skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This has been brought up with freedesktop and they handwaved it away. They claim they want to DIY with donation money

You are making all of this sound way more definitive than the ticket. The donation money approach is the personal opinion of the sysadmin. The OSUOSL is brought up, some explanations are added that make it more attractive and remove some doubts, and beyond that it's waiting for the board to decide what's next.
A requirement to minimize data collection is part of it.
What's the tell in this one? https://omnihuman-lab.github.io/video/hands2.mp4 or https://omnihuman-lab.github.io/video/hands1.mp4
Having a young optimistic uncynical person, untainted by years of painful lessons and bitterness, attempt to fix these systems with raw speed and brute urgency, might be the exact shock a system like the public sector needs.

People complain about Facebook's move fast and break things philosophy whenever something bad happens, completely ignoring the fact that they are a trillion dollar corporation that 20 years ago did not exist.

Sometime you just have to get rid of the guardrails and YOLO it
The overpriced junk is wedged into bespoke employer 401k programs that are managed by the brokers. There is usually only one or two low fee options hiding in the list and you have to be savvy to find them. Most employer 401k programs suck because they (custodian) are agreeing to the fund composition based on price to them. If you are lucky you might not end up in John Hancock or Transamerica. Yuck!
>I trying to figure out where the author got this from?

I laughed at this too. Oh yeah, back in 2005 there was no way to get good sound from that dusty old equipment.

I mean, some of the best sounding albums of all time are 50+ years old.
What prevents Wireguard from moving to GitHub or why is bare metal hosting needed?

The code is small and integrated into the kernel at this point.

Aren't your needs primarily for distributing Windows/Mac packages at this point?
Maybe our standards are rock bottom now, but that speech did not seem to me to be "off the cuff." It seemed rehearsed, polished, edited and wordsmithed, like any other prepared speech by a politician. If he was truly winging it, then wow, what a talent!
> I, an invested member in the continuation of society, would like a rather non-violent world to be in our future.

Of course, but we don't get there following fantasies. The truth is, through most of human history, most people were peasants eking out the most meager of lives. Often dying of disease in childhood, or at least well before their 30th birthday.

The problem is not poverty today.

By all realistic measures, nearly every single person in America (even those living on the street) is wealthier than most of our ancestors. The problem isn't even wealth inequality, since that's always existed as well, (and probably always will since it seems impossible to devise a political system that is durable and corruption proof).

The problem is unrealistic desires and a fantasy that everyone can live a rich life unconstrained by material limitations. The incredible wealth that Americans had enjoyed post WWII (arguably at the expense of much of the rest of the world) has set up unattainable expectations in people.

That's not to say we can't do better, but we need to reframe the entire problem and set it in the context of human history, not the last few hundred years of unsustainable growth.
OK, but other scientists think he is a scientist or an expert on AI. Stephen Wolfram for example sat down recently for a four-hour-long interview about AI with Eliezer, during which Wolfram refers to a previous (in-person) conversation the 2 had and says he hopes the 2 can have another (in-person) conversation in the future:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjH2B_sE_RQ

His book _Rationality: A-Z_ is widely admired including by people you would concede are machine-learning researchers: https://www.lesswrong.com/rationality

Anyway, this thread began as an answer to a question about the community of tens of thousands of people that has no better name than "the rationalists". I didn't want to get in a long conversation about Eliezer though I'm willing to continue to converse about the rationalists or on the proposition that AI is a potent extinction risk, which proposition is taken seriously by many people besides just Eliezer.
The Hired Guns Who Make Sure School Cyberattacks Stay Hidden
I was talking about the direct capabilities.

You're talking about the first order reaction.

The reaction to that reaction is that the noose of remote attestation develops slower. As things currently stand, they can't revoke the attestation keys of all the affected processors with websites (etc) just telling the large numbers of people with with those computers that they need to buy new ones. Rather the technological authoritarians have to continue waiting for a working scheme before they can push the expectation of remote attestation being something that is required.
> the guy primarily spoke in truisms and with long-winded statements that ultimately said very little but gave the illusion of having depth.

