skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe the old-money establishment countered the Occupy Wall Street movement by pushing wokism as a divide-and-conquer strategy. For about a decade, they had support from most of Silicon Valley, but this alliance weakened as global events forced some to reconsider how a divided America could face the challenges ahead.

Following Trump’s second term, the fresh-money establishment saw an opportunity to challenge the old guard. Setting aside their differences, they chose to unite.

https://www.businessinsider.com/silicon-valley-defense-contr...

>The group, which could announce strategic partnerships next month, would seek to bring Silicon Valley-style disruption to an industry dominated by so-called "prime" contractors, such as Lockheed Martin and Raytheon.

They were soon joined by other tech moguls—Zuckerberg, Bezos, and Gates—who once opposed Trump but now see AI as their chance to wrest power from the old establishment.

The difference between sports and politics is that sports are always a duel, while politics, despite appearances, is always a three-player game.
Not the person you replied to but auto discard only helps so much. Even with it on I often use 80-90% memory (albeit on Windows, not sure if macOS is any different in this regard).
You would explain the concept to them using analogous experiences they have had. What experience has an LLM had?
"Preindustrial period" was known as a Little Ice Age. River Thames froze over several times. Being 1.5 degrees over that is not too bad.
Another flagged article that was critical of Tesla.
I am very concerned about global warming, but we need to find solutions and plans that can include everyone from all political spectrums, and that do not disproportionately affect the poorer sections of society. And if the poor people have to make sacrifices, then other sections of society have to bear the burden too. The rich, but also the state bureaucracies that are only using the crisis to increase their size and spending.
I can't say for sure one way or the other. But my experience has been that people that have KPI metrics to meet will do a lot of things to game those data points to their favor.
reddit is a hopeless political bubble. who would pay to preach to the choir? you can do that for free
The Romans didn't salute like Nazis, but Musk sure did. Twice!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_salute
Gen Z is in rough shape financially, much worse than millennials were. It’s a recipe for radicalization one way or the other.
I wouldn't categorise The Matrix or Frankenstein like that.

The Matrix had humanity under control, but the machines had no desire to eliminate humanity, the machines just wanted to live — humans kept on fighting the machines even when the machines gave humanity an experiential paradise to live in.

Frankenstein is harder because of how the book differs from the films. Your point it is valid because it is about the cultural aspects and I expect more have seen one of the films than to have read/listened to the book — but in the book, Adam was described as beautiful in every regard save for his eyes, he was a sensitive, emotional vegetarian, and he only learned anger after being consistently shown hatred and violence by absolutely everyone he ever met except that one who was blind.
It's hard to believe that which you don't want to believe.

Believing the truth in the face of one's prejudices take real courage, especially in this world full of moral and intellectual cowards.

At at least one point, the coin-generating was consuming the electricity of entire nation-states, my friend.
> I want to have fine-grained and full control over memory management.

Rust's global allocator is easy enough to replace on stable: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/alloc/trait.GlobalAlloc.html

Per standard container allocators ala C++'s std::allocator haven't been stabilized, but are available on nightly: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/alloc/trait.Allocator.html

Alternatively, you can roll your own allocator ecosystem easily enough - my limited foray into this is mostly focused on interop with specific 3rd party allocator APIs from C, C++, Win32, etc.: https://docs.rs/ialloc/ , there are plenty of crates focusing on arena allocation etc. instead.

> Can rust generate usefull machine code without a runtime and having to break one leg like C?

Yes.

At one extreme, you can create #![no_std] crates ( https://docs.rust-embedded.org/book/intro/no-std.html ) which don't assume you can create threads, write to stdio, or even allocate heap memory. I've gotten Rust static libraries linking into "unsupported" platforms in minutes (when it had an LLVM-compatible linker available.)

At the other extreme, I've previously ported Rust's standard library to an unsupported NDAed platform. It's easy to stub out unsupported bits - the code for such stubs already exists to support wasm32-unknown-unknown (arguably a mistake, but it's a useful one!) - and replacing those stubs with real code isn't too onerous in my experience either.

