skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GPT-4o already one-shots Leetcode hard with just a screenshot. I know, it's trained on the answers. But it clicked in my head that if you give the LLM a very detailed specification + tests to the level of detail that Leetcode does, you might actually be able to one-shot any code you like.

Over the weekend, I made a game. It's heavily dialogue based. I wanted a screen and game content that centers around this gameplay. It's not a classic VN, more customized like Ace Attorney.

It's a free game so I need an intro that hooks people in the first 30 seconds. What examples are good for this? Since there's few games like this, I look into movies. I don't want that scene from Inglourious Basterds, that's too fresh. There's a lot of good stuff in classic film, before the 80s that nobody has seen. These movies had to carry themselves on content because they didn't have special effects.

And that's where DeepResearch comes in.

I'm looking for specific films that fit the tutorial of the game that I'm trying to build. Without going into details, there's 4 mechanics I want to squeeze into the tutorial level. I'm looking for specific scenes that capture these mechanics.

One intent is "How do I get players to not skip dialogue like they would with a VN?" AI's interpretation of this is "scripts that encourage impatience". I didn't even know what question to ask, and it helped to rephrase my intent into the right questions then find examples of those.

It wrote a 6000 word essay, plenty of citations, some with clips. I don't have to spend a couple nights watching Psycho or The Night of the Hunter. I can just jump straight to the clips I want. I can skim 24 different movies in the same two nights.
>It's like saying you can use the internet for copyright infringement.

I think that a comparison that could help to elucidate the problem here is to a search engine. Like with imagegen, an image search is using infrastructure+algorithm to return the closest match(es) to a textual input over some particular space (whether the space of indexed images or the latent space of the model). Immediately, however, there are qualitative differences. A search company, as an entity, doesn’t in any way take credit for the work; it bills itself as, and operates as, a mechanism to connect the user to others’ work, and in the service of this goal it provides the most attribution it’s reasonably able to provide given technical limitations (a url).

For me this is the difference. Image gen companies, at least all that I’m aware of, position themselves more as a kind of pseudo-artist that you can commission. They provide no means of attribution, rather, they deliberately obfuscate the source material being searched over. Whether you are willing to equate the generation process to a kind of search for legal purposes is really the core disagreement here, and beyond an intuition for it not something I feel I can prove.

So what’s the solution, what’s a business model I’d find less contentious? If an AI company developed a means to, for example, associate activation patterns to an index of source material, (or hell, just provided an effective similarity search between output and training data) as a sort of good-faith attribution scheme, made visible the training set used, and was upfront in marketing about its dependence on the source material, I’d struggle to have the same issues with it. It would be leagues ahead of current companies in the ethical department. To be clear though, I’m not a lawyer. I can’t say how image gen fits into the current legal scheme, or whether it does or doesn’t. My argument is an ethical one; I think that the unethical behavior of the for-profit imagegen companies should be hampered by legality, through new laws if necessary. I feel like this should answer your other questions as well but let me know if I missed something.
They smoke DMT, obviously.

I, for one, really enjoy the ideas they come up with. Super creative!
> All of which is to say that audience desire for “impartiality” is profoundly contextual — embedded in the particular political, social, and economic environment that people live in. It’s less an iron law of journalism than an incentive-driven response to conditions. “It is up to news organizations and journalists, therefore,” the authors conclude, “to evaluate which approach better suits their contexts.”

I'm not ceding this ground. We need news that strives for impartiality, and even if people don't want it, they need to get it anyway. The customer is not always right, and everything is not relative.
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The worst part is that the Supreme Court isn't bothered by this at all. They are letting Trump continue this while they debate the legality.
I haven't traditionally seen these areas of spend rolled into Eng costs in the budgeting process.
https://archive.is/r4FCz
> Perhaps if you contact the bank, but as far as I know it is not a feature :-(
Acctually there is a feature to request the central bank to retrieve money stolen through PIX scam. It is called Special Return Mechanism (MED PIX). Link here: https://www.bcb.gov.br/meubc/faqs/p/o-que-e-e-como-funciona-...
You’re saying companies don’t get information on how remote employees utilize their time? I could almost be sure many companies do that.
MB over-engineered that book. Example: look at the paragraph that stars “But I don’t have visual skills” on this page: https://practicaltypography.com/why-does-typography-matter.h...

Notice how the open quotation marks hang into the left margin. There’s been some recent work with CSS to make this automatic, but that’s newer than this book and support is spotty. MB made it happen with a (iirc) custom filter inside the Pollen setup he made for this book. Wild. And beautiful.
I wish search engine algorithms/SEO were versioned, which would allow you to get a more consistent experience. The same applies to system prompts of closed LLMs.

The most important part for me is understanding how to communicate with each system, whether it's google-fu or prompting.
HTML and CSS with a sprinkle of JS, combined with the hardened web standardization we see today paints a pretty clear picture.

