MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rcrsvpreordnmnt | 2025-04-08 07:51:03+00:00
if someone wanted more peace than Vader, Vader would try to kill tht someone. Vader is driven by revenge on the biggest scale, which leaves zero wiggle room for any truth but the one who swayed him when he was at his lowest. he got taken in by a roofie/stockholm syndrome strategy where the swedish part remains obscured by V's blind wrath and his liminal existence as a cripple.

one addition:

control and balance both allow margins of error and variety, the former as a method of quantifying edge cases and the outer rim of the currently controllable system and the latter for survivability and thriving. control permits the next challenges, while variety ensures that at least some approaches don't blow a hole into the hull that can't be fixed by at least somewhat established methods.

peeps like Netanyahu are blinded by some sort of revenge while being taken in by some sort of roofie/stockholm tactic pulled in their youth.

leadership in general on the other hand have all the data telling them how ugly their daddies fucked up so they exert way too much control via maximized systemic fraud and hoarding while referring to established financial mechanisms that are young and erroneous. then there's the phantasy of "cycles" ... as if modern human progress has to care and abide by such a thing ... instead of meeting them head on with control over in-build organic mechanisms ... which again, is the failure of leadership and science, allowing stuff in products that breaks in-build control mechanisms for the economies sake, which is logically retarded beyond belief ... but being a young civilization, it's pointless to blame the misinformed ... and ridiculous that leBuffets of this world say things like "if the people were smarter, we wouldn't make so much money" without turning into moldy tomatoes ...
by rmac | 2025-04-08 07:51:35+00:00
[!warning!]

1) this projects' chrome extension sends detailed telemetry to posthog and amplitude:

- https://storage.googleapis.com/cobrowser-images/telemetry.pn...

- https://storage.googleapis.com/cobrowser-images/pings.png

2) this project includes source for the local mcp server, but not for its chrome extension, which is likely bundling https://github.com/ruifigueira/playwright-crx without attribution

super suss
by TeMPOraL | 2025-04-08 07:52:05+00:00
I really really hope there are. Not just because of people who need these provisions, but also for everyone else, as accessibility is the last line of defense for preserving end-user interoperability.

Screen readers need to see a de-bullshittified, machine-readable version of the site + this is required by law sometimes, and generally considered a nice thing to enable -> the site becomes not just screen-reader friendly, but end user automation-friendly in general.

(I don't know how long this will hold, though. LLMs are already capable of becoming a screen reader without any special provisions - they can make sense of the UI the same way a sighted person can. I wouldn't trust them much now, but they'll only get better.)
by Ygg2 | 2025-04-08 07:52:10+00:00
You're removing autonomy from the support team, this will demoralize them.

The issue becomes, you have two teams, one moving fast, adding new features, often nonsensical to the support team, and the second one cleaning up afterward. Being in clean-up crew ain't fun at all.

This builds up resentment, i.e. "Why are they doing this?".

EDIT: If you make it so support team approval is necessary for feature team, you'll remove autonomy from feature team, causing resentment in their ranks (i.e. "Why are they slowing us down? We need this to hit our KPIs!").
by dagw | 2025-04-08 07:52:28+00:00
U.S. can barely afford to fight the Houthis at the moment

I'm as critical of the US as the next person, but that is just a ridiculous statement. What the US does and doesn't do militarily with regards to the Houthis has nothing to do with what they can and cannot afford. Any limits on their actions against the Houthis is purely down to political will and strategic interests, and obviously not financial limitations. Push comes to shove and we all know that the US military could count on being backed up by more financial muscle than any military force on the planet (with the possible exception of the Chinese).
by nicbou | 2025-04-08 07:52:51+00:00
As far as I can tell, countries are not capitulating. They're organising.

I do think it's fair to translate it into stupidity. Alienating your allies for temporary gains is stupid, especially when it fails and does terrifying amounts of damage to the world economy.

As a Canadian, I'd say that Trump broke something that will take generations to repair.
by adrian_b | 2025-04-08 07:53:05+00:00
While some had indeed the very bad idea of using lead vessels for boiling the juice, both because lead vessels were cheaper and because that might have enhanced the sweetness, due to the taste of lead acetate, it is unlikely that this was a widespread practice.

