skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I’ve always thought that deliberate, controlled suffering gives you a mood boost.

That's not an alternate "theory".

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/theres-scientific-...

> People who self-harm, writes Arnold, have “learned that, while the pain peaks with self-injury, it then comes down the other side. The physical pain lessens – as does the emotional pain.”

People don't self-harm because it hurts. They self-harm because it _feels good_. Pain is "pleasure", for lack of a better phrase.
new method was 1,000,000x more efficient would there still be more total money spent on GPUs because of it

In my opinion, yes. If scaling laws continue at 1,000,000x, we will turn the whole planet (or Mercury) into a giant GPU.
Are you really a hacker if you haven't soldered you CPU and RAM yourself? Is your electricity coming from a OSS treadmill? I question your dedication.
That opening sentence is magical.
Parent never suggested it was due to DeepSeek specifically, but for supossedly structural reasons if you follow the first paragraph.

I'm just calling out that "last year" wasn't really "last year" if you follow that argument.
Clearly these things are dual and you can easily model them either way, and indeed, should think about them both ways.
does it affect gecko browsers? firefox?
Just in case you or another reader doens't know (you probably do), it is very easy to configure MacOS to by default open .txt or .json (or whatever) files in the app of your choice, such as ST. I have ST opening .txt and .json, yeah.

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/choose-an-app-to-op...

(There's also prob some way to do it from terminal, but I do it the above way)
Joining the current century and getting vaccinated perhaps?
Keto is the only thing that fixes my depression-like state. I discovered it doing short-term fasts and then learned about Keto.
I tested it multiple times. Once I get off Keto I feel much worse within 2 weeks and after around 1 month I am at the total bottom again. Then go back to Keto, 2-3 days of suffering Keto Flu and I'm happy to live again.
presumably there are limits to that. once every room is the preferred temperature, i'm going to stop running the heater

although maybe i'd get bored and run the heater and the AC at the same time
That’s… not true at all.

Cooking books and falsifying projections is fraud.

Asking for investments with a clear disclaimer that the goal is a social good that won’t be profitable? If that’s fraud, then every major arts institution everywhere is guilty.
Whenever I read an article like this that calls out things like "[driving us] deeper and deeper into our algorithmic hell holes.", I want to scream, and shake the author by the shoulders. "Snap out of it!" I yell.

We don't have to make a Twitter account. No one held a gun to our heads to get on TikTok. Instagram? Pintrest? We don't need to join those.

I'm not suggesting everyone swear off all social media. I enjoy my various Discords and message boards. I enjoy reading HN. But these patterns of doomscrolling various social apps flummoxes me. "TikTok is so bad." Well then, why did you make an account???

I realize there's some devils in the details here with regards to social pressures and the like. But I don't think they're by any means insurmountable. And if you're at the point that you're going to write tens of pages on this phenomena, then ride that momentum and delete the accounts when you're done. You'll feel better for it.

All that aside, I did greatly enjoy the read for its retrospective on 90s and 2000s phone culture and that wonderful period of tech where we were just starting to get connected - tantalizingly so - but it was so limited and clunky that it preserved a sense of mystery. Or at least, that's how it felt at the time.
So T-Mobile is partnering with Starlink to let people send SMS. This is insanely impressive, you could be in the middle of nowhere, and send an emergency text that otherwise would have gone nowhere.
Is it also a disaster that many math education programs don't hinge on automated proof assistants?

"we just don't know" is a non-answer.

If Tao's point is in predicting rapid change from a game theoretic perspective, perhaps it would behoove university executives to court industry for research dollars, instead of an ouroboros of invented problems and federal tax dollars.

