skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the core is how we stand towards missile defense. During the Cold War the prevailing opinion was that mutually assured destruction was the best strategy. Missile defense undermines that strategy and was thus treated as a worse offense than building first-strike weapons.

Now the threat landscape has shifted. There is a closing window of opportunity where the US is the sole superpower and could get away with deploying such a system without much pushback. Whether it's a good idea is debatable.
Nate Silver was already a Cassandra months ago about this issue and was proven right, better than the entire Democrat establishment. The internet is quite the dichotomy. There are easily available sources to the common man that are more right than the most powerful people in the world (Ivy League SAT removal fiasco, Alperovitch on Russian invasion, etc.). But, most people don't listen to them and instead regurgitate brainrot.
> someone that isn’t old

If she wins she'll be 60 years old and 3 months old the day she assumes office. That'll make her the 13th oldest president (out of a total of 47)[1].

That's "old" by any objective definition. The only thing that makes her seem young is that the two candidates who've been in the race so far are #1 and #2 on that list.

She'll certainly be a young president compared to the two oldest presidents to have ever held the office.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_Unit...
But are they letting their boss know that they are doing it?
There has been a massive wave of bot and probably real human activity to supress assasination talk on line. Wouldn't be surprised its because of this. Even in these comments from these farms trying to downplay Kamala and Biden, posting obviously false information.
That was meant to be +1 SD on the "left" side of the party. If I did +1 SD on the "right" side of the party, it would be liberal-centrist.

(The point is not that the DNC's progressive base is dominant, but that it's big enough to influence the party's direction. Compare this with the +2 SD left part of the party, which is currently being almost entirely ignored by the party's +0 and +1 leadership.)
Help me out here.

What is this empty type for? Could you provide an old man with a nice concrete example of this in action? I've used empty types in C++ to mark the end of recursive templates - which I used implement typelists before variadic templates were available.

But then you mention being unable to call functions which take an empty type as a parameter. At which point I cease to understand the purpose.
This is actually an excellent question ! And quite an active field of research.

This is one paper you could read - it's about text and not films, but same idea:

"LANGUAGE MODELING IS COMPRESSION" - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.10668
First I would calculate the number of tokens you actually need. If its less than 32k there are plenty of ways to pull this off without RAG. If more (millions), you should understand RAG is an approximation technique and results may not be as high quality. If wayyyy more (billions), you might actually want to finetune
Why, if the author asks it to summarise a single webpage and gives the link should ChatGPT go out and load 5 more (one is the same page again, the others short overview pages, so won't have influenced the result much)

And why all this talk about trying to engineer a prompt so that in the end the result is good? Should an actual usable system not just handle "Please summarise [url/PDF]"? That is, I suspect, what people expect to be able to do.
Having a .local suffix doesn't really seem like a feature.
Also, I still don't see why this is better than ngrok. If anything, I'd turn it down because there's functionality (an AI assistant) that I don't want.
This is all open source by the way, and can be self-hosted. All the code is at https://github.com/aled/fakemail.
In theory you're correct. In practice it seems that crowdstrike has crashed systems with their updates much more often than 0day attacks.
Your replies are moving the goalposts.

That didn't happen.
And if it did, it wasn't that bad.
Ah, appeasement? Yeah, that famously always works.
There’s just so many articles of people whining about how ChatGPT can’t do things, when they clearly havent prompted it very thoughtfully.

So I think that’s why you see so many reactions like this.

I’ve found chatGPT incredibly good at all sorts of things people say it is bad at, but you need patience and to really figure out the boundaries of the task and keep adding guidance to the prompt to keep it on track.
Don’t you think Trump will dismantle our rights (see project 2025) and that it is our duty to vote to make sure he doesn’t get into power and turn this country into an autocracy?
You should reevaluate what a vote means. In a country of millions of people, a vote is in absolutely no way a means for you to voice exactly what you want, or even for most people for you to voice an option you would actually like. In FPTP, a vote is for the most preferable option of the top two parties. Anything else is depriving yourself of your say. Other voting systems aren't actually that much different, they just make the information more available (you don't need to guess how others are going to vote beforehand, which can matter even though it's usually fairly predictable) and give people a bit more of a warm fuzzy feeling because they can give a vote for their most preferred option, even if still the outcome is which of top two options is more preferred.
This is going to sound incredibly cynical, but I'm convinced the primary reason for Smart TVs to exist is to sell TVs.

My current TV is 17 years old. It's 720p, plasma, and yes I want to replace it. But functionally it's as good as the day I bought it. I've used it with appletvs since the first generation - if you're not into apple, there's android and amazon boxes and sticks too.

