skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i don't disagree that bots/bad actors are a problem. but it's futile to call everyone a bot since it shuts down literally all discussion. at this point just accept that the internet is the wild west and act with discretion. it helps when you dissect an idea based only on the idea and not the operator behind it. that's how i've changed my internet usage and it's helped immensely. most of the time it's obvious since bots are dumb or generally made by dumb people. but the smarter more intricate bad actors that argue in bad faith in lieu of being paid or what have you, you'll simply never tell apart since they're just humans. at that point all you have left is your wits and i prefer to train my wits on all kinds of ideas thrown my way and accept the fact that there are a lot of types of opinions in the US (where i live) and that it doesn't mean the person making a point of contention is a bot.
Not every use case is more efficient on the cloud
> The government also does a fair number of indirect subsidies by making some people or businesses pay less tax, but it's generally not the "top 1%".

People with top 1% earned income are overtaxed. But the ones above them, the top 1% by wealth, are undertaxed due to undertaxing property (specifically land and intellectual property).

Undertaxed because the costs of the social order that maintains the security of their property (the military, the police, the courts, and a generally rule abiding society) are all mostly paid for by people who earn income (work for it).
Yes.

For instance, when I was freelancing, I would be hired by people to write code for their websites, in Javascript and PHP. Telling my employers that I wrote the ideal amount of code (none) would not be satisfying to them. They would not be willing to pay me for the code I didn't write. Outside of the SV bubble, that kind of thing doesn't fly.
MIOpen has a "release/rocm-rel-6.3" branch, but I don't see a corresponding tag. I think a press release somehow got ahead of the software release.
It's so user-friendly that you get banned for sharing any remotely controversial opinion. Just like the good old days of Twitter!

Twitter/X is actually a balanced discourse site now. CNN even admitted that the party affiliation of its users went from majority-left (65/31) to split down the middle, 48/47. https://x.com/ScottJenningsKY/status/1861445812175147353
We've done a study (see link) that shows that - unlike common belief - semantic chunking is not always the best approach.

Curious to hear from the YC community - anyone else did systemic testing and if so what did you find?
I'm still looking around, but Owl is a frontrunner.
Surprise factor zero.
I would say those are two separate groups of people. At the very least, I personally do not say the latter.
I do mostly CRUD apps with Laravel and Vue. Nothing too complicated. Allows users to post stuff with images and files. I’ve moved ALL of my files from S3 to R2 in the past 2 years. It’s been slow as any migrations are but painless.

But most importantly for an indie dev like me the cost became $0.
Except McCarthyism was an utter failure in terms of rooting out spies. We sure did so great, blacklisting a bunch of hollywood actors and narcing on our coworkers who just wanted a union. God forbid we have free speech and association right?

Meanwhile the actual Manhattan project was chock full of soviets.

McCarthyism is just what happens when you listen to paranoid demagogues. It was literally a culture war against liberals. Gee, sounds familiar.
Aren't all mosquitos that bite humans potentially the disease-carrying ones?
In the US we've just been fairly lucky but it's not as if mosquitos carrying West Nile/Zika/Chikungunya/Eastern Equine Encephalitis aren't infecting Americans
It didn't make me leave the page, but I agree that I too found the effects annoying and off putting.
Most tests like this are IQ tests, and studying has little impact on IQ test scores, except perhaps showing where you over think things or take too much time. It might get you from 12% to 35%, but won’t get you from 12% to 70%.
Strix Halo is rumored to be about twice as fast but unfortunately not near Apple's speed.
Control the Browser with Your Voice
Wouldn't it be nice if you can control your browser with your voice. All you need to do is first say "chirkut"(wake word) and give your commands. The command can be anything from scrolling up and down to opening specific websites or specific page in website like "open youtube and search for for for loops in python". Play or pause video, click elements, ask things from google without needing to go to google, generate posts and a lot more.

