skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Specifically, they stuck to the letter of the law, not the spirit of the law. (made an 'equivalent' fireproof product, which legally didn't need retesting, but in fact performed far worse)

Same with VW and dieselgate. (made a car which did well when tested, but badly in the real world)

The pattern is that complex regulations always have loopholes, when far better would be to wipe out all the regulations and simply put in prison people who don't take sufficient care of the environment or other peoples lives. Let courts decide what is insufficient care on a case by case basis.
I don't think Haskell can do this, can have a growable linked list for example. 'last a' is 'last a', regardless what is between them (modulo shadowing and such).

And I suspect that Prolog's Partial Instantiation is, while not mutating data, but it is mutating references somewhere
I always liked the phrase "spicy autocomplete" as a way of (over)simplifying how LLMs work.
Haha yeah. Within Pidgin I used ICQ, XMPP (over my own VPS), Skype, Facebook messenger, ...

Now I have to use different apps for Signal, Element, Slack, Discord, WhatsApp, Telegram, ...
Makes me think of an interesting related question: how aware are we, normally, of our incoherence? What's the phenomenology of that? Hmm.
Good points, but the author is missing the other major problem in universities: that they've become for-profit centers. "Butts-in-seats" is the number one priority according to the last college president I worked for. Headcount means tuition and funding and grants. The kids be damned, they're not interested in their success. In fact if a sophomore or freshman drops out, that's room for a new incoming student with new loans they'll take out.
Lawful evil versus chaotic evil.
One of the big controversies is that Chinese "tiktok" runs a much less socially disruptive algorithm.

You know, China hit a lot of these problems before we did and the ir platforms are "nicer" because they are more regulated.

Rather than ban tiktok and suffer the same problems with meta's Reels, what if we borrowed some of thier regulation?
Yeah, exactly! I took a couple memory snapshots of the name "AAA" and then threw out all of the addresses that had values that didn't match the first snapshot. Then I changed it to "BBB" and threw out all the addresses that did match.

There's a program called Cheat Engine that can make this a point and click thing; that's usually how people find GameShark-style codes.
I meant at the time of the alleged chicken crossing
> It’s about a foreign government controlling the algorithm

The right way to stop bad behavior is to write a specific description of the bad actions and the penalty for doing them into the code of law. The wrong way is to declare specific entities guilty of bad behavior you can only vaguely describe.

There is a very good reason the US constitution bans bills of attainder: they become a way of going after individuals for reasons that if properly articulated could not withstand public scrutiny. Canada would do well to uphold the same taboo.

Note that I'm not registering a position on TikTok itself. It could be run by turbosatan for all I care. I object to the lawless mechanism through which western governments are trying to go after TikTok in particular.
The iOS app has been in testflight forever and the author moved his focus to Loops. I, for one, don't have any faith in Pixelfed or its offshoots.
Vampire bats rapidly fuel running with amino acids from a blood meal
the "I live in Seattle but don't like my 45min commute" anti-RTOer is only the tip of the iceberg for a company like Amazon. every team I saw there was built up during the fully remote covid years - and comprised of ~50% folks from all over the country. "RTO" so far has meant someone living in Virginia picks up and commutes to their newly-assigned office in Arlington where none of their teammates are located. most people aren't open to picking up and moving cities now, and even if they are I've heard relocation packages are hard to get.

sure, in person work was great before covid but these companies have put themselves in an impossible situation when they spent 3 years hiring fully remote workers from around the country/world.
I'm curious which apps you've tried and what the deficiencies are you find in them.

There are a number of companies in the ecosystem. Most have chosen not to pursue VC money in order to keep things going much longer. While a venture backed company can have success, most flame out eventually in my observation.
Genshin Impact, and Black Myth Wukong are both extremely popular chinese video games with big penetration in the West, but this is extremely recent.

