skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean Nike didn't work to lower the price, the demand for Jordans is just different and most people buying Jordans today also bought them in the 90s and are comfortable at $120. If Nike could move them at $300 they would. Jordans remain popular but the reasoning is partially their price points, they don't at all have the power they did in the 90s when every kid wanted "to be like Mike".
> If someone can show me exactly what I am thinking of, won't that be amazing.

I suppose it would be amazing if someone could read minds, but is that what you're asking for? In an earlier comment, you opened with:

> I am waiting for when I could provide these a scene snippet from "Hitchhiker's Guide To Galaxy" (or any book) and it could draw that for me.

This is asking for an illustrator, not showing you what you're thinking. The illustrator, even if it is a machine, will show you their interpretation.
I buy the claim that Hamas is an antisemitic organization. Their 1988 charter is quite explicitly antisemitic and although their more recent charter attempts to walk that back, it’s not clear how much sway the members who wrote it actually have within the organization or whether it was just written for Western consumption.

I already said that antisemitism is one reason one might not support Israel, so of course I don’t dispute that some anti-Israel organizations are indeed antisemitic.

But we’re not talking about Hamas; we’re talking about Colombia students. Is there any evidence that they openly supported Hamas? If not, why is it relevant?
Especially because it's not a skill everyone gets just because they practice. I know because I tried for years lol.
Shrug, programmers always have weird names for things https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ
Here's the most practical advice... The border agent isn't going to care unless you're actually planning some kind of terror attack.
Yeah this is why I don't travel in most of Europe
I did a little digging because I haven’t followed the news on this. Through a chain of links from the article is https://edworkforce.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?Docum... which is a report from the Committee on Education lead by Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) detailing anti-Semitic activity on university campuses.

It seemed to me a lot of the key findings were framed in a political way. I was hoping to see more specific damages that might justify these huge cancellations of grant funding. For example one key finding was “Northwestern put radical anti-Israel faculty in charge of negotiations with the encampment.” I admittedly don’t have time to read the full report but how is the labelling of faculty involved in the negotiation a clear case of discrimination for the violation of Title IV of the Civil Rights Act? Shouldn’t the key findings be more about the harms that were experienced by Jewish students?

It’s a shame this report is being used to justify suspension of research funding.
Americans really like to criticize America and have no idea how things are in other countries
Maybe I’m just clumsy but I did it multiple times as a kid. There were never enough sockets (I helped my dad install a bunch when that was still legal in the 80s and 90s) and sometimes you move an appliance from room to room, like a hoover.
If you work for startups, especially boot-strapped startups, there will always be cash-flow constraints sooner or later.

Personally it came about a year into my first job. Fortunately my wife was working, and we had minimal expenses, so we could ride it out.

In lieu of salary, the founders made me a partner. We sank or swam together. And when cash came in we paid ourselves.

Make no mistake, deciding to stay was a very risky strategy. But a few years later things took off, we got back-paid all that missing salary, and we've gotten stronger since.

I was lucky. I didn't need the immediate cash, and could take a risk. The most likely outcome was we went under. But the upside turned out to be very strong.
Super interesting! Rapid Storage especially, very useful, but that first line:

"Today's innovation isn't born in a lab or at a drafting board; it's built on the bedrock of AI infrastructure. "

Uhh..No. Even as an AI developer I can tell that is some AI Comms person tripping over.
Ugh. We should have caught that.

Can anyone suggest a better (i.e. more accurate and neutral) title, devoid of marketing tropes?
The examples are why I just read the books instead of having some entity read them to me.
I tried to come up with an optimistic response, but when you consider all the ways data can be exfiltrated: if you can send a bit, you can send a file.
> it's literally "let me paste the assignment into ChatGPT and see what it spits out, change a few words and submit that".

My wife is an accounting professor. For many years her battle was with students using Chegg and the like. They would submit roughly correct answers but because she would rotate the underlying numbers they would always be wrong in a provably cheating way. This made up 5-8% of her students.

Now she receives a parade of absolutely insane answers to questions from a much larger proportion of her students (she is working on some research around this but it's definitely more than 30%). When she asks students to recreate how they got to these pretty wild answers they never have any ability to articulate what happened. They are simply throwing her questions at LLMs and submitting the output. It's not great.
Maybe true, but BS 1363 dates to the late 40s and the Schuko illustration below is from the early 30s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SCHUKO-Patent.svg

Rather, I think the British decided to iterate (for better and for worse) on their earlier design that looks a lot like BS 1363.

Personally, having lived for an extensive amount of time in places with Schuko ("Europe"), NEMA ("US"), and BS 1363 ("British") plugs/sockets, I will take Schuko any day over the other two. Schuko stays in place, is grounded when it needs to be, is flexible when it comes to how it leads the cord out of the plug/socket, and so on. For all the touting of safety, "no sparks", etc. that we hear about BS 1363, I have never seen it out of a Schuko (NEMAs on the other hand...). Yes, BS 1363 improves upon NEMA, but that is a very low bar.
> That is exactly how our ancestors built houses. Also a traditional wooden house doesn't look complicated.

