skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is just because of inequality those populists feed on, while at the same time being rich. However, being unconvential, having a sound media strategy, and no doubt being helped by (foreign?) disinformation - they quickly gain a foothold in an era of unlimited social media.

However, I often think about that drawing where three people are at a table. A blue-collar worker (mine worker or construction worker), a black sad looking black person (immigrant), and a rich guy in suit.

The blue collar worker has a single cookie on his plate, the immigrant no cookies at all, and the rich guy a plate full of cookies. The rich guy with his plate full of cookies, looking at the worker, points to the immigrant. “He wants your cookie”.
I second the opinion that Gemini is a great tool to work with. The recent updates have made it an even better experience. I use Gemini Flash, and whether I'm working with freeform or code, it's awesome.
Thank you! It's been interesting to watch HN playing around with it. This community definitely phrases its search queries differently from how many government affairs professionals would (especially to try smoke tests like yours), so I'm glad it's holding up :)
I’m an American living in France for the past two years and cannot wait to move back to the USA. The taxes are so extreme and salaries so low that no one can even invest in the stock market. If I stay here, I will be able to leave virtually nothing to my kids when I die. The EU can take its 5 weeks of vacation and go fuck itself.
"The main point in making is that you need to continue in performing these relationship maintaining activities _before_ you need said persons help."

Well, but I am quite good in determining if another person is just trying to be (fake) friendly, so they can get my help later and I am not interested in that and smalltalk won't create that bond for me. I am interested in genuine connections.

So if someone asks this question "Hey man, you get into any new hobbies recently" and is actually interested in my response - then this is simply not smalltalk anymore by my definition. And I gladly answer. And maybe form a bond. And of course help each other later.

But if I feel, it is just a mechanical and calculated approach to bond with me, well, no thank you. But I also help people without doing smalltalk if I can.
I used an A7C2 + Sony FE 50mm f2.8 macro. The lightbox was a custom build based on the design that I found linked on HN recently: https://jackw01.github.io/scanlight/. This was then mounted vertically on the toolhead of my 3D printer with the camera on a tripod, I then used the Z and X axes to scan across the negative.

Although I had success with PTGui and it "just worked", I didn't fancy paying for it and instead used Hugin in the end. This lead me to take around 63 pictures with 50% overlap.

The film was a 4x5 negative and after stitching I'd say the effective DPI was ~4500
> Why is SpaceX ahead of EU aerospace companies?

“A system of non-competition clauses enforced by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) workforce suppliers is allegedly trapping aerospace professionals who work at ESA’s facilities across Europe in a professional dead-end street” [1].

Europe is absolutely riddled with this crap, and it tends to come top down from the EU.

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/12/esa-workers-face-a-maz...
> I guess I’m saying you shouldn’t treat others as impersonal machines to be manipulated unless you are ok with that same behavior being turned back on yourself.

This! However if you'll allow me—I think it's worth saying we shouldn’t treat others as impersonal machines to be manipulated _at all_ because we're never really okay with that same behavior being given back to us because of millenia of social, communal evolution.
That is some A grade FUD. You know the article is going to be good when the tag line is:

> If you don't want Elon Musk to feed your tweets to his AI, now might be the time to leave the app formerly known as Twitter.

Ok. Time to leave google because Google is training its AI on your search queries. What about Facebook? Gmail maybe? eff it, we gotta exit Windows too soon enough.

The whole AI data training thing is inevitable. If you're worried about your data, don't put it out there to begin with. Even if whatever platform you're using guarantees that it won't use your data for AI training, it will be scraped with or without said platform's permission.
> I think a lot of programmer arguments bottom out in a cultural clash between different kinds of engineers

True. Also it should be the managements'/team leads' role to act as a midiators. It's a waste of time to constantly argue over what is "right" when all proposed solutions are functional.

Should we spend more time flushing out the unknowns? Should we launch ASAP and interate fast? Should we automate the process? Do we have data to back our assumptions?

The "culture fit" is not superficial and I've always been advocate of fire fast if one is culturally unfit because it slows down everyone
A 128GB card could run llama 3.1B 70B with FP8. It is a huge increase in quality over what the current 24GB cards can do.
The concern is the distorted and manipulative rhetoric.

