skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lies, games and strategy of rich and powerful people [video]
There exists poetry that requires a lot of mathematical understanding! This is "literally" (and I mean literally in the literary sense) from a Stanislaw Lem story about an electronic bard, translated from Polish by Michael Kandel:

https://www.donhopkins.com/home/catalog/lem/WonderfulPoems.h...

Prompt:

A love poem, lyrical, pastoral, and expressed in the language of pure mathematics. Tensor algebra mainly, with a little topology and higher calculus, if need be. But with feeling, you understand, and in the cybernetic spirit.

Response:

Come, let us hasten to a higher plane,
Where dyads tread the fairy fields of Venn,
Their indices bedecked from one to n,
Commingled in an endless Markov chain!
Come, every frustum longs to be a cone,
And every vector dreams of matrices.
Hark to the gentle gradient of the breeze:
It whispers of a more ergodic zone.

In Riemann, Hilbert or in Banach space
Let superscripts and subscripts go their ways.
Our asymptotes no longer out of phase,
We shall encounter, counting, face to face.

I'll grant thee random access to my heart,
Thou'lt tell me all the constants of thy love;
And so we two shall all love's lemmas prove,
And in our bound partition never part.

For what did Cauchy know, or Christoffel,
Or Fourier, or any Boole or Euler,
Wielding their compasses, their pens and rulers,
Of thy supernal sinusoidal spell?

Cancel me not -- for what then shall remain?
Abscissas, some mantissas, modules, modes,
A root or two, a torus and a node:
The inverse of my verse, a null domain.

Ellipse of bliss, converse, O lips divine!
The product of our scalars is defined!
Cyberiad draws nigh, and the skew mind
cuts capers like a happy haversine.

I see the eigenvalue in thine eye,
I hear the tender tensor in thy sigh.
Bernoulli would have been content to die,
Had he but known such a squared cosine 2 phi!

From The Cyberiad, by Stanislaw Lem.

Translated from Polish by Michael Kandel.

Here's a previous discussion of Marcin Wichary's translation of one of Lem's stories from Polish to English. He created the Lem Google Doodle, and he stalked and met Stanislaw Lem when he was a boy. Plus a discussion of Michael Kandel's translation of the poetry of the Electric Bard from The First Sally of Cyberiad, comparing it to machine translation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28600200

Stanislaw Lem has finally gotten the translations his genius deserves:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/stanislaw...

>Lem’s fiction is filled with haunting, prescient landscapes. In these reissued and newly issued translations — some by the pitch-perfect Lem-o-phile, Michael Kandel — each sentence is as hard, gleaming and unpredictable as the next marvelous invention or plot twist. It’s hard to keep up with Lem’s hyper-drive of an imagination but always fun to try.
The $1199 I paid for my iPhone is how they make money on Apple Maps.
People buy highly illegal drugs on the Internet all the time. Yes, most people regard an address as sufficiently anonymous, and either way, it's obviously not meaningfully doctor-supervised if a possibly-imaginary doctor never sees anything but an internet form you filled out.

Again, I am not saying things should be this way, but we're talking about black/grey market prescription drug suppliers mailing prescription drugs to people pseudonymously/anonymously, usually/sometimes in violation of US law and almost certainly nearly always in violation of the FB rules I posted above.

If this was literally any other prescription drug, nobody would find this result surprising.

NB: In contradiction to one of your downthread posts, very few of these places are taking insurance information. (Maybe even "none", but I am willing to believe someone does.) Usually one of their selling points is that it is "private". The article for example cites Aid Access, which does not. Neither do any of the sites in the downstream commenter I clicked on. I encourage you to actually look at these sites and see how easy it is. I am not saying that it is a bad thing, but clearly it is not aboveboard.
Profit means it wasn't reinvested. May be later, or not.
The question is what they could do to them. A lot.
Nobody is going to be left to scrutinize anything much less have any power to do anything about it. If anyone is still doubting that we're under a full scale takeover of our country, get your head out of your ass.
Wow, please disregard that last post. I made a huge error. CCK slows gastric emptying.