JavaScript is here to stay, web browsers are here to stay, they can make GUIs that are durable.

I find it comical that X was the chosen target in this article, as it will most certainly be more than crufty in 5, let alone 20 years from now.
Expectations will go up, while the pay will stay the same. And many will just take it because of lack of alternatives
> historically very popular

When? Not for a long time. Slavery and witchcraft were historically very popular ...

> when you buy stuff you're losing wealth

That's a incredible failure of understanding. I can't believe that's the basis of mercantilism. Why would anyone buy something?

If you buy a house for $100,000, your wealth remains the same - you replace $100,000 in cash with a $100,000 house (ignoring complexities like a mortgage, transaction costs, etc.). That is basic accounting, of course.

In fact, your wealth probably increases: The house's value is <$100,000 to the seller and >$100,000 to the buyer, or else they would be disinclined to make the effort of making the deal - it would be like trading a $10 bill for a $10 bill, with lots of time and transaction costs. Market value - the value to others - may remain the same or vary, of course.

The economy works because people make these value-increasing transactions. I take $10 of inputs, manufacture $20 worth of output, and sell it to you for $15. We both gain $5. If your business isn't producing more output than its input, you're going to be out of business soon.

Many transactions are better with people who happen to be outside the borders of your country - why wouldn't they be?
I like how Tao put out the call, and you answered it. Very cool! I was waiting for someone on here with engineering and math chops to attempt devising a more efficient approach teased in that article. Super cool to see you do it! You might be co-author on his paper, I think that's what he said, hahaha ! :)
NTATV: Bringing Windows NT (Windows XP, Windows 2003) to the Original Apple TV
Show HN: BloomNote – Cursor for Learning
Inspired by NotebookLM but felt it was missing features I wanted: multi model support, a better text editor, more reliable source uploads, more options to review and study (flashcards, quizzes)

Built this for myself as a uni student and use this everyday for classes but also to learn things for my startup (podcasts, growth, etc)
I must've looked at this years ago, but for whatever reason, hitched my wagon to Chart.js and haven't really needed anything it couldn't do. And that's for weird one-off custom stuff. For business analytics I just self-host a Metabase server. I wish there were more visualization options with Metabase, but it's such a cinch to set up models and queries. But I don't often get a visualization request that justifies the time to create a custom chart.
Doesn't that also then make tailscale completely open source?
In your sources, "strategic" (or surgical[0]) tariffs are mentioned, which is perhaps the only accepted practice for applying tariffs compared to blanket tariffs.

As it happens, you've now twice doubled down on claiming both administrations would've imposed tariffs, and the manner in which you conveyed your point ("Tariffs? Inevitable regardless of the office holder. Prepared for by both sides, for a long time now. In a complex economy that few to no people in public discussions understand.") implies that both policies would've been equal when in fact it's quite clear even from your links that the two approaches would've been different - Biden/Harris' surgical application vs Trump's current blanket tariffs.

The repeated implication that the two policies would be equivocal is at best a failure to understand the debate and, at worst, in bad faith.

[0] https://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime-economics/2024/trumps-pr... - "This isn’t normally the way presidents act when it comes to tariffs. Additional tariffs are generally imposed very selectively, under trade remedy statutes crafted by Congress. They are actions taken pursuant to a finding that a particular product is involved in a specified unfair trade act, or it may be that the new tariff is a surgical retaliatory measure to open a market for a specified American product."

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Went ahead and chucked the thread into archive.is so it's not lost to the sands of time. I guess now I'll bow out in a manner that's not valid :)
That is really not the norm nowadays.
https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2018/04/12/adding-svg-fil... ?
That's a classic for sure. I would suggest a "heel clicker in a supercross race"[0] is also worth consideration, given the difficulty and risk involved.

0 - https://ultimatemotorcycling.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/...
I'm an experienced dev and looked seriously into D3 some month ago for the first time. I can confirm what you wrote. The notebooks feel like an unnecessary hurdle. It's not a big hurdle, but one that could be avoided so a slightly annoying experience.
We had a little event a few years ago that answered your question. You give people money and they make crap. I helped procure like 30M masks. Nature finds a way.

As a society, we’re more productive than we ever have been. We’re not breaking society to create a nation of workshops. This is a cynical power play.
The US had manufacturers of melt blown masks, but instead of giving those manufacturers long guarantees to build up capacity they decided to just wait for China to build up instead.
When people say they get 500k they mean they get paid 200k in salary and got 300k in RSUs, with the details mixed around the edges. ICs aren't getting 500k salary except in a few rare cases.
This is one I find less than surprising. At least, less surprising than the lead in implies.

Would be like asking who wants news on the cutting edge of sports, versus who wants to know how their preferred team is doing.

