skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're approaching it form very high level, when you should think about it from much lower level, i.e. success is being determined by stress/dopamine hormones or similar
How do you spin up factories for crude oil and potash?

America is just an unserious country right now.
Well that is my opinion of the situation, but other people had already covered that well enough so I didn't feel the need to. I was curious about what thought process results in the assumption that what they're doing is legal, so I asked.
> If the tariffs didn’t have at least some chance of succeeding at this, the targets wouldn’t be talking about retaliation.

… Eh? Retaliation is an absolutely standard part of a trade war; it virtually always happens, and, unfortunately, it can’t really be foregone. Like, people are talking about retaliatory tariffs because that is _how it works_; that is what always happens and really must happen.
The Wikipedia page on Malbolge was quite the horrific read, downright amazing to have a lisp written in it.

Here's the program as talked about on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38850961

https://github.com/kspalaiologos/malbolge-lisp

The cursed language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malbolge

And the variant used by the program: https://esolangs.org/wiki/Malbolge_Unshackled
exterior is sort of simple and nice. looks like Nvidia DGX - The Train.
You're assigning an awful lot of trustworthiness to a known liar for someone who claims not to support him.

The debt data is very clear and very public. If anyone is "cooking" it's you.
If the intention is to restore these data sets at some future date, when sanity has possibly been restored, then there needs to be a way to demonstrate that the archived data hasn't itself been modified. Without that, malign actors (e.g. oil/gas lobby) could very easily poison the future.
My mom was a programmer back in the 1950s. First thing in the morning, she would run a memory test. If it failed, she would slide out the failing tray of memory (100 words by 36 bits, and tubes), hand it off to a tech to fix, slide in a fresh tray, and proceed.

She had one CPU she worked on where you could change its instruction set by moving some patch cords.
> Interesting to think about what structures human intelligence has that these models don't.

Constant direct feedback from the real world and the ability to continuously integrate it to update the model. That's probably the big one.

My pet theory is that having a body is actually an integral part of intelligence, to provide the above, as well as an anchor for a sense of self
it doesnt say
https://archive.md/Hq7ms
You were complicit in the lie. Plenty of people on X repeated it as well.

This is why people voted for Trump. Like Dave Chapelle said, he's an honest liar. Most politicians are just outright liars.
When the goal is turning the state into a corporation, i.e. a for-profit-at-all-cost company where shareholders are the primary beneficiaries, we should invest into open source. In open standards. In open and free knowledge for all.

That said, in all matters of politics, there is never an easy and simple answer.
Can you link me the post where I did that because I don't even know what 'problem' you're referring to.
An alarmingly bad official Ubuntu 24.04 bpftrace binary package
An example of an actual grammar, like arithmetic expressions, would be helpful.
FWIW I absolutely love The Shield, one of my favorite shows. The Americans is better. But it was also hard to get into, and I stopped a few episodes in the first time. It gets much better the more the story goes on.

As a fellow The Shield-lover, I highly recommend you try to finish The Americans.
that reminds me of the old doctor joke that if a guy comes in and says “i feel fine but my wife made me come”, you have to take it very seriously.
I think I paid $299 (one time fee) for a license for PKZIP in 1993 for a product I was building. Open source is pretty amazing.
> allow drugs

I do hope this is sarcasm? It's more than obvious that this was just a pretext since US government was not able to clearly formulate any specific coherent demands that they had from Canada.

> sane leadership

Well clearly sane people seem to have issues communicating or comprehended the current US government. So maybe the opposite would work better?

Anyway.. If anyone can save the Liberal party in Canada from defeat it's probably Trump (by antagonizing Canadians to such a degree that they would vote for anyone opposed to him).
> Humanity long time ago decided that infinity * 0 = 0 for very good practical reasons.

Among them being that ∞ × 0 = ∞ makes no mathematical sense. Multiplying literally any other number by zero results in zero. I see no reason to believe that infinity (positive or negative) would be some exception; infinity instances of nothing is still nothing.
You're misinterpreting my comments as "don't do things". This is HN, do things for the sake of doing them. It's fine.

My points are valid though and if you want to argue them on their merits instead of throwing misguided and ignorant insults you're welcome to do so.
This is true, but the biology of gender - including gender dysphoria - is established science. There is no ambiguity about it.

It's only "offensive" to people who don't like how reality works.

Which is clearly the real problem here.

Pretending otherwise is gaslighting, because they're doing the same thing to climate change research and pandemic research.

And there's a good chance vaccines and other public health measures will be next.

