skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Internet rationalists are funny because they aren’t interested in reasoning well, they’re all about reasoning better, with the implication that anything that’s been previously thought out has been thought out incorrectly. It’s a group where you can prove you have the most biggest smartest genious brain by just making shit up and it attracts people that feel an urgent need to be regarded as intelligent by strangers, which is a need that’s… generally disconnected from intelligence in any tangible way.
I don’t think it’s that binary. You have some duty to make an effort of maintenance but there can still be accidents that are just technical faults no one is really responsible for.
This has appeared a few times, and the basic physics critiques haven't changed.

It's one of those projects where it would thrill my inner sci-fi nerd to see it succeed... but not enough for me to disregard the reasons it probably won't.
Update for https://ladybird.org/
Cursor has this conveniently built in. I find it pretty handy, specially for wip commits

It doesn’t know the intent of the commit though, so if you change X because of Y, it will just tell that X changed, without explaining why.

Adding more context about what the ticket is about can probably solve that
I suspect you're getting fooled by terminology.

When you see "rules protecting shareholder rights" when you should be reading in this context is "rules inviting massive lawsuits from plaintiff attornies nominally representing super minority shareholders against the express will of the supermajority of shareholders and causing significant legal expenses to companies (and thus their shareholders)".

With that re-framing perhaps its more clear why savvy shareholders are not very interested in this form of "shareholder rights".
Galloway is rich so his conclusions seem forgone...
AI-assisted discovery of quantitative and formal models in social science
> Why should it not, one of the design goals of Swift as C, Objective-C and C++ replacement was painless interop with those languages.

This is actually a very good quality. I'm exploiting that for all it's worth in a job project where I'm gradually (file by file) converting a legacy codebase from Objective-C to Swift.

Providing an exit-strategy for Objective-C is good enough reason for me to at least have a basic working knowledge of the language.
Manhattan Office Occupancy Q4-2024
An injectable hydrogel for local bone densification
That's sad, because the language looks fantastic.
Less Wrong
Thanks! The submitted URL was https://www.usaid.gov/ but since that site doesn't currently exist, we replaced it with that third-party report (which admittedly doesn't say much either).
National Science Foundation freezes payments in response to executive orders
In a way, Danf is just following the will of the people. If the people want to gag reflect to "Musk" and "government" and hide the story, what are we to do?
There have been many times where I have tried to warn people on HN not to get into bed with Oracle.[0][1][2][3]

But people have a hard time resisting free stuff.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33199750

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38075210

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29514359

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34503883
The joke used to be, "there's no girls on the internet."

Now its, "there's no humans on the internet."

I struggle to find a comparison that adequately describes the head snap at how fast some of these image / video generators were deployed.

The one that really got me was the immediate use of fake image gen by the British Royal Family. [1] (Check the kid's hand in the lower left they didn't even mark, broken fingers) Didn't even try to respond with anything real. Immediate response, photo image gen.

[1] BRF Doctored Family Photo (Sky News), https://news.sky.com/story/kates-doctored-photo-is-a-huge-ch...
<< A handy skill to develop would be getting comfortable with installing and trying news ones

I second this advice. While I can safely recommend PopOS, Mint and Nobara ( specifically if you still want gaming ), they all have their own little quirks that will eventually make you want to improve upon. I started with PopOS and started developing opinions on systemd, grub, gnome and all sorts of things I would not think twice before.

That said, I would skip Ubuntu. It is trying to be Windows a little bit too hard and it shows.

edit: And trying stuff in VMs makes it extra easy.
According to [1], density at 30,000ft is 35% of sea level. So you could bore an elevator up Mount Everest.
Regardless of what distro you want: I recommend thinkpads, and check the Arch wiki for that model to confirm driver support.
See https://skip.tools for a new entrant
Same with iCloud, too.
The website for the U.S. Agency for International Development appeared to be offline on Saturday, as the Trump administration moves to put the agency under State Department control.