Will rework tomorrow.
So not only does this happen in any organization (instability leads to a decrease in over-all performance), but you're being REALLY dishonest by acting like this was the only thing the Trump admin did. Trump not only shut down multiple parts of the federal government but is actively trying to get people to quit. See: https://www.opm.gov/fork.

Just go ahead and tell us how you think that affects people's cognitive load, especially in a job that already is stressful and overworked? See: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/02/business/air-traffic-cont...
https://www.census.gov/ is also offline.
True enough. I suspect many aren’t going to South America since you can’t drive them there… but you can certainly drive all the way to Panama. If you want to head past Panama seems like it’d be easier to ship them directly from the US to their final destination.
Using eqn for static website equation generation
It's actually a bit comforting that it isn't very good.
Nice! Yeah that workflow feels pretty relatable. My other rule of thumb is if it's an architecture paper (system or neural net) without a diagram, I immediately bail haha
For predicting what they do next, I think the we need to ask: "What does Larry Ellison think will make him the most money?"
I’m still shocked that Tesla income is just 2.3B, compared to like, Meta who reports 62.3B net income. I didn’t realize how tiny Tesla is for the amount of media attention and stock valuation they have. Even amongst automakers they are tiny. Toyota had like 32B net income.
Is the census data even available by other means nowadays? The census is a core constitutional requirement of the federal government.
Payment methods are often things like Cashapp or BTC.
> Why can't people accept that their role in this new process simply isn't the one we've always called artist?

I think what has happened here is that you are talking about something very specific. Putting text into midjourney, maybe. That's not the only way people use AI in their art. Are "prompt engineers" artists? Maybe, maybe not, maybe not yet. Maybe they are only as much of an artist as I was back in 2005 while clicking "generate clouds" in Adobe.

We all have to start somewhere.
Who, specifically, do you claim that Trump is a puppet of, and why?
Is it? Seems up to me.

[edit] Oh, I see, the actual 2020 census data is down: https://www.census.gov/2020results

Says for maintenance.
The government passed the law, and funds lots of universities with CS and cryptography programs. If there was a privacy-preserving solution, they could have proposed it themselves. Just because someone is motivated to say something, doesn't mean they're wrong.
The likely culprit for the understaffing is Congress.

The pandemic also messed with training new ones for a while.
Agreed, idiosyncratic voice is so life- and mind- affirming in papers. (Do you mind sharing examples of three papers that you did enjoy slowly and change your conceptual life?)
It was down, but it is back now.
Artists have been using assistants to get their work done since forever; in modern times, Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst are famous for doing little or none of the actual fabrication of the artworks which bear their signatures.

You are right that this is a new process, in which a machine does work that was previously done by a human, but I don't think that means the human is not an artist. Consider the DJ, who "merely" plays back other people's records: yet there's a whole art form in weaving disparate music together. Or, consider, is a composer a musician? The only sound they make is that of a pen scratching on paper; it's not until a room full of other musicians perform the score that you actually hear any music. Yet we still think of the writing of that score as an artistic act.
A lesson from a sci-fi writer Stanisław Lem about fascism [video]
I'll +1 GDB/MI being utter garbage. Bespoke format (ordered multimap as the only keyed data structure, why), weird quoting requirements (or sometimes requirement of lack thereof) on input, extremely incomplete, and in some cases nearly unusable even for what it does support. Feels more like carelessly shoehorning some of the existing gdb commands with a different syntax (but sometimes not different) than an actual API.
I'm not sure the link is making the argument you want it do.

Epstein would probably make for a better link where people endless told the FBI what he was up to and they did nothing until forced by the Palm Beach PB (who actually started to do something) and so the FBI had to settle with down playing the charges as much as they possibly could.

Your link is a demonstration of if you do collect evidence the police will prosecute.
I just had it convert Swift code to Kotlin and was surprised at how the comment was translated.
It "knew" the author of the paper and what is was doing!? That is wild.

