skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That said, I do find your argument interesting as it parallels the "guns don't kill people" argument.

The general form of both arguments is that you have a tool that can be used for good or bad things, so should you ban the tool (guns) or just the bad uses of the tool (murders)? If you had perfect enforcement then it would obviously be the latter, because you'd arrest the murderers without harassing people who buy guns for hunting or self defense etc.

But law enforcement isn't perfect, so there is going to be some spillover where some murderers wouldn't have been caught. Then you have to get into debatable questions like, if it was illegal for them to buy a gun, would they have just bought a gun illegally, or used some other kind of weapon? If there are a lot of murders happening, how many of them could be prevented by using more resources to catch them or e.g. legalizing drugs to reduce gang activity, without banning guns? The pro-gun argument is that the positives outweigh the negatives and/or we're better off doing the other things to prevent murders instead.

You can ask similar questions about Palantir and mass surveillance, but that doesn't mean you have to come to the same conclusion, because it has different positives and negatives and ability to be mitigated if you do it.

In particular, preventing abuses by governments is much harder because you'd be relying on the government to prosecute itself, which is notoriously ineffective, especially with programs that are insulated from public accountability through secrecy. Meanwhile the negatives are much more dangerous because of the speed, scale and severity at which an already-existent mass surveillance system can be converted into a tool of mass oppression when there is a change in administrations. And the positives are muted because the legitimate goals of mass surveillance can also be achieved -- often at lower expense, given how much it costs to sift through a firehose of >99% false positives and innocent behavior -- using traditional targeted investigative methods.
I'm pretty sure I still see spam links in youtube comments though.
The defective Xeon was in a 2009 Mac Pro, so it would have been a Westmere-era processor. Even though I was certain the problem was a bad core, the guy at the Genius Bar refused to believe it was the processor. He finally grudgingly agreed to replace the processor if I really wanted, but assured me it wouldn’t solve the problem. Unsurprisingly though, it did.

The other processor was an i7-14700K, and it was about eight months old when the problems started to manifest. The processor was never overclocked, and had a pretty chunky heatsink (with no fewer than three fans) so I’m pretty sure it was never run out of spec. Intel ended up RMAing the processor without too much hassle, so I get the sense that what had happened was not entirely uncommon, and they really want to avoid any bad press relating to it.

I’m not convinced Intel’s thermal protection is all that effective these days, after reading reports of people claiming their processors have become physically warped. Apparently a popular PC mod involves replacing the “flip-down” CPU bracket with one that screws in at all four corners, supposedly to help prevent warping.
"gushed about ai and smart glasses"

Glassholes never learn.
The causes of, and solutions to, hyperinflation are well understood [0]. Solving the problem might require a political revolution. When you have a playbook for doing that in a peaceful way, please let us know!

[0] https://mru.org/courses/principles-economics-macroeconomics/...
No of course you don't learn from my observation, and it's hearsay to you.

The idea is that each of us learns from our observation. And of course the observation and judgment of those we trust.

I'm not expecting or caring if you are influenced by my particular observations.
Why is it even relevant what they thought? Holding onto the constitution like is no better than following the Bible.
It's like Rankin Bass meets Chekov.
Very cool app. If you can crack multi-channel output formats (5.1, Atmos) I can see a lot of prosumers who would happily buy the product. Even the most basic tools for Dolby 5.1 are overpriced IMHO and Atmos encoder prices are either far beyond the reach of most DAW users or require use of Pro Tools.

One downside of selling into the pro audio market is piracy unfortunately. I learnt that the hard way and ended up having to use iLok.
I struggled with empathizing with what others were going through. Emotions were always a bit foreign to me. Lost a child about 1.5 years back. I’ve grown a lot in the empathy field since. Never wish it on anyone, but you gain a unique understanding of feelings around it.
The 2nd amendment is now written in the blood of your schoolchildren. Responsible gun ownership works, see most of Europe.
> The video doesn't really explain how it extends to higher dimensions tho, that I could discern.

The neat thing is that it "extends" automatically. The math is exactly the same. You literally just apply the same fundamental rules with an additional basis vector and it all just works.

MacDonald's book [1] proves this more formally. Another neat thing is there are two ways to prove it. The first is the geometric two-reflections-is-a-rotation trick given in the linked article. The second is straightforward algebraic manipulation of terms via properties of the geometric product. It's in the book and I can try to regurgitate it here if there's interest; I personally found this formulation easier to follow.

If you really want your mind blown, look into the GA formulation of Maxwell's laws and the associated extension to the spacetime (4d) algebra, which actually makes them simpler. That's derived in MacDonald's book on "Geometric Calculus" [2]. There's all kinds of other cool ideas in that book like a GA formulation of the fundamental law of calculus from which you can derive a lot of the "lesser" theorems like Green's law.

