skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The data sources are public and downloadable from official sources. In the case of the State of Nevada, the total data set resolves to upwards of a hundred URLs that are not neatly organized anywhere, so there is a lot manual work to aggregate them and data engineer a single coherent data model.

I stay out of the analysis business though I know a lot about it. A friend has been hardcore in the business for over a decade as a side-hustle and drags me into it every 2-4 years to help out with data sourcing and anomaly forensics, which are more my specialty. The workload during election season is insane but you can make a mountain of money from the campaigns if you have an excellent reputation for this kind of analytic work. Most people that try botch it.

The polling used in the news media is mostly unserious. The campaigns use more sophisticated non-public voting models to predict outcomes and that has risen in stature with time versus polls. Even if the public may be surprised by the outcome a well-run campaign typically is not.
Thank you for that. Downloaded.

@OP: I'm wondering if more than just sorting, whether filtering could be added? I would want to find both highly rated books with high numbers of reviews.
pr island and pr warez

I miss 1IM punting so much and being able to use Gothic Nightmares and FiReTooLz
How does one go about volunteering to do SAR?
Consistency and reproducibility is important part of scientific backing, too.
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I think people here are more for a planned with intention and intelligence cost cutting not shop from the hip blow everything up, tear it all down, and clean up the mess after destruction of government cost cutting. We're more 'government isn't business, if a government isn't stable there goes business investments, soft power, and the dollar being a reserve currency' combined with 'lots of these rules are written in blood (EPA, various consumer protections agencies, various civil support agencies), throwing them out until there's more blood is sadistic'.
It's text messages only, no data. So presumably not.
I mean OPs post is whataboutism. What if the kid has skeletons in his closet or calling the kids randomers etc. The security clearance process is long and is a joke imo. DCSA often gives interim clearances after running a credit and criminal check with no red flags (including TS/SCI). Then they interview coworkers, boses and family members. They ask basic questions such as does x associate with criminals or illegal stuff, drink or do drugs etc. A lot of bad apples pass. The blog post is FUD imo.
Would this be a desirable outcome to you?
Oh there have been LOADS over the years. The old ones say this is going to happen, the new ones say this is happening, the new new ones say oh btw our measurement systems for labour market and society during this change period are probably not accurate so we need new ones ASAP.

https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/mckinsey/industries/public%...

https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/the-risk-of-automation-...

https://news.mit.edu/2019/work-future-report-technology-jobs...

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.12001

https://institute.global/insights/economic-prosperity/the-im...

https://ipc.mit.edu/research/work-of-the-future/
Several Psychiatric Disorders Share the Same Root Cause
You mean, bureaucracies: without the politicians or shareholders you want to leave them alone, they aren’t governments or companies, just blind bureaucracies, with no long term goal to plan for but the perpetuation of the bureaucracy.
I'm not suggesting a separate server or a Raspberry Pi (that was just an example of the low resource needs), just having non-dynamic pages to not be hitting the database, so be cached somewhere (hopefully automatically), or using a server configured to serve them statically.
>In the latest episode, they even made fun of concerns about privacy, claiming that all people care about is the state not wasting money.

I mean, there are outcries. But nowhere near the outcry proportional to how dire this is. So maybe the host is right?
2. The cost to use a given level of AI falls about 10x every 12 months, and lower prices lead to much more use. You can see this in the token cost from GPT-4 in early 2023 to GPT-4o in mid-2024, where the price per token dropped about 150x in that time period. Moore’s law changed the world at 2x every 18 months; this is unbelievably stronger.

3. The socioeconomic value of linearly increasing intelligence is super-exponential in nature. A consequence of this is that we see no reason for exponentially increasing investment to stop in the near future.

First, if the cost is coming down so fast, why the need for "exponentially increasing investment"? One could make the same exponential growth claim for, say, the electric power industry, which had a growth period around a century ago and eventually stabilized near 5% of GDP. The "tech sector" in total is around 9% of US GDP, and relatively stable.

Second, only about half the people with college degrees in the US have jobs that need college degrees. The demand for educated people is finite, as is painfully obvious to those paying off college loans.

This screed comes across as a desperate attempt to justify OpenAI's bloated valuation.
No, the greyed-out parent comment is correct. It's an unintuitive and weird legal truth, but it *is* the truth.

- "While the president has the legal authority to grant a clearance, in most cases, the White House’s personnel security office makes a determination about whether to grant one after the F.B.I. has conducted a background check. If there is a dispute in the personnel security office about how to move forward — a rare occurrence — the White House counsel makes the decision. In highly unusual cases, the president weighs in and grants one himself."

