skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, it's like those famous posts comparing monads to burritos or something
I am told older people do not come back well from general anaesthesia. I wonder if this process becomes less reversible in older brains? It is only implicitly discussed as reversing, and they didn't discuss detectable differences between activity before and after, only the uniformity of activity during.
Ask HN: Have you ever had to turn down customers because of sanctions?
Over the last few years I've had to turn away a few customers from countries like Iran, Russia and China because either a BIS license was required due to general EAR restrictions on cyber products to those countries, or the entity was actually on the BIS Entity list. Have you experienced this? How do you handle it?

In some sense it sucks because the markets of some of these countries are large, and there may be people in those countries who want it for legitimate reasons (Freedom, etc). At the same time, you have to obey the law and respect sanctions. They have a legitimate purpose. That's non negotiable. Any cybersecurity people have experience with this kind of scenario?

Technically it's possible to apply for licenses, but if the status is "presumption of denial", or even if it's not, the process is a massive hassle for tiny product companies that just want to build stuff.

I'm not losing sleep over this stuff - but it doesn't feel great - and I'm just curious of others' experiences in US corporations (not sure if EU has similar).
This is very cool! I had no idea you could chroot into different architectures.
Does Q stand for quine?

((lambda (x) (list x (list 'quote x)))
'(lambda (x) (list x (list 'quote x))))
It only seems wild in light of how the US relates to its military. For all the hype about life in the russian navy, you are still much more likely to see sailors suntanning on a russian ship than any USN boat.

Look at this footage. Look at the guys on the helo deck. When russian sailors have time off, they take it seriously.

https://youtu.be/fVXxTS2f8CE
Well GP was talking about overplayed AI coding hype, I understood the "hype" as being mostly financial (with the crazy valuation of Nvidia for example), but if it does significantly raise the productivity per $ spent then there is no hype.

It doesn't mean the technology doesn't also have downsides.
But many people are actually arguing that it doesn't personally make them more productive, so are more likely to call it a hype.
PiEEG kit – A Raspberry Pi 5-based bioscience lab in a suitcase (Crowdfunding)
Still alive and kicking?

Loved the admin site

hated the performance
Totally. Most websites where you show and vote for a product (HackerNews, ProductHunt, etc) are ridden with bots.

For example, one person here offers:
> Our AI generates relevant, useful replies to selected mentions, that aim to genuinely help the original poster, and that include a subtle mention of your product.

and ProductHunt:
https://wakatime.com/blog/67-bots-so-many-bots
Controversial, but I found just going through the docs, attempting to write my own flake, throwing it at ChatGPT and asking it to review it and give me feedback was enough to get started.

I never ask it for code, just to review code - keeps me sharp and makes the iteration cycles faster.
One thing that makes me curious.

Pennsylvania unemployment rate is 3,4%.

In the EU you commonly see unemployment rates around 10% and that is even after rather massive reeducation programs.

Why is this seen as such a big problem that these 3,4% pretty much get to decide the entire US policy?

In the EU that would be a great number and mostly normal considering that people that switch jobs or just finished studying or are just generally unemployable is counted towards that numer.

https://www.pa.gov/agencies/dli/newsroom/pennsylvania-s-unem...
There are two decomissioned Typhoons visible on Google Maps, with parking spaces and cars for scale: https://maps.app.goo.gl/ov8Ppr6PE6X1gG1B9
I'm not an educator but I know from teaching my own children that you don't introduce math using symbols and abstract representations. You grab 5 of some small object and show them how a pile of 2 objects combined with a pile of 3 objects creates a pile of 5 objects.

Remember, language is a natural skill all humans have. So is counting (a skill that may not even be unique to humans).

However writing is an artifical technology invented by humans. Writing is not natural in the sense that language itself is. There is no part of brain we're born with that comes ready to write. Instead, when we learn to write other parts of our brain that are associated with language and hearing and vision are co-opted into the "writing and reading parts".

Teaching kids math using writing and symbolism is unnatural and often an abstraction too far for them (initially). Introducing written math is easier and makes more sense once kids are also learning to read and write - their brains are being rewired by that process. However even an toddler can look at a pile of 3 objects and a pile of 5 objects and know which one is more, even if they can't explicitly count them using language - let alone read and write.
Given the original, ludicrous, claim was:

> Literally all progress we've made is due to ever increasing specialization.

Then we don't really need plural examples, right?

Anyway - language, wheel, fire, tool-making, social constructs like reciprocity principle - I think gave us some progress as a species and a society.
It's not an http server. Try with something like nc or telnet, and you should get an 'ok' response before it disconnects.

telnet -4 susam.net 8000
Exactly. For vast majority of students myself included just looking at ready solution is actually very poor way to study. And LLMs are exactly this. Ready solution generators. Doing with things like math and programming is learning.