Take all of this with a grain of salt. I'm merely an enthusiast and fan, not an expert. And GA unfortunately has (from what I can tell) some standardization and nomenclature issues (e.g. disagreement over the true "dot product" among various similar but technically distinct formulations)

> I wonder how/if any of this can be applied to LLMs 'Semantic Space'.

Yeah, an interesting point. Geometric and linear algebra are two sides of the same coin; there's a reason why MacDonald's first book is called _Linear and_ Geometric Algebra. In that sense, Geometric Algebra is another way of looking at common Linear Algebra concepts where algebraic operations often have a sensible geometric meaning.

1. https://www.faculty.luther.edu/~macdonal/laga/
2. https://www.faculty.luther.edu/~macdonal/vagc/
Depends on whether smaller companies can deliver sufficient results cheaper than the larger ones. There are some indications that suggest that there are diminishing returns on investing on ever more power.

It's like you don't need a 1000HP supercar to get around town, a 55HP sedan is fine for most folks.
>>The Black Hawk, like most aircraft, does not have an air-to-air radar.

>Pretty surprising for the military. You'd like to know when an enemy fighter or a missile coming for you.

I'd guess the answer to "when is an enemy missile heading towards me" would usually be "shortly after you turn on your radar transmitter and reveal your location"...
In our current world, I don't see a reason to own a printer.

If there is someone sending out printed communications that needs that level of security, and wasn't committing a crime, I'd love to hear about it. Because it'd seem like they'd have to completely avoid the mail system, leaving fingerprints, or licking the envelope.
GodisaGeek – Official Statement from the Editorial Team
The blog post clearly describes them as two different systems, and how Jane Street migrated from one to another.
I don't wanna close my eyes
> stole their IP

Copyright infringement is not theft, and AI output isn't even copyrightable! At worst, they committed a terms-of-service violation.
I would agree with you if 90% of the "new media" wasn't absolute clickbait trash. So many takes that are in a rush to get it out before their competition that it's usually unverified speculation that is at best a guess and worst an made-up-on-the spot lie. Other takes are just being controversial to be controversial or to serve special interests like "no matter what thou shalt be loyal to the democrat/MAGA literature, f the truth"
Old employee prints out old mockups, fools everyone when he has them graded and sold at auction is also an exciting and rare story. Rare and interesting enough to make the rounds beyond the pokemon scene (as evidenced by us talking about it).

I'd agree that original prototypes would be cooler and more exclusive, but these cards are also unique thanks to the events around them. They are not just any contemporary printouts
As a user of Linux, I wish Linux distributions would abandon their build systems which really only work well for C and maybe C++, and also only work on one platform (not even the whole of linux!) meaning that packaging has to be duplicated for every OS, and stuck to using more familiar language-specific build systems that work everywhere.

(this rant more or less equally applies to all os-or-distro-specific build systems)

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This rant is only semi-serious. I do see some value in the Linux distribution style packaging. In particular, I do sympathise with the need to do cross-language builds. But goodness are they a pain to work with, and probably the biggest barrier to me shipping software on Linux.

My hope is that eventually an evolution on build systems like bazel/buck2 will lead to a truly universal build system that is both cross-platform and cross-language. But unfortunately it doesn't look like it's coming soon.
@bratao may not be a native English speaker.
I had taken care of patients with acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) post influenza infection.

His neuro symptoms included sz, confusion.

On routine testing by the dietitian he was noted to have a very low vitamin d level.

Although very anecdotal- I have always believed that autoimmune conditions post viral syndromes are exacerbated by low vitamin D levels.

Have any you with long covid been tested for vitamin D levels? For any of you did vitamin d supplements help?
I have no ball in this game, as I am non-US. but sounds like the same can be said. Just wait until the FBI starts harassing your family outside their lawful jurisdiction. Or an FBI agent abusing their family.
But at least your children will be safe from the dangerous streets...
From React to Hotwire [video]
Fair callout. I think I remember reading they previewed the next version privately to show off its advancements. Maybe that’s why?
White-collar jobs will continue to thrive despite AI
Not to detract from anything you said, but what if I told you there is a world where the beings etch arcane glyphs into crystals and then enchant them to do their bidding using esoteric incantations?
I bet the guy who can't dig in the dump to find his Bitcoin would say otherwise
Could just ask

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ho-jenny-sn
This means the architecture is also bad, and that is what needs to be fixed.
FOX News quoted the President as saying today "We need brilliant people"... but not transgenders.

It reminds me of a WW2 headline from The Onion: Women, Negroes Momentarily Useful
Employees start leaking when they feel like they can’t advocate for change through proper channels inside the company AND they care about the work that they’re doing.

So to stop leaks, you either need to let employees drive some decisions (even if it’s unpopular with your stockholders) OR cultivate a workforce that doesn’t care and are just in it to cash their paycheck.
> Access denied

> You are not authorized to access this page.

