skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the mines are going to be in China anyway, right

If you had read the article you’d know they have their own mine:
“Hardly any firms, even in China, do what MP is attempting: produce finished magnets starting with ore that the company mines itself”
Mostly China doesn’t mine materials but has concentrated the refining capacity in China for many commodities. Thankfully, we do have backup capacity so we won’t be totally screwed if China cuts us off, and the refining technology is well understood and in a conflict we or our allies can cut them off from many raw materials so their refining advantage isn’t a checkmate.
Trying to repress discussion is the opposite of soberly analyzing divisive topics, so you are attempting to prove your point. There are many people who disagree with you (including me) and would encourage you to dig in and practice curiosity and open discussion
> The problem I have with this kind of bias evaluation is fairly straightforward: what if a group of people aligned in a particular way engages in more "untrustworthy" speech than their counterparts?

The article takes this into account: "but a similar standard has not been applied to lower quality, left-leaning sources such as CounterPunch, AlterNet, and the Daily Kos."
By 2023 all of the 2020 election claims had been thoroughly investigated by numerous Republican officials and committees and they found no actual evidence. Anyone who still believed at that point in the claims the election was stolen is at best willfully ignorant.

The analysis here is using publicly available data and they are pointing out statistical properties of that data that they say are highly indicative of manipulation. They are giving enough information for outside statisticians and others to reproduce their work.

This is not at all comparable to most of the claims after the 2020 election. The closest comparable claims in 2020 were some of the claims based on some vote distributions in some districts not obeying Benford's law. Those didn't hold up because given the demographics of those districts Benford's law would not be expected to hold.

(I wrote a web-based simple simulation using data from one of the states that the people basing claims on Benford's law were using in order to illustrate how much the distribution could differ from a Benford distribution. Anyone curious can find it here [1]. There's a link on that page to run it).

[1] https://github.com/tzs/georgia-benford-simulation
In-case you haven't updated: FSRS 5.0 was released in Anki 24.11
Which works in fields removed from non-human reality or consequences. For example, when creating financial derivatives or other forms of social engineering, where the substrate changes and nothing seems fixed.

It falls to pieces when people with this mindset attempt to work up against the constraints of physics, or other unchanging limits. Those limits can be constructed on, and relied upon. Going back to first principles in these cases inevitably results in massive losses in the repetition of the uncountable quiet failure-corners of history.

We will find out which one we are dealing with.
Those are really good :) Already ordered, thank you!
No other cult leader in history had the entire power of right media and the support of the country’s most powerful profiteers behind him. Trump himself doesn’t look all that smart, it’s just that everything he says or does goes through their filter and then reeks of roses for his followers.
Yeah as someone working on educational software, anything hand-rolling their own SRS is a pretty big red flag. Beating FSRS is going to be next to impossible, especially FSRS with parameters optimized from your users’ review history.
Given the alternative is no coverage, whatever he does is still going to be no worse than if such product never existed.
I think you'd benefit from reading Helen Keller's autobigoraphy "the world i live in", you might reach the same conclusions I did, this being that perhaps conciousness is flavoured by our unique way of experiencing our world, but not strictly neccesary for conciousness of some kind or another to form. I beleive conciousness to be a tool a sufficently complex neural network will develop in order for it to achieve whatever objective it has been given to optimize for.
I don't know what I'm more offended by, the implication that writing 'raw' HTML is some noteworthy retro skill, or the fact the blog isn't actually written in raw HTML at all, but in Markdown.
My kids are taught math and reading in the morning by my wife, then go to public school (a small rural K-12 school with six kids per grade) to socialize. They are both quite advanced for their genetic capabilities.
I think your jealousy detector might need calibration.
> actual damage done by DOGE

I’m guessing they don’t post that on Xitter, do they? Do they even post what exactly they did there?

The problem is that same admin who ran up second largest national debt increase is now doing some inconsequential fraud hunting before running up likely the largest debt ever.
Brilliant idea! We also should probably stop nickels and dimes at this point and maybe even quarters.
Summarised:

If you are drowning in "popcorn tasks" and it is impacting your deliverables, sit down with your boss/stakeholder and advise them that this will impact your deliverables.
Laws do not exist if they are not enforced.
I'm fine being simple. Finer approaches were refused by cries of "No! What about <pedantic_detail />!" time and time again. I am fine with being a simpleton.

My desire is small(er) government and a lean(er) budget with little to no waste and absolutely zero corruption/fraud. Trump and Musk's bigly sledgehammer will achieve this, screw the details because I don't care anymore.
Because that's disputed and it's the only example (from Starlink) you can come up with.
I had some of element Tm in the lab the other day (not pure form), had to go look up the name as I had never come across it before.
> just isn’t in the same league

I wonder what would be needed to even accept that programs were comparable?

