skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I have used it in good faith. A few months ago I was part of a small team at my company tasked to evaluate AI solutions like copilot to see if they are useful to us and could speed development and such

For a couple of week tryout period I tried to use it in my daily workflow pretty heavily. I came away with the impression that it is a neat toy, but not really ready to be a full time tool for me. The other evaluators agreed and our recommendation to our leadership was "This is not really ready for prime time and while it is impressive it probably isn't really worth the cost"

Anyways fast forward and we're getting AI usage OKRs now, being pushed down on us by non-technical leadership, and what I call "formerly technical" leadership. People who did tech 20 years ago but really don't know what working modern tech is like since they've been in management for too long

So yes. I'm definitely negatively biased, and I'm fine to admit that. I absolutely resent having this stuff forced down on me from leaders that are buying the hype despite being told it is probably not ready to be a daily driver

And I'm seeing the hype spreading through the company, being told by junior devs how amazing it is when I am still iffy on their abilities.

And the absolute worst is when I build a cool proof of concept in an afternoon and everyone is like "wow, AI let you do that so fast now!" and I'm like no, this is just what a good developer can build quickly

So yeah, I'm pretty negative on AI right now. I can still admit the tech itself is impressive, amazing even, and there is no doubt in my mind I could probably find some use for it daily

But I think it is going to be a disaster, because people cannot be trusted to use it responsibly

The social impact is going to be absolutely catastrophic. In some ways it already is

Edit: I am also not really sure why I am supposed to be enthusiastic about technology that business leaders are fairly transparently hoping will make my skillset redundant or at best will make me more productive but I will never realistically see a single extra dollar from the increased productivity
OK so it's firmly in the "not reasonable" territory for tourists. Just pay cash or credit card. Tourists aren't going to wait a while for a Brazilian tax id then use a Brazilian bank account before their trip. Just to select Pix as your payment method instead of card you already have in the Uber app.

This isnt a take down of Pix. Sounds excellent and should be replicated in other countries. Lets just not pretend its a viable solution for tourists.
> They raise the 2 year above the 10 year to slow the economy

Who is the the "they" here? The government does not set 2 year or 10 year rates, they are priced by auction for new issues and priced by the market for secondary transactions.
It does seem like CSP nonces do not play well with caching (since they must have a different value on each page load), which would make them a detriment to performance.
Du you pay any news organisations to do that? Do you pay any for anything at all?

If you don't pay, your opinion of what they should do does not matter.
Ice never worked for me. https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden is the only thing I could make on my Mac work for some reason. I think https://github.com/Mortennn/Dozer didn't work either for me (well, it used to then it stopped after a Mac update or so).

Anyway, after 15.4 update yesterday a lot of things are misbehaving for me including miraculous battery drains.
> In all fairness, most of those jobs would still exist if manufacturing was brought onshore.

Yes, if you waved a magic wand.

But considering bringing manufacturing onshore to replace Asian manufacturing will take at best years if not decades, no, those jobs will not still exist.
Every decade or so we just forget that in-band signaling is a bad idea and make all the same mistakes again it seems. 1960s phone companies at least had the excuse of having to retrofit their control systems onto existing single-channel lines, and run the whole operation on roughly the processing power of a pocket calculator. What's our excuse?
I'd say this is more satire than propaganda.
I guess that's a fine distinction I don't make. If the problem requires the AI to write a prolog program to solve, and it is capable of writing the necessary prolog code, then I don't see the practical or philosophical difference from taking the transitive step and saying the AI solved it. If I asked you to solve an air traffic control problem and you did so by writing prolog, no one would try to claim you weren't capable of solving it.

