skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What normalizes extremist behavior is ignoring it while it happens and accelerates. The hateful, extremist policies and rhetoric I linked to — only a small subset, by the way — are highly unusual in mainstream American politics. As a reminder, the man proclaimed that immigrants were "poisoning the blood of our country"[1] and ran on the promise of putting swaths of them (and other undesirables) into actual concentration camps. Can you seriously not see the comparison? It's not even a dog whistle anymore.

Repeating myself, Hitler did not campaign on war and genocide. (In fact, the war was propagandized in Germany as a defensive act.) But by the time a 1933 Hitler becomes a 1939 Hitler, it’s too late to do anything about it.

Incidentally, here's what an actual Holocaust survivor[2] has to say on the matter:

> The woman who was forced to listen daily to Adolf Hitler’s lunatic rants on the radio for seven years in the 1930s was blunt: “When I hear Trump speak, I hear Hitler again. When I see his rallies, it’s like what I saw in Nazi Germany”.

[1]: https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2024/01/29/trump-knows-exactly...

[2]: https://forward.com/community/455507/100-year-old-holocaust-...
Strange response, heard of the Reign of Terror? This helped Napoleon rise to power and after he was overthrown, they simply went back to kings. It didn't really solve anything.
> may not scale effectively in a larger, more complex environment

It's definitely more likely to scale than any other solution that has never been implemented.
But, group-level differences are probably caused by inequality of opportunity.

Or are you thinking they caused by genetics?
Hmm... Godwin's law much?

My argument is that the symbolic rejection, not the practical destruction of books, was important. Also, I pointed out through a subtle (too subtle for you so I'll spell it out: this is a wholly irrelevant argument - arguing that books don't deserve to be backed up has nothing to do with book burning) - so I played along - as I noted. Get it?

The practical destruction of all books considered non-German, or Gandhi's destruction of all British fabrics - might have been a desire, but there's no need to publicly burn books to destroy them. They can be efficiently destroyed privately. The Nazi's could have destroyed all the books they liked in some private little place.

Ergo, my argument stands! PUBLIC book burning is about PUBLIC rejection of something (non-German elements, or Foreign made goods, etc) and may in fact be less efficient than simply quietly and privately putting them in a landfill which no one will see. Get it?

I'm not making stuff up about World War Two, I'm arguing about a ridiculous analogy to not backing up romance novels being akin to book burning. Apparently, not wanting to back up romance novels and cookbooks makes one a holocaust denier. Go Hacker News.

Mr. Godwin? Are you around?
Even without that, the execution rate in the Reign of Terror was appalling and I doubt it's something the initial commenter would want to live through. Revolutions only sound good idealistically but are very difficult to pull off, most even fail.
My point is that immigration is a distraction from the nonfunctioning economy.
In search of Europe's rarest wild mushrooms
Sorry if I took your original comment too seriously — I do legitimately think it’s a fun fact!

As penance, here’s a bonus fun fact: wtf is 0F???? It’s the temperature saturated brine freezes at! (It’s very close but not exact, because Mr Fahrenheit wasn’t perfect)
Providing service to sparsely populated rural areas is a good fit for Starlink, but doesn't justify the astronomical cost of the system: they need the "I got rid of Comcast and life has never been better" crowd for that, and they can't do that without inevitably running out of spectrum, bandwidth and physical space in the sky.

So, while technically very interesting, and providing some value before it all comes inevitably (and literally -- see: space junk) crashing down, all that talent and money spent on Starlink would better be put to use elsewhere.

But unfortunately it's easier to get investment for space dreams than for running fiber, even though it's the latter that's mostly needed, and despite plenty of success stories.
Curious, does the air being thinner affect flight time?
Feels great when a fever breaks.
Why does your opinion matter more than anyone else’s opinion here?

Even if you believe my previous questions were too opinionated, responding with even more can only be detrimental, and it is not going to lead anywhere productive.

