skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at the US politics from the outside and talking to a few friends over there who happen to be queer, as well as seeing similar trends in the EU, it makes me sad.

Billionaires having no integrity and pandering to whoever is in power, that I can understand.

But the fact that enough people chose the party on the political right when their platform is openly built on various phobias and hate, that’s sickening. Seeing people stream the election results and others coming into the stream and saying “Your body, my choice.” which frankly sounds like hate speech.

I’m not even sure whether the majority of people were ignorant of all the hateful conduct, or whether they enjoy it themselves. Even things like comments on most social media sites, such overwhelming amounts of hatred and often misinformation.

I feel pretty disillusioned with the human nature.
Since you are talking about electrical to electrical, and you compare to lithium batteries in a chart, do you mean that this thing works like a battery?

Like, coupled to solar power, can charge during the day (making hydrogen using some cycle) and provide electrical power during the night
I hated the original Prius. It had no right to call itself a "hybrid". It had one source of power: gasoline. This seriously confused the market and the press when the Volt -- a true Hybrid with electric and gas -- came out. I wish regulators defined the word "Hybrid" and limitied its use in marketing.

Family Guy got the meaning of "Prius--and the type of self-righteous person who drove it--exactly right.
> it's nothing compared to the many trillions of dollars Greenland is worth.

All of these trillions are imaginary numbers buried in ice
> Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly during its ascent burn

They would say anything, just to avoid the word "explodes".
It's impossible to reach the percentages claimed in the poll from an integer count of answers, try doing the math.

Either they're bad at division and rounding, or the percentages are made up.
“I couldn’t be bothered learning something, and now I don’t have to! Checkmate!”

While LLM’s can have their uses, let’s not get carried away.
As I explained below, I avoided having to learn anything about ML, PyTorch or any other APIs when trying to classify posts based on how political they were and which affiliation they were. That was holding me back and it was easily replaced by an llm and a prompt. Literally took me minutes what would have taken days or weeks and the results are more than good enough.
I sometimes chuckle that most of the cool Lexuses are now Priuses under the hood!

But that’s a good thing. I own a Toyota Corolla hybrid myself, and hybrids are one of those things that I can say I’ve completely changed my mind about. I used to dislike the idea of hybrids, because I assumed that the overall system complexity must be higher than either an ICE, or an EV. And I’m a sucker for simple systems, so I thought it’s either EV, or nothing.

Then I looked into how hybrids work. Specifically Toyota hybrids. And came away totally amazed. It’s an amazing system, and much simpler than a traditional ICE car. It doesn’t really have a gearbox, or a clutch, or a starter. The engine is a normal atmospheric engine, so no turbines, overcompression, and the issues that come with it. Furthermore, the engine is typically configured to use the Atkinson cycle, which puts less stress on it. And, the engine has a chain drive, so no belts to change, and by design gets stressed a lot less than in a traditional ICE, because the stop-start load is carried by the electric motor. Also, it can’t really have trouble starting in cold weather, much like an EV. All of that boils down to crazy reliability.

I’m at a point where if I’m looking for a car that uses fuel, it’s only cars that use the Toyota hybrid tech (or similar) that I’m looking at. At the moment it’s just Toyota, Lexus, most Ford hybrids (but not all).

Other companies have hybrids that are liable to my original concerns about massively increased complexity. As an example, VW hybrids have an electric motor within their DSG gearbox. So you have all the complexity of their modern ICEs (turbines, DSG, whatnot) plus additional hybrid related complexity.
Well at least you can agree with both the state, and as it were at this point, the scary foreign state, on this one.. Probably worth more dollars to donuts to be on those sides anyway!
Did ones with modern body style arrive before or after 1925 though?
> Appeal to authority is a well known logical fallacy.

I did not make an appeal to authority. I made an appeal to expertise.

It’s why you’d trust a doctor’s medical opinion over a child’s.

I’m not saying “listen to this guy because their captain of NLP” I’m saying listen because experts have spent years of hands on experience with things like getting NLP working at all.

> I know how dead NLP is personally because I’ve never been able to get NLP working

So you’re not an expert in the field. Barely know anything about it, but you’re okay hand waving away expertise bc you got a toy NLP
Demo working…

That’s great, dude.

> I was able to get ChatGPT to classify posts based on how political it was from a scale of 1 to 10

And I know you didn’t compare the results against classic NLP to see if there was any improvements because you don’t know how…
This is a show-stopper of a bug if you use YUM repositories.

