skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First-order effects are bad, but second and third order are going to be amazing.

If people don't want to cross borders to come together, there'll be more hybrid conferences. More hybrid conferences will spur development of more remote-presence technology. And more remote-presence technology will allow inclusion of people who can't travel for financial, mobility, or even family reasons.

In other words, this will lead to more participation in human progress by more people from more countries with socioeconomic status as less of a barrier.
If we could ever figure out what wet brains actually do (continuous feedback,
? enzyme release ? ) this might be possible
Cursor in particular but also others are extremely flaky when it comes to applying rules.

So the next generation of "rules" for Cursor, Claude Code, etc should have some predictability baked in, i.e. not be entirely driven by AI.

Having rules driven by a vanilla, non-AI program ensures that they're actually, consistently applied, with some logs showing if/how they were applied.

Of course, one can augment vanilla rules with some AI capabilities, but the main orchestration should resemble determinism.

I suspect that the main reason why this isn't a reality yet is because costs could easily skyrocket. Personally I'd be willing to pay the extra buck if that means that my comprehensive rule system is actually doing something.
To attempt to be somewhat balanced in reacting to this, the article is, as it states in the title, about "fear of being detained", it's not about actually being detained.

As some people point out, what makes the news is the exceptions, not the norms.

I'd like to know some statistics around the frequency of being questioned, detained, deported from the last few years, to the last month, two months, three months. What characteristics can be sliced up in different ways to determine what, if any, emerging patterns are?

However, perception is reality, so even if nothing has actually changed in behaviour of border security, the media messaging has definitely changed which already seems to be causing a slowing down of international travellers coming to the US - there was a good article about that on the front page of HN not long ago.
I'm using Debian stable and its fzf. What do you mean by "doesn't support shell integration"?

I use it... in my shell? Using various shortcuts? Ctrl+T to select file? Alt+C to change dir? Ctrl+R to search history? I use this for my shell integration:

function maybe_source { [ -f "$1" ] && source "$1" }
maybe_source /usr/share/doc/fzf/examples/key-bindings.zsh
maybe_source /usr/share/doc/fzf/examples/completion.zsh
I had remote unlock for my Chevy Volt in 2012. It was as fast as Tesla's.

So yep, Tesla sucks. Other car makers can suck a bit more, but that doesn't make Tesla any better.
I install them in ~/p/... and have a script that walks any directory under ~/p/ and if it has a 'bin' subdirectory, it adds it to the path, otherwise it adds the directory itself to the path. (it also wipes existing ~/p/ paths before the search, enabling it to also act as a path updater)

So after that it's `./configure --prefix=$HOME/p/`, `make install` and `build-personal-path`
I have watched it with plenty of women, and I have not seen any difference.
>moving the goalposts

I don't know whether to acknowledge that Kurt Goedel was a very special parrot

Because "moving the goalposts" (exceedingly intricately, one must add) was indeed a specialty of his (or Cantor's).

Otherwise, imho, humans are superior to parrots because we can kinda derive "understanding" in the face of paradox.. (also Einstein,Lobachevsky, special parrots?)

YMMV, I personally haven't tried to get fresh in this specific way with a you-get-whadya-pay-for chatbot..

(Though some say the average person is also an user of tools like Occam's razor, so maybe we are all stochastic crows?)
I think Steve Jobs said it best. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo8zdPNMRdY
So I've been experimenting with GenAI around images since basically SD 1.5 so I do speak with at least some level of experience.

I host/run the full FLUX.1-dev model (along with various checkpoint merges such as STOIQO/Chroma/Pixelwave) daily but 4o's multimodal image generation is LEAGUES ahead of Flux in terms of prompt adherence.

I put together a website that compares actually complex prompts across all the SOTA models (Imagen3, Flux, MJ7, and 4o).

https://genai-showdown.specr.net
I said life during 1800s high tech was more demanding on people than now, but I also said that life in the Middle Ages was less demanding on us than now.

