skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In case someone gets the misapprehension that there is a contrast between systemd and launchd in terms of the "well documented" attribution, systemd configuration is also well documented e.g. man systemd.timer etc. I didn't know if launchd has an equivalent of timers, but it does and I've just read `man launchd.plist` "StartCalendarInterval" and compared it with `man systemd.timer` "OnCalendar". I would have said they're about equal. Launchd is more concise, but systemd talks a lot about the interactions with other settings and edge cases.

As for ini vs xml, I've generally found xml is a crueller syntax for humans than ini. At the time I started using systemd, it was a bit funny - the last time I'd been editing ini files was on Windows 3.11. But I think ini and toml are now once again reasonably common so I forgot about how out of place it felt at the time.
If you're doing so well that you're saying CoD starts treating you as a cheater, then what's probably happening is you're playing people below your skill level until the matchmaker adjusts.

Then once the game puts you with people closer to your skill level, the best of them feel like they're cheating (and to be clear, some definitely are, but to the people you were stomping you also probably seemed similarly clairvoyant with impossible aim and movement)

Skill based matchmaking is controversial, but the truth is more games have been killed by an infinite loop of skilled players stomping new players so badly that the new players never become skilled players, than the opposite.
Its a grand conspiracy, really bad search makes you look at what they want you to see. I've wrote my search tool just to see what was so hard about it all.
I think humans can actually apply logical rigor. Both humans and models rely and stories. It is stories all the way down.

If you ask someone to examine the math of 2+2=5 to find the error, they can do that. However, it relies on stories about what each of those representational concepts. what is a 2 and a 5, and how do they relate each other and other constructs.
If you want to relocate to another country focus on the "pull factors" of that place, rather than the "push factors."

I moved to Sweden because my wife and I felt that was the best place to start a family. I'm on parental leave and cherish every moment I get to spend with my kid.

We would have made the move no matter what was happening in the US. Well, unless there was a major cultural shift and a generous grant of child care benefits equivalent to SWE.
s/intimate a rival political party/round up and murder political opponents and citizens/

but otherwise... yeah, there was absolutely no good reason.
Maybe it’s different in the US. My bank asked me to reduce my liabilities.
Great point, I was thinking more on the Transformer architecture, but I stand corrected.

Google started similarly with PageRank as far as I remember.
So tariffs are fine because it's a tax on big importers?
billionaires have a lot of money tied up in the market but they aren't cash poor. They typically keep hundreds of millions in cash on hand. Supposedly, Jeff Bezos keeps over $9 billion in cash. Their day to day lifestyle doesn't change one bit when the market drops. They don't have to stop buying the groceries they normally do just because a stock drops by 10%. Buying up some stock while it's down when they know they can sell it back when it jumps back up is just free money.

Even if they somehow ran out of money in all of their accounts (and that's extremely unlikely) and at the same time lost all the money they had that wasn't in stocks they could very easily borrow money.
How do I opt-out for my repos?
How does it hold its position? Does that take energy?
Almost forty five years ago, Telephone and Rubber Band by PCO - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_h9AvSnYQA
I often say our food system is a gateway drug for healthcare. Healthcare is also over-processed. ACA was frankly less about improving care and much more about how to pay for care. Now everyone in healthcare gets paid, and chronic disease continues to grow. Would you buy a new phone that took us back to 1G, instead of 6G?
This website is the biggest missed opportunity to use win98.css ever
This is interesting. Do you run a custom app in house? What are some of the main functions of the app? Internal or customer facing?
Could do part time for the right person. Shoot us an email.
1. There are an infinite number of careers that do not currently exist, because their business models do not make sense. I do not think it's a great idea to keep laws on the books, that limit the creativity and rights of hundreds of millions of people, just to keep a few professions afloat.

2. You greatly underestimate the creativity of a capitalistic market. For example, on the web, it's generally difficult and frowned upon to copyright designs. Some patent trolls do it, but most don't. If you make an innovative design for your website, you're bound to be copied. And yet many programmers and tech companies still have viable business models. They simply don't base their entire business model around doing easily-copyable things.
High level Q3 games had a lot of predicted movement kills for ages, long before vision automated aimbots. I'm not sure how anyone could even distinguish a perfect reaction there from a predicted shot that worked out.
That's not how matchmaking works in many games, especially the huge multiplayer arena games.

Games "feed" less skilled players to higher skilled players - just enough that the less skilled players don't ragequit. Higher skilled players don't actually want to play in a lobby full of people their skill. They want a few people their skill, and then a lot of people they can stomp.
Values alone leads to supporting solutions that sound good but don’t work. “Free money for everyone” speaks to values of equity, fairness, and empathy… while creating all kinds of side effects like inflation.

