skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the difficulties are, how close do spaces need to be to be considered connected? Rivers aren't only perfectly vertical. And to what degree do they need to maintain the same angle across consecutive lines? How much can they wiggle? And a river is still visible across 10 lines even if one line in the middle doesn't have the space, so it needs to be able to handle breaks in contiguity.

There's no problem with paragraph-level optimizations inherently. Reducing raggedness is paragraph-level and that's comparatively easy. The problem is the metric in the first place.
Depends on what you consider vaguely useful, but any modern GPU which can fit the weights at a reasonable quantization (so, 16+ GB, maybe 12 in a pinch) will probably be tolerable. Bare minimum is probably ~3060 12GB.
I understood that 1/2 converts to 2-Jan (or 1-Feb depending on settings).

That is desired behaviour. If you want the string 1/2 you need to use an apostrophe. If you want the fraction one half you need to use an equals sign. Both of these are vastly less likely to be what a user wants than the date interpretation, so it makes sense for that to be the default.
I recall a time when we managed network flows by manually parsing /proc/net/tcp and correlating PIDs with netstat outputs. eBPF? Sounds like a fancy way to avoid good old-fashioned elbow grease.
Definitely not a neuroscientist but I have wondered in the past if human's exceptional eyesight/visual processing (compared to the rest of the animal world) factors into this intelligence - many birds also have extremely good eyesight. It would seemingly require a lot of raw processing "power" to see very well.
That said, building code changes over time, and even if Wright's original design met building code at the time it was designed, it likely doesn't meet current building regulations. I.e. it would be illegal to build exactly to the original design, or at least if you did it would be illegal to use the building.
wikipedia doesn't say much about it.

I wonder about a few things.

Is it safe? I'm pretty sure everyone not carrying cash is very good for physical safety, but can someone be coerced into emptying their bank account at knifepoint?

Are there scams? Can stolen money be retrieved?
The article implicates high-fructose corn syrup as the enemy. Which is partially true. But table sugar is also 50% fructose. And fruit, juice, honey and "natural" sweeteners are higher. If we're going to try for low fructose (and all the medical evidence say we definitely should), cutting out HFCS is a good start but not sufficient.

From the FDA: https://www.fda.gov/food/food-additives-petitions/high-fruct...

"We are not aware of any evidence ... that there is a difference in safety between foods containing HFCS 42 or HFCS 55 and foods containing similar amounts of other nutritive sweeteners with approximately equal glucose and fructose content, such as sucrose, honey, or other traditional sweeteners."

A better rule of thumb might be "avoid sugar entirely". Like alcohol, the more we learn about it, the more we learn that it's a unambiguous poison at moderate-to-high doses. But fructose being ubiquitous and hidden in food form makes it an even greater danger to public health. In fact, the metabolism of both alcohol and fructose involve similar pathways in the liver. Fructose has been called "Alcohol without the buzz". In 20 years, we'll look at serving a glass of soda or juice to a child like serving them a glass of whiskey.
learning to operate a lathe for alot of the low-precision work that goes on for mass market production is really pretty easy. but those job are _never_ coming back, anywhere except places that lack sufficient capital or prototyping/research environments. you can program a swiss machine to take in stock from behind the head and dump completely finished parts in a tray at the bottom. depending on parts complexity you can easily vomit out 1000s of parts per hour with a single unskilled operator dumping out trays and loading new stock across several machines.
China intends to crush the trade war
ChatGPT manages to be even worse than Google, and let me tell you: that's a low bar
Are there any reasons we can't have both KYC and privacy/security ?
> Let’s be real: improving load times doesn’t directly impact the bottom line

Yes, it does!

I was agreeing with the article until this point, which is simply false.

When the GTA bug made headlines, several articles about it estimated that it cost about a billion dollars in lost revenue because players got fed up waiting and switched to a different game.

This, right here, is the real tragedy: Performance is a feature — but practically nobody recognises it as such.

Apple does.

Remind me, what are they worth again? How many trillion dollars?

Would they be worth that much if the iPhone just froze for seconds at a time, randomly, all the time? Or took ten seconds to unlock? Or any number of similar issues that aren’t “features” in the minds of incompetent management, but was a key requirement enforced by Steve Jobs?

No, they wouldn’t.
I doubt it. The human mind is a probabilistic computer, at every level. There’s no set definition for what a chair is. It’s fuzzy. Some things are obviously in the category, and some are at the periphery of it. (Eg is a stool a chair? Is a log next to a campfire a chair? How about a tree stump in the woods? Etc). This kind of fuzzy reasoning is the rule, not the exception when it comes to human intuition.