For example, try making a substantive argument as to how a credible enforcement system would come into existence. Otherwise the default assumption is that it will not turn out any better than already existing government systems.
Nvidia Cosmos, Accelerate physical AI development with world foundation models
> being smarter about what you actually need to do to solve the problem and aggressively avoid solving subproblems that aren't absolutely necessary

I feel like this is true for every engineering discipline or maybe even every field that needs to operate in the real world
> One of the perennial questions about proof automation has been the utility of proofs that cannot be understood by humans.

There are proofs created by humans that cannot be undersood by humans or for many few. For example the Fermat Last's Theorem proof.
I agree! 90% of all books shouldn't be backed up.
There's too much history arguing against what you're suggesting here.

And, your claim argues against itself. The problem is that minds can be changed in either direction, and the people who "didn't believe in any of it" had been precondtioned to reach that position of non-support before DEI was even a thing.

Likewise, Trump was able to manipulate people based on age-old tactics or, as you put it, he "untapped" existing resistance. So how, exactly, do progressives convince these same people?

You're suggesting they do so by not moving too fast? That they wait for the "culture to be ready for change"?

If we waited for the culture to be ready, then schools in the South would still be segregated. Instead, they were integrated under the protection of men holding rifles.

Of course the status quo doesn't change without pressure. That's why it's the status quo. There is no amount of progressive pace calibration that would have addressed this. If there was, then 400 years should have been enough time.

Again, the problem is not with progressive pacing. The problem is on the other side.
ICBMs are not meant to go East or West, they go over the pole. A nuke passing from Russia over the North Pole toward D.C. or NYC would be detectable from Greenland. This is why there’s a radar station there. The island would also be a good spot for a naval base from which one could send ships on patrol between Greenland and Iceland or even the UK. This is useful in attempts to maintain control of the North Atlantic as Russia and China have increased their activity in the arctic and North Atlantic. Personally, I find all of the hostility between nations stupid. War drains wealth while trade increases it. However, politicians and governments become institutionally stupid as they attempt to hold on to power and their duties in government make them see enemies in every foreign government.
The first (easy mode) image worked like magic - I crossed eyes, let them rest and the differences shimmered in a very static 3rd/middle image. Couldn't for the life of me rest my eyes on 2nd and 3rd though. [edit - tried to zoom out, worked on 2nd image too]
Nope. There’s a lot— a lot— written on artistic process and intention. What art is and what it means is a deep philosophical topic that has been pulled apart for millennia. The sheer arrogance of nearly the entire tech world reducing the value of the artistic process to a few simple logical business friendly ideas using a few a priori thought experiments while disregarding the existing philosophy on the matter is the sort of thing making the tech industry so deeply unpopular right now.
Yep, that's exactly why it became the thing he's known for.
> When the median vehicle in the US is the size of a small commercial freight vehicle, absolutely.

It's the mass that matters. Even smaller cars, and in particular EVs, are getting heavier even though they're not getting larger. The major contributor to this weight gain is, yep, safety systems.

> It's a vicious cycle driven entirely by gaps in CAFE standards and overcompensation for perceived personal flaws.

I don't think you're being entirely objective. 1/6 of all vehicle fatalities are actually pedestrians. 1/6 are motorcycles. 1/2 involve drugs or alcohol. 1/2 are single car accidents.

There's a lot of contributors to roadway fatalities, like people who get flung out of the vehicle. That still happens more than it should.
Most of these EV companies in China are going bankrupt, selling each car at a loss. Recently, Ji Yum Auto, founded by Baidu and Neely, shut down last December. A live streamer was live streaming selling the car. Upon hearing the news, she was bawling and told the listener to not to check out the car https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYdm2K81bW0.

As Chinese EV makers close, drivers of “smartphones on wheels” say software updates and maintenance are in jeopardy.
https://restofworld.org/2024/ev-company-shutdowns-china/
what is the commie stuff?
There are a LOT of ev fires in China that get scrubbed from the internet and media in China. If you had Weibo you can see them almost daily.

