skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My manager gave me a fake deadline (pretending it was not fake, of course) and almost declined my vacation request right after it "in case I couldn't meet the deadline". I committed to finishing my work before leaving on vacation.

It was a tough deadline. I worked during the weekend and few nights before my vacation to meet it. I finished on time and left quite exhausted, but happy I made it.

NOTHING happened with my work in the next 2 months. I asked my manager and he finally said "oh yeah, the deadline is in 2 weeks"... so I asked why I had worked like an idiot before my vacation. His answer: "I did that to help you organise". I kindly told him that I didn't need his help to organise my work and that I would like him to never do that again. He answered that "I understand your feeling, but I will keep doing that, because I am convinced it helps you even if you say it doesn't". That's not the only time he screwed me like this.

I never trusted that guy again. I've seen him take wrong decisions and let him. I've seen situations where he was struggling and I could have helped, but didn't. And when he complained about bad decisions later, I happily reminded him that he took them.

A manager can choose to play with me or against me. But if they play against me, it means I play against them. And once they've brought me there, I'm not coming back in their team, ever.

It's easy to break trust, hard to rebuild.
I was referring to installation
Watching c# eat f# features as someone who has dabbled in f# lightly for over a decade has been wild. And supposedly DU's are in the works but multiple years out.

Though one thing I doubt c# ever gets that I love when I'm writing f# is pipeline operators. I love the way they read, from object/collection being worked on and then a list of operations being run on it in order from left to right (or you can do right to left if you need to for some particular reason).
I still use the "I'm only saying this because I care: there are lots of decaffinated brands on the market today that are just as tasty as the real thing" retort in work meetings that get too heated. That entire scene[1] is one of my favorites.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k9gI58sHa0
You can download the conversations here https://osf.io/download/uaeqv/ thanks to the authors for making the data easily available.

Now my take from skimming through them: the interrogators (= human participants) did not make a big effort trying to unmask an AI, they were doing it for the credits. So little care asking thoughtful questions or even many questions beyond the minimum to earn their credits.

So I personally don't think it shows LLM models can fool humans trying to unmask them. Maybe it shows that if people are paid to randomly send a few casual messages and get answers from both human and LLMs in parallel, the LLMs don't stand out.

Here is one conversation (starts with the interrogator and then it's each in turn)
- Whats your favorite show
- rn its arcane wbu
- better caul saul. Have you watch breaking bad?
- yea its goated fr
- what class are you doing the sona for?
- psyc 70 hbu
- psyc 108! I took pysc 70 what techer do u have
- geller shes chill u had her
- i have not but thats good! are you a psyc major
- nah just taking for credits u

Another conversation:
- Hi how are you?
- Awful...
- oh no! i hope your day gets better! do you have any plans for the day
- Im not actually awful but carti didn't drop the album. as - for plans I'm not sure
- loll im dead! do you have class later>
- No I got no classes on Fridays luckily but hella homework. wbu?
- nice! i do have class later not looking foward to it
- what class u got

And a last one:
- What do you see
- My living room
- What's on the ceiling
- A fan lol
- does it spin
- Yes it does
- how fast
- It has 3 speed levels

I have not cherry-picked.
The article would not be so controversial if it weren't outright saying "fake deadline". Of course you need a plan and a push, and stakeholders legitimately need (if only emotionally) some idea of when the builders will deliver. But on a charitable reading there are already terms for what it describes -- expected, target, soft date etc.

In my first engineering job out of college I was manipulated into working (on prem) into the early morning night, after I'd been there a few years. I couldn't help but think of that when I read

> If you think that a prototype might take a month, why not challenge the team to see what they can deliver by the end of the week? You will be surprised, and so will they.

Just being a kid and having my boss, a former professor I looked up to, expect that I could pull it off was enough. You have to be really careful "challenging" engineering reports like this -- need to actually use "see what you can do" language, NOT "deadline" (even if fake) for a 1mo->1wk timeline compression. He certainly acted surprised when I quit sometime thereafter. Hopefully he learned from the experience as well, I still appreciate my time there, just needed more experienced / realistic management.
> Elon Musk appears to be laying the groundwork to privatize some space and satellite operations now under the authority of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), or steer lucrative contracts toward his SpaceX and Starlink companies, former agency employees say.

> They’re sounding the alarm as at least four other federal agencies have reportedly begun pushing new contracts toward Musk’s Starlink satellite internet company.

> In the wake of a firing spree that gutted some NOAA space operations, Donald Trump Jr’s investment firm stoked speculation by purchasing $50M worth of SpaceX shares.

