skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your perception does not make anything a reality. Many nations commit more to immigration and welfare than the US, and are benefiting from it.

Skilled migrants bring wealth with them, and in fact countries like Australia have avoided recession through immigration (and unemployment is still around 4%).
> If everyone got a unique prime number
The data may show that. The people don't feel that. (Many of them don't see it in their budgets, either.)
Do you live in the US? The first half of the Biden administration was hamstrung by Manchin, Sinema, and the Republicans. The Democrats had nominal control of the presidency and legislature but faced implacable resistance from the Republicans and these two nominally Democratic senators. Until the recent Supreme Court decision the US hasn't had a king.
They have similar ideas about Moldova and the Baltics. The intense militarization within the Russia is not going to end anytime soon - we've seen this play out in Germany 90 years ago, why do you think this time will be different?
That is exactly what I am doing, looking harder by asking people around.

Your attitude es not helpful.
If you think every debate should first have a discussion on definitions, before you can get to the heart of the argument, you should not be debating.

We don't have to define it. That's the point. It's already been done for us.

It's the same with asking me to list reasons or sources that explain the republican parties fascist tendencies, while that's been done thousands of times through the course of their campaign. If you were truly curious as to why people might feel that way, you could have done so at any point during the last few months.

You did't accept the definition you bothered to look up and you didn't accept the valid concerns people had during the campaign.

The real reason you're walking away from this conversation is because you don't care if I am right.

You're not afraid of fascism, because you think you're in the right group.
>They were predicting a split election.

Who was? A 50% chance to win does not imply that the vote count will be close.

Also: statistical uncertainty is a feature not a bug. A lot of the idea behind statistics is the ability to quantify the certainty of the point estimate. As another commenter put it: a statistically sound "idk" is a better result than a confidently incorrect estimate, from a statistical standpoint.
In 2019, GPT-2 1.5B was trained on ~10B tokens.

Last week Hugging Face released SmolLM v2 1.7B trained on 11T tokens, 3 orders of magnitude more training data for the same number of tokens with almost the same architecture.

So even back in 2019 we can say we were working with a tiny amount of data compared to what is routine now.
I used to spend hours reading source code for 3D designs such as this. And sometimes having to reverse it. I like these systems a lot
> that "couldn't be done" usually is in relation to some constraints or performance characteristics, which the "done" thing still does not meet

I'd say theoretical proofs of impossibility tend to make valid logical deductions within the formal model they set up, but the issue is that model often turns out to be a deficient representation of reality.

For instance, Minsky and Papert's Perceptrons book, credited in part with prompting the 1980s AI winter, gives a valid mathematical proof about inability of networks within their framework to represent the XOR function. This function is easily solved by multilayer neural networks, but Minsky/Papert considered those to be a "sterile" extension and believed neural networks trained by gradient descent would fail to scale up.

Or more contemporary, Gary Marcus has been outspoken since 2012 that deep learning is hitting a wall - giving the example that a dense network trained on just `1000 -> 1000`, `0100 -> 0100`, `0010 -> 0010` can't then reliably predict `0001 -> 0001` because the fourth output neuron was never activated in training. Similarly, this function is easily solved by transformers representing input/output as a sequence of tokens thus not needing to light up an untrained neuron to give the answer (nor do humans when writing/speaking the answer).

If I claimed that it was topologically impossible to drink a Capri-Sun, then someone comes along and punctures it with a straw (an unaccounted for advancement from the blindspot of my model), I could maybe cling on and argue that my challenge remains technically true and unsolved because that violates one of the constraints I set out - but at the very least the relevance of my proof to reality has diminished and it may no longer support the viewpoints/conclusions I intended it to ("don't buy Capri-Sun"). Not to say that theoretical results can't still be interesting in their own right - like the halting problem, which does not apply to real computers.
That's survivorship bias and thus your comment is just an opinion and nothing more. During restrictions covid vaccines were rapidly handed out and improved upon - this undoubtedly halted the spread of a virus that ultimately killed 1,212,000 people. So please go ask those peoples family and those people themselves if 'everyone was fine'
How to Be Hopeless [video]
This is not a historical perspective. Around 1900, it were the socialists who opposed immigration as a tool to drive down wages:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-review...

Back then the right wing were the industrialists who wanted immigration.

Hitler blamed all sorts of people, including the socialists (who were against immigration). Using Hitler to shut down any discussion about immigration is not very productive. Obviously there are limits. Less so in the U.S. because there is more space, but in Europe everyone is already living in tiny overpriced apartments on top of each other.
Yeah man, we usually die waiting for treatment instead.
I had cervical spine issue which made it impossible for me to work, walk for longer than few minutes, sit in certain positions. I would need to wait 3 years to get it fixed in my EU country and that is after few years of paying more in healthcare contributions than some of the most expensive premium insurance plans in US.

