skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One possible idea is to simply publicly fund the political parties and do away with political donations entirely.

No, political parties should be abolished. People can get together, call themselves whatever they want, and recommend people as candidates for office, but these private organizations should not be institutionalized in law or supported in any way. We shouldn't even be helping with their primaries.

Law shouldn't recognize anything called a "political party" or have any rules governing them. They are not essential, they are corrupting.
I wonder if you can train a neuronetwork to have the kind of intuition Ramanujan had. How incredible would it be for math discoveries. Then separate AIs to try and prove or disprove the insights.
What's the data link between the telescope and the ground ?
As an obvious example: You should not trust your browser to have access to all of your file system(s) without explicitly allowing at the time of access. The only thing it should (usually) have access to is your "Downloads" folder... and that's about it.

Browser security would be a lot less time-sensitive if that were the case.

The same logic applies to games, etc. etc. I do NOT trust the developers of these things to get things right 100% of the time, so why even take the risk of allowing their programs unfettered access to all of my files? As a dev, I don't even trust myself to be perfect and I'd like to be able (in my program) to state up from "my code will never touch anything outside Downloads/" or whatever.

ETA: The point is minimal trust for any given program to do its thing. I'd like to be even more pithy with something about "trust but verify", but that doesn't quite fit, alas.
This is claude.ai or console.anthropic.com?
While I appreciate that need, as a user this is the worst way to get me to review your app. Especially because so many of them aren't tuned for paying any attention at all to what their users are doing before prompting them. I had one app recently prompt me for a review before I'd even completed their "first time tutorial" slide deck. Not only do I not know enough at that point in time to even review the app, but if I was so inclined to click through at that moment it would have been to leave a review complaining about the practice rather than saying anything substantive about the app's functionality. But even when they're not that bad, they're almost always popping up when I open the app (the moment when I'm specifically intending to do something that I'm now being interrupted) or in the middle of some workflow. It's the same annoying behavior that web pop-up folks used to do too.

Personally, I'd rather see you add a small UI element somewhere, or a banner that appears briefly but critically doesn't cover up any controls. If you absolutely MUST use a pop up, you know when the best time to do that is? After I've completed some in app purchase. If I'm spending money on your product, chances are I'm moderately satisfied with it and feeling pretty good about it at that moment. Or if you don't have in app purchases, unless you've made a "content browsing only" app, you probably have some workflows that have a definite end state. Prompt me then, at the end of me doing what I've come to your app to do. But I've never once given a review / stars to any app that has interrupted me in the middle of or at the start of doing something.
I don't know where you got that idea of dried jerky, but absolutely not. Meat doesn't even work that way. At best you can rehydrate small freeze-dried cubes of beef, but it's nowhere near the same and vastly more expensive than fresh.

McD's QP is fresh ground beef exactly the same as sold at your supermarket. Other burgers are cooked from frozen, again no different from the frozen burgers sold at your supermarket.
This has been my concern for a while, that switching from basic autocomplete to ai generated code, copilot or switching the Cursor ide will make me stupid and forget how to write the most basic stuff without needing those tools again. I am very scared of losing my ability to write the code by myself again thanks to ai.

If it wasn't for that, I'd switch to Cursor or use copilot in a instant, because honestly, I've asked some ai tools like Claude for help a couple of times, and those has been for tasks that I know more than one would need to be involved in to complete that, but with Claude, I solved it in a couple of hours, incredible stuff!

Also, if it wasn't obvious, I am not claiming that this is the case, these are just my feelings, I would love to be convinced otherwise because then I might switch and try out the luxury QoF others are having.
I would love it if you could link that
> don't see the need to write like mathematicians

Counterexample: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1283920.1283935 (the 1979 Turing Award Lecture)

Counterexample: https://dfns.dyalog.com/max_impln.htm
Eh, different bubbles of people I think. My tech-loving friends (including me), aren't fan of AI art because how low effort everything is. Some funny memes, but even then you get used to them and move on. It was definitely "cool" when it came out, but if it's simple still images, icons, and etc., they're kinda meh, at least for me. What Adobe did with the rotation tool is pretty cool, and if we start seeing effects of such AI art, that would be a bit different. But again, it has to be used in a specific way to inspire anyone.

I'm actually curious what the people around you find cool about AI art. Nothing has "awed" me in the past 16 months, I would say.
News by StabilityAI: https://stability.ai/news/introducing-stable-diffusion-3-5
That would be even better. I would go a step further and have local citizens assemblies manage as much as possible (direct democracy).

But with the current system, public funding is probably a better idea than private funding.
Cory Doctorow's surprisingly manual publishing process (2021)
> Google, believe it or not, is a real company with real people who work there. Those people build the products and market to the end user that they can entrust their lifetime of photos to Google's custody, but when something goes wrong, there is often nothing that can be done. Why?