3.76.0 should be considered toxic.

see also https://github.com/sonatype/nexus-public/issues/551
No you can’t; LLMs are dog shit at internet banter, too neutered
The most impressive aspect of the Tokyo system is not the size (largest in the world), but the willingness to spend money on it. From start to finish it took less than 15 years. Chicago’s system, just as ambitious in size, is still going despite construction starting in the mid 1970s. Although to be fair, it is “complete” and operating but with reduced holding capacity: they are waiting for a handful of stone quarries away from the city to reach their end-of-life so they can dig the tunnels to them and use them for stormwater holding.

But the problem, now that these giant things exist, is that they aren’t the panacea they were thought to be. Large storms of today’s era are dumping too much water in too short an amount of time. You just can’t build big enough.
Now Mounjaro is out, Ozempic can only really compete on price, which has to be adding downward pressure
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/fbi-overstated-fo...

The notion that this kind of thing couldn't happen in the west is laughable
Self-reported experiences on Reddit on using psychedelics to manage opioid abuse
I haven’t understood these types of uses. How do you validate the score that the LLM gives?
He is actually both a liar and a truth teller. He is like a top level poker player, you never know when he is bluffing, and I am sure it is a big reason for his success.

Expect a lie, but no, this time, it is actually the truth. Expect the truth, but no, this time, it is a lie.
They could benchmark the price against comparable countries/regions. Pay no more than, say, 110% of the average cost of the drug in Europe.
If Musk plans to uphold Communism in China and Democracy in the US, does that not mean "peace in our time"? WW3 pushed back 4 years? The alternative I've been hearing is that warhawks are being stuffed into the federal government this season.
Reply didn’t say that the expert is uneducated, just that their tool is obsolete. Better look at facts the way they are, sugar coating doesn’t serve anyone.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42733649
So let me get this straight - you want to go from a system where:

- the government hands out money to the media
- the law says that they need to give it to everyone without political discrimination
- if they try to withold funding, you can sue them and probably win

To a system where:

- if you have a ton of money, you can be a media outlet
- if you don't have a ton of money, get fucked

I'm struggling to see how the latter is better for anyone other than rich people who want to influence the masses.
Re: being a gas-powered car: they seem fine in terms of tank size, 11 litres for a prius prime vs 13 litres for a gas corolla from the 2010s. You get better fuel efficiency, too, so your effective range is likely at least as good as a regular gasoline car.

The added complexity / part count is definitely a downside, though.

Edit: er, now I'm not sure about my second statement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42748610
rip walking speeds :(
The problems with the Prius are basically:

- Terrible in snow and ice
- No way to defrost your windshield, unless you're already driving
- Poor rear window visibility

If not for those things it would be great, but unfortunately they've made zero progress on fixing any of the core issues for the last 25 years. The new models definitely do look cooler, and I appreciate that they accelerate faster, but I personally care much more about the stuff that could potentially kill me when I'm driving.
Genshin Impact tops $5B in revenue in China alone, hit $10B globally in 2025 (2024)
Were they supposed to save us?
The pentagon, not US citizenry, decide the adversaries of the state.

GP is just stating that fact. The citizens’ opinion on the matter are irrelevant - the pentagon is not a democratic institution.
My base thing while advising people is that if anyone you pay needs to read the output, or you are directly replacing any kind of work then even frontier llm model inference costs are irrelevant. Of course you need to work out of that's truly the case but people worry about the cost in places where it's just irrelevant. If it's $2 when you get to an agent, each case that's avoided there could pay for around a million words read/generated. That's expensive compared to most API calls but irrelevant when counting human costs.
I know you’re joking, but this is not true. There’s something short and stupid for everyone, but not something interesting for everyone at all.

Last couple years I spent my media time watching trackmania and noita for the most part. These are just-games, but with rich interesting worlds behind them. I can’t imagine spending all this time watching a pig or people cutting bangs or someone lipsyncing or talking nonsense. Not judging, but it’s such mind disgracing activity in my view.
I think that’s what’s being implied by creating. Whatever people create and is allowed (or tweaked by) under a repressive regime that is. The government sets the guidelines and censorship and the subsequent content has some peculiar characteristics of the government policies.
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UK: BBC switch-off to force 600k households on to smart meters
An Ozzy publication cannot be expected to understand Ohio state politics. The way all such transactions have gone in the past is that the company is paid the anticipated value of the tax break, over ten years, in advance, and then the project is quietly abandoned at the first opportunity.
I actually agree that EU should pay more for the war being waged against Europe. I think it would put more pressure on the US to continue being a relevant party in the world politics. Honestly the fight in Ukraine is more important than every war the US has been a part of. ONLY because it is a war, if it was diplomacy that is another thing.

