skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Properly private .. or recoverable via an FOI after the appropriate lapse of time?

Even if not entered into a formal record, properly private, or logged by higher command and saved for X days in case of need for review.

I can believe it's secure from outside hacking, I question whether it's private w/out some form of logging baked in.
They should try doing those things in the current 50 states first. High-speed rail to Alaska would be fun.
What a cool project to get to work on!
> The beginning of the end will be if this starts happening to US citizens, although that hasn't happened.

Do you think that's the final straw? What if the US did it to a citizen? Would you emigrate or resist?

Genuinely curious; I feel like things are bad but salvageable.
"Standardized tests are bullshit, IQ tests are phrenology"

Asians don't believe this because our society is much more homogeneous than western societies. Correlation is often causation.
A lot of compensation works that way, to be honest. First order is that you get a percentage of whatever river of money you sit close to, regardless of effort or skill.
But I don't understand why 14%? It should be the same as you, 20%.

Same goes for religious organizations, but it would be extremely hard to enforce, as they might say "government is interfering us practicing our religion", as practicing religions helps to not pay taxes and protected by the Constitution.
It is the act of not jumping to conclusions that makes us better than him. I understand completely that if he could get away with it, he would detain citizens, but I am not convinced yet that he can. If we jump the gun, we are no better than him.
It's a really great analogy for how God can allow his creations free will without it messing up His Work. Melkor uses his free will to try and make his own "music" discordant from Eru's but Eru just incorporates it into His music and makes the whole song better.
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Ask HN: In Barcelona from San Francisco, Meetup?
I’ll be in Barcelona all week and would be interested to meet some other programmers!

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When I was young I used to make a lot of levels for Tomb Raider (3? 4?) because I found the process of making sacred-but-spooky feeling places very enchanting. I had no one to share them with, so it was more like just making folk art for myself and my brother. This feeling was not surpassed until Minecraft came out (and then that was not surpassed until I bought land).

The levels are fundamentally comprised of square blocks that you push up from the ground, and maybe tilt one of the four sides to make shapes. To make caves and rooms, there is a second set of blocks that you pull down from the ceiling!

To get an idea of what this feels like, see this particular tutorial video of theirs: https://tombengine.com/docs/extended-geometry-update-1-7/
I have written about technical things (how I choose technologies, what to avoid, reasons I went from language X to Y, etc).

I never had any interesting social interactions from the blog/writing and the internal pressure to keep it updated eventually wore me out, so I got rid of the blog.

I have considered distilling everything into a book, complete with a working application. I'm more interested in the technical aspects and I am unsure if it would be of much interest/use to people.
I am going to abstract from the hard 1 million number which is obviously low in 2025, and just base my arguments on maybe a few million as a reasonable limit. Make it ten or twenty if that fits your mental model better. You have no way of knowing that those companies would never have existed. They could very well have existed, just no billionaire would have been the majority owner. The money is not removed from their investments, but they are required to divest them to other owners. Funding mechanisms for the companies now self-funded by billionaires would be quite different if the ultra-wealthy were never allowed to exist. It would require more cooperation, but it would not therefore be impossible.

If somebody cares about progress and is highly motivated, they should remain highly motivated to create incredible products and services, whether that buys them unchecked power or not. If some people would be less motivated and do less than they do now, it would be a lesser evil that creating oligarchs thirsty to dominate whenever they get the chance. As long as people can live a good and comfortable life, they do not have rights to more than that.

People who argue against progressive taxes tend to ignore the fact that modern capitalism is basically a game, one where the rules greatly favor the richest, who have virtually unlimited leverage compared to the average person. They make money exponentially more easily than others. It is absolutely right to correct this game through appropriate progressive taxes. Every once in a while an adult needs to step in to keep the game fun for everybody, and not just let the best player dominate others and make everybody else miserable. Maybe if we did this, the price gouging and constant turning of the screws would give way to a society where fair trade was the default cultural and economic norm.

Certainly hoarding more wealth than Smaug is a crime of grave injustice against humanity. For the mind completely sold to capitalism, this is impossible to understand. But people come before wealth and power.
AI+alm,a way to be compliant, agile, and efficient
> the University must adopt and implement merit-based hiring policies, and cease all preferences based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin throughout its hiring, promotion, compensation, and related practices among
faculty, staff, and leadership.

> the University must adopt and implement merit-based admissions policies and cease all preferences based on race, color, national origin, or proxies thereof, throughout its undergraduate program, each graduate program individually, each of its professional schools, and other programs.

