skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 8) Less sanction efficiency than ever

> So according to the World Bank (not a Russian source!), Russia just flipped Japan to become the fourth largest global economy in GDP-by-PPP:

After reading this line you can easily identify that author is either propagandist or moron.

This is how Russia "increased GDP":

1 - Paid to restore tons of USSR weaponry garbage to just burn it yesterday.
2 - Funded building of new weaponry that will be burned today.
3 - Moved 5-10% of population to "military economy" building some military crap that have no other use other than get burned tomorrow.
4 - Took 300,000 random people out of real economy via forced mobilization and thrown them on frontlines.
5 - Hired 500,000+ poor or destitute people who had annual salary of $3600. Hired them for $2000 / month and paid them out $40,000 sign up bonus to go die on frontlines.
6 - Killed at least 100,000 of them and paid out $50,000 for each dead body to a family.
7 - Made like another 200,000+ of cripples that wont be able to work like until they die. So more spending.

And in process doubled mass of local currency in economy from 2022 from 65 trillion rubles to 117 trillions.

Economy is booming!
> Why do you have inherent bias against public sector tech workers

huh?
One type? Damn near all of them! +1 nonetheless

edit: We'll get to demonstrate more value cleaning up the mess this creates! SWE/SRE is controlled opposition, change my mind /s
From my European perspective: here it is illegal to hire someone that is in such a registry, so agreements cannot change what the law say. If you have a registry that is optional, why even bother?
i go back and forth on this a lot, but with fewer and fewer "in production" SQL queries in my life, number based group by is definitely my default
I can’t all for the parent obviously, but my experience is similar and I was using Red Hat and Mandrake around 1999.
You will say what the bully demands you to say or face the consequences. But no, this isn't a dictatorship. Not at all.
802.11 supports the same thing. A STA (client) can tell an AP that it'll be going away for some time, and the AP will queue all traffic for the STA until it actively reports back. Broadcast traffic can also be synchronized to particular intervals (but low power devices are usually not interested in that anyway for efficiency reasons).
Gentoo can do systemd or OpenRC, but I think systemd is default. I would recommend Guix System if you don't want systemd, as it uses GNU Shepherd instead.
Hah, I thought you meant a literal cat.

Our dogs do that. There's a building we used to go up with six elevators. Three on each side of the hallway facing each other. Without hesitation the dogs will pick the correct direction to go coming out of the elevator. Whereas I always had to check because it all looks the same and depending on which side the elevator is on you have to turn left or right.

It's like they have an innate sense of where they are.
this is SUPER interesting actually. I definitely didn't realize this. I'm still probably going to use a small army of CTEs for this sort of stuff, but I'm very interested to give this a shot the next time I'm exploring a dataset.
Wonder if the pitchforks will come out this year or the next?

So many programs and jobs have been gutted so the orange man and his kleptocracy cabinet can get their $4.5T in tax cuts for the ultra wealthy [1]

I’m not impacted but this shit is really tiring. It’s painful to see American public be so ignorant and buy into the neoclassical economic lies.

[1] https://apnews.com/article/house-republicans-budget-blueprin...
It's a lot better now, but there was absolutely a period when it felt like there was a new framework/library weekly. This was 5-10 years ago. 'Cambrian explosion' was the term going around.

A lot of it was in react space, with router libraries or the newest data store being the thing you needed to be using. Definitely turned me off react, personally at least. The angular.js/angular2 migration was also a big pain around this time as well.

There was a lot of social pressure from influencers on youtube and various social media that you NEEDED to switch now. This was the new hotness, it was blazing fast, anything else was obsolete tech debt. There was one instance of 'or you should be fired' that sticks with me.

I think we're just used to the hyperbole and are all a lot more jaded now.

Compare this to the backend, where django, rails, and the others haven't really changed. I haven't felt the need or pressure to rewrite my views/controllers/whatever at all.
I guestimate that 90% of the cops are good or just fine, but the minority that do bad things are creating a bad image for all. My guestimate is that the mayors in the cities with these cops are as guilty as the bad cops for keeping and protecting them. Same for the sheriffs.
I disagree with that. Fundamentally, it comes down to who is in charge. Does React control the DOM or does the DOM control react? I see this as a cache concurrency issue--React is trying to cache the DOM and breaking when that fails.
I've had someone on this site say to me that it's because America embraces the free market, as well as it being the only country to have granular enough taxes to require a third party to handle it. It's incredibly hard because you can point to any other country to show examples of good (not perfect) implementations but then American exceptionalism takes over and they simply dismiss any advice.
My understanding is they were shooting for ETF listings, which are arguably the easiest listings business to establish in if you have the right sales team (due to the lighter regulatory regime compared to listing common stock).

