skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would take that bet. First, government office workers have a higher bar to entry. While I've heard criticism of them being myopic, it was rarely that they were lacking intelligence.

Deloitte consultants have a much wider variance. They too are capped on how much they can be paid, but they do not get the benefits of government service (e.g. pensions.) They are shuffled from subcontractor to subcontractor and the project managers are more obsessed with extracting more money from the department than finishing the project. The incentives are so misaligned as to be comical.
i have been thinking about how to build a machine that is smaller and easier to understand and looking for an OS that is smaller and easier to understand to go with it. yours is probably one of the closest i’ve looked at…
I don't think they're blaming you per se, they're saying the reason you didnt enjoy it is because you did it for money.
Is your AI being judgemental or racist?
This is exactly why my web dev company used FastCGI for all our development and would still today if I didn't retire it just two years ago.

Wherever we needed faster interaction, FastCGI did the job and allowed us to interface with anything in the backend including our C programs.
Even if I think pushing back on a thing isn't worth my time or energy, I still try to ensure that nobody leaves the conversation thinking that I agree with them when I don't. I consider that basic honesty.
Show HN: Hack GitHub contribution map to display a message over one year
Partly because who is Github to track my activity. Mainly because why not.
This is absolutely true. Spotify employs "ghost artists" that create the most inoffensive, royalty-free background music possible, and then they prioritize them in their auto-generated playlists.

https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machin...
"all models are wrong, but some are useful"

- George E Box
The answer seems to also be very surface-level, wow it sees a chair and lamp in a corner and believes it's the perfect position, without apparently considering anything else in the room.

Marie Kondo doesn't need to worry about being replaced by AI, yet...
Awful thing. You can recognize sites using it by missing margins in lists etc.
Doesn't seem to be any discernable improvement on the Zoom Cat Lawyer.
I am soo disappointed with these lame ideas. I was hoping for an AI that analyzes my personality with x-ray vision and then creates the coolest best possible avatar for me based on that. /s
In NL AH for me it seems to come in waves. For a while I'll be checked every other time, and then not at all for some time. This could just be me seeing patterns where they aren't though, perhaps I should track it for curiosity.
Ask HN: Any experience or insights about backlink building?
You're right that Trump's original request for 2025, and what Congress has been working on was not bumping up to a trillion.

People are reacting to https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2025/04...

This would be for the 2026 budget.
There's a fundamental reality that shapes both Netflix and Spotify's trajectory: content licensing. 2012 Netflix had access to vastly more of everyone else's library, so it was closer to an indexed search of what was available that one could watch and then getting that video onto your screen. Over time, other companies understood that they were underpricing their content and Netflix was reaping the benefits. Once external forces adjusted, the TV/film bidding wars began. Today, netflix doesn't have nearly as much content as they used to have.

That risk (losing all content and facing extinction) is what pushed Netflix in the direction of being a content-producer, rather than a content aggregator. I agree with everyone's points on the influence of the median user in diluting the quality of the content Netflix produces, but that's not the only forced that pushed us here. Spotify faced a similar crossroads and decided to broaden beyond music once they started losing bidding wars for licensing.

Being a faster horse wasn't an option available to either Netflix or Spotify; there is no path for a 'better 2012 version of netflix or spotify' in 2025. They each had to change species or die, and they chose to keep living.
I feel you. Having a chat function is the last thing I want in my banking app lol.
Haiku Activity and Contract Report, March 2025
His attorney is being correct. If he completed that program, the charge is gone and he has a clean record.

Taking a diversion plea deal, if offered, is a sensible choice, even if you're not guilty. It's substantially lower risk than fighting the charges.

(I'm also not sure which article you're quoting, but that line isn't in this one.)
From TFA:

> Can’t you just generate an image of a face, animate it, and add a voiceover? Not quite. The challenge isn’t just nailing the lip sync — it’s making facial expressions and body language move in tandem. It would be weird if your mouth opened in surprise, but your cheeks and chin didn’t budge!

