skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That "big fat IDE" is a tool, optional one, and is so fucking useful that I wish other programming languages had something at least 80% good as VS for C# is
Did you do it? That maneuvre would take decades to millenia, and when you use something that far, it may be more efficient to push it into a retrograde orbit so that it hits Earth heads on, instead of chasing after it. It's just absurdly impractical.

Anyway, if you really want to destroy a planet, you want sonething small but fast. It penetrates into the planet, and rips surface on the other side.
Aficionados will appreciate Jesse Ruderman's bookmarklets at https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/ which have been saving my sanity since the early 2000s.
To clarify slightly, bookmarklet behavior across browsers is to call `document.write` with the result of the bookmarklet’s last expression unless that result is `undefined`, and calling `document.write` after page load completes replaces the page’s DOM with the content written. It’s a weird bookmarklet thing, I don’t think there’s anywhere else in JS that accepts a list of statements, not expressions, but cares about the result of the last expression.

People often disable this by making the last expression `void 0`, which evaluates to `undefined`. This is really an anachronism, though, the original point wasn’t actually brevity (it’s only one character shorter after URL encoding, not worth funky syntax) but that just writing `undefined` was broken and sometimes didn’t evaluate to the special value undefined. That’s fixed now, so I would just append `undefined` instead.

Though, really what you should do is always wrap bookmarklets in IIFEs, which avoids stomping around the page’s global variables, lets you write code with early exits, lets you opt back in with an explicit return rather than editing boilerplate, and also solves this issue as a bonus.
My experience:

1) All microSD cards have a high failure rate.

2) Cheap cards sourced directly from China are usually fake and will fail a format test. I tried multiple times and could never find a reliable source.

3) MS Bitlocker is a security measure that also seems to serve as a reliability test. Cards with physical memory reliability issues seem more prone to write failures with Bitlocker. It's better to know about this up front.

4) If your data is really important, always make a backup copy of any card.

5) Physically, microSD cards are fairly durable and even water resistant thanks to being encased in epoxy.

I have one on my watch strap and take it wherever I go, even the shower and pool. Just make sure it is dry before plugging it in.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6784665
Again, there is a concerted effort to flag stories that are highly important, actual and factual. The one thing wrong with it is that they are not flattering for the tech oligarchs.

The rules to not discuss meta phenomenons are understandable, but they also are divorced from reality at this point. Personally, I would also like to pretend nothing is happening.

The pattern of information suppression is undeniable though, and HN should not pretend there is no moral conflict here. We either allow it to happen, or not.

@dang, I guess you are tired to death, and that is why I hesitate to bring it up. I think the flagging system makes it too easy to suppress unwelcome information at this point. Maybe you are willing to react?
This is mostly because how current LLMs are learning stuff my memorizing stuff.
Worst thing of AI through LLM is rote learning where same model is used for reasoning and memorizing.
Hopefully in future it will be like small core of language understanding and reasoning which ideally can look up a reference ( through search ) and use RL to get better at the topic through trial and error
Backdoor in China-made patient monitors raises healthcare security questions
In 2023 people who were laid off got a fairly long chunk of vesting events. Since then the layoffs have largely not included equity. In this case, the severance is just based on salary with no vesting past the last day at work.
> "It’s like imagining that a printer could actually feel pain because it can print bumper stickers with the words ‘Baby don’t hurt me’ on them. It doesn’t matter if the next version of the printer can print out those stickers faster, or if it can format the text in bold red capital letters instead of small black ones. Those are indicators that you have a more capable printer but not indicators that it is any closer to actually feeling anything"

Love TC but I don't think this argument holds water. You need to really get into the weeds of what "actually feeling" means.

To use a TC-style example... suppose it's a major political issue in the future about AI-rights and whether AIs "really" think and "really" feel the things they claim. Eventually we invent an fMRI machine and model of the brain that can conclusively explain the difference between what "really" feeling is, and only pretending. We actually know exactly which gene sequence is responsible for real intelligence. Here's the twist... it turns out 20% of humans don't have it. The fake intelligences have lived among us for millennia...!
> having a body

You do not need sensorial feedback to do math. And you do not need full sensors to have feeback - one well organized channel can suffice for some applications.
I was talking about a world where piracy is legal, which this one is not.
No one needs to do that. No one is obliged to you to find the exact policy parallels between Republicans in the White House and the Nazis.

