skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't that partially because even your stove is now connected to the Internet? The attack surface changed from "when I connect my USR modem" to "someone can portscan all of IPv4 in reasonable time"

I do gravely miss the ability to actually have the bits, and will take any steps I can to grab an offline installer if offered
I've suggested (from my lowly layman vantage point) that an LLM has some idea of the fidelity of their response to a query — even if only in broad strokes like, "This answer is tracking with some high probability numbers" or "This answer has a very low correspondence with training data".

To that end the LLM could convey as much.

(Anecdotal, sorry:) I was using Claude (not paid) recently and noticed Claude hedging quite a bit when it had not before. Examples:

"Let me be careful about this response since we're discussing a very specific technical detail ..."

"Given how specific that technical detail is, I want to be transparent that while I aim to be accurate, I may hallucinate such precise historical specifications."

I confess my initial reaction was to ask ChatGPT since the answers are more self-assured, ha ha. So perhaps corporate AI are not likely to try and solve this problem of the LLM telling the user when it is on shaky ground. Bad for business.
This is what they have been doing for years since rsync was released under the GPLv3.
Neither DNG nor various vendor-specific raw formats are meant for tuning an image sensor. They can be used for that in some specific cases, but it's not what they are for. They're for taking photos and providing the user with less opinionated data so they can do the processing of their photos the way they want rather than rely on predefined processing pipeline implemented in the camera.

Despite the name, this is rarely a pure raw stream of data coming from the sensor. It's usually close enough for practical photographic purposes though.
Yep. It's only going to get worse before it gets better, but that's necessary to change the political situation — that's the real "medicine" that we're taking here.

People will only wake up when the economy really hurts. That's why they voted for 47 in the first place, so I hope they're even more awake now.
I'm capable of understanding humanity shares best interests and using lies and deceit to manipulate is harmful to society. It sad you have chosen to believe otherwise. So no I don't agree.
The GPL wiki lists software patents prior to the Tivo clauses, and links to this:

"Early drafts of version 3 of the GNU General Public License (GPLv3) contained several patent retaliation clauses that varied in scope, some of which were later removed due to concerns about their efficacy. The final published version of GPLv3 contains a patent retaliation clause similar to those in the Apache License and Mozilla Public License, which terminates rights granted by the license in response to litigation alleging patent infringement in the software."

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

That would be a significant factor in avoiding GPLv3.
He probably compares a mosaiced RAF with a debayered (linear) DNG. Just... don't do that. Use a mosaiced DNG. And certainly don't embed the RAF file. Plus with lossless JPEG-XL, the difference is trivial (under 5%):

On my own files:

edengate:1$ ls -l
total 163664
-rwx------@ 1 aram staff 40894672 Apr 4 15:25 DSCF1483.RAF
-rw-r--r--@ 1 aram staff 42894224 Apr 7 16:51 DSCF1483.dng
This reminds me of my days programming Lisp. Toward the end of the four years I spent coding Lisp full time, on Symbolics Lisp machines, I got to where I could say, "Hmmmm, I need to do 'X', I'll bet there's a function called 'backward-hacking-smooth-styled-X'" and I was starting to be correct a surprising number of times.

SO: How do you give this knowledge to new folks? Somewhere on the site I saw a treemap (a large rectangle, divided into hundreds of smaller rectangles, in various colors, grouped into larger rectangles...) which was supposed to be... helpful? Prideful (look at what all we've built!)? What I get out of it is a scary nightmare - you'll never find what you want here! There's just too much!

And watching one of the demo videos, where the person is showing how they analyzed and visualized some react code, and dependencies, etc., it was always, "Oh, we want to see it this other way, shazam! we have an awesomely excellent tool that just makes that pop right out! But only if you know the arcane sequence of calls/invisible GUI actions to get to it.

I used the (slightly ridiculous) example of the Lisp function above, to illustrate something. I REALLY REALLY REALLY wish no one had EVER used the phrase, "Intuitive!" about their tool or user interface. There is nothing intuitive about your UI. But! But! But! The Mac! 1984! I had a Mac in 1984, I'm typing on one now (after a decade of wandering in that other wilderness :-) and I'm here to tell you the Mac UI used to be (and still largely is) discoverable.

That's the magic sauce.

It's great that you know the 12,011 functions and tools inside GT. I'm sure you'll come up with some nice trip that takes a user through some tiny percentage of those, and then dumps them out at the end in the middle of a rather large city, where they're now supposed to know where every building is, and what's in those buildings. And speaking from experience, it's wildly frustrating to have a few tools at hand, none of which really help much in some new problem, and no freaking clue how to find relevant stuff, and just wind up grinding through a lot of code in a language you're not really fluent in, and generally giving up on the whole mess and going back to the tools you know.

