skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> From all I've seen, I like Trump, but apparently a lot of people don't. I wonder where am I going wrong.

Are you being sarcastic? Did you miss the part where he waged an attempted coup against the US government to remain in power?

I mean... he was just found by a court to have committed rape. You don't see why people don't like him? Be for real.
Where? Don't see it.
Spite is only one kind of bad faith, and when it comes specifically to spite it doesn't seem to me like it's balanced between the parties.
Google Earning Q1 2024 [pdf]
We all agree that there may be dragons. The “doomsday” question is whether we’re even remotely close to a dragon’s lair such that we should imminently worry about waking the dragon—risking it burning down the village. To each their own until we find dragon tracks and charred forests.
Ford and Hearst were Nazi sympathizers who almost push the US into the arms of fascism against Britain. The US wasn't flirting with catastrophe, it was banging it 2x a week. FDR saved America not once, but twice.
Also Google and Facebook have both recently constructed large data centers just outside of Nashville.

https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/locations/montgomer...

https://www.facebook.com/GallatinDataCenter/
A friend(neighbor) lived in Austin, alot of bad trends happening right now. You mentioned power and that made the national headlines, but they also said weather(extremely hot) was why they moved, I think it was like 40 straight days where it hit triple digits(summer 2023). Top that off with housing that is really expensive and homeless issues that are very bad and I could see why a company could relocate elsewhere.
For a single dev, a single file is often far more efficient than jumping between files.
Maybe more precise to say "not mutually exclusive with free market exchange", 'capitalism' (as a socialist would define it) is primarily an ownership arrangement.
Non JS address:

https://nitter.privacydev.net/ID_AA_Carmack/status/178282646...
>"Infrastructure projects" is just another term for crony capitalism. Just look at funding for telcos to build out infra, or EV charging stations, or solar panels, or anything else they fund as "infrastructure." It's always just a massive kickback scheme, and nothing gets built.

This is the most baffling one. Everyone seems to forget that they also failed to pass the bill that contained the provisions that most working and middle-class Americans wanted. I've had multiple conversations where the counterargument was, "Well, at least they got part of it passed." No, that's actually worse. We got all of the expensive giveaways without any of the mitigating funding and policies. We literally would have been better off if nothing had passed.
Take one for the team and let us know your thoughts after...
Then force the peons back into the cubes, in order to keep CRE prices propped up.
If there's no abstraction, what's your value-add? I don't care enough to read your marketing BS to see where you claim to be special, but... If your API is doing the exact same things as an underlying service is doing, you're just a middleman extracting rents.

You might find it more valuable to state your position as "carefully scoped abstractions" to make it clear what value you add.
I’ve had various degrees of engagement. Some send a canned message that I’ll be removed. Others respond and engage a bit more. Some of that likely also depends on how I frame my first reply.
20% of lung cancer cases in the US are people who have never smoked.
Yep, it's pretty ironic, the only difference between the two (in terms of showing their age) is that Trump is more energetic (animated?), but energy doesn't translate to coherence.
Building a highly-available search engine using SQLite
Awesome work! Bookmarked for in-depth perusal later. As a fan of NAND-to-Tetris, but never made it all the way through, I look forward to poking around in your project.
Hard problems are considered unsolvable by today's Congress (except for military funding bills), so they focus their energies on 'red meat' for the voting base (abortion resrictions, affirmative action), or for wealthy donors (tax cuts, SC nominations).
Stock is +13% after hours so far.
I have a `run` bash file where I just return exit 0 on third line. Then I can copy/paste anything I need up from below the exit 0.

Silly, yes. but it's super easy and extremely fast.
See edit, it's indeed a factor of both fatty acid makeup and smoke point. Seed oils tend to have more PUFAs which oxidize easily. Olive oil, on the contrary, is not only mostly monounsaturated but also contains anti oxidant compounds that are protective (I think oleic acid, and others)
Use them as dressings but don’t cook with it.
Herculaneum papyri reveal Plato's burial place and shed light on his last hours
The Constitution was very difficult to get ratified. For one thing, it was recognized that it had to be unanimous. Don't forget it was replacing an existing political order of the Continental Congress + state governments.
> Throughout that time it has appropriated billions of dollars to keep the government running.

In no other country is it considered an accomplishment for a government to debate a budget, agree on it, pass it, spend it, and then three quarters of the way through the year refuse to pay for the spending it agreed on, manufacturing a crisis that sometimes gets resolved at the eleventh hour, and sometimes results in a multi-week disaster and government shutdown.

If a company had a department that ran that way, every single director and manager in it would be fired after the first time it happened. It has so far happened three times (Including once when the Republicans fully controlled congress), and has been threatened every year.
> The difference between Go and Rust is that I can (and have) teach any Java coder to be productive in Go in about a week.