Which in turn further drives and exploits the anger.
Being publicly listed means you have to follow the rules that apply to PLCs. In particular, you have to publish accounts.
You may find Claude giving better results. You can ask her to write code with "please apply technical guidance from Stephen Toub w.r.t. performance to the code you come up with" and it helps to improve the quality since Stephen Toub is someone she knows about. Or maybe some other core contributors and article authors that have more likelihood to be present in the dataset.
Figuring out which Mac Space (virtual desktop) you're using isn't straightforward, but it can be done! I also don't think(?) any other app lets you put custom images in the menu bar. I'd love to hear feedback about the app [direct link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/currentkey-stats/id1456226992?... ]
Maybe the war on encryption was just a show to make people think they can not monitor WhatsApp or Signal. Now they give up and push people to those platforms. Would that qualify me as a conspiracy theorist and if so what kind of nickname do I get? I hope it rhymes with Bender. I have skin thicker than my skull so I hope people give me a good one.
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There is literally a comment thanking the person who made the original comment because they felt the exact same way.

==Thanks - that's exactly how I felt after watching a view videos==

The original comment was a long explanation that ended with: ==Kinda ruined my day a bit==

Seems like pretty tame language to get worked up about, I see two qualifiers in merely 6 words.
Thank you Johtso! Glad you have been enjoying it :)

Yeah definitely it's been a challenge to think about how we want to bring it over, probably going to do a bring your own key experience for the AI that way we're not eating the costs on an open-source project. Have been thinking about bundling a Llama type experience as well, but I'm not sure if people would want that, would you?

Yeah for now it is, although we've talked about also releasing a lightweight version of that haha!
I've no idea how much ants produce but your point just adds to the key issue which is that the baseline(s)/thresholds for safety must be determined before substantial progress can be made. For that, let's check the environment humans have evolved in over many millennia.

Failing that or if we find there is enough formaldehyde from natural sources to cause us harm—and or if we determine human sources cannot be reduced to safe levels—or that it's completely impracticable to so (which on evidence seems likely)—then I'd reckon that at some futue time we may have to resort to gene editing or such to make our species more resilient to formaldehyde (that is in ways somewhat akin to how vaccination works today).

I don't think that's a stretch too far or that we're at risk of becoming Frankenstein-like humans; after all that claim could be made now about vaccination, it forces the strengthing of our immune systems to defend us in ways well above our pre-vaccinated state.

Of course, that approach would also apply to many other harmful chemicals and diseases. Right, for now that's just speculative science fiction but I've little doubt that eventually it'll happen.
I think that's a bit of a trap. It's not impossible, but by default we should expect it to make games less fun.

The better you make this infinite narrative generator, the more complicated the world gets and the less compelling it gets to actually interact with any one story.

Stories thrive by setting their own context. They should feel important to the viewer. An open world with infinite stories can't make every story feel meaningful to the player. So how does it make any story feel meaningful? I suppose the story would have to be global, in which case, it crowds out the potential for fractal infinite storylines - eventually, all or at least most are going to have to tie back to the Big Bad Guy in order to feel meaningful.

Local stories would just feel mostly pointless. In Minecraft, all (overworld) locales are equally unimportant. Much like on Earth, why should you care about the random place you appeared in the world? The difference is that on Earth you tend to develop community as you grow and builds connections to the place you live, which can build loyalty. In addition, you only have one shot, and you have real needs that you must fulfill or you die forever. So you develop some otherwise arbitrary loyalties in order to feel security in your needs.

In Minecraft there's zero pressure to develop loyalty to a place except for your own real-life time. And when that becomes a driving factor, why wouldn't you pick a game designed to respect your time with a self-contained story? (Not that infinite games like Minecraft are bad, but they aren't story-driven for a good reason).

Now, a game like Dwarf Fortress is different because you build the community, the infrastructure, the things that make you care about a place. But it already has infinite story generation without AI and I'm not sure AI would improve on that model.
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Ok - you got me.

That’s actually a use case I can understand- and what’s more I think that humans could generate training data (story “prototypes”?) that somehow (?) expand the phase space of story-types

Ironic though - we can build AI that could be creative but it’s humans that have to use science and logic because AI cannot?
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If their kids could afford to buy houses nearby, they'd probably be a bit more OK with it. But when their own kids are priced out and told they don't have the relevant skills (thanks to education provided by the government unequally) for the new jobs, it's easy to point fingers at the new people in town.

