skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is this thoughtful? (I can see how it's reflective.)

The last time the Dems controlled the Presidency and both houses of congress was the first two years of Obama's first term (Jan 2009 - Jan 2011). And prior to that the first two years of Clinton's first term (Jan 1993 - Jan 1995; which had limited success, for the same reason this will have limited success: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Partnership_for_Reinv... ).

The last time the Reps controlled both houses and the Presidency was the first two years of Trump's last term (Jan 2017 - Jan 2019). Prior to that the first 6 years under Bush II (Jan 2001 - Jan 2007).

And the last time Dem appointees controlled the Supreme court was in 1969.

So I really, really cannot trust the thoughtfulness of any opinions or marshallings of fact in the linked article.

...I've now read the entire article and stand by my more general point. This person is looking at government from one limited perspective, as someone who has worked with people who've tried to work in it and reform it in the past. The fundamental barrier to government reform is in Congress, nowhere else. There's nothing special about Musk's ability to convince Congress to do things it doesn't want to do. Even if he threatens to primary them. Most of these people are in relatively safe districts. They have the name recognition in their districts. They can point to the things they've done for their districts. Most of them are not in any danger from a Musk-funded primary opponent.

The only thing that would truly reform government in more than bits and pieces would be enough Congress people, in both houses, who are not only of the same party, but are basically also of the same sub-caucus within that party. Fat chance getting that. Without that all you get is horse trading, which leads to the bits and pieces reformations.
I have no children yet, but I would never consider introducing LLMs until my children reach a point of maturity where they can accurately detect sophisticated deception. Even after that, I would consider these constructs as dubious in nature, they provide no measurable benefit that isn't offset exponentially by destructive acts in the form of omission or outright dangerous lies.

The age of reason is 7-12, and varies, but generally prior to which they cannot biologically detect deception perceptually.

Given observed behavior of LLMs, you must think of LLMs as the most pathological type of liar. You don't ever give those types access to your kids when you are actually fulfill parental roles.
Software dev, curious about freelancing here. Just recently deleted my LinkedIn profile out of being disappointed with the value it brought to me over several years of using it. Instead, I now note down relevant contacts in a private “CRM”.

Do you think it is important to have a public facing profile of yourself and your work history for attracting new clients or is a broad in person network more relevant?
Sceptre exists on paper but they’re almost always “sold out”
Keep in mind this was 2007 -- my hunch is it sounds like it probably was really about iOS vs webOS, not Apple vs Palm (Pilot/Foleo/PalmOS). Android wasn't even out when the email was sent, and I know webOS didn't come out to the public until 2009, but I am rather curious how long it was in development prior-to...

I was a webOS dude -- I still have a Palm Pre 1, 2 and 3 in a box. I tried to explain to my hipster doofus buddy at the time why I fucked with the Palm vision over the Apple vision (regrettably, in hindsight, part of it was due to Palm holding onto the physical keyboard, part of which was I was a huge fan of that due to entering the smartphone era after being a previous T-Mobile Sidekick 1 - 3 user) -- they both preached the same philosophy of web apps over native apps, except something intangible and aesthetic about the Pre resonated with me in late 00's more than iPhone did.

Apple also hadn't yet started deploying most of its critical infrastructure (walled-garden interoperability, APNS, any of that stuff) that lead to eventual dominance and ended up justifying the current stock price / mobile supremacy -- it was just a phone vs phone comparison.

These days, IMO, Apple is on top of the pile. They're launching satellites that likely will completely sidestep mobile carriers in the short term. They're doing stuff with hardware that today we think is stupid, but tomorrow might just be an accepted part of life. They've made it easy for anybody to lock their digital lives inside of the Apple vaults for a recurring monthly subscription lol.

I can't say any of that speaks to the 90's dream of an open internet, but they sure do seem to have a clear-cut plan and are quite good at executing it!
These timelines fill me with certain amount of sadness. How empires and peoples last few centuries and fall! After few hundred years people don’t even know or care these people existed. It must be true that the countries we love may and owe our allegiance to may not exist in a few centuries. The people in that future wouldn’t care we existed. Over time everything gets eroded.
If I didn't have a kid, I wouldn't have a phone at work. It would probably be off in my locker or something.
I fully disagree with suggesting ridiculously overpriced for-profit SaaS solutions in the context of choosing among open-source tech.
For now. We are probably going to start seeing manufacturers, shipping, TVs and other devices with LTE chips built into them, so they can go around our Wi-Fi to get the sweet sweet data. At that point, my biggest fear is that all the people (myself included) who thought we were being clever by depriving the TV of the Wi-Fi password are going to be sad that we didn't instead throw our money behind a manufacturer building ethical products.
That's a very cool accomplishment.

What language did you use to write the code?

