skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has nothing to do with weirdness; Unix itself was plenty weird for its time. The relevant difference between Unix™ and Plan 9 is that Unix source code was given away (or cheaply licensed) to hardware companies which all wrote their own operating systems on top (SunOS, Ultrix, HP-UX, etc. etc.). This made Unix the common factor of very many commercial workstation environments. Plan 9? It was sold directly as a commercial product, for no hardware platform in particular. Nobody wanted to buy it.

People liked Unix because it was free – either really free, via BSD, or as a Unix derivative provided at no cost when people bought their workstations. A new revolutionary operating system had absolutely no reason for anybody to buy it: No commercial developers wanted to develop to a platform without users, and no users wanted a platform without software.

Plan 9 only changed their license many years later, when it was too late for anybody to care, and Unix had become the established standard.
The problem is, everybody does that, and it lowers the bar. From a societal perspective, we will have a set of people who are less prepared for their jobs, which will cost companies, and the economy at large, and so me and you. This will be a real problem for as long as AIs can't do the actual job but only the college easy version.

As a society, we should mandate universities to calculate the full score of a course based solely on oral or pen and paper exams, or computer exams only under strict supervision (eg share screen surveillance). Anything less is too easy to cheat.

And most crucially let go of this need to promote at least X% of the students: those who pass the bar should get the piece of paper that says they passed the bar, the others should not.

This is a serious problem.
Driving takes active attention while being on a train liberates your commute/travel hours. That's also a form of freedom.
iDevices and Android are not Unix like, there is hardly any way to do an usable application with POSIX APIs.

Same applies to cloud computing with language runtimes and serverless.

While it looks grim, there are some hopes for OS lovers.
Well it's got two S's-es so i want it to be double safe!
I feel like the barrier between conscious and unconscious thinking is pretty fuzzy, but that could be down to the individual.

I also think the difference between primitive brains and conscious, reasoning, high level brains could be more quantitative than qualitative. I certainly believe that all mammals (and more) have some sort of an internal conscious experience. And experiments have shown that all sorts of animals are capable of solving simple logical problems.

Also, related article from a couple of days ago: Intelligence Evolved at Least Twice in Vertebrate Animals
AI Soft Skills: The New Differentiator for Language Models
I build Awesome MCP Security on github and collecting there every useful informations, just added your article to https://github.com/Puliczek/awesome-mcp-security :)
How does that deal with the important fact that a lot of stories are about relationships changing over time? A enemy can become a friend and vice versa.
SRE here is "s-expression regular expression", which is an annoying-sounding expansion of the acronym.
Because you can’t have America and France at the same time!

You can’t have 300k salaries (you gotta cut it by 90% for taxes), small government, small regulations, limits on other public services that follow suit, low energy prices …

You can’t cherry pick. If you want fast trains from France, you need to become France.

At the end, public transport will be congested, captured by homeless, dirty, … There is no train from any A to any Z, you have take it from A, change to B, C, to Z. You will burn out in public transport, and drive a car. Not to mention US is a vast sparsely populated country, compared to EU that may have no choice but to rely on a mix of public and private transport.
I get your point, but also, so what? The point of this whistle-blowing is that the public gets to make informed decisions about these companies that provide us with services that much of us use daily, and that the government gets a chance to figure out whether this is the truth or not and take actions accordingly. It's not about who is guilty right now but what needs to be done to prevent this in the future, IMO.

And whatever she might be guilty of doing, the chances of her ever having the same access to sensitive information in any company has gone drastically down after coming forward with this information.
WordPress launched a AI website builder (About time, I guess)
Tested it.

One thing I found interesting is that you can export the site and use it locally. In your own WordPress installation.
Cool idea, but from my tests it seems like the LLM needs more grounding since it misses lots of characters. Maybe a list of the actual characters in the story?

I had the same problem with https://timelines.0xmmo.co where I had to ground it in Wikipedia articles.
I've been to Shanghai multiple times. Every time the border check was quick, efficient and uneventful. Unlike JFK where it's a 2h wait almost every time wiht 'random' extra security.
If someone unironically saying "works on my machine" [1] is the funniest comment your model can find on Github, you might need to send it back to clown college.

[1]: https://github.com/RadioAktywne/ra-app/pull/106#pullrequestr...
Or, well, LLM wouldn't do the homework anymore --- which was the sought-after outcome.
Somewhat tangential: this reminded me of Neal Stephenson's "In the Beginning was the Command Line" [1] which speaks highly of BeOS.

I liked the bug report "R4: BeOS missing megalomaniacal figurehead to harness and focus developer rage" (:

[1] https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs81n/command.txt
If kids don't go through the struggle of understanding arithmetic, higher math will be very very difficult. Just because you can use a calculator, doesn't mean that's the best way to learn. Likewise for using LLMs to program.
Some potential insider antics:

https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/1910167321878163815
Of course, when it was more expensive than MS-DOS 5/Windows 3.1 combo hardware requirements, what to expect.

