skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sadly, i don't think they care much about what "everyone wants" because with userbase this size they will figure out a way to forcefully shove whatever they come up with into people's faces.
Twitter as it stands post Musk is a disaster, though. Revenue has dropped off significantly. How is that a success?

Not to mention the absurdity of comparing something like Twitter to the federal government. It shows the staggering arrogance and ignorance of people in tech who think that.
Refuse to leave then. It is the entire point of civil disobedience. Make a spectacle of being dragged out.
Definitely chatgpt
Isaac Newton's earliest surviving notebook
Very cool! It shares its name with "COSE" (RFC 8152), a signing scheme for CBOR objects :)
>this continues to be by far the most-discussed topic on HN right now

I wonder if you are maybe too close to the problem to see it from a normal HN user's perspective. From my perspective, I don't get this impression because I don't see the full breath of conversations that happen on HN like you do. People clearly want to talk about this here and I have rarely seen these stories actually on the front page of HN because they are so quick to drop off the front page due to flagging, downvoting, the flame war detector, or whatever other behind the scenes mechanics exist that you are obviously more knowledgeable about than me. People continuing to have conversations on posts that no one sees unless they specifically search them out is the equivalent of shadowbanning those conversations. Yes, they are still happening, but the normal HN user isn't actually seeing them and that is why you are fielding so many complaints from normal users who want to see these posts.
It depends on whether something runs fast enough. Certain software, such as filesystem drivers in the OS kernel, never is fast enough as there is always someone who wants it to run faster, use less memory, etcetera. Efforts to get it as close to 0 overhead as possible (without killing maintainability) tend to be applauded by the community. Here are some patches I have written against kernel filesystem code in the past few years that were merged because people care about performance:

This patch shaved a minuscule number of cycles off a hot code path, and was accepted on the basis that microbenchmarks showed that it made extremely hot loops run a few times faster:

https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/commit/59493b63c18ea223857066...

This patch eliminated a redundant calculation that used 0.8% of CPU time:

https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/commit/3236c0b891d0a09475bef8...

The impact of the following patch was not measured, but it is believed to have made checksum calculations run several times faster by eliminating unnecessary overhead:

https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/commit/59493b63c18ea223857066...

The reason why the impact was not measured is that the code runs with interrupts disabled, which makes it invisible to kernel profilers. Another way of measuring was needed to quantify the improvement, but everyone agreed that it was a good improvement, so there was no need to evaluate the before/after improvement.

Few people are willing to accept the performance impact of moving their filesystem driver into userland and practically no one wants the performance impact of moving almost everything into userland.
What’s the difference…?

1. The size.

2. I don’t see that happening and I look at the output of the C2 compiler when I’m dealing with hotspots.

In aware of the cool shit the JVM can do but done right, areas of code can be as fast as C or Rust. It in general, My experience is that Rust is much faster. Sometimes 10x faster where it matters to me (sustained server load).
I don't really see why people harp on about this "never says no" thing.

I don't think that's what people want. They want a robot/AI that loves them or agrees to the desired relationship status (girlfriend or wife), because dating and finding a partner who reciprocates your feelings is hard.

That's not the same as indulging in the most depraved fetishes. For whatever reason, there is a lot of misandry in the context of male sexuality, where it is selectively reinterpreted to be as evil as possible.

Self proclaimed anti sexbot feminists fear that men will use their companions to practice rape, so they suggested that sexbots should refuse to give consent, which paradoxically gives rise to the possibility of rape, because rape is not defined by the severity of the outcome/consequences, but by a simple yes or no "question". This is especially ridiculous in the case of affirmative consent, where unprovable positive consent must be given or it is rape nonetheless.

So back to my original point. A lot of men just want to live out a relationship with someone who loves them back, something that is in short supply these days. This is in no contradiction to regulations making AI girlfriends or robots or whatever a positive influence in a man's life. Let them be happy and they'll be productive members of society.
Don't forget SDG&E/Sempra. San Diego locals hate them with a passion. It is crazy that an area with such abundant solar generation and environmental concerns should have such expensive power.
The amount of commercially and politically valuable information there is in these systems is incredible.

If these people are scooping up this information you can imagine they might be tempted to monetize or weaponize it at some point, or use the threat of such for their own gain.

This is absolutely chilling when you think about it.
The last time I did anything like this (it was for CPU linear algebra code designed to run in very heterogeneous clusters), I first came up with a parameterization that approximated how I'd expect an algorithm to perform. Then, once for each hardware combination, you sweep through the possible parameterization space. I used log-scaled quantization to make it cheap to index into an array of function pointers based on input specifics.