Hong Kong kung fu and crime dramas were pretty popular in the west in the 70s and 80s, but definitely a niche and nothing like Japanese Samurai films as far as popularity.
GP is saying that they don't want that, not that it doesn't work.
And yet, the commenter's primary point still stands.
The modern equivalent to XMPP is XMPP. Like every other healthy and alive protocol it evolves over time to meet new needs.
You’ll be warned when you accept the terms and conditions. And after the first lawsuits, there will be some fine print on the bottom of the page for you to ignore.
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I did this. It's surprisingly hard to find a solid white background and get uniform lighting at home. Took many shots.
Is "producing net energy" really what’s physically happening here, or is it a shortcut for "extracting pre-existing matter/energy in a form we can canalize?
People always say this about working-class Republican votes but the exact same thing is true of many educated middle-class Democratic voters. If you work e.g. in big tech you will pay less taxes when Republicans set tax policy. Why aren't we calling tech worker Democrats stupid for voting against their own economic interests and higher taxes?
could it be that the rooster/cockadoodledoo is something performed like clockwork in the morning, so the showing framedata also being tangential to time and clocks ? probably not
You actually do have a right to that, and to suggest otherwise is a much worse stance on public policy than someone incorrectly describing a quarter's GDP growth.
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Looks super cool! But I feel I would grow annoyed with the noise.
You’re not going to grow enough food on your average American lawn to survive off of either lol
Same happened with the Drug War. The generation that spend their entire teenage years in the 60s in a haze of MJ smoke became the fiercest prohibition advocates during the 80s and 90s.
> Protectionism also is a value associated with "far-right".

While it may be associated with the "far right", it is held by others as well. Many unions, in the past, supported protectionism for example.

Regardless, the argument was not about Trump holding protectionist views, but libertarian views which he clearly doesn't hold to.

> It may sound like it conflicts with libertarianism but in my understanding that's applied nationally, while closing borders.

Closing the borders has nothing to do with libertarian economics or protectionism.

If you go back 15 years ago plenty of people on the left supported restricting immigration. Bernie Sanders famously called open borders a Koch Brothers plan to get cheap labor and harm workers in the US.

> Populism also is often associated with far-right.

While most populist politicians, at the moment, are on the right, it is not a right wing position. Bernie Sanders is often referred to as a populist as well.

Regardless, it is not a far right position to be anti-establishment or whatever somebody defines populist as.
I can’t imagine the way you build this website is the same way you build your static sites or a landing page. Is it WebGL? Looks extremely complex to be honest.
There's been a recent-ish (past 2-3 months?) site update which bypasses that problem, though I cannot find dang's comment announcing that.
I wouldn't bother. Nobody really cares about privacy-first. The HN audience is one that you might expect to care strongly about privacy, and yet even here many still prefer to use the Android/Google ecosystem because it's more customizable and Not Apple, over the highly private Apple ecosystem. Privacy just isn't that many people's first concern.
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Neutrons make hardware radioactive.

Many on Hacker News fantasize about fusion (not fission) reactors. These fusion reactors will be an intense source of fast neutrons. All the hardware in a fusion reactor will become radioactive. Not to mention the gamma rays.

If you have to deal with radioactive materials, why not just use fission? After 70 years of working with fission reactors, we know how to build and operate them at 95%+ efficiency. Fission can provide all the power we need.

Today there are 440 nuclear fission reactors operating in 32 countries. 20% of America's grid power comes from nuclear fission. If you want to develop energy technology, focus on improving fission. For example, TRISO fuel (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41898377) or what Lightbridge is doing (https://www.ltbridge.com/lightbridge-fuel). Hacker News is hostile to fission and defeatist (unable to contemplate innovation in fission technology) but this attitude will gradually change.

Quoting John Carmack: "Deuterium fusion would give us a cheap and basically unlimited fuel source with a modest waste stream, but it is an almost comically complex and expensive way to generate heat compared to fission, which is basically 'put these rocks next to each other and they get hot'."
I thought the whole point of the Windows taskbar was to give you tabs for all your windows? Why did they feel the need to add tabs again!
A quick google search shows that China uses a censored version of TikTok; they are not using the international version.
He won more votes than that other person who voted. I guess that's only the "majority" when it's convenient for the argument. So you may be technically correct but really, that's the worst kind of correct.
Works great for me on Fedora Atomic Sway
Probably true - when I move to a dense urban area where a park makes more sense I will definitely take my kids there!
It really is a game with a strange mix of aesthetics. Blue skies and bright colors in the early levels; suspense and dread and supernatural stuff in the later levels.

