skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Other countries trade with the US in order to avoid their wrath.

And now it's apparent that even being a great ally will result in economic attacks.

So the world gives the US tangible goods. In exchange they get shittalked and more demanded of them.
Given how much power they alte already have , they can just setup their own "small cap fund". Create shell companies that fits the criteria, etc.

If we can't trust the lawmakers, something has fucked up already.

I think we need more transparency, not more restrictions. Trust and Verify.
> I think there's this perception that Apple is this authoritarian company that will execute you for using any competitors' product, but that really wasn't the case.

They have cultivated this like a bonsai, carefully making a thousand precision papercuts to ensure competitors have to be inferior. And Schiller testified a few weeks ago that Cook is the artist.
"Classic" Bluetooth does not broadcast a detectable ID except if the device is explicitly in "pairing mode". It can be inferred when observing a connection establishment between two paired devices, or probed for if known (i.e. you can confirm that one of a few candidate devices is nearby, if you know their addresses), but not passively sniffed, as far as I know.

Bluetooth LE does explicitly broadcast its MAC address in some modes, but offers various forms of private or random address modes to mitigate the problem.
I'm not sure that'd qualify, as many tools shipped with the system would continue to use the preinstalled version, not yours.
There is indeed a copy that uses triple-A batteries - search for “INFINMIND mouse with flying scroll” - it’s very cheap, only $15 or so, but reasonable build quality. One fewer button than the MX Master, though, and I did find myself missing that button.
Yes? Unfortunately others can communicate to us without our consent. That could be ads or someone writing you a postcard, or yelling on a street corner. All of those can influence us and not all of them are welcome but I don’t think it’s reasonable to think we can live in a world where we can fully control it without becoming hermits.
All you’ve done here is shifted how the money is spent. The companies with deep pockets will spend extra on getting into that reviewer’s queue. See: lobbying.
> harmless

It's not harmless, so your objection is irrelevant.
> because when it comes to technology, these managers exist on a whole other level of stupid vanity and narcissistic pursuit of their own selfish agendas

Regardless of what you think about the article. This rings so true at many Fortune 500 companies.

The number of times I have seen teams work through pointless bullshit to push some meaningless objective for the company. Just so the middle manager (aka “Director of SVP of X product of Y branch”) can get a bullet point(s) in the quarterly “all hands”.

Oh and those 10 developers/off shore people that were just hired? It was all to pump his/her “head count” number to get to the promotion to next grade/level.

Then when that person gets promoted, those people get scattered throughout the firm or just let go.

It’s truly just weaponized incompetence.
Sounds super efficient.
@CodeCrusader perhaps you can spend a bit more time participating in the community (participating in other stories, submitting things that interest you, rather than just things to promote you) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43605551

> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It’s not the position of any major AI company, curiously.
I worked with a boutique management consulting company part time during college in 98/99. Notes and Domino came packaged with a few IBM servers they bought. I was tasked with setting it up for email. It was fun exploring the system, absolutely not knowing what I was doing. I ended up having a similar experience of building out an app in realtime to help one of the consultants manually compiling a large amount of data for a customer. Extremely rewarding. But, it was also a painful lesson in NoSQL (before we even had that word...)
Interesting. Being good at their job can be your downfall in the corp world! He'd have been better as a private equity tycoon who would have had proper control.
> npm install ai

How is this allowed/possible in npm? Don't they have mandatory namespaces?
This comes across like someone's PhD project. It's unclear from reading the website what this is useful for and what it actually is.
I don't think it's a common concern in Rust.
It used to be a problem in Internet Explorer. It's a footgun in Swift, but Rust's exclusive ownership and immutability make cycles very difficult to create by accident.

If you wrap a Future in Arc, you won't be able to use it. Polling requires exclusive access, which Arc disables. Most combinators and spawn() require exclusive ownership of the bare Future type. This is verified at compile time.

Making a cycle with `Arc` is impossible unless two other criteria are met:

1. You have to have a recursive type. `Arc<Data>` can't be recursive unless `Data` already contains `Arc<Data>` inside it, or some abstract type that could contain `Arc<Data>` in it. Rust doesn't use dynamic types by default, and most data types can be easily shown to never allow such cycle.

It's difficult to make a cycle with a closure too, because you need to have an instance of the closure before you can create an Arc, but your closure can't capture the Arc before it's created. It's a catch-22 that needs extra tricks to work around, which is not something that you can just do by accident.

2. Even if a type can be recursive, it's still not enough, because the default immutability of Arc allows only trees. To make a cycle you need the recursive part of the type to also be in a wrapper type allowing interior mutability, so you can modify it later to form a cycle (or use `Arc::new_cycle` helper, which is an obvious red flag, but you still need to upgrade the reference to a strong one after construction).

