skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know what would be interesting?

Seeding a skeptic profile ("I am like this and that and I distrust LLMs...") to a prompt and asking what would be that profile opinion about using LLMs, then posting the generated text on HN to watch who goes for a "me too" response.

I guess we humans need to be more aware of confirmation bias, which will lead to a slight increase in all kinds of skepticism for who does it, which is good after all.
Man that's a lot of fiat.

So anyway Trump's former AG Bill Barr's father hired Epstein with no degree to a college profession at Dalton. His father also wrote a science fiction book about the rich sexually exploiting poors which Epstein just so happened to copy.

And then Epstein tapes come out and he says he was best friends for 10 years with orange... I mean Trump. PDF FILE IN THE WHITE HOUSE of representatives official website. Yes that last sentence was a play on words. LOL

https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU08/20250227/117951/HHRG...
I'm building something similar and related to the other comments below! It's not production ready but it will hopefully be in a couple of weeks. You guys can sign up for free and I will upgrade you to the premium tier manually (premium cannot be bought yet anyway) in exchange for some feedback:

https://threadwise.app
And then the US vice president try to lecture Europeans on freedom of speech...
The deprecation of GPT-4.5 makes me sad. It's an amazing model with great world-knowledge and subtly. It KNOWS THINGS that, on a quick experiment, 4.1 just does not. 4.5 could tell me what I would see from a random street corner in New Jersey, or how to use minor features of my niche API (well, almost), and it could write remarkably. But 4.1 doesn't hold a candle to it. Please, continue to charge me $150/1M tokens. Sometimes you need a Big Model. Tells me it was costing more than $150/1M to serve (!).
Right but they are only selling 51% of it.

https://download.intel.com/newsroom/2021/archive/2015-12-28-...
The administration wants to revoke visas for non-US citizens who come here under the pretense of education and then instead advocate for terrorist groups that are hostile to the interests of the US and its allies. No, that isn't the same. Why is the US government expected to fund people who want to destroy the US government? Should you be required to pay people who want to kill you?
Sounds useful but why do you need an ai agent to do that?
Are you saying a consumer will pay $75 later if they order a package from China now and it comes in May?
I used to buy a lot from Temu. Till I got a product that fell apart after three months. I tried to leave a bad review, but Temu wouldn't allow it. If you're trying to leave 3 star rating or below, they redirect you to customer service. But since customer service only dealt with items under 45 days (as far as I remember), they would just tell me something like "too bad, you're out of luck".

So I can't get a refund, I can't get a replacement, I can't leave bad review.

This was very eye-opening to me. I immediately uninstalled their stupid app.
I'm building something similar. See my comment the OP above:

https://threadwise.app
Virtually all forums (and their ancestral mailing lists) default to chronological order. A good comparison is perhaps the difference between comment-driven and discussion-driven sites, if there's a technical name for that?

HackerNews is comment driven, but does a decent job of facilitating discussions - but not particularly deeply. Reddit is similar. Forums are much more amenable to linear, deep, discussion between a few parties, but can also facilitate comments. Both have their place on the internet, and I don't think that forums are necessarily the answer to everything, but it feels like a lot of people left those communities to end up in Reddit and that's a shame.
Columbia Breakup in real time [video]
No skin in the game, but curious to know why any Republican would want to raise taxes. Is this some sort of power play like the tariffs? Feels like they’re ghost riding the economy for the lulz.
Now take it one step further. Google and other large megacorps are merely the inevitable outcome of capitalism running to its logical conclusion. So the real argumenmt is, “Is capitalism doing a good job of making the rich richer?”, and the obvious question for the rest of us then is, why keep an economic system like that around?
? Meta owning Instagram and Facebook is the monopoly. Owning things that BILLIONS AND BILLIONS of users use because you want to own them and control them so others don't, that's the monopoly.