Github: https://github.com/KrishavRajSingh/chirkut

Would love to launch this but I have limited gemini api keys.
Brains grew faster as humans evolved
This is all true, but then I have to wonder if the fork of OpenWRT they're using has drivers for hardware outside of the mainline.
There is a fallacy that "if only we can get X% more of our budget" we'll fix the government services.
You can't fix the hole by throwing money in it. Efficiently spending the money they already get should be the priority.

Butt... the medicare is unfunded. Well why is it possible to have high-quality medical services in Thailand with international doctors working there, but not in the US with absurdly high/hidden prices for everything? Fix the medical market first, then ask for more money.

The whole argument in this article is backwards...

And btw, the inflation is indeed eating the cash too...
> comes from sources that are not online.

As someone who grew up with the internet, I don't know whether to take this as a dismissive "trust me" (sorta religious) type of statement, or legitimate research that somehow nobody ever bothered to even reference online in a way that you could link it. Since you're not saying what the offline thing is, I'd guess the former but not sure
Not in this case but sometimes mathematicians of old did have access to “computers”, ie savants who can do large calculations in their heads easily. Gauss used the services of such a person: https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/15609/autistic-assis...
No shit, really?
Bluesky wont happen no matter how hard they push right now. Its not offering anything fundamentally different. It will pull from X but will stay niche.
I'm not going to engage with this person anymore, for their own sake. I hope they get the help they need.

For anyone else reading this: if you have a loved one in your life that starts acting this way (unable to comprehend what people are saying, making connections to things that aren't there, having trouble distinguishing reality from their thoughts, etc), please try to get them some help. Schizophrenia and related ailments often don't appearing until a person is in their 20s, and they're no joke.
C-reduce is meant to... Reduce your files, it would not add stuff that was not there in the first place. Also, I think it's meant to only be run against the "frontend" of most languages, not full execution
His wives kept dying mysteriously. His secret poison: Insulin
> vaccine misinformation has created entire groups of people irrationally terrified

I am terrified of them but I'm fairly certain it's rationalized. The medical community decided it's more important to bully their patients into compliance than to listen to their concerns and work with them. The vaccine absolutely had side effects for some individuals and they were treated very poorly, in particular at the beginning of the pandemic, due to this attitude of "fighting misinformation." Our medical institutions were put to propaganda purposes rather than healthcare purposes and the results were absolutely horrific.

> to cause more death and suffering

This is predicated on the belief that "herd immunity" is valid and universal to all vaccines and that, again, bullying people who are afraid into choices they're not comfortable with is somehow justifiable due to it. As if letting a for profit institution inject random goop into me is a natural thing to _not_ be generally wary or afraid of.

Just because you think you have "the science" doesn't mean you get a free pass on "patient rights."
History of the vacuum tube, and the destruction of the U.S. electronics industry [video]
Found this talk to be extremely enlightening, and was surprised to see it had so little recognition. Give it a listen!
Or why not allocate those bajillions to fix our own planet's problems first?
Can we add personalities?
Do I really need to clarify that the primary purpose of a washing machine is not to compute, but to wash?
I agree with what you said - engineers do the best they can with the budget but the budget is small because people won’t pay for things that last - but it’s worth saying that any boards with electrolytic capacitors have an inherent built in expiration. Any product with rubber has an expiration. Any product with permanent batteries, glued or sealed assemblies, or no spare parts. Much of that is with the customer’s budget, sure. But these days, even among expensive things, nearly nothing is built to last.
Kubernetes adds an extra layer of abstraction on top of existing ones. When the stack of abstractions grows too large, it can start to feel sluggish and unwieldy.

What if we had something like Kubernetes but at the hardware level? Imagine a single Linux installation running across multiple servers, where resources are seamlessly pooled and managed. In htop, you could visualize all CPU cores, with each core labeled by its corresponding node.

