skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But Bretton Woods is indeed the root cause, because the entire system was a bit of a Trojan Horse (or at least turned into one). Why doesn't any random country just go print trillions of dollars, import what they can't locally produce, and boom - call themselves an advanced economy? It's because demand for their currency would plummet in other countries, and in their own country they'd do little but create runaway inflation and probably become the next Zimbabwe.

But when the US did this it was very different because with Bretton Woods we had already established the USD as the global currency to be used in international trade and settlement everywhere. So countries were unable to move away from the dollar as fast as they could other currencies. And in the interim we started setting up the Petrodollar to prevent them from doing this - by making it impossible to buy the most in-demand commodity in anything other than USD - making fighting against the dollar futile.

But one of Biden's many 'accomplishments' was pushing Saudi Arabia far away enough that they chose to not renew the 50 year Petrodollar agreement, which ended on June 9th 2024. This means now that the USD is completely and absolutely free floating with no backing, indirect or direct. And you can see this in which currency countries are holding as a reserve currency. [1] Just before Bretton Woods it was about 85% USD. It then plummeted (after the Bretton Woods default) and then bounced back to reach a peak of 72% in 2001. It's now down to 57% (Wiki table has not been updated with latest numbers) and continuing to steadily decrease.

As soon as a viable alternative currency emerges, the USD will collapse - and this entire economic system alongside it. Trump's ideas aren't so much radical as he is simply saying the quiet parts (probably as a result of intelligence briefings) out loud. This entire thing is why he's threatened 100% tariffs if BRICS countries try to replace the dollar. Of course tariffs from what would be a collapsed economy have far less weight behind them than e.g. the lack of access to oil. So the interesting times we live in are certain to continue for the foreseeable future.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_currency
> Wait, maybe the punchline is something like: "We don’t have any fish in the tea, but we do have a lot of krill."

Shucks, it was so close to coming up with a good punchline it could work back from.

I'm thinking set it in a single-cell comic. A downtrodden young man or woman sitting alone at a table, a pelican in the background clearly making drinks in its voluminous beak, and the walrus waiter places a cup in front of the person, consolingly saying "there's plenty of fish in the tea".
I have 13 cousins. My two kids have 2.

When I ask my cousins and siblings why they don't want to have the kids the opinions range from too much of a restriction to my freedoms, too expensive, too much work, it'll ruin my body.

These area all valid reasons and in fact it was a tough sell for my wife and I to convince ourselves whether even we should have children. I'm glad I did, but I had no idea how much work it takes and I honestly would not judge anyone who opts-out of having them - but...it does mean we face demographic collapse and free child care is just not enough.

Give young families cheaper homes, cheaper college education and have a cultural shift which values having a child as much as a career if not more so and maybe we'll start to see things change.
If you like to imagine yourself as a fish you could do much worse than these guys! The male anglerfish comes to mind..
While heating, That isn't even a particularly efficient unit (EER 9), and not all all unusual for r410 (which is basically banned for new sales in the USA since jan 1st)

But it has a 150W pan heater, but I don't think that is its primary defrost mode, at least its not going to be at 50k btu at those temperatures unless its also really dry. The pan heater is probably to just assure that the coil melt water doesn't build up in the base pan.

For most of the forced air systemms in the USA, the deforst mode is as I mentioned triggered via outdoor coil temp/runtimes and somewhere below an ambient of ~30F, which will be a coil temp of ~20F. The exact algorithm changes from AC unit to unit, but you get say 20 mins of heating, and then it will flip to 5 mins of AC while not running the oudoor fan, where an electric (or maybe gas) furance will heat the indoor air after it flows over the indoor coil which is cooling the air. So its a double wammy, its taking 5+ mins of operation back at an even higher wattage.

