skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nah, what you're missing, at least in the U.S., is that the last 100 years or so have basically been a gigantic society scaled, Ponzi experiment w.r.t. things like Social Security. The entire system works, as long as population growth remains positive. Number must go up. The new revenue pays for people already drawing against the system. If things hit an equilibrium or, heaven forbid, start to shrink, the entire social order will start to break down ws the few social safety nets that exist start collapsing under their own weight. Remember, there's a constant handoff of amount of work to be done between generations at any one time. Once an overall smaller generation occurs, we either A)we have tech advanced far enough where some of the work to be done can be handled by fewer people, or B) start seeing the work deemed necessary to do get done get forcibly trimmed down by virtue of simply not having anyone to do it. Trajectory is suggesting we're banking on A, but we're also not focusing on making sure that we can pull it off without mentally mulching the people doing all that work.

Immigration and taxation can stall having to come to terms with this for a nation for a short time. However, there is a fundamental breaking point for humanity on Earth as a whole where all polities will be in the same boat.

Revise systems to get sustainable, stopping the chasing of unsustainable, unbounded growth while we figure out how to decrease the overall resorce pressure, or watch everything crumble as the entire thing falls apart under it's own weight. Those are the choices. Watch international violence spike back up as a relief valve to decrease the population pressure.

Oh, and in case you're wondering, no, your QoL/SoL won't "go up" most likely peeps in the west. It'll likely regress to the mean of everyone else; because that reaource footprint that's buoyed things thusfar was the result of being the industrial and economic superpower coming out of the last series of global conflicts.

What do I know though. I've just worked on the clusterfuck that is the U.S's last gasp at international relevance, and personally witnessed the throwing out of the baby with the bathwater in the name of the self-enrichment of the few for the last half of an average human lifespan.

The spirit of our times is not in an overall good spot.
Then you haven't been paying attention or your sources are inadequate.

> From 2013 to 2017, nearly 1 in 5 of the nation's 5,500-plus hospitals were acquired or merged with another hospital

https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/the-healthcar...

https://hms.harvard.edu/news/what-happens-when-private-equit...
I guess its impossible to know given the warrant proceedings are secret. However it seems like the prosecutor was solely presenting deaths related to siege tactics, so essentially deaths by starvation or malnutrition that can be attributed to israeli conduct. It could also simply be what evidence the prosecutor had available to them when they started this process which was a while ago.

> I mean the flour massacre alone has 118+ confirmed deaths back in February.

These probably wouldn't count as it would be hard to argue that these were directly ordered by the defendents (unless there is evidence of that).

Additionally, they maybe also wanted to go with a clear cut case. Israel is claiming that there was a riot and their troops fired only to protect themselves. Even if you find that unconvincing, when this goes to trial the prosecution would have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that that version of events is false. Maybe the prosecutor doesn't think there is enough evidence to get to "beyond a reasonable doubt". There is a requirement that "the perpetrator knew that the conduct was part of or intended the conduct to be part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against a civilian population." So you do need to prove that there was intent to do the killings which might require having evidence it was premeditated (i'm not sure tbh).

[Ianal, and im just speculating]
> Unity WebGL is not supported on mobile.

Hmm... Unity WebGL has worked correctly on Mobile Safari since 2013. Support has probably been flawless since around 2019. It has been supported in all the ways that matter for a long time.
Salmon are also making a resurgence in some areas where storm water runoff is being controlled and filtered. A chemical in tires to prevent cracking is lethal for Chinook and Steelhead, so keeping that out of watersheds could create huge population increases due to the amount of eggs. "6PPD-quinone, that is deadly to coho salmon at extremely low concentrations and is often found in urban streams. Stormwater run-off from roads kills both juvenile and adult coho within a matter of a few hours. Even stormwater diluted to a mixture of just 5 percent highway runoff still killed juvenile coho, the new research found." https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/roadway-runoff-...
How decentralized is Bluesky really?
What's the clickbait? "I Want to Hold Your Hand" sold 12 million. Is the clickbait that it's downplaying the achievement, since "Sweet Mother" only sold well in Africa?
The point isnt that some guy doesnt agree, it is the ideas and information they are communicating.
Indeed, same thing with housewares. How many sets of wedding china does anybody need?
Nope, no connection to bodily autonomy issues at all. Not related to tail docking, cat declawing, "my body my choice", or anything libertarian at all! Nope!
And in song:

