skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Fiscal spending is still created as a loan though since the government has to sell bonds to finance it, no

Monetarily speaking, the government creates the money when it spends it. The loan then (and optionally) removes a similar amount of money from the system.

This is an enormous power, so we try to legally limit the government in how it can do this. (If we removed the Fed's independence and put it under the Treasury, the Treasury could just add numbers to the bank accounts of the government's employees and vendors. This is analogous to its minting power. We separate the Treasury and the Fed in part to fracture this power.)

I forgot one more creation/destruction mechanism above: the Fed's open-market operations. When the Fed buys assets, it creates money. When it sells them, it destroys money.
That is absolutely how oligarchic systems supplant democracies.

Hitler was elected, Orban was elected, Bukele was elected.
I did actually. I glanced through the first 10 and last 10 or so pages before I even thought of asking NotebookLM for a summary. I thought it might be appreciated by someone who wanted a slightly better summary.
It's a bit more than that:

There are analog clocks where all hands move continuously (like when there's a second hand with no discernable beats). There are analog clocks where all hands move discreetly once per second (60 BPM for all hands). There are analog clocks where the minute hand moves at 1 BPM (quantized to the floor of each minute) while the second hand does something else (perhaps discrete movement at 60 BPM, or perhaps continuous other than a pause at the top of each minute, etc.). And there are digital clocks!
I loved that feature- I could take my shitty old laptop into a university computer lab and boot a powerful brand new mac with fast internet from my hard drive- and use all of my software as if it was my own computer.
It's better if the tax revenue goes back into fighting climate change but the point of a carbon tax is to punish bad behavior. Just by implementing the tax you're fighting the problem (in a small way).
Congress doesn't seem to be very accountable to the people, so the chain seems to stop there.
Liebreich: Generative AI – The Power and the Glory
Baby's first words will be "This is Audible".
Very cool! There need to be more options for developers with lower-end boxes, for gamers with low-end hardware. Unreal Engine 5 is a lost cause nowadays without 64GB of RAM, Unity is a mess and there need to be more options than Godot.
I regret to say: I’ve lived here long enough to believe you genuinely mean it when you say that.
Sometimes people treat the problem as just a simple “decide and act” type of discipline, but in reality it has psychological, environmental, and social components that often act under the surface to influence our behavior. Unconsciously gravitating towards unhealthy “comfort” foods is a good example.
At a glance, changing which side of the road to drive on seems not so big and complex...maybe its jarring, but it didn't sound so big, complex, and audacious...But then upon further thought, there are tons of big and not-so-big considerations - especially the many, many little things that might not be obvious until things were actually implemented - that would need to be addressed...so, yeah, agreed, that change in Sweden was a big doozy of a societal change! Thanks for sharing! :-)
ah ! clever
Have you even been to NYC?
Congress can pass laws to regulate Elon Musk, too, but it doesn't stop anyone from being alarmed about fake news.
Does it? It doesn't even notify you of new replies.
I’m really curious what training is going to be like on it, though. If it’s good, then absolutely! :)

But it seems more aimed at inference from what I’ve read?
In a cold day of late winter a new search experience came out
I've been working with a friend for the past 3 months to this new search engine experience. Basically it gives dorking an UI and integrate AI to analyze semantically the content. The platform is still in beta and we are improving day by day, now we just would like to acquire as much feedbacks as possible to launch a useful V1 for all the community
This simply isn't true.
You are stuck in the past and unwilling to adapt and learn new, in fact, better alternatives.

I'm currently using Go with Ent and Gqlgen and Relay extension on the backend and React vite with Relay graphql client as well as React-oidc-context for oidc with zitadel as the oidc idp.

It doesn't take 2 days to make a simple form.

You need to get put your comfort zone and learn.

