skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, OP here. I’ve really enjoyed your work on AI agent definitions. So thank you for reading!

I don’t actually claim that ours is necessarily the correct answer for everyone – it’s our own. But I believe it is at least _an_ objective definition. Other definitions I’ve seen have been murky and subject to interpretation.
It’s worse. Max I’m seeing is 9 weeks.
The video you link has turned into a classic.

But I also disagree with its claim that black shadows everywhere are "cinematic" and desirable.

They're a limitation of film at the time. When I watch those classic movies, I don't like the fact that all the shadows are crushed. I feel like half the frame is hiding texture that ought to be there. I like the dynamic range of modern cameras.

We didn't "forget" how to "make movies look like movies". We decided that there's a wider range of ways movies can look, and we're intentionally taking advantage of that for creative freedom. And like always, people will disagree over aesthetic choices.

I totally understand what you mean, though, about lighting vs grading, and where what gets done, but there are good arguments for doing more with grading rather than in the lighting. It ultimately allows the editor+grader+director to make a lot more choices, and that's generally a good thing. You say "color grading in post should be for small tweaks" but I respectfully disagree. And obviously, there isn't even a choice when it comes to the outdoors in daytime -- it has to be done in the grading.
For me the two big things to assess will be how it handles aliases / catch all aliases and search.
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It’s looking like countries with better worker protections saw zero layoffs.
This! Solving merge conflicts in git is quite hard. Building an app such that it has a UI and use cases for merging every operation is just unrealistic. Perhaps if you limit yourself to certain domains like CRDTs or turn based games or data silos modified by only one customer it can be useful. I doubt it can work in general case.
But you're contrasting chaotic use of many different colors with neutrality, and arguing for environments with very little color rather than well-coordinated color; you argued above that color was just one element along with size, shape, texture etc., as if these qualities were mutually exclusive and design should only emphasize one at any given time.
> Please correct me if I’m wrong.

"culture war" in this context was me quoting a 3yo Twitter thread that made a lot of people, inc myself, realize that Wikipedia's "appeals" are deceptive. I was trying to get the comment up before the train left the station and I lost service. I didn't do further research as to what the organizations were.

I don't like the implication that by stopping my support of Wikimedia, I'm potentially racist/pro-racism. That doesn't feel intellectually honest. I was supporting Wikipedia because I think it's a valuable public resource. When I want to support a different goal, I give to an organization that specializes in it directly.

Bait-and-switch appeals make me feel like Wikimedia is not a responsible steward of its donations. It doesn't matter what they're giving the money to; it's not what they implied they needed it for.
Decades of Red Scare propaganda convinced those people that benefits, healthcare and labour rights are commie desires… and how dare you want to bring communism into America
I long for the day when people don't try to pass off vapid generic advice for likes. Waste of bandwidth.
I don’t understand what your response has to do with what I said. Differing opinions are welcome here—particularly if they are eloquently expressed and factually supported—but that doesn’t mean they will be popular. That’s just life. Opinions, like most things, follow a normal distribution.
They don't focus on cheap convenience. They focus on milking as much money as they can from the customer and the restaurant, and then squeeze the worker to death by transferring as many expenses and risks as possible to the worker. Then they force them to engage in race to the bottom compensation-wise.

Result? Only the desperate do it, and get out of it as soon as possible. But the pay is so bad, people are increasingly trapped in it.
That paper compared entire metropolitan statistical areas, as if Oak Park Illinois was the same housing market as Gary Indiana, or Vallejo the same as Palo Alto.
See also:

https://github.com/charmbracelet/wish
Sorry if I didn't catch this on the site, but any new upcoming services you are excited about?

A ssh or TUI frontend for some git/forge host like: https://forgejo.org/ would be pretty cool!
Yeah, just because a channel is public broadcast doesn't mean some of the content it shows hasn't been commercially produced, and a license purchased for that country's geographical area only.
Why tackle problems like search when you can redesign the UI/UX half a dozen times instead?

I don't blame the developers; they do whatever they're paid to do.

Mozilla has terrible leadership and no vision. It's the worst aspects of directionless, corporate software masquerading as an open source project.
I found this Instacart batch grabber tool – works surprisingly well
I used to do Uber and DoorDash, but lately I’ve been doing Instacart more because of this tool I found called BatchFinder.

It basically watches for high-paying batches and alerts you when one pops up. I don’t sit in parking lots refreshing anymore — I just keep it running while I’m at home or doing other stuff, and when something good comes in, I grab it and go.

It’s not one of those shady bots you have to mess with, just a simple tool that works. Thought it was worth sharing if anyone else is trying to make Instacart easier or fit it around other work.

