skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Bitcoin does not reduce the effectiveness of US monetary policy either.

IF Bitcoin were to replace the dollar (and that was the premise if you look further up in this thread) then by definition US monetary policy would cease to exist and therefore lose its effectiveness.

This has absolutely nothing to do with the price of Bitcoin. It's a structural feature of Bitcoin because governments do not have the power to increase the supply of Bitcoin.

A dollar linked stablecoin on the other hand does not have this structural feature (for the US). This is the difference I'm talking about.

For other countries the situation is quite different because dollarisation in any form (stablecoin or otherwise) means giving up their own monetary policy.
If you want reliable service you're going to pay more around $7~8 per million tokens. Sister commenters mention providers that are considered unstable https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-r1
The 4o model's output is blatantly wrong. I'm not going to look up if it's the order or the ages that are incorrect, but:

36. Abraham Lincoln – 52 years, 20 days (1861)

37. James Garfield – 49 years, 105 days (1881)

38. Lyndon B. Johnson – 55 years, 87 days (1963)

Basically everything after #15 in the list is scrambled.
I'd say that by spending money on elections, both as donations and as taxes, we do buy a good: good governance (preferably) and peaceful transfer of power.

The problem is that the market is not efficient: only 2-3 offers, mostly from the same two brands, each brand with its own known serious problems. The process is actually an auction of sorts (first past the post), and returns are not accepted!

IMHO, the cost is the least of the problems here.
Tesla Stock 'Somehow' Rises Despite Big Earnings Miss - As Musk Predicts ...
Guilty. Bummer that the charge isn't the social exile it used to be :P
You should be able to leverage generate_for in your build.yaml with include/exclude to reduce those build times significantly. You should be able to get it back down to a few seconds including building the graph and then you should be able to just run watch instead of build.

It may be worth mentioning that build_runner's graph contains every single asset that might be generated. So when selecting what's included and excluded you can reduce the graph size dramatically.
Musk is a major component of the administration that currently represents conservatives. He is/was the biggest donor to that administration. That makes him a conservative for now.

I live in Massachusetts where three straight Speakers were convicted of various crimes so I'm well aware of Democratic malfeasance. Right now Trump and his enablers are so much worse.
Also, speaking of Musk, note that for all his fits of pique over losing in chancery court over his attempt to wriggle out of a terrible contract that he wrote (Twitter) and a pay package that was rubber-stamped by a conflicted-controller BoD, he also notched some notable wins on some non-slam-dunk cases there, such as upholding Tesla's acquisition of his cousins' failing company SolarCity.
Looks like this only compares commercial models, and not the ones I can download and actually run locally.
The comment acknowledges this. As they say a move from Delaware to Texas signals something, it signals that the company goes not particularly care about shareholder protections or governance. It implies that the leadership of the company is more interested in not being constrained than in serving their shareholders.
Yes, I understand the reference. I don't understand their argument that this is a good example of that common mental model for LLMs.

In this case "fast, instinctive, and emotional" models are better at instruction following than "slower, more deliberative, and more logical" models.
I'm not going to knock the usefulness of the library, but I am going to knock its application.

Architecturally, shell scripts should _exclusively_ be for bootstraps, configs, or extremely localized (individual developer) automation.

The New York Minute you need non-trivial error-handling/flow-control it's no longer a "shell script" and deserves a proper rewrite in a proper programming language.

Ian Malcom's quote from Jurassic Park comes to mind:

"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
Non-Western founders say DeepSeek proves innovation need not cost billions
My vibe question checking suggests otherwise. Even o3-mini-high is not as good as r1, even though it's faster than r1. Considering o3-mini is more expensive per token. It's not clear o3-mini-high is cheaper than r1 either even r1 probably consumes more token per answer.
The map overview is so well done. The comments are so nice and thoroughly explaining what is stored in which register and what's being manipulated.

I wish all codebases were like this. This must have taken months to document it.

[1] https://elite.bbcelite.com/c64/articles/map_of_the_source_co...

[2] https://elite.bbcelite.com/c64/main/subroutine/tactics_part_...
Sorry, try again. There was a rogue feature flag keeping it restricted from some users seeing it as an option.
Arguing about the meaning of what Damore wrote, and what he thought/intended, is a huge waste of time. Just about everybody who read it comes to a different interpretation of what he meant to imply. Then folks argue endlessly (on forums like this, memegen, elsewhere) about their different interpretations.

A better writer with more experience could have written a doc that was basically "some aspects of the training in our DEI classes is not scientifically supported, but is being used as a cudgel to change people's behavior" with a few examples.
They don't. They're currently incorporated in Delaware, but HQ is (and will remain, so far) in California.