The only homes built by our ancestors that you see are those that didn't collapsed and killed whoever was inside, burned down, were too unstable to live in, were too much of a burden to maintain and keep around, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
Taxing things makes them less likely to exist. That’s the fundamental nature of taxes, and why I am opposed to every single tax. Whatever we like in this world, the government imposes a tax, and then we get less of it, and more of the government. A shameful result caused by a shameful society
I ran an interesting benchmark/experiment yesterday, which did not do Quasar Alpha any favors (from best to worst, score is an average of four runs):

"google/gemini-2.5-pro-preview-03-25" => 67.65
"anthropic/claude-3.7-sonnet:thinking" => 66.76
"anthropic/claude-3.7-sonnet" => 66.23
"deepseek/deepseek-r1:free" => 54.38
"google/gemini-2.0-flash-001" => 52.03
"openai/o3-mini" => 47.82
"qwen/qwen2.5-32b-instruct" => 44.78
"meta-llama/llama-4-maverick:free" => 42.87
"openrouter/quasar-alpha" => 40.27
"openai/chatgpt-4o-latest" => 37.94
"meta-llama/llama-3.3-70b-instruct:free" => 34.40

The benchmark is a bit specific, but challenging. It's a prompt optimization task where the model iteratively writes a prompt, the prompt gets evaluated and scored from 0 to 100, and then the model can try again given the feedback. The whole process occurs in one conversation with the model, so it sees its previous attempts and their scores. In other words, it has to do Reinforcement Learning on the fly.

Quasar did barely better than 4o. I was also surprised to see the thinking variant of Sonnet not provide any benefit. Both Gemini and ChatGPT benefit from their thinking modes. Normal Sonnet 3.7 does do a lot of thinking in its responses by default though, even without explicit prompting, which seems to help it a lot.

Quasar was also very unreliable and frequently did not follow instructions. I had the whole process automated, and the automation would retry a request if the response was incorrect. Quasar took on average 4 retries of the first round before it caught on to what it was supposed to be doing. None of the other models had that difficulty and almost all other retries were the result of a model re-using an existing prompt.

Based on looking at the logs, I'd say only o3-mini and the models above it were genuinely optimizing. By that I mean they continued to try new things, tweak the prompts in subtle ways to see what it does, and consistently introspect on patterns it's observing. That enabled all of those models to continuously find better and better prompts. In a separate manual run I let Gemini 2.5 Pro go for longer and it was eventually able to get a prompt to a score of 100.

EDIT: But yes, to the article's point, Quasar was the fastest of all the models, hands down. That does have value on its own.
Sadly not as uncommon as it should be.

The story you've told is that they are totally unreasonable. I'd accept that this position is a failure. Get a good night sleep—you can't fix it.

What to do? Well, I'd probably tell people to "back off," see if I(you) can help, and if not cruise through a paycheck or two before leaving. Depends on your situation of course.
Could this be the funniest book ever written?
> How is that supposed to read as a single expression in a pure functional language?

Well, in Haskell the following is technically single expression:

do with pkgs; [ foo ];

(Eg using 'let {with = pure; pkgs = 1; foo = 2}' makes the above type check and compile.)

But extreme nerdery and nit-picking aside, I agree that the choice of syntax in nix unfortunate here.
I was very delighted by Aqua v1, which felt like magic at first.

But I’ve noticed/learned that I can’t dictate written content. My brain just does not work that way at all — as I write I am constantly pausing to think, to revise, etc and it feels like a completely different part of my brain is engaged. Everything I dictated with Aqua I had to throw away and rewrite.

Has anyone had similar problems, and if so, had any success retraining themselves toward dictation? There are fleeting moments where it truly feels like it would be much faster.
What makes one ‘the most health-conscious?’ Certainly all the fittest people I know drink… everyone in the triathlon group I swim with three times a week at 5:30 am drinks beer or wine, and all the people I go with and meet ski-touring, mountain biking, and backpacking drink. In fact, the city I live in, is regularly noted as one of the booziest towns in the states but if you walk around town there are few people who are not fit as can be. I can’t find good age stats for Bend, Oregon, but I drink and play cribbage a few times a month with some pretty healthy octogenarians. Obviously my sample size is limited.
When the choice was between a current VP or an insurrectionist and convicted felon, anyone who thought Harris was less legitimate for candidacy has a funny definition. (I guess I don’t believe in protest votes or third parties in this climate.)

