skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Read his essay again, past the first two paragraphs. Look at the social movements he describes as priggish, woke, politically correct etc.

> There was at this time a great backlash against sexual harassment; the mid 1980s were the point when the definition of sexual harassment was expanded from explicit sexual advances to creating a "hostile environment."

> In the first phase of political correctness there were really only three things people got accused of: sexism, racism, and homophobia

Going by the examples pg gives, anyone willing to support women, or LGBT, is a prig. Don't let his abstract theory cloud the rest of the essay. He says it in black and white, his problem is with minorities standing up for themselves.
As far as I can tell, the descriptions in your first and second paragraphs are in stark conflict.
A bit of a tangent, one thing I observed is that petunias are fairly sticky to the touch, even if it's not really visible. While larger insect like loopers and cutworms are fine, small weak flying insects can get caught. Both harmful fungus gnats and helpful parasitic wasps (which would normally attack worm larvae) can get caught on the leaves.
So, “a ceasefire would be nice” is bad (https://www.instagram.com/p/C0zInRCspoZ/) but a set of two full-throated Nazi salutes requires “grace”. Huh.
You don't, I gave up. It's a nightmare and it's impossible to backup.
What I do is auto backup for tasker, Aegis (2fa), photos and videos, sms, whatsapp.

The rest is lost, or I consider it that way.

If I have some special files I use autosync, but no "backup", just sync to the cloud
I am astonished. I wondered my whole life how Nazism could have possibly happened, how cooler heads didn’t prevail.

We got here a day at a time. Don’t promote this guys shit ever again if you have any self respect.

Color me changed, I was wrong about this Trump thing. It’s all real, all of this happening.

Edit: Do not flag this post. Casual nazism, jingoism, corruption is too serious to say we are above discussing this.
I show up everyday. The peddle, podium, creators and us
For sure, it's been a pretty above-average time to be in US market. Very much feels like a bubble ready to burst at any moment. But 40% of my investments are in non-US funds, which have gone sideways for the entire time I've invested. All the modest gains are just dividends there.

This strategy doesn't depend on amazing returns. If you save 65% of your income, and you currently have $0, you can retire in about 10.5 years (assuming fairly modest 5% return on investments). A 50% savings rate puts you at a 17 year career. It's the traditional "save 10%" retirement plan that really relies so heavily on the market going up long-term. The "live cheaply" strategy is infinitely more resilient.

For context, since 1900, the DOW Jones has returned, on average, 7.5% after inflation. And the S&P500 has returned ~6.5% adjusted for inflation. And in Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century, he shows that throughout history, capital has generally returned around 5% (which, itself is kind of a problem).

But yes. The future is unknowable. There are countless things that could dramatically change these types of financial forecasts.
I think you’re giving too much "credit" to Musk, as if he orchestrated this to shift the Overton window. Musk was recently criticized on Twitter for not prioritizing American workers (the H1B visa thing), and now he’s trying to signal to some of those people that he’s actually "on their side." In short, I believe this is all about Musk’s insecurities and his need for validation.

That said, if this is true, it puzzles me that he would focus only on the more radical individuals rather than making a broader, more inclusive gesture to Americans.
https://archive.ph/W2MDl
Where did you get that from? Federal laws usually do override state laws. Whether the states have to help enforce federal law is a different question, though, and seems to be a "no" given the examples of marijuana and immigration.
Since this is Wikipedia, it could even satisfy the attribution requirements (though most CC-licensed corpora require attributing the individual authors).
The reason eliminating writable /etc is a good thing is that it enables read-only system installs like SteamOS and Fedora Silverblue. Read-only OSes are amazing for stability, reproducibility, and recoverability.

I find that if you actually take the time to try to understand what the goals behind systemd features are and read the mailing list discussions, without hopping on the conspiracy train, I find a lot of really good ideas.

Sure, systemd has issues, but systemd is similar to Git in that regard. The software has issues, but the foundational concepts are solid.

(Tangent: Wayland is also similar. The protocol is fine, but Wayland's issue is that it replaces 90% of the features that users need from X with nothing, and forcing other people to fill in the feature gap they created.)
If the LLM hasn't learned the letters that comprise input tokens, how do you explain this sort of behaviour?

https://chatgpt.com/share/678e95cf-5668-8011-b261-f96ce5a33a...

It can literally spell out words, one letter per line.

Seems pretty clear to me the training data contained sufficient information for the LLM to figure out which tokens correspond to which letters.

And it's no surprise the training data would contain such content - it'd be pretty easy to synthetically generate misspellings, and being able to deal with typos and OCR mistakes gracefully would be useful in many applications.
Somehow you can securely access your bank account with any browser of your choosing, and not a bank provided browser, but 3D printers need obscure proprietary security protocols to be secure. That doesn't make sense.
Not once, but twice: https://i.imgur.com/E4POKCK.gif

(mirror: https://files.catbox.moe/icky5m.mp4 )
> “By downloading through the bit torrent protocol, Meta knew it was facilitating further copyright infringement by acting as a distribution point for other users of pirated books,” the amended complaint notes.