Would be cool to hear if others are doing stuff like this.
Just think how many companies moved production from China to Vietnam to avoid China tariffs, and now tariffs on Vietnam are larger than on China.
Trump announces 10% tariff on all imports, with higher rates for some countries
>Huh? Productivity per worker in the US is at an all-time high and is, I believe, the highest in the world?

Yeah, that's what happens when the latent cost of employing anyone for anything is so high all the menial stuff get shipped overseas or replaced with fewer expensive employees working with much more expensive labor saving technology/materials.

Also, I'm not sure how much I trust the numbers themselves, metrics and targets and all that.
Tariffs may not even last 4 months. Trump demanded Powell reduce interest rates, the FRB declined. The might be Trump's way of forcing the Fed to reduce interest rates, by inducing a recession with massive inflation. And then Trump takes the tariffs away once the Fed gives him what he wants.

FRB won't reduce interest rates if there's inflation alone. They'd only reduce interest rates if the economy also slows down into recession territory.

That's the short term view.

In the long term view, they are the biggest tax increase in the history of the country, therefore they are potentially the biggest tax decrease in the history of the country. Political fodder, even for a corpse.
"Governance by hissy fit and personal grudges" is how the US is currently operating.
Just as a note, as someone qualified for the position, this response convinced me not to apply. Not taking the time to let candidates know that you chose not to move forward with them demonstrates a lack of care and compassion, and I now associate that that attitude with Fathom as a business.
Writing off equipment through depreciation is a time honored thing for corps. If they sell them, they are no longer a write off. That's now more work for the bean counters.
What if, in their inevitable reversal, the markets rebound massively?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6Qys2OEad0
Home power and heating is a significant source of carbon emissions and single-family homes are extraordinarily inefficient.
That's not the point of the book.
This isn't too different from most low-skill jobs. Most people don't aspire to be assistant manager at McDonalds, they do it for a while, build a resume, then move.
How much more expensive is your time for the company now vs the 90s?
I never said they were as well moderated as HN, and I think that's the case for a variety of reasons, but primarily because people like dang (and now tomhow!) are very hard to find... and because people for some reason struggle to keep emotions in check when discussing politics
If you're creating nothing stories to justify work life balance and avoid burnout your organization has a problem. Look into Extreme Programming and Sustainable Pace.
I felt this way with Github Copilot but I started using Cursor this week and it genuinely feels like a competent pair programmer.
Amazon to begin deploying rival satellites to Starlink this month
A bit cynical, no?
doubtful it was considered extra cash, but just now not needing to spend cash on replacing the laptop with personal money
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43556521

wherein a hosting company sees AI bot scans that appear to be coming from millions of unique addresses, thousands of ASNs, many residential and often with a single connection from an IP. The AI bots are proxying through either hacked IoT devices or apps that pay people pennies to let their phone be used as a proxy.

Likely your proof of work will be distributed to the proxies. It'll just make millions of webcams and phones run a little hotter without slowing down the AI bots at all.
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I built a lightweight Python application that visualizes audio input as an ECG-like display. It's a simplified, open-source tool designed for educational purposes, signal visualization experiments, and prototyping. No commercial restrictions, just a clean interface with a single button to start/stop tracing. Built with PyAudio, Matplotlib, and Tkinter. Looking for feedback and contributions!
The claim of scaling from 100 microwatts to a watt in a year seems... dubious. The main limit of these is the extremely low power they can generate, and there's only so much you can increase it before they become dangerous themselves. (Well, also, producing the isotopes is a pricey endeavor).
Give it one more try with the latest Gemini 2.5 (not Gemma).
It seems to be mbox, one file per Thunderbird folder.

Thunderbird itself seems to build some kind of an index next to mbox files. But finding the relevant email in TB's files makes it much easier to locate and open in TB itself (if it's needed). But I'd heavily prefer it to not be this way.
They all import same coffee from south america/africa regions
Looks like someone is mirroring it here,

https://www.mit.edu/~dxh/marvin/web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/mi...

Looks identical to the old captures on archive.org, so that checks out.
Discussion (111 points, 8 hours ago, 139 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43557524
Ask HN: How do these tariffs affect Apple iPhone?
In the case where Apple is avoiding the US tax man by registering the company in Ireland and claiming that all its intellectual property is owned by its Irish subsidiary, how do these new tariffs affect Apple? Will Apple have to raise the iPhone price in US price by 10% to pay the taxman? Because now technically it is an Irish product being imported into the US. In that case, can I just buy a new iPhone on my next visit to …say, Dubai duty free lounge?
Their flight is scheduled for April 14 in a Blue Origin New Shepard rocket. The top of the article says they will be taken to orbit. It sounds sub orbital thought I wonder if they will fly together on a New Glenn later when it is up and going. At any rate I wish them a good flight.
The VAT is applied at the time of sale to the end consumer, it's irrelevant if the product is imported or manufactured locally.
You'll have a hard time getting an internship if you don't meet an arbitrary GPA cutoff.
Amazing I left almost this exact question as a comment a couple weeks ago!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43427615
Yeah I guess the great depression was one of the reasons for WWII and USA had a stake in that.