I also have another question, did you witness the transition from punched cards to terminals?
No one's using an Intel ARC graphics card in an enterprise setting. If they don't understand this and are not worried about power consumption, this is just yet another reason Intel is swirling the drain.
The SVG created for the first prompt is valid but is a garbage image.
Yeah, a computer which starts at $3900 is really stretching that classification. Plus if you're that serious about local LLMs then you'd probably want the even bigger RAM option, which adds another $800...
From my perspective, almost all technology efforts must contend with the real-world reactions and motivations of people in large groups. We like to think of consumer tech as individualistic but it’s not—that’s what trends are. And most of us work in workplaces where politics and power are part of how decisions get made.

In this case we have an organization with obvious issues but many entrenched interests. From a systems thinking standpoint it seems to have built incredible defensive power, making it virtually impossible for anyone to drive change. That’s pretty interesting.
My perspective is that if done correctly, the federal budget should stay roughly the same. Although I am worried about the federal budget being more devoted to debt servicing overtime. Perhaps it would be possible to boost service level while reducing budgetary load.

The reason is simple. Fast and efficient bureaucracy requires adequate and well trained manpower to operate. It's not just about eliminating busywork, but also having the manpower to manage the queue.
They specifically said it's free and legal. Do you have proof otherwise?

Obviously, this stuff is merely geo-locked. There's nothing illegal about using a VPN to get around stupid geo-locking restrictions.
Can’t you just pair your Bluetooth headphones to the device that is providing the video stream? That is the source, the TV should just be the output device.
In other words, Apple only got a slap on the wrist.
Not really. Recently, drones wrre required robroadcast IDs.before that, drones weresoldand flown withour any tracling features.

None of this hype is rayional.
Yeah, it didn't do very well on that one. The best I've had from a local model there was from QwQ: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/27/qwq/
Happy to see bevy between them though! :)
A React component only works in React. WCs are self-contained and work like ordinary HTML elements. If in the future you don't use React anymore, you can keep using your WCs without change, but not your React components.
There was no training on existing apps. We launched the feature in May and we didn't start training on data until a couple months ago. We used off-the-shelf GPT4o for the feature with no fine tuning. How it works is we feed in a design system with premade components, and the LLM decides how those premade components are arranged, then populates them with data and chooses how to theme them. The issue was the underlying design system we contracted to have made had components that too closely matched other screens.

Details are here: https://www.figma.com/blog/inside-figma-a-retrospective-on-m...
Fortran has been given new life

https://arxiv.org/search/?query=fortran&searchtype=all&sourc...

https://github.com/search?q=fortran+language%3AFortran+neura...
There are a few rakes there, yeah.

1. The age of Thinkpad Hackintoshes is sunsetting, and the chips that support it are getting long in the tooth. You can't buy recent Intel chips and expect them to work flawlessly, and the laptops old enough to work are slow and hot.

2. The refresh rate of E-ink screens is painfully slow and also visually distressing (since the screen inverts color temporarily). This effect isn't a real issue on Kindles or digital signage, but will absolutely be a problem for professional development.

All I'll say is this - many a fool has set out on the road to make E-ink living room televisions just because color E-ink exists. You will find no success stories on YouTube or HN or Reddit because the tech just isn't there yet (sadly).

Alternatively: consider finding one of these on Ebay if you can for an "official" E-ink Thinkpad: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkbook/thinkbook-p...
I don't quite understand your point. I contradicted you because I'm old, and I'm getting tired of people calling things that I vividly remember "urban legends". Lizard people in the sewers is an urban legend. That mean old drunk giving one-way tickets to Vancouver is history.
The repercussions Apple faced were essentially insignificant to them as a company. The money they had to pay was a drop in the bucket, and having to stop doing something illegal is not a punishment for the illegal thing; it's literally what everyone who didn't do anything illegal has already been doing the whole time!

As I said before, the issue to me isn't whether Palm would have been successful without the illegal activity, it's whether Apple would have been as successful as they were.
We are both the negative and positive returns in red?
To do illegal things?
> A single node can get you as far as you or can rent 2TB memory + 20TB NVME in AWS

What I'm a little curious about with these "single node" solutions - is redundancy not a concern with setups like this? Is it assumed that you can just rebuild your data warehouse from some form of "cold" storage if you lose your nvme data?
Thanks. Should you check in periodically when you don’t want anything too? That’s where I struggle most.
I see you're using pg-schema-diff for schema diffing, hadn’t come across it before, so thanks for mentioning it!

Have you seen pgroll? https://github.com/xataio/pgroll
It is a Postgres schema migration tool for achieving zero downtime, minimal locking schema changes. Thought it might be interesting for you. I also checked the unsupported operations in pg-schema-diff, and from a quick look, pgroll seems to cover more migration types: https://pgroll.com/docs/v0.8.0/getting-started
Yeah 100%. I'm not going to make my product manager read a thousand lines of code just to get them to confirm all the assumptions I made about what they were asking for when I could just clarify.
Thanks. Attempting a categorization, there's TechniqueHowTos and ThemedCollectionsOfFermis. What I've not seen is laying a foundation, of landmarks and relations and characteristics, in support a topical region of Fermiish mastery. Nor leveraging such mastery to then teach other topics more deeply.