It's common to have Arc-wrapped Mutex. It's possible to have recursive types, but having both together at the same time are less common, and then still you need to make a cycle yourself, and dodge all the ownership and borrow checking issues required to poll a future in such type.
Are there any new ballot initiatives for ideas like this? I would support this in a heartbeat.
Ads are often involuntarily consumed. Even the most vigilant and self-aware person will fall prey to a multitude of advertising gimmicks.

Marketing is basically just manipulating deep-rooted psychological factors. Marketers would even tell you as much, I'm sure.

Choosing to eat potato chips and being bombarded by ads aren't anywhere near in the same ballpark.
It is harmless - you don't like the aesthetic so your scale of "harm" is irrelevant.
"known to" !== "known for"
They retrained their model less than a week before its release, just to juice one particular nonstandard eval? Seems implausible. Models get 5x better at things all the time. Challenges like the Winograd schema have gone from impossible to laughably easy practically overnight. Ditto for "Rs in strawberry," ferrying animals across a river, overflowing wine glass, ...
I’ve also found some small companies have even worse politics and infighting than large companies.

Having a great boss+team in a large company is probably the most ideal — at least while it lasts.
I'm not @CodeCrusader, I'm his friend. I was surprised this post got "dead", so I decided to repost it using my own account.
Billboards would be a fine start. Next let's ban paid speech in general.
Sure, but if you’ve only been investing your money for the past year, even a 100% drop in the S&P 500 only gives you a single year’s less wealth, not multiple years lost.
Perhaps Grok-3 used the reasoning methodology from DeepSeek more than the underlying model, but the similarity of Grok-3 results to DeepSeek suggests that XAI used more than that.
This kind of horrifying behavior - like most things people are pointing out happening now - isn’t new

A 2011 study indicated at least 1% of deportations were consistently US citizens with no rectifications or resolution

Page 629 from this study:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1931703

I’m glad people starting to pay attention to this kind of stuff
In the old days, if I wanted someone to remove a tree stump in my yard, I would ask my neighbor who had a stump removed who did it for them, or open the yellow pages.

In the modern age, I would open google maps (where companies can, for free, volunteer to be listed), or google.com and search.

The yellow pages are ads, and in a sense a company having a webpage which is indexed by google is advertising, but advertising in an index of services is wildly different from paying an influencer on tiktok to do a dance video that just happens to have a tree stump being removed in the background, as if by accident, with the company name visible.

I think anti-advertising people are largely fine with a yellow-pages-like list of companies, with a search engine that indexes company websites, with word-of-mouth questions and reports about what services exist out there.

Will it be harder for a new company that spends $10 on a purse made in vietnam and $20MM on advertising to convince consumers it's a necessary fashion item worth $20k to take off? Yes, absolutely. Will it be harder for a plumber in my area to get business? Honestly, probably about the same, people who need a plumber will usually look at the list of businesses offering the service in their area, and a new plumber can easily get added to google maps and slap together a site.
That attack requires continuously monitoring a given device or area though, right?

In other words, you could possibly track a given device through an area with enough sensors, e.g. a store, but not across visits.
Arcade Game Documentaries
Advertising is the cure worse than the disease in this case. I'm willing to have a slightly worse service occasionally if it means I'm not being bombarded with corporate propaganda. If a service is bad enough, or my desire for something is great enough, I will seek it out.
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.
Asian markets already falling by 5-10%. I don't think it will get better as it propagates to Europe and USA.

The Liz Truss moment truly arrived to the USA and the world. We'll see what happen s when an idiot gets to rule a big country like a king.
For non Americans, a slight clarification, passing a bill to revoke would only requiring half, but to override the presidential veto would require a 2/3 vote.
You seem to be describing some sort of anarcho capitalist fantasy land. There’s a reason no single country on Earth operates like that.
Imagine this: instead of the search engine space being 90% focused on ads and 10% on providing a good search experience, you could have one that is focused on finding the thing you're looking for.
Sure wonder if their voters will appreciate reductions in amount of income tax paid because now they have no income…
I've been flying Southwest exclusively for about 25 years, save for one international expedition. Their cheeky attitude and the good-natured humor of the flight crew has always pleased me, because flying is so serious and stressful for many of us, that a light-hearted safety briefing really brightens our day and unclenches our butt-cheeks. And they have never forced me to endure a video (unlike churches around here!)

Art was imitating life when SNL dropped this extremely over-the-top parody of a live-action safety briefing, showcasing talents of Luke Null and the seasoned veteran Will Ferrell: https://youtu.be/Ji0TgBy085U?si=3ZHQk9p6wWZB4Oja
Ratna's math, in the second tweet, is high on the savings by 10x.

> If rolled into 10-yr bonds, every 1 basis point drop in rates saves approx $1B/year; so a 0.5% drop would save $500B over a decade.

