skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"He knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers. Those vote-counting computers," Trump told the crowd. "And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide."

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-elon-musk-voting-machi...

Regardless of the ETA's analysis, or the DOGE employees ballot software, that comment by Trump on its own raises the suspicion that this should be investigated and not immediately flagged, downvoted and dismissed
This is exactly why I started my blog about golf.

I was starting https://golfcourse.wiki and I read a bunch by Jimmy Wales, and he focused on his own credibility and openness being a linchpin to wikipedia.

I thought I might as well start a blog then, because in a world of golf media, with few exceptions is mostly a just corporate funded advertisement-as-entertainment slop. I figured I could at least stand out by openly talking about golf in a very different way, by just writing for me, with my target demo being my best golf friend, who sadly passed about the same time I started the blog.

I've got myself a small audience (a few hundred subscribers, and maybe a fourth of that read regularly. I'm more than happy with that. My ideas are almost diametrically opposed to much of the golf world, but I spend a ton of time on almost all of the articles, and I'm very proud of them. I think it lets people who might use the wiki know how serious I am about the wiki as something good for golf not as some way to get rich. I think it does a good job, and it's a good way to waste a few hours/days/weeks.
Only two of those are observations.
Yeh but do you say you write your blog in markdown or 'raw HTML'?
Great question!

It seems to me like one of the problems is the way that multiple parties are incentivized (naturally — I don’t mean by a conspiracy) to view anti-climate-change action as being weaponized by others to unfairly harm them.

The #1 factor, I’d say, is that rich Western countries, having already had pretty reasonable and responsible regulation for decades, say (fairly) “Hold on, we’re supposed to (insert painful thing like high gas taxes, or electric cars when I have nowhere to charge it, or as we have in California, electricity prices 3x what it costs in many other states) when we know for a fact that they’re just running factories with zero emissions regulation in Asia?? Everybody knows it’s one atmosphere so if the third world just does their thing, all our sacrifice will do nothing despite its cost!!

And the third world argues, fairly, that since we got to have our “burn all the filthy coal you want” period 50-200 years ago in the UK, US, etc. it’s utterly hilarious for us to clutch our pearls at them now and expect them to only grow their economies as fast as the expensive energy from solar panels will take them when they have 3 billion mouths to feed and very little money.

Both sides have a good point and yes, it ignores the fact that if many scientists’ beliefs are right, ignoring the problem also isn’t a solution.
How is describing it to the AI in detail any faster than writing it yourself, or copy + pasting from a template?
That wasn't his argument though. It's just an example you're nitpicking on a tangent.
> I just feels like it would be getting offended from a course on libraries because the course talks about how sometimes the book is checked out.

If it was called "Are libraries bullshit?" it is easy to imagine defensiveness in response. There's some narrow sense in which "bullshit" is a technical term, but it's still a mild obscenity in many cultures.
There seems to be a lot of coping in the anti-AI department about the utility of the current LLMs. "I'm not impressed". You're not impressed that 98% of knowledge workers can 10-100x their own work output for free?

As a very intelligent infrastructure engineer told me: AI isn't going to take your job, but someone using AI is.
is there a typescript equivalent ?
*to help an ally survive against a common enemy.
And another way is that the human brain is a relatively "small" circuit that models are now big enough to model ;)
Slightly related:

In the paper Leidner and Plachouras (2017), we reported an observation initially
due to Bentley, namely that the McIllroy spell(1) implementation emailed a list of unknown words when it was run over a document to the author. While technically, this is a neat way to increase dictionary size by "mining user data", and certain versions of Microsoft Word and Microsoft Edge (see
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35208333 ) had the same behavior, it is privacy-violating at least if users are not informed beforehand [1]. Of course this has to be seen in the cultural context of the UNIX community at the time (people were even weary of using passwords then to protect their accounts), but still harm could be done if an email tasked about "malinoma" when that term was still absent from the dictionary, possibly revealing a sensitive condition of the email author or their circle of friends and family to a third party, the software engineer of the speel checker.

[1] https://aclanthology.org/W17-1604.pdf
I blog for own tech support.
TopCoders.cloud
Oh yeah, I've been doing this for a while. One of these days, I should switch to Home Manager.
So what's the truth? Ukraine is losing 100 gorillion people and tanks, zelensky is taking heroin on TV, every military commander lost their home in the California wildfires?

Also goebbels was trash at his job.
You probably need to read back a few weeks on pretty much every agency with grants being in chaos, then. It's a good thing a judge shut that down relatively quickly.
He's not a 'neutral' party:

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-fires-christopher-kr...

Krebs also claimed there were no issues with the voting systems or networks, when there were glaring issues that were completely ignored, because nobody wanted to help Trump in his fight after the election.