Now, we like to think people used to be more aligned on the idea of the nation. Or general well being of the world. I am not too shocked to see that people have aligned with cohorts based on perceived identities. Even if I find it disheartening.
> I've been doing this s*it for 10 years, there's too many little details and commands to remember and too much brutally dull work to not automate it.

git gud
Handheld device could transform heart disease screening
What is the relevance of this comment to this post? Are you insinuating that the author did not come up with the right answer? That's odd here because the answers are actually verified in multiple ways (Sage code, looking up the numbers on OEIS).
Yes, this is a real perspective. Again, I’m not endorsing the approach they’re taking, I’m simply explaining it.

I also don’t think even a moderate introduction of tariffs would have been viewed favorably. Reindustrialization is I think necessary/I agree with the desire to ramp up domestic production and secure supply chains in both America and Europe, but we haven’t done it yet because it’s going to be painful to reverse the current trajectory.

This could very well be a part of a kind of shock deal to get allies to know we’re serious as we negotiate down.

I’m not saying I agree with that tactic, either, and the complaints about the damage in trust are extremely valid.
What is sadly ironic is that every manufacturing industry this administration wants back in the US- the US spent decades getting rid of those exact industries in order to focus on higher wage, higher skill roles in services, etc.

That said, the US should never have gotten rid of industries that are critical for defense such as semiconductor manufacturing and ship building among others. That those industries left the US to go to Japan and then Korea and then now China- those were terrible mistakes that were made.
Guess he didn't know the region well.
I had a chuckle when I looked at the source code and could not find a Dockerfile in there. I want to kick the tires on it and the easiest way would be to run it as a Docker container against an existing file and alas, I cannot.
While sitting in the open office staring blankly into space because of RTO, work really has nothing to do with productivity it's all fugazi.
The 1987 King's Cross fire at a London Tube station caused 31 deaths due to a lit match on a wooden escalator, which then spread due to trench effect.

see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s_Cross_fire

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzM6O0mV5DA
Reality check: GTK 2.0 was released in 2002. At that time, most computers had under 1 GB of RAM, many were running 256-color displays at ~1024x768, and anti-aliasing was an exotic, showy feature which was rarely used on desktop systems. Hardware graphics acceleration was only used for 3D games, and support for it on Linux was extremely limited. Cross-platform compatibility for GTK wasn't even a consideration yet; it was targeted exclusively at X11 systems.

Which is a lot of words to say: software changes. The Linux desktop is a moving target; expecting a user interface library to hold still for 20+ years is a tall order.
Using LLM to Generate Data for D3.js Force Directed Graph (FDG)
> Debian package is of poor quality

Can you elaborate more please? I would love if you can say what all can be improved to make debian package up to standards.
For a company this is probably okay: companies rely on other companies all the time, and can enforce contracts. I would gladly use tailscale at my company.

For an individual, heck no. Fortunately, headscale exists for individuals to use.
What's your current situation? If you live in a place that's significantly less safe then the US do to poverty and crime then yes. If your happy and safe where you currently are how much does the money matter?
Seemingly related: https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/c...
Yes. But I noticed a trend of people asking stuff like "why doesn't this work" in various community forums, which ends up being them sourcing the method from the likes of ChatGPT / Gemini, etc. Lesson - don't do that, especially when you are going to be wasting others' time on explaining why things didn't work. Search things properly. Read documentation. Even if you use AI, never trust its results.
Was it ever? Twenty years ago I had a boss that told me he cuts every estimate engineers give him in half and the work always gets completed on time, never mind the terrible quality and massive amount of bugs.
It's funny because the US right wing (and a huge part of it's so-called left, too) keeps trying to portray US global military power as the opposite. As charity for us ungrateful Canadians and Europeans

It's completely backwards from how people usually perceive empires. And from what it is. Which is a projection of power to ensure the supremacy of American capital interests.

Which is why US GDP per capita etc is incredibly high compared to the rest of the G7. It's not because they're smarter or better than the rest of us. It's because they've built the world order around themselves. By, as you say, exporting that military protection.

The US exports military dominance, and it gets paid in having its currency, regulatory needs / environment, etc. dominate almost everywhere.

(Whether this actually benefits the regular American worker vs its own wealthy business class is a whole other discussion, and may explain why this has become such a fertile ground for rage and frustration among Americans)
"The human mind is a probabilistic computer, at every level."

