skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right to point out that this kind of rhetoric isn't really in the spirit of HN.

On the other hand, it's a fallacy to assume that there must be merit to an argument just because it's championed by a majority.

I'm aware that it's politically suicidal to say that "most people are stupid", but I'm not a politician (I'm not even American) and I feel like "stupidity" should not a priori be ruled out as an explanation.
> Time will tell if the US really is the greatest democracy

The US voting scheme is far from being the most democratic.
Lol I love how you were sincere (seemingly) and I still got negged and flagged
It is about expense. It is cheaper to own than to rent if your traffic is great enough. And ownership provides control and better management.
Thank you for the interesting arguments.

> I silo financial information (and banks also have security) so such a breach is extremely unlikely to be catastrophic

So you are doing manually what Qubes OS does automatically: security through compartmentalization.

> The expectation is that it will cost me a couple weeks of my life as like an absolute worst case.

This sounds quite reasonable but ignores privacy issues and issues with computer ownership with Windows; I guess you also don't care about that.

I do agree that using Qubes wastes more of my time than your estimates; however it also, e.g., encourages 100% safe tinkering for those who like it, prevents potential upgrade downtime, enables easy backup and restore process and more.

> I think security like this matters in places where the amount of financial gain for a breach is much much higher (concentrated stores of PII at a company with thousands of users for example)

How about owning crypto?
As a Pole I'm very afraid what this will mean for my region.

With Trump wanting to support Russia over Ukraine and his talk about leaving NATO, yeah.
The message is the same even for non-America - we need to engage with these folks and stop disparaging them. We need to talk to them, we need to understand where they're coming from, we need to help clear the air between "us and them" so that there won't be an "us and them" and so we can _together_ avoid people that tell us what we want to hear.
He tried to lead an insurrection four years ago. Has stated that if elected, you won't have to vote again. Has called for removal of broadcast licenses for the press. Has said he'd be pleased if the press were murdered.
On several occasions I have heard "they said it couldn't be done" - only to discover that yes it is technically correct, however, "they" was on one random person who had no clue and anyone with any domain knowledge said it was reasonable.
None really. He’s pissed about his court cases and wants to investigate or appoint new judges. People that believe in the dictator narrative don’t appreciate the limits of the Executive branch.

Every executive order can get erased wholesale by the next President, and Trump only has 4 years.

We’ll live.
Indeed, many applications I would expect to prevent sleeping (some audio playback ones, games, etc.) don't implement this. I assume it's a case of Apple's APIs changing over the years and not everyone catching up/caring. At one point I had downloaded Amphetamine[^1] but it is much nicer to just use the terminal here.

[^1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/amphetamine/id937984704
Totally agree. And that's why x.ai are building Grok.
That would make it a Fatal Attraction.
He could try to do something like Putin and extend the limit of 2 terms (just to keep America Great a bit more)and later declare himself dictator for life like Xi Jinping. You could look at Hitler as example how to become absolute dictator.
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news is that at the end of 6 years, after America has been made GREAT again and I leave the beautiful White House (do you think the people would demand that I stay longer? KEEP AMERICA GREAT), both of these horrible papers will quickly go out of business & be forever gone!

“

https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1140252528304631808
Author here, this is a fun surprise to wake up to! I was doubting whether my project was "ready to post on HN" but someone beat me to it.

With Superstreamer, I'd like to create building blocks that simplify video end-to-end. While I initially wrote it as an "all-in-one" toolkit, I'm more leaning towards an open architecture. Like, you could use Stitcher to insert HLS interstitials (like ads, or bumpers) but have your original playlists come from Mux, Cloudflare Stream, etc... The transcode and package infrastructure is there for you to use it if you'd like to stick to a fully self hostable solution.

As for player, it's a neat facade around HLS.js (kudos to the maintainers, their project is great), while initially a streaming library, the facade exposes an interface that makes sense for UI developers.

Happy to answer any questions you have.
Voters complain that the economy is bad.