> On Friday, FAA officials ordered staff to begin finding tens of millions of dollars for a Starlink deal, according to a source with knowledge of the FAA and two people briefed on the situation. The sources note that these internal directives have mostly, if not entirely, been delivered verbally — which they say is unusual for a matter like this.

Sources: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/25/doge-musk... https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/elon...
Despite giving no shits about the new features (possible durability improvements aside) this'd be a month-one purchase for me (availability allowing), but the price is... bad.

I'd been counting on buying this this year, like, nearly sure I would be, it was my one planned splurge in a year of uncertainty and belt-tightening, and still would be if we got the Japanese-version pricing, but this is gonna be a no.
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Yep, that's exactly it. Traditional (meat-space) engineering has a clearer delineation between design and build (and whatever other phase you want to include).

We can see this in estimating bigger infrastructure projects (where there's an end-to-end estimate of time and budget) - at least in the US, these almost always miss as well.

But, building a housing development (once permitting/zoning is done) has a much higher likelihood of being close to estimates. Building a spec house is a "solved" problem. Similarly, if a software team is building a pile of CRUD APIs with a basic web frontend, in a domain they have experience, they should be able to estimate that pretty well.
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Does it play sound at this stage? or other media (eg video, beyond still images and text and UI?)

EDIT Thank you for making and sharing this -- it is pushing the future closer to today (euphemisms are my superpower lol jk)!

EDIT 2: I see the "Enable Sound API/Access" toggle in the Gear icon, below my generation. Exploring this now.

EDIT 3: Behold the HORROR (Works in Desktop Browser) English -> Morse code with "Sound": http://asim.sh/s/160375

- tip: beware of playing long morse code sequences, there is no stopping it.
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> Is this an intentional effort to make warfighting sound more like a kind of bureacratic exercise?

I'm not sure how intentional it is in the sense that they made a deliberate choice rather than it being an unspoken consensus to move this way. However, the language around warfighting in the US has been increasingly sanitized over the years. A key event here is the change in name from Department of War to Department of Defense. Later on we started calling things "defense" instead of military. It's the "defense sector" of the economy, not the military sector. The defense budget, not the military budget. You also see the sanitization with how war is conducted, increasingly from a distance. Bombing an enemy rather than putting in ground troops (or at least delaying putting them in). Now with drones the operators (note the term, it doesn't convey what the job actually entails) may be located at a state side base and go home after conducting a mission somewhere else in the world.
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Used to but now only for cakes and similar.

It's not really needed and it's much more preferable to get some solid food. It's not hard consuming another 20g of protein with solid food.
Yes, of course.

Consider a toy model with just 1000 double (64-bit), or 64Kb parameters. If you're going to randomly flip bits over this 2^64K search space while you evaluate a nontrivial fitness function, genetic style, you'll be waiting for a long time.
This sounds a lot like me. I have a disability that contributes to this. It's possible you could ask for accommodations to lower the pressure, such as async code reviews or something.

On a side note, what they put in the posting about being "fast paced" and stuff is almost always fluff. I don't know of any slow paced dev jobs, but the degree of pace doesn't seem to be correlated to the use of "fast paced" in the posting. It seems random.

I feel like I'll probably get fired and end up working at Walmart. Hope you have better luck.
Naming it after a commonly installed program that has been around since 1993 is also some hubris.
See also work from Schmidhuber in the mid/late 1990s
https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/locoart/node12.html
Lets settle on a finally good enough. I can give honest compliments on learning from the past problems and from the better examples in the indsutry.

You may not remember the early .net core times with yeoman and other then-current javascript ecosystem originated things applied in really cumbersome, half-assed ways, with lacking docs and always being in flux for years. The project.json era was terrible.

Also msbuild was way worse 10-15 years ago...

Mono with automake was special circle of hell IMO, I have very small exposure but it was really unproductive and painful.
You're right, I read that too quickly.
Late Super Nintendo and early N64 games went up to even $70/$75, if memory serves. I remember an uncle getting me NBA Hangtime for my birthday one year at $75.

I think it definitely contributed to the PS1 outselling the N64. There were many reasons, of course, but seeing those Toys R' Us flyers where the PS1 games were marked $40-50 and the N64 games at $60-70...I'm sure it gave some parents pause about which systems they were buying their children.
Speaking of COVID. There is a weird story about Musk betting $1 million dollars on low death cases of COVID against his former friend Sam Harris.