Innovation can't happen without Facebook's say-so, that's the monopoly, and over way too many people.
I am going to be so much more productive now that I'm incentivized to code everything from scratch.
Show HN: USL - A Universal Scripting Language That Outputs to 111 Languages
Hey HN,

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It supports:

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Custom syntax templates for each language

A web app with multiselect UI + ZIP bundling

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App + Source: https://townsendatomics.gumroad.com/l/usl

I’d love your thoughts on:

How it could be more useful for devs/teachers

Any language you'd want added

Whether this belongs as a CLI tool, VS Code plugin, or playground next

Happy to answer anything or collab. Thanks for reading!
You might be familiar with another musical creation story written by Tolkien's friend C.S. Lewis. In The Magician's Nephew, Aslan sings the land of Narnia into existence.
I think they have tried to improve the software for FPGAs--FPGA backends are part of their oneAPI software stack, for example. And when I was in grad school, Intel was definitely doing courses on building for FPGAs using OpenCL (I remember seeing some of their materials, but I don't know much about them otehr than they existed).

As to why it didn't work, well, I'm not plugged into this space to have a high degree of certainty, but my best guess is "FPGAs just aren't that useful for that many things."
I had a weird cardiac issue, for which they kept me in the hospital for a few days and brought in more and more doctors to hear my story. Added tens of thousands to my bill. Eventually checked myself out "against doctor's advice".
None of this is new. "AI" has been doing antivirus, spam detection, search rankings, bot detection, DDoS protection and everything else they have mentioned for at least 20 years now, probably longer. AI didn't suddenly show up and start blocking your website. In fact the "AI" you see in the news these days (LLMs) has nothing to do with any of this.
> Also in some examples like Facebook's password recovery, this secret clock is not shared with the user directly but rather server's generated one-time password is sent via a trusted medium, such as an email to the user.

I’m pretty sure Facebook just makes up a random number and stores it?
I worked on a similar system at Google for gboard, the Google branded android keyboard that we called “federated analytics” - it worked with device-to-device communication and invertable bloom lookup tables. I’m still not super sure how the Apple system works after reading it, but I don’t see ant mention of using data structures like that, instead they are polling the devices themselves it seems? Does anyone else have more insight to the mechanics, because that seems super inefficient?

https://research.google/blog/improving-gboard-language-model...
Read through it because the previous startup I was at also decided to fold despite some very, very good tech.

Some similarities here realizing that even with a very useful product, it would never be a venture scale business which is very sad as a builder when you have a great product.

With 3 years of runway though, it feels like they gave up too soon.
>Leaving this to third parties feels like a better option to me, personally.

Seems too late to me. At this point the module/package was already added into the ecosystem, it could potentially be some time (months?) before it is flagged by third party and removed.
CA suddenly has the capacity to build an extra billion homes. What did they do with that capacity? nothing. ADUs are not taking off. Housing prices continue to go up.
We use imgproxy at https://pico.sh

Works great for us
Fine, fix it yourself then
It all bothers me. Centralization is bad. And if Facebook and Google wanted to just disable somebody's channel or pages, they could.

I think everybody on hackernews gets it. We're all pretty much on the same page.

Ain't nobody able to do anything about it though.
Seems like this could also be explained by short memories. Most westerners, me included, have never lived through true tyranny, we don't know the signs and probably are just too comfortable coasting along, thinking what we have now won't suddenly disappear [1].

We can read history, but it's nothing compared to actually living through it. And I think most American voters don't know their history, and don't bother to inform themselves either, which makes things much worse.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_effect
The idea behind smolagents is better.
Certain skin cancer detection methods necessitate direct contact with the affected area to identify any abnormalities.
Tariffs on China made cars might slow Waymo takeover of the private hire market by a bit. I believe custom made Chinese Waymo cars were coming this year
Don't underestimate the efficiency of intra-corporate propaganda directed at its own employees. There's a reason why they maintain those huge HR departments.
So a government run DEI department? You're aren't the original person but that's my gotcha
I've been using an LLM as DM Assistant for almost a year, now, by way of EchoDelphi[0], a tool we built at a public weekend hackathon[1].