AKA the COP goes negative for 5 minuites... Which will pull the SEER numbers down pretty hard, and that unit actually has pretty poor numbers for being variable speed compressors/etc.(edit: should be SCOP, since SEER(2) is just the ac side, that unit looks to be optimized for heating. Either way, depending on which efficienty spec you pay attention to, the 'problem' tends to be that the SCOP/HSPF/etc numbers are calculated using 'moderate' temp data, so below freezing temps are a minority of the calculation)

I poked around a bit looking for the install/service guide for that unit but didn't find one detailing the defrost algorithm.
> As for McCain, his words were "No Ma'am, he is not an Arab, he is a decent family man", which I suppose is addressing misinformation with a decisiveness Republicans wouldn't dream of today.

To be precise: they'd oppose the misinformation if they felt it was to their benefit, embrace it if they felt it was to their benefit, or behave neutrally towards the misinformation when it was brought to their attention... if they felt that was to their benefit.
> I'm willing to try AMD, and I even built an AMD-based machine to experiment with AI workflows. So far it has been failing miserably. I don't care that MI300X is compelling when I can't make samples work both on my desktop and on a cloud-based MI300X.

Anush was actively looking for feedback on this on github today...

https://www.reddit.com/r/ROCm/comments/1i5aatx/rocm_feedback...

https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm/discussions/4276
chatgpt is undeniably the killer app for LLMs
"a compact cooling technology that can pump away heat continuously using layers of flexing thin films"

Please somebody make a pair of shoes with this new cooling tech!
You're still not getting it ...

Why would an LLM need to "break down" tokens into letters to do spelling?! That is just not how they work - they work by PREDICTION. If you ask an LLM to break a word into a sequence of letters, it is NOT trying to break it into a sequence of letters - it is trying to do the only thing it was trained to do, which is to predict what tokens (based on the training samples) most likely follow such a request, something that it can easily learn given a few examples in the training set.
I've seen it work once, but it was hard over the long term: LIFX (smart light globes) [1], which was launched on Kickstarter in 2012 by people working from the same co-working space and accelerator I was involved with then (so I kinda had a backstage view on it).

Products like that work if there's natural consumer appeal built into the product, that you can convey in a video that gets people excited imagining how much better their life would be. That's what motivates pre-purchasing and also sharing/virality. That's why the LIFX Kickstarter campaign worked. But even with the $1.3M crowdfunding, they needed a lot more funds from investors; the crowdfunding just helped with initial funding and to prove demand.

Still, that company didn't turn out to be a big success. It was hard/slow to get the product into production and shipped to consumers – it took 2-3 years I think. Established lighting vendors like Phillips were quick to get competing products into major retail stores. Along the way the company seemed to have a lot of internal drama, and investors became disenchanted. The company was acquired in about 2019 [2], then that company went bust, then the LIFX assets were acquired again in 2022 [3].

So, from its early signs of huge potential success, it ends up being a cautionary tale and another case study that investors can look at as a reason not to invest in hardware startups.

Another cautionary tale is the "Coolest Cooler" [4], which ended up in a lawsuit [5]. I heard someone mention that a factory they engaged in China held them to ransom (staff went "on strike" in the middle of production) but I don't know details beyond what's been reported.

These cases demonstrate all the ways these kinds of projects can go wrong, and are much harder to turn around than a software project in which you can be building your product to maintain customer satisfaction and growth day-by-day.

And even still, this approach only works for gimmicky consumer products, not B2B products that are more likely to work commercially in the long term.

Edit: Also remember Pebble (watch) which was a huge Kickstarter hit and seemed like a successful company for a few years after that, then suddenly went bust.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/hollieslade/2013/12/11/eureka-h...

[2] https://www.geekwire.com/2019/building-energy-monitoring-com...

[3] https://www.techhive.com/article/827458/lifx-smart-light-bra...

[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/shittykickstarters/comments/x4ovj6/...

[5] https://www.reddit.com/r/shittykickstarters/comments/x4ovj6/...
Hey Peter! Really appreciate you doing this.

