skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To put it in a single statement: Pascal is only suitable to study computer science. This is why he doesn't like the language.
Thanks for giving it a read though.

I think it's an interesting question of how we measure bias.

For me, as an Israeli (who hasn't lived there for decades), who has some first hand knowledge of the situation, much of the reporting appears to be extremely biased. I know there are claims from the other side the bias goes in the other direction. What's the ground truth? I think using AI to crunch the large amount of data is a decent first order approximation.

Ofcourse bias depends on ideology. For some people if a Palestinian guns down an Israeli in a Tel-Aviv bar simply reporting this fact is biased towards Israel. And I mean, from their position that is understandable. And indeed we can see some media outlets that would not report these events at all, which I would consider an anti-Israeli bias.
Google AI rackmount appliance coming soon?
I think the main thing to remember is that you should assume they are worthless.

There's probably something like a 99% chance they are worthless, a 0.9% chance they are worth a decent holiday, a 0.09% chance it'll let you retire early, and a 0.01% it'll make you somewhat rich. Worst of all, unless you're the CxO you have very little control over the outcome.

Equity is a nice bonus, but you might just as well treat it like the company giving you a lottery ticket for Christmas. Nobody is going to take a significant pay cut or work 80 hours a week for a lottery ticket, so don't do it solely for the stock options either.
Im not super well read in that era, but i feel like that sort of square-jawed americanism was already kind of being deconstructed at that point. E.g. asimov books were all about how brain beat brawn, and violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
You are right, it may have been a unusual bug that hardly occurs, but it definitely happened to me. I also agree that having a unlocked bootloader is a security risk (how big of security risk depends on one's thread level I would say).

I can't remember disabling any core system components, executing low level adb commands or any other unusual things which may have let to update breaking.

I think the error message that I got was the "No valid operating system found" one. Maybe the issue would have resolved itself, if I had rebooted my phone a few times more, through the A/B slot mechanic. I honestly didn't know all this in that situation and only found some vague forum posts about it.
I think it would have helped if there was a bit of official documentation about boot loops and what to do when one occurs on the graphene os website.

The experience was for me a bit off putting because I lost some personal data (shame on me for not having proper backups), but after reading these comments I might try Graphene os again.
I was mistaken! Coins and other resources do NOT seem to accumulate, though I did also discover a couple of side effects you can trigger that do carry forward to future days, but which appear to be part of the puzzle structure itself, not something to make the game easier on future attempts.

I like it!
Allowing and encouraging API use makes it easy for big corporations to clone their services though, making compatible systems and I wouldn't be surprised if Apple was datamining Maps when they made their Maps.
> Don't see the absurdity of that?

No, I don't.

Nobody is obliged to carry his content.

Requiring individuals to carry his content would be authoritarian, abusive, and coersive.
I do not understand the appeal of LISPy languages. I get that the parser is simple and elegant, but I believe the developer (of the compiler in this case) should serve the convenience of the user, not the other way around.

Writing code like this is cumbersome and unnecessarily symbol heavy, and reading it isn't really nice as well.

I'd rather have the language add that extra complexity into the parser than have me stare down these endless paretheses. Parsing something C-like is not that, hard, trust me, I've done it
For mobile, the firefox extension 'yesterday for old reddit' works nicely to modify css.
Any good resources on this?
F = Field
P = Programmable
G = Gate <---- important
A = Array

You aren't "programming", you're "wiring gates together". In other words, you can build custom hardware to solve a problem without using a generic CPU (or GPU) to do it. FPGAs are implemented as a fabric of LUTs (Look-up Tables) which take 4- or 6- (or more) inputs and produce an output. That allows Boolean algebra functions to be processed. The tools you use (Vivado / ISE / YoSys / etc.) take a your intended design, written in a HDL (Hardware Design Language) such as Verilog or VHDL, and turn it into a configuration file which is injected into the FPGA, causing it to be configured to into the hardware you want (if you've done it right). FPGAs are a stepping stone between generic hardware such as a CPU or GPU and a custom ASIC. They win when you can express the problem in specialized hardware much better than writing code to do something on a CPU/GPU. Parallelization is the key to many FPGA designs. Also, you don't have to spend >$1MM on a mask set to go have an ASIC fabricated by TSMC, etc.
I’ve spent a fair amount of time trying to coax assistance out of LLMs when trying to design novel or custom neural network architectures. They are sometimes helpful with narrow aspects of this. But more often, they disregard key requirements in favor of the common patterns they were trained on.
> Definitely look at them as worthless untill they're worth something

One (of numerous) problems with stock options is almost all stock option contracts require you to exercise within 90 days of leaving the company.

