skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reddit is overwhelmingly fake information and covert ads. Investigate any random post on the front page of /r/all, even if it's just like a cute gif of an old person, then go to the comments. Like 75% chance there is something fake or made up about the title or context. It's such a mind pollutant, I can't stand it.
Paul Graham - 10:51 AM · Oct 29, 2024

*Why Moderates Should Vote for Harris*

" People on the far left and the far right have already decided who to vote for in the next election. Voting for the other party would be unthinkable. But what if you’re a moderate?

I’m a moderate, and I’m voting for Harris. The reason is not that I love the Democrats’ policies. Both parties’ policies seem a roughly equal mix of good and bad. The reason I’m voting for Harris is that this election is about character.

As far as I can tell, Harris is a typical politician. That may not seem much of a recommendation. But Trump is something far worse. He seems to be completely without shame.

We saw that the last time he was president. He ran the White House like a mob boss, choosing subordinates for loyalty rather than ability. No one knows that better than the people who worked for him. Almost half the cabinet-level appointees from his previous administration have refused to endorse him. They’re warning us what he’s like.

The worst thing he did, in my opinion, was when he tried to remain in power after he lost the 2020 election. He knew he’d lost, but he called Mike Pence and tried to get him not to certify the election. Thank God Pence had the character to stand up to him. I don’t like to think what might have happened if he hadn’t.

Trying to remain in power after losing an election is banana republic stuff. You don’t do that in America. Conceding gracefully when you lose an election is more important than any policy a politician might have, because it’s only this principle that allows us to get rid of politicians whose policies don’t work.

So sure, Harris is a typical politician. But Trump is a crook. You can’t have that sort of person as president. It’s too risky."
I think that might be an implicit goal here. With antics around H1B, birthright citizenship, general worsening sentiment against "people who dont look white" and "experts bad, podcasters good" its probably worth while for researchers, scientists and professors to start looking elsewhere outside of the US.
I'm not sure in what sense you mean risk is a commodity, and why it's a problem. I'm also unsure what changed to make it so now, as opposed to having ever been so.

Those who actually took risk into account and planned accordingly have profited wonderfully. Those who did not take risks into account lost their bet. Eggs are priced higher for some, but are pretty much available everywhere still, and have not dipped below some sort of minimal level of availability. In California, past shortages were far far worse than this one, and even then the egg shortages were in no way catastrophic to the economy or health of humans.

Of all the times in history, ever, we are at the lowest possible risk of famine. Instead, our abundance of high calorie food is the biggest risk to the health of Americans.

So I would like to understand your point a bit more if you have the time to elaborate.
And the reason why it spreads so well is still concentrated industrial farming.
In the last week what headline and story do you think was overblown by the NYT?
I can't remember if this was Valorant related but I recall an article voicing concerns that physical hardware in PCs being used to identify users to ban and that the ban would persist when you purchased a used motherboard. Not a great general concern to me for games but the idea has much more sinister potential than just that.
it sucks btw. I tried scheduling an event in google calendar through gemini, and it got the date wrong, the time wrong, and the timezone wrong. it set an event that's supposed to be tomorrow to next year.
<< One thing to consider for those of us who are more sensitive to online outrage is to just quit social media all together.

Yes. I still have to be at least aware of what is happening for work reasons, but removing social media was one of the better decisions for my sanity ( I stil comment on HN, but the quality of conversations was degrading as well, which in itself is a concern suggesting further digital landscape deterioration ).

I considered some more obvious solutions ( from buying subscription to WSJ/FT to personal news aggregator -- and objective/neutral observer rewrite using LLM and they all are not exactly ideal ).

Here is the good news. All this chaos is an opportunity to stand something useful up. And I mean something useful that cannot be so easily dismantled by powers that be ( and there are already heavy indications they are aware people may try going outside the defined paths ).
It eventually forked into Webkit / Chrome.
Consider for a moment: what if it did include those terms? What do you think it'd indicate if some hypothetical government decided to hunt down those words across the scientific literature and subject them to review? Would that indicate something meaningful to you?

Now keep that thought in mind... and now acknowledge that that hypothetical government is actually the current one.

Pay close attention to what your mind is doing and let us know if you notice any interesting contortions that somehow draw a line between the obviously fucking insane hypothetical government you were imagining a second ago and the current real one. Report back!

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/02/05/n...
> I don't think China (yet) wants any part of funding proxy wars

IDK, I could see China funding a proxy war in Ukraine, any time soon.