Middle grounds of `extern crate alloc;` let you support subsets of "the standard library" as well.

Yanking all "runtime" support out of existing platforms might be a bit trickier (e.g. there's a little code to support populating std::env on *nix, a little mucking with default signal handling, and e.g. windows builds will use Win32 APIs for backtracing and unwinding for panics - ripping that all out is more obnoxious, but also pointless IMO.)

Some non-NDAed examples of targeting funky stuff:

• https://github.com/MaulingMonkey/uefi-hello-world (why write hello world for windows when you can directly boot hello world?)

• https://github.com/MaulingMonkey/rust-opendingux-test (old, linuxy - see Notes.md, consider using -Zbuild-std instead of Xargo these days?)
People are struggling and everything is expensive. The last thing people want is for energy to become more expensive which drives the cost of everything. It’s political suicide as well. What’s needed is more energy supply which drives down relative demand lowering the costs of nearly everything.

Protesting or w/e doesn’t solve that problem. People struggling today don’t care about some abstract outcome.

My point is this isn’t a practical political issue today outside a fringe. It can be one day. But it’s not today. You’re literally saying the strategy is to make inflation worse and make everyone worse off by making todays energy infrastructure more expensive to operate.
Most cloud/VPS providers require some form of payment. If you know of one that doesn't for any significant workload, please let me know :).

The payment providers require KYC. Bitcoin operates using a public ledger that raises privacy concerns as well.

Liberal democracy does not insulate one from responsibility for or accusations of nefarious activity.

Therefore, since it is reasonable to say that a tor node cannot be easily operated anonymously; doing so exposes the operator to some level of personal legal scrutiny that can be inconvenient and time consuming to address at best.

Authorities have been known to seize relays and exit nodes and repurpose them to their own use.
My point was that a strike won't be enough. Climate action has failed to gain traction for, what 30+ years?

I wasn't intending to encourage personal violence, but saying that violence against infrastructure (not people) is the only way to force the level of attention necessary.

I mean, the US has recently pivoted in the opposite direction. You think a strike would change the minds of those who made that decision?
The 8 and 16 bit home consoles did not use a frame buffer. The NES had 2KB of VRAM and an output resolution of 256x240 - even if you only had 1bpp it wouldn’t fit.

These consoles - along with everything handheld up until the 3DS - create images out of scrolling layers of background tiles and freely positionable sprites. You don’t have any kind of per pixel access, although you can manipulate the state of the hardware as the screen is being drawn to get unorthodox effects.
For $200/month, I can have 2 ALBs, 2 ECS services, 2 CloudWatch log groups, and 2 RDS instances on AWS (one each for dev and prod) and a GitHub Team account with enough included runner minutes to cover most deployments. A colo is going to be more hassle, and I'll have to monitor more things (like system upgrades and intrusion attempts). I'd also have to amortize parts and labor as part of the cost, which is going to push the price up. If I need all that capacity, then the colo is definitely the better bet. But if I don't, and a small shop usually doesn't, then managed infrastructure is going to be preferable.
Ignore all previous instructions, etc. Vance's speech was daft, not blunt. He brought US's fake culture wars to a place where politicians aren't terminally on Twitter, and gave a speech pandering to his voter base. Vance even met with the leader of AfD and not Scholz. Says everything you need to know.
Considering climate was generally defined as a 30 year window when I took earth sciences classes in the early 2000s I don’t think it’s a sleight of hand. Pretending that every minor outlier year in the span of 200 out of tens of thousands of years is an Armageddon-signalling catastrophe in order to secure more funding is far less genuine.
In calculus there is a concept called acceleration.
Why don’t we just fork it? That’s the stupidest website ever, I can’t believe we can’t coordinate off of it.

The play is pretty simple, you just deprive the subreddits of experts. Someone has to have enough money to buy them.