It listens to the game, then sends the transcript for inference. I've been prompting the LLM to generate "threats" and "setbacks" based on the current scenario, and that way I always have something handy when the dice[2] indicate fortunes' turn.

I use this for about three hours a week, 50+ weeks in a row. Pretty good for a weekend hack!

0. Https://EchoDelphi.github.io

1. Thank you Hacker Dojo, Mtn. View

2. https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FyXSpsn-z28/WgfgacmVdtI/AAAAAAAAA...
What's the difference between trusting a doctor and trusting a doctor blindly?

Maybe an example would help me understand because I'm concerned the word "blindly" is being used as a way to make the concept
of trusting a doctor seem inherently wrong
This is such a great move by this administration. The Executive branch has been doing this for a long time across the nation. They use funding to pull strings and execute their views. This latest move is ad absurdum and the whole country will see how ridiculous it is that the President can demand a university (or any other body) do this or that... well guess what folks, you're right, and it has been going on for a long time. Look at the Dept of Education next. It needs to stop. The federal Executive Branch is way too large it is breaking the idea of independent states - incubators of ideas and democracy.
I actually agree with that, but it's generally better than other scores. Also, the quote is like a year old at this point.

In practice you have to evaluate the models yourself for any non-trivial task.
Yes if you’re sending the number to the user, might as well just be random that’s a lot easier.

Clocks and secrets only needed if the user is providing a number generated on the remote side.
And how do you pay back the loan without realising a gain?
MCP, Easy as 1-2-3?
Were you heading east through Cleveland and did some rando try to give you directions to a spot in Shaker Lakes metro park that involved jumping a guardrail near a bridge? If so, that was me; sorry I didn't offer up a couch at my place; my roommates wouldn't have been cool with it.
For a public website? Well if you don't have thousands of pages, then the solution would be as simple as installing Varnish, which is good practice anyways. If you actually have enough unique paths for an unauthenticated botnet to saturate, well that's a bit more complicated.
Sounds like smashlang
> a wild see-sawing between an aggressive and a defensive market posture

tick, tock
Yeah my numbers were made up, 40% of strike price does sound more reasonable (and obviously provides less leverage, but still some). It being pre-tax also helps with leverage vs taking cash.

Another benefit of the company's options is that they have a 10 year term, vs most market options which expire in < 1 year. You can get LEAPS but those are still max 2-3 years.
> Personally I'd always choose a copyleft license for something like this.

How would a copyleft license prevent it from being sold?
Why would they just ban it for automobiles? That seems like one of the best case uses. What other applications are more important? Aerospace? Fishing rods?
In the GP's transparency report link, it said:

Overall, 658 organizations and individuals sponsored the foundation in 2024 through on Open Collective and GitHub Sponsors.

and in the Open Collective link, it is stated that Automattic donated those amount.
Discord's recent UI updates (updated skins, or whatever it's called) show they can do a great job of running their own product into the ground just fine.

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/users-call-for-discord...
Counterpoint on RV centered "campgrounds": they have sweet amenities like a grill, a pool, laundry, and often a building with some air conditioning and some books previous guests have left behind.

Not an every night kind of thing, and you're unlikely to find much in the way of grass to put a tent on, but I stayed at one with another guy who was bike touring and we get like kings for the night.