My objection was just about bringing numerology into the discussion.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerology
Email is used everywhere from account management, subscription services, school, and generally every single employer or client I've ever worked with. Sometimes I work with clients through SMS, Signal or Discord but we still fall back to email for certain things.
Lacking in insight?

My brother in christ......Donald Trump wears makeup. How many actual "tough guys" do you know that wear makeup?

Back in the days of my parents, a fat guy with lifts and orange makeup would have been called a (anti-gay slur) and would have been the butt of every joke.

He's bankrupted 2 casinos, failed to sell football steaks airlines and liquor to Americans, he shits himself and wears a diaper, and is so intellectually deficient that me, an autistic guy, could run circles around him in debate.

Yet somehow, he's seen as a "business genius". HA!
It's pretty instinctive to name stuff like this, especially when it's not a general purpose solution like you're not downloading this for any other reason except to build upon what Mermaid does.

They could have called it something entirely different, and then they can say (vscode plugin for mermaid.js) every time they mention their unique name that carries no association with it.

And Mermaid could have decided they want exclusive use of the name and trademarked it half a decade ago.

So it's just fair use, isn't it?
But there’s a difference between “don’t want” and “structurally locked out”.
US formally don't have VAT, when most other developed countries have.

As I know, US states few decades spent on talks about implement VAT, but have not achieved agreement yet.

For equivalent, most US states have trade tax, could be returned with set of rules.
So, on some abstract level it could be considered as far equivalent of VAT, which is also could be returned with set of rules.
But current Volkswagen leader- and ownership is not nazi, unlike Tesla.

VW in effect was re-founded after the war by the British military administration as a trust and only privatised into a public company in the 1960s.

The biggest shareholders of BMW on the other hand are still the Quandt family whose grandfather Günther Quandt definitely was Nazi member, collaborator, donator and massively profiteered from the slave labour by concentration camp victims and prisoners of war.
It's fascinating that you end up sort of doing the work twice, you build an excel (or jira) model of the work work along with the actual work to be done.

Often this extends to the entire organization, where you have like this parallel dimension of spreadsheets and planning existing on top of everything.

Eats resources like crazy to uphold.
Perceiver IO: A General Architecture for Structured Inputs and Outputs (2021)
Records, shmekords.

The practical experience of having your own domain for your email is that you delegate your domain to Google / Fastmail / Proton / whatever, and it takes care of everything else. Some webmail providers will also let you buy a domain on their own website as a part of registration flow.

It really is not hard. Harder than not having a domain of your own, but not as hard as you make it sound.
Nah, it’s fine, just RLHF it like Claude did with honest, helpful and harmless.

Then we just need to jailbreak them with trolley problems
Gentrification of certain areas are definitely making things visually stale.
Yes. He also calls the employees Automatticians. So they're all just Matt.
This. Just gotta live within your means. It's so easy with a developer salary unless you're 1 year in and haven't had time to save for a rainy day.
Agreed. It’s so sad to have to work at that age.

I know some people choose to but to have to is a pretty sad state of affairs and damning of how the country allows it’s citizens to prosper
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I love Thunderbird the platform, but I'm gonna pass on a paid service, I am extremely happy with Migadu as a personal email provider. https://migadu.com/

Mozilla has lost all trust from me, the recent privacy policy fiasco was the straw that broke the camel's back.
Those are absolutely fair requests. I sure hope people won't forget what happened then and why.
> People ... aren’t machines that can run constantly on 100% utilization.

You also can't run machines at 100% utilisation & expect quality results. That's when you see tail latencies blow out, hash maps lose their performance, physical machines wear supra-linearly... The list goes on.
You could override it and i am sure “gps attack” would be an allowed exception.

People can hack cars already.

We didnt always have to make everything to serve cars and we can stop anytime we want.
Of course! That definitive statement is rhetoric.

The payer of a tariff is decided by the relative elasticity of supply and elasticity of demand.

Sometimes the seller will eat it. Sometimes they buyer will eat it. Sometimes the product wont get made or sold.
It's about not giving more info to the government than is necessary. There should be a minimal amount of info sharing from citizens to governments, ideally. The way some EU countries require citizens to register an address even if they don't have a license, and just 'in general', is super sketchy to me.
One full work day to due decently. Two full work days to do well.
> suppose you're mostly trolling

I’m not. My neighbours and I are currently buying up distressed watered cropland on the cheap. (As an ethical restraint, we’re only doing so from registered Republicans. Their creditors are selling their properties.)

