skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think people assume violent crime doesn’t happen or isn’t bad but this is a country that’s normalized gun violence mostly because it means the right to bear arms is secure if you minimize it. You’re bumping up against propaganda. You’re bumping up against intentional indifference. The example of my mother who is totally silent on issues and discussing these hard topics, it’s not because we disagree but instead it’s how she pushes out the terrifying aspects of it. She votes red because that’s what she’s always voted and her pursuit of happiness is limited to her self. Maintaining that void and disconnection is how she maintains that safe state.

Don’t let the radicalization turn you into lashing out at society because people have insulated themselves.
Yes! How long does it take to go from a brand new applicant to an ATC controller that can successfully run ops in the DC airspace? What about that person's supervisor?
What is the cost of deregulation?
Personally, my favorite one is when someone with salary and clear ability to get a new job whenever they want claims it is "privileged" to reject a job on moral reasons. Their kids would go hungry if they had ... very high salary, just a little bit lower.

I have seen real world people refuse positions on moral grounds. It does exist and morally dubious positions pay what they do because they have to.
So, I've had this hunch since the very first studies pointing towards the herpes/Alzheimer's link and doubled down on it after the discovery of the "glymphatic fluid" system for essentially washing the brain during sleep. And it's impacted a lot of my social decisions to an almost unhealthy extent, but it's validating to see the research and possible payoff.

My hunch has always been: brain cleans itself. So long as brain cleans itself, infections like herpes and some of the bacteria involved in gingivitis can't trigger the amyloid domino effect that could cause Alzheimer's. But once that cleaning mechanism fails (head trauma), the body can't clean the detritus from the brain fighting the infection anymore. Apoe4's association with boosted hsv outbreaks factored in as well.

I'm oversimplifying it and am probably taking wild stabs in the dark, but I'm hoping the avoidance of high risk behaviors ends up paying off.

But the next question is whether this is all for nothing — if VZV (chickenpox/shingles) ends up having a similar effect... we're already giving our kids weakened VZV vaccines anyway. Seems like the longer term solutions will be:

1) vaccines to prevent hsv/vzv/hhv etc, but they'd end up being love and thus pose a similar but lessened risk

2) ensuring a way to excise the viral DNA from any of these

3) finding a means to rebuild the glymphatic membrane after trauma.

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My comment is a lot of wild pontification. Any MDs wanna provide a sanity check on anything I said?
> For years, Yarvin was something of an odd internet curiosity, with his ideas far from most political conservatives’ radar. He gained one prominent reader — Thiel, who had written about his own disillusionment with democracy, became a Yarvin friend, and funded his startup. “He’s fully enlightened,” Yarvin later wrote of Thiel in an email, “just plays it very carefully.” (https://archive.is/iAtnM)

"Hostility to democracy" is underselling it. These people's stated goal is to replace democracy with a CEO-style monarchy. They even have a playbook, and they're getting dangerously close to implementing it.
I remember when we just used to call “mind viruses” ideas
>What numbers are you looking at that makes it seem like it's "hilariously common"?

Devo wrote a funny song about it in the seventies, so it is kind of funny and it wasn't invented last week.
The fact that it was done in the first place is widely known and would discourage many from even considering a career in ATC. The negative effects are still in play.

The same for military recruitment.
It found a needle in a haystack
In the 90's it was really expensive to run 3D Studio or POVray. It could take days to render a single image. Silicon Graphics workstations could do it faster but were out of the budget of non professionals.
This attitude is exactly the problem. The US can barely build civilian ships and BYD makes better cars than most of Detroid. China seems awfully big on the rearview mirror and people are putting their heads on the sand.
Econometrics are very far away from what current LLMs are capable of.
Of course! Tons of examples here:
https://github.com/apple/swift-embedded-examples

At WWDC24, we shared a session on embedded Swift, which is available on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqxbsADqDI4

More documentation on embedded Swift tooling here:
https://github.com/swiftlang/swift/blob/main/docs/EmbeddedSw...

(Disclosure: I work at Apple.)
They are trying to convince the world of the problem. What else can they do?
Bakersfield's hodgepodge of water systems ready as they can be for major fire
The Strike Is Coming
I have seen real world people refuse morally dubious positions in tech. We are not talking about "going hungry" vs "salary". We are talking about "having very very high salary" vs "having very high salary" here.

It is absolutely ok to blame people who do immoral stuff for more money. Pick pocketers do immoral stuff for more money too, it is really the same thing.
The Science
Obviously scary AI future means we should probably give full regulatory capture to a handful of wealthy individual corporations. You know. For our own safety.
C syntax becomes hard to read once you nest function declarations (i.e. functions taking functions, taking functions...). But that's actually the case for most common syntaxes. Haskell type syntax is an exception, but that's a language where you're using lots of higher-order functions.

