skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But people search reddit because its the last place on the internet not infested by AI slop, this is awful news.
Perhpas, but meanwhile making it legal to have racial profiling AI tech in the hands of government and corporations does a great disservice to your freedom and privacy. Do not buy the narrative, EU regulations are not about forbidding AGI, they're about ensuring a minumum of decency in how the tech is allowed to exist. Something Americans seem deathly allergic to.
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It's actually possible that tolerance for delayed gratification might have nothing to do with life success. It might be purely coincidential that affluent parents create environments that make delying gratification easier, but the success is transferred to their offspring by much simpler mechanism, inheritance.
What happened to free speech, Elon? Apparently only free speech for plutocrats?
I'd argue that's precisely the point of electoral politics, checks and balances and the federal rulemaking process: a bad-decision making agency to Elon (say, FAA oversight of SpaceX) is a good-decision making bureau to others. None of the three are involved at this point, and by the time these cuts are litigated in the court of public opinion (and not, say, Twitter), it'll likely be too late to reverse them if desired.
I would be interested in that as well! I've been kind of obsessed with fermentation for a couple of years now, but it's all based on research driven by my own interests (I learn best when I immerse myself in a subject, in Dutch we call this "autodidact"). It would be nice to read along with what others are doing!
Great idea, and something like this is definitely needed.

However, I didn't signup as I didn't see any pricing info.

Also, from the demo video, it is obvious that the whole thing just blocks several times. That's unacceptable.

Furthermore, the answers are very laggy, completely destroying any notion of a conversation. It feels stiff/clunky.

Keep improving and maybe one day this will be a useful tool.
I notice the front page has links to twitter to read more. So Musk is already using this as means to enrich himself.
>No, I reject that you can tell anything meaningful about the environment by country. Or even state. Or even neighborhood!

This. The standard deviation is too damn high to make predictions. You might as well toss a coin.
> If there's gonna be Trump posts on HN, they should at least have some relevance to the usual HN topics.

Or you know, maybe just allow people to vote on it? Oh wait...
There's literally lots of people excited to suffer to make number go down.
Lmaooooooo(on)
Author Oliver Burkeman discusses this marshmallow test in his book Meditations for Mortals.

Paraphrasing from memory -

Who is to say that stockpiling as many marshmallows as you can is inherently more virtuous or objectively more positive than enjoying one marshmallow in the moment you and the marshmallow are ready for each other.

"Now" is the one moment you are truly alive. Rest is a concept.
Report on specifically how state-backed hackers are using Gemini [pdf]
These kind of "don't be evil" declarations are typically meaningless gestures by which non-players who weren't going to be participating anyway can posture as morally superior, while having no meaningful impact on the course of things. See also, the Ottawa Treaty; non-signatories include the US, China, Russia, Pakistan and India, Egypt, Israel, Iran, Cuba, North and South Korea... In other words all the countries from which landmine use is expected in the first place. And when push comes to shove, signatories like Ukraine will use landmines anyway because national defense is worth more than feeling morally superior for adhering to a piece of paper.
> The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else.

The value of atoms - or even the value of raw materials made of atoms is hopefully less than the value of information embodied in complex living things that have processed information from the ecosystem over millions of years via natural selection. Contingent complexity has inherent value.

I think there's a claim to be made that AI is just as likely to value us (and complex life in general) as it is to see as a handy blob of hydrocarbons. This claim is at least as plausible as the original claim.
Correct. And when we have more of them, the density will increase.

The argument is not about higher or lower density. The answer to that question is higher.

The argument is about where these people will live
>Ok - pick any conservative country (say India or Indonesia). Now tell me that the chances of an average Indonesian woman wearing a bikini to a beach (pretty normal in most Western countries) is same as an average French woman?

The strongest predictor for both the French and the Indonesian is almost certainly going to be the individuals physique and and the second is probably going to be the country and prevailing culture in which the beach is located (i.e. what everyone else is wearing).

This kind of illustrates the point you're trying to disagree with. You can't just look at some sort of demographic based average and shoot from the hip and expect to hit anything.
One of the most important points about parenting is that kids learn from watching you. That means what you say has far less impact than people colloquially think it does. What matters is whst you do and how that relates to the words you say.

E.g. if you want your kids to value culture, it is way more effective to live in a way that shows you value it, instead of just saying culture is important and never touching it with a ten foot pole yourself. You could never say culture is importsnt and go to the theater and museum every other weekend and that would be way more effective than telling your kid about the importance every day.

The latter doesn't teach the kid that culture is important, it teaches them that there are certain things your parent wants you to be, that they themselves don't manage to do despite them thinking it is important. As a kid your parents are likely the most powerful figure in your lifes, so if they aren't able to do it, how could you?