I built a classifieds site in 3 weeks. Including admin ui.
I'd call that as productive as it gets.
There's currently as library in the works where you will be able to tell generative AI to make a frontend just from showing it the graphql schema.
Armed forces are friendly to who they are being ordered to be friendly. And they don't have a an issue with any other armed forces unless being ordered to have an issue.
Any the 4070 Super is relatively available too. I just bought one with only a small amount of hunting. Bought it right off of Best Buy, originally tried going to the Microcenter near my parent's house while I was down there but should have bought the card online for pickup. In the 2 days between my first check and arriving at the store ~20 cards sold.
not necessarily, thats my point.
You're probably close to the same in everyday life - as are everyone around you, but I suppose that's valid.
IMO, this happened because Tim needed to please in ~~morons~~ investors. It wasn't ready, but the stock market may push for regime change if Apple didn't have "a compelling AI story" or some similar garbage.
NYTimes with more on this: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01/07/business/meta-fact-c...
> Hitler was elected, Orban was elected, Bukele was elected

None of them emerged from oligarchic political systems.
I'd go for the A770 over the B580. 16GB > 12GB, and that makes a difference for a lot of AI workloads.

An older 3060 12GB is also a better option than the B580. It runs around $280, and has much better compatibility (and, likely, better performance).

What I'd love to see on all of these are specs on idle power. I don't mind the 5090 approaching a gigawatt peak, but I want to know what it's doing the rest of the time sitting under my desk when I just have a few windows open and am typing a document.
There’s levels of Doomsdays. As emotional as people get over surface level details of government, there’s a long way down from a civilization unable to make CPU’s before the literal stone age.

So sure people hate the IRS, but codified tax collection is the single most important function of modern government. Without that you don’t have private property or free markets just warlords arbitrarily seizing property which destroys whatever is left of society very quickly.
Also

> Trump says 'economic force' could be used to unite Canada, United States

> Trump says Meta 'probably' ended factchecking because of his threats

> Trump says Gulf of Mexico should be renamed to 'Gulf of America'
Linked from the home page:

”Design patterns used 82%.

When all of the patterns get used, I will delete the project and rewrite it in Rust. With no OOP.”
> If you want to FOIA the FRB’s trades so you can front run them, that’s not allowed.

As if anything that operates at the speed of FOIA would be useful for front running. Maybe if it was for some future action, but even that would be months out of date when you finally get a response.
this reads like a twitter post.
Imo you wouldn’t even have to check the binary. Only that the output is what you expect and the performance is reasonable. No different than say agriculture where we measure success of a new varietal on output and resource use and have a very dim understanding of the inner workings that might have led to those observables.

Or to take it further, you hire a consultant to produce some work in a given amount of time. You accept the work over time, you don’t feel the need to ask the consultant to turn over all their notes or to plug their brain into a mind reader machine to vet the source. They could indeed be lying and take whatever they learned about your company elsewhere, but we have no protection over that possibility lacking a mind reading instrument today. And society also doesn’t collapse today given that risk.
Hi ericlin, I'm sorry to hear that you ran into fraudulent profiles. You can report them in the UI in cofounder matching, but since this seems like a broader profile, it would be great if you could email me some links to the profiles you uncovered so we can investigate: jared@ycombinator.com
> That is not what happens in an oligarchic system.

The person USAns just voted in is literally an oligarch, as is his co-president, and he has indicated that he will populate his cabinet and advisory board with still more oligarchs. His "inauguration" slush fund has already received hundreds of millions of dollars from other oligarchs to secure their place in the new oligarchy*

*: Pure or otherwise
doesn't cdk provide the same functionality? what are the additional benefits?
There's nothing unsafe about a recirculating "vent." It's an annoyance, nothing more.
Apparently it's more of a 1.75ply search according to the author :)

Try: c4, Qa4, Qxa5, Qc7, Qxc8# lol
There are literally billions of other problems in society beyond “reducing covid transmission”. Lockdowns forced a myopic focus on exactly one problem to the exclusion of virtually all other problems.

Why was “reducing transmission” so much more important than providing children a sanctuary from abusers at home by way of open schools? Why was “reducing transmission” a greater problem to solve for than “elderly dying alone in an assisted living facility”.