Agentic LLMs can solve complicated reasoning and scheduling problems, by writing special-purpose solutions (which might resemble the things we call GOFAI). It's the nature of AGI--which LLMs assuredly are--that they can solve problems by inventing specialized tools, just as we do.
I think that's fine, but I would expect people to have a realistic appraisal of their skillset (or lack of skillset) -- it's the self knowledge gap and false confidence which is the problem.
For me this glosses over on why would see the same 100% markup on the customs duties as they rise. A 100% at a low tariff rate is just pricing in the increased paperwork and accounting, but at a super-high tarrif rate this become pretty unjustifiable. Why is not more likely customs becomes mostly a passthrough cost?
The reference to El Capitan, is a competitor.
It's only in a somewhat unique situation if people the US is willing and able to stomach a large-scale war, and people believe that to be so, and that belief has also dropped dramatically.
minor, OT, pet peeve: the top/top-left logo at docs.example.net and support.example.net virtual hosts should link to www.example.net/index.html, not docs.example.net/wiki/Main_Page. Or at least the //wiki/Main_Page should have a text link in giant letters to http://www.example.net/ if for any reasons it's not trivial to hotlink the logo to the landing page.

I often stumble upon docs for interesting things from searches and social media, and then sometimes have to Google by product name from very document page. It's just a small thing. I can't be alone here in that regard.
IIRC last year Trump threatened to tariff PRC at 150% if they invaded Taiwan. I guess at 200%, PRC would invade to get a 50% off.
This doesn't say anything about the protocol other than what would be obvious (a JSON card describing the agent's schema) and that it will use http (such a safe, but low-effort bet). I was hoping for more, but with so many cooks in the kitchen, I guess I'm not surprised.
Notes are just means to an end
Gnu and its associated tech is basically shit. Its arcane, awkward, and sometimes self-defeating aspects is only matched by its ugly naming. Stallman’s obsession with purity over pragmatism has kept GNU projects stagnant. I don't think it's the terminal interface that is a problem. The entire smell is unapproachable and just plain weird for real-world users and devs.

Look at thus coreutils guide: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/#mailinglists

This is for general help. Mailing lists. Can you think of a less productive way to manage this type of information? Sending an email to the void and siloing it in a specific reader? No HTML allowed?

Yes, "man" pages are annoying to use and not helpful but that's been true for decades. Have you tried apropos? Does git really need to be so difficult?

I understand creating a barrier to entry but does that even work? Has it been effective in increasing the quality of Linux tooling? Is Linux even a good ecosystem? When you see modern projects like systemd, what do you think?
As long as they stay that way.
Wasn't XML supposed to be this holy grail of interop as well?
Neovim supports use as a manpager:

export MANPAGER="nvim +Man!"

You get all the vim movement/search and highlighting.
Jetbrains is Russian. They relocated to Czech to wash their face.
I trust humans more than LLM's. They're like whatever was most popular mixed with hallucinations. I can gauge human credibility better.

I usually search for specific terms, often in quotes. My extra terms are variations on how people might word the question or answer.

Over time, I notice many sites are reliable for specific topics. I'll use site: operator to limit the search to them initially. If it's a research paper, adding "paper" and PDF usually links to it immediately. If government, it's often on a .gov page. And so on.

Search works well for me with these techniques for most of my needs. There has certainly even a drop in quality, with an increase in work, due to them optimizing for what generates ad clicks. That gives me a lot of sites that appear to be helpful but actually arent. I can usually spot and weed them out in one session for a given topic, though, since click farm sites are recognizable (intuitable) once you're used to them.

Finally, I try to follow the law since my Savior, Jesus Christ, requires it where possible. A.I.'s are usually trained with massive copyright infringement with outputs that may be copyright infringement. Search engines link me to the content creator to use directly. The creator also often says if they want it shared or how which I try to respect when I see it mentioned.
Actually, that sounds brilliant. The only problem is taking into account those that are not good at public speaking.

Is your company hiring?
This video is very good.
https://youtu.be/EzDsrEvdgNQ?si=EWp3U1GMkwg1bMQQ

One thing i'd add is that generating the tokens at the target resolution from the start is no longer the only approach to autoregressive image generation.