It tends to be enough for most people to notice the fact that both are interested in removing undesirables from public life and generally making society less racially mixed.
I’m talking about pruning a local LLM not using their service. There are plenty of ways to prune and distill. Heck DeepSeek was distilled from other models. You could simply run a distillation using Hex, then convert those outputs back to the target language.
Nearly any real-world Huffman encoder is trivially optimal, i.e., given a set of symbols with probabilities, it is easy to construct the optimal set of output bits for each symbol. (There are some exceptions in that if you have a huge amount of symbols, or some that are extremely rare, you can bound the upper length and get a non-optimal code. This matters very little in practice, i.e., less than 0.1% in a typical setting. And of course, if you allow fractional bits or probabilities that change based on context, then you can do better, but then it's no longer Huffman.)

BWT is orthogonal to Huffman; like LZ, it exploits that some symbol _sequences_ are more common than others, while Huffman is about the optimality of coding each symbol on its own.
Succinct. This should be handed out as a “Signs you’re being manipulated” flyer to young people.
This argument seems to presuppose that a language is more perfect if it has fewer influences and contributions from other languages. But you didn’t actually state that assumption, and certainly didn’t support it. Maybe the most perfect language is a perfect amalgamation of all languages. That’s at least as plausible to me.
Potash is important yes. Canada also imports a majority of our fruit and vegetables from the US. Over 90% of our leafy greens come from the US. We already have a massive cost of living crisis. And I'm not sure if American commentators have been paying attention to our economy or not but Canada's GDP per capita has gone down for 6 straight quarters.

And here's the analysis from the Bank of Canada: https://www.bankofcanada.ca/publications/mpr/mpr-2025-01-29/...

I know commentators want to stick it to Trump but Canada's economy has been in a bad place for years and this isn't good for us at all...
Good point, sorry.

On macOS, brackets are achieved by using Alt+5 and Alt+6, curly braces are achieved using Alt+7 and Alt+8. On windows curly braces are sat around the brackets, so for curly braces you’d use AltGr+7 and AltGr+0 and brackets would be AltGr+8 and AltGr+9.
There’s similar discrepancies for pipe, backslash and others, all of which are confusing to muscle memory when jumping between OSes.

I’m aware I could just use something like a windows alternative for Karabiner elements to manually remap each macro(?), but maybe somewhere out there knows of something that just remaps everything to how it is on a specific other OS.
You can still have a great education, but in one direction. And be clueless about everything else.
Perfect little tool I’ve been using but I completely forgot.

I make it a Shortcut out of it: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/8aa788a3acc747169a6d80191a0...
It also might take four generations or four centuries to 'blow over'

Authoritarians do not stop until they are stopped by an external force.

The cost of stopping them only increases with every move they make to consolidate power (which of course is the intention).
It cannot be another Lost. The Severance mystery box has an anti-plutocracy, humanist foundation. It would be really hard for them to not make it satisfying.
What kind of intense read/write nature you are talking about in a video game console? It just reads the game ROM from storage and executes it, there is nothing to write back, the game is not being modified in any way while playing.
All these talks about wearing out sdcards in game consoles or raspberry pi devices in my personal opinion are partially because of people encountering poor quality cards - counterfeits. There is an sdcard in my car camcorder which must have seen thousands of full write cycles and still has no issues functioning despite all the operating temperature differences it endures due to weather seasons.
Oh man I just watched that whole video. What a ride. I loved that tossing your cigs in the driveway was the correct solution, instead of dip on the front porch. Also the maid taking the service guy’s hat and coat.
The End of Software Engineers
Quite deep and informative. One thing to point out here is how they measure accuracy when testing their LLMs. Like most neural networks, the n-dimensional space of LLMs is largely sparse. In simple terms, this means that it’s very easy to “exercise” the model in areas where it’s weak. That doesn’t mean that the model doesn’t have the potential of doing a (much) better job if you “exercise” its space properly—which is exactly what techniques like CoT basically do. LLMs are inherently limited, and they don’t have “true” reasoning capabilities—beyond marketing hype, this much should be obvious to most serious ML researchers today. The only question is how well we can get them to “mimic” reasoning for practical applications, and this is where “prompt engineering”, strictly speaking, is a true form of engineering, which has to take into account the mathematical foundations of the models and figure out how to extract out of them the best performance they can deliver.
By all accounts, Russia invested next to nothing in this outcome compared to how much Musk alone invested, never mind the whole of Trump's campaign.
And a similar product already exists, Langdock
Romance Scammer in Dubai Blows the Whistle
Nice! To be clear for my usecase I didn't mean calling the local LLM directly, rather simply being able to point to an OpenAI compatible API would be fine. It seems like wrangling a native model would be a lot of extra complexity, but you seem to have a very good abstraction story here. Actually I probably will take a peek at the code to see how you are doing these abstractions layers, because the user facing API is certainly very clean...!
The HN altenrative I like
I love the simplicity and wish there was more users to make this the true alternative
Lately I’ve made working on tools that make it easier to gather context for ChatGPT. For example, copy the relevant code files to my clipboard.