And same goes for art. You do not become master in art by looking at art or even someone drawing...
Great points, but my apologies I meant to say "sentience". Certainly many, many animals are already conscious.

I'm not sure about the quantitative thing seeing as there are creatures with brains much physically much larger than ours, or brains with more neurons than we have. We currently have the most known synapses though that also seems to be because we haven't estimated that for so many species.
The current state of things is insanely demotivating, so I wouldn’t be so sure
In game development we still care about the distinction between soft and hard realtime. Almost all games are soft realtime, even if the gameplay itself is turned based as we're processing user input, updating UI, animating things and so on.
This is like timecube.com for the AI age but far less interesting and also less organized.
Using a system based on randomness for a process that must occur deterministically is probably the wrong solution.

I'm running into similar issues trying to use LLMs for logic and reasoning.

They can do it (surprisingly well, once you disable the friendliness that prevents it), but you get a different random subset of correct answers every time.

I don't know if setting temperature to 0 would help. You'd get the same output every time, but it would be the same incomplete / wrong output.

Probably a better solution is a multi phase thing, where you generate a bunch of outputs and then collect and filter them.
English is not my first language. To me, 'AD' was a shorter way to say 'advertisement' (a really hard word to remember how to spell btw) Is that wrong?
they can use Sam's voice
The scenes really remind me of the painting "Along the River During the Qingming Festival"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Along_the_River_During_the_Qin...

The juxtaposition really brings out how isolationist they were back then. A country that is like a time capsule to the Tang dynasty

It's like if there was an island full of people still wearing Roman togas and going to the local hippodrome
Thank you for the sharp eye!
Thanks. While I'm fully self-motivated (when you feel you're in uncharted waters, it's hard to stop exploring), I still appreciate some sort of external validation that I'm not delusional.

But this stuff (well, Forth in general) requires such a big shift in mindset as to how we approach computing that I understand why it stays niche. Kind of like Lisp but, IMO, deeper.
I don't know, I've had tons and tons of clients over the 20 years I have consulted. Off the top of my head, 80% have been fine, 10% run in to issues now and then, but there's a hardcore 10% that will stretch you and stretch you because they can (I'm talking about paying NET 60/90 when the contractual agreement is NET 30).

If you withhold services, you usually lose that client. To be honest, that's not always a bad outcome, because a bad or slow paying client is usually the noisiest, most demanding and most unreasonable one as well.
> Just create a race condition among a join set.

All responses and completed delays are stored in a table with an auto-incremented id, so the `-await-next` will always resolve to the same value.

As you mention, putting a persistent sleep and a child execution into the same join set is not yet implemented.
No credible source says 1.7, the source that says this must be based on some kinda UN projection of 2010. Real TFR is probably around 1.0, in some parts of china it's below 0.7 (in the northeast it's around this number, in Macao it's 0.4). A lot of other countries are completely fucked as well and google pushes up UN projections from years ago (Like colombia UN projects the fertility rate to be higher in 2100 than it is according to the official numbers right now).
Mostly anecdotal and also based on the large gap between benchmark performance and actual performance on personal use
It's a great comment thank you. The part about the changes that would have enabled us to scale as society is really brilliant. I've read a bit about this in historian theories but the focus is often very material (probably because that's what you have evidence of).

I've always been in awe at the (absolutely crazy if you ask me) concept of money. The fact that we accept to give up possessions or time in exchange for the promise that anyone in the future will provide something equivalent because we just show some token/proof (which in itself are intrinsically valueless: sticks, stones, minerals, papers, now bits...).

We've been educated to be a bit suspicious and maybe show a slight contempt for it, probably to avoid being inelegant and also particularly because a lot of big owner of it are seen as not necessarily deserving of it.

But from an evolutionary perspective it's absolutely stupefying. And at its core its extremely positive. It shows absolute trust in our peers. It's probably one of the few behavior that really binds us together.

One could argue that it's the actually one trait that really distinguish us from other animals.
I have never done freelance or consulting work where I didn't have at least 6 months of cash on hand.
Seems like a good idea. FYI: The signup for doesn't seem to render correctly in lightmode...
Totally get the struggle — I spent way too many hours figuring which design system should I use for my next project. Ended up creating a site to compare the options: [https://rails.style]. Might help others in the same spot.
perhaps i might interest you in display-buffer-alist ?

useful resources:

1. https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2024-02-08-emacs-window-rule...

2. https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/demystifying-emacs-wi...

3. <this space is for rent>
I mean MoE/agent work was being done in 2021 I'm pretty sure. Definitely more accurate than most predictions but perhaps not revolutionary to state that the tail follows the dog.
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> but creative writing can lean too far into either bland or overly flowery language

It's a style that can work. Patricia A. McKillip's fantasy novels are so flowery that I have difficulty telling what's going on.

