skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would indeed be nice to have a recipient/consumer-side API!

I don't think it'll ever happen. Really the only valid use-case would be for people to hack together something for themselves (like we are discussing)... They don't want to allow developers to create applications on top of this as a 3rd party, as informed delivery itself has to carefully navigate privacy laws and it could be disastrous.
What Is Dock Plant? (2022)
So You Want to Be a Dissident?
We have already discussed the semantic implications. What else are you trying to add here? I think it went over my head.
I don't know why this is getting shadowed. You're absolutely right. Gerrymandering is a threat.
Trade War Sparks Run on US Warehouses with Tariff Loophole
Agreed. Well articulated.

>Many US business elected to chase short term growth, and short term and higher margins and minimize long term investments.

I would like to add that this was due to the influence of Milton Friedman. He put the emphasis on shareholder returns being the most important, without considering the survival of the company itself.
That's chilling. I always thought HN as a kinda level-headed corner of the internet.
Yeah, I agree. DSLs tend to become a maintenance burden over time! transducers let you compose data transformations independently of the data source (in-memory, async, etc.), which sidesteps a lot of the pitfalls that a full DSL might introduce. Thanks so much for highlighting this!
Sure, but what has that to do with the administration's attack on funding and independence? As someone whose lost a grant award under the current administration's attack on science, I can tell you with assurance that this is more about political power and revenge than it is about improving scientific rigor. If we continue on this path, we will only get worse at science as a nation.

There are reforms that should be pursued: restructuring grants away from endless and arduous begging for money through the tedious grant process of today towards something more like block grants
> On the definition of disappearance, I don’t think so.

Ha, well OK then! Well then we can make it one way: I understand what you're saying, I understand how a reasonable person might arrive at your conclusion, but I disagree. Whether you can do the same for me says less about me than you.

To me, your heels in the sand here feels like college-level semantic literalism and absolutism. Debates like this that focus on historical definitions rather than a discussion that considers the larger whole in evolving societies and changing contexts (technological, administratively, and others).

Yes, someone getting black bagged and executed in silence is clearly worse. It is the worst form of disappearance. But I don't think that's where the bar is for being "disappeared" - for me, that is when you are denied due process, prevented from receiving it, and all knowledge about you is now entirely reliant on the bad faith captors. This doesn't feel unreasonable or unfair to me, especially as it relates to everyday civilian discussions such as this one.

Will due process win out in the end, and I'm here wringing my hands like an idiot? Maybe so, we'll see how the next four years ago.

At any rate, I think we're clearly at impasse. Final shots are yours.
Second key feature listed in the repo:

> Work on all games. No dependency on any specific game or engine.

So your solution isn't an alternative here since it requires modifying the engine/game code.
I've done this when we had existing scripts that were run after cloning a specific git repo, that then needed an .exe for reasons, and just adding the exe to the repo was the easiest solution so we didn't have to change all the existing tooling and processes.
> not all viewpoints are presented anymore. Universities used to be billed as a "marketplace of ideas".

That's true. Universities no longer present the viewpoint that black people are inferior to whites and deserve to be slaves. They no longer present the viewpoint that human health comes from the balance of the four humours. They no longer present the viewpoint that women are the property of their fathers/husbands. They no longer present the viewpoint that nature is fundamentally made up of earth, aire, fire, and water. How dare they abandon these ideas and still call themselves a "marketplace of ideas"! Hypocrisy!
Kamala Harris's voting record is extremely progressive. Nevermind the subjective approximation of her policy positions as the Democrat nominee, which was watered down as she tried to garner broader support compared to her 2020 primary run.

>The Voteview project (now based at UCLA) has, since the 1980s, employed the roll-call votes cast in Congress to locate all senators and representatives on a liberal-conservative ideological map. These data and methods have been utilized by academics in thousands of peer-reviewed books, book chapters and journal articles. Although no method is perfect, there is a general consensus within the academic community that the NOMINATE methodology employed by the Voteview project and its close cousins represent the gold standard.

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4816859-kamala-harris-i...

You can look at the data yourself: https://voteview.com/data

And its not shocking right? She represented California, which is obviously one of, if not the most, liberal state in the country.
Isnt this inviting to competition? You can make a big exit by competing and getting acquired
Moving the low-cost jobs offshore was fine until automation filled a lot of those jobs. Now the high skilled automation skills and infrastructure (production lines and robots) are also offshore. I have done my fair share of western factory tours and the number of people on the factory floor is soberingly low... they are simply not needed, as they line runs like a vast, complicated machine.
They could have voted socialist at any point in time. Americans could have had healthcare, 36 hour work week and a pension system.

