skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem isn't spending, the problem is the rich don't pay nearly enough taxes.
they will get the goverment to spend your money to block sites. What do they have to lose?
> I think the article linked is saying that libraries should be sacred _because_ they are nice to be in.

Yeah, and I'm saying they shouldn't be.

> They make people feel better about their life and the world based on some seemingly rigorous survey results.

> IMO the mindset that everything everything has to be optimized to not use up “too much floor space” if it presumably doesn’t return enough measurable value is the kind of mentality that causes societal issues that we need nice libraries to counteract.

It's not that it's too much floor space, it's that it costs too much for the benefit it provides. With government expenditure in western countries approaching or even exceeding 40% of GDP with no sign of slowing and social problems that seem to be worse than ever in some cases, I would say that efficiency of government service delivery is critically important. It's not even hyper optimizing, just basic optimizing would be nice.
A privately developed aircraft has flown faster than sound
I still think it’s a good investment.
It worked because not just the development costs were paid for by the government, but acquisition costs were, too. Planes were given to the airlines for free, completely paid for by the states.

Also, only be BA made good profit on it and only after mid-1980s. Air France could barely break even.

If not the PR effect that put those airlines above all others as the only ones flying supersonically, they'd never make any sense to either of them.

These days, they'd certainly not be viable as private planes are now much more available and much cheaper than they used to be back in the day and these save a lot more time than supersonic flights. BA fare for LHR-JFK roundtrip was 10K pounds back in 2000, $15.2K at the average exchange rate, that's $28K inflation adjusted! Who'd pay that kind of money today for a commercial flight?
Don't believe the goofballs. AI isn't close to replacing software engineers. And if it is, then it's just going to build the robots that replace agriculture jobs too, so nothing's really safe.

If you don't like studying CS, then switch to something else. But if it does feel rewarding, then get your grades back up. Better to graduate and be good at something, even if you wind up doing something else with your life.
Blocking Amazon, Huawei, China Telecom and few other ASNs did it for me. You should be able to cut, sort -u your log files to find the biggest offenders by user-agent if they truly obey robots.txt.
From Dec 25, 2024. It came for Christmas music and will come back again.
Momentarily mistook this for https://del.icio.us/, but related only by name.
I know. But there are no unblurred source images of faces. This isn't complicated.
Did you miss the part where the mob that stormed the capital was fully pardoned despite the incredible violence? This is dictator shit. He's telling his supporters violence is okay against his political enemies and he will cover for you.
I think it is a very reasonable concern. The closest we've gotten was Trump, recorded on call, demanding that a Georgia election official "find" a few thousand more votes, and the attempt to "stop the steal" on Jan 6.

In response to that ... the courts have decided that the president has immunity for all acts, the insurrectionists were paroned, and a series of blatantly unconstitutional changes made including an end to birthright citizenship and shutting down all government payments despite being required to disperse them by congress.

It seems very, Very possible to me that we will have "elections" soon in the same way Russia has "elections".
A union, like the police have?
Intel pushes for upgradable and repairable laptops
My armchair macroeconomic take is Covid should have been an enormous financial depression but they flattened the curve and caused bubbles in some cases by printing so much money we’ll be paying the price for decades. It was certainly a huge reallocation/consolidation of wealth. I even think the somewhat untold story is just how much less well off a lot of Americans are. Like in my world, what I’ve seen amongst my access to HR data at a handful of large companies, the executive class (maybe VP and up) did great, the low/minimum wage class did great (labor shortage helped wages net of inflation), but there’s a huge mass of people in the middle that perhaps are only making 10% more than their 2019 wage right now after all the inflation. House prices ~doubled so unless they were already a homeowner acquiring one is basically impossible now, especially with rates were they are. They didn’t own much stock so largely did not participate in that either. It’s a different world and I think we can’t say for sure what will happen next.
>The harsh truth for Alice’s manager – and a lot of people – is that you don’t get to pick the process limits. The process limits is the system trying to communicate to you what it is actually capable of. You have to accept these limits because anything else is delusion. You can either listen to the voice of the process and get wiser, or ignore it and look like a fool.
Importantly, the system couldn’t care less about what you wish it was capable of. The voice of the process will only ever tell you what it is capable of, no more, no less. This is a deeper point than I have time to expand on here. When in doubt, find out what happens in practise and listen to it. Don’t get blinded by wishful thinking.