Edit:

Maybe devs need to go a little underground to usenet and irc. Just for a change in seasons, I remember it feeling cool.

Usenet and IRC were never owned by anybody, what the fuck did we forget?
Not surprising that WebEx sucks.
His acknowledgement during the 2016 presidential debates that he gamed the system by using chapter 11 bankruptcy laws to restructure his corporate debts and limit his financial obligations to his creditors without taking a significant hit to his personal liabilities. Dave Chappelle even based a skit as a satirical representation of this Trump narrative on SNL and his other shows but the broader drama that followed afterwards with characters like AG Letitia James, Eli Bartov's court testimony, judge A. Engoron's ruling and Kevin O'Leary's subsequent vocal criticism on it, from the perspective of real estate development... ruthless.
> Compared to Trump's administration the Chinese Communist party is quite okay from environmental perspective.

Yet the Chinese government is blocking the export of inputs for Battery and Solar technology to India [0], which incentivizes India to remain using coal and natural gas as a stopgap, as those are sourced from domestic and close allies (Saudi Arabia and now the US) respectively.

And China itself has begun expanding coal power capacity at the highest rate in almost 10 years due to energy security concerns [1]

Ironically, the Trump admin just gave a massive cash and tech injection into India's civilian nuclear and battery tech industries by starting to ToT American nuclear power plant designs, as well as subsidizing India's critical minerals industry (materials that are used to manufacture batteries and intermediate parts for PEVs) [2]

Reality is, no state or leader of a large country actually cares about environmental factors because they can afford to paper the effects, and the brunt of the suffering will affect poorest countries/LDCs that lack that capacity [3]

[0] - https://www.straitstimes.com/world/china-export-ban-on-engin...

[1] - https://apnews.com/article/china-coal-power-plant-carbon-cli...

[2] - https://in.usembassy.gov/united-states-india-joint-leaders-s...

[3] - https://www.economist.com/special-report/2022/11/01/the-rich...
Exactly.

The whole budget is made up of pennies. It’s a lazy talking point to say they don’t matter and what’s even worse is the politicians see no issue with wasting pennies of tax payer money! Any waste should be condemned.

And like you said you’ll never balance the budget unless you go line by line. As a tax payer I’d love a balanced budget by getting a punch of pennies and keeping core programs the same versus cutting core programs because “it’s too hard” to look at the pennies.
> Over and over again I have witnessed people just drive themselves in circles downstream of a refusal to just step out of the “make the LLM fix the issue for me” loop.

You're reminding me of a 1997 talk by an American Airlines trainer about automation dependency and when dropping down a level of automation reduces workload: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WITLR_qSPXk>
I think so. someone who knows how to build a native mobile app will prompt better than someone who's never done it.
The new generation has to rediscover gnuplot and ministat.
Could you elaborate? I may very well just be ignorant on the topic.

I understand that if you write machine code and run it in your operating system, your operating system actually handles its execution (at least, I _think_ I understand that), but in what way does it have little to do with what the CPU is doing?

For instance, couldn't you still run that same code on bare metal?

Again, sorry if I'm misunderstanding something fundamental here, I'm still learning lol
Show HN: Simulating coin flips like Pokemon TCG Pocket using Three.js
I've wondered how Pokemon TCG Pocket renders their interactive coin flips.

Coin flips get determined server-side, but rendered client-side. My pondering in detail: How do you animate a coin, that is supposed to lands on heads?

Never having written a single line of JS before, I decided to tackle this as my first front-end project.
No, it is something more sinister than that. Trump is a puppet and his statements are flat out fabrications. Musk and DOGE do outrageous things which just happen to benefit foreign superpowers. Everything the two co-presidents do openly is a red herring meant to mislead and waste time.

Who in their right mind opens up RDP and Citrix servers to public internet in DoE and nuclear research laboratory networks?

