skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you use git pre-commit hooks or something similar to transform the files by deterministically sorting the items at each level?

Diffoscope does something similar, diff sorted stuff first, then if there are no changes, then report that, and show the unsorted diffs.

https://diffoscope.org/
https://try.diffoscope.org/
And then there is a fourth category: those who preach things they have no idea about.
It's actually not a solid color background, but a very low opacity collection of game covers.

The same goes for mobile, where if you look closely you will see Dishonored 2's cover.

And no, it's not AI generated. We started working on it before ChatGPT made it's debut (yeah i know it's not the first LLM but no one considered vibe coding before it), and you can see our entire source code in Github.
He's not talking about using AI to generate ideas, he's talking about using AI to turn ideas into reality.
From the NY Times article:

> or are awaiting reassignment

> These maternal health programs are still funded by the President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR.

So the money is still there, so are at least some of the staff, and they're doing a reorg. It doesn't look like they're shutting down the program.
It's not so much optimism as facts. Large AAA game companies have driven away investors[0] and talent[1]. The old growth engines (microtransactions, live service games, season passes, user-generated content, loot boxes, eSports hero shooters, etc.) also no longer work, as neither general players nor whales find them appealing.

AI is considered a potential future growth engine, as it cuts costs in art production, where the bulk of game production costs lie. Game executives are latching onto it hard because it's arguably one of the few straightforward ways to keep growing their publicly-traded companies and their own stock earnings. But technologists already know how this will end.

Other games industry leaders are betting on collapse and renewal to simpler business models, like self-funded value-first games. Also, many bet on less cashflow-intensive game production, including lower salaries (there is much to be said about that).

Looking at industry reports and business circle murmurs, this is the current state of gaming. Some consider it optimistic, and others (especially the business types without much creative talent) - dire. But it does seem to be the objective situation.

[0] VC investment has been down by more than 10x over the last two years, and many big Western game companies have lost investors' money in the previous five years. See Matthew Ball's report, which I linked in my parent comment, for more info.

[1] The games industry has seen more than 10% sustained attrition over the last 5 years, and about 50% of employees hope to leave their employer within a year: https://www.skillsearch.com/news/item/games---interactive-sa...
The scriptwriters aren't managing the network flows across the backend of their infrastructure. Netflix's trouble with scripts doesn't affect their ability to move bits around.
As Dara Ó Briain put it, dietician is to nutritionist as dentist is to tootheologist.
"a vision of a poverty-stricken America where US Foxconn factories have sections for precarious day laborers as well as for detained migrants and “criminals,” all compelled to assemble an endless stream of iPhones"

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/flyover-country
WWII era planes such as the Bf109 injected water and methanol into the supercharger to allow higher boost, side effect of that was charge cooling (and engine cooling).

A very cool aircraft.
PostgreSQL hasn't let me down in 20+ years. It's not perfect but it's really damn good for all your data cases (may require tuning)
The ideal from Trump's pov is being able to deport US citizens to El Salvador... without due process. Until he can do that he can only pretend to be king. He's slowly shifting the Overton window [1] in that direction.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
Get out of sf and old techies are appricated. Of course many go into management but there are a few who retire and are doing just fine.

some places like it when we remind the kids that this new thing has been around several times before under different names.
If you have no specific plan for your "data" and cannot recall any important value extracted from it in the past 5 years (2 if you're <30), then it's just digital hoarding. It was a popular disease in the days before the internet when some people visited each other with hard drives and synced "new data". Music they will never listen to, videos they'll never watch, guides they never read. They even tried to download the internet, for a while.

The proper way to deal with it is not sorting or filtering. The proper way is to precisely extract what you actually used (like in: "it happened in June") in the recent years and then hard-delete the rest. Give it ten minutes, then just do it.

When later you remember that you had something but now it's gone, think about the tradeoff between searching through the pile vs searching through the internet and how rarely you refer to the pile compared to efforts spent on maintaining it.
Unsung traits of effective software developers
This is weird.

There was a huge disruption to lots of industries between the 1950s and the 1990s. Lots of established machine tool companies (bridgeport and such) didn't modernize and went out of business or otherwise shrank.

But at the same time Haas automation started in the early 80s and is now quite large and successful.

The US economy is huge. Lots of other parts of it have made the US manufacturing part of it seem quite small.

If Canada invaded us very slowly, I'm sure we'd figure out (over the course of 2-3 years of massive disruption to our economy and lifestyle) how to make munitions and other engines of war at a much larger scale than we do right now.

Unless someone's willing to cut long-term contracts nobody is going to make this stuff in the USA when it's 10x more expensive to do so here than there. And right now, the counter-parties for any such contracts aren't trustworthy.

