skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The frontend / backend split is where you have the REST and JSON camps fighting with the RPC / protobuf / gRPC factions.

RPCs have more maintainable semantics than REST as a virtue of not trying to shoehorn your data model (cardinality, relationships, etc.) into a one-size-fits-all prescriptive pattern. Very few entities ever organically evolve to fit cleanly within RESTful semantics unless you design everything upfront with perfect foresight. In a world of rapidly evolving APIs, you're never going to hit upon beautiful RESTful entities. In bigger teams with changing requirements and ownership, it's better to design around services.

The frontend folks don't maintain your backend systems. They want easy to reason about APIs, and so they want entities they can abstract into REST. They're the ultimate beneficiaries of such designs.

The effort required for REST has a place in companies that sell APIs and where third party developers are your primary customers.

Protobufs and binary wire encodings are easier for backend development. You can define your API and share it across services in a statically typed way, and your services spend less time encoding and decoding messages. JSON isn't semantic or typed, and it requires a lot of overhead.

The frontend folks natively deal with text and JSON. They don't want to download protobuf definitions or handle binary data as second class citizens. It doesn't work as cleanly with their tools, and JSON is perfectly elegant for them.

gRPC includes excellent routing, retry, side channel, streaming, and protocol deprecation semantics. None of this is ever apparent to the frontend. It's all for backend consumers.

This is 100% a frontend / backend tooling divide. There's an interface and ergonomic mismatch.
One regret I have is buying a monitor that lacks a very high brightness setting. Not good if you have a sun-lit room.
"Basically just inline CSS, but less fiddly and much more optimizable than the style attribute" was always the selling point of Tailwind in the first place.
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It can be for some, I would imagine. However, I actually learn a lot from this site. I feel like there are so many knowledgeable people here about topics of great interest to me. I procrastinate a ton here, but I wouldn't classify it as 'doomscrolling.'
for 13 hours? I suppose we never specificied how long it had to be banned for.
All I did was provide him the space and time to work on the project ... his parents funded the entire project, but will get reimbursement soon. It's the great minds, and the desire to have meaningful projects that make Exeter such an awesome place. Byran is one of a kind!!!!
I live in LA - I am born and raised, never even left the city until I was an adult - I think it’s the best place on earth, but the recent natural disaster has made up my mind for me. I’m still grieving a little in my head about it, but long suspected this day could come - my home is losing fire insurance. I’m not sure I can even sell it if the market goes into a downturn, I don’t really even have a hard decision. the question to me is, what area will weather natural disasters the best in the next 40-60 years? I don’t honestly know. I think parts of northern alaska could become pretty temperate and is reasonably cheap/undeveloped, but I have infrastructure concerns and am not so much interested in remaining in the united states.
I assume the NIH was singled out as some sort of vengeance for the CV19 response?

Hopefully they'll restore some semblance of order after the pound of flesh is theatrically exacted.
Are you familiar with "brushing"?

https://www.newsweek.com/seeds-mystery-packages-mail-china-b...

point is, these problems already exist and have lots of people working on them, yet they persist as problems. Many of the things you suggest are already part of this cat-n-mouse game

> negative feedback can't be hidden or deleted ... unless deemed harmful by moderators or community

So in fact anything can be modified in the end if the powers that be decide so?

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edit: I should add a suggestion...

I'm interested in how we might build a more transparent review system on ATProto, where we can all have access to the raw review data, and we can leverage the plug-n-play algos, stacked moderation, and other features of the network. We could create our own lexicons for reviews and make them generic enough to apply to all other lexicon and records in the system. We could end up with a two level system (1) the review records themselves (2) the labellers and algos that build on, annotate, or attest to them.

A discussion for an "attestation" lexicon has already been started: https://github.com/orgs/lexicon-community/discussions/8

What this offers is a system where there is not a privileged group or a single community moderating, but rather an ecosystem where these entities compete and users can choose which one(s) they subscribe to (or trust).
Mostly beef, but occasionally eggs & fish as well. Chicken wings on an odd occasion.

I've written about my diet here: https://srid.ca/carnivore-diet
I never see bills from my employer based healthcare, and it's not anything super fancy, and it's not Kaiser, just BC/BS. I had a surgery that billed my insurance in the tens of thousands of dollars and I never saw a bill. My spouse sees bills but it's because she has her physician order tests that are a bit outside well established medicine that would never be covered by NHS in the UK or Health Canada.

My relatives on Medical never see bills.

It's not just Kaiser.
I agree. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_factor

> Power-factor correction increases the power factor of a load, improving efficiency for the distribution system to which it is attached. Linear loads with a low power factor (such as induction motors) can be corrected with a passive network of capacitors or inductors. Non-linear loads, such as rectifiers, distort the current drawn from the system. In such cases, active or passive power factor correction may be used to counteract the distortion and raise the power factor.

