skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is it really necessary to have such a single powerful figure in the executive branch?

As an ignorant outsider, my impression is that the president is only supposed to 'preside' over things. Delegate and appoint people. Sign bills as a ceremony.

The real decision-making should be happening by the people's representatives in congress, while the Supreme court can guard against decisions which would violate the constitution.

But then parties form, partisanship happens, and congress stops making meaningful changes. Blocking anything that the dems put forward apparently gets votes for senators. You don't even need filibusters to prevent votes; just the suggestion of one.

So without a working congress, the President and the courts end up picking up the slack, and wield more power than they should.

I naively wish that there was some way for congress to actually be a congress, and for each member to vote his/her conscience on every single matter.
> Why he or she hasn't been found in 2020 eludes me

Well we had the 2020 primaries. Bernie and Warren were too left to win a general election. Pete Buttigieg won Iowa, got 2nd in New Hampshire, but only cancelled the campaign after South Carolina, once it dawned that the South has too much of a quiet problem of Buttigieg being gay and preferring Biden simply because he was Obama VP. Without those sad facts, we could've had Buttigieg winning 2020 and 2024.
Sure. And if someone showed up here with a story about how they got attacked and ransomwared enterprise-wide in the however many several hours that they were waiting for their turn to rollout, what do you think HN response would be?

Hmm, maybe you could have companies pay more to be in the first rollout group? That'd go over well too.
It’s frustrating when people ask for hardware requirements without stating what they are trying to do, do you have 100,000,000 books to index or do you have 5 articles? What are the context lengths you need? What about latency?

How can someone tell you what hardware you need when you give literally no information about what you’re trying to do?
Its passed the return window, I’m sure I could make a warranty claim (and then be stuck with the same issue). Luckily it was just one and I paid 200 total for the card and chassis :)
> making a mistake on your taxes isn't illegal.

It is when it amounts to tax evasion.
this makes so much sense - speaking German and English fluently, my brain always defaulted to interpret "ij" in dutch as "ee’" - but it took your comment to make me understand that it's indeed correct, and actually why
This isn't an implementation flaw, this is (arguably) by design. You can't regulate campaign spending or duration without regulating political speech, which is a huge no-no under the 1st Amendment.

I don't actually agree with that argument, of course. SCOTUS has been perfectly willing to go along with "time and manner" regulations on political speech in the past and I don't see why "nobody can spend more than $X or campaign longer than Y days" is forbidden when "nobody can protest the G7 summit" is. The US's free speech extremism has, in practice, turned into a delegated right to censorship. And under current SCOTUS interpretations of the Constitution, the government is equally powerless to stop both speech and private censorship.

The true answer, of course, is that Trump and the donor class have coopted SCOTUS into an instrument of centralized power. SCOTUS is the scorpion[0] that stung the Progressive frog. They make this shit up as they go - free speech for me, censorship for thee. Fortunately, SCOTUS's legitimacy is in the toilet, and that power base can be broken; but it requires Congress and the President act to defang SCOTUS in a way that does not merely shift power. It needs to be distributed again.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog
I’m impressed at what column you put Afghanistan.
And being a monopoly. Don't forget Google's monopolistic practices.
In Nova? Or just the in-kernel component?
there is no point in comparing gdps here, what's important is what is the capability of war industry and armies are, and at the moment we can see that industries are not that far off, add nuclear weapons to the picture, and its draw, just as it was in the cold war.
>1. uninstall Teams

Sure if you're a one person company.
Arguably it was Gore/Lieberman that was the cross-party ticket, since Lieberman was just a Republican in a trench coat.
I never mentioned Trump in my original post?
Or actually radical: switch from our terrible first-past-the-post voting system to - say - ranked choice (or one of many alternatives; they're almost all better than fptp) and then primaries won't be so important and parties won't have so much power over our kinda-democratic-but-actually-oligarchic political system.
I appreciate your concise response, but I was hoping for a more in-depth analysis. Could you elaborate on your thoughts?
The election isn't decided by large numbers of voters. It's decided at the margins largely based on the 1-2% making a decision to go vote or not.
Had the pleasure of cutting concrete pipe with a 16" saw at my first job. That thing was scary as hell. Needless to say no one pulled the guard off it though.
this looks alot more like an SVG in s-expressions
> Individual settings for when to apply such updates were apparently ignored.

