skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
high finance/management can be quite valuable when you’re trying to plan a conflict. this is how you get the industries developed that are capable of designing a system to turn sand into missile-targeting systems.

i’m extremely skeptical of people’s ability to view the economy from on high and pick out the “good, productive gdp” and the “bad, makework gdp”.
> There's a lot of reason to think that area should have more structure in it because the proof that there are an infinite number of unstable periodic orbits in there starts with knowing there are an infinite number of stable periodic orbits and that there is an unstable orbit on the the separatrix between them.

An analogous result is true for the number line: between any two rational numbers, there is an irrational number.

But that isn't cause to suspect that, if you look at a random piece of the number line, you should be able to see a lot of rationals. They're there. But you can't see them. The odds of any given number you look at being irrational are 1.
No one gets promoted for suggesting not doing something.
I have a suspicion it’s not Facebook or Google listening in, but rather other third party apps. In fact it’s not even the third party apps but the libraries/frameworks they use to show ads.
> More people than ever are capable of this today by a wide margin than at any point in history.

Capable, yes. Because there is Internet.

But is it easily discoverable? and is it interesting once discovered? No and No.
But we’d have options. ~There aren’t any today.~

Ninja edit: there haven’t been any until workers.
DeepSeek: What You Need to Know
> ever notice how black people are disproportionately represented in comic media and particularly “reaction gifs”?

No, I have never noticed that. In fact, I have noticed the opposite.
> shows a moderator of /r/rails rewriting history, implying Dave not going to RailsConf 2022 was his fault, along with airing bizarre grievances like "We inserted snark at DHH in a Rails release candidate."

Yeah, I've unfortunately been watching this in real time over the years, and the bad faith from these guys is just on another level. First, they were fairly overt about what they'd done because they were proud of it. Later, they mischaracterized it through rewriting history. And these days, they just don't talk about it at all (notably, there isn't a word about it in the article linked above).

Here's another example: the original Reddit thread from 2022 talking about DHH being uninvited, where the same person abused his moderator powers by actually just outright banning anyone who dared to talk about why it actually happened:

https://www.reddit.com/r/rails/comments/t5u3fe/dhh_is_cancel...
Towards PyPy3.11 – An Update
Tell HN: Old-computers.com still rebooting since 2023
Although this is about a very unfunny event, it seems sort of fitting, in a comic kid of way, to see a site dedicated to ancient computers taking forever to reboot:

After another big attack in November 2023, we decided
to reboot the website and create a new design with
all the informations that was compiled over the
years. Be patient, and the OLD-COMPUTERS.COM will be
back !

https://www.old-computers.com/
> The following innovation that made it usable, by making it less bug-prone, was called a "multitasking operating system". The so-called "OS" allowed you to write simple sequential code, but used the computer efficiently by switching back and forth between multiple tasks as their respective I/Os completed. We're talking about the introduction of the Univac 1103A in 01953, 72 years ago, and the following 20 years of innovations, including things like Dijkstra's THE operating system.
That is, asynchronous I/O is 20 years older than the Unix system call interface this article speculates it should replace.

That's just a scheduler though, and not necessarily an actor-oriented one. Multitasking doesn't imply communication between tasks, certainly not actor-oriented bidirectional message passing.
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a lot of fun dice here https://www.mathartfun.com/dSpecial.html

I like the "go first" dice
I'm curious, why use Deepseek/Gemini over of Claude?
> There's something essentially wrong with Meta and Google where they can do tech but not products anymore. I'd argue it's because the honest human desire that drives a product dies or is refined out of initiatives by the time it gets through the optimization process of their org structure.

This is a really nice insight. I hadn’t put it together this way before. It’s similar to design-by-committee, or movie script-by-committee (like Disney-era Star Wars movies, or a Netflix focus-group-driven script). The layers of bureaucratic filter have rubbed off all human influence, and all that’s left is naked profit motive.

The worst thing IMO would be if LLMs became able to convincingly fake these emotions. They’d become emotional pillows for the inhuman manipulative ambitions of their parent orgs.
>So would travel agents, real estate agents and car dealerships.

Yes, but these people also provide good services. I think car dealerships might be the best bad example out of these because car manufacturers don't deal directly with customers. However, I think the fact is that the manufacturers who set it up like this don't want to deal with customers, and they establish dealerships that agree to a certain quality of service that the manufacturer wants associated with their name. Car dealers are explicitly authorized to negotiate prices with customers, which can go either above or below MSRP. If the manufacturer was selling directly to you, you'd probably be stuck with ONE price which might not be the best one. All three of the cases I quoted here can be viewed as a form of optional delegation that usually benefits the producer, the consumer, or both.