That is the tragedy of the American empire- instead of improving the lives of its citizens all the money went to tax cuts.
Related from same author earlier:

How the United States became a science superpower — and how quickly it could crumble

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43687118
Id partially agree. The historical case that time erased is that early app store, apps were exploding and disappearing just as quickly and the eventual "zero-risk" on network apps was enormous at the time. Everyone agreed with the trajectory, but no one had consensus on the permanence.
I print and platicize a lot of food recipes and maps for boy (and girl) scouts.
Compute 's Gazette revived for July 2025
Slated for release in July.
I assumed this would be about prompt engineering. I often feel like I'm arguing with toddlers when interacting with LLMs :).
What attribution are you talking about? Here's what I mean:

You can go to ChatGPT and ask it: "please write a Python script that prints "Hello world" in red". And that works.

And you can also go to ChatGPT and ask it: "Please write an Overte script that makes an object red when it's clicked".

And I really like that this works. I certainly don't want it to stop working because Sourcehut has something against LLMs.
Objection.
and yet when fields with a dearth of White Men offer recruiting events tailored to them, the "other side" is up in arms about it. Its clear that no part of DEI wants to include Whites, Men, or the doubly dreaded White & Men combo.

https://journals.rcni.com/nursing-standard/comment/a-focus-o...
What is Information? (and entropy)(Christoph Adami)(2016)
A recent post inspired me to post this.

This is the best description of entropy and information I've read.

Most of all, it highlights the subjective / relative foundations of these concepts.

Entropy and Information only exist relative to a decision about the set of state an observer cares to distinguish.

It also caused me to change my informal definition of entropy from a negative ("disorder)" to a more positive one ("the number of things I might care to know")

The Second Law now tells me that the number of interesting things I don't know about is always increasing!
In a very direct way, humans need calories to live. You can just opt out of movies entirely without much impact, so I don't think they're symmetrical.

A "picky" movie watcher isn't really the same thing as a "picky" eater. The eater is doomed to be locked in a cycle of working around their preferences for as long as they live.
why not GitHub Copilot?
Major companies like that become infected with large hierarchies of scum sucking middle management that eat revenue with bonuses.

Of course they are obsessed with shrinking labor costs and resisting all downsizing until it reaches comical levels.

Take a company like health insurance that can't show a large dividend because it would be a public relations disaster. Filled to the gills with vice presidents to suck up extra earnings. Or medical devices.

Software is also very difficult for these hierarchies of overpaid management, because you need to pay labor well to get good software, and the only raison d'etre of these guys is wage suppression.

Leadership is hard for these managers because the primary thing rewarded is middle management machiavellianism, turf wars, and domain building, and any visionary leadership or inspiration is quashed.

It almost fascinates me that large company organizations basically are like Soviet style communism, Even though there are opportunities for internal competition. Like data centers and hosting and it groups. They always need to be centralized for" efficiency".

Meanwhile, they are like 20 data centers and if you had each of them compete for the company's internal business, they'd all run more efficiently.
ISPs and robocallers love the FCC plan to "delete" as many rules as possible
> Personally speaking, I've never cared whether someone "validates" my emotions (and I often view such attempts as a bit patronizing or insincere).

I think that speaks more about you (and me, I’m the same way). Most people respond positively to that tactic. I’ve learned use it myself!
ORPC 1.0 – Typesafe APIs made simple
The USA's huge population and large internal free trade area give it better economies of scale.
You may have had a point fifteen years go, but the right has recently leapfrogged the left in all of the dimensions you're concerned about.

This cultural uniformity of the left you speak of. What's it like? I mean, the right drives big trucks and puts American flags on everything and eats a lot of meat and is really enamored of loyalty and the military and the atomic family.

So what's it like for the left? Because as far as I can tell, the only element of uniformity among the left is that they agree that they shouldn't enable things that are a threat to their safety. The argument towards wokeness is pretty strong: if you're not aware of a threat, it might hurt you, so you should stay vigilant. That's not cultural uniformity, that's survival. Sure, many have run with it in a variety of weird directions, but there's no agreement on the left that those directions are good ones. It's precisely because the left isn't a monoculture that those elements are allowed to persist.

For further evidence that the left permits dissent among their ranks, note that they kind of suck at getting anything done because they're always debating each other about how it ought to be done and not doing it. Meanwhile it's the right that falls uniformly in line and goes off to do something that was poorly thought out (but hey at least they did something).

And taking this back to the article, it's precisely because the right can't tolerate disagreement that it wants to cancel academia and create a safe space where it doesn't have hear the truth about the consequences of its terrible policies. This is literally a letter about the Right cancelling something to enforce ideological uniformity.
It's why I found platforms like Twitter tended to have such volatility because the platform structure itself takes every opportunity to remove that charitibility.

