skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, every country in the world doesn’t manipulate their currency. Most can’t because of the floating exchange rate (which Vietnam doesn’t have).

Do you think Canada’s tariffs on dairy products has worked to protect the industry? Seems like it has?

Claiming that free trade has benefited the US is true, but the benefit has gone to the top at the expense of the bottom.

Europe uses tariffs to protect domestic industry and when the US decides to do it, suddenly it’s wrong?
> “Paris, near Place de la République.” It sounds right. You move on. But a trained eye would notice the signage is Belgian. The license plates are off. The architecture doesn’t match. You trusted the AI and missed the location by a country.

I genuinely hope if you're a professional intelligence analyst it doesn't take a trained eye to distinguish Paris from Belgium. Genuinely every day there's articles like this. The post about college students at elite universities who can't read, tariff policy by random number generator, programmers who struggle to solve first semester CS problems, intelligence analysts who can't do something you can do if you play Geoguessr as a hobby. Are we just getting dumber every year? It feels like we're falling off a cliff over the last decade or so.

Like, the entire article boils down to "verify information and use critical thinking", you'd think someone working in intelligence and law enforcement which this author trains knows this when they get hired?
You can’t even use reader mode on the site because of the text effect. It will cut off after the first few paragraphs since the others have the effect applied.
I don't think it is that easy. Take musicians for example. There are several thousands most popular and rich, some that can only gather a small club and a long tail of people who can only play music on their day off. And now with development of generative models their financial situation is going to get only worse.
I'm still living with someone I met on a MU.

And yeah, text adventures* were some of the biggest sellers, not mus. While there were* a few pay mu*s most of them were hobby projects.
And the small up and coming artists whose work is also stolen, AI-washed, and sold to consumers for a monthly fee, destroying the market for those up and coming artists to sell original works. You don't get to pretend this is only going to hurt big players when there are already small players whose livelihoods have been ruined.
My current favourite LLM wankery example is this beauty: https://blog.fahadusman.com/proxmox-replacing-failed-drive-i...

Note how it has invented the faster parameter for the zpool command. It is possible that the blog writer hallucinated a faster parameter themselves without needing a LLM - who knows.

I think all developers should add a faster parameter to all commands to make them run faster. Perhaps a LLM could create the faster code.

I predict an increase of man page reading, and better quality documentation at authoritative sources. We will also improve our skills at finding auth sources of docs. My uBlacklist is getting quite long.
I'd imagine the people who want the hardcore undetectable stuff are making money by charging others to boost them.
I wrote about some similar observations in the clinical domain -- I call it the "human -> AI reasoning shunt" [0]. Explicitly requesting an AI tool to perform reasoning is one thing, but a concern I have is that, with the increasing prevalence of these AI tools, even tasks that theoretically are not reasoning-based (ie helping write clinical notes or answer simple questions) can surreptitiously offload some degree of reasoning away from humans by allowing these systems to determine what bits of information are important or not.

[0] https://samrawal.substack.com/p/the-human-ai-reasoning-shunt
I think if some boundary like this existed it would have physical ramifications that would be quite apparent. space is full of gas and radiation referred to as the interstellar medium (ISM). We can measure the speed, temperature, density, or whatever you want to know about the ISM. If there were regions of space that somehow exerted force on particles or otherwise allowed them to move quickly I suspect we would see it.
You’ve intentionally hamstrung your test by choosing an inferior model though.
The rest of the business is the issue. I can whitelabel a Spotify clone but licensing rights and all that business stuff is outside my wheelhouse. An app that serves mp3s and has a bunch of other buttons? yeah, done. "shifting goalposts?" no, we're having a conversation, I'm not being deposed under a subpoena.

My claim is that in a week you could build a thing that people want to use, as long as you can sell it, that's competitive with existing options for a given client. Salesforce is a CRM with walled gardens after walled garden. access to each of which costs extra, of course. they happened to be in the right place at the right time, with the right bunch of assholes.

A serious contender doesn’t have to start with everything. It starts by doing the core thing better—cleaner UX, clearer value, easier to extend. That’s enough to matter. That’s enough to grow.

I’m not claiming to replace decades overnight. But momentum, clarity, and intent go a long way. Especially when you’re not trying to be everything to everyone—just the right thing for the right people.

as for Spotify: https://bit.ly/samson_music
> Generally its accepted that a core trait of intelligence is an agent’s ability to achieve goals in a wide range of environments.