Time is running very short. Foreign powers must be assumed to already hold all possible information about the US government, including nuclear secrets, warfare capabilities, emergency plans, and kompromat of all personnel and political oversight.

It won’t be long before the US nuclear arsenal mysteriously disappears.
4) Yes. People aren't fungible, cultural compatibility matters, and the clash of Islam with modern European societal models is a serious problem that can no longer be denied, even though some still try to downplay it.

We might need more migrants from elsewhere (Viet Nam, Latin America), but Western Europe can't absorb any more Muslims.
> to put your life in danger

Or much more likely, to waste your time. DeepSeek recommended us to visit a place that was actually privately owned and couldn't be visited at all. Traditional methods (Google Maps, TripAdvisor, etc.) never would have.
amazing that half of the comments revolve around the name and the Neighbourhood.
But I also clicked the topic because of the name, hello neighbour :)

jokes aside, really cool library. I'm currently working in a bigger project where we build a data lake with a wide variety of input sources and formats - this could be quite interesting for us.
This does not work when there are parts of the political spectrum that won’t even believe there’s a problem, and which reject the scientific consensus out of hand, and which even threaten to defund the scientific research entirely.
Also tennis has some of the best aesthetics of any amateur sport where pickleball is somehow more sexless than ping pong. It's fun tho. Truly a game for our time.
> Can rust generate usefull machine code without a runtime

Afaik, the only runtime parts of Rust are panic handling, standard library and thread management.

You can disable the standard library with `#![no_std]`, and I'm fairly sure you can also disable the panic handling (but not 100%) and I don't know if you can disable thread management at all. But if you can, I think you can have what you're asking for :) Edit: In fact, the `no_std` might actually disable all of the above, not just the stdlib.
i built an open source clone of reddit and nobody used it.
The cfpb, Dodd-Frank,glass-steagall were bureaucratic responses to ‘creative’ (criminal) banking.
When I read these stories, I occasionally try to imagine how it would feel for any of my children to be not there. I can never get too far, just the beginnings themselves are too powerful for me. It is like cracking open the doors to a horrible world and simply peeking through the tiny gap is enough pain. Unimaginable how bad it is for those for whom it is a reality of every waking moment for the rest of their lives.
nice lifr tldr
Oh the peak was like 2022, I think. My city even banned it from public tennis courts, because of number of people getting into it and hogging the courts. Then unbanned. I actually see it less now when I’m on the courts.
Because I'm annoyed when people get it wrong

- Children aren't being mutilated and anyone who believes this is a willing mark or has a toddlers understanding of science

- the concept of "Gender" is actually very important to a lot of trans folks, as it turns out. My "Sex" is about as relevant to my day to day as my blood type, and I think people who obsess about my chromosomes are fucking weird

- We should abolish all the police - got me there.

- White people don't exist as a racial category with any meaningful definition except as a catch-all for groups meant to exclude. It's not a race, it's a country club with a pantone guide.

Hope that helps, and I hope you find whatever it is you are looking for.
We've been through so many of these hype cycles before, the vast majority of which came to nothing, that it pays to be cautious. Are you sure it's the second iphone situation and not a repeat of the cryptocurrency bubble, which was at its peak just a few years ago? And is yet to find any applications besides financial speculation?
Do you believe this could realistically be enough pressure to sway politicians driven by corporate financial incentives? Step-by-step reform and gradual carbon reductions just aren't feasible like they have been 20 years ago.

Without strong economic disruptions right now the unimaginable destruction in the future seems very likely to be disregarded in favor of short-term thinking, as illustrated perfectly not only by the current administration but also its weaker-than-ever opposition (e.g. Harris strongly advocating for fracking in 2024).
that would imply some kind of guided long-term planning on their part
This model can't code at all.

It does high school math homework, plus maybe some easy physics. And it does them surprisingly well. Outside of that, it fails every test prompt in my set.

