skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In case you actually believe the "running focus groups" part.... These "cute little mom and pop lobbyist shops" had complete control of all media.

You had something to say about that:

> OK, so prove that in court

Instead, you gave us an article about a firm providing polling and focus group services to a campaign for a fee and implied that it was the same thing that Russia does to Western governments.
I've always wondered if we'll ever see a paradigm shift toward services being hosted on our phones. Not feasible now due to battery life concerns, but these are little Linux computers with redundant (wifi plus cellular) network connections that are always turned on. Some battery advancement and more efficient E cores and we're there, no?
Pancreatic cancer doesn’t have good prognosis in the first place, no matter what you eat or don’t eat.
Wow. So great. Just learning of the existence of these games recently, and feeling nostalgia for pasts I didn't live.

On account of your username, I clicked on your profile to see if there was some story behind it, and got to the gunkies wiki. Looks pretty cool!
By any definition of the word, I'm a foreigner.

So if you meant to imply that I'm an American, you've guessed wrong.
He's not a prime example of anything to do with fruit making things worse. His chosen therapy just as likely had no worsening impact on his cancer; the problem was it had no positive impact either and he put off surgery.

He had a rare form of pancreatic cancer that grows from the tip of the pancreas and can sometimes be snipped out without consequence early enough that it doesn't spread.

He presumably freaked out about it all nevertheless (because it's terrifying), avoided surgery for too long and ended up having a Whipple procedure, which is fucking brutal.

But there's still a pretty good chance he would have had early surgery and still ended up needing a Whipple procedure and still have passed away on roughly the same timescale. Because pancreatic cancer is a stealthy thing, and the Whipple procedure comes with its own frightening future.

It's really sad he freaked out, it's really sad he didn't listen. But it's not that unusual. He's far from unique in making irrational decisions in the face of terrifying diagnoses. Should it have been a slam dunk decision? Yeah. Of course. But there we are.
Or wait for the IQ2_M quantization of 70b which you can run very fast on 24GB VRAM with context size of 4096...
I assume it went much like Downfall. https://youtu.be/xBWmkwaTQ0k?t=11 for anyone who hasn't seen it.
It's a frying pan or the fire situation.
The frying pan is government healthcare. The collective US thinks the government run program is a garbage fire. Obvious reasons are that (1) it's really hard to fire bad employees government wise since employment is seen as a right and (2) it's really hard to get anything done since people think of 9999 ways to "be nice" as rights. Then, clearly for-profit institutions are also a garbage fire since they make that extra 10% revenue off of unnecessary suffering.

There is a great counterexample that is Kaiser. They are a private health insurance org that provides massive savings by simultaneously also running a network of hospitals and outpatient facilities. Notably they are not-for-profit. So that's perhaps what we're shooting for "all the goodwill of government, without the mucuousy bureaucratic slop in any government institution"

If only all the private sector orgs were Kaiser, not for profit and for the well being of humanity. Kaisers of the world are a flash in the pan, "don't be evil" googles only to become "be evil" googles.

I would simply recommend to look at how Singapore does things and copy that, after all, that's what China did and look how well they have done economically.
Perfectly fine, as long as the supporter and candidate are not part of the same well known group of interest.
> I'll quote you "this is a bad take". What's bad is asking me to pay money and then serving me premium ads because you now know i'm someone with disposable income and i'm willing to give it to a premium publication.

> What's bad is asking me to pay money and then serving me premium ads because you now know i'm someone with disposable income and i'm willing to give it to a premium publication.

OK. Let's first examine 2 complaints about ads:

1. Ads are an annoyance.

2. Ads with surveillance and data economy are bad.

If your problem is the first one, I don't have anything else to say than the fact that Ads are not going anywhere. My arguments are all against and about the 2nd point. I think ads are a good way to make revenue. And it should NOT be done with data surveillance but with curated and useful ads.

Exactly. Do you think the problem is ads here? And you still haven't answered to my POV. How is paywall stopping data surveillance? The reality is they are making you pay and serving ads. Which is the problem? How is paying solving it?

> In an ideal world, yes. That ideal world is long gone.
If we are to fix the problem, this is what we should do. Find THAT ideal world.
> if you ignore the massive subsidies

The EU subsides their car makers just the same. Part of Renault belonged to the French government for the longest time and all the governments are providing incentives to drive the sales of new cars.

See the cash for clunkers program that was running for years after the 2008 crisis.

Using tax payer money to artificially reduce the cost of a new car, If that is not a subsidy, then what is it?
I don't think banning outright is the solution, but I do think that social media has a tremendous amount of power and can impact things like elections if you have control over the recommendation algorithm on one of these sites.

I think more transparency into how these recommendation algorithms work is required especially when it comes to elections, as well as mechanisms to verify that they aren't being tampered with.
But his was actually one of the most treatable forms and he could have potentially had many many years added to his life had he initially listened to his doctors.
Model card: https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-models/blob/main/models/...

