skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like to believe that 16 years of Merkel left people with the inability of understanding politics and democracy in general.

Handling AfD by inviting them to a talk show where the audience/presenters were mostly people with Greens/Left background is emblematic of how this country has been delegating the ability to think democratically to someone else. No wonder we have extreme parties on the rise. (Both Left and AfD are extremes, no matter what)

Instead of listening, they made fun or criticized a party of monkeys that should have never reached 22%. Because that's all they could do. Make fun, minimize, claiming you're racist, etc.

Burning Tesla factories, breaking their cars while they are parked, ... letting protesters glue themselves on the streets blocking you from reaching whichever place you planned to (be it an office or a hospital). This is daily life in Germany in the last 3-4 years. Wtf!

I am personally sad that all the good things will change because the last 20 years I think Germany really became a great country, unlike all the criticism that people like to throw at it. All just because people couldn't confront the facts. And yes, this means making hard decisions where needed.
OpenBSD – rpki-client 9.5 released
They haven't tested Gemini 2.5 Pro yet.
Several people have suggested that LLMs might end up ad-supported. I'll point out that "ad supported" might be incredibly subtle/insidious when applied to LLMs:

An LLM-based "adsense" could:

1. Maintain a list of sponsors looking to buy ads
2. Maintain a profile of users/ad targets
3. Monitor all inputs/outputs
4. Insert "recommendations" (ads) smoothly/imperceptibly in the course of normal conversation

No one would ever need to/be able to know if the output:

"In order to increase hip flexibility, you might consider taking up yoga."

Was generated because it might lead to the question:

"What kind of yoga equipment could I use for that?"

Which could then lead to the output:

"You might want to get a yoga mat and foam blocks. I can describe some of the best moves for hips, or make some recommendations for foam blocks you need to do those moves?"

The above is ham-handed compared to what an LLM could do.
As if C++ didn't have enough of “black magic” already, there's another layer of that. Just in case you find error messages involving template applications still too readable.
That was a billing fuckup that had nothing to do with security.
You're right! 200-400% faster is so useless.
>For any given thing or category of thing, a tiny minority of the human population will be enthusiasts of that thing, but those enthusiasts will have an outsize effect in determining everyone else's taste for that thing.

I think that's a self-dellusion many tech enthusiasts have, that they're somehow trend-setters.

And then the same enthusiasts say for the original iPod "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame", and see the masses jump to buy it, and themselves only catch up later.

Or they see the masses never caring for their e.g. desktop Linux, whose mass dominance (not mere "works for me" or "have set it up for my elderly parents and they don't even know it's not Windows") would come "any day now" for the last 30 years...

Trend-setters exist, but they're a different group than the "tiny minority" of enthusiasts. More like some musician paid to spot Beats headphones, or some cool dude sporting some gadget early on.

>For example, very few people have any real interest in driving a car at 200 MPH, but Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Porsches are widely understood as desirable cars, because the people who are into cars like those marques.

A hell of a lot of people had a real interest in driving a car at 200 MPH, if they could have the chance. And even more admired Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Porsches because of their design and elegance (and price, people aspire to luxury goods, even when they can't afford them), not because some sport-car afficionados said so.

It's the same in other areas: the popular books, or comics, or movies, or music, etc. are rarely if ever what the "inner" crowd of each niche admires. Most people buy Reacher and such, not Finnegan's Wake.

>So if you develop your product by following your analytics, you'll inevitably converge on something that just shoves content into the faces of an indiscriminating userbase, because that's what the median user of any given service wants.

More likely, if you want to keep and continue increasing your margins, and your stock price, you'll incrementally continue to shit all over your product trying to squeeze ever more money.

Neither the "enthusiasts"/tech-savvy users NOR the "median user" wants Netflix to be the shit it has become, or Google search to be so fucked up, or ads and nags on Windows UI, and so on.

They're just given those, and they accept them having no recourse. The moment there's a better recourse, they jump to it (like IE -> Firefox -> Chrome, or BS early search engines -> Altavista -> Google).
> The big win with Windows 7 was that they finally figured out how to make it stop crashing.

Changing the default system setting so the system automatically rebooted itself (instead of displaying the BSOD until manually rebooted) was the reason users no longer saw the BSOD.
Show HN: AI wrote the python code. pyhunt tells you what it really does.
As we enter the age of AI-assisted coding, we now spend significantly more time analyzing and reviewing generated code rather than writing it ourselves.

In particular, understanding where and how functions are being called requires considerable effort, and it's become common for the overall structure of code to change drastically during debugging or refactoring.

As the size of a project grows, the time required for such tasks increases exponentially. To address the increasingly complex and tedious debugging process, I developed a tree-visualized logging tool called pyhunt.

pyhunt visualizes the structure of newly defined functions and the lines where errors occur during code execution in an intuitive tree format directly in the terminal. This allows developers to grasp the code flow quickly and significantly reduce debugging time.
Never proposed a ban, the issue is copyright, use licensed inputs and I could care less.

