skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Some people don't like protectionism because in the long term it's worse for both countries. You have a short term benefit of protecting a handful of jobs in exchange for vastly more expensive goods for everyone as well as more expensive inputs to your other products undercutting other local industries

Expensive goods only result from half-assed protectionism. When governments go the whole nine yards, such as with China's PV and EV industries, or the US with agricultural subsidies, it results in very cheap products and inputs to other products. Corn syrup is an ingredient to a lot of American food items because it's a cheap sweetener due to all the subsidies as the government decided, many decades ago, that American farmers should be shielded from competition. Some decisions make sense in the realm of national strategy and geopolitics, and not pure economics. The US would be very different if it had started to import the bulk of it's corn from Ukraine in the late 1990s
It's normal cars regulated as tractors, because at some point it was considered useful to use cars as tractors. But as you can now convert them electronically, they are used at scale for convenience. So it like driving behind a tractor, but there are many tractors going back and forth to school, the supermarket and friends in rush hour and on weekend. All day, every day. And the drivers are very overrepresented in not behaving well on the road.

Here are some examples.

https://youtu.be/EprqvxTF5vI?t=92

https://youtu.be/RfhIPGVDQ2Q?t=461

https://youtu.be/wTkM5Cknobc?t=509
The courts could possibly be carrying out an anti-regulatory political agenda. I do mean "possibly"; not everything they do is politically driven and sometimes the politically-driven decisions coincidentally align with reasonable outcomes.

Plenty of serious people thought the FCC actions and Chevron Deference were legally fine. Plenty did not. (My unstudied observation of the latter is that it was the same people who always oppose all regulation in every way possible, but I'm not really sure of that.)

If someone just takes one side's argument, doesn't mention the other side, and says that makes it clear, doesn't that tell us only the political preferences of speaker and their desire to push them?

I haven't read enough on it to know. I could believe the FCC overstepped their authority. It is interesting that SCOTUS gives the president the effective authority to break laws, but not regulate rich people. Perhaps the president should just break this law?
Big appetite for risk; own it, do it and ship it--these two are very hard in a large organization. Let me give you an example: one time, I had to move five solaris servers from one rack to another rack (with same IPs, etc). The app owner agreed to it as well. Powered off, then moved to another rack, powered on. Now that unsupported BEA WebLogic app server cluster didn't come up. People were just pointing fingers at each other. No appetite for risk; owning it without solving unforeseen problems is a big NO.

10x Engineer is possible in a green field environment. In any other scenario, someone like Elon on the top have to own the risk. No middle manager, no senior management want to take on risks.
We have this in France before the presidential elections. There are usually 20 or so candidates, the top 5 get 90% of the voices. But everyone is entitled to the same media time.

You then have a debate with the top 5 at 21 (after the news), and then one or two for the rest between 22:30 and midnight.

I find the second one more interesting because you have the unusual ones who push their crazy ideas. The candidates of the premium debate are well known and their ideas as well.
Because as low as most journalist’s standard are, Williams is below that low standard. Though good enough for Pro Publica. He is an erratic, ex-con, who seems to be mentally unstable. Did you believe the puppy story?
Wow, this was even enabled on our otherwise fairly locked down corporate phones... Normally these features are both disabled and greyed out via "group policies" or whatever Apple calls them.
One of the best things going at my Uni (Cornell) in my mind is not that they have a data science major [1] but that they have a data science minor that goes with anything from literature to biology [2].

[1] not sure I, as an applications programmer, want to hire that person because they're too focused on writing the April 2024 sales report and not on developing the process to make the monthly sales report.

[2] (talk about putting your skills and knowledge on wheels!
The year is 2035. To cut costs, both insurance companies and providers removed the human from the loop long ago setting off an adversarial process between the LLMs on both sides. Medical insurance claims are now written in an ever changing format that resembles no human language. United Healthcare has just announced a $10 billion project including a multi gigawatt data center to train its own foundational model to keep ahead in the arms race. UNH stock is up 5% on the announcement.
No, I'm not even interested in the surveillance here (though it is also a good comparison). Full disclosure, I'm very pessimistic on what current LLM models are capable of, and even more pessimistic on the impact of social networks.

I'm referring to the control of interactions and information. Take a look at the character interactions on the novel.

People socialized as they could, but interactions were not only heavily monitored (to your point), but altered as well. Winston struggles to behave correctly in public knowing that one small misstep could result in him being arrested by The Party. He revels in the chance to rebel against it, only to find that the opportunity to do so was in fact a trap. Even the allowed language was neutered as much as possible to prevent communication. All of these virtual 'friends' will likely politely comment and correct your posts as they see fit.