Starting here:

- "generate an image of a face, animate it, and add a voiceover?"

Tried this at [0]. Here's an example visual output:

- https://visualmic.com/example-animation-4.gif

Judge for yourself. You can see the mouth and eyebrows move in response to voice volume, and the eyes shift and blink according to settings. But no cheek movement, no head tilt, and no face shape change.

I think TFA is sort of right.

I'm not sure that face cap and AI are 100% needed, and most of the tools for making great VR models seem either pretty complicated or sort of privacy invading. But, better translating voice input into face changes does seem sort of needed.

There's "virtual Youtuber" (vtuber) software too, but that too seems some combination of complicated/clunky, resource intensive, and/or in signup-required land. [EDIT: Surely, there is a good front end at OpenLive3D [1], but making the .VRM model for it, e.g., with VRoid Studio [2] is where things seem start to get a little more time/energy-intensive.]

I'm not against pseudonymous avatars, but is there a third path? It should be easy and open, no? Gonna have to trawl through the suggestions of a16z on this one.

[0] https://visualmic.com
[1] https://openlive3d.com
[2] https://vroid.com/en/studio
You probably know much better than I do, but that doesn't seem it would make it impossible to do sharding? You just pick a shard based on the current location of the driver/customer.
> the users want to doom-scroll.

That's depends on your definition of "want". They might not want to on, but their monkey brain does.
DVD and BluRay, yes.
Really great, succinct way to make this point. Here's an NGRAM of mentions of these brands in the English Fiction corpus, 1860-2025 -- Ferrari dominates until ~1970, when Porsche gains dominance. Obviously, Koenigsegg is barely on the graph at all.

P.S. I think it's telling that Porsche wasn't mentioned almost at all in English until the mid 1950s, given their role in the war!

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Ferrari%2CLamb...
It is a social network. Social networks aren't defined by the use of addiction loops and dark patterns.
In other words, "big companies should have a spcial boy copyright exception". I expect both the slopification of everything and enforcement of copyright against individuals to continue.
A shame, I used to use cgi all the time, back when I did web stuff. I wouldn't know what to do now, especially on IIS. Never did understand why I ought to want or need WSGI, other than I "ought to." Nor did I see how I was supposed to code against it, so I simply did cgi. It never raised a problem for me.
>as the case was dismissed and expunged.

Apparently that was only because he completed a (court mandated?) rehab program? I guess that's technically not a conviction, but not the same as innocent, or even a "case dropped" (in the sense most people would expect).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43654102
No deletion is happening. They're simply not providing access through a tool they provide. The collection is still available outside of that tool.
AGI == A Guy Instead.
Show HN: Axis New Internal Combustion Tech Matches H2 Fuel Cell Efficiency
2035 clean air regulations are fast approaching, and putting fossil fueled ICE's on the line, We need a replacement engine (that is viable to work with hydrogen at scale). Axis Motors USA is building this - to match hydrogen fuel cell efficiency @ 60% Thermal Efficiency and (50% Less hydrogen fuel consumption). This is a game changer for the global power industry!
Capturing the prompt is probably a good idea. But if I think about the goal of "reproducible builds" and "supply chain security," the use of LLMs in a vibe-coding mode looks like a step backward.

Ultimately the code needs to stand alone, but if you discover that a specific version of an LLM produced vulnerable code, you have no recourse but to try again and read the generated code more carefully. And reading code carefully is the opposite of vibe-coding.
I’d argue yes, strictly due to the lack of significant whitespace.
Ask HN: What is the process for disclosing systemic level vulnerabilities?
Hello.

I am not a security researcher.

I uncovered an attack vector that I need guidance to disclose in an ethical and legal way.

