skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It could choose to direct the same billion to DOE, or FCC instead and end up with very different outcomes.

Let's assume it is all one giant slushfund for the executive. What now enables checks on the slush funds use?

If Congress says "here's 10 billion to spend on X and Y but not on Z. And the executive says "nah, I'm going to actually not spend it on X, but Y and Z sure." So Congress says "ok here's half as much so you can't spend it on Z "

Executive replies "now I spend it all on Z"

Congratulations you've discovered a defunding spiral I guess?
There's now too much evidence to deny that human activity has changed the earth's climate, but... that doesn't mean we can predict the state of the world 100 years from now, because long-term technological progress is unimaginable, and therefore, unpredictable. We don't know how efforts to invent and develop more sustainable forms of energy will pay off over the next 100 years. In the words of the OP:

> To predict anything about the world a hundred years from now is simply absurd. Look: If I was selling stock in a company that I told you would be profitable in 2100, would you buy it? Or would you think the idea was so crazy that it must be a scam?

> Let’s think back to people in 1900 in, say, New York. If they worried about people in 2000, what would they worry about? Probably: Where would people get enough horses? And what would they do about all the horseshit? Horse pollution was bad in 1900, think how much worse it would be a century later, with so many more people riding horses? But of course, within a few years, nobody rode horses except for sport. And in 2000, France was getting 80% its power from an energy source that was unknown in 1900. Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and Japan were getting more than 30% from this source, unknown in 1900. Remember, people in 1900 didn’t know what an atom was. They didn’t know its structure. They also didn’t know what a radio was, or an airport, or a movie, or a television, or a computer, or a cell phone, or a jet, an antibiotic, a rocket, a satellite, an MRI, ICU, IUD, IBM, IRA, ERA, EEG, EPA, IRS, DOD, PCP, HTML, internet, interferon, instant replay, remote sensing, remote control, speed dialing, gene therapy, gene splicing, genes, spot welding, heat-seeking, bipolar, prozac, leotards, lap dancing, email, tape recorder, CDs, airbags, plastic explosive, plastic, robots, cars, liposuction, transduction, superconduction, dish antennas, step aerobics, smoothies, twelve-step, ultrasound, nylon, rayon, teflon, fiber optics, carpal tunnel, laser surgery, laparoscopy, corneal transplant, kidney transplant, AIDS. None of this would have meant anything to a person in the year 1900. They wouldn’t know what you are talking about. Now. You tell me you can predict the world of 2100.

The other big thing that the OP is right about is this:

> Let’s be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.
100% agree, that's the precise use case for this app!
Lawyers have organized their licensing so well that they are the ONLY profession in America not being overrun by PE consolidation because they had to foresight to not allow it. The capital class was eventually going to run up against them to try and break down that wall.
Indeed. I grew up with open-source. I still like C very much. I do not think Linux would die. But I may be wrong and Rust is the future. In the past, people just created their own projects. If they were truly better, eventually the were adopted more and more, but who did not like it, could also just stay with the older projects as long as they were recently maintained.
Anecdotal - according to the Huberman podcast, cold exposure is better practiced in the morning not before sleep due to its stimulating effect.
no idea, UK is not important enough to follow their politics. vote for whoever supports privacy.
There was an app called Tapestry by Betaworks, inspired by Robin Sloan's idea of a tap essay, that I absolutely loved and wish it would come back.

> "I saw it, and I loved it so much,” Borthwick said. “It felt like an intimate and immersive form of reading on the phone. I thought, could you not make a platform to publish more of these?”

Still haven't found anything close to it and social media stories don't seem to match up.

https://allthingsd.com/20121106/when-an-app-is-an-essay-is-a...
Yes I’m curious too.
The trouble with giving doctors complete control over doctor education is that in the US they've used that control to restrict the supply of doctors to keep the price of doctors high.
I met a fired IT guy last night who said he was one of 30k let go.
If people argue over it, then it's controvercial. It doesn't matter if you think it should be or not. It doesn't matter how valid you think any of the arguments are.
One of the ways the great empires of old learned to create sustainable empires was by giving an exceptional degree of freedom and liberty to those under their control. The US has not been benign in any way shape or form, but what we have done is become the first empire whose borders are not de jure defined, but instead de facto - driven by extreme behind the scenes influence, manipulation, and violence when necessary.

I lose track of exactly how many countries we dominate, but Wiki gives "at least 81 overt and covert known interventions in foreign elections" with another study offering "64 covert and six overt attempts at regime change". [1] Those were both after WW2, and these are only verified "incidents." And this has been paired alongside endless wars, often on completely false pretext, that have led to the deaths of millions and the displacement of what has likely been hundreds of millions. The recent revelations of US AID are also interesting where a ridiculous chunk of "independent media" worldwide seems to largely be a branch of the US intelligence services.