Any parents needs to have a keen eye out for these implicit lessons they are teaching their kids. The crazy thing is that these implicit lessons can at times be the polar opposite of the lesson you want to teach them.

And it is okay to fail, if they see you are trying to improve yourself, guess what the implicit lesson is? That working on yourself is not only normal, but a good thing that even parents do.
That’s wild and disheartening. Those machines ran great at the time. I had a 2011 MacBook Air which I adored - it was fast, small and for the day, it had great battery life.

There is no reason for computers to get slower over time. Especially on linux.
1 - Is there scientific consensus that there are 260,000 year old Homo Sapiens fossils in China? Other fossils, yes (after all, Erectus and possibly more left Africa nearly two million years ago)
2 - Are you saying that Australo-Melanesians carry DNA which is not just Denisovan and Neanderthal and not that other archaic unknown species suggested? Denisovan and Neanderthal DNA isn't found in Africa either, generally, but that statement of course just means that what makes Neanderthals and Denisovans _different_ from the originating African populations isn't found in Africa. Neanderthals and Denisovans are still considered an "Out of Africa" population.

I can't see anything in what you listed which is different from Out of Africa, plus a little intermixing with earlier migrations (e.g. Neanderthals and Denisovans, and potentially others). That would fully explain why you see some "old" DNA in some populations. It's still Out of Africa, again because 96-98 % of the DNA of any person on Earth is from a (relatively) recent exodus out of Africa. This is still extremely different from the older multi-regional hypotheses.
That’s fair. Isn’t that more of a DevOps/SRE team then and a completely separate career track for most people than software development?
Author missing one important point in their "A brief rant about FPGA retrogaming" rant. Sure FPGA systems are emulations, but key thing is that they typically are real-time systems, whereas software emulations typically are not.

That's actually a huge difference.
"streaming" was shorthand for "video-on-demand services like Netflix".

Does that help?
Scapegoating politically and culturally disempowered groups is super useful to such movements.

Notice how literally every single problem in our country is “caused by DEI” now?

It helps because it’s easier to solve fake problems with fake solutions instead of real ones.
Software emulations typically are not real-time, so that's one substantial difference.

For instance when you press a button, it will take few ms to register with software emulation, whereas on FPGA it should be very much instantaneous.
I've used 1.5 through 3.5, XL has been kinda fine for me but tiny adjustments can take it from good to terrible. Good point about Flux though, that's awful on the Mac.
It is important to note that pre-WW1, Germany was considered to be one of the most sophisticated societies in the world. That's where everyone worth a shit with a mind wanted to be. It's quite curious how the best were corrupted.
A comment from the previous discussion on this:

> You’ll see if you read the comments here that some people are like “the alternatives are bullshit corporate speak and infuriate me”, and some are like “yes, at last, a way to help people be more polite / better communicators”. There’s a smattering of “this is passive aggressive” thrown in.

> One of the broad pitches PDI at work types make is that the lower the PDI, the more direct communications are preferred; the higher, the more ‘diplomatic’ the communications are preferred. My vibe on your list is that it’s just a tad more diplomatic than Silicon Valley wants to be, hence the slight negative ‘passive aggressive’ reactions.

> Some of the lowest PDI countries in the world are Israel, and many Northern European countries, and it fits my experience that in those places additional respect is given for bluntness - as Jan Maas in Ted Lasso says “I’m not rude, I’m Dutch.” As a broad stereotype using the alternate wordings you give would be a sign you are not someone to be respected in that environment.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31224996#unv_31226119
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I can help here: the group who is canceling life-saving treatment for millions of people, including 566,000 children, as part of a purge of “political enemies” are the bad ones.
educational system (also not my primary language, but sure...)
Sounds like you give them some reasonable guardrails without being a hardass. Some digital indulgence is impossible to enjoy with tight time limits (e.g. Minecraft) but taking two days off is a good way to stay anchored in real life.
I tire of repeating that ad nauseum towards people engaging in bad will, so I'll just leave you some links:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/endi...

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/refo...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord_(video_game)
Do you have a source for 50% attribution? Studies I've seen suggest single-digit genetic attribution.
It's not the fault of the printing press that the Church built its empire upon the restriction of information and was willing to commit bloodshed to hold onto its power.

All you've done is explain why the printing press was so important and necessary in order to break down previous unwarranted power structures. I have a similar hope for AGI. The alternative is that the incompant power structure instead benefits from AGI and uses it for oppression, which would mean it's not comparable to the printing press as such.
> Like the race or location of the parent determines their childhood?

Ignoring the fact that you inserted a narrative that wasn't present in the article, YES OF COURSE THIS HAS A MAJOR IMPACT.

