skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The reason Twitter was successful is they paid celebrities and corporations to join their network.

I mean, define 'successful'. Twitter was _culturally important_ for a long time before it was a must-use by celebrities, and it's never been particularly successful in terms of reach (it has a similar MAU to Pinterest, which apparently still exists) or in financial terms.

Like, for a lot of former Twitter users, Bluesky is _already_ successful; it is an adequate replacement for old-Twitter for their needs. That's all that most people are looking for, really.
> This is why I have doubts about self driving cars, it changes the accountability from the driver to the manufacturer. And I have a hard time believing the manufacturer would want that liability, no matter how well they sold.

Under current laws, perhaps. But you can always change the laws to redirect or even remove liability.

For example, in BC, we recently switched to "no-fault insurance", which is really a no-fault legal framework for traffic accidents. For example, if you are rear-ended, you can not sue the driver who hit you, or anyone for that matter. The government will take care of your injuries (on paper, but people's experiences vary), pay you a small amount of compensation, and that's it. The driver who hit you will have no liability at all, aside from somewhat increased insurance premiums. The government-run insurance company everyone has to buy from won't have any liability either, aside from what I mentioned above. You will get what little they are required to provide you, but you can't sue them for damages beyond that.

At least, you may still be able to sue if the driver has committed a criminal offence (e.g. impaired driving).

Don't believe me? https://www.icbc.com/claims/injury/if-you-want-to-take-legal...

This drastic change was brought upon for us to save, on average, a few hundred dollars per year in car insurance fees. So now we pay slightly less, but the only insurance we can buy won't come close to making us whole, and we are legally prevented from seeking any other recourse, even for life-altering injuries or death.

So, rest assured, if manufacturers' liability becomes a serious concern, it will be dealt with, one way or another. Bigger changes have happened for smaller reasons.
I agree with this. It is horrendously vague, like GDPR. This creates a large "wariness zone" which law-abiding people avoid, while large multinationals can steamroller through until the point of direct confrontation. And even then you get things like Microsoft Safe Harbour.

On the other hand, if you're concerned about AI risk, I don't see how it could be otherwise. We don't have a clear grasp about what the real limits of capabilities are. Some people are promising "AGI" "just around the corner". Other people are spinning tales about gray goo. The risk of automated discrimination looms large since IBM sold Hollerith collation machines to the Holocaust.

If it delays AI "innovation" by forcing only the deployment of solutions which have had at least some check by legal to at least try to avoid harming citizens, that's ... good?
A queue is:

* An arrival rate of requests
* A processing time for each request
* A corresponding queue length when a new request comes in before the current one is done being processed.

So anything that affects processing time affects queueing. Cache hit rates, data packing, etc., all affect processing time, but processing time is in the context of a queue.
Not that I am eager to see armed drones, but I would have thought recoil would be a hard problem for such a light vehicle?
I personally would have used the assume crate but I guess this got standardized more recently. They call out the safeness requirement and that it’s a sharp edge but like you I think they understate the sharpness and danger.
Until I want a new roof and kitchen, and I open a HELOC.

Then, my kids enter college, so I take out some loans for that.

Low-interest debt can be useful, if utilized well.
Why not combine links in one monthly post similar to https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/links-for-january-2025

I personally prefer this format (https://eamag.me/2025/Links-For-January-2025) and you can post single links on social media instead no?
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The current implementations of LLMs are focusing on providing good answers, but the real effort of modern day programming is to ask good questions, of both the system, the data, and the people that supposedly understand the requirements

LLMs might become good at this, but nobody seems to be doing much of this commercially just yet
Oh boy, I sure love to see some guy with a blog waxing poetic about the future of AI. The insistence that "most people haven't realized come to terms with it yet", and then proceeding to make a total fucking guess out of his ass.

Reminds me of that one asshole who couldn't find a pen, and wrote a whole NYT article about "the demise of the pen".
They've been packing the court for decades now, a concerted push since the W Bush era. That's not even a discussion anymore.

remember not the debacle that was Kavanaugh boofing, and being gropey as hell in the past, and crying? or Amy Comey Barret's complete lack of qualification in any way?

Or how Chief Justice Roberts got appointed basically on the idea that he's going to approve and reinforce Hobby Lobby and Citizen's United?
> No he did not. Biden's first acts were to repeal Trump's stringent immigration orders. After 3 and half years with another election looming and seeing the disaster that caused, all of the sudden, his administration wasn't so hot on open borders anymore. If he enforced immigration laws, we wouldn't have so many people who have illegally entered the country.

