skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am wondering what will happen at the end of all of this? I see a few possibilities here:

1. Either this project will be a tremendous success for the American people, saving millions and uncovering massive fraud and waste in the government thanks to the audits

2. It will ab a complete failure, nothing of value will get discovered, published and time and money will be wasted for everyone involved (giving the DNC a huge attack vector for the next election)

3. Alternatively, some efforts may yield some positive net results but others will fail to bring anything of value in fruition, this to me, seems to most realistic outcome, but who knows?

This is going to be an interesting experiment for the rest of the world to watch.
Of course, but using one delimiter/convention for more than one things makes it hard/impossible to disambiguate them. With foo_bar_baz, you can't easily tell what's what. `"FooBar_Baz"` or maybe `foo_bar__baz` is clear.
Well if they call it "good music" because "they like it", that does not form a theory of music; whereas if they call it "good music" because they recognize it as an expression of good artistic form, and they are of promising judgement, than their theory could be translated into a generative architecture.
Not sure why everyone rates this. It’s full of very confidently made statements like “the AI has no ground truth” (obviously it does, it has ingested every paper ever), it “can’t reason logically” which seems like a stretch if you ever read the CoT of a frontier reasoning model and “can’t explain how they arrived at conclusions” where - I mean just try it yourself with o1, go as deep as you like asking how it arrived at a conclusion and see if a human can do any better.

In fact the most annoying thing about this article is that it is a string of very confidently made, black and white statements, offered with no supporting evidence, and some of which I think are actually wrong… i.e. it suffers from the same kind of unsubstantiated self confidence that we complain about with the weaker models
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." — Benito Mussolini
“The intelligence of an AI model roughly equals the log of the resources used to train and run it. These resources are chiefly training compute, data, and inference compute.”

Hasn’t the latest big improvements in LLMs been due to change in approach/algorithm? Reasoning models and augmenting LLMs with external tools and internet access (agents and deep research).

As far I can tell classical pure LLMs are only improving modestly at this point.
Emotional posts like yours don’t really further the discussion of whether it’s good practice for US leaders to wear an Apple Watch.
That's an easy swipe to make. What would you suggest instead?
No. No I don’t. Before all this nobody knew anything. Then Trump and Elon came along and now everybody on the internet is an expert, and has all sorts opinions based off fear.

We have a system. If it is not legal it will be flushed out. The only people who seem to have an issue seem to be ones who simply don’t like the who.
> $6 million to fund tourism in Egypt [link explains it is to fund economic development in North Sinai]

This sounds like an absolutely expected program for USAID, given that it is a soft power aid agency. Egypt is a regional partner to the US and this province has been a source of Islamist violence. It also borders the Gaza Strip.
This assumes that leaking is a compulsive behavior. The federal government has stronger incentives to offer for not leaking information. Getting fired is nothing.
I've been using Zerotier personally and professionally for some 10 years or more and as a network engineer I love the product, and have long recommended it. I've compared it to Tailscale, and while Tailscale has a lot more enterprise-y features, they too miss some key features of Zerotier like being able to use route ANY subnet IP addresses, not just limited to their 100.64/10 addressing Tailscale limits you to. Tailscale also requires you to use an oauth account for users, which has never been compelling for personal use.

I also believe it was around before Tailscale, or at least I knew of it before Tailscale, but I've never seen a compelling need to move from Zerotier to Tailscale.
> Like it or not, it's been a pretty transparent process.

Not at all. Musk has cherry picked a few things to share. Other than that, we know nothing. And most of what he's cherry picked have been shown to be incorrectly understood. Transparency would be third party auditors who setup a process, executed the process, and documented as they went. We literally have no idea what's going on.
My understanding is that splay is more of a benchmark that you try to make generational GC not hurt too much. It allocates lots of long-lived objects that it holds onto for the full test, and for JS at least it then hangs strings off of those objects. It's pretty easy to make a generational GC just add an extra copy for no benefit with splay.

In SpiderMonkey, we had to add pretenuring in order to avoid slowing down splay too much. As in, identify specific allocation sites that create long-lived allocations, and allocate them directly from the older generation instead of having them go through the nursery. It's sort of selectively disabling generational GC on an allocation site granularity. (Also, make sure you're not storing nursery strings inside of tenured objects. While it's possible they'll be quickly overwritten by different strings, it's much more likely that they're going to last as long as the object does.)