I've heard that said elsewhere, but I haven't found a source for it at all. Are you able to point to one for me?
People with good job security and good position in the labor market can do this. Lot of people already do shop around and try to get a raise, etc.
If given the choice I would chose not to have them.
> Also gives the people in power control and the ability to block out new messages. No sure it's fair or democratic.

With limited campaigns you usually run with people who are already known and have a long track record that's decently well known. The equivalent of running a Hillary Clinton or a Bernie Sanders. There shouldn't be much new stuff to drag up except their specific policies.

> Some countries give tax payer money based on how you did previously which greatly benefits the status quo

On the other hand if the state doesn't give parties money then the parties are just going to do whatever brings them the biggest donations, leading to a country run by the rich and the corporations. And you can't hand out money regardless of past performance since anyone can form a party at any time.

There is no winning solution here, but giving tax money to parties can be the smaller evil
What mistakes did the DNC make in 1968?

Chicago Mayor Daley and his police force made the mistakes with the protestors, much of the media coverage of the police riots falsely made it look like it was happening right outside the convention site.
Still sick with Covid. I expect him to address the nation early next week, like he promised in his letter.

It is unfortunate that this is on social media, mostly twitter though. I understand this is probably too close to campaigning for Biden to feel comfortable with posting it on whitehouse.gov, but I feel like the president should have a pulpit where someone contributing millions to the opposing party can't plaster their view right underneath it. Another problem with the centralized web - reading the president's letter with the promoted posts and ads on x right under feels tacky as hell here.
The extent to which attempted fault-finding of someone's behavior is unwarranted is not determined by the number of words. I could complain "Why break my door when the window was open!?" to the firefighter carrying me out of a burning building in nine words.
How does the prime directive apply when you are attacked directly.

I do agree that Bush deserves the blame for turning what should should have been a hunt down and destroy Al Qaeda mission into a sprawling invasion of various countries in the middle east
> Python is absolutely terrible to use as a stand alone language. Almost everywhere it is used (ML, Data Science, Scientific computing, etc.) it is used to call C or C++. The amount of serious Python software that doesn't makes extensive use of calling to other languages is very small.

I have worked on lots of huge python codebases, so I don't buy this argument.

For example, all of YouTube, Instagram, Dropbox, Spotify, Reddit, Pinterest, Quora and Netflix is mostly build in Python.

Do many of the libraries that are optimized for speed call some C and C++ code? Sure. But so do many Java libraries. And ML libraries these days have to call CUDA code anyway, so you can't even do "stand alone development" in C.
I have had similar experiences with pretty much every model. Even heuristics seem to work better than LLMs on summarization.
Interesting. Last I read circa 2021:

Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads in Android TV

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27883715

Reviews of Android TV launcher after Google added ads to the homescreen

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27643208
Romney is literally a member of the Republican party and not a member of the Democrat party. What are you even talking about?
I think this varies varies between countries. Sweden indeed has an almost (formally) powerless monarch. I think the UK has a monarch with some real power but that does not put it to use? And how Denmark, Netherlands, Norway etc fare on this scale would be interesting to learn.
> for the case where you want to work with semi-structured IR (GIMPLE) rather than machine code

Most of the code for syscall handlers is carefully hand-crafted assembly, so probably not GIMPLE. Maybe something like Valgrind's VEX IR. I see what you mean though.

> How does that even work, libc-wise?

