skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cavalry charges absolutely were used to break lines of infantry. It just became obsolete earlier than you think.
As a musician I agree that "regular people can make it without sacrificing their soul" is not an indicator of bad music. Some of the greatest, most creative music I had the honor to listen to was made by drunk teenagers who didn't know how to tune their instruments after all.

But the thing about fads: if everybody and their dog knows how to make "proper" punk, low-fi-hiphop or whatever, the result will be bland, uniform, shapeless and generic. That doesn't mean the genre stopped producing great music, it just means you will have to wade through the bland stuff to get through the gold. And few people are willing to keep doing just that.
> outrage means traffic

Which CGP Grey also described a decade ago: https://youtu.be/rE3j_RHkqJc?t=200 "This Video Will Make You Angry" [2015-03-10]
> Why are you guys saying adopting Bitcoin was a failure?

Because it was a failure in each and every single thing it was claimed it would achieve, specially the fact that everyone in El Salvador ditched the system once they cached out their sign on bonus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_in_El_Salvador
> like many Radxa hardware products, the hardware seems to be in a pretty good place. The software? Not so much ... I've harped on this numerous times: one reason I prefer Raspberry Pi, despite the lower value hardware per dollar spent

I agree. Same with FriendlyElec, Orange Pi, and especially Banana Pi
> Average age of engineers and scientists in the Manhattan Project was 25.

The youngest scientist or engineer was Richard Feynman who was 27 years old at the time.

Average age of scientists/engineers on the Manhattan Project was closer to 37.

25 sounds so absurd I don’t know how you didn’t double check your sources. The rest of your post makes some claims about NASA but stopped reading as it has to be BS as well.
> My theory is that Trump is playing the Nixon madman strategy w/ regards to trade. If everyone thinks he's crazy, he thinks he'll get better deals without having to do anything painful.

Have you tried listening to his speeches at rallies? Not the clips or extracts, and not transcripts, but the full speeches from start to finish.

Dude is all over the place. It's often hard to tell what planet he's on.

During one of the presidential debates he went on about immigrants eating cats and dogs.
I dislike both options, since "learn" and "knowledge" are overstating things, but of the two: Preloaded.

That first metaphorical human child would be suffering from devastating anterograde amnesia and would periodically be eliminated and replaced with a fresh clone from the Training Vats.

I say "overstating" because a lot of what we humans perceive from LLMs is a kind of self-trickery. Other humans are using the LLM to generate a document that contains fictional characters interacting, and then "acting out" one of the character to make us confuse the character with the author, and then human intelligence and knowledge is (automatically, instinctively) engaged in "filling in" the character being described.
> Despite this, the trade in other chemicals involved in the manufacturing of fentanyl - some of which can have legitimate purposes - remain uncontrolled, as those involved in the trade find new ways to evade the law.

From a purely economic perspective, it just sounds like local production will replace foreign imports if the US does manage to stop fentanyl from entering from abroad.
Well for one, they don’t come from Trump or Musk.
Well, let's not call a short squeeze by another name.

Otherwise, I wouldn't call those things front running, as there's no indication of imminent activity.

If a material increase in lending rates on a heavily shorted stock was announced, and you bought because you were pretty sure the shorts would be buying to close, that could be front running, yeah.

I dunno about market moves based on Elon's role in the culture wars, but maybe if he did something in particular.

In general, buy on the rumor, sell on the news could qualify as front running under this definition, but I think I'd want to narrow it a bit to working to trade ahead of perceived imminent and definite trades. Most of the illegal front running is trading ahead of specific trades in response to seeing those orders.
>Some people even keep them as pets, you know?

Weird people.
Caveat that this is yet to be peer reviewed, but I wonder if this is the leaded gasoline of our times

> Editor’s Note: This story was originally written in August 2024 based on a preprint, which is an early copy of a paper that had not yet been peer-reviewed. It has been updated to reflect the final peer-reviewed and published paper in Nature.
The wonders of Unicode collation folding: http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr10/#Collation_Folding
On other issues, yea. On countering a lobbyist set agenda, probably not.
The interest still needs to be paid. That requires revenue growth, taxes, or printing money. Taxes and printing money makes everyone poorer - the IOUs of yesterday coming due. Japan has had many challenges over the past few decades.
> But since LLMs don’t really act deterministically, I feel the need to double check their output.

I feel the same

> That’s very painful for me. At that point I’d rather just write the code once, correctly.

I use AI tools augmentatively, and it's not painful for me, perhaps slightly inconvenient. But for boiler-plate-heavy code like unit tests or easily verifiable refactors[1], adjusting AI-authored code on a per-commit basis is still faster than me writing all the code.