The attack vector is not within my code. I see HackerOne disclosure as one route - https://docs.hackerone.com/en/articles/8517457-disclosure

If the path is not particular to any specific code package and is more related to supply chain attacks, then where does one go?
You are describing this as a writing problem, but it sounds more like a search results/search engine problem
That’s why I disagree with the idea that salespeople will be the first to be replaced by AI. If anything, they’ll be the last to be replaced.
I am not here to talk you out of your mental model around the cult of Elon. His companies have received almost $40B in various forms of government support, those are the facts. He is a skilled operator, able to whip teams of engineers to success and distort reality persuasively to customers and investors alike, but his ventures would not have survived without the government support he’s received.
So it's another case of "let's make a solution for nonexisting problem" in the world of AI?

We all hear promises of how AI will save the world and bring about technological innovation and solutions for hard problems, and what we get is replacement for a job that can be done much cheaper by a human being.

I am getting major crypto vibes here, promises of greatness and bringing nothing but unnecessary fluff.
> tools like Lighthouse now flag cases of <h1>s without defined font-size as bad practice.

You forgot to include a font size in your h1's which is what people are complaining about needing to do.
That has a name: Turing tarpit.
https://x.com/elizabethln_bot?lang=en

https://tfl.gov.uk/
In fact it has been, dating all the way back to Phaedrus.

> If men learn [writing], it will implant forgetfulness in their souls. They will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks.
Very Ender's Game.
> The issue I think you're outlining is whether someone builds because they believe in their product and its value or if they are profiteers charading as believers.

I do agree with your overall criticism of short-sightedness and the short term incentives of VC and the stock market, etc.

But the people involved are not quite as binary as you lay out in the quote above. You can't discount the group of people who really do start out as true believers and who become seduced/deceived by VCs. Some of these VC types are real vultures. They'll convince the founder that the best way to share their vision or product with the most people and do the most good for the world is to let the VC guys use their capital to scale up and expand the reach of the product, etc. The money surely helps to lower one's skepticism/cynicism, but I can imagine that it must be very hard to say no to getting your dream project out to millions of people.
I get your point but I think the browser analogy is wrong.

IE had something like 90% market share back in the day because it was bundled with the OS and cost $0.

Chrome ate everyone's lunch because everyone was using google to search for stuff, and they could advertise their browser on their home page or together with their search results. They also took out ads, in some countries, on billboards, in newspapers and even in cinemas.

I'm sure technical people talking to their families had a small effect (though wouldn't they recommend firefox, because FOSS?), but I think that pales in comparison to google being able to advertise chrome on their search page.
If true - that poster cites no source and previously couldn't read this article accurately - he, as stated, has no conviction on his record.
I think its more of a lack of commitment from congress to stop it. They have tools available, they haven't really used them.
To simplify:

1. Innovate.

2. Exploit.

You start by innovating a "fast horse". This gains you early adopters who pull in a larger audience. A horse can only be so fast, so continued innovation might lead to something more like a car. This will only cause you to bleed users. Stick to the horse.

Instead of continuing to innovate endlessly, you switch to exploitation. Fire the visionaries. They're just a waste of payroll. Bring in people who can squeeze every last dime out of your user base.

-----------------------

The above isn't anything new. However, it's clear that some companies are better at maintaining quality while exploiting. Are they doing something different, or is it just that their customers have to choose them repeatedly? e.g. Most people don't sign up with one car company for life. They'll buy several cars over their life and that's a choice that the car company must win each time. Meanwhile, people sign up for Netflix or Spotify and stay subbed. They don't look at the alternatives every few years. Porsche needs to keep up with the latest and fastest horses to continue exploiting their reputation, while Netflix can focus purely on making more money from their users. A faster horse may come along, but Netflix doesn't break down and need to be replaced.
Remind me in 6 months.
This is a big weakness of many, many folks. Knowing when to work hard(er) and when to take time to recover is important in pursuits both mental and physical. You see it all the time in sports(e.g. overtraining) and careers (e.g. the father who spends his nights at work and misses his kids' events).
Thing is, he’s right. We learn from all input and a great deal of it is copyrighted — every book or movie we’ve ever seen.