They were also making a play at trying to capture listings for companies looking to reincorporate in TX (think of it as a 'social issue' campaign; same as what the LTSE guys are shooting for).

That all said, I definitely do not disagree with you. While I think they at least have more justification to launch a venue than MEMX did, I am highly skeptical of their ability to pull listings business away from NY. The Big Board and Nasdaq have it on lock.
But this isn't even true, and NextJS is well into egregiously complexity. Remix was an alternative option in the space that is now deprecated in all-but-name for React Router v7, which (for those just tuning back in), react router is now a framework.

If you wrote your app in NextJS 2 years ago, you would already have to rewrite chunks of it to get it to compile today. These tools are NOT solidified, they are releasing breaking changes at least once a year.
When your hobbies can include things like jumping off mountains without parachutes? That's boring only for the people who secretly dream of being a spy.
Is there any evidence that the contents of the database are accessible? The linked article doesn't make these claims.

Is there any evidence that the database for this microblog of a cloud flare hosted website has anything of importance in it?

Are you also (alone) suggesting there's a tunnel from cloud flare (where this is hosted) to some larger government database?

You may want to RTFA: https://archive.ph/wy1Wt
I come from a hyper individualistic culture were people appreciate their privacy. Americans at least have church.

You really have to put in effort to connect with others. Alcohol helps. And the realisation that the others probably feel just like you do.
Cipher – A Vision for the Future of Tab Completion
I should note that I try to avoid flagging unless the entire comment is an outright attack and there is nothing of substance whatsoever in it. The "these are things they don't want to answer" is partially fitting that criteria, but I simply focused on the implicit question.

I figured a comment like that is better (and a bit funnier) to to simply disprove than hide. And I didn't need much work to disprove it. Any little nudges to help peope realize that "yes, a good 95%+ of government budgets is publicly viewable" is a good step forward.
Ha! I have a ridiculous amount of insight into this =)

For over a decade now I've been building and leading Developer Relations teams at developer companies. The reason why so many startups have a blog is because... It's one of the best ways you have to attract users to your service in a high-ROI way.

Think of it like this: you're a startup founder for a developer company. You want to get developers to know about your product, and ideally, try it out. How do you do it? You have a handful of options!

- Paid Advertising (expensive, hard to manage, immediately stops working once you stop advertising)

- Cold outreach (aka, outbound sales and prospecting, it works but nobody likes it and it's labor/time intensive, immediately stops working once you stop it)

- Organic outreach (aka, blog posts, YouTube videos, etc.) <--- This is the only category of things that last for a long time: once you've published an article or video, it'll be around as a reference that people will stumble upon in searches, LLM training sets will pick it up and potentially use it for future recommendations, etc. It has a long shelf-life.

When I ran DevRel at Stormpath (acquired by Okta), and later Okta, here's a fun secret most people won't know: a majority of our business and new developer users came from our developer blog. Shocking, right? Even at a large post-IPO company like Okta, the developer blog (back when I was there, anyhow), represented a massive portion of ALL website visits.

The amount of influence you have through educational content is truly massive, and can make or break even the largest tech companies.
I made the exact same language comparison in another reply. Learning a foreign language after the age of 9 means you most certainly never will sound like a native speaker. I think perfect pitch is the same. But if you have something that is functionality perfect pitch, why is it not perfect pitch?
Without tears, right ? Seeing those mountains of cryptographic math I've got red eyes.
> You write as if someone held a gun to your head and force you to sign up for Plaid. Plaid doesn't require anyone to use it.

There is not a physical gun pointed at my head, but an increasing amount of digital online interactions are solely gated by Plaid. I've run into plenty cases where I simply had no choice, for example dealing with landlords.

And you already know how long it takes for financial systems to evolve once in place, as evidenced by your own frustration for them not embracing APIs and digital sovereignty. So once a solution like Plaid is in place, we're normalizing this kind of man-in-the-middle security nightmare for generations to come. Even if Plaid's founders did not have malicious intent, the company will eventually change hands to someone less ethical, and the door is open for other companies to seek the same kind of relationships with end users. If not malicious, Plaid is brazenly reckless and short-sighted.