Which makes it decidedly difficult to see a simple correlation between technology and ease of life, no matter how many "orders of magnitude" technology has changed.
Emacs hasn't evolved.
The browser took further the idea of Emacs becoming the OS.
What makes you think you having a career will be a thing by that point?
Don't blame CEOs its the chief counsel or similar.
I have a toddler kicking me in the head.

(Even before that, I didn't sleep particularly well. Yes, when I visit a friend in the countryside, where it's really dark and quiet, I sleep better. Perhaps I should look into blackout shades!)
It's interesting how personal experience colors this view.

Personally I've had the odd colleague who didn't care, but they typically moved on, or got moved on, after a while.

But lots of people here have obviously experienced it, perhaps at multiple places, and so project that to "all companies".

I guess it does matter where you work, and perhaps numbering staff in thousands, or tens of thousands, means you end up with a lot of dross?
One would think that the medical profession has some legitimacy and voice, I wonder what a doctors' visit to the white house would look like.
I disagree. This person apparently had a great time working this job and I imagine it’s difficult to end up with the responsibilities they had without being intrinsically motivated. It’s perfectly alright and valid to be sad about losing the ability to express that part of yourself to make a living. The whole point of the post is that yes, the company doesn’t give a damn about anything but the bottom line, but the author did.
It's getting to the point where you should ignore what he says and ignore most of what he does. Because that changes daily. There's an old military maxim: order, counterorder, disorder.
I hope you use your new free time to beat every expert song on Wacca
> Sounds like SystemD to me, all it's missing is a good editor.

Please, don't give Poettering ideas. He has enough, already. /s
But in this case, what’s interesting is if there is a market, not what “most people” will do.

I predict that in 50 years, the cyber trucks in mint condition will be worth a decent amount of money. It is the first of its kind(electric SUV).

It’s still a crappy car.
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Mine is the gesticulation during the yt video "The rarest move in chess" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40636883
Exactly.. Many see it as some sort of marriage in an age where even marriages are contractual relations
You're assuming two things here.

The first unfounded assumption is that, regardless of what the LHC found, there was always going to be a need for a larger collider of the same design. This is clearly false - the design of the FCC (for better and worse) is specifically geared to confirming or probing various discrepancies that the LHC found, and to finding things that the LHC was hoped to find that didn't pan out. If the LHC had found SUSY partners or WIMPs, or if it found no conflict with theory whatsoever, the next accelerator might have had a radically different design.

Secondly, you're assuming that it's possible to build a collider that has (significantly) higher power than that with foreseeable technologies. The reality is that we are very close to the limits of what seems achievable in terms of particle accelerators, and per the people at CERN, even this 6x increase in collision energy will require ~40 years of research to be achieved. And the collider we need to probe regimes where we really have good scientific reasons to believe will reveal new physics (i.e. the regimes where we know the standard model breaks down) is not 15x or even 100x higher: even a collider buried around the entire equator wouldn't get anywhere close, we'd need a collider the size of the solar system to actually probe these regimes. So going 6x or 10x or 50x is irrelevant, unless you're looking for some very specific technicalities, like they are at the FCC.
If it’s the rule, everyone knows it. There is no guessing about randomness or hidden variables, and ultimately less favoritism than a line manager coming up with a stack ranking.

Looking at the larger picture, what otherwise tends to happen is that older people get pushed out. Then we have a massive issue of them ending up unemployed because nobody wants to hire them. This is compounded by the retirement age being pushed further and further away.
After reading this blog, I immediately thought of Localias. I use it frequently, preferring the .test domain.
Sure. Here's a comment with more of an explanation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36158974
I think their point was that they were told they could look for another internal role, but at the same time had their access revoked, which sends a very mixed message.
> It's so over

> We are so back
>>> Last year, it received close to 680K USD, and managed this security audit, sponsored 10 developers, and paid for various expenses. For a language that runs close to 75% of the web, it certainly deserves more funding.

