skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The entire republican party setup a self-fullfilling prophecy of distrust, deep state, etc etc.
"These are not serious people"
I really miss some kind of organization. I can't find a most downloaded page, or even some recommendations lists.
There is nothing attractive about c++ or rust, I really don't understand how anyone can think so, it has to be some sort of Stockholm syndrome. Think about it, before you started programming what about your experiences would make you appreciate the syntax soup of rust and c++?
I'm a fan of CHIPS, but let's not pretend that doesn't have some geo-political externalities as well.

We're going to be paying a steep price for trying to shove the (outsourcing real manufacturing) genie back in the bottle. Either we put it all on the National Debt IoU or we cold turkey our cheap good addiction.
I’m confident from PoV of any judge, the waiter in question gets paid for serving meals.

Similarly, a man purchasing physical stuff is giving money in exchange for the goods as opposed to advertisement services. Classic contract of sale of physical goods, nothing even slightly ambiguous.

It’s the same with ordering a sign. “Exchanging money in order to promote a product” doesn’t happen because manufacturing the sign is not a promotion. To promote something using a sign, you would need to post the sign in a publicly visible place. Manufacturing a sign and giving it to your client in private doesn’t promote the product shown on the sign.
What kind of protest do you imagine could stop Trump from being Trump? His own staff tried that for four years (2016-2020) and made next to no progress.

Now he's surrounded himself with enablers, and the Dems won't even make a real effort to oppose the stuff he's doing.
I have never attended an event, concert, protest, or volunteered my time based on ads. I have based on community event calendars, upcoming event calendars that while they may have taken money for placement (which they should have been required to disclose but probably didn't) had plenty of free listings. The main time I've used ads for 'things to do' is on vacation and have found the ad promoted stuff generally not a useful indicator and had just as good of luck with the service we randomly found on our own (thinking things like sailing/snorkeling excursions in Hawaii, Costa Rica).
> storage is so cheap that being wasteful with it isn't really disincentivized

I think another way of phrasing that is usage is correctly incentivised. In the example you give, the value to debugging is more than the cost of storage — and even if that’s not the case it’s so low-priority that it might not even be on your list of priorities anymore!

That literally means that it’s worth your limited, valuable time to do something else.
To add on another pitfall: iterator invalidation. In C++ you generally aren't allowed to modify a container while you're iterating through it, because it may re-allocate the memory and leave dangling pointers in the iterator, but the compiler doesn't check this. Rust's lifetime analysis closes this particular issue.

(Basically, the 'newer' C++ features do help a little with memory safety, but it's still fairly easy to trip up even if you restrict your own code from 'dangerous' operations. It's not at all obvious that a useful memory-safe subset of C++ exists. Even if you were to re-write the standard library to correct previous mistakes, it seems likely you would still need something like the borrow checker once you step beyond the surface level).
“Energy as work” is a very rough proxy if you’re not taking efficiency into account.

e.g. Half of the energy spent by homes is an heating/cooling, and with technology that exists today (heat pumps, better insulation, smarter home design and ventilation, etc.) you could probably reduce the total energy used there by close to an order of magnitude if it was applied everywhere.
A couple years ago I spent about 2 hours trying to install this, crawling obscure dependencies, configs, special IDEs, etc before I gave up.
Likely TCL
> > npm install ai

> How is this allowed/possible in npm? Don't they have mandatory namespaces?

No, scopes (i.e., namespaces) aren’t mandatory for public packages on npm. If a name is available, it’s yours. Sometimes, some folks have published packages that are either empty or not used, so you can reach out to them to ask them to pass it on to you. At least a few times, I’ve had someone reach out to me asking for a package I had published years ago that I did nothing with and I passed it on to them.
Academic Cycle
In a similar vein, there is Wikisource.[0] Wikisource has the advantage of allowing for extensive formatting to closely match the source works due to its wiki-based format, but doesn't have quite as robust processes. Its flexibility is unparalleled though -- it covers virtually any form of scanned print work and even some old movies, and contributors can focus on whatever niches they're interested in if they want.

