skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm of the opinion that no matter the level of cartoon villainy the oil industry is accused of - they're most likely guilty,

Unfortunately their success over the years is showing others like the airline industry how to behave.
There's some great "support" getting cloud into the extreme left (who are anti science like the extreme right) who conveniently love talking about chem trail style nonsense... Which is a shame because if we actually made an effort to reduce these clouds we'd make a big step forward to improving things for little effort... (Notice how I'm not saying fix, we're closer to fusion at scale than battery powered commercial flights I suspect)
I think Terrance makes a great general point in general, but the specific claim is not always true: complex dynamics can arise from simple initial conditions, therefore, simple changes could resolve those complex dynamics.
Teams try to win, but basketball as a sport is entertainment. The opposing teams actually work together to put on a great show for the fans. If those fans don't want to see an endless series of 3-point shots, basketball will indeed change its rules.
“If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.”
In my opinion, the real problem with the NBA is that we no longer get the marquee matchups in the Finals that we used to during the 90s and 00s, mainly because the season is too long. An 82-game grind isn’t sustainable - it practically guarantees that stars like Giannis, Luka, or Jokic (or their key teammates) will get injured to the playoffs or not at all.

The fact that we’ve never seen Embiid vs. Giannis in the ECF, and that we’ll likely never get Giannis vs. Jokic, the two best players during the 2020s, in the NBA Finals says everything you need to know and it's a bummer.

Aside from 2021, I can’t remember another truly competitive finals where both teams had a real shot at winning. Maybe Boston wasn’t expected to fall so hard against Golden State, but matchups like DEN vs. MIA, BOS vs. DAL, or LAL vs. MIA felt lopsided—one team stacked with talent, the other never really standing a chance.

At this point, injuries, not players or teams, are deciding who moves forward.
For most of the recent Los Angeles area fires there was never any possibility of conducting controlled burns. The terrain is too steep and there were too many structures nearby. A controlled burn could have turned uncontrolled in moments (which has happened before).

Brush clearing can help to an extent. But that's tremendously labor intensive on steep hillsides where heavy equipment can't be used. Taken too far it can also destabilize the soil and cause mudslides during the rainy season.

More realistic solutions are going to include tightening up the building code to make structures more fire resistant, prohibiting building at all in certain risky areas, and provisioning more water supplies so that the hydrants don't run dry.
The problem is the same thing that leads to many California problems - it’s the leaders voters keep choosing. One party states tend to be wasteful and ineffective.

More details on the insurance debacle, which basically is classic over regulation:
https://youtu.be/ojzUtQlug3I
Didnt Germany readiness lower while they were not sending any hardware from active duty units? Afaik it was all surplus, excess/spare stocks or fully phased out hardware waiting for salvage (Gepards).
> The continuity-between-segments requirement is not present in the 2009 rules.

Arguably, it is implied by “the purpose of segmentation is not to make life easier for you”. In the present case, the segmentation not only makes it easier, it makes the run possible at all in the first place.
Learn how to drop. It resets the pace
Until we have a way to actually treat Alzheimer's, this seems like a mixed blessing at best. I suppose you could get your affairs in order, you but won't be enjoying much of those 10 years.
I just tried my latest task with it and o1 readily hallucinated non-existent semgrep functions.
> we are still on a path to high warming

Yes, and we are on a path with less energy. We like to talk about renewables and extrapolate from their evolution in a world that is mostly fossil-fueled. But the truth is that it's not clear at all that renewables can scale to replace the fossil fuels. Actually it seems like they can't, realistically, totally replace them.

Instead of focusing on how to do carbon capture and keep living the way we are, we should focus on preparing society for the inevitable global-warming-in-a-world-with-less-energy. Which means we have to do less with less. AI is the exact opposite, so we are clearly accelerating in the other direction.

Carbon capture is interesting research, but if feels like it assumes a world with more energy than today (because you need energy for the capture), and clean. We're most likely not going there in the timeline we are looking at (the problems have already started, we don't have 200 years to discover a new energy).
Ok, so we learn a function mapping position on the court to point value. Clearly a step function was too simple. Might want to fix the values during the games though to make it a bit easier on the fans.
Actually, the last I checked, this vaccine will be bad for the industry. It prevents exports, which will lead to a supply glut.

So, in addition to the hit from culling chickens last year, paying for the vaccine, the big producers will see their income tank way more on average than if they just culled a few states worth of chickens and then sold the remaining at market rates.

On the other hand, this action should lower the price of eggs in the US, and makes it less likely that Trump will have to deal with pro-vaccine folks that don’t want their loved ones to needlessly die. I’m guessing they don’t want to distract their propaganda machine by making it explain that everything is great again, and your personal experience with flu deaths is an outlier.

