skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you were connected to usenet, you could send emails, also delivered by uucp.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc976 (Feb 1986, but it mostly sets out as standards the practices that are already widely in place).

Indeed, RFC977 (1986) quotes a 1985 message from someone on unitek (a uucp node) requesting a reply by email (while the word "mail" was more often used before this):

Date: 25 Sep 85 23:51:52 GMT
Reply-To: honman@unitek.UUCP (Hon-Man Wong)
Distribution: net.all
Organization: Unitek Technologies Corporation
Lines: 12

...

Please reply by E-mail. Thanks in advance.

So I'm not really sure as to the source of your confusion.
I didn't realise that USA eats so much beef.
>> 3. I had no backup power source other than the Honda generator. If the generator got swamped with salt water during a knockdown or malfunctioned for mechanical reasons, I would have been condemned to endless hours at the tiller.

This worried me reading it, wouldnt redundancy be sensible, or at least solar panels as redundancy via alternate means?

It also makes me think about fiction and how the same problems are even worse. For example, I always wondered on Star Wars -- how many redundant parts do they keep onboard a ship, just in case?
Maybe it's helpful to find the right point in the long context, but then have easy access to the local structure around that point.

eg, yes, the magically relevant point is the third word of the fifth paragraph on page 183 of the document, but then having a good representation of all of that page is more helpful than the single word.
If you believe you need more people to get out of trouble isn’t it cruel to not follow through?
It's a bummer they discontinued the framework Chromebook, and there is no ChromeOS version of this. Seems like it would be an awesome fit.

It's really cool being able to run android apps on the Chromebook. ChromeOS is really interesting these days, I like "floating" the bambu 3d printing app to easily monitor a print. It's also nice for using the Google photos Android app which exposes additional options that the web version doesn't have. 64G RAM makes ChromeOS really powerful being able to run multiple android apps, crostini, and kvm virtual machines all at the same time.
Maybe it doesn't work at Mozilla's scale, but a business doesn't need to take overtake Gmail to win.
> made it clear that failure to return the equipment would be considered theft

Is "please arrange for a courier to retrieve it" not the end of your obligations?
Don’t forget that Wayfair gets a cut of that $85 as well.
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Thank you — always good to know I’m not alone!

I also worry about where we’re headed. It certainly doesn’t seem like it’s anyplace good.
It does parse the first row as the header, but it inserts it as the second row, and the first row becomes another header.

It creates a green/white coloured pivot table -- do you also observe that?
Sure it’s just macro.

Ljungqvist and Sargent is a standard grad level text.

Acemoglu has one with a growth focus.

Miao is another one.

Stachurski and Sargent is one focused on computational issues.

Stokey Lucas and Prescott is the math but I would skip that.

Dejong and Dave covers macroeconometrics.
There is nothing to solve - you are in the game of capitalism (the American Edition) and the job is to maximise shareholder value. They are paid big bucks because they only work for that without empathy/cruelty or such emotions. The only way to solve is to change the game but that's next to impossible because most powerful players like it that way and will turn on anyone trying to change their fattening ways.

The best part is that the pawns keep getting sacrificed and do nothing to change it; not only that, they refuse to support anyone trying to change the game to make their lives better. It's amazing.
Or many of them are some combination of racists, care about gun rights over everything else, religious folks who think that protesting Isreal will result in the second coming of Christ, anti-choice, and something something woke.

When people sincerely believe that if the country gives gay people rights that it will cause the nation to burn in hell, there isn’t any convincing people.
They do say they have employees in 90 countries…
> The problem is that this miserable state of affairs works at scale.

It "works" in the sense that it can be kept going by patching the damage it causes by throwing more money at it.

What it mostly does at scale is appear to work, to those high enough above it that they can't see any of the details: only the metrics that are being optimized for.
It probably depends on your lists. My uBlock Origin config had a global CSS rule blocking any elements with a #mc_embed_signup id.
> all your creativity, all your “craft,” all of that intense emotional spark inside of you that drives you to dance, to sing, to paint, to write, or to code

Thanks for this, brother. This translated through the internets and punched me right in the feels.
I haven't watched all his videos especially the more recent ones but there have definitely been some wtf moments for me too. And yeah he's not ignorant at all it's pretty funny to watch him verbally run through an accurate & extremely alarming assessment of the dangers of something and then go like eh it'll probably be fine.

"Well we're going to take an unplotted shortcut here through the uh, <<checking notes>> graveyard of the atlantic, according to the charts it's 7 feet deep and we have a 6.5 foot draft so fingers crossed the charts are up to date" type shit.