This is not a rational government for rational people planning a rational future. This is a government of angry anti-rational cranks with mental health issues working out those issues in public, to the detriment of everyone except a small cadre of multi-billionaires who share the same psychology, but whose wealth will (somewhat) protect them from consequences the rest of us will have to live with.
Accommodate religious groups??? They literally have forced re-education camps for minorities. This is off the wall crazy
> but the whole thing is a bit lower security than you're thinking

An understatement :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_Pearson_International_...
I couldn't agree more. It was masterful, and had an enormously shocking ending emotionally - in multiple ways, including the Stan ending, though I'm sure we're both talking about something else.

Btw, funny enough, on rewatches, I actually focus more on the one big Stan question that isn't answered (and, in fact, is actually asked to him for the first time). I'm happy it was never resolved, though I keep wondering if there's some clue that they are hiding in there that will resolve it for real one of these days :)
Kill Sticky is brilliant. Been using for years.
Technically this could be challenged in court?

He can only enact these tariffs because he declared a national emergency. Otherwise he'd need the congress to confirm them. The illegal immigrants/fentanyl pretext seems absurd and flimsy...
Wikipedia says it was two months after Hitler’s appointment before the first camps were established.

It’s been less than two weeks and you are already doing the groundwork to preemptively excuse it.
I think the more realistic threat model is from existing malware and similar stuff. The same people who write viruses, rootkits, try to hack elections, sever communication cables and so on will probably try to do evil AI. Then instead of Putin trying to take over the world and build torture chambers for the resisters you'll have a Putinbot trying to do so for ever more, pre-armed with nukes.
That's only the paper justification. Trump needed to claim an emergency to allow him to impose these without involving Congress and repealing the USMCA.
… Eh?

Tariffs do of course cost the target; they reduce the market for its goods, because consumers and businesses in the country applying tariffs can no longer afford to buy them. Now, how much they hurt will depend to some extent on whether there are other markets, etc.

Imagine there are two countries, A, B. A exports $1bn in raw materials annually to B. B exports $1.1bn in finished goods to A. B imposes a 25% tariff on A. Businesses buying the raw materials will generally not be able to afford a 25% increase in input price (very few manufacturing businesses have margins anything like that high) so will fold. A no longer has B buying its stuff, so the raw material production will halt, leading to losses there. A will no longer be able to afford to buy B’s finished goods (even if A does not impose retaliatory tariffs, which it almost certainly will), so even if some of B’s industry can survive the input cost hike, it has a smaller market.

Obviously this is _extremely_ simplified (for a start, other countries exist, and you might see more of a _rerouting_ around A, a little like what has happened to post-Brexit UK. But it’s a serious mistake to think of this as a zero-sum game. In general high broad tariffs hurt everyone.
Cutting the size and scope of government programs and regulations has more in common with the founding principles of individualist liberalism than collectivist authoritarian ideologies like National Socialism.

I would wager that, "Everyone who disagrees with me is a fascist" isn't something new to this site or online discussions generally. To the contrary it is a tired trope. It does not inform us or stimulate a new discussion.

Therefore, before making such comparisons, the accusers should have substantial evidence. The burden of proof should be much higher than your article's, "Appears to make gesture".
>The problem with rationalists/EA as a group has never been the rationality, but the people practicing it and the cultural norms they endorse as a community

It's precisely those kind of people though that would ever be so deluded and so little self conscious as to start a group about rationality - and declare themselves its arbiters.
There are a lot of new space startups that operate this way, trying to replicate SpaceX's success. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
This one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42907961

The problem is that so much of the tech industry is now precisely about politics and power. The problem is that so much of the tech industry it is now explicitly and directly connected to it.

If Hacker News doesn't have the wherewithal to face up the these realities then it really should think about a name change.

Maybe "Happy Fun News" or something.
Nobody is arguing with you on that. You said cancel culture was grassroots while this is not. My point is they both started grassroots. This one just reached higher.
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The USMCA is irrelevant. Almost everything hit by the tariffs is not allowed under USMCA. Trump has claimed an "emergency" to bypass Congress and the USMCA.
Right, and a related problem is a lot of the logic is more like Zeno’s paradox.
The weird thing about this advisory is that the hardcoded IP addresses (202.114.4[.]119) are the same ones found in the online installation manuals for Contec and affiliated brands ( https://help.xchart.com/en/articles/7943824-configuring-edan... ).