If it can be proven that there is a better way to allocate resources (especially on a micro scale), that way should not be categorically banned. But at the international scale especially, you need to be careful.

>Just because a change in allocation of resources or production would end businesses / jobs doesn't necessarily make it a bad thing.

Yes a handful of unimportant ones here and there doesn't have to be so bad. But if strategically important businesses and jobs are eliminated in an allegedly sovereign region, that is usually a bad thing (proportional to the size of the region). If too many of the less important jobs in a region are eliminated or challenged, that puts stress on the people which is also a bad thing.

>I'm not arguing whether this specific policy is good or bad, but mainly that the argument don't do it because "it would cost jobs somewhere" doesn't mean something is a bad policy. Just about every change in the economy costs jobs somewhere. The question is: Does it create more jobs (or higher standard of living) in other places to make up for it?

I think this question only makes sense if you're talking about a relatively closed, cohesive system like a sovereign country. "Higher standard of living" is not the only metric that needs to be optimized (at least as it is commonly defined). We need to have a resilient country to the extent that we can. That might mean paying extra costs to support our native businesses, or accepting somewhat worse products in some cases. For example, you personally could cut or reduce most of your insurance and stop saving for retirement. That would put more money in your pocket every month that you could use to buy cool stuff. That might be interpreted as a higher standard of living. But is it wise? This is not far from what we have done on a national scale, driven by globalist policies and profiteering.
Stonk prices are going up, so whatever they are doing, the only real feedback they care about is positive.

These AI products are not made for users. They're made for Wall Street. Wall Street expects big companies to 1. talk about AI in their earnings calls, and then 2. do something, anything, with AI. All of BigTech seems to be doing this now, and investors are rewarding them by buying their stock. So they're going to continue the cycle of building useless AI products and then canceling them when they have served their purpose (pleasing investors).
A mistake on par with Netflix getting into mobile games. With advent of 5G, nobody plays candy crush saga or such games.
the comedy thing is maybe debatable but the reaction gifs thing is objectively true and kinda weird from my perspective
Hallucinations are generally unpredictable. Best way to overcome this is to add the documentation of whatever you're working on to the LLM context.
Same thing in Maryland. Speeding is a criminal charge here.
And not very far later, "And be mindful of Allah, and know that Allah is severe in punishment."

That's bullshit. God is love. End of story. Any other claim is bullshit. It makes no sense to have a punitive God in charge of everything. Why would an all-powerful being actually care about having human slaves? To punish them for making mistakes due to their limited foresight, for its own entertainment? It would get bored in a microsecond. And do you really want a God like that? One who rules with fear and who expects "submission"? No wonder Muslims are miserable. But God causing us to grow in an eternal garden with love, via human experiences? THAT makes more sense. Open your eyes. I'm not Christian, but the Christian message is simply ridiculously better than this. No wonder there are so few Christian terrorists compared to Muslim ones. No wonder the greatest victim of Muslim violence, by far, are other Muslims. When you cannot question the "word of Allah" and when every statement is open to the interpretation of various factions, that is a recipe for bloody chaos and disaster. Which is EXACTLY what we are witnessing.

Islam makes a mockery of humanity.

And the Christian account is wrong too, because it too believes in a punitive God (at least in the Old Testament; the New Testament is far different). When you die, your soul will judge itself. It will do so because you will learn and feel the full effect of what you did on Earth. You will have omniscient empathy, basically. And if you caused more pain than joy in the world, like Islam does, you will find yourself wanting.

This place we find ourselves in is a school. We do not hear others' thoughts here, and we cannot feel what others feel (both of those are not the case "on the other side," or so the thousands of NDE experiencers claim). This forces us to choose to empathize. Or not. Be dishonest... Or not. You will directly perceive the "ripple effect" over there. You will not, here. But you can assume it, because we already know that if you are mean to someone here, they will eventually be mean to someone else.

There's nothing else to it. No supplication expectations, just love people. Bring more of God's love into the world. Give up religions, they are human-created control mechanisms.

Watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfiwd2PzXvw&list=PLvnDbwjRqI...
I'm reusing the alpha channel indeed. And I reverse it for the innermost side of the border.

const float MIN_ALPHA_THRESHOLD = 0.3;
const float MAX_ALPHA_THRESHOLD = 0.7;

[...]

if (fragmentColor.a < MIN_ALPHA_THRESHOLD) {
// Outer edge of the border
float outputAlpha = fragmentColor.a / MIN_ALPHA_THRESHOLD;
outputColor = vColor * outputAlpha;
} else if (fragmentColor.a > MAX_ALPHA_THRESHOLD) {
// Inner edge of the border
float outputAlpha = 1 - ((fragmentColor.a - MAX_ALPHA_THRESHOLD) / (1 - MAX_ALPHA_THRESHOLD));
outputColor = vColor * outputAlpha;
} else {
// "Inside" of the border
outputColor = vColor;
}

So if the border goes like transparent->opaque, I divide it into segments using a threshold (transparent->min_threshold->max_threshold->opaque) and change the alpha values:

- Smoothen out the transparent->min_threshold segment, so that it goes linearly from a=0 to a=1

- make opaque (a=1) the min_threshold->max_threshold segment

- Revert and smoothen out the max_threshold->opaque segment so that it goes linearly from a=1 to a=0
Maybe you had a speech card for your IIe, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_II_(expansion_card)
The baking soda trick works wonders with canned tomatoes that may have a tin-like taste too.
Interesting — does your backend server use Python? I couldn't find much about it on your site.

It would be great to see this tested with more commercial LLMs (O1 / Amazon Nova, / Llama 3.2 / etc.). If you're open to it, I’d be happy to contribute support for these models via LiteLLM - https://docs.litellm.ai/docs/providers
I know Library of Congress has a newspaper database. But does anyone know if newspapers are covered by mandatory deposit in the US? Many European countries archive all national newspapers, printed or digital, so they won't be lost for posterity if deleted by their publisher.

To me it seems unreasonable to require publishers to keep an immutable record. Shouldn't be forced by law to keep up your blog posts. National Libraries and legal deposit were literally made to solve this issue.
This has so many implications for software team design

Like hiring that one unicorn dev to solve X hard problem isn't a great "theory building" exercise. It can build theories for that one person, but without feedback they're never tested, they're never adopted by the whole team

So you actually NEED juniors, 'stupid' questions, outside points of view, and ways of openly and scientifically evaluating theories instead of defaulting to the authority of supposed experts. You also need to retain seniors who have context and a good historical working definition of the problem.

But a lot of teams are focused on just the next problem and "shipping it". Rather than using "shipping" to help the team develop a better theory of the problem.

The value isn't what's shipped, its the working knowledge of the team.
Everyone wants to be the hero in their own story, changing your beliefs requires introspection and humility. It's far easier to blame somebody else than yourself and take responsibility. It's trivial to feed people some narrative that trivializes reality and, in their mind, acknowledges them as underdogs and elevates them as "right".

The triviality of this allows malevolent actors to disrupt society and produce a chasm through echo chambers, each amplifying particular voices and shifting narrative.

Free speech is important, but it won't be found on X, or pravda-dot-social, and as much has been proven multiple times. What I take issue with and hint at is that neither of these are platforms that support free-speech, they are merely illusions, and people who yap about wrongthink are exactly those oblivious to said fact.

Personally, I am tired of arguing with people, I am tired of seeking truth in conversations with people unwilling to change their minds, I just want to live my life, safely.
Fascinating that the Army Battlezone project is what lead them to develop the controller based on a Bradley tank that was later used on Star Wars.
Running Away from Quantified Self
Sami are part of the uralic people although they arrived to Fennoscandia some centuries before the Finnic. There were people in the area before the uralic people came but very little is known about them.
Yes, I agree. Something similar is why I don't think it's accurate to describe this article as being about actors: it's not about schedulers, but it's about asynchronous I/O, which is equally well not the same thing as actors, though scheduling and asynchronous I/O both have very interesting relationships with actors, which the article unfortunately does not go beyond vaguely gesturing at.
> It’s an immigrant community that refused to integrate into the culture that existed there before them.

Wow. Wow, wow, wow, you're in need of a major history lesson, like how the British first basically committed genocide with the expulsion of the Acadia French, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_the_Acadians, and then when they realized that was a collosal fuck up they explicitly put policies in place to not expel the rest of the French in Quebec and deliberately treat them as second class citizens.
Claude is good but offers limited use before you get timed out, Deepseek is good and cheap.
Writing elegant custom matchers in RSpec
> Who cares about Subversion?