Within Octane, the RegExp subtest had the biggest gain from allocating strings in the nursery. (But that's going from generational objects -> generational objects and strings. Non-generational objects -> generational objects might show up more on something else.)
> Can you define what you mean by economic liberation?

Not having to work outside of providing basic necessities for yourself and the rest of humanity.

As for GDP - economists have been embarrassing and discrediting themselves for decades - please don't cite their propaganda in discussions about the real world.

You need to measure real world things. Can we grow enough food, can we build enough shelter, can we transport goods, can we make clothes, basic medicine? Without working 40 hours/week? The answer should be obvious.

This insane talk of productivity is more economist propaganda. We've been plenty productive for a long time. The problem is an incompetent elite and a populace that continues to not believe their lying eyes, citing 'experts'.
The binaries AdaCore used to distribute stated that you had to get gnat elsewhere for this link level exception because the runtime library they distributed did not have the exception. But, I'm glad to know that this restriction has been solved.
I expect the lingua franca in science and technology will shift to Mandarin in the next 10-15 years.
> since my read of your previous comment seemed to suggest you knew a way I did not, I had my fingers crossed.

Whoops, typo! edited.

> Interestingly, the RISC-V guys seem to think that adding an explicit instruction is a waste of silicon while adding this to the instruction decoder is the way to go

From what I've read, the thing they're against (or at least is a major blocker) is having a standard GPR instruction that takes 3 operands, as all current GPR instrs take a max of two. I cannot imagine there being any way that fusing instructions is less silicon than a new instruction whatsoever; if anything else, it'd be not wanting to waste opcode space, or being fine with the branchy version (which I'm not).

Zen 4, at least as per Agner's microarchitecture optimization guide, only fuses nops and cmp/test/basic_arith+jcc; not that many tricks, only quite necessary ones (nops being present in code alignment, and branches, well, being basically mandatory every couple instructions).

No need for a plugin; it is possible to achieve branchess moves on both as-is: https://www.godbolt.org/z/eojqMseqs. A plugin wouldn't be any more stable than that mess. (also, huh, __builtin_expect_with_probability actually helped there!)

I'd imagine a major problem for the basic impls is that the compiler may early on lose the info that the load can be ran in both cases, at which point doing it unconditionally would be an incorrect transformation.
If you were a book recommender system, what other books are similar to yours? I've read plenty of science/maths light read non-fiction, so I want to compare the reading experience before I jump into the book.
Good to know, I passed over Ada for Common Lisp around 2015 because of this.
Incidentally, there was a report on Friday that German research institutions are seeing a substantial increase in applications from the US, presumably due to the US government cutting research funding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopping_cart?wprov=sfti1#Deve...

https://www.afstores.com/the-intriguing-story-of-how-the-sho...

or if those sources aren't your cup of tea, how about Fox News

https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/meet-american-invented-sho...

> The public — naturally — hated the idea.
I encourage users to log context switches and then find tools to address the context switch. Try to stay in your terminal whenever possible .

For documentation context switches (e.g. stackexchange/googling) : install tldr, fabric , devdocs, sdk docs etc . And get comfortable searching man pages with “/“ and man -K

For job/task context switching (e.g. running multiple jobs like a transfer job and a measure-status job), get familiar with bash job control or tmux

For history context switching (e.g. re-running an old command) , set a long history like HISTFILESIZE=100000 and use ctrl-r. If you ever run out of history, make it bigger . Also dump helpful commands into a README.md with echo COMMAND ARG1 ARG2… >> README.md . Fzf is also helpful.

For context-switches stemming from missing settings / dot files, set up “dotfiles bare git repo”. You can push this repo around with SSH, so every fresh machine will have your settings on first login.

The challenges in her survey are common, and I wish shells did better user onboarding and tutorials, the way games and consumer apps do. But each one can be addressed with the right preparation.
To the 1%? Just look at the historic wealth distribution chart. It’s wild.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_Uni...
I am responding to the content of Daniel's comment, not hijacking his comment to coattail my views of the article itself. I think the replies to his comment are the most appropriate place to respond to it.

