skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, this happens in a lot of fields, including programming. I often wonder why we spend so much time trying to justify certain research avenues over others and don't let people just research what they find is interesting. I hear you, we should be efficient and not waste money. But is there actually good evidence that we have strong predictive powers here? There's at least strong evidence that dark horses are quite common in the innovation space and exceptionally common in major breakthroughs. So even if we want to primarily focus on funding promising directions there is still good evidence that optimal funding requires funding unpopular ideas.

Which if we think about a lot of this, it should make sense anyways. Just by thinking about optimization theory. It is often quite good to add noise so that your optimization function can escape local minima. We can only travel directly to the global optima if we know exactly where it is. But should we not expect that expert predictive power is much better at pointing to local optima rather than global? (global very likely doesn't exist but that doesn't mean there aren't better optima).

There's also many famous scientists that didn't "spend much time working." I add quotes, because if you're a researcher you'd naturally understand there's no real thing as "not working." There is only active work and inactive work. You're likely consumed by the topics and problems you're trying to solve. So doing things like going on walks, playing your favorite sport, or whatever ends up being beneficial as you can relax and shift between focused and creative modes. But that doesn't happen as much if your boss thinks "working" is staring at the chalkboard. Sometimes it is best to go sit outside and daydream, while other times it is best to hammer your head against that metaphorical chalkboard.

> I don't have that type of patience.

As for this, patience is a skill. Delayed rewards. Long term rewards are often noisier and more difficult to attribute to their appropriate causes. Even if the long term rewards are substantially greater than the short term, and the timeframe isn't too large, most people prefer the short term. Not just because reward, but because interpretability. As an example, just think about education in of itself. Lots of effort but also lots of reward. Even though the process is very noisy and it is unclear which aspects of education contributed the most to success, it is very clear that there's a strong connection between education and success (does not mean there aren't other pathways to success nor that you are guaranteed to be successful by being educated. It can be easy to conflate these things).
I would guess "Legal tender 2" was deemed a failed experiment, since rapid deflation is extremely undesirable in a currency.
Bitcoin has a lot of flaws as a currency. Don't worry.... there are at least 100,000 other "coins" to choose from. /s
Maybe they spent the marketing budget on lobbying ;)
Calling some of those leftist is quite a condemnation of the right.
I have never really felt the allure of living in a big city. Higher cost of living, smaller living spaces, noisy neighbors, rats apparently...
> Feels like you're missing out on some good stuff though. Possibly a lot of good stuff. Possibly the vast majority of human artistic output.

Hardly. Most human artistic output does not create its own genre and spawn a host of imitators.

Classics are coordination points but generally less fun. "Seinfeld is unfunny" is real, you're genuinely better off watching something more recent if you just want to enjoy yourself.
For daily usage, Bitcoin is simply inferior to Ethereum and other blockchains.
Man, these are some seriously impressive motherfuckers—my resume looks absolutely shameful compared to any one of them, and I'm over a decade older than they are.
yes, I've noticed a huge uptick in the right wing party using almost exactly the same language and bullshit moves.
Those who continue to invest in and use the Lightning (layer 2) network think it will be used as currency but most see it as a long term storage of value, at least until infrastructure supporting layers 2 and 3 mature.

As for “magically,” there’s nothing magic about its increase in value as it replaces legacy technology, chiefly gold as a store of value.
> Any new thing needs to be better than the current thing at least in one domain

For instance, my native country, in an effort to digitize the economy has passed a law that if you pay digitally or with a card at a restaurant you pay only 5% sales tax instead of 16% if you pay via cash. Some government wanting to encourage the adoption of a cryptocurrency can take similar measures. Governments have options that Vitalik Buterin does not.
CSV will go down as one of the greatest mistakes in computer programming.
>Now the businesses are free to accept it or not instead of being required to accept it. That's all.

Right, so it's no longer legal tender.
I live in Ann Arbor and I think you would be surprised by the CoL here. I’m not claiming sf/nyc numbers but it’s pretty close to Chicago numbers

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The voters on election day don't, which is obviously what the comment was referring to.
He's not "openly posting" about it, he's trying to spin it in his favor. There's a difference.
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That opinion is not shared by those who think Proof of Stake and no ceiling to supply are bugs vs features.
Facts need not apply. We’re righteously indignant for goodness sake! Stop with all the nonsense “facts” and “reality” unless they fit the narrative.
Hm. So I think if you define reasoning broadly -- as in collecting relevant data, enumerating and raking priorities, thinking through expected consequences... people do engage in this quite often in all areas of life, far more often than lesswrongers would credit.

If you define it more narrowly, as in using particular techniques that are popular to talk about in that community like bayes theorem, updating priors and so on-- then indeed it's not common but it's also not practiced by practically any of the community members.

I would say that there is a mix of both definitions in use in those communities, but for the former people already do it often and for the latter not even the lesswrongers do (with a few exceptions).
> “Every dollar and gig of data that flows into Chinese AI are dollars and data that will ultimately be used against the United States,” Senator Hawley said in a statement. “America cannot afford to empower our greatest adversary at the expense of our own strength. Ensuring American economic superiority means cutting China off from American ingenuity and halting the subsidization of CCP innovation.”