It would be $50B on this math. Also, and I am an econ idiot here, how does the $9.2T refinancing work? Who is the US negotiating with to do this, itself?

> Lower yields free up fiscal room—without them, core spending gets crowded out.

What does this sentence mean? Fiscal room relative to what, to do what?

> But cheap refinancing isn’t enough on its own. Even at lower rates, the debt remains enormous.

Especially when Congress is about to vote on a bill to explode the debt again. Like, refinancing at $50B/year for savings isn't going to mean a thing compared to extending the tax cuts.

> Don’t forget: tariffs also bring in revenue. Estimates suggest they could raise over $700 million within the first year. That’s not a game-changer on its own, but it gives the Treasury a bit more room to maneuver—especially if paired with deficit cuts.

Again, that's 1.4% of the $50B. Literally a rounding error. No room is given to do anything. Also, what is a deficit cut, do you mean spending cuts (genuine question)? The only real spending cuts we can do to anything are, what, ~1/6th of the budget?

> Still, this approach isn’t without risks. If domestic supply chains can’t catch up, or if global retaliation kicks in, inflation could rise again. And if that happens, the Fed may be forced to raise rates—which would blow a hole in the low-yield plan. That’s the tightrope.

This was written on Apr 3. So, it seems that the tightrope that Ratna talks about has failed, the plan is over.

Look, the thread was an attempt at sanewashing the policy, it lasted about a day. Obviously, there is no plan.
It already was, though. We lost about 2 decades of alzheimer's research and probably about 30 drug candidates, and that's just one subfield.
Yep, exactly. I do that over far less. And otherwise, f off. People are way too nice to people screwing you over. Unlike we often see here, there are really good business owners who would (and do) sell all they have to keep all the staff through rough times. But those usually are (all I guess?) small businesses; I have the good fortune to contract (yes they even bend over backwards, both unconnected company owners, to keep their contractors) with 2 of them. And they pay well above market in the EU; American wages while they are from the EU. Most others will try to screw you and they call it 'it is not personal, it's just business'; while that's true, it rings hollow when you just did your stinking best. We are led to believe (mostly because of US tech in my case), that you need to work yourself to death while accepting everyone will throw you in a meat grinder whenever they wake up on the wrong side. Musk as poster child of this. But you make money! Sure, so especially for those, and especially in a pickle, our hourlies are bizarrely high and they still come back.
If you're relying on ads to tell you how to solve your problems you're implicitly trusting that the information provided in ads is factual and unbiased, and that the problem in question wasn't entirely manufactured by the industry that is now showing you ads (see also: manscaping, engagement rings, vehicle AI integration, etc)
That is harder. I think HN litigated this pretty hard in another thread, but delineating paid vs non-paid is not always clear.
Why choose a combibation of llama and qwen, when you could have used just qwen models with more permissive license?
That's more due to OPEC deciding to allow higher production quotas. Though you could argue that's because they expect a global downturn though it's not an independent view just the view of those countries.
You tell ChatGPT I said - if all it takes to destroy the economy is banning ads then the economy deserves to be destroyed.
Can you elaborate on who it helps and how? The screenshots aren't helpful.. perhaps a video of how you use it, and how it helps you?
Is this happening before or after the debt reckoning?
The companies exist to serve me and not the other way around. Companies don't have any inherent right to exist. If they can't make money off of me they're probably not doing anything that matters.

Do you mean real progress like washing machines and more efficient solar panels or fake progress like another beverage company to replace the ones that are already there? Real progress will spread by word of mouth. It will be much slower, but I'll accept that to never see an ad for another McDonalds new burger of the month.

Also, search engines are the perfect solution for discoverability here. I don't care if lawn care ads pop up if I search "lawn care service" but I don't want to have this thrown at me when I watch a YouTube video about Napoleon
Why an Australian journalist is teaching meditation in America's toughest jails
Wait this sounds like one of those actors spamming and wasting open source time with fake security issues.
So .... kind of like iPython notebooks but for building a system?
I found that [LangChain](https://www.langchain.com/langchain) has pretty good abstractions and better support for multiple LLMs. They also have a good ecosystem of supporting products - LangGraph and LangSmith. Currently supported languages are Python and Javascript.
I stg DOGE is going to rewrite the Social Security software stack and it's going to crash and burn on the first person whose last name is "Null"
Time to Better Know the Time in PostgreSQL
But one way we can control some of it is by banning advertising
Sometimes I wish there was a feasible system to audit and reduce redundant photos in my iCloud. I have an embarassing ton of pictures that I never look at just like everyone else. I wouldn’t mind a tool that said “here’s 10^x photos that are the most similar to all your other photos would you like to put them in the trash?”
> Locally running, like, llama.cpp? Or Python?