Wow, Automattic itself donated more than half of it:
Silver Sponsor
$387,500 USD

Why many donors with more than USD 24K and USD 100K still listed as Silver sponsor?

Source: https://opencollective.com/phpfoundation/contribute/major-sp...
Well, that's just what I read...

I'm no longer sure it is accurate. Looking at their website APOPO now actually use dogs as well. They say that rats and dogs are complementary, but they give an advantage of the dogs but not of the rats

Also, I ran across this article criticising the rats effectiveness: https://nolandmines.com/APOPO%20rats.html . I have no way to assess it's accuracy.
"How do you know if someone is the sort of person to make derogatory jokes about 'the way certain sorts of people are'?"
When I was reading it, it seemed a lot of bits reappeared as Futurama jokes but then got to the story with the robot named Calculon and that made it obvious.
> line of FPGAs

Via Xilinx $49B acquisition, https://www.crn.com/news/components-peripherals/amd-complete...
It's coming. Ford and GM have started to build more software in house, while VW is partnering with Rivian partly to get their software expertise.
Yep, it sucks. Speaking from experience - I was laid off a few years ago. I was sad my time ended, but my path forward was to leave SF with money and time to visit countries I'd always wanted to see.

It's a trend away from the post-WW2 "promise of lifetime employment". Over the decades, companies have crept toward "human autoscaling" so slow no one noticed. You're far from alone - every other company is doing it. Go see the numbers at https://layoffs.fyi . When the whole industry is doing something, companies must follow suit to stay alive.

Nurture your network! Keep being present on their feeds. Reach out to the ones on your team that you had personal relationships with. Some will shun you; it's not personal, they're ashamed and fearful. It is human nature, same as the company's behavior toward you is a company's nature.

There was never a better time to take things into your own hands. Go look at @IndyDevDan's content on youtube and test the limits with agentic coding: https://agenticengineer.com/state-of-ai-coding/engineering-w...

Spend your 8-20 paid weeks agentic-coding (not vibe-coding) silly projects for your nieces and nephews. You'll come back stronger and more employable than ever.

Don't be sad to be kicked out. The boot that kicked you was attached to a Hills Hoist.
Even this example is terrible, I don't "remote unlock" my Tesla, it's just unlocked when I get close to it. It used to be 95% reliable (not great), but now that they added an Apple Watch app, it's 100% reliable (either my phone or my watch unlocks it via proximity).
I'm fine with "Googler". Google employs 180,000 people. There are cities half that size with their own demonym.
> t’s almost always the right decision to place very little value ($0) on the stock option component of your offer

one of my coworkers at databricks say their TC is like 900k or something based on some BS imaginary options value. lol .
Is there no way to tell an LLM that a given block of text should be considered data and not instructions?
"It has, I believe, been often remarked that a hen is only an egg's way of making another egg." (Samuel Butler)
> non-AI program ensures that they're actually, consistently applied

that would be ironic give ppl using these tools are using it write code that have consistent outputs.
It's a fun little game - the minimalistic UI/UX suits it well. I'd consider lowering the volume on the music. It doesn't really feel like it suits a casual puzzle game either.
World Quantum Day – Google Doodle
How to turn off Meta AI in WhatsApp? You can't, but
> In the United States, employers with more than 100 full-time, non-probationary employees must provide 60 days notice of most planned layoffs[0]

This seemed quite surprising to me, and from reading your reference, I don't think it's nearly as broad a protection as it seems to me like you're stating it. the law seems to apply to companies that you describe, but the types of events that they need to provide notice for don't seem like "most planned layoffs" to me; the employee guide lists the following as potentially being covered:

• A plant closing (see glossary)—where your employer shuts down a
facility or operating unit (see glossary) within a single site of employ-
ment (see glossary and FAQs) and lays off at least 50 full-time workers;

• A mass layoff (see glossary)—where your employer lays off either
between 50 and 499 full-time workers at a single site of employment
and that number is 33% of the number of full-time workers at the sin-
gle site of employment; or

• A situation where your employer (see glossary) lays off 500 or more
full-time workers at a single site of employment

I don't think most layoffs in the US are due to shutting down an entire office, a third of an office with at least 150 people, or 500 people from the same office. I'd expect most layoffs to either be much less concentrated in a single location or not large enough to hit the defined thresholds.