[0] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page
??? This complaint seems more than 20 years too late

Arithmetic is built into POSIX shell, and it's universally implemented. The following works in basically every shell, and starts 0 new processes, not 2:

$ bash -c '[ $((1 + 1)) = 2 ]; echo $?'
0
$ zsh -c '[ $((1 + 1)) = 2 ]; echo $?'
0
$ busybox ash -c '[ $((1 + 1)) = 2 ]; echo $?'
0

YSH (part of https://oils.pub/ ) has a more familiar C- or JavaScript-like syntax:

$ ysh -c 'if (1 + 1 === 2) { echo hi }'
hi

It also has structured data types like Python or JS:

$ echo '{"foo": 42}' > test.json
$ ysh
ysh-0.28$ json read < test.json
ysh-0.28$ echo "next = $[_reply.foo + 1]"
next = 43

and floats, etc.

$ echo "q = $[_reply.foo / 5]"
q = 8.4

https://oils.pub/release/latest/doc/ysh-tour.html (It's probably more useful for scripting now, but it's also an interactive shell)
> Their staffers are in the discussions

I'm sure they are in some discussions, I'm sure both staffers and elected officials are in others, and I'm sure elected officials have some without their staff.

> A "top secret business discussion" in Washington, are you kidding me?

There are those, of course; the incredulity you typed isn't evidence otherwise. But I was referring to top secret discussions that affect businesses; for example, the armed services committees have secret meetings about things that greatly affect companies in the defense industry.
Don't forget Monday futures are limit down.

NASDAQ
Fri Close Mon Open Change
18,656.47 16,746.00 -1,910.47
https://www.cnbc.com/pre-markets/

You can hope for a relief rally Tuesday after they hit the circuit breakers.
Original post here:

https://zeropath.com/blog/on-recent-ai-model-progress
Non partisan take, in every circumstance coding errors are a euphemism for “leadership is humiliated by the outcome and wants to shirk responsibility”.
METR: Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks
I asked Google "how many golf balls can fit in a Boeing 737 cabin" last week. The "AI" answer helpfully broke the solution into 4 stages;
1) A Boeing 737 cabin is about 3000 cubic metres [wrong, about 4x2x40 ~ 300 cubic metres]
2) A golf ball is about 0.000004 cubic metres [wrong, it's about 40cc = 0.00004 cubic metres]
3) 3000 / 0.000004 = 750,000 [wrong, it's 750,000,000]
4) We have to make an adjustment because seats etc. take up room, and we can't pack perfectly. So perhaps 1,500,000 to 2,000,000 golf balls final answer [wrong, you should have been reducing the number!]

So 1) 2) and 3) were out by 1,1 and 3 orders of magnitude respectively (the errors partially cancelled out) and 4) was nonsensical.

This little experiment made my skeptical about the state of the art of AI. I have seen much AI output which is extraordinary it's funny how one serious fail can impact my point of view so dramatically.
He's bound to stop by a link to his own product.
Gotta disagree. The most disruptive up and comers seem to get there through word of mouth. I mean look at Figma. I haven't seen a single Figma ad since they began as a company (they probably exist somewhere) but they really rocketed off through word of mouth among the design community. Pretty sure slack was similar in this regard. Both disrupters.

I have no actual evidence of this always being the case but I would imagine given the fact the nature of a disrupter is that they're usually operating on principles of delivering a better product but without the budget to go crazy with advertising, they have to find more grassroots methods of market penetration.
Have you tried gemini 2.5? It's one of the best reasoning models. Available free in google ai studio.
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When I get asked questions like this I now answer "Well this is a community project so feel free to get involved to improve the situation".

And that's the last I ever hear from them!
It's pretty simple: sorting through the data to determine which 90% is crap is more expensive and uses more of our scarce resources than just storing it all.
yeah, sorry, I don't want optimal dark patterns.

We got enough of that atm.
Yes. I'm seeding about 30TB. I've dug into it and it's as advertised.
I evaluated D1 for a project a few months ago, and found that global performance was pretty terrible. I don't know what exactly the issue with their architecture is, but if you look at the time-to-first-byte numbers here[1], you can see that even for the D1 demo database the numbers outside Europe are abysmal, and even within Europe having a TTFB of > 200ms isn't great.