On the Models Table: https://lifearchitect.ai/models-table/
ARC-AGI remains unbeaten. SOTA is now 55.5%
I think it's important to recognize that a lot of Americans (most? nearly all?) simply don't have a choice in health insurance. If you are on United, it's probably because that's what your employer has offered as a benefit. I don't remember how much choice I had when I purchased my own health insurance through the ACA, but that was also almost a decade ago and the market has likely changed. In light of that, I think this

> They go to sleep at night knowing the populace hates them. And yet there's a complete inability to look inward.

is because they go to sleep thinking, "what are our customers going to do about it? They're a captive audience. We only have to treat them as well as we are legally obligated to." And they are wholly unprepared for how many Americans are currently thinking, "hmm, I suppose murder is something we could do about it."
Shorter hours for less pay feels like a trap for salaried workers, unless your duties are also very formally lessened. I know people who have been granted similar schedules, but their managers simply expected them to get the same amount of work done, but in less time, for less pay.
I get the skepticism. There have been a lot of surprising revelations in biology and I don't think anyone would argue we have every angle nailed down. However, the idea that some DNA is genuinely “junk” is based on more than a hunch. It’s from looking at patterns across species. If a sequence really mattered, then changing it should cause a problem. That would put pressure on the sequence to stay the same, generation after generation. Yet we see big stretches of DNA mutating freely, at rates that exactly match what would be expected from accumulation of random copying errors. That suggests these sequences aren’t under selection for any important function.

This isn’t just “we don’t know what it does, so it must be junk.” It’s more like, “We can’t find any sign that it matters, and everything we know about evolution says if it mattered, we’d see fewer random changes there.” Down the road we might uncover small roles for some of these regions, but at this point, calling them junk is just an honest read of the evidence we have.
Yep packaging was a nightmare. The fix for a bug in cron could require you to apply a kernel patch and reboot. But not if you had already applied a different kernel patch beforehand for some specific hardware, but which wasn't available except for particular hardware. But if you just install the patch it may succeed! But it didn't really apply, because the solver that figures out your patches ran separately and doesn't run fast enough to be part of the patch process but the patch has its own script that checks whatever separately to determine that. Oh and if you wait a week your process may break because the -20 version of the patch doesn't fix your problem anymore but it superceded the -12 version you were using anyway. But whichever one you apply, you'll have to reboot.

Like, to update cron. Even though through 3 versions of the same patch id, it does and does not fix cron.

Pure insanity with no product focus on user experience.
I'm not sure about this particular case, and absolutely no question that the specific interest in this case probably has very little to do with concern about democracy and a lot with power struggles in that new cold war we're in.

(Gonna agree with it being a soft coup if they limit the new election to only pro-western parties. So far, it's "only" the repeat of an election)

But, having said that, there really is a lot of pro-russian propaganda on TikTok and the way the algorithm selects it can't always be explained with user preferences.

An Austrian newspaper recently posted results of an experiment they did themselves: They added a bunch of brand new accounts, pretending to be teenagers. The given interests were diverse, but all of them unpolitical and typical kids stuff.

Nevertheless, after a short habituation period of benign posts, the feeds of all but one of the accounts quickly shifted from typical teenager stuff to "political" content, mostly hard right-wing, islamist and pro-russian clips. All of that without any of the users ever having given any indication that they were interested in political posts, let alone pro-russian ones.

The report is here (in German) : https://dietagespresse.com/selbstversuch-so-radikalisiert-ti...

The newspaper usually posts satire, but this article was about a real self-experiment.
I figured the car would drive itself around from where the energy was plentiful to where it’s needed.
Pancreatic cancer is one of the least funny things. Don't be flippant.
> Hokusai's 36 Views of Mount Fuji is a particularly exuberant example of this new blue's early use.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-six_Views_of_Mount_Fuji...
> if you're a typical android/ios end user you're interacting with a computer in your native language anyway. this discussion only applies to low level power users.

I don't think you realize how poor this experience is. Partly the reason being that the underlying system is so english focused, that app developers have to do so much work to get things working.

> if you think it should be fixed why stop at usernames? why represent uids with 1234 instead of 一二三四?

I mean, if the computers had first been built in south east asia, they would have been.
Hamas already has control of Gaza, and if there's any chance of it seizing control of the West Bank, bombing Gaza will not prevent it from doing so.

Bombing people indiscriminately tends to cause them to oppose you and support the people who are most credibly able to stop you - regardless of anything you do. So it was inevitable that support for Israel would plummet and for Hamas would rise, once people learned about the situation.

TikTok only had a hand in this to the extent that it helped Western citizens bypass Western soft censorship and learn about the situation sooner.