1. Like switching between unit-test frameworks
I'm saying demonizing political organizations isn't a problem, demonizing broad classes of people is.

For example: there's a difference between saying immigrants are "poisoning the blood of our country" (direct Trump quote) and "I would never vote for a Republican". The latter is generally fine and expected in any democracy. People have party preferences.

Edit: there's also context and matters of degree that matter here but this is an HN comment and I'm not gonna write an essay.
It was a conspiracy.
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do you use pair programming tools like aider?
https://archive.ph/DdLSb
>The Lofi style itself is nothing new, Lofi beats bear a striking resemblance to instrumental hip hop of the 90s and 2000s.

Lofi IS instrumental hip hop. Dilla was doing this in the 90s.
It's 2025, now. I would say that drones do better than horses, nowadays.
I've been considering doing this as well, if only for me to engage better with the things I read.
Can you be more explicit on what you mean by fair and transparent pricing?
> I've never gotten a platform that doesn't show me the trans negative politics in my feeds after engaging with trans creators.

How about Mastodon or Bluesky?
You must feel like an expert in so many fields if you trust your uninformed assumptions of them!
There’s also the matter that the Manhattan Project was under one authority. As an ancestral comment mentioned, there’s multiple automakers involved. It would be trying to build a bomb and dealing with not only the gun type design vs. the implosion design but a bevy of others, whose proponents all have equal influence over Oppenheimer to stymie the effort.
>Everyone could learn how to make these with a 10 minute youtube tutorial which flooded the market, independent of AI

'ease of creation' has never been the metric by which popular media has been judged.
Wait, is that analysis lumping energy / oil / petroleum refining in with manufacturing?
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He seems very unintelligent to me. Was born into a wealthy family and bought his way into more wealth, never done any real work in his life
> The one mistake I made was applying to do a masters and completely burning out. I should've gone straight into the workforce and relaxed, enjoying the money earned from success.

In my experience, this mentatlity leads to burn out. Regardless of university or workforce. Or even so rich you can be job-less.

Plus, its very lonley.
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Well X has a pretty clear slant as of late. I've tried making a fresh burner account a few times to see what the default algorithm is like and surprise, it's dominated by Elon Musk himself, his fanboys/orbiters, and political content which strongly aligns with his views.

Even when dissenting political content slips into the feed it's usually still about Elon Musk, the algorithm surfaces more mentions of him than the actual president.
> The problem is that the "bullies" have co-opted that system to use it for their own ends. This happened gradually so it didn't become obvious until the most recent "bully" decided he didn't even want to pretend that he wasn't in control.

The funny thing is that people have always said this exact thing except paraphrased in various ways (perhaps the term was less "bully" and something more conventionally a universal term of disparagement like "fascist"). I definitely didn't want Obama going after whistleblowers, increasing domestic surveillance and not closing Guantanamo when I voted him in... and I liked his healthcare plan, until it died...

I suspect that everyone says this when the person they didn't want in charge, now is, and starts doing things that their biased media always depicts only the negative side of.
How much background music do you realistically need though? If there's a few thousand hours, would you notice if it repeated at some point?

(Assuming the general style of the genre is staying similar and you don't listen to specific songs you discovered but just put on some collection of songs from the genre.)

Is there new elevator music being composed all the time too?
The only good recommendation engine is Pandora's Music Genome Project. It's the only one that auto-queues songs that sound like what you've seeded. Every other service will play you other songs from the same artist or genre, even though they sound nothing like what you've seeded. And then they pepper in other things that have nothing to do with anything - the "sponsored" crap.

It's just too damn bad that Pandora refuses to keep up with the competition and add higher quality streams. It sounds noticeably bad by comparison when using modern sound hardware. I just use them for recommendations now, so that I can curate my playlists in services that do offer high quality sound. They could easily be the only music service I pay for, but I'm not going to pay for subpar sound.
You kind of can with Bandcamp's "pay this much or more" model, though obviously there's a substantial percentage taken.
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I can't wait for someone to invent a new language, maybe a subset of English, that is structured enough to half-well describe computer programs. Then train a model with RLHF to generate source code based on prompts in this new language.

It will slowly grow in complexity, strictness, and features, until it becomes a brand-new programming language, just with a language model and a SaaS sitting in the middle of it.

A startup will come and disrupt the whole thing by simply writing code in a regular programming language.
The other set of people who might take the deal are people who are concerned that the new administration will consider them "DEI hires"[1] and fire them later in the year. This is not an unreasonable fear given that the administration has already blamed the DC crash on "DEI" and pledged to root out "DEI" everywhere.

