skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You aren’t wrong, however election spending was a well above 2.8 + 1.8 billion = 4.6 billion.

“The 2024 presidential election was the second most expensive since at least 1998. In total, $5.5 billion dollars was spent on the race by presidential candidates, political parties and independent interest groups trying to influence federal elections, according to Open Secrets. Adjusted for inflation, that’s $2.2 billion less than the 2020 race, the most expensive on record. When congressional races are factored in, the cost of 2024 campaigns jumps to $15.9 billion.

In 2024, Democrats spent about $6.7 billion, Republicans spent about $7.6 billion, and third-party candidates, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., spent a little more than $500 million. Adjusted for inflation, that’s more than 2.5 times as much as any third-party candidate since 2000, when third-party candidates spent nearly $197 million.” https://www.pbs.org/newshour/live-update/election-news-2024/...

Though 2020 was an odd benchmark as Michael Bloomberg spent 1 billion on the nomination before dropping out.
> The party’s message is also crucial.

can you tell me what was the message from republican party?
Without seriously digging into the data, 2001-ish (dot-bomb) was pretty much a nuclear winter for tech and 2008-or so was enough of a general downturn that I made the decision not to play my networking cards even though I didn't feel in a good place with my then-employer. Today doesn't seem great--certainly not quit a job/have a new job by Friday great for most much less work multiple "full-time" jobs like some people were boasting of a while back. Stuff is certainly not falling into your lap to the degree it was 2-3 years ago. You have to chase it and may or may not luck out.
Let's look at the traits of "successful" politicans; so (like everything not at the top of the food chain) monkeys respond to loud, in your face, potentially threatening stimulus, or alternatively monkeys are not color blind.
According to wikipedia, it's not certain she converted to christianity. She was raised as an agnostic, so was only jewish "ethnically".
What the FDA has undeniably done:

Delayed the release of vital, proven medicines to the public, leading to hundreds of thousands of people needlessly dieing.
Ferengi rule of acquisition #239: Never be afraid to mislabel a product. Besides, selling AI with the promise to remove AI is self-perpetuating.
Can anyone stop China's armada of international fishing boats? (2020)
You're right of course, it's not entirely compatible, but this might be interesting:

> We use vanilla Postgres as-is for the query layer and replace Postgres storage with YugabyteDB’s own distributed storage engine.

https://www.yugabyte.com/blog/yugabytedb-enhanced-postgres-c...
It’s not my job to incentivize people. I’m under no obligation to view content in the exact form the creator wants. If this breaks their monetization scheme then they should figure out something else, or put up with it and rely on the readers who don’t do that.
If a tree is distressed in the forest and there are no insects there to hear it, does it make a sound?
The 'Apple library' with a lost world on its limbs
> The higher bidder lost, in this case.

The highest bidder was Elon Musk at $242.6 billion, and he won.
Needle-Free: New Nano-Vaccine Effective Against All Covid-19 Variants
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_is_for_they/them
I did a quick internet search and found
https://itwire.com/business-it-news/security/krebs-accused-o...

And while not doxxing, I think it's relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Krebs#Allegations_of_def...
This was my first programming language. I built a text-based adventure game. Good memories.
This would matter for literally anything that you would schedule time for - meetings, doctor appointments, school activities, etc. Not all people use the Gregorian calendar in their daily lives.

The time of the meeting is not arbitrary - it just corresponds to a date in a different calendar. Some calendars, e.g. the calendar used in Saudi Arabia, depend on observation of the new moon.
Why not Starlink?
We run tons of evals with public datasets from LLM Arena on common categories such as law, financing task, code, maths, etc., and pair them up with the public benchmarks such as Natural2Code, GPQA, etc then tagging the benchmarks with relevant cost, speed benchmarks on a provider level. One of the weights of the Prompt Engine model is on the similarity of the outputs as we execute a user prompt on 5-6 different prompts. Higher quality outputs tend to be similar across at least 3 of the models.
You are truly eloquent at speaking for yourself and your cohort's stubborn insistence on your ignorance.