It seems we have forgotten the article.

But not the Internet Archive

https://web.archive.org/web/20250130030201/http://mikhailian...
Impressive and full of great potential!

Congrats on shipping this.

Off topic question out of curiosity:

If we are builde a simpler visual "workflow" tool that allows users to drag and drop components on to a canvas, connect them, create brancing logic etc and configure properties of each components in a properties panel .... is there a good open source library/framework that we can add to say a React front end that has a lot of this UI already available? Thanks
I guess this would require operator overloading. Is there a proposal for that? A JavaScript version of numpy/pytorch would also need overloading (plus array slicing).
Is that the bar necessary to believe systemic change is possible? I'd argue it should be "any slightly more peaceful way than the existing order". Perfect the enemy of good and all that. Or am I missing something?
Social Media AI Bot Goes Rogue
Show HN: Moar Content – make marketing content from your content (for free)
Hey all, I got sick of making marketing content for every different social media channel (X, LinkedIn, Instagram, etc.), so I made a tool to do it for me.

Just put in your URL pointing to your content, select the kind of marketing copy you wanna generate, click "generate", and boom. Free marketing.

Probably the sickest feature is being able to parse YouTube videos. Try it out .

Would love to know what y'all think before I put too much work into it!
Wolves are possibly the dominant reference point in the US? I'm in NZ and instead Gorillas or chickens.
Ground control, this is Major Tom, we're got 99 luftballons up here!
Project-R is San Francisco Rush recompiled
Conscripting the App Stores Doesn't Solve the Problems with Age Verification
> I even suspect that the current near-sightedness epidemic is caused by people spending too much time in dim lighting. Maybe if our indoor lighting was brighter our eyesight would not adapt to become near-sighted as much.

It's not that eyes are adapting to low light so much as the fact that exposure to 10k lux stimulates the release of neurotransmitters which prevent the eye from growing too quickly. Last I checked, the recommendation is for children to spend 2+ hours per day outdoors in sunlight. Morning and evening aren't sufficiently lit so it really comes down to school and after-school care scheduling enough outdoors time.
As a total beginner in this field, how can I begin experimenting with this?
We really had fun reading this. Great games: firepower emerald mines, crystal hammer and dungeonaster.

My friend had the 512 fast ram upgrade, and later a Lucas accelerator.
Executive Order to the State Department Sideswipes Freedom Tools
It is indeed a clone of iStat Menus. But a very good one, which I discovered when I got tired of paying for the yearly upgrade to iStat.
Not german, but my parents reason for getting rid of their tesla this week was Musk going crazy
You should take a look at Ultorg--not the best name (then again Mathesar is not much better...) but there is a lot of powerful and intuitive UX stuff in that project.
Other than the seller being someone able and willing to break the law in Pakistan to get dollars to people who want them, yes.
I continue to find the RealPage thing amusing because it's simultaneously possible that a) what they're doing is totally ineffective because there are tons of landlords and withholding units from the market primarily benefits the landlords who don't participate and thereby achieve a lower vacancy rate, making all of the landlords who don't use it smarter and more profitable than the ones who do, thereby ensuring a ton of defections that make the scheme ineffective, and yet b) that what they're doing is still an attempt at price fixing, which is illegal regardless of whether or not it's effective.
Open source and especially free open source apps probably don't care too much about the "onboarding experience".
Why would it matter when Chinese deepseek is not going to abide by such rules or be forced to and will release their model open weights so anyone anywhere can host it?

Also, scraping most of the websites they scrape is also not allowed, they do it anyways
I haven't heard about Hidden Bar before, but https://github.com/jordanbaird/Ice is quite nice.
There's no reason for this to be a NYT link.

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-appr...
Beyond the Numbers: PM2.5 is not PM2.5
And then how does the minimum wage apply?
Also, there are so many innovations in their papers (Deepseek math, Deepseek v2/v3, R1) that I honestly wouldn’t even care. They figured out a way to train on only 2048 H800s when big companies are buying them in the hundreds of thousands. They created a new RL algorithm. They improved MoE. They improved the KV cache. They built an super efficient training framework.
I promise bad things still happen in your city. Do you think drugs stop getting sold when a dealer is picked up? Seems fairly naïve...
Is that rhetorical, or have you never heard of currency controls and money laundering?
> At least two of these individuals appeared to be “college students with disturbingly high A-suite clearance,” one TTS source told WIRED. (A-suite clearances tie employees to the GSA administrator’s office.)

> One person says they were brought into a review with Edward Coristine, a recent high school graduate who spent several months at Neuralink

It's a shame to see un-hired people enter government buildings and complete any meaningful task.