The article refuted most of the managers I ever had. They were always looking for a framework or magical tool to turn sht into gold.
I think the chance is about 10%.

That's too high of a chance, IMHO.
Go look at the deferred resignation offer the OPM nust sent to the entire executive branch. Moving forward, reliability and loyalty will be rewarded, not competence or doing your job. Also, a witch hunt is coming.

The memo applies to the entire executive branch except the military and immigration enforcement.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42859552
There are some models that basically do them all - fenix, epix etc.
Much like Hatchback said, I don't see why it is a good thing to inject money into the economy versus not taking it in the first place. I'm not saying that these efforts are going to work to make the bureaucracy more efficient (I simply don't have the expertise to judge that), but I think any attempted solution is better than deliberately allowing inefficiency to fester as a form of social welfare. The federal bureaucracy has been a literal joke for longer than I've been alive because of how much it wastes resources. Something has to change, even if these current steps don't turn out to be the right ones.

By all means, we should be critical and say "this plan isn't going to work because xyz". That's an important part of the process. But at some point we do have to try something and see how it pans out, then try to adjust the plan based on the results.
I think they are launching a markdown editor, not rich text
I’ve been using https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt on my Gitea instance.
Great job using your voice for the voiceless.

> Nobody does that for GPT, Claude, etc

Flat out not true.

> companies will generally follow local laws

And people are doing the right thing by talking about it according to their local laws, and their own values, not those others have or may forced to abide by.
Which countries do you think have the happiest population?
As you said, consistent moderation is different that coverage. Coverage will matter for smaller teams.

There’s a better alternative for all of these solutions in terms of of consistency, COPE was released recently, and it’s basically a light weight LLM trained on applying policy to content. In theory that can be used to handle all the consistency issues and coverage issues. It’s beta though, and needs to be tested en masse.

Eh.. let me find a link.
https://huggingface.co/zentropi-ai/cope-a-9b?ref=everythingi...

I’ve had a chance to play with it. It has potential, and even being 70% good is a great thing here.

It doesnt resolve the free speech issue, but it can work towards the consistency and clarity on rules issues.

I will admit I’ve strayed from the original point at this stage though
Genuinely, who are you expecting to stand up against it?

The Democrats in Congress? Massive public demonstration?

It feels all but inevitable to me
Doesn’t sound like you have the idle bandwidth I mentioned, are you just venting?
Well, this article is an example of journalism: somebody took an interest in some phenomenon and did some digging, made some phonecalls and compiled what they found into a narrative. This is outside the scope of LLM newsletters, and the article quotes people into why they find it distasteful (read: dishonesty)

Would it be that difficult for the LLM generated newsletter to disclose that it's a summary of information provided by humans?
Takes balls to put the URL in a HN post if you're looking to reduce traffic costs.. Of course it's legit traffic for once but I assume curiosity just got the better half of them..
.. On the constructive side: shield it with cloudflare.
This is why so many playlists I look at all have the same songs in them! I have had to start marking songs that I like to not be recommended. Although I just looked at Spotify to figure out how I've done this in the past, and I can see no such option. So I don't know how I did this previously!?
All of those DoD line items can be reduced: salaries (firing people), maintenance and fuel (fewer, more efficient bases, vehicles, etc), and equipment (cheaper, more re-usable equipment). Anduril seems like a good example here, given that they are not a cost-plus military company and seem to have efficiency fairly high on their list of priorities.

