skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A lot of our “value chain” is bullshit.

No it isn't, productivity has to increase, that's why we constantly get rid of jobs that do not provide much value. People want more money, and the only way we get there is with more productivity (doing jobs that make more money).

> If and when China becomes twice as big an economy as the US, much of our “edge” in marketing, finance, and services isn’t going to mean squat.

China gets to 2X our GDP by doing what we basically did in the 90s, so you are definitely right! They will have their own marketing, financing and services. The only difference is that they won't need to outsource manufacturing to China (well, they are outsourcing it a bit now, but also investing tons in automation).

> E.g. how much “GDP” will evaporate overnight when American universities no longer have the cachet that comes along with being the best universities in America?

I don't know what you are ranting about, but I get the feeling that if I did know what you were saying here I would probably agree with you.
> And an NDA being void due to such a situation does not stop the company from taking legal action against, costing you lots of money and time to defend

Not really. If the NDA is void (such as the case with congressional hearings), there isn't going to be a lengthy legal proceeding. The judge would look at it and throw it out.
Really? Because this is old news.

The US, along with Canada, Australia, Germany and a few others have been asking people at the border to unlock their phones.
Professionally for 10 years ? I would like to hear more.

I remember Target funded some earlier Nix work like lorri.

Interestingly, I found operating at this level to have been a necessity if I wanted to fix or write a derivation. Otherwise I would face random errors and be left clueless as to what the problem was.

Writing a derivation builder (nix pill) was illuminating.
Pretty good, but what I really want is this skin and MSN messenger skin for Signal desktop.
Perhaps there are other approaches to obtain similar results such as using Dolby Atmos?
No, that's the distinction I am drawing. That match was on the basis of the information recorded for computer comparison. Basically it records certain features such as the ends of lines. It does not record the whole fingerprint. It is know that these records are not unique. We don't know the same for the full fingerprint.
I highly recommend reading "Determined" by Robert Sapolsky.
I draw attention to the fact that what's obvious to you isn't obvious to folks who haven't been thinking about this game and it's mechanics for as long as you have. That's why writing good instructions [for anything] is so important: you're in the best position to know what's expected by the game. What makes that process tricky is that it can be very hard to remember what it's like to be a new user and write for them but with the benefit of your expertise
> That evidence would not prove what I said because as you stated, even a broken clock is right twice a day.

That's my point. The tiny number of people you can identify just got lucky.

> The smartest people understand this and they can accurately predict his moves.

No they can't. You can't predict the behavior of someone who isn't sane, as you put it. Their behavior is random and impulsive, not predictable.

People who predicted tariffs at these levels aren't smarter. Just "lucky". Or maybe not even, since during our exchange, Trump has suddenly and unpredictably rolled back most of the tariffs...
British plugs are however the worst to step on.
I don’t believe space > time is possible on a Turing machine?
> had to award them 0s for assignments, which was heartbreaking

You should feel nothing. They knew they were cheating. They didn't give a crap about you.

Frankly, I would love to have people failing assignments they can't explain even if they did NOT use "AI" to cheat on them. We don't need more meaningless degrees. Make the grades and the degrees mean something, somehow.
My full comment included "or submit evidence to a hearing"

A Congressional hearing can compel people to give testimony under oath. Witnesses can be held in contempt for failure to answer questions.
If you're at all interested,
would you mind sending me an email at qkrwjdtj2020@gmail.com?
I’ve honestly been waiting for you to come back
This depends on the implementation of the regex engine; most are potentially superlinear in time, since that’s the easiest way of doing it, and quite fast until suddenly it isn’t. I always check the algorithm being used before I use regular expressions in production. I was surprised how many use a recursive descent strategy!

(Also, BTW, you can deal with the exponential space issue by using an NFA instead of a DFA – it’s slower that way, but the memory space required is reliably linearly proportional to the size of the regex.)
It's not an accent, it's an affect.
> 3 hours before he announced easing tariffs, Trump tweeted that it's a good time to buy stocks. If he gave someone insider information, they could use that tweet as a cover.

Got a link to the tweet? I don't have a Twitter account.

Edit: apparently it is true, and it is on Truth social. Someone sent me a screenshot.

To the downvoters: what is wrong with you? It was an honest question.
"Why does having a trade deficit make your currency more valuable?"

Its the other way around, having the reserve currency drives demand for it and therefore imports are cheap and budgetary deficits are free (since interest rates are low).

You get free stuff and free debt, but over time your industry collapses
One nice thing about the P4 with the 64GB RAM (HX 370 quad-channel) version, which they stopped producing lately, is using an 32B LLM at 5 watts -- little slow but works offline nicely.
How did you uninstall safari?
Have you run into any issues without having it available on your phone?
>invalid github username, check the spelling

Is there an API key that got exhausted?
”I don't know how to grow crops, build a house, tend livestock, make clothes, weld metal, build a car, build a toaster, design a transistor, make an ASIC, or write an OS. I do know how to write a web site.”