If you come across an argument, people are writing in a limited space, you're presented with the most engaged with replies first (i.e. either towing the party line best or the most inflammatory opposition), accounts are pseudonymous, and your performance is numerically displayed below the post.
I looked through the documentation and I've come across a couple sites using this already.

Genuine question: why not leverage the proof-of-work challenge literally into mining that generates some revenue for a website? Not a new idea, but when I looked at the docs it didn't seem like this challenge was tied to any monetary coin value.

This is coming from someone who is NOT a big crypto person, but it strikes me that this would be a much better way to monetize organic high quality content in this day and age. Basically the idea that Brave browser started with, meeting it's moment.

I'm sure Xe has already considered this. Do they have a blog post about this anywhere?
Show HN: I made PromptQuick – Copy-paste instructions from my book to fix prompt
Shifting Perspectives on Purchasing Open Source Software
How to Get Better at Strategy?
I mean, a news site needs their journalists to login. Your own personal Wordpress needs a user for editing the site. The blog platform I use (mataroa) doesn’t even have detailed statistics serve many users so they need user support.

Web is a bit different than you envision/think.
> Toddlers (which includes defensive bureaucrats, bullies, flat earthers, folks committed to a specific agenda and radio talk show hosts)

I think people are unfair to bureaucrats. Bureaucrats have a job to do: they carry out policy determined by other people and encoded via a dizzying array of rules that combine specificity and vagueness in unexpected ways, many of which have a history of harm, exploitation, and public debate behind them that ordinary people have no patience to learn.

People are only interested in their own situation, and they are convinced that their situation is different. Sometimes it is. Sometimes they're suffering from an entirely natural partiality towards themselves. So they want the bureaucrat to be creative. They justify it by saying that the rules can be bent just for this circumstance, just for them, it doesn't have to apply to any other circumstance. Why can't the bureaucrat relax their rigid bureaucratic brain enough to realize that every circumstance is unique and the rules were written for other circumstances, not this one?

But that's exactly what the bureaucrat is not supposed to do. The public, their elected representatives, their interest groups, and other policy stakeholders expend incredible quantities of time in campaigns, pubic debate, open meetings, closed meetings, collection and collation of feedback, et cetera ad infinitum. It's not the bureaucrat's place to second-guess the results of that process or innovate outside the bounds decided on during that process.

In the gray areas within those boundaries, yes, the bureaucrat is happy to listen to arguments and make decisions based on reason and evidence. That's their job. Gray areas where bureaucrats get to apply judgment are inevitable, often even intentional, but the gray areas aren't always where you want or expect them to be. Bureaucrats don't have latitude to decide that a rule that went through two rounds of public feedback, got debated until 11pm at a public meeting, went through multiple rounds of drafting and review by the staff of an elected official, and was finally signed off on and announced as a shiny new policy in the media, should be changed for you because the way it applies to your situation doesn't make sense to you. They can't invent a gray area where the political process provided a bright line.

You can argue that a lot of rules were hastily dashed out by a junior aide and made it through the rest of the policy-making process without any further scrutiny. That's true. But it's not like when you become a bureaucrat they give you a special pair of glasses that show you which rules were just one person's ill-informed guess and which rules emerged from decades of painful history or hours of public debate and compromise. That would be nice to know, and sometimes bureaucrats know that information because they were around and paying attention when the rules were made. Sometimes they can bend a rule because they know that this particular rule is not important to anybody. But just because they won't bend a rule in your case doesn't mean they're narrow-minded, stubborn, or petty.
> they did find 1-2 emerging health issues that were preventable with simple diet and lifestyle changes

Sounds like the exact same results you'd have gotten without imaging.
Hi HN,

I built PromptQuick (https://promptquick.ai) because I was personally wasting too much time fighting with prompts for ChatGPT, Claude, etc. The constant trial-and-error to get decent, consistent output felt really inefficient.

My solution was to make a simple rulebook: just concise, categorized, copy-paste rules for common problems like vague answers, bad formatting, wrong tone. Stuff you can use right away, not a long course.

This is an MVP. The main goal right now is just validation – seeing if this structured, rule-based way of prompting is actually useful to other people using these AI tools a lot.

To figure that out, the site offers a *free sample chapter* covering rules for improving output quality and formatting. You give an email, you get the PDF. Simple.

I'd appreciate any feedback on the idea itself, the landing page, or the sample rules if you check them out. Does this actually solve a pain point you have?

Tech stack is Next.js, Tailwind, Supabase, Resend, Vercel Blob, hosted on Vercel.

Happy to answer any questions.
I'd heard this advice plenty so felt ready to deploy it when I had a toddler.

