skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The laws are broken, so regardless of what you think "should" be legal, it isn't. They are being selectively enforced, though, and that's both the problem and probably the thing more worth your philosophical energy. Is that okay, when a criminal operation is too wealthy and influential to be held accountable?

All the laws have been being selectively enforced for decades. The people who were previously running these departments may have written the right incantations and negotiated a consensus with the departments that are supposed to watch the watchmen, but they had no more accountability to the average citizen/voter than the people who are moving in now.

The voting public no longer cares about "legal" versus "illegal", because they recognise that those categories have no bearing on anything relevant. This has been brewing for years, but the establishment benefited too much from subverting the rule of law to fix it. At this point they've made their bed.
Funny, I feel the same way about humans.
> As a linguist this makes me despair.

Why in god’s green earth would a random HN comment make you do that? I’m not a linguist and I have very limited experience beyond Indo-European languages, just like I have very limited experience with languages like Brainfuck or Ada - each of which might as well be as foreign to me as Mandarin or Swahili. I just didn’t bother to add that addendum because it would otherwise be a ten thousand word comment.

Laymen will be laymen. To despair over that is a path to nothing but torment.
Assuming this is true (and it's plausible), getting top secret clearance is _not_ going to be the same as getting unrestricted copies of every large government database. It presumably just means you have permission to read _some_ top secret documents, on a need to know basis?
First credible report of RTX 5090 FE with melted connector appears
um, what? how many times would a game get to a point that would require you to remove the disk from the drive to replace with a different disk because all of the data didn't fit on one disk?

pausing was not unusual.
> If it's the first, somebody should tell them the slop's already up to their navels and they probably shouldn't be helping people generate more of it.

One would imagine Meta can readily quantify how much AI-generated content is consumed across its properties.

Meta's play is simple: more engagement means more money for Meta, and this can be done by "slop" as you called it, or alternatively expanding the audience of high quality human-generated content, say via translation. A funny video in Albanian is probably still very funny after being translated to English.
> No animosity was meant there

Lol. That only supports my original assessment. Bye!
I will believe reasoning architectures when the model knows how to store parametric information in an external memory out of the training loop.
I’m curious to know the effects of beaming additional solar energy to Earth on climate change. I can’t imagine it’d be good.
Russian drone operators reportedly received explosive headsets
Haven't tried adding Nix packages as non-Steam games, but you can use Home Manager to create user systemd rules.
People do read it. The problem is that you have to consistently prove your content is worth their time for an awfully long stretch. I started my blog[1] back in 2019, and it wasn’t until after I published my 100th post in mid-2023 that some of my articles began hitting the front page of HN. For many, that’s just too long and not worth the effort.

In my case, I wrote because I enjoy writing and often reread my own posts. More than once, I’ve searched for something online only to have the search engine direct me right back to my own site.

[1]: https://rednafi.com
Rogan isn’t really about money. He has a value beyond dollars… in the end, he likely has a lot more staying power than Elon, whose fall will probably be faster than the rise.

He’s like a cross of Rush Limbaugh in his early prime, Howard Stern and Art Bell. Exceptional broadcast talent with a safe space to deliver a message.
Wait, that chart shows a 30% growth in family income. For a per-worker income comparison you'd need divide by the increase in dual-income families. Which has also increased by about 30% since 1975.
just ask yourself this - if you had say a white son - would you trade that for ANYTHING else given an opportunity? any other skin color? any other sex/gender?

Of course not so sit down until the answer to this question is different (it will never be)
As a Mint Mobile user I'll be lucky to see access to this approximately ever. They're still trying to get into Apple's RCS, even though they already use T-Mobile's network...
You can't create an export market if you product is variable due to your results depending on whatever yeast happened to be used that day.
> that's just hindsight.

Is it? Do you think it's hindsight to use the only "successful" story as "the only way forward?" Look at the gas vs electric vehicles. Yes, displacing legacy is hard but not insurmountable when there is a clear improvement. I don't think anyone can argue in good faith the Rust is NOT an improvement in C.
Pointers are memory safe as long as Unchecked_Deallocation/Unchecked_Access are never used thanks to how pointers have scopes, even though pointers can be pointing to variables on the stack.

You can go a very long way without ever touching Unchecked_Deallocation compared to C or Rust, even without allowing for use of the standard library where deallocation is done under the hood. I use it rarely enough that I have to go check the package specification every time I need it.

You also have relatively safe deallocation when you wrap your allocation in a storage pool and let RAII deal with it as the pointer system keeps you safe from a dangling reference if your container type only frees memory within the Finalize procedure.