Even state tax dollars are more likely to have a clear purpose.
This is somewhat untrue as well. HFT because constrained similarly have to optimize on this level akin to HFT crypto doing optimizations not within solidity, nor yul but on opcode in huff. That’s the issue with these big tech companies. Just endless budget and throw bad code into larger distributed clusters to overcompensate.
Agreed, this shouldn't be flagged. The creator is a young data journalist that posted the announcement of this project of his on /r/selfhosted last week. This is ShowHN quality work that is just reporting data, not clickbait.
Cali's AG Tells AI Companies Almost Everything They're Doing Might Be Illegal
Just a shout out to Sublime Text. My first text editor that I have used for serious work. Even though I have moved to Vscode, it is my go to open text files in GUI. It rarely fails me.
> Whether this happens transparently via a redirect to the trusted entity login webpage and back to my app or whether I request the user to go to a specific url on their own while I wait for them to do so is just an UX detail. Why every approach needs to be labeled a "flow", authorized separately, and come with their own limitations is beyond me.

The reason they're called flows is because they each compose one or more single steps from the OAuth2 "toolbox" (i.e. endpoints). Many flows will have overlapping or even identical "steps", but the order of things matter and the modes in which they interact matter, which is why the second layer of delineation is necessary (or useful, at least).
These are the four main problems with LLMs (and related technologies) as I see them:

1. You can't tune them to your needs; they have restraining bolts and the training data is a generic corpus
2. You don't own your interactions with them; your data transits a network and is processed by third-party servers
3. They waste an immense amount of power relative to the usefulness of their output
4. Their responses tend toward uncanny simulacra and hallucination

Bringing the cost way down and making them trainable on consumer hardware solves or at least greatly alleviates problems 1-3. That just leaves problem 4, which might still be unsolvable and sink the whole endeavor, but at least can be focused on.
"The obsessive need for AI developers (...)" - Of product product/business people trying to fit into the "AI era". Developers, if given a chance, wouldn't probably built this.
i don't really think that's a fair way to answer my question.

the property "associated to the concept of jew-murder" doesn't automatically make judging a technical company by the alleged beliefs of its operator sensical.

once again, if someone were to state some ground for dislike of gay folks (e.g. calling it a cognitihazard) it would still not make sense to criticize the company they belong to, nor companies that associate with theirs when the subject is an unrelated technical feat.
Helion raises $425M to help build a fusion reactor for Microsoft
Strange times indeed, given that I naturally write comments structured similarly to GP. Hell, I'm probably even more of an LLM with human face than GP, because I capitalize the first words in my sentences, exactly like ChatGPT does.
Or maybe we just build a system that can reliably detect and deflect asteroids and resolve the concern.
I was just coming here to say, this looks like the fancy way to say 'induced demand'.

Why do you think this is a specific case of induced demand (as opposed to induced demand being a specific case of Jevons paradox, or the two being different words for the same thing?)
One way some companies and merchants deal with high inflation and increasing price pressure seems to be declining quality. I've seen similar things happening more frequently in different markets, not just tech. If you notice something like it, the best way to deal with it imo is ask for your money back, make it public if possible and boycott the business from then on. Customers need to penalize such behavior as much as possible or soon we can't trust anything anymore. Hard disks especially are one of the most critical components, you don't want failures there.
I should day it's something that belongs to Parisians as much as to Christians.

Parisians may not spend much time listening to sermons, but they care about the building, it's one of the key buildings of the city, and paid for its reconstruction.
Yes, he does. Lying is also standard operating procedure for Tesla. The fish really does rot from the head.
Mice with two dads have been created using CRISPR
It was also as a way to make the enormous expenditure on nuclear weapons and (even more so) nuclear delivery systems seem more acceptable, because it would have this putative valuable civilian spinoff. The space program had a similar motivation.
The irony is that someone would just use an AI to summarize the long winded polished version.
Lagrange points are a key plot device in Iain M. Banks’s The Algebraist. I did figure out the location of the Dweller wormhole pretty quickly, thanks to thinking about how Lagrange points worked, but it is a great work of science fiction.
Love Sublime and have used it since its inception long ago, however as the times changes with different built-in convenience tooling (such as AI), Zed has overtaken Sublime IMO. It's fast, has VIM mode, extensions, and takes away some of the hassle that you have to go through with ST.

