skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is the psychological term for people that defend defective heavy machinery that are not yet ready for production and yet being tested in production and in the general public? This will be the most highly unpopular opinion with this audience but if a human drove around in circles potentially blocking other drivers even in a parking lot a cop would pull them over and possibly have them take a sobriety test. If they passed they would get a warning and the incident would be logged with dispatch. Continued behavior would result in a ticket at best and drivers license suspension at worst. Please stop giving exciting tech a break and expect more. I am starting to lean towards requiring hardware and software developers and their respective companies that work on public heavy machinery to have federal certifications that can be revoked if they are moving fast and breaking things in public. Broken navigation in heavy machinery is a risk to the general public. This case was benign but the next one may not be.

I expect much more by now. I would expect that if anything cars would be actively protecting humans. If a toddler wanders into the road without a parent I would expect them by now to use a PA speaker to alert people and actively create a blockade around the child with only room for humans to pass, flash all their lights continuously and video stream to safety personnel on duty with the vehicle maker.
I agree. The bug is bad enough - it would be an appalling QA failure. The design decision is much worse - maybe worthy of a class-action lawsuit.

So: Is it a bug, or is it a deliberate "feature"? Is there any evidence, one way or the other?
Most US citizens are for socialized health care. However, t seems that both parties are bought by the health care industry and prevent the change the people want.
> Who should earn all the money then?

The people doing the jobs that no-one wants to do. The garbagemen, the plumbers, the cleaners. And/or the people who do stuff that other people value, that people will pay to have it done well rather than badly.

If you're doing something fun, something that other people would very happily do for free, then yeah you shouldn't feel entitled to get paid for it. If you're good at your hobby and people care about it, they might pay you to do it (and I'd absolutely count software development among that), but that's up to them.
This will happen again and on a far greater scale thanks to the consolidation.
The interesting thing to me is the argument that the ad was confronting. That is that cigarettes are harmful one way or the other - which despite there being at the time almost zero evidence for apparently enough people thought that there was a need to cloak a particular brand with the association to doctors (who would presumably be smoking the "healthiest" cigarette).

More generally I'm all for evidence showing what's healthy - eat some fruit and vegetables occasionally, get some exercise, don't smoke, don't drink - but I don't think any of these things are mysterious. Generally people have a good handle on what's good and what's bad for them. Now, they don't always do it but that's less to do with evidence then people seem to commonly suppose.
> I'm a power user that games... so Windows it is. For now. The moment I don't need Windows to game, and Wine can run all my legacy apps, then I'm jumping ship to Linux.

As a power user that games on Linux, and has been for a decade -- what's stopping you right now? Which apps specifically tie you to Windows?
Here’s a short list of meaningful causes which have been advanced in my lifetime by groups of single issue voters at the local and state levels:

* making gay marriage broadly available
* making concealed carry (and Constitutional carry) broadly available
* removing barriers to housing construction in cities across the land (the Yimby movement)
* making the Idaho stop law applicable to 10 states
* changing the voting method from plurality to approval or IRV in several cities and states

Voting is one of the important ways our government is steered, cynicism in this area is self-defeating. Instead, band with a group of single issue voters who elevate one issue over all others, and vote for whomever aligns with that issue, if their election prospects are threatened, they will support you, as with my favorite quote from a politician: “when I feel the heat, I see the light.”
Maybe your problem is Stewart? I used that textbook and was successful, but it's not for everyone. For example, beginning calculus with limits is another bit of misguided conventional wisdom. I still don't get limits, really. Serge Lang's calculus book takes the approach to just roll with an intuitive notion of limits, saving rigor for analysis. Which seems better.

Gilbert Strang has a textbook, also more intuitive and applied. Free PDF provided by MIT. Sylvanus Thompson's book is recommended here, again, intuitive, applied.

Other comments here, 3 hours isn't enough, use Math Academy, nobody gets it on the first approach, all seem relevant. One of the textbooks recommended here says in the preface that it's for a second course in Linear Algebra. Analysis is just calculus the second (or third) go round, and it's said to be the hardest class in a math major.

I am in your boat, but about linear algebra instead of calculus. This is what I try to get myself over the hump.
While that's technically true for theoretical other cases, I sincerely doubt anyone could argue that this applies to this particular example.

Is your argument that it cannot determine obvious spam - because there are people thatd classify some authentic emails as spam?
Yep. Calling 4o a “frontier model” when o1 is available seems questionable.

I only use 4o when I need web search incorporated in results.
4x is an enormous understatement of the gains in computers the last 10 years.