I've never read one of her science fiction novels, but I find it hard to imagine they're written similarly.
I have an excellent electrician contact, a good electrician (or plumber) is rarely (never?) without work. I have an excellent tree guy. I have an amazing handyman contact. If you find a good vendor, pay them early and often.
I get what you're saying now. I can write it in lowercase, right? It's just that I see people writing it that way, so I end up repeating their behavior without even realizing it.
One person's purple prose is often another's style. It's not really a measure of something, and more an assertion of taste. You see a similar thing when someone says a writer uses "too much description and not enough action!" without realizing that, sometimes, the action is in the description. It's a style of writing with a different reader in mind, a different understanding of how word choice and prose functions.
Youtube channel InCamera did an interesting series of videos showing their use of practical effects in the creation of a submarine-based short. Not directly related to Red October, but folks might find it worth a watch.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0pnlLzhW4c1v-vKUWRWXZBD4...
Show HN: Open-Source NPS Feedback System
Is it like PureStorage?
A desperate jab? But I _want_ LLM's to be able to do basic, deterministic things accurately. Seems like I touched a nerve? Lol.
This. I was amazed opening something like PagagraphLineReaderFactory, thinking it somehow deals smartly with paragraph boundaries and too long paragraphs etc., and finding a trivial single line regex wrapped in two screens of OOP boilerplate.
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And tariffs for Russia are still 0% ?
That sounds great, and I would advise you to value it. Most tech companies are not this forward thinking (often to their own detriment)
You think all the knock off overseas manufacturers are adhering to this religiously? Belt and braces works fine for me in this case.
> Like, my favorite, person coming home and removing socks to reveal fluffy slippers. Will the consistency checker catch that.

I could see this working as comedy, though it'd be better on film than in print. Either way you'd have to establish a very specific tone in the surrounding material.
I mean:
* I don't think we've seen any major release or new architectural changes in the major (large companies) models recently

* Model creation has exploded with people training their own models and fine tunes, etc but these are all derivatives of parent models from large companies

So I'm not really sure what they mean when they refer to "recent model progress"...I don't think anybody is putting out a llama finetune saying "this is revolutionary!111" nor have I seen OAI, et al make any such claims either.

Is the sensation just because forward momentum is stalling while we wait for the next big leap?
> But it does! All the bonds pay out after X years, and everyone is completely fine with this.

I'm happy to argue with you but you're going to have to read the entire sentence. Possibly even the entire paragraph. Otherwise it is a bit pointless even for the fun of it.

> You've not looked at the numbers, have you.

I have, I put a good 5-10 minutes in to it. I suspect you haven't looked at the numbers.

You can find references on places like the BBC [0] but there are also charts that go back to the 1800s and the story is reasonably consistent. Historically most years the UK pays down debt. In fact, the last time it didn't was the 1930s and after that klutzy fumble it didn't get to be an empire any more, so that was a mistake.

[0] https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/800/cpsprodpb/16CB7/pr...
That seems to be confirmed by el presidente:

Bessent said the decision had nothing to do with the markets.

“This was driven by the president’s strategy,” he told reporters outside the West Wing. “He and I had a long talk on Sunday, and this was his strategy all along."

Trump later contradicted Bessent.

“I was watching the bond market," he said. “That bond market is very tricky.”

(https://www.yahoo.com/news/week-trump-pushed-global-economy-...)
exerting control over powerful people who aren't as politically connected as the people who have access to this private data, in addition to finding excuses to spend money on military stuff (with kickbacks)
Capital is capital. Just because you don’t need it for very long doesn’t make it free.
/s, I guess
> Absolutely no reason to go to this kind of argument.

The reason is that HN is spammed with half assed "ai" products which basically amount to a database and a chatgpt wrapper
As someone in game studio leadership, I found UK business loans easy to access up to 1:1 debt-to-assets. Perhaps it was different in the 90s. And I can understand if it's a scrappy start-up with no assets, though the older I get, the more I believe those business models are irresponsible and often have negative externalities (like someone going unpaid).

You justify working for free, and I get it. Sometimes, I worked for free in my companies, but it built my equity value. I can also somewhat get it if it’s for a good cause—if you personally want a change that your labor effects in the world.

Working for free for someone else without anything of value in return is a different matter. Even if, in the end, you became friends and got a job. Some people in the games industry will say this is normal, but it’s not (and by law in some cases). For example, the UK's living wage is where society decided to draw the line between fair labour relations and abuse.

When it comes to working for free or almost free, I think whether you'd get much better labor conditions elsewhere matters. In many cases, the answer is yes. That's a good litmus test for unfair compensation.
While I had above average health care in my time Canada, I don't think this advice is limited to the USA.
Is it? I feel like that depends on whether you take a prescriptive or descriptive point of view.
It is the other way round. If the US has gone rogue, it is because consequences -- to anyone, for anything -- went away first.
1) USA looks far weaker when everyone is included initially. Emboldens china. Then it’s flipped once they commit.