Why can't they just fix it inside the bulb?
The new edge of soft discipline
> approaching AGI

I don't see how we're approaching AGI? I think an argument can now be made that it seems possible. But I would need a convincing argument that LLMs are anything more than an early stepping stone.
I like this. Testing the browser extension now and pretty happy with it (after tweaking so returning to a tab has a grace period). I was using StayFocused, which is okay, but too tempting to just disable it (and annoying if I need to access a blocked site for work purposes).
If it worked it would work.

If having an informed populace is required for democracy to work then it doesn't work. Especially when you ask the question, "informed about what"?
You sure did!
> Of course they can hide actual scientific data and replace it with their own version.

They'll just break out the magic markers on all the dis-favorable weather reports.
it depends on the advancement of society to be honest. I wouldn't blame someone getting scammed in 2000 over a "Hot sexy singles in your area, click now!". I would 100% blame them in 2020+.

I don't know how far we've come in regards to email phishing to make a call on that.
Maybe? That probably starts a definitional debate that isn't usually helpful. Is it apathetic to let nature, evolution, or markets do what they do best?

What is "fair" requires context. I could argue that nonintervention is fair or that a top-down, Marxist approach is fair depending on how "success" is defined.
Members of the US military actually get more vaccines and, until recently, had fewer protections with respect to declining them than the typical US citizen (specifically with COVID, Trump has indicated, not sure if he's done it yet, that he'll reinstate people who refused a lawful order to be vaccinated for it; so now I guess they can just refuse any vaccines even if it impacts readiness). During the run up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, US service members were vaccinated for smallpox (appropriate for this thread). That was this century, 30+ years after smallpox was declared eradicated.

They were also vaccinated for other diseases. Join the military and you sign away a lot of your rights (arguably for some good benefits, but we'll see how the new VA head and others treat the veterans and current troops).
Please... just... stop.
I found Canticle dull at first, then the ideas started to gel and I was salivating for more post-apocalyptic speculation like it. Do you have any other recommendations for people who enjoyed it?
> raw computing power grows by 10^6 every ~25 years.

For how many years has this been the trend?
https://archive.today/QcBCE
Yeah... one of the is not like the other tho. Seriously, Japan was the 2nd largest Economy for a long time but far more importantly, Japanese culture is one of the most powerful in the world - everyone under a certain knows who Goku is, Luffy is beloved world over and we all know what it means to run like Naruto.

The world over also knows that Japan is a pretty serious culture, they are like the Germany of Asia and the Koreans and Chinese are pretty serious too. They have several words to define foreigner based on their level of how bad they are or decent...

It's one of the most expensive places in the world, Japanese is also hard and they have a stubborn attachment to using it even for titles of things... I'd not have it easy in Japan.

I'd pick Japan. Every. single. time.

Not all closed to immigrant societies can actually do an about face. That's just reality.

I'd pick
It's too late for backlash. If we survive the next four years, we'll be lucky.
> Let's Hope [the Self-Destruction of] Elon Musk Doesn't Take EVs with Him

I'm not too worried, the market-demand has been proven, if Tesla implodes other companies will be motivated to fill the gap.

> As Niedermeyer said, this is kind of an unprecedented act, mixing caustic social issues and vehicle manufacturing together in ways we’ve not seen, likely ever.

What about the famous Henry Ford? Criticized as antisemitic, segregated black employees into certain roles (TBF, he did pay the same by role) and he also conditioned a portion of employee compensation on satisfying his private morality-police who would do home inspections.

I'm sure Musk wanted his legacy to be compared with Ford's, but probably not in this particular way. :P
Related:

Reddit won't interfere with users revolting against X with subreddit bans - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42798133 - Jan 2025
> The point about lack of tooling for Babylon.JS is interesting: a lot of times I see people wanting to release games but spending most of the time building tools... sometimes all of the time. It is a delicate balance!

Ah we all know what we really want to do - build tools!

A game just makes the journey a tad more interesting.
We voted for an authoritarian. We're really damn close to irreversible.
We've had human shaped robots for decades, but so what ?