In what way is hiring faculty and and admitting students based on merit instead of their identity anti-education? Is your position that you get a better education from a professor who was hired because of their race instead of the quality of their scholarly work?
The thinking tokens (even just 1024) make a massive difference in real world tasks with 3.7 in my experience
Because if you are trying to draw samples from a hypersphere via rejection sampling from samples of the hypercube, your sampling efficiency will go down exponentially with dimensionality. A smaller and smaller percentage of your samples will go unrejected as dimensionality grows
So they need to have a department to ensure a diversity of views are included?
Tomb Raider 2 was one of the first games I got for the PlayStation. I remember spending HOURS with my sisters and friends trying to trap the butler into the freezer of her mansion.

Good memories.
Nobody is doubting the existence of an agreement. I am asserting that we have no way to be certain about any of the terms of said agreement, given that no one has seen it.

(And as a side assertion, that the Trump administration is breaking the law by not having said contract available for at least the judge, if not the public).
They tried closing the loophole a month ago. It was such a burden trying to track and collect tariffs on small shipments they gave up.
Hollywood Is Cranking Out Original Movies. Audiences Aren't Showing Up.
Ah! well that's a bit cool.
The Elephant in the Brain

The Enigma of Reason

The Problem of Political Authority
https://archive.ph/m67zr
Yes I’m also working on a SQLite parser, mine is in raw WebAssembly. Is yours open source too? This tool will be so useful. I have basic page reading and parsing of the CREATE TABLE schema: https://github.com/RoyalIcing/SilverOrb/blob/9dacad0ce521b0d...

My plan is to create a miniature .wasm module to read .sqlite files that works in the browser. It will be in the tens of kilobytes rather than the 1 megabyte that the official fantastic sqlite.wasm is. The reduced download means even on 3G you ought to be able to load within a few seconds. You can use SQLite files as your network payloads then, and perhaps even as the working mutable state synced between server and clients.
>it confidently makes an appalling error within 5 minutes and I completely lose my appetite.

Everyone that uses LLMs has gone through this, everyone knows it can make mistakes or hallucinate, people use it because of the times it is useful, not because of the times it is not useful. As any tool you can use it wrong, the trick is to learn how to use it for good effect (learn as in short trivial learning curve, it isn't rocket science)

>I like writing so much that reading and improving bad writing can be more effort than doing it myself.

Possibly a misconception based on how a non LLM user "interacts" with LLMs, by consuming slop. It's such a generic technology you can use it a million ways, generating text for others to read is like a sliver of how it can be used.

>me already knowing the basics of many many things.

Oh come off it. You are either aware of your ignorance or ignorant of your ignorance, I think you may be in the latter. There's just so much knowledge out there, unless you are some infinitely flexible polymath, I doubt this.

>me not writing much code atm

I agree, I don't write much code with it, I do make questions about software, and maybe a one off script (write me a python script to split a file into n parts), but I don't think writing code ala Cursor or vibecoding is professional.

>me needing precision and high confidence to learn

Yup, if you need high precision LLM isn't the appropriate tool. That said, you can still verify the content, it's not like you trust 100% what your algebra book or your teacher says anyway, you always verify. In any subject you can ask for a source and then look it up. It's not even a verification step, it's just something that you do. You don't ONLY use the LLM, you complement it with Wikipedia and other sources.

In general, this feels very outdated. You don't get any points for posting online about how the LLM got something wrong, while you were complaining that it got 1 answer wrong, someone else fiddled with the prompt and got the right answer.
Waymo to begin data collection in Tokyo with driver-operated test rides
What words? What university? Who at the university?

Edit: My comment was that the admin is anti intellectual and I provided quotes from JD Vance on all universities and professors.
> I intensely resent them diluting the word “deep” and the word “research” to mean stupidly skimming and summarising existing texts. I would probably use it twice as often if I didn’t have to play along with this degradation.

I suppose that's how I feel about calling LLMs "Artificial Intelligence" - it cheapens and degrades the goal. Broadly it feels like Marketing departments totally have the wheel with no pushback. Maybe it's always been so, though.
Dang was just proud of me for not calling anyone a coward or heretic in this one and wanted to make sure everyone saw.
One /24 of IP’s hammering on your website at a rate limited 2 rps is still a combined 500/s. I’m not sure many sites can sustain that.
This is about 10 dup's in now guys.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43687989 and about 9 others before that.
Fred Eversley Obituary
I don’t remember saying I agree with these positions. I am actually opposed to the idea of making policy decisions based on moral values rather than consequentialist ethics, so I disagree with both.
Does Getting Rid of Zoning Increase Housing Supply and Cut Housing Costs?
"Unlimited PTO" is discretionary in practice, and there are studies showing that it translates to less PTO on average, which is exactly why companies do it.
Esp when you are talking about software. Revenue means you have a customer that is locked up. Once you are ready to get profit, reduce costs/jack up prices and profit comes rolling in.
Nope they have been ignoring robots.txt since the start. There are multiple posts all over the internet.
Is this correct: OpenAI will sequester 4.1 in the API permanently? And, since November 2024, they've already wrapped much of 4.1's features into ChatGPT 4o?
Thanks, I should have been more clear.
They did! Then someone decided that was waste and installed incompetent people over it.
> No money was "funneled" to Elon. He created it.