Just not in a good way, so to speak.
Most people don't even know Linux exists.
> I'm sure it's difficult to be part of a niche, but that doesn't mean that there's some conspiracy against you.

Yes, it does: https://puri.sm/posts/breaking-ground/. Purism tried to created their own smartphone not relying on Apple and Google and it was almost impossible to find the necessary chips. Nobody wanted to share the schematics or open the drivers. People are just locked-in into the duopoly. It's impossible to use popular apps without it, like Whatsapp or even Signal (!).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42948082
The claim was Germans (not some, not a lot, not most; just "Germans") knowingly voted for all that came after. That would be false even if Hitler had been actually elected, instead of appointed.
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>Because if I was running SIGINT at the NSA and collaborating with the FBI to arrest activists, the very first thing I would do is start up a bunch of VPN providers that bill themselves as "private" and then log everything aggressively.

Sure. But with a limited budget (of both the financial sort and the effort sort), this just isn't feasible. Who the hell wants to manage not one but twenty seemingly private industry vpn companies? Can they even reach break even status so that it's not a drain on the budget? How long for that? Worse, it entangles their revenue with that of the NSA, making the NSA more vulnerable to the sort of leaks they don't like to have, exposing them to foreign intelligence services and even journalists.

>spread vague anecdotes about Tor users being "de-anonymized" when V

Ulbricht found out the hard way. When you've got every fiber tapped around the world, it becomes trivial to deanonymize Tor users. Granted that it's nearly impossible to climb to the top of the US government's shit list like he did, but if you do manage the feat, they'll know who you are within days.
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Skepticism About AI Use Does Not yet Negate the Appetite for AI Hardware
You point to the issue Republicans have with trans people existing, isn't that a counterpoint to your point?

They were able to make a massive issue out of the existence of less than a percent of the population, if the can do that how can you say they wouldn't have made issues of literally anything?
You also said that you would want a wife who could have your back it you lost your job and help pay $20K a month mortgage for a $7 million dollar home.

I hate to tell you. But really attractive women don’t have to work.

And you are going to be single for a long time…
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Permanent human settlement under the sea by 2027
As I understood it, the “algebra” is the domain-specific language/abstraction that you build — and if you’re lucky, discover — that encodes something fundamental about the domain you’re working in. Once you’ve found that, further coding is easier than you’d expect.

I’ve had the pleasure of finding a few of these over my career.
And I'd buy one too if the interiors weren't worse than an entry-level Toyota. And if the internals weren't locked down like an iPhone going through puberty.
If they wanted more applicants, then they shouldn’t have been disqualifying good applicants on the basis of their biography.
Because in setups like I'm describing the farmers tend to start building relationships with their customers. Price gouging is generally not the best way to maintain those relationships.

In previous egg shortages over the years the couple of farmers I use would sometimes impose limits like 1 carton per customer or something like that. But not jack up prices.
> Gemini 2.0 is now being forced on everyone.
Yeah, just like how the Odyssey became worthless when people started writing things down, the bible fell into obsolescence with the printing press, and Ulysses was usurped by the internet.
>Why do so many people think it was a Nazi Salute

Because it was the Hitler Salute. The Salute thar Hitler did. That Salute.

>If it was, why didn't he say so?

He did.

>What would be the point of doing it?

To demonstrate to other Nazis that he is also a Nazi (Virtue Signaling)
Can you share a bit more? I grew up in a city and never knew the details of the farms (and interested). Thank you.
if it is on-demand, then it is AVOD. A company that started as FAST might have pivoted or decided to release the content they used to program their FAST channel as AVOD as well.

I've personally been involved in doing this very thing, but just look at the apps for like Max where they have their linear channel offerings within the same UI as their VOD. While Max isn't ad supported, it's a similar concept.
I agree with parent that the bigger issue is distribution. Installing random apps sucks. YouTube has distribution. If they can make more money off esoteric movies by using YouTube then that makes more sense than having an extremely long tail of content in your app that probably no one will discover.
Great idea! I just did this, and it's a very nice QOL improvement.
This doesn’t make any sense whatsoever given the facts on the facts on the ground. Have you read the article at all?

What we are talking about here is people who already finished the ATC school and aced the technical aptitude test, but got filtered out by the incoherently test which was explicitly designed to filter out people of undesirable race at higher rates. It would make no sense to filter out if they needed to cast wider net due to being short staffed. Rather, it’s more likely they are understaffed precisely because they filter out eligible and eager people in order to meet race quotas.