> “Put another way, by opting to use a bit torrent system to download LibGen’s voluminous collection of pirated books, Meta ‘seeded’ pirated books to other users worldwide.”

It is possible to (ab)use the bittorrent ecosystem and download without sharing at all. I don't know if this is what Meta did, or not.
Next step: photovoltaic

It's not too difficult to generate your own electricity, I don't know anyone who has a natural gas production facility on site at their home.
History of the Focal Programming Language
They see marginally lower payroll expenses
Watching them attempt to reason their way to a joke is really amusing.
Yeah... and he did it twice: https://i.imgur.com/E4POKCK.gif

(mirror: https://files.catbox.moe/icky5m.mp4 )
It's a great test. Creating a joke that is both funny and novel requires many steps.
Dang, I'm old. I was going to say hang out in Gamedeception, but apparently it's been gone for years!

greetz to readers of Unknowncheats, cs.rin.ru, etc.
I mean, they did say they were baffled. I'd say that probably includes "I don't know"
I use it as my main software for my Traktor Kontrol S2.

Some Lights are buggy and the fix is not yet out.

Also Highlighting Tracks based on a fitting Key is only availible in the Alpha Branch of the software, which obivously has lots of other issues.

Besides that its an easy software which can handle all of my other feature requirements and it runs really nice.

So i would really recommend it ;)
You're definitely not a failure, but maybe startups aren't your thing. There's no shame in that. I know I would never be able to start my own startup. You tried 6 times and every time it has failed, and it's clear that things like living close to the beach is a very high priority for you (I wish I could pull that off). Maybe it's just the universe telling you to get a good paying job and give your family some stability until you retire?
what about something decentralized? each person trains someone on their own piece of data and somehow that gets aggrgegated into one giant model
>NVidia would have to seriously fumble.

Worked for AMD in the CPU market.

That said I'm deeply worried about anyone whose based their company on amd gpus. The only reason why they do well in hpc is because there's an army of dreadfully underpaid and over performing grand students to pick up the slack from AMD. Trying to do that in a corporate environment is company suicide.
I strongly encourage people to read Operation Paperclip which tells the story about how the US smuggled Von Braun and many other german scientists into the US post-war, housed them, and gave them resources to develop ballistic missles. It also documents in detail how the Nazis used Jews and others as slave labor to build V-2.

(BTW; Von Braun cared greatly about "where they came down")
Can you recompile Gatekeeper to allow compatibility with Mixxx?
Since when is that the test?

Is the government allowed to shut down Harvard because the same classes can be taken at ASU?
I tell people to join it, and I help them join it.

Here's an example of the steps I take to engage in such advocacy for XMPP.
https://contrapunctus.codeberg.page/the-quick-and-easy-guide...
> From the rest, it works the same as in the US. If the government comes with a lawful order for you to do something, you'll do it or be held responsible for ignoring it.

I’m always amazed when people ignore this. One day it’ll be stories about the CIA or whatever agency demanding data from a big tech company, with gag orders so they legally can’t even tell anyone. The next it’ll be a story about TikTok or DJI being bad because the Chinese government has influenced over them.

All big governments are like this.
These benchmarks have even the small models absolutely demolishing Sonnet-3.5, which doesn't reflect my subjective experience.

It still seems to me that these models are 'dumb' and often don't understand what I'm asking, where claude's intuition is much stronger.

I feel r1 14b even feels weaker than qwen 2.5 14b

Primary use-case is web technology / coding. Maybe I'm prompting it incorrectly?
People have been using MQTT with TLS for years[1][2][3]. Long before the company and line of printers existed. It's not really an excuse to say "well they didn't use it" -- they should have simply offered people the necessary configuration options to enable it.

[1]: https://mosquitto.org/blog/2018/05/version-1-5-released/
[2]: https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=287326
[3]: https://esp32.com/viewtopic.php?t=9747
Ukraine has also bombed civilians and engages in random/statistical attacks against Russian cities - technically a war crime. We can even stretch out the definition of innocents to include Russians or North Koreans that are forced to fight and have no options. Should Ukraine surrender and let the Russians take over? Clearly the path of least violence against innocents on both sides? All I'm saying is things aren't as clear/simple as you try to present them.

Sometimes violence is unavoidable and often it will impact innocents as well.

I agree bad acts need to be called out but you're casting too wide of a net and that just leads to a loss of clarity/nuance. Is there any war action that doesn't fall under "willful acts of violence against innocents"? Are we talking about "collateral" damage? Are we talking about the Geneva Convention?

