skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I totally agree that many online comments are toxic and many people should go touch grass. However I also see this as the next step in a series of humans getting their communications cut off by computers.

Talking to people online is in fact a way that some people get socialization and develop writing skills. If my prognostication is correct and people give up even trying to interact on most websites because "it's not worth starting a conversation only to find out 10 minutes later that they're a bot" or "no one listens to my opinion because that's what all the bots say so they don't think I'm real", the effect is to make the web even more "read-only" where people are discouraged from sharing themselves.
>The decision was made, Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel said, because there had been "specific and targeted attacks against drivers delivering Amazon packages" in those two zip codes.

Yikes. I get not wanting to send your own drivers in that case. Well, Prime comes with other "benefits" than fast shipping. It should be up to subscribers in those zip codes to decide whether or not the service is worthwhile for themselves and cancel it if it's not. Doesn't sound worth it to me, but who am I to tell them to unsubscribe.
Is your argument that them sharing research progress and demos doesn't benefit anybody purely because we can't immediately play around with them?

I feel like sharing early closed-source blog-posts is part of the research process. I'm sure someone in this thread has thought of a use case that the Google team missed. Open/closed source arguments here feel premature IMO.
https://archive.ph/8NrLB
I can co-sign all of that, but the cleanliness and order comes at a terrible dystopian price. There is no counterculture, little underground, and everyone with resources who can leave, does.

China is a terrible place, the ultimate star wars crab bucket dystopian future. It’s shiny and pretty and has cool LEDs and malls.

Any place can be decades ahead if you simply outlaw the old ways of life. Authoritarianism is a terrible cancer.
I'm not in those areas, but even I've seen very weirdly varying delivery times from Amazon despite supposedly being prime delivery / 2 day delivery times. The prime label isn't trustworthy as far as delivery times go anymore IMO.

At first it was an item or two and I didn't think much of it, but then even just the shipped notice wouldn't show up for several days for a prime item and I'd get the late notice way after it was late. The impression I got was that the website was going to say 2 day delivery regardless of the situation, but in reality it had no chance and they had no interest in telling me until after it should have arrived.

In the past year or two it has happened more and more to where I see 2 day delivery and I think "yeah maybe..."
I don't know how to write this comment in a way that won't land me in a CIA black site so I'll just start with a disclaimer that this post in no way celebrates or condones any violence, but I wouldn't be surprised if political assassination attempts go up 10-fold in the next 10 years. We already saw two different assassination attempts against Trump during the lead up to the election. You can read my older comments to know my political leanings, I don't like Trump. But wow, I'm genuinely more worried about the stability of our society because of increases in violent acts like this and the inevitable retaliation by the government against all people in the name of "security", than anything Trump could enact.

I wouldn't be surprised if New York passes new gun control laws because of this shooting; I wouldn't be surprised if there's a congresscritter or White House Staffer or judge who's assassinated in the next several years causing some kind of martial law situation. It's scary times we live in right now.
Fun fact - well maintained pool water has barely a detectable scent of chlorine. If you go to a pool that reeks of chlorine, what you are really smelling are chloramines. That is the result of chlorine combining with pee and other stuff. It's one of the reasons a poorly maintained pool is so irritating for your skin and eyes.

I sympathize, though, with the maintainers of public pools. A nearly constant bather load comprised mostly of children emptying their bladders at will. It's probably a losing battle. And then periodically one of the little brats will poop in the water. God bless the maintenance guy who has to fish that out and then shock the pool into the safe zone again. Yuck.
Music sector workers to lose nearly a quarter of income to AI in next four years
Beta (and sim) intentionally does not search them.
Remake Blade Runner but with the twist that the snake scale was never actually there.
Right, thanks. And I'm sure there are others I've missed.
Who needs Al-Qaeda when you have oathkeepers, 3%ers and the like with hundreds if not thousands of members ready to take up arms?

We don't need foreign groups, we have homegrown ones.
Show HN: Outerbase Studio – Open-Source Database GUI
We just launched Outerbase Studio, the open-source version of our core database offering. It works in your browser or as a desktop app and supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.

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Didn't (early) engines run significantly better with it? Less knocking, if nothing else?