It was much better than CVS, but, at this point, it really would make no sense to move to it.

Subversion has one quality on its side for monorepos - you can checkout a subtree. You can't do that easily with neither Git nor Mercurial.
It's interesting to see how short-lived some of these were (e.g. HumanEval).
>Passkeys are a public/private keypair authentication system. That’s it.

>Ignore all the lock screen and biometric stuff that the marketing is screaming at you. You can generate Passkeys on your computer just like we’ve been doing with SSH keypairs for decades. You can store those keys however you like, so long as you have a way to feed them into your web browser to provide to the service at login-time. You can copy your Passkeys around as much as you like, to any device you like. You can share them with friends.
ads by their very nature are interrupting. no one open the browser or turns on tv or … sayin “what a fine fucking day to watch some ads”

hence it is the ads - not the “interruption” that most people are against (s/most/all)
I'm sorry, what you say makes zero sense in the light of Russians killing Ukrainians, it's just plain old imperialism pure and simple.
good thing we have more than two countries. in history, the jewelers generally tend to win because they just pay off some other tank building country - see Kuwait, for instance
I always thought AI would need a physical form before it really started competing with humans but now this thought exercise made me realize that with so much of life lived/worked virtually that reality is so much closer than we realize.
> especially for low level, non violent stuff

This is codeword for financial, white collar crimes. So, it is definitely a policy serving the rich.
Really cool, this is the first time I've heard of a keogram.

I wish there were a corresponding article with a technical write-up covering both the capturing rig and image assembly process.

Is there an FFmpeg or imagemagick command, or perhaps a Photoshop script to feed the images into?
How is Microsoft's Integrated Visual Augmentation System doing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Visual_Augmentation...

"Initially intended to be fielded in 2021, ergonomic and reliability issues have pushed this date back to 2025. Soldiers and offices of the Department of Defense and Congress have repeatedly criticized the device and its development process for issues with technology and project management."

But hey, let's pitch "American AI", developed by H1Bs, to Trump now.
I know Cursor has become very popular, but since Windsurf got released, is there anyone who've jumped to Windsurf instead? Is it much better?
You mean inside markdown? Prettier supported that since 2017 [1], it will call the individual plugins to handle content inside the code blocks.

[1]: https://prettier.io/blog/2017/11/07/1.8.0.html
I was expecting something about the dog from Microsoft Bob, like a war story from an MS veteran about making the characters work on Windows 3.1
I believed I needed to befriend like-minded people for the longest time, and only recently did I realize that held me back - my closest friendships now are with not so like minded people and they are more fullfilling and stronger than any since making friends in school.

Where did this idea that early friendships are not as good because they weren't formed intentionally with carefully curated people come from?

Isn't the fact childhood friendships can endure despite people changing a clue that maybe it is doing things right?

I would never become homeless as long as I have my childhood friends, none of my curated friends would let each other move in without a second thought. I've made more new close friends in a year of hangout out with anyone willing to spend time together than I did in the last 5 trying hard to find like minded people.
Policing and imprisonment are very aggressive here. Arrests very often don't turn into convictions because the police are rewarded for wielding force any way they choose regardless of whether it's justified - their right to do this is legally protected via qualified immunity.
here is another user-friendly gui if you want and it generates ffmpeg command https://newbeelearn.com/tools/videoeditor/
So, Zuckerberg has got the AI horn. Well, he always had. But

There are about 70k engineers at facebook, I doubt its possible for zuckerberg to be aware of all the product changes that happen in meta.

However, it also shows that meta has no functioning marketing skills. This I suspect is also down to Zuck.

Had they marketed it, and more importantly, had the engineers had the training to talk to marketing first, then this wouldn't have been an issue.
As AI tools become more powerful and are used by the public to analyse the news, I suspect we'll see a lot more deletions of news articles to prevent "harmful" narratives from forming.
At least in Finland Sami lived in the southern parts as well, some still in the 17th century. Most southern Sami probably assimilated with the Finns.
This is Orwellian gaslighting. These papers should no longer be viewed as authoritive keepers of the public record. Any institution that engages in this kind of memory-holing forfeits all credibility. They can no longer be trusted whatsoever.
Cordyceps are also a major plot device in the novel Cold Storage, which is being developed into a film.
This statement is, of course, false. They did bring weapons.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/07/08/jan6-defe...

https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/missouri-man-sentenced-fe...

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/19/977879589/yes-capitol-rioters...