> I couldn't teach _myself_ Rust in a week.

Autonomous teaching is supposed to be harder than with a tutor in any domain so it's not particularly surprising ;).

> But you do need to acknowledge that there is a definite learning curve

I don't like the “learning curve” phrase for Rust, because the curve itself is actually fine.

But before you can even enter the learning curve there's a significant step to cross. It's not particularly difficult, but it's all about theory and concepts. It's like high-school level trigonometry, it's not particularly hard, but it's still something a bit dry and that needs motivation to learn.

With a teacher and assignments, most people can do it, but without it you really need to make the effort of understanding the core concept (Ownership, borrowing, Send and Sync, + heap and stack if you don't know about it before hands + what are threads, data race and locks[1]) before you can even start to get to the fun part of learning a new language.

> and the average Job Coder (works from 9-5 and doesn't think about it on their free time) isn't cut out for Rust.

Without an external motivation source, the average developer has no reason to have the motivation to cross this learning step.

But as part of my job, I've thought Rust to average Joe in a week and they became productive quickly. I'm sure I could teach you Rust in a week ;).

[1]: the deadlock empire is an excellent learning resource for that one.
That’s what I’m saying. But without the added nuance it sounds like the DoD wanted a duopoly of companies capable of building a 5G fighter.
Playruo lets you try game demos from your web browser
Probably not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood
Does Oracle have much growth of their core RDBMS database product? When I look at the software dev ecosystem right now it makes little sense to use Oracle for a greenfield project: everyone and their dog are using Postgres, even if Postgres wasn’t free it still saves you from Oracle’s onourus licensing obligations.

So perhaps Oracle sees that they’ve extracted all of the value from their RDBMS from companies that are free to choose alternatives - time to move into an industry sector with great potential for regulatory capture. So… I wouldn’t be surprised if we start to see a HIPAA-like regulation for healthcare info that coincidentally only Oracle DB complies with.
Tbh I just play FPS's like COD2/3 and Warzone because they keep the quick decision making and reflexes up. Only like 1hr at a time.

Sitting and playing some random story-type game for 50 hours seems like a complete waste of my time.
There's precedent in other places (UDAAP) that a company is responsible for fuckery done on its behalf whether or not it directly ordered or even has direct knowledge of said fuckery.

We need more corporate regulations in that vein.

It should be impossible to outsource regulatory or legal risk. Outsourcing should subject you to a greater burden of oversight, not less.
I'm curious what the motivation is here -- unfortunately, the dev blog is all in Chinese and I can't read it. If it's mostly to show a proof-of-concept of LLMs on a FPGA, that's awesome!

But if this is targeting real-world applications, I'd have concerns about price-to-performance. High-level synthesis tools often result in fairly poor performance compared to writing Verilog or SystemVerilog. Also, AI-focused SoCs like the Nvidia Jetson usually offer better price-to-performance and performance-per-watt than FPGA systems like the KV260.

Potentially focusing on specialized transformer architectures with high sparsity or significant quantization could give FPGAs an advantage over AI chips, though.

Not to toot my own horn, but I wrote up a piece on open-source FPGA development recently going a bit deeper into some of these insights, and why AI might not be the best use-case for open-source FPGA applications: https://www.zach.be/p/how-to-build-a-commercial-open-source
Learning from the brain to make AI more energy-efficient
I would absolutely agree that there's journalists who get significant power and protection from their proximity to major institutions and centres of power. Tor is useful for protecting journalists in situations where they don't have access to that kind of protection. I would agree as you say that's also the case for people that it protects who want to commit really awful forms of harm (who might not have access to this kind of protection). But I'd argue that - in most cases - the majority of really serious and widespread forms of harm are able to exist because of their proximity to different kinds and systems of power. That's not always the case - and these systems of power can compete with one another - but I think it generally holds.

And given that the vast majority of online crime of all kinds isn't anonymous but goes entirely un-enforced against by law enforcement, I would argue that Tor's efforts to distribute power online make relatively little impact on the kinds of crime and harm we see online compared to a lot of other infrastructures built on top of the Internet. I've generally found the more I do this kind of research, the less convinced I am by technical fixes to major social problems - I don't think Tor is a 'fix' to the problem of power, but I think it opens up the battleground a bit for more different (and possibly more hopeful) kinds of future Internet to be built and asserted, that look less like the locked down and centralised versions we're being pitched just now. But I take your points and appreciate you engaging with the arguments in the book.

Actually the relay community is pretty diverse - they have some colourful characters but actually a lot of them are just IT professionals, activists, and people working for libraries or universities. They have come up with some ways (which I talk about in the book) of making them much less likely to get hassle for running an exit - and generally most exit relay operators proceed just fine.
This comment isn't directed at OP, it's directed at anyone reading this who might be tempted to get swept up in OP's stereotypes without thinking critically about them. I'm writing this as a left-leaning moderate who grew up among staunch conservatives and understands their philosophy very well.