The term for that is deepety.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Deepity
> how does it cope?

You're both operating on git repositories, so there's no issues. You can think of jj as an alternate git client.
How has no one pointed out the business models are different and result in entirely different products and priorities?

Cursor charges $20/mo. So their whole business model revolves around using less than $20 worth of tokens and cheaper models.

With Cline, you pay for your own tokens and can choose whichever model you like (uses openrouter).

You can see the difference almost immediately - everything is better. Context management isn’t kneecapped, edits are comprehensive, cline reads every file that is relevant into the context, and the UX is intuitive.

I was personally blown away — I tell it to do something complex in an existing codebase, and Cline just… does it? And it asks me questions along the way to make sure it’s in alignment with my goals.

This is how AI copilots should feel to use. Cline is by far the best option I’ve tried so far.

Note: I will say though - your token usage WILL be high. I have easily spent over $20 in a single night coding with cline. That’s the entire monthly subscription cost of Cursor spent within an evening.

But it’s easily worth it. Hell, I’ll spend $100 in an hour on tokens if it makes me more productive.
> Whether Cix can straddle the line

At least there is a kernel and PC-like boot process. I'm cautiously optimistic.
I'd ballpark USAID at maybe half a percent? It's an easy win. A few more of these and Elon will have made a meaningful dent in the wastage of my tax dollars.

I'd consider even a 3% reduction in spend a massive success. The percentage of money being wasted is much higher, somewhere between 30% and 70% (estimates vary.)

If you've ever worked for a government contractor you've seen the immense waste/scam firsthand.
The way this was phrased made me disregard the rest of the article.

It comes off as someone who's ignorant of the topic they're writing about.
Restructuring How We Think About Alerts
Personally I am inclined to hit the flag button on: (i) any post from X (they suppress outlinks, inlinks should be suppressed), (ii) anything about Elon Musk (just a photo of him provokes an emotional response from people that makes people stupid). If it is a post on X by Elon Musk I will flag 100% of the time that I see it.
Out on the road today, I saw a deadhead sticker on a Cadillac. A little voice inside my head said, "Don't look back. You can never look back."
Do we know the effects of these microplastics accumulated in our bodies?
Tolerance is not suicide pact, nor is it a moral imperative.

Tolerance is a peace treaty, and only extends to those who participate.

Tolerance is an agreement to live in peace, not an agreement to be peaceful no matter the conduct of others.

The Paradox of Tolerance: Karl Popper
CEOs aren't there to serve the rank-and-file, they're put there to serve the board and investors.
...not when the consequences are "people die of starvation because their EBT didn't go through."

Moving fast and breaking things only works when the things you're breaking are low stakes. Grandma not getting her daily pic dump of her grandson is not the same as grandma not getting her groceries.
> Your question doesn’t quite make sense.

Agreed, yet it is the standard question most people throw out for any unfamiliar idea. God forbid they have to form a single thought to grok something…although more charitably it is a form of “why should I care?”.

Your rephrasing is a bit different, it discards the selfish aspect of the question which I think is not correct.

Funnily though, anyone asking why they should care probably shouldn’t care yet.
It's hard, don't do it :D We have a few supply chain companies trying us out though! Would love to hear more about your experience.
Like hundreds of millions. I don't flow with the fads. Any other question?
No, but it would simply be off-putting to majority of the students and they dont need it for anything. There are game focused programs available for those who want to go into game development. They are not mandatory in general CS.
I couldn't disagree more.

Most radio stations only played the most blandest junk music, even from great artists. Seems they would rotate the top 3 songs even from the absolute most popular musicians. I must have heard Fear of the Dark by Iron Maiden >500 times on the rock stations in Stockholm. The Prowler? 0. Maybe some 3am DJ could play some cool songs on occasion, like you said.