Your study is a perfect example of the extremely myopic focus on COVID. It was as if absolutely nothing else was allowed to be a priority.

Also I’m curious, if this paper is true why did Florida or Sweden not have dead bodies lining the streets? They either ended their lockdowns earlier than most or didn’t have them at all? Did Florida feed them all to the gators? Was there a hidden “mass death” in Sweden I wasn’t aware of?

Or perhaps is “reduced transmission” not a good metric?
GPU kernels.
Tbh I never bothered going to market. I couldn't see a way to monetise. They seemed to suffer several problems:

- Hyperlocal. Basically every few miles is a new market

- If there are no users, new users will search once and never return

- If they succeed and people make new friends, the app becomes redundant (so how to monetise)

- Meetup tried most monetisation options in the early days (eg sponsorship, venues paying, etc). They binned them all because they didn't work (there's a YT video about the founder talking about this if you can dig it out)

- In the same video the meetup guy said they started charging groups partly to cut spam

- You need active users but no spam

So there are multiple challenges. Iirc YC won't fund this kind of app probably because of these issues.

No easy answers really... if you have any I'll be all ears. A better meetup is definitely needed.

If I were to give any advice it would be not to code anything, but work with a business model canvas/value prop canvas until you can find an approach that solves these.

*Update* (Rate limited):

Yeah all those things rely on seeding it somehow and retention.

Anyway, good luck.
I heavily power limited my 4090. Works great.
I'm an ex-gamer, pretty recent ex-, and I own 4070Ti currently (just to show I'm not a grumpy GTX guy). Max settings are nonsensical. You never want to spend 50% of frame budget on ASDFAA x64. Lowering AA alone to barely noticeable levels makes a game run 30-50% faster*. Anyone who chooses a graphics card may watch benchmarks and basically multiply FPS by 1.5-2 because that's what playable settings will be. And 4K is a matter of taste really, especially in "TV" segment where it's a snakeoil resolution more than anything else.

* also you want to ensure your CPU doesn't C1E-power-cycle every frame and your frametimes don't look like EKG. There's much more to performance tuning than just buying a $$$$$ card. It's like installing a V12 engine into a rusted fiat. If you want performance, you want RTSS, AB, driver settings, bios settings, then 4090.
In NYC, I disagree. I get sick very frequently whenever I take the subway. It is absolutely disgusting.

The amount of crazy people on there is a lot too. Every friend has some story of some person assaulting or nearly assaulting them on the subway. No one truly feels safe on it.
> I think this is a big win for Meta, because it means people who care about the content being right will have to engage more with the Meta products to ensure their worldview is correctly represented.

Strong disagree. This is a very naive understanding of the situation. "Fact-checking" by users is just more of the kind of shouting back and forth that these social networks are already full of. That's why a third-party fact checks are important.
The oldest computer that I have tried running this engine is a HP laptop from 2008, running a 32-bit version of Windows XP.

It seemed to work fine, but I did have some issues with the Direct3D 9 renderer. The renderer works fine on other computers, so I have no idea if it's a driver bug (Intel tends to have buggy drivers) or if it's a bug on my part.

The biggest problem with using old hardware is drivers. Older drivers will only work on older operating systems and it's difficult to find C++20 compilers that will work on them.
OpenAI #10: Reflections
> That's where the censorship starts.

It also starts when there is no third-party anymore. Where is the middle line?
In isolation, isn't the quote prima facie so bad and so wrong though? We think of collections of things as single things constantly. A human is a collection of body parts, body parts are collections of chemicals, chemicals are collections of molecules, molecules are collections of atoms... and yet at each level we think of those collections as being single things. Not being able to do that is just... absurd.

The project looks awesome though.
I've come to view this as a feature, personally. It means I'm a lot slower to respond to things, but it helps me to avoid getting drawn into heated conversations.
Besides Las Vegas where we ended up staying a month and a half and two cities in Texas where we were in Dallas and Houston 3 weeks each, we only stayed in one place for a maximum of 3 weeks.

