skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hum... What kind of tsunami do you expect to come from some thousands of people holding dollars for a few fewer milliseconds?

That would take a lot of legwork to confirm, but while the US$ is certainly the most used intermediate currency, it would surprise me if it was even used on the majority of the transactions.
Everyone's obviously going to focus on how Canada could turn the screws on US agriculture by messing with our potash supply, or timber, etc, but what if this just shortcuts straight to an oil/energy embargo?

Nothing is going to shut down this tomfoolery quicker than mass civil unrest as gas prices shoot up over $10 a gallon. It might be possible to counter this temporarily with the petroleum reserves but even that will take a while to get going.
Yes, to an extent; but I've seen enough hype cycles come and go not to be too worried about it. A few years ago I was tired of all the blockchain posts, and a few years before that I was tired of everything being about the cloud; in a few more years to come I am sure I will be tired of seemingly everything on HN being about whatever the next obsession is.
Macrodata Refinement
> OK, what products have gotten worse under Oracle?

Java.
(2013) but I will give it a try.
Minimising Dependencies
> to talk about WHY Musk is attempting to seize control of parts of the US government and why the Trump administration is attempting to censor mass quantities of data would be a political conversation.

In an attempt to keep it non-political: perhaps they (DOGE) are trying to put a "freeze" on the records while they consider who to fire. That would imply DOGE does not trust the people who have access to the records not to alter them in their favor. (Irony, since DOGE is demanding trust themselves.) You might not agree with that reason, but it is a reason.
this is exactly what i wanted thank you thank you
> but now it's just power-user-hostile and considerably more locked down and buggy.

Sure, macOS has continued to secure more and more elements of the OS. They have taken a different approach than Windows and Linux, which both keep large swaths of the OS woefully insecure from third-party apps for legacy reasons. But for each and every new lock, there is a key. An incredibly secure OS that gives you the power to control what third-party apps access on your computer is the best power-user feature.
I am 100% for this. During Covid some of my coworkers started second jobs. Some of them slept all day. Even now the ones who are hybrid I see get on steam and play games right in the middle of work hours.

It's a slap in the face to people who actually work hard.
ok, so the tech bro oligrachs wanna burn everything down, but aren't the old fashioned industrialist billionaires going to be hit hard by this (not to mention all the little businesses who source goods from Mex/Can to make things, or get 10-30% of their sales via exports)?
There are other claims of soft tissues that are out there.Now that collagen has been proven to exist in dinosaur bone, hopefully the mechanism that allowed that will be understood, alowing a narrower search for other possible soft tissue remains.
Our cultural bucket list has resurecting dinosaurs and hover boards on it, so this is good news!
Changing playback speed is a heavily used feature. They’ve also refined it several times, recently adding 0.05 speed increments not just 0.25.
1000% percent this.
Sadly, I have been unable to secure one of those higher power free servers. I’ve been trying for a couple weeks now.

That was literally the only reason I was willing to give Oracle a shot.
> Why?
>
> Every business is going to be where its customers are not to some degree.

Every business should be prepared to deal with legal issues in whatever jurisdiction they're doing business in. Being incorporated somewhere else to avoid or prefer laws (such as taxes, or employment, or shareholders) is therefore reprehensible.

If you go to a different state and break the laws there, you can't magically claim that a different state has jurisdiction just because that's where you were born. Alas, that's exactly what businesses seem to have and abuse.
Won’t let me scroll down on iPhone
A good way of hearing the gras grow is a null test.

Take unprocessed audio and process it. Then take both the processed and unprocessed audio and add them to your audio software (e.g. Audacity). Now flip the polarity of one of the audio signals.

This allows you to listen to the difference between the two signals and if there is nothing there, guess what, they are the same or the differences are so small that theg are inaudible.

This is a great way to anger people with expensive hifi gold cables, because what is true in the digital also works in the analog.