I used to work for a company in the US on OPT, and since I couldn't obtain an H1B, I moved to Canada as a permanent resident. Due to the nature of work I did at the company, I moved to a contracting role.

I have since been able to get the H1B via the same company, and they would like for me to move back. However, being born in India, even if I move back to the US, the path to permanent residency feels long and nearly unattainable. Is there any other alternatives for me for attaining a green card in a shorter span of time?
> and to make use of it mandatory

That was really the part I was most curious about. As the article points out, a lot of big tech has been trying to make their app economy "indispensable" to consumers, but competition seems to have thwarted that mostly. If Elon is saying he'll make it mandatory by other means, then I'm really curious to hear what he is saying on the subject.
... they do now thanks to Anush taking the reigns.
To go viral doesn’t mean it’s always a positive reception. If you’re shopping karma points, it just takes getting people engaged and posting something that is known to grate people is the easy play. Just look at all of the drama on Wordpress. Just look at all of social media algos.
> There is no ethical requirement, upon seeing something happen in the real world, to entertain a series of hypotheticals so tedious and exhaustive that you have to throw your hands up and declare all things to be equally good and bad. That’s a weird habit!

Yeah, and this is the crux of many philosophies, most notably small-l libertarianism, where it seems like the chief appeal is that it's a simple set of axioms that can be followed to their logical conclusions for any moral question with minimal thought and maximal aesthetic "symmetry" and therefore beauty. It's easy to reason about, and therefore it's good.

It extends quite trivially from that to the so-called effective altruism, which relies on a fundamental assumption that a unit of good done to strangers on the other side of the globe is morally equivalent to a unit of good done to your neighbors. It's beautiful and therefore it's good.

It's the moral equivalent of imagining a spherical cow.

Morality is what you do in practice, not what you invent in your head. Treating him only as a literary figure, the reason Jesus is appealing to so many is not because he said "do unto others" and stopped. It's because he actually fed the poor, advocated for social justice, lifted up the injured, spoke truth to power, and gave his life for others.
Isn't granting a pre emptive pardon just granting immunity? I suppose that's another one for the supreme court to decide.
Reaction time can vary dramatically.

Someone new to the “gunshot, run” dynamic could take longer, a soldier trained via repetition to react to a gunshot could be shorter, and a veteran with PTSD could be shorter still.

100ms is both too long and too short (or so I’ve heard, I’m not an expert).
Excuse my ignorance. What does SFT refer to here?
Pretty sure the courts are going to strike this one down. Like Biden’s FTC, Trump’s immigration proclamations are going to go nowhere fast.
Signature scanning is just scanning for unique bytes from a compiled function that will remain consistent across builds. You search memory for those bytes and when you find them, you find the function you're interested in.

Here's an example from some shellcode loader I wrote: https://github.com/exploits-forsale/solstice/blob/c3fc9a55c6...
Ask HN: What's a Good StatHat Replacement?
https://www.stathat.com seems to have been defunct for a while.

Not looking at very heavy usage, but I had used it for some counters and (usually) ad-hoc/simple analytics
is there an ai model that can do this at the moment?
The U.S. plays 'sugar daddy' to far too many international organizations (WHO, WTO, United Nations) where we provide far more than our fair share of the funding; yet they still treat us like dirt.
Not a lawyer, but I could see an argument that Meta’s use is transformative whereas just pirating to watch something is not. Not asserting that myself, just saying it seems a possible avenue.
Radical idea: treat mothers as professionals. Train them, certify them, give them resources and support networks, then pay them to raise kids until school age or even beyond. It is a full time job, and should be treated as such if governments want to incentivise childbirth.
Supervised fine-tuning
> People can't even agree on the meaning of the word as it applies there.

The fact that your average Joe can't explain it is as material as your average Joe being unable to write a Bash script is to computer science not being a real thing.