Swift:

//
// Double Reflection Algorithm from Table I (page 7)
// in Section 4 of https://tinyurl.com/yft2674p
//
for i in 1 ..< N {
let X1 = spine[i]
...

Kotlin:

// Use the Double Reflection Algorithm (from Wang et al.) to compute subsequent frames.
for (i in 1 until N) {
val X1 = Vector3f(spine[i])
...
If you just ask the question straight up, it does that. But with a sufficiently forceful prompt, you can force it to think about how it should respond first, and then the CoT leaks the answer (it will still refuse in the "final response" part though).
I can see that. But as with many other status quos, things change once a relatively viable project appears and gains momentum. The A/V receiver market seems like it’s totally ripe for a disruption. I see no reason why the overpriced hi-fi companies get to own that market entirely. How come the Chinese haven’t taken a stab at it? It’s not like they care about open source licenses, taking ffmpeg, wrapping it up and selling it half the price of high street hi-fi would be befitting.
I think the most recent small jet crash in the US was November 5:

https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/458776
Reminds me of A Canticle for Leibowitz.
/r/DataHoarder/ is doing us all a solid
Down for me...
I encountered it during my masters in 2019 and it still remains my favourite textbook to this day.
Claude makes a lot of crappy change suggestions, but when you ask "is that a good suggestion?" it's pretty good at judging when it isn't. So that's become standard operating procedure for me.

It's difficult to avoid Claude's strong bias for being agreeable. It needs more HAL 9000.
Video shows apparent plane crash in Northeast Philadelphia
Presumably because servers have components that are predictable and stable over their production runs, whereas laptops seem to be assembled out of whatever bits the supplier has on hand that week?
I don't have a horse in this race nor a particular interest in US elections but I don't think your definition of popular vote is the commonly used one (i.e. candidate doesn't have to have more than 50% to win it).
> Is that really your take away from reading that issue?

Yes. You went to them with a definition of who they're trying to serve and they wrote back that they didn't agree with your relatively narrow scope. Now you're out in random threads about Ollama complaining that they didn't like your definition of their target audience.

Am I missing something?
More than once I've found myself going down this 'little maze of twisty passages, all alike'. At some point I stop, collect up the chain of prompts in the conversation, and curate them into a net new prompt that should be a bit better. Usually I make better progress - at least for a while.
I think this is the case. Most of my family and friends use and like the various AI features that are popping up but aren't interested thinking about how to coax what they want out of ChatGPT or Claude.

When it's integrated into a product people are more likely to use it. Lowering the barrier to entry so to speak.
Novel Chrome extension-exploiting attack facilitates device takeovers
oh, right, I wasn't using "existential risk" in the sense of AI taking over the world or not, just explaining how the term "end game" is usually used in this context. could be something as simple as a startup getting acquired and therefore no longer having the existential risk of running out of money and dissolving.
Why does nobody refuse to follow these orders? They’re being issued by someone who flagrantly doesn’t follow the rules.
> No, that's not even remotely plausible.

There is another comment in this thread linking to some evidence that it appears to be what actually happened.
An average of 10,000 dollars per acre, when multi-family houses and apartments fit several families, if not dozens or hundreds into a single acre, aka how high density and efficient land use in cities work, they would pay little if nothing in a LVT and have no income tax. It’s people who have several acres in high value areas or hundreds of acres not being used for productive agriculture, the Rich, who would pay millions in taxes.

If an acre of land in New York City was 1 million dollars per year with a LVT, a high rise apartment with 100 units would have people paying 10,000 per year for their share. That would be a tax cut for many people.

Yes, grandma in the Bay Area in a massive McMansion on a fixed income would be displaced but that land use was inefficient and they were not paying their share of property taxes today under our current system anyway thanks to California property taxes.
I gave Ramalama shot today. I'm very impressed. `uvx ramalama run deepseek-r1:1.5b` just works™ for me. And that's saying A LOT, because I'm running Fedora Kinoite (KDE spin of Silverblue) with nothing layered on the ostree. That means no ROCm or extra AMDGPU stuff on the base layer. Prior to this, I was running llamafile in a podman/toolbox container with ROCm installed inside. Looks like the container ramalama is using has that stuff in there and amdgpu_top tells me the gpu is cooking when I run a query.