As for information, "we have always been at war with Eastasia". People in 1984 were clearly being fed false information as part of control. History was altered, facts were changed, it was pretty heavy handed. But imagine what this personal echo chamber could do with a new concept or idea (that virtually all parties you interact with corroborate, along with LLM generated 'news' posts and generated pics that support it), how many people will verify? Just think of how many folks you've seen have been misled by a single well-done "fake news" post; now, imagine that the network itself is confirming it at every turn (note Meta owns multiple networks).

Oh, and as a bonus, these virtual friends are really enjoying Brand Product. Have you tried it yet? Folks keep posting pictures of themselves with Brand Product, and they look pretty happy!
No. At any rate, if you're hanging your hat on a return of something like Chevron Deference, it's not going to happen. The FCC's authority to regulate the Internet was a controversial reach even before the courts decided they didn't have to take the word of regulators for them. For my part, as part of the opposition of the incoming administration, I'm just fine with the idea that their appointees --- some of whom will have terms extending past this administration --- have only the specific authority delegated to them by Congress, which my side will hopefully retake in just a couple years.

I think we can probably wrap this up here. We don't need to convince each other of anything.
Not sure I understand this.

I wouldn't have to be (satisfied).
Cracking the Chicken-and-Egg Problem: Platform Seeding Strategies
Weak references and garbage collectors
Well, it's a fantastic book.
Related:

How to kickstart social networks and marketplaces in standalone mode — https://medium.com/@sanguit/how-to-kickstart-social-networks...

The chicken-and-egg problem of marketplaces — https://platformchronicles.substack.com/p/the-chicken-and-eg...
What do you use instead?

Just curious.
The drivers; last I heard, literally every Android device on the market was using a forked kernel in order to support its hardware. And Google keeps trying things to improve that situation, but... https://lwn.net/Articles/680109/ was ~9 years ago and since then not even Google themselves have managed to ship a device running a mainline kernel. Supposedly it should get better with their latest attempt to just put drivers and user space, but 1. I haven't heard of any devices actually shipping with an unmodified kernel, probably because 2. AIUI that doesn't cover all drivers anyways.
You would think with the money being invested into Anthropic they would do better providing access to their model.

I ended up cancelling my Claude subscription because I was constantly getting timed out, and I think I was getting pushed to a quantized or smaller model that sucked when I used it too much.

Also their artifact UI sucks and doesn't update the code most of the time. It had apparently been broken for a while when I searched to see if other people had the issue.
Do you have any repos or examples you can share? Would love to see an example of that in action!
I suspect you're classifying the Trump assassins as right-wing nutjobs though (they weren't Islamists), which dilutes the position somewhat. What does right-wing even mean to you if it covers people trying to gun Trump down?
Do you have any examples of stories where one of the subjects was contacted, wanted to respond, but didn't have enough time?
epicaricacy being more or less the English equivalent btw
"Pre-industrial sheep shepherds" had mouths and stomachs just the same as us. They didn't grab ingredients totally at random. There's a reason the dish uses substantial and filling pasta instead of boiled celery or mint leaves or something.
A very good point. Also, if you are a professional, few things are more frustrating that working with amateurs. Mostly you are wasting time, trying to prevent fundamental mistakes, and failing.
Absolutely! Speed is not everything, experience and knowledge are as or more important. Specially the ability to tell what “will” be important. When I was younger I had better memory, but I had to remember everything, because I didn’t know what I was going to need. Now I forget a lot, but the five important things not… it goes much smoother.

I’ve met some people that read some articles that state the brain ages, got depressed and they decayed quickly. Just sad. Not everyone is equal. Some do age well.
Almost everyone is a curious polymath until institutions beat it out of them. We could start simply by nourishing curiosity
rebuttals are never read by anyone. there are numerous examples of this like in our modern age a completely bogus story will “go viral” and will be shared / read by millions and millions while a retraction will go completely unnoticed.

even more serious, bogus scientific studies like the one that started the whole “vaccines cause autism” while fully disputed cannot be undone with a retraction/rebuttal
I also think search engines sometimes remove results based on subject requests - at least I've seen such notices in Google search results, that some hits were removed due to 'right to be forgotten' policies.

Unpopular opinion (it seems): I think it is OK to some extent. Not for serious crimes (violence, murder etc.) but there's an awful lot of 'lesser crimes' reported with full names where I think subjects might deserve a clean slate or where people have some right to privacy. In the extreme case, everything court-related and all infractions could be public and subject to auto-generated news, and forever searchable: traffic fines, civil cases, neighbor complaints (either way) etc. All parts of an immutable record for everyone to look up by name. I personally think that is a violation of privacy, so it has to be balanced. Maybe the best balance is not to write the names to begin with.