That was the stated rationale, anyway. It was an anti-knock compound. So, was that false? Did it not help knocking at all? Or was reducing knocking not a benefit at all?
"Brain’s complaint contained allegations of wrongdoing in the form of “untrue statements, incompetence, hiding info, bad faith dealings and unethical behavior” after a disagreement with Misra in August regarding repurposing the Engineering Entrepreneurs Program meeting space to accommodate a new hire. "

So, conflict over making a meeting room for a new hire?

Was this something innocent that escalated dramatically?
That is a terrifying statistic "Fifty four percent of Americans read below the 6th grade level" ... just found the research.
So tayga was the tool that I came the closest to using last time I looked at this, but rereading http://www.litech.org/tayga/ I still don't really follow the configuration (yes I know it's a skill issue but nat44 wasn't this hard), the tun device is... I guess it should be fine, but I don't like needing it, and the whole thing looks very manual (I'd bet that doesn't persist after a reboot) though I guess I should see if someone's packaged up a nice systemd unit that makes it all work.

The eBPF one is very interesting and does seem to work the way I expect NAT to work (no extra interfaces, just rewriting packets as they come and go), but is 1. unfinished by its own description, and 2. again a 3rd-party code drop that I'd have to package and ship myself if I wanted to use it. And I can do that, but I really don't like my routers to need fiddling.
What's a "5th order motion planner"?

I don't see a reference to the term on your website and when I looked it up on Google this post was the top hit. I also found this paper [1], is this what you're talking about? https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=883...
Insurance Claim Denials: Worst Companies and How to Appeal
Well, sure, in practice work stealing makes correct distribution difficult, but in theory, work stealing is to repair an incorrect work distribution, right?

If every CPU is 100% utilized without needing context switch (and running the right number of worker threads without switching those), then work stealing is not required.

But my comment is solidly "Rule of thumb". I claim no theoretical basis other than "Giving fewer longer tasks to fewer threads, (still >= number of worker threads), is better than giving more shorter ones"
The scrolling doesn’t work in my MS Edge so I opened the page in Firefox. Firefox has “Open Video in New Tab” context menu command. When viewed that way, the videos are not that impressive. Horrible visual quality, Egyptian pyramids of random shapes which cast round shadows, etc.

I have a feeling many AI researchers are trying to fix things which are not broken.

Game engines are not broken, no reasonable amount of AI TFlops going to approach a professional with UE5. DAWs are not broken, no reasonable amount of AI TFlops going to approach a professional with Steinberg Cubase and Apple Logic.

I wonder why so many AI researchers are trying to generate the complete output with their models, as opposed to training model to generate some intermediate representation and/or realtime commands for industry-standard software?
A grievance will be reported upon soon. If the gunman was trying to improve society, I'm not convinced they did anything but the opposite. - sad in that regard. Good luck to the tragedy in the background, and rip Mr. Thompson.
> In the case of leaded gas we got literally no benefit. There was never a legitimate reason to put lead in motor fuels.

That's not true. The benefit was anti-knocking without using more expensive high-octane fuel (or later, ethanol).

It was still a terrible, terrible decision though, given the centuries of knowledge that lead is a poison.
well, it should be lisp all the way down

https://www.loper-os.org/?p=42
PSA: Your Twitter/X account is about to change forever
Ocean is not a win. It means large sea ports and hence an influx of new rats.
You yourself said it would cosr trillions in public money.

You addressed none of the reasons that going beyond a small scientific mission would be nonsense
Well if you don’t care about legality you don’t need to buy a gun somewhere with less restrictions on guns…
Just glue a bushy tail to them and call them squirrels
what about lead in pipes?

Can I detect if there is lead in the water I drink?
As if they couldn't just buy that without increasing prices and still make a gazillion dollars.
That's common in contemporary houses as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr. , and a video by Veritasium https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV3dnLzthDA (25 min)
Jet engines from decades ago are still more than sufficient. The gap is overstated.

China will win through brute scale and determination, I believe.
Religion and politics have always been mixed. Prior to the founding of the U.S., religious and political identity was one and the same. Which is why heresy was often treated in civil courts as sedition.

Even when the U.S. introduced the concept of seperation of church and state, it was for the explicit purpose of promoting religion. The U.S. founders axiomatically assumed religion was necessary for morality and self-governance and believed that a free market of religions (as opposed to state religion) would lead to increased religiosity [0]. And, interestingly, it seems they were right as the countries with state churches have all seen massive religious decline while the U.S. is one of the most religious countries in the world (especially when you filter out the elite class, who as secular as Europeans).