> The paperwork change would not relocate its corporate headquarters. A Meta spokesperson said that it does not plan on shifting its corporate headquarters out of Menlo Park, California, but declined to comment on reincorporation when contacted by Reuters.
> Is there any evidence that this has ever happened in the history of the US?

How would you even have a DEI program that didn't work this way?

You're currently understaffed and make efforts to hire someone to fill the position. The first qualified applicant you find doesn't meet the DEI goals. Your options are now a) hire them, stop being understaffed, but don't meet the DEI goals, or b) don't hire them and hold out for a candidate that can meet the DEI goals, but in the meantime you remain understaffed.

You don't always have the luxury of choosing between two concurrent applicants and this is a pretty unambiguous trade off whenever that doesn't happen.
I took Andrew Ng's Coursera ML course but I think it's a bit out of date now. I've heard good things about https://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html to learn AI/ML.

Most tech interviews will have a leetcode component, so I would also take a more advanced algorithms/data structures class like https://www.coursera.org/learn/algorithms-part1

I would also start doing problems on leetcode once you finish the course.
At this point Meta doesn't even worry about these news and specially right now that it is trying to please the current adminstration. Over the years I see it got a lot of bad press but they continue to grow their revenue. Investors are happy, nothing else matters probably for the company .
Cool, okay. Nuance matters, I agree.

Nuance also demands we point out at the businessmen who can't discern one programmer from another. Different people thrive in very different environments and this is, 99% of the time, ignored.
Cheap housing and permissive regulations
Hard to believe that “learners ... get confused over mutability” more than functional programming when millions of middle-schoolers grokked the idea of “mutability” in the form of variables in Basic, while I (and at a guess, at least thousands of other experienced programmers) have no fucking idea about pretty much all the stuff in most of the tens or hundreds of articles and discussions like this that we've seen over the years. Just plain stating that “mutability is more difficult” without a shred of evidence ain't gonna fly.
It is not allowed. People are conflating a private lawsuit between Donald Trump and some large corps, with the Justice Dept suing large corps. Justice Dept can't settle and give money the money away. Let's not let politics lobotomize our common sense.
Sounds like a political decision - closing the gate after the horse has bolted.
https://archive.md/20250130151459/https://www.forbes.com/sit...
Setting the specifics around each event aside, as that's not only its own rathole but also a never ending stream of "what about"s for other events as well, I doubt you're ever going to come up with an ideology where all things are correctly handled all of the time yet that doesn't automatically imply all of those are hopeless.

Anti-censorship is more a bet that when people can freely know there is more hope things can change for the better. It's not a bet all things will always change for the better. I do put a lot more hope in that than anybody from anywhere saying those who can't even openly discuss it are in better chances.
The irony is that the people who were worried about a "deep state" cabal have responded by creating one of their own.

The classic response will be of course that "everyone does this" but the truth is no. The USDA goes around certifying pesticides and factory farms - they had no incentive to be pushing a climate change agenda besides what they needed to do to do their jobs.

One side has built a perceived villain, and now they feel justified to reply in kind.

"The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies. When I was a boy I was taught to think of Englishmen as the five-meal people. They ate more frequently than the poor but sober Italians. Jews are rich and help each other through a secret web of mutual assistance. However, the followers of Ur-Fascism must also be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak. Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy." - Umberto Eco
I'm talking about this: https://www.threads.net/@zuck/post/DFNf73PJxOQ

> "...we'll build an AI engineer that will start contributing increasing amounts of code to our R&D efforts".

What do you think will happen when these models are good enough to do 90% of engineering work? He's already putting a squeeze on his employees now (https://africa.businessinsider.com/news/meta-ceo-mark-zucker...)

> "I think whoever gets there first is going to have a long-term, durable advantage towards building one of the most important products in history," Zuckerberg said, according to the recording.

> Zuckerberg also reiterated his belief that this would be the year Meta started seeing AI agents take on work, including writing software. Asked whether this would lead to job cuts, Zuckerberg said it was "hard to know" and that while it may lead to some roles becoming redundant, it could lead to hiring more engineers who can harness artificial intelligence to be more productive.
Right, most of the stuff I'd seen was trying to get DeepSeek to explain the Winnie The Pooh memes, which is a problem because Winnie The Pooh is Xi, that's what the memes are about and he doesn't like that at all.

Trump hates the fact he's called the orange buffoon. On a Fox show or in front of fans he can pretend he believes nobody says that, nobody thinks he's an idiot, they're all huge fans because America is so strong now, but in fact he's a laughing stock and he knows it.

