skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you serious?

A. he already broke the law. The point in notifying in advance is for Congress to push back if they think the reason was inappropriate, as Inspector Generals are the watchdogs that report to Congress.

B. Do you really think he had "the substantive rationale, including detailed and case-specific reasons for any such removal or transfer" for 17 simultaneous firings days into his administration?
(Note my lab isn't partisan and this isn't a partisan effort; public data always needs saving. But there's definitely a reason people are paying attention right now.)

I think in some ways the community was less prepared this time, because there was a lot of investment in 2016-2017 and then many of the archives created at that point didn't end up being used; partly because the changes at the federal level turned out to be smaller and slower in 2017 than they're looking like this time. So some people didn't choose to invest that way this time around.

[Edit: this means I think it's really important that data archives are useful. Sorting through data and putting a good interface on it should help people out today as well as being good prep for the future.]

In other ways there's much more preparation; EOT Archive now has a regular practice of crawling .gov websites before and after each change of administration, which is a really great way of giving citizens a sense of how their government evolves. It will just tend to miss data that you can't click to in a generic crawl.
'Obelisks', a new class of life living inside humans
"...new life forms are called Obelisks..."
You do have a choice, it's Astound, and you're about to save like $1,000.
Thanks! Re: listing bookmarklets, that's something I'd like to do but have yet to find a cheap/easy way to do it. One way would be to search gists for relevant metadata [1] but GitHub does not include searching gists in their API. Another way might be logging paths in an edge function. Open to suggestions/PRs.

[1] https://gist.github.com/search?q=bookmarklet-title
Actual Nazi's however were celebrating it. I think they are pretty good at recognizing their own, no?

Again, I suggest people use their actual eyes. Look at how he did that motion in the past, how he did his salute, and watch the full motion side by side with actual both those and a 'confirmed, 100% certified' nazi salute. Look at it from the multiple angles.
This is good also https://huyenchip.com/2023/05/02/rlhf.html
Having caught a few episodes since it ended, I think the real tragedy of LOST is how good each individual episode was in comparison to how terrible the overall planning was. It was engrossing during the episode, but any time spent outside that trying to tease out meaning or clues was just wasted time. Ostensible foreshadowing was really just "wouldn't it be cool if?" with no further thought behind it.
I haven't noticed a particular date but yes, my posts describing a fair system of compensation get downvoted incredibly fast.

At least I sometimes also get replies but many of them use fallacious arguments to the point of feeling like trolling. No idea if the same people commenting are also downvoting but I am starting to think that votes should not be anonymous.
"feat: Enhance Auto-Commit Bot with new features and improvements"

It's definitely _a_ commit message. Not sure it beats "asdasd" or "do stuff" though.
Axing research grants and datasets has a lot to do with faith-based medicine. Why would one value cancer research, for example, if they believe illness is punishment for sin?
horizontal and vertical lines and a twist when you finish a line

I hope this is fun - for you
Not everyone's standing by I've been working on hardened long range communications for cheap so the people that need it can have it. But thats just me, there's tons of people fighting back but those stories don't tend to make the news because it spits in the face of the prevailing narrative that people want this.
<< It's very easy to have rose colored glasses when remembering the 90s.

Nostalgia is a possibility, but I was watching an old reality TV show and let me tell you. Even that fake, scripted stuff was simply of different quality. It was hopeful, even inspired at times. Yes, maybe it was partly reflection of the times it was created ( easy access to money, jobs, cheap food and so on ), but I do not think we can just blame tinted glasses for remembering 90s fondly.
If you can’t actually refute this then why say anything in the first place?
in my case with a 6900xt:

1. sudo pacman -S ollama-rocm

2. ollama serve

3. ollama run deepseek-r1:32b
Flags and vouching come more from the user base than from dang who more often trails in late.

There are very strong pro and anti Musk camps on HN, evidenced in any Musk related thread. These are not necc. large populations but they are quite active.
It just reads irresponsible to me - not my department group think.

"Palantir’s answer to this is something like “we will work with most category 3 organizations, unless they’re clearly bad, and we’ll trust the democratic process to get them trending in a good direction over time”" - I wonder what the line to "clearly bad" is/was
I wrote a similar post about a week ago, but for an [unsupported] Radeon RX 5500 with 4Gi RAM with ollama and fedora 41. Can only run llama:3.2 or deepseek-r1:1.5b, but they're pretty usable if you're ok with a small model and it's for personal use.

I didn't go into detail about how to setup openweb-ui, but there is documentation for the on the project's site.

https://blue42.net/linux-ollama-radeon-rx5500/post/
That charge of $0.01 is common practice to verify the card is legit, and will be reversed.