Now, consider starting a container with Podman: the container would execute on the CPU cores of one node. If you start another container, it could run on the cores of a different node. This approach would essentially transform Linux into an operating system capable of spanning a distributed cluster of nodes.

To achieve this, the operating system wouldn’t need to be entirely reinvented—it could simply be Linux, enhanced with the necessary kernel modifications to enable such distributed functionality. This could provide the simplicity and efficiency of a unified OS while leveraging the power of a distributed system. Or maybe it's a pipe dream.
Both Nazi Germany and Communist Russia had many sympathizers in the west before their giant crimes against humanity were revealed.
Advantage play in Black Jack boils down to:

1. Placing minimum bets when odds are in the casino's favor.
2. Placing large bets when odds are in the player's favor.

This makes the betting patterns of solo counters very different and easily identifiable from average joes.

Some players do try to add some variance and make intentional non-optimal plays to avoid detection. But every non-optimal play costs money and doing it too frequently eats up any potential profits.

Adding more decks doesn't fully prevent advantage play. More decks aren't harder to count. Adding more decks lowers the variance of the odds distribution through a shoe.

In a one-deck shoe the odds vary in a "spiky" way. It's more likely to be highly favored for the casino or highly favored for the player.

An eight-deck shoe the odds vary in a far smoother way. Most of the time they'll be slightly in favor of the casino or slightly in favor of the player.

A one-deck shoe is better for an advantage player because they can sit out when the odds are unfavorable and make very profitable bets when the odds are highly in their favor. But you can still make money by playing a lot of hands correctly in a eight-deck shoe.
I'm not really sure what point you're trying to make here. S3 bills you on, essentially, serving files to your customers. So yes if your customers download more files then you get charged more. What exactly is the surprising part here
Sleep regularity and major adverse cardiovascular events
That’s entirely reasonable; I switched in part because I was using visual mode so much. That being said, if you want a more vi-like experience in kakoune, you can always pipe your whole buffer through sed :)
I'm not schizo, but "take your meds" is sort of a last resort of shills, so, get vaxxed.

For the readers; accusing others of a mental disorder for connecting the dots regarding a global conspiracy, after covid19 (which was created by ecohealth alliance), after recent research shows that the vaccine causes heart problems and overall increased mortality; generally means they are in on the conspiracy.

-- copy pasted from another thread, re "connections that aren't there"

Did he get into vaccines for the express purpose of population control? (see his TED talk)

Did he fly on Lolita express?

Did he fund the WHO which mandated vaccines?

Is he the son of a prominent eugenicist who was on the board of planned parenthood?
Is it ever a good idea to actually use this?
When something bad happens, we were usually already involved in some way or other, often by funding or arming one of the sides.
That's a bit rude - I"m also on bluesky and linkedin.
Fighting cancer while turning Minecraft into Lego
You should also check his website https://brickcraft.de/cancer/
The original Bose QC in ears were also amazing for their time.
It's ambiguous, yes. But it's the real title:

<title>Shalom Nagar, Nazi executioner, passes away at 86 - Israel News - The Jerusalem Post </title>
The argument that a language is inconsistent if it allows all structure members to be defaulted to zero, but does not default function arguments to be omitted such that they default zero, seems to me like someone climbing out on a limb, out of the window of lunatic asylum.
Pruning a single weight in an LLM can destroy its output
For what it's worth, my Lenovo laptop has a manuel shutter slider button on the side that actually physically covers the camera (and it must also does something driver wise because windows considers it unplugged). It's so easy and convenient that I always use to off the camera.

Many of lenovo have that even included their gaming laptop line (it's actually even better and more convient on that one, thanks to the larger size available).

Doesn't solve the problem this article talks about, but if that's something that worries you I would still trust that more than most (and it's a lot less weirdo looking than taping your camera).
Biden and Trump put in danger by Secret Service agents, via agents using Strava
But quotemstr seems interested in something else, not specific to writing.

