skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's less a challenge and more that there are people who are consumers/creators on TikTok and can limit their usage to under an hour a day without needing to use time restrictions. The question is what aspect of their personality/mindset/upbringing enables this relative to someone unable to inhibit their urge to compulsively use social media.
My opinion on this is that the damage has already been done. Successive administrations have already loaded up debt massively and participated in a Ponzi scheme with the Fed to pretend asset valuations in the US make sense. Sooner or later the chickens will come home to roost, and valuation multiples in the US will come to resemble those that have existed throughout history, and those which exist in all other parts of the world currently.

When this happens, there will be a big recession, and that is exactly the moment companies will start deploying AI in earnest to save money. This will create a downward spiral.

Yes, the Trump administration is incompetent. But, if you insist on blaming an administration, I would propose Obama and Biden as more reasonable culprits. It was Obama who presided over the massive Fed intervention into markets that enabled unbridled government spending increases. It was Biden who presided over the most problematic parts of the Covid response. Trump is just an idiot. Obama and Biden are actually bad guys.
Agreed - that's a huge indicator that they don't care about fixing the deficit. But they also don't want to be seen making it vastly worse.
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Thats nonsense. Their "recommendation" is based on supply and epidemiological trends, not actual need of the drug. If supply gets constrained, its up to the CDC and drug makers to make more, not to tell the population to limit uptake.

This is why I don't trust CDC guidelines, nor doctors who blindly parrot them without explanation or context.

Sure, check with "your doctor" about the vaccine. If they give you no good reason not to take it, then take it.
This sounds great! If I were learning something I would also use something like this.

I would double check every card at the start though, to make sure it didn't hallucinate anything that you then cram in your brain.
I experienced similar headaches, putting Coreboot on about 10 laptops. A few things to add:

* For laptops that require extensive disassembly, once you realize that one day you might have to recover a bad software-based flashing, requiring disassembly again, you might be willing to cut a hole in the laptop: https://www.neilvandyke.org/coreboot/#cutouts

* Something like an IBM/Lenovo Hardware Maintenance Manual is a big win. Lately I even label removed screws with the page or section number of the manual that described their removal. https://www.neilvandyke.org/coreboot/#intro

* The flaky in-circuit reading&writing of the flash chip with hardware probes ranges from frustrating to maddening, for software person me. For example, I had an "assembly line" for Coreboot-ing seven ThinkPad X200 units, but in-circuit reading and writing failed different ways, multiple times, with pretty much every unit. And I fried a rare-ish variant of the ThinkPad T60 motherboard (I guess when current took a path it really wasn't supposed to).

* Had I only needed to do one laptop, afterwards I'd think that was rough, but that it would go much smoother next time, once I knew what I was doing. Not so. I never knew what I was doing. I did about 10 laptops, and each one was a pain. Maybe an EE/CE would do it much better, with better technique, or better tools?

* I really like the idea of open source boot firmware (and I hate UEFI complexity and dodginess). Now, if I could just get Coreboot and a good TrackPoint keyboard on Purism/Framework/System76/etc....
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It’s far from perfect in newborns (containers take some time to understand, and in general infants have weak short-term memory). I also wonder how much effort goes into updating MCAT questions with new scientific developments, especially when there is limited clinical significance - an infant who struggles with object permanence likely has serious neurological/cognitive problems across the board.
This is super impressive, great job!

Side-comment of something this made me think of (again): tech builds too much for tech. I've lived in the Bay before, so I know why this happens. When you're there, everyone around you is in tech, your girlfriend is in tech, you go to parties and everyone invariably ends up talking about work, which is tech. Your frustrations are with tech tools and so are your peers', so you're constantly thinking about tech solutions applicable to tech's problems.

This seems very much marketed to SF people doing SF things ("Cursor, Gmail, Slack, even your terminal"). I wonder how much effort has gone into making this work with code editors or the terminal, even though I doubt this would a big use-case for this software if it ever became generally popular. I'd imagine the market here is much larger in education, journalism, film, accessibility, even government. Those are much more exciting demos.
The problem is that substantial number of people are actually shit employees who create no real value to companies or society. They may be able to pull off the bare minimum requirement to get the money they need, but it'll be like pulling teeth to get them to consistently show up and do their jobs to even a half-decent level.