Trump promises to truly crater it, Musk stands behind him and promises said austerity.

Voters still vote for Trump on the basis of economy.

Are there any other ways to interpret it? Than that your average voter simply doesn't know the basics of econ?
Are you Canadian? I thought I was making a joke upthread about Canadians having a weird unearned respect for engineers, but apparently it's actually true.
Maintenance and repair is third party. Subcom, Alcatel, etc.
In my country one buys a 5 year old second hand car and put all the money in your house.

You drive less than 30 kilometers every day so who gives a shit really?
He's promising reindustrialisation to a bunch of the Midwest and less competition for jobs to a bunch of poorer people. It's sort of rational, even though I disagree.
Kindly review the new definition of “official acts”
do you have reason to believe you are socializing with a representative slice of Americans?
And far less bandwidth. Microwave is used for ultr-low latency trading. But most financials ride subsea cables like everyone else.
It’s a little hard for me to talk about Python setups which don’t use Poetry as that is basically the standard around here. I would argue that not controlling your packages regardless of the package manager you use is very poor practice.

How can you reasonably expect to work with any tech that breaks itself by not controlling its dependencies? You’re absolutely correct that this is probably more likely to be an issue with Python, but that’s the thing with freedom. It requires more of you.
No, just a massive failure by the Democrats who decided too late to run Harris. Any candidate who won a party primary would have beaten Trump today. Harris lost because she wasn't popular enough with her own party's voters to win.
"who habitually lies"

More like a Fortunate Son who's an adulterer, felon and burried his ex wife somewhere in the backyard.
I'm surprised that the article doesn't mention that one of the key factors that enabled deep learning was the use of RELU as the activation function in the early 2010s. RELU behaves a lot better than the logistic sigmoid that we used until then.
This is a pretty cool attack, and the compressed stream is definitely useful to obtain. I think it's really clever of the author to dump the compressed data to the screen and write a decoder for it.
We have built this one with a privacy-driven approach and ofc we still have paid plans for that, which ensures that we don't collect user data with the "free options". You can explore the AI agent and pay to use your favourite one for a customizable experience
They could learn more from Bernie.
The things he says he wants to dismantle are bloated executive-branch bureaucracies. If he actually manages to do it (which he didn't during his first term), it would be traumatic for a lot of federal employees, but not exactly the death of democracy.
That's best case scenario. He's a criminal with newly granted immunity. It's going to be worse than last time.
Yes, it can be done. I'm running a 24-channel DDR5 dual-EPYC rig and get good speed on large MoE models. I only use the GPU for context processing.

They're actually a best-case for CPU inference vs dense models. I usually run deepseek 2.5 quanted to q8, but if this model works well I'll probably switch to it once support hits llama.cpp.
I work for a European company and we already have strict rules about what data we’re allowed to remit into the US. Typically we’re only allowed to use cloud products hosted within UK + EU. It’s actually causing problems for us now with some of the generative AI stuff since the Azure offering doesn’t match fully the APIs of OpenAI for e.g.
> the pollsters were all so wrong

They were wrong by about 3 points nationally, which is a normal error.
So e.g. Danes would buy BMW:s over BYD out of patriotic duty or what? Almost no one cares. There is some 'irrational' support for local brands but many countries have none.

The European and Amrican car manufacturers are full of them self and want to sell premium vehicles to rich people. That is the fundamental problem. Covid gave them hubris.
Isn't brave just a chromium flavor?
They are private assets. And really it is impossible to protect them. How do you protect 1.5 million kilometers of spaghetti?
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In regards to CUDA, the alternatives are a pain to use.

Intel and AMD have had decades to provide an ecosystem that could rival in C++, Fortran and polyglot compiler backends, alongside great IDE and graphical debugging experience, coupled with a rich library ecosystem.