Again, a bipartisan immigration reform was on its way to pass through congress until Trump told all the conservatives to kill it.

> And I never claimed that. But I support an amendment towards that end.

So you agree that an executive order ending birthright citizenship is bad?

> We also have historically the lowest tariff rates in the world. Gee, I wonder if that's related.

You still haven't demonstrated how having a trade imbalance implies that we're "being screwed". Trump keeps asserting that, but that doesn't seem obvious to me.

> Pretty hand wavy there.

Sure, I was writing this on my phone and I didn't have time to go into the details of the intricacies of NATO. You're free to look into the details of NATO yourself (you haven't), and if you do you'll likely understand why saying that the US is being screwed by paying more for NATO doesn't make sense.

> My issue with liberals is the lack of common sense,

That's because "common sense" doesn't actually mean anything. What do you think that "common sense" means? Your "gut feeling"?

"Common sense" is a phrase used by pseudo-intellectuals who want to reduce everything into pithy one-liners and ignore the fact that the world is actually pretty complicated, and your "common sense" is often wrong. It's not exclusive to conservatives, but it does seem to be a phrase that's extremely popular with them.

I reject the notion that immigration, NATO, biological gender, and pretty much any federal policy can be easily explained with "common sense". But what do I know, I'm just a liberal who doesn't have any I guess.

ETA:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c36e41dx425o - US deportations under Biden surpass Trump's record

> Nope, the 10,000 troops Mexico just agreed to is on top of whatever other things they "promised" to do. And tariffs are off the table for now.

You're right, I looked it up, though what I should point out is that Biden was able to get Mexico to send troops without starting a trade war. It's not clear to me that this required the threat of a trade war.
If you have been doing the job using AI for years and still don’t understand what you are doing, just ask the AI.

/s
Perhaps you don't realize how badly run the government is and how much of a problem that is in real terms.

Education, physical and mental health, cost of living, healthcare, wealth inequality. They've all gotten worse the past few decades, would you agree?

The NYT just reported that the federal government lost $236 billion to apparent fraud ("improper payments") in 2023 alone.

The US GAO says "2018-2022 Data Show Federal Government Loses an Estimated $233 Billion to $521 Billion Annually to Fraud"

USAID literally set up fake AIDS prevention workshops to topple foreign governments https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/08/0...

This is a small sample of the extreme waste, fraud and abuse, while we have very serious issues here on the ground that are systematically ignored. For DECADES. Unaddressed.

Fixing this is what the majority of voters voted for and are rightfully thrilled to see these brilliant young tech nerds untangle the beurocratic leviathon. There will be, and have been, mistakes, things deleted that shouldn't have been. Anything important and that the people actually want, will be added back in. DOGE was upfront about this process.
Jeez, I suppose we should only allow people in who grew up living under a bridge like you.
Exhibit b.

Getting cancer, or specifically short telomeres, is a suboptimal evolutionary outcome that other some other mammals don’t have

But because the issue appears after we reproduce, it passes on
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The executive branch can't decided what to spend, only congress can.

Its in the first article of the constitution.
Why should CS teach game design? It is really orthogonal to computer science. And in some parts even to software engineering. CS can be useful for game design, but I doubt there is too much to gain other way around.
>Incredibly, we're still running NTFS

So? Linux is still mostly on ext4, and even though there's theoretically zfs/btrfs, most people are still using ext4. Debian installer still only supports ext4. ext4 might be "newer" than NTFS (2006 vs 1993), but that's a purely naming thing. If you map ext2 and ext3 as NTFS versions[1], they have similar age. Moreover from a feature set perspective they're mostly equivalent. Both support journaling and various features like sparse files and resource forks.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS#History
Bureaucracy is there to protect us from people like Trump and Elon. Congress can pass laws and the president can issue orders. This action threatens the US financial system, which threatens the economic stability of most of the world. In terms of human suffering this could have massive impact. We now have a psychopath (well, at least one) with his fingers around our throats. We're all waiting to see what comes next, but it won't be good.
How is this Hetzner's fault (or concern?)

"Hey your customer is hosting a website with random pictures on it. One of them of me is unflattering. Please make them fix it"
Any of the "ultrabooks" with decent IPS screens, keyboards, metal bodies, and battery life.

Dell XPSs were a decent option for the last decade+ (especially the refurbs), but Dell seems to be going through a rebranding exercise [0], so those will now be Dell Pro/Premium models? Maybe?

