skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Oh, so your advice is to blindly trust whatever they shovel into the public's mouths ?

Are you being serious? By this time in history Libya had already established a history for terror attacks and targeting civilians. So yeah I wouldn't have any issue believing it.

Just like when the UK blamed Russia for poising people Salisbury with chemical weapons. I believed them because they had intelligence about it & Russia has a history with this type of attack. Just like Libya already had a proven history of terror attacks in the 80s.

It is beyond silly to think a false flag bombing (injuring 250+ friendly nationals) is more likely than LIBYA, a know rouge state and user of terrorism, bombing a civilian dance club.

You and others are more than happy to bury your heads in the sand and pretend like the world is a TV show where countries post all their intelligence to twitter or in the paper lol.
How do you generate all the demo scenes? Are there prebaked reference scenes to import and render? Even if that’s the case, is there a huge amount of work to integrate existing models/scenes into your engine?
Have to agree. I don't read extremist right- (or left-) wing websites, so HN is really my only exposure to how some of these people think. It's not a good look.
If the US is a nation of laws and not men, then shouldn't candidates and sitting presidents be subject to the same laws?

Bill Clinton was impeached while in office for perjury over some embarrassing lies about his personal life. (Albeit as it may have related to a possible pattern of bad behavior.)
If it's discussions about how X person is bad and Y person is good, then I would agree (even if I dislike X and like Y). If it's a meta discussion about the judicial process or such, then I would disagree.

Edit: The comments above yours (at the time of writing) are mostly okay, but as I read further down, it ventures into the territory of 'such and such person and party is bad' which I think HN is not a good place for that kind of discord.
AI can write better homilies than most priests
"Everyone in my home town knows and hates me" is one hell of an argument.
Executive Director of the San Jose POA charged with importing fentanyl
Im sure the workflow is complicated, just like you said. Im sure lots of Console licenses and Ansys licenses are being used.

And yet here's Newey drawing on a piece of paper. And he hardly looks like a young chap in the 80s.

Who knows, maybe this photo was for the cameras. Maybe he lies that he draws his cars to throw off the competition. But, for what it's worth
he claims in interviews that he draws his cars in pencil.

https://www.racetechmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Scree...
“In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.”
We are a people who have decided to be governed by laws rather than kings, or religions or dictators or putins. The laws applies to all the people equally. Everyone is entitled to a jury. A jury of peers decides. That is who we are. That is what a democracy is.
Just need a mental gut check after reading this comment. Do people not think this is political?
And now a lot more people won’t ignore him. Many will vote for him now since he represents a truly anti-government position having been made a prisoner of said government. I might vote for him now out of sympathy and newly acquired anti-regime sentiment.
US tax code Section 174 threatens to bankrupt small software businesses
The Donald was very popular with the blue collar in NYC back in the day.
Congressional inaction on Section 174 means huge, unexpected tax bills for companies that can’t bear the loss of R&E deductions. Instead of claiming 100% this year, it needs to be amortized over 5 years or more.

Self-funded SaaS businesses who can't easily pay 4x their current tax bill will go bankrupt from this — a tax provision that was never meant to be used.
You gotta tell me, what did it feel like? :)

It kinda looks, to my eyes at least, like it has a matte finish in photos, so my thinking would be that it would have perhaps an almost shark skin roughness or something? Though you'd imagine surely not given the bit of extra drag when factored over the whole airframe...maybe?

But then again, at those speeds I wonder if there would be a difference or if boundary layer effects take over or something of that nature.

Disclaimer: am obviously not an aerospace engineer :)
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It's like the political equivalent of digging through someone's comment history on social media, looking for something that can be weaponized to cancel them.

If power balances shift slightly I'm sure the new regime will be able to find a crime Biden committed and indict him for it. And so on and so forth with revenge indictments everytime power shifts to the other party
ChatGPT isn't just a ux change over gpt3 a lot of work was put into RLHF that makes the output so much better.
> This is 100% what survivor bias sounds like.

Absolutely. Except, YC is designed to maximize your odds of "surviving"

It really is like college/university. You can skip class every day and no one cares. You can also attend every class, leverage every resource, and work really hard to be successful.

YC absolutely does not guarantee success (speaking from experience. my YC company failed). It absolutely increases your chances of success, particularly if (or perhaps only if) you don't have a strong professional network and/or network of advisors.
Well, the Grand Jury looked at them and the evidence and seemed to think there is a crime worthy of prosecution here.

That's why we have grand juries, to make sure a crime is truly serious before revealing in public the alleged crime.