This is the embodiment argument - that intelligence requires the ability to interact with its environment. Far from being generally accepted, it's a controversial take.

Could Stephen Hawking achieve goals in a wide range of environments without help?

And yet it's still generally accepted that Stephen Hawking was intelligent.
I think most people over estimate the average persons intelligence. Complaints like this are as old as time if you read primary sources from past generations.
Show HN: 2004Scape (RuneScape) singleplayer self-hosted Windows/Linux/FreeBSD
Vercel has made a few posts about how substantial the traffic has increased with the rise of AI crawlers, or crawlers for AI training. https://vercel.com/blog/the-rise-of-the-ai-crawler
The AI companies could always license all that copyrighted training materials. You can't claim there's no solution while ignoring the solution everyone' been using for ages just because these corporations told you so.
And back in the 1960s a planned economy was normal and reasonable, and many progressives openly called for normalisation of sex with teenagers. Sometimes shifts in attitudes are progress. Sometimes they're just a random walk. Sometimes the left is right, sometimes the right is.
You are confusing the actual accounts with the surrounding article.

Look, Trump has been claiming that he graduated first in class, but never provided any evidence. In fact, he refuses to publish his college records. Why is that?
I kinda feel like that would work just as well with ‘right’ replaced by ‘left’.

If anything, this definition is a better argument for the parents’s point.

Dictatorship, belligerent (North Korea style) and nationalism seem much more important features than left or right.
Doesn’t that seem fake to you? To me it sounds like a scam that’s destined to collapse in spectacular fashion.
> Destroy rewards for original invention and creativity and you destroy all progress

You won't destroy the progress completely but there definitely will be a lot of unfairness like people monetizing someone else's music due to having better SEO skills and more free time than the artist. And the artist cannot hire SEO specialist because he has no money.
Not really, post-Berne convention.
What's your point? The olive imports from these 4-8 countries will all be tariffed also.
This is an entertaining idea. User prompts can synthesize a users domain knowledge whether they are an entrepreneur, code dev, engineer, hacker, designer, etc and it can also have different users between different LLMs.

I think the site would clone the upvotes of articles and the ordering of the front page, and gives directions when to comment on other’s posts.
I've written an Intel 8080 emulator that was portable between Dec10/VAX/IBM VM CMS. That was easy - the 8080 can be done quite simply with a 256 value switch - I did mine in FORTRAN77.

Writing a BASIC interpreter, with floating point, is much harder. Gates, Allen and other collaborators BASIC was pretty damned good.
If only Microsoft owned a place to post source code...
Or maybe accept that LLMs are intelligent and it's human bias that is the oddity here.
Painting and selling a painting or otherwise substituting that painting for an original work that deprives the original creator is theft, plain and simple. Not selling it, there's room for discussion and more considered legal review.
I'm curious what those are. I've never heard that before.
While I know this, I will say there is a communication issue in which sneering and lecturing is not really an effective way to persuade others.
There’s a nostalgic aspect to lots of music. The errors we grew up with do become nostalgic. (And other sounds—what kind of a dead-hearted monster doesn’t get a little happy to hear the first couple seconds of GSM interference noise? It’s so jaunty, how has nobody worked that into some techno?). It reminds us of how things were when we were so cool that we could only afford junk.

Nostalgia is cheap of course, but some times cheap things make us happy and that’s fine.
Title: Anduril Industries’ Electromagnetic Warfare Team is Hiring

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you don't get to choose why you get Internet famous, it chooses you.

thankfully, I'm not important enough for my comment to amount to the same thing.
As an actually unseasoned Python developer, would you be so kind as to explain why the problems you see are problems and their alternatives? Particularly the first two you note.
> Agreed. However, by imposing tariffs it is not the privileged who are going to be affected the most.