I'm a half-Dutch, half-Chinese man who spent the first years of my life in Ghana being blissfully happy and welcomed in the local community, and then the rest of my childhood being miserable in a Dutch village because I was excluded from that local community, all because I was "the local ethnic minority".

And I'm half-Asian, with parents from a higher-education background who had a good income. I only had to deal with "diet racism" compared to pretty much any other ethnic minority/social background in the Netherlands.

I've lived this and the fact that people like you keep insisting that my life experiences do not exist because they did not experience it is infuriating.

Anyway, fair points about the phone being a serious issue. But for goodness sake stop pretending that race and socio-economic background has no impact just because it makes you a little uncomfortable.
Why were you skeptical of it?
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> educational system

Wow. Why make my case for me?
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I created https://sql-workbench.com a while ago, mainly to let people analyze data that's available via http sources, or on their local machines, w/o having to install anything.

A recent project is https://shrink.video, which is using the WASM version of ffmpeg to shrink or convert video in the user's browser itself, for privacy and similar reasons mentioned before.
I've got a buddy who's dad is an American who was stationed in Korea, and his mom is a Korean citizen. He talks a lot about the cultural clashes he faced growing up and having trouble feeling like he fit as either a Korean or an American. It's clear the two different cultures really pulled at him strongly from two different places.
There's been a few posts on HN suggesting reading Timothy Snyder. When the Nazis began labeling "enemies", they kind of didn't know where to stop. So it was Jews, non whites, gays (today it would be all lgbtq), communists, the list was big. When they invaded Poland, they ran into combinations of things they hated, so now they were dealing with Jewish Communists (whereas in Germany they were just Jews, or in Russia, they were just Communists). Their evil just combined and combined into a form where they had to hate everything ...
What would “best” even mean? There is no absolute criterium the test for.
And then comes all the latency _jitter_ inherent in a shared resource like 5G, and on top of that shenanigans like (transparently) MITM-ing TCP streams on a base station by base station base.
"Deny" is one leg of the stool: https://www.delaydenydefend.com/
> is useful for a distributed community but does seem like a stretch for the amount of work going in to reproducible builds

Good point but even in the case of a larger monolithic systems you want to be sure it is possible to forensically analyze your source, to audit it. Once you can trust that one hash relates to this specific thing you can sign it, etc. This can then be "sold" with some added value of trust down the stream. Tracking of hashes also becomes easier once they are reproducible because they mean much more than just a "version".
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tries to load some local files for some reason,
"file:///großes lager/www-sites/the-anatomy-of-utopmania/utopmania-main/general/images/images/ATLAS-LINK_01-over.png",
"file:///großes%20lager/PHOTO-GRAPHIC/GRAPHIC/WWW-IN%20PROGRESS/content%20-%20an%20atlas%20of%20anatomy/the%20anatomy/utopmania-english-big/css%20blatt%20navi.css", "file:///hd_air/Users/macmini/Documents/WEBSITES/vers/css_block.css"..
Have we picked all the low hanging fruit of LLMs?
I have had premium on a family plan for almost as long as it has existed. It's great to add family members who use YouTube on their televisions giving them an ad-free experience without the shenanigans of setting up blockers at a network level.

I very much don't understand the opposition to paying for some of the services we use every day. I get not wanted to pay 15-20/month for something like Apple or Disney, if you only want to watch a single show/film. But people act like you are crazy for paying for YouTube or Twitch, meanwhile they lose countless hours experiencing the frustration of advertisements. It's common to find discussions online where people are both completely opposed to paying for YouTube, with no real justification for that position, and highly upset at having to watch ads. Same goes for Twitch, which is arguably worse as the ads interrupt live broadcasts.

I use adblock everywhere else, but I thoroughly enjoy not having to worry about it on the platforms I use the most. It's not a scam to pay for something you use and enjoy every day.
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Transforming knowledge systems for life on Earth: Visions of future systems
Most inefficient thermal power plant possible: utilize the difference in neutrino flux between the hemisphere that's open to space vs. the hemisphere where Earth is in the way.

But now I'm wondering what percentage of the useful thermal power in a nuclear power plant is produced by the neutrinos created in the reactions (the infinitesimally small fraction that happen to interact with the matter within the reactor, that is).
I'm very glad that it broke the power of the Catholic church (and I was raised in a Catholic family). It allowed the enlightenment to happen and freedom from dogma. I don't think it it broke Christianity at all. It brought actual Christianity to the masses because the bible was printed in their own languages rather than Latin. The catholic church burnt people at the stake for creating non Latin bibles (William Tyndale for example).
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I suspect those so-called, "zero-cost abstractions".
Yes, but it's also a breaking change to a very large legacy codebase. I can't see it ever happening, sadly.
> Seems like to me we're getting a great value out of the federal workforce.