- https://reuters.com/world/us/website-usaid-appears-be-offlin...
Well, not to repeat myself, but when did the self-recognized legal name change of tissue paper take place?
I'm not so sure the knowledge acquisition is slower. I'm actually starting to believe it's faster. What my other ADHD friend and I notice is the threshold for thinking you get it is lower. I'm not sure I'll ever fully understand any single thing but I do have a lot of peers which will say yes far earlier and it leads to a lot of confusing experiences.

A common experience we have is that we'll be trying to figure something out then go talk to a larger group or find someone who should understand the thing (e.g. highly relevant publications) and then either "huh, I never thought about that" or they try to answer a different question (I understand they are trying to be helpful but I'd rather "I don't know". It's academia, the whole point is we don't know lol).

Though in other things I fully agree. I'm always slower in "speed to first result" but often that's because I'll write code from scratch, make sure I really understand, and make sure its flexible because I know I'm going to be hacking on it a lot. Others are often forking repos doing a lot of gluing and all that. (When I do that I feel very lost and like I understand nothing). But my experiments end up being more complete and I'm able to answer more questions where someone else would say that's too much work.

I think academia needs both types of people btw. I'm not trying to say I'm better it's just different. There's different advantages. My issue is that the system strongly optimizes for one and not the other. I think the biggest flaw in academia is thinking we know what's a successful line of research and what isn't (along with what's novel, especially post hoc lol). All the evidence seems against this and the high frequency of dark horses suggests it'd be idiotic to rely on predictions to be highly accurate.
To the contrary. Sam Harris often describes consciousness as an indisputable fact we all experience. Perhaps you got it confused with free will.
Seriously, it's the most abusive company on earth.
The other way round, it predates the show and was used as the set.
> Either they are the best and everyone uses macOS

"Best" obviously means different things to different people, but at least by market share, macOS has never been the best. Modern Apple doesn't seem to care about market share outside of the iPhone (and even then, they are still more interested in the iPhone being a premium product than winning on market share).

I used to like macOS, 15-20 years ago, but now it's just power-user-hostile and considerably more locked down and buggy. That's not the way to be "best", by any metric I can think of.
Vacancy still double (26%) what it was pre-pandemic.
Nice writeup. Lots of potential in those budget handhelds. Nice to see you were able to access the GPU with python. Waiting to see what sort of games you come up with!
Most of the MAGA ideas are fringe. And they're pissed they've not been 'listened to' for years. That's part of the point. This is all revenge/retribution, both on Trump's part, but also for a minority class of people who've felt 'left out' and 'ridiculed'.
The bill is specifically about cars, but the site doesn't make that clear. Here's a better link: https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202320240ab...
And now that people stopped flooding the market with opiates legally, the addiction has stopped? No, someone just made it illegally.

Most of these things are “once the cat is out of the bag” situations. The only addictive drug I can think of that was effectively removed from the US market was Methaqualone, and that’s mostly because we had easier to acquire substitutes by the time it finally disappeared.
To be fair, shutting things down without notice is not something Oracle is known for.

Usually, they just increase prices by a lot once the customer is locked in.
I thought Linux didn't support most games, like MacOS?
He is deep into Swift/SwiftUI now
The Economist maintains a "democracy index" for all countries. "Extent to which citizens can choose their political leaders in free and fair elections, enjoy civil liberties, prefer democracy over other political systems, can and do participate in politics, and have a functioning government that acts on their behalf. It ranges from 0 to 10 (most democratic)."

The US dropped one level in 2016 and never came back. Next update May 2025.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/democracy-index-eiu
This looks very interesting.