IIRC he has some very serious chronic health stuff and that may have something to do with it. I don't love the risky sails when he has a passenger though. But also who the fuck am I, a weekend lake sailor, to judge. At this point he's got to be among the most experienced solo sailors on the planet. I feel a similar way about slocum or the pardeys and they are more his peers than I am.
Agreed. You can host both SSH and HTTPS on port 443. I know this used to be possible with HAProxy, but now Nginx can do it as well. This way you are hosting normal HTTPS traffic when a browser is used and SSH otherwise.

Now, if your company is actually blocking the SSH protocol, you’ll have to do something like tunneling SSH through SSL, which is also possible… but not as easier IIRC.
I specifically bought a "millennial gray" apartment and put bland furniture: it's mostly white, black, and brown. The twist is that I'm putting colorful decorations, so that when you enter my living room, your eyes ignore all the "functional" items, and focus on decorative items, because these are colorful. It's like those video games where environment is grey but interactive objects are lit.

Only the living room has any colors. Bedroom and bathroom are as boring as can be, so that you do your shit, don't get distracted, and get back to the living room.
Did anyone else’s boss ask them to stick your hand in a box or just me?
This explanation is not incompatible with calling the whole business a "theater".
>but I don't think that LLMs can create synthetic a priori knowledge.

Do you think that a LLM has the ability to identify a new a priori knowledge?

It seems like it would be a lower threshold to meet but If you combine that with a stochastic process then it seems inevitable that it would be able to ruminate until it came up with new a priori knowledge.
You can’t brute-force insight.

I'm often reminded of that Futurama episode “A Pharaoh to Remember” (S04E07), where Bender is whipping the architects/engineers in an attempt to make them solve problems faster.
Google DeepMind – Thomas' story [video]
Correct, the discussion of a creator rests purely within the philosophical realm. That’s my point. To make a decision absent any evidence, yet knowing it’s a realm that needs to be considered (the outside of our universe) is explicitly anti-scientific.

Again, it’s got nothing to do with a guy sitting on a cloud. Anything natural to the universe must comply with the laws of physics. Any “powerful dude” is only a god until a “more powerful dude” comes along, realistically speaking.
Maton – Reviving ChatGPT Plugins
Hey HN, we are Richard and Byungkyu from Maton.

Two years ago, OpenAI launched ChatGPT Plugins, and we thought it was an exciting idea - give AI access to external apps and allow them to perform tasks beyond just conversation.

Then, for some reason, OpenAI decided to pivot and deprecate it in favor of GPTs.

That's why we're building Maton (https://toolkit.maton.ai). We're bringing back what ChatGPT Plugins was meant to be - making it simple to connect AI to any app.

In just a few lines of code, you can give your AI access to hundreds of pre-built API actions for popular SaaS tools like HubSpot, Notion, Slack, and more.

import {MatonAgentToolkit} from '@maton/agent-toolkit/openai';

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app: 'salesforce',
actions: ['all'],
})
const completion = await openai.chat.completions.create({
model: 'gpt-4o-mini',
tools: toolkit.getTools(),
messages: [...]
})

We also take care of authentication for you. The toolkit comes with two default tools: `start_connection` and `check_connection`. If the user account isn't connected, `start_connection` returns a link to our auth UI where the user can connect their accounts via OAuth or API key. We manage the credentials and refresh them when necessary.

Last but not least, if you're not using OpenAI, we support AI SDK, LangChain, and more and provide MCP servers that you can use in Claude for Desktop, Cursor, and Continue.

Check out our demo: https://youtu.be/uKmMUCvnPD8

Here's a link to our Github repo: https://github.com/maton-ai/agent-toolkit

Let us know what you think! Would love to get any feedback.
“While our revenue continues to grow,”

Hard to read further than that…
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Trump Imposes Tariffs on Uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands
C'mon US administration, April fools was yesterday!
There's also going to be quite a big ecosystem / standard library difference between languages that had fundamental type system features since the beginning vs. languages that added fundamental features 23 years later.

Imagine all the functions that might return one thing or another, which was inexpressible in C# (until this proposal is shipped), will all these functions release new versions to express what they couldn't express before? Will there be an ecosystem split between static typing and dynamic typing?
I thought the tariff goal was also to fix the issue with Pharmaceuticals where the R&D happened in the US, the company then “exported” the IP to the EU factories, and now import the drugs back. This results in a US tax rate of 0%.
How could they do that? Don't they know they owe it to us to make the world a better place? /s
Our response to the UK's copyright consultation
We're not unswayable, I was swayed.

8 years ago, I was a left-libertarian living in SF and trying to convince Trump people to vote for Hillary because Trump was dishonest.

Then I was swayed because people provided information to me that changed my views. Now I view what Trump is doing now as FAR too moderate.
> 1. Where to put them? In Chicago these cameras unfortunately end up being a regressive tax.