[0] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/01/the-end-of-an-era-de...
> It's about time we got these things ripped out where tax payer money is funneled into layers of NGO's "doing the work" and ultimately back to the party that built this apparatus. So yes, it is a crisis if you were part of that corrupt system.

You mean like how much tax money we funneled into Elon Musk's bullshit ventures? Strange though, I get the feeling that he's not going to audit himself.
Yes, emotionally I'd agree. However, legally, I think it's a very slippery slope. What if Don Jr shoots someone dead and then Trunp premptively pardons him so no one can investigate the shooting?

I think the hard part of enforcing the law is enforcing it equally, even towards those we love the most.
Only if you get caught. And the fine needs to be higher than the profit.
One other differentiation that Vanguard has is that it is owned by the fund holders

“Vanguard set out in 1975 under a radical ownership structure. Our company is owned by its funds, which in turn are owned by Vanguard’s fund shareholders. We focus on meeting the investment needs of our clients.”

So in short, vanguard is customer-owned, where fidelity is owned by mostly the founding family (the Johnson’s).

https://corporate.vanguard.com/content/corporatesite/us/en/c...
Then start paying them
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Waffle House is placing a surcharge on every egg it sells
I see that posturing over a stretch of water can easily lead to denying a group of people the right of self-determination.
But it was going to be violent. The to-be-deposed SK president had plans to use the SK Army to seize power, and even had Special Forces sent to the SK Parliament -- they just didn't really know what was going on, and weren't keen on shooting at their own Congress
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGSALY
If there is some credible reason to believe this might be the case, then an audit should be done. Carefully, not recklessly. With oversight, especially if the auditor gets write access to anything. That oversight should include, at an absolute minimum, a system, not controlled by the auditor, that logs every interaction with the system being audited.
Four Chinese AI startups to watch beyond DeepSeek
Wait, maybe I do want an AI-powered project manager than proactively manages risk.....
Project 2025 didn't call for closing down USAID, so I don't think that's a relevant concern for this issue.
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If it is the program that pays the bills when they are due, then yes, 100%. Why would you think otherwise?
Or cut down on flights. You could easily ban private flights until there is enough capacity.
>And Kamala Harris was labeled far-left for campaigning on a Trump-lite platform on immigration and the economy that appealed to no one.

I am begging people on the left to stop slandering "we will enforce the law" as a right-wing position. It is not, shouldn't be, and the right doesn't deserve to get credit for it.

Kamala wasn't "Trump-lite" any more than AOC is "Stalin-lite". The differences between the two are fucking categorical.
Maybe at least attempt to understand other people's position before screeching "fascist" at everyone you consider to be an opponent.
Economic and social life existed during the Great Depression, but that needn't make it a goal.
This. I'd go as far as to say that the law mostly tries to conserve liability, in the "energy conservation" sense. Once harm is defined and quantified, the consequences have to be discharged somewhere, and there's tons of rules that try to sensibly distribute them among parties involved, while counteracting everyones' attempts at diffusing liability or redirecting it somewhere else.

On that note, after some time working in cybersec and GRC fields, I realized that cybersecurity is best understood in terms of liability management. This is what all the security framework certification and auditing is about, and this is a big reason security today is more about buying services from the right vendors and less about the hard tech stuff. Preventing a hack is hard. Making it so you aren't liable for the consequences is easier - and it looks like a network of companies interlinked with contracts that shift liability around. It's a kind of distributed meta-insurance (that also involves actual insurance, too).
Wow, that’s a back rub of a puff piece even for a trade rag. Hix In Stix Love Context-free Stats might be a better title. It conflates data from multiple, unrelated years, makes no mention of how their traffic or revenue grew during those years and tries to pass blame onto amorphous “rights holders” who are the ones really taking too much money.
In middle school, I learned this was called "assertion without evidence."
The "statistical" evidence, as presented, is worthless. It does not analyze the data in any quantitative way. It collects some unusual facts, waves a wand, and with a theatrical whisper says "guilty". Neither is an accepted method of statistical analysis.

To put some meat on this claim, here's some things that should have been included:

- consider whether LL was given sicker children to look after

- more generally, consider other statistical factors that could have contributed: number and experience of doctors on shift, of patients, etc.

- consider whether night and day shifts had the same mortality

- consider how many "suspicious" deaths occured when other nurses were on duty

- consider wider nationwide factors affecting child mortality. E.g. is it broadly on the rise, maybe due to general deteriorating health of the population.

- once some kind of assigning of deaths was done, how much of an outlier was LL's "count"

- ...and finally comparing to some kind of base rate of how often nurses kill their patients. If you conclude there was a 1:1000 probability of these events occuring by chance, but a base rate of nurses killing patients is 1:10000, then it's still 10:1 more likely LL is innocent.