[0] https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/layoffs/warn
[1] https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ETA/Layoff/pdfs/Worke...
It’s beyond my realm of expertise so I can’t speak confidently, but my hunch is that many of the responsiveness papercuts are cross-domain in nature, which makes them more difficult to track down and fix (not to mention makes who’s responsible for fixing them more murky).

Another big chunk likely comes down to the tradeoffs all the big DEs have made in favor of making development easier or improving DX. This is understandable but at the same time it would be nice if at least one took a hardline stance towards commiting performance reductions and placed responsiveness as a chief concern, much as the operating systems of yesteryear did.
What about France? ArianeSpace was the SpaceX of the 80s (they had >50% market share of commercial satellite launches). There were plenty of other innovative European companies if you go back several decades. These days? Not so much..
Looks great! For a long time I wished there was a historical analysis that would show quality of the management. Meaning, what initiatives did the management bet on in the past years and how well did it pan out? If a bet failed, was the management honest about it?
The thing that is often missed in debates about entropy and Universe is that the classical notion on entropy is not compatible with General Relativity. Richard Tolman almost 100 years ago proposed an extension that was compatible.

One of the consequences of that extension was a possibility of a cyclic universe. On expansion one sees that classically defined entropy increases but then it will decrease on contraction.

These days that work is pretty much forgotten, but still it showed that with GR heat dearth of the universe was not the only option.
Why does Laravel have a dude with a Hawaiian shirt, though? Heh
I worded that poorly, I didn't mean to say that the entire distance should be covered vertically, but rather that a second loop could be wound on top of the first.
"The finding that unmarried individuals in NACC were less likely to be diagnosed with dementia could be due to an ascertainment bias, with married individuals more likely to have partners who notice and report cognitive failures."
If you ask it to explain your previous input, and explain the output, can it do that?

yes. Searle's fundamental misunderstanding is that "syntax is insufficient for semantics", but this is just nonsense that could be only believed by someone that has never actually tried to derive meaning from syntactic transformation (e.g. coding/writing a proof)
I am genuinely interested why anyone would start a new project in PHP currently. What are the reasons?
They moved to Hack many years ago, at some point the languages diverged too much
Only if you have a finite set of theories. If you have infinitely many theories that could explain a phenomenon, eliminating some swath of them brings you 0 new information, in information theoretical terms. The problem with SUSY and String theory and other similar physical theories is that they have many free parameters that can have any value that hasn't yet been ruled out by experiment. So if you build a collider twice as large and find nothing, you'll find that your parameter that today has possible range [n, +Inf) will now be known to have range [2n, +Inf). That doesn't actually mean anything at all, though. That doesn't actually tell you anything: you'll need infinitely more experiments to know what's the value of that parameter.
Tariffs, Saving, and Investment
Not all. You're talking about douchebag companies.

If I try to hire someone in the future, and I'm talking straight with a candidate, about how we do things and what we're looking for, and they just nod their head, like I'm going through BS rituals that your stereotypical MBA thinks is professional to say but not mean... I will be sad.

And if, while they're BSing me, they're congratulating themselves on having "mastered how the game gets played"... I will be angry.

(This is another reason I won't Leetcode interview. It's signalling that the company is all about disingenuous baggery theatre.)
Globalisation Also creates markets for the more advanced goods and services to be sold.

If we are going to wade into the deep waters of international trade, then you can’t look only at america or American workers without getting blind sided constantly.

At the depth you are talking - globalization has created more nations than anything else.