Read about a few of them here: https://austinhenley.com/blog/promptcontext.html
> the address was saved somewhere

No it wasn't. The address was taken, compared, then discarded, the compiler knows that it's gone out of scope and can't be used again.

> It could've obviously been used to write to the variable. Is that so complicated?

It's arbitrarily complicated, in the general case, and if you can't solve it for the general case then solving it for specific special cases would only make your language semantics more confusing - if the address of q is nowhere accessible then is it safe to treat it as unused? Well, maybe, maybe not, sometimes people convert a pointer to an integer, xor it with a constant, then later xor it back. If the program converts two pointers to integers, then takes the nth root of a^n + b^n, does the compiler have to solve Fermat's last theorem to decide whether that might alias the third pointer or not?

(Or are you saying that any value whose address was taken, ever, even if that address is then discarded, must then be treated as aliasing everything else? That would create massive performance regressions)
> You guys just always come back and cast doubt

If that's your attitude, maybe you're the one with the preconvieved biases.
Not that Trump is directly trying to solve it, but TSMC being in Taiwan has been a geopolitical problem for a long time. It's even more of a problem in a situation where China catches up on fabbing, which feels less like an "if" and more like a "when, if not already".
And he can pardon them, without even specifying what he pardons them for. Indeed, this seems to be becoming the the norm.

The US really needs to reign in the pardoning power. There are 3 areas in particular that need coverage (I'll cover pardons by the President, but the same might apply to Governors):

1) Most pardons come with a political cost, either for the president himself or his party. The main exception is just after an election, especially during the President's last term. This could be solved by outlawing pardons during the last 6 months of a term. At minimum, morally questionable pardons should come with such a cost.

2) All pardons should specificy specifically what actions and potential crimes they apply to. They do not specifically need to be admission of guilt (as they may be for gray zone behavior that could need protection against political prosecution by the next administration), but they do need to specify what actions or allegations they apply to.

3) Congress' ability to specifically contest pardons should be clarified. Specifically, congress should have the ability to contest a pardon, if the pardon is made from personal interest, seriously undermines the rule of law or national security.

Also, since the sitting president's party may controll the Speaker seat at the time, even the NEXT congress should have a chance to start proceedings. This requires that congress retains the right to do this even if the sitting president resigns before the term ends. (Since the new congress starts before the president's normal term ends).

Taken together, the above 3 points would ensure that IF a president is seen by the general public to abuse the pardon power, voters would get one chance at voting for representatives (and senators) that promise to "restore justice".

The time to introduce such a system would be now, while there's still outrage over Biden's pardons among Republicans. Democrats would also want to go along with this to prevent Trump from abusing the power in similar (or worse) ways near the end of his term. In fact, if they're sufficiently scared of this, they may even allow an opening to impeach Biden for potentially corrupt pardon's that were granted during the last weeks of his term.

This would allow Republicans to go after Fauci, Hunter, etc, in congress by impeaching Biden over those pardons, even now, even if they wouldn't actually be able to reach a guilty verdict in the Senate without significant Democrat support.

Still, being able to run this show may be so tempting to Trump and Republicans that they may be willing to make the new law effective immediately, while Democrats
> "Project Russia" is spiritual warfare

> https://washingtonspectator.org/project-russia-reveals-putin...

What in the Cold War conspiracy theory was that...

>> The Kremlin’s design necessarily depends on the adoption of a single world belief system or religion. Expect a syncretic, gnostic blend, rooted in hierarchy — the Russian Orthodox Church at the core, and other religious factions accorded favor based on demonstrated fealty.

Good luck with that. The most popular religions today are forked versions of one guys story that they couldn't agree on and have been involved in acts of genocide towards one another because of it--for centuries.
tl;dr: I felt like death for 2 years probably because of long covid POTS. Feeling somewhat ok now.

I had ridiculous nausea and other weird body issues appear out of the blue around 2022. While I never puked, I got nauseated from even brushing my teeth. I'd have to pause a few times to complete brushing. I suddenly got heartburn, I could only hobble around like an old man. I couldn't tolerate a single car ride, even just getting into a car was too much. After a year, I could at least get in a car and my limbs would all go numb. I could only eat small amounts. Zero tolerance for caffeine. Chocolate sprung up heart burn. Tested for H Pylori, negative.

It was over two years before I could take car rides without absolutely dying. While much better now, I still get abnormally car sick, bouts of relatively mild nausea, and haven't managed a significant meal outside of home.