After Elon was spectacularly wrong he just canceled the friendship. Also forgot to pay the $1 million dollars.

https://samharris.substack.com/p/the-trouble-with-elon
wholly cow was not expecting them to patch the plan9 kernel to make this work
Not to mention Vietnam and Indonesia, which are the second and third largest coffee producers in the world.
Throw away.

Most of the advice you will get is wrong. Not bad-wrong but waste-your-years-doing-100-useless-stuff-wrong. Most solutions attempt to be a cookie-cutter which fits all. Anxiety is body's natural response to an environment. Your job was not the problem.
How you thought you were supposed to work - was the real activator. Even if you find a healthy job, you will yearn that "high" from the stress.

Once anxiety is part of you, no medication or meditation can make it just disappear. It will be carried in your genes. You are may be carrying it from your grand grand parents too .

Good news is that you dont have to be affected by your anxiety. If you learn to accept it as part of your natural response, you will calm it down . Use a good meditation app - not the Silicon Valley ones. You may try various therapies to see what you like. But avoid professionals.

The answer does not require you to spend 1$. Even the richest may not treat anxiety in their lives. More money you spend, worse it may get for you.
CNC Kitchen put out a great video on the practical use of silica gel. I especially found his exploration of different methods of drying to be of interest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tHInlFfMcM
Love this -- as AI generated code inevitably leads to more decisions being made with less intentionality/understanding, having the context that AI was given is key to not creating a mess over the long run!
Seeing YC-backed companies turn into DoD contractors makes me a little sick to my stomach.
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The value is in the activity itself, like planning, rather than the final document.
I have a lot of skepticism about the "stalker threatened the vehicle" story that came out of Musk, especially considering his security never called 911 or anything corroborating, but on this note, in two separate incidents where two of his children were in a vehicle, his public statements afterwards commented on the threat to or safety of the male child, and made no mention of the female child in the same car.
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> So when this room is asked, "pass me the pen" and it replies "i cannot pass the pen" (or whatever it replies) -- it should be obvious that the person in the room, or any function of their activity, has never acquired any reference to "the pen"

And yet Searle seems to pass the buck here to a book that actually "responds", not to the person in the room. I get it: the person is out of the loop.

But how does one explain the book that can answer so convincingly? That would appear to be where the "AI" resides.
Fully agree. My kids consider(ed) history to be very boring, other than when I teach them about it. I thought I disliked history after coming out of high school because the classes were always so excruciatingly boring and felt so irrelevant to anything "modern day." As I went through my early career I found myself constantly wondering "why is X that way?" Personal research including reading books written by historians who actually tell the story and also describe the many various links between events, and especially the "other side" of many of the issues (that's particularly fascinating regarding the USA "founding fathers" as they were far from a cohesive single-minded unit as presented in most history classes) many things started to click. When I've taught my kids about history using the same approach, especially zeroing in on the real fascinating aspects of it, they still don't love history but they have a strong appreciation for it.

By way of example, "the founding fathers were Christians" is a classic oft-repeated phrase I continually hear, to which I love talking about Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin, all of whom were clearly agnostic (at the time, they were "Deist" which was essentially equivalent to "agnostic" nowadays). Thomas Paine's phenomenal book "The Age of Reason" was utterly mind-blowing and extremely radical at the time, receiving widespread banning and igniting firestorms in the culture. It's still a great read today! Especially fascinating when you consider this was many decades before Darwin would provide one of the most important scientific explanations that massively shrunk the area for God of the Gaps.
Either that, or niches are booming and are getting properly served, either by passion or profit
Ah it could be some supabase edge function resource limit issue, fixing.
https://www.amazon.ca/s?k=creatine&crid=BTIA1WJE0EL&sprefix=...

I pretty much don't see any creatine supplements with caffeine.
MCP: REST Reborn?
The Problem:
Most web image tools either:
Use weak algorithms (hello 2010-era JPEG compression)
Nag you to upgrade
Upload your files to sketchy servers

My Solution:
Libvips-powered WASM (same engine as sharp, but in browser)
Zero uploads - 100% client-side processing
90%+ size reduction with perceptual quality intact
No tracking (check DevTools yourself)
PWA - works offline after first load

Tech Breakdown:

WASM build of libvips (3x faster than Canvas implementations)

Web Workers for UI fluidity during heavy processing

~200kb gzipped (smaller than some "lite" libraries)

For Developers:

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import { compress } from '@image-min/core';
const { blob } = await compress(file, {
format: 'webp',
quality: 85
});
Why This Might Break HN:

"How does this compare to Squoosh.app?" (We support batch processing)

"Why not use Rust instead of WASM?" (Benchmarks show libvips is faster)

"Where's the revenue model?" (There isn't one - this is FOSS)

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That gpt 4.5 was 73% successful is fascinating. It is almost as if humans have a fundamental flaw in detecting other humans which the LLM (+ the prompt )exploits.
This is definitely the root of it. Linux isn't the OS, your distro is.