Grape juice concentrated and sterilized by boiling has been used for millennia as the main sweetener instead of the more expensive honey, and in most cases the vessels used for boiling must have been made of healthier materials, e.g. bronze in the more ancient times, then cheaper brass during the Roman times.

In the warmer countries of the Middle East, boiled concentrated date juice was used instead of grape juice.
by Saigonautica | 2025-04-08 07:53:32+00:00
Here are some good "value for money" tool brands I use (I live in Asia):

1.Yihua combined hot air rework station + soldering station.

2.Pro's Kit multimeter, tweezers, and wire snips.

3.Uni-T hand-held oscillosope (quite optional).

4.Mechanic brand solder paste. Get the one in a plastic syringe. The tubs dry out.

5.TS100 soldering iron as a spare. Heats up so fast at 24V!

I use them mainly for prototyping, but they are equally handy for repair. I don't re-ball BGA though. I've seen vendors do it with a machine that's mostly just a holder for the chip, and the hot air gun. Plus some templates and the solder balls.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-04-08 07:54:20+00:00
> Then there are take-home timed challenges on systems like hackerrank / leetcode etc, which are horrible in terms of accessibility and access. Not to mention that they are a pass/fail, and focus purely on speed, not quality.

This does not mirror my experience. Many times that I have interviewed with hackerrank/leetcode questions, I wasn't able to get all of the test cases to pass. After time was up, I explained my solution to the interviewer and talked about the failing test cases. Sometimes I passed the interview; and other times not. It was not binary: Imperfect means 100% fail.
by gwd | 2025-04-08 07:54:46+00:00
Diplomacy is a game with the following properties:

1. It's not possible to eliminate someone else without another player's help, particularly early in the game

2. There can be only one winner

So "temporary alliances" which are eventually broken are built into the structure of the game; and unlike the "Surviror"-style game here, there's no "payback" round at the end, where the people you've betrayed get to vote against you. I'm not up on the culture of the game, but I'd be surprised if explicit in-game lying isn't considered fair play (e.g., you're not supposed to hold a grudge in real life against someone who lied to you in the game).

I played it once and really didn't enjoy it. With practice I might be able to bifurcate my sense of morals -- I do actually enjoy playing games like Mafia, Resistance, Avalon, etc. But I didn't feel like it would be worth my effort.
by klausa | 2025-04-08 07:55:19+00:00
This is about as deep of analysis of Japan as the Ghibli AI avatars are "art".

> If someone misbehaves and two people are close by you can be sure that they loudly will talk with each other about how the person misbehaves

This is just straight up fan-fiction, and absolutely not how the society here operates. You will get stared at. People will move aside, maybe. That's the extent of reaction from the public you can expect.

> The police acts swiftly and have small offices everywhere .

The "small offices"/kobans are more than useless for any actual "crime". They're quite useful in reporting that you lost a wallet/keys, but good luck when having any actual problems that need to be reported. Goes doubly so for areas where there's elevated chance of actual crimes happening — interacting with cops in Kabukicho has to be one of the least useful activities on the planet.

> The prisons are very strict, with beatings if you don’t follow authority.

And this is... a good thing? We have wildly different moral systems if you think that.

> Green tea and healthy food makes people be able to control their mood (hard to not stuff your face).

"Green tea and healthy food" is, frankly, an even stupider argument than "they're built different". Yes, it's the diet that makes the society more conformist, sure, why not.

There's many great, and many not-so-great things about Japan — why do these arguments online always just start with the most basic, surface level, inane pseudoanalysis?
by bofadeez | 2025-04-08 07:56:20+00:00
Yeah that's okay. You're suffering from a common thing. You just need therapy and then you'll learn you're good enough without accomplishments. Right now you think you need to accomplish things to have value. That's a really basic textbook mental illness caused by parental neglect. Usually something like intermittent random love / neglect. Study attachment theory and you'll learn all about it.
by kazinator | 2025-04-08 07:56:32+00:00
But MacCarthy's original LISP 1 and LISP 1.5 do not have real lambdas. The lambda feature parametrizes a piece of code as a function literal, but doesn't capture anything.