The common CollectionOfImportantNumbers are sort of landmarks, though there's rarely attention to thorough coverage or memorability. But they are rarely combined with the rest (ATP joules, vs bio bond energy being just above thermal noise, vs energy flux and budgets). Nor say an energy-budget perspective on history of life.

Sort of a difference between "you can figure out an isolated Fermi on your own without simply being told the answer" vs say "preK-graduate, you can handle something like a PhD qualifying exam grilling". Between "can sanity check a number", and "have a feel for reasonable numbers", and "have a (necessarily quantitative) feel for the physical world". Between "how long to cook a turkey" and "thermal excursions in bio materials". Between a math-ish approach of "work enough problems and you'll start having a clue", and "outlier-insightful domain expert tutors the richly-interwoven tapestry".
Salaries were suppressed until after the litigation that my sibling comment by compiler-guy cited. Salaries did not begin to take off until ~2011.
Re-upped means what?
That's a much better term.
> This is commercial only. Free and small is my safeclib

Is it me or does this feel a bit weird? It seems like you're using the comments section here to self-advertise for exposure.

I read it like — "businesses can't use this without paying the OP, however, if you're a business you can get 50% of the way there by using _my_ library, and you don't even have to pay me!". It comes off incredibly rude to try to undercut the OP like this.
I don’t know much about Hyperbola (yet!), but I seem to agree with their stance on AI [1].

[1] https://www.hyperbola.info/news/hyperbola-declines-fsf-stanc...
The time spans for doing it properly or shipping are maybe a bit muddled here, but if you can make a million dollars by shipping something now, you should probably ship it now. If the code is that bad (ie can end up costing way more to maintain than fix) then you should afterward immediately fix it. Side benefit is you’ll probably learn a lot about doing it right from the prod system.
Bet you a dollar the bureaucracy has already thought of this and has multiple internal committees that have been working on those exact words for years. Any issues aren't going to be lack of good people or ideas, government is swimming in those. The issue is incentives at the systemic level and the patchworks of powerful interest groups. Adding, effectively, a new interest group doesn't look like progress to me. Especially since the incentives don't seem to be well aligned - why would Musk care about how efficient individual workers are? It might be, but it is far too early to say if it is.
> Who the hell can compute a number from this?

Anyone who puts thought into the problem instead of jumping to conspiracies.

Men in that age group commit suicide at rate X. Company Y has Z employees. Over time period T there is a K % chance of a suicide. Among all R companies from which a person like you finds conspiracies at every turn the odds a finding a death is S% . Not a single value in this chain is “made with a gut.” All are extremely defensible and determined scientifically, and if really care, you can obtain them all with errorbounds and 95% confidence intervals and the works.

And you do basic math, and voila, your initial claim is nonsense.

Or simply read about the birthday paradox, wonder if it applies, realize it does, stop jumping off the wagon.

> why don’t you…..

You’re the one pulling conspiracies out of thin air despite no evidence, and you made the claim. The onus is to defend your claim when asked, especially now that you’ve been given evidence for a solid argument against it. One not pulled out of thin air.

> what gets me…

No I see the other side. And for every time someone ignores the presented evidence, ignores basic statistics, ignores a good methodology when presented one, for each such case, I have seen zero cases out of thousands of such conspiracies where it came true.

And I’ll 100% trust professionals over someone so innumerate as to be unable to do simple math, and get angry when it’s suggested super sneaky death wizards didn’t kill a minor player while ignoring dozens of more important players makes less sense than simple statistical likelihood.

The latter is rarely correct. I’ll even amend to never correct.
Why is HDMI Ethernet brought up so often in Smart TV posts here and on Reddit?

HDMI Ethernet Channel (HEC) was added to the HDMI spec in 2009 to allow Blu-ray players to access the internet without a direction connection.

There are zero devices ever released that support HEC.

There are zero OEM HDMI chipsets that support HEC.

The streaming device manufacturers have no incentive to enable this feature.