The important thing to note is that you can do that computation just once, like when you install the game, and it isn't that slow. Your parameterization won't be perfect, but it's not bad to create routines that are much faster than any one implementation on nearly every architecture.
> Why are high level figures in these departments just letting them walk in

The better question is what are all the Congressmen doing cozily on Capitol Hill. Like, not one has walked over to these departments to try and physically stop these kids from gaining the keys to the kingdom?

(EDIT: Whoops, they have.)
I pretty much hate the mindset of don't do something if it might make someone else money even if you otherwise want to do it. One of several issues I have with the non-commercial creative commons license.
Meanwhile, in other news:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/it-unemployment-rise...
> the way you tell whether what you read is true is by seeing whether or not it fits in with observation of reality

The only way any of us ever gets to see "whether or not it fits in with observation of reality" is to see if they get an A or F on the test asking it.

Seriously.

The "moons of Jupiter" question is the only one of the above one gets to connect to an observation independent of humans, and then if they did, they'd be wrong, because you can't just count all the moons of Jupiter from your backyard with a DIY telescope. We know the correct answer only because some other people both built building-sized telescopes and had a bunch of car-sized telescopes thrown at Jupiter - and unless you had a chance to operate either, then for you the "correct answer" is what you read somewhere and that you expect other people to consider correct - this is the only criterion you have available.
I can't really comment except that when I asked our installers about it they had the perception that solar water heating was "an 80's and 90's thing". I don't know much about it beyond that.

I guess you could look up the insolation values and do the math on how much water you use and how hot it needs to be.
Me, too. Thought a script failed to fire on iPad/Safari.
I’ve looked at it from the prospect of an adventure or enrichment for my kids, not “fleeing”. I have dual citizenship with an EU country.

The problem is that I’m both too rich and too poor to do it. If I had nothing, no problem. If I were rich, I could afford the attorneys and other professionals needed to live abroad without getting jammed up.

Some people pull off the nomad lifestyle. That’s cool, but it really depends on stability here in the United States. You could be living your best life in Bali, but living at the whim of policy in Washington.
Yeah— when I needed to test an integration with a cash recycler of the kind found in atms I asked if there were any fake or test bills I could use. It’s a reasonable thing to do in embedded systems, and frankly you’d be surprised at what tools are out there and how hard they would be to actually use the way you say. Physical controls are paramount in this case.
Revenue went down a lot less than expenses. So yes, profits went up a ton and are now positioned to go up even more as revenue recovers and the tech keeps functioning.

The revenue reduction was also more related to political positioning/image than technical capacity of the platform.
How do they separate the impact of the 3x per week exercise?
Another legitimate use would be research to demonstrate vulnerabilities in support of a return to paper ballots. Ed Felten and many others have been arguing this for years.

https://www.npr.org/2006/09/23/6129761/study-shows-vulnerabi...
> “the value would be mostly erased” implies that the price goes down to 0

No, it means the value would be much much closer to 0 than it is now. That’s why I said “mostly erased” and not “entirely erased”

> Gold wouldnt survive your doomsday scenario either

Yes it would… if the internet goes down, gold will still “survive.”

It’s not going anywhere…

> if youre going that far to find the fault in bitcoin then you will also have to concede that your gold is just going to be a metal

“a metal” has inherent value as a material. A record in a digital ledger does not…

> worthless in a scenario where guns and bullets mean holding power, no matter how pretty it looks or which technologies depend on it.

You say that, but historically gold was valuable even though technology didn’t depend on it and even though guns existed. Even before that, actually.

It’s strange that I need to explain that…
My understanding is that the Intel management, especially former CEO Pat Geislinger, are ideological supporters of Israel [1], and that they have repeatedly made decisions to prop up bad investments in Israel because of that ideology.

One of those decisions was to put an Intel factory on the land of a Palestinian village that had been ethnically cleansed by Israel during the 1948 Nakba.

Another was to announce in Dec 2023, at a time when Israel was losing international support due to what was becoming internationally recognized as a genocide, that it was about to invest $25B in a new factory in Israel [2]. Intel investors were not happy and Intel was made to reverse this decision.

[1] https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-staunch-israel-supporter-...
[2] https://bdsmovement.net/news/Intel-Halts-25b-Investment-Isra...
'Vorauseilender Gehorsam' and making open science 'unpolitical'
Eggs have been cracked, where's the omelette?
It has been shocking, but predictable, to see the GOP replace Democracy and Capitalism with Authoritarianism and Oligopoly as its twin polestars.
I agree with your point, but it isn't Trump that showed that. It was the country itself. Even with full control of everything, the Democrats were not able to properly punish Trump. This is in large part due to the Supreme Court helping out, but also due to ineffectual prosecution (e.g. Garland), and incompetency (e.g. the Georgia case) and blatant "lawfare" (hate that term), with a misdemeanor being upgraded to a felony in New York.

