skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What AMD giveth, Electron taketh away.

This is actually true but the moralistic negative tone and no explanation about it makes me think the writer did not understand why this is happening and why it has both PROs and CONs.
It's similar to some other statements I heard before on this subject "It's pointless to add/increase roads, there will always be traffic".
It's true there will always be traffic but it's not pointless.
There will always be traffic because moving more cars becomes faster so more people do it.
You should consider though that traffic on a single lane helped 100 people while traffic on a 2 lanes street helped many more people.
The same is true for software development. Computers get faster, but programs tend to stay around the same amount of perceived speed. Like roads increase and yet there is still the same amount of traffic.
When computers get faster it means that developers can write code faster and so they can write more code and/or cheaper code. Writing programs becomes also cheaper so developer need to be less expert and trained. The computer that brought astronauts to the moon was probably less powerful than today's smart thermostat. Yet to land on the moon with that computer required a team of people that were likely at phd level, intensely focus and dedicated and they were all socially and culturally adjacent to the inventor of the computer.
By comparison, today's programs do trivial things using immense resources. And yet because many more developers can code, there are also immensely more programs about millions of use cases that are developed all over the world, by people that do not even speak English in some cases.

So programs did become less efficient because the true bottleneck was not the efficiency of the program. The true bottleneck was developer hours and skills.

This doesn't mean that it's okay for all programs to be slow or that you should be satisfied in using programs that you perceive as slow.
The correlation between speed/efficiency of a program and its UX it's a Bell curve.
At the beginning the faster it gets the better the UX. After a certain speed though the UX improves marginally. If the final user cannot distinguish between the speed of two different programs it means the bottleneck is not anymore about speed and another characteristic becomes the bottleneck.
This said, there will always be work for efficiency engineers or low level developers to write more performant code. But not all code will require to be written as efficiently as possible.
It typically means there isn't enough evidence to convict. With the presumption of innocence, it in fact does infer he's innocent of the charges.
> we can find untold examples of "No star in the sky."

But the original example was "What if there was no star in the sky?" so your example is irrelevant. The original example sounds weird (to me, a native speaker). But "No star in the sky is a triangle" sounds OK and contains your example phrase.
That's easy, just store all the user-generated data in an encrypted file. You might be able to copy the blob but the vast majority of users won't be able to extract the files within.
To my mind, it doesn't matter whether a murder actually occurred for Ulbricht's culpability. He thought he was ordering a murder, he solicited proof, he got proof, and he asked for more hits. In his frame, someone was murdered on his orders. It's a burden to prove for sure, but the fact that he paid substantial cash equivalents in bitcoin to me mean he didn't think he was playing some fantasy game with scammers.
I still fail to see who desire that, how it benefits humanity, or why we need to invest 500b to get to this
When you look into the data structure and organization that is underneath Google Sheets, and if you have any experience with LLMs and structured outputs, Google shit in their sheets as far as having an overly complex internal representation for a spreadsheet. Their data representation needs to be translated into something far easier to work with for machine learning models to work with that data, without a massive amount of filtering just to reach the spreadsheet data itself.
What's doom scrolling for you is user engagement for the company, and by their definition you're not wasting your time, you're increasing their revenue by seeing and clicking on ads. That's the only thing that really matters to them.
SDL3 Official Release
> I didn’t die of being trampled by unicorns either

I think this comment is incredibly telling. Many people tend to treat problems that do not currently affect them because of the momentous, coordinated efforts of many individuals and institutions the same as problems that do not affect them because they are naturally nonexistent.

There is a huge difference between these two categories of problems. The first will become very visible when the constant behind-the-scenes work is no longer maintained. The second will not. Confusing these two seems to be one of the causes of the mess we currently find ourselves in.

> How do the billion people in Europe do it?

As a European, I can help with the conundrum: we DO have central governments, and they tend to take more responsibility for taking care of people than the U.S. federal government has ever been allowed to. Governments don't have to be continent-wide to exist.
The above is a proven factual statement that has been downvoted due to tribal politics.

Very sad to see, and indicative of the poor state of political discourse.
Moderation is a high form of discipline. Keep the apps, learn to limit usage. It doesn’t have to be all or nothing. Keep food in the house, learn not to pig out on the sweets. Works in other areas of life where removing access is not an option.
I gave an AI agent edit access to my website – Dries Buytaert
At any given time approximately 1 in 10 humans are facing starvation or severe food insecurity.
Alphabet's revenue last year were about $340 billiion.