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

(Incidentally, at-present the measurements summarized on the box plots are C# jit not C# naot.)
Freeing Data Scientists from Heavy Coding: A New Era of Automation
> True, gas taxes don't pay for it all.

My point is that gas taxes don’t even cover a majority of it. US roads are paid for out general funds, and pretending that they are paid for out of gas taxes exclusively, or even in a majority is dishonest.

Any argument that argues that gas taxes are a use tax for the road is dead in the water.
Certainly the line where executive power starts and legislative mandate ends has never been explored to the extent we're seeing now. "The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America" versus the various laws passed by Congress regarding these semi-autonomous departments with otherwise unchecked powers. We'll have to see how it plays out
Utility companies operate in a semi-monopolistic way, don’t aren’t subject to the same forcing function companies in more competitive industries are.
This is how I use it for work and so far it's the main way I have found AI to actually improve productivity.
Rome (the city) does still exist, as do the Roman Catholic church and Eastern Orthodox church which were integral institutions of the late Roman empire. Rome, the original capital, passed in to possession by the modern Italian state, which declared itself a "new Roman Empire" under Mussolini less than 100 years ago. The new Roman capital at Constantinople passed into the hands of the Ottoman Empire in the 1500s, whose leader took the moniker "Caesar of Rome". Other states like the Germanic "Holy Roman Empire" and even the Russian Empire with its "Tsars" (Caesars) have claimed to be successors to the Roman Empire.
The pivot will likely be space ads ... ugh.
True, but that was a nazi salute wearing a thick layer of plausible deniability, not a "bad joke."
A finite-size LLM can solve the finite-size halting problem, and an infinite-size LLM can solve the infinite-size halting problem
Don't Be Frupid
If you see threads that you think are examples of the dynamic you're describing, I'd appreciate specific links. Since I don't have specifics, I can only say that this doesn't match what we see in practice, or at least what I believe we see in practice.

For example, the comments that drive flamewars are mostly not produced by the accounts that have flagged the thread.
Business as usual. While electricity is remarkable, no one gets extremely rich selling it.
End-user value is the only value that can be sold at a profit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canvas_element

"Canvas was initially introduced by Apple for use in their own Mac OS X WebKit component in 2004,[1] powering applications like Dashboard widgets and the Safari browser. Later, in 2005, it was adopted in version 1.8 of Gecko browsers,[2] and Opera in 2006,[3] and standardized by the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) on new proposed specifications for next generation web technologies.[4]

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i don't think they need to spend a dime in propaganda when everything that happened(including the washing machines) was embarrassing for russia, or are going to say that Ukraine propaganda machine is so strong to even fool UK and USA intel?
One of the most beautiful, yet strongly resisted, improvements in history.
> For one, many top scientists trained in the U.S. have returned to China over the past decade, fueling the emergence of biotech hubs around Shanghai.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand_Talents_Plan

It's depressing that we were never able to stop China's parasitizing of our tech industry and expertise.
I hope you don't actually mean that. It's a cynical, sad, and - quite frankly - false thing to believe.
>"...way to establish your credibility about different subjects..."

Or the other way around
Looking for designers and experience kinda suck? We pretty much solve this issue
Is Apple Messages not E2EE when used over Starlink?
This seems like a very cogent take.
https://archive.ph/M9Jt8
Birds use their optic tectums to process visual inputs, but that likely doesn't enable much more than visual recognition. The mammal brain goes far far far further than that:

It is the nature of most real life signals that they are sparse when represented in certain domains, and what the neocortex does is that it finds these sparse domains, which has at least three consequences:.

1. Simplicity. As mammal thinking doesn't deal with the world directly, but only through this latent space of sparse data, it only needs to deal with the meaningful values. This results in great simplicity, and allows previously overwhelming problems becoming manageable, then simple, and later trivial, as the neocirtex succesfully finds their sparse representation.

2. The representation in which the signal is sparse is its theory. By engaging only with the meaningful values, a mammal's thinking and creativity gets restricted to what can be relresented with those meaningful values, and so gets restricred to what is real, or realistic. Unlike the schizophrenic, which comes up with completely random nonsense that he needs to test with the scientific method, healthy people can't even conceive the theory that he's testing, as it cannot be represented within the values that they use.

Healthy people thus have very little need for science, as their brains do all the science they need in their daily lives.

The third one is reconstruction. This is what in its most extreme for allowed for various seers, oracles, visions and premonitions, and other such things, and what is already used in practice in MRA machines, once its nature is known, its sparse representation can be used to reconstruct a shockingly clear and accurate picture from seemingly hopelessly inadequate data.
If you believe a prompt of the form "hey, GPT A make yourself behave like GPT B" can be articulated to be a Chinese room, I put it to you the amount of missing information between what informs A and what informs B will make this a mountain of work.