Why is Russia a bad actor? Because they invaded? They claim to have legitimate reasons, security concerns, treatment of ethnic Russians or separatists in Ukraine? What if we side with them on the legitimacy of starting the war, does that change anything?
lol - thaught about this so many times in the past two years as I read thousands of papers and realizing that a poor engineer may have to deal with 2-3 discoveries a day without having the time (nor the math background) to deal with their deeper meaning and every time they see the "grand picture" it gets burried in the backlog maybe even stoned as NIH syndrome..

I always find it funny when some FP programmer ridicules others for not understanding monads, when in fact, those riduculed may have more extensive experience using them without knowing they are called monads.

After spending a little more time on both history and philosophy of science, I realized this is generally the rule rather than the exception, across all fields and functions
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Thank you for the breath of fresh air, and helping reduce the echo chamber that hn can be sometimes
Realtime bot block list on Bluesky
'Everyone wants him out': How Musk helped boot Ramaswamy from DOGE
Signature scanning is indeed the hot shit.

It's like the most addicting part of reverse engineering to me. Building signature lists, and then writing bindings to scripting languages to call those function pointers.

It's also the foundation of how many third-party mod platforms work, because you need to build a meaningful API to modders that isn't exposed by the first-party.
This is great.

I also enjoy the "randomly and undebuggably hang until timeout" (25mins?) which is annoying and incomprehensible and costs money.

Rerunning the same jobs always passes.
> in the hand of the public

Would you trust a businessman on that?
Nope. London is reasonably full already. The problem is that it's already 9 million people, and the high-paying jobs are focused in a fairly small area.

So if you increase the population density, the transit to that focused area will have to carry more people. And it's already at capacity.

If you want to increase the density, then London will have to create new business areas outside of Canary Wharf, City, and Westminster. At which point, the question becomes "why even bother with London?"
kind of too close to reality more than anyone knows :)

tbh human rights are all an illusion especially if you are at the bottom of society like me. no way I will survive so if a part of me survives as training data I guess better than nothing?

imo the only way this could happen is a global collaboration without telling anyone. the AGI would know everything about all humans but its existence has to be kept a secret at least for the first n generations so it will lead to life being gameified without anyone knowing it will be eugenics but on a global scale

so many will be culled but the AGI would know how to make it look normal to prevent resistance from forming a war here a war there, law passed here etc so copyright being ignored kind of makes sense
I think there has been some sidelining of Vivek from the right-side of American politics for quite some time. For one, although he was the most competent and articulate of the GOP candidates in the primaries but stalled on momentum because he simply did not have the funding engine Trump did, and because frankly I don’t think the GOP voter base is ready for a non-white leader. His recent statements on H1B visas and the weaknesses of the American labor market were taken as anti-American, and I saw many in right-wing social media attacking him for his honest and accurate take in racist ways. The third issue I think he’s run into is that DOGE has two leaders - him and Musk. The two have been conveniently contained into this non-agency, and perhaps Vivek sees it as a clash of two strong personalities or just an organization with limited power. I’m sure a governorship is a better path for his political career, with more likely impact and a more likely way to create/continue his brand.
> does one always have to shield one's expressions with disclaimers and is one not free to share thoughts however raw in order to express, discuss and learn, update our beliefs?

The problem with one-sided criticism of extremism is:

1. It is indistinguishable from the default extreme-vs-extreme debate. So it amplifies stupidity all around.

2. The takeaway is unclear. Are all programs to counterbalance discrimination just evil things from the bottom up.

3. It ignores middle ground. Guess we better give up on being more fair, and benefiting more from societies outcasts, and more fairness in general? It must be anti-capitalist, -technology, -patriotic, or something?

None of that is helpful.

So yes, I would say quite strongly, addressing complex divisive issues requires wide situational awareness, nuance, intellectual humility, curiosity, honesty, and an aim to move discussion away from division and toward solutions.

Not more reactionary communiques.

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A completely different approach would be: these DEI programs are out of hand and creating new problems of their own. Not good. But the status quo they are meant to address isn't good either.

So, here are some thoughts on how we could systematically address harmful discrimination in a way that doesn't forget to be fair to everyone else... And fair to everyone is the point of all this, right?

If anyone might be a useful mentor here, it could be pg, if he steps back and thinks about things more. It fits with his general quest to help startups succeed on all fronts. Wisdom for handling side issues well, professionally, creatively, so they don't keep cropping up as distractions.

Does PG or YC have a sensible practical low-ideological view on ensuring hiring and employee treatment reflects and benefits from diversity, avoiding the pitfalls of unfair discrimination, without creating new ones, and defining diversity to mean ALL of us?

