skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At this point why don’t we just go back to the Articles of Confederation.

If we accept the federal government can’t do anything what are we paying taxes for?
Get rid of social security too, I’m not going to make it to whatever stupidly high age they raise retirement to.

I used to be a big government liberal, but the problem is eventually people you disagree with start running super government.
Yeah, scroll past the screenshot of the github repo to almost get to the meat of the story... tedium.co indeed.

It seems the actual meat is a link to a Wired article the author read and decided to write a long-ass blog post about, to promote his newsletter and project on ko-fi...

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-department-of-veterans-affa...
Golang will panic with a runtime error index out of range if you index out of bounds. There doesn't seem to be a nice built in way to do `arr.get(3)` like in Rust.

slice := []int{1, 2, 3}
i := slice[3]
fmt.Println(i)
Oh, because I like that color :)
Which one? Nvidia are doing pretty ok selling GPU's, and OpenAI and Anthropic are doing ok selling their models. They're not _viable_ business models, but they could be.
It's really tough to apply anti-trust law to companies that aren't selling commodities. What would or wouldn't count as a competitor to Instagram? Since it's free for end users, the customers are mostly advertisers. And they have a zillion other channels to get their message out. Meta hardly has anything approaching a monopoly for either advertisers or consumers. Consumers frequently post pictures on X, LinkedIn, Google Photos, Strava, Snapchat, etc.
That was a rough read, not really sure I understood the authors point. It was kind of all over the place, bad because AI, bad because not really open-source, bad because doge...

Only thing I really left with was the author doesn't like the word gum. Seems like a hit piece on Sahil? Pretty sure the open-source part of Gumroad has been in the works for a while.
I want to hear more about this functional core/imperative shell....
I don't think so. Rust has much stronger typing than Go which allows you to prevent more classes of bugs than just memory errors.

The coolest one I've heard is that Fuchsia's network stack managed to eliminate deadlocks.

But even on a basic level Rust has that "if it compiles it works" experience which Go definitely doesn't.
I asked GPT-4.5 and it searched the web and immediately gave me a "yes" with paragraphs of sources cited.
The core point in this article is that the LLM wants to report _something_, and so it tends to exaggerate. It’s not very good at saying “no” or not as good as a programmer would hope.

When you ask it a question, it tends to say yes.

So while the LLM arms race is incrementally increasing benchmark scores, those improvements are illusory.

The real challenge is that the LLM’s fundamentally want to seem agreeable, and that’s not improving. So even if the model gets an extra 5/100 math problems right, it feels about the same in a series of prompts which are more complicated than just a ChatGPT scenario.

I would say the industry knows it’s missing a tool but doesn’t know what that tool is yet. Truly agentic performance is getting better (Cursor is amazing!) but it’s still evolving.

I totally agree that the core benchmarks that matter should be ones which evaluate a model in agentic scenario, not just on the basis of individual responses.
While I'm a fan of Buffett, as he himself says macroeconomics isn't his speciality.

One issue with the story is he suggests the people selling America stuff, say China end up accumulating American land and owning the country but it's not what generally happens in practice. In practice foreigners tend to end up either with US dollar debt, which tends to inflate away, or equity in US companies, of which YCombinator and similar churn out hundreds of new ones each year.

Another thing is foreigners may end up buying some US real estate but the likes of Amazon ends up taking over much of the worlds retail industry as local shops close around the globe.

For reasons like this it's probably not worth worrying too much about the deficit and leaving it to market forces to figure out.
Launching Typeconf 0.3.0 and Storage Platform
This is a bit of a meta-comment, but reading through the responses to a post like this is really interesting because it demonstrates how our collective response to this stuff is (a) wildly divergent and (b) entirely anecdote-driven.

I have my own opinions, but I can't really say that they're not also based on anecdotes and personal decision-making heuristics.

But some of us are going to end up right and some of us are going to end up wrong and I'm really curious what features signal an ability to make "better choices" w/r/t AI, even if we don't know (or can't prove) what "better" is yet.
Another great ebook/volunteer project is Librivox - free public-domain audiobooks read by volunteers around the world...

https://librivox.org/
Why risk going to prison or dying due to making a driving mistake?
Man, I never had anything but positive feelings about Gumroad… But this is something I truly cannot support.
Same. But a nice observation in conclusion

> To me, I think that there is a real opportunity to take away the reins from middlemen who extract value rather than add it by leaning into things we host ourselves. Creators, for too long, have given too much power away to the company that made our lives mildly more convenient. If they’re trying to optimize to the nubs, destroying quality of service in the process, why even bother letting them have a lane in the middle?
We should also make sure that anyone who hasn't paid the trail toll or contributed physically are not allowed to use it, it's also only fair.
I haven't been to either place in quite a while, but--by my recollection--if you want to give SF a run for its money you should go cruise around Baltimore for a minute.
It seems like the models are getting more reliable at the things they always could do, but they’re not showing any ability to move past that goalpost. Whereas in the past, they could occasionally write some very solid code, but often return nonsense, the nonsense is now getting adequately filtered by so-called “reasoning”, but I see no indication that they could do software design.

