skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not the same as the current setup, as it would provide justification for control over every aspect of your life.

Like skydiving? Too bad, it costs us in heath care dollars, so we have to ban it. Competitive sports? Can't justify the cost. Oh and of COURSE you can't have free choice in your diet and libations. People make unhealthy choices and it costs all of us, so your choices will be made for you.

It won't go all the way there day one, probably won't go there fully in the end, but the effect will be real. Just look at how every aspect of our freedom was restricted over COVID, with the justification that your choices "impact other people".

It will put overly cautious or even just overly controlling public health individuals as having control they never should be allowed to have
Heuristic search, not exhaustive search, is an essential ingredient of reasoning. Has been true since chess. Remains true with MCTS, LLMs, etc.
It is extraordinarily rare for general strike to not refer to union activity.
Admittedly I didn't read this all the way through.

I only made it about halfway, and I stopped largely because its a lot of words rehashing the same or similar arguments and structures all containing the initial flaw in many different ways, that is survival bias.

It neglects established material on the limits to growth. Its not based in reality, and in my opinion not worth the time spent reading.
the pointer was very useful; ta!
And Chubby Gates.

Is this article...

a- satire

b- mockery

c- gaslighting.
It bugs me no end because in every debate about public/private ownership people maintain these wild fantasies that governments can handle long term thinking and capitalists can't. But frequently the story is like this one, it turns out the institutions of capitalism have longer planning time horizons than the public does. Turns out that low-bandwidth-low-expertise systems like public voting doesn't lead to focused technical excellence.

I'm not dead set against municipal utilities because a municipality is so small reasonably motivated people can actually make a big impact. But a competitive free market is still better because if the incumbent is so incompetent that a total system failure is likely there is the biggest opportunity for someone to head the crisis off before it eventuates.
MESI Cache Coherency Protocol Visualization
Heavy recommend the biography of Stewart Brand that’s quoted throughout!
If other languages just had the wonderful package and package body, they would have solved many or even most of my problems.
Downside being that updates to amount are more costly and more storage required for the index. In your example though, it is probably a good optimization since how often do you change your up/down votes.

I just wanted to point out that you really have to think about these types of optimizations because they might make one query faster but slow everything else down to the point where you are spending more time overall and using more storage.
Agreed, except I am more on jwz’s side with regard to the “hackers” here. Despite the name and occasionally intelligent discussion, HN isn’t really about hacker culture. It’s about Silicon Valley venture capitalism, with hacker-relevant topics largely used for tech cachet and recruitment. Real hackers are, on the whole, aligned with anarchism and socialism and are generally incompatible with SV culture. They would certainly want nothing to do with Thiel’s ridiculous politics.
>explains the otherwise perplexing fact that laborsaving machinery fails to benefit workers

I disagree, the reason why workers don’t benefit is because they are mostly paid to put hours in. Owners claim the gains of better machinery because they reason it is a capital investment at the business level.

Really I don’t see why see why this is perplexing. What is really perplexing is that some economists thought that productivity gains would somehow accrue gains for workers.
How else do you fix it? If you leave it alone, the problem will keep persisting because there is no reason to change.
> An old school (pre 2020) cold or flu lasts a few days at most

Actual flu always lasted weeks, just lots of people call bad colds "the flu" until they experience the flu for the first time.
I got

> Access denied

> The owner of this website (steamosaic.com) does not allow hotlinking to that resource (/redozaus.jpeg).
Security clearances are granted by the president, or someone delegated by him. The president has absolute authority to bypass, modify, or shut down the clearance credentialing system. There is no law or Constitutional requirement dictating security requirements or how they are applied.

As the sibling comment pointed out, this is not to say that doing so is a good idea. But it's very probably legal.
You appear to believe those things are true, but consider what evidence you actually have beyond social media claims. For example, the very first one has been circulating in right-wing social media but we don’t have any evidence that it’s actually true:

https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-chelsea-clinton-foundati...

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/clinton-foundation-paid-fo...

The second similarly wasn’t a DOGE find and is vaguely sourced because it was from Nancy Mace’s political fundraising and there’s a direct financial incentive to misrepresent what was actually funded. If you read the actual grants, they’re studying things like gender-based differences in how wounds heal or whether transgender people have different responses to things like HIV vaccination or other medical treatments - and unless your position is that transgender people shouldn’t exist, it’s hard to argue that a tiny fraction of a percent of government spending going to medical research is fraud.

Similarly, there is still no evidence that COVID was caused by gain of function research even if it would be really useful politically.