https://youtu.be/eKfvXBDSiU4?feature=shared
That’s beyond bad paraphrasing - that's the polar opposite of the original.

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Staggering temperature rise predicted for the Middle East and North Africa
If I write a cautionary tale about the seductive evils of fascism,

with an unreliable narrator who's a cog in the evil machine, and obviously deluded about it,

and deeply unpleasant detailed descriptions of the awful cruelty perpetuated by the nazi regime,

and some fascists really like my book, because detailed descriptions of awful nazi cruelty are their jam, and they really identify with my evil, unreliable, deluded narrator

and a lot of people haven't read my book, but they know the kind of person who like my book - fascists

should I be judged by the popular reception of my work?
Is it the same gang of toddlers?
> As someone from the outside who has been around, I can say the rest of world is not like this.

I agree with your general point that this is part of a broader cultural phenomenon, but I think your "rest of world" point is over extrapolating from your specific life experience in a small number of countries. I grew up in a European country and the culture around toys/stuff/etc is basically the same as the US.
The one ray of hope is that Trump has people in his inner circle now who know how important talented immigration is.
I might be able to using compiler options. SBCL seems like the best and fastest option, but GNU clisp seems like it should be doable as an alternative albeit slower.
Sure! One fantastic starting point is Lisp in Small Pieces, which shows you how to build multiple different Lisp interpreters, and then several increasingly fancy Lisp compilers.

The trick with a macro-assembler that uses Lisp macros to generate assembly was basically folklore when I learned it, and I haven't seen it fully fleshed out anywhere in the literature. For a tiny chip, you'd run this as a cross compiler from a bigger machine. But you basically have Lisp macros that expand to other Lisp macros that eventually expand to assembly representated as s-expressions.

As for why basic Lisps are register-hungry, you usually reserve an "environment pointer register", which points to closure data or scope data associated with the currently running function. And then you might also want a "symbol table base" register, which points to interned symbols. The first symbol value (located directly where the symbol register points) should be 'nil', which is both "false" and the "empty list". This allows you to check Boolean expressions and check for the empty list with a single register-to-register comparison, and it makes checks against other built-in symbols much cheaper. So now you've sacrificed 2 registers to the Lisp gods. If you have 8 registers, this is fine. If you have 4 registers, it's going to hurt but you can do it. If you have something like the 65C02, which has an 8-bit accumulator and two sort-of-flexible index registers, you're going to have to get ridiculously clever.

Of course, working at this level is a bit like using #[no_std] in Rust. You won't have garbage collection yet, and you may not even have a memory allocator until you write one. There are a bunch of Lisp bootstrapping dialects out there with names like "pre-Scheme" if you want to get a feel for this.

Forth is a stack machine, so you basically just need a stack pointer, and a couple of registers that can be used to implement basic operations.

Anyway, Lisp in Small Pieces is fantastic, and it contains a ton of the old tricks and tradeoffs.
Totally unrelated to the thread, just a comment on something I noticed: You seem to be posting from 2 different accounts: soatok and some_furry. Dunno if that’s on purpose, but in the off chance that it is not: Now you know.

Love you blog, it’s nice to read something written by an actual human being nowadays. I keep several of you articles bookmarked for reference.
That is an interesting view of it. I mentioned this elsewhere but I happen to share a religion with dostoevsky so this idea is familiar to me and no longer jarring. It does violate a certain idea of fairness or consequence that most people subscribe to, and that contradiction is all over the gospels so it really is one of the original ideas of christianity.