As far as I can tell none of the above was done properly. Some things were vaguely looked at, but in an anecdotal "analysis", not something containing actual mathematics.

Of course it's possible that you do this analysis and conclude LL is guilty - I don't know that. But the analysis, as summarized, is to a proper statistical evidence what a child's drawing is to a CCTV screenshot.
Would you consider GDPR a failure if businesses collected the maximum allowed under the law?
I think it's a jungle now. Everyone fights for oneself and grabs whatever he can take. It's going to get worse in the next decades until a new world order emerges.

Damn I'm just a little over 40.
5G basestations are on dedicated silicon already.
I suppose some of this is a "lost story" but I wrote about Delilah back in 2012: https://blog.jgc.org/2012/03/delilah-secure-speech-system.ht... and the actual system is on display at Bletchley.
The soviet ruble is not widely accepted and did not hold its value well. Bitcoin functions more like gold reserves.
By being amazed when observing it, one can conclude that a thing is amazing.
How do you front run a mutual fund? The price is the price.
The executive is formally required to execute all constitutional laws by the take care clause of article two. It's been politically expedient for most presidents to ignore a few policies they dislike, but it's very much not a central pillar of the American government to grant them that power.
(and fewer users means lower load, as a bonus)
Big Packages or Many Dependencies – pick your poison
Congress was elected by the people and in a representative democracy, the voters decide (through their elected representatives) what is a crime.
It's not that deep, dude. He is just a well-known proponent of the second shooter claim, and that the assassination was a government conspiracy.
Seems like a colossal error to have asked them all to quit.

I wonder -- if half of the air traffic controllers took the offer to leave their jobs, do we have a Plan B? The deadline they have been given to decide is Thursday; I have not seen any communication as to whether ATC (and TSA, etc.) will be operational Friday.
I don't think vanguard's core customer base cares about what hungry competitors are doing to entice them to move. Just look at Robinhood: they offered the biggest financial incentive for users to switch of any broker in the industry and I doubt many vanguard customers took them up on that. Stability, trust, and low fees are all buy and hold investors at Vanguard really care about.
The 8th-grader understanding is that each branch does what it's supposed to do with virtuous motives. The adult understanding is that they exercise as much power as they can until forced to stop.
U.S. Treasury bills underpin the financial systems of the world, but most especially that of the United States. This is an ELE for the US.
I think it's the same reason PGP never caught on. The learning curve is just too steep.

There are 3 major concepts: understanding how to run the comnand, understanding the idea of public key crypto, and actually using it (i.e. NOT imaging the ISO unless the signature passes).

What it needs is something like a torrent client that 1) doesn't let you download unless you supply the expected SHA first, and perhaps 2) that it verifies that the hash came from the signed webpage where you got the torrent link. Too many people (myself included) think it's not going to happen to them (download a backdoored program/OS).

After 20 years in the industry I'm just now learning how certificates work and how to work with them.
They do look amazing
Glad to know my tax dollars are getting spent on the new flavor of virtue signaling. Insane this was some super high priority.
they won't, because "groyper" and "coward" are synonyms
Half-Life 2's hovercraft area was AWFUL, even on a 4:3 CRT.
I'm specifically referring to TPM and/or SEP as a key escrow. No other commonly available hardware provides equivalent functionality. No point in going off topic on a philosophical/sociopolitical angle.
The US Treasury and currency aren't important?
Not honoring previous settings, reverting back to whatever is more convenient for Microsoft or trying to push down of our throats Copilot on every single corner might be the most infuriating thing....
> This is why windows is/was successful, you start it, open outlook, mail, browser, print, play games, etc. Without ever thinking why it works.

You're right. I don't think "why it works". I ask myself "why it doesn't work ?". Why suddenly am i not able to tell which element is a label or a button in the UI ? Why is the scrollbar so tiny and hidden, with no possibility (Win95) to make it bigger ? Why, to resize the active window with the mouse, i have to hunt for this 1px border on my HD monitor (you can have any window border in Win95).

Oh, and Edge, new Outlook (you forgot Teams) - truly marvels of engineering. For some reasons an _-'"€€_*€ from MS had the great idea to hide old emails. Who needs access to old emails when the customer comes screeming.
Something has gone horribly wrong with your governance when you can 1. get fined a million euro under GDPR and 2. arrested for hate crimes, for 1. hosting a default Apache server with logs and 2. putting a joke video of your dog doing a "Hitler salute" on it.