Robots that not only have AGI (running locally, under battery power?!) but also the dexterity, flexibility, etc to match that of a plumber seem a long, long way off, and would of course require something a lot more advanced that today's LLM based AI - would need to have full blown brain-like capabilities, obviously including the mechanisms to learn a craft.
What nonsensical claims did the HHS make about COVID?
I’ve never experienced crude oil firsthand, but I assume you are talking about “sour crude” which has a high sulfur content, including hydrogen sulfide, resembling rotten eggs or raw sewerage. So-called “sweet crude”, with a low sulfur content, has a less offensive smell, smelling more like the petroleum products derived from it.
I can't get enough of the big corporate care for open source. Guess in those tough times Broadcom needs some funding for a valid certificate
Like 80% of the human brain is used for things that AI does not need (digestion, breathing, etc). So I think that automatically disqualifies your stance, but I am open-minded and would like to know what percent of the human brain you think is vital for AI to outperform us.
your argument is actually quite dumb, because they have messages from Ross giving the OK to sell most of these things.

He wasnt some hands off executive who had no idea. Smart people should be able to not equate an illegal market place with a legal market place
It's a stretch to say the American people voted for gutting our health research capabilities.
Because covid? Congress wanted to pass a covid relief bill sending $700B to corporations. Trump said to get the money to the people so they increased it to do so. Biden happily kept the budget way overblown even though covid was essentially over. Neither party has addressed the budget in decades. One wants to spend more and the other wants to cut taxes. Neither fixes anything.
If you going to hate on it, at least try understand what it is and why people use it.
The post makes the point that a large amount of science produced in the US is not trustworthy. Fraudulence implies intentional deception, but it is more likely that it is simply a response to incentives. I don't see why you can't understand what I'm saying, but in the hope that it's easier I'll put it in bullet points and try to be direct

* The post is a sample of papers across many fields

* It describes a method to determine whether widespread p-hacking is occurring in a field

* Widespread p-hacking in a field will lead to unreproducible results (because the results are an artifact of the data rather than reflecting any underlying cause)

* You said: The replication crisis stuff is mostly a message board fixation. The problem we have is that people unfamiliar with the field don't have a sense of what the denominator is, only the numerator.

* The approach in the post uses a statistical method across many papers across many fields. It does not rely on the existence of some number of non-replicable results (in fact, one should expect some percentage of results to be non-replicable).

* Therefore, it doesn't rely on "the numerator" so to speak, but a sample of all papers in a field to characterize the field's replicability.

You're a smart guy. I follow your posts here and on Twitter. So I can only assume that either I've flipped some bozo bit or something in my communication style is abstruse. I don't understand why you're saying that p-hacking has nothing to do with the replication crisis (most would expect the two to be quite related), or that saying "the replication crisis is real" means I am claiming that individual papers exist that are non-replicable (which is fine, but not a replication crisis). In either case, we're clearly getting nothing out of talking to each other so I might as well leave off here.
Apparently they have -- the comment above the article says that the new version conforms.
I think he had a bit of a thing about t-shirts. I got a free SO one for something like being a top-100 poster (can't remember exactly what) and I was quite proud of it. Those were quite fun days, unlike the sad mess SO is now.
Archive.org has a cli which is useful if you're interested in the subject of the title: https://archive.org/developers/internetarchive/cli.html
And 2020-2024? That extra trillion was supposed to be a one time covid measure, not the new pork.
Try providing the LLM the necessary context and you'll be pleasantly surprised. The problem is that we haven't created proper 'inputs' (data pipelines) into LLMs. But that is going to change this year with agents, and an entirely new software paradigm will emerge from it.
I would guess by reflecting light off something silvery, eg, a wall painted in metallic silver paint.
Calm down, guys. It's transitional, and it's not unusual.

From the article:

> The hiring freeze is governmentwide, whereas a pause on communications and travel appears to be limited to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), NIH’s parent agency. Such pauses are not unprecedented when a new administration comes in. But some NIH staff suggested these measures, which include pulling job ads and rescinding offers, are more extreme than any previously.

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> Previous administrations have imposed communications pauses in their first days. And the administration of Barack Obama continued a cap on attendance at scientific meetings first imposed by the George W. Bush administration, which in some cases meant staff canceled trips to meetings.

> But an immediate, blanket ban on travel is unusual, says one longtime researcher in NIH's intramural program. “I don't think we've ever had this and it's pretty devastating for a postdoc or graduate student who needs to present their work and network to move ahead in their career,” the researcher says.

This is not an extraordinary event. It is not an attack on the NIH. It is a transitional pause, which is substantially normal when administrations change hands. The wailing and moaning is silly. Give it a week.
Samsung's Galaxy S25 event was an AI presentation with occasional phone hardware
>I'm sort of surprised there's no straight-forward "block windows updates" firewall for the raspberry pi or so,

At least for Windows 11 Pro and above, this is as simple as disabling automatic updates in Group Policy.

Yes, it does work. And it should continue to work because Group Policy is an enterprise feature that Microsoft does not want to violate.