It’s hard to get across to people the mechanicsof DEI policies as actually practiced, because it sounds too insane to be real, so people (like probably you) dismiss it as just another instance of crazy Republican screeching.
I think it was both, but they didn't realize:

1. Under RIFs, close to half of the civil service will get a better severance than this offer. So any thinking person would wait for a RIF.

2. Under VERA, people will lose this "severance" but get access to their pensions years earlier. Since VERA only applies if you have 20+ years (25 if under 50) that's 20+% of their current high-3 for the rest of their lives, sets a nice baseline income. A WG employee who started at a depot at age 18 could collect their pension starting at age 43 and get $20-30k/year for the rest of their life and still be young enough to get another job and keep earning until 60 and retire a second time.

3. A substantial number of federal employees are already working on-site (not necessarily in offices) in areas where there are not a ton of other jobs. Ask a civil servant at China Lake to resign, they have to move too, there are few jobs in the area besides that base.

4. Many federal employees are federal employees because they care about the mission. They'd rather keep doing what's been asked of them to keep things like critical infrastructure operating than go home and let things fall apart because no one is doing the work.
I've had good luck with OpenOffice Writer being compatible with MS Office.

(LibreOffice was constantly having compatibility problems when I used it.)
Cage free does not mean they're out in a field. It means all of the birds are in one crowded space. Eggs that come from birds that genuinely roam the pasture are exceedingly rare.
It still wouldn't make sense. A democratically elected president conducting a coup is a tautology. He can't suddenly seize power by force because he already has it. You could be worried about him refusing to cede power at the end of his term, and should that occur, with the use of the military, you could describe that as a coup. We are many years away from that word making sense.
Agreed. I don't care what the indentation is or formatting is, as long as it's consistent.
Via what means…?

Most don’t even have sufficient clearances to know the names of random middle managers in many many offices in the CIA/NSA, let alone do anything to them.
We didn't launch this yet. It is in testing which is why we published this doc for testers. Full blog post with complete run down of the tech and implementation coming (very) soon.
Sadly: "Gemini can only infer responses to English-language speech."

https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/audio?lang=rest#techni...
At this point the biggest weakening factor is our political mainstream. In 100 years, if nothing changes, Germany will be Argentina of today. I’m not afraid of AfD, they lack practically everything to become new NSDAP. I’m afraid that whatever next coalition is, they will miss every opportunity to make a difference.
Gee, I'm still waiting for these proclaimed anti-socialists & anti-marxist to kill the most obviously socialist programs in the country.
Fedora repos aren't that much smaller anymore. The difference used to be bigger.
I thought the whole point was transparency and auditing? Are you telling me Musk was lying!?!

So who watches the Watchmen?
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That transcription reads very much like a NotebookLM "podcast" summarising the actual article at https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/outrage-fatigue-i...
No it's largely just the magical "a market will fix this" thinking that's been ruining policy for decades. It's silly and doesn't work because the assumptions that go into the underpinnings of the economics theory about the functioning of free markets don't exist in many potential markets they want to apply the logic to. Health care isn't the same as shopping for a pair of shoes and it's mind numbingly stupid to me to try to treat them the same.
How does this compare to the XLA's ability to compile full training steps from JAX?
Updated link: https://youtube.com/shorts/aGxZvREjPyY

I recently came across a fascinating paper titled Humanity's Last Exam, a benchmark designed to test the limits of AI against the full spectrum of human knowledge. It made me reflect deeply—not just on AI, but on the nature of knowledge itself.

This post is a humble homage to my late father, a nuclear physicist and life-long teacher, who introduced me to Carl Sagan's Cosmos when I was a kid. I still remember watching those old VHS tapes together, Sagan's voice guiding us through the vastness of the universe and the fragility of our place within it. Those moments sparked my lifelong curiosity about science, technology, and the human pursuit of understanding.
I guess that's just how dictatorships work.
I like AI Explained on Youtube for non-sensationalist and thoughtful takes: https://www.youtube.com/@aiexplained-official
I do that too, strangely it isn't a tool many people know about.

Knowing how to code though is what makes me value that thing, time saver yet can be as powerful as an app built from the ground up.
It'll be funny when crypto people's "Truflation" reveals that the pro-crypto government caused more inflation than anyone.
"tariffs"

My memory is not very good, but it seems that something similar has happened 4 years ago, do you remember?
Mount Lyell shrew

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> I've also developed a keen eye for headlines that lead to "outrage articles" which I avoid.