You get what you pay for. Cheap junk.
Again, we don’t know that. It could easily be that the adaptations needed to operate well at night (in addition to during the day) just aren’t worth the energetic cost or they entail a large morphological compromise. The thing about evolution is it doesn’t give you its reasons.
Could we switch off a dangerous AI?
An EV would start to get pretty irritating if your only option is street parking. I have a garage I could charge one in right now, but most of the people on my block don’t. And if I wanted to move I may not end up with one.
Well let's be fair. You can't get the type of telemetry Dyntrace provides "for free". You have to pay for it somewhere. Pretty sure you can exclude the agent from instrumenting performance critical parts of the code, if that is your concern.
for those confused, its a reference to a john travolta line in "pulp fiction" -

https://genius.com/John-travolta-and-samuel-l-jackson-royale...
Well in Canada we've got a click-bait crazy, manipulative media desperate to keep this going and drive angst, fear and anger. It makes me pretty upset to see even the CBC (our national broadcaster) playing these stupid games, getting sound bites from everybody and their dog. Nobody actually covers the original story anymore, it's all about the reaction to the reaction.
China is not a particularly safe country, going by road deaths. It would be foolish to think small cars make airbags unnecessary.
If I understand you correctly, you're misreading the theorem. The problem isn't to prove that statement, it's to show that if you assume that statement to be true, you get all of boolean logic.
I think cars are now so expensive that a small car, van, or truck that was like half as expensive but high utility would sell well.
https://www.moddb.com/mods/quake-portal-gun/
Obviously you don't understand the Japanese market. College graduates earn ¥2,160,000 in average in their first year. So yeah, $18,000 is not cheap at all. As I said you can buy a brand new Suzuki Spacia for ¥1,500,000, and it's not a random car from a random brand. Suzuki is much popular than Nissan or Subaru in Japan. Yes, it's an ICE car but if you think Japanese will pay extra money just because it's EV that is the huge mistake.
Wouldn't this be against a lot of consumer protection/advertising laws?

It's not like Google marks sponsored search results because they want to. They do it because they legally have to.

And if the LLM agent conforms to the law and clearly marks the output that is sponsored content then it should be trivial for ad blockers to filter it.
Cheapest car with 4 wheels in Japan is like $6300. That price range is something like $23k in US. Average wages in Japan has literally flatlined since like 1995.

It's not like this car is equivalent of 4x18k in local currency, but not that far from it.
The comp.lang.c Frequently Asked Questions <https://c-faq.com/> should be required reading for every serious C programmer.
This looks like they just slapped a battery and motor on what they sell in India as the Exter. So, doesn't look like a dedicated EV platform that it's built on. But still, decent VFM.

I think they might not be that much successful in breaking into the Japanese EV market because the Japanese don't buy products based on just price alone, but rather based on the company's nationality as well. And Koreans and Japanese are always competitors and Japanese people are quite patriotic. It will be interesting to watch, nevertheless.
You are not losing your lifetime, you are building the future. If other people do not want to be on board it is a loss. I have spent years trying to teach people how to build their own websites and get away from the large walled gardens. Many will not come on board, but the community that does do it have built truly wonderful things. I think of the Neal Stepehson article "In the Beginning was the Command Line" where he compares Microsloths Family Sedan to the Free Tanks of Linux; there are all these Linux geeks yelling "come over here, we have free tanks" yet most people pay for the Family Sedan.

It sucks, yet I drive a Free Tank, and now help people online take care of theirs.
The other day I was talking with one from the future generation about what type of computer they would want and they said "A Fedora gaming desktop". And that made it all alright :)
Yeah sure, this tax loopholes should be illegal. Is just a less immoral way of paying 0 taxes and ensuring the money will stay on the family forever.
Its not a single thing

In San Francisco studies of their populations revealed lots of segments of homeless people

The one that stuck out to me the most was the most distressing: people that were homeless within last 12 months of the study, a huge percent of them were just people that left a relationship. That was a housing price problem.