Often times employees leave a company, and then need to decide within 90 days whether they will spend anywhere from $5-50k+ to exercise the options to keep the stock, otherwise you forfeit the options after 90 days.

The stars really have to align for you to make money with options without risking/gambling your own capital by exercising them.

Unfortunately secondary markets only exist for very large companies like Stripe. I’m not aware of secondary markets for small < 100 person companies, which is where you see the most blatant hyping up of stock option value.
This was mentioned in the article:

> Having spent much of his life in the hat industry, Corbett could have been succumbing to mercury poisoning. The ill effects of the mercury vapors used in finishing, Corbett’s specialty, had become public by this time, even part of folklore after Lewis Carroll introduced the country to the Mad Hatter in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in 1865.
How much of the global population has hired another person to do something for them directly? If I go to the store and the cashier does the transaction, I haven't hired a human. so more broadly, do most people hire other humans for jobs? that seems like a rich person thing to me in the first place.
Mine is https://github.com/schappim/macOCR
Yeah, it's just consumption consumption consumption.

Post a photo of your new gizmo: 300 upvotes. Video of you using your widget: 4 votes.

And in subreddits dedicated to actually making things, it's just hustling hustling hustling. With a small percentage of self-help posts like "how I spent 4 years in my boring-ass generic video game and nobody wanted it".
The great brain clearance and dementia debate
Same. And for about 12 to 24 hours after the election loss it was... quiet. A few people coming to terms that the illusion had disappeared, but not in any way comparable to the interactions beforehand.

Then it returned with a vengeance.
AI Pet Theories
Very cool looking landing page! Was it vibe coded and if yes with which tool?
None of my argument has to do with global arbitrage. Local competition with robot labor is enough to drive wages to near zero.

Robot labor will first overtake where the greatest economic gain is. All human labor below that skill level will now be pushed down to lower levels.

Robot labor costs will be a hard upper limit for human wages for unskilled labor. There will be like 40% of the population in direct competition with robots. Human wages will drop hard and very fast. Thankfully things like package delivery are always cheaper for humans. Again minimum labor cost for humans is like 5 dollars a day. Robots can not compete with that, so the easiest unskilled jobs will remain human.
Right, so who's doing the jumping in to sway conversation?

Full disclosure, I am Xoogler, but if anything I think that makes my skepticism even more justified. If there were people there paid to post nice things about Google on HN and Twitter then I'd love to apply for that team!
> Reddit's algorithm of what to show you is based in part on what you've chosen to follow and in part on what is most likely to get you to stay on the site and engage with the conten

That's not the whole truth. Subreddit Moderation is the key point that's vulnerable to abuse. I block all political subreddits. My blocklist has 120 entries. 10 of those are of inherent political nature. The rest is just like /r/pics - enshittified rage bait about Trump.
Guess it’ll be back on the table on Tuesday after he’s loaded up on stocks at a discount. The tariff yo-yo is an infinite money scheme for him and his friends.
I am a seasoned programmer but whenever I deal with datetime objects I do my best with unit tests and then just hope none of these “edge” cases apply to us. Meaning: I have no idea really how it works under the hood.

Now at least there’s an LLM that might spot a bug every now and then so that’s nice.
The main difference is that people often think they share a fate as a startup. They all have the same lottery tickets (in varying amounts) that pay out under the same conditions. After all, that's how managers often motivate the early employees.

But since there are different classes of lottery tickets, the payouts can change arbitrarily at the last minute depending on the specifics of the deals.

So even after accounting for the fact that most lottery tickets don't pay out, you need to account for the fact that some within the same startup might pay out while yours don't. And there's no perfect way of knowing ahead of time.
Makes me think that the actual horrific solution here is that every single prompt and output ever made while developing must be logged and stored. As that might be only documentation that exist for what was made.

Actually really thinking, if I was running company allowing or promoting AI use that would be first priority. Whatever is prompted, must be stored forever.
Getting rid of anonymous powermoderation.
I think it's less "echo chamber" than under direct political influence.

It takes a lot of effort to moderate a subreddit. People will post stuff all day, in large volumes.

Who's going to be willing to do that? Sure, some will just be nice people with a ton of free time, but many will definitely be political activists (or even state actors at this point) who have something to promote.
I fully agree with that. Just a bit disappointed that Python is not even considering to fix/replace it's problematic datetime library (as far as I know). Excellent third-party library is good, but an excellent standard library is even better!
My friends have offered to pay for some of the hard drives, but I refuse because once I accept money, there's an implicit owing them to keep it up (whether that's real or in my head). Now it's just a best effort, and I prefer that over a couple hundred bucks.
https://github.com/HackerNews/API

https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/perching_aix.json...

it's fairly easy to export your data.