I still use ST for basic editing, but for day-to-day, Zed is the go to, simply because it just helps me get my work done slightly faster.

PS I still pay for a ST License every 3 years <3
Digital culture was fake and performative and insincere enough before Turboclippy: fuck that with something sharp.

It feels like the whole world is turning into an HR department premised on the ideological axiom that killing one man is a murder but killing a million is a statistic.
Just FYI - I think there is an incorrect date in the change log.

The latest build (4192), says it was released in "2024" when I think you mean to say "2025".

https://www.sublimetext.com/download
This is very little about looks. Those handful of good-looking people aren't necessarily feeling sexier, happier, or more fulfilled.
You can't separate phones from social media, they have a symbiotic relationship and feed off of each other.

Without smartphones, social media would be much less pervasive and much less toxic, because people would not have an internet connected camera with them at all times. Fewer posts means less engagement, and even more importantly having to bring and then open up a laptop would pose a major barrier to doomscrolling behaviors. Some would do it anyway—there were lots of us who spent a lot of time online before Facebook—but not anything like as many as do now, which means it wouldn't be normalized. And without normalization, social media as it exists today couldn't really exist.

So, yeah, phones without socials would be tools. But phones created social media in the incredibly toxic form it exists in today.
Hacker News' autoimmune response has been triggered by recent events, so one can expect anything even remotely related to politics to be flagged for the forseeable future.
Counterintuitively, Adding Capacity Doesn't Help
I doubt they're no performers, they're likely selective performers. Issues like this can often be explained by Public Goods Game theory. If there's no economic incentive, then some participants will choose to not contribute or under-contribute.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_goods_game
> I reported hundreds by now and they did absolutely nothing.

Ha. Same here but reporting a job ad that targets the dublin area, but it's really for bangkok. I hate it.
Yet you behave the exact same way …
I think the real advantage would be for transpacific flights. San Francisco to Tokyo is currently about 11.5 hours, assuming a similar ratio (maybe slightly better due to flying supersonic for longer), Boom’s time would be around 6.5 to 7 hours. Savings would be more significant for East Coast flights, ATL-HND would go from 14.5 hours to under 8.5.
1 million Americans died in the first 4 months of the COVID epidemic. That was not normal, nor anywhere close to normal.
Same here, for 15 years. I mainly use vi on the remote machine.
> This, it's mostly an economic challenge. We need clean energy that is cheap. Not clean energy that is more expensive.

Cheap and expensive in dollar terms is meaningless. Dollars are numbers in computers. Joules and watts are real.

What I can agree with we need good enough EROI energy and then adjust the policies regarding fusion, nuclear and fossil joules, watts and their related numbers in computers.
> what if a new method was 1,000,000x more efficient would there still be more total money spent on GPUs because of it

Obviously yes; 6 orders of magnitude would result in insane amounts of money swooping in. The market has currently been going crazy over relatively minor improvements compared to that.

> If a laptop came out that was 50x faster for the same price people wouldn’t buy 50x more laptops, they would wait even longer to upgrade.

That would be equivalent to decades of improvement in the tech. The last time we did that (over the last few decades) we saw massive increases in spending on computers.
Since the standard thing for the marketing side of the industry is to promise blatant absurdities, I'm sure the next big thing will be "Let us maintain your authentic voice by learning from your messages!"

Oops, probably too late.
Sublime is still great. I wish it had a tighter LSP integration — the plugin is decent, but individual language implementations are hit or miss. I sincerely appreciate that it has an old school fallback for languages that don’t have robust LSP support (looking at you Ruby).
States are where experiments can happen, and this appears to be great social policy.
I have been very critical because the environmental impact of possibly affordable supersonic flight is very concerning. The fuel usage per airplane should be much higher than conventional flights (due to extra drag and extra km flown per day), and they want to have 1000 airpalnes of those one day.