550 billion is just for compensation. You also need to pay for the upkeep of bases, fuel etc.

MI complex probably still has larger revenues as Google, but difference is much smaller than you think and that is comparing the whole industry to just one tech giant. There are others with revenues as big or bigger.
Agreed, but sometimes it makes sense to include the site name. For instance, on a project's page like "Acme" adding "Acme | SiteName" provides more context.
UK government uses 'vibe check' on whether MPs will like policies
> highly ambiguous language

So basically, the same as all human language then?

If you're saying that geometric terms should only be allowed to be used in a strictly defined mathematical sense, even by non mathematicians, that's a kind of gatekeeping that doesn't make any logical sense to me.

Firstly, it completely misunderstands how humans use language, how we play with it, make puns, reuse terms from other social groupings (maths) in new ways that have meaning to another social group (new age spirituality), how we bend and twist the meanings of words over time.

Secondly, it's impossible, and unwarranted, to try and police this, so I hope you're good at dealing with being ignored.
I would wager that states such as Russia and others misallocate resources, which in turn reduces productivity. Worse yet, some of the policy prescriptions stated above would further misallocate scarce resources and reduce productivity. Scarcity doom becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy. This outcome is used to rationalize further economic intervention and the cycle compounds upon itself.

To be explicitly clear, the US granting largess to tech companies for datacenters also counts as a misallocation in my view.
If you're doing something something reasonably small, using preact rather than react and then wrapping it into a web component so you can just ... put it in there ... is a really nice option to have.

(it may not be the right option in any given case, but it's worth knowing it's there even so)
Follow-up: My formal study of programming stopped with that Fortran IV class a half century ago, but LLMs now delude me into thinking I can program. I just had Claude write me a Python program to list all of the seven-digit numbers that are both primes and palindromes. It found 668: 1003001, 1008001, 1022201, 1028201, 1035301, ...
>(1) Preëmptive (i.e. absent conviction);

I think this is necessary class of pardons. A hypothetical example of a good preemptive pardon would be Congress repealing an unjust law, and the president pardoning anybody who broke that law before the repeal.

>(2) To himself, his current or former Cabinet members, or to any of the foregoing’s current or former spouses or children or grandchildren (or their spouses)

Agree on not pardoning himself or cabinet members. Maybe could extend that to include all political appointees. Politicians shouldn't enjoy special privileges like these. But I'm less convinced about preventing family pardons. Those people (generally) aren't politicians. And, if they plan to abuse the president's pardon to commit crimes, they'd either be asking after the crime and risking the president refusing, or asking before and leaving the president open to conspiracy charges.

>(3) Issued after the presidential election in the final year of their term.

I've grown too cynical about the voters to believe this would matter. Most people don't follow politics closely enough to know who's been pardoned, what they did, and any political/personal connections they had with the president.

If I may suggest a limitation, how about allowing the House or Senate to veto a pardon with a 2/3 majority?
Agreed. For the rich.
Need a bit of Zuck too
Interesting perspective. I had never paid attention to that detail. Even knowing that, I personally don’t see it as a problem.
Yeah that's called wishful thinking when it's not straight up pipe dreams. All these people have horses in the race
Microsoft's Steam-like browser overlay is now available on Windows 11
Not a criticism of the article / documents but an observation that aligns with others comments. For new users it is probably not going to be an issue to select a different window manager / desktop experience.

Boot Arch ISO

Run archinstall

select desktop / window manager you wish to install

No requirement to manually setup X or Wayland, as the scripts / install will take care of it for you. I also understand that this is not 100% in the ethos of using Arch (where you should really understand all the packages going into your system and how all the configuration is done).

I would also include that the following is also a good resource for learning Arch. https://arcolinux.com/ (although is is a derivative of Arch this site has alot of documentation that users can learn from)
Interesting, but I wonder whether that's not due to some misunderstanding. In Germany the employer pays half the social security and health care costs, which is not considered part of gross, because, well, it's not the gross income of the employee, but part of the cost of the job to the employer (and of little concern to the employee).
Portlets! I see I'm not the only member here of this exclusive club.
users are complaining in a relatively united way, maybe that’s a sign the initial choice favored the wrong post

which wrong post would that have been? i don't think there was any. the same users that are complaining about the flags are also not actually engaging in a worthwhile discussion. there are enough people here that did find this topic. it has, after all, reached at least 50 points before it got flagged. i'd even say that it was flagged because it got popular. and that means, despite the flags, this topic should have enough traction for an engaging discussion, and yet, no such discussion is happening. i have not seen a single comment worth engaging with.

instead of complaining, someone should write a critical editorial about what happened and what it all means. but i think it is to early for that. this was posted right after it happened. i believe we actually need to wait for the uproar to die down before we can have a calm and critical discussion of the events. wait a few days or a week or so until someone will write that editorial, and then we can discuss it here.
i used OPA in one org, and kyverno in another for verifying (reused whichever was already in place for other purposes).

our teams always chose to go with cloud kms services for the signing keys, we thought they offered stronger access controls, and less need to revoke / rotate keys when access changes (team member leaves).
So you want them to be infinitely more litigious?