If you expect to be fired ~ in the fall, it is not unreasonable to be interested in the offer to keep getting paid from your federal job while you look for alternate employment.

1 - I am not going to get into who fits this category. The point is which employees might think they fit into this category.
I'd say with the reverse being very true as well would largely just make it so once you get anything close to touching the topic it tosses out which ever side they think you'll engage with the most.

For more anecdotal context, my other interests lean into a demographic/stereotype of an upper middle class pilates/health/cleangirl girliepop. Which from my experience they centrist/ambivalent maybe skew left but not inherently pro trans.
Perhaps we need to differentiate between "end products" and "intermediate products". Cloth/fabric is an intermediate product. You use it to make things to sell, so increasing its production while decreasing human labor input is net beneficial, since it increases demand for jobs downstream of the supply chain. Music and art are enjoyed as end products, though. There hasn't been an industry-wide supply chain shortage of music since the invention of the record player (an invention that took music to the consumers, increasing demand from artists).
Your whole system is a queue. Requests come in, are processed, and some output is given.

Algorithmic complexity affects the processing time of each request / task. Knowing the latency distribution is crucial in understanding the queueing characteristics of the system, and the algorithmic complexity will greatly affect that distribution.
There is this narrative that "every technological revolution eventually created jobs, and this one is no different."

I think that glosses over some critical historical facts. When the saw mill upfitted with "labor-saving" machinery, those displaced saw hands didn't necessarily "upskill" themselves to get office jobs or start waiting tables. Chronic unemployment and an early grave from drink was a pretty likely outcome.

Where AI is different is that the scale and speed of job displacement is going to be unprecedented. We will need a new operating principle for our societies, and it will have to come about quickly. Otherwise, millions of displaced workers will have no reason not to defect from the social contract.

Eventually, humans can act as a managerial class for AI agents, just as we manage existing technologies. But you have to transition to that point without blowing up society.

It's little comfort that current AI has some rough edges. Sure, current AI might be adequate as a junior graphic designer or junior software engineer. But in the process of using these AIs, the senior humans will be generating the data to train the AI to replace at least mid-level positions. This doesn't require "AGI", just that the AI can follow instructions at one level higher abstraction and critically judge its own work.

This is a subtle and uncomfortable argument to make without falling into the "class warfare" or "luddite" tropes.
No, they ruled against it. There were two moratoriums. The first was authorized by Congress. When that expired the CDC tried to unilaterally extend it and that was struck down:

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/business_law/resources/bu...

Realtor associations and rental property managers in Alabama and Georgia again sued to enjoin the CDC’s new (“second”) moratorium. The District Court entered judgment for the landlords, and the Supreme Court affirmed.

The Supreme Court found that Congress could speak clearly when authorizing an agency to exercise the powers of vast economic and political significance that the CDC exercised in its order, but Congress had not done so. In addition, the CDC order “intruded” in an area that is the particular domain of state law: the landlord-tenant relationship. Absent clear Congressional authority, which was lacking, the CDC order was too broad and was properly struck down.
By citing seizure numbers and mentioning nothing else about each respective border, this article and other news reports I am seeing seem to imply or suggest that that seizures are a direct representation of how much contraband is crossing a border. That's possible. It's also possible that seizures are a representation, at least in part, of something else. For example, the success of border authorities in detecting and confiscating contraband. Authorities on one border might be more more successful than authorities on another border. The frequency and amounts of seizures might not be indicative of the total amount of contraband that is crossing a particular border undetected. The seizure rate might be related to geographical or other characteristics of the border, for example.
The democrats couldn’t cut wasteful spending so the republicans have to instead. Ever seen the debt clock?
Same though.

Spotify killed lofi hip hop?
Lets continue use spotify but use playlists.
At %0.07 you would lose about 2% of your total value after 30 years.[1] No thanks.

[1]https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/How_much_do_you_lose_to_annu...
I don't think battery life is close. It was the number 1 criterion on my list.
Onlookers freak out as 25-year-old set loose on Treasury computer system
https://help.openai.com/en/articles/10500283-deep-research-f...
"Pro users (located outside the UK, Switzerland, and the European Economic Area) have access to 100 deep research tasks per month." So to me that must include Canada, right? I signed up for Pro. There it is. (For future reference, for someone else.)
Another connection: Expect Musk to selectively gather a biased selection of government documents and then leak them to sympathetic mouthpieces, which would be a direct repeat of his hoax with the "Twitter Files."

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/03/the-twitter-files-playbo...

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> [Musk's] playbook then was simple: hand-pick credulous journalists, give them selective access to internal documents, and let confirmation bias do the rest.