At least Intel is doing its part in SYCL, Fortran and Python GPU JITs.
USA's clear separation of powers is a liability in this case. In parliamentary system, where executive and legislative branches are not that well separated, if the executive branch misbehave, a simple vote from the parliament can disband the government. In USA, the impeachment process is lengthy and hard to apply.
I didn't know membrane until now. We do some things similarly (like transcode), although I'd like to provide the full chain, from source to playback with real-time video manipulation (such as ad, bumper insertion, filtering, ...) The latter is unique to do that open sourced.
In 2020, he told his then vice president Mike Pence not to certify the electoral vote count which gave Joe Biden the victory in the presidential race. Pence ignored this order. Had he not done so, it would have meant a constitutional crisis at the very least.
Representative enough to elect Trump for president, looks like.
So?

If executives don't want to sit in jail due to their company's shady tactics they can just not approve those tactics.

Alternative would be to shut the business down completely until they cooperate.
Upcoming changes to the DNSSEC root trust anchor
The West's drip-feeding of support and arbitrary restrictions on the use of weapons was a disaster.
You would have to provide a better and more precise definition of "stupid" then, the word has a tendency to become circular
Mozilla lost the Internet (& what's next) [video]
Why not? Can you not emphasise with people having one thing to look forward to coming home from work?
Replace a video game with your favourite thing and see how you'd feel.
FWIW that appears to be soon deprecated according to MacOS 15.2:

WARNING: The airport command line tool is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
For diagnosing Wi-Fi related issues, use the Wireless Diagnostics app or wdutil command line tool.
Yes, but it would've been much more interesting to read about title drops where this is not the case. The top titledrops listed that are not names of a character are all names of something else, like locations or objects.
AI data centers are not latency sensitive because their purpose is model estimation, not service delivery.

But they still need fibre optic connnections to move immense amounts of data.
That's not what the GP means, the popular vote is likely to be for the Democrats, as has happened basically every election. It's only because of the electoral college system that Republicans win the presidency.
Jupiter is so beautiful, the patterns in the clouds are incredible!
Pages and pages of name-dropping fluff before any substance. That is telling.
the message is: we don't want immigrants, we don't want to help other countries at our short term cost (even if it is a long term gain for us). like it or not, this is what people want.
Just so you know, this is exactly the sort of divisive rhetoric - from all sides of the political spectrum - that has led America down this path, and will continue to do so.

You can chalk it up to "stupidity", which is rather silly on its face, or you can acknowledge that this result is the symptom of something far deeper, and try to explore what those issues are, and try to find solutions.

One's easier though, I imagine.
No, of course not. But my sample seems to be so starkly different from the election results that that in itself is puzzling. He's picking up a sizable fraction of the votes even in blue states, after all.
He is not trustworthy with either facts or consistent opinions, so voting for him for something he's /said/ he would do is the stupidest thing anyone could do.
And remain a niche for wealthy people, being around 10% of world market share.
don't take the voters as stupid, don't impose candidates who can't 1 win a 1 horse race.

pretty much the democratic party has to introspect and stop blaming voters for their failed campaign.
You're not meeting the people hurt really bad by the system who stopped giving a shit, and a lot of people that vote for Trump had Harris/Waltz signs on their lawns but really want to pay less in taxes and don't like transgender people.
> Of course I think that the way I do things is mostly correct; otherwise why would I be doing them?

"My way is correct" doesn't necessarily imply "other ways are incorrect". Sometimes there's not one single solution to a problem. I love using Linux for my personal machines, but I don't think that people who don't are doing things wrong; they just have different preferences on how to do things, and that's fine.
Actually the RTD ranges from 58.9 ms to close 80 milliseconds depending on the cable. That is assuming the end points are Secaucus NY4 and Slough LD4. Those re data centers.
Trump will try to strong-arm more NATO countries, but the 2% GDP spending goal is well within reach for most NATO members.

With that said, NATO members (France, UK) have nukes. That's a line Putin can't cross.
Also https://github.com/newmarcel/KeepingYouAwake
I bought that line in 2016 and again in 2020. I'm not saying I'm done with trying to understand, but that level of fks to give is very minimal now.