And those people don't have to be foreign or a different race: just see the anti-tech waves that have rolled through the Bay Area in the past, directed more based on attire and mode of transport than race. And a lot of people here would agree those new workers are to blame for a lot of Bay Area problems, but it's easier to dismiss others as bigoted than wrestle with the reality of winners and losers behind each statistic.
> American FA*NG 'enshittification' and cheap Chinese plastic junk

Another POV is that the services and software that does the design, marketing, logistics, testing, certification and etc of the plastic junk is more valuable than the plastic junk, and all that stuff is made in the US. It’s still labor, sometimes it’s even bespoke one off software labor which might as well be manufacturing, the thing that it is not is factories. I don’t know why factories above all else are glorified. There is lots of labor in services.
Why pay?

Reddit, a multi-billion dollar company has perfected the art of exploiting unpaid volunteer work.

So much so that when said workers rebel against the administration they get booted from their position. Moderators are easily replaced as there is always someone willing to toe the administration's line.
I just tried the sky is green example and Gemini told me that no, the sky is typically blue, even when I tried to get it to admit that it is green.

It did tell me the sky can appear green sometimes and linked this: https://baronweather.com/extreme-weather/its-not-easy-being-...
Facebook and X wildly aligned with a technocrat government filled with and strongly influenced by narcissistic billionaire friends who are known to despise any kind of criticism.

What could possibly go wrong? /s
Yes. I had a subscription, but cancelled it when I got access to Gemini. ChatGPT may be better for some queries, but definitely not $25/month better to me.
ChatGPT (no Sora, no World Generation, etc...) was released two years ago almost to the date.

What you're talking about is a minor jump from the SOTA, much smaller than what we've already see in these two years.
This is great! constantly annoyed at not having this
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> cheap Chinese plastic junk will continue to eat the world

That's a thing of the past. Check the consumer electronics produced today in China. Mobile devices, EVs, infrastructure, newer products are simply incredible, and I'd argue ahead of western technology on many fronts.
Cheap plastic stuff now gets produced in other less developed countries.
I'm also not a Rust programmer so I can't comment on whether people are overusing it, I was commenting on the suggestion that "if you're using unsafe{} in Rust what's the point in using Rust at all?" implying that it's basically C at that point, and it isn't - there's still a lot of safety checks the compiler does even in unsafe mode.
If the firmware is open source, perhaps it could be retrofitted. For amd64 motherboards that do not have native UEFI support, retrofits are possible through this:

https://github.com/xCuri0/ReBarUEFI
Do teachers and parents now actively encourage students to read aloud? I'd love to see a study showing this helps.

When I did this in middle school I was repeated told to stop, and that doing so or talking myself through math problems were "signs of mental illness," and I needed to keep it in my head.

I hated that it made it easier.
Nope, the y is markedly different than the screenshot: https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/font?att_pc63...
Well shit, if Google's strategy was dreamed up by glue eaters then I'd hate to see the sorry sod that greenlit OpenAI's strategy. Something tells me a diet of glue and rocks wouldn't be enough to hallucinate something as stupid as "AGI" and market it to the world.
My understanding is US healthcare is actually has the best outcomes, however Americans are sicker and those without insurance are obviously worse off.
I wonder if this was some response to denying care to someone?
I love it! I was not expecting the math based aspect and that took me back to my younger days playing Math Blaster Plus and Number Muncher. Thank you for the trip down memory lane.
What were the problems and how did you solve them?
Or maybe even loyalist/idealist to purge any hint of negativity from the first category
is PvP multiplayer considered a "story"? Is a football game a "story"? I guess if all you consider for story is "things happen", then a PvP match can be a story, but that's stretching what I would consider "story" for a game. That is the story of the match, but it's not in and of itself a plot story.
to be fair that sleep/suspend issue is with any amd cpu running kvms.

I have a desktop system with a newish amd cpu and had the same issues as discussed on the github issue.
As I understand it, a major problem with tyre pollution is the 6PPD-Quinone used.

https://avadaenvironmental.com/2024/05/27/the-environmental-...
Yeah that's been another big part of this too, making sure it's a simple way to support these new and lightweight but powerful databases!
I dont want state funded single player Medicaid for all, and would vote against it. I think my united healthcare plan is better (somewhat ironically).