For you, all these things are true, because you have chosen that perspective, and that is your inalienable right.

You can't explain the Placebo Effect, while you are proving the Nocebo Effect every time you try to argue against the truth.

The fact is that the last time you tried this, I addressed every single word you conjured up, so much so that it took a two-part reply. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42330991)

In the words of Eugene Parker, "We'll see who falls flat."

And, in case you weren't aware, the "void" of the vacuum of space is actually filled with potential energy. That's because we're all one in this creation, all of which was created for us, the only beings here that can appreciate the sublime laws that interrelate space, time, matter, energy, and more still.

No, we are not its masters, just its caretakers, if we so choose.
I'd rather be middle class in 2024 than rich in 1970.
> But in his pursuit of the Red Planet, Musk has managed to build a deadly serious business with vast military consequences.

audacious goals push us to go further
An amazing product indeed!
They planned a day hike in Yosemite. Then they got lost in the snow
Isn't there an ongoing civil war in Somalia?
I was intrigued until I saw this in the FAQ:

> What is Nyxt?

> Nyxt is a browser with deeply integrated AI and semantic document tools that work as a second brain to help you process and understand more, more quickly.

No mention of what sort of "AI", where it's run, etc. If nothing else, this sounds like a recipe for a warm laptop and unreliable results.
Yo! I can't seem to replicate this, if you don't mind, could you send me a screenshot and a few more details, like the browser you're using on windows/mac and maybe the console? You can dm me on https://x.com/yoeven or email me at yoeven@jigsawstack.com :)
Certainly costs have gone up. But, throw in commuter rail as opposed to just subway (and maybe some parking) and round-trip costs can easily be more than just a few dollars.
The clickbaity title is misleading. The article does not argue that monkeys have a strong election prediction ability. It merely argues that there is some gentle correlation between monkey gaze behavior and election outcomes. That’s not surprising. Almost any reasonable hypothesized factor—number of letters in candidate’s name, for example—will have some correlation. The title and tone of the article are overblown.
> I believe the user is referring to the iPhone here.

The author of the book in a 2016 interview:

> Q. As you note in your book, many of the inventions in the special century took as long as five decades to reach their full potential. Since the iPhone was introduced in 2007, isn't it too early to say that smartphones aren't transformative?

> A. I think the potential of smartphones has played out very rapidly. We're still at the dawn of payment systems based on the smartphone. We may 10 years from now look back and marvel at the fact that people had to pull credit cards out of their wallet.

> But remember, the entire decade of the rollout of the smartphone and all the applications have not caused productivity growth to budge. There are many people who think we're missing the benefits of the smartphone in our measures of productivity and GDP. But we've always missed the benefits of new inventions.

Economic growth has always been understated. But the degree of understatement was more important in the past, because the innovations were more transformative to every aspect of human life.

* https://phys.org/news/2016-02-smartphones-lagging.html

From a 2021 interview:

> […] In the last 15 years, we’ve had the invention of smartphones and social networks, and what they’ve done is bring enormous amounts of consumer surplus to everyday people of the world. This is not really counted in productivity, it hasn’t changed the way businesses conduct their day-to-day affairs all that much, but what they have done is change the lives of citizens in a way that is not counted in GDP or productivity. It’s possible the amount of consumer welfare we’re getting relative to GDP may be growing at an unprecedented rate.

* https://conversableeconomist.com/2021/02/24/robert-j-gordon-...

It's very nice to have maps and the world's knowledge in your pocket, but how much has it cause the economy to growth? Has it reduced rates of poverty? If it has, it's not showing up in the numbers, so how can we tell?

(The technology may be having more of an impact in other countries, especially those starting at a lower 'base', but there isn't a measurable economic impact in the US.)
Who was the highest bidder in 2020/2022? Didn't SBF pour millions into the most expensive congressional race in Oregon (or something) and still lost?
ElevenLabs Launches Feature to Create, Edit AI-Generated Podcasts
Yeah, I tried to separate the two statements but I guess it wasn't clear. I'm not saying he was pushed out and they used the cancer as an excuse.