A sign of American hopelessness would be the famous Onion articles "No Way To Prevent This". There are a bunch of these "Everybody else knows how to do it" issues but gun control is hilarious because even average Americans know how to do it but they won't anyway. That is helplessness.
US government agency argues that money isn't property–so it can take yours
The problem is that the word "conservative" has become so overloaded as to become useless, both as a punching bag (the above quote, which would be better stated as authoritarian or even more appropriately crypto-fascist), and as a fig-leaf for the radical reactionary agenda that has taken over the Republican party. The actual straightforward definition of wishing to slow change, supporting American institutions, the rule of law, fiscal responsibility, etc, actually applies more to the current Democratic party.

Musk's hypocrisy regarding "free speech" is more around him claiming to be libertarian, but that type of hypocrisy runs deep in the Libertarian party, as the attraction of freedom for me but not for thee is too strong and the party has been pwnt by moneyed sponsors the same as the two main parties.
> Which values exactly are being expressed by being incorporated in, say, California?

Depends on when. The whole point is that the incentives, and signal generated by responding to them, are changing a bunch.

Just my opinion, but between ~2008 and ~2016, incorporating in CA could at least potentially be read as "We're really serious about hiring the best talent and doing an unusually good job, to the point that we're willing to pay a premium."

Implied in the above is the idea that paying said premium would result in success that strongly outweighed the costs, and that you could more or less keep that success, without putting a huge target on ones back for additional taxation, regulation, social stigma, etc. California was highly regulated and expensive, but not quite punitively regulated and expensive.

Over time, that signal has weakened. The relationship between SV and CA feels more actively hostile. people do what everyone's doing, or really want to be near VCs and other network effects. These things have always been true, they've just lost the cover provided by that other more grand and inspiring explanation. despite the drawbacks I do think it's still the best place to start a very small tech startup. The pool of both talent and peer companies is completely unmatched, even in other large tech cities.

One thing that's hard to decouple: to what degree is this shift because of the regulatory and social environments becoming authentically hostile to tech (on many fronts: taxation, gentrification, looseness-for-speed, etc), and to what degree does it just seem that way to people that get some combination of cash and dopamine from shifting to see the world through that lens? IMO both things have certainly occurred, but I'm less sure of the proportions.

Edit — another thing that's very interesting to me: massive ideological decoupling in the C-suite vs IC classes. My experience during that time period felt much more "flat", both hierarchically and ideologically. I started out as a random intern and not only was it very easy to get in the room with some staggeringly rich and brilliant people, I genuinely felt a very strong and natural vibe-compatibility with them. They mostly seemed regular. Thiel was an exception, but only mildly. Intense vibes, but decent ones. I'd have guessed that as I aged out of my 20s and became more successful that I would, if anything, be better able to relate to some of those big dogs. Not the case at all. I think back then both classes were less aware that one was or was becoming an inhumane robber barron. Both sides know that now.
>Besides all this, the main issue, for me, is how it managed to spread and ingrain itself into distributions making them dependent on it.

Because it's better than the alternatives?, don't remember systemd buying distro maintainers lol

>If you want to use an alternative to systemd on those distributions, you are usually on your own, constantly trying to fix it whenever there are breaking changes.

Of course they aren't being paid to support everything under the sun and http://islinuxaboutchoice.com/

>So is Windows :)

Then use it if it's better for you
I love content like this. Madly niche, but miles deep.

My only criticism is that unless you are already familiar with the inks in question, it’s rather difficult to work out from the photos which image corresponds to which inks that are mentioned in the text.
Ah in that case I apologize. Truly baffling situation.
"For verification, we'll need something you know, and something you own. Simply come over here to the kiosk with the keypad and the scanner to... Wait... what did you do with your Security Cupcake?"
Maybe if you are a non profit based in CA. There's probably some other corner cases I'm not aware of, like it might be simpler in some cases like an LLC for holding family property, etc.
> After four hours, I should have had 10% or less in my stomach but in December 2023, I had 41% remaining, which indicated gastroparesis. [...] The second study I had in September 2024 showed 8% remaining, at which point my gastroparesis was considered resolved but my symptoms persisted.

I have a pet hypothesis that a non-trivial chunk of the "problems" discovered with medical testing are not actually problems but just expressions of the surprisingly wide variation in how humans work. Maybe this was just a thing that happened and not a condition that auto-resolved?

> In August 2024, I learned of a clinical trial [...] Ultimately, the medication didn’t have any positive impact on my nausea but also didn’t cause negative side effects.

Did you end up in the placebo arm, perchance?
The thing where food sits and ferments in your stomach is insane.
The IP and that the industry is very big-release centric. Even the engine you are working with is often news, people monitor and report on job listings for this kind of thing. It's obvious and uninteresting that a slightly updated new version of google sheets will release probably like every day, and they will be virtually indistinguishable from the previous ones. If literally anything you say about your work on GTA6 is news for the next N years, you don't post anything. The few non-indie devs I see publically online are usually for live-service companies like riot.
I think fascism is about totalitarian dominance of the population by the government, no?

