame was made in China, would be a big blunder.)
It's about reclaiming lost social status. In their minds it's part of the liberal gollum that makes them feel alienated from society and disrespected.
The whole article is predicated on the idea that IP laws are a good idea in the first place.
Devs, please don't use this. it is unusable for me when browsing in a VM with a pretty snappy internet connection. The only other site that has compute/graphics resource issues for me is Netflix (its competition Prime, Youtube,etc.. have no issues, so i can only presume bad software dev decisions).
All the heavy metals were below 1ppm, are any of the levels concerning?
I just want to say how cool it is to see you doing a non-trivial review of someone else’s thing here
Yeah, that was total nonsense. Good cards existed. And if you didn't have a good card, alsa had a soft mixer. FreeBSD added a softmixer to OSS, too, so you didn't even need alsa. Worst case, you could run the Enlightenment sound daemon without Enlightenment and it was compact and just worked (as long as you had a simple sound setup)
But... the prompt neither forbade Indiana Jones nor did it describe something that excluded Indiana Jones.

If we were playing Charades, just about anyone would have guessed you were describing Indiana Jones.

If you gave a street artist the same prompt, you'd probably get something similar unless you specified something like "... but something different than Indiana Jones".
How is that in conflict with the fact that humans can introspect?