There was always very little variety.
Wonder what it would take to add a simple algorithm to this. Part of what makes short media apps (dangerously) addictive is that they eventually learn what you like and feed you more of that. An app like this with such an algo could help with the stickiness (and presumably get us away from the other apps at least for a little bit). "Oh this person likes science stuff, let's feed them more, oh they specifically like stuff related to quantum mechanics, let's place a summary paragraph from a related page topic in there."
I see you directed others towards my sardonic comment about how Musk may eventually face penalties for violating the First Amendment, if we avoid (more of a) Constitutional crisis.

However I'm having trouble tracking how it relates to this thread, and what you are trying to assert by referencing it.
Ahem +1.

I am hip to two generations of text based games, and HP 2000B. We programmed roulette on B.U.S.D, Berkeley Unified School District. Got the David Ahl books, but did not have access to the DECUS games tapes. ( Now I find that David Ahl was working at DEC, got canned, and then started Creative Computing )

Add Life, and Lunar Lander.

Later in college, we had IBM PCs, Monochrome, so ... we found both Rogue, and went over to Berkeley, and met Michael, and Glenn. We also had Empire, converted from Fortran, to the PC. and... Nethack. We wanted to get Nethack running on Xenix... blew up the whole machine twice...

And of corse HHGTTG. Hitch Hikers guide to the galaxy. Over at Egghead, the sales guy had solved most of it, and told us about the really hardest parts.
Now, the entire Infocomm library runs in a web browser.

Soon, my roommate got an Amiga, and a modem.
That’s not Apple’s fault.
I might just not be reading it properly. I've never used TikTok, I assumed by your description that they scraped video titles/transcripts/etc. from the recommendation page without any engagement on the video. (I suppose I should read the study you linked!)

When you say "how users engage with content, and there's none of that going on here", by "none of that", do you just mean likes/comments, that sort of thing?

I would usually consider watching as engaging with content, but if you mean additional engagement (as I would call it, anyways), that would make a lot more sense to me.
Radxa has their own ITX cluster board (modules are RISC-V for now), but the thermals aren't encouraging (the fan in the middle seems rather large compared to a small module).

What you can do is mount a couple boards with standoffs and make a cube of ARM processing power.

With 16 cores, you can add 16 activity LEDs hanging on the GPIO and turn the cube into a small Connection Machine (if you get a nice dark acrylic enclosure).
Honestly I think it's still a large enough market to get traction. They can always open it up further if it really catches on.
Accessing Thunderbird via JDBC from my favorite SQL client was so convenient. No messaging app search is even remotely close to what a simple SELECT/WHERE can do. Old Skype versions also stored chat info in an SQLite db. I wish I'd still have SQL access to my messages.
Is there a statistical data on adoption of AI chatbots in the industry?
I see a lot of personal demos, small projects and nobody is talking about serious integration into production and useful patterns.
And there is a great diversity of white people in Europe with competing interests. It’s not so simple.
It seems like simon started a trend :)

I implemented this feature on my blog a couple of weeks ago. I view it as the equivalent of a retweet, only that I own the content. If someone wants to subscribe, they can follow the respective rss feed. Maybe in the future I automatically push the updates to mastodon/bluesky/etc.

feed section: https://staticnotes.org/feed/

rss feed: https://staticnotes.org/feed.xml
> most expensive bug of all time that crashed a whole rocket

being valued at $ 370 million in 1996 that bug was recently dwarved by crowd strikes multi-billion-dollar disaster in 2024
Doing less media != Running away from challenges. I'm sure all the right wing interviews and podcast appearances Trump did really threw him the hard questions.
Alex Karp has a tendency to say inflammatory things.
Now that he's made the press several times for this kind of thing, one has to wonder: does he make these statements because he believes them, or because the press that comes after such a statement is useful to him somehow? Does it endear him with the right kind of decision-maker? Does it just get attention? Or does it just direct press attention away from some other aspect of Palantir in a given newscycle?
The age emphasizes the absurdist, incompetent slapdash nature of the whole thing. It's not a grizzled expert aiding a coup, it's some kid fucking around.
I started using computers in 1980.