Oh goodness me!. If that's true, then why not just completely block China's IP addresses from our Internet? Why not just block all dollars from entering China?

Oh right, because that's not the truth. It's certainly not the whole of it anyway.
A fully functional Memex[1,2], for the Web.

"instruments are at hand which, if properly developed, will give man access to and command over the inherited knowledge of the ages. The perfection of these pacific instruments should be the first objective of our scientists as they emerge from their war work."

It's been about 80 years... and we still haven't done it yet. This is worse than the debacle with string theory.

A fully functional Memex would work like a normal web browser, but allow you to look back on your entire history locally, and make a copy of any of it for someone else, locally.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-m...

[1a] https://web.archive.org/web/20150214162829/http://www.theatl...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_We_May_Think
Well there’s that and then there is the 2 billionaires with competing social media platforms. Where one is considered a dumpster fire and the other is a retirement home. So why not use that considerable wealth and legislate your competition out of existence.
I have no idea about the intricacies of US law, but reading the actual proposed bill[1], it seems incredibly broad. Like, "this may make publishing linear algebra papers on faster matrix operations illegal"-broad, as it includes everything which may contribute to AI research.

Also: Preventing the import of "foreign" knowledge / research seems completely insane to me, no offense, no matter how one stands on export. There is nothing justifying this, you're just kneecapping yourself.

[1] https://www.hawley.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Haw...
Yeah there’s no way that would happen in the west. In Canada you often hear stories of cats on the edge of properties or just sitting in a field and some lady driving by will stop, pick it up and drop it off at the shelter (which in some cases will only hold them for a few days before giving them away). There’s a huge well organized group of people keeping every animal not fully controlled in check and not keeping them indoors is frowned upon. It’s mostly cultural not just animal control regulation, like most enforcement of municipal rules.
As a cryptocurreny enthusiast I think the execution here and it's goals weren't aligned to begin with. It was nothing more than a custodial wallet and it was not implemented or deployed in any meaningful way. You can't write any useful smart contract to "do" anything and without any of that it doesn't compete for shit against centralized digital payment systems in terms of efficiency or simplicity.
My team has a large ocaml codebase and a dual build system (buck2 and dune). The two have roughly similar: dune faster at the raw speed of invoking ocaml build tools, buck2 winning out when a lot of stuff has to be rebuilt and it uses distributed build system.

The major pain point is LSP integration, which has to be closely tied to the build system, since it's only by building that the LSP server can know a file's dependencies. Everything is all neatly available with dune. We've cobbled something together a bit with buck2 but it's not as nice.
On the other hand, as someone who's emotional state is routinely incorrectly assessed by people, I can't imagine a worse hell than having that misassessment codified into an ai that I am required to interact with.
Dogshit "pick me!" bills that they introduce/sponsor for no other reason than to get the attention of corporate overlords.

Practically zero chance to get through house and senate.
> The Handmaid's Tale, a good book, you should read it sometime.

Yes, I've read it, excellent book.

> What are you trying to argue anyway?

That "life imitates art" is not a generally true statement.
What would happen if we managed to get rid of every single rat on the planet. The great rat extinction.

Would other species take it's place? Mice?

Or would the planet just be a better place?
This is the most Hacker News comment I've ever read.
Can't wait to tell my cell mates what I'm in for.
Nothing says stability like a "currency" that swings +/-1000% in value.
Reminder that AMD has stopped providing microcode updates for consumer platforms via linux-firmware.

index of linux-firmware, 41 cpus supported: https://github.com/divestedcg/real-ucode/blob/master/index-a...

index of my real-ucode project, 106 cpus supported: https://github.com/divestedcg/real-ucode/blob/master/index-a...

sadly, unless you have this recent agesa update you can no longer load recent microcodes due to this fix

which very well means quite a substantial amount of models whose vendors don't provide a bios update for this (since it goes back to zen1) will not be able to load any future fixes via microcode
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What caught my eye in the article was the desire to have something that doesn't panic with a release profile, while allowing for panics in dev profiles. Based on other comments I think the general "allow use of std, but don't panic" seems like something that could be useful purely on the "Wait, why doesn't that exist?" reactions.
I live in A2 as well and I don’t even bother looking for gigs here. Duo used to be the tech company to work for here but they were bought by Cisco which is not really my vibe. Barracuda is another big name but other than that I cannot name many others.
It's a channel operator's decision to chase the algorithm instead of doing something that makes sense. The algorithm also likes people watching your videos, generally.
So if I have a Java program using the AWS libraries and I run it under this thing, it can decode the HTTPS AWS payloads going to Amazon?

How does that work with the AWS certs? How does the program not reject whatever this tool is doing to pull it off?
Please name a school that was shut down as a direct result of any Trump administration executive order. I see lots of hyperbolic news articles speculating about such shutdowns, but I do not see any actual closure.

Also, you’re going to have to be more specific about what hospital care was affected and how it was affected.

If a hospital happens to have a research wing and processing a grant proposal for researchers associated with the hospital takes a little longer than usual, I hardly consider that a crisis.
> The Ivory Coast flag is a different aspect ratio to Ireland's flag. Ours is longer.