That's critical. My YouTube rule these days is to block any channel with a video name or thumbnail that says something like "This is why you fail at XYZ" or other statements designed to evoke an emotional response from me. And on top of that, I try to only click on videos where the title/thumbnail is properly informative, exposing the content rather than trying to hide it behind a vague hook. Hooks like "You won't believe this one trick!" and fluff like that, titles/thumbnails that should introduce the trick, not just allude to it.
You described my pattern. I don’t care for it. I just don’t know what other pattern I could apply. It can get really messy and the code duplication is a headache. Humans don’t read the middle if that makes sense. So you’re having to keep a very keen eye on making the environment directories the same in my experience.

Things like terragrunt can be really helpful. I don’t use terraform without it.
Which is not scalable for the entire big city. My parents are organic market gardeners, and there is simply no way that model could scale up enough to feed that many people cheaply.

Food budgets would have to go back to the 1940's or earlier - where they were a significant fraction of take home pay. Now they are almost a rounding error comparatively.

I don't necessarily think that would be a bad thing. A lot of the asset price inflation like homes can be tracked to food and consumer goods taking an increasingly lesser portion of the family budget. Re-balancing this seems wise to me.
Kinda amazing that Trump had been acting as de facto president all year even before the election - telling Congress what to do, meeting with Netanyahu, Putin, tons of other heads of state, and he now suggests that Israel just get handed Gaza. Just like Bibby wanted.
The wind and the lion! Took me years to find a digital copy of that movie about 7 years ago
AI doesn't enable non programmer to make their own app. It made non tech managers wishfully believe they won't have to pay coders to spend days to write the code.
It's not a strictly defined term, in the UK people generally mean lacto-ovo-vegetarian by it (they will eat eggs and milk) but many combinations are possible and what's most common varies geographically - in India for example it would generate taken to mean lacto-vegetarian (milk, no eggs).

Wikipedia has a nice table: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarianism#Varieties
I use a tiling WM, I'm always certain that Workspace 3 and 4 will have a terminal open, and from there it's just using lf (tui file manager). I don't have a GUI file manager installed.
C++ isn't the reason it's blazing fast, moreso that they took the rewrite opportunity to improve the parallelism and be more clever about which metadata actually needs to be downloaded instead of downloading all of it, every time.
Waiting For Guffman is a great movie...Christopher Guest has done quite a few in this vein but IMO Guffman is the best.
I noticed that and fixed it on my lunch break. Sorry for the inconvenience!
There are not countless examples. Instead of "hiring of people on the basis of race" I may more accurately say "using race as a decisive factor in the consideration of an application resulting in its acceptance or rejection" which also happens to be illegal.

From the journalism department at CU [1]:

> Our commitment, should we be successful with this application, is to hire someone from the BIPOC community

From the geography department at CU [1]:

> Our aim is specifically to hire a Black, Indigenous, or Latinx faculty member

From ethnic studies at UC [1]:

> We have an urgent and qualified need for BIPOC femme/women of color faculty in an Africana Studies focus who will contribute to the social science division thematic cluster hire in racism and racial inequality.

From psychology dept. at U Washington [2]:

> I advise deleting the statement below as it shows that URM [underrepresented minority] applications were singled out and evaluated differently than non-URM applications (which is not allowed as [redacted] noted)

> At a faculty meeting, someone whose name is redacted “informed faculty that the Hiring Committee had three outstanding candidates and so they used DEI to distinguish and select a first offer"

[1] https://www.wsj.com/opinion/how-dei-conquered-the-university...

[2] https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/diversity...
You could make arguments of overreach but they don't come even close to "coup."

> coup: a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics and especially the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group.

> Not to mention, he ran on the opposite of what he's doing. He claimed he was going to end wars and immediately threatened war on multiple allies, with the latest being a threat of mass ethnic cleansing in Gaza. And on and on.

Voters appear to disagree with you. [His approval rating has never been higher while in office.](https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/favorability/dona...)
> is your argument that protests do nothing, therefore people should stay home?

Or maybe something else that isn't a protest? Not sure what that would be, but protests are traditional but seem very performative and ineffectual.

Honestly, I think the real reaction should probably be re-organizing over a more reasonable and moderate form of populism.
Just raising my hand as another who would sign up, but for that whole Yandex thing.
Sure. But today's right-wing assumes, a priori, that any minority or female professional must have been a product of "representation" and not actually qualified.
Essentially duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42922298
> What leverage does the US government actually have?

Literally all the leverage.