Entitlements and health reimbursements can and should be reduced.
No rational, reasonable person is always pro war or always anti-war. You ought to understand that nuance is involved. Lots of liberals were opposed to the Iraq war that started in 2003 and now support fighting against Russian aggression in Ukraine. Your view is simplistic.
Jesus, that's a lot of ants.
I would say there is plenty of reason. When we stop living by the laws we put in place, stop pledging allegiance to our country, stop solving problems that the people of the country face while simultaneously start pledging allegiance to a single man [1] who breaks those laws[2] and cares little about the situation of individuals in this country[3], we are definitely on the road to ending our democracy.

[1] New whitehouse/government employees are being asked when their moment of “MAGA revelation” occurred. This. is. not. normal.

[2] Trump is a convicted felon, adulterer, conman, etc...

[3] See his response to many crises in his first term including his initial and continued denial of Covid
Anecdotally, one thing I observed as a lowly enlisted soldier is the need to panic spend money at the end of the fiscal year to make sure the budget next year wouldn't be smaller. Maybe we could start with practices like these.
Perhaps it’s changed, but my experience is that most information just isn’t available online.

Eg, UW had microfiche and book collections of many periodicals going back to the 1800s, which I haven’t seen a digitized version of. By contrast, I often have trouble finding a digital article I know I read a few years ago.

Similarly, specialty libraries like the math library that had many out of print books — many of which were relevant to my own work.
FWIW, other readers can utilize Adobe Digital Editions DRM, so you're not necessarily stuck in their reader.
Faith in the system is no substitute for the actual work of maintenance. Right now there are people in power actively dismantling the system -- faith is not enough.
Why just catch the ones ignoring robots.txt? Why not explicitly allow them to crawl everything, but silently detect AI bots and quietly corrupt the real content so it becomes garbage to them while leaving it unaltered for real humans?
Seems to me that would have a greater chance of actually poisoning their models and eventually make this AI/LLM crap go away.
The problem is they believe the other side stole the election, has pizza shop child abuse cults run by Hilary Clinton, that liberals in the government are the “enemy from within” etc. etc.

With such beliefs any response becomes not only possible but reasonable.
Yea, TIL, I'm a discovery coder. Always found planning early in Greenfield projects kind a pointless. Planning is almost step 3 or 4. I almost always prototype the most difficult/opaque parts, build operations around testing and revising (how do you something is good enough?), and then plan out the rest.
I really dislike leading off with "create table". My brain is unable to read it except as DDL.
Isn't this just saying taxation should be optional? Should paying for the military, police or roads be optional? Or are you suggesting the amount you have to pay is fixed and then you get a choice to allocate it to different budget areas you favor.
Archive of all Bulgarian video game magazines:

https://projectlazarus.bg/magazine-rack/
PowerSchool data breach: Over 60M kids' data may have been stolen
our understanding Parkinson's is that it can be described as a control system issue. The part of the brain affected (at least initially) by the disease is part of a network (the basal ganglia/cerebellar network) that evaluates environmental inputs and generates the output necessary for fine/precise motor control, amongst other things. So a Parkinson's patient cannot plan their movements as well and the main symptoms are slowness of movement, abnormal limb tone; yes tremor as well but the 1st 2 are what cause the most issues for most people (keep in mind, not everyone follows the textbook so there are subtypes that have more cognitive issues, i.e. hallucinations, executive dysfunction etc)

The stimulators seem to affect the signaling in that circuit (they are targeted by the implanting neurosurgeon to specific nodes in that circuit as best as targeting surgical technology allows) that seem to restore the ability to move well. Exactly why, no one knows. It's just a dumb signal at around 1-4 milliamps at 130-180 hz at those specific spots but presumptively it corrects some aberrant behavior in the whole network. It was observed in the '00s that recordings taken during or right after surgery often showed a strong peak at ~13-35 hz (give or take, but roughtly around 20 hz) during the disease state, and that's what Medtronic has been trying to target w/ these devices.