This was confirmed through firmware analysis: https://x.com/craiu/status/1885341007576801338
and in the manuals: https://infosec.exchange/@decio/113928319441297901
Thank you (and neighbors), I didn't know this.
No mention of visitors from foreign adversaries doing a bit of beach combing?
I have been using i3 for years now. Rock solid, extremely lightweight and very simple to use. Once configured I never found myself looking back at it. Documentation is superb, and didn't take me more than a week to get used to it. Never tried PaperWM, nor other WM as nothing has been simpler nor more effective than i3. Probably dwm but I think is for those that like to have some hands on and tweaking.
USAID is basically shut down right now. It’s illegal, of course—it was created by an act of Congress and the money it gives out is typically in the form of contracts for specific projects, so everyone not getting paid has a contract dispute.

But it’ll take time for the administration to lose in court. In the meantime, the lack of cash flow is causing people to be laid off and then organizations will shutter. And that’s the goal, dismantling the capability.

It’ll also probably cause a recession.
You want to play within your abilities, not right at the very edge of them. This technique nudges the edges out.
To clarify why I said the CPU is the same and the other poster says the A30 has a better CPU, both are true! Same architecture (Cortex A7), but the Mini Plus has 2 cores and the A30 has 4 cores.
> But the president cannot rewrite the Constitution. Within days, the birthright citizenship order was frozen by a judge — a Reagan appointee — who told Trump’s lawyers, “I have difficulty understanding how a member of the bar would state unequivocally that this is a constitutional order. It just boggles my mind.” A judge froze the spending freeze before it was even scheduled to go into effect, and shortly thereafter, the Trump administration rescinded the order, in part to avoid the court case.

> There is a reason Trump is doing all of this through executive orders rather than submitting these same directives as legislation to pass through Congress. A more powerful executive could persuade Congress to eliminate the spending he opposes or reform the civil service to give himself the powers of hiring and firing that he seeks. To write these changes into legislation would make them more durable and allow him to argue their merits in a more strategic way. Even if Trump’s aim is to bring the civil service to heel — to rid it of his opponents and turn it to his own ends — he would be better off arguing that he is simply trying to bring the high-performance management culture of Silicon Valley to the federal government. You never want a power grab to look like a power grab.

Some good insights from the writer in the quoted text. Honestly, we wouldn’t be here if governments tax their wealthy enough to prevent subversive actions towards democracy. That said, I am not convinced that the conservative politicians are wrong about everything. Democracy dilutes informed opinions, and often times education isn’t enough to offset the adverse effects of your fellow citizens falling to one type of propaganda versus another. Ideological extremes of any kind are truly a mind killer.
… I mean, that’s really hardly the point. “Hey, car industry, it’s totally fine _in aggregate_, so you really shouldn’t be complaining about collapsing”.

High tariff countries have economies configured around those tariffs. You can’t do that overnight (as the UK is discovering post-Brexit).
I do not agree with considering viruses as not alive.

A viral particle outside its host can be considered dead, in the sense that it is inert and it does not have any metabolism, but it is not definitively dead, as it will become alive again when entering a host. Alive in the sense that inside their host cells viruses observe the command "Crescite et multiplicamini" from the bible (grow and multiply), in the same way like any other living beings, even if they have to take control of various components of the host cell in order to do that.

I do not see any essential difference between a viral particle and a dormant seed or a bacterial or fungal spore or an encysted protozoan.

All such resistant forms of living beings have the purpose of remaining intact in environments where they cannot found the food or water or air that they need for a normal life. Viruses have the least demands from their environment, while the others may have greater requirements, e.g. the presence of small amounts of free oxygen and water in their environment, in order to not die permanently, but that is more like an imperfection in their current design, not an intrinsically necessary attribute.

Viruses cannot live without their hosts, but that is true for any obligate parasite. Humans can also not live independently, at least for now, but only together with many other living beings able to synthesize the substances that we cannot. Therefore it is hard to draw a line between alive and non alive based on the amount of dependencies on other living beings.

It certainly is more useful to include viruses in what is covered by the word "alive", because they are subjected to the same kind of evolution like the cellular living beings. Moreover in the same way like many kinds of cellular living beings have appeared by hybridization between cellular living beings with distinct genetic heritage, there are also plenty of cases where new species of cellular living beings have appeared by hybridization with viruses, i.e. by incorporating permanently in their genome some genetic material from a viral ancestor. This includes even humans (and all other vertebrates).

Therefore, if you draw a graph of the genetic relationships between cellular living beings, it is inextricably intermingled with the corresponding graph for viruses.

So I think that the most convenient way is to consider that the living beings are divided into cellular living beings and viruses.

Regardless of the word choice, biology must study both cellular living beings and viruses, anyway, because none of them can be understood in isolation from the others.
Sure, but then i also see:
"Cooling:Water-cooled deposition head. Chiller lncluded"

(spelling error in original :P)

the deposition head is where the lasers are.
Psychological denial of what exactly? And what part of the article/preprints you are commenting on?