Do you think it's less work than just making GPT B and why? What quality in the system (inductance aside) is this simply additive?

My strawman reads as "wishing for fairytales" basically. But this strawman to me, is the reductive intent inside the article. "Ask a GPT to perform like another later different GPT" epitomises magical thinking.

Why bother training if the recursive application is that simple? Because... it's not that simple.
Almost as if he didn’t actually cause that to happen. I can imagine a world where thousands of competent professionals, working in areas they were already passionate about did the work. They did it by working according to their training, not according to “first principles.”

Their jobs and approaches were protected by middle/upper management constructing stories for Musk about how it was revolutionary, and all he heard was agreement.
What an excellent loophole for the apparatus of state meant to enforce the law.
That would require someone to do journalism.
Does installing packages with nix pull in whole runtimes like flatpak does? Between flatpak, nix and the games the space usage could become a concern for me.
You mean, like going to a museum pre-opening and seeing empty exhibits?
I sympathize with the authors pain, and at least from the comments, it sounds like most have a similar view of CORS. Many weeks of face -> keyboard in response.

At some point trying to write JS, I really started believe that the people who implemented CORS did it just to break every single part of the world wide web that might ever be enjoyable.

It really felt like somebody held out a beautiful idea with AJAX, and requests lacking synchronization, and then the only response was endless exploits, security holes, patches that took away functionality, and posts like the authors. "This idea seems so simple...nevermind, 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' ERROR"
> Listing asbestos as an ingredient is not likely to garner a lot of sales.

Apollo private equity buys a respected but financially struggling baby food company and starts putting asbestos in it to cut costs. After kids start getting sick, nobody really feels better that asbestos was listed on the label and that the free market is going to correct it.
Trump hates wars started by other people as they are means to enhance his populist support. His recent comments on Canada, Greenland, Panama and Gaza show his true colors. He is more than willing to use the military - though a lot of it was blocked in his first admin by guys like Mattis, Pompeo, Kelly, Bolton. The crew around him now only exists to carry out his insane conquests.
Well, I don't know. As @teeray pointed in another comment:

> Connectivity can actually cause some people to take risks where they otherwise wouldn’t, thinking a helicopter will drop out of the sky 30 minutes after dialing 911.

(quote from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42996533)
I had the same thought. 72kb of JS dependencies from some CDN to render that "raw HTML". If you are going to claim to be a purist, try actually being one first.
Ilya can charm any VC with a single word. "AI"
Nothing to see here folks. All very normal. Remember aliens? Aren’t they cool. Don’t y’all remember when O’biden gave all those illegals access to the Jade Helm. What a blasé coterie of manipulative lamestream media.
Beyond speculation, how do you even know this? Everything I've seen so far related to this jumps to wild conclusions about the data these employees can allegedly access with absolutely no proof of anything.

It's almost the same as the conclusion that the Dominion voting machines were illegally changing votes based on insecure security practices around the networks at the polling locations. There was no proof that this happened and there's no proof that these employees are copying all of our data or writing to it.

It's all fearmongering and trying to distract from the main point: The government has been wasting hundreds of millions of our tax dollars and a good portion of it are going into the pockets of politicians and their supporters.

There was literally no way to track the money or oversight.

Someone should be going to jail over this.
You are going to see a lot of people (both hype and skeptic) tell you things that you can verify. Even while you have a screenshot verifying the opposite of what they are claiming, they will continue to claim it.

For skeptics in particular, you will be able to use a top tier llm and see: does this do the thing someone is claiming it doesn't do? It often will. If you look at recently submitted papers by skeptics you will see them making a claim about state of the art LLMs but then only test using versions from over a year ago (this has happened recently!^)

The way for you to be sure what is what is to just use the thing for yourself and decide what is true.

^ https://x.com/tylercowen/status/1881051976102035880
GL! How are you different from contra or other existing designer platform
No, it wasn't capitalist as we'd understand it. Spain was very much a medieval kingdom, but there were elements of capitalism in Italian financing that became important towards the mid 15th century and especially during the new world conquests. That's something Wickham has opinions on.
The podcast has been elucidating to me in how it exposes the way in which individuals can become corrupted. Our politicians appear good on camera, they smile to our faces and kiss the foreheads of our babies—but we have decades of anecdotes about how they are bribed by special interests, making deals behind our backs. At least I personally had no first hand experience of what that actually looked of felt like until I started listening to the show. The hosts are ostensibly all smart (with the glaring exception of Jason), but so obviously biased which is advertised by the complicated verbal arithmetic they have to do to make sure they don't say anything bad about their friends which leaves empty logistical holes in each topic they discuss.