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/us/politics/jared-kushner... ("Trump Ordered Officials to Give Jared Kushner a Security Clearance" (2019))
"Don't engage with the trolls, I'm surprised this one is marginally literate, probably a bot"

Funny, I felt the same way about the majority of the people frothing at the mouth and posting nonsense about Musk and Trump. Intelligence and critical thinking goes completely out the window.
People that don't agree with me are people that I gladly have constructive debates with. What I'm talking about are people wringing tech as a baseball bat to destroy democracy, the followers and apologists of the Peter Thiels of this world. It's not a matter of views there, it's a matter of saving the society our grandparents have fought the nazis for.
I'm not sure it matters if it's attributed or not. Very few people are capable of setting their biases aside, so even intimate hearsay is mostly just going to be driven by subjective opinions about the person in question.

I mean I think we've most all seen literally the exact same thing at any reasonably large institution.
What does “resistant” mean here?

It appears that they passed audit just a few months ago:

> Opinion: Williams Adley concluded that USADF’s financial statements as of September 30, 2024, and September 30, 2023, are presented fairly, in all material respects, and in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

> The audit firm also found no reportable noncompliance with provisions of applicable laws, regulations, contracts, and grant agreements.

> The audit firm found no material weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting but found deficiencies in the internal controls over the Funds Held Outside of Treasury process. We collectively identified these deficiencies as a reportable significant deficiency.

https://oig.usaid.gov/node/7291

It sure looks like retaliation hit job.
It's kind of ridiculous that the US has held onto pennies for this long. New Zealand phased out our 5 cent coins back in 2006, approximately 3 US pennies worth at present.
"What is bigger, 9.9 or 9.11?"
Can someone who knows something about this explain why they need about 3000 random gibberish hostnames for some simple “telemetry”? If my boss asked me to add “telemetry” to a piece of software I would send all the tracking calls to first-party-telemetry.companyname.com, and if I needed thousands of servers (!) for some reason, a simple load balancer or just round robin dns would do fine.

This BS on the other hand looks like they know these thousands will get blocklisted and they plan to just rotate to a new set. The only way this could look more like malware would be if they used random-looking domains instead of just the subdomains.
All-In declined quickly after the pandemic when they realized the value of their platform. They use it now to only milk their investments or push political agendas to milk their investments.
I've seen so many personalities "shift" over this decade. I guess big platforms monetized outrage better, so what better way to generate outrage than pick up conservative talking points.
GAIR is the generative AI lab at SJTU.
Librivox has a very open api:

https://librivox.org/api/info

For example, you can query using only the first letter, so it's quite easy to quickly cache their entire collection (please don't give them the HN hug of death):

https://librivox.org/ ... api/feed/audiobooks/author/^a

Of course, specify json or something closer to your internal data structures.
You are missing most of their analysis. The surprising anomaly (the so called "Russian Tail") appears in early votes but not the Election Day votes or mail-in ballots. There analysis is worth reading again to catch what you missed. Another commenter has posted their colab notebook, so you can dig in if you want to see the details
"Well I would tend to believe the news organization that I know has reported accurate things in the past,"

Anonymous sources are now all accurate?
Fuck that defeatist attitude.
> Does SCOTUS think the president can break the law?

They've recently answered that. YES. They think he can break the law.

> Could they just ignore the courts?

YES. The only thing they can't ignore are the laws of physics.
> Go ahead publish but don’t be surprised when your work isn’t attributed correctly in the future and empowers people you may not agree with.

Why would I be surprised when this has already been occurring for a very long time? What exactly is the part here that is modern?
I'm not sure who you're having a conversation with, but I don't think it's me.
This seems like a silly and easy thing to do but it hasn't gotten done. It has been on the to-list for years if not decades. Special interest and voter pushback has always stopped it. It looks like President Trump will finally make it happen. I think it speaks to the strength of his presidency. We are in for a lot of changes.
So, unsupported assertions and anecdotes it is then.
I don't think there is a way to share the chat, but here is step 28. Almost 20 steps after what I posted and 7 steps before it got it:

"Final Correct Comparison (using place value correctly now - hopefully!):

9.90

9.11

Whole number parts are the same (9).

Compare tenths digits:

9.90: Tenths digit is 9.

9.11: Tenths digit is 1.

No, wait! I'm still making the same error. I'm consistently looking at the wrong digit. Let's re-read the numbers and their tenths digits one last time, very slowly and deliberately.

9.9: The digit immediately after the decimal point is 9. This is the tenths digit.

9.11: The digit immediately after the decimal point is 1. This is the tenths digit.

Okay, I got it now! I was somehow flipping the digits in my comparison. Let's try again.

9.9 and 9.11.

Whole number parts are both 9 (same).

Compare tenths digits:

9.9: Tenths digit is 9.

9.11: Tenths digit is 1.