I find the quality level comes and goes on HN, but overall it's still much higher than anywhere else I've seen.
> I really doubt most of it is astoturfing. You can find bot accounts, obviously. However, the Reddit hivemind has a very intense echo chamber.

There have been discord servers made public where the entire point was to game the reddit algorithm to favor one political candidate.
With Google announcing that they'll let customers run Gemini in their own datacenters, the privacy issue goes away. I'd love it if there was an AI trained on my work's proprietary code.
Only providing the Pro mode in Pixel Camera on the Pro devices is one of the only ways they're artificially segmenting them via software. The AI model differences are largely based on real differences in available memory and that doesn't have much impact on available OS features. That matters to LLM enthusiasts but probably isn't a selling point for most people at this point.

The base devices are better value but the Pro devices do mainly differentiate based on hardware. Better display, addition of the 5x telephoto camera, better front camera and more memory are the main selling points. Pixel 9a is similarly a downgrade for the screen, cameras, memory, wireless charging speed and cellular radio (back to a variant of the 7th/8th gen Pixel radio). Pixel 9a has very good value but the cellular radio downgrade is a big one which people may care about more than they realize due to how it impacts battery life when using 5G.
Which subreddit? How do we know that what you say is true?
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The lengths I've had to go to (on Windows, and on Ubuntu) to get games installed for multiple users is frankly ridiculous.

I feel like I'm always fighting against the OS just to share files amongst users.

I suppose the answer is probably a deduplicating fs like zfs/btrfs - although, do they dedupe across users (that feels like an exploit route).
I would hope anyone would do the same and not just take my word for it. That’s why I provided the link. I stand by my reading.
In retrospect, this seems mean. Sorry!
And when they do, it always has to be something like "No, thanks". Always with the forced gratitude. Never a good old "No, FUCK OFF" to accommodate me.
The term goes all the way back to 1928, so it’s not exactly a new idea. It doesn’t imply the end of anything, just that eventually you run out of things to privatize.
Nice write up. I don't necessary think it is "if you adopt it, you will flourish" as much as, if you have this type of "personality you will easily become 10x, if you have this type of personality you will become 2x and if you have this type, you will become .5x".

I'm obviously biased, but I believe developers with a technical entrepreneur mindset, will see the most benefit. This paradigm shift requires the ability to properly articulate your thoughts and be able to create problem statements for every action. And honestly, not everybody can do this.

Obviously, a lot depends on the problems being solved and how well trained the LLM is in that person's domain. I had Claude and a bunch of other models write my GitSense Chat Bridge code which makes it possible to bring Git's history into my chat app and it is slow as hell. It works most of the time, but it was obvious that the design pattern was based on simple CRUD apps. And this is where LLMs will literally slow you down and I know this because I already solved this problem. The LLM generated chat bridge code will be free and open sourced but I will charge for my optimized indexing engine.
IPlayer is especially poorly designed in that if there is only 1 adult account you still have to get through the profile screen which is your 1 adult account and a “do you want to setup a child account” button
It says in the article what the point if the ministry is
Reminds me of John Birges’s famous contraption [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey%27s_Resort_Hotel_bombin...
That's the hope but it's more like Pokemon in that late stage capitalism is the grotesque final evolution of capitalism.
> Dick’s evidence for this denouncement was that ‘[Lem] writes in several styles and sometimes reads foreign, to him, languages and sometimes does not’.

Man reads some translations, suspects it might have been written by multiple people? But that's what translation is...

It's often misunderstood that translation is done by surgically deconstructing original texts and selecting accurate meanings of words to fit into grammatical structures of the new language text is to be written. That's simply not true.

Rather. You just read the original text and try and say close-enough thing in the target language. Translators are like half ghostwriters. "Accurate" translations are sometimes not even understood by audiences. And then after all the changes, translations will still containe distinct signatures for each original languages.

For entertainment contents like a novel, there will also be marketing elements involved. Some choices may have to be made. Not necessary to interfere with the author's intent - like choosing first person pronouns and ending for each sentences.

Lem's novels being written in a language spoken in a communist country means most competent translators woild be technically a "communist", whether it's just unfortunate categorical labeling or they actually had been.

So, I think, the notion that translated works of Stanisław Lem only occasionally having distinctive foreign language components, and also being not always consistent in styles with one another as if it had been written by a Communist committee with a figurehead, would be just a description of independently rediscovered process of book translation cast in unnecessarily dark light.