What you need is a job that's largely self-evidently-verifying (can't be faked), doesn't really need to interface much with other humans (especially customers), and can be self-started/managed. For some homeless people, that job is picking up cans and bottles for recycling money, but it's hard to come up with more and better ones.
Depends how you define "agentic approach"? With something like smol agents + stagehand you can do pretty much anything while being provider agnostic.

https://github.com/browserbase/stagehand
You need to be networking, not applying. Why go to MIT if not for access to smart people to work with?
I was able to get ~80% one shots on Advent of Code with 4o up to about day 12 iirc.
While I see the positives of this, do we want a future with AI lawyers? AI judges? AI juries?
Who would be more biased, humans or bots? Bots can have their “memory” wiped so there is no bias for each case, but then lack that tribal knowledge that humans gain over years.

There’s a certain comfort in a super machine that approaches each case with a clean slate, free from past biases or emotional baggage…but there’s also something unsettling about a system that can’t truly grasp the human depth of justice the way we intuitively feel and interpret it.

Im not sure exactly what my point is here. The more I type the more I’m conflicted.
Is pretending you are going to do good work but you know you are incompetent also fraud? How about the company pretending it is a good place to work but they know it actually sucks to work there? Just throwing the word fraud around at things you don't like is meaningless.
Musk to his credit is pretty anti-tariff, and has touted a 0% tariff environment with Europe. It's Navarro and Lutnick that are the devil's whispering into his ear on this policy.
> increases in general income levels being soaked up by real estate holders

More than 200 million Americans own their home. They are your real estate holders. So what if they absorb some of these increases?

If your concern is housing for those who don't own a home yet then say that, and the solution to that isn't not doing basic income, but to relax the obsolete local zoning laws that require e.g. 1 acre per home in rural area or "nothing higher than 30ft" in suburban areas, basically flat out banning any density increases.
I use the built-in voice typing in Windows and am pretty happy with it. How would you say this compares (presuming most of your comparisons are mac-centric)
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Technically not, as MBR "legacy" boot just loads the first sector (MBR) of the selected boot device into memory and jumps to it, and BIOSes with Int13 Extensions (mid-90s!) already allowed accessing disks with up to 2^64 sectors.

There's also "MBR the partitioning scheme", which does have a limit of 2^32 sectors or 2TB, but that's not exactly the same as "MBR the boot method".
Yeah, and forget about giving skeleton code to students they should fill in; using an AI can quite frequently completely ace a typical undergraduate level assignment. I actually feel bad for people teaching programming courses, as the only real assessment one can now do is in-class testing without computers, but that is a strange way to test students’ ability to write and develop code to solve certain classes of problems…
This seems more like an advertisement for their podcast.

200K income or 1M in assets minus your primary residence to be in this conversation about SPV.
It tends to affect larger companies even more because their cash flow is heavily buffered by lines of credit on both sides, their vendors and clients. Their customers might pay them on net 30 or even net 90 but many costs - like salaries for the people to service those contracts - need to be paid on shorter time horizons.
They're probably 5 thousand dollars. I would never touch an Adobe link with a 10 foot pole .
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This type of contest style recruiting just seems like a way to trick people into writing code for free, and even if you do win the prize money seems laughably small for what they're asking to receive.
I for sure agree with your sentiments. I added the correction because I thought the acid rain reduction program worked and was a good example of how regulation can work, but after looking it up again I found that the pH of rain didn't increase even though so2 emissions of power plants were significantly reduced.
Trump 1 increased the debt more than Biden, and Trump 1 wasn't even mitigating a train wreck of COVID inaction left over from his predecessor.
> that is exactly the moment companies will start deploying AI in earnest to save money.

Companies are already deploying AI everywhere they possibly can as quickly as they possibly can. They aren't waiting for anything. AI just isn't up to the task of replacing most workers just yet. It's still unclear if it ever will be, but they're shoving AI into everything they can to see how it holds up, to see what it breaks, and to give it more data to work with so that it can hopefully be improved.
Touche. I'm just going to start querying both platforms at the same time to judge the quality of their responses. I only split it due to a recent query when ChatGPT appeared dumbfounded and cited only one source when it parallel, Grok cited fifteen webpages. Query as follows (and outside of this post's context):

- Has there ever been an instance quoted anywhere that said: "In this house we believe that: simplistic platitudes, trite tautologies, and semantically overloaded aphorisms are poor substitutes for respectful and rational discussions about complex issues."?
This ranks among those things that are obvious and yet we “study” them expecting a different outcome.

