skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody knows or helps their neighbors here in Japan or any number of places on earth and yet it’s not like it is there.
And then won a legal case by arguing that it was just a generic insult not a specific allegation (and having expensive lawyers).
Nobody has an issue with this stance. It is that before he was the owner and as part of his argument for becoming owner, Elon had a different stance.
These generalizations make no sense person-wise. Everyone has their own set of shoulds, don’ts and do-it-myselves. There’s no single law with all the bullet points.

That said, your usual selection contains [too] many people’s shoulds and don’ts, on both sides.

Root comment in this light basically boils down to I do everything myself and don’t need anyone to break this perfect system. Which is reasonable, imo. If there’s no synergy by design and a person is okay alone, that’s reasonable.
In my experience, I've not found an app that sends a mix of both genuinely useful and spam notifications.
We don't have it at the moment, we will add it in the near future.
Watch Viktor talk about Austerlitz station he used as inspiration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCjNT9qGjh4
> not, at least there is a person on the other side that is mentally able to verify their identity.

That wasn't the question though. There could be this verified identity, good paper trail, bank records for decades etc. And still exact date of birth can be unknown and unknowable. Data lost to the mists of time.
You can also ignore any justification X gives, all the statements coming from Musk and the other tech companies and the government are untrustworthy or deceptive. But people are still hopeful in that Musk saying "free speech" actually gives them any reasing to keep using Twitter.
Flynn effect is reversing for this generation, so it doesn't seem to be the same, previously the next generation was always smarter, but now its dumber.
lol you make it sound like SF is the normal state of things when it’s one of the only places in the developed world with these issues
What do you want to say with that?
As a person, not from UK can someone explain how could Google / YT obtain information about name/surname based solely on phone number. Isn't that GDPR infringement right there ? If my son were to use my phone anywhere, there is no consent on my part to share my personal information with the service provider.
> If I own a platform I’m not under any obligation to allow you to say whatever you like on that platform

This is complicated massively by Elon's role at DOGE.

Twitter has the right to block whomever they want (and always did). But given "multiple federal workers...said they’ve moved sensitive conversations from text messages and Facebook Messenger to the encrypted messaging app Signal" [1], it's unclear whether this is a private or public action.

(Folks in this thread are complaining about Musk's hypocrisy in criticizing pre-Muskian Twitter for blocking accounts and content when he's doing the same thing. But again, that is eclipsed in importance by the corruption and abuse of power questions.)

[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/610951/federal-workers-privacy...
Title should probably be updated then.
"cisgender" was banned a while ago already, probably one of many 'shadowbanned' terms that the king doesn't like.
Professional distance runners like Kiplimo typically run in excess of 130 miles per week, with at least two hard workouts and a long run of 20-25 miles. He will probably return to that level for most of March and a week in early April. The London Marathon isn’t until April 28, and 10 weeks is plenty of time for him to get a mini training block in.
Cleo from Math StackExchange's Identity Has Been Revealed?
The greatest improvement I got in running and general fitness was early 2015 when I did the "do >=1km a day" for 5 months. Often times it was a quick sprint around the block just before midnight (and sometimes then resting until after midnight to knock off the next day if I was busy) but sometimes it was a decent distance. The consistency was what really got everything flowing though.
You're equivocating. Elon didn't just say that he believed in free speech, he said that Twitter would be a platform for free speech.
“Free speech” disappeared almost immediately after the Twitter purchase. Along with all of Musks supporters changing from “we need free speech”, to “Musk owns the platform, he can do what he wants.”

Pre-Musk Twitter was more about free speech, except it was trying to fight bots, hate speech and disinformation.
I$ pressure from bloating machine code with such high-volume information.
Though c.f. prefetch and clflush instructions, as well as the concept (s) of non-tenporal and write-combining stores.
> If you have experience with games, play on expert, seriously. Thief makes the game harder by adding objectives and constraints, not just stat scaling.

Thanks for that tip, will definitely remember it when I get around to playing it
Uh, let's not do that? You can criticize his policies just fine without talking about what preceded him.
Google's working on a Pixel Laptop, and it could run Android (2024)
A compiler would probably emit shift-and-add by constants. Which may very well be faster than a lea.
I'm always curious why people pick project names the way they do.

I'm seeing a trend of slapping a random simple Japanese word to a new project without explanation. Maybe it doesn't need one but at least it would make the name more memorable to me.
> If I own a platform I’m not under any obligation to allow you to say whatever you like on that platform.