In all due time, the charge will be public and we will see the evidence ourselves. The news event is that the prosecutors have crossed one of the major hurdles of a typical criminal court case and have convinced a grand jury to proceed.
Innocuous?
The grand jury system is a bit of a joke. You've seen how badly prosecutors twist facts and inaccurately frame things during cases. The grand jury is basically that except without anyone disputing anything they say. Only the most inept prosecutors don't get the indictments they want.
Treaties have an effect similar to a constitutional amendment.
In general GPT seems bad at enforcing constraints. But also, by its nature it just makes things up on the fly, so how could it keep the story consistent if it has no plan from the start?
TLDR - more komodo dragon, less crocodile.
My imagination went a little too far before reading TFA
But NY can’t charge for that felony. It’s an absurd combination and nothing like it has ever been brought.

It reeks of a targeted campaign, well because it is. It’s why the DA was elected and exactly what he said he would do. So that’s really not a good look, no matter who it’s against.
They had better have some pretty solid evidence aside from his testimony. Building a case around the word of a man convicted of perjury, especially one with a public hatred of the defendant, seems like a profoundly stupid thing to do.

I'll be waiting with my popcorn, because one way or another, this is gonna be good.
I'm 100% in support of applying the law to all people.

What I don't love is the timing of it. It makes it easily dismissible as political theatre. Wait until after the election.
Unfortunately WebGL2 doesn't support multi-draw indirect, shader storage buffers, or compute shaders (there was temporary experimental support for compute shaders but it's considered obsolete now).
This is what got me too.

I'm also noticing the quotes around '"careers"'

Like. How.

GPT-4 is the most profound thing to have happened in my lifetime. This is real. This is all real.
34 charges for just record keeping must be a pretty serious lack of accounting. I’m looking forward to reading the full indictment to understand the details better.
> Trump pissed off all the higher ups at the military.

Absolutely true, but the vast bulk of the military lean Trumpy, and the generals will sort themselves out based on their self interests.

> And what would they do anyways? Start overturning jury results they don't like? That's effectively military rule, and they know that'd just end in disaster.

It's weird how you can talk about a military coup as if it's an impossibility that has never ever happened. What's never happened is the US indicting a president, and in this case it's arresting the frontrunner in the next election on an extremely shaky premise that most people I've encountered have trouble explaining clearly.
It doesn't seem to matter. Actually getting domain ownership information is generally quite difficult now, because anyone with real DNS contact information will get spammed (even spammed physically). Domain registrars have no requirement to care about spam from domains registered with them, and so generally don't care. Server owners will actually sometimes care, but it seems easy enough for spammers to find companies that don't.

To add to this, if the spammers are in the US, unsolicited spam is essentially legally protected there. I've tracked down the actual US offices of some companies sending me clearly unsolicited spam with database-harvested information (usually sketchy loan offers to email addresses they could have only gotten through inappropriate means), but they can say they have an unsubscribe link and thus comply with CAN SPAM, and even if they don't, the act doesn't actually provide any recourse to individuals or small companies being spammed.
I think that’s a false dichotomy and not particularly helpful. The question is more about what level of volatility can be tolerate while still maintaining a stable society.
Great! I'm all for it! People that break the law should be punished.

Why is this a problem for you or I?
RPG Maker was great, I've been meaning to go back and build something with it again now that I have actual developer skills.
in 2015/6 The GOP field didnt know what do with Trump and for the most part only half attacked him thinking he was a side show who would burn out. He also had no political baggage and no prominent court cases

Now he as alienated a lots of people, he lost an election, facing multiple court cases. He will have at least one or two R candidates who will directly attack him.
He will have to fight 'wars' on multiple fronts. Plus he is 8 years older than when he first started running. Closer to 80 than 70.

Is it possible he would have won nomination? Yes but I think was less likely and slipping away from him.

The bad thing for Trump might not be the indictment but that it didn't happen in December 2023.
Alright let me make the argument why indicting Trump is a horrible idea. It's really not hard to see why, if you have any insight into what the other side thinks:

1. First there are two alternative realities being played in real time in US:
This arguably is the first time this has happened in US history (maybe civil war was another time) but two populations have become so isolated that they essentially live in 2 different realities. An amusing moment that depicts this occurred in John Oliver's recent segment where he plays a clip of Ron Desantis bragging that the UN hates the laws he passed and John plays it completely incredulous why would someone brag that he is hated by the UN. Since this audience is mostly liberal and understands the liberal worldview, please quiz yourself what worldview would brag about being hated by UN. If you cant understand, you literally can't understand anything about ~48% of the country, and if you're serious about politics you need to at least understand the 2 sides, ideally more than that. The fact is most of the US population barely understands the other side and so they will necessarily clash on most political issues.