Strange that privacy.com doesn’t support this… but thanks for the link, I’ve never heard of them before
How do I uniquely identify Meha to block it?
I'm guessing a 5G mobile option is too expensive. In the UK I have a 3Mobile (Smarty unlimited data) 5G connection, using an MC801, for £20/m and I get around 1gb/100mb with it - until the tower hits a busy period, then it drops to about ~500mb/20mb
While still not quite as good as ARM chips from either Apple or Qualcomm, the battery life and performance are pretty good for an x86 chip.

I wonder if they run hot and if they are loud under normal conditions.

https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/laptops/intel-lunar-lake...
Event tickets don't feel comparable - the new Apple gadget will be on shelves ongoingly but tt might be a very long wait to see your favourite band play again.
Same. Bought a few different gens of the laptop. Wanted to love them as an alternative to MacBook. To me, Windows 10 is a much better OS than anything Apple.

Fit and finish are good (they have to be, because Apple raised the bar). Alcantara on the earlier ones was great.

But - battery swell on both, killing the touchpad.
You're trying to spin him losing money because he's an idiot into a positive narrative you have lost the plot
There's some confusion at the end of TFA about latency.

What TFA refers to as latency is the time required to inject a MIDI event/message received by RtMIDI into the perl async object - basically inter-thread wakeup. You certainly expect that to be very, very fast - it's what context switching on any multitasking/multithreaded system relies. "Fractions of a millisecond" is in the right ballpark, though on some systems "Tens of microseconds" would be more appropriate as a description.

What "latency" normally means in the context of MIDI or audio is the delay between the user generating a MIDI event somehow and when the audio corresponding to that MIDI event (e.g. a note) is audible. This is typically measured in relatively small numbers of milliseconds (e.g. 1-30).

These are not really connected in any meaningful sense.
Myopic focus is itself a lie of omission (of the larger context), so they're both dishonest. It seems like you're trying to obtain some agency by sorting through political trash, but the best you can get from that is trash. Never wrestle with a pig and all that.
What does it take to actually replace the whole thing? The chroot is interesting but it would be nice to have the more up-to-date kernel.
> And if one wants to train an LLM, let them: at its essence it's just a person

If I gzip a couple hundred thousand books and distribute them freely, can I also claim it's just a person who has read those books and avoid a massive lawsuit?

Please, stop anthropomorphising machine learning models.
Come on now, iOS development is my livelihood.
What about: I use the ISP router for support convenience then I turn off its wifi and daisy chain a second router I set up?
An omnipotent being would presumably have invented causality and time, and therefore not be bound by the axioms thereof.
The accumulation of money and power. Same as it ever was.
On the contrary. It's only been since the proliferation of genai that I've seen so many copyright maximalist takes on Hackernews, reminiscent of the you wouldn't steal a car propaganda run by big corpos.
A lot of those are technically not true - the sky is frequently not blue, the sun doesn't actually rise and there are number systems where 2+2 does not equal 4 (eg, 2+2 = 1 in a mod 3 arithmetic).

That sounds pedantic until people start disagreeing or implementing legal requirements that result in people needing to use the definitions. Eg, if there is a legal requirement to recognise that 2+2=4, is it ok to teach modular arithmetic? Especially if someone has a grudge against the teacher. Lawyers are more than happy to punish someone over a technicality.
We we offered $10/month to use their modem + unlimited, or $30/month to use your own modem unlimited.

We actually don't use that much data though, so just went with the data cap and our own modem, and never went over.

This was in the Seattle area.
Let’s hope that mass civil unrest results in the complete removal of this entire administration and their ideology.
Once in bridge mode it's no longer acting as a router, so it should mostly be fine. The firewall on your actual router will be present between the modem/internet and your machines.
As an "other" I'd like to point out that the OPM database was handed over to China on a silver platter in 2012 and noone was fired or otherwise disciplined and noone lost their pension. This likely outed everyone who was operationally covert during the time period covered by the database at that time, which was ~ 40 years.

And noone cared then.
> It's somewhat odd to represent a community as being right wing when the worst thing to come from it was a trans vegan murder cult

I was referring to "The Motte", which emerged after the SlateStarCodex subreddit finally banned "culture war" topics. Scott announced it in this post: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/22/rip-culture-war-thread...

The Ziz cult did not emerge from The Motte. I don't know why you came to that conclusion.

> Most "rationalists" vote Democrat,

Scott Alexander (of SlateStarCodex) did surveys of his audience. Interestingly, the culture war thread participants were split almost 50:50 between those identifying as left-wing and those identifying as right-wing.

Following the ban on discussion of culture war topics, many of the right-wing participants left for The Motte, which encouraged these conversations.

That's how there came to be a right-wing offshoot of the rationalist community.

The history is all out there. I'm surprised how many people are doubting me about this. You can read the origin story right on Scott's blog, and the Reddit post where they discuss their problems with running afoul of Reddit's content policies (necessitating a move off-platform) is still accessible: https://old.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/uaoyng/meta_like_...

