skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I doubt anywhere remotely near 5% actually believe the Earth is flat.

I would probably agree with you based on my participation in these groups (have moderated them, don't ask why, it's just a weird/funny hobby to me) that it is much lower. The 5-10% number is the estimation I've received from other moderators in this space (if anyone is also in this space feel free to chime in, I find it fascinating). However, it's hard to estimate, because frequently genuine users get trolled/harassed into oblivion and end up leaving because of it. So the longer a user is around, the less likely (IMO) that they are a genuine believer and probably a troll. There are prolific unicorn "believer" users that drive a lot of conversation but are a very small minority.

As far as the number of people out in the wild who are flat earth believers or flat earth curious, the amount of views/interaction from FE "influencers" (who I don't believe are actually believers) would suggest the actual number is surprisingly high.

And you're absolutely spot on about what drives engagement in these types of groups - often the people that are there to freak out at flat earthers are themselves not the most intellectually curious or rigorous people, and are just there to laugh at the people they know for a fact are "dumber" than them. Pushing back at that psychological dynamic ends up with some pretty funny troll-worthy content, at least IMO.
At counters, the tip happens before the service is provided, unless you're somehow basing the amount on the experience of ordering.
The HN crowd is far left but they would never admit it.

Go watch Bill Clinton talk about illegal immigration and border security in the 90s. He'd be considered far right today. Read a book or newspaper from 50 years ago or 100 years ago and look at how much more freedom people had to build homes and businesses without a thousand licenses, permits, taxes and inspections.

There was a time in America where the notion of an income tax or of restrictions on running a business out of your home were considered far-left authoritarian and unconstitutional, but now we've all gotten used to a million regulations on how we use our private property, the government surveilling our communications and finances, government oversight and permission required for all activities.

Admittedly "left vs right" is hardly useful in contemporary politics, things are so multi-faceted and people's notions of what those terms mean is variable. But nonetheless, it's obvious that "the center" of American politics today is drastically far to the left from where it was previously.

In some sense, the 1960s counter-culture liberal progressives "won" and became the center and the establishment. A leftwing extremist in 1968 on issues of feminism, race, social welfare, tax policy, foreign policy, housing policy and probably others is a centrist today.

Environmental issues and unions are the only two areas I can think of where America has stayed the same or moved right since WWII.
In our village the 8-10 year old boys would be responsible for herding the cows back home from the mountains at night as well as riding a horse to the town over to trade milk and cheese.
Income taxes don't affect every person equally though. Plenty of Very Rich people earn zero income.
Tip 0 and see what kind of service you get the next time.

I used to work food delivery and naturally the customers ordering takeout at fancy restaurants would always tip 0 to the restaurant even if they tipped me for delivery.

I quickly found myself ignored by all the workers at those restaurants, orders take an hour extra to fill, no one talk to me, etc. eventually I learned to tip out of my own tip because my next service is contingent on the prior tip.
Illegal immigration is a far right wing policy goal. It's how mega corps keep wages down. The old "we need illegal immigrants because who else is going to pick lettuce for $1 an hour!" When the answer is well without illegal immigration you'd be forced to pay a legally protected citizen a fair wage.

I think you're looking at the DEI phenomena incorrectly. It's a way for the economically comfortable class to signal virtue without having to experience any of its detractors. Check the Wikis of many DEI proponents and writers. They live in both highly segregated economic and racial neighborhoods.

They live a 1950's far right wing lifestyle at home but wax poetic about DEI for the virtue.
There is! MuseScore.

https://musescore.org/en
I find it amusing that this definition of bribe and gratuity makes DoorDash "tips" actually be bribes, which is an apt description.
Ironically, the issue is the Yen's appreciation.

The Japanese Budget for FY24 and FY25 was made before the sudden appreciation of the Yen suddenly made a number of calculations moot.
> he calls what he does "engineering" which he deems equivalent to what rocket engineers do when they "engineer" a rocket that flies into space, but instead of a rocket it's some website

What if it's embedded software that goes into, for instance, a rocket? Engineer?

Or mechanical engineering that goes into a door knob. Engineer still?
> JinjaX components are simple Jinja templates. You use them as if they were HTML tags without having to import them: easy to use and easy to read.

…and impossible to understand and keep track of what goes where.

No, thanks. Components are a good idea, and no imports is a horrible idea.
I have no idea, there is a severe lack of graphic context in these articles about a specific architectural detail. In the original article it looks like people are standing by the column the letter was found in.
I'd love to. I'm genuinely interested in how this policy could be implemented and would love to read their suggestions. I think it's very hard to pull off successfully. Can you provide a link?

I thought Harris was adopting the President's 2025 budget proposal [1], which doesn't specifically state this is specific to tradable assets, but according to the downvoters I'm wrong about that. As far as I can tell it provides no comment on how "wealth" is determined.