The CPU is pretty close to rpi2 and zero W2, which can run latest vanilla Debian. Not sure why the official OS is stuck on such an old kernel.
I haven't checked for driver support for my last 6-7 laptops, and they've all been fine, I don't think people need to check anymore.
Yeah, this is likely still the go-to choice for beginners.
Checkout https://omakub.org (web dev focused setup script for Ubuntu) and https://frame.work
Prepare to be pissed off when you punch this stuff into Google and study this issue.
For a first distro, Ubuntu is probably a good idea.
Fedora later maybe.
Arch or LinuxFromScratch is a good learning experience too.
I think there's a potential confusion here between different kinds of "blame."

If your robot punches a bystander, you're liable for their hospital bills, separately from whether you're culpable for battery.
> Maybe the friendly default would be to have the symbolicated reports on

As a comment just below says, the solution is quite simple:

> ensure you have llvm-symbolizer in your PATH or set the environment var `LLVM_SYMBOLIZER_PATH` to point to it
Another left wing journalist failing to mention the Zizians are a far left trans group.
You definitely don't want to be on Oracle cloud then.

Stay far away from Stargate.
I see it mainly as a reaction to a dysfunctional and abusive system/culture, and not necessarily a constructive one.

Fix the world and these problems don't exist.
> You're conflating America with the Americas.

+1. To expand on this point, this is different in English vs. Spanish, which is where a lot of confusion comes from.

In English, America is always the United States, and the Americas is always the continents. American always means United States-ian. There is no word for "someone from anywhere in the Americas".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Americas

In Spanish, traditionally, America is the continents, and Las Americas is nothing. Americano traditionally means "someone from anywhere in the Americas".

However, because of the influence of English, people sometimes use Las Americas to refer to the continents and Americano to refer to United States-ians. So it's a little more complicated in Spanish.

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am%C3%A9rica
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Am%C3%A9ricas
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americano_(palabra)
That has to be breach of contract. The guy was a paying customer and never missed a payment.

I highly suspect this is caused by a bug.
Ever since seeing this talk https://archive.org/details/youtube-eXe-rvXVL-g , whenever I see these stories of kafkaesque incidents, I am reminded that there is a common way to describe all of them -- the lack of due process.
Yes, that’s tough, like tracking deaths back to coal plants. We know it happens, we just can’t really say which specific ones, so it’s “cost of doing business” instead of murder.

At the very least, extending resignation offers to 2M federal employees, including at the FAA, seems likely to exacerbate the problem going forwards.
This argument might have worked if Recall didn't exist.
curious the performance / price tradeoffs between deepseek-r1 671b, 70b, 32b
Perhaps related to this?
https://www.reddit.com/r/oracle/comments/1hsjxz9/oci_what_ac...
OP is suggesting it is in retaliation for a criticizing viral post...

https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/113930176963645558
Left libertarian would be more likely, I think?
Why don't they just HTTP 301 Redirect to www.cia.gov and give the charade up?
Insane g-force in the spin up.

Reminds me of Gerald Bull who wanted to launch a satellite using a huge artillery piece.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Bull
From what I can tell from reading the exhibits in the court case, that's not what happened. This is a case of overfitting, rather than a conspiracy to create a process with "secret pass words".

They wanted to create a process that would not lead to disparate impacts, but would also give them competent controllers. So they took the biographical data that they had collected in the 80s and 90s and constructed a test such that the output of the test would give them the result that they wanted. This is clearly dumb, and they ended up with a model that was overfit to the old data and didn't generalize (or even make much logical sense). Likely there were a tiny number of black controllers when they gathered the biographical data, so those few data points, and their idiosyncrasies, had a large impact on the answer weights that they generated, making the model weird and pretty nonsensical.

It's not a conspiracy, it's just bad methodology in service of a dubious goal.
thats a different bill from last session.
liberal is not leftist
Hi, tool author here!

Thank you for your benchmark!

As you may be aware, different compression tools fill in different data type niches. In particular, less specialised statistical methods (bzip2, bzip3, PPMd) generally perform poorly on vaguely defined binary data due to unnatural distribution of the underlying data that at least in bzip3's case does not lend well to suffix sorting.