Everywhere. Starting with highest volume intersections.

> 2. What to do with the money? Anytime we give the government money from things like this, we create weird incentives.

Good concerns to have. I'm less concerned with bad incentives (e.g. vs. civil asset "forfeiture") because the enforcement is automated. There can still be bias in roll-out of the cameras, but this wouldn't be the same degree.

> I've been wondering lately what it would be like if we required all the fees to be returned to the federal treasury / burned... no incentives!

I like that thinking. This makes everyone's money worth ever so slightly more. (which is also minusculey regressive)
Sorry I was using due process in a more lay sense I guess, something along the lines of "the constraints we place on ourselves to limit the risk of accidental harms." None of that will be effective at preventing intentional harms, which is what this is anyway. It wasn't a good word choice on my part I don't think.
I don’t agree that it doesn’t make sense. It’s a good approximation a lot of the time.

Also: from your comment I’m pretty sure you don’t have the background (correct me if that’s wrong) and so don’t know what it really means in practice to make an equilibrium assumption in a macro model: Markets clear, on average people have reasonable beliefs about the evolution of aggregate variables, firms maximize expected profits. That’s all pretty harmless.

I definitely don’t agree that we are “using mathematical tools which aren’t suited for that.” We aren’t treating the economy “like a steam engine.” The entire revolution in macro from the 1970’s on involves optimizing agents. There is no useful analogy to a steam engine.

I suspect you have been reading criticism by people who are misinformed about what macro actually is and how it is practiced.
WARNING: Old man about to say "Back in my day..."

As a child, we were taught that "America is better than the USSR because
$REASONS." One reason given was we didn't need identification to travel
around the country (this included flying). And when I saw "taught" I mean "this was taught to us in a public school."

Back in my day (There it is!), you would see newspaper want-ads like
"Vegas bachelor party canceled. Two airline tickets avail this weekend.
$200 OBO." You'd meet the guy, buy the tickets and get on the flight. ID
was more for proving you were old enough to fly alone than anything.
Tickets were not made out to the buyer, they were just assigned seating.
Airlines were losing money and they knew it but couldn't figure out a
way to stop it cheaply enough.

Metal detector screenings started in the 70's because back then
airplane hijacking was a thing.

Then, 9/11. Metal detector screenings became mandatory. The airlines
got the government to do the identity checks (TSA) and tighten the
security the airlines did/could/would not pay for. State IDs (driver's
licenses, for example) were sufficient. No more want-ads for a Vegas
bachelor parties! The buyer might get a refund, might not, and the
airline got to resell the seat either way. And we still take our shoes
off to get on a plane decades later.

Fast forward to today, you (will) need a federal ID to travel on airplanes
domestically, either a REAL ID or a passport. Sure, it's not hard to
get, and there are ways around it if you forget or lose yours. Besides,
what's the harm, right?

And every step along the way, it was a perfectly cromulent thing to do.

Now excuse me, I need to change the onion on my belt. That's still the
fashion, right?
Just wanted to say I love the design of the blog and the main site. So tired of Corporate Memphis, this was refreshing.
RC – the Plan 9 Shell (1990) [pdf]
That reminds me of another recent submission that seems relevant:

"Don’t let an LLM make decisions or execute business logic"

319 points, 168 comments, 1 day ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43542259
Why do you think that is? I’m wondering if the shared sacrifice of WW2 has something to do with it.
Yes, I went to a few of those protests. Despite the popularity of opposition, there were still plenty of people arguing in support of attacking Iraq. In fact I'd say that most people were in support of it. "They hate us for our freedom", "fight them over there instead of here", and general reflexive arguments supplicating to power. That's the dynamic I'm talking about.

Whether invading Iraq would have still happened without that popular support is besides the point. The point is there was full-throated support from many people, who would reflexively reject dissent while parroting corpo media talking points, and who then only came to see what a poor idea it had been over time.
Big fan of pico.sh, been hosting a few small sites on there for a while now, no faster way to get something up and running
[Hi from Argentina!] It looks like they are using "vos" when they pretend to be your friend and "usted" when they pretend to be a serious business. I'm not surprised. Also, I'm not surprised of a natural convergence to a common dialect, somewhere in the middle of all the communities.
Yeah that’s not going to work. America is about to find out that the era of bully pulpit is over. Why work with a recalcitrant and quite frankly obnoxious US when you can cut bilateral EU/Asian deals?
broken on iOS (iPad)
I have a hard time recalling the last time I watched ads outside of Cyberpunk 2077 where I watched, listened and actively search for them in my first hours.