> Past empires, lost civilizations, and ancient artifacts have always fascinated us.

> There was no glorious but crumbled past empire to inspire them. They figured out everything for the first time, and we know little about what they thought about it.

I think the Sumerians were not without crumbled past ruins of civilizations that covered broad swathes of territory, though they may not have been "empires". But also, to us "the Sumerians" can seem like a brief period in time. But the Uruk period is almost a millennia in duration. For each individual, it may have seemed that the world changed very little over the course of their lifespan, and by 3100 BC, each city would have felt very old to its inhabitants.
I thought the whole point of these camera LEDs was to have them wired to/through the power to the camera, so they are always on when the camera is getting power, no matter what.

Having the LED control exposed through the firmware completely defeats this.
This is completely false. Go back to getting real data.

"For Social Security, for example, administrative overhead is about 0.5% of total spending."

https://www.axios.com/2024/11/20/government-spending-musk-tr...

More here: https://www.axios.com/2024/11/16/elon-musk-trump-department-...

"The vast majority of spending goes to:

Social Security: This popular program eats up 20-25% of total federal spending. It supports retirees, disabled individuals, and survivors. Trump has promised to never cut it. In fact, he wants to eliminate taxes on benefits, which would increase the deficit.

Health care: Think Medicare (for seniors) and Medicaid (for low-income individuals). This is another 25% of the budget. Trump has promised to protect Medicare and a lot of his working-class base benefits from these programs.

Defense: The Defense Department and related military spending constitute about 13-15% of the federal budget. Republicans typically want more defense spending, not less. And it's hard to see the shift to space-based warfare costing less.

Interest on the national debt: This one sucks the most for America because you get nothing in return. Interest payments are growing rapidly, now around 8-10% of federal spending. The only way to save money here is to radically cut the debt. Trump's agenda does the opposite.

Safety-net programs: Programs like food benefits (SNAP), unemployment insurance and housing assistance collectively make up about 10%. Trump won with the support of people who get these benefits, so cuts could be a hard sell."
They'd have to redesign the on die memory controller and tape out a new die all of which is expensive. Apple is a consumer technology company not a cutting tech tech company making high cost products for niche markets. There's just no way to make HBM work in the consumer space at the current price.
the entirety of all roms and emulators are probably in the hands of those who actually want to play them, this only prevents research archives from being operated.

i find it interesting that OG retro games actually are considered threatening to modern AAA games.
> given that software expects it to work consistently or not work at all

I mean... that's wrong? If you come across such software, do you at least file a bug?
I assumed that most if not all of these webcam LEDs are wired in series with the power to the camera itself. Which then makes it impossible to disable them. Who designs this LED to be software addressable?
Probably because Forbes is basically an SEO company now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41590466
The fun fact. I've been using that extension while I was making Intenty back in 2020. Great extension, I'm glad to see it up and running till now!
my ideapad has a native physical webcam cover. no idea why this isn't universal standard
Cops Have Less Time to Break into iPhones Thanks to iOS 18.1 Security Measure
Except too bad you're launching a washing machine which needs to be checked for child-eatingyness on the tiny island of Zogdog, so you just decided not to sell it there.
Never craft a dull presentation again
I would expect that would break the Python interpreter. Hmm. Now you have me wanting to try it. Writing Python that writes Python is always fun.
The surprise is any ne'er-do-well can DDoS your bucket even if they aren't a customer. Genuine customer traffic volume will probably be known and expected, but putting an S3 bucket in the open is something like leaving a blank check on the internet.
On the other hand, I bought an 8C/16T Zen 4 laptop with 64GB RAM and an 4TB SSD for less than $2000 total including tax. I’ll take that trade.
I might be out of the loop, but I thought that was only for some machines - I remember the LED being wired that way being a selling point for MacBooks at some point, as a privacy feature. It definitely should be the standard, though!
Yeah, my understanding is that is how the light on MacBooks works, but I'm not sure about any other makes/models. Obviously, if this is possible that Thinkpad model doesn't do that.
Wait, my brain doesn't do backprop over a pile of linear algebra after having the internet rammed through it? No way that's crazy /s