And I don't see why you wouldn't. You can get used computers for basically free that are faster than a 2015 top-of-the-line computers. People upgrade and the old computers are often literally thrown away.
> Nothing, in the same way that TSMC could cut Nvidia and OpenAI out.

one thing is not like the other.
not bias but facts :) he took over twitter, made it into right-wing propaganda machine, changed algorithm during the election campaign ... it is short-sighted to not take into account that he basically bought dissemination of public information and single-handedly swayed the election. if you think he bought twitter to make money off it I have some crypto to sell to you :)
this has to be parody. what?!
Global Refuge directly sponsors illegal immigration, which absolutely destroys low and middle income families in America by lifting housing costs.

Giving $1,000,000 to a charity working to undermine literally the first problem you mention 'the costs of housing' seems either ill-advised or ill-informed.

Immigration has been shown to skyrocket housing costs, and this exact situation has led to a political upheaval in Canada. He's accelerating that process in America, and I don't think he'll like where it'll take us.

55% of Americans want immigration reduced, the highest rate in two decades and climbing. We're barreling down to the same political upheaval that's happening in Canada. He's throwing gas on the flames.
Agreed... still a pretty big nail. A turning point.

The loss of gaming definitely marks the beginning of the end of Windows as a consumer OS. Windows future might be relegated to a platform to run Microsoft business apps and dev tools.

Considering Windows is the most anti-consumer mainstream OS out there -- if Windows becomes a "business OS" then I wonder what happens to all the telemetry and other anti-consumer stuff they've added over the years?

Seems like a fork in the road for Windows product planning.
"Low cost" is/was part of their mission.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/files/about/RaspberryPiFoundatio...
For the same reason other political articles are flagged, politics is not supposed to be a significant part of the discourse on this site. While it is not possible to keep out all things political, articles like this one do not lend themselves to much else besides political mud slinging. Even though that can be an amusing pastime this is not the place for such, by decree.
Wait, which megacorp is Claude?
Those aren't hobbies. I'm not saying don't enjoy what you do. But if you want good money you're going to have to consider its value to others.
If you work in a high-paying profession, you'll probably be able to retire faster (off your savings) in US than in Poland. On the other hand, in the US you'll have to work harder and more hours.
https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2025/1/7/palisades-fire

Edit: And hotspots - https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:24hrs;@-118.21,3...
The market for general purpose computing is Mac. Native apps are still superior to any web based solution and there's a healthy market of consumers who prefer paying for a better computing experience. You basically have three main categories of computer users today:

1. Corporate users on Windows, because the computer salesman bribed the person responsible for purchases at corporate to buy PCs with Windows. These users don't want to even touch a computer when they're not at work. Rather they'll use their phones or maybe an iPad for personal computing.

2. Gamers on Windows, because they didn't want to buy a gaming console (such as the Steam Deck).

3. Mac users. You see them everywhere in coffee shops. They're usually self employed or working remotely.

The other category of users are so small as to be marginal.

You write that you can only think of games, some productivity software and legacy enterprise software as the reason for why your OS would matter. That sounds like you're a Linux user? Linux users have been starved of having quality software for so long, that they've grown accustomed to using web services, even though these are second rate. Anybody else I've met wants to use native apps.

In my perspective, it doesn't make sense that somebody would use a web application for things such as e-mail or calendars or RSS. Why torture yourself with a bad experience, when you can use state of the art native apps for almost anything on MacOS?
As a different layman, your objections seem ridiculous and might be summarised as “I would prefer to watch professional wrestling or a stage fighting demonstration in which the actors are trained to strongly emote the storyline of the action to the audience.”

Or, “I prefer sports which uninterested parties can easily understand.” Nothing you’ve said speaks to objective entertainment value.
For isolated coding tasks I've been using o1-preview instead of Sonnet for a while now, I just didn't mention it. Haven't had a chance to test o1 proper, but I assume it's also a jump in performance. However, for more "holistic" tasks which need to take into account a larger view of some other modules/systems/interfaces, I've found o1-preview can get really confident about weirdly incorrect things that end up being harder to debug than the more straightforward hallucinations of Sonnet, and so I mostly revert to Sonnet in those cases.

I tried not to make too big a fuss about the exact models I'm mentioning, since it's pretty clear that the strongest open model, Llama (discussed here), is not comparable to inference-time compute models.