Another Ed Annunziata game called Three Dirty Dwarves is also stylistically unique.
Japanese is also accented by tones, but it's pretty robust even if you get them wrong thanks to context.

The common example of hashi (bridge) and hashi (chopsticks) demonstrates that. If a foreigner asks for a bridge to eat their ramen with, they probably meant chopsticks.
I believe they were calling the function tiny, which it is, it’s 27 lines.
No, the company I work for has some presence in France (and every other country) though.
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People around here like to say "The map isn't the territory". If we are talking about the physical world, then language is a map not the territory, and not a detailed one either, an LLM trained on it is a second order map.

If we consider the territory to be human intelligence, then language is still a map but it is a much more detailed map. Thus an LLM trained on it becomes a more interesting second order map.
kubernetes is very complex and therefore any abstraction which completely glosses over the way the underlying systems work would make it very hard to avoid leaking or a bad abstraction to begin with.

the complexity in one way or another must be preserved within the abstraction (in all likelihood) or you will have cases you cannot create in that layer or breakages which now have the total complexity of both the abstraction itself AND kubernetes itself required to fix.

i would not say IaC is going to provide you a magic solution to learning k8s, although the value in using IaC (e.g. Argo CD / Flux CD + Kustomize + ...) in K8s land is that you are no longer imperatively managing your cluster resources and therefore can keep them within a repository, managed like code. the point of the solution is not to make it easier for newcomers, but to make it easier to have teams manage and work together on an established cluster for deployments, ...

in the case of Pulumi, you leverage the single language with typechecking instead of relying upon K8s flavoured YAML, which is itself beneficial in many ways (since you can use your regular developer tooling)

wrt pkl, pretending K8s manifest structure underneath does not help because you will need to know how the keys within a manifest interact with the underlying system regardless, especially to understand functionality, e.g. node selectors, taints and tolerations, node affinity, ...

i prior managed a terraform-based deployment of several k8s clusters and it still required knowledge of those keys and values, alongside knowledge of the underlying resource types.

without those you can't implement things like GPU-based node selection for jobs which require a GPU, ...
AI for Fusion in order to create Fusion for AI
> I also never want yaml, fwiw.

Fair enough, it’s just that if you’re my coworker or employee I’m wondering if you don’t have something more important to worry about =D
Ello was an attempt at something like this, but it shut down last year

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ello_(social_network)
This is great news for a lot of people including the party that just won the election.
It's all of the above plus the faint hope that people will actually use the AI features and come to depend on them for some reason!
Ultimately I'm not giving up, and I would say being aware of this fact is the opposite of ignorance.

The very first step here is to phase out extraction of fossil fuels. Kamala Harris was not going to even stop fracking, which is by far the most environmentally damaging extraction, let alone phase out drilling.

Basically no state/country nor any politician is going to save us. Currently it's up to regular people to work on building a better world, restoring the biosphere, coming up with ways to adjust our manner of living towards a sustainable course and one that will be resilient to catastrophic climate events and even social upheaval.

Instead it seems a lot of people want to just cast a ballot and then forget about it, but this will be a fundamental lifestyle change, and it's going to involve sacrifice.
Energy can neither be created nor destroyed (matter is energy)

When I say producing net energy I mean getting out more useful energy than we put in.

At the lowest level, the energy we received comes from the fact that the two nuclei fused have a lower energy state than they had individually and the remaining energy causes heat via the emission of neutrons
He jumps consistently in an X shape every time he makes a public speech though. He is pretty… important about the X.
Building permission-aware AI chatbots
Community-owned _broadband networks_ I'm not sure about.