For the most common use cases C syntax is quite ergonomic once you've learned the principle.

// declare func as normal function
void func(ARGUMENTS);

// declare (*func) as normal function: func is a pointer to a normal function
void (*func)(ARGUMENTS);

// can also declare a type name instead of a function
typedef void functype(ARGUMENTS);

// and then use that to declare function-pointer
functype *func;

// can also declare a function pointer type directly (I don't normally do this)
typedef void (*funcptrtype)(ARGUMENTS);
funcptrtype func; // declare function pointer
OpenAI partners with U.S. National Laboratories on scientific research
The output of LLMs will be suboptimal for some time. Companies stand to earn more by hiring juniors who can reason without LLMs than juniors who copy paste from LLMs
Only one in ten startups “succeed” and by “succeed” meaning make money for investors that get a preferential treatment on exit.

I’ll take equity in a private company on top of them paying my fair market value in cash. Now RSUs in a publicly traded company is as good as cash. Even though even then you have a risk of the stock falling.

While I personally would never work in BigTech (again) and prefer smaller companies and will accept the lower pay that comes with it. I would never suggest given a choice anyone join a startup that pays less than they could get somewhere else hoping that their equity will be worth something
I don't really agree. I can in the span of 10 minutes get you 100 ai pictures of a mountain without lifting a foot. But if I want to give you 100 photographs of a mountain, i have to actually go to one. And obviously "the photographer doesn't decided the color of the pixels" is only somewhat true at best. You can actually use your legs to manipulate perspective to have the rooftop of a church be centered on the sunset (or whatever). If you want to do it with AI, you can put it in the prompt and hope it actually does it.

But to be honest, I don't really care about this distinction. I am a utilitarian, to me it's not about whether the processes are comparable, but whether it takes any effort. Copyrights, like patents and other IP mechanisms are ultimately there to make sure the effort you put into intangible goods can be rewarded. Everything else is just intellectualizing it. No effort = no reward, that's my ultimate stance.
> The agency also said that, before the test flight launched, it required SpaceX to map out “hazard areas sufficient to ensure that the probability of casualty to a member of the public on land or on board a maritime vessel does not exceed one in one million.”

The way this is worded makes it sound like it could be a one in a million chance separately for every individual. So for example if the chance is exactly one in a million per person, then the probability of someone in a town of 1000 people dying would be one in a thousand, and the statistical expectation of having a city of 1M people in the “Debris Response Area” is that one person would die.

I hope my reading is wrong. Can someone correct me - is the rule that the total probability of any 1 person in total dying is 1:1000000 or less, or is it really per-person? For context about why 1:1000000 per person is pretty bad, that’s almost as risky as skydiving (1:370000 per jump) and much riskier than driving in a car.

I feel like I’m okay with “rapid iterative development” when the company assumes any and all risks, and takes responsibility for any & all failures. It seems to be crossing a line if the risks are externalized to the public & national agencies, especially when the risks aren’t fully communicated or when veto choice is not given to everyone involved, right?
Government by memes, why 10 ?

https://thoughtbot.com/blog/chestertons-fence
Now generalise this to education, and healthcare, and logistics.
Is this normal when there's change in presidency?
Apropos YouTube video was served to me: https://youtube.com/shorts/BvC9oLeqOfY?si=Fj_Yxeq636IGBIhC

I like electric vehicles, they make sense. I think most construction workers would like electric equipment as well, not as loud, less fumes, less heat. Overall better but it has to make sense.

Large mine trucks are either electric or hybrid. They recharge as they go into the pit.
Human consultants have been a thing for a long time, they're a tool of business. They're meant as a multiplier to the corporate ability, not a replacement. It seems like a shift in economics and availability, rather than a shift in kind, if those consultants are virtual rather than human. No?
> flagging and/or downvoting this idiotic comment will make it disappear from this site

You can enable 'Show dead' in settings.
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Any suggestions are appreciated, stack utilizes Gluestack UI ,Expo, React Native, and Cloudflare Pages.

There is a known bug via touch scroll ability on Android, external keyboard's spacebar or mouse works correctly though, currently. If you know about a solution, let me know.

Please note, this is just a prototype, it still has a lot of features to be included.

I'd like to learn more about how people use HN and how Hacked could help, where other HN clients failed.
In all seriousness, can you please stop recommending bcrypt for new systems? The input length is hard limited to a frighteningly short string and it is not a KDF since it has a fixed output length. Its internal state is small enough that it can be efficiently cracked with FPGAs (although the structure is unsuitable for GPU-based crackers).

The distinction between a KDF and a hash function is that a KDF has an output length that is configurable so you can directly use its output to generate a cryptographic key with 100% of the entropy of the input. A KDF theoretically needs to have arbitrary input length and arbitrary output length. Bcrypt has neither.