You don't have the complete memory safety of a GC or Rust's borrow checker without SPARK, but you can completely avoid the unsafe parts or use well tested containers as opposed to C and other similar language where you need unsafe pointers to do anything non-trivial.
I've already seen people in my Facebook feed saying they don't trust the data DOGE has released. They want "proof." What will they take for proof--the raw data files and databases? Will they have the skill to analyze those datasets the same way DOGE is?

I'd love to see the data publicly released and hopefully it will be--in a court of law. There are almost certainly numerous crimes committed over the past several decades laundering taxpayer money through these federal agencies; trials would hopefully lead to evidence being made public.
no it isn't. What a blind take. As someone who has ventured down these forums when I was younger. Its a mix of gamers/programmers/online hustlers. Some of it is grey area, some if it is renting out RDP's/VPNS for malicious users acting as middlemen for the criminals.

The mob mentality of rule following software engineers on here who are throwing out the accusation that these are all hardened criminals that want to burn down society here are a testament to the fact that hackernews is a cesspool of careerists. If you haven't ventured down these, I would even argue that you've no idea how the internet actually functions outside of your usual entertainment holes.
I recall listening to the episode of the podcast where they were discussing the pending twitter takeover. I felt very mislead about the situation when these emails came out and showed they may have been involved parties.

Now I have a lot more appreciation for traditional journalistic institutions each time they disclose that they are reporting on a sponsor or otherwise affiliated institution.

For as much as the All-In crowd love to rag against the MSM - they seem far less interested in disclosing their financial interest in the stories they cover.
> one must press shift to get the number 1

This is true for French keyboards: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AZERTY
;)
Well to be fair, a lot of people who fancy themselves as a part of the Com don't have any either. A lot of them are skiddies posers. Quite the cringe crowd tbh, or maybe I just found a particularly young group.
Every time someone claimed “emerging” behavior in LLMs it was exactly that. I can probably count more than 100 of these cases, many unpublished, but surely it is easy to find evidence by now.
Actually I have a completelly opposite experience. Being among people, that I do not understand and where I am foreign is the best state for me to exist so far - it makes those people to adapt to me. I start to get communication issues, when they decide that I am no more foreign to them and that I should now adapt to their silly ceremonial behaviours, which I am very fully aware that I am not going to do.

>>> I struggle to understand language like that when talking to my parents and my brothers and my wife, despite having talked with them more than anyone else in my life. That's not something that most people would struggle with, but it's something that I suspect a lot of autistic people would relate to.

Exactly - I have never fought more battles to dominate than with my relatives. And to be fair the cases where I was getting along was when I fully subjugated to their will.
other unreasonable effectiveness essays:
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=unreasonable+effectiveness
Also fun how Trump has no problem saying that pro-palestine protestors should be deported (a vastly more harmful outcome than losing a job).
As I read it, when someone is "activated" they are provoked to responding; someone replying because they want to say something. I see "triggered" as somewhat of an analogy, but a much more loaded word.

This seems to stand opposed to people who reply because they have something interesting to say.
Neither Ricotta nor Anki have been able to help me learn this language.

https://youtu.be/VJVS9RsIrN8
You could have a rich mathematical knowledge, while being not very good at proving theorems. Also, you might be good at proving competitive mathematics problems without having a rich mathematical knowledge. It's also possible to have rich mathematical knowledge, and being good at proving theorems but mostly in the field of your expertise.
I just tried reading the documentation and I have no idea what I’m supposed to do. I have a bunch of keyboards that won’t let me use the F keys as standard f keys (only lets me use them as multimedia keys) unless I hold the keyboards fn key. Karabiner is set to “use f keys as standard f keys” and it still doesn’t work. Anyone know how I might use kanata to use F1, F2…etc without holding the keyboards fn key?
Yeah, experience is that women tend to stick together on teams because of the shit they experience all the time on other teams. Mentoring women engineers was eye opening at the number get asked out at work or get asked if they are engineers or other a million other problems. If people have a problem with women engineers sticking together they first have to fix the culture problem.
LLM can never solve a halting problem (because no one can using a Turing machine).
I'm contending that, like any good tool, there is a context where it is useful, and a context where it is not (and that we are at a stage where everything looks suspiciously like a nail).
At this stage, it's looking entirely possible that large closed models aren't viable as a moat, because, by virtue of making the model available for use, you open yourself up to having your weights distilled. AI, like anything else, will hit diminishing returns, because there's only so far ahead you can look without error bars exploding, and beyond a certain point, writing "better" code is an academic exercise. Under these circumstances, it would be reasonable to expect that the average person could have a decent amount of useful intelligence at their fingertips.