When you're digging holes in the national forest to shit in, it doesn't take much!
We can quibble about the definition of "the administration", but the head of it a man who can pardon whomever he pleases for any federal crime he pleases. The very fact that any of these historical charges weren't instantaneously mooted with a pardon is self-evidence to me that all of these prosecutions were of former members of the administration who had fallen out if favor of the actual administration.
I take one thing out of the Musk acquisition that goes beyond just being buying a product, which is that there was a real problem under Jack Dorsey that they were banning people for explicitly ideological reasons, significantly for covid "misinformation", that wasn't. Including doctors/researchers, and qualified people to speak who went away from the mainstream narrative. Like, one of the first things he did was take Jay Bhattacharya (coauthor of Great Barrington Declaration) and show him he had been put under a blacklist by the old regime of Twitter

I think the reason this gets ignored is because there's too many people on a certain part of the political spectrum where they see covid censorship as a nothingburger when actually it was a massive problem and whatever else people think of Elon I don't think you can take away from him that the situation was intolerable
They're objective measures (don't depend on the person applying them), created subjectively (people choosing criteria based on their preferences/ideas), and chosen subjectively (people deciding which ones they want to rely on more). I meant objective originally, as in many people claim the whole process is objective.
What model are you personally using in your aider coding? :)
Queenslander here. There’s also a fairly well equipped imaging centre that’s being testing this form of diagnosis for 5 years: https://acemid.centre.uq.edu.au/research/cre-skin-imaging-an...
If you want to do something interesting with the feeds it would be harder.
For code it's actually quite good so far IME. Not quite as good as Gemini 2.5 Pro but much faster. I've integrated it into polychat.co if you want to try it out and compare with other models. I usually ask 2 to 5 models the same question there to reduce the model overload anxiety.
I knew about Replicate but not about Cog, so linky if others are similarly interested https://github.com/replicate/cog#how-it-works (Apache 2)
It really isn't. Harvard used to be a special cultural institution now it's just another research institute. Whoopee, nothing can be special, everything has to all be the same gray sludge cause otherwise it isn't """fair"""
And it's a story that haunts the marine biology field. Imagine having to explain that one every time someone asks about it.
> Their assets pass to their heirs with a stepped up cost basis

LOL, the stepped up basis gets hit with the inheritance tax.

> The heirs can liquidate whatever's needed to pay off the loan and incur no tax.

The loan and the interest payments and dont forget the inheritance tax.

> Normal people can't do this.

Yes, they can borrow money, die, the inheritors pay off the loan with the stocks, and then pay estate tax.
You don't pay back the loan. You die, your assets pass to your heirs, and their cost basis is stepped up. The heirs sell some of the assets to pay the loan back. They don't have capital gains because of the stepped-up cost basis.

That's the gist I got from reading https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyBorrowDieExplained/comments/1f26...

There are finer points I don't understand such as:

1. Is the stepped-up cost basis available to the estate or only to the heirs? If it's to the estate, it's easier for the bank to trust they'll be paid back.

2. If the heir gets the stepped up cost basis, what legal guarantees does the bank have that the heir will pay the loan back?

And probably a lot else. I assume there's expensive lawyering and accounting involved in setting it up, so it isn't cost-effective unless you have a certain amount to shield from taxes in the first place.
Mainly to encourage people to save their money. You know, "work smarter, not harder"...
Nah, I’m pretty comfortable that 99.99999% of people should not take a margin loan to buy a house. Close enough for me.
I'm not a fan of dishwashers. You have to handwash the dish, then put it through the dishwasher, then handwash it when it comes out. It seems a lot easier to just handwash it once at full effort.

Now, this article suggests that the first handwashing can be skipped with contemporary detergents, which is useful information if true, though I think it wouldn't help in the social situations the article talks about since it makes it look as though you're cutting corners.
Half a year after that talk Wolfram appeared on a popular podcast [1] to discuss his book on the Second Law of Thermodynamics [2]. That discussion contained the best one-sentence description of entropy I've ever heard:

> Entropy is the logarithm of the number of states that are consistent with what you know about a system.

[1]: Mystery of Entropy FINALLY Solved After 50 Years? (Stephen Wolfram) - Machine Learning Street Talk Podcast - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkpDjd2nHgo

[2]: The Second Law: Resolving the Mystery of the Second Law of Thermodynamics - https://www.amazon.com/Second-Law-Resolving-Mystery-Thermody...
We can't claim that _everyone_ knew. But it was obvious to anyone paying attention, and also to all of us who bailed out of facebook as they became more toxic.