You only need to make sure both ajdio signals are at the same level (by minimizing the level of the difference).
The first link appears to be for .NET Standard, which has a common API compatible with both Framework and Core.

Though it might be worth checking Github to find example usages of the APIs. Maybe there's even some libraries that improve the developer experience with cryptography.
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If 80% of them happened to have blonde hair would you be talking down blonde people in this thread, too?

Correlation is literally not causation.
Still, even with best efforts this is such a shame. There is always going to be a question around governance over the data, integrity, and potentially chain of custody as well. If the goal is to muddy the waters and create a narrative that whatever might be in this data isn't reliable or accurate then mission accomplished. I don't see how anything can stop that.

Not to say the data isn't incredibly valuable and should be preserved for many other reasons of course. All the best to anyone archiving this, this is important work.
The people spoke very clearly in November: they wanted this.
You can’t separate “auditing can reduce chance of breaches” from “using unaudited security critical software when certified alternatives exist can be gross negligence.”
A wet black sock around a beverage can in direct sunlight will cool down the can as it dries.
I imagine the lossy encoding process could use a bunch of stacked filters to cut away imperceptible frequencies, but filters in the general case are implemented by summing delayed copies of the input and can smear the output in the phase domain. (There’s a branch of filters that avoid this but require computing the introduced delay and shifting the output to compensate.)

It’s a noticeable problem in audio production if e.g. a filtered kick drum goes out of phase and sucks amplitude when mixed with the original.
You're correct. Those communities heavily overlap.

Take, for example, 80,000 Hours, among the more prominent EA organizations. Their top donors (https://80000hours.org/about/donors/) include:

- SBF and Alameda Research (you probably knew this),

- the Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative, founded (https://www.existence.org/team) by the same guy who founded CFAR (the Center for Applied Rationality, a major rationalist organization)

- the "EA infrastructure fund", whose own team page (https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/team) contains the "project lead for LessWrong.com, where he tries to build infrastructure for making intellectual progress on global catastrophic risks"

- the "long-term future fund", largely AI x-risk focused

and so on.
> now it's just power-user-hostile and considerably more locked down and buggy

Hm, I've been using macOS (alongside others) for the past 20 years straight. In what ways is it hostile and buggy?
Brilliant summary, thanks.

I'm interested in #4, is there anywhere you know of to read more about that? I don't think I've seen that described except obliquely in eg sayings about the relationship between genius and madness.
Making changes atomic is literally impossible, it's easier to just assume they won't be than chasing down something computer science tells us is impossible. I assume you are saying "every node sees the same change at the same time" when you say "atomic."

As for unit testing flags, you better unit test them! Just mock out your feature flag provider/whatever and test your feature in isolation; like everything else.
"Trans vegan 'Siths' who kill people with katanas" is not a sentence I thought I'd ever read, let alone type, yet here we are, in the most ludicrous timeline.
It's not good for the imperative stuff either, half the time some wonky popup comes to the screen. Remind me why I'm using the voice again?
The US is starting to look like Berlusconi's Italy 30 years ago in this regard...
The only difference is that Berlusconi was Italian and could be elected, when politicians were not obeying as he expected.
There are multiple providers for it since it's open source.
I think the idea was technically a space trebuchet, but the energy for launch is stored in a flywheel. It's still far too little energy to do anything real.
> There's even a sticky header web startup.

That’s hilarious (and sad). It seems to be still in business, since 2012.
Maybe in how it's taught, but in practice deep inheritance and mutable state is easily avoided and best practice is more for a more procedural style
Well, if your plan is to destroy governmental agencies while being in charge of them, it makes sense to destroy anything that might show you are causing harm first.
The exchange in looks he had with Natalie character right after the board dropped off the call was clearly also an indication of dissatisfaction from both of them.
>> You're looking in the wrong places.

"You're holding it wrong".

I have a question. It's an honest question. I really am curious about this.