It works as you say, the "return an error like a stub" logic is the same as the "this syscall isn't implemented logic". AFAIK libc will provide the wrappers regardless (if there are wrappers, not all syscalls have them) and the kernel will just return -ENOSYS, like it would do for any invalid syscall number.

> If so, maybe consider that a bug? Submit a patch to have an arch's stubbed optional syscalls return a different error than for syscalls that don't exist for that arch

I am 99.9% sure that'd be impossible. The "stubbed optional syscalls" return -ENOSYS (as if they did not exist) by design. Although annoying, it's not really a bug, it's the way it's intended to work. I doubt such a patch would such an API-breaking change would be accepted, as a lot of existing code relies on this behavior. I don't think there even is an appropriate errno number to return in such case. It's unfortunate, but it is what it is.

> To be clear, I wasn't talking about compile-time code inclusion; I was talking about runtime

Yeah, it was clear that you meant runtime but less clear what you exactly meant with "all kernel services were already initialized". Now I see what you mean. Yes, what you describe definitely seems doable from a theoretical point of view for some architectures, but I struggle to think about such a solution given its complexity. It would still require manual recognition of interesting source code files and syscall handler code, plus a significant amount of scripting/patching/compiling to get it to work. Not to talk about emulation since this would need to be done for different archs. That's why even though it'd be nice in theory, it practically seems like a borderline unapproachable problem to me, from multiple sides.

I appreciate all the input anyway, this is definitely an interesting topic.
The UK has a number of policies and traditions that reduce this tendency, in addition to snap elections.

Obviously in a sense politicians are always campaigning, in the sense that they're always looking to deliver on their election promises, raise their personal profile, announce popular policies, kiss babies and so on. But that's a constant background effort, rather than an election-specific effort.

Perhaps the most important factor is the campaign spending limit; a campaign might have £50,000 to spend in a constituency with 70,000 voters and when the money runs out, they can't legally spend any more. So any money you spend early is money you can't spend later.

Also a great deal of campaigning involves the candidate physically being in their constituency, not in Westminster. So to start campaigning early would involve a burdensome amount of travel, and much less free time to spend with family.

During the short campaign period, parliament is dissolved and public servants enter 'Purdah' [1] where no important policies can be announced. Candidates can spend all their time in their constituencies campaigning - but the government is basically in stasis.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purdah_(pre-election_period)
Minio is fairly easy to setup locally or in CI.

We use it for CI in ClickHouse, for example: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/blob/master/docker/...
I am more curious why this disclaimer is missing on human backed products: "Human can be wrong, you must verify this". How do they overcome the fact that the information they provided can be wrong?
Doesn't microsoft support eBPF on Windows?

https://github.com/microsoft/ebpf-for-windows
"Beyond the Hype: A Realistic Look at Large Language Models" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41026484
Mojeek – The alternative search engine that puts the people who use it first
The problem is some how a large swath of the general public thinks that lower inflation means lower prices. That obviously doesn’t math.
Backlight is not possible on this type of display. Frontlit screens exist, but are substantially thicker and require a new front plate.
Um. It's certainly not removing much stuff.

Here's a video of a wide variety of beach cleaning machines.[1]
Some of those have big messes to clean up, with rocks, seaweed, and storm debris.
Dump trucks are sent out to service the larger beach cleaners, like a harvesting operation.
If you need beach cleaning machines, it's usually because you have a lot of stuff to remove.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nll28HBeAg8
Gaussian Primes Visually [video]
The polling before this announcement was showing Harris with better numbers vs. Trump than Biden had, at least.
This is really misunderstanding how that works. The 2020 field at that point was wide open, no one candidate was looking dominant. She absolutely "could" have stayed in with a real shot at winning, which was true for basically all of them. She got out because (1) staying in costs money and fundraising in a wide-open primary is extremely hard and (2) she judged[1] that she'd have a better path to the presidency by positioning herself as an obvious VP candidate via playing kingmaker with her political capital and identity markers. Which is exactly how it played out.