China, North Korea and Iran is supporting Russia in this, the US can choose what they want to do. Repeating 2014 seems like a bad idea.
How do you validate these classifications?
I was dissatisfied with the available RSS readers, so I wrote my own called Follow https://follow.is . It addresses several key issues I faced:

- Optimized display for images, videos, audio, and notifications

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Yes it is Arriva. Independently I also extracted all the ticket codes when I was a kid.
> that could enable anonymous age verification for adult websites.

Courtesy of Microsoft ? Or Google ?
Norhing is anonymous on today's internet.
Performance and cost are trade-offs though. You could just as well say that LLMs are dead in the water, except in terms of performance.

It does seem likely we’ll soon have cheap enough LLM inference to displace traditional NLP entirely, although not quite yet.
I remember using the open NLP library from Stanford around 2016. It would do parts of speech tagging of words in a sentence (labelling the words with their grammatical function). It was pretty good but reliably failed on certain words where context determined the tag. When for gpt 3 came out the first thing I tested it out on was parts of speech tagging. In particular those sentences open NLP had trouble with. And it aced everything I was impressed.
You think promoting a minimal level of agency for consumers would drive engagement and revenues down? One could use such "user care" for marketing as well.

I have been wondering quite a while how engineers working explicitly on "lowest common denominator" tech feel about themselves and their work?

EDIT: I kind of forgot that yt serves ads in unbearable quantities for quite a while. Thinking that yt might care for viewers seems indeed a bit naive.
Yeah, I hate it when vendors are slow to upstream their drivers too.
GPT 3.5 is more accurate at classifying tweets as liberal than it is at identifying posts that are conservative.

If you're going for rough approximation, LLMs are great, and good enough. More care and conventional ML methods are appropriate as the stakes increase though.
Not just in cities. In the U.S. at least, a lot of people live in suburban townhouse complexes that have shared parking lots. It's going to take a lot of investment to make charging easy for everyone.
NYT does have a left leaning bias. Here's an example where a conservative person and a liberal person each did the same donation tax avoidance strategy, and the NYT said the conservative got "an enormous personal tax windfall", but the liberal got "no tax benefit". In reality they both got the same benefit. NYT describes the conservative person as greedy and the liberal person as selfless, for doing the same thing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32847961
Hey dang so you just silently shadow-banned that user? That's what it definitely looks like. Not that I care but they seem to be right about you if you did.
> I’d say it’s the closest thing to when Napster got everyone used to theft

that’s a bit dramatic, I’d argue the way AI has been used, I.E. scraping up people’s work without consent and then using it to train models that will recreate said work to the best of their abilities so you won’t even need the artist anymore (in the ideal vision of the people running AI companies) is a much more heinous thing.

You’re downloading and using the artist’s work without their consent to train a tool to replace them. Whereas Napster is downloading their work and you might buy their work in the future cause you love it so much.
>to penalize someone due to their political beliefs?

That line was crossed a long time ago with cancel culture, so this isn't news.
Is it that expensive to get an electric car charger installed?

I just got two installed for $800, and the charger itself is $420 each. Even if a circuit panel had to be upgraded and some wire needed to be run, surely it is only a couple thousand extra at most.
Your validation approach doesn't really change based on the classification method (LLM vs NLP).

At that volume you're going to use automated tests with known correct answers + random sampling for human validation.
The nastiest break in I ever had worked because I installed wget on that server for convenience.

It exploited a known Drupal vulnerability to drop in a PHP script that in turn executed wget to download a payload.

So I agree about the importance of reducing the attack surface.

Now, ssh with password authenticated on a tightly controlled server, without fail2ban, port knocking and other tricky setups is exactly it. A setup with reduced attack surface.

> Anyone who sacrifices security for convenience is asking for trouble.

The you should switch off your mobile devices, destroy the sim cards and never connect again.
the definition of century would have have to include the release date of the prius and the model s, hope this helps
It depends on how you take it. If you chug almost liter of coconut water (like I did) you can get palpitations (like I did). That has >500mg potassium in a form more bioavailable than say a banana or butternut squash.