I was saying the choice of a business-focused replacement with a track record of prepping companies for acquisition (vs say getting someone internal or with a more engineering track record) is a sign of changing direction, however.
Notice he isn't claiming its a currency, even if we take all the claims at face value. Apparently he is not alone though as the value has climbed 33% since the election. I had not even heard of this fantasy of a TrUmP crypto boom.
React 19 full support for custom elements
I think the egg crate was harder because there were no sharp edges to latch onto.
Beyond that, maybe we should bring back Gopher. Pictures online really don't seem to be worth 1000 words these days.
Speaking of recipes, I just tried this on a page with a quiche recipe. The original page was pretty much a novella built around a recipe. OPs tool worked perfectly. Nicely done.
As a second time parent, looking back now, that is such a good advice. On the first play-through we second guessed ourselves so much. On the second time, we knew where all the good loot was hidden. :) we felt so much more in control. The truth is that a lot of details first-time parents try to control don't really matter that much or cannot really be controlled.
Why is your url cut-the-crab and not cut-the-crap?
They're nationalist rather than international (like ISIS), which is frankly the aspect that Western governments would care most about.
Wow, just seeing the domain name alone is quite a nostalgic throwback already. I remember finding Thomas Antonis website through some German text adventure, written in QBasic, back in 2003 or so.

I think I browsed through this at one point, but I don't have any experience with GW-BASIC myself. I had a copy of QuickBASIC and a print out of Thomas Antonis "SelfQB" at the time. He also runs http://qbasic.de/ from where I downloaded and (much to the annoyance of our schools librarian) printed out a bunch of other tutorials as well.

Back then, Antonis website served as a very useful entry point to other sites and tutorials. I remember spending a lot of time following rabbit holes of link lists and web rings from there.
Nice write up. Don't listen to folks at jobs that will never "get it". I wish you good luck, left my last full-time job mid last year.
I understand the sentiment, but who are the "we" who "need" that?
We haven't shared this yet, quickly exported the list we used for training into a gist: https://gist.github.com/yoeven/7a0179f75622167a33fd8040d9e72...

The list is a little outdated but we're adding the new llama 3.3 models as well
He might be right in some ways about Bitcoin but he fails to take into account that the price of Bitcoin may be inflated by Tether, a stable coin traded in large numbers for Bitcoin. New tether is minted by the billions, and has questionable auditing and oversight, and is used to buy Bitcoin on the open market.

There a couple of ways that the price of Bitcoin could drop precipitously and the unraveling of Tether is one of them.
you are free to oppose them, and go as far as you like in doing so, but don't get to dictate it - and by your same logic should not be allowed to do so.
For grid storage, maybe the downside compared to batteries is you're limited to turbine efficiency, but it still seems like a good idea.
I really wish it was open-source. I loved the concept and the app worked in most applications (though not the best with Slack). But I have reservations when it comes to granting full screen access to an app made by some unknown developer.
(Neo)Vim Made Me a Better Software Developer
Floating objects can carry seals, and orcas can dislodge seals from floating objects by sending large waves in the right direction. They are definitely very interested in the relationship between floating objects and their passengers.

Using some kind of paddle as a method of propulsion should also be a familiar concept to any animal that has flippers.
You appear to have an unassailable belief in your own moral arbitration as to what is compassionate.
I pointed it to PornHub, and it returned this curiously wholesome summary:

- 140 million daily engaged users
- 600,000 active content creators
- 1 million hours of free content available
- Features include playlist creation and community engagement
- Tailored video suggestions
- Option to subscribe to Pornhub Premium for exclusive content at $9.99/month with a free week trial available.
The people about to run the health agencies of the US government aren’t of the opinion that vaccines are great but shouldn’t be mandated. They’re of the opinion that vaccines are dangerous and should be banned.
As a fellow first-time parent with a 1 month old at home this captured a lot of feelings that I’ve experienced recently. Thanks for taking the time to write such a thoughtful article
I think you are seeing the world through different lens as well (we all are?)