When my appletv goes EOL, I'll buy another $99 appletv - and they're usually supported for about 5 years.

I do fancy upgrading to 4k and all that jazz, but every time I go looking at my options - they're all "smart". They're rarely supported for 5 years, let alone 17. Obviously yes you're going to airgap it once it stops being supported in 2-3 years, but having to click through one OS to get to my STB's OS sounds like such an ugly kludge.

So back to my original premise - I can't help feeling that annoying me into upgrading in 3-5 years rather than clinging onto it for 15-20, is the entire point. The primary reason I want to upgrade today is to go from 720p to 4k. In 17 years I'll be touching 60, and probably won't be very fussed about 8k. If I could buy a current version of my venerable old plasma today, it'd likely be the last TV I buy. And that's not what they want. They've seen the lifecycle on phones and they want in.

(rant aside: when I got my current set, I naively thought CableCard was going to evolve into pluggable smarts. So you could buy a brain from your cable company, or apple, or msn, or tivo, and slot it into your TV. And when Real10 needed more grunt than your card had, you'd get a new card. Instead we ended up with disposable TVs.)
Compare Democrat presidents and Republican presidents in general. We routinely see less deficit spending and more economic growth under Democrats than under Republicans.

Seeing as Trump is a Republican, and that his spending and economy were on brand for the Republican party, I see no reason to assume covid was the sole cause. (Is it your opinion is that Trump is a RINO who runs the country like a Democrat, and covid disguised that?)

Given that the US economy has recovered from covid dramatically better than the economies of all other major nations, I am not inclined to assume that the US economy is currently in poor hands. On the contrary, it sure seems to be in the best hands that exist anywhere in the world.
Just throw on a different launcher.
> He just doesn't have the chops to skewer a lunatic in a live TV debate

Sorry, but this borders on gaslighting.

It's not that he "didn't have the chops" to win the debate, it's that during the debate he clearly demonstrated that his mind is gone.
Or do you only read twitter to stay informed?

There's a signed letter from Biden announcing it, published on reputable news websites.
The only thing that's going to solve climate change is technology. It's the same technology we've had since the 50's. Not turning off our lights, setting the AC to 80, drinking through paper straws, or clearing thousands of acres for solar panels.
Define “small fraction” please.
Completely wrong, everyone dropped out after Biden cemented an insurmountable lead on Super Tuesday
Love Joe, but 2 minutes into the debate it was clear he couldn't win an election. He was behind, and he needed to come out strong, and somehow he made it worse. Whether or not Kamala can remains to be seen, but at least there's still _potential_ there.
C’mon now, we know that’s TempleOS, not Debian!
How do you know that most readers will also miss it? Isn't this just optimising for the tool?
It was flagged but has been unflagged.
I can never understand Americans who say this sort of thing.

The US does not have a reasonable voting system. It’s not compulsory, it’s not ranked choice, and you vote for persons not parties.

You have a duopoly that’s more or less set up so that a third choice will never be available.

You aren’t here to pick an ideal candidate. You are here to pick the one that aligns most with your view that can win. Otherwise you get someone you definitely don’t want.
Also built something very similar - https://ephemeralpostal.com

Comes with a small API so your integration tests can actually check the contents of emails that were expected to be sent out. Did a Show HN a while ago with more details - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40590670
That's literally what her elected job is.
I believe Harris would still have access to the $240M Biden/Harris campaign fund too.
15 years of publishing things online :)
Evidence it can summarize something correctly.

Medical records are not my bar though, nor would I be comfortable giving my medical records to 99% of the human race. The bar these tools need to meet for me is far more innocuous (code and apparently summarizing fluff articles) and two things can happen at the same time:

1. Models, and not to be understated, the engineering around them can improve until they pass the point we are comfortable using them in high stakes situations like medical records.

2. People's expectations come down until we settle on the agreed upon tasks where LLMs provide real value.

My perspective is 1 will happen in the long term and 2 is what we should be focusing on right now to provide real immediate value with an eye on 1 so we reap the continued improvements.

For 2 calibrating people's expectations are going to be messy and people rarely estimate the utility of something correctly in the early days, either over or under which is the reason for the mess.

LLMs have been in the works for almost a decade (building on research that's been around since at least the 70s), but their utility has only been apparent for about two years.

We're still super early days for that settling period.
That's fine but you don't get to complain about the outcome for the next four years.
In my view, a vote means more than a vote for a leader. It determines the direction of your country. Just look at how a single president has tipped the balance of the Supreme Court, where the judges will remain for decades, and that is only a part of a much larger political picture. The President will only stay for 4-8 years, but the choices they make can have impacts for generations.

