skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is an incorrect impression caused by cherry-picking data. E.g. in the dataset linked below, while some European countries have longer waiting times for elective surgery, they have between 2x and 10x shorter waiting times than the US when it comes to seeing a primary physician. Which is arguably one of the most important metrics for getting people medical attention on time.

Furthermore, in many non-US countries you have "controversial" things like emergency contraceptives being prescription free, so people don't even need to see a doctor in the first place. Imagine how much more efficient that is.

https://www.statista.com/chart/33079/average-waiting-times-f...
My use case for WSL is really what original comment says: I need stability of windows so my graphics drivers won't stop working randomly and user friendliness of linux command line as a developer
At the very least, it’s a field day for foreign intelligence in DC. Offering these guys some money, women, status, or drink would pay massive dividends.
I only found out about them well into my 30s, and was so enamored by the one my friend showed me that he let me keep it. It's enchanting.

There's also the pseudoscope, which reverses one's depth perception. I can grasp the concept, but I have real trouble imagining what that experience is like. I was unsuccessful in ever finding one for sale, until just now! https://www.grand-illusions.com/collections/optical-illusion...
If the LIMO hypothesis about the existence of a latent capacity for efficient reasoning in small models that can be elicited by finetuning the model with a small datasets is true, then we could see a huge transference of power from huge models to small models and that in a recurrent way seems to offer unlimited power. But to feed that loop there should be a property of those datasets, they teach the model to adapt reasoning to model size and that is verified by the model extending the depth of the reasoning chain using a small branching factor in the exploration space, like a minimum cover to detect deep patterns.
Why? I wanted to express sympathy for suffering in our system while offering practical advice. It seemed rude to just launch into advice without acknowledging it shouldn’t be necessary in the first place. What phrase would you have used?
A kernel maintainer can completely ignore any submission with no repercussions even in principle. And they often do.

In Firefox, in my era at least, a reviewer who simply ignores a review request indefinitely was not doing their job and would get yelled at by someone --- me, if it came to my attention.
is discussion history retained? or is it wiped cuz of free slack tier?
One solution might be to limit how many new discussions a user can flag within a certain period.
We can! At Kyutai, we released a real-time, on-device speech translation demo last week. For now, it is working only for French to English translation, on an iPhone 16 Pro: https://x.com/neilzegh/status/1887498102455869775

We released inference code and weights, you can check our github here: https://github.com/kyutai-labs/hibiki
It's been going on for at least a decade, Amazon is still the online retail leader, the main competitors are scammers on Instagram, Temu and AliExpress. Some people will make a point in patronizing more local platforms, but that's far from the critical mass.

I'm curious where you see the short-sightedness of this objectively successful and already long lasting strategy ?
No I live in Europe. And if I didn’t I wouldn’t worry about it until there’s armed men in uniforms and red armbands walking the streets. I’ve found the best coping mechanism to the overabundance and inflation of information due to the internet, is to simply live within your horizon. I see no musk/trump, I fear no musk/trump. Have a great day, hope your cortisol levels are good.
They had access to both financial and personal data. This included for example social security numbers and bank accounts. Sure, more financial data being public would be nice, but the current dataset as it is can't be made public safely and definitely needs clearance.
This is a GPU focused article.

The GPU will almost always execute f and g due to GPU differences vs CPU.

You can avoid the f vs g if you can ensure a scalar Boolean / if statement that is consistent across the warp. So it's not 'always' but requires incredibly specific coding patterns to 'force' the optimizer + GPU compiler into making the branch.
A different (better?) way to see this is at https://www.levels.fyi/heatmap/ with "CoL Adjustment" enabled.
Any idea if the same dataset can be used to improve human reasoning? Let's say I manually analyze 817 math examples, would that be optimal strategy for me to improve my math reasoning? Can the same distilation process be applied to leetcode?
I'm sure they work to improve the accuracy of the output but it's not 'truth' unless it's the same data - which of course is impractical.

That is, unless 'truth' means something different in ML, which would be troubling!
I apologize for my tone. It's just very frustrating to ask a question about applying this technology in the real world, to actual commercial products, only to get reply after reply of hopes and dreams. 20 years ago Ray Kurzweil promised me I'd have artificial hemoglobin that allows me to hold my breath underwater for an hour. Where is it? These are the arguments of grifters and conmen: "just wait look at the exponential growth!" No. I refuse. If this technique doesn't work right now then it simply doesn't work and we're all (except researchers and companies developing the core technology) wasting immense amounts of time and money thinking about it.
This is philosophizing, and it isn't even on topic.