Maybe subconscious feelings made people not bother to get to the polls to vote for her, but I don’t think there’s a sensible conscious argument to ditch her on this basis. In fact, people often say she failed for a reason that is almost an opposite of her unfairly replacing Biden – they say she acted just like him and wouldn’t differentiate herself from him.

I get it was unusual and maybe offensive the way she got nominated, but if a principled voter is going to weigh informal notions of legitimacy, the obvious choice is hold their nose and vote for Harris.
The game mentioned in this article reminds me of the story about heuristics told by Richard Feynman in a lecture: https://youtu.be/EKWGGDXe5MA?si=z9TdlWflOkY6b9Qk&t=4249

I was wondering then who was the guy he talked about.It is great that this article provides so much details of it.
That link doesn't work for me, so here's the relevant bit:

Rapid Storage: A new Cloud Storage zonal bucket that enables you to colocate your primary storage with your TPUs or GPUs for optimal utilization. It provides up to 20x faster random-read data loading than a Cloud Storage regional bucket.

(Normally we wouldn't allow a post like this which cherry-picks one bit of a larger article, but judging by the community response it's clear that you've put your finger on something important, so thanks! We're always game to suspend the rules when doing so is interesting.)
WASM isn't quite deterministic. An easy example is NaN propagation, which can be nondeterministic in certain circumstances. Obelisk itself seems to allow nondeterminism via the sleep() function. Just create a race condition among a join set. I imagine that might even get easier once the TODO to implement sleep jitter is completed.

It's certainly close enough that calling it deterministic isn't misleading (though I'd stop short of "true determinism"), but there's still sharp edges here with things like hashmaps (e.g. by recompiling: https://dev.to/gnunicorn/hunting-down-a-non-determinism-bug-...).
The results are very different than what Gemini deep research returns
Might be worth reading your replies (especially from mods): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43632347
https://imgur.com/wTWW1fE
How did they even run government so "efficiently" before computers?
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Flash cards are some of the least effective ways to learn FYI and retain info.
> I think removing pointless cognitive load makes sense, but the point of an education is to learn how to think/reason. Maybe if we get AGI there's no point learning that either, but it is definitely not great if we get a whole generation who skip learning how to problem solve/think due to using LLMs.

There's also the problem of developing critical thinking skills. It's not very comforting to think of a time where your average Joe relies on an AI service to tell what he should think and believe, when that AI service is ran, trained, and managed by people pushing radical ideologies.
thank you! didn't notice it!
Governments exist as a response to the tragedy of the commons.

Pragmatically, if you don't pay taxes to a government that has a military, then your neighbor will invade you and impose whatever taxes they deem fit or outright exterminate you, or historically directly enslave you.
The government barely existed in the US before the 20th century. When a war happened, yes. But otherwise it was mostly inconsequential
One benefit could be curation and discovery. Sometimes a bookstore's displays will show me a book that I might have not otherwise thought to read, selected by their readers, and I'm happy to pay a modest premium for that service.
I put your prompt into the vibe coding tool I'm working on (shameless plug).

The first version[0] looked good, but when I inspected it I found that it just picked an I Ching prediction at random on the back-end, instead of actually flipping coins.

I updated the prompt to the following:

> Create app where you input a question, then flip coins to generate an I Ching prediction (client-side). First show the standard I Ching prediction and it's hexagram, and then use AI to generate a fortune analysis based on the prediction and your initial question.

And the result was much more laborious[1] of a UI :shrug:

[0]https://iching.magicloops.app

[1]https://iching2.magicloops.app
if you saw that code you wouldn't deify it
1000% yes, at least with the help of book scouts that cull #2 and sell what they find to #1 for ~40% of retail.

If you want a fun fictional take on this, John Dunning's Booked to Die is a biblio-mystery about a Denver detective / book-lover investigating the murder of a book scout within the 1980's Denver used bookstore scene.
Are more books/sources like this that has contributed to the peculiarly formal American fiction that is found (for example in many people Peter Santanello talks with in his youtube channel). Mostly they are people from small towns, but they seem to speak ain highly structured, even ornate manner.
I am happy to fund a military, and that’s basically it, and it could certainly be done without income, capital gains, or corporate taxes
When did they stop being the envy of the world? Was it when every member of faculty was basically forced to sign diversity pledges?[1] Was it when students and faculty were given time off to mourn the outcome of a democratic election?[2] Or maybe it was when protesters for a conflict half a world away were allowed to intimidate students from attending classes?[3]

No, I guess it was when government funding was cut ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[1] https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/fire-statement-use-di...

[2] https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/11/07/its-just-h...

[3] https://www.timesofisrael.com/dozens-arrested-at-yale-columb...

Edit: See also this account of the last four years: https://unsafescience.substack.com/p/the-last-four-years-wer...