To call this "benevolent" is of course absurd. It's just a new form of imperialistic hegemony, through any and all perspectives. The only asterisk comes in the fact that since it's based on subterfuge instead of in your face stuff, some people remain mostly ignorant to the ways of the world - I suspect especially so amongst those in the US and without a passport.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
How exactly do you determine which questions you ask and the voice of the target persona?

Do you have some actual data to back-up the approach or you are using hypothetical questions?
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Is it true this is also why nuclear pulse propulsion from Earth surface to orbit is impractical?
> Turned out to be people affluent enough to drink wine regularly also had regular access to healthcare and were thus likelier to be healthy (for some definition of healthy)

I'm curious to know about if/how much the positive effects of coffee are about people drinking it in social situations (at a café or after dinner with friends/family).
Absolutely! If Rust and the modern development practices are truly so much better (I doubt this, but I am old and could be wrong), then why not show this by creating better kernels and other projects!
> We already treat crates like regex, rand, and serde as if they were part of the standard library.

you need some crazy use case to use serde instead of miniserde nowadays.
But it's a core part of the concept, the whole idea behind a markup language. Basically the whole point of HTML, and even of SGML before it, is that you are adding annotations in-line in a text, not representing a text as a tree-like data structure, at least for much of it.
Some people are using rust in embedded, but I would estimate that 95-99% of embedded is still C/C++.

If you want to get into firmware, I'd recommend focusing on C instead and learn things like RTOS. Someday rust might be more popular, and it might be worth learning on the side, but there aren't a lot of opportunities yet.
It just depends on the job at hand. If the engineering is very easy, and most of the work is gathering requirements and coordinating, then it's as you say. This is what Java was invented for, and I've been that person. But it's not the same as being a really good engineer (which I'm not).
They do provide a location with whatever error bars on it.

What they do not have is any sort of spatial consistency, they are a convenience for mail sorting. So if you start analyzing patterns across zip codes, you are pulling in information that is likely useless for or harmful to answering your question.
When you've been observed doing something (esp with evidence), "plausible deniability" falls through.

But when you haven't (eg. if you had your data that way in an Apple Cloud, and Apple was required to provide blanket access to everything), nobody can come and claim you've got there anything other than videos.

Obviously, a sufficiently motivated actor won't be stopped (see torture), but your data is not out in the open.
Banning Social Media for under 16s is a great idea. Hopefully other countries follow soon.
Good point. As for C and slices, doubt that many care, at this point. Many will use C alternatives that have slices or are long time C users that just deal with it.
Maybe they could make a wasm interpreter with well defined limitations. Similar to how Deno does it for Javascript.
fyi, if you see Ireland or Irish mentioned it nearly always refers to the Republic of Ireland.
They obviously don't care about privacy enough to fully withdraw from the UK! That would be insane.
Try modern/patched versions of Gerrit, I'm sure Linus could tune it to his preference

And I agree, GH has several issues
This is the obvious playbook. It might include the "illegal immigrant" narrative as well. Also, if you remember, we previously had welfare queens (which is a really disgusting phrase if you really think about it).

The problem in Tech is that they've lost their humanity (or never had any). Instead they operate from animalistic self-interest of "cull the weak to save the herd or they will drag us all down". This is the intrinsic nature of meritocracy. It derives from the fear of uncertainty.

Tech is supposed to be the best and brightest; and yet it is profoundly dumb. We propose a bunch of sophomoric solutions to human problems. I think this is due to youth, inexperience and tribalism which is reflective of a lack of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
In many cases, these licencing schemes are put in place by incumbent trade groups, to prevent comeptition.

For example, an association of funeral home owners will lobby their state representative for a law forbidding the sale of coffins by anyone other than a licensed funeral director. Ostensibly this somehow protects the public from unscrupulous coffin-sellers. In actuality, its main effect is to protect the profits of the funeral home oligopoly.

(Lest you think this is a fanciful example, see St. Joseph Abbey v. Castille.)

The AMA education requirements are of essentially the same sort, put in place by a compliant legislature to protect the profits of an incumbent cartel, at great cost to the public.

Advances in artificial intelligence will do nothing, absolutely nothing, to catalyze reform of what is essentially a problem of politics and greed.

https://ij.org/case/saint-joseph-abbey-et-al-v-castille-et-a...
Hey, it's a free country. :) When I imagine other hypothetical books titled things like The Case Against Capitalism, The Case Against Monogamy, or The Case Against Atheism, though, I note that I don't get an "insider propaganda" vibe from any of them, even though I would probably strongly dislike what they have to say.
Hm, so maybe the following is one answer.