> We reported extensively on what was revealed in “The Twitter Files” and the answer was abso-fucking-lutely nothing. The documents revealed thoughtful policy discussions and principled content moderation approaches, not the scandal Musk promised.

> Yet thanks to relentless repetition by right-wing media and congressional allies, many remain absolutely 100% convinced the Twitter Files exposed massive wrongdoing on an epic scale.

> Now, we should expect the same with this government takeover.
In the eyes of China, Trump's piddly little tariffs are a small price to pay for the damage he'll inflict on the US over the next 4 years.
I wonder what is the likelihood that this is just pareidolia. ;)
You're not gonna get a general strike without people with significant national influence pushing for it, and it's not gonna be Chuck Schumer.
I think this could reasonably be addressed, and several startups have. The trouble is that the default email clients (gmail, outlook, etc.) don't really try to make it any better.

I've also generally had the opposite experience, a huge amount of business offices live and breath in email (mostly Outlook, but I'm sure it varies). Startups tend to run fast and lean, but as soon as you have some threshold of people, email is king.
Haven't tried, I got off twitter and insta 2 years ago. I've been meaning to try it but its often hard to build up a feed again on one of those platforms it often just feels empty or if you don't follow the right people cluttered.
Foreign adversaries don't care about political party. They want chaos, internal division, and institutional destruction, and for the moment, that means Trump. If there was a viable candidate from BlueTeam who promised to sow chaos and dismantle the government, you can bet they'd support them just as happily.
Same. Made a burner account, follow nothing and nobody, tweet nothing, like nothing, days later I check in on it and I have like a dozen notifications of tweets from the likes of Alex Jones and Donald Trump Jr.
Would an AGI that is “intelligent” enough to replace any kind of human labor deserve independent personhood and remuneration, or would they just be the perfect slave to capital?
They offer colocation as well.

https://osuosl.org/services/hosting/details/
Feels so strange that the average investor can't outperform an index fund with low management fees.

A small investor is so agile - they can move in and out of positions. Why that agility can't be utilized to outperform a slow moving index fund, long-term?
Luke Farritor Deciphered an ancient scroll using AI, he seems to be pretty smart.
NAS is cheap -truenas will sell you 200 TB systems for under $10k, and you can run your web server in a VM. Put second one in a different location and set them to up with the right backup and you have most of what you need. You can probably do much cheaper depending on your needs.

What I don't know is how to make your web servers failover graceful if one goes down (the really hard problem is if the internet splits so both servers are active and making changes). I assume other people still know how to do this.

With the likes of AWS they tell you the above comes free with just a monthly charge. Generally open source projects like having more control over the hardware (which has advantages and disadvantages) and so want to colo. They would probably be happy running in my basement (other than they don't trust me with admin access and I don't want to be admin - but perhaps a couple admins have the ability to do this).
I had to truncate the title a bit from:

'Go haywire': Onlookers freak out as 25-year-old set loose on Treasury computer system
This is really cool. It's a wonderful goal to preserve stuff like this.

That said, it is of course bizarre that we've gotten to a place where a video game history museum can't have video games for legal reasons. Imagine a museum of paleontology that can show you photos of paleontologists digging but can't show you any dinosaur bones.
As a European resident, I have put in a complaint to the company for you. Should it be dismissed out-of-hand, I will forward a complaint to my national Information Commissioner's office. I will post any results.
I spent 6 months trying to find ways to growth hack our platform. For reference, we made a platform where student builders can post their ideas, discuss plans, and launch the idea as an MVP all in one place. We then take the exposure they create for themselves and help them get hired. But something happened a few months ago that was crazy- 256 users (give or take) every 20 minutes for a few weeks. We weren't sure what we exactly tapped into, but we knew the sign-ups were coming from a variety of schools, even emailing students asking where they were coming from. It turned out word of mouth is the best policy, as a team, we haven't spent a dime on marketing or ads, we've just been hammering Reddit and LinkedIn to grow grassroots users. Heck, we don't even have a LinkedIn page for the platform yet. You're probably thinking we're a YC company but we aren't, we applied once (late) and got an encouraging message back saying "Love the team, love the idea, but apply again because we're filled up" was the premise of the answer. So we applied again actually and... radio silence. So we got to building anyway because of our conviction that students want what we are building. All of this to say, do not waste time or money and do not let external decisions sway you in a singular direction. We now have over a few thousand registered users, and we're constantly working to improve the platform to prevent churn / improve the quality of service.
El Salvador is going to keep them in prisons, not just let them loose.
I’m observing that critical submissions about this news subject are being flagged, even when there is no editorializing of the headline.