For one small example: someone wants to do something with a spreadsheet file someone gave them, and can't find anything about "spreadsheet" in the docs... because they don't know to save the spreadsheet in CSV format, and there are tools that work with that.

As someone else mentioned, perhaps having an LLM set up with all the stuff to be a guide might help.

Lisp and Smalltalk aren't written languages, they're oral traditions (yeah yeah yeah, Little Lisper, SICP, but those are just starters, and not for the Lisp dialect you're using anyway). Videos may be a start, but... man, I don't envy your task.

Good luck!
It's a tool and like all tools, it's sensitive to how you use it, and it's better for some purposes than others.

Someone who lacks experience, skill, training, or even the ability to evaluate results may try to use a tool and blame the tool when it doesn't give good results.

That said, the hype around LLMs certainly overstates their capabilities.
> YC and the startup world are pretty good at running young companies

Are they? I just saw a job ad for a YC start-up that proudly explained that "We don't do PRs. We push straight to main multiple times a day." and that "We work onsite, 7 days a week"...all for a company that works in a heavily regulated industry.
I've used GP successfully in a very particular circuit path covering problem.

GA (not GP) is commonly used for hyperparameter choice in deep learning.
Learned Helplessness - Martin Seligman
A Random Walk Down Wall Street - Malkiel
The Millionaire Next Door - Stanley
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

Second the Incerto series by Nassim Taleb
And even worse:

The researchers also highlighted a “survivor effect” in the U.S., where poorer individuals with worse health outcomes were more likely to die earlier, leaving behind a population that is healthier and wealthier as age groups progress. This creates the illusion that wealth inequality decreases over time, when in reality it’s partly due to the early deaths of the poorest Americans.

“Our previous work has shown that while wealth inequality narrows after 65 across the U.S. and Europe, in the U.S. it narrows because the poorest Americans die sooner and in greater proportion,” Papanicolas said.
There's a lot to unpack in your statement but China kneecaps their own purchasing of their goods in order to have cheap exports at the expense of their own civilians. Each country should act in the interest of their own civilians and industries. We can already see from Ukraine that having self-capability to produce your own weaponry is a good though. Producing vehicles is an aspect of that.
The mammoth is the big PR project but Colossal is working on a number of species, and the idea is the research will enable us to easily "de-extinct" or prop up the population of any number of species if and when they're in danger.
This reminds me of Google quick answers we had for a time in search. It is quite funny if you live outside the US, because it very often got the units or numbers wrong because of different decimal delimiters.

No wonder Trump isn't afraid to put taxes against Canada. Who could take a 3.8 sqare miles country seriously?
I hope that's true. In some places there are high chances to be robbed, killed or kidnapped as a tourist. The more wealthy you seem to the criminals, the higher the danger.
This. It's a feature, a well thought out one.
Exactly, though without some sort of parsimony pressure you can end up with rambling programs to interpret.
Incerto is great. I’m constantly amazed by how people identifies completely opposite black swans though to justify completely opposite things when I see it quoted in public though.
But then, this is HN.
Thanks for the question.

You are not supposed to "run" the tool for your program. You start with a question about your program and then build a tool that shows it.

Take a look here at an example of an explanation of a algorithm written in Python (we took Andrej Karpathy's tokenization algorithm):
https://x.com/compose/articles/edit/1822723570574688256

If you want more details of how it fits in the larger picture, take a look at chapter 4 of the book I am writing with Simon Wardley about Moldable Development:
https://medium.com/feenk/rewilding-software-engineering-a360...

If you have time and inclination to look at these, I'd be interested in feedback.
I downloaded a sample RAF file from the internet. It was 16 megapixels, and 34MB in size. I used Adobe DNG Converter, and it created a file that was 25MB in size. It was actually smaller.

Claiming that DNG takes up 4x space doesn't align with any of my own experiences, and it didn't happen on the RAF file that I just tested.
Jeez that is positively evil
Self heating lithium iron phosphate battery [https://battlebornbatteries.com/shop/products/batteries/heat...]
What goes into your sense organs is just as meaningful, and capable of causing unwanted and lasting change or trauma, than what somebody does to your physical body. Intellectual force is no less force than physical force is.