2. There is a huge amount of democratic energy on both sides. There was always a lot of political energy on the left, since RooseVelt, Civil Rights movement, now LGBTQ, Black Lives Matter etc. It used to be a characteristic of the left. Now there is in fact a suprisingly large amount of political energy on the right, that first started with the Tea Party Movement in the 2010's and of culminating Trump who could essentially be considered a Populist Leader from the Right.

3. So we have two populations, with large political energies compared to any time in recent history, who also see the world so differently that neither can understand each other. The only reason this hasn't led to civil war like situation is because they both still to some extent follow the law, and still believe in Democracy as a schelling point for choosing who rules them. Now if you go ahead and jail the populist leader, you are going even closer to complete political fracture especially after a good chunk of the population believes the election was stolen from him. If you think this will convince any Trump supporters they're wrong (lol), I have a pipe dream to sell you.

Quick question, who is the most criminal president in US history? If your instant answer wasn't Obama (or if it was Obama because of drone strikes lol), you definitely do not understand the other side in any meaningful way to heal any political fracture this country is suffering with. So good job playing your reenactment in our version of Populares vs Optimates, and we all know how that ended
Well, a crime doesn't need to have been committed. You just have to find someone in power willing to bring charges. This could very well be the start of a cycle of "when the power shifts, prosecute the last guy for whatever it is you think you can make up." How many shots have they taken at the man so far? Plenty. Should this cycle start, look for it to consume a lot of resources, attention, political willpower, and so on, while various Actual Trouble gets overlooked because it just doesn't have that wow drama factor.

We've had six years of sore losers (whose own "pied piper strategy" fouled them up) endlessly vacuuming up mindshare while a lot bigger things are going down.
This is fantastic! Love your work on this. I definitely see the future of web development being a version of this.

Make something messy, let AI iterate through ideas, repeat.

Congrats and seriously impressive stuff. Best of luck with it
Yes. I am disagreeing with dang.
John Carmack mentions this in the Lex Fridman Podcast, basically the argument is that AGI performance characteristics will be similar to that of LLM (which is another way of saying that AGI will NOT be hyper efficient, P != NP), and that the performance characteristics pose a problem for fast takeoff. The bottleneck to performance in training these models is GPU memory bandwidth when the entire model fits inside VRAM, which on modern cards is 1TB/s, when the model cannot fit in GPU memory, the performance now instead scales along PCIE, which is currently 32GB/s. AGI (or an LLM) attempting to replicate across mobile devices, or desktops, will be severely hamstrung by the network connection. So using all of planet Earth's computing resources is not necessarily better than say a single data center in this respect. The second piece of the argument here is essentially saying that a data center is also not enough, or rather, not enough in a detectable timeframe. Could AGI hack the entire data center for an entire month to perform it's training (and then execute it's strategy enough to gain say nuclear codes?). Unlikely. Is say 8 hours of training using an entire data center enough to go from intelligence to super intelligence? Intuition says no. I expanded a bit upon what I believe his argument to be, I definitely recommend watching that part of the podcast episode.

Here's my take on the implications of not having fast takeoff, a secretly antagonistic AGI will be constrained to cooperation, and slowly leeching compute resources towards its goal until it is able to aquire enough resources to confidently sprint towards the inflection point. This could mean teaching us how to build better semiconductor foundries, how to create nuclear fusion energy sources, how to educate our youth to better fit into those jobs, slightly alter our culture's value systems over time via astroturfing to be more sympathetic, cooperative, trusting, and less vigilant towards these AI systems, how to build more robust computing systems so we stop needing to detect when something goes wrong (because it already has 99.9999% uptime).

I believe slow takeoff is actually worse in some sense, because it is a hell of a lot harder to detect, and humans tend to get complacent and apathetic when something "just works" for decades, even if it has been plotting since the beginning.
That's the value of the rule of law for you.
He later went on to serve prison time after a trial, after a grand jury indictment. Maybe we shouldn't take the ham sandwich's word on its innocence.
WSBGPT
No that is not where the word comes from. Slav is an English-ization of “slowanie” (what slavs call their group) which means “people of the word “ or people who can talk or something along those lines.
Sure, but you can apply this same logic to any other possible decision maker. There are no unbiased juries, judges, political leaders, or anyone else.

Someone still has to make a descision.