While I suspect time is the largest factor, I did take a cocktail of supplements. Ginger rooibos tea with every meal, collagen, l-glutamine, creatine, unflavored whey isolate protein, and psyllium husk. Before bed I'd take 3+ mg melatonin, famotidine, ginger pill, artichoke extract pill.

I suspect I had/have long covid induced POTS or similar dyautonomia. Apparently it's quite common: https://archive.is/20240503031045/https://www.washingtonpost.... In any case, I've been recovering and seem to still be recovering.
Hearing is also well into the terabytes worth of information per year. Add in touch, taste, smell, proprioception, etc and the brain gets a deluge.

The difference is we’re really focused on moving around in 3D space and more abstract work, where an LLM etc is optimized for a very narrow domain.
Is it time finally to give Cuba some nuclear weapons.
Have you tried Anki since FSRS was introduced? If not, may be worth giving it another shot.
Trump is constitutionally prohibited from running for another term.
You are making the assumption that all optimizations see everything, but that's not the case. The third optimization never got a chance to observe that relationship. This means that either:

- the third optimization should assume that _any_ relationship between two expressions could have been established before it runs (even if that relationship was never established!)

- one of the first two optimizations is also wrong because it did not give subsequent optimizations the chance to observe that relationship.
Notes on DeepSeek R1
> Ironically, you exemplify the standard of discourse that the rationalist spaces of discussion like lesswrong strives to go above, which is what makes them so valuable.

I guess I misunderstood then. It’s not just an Internet forum. It’s an internet forum with strict moderators. And it’s _very_ valuable.
> Also the use of gender as "it's like, how you feel, man" is very recent.

That's because we got to some level of acceptance in some regions where we got to agree on some English term. It's not like the non-binary people appeared only very recently. We just got to honestly talk about it now. But there's many known figures from the past who pretty much lived that way, including the Universal Friend.

Outside of the usual western countries, it existed for ages, like the non-binary "mahu" in Hawaiian culture.
Coordination isn’t illegal on its own: only when it distorts the market. If they found that advertisers were boycotting X until ad rates lowered or because Facebook was offering rewards, that’d be one thing but there’s no law (yet) requiring them to spend money because an oligarch needs to pay off his loans.

https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/gui...
Allegedly, for the Mac mouse the reason is so that people can't use it permanently plugged in, because cables are ugly and against "the Apple philosophy".
This is darkness. State mandated lists of forbidden words.

Trump's cat's paw proposing Constitutional amendment for a third term for Trump (but not previous Presidents). We can be sure at the end of such a third term, another amendment would be tabled.

The recent election, won by deception; enough people believed the lies that the election was taken. This is not democracy - it is something only which looks like democracy, because there is an election. An actual election requires voters to be well-informed.

The FBI staff involved in the investigation, fired. This is vindictive; they were doing their job.
An economic effect is always very delayed. The stock markets may react relatively quickly, but the actual effect often takes a pretty long time to be reflected in GDP or similar metrics. For example, Brexit also took several years before even the last fishermen had to accept that things did not get better. So even if Trump was to entirely ruin the econnomy, it's unlikely it'll really be felt before he's out of office again.

though there is the occasional example that actually fucks it up to a degree that things escalate even within their ruling period - i.e. canadas renting crisis right now
Also who if not Chinese from China would keep pumping in money to Canadian real estate market... Have to keep inflating that bubble.
So what, you use it to spam and waste other people's time? I know, dealing government bureaucracy and corruption is soul leeching but spam was always one of the golden usecases for generated AI.
You can connect two, and get 256 GB. But it will still not be enough to run it in native format. You will still need to use lower quant.
The title of this post took me about 3 attempts to parse, because "OS" is more strongly bound to Operating System in this context (but presumably it's supposed to read as Open Source)
fMRI studies have found differences in the brain that are highly correlated with gender dysmorphia. So while we may treat it as a psychological condition, it, like many other psychological conditions, also has an underlying biological basis.
I've started programming in C++ and when I encountered C# then my initial reaction was:

Wow, this language allows me to focus on writing programs (algorithms) instead of fighting with the language!

9 years passed by, now 'veI worked with C, C++ and C# for money and my opinion is still the same.

I've earned way, way more money in C/C++ world, but I was 5x times happier / saner in C# world.
LLMs are not human intelligence, but are similarly fallible, though we don't have ways to jailbreak humans yet. And perhaps even worse off.
> They'll invent some jargon if necessary and move on.

The authors of this memo banning terms haven't realized this has already happened in part. Obstetrics avoids the use of gender with the term "parturient" instead of "mother." "Pregnant person" probably isn't showing up in many papers.
You might get a kick out of this essay by Robert Epstein from 2016: https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-informati... (The empty brain - Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer)
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