skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So, when a prominent figure such as JK Rowling starts both talking about “protecting women” and the “trans mafia”, they become concerned about what influence she might have on the debate on the rights of trans people. They criticize what they believe to be false or harmful beliefs about trans people and believe that her words are actively doing harm by promoting those false beliefs.

They should probably educate themselves by listening to what she says about women's rights then. Maybe then they'd understand her perspective and her principles.

That would be much, much better than what they actually did: call her a cunt and wish death and rape upon her. Which really is not the most convincing of counterarguments.
It's worth considering that a lot of places aren't safe for the general public while being perfectly safe for trained workers.

Radioactive contamination is mostly dangerous from the alpha/beta emitting dust, not the gamma rays. The dust is only dangerous if you get it on you or stir it up and breathe it.

Trained crews with proper procedures and gear can manage a risk like that, your average citizen can't. And since there is a hazard, you're obligated to give correct advice - i.e. leave as soon as possible.
>if you're well-situated to make money

so basically, like everything else, you make a lot of money but it isn't a great place to live unless you make ALL the money.
>The next step is some canny asshole will take advantage of these people by selling them on their superiority or offering community, and radicalize them.

I've heard this claimed many times. But I also went to school with hundreds of other children, and I remember high school enough to know that many end up weird regardless. I don't think it's the homeschooling that does this.

I hear people whine about school shootings and that it's such a big problem that it must absolutely be solved, but on the other end "don't keep your children out of school they might end up weird" strikes me sort of strange. That's really your biggest concern?

>If you're restricting your children's social life sufficiently to avoid peer pressure, you're causing irreparable harm.

I've seen zero evidence that supports this hypothesis.
> Is it a household name?

I think it is, yes.

It was interviewed under that name on one of the UK's main news broadcasts almost immediately after it came out. Few hundred million users. Anecdotes about teachers whose students use it to cheat.

But who knows. I was surprising people about the existence of Wikipedia as late as 2004, and Google Translate's augmented reality mode some time around the start of the pandemic.
>Our eyes have a 200-degree FOV, providing a 576 megapixel landscape, with 13ms of latency.

...only if you count the field of view you get from moving your eyeballs. You wouldn't say a PTZ camera has "360 FOV" just because it can rotate around. The "576 megapixel" figure is also questionable. Peak resolution only exists in the fovea. Everywhere else is blurry and much lower resolution. You don't notice this because your eyes does it automatically, but the actual information you can receive at any given time is far less than "576 megapixel".
You have the metaphor backwards. Where do you go if you're a talented American and your own country continually does not want to pay for your talent? It's the brain drain out of the US to worry about, not the influx of immigration.
One of the growing trends these days is solitaire RPGs -- where people play alone as both player and Game/Dungeon Master. Typically this isn't done by AI but by rolling on various tables (sometimes called "GM Emulators"). Not everbody has the time or even enjoys the extrovert pressure of a traditional social RPG. A related concept is the "cooperative RPG" which does have multiple players but no DM so everyone can play.

Here's a list of some of the ones available (about 10 years old but it gives you the idea)

https://rpggeek.com/geeklist/181957/list-of-solitaire-soloab...
I should clarify that I experienced these issues with text-embedding-ada-002 and the Azure AI vision model (based on Florence). I have not tested many other embedding models to see if they'd have the same issue.
It cannot. Remember when GPT-2 was too dangerous to release? And when industry “leaders” were begging for a moratorium on models stronger than GPT-4?

The idea that this technology carries existential risk is how OpenAI and others generate the hype that generates investment.
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My son's best friend goes to the same judo class he does. We're invited over there for holidays and other celebrations quite often. He doesn't have a phone either. They have a few chickens and some rabbits. He likes going out and seeing the animals.

We simply don't hang out with the same sort of people, nor do we let our children do so, as you do.
Not sure about ffmpeg, but you should definitely try memorising regexp. Casual Search&replace that becomes possible is worth it.
I’m a liberal and I favor secession. It doesn’t have to be this way but it is this way now. There are major power imbalances. Neither chamber of Congress has proportional representation. Several times in recent elections the Presidential candidate with the majority of the votes did not win. In my mind the American Republic died when the insurrectionist leaders didn’t go to jail.
Have a source for this?

It's certainly plausible, but I'm not going to just accept it.
I wouldn't say most native borns "built" the US. But sure, there are plenty of native born leaders who set the direction towards building such stuff.
<< disconnecting entirely makes one a social pariah.