Argon2d is great, scrypt is great, PBKDF2 with 1000000+ rounds works fine if you want FIPS, but bcrypt is somehow still on many people's list as though it doesn't have these flaws. It's not at the point where it needs to be imminently replaced in a legacy system, but if you're building something new, you should use something better.
> What do you think the point of fiction often is?

Fiction is not obligated to reveal anything about reality. Mainly it's escapist. But I'm not trying to have some big debate. Clearly you're passionate in your belief. Ultimately, how to understand the world is something one figures out with life experience and time at which point history becomes your best source of instruction.

When you're young it may seem to make sense to get your morality from Harry Potter and Star Wars. But that's usually just availability bias and the fact that fiction is easy to consume.

But then you discover that the map is not the territory, sometimes that discovery is painful or brutal or destructive and the consequences of having misunderstood the world are permanent for you and those around you.

Anyway, not an argument. I'm not trying to convince anyone of anything, merely pointing a fact about competence in understanding the world.
Imagine making a foundational LLM model out of every book every written on every subject ever conceived
They are eluding to it not being secure against state actors. The distrust in government isn’t novel to this discussion so it should come as no surprise on HN. There is also a general fear of censorship which should be held more toward the base model owners and not toward cloud providers. I still think doing this in the cloud makes more sense initially but I see the appeal for a home model that is decoupled from the wider ecosystem.
Stoppped Reading 5 paragraphs. If the article fails to convey where it's going, why should I invest the time? Also, what are those hashtags? Completely unrelated to the actual content.
From the article:

> Changes in presidential administrations have led to datasets being deleted in the past, either on purpose or by accident. When Biden took office, 1,000 datasets were deleted according to the Wayback Machine, via 404 Media's reporting.
He literally threatens to take away territory from an EU country.
I don't think there is any evidence to backup those claims (assuming you're talking about "$50 million sent to Gaza for condoms").

I don't believe you are arguing in good faith otherwise I'd think you'd also be upset about the millions of tax dollars spent so that one man can golf? Which there are actual receipts for [1].

[1] https://www.npr.org/2019/02/05/691684859/government-watchdog...
Are we to agree the parties and their PR mouth pieces do not speak for the people? A lot of blue did not want Biden the first time. The mouth piece said he was a bridge to 2024 when they’d have a better candidate ready.

Do not blame the voters for PR mouth piece unless you hear the lies are being repeated by the voters. If you don’t avoid this then it turns into a goal post moving contest.
Got mine! Thanks Hanna
It is possible to decentralize the AI model, add verifiability, and let it acquire real world data on its own.
> the current administration is asking them to resign en masse, not hiring more

While they did initially receive the resignation memo the Office of Personnel Management clarified that Air Traffic Controllers aren’t eligible for the resignation offer nor subject to the hiring freeze. [1]

1. https://apnews.com/article/jet-helicopter-crash-air-traffic-...
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-very-fine-people/
you wouldn't say that there are people in positions of great power in society who likely hold some of these beliefs?
Think you just re-invented Logan’s Run. Good film!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan%27s_Run_(film)
https://archive.is/iAtnM
The goal for Swift should (and seems) to be to gradually separate itself from XCode, which is holding it back from its ambitions.

XCode has been compared to many things, but at 3.1 stars on the App store, one must find that it is still slightly overrated.
Very interesting. Here are the two other videos in the series:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg0mHFcB510 Polaroids showing the Evolution of the Lisa GUI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIJrCeRjZIU Bill Atkinson Interview for Lisa’s 40th Anniversary

The videos were recorded in 2022, even before CHM published the source code. If you want to navigate the source code which Bill refers to in the video, here is a tool to do so: https://github.com/rochus-keller/LisaPascal.
There are many women who avoid resistance training because they are afraid becoming too "bulky" Thanks, in part to people like you. It is nonsense of cause.
Yes, there was an entire WWDC ‘24 talk about it…

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2024/10197

Swift is a great language, but it is unfortunately still held back by the stigma of being perceived as only usable on Apple platforms.
The top comment in this thread mentions a 6k setup, which likely could be used with vLLM with more tinkering. AFAIK vLLM‘s batched inference is great.
Not necessarily. In the reparations lawsuit, there are only 1000ish individuals. Assuming all of them would have qualified, you are talking about around 2% of the current workforce. Not nothing. But the last admin grew the workforce by more numbers. And did not have this policy.

So, by all means, chase reparations. But don't think you've stumbled on the reason, either.
I was just thinking this. The central valley produces something like 25% of the USA's edible food and 40% of it's nuts using maybe 1% of USA's farmland. It only rain like 2 weeks out of the year there. If we don't have a plan in place for the water come growing season, the entire country will see higher prices at the supermarket, not just those in the region.
Calling humans a "tool" is metaphorical. Humans are not literally tools.
It's only a really good deal if you don't use much of the $10/gb data, and also don't really make calls ever. I use enough of that that switching to another prepaid carrier with unlimited data and minutes was cheaper.