It just happens to be a moot point in Nevada and Texas since they were both state tax free states.

When we do it again probably in summer 2027, those also happen to be the two states we will be spending the majority of our time. My wife knows a lot of people in both states
People buying Macs for LLMs—sure I agree.

Since the current MacOS comes built in with small LLMs, that number might be closer to 50% not 0.1%.
I've bumped into ds-lite alot for my Japanese friends living in Tokyo. I really don't like it to say the least.
Honestly I think it was a massive, classic engineering disaster. It was multiple failures happening all at once that lead to the disaster that was humans response to Covid.

Everybody played to their incentives and this was the outcome. There was nothing done and no process or source of trust that could calm the masses and inject some kind of counter “antidote” to the hysteria. It ran unchecked.
It was likely from an integrator not a huge OEM that's spinning their own proprietary motherboard designs like Dell. In that case they only really paid the integrator's margin and lost the choice of their own parts.
And Putin and the first supreme leader of North Korea. Democracies can turn into dictatorships quickly. But don't worry - it can't happen here.
If I'm not mistaken, that's Ludwig! A friend of mine is a big fan; I was surprised to see him in this game("").
GitHub Contribution Dots – A Free React Component for Portfolio Lovers
Obviously first two strats don't work, so I would use the third.
The Whispering Earning: A Short Story by Scott Alexander
The founders edition ones that I had were not great gpus. They were both under cooled and over cooled. They had one squirrel cage style blower that was quite loud and powerful and ran bascially at no speed or full blast. But being that it only had the one airpath and one fan it got overwhelmed by dust or if that blower fan had issues the gpu over heated. The consumer / 3rd party made ones usually have multiple fans at lower speeds larger diameter, multiple flow paths, and more control. TL;DR they were better designed, nvidia took the data center ram as much air as you can in there approach which isn't great for your home pc.
I'm sure it's a win for Meta (less responsibility, less expense, potentially less criticism, potentially more ad dollars), but certainly a loss for users. More glad than ever that I deleted my FB account 10 years ago, and Twitter once it went X.
Android is a Linux. This means that it can have a keyboard, mouse and other periferials. You could (and probably can) even burn a CD using an Android phone. One of the nice things in OTG was to connect an external screen which is turning the phone to a full blown computer. Or a media player...

HAHAHA! NAÏVE PERSON!

You couldn't watch Netflix on USB OTG. Because... because of... REASONS YOU STUPID PIRATE!!! OR FUTURE PIRATE!!! OR FUTURE WANNA BE PIRATE! YOURETOCLOOSSEETOBEEINGPIRATEYOUPIRATE!

____

disclaimer: I do not want to offend anyone. Above sentences are what I hear in my head when I see that my phone with USB OTG/USB-C is not showing the video on my tv or monitor, or even showing but only subtitles.

disclaimer 2: connecting screen using USB OTG was called MHL, not all devices had (has?) it
I took it to mean "increasingly bloated over time relative to hardware, phased in a funny, irreverent way." It's a vibe thing, not a definition thing.
No, I got a MacBook Pro 14”with M2 Max and 64GB for LLMs, and that was two generations back.
The Gaza genocide?
> Are you trying to suggest that this study actually didn't exclude the most vulnerable segment of the population from the results? Because they very explicitly excluded ages >=70.

> I mean, what other motive could they have had for making that age cutoff in this paper?

Because that's the point? If you were even remotely trying to be objective, you'd know that the same authors published multiple papers estimating IFR and seroprevalence in the most vulnerable cohorts you're talking about. They cite them, and talk about them, in this paper as well. Here's one:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8934243/

> Median IFR in community-dwelling elderly and elderly overall was 2.9% (range 1.8–9.7%) and 4.5% (range 2.5–16.7%) without accounting for seroreversion (2.2% and 4.0%, respectively, accounting for 5% monthly seroreversion). Multiple sensitivity analyses yielded similar results. IFR was higher with larger proportions of people > 85 years. The IFR of COVID-19 in community-dwelling elderly is lower than previously reported.