Notice that if TikTok was spreading a false or one-sided view of the situation, Israeli and Western government could have effectively countered it by providing an even more complete information with even more evidence, but they did not. This in itself is weak evidence that there isn't a more complete view to provide.
Imagine how you would feel if the administration was more Saudi-aligned and wanted to shut down HN because you were doing too good a job of sharing those details! I support all the truth getting out.
The exact numbers in the books are often inconsistent. In Persepolis Rising, the forces that surround the Tempest form a bubble almost three light seconds across. And railgun rounds take less than a minute to reach the center.

My overall impression from the books was that the typical engagement distance is from seconds to tens of seconds at railgun speed (relative to the target), whatever that speed is. Anything beyond that, and random course corrections would make hitting anything with an unguided round effectively impossible, no matter how accurate your weapons are. And if you hit a missile at that distance, the random corrections will probably also get you out of harm's way.
Did they just do the barman that kicks out the first fascist in a pub? Wish Hungary, Poland and USA had guts to do this ...
Another comment mentioned that the mechanism by which fructose promotes tumor growth is that it increases circulating lipids. But I'm wondering, doesn't keto (which seems to fight cancer) also do that?
Monitoring Bluesky firehose to quickly detect spam accounts as they spawn
Cool -- good info, thank you.
Every healthcare system (even single-payer) denies some care to some people; they do this because of limited resources, fraud risk, etc.

Do government healthcare ministers and other administrators responsible for single-payer systems deserve to die too? What about legislators who limit healthcare budgets to below 100% of GDP (which is to say all of them); should they be summarily executed?
This along with AML/KYC are the new war on drugs. Probably worse to be honest: a compliance regime that costs lawful businesses billions of dollars to navigate, always getting larger, always getting more draconian.

It’s crazy we accept this. Where is the proof any of this is working at all?
"War does not determine who is right—only who is left."

You're right that there are men still living in Ukraine, Zelensky is still alive after all. However, the manpower situation has been pretty bleak for a while. [1] I'm in regular contact with people in theater and I'm not far off in saying 'there are no men left'. Russia is still advancing albeit slowly. We'll likely have new borders in a few months. Almost time to update your globe.

[1] https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2024-03-16/ukraine-v...
Is it libel if there is a source?

https://www.rfi.fr/en/international-news/20241205-amnesty-ac...

Amnesty International, except the Israely branch of Amnesty International. The "except" is very revealing in this case
quoting US State Department about Israel is all kinds of crazy… :)
Does Your Code Pass the Turkey Test? (2008)
Jeff Bezos' net worth?
The thing is, even though I know where I stand on this issue as someone with a chronic condition that’s required routine care and occasional intervention since birth…

I can see how they think they’re right. Our institutions built them to only equate success with income, and flooded their social networks with others of the same mind. They fought to join the ranks of the elites, and believe themselves to be deserving of every fortune and success associated with their status. Their entire world is an echo chamber, where money can - quite literally - isolate them from the rest of the world. They never have to see the people they fire, or know their hardships, or understand their grievances. They are, in effect, a completely different society separate from our own, yet dependent upon us and our sacrifice for their fortunes.

If it weren’t for the fact the ruling class are literally killing us to increase profits for themselves, I’d pity them for willingly staying within Plato’s cave, ignorant of how the real world works.
Nitpick: Win32s was limited, and missed a lot of functionality. From the linked Wikipedia article:

The "s" in Win32s signifies subset, as Win32s lacked a number of Windows NT functions, including multi-threading, asynchronous I/O, newer serial port functions and many GDI extensions. This generally limited it to "Win32s applications" which were specifically designed for the Win32s platform."

There was a MS knowledge base article with the long list of limitations, archived here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20110524062145/http://support.mi...
That's so terrible to hear! Is there no nice tool out there that converts guitar tabs from ultimate guitar or whatever to ASCII? Maybe scraping there big clunky websites is hard... Hmm.

A Braille display - it converts any ASCII characters to Braille, but struggles with non-ASCII stuff, is that it?
Wow, it's a website which has more than a screen-full of stuff on it at one time and scrolling doesn't introduce a seconds-long loading animation.

I wonder if modern web developers of modern web applications could somehow harness this technology.
Musk spent over a quarter of a billion dollars to help elect Trump
Modals that blocks focus to an entire browser window aren't really a good idea (I'm of the opinion that they are almost always a shitty idea, but that's harder to argue). People have multiple tabs open, and what if another tab contains information that your user needs to complete your dialog.