Maybe, maybe not. The real question is.. do I really want my kid to associate with kids that are so heavily invested in social media. I know my personal answer to this. I even know my SO answer and the upcoming battles ahead.
Are they joining the Mile High club? https://tripsitter.substack.com/p/xenon

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40804827
I shall be pleased to thank you for favoring us with this most poignant example; my heart doth flutter a few nanoseconds at the innocence of youth both present and lost to short-form video. I exhale, with a touch of melancholy, but feel gratitude nonetheless.
Yes, I use LLMs every day. Primarily for coding (a mix of Claude and OAI). I was trying to implement a simple CSS optimization step to my JS framework's build system last night and both kept hallucinating to the point (literally inventing non-existent APIs and config patterns) where I gave up and just did it by hand w/ Google and browsing docs.

The problem with your "close to the metal" assertion is that this has been parroted about every iteration of LLMs thus far. They've certainly gotten better (impressively so), but again, it doesn't matter. By their very nature (whether today or ten years from now), they're a big risk at the business level which is ultimately where the rubber has to hit the road.
There are other discussions but you're saying they must only feel that way because they listen to extremist diatribes. They must be paying attention to the biggest political discussion which was won on extremist diatribes. The extremism is more prominent than you may want to believe.
Sales tax is not regressive per se. It's just much less progressive than an income tax. Rich people still pay more overall since they spend more money.

An example of a regressive tax would be something like cigarette taxes - poor people would actually spend a larger share of their income since they are also more likely to smoke.
My favorite youtube skeptic, LEMMiNO, has a great video (1) on this topic. To spoil the fun, it turns out a specific shaped lens on a specific type of camera can produce artifacts (2) incredibly similar to what is being reported here. These "metallic spheres" tend to appear most prominently in footage captured by FLIR cameras mounted in pods on military aircraft. That the footage is recorded by military aircraft tends to bolster the credibility, and is then overlooked as a common variable.

> Occam’s Razor tells us that the simplest, most elegant explanation is usually the one closest to the truth.

Optical illusion also checks all the boxes listed on this blog. Certainly don't want to poop on anyones parade of speculation, but it certainly is the simpler explanation.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpeSpA3e56A

2. https://www.armadainternational.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/...
I interpret the author's clarification as backpedaling by someone who enjoyed making an inflammatory statement but didn't want to stand behind it.
"Servo" is a control method. You can control steppers using servo methods and it's pretty good actually. There are chinese encoder boards that'll do everything for like $10
> I think we've gotten used to development environments being a shitty experience to the point where it seems part and parcel of programming…

I have staunchly refused to allow this at my current employ, and I’ve been there long enough where I can steer this.

This isn’t acceptable and all it does is help introduce inconsistency and regressions.

I realize I am fortunate in that I can effect change at my job in this arena.
Relational databases are going to be around for the next thousand years if you want something useful outside of tech.
> he way it was described to me is that every major piece of equipment has a PhD assigned to it and their job is basically to babysit the machine and troubleshoot when things go wrong.

Yes.

"It’s the Most Indispensable Machine in the World—and It Depends on This Woman"

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/asml-euv-machine-lithography-chi...
Broadly I agree with your position, but:

> If you can find a way to make the context window on the scale of the human brain, you may be able to mostly mitigate this.

Human brains have a much smaller context window than AI do. We can't pay attention to the last 128,000 concepts that filtered past our sensory systems — our conscious considerations are for about seven things.

There's a lot of stuff that we don't yet understand well enough to reproduce with AI, but context length is the wrong criticism for these models.
Infinite feeds designed to learn the user's preferences and then show them endless content are bad for your attention span.

Doesn't have to be TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, etc. are all the same thing.
Fair enough. But to be honest, I feel like it should be a positive thing, that was hijacked.

I can understand the original meaning as a way for black people to communicate that they need to be aware of socal issues caused by people who feel superior to them.

Which then was hijacked by the people who cause the social issues so they can use it to act self righteous and superior.
Wow. This whole logic sounds like something really harebrained from a Dr Who episode: "It takes energy to destroy information. Therefore if you don't destroy information, it doesn't take energy!" - sounds completely illogical.

I honestly don't understand from the article how you "recover energy". Yet I have no reason to disbelieve it.
Less relevant but why isn't canvas available in the desktop app? I thought they had feature parity but it seems not.
my grand^10 parent's didn't exactly "immigrate" her per se. They were "invited". I guess they were "persuaded" to help fight the occasional war though.
> I've yet to see a capital markets discussion with an InsuranceCo where someone says, "Oh! Your combined ratio under normal conditions is at/over 100%. Good job management team!" Please provide some sources supporting combined ratios >= 100% as OK/sustainable, or this will continue to be circular.

Dude, your source shows that over a multi-decade time-span the industry loses underwriting money more often than it makes money (12/20 years), and if you tally it out in the long run, they are net negative (101.5 dollars paid per 100 in premium income). https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights...