I did not know that. Always assumed there was a standard aspect ratio for flags.
First, there's hardly any evidence that these are anywhere near "brilliant engineers" let alone 1%. Their claims to "fame" were being interns or working on tightly scoped greenfield projects. Some might be interesting, sure. But it's hardly relevant to operating in a complex organization.

But more importantly, the real issue is regardless of how old they are an unelected individual is doling out hyper-privileged access to sensitive data to folks without any kind of oversight. It's a total mess.

It's hyperbolic to the n-th degree to call these "the best of nerds" as well.
Capital Records vs Jamie Thomas where Capital Records was awarded around 2 million in damages and Sony vs Joel Tenenbaum. These cases are not uncommon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Records%2C_Inc._v._Tho...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_v._Tenenbaum
The executive branch is currently ignoring the law. Why would they start following it in 2029?
>President Trump’s “special government employee,” Elon Musk, announced on Monday that he has dissolved the Internal Revenue Service’s free file program, effectively firing the staff who worked on the popular program.

Amazing how little is correct here. Musk claims he deleted a group (18F) that assisted the IRS (among others) with the creation of the tax filing program. The group is (was) part of GSA.
If your point is that Elon Musk is overthrowing the government and these are his pals, then this statement makes sense. If you were trying to make any other point then this makes zero sense.
I can definitely see use cases where cameras that detect distressed people can help prevent harm from them and others.
Those issues are not really relevant when it comes to factors like transaction speeds and the diversity of assets available to transact with, such as stablecoins, as well as DeFi platforms to actually use those assets on.
I think the objection is more that ID.me should be ID.gov.
I still think about the best-designed email app I've ever used, Sparrow [1]. This is the closest I've seen in design and spirit!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparrow_%28email_client%29
Rdrand was known to be previously broken.

https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/1d9aazw/rdrand_n...
In other words, "just trust us bro"? How do we know the evidence is justified? How do we avoid a "Trust us, Saddam Hussein has WMDs" situation?
Trump made this big announcement, and China bitchslapped him with math :

We want it to be in this country and we're making it available. I'm going to help a lot through emergency declarations because we have an emergency. We have to get this stuff built. So, they have to produce a lot of electricity, and we'll make it possible for them to get that production done very easily at their own plants if they want, where they'll build at the plant, the AI plant, they'll build energy generation and that will be incredible.

But it's technology and artificial intelligence all made in the USA. Begin immediately, Stargate will be building the physical and virtual infrastructure to power the next generation of advancements in AI. And this will include the construction of colossal data centers, very, very massive structures. I was in the real estate business, these buildings, these are big beautiful buildings that are going to employ a lot of people and physical campuses in locations currently being scouted nationwide.
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Why would anyone spend a single BTC/sat. if they know it could be worth 10x more in a few weeks/years?
Order Declassifying JFK and MLK Assassination Records [pdf]
It is not an asset that goes up forever.

It is permissionless, very liquid asset that the governments cannot dilute. For many people this is a very big deal. A significant part of the world population lives under regimes where the governments control the money flow, heavily dilute savings in the single local fiat currency and can confiscate savings under a guise of money reform.

While not nearly as bad, most democratic, developed countries dilute their fiat to the tune of 5-7% a year. Would I buy bitcoin if I have an easy access to a convenient currency with no (or at least significantly under the average GDP growth) debasement? Hell no! Otherwise, I will (together with gold, income-generating stocks, real estate, etc.) as an insurance against government spending run amok. My 2c.
I'd be surprised if DPRK doesn't already have access to the wallet and is just waiting to get the most out of it.
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They ain't seen nothing yet.
ah, classic whataboutism
Why does the IMF care what denomination they use domestically?
Son-san was doing business as usual, but it was interesting to see how stiffly sama behaved from beginning to end.
Yes, though it's unclear USAID is fit for that purpose considering it also funds civil unrest and regime change so some might say is a jerk that no one likes. But questions of its effectiveness and efficiency aside, none of that answers my question about US economic dominance. Why is USAID very important when US economic dominance is high.

I was specifically wondering about that particular part of the comment by the original poster, it just seems quite interesting to me what the connection there is.
Is "not grow so fast" a worthy goal, by a department with an efficiency directive?

$250 - $500 billion are lost to fraud, every year[1]. That's near 40% of social security spending.

[1] https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-105833#:~:text=GAO%20est...
Who could have predicted this
Civil vs criminal. Federal sentencing guidelines don't apply.
There is zero evidence that any of these guys are even average.
This is awesome. I did this one time (not automated). I wanted to have an analog version of a video. It was a video of my baby daughter laughing. That was almost 10 years ago.

I used ImageMagik to make some stills. I bulk uploaded them to Walgreens photos. Thankfully they were all printed in order! I jankily bound them together somehow and it worked!

I always thought it would be neat to have this as a service. I will be ordering some of these for sure!
It’s a commuter town: people drive in at 8am and leave at 5pm. The greater Detroit area is massive.
Zuckerberg came out strongly against the TikTok ban. Unless you mean someone else?