I think most people are happier just paying someone else to make these same things. "I want to wear nikes, not make them" is how people feel everywhere...
Maintaining a new service sucks. Not being able to do atomic commits to both postgres and the other db sucks.
Economics isn't science, and while Ricardo has some brilliant insights, it isn't a science; he barely models anything. It isn't even a hypothesis since you can never really test it. The core of his idea is this:

the rate of profits can never be increased but by a fall in wages [...] If, therefore, by the extension of foreign trade, or by improvements in machinery, the food and necessaries of the labourer can be brought to market at a reduced price, profits will rise.

I.e., use trade to get to lower wages
People identifying machine status by sound is one I like.

I’m in radiology and knowing what the MR scanner is doing from a few rooms away is something many of us can do.

‘The TR is wrong’

Presumably common in other fields with noisy machines.
Making code changes with LLMs by parsing ASTs (2024)
> If I studied Computer Science (long-term I do not see myself programming forever) and only have internships related in that area, how would you recommend getting into this field?

Just keep studying CS. Climb up the ladder to Staff SWE, PM, or EM; and execute and lose hair from there.

As Pastuer said, "fortune favors a prepared mind". Most hot thinkers today were hetrodox a couple years ago.

You make more money remaining in tech and then switching in your late 20s to late 30s into policy. You can also make more realistic and less ideological policies that way. If you have a protonmail, let's catch up.

But tbh, the policy space sucks. It's not worth it (in DC, Beijing, London, or Delhi). If you are smart and lucky enough to break into policy but are also someone who's Mom and Dad don't have a liquid net worth below $750,000-1M in all those countries, you won't make it irrespective of country.

Class breaks all nationalistic barriers, and public school class people like you and I won't make it without luck or money (and we can make the latter in the private sector)

P.S. love your blog. Similar boat.
Should lambdascratch be an answer for kids?
Author attempts to use this paper to dunk on Marx’ labor theory of value, but Marx discusses this extensively in Capital: price and value are often interchangeable, but not always.
I think that kids are able to jump the gap between blocks and LISPIAN parentheses, their imagination doing the rest. I even think that writing code is much better than drag & dropping blocks, that it helps for fighting against infobesity and for the development of intelligence. I believe that their future is in the KISS attitude.

This is at least a subject that could be discussed. Gently.
Understandable why the original article [1] was not posted up as it no doubt would have annoyed some people. The source article however one needed to enter book reader mode quickly - which unfortunately it only included the references, otherwise it redirects to an epdf which will not load with my standard pdf viewers. [Downloaded file is readable between the syntax though]

Not that fructose in moderate amounts is an issue, typically the issue is the added sugar in items which might be otherwise consumed to excess, regardless of HFCS or regular table sugar sucrose. While media might be banging on about too much sugar in softdrink, they are slow to mention there's some fruit drinks (the <40% actual fruit juice) on the market with have 10% by weight in sugars. Sugars are good for helping preserve foods, but I've no idea if the 10% is there as a necessity or simply to sooth the taste buds.

I look forward to a day when one of the softdrink companies market a product where the bulk of excess sugar is dextrose / glucose. Last couple years I've been buying dextrose by the 25 Kg bag (approx 55 lbs) for all my sugar needs. On the fifth bag I think.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08258-3
> Wise (formerly transferwise)

Off-topic, but: this is possibly one of the world's dumbest rebranding exercises. I forget now how many years ago they made the change, but I've never heard anyone outside the company itself refer to it as just "Wise" without adding "(formerly transferwise)".
I'm not convinced LLMs are the road towards Minds, and I'm pretty sure the Culture would think we're a bit of a mess (I'm pretty sure they literally did in one of the final books), but who knows maybe I'm wrong!
I use LLM for almost everything from summarizing, finding out terminology in very different fields that I have no knowledge of, initial research of any field, coding (no more google searching of stack overflow anymore), pretty much everything. I use search engine only for searching for companies/products due to some mistrust that it would find all the products or companies including very small companies/products. But I am very open to removing search engines completely if this last point is satisfied.
Looking for co-founder of defense startup
Unmanned vehicle systems for aerial and maritime military applications. I have founded few DTC brands. Preferably that co-owner have engineering or defense experience.
My prediction is that they'll be bought by Cisco.
It seems to have been designed to be easy to solve by hand.