I really lost trust in his ability to give us the truth about actual security issues at this time, because of this.

"identifies one of the DOGE workers as an online thug facilitating cybercrime, fraud and slander"

Is he a criminal now or was this in the past? Are people not allowed to be reformed?

This article mentions even hosting Russian websites as a reason not to hire him. and working for a company that was started by a cybercriminal. Since guilt by association is a thing now, should we not hire anyone that speaks Russian? How about if they speak Arabic?

All of the things Democrats claim to be against: bias, racism, bigotry all come back when it involves someone you hate. This phony behavior will not help you win elections in the future.
Most transactions aren’t cash
Hopefully you are also contributing knowledge to AI so that it becomes more discoverable to others as well.
The costs are coming down fast because of the investment and would not happen independently of the investment. The same reason for Moore's law can be generalized as the learning/experience curve. You could make the argument that the demand for AI has a higher growth rate than the learning rate ex. if AI becomes 10x more cost efficient and results in demand growing 100x, you would also need to follow with an exponential growth in inference investment.
Should be fixed soon! We decided at 6pm on Friday to reduce biomedical research centers' budgets by billions of dollars ($4B in Massachusetts alone), effective Monday. So in the future China will have to train its own scientists.

Sadly, no "/s"
I think your epsilon injection rule is trying to achieve this kind of production:

TRRE <- TRRE ':' REGEX | ':' TRRE | TRRE ':' | REGEX | ...

I think this would work better, but ':a:' is still ambiguous: it has two parse trees.
When I can't convince someone in a technical discussion of my viewpoint because they have their heels dug into a random viewpoint on a blog post penned by a random nobody, I write a blog post and link it back without mentioning the author's identity. Suddenly my words would carry weight.

Not sure how to feel about it tbh.

I also write to keep snapshots of my ideas and thought processes, regardless of how nonsensical they may be.
Your experience seems limited.

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.4/en/partitioning-types.h...
This doesn't remove them from circulation. If it did, though, card transactions, versus cash, could still use smaller increments.
> By 'reflexive' I mean when the rapid-response system I just described takes over and reacts from "cache", so to speak, to quickly counter a threat.

That's exactly what's happening when people flag articles like this.

So what's the plan to achieve reflective flagging?
> Still, imagine it as a real-but-relatively-junior virtual coworker. Now imagine 1,000 of them. Or 1 million of them. Now imagine such agents in every field of knowledge work.

I really don't want a future in which I had to supervise 1 million of real-but-relatively-junior virtual coworkers. I would prefer 1 senior over 1 million juniors. I'm in the programming industry and I don't think that coding might be scaled.
What are their leftist ideas?
Halting problem input has finite size (i.e. it’s a Turing machine)
Steps to verify

1. go to GoDaddy

2. search for a bunch of domain names that are loosely plausible but also so niche no one really wants them. Make sure you find a bunch of ".com" that are not registered

3. come back a week later. I can guarantee you one is now registered.
Love this. Exactly the reason I write now
Another commenter has posted a colab notebook. You've been dismissive in every post, but based on your own value judgments and not based on statistical analysis. At least copy and paste their colab notebook (and read the original analysis) before dismissing.
There used to be a page of Doug McIlroy "facts". I managed to hunt this page down by searching around.

http://git.9front.org/plan9front/plan9front/c28f07b5840216c4...

One of the "facts" is:
> Doug McIlroy can address 8 terabytes of RAM with only 32 bits.
Mind sharing a link to your blog?
Do you know how Tinder's matching system works? Well, we built something similar. You can easily match with a designer or client, which means you can only chat with matched users. Say goodbye to receiving 100 random proposals or, as a designer, constantly being ignored by clients.

We also rank designers from 1 to 6, allowing clients to filter and find the right fit based on their needs.

Clients and designers can collaborate seamlessly within the platform, just like Asana.

Plus, we’ve added AI-generated fake briefs to help designers improve their skills.

I’ve been a graphic designer for 10 years, working remotely, and I built this platform based on my own experience.
Ok but it sounds like you're sitting on top of something very important. And also that you've already done all the analysis? Seems like you should publish.
First, it requires exponential investment because

> 1. The intelligence of an AI model roughly equals the log of the resources used to train and run it.

Incremental improvements in intelligence require exponentially more resources. Only once that step is achieved can costs be reduced.

Second, intelligence is not the same as education. Education is specialized, intelligence is general. Every modern convenience around you is the result of intelligence.
So just introducing a distraction to their argument to muddy the comments instead of commenting on their point.
>I want shit done already; I voted for this.

None of us voted for him. That's part of the issue. He wasn't approved by congress, he wasn't given clearance by the government. Good odds are that you in that same position (and maybe same mindset) would do much better.