Conversely, Lempel-Ziv methods usually perform suboptimally on vaguely defined "textual data" due to the fact that the future stages of compression that involve entropy coding can not make good use of the information encoded by match offsets while maintaining fast decompression performance - it's a long story that I could definitely go into detail about if you'd like, but I want to keep this reply short.

All things considered, data compression is more of an art than science, trying to fit in an acceptable spot on the time to compression ratio curve. I created bzip2 as an improvement to the original algorithm, hoping that we can replace some uses of it with a more modern and worthwhile technology as of 2022. I have included benchmarks against LZMA, zstandard, etc. mostly as a formality; in reality if you were to choose a compression method it'd be very dependent on what exactly you're trying to compress, but my personal stance is that bzip3 would likely be strictly better than bzip2 in all of them.

bzip3 usually operates on bigger block sizes, up to 16 times bigger than bzip2. additionally, bzip3 supports parallel compression/decompression out of the box. for fairness, the benchmarks have been performed using single thread mode, but they aren't quite as fair towards bzip3 itself, as it uses a way bigger block size. what bzip3 aims to be is a replacement for bzip2 on modern hardware. what used to not be viable decades ago (arithmetic coding, context mixing, SAIS algorithms for BWT construction) became viable nowadays, as CPU Frequencies don't tend to change, while cache and RAM keep getting bigger and faster.
you're describing to me what sounds like "it would be nice to sometimes be taking seriously, be treated gently, and helped in certain ways".

Often emotional aid is simply a compassionate and present person who sometimes helps a bit. maybe doing their own thing at the same time you're doing your thing, and they know what you're doing or trying to do, and they are not evaluating you for failure but being peaceful within themselves. it's sometimes a really nice thing.

We all deserve to at least sometimes have time with people like this!
How much or what parts of atc can be automated?

If have a feeling it’s what musk will try to do.
Another vote for Linux Mint. It's very easy to use and has a good blend of recent software and stability.

As long as you don't pick a brand new CPU/chipset the hardware support is nearly flawless as long as the laptop isn't from an overly proprietary manufacturer.

I do like performance, and a 2-in-1 form factor, so I went with an MSI Summit. They have cheaper models without discrete GPUs in a smaller form factor.
Honestly, I have never been in a position to see their salespeople so I have to assume they must be wining and dining the bosses first, because in my little corner of the universe, every single like entity uses them to some degree. I personally do not understand it.
I think it's a red flag that a company is so willing to blatantly lie in public-facing communication.
There are plenty of battery electric excavators on the market. Including from Hyundai. Volvo has a 23 ton one on the market, for example (bigger than this thing). They works just fine and Hyundai know this very well.

The reason Hyundai is doing this is for the same reason they've been doing loads of stuff with hydrogen for many years: subsidies. They get loads of government money. In Korea. In the US. And elsewhere. There's lots of money to be had. Hyundai gets paid to perpetuate the myth that hydrogen has a future in transport.

And the beauty of it is that it isn't wasted effort. Most hydrogen vehicles are battery electric vehicles where a tiny battery is powered by a fuel cell. Most of the tech aside from the fuel cell and hydrogen stuff is kind of 100% the same. When it flops, you just ditch those bits and shove in a bigger battery and boom nice battery electric excavator.

The market is pretty much rejecting hydrogen on roads (too many battery electrical trucks being sold debunking the myth that they'll never work at this point). So, they switch to construction. Of course the exact same stuff is going to happen there. Cheaper batteries are driving down cost. There are loads of products targeting this market already from a wide range of vendors. Hydrogen is going to be a complete and utter dud there too.
> for other countries that don’t wish to go by his whims.

I assume that this includes the entire planet outside of the US and most the US population. It's 2025 and nobody calls them "freedom fries" either.
There's a typo in the article:

>Hardoced feature flags

Think the author obviously meant "hardcoded" here.