A serious question though, what does happen when AIs are filing lawsuits autonomously on behalf of the powerful, the courts clearly won't be able to cope unless you have AI powered courts too? None of how these monumental changes will work has been thought through at all, let's hope AI is smart enough to tell us what to do...
I worked in a casino that had a wool carpet. When the carpet was new it was ridiculous the amount of static that it generated on you. I was wearing steel toe non slip and anti shock shoes too!

I quickly learned to hold my machine keys ring (3 inch wide ring) and tap it to the slot machine frame. Often a three inch violet spark would jump and I could even feel my clothes move. One time I even causing one of the slot machine player tracking system to reboot, it was that or me better it got the hit.

A manager said at a casino they used to work at they would spray fabric softener on the rugs to alleviate static. I don't know if it worked or not.
I wonder how this maps to symbolic AI
Alcohol is in fact heavily regulated and controlled in most countries, and we have cultural practices in place that largely manage the risks for the vast majority of people that consume it.

Personally I'm in favour of further narcotics legalisation, but with regulation to manage it's social effects and taxation to fund the expensive mitigation measures it would require.
Yeah, me too. However, I used the Wikipedia name:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_bar
+1 on blue lagoon, was way too busy to be enjoyable when I went, there's plenty of smaller hot springs around which are much nicer.
I'm mostly seeing people who voted against this continue to grumble.
I wish I could agree with you. But have you read Aschenbrenner's "Situational Awareness" [1]? I am very much afraid that the big decision makers in AI do in fact think in those terms, and do not in any way frame this as fair competition for the benefit of all.

1. https://situational-awareness.ai/
Eliminating some student debt is a fish. Free university is the fishing rod. Do that instead.
>> The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality.

That's perfectly true and the internet has made it even worse.
And here's a link to that particular Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeNetworking/comments/1dsfv5f/to_...
> I voted for him just because of this campaign promise.

LOL. You're a conservative Christian[1] who thinks climate change is a hoax[2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29187368

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?type=comment&query=author:macinjosh+...
Arguably the cooperation between the US and China has lead to the most economic growth and prosperity in human history, it's a shame the US and China are returning to a former time.
Many criminal gangs from biker groups to foreign cartels are doing the same thing and reaping profits in the $100Bs scale annually.

Your argument is not an argument for incarceration, it is an argument for abolition of prohibition and regulating the sales of some psychoactives.

The same stone would hit the fentanyl epidemic, it would hit the pushers of ”zombie drug” laced cocktails, it would hit cross-border trafficking, to name only a few. Society would massively benefit. So would the economy.
So basically 'just be successful' it's easy: just learn everyday, do sports, eat well...

But hey thanks for your tip!
I've been trying to switch from scrolling to reading my Kindle.

I aggressively curate who I do follow; on Twitter, I mainly use lists. At this point, I'm mostly just interested in AI news. I'm also subscribed to an AI newsletter, but it isn't as tightly scoped as my set of feeds.

I guess I could apply AI to this problem. I'd like a tool a bit like Yahoo Pipes, with email and Twitter integrations, and LLM transformation boxes for summarizing and making decisions.

I should probably look at https://github.com/huginn/huginn
Wasn't that charge dropped though?
Arent they differentiating only _if_ they required to get federal and dod money? The coordination definitely seems to be more of amzn (and similar) employees providing technical expertise to congress and regulators. They certainly take deployments and internal security seriously, but it doesnt seem to be monetizable outside of the contract requirements. Or maybe im missing your point?
I feel like this is missing the point of GenAI. I read fewer books than I did a year ago, primarily because Claude will provide dynamic content that is exactly tailored for me. I don't read many instructional books any more, because I can tell Claude what I already know about a topic and what I'd like to know and it'll create a personalised learning plan. If I don't understand something, it can re-phrase things or find different metaphors until I do. I don't read self-help books written for a general audience, because I can get personalised advice based on my specific circumstances and preferences.