In today's money, going with OS/2 instead would have cost me 1000 euros more when I bought my 386 PC.
> South Africa is unstable

Is it? They have some intra-government spats, but I hadn't heard that this threatened the stability of the whole country yet.

> which yes, brazil and India alone may hold up a stable reserve currency.

Also several other countries which joined the last year or are in the process of joining. I believe at some point, the official name was also changed to BRICS+
Hey I've seen you work before I didn't realize it was an outside effort, also second the remark about accesssibility I wish my government could foster a project like that one.
Well, if we trust you. But you had the extra dataset and no one else did.
"Ah so now we shouldn't give a shit about country let alone a democratic country being invaded."

After the US's abandonment of Ukraine, I'd say you are well past worrying about that.
— (Used to be their monthly pace). That’s 40 times more than DeepSeek, which saw just 1 million downloads.

Over the past three weeks, ChatGPT's momentum has surged, while interest in DeepSeek appears to have plateaued.

And No, Google's Gemini is NOT a close second.
US is the alpha consumer. If you can sell in the US, you won. You want to sell in the US. You get dollars for what you sell in the US and since everyone else also wants to sell in the US, you trade with everybody using dollars. Also, your government goes batshit crazy statistically more often than the US, so your currency risk is smaller if you're settling trade in dollars.
And the average EU country is quite a bit smaller than the average US state, along with the EU being more densely populated - public transit certainly has some artificial/political roadblocks in the US, but it’s also fundamentally more challenging and expensive here.
> Which she does because donations offset the taxes she owes.

How would that work? You can only write off the amount you actually donate. Paying 100% to save 40% (or whatever your tax rate is) seems very counterproductive if the goal is to actually save money.
I'm a paying customer and I signed onto Aqua Voice shortly after your demo on HN.

My experience with it has been overall positive but mixed. I enjoy using it for dictation, but I found that issuing editing commands and having them recognized/executed often took a lot longer than making an edit myself (which I can't do while in dictation mode).

But as a paying customer, seeing you go in this direction is somewhat sad/frustrating. You're abandoning the product I use, and you're saying that if I want to see my platform supported, I or someone from the community has to provide it- for a fully proprietary paid application.

I understand that I'm a minority user, but it's a bit disappointing to read this.
Wonder if Azolla is economical. Its a floating plant, uses its nitrogen fixing bacteria, doubles in mass every few days and is top vegetable source by essential amino acids.

https://theazollafoundation.org/azollas-uses/for-food/
The pop quizzes being part of the grade was the entire point of the comment you replied to. I guess you misread?
This is the Internet now, is not worth it, those times are over.
I agree. It was OP up the thread who brought up USSR artists funding as an example.

USSR and UBI is an interesting combination though. Being unemployed was illegal. And for common man it was very hard to get laid off. Just show up, even if intoxicated (and continue drinking at work), sleep at work (e.g. drive your tractor to the field and just park there) and you'll still get paid crappy salary as anybody else and roof over your head. I guess it was closest it was to real UBI. Yes, it was not exactly UBI, but it was still universal income where you get food & shelter regardless of your work performance.

Regarding UBI turning countries into USSR, I don't think UBI would turn countries into totalitarian regimes. But it may turn countries into similar inefficient slacking-off culture where vast majority of people do as little as possible in least involving way.

Sure, some of them may claim they're super productive and creative in their hobby adventures. But if thousands of programmers create awesome ToDo apps in their free time... Is that really productive from society perspective? Society needs a lot of bring stuff, not thousands of great ToDo apps...
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Doge's job cuts at US traffic safety regulator hit self-drive experts
Back in my day they worried about kids not being able to solve problems without a calculator, because you won't always have a calculator in your pocket.

...But then.
You can ask the Wallstreet Apes for a detailed explanation, but it's a combination of corrupted government real estate acquisition, development, a pinch of nepotism to change ownership, and a lot of money laundering.
In theory Congress can impeach him for it, but in practice there won’t be the votes to convict him. If there are ever, somehow, the votes to convict him, it’ll be for something worse.

After his term ends… I don’t know whether the law says that the insider trading exemption Congress has also applies to the Executive branch… but I’d fully expect the Supreme Court to say it does, if it got that far.
Counter-examples are not really their area, evidently.
Great time to buy ': How Trump's 'buy' tip on social media before tariffs pause
It is so so much market manipulation in plain sight, without consequence... such a shame.
The best is still to not have to commute. Work from Home when your job allows it should be the norm, not the exception.