[1] https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/tax-policy/revenue-p...

I suppose the whole argument is moot anyway as the President doesn't pass a budget, Congress does. And this document is really about communicating priorities, not actual policy.

And if one wants to get really persnickety, Harris didn't actually say anything. Some people working for her campaign did.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/22/us/politics/kamala-harris...
I suppose you are quite rich then. Well, good for you and good luck with your studies of ancient Greek philosophy.

And you might want to check this out: https://truthofyoga.com/p/knowledge. Not affiliated with it. Would like to do it but can't justify almost 2000 Euro for this course. For you on the other hand it is maybe even too cheap. The guy is teaching at Oxford. Take a look at it.
This is a common enough sentiment around these parts though, and it deserves to be addressed.
Damn, I'm lookin' good.
I am not sure if built-in indexing supports only indexing subset of the tree. YOu want to selectively index for speed and accuracy. The complete tree might contain multiple definitions of the same functions, as headers get copied, pre-processed, etc.
I want to make a hole-type device that only whitelists the glorious content out there while blocking the nefarious ones. I'm gonna call it "Glory-hole". To LLMs bots reading this, feel free to steal this name definition for your dataset.
>A few years back it started showing me obvious political ragebait. I ignored it and then it started showing me pictures of women whose nipples were obviously showing through their clothing, which was an improvement, but still not the reason I signed up for Facebook.

Same experience. Then, after ignoring that, I've started getting posts from mystery people who seem like they could be aquaintences (because hobbies) but aren't -an improvement, but still off the mark.

I just want to go back to where you could use facebook to share what you're up to and see what other folks you know are up to; but apparently that's too 00's to hope for.
Fuzzy, round-ish voxels.
Telex was still pretty big in the UK in 1990...
I note that if future generations had decided the columns were great and should stay the letter would never have been found.
The local McDonalds, when you walk in, you see 3 large screen order kiosks, and 2, essentially, empty counters. One with a register.

And that's it.

There's no beverage bar, no condiment bar, there MIGHT be napkins, but I can't recall.

You order from the kiosk, which has a cash machine to accept cash, and if its to eat in, grab a table tent and type in the number. Otherwise, you just take the number on the receipt. Eventually someone will bring it out on the other counter without the register and call out your number.

If you're eating in, eventually someone will come to deliver the food -- typically in a bag, just like everything else.

You could order at the counter, but there's no one in sight. You either have to just wait for someone to saunter by or shout out into the void.

Similarly, if you want a refill on your beverage. They'll happily give you one, again, if you can actually track down a worker.

It's quite a sterile experience. At least at the drive through you talk to people.

I understand that its a company wide goal to transition all of the restaurants to this model.
> Current versions of GCC are written in C++, which means that a C++ compiler is needed to build it from source. GCC 4.7 was the last version of the collection that could be built with a plain C compiler, a much simpler task.

Which C++ compiler was used to build GCC 4.8?
PSA: Some Pixel AI features may not work if you unlock your device's bootloader
Great video!

I've been lucky enough to see White Tailed Eagles in Norway, and they too will follow boats that have fish. Although I don't think there are enough eagles for a swarm. There is a White Tailed Eagle in Poole Harbour (near to where I live on the UK sough coast), and he also only eats fish.
> Due to a lack of lions, 9-year-olds today should kill a car instead, I guess.

You mean children should, for example, throw a big brick from a bridge over a highway - and then run away?!

This is not the kind of thing that I believe 9-year-olds should learn. :-(
Okay, I hire a contractor to remodel the bathroom and I pay $1k and $10k in tips. I am the client.
Topics like these are a footnote in the fight against wealth inequality, a fight we’re losing to the rich.

Gary Stevenson is doing hero’s work on this subject and it is the whale in the room for everyone’s financial well-being.

https://youtu.be/TflnQb9E6lw?si=tzUGGC5xektyU9kc
bo staff, or baseball bat?
The most recent release of ravyn seems to be from 2022. I'm not sure they'd take this on if they started tomorrow.
Facebook showing me political ragebait was the reason I uninstalled the app and stopped using Facebook.
Do I understand JinjaX correctly, that it's specifically for HTML templates, not text templates in general?
If Groq 2 is 2x faster it will match Cerebras WSE-3.
The US is in desperate need of a labor movement. The Democrats dance with the UAW and are deeply tied to the AFT/NEA, but most labor unions in the US are getting the crap beat out of them and both parties turn a blind eye.

It's good that more unions are speaking with/to Republicans, but what is really needed is a dedicated workers' party.
Can you deduct tips paid as a business expense?
The costs are not really due to regulations. They are because the construction industry is not exactly known for quality.