2) Still have a smaller tariff in place but it doesn’t feel as shocking.
> possibly billions off regular people who had margin calls.

Regular people have no business gambling with levered bets on publicly traded equities. Those losses are their own fault, and they should sell gambling treatment.
Clearly the USA could therefore never build, for example, a network of interstate highways
GAO already looks at efficiency.

From Wikipedia:

DOGE: “ cutting federal spending which it characterizes as "waste, fraud, and abuse"”

GAO: “auditing agency operations to determine whether federal funds are being spent efficiently and effectively;
investigating allegations of illegal and improper activities; reporting on how well government programs and policies are meeting their objectives; performing policy analyses and outlining options for congressional consideration;”
> But then, “Meta considered doing business in China, evaluated and negotiated with the Chinese government what would be required to do so, and then did not proceed” isn’t a story that is going to sell a lot of books or get her a lot of attention

It could be as simple as Meta did not want to give the Chinese government partial ownership and their IP.
From the article:

> The other party can use whatever client they have to connect to port 8000 of my system, e.g., a web browser, nc HOST 8000, curl HOST:8000, or even, ssh HOST -p 8000, irssi -c HOST -p 8000, etc.
You were right in this context. They have previously partnered with Broadcom to make their TPUs, rather than work directly with TSMC. But I read it's actually Mediatek instead for this generation.
Yeah, maybe it’s more hope than reality
Looks cool! I can't get new Color Relationship nodes to work, though. The initial one works, but any new ones that I add don't use their input
Gion and Sannenzaka are the very definition of touristy Kyoto.
Cloud Storage retrieval and data transfer fees will apply to BigQuery requests
Previously, if you had a BigQuery external table on top of GCS files, and those files had Nearline / Coldline / Archive storage classes (e.g. due to a bucket lifecycle policy), you were not billed for retrieval fees when reading those files through the BQ external table.

This was a billing bug that was already mentioned in 2020 on StackOverflow.

But the bug has been fixed on February 21, 2025. So we are now billed for that. We started seeing 10.000 $ of retrieval fees due to that. I did a deep dive and found this.

The fact that some of our DBT projects were re-creating the external tables daily was not helping...
It's giving Daniel Ek a hard-on. Finally, he can replace those arrogant musicians who demand to be paid for their work. /s
WeRoad in a Nutshell
Oops, that'll teach me to read articles properly before commenting, rather than just skimming.
So when is AI going to do useful work no one wants to do instead of doing the art people enjoy doing.
> maybe the 90s was a different time

Yes. There was a great need for anyone with IT knowledge, and the demand was far greater than the available labour.

I remember in 98 I got a job in a (financial) brokerage, and the required skills were:

show up on time
don't leave before stock exchange closed
wear a clean shirt
be a nice to customers (all were affluent)
know how to use conditional formatting in Excel
know how to connect a PC to multiple screens
know how to place different spreadsheets/windows in those different screens

I knew/could do 'more' than that but hey, money was OK, work was 15mins walking distance
Fyi it was Shopify, not Spotify.
Did not get one. Somehow I'm relieved, I would have hated to torture the poor man with beeps :)
But this is not "system prompt"
FTA: “At the 54% tariff rate, the $1,599 cost of the top-end iPhone 16 Pro Max in the United States would have surged to $2,300, calculations based on projections by Rosenblatt Securities show.”

Is that correct? I would think the 54% would be applied not to the sales price in the USA but to the ‘price’ of the imported ‘raw’ material.

With, in this case, Apple ‘buying’ from Apple, I know that’s hard to calculate, but Apple must internally have some way to do that.
do you not think that if China invaded Taiwan, the top minds there would just leave and go elsewhere? the machines they use are built in the Netherlands. I know it's not quite as simple as that, but I don't think it'd be the end of the world like people are saying. I think worse would be the precedent it would set.
> just the syntax becomes unreadable rather quickly. I’m sure you could build a nicer regular-expression syntax in Haskell.

Of course regular expressions are really more of a category of expressions, and the traditional kleene star notation is only one of many options; regular expressions do not somehow inherently need to use that specific syntax.

Pomsky and VerbalExpressions are just some examples of alternative syntaxes for regex. Apparently there is even a port of VerbalExpressions for Haskell:

https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/HaskellVerbalExpression...
If you read the article, you'll get the answer :P
"At the end of the day, this was a fun experiment. Pointless, but fun!"

The best kind of experiments. And sometimes huge innovations/inventions/medicine/progress/more fun will arise from it.
What about the headline is a lie (I do think it may have changed, but I'm not sure after looking at it this morning)?