Of course they aren't going to congratulate themselves on losing money on underwriting in those words. The way you will see it phrased is congratulating themselves on increased premium income from sales, while elsewhere in the report acknowledging underwriting losses. Maintaining the same rate of underwriting loss while increasing sales will also increase the total loss, but it is not at all rare to see an investor report congratulating management on increased sales in a circumstance where a larger loss was made.

> Dude, your #1-5 just listed reasons why the core insurance operations have to be profitable, or they cease operations. That's making my point. You made no reference to their investing activities overcoming losses as you implied. If they can't price risk effectively in their core business "under normal conditions," then they will get competed out of the market.

You asked me to address those specific circumstances, which I noted are largely separated from the aggregate of all circumstances and markets that drive the insurance industry as a whole. You are missing my big point; the insurance industry do not get rich by charging you premiums higher than your claims. Any profits they make are slim, and normally eaten up by losses in the long term (again, see your own source). The insurance operations don't have to be profitable, and they aren't according to both your source and me.

They have to be predictable so that you can price your premiums in a way that the underwriting losses aren't greater than your investment income. Those reasons I listed are what make those policies unpredictable, un-priceable effectively, and therefore not an acceptable way to lose money.

I didn't address the fact that they make their losses back in investments because it was the whole point of my original post, and all of the sourcing that I have done; it is broadly made in the quarterly reports I linked to, as well as the letters to investors from Warren Buffet.

Per your own source and decades of investor documents, the industry posts underwriting losses constantly, and makes their profits by investing the float. It isn't a big secret.
To be honest, I don't disagree but I see why people do care about it.

In the sense that this is just a direct result of Israel's actions. They staged an incredibly powerful intelligence coup with the blown up pagers. Now I agree that if you aren't involved in middle Eastern politics, there's no reason to be scared of Israeli products (even if made by ex-israeli soldiers). But I completely understand where the reputational damage comes from, it was such a well executed operation that it does cast more doubts on anything related to Israel.

My point about conscription was that it is worse in the sense that most Israeli citizens can be de-facto coerced into becoming an agent of the state, making Israeli products inherently more suspicious (and more tied to state policy, regardless of the individuals involved). As you say, most Israelis don't necessarily chose to be in the army. A lot of Hamas fighters are also basically conscripts, but that nuance wouldn't matter for most either.

There's also just the purely ideological angle, which is also what happened to anything touching Russia back in 2022. That's the angle that I agree is mostly unjustifiable.
Meta is cutting 5% of its 'lowest performers'
Yeah, that's exactly what I did for a while, but really once you get the hang of nix it's kind of unnecessary. I keep this bit of nix to hand for anything that I need to run

#!/usr/bin/env nix-shell

{ pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> { } }:

(
let base = pkgs.appimageTools.defaultFhsEnvArgs; in
pkgs.buildFHSUserEnv (base // {
name = "FHS";
targetPkgs = pkgs: (with pkgs; [
/* add additional packages here e.g */
pcre
tzdata
]);
runScript = "bash";
extraOutputsToInstall = [ "dev" ];
})
).env

Running `nix-shell` will drop you into a bash shell that looks just like a normal linux distribution with a lot of common libraries (thanks to `pkgs.appimageTools.defaultFhsEnvArgs`) and after trying to run your application you can shove whatever you need in the extra packages when it complains about a dependency being missing.

Obviously it's a bit more work than other distros, but once nix gets it's claws into you, you'll find it hard to go back to old ways.
Reverse engineering by OALabs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IfJSGWIrCo

Current verdict - not malware.
Well yes, that's why China's in the lead. We willingfully gave it up because corporate decided it was too expensive to pay american talent. They started the death spiral towards "No American wants to work in EE anymore".
The renaissance and colonialism have an interesting, complex relationship with each other. As do the veneration and fetishization of dead civilizations vs. conceptions about contemporaneous ones. So sure, elements of the renaissance may have venerated "Egyptian Culture", but there were very few signs of it having any respect for contemporary Egyptian culture.

The myth is "we bought civilization to places that didn't have it". And that is absolutely a lie. There is a second myth that is particularly applicable in the Americas, which is that Europeans discovered a land that God intended them to have dominion over (essentially ignoring or belittling the existing civilization that was here). Neither of these are fictional strawmen - they are real and documented positions found through the writings of European explorers and American settlers and leaders.

