skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This supports my primary claim that the crash of megafauna caused the creation of property, induced the neolithic societal transition, and set the stage for the unsustainable society we have now - based on fear of scarcity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39569747
Neural Networks are 200 years old (Legendre and Gauss defined Feed forward neural networks). Deep learning. The real difference between traditional ones and deep learning is a hierarchy of layers (hidden layers) which do different things to accomplish a goal. Even the concept of training is to provide weights on the neural network and there are many algorithms to do refinement, optimization and the network design.
Biden grants clemency to Indiana nursing home CEO who led $19M fraud scheme
WSGI vs. ASGI: The Crucial Decision Shaping Your Web App's Future in 2025
note that page excludes motorcycles, the isle of man TT is way worse
This is one law that would stand an exactly zero percent chance of ever passing the US congress. For the simple reason that those who would stand to potentially lose money over such a law own the law makers.

I'm sorry, but the legislative branch isn't of or for you. It is of and for the companies that pay for the congressional campaigns.
Maybe the experimental apparatus is not objective. The quantities we choose to measure are dictated by our psychological and physiological limitations. The volume of a container is not objectively defined. An organism which lives at a faster time scale will see the walls of the container vibrating and oscillating. You must convince the organism to average these measurements over a certain time scale. This averaging throws away information. This is the same with other thermodynamic quantities.
You keep confusing fringes views by weirdos in various field (like your Kurt guy who “serves as the director of the Creation Research Center”) that the broad field regards with a mix of contempt and pity, and only exist because it benefits from backing from outside the science world (mostly for religious reasons), and economists where the same kind of people get the biggest number of citations in paper and are granted the most prestigious award (and where the said award is a counterfeit one, “Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Memory of Alfred Nobel” pretending to be a “Nobel prize”).

If you don't see the difference (and can't articulate your arguments without annoying walls of text), it's time to end this discussion.

Good day.
This is baby-with-the-bathwater logic. Because there are flaws in the system (which are flaws in all of academia, not limited to the social sciences) we should defund the programs entirely and give up on whole fields of endeavor.
Super cool! I had a very similar idea recently: I wanted to have on-demand podcasts about one's surroundings as you explore a new place (also taking into account a small list of user interests). I did a prototype [1] with the OpenAI APIs but the generated results were too shallow and not as interesting. It seems you prepared it with more carefully curated content, smart. My city is covered by Audiala, will give it a try!

[1] https://github.com/geonnave/roadcast
It sounds like they're not yet at the stage where they need to worry about it, though I've heard Charlie mention making an easy to host package registry as one offering.
Double-blind clinical trial. We can use elephants as a proxy.
Nobody takes pleasure in it. Motorsport is something where people generally respect, acknowledge and understand the inherent dangers associated with it.

That's just good writing there.
It's pretty cyclical, there's older sci-fi that's more dystopian and still older sci-fi then that which is optimistic. (and of course, the trends are only trends)
Burnout valley: A story to help other recover from complete exhaustion
> But entropy is also something that we can get from experimental measurements. In this case, the experimental setup does not care about microstates and macrostates, it just has properties like enthalpy, heat capacity and temperature. […] experimental measurements of the entropy of a given materials are consistent and independent of whatever model the people doing the experiment were operating on. Fundamentally, entropy depends on the probability distribution, not the observer.

https://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/articles/gibbs.vs.boltzmann.pdf

Thermodynamics does have the concept of the entropy of a thermodynamic system; but a given physical system corresponds to many different thermodynamic systems. […] It is clearly meaningless to ask, “What is the entropy of the crystal?” unless we first specify the set of parameters which define its thermodynamic state. […] There is no end to this search for the ultimate "true" entropy until we have reached the point where we control the location of each atom independently. But just at that point the notion of entropy collapses, and we are no longer talking thermodynamics! […] From this we see that entropy is an anthropomorphic concept, not only in the well-known statistical sense that it measures the extent of human ignorance as to the microstate. Even at the purely phenomenological level, entropy is an anthropomorphic concept. For it is a property, not of the physical system, but of the particular experiments you or I choose to perform on it.
Lifting materials into space is very expensive. If you build on a planet (or a moon) then you can mine it for materials reducing the expense.
The only way to prevent that is to not report whistleblower deaths at all. It's not like people can't privately have their own suspicions, and if I were a potential whistleblower, I'd want to know that any apparent accidents or suicides get very thoroughly investigated due to public outcry.
> just as oil is a finite resource, the internet contains a finite amount of human-generated content.