Relatively recently, I settled on a file naming convention.

Start file names with yymmdd because it has a clear meaning that won't change (make it yyyymmdd if you need 100+ years).

Add whatever else might be relevant metadata to the end.

Maybe put it in a folder with relevant metadata in its name.

This will even work with MS-DOS's 8+3.

When I did something is almost always relevant to finding a file...because finding a file means I remember doing something relevant to the reason I am looking.

YMMV and your organization may have different standards (but it probably uses logs and what is a log but a set of timestamps?)
Agreed. it's not like we have to choose.
I find Spotify to be pretty good if you want to listen to the rock classics and adjacent music(b-sides).

If you want to discover new music, YouTube Music and SoundCloud seem superior.
This is about upholding the highest law. The Framers intended the executive branch to be responsive to elections. Federalist 39 spends a lot of time analyzing the best way for people with authority in the “administration” to be appointed by the politically accountable President and confirmed by the politically accountable senate. https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a2_2_2-3s.... The Constitution requires that voters must be able to effectively change government policy through the election of the president. It does not envision presidential elections as being some mere signal provided as an input to a permanent administration.

That legal rule does not depend on voters’ motivations. If they want to deport all the illegal immigrants—an executive action within the discretion of the president—that’s their prerogative. How civil servants feel about that is immaterial. Voters’ cultural and policy preferences must win out. And the problem we have now is that, regardless of who wins the elections, the government remains overwhelmingly controlled by a group with particular cultural preferences.

This isn’t about “law” versus “culture war.” The culture war is simply the factual context in which a legal dispute of tremendous gravity is playing out.
It does not -> if a compliance framework requires an auditor, you will need to work with one.

However, we can recommend auditors fit for your company or, if you don't want to handle the relationship, we can do that for you (that is what we do for our customers).
> People voted for this

Quite literally, no. Elez (the 25-year old) reports to Musk. There is nobody elected above him.

Bessent, hours before this broke, claimed he "signed off on a plan to give 'read-only' access to the payment system to a team led by Tom Krause" [1]. This kid allegedly had write access. And he doesn't report to Krause. He should be getting arrested on espionage charges.

[1] https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/03/bessent-musk-doge-t...
I see plenty of pessimism in the comments, & talk about how unqualified the organizations people are expected to be, without addressing how important this initiative is to EU & how necessary it is they succeed.

USA has just proven they are economically unpredictable & so unstable they have become fiscally volatile with control in the hands of the lobbiests. This is why Open LLM has the starting support it does already, & for soverign nations is seen as mission critical so as to avoid long term digital services taxations being leveraged like tarrifs against anyone who does not cooperate with whomever is leading the USA.

So to me it feels as though the project is impressive, & quite likely to succeed where others have failed because so few do understand the technology enough to get in the way of progress towards openly standardizing decentralization of AI compute across soverign cloud infrastructures. Even if Aleph Alpha is not able to lead development fast enough, organizations such as OUMI (Open Universal Machine Intelligence) will be working alongside them in attempts to build out the Linuxs of AI frontier modelling.

If nothing else, Open LLM guarantees a raise in the social standards of what it takes to succeed in AI long term. At worst it provides a measure bar of success of global AI innitiatives to be compared against while introducing new organizations & people to the open source ecosystem who would never of otherwise invested in it without the EU stamp of approval.
so to be clear, you think world governments should be YOLOing it?

and you justify this because a platform for serving targeted ads has popularized the idea?

and you don't see a difference between a social network and our countries payment systems?