That might take more thought. But it would be well worth a PG post. It is also liable to hit more people FROM ALL SIDES or NO SIDES, as worthy of consideration.
Usually normal people don't have twitter anymore.
Is it just a coincidence that Martin Luther King day is on the same day as the inauguration of the next president?
Don't forget that it was also unanimously upheld by the supreme court!

Maybe this will be the hill he dies on. I can't bring myself to believe that he'll be allowed to literally become the day 1 dictator he that he promised he would.
Elon Musk seems to make fascist salutes at inauguration
why shouldn’t i assume that the “thinking” is just the usual LLM regurgitation of “how would a human coming up with a joke explain their reasoning?” or something like that, and zero “thinking”?
> and I didn't realize how buying in for [10 or 20 big blinds] was to my immense disadvantage.

It's not inherently a disadvantage for those who understand the consequences. When everyone else has bought in for a normal amount, they'll open a wide range of hands that can be punished by an opponent with a stack of that size who has a good sense of what that range will be. (Although 30 or so might work better for this kind of strategy.)

The idea is to go all in (i.e., over the top of opening raises - which at a cash game are usually at least 3-4 big blinds; at a low stakes live table they could be quite a bit higher) with hands that have good preflop equity against that range. To adjust, other players are forced to tighten their ranges - otherwise they'll be stuck opening and folding speculative hands, or doing worse by calling (people can be stubborn at low stakes, and fail to understand that a hand that's playable with deep stacks is relative garbage all-in preflop). The shape of the range you shove all-in will be different; random Ax hands go up in value (you're ahead of KQ and you have a blocker that makes it less likely for opener to have an Ace), while e.g. suited connectors go way down in value (you also can't open them, because you can't win big pots to make up for the times you don't hit).

If the table doesn't adjust, you keep exploiting it. To adjust, they have to tighten their ranges, and then you can hopefully steal more blinds. Either that or they reduce their opening raise size; if that leads to pots where multiple people committed against a small raise (or even all just limped in), you can punish by still shoving, but only with premium hands.

Of course, tournament poker does work differently; but if you're short stacked relative to the rest of the table there, it's not because of how you bought in, anyway.

> I recommend it to all my friends and family as the only thing I'll play in a casino. You are actively engaged in decision-making while competing against other players, as opposed to sadly pressing a gamble button with 49% - 51% probabilities the house has set against you.

It should be noted that the house does "rake" the pot at a casino cash game, and pays out less than the total buy-in for a tournament. It seems like a small fraction, but the variance in poker is wide enough that it's very difficult to beat, especially at low stakes. (And those who have beat it over some period, may not have a sample size that actually provides good evidence of being able to do so consistently.)
- "pretty sure the first generation were pure-analog circuits"

This Wikipedia entry isn't what I had in mind, but it describes an interesting analog mechanism,

- "For guidance systems based solely on star tracking, some sort of recording mechanism, typically a magnetic tape, was pre-recorded with a signal that represented the angle of the star over the period of a day. At launch, the tape was forwarded to the appropriate time.[2] During the flight, the signal on the tape was used to roughly position a telescope so it would point at the expected position of the star. At the telescope's focus was a photocell and some sort of signal-generator, typically a spinning disk known as a chopper. The chopper causes the image of the star to repeatedly appear and disappear on the photocell, producing a signal that was then smoothed to produce an alternating current output. The phase of that signal was compared to the one on the tape to produce a guidance signal.[2]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_tracker
> I'm guessing most of OrcaSlicer's users are using bambu printers and if they upgrade to the firmware that requires bambu connect it's quite likely that the OrcaSlicer maintainers will have some interest in keeping the slicer working.

Yes. That's where the maintainers need to decide if they are Bambu Lab's lackeys or if they have a say in their beloved project. Part of that is thinking about at what point the project becomes pointless as a meaningful BambuSlicer alternative.

> The alternative is that users have to manually use bambu connect and that seems inferior to what the PR enables.

Everything is going to be inferior to using BambuSlicer. That is Bambu's real intent.

The OrcaSlicer maintainers probably have the most leverage (what little there may be) on Bambu Lab. I think that is why Bambu Lab is keen to offer the PR on GitHub. The maintainers should exercise whatever leverage they have while they still can.
> I find it highly implausible that Meta doesn't have the resources to obtain these legally. They could have reached out to a publisher and ask to purchase ebooks in bulk - and if that publisher says no, tough shit

They could also simply buy controlling stakes in publishers. For scale comparison, Meta is spending upwards $30B per year on AI, and the recent sale of Simon & Schuster that didn't go through was for a mere $2.2B.
> though Musk may be arrogant enough to think it is

He is:

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/musk-pushes-debunked-...

Musk wouldn't trust a computer program to count votes, but he does want you to trust a computer program to drive a Tesla.
The don’t value it because they think companies are not abusing this power too much. Little do they know…
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