If you are going to focus on values, apply them to a rigorous analysis of what works.
> The AI Futures Project is a small research group forecasting the future of AI, funded by charitable donations and grants

Would be interested who's paying for those grants.

I'm guessing it's AI companies.
Yeah it's similar to how Facebook is blamed for social malaise. Or how alcohol was blamed before that.

It's always more comfortable for people to blame the thing rather than the person.
If tariffs were being added as a response to poor working conditions, and a requirement of lifting the tariffs was to improve working conditions, that could potentially be seen as a generally positive outcome for the world.

Producing the same good in the US, at anywhere near the same price, requires automation or prison labor (legal slavery in the US) and likely won't result in more manufacturing jobs and likely won't result in higher wages for workers. Florida's approach here is child labor, which is both exploitative and cheap.
I agree, and I really like the concrete examples here. I tried relating it to the concept of “surprise” from information theory — if what the LLM is producing is low surprise to you, you have a high chance of success as you can compare to the version you wrote in your experienced head.

If it’s high surprise then there’s a greater chance that you can’t tell right code from wrong code. I try to reframe this in a more positive light by calling it “exploration”, where you can ask follow up questions and hopefully learn about a subject you started knowing little about. But it’s important for you to realize which mode you are in, whether you are in familiar or unfamiliar waters.

https://royalicing.com/2025/infinite-bicycles-for-the-mind

The other benefit an experienced developer can bring is using test-driven development to guide and constrain the generated code. It’s like a contract that must be fulfilled, and TDD lets you switch between using an LLM or hand crafting code depending on how you feel or the AI’s competency at the task. If you have a workflow of writing a test beforehand it helps with either path.

https://royalicing.com/2025/test-driven-vibes
Yes, it's extremely sinophobic and entirely too dismissive of China. It's pretty clear what the author's political leanings are, by what they mention and by what they do not.
It's deceptively easy to trust the AI when it gives you mostly plausible answers.
I would be ready and prepared to sacrifice a fair amount of my quality of life for the greater good (of being more self-reliant, more secure, bringing some manufacturing back on shore, etc, etc).

But these guys have basically said "we're all going to have to suffer, and then..." nothing! No huge capital investments into green energy. No workforce retraining. No infrastructure. Nothing. So yeah, you're asking me to sacrifice my quality of life? For what? Ew, no thanks!

Of course, I'm pretty confident I know where this money is going to go: contracts and grants to private corporations owned by Trump's personal network. They are already prepping for this by gutting huge swathes of the federal government. When they say "actually, we think some of these functions were necessary after all, but for efficiency reasons, it's best that private companies take over these functions..." naturally those contracts will go to the right people who are capable of making america great again.

It's actually insane, it has me absolutely livid about this whole situation. Sorry, I do not care how anyone feels about "the libs." These people are going to steal the quality of life -- that my parents built, that my grandparents fought a war to create -- from me and my children. They will use it to enrich themselves. They will burn the this country to the ground to accomplish this.
No it didn’t. At least not for new small molecule drugs. It did reduce times a bit for the first vaccines because there were many volunteers available, and it did allow some antibody drug candidates to be used before full testing was complete. The only approved small molecule drug for covid is paxlovid, with both components of its formulation tested on humans for the first time many years before covid. All the rest of the small molecule drugs are still in early parts of the pipeline or have been abandoned.
To be fair Jobs is dead so his ability to veto UI changes is limited.
Pedantic note, the tuning is typically before the conductor raises the baton. Depending on the concert, it is often done before the conductor even comes on stage.
Sure, yeah, go ahead, do it. Seriously! Build a SaaS business in a week and displace an existing business. Please report back with your findings.
This is the exact opposite of the truth.

Look at YouTube. Look at SoundCloud. Look at all the fan fiction sites out there, internet mangas and manwhas and webtoons, all the podcasts, all the influencers on X and Instagram and TikTok and even OnlyFans, etc etc. Look at all the uniquely tiny distribution channels that small companies and even individuals are able to build in connection with their fans and customers.

There is endless demand for the endless variety of creativity and content that's created by normal people who aren't Disney, and endless ways to get it into people's hands. It is literally impossible for any one company to hoover all of it up and somehow keep it from the people.

In fact, the ONLY thing that makes it possible for them to come close to doing that is copyright.

And the only reason we have such a huge variety of creativity online is because people either (a) blatantly violate copyright law, or (b) work around gaps in copyright law that allow them to be creative without being sued.

The idea that we need copyrights to protect us from big companies is exactly wrong. It's the opposite. Big companies need copyright to protect their profits from the endless creativity and remixing of the people.
Here's the dangerous way I put it that I only tell senior people: understand why rules were made and make sure the people who made them would be happy.
Such a talented team would be able to make a great movie on the same theme.