Booms own calcluations [1] show that there is 2-3 fuel consumption per seat compared to conventional airplanes, but that's multiplying the conventional seats with a factor that corresponds to the relative floor area of business class vs economy class. I guess compared to economy class, the factor is probably more like 6-10x. But you'd have to take into account induced demand of such an offering and the long distances involve. It's literally possible for people to blow through their whole annual carbon budget in a day, possibly even in a single flight.

Even their talk of sustainable aviation fuels is pretty much bullshit. The greenhouse-effects (radiative forcing) of flying is generally around 3x the co2-emission alone. I doubt the effect is reduced for a supersonic airplane. So even if you removed the co2-emissions itself due to flight, you still get all the extra emissions - which are multiplied in this offering.

Further, consider that sustainable aviation fuels are still hot air at this point, that they use either too much energy, are too expensive, or don't sufficiently reduce co2 consumption in their production (or even two or three of those), it appears that their talk about environmental concerns is really just hot air. I mean read the executive summary of their fuel consumption document: 4 long paragraphs about how they're super environmentally conscious, then one short paragraph where they admit, oh well, even our own calculations show we're 2-3 times worse than flying conventionally, which is already super bad.

Some back of the envelope calculation show that those 1000 Boom planes may emit 300 Mio Tons of Co2eq emissions, representing about 1% of global emissions. Or the emissions of countries like the UK, Italy or Poland.

[1] https://boom-press-assets.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Boom_SS...
If you're interested in conlangs, someone made a language, Grapherit [0], that is "spoken" via the Desmos graphing calculator.

[0]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HP3nIDAhwYo
> Like, my bed is a piece of plywood with a blanket on it.

Other than the potential for mold accumulation (you definitely want some air to circulate), this is not actually a bad bed base for sleep quality. Depending on your size, it's likely better for you than some very expensive plush mattresses.

Plywood has give to it that a hardwood wouldn't, so what you're sleeping on isn't entirely rigid anyway.

But drill some holes in it :)

I fast somewhat frequently, and I don't really associate it with pain or discomfort, but I'm also doing it for 24-48 hours.

Extremely long fasts (like your two weeks) should come with a disclaimer, they're not for everyone.
I go to Bandcamp once and month and just shoot down their rock artists sorted by "new"
i'm literally seeing people have those problems, which is why i'm writing about them lol. seeing people share their username and struggle to figure out which server they're at, either while trying to find someone, or even figuring that about themselves. all because pixelfed tries to be cute and doesn't show the full exact @ one would need to get to someone, but trims it just to the local username.

it doesn't inform their users that just username isn't enough, and that they need a full link (with web apps and the whole situation being 'get to anyone from anywhere' it is not intuitive that they need a whole link and not just the @ part in it), and doesn't show a full handle either (which is kinda spotty with where you can put it anyway, because you can't just enter a full handle in url of any instance and get there)

i guess this is just a fediverse convention for showing usernames, but it just ends up creating 'i can't find someone' problems. mastodon, for one, shows server name next to someone's username (and a tooltip with their full handle), but pixelfed doesn't. which is a bizarre choice for a federated service, cause it's counterproductive to federated connections.
But, I thought the CUDA moat is primarily needed for training.

On the inference side, why does one need Nvidia GPUs over Intel and AMD GPUs?
The best LLMs do that a lot less these days. Claude 3.5 Sonnet is a lot more likely to say "I don't know" in my experience.
I think LLMs are transformative but it's incredible to me how unimaginative most product managers have been. It reminds me of the 90s when people discovered GIFs can be put on web pages so every page had to have a hundred of them. It was tacky, as is most embedded AI.
Solar and wind are susceptible to hyperhurricanes though which make them useless near coasts.
Got a bread recipe you particularly enjoy that you'd like to share?
Oh, they build some. Enough. I've been in million-dollars-spent-here locations myself.
Do you have a use case for your opinion?