The cynic in me suspects that the result will be zero public access, and a b2b AI service model only from the big players. The optimist in me hopes that the genie has already been unbottled, and open weights (if not necessarily open source) has enough momentum to ensure that people can host this stuff on their own if they so choose. In both cases, training data will be so locked down it'll make breaking into the Pentagon look like an excursion to the sand pit.
I’m all for courses like this but they become outdated very quickly. This area is moving fast
Can you give a bit more technical detail of what you have in mind?
This whole thing puzzles me.

These dingos are wealthy because they've got money in banks and stocks in brokerages.

If the US dollar is managed like the 1980s iraqi dinar, and the stock market is regulated as strictly as the 1980s baghdad stock exchange, what happens to their wealth?

Apologies to the lackeys of Saddam Hussein, some of whom I'm sure were quite professional.
Many people decide to maintain their morals and integrity instead of gambling them, maybe even the majority. You just don't hear about those people.
> Wealth, attention, and power influence people

I think in this case, it attracts the avaricious rather than changes their beliefs. Joe Rogan can be influenced by poor lunatics as much as rich ones. As much as I can tell of peoples' opinions of the All In pod (never listened), it sounds like they were always sell-outs (or their beliefs have not strayed)
Latest news goes back to 2014…is this still maintained?
I just started getting into blogging. It was really easy to setup my own site with a blog section using Astro. I've been tempted to add analytics to the website but I find that these kind of stats just cause me mental stress. So it's purely a space for me to shout into the void and it feels so refreshing not caring about vanity metrics.
>Aren’t soldiers just that? Governments sanctioned killers?

Don't forget cops. Their job is literally to be willing to kill you over compliance.
> Could this be used to spoof the results

I don't really understand how would opens source software that checks the validity of ballots, or even generate fake ballots help in committing election fraud? The hard part is getting the fake ballot to the counting location, how the fake ballots is made, be it by machine or by hand is not particularly relevant, anyone can do that.
Even Urban Dictionary, hardly a site dominated by rule-following career software engineers, defines a Com as revolving around crime:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Com

Maybe Urban Dictionary is also populated by people who misunderstand the community, or maybe you weren't as deep as you thought.
If they cared about Zuck’s moral compass, they wouldn’t have worked on giving teen girls depression and making the world shittier in the first place.

There are zero good people working at Meta.
That is baffling because in July he wrote "One of Whippet’s collectors is a semi-space collector." (https://wingolog.org/archives/2024/07/10/copying-collectors-...)

I didn't attend the talk and don't know him at all so wouldn't want to speak for him but from personal experience one can find oneself saying some bizarre things under stress/pressure when giving a presentation in front of lots of people. And then one looks back and goes: "why did I say that??"
I built a database of 4,500 scraped and analyzed Reddit users to find SME's
Hey everyone! I'm a 15 year old developer and I just launched this application called linkeddit.com, which is a database full of analyzed Reddit users that are scraped from over 20k+ posts and 100k+ comments across 120 different subreddits.

I use this database to connect with subject matter experts on Reddit so that I can ask questions to professionals in different fields, such as marketing or SaaS development to improve my skills if I need help on something.

A lot of people don't know who to connect with for better advice on a specific topic, so to solve this problem, I scraped and analyzed posts, comments, user profiles, karma and user consistency/activity for different Reddit users to find the most experienced users in a specific subreddit. There are around 50 users of the highest contributors/relevancy for each subreddit.

After that, I put all of the user profiles in a database, and added some advanced filter options so that you can find users based on subreddit or specific keywords/niches.

For example, this is also how I got my first SaaS application from 0 to 72 sales, as I found it easier to get help from people who have experience in SaaS, and I connected with them to ask how I can improve my landing page, or my marketing skills etc.

If you are wanting to find and connect with relevant users, this database will save you tons of time!
Rostra – a P2P (or rather f2f) social network
“The way I will repent for ruining school via chatbot cheating is by making an even cheatier chatbot.”

In case anyone is wondering what this company does.
The Olympics comment seemed more damning. He literally said twice they rigged the election.

> They all came in on the Olympics. And then I saw [Gulati] and we got the World Cup too. And you know, it's only because they rigged the election that I'll be your president representing you there. You know, I got both of them. I got the Olympics and I got the World Cup. And I said, you know, it's too bad. One was in 2026 or the other was in 2028. I said, I won't be there. I won't be your president.(...) But then they rigged the election and now we won. So I'm going to be your president for the Olympics and for the World Cup.(...) So [Gulati], thank you for the World Cup and everybody. Thank you for the Olympics.

https://youtu.be/TTHonqrM7Vc
It's not the most complex game, but my favourite of all time is Frostbite.
Unions standardise wages.