I paid out of pocket to be able to function. Whatever the solution to American healthcare costs is it's not what we do in EU.
Conservative counties produce goods and food. Democratic counties produce rent, interest, financial fees, mortgages, insurance.
I get and fully understand that many Americans are angry and want change, and they exercised their democratic right and pursued that change. We all need to respect that. Many things are not on the right path, and I have a feeling "DEI" and grievance farming is going to have a rough time ahead. And I get it: As a white male I honestly am tired of government being a tool to suppress white males. I am sick of living in a Western country that endlessly self-flagellates and acts like it needs to host the world in some act of contrition for success.

Having said that, it's hard as an outsider to look at the things Trump is campaigning on and not see that as not just calling "non-educated" people stupid, but he is literally relying upon it. Either his voters are extremely ill-educated, or they simply don't believe a word he says and actually make his lying a feature of his candidacy. Either aren't great.

When just about every economist says that the US economy -- quite literally the best economy on the planet -- is going to implode under the policies Trump has stated (even just the tariff proposal, not even getting into the crackpot "abolish the IRS and write on a piece of paper that crypto wipes out the debt", or Elon magically cutting 2/3rds of the federal budget, etc.), for people to then vote for Trump to "fix" the economy is not educated. Being isolationist in one of the greatest eras of peace in human history will not bring peace to Earth, it's literally guaranteed to bring war that will end up on your doorstep, etc. Nuclear non-proliferation dies with this election, and there are a lot of powers that existed under the US umbrella that are going to fire up a nuclear program, covertly or not.

I fear that many Americans just have no idea how much they have to lose. There is a sense of comfort and complacency to assume that this is the baseline. But it isn't. It can get much, much worse, very quickly.
Uh, Trump barely talks at all.
The general melting pot of cultures goes back over a century in this country. It’s been a cornerstone of US idealism for a long time.

It does rest that cultures will become homogeneous over time as they melt together but I take what is being asserted to be different from that, as in it’s promoting an artificial uniformity of culture rather a naturally blended one
I ran our CI on fargate at my last job. It was a mess. The time from api request for an instance to it being ready to handle a job was minutes. It was about 50x slower than running on a mid range laptop that I occasionally used for development, and in order to work around that we kept hot EBS volumes of caches around (which cost $$$$ and a decent amount of developer time).

Just before I left I was investigating using hetzner instead - our compute bill would have been about 15% cheaper, we would have had no cache storage costs (which was about 5x our compute costs), and the builds would have finished before fargate had processed the request.

Our numbers were small fry, but we spent more on that CI system than we did on every other part of our infra combined.
Trump doesn’t want to leave NATO, that would be dumb. He wants those not “paying their fair share” to pay more or the US will leave. It’s a negotiating tactic. So if you don’t want the US to leave NATO and you’re in a NATO country then get them to spend more on NATO.
I can't decide if it's more like a 1930s Europe or the Fall of Rome -type situation
I wish the people who are frustrated would actually come to europe for once. We do need a dose of american optimism and dynamism , but alas you never come guys. What s wrong
We're still at 390 levels of cost in a 370 world.
Populism only works because the average voter doesn't understand economics or politics. Or much of anything they're voting for really.
I've done the majority of my programming work in Prolog in the last 6 years, both in academia and for a brief stint in the industry (although that was with Visual Prolog which is a very idiosyncratic form of Prolog) [edit: oh, I forget: I did two stints in the industry working with Prolog haha.].

My standard advice is that if you find Prolog too hard then you shouldn't try to learn it because you will most likely never need it in your day to day work and you'll be just wasting time you could use familiarising yourself with the latest js framework or whatever is needed in your line of work. If for some reason you are forced to learn Prolog (as far as I know most university courses don't make it mandatory) and you're trying to solve problems that can be "solved quickly on [imperative] languages" then either those are not good problems to solve to learn Prolog and you should ask your tutor to come up with better ones, or you are trying to program in Prolog using an imperative style that it doesn't support, but again it would be too much hard work trying to learn not to do that so just bite the bullet and wait for the pain to be over.

Don't marry someone you don't love and don't learn a language you don't need. Simple, yes?
Who are you calling uneducated? Just because your have an opinion doesn’t make you an authority on what people under other life conditions need to lead a successful life. Speak for yourself.
Technology is definitionally a thing that improves productivity, so sure.
My guess: Goodhart's law

> Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes.
I'm usually against separate "mobile versions" of websites but wow, this needs one.
With the existence of the Senate filibuster, passing laws is very difficult even when you win. There are entire topics where significant reform is basically impossible, from anyone.