Rather than predicting each patch at the target resolution right away, it starts with the image (as patches) at a very small resolution and increasingly scales up.
Paper here - https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02905
I think us and Modular have incredibly similar visions of the end state of the world. The main difference is that they require devs to learn a new programming language (Mojo), whereas Function is designed to meet devs exactly where they are--not an inch away.

More fundamental than that is that Mojo has somewhat of a built-in assumption (I'm a bit more skeptical) that they can outperform silicon OEMs like Nvidia using MLIR (Mojo is designed as a front-end to MLIR). We have a much more conservative view: we'll rely on silicon OEMs to give us libraries we can use to accelerate things like inference; and we'll provide devs the ability to inspect and modify the generated code (C++ atm, Rust soon).

TL;DR: Devs don't have to learn anything with Function. Devs have to learn Mojo and MLIR to use Modular's offerings properly.
Hidden social & emotional competencies in autism spectrum disorders:digital lens
If A2A doesn't bring in ad revenue, it will be in the graveyard in a year or two.
Success! Coffee through nose achieved.

Printouts, usually many of them, are the original "overlapping windows".
Wasp Launch Week #9: The road to 1.0
The Fed doesnt set the rate of the 2 year or any other treasury. They effectively put a floor on the price of the shortest dated treasuries by setting the overnight rate, but the longer dated the treasury, the less effect the federal funds rate has on it.
MCP is stateful. They are currently developing stateless support. https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol...
> flouride doesn't help much: people still get tooth rot

Source? I've not heard the efficacy of fluoride debated, just it's toxicity.
> Hiring a software engineer can be significantly simplified with A2A collaboration.

Holy shit.. NO!
You give way too much credit to the types of companies that get YC funding. I’ve seen a lot of meh corporate jobs posted here with corp dev type wages.
Yes, the goal is for everyone to be doing the thing they can do most cheaply and then trading with everyone else. Karl Marx and Ludwig von Mises would agree on this point. The idea that the Westphalian state should get in the middle of this is the aberation. The only reason national security is a consideration is because of the nations. I don't care if my shoes are made in Asia, though I suspect they wouldn't be if we paid Asian shoemakers an honest, globally-clearing wage.
Self-sufficiency is irrelevant to the discussion above. If prices go up, Americans can buy less, and the number of non-manufacturing jobs at these companies will go down.
We used to log “Sun-likes” with a garage telescope, a Commodore 64, and a lot of guesswork. If it looked yellow and didn’t blink, it made the list. Half of them were porch lights, but we stood by our catalog.
i dont understand how it is different from mcp. The blog just says "A2A is an open protocol that complements Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP), which provides helpful tools and context to agents." There is no example or anything on how does it complement it
you are too late already... there are now mcp servers that wrap other mcp servers in a single mcp interface... mmcp
Complete different reasoning, choosing Go instead of Kotlin would mean rewrite from scratch 100% of Android userspace, minus the C++ libraries for Treble drivers, graphics and ART toolchain.

And Google did do exactly that with Fucshia, which doesn't seem to be going to power anything beyond Nest screens.
I was expecting a gazillion percent.
In pretty much any active telegram group or discord for a crypto project

And if you start your own community, people come out of the woodwork early on or after any AMA session

Outside of that there are job boards and word of mouth
Humans have brought with them the ability to dramatically change ecosystems on timescales far shorter than usually seen without them (exceptions being volcanic eruptions etc).

These short timescales mean that the mechanism of natural selection and evolution do not have time to adjust ecosystems to changes, so they can collapse rapidly.
I can ask Claude 3.7 to write me a program that does SAT solving, theorem proving, or scheduling, and it generally gets it right on the first try.
No expert but:

From day 1 OPEC has been a loose association off frenemies that occasionally manage to work together for a while when enough of them are sufficiently hurting/greedy at the same time. They break due to producer rivalries every few years.