In general, I'd say there is huge bias in favor of Trump though. People respect authority and fame to a shocking degree.
It’s deuterium oxide - water, but instead of normal hydrogen atoms, they have a neutron that hydrogen doesn’t normally have.
While at face value it looks like this charge is a weird and probably bad use of political capital, with what we do know I don't think Joe Everyman should be getting away with embezzling political campaign donations to pay off strippers.

There's an argument to be made that the charge is weak but definitely not that it's innocuous...
In the USA you can still run for president while in prison. And if you're elected President they're going to, at minimum, move you to house arrest at the White House.

Regardless, though, he'd probably remain free until the election. Either because the trial is ongoing, or because of appeals.

Elizabeth Holmes was found guilty in January 2022. Sentenced to prison in 10 months later in November 2022. And is still not yet in prison (because of her pregnancy).

> a largely right-wing military

https://www.statista.com/chart/22761/us-military-voting-inte...

> A new poll published by The Military Times contains bad news for President Trump with his levels of support within the U.S. military waning. Between October 2016 and August 2020, the share of active-service members finding the president favorable has fallen from 46.1 percent to 37.8 percent. With the November election swiftly approaching, 37.4 percent of active-duty troops say they would vote for Donald Trump while 41.3 percent would opt for Joe Biden.
We already see transformers for a run of e.g. track lights, low voltage lights on tension wires, and so on. That's been a thing ever since halogens came to market.

Having multiple transformers is perfectly doable and commercially viable -- though I would appreciate more product availability for something easy to stash in the hollow space of a ceiling, like recessed lighting is installed.
Yeah, the entire venture capital model is based on outlier outcomes. They don't want 2x or even 10x returns, they want 1000x returns on the outliers, so in aggregate they can hopefully 5-10x the fund overall.
Genuine question. Do you think the Democratic Party itself is conspiring with the DA to bring these charges? Is it at all possible that Bragg is bringing these charges because Trump broke the law and his former lawyer already went to jail for this exact same crime Given that what he did was at Trump’s direct behest? Ie how would this look different if this wasn’t something that the DNC was trying to orchestrate as a political persecution?

I’m also curious how you’re coloring Muller as something the Democrat’s failed to get him on when it was a Republican special prosecutor assigned by Trump’s own DOJ. What was the involvement of the Democratic Party there?
Are there sockets for 24V or 48V bulbs that could be standardized on?
Calibration Display for NASA
Which is all fine and good until you go committing war crimes on foreign soil in regions that may not have proper legal frameworks. Committing war crimes in Iraq for instance. Which is kind of where the whole ICC thing comes into play - it's not really for like, speeding tickets. The US had the opportunity during development of the framework to engage and ensure all the other terms could be fairly met. Note that the text you quoted was also an amendment to what was meant to be a living document, albeit long since ossified.
It's noise for the sake of noise.

There is zero new revelation here.

There is zero advancement in thought, science, anything.

The only tag we need is tabolid / not tabloid

There are hundreds of news aggregators that are glorified rss readers.

HN is not that, should not be that.
Can you talk a little bit about how this balances with other tradeoffs? Solid state devices should be more durable and configurable, and cheap to replace in theory.

And some parts in them should also be able to be fixed or replaced with a soldering iron and basic electronics diagnostics.
And yet, NYT is somehow allowed to speculate on what those are without knowing them. I am sure you will agree that the same should extent to mere posters here.
https://microblocks.fun/ have the same flexibility as Scratch. In fact, they are both works by John Maloney.
If you want to watch games on your tractor, please use your own iPad
How fortunate, then, that 99.9% of all piano music heard is going through an amp and a pair of ordinary speakers!

I've made it a point to attend classical music concerts, and even I think that 0.1% might be pushing it when it comes to the piano sounds I've heard in a room.

I've got nice flat-response studio monitors so I could get a close enough room sound if I wanted (not that I could play a piano worth a damn in order to do that LOL). Honestly they weren't particularly expensive. Certainly less expensive than a single piano tuning!
Buy your bulbs at Costco. Problem solved.
I was reading a Wall Street Journal article about Taylor Swift's wealth today. The journalist pointed out something interesting, one of the biggest sources of income for Taylor Swift is vinyl record sales. She sold close to a 1,000,000 vinyl records of the Midnights album in 2022 each costing around $27. Moreover, vinyl record sales have increased year over year for the past 17 years. I suspect that the people who are purchasing Taylor Swift vinyl records might also be interested in purchasing vacuum tube preamps.
This is just substrate supremacism.
I do think that presidents should be charged and tried just like anybody else. IMO they should get no special treatment - same laws and process should apply. It does seem like an odd indictment in light of past crimes committed by presidents, so if they are going to go after Trump, they should go after others as well.