The effect you describe is an unfortunate side effect of any threaded forum where the ordering of sibling posts is determined by some measure of quality: all responses to the first top-level comment, no matter the quality, precede the second top-level comment, which is probably of higher quality (on average). This is one of many reasons that threaded comments are flawed. Flat comments (phpBB style) of course have their own flaws and chronological threaded comments (LWN for example) have their own too.
Taxes could be consumption based with no need for anyone’s personal data at all.
Turns out Domino Theory was real after all.
Looks like you pushed this midway through my read; I was pleasantly surprised to suddenly find breadcrumbs at the end and didn’t need to keep two tabs open. Great work, and I mean in total - this is well written and understandable to the layman.
What makes you think that more artificial stuff is going to reinvigorate the business? Metaverse was supposed to be such savior, but this time they didn’t even rename the company…
Or every billionaire will want a world leader?
clang has the __builtin_unpredictable() intrinsic[0] for this purpose.

[0] https://clang.llvm.org/docs/LanguageExtensions.html#builtin-...
Because there aren't "thousands of employees" with this kind of access, and few people who have had it were thoroughly vetted.

I mean, we've had multiple classified info leaks by low-level employees, most recently a 20 year old Massachusetts Air National Guard member who leaked hundreds of top secret Pentagon docs on the Ukraine War to his bros on the "Thug Shaker Central" Discord channel. Some hundreds of thousands of people had access to this stuff. If there are specific subsets of documents with very limited need-to-know access, you need to be clear about which documents and how many people have access.

We are well beyond partisan "points of view" here. This isn't really about policy, this is about the law and whether or not anyone has any interest in enforcing it.

Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution: "The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America." The law is the president has ultimate authority over the executive branch and e.g. all classified information and can disclose it to anyone he wants. Obviously there are certain asterisks and exceptions to this authority, so if you want to be specific about which laws being violated please go ahead, but painting with a broad brush that individuals who have been delegated authority by the president are breaking the law by accessing executive branch information is unserious.

The claim that no one in America is enforcing the law anymore is extremely grave and should not be made lightly by a civic minded person.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Teixeira#Publication_of_l...
You blog because what you blog about has value because it interests you, you give it value with your energy and time and because you are thinking and writing about it, not others.

You blog to write.

You write to explore and develop your thoughts ideas and feelings.

You write publicly because you appreciate others who you found doing the same
What evidence do the journalists have? Elon is cleared, many of his employees are by nature of the work they do. Many of the listed personnel for each of the DOGE teams in the orgs are comprised of Cleared lawyers and invdividuals from within the orgs as well. The burden isn't on proving they aren't, it's on the journalist to prove the sensationalist claims. There is clearly evidence of oversight, the president is authorizing actions. He was elected, we don't have to like it but it's how things are structured. Want change, back the candidates that will fix the issues you want, convince everyone else to agree.

One good example of sensationalism from journalists is the claim this is a "Data breach". That's neither true, nor helpful.
Here’s [1] a report from the early days of electricity privatisation in NSW. In all honesty it’s been about a decade since I have read it closely but I would say it’s fairly serious and it does like efficiency as a metric.

Underproductive though is certainly simpler but my understanding is that it was inefficient because the asset owner charging an equilibrium price should in theory lead to higher overall production (obviously lack of competition hurts this).

[1] https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/researchpapers/Documents/e...
This is dogmatism, or "speaking in absolutes", and it's extremely common with pseudo-intellectuals in general.

The Dunning-Kruger effect also applies to smart people. You don't stop when you are estimating your ability correctly. As you learn more, you gain more awareness of your ignorance and continue being conservative with your self estimates.

My own take on this:

I think real intelligence by definition requires humility. One has to realize that we can't know the things we don't know, which includes the fact that we can't always trust our own beliefs and opinions because we might be relying on faulty or incomplete information, or we might be suffering from a mental health problem, whether we are aware of it or not.

"As a rule, strong feelings about issues do not emerge from deep understanding." -Sloman and Fernbach
This site is called hacker news… the article is news about hackers
Some good points made in the article.

If you use the terminal for any appreciable amount of time I heavily suggest getting fzf (even if just for the search).