Obviously, I don't think 50% of the population is stupid, but every time I try to "understand" it's becoming increasingly clear it's about his "charisma" and "our team" and less about hard policies.

People out here voting against their own interests or blaming things on ignorance (inflation, etc.).
Is this only for US cities?
European wise I think we're really failing to build significant homegrown tech companies. I'm not sure of the exact reason although I've heard that startup support it low and too much regulation / diversity of regulation are issues.
It's similar for us. Since I work in the energy industry we're required to have plans for how to exit Microsoft if the EU deems it too dangerous for too much of the energy industry to be reliant on Microsoft. Which is part of why I worry, because we honestly can't. We can leave Azure, but we can't easily leave the 365 platform. By easily I mean that we may not survive as a company if we have to do it. It can obviously be done, we just don't have the resources required to do it.
Definitely some merit to this. Biden was obviously too old in 2020 and didn't have the good sense to pass the torch last year.
From what I saw on some Twitter videos ...

People claiming economy was better under Trump's first presidency then under Biden / Kamela's recent presidency. E.g. people mentioning super high inflation.

There were other arguments, but it seems to me this is the major one.
What are the "basics of econ" in your view?
Well, technically, stupidity is relative. If you're defining it as "below 50%", then that's half the people. "Below 90%", even more, etc, so the statement in itself doesn't really make sense.

If you're in the 90th IQ percentile, sure, most people are stupid to you.
Here's a handy use I've found for mdfind.

Say you've got a directory that has scripts or data files related to some thing you do. For example I've got several scripts that I use when I scan books with my book scanner. I only need these when doing book scanning stuff so don't want to put them somewhere in $PATH. I want to be able to easily run them from scripts that aren't in that directory, but I don't want to hard code the path to that directory.

Solution: in the directory with the book scanning scripts I make a file named ID that contains a unique string. I currently use 16 byte random hex strings [1].

I have this script, named find-dir-by-ID, somewhere in $PATH:

#!/bin/zsh
ID=${1:?Must specific ID}
IDSHA=`echo $ID | shasum | cut -d ' ' -f 1`
mdfind $ID 2>/dev/null | grep /ID | while read F; do
FSHA=`shasum $F | cut -d ' ' -f 1`
if [ $IDSHA = $FSHA ]; then
dirname $F
exit 0
fi
done
exit 1

If some script wants to use scripts from my book scanning script directory, it can do this:

SCRIPT_DIR=`find-dir-by-ID 54f757919a5ede5961291bec27b15827`
if [ ! -d $SCRIPT_DIR ]; then
>&2 echo Cannot find book scanning scripts
exit 1
fi

and then SCRIPT_DIR has the full path to the scanning script directory.

The IDs do not have to be hex strings. If I'd thought about it more I probably would have made IDs look like this "book-scanning:54f757919a5ede59" or "arduino-tools:3b6b4f47bf803663".

[1] here's a script for that:

#!/bin/sh
N=${1:-8} # number of bytes
xxd -g $N -c $N -p -l $N < /dev/urandom
Biden delivered and he’ll take the credit
AI Workers Seek Whistleblower Cover to Expose Emerging Threats
Welding Example:

Brother and I bought and old Chevy. Front end parts so badly worn that could turn steering wheel about 20 degrees before the wheels moved!

Used bumper jacks to raise the front end and rest it on concrete blocks. Took out everything from the steering wheel to the front wheel. The springs were dangerous -- kaBOOM!

Took the worn parts to a Chevy parts department -- they enjoyed helping a teenager do it yourself, first time.

Installed the new parts: Had no spring compressor so used two bumper jacks;
had them supporting the car while also using the jacks on the lower A-frames to compress the springs. kaBOOM! as one of the jacks slipped, the spring expanded, the lower A-frame rotated ~180 degrees and hit near the center of the frame (but not me!).