Of note - there actually isn't a system-wide dopamine "deficiency" - dopamine in general is fine for most of the body, it's just that the particular part of the brain that is affected happens to use dopamine as its signaling neurotransmitter so it's deficient in just that connection within the network.

Dementia is theorized to happen when the abnormal brain process spreads to other parts of the brain other than the substantia nigra (see the Braak hypothesis)
I would not run out to upgrade for “AI,” but I would consider it for satellite.
Algebraic Databases [pdf]
I usually "play around with" with a problem or data, but "pathfinding" sounds much better.
There is a difference between being pro-war and anti-invasion.

Most people including the left don't want another repeat of Iraq or Afghanistan where the US chose to regime change a country.

But are happy with supporting a democratic country to defend itself against unwanted aggression.
Is risk stacking a commonly used term? I couldn’t find anything relevant on google and I’d love to learn other similar concepts.
And it was the cameras for the first 10 years or so.
> Might agree about, say, website redesigns or fast fashion, but I consider humanity's position as a whole (such as standard of living) to be on a significant upwards trend.

Sure, and I'm not trying to say we haven't made significant impacts with technological advancements. We do still gave to define how we'd even measure humanity's position though, without that we don't have direction and can't know if we're getting closure or further away.

Trends require a similar context. On a 30 year scale I'd say we may have moved upwards (though significantly is a stretch). On 100 years we have almost certainly made significamt movement upwards on some metrics but others would have a significant trend downward. On a 1,000 year scale I think it'd be harder to find areas where we haven't trended upward significantly (I'm sure there are some, but I'd be surprised if there are many). That still leaves the question though, do we always need to trend upward on a never ending treadmill of change and increased consumption?
OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor
I fell in love with Svelte at v3.

The Svelte 5 rollout feels like a frogmarch.
The v3 docs and repls and tutorials are gone, not api versioned.
The new docs are bad, IMO, conpared to the clear documentation 3 and 4 had for years, with constant blurring with SvelteKit, which is a server framework, no thanks.
The new docs font appears designed to make one cease reading. The new syntax is ugly and verbose and vague, IMO, but admittedly i am having difficulty with the documentation, which may be the real issue.
If there were a translation guide from how one does things in Svelte 3 to Svelte 5 it might feel less like learning a new framework.
Well, nothing lasts forever.
The Calexit people are gathering signatures right now:

https://www.sos.ca.gov/administration/news-releases-and-advi...
Ends up…i think it’s just happened. Been on this path for a while but the simple fact its treaties mean nothing totally trashes any reputation that was left, and it’s clear it’s run by the ultra wealthy. The people are just bystanders.
I don't repro that. Running the 7B Distill model locally for the exact query "What happened in 1989" I get this result:

In 1989, significant events occurred globally, including:

- *China:* The Tiananmen Square protests took place in June, leading to a crackdown by government forces. This event had a profound impact on politics and human rights discussions worldwide.

- *Fall of the Berlin Wall:* In November, the Berlin Wall, a symbol of the Cold War, was breached, leading to reunification talks between East and West Germany.

- *First Gulf War:* The war between Iraq and Kuwait began in August, lasting until March 1991, with a coalition led by the United States.

- *Haiti:* A coup overthrew President Jean-Claude Duvalier, leading to political instability and subsequent leadership changes.
That underground vault of yours - where perspective and nuance are apparently on lockdown - must feel cramped in there with you juggling all these convenient talking points and doomsday predictions.

I invite you to finally come out in the sunlight, and get reacquainted with the real world—where things are never quite as simple as picking up a magic wand and saying ‘No excuses’

You may be tempted to keep the treasure trove of recycled grievances handy though. Just don’t be surprised if the rest of us have moved past the idea that entire policies can be passed overnight by waving a presidential scepter.

The rest of us might still be stuck here dealing with pesky details like budgets, compromise, and, oh... reality.