Here's a relevant section from this week's Economist article on the same topic:

"Were Mr Trump to make these changes stick—a questionable prospect—it would amount to “probably the most fundamental alteration of the civil-service system since 1883”, says Don Moynihan, of the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan (a verdict many in the White House would love). That was the year Congress created a civil service commission which began to professionalise government jobs. Mr Trump wants to recreate “the spoils system” of political patronage that prevailed until then, says Max Stier, of the Partnership for Public service, a charity which works to improve government. That was a model whereby new presidents came in and immediately distributed the bulk of government jobs to their unqualified supporters." [1]

If Congress or the Courts aren't able to put an end to this in the next 4 years, I hope the next president doesn't continue this trend of eroding the civil service.

I suppose the silver lining is that if this goes poorly enough the civil service will probably receive better protections to help this from happening in the future.

[1]: https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/01/29/donald-tr...
Final final question:
Are you Chinese yourself? If so, have you visited any of these regions (Xinjiang or Tibet)? Do you prefer living China or would you prefer somewhere else?

I’m also curious what things you follow for information usually since it is probably different from mine (like news websites or YouTube channels or whatever).
What's funny to me is nearly every computer in a show made now, when everyone in the audience knows what a real computer looks like, will still have a totally fake "Hollywood UI". Mr. Robot excepted, of course.
That's fair. It isn't outside the realm of possibility that the Pope and every previous Pope is and was a true agent of God (despite how historical issues around papal succession and legitimacy may complicate that story), and there's no way to logic your way into an answer on that one way or another.

Nevertheless, whether or not someone's particular doctrine agrees with the "long game of telephone" stance, I would suggest that a mindset which finds meaning in the teachings and institutions of one's religion independent of their divinity is a more straightforward path to prosocial behavior and inner peace. The idea that anyone should ever suffer genuine anguish or question their personal morals based on doubts of their assumptions about the metaphysical nature of the universe just seems alien and like a non sequitur to me, but from what I understand it's a very real struggle for some people.
Checking for updates is not the same as "phoning home".
I don't mind CMake. It's awful, but I'm already using C or C++, so the bar is set pretty low. It does do a few things right, and at least some of the things it does wrong are manageable.

I'll eat at least a bit of shit if it means I can get more than one platform's-worth of build process out of a single set of human-editable configuration files.
It wasn’t very relevant.

First comment asked “we’ll need to wait and see if the admin can deliver”, then next “do we? Or do we have data to go on?” and my comment “he has run several successful businesses” followed by “his character is bad”.

The logic doesn’t follow, just an attempt to bad mouth.
The ideas embodied in modern target-oriented CMake are worthwhile. It's all hobbled by a dreadful script language but that could be improved with sufficient motivation.
https://archive.ph/diPtN
Guy A: winks winks nudges nudges

Guy B: LOOK EVERYONE, "GUY A" WINKED AND NUDGED!!
And that's one of the benefits of working with a high-volume prototyping service like JLC - they've built a lot of PCBs; they know all about how to maximize yield.
No there's usually a wide variety of viable strategies, which have different costs associated with them. There's a price of entry but once everyone is on that level you still have to play well.
Don't be too hard on the video or article. I just went through the Frequency_comb Wikipedia article and I'm still none the wiser.

Well, I did get an idea about what the thing actually is: basically a signal consisting of a mixture of frequencies, precisely spaced. Techniques to generate some of the bands include nonlinear mixing. Turns out, light can undergo distortion, so you can get intermodulation distortion to generate colors not present in the inputs.

The unclear part is the details of how the frequency comb is hooked together with the radio frequency domain in a feedback loop to control the comb. I.e. where in the RF domain we have the precise frequency reference we'd like to convey to the optical domain.
This was also in the news last year: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...
> The gender split depended on specialist.

Sure, but it doesnt really relate to your original statement.

> The nurses are all women, doctors used to be almost only men and now are mix of men and women.

Which obviously has been corrected here already, but in case:

> In 1917, 17 percent of doctors were women, yet by 1940 61 percent were women. From the 1950s the figure fluctuated at around 65–70 percent

A side effect of the impacts of WW2 and the loss of men I am led to believe and that occurred in many areas of society.

> Pediatricians would be women much more often then surgeons.

Sure, maybe. Maybe not. Last I looked, both are doctors.
Interesting article on the median artery given that there is no proposed advantage to the phenotype that is increasing in representation.

My understanding is that evolution is specifically directional change in response to a pressure, not random drift or coincidence.

Is it accurate to say a trait evolved if the change in prevalence is entirely incidental and tied to a second Factor?

Is it accurate to say a trait evolved if the change is a regression to the mean in the absence of pressure?

I went looking for papers on why the median artery might be selected for, and one hypothesized that it may be grouped with, fetal deformities, such as spina bifida, which are increasing not because they are advantageous, but because adverse selection pressures are diminished.

Another hypothesis is that the variation in median artery is not reflective of a change in genome, but change in environmentally triggered gene expression associated with maternal health.