skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unions are a bad solution to the problem of companies not vaulting their employees. Unfortunately, without altruism by the corporations or governments action, they are also the only effective solution.

I'd prefer we look to other countries that have solved the problem in other ways, such as including representatives of the employees in the board.

Also, we need to remember that corporations exist at the mercy of the state, having received a special dispensation (corporate charter) to exist. Those companies that are not a net benefit to society have no right to exist and ought to be dissolved.
The entire Patriot act should be repealed.
> You need to maintain at least a minimum amount of internal competency in almost all areas

This is exactly what Dr. L. J. Hart-Smith wrote in "Out-Sourced Profits – The Cornerstone of Successful Subcontracting", a paper from 2001 https://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/2014130646...

See also How Tech Loses Out over at Companies, Countries and Continents https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/how-tech-loses-out/, where the author asks, "In any organization, in any company, in any group, any country and even any continent, what level of technical capability, do we need to retain?"

Once you've outsourced everything except the management work, the organization forgets how to do the thing they're supposed to be managing.
Anyone know if there is something like this for Linux? I like the idea, but don't use a Mac. Sure, I can collect ambient music and loop them in Rhythmbox bt I love the idea of a background music utility to enhance work.
Yup, my comment was directed at those who want to prevent electronic money. But it’s no different than earlier banking.

I support cash and gold as well.
Right and I'm talking about the one in China (that opened like 10 years ago), selling stuff to people in China (and presumably elsewhere in Asia).

Nowadays it's kinda irrelevant to the greater point anyways, because some of the knock off factories make parts that are just as good. (Some knock off factories push out terrible QC)
> 1. Server <> client sync is handled for you

In what sense? Is it as fast as using UDP with protobuf packets?
They have little financial incentive to solve it because it helps with lock in.

Also, alot of companies actually prohibit syncing between personal and work due to data leakage issues.
Eric D. Lehman on Key West
Which is why Derek [correctly] points out that everything is percentages, not fixed dollar amounts.
Yeah Japan is famously friendly and welcoming to different cultures and ethnicities. Unless?
I find this difficult to understand. There was a great explosion of conspiracy theories in the last ten years, so you should be seeing more of it.
LLMs are statistical models trained on human-generated text. They aren't the perfectly logical "machine brains" that Asimov and others imagined.

The upshot of this is that LLMs are quite good at the stuff that he thinks only humans will be able to do. What they aren't so good at (yet) is really rigorous reasoning, exactly the opposite of what 20th century people assumed.
Design Downtime [audio]
A few times a year I end up in a TSA line where one TSA person is shouting instructions to everyone, and 20 feet away the next is countermanding those instructions and seems exasperated that everyone is doing the wrong thing.

It's such a bad joke.

A few years ago I went through an airport that had a dog checking everyone. The handler was struggling to get the dog to do his job, people were not being checked, dog / puppy just wanted to play.
Pivot To Video will never die.
To a certain point. Basic arithmetic is important but the ability to calculate large square roots or multiply multi-digit numbers is not very relevant when you can trivially calculate them on your phone in seconds.
You have way more advanced needs than I have for a calendar, but I've also been thinking of using a self-hosted solution. The realization for this came when I started noticing all kinds of appointments by email came with a notification attached to add the event to your calendar. I'm talking Gmail here, and I suppose my smartphone was going to add it to my standard Android calendar or something (I didn't try). Then I realized I didn't even like the UI/UX of my standard Android calendar.

I only need to manually add some appointments per week (not even every day, I'm a lucky guy) and realized I do not even need a grid layout for my calendar.

Having worked with times and dates in my favorite programming language already, I feel confident I can make something simple based on the standard default classes.

Even running something as simple and important as a calendar through third-party apps has started feeling very strange the last years.
Mine was updated to "Go away, or I will replace you with a small shell script". I wish I could remember where I read that from for proper attribution.
Not yet. @promptrepo/score relies on token-level logprobs, which OpenAI exposes for their models. But, Anthropic’s Claude currently doesn’t expose token-level confidence (like logprobs) in their API. So, we can’t support Claude until they do. We’d love to add support if/when Claude exposes this capability.
Two words: Endless September.
China is over 90% ethnically Han Chinese. Compared to the US it is practically a homogeneous country. The language diversity is greater in China, but the racial/ethnic diversity is lesser. China is more comparable to Europe than the US.
That's because they often weren't designed to handle such things. Imagine a BNF-style generator extended with constructs for error handling and edge cases. We already have to do specifications of such behaviors. We might as well automatically get good code out of them.