And for agentic settings which I mentioned above, o1 just tips way too much into expensive & slow territory to make it useful, so my prediction is that it will be limited for direct (chat-based) consumer use for the time being.
i have all this (though i only work 4-6 hours a day when selling my time to other people), and i also have side income selling sweet potatoes and it didn't take much of my precious free time away. currently, it's earning me a similar hourly rate as my development rate (senior developer/lead developer/architecting infrastructure, etc). you are correct that it doesn't replace my income, but that was never the point. that income will help me weather any job loss etc, but more importantly, against your advice, i can potentially grow the business to a point that it replaces my income. and if you really want to be like, "that will never pay your bills," then that is 100% false if i put all of that income into stocks and the money grows to a point twenty years from now that i can use that money to pay my bills. and i'm also able to find a job quickly if i need to, just like you. which i guess, based on your experience, one can be extremely shortsighted person and still find a job quickly.
Yeah, but it's no different to trying to become a rock star. And you don't have to be in the 16-24 age bracket. Part of what you're paying for is the dream.

When I was a naïve young person we did something similar, paying a bit for our track to be on a CD. I've no illusions now, but I still joke I'm a published musician.

And there are still plenty of ways to become an author if you want. I have a guilty pleasure of LitRPG books, which are generally terrible and riddled with problem authors, but there's a cadre of writers who are making good money.

They write in a serialized format like Dickens used to. Chapter by chapter, release it for free on RoyalRoad, get traction. Then they package a book up for Kindle Unlimited, take the old chapters off RR apart from some taster chapters, and start a Patreon for advanced access to new chapters.

There's one series which is absolute trash, Defiance of the Fall, where he's admitted he's dragging the story out as he's making so much money.
That's a good example of translation where there's only really so many ways to do it. A bad example like people are talking about is the original 4Kids Pokemon where every time someone brought out an Onigiri (rice ball), they would call them jelly donuts.
Nvidia Cosmos is a developer-first world foundation model platform
Yeah but in those countries the parties actually get to rep themselves in the legislature. You can’t literally masquerade as a member of another party here unless you want people to think you’re a mole or a turncoat.
> You mean outside of /home?

More precisely it would be /home and /var. Persistant changes can in theory also be done with systemd-sysext, but it isn't exactly the most user friendly thing currenty.

https://blogs.igalia.com/berto/2022/09/13/adding-software-to...
I feel like it's time to take seriously what we mean when we say 'bureaucracy'. In this case, it's not just the bugs, it's also the organizations.

So what might we be talking about when we talk about bureaucracy? Three things really stand out to me (feel free to add, subtract, disagree or recategorize):

1. Someone else's moat. This can be a good or bad thing, but it should always be part of the understanding. Someone else's moat can mean an industry protects itself by pushing stringent licensing requirements - not that there should be NO licensing requirements, they just don't always make sense. Someone else's moat can be protective - see Accessibility or Clean Air/Clean Water requirements. Understand that someone is benefiting from your bureaucratic pain points - you can feel good or bad about this depending on where you're standing - inside the moat or outside.

2. Going with the flow. There's an interview with a parole officer that really stands out to me. The officer said something like 'I have the ability to throw immense resources at apprehending and jailing a person if they violate their parole, but I have no ability to expend any resources to help that person in a positive way'. If other parole officers just do their job and strictly enforce parole conditions, and you try to help someone out and they mess up badly, then that's your job at the very least. But that No Strikes compliance mentality can really ruin lives - the slippery slope goes both ways.

3. Incentives, incentives, incentives. The real power of senior management/leadership is setting incentives. If they really believe in 'the numbers' and enforce bad metrics, it's can be really hard for an organization to learn and see the problems that will destroy them. See Boeing, General Electric, anyone who believed Jack Welch. Metrics and incentives aren't the cause of the problem, but they can tell a success story that turns out to just be the first chapter of the book. It can be hard to see the contingencies when you feel successful.
Yes they did… they edited their comment after I responded and could no longer edit mine.

You just looking for an argument? Its important people know writing and roads weren’t invented by the romans. They are given way too much credit by Americans with imperial ambitions.
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There are tons of political parties in the US[0].

However the scale of financing for the primary parties, the infrastructure built around those parties and the deeply ingrained cultural norm of the US being a "two party" government means that for all intents and purposes none of those other parties matter.

The two most recent near-exceptions to this that I can think of are the Tea Party, which became a Republican proxy party and Ross Perot's reform party.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_t...
Anthropomorphism?
In my science?!
Yes please!
I've seen an increase in both warnings about these kinds of scams and cautionary tales by those who've been burned. I'm glad people are raising awareness, but I worry that this is just one more datapoint toward the overall erosion of online trust.

It seems like the only way to really combat this is through closed / semi-closed trusted networks, but those tend to become dominated by personalities and difficult for newcomers to break into. The reduced trust in "outside" voices then leads to echo chambers and groupthink. I think we're already starting to see some of this in the kinds of books being put out by the big publishing houses; I don't have hard numbers (and maybe I'm just getting old and cynical) but a lot of recent titles feel extremely generic.