If I tell you something I learned from a copyrighted book, I am not doing something illegal.

If I produce a copy of someone else’s output and state it’s my own, I am. That’s plagiarism. And I think this is the best way to view AIs that create artworks “in the style of” etc — as plagiarism for output, not copyright violation for input.

I, and I am the author of several things including proprietary software (published, sold, even acquired!) and a novel I hope to publish soon, increasingly think copyright is an evil. I like getting income from what I make but I don’t believe in stopping people accessing what I create. Using it to restrict learning absolutely is an evil. And an AI uses it to learn.
I can't agree.

Because my netflix subscription is cancelled specifically because the "Finding something I want to watch drains my energy" phenomenon. Gradually over the course of like a year I got more and more frustrated with being suggested things, and not having a good way to find things.
Not a bad plan :)

The Orville is really good if you haven't seen it yet
Any documentation on how to self-host without Docker?

I use FreeBSD.
string.format and string substitution are bloat and annoying to use, while f-strings makes it very easy to improve readability. So in the end, they remove big complexity in usage, by adding very little and straightforward complexity in syntax.
LLMs != AI. I’ll die on this hill.

Building products for a non-existent thing is reminiscent of pets.com
I sincerely have no idea if any of your comments in this thread are sarcastic or not. (This comment is also not sarcastic FYI).

Generally, I also agree that Heinlein's characters are one dimensional and could benefit from greater character growth, though that was a bit of a hallmark of Golden Age sci-fi.
> Elections have consequences. Although it's decidedly unfair, it would seem, when some of those consequences fall on those who don't even get a vote.

That sentiment sounds nice, but it's kinda messed up: it implies non-citizens should have more rights and privileges than citizens (i.e. be insulated from the consequences of elections). It's like, if someone loans you their car, insisting they shouldn't be able to ask for it back because you didn't have say in the decision.

Ultimately, if you're actually for democracy, you have to be fine with policy changing in whatever way the electorate decides it should change.
Yes, give us a holler when [if?] you return...
Because it's an updated version of Prof Wirth's original in-house project from ETH, once an inexpensive FPGA became viable.

I wrote about it a decade ago:

https://www.theregister.com/2015/12/02/pi_versus_oberton/

That's one source reflecting one particular project, which Prof Wirth came out of retirement to help with. It is not representative of the broader use and adoption of Oberon at all. Once there was commodity 32-bit hardware, Oberon researchers adopted it with enthusiasm and it has at various times run on most 32-bit CPUs.

These days, the work I'm aware of is mostly on x86, though. For example, this commercial offshoot, Blackbox Component Pascal:

https://blackboxframework.org/
You should first investigate the cause of the bug before spamming Firefox developers with potentially invalid reports. And it is difficult to investigate when your browser and user's browser behave different.
You can do that.

Just write your specs in markdown files (or formal specification formats) in your repo and instruct the LLM to update them in the process.

In fact, you can just work on specs like this. Vibe speccing, I guess?
It's the exact digital equivalent of saying "it's not available at this library but you can buy it yourself or get access through another source"

Y'all give Mississippi too much credit if you think they hold the only copy of gender studies and race relations academic research.
AGI == A Grand Illusion
It gets complex once an accumulator is involved.
We know damn well all these stories will do is trigger "muh Trump" and "muh Elon" responses. Especially from non-Americans who have no idea how their own government works or what it's doing.
Don't they make like 5 of those, and for absurdly high prices?