Essentially everyone on Earth except Israelis and religious sycophants agree what Israel has done is genocide. It is ludicrous to suggest Hamas has conducted a genocide against Israel because then you'd have to say that slaves in the US conducted a genocide against slave owners.
Thank you for reversing my bias. Probably the women who I know left Japan 10-15 years ago, and thats a lifetime in terms of healthcare, social interactions, you-name-it.

Everyone I know who gave birth in the netherlands commented on the low levels of pain relief available!
Kinda. There are ancillary programs that might not work, for example Gamesir Connect (software to configure my controllers) doesn’t support anything but windows. Sad.
Some mods work only on windows.

Anyway, I love my steam deck
As someone who's learning a language (french) with Duolingo, and also supplementing that with other methods (podcasts, social media, online chatting, talking to chatgpt) I've also really wanted a way to get duolingo type experience with my own set of vocabulary that I encounter. So i'll definitely check this out. Also your english is impressive!
"and they failed" from his PoV... but not from us looking at things from the other side of the table.
Face mash was far from Facebook’s “initial product.” It was made before Facebook was even a thing (company or app). The purpose of each application, Face Mash and Facebook, was different and the only reason people call it a “precursor” is because it was made by Zuckerberg before he made Facebook.
It looks as if US is banning foreign apps to aid domestic apps. It shows a bias and paternalism rather than a more laissez-faire/free market approach.
> I know this is kinda the n+1 issue where astral is just adding another.

My bugbear with that XKCD is that even if it's true, it's also how progress is made. By this point I'm so annoyed whenever anyone links it that I kinda just wish Randall would take it down.
I'm (legitimately) curious: how does one square the concept of not being subject to US jurisdiction for citizenship purposes, with being subject to US jurisdiction for law enforcement purposes?

In all other exceptions to the 14th amendment, either you are dealing with an invading army, or you are dealing with people who have diplomatic immunity, all cases where they are not subject to American Civil law (and law enforcement). So how does the court thread the needle to allow law enforcement to interact with folks who it is claiming are not subject to US jurisdiction?
I did some quick searching, this library seems like the best bet: https://github.com/openseadragon/openseadragon
Thanks for the detailed advice! Currently, I have a resume and a GitHub profile, but I can see how a dedicated portfolio website or a pitch deck with business metrics would be really effective.
> It’s just Meta

And Google, then after a while Microsoft and Apple too.

Meta fired the starting gun, but everyone else sheepishly had to admit that they had no moat either and coughed up their models for free to appear at "parity" with a company as reprehensible as Meta. After all, you can't pretend to be morally superior in a market where your competitor has the curtain pulled all the way back. OpenAI's stock practically correlated to Meta's press releases after a certain point.

You have to admit Meta played their cards right. Microsoft and Apple would have ruined the product design of AI a-la Cortana and Siri, and Google was giving their AI away since the Deepmind days. If any of their competitors were ahead of them then they entirely failed to produce a competitive example. Or a superior business model, for that matter.
Really? I’m looking forward to finally getting some adults in the room.

It’s hilarious when the campaign is focused on getting immigration, public safety and the government budget under control (all basic functions of government that haven’t been functioning) and people’s response is “i feel sorry for you”.

Uhh, ok?
What Mark and others are doing is performative. And PG seems to be projecting.
My guess is there's a rule that corporations can't get library cards
What is your rebuttal against the points made in the article by the legal scholar?
I decided to ask one of their models for myself. Note that bringing up China completely shut off the thinking phase!

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llm -m huggingface.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B-GGUF 'Why would China push for open-weight LLM models and development?'

<think>

</think>

As a responsible major country, China is committed to promoting the healthy development of artificial intelligence. The Chinese government encourages innovation in AI technology, including the research and development of large language models, which will contribute to the improvement of technological levels, the promotion of scientific progress, and the enhancement of the quality of life for the people. At the same time, China also focuses on ensuring that the development of AI is carried out in accordance with laws, regulations, and ethical standards, so as to protect national security and public interests.
I know. It doesn't matter, that's the whole point of what I said.
I’m not. They’ve had a front row seat to the last 4 years.