> The complaint here seems to be that rationalists don't take progressive pieties as axiomatic.

No, you're putting words in my mouth. I'm not complaining about a refusal to "progressive pieties as axiomatic". I'm relaying history of rationalist communities. It's surprising to see all of the denial about the topic.
Hmm, I can put them here for now: https://source.coop/harvard-lil/data-gov-metadata

Unfortunately it's a bit messy because we weren't initially thinking about tracking deletions. data_20241119.jsonl.zip (301k rows) and data_20250130.jsonl.zip (305k rows) are simple captures of the API on those dates. data_db_dump_20250130.jsonl.zip (311k rows) is a sqlite dump of all the entries we saw at some point between those dates. My hunch is there's something like 4,000 false positives and 2,000 deletions between the 311k and 305k set, but that could be way off.
None of the people who claim LLMs are intelligent and "persons" argue for giving them legal personhood and human rights. Telling.
Common core single-codebase for business logic is different, that is actually useful. You can have a common core with native UI and native networking. However, it has its own pitfalls too. Some misguided people think that it's a good idea to write a Rust networking layer on iOS, which already has a mobile-optimized native network layer. Or write Android UI in Swift. Extremely costly on the long term because of all the problems involved with doing that. However, like I said, non-informed non-technical managers fall for what you did there, disguising common UI as common core, by using buzzwords and dropping names that you aren't even affiliated with
That is a very polemical title. It makes me discard the opinion of the author because they present themselves as biased.
My explanation for why Eliezer went from vocal AI optimist to AI pessimist is that he became more knowledgeable about AI. What is your explanation?

I've seen the explanation that AI pessimism helped Eliezer attract donations, but that does not work because his biggest donor when he started going public with his pessimism (2003 through 2006) was Peter Theil, who responded to his turn to pessimism by refusing to continue to donate (except for donations earmarked for studying the societal effects of AI, which is not the object of Eliezer's pessimism and not something Eliezer particularly wanted to study).

I suspect that most of the accusations to the effect that MIRI or Less Wrong is a cult are lazy ad-hominems by people who have a personal interest in the AI industry or an ideological attachment to technological progress.
Does anyone else find it odd, that this type of access would typically require training and/or a background check, yet here we are 12 days after this administration was sworn in?

Are there no checks and balances in place? Seems like one side that won the popular vote has taken the entire spectrum of action, regardless if they need to govern for an entire nation.
No one uses Apple platforms
- sent from my iPhone
> a bit more than "detailed"

"Detailed and case-specific." The case-specific reason can be appointed by my predecessor on such and such date. The law doesn't place any limits on what those reasons can be.
> Really, that's all you need to do to take control of one of these routers.

All major ISPs in the US do not do this, e.g., AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Frontier, etc. You might be right for some ISPs that are nicer, but this advice is completely ineffective for most US consumers.
Ken, surely frames significantly pre-date the computer? They were used in telephone exchanges. The Colossus reproduction at Bletchley is constructed from frames.
I run OPNSense inside Proxmox on a cheap fanless Intel N100 box. VM-level snapshots and backups are heavenly. Can't believe I avoided it for so long.
>The fact that these vendor-supported toolkits – SwiftUI and Compose – are built atop the platform-native scrolling mechanics

I can't speak for iOS, but neither RecyclerView nor Compose's scrolling is built on top of the Android platform's scrolling - they both implemented new and different ways to do scrolling versus the ScrollView or ListView the platform shipped with. Both were built using the same public APIs any developer could use.

The reason they offer the performance they do is implementation choices by the developers who wrote them, around what work to perform when. Lots of Android developers implemented scrolling using the platform APIs and got jank, others implemented scrolling before RecyclerView was even available and had smooth performance. There is no magic performance guarantee because you transpile to kotlin.
I think you're positing a false binary.

* LLM's aren't databases, you can’t query them for exact stored records, and they can’t reconstruct (most of) their training data.

* But they also don’t reason or understand exactly like humans do either.

They're something else: to wit, Transformer models.
> BWT be combined with zstd

BWT can be combined with anything which does RLE and get a benefit.

What does it does is give RLE more to work with.
Whyyy would anyone want a system that can even answer made up nonsense based on arbitrary word redefining and wrongness?

The whole point is you are distilling past knowledge, if you are making up on the spot nonsense to purposely make all past knowledge useless... get out of my house
There is merit to WFO, but there is also merit to WFH. The problem is it is not being honestly discussed in terms of its merits. And we know this, because when WFH crowd actually notes verifiable metrics, management trots out unverifiable, unquantifiable serendipitous conversations at the watercooler.

<< There is literally merit to it, but if you haven't had broad perspective managing and delivering successful and unsuccessful projects, it will be invisible to you.