[1] Correctly, with near-prescient precision!
The failure rate that is “sufficient” will obviously change based on the use case.

No, I might not want AI summarising my medical records right now, but I might be quite happy for it to summarise a blog post for me.
These days in ML it's more often "a convenient way" of driving CUDA. So I guess there are no "standalone programming languages".

It's a silly argument, though. If you have a million lines of Python code, and some of it calls some library that contains lower-level code, does that mean Python is a "scripting language"? I wouldn't say so.
There is less than 3.5 months, I’m not sure what people want. It is a very short time to run a new candidate.

Unless they had some tricky campaign finance exception, it had to be Harris.
Exactly, 'ChatGPT can't do this that' is way too generic.
We can't even be sure if GPT-5 is still the LLM architecture anymore.
This sometimes turns out very badly - in the UK it led to "faster than a lettuce goes bad" Liz Truss for example. Conservative party members are an odd bunch.

Labour also picked Jeremy Corbyn an election back. Ultimately the rest of the country didn't want to vote for him.
His campaign HEAVILY implied this, but no, he never said it.

It’s definitely one of those thing that make people like me, who want good faith honesty in politics angry, because “he didn’t actually say it” politics is why gotcha politics exists.
Ousterhout is talking about Tcl, a language that doesn't even have arrays. Or numbers.

Did you ever try writing a large 1mil+ line codebase in Tcl or Bash? I'm pretty sure you'd prefer Python.
To a superpack otherwise they are limited to individual limits. Super Packs pay more for ads during a campaign.
No, they wouldn’t.

I regularly work with a wide variety of project managers, product owners, secretaries, etc…

I swear that most of them willfully misunderstand everything they’re told or sent in writing, invariably refusing to simply forward emails and instead insisting on rephrasing everything in terms they understand, also known as gibberish that only vaguely resembles English.

All of them are still “gainfully” employed.
That's what Ukraine wants though.
This is a very disingenuous argument. American troops aren't fighting an insurgency in Germany, Italy or Spain!
Indeed. I’m sure glad California’s prohibitive gun laws have created a utopian state free from gun crime!
Even then, it would surely take centuries for the cost of building underground to be paid off in power savings from the cost of air conditioning. Who's going to plan that far ahead, especially in the middle of unpredictable climate change where even the underground option might turn out to be the wrong one for some reason before it's paid off?
You've now had multiple people respond to you about your post, all trying (in vain, it seems) to help you understand where the initial confusion occurred, and you continue to either willfully misunderstand, or maybe it's some ESL thing? Or maybe you're just a bored troll? I don't know. Either way, not going to continue responding.
Guinness did this to me, I hated it until about 30 and used lots of hyperbolic language to negatively describe it as a dirty ashtray, etc.

I now find most styles of beer far too sweet or boozy and Guinness style beer is my go to.
Interesting, but I'm unsure what the focus is for HN. What's the "All that's interesting there."? My intuition is, is that's a pretty standard way to use ChatGPT 4o for learning about a topic; At least it's very similar to topics I've discussed with it on my own.
To be fair, most of the commentary on both sides of the LLM conversation are pretty anecdotal, which is increasingly looking like a structural problem given that any solid evidence goes in the training set in about an hour.
If there are people who don't remember these facts clearly, you are among them. Nobody dropped out "around Iowa" except Kremlin stooge Yang and literal Republican Bloomberg. No legitimate candidate dropped out until South Carolina, where Biden trounced the whole field.

They quit because they got their faces ripped off in a fair fight, not because of some backroom party shenanigans.
Two player poker is a zero sum game, where GTO play is very well-defined as just playing a Nash equilibrium strategy. The solvers try to get as close as they can to that.

Life is a lot more complicated in multiplayer poker. There are Nash equilibria, but potentially many with different payoffs, and you can't force your opponents to choose the one you're aiming for. So in that case, it's not so obvious what "optimal" means.