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We have already been through some generations of this rediscovery an I've worked at places where graphql type importing, protobuf stub generation etc. all worked in just the same way. There's a post elsewhere on HN today about how awesome it is to put your logic _in the database_ which I remember at least two generations of, in the document DB era as well as the relational era.

If there's one thing I've observed about developers in general, it's that they'd rather build than learn.
What is it with people about the false ethics and recommendation around efficacy this and some bs calculus. The downsides are miniscule, the upsides are reduced cancers across the board.

I just had a doctor offer the HPV vaccine for my daughter as optional, 1, I thought we had already gotten it (my bad) because we ask for all the vaccines and 2, anal, throat and neck cancer. There are many scenarios where HPV could be contracted that aren't voluntary. But preventing HPV is.
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It is that bad, and, if you're working from instructions made by someone who offers a mail-in Coreboot installation service and preinstalled laptop sales... It's a little funny that their once pretty straightforward public instructions somehow got much harder to follow, over time. :)
At least for jazelle, R0-R3 were an alias for top of stack, which removed a lot of memory accesses for the stack nature of the ISA.
I feel like the best move for Apple would be to double down on GPTK and just make most Windows games work by default, à la Proton. It's going to be difficult to tempt developers to the platform otherwise: the audience is too limited.
Man, cynical much? I feel like OP has been honestly trying to engage with you here, and the only thing you’ve been is snippy and abrasive.
It's interesting to think about the way in which the Chinese government operates compared to the government of other countries like the US. The US government was conceived as merely a public utility to fund public works; there was no single ideological basis beyond that. Freedom isn't a "single" ideology because it encapsulates all possible ideologies. The ideology rested with the people themselves to implement on an individual basis. The CCP, on the other hand, was conceived as an ideological movement with specific goals.

Now that the Chinese economy has become so important in the world, the ideological aspects are seeping into the economies of all countries, though it doesn't translate well into western politics. I think this is because the western political system was a limited-trust system, it only worked well when the state was anemic; if the state becomes big (cash-rich), companies will find that they can start to earn significant sums of money from the state, they will redirect their attention to catering to the needs of the state and away from the private sector. Unfortunately the western state has no intrinsic ideology, no intrinsic needs or goals, so it will lead to corruption or faux-adoption of external ideologies (as a means to serve private financial interests).

Western governments cannot form genuine ideological movements (besides the ideology of economic pragmatism) IMO because their foundations aren't designed to support anything besides that. They are founded on the principles of individualism and limited state power.
I'm an artist, not a programmer. I'm not gonna be trying to use AI to code anything. I don't see any hypocrisy here.

I do however greatly enjoy pointing and laughing when I see programmers expressing unhappiness with the prospect of their life shifting from "actually programming" to "endless review of AI slopcode". Does that sound like fun? Is that related in any way to the joy of creation that made you decide to be a programmer? Probably not! But you'll be so productive! You'll be able to work four times harder in the same time, for the same pay! Or less, since obviously the real work is being done by the AI now. Does that possibility make you feel unhappy and sad? Good. Now you know how I feel.

Open-source AI isn't gonna do shit to keep from devaluing my craft. It'll just make it worse. I am no fan of the Mouse but if I can get them to fight all these motherfuckers with a ton of VC investment who want to eliminate every creative job and leave me with no way to scrape out a living then I'm cheering for Disney.
While I'm not opposed to studies like this, we won't ever really know the impact until a country creates a permanent UBI for realsies (even then, it'll probably be a while until the true impact is known).

Being in a temporary study is simply not the same thing as feeling that you could just never have a career ever and still be financially okay.

This may sound like I'm opposed to a UBI, but actually I think getting one eventually would be rad. I just don't think we can easily extrapolate out from a study like this.
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I’m experimenting with a novel approach that integrates symbolic logic directly into a transformer’s attention mechanism. By using a custom spaCy-based logic parser, I generate a “logic mask” that guides the self-attention layers to focus on logical constructs. In preliminary tests with a fine-tuned LLaMA 3 8B model, this method has shown promising improvements on symbolic reasoning tasks (e.g., achieving around 62% on the FOLIO dataset). I’m eager to hear thoughts and suggestions from the community on further refining this approach. Also please note I don’t have a PhD nor masters in machine learning. Happy to take any criticism good or bad. :)

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okay give me the link to a LLM-based system that does not hallucinate then
Why is he posting on indeed instead of just posting a sign in the window or just putting the word out if "everyone knows everyone"? Especially for a $10/hr restaurant job?
I created a two-factor authentication app that only provides login codes for social media sites during certain hours of a day.