> how the hell is it going to develop metrics for assessing the impact of AIs when they're doing things like managing companies or developing public policy?

Why on earth do people want AI to do either of these things? As if our society isn’t fucked enough, having an untouchable oligarchy already managing companies and developing public policies, we want to have the oligarchy’s AI do this, so policy can get even more out of touch with the needs of common people? This should never come to pass. It’s like people read a pile of 90s cyberpunk dystopian novels and decided, “Yeah, let’s do that.” I think it’ll fail, but I don’t understand how anyone with less than 10 billion in assets would want this.
Wait until you learn how money works. It's all just bits of paper (or now just actual bits/bytes) people pretend has value.
Thats not really 'simple' for an LLM. This is a niche information about a specifc person, LLM's train on massive amount of data, the more a topic is being present in the data, the better will the answers be.

Also, you can/should use the "research" mode for questions like this.
This was written in 2016. The job market in 2016 was basically "you can throw a stone and find somebody looking for a developer". These days, the market is so different that I'm not sure if the same advice is still relevant.

In addition, some of this kind of advice has always struck me as particularly US-centric and I doubt it all applies equally well in e.g. Europe. You don't get very far here by not sharing your initial salary expectations early on, I think.
true in the SF bay area too, but reading the article made me think that was an aberration. maybe the mom and pop restaurants only survive in big cities. or maybe the article was just over focused on the chains and ignoring the smaller restaurants.
If you're downvoting, can you explain why you disagree?
The disconnect between improved benchmark results and lack of improvement on real world tasks doesn't have to imply cheating - it's just a reflection of the nature of LLMs, which at the end of the day are just prediction systems - these are language models, not cognitive architectures built for generality.

Of course, if you train an LLM heavily on narrow benchmark domains then its prediction performance will improve on those domains, but why would you expect that to improve performance in unrelated areas?

If you trained yourself extensively on advanced math, would you expect that to improve your programming ability? If not, they why would you expect it to improve programming ability of a far less sophisticated "intelligence" (prediction engine) such as a language model?! If you trained yourself on LeetCode programming, would you expect that to help hardening corporate production systems?!
And, remove the tax exemption for churches and religious organizations. It's out of control. A friend of mine told me her church bought a five-story office building. They dedicated the minimum amount of office space to "religious services", and they rent out the rest of the offices. They pay no taxes on anything related to this office building.
The Invisible Difference
No idea, it's been going on a long time. The dollar weakening would be a sign. The dollar was pretty strong up until Trumps BS.
What makes you think this is the case?

Having done a bunch of formal verification I can say that overflows are probably the most common type of bug by far.
Those aren't that universally agreed upon (except war/megacorps/education) in working class/middle class. It's just that EU has high amount of people depending on those safety nets/pensions that any politician not for it is committing political suicide.
Isn't the tool doing its job in that case? I wouldn't generally expect it to independently determine that an otherwise reliable source made a mistake. In fact I feel like that would be a really bad idea.

Imagine if a relatively clueless intern left something out of a report because the textbook "seemed wrong".
Great... we've been complaining about useless AI being forced upon us in the commercial sector and now YC alums are going to implement it in veteran healthcare through a backdoor?

I've been pretty neutral about the whole thing to date, but it's starting to seem like YC's AI blindness is actually explained by true evil capitalist intentions.
this seems less like an issue with accuracy and more like an issue with model providers making sure they don't get sued for libel
So convincing someone to buy something they don’t want or need. Perhaps you’ve stumbled upon the root problem of our overconsumption.
lol "new economic realities" "short-term layoffs"

by 2028 there will be millions (more) people living out of their cars and doing Amazon/Walmart deliveries during the day

the new difference is they will have 4-year college degrees while homeless
Extremely sad to see Sahil is working with DOGE in basically firing hundreds of thousands of Americans (that too disproportionately veterans) in the manner they have been doing it.

I have always liked reading his honest takes on running a company, their unique way of working with non-full-time employees, etc.

I wonder if he has posted about his work in this regard himself?
advertising should be illegal. its lying propaganda which is now utilising brainwashing techniques
> The coolest one I've heard is that Fuchsia's network stack managed to eliminate deadlocks.

Is there a write up on this? That's very cool
Your comment is disinformation. This is not a problem that needs to be fixed. There is no need for governments to force private companies to act as censors. The free marketplace of ideas is working better than ever.

If you're unhappy with the current situation then do something positive by working to improve critical thinking education in your own country's schools.
> Even if you have a $10m portfolio you’ll be next, once they’ve drained the $100k and $1m lot.