Seriously, have you ever heard them say anything bad about Elon, Trump, or the Republican agenda even one time in the last year? We know that none of those entities are perfect, they know that none of these entities are perfect, and yet they dare not say it. This is same as having politicians that are bought, and it’s maddeningly frustrating how two faced the whole ordeal is. The hosts will look at you directly in your eyes and tell you they’re being honest, and they just want to know the truth like you do. But the lie is hiding in plain sight, and everyone sees it.

What’s the point of it all? They're so narcisstically working and using the show to further their own interests. Especially sacks for whom it paid off handsomely. And they do this at the direct expense to their audience who (many of whom may not know better), doing their part to build a more morally confused and bankrupt nation in the process.

I still tune in every week, to happily outrage myself the convolution and lies and insane double standards that they get find themselves in in each conversation. I don't know why I do, I guess there's no other show that I find discusses politics and tech otherwise in a way that's satisfying. I wish a moderate panel (or even a liberal) one existed to counterbalance all of their BS but I haven't found that.
How does Ada's memory safety compare against Rust?
>"Anyone can generate a big portfolio of projects these days"

LOL. I could easily do it "back in those days". The difference is that in my particular case (I specialize in developing new software products for clients) I also have long list of names with actual phone numbers, emails, addresses etc. So anyone can call and verify.

Never blogged. Have no time / desire
Hah, yeah, this is a brilliant "do you even know who you're talking to?" moment.
If someone studies in the US, spends years working there, and then decides that "actually, I'd have better opportunities in China" and moves back, then that's a failure of the US rather than China being a parasite.

That's not too say that China doesn't do industrial espionage. But brain drain, people voluntarily leaving because they don't like where the US is heading, ain't that.
I've remapped my capslock to 'tap-dance' between esc (short press) and ctrl (long press) using kanata. And, like any other people here, it's indispensable tool in my workflow right now.

Also recently, I've remapped my siblings laptop meta and rctrl key to lalt and meta respectively because the original alt key got damaged. Thanks jtroo for creating this you rocks!
And the lining! Temperature permitting, of course, but having a satin lining to your soft wool pants? It's not far off from pajamas. Of course it's often with some other clothes that are a little unpajamalike, like a stiff collar and a jacket, but a pair of half-lined pants are extremely comfortable.
Apple w/ PASemi and Beats; Qualcomm w/ Nuvia. Google w/ Motorola Mobility, and Looker, and Kaggle.
the main draw for me was being able to use the spacebar as a modifier, and being able to press ikjl when the spacebar is held to send the arrow keys. the ctrl and shift keys still work while the spacebar is being held which makes it great for moving the caret around and editing text, like using ctrl + right then ctrl + shift + left to select a word, but without having to move away from the home row

i also have home, end, backspace, delete, pgup, pgdn, all close enough to the homerow on that layer as well so i dont have to reach out to the corners of the keyboard

then finally on the edsf keys i have it send whether the vscode shortcuts are to move the line up or down or indent/unindent.

most of the rest of the things i have remapped are just single key things that can be done in most other remappers, sending esc when the alt key is tapped, capslock to ctrl etc
Or just put mirrors on the ground to reflect the sunlight back out /s
A wrapper will do more than this.

Imagine a new UI/UX for a CRM. Completely redesigned from the ground up.

Multiple GPT wrappers in a single product. All wrappers working together to achieve a single goal.

Also throw in agents.

And distribution matters, if some app goes viral, it has a high chance to succeed and beat the current incumbent.
Does SCOTUS think the president can break the law?

Could they just ignore the courts?

This administration seems happy to fire people at will? Would a department be able to follow the law if the staff’s jobs are threatened?
From my understanding facial reconstruction from skulls is a well-defined process in forensics, so it's likely that they used standard methods. They mentioned getting colors (i.e. skin/hair tone) from painting.
>"second best army in Ukraine"

that was a group job between USA wanting a fierce enemy to justify all the military expending and russia happy to share that notion as the "big strong russian bear", they shouldn't have believed on their own lies

>that's why all countries must join NATO

are you saying that all that is somehow a master plan to expand NATO?
Have the people telling you these things put any effort into making them independently verifiable? That would be an important early step in any kind of transparency effort.

People are not shooting the messenger. The messenger has no credibility, and no demonstrated interest in earning it as long as they can hold power otherwise.
What I find fascinating is that we're seeing a blurring of the lines between the cybercrime world and the legitimate tech industry.

Key concerns raised by Edward Coristine's story:

• The vetting process for hiring individuals with a history of cybercrime activity is questionable
• The potential risks associated with hiring such individuals are not being adequately assessed
• The legitimate tech industry may be inadvertently providing a platform for cybercrime activities to be legitimized or funded
Is there a tariff on practices imported from Canada?
Undoubtedly to prevent Starlink from making any observations about the current position of their phone.