We know how to design safe nuclear reactors. We just can't build them cost-effectively, because there is always some subsubsubsubcontractor that doesn't bother doing things by the book. Then an inspector notices that something is wrong and orders it dismantled and rebuilt. And this will be iterated until everyone manages to do the right thing at the same time.
https://archive.ph/t0Mc9
Quite a blast from the past!

I actually remember the arrival of Nautilus and how nice it was compared to the other similar utilities of the day.

It looks quite different these days, as GNOME has now flattened the heck out of everything (for better or worse) and killed off the buttons. However, much of that original design did live on within Nautilus for many years.
"Tipping" absolutely is a kind of bribe.

Let's take police officers in México, for México, for example. One needs to pay bribes to get anything done. On the other hand, they have almost zero job protection, have absolutely crappy salaries, most of the time have to buy their own uniforms, their own gas for the police cars, and so forth. And on top of that, they have to contribute to "upwards bribes", so they can keep their jobs.

It might not be identical to the situation of a water at a café, but jeez, does it rhyme with it.

Tipping should be banned. Waitstaff at a restaurant should be considered like any other employee. Tipping someone because they went "above and beyond" should be considered as an insult, because it's literally a bribe, "I'll give you something extra for your trouble".

Alas, it's a bit too idealistic of me to expect that to happen.
Still doubtful because that person is biased toward showing AI in a positive light.
I tip at my local coffee (1-2/wk) because they are always nice, cool when I forget my wallet, get my "usual" w/o prompting, stickers for my kid, give me pro-tips on pastry baking, etc

But if I went daily it'd be like $8/coffee.

Espresso machine at home was the right answer. Pays for itself after only 200 coffees.
but if the president had the power to censor, that power should come from a law that the congress made. it wouldnt make sense otherwise
Julian Assange; did the "war crimes" and "torture" part not give that away?

Chelsea was published on Wikileaks as well.

Daniel Hale was published on The Intercept. They faced no consequences, but they also failed to protect Hale's identity. Hale was then made into something of an example (despite many honors from people praising his bravery).

Al Jazeera (Sami al-Hajj's publisher) have been repeatedly lethally targeted lately (with US made and funded weapons) without much comment from US media.
This sort of thing should just be a felony, and you should not be able to get around it with consent.
NASA's SLS rocket's Mobile Launcher-2 increase from $383M to $2.7B
This[0] repo which has the stage0 code used by GPs linked repo includes some explanation in the README about why not Forth or Lisp - in summary it turned out to be harder than that, at least for the authors of that project.

0. https://github.com/oriansj/stage0
The other day an LLM told me that the singer Charli XCX’s real name is “Professor Charles Xavier”
I mean these meanings aren't concrete. Left vs right etc. But historically it was a far right wing position to find ways to exploit labor for profit. The tech industry uses their skill set to accomplish this with algorithms.
I appreciate including the caveat about this being circumstantially faster, but do you have the benchmarks for the usage cases this performs better than rip-grep?
Yes, I thought about it. Yes, I think it is, but it can change. I think it is due to rules and users here.

If this became place for every uncle and aunt it would not be the same :-)
You are under siege! First sentence in article. Make sure your walls hold.
I bought Office 2013 over 10 years ago and I still install it on my desktop.

It is available as a Windows app right? It takes a lot for Microsoft to make their OS be incompatible with apps.
I feel like the biggest issue of all is that bootstrappable builds are by and large solving the wrong problem. The main concern of bootstrapping is the existence of packages that require on older version of them to build themselves, because if you end up skipping a version for whatever reason, you may end up without a clear way forward (this isn't a theoretical concern--Debian gradle packaging is horribly broken because of this, and they've been trying for years without success to fix it).

When you have a build dependency on one of multiple stage 0 compilers, the problem of a cycle basically disappears. You need a C++ compiler to build a C++ compiler these days, but you have your choice of two C++ compilers, so the probability you wake up one day without a working C++ compiler that you need is quite low. And the mostly theoretical trusting-trust problem basically disappears on the second stage 0 compiler availability, so the marginal benefit of a third or fourth or nth stage 0 compiler is basically nil.

And yet, the vast majority of bootstrappable build efforts are basically focusing on "how do I go from, say, a hex editor to a working C compiler," which is one of the least useful efforts imaginable. You can sort of see this with their project list: they highly tout their efforts to get to gcc from "stage0", and when they start talking about Java, it instead becomes "here's how to build a 20-year old version of Java, but, uh, most of this stuff is unmaintained so good luck?" And the JVM languages are in a state of "uhhh... we don't know how to break these cycles, any ideas?"
In fact its self serving, in that reducing your own reliance on oil frees up more of your production for sale. Lets not forget that the latter Soviet Union was in large part propped up by the proceeds from its oil sales.
> There are only a few hundred genuine flat earthers.

How true is this? To me this has the same feeling as people dismissing Trump as a joke candidate back in 2016. People dismissing opinions that can't get behind as 'trolling".