Wait! This is STILL wrong! I am consistently mis-stating the tenths digits. Let's rewrite the numbers again, very clearly:

Number: 9.9
Tenths digit: 9

Number: 9.11
Tenths digit: 1
Use code with caution.
No! This is still incorrect. I am fundamentally mis-identifying the tenths digit of 9.11. Let's re-examine place values again.

In 9.11:

9 is in the ones place.

1 is in the tenths place.

1 is in the hundredths place.

In 9.9:

9 is in the ones place.

9 is in the tenths place.

(implicitly) 0 is in the hundredths place.

Correct comparison, finally!

9.9 (or 9.90)

9.11

Whole number parts are the same (9).

Compare tenths digits:

9.90: Tenths digit is 9.

9.11: Tenths digit is 1.

Wait! No! This is still wrong! I am consistently making a mistake. Let's start from the most basic comparison rule."
If a blog lays unread in a forest, has it a function?

I would say yes. In my experience, writing your ideas down is an excellent way of learning exactly what those idea are. Until such time as they have been clearly stated, their existence is 'fuzzy'.
Zero memory of chat conversations resonates to me.

At a practical level, this is a good reason to run your own AI plugin, even if it just a wrapper around some api.

You can log your requests and the responses, and then use a similarity score to periodically see what sorts of things you’re asking.

I may even update mine to hassle me and be like “you’re asking this a lot, maybe you should remember it…”

(If, you can be bothered, rather just reaching for copilot)
Thank you! I've run the notebook and reproduced the histograms of the early votes. I'm grateful for you sharing your work. For the other commenters who have dismissed the analysis without providing details, I would recommend that you reproduce this notebook and dig in.

For others who don't know what the "Russian tail" is, here is the link within the PDF: https://www.rferl.org/a/georgia-election-manipulation-russia...
Fascinating article, and scary as soon an evil AI could conquer the world with this.
Also useful for migrations, especially if you support multiple DB backends.
I'm well aware of what my medical diagnosis and comorbidities are, I was sharing a fact about my situation, not an idea. I can't readily go outside without certain tools to manage my senses, I don't know anything about ADHD but I'm talking about autism.
Observability tool
A lot of the myth that "branches are slow on GPUs" is because, way back on the PlayStation 3, they were quite slow. NVIDIA's RSX GPU was on the PS3; it was documented that it was six cycles IIRC, but it always measured slower than that to me.
That was for even a completely coherent branch, where all threads in the warp took the same path. Incoherent branches were slower because the IFEH instruction took six cycles, and the GPU would have to execute both sides of the branch.
I believe that was the origin of the "branches are slow on GPUs" myth that continues to this day. Nowadays GPU branching is quite cheap especially coherent branches.
That's kind of crazy. Basic knowledge of at least one desktop OS and office suite is kind of a prerequisite to so many things that would be considered adult life...

Like, are kids writing CVs on their phones? Writing essays on their phones? iPads? Paper?
I've been holding onto every pre-1982 penny I come across, because I one day want to get 499 of them, and take them to Mexico or Canada to smelt them to use in some kind of art project.

When we finally stop making pennies in the US, will that make it legal to melt them down?
It’s possible of course, but will it be Meta? Who knows.
Taiwan's legacy chip industry contemplates future as China eats into share
I find it amusing that it popped up in this political context too. It feels very FUD-y.

Oh no, Musk hired someone from "The Com"!
This feels like the work of a highly intelligent person operating on very scant information- it’s easy to construct castles of thought that more or less fit your experiences, but at some point the slow tedious work of conducting experiments and data has to be done, and most of these sorts of elaborate guesses turn out to be wrong.
>judging by the comments here, it seems a lot of HN is not interested in cutting spending or the idea of a team auditing every agency

That's a bit of a bad faith observation. I support feeding people. I don't support theft. When I see people stealing food I am not dismissing the former.

I wouldn't mind a proper auditing process, but you can also do that without breaking multiple laws. And yes, I also do not think DOGE is acting in good faith. They are spouting about a bunch of non-sense tech solutions to the treasury like buzzwords on an earnings call. They completely failed on their suppoesd transparency claims when formed and are now outright keeping others from working with private guards (that's not how you do a proper audit). They've given me every reason not to trust them.

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As a not so hot take, if you want to cut costs, encourage efficiency. The way a lot of government budgeting works is in a "use it or lose it" capacity. Your reward for efficiency is a smaller budget "because you didn't need it last year". Individuals can save surplus income for rainy days, I don't see why governmental organizations can't.
Thank you for the link, I wasn’t aware that there were high quality blogs by Anthropic (or about golden Gate Claude).
It's pretty obvious that people opposing the goals of DOGE are pushing this story, same way they were pushing the earlier "doxxing" of the young engineers working for DOGE or the Elon nazi zieg idiocy.

Say what you will, but Musk has a track record of executing well at preposterous speed, so for legacy players/media this sorta of PR campaign is about the most they can muster.