That’s not much of a problem in most low skill roles where employee productivity exists in a narrow band, but it will never be tolerated by high skill workers.

It’s not just unions, you also see this effect when employers use pay guides to limit wages. The best employees leave because they are no longer being paid in proportion to their value.
What does the company do (besides raising money)?
What you are describing is ADHD, that is quite common co-diagnosis to ASD.
> So Work=0.1^Ct where C is the development pace.

Did you see the bit where he said "Most of us who are senior+ have been through these cycles before". They rolled out similar equations in previous hype cycles.

The LLM's were released about 3 years ago now. Over the weekend I made the mistake on taking their word on "does GitHub allow administrator to delete/hide comments on PR's". They convincingly said "no". Others pointed out the answer is of "yes". That's pretty typical. As far as I can tell, while their answers are getting better and more detailed, what happens when they reach the limits of their knowledge hasn't changed. They hallucinate. Convincingly.

That interacts with writing software in an unfortunate way. You start off by asking questions, getting good answers, and writing lots of code. But then you reach their limits, and they hallucinate. A new engineer has no way to know that's what happened, and so goes round and round in circles, asking more and more questions, getting complete (but convincing) crap in response, and getting nowhere. An experienced engineer has enough background knowledge to be able to detect the hallucinations.

So far, this hasn't changed much in 3 years. Given the LLM's architecture, I can't see how it could change without some other breakthrough. Then they won't be called LLM's any more, as it will be a different design. I'm have no doubt it will happen, but until it does LLM's are a major threat software engineers.
I think there are a lot of plausible dystopian AI outcomes, up to and including the extinction of the human species. But that won't stop me from providing my preferred policy recommendations for dealing with the impacts of unemployment caused by automation.
> that intelligence agencies like to recruit young people active in the cyber criminal scene

Just linking this back to the story, am I mistaken in saying that DOGE is not an intelligence agency? (It certainly is a great position to exfiltrate information however.)
I'm sincerely unclear- is the analysis here that smaller samples (fewer ballots processed by a tabulator) have a higher relative standard deviation than larger samples?
You mean outside of the sites where the vast majority of the online traffic and economic activity happen?

Do you really think that anything would meaningfully change in the world if these little niche communities disappeared tomorrow? They’re a rounding error on the internet.
The internet or something like it would have inevitably happened at one time or another even if any one group were to have fucked up its inception.

Despite being a complex, multi-faceted technological system, unlike, say, distillation, it shares the logical quality of being something useful and practical that one culture or another would have come up with sooner or later as a consequence of previous developments and knowledge.
It's this meme image, but actually

https://kagi.com/proxy/images?c=_m3km2RjA3G0qleowsZXHZb9NEn0...
In the early days of the pod I felt like they tried to follow the rule of not talking their book. Now Jason straight up pumps his Wellness app on every episode.
I did the same with SvelteKit on Github pages but put it behind CloudFlare. That gives me a little validation that more than five people are visiting it a month, without the fine grained statistics or privacy violation of using an analytics package like Google Whatever It’s Called Now.
The retail price, or the actual cost to deliver? Those are not the same thing. Cost to deliver could actually mean something. Retail pricing is approximately meaningless.
I don't like David or Chamath, but it is quite mind-blowing how little Jason C seems to have accomplished vs. the other two, his entire claim to fame appears to be trolling online and being close enough to the rest of the PayPal mafia to be be able to feed on their scraps.
Political appointees typically work on policy, they’re not shelling into servers and moving data around. This is especially true of the “special government employee” category Musk is using where it’s short-term (not more than 130 days in a 365 day period) and intended for consulting type expert advice rather than bypassing the normal hiring rules.

> the dowvote brigade could read the article since im rentioning a literal quote from there.

Alternately, consider that they’re recognizing that the scope of this situation is different both in terms of the level of access and nature of the work and unwillingness to follow policies. For example, when they tried to barge into the SCIF at USAID the staff who tried to stop them were under a legal obligation to do so - they’re charged with requiring everyone who enters to have a clearance. Historically, people got those and so it was never codified into law that they had to. Similarly, if people were requesting the access needed to perform their official task and using agency accounts and equipment to do so, you didn’t need an “auditor” to get approved at the level needed to be a system administrator. This is turning into a big scandal not just because it’s so highly politicized but also because bulling through so many process protections dramatically increases the potential risk.

As a simple example, reports have these guys getting admin access and using personal email accounts and equipment. Consider what happens if someone emails them a PDF saying it has evidence of fraud and it has a nasty payload. If they have unnecessary levels of access or have demanded that restrictions be removed, the fallout for that will be much worse than it would be if they were following the rules. Every federal agency has people employed specifically to prevent all of those layers of failure from happening.