And ultimately this view of repentance is kind of unhelpful in a practical way when dealing with incredibly damaging behavior. We can't really judge the sincerity of someone's repentance, ultimately it is between them and god. We can restrain them from being in a situation where they could commit that act again though, just in case.

Something I think about often is an event that occurred in my home town when I was a young adult. A child, 12 or 13, old enough to know better, was playing with the stove and set the house on fire. One of their siblings died in the fire.

How do you react to that as a parent? You love the child, have to go on raising them. No punishment even makes sense, the idea of taking away the nintendo or whatever is simply grotesque, and what could be accomplished by anything proportional to the consequence? The only thing left is forgiveness. I think this is how it is with god and your hypothetical monster.
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Update from Physics Girl [video]
Replacing two Hallmark Holidays with a third Hallmark Holiday is unforgivable.

PS- Blame Bill Clinton.
>Have a single child? You need a minivan.

Seems like hyperbole. If anything, the empirical evidence suggests the opposite. You can only fit 2 child seats in a "normal" car, so if you want 3 kids (requiring 3 child seats), you need a minivan. However, minivans are apparently so undesirable that there's a mild contraceptive effect on births, because parents keep their kid count to under 3 to avoid getting a minivan.

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/731812
Rendering "modern" Winamp skins in the browser
Trump is not particularly in favor of anti-trust policy in general, but he (and the GOP more generally, though Trump’s personal angle that of the GOP more broadly are slightly different though in general alignment) are very much for punishment of anyone in the information space that isn’t actively tilting in the direction he prefers, and is absolutely in favor of using antitrust law as a lever for that.
Guns don't shoot people, toddlers shoot people.
You can't really compare the depth of resources that exists for something like React versus something like Three, which has a bunch of toy examples but no fully coherent experiences.

Companies like Figma have shown that there is a huge appetite for solutions built on top of Canvas or WebGL, but if you don't have the privilege of working for one of these companies that built up lots of proprietary building blocks from scratch, it's much more difficult to get started.
By that logic isn't it "intellectually dishonest" to say "dowsing rods don't work" if the only evidence we have is examples of them not working?
> our job is to take care of the transcription and admin that isn't really a good use of their time

that's the correct focus, IMO; let the experts be experts rather than pretend that LLMs are all-knowing

nicely done
Toddlers don't kill people. People kill people.
But can we maybe for once ease off on the blatantly moralizing at parents?

In my circle of friends and family, every single parent wants to uphold this standard. The only ones who have actually succeeded in consistently maintaining it also have a very authoritarian parenting style. Everyone else has settled on compromising to various degrees.
Sorry, forgot to mention only available on USA and Canada for now.
Honestly, I think it’s somewhere in between. LLMs are great at spotting patterns in data and using that to make predictions, so you could say they build a sort of "world model" for the data they see. But it’s not the same as truly understanding or reasoning about the world, it’s more like theyre really good at connecting the dots we give them.

They dont do science or causality theyre just working with the shadows on the wall, not the actual objects casting them. So yeah, they’re impressive, but let’s not overhype what they’re doing. It’s pattern matching at scale, not magic. Correct me if I am wrong.
Tiger Woods.

I think it was mostly because he was such a self-assured prick though, and so it was easy to pile on.
They are learning a grammar, finding structure in the text. In the case of Othello, the rules for what moves are valid are quite simple, and can be represented in a very small model. The slogan is "a minute to learn, a lifetime to master". So "what is a legal move" is a much simpler problem than "what is a winning strategy".

It's similar to asking a model to only produce outputs corresponding to a regular expression, given a very large number of inputs that match that regular expression. The RE is the most compact representation that matches them all and it can figure this out.