The question is "Which books would I not be allowed to walk into a bookstore and buy, or order off of Amazon, and in which states?".

Do you have an answer to that question? Please don't go all Stack Overflow on me and tell me I'm asking the wrong question, OK?
This whole story is so bizarre. I honestly can barely wrap my head around it.
This was on Chrome 109.0.5414.120, last available version for Windows 7. (And yes I know, I know, it's very bad to still run Win7 ;-)
2025 and it still works, even on mobile
> anything beyond that isn’t even a "best effort"

Ehhh, I don't know, whoever's designing and implementing Swift and Xcode etc clearly genuinely care on a personal level about quality. I get that there's going to be taste involved but the amount of thought and effort that's gone into the ecosystem is very high.
> Rationalists, by tending to overly formalist approaches,

But they don't apply formal or "formalist" approaches, they invoke the names of formal methods but then extract from them just a "vibe". Few to none in the community know squat about actually computing a posterior probability, but they'll all happily chant "shut up and multiply" as a justification for whatever nonsense they instinctively wanted to do.

> Precision errors in utility calculations that are numerically-unstable

Indeed, as well as just ignoring that uncertainties about the state of the world or the model of interaction utterly dominate any "calculation" that you could hope to do. The world at large is does not spend all its time in lesswrongian ritual multiplication or whatever... but this is not because they're educated stupid. It's because in the face of substantial uncertainty about the world (and your own calculation processes) reasoning things out can only take you so far. A useful tool in some domains, but not a generalized philosophy for life ... The cognitive biases they obsess about and go out of their way to eschew are mostly highly evolved harm mitigation heuristics for reasoning against uncertainty.

> that is particularly susceptible to internally-consistent madness

It's typical for cults to cultivate vulnerable mind states for cult leaders to exploit for their own profit, power, sexual fulfillment, etc.

A well regulated cult keeps its members mental illness within a bound that maximized the benefit for the cult leaders in a sustainable way (e.g. not going off and murdering people, even when doing so is the logical conclusion of the cult philosophy). But sometimes people are won over by a cult's distorted thinking but aren't useful for bringing the cult leaders their desired profit, power, or sex.
From an NYT article:

> Access to the system has historically been closely held because it includes sensitive personal information about the millions of Americans who receive Social Security checks, tax refunds and other payments from the federal government.
> Just in USA Liberals are considered leftist

Well, for a period of time liberals were the left. In the last decade or so the illiberal left has come up in opposition to the illiberal right, the latter matching the former’s hypocrisy in false promises of equality (while driving division) with false promises of freedom (while expanding the rulebook).
North Korea is a democratic people’s republic.
I feel like the biggest barrier to some of this stuff isn't the ability to mix and match, but just the difficulty of evaluating any particular setup. Perhaps what I really need is a service that will scan the biomechanics of my hand.

Without that, I'm afraid that the mouse that is judged "most ergonomic" is going to be whatever is closest to what I already use, even if it actually isn't.
I have found feature flagged rollouts to be one of the biggest advances in fairly recent software development. Probably too much to say about it in a comment, but they massively de-risk launches in a number of important ways, both in being able to quickly turn a feature off if it has unintended consequences and being able to turn it on for a very specific set of users.

With that said, I think that LaunchDarkly and the like are a bit expensive and heavyweight for many orgs, and leaving too many feature flags lying around can become serious debt. It totally makes sense to start with something lighter weight, e.g. an env var or a quick homegrown feature in ActiveAdmin.
In general, yes?

The clipboard has to be locked down by the OS now because random applications would just read from it all the time when it wasn't even relevant to them.
It is admittedly pretty noisy, which is somewhat intentional because the focus was on high data density. Here's an a bit more minimalistic view (less color, only one text level simultaneously):

https://phiresky.github.io/isbn-visualization/?dataset=all&g...