If I want access to a site, I have to plan it carefully to log in within that window. Then if I find I'm misusing it it's easy to kick myself off.
If your goal is 'lower the rate at which you'll refinance a bit of debt by a quarter of a percentage point', blowing up your export economy, import and tourism industry, and introducing a national 40% sales tax seems like a really weird way to achieve it.

Given that all of those things would torpedo your ability to actually service debt, both new and old.

But what do I know? /s
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Meh. I traveled to Shanghai and Beijing last year. Enjoyed the trip quite a bit, will go again to see more of China, unless they close the border or cancel visas.
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Late reply... I think lack of education is part of it. The other part is that we are bombarded with content designed to keep us glued to the screen, and the best to do that is to feed us stuff we either agree with or that causes us to feel self-righteous indignation :)
The issue is timing. He needed to paydown debt before imposing tariffs which will lower bond demand raising interest rates. You can't inshore industries from everyone and rely foreign debt to prop up the dollar.
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What a bizarre and arcane incantation
I built this for kids in my family https://bhupal.net/alphabees

It is 95% written by Claude with Cursor free tier. The good part, 5 yrs old want more features like more levels, nice graphics, they basically want all their book in this style but I don't have resources to take this further.
"Gutsy Traders Make $1.5 Billion Triple-Leveraged Bet on Nasdaq 100" [0]

This was Monday morning when it was trading ~$40. It is at $53 now. What is 20% increase on $1.5 Billion? $300,000,000.

[0] https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/gutsy-traders-make-1...
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
I suggested this to a coworker at my job and he responded as if I had slapped a baby. I guess it is like telling a hammer company that a screwdriver may be the better tool in some use cases.
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I'm scraping by on less than that in an entire month so maybe the number I pulled out of my ass is a little low.

Bezos makes ~8mil an hour according to some quick Internet searches and that sure is way over the "giant bag of money pretending to be human" threshold IMHO. The idiot-in-chief is worth ~$5mil and he sure is way over that threshold too.
This makes a lot of sense, although I wouldn't give them the credit of being so coherent in their understanding/targeting of what they were doing.

In my opinion the reason it backfired, what they proposed wouldn't merely cause a confidence in crisis, but also implied a fundamental shift in the market and the way it worked, this would also have to be priced in, hence the drop. There was no longer necessarily a "buy the dip, the market will go up at some point".
I'd pay serious money to jump 30 years into the future just to read what historians will write about our current time.

Not for investment tips or anything practical - just to satisfy my curiosity about how this bizarre period will be analyzed and understood.
This is so awesome. Personalized software really is coming.
China got to where it is by taking loooots of inspiration from American tech. And it's not their fault US doesn't like the Chinese gov yet won't stop using their facilities to manufacture because they are cheaper..
Also curious how the agent works?
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At the very least any nation that depends on the US for goods should probably be looking to other sources where possible and increasing support for them since even if the US is useful for now, we're clearly unstable and incompetent which makes us unreliable and risky.
And that still ultimately proved slower than JIT and AOT sped up JIT.
I see lots of people claiming massive positive economic impacts of UBI, but whenever the results are released its always, saved money and is happier.

Like yeah fairly obvious conclusions.

Closest I have seen to the economic impact was a study done on a charity that makes a pseudo UBI in african villages, but thats skewed in a place that has no other monetary investment mechanism. Its probably true that UBI can be used instead of targeted industrial investment by government.
at least we all know what apache is, what it does and doesn't do, when it's running and how to start/stop/remove it :)

god knows what a microsoft webserver is doing.
As an Australian who has spent decades watching the trade and resources markets it was notable that Australia, NZ, UK, Canada, and much of the world started taking calls from China and meetings with ambassadors.

The Trump plan to "decouple from China" was verging on dividing the world into the US and everybody else .. a large reason behind the partial rollback.

Countries are now openly rejecting China's offer to join hands .. but still sitting on the possibility of further deals with China should the US tariff insanity continue.
You seem to enjoy stating subjective, debatable opinions as objective fact without any evidence while pairing them with juvenile insults.

It's very effective.
I mean, unless you think it's forced labor it's better than the alternative