skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New airport rules will get rid of boarding passes and check-in
I’m not sure where we launched into the metaphysics of if an AI can produce an emotionally charged meaningful work, but that wasn’t part of the debate here, I recall my stance being that the AI will never get as good as the human. Since photoshop is a tool like any other, “good enough” refers to making the barrier of entry to make a given work (in this case some image) so low that anyone could buy a photoshop license and type some words into a prompt and get a result that satisfies them instead of paying an artist to use photoshop - which is where the artists understandable objection comes from.

I pay for photoshop along with the rest of the adobe suite myself, so you cannot write off my comment either while saying the rest of the paying users are “the final authority” when I am in fact a paying user.

My point is simply that with or without everyone’s consent and moral feel-goods these tools are going to exist and sticking your head in the sand pretending like that isn’t true is silly. So you may as well pick the lesser evil and back the company who at least seems to give the slightest bit of a damn of the morals involved, I certainly will.
I meant at hyperscaling. AWS was already doing it with their own servers, so they had both the producer and consumer working in one place to expand out.
> I thought we were talking about firing IT consultants? Let

I read this whole thread as being about the broader 'cutting' trend,

OOP: when discussing the overall trend of cutting programs in other fields where the majority doesn't have that expertise, the conclusion is the opposite.

Parent: Rash moves like this are things politicians and corporate ladder climbers alike love to do, but then they run far away from the consequences.
Senior devs are usually gs-15, step 10 which is about $195k in DC

I don’t think it’s the money, I think it’s the mindset. There’s more project managers than actual hands on engineers.
This is a nerd fantasy where you imagine your skills and expertise are what keep society turning.

Computer problems are fixable, and they are secondary, and there are many people and services who can be hired to fix them.
I agree. But free speech is ending in the USA as well, Trump wants to jail his critics, especially journalists, and thinks it's treason.
And yet, ability to code — or actually ability to learn to think algorithmically — is elementary for IT positions, and on average an uncommon enough that it's very much worth it for companies to test for it. You're not trying to suggest just employing any competent middle manager or marketing person to code, after all.
That's awesome and congrats on the success so far! Smart move on the lead precautions. I need to get some of the wipes for my bag!
I’m getting 406 browser not acceptable, apparently Safari on iOS isn’t fit to be served pages anymore?
A website should just work. Don’t profile me based on my user-agent and try to serve me different pages or block me, you’re running something that’s meant to be able to be accessed universally, regardless of hardware, OS, etc. The supposed “great universal platform.” I don’t care what fancy latest buzzword framework you’re running, it’s a browser. I assure you it can run bog-standard html, js, css and browse your website - and if it can’t, well, why not?
I am not sure Netflix 2025 is a car. I would go with a carnival ride on a bunch of ponies analogy.
> You could do an awful lot of good with that kind of money - from space programs to science funding.

We sure could.

Will we?
What a great suprise. Today just installed fedora on my laptop and will be giving new client a spin. The only thing that lacks in Gnome is that dino can't stay active in the background. Since years it's a requested feature. There are some workaround but they usually don't works.
I’d love for that to be true, but our species dates back 300,000 years, while writing started only 3,000 years ago.
Writing is definitely not a fundamental trait of our species, although once we got this update, things started moving quickly.
Best option for a residence is probably a propane generator with a massive LP tank, or a diesel generator with a massive day tank.
In the article it says that “This finding doesn’t mean that bonobos have language, though”.
Waste or not, I don't think two companies should have $5.1B government contracts.

Although I think neither that or waste is the reason for termination.
I wasn't disparaging Meta II; just noting that it was evidently the first precursor of something we all take for granted. And also, I'd just happened to hear the old rock'n'roll song Yakety-Yak.
>...keep FDs for network sockets, you've got to transfer those somehow.

And if you have any shared memory segments, semaphores, or message queues, you have to drag along a bunch of other processes.
What an incredibly myopic view of things.

China has been building nuclear successfully and worked out the kinks. The US basically paused all production and was trying to start over. You can't seriously blame it all on bureaucracy, when a lot of what was lost is institutional knowledge. Kind of like how your "burn it all down" approach would work for academia.

Despite how things could be structured better, in medicine and science we are making progress. Maybe we could do better, but I certainly think we could be doing much worse.
I can't speak to the UK at all, but I've met less than five people who started their government jobs right out of high school or college. They'll be able to retire on their pension 33 years later at about 3/4 of their max salary -- so, at roughly 51 or 55. (The pensions are funded by employee contributions.)

It's well known in the workplace who they are, because people are really fucking envious.
There's an example I saw where `'` was used as a way to denote a symbol, but I can't find that explicit example. It wasn't SBCL, I believe it may have been Clojure. Its possible I'm misremembering.