I thought the idea was that the billionaires would buy up all the crashed stocks then suddenly the tariffs would be lifted so that they can sell them off as soon as they recover. If so, the privileged will be affected the most but only in terms of how much money they'll make while everyone else suffers in the meantime.
Show HN: I Built a Library of Next.js Templates to Help Devs Launch Faster
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If the AI company sells it to you, no matter your prompting, they are stealing. If you also sell that work, then so are you.
You don’t need credit to talk about pop culture. I don’t need to credit the Indian Jones copyright holder when I paint a stunning likeness of Ford in a kaki outfit with a whip, even if the holder might try to sue me over it. Copyright and credit aren’t the same.
Lewd live streamer is protected by First Amendment, local police say
every hackerspace should have a shared server like this. my college had an opensource club, and they had something like this for members to use/toy with. one of my biggest regrets is not going to those meetings more
I think it would be nearly impossible to prove that your corpus had no mathematical content. In fact it would be extremely contentious as to what was considered mathematical content. Do you remove all reference to numbers and counting? How about the words and, or and not.

I think the only criteria of no math that would satisfy some people would by definition fail because the model would have no concept of points or distance because some would certainly count those as mathematical content.
Cheat dev is a meta-game in itself, but I agree, paying for cheats is a really weird concept.
How do you properly configure a logger in application like that?
> This is more of a Humble Bundle thing than a Steam issue.

And Fanatical, and (many) other Steam-friendly game bundlers, but Steam themselves also contributed to my massive game library on Steam, due to those seasonal sales bein' just too good to pass up. :)
C3 has "path shortening", so for example given `open(...)` in std::io::file is usually used as `file::open(...)`. If we would to write this as `file.open(...)`. Consider now the case of mistyping `open`: `file.openn(...)`. Is this (A) mistyping the function open in module `std::io::file` or is it (B) the global/local `file` is missing from the current scope?

Also, "io", "file", "random" etc are commonly used variables, so the issue with shadowing is real.

`File file = file::open(...)` is completely unambiguous and fine. `File file = file.open(...)` on the other hand would be bad.

If the language had flat modules, or no path shortening, then it would be possible.
His series on building a video adaptor is a particular favourite of mine.
You wouldn't have to keep referencing a tenuous connection in The Twitter Files (cue: X-Files theme music) if you came around to seeing government and corpos as quite similar creatures on a spectrum of coercion rather than as completely disjoint and disparate things.

So called "conservatives" were soooo close to being able to have this realization before they regained the power of the government, vested it all in a unitary execuking, and went back to seeing that extraconstitutional coercion as a feature (like many "progressives" had for ~10 years or so).
Mine is really simple. I push the changes to git and then pull them through ssh. I am planning to somehow automate the process, but honestly it takes less then 20 seconds so I'm quite happy with it as it is

(My blog: Fedorvin.com)
"A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose bark their name is not written" - ancient Chinese proverb.
This is beautiful, can you add more templates from other sectors like ecom?
Why is someone mass-scanning Juniper and Palo Alto Networks products?
Why? Replace the context and not having that property is now called a hallucination.

Overall the model is tra
>No one says you have to code like those influencers. You are a software engineer, use AI like one, iteratively.

This is my issue with all the AI naysayers at this point. It seems to all boil down to "haha, stupid noob can't code so he uses AI" in their minds. It's like they are incapable of understanding that there could simultaneously be a bunch of junior devs pushing greenfield YouTube demos of vibe coding, while at the same time expert software engineers are legitimately seeing their productivity increase 10x on serious codebases through judicious use.

Go ahead and keep swinging that hammer, John Henry.
> Coherence might not the word you're looking for

Ideological and political coherence are the terms of art [1].

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8827732/
When Mickey Mouse was created (1928), copyright was 28 years that could be reupped once for an additional 28 years. So according to those terms, Mickey Mouse would have ascended to the public domain in 1984.

IMO any change to copyright law should not be applied retroactively. Make copyright law to be what is best for society and creators as a whole, not for lobbyists representing already copyrighted material.
I hate to paint with such a broad brush, but I’d venture that “creatives” are not primarily motivated by profit. It is almost a truism that money corrupts the creative endeavour.
But you have to. Ambiguities hint at lack of redundancies that also affects code reading. When you quickly scan something like `file.open` vs `file::open` the former is also more unclear to a reader without more context.
> What these people don't realize is even if they make 200K a year and drive an 85K financed F-250, they are effectively in the same class as someone making 50K a year managing a Dollar General.

More people making under 50K per year voted for Trump in 2024 than voted for Harris.

Your numbers are off.
Allen wrote an 8080 emulator on a time shared PDP-10 in order for Gates to write the assembly code that implemented a BASIC interpreter - complete with I/O and editor - for a sight-unseen system, all in 4 kilobytes. And it worked the first time it was run.