It remains puzzling to me why settler colonialism (the dominant, though not only form of European expansionism) was not common in either the pre-1492 Americas or in Asia. The cultures/civilizations there certainly were expansionary but rarely seemed to feel the need to replace existing populations with their own. Whatever the reasons, the results are wildly different.
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The statistic I gave was for solely full-time workers in the US.
That depends. Some people like to brown their scrambled eggs a bit.
Wouldn’t fine-tuning make a difference? Granted, majority of HN users don’t invest the extra effort to do this.
not the point of my comment. war is never good, whether it is Russia invading Ukraine, China invading Taiwan, or the US invading Iraq+Afghanistan - everyone should focus on finding common ground and understanding the perspectives of others
The concept of a private firefighter feels so dystopian. How anyone thinks that basic emergency services shouldn't be for the good of all is weird to me.

Governments contracting out services is more of a grey area, but individuals fighting over private engagements like this reminds me of things like "trauma team" in Cyberpunk 2077 who have different ambulance response times for different subscription tiers.
I begged my parents to quit smoking for a decade, and they finally did when I was 12.

I am so sensitive and triggered to smoke even as a middle aged man, it just smells so awful to me, even the hint on a smokers clothes makes me gag.

Now we have pot, which apparently I can smell across state lines?? And through my cars hepa filter? Devils weed indeed.
Yes. A better Sinatra, IMHO
The placement of the monitor is also odd, doubly so because it is curved. Most sims will let you render offset from the driver seat (iRacing has keyboard shortcuts to make all these adjustments easily) but the image is being rendered from a "first person" projection a foot to your side. The monitor being tilted isn't ideal either.

If using an actual chassis the best way to go would be with a projector mounted as low as it can be to clear the top of the car, ideally onto a screen that is curved out from the driver's perspective.
How do the efficiency gains compare to speedups from photonic computing, superconductive computing, and maybe fractional Quantum Hall effect at room temperature computing? Given rough or stated production timelines, for how long will investments in reversible computing justify the relative returns?

Also, FWIU from "Quantum knowledge cools computers", if the deleted data is still known, deleting bits can effectively thermally cool, bypassing the Landauer limit of electronic computers? Is that reversible or reversibly-knotted or?

"The thermodynamic meaning of negative entropy" (2011) https://www.nature.com/articles/nature10123 ... https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110601134300.h... ;

> Abstract: ... Here we show that the standard formulation and implications of Landauer’s principle are no longer valid in the presence of quantum information. Our main result is that the work cost of erasure is determined by the entropy of the system, conditioned on the quantum information an observer has about it. In other words, the more an observer knows about the system, the less it costs to erase it. This result gives a direct thermodynamic significance to conditional entropies, originally introduced in information theory. Furthermore, it provides new bounds on the heat generation of computations: because conditional entropies can become negative in the quantum case, an observer who is strongly correlated with a system may gain work while erasing it, thereby cooling the environment.
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The soju bouncer world is quite nice. It is nicely integrated with 3 clients: gamja (web), goguma (Android) and senpai (golang terminal client). They are basic in some ways, but are configured for storing history and behaving like you'd expect a chat app to behave or of the box. I found it a very easy way to get started with IRC without having to keep my computer on all the time.

Soju works with other clients as well, but then requires some configuration. See https://git.sr.ht/~emersion/soju/tree/master/item/contrib/cl... for some possibilities.

I find manually configuring clients for use with a bouncers not very intuitive. The quality of integration depends on which protocols each client supports. So, I'd recommend trying the clients I lists above first.

There are two hosted soju services I'm aware of, both about $20/yr (both are a part of a larger service, but the price is good even if you just use the bouncer). Both include gamja, so installing your own IRC client is not required.

https://man.sr.ht/chat.sr.ht

https://pico.sh/bouncer (also accessible as an ssh app)

You can also self-host soju/gamja, but that takes a bit of work.
I used “off” when my AirPods had a broken microphone that caused the other modes to make weird noises. Only necessary until I could get them replaced by Apple.
It takes your data operation from 1995 to 2025
oh man! every so often for the past decade I've tried to remember "rinkworks". I recognised it immediately from your post. I remember this being one of the first websites I would read as a kid, 20 odd years ago. cheers for the nostalgia buzz!
My impression is that the current Sonos app becomes unusable when your home Internet connection is unstable. It usually works fine here, but when our 5G starts switching channels due to a snowstorm, the Sonos app becomes erratic.

I understand there's also issues with mDNS discovery and maybe other things, but the worst mistake seems to be the assumption that everybody has a stable Internet connection all the time.

There are other apps that have made a similar mistake. E.g. Ubiquiti's UniFi management app has problems connecting to the local LAN console if you originally signed in using a cloud account and Internet becomes unstable.

One app that handles this right is the Home Assistant Companion app. It detects when you're using a local WiFi SSID and connects directly to the internal LAN address which always works, and otherwise uses the cloud connection or public WAN address.