Money was funnelled to Elon, he has a knack for getting government contracts. My memory is Tesla was powered by many grants for whoever was willing to work on electrification of society. The issue with that is that people want to put more money under the control of the government, despite it being the entity that funnelled money to Elon. I don't really understand that perspective, it seems a bit crazy - it'll end up with Elon getting more and more power and wealth. If we assume de-powering and de-wealthing Elon is a good, why push more money into the system that is wealthing and powering him? One theme in Elon's companies is they are positioned to hoover up money the US government is wasting and make sure it ends up in Elon's pockets.

Less government spending is more likely to hurt Elon than help him.
> what's more likely? That the sky is falling and the US can and will now send people to their (presumed) death without any charges or day in court whatsoever (while you sit here accepting it, doing nothing), or that this is not actually the beginning of the end of the entire country in one fell swoop?

Thank you for asking. The answer to your question is the first answer. It's not a matter of "can", it's a matter of "did, and publicly plans to do it more".
I worked for a former Fortune 300 company that had an active internal investment strategy. They wanted the next billion dollar business, guaranteed, in 12 months. And wanted to invest more than 1 million dollars. Sadly they are now bankrupt and owned by PE.
The code wouldn't contain any IP. You would need the original media files to play the actual games. As long as there's no code taken from the original code, there's unlikely to be serious IP issues.

EDIT: No! After browsing the website a bit, the developers actually explicitly mention that you should use their media and not a rip of the original assets. Bizarre.
FWIW in my 15 years of experience working in big tech in US, I never had a job in which there was an expectation of doing more than 40 hours, working weekends etc.

Such things definitely exist, but they are far less common than is often implied here on HN and elsewhere. I think this is largely because people who don't work long hours are much less likely to wax poetic about it, just because, well, it's not at all unusual or interesting.
>It's hard to find places where FPGAs really win.

Rapid product development. Got a project that needs to ship in 6-9 months and will be on the market for less than two years in small volume? Thats where FPGAs go. Medical, test and measurement, military, video effects, telepresence, etc.
List of Alleged Extraterrestrial Beings
I wish there was other way around. infer binary encoding from native types
Earmarked implies discretionary so it is discretionary
Wouldn’t it be the other way around?

If the instructions are at the top the LV cache entries can be pre computed and cached.

If they’re at the bottom the entries at the lower layers will have a dependency on the user input.
I briefly hoped that, like the integration of GPUs, there would be a broader integration of programmable logic in general purpose CPUs, with AMD integrating Xilinx fabric and Intel integrating Altera fabric. But I could never imagine a real use case and apparently there wasn't a marketable enough one either. Something like high-level synthesis ending up like CUDA always seemed like it would present a neat development environment for certain optimizations.
She could give cards, food items or hugs. You don't need to cover people in cheap temu stuff to show you love them.
80% of Americans are definitely not on what I'd consider a "good healthcare plan".
I suspect that the people that dislike supporting Google probably don’t support Google. I imagine that the people who dislike supporting generative AI do not support or use it? Why are you assuming they are hypocrites?
A simpler example: social security taxes hit a cap at a bit under $200,000/year. Somebody working fast food at minimum wage is paying 6.2% on every dollar they earn, while with my fancy tech job I’m paying a substantially lower percentage.
Do you think they were arguing for taxing away all wealth over $1 million?
Tariffs done well could be a boon for a sector. But they are tricky to do well, and the current administration doesn't show the slightest hint of being capable of doing it well.

You have to treat tariffs not as a moat to protect an industry for good, but a runway to give a nascent industry enough room to take off. In a mature industry, tariffs are more likely to keep incumbents uncompetitive and disincentivize investments that would make them more competitive, especially if those are capital-heavy.

Also, tariffs aren't going to be effective if other structural issues exist in an industry that prevent or sharply limit expansion. Like key components having a sole worldwide supplier with a full order book. Or if capital investment to set up a new factory are beyond the ability of the financial markets to provide.
well said. as i saw put recently, "LLMs are calculators for text" and nobody seems to get confused whether calculators are sentient
Not every one of those families would find the same set of features helpful, so you have to make calls about what's worth developing and what isn't. Making those calls is very difficult because it's tricky to gather data about what will be used and appreciated.
Depends if you believe having Comunnists in charge as opposed to literally everybody else can be labeled as "anti-colonial". Then again, "anti-imperialism" often goes hand in hand with authoritarianism.
Hello, allow me to weigh into your allegedly subjective discussion with an objective agreement to what the other poster said:

> If "oopsy-doopsy, it was a mistake" has no remedy then there is no remedy when it is a citizen who gets sent to a gulag.