You also have to be incredibly careful about how much visual control you allow over an actual dialog - especially making it look like the host OS. People get bamboozled by shitty in-browser fake virus alerts all the time, now add a real dialog, with real looks, that the user is forced to interact with, and you have a slam-dunk.
Not much evidence that keto fights cancer any better than any other exclusion diet; it might even be worse than meat exclusion diets.
If you do that often enough, at some point the state won’t have enough money to pay the unemployed any more. Also, there are reasons why the same product can be manufactured more cheaply in China than (say) in Germany, that have to do with different standards for labor rights, safety standards, and so on, not with anyone failing to make a good product. And it’s not like China doesn’t subsidize its automotive industry as well.
If "fascinating" were "repulsive" I'd be aligned with your post.
> Only 4 of the 9 members of the court were proposed by PSD (SPD), 4 were proposed by PNL and another by UDMR.

You forget to mention that PSD/SPD and PNL are running the government together now, and UDMR (minority hungarian party) will ally with anyone who gives them a few government positions. Usually with SPD.
More transparency is a good thing, even if that comes from "international interference". The problems exist, try to hide them at your own political risk.
Options A and B are definitely not the reason why far right is on the rise in my opinion. It boils down to more basic things, like a healthy economy, immigration, health care, rising cost of living, and various country specific issues.
> Drone + gun + trigger widget?

I feel that would work at all because the aim would be terrible.
The cyber attack was done against the institutions responsible for counting, collating and validating the election results.

While we use paper ballots and stamps for the actual voting and hand count every vote, transmiting and centralizing the results is done using IT infrastructure.

The cyber attack and the TikTok manipulation are 2 separate but related things.
CEOs can be held accountable, look at the former CEO of United Health.

A functional legal system would be better, but as they say, nature finds a way.
Surely there's a middle ground for these things.

The value in old data isn't just in pulling up a single piece of information like a magician pulls a rabbit out of their hat, it's tremendously useful for looking back and seeing how an organization and its methodology has changed and how that information can be applied to future project.
The "little man" pastery of the 6th of December
Cool feature: The Rivian R1T and R1S are equipped with a "Tank Turn" feature, allowing the vehicle to rotate 360 degrees in place by spinning the left and right wheels in opposite directions.
The person is blind. The upside is dramatic.

People have surgery all the time for significantly less upside.
It's easier to blame a loss on the lack of narrative controls than self reflect on the actions of the incumbent.
America sure is funny. They just happily elected an oligarchy that can't wait to very aggressively cut anything social spending they can (most government spending is pensions and healthcare, ACA subsidies are also expiring in 2025 and there's 0% chance they get extended), but they're also kinda gleeful about the murder of a CEO that is merely operating a company within the environment they so happily voted back in? It's just an absurd situation all around.
Right now, TikTok is under EU level investigation, which will take much longer than a few days. If found guilty, it can face a fine up to 6% of worldwide revenues.
I got an issue recently with how <dialog> interacts with AdSense “vignette” (interstitial) ads.

Vignettes set their `z-index` CSS property to the max (2147483647), but a <dialog> is still higher on the z-plane (with no way to adjust that).

So if you click a link from a <dialog>, and an interstitial gets displayed, it’s under the <dialog>. It looks like nothing happened, that clicking is broken.

Fix in my case was to close() the <dialog> onclick.
A great example of Teller's observation that "sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect."
What other thing could these specific people be working on that would have as much upside as making blind people see?

Your misunderstanding of risk/reward is astounding.
Yes I was downvoted last time I posted this, but: Don't try to be your own lawyer, and don't try to be your own doctor.
The number you're thinking of is 52! (52 factorial) and how long it would take for 52! seconds to pass by.

Vsauce has a great video on this, and might be where that example was taken from.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObiqJzfyACM

That example starts 16 minutes into the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObiqJzfyACM&t=964s

But it's worth watching the whole thing.
I’ve used this app as an offline maps tool for travel for a long time, when I got it I thought it was just a fine OSM client.

Then years later I hear it was running crypto nonsense (what) and was involved in FTX (what), but out of laziness I’m still using the thing because it can’t do any upsells when I am offline anyways.

Any recommendations for a good iOS offline map app that’s just a map app?
Lies I was told about collab editing, Part 1: Algorithms for offline editing
That really depends on how competitive you are.

Btw, it's not "unhappiness", it's a different feeling entirely.
You can't elect an oligarchy. They have a four year term, and almost no one in the incoming administration has a long-term career in government. It's literally the opposite of an oligarchy, it's a republic.

Also, United Healthcare has no place in the incoming administration. Bobby Kennedy Jr is Trump's selection for Health Secretary, if anything is a spurn to the pharmaceutical companies and the insurance industry.
I wonder how keys are assigned to rows and how the adjudicator is shared.

The author also mentions a leader adjudicator, which means there is probably some sort of coordination to pick a leader.
This raises the question of how a leader is picked, and if leadership changes based on how hot a key is in a given AZ.

This blog series is a great read. Every day Marc drops excellent content and leaves room for questions, which he ends up answering on the following days. Hope more details come next.