But we aren't building a "world model", we're building a model of the training data. In artificial problems with simple rules, the model might be essentially perfect, never producing an invalid Othello move, because the problem is so limited.

I'd be cautious about generalizing from this work to a more open-ended situation.
Not arguing the general point, for which I agree, but isn't butter commonly sold in aluminum foil wrappers?
Wasp (YC W21) is hiring a framework engineer to build Laravel for JavaScript
We are Matija and Martin, founders of Wasp (https://wasp-lang.dev/) and twin brothers. We’re building a Rails/Laravel-like full-stack framework that is designed to be stack and architecture-agnostic. Currently, we’re focusing on React, Node.js and Prisma.

Our secret sauce is a custom-built compiler at the heart of the framework, which “understands” how your app works across the whole stack - we’re relying a lot on code generation, and that gives us a lot of flexibility to do some pretty cool things [1] and cut down the boilerplate.

Since we launched Beta last year, we’ve seen quite strong community adoption [2] - Wasp has grown to ~14,000 stars on GitHub and is being used by indie hackers, startups, and Fortune 500 companies.

We’re currently a team of six - senior engineers (ex-Google/Palantir) + growth and a devrel. We raised our first round after graduating from YC in 2021 [3] and just recently closed another round (details will be public soon).

We are looking for a well-rounded engineer with substantial web dev experience who wants to be a part of a strong engineering/open-source culture and work on all aspects of the product with us - our custom compiler (in Haskell; but don’t worry about it [4]), frontend, backend, database/infra, deployment, CLI, ….

This is a remote position - for more details, take a look here: https://wasp-lang.notion.site/Framework-Engineer-at-Wasp-12a...

If this sounds interesting, please reach out at founders [at] wasp-lang [dot] dev

[1] https://wasp-lang.dev/blog/2024/04/25/first-framework-that-l...

[2] https://x.com/MatijaSosic/status/1839279924819145010

[3] https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/04/yc-grads-wasp-land-1-5m-se...

[4] https://wasp-lang.notion.site/Framework-Engineer-at-Wasp-12a...
> original article is way more interesting and nuanced

Oh I don't disagree in the slightest, after all it's basically an interview full of personal experiences and anecdotes.

But HN already has a problem with people commenting without reading the article, even if that article is relatively short. With an hour-long podcast episode or a transcript stuffed with filler words and partial sentences it's even worse.

> I'm afraid LLM version is too short and while technically correct definitely feels like dry list of random facts from transcription

Well, the LLM summary was a lot more thrilling and entertaining than my version. Sadly, it was also wrong and full of hallucinations.
At least it breaks up a chicken-egg problem, and the most interesting use cases are the ones that nobody was expecting anyway.

> Streaming solves the business case, with native APIs using server side rendering.

And yet history is littered with the dead husks of game streaming services ;)
My advice for young parents is to make birthdays and holidays gifts of an experience. Encourage loved ones to not buy any toys and contribute to a party, train ride, bouncy castle, petting zoo... whatever it is. If you want to do any gifts at all, make the tradition 1 or 2 special gifts that the parents pick out. Of all the loot a kid acquires on their

Your kids will have better, more memorable birthdays and you'll have SOOOO much less junk and clutter in the house.
Cassava, a long-standing traditional staple food crop [video]
The only thing that can stop a bad toddler with a gun is a good toddler with a gun
Very nice "visual" introduction a topic that's usually treated very abstractly in math textbooks! If you'd like more of such a visual perspective on differential geometry, I recommend Tristan Needham's book [1].

[1]: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691203706/vi...
It could power 70k homes at full capacity. Important note, it wasn't at full capacity, and the entire county of Siskiyou is only about 40k people (not homes).

Our power company, Pacific Power, said they didn't need the dam at all, and it would cost more to maintain than it was worth.
No, we just need to train toddlers to have better trigger control.
You are defining a function and then you use it interactively. That does not demonstrate that bash scripting is dangerous. Can you demonstrate the problem in a script?