tl;dr: paper proposes a principle called 'prospective configuration' to explain how the brain does credit assignment and learns, as opposed to backprop. Backprop can lead to 'catastrophic interference' where learning new things abalates old associations, which doesn't match observed biological processes. From what I can tell, prosp. config learns by solving what the activations should have been to explain the error, and then updates the weights in accordance, which apparently somehow avoids abalating old associations. They then show how prosp. config explains observed biological processes. Cool stuff, wish I could find the code. There's some supplemental notes:

https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs415...
Many Americans pre-WW2 didn't want their country to get involved, either. At the end of the day, it was dragged into that war anyway. Perfect isolationism is not sustainable; you have to be smart about picking your battles, yes, but if you keep running away from them on foreign ground, you will eventually have to fight them on your own.
Wasn't the blacklist unilaterally implemented by the heads of studios? It's not like Congress disallowed those people from working.
Why not? These all come and go, it could be Twitter's time to go.
MySpace became irrelevant, Facebook is near-irrelevant.
I respect the rigor here, but I can't imagine "scary scream like noise was used to spook people" is a novel idea to anyone. The main interesting point to me is that it was categorized as both manmade and non manmade. If you wanted a scream you could just make one yourself. So I suppose the utility of the instrument is that the scream sounds human like but obviously isn't, adding some fear of the unknown into the mix?
Any typical religious service includes a diverse group of people, physiologically: men and women, people of all ages, people of various body shapes and levels of fitness, etc., for some of whom it's especially bad to sit in one position for an extended time.
Model weights and demo on HF
https://huggingface.co/collections/Qwen/qwq-674762b79b75eac0...
> If this were a virus created using gain of function research we would call it a biological weapon.

Except it's the literal opposite of gain of function: it's the subtraction of function from a pathogen which already exists in the environment and already infects people on a regular basis in the environment, turning it from a deadly killer into something that dies quickly and without reproducing when it meets the human immune system.
I’m having trouble parsing the article even though I know fully what the mi300 is and what hbm memory is.

I’m not alone right? This article seems to be complete ai nonsense at various points confusing the gpu and cpu portions of the product and not at all giving clarity on which parts of the product have hbm memory.
We have already thrown and will throw a lot of wrenches into the works. We have extensively reshaped the planet to the benefit of some species and the detriment of many others.

It's a risk, but it's not worse than the thousands of other risks we've already taken. Given the absolutely insane amount of death and suffering caused by mosquito-borne diseases, it's probably also a justifiable one.
The amazing part is that my cartridges still work perfectly well in my original consoles, decades later. There's no server, no login, no account, no downloading, no ads, no microtransactions... I just turn the console on, grab the controller, and I'm in game in seconds.
Portability between bash and zsh is a waste of time?

Wasn't a previous argument that legacy Macs should remain supported if possible?

smh.
Retrieval? For an external backup? If I need to restore and my local backup is completely down, it either means I lost two drives (very unlikely) or the house is a calcinated husk and at this point I'm insured.

And let's be honest. If the house burns down, the computers are the third thing I get out of there after the wife and the dog. My external backup is peace of mind, nothing more. I don't ever expect to need it in my lifetime.
I will once again recommend the Fall of Civilizations Podcast. It's incredibly informative. Here's the ep on the Sumerians:

https://soundcloud.com/fallofcivilizations/8-the-sumerians-f...
It's clearly already "happening." Bluesky doesn't need to offer anything fundamentally different, just an experience that users consider better than the alternative. People aren't seeking novelty so much as an escape from the toxicity and algorithmically-driven vitriol of Twitter.
ESA game companies are worried consumers are having too much fun playing old games instead of buying new slop skinner boxes.