The oil comparison is really apt. Indeed, let's boil a few more lakes dry so that Mr Worldcoin and his ilk can get another 3 cents added to their net worth, totally worth it.
Yes, the AMA did that but they have since reversed their position and have been lobbying Congress to increase the number of residency slots. So far Congress hasn't acted.

https://savegme.org/node/1
except.. this is San Francisco here .. totally different
> blue collar crime

I never saw this term before. Do you mean all crime except white collar crime?
At this point if whomever owns and controls the drones are not stepping forward and say, "Oh hey, those belong to us. Pretty please don't shoot them down" and the US gov is not gaslighting when they say "No idea /shrug" and there is not a proper FAA RemoteID or ADS-B broadcast on 8 foot long drones confirmed by multiple law enforcement agencies thus far then it's safe to say they are controlled by a foreign nation and may be disassembled in air and then the parts analyzed. The ship they have been tracked from may also be seized.

As for aliens, they are not. These are up-scaled Chinese drone design. Same lights, exterior color, similar shapes.
If I die in the midst of whistleblowing, I hereby give permission for everyone to not ignore that fact.
Except the monetary accountability comes from the company, and the people responsible remain rich and successful. In order to put the brakes on unethical and immoral behavior, personal accountability must be a possibility. As in, you will go to jail if you intentionally hurt others via decisions made at work.
A model that's trained on legal decisions can still be used to explore these questions, though. The model may end up being uncertain about which way the case will go, or even more strikingly, it may be confident about the outcome of a case that then is decided differently, and you can try and figure out what's going on with such cases.
Same. I was in the Army. We started seeing CP/M computers with 8" floppies, Wang word processors, etc. So I bought an Atari 800 and cassette data recorder from the PX to start learning. No Internet then; so magazines like Byte, Antic, & Analog were crucial for getting the gist of things. For hacking I started with Atari Basic, then moved on to OSS MAC/65 & OSS Action!. It was a lot of fun.
So, you do need to read some, to get the lay of the land; but you also need to do.
> I'm worried that one of the most visited sites in the US is actively radicalizing a good chunk of the population.

Thank goodness they're an American site, where the precedent for persecuting websites for active radicalization is practically nonexistent.
We have designed the system in a modular way so that any custom field can be added easily. We are getting around 95% accuracy. More details about the customisation are given in the website.
For prototyping purpose, how does this compare to other design kits, e.g. Material Design?

https://www.figma.com/community/file/1035203688168086460/mat...
That wouldn't be a better analog at all since it wouldn't be making the point I wanted to make, it would just be rephrasing what they stated using the same metaphor.
Why?

>An FBI informant who wore a wire caught Burkhart boasting about how he spent "a lot of money on politicians."

Oh, that’s why.
Man! I didn't remember it until reading your comment, but I had the same experience in elementary school — obligatory time in the school, with access to books, but only while I was there, after finishing whatever trivial tasks were assigned.

Alas, the selection was quite lacking. So although I voraciously consumed dozens of "Hardy Boys" novels, the subsequent days were filled with irritating thoughts about how stupid they were.... perhaps the inverse of your experience.

Nevertheless, while I was trapped there, it seemed much better than nothing!

I still read books, and to me it seems obvious that most of the "experience" of reading plays out in the background in the days and weeks that follow (unfortunately, even if the book has little to offer — although as an adult I'm free to recogize that and move on to another book).

P.S.
Halfway through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ministry_for_the_Future and it's a good one! Much better than reading about Chet Morton's old jalopy breaking down again just as the villains are escaping on bicycles... ;-P
They’re right, I won’t. Have some respect for my time and attention.
And in this case, as is almost always the case, the "elites" are not even paying the fine. The Company is. No human being inside the company who made any of the relevant decisions and did any of the wrongdoing will suffer in any way, or have to pay anything.

If you want to kill people and get away with it, just form a corporation and have your CxO and SVP staff make decisions that kill people.
Not a bad response compared to the typical religious view.

I'd maybe add that religions also shift over time.

Catholics are also being swayed by the Evangelicals.

You are explaining kind of a Jesuit view of analysis, and older view of thought.

I'm not talking about the old persecutions the Church did.
But after the enlightenment up to last 100 years, Catholics used to be supporters of Science, logic and reason. They were strongly in support of Religion and Science existing separately. Religion is about faith, it is beyond science, and you shouldn't mix them.

But more recently in the US, all Christian churches have started to be a bit radicalized by the Evangelicals.

So your view might be in minority.
A close approximation should arguably include collapses/slides, which happen spontaneously because the pile organises itself to a critical angle; then an incredibly small event can trigger a large slide of salt/sand/whatever/rocks (or whatever else the pile is made of). Even working out something like "What's the biggest and smallest slides that could occur given a pile of some particular substance?".

Every approximation will by definition deviate from what really happens - I suppose that's why we talk of "working approximations", i.e. they work well enough for a given purpose. So it probably comes down to what the approximation is being used for.