I think that would be helpful.
excellent explanation, to add to this since I was curious about the composition, '%c' is an integer presentation type that tells python to format numbers as their corresponding unicode characters[1] so

'%c' * (length_of_string_to_format) % (number, number, ..., length_of_string_to_format_numbers_later)

is the expression being evaluated here after you collapse all of the 1s + math formatting each number in the tuple as a unicode char for each '%c' escape in the string corresponding to its place in the tuple.

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/string.html#format-specifi...
LLM-fragments-go: LLM plugin for pulling Go package docs with go
The Rise of Slopsquatting
> By embracing that complementary relationship, we can advance as a society and be free to do the things that only humans can do.

This complementarity already exists in our brains. We have evolutionary older parts of brain that deal with our basic needs through emotions and evolutionary younger neocortex that deals with rational thought. They have complicated relationship, both can influence our actions, through mutual interaction. Morality is managed by both, neither of them is necessarily more "humane" than the other.

In my view, AI will be just another layer, an additional neocortex. Our biological neocortex is capable of tracking un/cooperative behavior of around 100 people of the tribe, and allows us to learn couple useful skills for life.

The "personal AI neocortex" will track behavior of 8 billion people on the planet, and will have mastery of all known skills. It is gonna change humans for the better, I have little doubt about it.
> Unfortunately I couldn't read the linked study because I was stuck in an endless CAPTCHA loop of trying to find an image of a refrigerator among a varying set of only helicopters, ships, and avocados

I got through on the first try, and I block third party JavaScript with a whitelist
As a follow-up, this is true not only at the level of individual experience but at the societal level.

"AI" is supposed to make our lives better. Proponents want it to replace soul-crushing, boring clerical work, to free us up for things more meaningful to us, which for many people is to create and consume art.

Why do tech people keep having the impulse to replace the best parts of being human?

Are you really telling me that the vast corpus of human-generated creative writing isn't enough for you, and you have an itch to read something that can only be written by an AI? That seems crazy to me.

...or are you just a publisher, and wish you could make more money without needing to pay those pesky human authors? And in that case, I won't try to argue with you -- just give you a heartfelt middle finger.
I've seen this book talked about a lot. However, I also have heard that there is some big holes in the research. Take a look online.
The fact that anyone might get around a law doesn't prevent us from having laws.

My point being a key 9/11 inspired law would not prevent even the event that inspired it, even in theory.
Isn't Groq still more expensive than GPU-based providers?
If you ever find yourself driving West to East with some extra time, Route 70 from I10/125 junction at Las Crucas on up to Alamogordo and on up to Roswell is a phenomenally pretty drive. The long slope straight slope coming down from Dripping Springs into White Sands is uniquely strange. And the mountains around the Sierra Blanca are cool and refreshing after the dry desert valley. One of many wonderful American Scenic Byways. For anyone who loves to drive, I always go out of my way to take them. https://scenicbyways.info/
Google’s A.I. is the least interesting and most useless in my experience. I use a lot of local models and the Gemma models have always been a waste of time, even the new ones.

Mistral, Llama, Deepseek, Qwen, Exaone and etc have been more useful.

I feel like Google has been spending a lot on PR lately because my experience does not match some of the weird praise I see them getting lately.
It’s awesome what our gut micro biome does for us. We literally don’t eat our meals but let them eat by microorganisms and absorb their poop. Best example is serotonin of which most gets produced from gut bacteria. An astonishing 90% of it. From tryptophan if I recall correctly.
Depending how many of those serotonin producing MO you have the faster and more you can replenish.

Fecal transplants are a cool thing but there is a next step to this. Genetically modified microorganisms for our gut.
Unless they are brown recluses, I generally leave my household spiders be. Wolf spiders don't want to encounter me, either, and I am quite sure they are why the odd cricket that finds its way into our concrete slab dining room disappears quickly, that works for me. and there are others here and there that have set themselves up in discreet places near doors and windows. I'm not a germophobe or arachnophobe, we live in relative peace.
Agreed. Their timing was not right. But once Windows 95 hit, it was over. Also, the RAM requirements made it pretty much impossible for people to recommend to their friends and family.

I really had a special fondness for OS/2. But using it today, it really is a quirky thing. Maybe if it had won I wouldn't be thinking that way.
> Despite the flood of benchmark-tuned LLMs, we remain nowhere close to engineering a machine intelligence rivaling that of a cat or a dog, let alone within the next 5 to 10 years.

Depends on your definition of "intelligence." No, they can't reliably navigate the physical world or have long-term memories like cats or dogs do. Yes, they can outperform them on intellectual work in the written domain.

> Does their existence make you obsolete?

Imagine if for everything you tried to do, there was someone else who could do it better, no matter what domain, no matter where you were, and no matter how hard you tried. You are not an economically viable member of society. Some could deal with that level of demoralisation, but many won't.
Job cuts at the US traffic safety regulator instigated by Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency disproportionately hit staff assessing self-driving risks...