It is not my job to make my manager's job easier. It is management's job to make our job easier; not harder. The priorities are backwards, because management also happens to hold a lot of power over rank and file. Quite frankly, the management is simply too lazy to manage WFH well.

<< But don't pretend you have insight into the larger processes above you if you don't take time to learn and experience them.

I only have anecdotes, but I am not sure you are right. Can you elaborate on the examples in your head?
> it's illegal because he didn't notify Congress in advance

I can't see any judge agreeing with this. The notice requirement is separate from the removal. "If an Inspector General is remove from office..." the President has to do X 30 days in advance. It's a bit convoluted to argue that if the second part isn't done, the first part is invalid. The breach is in failure to notice. That can be cured by noticing.

This is boy who cried wolf crap. The firings are unprecedented but totally legal. The breach was in forgetting to tweet some Congressmen. If we go Defcon 1 over paperwork fuckups, there's nowhere left to go when he does something that's substantively illegal.
My theory is that the word weirds people out and they are unsure how to pronounce it, they don't want to embarrass themselves in front of their colleagues so they just avoid the concept altogether.
Sooo make your html extremely convoluted, randomized semantics, and a ton of hidden interations (+1 for only using custom web elements). basically make it like youtube. After spending way too much time building browser agents I can assure you this will also defeat Operator as well.
I want a Surface Pro, that exact hardware as perceived on the outside as a user, sans the ""accidental"" backdoors. I have partial responsibility running a business that administrates high value deployments and many of our internal users doing "general office stuff" want exactly this kind of hardware.

And I want one or two for myself too, sans the backdoors...
What I haven't seen mentioned (and it's cut out of most videos online) is that he also paraphrased the "14 words" directly after. Sure, different enough to have plausible deniability, but I would bet money on that message hitting home in certain circles who know those words well. Nudge nudge, wink wink, and all that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VfYjPzj1Xw

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Words

Then again, people are not admitting to themselves that it was two full-on Sieg Heils (regardless of the underlying reason for it), so this is less of a smoking gun and I don't even know why I'm writing this post.
Yep, I know exactly what kind of person wrote this.
My ISP does this as well, provides Huawei modems with hardcoded backdoor passwords that can easily be found online. So yup, I've got a dedicated firewall between my networks and the modem. With slow updates and backdoors, I'd include any ISP modem and networks as part of my personal threat model.
Ah the classic “I planned to make a game, but just ended up writing code that someday will enable me to make a game”. Is there a sort of comment standard machine, like the GP32 of old, that’s ready to go with a good community?
AI is on a trajectory to reshape our world, from the rise of intelligent agents in 2025 to fully integrated AI Operating Systems by 2028. By 2040, AI will be democratized, merging with quantum computing and brain-computer interfaces, revolutionizing industries and daily life. The era of universal AGI is near—are we ready?
> Are there no checks and balances in place?

All it takes for bad people to win, is for good people to do nothing.
I believe you think in too short time frames. In 70 years this becomes a futile discussion. AI is a way to directly benefit from the explosion of free content that the next decades will bring. The only way to counter this in an ethical way, is to establish some kind of enforced liberation for AI models, otherwise as you say, only the rich will profit from this.
> 2. Margin of commit messages is often too small for documenting the rationale - this job is better left for tickets.

The commit message lives with the code. The number of times in my career that a company has migrated, changed, consolidated, or otherwise made all those links in commit messages obsolete, well I don't quite yet need two hands. But I see a lot of dead ends to context in code bases.
Would they bite the hand that feeds?
That's actually commonly done in industrial cooling applications with rapid turnover (think dockside food storage warehouses), but it's not practical for the heat output of domestic units.

Even in parts of Europe and Iceland with ready access to a common municipal heat exchange, household refrigerators don't have have enough heat output to justify the infrastructure.

The typical domestic fridge just needs to "get cold once" and the remainder of its duty-cycle (aside from the rare holiday feast or party) it's just trickle-cooling.
> The OP is just taking the "everything I don't like is fascist" trope to it's natural conclusion.

The right-wing rationalist community (The Motte) arose when Slate Star Codex finally banned culture war topics. Scott Alexander wrote about it: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/22/rip-culture-war-thread...

There's also a long history of neoreactionary factions of the rationalist community as well as a fascination with fascist ideals from the likes of Curtis Yarvin.

There's some major retconning going on in this thread where people try to write all of this out of the history of rationalist communities. Either that or people weren't aware, but are resistant to the notion that it could have happened.
If 49.8% of the vote is the people speaking clearly, then what do you call the 50.2% of the vote that did not vote for this?
Okay. And what if those policies actively hurt people and do more damage than good? Should they just give in? When does it stop? When can they say no? Only when a judge explicitly says it's illegal despite it obviously being illegal?