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Ask HN: Why is there such little political discourse on HN at the moment?
Seems like there are few stories or comments around the many tech related issues regarding DEI, investments, company pivots, trade, and geo-political territories. Not that there should be more, but it seems like there is less.
You're skillfully dodging the point: Trilinear filtering is in no way an "ideal" alternative.

It has worse quality than something like a Lanczos filter, and it requires computing image pyramids first, i.e., it is also slower for the very common use case of rescaling images just once. And that article isn't really about projected/distorted textures, where trilinear filtering actually makes sense.
Yes, indeed, in this particular case it is exactly as you said. However, I've seen this in the tech industry, that's a surprising bit for me
I had hoped it was about arcade video game from the 70s (early 80s) that was my favorite game. It was a tank game and my parents would get so mad. You spent twenty dollars playing a video game???". I will have to look for it now.
For quantization I don't think that's really true. Quantization is just making more efficient use of bits in memory to represent numbers.
> Return to Cathedral.

What does this mean?
When he drops a vid, you don't ask questions. You watch first and then ask questions :)
We have a partial understanding of why distillation works—it is explained by The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03635). But if I am understanding correctly, that doesn't mean you can train a smaller network from scratch. You need a lot of randomness in the initial large network, for some neurons to have "winning" states. Then you can distill those winning subsystems to a smaller network.

Note that similar process happens with human brain, it is called Synaptic pruning (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_pruning). Relevant quote from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuron#Connectivity):
"It has been estimated that the brain of a three-year-old child has about 10^15 synapses (1 quadrillion). This number declines with age, stabilizing by adulthood. Estimates vary for an adult, ranging from 10^14 to 5x10^14 synapses (100 to 500 trillion)."
Starlink's availability map uses hexagons, but you likely mean https://satellitemap.space/
Most of it is visible by enabling showdead on your profile
I think you misread something, because that's not true.
I will go ahead and say that some of these movies were given 'for free' some years ago. In some countries, Sunday newspapers and/or magazines would come with a 'free' DVD. But they were never giving away the blockbusters, they would give away good movies, with good cast (e.g. Mission - De Niro).

So there are so many (hundreds? thousands?) of DVDs/copies floating out there, to the point that nobody would pay a fee to watch them.

I had a collection of those 'free' DVDs that came in newspapers/magazines. Some years back I 'ripped' them all (kept photos of the album with the DVDs as proof of ownership) and threw away (responsibly) hundreds of DVD disks. I have never watched any of them.

I do not believe that all these "views" listed are real.. "True stories", 29k views in 6 days?? Really?? I think people search for "<title> full movie" and click on anything that comes up, as they search for some blockbuster/pirated movie.

And/or some people will click, use their InternetDownloadManager (or similar), download the 1080, save it, and never watch it.
I'd love to believe that, even if only it meant our collective memory can recall events from 2 years ago.
Not when I worked in the US govt. We were told that everything we did in our Slack was FOIA-able. FWIW.
Those people will simply be surplus to requirements. They'll be left alone as long as they don't get in the way of the ruling class, and disposed of if they do. As usual in history.
This article was submitted earlier [0] but flagged and dead without a single comment disagreeing with its contents. I vouched for it and it was dead again before I managed to comment.

- Anonymous voting does not work. People who have a belief that is not defensible (they are in fact often unable to articulate it) can use anonymous voting to shape (silence) discourse.

- Discussion should be allowed to continue for dead posts, there's no valid reason to block it.

- I don't know the exact mechanism of flagging and vouching but if reputable users vouch for a post, it should not be allowed to be automatically flagged again. It is clearly a contentious topic but there is clearly an attempt to suppress it.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42956473
I know this is kinda banal, but I think even getting to know your neighbors (if you don't already know them) could be a good first step. Also look what exists locally, and maybe even start something. And with so many vulnerable groups under attack, you can probably get in touch or help out with many of them and find adjacent ways to get involved in the core political issues.

I genuinely think as long as you trust your gut (and are a sensible person), that literally doing "something", and then iterating on that, should not be discounted. Ignore outcome for a second, whatever the "chances" may be -- whatever you can contribute, I'm 100% sure that less dread will be helpful, both for yourself and the outcome. And the more active and together with other people who are active you become, the better you'll feel, and the better ideas you'll get.