Sure. But somebody has to know these things. For many jobs, knowing these things isn’t beneficial, but for others it is.

Sure, you might be able to get a job slinging AI code to produce CRUD apps or whatever. But since that’s the easy thing, you’re going to have a hard time standing out from the pack. Yet we will still need people who understand the concepts at a deeper level, to fix the AI messes or to build the complex systems AI can’t, or the systems that are too critical to rely on AI, or the ones that are too regulated. Being able to do those thing, or to just better understand what the AI is doing to get better more effective results, that will be more valuable than just blindly leaning on AI, and it will remain valuable for a while yet.

Maybe some day the AI can do everything, including ASICs and growing crops, but it’s got a long way to go still.
How are they both describing the remote procedures and parameters tho? In order for the LLM to use a tool it needs to know its name and arguments. There has to be some kind of spec, in some or format, for it to use.

An existing Swagger/OpenAPI spec is not sufficient. You want to limit options and make it easy for an LLM to call your tool to accomplish goals. The complete API surface of your application might not be appropriate. It might be too low level or require too many orchestration steps to do anything useful.

A lot of existing API's require making additional calls using the results of previous calls. GET /users to get a list of ids. Then repeatedly call GET users/$id to get the data. In a MCP world you would provide a get-users tool that would do all this behind the scenes and also impose any privacy/security/auth restrictions before handing this over to an LLM.

We see similar existing systems like GraphQL which provides a fully hydrated resultset in one call. Tons of API's like Stripe (IIRC) that provide a &hydrate= parameter to specific which relations to include full details in-line.

I do agree MCP is overhyped and might not be using best principles but I do see why its going off in its own land. It might be better suited over different protocols or transports or encodings or file formats but it seems to at least work so until something better comes along we are probably stuck with it.
I would rather pay for o1-pro and also have access to the fantastic 4o image generation. o1-pro feels, to me, far ahead for complex coding tasks.

I do really prefer Claude’s unified model interface. Hopefully OpenAI improves that soon. Their product UX is a mess.
"And I know economics well, and class 101 is free markets and specialization."

Then something must have changed with the introduction texts at some point because the one I had to slog through covered the concept of manufactured goods being inherently more valuable shortly after defining basic terms like "product", "value", and "manufactured goods". Literally 2nd chapter in the book.

"Who wants to return to an economy of decades ago?"

Literally everyone who works for a living making shit or who are stuck in bullshit service industry McJobs that aren't paying the bills. Also every small business owner in the country, although admittedly not all of them realize it.

"The US was much poorer then."

The oligarch class was certainly much poorer then, the same can't be said for the other 99.9% of the population.

"Services are much easier on people physically"

You might want to look into the long term health effects of poverty and stress before you float that statement. Additionally "I'm too soft to actually work" only becomes a compelling argument when you can prove the condition applies to a simple majority of working age Americans. Good luck with that.
Congressional hearings can compel witnesses to answer questions under oath, among other things.

People brought before a Congressional hearing like this can be held in contempt of court for failure to cooperate. Testimony is subject to perjury laws.

This wasn't just someone writing a letter to Congress with some claims. This was a Senate hearing convened on the matter.
Nope, all those warnings were basically "make sure your paperwork/visa is in order" and "gender on passport has to be the one assigned on birth"
We?

I have nothing to do with any of that lol.
So your plan is to encourage people to "get off the Internet" by posting on the Internet, and to stave off automation by encouraging workers to gang up on their employers and make themselves a collective critical point of failure.

Well, you know, we'd all love to change the world...
Well, the contrarian opinion is that this (whatever he did) is a good thing - whether decentralisation happens into the US, Europe or wherever. It's one thing to recognise the problem, and another to attempt to change an uncomfortable status quo.

Every other approach attempted to date has been milder, and hasn't worked. But we'll see if he sticks to it.
Travel warnings like "make sure your paperwork is in order" yeah?
You’re right, of course, but there was a minor miscommunication: the exponential space is exponentially proportional to the size of the regular expression, and the linear time is linearly proportional to the length of the string being searched through.
Nono it’s $416/mo. And if you terminate before the 12 months is over then.. yes it’s $5,000
What tech trends do you consider not a scam, out of curiosity?

AI is being thought of in the same likes as the internet, mobile, crypto, etc. I.e. new tech with huge opportunities.
I implemented offline mornings and have learned Greek, how to play chess half decently, and how to play the piano! It’s crazy how much time there is in the morning that I was wasting.
I would assume the opposite. People use it to sound dumb, not smart, so as to sound non-threatening, but also so as to sound non-assertive. It's used to defuse potential conflict or perceived disagreeableness. Generally the affect of a late-stage conflict-adverse institutionalism that punishes assertive or dominant behaviors. Uptalk is the "I'm showing my belly" of English affects.
> salaryless, ownable labor

Automation is indeed the killer app for AI.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/02/21/1067563/automati...
This is awesome.