In Denmark where I'm from, court cases are almost always public and the subject names are read aloud as well; however the names are not listed on the court lists or in the publicly accessible version of the verdicts. In order for the media to learn the name, a journalist has to physically go and see the trial. This already prevents automation and ensures prioritization by the media. Furthermore, most news media have a policy of only writing the subject's name after a guilty verdict has been found and even then only if the verdict was of some severity (unless it is a public person). I just checked on media outlet and their policy was to only write the name in case of a custodial sentence of at least 24 months. If it weren't for such policies, even relatively small cases would be reported with full name and be searchable forever.
LLVM Had Another Year with More Than 37k Commits, 35.5M Lines
The 8086 and 8088 etc. were relatively popular for embedded devices. For example some early 90s Apple printers used an 80186 as the controller. Such designs were often incompatible with the IBM PC; 8086 doesn't necessarily mean PC compatible.
You're kind of missing the early step where some executive had to sign off on this dumb idea. Otherwise it doesn't launch. It's only "impactful" to engineer performance review because some exec said so.
It is indeed, but we can use our privately hosted S3 compatible server: https://github.com/minio/minio

I'm happy to think about e2e encryption.
$5 was barely anything even when I was a student. Sure, there’s places in the world where it’s still a lot of money, but (good) search is a valuable service. Google proves that.

If someone does not want to pay $5 then they’re perfectly within their rights to do so, but saying it’s “a lot of money” feels like pinching pennies. By comparison to any other plan that’s practically the lowest you’ll ever see.
>If you think about it, consciousness doesn't exist in the material dimensions we understand. It's impossible to have an SI unit for happiness, for example.

The latter doesn't imply the former.

Assuming that consciousness exists entirely within the brain, it stands to reason that if we understood that physical process enough, we could in fact quantify happiness. You're simply taking for granted that it's impossible to do because we don't understand well enough to do it.

Also, not every physical process reduces to a single SI unit. This isn't evidence of a transcendent metaphysical reality, rather the result of some processes being complex. It's entirely likely that "happiness" is such a complex process, entirely physical and temporal and based on innumerable chemical, biological and sociological factors, but also impossible to reduce into a simple axis. We know that pain exists, and numerous scientific experiments demonstrate that pain is physical, but there is no SI unit for it, either.
EPA Report Finds That Formaldehyde Presents "Unreasonable Risk" to Public Health
Another father here. Personally, when I leave comments like op did here, I'm not complaining how hard it is for me, but it's rather a reflection on the vastly different lifestyle you get once you get kiddos. The change of priorities and new tasks you never dreamed of. But it's not necessarily hard in itself, and definitely not harder than next person's day, just, different.
just sounds like teaching more students philosophy, but now the dominant philosophy is systems theory. which i super agree with. systems are relevant everywhere from literature to engineering.
i agree with everyone else who has said true polymathy can't be taught.
It’s on a cross-country rally through sparsely populated countyside in the dead of winter. The risks seem negligible to me. The assistance may actually make this safer than without it on such a grueling 1000km/day distance, much of it spent driving in the dark.
The future bots won't need followers. They will reach out to engage users based on their ad graph. Like how catfish accounts work.

They'll reach out to users and talk to them about whatever they're interested in. They'll then make influencer-style native advertisements. If you're a middle aged man that likes video games when you see their picture posts they'll be "wearing" some vintage game t-shirt (that's for sale). If you're instead a twenty year old woman into yoga the same bit will be "wearing" some new Lululemon yoga pants.

The first pass of these bots failed because they used the follower mechanism. The next version will just follow you to push ads or scrape more data about you.
I think it's not necessarily the kids per se, but rather level of maturity, age, or even general type of personality and inclinations. There's not much space to have kids and start a family, and also dwell on worlds problems etc.
The Tandy 1000 SL/2 I grew up with had DOS 3.3 in ROM, mounted on D:\
> There are private prisons in the US that benefit from more prisoners.

So do public prisons! Their employees — and those employee’s unions — want to make money just as much as anyone.

I don’t think that public vs. private is material here.
There are 10,000s of SWEs at Facebook and this project was at most a handful of SWEs. (As stupid as it is, it did not significantly detract from prod bugs.)
Hmm the initial version of the app only took me about a day to get something working, but that version took minutes to generate a single video and even then only worked a third of the time. It took a solid 2 weeks from there to add all the edge cases to the prompt to increase reliability, add GPU rendering and streaming to improve performance/latency, and shore up the infra for scaling.
Presumably because they're edge on?