Ferraris, Porsches and similar are somewhat attainable, which, I think, helps with their being symbols, since most people have already actually seen them and know they're real. A Koenigsegg is as good as a story. Hell, I live in Paris and I've never actually seen one. Porches and Ferraris? They're seemingly everywhere.
> * Steve Jobs was one of these people. A clever marketing guy who relied on others for technical heavy lifting. I suggest going back and re-watching some of his presentations, like the unveiling of the iPhone. Every word he said was meticulously planned and very rehearsed.*

Before Apple entered its iPod era, Jobs could do a reasonable job of taking questions from a technical audience

https://youtu.be/yQ16_YxLbB8?si=GK5NvbyND1xriiYm
Critical Trade Theory
>that poster cites no source

Trivial to reverse search: https://triblive.com/news/politics-election/i-only-have-a-se...
The original designer for my most active product I work on choose EntityFramework. Used it for about 1.5 years before looking at the SQL statements it produced. It was a excessive UNION mess. Things that should be simple where 10x more complex.

Slowly replaced it with Dapper and handwritten SQL, a simple migration versioning system, and database seeding with validation. Once that was done, startup time was cut by more than 10 seconds on a standard SSD and about 30 on CFast. Even finally replacing the database connection with SQLite standard libraries shaved off 2 seconds.

EntityFramework maybe useful but it lacks performance when time to start using the software is important.
> But there's something so... so fucking nakedly exhibitionist and narcissistic about these kinds of posts.

You've precisely defined why nobody takes LessWrong seriously.
Yeah I mean dedicated sports car models, rather than sportified versions of existing models
$2,150 for an iPhone?
Indeed, Andrew Tate's tagline when someone criticised him was "I drive a Bugatti and you don't".
It depends.

Would you like to protect yourself against the dollar tanking down? or would you like to take advantage of a potential dollar recovery?

Either way, in salary negotiations: Ask as much as you can get away with.

If you just want stability then negotiate your salary in your local currency (but if it gets too expensive you may be let go anyway)

Anyway, more than anything take into account all the taxes you'll have to pay locally.
I see the problem not as VC money, but the ridiculous idea of the
optimised one-size mass-marketable product. The myth of "what people
want" (which is art entirely pulled out of the air of marketing,
public opinion, focus groups in the 1980s) goes against the impetus
that consumer digital technology originally emerged from... namely
that the microprocessor revolution replaced giant fixed-function
pieces of iron with agile, modular, user-definable, technology. We've
gone full circle on that. We're back to a world where 5 giant
monopolies make stuff offering two choices; take it or leave it. Life
happens at the margins, and the only thing in the middle of the road,
is roadkill.
> Then VC funding comes in, and the product has to appeal to a broader audience. Things get smoothed out and the metrics rule decisions.

> Eventually, the original enthusiasts feel left out. The product’s no longer for them.

I am immediately reminded of when Slack got rid of markdown-style inline formatting, in favor of a WYSIWYG interface, and the internet (or at least, the corner I live in) collectively (and, imo, correctly) lost its shit at them.
The screenshots helped me understand it... turns out the "change" will work how my brain already thought it worked.
>I'm aware that Khalil's case involves the McCarthyesque Immigration and Nationality Act because he's a lawful permanent resident where non-citizens are being processed under things like the Alien Enemies Act. Let's not get lost in the weeds here

That's not why. Both are non-citizens. The reason the different laws are being applied matters, because they are totally different legal fights, taking place for different social and political reasons.

>All persons on American soil are entitled to constitutional protections [1]

Some, but not to the same extent as citizens where speech is concerned. For example, foreign nationals are not allowed to spend money to directly support a candidate for elected office, though they may spend to influence an issue. Cf Bluman v. FEC with Citizens United.

It's a matter of degrees, and certainly is impacted by immigrant status and ties to the United States. From a free speech issue and where concerning the speech I have heard from him, I think it's clear that Khalil should not be subject to any kind of government restriction or punishment. That said, it seems likely that he may be deported for other reasons.

I don't disagree with you re due process at all.
I assume that jump starting an EV takes a lot less current than jump starting an ICE due to no need to crank an engine. I'd guess it just needs enough to power the control electronics and close the solenoids to the traction battery?

That raises an interesting question: is the power requirement low enough that you could make a hand cranked EV jump starter?
That is very much not what this order says is allowed.