This post helps understand some basic DB pitfalls for frontend developers, but I wouldn't use D1 regardless. If you can figure out how to use D1 as a frontend dev, you can use a hosted Postgres solution and get much more power and performance.

[1] https://speedvitals.com/ttfb-test?url=https://northwind.d1sq...
I mentioned it because it's the best example. One example is enough to disprove the "not capable of". There are other examples too.

>I think AstroBen was pointing out that LLMs, despite having the ability to solve some very impressive mathematics and programming tasks, don't seem to generalize their reasoning abilities to a domain like chess. That's surprising, isn't it?

Not really. The LLMs play chess like they have no clue what the rules of the game are, not like poor reasoners. Trying to predict and failing is how they learn anything. If you want them to learn a game like chess then how you get them to learn it - by trying to predict chess moves. Chess books during training only teach them how to converse about chess.
He'd love to call in the National Guard and gun down a few hundred "terrorists".
Send a few thousand more of them to El Salvador and MAGA will celebrate.
I really can't believe that someone who frequents Hacker News can ask this question.

If by any chance this is a legit question, i feel the answer would be too obvious: asking people, googling, going to a store you think could sell the thing you want, etc. There are many many pretty obvious ways of finding out about stuff, without needing to have a corporation "reach out" to me and shove their shit everywhere in the form of ads.
I reposted it for other people.
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> The "Full self driving" system is causing accidents (and deaths)

Well yeah, and so is every other driver on the road. That is not the relevant metric. The real question is whether or not it is safer than the average driver. Or safer than great aunt Marge who doesn't have the best eyesight or hearing, but somehow still has a drivers license.
I couldn't agree more - the data stored in data centers have "some" value, otherwise people wouldn't pay to host it. This author anecdotally comments about his experience while pearl clutching about the environment, typical.
True, I should add the wrapping types. They are actually quite useful if you know that you have a fixed range of values and you can't go above the min/max. Like a volume dial that just would stay at "max" if you turn up the volume; it wouldn't wrap around.
I think that repeats your GP comment? I have the same response - what are your subsequent thoughts?
I dunno, there's not much about my previous experience that would indicate much one way or the other. I have found, though, that I tend to prefer slightly denser, heterogeneous code and syntax than average. Low-syntax languages like Haskell and Lisps make my head hurt because the code is so formless it becomes hard for me to parse, while languages with more syntax and symbols are easier (though, there is a limit, APL,k, etc, are a little far I find)
I wonder what this guy thinks about Internet Archive?
> In general it is a good practice to assume other parties are making a good faith effort

This has never been true for this administration, which A) already had a previous term to show us how incompetent its leaders are, and B) is working from a decades-old playbook of making government more dysfunctional so that people lose faith in it and want to eliminate it.
At this point the question is why the iMac still comes with the mouse. The Magic Trackpad is much better and all of Apple's software is designed for it.
About 160 million people either actively voted for this or couldn't be bothered to vote so ostensibly think this is ok. This is what the vast majority wants.
current AI models are searching engines that can somewhat extrapolate data and use in the current context, that's pretty much it
TSA (more accurately - CBP, more generally - DHS) contract out the hard engineering to Cellebrite and NSO Group. Those companies develop a dumb-proof box. The CBP agents at the border take the phones, plug them to the box, press a few buttons, and that’s it.

No one in the TSA/CBP/ICE/DHS needs to be smart for this, that’s the job of private engineering firms/contractors.
The math of brewing a better espresso (2020)
Directories would be advertising. All your proposing is a world where first comer world by default have a stranglehold on the market. It's a dystopia.

Outside I can agree with and prefer Billboard free areas but you choose it online. You choose to use services that are funded by advertising. They are all optional so why don't you choose not to use them?
Only reason I keep brave browser installed in iOS is to block ads for YouTube vids
While I think what proposed will never happen, this item is full of interesting debate.
As you have listed advanced democracies with figurehead relics of monarchy, we agree!
If a coding error can ruin people's lives like this than you're doing it wrong
Areas where the problem space is continuous but the solution model isn't differentiable.