That said, since I work in C-like languages during the day, I suppose my minor complaint has to do with ease of transition, it always takes me a minute to get acquainted to Lisp syntax and read Lisp code any time I work with it.

Its really a minor complaint and one I probably wouldn't have if I worked with a Lisp language all day.
This is part of why I still have a MacBook2,1 running Snow Leopard. Even with its 4GB of memory and Core2Duo, it's optimized to prioritize my input. It also never changes, which is a form of stability I've come to cherish.

Another point is that you can train a horse, or even eat it if in dire straits. You own that horse. I can't disable things I want to disable, and names, locations, and features change (or are removed) with no notice between minor version updates. I can't tell you the last time I built something for a new Mac, or wanted to.

I don't know MacOS today, and it certainly doesn't make me feel like I own my computer.

I'm less harsh about modern Windows because I view it as amends for Microsoft causing the bot/ransomware crisis of the last 15 years. Still not for me, but at least I neuter it into usefulness.
This is the idea of premium mediocre: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/08/17/the-premium-mediocre-l...
https://archive.is/fYckP

> Passengers will be able to upload their passports to their phone and pass through airports using only their face for verification within “two to three years”.
> The guy that stands up and gives a 25 hour speech?

Who isn’t even the top house democrat. The opposition party’s actual leaders were going around saying the best strategy was to lay low… feels like some kind of bad joke.
> calculating a derivative or setting up a fancy data structure of some kind or something, is interesting but how much of that do we actually do as programmers?

A LOT, depending on the domain. There are many R&D and HPC labs throughout the US in which programmers work directly with specialists in the hard sciences. A significant percentage of their work is akin to "calculating a derivative".
Is there any additional context here? (Is this a common misperception that you’ve come across?)
Did you implement that using ai or manually?
What does high degree mean? Either you achieve bit for bit reproducibility of your builds or not.
he should just hire some high school script kiddies, they already have access to the highest level of government!
I wrote a longer comment, but it got flagged, so I deleted it, and wrote that one.

My position is that lead toxicity seems to be a conspiracy theory, rather than a real thing, the evidence for it is bizarre, and doesn't make any sense, and lead in fact seems to belong where it goes. That is, it's essential, and people are increasingly weak, dumb, and even have deformities because it has been removed.

This comment was instantly downvoted.
A minimum price is still treating the symptoms of piss poor planning. Minimum prices won't change the fact that China is simply winning in global EV sales.
Quantum hardware may be a good match for AI
Lawn Darts++
Getting onto the allowed vendor list for the US Government is a dire process even for the largest of global service companies, by design by the folks already on the list.

I was able to work as an individual as a subcontractor for a subcontractor for a company on the list. Rates aren't as high, but with federal regulations (for now) mandating that subcontractors be paid as soon as the primary contract holder was paid meant that there was 0 chasing after invoices which is actually very nice.
It really is an art compared to more modern options, mostly due to trying to replicate what a skilled operator at stamped metal factory at the time was capable of at a small scale. That and the press fit barrel and gas block are much trickier than just torquing a barrel nut to the right amount of ft/lbs. like with the AR platform.

Enthusiasts will pay eyebrow raising amounts for custom ones from a shop with an impressive reputation for something that was the height of 1950s technology.
What are you on about? The systems I'm referring to are human systems with lots of humans doing human things. Cutting funding, removing departments, those are removing the humans doing human things to solve human problems.
Looks like instant technical debt to me.
Pivoting every month fishing for ideas in different industries? What in tarnation? Yea dude get outta there.
> you cannot become an expert in everything

You don't have to though. Anyone who's spent a decent amount of time in a creative hobby will tell you they sucked when they started but they enjoyed the process of learning and exploring. I think you're depriving yourself of the mental benefits of learning a new skill and being creative. It flexes your mind in new ways.

If you just want something to exist, sure, but when you can press buttons and have a magic box spit out whatever you want with no effort, how much are you actually going to value it?
Faceball 2000 DX
Show HN: RAG, No Vectors
We built PageIndex, a document indexing system that turns documents into hierarchical search trees to support reasoning-based RAG.

Traditional vector-based RAG often struggles with retrieval accuracy because it optimizes for similarity, not relevance. But what we really need in retrieval is relevance — which requires reasoning. When working with professional documents that demand domain expertise and multi-step reasoning, vector-based RAG and similarity search often fall short.

So we started exploring a more reasoning-driven approach to RAG. Reasoning-based RAG enables LLMs to think and reason their way to the most relevant document sections. Inspired by AlphaGo, we use tree search to perform structured document retrieval.

We open-sourced one of the key components: PageIndex. PageIndex is a hierarchical indexing system that builds search tree structures from long documents (like financial reports, regulatory documents, or textbooks), making them ready for reasoning-based RAG.