But I'm pretty sure violence will not be helpful. It's the arena tyrants bait protesters into because that's when they win. That is, if the people are in such a majority that violence could achieve anything, then negotiation or surrender can be achieved, and violence would just be cruelty and barbarism IMO. Remember how mad people got at that sermon about having empathy? I found that incredibly telling, and I think we should tend to and build on our empathy, it's a super power. Fighting for yourself takes courage, but fighting for those who can't fight for themselves gives courage.
"The Chirality of Dynamic Emergent Systems (CODES): A Unified Framework for Cosmology, Quantum Mechanics, and Relativity" (2025) https://zenodo.org/records/14799070

Hey, chirality! /? Hnlog chiral https://westurner.github.io/hnlog/

> loss function

Yesterday on HN: Harmonic Loss instead of Cross-Entropy; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42941393

> Fourier was failing hence

What about QFT Quantum Fourier transform? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Fourier_transform

Harmonic analysis involves the Fourier transform: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_analysis

> Recursive Model Adaptation

"Parameter-free" networks

Graph rewriting, AtomSpace

> feature localization

Hilbert curves cluster features;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert_curve :

> Moreover, there are several possible generalizations of Hilbert curves to higher dimensions

Re: Relativity and the CODES paper;

/? fedi: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42376759 , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38061551

> Fedi's SQR Superfluid Quantum Relativity (.it), FWIU: also rejects a hard singularity boundary, describes curl and vorticity in fluids (with Gross-Pitaevskii,), and rejects antimatter.

Testing of alternatives to general relativity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternatives_to_general_relati...

> structured emergent primes to improve loss function convergence and network pruning

Products of primes modulo prime for set membership testing; is it faster? Even with a long list of primes?
Thanks for the response.

"Manifestly" seems fine as a translation, though in English I would consider it to be about equally as strong as "obvious", or possibly stronger because it's an unusual, formal-sounding word that might suggest you're trying to sound emphatic.

crowdsourced wiktionary ( https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/manifestly ):

> In a manifest manner; obviously.

curated Merriam-Webster (the standard dictionary of American English; https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/manifestly ):

> easily understood or recognized by the mind : obvious
> people attempting credit card fraud

this is wrong.

if someone can use your site they can use stolen cards, and bots doing this will not be stopped by them.

cloudflare only raises the cost of doing it, it may make scrapping a million of product pages unprofitable but that doesn't apply to cc fraud yet.
I'll give a fun example from the past.

I used to work at a company that did auto inspections. (e.x. if you turned a lease in, did a trade in on a used car, private party, etc.)

Because of that, we had a server that contained 'condition reports', as well as the images that went through those condition reports.

Mind you, sometimes condition reports had to be revised. Maybe a photo was bad, maybe the photos were in the wrong order, etc.

It was a perfect storm:

- The Image caching was all inmem

- If an image didn't exist, the server would error with a 500

- IIS was set up such that too many errors caused a recycle

- Some scraper was working off a dataset (that ironically was 'corrected' in an hour or so) but contained an image that did not exist.

- The scraper, instead of eventually 'moving on' would keep retrying the URL.

It was the only time that org had an 'anyone who thinks they can help solve please attend' meeting at the IT level.

> and you would not believe the extent that grocers go to to make price comparison difficult. This thing doesn't make thousands or even hundreds of requests - maybe a few dozen over the course of a day.

Very true. I'm reminded of Oren Eini's tale of building an app to compare grocery prices in Israel, where apparently mandated supermarket chains to publish prices [0]. On top of even the government mandate for data sharing appearing to hit the wrong over/under for formatting, There's the constant issue of 'incomparabilities'.

And it's weird, because it immediately triggered memories of how 20-ish years ago, one of the most accessible Best Buy's was across the street from a Circuit City, but good luck price matching because the stores all happened to sell barely different laptops/desktops (e.x. up the storage but use a lower grade CPU) so that nobody really had to price match.

[0] - https://ayende.com/blog/170978/the-business-process-of-compa...
> It's not my job to prove to you the object is actually a spade.

> Time is valuable. You're not obligated to let idiots waste it.

Right on both counts!

However: If insufficiently many people put in the effort to explain their proof/reasoning to others, then we shouldn't be surprised when that side loses.
Unless they are paying that person in the basement the full funding of what Congress has budgetted for USAID that's Impoundment. If they are then it's still Impoundment because it's been redirected from it's original purpose.
Is there any concern that this results in a negative feedback loop of "oh, I better not use Kagi for this one random thing, it'll cost a whole month's subscription"?

Maybe a threshold of a dozen searches or so before the subscription fee kicks in.
Also consider methods that are using reasoning to potentially dispatch additional searches based on analysis of the returned data
you'll be spending every day blocking people, speaking from experience. Your dam can only push back so much.
Spending any tax money on programs designed to only help "DEI" causes is racist.

From rich to poor I see as ethical, but there are current programs that are gated on race. This is taking from all to give to a chosen race, all DEI practices should be eliminated from government actions.
Knowing how to do it through the CLI adds nothing to your understanding of the concepts though. Its just whether or not you have to remember an opaque CLI command, or you get a UI to click
Being predisposed to distrust people who look different is one example from the recent past. Back when people lived in frequently-warring tribes, someone who looked different (either due to genetic differences or cultural differences) was far more likely to kill you.