Saying the lack of creativity in the industry in because we can't copy things freely is completely moronic.
My passion is robotics and engineering, and manufacturing covers both of those readily. While I have been blessed to have been born in the midwest where manufacturing is plentiful, the majority of the US is not so accessible for this work outside of a military base or airport.

Some people do enjoy assembly line work, and in fact I would say a large amount of people want a reliable job with minimal mental overhead. There’s a lot more industry wants though: welders, safety personell, repair techs, engineers, chemists, programmers, electricians, hydraulic specialists, all just depends on the company. A car manufacturer for instance prioritizes robotics, but a steel plant would prefer welders and machinists. Tons of opportunity for people to do the jobs they love for good pay and benefits, if we could get more manufacturing into the US.
You mean a system where when you get misidentified (this will almost always happen at scale) you get effectively banned forever, across multiple games? Yeah... I think I know why people aren't keen on that.

(And yeah, I'm ignoring the general issue of how you id people, how you secure that data, what happens in a highly toxic game environment when someone breaches that, etc.)
I went through the top responses to you, and indeed, nearly 100% of the pearl-clutching "you're so wrong" have comment history that strongly suggests right wing / libertarian / neocon beliefs. In related news, no one admits to voting for Nixon either.
That's probably more or less what's happening. If the site is doing full-text search, and there are no exact matches, adding more terms is going to generate more and more partial matches. Some kind of re-ranker might be able to make sense of them but those are difficult to get good results out of, probably rarely employed by a run-of-the-mill commerce site, and might be drowned out by competing objectives (sponsored results, ranking by likelihood of purchase, etc.)
But what if businesses got benefits from society and tax money and were free to ignore the needs/desires of those who pay taxes and who society consists of? That seems just about right.
I feel like web tech is getting a lot more mature and reliable. Just my personal vibe-read, but JS libs on the whole seem to be getting to be consistently hitting higher quality bars.
interesting kinda
> PS. I fear that Debian main may have already went into a state where it is not able to rebuild itself at all anymore: the presence and assumption of non-free firmware and non-Debian signed binaries may have already corrupted the ability for Debian main to rebuild itself. To be able to complete the idempotent and bootstrapped rebuild of Debian, this needs to be worked out.

Are any nonfree packages used as build inputs? If not, just ("just") bootstrap guix on a blobless platform, and cross build Debian from that
How would we know if they did? Many were given no access to legal representation.
at a former startup the vp of eng liked to say "there are rules then there's enforcement of the rules"
I think some of the takes in this piece are a bit melodramatic, but I'm glad to see someone breaking away from the "it's all a hype-bubble" nonsense that seems to be so pervasive here.
It's interesting reading this after finishing Palo Alto by Malcom Harris.
I'd agree with you, if the goal was to decrease the deficit. But so far it sounds like the main goal is decreasing taxes on the rich and corps.
i agree. it feels like scaling up these large models is such an inefficient route that seems to be warranting new ideas (test-time compute, etc).

we'll likely reach a point where it's infeasible for deep learning to completely encompass human-level reasoning, and we'll need neuroscience discoveries to continue progress. altman seems to be hyping up "bigger is better," not just for model parameters but openai's valuation.
Elon's Edsel: Tesla Cybertruck Is the Auto Industry's Biggest Flop in Decades
Spark especially is brutal for some reason. Even databrick's AI is bad at spark, which is very funny.

It's probably because spark is so backwards compatible with pandas, but not fully.
I think it was C-Cubed's trash, but it was DEC's IP.
See: https://www.theregister.com/2000/06/29/bill_gates_roots/
I like your take about this. Teams play the game based on their strengths. Basketball is clearly global, and has many fans. The hero stories and rivalries are there to be told and enjoyed. Where the sour taste can come from, is the style of marketing and advertising being used. No need to hit people over the head or be that distracting from letting people enjoy the game.
Perhaps I misunderstand your point but it seems to me that by the same logic a simple gradient descent algorithm wired up to a variety of different models and simulations would qualify as generalization during the training phase.

The trouble with this is that it only ever "generalizes" approximately as far as the person configuring the training run (and implementing the simulation and etc) ensures that it happens. In which case it seems analogous to an explicitly programmed algorithm to me.

Even if we were to accept the training phase as a very limited form of generalization it still wouldn't apply to the output of that process. The trained LLM as used for inference is no longer "learning".

The point I was trying to make with the chess engine was that it doesn't seem that generalization is required in order to perform that class of tasks (at least in isolation, ie post-training). Therefore, it should follow that we can't use "ability to perform the task" (ie beat a human at that type of board game) as a measure for whether or not generalization is occurring.