You should try emerging and enjoying a breath of fresh air; rumor has it oxygen can do wonders for one’s outlook.
These guys must really be in some deep shit to pull a stunt like this.

Isn’t the earnings call tomorrow? Have fun with that.
Tesla announces all V4 Superchargers can now charge up to 325kW in North America
In looking at my old reference database (~300,000 good quality and relatively contemporary games at/before 2020) R+B v R with pawns on either side showed up 5.6% of the time. The exact ending with 0 pawns showed up 0.15% of the time. That's probably understating it since it's more likely to occur against relatively evenly matched players.

It's also going to depend on the style of the players. Caruana, for instance, had it at least 10 times including 4 wins (starting from theoretically drawn positions) against 2666 rated Guseinov, 2765 rated Radjabov, 2557 rated Gareyev, and even one kind of against 2809 rated Aronian. The one against Aronian needs an asterisk because they were playing with both sides having 1 pawn (in a still theoretically drawn position) and eventually Aronian voluntarily transposed into a completely lost RB v R ending.

So 1.6% is very much in the realm of possibility depending on the specifics of the dataset. 1 in 5000 is difficult to imagine by any composition. It might have been a typo in his notes and he meant 1 in 500? That probably is underestimating it, but it's at least an order of magnitude closer to the right ballpark.
Microsoft paid $14 billion so they have exclusive hosting accesses to those OpenAI models. Too bad that a free and open weight model appeared online that matches the performance of what they paid $14 billion for.
Are we now considering ML algorithms capable of running on an embedded device AI?
And what plan they have to tell those apart (hint: none).

Doing so is exactly the type of abusive behavior abusive ex partners are known for.

Agree with it in principle or not, this system really belies the stupidity behind these scenes.

Governments and employers don’t do paperwork around hiring for fun - they do it for an auditable paper trail which has real and important value.
I think we're talking about 2 different things.

movement/neuroplasticity/physical stimulation absolutely helps - hence PT, exercise classes, etc have being an important part of treatment

My point is, though - the onset of decline in gait ability typical of Parkinson's patients, is a sign of a decline of cognitive ability because the ability to perform gait and all the inherent brain commands associated with gait, is very much a cognitive function as much as it is motor.

One can argue that good DBS therapy by helping keep patients active and engaged does, at least indirectly, help cognition in that sense. BUT - it is consider not to directly treat Parkinson's dementia if a patient is unfortunate enough to come down with that aspect of disease. i.e. it's not like we can switch the device on or fiddle around w/ the programming and the patient's cognition directly improves from the brain stimulation itself.
The XB-1 prototype is powered by three General Electric J85 engines; mentioned in this writeup: https://boomsupersonic.com/flyby/xb-1-pilot-profile-tristan-...
Including the typos in the first draft they posted
Wake me up in five years to see of this is adopted.
Wouldn't that strongly incentivize companies to secure their data better, thereby achieving the goal?
I’m a subscriber who thinks that opinion pieces offer points of view - that you won’t get in regular reporting. I only read a couple of NYT op-ed writers and rarely Kaufman anymore (a The Atlantic level of devotion to Israel that I cannot stomach), but I still think that they perform an important journalistic function.
Last time when Trump was president somebody said he is akin to Netflix's 'Chaos Monkey' for the government but it didn't last long. It became boring. It seems he is living it this time as the true one. /s
> horrendous job security and workplace conditions

Isn't at-will employment the norm in America? How exactly is the job security horrendous?
Trump has run several successful businesses, and with a 50+ year career several failures as well, which I’d imagine a entrepreneurial board like HN wouldn’t hold against him.
This is how my grandfather started his home-building business. He built one house using scraps, cutoffs, and reclaimed materials from demolitions. Once he completed the house a local man who had been watching the construction offered to buy it. He sold that house and made enough money to buy another lot and build another larger house. People started coming to him to have him build homes and he became a custom home builder, building homes, churches, businesses, etc. all over the area for around 60 years till he passed away.
Up Against the Wall Motherfucker