As far as I'm aware, cats don't care at all what colour fur other cats have.
I can imagine reducing temp too much will lead to garbage results in situations where glyphs are unreadable.
Warn HN: AI is the new Golden Calf
I know most of you are delusional enough to not believe that God is real and the claims of Catholicism are true, so this will mostly fall on deaf ears. But AI is the new golden calf. Proud humanity creates something with its own hands, and then worships it as if it were greater and more capable than its maker. The gifts we uniquely have as humans are ours because we are made in the image and likeness of God. This includes our ability to reason, use logic, and understand language, all of which come from God being the Logos, as well as our ability to be creative and be inspired and to inspire. AI cannot and will not ever be able to achieve these, although it may seem to for a while. But if you build two towers, one which takes 3 years to build and one which takes 3 days, the only one standing after 50 years is the one you should live in.
Because they are off topic. See paragraph 2 here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You are clearly saying it's acceptable for Israel to respond to the pogrom on their citizens.

Can you clarify whether or not it's also acceptable for Palestine to respond to the pogrom on their citizens? Is this a privilege that every country gets, or just Israel?

And does the amount of acceptable response scale in proportion to the amount of citizens killed in the pogrom?
America does have laws against this kind of thing.

So instead of banning America, report the IP addresses to their American hosts for spam and malicious intent. If the host refuses to do anything, report it to law enforcement. If law enforcement doesn't do anything... then you're proving my point.
I think this is a play on testing how the DRM of their catalog looks like. Looking through my mcn cms they have all the applicable claims on the content so they are possibly testing how many infringing videos are on YouTube as well as using all this content as a content funnel
> I'm curious on the thesis. I'm assuming "locked in by tests" increments are the problem? I'm curious why you couldn't treat this like any learning task where you can take efforts that are effectively larger steps to see where they can get you?

Here's a quote from TFA on this (using >> for quotes from TFA)

>> But Jeffries isn't in the business of starting over. He not only believes in incremental design, but in using the smallest possible increments. In his posts, he regularly returns to GeePaw Hill's maxim of "many more much smaller steps." He is only interested in designs that are reachable through a series of small, discrete steps:

and later

>> Jeffries, however, does not believe in bigger pictures; his approach to software design is proudly myopic. He prevents himself from seeing the forest by pressing his face against the trees.

> I should also note that I am not clear I understand how bad of a representation of the board you could get locked with. I got a working solver years ago with what is almost certainly a poor representation. https://taeric.github.io/Sudoku.html

First a point of clarification; Jeffries also gets a working solver; not in the original episode you may have heard of but in a series of forty-five articles 18[1] years after the infamous incident; TFA focuses almost entirely on this (successful) attempt.

Once Jeffries has a working solver he attempts to simplify it, and TFA makes the claim that these attempts are hindered by the choice of Option[Int] for each cell rather than a Set[Int] (i.e. a set of remaining legal values). This results in Norvig's code being significantly more succinct than Jeffries' code, even when implementing the same heuristic.

1: This originally read "two" due to quick skimming on my part.
No need for graphics. In the 80s, when MS-DOS was popular but graphic cards were expensive, ASCII games were very popular and pretty fun. Not having bitmaps greatly reduces binary size.

https://www.dosgames.com/tag/ascii
I am on track. You've misread. They never said that the previous administration was responsible for the whole `master` thing.

> This seems just as ridiculous and frustrating as a few years ago, dropping whatever they're doing to remove "master" and "whitelisting" from the code. Different team, same silliness.
It can be and is in other countries, ones that didn't have unlimited SMS for 15+ years. It usually isn't in the US, though.
I personally thought that student loan forgiveness was unconstitutional.

That being said, alot of the actions of the current admin are designed to push the boarders of executive power. They are trying to move fast and break things and do an end run around congressional oversight, before the courts can catch up.

The example of this is USaid, which was probably not legal in the method they went about. But no one will be putting that egg back together.

Contrast this to when Biden did his student loan forgiveness, it was telegraphed for months, and a court immediately blocked it pending review. And most importantly it was a single action.

All that being said, both are bad, my overall point is that we as Americans deserve better, and 'but they did it first' is not a valid excuse.

My hope is that we finally start reducing the power of the executive branch. The past 100 years of congress abdicating it's responsibility has been too much.
A wild opinion only valid if you have a defeatist attitude.
The art of engineering team focus: less is more
> There is a lack of recent SCOTUS precedents on the topic

How recent do you need? Nixon already tested this one and lost at the SC.
Flagging rings, basically.
re: the minimum wage. I'm in Australia, not the US, but is there any place in the US where a fulltime worker on minimum wage is paid enough to have a reasonable life, let's say a 2 bedroom home with two children, without struggling?