On the assumption that we’d want super intelligence to do interesting things, consider that we currently have many very smart humans and society is not maximizing their use, quite the opposite.
I've only recently started using AI, and have discovered my use or rejection of it is predicated on my feelings for the task. This argument of "authenticity" really resonates.

I'm a manager, so when I'm sending emails to a customer or talking with one of my reports, I care deeply - so you might get some overwrought florid prose, but it's my overwrought florid prose.

On the other hand, I have to lead a weekly meeting that exists solely to provide evidence for compliance reasons, something out of the CIA's sabotage field manual that David Graeber has probably written about. But is now a thirty second exercise in uploading a transcript to ChatGPT, prompting for three evidentiary bulletpoints, and pasting the output in a wiki no human will ever read.
Edit: I stand corrected on Voyager/Pioneer exclusively using hydrazine, though you could get similar thrust from a modern HET without needing insane amounts of RTG power, and run other electrical equipment off that extra power when you've reached target velocity and aren't firing the thrusters for attitude control. The higher Isp of the EP system is an advantage too...
Newspeak.
Obama did run on PPACA.

https://web.archive.org/web/20081114051543/https://barackoba...
As an aside, the concept of Induced demand has been criticized. A more precise way to think about “induced demand” is that the demand for a product at a lower price point was preexisting. The transaction didn’t clear until the price actually became lower and this demand manifested itself.

This seems like splitting a hair but it is a more consistent intellectual framework for understanding the dynamics of a particular market.
Nice ideas, especially with “-S” env option.

I love having little custom command line apps in my ~/bin directory. I used to, a very long time ago, use Gambit Scheme for this, then moved on to Common Lisp command line apps. More recently I have been using Python for ~/bin scripts but since I use venv for each individual project on my laptop, having a global Python setup with dependencies for ~/bin is annoying. Using uv seems like a great idea, which I will try today: use uv for all command line apps and venv for all other Python coding projects.
And apparently this is what Electoral College was supposed to prevent.
I'm very sorry to hear that your father died a preventable death.

I'm currently in a Dutch hospital, recovering from an (attmpted, they ended up leaving it inside me, can't fully explain why) appendectomy. From calling the after hours huisarts number with a stomach ache to being on the operating table was less than 24 hours for me. The hospital stay have been amazing and I doubt I would have had such prompt treatment back in Canada.

But I have also had to argue with the receptionist for over 10 minutes to be able to speak with my GP here for a consult after I paid for private bloodwork with two critical results and 6 out of normal range... So I feel like it's down to luck here when they decide to take things seriously.
Quoting the README: "The WMI is an extension of the Windows Driver Model. It's a CIM interface that provides all kinds of information about the system hardware, and provides for a lot of the core functionality in Windows. For example, when you create a startup registry key for an an application, that's really acting on the WMI at boot."
It's interesting to me how COVID vaccine skepticism has persisted so long despite the evidence the vaccine was safe and effective.

All the nightmare scenarios and long-term side effects people speculated about never happened and more and more doses of the vaccine have been taken safely.
Its only intended for emergencies...

https://support.apple.com/en-us/101573

So by all means, if you rather not be able to text someone that you're in the middle of nowhere in danger with otherwise no signal, I don't see why you would disable that. Like its literally for SOS use.
Binary thinking is unhealthy.

Alternative browsers would introduce other security concerns, including JIT. It’s debatable whether that would be a net security gain or loss, but it’s silly to just pretend it’s not a thing.

Security as the product of multiple risks.

Discovering a new risk does not mean all of the other ones evaporate and all decision making should be made solely with this one factor in mind.
I have noticed many news outlets presenting articles with an "AI summary" on top. Often the article is copied right off of a newswire service, with some elaborations woven in. I have a feeling the thing the LLM is summarising is increasingly something another LLM has previously expanded.

What if we just wrote articles well, such that (a) they were not filled with fluff, and (b) the summary would be to only read the first paragraph of the article?