Harassment is just a mild precursor to outright force. Advertising is just a mild precursor to intellectual force. Advertising is to indoctrination as physical harassment is to physical force.
This is an important point. Many people lose sight of the idea that tomorrow doesn't matter if you don't survive today.
SRED and other grants/tax rebates is lifeblood for small tech companies here. Also, you know you're a senior dev when you make the yearly pilgrimage to meet with SRED consultants with architecture diagrams in hand!
Genetic programming with a biologically-inspired virtual machine
In particular, the task requires understanding that one can impact the world through action. This is learned by humans through a constant feedback loop running for months to a year+. The very way we train AIs doesn't seem to teach this agency, only teach the ability to mimic having that agency in ways that we can capture data for (such as online discussions). Will that training eventually give rise to such agency? I'm doubtful with most current models given that the learning process is so disconnected from the execution and that execution is prompted and not inherently on going. Maybe some agent swarm that is always running and always training and upgrading its members could achieve that level of agency, which is why I'm not saying it is impossible, but I expect we are going to have to wait for some newer model that is always running and which is training as it is running to see true agency develop.

Until then, it is a question of if we can capture the appearance of agency in the training set well enough for learn it with training and not depend upon interactions to learn more.
Does this mean we will finally get a Z-Wave enabled ESP32?
Thanks for the explanation. I have to question how reality-based that thinking is. I do not, of course expect you to defend it.

It seems to me that nearly all photographers who are particularly concerned with image quality shoot raw and use third-party processing software. Perhaps that's a decision not rooted firmly in reality, but it would take a massive effort focused on software UX to get very many to switch to first-party software.

> Raw files are where you can compensate for that, with the least impact on image quality. You can have ChrAb correction, applied after the demosaic, but it will be "lossy."

Are you saying that they're baking chromatic aberration corrections into the raw files themselves so that third-party software can't detect it? I know the trend lately is to tolerate more software-correctable flaws in lenses today because it allows for gains elsewhere (often sharpness or size, not just price), but I'm used to seeing those corrections as a step in the raw development pipeline which software can toggle.
I'm unsure we want or need a real Dire Wolf, but American Alsatians have been bred for a while: https://www.marvelousdogs.com/american-alsatian/
Expert used ChatGPT-4o to create a replica of his passport bypassing KYC
Not a Game: Microsoft's "AI Version" of Quake 2
I've only flown Virgin America once. In 2014. Yet here I am in 2025 posting about it on HN. The selectiveness of my memories is weird.
Elon Musk's X to clamp down on parody accounts
This would be particularly useful to reverse engineer the macros.
The anomaly here are AI researchers
It's a sexy looking PCB too!
Europe definitely has nicer cities. IMO the main reason to visit the U.S. is its National Parks. NYC is cool too for the diversity of cultures.
I respectfully disagree that there’s no business opportunity that people are willing to pay for.

If your only target are developers or the tech industry, maybe, but there’s a whole world of non technical business people with problems that have extremely easy (and boring) technical solutions.

I’ve recently signed up my third customer paying $49/mo with a simple CRUD app. No targeted ads or landing pages. I literally walked into offices in my town and asked what the most annoying part of their job is and I made a prototype. They signed a 6 month commitment.

They’re amazed at my “computer skills” only because they don’t know any better.

Not saying I’ll become insanely rich, but my goal is a reasonable living ($200-$300k) within 5 years.

All this to say I think the opportunities in this market are there, but they look different.
Matomo for example has an explanation how to gather data without having to display a banner:
https://matomo.org/faq/new-to-piwik/how-do-i-use-matomo-anal...
> The problem, it turned out, was a simple configuration setting (thank all that is holy) which I recognized immediately. It took me longer to figure out the mouse button thing. So like the proverbial plumber story, I opened my toolbox, took out a small ball peen hammer, tapped the configuration options, and the site popped up online.

That squares with my mental model (and, related to that, my guess half-way through the story was that it was erroneously listening on 127.0.0.1 instead of 0.0.0.0). I also love the plumber analogy. I similarly enjoy the "mechanic's rates": $1 to fix it, $10 if you watch, $100 if you help
It’s still being a stochastic parrot. Now it’s just parroting the human creativity and imagination so I’m still not impressed.

If all you’re going to do is parrot things like human consciousness or human ingenuity then I will never be impressed so long that it’s just parroting.
HR, management…
>I don’t want to look back on my life thinking that I spent all my time chasing fake problems

Neo-liberal capitalist economies are full of fake problems.

Take flash trading for example. I know why it exists, and I know why it works. I don't fault people for getting involved in it, because they (and we) exist in the system we have.

Yet, think of all the money that has gotten both pumped into that industry and the industry has made in profits, and all for...being able to algorithmically trade penny differences in value at a profit due to volume.

Is that a problem that is worth solving? Well, in our current economic system, it is, but should it be?