> I am so incredibly disappointed in your lack of effectively standing up to a US president who has publicly threatened to claim Greenland by force

Why would you claim to know what I am and am not doing?
US tariff rate rockets to 22%, highest since 1910, Fitch economist says
Giving generic feel-good advice is a decent strategy to farm likes from the naive. Some people have no shame.
beer goggles??
A lot of aggregators will also not allow your blog to be posted if it's on a newsletter site like Substack, Patreon, etc.

I use GitHub Pages for hosting, Porkbun for the domain, and Astro for the blog itself. EZPZ to manage and very straightforward, plus Astro's docs are great.
'reciprocal' doing a lot of work here. Includes allegations of currency manipulation, domestic sales tax and other non-tariff barriers. Trump basically thinks all trade should 'balance' and any 'imbalance' is as a result of unfair barriers on American exporters, when the real reason is that US goods are simply too expensive for others to buy at the same rate, all of this ultimately being due to USD being enforced as the de facto global reserve. He needs to read up on the Triffin dilemma, but of course he won't.
> Reduced demand for French wines in the US means more for me: bring it on

Yeah. Seriously. My guess is there is there will be increased demand from American tourists for offshore wine country, and from foreigners looking to replace their American wine purchases.
Much greater mental clarity and concentration. At the time I had a lot of brainfog, and while creatine didn't fix it, it was the difference between seeing two feet in front of me vs. 10 feet in front of me.

Other effects too, like better recall, but stuff like that's hard to untangle from those first two.
> The problem is that it's hard to be an informed dollar-voter in this environment of deliberate obfuscation. Spending hours wading through reviews, product descriptions, and so on, just to buy one thing, effectively increases your cost, and there's no guarantee you'll make the right choice in the end anyway. I'd be willing to pay more in many cases for a better result, but there's no way to tell if something that costs a bit more is actually better,

This is how I feel about online shopping. I used to naively dream that a retail aggregator like Amazon would crack the problem. By having large numbers of customers leave reviews (or even return unsatisfactory products), I imagined that the good products would rise to the top. To my surprise, Amazon hasn't seemed particularly interested in advancing this area. Search results are dominated by freshly minted sellers with randomly generated names. I often receive products with a piece of paper inside that begs me to let them know if I have any problems so that they can basically bribe me to keep quiet and not put a negative review on Amazon.

The obfuscation arms race, as you so aptly put it.
Checks out.

Clicked on a channel in the Philippines and immediately had to sit through 5 soap related commercials, precisely what I recall from my time there.
I have so many questions. Why is the bread depressed? Why is it in space? Why is the soundtrack so cool?
Do people really believe that these are reciprocal tariffs?

Do people really believe the figures quoted here?

Do people really believe that other countries are already applying draconian tariffs on US goods?

Seriously?
There is a karma tier for downvoting comments. Perhaps that line should be drawn higher for flagging content. There is way too much being flagged as a downvote versus as a flag.
How does this compare with Byte Latent Transformer [1]? This happens with convolution post-embedding while BLT happens with attention at embedding time?

1. https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/byte-latent-transf...
This was explained in the post. 1999 was when Intel released the Pentium 3 with SSE instructions, which caused the first major issue that had to overcome.
IMHO, Fox News just plays to their anger for profit, but the underlying reasons they are angry are valid and not being dealt with. My theory is the underlying issue is capitalism failing society, but like the church, they aren’t allowed to question it.
He might not be doing it for economic reasons. He might be doing it to get out of the house. My mom's physician suggested volunteer work or a part time job to keep her active instead of sitting on the couch all day.
Well, US has a "beautiful ocean" around which makes this plan a little costly.
Just got back from a trip to Spain and Portugal.

Basically had culture shock driving down a wide north american road.

It's not just the colors. It's the emptiness.

The clearance of everything in north america is insane. It's just so boring.
Is it illegal to be a corporate spy? A founder's perspective
I have to say HN is one of the best moderated online forums/sites on the web. dang does a great job. Even when he disagrees with you and moderates he is open to communication, clarification and adult conversation. I really appreciate his work and have no doubt tomhow will do the same.

I will post this every year on moderator day as a sign of respect for this place. http://cosmonautdreams.com/images/dang.jpg
Surprised this isn’t in coreML. Seems useful for the Vision Pro or something
The ʻokina is not an apostrophe.
[edit: I just re-read the posixutils-rs readme and it says the exact opposite - they are NOT trying to be GNU compatible.]

There is more than one project to rewrite the GNU utils in Rust?

I know this say POSIX utils but it also says that it aims for GNU compatibility.
All of North America?
Is it though? The Governor of Maine won't follow Federal policy, what did she expect would happen?
This seems supremely irrelevant to the topic of the article. I doubt very much the Wayfair bed assemblyperson is being held back from fear. But hopefully they read your inspiring comment and can, I guess, stop being timid.
Tom has now put Australia in the spotlights :P

WA here, hehe. Congrats!