The NHTSA, which has been a thorn in Tesla’s side for years, has eight active investigations into the company after receiving—and publishing—more than 10,000 complaints from members of the public...

Oligarchy and self-dealing are what pass for public policy these days in Washington, DC.
How Signal's design contributed to the U.S. war plans leak
The New Test Pyramid
Illegal immigration is in fact against the law.

But if that's the main issue, shouldn't the process of deporting them be in accordance with the law?
It’s nice that the phone app is free and works without the device. I’m curious about how “Hardcore Mode (optional)” could work, which the page describes as “Locks apps for the entire focus session with no way to bypass it. The only way to unlock them is a full phone reset.”

I could not find this in the app, maybe it’s Android only, an upcoming feature, or requires the Busy Bar hardware device.
Might have been the bible for how old that one is.
I think one of our goals is to reduce entropy in the Universe, and being awake lets us do 100x more of that than if we were in low power mode
It was for the odd ring topology they have. The fuse in type F was sarcasm, as this is unnecessary. Although some plugs in China, used for boilers and aircos, do come with one or a resetable fuse.
This fits my observations, as well. I do think there is a set of hyper focused gym people that are looking to optimize their health choices. And in that crowd, I suspect they have largely dropped alcohol. Among the generally active, though, a large driver of that activity is social contact. And moderate drinking is still quite high in most social settings. (Well, at least here in the US.)

Now, again, I want to stress that I don't think my mental model has alcohol as healthy. Especially not to the level that I find I will drink, if given the chance. It is not the highest factor, though.
Show HN: FastAPI-MCP to expose FastAPI endpoints as MCP tools
I built FastAPI-MCP as an open-source library, and recently had to completely refactor it, abandoning FastMCP wrappers in favor of the low-level MCP SDK. The new version gives more control over which endpoints are exposed, supports complex request bodies, and allows flexible routing options.
I wrote about the technical journey and lessons learned here: https://medium.com/@miki_45906/advanced-mcps-in-python-how-t...

Looking for feedback and contributors who are interested in MCPs!
https://umdf.org/
Great organization working on Mitochondrial diseases. I have a family member with a diagnosed Mito disease.
I think public health officials should be able to make content moderation recommendations to publishers. In fact, I think they have a responsibility to do so. If someone is knowingly publishing false information which could harm people, public health officials have a responsibility to at least offer counter-guidance to the publisher and make objections clear. They obviously don't have the right to silence them, but they don't do that already.

To me, we should be less concerned with how a platform is moderated and more concerned with the fact that the most successful, influential, and devious publishing empire in human history is essentially the personal property of one man.
It would be rewarding bad behavior though. Since there would then be no incentive to stop, voting for Harris would increase the likelihood of the Democrats continuing to skip primaries or promote candidates from within while ignoring their lack of popularity in the primaries.

I don’t believe in voting for the lesser of two evils. It’s a myopic viewpoint that doesn’t take into account long term consequences.

People can rationally look at the long term benefits vs short term risks and rationally vote for Trump. It is extremely hubristic to think that people who don’t agree with you politically are stupid or irrational.
The spice melange

https://youtu.be/pEQREIDUJ88?si=VNjyge_0SMIY5Yjo

I did not expect South Park satire to be that accurate.

Gut health is looking like it'll be a major part of medicine for the 21st century like vaccines and antibiotics were for the 20th
Oo fun idea.

I'd expand on that and say that we're forcing computers onto people who don't understand them in the first place, which aligns with what you're saying.

The same number of people are interested in tech/computers and want to have a deeper understanding, but because tech has become so required, we're seeing people who are only going to do the bare minimum.

Interesting idea.
No.

No amount of design compensates for a high-ranking government official sharing top-secret information using their personal unsecured devices.
Here is one key take-away, phrased as a question: when a student uses an LLM for "creation", are underlying aspects (understanding, application, analysis, and evaluation) part of the learning process?
I appreciate someone named "behringer" posting this sentiment. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behringer#Controversies)
The ukrainians are very good at this already. Since drone swarms typically arrive at night they tend to prefer sound sensors.
Did we previously have the concept of owning an idea?
It's about protecting blue collar workers. H1Bs damage the "coastal elite". Illegal immigrants are the threat to blue collar workers, and look at his stance on them.

It's impossible to not see that Trump is trying to bring back the 1950's rust belt all American factory family.
Where can I sign up to get notified when the desktop app is available?
How do you access it remotely?

Set up a webcam stream of the calendar

How do you share it for common events with others?

Share the webcam link or ring them up on the telephone if we are (jokingly) going traditional.
Enterprises are stuck on Java 8, so that's what everyone is familiar with. This is why I use Kotlin; if you don't know the new stuff anyway, you may as well just use a better language.
Believe me, I would have loved to have seen hands on wheels. It'd be great if people who cared about the Democratic party messing up would actually bother to show up to breathe some life into the party; party events are published, offices have addresses, local and state government positions go up for election far more often than Presidents do.

