skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Partially correct. Given the US taxpayer funding Europe's defense, the European public wants social programs rather than spending their own gold on their own defense.
> Europe's security needs are being met, so they don't want to spend incremental funds on more security.

It's just that we don't really have a serious security problem. A bit more so now since Russian agression. But military is not about showing muscle, it's about having sufficient to do the job and not more. Having a military is a prerequisite of freedom but not an end goal in itself. In the US it does seem to be like that.

> Yes, the US gets to make the choices when we're the ones paying for Europe's defense. If Europe (as a whole or individually) could match or exceed the US's military might, then Europe would not need the US's permission to make a nuclear umbrella.

This is the thing about the US. It's always about money and war. Not about quality of life.

In Europe we don't care as much about having a powerful military because we're not looking to march all over the world protecting our interests. It just needs to be powerful enough to protect our borders and meet NATO commitments (which it does now).

Don't forget the US offered us to join NATO, partly in an attempt to prevent us from aligning with other geopolitical entities. If we hadn't had that, we would have built more.
This is true and contributes to poor health, but I don't think it is the primary factor for weight. It is very hard to excersize yourself out of a high calorie diet.

It's really pretty shocking how much added sugar there is in anything with more than 1 ingredient, and getting more sweetness in is basically a race with every other element of someone's diet. The 1980s had it junk food, but there was still other food.
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I have bought fraudulent SD cards from Aliexpress at least twice. In both cases, the vendors immediately gave me a full refund when I called them out on the fraud (and let me keep the cards).
unfortunately, as seen here, rage bait drives engagement
Yes, Most people don't know why. But nutritional researchers like Micheal Gregor (he and his team have read over 20,000 research papers! just for one book - how not to die) know why. The problem is all the people who get the most views on youtube, TV and social media are the people who are best at operating businesses and SEO. they often don't know all the research (and even give bad advice sometimes) and hence we get all this back and forth that we see all over the place. Meanwhile, the real researchers who know what they're talking about and are very knowledgable about nutrition and health don't have time for SEO and running a successful media empire. they're content doesn't get viewed very much.
Not sure where you're getting that idea. Maybe there is some niche case law out there that I'm unaware of, but I can't even think of an example of state law voiding federal law.
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https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/space-exploration-te...

Clearly shows the majority of money invested does not come from Musk.

Also, voting control is not the same as capital invested, not is there a 1:1 between the two.
There’s been no shortage of proposed solutions and education.

Weight loss is apparently a 90 billion dollar industry.

It’s just that the long term weight loss outcomes are still abysmal.

New approaches are gladly welcomed.
I used pinboard for years until I started saving web pages as PDFs in my Dropbox folder. I got the idea from pinboard’s own archive feature.
> rolling their own infrastructure

Huh. I never said to roll one's own [hardware] infrastructure, although it even makes sense if having a GPU cluster.
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If that's your main downside, that's pretty good, since clunkiness is in many ways fixable. Personally with standard CL I like to use property lists with keywords, so a "map literal" is just (list :a 3 :b 'other). It's fine when the map is small. The getter is just getf, setting is the usual setf around the getter. There's a cute way to loop by #'cddr for a key-and-value loop, though Alexandria (a very common utility library) has some useful utils for looping/removing/converting plists as well.

If typing out "(list ...)" is annoying, it's a few lines of code to let you type {:a 3 :b 4} instead, like Clojure. And the result of that can be a plist, or a hash table, or again like Clojure one of the handful of immutable map structures available. You can also easily make the native hash tables print themselves out with the curly bracket syntax.

(On the speed front, you might be amused by https://renato.athaydes.com/posts/how-to-write-slow-rust-cod... But separately, when you want to speed up Lisp (with SBCL) even more than default, it's rather fun to be able to run disassemble on your function and see what it's doing at the assembly level, and turn up optimization hints and have the compiler start telling you (even on the individual function level) about where it has to use e.g. generic addition instead of a faster assembly instruction because it can't prove type info and you'll have to tell it/fix your code. It can tell you about dead code it removed. You can define stack-allocation if needed. Simple benchmarking that also includes processor cycles and memory allocated is available immediately with the built-in time macro...)
A more hands on demonstration would be welcome. This generic demo with its naming isn't helping.

What is the connection between an actor and a database for instance?

Why do I need actors?
Agreed, that's my experience growing up in a family where we regularly sang songs together casually as part of parties. It was less about listening to one performer and more about being part of the performance. Same still happens today with things like choirs - people are in it for singing with others, not for the eventual public performance. It's a very social activity.
It's nice, but it's about the tenth attempt to make C/C++ safe. I've been down that road myself. To succeed, this needs some major organization, something the size of Microsoft, Google, or the U.S. Government, pushing it hard. Someone has to fund retrofits of important trusted code, such as OpenSSL.