An example would be a neural network over a discrete field.

Back at university I played around with boolean neural networks and this was one way of training them directly.
That's what I said, with additional context and links.

However, commercial speech is not fully protected by the First Amendment.

E.g., In TV beer ads, no one is actually allowed to drink beer. And there are many more restrictions on commercial speech as well.

N.B., this is in the US. I can't speak for anywhere else.
Yeah, but I didn't use a Mac back then. And early 2000's web development was heavily biased towards IE.
DOGE did take DOD's AutoRIF which was meant to assist with RIF calculations and modify it. It was also required to be reviewed by a human before initiating any actual separations with it, though DOGE probably went the efficient route and did a "lgtm" rubber stamp on it without looking. However it was just meant to do calculations based on RIF requirement (years in service, veterans preference stuff, and the like) not make any unsupervised decisions based on it.
20 years doesn't even get you back to the last century, it's more like 48 years since 1977 when Bourne wrote sh. As one of the authors of the Unix Haters Handbook, published relatively recently in 1994, and someone who's used many versions of Unix since the 1980's, of course I'm fully aware that those problems are hell of a lot more than 20 years old, and that's the whole point: we're still suffering from their "vestigial historic baggage", arcane syntax and semantics originally intended to fork processes and pipe text to solve trivial tasks instead of using shared libraries and machine instructions to perform simple math operations, and people are still trying to justify all that claptrap as the "Unix Philosophy".

Care to explain to me how all the problems of X-Windows have been solved so it's no longer valid to criticize the fallout from its legacy vestigial historic baggage we still suffer from even today? How many decades ago did they first promise the Year of the Linux Desktop?

The X-Windows Disaster: This is Chapter 7 of the UNIX-HATERS Handbook. The X-Windows Disaster chapter was written by Don Hopkins.

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/the-x-windows-disaster-128d39...

Why it took THREE processes and a shitload of context switches and punctuation that we are still stuck with to simply test if 1 + 1 = 2 in classic Unix [TM]:

[ "$(expr 1 + 1)" -eq 2 ]

Breakdown:

expr 1 + 1

An external program used to perform arithmetic.

$(...) (Command substitution)

Runs expr in a subshell to capture its output.

[ ... ]

In early shells, [ (aka test) was also an external binary.

It took THREE separate processes because:

Unix lacked built-in arithmetic.

The shell couldn't do math.

Even conditionals ([) were external.

Everything was glued together with fragile text and subprocesses.

All of this just to evaluate a single arithmetic expression by ping-ponging in and out of user and kernel space so many times -- despite the CPU being able to do it in a single cycle.

That’s exactly the kind of historical inefficiency the "Unix Philosophy" retroactively romanticizes.
Who is paying for Google to run the search system or maps in this world?
It makes me sad to realize that it was possible that the GPL was necessary to bootstrap free software culture and that we no longer need it now that we've won.
Google doesn't exist in this world remember
Wrong. It is tough.

But most jobs are tough - in some way.

Software Engineering is one of the most information-volatile industries in history that I can think of.

You have to aggressively keep pace with potentially, and I’m guessing here, the fastest shifting industry in history in terms of practices and knowledge and improvements.

Not only that, it is constant failure and obstacles - bugs, frameworks, features, platforms, what have you - and constant layers of abstraction. A lot of the time you cannot visualise any outputs.

Software Engineering is a highly skilled industry, and probably the most competitive industry in the world, with a very high rate of uncertainty and layoffs and change. We are working with some of the most complex systems created by man in history.

I don’t think you can make a broad generalisation that we are coddled lol. Software Engineers in the USA in certain population centres earn a large salary, sure, but look overseas and comparatively that is not the case.

Seriously, by what metric is Software Engineering one of the easiest careers? I’d like to hear your viewpoint because I think it’s so off-base that I must be missing something.