And regardless... I as a consumer do not want to hand over my passwords to a man in the middle, I'm already angry enough at the security and password restrictions I encounter now with financial institutions. If I am in a position where I cannot rent a home or make an important purchase without interacting with a company like Plaid, where is my digital sovereignty?
The reasoning Linus himself gives for greenlighting Rust is, among other things, to avoid stagnation.
In practice, CH is doing everything he can to stonewall and sabotage efforts to subsequently bring Rust to solve problems.
This explosion, now, was plainly a consequence of months and months of failure. And that anyone name-calls to blame that failure on “a drama-seeker” leaves me to wonder about the future of Linux 20 years from now.
This is straight from Elon's playbook at Twitter. Cherry-pick some things that sounds bad, find a few real bad things, mix those all together and pretend they are equal, then dribble that out to people while feigning outrage/shock.
Fascinating. I would have thought the fancier models would have definitely known about it. The app is six years old, has ~120 ratings globally with ~4.5 stars, with several articles written about it etc.. It should be pretty widely available in the training data
Just in time for bird flu, by toilet paper and masks now
The release of Zed’s Zeta earlier today made me think more deeply about what I think LLM tab completion systems could be. It has been a long time since I’ve written a proper blog post. Hopefully these thoughts are interesting to someone!
Frankly, that's 23 days more than I expected.
I think as new data gets vacuumed up faster, this will be less of an issue. About a year ago here on HN I complained about how LLMs were useless for Svelte as they did not have it in their training data, and that they should update on a regular basis with fresh data. At the time my comment was considered ridiculous. One year later, that’s where we are, of course; the average cutoff of “LLM usefulness” with a new subject has dropped from multiple years to months and I see no reason that the trend will not continue.
The most interesting part for me was Rupert's quote

> Fox and our papers are the only faintly conservative voices against the monolithic liberal media.

I would love to know if he actually believes that or does he say that even in private just in case. Not that it matters for the results, but there's a few characters in really high positions these days where I can't tell if they're actively lying or just lost in their world.
I think we can have peace talks - like what is happening. Or if we believe Russia is too great a threat we can have all out war against Russia involving NATO.
Both those outcomes would be acceptable.

What is not acceptable to me is the current status quo of Ukraine and only Ukrainian lives being lost while the rest of the world funds it with money and weapons while insisting there must be no peace talks
We need to change the laws making it difficult to fire federal employees, so that we can fire low performers instead of just based on seniority. Previous corrupt laws were passed to only allow firing junior employees, not senior. So this is the only way to shrink the federal government at this point.

Make the federal government accountable and allow terminations based on performance.
52x less energy is crazy. Seems like it's in the veeery early stages, though, a quick search basically only yields the original paper and articles about it. This comment from the creator really shines light on the novel approach, though, which I find oddly antagonistic towards Big Tech:

"Where the Tsetlin machine currently excels is energy-constrained edge machine learning, where you can get up to 10000x less energy consumption and 1000x faster inference (https://www.mignon.ai).
My goal is to create an alternative to BigTech’s black boxes: free, green, transparent, and logical (http://cair.uia.no)." (https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/17xoj68/co...)
I wouldn't conflate MLPs with transformers, MLP is a small building block of almost any standard neural architecture (excluding spiking/neuromorphic types).

But to your point, the trend towards increasing inference-time compute costs, being ushered by CoT/reasoning models is one good reason to look for equally capable models that can be optimized for inference efficiency. Traditionally training was the main compute cost, so it's reasonable to ask if there's unexplored space there.
>All this talk about "resistances" around round numbers. Instead of pretending to be guessing, JUST LOOK AT THE RESTING ORDERS.

Of course they'd be accidentally right a good fraction of the time. Because of course people place orders at round numbers; they're humans, and that's more convenient for them. And the so-called "technical analysis" creates an unconscious coordination in the market. If such analysts are telling each other that something will go up, then of course they'll buy it on the belief that it will go up, making it a self-fulfilling prophecy - an unintentional pump-and-dump. They don't even need to tell each other; they just need to use the same analysis techniques.
they aren't very intelligent and have the inability to read news sources produced outside of the US.

why waste your time
Reddit only exists because of Digg 4.0. Let them find out the hard way.
Is this DOGE's doing?
Huge numbers of federal employee bureaucrats afraid for their jobs are now spamming HN (and every other site) with desperate attempts to paint Elon Musk and his efforts to shrink the federal government in a negative light.
This is super interesting to me -- I would expect that this world view would object to the comparatively extreme infrastructure and capital requirements of professional sports and other in-world consumption, vs. the relatively small outlays for digital consumption.
> Nobody is erasing you

Except they are. The US Federal Government is actively erasing this group of people from all official web presence. It's literally why this Chrome extension exists at all.
> even if DOGE and musk are discredited.

The idea being that if common sense prevails and folks realize what a shit show/farce this DOGE thing is.... the underlying issues that allowed DOGE to exist in the first place will be unsolved.
He gutted FAA and we got plane crashes. Today I'm hearing nuclear oversight folks are being gutted. Time to prepare for one I guess.
If you are passionate about programming and and computer science, this is the book to read. It's like Euclid's elements, but for programming.
Ugh.