The danger is that politicians co-opt religious institutions to help legitimize their regime and bolster support. Marsh's biography of Bonhoffer describes exactly this process.

[0] George Washington's Final Address: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/farewell-address
"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. . . Let it simply be asked, Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."
I Deployed the Same App on Hetzner and DigitalOcean
I did a load test on a $5 Hetzner and $6 Digital Ocean server. In the video, I tried to push them to their limit with 50-500 concurrent users and shared the results!
TLDR: Because they lost $16.6 billion dollars with no hope of a turn around insight.
Regular Clojure relies on JVMs ability to load classes at runtime. Can Go VM do that?
Yes, I did figure that out, they are idiot savants of sorts.
If you're in Saskatchewan and you see rats you call Alberta. They'll come by and get rid of them for you.
How would you go about dealing with tire dust pollution in a sensible way that doesn't destroy the global economy?

I'm all for it, I'm for policies that "force" people to change certain careers or lifestyles in a sensible way, and I'm sure there's a good solution however imperfect it may be.
What a brilliant solution to poverty: make it a crime and imprison the poor.

They'll receive shelter and food paid by the taxpayer, enriching private prisons, and be removed from the sight of the taxpayer, all in one simple act.
I wonder if the no warning part is a consequence of too much moderation, so people think everything or most thing is so moderated it no longer warrants a warning?
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You make it sound like "refusing to help" was in the context of a random person begging for help to a stranger.

It's more "hey, pay me a percentage of your wages and when you need help with medical bills, we will help you..." then denying the help.
Hi.. original post author here.

Interesting point RE the Snopes trial. You are right, evolution is not mentioned in the book as far as I can tell. Even though it is foundational to understanding the human body (in particular some weird features it have which any half-good creator would never design that way.)

The SJWs / woke cult are a bit of a personal hobby horse for me. I think it is important to mention, since woke ideology comes from academics at top universities, as well as journalists at top media outlets -- people who have a lot of power to shape the public discourse and influence public policy. The power of Christian fundamentalists over society and culture, on the other hand, has been waning, if one looks over the past few decades. Yes, they are in the ascendancy at the moment with the 2024 election and whatnot, but overall their influence is waning. Of course, both anti-science from the left and from the right are issues we should worry about -- I'm just giving an argument why we might want to be a bit more worried about anti-science from the left. How much either issue is discussed probably greatly depends on what circles you run in.

Note I did mention how there is no discussion of sexual health or women's health in the book. That is an issue with health textbooks that has been improved a lot but still exists to some extent today due to Christian conservatives.
Show HN: Latitude, open-source prompt playground for teams
Hi all,

This is our 3rd pivot and I just realized I never shared it here.

We built Latitude for teams who collaborate on prompts and want to iterate with confidence.

We've seen people use spreadsheets, notion docs, and even build internal tools to manage prompts, but it's still pretty much a manual workflow based on vibes.

With Latitude you get:

1. A prompt manager to enable non-technical folks to create, edit, and test prompts
2. A suite of evaluations (llm-as-judge, human in the loop, etc) to understand how different prompts perform

All of it powered by real production data captured as logs that you can turn into datasets for testing.

We already have a few hundred users and the feedback has been great, we're a small team and we ship fast (proof: https://docs.latitude.so/changelog), so we're looking for more feedback and ideas.
> Broadly, left-wing politics favors making money and power more diffuse and is suspicious of hierarchy

How do you "make money more diffuse"?
I would agree that the hierarchy thing is broadly correct, and many use this definition, but I find it unsatisfactory, as it does not move me in any way. "Yeah hierarchy is so cool man" said no one ever.

Taking left-wing ideology at face value is a mistake, what is interesting is the underlying psychology. The stated goals and how it plays out in practise are never aligned, thus the "real communism has never been tried" meme. If you are attached to leftism or simply never delved deeper into political philosophy, these definitions might offend you, but they are psychologically correct:

"The bugman pretends to be motivated by compassion, but is instead motivated by a titanic hatred of the well-turned-out and beautiful." [BAP]

"Communism is when ugly deformed freaks make it illegal to be normal then rob and/or kill all successful people out of petty resentment and cruelty. The ideology is all just window dressing." [Mystery Grove]
I am curious to find out whether this is the work of a vigilante. From reading the news and from gauging public sentiment generally, it seems that established paths in the US are increasingly seen as corrupt to the point of illegitimacy. That is dangerous for everyone.
Judgement is heaven or hell, reward or punishment. What other outcome can there be?