What they have is code parsed to a data structure, which is then susceptible to manipulation by the program before being executed. JS has some dumb textual eval, like the Bourne shell.

They also have the concept of a symbol.

And only one value that is false.
by akimbostrawman | 2025-04-08 07:59:03+00:00
The comment here are a perfect example of how this could not exist in the west without some shitstorm trying to destroy it.

I guess continuing to ignore 3/4:1 male suicide rates is one "solution" to mitigate demographic aging..

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_differences_in_suicid...
by fastball | 2025-04-08 07:59:58+00:00
> voting for trump tells everyone in the country that you dont mind if trans people are abused

It literally does not. You can vote for Trump without ever having thought of trans people a day in your life, much less thought of "abusing" them.

Additionally and AFAIK, Trump himself has never expressed a desire to abuse trans people, according to a normal and accepted definition of "abuse".
by magicalhippo | 2025-04-08 08:00:20+00:00
Yes but they have lower Young's modulus[1] so compress more under the same force. Thus acting as a shock absorber to reduce peak loads on the rod bearings.

Again no expert but from what I can see, high-end aluminum rods can use 7075 aluminum[2], which has a Young's modulus of about 72 GPa, while titanium has a modulus of about 105 and up[3][4], depending on grade.

At least that's my understanding.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young%27s_modulus

[2]: https://www.enginebuildermag.com/2017/03/racing-rods-builder...

[3]: https://titanium.com/alloys/titanium-and-titanium-alloys/gra...

[4]: https://titanium.com/alloys/titanium-and-titanium-alloys/ti-...
by TeMPOraL | 2025-04-08 08:02:05+00:00
Fair enough!

I guess you can always find some well-specified, measurable goal/reward, but then that choice limits the performance of your model. It's fine when you're building a very specialized system; it gets more difficult the more general you're trying to be.

For a general system meant to operate in human environment, the goal ends up approaching "things that humans like". Case in point, that's what the overall LLM goal function is - continuations that make sense to humans, in fully-general meaning of that.
by DaSHacka | 2025-04-08 08:03:43+00:00
> Hiring is all about finding the best candidate. If you find you cannot function sitting in conference room with three other people for an hour, there is a 100% chance there is a better candidate suited for the role, even if his/her technical skills are less than yours.

> Jobs have soft skill requirements, and there is nothing bigoted about that.

Everything you just said also applies to someone who's deaf, blind, or physically impaired.

Apply that same logic to someone with one of those conditions, and enjoy losing the discrimination lawsuit.
by pfannkuchen | 2025-04-08 08:05:30+00:00
Oh I did miss that, thanks.

Are you saying the Norway rate violates the trade imbalance -> tariff formula that was published? I haven’t seen any reports on that. I clicked GP’s source but I can’t read it due to language difference.

This would be anti trump so I assume the media would be yelling about it, but maybe I missed it.

If that’s accurate though then I agree that it is confusing. Please contribute more details if you don’t mind.
by lordofgibbons | 2025-04-08 08:06:50+00:00
Hopefully these can be used in human transplants too so people don't have to resort to stealing and kidnappings.

There are even militaries that are actively (right now) stealing human organs and distributing them to the civilian sector during conflict:

https://www.euronews.com/2023/11/27/israel-stealing-organs-f...

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna34503294

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2009/12/21/israel-admits-to-o...

https://researchcentre.trtworld.com/featured/perspectives/de...
by looofooo0 | 2025-04-08 08:07:33+00:00
Well I guess if the candidate would be a little be stronger and actually trying to reason with the LLM about the decision it suggested, he would be better prepared and maybe got away with his claims.

Or as current best chess player Magnus Carlson said, "if I would cheat, you would never know". Meaning very strong candidates will get away with flexing the truth with AI. But this means maybe, you shouldn't look for a perfect fit. Or check his merit by spending time and money to get in touch with his old companies.
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by presentation | 2025-04-08 08:09:14+00:00
Well, evidenced by the fact that these aren't even white men, and we have no evidence that anybody in the community in question are actually offended or feeling disempowered except for righteous social justice warriors like yourself, this comes off as screeching from someone who just wants to push their agenda.