When you're all done, it will be at least as crufty as C++.
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Great vids by the way! I watch your channel.
It's true that the mechanism is different, but this still works (to a limited extent) even without any external object to transfer momentum to, just using the momentum of the photons themselves.

I can't be bothered to draw a diagram, but imagine that the sun is to the "north", and the solar sail is at a 45-degree angle running NE/SW. Incoming photons heading south reflect off the sail and leave to the west. So the photons experience a net momentum change to the NW, pushing the sail to the SE, which is not directly away from the sun.
> But why can't we just have a vector type that tolerates that and does something well-defined? What if we actually want to modify the list while iterating, because we are filtering the list for example?

This adds overhead that’s not always desired. And sometimes, this ends up being a logic bug. There are languages where this produces a result instead of being UB, but it’s almost always shown off as a “can you believe this wacky behavior” because it’s not intuitive. From a random search I just did: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12232788/adding-to-an-ar...
Here's something a human does but an LLM doesn't:

If you talk for a while and the facts don't add up and make sense, an intelligent human will notice that, and get upset, and will revisit and dig in and propose experiments and make edits to make all the facts logically consistent. An LLM will just happily go in circles respinning the garbage.
Because we can all afford to go to the doctor regularly. If treated early, you can live with type 2 diabetes and other obesity related diseases for decades.
I asked “what is the circumference of a square?” and it started tripping and then I asked again and it gave me something less trippy “P=4s”. In between it answer correctly for the circumference of a circle.
There is this thing also: when you have a project or a passion, you don't waste 4 or 5 years for a degree, when you already spent everyday during 5 years learning these skills.

Many talented people just skip the school and go straight to work (for themselves or others).

The courses also are usually outdated. Learn AI by yourself with the videos of Karpathy and you will know state-of-the-art. Follow courses from your local university, and you will learn the perceptron and OCaml.
Get a used Rancilio Silvia + do a fully fledged Gaggiuino build.

Check this Video comparison (Not a modded Silvia though, but a Gaggia classic which I would not recommended due to its aluminum boiler and the new China manufactured models have a (probably Teflon) coated boiler that likes to shed the coating... just search on reddit). The emphasis in this comparison is on the Gaggiuino mod, which does all the magic (profile based brewing). The underlying base machine is not that important. I would stay away from Sage/Breville, too much non standard parts and lots of plastic for my taste.

Decent Espresso vs DIY Gaggiuino build:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4kAgPm1Xfw

Edit: many typos and some rewording
No pictures? What are we supposed to be looking at?
It is also parasocial if you just like Ryan Gosling and watch all his movies. You still have one-way feelings for a personality. It is just that it is not pathological.

Parasocial relationships are not bad per se. Let's say you are thinking about Donald Knuth when working on a computer science problem, nothing bad here, taking inspiration from the leaders in the field. But it is also a parasocial relationship, it is like imagining Don Knuth next to you, helping you solve your problem, even though he has absolutely no idea about who you are. It is a one way connection, but here, it is actually productive.
This exists in a system. We have obesity (caused by several factors, diet and activity levels of course and then the factors into those) along with improved medical care. It's like inflating a balloon with a slow leak. The medical care is propping up our life expectancy numbers while our individual behavior is bringing it down. It'll level out or decline at some point as our obese population continues to become a larger percentage and medical improvements stop happening so regularly.
Think of it as a knowledge graph.

If LLM is trained on python coding, and its trained separately on just plain english language on how to decode cyphers, it can statistically interpolate between the two. That is a form of problem solving, but its not reasoning.

This is why when you ask it fairly complex problems on how to make a bicycle using a CNC with limited work space, it will tell you generic answers, because its just staistically looking at a knowledge graph.

A human can reason, because when there is a gray area in a knowledge graph, they can effectively expand it. If I was given the same task, I would know that I have to learn things like CAD design, CNC code generation, parametric modeling, structural analysis, and so on, and I could do that all without being prompted to do so.

You will know when AI models will start to reason when they start asking questions without ever being told explicitly to ask questions through prompt or training.
So it would emulate a UPS?

So they could just remove the existing UPS?

what is inject a UPS?
>we don't try to attack the actual cause

It's cars and large houses peripherally connected to amenities by car-only infrastructure.