You need to play the long game and vote for the best interests of your country, even if that means voting for someone you don't like.
I’m curious: Why do you view voting this way? As opposed to simply taking responsibility for voting in a way you believe is the least bad outcome for you and your country?
Two counter points…
- there are down-ballot races that might have people they want your vote. And they’re likely more influential over your day to day than POTUS.

- staying home strongly implies your ok with Trump winning and the GOP platform being implemented completely.
Peer Rejection in Science (2020)
And Trump has said that he intends to cancel that tariff [1]. Honestly, the narrative that Biden enabled Chinese EV encroachment is very bizarre. It reflects almost the exact opposite of the actions the candidates have actually taken.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-19/trump-wel...
Maybe she should pick Joe as her running mate then. That would be hilarious.
Can human-generated summaries ever be wrong?
> I think it would be very hard to convince the liberal-progressive base (i.e. the core of the party) of the DNC to go for this.

I am quite liberal. I'd vote for this a million times before I'd consider Trump as a president.
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If I were a teacher I would show this article to my general science class and ask them to tell me all of the things that are wrong with it.
No. The staunch Republicans will still vote for Trump and the only way to beat that is for there to be an incredibly cohesive force among a population that isn't very cohesive in the first place. The Republicans actually have it easy, they align and bond on lots of things. The center and left align on very few things and fight amongst themselves.

A mixed ticket isn't going to align them better.
For practical purposes, in parliamentary democracies, the approximate date of the election is almost always known. Occasionally, they’ll go notably early, as with the recent UK one (they could have gone up to December) but it’s not really the norm (or certainly the out-of-the-blue nature of wasn’t), and it was still only five months.
As much as it pains me to suggest a Cheney, Liz Cheney would be another strong contender.
This is what The Lincoln Project and The Bulwark have been working on the last few years.
The parties are not as strong as your typical European party - if you win the presidency, in a very real sense your people become the party. Biden's people picking a process that favored Biden is expected here. For better or for worse there is no smokey back room of elders with superdelegate powers driving the show, the closest is probably the donor class who aren't part of the formal party leadership but back horses in the party.
Not voting is a vote for “whatever”. If you really don’t see a difference between Trump and Harris (or Biden or any other), I’m really not sure what to say…
How is that related to this?

Even if Biden had personally authored and posted every one his tweets, that would have nothing to do with whether aides were kept in the loop about major campaign announcements.

This thread is discussing an alleged inconsistency (or quick reversal) in his Twitter messaging.
In what world is Israel relevant to the security of Europe?
Can you explain why being black or Latinx would disqualify one from playing a Roman emperor in a movie?
> I view voting as a responsibility to pick a candidate I want to lead rather than a vote to block someone I don't want to lead.

You can view it however you want, it doesn’t make it true. Perhaps it would help to consider that one of the two candidates will be leading after the election, and make your decision based off of which of the two outcomes you would prefer.
How Investors Are Reacting to Biden Dropping Out
The game engines I've dealt with separate opaque and transparent geometry.

It is generally good to render opaque geometry back to front to reduce overdraw, but not going so far as sorting the objects. We would do stuff like render the hands first in an FPS or render the skybox last in most games.

Now for the transparent layer: First occlusion is handled by the z-buffer as usual. If you render from front to back I assume you render to another buffer first and then composite to the framebuffer? If you render from back to front you don't need alpha in your framebuffer and can assume each rendered pixel is opaque, not needing that composite.

There's also order independent transparency stuff though which IIRC does need another buffer, which requires a composite but then saves you having to sort the objects.
There’s a huge difference between avoiding PPE because you’re macho, and the company avoiding structural reinforcements in a trench. This whole thread is sidetracked on PPE. When someone chooses to do angle grinding without a guard, or chooses not to wear a helmet or goggles, they’re putting their own safety in danger. It’s dumb, but very different from the company making that decision for you. Companies should perhaps be partly liable when they don’t require and monitor PPE use, but they should be fully liable when the construction plan puts everyone at risk. That’s the company making bad/illegal safety choices for the workers, not the workers making their own bad decisions. Not installing trench boxes is like the company disallowing PPE on the job.

I’m sure there’s gray area in between personal bad decisions and company bad decisions, but if a mining company were to operate a mine without reinforcing the walls, a mine collapse is 100% on the company, whereas if workers stop wearing masks while working and they get black lung after being provided masks and being told they’re mandatory, then it’s a bit more reasonable to say the workers made bad personal decisions, and the company didn’t do enough to enforce personal safety practices.