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?
Getting this from the US
Where you you instruct others to go to find out more about those niche topics?
It’s more like Trump is the chairman of the board of directors representing shareholders interest (voters, loyalists, contributors) and Musk is the CEO.
While I am in favour of radically open records for government and private sector alike, consider what hostile governments' intelligence agencies can do with a detailed budget when deciding where to draw the line.

Everything about this should worry patriotic Americans*, because this does look like a fantastic opportunity for everyone else on the planet to spy on your government at the top level.

* also anyone in a country that has a military or economic relationship with the USA: we're still impacted even though we don't have a say in it
Almost all inland Celtic “cities” of western Europe were built around strong fortifiable positions, aka oppida. They were definitely well planned for defense against tribal warfare and tribal invasions. Aztec cities (probably all cities) had similar root motivations—-control and defend territory.

Bibracte near Autun in Burgundy — the city Julius Ceasar had to conquer — is built at the top of a 900 meter hill;

Pyrene/Heuneburg built on a rocky spur overlooking the Danube in southern Germany is considered the first real city north of the Alps.

Titelberg in Luxembourg was built on a site easily defended on three of four sides and with plenty of space at the top.

One interesting exception—-Milan (Mediolanum). Like ancient Mexico City its defenses consisted of water; tributaries to the Po and surrounding marshes.

Venice is even more like Tenochtitlan and a more radical and more “modern” version of Milan. The Venetia hit chased into their lagoon thanks to Attila and waves if Goths.

You are right that Tenochtitlan had a much more obviously planned lurban structure. But the “organics” of Venice have their own logic, partly partly due to tides and winds but mainly due to a focus on commercial districts rather than religious/ceremonial districts.

In 1500 both cities were very large: Tenochtitlan was close to 300,000 and Venice close to 200,000.
8% is total physician compensation including specialities. If you look at total billed physician services it's closer to 14%.

The difference comes from revenue skimmed off by entities that employ or contract physicians.

A huge part of that is profit skimmed off by private equity buying out physician groups over the last 20 years or so.
General strikes are illegal. If illegal stuff is on the table then there's way more than that, although i don't advocate it.
This is great. Nix made compiling ship of harkinian (ocarina of time pc port), 2ship2harkinian (majora's mask pc port) and sm64ex (super mario 64 pc port) trivial on nixos but where I really want them is on my steam deck. Now I can.
For context, Determinate is a startup made of the Nix guy and some of the senior community members. They explicitly support the Steam Deck (and used it as a test case to create their installer).

https://determinate.systems/posts/nix-on-the-steam-deck/
If you do let people change it then annotate it with (edited) so people can perform their own heuristics, if 10% of 5 stars were edited then it’s a bit suspect. Or keep the history of the reviews - it doesn’t take much to spot check and if platform users can do this on an individual basis then obviously the platform could do this algorithmically. They’ve just made the conscious decision not to.
> A relatively small group of people with Need for Chaos traits can now inflict a lot of damage in society.

I'd say that's owed to the degree web discourse becomes dominant over people talking in the flesh. If you have a circle of friends, and 5% of the time one of them is hungry and in such a foul mood they find fault with everything, would that shift the opinions of the group towards hating everything over time, or would it hone their arguments for how they generally feel and see things? I'll just guess it's not a problem. And the same if 1 out of 20 friends is always contrarian and finds fault with everything.

The internet has extremely distorting effects, I think. Things hit different when we know who we're dealing with and how sincere they are. Body language, tone of voice, even pheromones can say so much. I'm not saying "the real world" isn't ever misleading; but it offers infinitely more signal to process, and we evolved over millions of years to process them.

And then of course there's all sorts of professional shit stirring, which isn't mentioned in the article at all, e.g. https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/12/14/eu-needs-to-be...

But generally, many people don't have a stake in society, because it was stolen from them. Call it what you will but most have fuck all so very, very few can have most. And that's getting worse at increasing pace, still. That's fertile ground both for organic dissatisfaction and wanting to see the world burn, but also for interference and subversion. Healthy people who are part of a community that respects them and where their voice is heard don't go around salting the earth so nobody else gets to eat, either, and can't get seduced into it either.
It's really 50 years of Unix's dumb practice of installing everything at absolute paths in `/usr` that has come home to roost. I wonder if Nix will finally make people write relocatable apps.
Indeed inertia. Theory of motion consists of describing the properties of Inertia.

In terms of Newtonian mechanics the members of the equivalence class of inertial coordinate systems are related by Galilean transformation.

In terms of relativistic mechanics the members of the equivalence class of inertial coordinate systems are related by Lorentz transformation.

Newton's first law and Newton's third law can be grouped together in a single principle: the Principle of uniformity of Inertia. Inertia is uniform everywhere, in every direction.

That is why I argue that for Newtonian mechanics two principles are sufficient.