Instead, I saw Americans stay home, again, and Trump get elected, again. It would appear, sadly, Americans are getting the government they're willing to put in the effort to have. All the resources in the world to stop these circumstances and they didn't use them.

Ah, well. Pax Americana was a pretty good run. We got the Internet out of it. Hopefully, the reshuffling of global power into something that replaces it will be even better.
Well, it's encouraging to know some aren't amoral.
i clicked the link to see why it was the hug of "death", only to then realize after reading, it was hug of "deaf". i wonder what the unique user count was.
I maintain the core of Koreo. I'll hit the easy question first, then the more involved questions.

Everything is in-code and designed to have a "proper" SDLC lifecycle—code reviews, approvals, merges. It is designed to be used in gitops workflows.

For the more nuanced questions, here's some background: I like Kustomize and KPT a lot. In _my_ opinion, they should be your starting point. They are clean and easy to reason about tools. They do not work as well when you have more complexity. They're very painful if you've got _dynamic_ values or values you need to inject programmatically (think Helm's values.yaml).

The next important item to note: Koreo's relative value is lower if you're building highly bespoke one-offs or you do not care about having standard resource configurations / application architectures. The value is not zero, but there are lighter solutions and you should consider them instead.

Koreo is meant to model application architectures and resource capabilities. Using your example, you can build a BucketResource. That BucketResource will then ensure that S3 Buckets follow your company standards, including things like automatically handling the IAM setup and permissions for the service that uses the bucket. That lets you define required capabilities: An S3 Bucket is always tagged with the owner service and product domain. In production environments buckets must have lifecycle rules specifying a minimum 30 day retention. In development environments, you lifecycle rules are optional. The developers then only need to specify that their workload uses an S3 Bucket and it will be configured based on your company standards. But, we have designed it so that you can decide how much abstraction is right for your needs—you can directly expose the full, underlying API or you can abstract it more.

Effectively, it gives you an "easy" solution for building a PaaS that implements _your_ standards and opinionation.

Our original versions were directly implemented using go and Python. The issue is that iterating on the application models was much, much slower. This approach allows us to rapidly implement new capabilities and features, and even expose unique or experimental architectures to only certain application domains.
The Saab Gripen is said to be particularly effective in this regard.

I'm pleased at the discussion in this chain of replies, as it illustrates the cat-and-mouse game stealth (low observability?) is. Stealth never was a perfect defense, as it's detractors claim. It forces the adversary to make tradeoffs, such as increasing the costs needed to detect such craft, which can then be exploited for gain.
If it's a clear day and the bottom of the airplane is painted blue, it could blend in with the sky. For that matter, didn't Wonder Woman have a transparent airplane?

Aha, better yet, it was invisible! https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Wonder_Woman%27s_Invisible_Plane
> I think we need to consider what the end goal of technology is at a very broad level.

"we" don't control ourselves. If humans can't find enough energy sources in 2200 it doesn't mean they won't do it in 1950.

It would be pretty bad to lose access to energy after having it, worse than never having it IMO.

The amount of new technologies discovered in the past 100 years (which is a tiny amount of time) is insane and we haven't adapted to it, not in a stable way.
Bongard problems and the shape of thought
We still need the Public Suffix List because of how inconsistent it was
Actually no. My hit-counter uses javascript which filters out almost (but not quite) all of the bots. It probably misses some real users that have javascript turned off.
A fun side project I guess, but I would never trust this for anything. Why would I use this instead of an actual password manager that has password sharing functionality? That also would not save a pw in chat history and has the added benefits on real security and not being some random site.
Frameworks are just someone else's architecture.

They are helpful if you have the same problems as that other company, but I worry about software that uses frameworks because the programmers don't feel confident building their own. It means when it comes time to evolve beyond the off-the-shelf architecture, programmers keep plowing ahead far past when they should have added another level of abstraction & encapsulation.

On the other hand, I also see applications where people dogmatically avoid using pre-existing architectures but also don't take the time to build their own. You end up with references to one table scattered all across the code base in hand-composed SQL.

I'd much rather take an outgrown-framework over a spaghetti mess.
You're saying something exactly backwards from reality. Star Trek is communism (except it's not) because there's no scarcity. It's not selfishness that's the problem. It's the ever-increasing number of things invented inside capitalism we deem essential once invented.
my guess is Intel provides software windows uses to accelerate common dsp operations with simd/sse etc.
What's the $25 thing?
Oh I was just talking about the “transmitting to the server _at all_” part, but yeah some end-to-end encryption would be nice.
AI + radar shadow aka passiv radar?