There is the idea that we are all living in a simulation; if so maybe if we look closely enough at the detail all the way from the universe to atoms then we'll start to see some fuzziness (well, of course there's quantum physics....).
I get the point about conversations naturally splitting when there are 5+ people... definitely happens to me all the time. But I wonder if it’s really just about mental limits, or if there’s something else going on? Like, isn’t it also about the vibe of the group or the type of people involved? Some groups are just better at keeping everyone engaged no matter the size- like certain friend groups or teams that have great dynamics.

Also, not sure if the "four is magic" thing holds up everywhere... In my experience, some of the best conversations happen with just two people. Like really deep, meaningful stuff you can’t get with more people. And for bigger groups, there’s often this chaos energy that can be fun in its own way. Yeah, it’s not the same as an intimate chat, but it’s not worse, just different.

That said, I do like the idea that our brains are wired for certain sizes - makes sense when you think about the mental juggling it takes to track other people’s thoughts and reactions. And I love how Dunbar tied this to Shakespeare—kinda cool that he instinctively kept scenes small to avoid "cognitive overload." Makes me wonder if modern writers and creators even think about this stuff or just stumble into it.

So yeah, the mental limits idea is interesting, but I feel like the type of people, the setting, and even the purpose of the group matter a lot too. Sometimes it’s not the number of people, but how good they are at making everyone feel included... which is maybe a rarer skill than we think.
What percentage of the money spent on healthcare is the type of emergency you're talking about?

5%? 10%?

I'm not saying stuff like that doesn't happen but insurance for healthcare in this country is totally insane. If car insurance worked the same way Geico would be paying for my gas and oil changes. Heck they'd be paying to have the car cleaned once a month.
Cheaper batteries meeting the storage requirements for renewables would be a game changer!
> I worry that the cost of exterminating people algorithmically could become so low that they could decide to start taking out small fries in batches.

My guess is that the cost of taking out a small fry today is already extremely low, and a desperate low-life could be hired for less than $1000 to kill a random person that doesn't have a security detail.
Try it with a chaotic system like a double pendulum you’ll see the dynamics are not predictive in the long term.
>I bet they have practically zero paid customer retention rate

Why do you think that?

I know a few people with a subscription but I don't think I know anyone who has cancelled. Even people who have mainly moved to Claude kept the plus subscription because it's so cheap and o1 is sometimes useful for stuff Claude can't do.
My view is that Windows is most prevalent because it's the targeted system for most software. Want support for some third party software? Easier and usually more options on Windows. Need corporate Spyware? It's generally easier to control windows, or at least there are more options. I would also guess the overall per unit cost for corporate laptops with Linux is not substantially lower than Windows when going through typically corporate suppliers.
Track Down Radio Transmitters – KrakenSDR [video]
Japanese Work Culture as a Developer [video]
How can we take advantage of this to reduce my grocery bill? :)
Really great, old style web site. Single topic, devoted to a series of mystery novels, information compiled by obsessive fans, not a "fandom".

A Living Fossil of a web site. More, please!
Oceans emit sulfur and cool the climate more than previously thought
I'm not really sure I understand your sorting example, maybe try it out in gpt and post the link to show exactly what you mean.

The refusal of the model is something trained into the model by the process of rlhf, and it can also be untrained, by the process of abliteration [1].

Also, LLMs are capable of using tools in this very moment [2].

[1]: https://huggingface.co/blog/mlabonne/abliteration
[2]: https://www.anthropic.com/news/analysis-tool
Supply and demand curves need not apply here sounds like special pleading. I think we'd get a lot further treating healthcare like every other good/service then saying it's sui generis.
Link to study:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adq2465
Also the traditional barbershop quartet for acapella.

Interestingly, I like the 5-piece versions of all 3 of these: add a keyboardist to the rock band, a piano or harpsichord to the classical string or woodwind quartet, a female vocalist to the acapella group. Having two leads lets you do much more intricate countermelodies and harmonies.
Exactly.

I also suggested he get some counseling a few days ago. He is deep in the delusions.

I read his comments from time to time as entertainment on how crazy people are. To kind of keep tabs on what kind of crazy people exist, and what they are saying.

But after his latest comments, it is little more depressing. A raving lunatic can be entertaining. But it isn't entertaining anymore to know someone is having that many problems, and needs help.

Of course, it is on the internet, an unreliable narrator. Could just be a troll? Hard to tell.
Not the op.
If you reread what he wrote I think he’s trying to say the price going down changes the viability of the option—not the convenience and speed which he treats as inherent to the car.

Said another way:
When price goes down, robotaxis (which are convenient and speedy) become a more viable option.
Air fryers may be listening
CEO's have a "replication crisis" and they join and leave companies on huge salary and equity packages having totally failed to turn around or deliver the growth they were hired for. The fact that they did it in one place is no guarantee they can "reproduce" their first success and chance has more of a role than anybody will admit.
I haven't thought about it, but I'm open to the idea. What kind of animation engines do you have in mind?