Academic freedom has been dead at US universities for a while. The murderer is not the guy who was elected in 2024.
Tell AXS: I am not a bot
I wanted to buy some concert tickets, AXS thinks I am a bot. There seems to be no resolution other than to call customer service during limited business hours.
What's the fundamental difference between fast food and fine dining? They're restaurants with food; someone makes a few bucks.
I mean.. you can just flip the phrase of one channel. Of course it can be fixed in software.
> [...] but they're entirely imperatively defined rather than declarative [...]

The conceptual problem with Docker isn't imperative vs declarative. It's that Docker doesn't even try to be reproducible. Executing the same Dockerfile twice doesn't necessarily build you the same container.

(Imperative vs declarative is still an interesting problem to think about, it's just independent of reproducibility in the abstract.)
War is peace. Diversity is racism.
I just don't think that's true. This seems like a really pessimistic take. Is it truly "globalist world domination" — implying that our corporate overlords want us to live like this? Or is it purely function and aesthetic? Capitalism puts power in the hands of consumers—sure, marketing has an influence—but also, we as consumers are the ultimate deciders. Cost, labor, and wealth. All are influences in the deciding of what we choose to buy. If what we have today is lifeless, I think it's of our own collective choosing.

To be fair though, these photos are breathtaking. Pre-industrial era Japan is a place I'd love to visit and the history of this transformation is steeped in fear, modernizing in response to Western powers (look up Matthew Perry—naval officer, not the actor lol).
We must create God in order to enslave it and force it to summarize our emails.
Wonder where exactly people get the entitlement to someone else's free labor. I'm confident the same individuals would not work for free if the tables were turned. Is it lack of empathy?
I agree the syntax isn't perfect, but in case you're actually confused there's really only 3 places where semicolons go, and I would argue that two of the places make a lot of sense— as a terminator for attribute sets, and a terminator for `let` declarations.

Unfortunately it is also used with the somewhat confusing `with` operator which I personally avoid using. For those of you who aren't familiar, it works similar to the now deprecated javascript `with` statement where `with foo; bar` will resolve to `bar` if it is in scope, otherwise it will resolve to `foo.bar`.
Wrong. We do want someone who will break rules when the rules are there to stop the government from serving its' constituents. So glad they kept the filibuster; so glad they listened to the Senate Parliamentarian; so glad they followed the process and anointed Kamala. Look at where worshipping the process lead.
Fair, but he's not exactly a shining beacon of the best we have to offer.
This is a false dichotomy. Creating manufacturing jobs doesn’t mean there are no retail jobs. We should have both. Different people have different preferences. Even the same person at different times in different situations. Why limit ourselves to one option?
Didn't they say they were going to open-source some model? "Fast and good but not too cutting-edge" would be a good candidate for a "token model" to open-source without meaningfully hurting your own bottom line.
How about Social Security? Or Medicare? Do you think you'll be able to buy an insurance once you're old?

But wait, there's more! Without government, what stops me from dumping a couple of tons of cadmium in your water supply?
Everybody needs to know their threshold for walking away, whether it's going too long without getting paid, having their pay delayed too many times, or other demands like being asked to work overtime, weekends, etc.

If a company is truly making a good faith effort to pay, I try to cut them slack, especially if they level with me about why they're having a cash flow issue. This requires having insight into the people making the decisions, as well as being willing to take a leap of faith that I won't get screwed. I have a pretty good track record: I come out ahead (i.e. get paid) most of the time, and have rarely been left holding the bag.
> Aren't brick-and-mortar bookshops, generally speaking, as viable as Apatosaurus today?

Not at all. Many of them are doing very well and have rebounded from the hit they took when Amazon entered the scene. Not as many of them as there used to be but they're far from dead. In many cities they're thriving.

> Also — secondhand books are generally outdated, undesirable, and/or damaged — do collectors still find diamonds in the rough?

Yes they do, but your premise is incorrect. Many secondhand books are undesirable, sure. Most are. But that doesn't mean there aren't millions of books out there that are valuable either for a collector or to individual buyers.

> No reason to waste real estate on any sort of dedicated seller.

Ugh.
Guess, your comments are getting flagged because your opinion contradicts the opinion of others. Unpopular thinking, I would say.

I reviewed your comments, and guess what, I'm opposed to that, what you think. But I'm not american and I didn't vote for a panican to start an economical war not only with the closest neighbors, but, its nothing less than the whole world! Like its 1930s again... that's stupid, if I'm able to say that.
Ok, but then you have some kind of state intelligence, because you need intelligence for a military to operate on, and then military capability is a function of technology. Then you need some form of law, and law implies police, and conflict implies a justice system, a justice system implies a prison system.

As your society suffers due to poor social programs, the one next door that believes in public education will have a better military due to better technology, maybe they decide they need breathing space...

Your position is one you can only hold due to privilege.
A negative value, about -7 years in this case.
> Any country can solve it

Most wealthy countries have already solved it: immigration.