Drove the car to our Buick dealer (family car was a Buick) to have the front end aligned. Mechanic was surprised and pleased to see the work done -- all nice clean parts correctly installed! But he said he couldn't do the alignment because he needed a bending bar for the king pin (vertical heavy iron bar connecting the outer ends of the lower and upper A-frames) so sent me to the shop of a friend. The friend said "Bet you got these nuts too tight ... no you didn't. How'd you know to do that?" Had read a maintenance manual at the city library. He said "We get those manuals ..."!

Shocks were part of the upper A-frame pivots and poor. At a parts shop, got two piston shocks that looked about right, were officially for some Mercury car, and drove to a muffler shop for the needed welding. The shop was pleased to help a do it yourself teenager and with a challenge well outside their usual welding. So, with some fabrication and welding, they got each shock attached to the frame and the front side of the lower A-frame. Worked great for years!

Lesson connected with the OP: People can like helping a teenager do it yourself, alone, a first time, with too little or nothing in information and tools and facing some danger. The muffler shop liked the challenge of doing the one-off, first-time, innovative fabrication and welding! Such a teenager can get a good welcome and respect.
The current results are unfortunately such a blowout that Trump may very well be winning the popular vote. I guess this is what OP was referring to.
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I think when they say USA is the greatest democracy they re speaking of its size, land size.

It's always been a kind of mix between an oligarchy and democracy, just look at the 2 party voting system, extreme wealth required to candidate and the lobbies expenditures.

That's very close to the antiquity democracy, they just need to remove woman right to vote (next one after abortion).

At least with trump we will have a good laugh once again.
He's also clearly stated he wants to remove the licences from media companies that have been critical of him.

There's a check list of similar statements he's on record making.
Meh, it is clear where they care coming from and they talk quite clearly. What we need to do is to stop like naïve Pollyanna's, stop relying on fact checks, stop pretending "both sides are equal" and engage with dirty fight they do.
Harris proposed peacetime price controls, an idea that hasn't been tried since Nixon, and for good reason. I don't think Democrats have the high ground on economics.
> What the hell is going on there guys? Are you just voting for the person who promises the most "interesting" times, for better or for worse?

I think the name-calling really hurt them.

Calling half the voting population bigots of some type just makes that half dig their heels in to give you a bloody nose.

If your main priorities, when running in a political race, does not match the main priorities of the voting masses, it's easier to change your main priorities than to change the main priorities of the voting masses.

For a long time now, the Dems have been trying to change the priorities of the voting masses instead of aligning with them.

They are so used to preaching at their voter base ("This is what a real man is, not what you think it is") that they forgot what the aim of running is - to win.
Europe is going to have to meet the challenge alone.
This is IMO one of the coolest use cases of AI. With a half-decent prompt, an LLM is pretty good at tasks like those.
Um, a 19th century Democrat philanderer might want a word from the grave.
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Jones Act restrictions on shipping are a lot worse for them than any amount of subsidies. Makes it much harder for ships to come from nearby non-US islands and deliver anything.
The problem is that one side engaging in divisive rhetorics while the other trying to take the high ground is why Trump is winning.

Trump is engaging in hate and divisive politics, he rules GOP. Democrats are constantly trying to play the high ground, they are loosing.
i will go away
Here's a European perspective that is somewhat pro-Trump, surprising as it may sound. I am Dutch and if someone would come along and promise the following:

"We're gonna lower your taxes so you have more money to spend"
"We're gonna take a sledge hammer to bloated policies so everything will run smoothly. Then we will build a million houses per year"

I would very much consider voting for that person. That said, Trump is a madman, he lies all the time, is a danger to institutions etc. At the same time, I am so disgruntled by the current system and by not a single politician tackling or even speaking about relevant issues that I am easily swayed.
"this apparent step backwards"

When optimising globally, sometimes a backward step is required to escape a local minima. It is possible that progressive politics has made a misstep, and that correcting that is the right thing to do.
Ah interesting, I don't know enough about which states do what. Is it not at the point where the states we knew the results of have been tallied, and the swing states are still unknown?
"and I fear more wall building." - more wall building was instigated under Biden, this is practical reality rearing it's head not the political left/right.

*https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67015137