Some highlights:

- Hierarchical Structure: Organizes lengthy PDFs into LLM-friendly trees — like a smart table of contents.

- Precise Referencing: Each node includes a summary and exact physical page numbers.

- Natural Segmentation: Nodes align with document sections, preserving context — no arbitrary chunking.

We've used PageIndex for financial document analysis with reasoning-based RAG and saw significant improvements in retrieval accuracy compared to vector-based systems.

Would love any feedback — especially thoughts on reasoning-based RAG, or ideas for where PageIndex could be applied!
The people who care about these distinctions are mostly within those three groups. For the customers it's 'consulting'.
> More importantly, the "competition" between GCC and clang/LLVM is mutually beneficial. GCC losing prominence would not be good for LLVM long-term, just as GCC arguably languished in the period after the egcs merger.

You're right to note that "competition" here is more like inspiration than a deathmatch. But I vaguely remember two things that seem similar to motivation via competitive pressure to me: (1) when GCC 5 came out, it had way nicer error messages, and I immediately thought "Oh, they wanted to make GCC nice like Clang" and (2) IIRC the availability of a more modular compiler stack like LLVM/Clang essentially neutralized Stallman's old strategic argument against more a more pluggable design, right?
I'm a big fan of YAML after coming from JSON and, later, ProtoBuf's many definition formats while working at Google---but it's true that there are a lot of oddities in YAML's magical parsing. I'm grateful for the many ways it's possible to quickly an naturally define simple hierarchies of data (for example, in a docker-compose file).

This website does the rare thing of, after complaining, providing a long list of alternatives. It's really nice.
> Sure, that still leaves the tweaking and customization, but I feel like that's the part most people enjoy the most? Humans love decorating.

Even if that were true (which I heavily contest), people might like the idea of "I want the sidebar nav moved to the right side", not opening up template.css and template.html and figuring out which html/css they need to change.

The LLM is the thing that lets us do the fun part.

But let me disabuse you of the claim that technical people enjoy fiddling with html/css/design especially on their Wordpress website when they just want to make some changes, and somehow nontechnical people are the only ones who might have to circumvent all that fun-having by letting an LLM do it for them.

It's like saying that you don't see how LLMs could be useful to software developers because don't they enjoy writing code? Aside from the answer being no, most code isn't fun to write, you're forgetting the goal day to day is to get something done, not dick around with your Wordpress theme or software Jira tickets because it's fun.
A balanced review of Math Academy
"Conversate With Your Data: No more wasting time crafting complex SQL queries - ask away!"

Maybe it is just me but literally every single product that has tried to eliminate SQL somehow with a conversational interface has never seen mass success, if they did, we wouldn't be using SQL anymore
Because there is no reason to not use triangles.

Look at prideout's reply in the thread, the argument about having just one normal vector and the fact they can only describe one plane is huge. Unless you want more edge cases to deal with (hehe, pun intended), you're better off sticking to tris.
> It’s no Supra, but the FRS is a sporty little car that was marketed in a fairly affordable range. It’s also basically a BRZ. It’s a little sad that’s no longer an option.

The FRS/BRZ/GR86 are identical cars mechanically, Toyota owns Scion, so the FRS was replaced by the GT86 and later GR86 within the Toyota line-up when Toyota killed off the Scion brand in the US, and the FRS never existed outside the North American market, because Scion was a North American exclusive brand.

The BRZ/GR86 has a Subaru Boxer engine, with Toyota D4S Port+Direct Injection, using a Toyota ECU/ECM, Toyota/Aisin transmission, Toyota TCU/TCM, and Toyota infotainment (in some generations), but with a mostly Subaru designed chassis and nearly entirely Subaru suspension and post-transmission driveline, but the wheels and tires off a Prius (in the first generation), and a handful of things that were only created to be jointly used by the BRZ/GR86. Except no matter which part you pick on the car, it'll be marked "Subaru", including ironically the Toyota badge on the front of the GT86.

It's better to think of them as what they are, which is different branding for the same vehicle, that was jointly developed and manufactured.
If they send us enough neutrinos and we have a big enough detector, yeah. I don't think it beats the electromagnetic spectrum for practicality.