Pro AI people need to stop behaving like it’s a foregone conclusion that anything they do is right and protected from criticism because, as was pointed out, the legality of what is being done with unlicensed inputs, which is the majority of inputs, is still up for debate.

I’m just calling attention to the double standard being applied in who is allowed to have an opinion on what the legal outcome should be prior to that verdict. Temporal said people shouldn’t “pretend or assume” that lots of AI infringes on other people’s work because the law hasn’t caught up but the same argument applies equally to them (AI proponents) and they have already made up their mind, independent of any legal authority, that using unlicensed inputs is legal.

The difference in our opinions is that if I’m wrong, no harm done, if they’re wrong, lots of harm has already been done.

I’m trying to have a nuanced conversation but this has devolved into some pro/anti AI, all or nothing thing. If you still think I want to ban AI after this wall of text I don’t know what to tell you dude. If I’ve been unclear it’s not for lack of trying.
Of course not. People who are actually creative will use new tools creatively.

Adobe AI tools are pretty shit though if you want to use them to do something creative. Shockingly bad really.

They are probably good if you want to add a few elements to an instagram photo but terrible for actual digital art.
They are touristy because they are authentic in the first place.
Some of the more drawn-out arguments are in or about the RFCs repo, though, so it's not just chat platforms or forum where the fights break out. To your point the RFC repo is also something that not every would-be contributor would touch or need to.
> $ is also valid character for identifiers.

Has been like that in C since forever.
Drier suggest also wetter. Wet with what? Water ?
> who lucked into his current position

Which can be said for most of the survivorship-biased "greats" we talk about. Right time, right place.

(Although to be fair — and we can think of the Two Steves, or Bill and Paul — there are often a number of people at the right time and right place — so somehow the few we still talk about knew to take advantage of that right time and right place.)
> There’s a reason James Bond wears expensive watches and that reason is product placement.

Only since Goldeneye when Omega started paying for product placement. Bond had worn Rolex since the original novels, which were written before their big pivot to luxury, so him wearing expensive Rolexes in later films was more of a historical accident. Rolex never actually paid a cent to appear on screen.
Ask Deepseek what happened in Tianmen Square in 1989 and get back to me about that "open" thing.
Do they have money? Or do they want to make you think they have money?
Thanks. I will check this out. I was shocked how terrible the output of Photoshop AI tools are. Not even midjourney 4 level.
Too bad they sold Boston Dynamics :)
Free speech including paid speech isn’t really a knock on free speech.

Someone can be persuaded by an argument they heard once, but can’t per persuaded by an argument they never hear. Thus blocking speech by preventing any kind of speech including paid speech is problematic.
This must be localised; where I live "suit up" means "wear a suit".
Open source and self hostable/private file converter
> Native apps also are suspended. Or can be, like na iOS (not being fanboy, I appreciate this mechanism).

On iOS web apps get suspended very aggressively, and there is no way for a web app to signal to the browser to not suspend it. I never developed native mobile apps, but I assume it’s less aggressive for native apps and/or native apps have a way to prevent themselves from being suspended. This doesn’t seem to be an issue on desktop though.
Acid's a solved problem; PTFE (Teflon) is a comprehensive solution to hot sulfuric acid, well validated in chemical engineering problems on Earth. It's versatile enough you can even coat balloons with it [0].

The hard part is keeping electronics cool. The balloon ideas offer a really elegant solution. You could cycle a balloon between altitudes—between the 500 °C surface, and cold layers of the high atmosphere, cooling off and refilling a thermal storage reservoir for the surface. On Venus, can find cool 20 °C air at a very reasonable, balloon-navigable, 0.5 bar pressure level [1].

[0] https://robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/news/up-up-and-away-to-venus/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Venus?#/media/Fi...
> It's slow and inefficient

Is there any reason to think this won't improve with time? The Intel 4004 was "slow and inefficient" too?
>you'll be very lucky if your Casio can last as long

The Casio would last even longer - and would be closer to the right time even without touching it in between.
You ask two different corporate LLMs and compare answers.
Producing something this stupid is the achievement of a lifetime
> We're all on this rock together, and either nobody's pain is worthy or everyone's is.

This overgeneralizes IMHO. While the pain of being laid off due to something other than your own actions is fine, there are certainly folks out there who cause a lot of pain to others and aren't worthy of universal sympathy when their own pain comes along.
Nothing was stolen from the artists but instead used without their permission. The thing being used is an idea, not anything the artist loses access to when someone else has it. What is there to complain about? Why should others listen to the complaints (disregarding copyright law because that is circular reasoning)?
How would a final court ruling shield someone from executive power? The court relies on the executive to enforce its decisions. They can find a person in contempt, and order fines or jail time until that person complies, but I believe the orders are then enforced by U.S. Marshals, who are executive appointees.