No time lost commuting, no fuel / electricity used to move and roads are less congested for people who have to commute due to their jobs requiring their physical presence.
As distance grows cost really becomes prohibitive and flying also becomes faster.
A French team offered to build a high speed line in California based on their technology. After several years they gave up and built one in North Africa instead, since the government there was so much more functional.
US birthrate is 1.6, really bad, but by far less disasterous and permanent as China's 1.
> I live in Europe and I also ask "why can't we have that".

Which country are you in? Because the answer for "we" greatly depends on local environments and politics.

For Austria the answer for instance is "the alps" and urban sprawl. Trains stop everywhere and people want to keep this, there is just not enough distance to have high speed rails be effective and there is not enough space for dedicated lines. The answer is a very different one than for instance why Germany has so little.
An aside:

The visual design of this website is lovely. It contains no distractions, no sexy, elaborate web design. It's just the article and relevant images.

It's also a superb piece, so I decided to get a subscription to Humanities, in which it appears. This brought me to https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/, which is one of the fastest, snappiest mobile websites I've used in quite a while. Navigating it is a stark reminder of just how bad most websites are and how terrible their performance.

When I click on the three horizontal bars in the upper left, the menu appears immediately. There is no delay or animation. Likewise when I click through its three items. I wish this were standard web design, rather than animation-laden, visually diffuse "mobile friendly" patterns that are essentially allergic to informational density when it isn't offset by a generous helping of stock photography and god-awful allegria art.

Weather.gov, along these same lines, is one of my favorite websites.
Yes, considering it was ~2 years from freezing withdrawals to the approved bankruptcy plan to repay customers.

FTX was only able to repay customers because the value of BTC increased during that time. But customers were only repaid the value of their portfolio at the time of the collapse.

If I steal your money, invest it, then return the principal amount after 2 years, would you consider it financial harm?
In live in Ireland where there is hardly any rail, despite once having the densest network in Europe. Would love to see further state investment here as well. Ireland is small enough that it should be possible to be in Dublin from either Cork, Galway, or Limerick in an hour.
It'd up for the judge then to rule if a mere inconvenience like a loan really constitutes a necessity, and to be honest I doubt it ever will.
I think it's a pretty reasonable one, no? The "of" is not literal but I would struggle to translate better
For such reasons, I count non-disparagement agreements as a curtailing of free speech.

Everything that makes freedom of speech worth defending when the government wants your silence, also applies to businesses.

The US puts freedom of speech on a pedestal. But stuff like this makes me aware that's a lot more limited than people would like to believe.

(I've signed at least two non-disparagement agreements, but also I'm not in the US).
Oh, I love that it uses `org-mode` syntax. More apps should offer that.
You can't just repair your phone in the US to avoid Trump tariffs
Grandparent is correct. This is manually trained in, nothing fundamental changed since 2022. LLMs have no intrinsic way of knowing.

Source: I train LLMs and push their limits.
It would be great if there were photos of today for some of these old photos, especially for structures/places/scenery that still exists.
Even so, at least in France, only major cities have an OK-ish public transit network (when it actually runs). But if you live on the outskirts 'cause you can't afford an apartment in the center? You're SoL. You maybe get a couple buses around rush hour.

Hell, even in the Paris region, outside the closest suburbs, there are only a few train lines going into Paris. At best you'll need to ride a bus or two to grab one, but most often you'll take your car.
I have no anecdata to counter your thesis. I do agree that immersion in the doing of a thing is the best way to learn. I am not fully convinced that doing a lot of arithmetic hand calculation precludes learning the science of patterns that is mathematics. They should still be doing something mathematical but why not go right into using a calculator. I have no experience as an educator and I bet it's hard to get good data on this topic of debate. I could be very wrong.
I've had people do this to me (albeit in an attempt to be helpful, not snarky) and it felt so weird. The answers are something a copywriter would have thrown together in an hour. Generic, unhelpful drivel.
That's such an irresponsible take. If you don't know how to program, you can't even begin to judge the output of whatever model. You'll be the idiotic manager that tells the IT department to solve some problem, and it has to be done in two weeks. No idea if that's reasonable or feasible. And when you can't do that, you certainly can't design a larger system.

What's your next rant: know nead too learn two reed and right ennui moor? Because AI can do that for you? No need to think? "So, you turned 6 today? That over there is your place at the assembly line. Get to know it well, because you'll be there the rest of your life."

> For every class, teachers need to be asking themselves "is this class relevant" and "what are the learning goals in this class?

That's already how schools organize their curriculum.
Where is `getOrCreate` defined? Is it a custom extension method? There's also a chance we're thinking in different languages. I was writing C#, yours looks a bit more like C++ maybe?