I don't know whats better per se (I'm not arguing for communism or some other clearly failed economic political system) but I sure feel like I can identify problems that could quite easily fall into the made up category.
We'll perhaps visit them at the zoo.
I wonder if you'd come up with the same summary if you were blinded to the model names.
I think magic is extremely interesting (particularly close-up magic), but I also hate the mindset (which seems to be common though not ubiquitous) that stigmatizes any curiosity in how the trick works.

In my view, the trick as it is intended to appear to the audience and the explanation of how the trick is performed are equal and inseparable aspects of my interest as a viewer. Either one without the other is less interesting than the pair.
I wish Libreoffice didn't support all this legacy weirdness.
I got my first fixed IP address and always-on Internet connection in 1995 and I don't particularly miss the dial-up times before that. I prefer to have everything connected and online all the time, but also with proper security.
Ahh I absolutely love this idea of trying to infuse more emotional and fuzzy attributes to see what the LLM comes up with!

When I broke out the layout and style components I was thinking of being able to change the whole site aesthetic from something like "standard b2b" to "geocities fan page", but I'm excited to try getting fuzzier with the descriptions!
Nice point!

The graphical part is one source of difference, but there others as well. For example, chapter 4 in the Rewilding Software Engineering that Simon Wardley and I are writing compares what we call defined explorations (as seen in Jupyter notebooks) with dynamic explorations (as experienced in Glamorous Toolkit):
https://medium.com/feenk/rewilding-software-engineering-a360...
This comment shows great understanding and experience. Too often engineers treat work like their pet/FOSS project and forget it's a business, and businesses are in business to make money, not pretty code bases.
The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter.
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Ask HN: I'm an MIT senior and still unemployed – and so are most of my friends
I'm a senior at MIT studying Course 6 (EECS), and I'm graduating soon with no job lined up. I've applied to tons of places, done interviews, built side projects, but nothing has landed—and it's not just me. A lot of my classmates, some of the smartest and hardest-working people I know, are also unemployed or under incredible stress trying to figure things out.

It's honestly demoralizing. I came to MIT hoping to build a better life—not just for myself, but for my family. Now I’m facing the very real possibility of moving back home to an unstable and abusive environment while continuing to job hunt. The thought alone is crushing. I’ve even considered staying for an MEng just to avoid going home, but I’m completely burnt out and have no thesis direction.
MIT gave me freedom, food security, friends, a bed of my own for the first time. It changed everything. But now that graduation’s here, it feels like it’s all slipping away.

If you've been through something similar—late job search success, unexpected turns that worked out, or just any advice—I’d really appreciate it. What helped you push through when it felt like the system failed you?

Thanks for reading.
Tax returns is once a year, which is okay. I see my bosses having to do paperwork every week...
I only "store" my webserver's logs and user submitted comments. But someone can still put the legal pressure on me, a random person, to force me to do work to turn over those logs/etc. It's wild. Like having a security camera, hosting a BBQ for the neighborhood, and having a neighbor demand access to the recorded video with legal threats. This whole thing really only makes sense in the context of for-profit incorporated persons. It should not apply to me, a random human person.
Some time, take someone who's interested in GT, and sit them down in front of the system and capture video of them using it. And don't tell them a thing. Just watch them interact with the system. See how long it takes them to get stuck in some particular way, or get the UI into some weird state they don't understand. Bring them back, tell them one thing to get them going, and then shut up entirely again and see how far they get.

It's just so incredibly hard to remember that "beginner mind", that you really have to see it in action to understand just how much is in your brain, that you don't even realize.

That exercise will probably help your book more than anything.
> …I think it's important to remember that much of the data is stored because we don't know what we will need later.

This is the basic argument that every hoarder uses to justify their hoarding.
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Ask that to the US companies that were relying on Canada, I suppose.

A partnership goes both ways. Caring about a partner is caring about yourself.
I’m sure Trump announcing that he’s considering defaulting on the debt and the 10Y up to its yield from last Monday is all part of the plan too.

Acting like investors won’t reprice treasures as “not the risk free rate” if it’s being transparently manipulated by the government is bad analysis.
>but yeah, in general devs have nothing to complain about.

I respectfully disagree. I think there's alot of room for improvement in our industry, even in regards to pay we could do better. Think of the value delivered per engineer vs what they're paid, the ratio is typically very high, meaning engineers are paid a fraction of what value they provide.
Almost any UK/US legislation is purposely written to be interpreted though
I've always been fascinated by the history and technology of microcomputers. It's similar to how enthusiasts feel about classic muscle cars. With microcomputers, you can understand every aspect of the technology, from the transistors and gates on the silicon to the components on the board, and all the way up to computer languages and the user interface. It feels like I could work on any part of it with just a bit of time.
My daily driver is an M4, and I find any new trend in computing worth exploring. However, my retro computers always keep me company.