The Newtonian formulation is in terms of F=ma, the Lagrangian formulation is in terms of interconversion between potential energy and kinetic energy

The work-energy theorem expresses the transformation between F=ma and potential/kinetic energy
The work-energy theorem: I give a link to an answer by me on physics.stackexchange where I derive the work-energy theorem
https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/788108/17198

The work-energy theorem is the most important theorem of classical mechanics.

About the type of situation where the Energy formulation of mechanics is more suitable:
When there are multiple degrees of freedom then the force and the acceleration of F=ma are vectorial. So F=ma has the property that the there are vector quantities on both sides of the equation.

When expressing in terms of energy:
As we know: the value of kinetic energy is a single value; there is no directional information. In the process of squaring the velocity vector directional information is discarded, it is lost.

The reason we can afford to lose the directional information of the velocity vector: the description of the potential energy still carries the necessary directional information.

When there are, say, two degrees of freedom the function that describes the potential must be given as a function of two (generalized) coordinates.

This comprehensive function for the potential energy allows us to recover the force vector. To recover the force vector we evaluate the gradient of the potential energy function.

The function that describes the potential is not itself a vector quantity, but it does carry all of the directional information that allows us to recover the force vector.

I will argue the power of the Lagrangian formulation of mechanics is as follows:
when the motion is expressed in terms of interconversion of potential energy and kinetic energy there is directional information only on one side of the equation; the side with the potential energy function.

When using F=ma with multiple degrees of freedom there is a redundancy: directional information is expressed on both sides of the equation.

Anyway, expressing mechanics taking place in terms of force/acceleration or in terms of potential/kinetic energy is closely related. The work-energy theorem expresses the transformation between the two. While the mathematical form is different the physics content is the same.
The vast majority of soldiers will never plausibly be in a position to kill anyone, even in self defense.

And even in the worst wars, very few front line soldiers ever actually killed anyone - even infantry.
There can't be a competitive market. The entity that operates the grid has a monopoly on all customers in the area. So I would say entities that govern grids fall in a can't-be-allowed-to-fail-category while entities that govern generators do not (unless they buy enough generators in a region to effectively become a monopoly).
Ollama Nginx Proxy
As if the whole anti-intellectual hunt wasn’t enough, now PhD is a category implying holder of rote-knowledge at the highest level.
I guess it is hopeless to fight this, but a PhD is 100x more about the apprenticeship and real-world training as a scientist than any accumulated knowledge beyond ones prior training.

I know this is a rant, sorry, just so tired of the stupidity.
That thread seemed low on evidence. It seemed reasonable that that code could be part of a test suite.
I know what you mean. I'm not very reserved (is that the word I want?) though and don't mind speaking my mind — public or otherwise. Perhaps having left the job market, having passed 60 years of age makes me give less of a shit.

That said though, "publishing" keeps me honest. (In the same way I find using my actual name on the internet "keeps me honest". I'm disinclined to shit-post.)

I am more inclined to, if not fact-check all points I make, just drop indefensible things I might have said altogether. (And sometimes I learn just why a thought of mine is indefensible, ha ha.)
Lets look at one regulated area of the EU. Color coding of cables. Colors are defined by what they are used for and their voltage and amp allowed levels. In the USA black can be source while red can be ground, highly deregulated area.

EU allows for ease of maintenance because opening the electrical cover allows for quick glimpse of what wires do what. In the US, you need access to the production manual, or a lot of time with a multi-meter, to know what that black wire really does. This saves money and time by having color coding standards, for the manufacturer and consumer.

Electrical standards is another example. In the EU extension cords must supply the amperage they are being plugged into. Often the cord and surge protector need fuses to prevent fires. In the US, they sell 13 amp extension cords for 20 amp outlets. This greatly increase the chances of an electrical fire in the US and pushes the EU to near zero.

I know not to buy anything below the outlet amperage when buying an extension cord or surge protector. This requires education that the average person does not have. Regulations help remove the need for this type of education while providing a quality and sound solution that does the least chance of harm.

Talking to those from EU and Japan, they often restate the same benefits the the USA has. 1) Access to natural resources. 2) Fast changing business strategy pivots. Not once have I talked to someone from their wished they had the low standards in the food and other industries.

This free market and competitive market that people always talk about does not exist and never can truly exist. How many companies can sell the automation to place the chocolate dots on mass-produced cookies?

Should the EU abandon the USB-C charger and allow Apple to keep producing the lightening charger, increase unnecessary e-waste? Selling the lightening exclusive helped increase Apple's bottom monetary line. So should EU allow Apple to move back to the lightening charger?

Should we remove all regulation so that Grünenthal can sell thalidomide again?