What does this mean, in practical examples? Just trying to understand your point.
Tangential, but there was a recent sandbox escape vulnerability in both Chrome and Firefox.

The bug threads are still private, almost two weeks since it was disclosed and fixed. Very strange.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1956398

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/405143032

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-2783
That's really dumb, but it's hard to call one one instance abuse. Now, I do beleive it turns into abuse if it a bunch of people do it. Especially if they are bringing their insults specifically into your space (repo forge, mailing lists, flooding your replies on social media, etc).
Making a mistake in a large easy hardly makes someone semi-literate. Almost every book you've read has gone through extensive editing to find such mistakes, even the most skilled authors make them.

I thought it was a very well-written article.
I am an investor in an advanced manufacturing enterprise for spray nozzles (think beverage, ag, fuel applications). Time to end user is a consideration in the business the org does, based on my conversations with account managers. I admit how relevant this is is going to be a function of customer requirements and expectations, particularly around prototyping feedback loop (edit: a part being manufactured using an advanced CNC machine at ~4pm central time can be in the hands of a customer by 8am the next day, for example).
> Elon is very happy to censor people that he disagrees with

Somewhat. Right now Twitter and IG are the least censored major social media.
I don't know…

Agreed.
> In the real world, however, votes tend not to be politically coherent. Instead, what we see in a hyperpartisan polity, is that a diverse set of views collapses after an issue achieves partisan identity status. Talking about a thing through a partisan lens is what causes the partisan collapse. Hence the effects of mass and then social media on the quality of our discussions.

nailed it imo

not above politics, just think productive discussion can't happen if people don't know why they support things beyond "the tribe supports it"

or acknowledge when a belief is tribal vs reason-based
In theory but compared with 2003 when that was written I'd say American sovereignty has increased. In Europe and most places we buy from Amazon, search with Google, the computers run Windows or MacOS, the phones run US software etc. It's more the US owning abroad than abroad owning the US.
They needed a study for this? My lovely wife hasn’t stopped talking since the day we met, and we’ve been together 20 years! =D
These are my notes for a course in stellar physics that I am teaching, the full set of lecture notes is here https://www.as.arizona.edu/~mrenzo/courses/lectures.html and includes some more on neutrino cooling in evolved stars, core collapse physics, and a guest lecture (also with notes that I am NOT the author of) on high energy neutrinos, but if you want to learn specifically about neutrino astrophysics this is certainly not the most comprehensive resource.

Re neutrinos, I would also mention KM3NET which looks for Cherenkov flashes in the Mediterranean sea used as a detector, which recently detected some extremely high energy neutrinos, e.g.:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08543-1
Last resort would be to email Tim Apple.

tcook[at]apple[dot]com
> You are, as long as you're not brown

I’m brown. I’m fine. This administration is at war with Americans who aren’t rich.

My taxes are being cut. I’m buying investment cropland on the cheap from idiots who voted for him to trash their livelihoods. They’re mostly white. But they’re not rich.
It’s a true story.
How can a dimension be smaller compared to other dimensions?
We spend Elon Musk’s entire net worth accumulated over a lifetime on the US military every 75 days or so.

We’re literally torching two billion dollars a day on the military when we’re not at war and not under threat.
Would you happen to know where developers who want to integrate against MCP and OS 2200 running on a variety of hardware and OS versions (compile targets for validation and distribution, really) can lease time from?
This feels like the trend of Americans having to start GoFundMe campaigns for surgeries and health care. (!) I mean, do what you feel you have to do in the urgent moment. But come on. What's the plan? This is not civilized.
Not a war but genocide, it will be war when gazan people get billions of dollars in bombs.
You know what makes the government the government, right?

You’re missing the key piece.
>They are written like that precisely so you won't try to weasel your way around a requirement. If they had said "verified badges may not be sold" then you would try to say "this isn't a verified badge but a they-paid-us badge." By wording it vaguely, it cannot be weaseled.

It also means enterprising prosecutors and regulators can use it as a cudgel against their opponents. As others have mentioned, the checkmark already meant very little when it came to whether the poster was trustworthy or not. It's like fining Chrome and Firefox for accepting letsencrypt certificates, because previously there was a $10 cost to having a lock appear on your site, and letsencrypt making it free misleads users.
Zoo's tortoises become first-time parents aged about 100
What are the best AI tools to turn an idea into MVP?
What are the best AI tools out there that can help take a product idea and refine it to get it to an MVP?

Not the coding part, but all the other stuff, like creating a business plan, validating the idea, identifying target market and customer pain points, building a PRD and user stories, etc.
This seems like a probable end state, but we're going to have to stop calling LLMs "artificial intelligence" in order to get there.
NNCP peers may be completely untrusted, but in this case don't expose weak nncp-exec command to those peers.

for example these is an `exec: /usr/bin/tar` command exposed for Alice, but not for Eve. For Eve there may be an `exec: /usr/local/bin/file-request-handler-for-untrusted-peers.sh` command available which adds the access control layer.