Readability incorporates familiarity but also conciseness. I suppose it depends what else is going on in the codebase. I have a database access class in one of my solutions where `ToLookup` is used 15 times; yes you have to learn the concept, but it's an inbuilt method and it's a massive benefit once you grok it.
I would like to replay with another quote by another immortal(or long lived) character, Professor „Reg“ Chronotis from Douglas Adams:

"That I lived so much longer, just means, that I forgot much more, not that I know much more."

Memory might have a limited capacity, but of course, I doubt most humans use that capacity, or well, for useful things. I know I have plenty of useless knowledge ..
You can check https://github.com/bytechefhq/bytechef
I worked as a programmer for the D'Agents group at Dartmouth. The Tcl agent system was ported to Java and we did a variety of experiments with it, mostly centered around information retrieval. I built a Beowulf cluster which we populated with a distributed database of Usenet news. Agents could jump onto the cluster, do multistep queries, and then jump back with the condensed results. We did some work with the US Navy who had a problem with ship-to-shore networks; their network links to shore were T1 equivalents, which made it difficult to work interactively with large data sets for those on shore. We used agents to jump to the ships computer, do multistep queries and computations, and jump back to the shore with the results. This saved a lot of bandwidth. There were a few problems with agent systems. Letting untrusted code run on your server was a difficult security problem, though Java sandboxing helped. Also sending a trusted agent to run on a potentially compromised server was a difficult security problem, the agents might be carrying secrets. Another issue was that agents could use enormous resources, for example doing a database query for the word "the" would engage the entire cluster database. A single laptop sending an agent per second could overwhelm a computing cluster in minutes. We spent a fair amount of time implementing resource management, such as agent lifetime limits, but this was still an issue. What mostly ended the field of study at the time was probably that agents were a lot like computer worms, with difficult security issues, both for the agent and for the server. Also agents were somewhat uncontrollable, until you tried one you didn't know for sure what it might do, which made testing risky; agents could not only jump to and from the cluster, they could jump between machines on the cluster and fork themselves, so like a computer worm they could self-spread everywhere. Some later work seemed to find some solutions to those problems, but I don't know them in detail. Remote procedure calls were a possible alternative to agents, but didn't have as much versatility as sending your own custom code in an agent.
Why do the in-class testing without computers?

We use an airgapped lab (it has LAN and a local git server for submissions, no WAN) to give coding assessments. It works.
"No more doomscrolling. Your attention span needs you." —
i’ve been using TRMNL
(https://usetrmnl.com/) to fight screen time habits. simple eink display which you can connect to 100s of apps to showcase information, so you can actually uninstall certain apps from your phone.
It does double up as emergency mace if you happen to get into some medieval combat while at the office.
> EU country is quite a bit smaller than the average US state

You don't need to drive cross the whole state for your daily commute, do you?

> along with the EU being more densely populated

Reversing cause-and-effect, here. Suburban sprawl happens because of the car-centric development, not the other way around.
As someone already said, parents used to be concerned that kids wouldn't be able to solve maths problems without a calculator, and it's the same problem, but there's a difference between solving problems _with_ LLMs, and having LLMs solve it _for you_.

I don't see the former as that much of a problem.
They are referring to TGV M, the latest version of the TGV that is being released by Alstom.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGV_M
€6k/year is a crazy price for a car. For me insurance, tax, servicing and depreciation are about £1k/year. And also that's an extremely cheap train ticket. In the UK it would be 10x that easily.
A lot of discoveries come from someone applying their scientific knowledge to a curious thing happening in their hobby or private life. A lot of successful businesses apply software engineering to a specific business problem that is invisible to all other engineers.
Consider Barcelona or the smaller coastal cities on the Mediterranean.
Isomorphic Labs, the secretive AI startup spun off from Google DeepMind
Great that they add a Slop analysis. For example, Gemini uses "heart hammered ribs" a lot.
Marques Brownlee had a system put in and ran it for a year. It was ok but cost $120k which seems a bit steep. Summary section of vid: https://youtu.be/UJeSWbR6W04?t=1119
There's a lot kneeling right now.
I live in Toulouse as an Australian, it's great here!
Building a community for driving obsessive compulsive behaviours for people who cannot stick to a decison to; lose weight, do some more push-ups, do an extra 1000 steps per day.

Then share your failures, or even celebrations, to get support from other obsessive compulsive's, ultimately creating a community of people who become experts at shaming one and other.

Its new years resolutions on a daily basis that those non obsessive compulsive's are unable to maintain after January 2nd.

linked to your lovely health checker app to shame you some more and collect tons and tons of personal data

If you need an app to realise your goals then you are simply not ready, or more honestly cant be bothered, to apply yourself to that particular goal at that particular time.

Addictive obsessive compulsive apps, whatever next?

Go hangout with your friends, have some fun.