It could probably be tweaked further to not show some of the texts (the N publishers part), less stuff on hover, etc.
I think it not only feels bleak, but that it (that capitalism is an it is important to Nick Land from the perspective of complex adaptive systems) is just realistic.

I have a research project on Nick Land's core thesis that capitalism is AI. If you want to go ultra-deep into his theory, check it out: https://retrochronic.com/

It's fundamental to understand that capital is not just teleological - converging with AI on the event horizon of the Singularity - but teleoplexic (i.e. "capitalism takes on a mind of its own and becomes autonomous").
> A lot of the “never upgrade to 11” folks are completely unaware at how antiquated their OS is at this point.

So all the talk about "Windows 10 is the last Windows you'll ever need" is now officially recognised as bullshit? How does that make Microsoft trustworthy enough to install anything else from them?

And all those gigantic system updates that Windows 10 has had you run several times a year ever since you first used it were good for absolutely nothing?

Feel free to explain how all this hangs together, if you like.
> Weird to see a community I followed show up so close to home and negatively like this.

I had some coworkers who were really into LessWrong and rationality. I thought it was fun to read some of the selected writings they would share, but I always felt that online rationalist communities collected a lot of people with reactionary, fascist, misogynistic, and far-right tendencies. There’s a heavily sanitized version of rationality and EA that gets presented online with only the highlights, but there’s a lot more out there in the fringes that is really weird.

For example, many know about Roko’s Basilisk as a thought exercise and much has been written about it, but fewer know that Roko has been writing misogynistic rants on Twitter and claiming things like having women in the workforce is “very negative” for GDP.

The Slate Star Codex subreddit was a home for rationalists on Reddit, but they had so many problems with culture war topics that they banned discussion of them. The users forked off and created “The Motte” which is a bit of a cesspool dressed up with rationalist prose. Even the SlateStarCodex subreddit has become so toxic that I had to unsubscribe. Many of the posts and comments on women or dating were becoming indistinguishable from incel communities other than the rationalist prose style.

Even the real-world rationalist and EA communities aren’t immune, with several high profile sexual misconduct scandals making the news in recent years.

It’s a weird space. It felt like a fun internet philosophy community when my coworkers introduced it years ago, but the longer I’ve observed it the more I’ve realized it attracts and accepts a lot of people whose goals aren’t aligned with objectively “make the world better” as long as they can write their prose in the rationalist style. It’s been strange to observe.

Of course, at every turn people will argue that the bad actors are not true rationalists, but I’ve seen enough from these communities to know that they don’t really discriminate much until issues boil over into the news.
> If you go to a different state and break the laws there, you can't magically claim that a different state has jurisdiction

Yes. This is how it works.

> that's exactly what businesses seem to have

It really isn’t.
He can't hate them that much he put one on his website.
I did read somewhere that they have plan for all the series. It won’t end up like Lost.
I thought it was all mostly similar with some difference between annoyingly unsatisfying and workable on one hand, and fine/good on the other hand. My upper-midrange Asus motherboard and Apple lightning-to-headphone-jack adapter being in the latter category; Fine! Good! Music is enjoyable!

Then I got a Fosi Audio DS2 out of curiosity after coming across some measurements and discussion over on audiosciencereview.com

and

it is MILES better than any audio device I’ve ever had

There is a difference. (Also when driving speakers.) The difference is very, very clear. This particular device isn’t the only one that makes this kind of difference. It was like $50.
No screenshots were a bummer but a nice writeup nonetheless
> However, not everyone has a bad experience with them

Examples? I know several large companies that spent tens of millions to get _away_ from Oracle.
I recently revived my parents HP all in one from 2008, sporting a t5850 core duo.

It's surprising usable, but I found out that recent versions windows don't support sse4.1 (Microsoft has provided escape hatches to upgrade old hw to Win11, but requiring sse4.2 is a hard requirement now), so Windows 10 is the final version of windows this machine will get. I suspect in few years I'll probably move it to Linux, but for browsing and document editing it's a wonderfully competent machine.
Certainly this sort of data isn't disappearing because it makes Trump look good.