The actual simple photo sharing site was Flickr.

Instagram was seen from the start as a SNS with photo sharing as a pretense. The other SNS were already photo centric either way.
About 12 dup's now literally 3 down from this but who's counting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43688410#43688447
If they were taxed $1, that's $1 taken away from investments.
shrug

I hear that sentiment a lot, but it doesn't seem right to me. My salary is pretty close to the median plumber's income, and my family's effective tax rate last year came in at... 1.6%. And that's with all retirement account contributions going toward Roth accounts. If we'd chosen to contribute to traditional IRA/401k accounts instead, the EITC and child tax credit would easily turn our tax bill negative.
What is considered a "good healthcare plan"? Can you compare American insurance plans with Europe's ones?

92% of American had health insurance in 2023. Some people may have more than one insurance plans, thus the total number below is greater than 100%.

Of the subtypes of health insurance coverage, employment-based insurance was the most common, covering 53.7 percent of the population for some or all of the calendar year, followed by Medicaid (18.9 percent), Medicare (18.9 percent), direct-purchase coverage (10.2 percent), TRICARE (2.6 percent), and VA and CHAMPVA coverage (1.0 percent).

https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2024/demo/p60-28...
It's similar to sales vs dev in software. Sales are always prioritizing new features to attract new users instead of fixing the known issues that are pissing off your current users.

New feature attracts new users and allows for fancy press releases. Nobody cares about press releases about an existing product getting a bug fix are become more stable.

Our society is nothing but "ooh look, shiny!" type of short attention span
How much is the principle? Because I bet you $3.50 it’s multiple billion less than the current balance.
even in spring with my winter coat, i don't shed much, but your point is well taken
> You could do that. But then you need to explain to the LLM how to do the work every time you want to use that tool

This reeks of a fundamental misunderstanding of computers and LLMs. We have a way to get a description of APIs over http, it's called an open API spec. Just like how MCP retrieves it's tool specs over MCP.

Why would an llm not be able to download an openai spec + key and put it into the context like MCP does with its custom schema?
American strong man on the side of genocide, and Russia, wtf
You can use Wikipedia in many, many ways.

"Source of reliable information" is one of them.

"Source of how a topic has changed over time" is another.

"Source of what disputes are more common regarding specific parts of each article" is another.

And so on...

Even if most people don't actually do that and trust every small bit of information (like the original amount of hair of some classical composer had), some other people will in fact track and try to understand the path of that information and whether is truthful or not, relevant or not.

Maybe one day LLMs will allow that kind of thing as well. I don't know. Currently they don't offer that choice.

Does that answer your question?
“I don't need nonstop gun shootings, 2 1/2 hr movies that could be shown in 90 min, endless duologues, and woke lessons. I need solid movies with the right mix of action, fun, and sophistication.”

A comment I’ll repost.
Doesn't purchase by a PE company pretty much guarantee the death of it? At least the selling off of the most profitable parts and pieces? Has there ever been a story of a PE purchase and the company grew under the new owner?
Suppose you're training a language model by minimizing cross entropy, and the omniscient being is watching. In each step, your model instantiates some probability distribution, whose gradients are computed. That distribution exists, and is not deterministic to the omniscient entity.
It doesn't, but whoever sells it needs to contribute back whatever they did with it is almost as good.

It's not quite as good because some games still get griefers who sell versions on some market places without otherwise giving back to the community who maintains them.

But it's better than MIT for sure.
I hadn't heard of PDDL before but to save others the click on x.com, this is the Xeet:

> This PDDL planning example is much more interesting than what MCP purports to be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planning_Domain_Definition_Lan...

> Imagine a standard planning language for model interconnect that enables collaborative goal pursuit between models.

> Maybe I'll make one.