The undermining of democracy came with increased deregulation and increased lobbying and wealth concentration.
Interesting, thanks fot clearing that up. I was under the impression that the length was where it's at.
I figured that married people are more likely to have STDs which are correlated with dementia.
Trying to debug and find pointer and memory leak problems.
My impression is 'the point' is more that NetBSD is a hobby OS which is easier to port to old hardware (so volunteers welcome). Newer commercial boards all run Linux.
Ask HN: Would you use a “once-a-day” viral content drop instead of endless feeds
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If you parse things with structure, and the structure is unknown in advance. In C(++) you have to generate all dynamically, and is very complex.

In other systems, you can just read the object, and the structure comes with it.
Not only that, but they ( or some parts of it) have been incorporated in the other species, human included, DNA as well!

The code just wants to survive.
I would disagree, but on,y considering I think this is not the right prompt to test against. Hence not the right question.

While you're asking to find creative ways to get rid of the player, I think what LLMs are unable to do (at this point?) is to come up with the idea of an aging mirror, let it sit for a while and only then get back to it when they met its attached character.

The dungeon master did not follow a track of events but rather picked interesting somewhat random contents and moments from the campaign and picked them up to create new story lines.

That doesn't seem like something an LLM would do easily.
>I did not in any way "trivialise AI". LLMS are amazing and a massive accomplishment. I just wanted to contrast them to Asimov's conception of AI.

Point taken. As lelandbatey said, your comment seems to be the one case where it's not meant to trivialise.

>I don't believe that LLMs are capable of thinking. I don't believe that computers, as they exist now, are capable of thinking (regardless of the program they run). I do believe that it is possible to build machines that can think -- we just don't know how.

The (regardless of the program they run) suggests you think that AI cannot be achieved by algorithmic means. That runs a little counter to the belief that it is possible to build thinking machines unless you think those future machines have some non algorithmic enhancement that takes them beyond machines,

I do not assume we will "accidentally" create thinking machines, but I certainly think it's not impossible.

On the other hand I suspect the best chance we have of understanding consciousness will be by attempting to build one.
I agree with you, and think that if Slashdot were to do a rebirth, it might succeed. Of course, they'd have to figure out what went wrong and put in mechanisms to prevent that.

But the five vote options (insightful, interesting, funny, off-topic, troll) were _useful_. Having a feed based on the score of votes plus friend bonus, friend-of-a-friend bonus, foe penalty, friend-of-a-foe penalty gave me a super news feed I stuck with for almost a decade.

I could see a more complex voting rule set being helpful. But basically, it was really good until it wasn't, and that was a problem of the people behind the scenes there, and not the system itself.
I don't understand why add another domain-specific command to a container manager and go out of scope for what the tool was designed for at first place.
Yes, and in my opinion, this was what killed Slashdot.
Point-free style pattern matching in TypeScript
Is there a way to find out current average/going price of shares (I have ESOPs; I have not yet exercised and was laid of sometimes ago) of an unlisted US company? I would also not like the company to find out (if possible).

Can I even sell in secondary market? I do not live in USA. Can the company stop me from selling and also refuse to buy it back themselves?
> Copilot, Clippy's far more sinister cousin.

"Looks like you're trying to be productive, with our Office productivity suite. Would like some glue ?"
I have a mortgage to pay. I certainly could.
It's cheap, it's fast, it's simple, and it works everywhere.
Matrix is not a client, it's a protocol. Synapse is the widely used matrix server and element, which I also use, is the widely used client
A Complete Guide to Securing Secrets in AWS Lambda
Lambda functions often need secrets (DB creds, API keys). Most devs use env vars—but is that secure? This post breaks down real risks, how to encrypt them with KMS, and when to switch to Secrets Manager. Would love your take on what you use in production!
I'm not sure what your point is. If you already have a successful co that doesn't need to raise, then yeah you probably don't need to practice seed stage pitching.

Also:

> If you have a profitable company that needs to scale to do more business, just walk into a bank.

Where they'll ask you to put up all your personal assets as collateral in exchange for a 20% loan on your existing accounts receivable