This has created a scenario where the average person believes lawsuits against Trump are without merit, even though that's not true. Add in the incompetent media and you have a powerful potion.
If I’ve learned anything it’s that our citizenship should be irrevocable.
Shoulda bought Nvidia for $20B when they had the chance
Metro had it right
Wait, are you asking why what USSR did to its own citizens is different than what USA is doing to other countries? Of course we want our views and values to be propagandized to other countries, why is that bad? We want other countries to become more like USA.
Monastic life often appeals to this nomadic, freedom seeking sensibility, but I think out of ignorance. Monastic life can be quite strict, and you're crowded in with a small set of people you cant get away from.
I promise that I hate the US gov more than you, hoss.

I just don't really want to be in the house when they burn it down, and I am not under any illusion that all those civil liberties and other elements (that were weak before) are going to somehow get better when a bunch of nihilistic brats start yelling YOLO while burning down a bunch of Chesterton's fences.
You base this off what? X isn't a public company.
This is a common type of argument that my friends and colleagues have offered me. Perhaps it doesn't make sense to help with wildfire relief because my house didn't burn down. Perhaps it doesn't make sense to have concerns about systemd because I use BSD. Perhaps it is a waste of resources to ensure HIV positive people have access to medicine because I don't have HIV.
The question no one asking is why Elon is sending a team of teenage programmers and not a team of financial auditors if he really wanted to cut government spending?
Ah so room scale computing (and its power requirements) are kosher when it's not AI. But involve AI and out the woodwork comes "think about the carbon"
As a southern European, I’m really envious.
https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-blocked-education-departm...
It's widely discussed in physics, I don't know why you would have the impression it isn't.
The stakes are high for these kids. They're obviously very talented individuals, but they're in deep. The reality probably isn't lost on them.

I hope they stay safe, they're doing important work.
They did and they were not allowed into the building.
What? It was a first-hand complaint from someone at a town hall, and it seems to corroborate with the intention of Musk’s campaign to ‘cut waste’ and other statements about how this is playing out from a federal employee’s perspective.

‘That report’ is based on a reporter hearing this statement at the town-hall, not innuendos and rumors. Your very statement that it was based on innuendo and rumors is poisoning the well.
What metric are you using for the comparison of x vs bluesky ?
What's baffling is the hardware is actually pretty good (from direct experience), and the software stack wouldn't take much effort to bring up to par either, at least for inference. Perf/$ is much better than NVIDIA. More HBM than NVIDIA, too. And somehow nobody gives a shit.
> As a tax payer I am appalled that this data is not already public and broadcasted live.

As a taxpayer, I'm offended that more of my money isn't spent protecting it. Clearly it wasn't enough to stop a rudimentary attack. I can give you three good reasons this is offensive to American liberty in an apolitical context:

1. The personal information of federal employees should remain private in respects to the Civil Rights act and the impartiality of hiring all candidates. This is what protects both Democrats and Republicans from having punitive action held against them by political opposition.

2. America's actual itemized expenditure is a matter of national security. Publishing a precise budget lets an adversary (of which America has many) estimate our weaknesses and, if specific enough, predict our intent before we strike. The current system of budgeting rather than begging is safe and can still be audited by both parties.

3. Elon Musk has stated business interests in opposing Apple and Google, both of which have secret testimonies he could access for illegal leverage against them in negotiations. Allowing him unfettered access to government records and defunding regulators is an expressly unfair business advantage that should not be tolerated in any free market.
That's a very odd definition of "security breach"
It has been a fairly common story, and part rumor, that intelligence agencies like to recruit young people active in the cyber criminal scene, and that the IT security industry also adapted this approach. They basically becomes part informer and part subject expert, especially since IT security expertise seems to be a difficult subject matter to teach in universities. When I studied IT security in university, about 10 years ago, I heard multiple version of this several times, with one student from my university getting employed because they managed to demonstrate a hack on a bank.

I always hope that such recruits had a bit tighter surveillance from their employee, but no one in the industry describes such recruits as "highly susceptible to extortion and coercion from current members of the same gang", and absolutely no one described them as members of violent street gang. It might have been a fair label but at most, such teens were describe as smart but mischievous. Might not be the best people to be responsible for national security, or peoples bank accounts, but it seemed to be the culture of that industry.

Has other people in the IT security industry had the similar experience of this culture?
I think what you mean is that once you've managed to recall, checking constraints is easy. Remarkably, a few people are much better at this than others. They are able to think fast and execute an explicit mental search over a very small number of plausible candidates. Other people take forever. Seems to be the case for models too.
Twitter is down 80% in valuation since Elon took over: https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/29/fidelity-has-cut-xs-value-...
> why Elon is sending a team of teenage programmers and not a team of financial auditors if he really wanted to cut government spending?