Tmux is great if you need any more than 1 terminal window open at once - just remap some of its hotkeys to stuff that make more sense for you (e.g. I use "Alt + |" to split vertically and "Alt + -" (minus) to split horizontally).

Man pages are generally about 500 times longer than I need them to be (just help me do a basic curl/SSH copy/... please) - so I have cheat.sh aliased which helps a lot with simple "how do I use X".

Aliases in general are insanely useful. If you're a fzf search whiz they may not help you as much but seeing people type common commands out multiple times a day... makes me happy knowing I have my alias bank.
UK orders Apple to give it access to encrypted cloud data
Or the way around.
Laughably false, camps like Dachau were on newspapers and newsreels. Almost every Germans were aware that they were rounding up Jews and murdering them in camps.
I can relate to many of the frustrations. As years have passed, I've been trying to lessen the (repetitive) effort required for basic monitoring and maintenance over plain SSH. I felt that just the shell wasn't good enough, and large software stacks just increase maintenance burden.

Ended up creating a GUI app called Lightkeeper (https://github.com/kalaksi/lightkeeper). Works over SSH, requires no daemons and is configurable. Still working on some unfinished features.
One reason to stick to a restricted naming scheme for tables is that table names cannot be parametrized. This means you need to implement escaping manually in tools/scripts where table names are not hardcoded. Snake casing creates word boundaries that do not rely on casing and thus do not need to be quoted, there for your manual escaping/sanitization is greatly simplified (lowercase ascii characters, numbers and underscore). I’ve found this reduces the number of footguns by one in databases maintained by a team with varying degrees of familiarity with RDBMS.
Elon Musk's DOGE team is raising eyebrows with their seemingly reckless behavior.

Their actions are causing concern for several reasons:

* A 19-year-old with a questionable past has been given access to sensitive US government systems.
* The team is reportedly using this access to dig through student loan data.
* This could potentially put millions of Americans at risk of identity theft or other forms of financial exploitation.
It's nonsense in that is what was going on within the agencies. Our legal system is being leveraged. Don't like it, put forth a good claim and bring it to court. As it stands, it's all legal. That's on the voters if you don't like it.
> One of the DOGE kids may have just cloned every repo and then connect the machine to public internet because they need to fed it to an AI to figure out how things work.

May...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/02/06/elon-musk-d...
I'll believe it when I see it. This smells like boarding-school braggadocio.
> Tax data is not particularly sensitive and several nations just publish it.

Aren't we still waiting for Trump's tax returns?
I've been following nutrition "science" for the past 10 years, and to say it's cluster fudge is an understatement.
> a chris-chan tier autistic person

I think a lot of Chris-Chan’s issues aren’t due to autistic traits in themselves, they are due to being surrounded by a subculture of stalkers obsessed with doing all in their power to make those issues worse
apart from all the other points mentioned, the blogger can read it.

(I have not read all the comments yet, only a few, maybe someone has already said this.)

obviously you can do that on your own computer too, but with an online blog, you can read it from anywhere, on any usable device, with an internet connection.

you can read your own thoughts or code or whatever from 10 years or more ago.

and you can keep your blog private to yourself if you want, on those blogging platforms that support that.
See https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/75009.
There should (hopefully) be an ~official-nix version of the detsys installer in the ~near future. (That said, one slice of the reasons this has taken a while is that the upstream Nix variant is obliged to stick to official features for now.)

It's basically at the point where it just needs a redirect from the nixos.org domain, and for the project/community to work through how to manage its development/relationship to the Nix repo.
Oh, so the CCC aren't "proper" hackers now? Where can I see that memo?

https://media.ccc.de/

Lots of political stuff, in context most importantly https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-correctiv-recherche-geheimplan-g...

Whereas any old thing that "might be interesting" is fine when it comes from a rich person? Make a poll at the CCC, or Defcon, about the value of such posts, I'd be very curious.
> Buddy, you're doing something called Source Bombing.

You're doing something called "Moving the goalposts" by first asking for sources and then complaining because those sources don't support the very narrow construal you seem to be applying to my argument.

Those sources are scientific studies, which by the very nature of the scientific processes of course are open-ended.