Yes, you can do dangerous things in bash scripts. This might be one of them. Not at my computer now and no time to experiment.
Yep. Currently going through choice fatigue in trying to decide what program to use for designing things that will be 3D printed. There's also a seemingly endless number of guides to help you choose, each with its own set of reasons, which only expands the choice landscape even further.
Toys I remember from the 1980s had already outsourced production to Taiwan. I assume that things soon moved to China, but it is astonishing to think that Chinese labor could have made already cheap Asian production so much cheaper. So, I assume that the drop in production costs is driven by some kind of industrial process improvements?
What Unicode character is this?
> I've also experienced things you mention, but it was always in orgs where everything, including any small feature, was treated as a "big bet": unsupported by metrics (no matter how imperfect), but instead wishful thinking that it will bring meaningful improvement. As such, you can't come up with anything that's an equally good improvement with less effort because there is no baseline to compare against.

Interesting, that’s exactly the situation I was in, but I never connected the lack of metrics to these kinds of requests. TIL.

I feel like I have lot to say about how this manifested. Product direction was very heavily guided by existing customers (because support could say “we have these three customers asking for X”), somewhat guided by closing deals (because sales could say “we have a $$$ deal that the customer says will close if we deliver Y”) and hardly guided at all by the broader market, because product’s suggestions could only ever be supported by speculation and vibes. But we were B2B, so I don’t even know what good metrics would’ve looked like—it’s not like we had billions of users
Butter used to be packaged in wax paper, which was (then) biodegradable. The plastic packaging is about branding and shipping, not cost.
> Last year there were 36 unintentional shootings by children of all ages in Texas.

Considering how many are intentional shootings by children of all ages this is, this is a non-story the same way the sky is blue and water is wet.
> I think that's more a problem of social media, where it seems true more often than not, and not professional media

For one thing, Professional Media is inextricably linked to Social Media (especially Twitter), and are leading participants in the salacious outrage bait economy there. For another, my criticism is not that journalists are making things up from whole cloth, but rather that they are more than willing to comb through discovery filings to find the most outlandish thing anyone has every said in order to paint a picture that may or may not be an representative of the broader case.

I don't think they do this because they are the "enemy of the people", but because it drives engagement.
I could be totally off the mark but this sounds very much like leboncoin!
Update we have released the iOS version today: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/assindo/id6737142183
In my hometown in Italy you can ask to put your cheese or cold cuts from the counter in a container you provide.

I'm not sure this ends up as a net positive compared to the paper with plastic lining they provide tho, since you have to wash the container at some point.
You joined a discussion inside the discussion that was about Mexico firing missiles at the US. If you don't want to discuss similarities of both scenarios, don't join the discussion.
Nice job! You just need to have it so if the marble exceeds a certain Y velocity threshold that it shatters and a dust pan appears to sweep it up.
Sounds like a good topic for board book "Timmy and his trigger discipline" and "Susie don't fan your friends"
I want to see graphs of moves the author randomly made too.
Maybe even plotting a random-move player on the performance graphs vs. the AIs.

It's beginner chess and beginners make moves at random all the time.
Jerma985

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2BXMwcns5c
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Is there a page somewhere that tells me what netlify is on a technical level? All I see it marketing speak and I can't make sense of it.
I also have a poor experience with a Nuphy wireless keyboard - it suffers terribly from interference. If the dongle is further than a ft away, especially if there's no line of sight, then it has terrible latency + will miss keypresses + double keypress.

I still use it every day and have for a couple years now, but it's annoying to have to have the keyboard so close to my dock.

Makes me wonder what Logitech is doing differently with their 2.4ghz dongles that makes them work so well.
If you have a value type, you don't need to implement Is. It's just that errors.New (and fmt.Errorf) doesn't return a value type, so such errors only match under errors.Is if they have the same identity, hence why you typically see them defined with package-level sentinel variables.