What's more, now that the executive branch is disobeying direct orders from the judicial branch, what recourse do you think you'd have if you got on the wrong executive branch official's bad side?
But the Trump administration wants to punish students who don't conform to pro Israel views/ideology.
It’s never a guarantee when it comes to government funding. It can come and go at any time. Take the politics out of it, Harvard has been operating at risk with this funding source for some time.
Authoritarians need to control history because if you understand history, it provides a foundation to judge the actions of those currently in power and damages their legitimacy.

As soon as authoritarians are able to consolidate power, they go after intellectuals, chroniclers of history, journalists, and other people who ground themselves in reality. Reason is the natural enemy of authority.

Nothing is more telling than deletion of a graph that shows the consequence of poor policy decisions, rather than addressing it or changing policy, and we can expect to experience this literally and metaphorically until American's realize we aren't exceptional because we are American, but because our forefathers lived out American values, and right now we have abandoned American values.
I've experienced the opposite. Recently, I've been getting amazing results from Gemini running 2.5 Pro.
At this point just being able to keep a cool head and make decisions based on input from experts might be all the advantage anyone needs.

But Trump doesn’t have it….
No, that wasn't sufficient. The government specifically demanded that Harvard must commission a government-approved external party to audit viewpoint diversity, and must promise in advance to follow its recommendations, for each of the next three years.
GCP real-world gen AI use cases
And in the meantime, the people in power in these fascist governments tend to make out like (literal) bandits.
It's not a binary between "we are family" and "we are resources", it's a spectrum.

In your case, yes, you were absolutely a resource. This is exactly why companies of that size simply shouldn't exist - because they cannot not treat their employees as resources, with all the inhumanity this implies.
> Fuck them and I hope Trump scewers Zuck

Do you really want to live in a universe where Trump has his hands wrapped around the necks of the media and the press?

What sort of quid-pro-quo do you think he would get in exchange for not squeezing?

If you have any delusions that this can turn out well look at what happened with Eric Adams.
What would sales engineers be responsible for at a company like intel? I thought that was more of a SaaS thing.
There's a lot more to manufacturing than "just" being a line assembly worker.

The factories have to be designed and built. This includes all of the manufacturing processes, equipment, tooling, automation, etc. All of which are done by reasonably paid, middle class engineers and trades.

Then you have all the 2nd order businesses that get stimulated. Energy must be provided. Mines, mills, refineries, etc. to make the raw materials. The packaging for the end products. Logistics for supplies and end products.

All of the value above used to be in the US but has been captured overseas for decades now.
Remarkably - it’s more profitable now.

Also, most layoffs don’t cause huge cuts to advertising spend on their platform because of personal spite or political reasons. The product for all intents and purposes as an advertiser is the exact same.
I do agree that LLM-as-a-search is going to likely become more and more prevalent as inference gets cheaper and faster, and people don't too much care about 'minor' hallucinations.

What I don't see however is any way this new way of searching will give back. There is some handwaving argument about links, however the entire value prop of an llm is you DON'T need to go to the source content.
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They'll blame Biden and Soros, as usual.
Over the past 20 years, ALM has been the core support system for product R&D project management. However, in the R&D process, engineers' time is largely consumed by “documentation work and query/review work.” Everyone is welcome to discuss and propose new functional requirements and creative ideas for AI + ALM.
Based on this Geoff Huston post:

https://blog.apnic.net/2024/05/28/calling-time-on-dnssec/
A recent HN article shows Facebook silenced Pro Palestine posts due to Israeli interference. The issue with Meta controlling so many social media outlets is control over information. A populace that is uninformed will welcome a master (and deserves one), and will look the other way when genocides and injustice take place in our world. The audience of HN is educated and unlikely to fall for misinformation. However, I have seen firsthand how anti-immigrant sentiments, racism and anti-muslim sentiment [1] can prosper when one man controls the flow of information, for they can steer public opinion in ways that are alien to our morals (and favors either their personal politics, their bottom dollar or other nefarious reasons). This is somewhat similar to the Sinclair family running identical stories on many TV stations they control to control narratives. However, Meta has much greater reach. Their role in allowing Russian interference in US elections for ad revenue has largely been forgotten, but Zuck played a role in spreading misinformation and allowing fake users (pretending to be Americans) to steer anger in the population, and allowed a foreign entity to spend their dollars favoring an American candidate (Election meddling). Ultimately, you can argue we must check our sources, but once again, HN is a small bubble. I know firsthand from Meta engineers that Facebook does practically nothing to stop Russian and Iranian threats and is in bed with the Israelis. I hope the FTC comes for their a--

[1] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-faceb...