Also the RDA is not something you should have all at once. That’s a sure way to disrupt your heart.
... but then you have even larger overhead, as well as the added layer of complexity from managing VMs on top of headless browsers.
Capital One two-day outage leaves customers in free-fall
They don't care. You are just raising their costs which they will in return charge their customers.
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An army of pharmacists ought to do the trick!
FCC to telcos: By law you must secure your networks from foreign spies
Sure, I get your point. But there are lots of tiny things that we can do to make our lives a teeny, tiny bit better - these things are fully in our control.

Example - someone makes a large spreadsheet, but without locking the header row or adding filters. It would take 10 seconds to do, but people in my org don’t, even after I requested them, showed them how.

I understand fixing massive problems like money in politics etc are super hard. But it doesn’t cost anything to not play music in elevators without headphones (yes, it happens, I am not lying) or write a sensible bug report with useful details instead of “this ain’t working” etc. If we can’t even do small things well, how can we even begin to take on massive problems like wealth inequality, poverty, judicial reforms etc?
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Could you please share your Miniflux configuration for fetching full articles?
FCC is a special cause because private entities are using a public resource that must be managed. The content controls were a way to prevent Hearst style journalism spreading to radio and television. It worked well until the era of entertainment news developed.
You’ll typically add 50 miles of range overnight, which is more than the average person drives in a day. That’s not minimal. Unpredictability is buffered by the large battery. You can drive 200 miles one day then slowly fill it back up. Fast chargers can be a backup for the occasional times it’s not enough.

Why would there be an issue with selling it used when doing this?
There are AI bros that will call an LLM to do what you could do with a regex. I’ve seen people do the chunking for RAG using an LLM…
As a serious computer user getting on for 25 years using text based
search tools I've long made various "single-site" tools. A big
inspiration way back was Surfraw [1], originally created by Julian
Assange. Reality is, most of us use a small number of websites
regularly. nearly all the info I want to touch is three keystrokes
away on the command-line or from within emacs.

When search died, a few years ago practically now, I was still
teaching a level-7 Research Methods course. The universities literally
did not notice that all of the advice we gave students was totally
obsolete and that it was not really possible to conduct academic
research that way.

Research today is very much more like it was in the pre-interent era.
You need to curate and keep in mind a set of reliable sources and
personal, private collections.

Had the misfortune of needing to spend a week using a standard browser
and sites like Google. It was beyond shocking. What I found I can only
describe as a wastescape, a war zone, a bombed-out favela with burned
out cars, overflowing sewers, piles of rubble and dead dogs lying in
gutters.

My first thought was kinda, "Oh sweet Jesus Christ, what happened to my
Internet?", and the very next one was "How does anyone get anything
done now?" How does the economy still function? And of the course the
answers are "They don't" and "It doesn't".

I think this is a really serious situation. There's simply no way that
as "knowledge workers", scientists, or whatever people call us now, we
can be as competitive as we were 10 or 20 years ago given the colossal
degradation of our tools. We have to stop this foolish self-deception
that things are "getting better". Google were a company that created
free search. Well done. But that was then. We remain stuck in this
strange mythology that advertising companies like Google and other
enshitified BigTech are a net asset to the economy. Surely they're a
vast parasitical drain and need digging into the ground so the rest of
us can get on with something resembling progress?

[1] http://surfraw.org/
This is terrifying to me, and part of the reason I've kept the little authentication calculator instead of moving to the app. Also the app won't work on root and has a fairly narrow range of Android versions it's compatible with.

I travel a lot and I would benefit from opening a "global money" account. However this requires the app, so I've never done it.

If they ever drop support for the physical authentication calculator, I will move to a different bank that doesn't require an app. Which is increasingly difficult these days.
US social media companies contributing to widespread social unrest that ultimately led nowhere[0] or created more oppressive Islamic regimes and sectarian violence - well, this seems like an argument against TikTok, not for it.

Despite any personal romanticism towards violent revolution you may have, that is not something that societies actually want against democracies. Even against authoritarian regimes, society often goes from bad to worse (see Iran, Lebanon). You want violent revolution against actual oppressive regimes, not democracies where you can change the society with a vote, but even then, you want it led by pro-democratic factions.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring#Long-term_aftermat...
GPT 3.5 has been very, very obsolete in terms of price-per-performance for over a year. Bit of a straw man.
How do you have your manipulation configured on a particular website?
I loved my Sony Vaio Picturebook.

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