Every time an article exposing some limitation of the current wave of LLMs is submitted to HN there are comments like yours and I genuinely cannot understand the point you are trying to make: There is no such thing as a perfect technology, everything has limitations, and we can only improve our current state of the art by studying these and iterate.
noobermin is rihgt. I've been reading a book about gastroenterology and it is surprising how many decades occur between research, findings, medical acceptance, and then eventually application to the public.
>They can't take their own advice and just mind their own business?

Not all conservatives are "small-government" conservatives. Ron Paul was really the last libertarian in the Republican party. The latest crop has an authoritarian streak.
Didn't know about Ziggurat algorithm, the use of a table to directly accept or reject is interesting, although I think I would need to implement myself to fully understand. Your comments in the code are great, but I still need I would need to dedicate some time to fully grasp it.

I'm wondering what if a 2D or 3D array was used instead, so that instead of working with the unit circle / unit sphere, you worked on a 256x circle/sphere.

Assuming the center of the circle/sphere was on the position (127, 127) or (127, 127, 127), then you could precompute which of those elements in the array would be part of that 256 sphere/circle radius and only the elements in the boundary of the circle/sphere would need to be marked as special. You would only need 3 values (2 bits per item).

0 = not in the circle/sphere
1 = in the circle/sphere
2 = might be in or out

Then you would only need to randomly pick a point and just a lookup to evaluate whether is on the 2d/3d array. Most of the times simple math would be involved and simple accept/reject would cause it to return a value. I guess it would also produce the number of additional retries to 0.7% on a circle (one circle intersection for every 128 tiems = 1/128 = 0.78%).

From my limited understanding, what I'm saying looks like a simpler implementation but would require more memory and in the end would have the same runtime performance as yours (assuming memory and processor caches were the same, which are probably not). Uhm... I guess the implementation you present is actually doing something similar but with a quarter of the circle, so you need less memory.

Interesting, thanks for sharing.
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>which is a fairly autistic way of thinking.

Any prominent ones of them I've read or met either openly shares their diagnosis, or 100% fits the profile.
Thanks for the pointers! I'll try to spread the word there as well.
Upvoting because its actually good advice (and someone has flagged it for some reason).

Engineering is tradeoffs, the limiting factor in most databases is I/O; if you can shift your I/O around to do less of it with a stored procedure then you should probably do it, and having a breakout from SQL on the database itself can achieve that.

The reason it scares DBAs is because while I/O is the primary constraint on a DB, everything else is also in finite supply, and people tend to forget how centralised and repeated a stored procedure can become. Especially if its on the hotpath. Developers have a habit of using stored procedures to make their application code easier to reason about rather than trying to minimise disk access.

YMMV as with everything, but its a really nice capability to use rust for this, for the execution performance, quick start time and type safety.
SE is a good example - I get a lot of help from LLM tools and I think we're learning how to use them better across realistic SDLC processes as well, but we're not replacing lots of people at the moment. On the other hand I saw a business case from one of the big SI's (not my employer but in a deck that was shown by the SI in an discussion) that described the need to move their Indian software dev workforce from 350k FTE to 50K FTE over the next five years.

I think that the onshore impacts will be much lower or negligible, or possibly even positive, because so much work has been offshored already, and as is well worn in every discussion, Jevons paradox may drive up demand significantly (to be fair I believe this as wherever I have worked we've had 3x+ demand (with business cases) for development projects and had to arbitrarily cull 2x of it at the beginning of each year. So, just like the 30 people in India that are working on my project won't do anything useful unless we feed the work to them, the LLM's won't do anything useful either. And just like we have to send lots of work back to India because it's not right, the same is true of LLM's. The difference is that I won't spend 4 hrs on a friday afternoon on Teams discussing it.

But this is not surprising because we've had big impacts from tools like IDE's, VM's, and compilers which have driven seismic changes in our profession, I think that LLM's are just another one of those.

What I'm watching for is an impact in a non tech domain like healthcare or social care. These are important domains that are overwhelmed with demand and riddled with makework, yet so far LLM's have made very little impact. At least, I am not seeing health insurance rates being cut, hospital waiting lists fall or money and staff being redeployed from back office functions to front line functions.

Why hasn't this started?
Maybe so. But I still don't have to talk about it here. There's lots of places to talk about politics, and Musk, ad nauseum. HN is supposed to be about something else.

Politics may be destroying a large number of things right now; I don't want it to destroy this site too.
Also new companies stop coming

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/12/06/wyoming-overtakes-de...