Growing up in Hungary, your options in "drone-like" jobs are:

a) put up with the ever increasing demand from your boss, making sure you keep hitting your quotas (eg. items scanned/minute)

or

b) get fired, and they will get the next person to do your job from the 1000 other desperate applicants.
Why do "we" need this?
Not to Europeans, it's immigration smuggling grounds
Thanks. Would love to hear any big pain points you may have when building AI agents!
Can someone explain this in lay-person’s terms?

I feel like I read and ‘understood’ the text of the blog post, but I’m still none the wiser about what sort of things this can prove and what the values of those proofs is.
The Christianity bit is a technicality. She was never baptized so that's why one could argue she's "no true Christian".

Despite that, in many of her writings she explicitly and openly expresses her alignment with Christianity.
> The rest of creation is on auto-pilot, guided by and incorporating the Creator's loving compassion for us in their every behavior.

Proof?
Could Starlink handle that level of traffic from a single small location? Can Starlink support government-mandated firewalls and filters? Schools, as government organizations, have to consider that, even if we don't like it.
in my country its impossible. we have digital identity. what now? :<
> This cynicism is demonstrably false

I think you missed the point, which was not about the winner but rather about the choices that we're given as voters. It's not just that the candidates are both "evil" to an extent, forcing us to decide which is lesser of two evils; crucially; they're both beholden to the wealthy class, if not members themselves, and pull in obscene amounts of money for their campaigns.
That doesn't make any sense. The API is available for abuse independently of how many legitimate users there are.

Or are you thinking only about attacks where the attackers have a genuine reason to ask for USB access? Because IMO that is going to pretty rare, and also not very interesting because in those cases the alternative is you download an executable with unlimited permissions.

But in any case it makes no difference. If the API has been available to 75% of users for 7 years, it's downright idiotic to think making it available to 77% of users will make a difference.
None of that happened. Look into it if you don't believe me.
Good and bad news. Ukrainian sacrifices lead to liberation of Syria.

I guess you can’t have everything good. Chinese sacrifices in 1989 lead to collapse of USSR after all
There was one that got assassinated a few years back.
It is so utterly deranged and insane that NYT says plants are making "mournful cries" when the source paper doesn't support that. When I'm hungry the sounds my stomach makes on its own isn't me weeping and wailing. When I'm flatulent that sound is not a joyful scream.
I mean, plausible deniability is a cornerstone of Russia's hybrid warfare against the west... They want us to feel and "know" they did it while not being able to 100% prove it...
Political donations are only one small piece of this. What we've seen this election cycle is how tech CEOs have gone mask off and completely backed the incoming Trump administration [1].

It's worth remembering that Silicon Valley's history is inextricably interwoven with the US military. Where once the likes of Facebook, Google or Amazon were upstarts, they are now functionally defense contractors, some more openly than others (eg Palantir).

Americans like to criticize the Chinese control of Chinese Internet companies, including cooperating with the Great Firewall and moving in lockstep to Chinese government policy and messaging (which they do). I hate to break it to you but American Internet companies are doing exactly the same thing.

The real threat of Tiktok was that it doesn't move in lockstep to the US State Department. US tech giants hide behind "algorithms" to manufacture consent [2] (eg by hiding, downranking and/or blocking content relating to Palestine [3]).

People who work in tech generally are more socially progressive. Economics is more of a mixed bag. Most people don't realize pretty much everything is about economics. Big Tech pay lip service to these progressive attitudes by embracing things like Pride Month. Such people might decry the naked politics of Elon Musk, to name one prominent example.

But all this progressivism by Big Tech is purely performative and that's going to be increasingly obvious. You don't see so many of these tech CEOs on this list of political donations but I really wonder what the picture looks like when all the dust settles on PAC donations. I think you'll find there's very little daylight between the politics of any of these CEOs.