Especially since, even with a growing population and arguable more complex world, the number of employees has stayed the same for decades:

* https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CES9091000001

A reasonable argument can been made that governments actually need more bureaucracy is actually needed:

* https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/america-needs-a-bigger-better-...
This is a real challenge, because as the left has taught us, it feels good to be a victim, especially when you can plausibly claim to be one."

The current administration seems to be good at identifying victims where one might not have gone looking for them, e.g. among Afrikaner landowners. Is MAGA in fact "right wing" in a classic sense? It hardly counts as left.

Also, I must say that the expression "ruminating on sewage" does not suggest a sound feeling for language.
https://archive.ph/1yqdi
Moving the goal posts? Perhaps I misunderstand what you are asking.
Python is the not the worst in class scripting language. For example perl and TCL are both slower than python.

Originally you just asked, "such as" [which dynamic language ruby is faster than?]
Implying ruby is slower than every other dynamic language, which is not the case.

JRuby is faster than MRI Ruby for some Rails workloads and very much production ready.

Truffle Ruby is said to be about 97% compatible with MRI on the rubyspec but IMHO isn't production ready for Rails yet. It does work well enough for many stand alone non-rails tasks though and could potentially be used for running Sidekiq jobs.

The reason to mention the alternative ruby runtimes is to show that there's nothing about the language that means it can't improve in performance (within limits).

Whilst it's true that ruby is slower than Common Lisp or Scheme, ruby is still improving and the gap is going to greatly reduce, which is good news for those of us that enjoy using it.
A thin kernel interface isn't a reimplementation of a kernel. The WALI implementation in WAMR is ~2000 lines of C, most of which is just pass-through system calls.
Soooo, starting with GPT-5, they're making it more opaque by no longer letting users choose what model they use?

Also, in the process of eliminating model selection, I wonder what kind of pricing will be associated with the subscription tiers for "intelligence levels".
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In the town where I sometimes live, Harpenden, England, which has had free parking since cars were invented, there is currently a battle going on between the council that wants to introduce parking charges and the residents who don't want it. It's almost entirely about more money for the council.
> It's possible the US is entering it's own "Austerity".

Which has generally been a bad idea:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austerity:_The_History_of_a_Da...
The Leaf 2 was and is a very good EV for its price point.

Its weird how Toyota had the first mass-market PHEV with the Prius but got hyperfixated on hydrogen cars, and Nissan had one of the most successful BEVs (Leaf 2, maybe even Leaf 1) and just sort-of gave up. I vaguely remember Honda having a decent EV.

I wonder what makes EVs so antithetical to Japanese car companies..
The Futurama episode "All the Way Down" and the visual novel Anonymous;Code have the same premise, it's a fun one.
Fascism is rooted in ideas of purity, paternalism, and natural order. Moreover it needs one or more marginalised groups to be a focus of hatred for the general population. Transgenderism threatens all of those ideas and is therefore an especial target of hatred.
This is really concerning. Why should i pay for the pro subscription if i have no real control over when i get the most advanced reasoning capabilities. Usually i defend OpenAI but in this case i really hope their competitors catch up fast and don't follow the same bullshit path like Sam does.
I've been using Neovim for about 6 months now but as a former VS Code user I was mostly investing into the various plugins. Fairly recently I started digging deeper into vim's built-in features such as vimgrep and quickfix and they are incredibly powerful. It will take me probably another year to learn to use all these tools effectively.
I have a 2005 Core 2 Duo desktop running Windows 7. The only things that make it unusable are today's Internet and Electron apps. Everything else (including Visual Studio 2019!) runs at a performance comparable to my 2020 ThinkPad with Core i7. I know it's anecdotal, I'm just saying, if we fixed the bloat on the web, most people could just keep running their 10-15 year old PCs (using Linux if you want).
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She is 1.9 years old and anything that looks like food will be bitten. But to tell the truth, you even need to wash bananas: pesticide residues (you can transfer chemicals to your hands and then to the editable part), can collect dirt/bacteria/rodent excrement.
> It's not known even in theory whether P != NP implies that one-way functions exist: for example, it might be that all NP problems are easy on average, or that there are problems that are hard on average but that you can't sample the problems and their solution at the same time.

Relevant paper:

Impagliazzo, R. A personal view of average-case complexity theory. In Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference on Structure in Complexity Theory. IEEE Computer Society Press (1995), 134–147.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/514853

Non-paywall links:

- https://www.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~krajicek/ri5svetu.pdf

- https://gwern.net/doc/cs/cryptography/1995-impagliazzo.pdf

Popular scientific articles on this topic:

- https://www.quantamagazine.org/which-computational-universe-...

- https://cacm.acm.org/research/fifty-years-of-p-vs-np-and-the...