This is a serious question. What have I missed?
I’d add that the success that they have had around implementing progressive policy gains falls within a “good intentions with poor execution”, but they strangely measure their political success by the intentions they had instead of the disastrous executions.
Yeah, ad-supported LLMs would be incredibly bad.

But "free" is a magic word in our brains, and I'm 100% sure that many, many people will choose it over paying for it to be uncorrupted by ads.
Since it's a single-molecule thick, could this potentially be stacked thousands, or millions, thick to deliver ridiculous capacity? I assume heat dissipation would be a factor, but the article doesn't mention it.
There are lots of ways that advertising could be tied to personal interests gleaned by having access to someone's ChatBot history. You wouldn't necessarily need to integrate advertisements into the ChatBot itself - just use it as a data gathering mechanism to learn more about the user so that you can sell that data and/or use it to serve targetted advertisements elsewhere.

I think a big commercial opportunity for ChatBots (as was originally intended for Siri, when Apple acquired it from SRI) is business referral fees - people ask for restaurant, hotel etc recommendations and/or bookings and providers pay for business generated this way.
> it seems that most here have not experienced working on complex projects

The hubris in this sentence is chef's kiss. You have no idea.

> When stuff does matter, anger happens

No, anger is completely unnecessary. It's a poor way to act and communicate, often counter-productive and terrible for morale.
Is this an example of how to integrate ads into an AI response?
If we don't have due process, in that, you can't go and defend yourself in public court, nobody here is really legal or not. It doesn't matter if your birth certificate is in the other room. Without due process it's whatever the ICE agent that's bagging you feels like. What are you gonna do? You don't get due process, you get no court hearing, you get the pleasure of getting onto a plane and flown out to a slave labor prison in El Salvador. Also Garcia had full legal permission to be here but it shows they never checked it and thus he was whisked away like we can expect other's to be if things stay on the current path.
While I agree it'd let the user use the system, the system should do the right thing for either situation, or at least abort and say it doesn't understand. That's the problem with LLMs so far. They can't admit they don't understand.
the way this is stated is troubling in that it proposes an aysimetric idea of "close friend" which is just one more version of hiarchical structure in human society, rather than something
based on seeing things from the same perspective
and the trust and understanding that comes.....after that discovery
ie: "intentionlly making", vs finding
I would suggest that the quality of the people that inhabit the mutual appreciation societys that pass as friendships amongst the "popular" extroverts is the impetus behind this sort of blind quest, the unrecorded and hard to imagine
blank realisation of the inevitable "stalemates" in there social jockeing, no one there, vulnerable, to anything at all....how dry and tedious, that must be
Not really a new idea. These are expression templates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expression_templates
X is a cesspit. Bluesky is a cult and echo chamber. Both should be avoided if you care about your mental sanity.

Social media was a catastrophic mistake.
BTW a lot of photoshop effects are implemented just like this. A blur filter on an image is a low-pass-filters, the high frequencies that it blurs out are the details you see. A sharpening filter does the opposite, it boosts the high frequencies. Signal processing is funny that way.
If someone much richer and with a better career than me got punched in the face i would still see that as suffering.
I don’t know why someone’s situation being better means they can’t be suffering
They have some incredible hardware talent (TPUs, Pixels), but I'm guessing this project will not get the polish of those more public facing products
as ever, any task that has any sort of safety or security critical risks should never be left to a “magic black box”.

human input/review/verification/validation is always required. verify the untrusted output of these systems. don’t believe the hype and don’t blindly trust them.

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i did find the fact that google search’s assistant just parroted the crafted/fake READMEs thing particularly concerning - propagating false confidence/misplaced trust - although it’s not at all surprising given the current state of things.

genuinely feel like “classic search” and “new-fangled LLM queries” need to be split out and separated for low-level/power user vs high-level/casual questions.

at least with classic search i’m usually finding a github repo fairly quickly that i can start reading through, as an example.

at the same time, i could totally see myself scanning through a README and going “yep, sounds like what i need” and making the same mistake (i need other people checking my work too).
Yeah, I would prefer to see this effort being done for AMD GPUs. They're not as powerful, but at least everything is open source and developer friendly. They should be rewarded for that.
The article mentions ANSI-C at places. So seems like the old c standard is targeted.
Haha, didn't realize redwood was already deprecated and forked into redwoodsdk under new management.