Conservatives sincerely believe that government bureaucracies are less efficient than a free market economy. That's not a cover or a motte and bailey, it's legitimately and literally true. Conservative politicians dismantle government when given the opportunity because that's what their base wants them to do because, again, their base sincerely believes that the government is bad at most things it does.

It's true that Republican politicians (like most politicians) are mostly charlatans who are intentionally creating circumstances that reinforce the belief in the ineffectiveness of government, but OP's stereotype of conservative voters as simply wanting a "daily dose of other people suffering" is baseless, wrong, offensive, and extremely counterproductive.

This stereotype is a misrepresentation of the other core tenet of conservative philosophy, which is that what is right and wrong is not up to humans to decide, it comes either from God or from long-standing and proven traditions. Conservative opposition to LGBT rights and similar have nothing to do with wanting to see people suffer, they have to do with their deep-seated belief that some things are simply wrong because something greater than us has said so.

They can be wrong in that deep-seated belief, but it's unfair of OP to characterize it as sadism.
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I think what it means, and the graph is unclear, is that of the A-A women who developed lung cancer, 53% don't smoke.

It's P(non-smoking | lung cancer, ethnicity)
The whole net neutrality discussion seems pretty hypocritical in hindsight, since huge portions of people who furiously supported NN stayed silent or encouraged censorship after 2016 (including the sitting president of the united states) on Facebook, Twitter, IG, etc.

Why would someone only advocate for an open, unrestricted internet at the hardware/ISP level? The whole point of NN was to ensure ISPs couldn't act as gatekeepers, yet people are fine with trillion dollar tech companies (that hold enormous market share) gatekeeping certain content now?
Peter Williams has some well presented evidence on how the NT (or at least relevant parts) had to originally be in Greek. Namely how things like the alliteration in the beatitudes could not have ended up like they did going from Aramaic to Greek by coincidence.
Also worth remembering that cancer isn’t the only bad thing smoking does to you. 7/10 smokers (2/3) die of a smoking related illness.
Alphabet shares jump 12% on earnings beat, first-ever dividend
Soybean oil is very common in most American deep fried food.
And now all telecom companies are required to interconnect, right? Or did that not happen? The government mandated that after the "Rogers outage" - so that other providers can act as "backups", so "that never happens again."
Juriscraper Legal Scraping Toolkit
Soybean oil is mentioned in the study. A lot of people get very angry when seed oil dangers are mentioned, it's hilariously politicized, the fact is these are not lindy at all, there is no tradition that would validate their safety, these are 20th century inventions.
The converse would have to be true then, that the government has the legitimate power to intimidate people to not express their opinion. This does not seem like a legitimate power for government to have, but now I need to be careful whether I express it at all.
I like the part that explains why Increase choose a different approach. Contexts matter a lot when you design something fundamental, but people usually don't appreciate this enough.
Regulatory capture and the regulator being in bed with the incumbents. Not Canada-specific even, this is a common problem in a lot of countries when it comes to telecoms.
> If you cross the Atlantic a lot, you don't have to spend 6 hours crossing North America first.

Unfortunately Nashville International Airport doesn't have very many non-stop transatlantic flights so the geographic proximity savings is often eaten up by time spent connecting.
Except it was. The parties have been calling each other every dirty word in the book since forever. You can sample how it looked like about 150 years ago: https://storyoftheweek.loa.org/2012/11/running-for-governor....

> And the republicans have changed a lot more than the democrats on that front.

Of course, your team have always been standing for the common sense but the other team is just crazy now. Long gone are the times of Bush presidency, where the parties lives in almost perfect harmony, and the worst thing the President could be called by the opposing politician is "this esteemed and honorable man is sometimes mistaken". If only would could go back to those golden times.
It is saying that 53.4% of the non smoking women that developed cancer in the study were Asian.

It is a dumb stat to chart without contextualizing that Asians were 15.92% of the entire study population.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8530225/table/T...
How did we get from AI LLMs to nuclear apocalypse? You’ve articulated my point better than I have, it seems (=

Edit: I see you misinterpreted my comment. I should have been specific and said “any existing AI adjacent technology” in our hands…

Anyway I hope it’s abundantly clear that the argument at this point in the thread is not “the canaries were wrong in the past they are obviously wrong about AI” (as TFA suggests) or even “we’ve survived disaster before meh we can do it again” (a more cavalier take). It’s that the burden of proof falls on the doomsayers to convince humanity that <insert potentially dangerous technology> is sufficiently dangerous to warrant censorship and regulation, etc.
Excellent points all around. As a fellow woodworker / CNC person, I will say it often frustrates me how people with CNCs demand that the WHOLE process be done on a CNC. 90 degree corner chisels exist and make nice interior corners without needing dogbones. Other shapes can be trimmed/finished by hand. Once the CNC sets up nice reference surfaces and removes all the waste it's actually pretty easy to clean up the insides of dovetails to sharp corners.
Ask HN: What tools do you use for computational biology?
I'm looking to learn about computational tools for computational biology and synthetic biology workflows. I see that many people use Colab notebooks for running protein structure prediction models (Alphafold, ESMFold, etc) and even generative design models (RFDiffusion). But these notebooks time out frequently.