My wife built a matching game[0] for our toddler, because she doesn't like the flashy content and addictive nature of the games on the app store (and neither do I!)

It's very simple, but it's exactly what she envisioned.

Disclaimer: I work on the vibe code tool she built this with.

[0]https://toddler-matching-game.magicloops.app
Whenever I write a regex, I end up with a comments roughly ten times longer than the regex. That being said, regular expressions are often the right tool for the job (i.e. parsing a regular language, as opposed to a context-free language or whatever), just the syntax becomes unreadable rather quickly. I’m sure you could build a nicer regular-expression syntax in Haskell.
You actually talked about a point that I think most people forget. One thing is Japan or Korea being super good in tech.

Another thing is when you basically have 10 Japan or 20 South Korea, which is what China is with the 1bi population.

Which means not that they will have a lot of consumers, but way more competitive companies in general (if they continue growing as is).
I have a pretty similar automation, but I also make my screen turn to grayscale from sunset to sunrise.
I can't use my github username either.

Edit: not even torvalds works.
"Gee, it seems that people in my profession are in danger of being replaced by AI. I wonder if there's anything I can do to help speed up that process..."
> The EU should do what does best: make things boring

Exactly, the absolute best thing the EU could do right now is project stability
I love what you’re doing with duskos! have been watching for a while.
“We can change it so we and many other life forms can't live here any more but it will still be a planet and there will most likely still be some form of life here for millions of years to come.“

When people talk of destroying the planet, they do not mean obliterating its mass in a Death Star-like way. They’re just talking about destroying its ability to sustain life, and it seems clear we have the potential to trigger that change. It’s a small planet, and even if we had no knowledge of it, looking around in the universe suggests its ecosystems and atmosphere are fragile and can’t be taken for granted.
No. In rural areas dollar stores are the cheapest around. I guess you are not familiar with small town prices. In urban areas dollar stores are more expensive than Walmarts--but there is something to be said for getting in and out of a store in 5 minutes vs 20 minutes in a supercenter. But a Dollar General is still going to be cheaper than Walgreens.
BRICs were making plans to introduce their own reserve currency as an alternative to the USD. Trump once threatened 100% tariffs if they did.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/aggressive-tariffs-f...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/trump-threatens-100-...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-02/south-afr...

These developments are going to be interesting.
Head of groq said that in his experience at google training was less than 10% of compute.
Who cares if it's right? Shortcuts always work out in the long run.
I’ll admit to having engaged in some of those activities if pressed.
Oh no, not my Apple!

The hike will not be 10% on consumers. In most cases the seller will eat a good chunk of the cost otherwise it won't sell.
I'm thorn between GPD P4 and a Macbook Air for a travel laptop. How good is its battery life?
FWIW lenses are lovely in Typescript with monocle-ts, and extremely useful when - speaking of functional ideas hitting the mainstream! - writing Redux reducers to provide updates for immutable data.
You mean your soul is untainted by the crushing grind of gambling addiction where the jackpot is just around the corner? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahlmVEShsek
It's amazing what you find in buildings old enough to have seen all generations of electrical standards.

The oldest part of my sister-in-law's place dates to the 1790's (I know: in America 100 years is a long time; in England 100 miles is a long way) and it has receptacles that are a never-standardized bastard union of NEMA 1-15 and 2-15, which means you can't be quite certain if you've got an ungrounded hot and a neutral for 120v or two hots for 240v. God only knows why they were ever manufactured. I've never looked at their panel, but I assume it's a horror show.

I've seen live cloth-insulated wire in older homes I've lived in, and found a mystery fuse box in a triple-decker in Boston. As far as I know, I've never lived anywhere with live knob and tube, but I've definitely had it abandoned-in-place.

My all-time favorite was the house I had with a five-gang box populated with switches. I don't need to add that the multi-location circuit wired through that box was wired wrong.
You are neglecting to explain why your assignments themselves cannot be done with AI.

Also, this kind of fatuous response leaves out the skill building required - how do students acquire the skill of criticism or analysis? They're doing all of the easier work with ChatGPT until suddenly it doesn't work and they're standing on ... nothing ... unable to do anything.

That's the insidious effect of LLMs in education: as I read here recently "simultaneously raising the bar for the skill required at the entry level and lowering the amount of learning that occurs in the preparation phase (e.g., college)".
>Berrios had been granted the ability to work while her asylum case is pending.