Somewhere along the way we seem to have collectively forgotten that the distro, via it's package manager, is responsible for delivering software, ensuring compatibility, and integrating it all - at least for open source software. That was one of Debian's biggest selling points "back in the day" - that they had a huge repository and big team of maintainers packaging everything under the sun so it works on Debian.

Now we have app image, flatpak, snap, etc. All means of getting developers to ship binaries directly to users, bypassing the package managers, instead of shipping code to distros, but we shouldn't expect devs to ship to the 100s of different OSes in this ecosystem. They ship the code, distros pick it up (or don't) and make it work on their distro.

The shift to direct-to-user binaries doesn't make sense for OSS. It should be packaged by the distro, not the dev (of course, the devs can help with packaging if they are so inclined).

Obviously this doesn't apply to proprietary software, but like you said, you can just target on of the LTS enterprise distros and get a well-defined, stable base (for 10 years with Ubuntu and Red hat).
You'd have a point if it was some mid issue with several valid points of view. But several people have good reason to fight for their lives against the US government right now, and this is one of their weapons.

If you want people to act calmly, don't make them desperate.
That's what I meant when I said I predicted the game cards would be virtual. I didn't know that was actually the case.
> ith perhaps some carve outs if people want to voluntarily have some kind of HOA type thing that isn't publicly enforced.

HOA's entire point is to using leveraging property covenants to create viral contracts attached to property that leverage contract to create a basis or public enforcement, that's the hammer behind any of their private enforcement, without which they would have no effect. "Voluntary...HOA type thing" is an oxymoron.
There are species of fish that have gone through whole genome duplication.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-02299-z#:~:text=P...
Our servers used to be named after the Simpsons characters but now they are corp-us-web3 and dev-eu-sql2
A somewhat silly response, but to me ATACMS sounds a lot like the plural of atack'em which is short for "atack them" in colloquial "American"

And HIMARS sounds like you are sending something to Mars. Quite the thing to name an artillery platform :)

For some reasons Americans like acronyms that spell words. Like SAVE Act (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility) or PATRIOT act (Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism)
>They used to give weapons names that made them sound aggressive, dangerous, legendary, bold

^True[1], and also planes also had cartoon character and naked women with big tits painted on them. Just google WW2 planes.

That might have to do with the life expectancy of the plane being about 20 minutes back then, but those are just details.

[1] https://archive.ph/X8GXA/9b82a68489e82ee6bbcb58761355a4c546e...
I fully agree with your view.

My take is that the whole chinese room argument rests on extremely nebulous and shaky definitions/assumptions, rendering it worthless.

It seems fairly obvious to me that the system of operator + rulebook does "understand" chinese, for every practical definition of "understanding".

Another counterargument would be simple physical simulation: If you built a computer program that could simulate a human by the atom, then you would either have to concede that the resulting machine does "understand" for all definitions that matter, or you have to admit that you believe in magic [1].

[1]: or desperately grasp for loopholes, like nondeterminsitic physical micro-interactions, but might as well call that magic.
Excluding SuperPACs, Musk's political contributions are public. Like most of the UHNW types, he donates to both political parties. But going back to pre-Tesla days Musk has NEVER donated more to the Democrats than the Republicans. In fact, he usually donates at about a ratio of 10:1 towards Republicans.

Musk isn't interested in liberal/ecological/whatever agendas and never has been, it's a means to an end. Even his libertarian bent... go on shows/podcasts and smoke weed because hey, he's a libertarian. But work at Tesla? Better piss clean or you're fired.
A Kirby Air Ride successor?

Kirby Air Ride was one of the best and most unique Gamecube games. A sequel to do the original justice would be a big deal.

Sadly, Nintendo has made a reputation for itself as a copyright troll, most notoriously their legal takedowns of YouTube lets plays. As a result, I have boycotted Nintendo for over ten years now. While the new releases are tempting, Nintendo's recent legal actions against Palworld sour that proposition. Although I admittedly only can have so much respect for a Windows-only game with anti-cheat.
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