Before the Internet this was not the case. In Marsh v. Alabama, it was ruled (in line with all previous precedent) that privately owned roadways and sidewalks had to allow religious pamphleters, even though it is private property. The court asserted that anywhere that is the forum for public discussion is de facto allowed for political and religious speech regardless of property rights. In the very early days of the Internet things changed, when people tried to assert First Amendment claims on Compuserve chats. Compuserve claimed they weren't the public square, that they were a private service. I think they were correct, in that Compuserve was a very marginal private space and couldn't possibly have been "the public square". But precedent over this tiny service were eventually laundered into much larger and more critical bits of social infrastructure.

In contrast to Compuserve, Twitter and Facebook are definitely the public square. You cannot petition for a redress of grievances or lobby for policy changes without using them. And the political left delights in suppressing their opponents on them but files lawsuits claiming their rights are infringed when they aren't given access to every inch -- such as when they sued Trump for blocking them on his Twitter account:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-dismisses-trump-t...

When Democrats were barred from interacting even with a very small part of a platform, it is a critical First Amendment violation. When conservatives, racists, sexists, or whatever term you want to use are barred, well, it's a private company bigot.

This hypocrisy must quickly end, or we as a country will end up in a violent conflict. There must be open, public debate on every major platform, and Americans must be entitled to express their opinions because the only other alternative is violence.
Correct, but my goal was just to get the same result than JS `eval()`except for -n * m because in my opinion this shouln't require parenthesis. It's still a good learn to do this, I don't want to deal with floating points things etc..
My grandmother was born in the 1930s in Chicago (second most populous US city at the time) and she never even knew exactly what year she was born in. It’s fairly common.
They don’t need to be left leaning.
State Stream Transformer (SST) and Metacognition
This looks super interesting! Aviss modified Llama 3.1 8B Instruct model to provided a "train of thought" between tokens.

I'm still new to the world of AI research so I don't fully appreciate how significant this is, so what is your take on this?
The Kobo Libra Colour has the best UX of a device I own, in that it's completely invisible. I can just read my damn books, highlight passages I think are noteworthy and save words I like the sound of. Everything just works, and the high seas experience is seamless.
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> This has nothing to do with BRICS

The things happening in the gold market might be related to the largest players in the gold market. It seems too early to rule that out. We don't know exactly what is happening here.

> Canada

I very much doubt that tariffs on Canada are a factor in the UK->US movements; it'd need to be a tariff on gold specifically. If the tariff is on Canadian gold, why would they need to slip English vaulted gold (presumably of all sorts of origins) in before the tariff barrier comes down? It'd be more sensible to wait until the tariffs are a known quantity and fly the gold in on demand.

The market price does that sort of logic on autopilot. If the price differential is enough to have European gold re-vaulted the market has to foresee something bigger than a Canadian tariff. Otherwise the price differential would be just enough to justify moving Canadian gold in early, but not enough to justify flying gold over the Atlantic.
Instead of DEI, why not formal reparations for slavery? Done in the form of a bank, it could be pretty powerful.
You can't differentiate them in that case. You'd have to fly orthogonal across the surface for~ maximum effect.
Do UX design and AI empower people to live consciously or lull into passivity?
Off topic, but I believe naming this specific kind of numbers "real" is a misnomer. Nothing in reality is expression of a real number. Real numbers pop up only when we abstract reality into mathematical models.

In Polish language rational numbers are called something more like "measurable" numbers and in my opinion that's the last kind of numbers that is expressed in reality in any way. Those should be called "real" and real should be called something like "abstract" or "limiting" because they pop-up first as limits of some process working on rational numbers for infinite number of steps.
Is this a joke? Sinclair network. Conservative radio. X.
People have only that much power we give to them. If everyone stops using Twitter/X, it is nothing. Nobody buys Teslas - it is nothing. The list goes on since his # in wealthy ranks defines his position. Just make it drop.
The conclusion is partially correct in my experience. At the end of the day is has to do with making more money and it just happens that more features allows big companies to keep selling more of it, or at least that's the claim.

I disagree with the technical assessment though. There's nothing stopping large companies from properly engineering their systems so that they can be iterated on faster.

> So why do big tech companies find it so much harder to build? It’s the scale of the app itself: not the number of traffic or users, but the number of features. As that number grows, it becomes more and more difficult to build and ship new features.

This isn't necessarily true. Software can be designed so that new features are trivial to add, mostly because features are added within a domain, which means that features usually have things in common and can be abstracted. This is where the real problem occurs. In order to properly abstract features, you need engineers that are completely focused on engineering the systems because it is very, very hard.