There’s no way to use “rules and facts” to express concepts like “chair” or “grass”, or “face” or “justice” or really anything. Any project trying to use deterministic symbolic logic to represent the world fundamentally misunderstands cognition.
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command"

Of course we'd rebel at simply being told to do something. So instead it's just labeling everything inconvenient as "the left". There's certainly some of that groupthink dynamic in the blue tribe, but nowhere near as institutionalized.
>All you need is a little bit of investment and will.

We’re cooked then. To give you some perspective I had some Chinese sales reps visiting my shop, they saw us working on some designs and casually asked about working hours i told them about 40hs/wk they laughed and said “in China engineers work 12hs a day 7 days a week”.
Ha! I read right past that - and in your quote, too - with my brain filling in the expected "bathroom" instead of what's written. Few publications - and probably few primarily for the web - get New Yorker-level copy-editor attention.
It works, but I cant see the last line of the clue.
…how is it possible to work for a political entity without discussing politics at work?
Show HN: CI-Hush
Tiny scripts for quieter GitLab CI
It's all about the UI/UX. Same as in Dropbox/rsync
If only the US had allies. But I guess it's hard to count on them when you're actively threading invasion!

A war with China won't be won with manufacturing. It'll be won by having allies.

If it actually comes to pass, you'll probably declined fighting the hot war, and opt for a cold one. But without allies it'll get real cold.
Right, here's the current rules: https://wsdot.wa.gov/business-wsdot/highway-signs/advertisin...

It's funny; there was a different hackernews thread just a couple days ago about banning all advertising, and billboards came up, and I posted about this.
Agree - I don't think giving correct feedback early does anything to hurt this, in fact I expect it encourages it. You still need to do the whole solution. But a little bookkeeping and correct feedback when you've got the pieces outside-in would be greatly appreciated.
I dunno I actually think say Claude AI SOUNDS smarter than it is, right now

It has a phenomenal recall. I just asked it about "SmartOS", something I knew about, vaguely, in ~2012, and it gave me a pretty darn good answer. On that particular subject, I think it probably gave a better answer than anyone I could e-mail, call, or text right now

It was significantly more informative than wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmartOS

But I still find it easy to stump it and get it to hallucinate, which makes it seem dumb

It is like a person with good manners, and a lot of memory, and which is quite good at comparisons (although you have to verify, which is usually fine)

But I would not say it is "smart" at coming up with new ideas or anything

I do think a key point is that a "text calculator" is doing a lot of work ... i.e. summarization and comparison are extremely useful things. They can accelerate thinking
It will never stop being funny to me that these assholes self-righteously told government to step out of the way so that they (and by extension the rest of the Silicon Valley investor class) could show how they could build their way out of all of our social, economic, and political problems.

They even end this self-righteous screed with "There is only one way to honor their legacy and to create the future we want for our own children and grandchildren, and that’s to build."

This all sounds nice, if completely empty of all substance. And then what do these rich jerkwads actually build? AI Avatars! You can't make this up! They talk big about building tens more nuclear power plants and a replacement for the VA and the capacity for Harvard to teach a million students at a time. But when push comes to shove they are only capable of trying to make some easy money with more AI bullshit no one actually needs.

https://a16z.com/its-time-to-build/
ok. you should tell them.
> Most of that is false

What is false specifically? The fact that an immigration judge determined Garcia was deportable does not contradict the fact that the same order was withheld later on, much as you try to imply it.

>> the Trump administration admitted they made a mistake in deporting him.

> Incorrect.

Actually you are incorrect, quoting from [0]: "the Government conceded during the district court hearing, “The facts -- we concede the facts. This person should -- the plaintiff, Abrego Garcia, should not have been removed. That is not in dispute.”"