Community-owned _physical infrastructure_ (especially last-mile — fiber & copper going to everybody's house) … that needs to be the default.

And if it's not community-owned, it needs to be regulated with open access requirements.

Yes you can theoretically build a second fiber network and hook up people's houses. Yes it has happened in actual practice. But it is commercially questionable and just completely silly.
LLMs Orchestrating Structured Reasoning Achieve Kaggle Grandmaster Level
It does by default. It shouldn't.
Yet many of us bikers long to compete in the Isle of Man TT.

Here is an example of what a lap of the circuit looks like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31RZ5wU-Fg0

Riding in the TT is like climbing Everest. It's the ultimate challenge.
Typically, there is at _least_ one death during racing each year. Often many more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Man_TT
Keeping old games running on new hardware is ESSENTIAL for continued profits. Let's do the math.

PSN had 123M subscriptions in 2023. Supposedly, 70% were essential, 13% were extra, and 17% were premium. Let's get the highest (per month) and lowest (per year) costs for each tier to give us a PSN income range.

Essential $6.9B to $10.3B

Extra $2.2B to $2.9B

Premium $3.3B to $4.5B

That gives a range between $12.4B to $17.7B or an average of almost exactly $15B.

Sony Playstation generated $30B total revenue in 2023.

HALF of their revenue is from PSN. The big selling point of the Extra/Premium subscriptions is game access. If these users switched back down to Essential because the PSN game service doesn't work, that would represent a $2.5B to $3B drop in revenue or around 10%.

Sony supposedly makes around 30% of the asking price for new games. Making up $3B in lost revenue would require selling an extra $9B in games. Average video game prices in the US are $70 which means they'd have to sell almost 130M more games than they currently project they will sell.

There are around 62M PS5 consoles meaning they'd have to sell an average of 2 more AAA games than projected every single year. I simply don't think that is possible.
There are a couple iOS clients now but it's an area of active work for sure.
I don’t think many in either party are worried about small donations. But the concern from Dems is usually the unlimited donations as one billionaire could match the financial influence of millions of non-billionaires.

Kamala raised 2:1 from campaign contributions (limits: https://www.fec.gov/updates/fec-announces-2023-2024-campaign...), while the inverse was true for Trump.

Source:
https://www.opensecrets.org/

In politics what’s pretty consistent is it’s almost always a debate about what’s to my advantage or not, masquerading as a principled argument.
I have to agree. The hard liners and fanatics insisted "you're either with us 100% or against us; no compromises" and then were surprised to be surrounded by people against them on election day.

What little hope there is for the Democrats to recover lies in repudiating and purging these hard liners. If they double down, they'll lose just as badly next time.
Understood. I think those terms are so easily confused.

Philosophically, communism is the goal of Marxist theory -- where no ruling class even exists, ownership of the means of production doesn't exist, and everyone shares everything.

Socialism as a form of government (and not socialist economic policy within a republic or democracy) is an intentional, totalitarian stepping stone to that theoretical end goal. When I said "socialism" I meant these totalitarian governments and not anything that exists in northern Europe today. The communist parties of the "communist" (but really socialist) nations of the 20th century promised that the socialist totalitarianism was a stepping-stone and that it would be temporary until true communism was achieved (which has only ever actually occurred in small religious communities like monasteries, and which are often subsidized from the outside anyway). Those promises of temporary totalitarianism were part of how the dictators gained power.

What we call "socialist" economic policy (like the nationalized services in many European nations today) is an entirely separate and mostly unrelated issue (to me at least). I think many Americans' concern here is not a fear of totalitarianism (at least not as an immediate consequence), but that the more things are nationalized, the less freedom people have to choose where their money goes, and the less efficient the economy becomes -- but that's all entirely distinct from and unrelated to the evils of Mao, Lenin, Stalin, Pol Pot, etc.

The only modern, truly "socialist" nation I know of is North Korea.
The anecdote would imply that if you're a tech worker, hiring more H1B's or outsourcing development is financially beneficial to shareholders and management while it puts downward pressure on wages for employees.