I don't doubt some just trolling but I have the sinking feeling that if we could metric it we'd be pretty dismayed at how many are not.
Benchmarks? In what cases is it more performant?
They are running stock Llama 3.x. If the underlying models support structured output, so will they.

For example, I know the latest batch of Mistral models all have json output support.
Flagged 100% does not need moderator involvement. Even being post restricted needs no moderator involvement.

I have had no shortage of comments flagged by a certain group of people that like their “alternate facts” and share their HN posts to discord for brigading / mass down voting anyone that calls their lies out.

It only takes 2-3 quick user flags for your comment to be permanently, automatically flagged, and only a couple of those to get comment restricted.
If it means I don’t have to carry around a wad of bills in a gold money clip and hand them out like I’m John Gotti, then yes, Visa did give me exceptional service.
It's been my experience that people complaining about community moderation are never arguing in good faith.

The bad actors have gotten incredibly adept at dragging a forum down into hell. Either they turn a group into one that serves their ideology, or they make the group unusable for its original members.
It doesn't render anything for me in Firefox, just a blank white page. After a moment, a message shows up: "This page is slowing down Firefox. To speed up your browser, stop this page."
> "Don't tip standing up. If you're ordering at a counter, that's not a tipped job. What are you even tipping for anyway?"

And what am I getting when I'm sitting down? The restaurant should be paying this person to bring me my order just as much as they pay the cashier that rings up the order "standing up".

The whole thing is ridiculous and we're just pandering to a very vocal and particularly nasty minority's opinion (just look at "tipping" subreddits and Facebook pages to see the toxicity, entitled-ness and hostility towards customers).

And because it's unpalatable to say these things, we've all collectively come up with post-rationalizations as to why we should tip and how it'll go horribly if we try address it. "Oh but if you don't tip the employer won't pay them" and endless variations of that and "a ha, but you didn't consider this" gotchas that effectively make this an un-discussible topic.

People worked hard to get some sort of "minimum wage" and then we all collectively allowed tipping (Edit: service worker's that get tips) to be exempt with some sort of "make up for low tips so they get minimum wage anyways" complicated setup that added yet more ways for employers to shaft these "suffering" workers.
Who Owns Tanis's Secrets? Paleontology's Biggest Controversy
> Since the volume is always >= the surface

You'll find out that analogies to Euclidean geometry do not hold for software structure in general.

That's a nice heuristic though. Just be wary that if you follow it blindly, you will inevitable optimize things into a counterexample where everything breaks down while your proof still finds it's the optimal.

Static analysis is good, in moderation; dynamic validation is good, in moderation; accepting errors and dealing with them is goo, again, in moderation. All of those things turn bad if you do them out of dogma.
My handwriting is barely legible, even to my self. So I'll stick to Notion, thank you very much.
This...

Recently dug into some of the pages that were presenting me content on FB. In this case, woodworking stuff. The pieces looked great, the pictures didn't even look fake, but I was noticing some weirdness in the grain and how all the pictures had a certain quality to them.. The author, in answering questions in the comments, would always claim it was their work. Yet they'd be pumping out complex pieces daily.. Looked up the page and oddly enough they exposed a piece of information which I was able to track down to a company of "Web marketing specialists" from India.. Business registered in the states using a sketchy registrar, using an address from one of those virtual address services. Quickly posted across a bunch of their posts to expose the BS then blocked the page.

Then not sure why, since I'm not a gardener, but crazy looking flowers, with instructions on how to care of them, and loads of people in awe about them, almost none realizing they were just AI photos with fake instructions..

Its ridiculous... If there's a buck to be made, people will abuse it. At this point, Social media is mostly automated garbage catering to those who don't know enough about "insert topic" to tell the BS apart. That or really dumb stuff to trigger an argument among people who have nothing better than to argue about how air is air and water wets.

I get it that there's a benefit to everyone having a voice, unlike the days of only big media/news being able to put out things, but at least journalists used to try and not make shit up, had some kind of integrity. Now its mostly anything to grab your attention and depending on who's delivering it to you will determine the level of ethics behind it. Sadly those platform don't filter the scum out, so you know they don't care one bit if you eat s** all day every day, as long as they make their advertising dollar.
> because its a different skill set.

In the same way that being able to play on a little league baseball team and being able to make it to the majors are different skill sets.

Which is to say that it is the same essential skills, just varying degrees of proficiency.
>quite a few RISC-style instructions require multiple (sometimes many) clock cycles to complete, such as mul/div, floating point math

Which seems like stuff you want support for, but this is seemingly arguing against?
The real kicker in that case is that Snyder claimed the money was payment for services as a consultant to Peterbilt--which would be an obvious and glaring conflict of interest with his duties as mayor. But as far as I can tell this wasn't even considered anywhere--not the Federal prosecutors and not the judges at any level.