My approach:

1. Dan and Lisa agree on 8 out of 10 answers.

2. Dan, by changing two of Lisa's answers, has gained 20 points. Dan is right about both of those answers (6 and 9).

3. Mary is wrong about answers 6 and 9.

4. Mary has a total of three mistakes.

5. There are 8 possible answer keys, because Mary only has one mistake left to distribute among the other 8 answers.

6. On four of those possible answer keys, Lisa scores 50 points. Those are invalid.

7. Mary's mistake must be in answer to question 1, 3, 7, or 8.

8. On all four of those questions, Colin agrees with Mary.

9. Colin scores 30 points collectively on questions 1, 3, 7, and 8, plus 10 points each on questions 2, 5, and 9. 60 points.
Owner fills restaurant with fresh water to beat Kentucky flooding
Why is dollar store financing easy, and what are some current business examples?
I could sit in the office that long if I had to and I would appear productive. However I need several hours of mindless meetings everyday as is because my brain can't engineer for 40 hours a week.
We moved from plotly to eCharts at OpenObserve, having faced too many small things that we had to fight with plotly. Haven't looked back since the migration.
My human neurons are inclined to wonder if the results hold true for other flying animals, particularly insects, and of course, bats.
For the record (not looking to argue, just pointing out interesting fact) this was just released today and shows for the first time that majority of Americans across all ages and all party affiliations have an unfavorable view of Israel (53%; up from 42% in 2022).

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/04/08/how-ameri...
In the US your weather app is effectively government run.

Your iPhone skins the government data and makes it pretty. Nobody is selling your location or information. And you can always get the data directly if you want.
Your Weed Habit May Be Messing with Your Sperm
You seem to have left out the critical next sentence (which is the topic of article):

But without personnel to manage the initiatives or to disburse the money, it’s not clear how the work will continue.
Trump's Billionaire NASA Pick Says Mars Will Be Key Priority
Many of these people have a normal life outside of work and different hobbies or a social life. Many of them had been glued to their screens and keyboards too but evolved into a different stage in their lives. Former passions could turn into a discipline. I personally am not on my computer outside of 9-5 because thats already enough. I admit that don’t have the same passion I had in my 20s and yet Im effective in doing my work and am quite fulfilled.
But this is a brand new version? Why not run it again on Gemini 2.5 Deep Research mode and report if it's better?
gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/well/live/marijuana-sperm...
The trend of using LLMs for everything feels like a "when all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail" situation.

People should do what makes them feel good, but I think we're all going to get a bit dumber if we rely too much on LLMs for our information.

I personally still use search engines daily when I know what it is that I am searching for. I am actually finding that I am reaching less for LLMs even though it is getting easier and cheaper (I pay for T3 Chat at $8USD p/m).

Where I find LLMs useful is when I am trying to unpack a concept or I can't remember the name of something. The result of these chats often lead to their own Google searches. Even after all this development, the best LLMs still hallucinate constantly. The best way that I've found to reduce hallucinations is to use better prompts. I have used https://promptcowboy.ai/ to some success for this.
It would be very surprising if the results from this approach were superior to simply machine-translating the entries from another language—because e.g. English already has so much content and contributor activity, and LLMs are already very good at translating. I can’t imagine you’d get more than a fraction of people’s interest in authoring entries in this abstract language.
> This kind of fuzzy reasoning is the rule, not the exception when it comes to human intuition.

That is indeed true. But we do have classic fuzzy logic, and it can be used to answer these questions. E.g. a "stool" maybe a "chair", but "automobile" is definitely not.

Maybe the symbolic logic approach could work if it's connected with ML? Maybe we can use a neural network to plot a path in the sea of assertions? Cyc really seems like something that can benefit the world if it's made open under some reasonable conditions.
Back then, grep was how you searched the scholarly publications—assuming you’d mirrored the arXiv to a local FTP server like any serious researcher. The notes were just comments in the Makefile.
Non-salary cost such as payroll taxes, benefits, workers comp, training, equipment, space add another 25-50% typically.
I hope it doesn’t die in obscurity. Surely, it’s still valuable even if it failed to deliver on its original promises.
Why not? Pareto principle. It’ll get you 80% of the way there for most things… then when you need a highly optimized solution you pivot to that.
It’s a temporary pause presumably so they can figure pricing out. Doesn’t seem unreasonable to take some time to determine what the new price should be. Maybe they get a good deal on shipping and came only raise prices by 5% or it’s worse and they need to raise by 15%. Who knows right now there’s a lot in flux.
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Not person you are replying to, just FYI.

I don't know, it all seems like language games to me. The meaning is never in its grammar, but in its usage. The usage is arbitrary and capricious. I've not discovered how more nuanced forms of logics have ever really grappled with this.
> and you are correct that the tariffs will cause more independent production. That’s part of the intention. Europe specifically is underproductive and the hope is that these tariffs and the change of tone for defense agreements will bolster Europes domestic industrial and defensive capabilities.

> I’m simply explaining the logic behind it

I really disagree most strongly that this is the logic behind it. You genuinely think Trump and his base want these tariff wars to encourage more manufacturing in Europe?

As a foreigner, the message that comes across loud and clear from the US is "America first".

I can't speculate what is really going on inside Trump's head or inside his administration, but one thing I'm 100% sure of, they really don't care in the slightest about Europe or any other country in the world for that matter.
They may be truly too old, but if you haven't looked at OCLP, give it a shot on the old Macs.

https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/
And we didn't pay for re-skilling, re-training, re-education.