Instead, I think medicaid should be offered, at cost, as a non-profit public option to all ages. This was discussed briefly during the Obama healthcare debates, but broadly rejected by left who wanted to eliminate private options. We got compulsory private healthcare instead, but I think it is still the best option. Give everyone a non-profit option with a national pool size.
That is a good point, but my reading of “accusations of negligence” (and I think a common interpretation in this context) would be that there was a responsibility for the accused party to do something and they didn’t.
You can see your "coaster score" on Hacker News, it is the number on the upper right, next to your username ;)
Some modern EVs already use drum brakes on the rear. Since they have regenerative breaking you don't get brake fade on long downhills.

New EU regulations are coming in to limit brake dust and so people are looking at them again. And other ideas, like mercedes has a prototype that puts the brake inside the motor.
Just a small comment, encourage your son (or do it yourself) to archive his site and code so he can revisit it years later. I did and it is amazing to learn again the code I did 25 years ago!
This is an interesting approach. Congrats on shipping!

I worry that it won't be effective. Systems like Supermemo and Anki work because of:

1) Spaced repetition (showing you the thing at the right time).

2) Retrieval practice (having your brain practice retrieving the thing you're about to forget).

3) Feedback and automation (using your self-rating to schedule the next review).

You are doing #1 and #3.

But you totally skip #2, because you show all the info in the email. So, unlike Anki, Supermemo or Quantum Country (which someone mentioned in another comment), there's no front/back or cloze deletion, and no retrieval practice happening.

Perhaps putting the question in the email subject and the answer in the email body would work?
> My theory is that other countries' trade is so closely tied to the US Dollar that when the Federal Reserve prints money it's not just diluting the US Dollar but all currencies. The US is effectively taxing the world, to pay for its own spending.

Yes.

The BRICs economic group has been trying to launch their own currency for a while now. This is one of the reasons for it. Trump has threatened to impose 100% tax on them and on anyone else who ever tries.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/trump-threatens-100-...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-02/south-afr...
Given we have engines that can render complex 3d worlds, can maintain consistency far longer than a minute and simulate physics accurately, why put all that burden on a GenAI world generator like this?

It seems like it’d be more useful to have the model generate the raw artifacts, world map, etc. and let the engine do the actual rendering.
If you are prepared for long and detailed you can look at Ralph Baric's testimony to the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus. He's probably the world's leading authority on coronavirus gain of function research and was involved in proposing research that would have produced something near identical to covid along with the reasons for doing so scientifically. He proposed such research in association with the WIV and it didn't get US funding but it seems very possible they went ahead with what he was suggesting anyway.

From the testemony:

>[The] first part was that we were fundamentally interested in why didn't sarbecoviruses have a furin cleavage site...

>Feline infectious peritonitis virus, it's an enteric form, it's got a furin cleavage site, it replicates, and it got very mild infection. When the furin cleavage site is lost, it kills the cat. So it's a flip, right? Furin cleavage site is the loss of -- it's protecting from virulent disease. So the data going into that proposal, the exact role of furin cleavage site was not clear. We were interested in it because most other coronaviruses in family had those sites. Why didn't sarbecovirus?...

And then about a year after proposing playing around with that, this never found in nature thing, a sarbecovirus with a cleavage site, pops up by the WIV. Bit of a coincidence it seems to me.
Desperate people will do things like that. I’d be unsurprised.

If you feel that you have nothing to lose, nothing will stop you from doing such things. What is fear of prison for someone who just lost a loved one to what they feel is a heartless bureaucracy lead by this guy?
It's unclear for the moment if this is an angry customer or jilted lover type of killer. Is it personal or is it professional? But as the insurance company with the highest claim rejection rate, they are quite literally killing their customers, manufacturing their own long list of aggrieved suspects.
I've come to think that a good chunk of the resistance to written-word-heavy remote work, and to the phenomenon of "let's just hop on a quick call" where the alternative was pretty likely to be a much quicker IM exchange, is due to this exact thing—not just that a lot of people can't read at that level-3 proficiency, but that another cohort can, but finds that the absolute limit of their ability and quite taxing, leaving well more than half of the population uncomfortable in a professional reading- and writing-heavy environment, if not wholly incapable of working in it at all.
Not it, but see this related modern work! https://departuremono.com/

And a recent and informing podcast episode about it, https://changelog.com/podcast/618.
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Without more clarification, I am unsure about whether feeling the same applies to the day ruining or just the direct reaction.

> Seems like pretty tame language to get worked up about, I see two qualifiers in merely 6 words.

I don't think anyone here is worked up.
This only lists PC fonts, which doesn't include UNIX terminals. I admit I haven't checked them all just yet.