I've been in the industry for 30 years and I couldn't do all that without serious Googling (or AI help nowadays).

Doing it as 20-somethings in the mid 70s definitely qualifies them as pure breed hackers to me.
This is more a primer to IBM vocabulary, though. IBM midrange systems also "IPL," like the POWER6 in the next room which isn't a small system but definitely not a mainframe.
Years ago, I hatched a theory, that one of the reasons my generation gravitated to rock and roll as teenagers, is that the sound of a distorted guitar closely resembles the sound of an engine, and is thus a symbol of freedom, just like getting one's driver's license.

I shared this theory with my then-little-in-both-senses sister, who asked "what, exactly, is distortion, in a musical sense?"

I trotted to my bedroom and retrieved Pink Floyd's Pulse. I popped disc 1 into the living-room CD player, cued up track 9 (Sorrow), and turned it up. We potched out onto the floor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO9Kp_Wn_2A

"Oh. Okay. Yeah, alright. I think I get it."
Beware of pushing for rules that you don't personally believe in. You just might succeed a little too well, and have to live with the consequences.
I used the app. You have to do a ton of work to get it accurate.
> we know that passion (especially if politically motivated) retards intelligence.

So that's why Elon is so retarded! The whole "ketamine" and "full self driving" nonsense was starting to make me worried. It was actually passion this whole time - how touching.
Smh. It’s not a scam, and it is a serious value add, and a real ticket. For someone, just not you. And only if the project survives, which is why they’re fundraising. https://www.aslsp.org/the_final_ticket.html
Indeed. I can name quite a few of both kinds of success and the end result was unfortunately a shattering of a studio who did get a chance to iterate on the potential.

As a business, it's clear what kind of success valve prioritizes.
Show HN: Genkit, Open framework/tooling to build apps with almost any AI model
If you do want to get more into it, I'd suggest something that plugs into your IDE instead of Copy/Paste with ChatGPT. Try Aider or Roo code. I've only used Aider, and run it in the VS terminal. It's much nicer to be able to leave comments to the AI and have it make the changes to discrete parts of the app.

I'm not the OP, but on your other point about completing sprint goals fast - I'm building a video library app for myself, and wanted to add tagging of videos. I was out dropping the kids at classes and waiting for them. Had 20 minutes and said to Aider/Claude - "Give me an implementation for tagging videos." It came back with the changes it would make across multiple files: Creating a new model, a service, configuring the DI container, updating the DB context, updating the UI to add tags to videos and created a basic search form to click on tags and filter the videos. I hit build before the kids had finished and it all worked. Later, I found a small bug - but it saved me a fair bit of time. I've never been a fast coder - I stare at the screen and think way too much (function and variable names are my doom ... and the hardest problem in programming, and AI fixes this for me).

Some developers may be able to do all this in 20 minutes, but I know that I never could have. I've programmed for 25 years across many languages and frameworks, and know my limitations. A terrible memory is one of them. I would normally spend a good chunk of time on StackOverflow and the documentation sites for whatever frameworks/libraries I'm using. The AI has reduced that reliance and keeps me in the zone for longer.
> Isn't this the same question as, "why should we allow general purpose computing?"

I don’t think so? It’s not illegal to call random people on your phone, but if you do it millions of times per day with a computer it can be illegal.
This story isn’t really about agents browsing the web. It’s a fiction about a company that consumes all of the web and all other written material into a model that doesn’t need to browse the web. The agents in this story supersede the web.

But your point hits on one of the first cracks to show in this story: We already have companies consuming much of the web and training models on all of our books, but the reports they produce are of mixed quality.

The article tries to get around this by imagining models and training runs a couple orders of magnitude larger will simply appear in the near future and the output of those models will yield breakthroughs that accelerate the next rounds even faster.

Yet here we are struggling to build as much infrastructure as possible to squeeze incremental improvements out of the next generation of models.

This entire story relies on AI advancement accelerating faster in a self-reinforcing way in the coming couple of years.
"I'm of the mindset that any time a company does layoffs, they should start from the top And work down"

That idealism.
Your story feels unfinished. :(

Advice: ask for more money or don't accept an offer. They should not by any means get the message that they can keep getting away with paying smaller salaries.