This was the old "learn to code" moment. You are going to take a 50 year old auto worker with a high school degree and train them to do what? We have tried it, we have invested in it, is just doesn't work well.

Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA)
Workforce Investment Act (WIA)
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA)
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)

You are better off using trade policy to at least slow down offshoring to give people a chance to move, retrain, retire if they are close.
I always say that the bird brain is the die shrink of ours.
> The tariffs will create more jobs in the US (and in other economies due to retaliatory tariffs there) and so there will be more people in the market who will be able to afford to pay 10% more.

This isn't backed by evidence, it's at best speculation for some potential future at least 4 years, but probably closer to 10, in the future. Most industries cannot simply just spin up new factories at the turn of a switch.
Depends on the use case.

If you’re a data viz team and do this all the time, and everyone knows or is willing to learn D3, then sure. Otherwise, if you just need to add a graph to your website, you may find it slows you down and makes code less maintainable.

I personally find it confusing and as others mentioned I can forget how it works over time, though I admire it. I don’t think I could jump in and edit D3 code today without careful study, any more than I could jump in and edit Perl code. Echarts/Highcharts etc. are much more intuitive.
Even reneging on an offer in the US gets you blacklisted for like 5 years max. It's not personal, it's just business.
It's boring ol' ECO101: price goes up, demand goes down, supply goes down.

A company selling premium laptops at $1,200 can absorb the deadweight loss.

The budget seller can't.

That is why it is the low end ones they're cutting.

* it's worth tossing around what TDS looks like, both to the outgroup, and the ingroup
> Next we can assume anything matching Lisa's remaining answers are wrong

This is incorrect. The assumption is true, but that's just a coincidence - you haven't justified it.
Yep. People with this wild nostalgia for manufacturing are missing what actually produced those lifestyles. It wasn't the factory.

Pundits are going on fox news and saying that having a job where you primarily use a computer turns you into a woman. These people are not coherant.
The White Lotus season 3 – Enlightenment uncut ending – main title theme [video]
Free performance: autobatching in my SFML fork
Distill-C: Enhanced NL2SQL via Distilled Customization with LLMs
If you’re using ChatGPT, add it to your memory so it always remembers that you prefer that.
This thread is yet another thing that makes me fear for the future of humanity.

No, I don't use the hallucination machines to search, and I never will.

I use search engines to search. I use the "make shit up" machine when I want shit made up. Modern voice models are great for IVR menus and other similar tasks. Image generation models have entirely taken over from clipart when I want a meaningless image to represent an idea. LLMs are even fun to make up bogus news articles, boilerplate text to fill a template, etc. They're not search engines though and they can't replace search engines.

If I want to find real information I use a search engine to find primary sources containing the keywords I'm looking for, or well referenced secondary sources like Wikipedia which can lead me to primary sources.
Curious if any downvoters dispute the substance of my comment or the linked article, or if this is just a "yuck" reflex?
I do think they are leaps in front of everyone else from the product perspective and everyday its looking more to be the battleground where money is going to be made.
Who assured you?
Here in Australia, we are now expecting 4 interest rate cuts due to likely global economic turmoil. That's up from zero before the tarriffs.

My understanding is lower interest rates = more money for VCs and investors. Digital products, which most startups are building, aren't subject to Tariffs, unless you are shipping physical copies which most software startups are not.

If that is the case, would this mean more money for startups in non-US countries?
100% this. My (BR) state have a weather service¹, it's amazing. What people don't realize, it's that the service isn't just made for normal people see if is gonna rain, it's that the service is fundamental for agriculture and farmers. So they have radars, frosts alerts, specifically tailored to farmers as well.

It's also used to give alerts to electricity companies, etc...

Their weather prediction, it's just way better than any other service.

There's also national service, run by CPTEC/INMET, but they are lacking funding IMO...

[1] https://simepar.br
No, it just means you have a stronger prior that a human being is generally intelligent. We don't ask that question of each other because it's obvious.

It doesn't make sense to hold you to the same standard I hold a model to. We scrutinize test scores for hints of ourselves and dress up the process with rigor, formalisms, operationalizations. A machine's beating you on a test, or your favorite set of such, is not very convincing evidence it is generally capable in anything like the way you are, much less sentient. Similarly it would be silly to conclude from your failure on the same battery of tests that you are not generally intelligent. Maybe you were tired or drunk.
> This seems political.

Say it ain't so - tariffs are now being used for political reasons instead of economic? I hope the administration gets word of this.

With how unstable the situation is and Framework being a small outfit shipping out of their processing & QA center(every unit is hand assembled and tested before shipping), it makes far more sense to just pause it all than risk tariffs being raised to 104% arbitrarily before they can process an order.