But now I want to actively want to know how ads look all around the world.
Thanks for the work you guys do, Dan and Tom, to keep this place a good and intellectually stimulating place for discussion. We appreciate you.
What game is $90?

Also, there's been inflation, so $60 in 2017 is $76 today. So an $80 game is about 5% more.
I think a lot of that was just an out-of-control spiral of self-confirmation happening in comments sections that was at best loosely connected to actual facts.

I think that finally along last there's been some real push back against it and it's no longer acceptable to just say it as if it's going to be the presumed default narrative because it really depends on what you mean and a lot of the criticisms were kind of nonsensical and without any sense of proportion.

I still basically trust Mozilla, they're a force for good, and I'm happy to use their services and do what I can to contribute to them being profitable and a successful counterpoint to Google.
Thanks for sharing this!

I wonder what actually caused the temporary suspension. Was some protocol not followed? Was the OP not sharing all the details? Was it a case of bad bureaucracy who only responded because of the public backlash? There wasn't quite enough info to tell.
There are plenty of people working on the application of ML in economics, including NN methods, and including in macro.

That’s a totally different class of model to this agent based approach. People in the (small) agent based modeling community have been pushing their stuff for decades to no effect.

Sure it’s possible that there’s some amazing advance I can’t see coming in the future but as of now I would not recommend anyone pursue ABM.
It's missing a few major channels, Seven and Nine afaics. Maybe they don't offer free iptv.
And they are trying to push through a massive tax cut. So.. yeah unclear what the goals are here
We have always been at war with the penguins!
previous discussion 15 comments (2020): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24712166
Neither the Nazis, nor Stalinists even remotely approximate the modern left in the US, or elsewhere.

The debate is effectively between classical Liberalism, and authoritarianism/patromonialism/fascism.

Forget what people called themselves: the peoples republic of North Korea certainly isn’t a republic.

Socialist Left/Capitalist Right is an outdated dichotomy that is only in service of authoritarians.
Where do they get off making an Android tablet that costs more than a PS5?
I recall reading Kay Cottee's account of her solo unassisted circumnavigation in 1988. She was the first woman to do so.

Part of her preparation was removing the labels from all tinned food, and then re-writing what was in the can with a permanent marker on the lid, before fully immersing each can in laquer. Presumably this was done to help deal with corrosion problems.
Most likely he is doing it for economic reasons. My preferred checker is an elderly woman that is slow, but very affable and likes to chat when there is no line.

Despite her positive attitude, she is working because social security isn't enough and grocery workers also get an employee discount.
You see techno-fascism, others here see a business opportunity.
"You didn't register your trademark, so I guess you don't care if I use it!" Setting aside mermaid here, that line of thinking is not only legally precarious but heavily unethical. In the US at least, trademarks are implicit, like copyright. Registering a trademark can help in court, but it's not required.
You have discovered why the rich do not go to jail and the poor do.
Where are the pornographic channels? You know, so I can avoid them?
Exactly. I just feel like a point that originally was reasonable (around 2016 or so) became the spiraling echo chamber that became increasingly nonsensical and increasingly divorced from rhyme, reason, causation, logic, or proportionality. Case in point, Google Chrome has pushed web standards to consolidate its control over the web, but Firefox hid a cheeky reference to a TV show in its code one time! Those are incredibly different scales of offense.
thats HP and no one should buy HPs printers anymore until they stop their doings. Their aggressive behavior towards the customer and lurkin' into paying monthly subscription, data & update politics, mandatory always-on-internet-connection...

Thats on top. So, as an informed individual being, one should avoid HP. The other printer producers do not insinst on registration or wifi-before-first-use politics. But, who knows.

.. again, how can the government find out who you are by having just a code? If there's no mandatory registration (f.e. not HP)? If one knows how to poisen the tracking code? If one use a new/used printer and dispose afterwards? If one use the "neighbor from the first floor" printer?

There is no possibility to find out who printed that, if one takes a little bit caution and have little bit of knowledge. Even print-out-once-copy-many would make the code unreadable (f.e. normal quality and/or black & white) ...

spread the word! W00t W00t! :)
At first, I thought this was a general Ruby thing, but the install process has you running Rails commands. Does that mean this is web-focused, rather than a UI thing that I can use in native Ruby applications?
That's half of it. The other half is, WWII turned the United States from a relative backwater to a military and industrial superpower. So the war also taught lessons on a societal level about organization and cooperation, and the postwar economic boom provided the means to get great things done.
Pseudo-Principality: Reclaiming "Whataboutism" as a Test
This piece explores the concept of "pseudo-principality"—when people selectively apply moral principles to serve their interests while maintaining the appearance of consistency. It argues that what’s often dismissed as "whataboutism" can actually be a valuable tool for exposing this behavior.