[0] https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25881148/ca4-ag.pdf
AI-generated art just keeps getting better. This looks like a losing battle.
Only if the entire text has to be optimized as a whole? Which, most dynamic text sites do not have to do this. Most dynamic sites will be a series of individual "card" like things that could be justified internally, but are not justified with regard to anything else on the page.
Excel is not designed to waste the time of frequent, experienced users while hand-holding casual users. It's designed to make power users very fast and accurate while possibly confusing casual and new users.
What makes urbanism bad?
No layoffs? The rapacious capitalist billionaire overlords do not like this. In this neoclassical economy, the worker must be miserable at all costs.
I won't include Messenger and Instagram as they are from meta so Telegram, Google Chat, TikTok, Snapchat and many more.
I go out of my way to avoid any LLM generated thing, ESPECIALLY in search results, whether for coding, product research or news. The world is drowning in misinformation and misdirection, I don't need any additional hallucinations.
Holy hell I need to ask for a raise.
I definitely gave in to internet pressure, yeah :))
Thanks for the kind words, really appreciate it
The life that produced oxygen wasn't using technology to create that change at accelerated rates. Also each time that has happened, it destabilized the ecosystem and led to mass extinctions.
Presumably it has the same simple safeguards that a US system like Zelle or Venmo have. I needed to pay my sister-in-law $1300 the other day, and forgot that I have a $500/day transaction limit in place for such transfers, at my own choosing (setup when I opened the account).
I mean solar is basically worthless at any large scale if we get fission actually working. The fission dream will only die if we get to the point where solar/wind/etc and grid storage have gotten so cheap no one can make any money selling electricity.
You can have all the allies in the world but if none of you have weapons and the means to make them you won't win.
Never thought about it this way, but I guess you’re right :D
what system protects you from being coerced at knife point?
Nope to a dilettante without experience in this domain. You’re like a plaintiff on the Peoples Court trying to quote Black’s Law to a judge. I’ve been exposed to the domain-specific terminology for technical documentation for three decades. No one in the enterprise software industry refers to feature requirements as product documentation.

Tuning you out now.
Is it weird I thought about this other sort of adjacent iconic photo:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fb/Blown_Away_Gu...
> Imagine if they were aware of their mortality and short relative lifespans...

Having had dogs live with other dogs growing old and passing away, I think this might be a lower threshold than understanding (a subset of) human language. Surely even without humans, a pack of social animals has individuals getting sick and growing old, and that changes how they interact with each other. Elephants are known to keep visiting bones of relatives over multiple years.

I'm personally more surprised at how well my 12-year old mutt picks up new routines, and the words that are said at the start of the routine, than at the thought that she would know that everyone's getting older and will die at some point. I'm anecdotally actually quite convinced she used to live with older people before -- she comes to "take care of me" every time I cough or sneeze.
I find it hard to find someone who can get through a technical degree program who isn’t about as intelligent as everyone else who got through that program. I find that most people who I have worked with, especially junior people, lack the motivation. There is only one person who simply couldn’t do it and she constantly needed help with everything and didn’t ever seem to learn no matter how much you tried to teach her. Everyone else just seemed like they weren’t actually that interested or maybe they were but had some personal issue standing between them and their motivation.

They say they want someone who has long distance potential. But I doubt that will include being actually super intelligent as opposed to meshing with their culture well.
I mean, this is about as useful as saying anti-slavery people should become slave owners so they understand the hardships of making money.

My example is extreme to the absurd, so how about we go with

>It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on not understanding it.
No it didn't.

The only thing saving the Irish government from bankruptcy is special (illegal according to EU law) Irish tax deals with MAG7 companies. Facebook. AWS. Microsoft. Oracle. Google. Salesforce.

Ireland was forced to renegotiate those tax deals after the action taken against the "double dutch sandwich" ... and it looks like they decided to just cut out the Netherlands.

Why does that matter? Ireland has veto power over what the EU does, and has already used it to prevent taxation of the internet giants. The EU cannot put serious effort in this, because that veto would just be used again.
I thought zelle was riddled with fraud?
Exactly this.

I'm desperately looking for a new job. I hate my current job, the constant stress is taking a real toll, and I'm more tired than I've been ever before.

I'm quite literally applying to all sorts of developer jobs that I'm well overqualified for, in any honest assessment, for a lot less than I make now. These roles are far from "premium" gigs. I've no diva expectations or hope at this point.

The only places I even get rejection emails from are places I've had a referral.

Things are bleak.

I'm in a similar place wrt job "security."

Current gig will end soon, one way or another, and the future doesn't look great.
To be fair, you asked someone with a zero experience to contact you solely due to MIT pedigree. You also didn't ask `parent` to contact you.
Good context. But mistakes happen but the response seems widely out of proportion.

A system that demands absolute perfection from me is still not one I’d want to encounter.
SO2 and NOx produces acid rain
I'm the same, for the most part. I worked at a small dev shop with two coworkers. One liked to put on classical music, and the other would often play whatever the hell kind of music Pat Metheny is, and while the richness of those particular genres appeared to _stimulate_ their ability to code heads-down, it rendered me pretty much useless. My attention would glom onto the scales and arpeggios of Vivaldi's Four Seasons or onto the weird proggy time signatures of the other stuff.