This is why America's supreme court is so important: One can argue that most federal level changes in the last 8 years cane from the court just changing their mind on what used to be settled precedent.
Try https://flowchart.fun I had very productive time with it on a project where I needed to understand the flow of a complex process. It takes tab delimited list as input. It's super fast/easy to make flow charts using this (upto a point of course)
Is there a reading guide to the maths behind Gaussian splats? All the resources I could find either assumed lots of knowledge (including what a "3D Gaussian" even is), or were written for complete lay-person (and probably includes some AI grift).
> The Democrats should have fielded a strong personality in their own right.

Wonder if keeping Biden have been better. He got 80M+ popular votes, after all! Why swap him out? I guess Harris was seen as Biden++, already working for Biden admin and younger, so naturally she would get 90M+ popular votes or something.
> It makes zero difference to the movie watching experience if the script line came from the script or the other way around.

I disagree; if it's a quote that serves the narrative and isn't jammed in as a reference it doesn't have the same effect as the meta examples. Less of a fourth wall break.
Games and the Fear of Death
"… after the same people squandered … decades prior"

The same people? Decades later?

OR perhaps is new, younger people with better ideas who just happen to work at the same company?
Dunno. IMHO, it feels a lot more practical than Urbit.
It's not about policy though and it never was. There is no way the Democrats could have "policy-ed" themselves out of this.
The order in which the votes are counted dows not matter!
I thought the implicit assumption in their comment was that OP/grandparent isn't American.
> and nobody sees that as a problem.

Actually, many many people see that as a problem
I'm still not actually clear how an energy transition will even work unless its paired with a huge reduction in how much total energy we actually use.

Moving from fossil fuels to renewables or even nuclear is all well and good, but it takes a huge amount of natural resources to pull off. Nuclear may be easier, renewables require a lot more resources than we currently have.
I believe petrol engines can do this too, and I didn’t mention it for petrol engines because the performance of the engine in that state won’t be anything like what it’s capable of, the rpm will go high but if you put any load on it the engine won’t be outputting a lot of torque or power. If this happens in a manual just push the brakes really hard while the car is in gear and clutch released, it will stop the engine. If it’s auto I guess you’re buying a new engine lol, but it’s not like the car is going to run out of control if you just stay calm
It is expensive to leave. . .
Trump has many 3 hour long podcasts and routinely gives 3 hour long speeches, off the cuff.
One of the things about startups is that if you’ve got any external validation, gcp/aws/azure will give you 2-3 years worth of free credits. When money is tight, free compute goes a long way.
Correction. Second most powerful. He can only do what Putin allows him to do.
It's almost as if they're premise is invalid then.

This is a lot like liberals complaining about things Trump didn't do.
>real (ie. inflation adjusted) wages
Do you have any references for that? I think it could be part of the story but I still think printing trillions of dollars will make things more expensive, especially when you consider where this money went!
In California for instance if the child wants to transition then you must let it. If you attempt to stop it or guide them out of the decision in any way you’re at risk of having your child taken from you. That’s the force being used, do what we say or we’ll take your child.
Not so 'much better' elsewhere, rather, not as bad as there.

Not being a sore second-hand loser much, may I offer my sincere congratulations to Presidents Putin, and Xi on their successful re-elections.
I think that the journey Hitler undertook in 1924 is actually more useful as a comparison to Trump's story... The media and courts and the incumbent's/MSM's expectations verses the reality of how that would land with the volk. A tangent from the parent but they did say they enjoy historical conversations :D
It was a great thing for the people who most needed healthcare, but it priced me (young at the time and healthy) out of the market. I went from having cheap employer-sponsored healthcare to not being able to afford it (literally from less than 10% to ~50% of my paycheck).
Well, we did have slavery. So I'm not sure I would necessarily call everyone since the Mayflower immigrants. Let's just say there has been a lot of movement of people into the US on a population adjusted basis since the Mayflower.
Of course, while this move to cloud native, along the path from IaaS to PaaS to SaaS, saves money on one dimension, it also binds the customer more and more immovably to the cloud vendor...
Why not both? We are absolutely an empire in decline. And we just elected someone who spoke about the "enemy from within" and made numerous threats of turning the military on the American people.
Author here – happy to see this posted again!

This was my burnout recovery project and I wrote some thoughts on it recently https://notes.jordanscales.com/98-css-reflections
Or my electrician friend who’s making boatloads working crazy overtime building data centers.
Watch some long form right leaning podcasts.
If you read a bit further he excludes instances like that and listed films with only a single (likely intentional) title drop.
Extraordinary claims require if not extraordinary evidence but at least evidence at all.