Seems like cutting taxes and bureacracy does the opposite.

Unless “fascist” and “nazi” means “people I don’t like”.
I wonder if this has always been true
I generally just short my dignity.
Obviously they do. That's the whole point.
"The move higher in Tesla shares bore no relation whatsoever to the company's financial performance in the quarter just completed or to its outlook for growth in the coming year," wrote Brinkman, who added Tesla's share price has "become completely divorced from the fundamentals."
Billions of dollars is beyond human comprehension. We handle it better with 1,000 millions. But then the human mind thinks about things on a scale of millions of dollars being a minute amount.... which is not how the general populations thinks about personal expenditures.
Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency
Have you considered the possibility that your feedback is used to choose what type of response to give to you specifically in the future?

I would not consider purposely giving inaccurate feedback for this reason alone.
I'm referring to live interception of messages which I guess has to be done to be compliant with Twitch's terms -- there is a human there

edit: but yeah the fact that so many people interact with her shows generated content can keep people occupied
This is the EO that was repealed. I didn’t originally include it because it was already mentioned in this thread. Both claim to ban discrimination based on race, gender, or religion.

https://archives.federalregister.gov/issue_slice/1965/9/28/1...
Puh-lease. I've spent 40 years in software engineering. You know how many times I've been unemployed during that tenure? Plenty. It's always been part of the territory. Especially in the early 90's. In one year, I ended up unemployed twice! If you're in start-ups, which I was then, it's particularly volatile. You can sink at any moment. At larger firms you can get hit as part of a cost restructuring and organization realignment. It happens. A lot.

Do you know how to handle it? Keep your skills sharp, figure out your value add, i.e. what makes you different from everybody else, and keep contact with your network. You do have a network, right?
> They probably doing it for themselves like people saying « gosh ».

Surely you mean g*sh?
The point is that I have experienced how it fails when it does, not that it fails.

All software fails, which is why it’s important that I can debug/fix it when it fails.

That’s my point, I could fix what came before.
You're right. In that context, it can definitely be bravery.

However, in general, the decision to answer or not answer a salesperson at your door is not about bravery. It is primarily about effort and annoyance.

The combination of "Is it really that hard to say "Selling something? Not interested, have a nice day!"?" and a condescending "Gotta be brave and interact with the world sometimes." rubbed me the wrong way.
Persig argues that the problem is more than just point in time vs continuous, it's that the typical mechanic doesn't care, they are neither careful nor interested. It's the same with doctors. Unless you have something straightforward: a tumor, a broken bone, a bacterial infection, etc... it is quite difficult to get a doctor _interested_ in solving a difficult problem. They don't have time for you and they aren't interested in subtlety.

If your problem can't be addressed with antibiotics or pain meds, then it's "let's try SSRIs for the next six months and see how it works".
Those are almost all (I suppose with the exception of Dutch) far more significant global languages than Ukrainian.
One would think, but the FAA consistently failed to do much more than submit letters to SpaceX, which resulted in the FAA themselves being investigated. I don't think much ever came out of that. Only in the past year has the FAA been actively concerned about whatever SpaceX does, and coincidentally, Elon Musk demanded the FAA administrator resign, who promptly did.
none of the above is easy.

craigslist used to have free personals, and escort ads.
The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad: Science and Sacrifice in a City Under Siege
Thats pretty easy. You ask a certain nationalistic chant and ask it to elaborate. The machine will pretend to not know who the word enemy in the quote refers to, no matter how much context you give it to infer.

Add: the thing I referred to is no longer a thing
Now every time you get the urge to log back in, switch to a neglected activity/interest to focus in on. In 30-60 days (I can’t remember the grace period) you’ll have a deeper understanding of this interest and be Facebook free.
I'd humbly like to ask people who've read the paper whether it's worth trying to understand it without a great math background. The paper looks intersting but daunting, and I'd hate to sink a lot of time into it and leave defeated.

It sometimes sucks being in ML with 'only' a CS background. Feels like all the math and physics grads are running around having fun with their fancy mathematics, while I stand here, feeling dimwitted.
https://archive.ph/2025.01.29-162107/https://www.lrb.co.uk/t...
>in-breading issues

sandwich style
I just pushed a new release of my LLM CLI tool with support for the new model and the reasoning_effort option: https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/changelog.html#v0-21

Example usage:

llm -m o3-mini 'write a poem about a pirate and a walrus' \
-o reasoning_effort high

Output (comparing that with the default reasoning effort): https://github.com/simonw/llm/issues/728#issuecomment-262832...

(If anyone has a better demo prompt I'd love to hear about it)
looking at all that data it appears that smoking cannabis is out of the question to this person.

the person should smoke cannabis regularly until a solution is found.