There are also "Cloud labs", which let you outsource laboratory work. I'm interested in seeing if anyone is working on building software that integrates with these lab infra providers and improves the Design-Build-Test-Learn loop - something like AWS for SynBio.

What will future tools for computational biologists and protein engineers look like? I think there's a lot of momentum behind the emerging "TechBio" field.
Man, this was exciting back in the day, but now big risk you'll get blown out by Starlink. Starlink can just put high-speed internet into everyone's backyards.
When comparing fab processes, you wouldn't want performance of a whole processor but rather the voltage vs frequency curves for the different transistor libraries offered by each fab process.
Know Your Customer. It's when you are asked for legal docs so a business can verify your identity. Like what banks do
LastPass Fallout: A Password Vault Breach Investigation at an Atlanta Law Firm
The Dark Sides of the Open-Closed Principle
Many today consider Internet access to be a basic necessity as well... is it ok for service providers to censor opinions they don't like? Because that's happening too.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/isps-should-not-police...

I think you might be dwelling a bit too much on their specific analogy, I don't think their argument should be so easily minimized in scope with things such as "basic utilities don't count" etc., which is also just a subjective opinion as well.
Can an online library of classic video games ever be legal?
Enshittification in Action: Escape from Tarkov's Unheard Edition
Today, EFT's developer Battlestate Games released a new addition to Escape from Tarkov, the Unheard Edition. This is a new pricing tier above the previously retired 'Escape from Darkness' edition, which notably was sold with the bulletpoint of "Including all future DLC". Unheard is incredibly expensive, clocking in at approx. $250 for a new purchaser, or about $100 for someone upgrading from the EoD edition.

What does Unheard include? A very barebones single player or Co-Op PvE mode (EFT is traditionally PvPvE) that replaces the traditionally human-operated PMC opponents with bots crewed by some of the Boss goon's AI routines. Importantly, this 'single player' mode is still hosted on BSG's servers so even starting a single player game requires several minutes of matchmaking time, you can suffer disconnects from the server, and so on. In addition to this there are pay-to-win aspects that touch the existing PvPvE mode such as larger inventory size and an item that prevents the AI mobs from shooting at you until you're closer to them. There are also some unique-to-Unheard-owners items like a new melee weapon and an armband that appear to be Unity store asset flips.

Naturally, corners of the internet that care about this game are in an uproar about this, primarily around the revoked promise of the EoD edition including all future DLCs and the supremely barebones version of the single player mode that BSG has introduced compared to the feature full and modable 3rd party versions of the same, such as SPT or Single Player Tarkov, complete with concerns that BSG will now C&D those projects since they have their own offering.

I just thought it was interesting to see another live running enshittification in progress. In some respects, EFT was in a great place owing to several very good updates in a row and new changes/additions to the game mechanics. This move seems to be purely profit chasing and appears to be poisoning the well at a time when the community generally holds the game in decent regard.
I know it's not very HN of me but I want to point out your username is highly relevant to the discussion.
Microsoft announces results for quarter ended March 31
I find that the key is in working in the right size abstraction. If you ask gpt-4 to write whole apps for you, it usually can't get there. But if you architect the app in your head you can ask it to build it out one function at a time (with unit tests) pretty effectively.

When I'm testing out a new LLM this is usually my go to. How far up the abstraction layers can I go?

Still have to check the code yourself, ask it to troubleshoot etc. but I find this workflow pretty effective.
Title is "The amazingly scary xz sshd backdoor" which is... dramatic
Skipdb: Embedded, in-memory, zero-copy, ACID, serializable database engine
Can we have an article on weaponizing codes of conduct too?
> theorized

Sorry, how is this evidence?
What specifically do you think Elon has said which is hypocritical?
Any idea of what percentage of non-smokers die of a smoking related illness?
It is true that Tobacco increases cancer risk.

But what about stuff like the use of Teflon and other "forever" chemicals? These things may also be making a contribution.

It could also be a genetic defect. A liver cell growing in the lung.

Or maybe a staple food familiar to Asian women that is being contaminated with carcinogens.
It really does depend on the joint type. Do you expect a lap joint to hold together without any additional fasteners or glue?
Judge acquits Backpage co-founder Michael Lacey on most counts