Trench boxes are the same as mine cable reinforcement - something the company is fully responsible for. Pointing at workers and/or talking about PPE safety culture just isn’t very relevant.
When she worked for free, was it up hill, both ways?

These kids today.
He's not a Democrat either. The Republican base turning its back on the moderates in their faction is not really the Democrat electorates' problem.
My RSS reader automatically generates AI summaries for Hacker News posts and it works pretty well. Sometimes when I comment on a post I have to double check the summary is correct and it always does a really good job. I even had it generate comment summaries. It needs a bit of prompting to highlight individual arguments but it also does well here.

I am very skeptical of the author's claims. Perhaps the parts of the articles being summarized are not actually important so the LLMs did not include them. Or perhaps the article does an exceptionally bad job of explaining why the argument is important. Also there's a difference between the API and free web interface. I think the web version has a bunch more system prompting to be helpful which may make a summary harder to do.
This isn't strictly true. Parties definitely care about motivating their base and arguably the stay-at-home vote has pushed the US away from visible centrism in Presidential candidates.
That sounds really neat, is there more information on this?

*Edit

Found this, https://zig.news/david_vanderson/using-rr-to-quickly-debug-m...
I’ve even used it to connect to sql server
I used this to help make my toy JIT compiler: https://github.com/danthedaniel/BF-JIT

Super useful, especially considering I know barely anything about x86-64.
A management training course I took 20 years ago said when your personal values were out of step with the company then you had to leave for your own mental health. I've thought about that a lot since.
Don't worry Trump will make sure we will never forget about it anyway so it will find its way into conversation like it is now.
> I'm feeling an undercurrent of thought that is implying: this is not X, so there's no need to consider it seriously.

True. I doubt that field experts are directly affected by the naming, but indirect effect might come via less knowledgable (AI wise) financial decision makers.

I see a risk that those decision makers (and society) would be mislead if they were promised AGI (based on their “strict” understanding, what’s in the movies), but received AGI (based on “relaxed” meaning). Informed consent is usually good.

Though surely that can be resolved with more public discourse; maybe “relaxed” version will become the default expectation.
> What is Stremio?

> Stremio is a modern media center that gives you the freedom to watch everything you want.

https://www.stremio.com
In fairness, that’s because the Republican Party has changed dramatically since Romney was their presidential candidate.
I disagree. Has to be 4, something will always go wrong, so you have to deliver in cohorts.

That goes equally if it was a Windows Update rolled out in one motion that broke the falcon agent/driver, or if it was Crowdstrike. There is almost no excuse for a global rollout without telemetry checks, whether it's security agent updates or os patches.
> The article discusses the author's experience and observations regarding the use of language model-based tools like ChatGPT for summarizing texts, specifically highlighting their limitations. The author initially believed summarizing was a viable application for such models but found through practical application that these tools often fail to produce accurate summaries. Instead of summarizing, they tend to merely shorten texts, sometimes omitting crucial details or inaccurately representing the original content. This is attributed to the way language models prioritize information, often influenced more by the vast amount of data they've been trained on rather than the specific content they are summarizing. The author concludes that these tools are less reliable for producing meaningful and accurate summaries, especially when the text is complex or detailed. The experimentation with summaries on different subjects further demonstrated that these models often produce generalized content that lacks specific, actionable insights from the original texts.
I used to see it more like that. But the reality is that one of those candidates is going to get elected whether you vote or not. So not voting is basically just letting other people decide for you. Which is rational if you genuinely believe that will make no difference.
I'm convinced that plain web components are now the best solution for the front end.
That said, I don't think any libraries are needed to use them well.

Also, I hope that people don't try to implement 'reactivity' in the React way for Web Components... The correct way to handle state changes in Web Components is by changing their attributes and setting up an attributeChangedCallback inside the component (with an observedAttributes getter which lists out the observed attributes).

Some people won't like that you can only pass string values to components via attributes (unlike React where you can pass anything) but I swear, if you adapt and force yourself to only pass string values (or stringifiable values), your application architecture will massively benefit. You can still select components and call custom functions/methods on them which lets you pass any value, but I would recommend against for most situations.

Attributes are good for handling data going inbound into the component. For outbound data (in the other direction), you should use DOM events. Look into the `bubbles` option when dispatching events. This can be very useful sometimes as it gives you a lot of flexibility; it means that any parent element at any level in the hierarchy can access the data which bubbles up from the child component.
Not to be too conspiratorial, but these gripes about the primaries seem too uniform and unipolar to be entirely genuine.