The archive link has a Google Captcha, so I as an evil Tor use cannot see it.
The point isn't to convince each other. Have a good weekend!

> ... I'm just fine with the idea that their appointees --- some of whom will have terms extending past this administration --- have only the specific authority delegated to them by Congress, which my side will hopefully retake in just a couple years.

Yes, it's amazing that people overlook the goose and gander principle. The Senate filibuster is a bigger example - the Dems talked about eliminating it in the middle of an election where they were likely to lose the Senate.
I've never seen a fully ROM-based PC, but I have worked with ISA NE2000 NICs with boot ROMs that allowed them to diskless boot into a DOS-based Novell NetWare client. It wouldn't surprise me if there were ROM-based local boot environments on ISA cards.

The Cisco PIX firewall, in it's original incarnation, booted from non-volatile memory (I don't know if it was EEPROM or flash) an ISA card.
I wish newspapers were more concerned about being an objective system of record rather than trying to push social goals by helping rewrite history. They should post follow-ups for those wrongly convicted or after the fact caveats but completely memory holeing news stories strikes me as deeply disturbing
Helpful advice >:D
There were several organized groups of people among the mob who went prepared for it to go much differently and stoked the flames. I shudder to think what would have happened if they made it to the chamber before the Representatives and Senators got out.
> the journalists ignoring Williams’ communications

It's because just accepting a prepackaged story like this from a single source would completely fail to meet the standards of journalism.
That makes no sense, since DOSEMU is based on virtual 8086 mode, which requires a 80386, while ELKS is for 8086-286 CPUs.

You can just run MS-DOS or FreeDOS directly on those machines, that's what the machines were made for.
Great-looking cross-platform app, was curious how this was possible.

Looks like Flutter has third-party libraries for macOS and Windows. I found a damper to the excitement of being able to make great-looking cross-platform apps though, seems Flutter has a big battery drain issue related to rendering blinking cursors that doesn't seem to have been resolved.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29175109
Fictional dystopias aren't the real world. Westworld is just television.
You are spreading misinformation, as did most of the news media and politicians that manufactured outrageous claims about J6. That’s not the quote. Trump literally used the word “peacefully” in the same sentence when he called for the (planned) march. He did not call for illegal actions or violence at any point. This is well known now, so your made up false quote is a lie.
I'll be honest, I want to know more about the monument vandal. The article mentions that after graduating high school, a man "became rowdy with some friends and broke a small stone monument".[1]

If the reason he couldn't get a job was that every employer googled his name, discovered what he did, and decided not to hire him, then clearly his actions were something that most people would want to know. If it was as inconsequential as the journalist claims, then why did his actions disqualify him from employment? Without details of the case (which would likely reveal the man's name), we can't decide whether memory-holing his past was beneficial to society or not.

And that's exactly my point: People want to decide for themselves whether a person's past disqualifies them from becoming an employee, a friend, or even a lover. There are some crimes that most people are willing to overlook, especially if they happened long ago and the perpetrator has turned their life around. Nelson Mandela is an excellent example of that. But there are some crimes that most people are willing to shun someone for. The actual harm inflicted doesn't matter as much as how the actions reflect upon the person's character. For example: If you knew someone had been caught keying cars on three separate occasions, wouldn't you be a little hesitant to associate with them? The harm they did was minimal, but such actions say something about that person's psyche. Should their actions be googleable for all time? I don't know, but I know that I want to judge for myself whether those actions can be overlooked or if they're beyond the pale. I don't trust others to make that decision for me.

Most importantly, if people realize that they can't trust public information, then they will be less trusting of strangers who can't prove their bona fides. They'll revert to how people solved this problem before the internet: preferring to hire relatives, former classmates, people who go to the same church, friends of friends, relying on stereotypes, and so on. It will become harder for someone to without the right connections to get their foot in the door, and it will hurt social mobility.

1. https://www.cleveland.com/opinion/2015/09/help_us_imagine_ho...
Yes but the US is a safer place to live and conduct business than most of the world. And it has a population that’s far more diverse than any other country. Looking at this metric requires context. And it could be that these are great numbers for what you get in return.
Maybe it has dropped relative to what it would have been otherwise.
"When Trump first assumed office in 2017, the agency was preparing to publish a report on the toxicity of the chemical. But one of his EPA appointees, who was given a high-ranking role in the agency's Office of Research and Development, was a chemical engineer who had worked to fend off the regulation of formaldehyde as an employee of Koch Industries, whose subsidiary made formaldehyde and many products that emit it. The report was not released until August 2024, long after Trump's appointee left the agency."