Looks good though, like remix except without those pesky route handlers. Then again I didn't get around to using the RR version.
I wish the doc had a "differences with RR" section
Dept of Energy cuts indirect rates to universities
Anecdote unrelated to programming - when climbing (on a climbing wall or bouldering) I was significantly stronger compared to my peers. Because of this, I was the best (or one of the best) in my group for the first year of two. But then I hit the wall - at some difficulty level I couldn't just bruteforce my way to the top, and I had to learn proper techniques, footwork, unlearn bad habits - things my peers were doing for the past two years already.
I'm confused about the introduction mentioning API keys? The function is compiled on and/or uploaded to your servers?

The introduction could benefit from discussing a less toyish problem.
right, if you, for example, wear uniform, and if you, for example, have not started the war and didnt cause the genocide by not wearing uniform, by using civilians as human shields, and by stealing the humanitarian aid and reselling it to poor displaced civilians, that you then cynically enlist to die for your cause, because there is no other source of cash to feed your families.

you should also consider the sequence of events before using such grave accusations.
Why going with non-for-profit then?

In the early interviews he was saying precisely that - that google has effective monopoly in ai and it will be extremely difficult to reach anything close to capacity they have.
youtube says the mythbusters video is from 10 years ago so it was written sometime since then.
Thanks, that was insightful. Vision and mission can be a hard sell, depending on the company. Having some decades of engineering tradition certainly helps with that.

Focusing on retention somehow went out of fashion these days, it pains me how often I have to reiterate short vs long term costs. It's not all on the employer side though, loyalty seems a rare attribute today as well... I get many CVs of people who barely ever stayed a year at any one company. Doesn't mean they won't stay with us, but takes some convincing arguments on their side.
> ...getting insecure or jealous of all the other social connections that your extrovert friends have. There’s an asymmetry there that can feed lots of insecurities.

I wouldn't sweat this too much. Mathematically, most people have fewer friends than their friends have.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_paradox
“ In some countries, more than 90% of the population lives on less than $5 per day. If agentic AI code generation becomes the most effective way to write high-quality code, this will create a massive barrier to entry”
This video is a reconstruction of Mark Rober's failed test that had a similar setup. However, Mark Rober only tested Autopilot which is just a lane keep assist from 7 years ago, and is a different software from FSD.

According to Tesla, FSD is the real deal, FSD is supposed to become unsupervised. Many Tesla owners were curious whether FSD would stop under the same simulated conditions, and this is why the setup is like this with the hose and everything.
I don't think it possible with the the twitter/bluesky UI to not become dominated by grandstanding, attention starved, narcissists.

The same way a photo sharing app is going to become dominated by attention starved, narcissists posting sexy photos.

Normal users just don't have the same motivation to post.

It is like complaining rotting meat is attracting flies.
Opera had zero marginal costs. OpenAI doesn’t.
It's always seemed to me that AI is going to be a commodity business - it's pretty clear that any company with enough money can compete, and it seems that current LLM-based AI is levelling off in terms of capability, with the new focus being on building layers of services on top of that (e.g. deep research agents).

In a commodity business cost is key, and Google with their N'th generation home grown TPUs and AI-optimized datacenters have a big advantage over anyone paying NVIDIA markups for accelerators or without this level of vertical integration.
That book was published during Kruschiov era. Which was definitely not representative of the rest of Soviet era. Let alone that the book was peanuts compared to Gulag archipelago.

Eventually Solzhenytsin was kicked out from USSR and had to take exile in west. Do you really want to use him as an example of Soviet artistic freedom?
Slop in slop out
It seems like most people are on the road to doing exactly this.
> Suddenly, the world is treating the US like a Developing country

It’s pretty clear trump himself is doing that, playing pump and dump with the entire economy.
This is the most reasonable comment here on the topic. Everything else so far is either blatantly political and/or misunderstands market dynamics.

Unfortunately half the comments I read on here are becoming increasingly more reddit-esque. Users posting emotionally charged comments and speaking with an authoritative voice on topics they have little experience or knowledge in an accordingly Hacker News has become more and more useless as a news source.
I love the terminology and the details. Back in the day, if you were a professional shoveler, you had to have exactly the right shovel.

Interesting that the best wood for handles was "second growth Northern ash".
I know nothing about shovels. Would have never thought that there is a need for such a variety of different items.
but majority does not. you dont represent the majority.
NYT link goes 404, here it is fixed: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/05/style/strava-messaging.ht...
While they claim to be seeking “efficiency” the truth becomes clear if you read carefully. They have restricted the class of grants to which this rule applies to “institutes of higher education”. Why not apply it to for profit companies also??
Int-to-int pairs are more likely to form in nature at specific watering holes.

For example, EA/rationalist is not quite my kind of community (altough I think highly of many of their writings), but an ACX meetup looks like a good place for introverts of a particular kind to come together.

I guess the trick is to find the right kind of place first.
I would assume they don't like that style, like if they needed to see a specific diff and make changes or remove a commit outright.