There is no sense of obligation to users who use your product for free. It's easy to include a line in the Terms & Conditions that says, "You are using our product for free. Therefore, we are not responsible for anything that happens to your data."
> 4/3 is the perfect split.

Unless one defies the 7days week.

I'm concocting a system based on 4/4 split, the actual perfect split.

Yes, sometimes it ends up as work on other people's weekend and that's on purpose.
The simple fact that you can spend $1 in Meta ads to raise $1.02 in political contributions, at the scale of hundreds of millions of dollars, is fueling political campaigns.
It changes often enough that the sky is all I care to heed most of the time. Unless I'm planning an event.
Meta Bans Accounts Tracking Private Jets for Zuckerberg, Musk
Exquisite, thanks
I think xlsx files are a proprietary Microsoft format.
Proportional representation is prone to a grid lock and fragmentation. A ranked choice looks like a good option in the situation when you don't like both major candidates (or parties) and would like to vote for 3rd one but with first-past-the-post you vote will be wasted unless you will vote for one of two the most popular candidates.
Junior devs don't always understand enough to know why something should or shouldn't be done.

I don't think junior devs are going to benefit; if anything, the whole role of 'junior' has been made obsolete. The rote / repetitive work a junior would traditionally do, can now be delegated wholesale to a LLM.

I figure, productivity is going to be increased a lot. We'll need less developers as a result. The duties associated with developers are going to morph and become more solutions / architecture orientated.
:)

Don't put . in your PATH, that's for sure.
I am seriously concerned about who will generate new content when everyone is interacting with the internet with AI crawlers.
Techempower Web Framework Benchmarks Round 22 Results
I block every single notif from nearly every single program on my phone. The only real exceptions are my bank and brokerage and games I play everyday; you know, stuff I actually care about.

I haven't lost anything from blocking the rest, and I'm not about to start allowing now.

"Notif" because it's Not a question of If I will allow them, also because it's not worthy of being called by a full and proper name.
Indeed. It's also amusing how it produces a multi-page essay on the bug instead of submitting a pull request with an actionable fix.
Pollsters adapt to changing technology and voters who don't answer the phone
1) That is a pretty huge cost when wholesale cost of solar is only a few cents to begin with.

2) That equation ignores the time value of money, which is absolutely relevant. A dollar spent today is not the same as a dollar saved 100 years from now.
Anyone have a proposed route map?
Question for historians... Was there a time in the US that preying upon the elderly for political campaign funding like this would've been met with universal (both sides of the aisle) outrage, and probably cost the parties doing it many elections?
Not really. I live close to Hamburg, Germany. _Very_ eager to be eco-friendly and sustainable.

Currently: 64% coal, lots of nat gas, ~20 renewables.

The future plan is to use a lot more industrial waste heat. Burning garbage is done and planned, but nowhere near a major factor. Not to mention that the garbage would also need to come from something: plastics from oil, wood from trees etc.
BART and Muni have been pretty clean when I’ve ridden them.
‘Gate lice' beware: American Airlines is catching early boarders
> The energy density of fossil fuels means that those side-effects would be worse with other sources of energy.

Can you expand on this? How does the density of fossil fuel make them a better source of energy than say wind?
https://www.businessinsider.com/grimes-tracked-elon-musk-pri... is a hilarious related story.

It's trivial for the ultra rich to avoid this tracking: just use jet shares.
They're was no rebrand. They're different concepts. Copilot and similar solutions are giving hints as you do the development. Agents are systems that receive a goal and will iterate actions and queries for more information until they achieve the goal.
Wow, this flippant hand waving by the documentary creator that the accused shouldn't be upset because the fears of being unmasked as a potential Satoshi being "overblown" as far as it being life threatening and disruptive is quite honestly disgusting. The documentary creator isn't the one to have to live his life fearing some unknown crazies harassing him for a potentially owned unfathomable amount of money. Nobody should have to live through that in the name of "public interest", how people can do that and live with thinking of themselves as some altruistic force of truth I'll never understand. How will he feel if his documentary ends up causing Todd real physical harm?
Any speech (or well communications) that intends to incite violence or general harm on groups of people or a person with certain characteristics such as age, sex, orientation, race, etc.

E.g. "X race/gender/sexual orientation are bad for the society for reason Y, and therefore they should be treated with Z (a negative consequence)"

So intending to call out harm because of certain inherent characteristics a group of people have, and such characteristics that are not harmful for the society.
Hi, One of the authors of Daft here! Happy to answer any questions
The video is really sad. No music, no sounds.
I remember better videos on youtube in 2006.
Why should money be involved in supporting a candidate? Doesn’t the democratic action of voting do that?
How does this compare with smallstep step-ca certificates?

https://github.com/smallstep/certificates
Almost everything here is outside of the ISA-spec's scope though. Mandating a fallback-vector be specified for each compilation and there be compatible alts available there seems like you're going beyond an ISA spec and into how programs and data are stored. Sure, RISCV could say "here's what you run instead of new instruction Y if Y ins't available but I'm not sure it's in there remit to ensure these alt instructions are always there.