I knew so many people that had broken up but still living together, and its crazy that the ones on the street were “the strong ones” that actually left

(Since I was not poor and exempt from consequence, I ended that relationship immediately and got a place I actually liked. we had done all the talking I was over it.)
How much of this opinion has been shaped by actually talking to the women whose experience you are summarizing? And specifically in a context where they'd give you an honest and candid answer, which probably wouldn't involve you saying stuff like "woke mafia" out loud (as it would put regular people on guard and they'd feel less comfortable being honest with you). I don't want you to answer question that literally, because it's the internet and you can just say "I've talked to 1000 women in tech and have summarized their tabulated their experiences in a spreadsheet on my computer." Just honestly take a quiet minute or so and think about it. If the answer is somewhere close to zero, ask yourself why you felt such a high degree of confidence in the assessment you gave above.
I keep hearing this example, but it's hard for me to imagine how this works with companies that are not designing consumer-facing products.

Will "getting input from lots of people with various backgrounds" make their servers not fail with 500 errors? Or make them actually deliver features at a reasonable rate? Or will it prevent them not having a major bug every other release? Because that's what the customers complain about, and that's what company needs for major growth.

(I am suspect that hiring Rachel of rachelbythebay.com will help with this, but this will be because she is a great engineer, not because of her gender.)
Afeela they wont sell many of those when there is so many EV options in that price envelope.
Northrop Grumman had a lot of folks from Crenshaw/Hawthorne/Carson when I was there, due to a partnership program with the local Cal State (Long Beach). All of the security staff was from that area too. Good folks, would 100% work with them again.

On the other hand, I've seen exactly 1 guy at the FANG I work at. What's the difference? I think it's companies like Northrop realizing that folks from under-represented communities have great value and prioritize that instead of whatever the current HackerRank-based interview process selects for
Hmm, maybe we need some "Over2Chars' Future Value Law of Garbage" that says for any pile of garbage there is someone who thinks it will be extremely valuable to someone someday.

How plausible the argument to the value is depends on the eloquence of the person under the Law.

This is the logic of hoarders everywhere.
I don't get it. nothing on the landing page "works"? what's going on here?
It is not "C hate" in as much as folks flexing self-aggrandizement.

These type of constructs are just intellectual curiosities and not really related to actual usage.
It seems unlikely that the Soviets would manipulate their statistics in a way that makes them look politically "worse", i.e. if the data are false then imports are likely to be higher, and exports lower than reported which would tend to support the narrative.

There's also the issue that imports and exports involve external counterparties. Of course, you can still fudge your numbers but this will create inconsistencies vs the official statistics of other countries.
This is a conversation about DEI programs being cancelled. It is relevant.
Yeah but it’s just shit engineering. They re-crawl entire sites basically continuously absent any updates or changes. How hard is it to cache a fucking sitemap for a week?

It’s a waste of bandwidth and CPU on their end as well, “the bitter lesson” isn’t “keep duplicating the same training data”.

I’m glad DeepSeek is showing how inefficient and dogshit most of the frontier model engineer is - how much VC is getting burned literally redownloading a copy of the entire web daily when like <1% of it is new data.

I get they have no shame economically, that they are deluded and greedy. But bad engineering is another class of sin!
> When talking about Dana he says how he will explicitly help with them work with difficult foreign governments

Isn't this what Nick Clegg was an expert at?
Is there any documentation or tutorial on how to create a cross platform mobile app using any of their languages? The value proposition is great, but I can't find any actual code.
BYD's current line is generally considered OK by reviewers. The comparable BYD product is the Dolphin, at $13,700. It's much better looking, too.
Yes I know, but no one has really brought it up in years and it wasn’t being actively discussed before this. I would therefore like know why the guy at the press conference chose to ask him this question with a known inflammatory answer, seemingly out of nowhere.
(a) I think issues mentioned are basically moot (or solvea le) for brake lights and they still haven't done anything.