And please not the dominion claims that even Fox settled out of court on because they knew they were lying.
How long until you guys ban periods...
It will still generate responses that need to be moderated and malicious flags of your rule-conforming comment still needs to be reviewed.
> as in it’s promoting an artificial uniformity of culture rather a naturally blended one

Yeah, it feels like instead of enabling a diverse set of cultures to coexist they try to enforce a culture that has a diverse set of things in it.
looks useful. thanks
rising crime rates.

What can you do about a low information voter?

they're not planning on needing an abortion ever, let alone any time soon.

People rarely plan to get an abortion. Setting that aside, more than anything, from a political perspective, this is an issue about freedom. I'm not planning on buying a firearm any time soon, but I wouldn't support a firearm ban (and thankfully, I don't have to worry about this because no mainstream politician is running on this policy). It doesn't matter what your thoughts about abortion are, women should have the freedom to have autonomy over themselves. Also, the anti-abortion laws are also preventing women from getting medicine for treating some chronic disease.
you need a different voting method first, either ballotage or any of the other systems that don't destroy parties with overlapping voters
Nope, trans ideology is still unpopular and we all still remember it.
America was under a fascist ruler, but not under a fascist system of government.

Trump tested American democracy by consolidating power and was not successful, so we avoided being under a fascist rule

The fear is that we might get to test democracy again, and most of America doesn't seem to mind that. Maybe it's due to lack of understanding, not caring, or genuinely wanting fascism, I don't know.
> The US series Breaking Bad talks about a well-behaved chemistry teacher who resorts to manufacturing and selling drugs after he gets cancer and finds out that his savings are no where close to covering the medical cost

At the risk of going off topic, this is a popular, but incorrect meme. Walter could have had enough money for his cancer treatment, especially after getting the offer of paying it off by his former cofounders. He started selling drugs to provide for his family because his cancer was terminal. (And continued because of his own hubris.)
Calls for unity in politics always is a call for everyone to unify behind the speaker rather than for everyone to find common ground.
The US needs a dose of Europe's civility and modern approach to democracy.

Are student exchanges still a thing? Maybe we need more of that.
The mouse has significantly higher precision than touch interfaces. That's a large part of why modern hybrid interfaces have such low density.
We reduced our cloud spending by 20%
Or, you know, you can win.

The mask goes well with the candidate.
It's more than that. Trump demonized sections of the population. I don't know where this lie is coming from that it's only the Democrats who did that.
Nah, there's far more to it than that. Workers' rights, consumer rights, privacy laws,
and strong regulations around corporations for a start.
For politicians, economy is the GDP and stock market.

For the common folk, economy is their purchasing power.

That's where there's the disconnect.
Make 4-5% in a high-yield savings account. . .
If the issue was immigrants in general then possibly. But it’s about illegal immigration specifically and complete disregard for law and order when it comes to the millions crossing the border illegally and being encouraged to do so in many cases or no pressure to deport anyhow. Turns out that’s bad policy.
My impression is that that is not the case as it was 4 years ago. Many of the swing states seemed to be committed to having all the results in within a few hours of polls closing, with some small exceptions. I believe that was the case in NC and GA, and with PA being expected to be closer to 4 hours after polls close.
If you run traceroute multiple times - for example throughout the day - and overlay the results, you will have a better idea of the routes that [ICMP or TCP or UDP] packets are taking between src and dest.

It is trivial to add or hide hops to traceroute by just changing the ttl on certain or all packets.

mtr does traceroute.

There's a 3d traceroute in scapy.

Scapy docs > TCP traceroute:
https://scapy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage.html#tcp-tracer... :

> If you have VPython installed, you also can have a 3D representation of the traceroute.
One look at a currency prices chart disproves the "debasing" theory.
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>they can just not approve those tactics.

You think the VP of Uber France was involved in the approval of global IT policies regarding locking accounts when there's a raid?
I have seen, heard, been force to sit through 100x more political ads, in the company of other people, watching youtube on the couch in the living room. Daily political texts, phone calls, emails, physical mail, weekly house visits irl...

I think it just served as an echo chamber to reinforce the beliefs you already have. I don't think anyone on twitter follows people with opposing beliefs, that is annoying and causes unnecessary stress.
He can, and has basically promised to massively subsidize fracking. Fracking is still not profitable, never has been, probably never will be. It's existence is purely political.
In the south, this is flat right, Memphis State University, University of Tennessee.
I made this Obsidian theme (now defunct) using lots of source from 98.css

https://github.com/SMUsamaShah/Obsidian-Win98-Edition
You're not as important as you think you are
> "Oh but not like you, you're one of the good ones!" - imagine yourself being described that way, and ask if that's a crowd you care to spend your time living with.

That is how the left describe men, do you argue the left hates men?