Side note: `uv` is a new package manager for python that replaces the pips, the virtualenvs and more. It's quite good. https://github.com/astral-sh/uv
How about the guy who was in the White House for the last 4 years? The guy who passed a so-called infrastructure bill? No responsibility for ensuring air safety in there?
Just use this https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14 as the default browser engine. See also https://udm14.com/.

I was late to this, but G's default search had been becoming worse and worse. The trick is equivalent to clicking the "Web" tab when you do default search. In 99.9% cases the "Web" tab is what I need, it's pure and no noise. I do not mind clicking the "All" tab e.g. for a tennis player last name during AO to get all details I need. Actually, for sport events the default G's functionality is insanely useful, such as live score updates.
They’ll just be replaced with someone who does follow the order
> However, developers hate email.

I don't mind email, but I despise Slack.

I miss the olden days of being able to check my email once or twice a day with nobody expecting an immediate response, and being able to focus the rest of the time.

Three or four times a year, in response to something genuinely urgent, I might get a phone call.
Honestly, it sounds like he really just had poor execution. If the phone I ordered came 6 months late, poor touchscreen, and my email was sold/stolen I'd probably not use that company again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_Phone#Issues
Decision to dump water from Tulare County lakes altered after confusing locals
I'd summarise it as:

Apple can ask Google to do business, but Google will be under court order to respond, "Sorry, we can't."

In that situation, Apple would not have any obligations to the court. Google would be responsible for avoiding doing business with Apple.

Obviously, this would impact Apple's economic interests, so they want a seat at the table.
You're in for quite a surprise if you thought Tesla is remotely comparable to other Big 7 companies.

Tesla is barely profitable at all, and if Trump ends EVs subsides Tesla will be severely bleeding money.

It's the quintesential meme stock.
Is this malicious compliance or is the data all really in violation of the EO?
Not everybody knows that Stanisław Lem lived through German occupation of Lwów (now L'viv) during WW2 (as a Polish Jew) and barely escaped an execution.

Many of his most famous books can be interpreted through this lense, but he also speaks about it directly in his book "Provocation". And his thoughts about truth vs perception of nazism are quite unique and very relevant.
The guy they ramped up hiring under post-pandemic? https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-hits-air-traffic-controller...

> Today the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced that it exceeded its goal of hiring 1,800 air traffic controllers in 2024, with a final total of 1,811 for Fiscal Year 2024. As the largest number of hires in nearly a decade, this marks important progress in the FAA’s work to reverse the decades-long air traffic controller staffing level decline.

Training controllers takes 2-4 years.

Are we just gonna go from one debunkable claim to another all evening?

If we’re doling out responsibility, hoping 10% of them resign probably won’t help. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-offers-incentiv...
in the article embed, around 52 seconds in has some video, it does appear to come in very fast.
You can trace consumer desktop CPUs using instrumented software full memory trace, but that requires OS + debugger + compiler support which is not available for Linux, Windows, Mac, etc.

You can trace hardware that exposes trace functionality usually via a debug port of some kind. Many chips have trace functionality in their production design, but no debug connector is physically present in off-the-shelf boards (to reduce manufacturing cost). You can usually physically modify the board to get access to this functionality which is routinely done when porting software to a new chip/board.

Trace functionality comes in two major flavors, control flow trace and memory trace. Control flow trace only records control flow, so the contents of memory are unknown which is not very useful for your desired use case. Memory trace records memory accesses, so the contents of memory are known. Unfortunately, memory trace is very resource intensive, so most systems that support trace only implement control flow trace. As far as I am aware, it is very unlikely that any desktop or server CPU has memory trace.

The major manufacturers of trace probes and solutions that I know of are Green Hills Software, Lauterbach, and Segger.
ArchiveTeam Warrior – US Government
you know you can just write in l33tcode and itll do the same right
Isn't this what creative directors do? E.g. the creative director at a game development studio isn't creating art assets, they're directing other artists to produce art in a particular style or theme. Likewise, sculptors and other big art projects often have understudies that carry out a lot of work.