i'm just kind of shocked and disappointed by this, as i'm sure you're not the only one who perceives the world this way..
Politics and science are inseparable. There is no such thing as no politics in science.
He's the modern GOAT of that genre for sure - but Nujabes' productions literally pay homage to the sounds of the SP1200, MPC60, etc that really made early hip-hop what it was in the early 90s. If we are to think of who is the GOAT of this genre we need to think more like Pete Rock, DJ Premier, RZA, etc
This is awesome but it needs to autoscroll the full page. It needs to have the same completely instant dopamine hit that TikTok gives.
The "code that directs Social Security payments, tax returns and other payments owed to Americans" is "COBOL and ... it has been such a struggle to maintain it [because it was] developed for decades with very little documentation"

But having a SpaceX engineer start a rewrite is... bad?

I freak out when some minor component of my company becomes abandonware. When no one can or wants to read or work on the codebase, it's _time for it to die_. Either this good news, or you have no experience maintaining existing critical software infrastructure.

As for the "unelected" argument... Did anyone ever elect any of the software engineers who worked on this codebase? It has always been federal employees appointed by federal agencies. Some acronyms changed.
What workflow do people adopt for tools which still do not have a concept of local-only config files? For example, VSCode only has a launch.json, which should be committed, but I might need to customize it to my environment/current problem without distributing those edits.

How can I not constantly fight jj with this?
YouTube Shorts don’t have background play/PiP, at least not through the regular Shorts player. It is possible to get a Short pulled up through the main video player because each Short actually has a page you can access by just replacing /short/ with /v/ in the URL, and that will have background play and PiP if you have these enabled.

Tapping some URLs will inconsistently get you to the page too without having to do any URL replacement. I don’t think there’s any intended logic there, just some bugs in the way URLs get handled hopping from social media app to browser to social media app since most of them try to keep you silo’d in.
The article fails to explain what is illegal about what's going on. Exactly what laws are being broken?
The sibling comments here are extremely illuminating. Ick size large, vibe not good.
Social problems mostly 4:2:1 depedency ratios, i.e. elder care. Hence PRC pouring a lot of resource into this sector, but TBH unless automation catches up, they're just going to follow JP model - old people are going to be minimally taken care of, and simply die unceremoniously while most of workforce busy competing to pay attention. Helps that cohort is part of the incredibly poor with high savings rate, i.e. they are expected to take care of themselves and it doesn't take much too for the state to take care of them - perks of old before rich is old don't have rich expectations. Overall PRC is still resourced to increase QoL among poor old vs west trying to sustain onerous but expected social nets for rich old.

IMO housing will sort itself out if you consider reverse of 4:2:1 is 4 households / wealth transfers to the 1. Every married couple and their kids eventually has access to ~4-8+ housing units. Hence IMO even TFR will sort itself out once housing pressure / availability disspates by virtue demand decreasing due to less people. Of course transition can be very difficult/painful/messy, i.e. demand in T1/2/3 cities still going to be high, a lot of freed up housing is going to be rural, like all the abandoned villages in JP. Maybe remote work + cottage culture will finally pick up in PRC once most families inherit some rural land to chill on. TBH I can imagine PRC life being incredibly more relaxed once less people compete for resources.

As for freedoms, depends on which kind. I think most will be satiated with increased material prosperity / fully automated luxury communism meme conveniences. There's plenty of Chinese diasphora in the west jaded with western political process, and I wager that trend with continue with how things are progressing. Plenty of international students with first hand experience become more pro CCP. Ultimately people are going to decide if they want freedom to talk shit about unresponsive governments that get nothing done or crusing along in their self driving cars enabled by surveillance state.

And let's not pretend immigration driven demographic growth strategies are not bringing their share of social problems... in fact it's probably one of the largest sources of domestic instability being interrogated by such countries right now.
Maybe use AI to turn a wiki topic into something explained by an influencer in 30 seconds.
> Naval vessels are largely outdated technology

Depends on the purpose. For patrolling, shipping, and disaster relief, it's a lot cheaper and more flexible (in terms of utility et al) than airplanes.