Home users are SOL, though.
>> As long as they're not fucking up the NIH grantmaking process

I'll be happy if they ban "gain of function" research entirely.
> economic incentive for competing humans

That's assuming there are competing humans left and economic gain to be had.
Ha, me too! When the first title included Entscheidungsproblem I thought this would be intellectual edgelording. But, this is a legit list.

Of course, you can't do justice to the entire field with such a short list. Two papers on web but none on graphics, e.g. But it's a fine reading list for sure.
Sure, they made money off my work, I don’t mind that. That’s fine.

Your analogy about the public park is wrong btw. A better analogy is if someone ran a private park for years where musicians can come and collaborate with each other and expertly exchange ideas, and then after 20 years of running the park they sell it and move on with their life.
Even if you discount the role of the whole body as an integrated system, signaling and talking to itself, coordinated by the brain... you're still talking about 16 billion neurons in the cortex alone. That may sound like a number we can approach or exceed with modern tech, but neurons are not transistors.

Those 16 billion neurons in the cortex form over 140 TRILLION connections through synapes. Those are both computing elements as well as memory.

There's no comparison, not even close. As a bonus we don't each require a giant warehouse to house us, we don't require a vast supply of water, nor do we require a personal dedicated power plant.
You'd think he'd do that? Go on the ~~internet~~ podium and tell lies?

nevermind he never had a plan for any of the issues people voted for him on. A still vague plan on fixing inflation (spoilers: he cannot do as much to fix inflation as many think), still rough numbers on what these tarriffs are supposed to do. What else did conservatives think he was going to do...
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyg5jdgzy1o

‘You want to come to America? Earn it, like I did’

well he is indeed hastening the deportation... nevermind conservatives with undocumented workers only lose from this and don't want to pay americans minimum wage. Well done.

'He invokes fear in the rest of the world’

Yeah, I guess pissing off all our friends and getting cozy with China/Russia will invoke fear.

Hey, Maybe Trump is more honest than I thought. Of course, when it comes to making lives worse for the world.
It's as if no one realizes their phone as a monochrome mode, which can be set as an 'accessibility' shortcut via simple button press.

Black and white kills the dopamine cycle and brings color back to your real life.
Joke's on them, they're just going to hasten a revolution.
I do say the same thing about Japan (and South Korea). They have similar demographic problems similar to China, just on much smaller scales.

Have you actually looked at those immigration reforms? Japan is making some very limited changes to try and attract a small number of skilled workers. Those people already have options about where to go and Japan is not at the top of anyone's list (a tiny number of Japanophiles excepted). Japan is not opening their borders to take in masses of random poor people to repopulate the country.

https://hir.harvard.edu/improved-immigration-japan/

This is not a serious change of government policy or human nature. Maybe in a decade they'll be desperate enough to make real reforms.
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>Can we all stop pretending that they don't abuse of their power and hold your deepest darkest secrets indefinitely? Even though most of us are law abiding citizens.
I don't anyone know who thinks powerful don't abuse their power. It is the nature of the beast.
And it seems none of us are law abiding citizens:
https://www.saponelaw.com/blog/2019/10/professor-says-that-e...

>Can we please start making open hardware without Apple/google backdoors and stop pretending our systems are "secure".
Few try...and either fail or languish in obscurity. You comment in itself is the proof that open hw cannot compete since you don't know of these open hw platforms and don't use them even tough you seem to advocate their creation here.

>Can we please write all software in Rust...
Rust only eliminates memory safety issues of C/C++. There are large number of languages, some decades older than Rust, that provide various aspects of Rust memory safety without imposing the same limits...and some are being used but people always flock to either new and flashy or the most widely used. Besides, Rust still provides ample foot guns and pushes reliance on 3rd party libraries which replaces memory safety issues with supply chain issues. Not to mention the the very poor ergonomics of the language that purposefully shies away from a lot of syntax sugar that makes writing and reading (understanding) code easier.

>Can we please use distributed systems to avoid censorship or holding our private information in the hands of the rich?
Even if you managed to persuade a lot of people to use these, some nodes will become popular/trusted and be targeted for censorship and propaganda and that will achieve the same result as the current model. Again, it is the nature of the beast.

What can be done? I don't know, probably nothing...things have to get to the point where most people are compelled to act because the alternative is death or worse, until such time there will just not be enough support for action to matter. Just how people are.
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We're primates, we see and tactilely use physical objects.

Use your strength. Put different things in different objects. Now you rationally reason about them.
yes, he's just reassuring that we go bankrupt and have no kids by throwing half a trillion into AI. You complain about giving a trillion partially to people, and Trump is throwing all that, day one, into the richest corporations.

May as well speed to the inevitably cyberpunk future. Shame I'm not getting that cool cyborg arm.