And before you call me a sexist MAGA patriarchal asshole, not only am I liberal, but I actually live in Japan and interact with the local culture here all day every day. I speak the local langauge, am married to a local, have local friends and in fact talk about and interact with ojisans on a very regular basis, because it is a cultural touchpoint that is relevant here. Do you?

I am sick and tired of annoying people like you co-opting every discussion to push a specific victim-mindset zero-sum world view, reducing everything to your race and sex struggle without actually lifting a finger to, say, do things that actually affect outcomes in society besides pissing people off—unlike the people who set up this lighthearted card game, which is demonstrably bringing a community together. Not everywhere is the USA, let alone your toxic online ragebait bubble. What you are doing is repelling people from your cause more than helping it, myself included.

Please do some soul searching and if you really feel a need to irritate people, I would appreciate you do it somewhere else. I hope that your implication that Japanese culture is inferior because it doesn't kowtow to your cultural expectations, has made you feel good today.
by nabla9 | 2025-04-08 08:11:38+00:00
Just remember that Ray Dalio is compromised.

He may speak the truth, but he speaks only truths that Chinese communist party allows.

He made massive bet on China. Large chunk of his personal assets are now tied in China and Bridgewater is the largest foreign asset manager in China. He was able to wiggle out some of them, but he is still tied there.
by ecv1337 | 2025-04-08 08:12:18+00:00
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by klausa | 2025-04-08 08:14:26+00:00
The bins near vending machines are almost always _only_ for cans/plastic bottles.

That accounts for ~80% of the garbage you'll produce, but sometimes you'll have a onigiri wrapper, or a dirty tissue that'd be nice to get rid of, and finding a place to do that can be more difficult (ironically, especially so in heavily touristy areas).
by unsnap_biceps | 2025-04-08 08:14:59+00:00
> Black holes, the densest objects in the universe

My mind was blown when I found out that mean density of black holes inside the event horizon can be quite low.

> a super supermassive black hole with the mass of 4.3 billion Suns would have a density equal to one i.e. the same density as water.

https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/218816
by tudorgirba | 2025-04-08 08:15:50+00:00
Thank you for the describing the interest.

You do not have to read the handbook to format the text. You can use Markdown in a text snippet :). This gives you a compressed overview: https://book.gtoolkit.com/understanding-lepiter-in-7--6n7q1o...

> I know to really use it, I have to learn to program it, but I am also of the mind basic functionality should be self explanatory. And pharo itself as the basis of this seems so convoluted and complex...

We use Pharo as a programming language for building the system, and most extensions are expected to be written in it. It's possible to connect to other runtimes, like Python or JS, and extend the object inspector that works with remote objects using those languages. But overall, learning Pharo is a bit of a prerequisite. I certainly understand that it can appear foreign, but convoluted and complex are not an attributes I would associate with it :).

Now, in GT, the environment is built from the ground up anew and it's different from classic interfaces found in Pharo or Cuis. And of course, it's different from typical development environment, too, because we wanted to build a different kind of interface in which visualization is a first class entity.

Our community is indeed on Discord a lot, but we also host discussions on our GitHub repository: https://github.com/feenkcom/gtoolkit/discussions

In any case, I am happy you find the need for "a great knowledge base and data visualization" relevant and useful.
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by project-au-lait | 2025-04-08 08:17:33+00:00
We are developing an open-source asset called SVQK, designed for building web applications using Svelte (Frontend) and Quarkus (Backend).

SVQK is used as a Maven archetype (a project template), and it comes in three variations:

- refimpl: An archetype that includes a ticket management feature as a reference implementation. - arch: Derived from refimpl, this archetype removes the ticket management-specific features while retaining common functionalities. - skeleton: A minimal archetype that strips out the common functionalities from arch, leaving only the essential structure.

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by lelanthran | 2025-04-08 08:17:37+00:00
> Nice! Micro-fix: you should remove the final `;` in the `FPRINTF()` macro definition, that's supposed to be added at the callsite to keep the syntax natural (for C).

I agree; this was probably an oversight (done in a single day, on a weekend day, so I probably spent no more than about 6 hours on it).

If I want to make this production-ready, I'd move it into a repo, split it into a library (so I can drive it from Python or similar), add some tests, etc...

I literally needed a once-off tool to parse HTML, and had some time to spare.