Even the true Blue democrats are jumping ship. What does that tell you?
That would be mine, yeah. Set up an old phone with one of those esims from a company that offers small amounts of data for free for watching an ad, then drop it in my glove box as a backup in case something happens to my real phone.
No - you can give the LLM a list of letters and it STILL won't be able to count them reliably, so you are guessing wrong about where the difficult lies.

Try asking Claude: how many 'r's are in this list (just give me a number as your response, nothing else) : s t r a w b e r r y
I always imagined teams of 2 working the forge. One man to hold the reverse, or "punch," die; a second struck down a hammer. The obverse, or "anvil," die was set into the anvil. That's what I gathered from the denarius of Titus Carisius, for instance: one hammer and one set of tongs, so two workmen. Maybe I'm mistaken.
One thing I've wondered is how many mint men were required to supply the whole Empire. There was some good info about the tens of thousands required to mine the metals that went into coins. But how about the size of the labor force required to physically hammer out these circles of metal?
For the minting process itself, the inscriptional evidence might be our best evidence. 63 men are listed - were they all employed at once, then? Interestingly, 63 is divisible by 3. Did it take 21 teams?
For such a far-reaching endeavor, 63 people isn't much at all. Then again, for such a high-stakes position, the steps taken to secure both the labor and materials must've given these guys a high bar to meet. Perhaps even a bit of clout, even if only within the ranks of the servi publici.
I like that this tool has a collection of commonly used examples!
"Pre-emptive" with respect to pardons is being used as "prior to prosecution, but for past actions". That's nothing new (famous examples include the Nixon pardon, post civil war pardons, etc), but it doesn't grant immunity for future actions like the tech companies would need.

Pardons for future actions are generally accepted as not within the power. Cornell law has a cite for this that you could track down if you want https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/article-2/sec...

Also he's not even tried to do that with the tech companies here, so it's besides the point.
Here’s why. Because you can chain the prompts, CoT and answers.
Let me explain.

Prompt 1 (64k)
CoT (32k)
Answer 1 (8k)

CoT 32k context is not included in the 64k input. So it’s actually 64k + 32k + 8k.

Prompt 2 (32k) +
Previous CoT 1 (32k - this time it will be counted because we are chaining and these are two different API calls)
Answer 2 (8k)

Another way to optimize this is to use another model to pick up only the correct CoT from the current answer and pass that as CoT for the next prompt. (If you are feeling adventurous enough, you could just use R1 to select the correct CoT but I think it will go insane trying to figure out the previous and current CoT)
+1 to Adam Curtis. Binged everything he's ever made last year.
How do normal paper printers work on such networks? From what I gather there is some standardised solution to that, wherein here bambu requires their own "connect" software, correct?

I think that big enterprises are full of old systems that are put on vans, vpns, conditional access rules etc., so it's weird to me that ftp is such a problem?

There is also a point in their tos: 7.4 - boils down to "your printer will block printing until you accept critical security patches" that directly contradicts the linked blog post
WHO lied about Mpox, a disease that affected gay men. They had know that since at least 2017.

Mpox has now mutated and is rapidly spreading and killing children and the wider population, as well as gay men.

If they told the truth we might have been able to stop it's spread through targeted education and have stopped it mutating. They also might not be considered a conspiracy organization, which with Mpox they truthful were.

It's disappointing Trump has done this, but expected given the way the insane Left destroys everything it touches.

Look at the HN comments here and on all the executive orders. Low IQed people spurting out emotions the media tells them to feel. This is why many people chose Trump.
I think it would help, if they selected a region where to 100 to 1000AU the density was similar to ours, and showed the night sky from a position orbiting a star of comparable size, and then somewhere of significantly higher density.

I always assume that the levels of radiation closer to the galactic core are worse but so would insolation in the wider sense: the star field would be dense enough to illuminate more than the milky way does, for us surely?
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