Finally, not understanding why the United States invests money building influence internationally is not fraud. We spent trillions invading Iraq and Afghanistan, it’s profoundly unsurprising that we spent money trying to improve our reputation in those countries.
> pretty much since the iPhone

I would say it's since the dot-com crash, I went to university in 2003 and it was like 100:1 men in the CS courses back then.
Fantastic article. I wish there was a crowdsourced “annoyances database” which people contribute information to everytime they kill an element on a page; it’d be amazing to have a browser extension that queries the database and auto-kills anything voted as annoying by the masses.

Everyone has favorite addons - if you’re looking to expand, here are mine for iOS Safari.

- Kill Sticky Scroll - hide dickbars and obnoxious overlays in front of the content. Use iOS Shortcuts app to create a new shortcut, set it to receive input from Share Sheet and add a “run javascript” then paste this js: https://github.com/t-mart/kill-sticky/blob/master/src/kill-s... (you’ll need to add a call to `completion()` to make it a valid Shortcuts js function)

- AutoPiP: automatic picture-in-picture when tabbing away from a playing video in Safari https://github.com/vordenken/AutoPiP

- Vinegar to use the native video player on youtube: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vinegar-tube-cleaner/id1591303...
gotta love these sweeping unsubstantiated statements, very reliable!
Not really. It really is a linux kernel that uses the ancient windows (pre-95, or pre-NT) technique of "cooperative" multitasking. It works on everything. It's super efficient. However, one process fails (or just slows down) or corrupts memory and it takes your entire system (in this case all other linux processes) down with it.
We've been starting code bases in Ada for embedded consumer power generation products for the last year. Huge improvement over C, nobody on the team has any regrets.

Just because it isn't topping the TIOBE index doesn't mean it doesn't have its place.
> If I'm an outlier, it won't have any effect.

How many people does it take to flag a post to the point where it doesnt show up anymore?
Acknowledging what governments do makes me a communist? All societies impose rules on its citizens. Some socieities have imposed a publicly funded healthcare solution. Some of them have done so successfully. Leave the country if you don’t like living somewhere that imposes rules on you.
Sounds like your ISP needs to update their IRR and RIR records
Agree. It's also a virtue to point out the emperor has no clothes and the tailor peddling them is a bullshit artist.

This is no different than the crypto people who insisted the blockchain would soon be revolutionary and used for everything, when in reality the only real use case for a blockchain is cryptocoins, and the only real use case for cryptocoins is crime.

The only really good use case for LLMs is spam, because it's the only use case for generating a lot of human-like speech without meaning.
Android.

Mellanox
You say this isn't perplexing while commenting on an article by one of the most important people in industry repeating exactly this fallacy?

HN is full of people who happily and earnestly propagate this "obvious" falsehood.
In the spirit of the tangent because you know contemporary success is vanity and you should aim at what's eternal. The western tradition is filled with admonitions since the Greeks about these things-- Seneca's letter 7 "on crowds", everything written by Epicurus, the entire life of Diogenes... Montaigne "on glory"
I feel like the people I knew could be trusted with money, but were straight up dangerous to be around. Most of them were smart enough to make and keep friends, but still had a psychopathic streak.
true neutrality is impossible since we all have some inherent biases, but it does cite its sources, which is important and allows you to then decide if you want to trust the source or not

also, for a lot of people "not neutral" means "it says stuff I don't agree with"
well, he defines a bunch of classes each with a single method then...

just seems to add a lot of abstraction, that might bury your understanding.
> I mean just try it yourself with o1, go as deep as you like asking how it arrived at a conclusion

I don't mean to disagree overall, but on this point the LLM can post-facto rationalize its output but it has no introspection and has absolutely no idea why it made a given bit of output (except in so far as it was a result of COT which it could reiterate to you). The set of weights being activated could be nearly disjoint when answering and explaining the answer.

One can also make the same argument about humans -- that they can't introspect their own minds and are just posthoc rationalizing their explanations unless their thinking was a product of an internal monolog that they can recount. But humans have a lifetime of self-interaction that gives a good reason to hope that their explanations actually relate to their reasoning. LLM's do not.

And LLMs frequently give inconsistent results, it's easy to demonstrate the posthoc nature of LLM's rationalizations too: Edit the transcript to make the LLM say something it didn't say and wouldn't have said (very low probability), and then have it explain why it said that.

(Though again, split brain studies show humans unknowingly rationalizing actions in a similar way)
>"Math for dummies" book writers don't argue that mathematicians are stupid/incompetent because they do not spend enough time on the basics.

His argument isn't that they don't spend enough time on the basics. His argument is that they don't know the basics even exist.

This is true in my experience. I've interviewed scores of candidates over the years who just have absolutely no mental model of what is going on under whatever abstraction layer they generally work in.