ForceCommand accepts user parameters except via environment variables.
This may also have an engineering explanation - much easier to move fast and break things if your main code base is open source and accessible to LLMs and coworkers.
You hope? Wishful thinking is not a great decision making methodology.
I left Twitter 10 years ago because I believe it is toxic.

Now to everyone applauding those kind of things with a "the enemies of my enemies are my friends" logic:

I wouldn't be surprised if in a few years HN will be inaccessible from the EU because it promotes non compliant and dangerous software. If you don't believe me, read the EU Cyber resilience act. It is slowly paving the way to this.

HN is already blocked in China.
The defense of this regime's economic strategy (particularly the market crash and looming economic hardships) is doing political horseshoe theory and entering Maoist territory with surprising speed.

"You'll be rich because we're so good with the economy" has raced over to "We've been rotting in decadent lifestyles, true strong patriots will be happy to sacrifice for the glory of the fatherland."
Is this the new patent trolling?
There is no credible accusation that X itself is tricking people here, so your comment is a non sequitur. If particular accounts are posting fraudulent information, then go after those through regular legal channels. The platform is not the problem here.
Gmail E2E is as terrible as expected
But the grandparent is saying that there is a missing class of input "data". This should not be treated as instructions and is just for reference. For example if the user asks the AI to summarize a book it shouldn't take anything in the book as an instruction, it is just input data to be processed.
It'll be a government for the people, by the people.
“For every complex problem there is a solution which is clear, simple and wrong.”—HL Mencken
What's the point of reading a book, then? The joy of reading fiction is to try to understand the humanity in the scene. I don't need the author to force feed me all of these details. I want to wrestle with the answers, to try to grasp what it might mean.
Those people will have to be well-armed.
> They pay no taxes on anything related to this office building.

Was a Deacon at a church that bought a strip mall (fire sale price). They had to pay regular taxes on income from the other businesses. Even the church's own thrift and book sales had to collect and pay sales tax.

Perhaps that church is committing tax fraud?
I don't understand how you can come to the understanding that "heterodox" isn't a term of art when there's an entire wikipedia page devoted to explaining the meaning of "heterodox" (and another one about "mainstream") in the context of economics...

An economic theory described as part of "heterodox economics" can, in fact, be relatively mainstream given enough exposure and enough followers (which is where MMT is today). Conversely, parts of "mainstream economics" are relatively controversial and are thus heterodox ways of thinking.

If you think about "orthodox Christianity," the word "orthodox" says nothing about its popularity. The same goes for "heterodox economics."

Pretty much all monetary theories are parts of heterodox economics.
I would love to support creators directly, but there are some hard problems that creators need to solve before they begin direct-to-consumer sales:

1. Discoverability

2. Payments

3. Shipping

While it is theoretically possible to handle all of these without a middle-man, the middlemen running the marketplaces have thus far done a much better job than individuals could ever hope to.
Which is why I suggest deregulating permitting, not permitting reform. You need automatic permitting as long as state building codes are met, and even then, let the state enforce them. The human cost of the housing crisis is worth the risk that a dodgy developer puts up a Millennium Tower.
I honestly can’t notice any difference in outdoor quality between GPT 4o and GPT 4.5. I also can’t notice any difference in programming quality in cursor when using Claude 3.7 vs 3.5. I’m told there is a clear difference, but I don’t notice it.
The trustworthy information that blue check marks indicated was not that the /contents of the message/ were objectively trustworthy, but that /a specific person was willing to be associated with the contents of the message/. That’s what was lost.
> Why are you disagreeing with me while proving my point?

I'm not sure what your point is, but what you actually said overstates the case for visual detection.

> The signal we get is enough.

Sure, we know that with processing far beyond what we currently can replicate, it can at least just meet the minimum bar.

> And that is why there should be benchmarks to be passed

Is it? I would think there should be proof and validation no matter which pieces were demonstrated adequate and which have not yet been.

But the thing is that we don't even know enough to make a set of benchmarks that can be tested that provide confidence, and we maybe won't until we've had the several systems that demonstrate that they work well enough in real conditions from which to generalize a minimum set of standards that can be verified prior to getting into real conditions.

So we do supervised testing in progressively-less-limited real world conditions of each system until we get to that point.
> Has anyone found effective tools for...

Managing management?

Code comments and documentation make no money, only features make money.

Bitter experience...
So can I. People have their quirks.

Myself, I've explicitly stuck to KDE instead of Gnome for many years, because the logo of the latter - a foot - was viscerally disgusting and repulsive to me.
Truth is a probability game. Just keep trying until you arrive.