[1]: https://archive.is/DqGCg

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent

[3]: https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/12/20/meta-systemic-censorship...
Performance characteristics of the underlying hardware dictate the software abstractions that make sense. In today's machines, we still have differential cost for sequential, aligned, rightly sized block io operations vs random io operations of random sizes. And we have a hierarchy of storages with different latency, performance and costs – cpu caches, ram – and ram, ssd, spinning disks – and these via local attached vs in disaggregated and distributed clusters.
So, if you want absolutely optimal performance, you still have to care about your column sizes and order of columns in your records and how your records are keyed and how your tables involved in join operations are organized and what kinds of new queries are likely in your application. This matters for both very small scale (embedded devices) and very large scale systems. For mid-scale systems with plenty of latency and cost margins, it matters a lot less than it used. Hence, we have the emergence of nosql in the last decade and distributed sql in this decade.
My browser is a fork of Firefox made for web surfing (as opposed to running javascript applications). It never removed that functionality like FF/Chrome/etc did. Such auto-discovery is included in base Palemoon as it use to be in base Firefox.
Like many such projects, you seem to be working from the principle that language is learned at the word level. It is at the very start with the earliest, most basic vocabulary. But after the first 100-200 or so most-common words (number depends on the language), language is best and most often learned in chunks, phrases, collocations, dialogues, etc. The key mistake in most language-learning apps is that they put off this latter stage and focus on words, and then pretty much never get back to the latter stage in a meaningful way except through stilted conversations that are little better than those you can hear on hundred-year-old vinyl records. Source: I am a linguist and language specialist.
Not as inscrutable as these things usually are, but I still don't really know what one would use this for. This world feels like a parallel ecosystem to traditional software, and the paths rarely meet.
I would even argue that it’s inflammatory to keep developing aether theory after Michaelson-Morley. Persistently devising potentially-lucrative counterexamples: oh, that’s luminiferous aether, I’m working on electromagnetic aether. Today, the last great aether believers like Tesla get a lot of undue credit as scientists rather than as merely aether engineers.
> We are the only creatures that can choose compassion over selfishness.

You don't think orangutans or other intelligent apes can do this? There are lots of experiments and anecdotes you'd have to explain away.
> The Constitution derives power from and applies them to the "People of the United States"[1], excluding everyone including even Americans who do not physically exist within US sovereign jurisdiction.[2]

No, I think that "People of the United States" (having "of" rather than "in") can include US citizens physically present outside of the borders. The US government can punish me for illegal things I do outside of the US. If I, a US citizen, go to Britain and kill another US citizen in Britain, I will be subject to murder laws in both Britain and the US, and the US could call for extradition. If I go to Britain and defame a US citizen, the person I defamed can sue me. Likewise for rights, I don't lose my First Amendment rights to criticize the US government when I'm abroad, although the US government would question my allegiance if I send my criticism from Russia.
If the state dept threw out IK that was wrong, but why has everyone forgotten IK begging the “umpires” to throw govt out when he was out of power before elected (with some help) the first time.
> I'd rather be middle class in 2024 than rich in 1970.

Not wrong, but the point is still that growth has slowed, so progress since the 1970s (or at least 2004, when the economic effect of the Internet and computers seems to have peaked) may be asymptotic now.
> Go get your shot if you want

So it's optional to get it or not get it.

> It is about forcing it on us.

Oh. So you were forced to get it. We should fight against the law that forced you to get a vaccine. Can you help me track down the legislation so I can help you spread the word?
I take it you do not live in a food desert where access to fresh produce is limited.
What if you are poisoning them through knowingly through by dumping toxic chemicals into the air or their water supply? That doesn’t require physical force.
Boring? I'm not a native English speaker myself and I've truly learned English reading documentation.
No, I'm in the US, where I feel that there's a distinct lack of politicians and lawyers on the side of the public/consumers/lower class