People love this lifestyle and will fight you very energetically if you try to do anything to nudge city layouts towards the previous level of walkability.
./solve "How tall is a giraffe in ants"

Solution:
I'm sorry, but this isn't a typical math problem. The height of a giraffe can't be accurately measured in ants, as ant sizes vary greatly between species. Instead, I can provide you with some interesting facts:

1. An average adult giraffe is about 16-18 feet (4.8-5.5 meters) tall.

2. The average size of an ant ranges from 0.08 to 1 inch (2-25 mm).

3. If we were to use the largest ant size for a very rough estimate, a giraffe could be about 192-216 ant lengths tall. However, this is not a standard or accurate measurement.
I think you're thinking of Brian Aldiss's term "cosy catastrophe": https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/cosy_catastrophe
Your argument here doesn't work:

>Livestock make up 62% of the world’s mammal biomass; humans account for 34%; and wild mammals are just 4%.

https://ourworldindata.org/wild-mammals-birds-biomass
This is correct. Sean has been working for something like two years implementing these ideas to make sure they’re feasible, and only recently turned to actual advocacy for them, now that the experiment appears successful.
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Because we’re genetically engineered to crave stuff that is awful for our bodies in high amounts. Finding sugar in the wild meant foraging for berries for hours or fighting bees for honey. Now you can buy it at the supermarket cheaper than a head of lettuce.
Here is the raw answer from the endpoint

./solve "what is the circumference of a square?"

Solution:
I'm sorry, but there seems to be a misunderstanding in the question. Squares don't have a circumference; they have a perimeter. Circumference is a term used for circular shapes. Let me explain the difference:

1. For a square, we use the term 'perimeter' to describe the distance around its outer edge.

2. The perimeter of a square is calculated by adding up the lengths of all four sides.

\text{Perimeter of a square} = 4s

3. Where 's' is the length of one side of the square.

4. Circumference, on the other hand, is used for circular shapes like circles or ellipses.

5. The circumference of a circle is calculated using the formula:

\text{Circumference of a circle} = 2\pi r

Where 'r' is the radius of the circle.

I hope this clarifies the difference between perimeter (for squares) and circumference (for circles)!
I mean, it didn't stop Reagan or other establishment politicians from besmirching MLK's name by just mentioning it.
Look, I get the societal development that you can input narrative text and the code for this pops out is super neat.

But trying to be fair here, anyone would call this incomplete, right?

There are several obvious bugs in styling and interaction.

This example is exactly what I was expecting. An ephemeral, simple-yet-buggy single page that’s barely a game in common understanding.

That person, while maybe not actively programming things, does appear to have forked several repos on GitHub a decade ago. I would say that’s above the level of technical competence implied by the “my grandma” phrasing of the OP.
This is bad, and the last paragraph is almost unintelligible:

> YES, "freedom of speech" is essential, but as with almost everything else - extremes are bad. Extremely bad.

Extremes are relative to the speaker. Moderate is your opinion, extreme is the opinion of the guy you disagree with, and the "other" extreme is the guy who disagrees with both of you.

> For now, it seems that 99% of discussions regarding free speech online are just about protecting the statements of individuals from our tribe that are heavily opposed & criticized by zealots of the opposing mob.

The statements of people from one tribe being suppressed by people from another tribe who have the ability to suppress them, that's the entire subject of the discussion. If this is not happening, speech rights are in no danger. It's gaslighting to relegate all contemporary complaints about speech suppression as trivialities. And as compared to what? What's the real censorship?

> I don't consider it productive and beneficial in any way. And it's definitely not about real freedom of expression.

Would have been cool if you had written something to make an argument for this, because the rest of this page doesn't make any sort of specific case. It's just a series of weird assertions, concluding with this final claim. On what criteria are we to evaluate what you consider or don't consider productive or beneficial? And what's the "real freedom of expression?" Does it have anything to do with regular freedom of speech, or are you trying to pull a Jedi mind trick? Now it's not speech, but expression, and there are real freedoms and false freedoms? Why not detail this ontology rather than slip it in covertly?

The weird problem is that we have young, ambitious technocrats trying to derive the infrastructure for perfect dictatorships (now I have to tag my factual claims, but politicians and media corporations can just lie freely; in fact, they're the ones responsible for the tagging.) They have no moral justification for this, and when they try, it's word salad. It's not their job to justify, it's to implement. They're not fantasizing about a world in which everyone can speak freely, and has access to accurate knowledge about the world. They're fantasizing about a world in which they can afford to buy a boat.
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> In contrast, the AirPods run out after a few hours and are also destined to become landfill due to their built in battery.

Just looked up AirPod battery run time. Wow - that's short. I have Anker A40 earpods.[1] 10 hours, and the case has enough charge for 50 hours. 10 minutes of charging gives you 4 hours. They're a lot cheaper than Airpods, so you could easily buy a pair (for much cheaper) and be good!