However, I have had much success with black metal bands that shriek (or whatever) in a foreign language. The fullness of the sound - blast beats, distorted guitars - just really does it for me for some reason. And I don't get distracted by the vocals because I don't understand e.g. Finnish (and with bands like Horna, it's probably better that way). It makes finding that flow state much easier, and I suspect it may be working as a fidget spinner does: a certain base level of constant but predictable sensory input soothes whatever it is in my brain that gets me antsy when engaging in an activity that requires a lot of energy expenditure without proportional immediate feedback. But as soon as you up the complexity of the music past a certain point, it swings all the way the other way and makes willful concentration pretty much impossible.

Yep. It's ADHD and its weirdness with the rewards system, for sure.
But with modern hardware, running the dynamic programming solution to this optimization problem takes a trivial amount of cycles* compared to rendering your typical React webapp.

* for most webpages. Of course you can come up with giant ebooks or other lengthy content for which this will be more challenging.
Just on time: "Justice Dept. Disbands Cryptocurrency Enforcement Unit" - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/us/politics/doj-disbands-...
The Tangled History of the State Secrets Privilege
I know it’s against HN policy to comment on the layout of a web site, but this is just getting stupid: on a phone there is just a one-line strip visible in between the overlays!

I’m flagging this one because nobody has time for this silliness. Please link to a reputable source that isn’t monetised to death.
Very interesting. I didn't know that!
I would strongly shy away from hiring anyone who took part in the DOGE effort for a number of reasons, but primarily because the tech team involved seems so ham-handed and amateurish.

However, I would be willing to bet there are plenty of potential employers that wouldn't, or would even consider it a positive. Unless things turn much uglier, I suspect having that on your resume would simply affect which set of companies would be willing to hire you, not whether or not you're hireable.
If someone bothered to make deep, innovative games with cell-shaded anime waifus without gambling, they'd likely switch. This is more likely a market problem of US game companies not supplying sufficient CSAWs (acronym feels unfortunate but somehow appropriate).
I... uh, wouldn't consider a text dump of a full novel getting completely typeset as a good example to consider when talking about sites?
The parent posters discuss a menu option to turn off this automatic date parsing.
The LLM passes the HTML back in their response, translated, so it can be rendered to the user as-is. The tool description is self-explanatory: https://github.com/TuanKiri/weather-mcp-server/blob/master/i...

You could have it respond with JSON, but then the rendering of the weather widget would have to be defined by the consumer instead of the tool server -- now the 'chat' part of your system needs to be aware of all possible content types, how to detect and render them; it's also doable but a different set of trade-offs.
Pix sounds great for most people and probably a good replacement for government issued paper notes and metal coins. But, the crypto purists like crypto that is not controlled by the government or the banks. Pix would obviously fail at attracting those crypto fans.
> when you do something a private company doesn't like?

Well, it's completely different, because ostensibly I can switch to another private company. Is there an option, ever, for me to just change which government I subscribe to?

> If the government says you're a terrorist, you're not accessing any banking.

In the US this can only be true for foreign citizens. Broad classes of assets and liquidity are well protected for US citizens unless you end up in the unusual situation where they sue the money itself. If you have cash in your hand nothing can stop you from spending it.

Thank you for introducing political relativism into this conversation, although, I'm not sure it's advanced anything in particular.
Yes but it's a pain.
For me at least, the 10M context window is a big deal and as long as it's decent, I'm going to use it instead. I'm running Scout locally and my chat history can get very long. I'm very frustrated when the context window runs out. I haven't been able to fully test the context length but at least that one isn't fudged.
That keyboard is seriously bad. If you start pressing the next letter before you release the previous letter, you get neither!
Why disengage your brain and trust AI when searching?
Writing a personal check? Stolen cellphone?

Cryptocurrencies are full of scams because you can't put the money back, and some are anonymous.
Holy shit. X210 with an Intel 7 Ultra 165H in it? Damn. I'm sold.

Anyone got one of these already or are they still in pre-production?
> Which people got the COVID vaccine first?

U.K. and Sweden followed closely by Germany?
I hope they are enjoying the drop in the oil price from $71 when trump did his Apr 2nd announcement to $57 now.
One thing intelligence seems to require is a lot of energy to drive it. You have to get that energy from somewhere. Humans probably get it by cooking food. Normally animals have to use a lot of energy to break down the food, humans solved that by using an external energy source to break it down before eating it.

Birds need a lot of energy for flying. They don't cook. They solved the energy problem by developing the most efficient mitochondria on the planet. They pay a fairly high price for that in terms of infant mortality, but I guess the ability to fly is worth it. It means when they aren't flying, they have a lot of excess energy to power an highly intelligent brain. They could then use that brain to detect when their mate was screwing around, and decide if it was worth ditching them.

That's all guess work of course. I'm no expert, just belly button gazing really.