So the actual reason is that companies do not want to invest in properly engineering their systems because they don't want to pay engineers to focus no the over-arching system abstracting from a high level across all features... instead they allocate engineers to individual features which is a small slice of the technical work, and then the rest of their effort is spent doing non-technical work like coordinating, manual testing, scheduling and planning, and presenting their tiny features. If you build a large codebase like this, then maybe you can ship faster at the beginning, but sooner or later the progress grinds to a halt.

This is called Conway's Law - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
Big companies just don't care about good engineering and I think it's also because the average consumer does not care about it (even though everyone does notice it when it is present), not to mention that hardware does a lot of heavy lifting because memory and CPUs are so good that it allows bad code to exist.
Until someone with more power than them (other Humans, Aliens or Robots) decide to apply the same "reasoning" to them.

I mean I totally understand it but it's pretty much caprice.
Growing Up Murdoch
https://archive.is/PyUev
Oh I’m agreeing with you. My point is that even as someone who is able to and knows how to do this stuff it’s a value add.
> I'm mildly curious to see how X tries to justify this,

They won't. They will say they're the champion of free speech, and that'll be enough for the fan base.
Many have an issue with that stance, including me. The public townsquare has rules about permitted speech, same is true for public plattforms that fulfill that role in the digital realm. Utilities are to be regulated etc. These types of censorship ought to be illegal, and e.g. in the EU this whole thinking of that the owner decides is already not the legal reality anymore.
Played Anno 1800 a couple years ago, good game and pretty.

But the original Anno 1602 still wins in the looks and style department. As most 2.5D isometric games do..
What are you saying or referring to? The Stackexchange posting you're replying to does not refer to the U.S. government at all as far as I can tell. How do you connect the link you're responding to to the White House at all?
He belongs to these people that misunderstood freedom of opinion to mean that nobody gets to criticize their opinion.
Fixi.js: experimental, minimalist hypermedia controls
Here's the link to the paper, https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.18356.
There may be practical issues that explain delays. Consider a team who are staffed to suit normal activity. Then there is a period of increased activity, the team fall behind.
Does the no-cookie thing mean you can't count e.g. unique/returning visitors? Or is there any privacy-friendly way of doing that?
While you’re correct as to his intentions, it’s still important to point out his hypocrisy as he called himself “a free speech absolutist,” and claimed to want Twitter to be part of that vision. He explicitly called left wing and right wing views as things he wants.

Yes, we know it was all lies but not putting out the evidence allows people like Musk and his acolytes to make it the new truth without a fight.
It constantly shows "Sorry! Fandom isn't allowing BreezeWiki to show pages right now." for me.
Stop carrying water for the world’s richest person. Musk has claimed multiple times he’s a free speech absolutist and bought Twitter to make it the free speech platform.

I agree, it’s his platform and he can do what he wants within the law. But, how you or anyone else can continue to defend Musk when he has made clear multiple times he’s a lying hypocrite is beyond my understanding.
Related document for how we used to handle this before the "oligarchs tweeting slander" approach gained support:

https://oig.ssa.gov/assets/uploads/a-06-21-51022.pdf

Numberholders Age 100 or Older
Who Did Not Have Death
Information on the Numident

> The attached final report presents the results of the Office of Audit’s review. The objective was
to determine whether the Social Security Administration had effective controls to annotate death
information on the Numident records of numberholders who exceeded maximum reasonable life
expectancies.
Please provide within 60 days a corrective action plan that addresses each recommendation. If
you wish to discuss the final report, please call me or have your staff contact
Michelle L. Anderson, Assistant Inspector General for Audit

They decided not to do anything about it (e.g. add a "presumed dead" field) because they thought it would be a waste of money!

> In response to our 2015 report, SSA considered multiple options, including adding presumed
death information to these Numident records. SSA ultimately decided not to proceed because
the “. . . options would be costly to implement, would be of little benefit to the agency, would
largely duplicate information already available to data exchange consumers and would create
cost for the states and other data exchange partners.”16 SSA also believed a regulation would
be required to allow it to add death information to these records, and adding presumed death
information to the Numident would increase the risk of inadvertent release of living individuals’
personal information in the DMF.