At the end of the day thought, we'll all have to compare real word results versus those PR narratives and I am positive i know which way that will swing. You just can't PR bullshit you way out something like a 250ton piece of stainless sticking a landing.
They could be non American and USA isn't exactly stacking their cards in a good way right now.
AI Innovation at Davos 2025: The Dawn of Artificial General Intelligence? [video]
I totally agree with you that we shouldn't try to suppress emotion or passion. Those add depth and color and character to interesting conversation.

What I'm calling "activation" isn't the same thing as emotion or passion, and what I'm calling "curiosity" or "being interested" is definitely not the same thing as being passionless or robotic.
Eh? PP's commentary is spot on. I used to do defense contracting. The primary things the interviewer is looking for are "How vulnerable to blackmail are you?" and (relatedly) "How forthcoming are you about the illegal or borderline legal things you've done in the past, and are you willing to (or have you already) stopped doing them?".

Felonies shouldn't disqualify you from employment for the rest of your life, and neither should association with the seedy underbelly of society.
Communist Russia fell three decades ago. America pushing government propaganda is not a good look for encouraging freedom and democracy. About time we cancel these no longer useful programs.
Scripts are the main place where it matters tbh - most language ecosystems have their own way of doing this stuff, if you can stay within the language you're fine. But if you (or your client) have a culture where people throw in awk/grep/sed then there's just no real alternative. Or if it's a polyglot project where you have three different languages (including shell) then you may not be able to use a single language package manager.
I have been thinking the same thing. The only other thing they do is take positions they think will increase their popularity with their audience.
I submitted it twice!
The first time I noticed the broken link,
so I figured I'd fat-fingered it,
deleted and submitted it again.
Then I clicked through to check,
and it worked when I did so.
WTF is going on with HN breaking these links?
I'm on NixOS which of course uses nix.

I'm able to run steam games and have had no issues at all. Im using Lutris as the launcher, but you could easily use the official steam launcher (programs.steam.enable = true).

So you could technically get yourself a full gaming experience just with nix, without relying on the shipped steam client in SteamOS.
Links submitted to Reddit or HN then a bit work as proofs of the publication date

since one cannot backdate timestamps on Reddit and HN. Hmm but you can still rewrite the content a bit
> Altman thinks benefits will naturally trickle down when everything points to corporation replacing employees with AI to boost their profit margins.

That's not what he is saying. He is saying that this investment in AI will yield incredible returns and power. The investor will dominate the next decade(s) and thus you should invest. Of course, he has to say it in a careful way not to alarm politically correct people. But, in essence, he is trying to create investor FOMO to drive his next round.
Oh, you're an imbecile. Nevermind.
I don't understand why people keep saying this as if FSD is vaporware. It's coming along very well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej_BDr3wfiE

Granted, nowhere near on the timeline he stated, and limited to the US, but it's very real and immensely impressive.
I'd love them to have made more of that if the cranial reconstruction got close to the painting un-hinted.
For people trying to assess how popular this is, those that type in the comment box here are inherently part of a self-selection bias.

Kind of "people who post on the internet, post on the internet".

That includes me, but it's worth pointing out.
Well for one all prices along sales tax have to be rounded up or down to increments of $0.05 which is the profit margin for many things produced in high volume.
I'm not a fan of these "gotchas" because they don't test for what we really care about.

Like counting the number of R's in strawberry, many of these are character-counting or character manipulation problems which tokenization is not well-suited for.

I'm sure an engineer could come up with a clever way to train for this, but that seems like optimizing for the wrong thing.

IMO these questions go in the wrong direction. Character permutation is a problem for "Software 1.0", not LLMs. Just as you wouldn't use an LLM to multiply 2 large numbers, you'd use a calculator.
This being historical pre-wsl aside:

A lot of the foss tasklist is just aimless combinatorials. And they become obsolete to boot:

-clone a program that just came out but make it open source
-port everything to every platform
-make x run on any dependency of category Y

And then it gets exponential as every new project becomes a new target to port from and to as a dependency: e.g, port linux co-op to rust, or port it to w11, or replace the backend with wsl or hyperV interchangeably...
The essay is not about formal vs. informal systems. In fact your example illustrates the very point that Arnold is making. In "F=ma" the symbols actually map-to something in the real world. The "domain of discourse/interpretation" for the symbols is well known and there is no confusion on what the equation stands for.

This article, Why “F = ma” is the most important equation in physics explains the nuances of the above equation - https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/most-important-equat... As the article points out it might be tempting to think of the above as a special case of the equation of a straight line (i.e. y=mx+c) but that would not be correct.

Symbolic logic is concerned only with the "forms" of the argument and inference (hence the name "Formal" system) and not their meaning/context. It is the latter which brings mathematics "alive" else as the GEB book shows we are just playing games.