History has one answer for the deployment of reams of young fiery-loyalist men to the front lines: cannon fodder.
Standard neural nets (created through regular training methods) have no guarantees about their output. So no, there hasn't been anything like that.

I do recall someone handcrafting the weights for a transformer and getting some sort of useful algorithm or computation going, so there's that.
I think he was likely after a lower price than the impulsive one he offered
Reporting on this is terrible. There are also senior (in age and experience) people, but much of the focus is on the youngins for obvious reasons.

Musk also believes (either arrogance, or true belief) that much of this stuff can be figured out from first principals without much need of traditional experts.
indeed, these machines do a great mimicry of "reasoning", we get fooled by it.

the word reasoning has been subverted by those pushing these llms, and we all have bought-in. quite a magic trick this illusionist has pulled on us.
Dangerous dependencies in third-party software – the underestimated risk
Like std::vector, std::unordered_map also doesn't do a good job on reservation, I've never been entirely sure what to make of that - did they not care? Or is there some subtle reason why what they're doing made sense on the 1980s computers where this was conceived?

For std::vector it apparently just didn't occur to C++ people to provide the correct API, Bjarne Stroustrup claims the only reason to use a reservation API is to prevent reference and iterator invalidation. -shrug-

[std::unordered_map was standardised this century, but, the thing standardised isn't something you'd design this century, it's the data structure you'd have been shown in an undergraduate Data Structures class 40 years ago.]
Not to be confused with *nix
(Meaning any Linux or Unix)
What cool work! I wish I had this transformative sensation more often: of the quick, clear shift in my thinking after someone’s careful study of a familiar problem results in convincing models simple enough for a non-expert to wrap their mind around.

If this interests you, some prior context on “crowd crush” might too. John Seabrook, writing in the New Yorker in 2011 (in response to the “Black Friday” crushing deaths at US Wal-Marts), engagingly profiled examples from the past few decades of this category of disaster (in the US and Europe). Along the way he traces a few shifts in thinking about such crowd behavior, from “mob psychology” to Paul Wertheimer‘s colorful observational studies to Dirk Helbing’s fluid-dynamical modeling.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/02/07/crush-point

https://archive.is/b1Flz
>> it's not enough to demand that we unflag more stories about a specific $Topic that some users feel strongly about. That argument doesn't work because there is always such a $Topic going on.

Your line of reasoning doesn't make any sense.

Flagging the story hides valuable information, and if the topic is always going on then there is clearly interest in the community.
Totally tangential, but I was thinking this morning about my experience as a kid when my parents forced me to be an alter boy at our local church. There are these occasional observances where the church is obligated to put on a special service, part of a liturgical calendar. Sometimes these happen at like 11am on a Wednesday. It was nice to get out of school to go and burn some incense and follow the priest around while he mumble prayers, instead of sitting bored out of my mind memorizing times tables or whatever.

For the majority of these minor observances, almost no one showed up. Maybe you'd get a couple of old ladies but otherwise the church was completely empty. We'd be doing this elaborate stage show for no one.

It made me think of a history YouTube video I watched about some ancient religion. The priests had a complex daily ritual including setting out meals for the Gods, saying certain prayers including certain physical movements like bowing, prostrating, raising their hands. They would have to do certain cleaning rituals including incense and sweeping. Super elaborate stuff. But it was all in an inner chamber and no one would come and even watch them. They just did this ritual for no one.

I suppose I think it is interesting to see a parallel here. Like, us tech people are spiritual hermits, cargo-culting our own incantations. We're keeping a tradition alive that in only rare cases actually has an audience because we have a some faith in its utility.
That is a distilled spirit.

Mijiu:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mijiu

is what would be a rice wine. Wikipedia listed it going back as far as 1000 BCE.

It is considered more of a wine than an ale presumably due to the alcohol content, the type of yeast used and how it is usually consumed, despite being a grain beverage (somewhat like barleywine only more so).
Hi! I’m a Rust developer. The kernel should include whatever languages they want to include. I’m in the same reality as you.
It doesn't work that way. As a rule, most large acquisitions die a few years later, irrespective of the acquiring company, unless they are maintained as separate subsidiaries. And there's no way the Intel mafia would allow it to be separate in the long run. Old boys network eventually moves in, and everything goes to shit. I have seen this happen half a dozen times in my career.
Some other devs from the project have stepped up to coordinate getting their work into the kernel!
> service is still ran like usual

a) Trust and Safety teams were disbanded which led to the EU now investigating the company for breaching DSA Risk Management provisions. If X is banned from EU this decision will be a major part.

b) Content Moderators were fired which has led to an increase in the amount of bots, spam etc which has directly attributed to a major loss in revenue as advertisers require a trusted platform.

c) Fidelity, an X investor, has valued the company at 20% of when it purchased. That is indicative of widespread wealth destruction.