Submitted here in case anyone wants to discuss the SHOCKINGLY boring REVELATIONS contained within:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43077199
I'm in the UK. After an update yesterday it was asking me to enable it on my M1 Mac
Oh god yes please!
Halo: ODST is the one for me with the best storytelling and ambiance.
Exactly. Statements like this have been used to approve new programs and legislation that in at least one case led to sweeping profiling and the incorrect retraction of government benefits, causing tens of thousands to end up in poverty and debt and the consequent issues of divorce, children removed from parents, even suicides: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_childcare_benefits_scand...

This all started when a group of Bulgarian migrants took advantage of a loophole, registering as residents for a small amount of time and defrauding the government for about €4 million. The price tag to set it right again was €7.4 billion as of last year: https://nos.nl/artikel/2503966-de-toeslagenaffaire-van-een-m...

What I'm trying to say is that right-wing / populist talking points can and will lead to sweeping reform with long term and far reaching consequences. For a few years we had an era of fact checking where these statements were immediately marked, but all the services have removed it again. I'm honestly surprised Twitter still has community notes.
Garry Tan and Paul Graham are lauding DOGE (I, like pretty much everyone else, am also all for employing new technology to optimize business and government) but have not expressed concern about the 20 million people who have lost access to lifesaving medicine except for possibly vague suggestions about "proceeding cautiously" with respect to dismantling USAID. Why would anyone want to associate with people who have such disregard for human life? Do Elon and Trump possess personally compromising information on Paul and Garry? Or is this, as you suggest, just Paul and Garry revealing their true colors?
No need to hold their position that accurately, just need to know, ideally in real-time.
How else to block sanctioned country individuals? This is a problem on YouTube where American company is basically supporting regimes indirectly.
If you capture a high enough proportion of the attention bandwidth, you cease having to answer questions or be accountable. It's quite scary how powerful this is.
There are already full solution for things like that i.e. https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-swag
That seems a weird assertion.

I just went to apartments.com. Palo Alto (not the cheapest place), shows loads of 1 and 2 bedroom apartments under and at 3k/month. That's under $40k/year.

This tax calculator shows the generic case of $120k (low 'six figures'), as being more than $80k takehome:

https://www.talent.com/tax-calculator/California-120000

That means less than 1/2 of a 'low end' engineering salary is taken for housing, and that's without a room-mate. Something most people have at the start of their career, and before being married (which is another way to have a room mate).

Do you actually live in the region? Why do you think almost $4k/month of cash in hand, left over after rent paid and taxes paid, isn't much?

Why do you think no one can find a place to live, when apartments.com show places aplenty?

Are you referring to a specific area, instead of a more central place such as Palo Alto?
I think it's the <current year> meme. Just how for a while every JavaScript library had to end in .js, and before that when every electronics manufacturer put an i in front of product names until Apple stopped them. Another example is libraries being described as "blazing fast" or "minimal".

It's basically bankrupted creativity.
>both times was asked to complete ten captchas, about five minutes of pure captcha work

If you were using a VPN, this might have been why.
Revealed at time: https://youtu.be/7gQ9DnSYsXg?t=391

Vladimir Reshetnikov
Yeah, who's ever heard of an incomplete database or a database that barely holds together and has had to have weird adjustments done to it in order to avoid fucking up other bits of data?

We can tell you've never touched a database or worked in tech.

Not that there is any shame in that. But the same way I keep my opinion to myself when my doctor gives me my diagnosis, people who have never handled a database really should follow that advice.

A local library can barely keep its database straight and it's very slightly easier than a database containing millions of people's information. Dozens of millions.
Great idea, will process it, thank you!
I got actual nerve damage from playing Anno 1404 crosslegged for a 16 hours a day for a few days straight a decade or so ago...
First, you can manage the cache explicitly. You can load from memory bypassing the cache (if you know you won't need something again), you can prefetch into the cache ahead of time, and you can expunge lines from the cache. Those instructions are useful in high performance code (and in Spectre-like exploits :) ).

Second, it's harder than it looks. Even a simpler problem, branch speculation, is notoriously difficult to get right without profiling information from program execution. For example the Linux kernel has the likely() and unlikely() macros which can inject branch predictor hints into the assembly. You use them like "if(likely(...))". Problem? Those hints, carefully inserted by serious systems engineers, were often terrible! So much so that removing all of them increased the performance of the kernel.

I think that you pretty much have to provide profiling information to think about having the compiler manage the cache. It's doable, but it's a lot of work - your profiles better be highly representative.
what is the use of SSO there? How this would work with other selfhosted applications that require their own auth? Because if you need to authenticate 2 times then it would not be good.