In this article, we fix a mereology and a kind of quantity Q that "decomposes" over it---in the sense that Q(p) = sum_{r <= p} q(r) for some function q(r)---and then see that Mobius inversion lets us solve for q in terms of Q. In terms of incidence algebras, we're saying: assume Q = zeta q, as a product of elements in an incidence algebra. Then zeta has an inverse mu, so q = mu Q.

In other situations, we might want to "solve for" a quantity Q that decomposes over some class of metrologies while respecting some properties. The "simpler" and more "homogeneous" the parts of your mereology, the less you can express, but the easier it becomes to reason about Q. A mereology that breaks me up into the empty set, singleton sets with each of my atoms, and the set of all my atoms admits no "decomposing quantities" besides a histogram of my atoms. An attempt to measure "how healthy I am" in terms of that mereology can't do much. On the other hand, if I choose the mereology that breaks me up into the empty set and my whole, all quantities decompose but I have no tools to reason about them.

I guess Euler characteristic could be an example of how the requirement of respecting a certain kind of mereology can "bend" a hard-to-decompose quantity into a weirder but "nicer" quantity. For example, say we're interested in defining a Q that attempts to "count the number of connected regions" of some object, and we insist on using a mereology that lets us divide regions up into "cells". Of course this is impossible, as we can see in the problem of counting connected components of a graph-like object: we can't get the answer just as a function of the number of vertices and edges. However, if we insist on assigning a value of 1 to "blobs" of any dimension, the "compositionality requirement" forces us to define the Euler characteristic. This doesn't help us much with graph algorithms in general, but gives us an unexpectedly easy way to, say, count the number of blob-shaped islands on a map.

I wonder if there are other examples of this?
> Apple can easily afford to simply exit all business in the UK.

Apple has shareholders, so no it can't (or more precisely, Tim Cook can't).
again, as a user, I don't care. I use linux & visiting HN because of tech, not because of any politics.

Martin's patch should not be delayed or rejected because of the rust language, it is an approved language. If some maintainer has issue with such rust language approval, they should address that particular issue not patches using that language. They can also choose to resign.
> This is not a “maintainers must do what I want”, this is “let’s set basic expectations” and ensure people follow them. Whatever those should be.

But presumably it's not whatever they should be. It's what he wants them to be. And what should happen if they're not followed?
I loved Hotline. It was one of my favorite things on the web back then.

I chatted with/shared resources with other film/video/animation/audio types on a few great specialty servers back then.

Have never found anything else like it since besides Retroshare for functionality but the UI/UX in Hotline is far superior.
> This is my world, I know how it works.

"Trust me bro"
Are you still under the impression that different political parties will actually do diffrent things? It even sounds like you think Labor are 'good' and the Tories are 'bad'. I think you may change this opinion after the next 4 years.
Linux on AMD64 happened.
What would the motivation be for them to do that? Restricting access to law & order to the wealthy is working out great for them.
Why not write connectors to RSS?
A (very) simple heuristic. If it has Musk in the title while it's not necessary; it's clickbait and it probably doesn't fulfill the "intellectual curiosity" requirement for ontopic posts.
Google had shareholders in 2005 too or thereabouts when they publicly decided to abandon the Chinese search market for soft, fuzzy reasons (i.e., not because they were losing money on Chinese operations).

And as far as I know, they're still absent from the Chinese search market.
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> because this wrapper not lives in specific driver and depends on DMA subsystem internal API.

if multiple rust based drivers all need to have DMA support, what should they do? each come up with their own little magic?

> And this cause problem. When someone make any change to Linux kernel they suppose to fix all the code they break across all kernel.

this has been explained like 10+ times in this thread - it was made crystal clear to the DMA maintainer that he/she doesn't need to maintain the rust stuff, it is totally okay to break it.

> So he just dont want extra burden for himself

he can just resign. simple and period. no one is ever forcing him/her to be the maintainer when he/she is literally forcing other people to stop developing Linux support for the only powerful & affordable ARM machine for home use.
Yes, too many times I have seen coders solve problems in O(n) instead of O(1)… But that’s nothing compared to not having any sensible, provable theoretical foundation for the design of a piece of software, most of which look like being cobbled together based on a consensus that “it might work”, a demand of “the highest paid person in the room”, or the opinion of a “subject matter expert”. The situation is truly sad.
The article is surprisingly positive given the headline. On the plus side we may have:

>trillions of super happy people who basically live forever

and on the minus:

>maybe some kind of "own goal" or "disaster" brought about by tech companies — like mass unemployment in a short time

It sounds like the upside outweighs the downside there.