I was not implying that "you're either a wealthy business owner or you're on national minimum wage". You can safely substitute a "middle class" person, or even a "rich, but not super-rich" person, for "on national minimum wage", because in a few years I believe the middle class will completely cease to exist.

This is already happening and is actually the inevitable conclusion of all the funneling of money towards the super-rich and the subsequent increase in wealth inequality.

I wasn't even actually talking about business owners, but the super-rich that those business owners borrow money and pay interest to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle-down_economics

That's the trickling down I'm talking about, which you didn't mention because it appears you don't think that som trickling down is even necessary.

Some trickle down or other mechanism to limit the rich from owning everything is necessary if that inevitable outcome of a tiny group of people owning absolutely everything is to be avoided.

Do you disagree with that?

I believe you're alluding to some kind of nearly perfect system where large businesses have not created artificial regulatory and other moats to protect their business and hamstring competitors.

eg, imagine a large factory that employs most of the people in an area. Potential workers for that factory do not have the ability to negotiate a fair wage, and also don't have the mobility to uproot their entire life to move somewhere else. Also another company cannot reasonably expect to move in and out-compete for the workers in that area. Thus the fictional factory is in a massively favorable position to "negotiate" wages for its workers.

I think we have largely differing views on the fundamental fairness of a system where low-paid workers are expected to negotiate with multinational corporations that already have all the advantages in any negotiation.

Those corporations are also able to monetize the profits from those workers productivity to actively lobby governments for even more favorable conditions in those "negotiations".

I believe it is a very unfair system.

I doubt we will end up finding a middle ground here if you do not think a system where the super-rich are not limited in some way from accumulating wealth is unfair.
A closed-off development team releases what they want, and you take it or leave it, like sqlite.
I used sxml [0] unironically in this project extensively.

The rendering step for reports that humans got to see was a call to pandoc after the sxml was rendered to markdown - look ma we support powerpoint! - but it also allowed us to easily convert to whatever insane markup a given large (or small) language model worked best with on the fly.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SXML
They are part of a union (actually, different unions, plural). But none of those unions are among the more powerful unions.
They sued every major potato producer in the United States and got a $5.5MM settlement.
mt32-pi has been, and will continue to be, a source of great joy for many retro PC enthusiasts. For those of us with a particular interest in DOS music, it is huge.

Some modern projects generously give enthusiasts access to the power and functionality of (what might otherwise be $1000+ in) rare retro hardware, and in this hobby, mt32-pi ranks high among them.
"fundamental rights" is a very broad concept in eu.
IANAL:

- to my understanding, qualified immunity of law enforcement or other government officials is from civil lawsuits; if I get injured while being arrested, I can't sue the arresting officer. It also only applies while they're actually doing their job, and not violating clearly established law.

- the presumptive immunity that SCOTUS claims the president enjoys is a shield from criminal prosecution. The definition of "official acts" is unclear but seems to extend to tweeting to a mob during one's term in office.

But further, I think in context the SCOTUS recognition of such an immunity was surprising because it came after the DOJ had maintained that even if Trump was committing crimes in office, it was against department policy to prosecute him while in office, and then once he's out of office and charges are pursued, the court claimed that charges still could not be pursued.

> the president can lose their immunity if it’s determined

Determined by the 6-3 conservative court? I think that's unrealistic.

He said in his first campaign that he could shoot someone on fifth avenue and not suffer any consequences, and it turns out he was right.
Two main factors:

* automatic downranks and delisting from FP, algorithmically by HN

* manual flagging by the users

@dang says there’s little to no manual moderation, but over the years the site has been tuned to only allow a little bit of political discussion

Here are a few useful recent comments by @dang about it:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42949237

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42911011
FWIW: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar
The value you are talking about is all because of SMS. It's the lowest common denominator and IMO shouldn't be combined into a single app.

And there's definitely no reason why either iMessage or RCS E2EE need to be locked to a specific platform. Signal, WhatsApp, etc just work everywhere with no quirks when messaging people on different platforms.
Although I sometimes have problems with Cloudflare, it does not seem to affect GitHub nor Gitlab for me, although they have other problems, which I have been able to work around.

Some things that I had found helpful when working with Gitlab is to add ".patch" on the end of commit URLs, and changing "blob" to "raw" in file URLs. (This works on GitHub as well.) It is also possible to use API, and sometimes the data can be found within the HTML the server sends to you without needing any additional requests (this seems to work on GitHub more reliably than on Gitlab though).

You could also clone the repository into your own computer in order to see the files (and then use the git command line to send any changes you make to the server), but that does not include issue tracker etc, and you might not want all of the files anyways, if the repository has a lot of files.