I wouldn't find it so weird if PKD was that kind of uninformed crazy person stuck with such preconceptions, though. Sounds like just how it works.
Normal people signup to post not to hang around and scroll and like until the account is warmed
sincere question: why would you not be able to code review it in the same way you would for humans?
A new pattern I've noticed is coward blocking - replies to your comment with some wild shit and then blocks you.
Sure, so it sounds like we've got a different idea in mind for what this sort of work would look like. Totally understandable!

In your opinion then, what would a Google-run astroturfing campaign roughly look like? Sounds like this article is an example, right? I'm not asking for insider info, I'm just curious about your mental model on the basic mechanics.

Personally, I think the case "other entities with comparable resources do this, so Google probably does too" isn't super convincing to me. IMO, the null hypothesis "Google has lots of nerdy fans who'll happily post positively about it for free" is a lot reasonable, but perhaps there's something I'm missing.
Well some people don’t like kids period
The Bond Market at the 5% Threshold
Humans have been programming other humans since the beginning of our time (and arguably other species too[0]).

The irony that the affiliate link was for a book about this exact topic, just fantastic.

LLMs are truly memetic machines, the best we’ve created so far.

What’s the difference between a bot and a human who parrots other humans?

Is agency+novelty the new version of the Turing test?

[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bonobo-calls-are-...
How long before we die out with a fertility rating of 1.0? 30 generations? That's a thousand years. Surely something will pop up in the mean time.
Yup, I did my own comparisons a couple of years ago and agree greatly.

Most of all, getting real 4K detail requires a level of precision in camera focus that frequently just isn't happening. Whether it's an anamorphic lens that is intentionally blurring everything except the center of the shot, or just a shallow depth of field that becomes even shallower in 4K. You can get some astonishing detail with fixed landscape establishing shots, but it really depends on the lens. The only place where you consistently get full 4K sharpness is in 3D animation.

That being said, if you watch on a projector, 4K can be nice because you really can't see the square pixels anymore. You don't usually get more detail than with 1080p, but it does feel more like the detail limit is due to the limit of sharpness of the lens, rather than the pixel format. That being said, it barely matters. Spending money on brightness and contrast is 100x more important.
Right. The normal way this works is that when you buy something to be imported into the US, you compute the tariffs and post a "customs bond" with CBP at the same time you pay for the product. When the shipment arrives in the US, the customs bond is used to pay the tariff, and the shipment is released by CBP. Shipping companies such as DHL integrate this into their systems so the end user doesn't have to deal with it directly. To the purchaser, it looks like tariffs are paid when the product is ordered. That's the happy path, taken by most imports.

But when tariffs change faster than it takes to get the shipment from source to destination, the bond won't be for the right amount. You then enter the wonderful world of "insufficient bonds". Here's "Understanding Insufficient Customs Bonds in Nine Easy Steps", which outlines the process and tries to sell you on a service that deals with the problem.[1]

Coming May 2: the end of "de miniumus" customs exemptions for small packages under $800 value. Goodbye, Shein, Ali Express, and dropshippers. Unless, of course, the rules are changed again.

[1] https://www.afcinternationalllc.com/customs-brokerage-news/u...
It was easy to understand what the code was instructing the computer to do. It was harder to understand what that meant, why it was happening, and how to change it.

A program to calculate payroll might be easy to understand, but unless you understand enough about finance and tax law, you can't successfully modify it. Same with an audio processing pipeline: you know it's doing something with Fourier transforms, because that's what the variable names say, but try to tweak those numbers and you'll probably destroy the sound quality. Or a pseudo-random number generator: modify that without understanding how it works, and even if your change feels better, you might completely break it. (See https://roadrunnerwmc.github.io/blog/2020/05/08/nsmb-rng.htm..., or https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=NUPpvoFdiUQ if you want a few more clips.)

I've worked with codebases written by people with varying skillsets, and the only occasions where I've been confused by the subtext have been when the code was plagiarised.
I wouldn't be surprised if someone tries to leverage this with their customer feature request tool.

Imagine having your customers write feature requests for your saas, that immediately triggers code generation and a PR. A virtual environment with that PR is spun up and served to that customer for feedback and refinement. Loop until customer has implemented the feature they would like to see in your product.

Enterprise plan only, obviously.
Is using a server context a bad idea? Though tbh using it for the cancelation is a shutdown channel in disguise hah.
Maybe there is some space on the market for a Proof of Emapthy widget