As for CFR adapting to opponent play: CFR could bias its compute resources towards really finely optimizing strategies for the most likely scenarios facing certain players, and it seems like this has been done during poker tournaments.

But within those situations, it would still be trying to more perfectly approximate the Nash strategy, vs. more experimental approaches which actually choose a different strategy to exploit opponent weaknesses.
No one is going to get fat from adding proper amounts of fats, sugars and salts to their home cooked meals provided they are average in the first place.
Yeah, that last thing. Find me a competitively priced, quality 55 inch television without smart features. Just a dumb display. I can't find any around here anymore. I just bought a 27" 4k display and slapped it on the coffee table.
Is this satire? A typo on twitter and something that wasn't Trump?

Meanwhile, early this month, Biden called himself the first black woman to serve with a black president, as well as referred to "vice president Trump" when apparently talking about Harris.
Teslas were the first "normal" electric car. From the beginning they performed well and looked good. And though range maybe wasn't great at first, it was still better than anyone else, by a lot.

Leaf was a nerdy glorified golf cart, like all other EVs before it.

Hype aside, Tesla showed the market that you didn't have to look like a dweeb driving an electic car.

And no, I don't own a Tesla, and would not own one, but I give credit where it's due.
Exactly. A stutter doesn’t cause you to confuse names.
We also have mangroves at more than 30°S in Brazil.
If Biden is blamed for failing to get certain bills passed, it seems fair that he should get _some_ credit for the ones that are, no?
Don’t worry there’s alot of Project Managers and product owners now working tirelessly on “AI” to fix this sort of thing. Automation, platform engineering and SRE is so 2021.
They're obviously not. But account was created just an hour ago, and stuff like this is more or less impossible to prevent.
There is no message his campaign could give other than "Biden is running" and have Biden still run - any other message would damage him.

Saying you are considering dropping out would be immediately pounced on, and effectively mean you'd have to drop out. So I don't think there is any signal in the messaging there except that he was probably still seriously considering running.
> VC/PE didn't invest into hardware much because didn't believe in positive ROI in current condition

Not exactly.

It was because of the upfront cost and lack of deal flow.

Before the various IRA and CHIPS provisions passed, you might get $200k at most from grants to commercialize research in the Energy or Hardware space. The rest would be fronted from the private sector so you're looking at an additional $800k-1M of private money at the pre-seed/seed stage. On top of that, deal flow was weak, so it's harder to fund later series or get good exits during an M&A event.

This is a very high upfront cost so obviously SaaS made sense due to much higher margins.

After IRA and CHIPS, you could expect to see an additional $300-500k in grants, which means my upfront cost in funding is lower.

Furthermore, the government is providing tax credits and grants to private sector players to minimize the amount of upfront money they need to spend (say) building a Battery Recycling plant or a Chip Packaging factory.

This means there is now much more money sloshing in these segments as a significant portion of my upfront risk has been subsidized by the US government. That money can now be deployed in either funding research projects commercializing into startups, re-investing in existing players to help their own M&A strategy, and funding additional research in the spaces above.
It’s certainly not perfect, but I would definitely not class it as useless in many circumstances

Asking it to do a summary on a paper or meeting notes I’m mot familiar with, yes the utility is very limited exactly the way you’ve pointed out.

However, asking it to summarise or shorten a paper or meeting notes I’ve been directly involved in - that has enormous utility for me.

It provides me a quick starting point to create summaries, and I get to see if the salient points are addressed, and if not, I get to add them in.

I’m no a fast writer, and often experience writers block, so having a fast way to start is enourmously useful to me.
The party of let's save democracy, just had a successful soft coup against their popularly elected primary candidate. Now the party elite will choose your candidate for you.
All the democrats fell on their swords so they weren't "splitting the vote", because Bernie was way way more popular than any of them.
Is it really so hard to say "Trump won the debate" without needing to qualify several times how much you hate Trump?