>Raze it all to the ground and salt the dirt using the tears of the whiners

he's going to raze it to the ground using the blood of all of us. let's not fall into identity politics over this. These for federal institutions that every citizen relies on.
There's been a spate of underwater-living articles lately, and there's no doubt the ocean is an area ripe for research.

But to be clear, these facilities require surface support - they are not self-sustaining. Which is perfectly fine (the ISS is not self sustainable either.)

So this isn't "humanity moving into the sea", it's "humanity learning more about the sea". Which is certainly a worthwhile goal.
Rounding is generally done only for cash transactions (“cash rounding”). For all other payment types, the unrounded price is used.

I wrote code for this a long time ago when cash was still a major form of payment in a country that got rid of sub 0.05 coins. There were various rules to try to ensure neither the seller or buyer always benefited.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash_rounding
The company is Diamond Age style education through AI.

The product is supposed to be a vague Young Lady’s Primer but using adult Apple design minimalist language.
I'm in Canada, so same frequency/power as the US, AFAIK. Using a HomeSeer G8 on a Home Assistant Green with a USB extension cable. I can't really speak much to the range - it's been enough for the handful of devices I'm currently using, which are all Shelly (rebranded from Qubino) mains-powered Z-Wave devices.

20ft doesn't sound necessarily unreasonable though with a wall... I wouldn't expect Zigbee/Thread to perform better with comparable devices. I haven't found any of the low-power mesh networks to have especially great range when not taking advantage of the mesh.
That article you linked says exactly what I said. They aren't required but they are customary.
Another commenter posted a colab notebook and created a histogram that shows the "Russian tail". Please at least copy and paste it, and show where they have gone wrong with their statistical analysis, instead of making uncited and subjective judgments.
That make sense
Makes sense, with the Pareto principle in mind.

("roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes", https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle)
A crook like Elon Musk is NOT the person to fix whatever issue you think is wrong.
This.

Adding one more point:

I am often writing stuff anyways on various open-group or closed-group social media, which is where the interactions are (at least for my case). The blog however becomes a way to collect all those in a single place and where I have more control.
What is the target market for this in the US?

The Super Bowl ad mentioned 500k mi^2 of the US are not covered by cellular, which is about 13% of the area of the US. Looking at the Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile coverage maps it does look like somewhere in the ballpark of 13% is uncovered, with most of that being in Alaska.

The ad describes these places like this: "Places where emergency texts never send. Where emotional messages are not received. And countless memories are left unshared".

For the emergency texts, that is something clearly useful to anyone who finds themselves in a place without coverage, regardless of whether they live there are or just visiting.

For the "emotional messages" and "countless memories" what the ad showed as examples such as video of a high school basketball game dramatic win at buzzer, a baby's first steps, and a child's first bike ride without training wheels.

Those would be useful for people living in the cell-free areas, but I'm not sure they would be that useful for those just visiting. If I'm vacationing in a remote wilderness I probably only want emergency communications to/from outside that area.

I'd guess then is that the market for this would mostly be people living in those areas. Maybe people visiting will get it short term (if that is allowed) for the emergency texting if they aren't going to be staying with people who live there and already have it.

So...how many people live in such places?
You could also make an argument that the bulk of college degrees are not economically useful. The demand for certain kinds of education and knowledge is certainly finite - but the demand ceiling for general intelligence seems much much higher, and appears to be limited only by the cost of hiring ever smarter people.
According to the sign-up page:

Anyone on any carrier can sign up now to join the beta test and get satellite-powered messaging-at no extra cost until July. Secure your spot today.

They are signing up test users from any network, not just T-Mobile.
I was exhausted after a weekend with the kids and FSD pretty much drove me the 2 hours from the Canada border back home. No other cars on the market can do this. People who diminish it don’t understand what an amazing achievement it is.

“But you can’t take a nap or use your phone so it’s not really self driving” sure that would be nice but being on 20% mental capacity vs 100% for hours is a huge benefit.
"All abstractions leak, but some are useful" - me, on HN for the last few years.

Roughly paraphrased, but my meaning is clear: the best abstractions are useful ones, not leakless ones.
Obama is a pretty interesting outlier. What happened in his terms? FDR and Wilson obviously had world wars to fund, so they are such an outlier as to be dismissed.

Was it really just an extension of the Iraqi war?

EDIT: Ahh, the 2008 recession. I didn't realize it was so bad as to reflect similar to Regean's debts. Even Biden's COVID stiumulus didn't register in comparison.
TLDR: it is all about what you make with the data.

Definitely. Data won't create the opportunity if you don't know what to do with the data or it won't answer the right questions if don't know what to ask. I think generally the accessibility to gather, process, and make decisions with data has just become so low and it's almost a given to do such analyses.