By the way I'm not sure about "moral obligation to colonize as much of the universe as possible" but it's quite likely some will want to colonize like Musk with Mars. There are some logistical issues there though.
Is this the same person who has YouTube videos narrated by a cartoon Japanese schoolgirl?
If you can point to a better model of a more successful kernel that would be interesting to read about.
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Hey I am the coredev on sidecar. The reason you see autogenerated PRs is cause I am using our agents to write the code for the agent lol

The big difference is the complete loop, each PR gets its own VM with the tool chains installed so the agent can run cargo check or cargo tests etc.

We do find the LLMs of today are not the best elite engineers but very very competent junior engineers. It's been a weird but eye opening workflow to use.
How do you play Zork on Xbox? Lots of typing using the on screen keyboard? Auto fill for certain things?
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I wonder if that's how oink's pink palace got its name.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oink%27s_Pink_Palace
The hysteria and paranoia that you suffer from is now old and boring. It's not an effective technique for discourse and will not help you achieve anything at all. It just drives people away.
But keep at it because it helps the causes that are lined up against you.
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Its crazy how people still think one political party will be 'better' than another! I guess they must be young. After you have seen 10 or so government terms play out you soon learn.
> willfully attempt to not think hard about a problem, while thinking really hard about how to get something else to solve that problem for you.

I think this is management in a nutshell
Impersonation would be a dick move, and would ruin my reputation. Do not need laws to avoid such things. Obvious social repercussions are enough.

Still impersonation sucks, and it happens. Thankfully we can solve this with cryptography without trying to beg the legal system of hundreds of countries to agree on enforcement tactics.

I publish 100% of code I write as FOSS. I also sign my commits. If the code shows up later without attribution to me, I would prove it publicly to call out dishonest behavior.

I would also never use legal action for this though. All information should be free. I only put FOSS licenses on code to ensure I do not get sued and so corporations bound by such silly rules have a difficult time using my work in private codebases without paying me for an alternate license.

I would abolish all IP law if I could. Let all information be free without legal risk to authors or those that share it.
Surya is on par with cloud vision offerings.
Please please please let them do that. I would love to see a UK without Apple devices!
Cost and weight. High voltage electrical lines use aluminium because of the weight, they are mostly aerial lines. Silver is too expensive to use for almost anything.
that was the best line!
This sentiment been around for seemingly forever. I can still remember Americans arguing against AirBnb and Uber being banned for not following laws around the country, and somehow being surprised that they got fines for it.
Maybe Jim Zemlin, who is the executive director of the Linux Foundation and has nothing to do with Linux.
Indirect costs, or F&A, bundles infrastructure, compliance costs, payroll systems, and so on. In effect, the federal government subsidizes research universities. If the limit for indirect costs is limited to 15% or less, these universities will charge sponsored research awards for lab fees, network and computer infrastructure (including security, backups, reliable power), salary/benefit systems, and so forth. In effect, an unbundling. This change will have a positive side by itemizing the costs so that external bean-counting optimizers can select what they consider to be excessive, much as health insurance picks and chooses what it will pay for. Among the negative aspects, there is overhead of all this fine-grained accounting, a less predictable research environment, and likely less risk-taking in research proposals.

Probably more HN contributors are on the software or engineering side of things, so these moves may not seem concerning. However, I often see scientific results, including links to papers with government-sponsored research, in HN posts.
Thank you! I used Hotline all the time back in the day. I loved it! I was a member of quite a few servers. I really miss the cozy feel of a private community like that!
For licensing see medieval guilds.
> I paste this https://svelte.dev/llms-full.txt

Intrigued, are there there other tools that provide this kind of /llms-full.txt document to load into your system promtpt/use for RAG?

edit: I found this which seems to be similar https://github.com/AnswerDotAI/llms-txt

and

https://llmstxt.site/ to find similar files to give your own LLMs context on various tools
How do you programmatically interact w cursor??
Not quite right.

The Poles built a simpler machine that they called a "Bomba", a pre-cursor to the Bombes. Named for a dessert in a cafe near the Polish intelligence service offices where those early codebreakers worked, and because the French also received the intelligence from Poland, they transposed the name. :-)

In July 1939 the Poles had to hand everything over to the British because they knew it was all about to be lost, as they were months away from being invaded.

Unfortunately what the Polish handed over was not quite enough to break German naval enigma, and without that, the war would have been at worst lost, and at best lengthened by years.

The Poles got everything started. The Brits got it finished.

There were several other British innovations in code-breaking around the war time period though, including Tunny, and taken on aggregate it's clear Bletchley had a significant advantage in that space over every other country for a long, long time.

That of course does not excuse a demand for Apple's ADP to be back-doored.
> The thing that correlates highest with SAT score is household income.

1. Smart person makes lots of money

2. Smart person has children

3. Smart person's children are likely to be smarter, and guaranteed to have more money

Sounds about right to me