It isn't surprising or controversial (to mathematically literate scientists, anyway) that old, sick people disproportionately died from Covid. What random HN commenters, CNN, etc., continue to deny is that the threat to younger people was far lower. The paper I cited is explicitly trying to show that, even for cohorts as old as 70, the risk was far, far lower than most people believe.

You're basically arguing that because they didn't mix up old, sick people with young, healthy people the result about young people is somehow wrong.
And save money in the meantime, assuming users will not leave because of this.
> person USAns just voted in is literally an oligarch, as is his co-president, and he has indicated that he will populate his cabinet with still more oligarchs

America is tending towards an oligarchic system. (This is a history of weak democracies, historically, and a reason we were founded as a republic and not pure democracy.) That doesn't prove it currently is one. Trump's election is largely about replacing the technocratic and cultural elite with a commercial one.
O-Ran, the closed source that begins with O for open naturally, is really terrifying in terms of spying on users and sharing data.

My personal tinfoil hat says the corporations started the 5G cancer rumors themselves to distract the public from the real terror of 5G that is ORan data sharing.

The tl;dr is any participant in Oran can put software directly on the antena and access your data directly with no need for it to go through a 3rd party like your cell provider. The cell providers charge for access to the antenna. This sidestep any potentially conflict with selling your data - by choosing a 5g cell phone, you have already opted in to your data being accessed. Creepy.
I'm already exhausted of this, and he's not even inaugurated yet.
Good. This is exactly what I've been complaining about for decades now...

I also have my own engine although it needs some refurbishment. I've never quite found the time to polish it to a point where it can be sold. It also runs on tiny old devices, although if you limit yourself to desktop hardware, that means anything from the last 30 years or so. It also has a design that allows it to load enormous (i.e. universe scale) data by streaming with most often an unperceptable loading time... on the iPhone 4 in about 200ms you are in an interactive state which could be "in game".

Unity and Unreal are top-tier garbage that don't deserve our money and time. The bigger practical reason to use them is that people have experience and the plugin and extension ecosystems are rich and filled with battle tested and useful stuff.

bespoke big company engines are often terrible too. Starfield contains less real world data than my universe app, but somehow looks uglier and needs a modern PC to run at all. mine runs on an iPhone 4, looks nicer and puts you in the world in the first 200ms... you might think its not comparable but it absolutely is, all of the same techniques could be applied to get exactly the same quality of result with all their stacks and stacks of art and custom data - and they could have a richer bunch of real world data to go with it!
Not necessarily. The sub is not usually attached to a wall, so it wouldn't self correct like you're suggesting
https://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/28/business/nuclear-war-plan...

> It will take something more than a nuclear attack to wipe out taxpayers' obligations to the Internal Revenue Service.

> An addition to the Internal Revenue Manual, which is supposed to guide the conduct of all I.R.S. employees, declares that if the bomb is dropped, ''operations will be concentrated on collecting the taxes which will produce the greater revenue yield.''
I suspect it's enormously different between men and women, and of course inter-culturally. As a straight man living in Ireland, despite having extremely traditional catholic parents, I've faced literally zero pressure from family to have kids. My siblings (male and female) have both chosen to have kids (very closely together in time), and I enjoy being an uncle a great deal. But I don't have any interest whatsoever in parenting. I have some friends with kids - although they tend to fall off the radar if I'm honest, but haven't felt any pressure from them either.
That's not really how language works. If not choosing to do something is a choice, then today we have all made an infinite number of choices. Nobody would ever express themselves that way.

But even if you want to play word games, choices and actions aren't the same thing. Choosing to act is quantitively different from choosing not to act because it involves a different level of effort. It's wrong to assume that they are morally equal.