There's a subplot in Neil Stephenson's Fall (or Dodge in Hell) where media and other networks are so saturated with false, meaningless, clickbaity, or otherwise negative-value content that they become either less than worthless, or require paid "filters" to extract actual value. I'm getting a sense of being close to that point already and I don't know what the right move is from here to reduce the fracturing of my wider social circles.
Makes sense, can change it to allow searching without signing in
I feel like not a single one of these organization actually deal with the problems. They're super good stuff, but not dealing with the issues the article starts out with.
It’s well known that humans have a tendency to hallucinate!
As you say there is a lot of it depends. If you are willing to learn to run a excavator (they will train you!) you can do well enough, but there are only so many jobs and not every area needs another. It won't be as good as a valley tech job, but still pretty good and the cost of living is much better. If you are a farmer you often do very well - but most of your money is tied up in land and equipment and so until you retire/sell you don't look any better than excavator operator. If you can't do the above though there often isn't anything good left and so working at a cafe for minimum wage may be all you can get.
Because there are a shocking number of folks that don’t realize just how cheap you can get a used mini-pc off eBay. And if the only thing you’re missing is gpio that can easily be added.

And frankly our planet needs to do a lot more reusing in that “reduce, reuse, recycle” system if we plan on leaving anything to our great grandchildren.
Nothing's perfect, but I do not wish back the alternatives we had (Experts Exchange, Quora, a myriad of forums where the first response was - did you use the search function, endless discussions that don't answer the original question, and so on).

It saved me so much time as a developer who just wants to get no-nonsense answers to my questions. The platform could not work without good moderation, or the site would drown in duplicates and low-quality content.
Headspace Is Perishable
First off, Poland benefitted immensely from EU funds. Better infrastructure is better in Poland for the same reason it is better in Spain, Spain just had those funds earlier.

As for the migration policies, I think you are pointing in the right direction but the reality is more subtle.

Old European countries consider work to be a privilege, Poles, having lived in the Warsaw Pact country, still perceive work to be an obligation.

A refugee arriving in Germany can't start working and lives off welfare while his case is settled, which may take years.

A similar refugee arriving in Poland has to find a job both to survive and to obtain legal residency.

This has the downside of driving down wages but the upside of creating even more jobs.

Amazon, Lidl, Zalando and many other labor-intensive businesses set shops just across the border for a reason.
You may not like the site, but it works (sorta, kinda, not perfectly).
Because no one thinks their house will burn down or flood, or that they will starve.

We're supposed to be self-interested individuals, but sadly most people only seem to wake up the moment their own safety is directly threatened.

Such a shame that 50 years of climate warnings have done practically nothing to stop us reaching the tipping point. If we aren't there yet, we will be in our lifetimes no doubt.
In my sector of the business world in the US, every corporation pays for Office 365 for their employees. I don't know a single corporation that uses Google Docs.
> This is SE's modus operandi, protest their choices around AI training

All of StackOverflow is already scraped and archived, so this is not a good argument, as you are actually just hurting StackOverflow while helping AI companies
Why is Iceland green and Greenland icy?
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42629120
If your ethics is innately tied to the nuance of fringe intellectual property law in a brand new domain, it may be time to relax some things

That is to say, a lax perspective of intellectual property law can be less or more ethical than one which supports the undeterred corporate collation of powers behind those laws.

Those in control do not have a monopoly on ethical goodness.
Mumbai's Models of Service Excellence
Binary modding a water dispenser to save me from pressing a button (2021)
> You still can't stream video >720p from any major streaming service, for example

Say what? I'm playing 1080p fine. Sounds like you could be bit by drm ("that's not a bug, it's a feature"). If so the issue lies with your streaming service - some withhold bitrates unless they detect a "trusted" browser and OS (ie you'd have to fake Edge on Windows User-Agent at least).

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1700815
I kind of gave up interacting with StackExchange in a moderation/power user role after the repeated drama episodes where they kept disrespecting the community's input. I don't even remember what the individual drama cases were, I just got tired of feeling slighted. Your point about the willful license violation seems like it's along the same lines.

They're in the same position as Reddit: they have a bunch of cats to herd whose labor they depend on (not enviable) but every once in a while they do something capricious and arbitrary as a company and make everyone angry.
I have no idea what NIST means when they give 5 years for 2048 bit keys, but in generally I trust them more than some random poster on the internet.
What would fix the problem? And what is the root cause?
This does not add up- this is your last term but you’ve only been there a year and a half? The university, who presumably has a professional engineering team making these systems is trying to blackmail an undergrad to reproduce something for free that they also wanted shut down? And you’re marketing this on linkedin in the context of asking for job offers?