Should we completely abandon all food manufacturing standards and allow Johnson and Johnson to sell asbestos in their baby powder or Abbott Nutrition’s Sturgis to sell baby formula with cronobacter?

USA McDownlad's has show they are willing to lower their standards when they can make more money from having to service their franchise's ice cream machines instead having quality and making money on the profit of their ice products.

Regulations need a proper balance. Zero regulation is an improper balance. If you believe in no regulations you don't have any standards yourself.

Which machine would you prefer using daily, along with your loved ones? Model A or Model B? One that can take off a limb and even decapitate you or the one that cannot?
The biggest irony to me is that Musk wanted to reneg on the Twitter sale. It's interesting to consider the timeline where he was allowed to not buy it. Truly a "canon" event, that one.

I'm also not convinced this is a "security breach." They're being allowed to do it. It's more like an unforced error, if anything. Not that it changes anything material about the situation.

That said - a small majority of congress is currently complicit in this, but I expect that to reverse as many Republican states will have congresspeople whose constituents are affected. I'd expect by May of this year some of this will have been reversed.

Sadly that's too long and some damage will be done perhaps permanently...
I see, but still there's a lot of reasonings just for counting the letters. And ridiculous reasonings like:

FedEx"? Five letters? F-E-D-E-X? No, that's six. Wait, FedEx is two syllables: Fed-Ex. Five letters? F-E-D-E-X? That's five letters? F, E, D, E, X. Yes, five letters. FedEx.
That would totally prove your point if this post was about Francis Bacon. It isn't.
This would be a lot more powerful with a citation. I did read the article but didn’t find this story you are referring to.
Another discussion, flagged for some reason: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42991887
I don't think trial versions of software reek of desperation. They are pushing trials because they think you'll like it and sign up for the paid version.
I generally blog about things that took a week+ of research and I want to save some other poor bastard the pain of what I had to piece together.

This is especially useful because link-rot means that resources I was able to uncover might not be available in the future. A few years ago I did a massive amount of research into internals of old unixes for data recovery and maintenance of said systems in the modern era(machines attached to million dollar pieces of testing equipment go away when the machine does). I was maintaining and upgrading(mostly scsi2sd) and backing up systems that all predated y2k. Most of my research references are now dead links to nowhere. I now print to pdf as well as take archive.is links of all my referenced sources.

I'm generally terrible about blogging, but I'm changing that for 2025. I'm now in a position where I'm solutions architecting a lot of things as my primary day job. This makes easy blog post subjects that not only clarify my thoughts and understanding, but end up being the basis for the internal documentation on the subject.

A lot of what I now do is in terraform, cloudformation, golang, or Python. I make sure when I publish my blog post, I include a complete working example. For all my terraform, all one has to do is clone and run terraform apply, after satisfying the barebones prerequisites.
I don't think people have to earn being socially equal, and can't earn being socially superior. Each person is 1 unit of human dignity, no seconds, but also no one left behind.
That's an interesting juxtaposition. I was going to comment on another (insightful!) comment here about how "the only indigenous-majority country is Greenland" brings up just how Americas-centric (plus the commonwealth...) the term "indigenous" is in the first place, and this is a great illustration of that IMO. Hopefully we can all agree that applying the term even to the British Isles gets really tough, and it gets downright impossible if you try to do it to somewhere like Palestine.

And it's no mystery why it has such big sway today in commonwealth countries as opposed to the relatively-minor importance it has in Latin America... In case anyone wasn't aware, the British Empire (and early US!) were definitely the baddies. I just recently found this quote by Jacob Howard, the liberal abolitionist senator who drafted the first sentence of the US's 14th Amendment, that I think shows how deep the assumption of animosity ran:

I am not yet prepared to pass a sweeping act of naturalization by which all the Indian savages, wild or tame, belonging to a tribal relation, are to become my fellow-citizens and go to the polls and vote with me.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_M._Howard#Speech_on_the_...

On another note: you likely know this, but Columbus only got funding for his voyage because the monarchs were doing their victory-lap after finally conquering the last stronghold of the Iberian Moors, Granada. So it's all quite connected, not just by chance.

It's semi-common knowledge among nerds that the Islamic Golden Age isn't appreciated enough in western culture beyond "someone presumably was on the other side of the Crusades", but this is making me consider how the age of discovery's push for colonization might've been driven/inspired by a feeling of jealousy and inferiority compared to the rapid growth of the Islamic emirates...
One can do the precisely how it's done in the article -- inspect the assembly.
Jira integration next! This sounds great for leadership and team-building literature.
I’d be remiss if I didn’t also mention that 98% of that 9.7% (so 9.5 of the 9.7) comes from slashing profits to $0. Exec comp alone is just a rounding error by comparison.