Also, I've had a few androids from Tracfone and they were all already a year or two behind on security updates when purchased, and could not be updated. The iPhones they sell can all get updates still.
And the anytype stuff seems pretty close to C++ templates. I wonder how different comptime really is as compared to templates + constexpr?

As for C++, my experience is that templates can help produce some things in a type safe way that you later tend to regret and understand you should have never produced in the first place :-)

Just created some custom closure producing code that takes a pointer to any function along with arguments. The arguments get stored in custom allocations and can be applied to the function at any later point. Creating the template code is quite painful and probably none of my teammates will be able to maintain it. On the flipside, closures like this might be the right API for the use case.
Technocratic states have not failed because of technocracy itself, but because their implementation was distorted by political, ideological, or cultural factors. Technocracy as a principle is not the issue-failure occurs when it is combined with rigid, non-adaptive systems that prioritize dogma over reality.

People are the problem here. As always. But of course AI itself need to be managed by people too so it can rose similar problem. Politics itself is the issue.
Memes are ideas that spread for the benefit of the meme.
It seems like this is more about the semantics of what we mean by athleticism then?

It sounds like for you, being a top athlete simply means being very good at a sport.

I've always generally understood athleticism to be about raw physical traits, like speed, strength and agility (and is therefore only part of the range of attributes that makes up the overall profile of a sportsperson).

Out of interest would you consider people performing at an elite level in high-skill, relatively low-physicality sports like golf to be top athletes?
The bigger scapegoat is “progressives fault” in a nation that’s been run by moderates for a good few decades.
I’m uneducated on the walled ivory tower that is web development
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An AI has no hedonistic incentives such as the will to manipulate public procurement contracts to get kickbacks and buy itself a new SUV.
Robots can be profitable, but they almost never are. I'm telling you this with over a decade of experience of watching companies, some of which have multibillion dollar market caps, lose money on robots.

Do you have any experience (or preferably data) to suggest otherwise?
Windows 11 turns the tide against Windows 10
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge'."
> I'm not sure this is something that is solved by tech

in this case it seems like it could definitely have been solved by tech. both aircraft were traveling at predictable paths and opertating nominally.
If it is 3-year training process is it not the previous administration that is to blame? Surely they would have trained enough people. And it is not like huge amount of controllers were fired just now?
No, they claim that the far left has been doing it as an excuse to do the same. It's lesson one from the authoritarian textbook: always accuse the enemy of your own misdeeds. Very similar to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARVO.
But they are in the abstract sense of something to employ to achieve a result. That's why consultants are hired, not for their humanity, but for their utility.
Dell ends hybrid work policy, demands RTO despite remote work pledge
It’s so much worse than I had assumed. Look at the question about how many “Art/Dance credit” hours you took in college. The scoring is completely random. The most points for 0, but then second most points for 7-12 hours, but 0 or 1 points between 1-6 or 13+. It looks clearly designed by the FAA basically to have “secret codes” that could be given to favored applicants through affiliated advocacy groups.
- I designed https://zz.leftium.com/ to default to the system preferences ("auto").

- Clicking the button switches between manual light and dark modes.

- Double-clicking resets it to "auto" mode.
This is disengenious. They received the same deferred resignation email that every other federal employee got. They weren't told to 'leave immediately' nor was anyone else, they were offered an option to leave or stay on for 9 months, with pay. I'm getting frustrated at 'my people' seemingly just making things up on this topic.

Edit: Also linking another comment where ATC was literally told they're not in the offer... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42899944
I was sure this was wrong, but it's true: according to official state counts, Donald Trump won 49.80% of the popular vote to Kamala Harris's 48.32%. The top 5 was rounded out by Jill Stein (0.56%), Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (0.49%), and Chase Oliver (0.42%) [1].

[1] https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/2024pres...

(yes, I'm aware of the irony of linking to federal agency data in this thread)
This may be true, but it's not properly reflective of this particular situation. While it's true that it takes 2-3 years to fully certify, the initial academy (a few months long) still has limited spots.

ATC staffing problems did not just appear this week. The FAA is limited by Congress in how to deploy its budget towards recruitment.

Congress passed a bill earlier in 2024 authorizing the FAA to hire at the maximum capacity possible (https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2024/05/faa-will-soon-be-a...). Action is possible.

We've known since the initial post-COVID travel bump that the FAA was short on controllers - these could have been addressed potentially as early as late 2022.

Infact a 2-3 year timeframe is absolutely short enough to count as "short term". Thats within an election cycle.