Yes, the absence of 3D is very much a choice. I believe this need is already covered pretty well by existing libraries like three.js and threlte etc.
These are relatively large and complex to use, because you essentially have to adopt the mental model of having a whole 3D scene or something like that.
With Svader, the mental model is just that you have a canvas with an attached fragment shader, which paints the canvas with respect to some input parameters.
Humanoid robots operating in the world built for humans performing useful tasks
More Office Days Don't Boost Productivity, Economist Says
Because it’s a tool for Python ecosystem.
You might as well quote the rule in full, if you are going to throw the guidelines around.

> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

I think this makes it pretty clear that this guideline wasn't talking about people trying to provide helpful feedback for a developer, letting them know about a strange edge-case (i.e., why should an extension injecting CSS even mess with WebGL content?) that they might want to look into.
https://archive.is/nj7Li

full title: "More Office Days Don’t Boost Productivity, Economist Says. His View on the Pros and Cons of Work From Home. There is no productivity benefit in going from three to five days a week in the office, says Stanford’s Nicholas Bloom."

His site, with links to his research, is https://economics.stanford.edu/people/nicholas-bloom
You don’t lose a pension when you quit, you simply qualify for fewer years served.

A career extends beyond a job means that you can transition to something related outside the FBI. If there some aspect of a job you dislike then quit.
'I don't want to' is very different to 'I will never'
https://archive.is/5wZpt

https://archive.today/5wZpt

https://archive.is/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/busine...
There is a lot of work done that is effectively meaningless and doesn’t take a lot of brain power. Sliding things around a PowerPoint for example.
He deserves a Macbook M4 Max
>So there aren't any GUI controls, buttons, input fields, &c.?

No.

>Would there be a way to add those in the future?

Yes, but only for making TUIs.
Japanese researchers test pioneering drug to regrow teeth
AI has replaced HR/Sales/Finance/IT: words of flailing 'leadership' at best, fraud at worse.
Pre-constitution, doesn't count.

We have had popular uprisings, they're either played down ("Bonus Army", coal miner's strikes) or significantly mis-labeled, "War between the states".
I work for a Kubernetes Certified Service Provider and I dissuade people as well, it's so anti-climatic when embarking on a k8s journey and then having more pods which are overhead than the actual customer pods.
“Since 1937, the only "deathless" Isle of Man TT’s happened in 1982 and 2024.” - Wikipedia

Wow. I’m genuinely surprised that the event is allowed to take place when people reliably die every year. Where else does that happen?

(The above Wikipedia quote is also contradicted later in the same article, which says that a driver named Louis O’Regan died in 2024.)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Isle_of_Man_TT_Mount...
Fast LLM Inference From Scratch (using CUDA)
Really cool to see all the hard work on Trusted Publishing and Sigstore pay off here. As a reminder, these tools were never meant to prevent attacks like this, only to make them easier to detect, harder to hide, and easier to recover from.
Interesting to see more hackers in Europe than the USA.

I wonder if that's representative of the distribution of HN users.
That would not be an externality. Which type of restaurant succeeds is internal to the economic activity of people paying for food at restaurants.

Also, what type of cuisine is crap and not is extremely subjective. If a local populace is not sufficiently motivated to make and eat a specific cuisine such that it dies out, that is sad, but just one of many compromises society makes while constantly evolving due to new parameters.

The place/tribe my parents come from is losing its amazing cuisine because it requires one stay at home parent to labor for many hours per day and years and years of experience to master. I grew up eating amazing home cooked food at all of my aunts’ and great aunt’s houses, so much so that going out to eat at a US restaurant was rare and considered a lesser alternative.

However, all of their kids obtained higher education and work, so are unable to devote anywhere close to the time my aunts and grandmas did in the kitchen. Not to mention that they like doing other things like vacationing, playing sports, going to parties, etc. All the institutional knowledge of the fresh, home cooked food is going to be gone in about 20 to 30 years, it wouldn’t success as a business and individuals have priorities other than living in the kitchen.

The point is the only constant in life is change.
From the OP:

> She suffered a toothache and asked a barber-surgeon to extract the offending molar. He struggled to get the tooth out, but convinced the patient to let him try again with different tools.

> > He fixed his instrument, and with a sudden exertion of all his strength, he brought away the affected Tooth, together with a piece of the jaw-bone, as big as a walnut, and three neighbouring Molares.
CA Law Prohibits Health Insurance Companies from Using AI to Deny Healthcare
He pays insurance premiums to get health care. Why should he pay out of pocket for health care that is covered?

This does not change the point that the insurance company, physician, and medical device company are all complicit in a scam that jacks up the cost of healthcare for everyone.