Oil in the ground is marginally more valuable than pie in the sky. There is nearly unlimited oil in the ground, but you have to find it, extract it, and show a profit after you subtract your expenses. Each step is harder than the last. Saudi oil is like $10 a barrel to produce. You can practically dig it up with a shovel. And it's high quality...a benchmark grade that a lot of the world's refineries are set up for. Much of Venezuelas oil is deep underwater and/or garbage quality. Think huge expensive deep water oil rigs and pumping high pressure kerosene into the ground to loosen up the tar/oil sands enough to get a nasty chunky sandy sludge out of the ground that a lot of refineries can't even process. And it doesn't help that they're under sanctions and don't domestically produce a lot of the equipment they need to extract their oil. And rampant corruption. Venezuela's massive reserves have equally massive challenges turning into profitable oil production.
For every site doing that, there are 10 sites pretending to do that, with various levels of quackery.

It makes sense to be wary at first.
How can the FED buy their own bonds?
Wonder if Oleary is going to run for PM again. Is he elated he may have a chance now that Trump got reelected, or pissed that he's going to be unelectable because... Trump got reelected.
It seems the industry as a whole just forgot about prompt injection attacks because RLHF made models really good at rejecting malicious requests. Still, I wonder if there have been any documented cases of prompt attacks.
I would also suggest that man pages need examples. Oftentimes, what is required, and how it is required, is not very clear, and examples would go a long way towards helping people more. Granted, some man pages do have examples, but not near enough do.
Also worth noting that we're better positioned for the coming wave of LLMs writing the vast majority of code in production. Function is designed specifically for LLMs to do the transpilation step (Function simply provides rails to stack these unitary operations into user-defined functions).

Mojo has a cold-start problem here, cos there isn't enough Mojo code in the wild for LLMs to be great at writing it in volume (compare this to C++ and Rust).
Triggered by your "modern format" comment, if my sleuthing is correct, the mdoc format was first introduced with "4.4BSD" from 1995, with a major update in the early 2000s', whereas HTML was first conceptualized in the 80's with a first major release in the early 90's; mdoc IS the modern format.

Granted, it may not be the ideal format for documentation, but I'd argue neither is HTML - too much cruft for reading in a terminal and not very ergonomic to type out. I'd argue markdown or something like that would be a better fit, it's got support for the formatting and linking needed, most developers are familiar enough with it, you don't actually need to parse or render it to be able to read it, etc.
Google already has custom ASICs for video transcoding. YouTube has been running those for many years now.

https://streaminglearningcenter.com/encoding/asics-vs-softwa...
Show HN: An AI code assistant for Vim
This plugin can be used locally with Ollama or with an Open Router API key. You can ask questions about your code, get an explanation, or a general review. The response is added to your quickfix list.

Link: https://github.com/whatever555/vim-code-checker

It should work on recent versions of vim, and also neovim. It does require the installation of an npm package (details in the README) so a recent version of node is required.

It is a simple barebones project that I have been using locally, but I thought it might be a good idea to share it with the world, and get some feedback. So any suggestions on how to improve it, or if there are better options already available, please let me know. Thanks for reading!
The way they're framing this attempts to stave off disintermediation, which is the real threat.
Is there a local AI that could provide a more modern interface to the information buried in man pages?

Sometimes I don't even know where to start and that's why I end up in Google or on StackOverflow.

I'd like to be able to type "hey man, how do I show all the bootable partitions on my drive?"
https://www.forbes.com/sites/larsdaniel/2025/01/29/judge-thr...

Given the way American police promised facial recognition wouldn't be used as probable cause because it's not accurate enough to do so and then immediately used facial recognition as probable cause despite being informed that it's not accurate enough to do so, I'm sure that this murder prediction tool will be fully vetted and 100% accurate because the police are committed to protecting the rights of innocent people
One could easily have the impression that despite this, China has never really given a rat's ass about being in the good graces of the US, and that when they do relent it is often the case that they do not do so in good faith at all. If they comply with ethics and human rights, it's to the absolute minimum of that and in an underhanded way designed to undermine, but often not even that and they're just cheating and good at hiding it.