I have a toddler now, and have tried this approach a number of times. She just says "no" to the choices....
"There are three ways of dealing with opposition. The recommended and stupid way is to directly engage it in a cooperative spirit. This never works unless there is genuinely some sort of misunderstanding that can be easily clarified." (Venkatesh Rao, Be Slightly Evil)
This is the best description of entropy and information I've read:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.06176

Most of all, it highlights the subjective / relative foundations of these concepts.

Entropy and Information only exist relative to a decision about the set of state an observer cares to distinguish.

It also caused me to change my informal definition of entropy from a negative ("disorder)" to a more positive one ("the number of things I might care to know")

The Second Law now tells me that the number of interesting things I don't know about is always increasing!

This thread inspired me to post it here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43695358
> Faster than the notion app lol

Not exactly a high bar. How fast is it actually? Unless it's native perf (or at least as good as Superhuman) I won't bother.
Before asking "How to win an argument with a toddler?", first ask:

1- "Might the toddler be right?"
2- "Am I the toddler in this interaction?"
To add a little nuance and a bit of a detour from the original topic, some Rationalists (I'm thinking Scott Alexander) tend to spend a lot of brainpower on negative aspects of AI too - think the alignment problem.

The category of events having near infinite positive or negative outcomes with zero to few examples where it's difficult to establish a base-rate[prior] appears to attract them the most. Conversely, an imagined demonic relationship with a yet to be realized unaligned AI results in a particular existential paranoia that permeates other enclaves of Rationalist discourse.
Curious for those in the industry, is there room for Cohere? Apparently they are doing very well in the enterprise, however recently I found myself wondering what their long term value prop is.
Sweden was not bombed.
Did Anyone Save Shopify's "Ten Slack Commandments"?
A few years ago they posted it but it was deleted. Did anyone save it?
> which of the two validation is supposed to refer to

In this context, it's the former. If I say, "It's dumb that you feel that way but here's you're stupid gloves," to a toddler, I solved their problem but I also likely made them feel like their problem is somehow not a "valid" one. Especially when this happens repeatedly to children is when they grow up with particularly anti-social behaviors, for fear of others abusing them similarly.
Yes! So my assumption is people don’t have printers anymore and want a easy way to print if they have or want to.

They just add files like a .pdf and let them send to their homes. So they have real physical prints..
Cult indoctrination could be explained by this but could also be explained by the fact that a certain number of formerly gifted kids, who have been ostracised during their childhood and have low social skills tend, to gravitate around the rationalist community. I do believe that those people are more likely to be indoctrinated.

From my readings of the Zizian, they also don't seem to easily change their mind, they instead have had a tendency towards very radical opinions that progressively become more extreme.
Acoustic thermometry offers rapid, accurate high-altitude temperature readings
> Michelin star restaurant was not even your analogy

Precisely.
> I feel like we broadly agree

I am not sure I am in a proper place to agree or disagree. I'm still in argument mode, which means I don't understand the topic well enough to be in a state where I could agree or disagree. I do hope to get there someday, but when I do get there you aren't to hear more from me on the subject! I'll have grown bored of it and will be on to the next. Such is the human condition.
TFA touches on this, but one thing I initially found surprising is how few people understand different domains have different best practices around authorship order. It does make sense, people are typically not as involved in other domains and not exposed to those papers. But I do still find it surprising how different the practices can be overall.
Great question!

We've heard from users who've tried both that our AI reviewer tends to catch more meaningful issues with less noise, that's really something you should try for yourself and find out! (The great thing is that it's really easy to start using)

Beyond the AI agent itself (which is somewhat similar to Copilot), our biggest differentiation comes from the human review experience we've built. Our goal was to create a Linear-like review workflow designed to help human reviewers understand and merge code faster.
My first thought: if I let AI play the PCs so I can DM for the first time in decades, wouldn't that be weird and pointless?

My second thought: how many hours of my life have I spent playing with/against computer game opponents again?
Nice! You have a printer yourself?
Throw it into something they love. Sauces are a great way of hiding ingredients.
And for anyone who hasn't gone through the certification process before, SOC 2 Type I means that they were able to demonstrate a set of controls and evidence that their implementation passes those controls — just once. Type 2 is continuously evaluated. Notion being SOC 2 Type 2 and Notion Email only being Type 1 is a red flag that they're doing something weird or not re-using policies and infrastructure.
Benn Jordan's AI poison pill and the weird world of adversarial noise
Slashdot, the venerable ancient for tech discussions, allowed temp accounts under the term anonymous_cowards.

Their camouflage was tactics, not cowardice. Don't bring the courage of courageous men as a shield for someone lacking convictions.

For what its worth, I sympathize. I live in a country where I recognize that I am not as free as America used to be. That means I recognize the courage of those who take actual risks, and I also understand the weight of my words and the risks they may carry. I don't shoot from the hip.