Making trade offs to sacrifice performance for things like developer speed is fine. But if you're not aware you are making those trade offs, I might not call you stupid, but I will call you ignorant.

>Every. Single. Software I use is bloated, I am unaware of any software solely consuming that it should, nothing is close to the theoretical limit, this is not a knowledge issue.

It's not binary. There's a continuum. No software is ever going to use exactly the minimum theoretically possible number of instructions and memory over the entire program.

But some software is worse and some is better.

It is possible to believe that the problem can be solved by changing the culture, while simultaneously believing that you aren't going to be able to completely change the culture. While also believing that you can shift the culture ever so slightly such that you make it just a little bit better.

You can also hold all of the above beliefs while believing that there is a systemic underlying issue that you have no idea how to solve.

From my observations (having watched a good bit of early handmade hero and a good bit of his paid course) the above is pretty close to his beliefs.

It's also fairly close to my own thoughts on the subject. The underlying issue is that software is an industry that primarily competes on features, not quality. I think the reasons for that are numerous--everything from software being an immature industry, to the distorting effects of cheap money flowing into the industry from the previous few decades.

I believe this will work itself out to some degree over time as the industry becomes more mature and we start to see more diminishing returns for just adding new features. Developers will start to look towards other things to differentiate themselves and quality/performance could be one of them.

I don't think there's anything I or Casey can do to change the market dynamics, and I can't think of a technical fix to this issue. I suspect Casey can't either.

I also think that there are niches today where performance and quality can outcompete more features.

Given all the above, I think pushing to convince a small percentage of people that spending a bit more time thinking about performance is a rational goal. Maybe it's the best you can do. But maybe you end up with just a few less wasted cycles in the world. Maybe you end up with a few more pieces of software that feel snappy and pleasant to use than you otherwise would have.
Gazprom: 23,000 Sites/Telegram Channels Blocked, 770 Lawsuits Won in 2024
Calling for journalists to be fired for publishing facts doesn't say much for "dedication to free speech", does it. (Not that I thought it was anything but a cover.)
Of course they do, but as a cohort, young men experience substantially more discrimination than young women, because they are being punished for the sins of previous generations.

don’t be silly. insane statements like this you’d have to back with (non-existent) data. so just stop it with this absolute garbage. men, especially white, have every fucking imaginable advantage possible in this country from the time they are born until they are 6 feet under. and of course many find ways to fuck it up and then blame society for it. fucking hell
There have passed too many years since they have claimed that they know how to make iron nitride magnets, but no commercial products have appeared.

The iron nitride magnets require a special crystal structure, which is not the most stable for that material, so it is difficult to find processing methods so that the material will have that crystal structure and even if the structure is produced, it might revert in time to a more stable structure, which does not have the desired magnetic properties.

Like typical for such startups, that company does not say anything about which are the roadblocks that have prevented them for so many years to make iron nitride magnets until now, but it is pretty certain that their patents are bogus and the methods described there have not been usable for making what they claim to be able to make.
https://hazards.fema.gov/nri/wildfire

https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/maps/fw?type=fdr&year=2024&mon...

Don’t make shit up. Quebec fire risk is much, much lower than California. Both companies have to maintain vegetation around the lines. HQ’s risk of vegetation outages is outages for some customers on a feeder. California’s is the state burns down. It’s just not remotely the same.

I’m willing to believe HQ does it better but the challenges ahead of them are wayyyy different
And we are collaborating with other countries via the World Health Organization…
That's specifically because gpus aren't IEEE compliant, and calculations will drift differently on different gpus. Double precision can help avoid divide by zero errors in some shaders because most don't guard against that and NANs propagate easily and show up as visual corruption.
This is a great book that explains PG in a step-by-step way. I learned a ton from it

https://theartofpostgresql.com/
So okay for companies to market their products or services, but not okay for a person to market themselves?
I just asked Midjourney to do precisely that, and it swapped the boots with no issue, although it didn't seem to quite understand what it meant for a cat to _wear_ boots.
Mid-range one-liners don't really make convincing arguments, though do they? I appreciate this comment may have been made more in service of a certain smugness and self-satisfaction rather than any real or concrete complaint... but you do you.

On the flip side... perhaps using techniques from the 80s with a programming language and paradigm also from the 80s... and that hasn't changed all that much... isn't all that crazy.

At the end of the day: the evaluation of a given technique such as I described, should be measured against if it makes the development experience simpler and more comprehensible. Being able to instantly tell if a given reference in a procedural query comes from a table a view, a variable, or a parameter, I find helpful since we're typically using many names from these different origins and contexts and frequently side-by-side, such as in a complex query driving the procedural code.