The big advantage of neutrinos for communication is that you could send them right through the earth so you could reach a submarine or something without any satellites. There's also the crazy story that never goes away that neutrinos might go faster than light. The result

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_OPERA_faster-than-light_n...

was absurdly too fast because neutrinos from most sources have a huge energy compared to the neutrino rest mass so their speed is always very close to the speed of light whether they go just a hair faster or a hair slower. Unless you count an early event that most scientists don't, there was no sign of neutrino dispersion in

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SN_1987A

However when people try to measure the neutrino mass squared they get answers that are within the error bars of zero but trend negative

https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/6/1172

If the neutrino was a tachyon and you could make super-lower energy neutrinos than maybe you could use it as an FTL communicator.
Oh that's really cool to see!
I always thought a visual programming language on the BEAM would be fun
When Microsoft retired Clippy
How you navigate this is you quit. You don't have a startup; you have an unstable pair of cofounders flailing to pick a startup to build. Every dollar you draw from your initial investment before securing product/market fit devalues your work. You and your partner have lost respect for each other and will likely sabotage any success you do find.

It's not clear to me what you're preserving by staying.
Much better site than fandom:
https://cari.institute/aesthetics/cassette-futurism
The lisp is harder to read, for me. The first double paren is confusing.

(let (bar-x (bar x))
(quux-y (quux y)))
(foo bar-x quux-y z)

Why is the second set of parens necessary?

The nesting makes sense to an interpreter, I'm sure, but it doesn't make sense to me.

Is each top-level set of parens a 'statement' that executes? Or does everything have to be embedded in a single list?

This is all semantics, but for my python-addled brain these are the things I get stuck on.
The Converging Paths of Computer Science and the Humanities in the Age of GenAI
The German fanfiction site fanfiktion.de has restricted reading times for certain explicit works:

> This story has been classified as developmentally harmful and has been given special protection measures. It can therefore only be read by registered users and only between 11:00 pm and 4:00 am. Registered users have the option of carrying out age verification with us in order to be able to read such stories without time restrictions.
(google translated)
It's due to Polish notation[0] as far as I understand it. This is how that notation for mathematics works.

I suppose my suggestion would break those semantics.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_notation
I use https://www.doctorofcredit.com/ , manual research (there's only so many credit card companies, doesn't take long to check their websites when you're looking for a new card), and also a decent amount of time the credit card companies send me pre-approved offers in the mail and sometimes they are actually pretty good. US Bank recently sent me one for a $750 bonus!

Overall Chase business cards seem to usually have the best deals, and they don't require you to have a "real" business to get them.

It does impact your credit score, so you are correct to be careful if you're going to get a mortgage soon. But in my experience, the effect can't be too big because my credit score is still excellent despite getting a new credit card every couple months.
Claudine Gay's political science and African-American studies research was funded by NIH?
This is a solved problem even in the sense that nearly all the Wordpress competitors already offer this.
Mediation is what you do when there's something to lose from dissolving the enterprise. But that's not the case here! Why preserve the relationship at all?
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Google Woos HPC Centers with Fast CPUs and Networks
China's new semiconductor rule spares Taiwan fabs
Related:

Ask HN: Should I leave the company I co-founded?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43467071
> The debt boogey man is exactly that a nearly imaginary number, most US debt is held by Americans or US companies in the end too.

I agree that the problem with debt is not that there are foreign holders of US treasuries. But higher debt crowds out private investment & borrowing in the repo markets, which harms productivity, makes goods more expensive, hurts aggregate supply in the long run, and makes the poor even poorer.

It also means that the US has to pay increasingly high amounts of money on interest financing and the Fed has far less room to effectively maneuver to combat inflation and ensure sustainable employment levels, as we've been seeing in the last few years. Debt is absolutely not an imaginary number and anyone who is telling you that perhaps doesn't understand the economic weight.

The marginal dollar of US govt spending is generally not more welfare enhancing than the alternative of not having that debt, not crowding out private investment, etc. - particularly when we are in expansionary times (as we have up until very recently). With our current debt trajectory, we should be raising non-distortionary taxes and aggressively limiting spending that is not obviously growth enhancing or with strong social justice justification. We are starting to see real structural problems already emerging from our current debt trajectory.
Adolf Hitler was also democratically elected.
Interesting! will check it out
> tend to be relatively chill workwise

This feels like something that needed past tense.

Some rich asshole I don't know blasting out weekly check-in demands to the org-wide list doesn't sound very chill.
This is what I replied to in my comment above:

> Two things can be bad at once. The IT consulting can be too expensive. Cutting it all at once with no other plan can have disastrous consequences.
Isn't that quite a pessimistic view though? Of course there will always be something that irks you, but that does not mean you can't be fulfilled at some point in life and be aware that you are really happy and there is nothing you would change.
Meanwhile in India a small family workshop manufactures new Kalashnikov's by hand for export ...
I usually just reject mail from the address or even the whole domain on the email server level. This causes them to receive mail rejection notifications and my inbox stays at zero. Zoho workspace makes this easy to do.

I could just block them silently, but reject notifications add to their spam score on email provider level and may help them reconsider their approach.

Curiously, one spammer rotated over 10 similar domains in a span of 6 months as I kept blocking them. Assuming their spam software did it automatically.