The idea of a "book" is really just an artifact of a particular means of production and distribution. LLM-generated text is a categorically different thing from a book, in the same way as a bardic poem or hypertext.
Not really relevant but I'm going to say it anyway. I hate devices that tell me about "low" battery long in advance of actually going flat, it simply trains me to ignore the notification and then it unceremoniously dies on me at a later time.
Treating the world as a bunch of football teams is a great distraction though.
> That sentiment calls for reflection - whoever ends up on top of the heap after the AI craze settles down is going to be someone that everyone objects to.

Did we see the same fallout from the space-race from a couple generations ago?

I don't think so — certainly not in the way you're framing it. So I guess I don't accept your proposition as a guarantee of what will happen.
Scientists succeed in trapping molecules to perform quantum operations, a first
I built https://ffprompt.ryanseddon.com using the chrome ai (Gemini nano). Allows you to do ffmpeg operations on videos using natural language all client side.
Yes you don't want to destroy your food chain. If everyone is poor except you then you are now poor.
I've done something similar recently..

I have always deleted apps off my phone but still suffered from access via web.

My solution for X is to logout. This is enough since un-authed has no content and the login screen is enough to stop me.

Then for Youtube/Reddit I blocked on personal and work laptops by adding to /etc/hosts file. If I still had access to un-authed Youtube/Reddit homepage I would still find a way to enjoy it. Also Unhook is too easy to disable for me.

Then for my iPhone I have added both Reddit and Youtube to restricted sites via the iOS settings.

Works well so far.
There are folks using Alpine in the desktop (or laptops). Several of us are lurking in #alpine-linux.

postmarketOS is a downstream of Alpine, and they focus on shipping ready to use GUI images. They also count as Alpine users in terms of testing and fixing packages related to a GUI session.
@Jump You're talking to a wall man.
Shame they didn't include the UK, it's Europe's biggest competitor in terms of where workers can easily move to.
I disagree with you. I think the impact of AI on society in the long term is going to be massive, and such investments are necessary. If we look at the past century, technology has had (in my opinion) and incredibly positive impact on society. You have to invest in the future.
Moderation is more difficult than abstinence because it means you are fighting an activated dopamine loop in real time.

I wonder: are there any good games where the game is literally to escape dopamine loops in various ways? That would actually be a novel and interesting game mechanic. You could make it a puzzle type game or even work it into a role playing or fighting game where sneaking you into some kind of addictive game loop is how the enemies get you.
Jury nullification isn’t granted existence. It’s not an express power, it’s just a natural consequence of the jury system.

It’s not possible to make it not exist.
The (American) classics Little House on the Prairie books told a story of a family who lived in a sod house and constantly had bugs, critters, and even snakes fall from their ceiling onto their dining table (and everywhere else)
Why can't you have multi-page, but with each page being a small SPA?

For me that's the best of both world, and this architecture has served me well.
>Only in public nobody seems to agree with him

What? In my experience his supporters literally never shut up about how they are the silent majority. The irony seems entirely lost on them.
Every day there are literally tons of papers with “XYX is All you need” at this point we apparently need thousands of things…
Like the glib summary of Palestinian history there. In other news some terrorists stole land from the Brits in 1776.
If doing a nazi salute isn't sad enough, failing to reclaim it is even sadder
Does everyone really mean doom scrolling when they talk about these issues? For me personally, it's definitely about dopamine and not about negative emotions, yet everyone uses the phrase doom scrolling - am I the odd one out?

For example, if I'm feeling stressed/anxious, I'll scroll/browse/distract myself to avoid the negative feelings. I'm not seeking them like doom scrolling says.
The people involved are likely all using Protonmail. So that would mean TLS for the connection to Protonmail with E2EE for messages passing through Protonmail.

Not sure that encrypted email in general would be less secure than, say, Signal. Since Signal is an instant messenger on a phone it might actually be less secure[1].

[1] https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=em:emailvsim
> Not rolling release, possible to stick to a version and just get security updates

If you do prefer rolling release, you can use the edge channel instead.

That’s a nice thing about Alpine; you can pick between stable releases or rolling release depending on what fits best.
Who provides the upkeep of bases, fuel, runs the contractors who run the equipment, provides the equipment itself, etc?

The MIC. It isn’t just artillery shells.

In general though, I agree. The tech industry is an absurdly valuable target. And thanks for the updated revenue numbers!