We don't know that. It's mostly probabilistic. That innate behavior exists suggests some parts might be deterministic.
It really is too bad... once I switched to Ice, I have no desire to switch back... and I'm saying that as a paying customer of Bartender.
I agree. We have been very much EU stack for years in everything but Postmark.
Not on Windows and iOS. And on the mac, the most useable client isn’t open source either.
Hi, please don't produce dishonest clickbait content.
Given you have the privelage to work for a big tech company, I would assume they have the resources to shield you, and you some of your own. From afar it may seem crazier than it is. Do not let the loudest people tell you what to do. Of course consider the risks, prime among them being that if you did not feel particularly attached to the company, or they to you, then you would have to uproot and leave the country on the order of days, but I am assuming you are young, and this is the time for you to take risks.
The point is that the closest definition people see for impartiality is "something that doesn't move the needle either way." In other words, maintaining the status quo. Protecting the way things are now is not true impartiality, it's prolonging systems. It's inertia.
> we just need to become a lot more productive than we are now.

To nitpick about terminology:

productivity = output / input

The US would (and maybe will) become less productive; the US is not as efficient at producing many things as non-U.S. competitors, including ship-building. The US is more productive at other things, such as software. (And in 2025, you certainly would trade ship-building productivity for software productivity. Including in warfare.)

If we insist on building ships in the US, we spend more money on the same ships, and - unavoidably - we must shift more productive resources to these less productive tasks. If your neighbor is a great carpenter and you are a great farmer, wouldn't it be smart to trade your vegetables for carpentry, instead of you trying to do carpentry and the carpenter trying to grow vegetables? If you are a Linux maintainer end and the business down the hall back end, do you try to do back end and they try to design OSes? Why?

(Of course, you probably trade your skills indirectly through the wonderful fungibility of money.)
With respect to the US:

- We’re the richest nation on the planet and have been until recently been adept in response to many types of disasters.
- Unemployment has been <5% for a few years.
- The US military reigns supreme. Our 5 air forces are the top 5 in terms of airframes.
- We actively pursue fiscal policy to promote inequitable wealth distribution

The idiocy of conflict with China is just that. We’re better and richer together.
This sort of extremely narrow use case is what I think AI is good for but the problem is that if you have it for this one you will use it for other things and slowly atrophy.
In cryptography it is common to get exact estimates for the number of bit operations required to break a cipher. Asymptomatic analysis is great in some circumstances. It for example explains why quicksort is faster than bubble sort for large inputs. Beyond that you want some empirical results.
It does seem like the Cyc people hit the wall with simply collecting facts. Having to have a human in the loop.

The problem I think is if you have LLMs figuring out the propositions, the whole system is just as prone to garbage-in-garbage-out as LLMs are.
I wish there were some explain plans in either post, since I don't get what's going on.

If the query uses the index, then the on the fly tsvector rechecks are only on the matches and the benchmark queries have LIMIT 10, so few rechecks right?

Edit: yes but the query predicates have conditions on 2 gin indexes, so I guess the planner chooses to recheck all the matches for one index first even though it could avoid lots of work by rechecking row-wise
> I keep seeing people advocating that the idea that we should build everything, and every piece or everything, here is a good one. Why? Is this just an isolationist dream?

No. There needs to be balance. We are way past the balance point, by far. When I say "we" I mean the US and Europe. We have the same problems, and I believe Europe is in far greater danger to be absolutely decimated in the next two to five decades.

Example: We are currently working on a robotics project. Just-about the only thing we can buy in the US (or Europe, for that matter) is the aluminum and steel, and only if we are ready to do the fabrication --machining-- ourselves (which we can do). If we have to rely on third parties to manufacture the parts we are sunk. Making anything in the US (and Europe) has become impossible. Wires, cables, circuit boards, motors, encoders, chips, displays, cast iron or aluminum parts, gears, belts, injection molded parts, filters, lubricants, etc. The list is massively long. Again, US and Europe, same problem.

The massive imbalance in tariffs and trade restrictions has collapsed entire industries. Try to print books or manuals in the US or Europe at scale. Good luck. Try to make packaging materials. Same problem.

I've been manufacturing for about four decades. It has never been worse. It's horrible. And we need to fix it or we'll be left with nothing. You cannot have an economy that is purely based on providing services and writing software.

A couple of decades ago, I used to buy a specially-treated antireflective type of glass from the last company making it in the US. The Chinese started to dump and created pricing pressure. Five years later they were out of business. I then bought the same type of glass from the sole remaining western factory in Germany. A couple of years later they discontinued the product. I then had to buy from China. A couple of years later they increased their prices --nearly doubled.

That's what we've been dealing with (US and Europe). A predatory and destructive "machine". This isn't about making everything. It's about making enough to have a viable economy in the long run. I find that people who are not in manufacturing cannot grasp this. It isn't about hating China either. They are doing exactly right by their people. I admire their dedication and focus. We (US and Europe) are the idiots.
>in reality a lot of artists are saying they're getting less work these days

Good. That means we as a society get more art cheaper. I've long since grown tired of sponsoring greed of artists.
AI apps from Intel, some are solving real world issues:
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ai-pc/showcase.html
My favorite is Canvid: AI powered screen recorder.