Hypothetically, if you could explain a novel rule set to a model in natural language, play a series of several games against it, and following that it could reliably beat humans at that game, that would indeed be a type of generalization. However my next objection would then be, sure, it can learn a new turn based board game, but if I explain these other five tasks to it that aren't board games and vary widely can it also learn all of those in the same way? Because that's really what we seem to mean when we say that humans or dogs or dolphins or whatever possess intelligence in a general sense.
Democracy doesn’t entail having tons of minor roles being elected. That’s actually completely unique to the US, as far as I know. A lot of the positions that are elected in the US would be neutral civil servants in any other democratic country I can think of.
I recently left a company that was spending $10million on SalesForce licenses that no one was apparently using. When the re-org happened, heads were rolled.

How common do you think that story is? Over paying for software that doesn't actually make users more productive?
Does it seem right that ACPI alone is almost 9% of the LOC in this code base? At over 165K lines?

Mind, I honestly don't know anything about the details of ACPI.

But, seems like a lot to me.
Copyright law applies to distribution of output, not input.

An artist, writer, whoever, could read all the copyrighted material in the world, even pirated material, unless their output is a copy or copyrighted artifact, then there is no infringement.
More details about how it went down here:

https://www.informationweek.com/it-leadership/compaq-to-aban...

ARM's and POWER's success suggests Alpha might have made it. Compaq wanted to partner on Itanium, though. Eventually, Intel got the Alpha I.P. rights which might as well have been a death sentence.

Last Alpha I saw was the SAFE architecture that added security features to a homebrew CPU that was derived from Alpha ISA. What I liked most on Alpha, though, was PALcode with its atomic execution.
How can you say it's $0 in compute without knowing if the data returned required any computation?
The root problem is that the model reproduces Indiana Jones instead of creating a new character. This contradicts the statement that the model "learns" and "creates" like a human artist and not merely copies; obviously a human artist would not plagiarize when asked to draw a character.
Try using the LLM as a learning tool, rather than asking it to do your job.

I don't really like the way LLMs code. I like coding. So I mostly do that myself.

However I find it enormously useful to be able to ask an LLM questions. You know the sort of question you need to ask to build an intuition for something? Where it's not a clear problem answer type question you could just Google. It's the sort of thing where you'd traditionally have to go hunt down a human being and ask them questions? LLMs are great at that. Like if I want to ask, what's the point of something? An LLM can give me a much better idea than reading its Wikipedia page.

This sort of personalized learning experience that LLMs offer, your own private tutor (rather than some junior developer you're managing) is why all the schools that sit kids down with an LLM for two hours a day are crushing it on test scores.

It makes sense if you think about it. LLMs are superhuman geniuses in the sense of knowing everything. So use them for their knowledge. But knowing everything is distracting for them and, for performance reasons, LLMs tend to do much less thinking than you do. So any work where effort and focus is what counts the most, you're better off doing that yourself, for now.
What better merit is there than public approval for positions like that?
But the most likely life experiences to do that are ones that put a person in touch with new ideas and new situations. Universities are much better positioned to generate such experiences than, say, most jobs. To some degree, those that have attempted to be at least nominally more diverse (economically/racially/...) are also the sorts of places where students are more likely to meet other people who are not like them in some important ways, and this has always been the sort of experience that preferentially tilts most people towards liberal/progressive ideas.
This is a solved problem. See CakeML for example.
Why are you using an LLM at all when it’ll both hamper your learning and be wrong?
I imagine they're licensed--the original creator or their estate had to be looped in to make them happen, and probably financially benefitted.
Photoshop is a tool designed for the 1% of people who want that level of control for their vision. Adobe has several other tools for other markets.

Even the latest model from this week, which is undeniably impressive, can’t get close to the level of control that photoshop gives me. It often edits parts of the image I haven’t asked it to touch among other issues. I use photoshop as a former photojournalist, and AI manipulated images are of no use to me. My photos are documentary. They represent a slice of reality. I know that AI can create a realistic simulacrum of that, but I’m not interested.

This is like saying we won’t need text editors in the future. That’s silly, there are some things that we won’t need text editors for, but the ability of ai to generate and edit text files doesn’t mean that we won’t ever need to edit them manually.
You are writing a conclusion without providing reasons or feelings.

Are you able to link to or write out your reasoning (however concisely?).

Is your view here legal, ethical, and/or vibes based? Each can can be interesting!
They already can do calculations by using tools and without pretending. Why not to make them write code for logic too. This will extend their 'range'. End user can be provided only summary to keep it look simple.
Growth was well over 100% last year, with expansions in every market (Phoenix, San Francisco, and LA). In 2025, they've added Austin, Silicon Valley, and will soon be adding Atlanta and Miami as well. They've also partnered with Hyundai on vehicle production, though I do expect that they will eventually become supply constrained.

They went from offering 12,000 rides in August 2023 to now offering 200,000 rides per week.

This growth only doesn't look incredible because of how small the starting point was, but it will be hard to ignore by this time next year.