Not sure how accurate they'll be as hearing aids.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B1LPNDGF/?tag=thewire06-20&linkC...
I don't think that facebook should be allowed to violate copyright law, but clearly they have the same rights as you do to copy works made publicly avilable on the internet.
And it's not just human moderation (which would be biased based on the moderator) but things like the flamewar detector which actively demotes content that is getting a lot of quick responses. This is precisely what Facebook would promote, and HN might also if they were dependent on ad revenue to fund the service.

Much of what's bad about Facebook and other social media pretty much boils down to their need to show as many ads to as many eyeballs as possible.
Yep.

This is the issue. People think freedom of speech, association and expression means I get rights to say whatever I want and no one should be able to treat me differently.

Well, not exactly.

Firstly it only applies to government not being able to stop you from speaking. Secondly, it in no way precludes the government from taking necessary actions to stop what you're speaking about. So these pedophiles out here can talk about their, "hobby", to their hearts' content. But government can and should use that information to investigate, interdict and prosecute any illegal activities in which they are involved.
This is the technically correct answer and we should try to address it from both ends - eating fewer calories AND being more active. There are a number of issues with "just eat less" because there are reasons people eat more than they should. Part of that is what they eat (what you eat matters for multiple reasons) and also habits or other psychological reasons.
There are many causes, one of which that hasn't been mentioned already is the decline in smoking.

I'm not saying we start smoking to lose weight, but it does suppress appetite. Now we have FDA approved medications that can do that.
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They mention having hundreds of contractors. Just because workers aren't full time employees doesn't mean they don't work for the company. Construction and sales are often done by "independent contractors". This reduces the requirements for the employers, working around many labor laws like overtime and paid leave. Google is known for doing this a lot.
Wow, the irony is Pinboard, the very service that championed the idea of "Don't be a free user" (1) is now shutting down (edit: sorry, ok not shutting down officially but apparently it's in a free fall for quite some time and nobody gives a damn (2)). Their article argued that free services often turn into pump-and-dump schemes, while paid services promise sustainability and better support. Yet here we are, witnessing the demise of a paid service that couldn't sustain itself.

It's a stark reminder that even paid models aren't immune to market forces and operational challenges.

Maybe the real takeaway is that no business model is foolproof, and unless you can self host something you can never know when and how it will end.

(1) https://blog.pinboard.in/2011/12/don_t_be_a_free_user/

(2) https://hn.algolia.com/?q=ask+pinboard
Everything that OpenAI does with LLMs has already been done and validated in the open source community well before OpenAI gets around to it. OpenAI is not an innovator. simbianai/taskgen on github is an example of one such project, although there are others too that don't come to mind right now.

As such, I would never call their work "frontier stuff", but they do bring it to the masses with their commercial service.
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That doesn't necessarily mean he was a not-nice person.

He's actually fairly well-known for treating his employees well. One of the reasons his TV show wasn't so popular, was because he wasn't into pitting the contestants against each other, and firing the losers.
I liked the film as a film. You're right that it's not a faithful adaptation.
Optimizing a query is certainly something the machine (not necessarily the LLM part) can do better than the human, for 99.9% of situations and people.

PostgreSQL developers are oposed to query execution hints, because if a human knows a better way to execute a query, the devs want to put that knowledge into the planner.
It would be an interesting turn of events if our economy tanked from huge numbers of people buying significantly less food.
Yeah, we could use biological weapons or drop hydrogen bombs as a few examples. We could send marines house to house executing anyone who even looks like a bad guy. Trouble is giving a few million civilians radiation poisoning or the bubonic plaque to "stop communism" or to "spread democracy" is evil and insane.
Sure and there have never been any good people because everybody has failings. So what, that gives everybody carte blanche to murder kittens and eat babies?
> no moderation system will get it right every time.

It doesn't need to, of course. Moderation, outside of blatant spam perhaps, is rather pointless. If someone wants to exclaim "Next.js is the second coming of Jesus", I want to hear it. There is a reason they are saying it.

To not get stuck in my bias: For those interested in people, why wouldn't you want to hear "so and so group of people are all _____ and they should all be ________, and oh, your mom sucks"? It is a ridiculous statement at face value, admittedly, but it is someone's attempt at communicating. What they are actually trying to say might teach you something important. Wouldn't you want to surface what they are truly trying to get at?

I certainly would for its tech-based counterpart. Especially if it seems to contradict what I hold dear.

> But I hope your experience on HN is still a net positive.

Naturally! I'm out of here the second it is in any way not positive. No sense wasting your free time on something you don't enjoy.
Made a lil script to compare the endpoint response vs the whiteboard. https://gist.github.com/samschooler/2b2831f232339a9d747934b7...

Just run: #./solve.js "What is the answer to life, the universe, everything?"
FWIW, Pinboard's founder is still actively commenting (https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=idlewords) on HN as of 7 days ago.