In other words, not much would be lost except the devious lip service.
I would argue more mercantilist. YMMV. It did drag them out of subsistence agriculture.
"slightly less widely used" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. For all of it except FFI.
For me it's the pointlessness of it all, and the fact that advertisements even when "targeted" are just sprayed out of a firehose at me.

So many apps I use are supported by 30-60s ads for some stupid fucking mobile game that I immediately know I don't want to install, I have no intention to interact with the ad and yet I'm forced to sit through it for 30s, only to hit the X on it and have it open the Play Store anyway?!?!

And video ads in general, if I know that I'm not interested right away, why am I forced to sit through 30-60s of it?

I mean I can look away from a fucking billboard...but this stuff. A great first step would be to make ads that forcibly hold attention like that illegal.
Women should avoid all alcohol to reduce risk of breast cancer, charity says
My go-to is always Google. After I have exhausted the resources, and my patience, I turn to ChatGPT.
> > When did globalism stop being popular?

> Did you happen to miss recent US news?

1. Not every reader lives in the USA

2. In my observation (not in the USA) in the last years (and also months/weeks) it has rather been a strong veering round back and forth of "globalism is good" vs "globalism is bad" with no clear observable direction at which side the pendulum will stop.
adoc is fine and is more widely supported. Linux (the kernel) documentation is written in adoc, along with man pages for many projects like git:

https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/git-rm....
Are you suggesting NVIDIA is not a competitor?
I think the only reason people think MCP is over-engineered is that people have been waiting for a way to expose remote tool calls in a client application, MCP came along and had that (among other things), and people assumed that that was all it was good for. But it's not! It's like saying a microwave is over-engineered because you only use the timer functionality.
Right? I am extremely tempted to take some cash from my savings account.

I spoke with a chap called Franck Deng and he seems to be taking orders right now.
Exactly. I used to stack printouts on the floor in layers. Top one was active, bottom one was swap. If you walked too fast past my cube, you'd trigger a context switch.
By 'very recently' you mean 'since the early 20th century'?
LLMs remind me of the children's game "Telephone."
Some honest competition in the chip space in the machine learning race! Genuinely interested to see how this ends up playing out. Nvidia seemed 'untouchable' for so long in this space that its nice to see things get shaken up.

I know they aren't selling the TPU as boxed units, but still, even as hardware that backs GCP services and what not, its interesting to see how it'll shake out!
Also, there is no such thing as a "El Capitan pod". The quoted number is for the entire supercomputer.

My impression from this is that they are too scared to say that their TPU pod is equivalent to 60 GB200 NVL72 racks in terms of fp8 flops.

I can only assume that they need way more than 60 racks and they want to hide this fact.
:-D

Nice work...
The first specifically designed for inference? Wasn’t the original TPU inference only?
Not knowing much about special-purpose chips, I would like to understand whether chips like this would give Google a significant cost advantage over the likes of Anthropic or OpenAI when offering LLM services. Is similar technology available to Google's competitors?
This sounds nuts, do you have any sources for this?
It seems companies figured introducing "protocols" or standards helps their business because if it catches on, it creates a "moat" for them: imagine if A2A became the de facto standard for agent communication. Since Google invented it and already incorporated in their business logic, it would suddenly open up the entire LLM landscape to Google services (so LLMs aren't the end goal here). Microsoft et al. would then either have to introduce their own "standard" or adopt Google's.
This sounds terrifying and like something I'd never, ever put in the tons of time to properly prep for for a single company's process just for a chance at a job, but add it to the list of things I'd much prefer to the current system if it were widespread enough I could prep only for that.
They are not a fiction. I’m dealing with LLM generated resumes right now. I just one that wasn’t too smart, and it claimed to have led a project for our company despite never having worked there.