Knowing Him is to follow God's commands and to love God with all your being and then love your neighbor as yourself. And to seek and find the meaning of "Hallowed be Thy Name", and other mysteries.

Intention is the multiplier for our actions, and that product is what we are judged upon. It's how the well-intentioned act of charity is weighed differently from giving charity in order to tell people, or merely for tax breaks.

Our change comes in degrees, over time with honest self-evaluation and effort, failures with apologies and, eventually, successes, until we see Its Face, and thereafter be "pure in heart", another "servant of all" taking their place as "the greatest among us".

It starts with begging God to take Its Spirit (our Conscience) back into Itself while we live, so that our soul may be cleansed and purified of its vices. That is the meaning of the 1st Beatitude, "Blessed are the poor in Spirit, for theirs shall be the Kingdom of God."

Then we have to slog through and overcome our selfishnesses, to the end, as described by the 5th (IIRC) Beatitude, by learning how to choose selfless service to others over selfishness.

Most people believe Jesus will forgive them on the JD, just because they say some words; many Muslims believe the same but with different words, and many Buddhists believe we just keep getting more chances. No. Those are lies of the deceiver of man, who works on our minds and hearts.

We get one chance on this Earth, for good or ill, and everything about our choices is knowable as to whether it harmonizes with God's teachings. It is up to us to seek that truth, humbly and honestly, and without the misguided corruptions brought by generations of telephone, whereby human beings have been led away from the Truth of Love.

Peace be with you. We love you. I am at your service.
> If the real reason is "there's several dozen foreign governments and organised criminal groups who are all using platforms like these to try to destabilise us", then it's important to lie about it as much as possible so that those foreign governments and organised criminal groups don't catch on.

If this was the real reason then they couldn't be advocating for bills to compromise the security of those systems, because the actual bad guys can perform logical deduction and conclude that the same compromises could be used against them and then switch to some other system.

> States can't really function long-term if they permit encryption they themselves can't break, it's not stable

This has been the case for quite some time and it's not only completely fine but in line with historical norms. Historically governments didn't have the capacity to intercept communications en masse, and the majority of communication took place in person with no record of what was said outside of the minds of the people in the room.

Meanwhile targeted interception will always be available because governments can, in the limit, physically install bugs to record the target's conversations or passwords. And to the extent that you're dealing with a sophisticated adversary that knows how to scan for bugs, you're well past the point that legislating backdoors in messaging apps is relevant because a sophisticated adversary can use already-existent open source messaging systems without them.
I thought the project was dead.
My question also, as I thought the evidence was slim and inconclusive. Would really be something if you make a "true" movie about someone's involvement in a plot that didn't happen and half the movie was completely fiction.
I think showing students well formatted papers about approachable subjects is a great idea that more teachers should adopt! What's wrong with modeling the actual domain? "Serious mathematicians" communicate by publishing papers, but for some reason my only exposure to papers was on my own time outside of school, where they were largely intractable. This includes college math and physics courses.
This leads to a serious epistemic crisis where if we are all rational then we all must endeavor to understand that we know nothing about these things. Think about Wi-Fi. You're now going to have to empathize directly with all the people that don't understand it. Since we can't know everything and we can't trust anyone, we must resign to knowing nothing about any of this in general. Best to err on the side of caution though, since now the chance of something being terrible for us is 50/50.
What homemade gizmo killed him? A quick search online said that he died from a stroke.
In reality alcoholism has been an issue in Russia basically forever, and has helped fill state coffers since Ivan the Terrible.

Maybe Russia can blame the West for the dark net.
In this case, it’s simply putting a mountain of code into the critical path. If you have to load 30MB before the page works, it’s just not going to be a good experience. You can try to handle and retry errors but it’s better not to get into that situation in the first place.
For sure. In my experience there are two places I can go in Victoria and be guaranteed to find rats—one is the harbour.
Apple Releases iCloud Passwords Add-On for Firefox
Waiting for OpenAI to take this concept and make it into a product
Could you elaborate on the hardware timers? How are these different from the timers that exist in the microcontroller, and what design changes are required in hardware?

Or is your point that the outputs from these timers can't be muxed to the pins that current hardware wires up?
Typer uses Click under the hood, but your arguments are properly typed (hence the name).
YOu think people know how to do that? Or even remember their content is there for all to see?