Of course, If you don't like that, or simply don't find it sufficiently "modern" or "fashionable" (my God, what might others think!?)... again, I invite you to do you.
The Pied Piper strategy was to draw media attention to Trump, Cruz, and Carson in order to force the mainstream candidates like Bush and Walker to comment on issues they'd prefer not to. It was not to get Trump nominated, which you can tell from the plain text of the email. In any case, the strategy was almost immediately obsolete, because Trump was the frontrunner from the moment he went down that escalator.

You seem to be suggesting that the media undermined DeSantis in 2023-2024 in order to assist "the left" in winning the election. The problem with this is twofold: first, media outlets that nobody would accuse of sympathy with the left (Fox News, the New York Post, etc.) were no friendlier to DeSantis; second, mainstream media outlets continued to treat Trump favorably after he won the nomination (for instance, uncritically accepting his false claims that he had nothing to do with Project 2025).
> Job losses in tech can be attributed in part to the influence of AI, according to Victor Janulaitis, chief executive of Janco Associates.

How are they able to attribute this? Ive yet to see an AI tool that is useful to the point where I don't need extra coworkers.

The article ends by pointing out tech companies are still doing layoffs. How are these not just coincidental?
The abstract doesn’t specify that the 857 training examples were filtered down by R1 from 10 million initial questions. This helps to understand the result better: it is in large part a testament to R1 and similar models’ remarkable ability sift through and identify/construct perfect training data for other models.
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To what degree is this common knowledge? After 20 years of being highly online I'm surprised to be so blindsided. Not that I work in security or anything.
Things the webpage should answer:

- If it's free, like you say here, that it's free.

- What languages does it work for?

- What's the process to start?

Things I'm curious about:

- Is this intended to be a business? How do we get surprised by this costing something or disappearing in the future?

- Can it work in the opposite direction, e.g. to help students that speak Chinese pick up targeted English vocabulary based on what they're working on?
sounds like these two + systems are essentially the same system, but with a different case and controller.
Don't forget that DT's "mishandled documents" were actually top secret information about election security wrt Russia. Really would like to know what all those meetings between Vlad and Elon in 2024 were about.

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2023/12/politics/missing-rus...
Doesn't seem biased to me and I use it all the time. I don't expect it to reflect the gospel truth, but it cites sources so I can always look those up (and I do) to see where that piece of information is coming from. Plenty of stuff on there I disagree with but still way better than anything else out there.
In the case that does happen, then we don't apply that setting. Most of the changes applied are extensively tested and toggles like that are more often used for already broken shaders.
It’s not about going back. It’s about advancing and changing the current state to better work for the people.
When looking at the sheer amount of money and power concentrated in the US government it doesn't make a lot of sense that the elections are consistently free of fraud.

It is a bit like the weird jump in scandals out of politics between the pre-internet era and now. It turns out that the press just didn't report on a lot of things. Voter fraud will be similar, as the data becomes more public and people start coordinating more effectively a lot of dross is probably going to get turned up.
my bad, i might have missed the sarcasm then :)
And anyone that gets busted will just get pardoned. Trump
and Musk broke the system.
I think it'd be great if the security of every election were vigorously tested.
Articles like this are pure chutzpah. The same side that's alleging interference in 2024 suggested that to question election irregularities in 2020 was to reject democracy itself. I don't think the authors are going to convince anyone.

"But there's evidence this time and there wasn't in 2020!" Well, the other side would argue the opposite. We're not going to get anywhere this way.

Look: regardless of the the extent to which these alleged voting shenanigans are real, we need to fix the system. The legitimacy of the state is at risk.

Just as Caesar's wife must be above reproach, our voting system must be above reproach. There are plenty of common sense things officials can take to bolster the public's faith in the system. For example, we should ban electronic voting machines. The real threat to democracy isn't election manipulation but officials who refuse to enact measures that would dispel even the appearance of manipulation.
Plus what doesn't kill you might well weaken you enough that the next thing really knocks you down
this is the question that the greeks wrestled with over 2000 years ago. at the time there were the sophists (modern llm equivalents) that could speak persuasively like a politician.

over time this question has been debated by philosophers, scientists, and anyone who wanted to have better cognition in general.
I feel the place where that intuition might have an exception is where you want a culture change, or you want to communicate a culture of "anyone can do this and is encouraged to". Sometimes it makes sense to automate something that doesn't save time, like putting it in a chatbot command that invites others to run it :)
Yeah, I spent last summer learning and programming attinys in Arduino and soldering small hacks.

This is certainly appealing in comparison to microservice monstrosity I write in a team at work.
News to me. But probably similarly expensive once the environmental regulations for wells, etc, and it's excavation are considered. And even fewer installers who are qualified to do it.
Visually, bootstrap 2.23 was peak, before the flat bullshit took hold.