It took about two years for the world to more or less return to normal when COVID struck. Instead of conservatives learning a lesson about that, they instead just declared COVID as fake, lied about vaccines, and reelected the demagogue that's partly responsible for the virus's wide spread in the US in the first place.

Frankly, it's tiring. I don't know why about half the country wants this.
Most people here on HN are idiot savants - little to no experiences that expose them to govt bureaucracy and corruption (example:taxes beyond simple salaried income tax, buying/selling property,run a business,run a payroll, investing, inflation etc. )
The President will just say he declassified the information in his head before the data was disclosed. Even if he didn’t, he may argue this is an "official act" and cannot be subject to prosecution.
Your comment is flagged now, but I recall you saying seething to the effect of "the idea that a government website is laudable is laughable". There were general sentiments that a government website was naturally disposed to he a chaotic mess. I identified that as a bias against a government website. Aka the workers who work on it.
russians are wining the cold war. They have successfully compromised US from within.
It's funny since if it were any other platform, it would have collapsed by now. But because we all use it to find work, well, what other choice do we have? Sure, most of us don't post, but we're still clicking on the website, and we're still seeing the feed -- apparently that's enough for advertisers, for now.
Its an inverse Robin Hood attack. Take from the poor to give to the rich. The middle class is about to get moved from business class to coach.
https://www.rawstory.com/gop-budget-2671154997/
I did not do many things in Delphi but I have studied the language and VCL architecture for the very purpose of determining why it is so aproachable and productive (as compared to C, Java, JS, Python and the tooling around them).

In my opinion, it is the result of following qualities:

1. The language direcly supports concepts needed for live WYSIWYG editing (i.e. properties and events) while other languages only simulate it by convention (i.e. Java Bean specification)

2. The language syntax is simple enough for the IDE to understand and modify programatically, but powerful. The properties files that define the forms are even simpler, support crucial features (i.e. references and hierarchy) but do not bring unecessary complexity as general-purpose formats do (XML files or JSON)

3. Batteries included - you can do very powerful stuff with the included components (gui, i/o, ipc, sql, tcp/ip, graphics - all the practical stuff) without hunting for libraries

4. Discoverability - the visual component paradigm with Property editor lets you see all your possibilities without reading the documentation.

5. Extensibility - you can build your own components that fully integrate with the IDE. This is my litmus test for low-code and RAD tools: For any built-in feature, can I recreate the same using the provided tools? Many tools fail this, and the built-in components can do things that are inaccessible to user-defined components.

6. Speed - both compilation and runtime, thanks to one-pass compilation and native code. Leads to fast iteration times.

7. The VCL component architecture is a piece of art. The base classes implement all the common functionality: They automatically manage memory, can store and load persistent state, have properties for visual placement (position, size) etc. The language features really help here (I remebmer something about interface delegation) but there is no magical runtime that does this from the outside, it's an actual implementation of the component that can be extended or overriden.

But of couse there are the ugly things as well: alien syntax, forward declarations, strict compiler blocking the Form Designer on any error preventing you to fix the very error and most of all: while there is very good abstraction for the components, there is none for data and state. There is no good tooling for data modelling and working with the data models. That leads to poor practices as having state in the visual components or in global variables.
There’s a risk, but far from a big one. You’d need exactly 2³² or even 2⁶⁴ pointer updates (or a multiple of it) between the time you read the pointer and the time you try writing it for running into problems. That’s not likely to be a problem even on a 1000-core CPU.

So, technically, this isn’t solving the ABA problem, it’s just hiding it very, very well.
I have an undergraduate degree in Math and generally find math quite enjoyable, however, even I had a pretty hard time grasping most of what this blog was talking about.
I think it pretty quickly went from extremely high level (add noise to image, then remove noise) to extremely low level specific.

Also I had a hard time figuring out which part of the equation differentiate the equations for different data points, is that what the meaning of "theta" is in all the equations?
To guide the initial noise towards one type of image instead of another is that what theta is responsible for? Is the innovation in GenAI images to use text embeddings to create the theta?

I definitley feel some tears coming on.
I had a production bug (caught in canary) introduced into Google Play in just this manner. The AI code review assist suggested switching a method to a more modern alternative, both the author and code reviewer thought the AI suggestion was a good one, the new alternative was documented as not being safe to use in the onCreate() method of an Android activity, the code in question was not in onCreate but was in a method transitively called by onCreate in a different Activity, boom goes an unrelated Activity. Would've been caught trivially by an expressive type system, but the LLM doesn't know that.
When 8chan (and think of it what you may) shut down, it marked the definite end of the user-created forum/board/sub model. This system cannot work in today's internet.
Why do we need to have the names of people like a random security guard that was duped by social engineering? To make sure he pays for a mistake or something? What is the reason for not reacting his name?