I’d guess it supports a small set of popular HTTP APIs (particularly, its very common for self-hosting LLM toolkits—not the per-model reference implementations or low-level console frontends—to present an OpenAI compatible API), so you could support a very wide range of local models, through a variety of toolkits, just by supporting the OpenAI API with configurable endpoint addresses.
I don't mean to be rude but I genuinely can't think of any service I've learned about through advertising. Do you have an example? I actively seek out product reviews and trailers for things I already know I want but I don't think an ad has changed my mind, just changed whether I buy A or B
if i were to lean into cynicism, i might suggest this choice was meant to increase the effort required to reimplement cuda for other cards.
> It's also not advertising if it's first-party.

So if I pay somebody independent to hand out leaflets, that's advertising. But if I employ somebody in the position of leafleteer, now it doesn't count.
I don't disagree with the idea, but this:

Effective prompt engineering requires understanding transformer architectures, attention mechanisms, and how these models actually process sequences—much like how deep software engineering requires understanding processors, memory hierarchies, and operating systems

That's not true. You don't understand "transformer architectures" etc (let's be honest, barely anyone of us does) and you don't expect your system/chat prompts to work with different models in the same architecture, or in different contexts of the same model. Prompt engineering gets a side eye simply because it's an ad-hoc iterative process of adjusting a prompt after a series of non-rigorous testing in a limited set of success and failure modes until it's just good enough.

In other words, without trying to sound smart, you make it work in a few minutes and hope that this will kinda work for every dialog. Which it doesn't do later, but now you're too lazy to create debug environments with similar contexts, so you blindly throw few more capsbold statements into the card.

Anyone who prompts a lot knows that there's almost nothing you can generalize around, except for specific prompt template syntaxes. And the knowledge how it works and practice tells you exactly that. You're navigating the space, elements of which and their combinations randomly overweight each other depending on incomprehensible factors. And creating a one-size-fits-all prompt is impossible and impractical in such conditions.

All that said, it's still non-trivial and can be a job title.
An obscure, youthful film director known as John Waters filmed a notorious "No Smoking" PSA to be shown in theaters. And show it they did, before Rocky Horror, and before his film festivals, thereby eliciting gales of laughter from the LGBTs, club kids, goths, and straights alike.

https://youtu.be/-VzSiilYSKs?si=dC_e9NTeiCFz74eN

In the mid-90s, I attended a live lecture by John Waters at a San Diego university campus, and smoke he did, in a non-smoking building on a tobacco-restricted campus, and he took approximately 2 drags while the thing turned into a long cylinder of ash.

It's been really difficult, and somewhat undesirable, for airlines and other places to eliminate smoking. Especially when there's literally nowhere to take refuge whilst in the air on a long flight.

I've also been incarcerated in mental hospitals where smoking was practically encouraged/required. We would all go "take a break" in an enclosed courtyard, and if you didn't smoke, you definitely got it second-hand, up close and personal.

Although nicotine is generally a stimulant, it's also a laxative and people who can't smoke become extremely anxious and agitated. I suspect that commercial flights today have escalating discipline problems with passengers who become extremely unruly just from hunger or jonesing for nicotine. Flight crews should dole out complimentary transdermals.

So it is generally considered best for psychiatry to allow smokers to smoke, keeping the peace wherever possible. Although the last place in 2023 insisted on providing specially-formulated "House Cigarettes", so psychiatry may also have taken control of cigarette manufacturing to some degree.
when was the last time you saw anything inside the government work as intended? any paperwork submitted to a federal agency can be FOIA'd so that would be... the IRS
Do you have strong examples of this?

Like, the SlapChop is a good counter example I think. The commercial demos the item, makes it looks useful, uses hot sales tactics, a bunch of people think "it's just 20 bucks, and chopping stuff sucks", buy one, and now we've got a bunch of SlapChops in the landfill because in practice they're finicky and more annoying to use than just a knife.

To me, it seems like by volume commercials mostly fall into trying to convince you you want/need something that's ultimately not that useful vs inform, and the vast majority of actual useful things I've found via actively searching, or via word-of-mouth / seeing it at a friend's house.
Ok I went and watched the YouTube video. As a few others have mentioned, it seems analogous to iPython notebooks. Basically a bunch of tiny tools that augment your experience working with code, like showing dependencies as a graph, or letting you view dictionaries graphically.
Continue and several other extensions do what Cursor does and they're extensions. No excuses from Cursor are acceptable.
For what it’s worth, that’s also exactly how I read your response, which was (to repeat) ‘That's fine! Our editions didn't erase any of the other editions you can find online and in print. You're more than welcome to select any edition that fits your reading preferences.’

I think that Standard Ebooks is a great-sounding project, but I honestly found your response not just flippant, but passive-aggressively rude to the original poster.

But — full disclosure — I also think that it would be a good idea to preserve the spellings found in the original editions you are digitising. So perhaps I inclined to feel the bite of your response more than someone who just doesn’t care.