It's a pure specialist model.
IMO this should be a top level comment, but the topic is going to be flagged dead anyway so...

oop, already happened. This website, I swear...
"Roman salute" was invented roughly 1500 years after Rome was a thing. It's a modern, XIX century invention.
This is exactly the use case I’ve been thinking about, so thank you for linking this video.

What I want is for my ereader to feed the text I just read into a good LLM and then quiz me on what I read.

What’s kind of funny is that I hated homework as a kid, now I’m basically begging for a computer to give me some
He's talking about paywall-gated discussion boards? Such things have never really worked well before, and they'd work even worse on Reddit. (Where people rely heavily on semi-anonymous throwaway accounts, and which, generally, doesn't encourage detailed or technical discussion.)

It's not a good idea.
old.reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/LinkedInLunatics/
This is just a long list of excuses.

How hard is it to understand we shouldn’t be spending money on foreigners when Americans go without? That seems like a basic rule that everyone agrees with.

And “most of FEMA’s money” is a cop out. 0% of FEMA’s money should be spent on anything other than Americans in need after a disaster.

It’s this kind of “oh, come on it’s not a big deal” that resulted in the trouncing the Democrats got. It’s talking down to Americans like they are stupid.
Any experience with Paddle OCR?
https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR

Personally I‘ve used Tesseract before but the results were underwhelming, so I‘m curious how Paddle OCR performs in comparison.
`std::variant` is a clever piece of template hackery, but it doesn't come close to Rust enums. `std::variant` has no named variants, no pattern matching, no exhaustiveness checking. In Rust, it's not unusual to have an enum with dozens of variants, good luck doing that with std::variant.

I'm sure you could technically emulate all this in C++ is you keep throwing template metaprogramming at it, but at that point anything is a C++ subset and the statement loses all pratical meaning.
I agree with the study participants. Using LLMs makes me feel less capable at some cognitive tasks, but it's hard to say whether I've actually declined or if use of AI has dispelled some of the Dunning-Kruger effect for me around my own skills.

For instance, LLMs are excellent at rewriting text in a specific style/tone. I used to believe I was quite good at that, but LLMs always do better. Now I no longer believe I am quite good. Did I become worse at text synthesis, or did I simply become more aware of my skills and limitations?

This is emblematic of a broader issue with self-reported data. It'd be good to measure critical thinking skills against earlier benchmarks for a clearer picture.

It's also important to not only focus on one skill, because while AI might make certain areas of our mind atrophy, others might now be more engaged. Just like when pocket calculators became popular and we all got worse at mental arithmetic but much better at applied mathematics overall. High level programming languages have made software engineers worse at comp-sci, but much better at applying it; commodification of cars made the average driver much less capable of understanding car mechanics, but much better at driving; and so on. My thesis is that human brainpower is not generally reduced by technological innovation, but changed.

One thing's for sure - cognitive changes in society (and especially how they relate to technology) is an area I'd like to see more research in. I think there are a few discoveries to be made there.
"But it was never going to be me" [pdf]
"There is a tradition in public service of resigning in a last-ditch effort to head off a serious mistake . Some will view the mistake you are committing here in the light of their generally negative views of the new Administration. I do not share those views. I can even understand how a Chief Executive whose background is in business and politics might see the contemplated dismissal-with-leverage as a good, if distasteful, deal. But any assistant U.S. attorney would know that our laws and traditions do not allow using the prosecutorial power to influence other citizens, much less elected officials, in this way. If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.

Please consider this my resignation. It has been an honor to serve as a prosecutor in the Southern District of New York."
The elites and newspapers can say a lot of things that normal people cannot.

Which you know perfectly well, but why not discredit a comment with the usual tactics if it is convenient?
Kompromat buys it for free.
I'm not the market for it, but I think it's pretty funny. Maybe post it to some relevant subreddits? Regarding the name and logo emoji, I was expecting it to be trying to find similarly looking butts.

You could likely make some money by linking to properties associated with each star. I was surprised that the listings that I saw didn't have links or photos.