It has its definite perks like work from home.

But Software is up there as one of the toughest knowledge-worker industries there is.

There are much tougher careers like anything Electrical Engineering, but by no yardstick is Software easy
> Every VP thinks their idea for a feature will revolutionize the company.

Now imagine that everyone of them is given a tool that could get them an POC quickly. I think a lot VPs are about to figure out that their ideas are shit.
You seem to be confused. Domino had little to do with OS/2. OS/2 was once one of the supported platforms for Domino (along with several others), but IBM continued active Domino development for many years after they gave up on OS/2. The "old greybeards" who built Domino came from Iris Associates which was completely separate from the team that built OS/2.
Yep, the ‘ol ”my finger slipped and I accidentally pushed ‘select * from table;’ instead of a complex and thoughtful set of filters”

That type. It happens, we’ve all been there
There isn't a lot more there anyway. The breaker triggers at 8% changes on either direction, and was triggered at ~4:30 am (Tokyo).

The exchange is open now anyway, so you can look how it's going.
You can have that now if you subscribe to Kagi but it costs money to operate and use. So without advertising you're choosing to make it impossible for poorer people to search.
OK, so it's like Python notebooks and Smalltalk. so it's like this dynamic thing for transforming data in a rapid feedback, ad hoc, exploratory fly-by-the-seat-of-your pants way. OK. why talk about "capturing domain knowledge" in videos where you're just making a class and sticking a variable in it? what does the class even do anyway if it's just a name with a field that's a bag of data?
It's either an actual 'coding error' because DOGE doesn't actually understand WTF they're doing or it's what you're suggesting.

So it's Incompetence or Malice. Pick your poison.
>If an LLM is trained for chess then its performance would just come from memorization, not any kind of "reasoning".

If you think you can play chess at that level over that many games and moves with memorization then i don't know what to tell you except that you're wrong. It's not possible so let's just get that out of the way.

>These companies are shouting that their products are passing incredibly hard exams, solving PHD level questions, and are about to displace humans, and yet they still fail to crush a random-only strategy chess bot? How does this make any sense?

Why doesn't it ? Have you actually looked at any of these games ? Those LLMs aren't playing like poor reasoners. They're playing like machines who have no clue what the rules of the game are. LLMs learn by predicting and failing and getting a little better at it, repeat ad nauseum. You want them to learn the rules of a complex game ? That's how you do it. By training them to predict it. Training on chess books just makes them learn how to converse about chess.

Humans have weird failure modes that are odds with their 'intelligence'. We just choose to call them funny names and laugh about it sometimes. These Machines have theirs. That's all there is to it. The top comment we are both replying to had gemini-2.5-pro which released less than 5 days later hit 25% on the benchmark. Now that was particularly funny.
>The opinion overturning Valentine noted that 30 years of jurisprudence since Valentine had arrived at a consensus that Valentine sure was pretty dumb. Not just Burger's court.

And the opinions on Gruen v. New York, Dobbs v. Jackson, Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, and especially on point, Citizen's United all broke with long precedent and turned things upside down. No amendments to repeal/change, just a different set of folks on SCOTUS.

And those were pretty dumb. So perhaps we'll have some improvement eventually, although I probably won't live to see it. And more's the pity.

Edit: Added conclusion.
I work at a large corporation, but one that only has 6% of Apple’s annual revenue. Even the emails we send to end users get a review from the legal team prior to us hitting send.

Yeah, there are some assumptions which can be made about licenses and their suitability for our purposes, but no serious organization is touching that code until there has been a full audit of those license terms and the origin of every commit to the repository.
> Wonder if this is what it was like in the months preceding the _2008 subprime mortage crisis_

Some people were warning about possible problems in the markets, but no, in general the media were chugging along as normal, they're most excitable when they're either against the ruling force or there's blood in the water. This reminds me of 2016-2020.
What an awesome story and very well told. Brings me back to the old days and put a smile on my face. Thanks for sharing.
The quotation marks in this article are under a heavy load.

Blaming people you just fired for a mistake you made firing people is as timeless as it is pathetic.