So ICE broke the law it seems, what a surprise /s

I wish the Judges were brave enough to haul the people running ICE into Court. But this country is filled with cowards now.
probably a lot of "algorithmic" downvoters
Related ongoing thread:

The Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43631381 - April 2025 (217 comments)
Ya'all are very strict in your definitions then. My definition is "does it feel laggy" or "do I have to walk away and come back when this thing is done".

Basically like 24 FPS or higher is real-time. Even that'd be laggy for a game but not unplayable. I choose this specifically because that's what movies typically use and they're very watchable.
Can’t or can?
Kind of surprising its not on Project Gutenberg as far as I can tell, but maybe it's obscure enough that they just haven't gotten around to that one?
Particularly when they ignore the largest data set we already have - the state pensions.

They are a basic income within a fixed exchange rate area by age rather than location. There are trillions of data points across decades of provision. With compulsory retirement and changes removing compulsory retirement.

The results are clear. People tend to stop working once they receive it, even if they have the option to continue.

An inconvenient truth.

And the result is that the age the pension becomes available has to be pushed higher to sustain it. Therefore the alternative time uses are insufficiently productive to be of help overall.

If it was a viable proposition there should be a virtuous cascade driving the pension age down, not up.
"It is unclear if Huang spoke directly to Trump during the Friday event" - it doesn't matter. It's obvious to everybody what those dinners are for.

Just wait when he starts doing 'tariffs exceptions' on a per company basis. It's coming as soon as next week.
I can't tell from that, was the photographer generally the painter? Or was the painter at least present when the photograph was taken?
> When rich people get large amounts of money they don’t hoard it like they did in Roman times.

> The idea that the pile of wealth is simply hoarded to be slept on is out of date

I don't see what you're arguing against. If they did that, what would the problem be?
Thanks! Though I imagine in most cases the regular expression itself would be a fixed part of the codebase and not given as input.
I think something like this is obviously the future. I'm looking forward to writing into some UI "schedule a dental cleaning appointment ASAP any nearby clinic" for it to just work.
Not many companies have the margins to shrug off 10%, and if there isn’t a cheap domestic alternative everyone in the market will be raising prices.

Take coffee, tea, or chocolate: Americans buy a ton of those, there’s almost no domestic production, and most of the market lives on tight margins. Trump’s tax hike means that the average consumer’s choices devolve to paying more or buying less.
This is correct. Those 30M assertions were basically entered by hand.
I don't think that anyone could have predicted one year ago where Elon Musk would be today.

I think the same is true of next year.

That man is full of surprises.
Are you really doubting that countries wouldn't negotiate? Seriously?

Multiple countries offered no tariffs, like Israel and Vietnam I think? EU offered 0/0 for cars/industrial. SK president said they will negotiate.

> Was it worth it?

Time will tell.
Learning from others doesn’t mean you are not learning.
I'm not saying that our ancestors were wrong. Hell, I live in a house that was originally built under similar conditions.

That being said, buildings collapse a lot less frequently these days. House fires happen at a lower rate. Insulation was either nonexistent or present in much lower quantities.

I guess the point I'm making is that the lesson here shouldn't be "we used to make our houses, why don't we go back to that?" It also shouldn't be "we should leave every task to a specialist."

Know how to maintain and fix the things around your house that are broken. You don't need a plumber to replace the flush valve on your toilet. But maybe don't try to replace a load-bearing joist in your house unless you know what you're doing? The people building their own homes weren't engineers, but they had a lot more carpentry experience than (I assume) you and I.
> But I view parser combinators in the same lens as lenses

Hmm, anything else you have in that list I should be looking into? As I also agree they are two of the most interesting things I got from learning Haskell. (Along with type driven reasoning, monoids and functors).
I never understood this. Just don't ever unplug a device. That's why BS1363 sockets come with switches.
Is there any data about how many people die in electricity related accidents? 230 V sounds like a dangerous voltage to touch. On the other hand I read a long time ago 120 V causes way more home fires because of higher currents.
I used to live in the UK (also lived in the US and Europe), and I HATE the UK plugs. They are too large and too complex (fuse in every plug, this silly shutter, etc).

European plugs (especially German style) are far superior, and European two pin plugs never fall off sockets. That is only a problem with US plugs.
I'm looking forward to the next installment on this subject from Anthropic, namely "How University Teachers Use Claude".

How many teachers are offloading their teaching duties onto LLMs? Are they reading essays and annotating them by hand? If everything is submitted electronically, why not just dump 30 or 50 papers into a LLM queue for analysis, suggested comments for improvement, etc. while the instructor gets back to the research they care about? Is this 'cheating' too?

Then there's the use of LLMs to generate problem sets, test those problem sets for accuracy, come up with interesting essay questions and so on.

I think the only real solution will be to go back to in-person instruction with handwritten problem-solving and essay-writing in class with no electronic devices allowed. This is much more demanding of both the teachers and the students, but if the goal is quality educational programs, then that's what it will take.