Anyway, he's pissed about COVID-19 and instead of working to prevent future epidemics he's working to retaliate against those who embarrassed him. Pretty simple stuff. The man does not have the depth that he and his followers believe he has.
There is no evidence — reliable, speculative, or otherwise — that suggests Nicolás Maduro's net worth exceeds even $100 billion. It's more likely in the hundreds of millions, not hundreds of billions.

Even the most aggressive speculative estimates from opposition figures, investigative journalists, or geopolitical analysts do not approach that figure.

No credible leaks (like the Panama Papers or Pandora Papers) have hinted at such vast assets tied to Maduro.

No intelligence reports or financial investigations from entities like the U.S. Treasury, the EU, or independent watchdogs have ever approached figures remotely close to hundreds of billions.
That's all very well, but now it appears the post title is now editoralised compared to the title of the site it now links, "Website for USAID appears to be offline".

Hate to remind you of rules/conventions, but if you keep doing things like this I'll report you. ;)
Thanks to California's incredibly slow counting system it was a lot closer in popular vote than it initially appeared.
In their wisdom, Congress gave the President insane power over tariffs because they needed the country to be able to execute quickly and decisively rather than spend 90 days on committee hearings for each little decision.

Thanks to this, he can carve out exceptions surgically for each and every one of his political patrons as long as they offer him the right amount of financial remuneration. Remember the $TRUMP crypto collection plate that was set up hours before swearing-in?

The tariff system controls were designed by people who thought they'd be used by incorruptible, honor-bound presidents, and now they're basically in the hands of the Cosa Nostra.
Ngo certainly notes the trans aspect with some charged words. Calls them “leftist trans militants with alleged ties to a trans terror cell.”
When your entire philosophy is a jupyter notebook filled with bugs from beginning to end but you don't know it because you've never heard of a unit test things go wrong.
> what goodies does Texas give out? Like the ones that Disney got?

Yup. Texas gives out tax breaks and grants more freely than Nevada. Its governor and AG are also more powerful, which is nice if they’re on your side.
Since then we've gotten: position: sticky — which is like fixed but only "fixes" itself once its Y offset is satisfied. Updating the bookmarklet to also check for that, in addition to position: fixed would help modernize it a bit.
> https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html

I have replaced all my previous uses of xz with lzip ever since I read that page (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32210438), but for some reason lzip never seem to rise to the same level of fame as xz. bzip3 also wasn't benchmarked against lzip.
> ...has resurrecting dinosaurs...

You have seen that movie series, right? It doesn't seem to end as well as everyone hoped...
> Maybe self-inflicted catastrophic wounds will drive down support for Trump enough

They will blame women, minorites and especially trans people for all of that.

And when dust settles, those who supported Trump and Musk will see themselves as primary victims - and will blame minorites, women, democracts and trans people for consequences of their own actions.
It's not happening in my country and the contorsions I see only make me weep for humanity. This whole thing is horrifying, and it's happening to cheers.
Communities are people. They are not definitions.
> Phyllis Fong was heading up an investigation into Elon Musk's Neuralink.

> Last Friday, President Donald Trump purged several agencies of their inspectors general, demanding that at least 17 people in the role immediately turn in their work laptops and ID badges. One of those IGs, Phyllis Fong at the US Department of Agriculture, decided not to leave, believing the order to be illegal. According to a report from Reuters, she was escorted from the building today by security.

Never mind a long four years, it’s been a long two weeks. Unfortunately, the law is too slow dealing with things like this. And even if it was ruled illegal, who’s going to enforce it. The White House?
Suicide is more common than homocide. By a factor of 2 to 1.

Murder is more common than self defense. By a factor of 10 to 1.

In all cases you are highly likely (>90%) to be on a first name basis with the person that kills you.