It's a nice reminder that a good amount of people on HN/Reddit have no idea what they're talking about, even if they use acronyms.
“Fast and efficient bureaucracy”: can that even exist?
It’s the same with Hisense tvs
This is cool, but the most interesting part is the part that requires investigation, i.e., what do the compatibility tools write to the card to make it iOS-compatible? I've done some work with iOS NFC, but not enough to have experienced the undocumented quirks.
If I pressure you and put you in a position that makes you want to unalive yourself, you can be sure that you will be tried under manslaughter by way of assisted suicide in the form of emotional blackmail. Chances are whatever OpenAI exec did this probably has a lots of minions between him and whoever actually unalived the whistleblower so it can't be traced back to him
Sure, but we're talking about RPC/syscall for disk and network transfers from the CPU side. Almost nothing on the CPU side can sustain 1 TB/s anyway--you can only do GPU->GPU transforms for that--and even then for very specific workloads. And the only reason you are reaching off the GPU is because you either need new data or you need the CPU to chew on something that the GPU can't manage due to branchiness.
Block RAM in FPGAs is very limited and adding something like a DDR3 controller is a hassle - of the dev boards I have lying around, they have between 48KB and 200KB of block RAM. The actual CPU logic is probably <5% of those chips. I have a board with a 16-bit, 16MB PSRAM interface, but then the memory interface is shared between the video generation and the CPU. Going with 4-bit colors or something seems like it would be more in-line with the design philosophy (but it was targeted to be emulated on a modern PC, where memory and color depth are largely free).
I looked into this briefly. Many TVs run Linux under the hood, and can be flashed, as the firmware is available because of the GPL. (Sometimes. Vizio had to be sued into doing so iirc.) so "all" that has to be done is to repackage and rewrite some firmware, reflash the TV to only ever use HDMI1, and Bob's your uncle.

The problem (aside from the fact that redoing the firmware isn't trivial - but that's the fun part) is that TVs are big and bulky, and come in multiple sizes and resolutions. And then shipping them around the country gets expensive, limiting reach, and then that means that taking returns also becomes difficult too. Especially because you'd be reboxing existing televisions to begin with. But maybe you could open up a storefront to sell these from and serve a local area first.

Anyway, this is more a comment on the issues with this as bother me, and not an indightment of the whole idea. Someone else with a lot more capital to bootstrap could pull it off - assuming there really is enough of a market for such a product. It might be like the support for a small phone contingent or light truck. There's a vocal crowd that does exist, but they don't exist in great enough quantity relative to the rest of the market, leading to not enough sales to support a business built on that singular premise.

The other issue is HDCP. If the Apple/Google TV won't play high res content to your modified firmware,
the idea's dead in the water without an additional device like from hdfury, but at that point, how many customers are just going to put up with a "smart" tv?
"Reform" is itself too ambiguous to be a target. I don't think anyone wants the government to more efficiently murder their own citizens, or oppress their minority population, yet if you simply settle for wanting "reform" that would have to count.

What we want is not simply "reform" not simply "efficiency". What we want is more good things. And therein lies the problem for DOGE. We don't believe that they are going to make good things efficient.

Beurocratic inefficiency is rooted in trust. The beurocratic network of controls and accountability departments are established when the existing system fail, and are slowly dismantled again (usually by the logic of "why are we doing this when we never catch anything") when it's no longer needed. The problem for the American beurocracy is that the American people neither trust each other, nor act in a way that would foster that trust.

The very existance of billionaires is a glowing example of why American beurocracy exists. Something has to stop their otherwise uncompromised power.
CentOS Stream 10 and EPEL 10 released
Competitive debate evidence dataset for LLM persuasion
But with without design docs, how will my hordes of low cost contractors know what to do?
Rage-inducing, unnecessary EOL from Spotify
Financial market data (especially FX data) can have thousands of ticks per second. It's not unheard of for data engineers in that space to sometimes handle 1TB per day.
If that isn’t the reality today, how could an alternative “ethical” manufacturer even compete?
It's not so simple. It's almost impossible to separate the "smart" side from the "dumb" side. Just like trying to use a smartphone and use only the phone, it won't make Android or iOS (and their pros and cons) disappear.
I understood it as being posted to the Second-Chance Pool [1].

[1]: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented?tab=re...
Imo it should be the school's responsibility to stick a notice on the classroom itself or at least send an email, rather than expect each and every student to check an app every day. I hadn't been a high school student in a while through.
> Get a projector.

I confirm.
> Call or email people to see how they're doing. Even better, meet up with them for coffee or a meal

I like this idea but it feels inauthentic. Can you share examples of how you broach this?
I like how the feeling of the author's excitement about the topic is embedded in the text

"""
upon looking at these numbers one has the feeling of being in the presence of one of the inexplicable secrets of creation.
"""

"""
I hope that with this and the other pictures I have shown, I have communicated a certain impression of the immense beauty of the prime numbers and of the endless surprises which they have in store for us.
"""
Of note that even then, for the seemingly impossibly large prime numbers, they gave dual credit to the researcher and the computer used. So, credit for the largest prime in 1963 went to Gillies and ILIAC 2. When that record was broken in 1972, credit went to Tuckerman and IBM 360.
This reminds me that David Mackay’s book and his lectures are so excellent on these topics.
This is false. GDPR is not ignored, I can tell you that much.