(b) The lack of any standards for LED bulbs and only having proprietary lighting is definitely part of the problem.
Interesting ideas. Alaska seems west coast to me culturally, kind of an extended Oregon, at least Pacific Northwest in character. Greenland doesn't seem "east coast" in character to me. You could imagine a Seattle guy moving to Anchorage but I can't imagine a New York guy moving to Greenland.
“it’s not really a big problem”… surely you can’t be serious… this comment betrays such a profound ignorance that it could only have come from a genius or a... well, let’s not resort to name-calling…

but, seriously: play the tape forward literally one frame and outline what this dataset even remotely resembles… a core sample from a living human brain? “yeah, just train it on thinking about everything at once”. strong ai isn’t like the restaurant: the path to success doesn’t involve starting with more than you finished with.
Trump also wanted to rename the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America. This is all about vanity, not about minerals, economy, security etc.

In his press conference Trump mentioned the world map multiple times. Trump may well be forming his annexation ambitions based on what the map would look like after the annexation. Well, the world map looks very different based on what kind of projection you use. In the Mercator projection Greenland looks big. Bigger than the US, in fact. This may be what is attracting Trump, as it looks like a lot of real estate. Tobler hyperelliptical projection on the other hand makes Greenland look small. Someone should show Trump this projection and it may very well cause him to lose interest, and we can sidestep a dispute with Denmark and Europe.
I don't think that's accurate. The historic colonizers fully understood that native Americans had a sense of property, which is why even the most blatant land grabs were almost always justified by a forced sale or treaty. I've only ever heard the idea that natives didn't own land from people promoting the myth of the noble savage.
Related:

Flattening ASTs and other compiler data structures (2023) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42181603 - Nov 2024 (2 comments)

Flattening ASTs and other compiler data structures - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36559346 - July 2023 (81 comments)
> being a white male also makes you statistically more likely to be qualified for the job in question

Source?
Yikes, this writer has made an article that harkens back to 2022.
> I don't think I've ever seen a team that's 80% white

I have. But surely that won't convince you.
You're thinking in terms of group guilt and inter generational guilt, which frankly doesn't make sense. There is no rational basis to trace ancestry of people to find who descended from slaves or slave owners. It's non sensical. In a fair hiring environment, no one deserves any special preference. If you want to help economically poor groups, the time to intervene is much earlier in their childhood by providing them better education, communities, infrastructure etc. So tipping the scales by investing more in certain communities is alright, tipping them at the job interview isn't.
I would absolutely love a low tech electric car - like an Elantra hatchback EV. I hate how every EV has to be all touchscreen-based with fancy software that needs to be updated frrquently just to drive.
I agree that there's like a true crime fangirl sort that probably goes for Luigi either way just on looks maybe, but I don't think that would really be more than a marginal difference. There are still a fair variety Christopher Dorner shirts in circulation, for example, and he's no model, despite police issues being more divisive than insurance and the whole situation being kind of murky.
They're orthogonal; you can add

* turing in non-turing (javascript on html)

* non-turing in turing (ebpf on c)

* turing in turing (lua on c)

* non-turing in non-turing (raw html in a markdown document)
In my experience the warnings work quite well for the programmers I know.

Anyway, ranting on HackerNews does not get anything fixed: https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/contributing.htm...
“can only reproduce recipes they have seen before”… are you talking about llms or about yourself?
Trump tried to overturn the results of an election. That should never happen in our democracy and he should never have been allowed to run for president. There's not even any point in debating policies. It's not about Republican vs Democrat, it's about democracy vs authoritarianism, which he tried to do 4 years ago and was only stopped by Pence and the Georgia Sec of State.

So yes, very undemocratic.

I did mean autocracy -- that's what China has become (once again) under Xi.