Your comment about the compiler using feature suggestions has got nothing to do with RISCV, it's up to the compiler developers how to do that and if they want to. This is how it works right now. The compiler inspects the hardwarew and works accordingly.

RISCV dont get to decide how the OS works. It's up to the OS developers on how a binary is handled. They can't stop me creating an OS that doesn't filter unsupported instructions and therefore the guarantee cannot be kept.

You could have an interrupt style thing for unsupported instructions with suggestions on how software/the OS handle them, but whether or not they choose to handle them is not RISC-Vs problem.
SCOTUS doesn't "attack" anything. They issue a ruling based on law. It's funny that any time there's a judicial ruling we like, it's fair and impartial, and any time there's a judicial ruling we don't like, it's judicial activism.

The other reply already makes it pretty clear why this Arizona's law violated 1A. If you want to make a legal argument that donating money to a political campaign isn't political speech, go for it. But right now it's considered protected political speech so this ruling makes perfect sense.

"Court reform" is a funny way of phrasing "ignoring the Constitution."

This isn't even a partisan issue. Harris has been on the ballot 4 months and her campaign has raised approximately 3x the amount of money Trump's has. Moneyed interests are absolutely on the side of Harris this time around.
Art has been an extremely saturated field even before transformers showed up.
Relocating isn't just about cost. There's schools, friends, other support systems, general familiarity with the area. It's not easy to just pick up an relocate, and not from a financial point of view.
> I’ll take the engineer who studied diligently with an aim to learn the material over the one who was just in it for the credential.

The former engineer will learn on the job just as well. The latter one won't learn well in either environment.

You appear to believe that the crucial factor is the person's attitude towards learning, and I agree with that. I just don't agree that a person with that attitude towards learning is necessarily any better off going through college instead of getting a job and learning there. Particularly now, with so much good material available for free online, someone who wants to learn can do it without spending anything more than the cost of Internet access. So the opportunity to learn through college is even less beneficial for those who really want to learn than it was in the past. It might be enough of a benefit to justify college for some, but I think that number is much less than the number who actually go to college.

From the employer's perspective, if you think you can evaluate someone's attitude towards learning well enough, I don't see why their having a college degree would matter much one way or the other. If you think they have the right attitude towards learning, hire them! Whatever they don't know yet, they'll learn.
Giant meteorite boiled the oceans 3.2B years ago a 'fertilizer bomb' for life
at some point, this will explode in a giant mess when your Codebase is littered by AI generated trash.
Has it been formally verified?
You do not need to say precisely 76%. Nobody is going to complain if you spend less resources to get a less strict upper bound like 80%. Hell, you can make it easy for yourself and just say 100%; costs nothing and guaranteed to not understate the customer impact. The problem is deceptively implying less customer impact.

But no company will deliberately overstate the customer impact, think of what it would do to their bottom lines. They much prefer spending a bunch of money to minimize overstating. Exactly.

If only they were allowed to understate customer impact then they could harvest even more of that reputational arbitrage is not a very compelling justification.
Roblox has a bad name? I've never tried it as it seemed really kiddy. A bit like Meta Horizons in fact. Too 'nintendo'.

I like the more gritty platforms like VRChat.
A significant reason the real holders of power in the world today are Saudi Arabia and China is because we've refused to gather and use our resources while they have theirs.

It's high time we realize that Pax Americana is our era to lose, (re)start mining and (re)start development.
What you say could be true too (or a combo), the outcome will still be the same though as more devs compete for fewer positions.
In normal critical system u use 3 CPUs. With LLM u can 1000 shot majority voting. Seems like approaches like entropix might reduce hallucinations also.
No, but any programming that would occur with identifiable information would occur after the wafer is cut and packaged. Generally this would be after delivery to TSMC's customer.
It is.

CTO of healthcare org here.

I just put a hold on a new RPA project to keep an eye on this and see how it develops.

According to their docs, Anthropic will sign a BAA.
Sounds like you are putting the "argue" in "arguably", so they are not wrong.
Windows seemed like a mess to me but it’s actually not too bad. Local/roaming per-app data can be separated and the per-user temp would always then be in the local part.
They're not going to try to do the job, they're going to hire cheaper, worse SWEs to manipulate AI... and then things will come apart pretty quickly :) But they'll still have someone else to blame.

> LLMs are a tool, nothing more, they don't magically imbue the user with competency.

Not a good take though, IMO. They're literally a tool that can teach you how to use them, or anything else.
Yard signs, phone calls, websites, GOTV operations, consultants, debates, mailers, all of these things cost money. The current system requires you to appeal to donors with a winning message to get contributions to pay for these.