At the same time, many "business" people I talk to, don't know how to do these analyses. And many technical people, while they could easily do such analyses, don't think of data from that business perspective. |
Wow, this really belies belief. Extremely sad to see people actually falling for obvious half-truths being put out by rags like that.
I guess 2 days isn't new by firehose standards, but this particular story didn't get discussed until today and there's still some interest in it. HN has a long tradition of hosting threads about the exploits of young hackers.
He did cut Twitter's workforce by 80% and things seem fine absent his deranged heel turn.
I'm echo chambering on this and one other comment[1], and starting to wonder if those guys are actually neurodivergent, autistic, whatever implies combination of entry-superhuman intelligence and unfortunate psycho-emotional development, or it's complete opposite and they're faking intelligence with vastly superior EQ, put aside pointlessness of taking IQ/EQ seriously.

Because, I don't think Musk had ever shown issues understanding or even precisely manipulating people's sentiments with bare hands which some of us struggle even with tools, while also there being countless examples him showing lack of understanding of laws, order, code, all such brittle dehumanized systems in general.

All his successes owes to his mastery of orchestrating humans as animals, not machines or humans as intelligent constructs. Why are we nearly dead set that it's opposite of that?

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42993901
I would if I could :)
With inflation about to go up to absolutely insane levels, it might be reasonable to round cash transactions to dollars. Cash is still essential for transactions without requiring technology, creating traceable metadata, or disadvantaging the unbanked.
I said rumors?

e: https://old.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1if91mn/opm_fork_i...
And guess who has a grip of the end user? Operation System owners. Now that you might not need an app for most things, OS vendors are in even more powerful position. Gone the days of "this amazing app can do X", now it's going to be "have you noticed you can ask Siri to do X?" They have all of the context that app developers are going to miss about the user.

Both Apple and Google are doing a poor job of integrating AI capabilities into their Operation Systems today. Maybe there is room for a new player to make a real AI-first Operation system.
Please say more for those of us who are historically ignorant but interested!
People say that, yet how many likes and reshares does said generated content get?
Functionally no companies have a team building component libraries.

Tech companies with >100 employees might be more likely to, but that leaves most companies without that team, where they may still benefit from using Bootstrap as the basis for it.
> While OpenAI’s text-to-video AI Sora was used during conception to rapidly prototype ideas and explore different camera treatments, the final animation was created entirely by human artists.

The biggest GenAI company in the world, didn’t use GenAI to create the commercial.

Interesting.
You don't even need to look at other countries, when the US discontinued the half penny it was worth more than modern nickels are worth
It’s going to take Ilya there for sure.
I spent all day responding to the replies here, and then detaching them in order to save space at the top of the thread. But I just had a better idea.

This is a stub comment so we have a single root to collapse the replies. This way (1) replies can stay close to their parent (the top comment) without flooding the screen with offtopicness; and (2) we can all re-experience the timeless truth of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorem_of_softwar....

If you want to reply, reply here. I've moved all the original replies back so everyone's on the same playing field.
Eh, their lives aren't at risk at the rates of actual blue collar professions like logging, roofing etc. and these jobs have lower prestige and benefits as well.

A little tax-payer funded training in the form of practice runs doesn't sound like a bad thing either.
He explicitly stated progress is logarithmic.

> 1. The intelligence of an AI model roughly equals the log of the resources used to train and run it.
> Big fail on my part, obviously. Don’t make the same mistake I did. Pay attention.

These systems encourage people to stop paying attention. There will never be perfect vigilance or perfect reaction time from the driver.
And you don't have to pick just cloud or on-prem, you can utilize both. Use cloud for your bursty workloads, or for it's CDN/edge, and then your on-prem for consistent workloads. As long as you're not using cloud specific services you can run open source versions on-prem (such as minio for S3, or your own Postgres cluster, or kubernetes + what ever operator)
Can you give any more insight as to why? Designers always seem to want to build design libraries, I don't understand why they wouldn't want to use a common API as the basis for that so that there's a contract of sorts with developers.
Different yeasts have different temperature and alcohol tolerance. For example a bread yeast may not continue making alcohol beyond 5-6%, or another yeast may only be productive in a narrow temperature range that’s too warm or too cool for a given application.
I almost have a Trump changes bingo. Waiting for renaming a day of the week or a month, and going to war with either Switzerland or Italy.

Seriously, this one isn't actually dumb, dramatic, or insane. I approve.
T-Mobile silently drops every text from my personal numbers, thanks to The Campaign Registry, a T-Mobile led org. This is a wide reaching issue; the article does a disservice by not addressing it.

Because if T-Mobile is gatekeeping this text-over-sat route, it'll be another network that silently drops our texts.

Any evidence to the contrary would be welcome.