I would still call them artists if they delegate parts of the work to other artists - or machines - if they're the one at the helm of the overall artistic vision.
https://archive.is/PCJVQ
Once the war on pronouns is won, this one votes on eliminating adverbs next.
Interim U.S. attorney fires more than two dozen Jan. 6 prosecutors in D.C
The model itself has censorship, which can be seen even in the distilled versions quite easily.

The online version has additional pre/post-filters (on both inputs and outputs) that kill the session if any questionable topic are brought up by either the user or the model.

However any guardrails the local version has are easy to circumvent because you can always inject your own tokens in the middle of generation, including into CoT.
Someone who has already bought their last car and it ends up sitting in a garage forever.
I’ve seen quite a few posts on Reddit with people asking questions like “Is a Mazda 2 really faster than a Civic Type R?!? ChatGPT told me it is” and it’s some complete nonsense numbers that could’ve been fact checked in about 5 seconds.

I don’t think the little “ChatGPT might be wrong, you should check” disclaimer is doing very much.
> Interim D.C. U.S. attorney Edward R. Martin, Jr., on Friday dismissed about 30 federal prosecutors who have worked on Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot cases over the past four years, undertaking a housecleaning of the top prosecutor’s office in Washington, while preparing to extend the office’s scrutiny to top Democratic leaders and former Justice Department officials, people close to Martin said.
* https://archive.is/https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2...
I've kept software notes on my wiki since around 2016; largely Linux-related, some FreeBSD, and lately Windows. It's self-hosted with reproducible proof!

I'm curious how my wiki looks to employers? I think it's pretty cool and shows what kind of software I'm familiar with, along with how I document: https://wiki.realmofespionage.xyz/
Is this what big tech has come to?
Sounds like a site that would fill up immediately with diagnoses of wifi exposure, delayed vaccine reaction, and chemical exposure from chemtrails.
We actually already have multiple images of exoplanets. [1] and [2] were both taken with the Very Large Telescope in Chile. Granted, you can't see much beyond reddish blobs. But they are not that much worse than Hubble's images of Pluto [3].

We probably can't do much better with earth-based telescope arrays due to atmospheric distortions. But with satellite launch costs coming down we will see large telescope arrays in orbit in a couple decades, and those might do a lot better

[1] https://science.nasa.gov/resource/2m1207-b-first-image-of-an...

[2] https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2011b/

[3] https://esahubble.org/images/opo1006h/
> Instead of translating what you’d like the hardware to perform to C literally, treat C as a higher-level language, because it is one.

Alternately, stop writing code in C.
Anyone still using Google search here on HN? Genuinely curious no /s
One reason some sites used to be stuck with this configuration is that you can CNAME a www subdomain to a CDN but you can't CNAME your eTLD+1 without also affecting your other records (MX/etc).

There have been various solutions to this problem like ALIAS records, but perhaps they never upgraded.
You do raise a good point, but for certain applications like photography, microscopy, telescopy this can be avoided by putting the analogue chip before the digital conversion happens, so that you receive an image with layers, one containing color data, another containing edge data.

I'm fairly sure that modern cameras already have multiple layers for depth and color.
Especially since India drives on the left, and hence uses right-hand drive vehicles. American vehicles are almost all left-hand drive, which are illegal to drive in India – you'd either have to pay for an expensive conversion, or manage to get a rare legal exemption (reserved for historical vehicles, foreign diplomats and official visitors, and other such special cases) [0]

You can import used cars into India, but you'd generally be bringing them in from a left-hand drive market such as Japan, Australia or the UK. Plus, Indian law says import used cars have to be less than three years old, because India doesn't want to become a dumping ground for other countries old vehicles (which also undermines their local car manufacturing sector) [1]

[0] https://auto.hindustantimes.com/auto/cars/g20-summit-can-one...

[1] https://www.acko.com/car-guide/how-to-import-foreign-cars-to...