Who decides which candidates get limited public funds? Are you just going to split it equally between whoever runs? Why should the public pay for fringe campaigns that won't get any votes?
Perhaps you can make your point here so I don't have to go searching for something you have not even explained the relevancy of.
Cause chrome took over the world and is putting back in the place of IEs monopoly
They don't (have to) care. At least in America, the vast majority of people have never felt the pinch of being "broke"-broke. When you have money coming in, you have enough to waste on dumb stuff. Going off my own list: $100/m phone bills when $15/m ones are available (even less, because employee discount!)? Well, it's more convenient (it wasn't, it was just money getting shoveled into the trash). Eating out at lunch? Making food is a chore (actually, stew pots are your friend, Panda Express is not). $200/m for a storage unit isn't reasonable. Neither is a new car note. Overspending on insurance. Monthly media subscriptions. On and on. You don't realize it until the money simply isn't there anymore, and you're forced to make cuts. And it's at that point that you realize, "Dang, I could have had a lot less stress now if I'd been more vigilant about spending money I didn't need to - if I'd just known better - then." But the entire economy essentially encourages and then preys on your apathy and lack of knowledge.^1

By the time you see what's going on, it's too late. You're a bum and no one cares about what you have to say.

1: Actually, this is not in and of itself a bad thing. "Stupid" purchasing decisions keeps artists and artisans in food and home, is the "slack" that keeps labor inefficient enough to be tolerable. The problem is twofold: 1) that corporations systematically prey on this tendency, and 2) its distribution as an ability is lopsided: most people can be extremely frivolous with money, and some can't be frivolous at all, and there's very little middle ground.
“Normal” in the context of the normal distribution actually derives from the technical meaning of normal as perpendicular, like the normal map in computer graphics. The linguistic overloading with normal in the sense of usual or ordinary is an unfortunate coincidence.
You have no idea what dementia is.
models will straight up return training data sometimes if you prompt them with like an image file name like IMG_1234.JPG though

i'd say that this is not the equivalent of a human glancing at an image and then have the memory of details of that image have some small influence on their way of thinking and imagining and creating, i'd say that's theft
Truth.

The courts have become more / too important as Congress has become more ineffectual.
And as a side note, this is why LLMs are such a huge sugar rush for large companies. The performance of LLMs is directly correlated to capital investment (in building the model and having millions of GPUs to process requests).

Software rarely has a system that someone cannot under cut in their bedroom. LLMs is one such (where as computer vision was all about clever edge finding algorithms, LLMs are brute force (for the moment))

Imagine being able to turn to your investors and say “the laws of physics mean I can take your money and some open source need cannot absolutely cannot ruin us all next month”
As u/fanf says, denial of service. The canonical example here would be `/tmp/krb5cc_$UID`, which is where Kerberos libraries keep your Kerberos credentials. If you create that for some other user's UID before they login, they won't be able to use Kerberos (unless they have a clue), causing support calls. This isn't really an issue, but still.

And of course those libraries' code that uses those files had to be written very carefully.

Sure, the more modern thing is to have a daemon called `kcm` that does that and which has an AF_LOCAL socket in... /var/run/, but it's a multi-user-capable daemon, so it doesn't need /var/run/user/${UID}, which as I've noted elsewhere here, is not universally available (for the same reasons that /run/user/${UID} is not either).
The commander-in-chief isn't leading a charge at the front lines, so whether or not he can legally own a gun has no bearing; otherwise, we'd have to demand that every elected official has direct, hands-on experience in everything that they legislate, regulate, or judge. Well, perhaps that wouldn't be so horrible, after all...

I personally find the way he came to be a felon to be a darker subsection, but your mileage may vary, of course.
It's perfectly possible that Wired is a brand known for its high quality writers, and those writers just happen to write well-written, well-researched articles with opposing viewpoints.

It's also possible that's not the case and they just publish whatever.

In any case what I mean is that I find it odd to ascribe intent to everything a publication publishes. They publish a lot of things by a lot of authors. They probably have more than one editor checking the articles. It's not possible to control the whole narrative.

Even if you assume that Wired has an agenda and that it exercises editorial control to further that agenda, that agenda isn't necessarily related to this particular topic. There are hundreds of topics to have agendas for. They may have a general pro-technology bias without bothering to decide their stance on every single sub-topic within their niche, for example.
> I found it quite ironical how the whole topic has been hijacked into this side discussion

Indeed. I submitted this post, because I found the article's discussion of the math involved fascinating, along with biographical details of Ramanujan I hadn't heard about before. I'm surprised to see how popular the post is, but also that there's maybe 5 or so posts that engage with the actual mathematics.

I probably shouldn't be surprised - generating functions pointing out unexpected connections between different restricted integer partitions is pretty niche.
I mean, what could possibly go wrong?