Anyways, recently, this has been really hard to sell teams on in my experience. At some point "feature flag" became equivalent to having an entire SaaS platform involved (even for systems where interacting with another SaaS platform makes little sense). I can't help but wonder if this problem is "caused" by the up-coming generation of developers' lived experience with everything always being "online" or having an external service for everything.

In my opinion, your feature flag "system" (at least in aggregate) needs to be layered. Almost to act as "release valves."

Some rules or practices I do:

* Environment variables (however you want to define or source them) can and should act as feature flags.

* Feature flag your feature flag systems. Use an environment variable (or other sourced metadata, even an HTTP header) to control where your program is reading from.

* The environment variables should take both take priority if they're defined AND act as a fallback in case of detected or known service disruption with more configurable feature flag systems (such as an internal DB or another SaaS platform).

* Log the hell out of feature flags, telemetry will keep things clean (how often flags are read, and how often they're changed).

* Categorize your feature flags. Is this a "behavioral" feature flag or functional (i.e., to help keep the system stable). Use whatever qualifiers make sense for your team and system.

* Remove "safety" flags for new features/releases after you have enough data to prove the release is stable.

* Remove unused "behavior" flags once a year.

My $0.02
I have YouTube premium and I have access to experimental features and coincidentally they offer one feature called audio in high quality. So they are working on improving it.

Description:

High-Quality Audio

Available until February 22

With high-quality audio, you can listen to music on YouTube in the best audio quality.

How it works:
Watch an eligible music video on YouTube and enjoy the benefits of higher-quality audio.

Only available on iOS and Android.
You keep hammering on the point of cuts; what do you say about the fact that Trump has increased debt more than Obama or Biden in his first term?
Data is the ultimate Fact Check. This is a President that's adamantly opposed to fact checking [1] and has even coerced Facebook to drop fact checking. Of course they don't want data on government sites that disprove their "alternate facts".

[1] https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4920827-60-minutes-tru...
If it was caused by a bug they wouldn't have told him "you have no future with oracle" and that he couldn't create a new account -- they would have just created a new account, apologized, and given him a few months credit.
While nothing that's been said here is inherently wrong per se, a sample YT page load is ~5s to DOMContentLoaded, and without counting the video content, transfers ~7 MiB worth of requests & ~95 requests for me, and visually, the entire page feels like it loads twice. (I thought it was redirecting, but the inspector says nope, that's a single page load.)

… while yeah… a lower bitrate upfront might lower the required bandwidth and thus, latency, to get enough of a buffer to start playback … all the bloat on the page would be a better first port of call.
US currently 7.8.
> That founder control structures were safe?

If you want founder control structures then you don't want a public company.
Are they though? Landfills are full of more powerful and numerous x86 machines, I don’t see anyone bothering to preserve those.
No fear yet, that may change instantly, just like it did the other way.
I don't have them (yet), but take a look at the xmg evo 14 or 15 (https://www.xmg.gg/en/xmg-evo-14-m24/). New Versions with amd strix point coming end of february or march I think.

As opposed to other popular recommendations here they don't sound like jet engines, have a meager 5 hours of battery life or praise you for changing the world with your purchase.

Personally I'd go with debian testing
Indirect does not mean lesser. An ill-informed doctor might be just as bad as no doctor.
I guess a follow up question might be: what laptop would you recommend to go with the recommended distro?

I'd be curious to see what y'all recommend. Are there non-Mac laptops that sorta feel like Mac laptops and are of similar (or even superior) quality?
As for distro, if you want something that works out-of-the-box, with modern desktop features, I'd give Linux Mint (Cinnamon Edition) a try.
Personally, I enjoy tinkering and learning, so I set up Arch with Wayland on my laptop. I wouldn't consider it super stable, but I've had surprisingly few issues. There is a learning curve, but it's certainly do-able.

For laptop: I got myself a Framework 13 with Intel 13th gen. I am very happy with the machine and with the Linux support. So, definitely have a look at that.