Also, it will help further isolate the US economy, which should reduce the economic shock if Trump follows through with his plan to launch a four front invasion of Canada, Greenland, Panama and Gaza.

I’m hoping the “they did it so less people will die” theory is correct, to be clear.
Crypto Consortium T3 Helps Spanish Authorities Freeze $26.4M Linked to Crime
Theoretically there's no reason you need to use vscode, it's just very easy to make extensions for.
I know this type of comment is frowned upon here, but you should consider quitting opioids mate.
Maybe as a part of a work release program from prison, sure
You can in fact grow a service through efficiency and structure - as opposed to just adding warm bodies … which seems to be what the government usually does!
Yes, in some ways the output is based on training material. The deep learning model will find the "ground truth" of the corpus in theory. But China's political enforcement since the "great firewall of china" was instituted, 2 and a half decades ago, have directly or indirectly made content scraped from any Chinese site bias by default. The whole Tienanmen Square meme isn't a meme because it is funny, it is a meme because it consequentially qualifies the discrepancy between the CCP and it's own history. Sure there is bias in all models, but a quantized version will only loose accuracy.. but if a distillation process used a teacher LLM without the censorship bias discussed (i.e., a teacher trained on a more open and less politically manipulated dataset), the resulting distilled student LLM would, in most important respects, be more accurate and significantly more useful in a broader sense in theory but is seems not to matter based on my limited query. I have deepseek-r1-distill-llama-8b installed on LM Studio....if I ask "where is Tienanmen square and what is it's significance?" i get this:

I am sorry, I cannot answer that question. I am an AI assistant designed to provide helpful and harmless responses.
> All authentication and download events came from virtual private server (VPS) and Tor IP addresses, which is not the most subtle way to access an account.

If I login from my computer and a few hours later an attacker logs in from the other side of the planet, most big providers will trigger extra checks/email notifications of unusual events.

I wonder if intentionally using Tor/VPS is a way to bypass those checks, since a Tor/VPS can have a far away geo-IP.
To elaborate on your points some more: the basic building blocks of contract law were already well established by the time Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball came about. The main question at hand was whether these could apply when the offer was made to the public at large rather than to any specific person or group.
Darcs has exponential time merges so there is definitely potential for getting in very slow situations.
The reason we hire established hackers for pentesting/red teaming is because the work is the same no matter which side you're on. This isn't the case with drug distribution or whatnot; like doesn't cure like when it comes to most problems. To me, this is akin to hiring a mass shooter to solve gun violence.
We’re going to lose economic growth because of climate change, “Staying under the 2C threshold could limit average regional income loss to 20 percent compared to 60 percent" [1]. Whether it will be significant amount, or a devastating amount is still to be determined. US GDP is $20T, and the difference between low warming and high warming is 40% loss! This means we could spend up to $8T a year to address climate change and it would still make economic sense.

The Inflation Reduction Act authorized $370B of spending over 10 years on climate and energy [2]. This is about 0.1% of annual GDP and about 0.4% of what we could be investing to address this. If we spent even a fraction more, we could rapidly convert housing and transportation to electric, make electrical grids renewable, and decarbonization manufacturing, we have the technology to do this. We can do this, the most important thing is to tell others we can, and particularly people with power and influence.

[1] https://phys.org/news/2024-04-climate-impacts-global-gdp.htm...

[2] https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/27/manchin-schumer-sen...
I've seen this point brought up many times over the years and yet research in this direction seems to continue, so I think there must be more to it. I asked chatgpt about it, and it claims that the controversial paper was influential but it was more about a certain sub-hypothesis that got called into question after that rather than the entire thing.

Now I know that bringing up chatgpt is frowned upon here but I thought I should make an exception for this case as its not so easy for me to answer otherwise.
I want to thank you for your analysis! I'm the "timsort" guy, and I'm asked to look at all sorts of things. The devil is in the details, and I've given up bothering to look unless a paper spells out sufficient details up front. Else it's a pit I'd rather not get sucked into.

As general things, timsort was aimed at exploiting all kinds of pre-existing order, not random lists. The only goal for the latter was to be within reach of CPython's previous highly tuned samplesort implementation (like quicksort on steroids, with much less data movement than mergesorts, but more comparisons).

As you say, for randomly ordered input it gets remarkably close to the information-theoretic lower bound on # of compares. So that's not it.

"Cache effects", maybe, but that's a pit to dig into. I'll note that while the newer "powersort" merge strategy is elegant and provably near-optimal by some relevant measures, in practice it doesn't really appear to run any faster (although cases can be _contrived_ that make it - or the older method! - run faster).

Comparison specialization (to ints) could very well account for it. CPython's general comparison machinery is _very_ expensive, even for what turn out to be native machine ints (which CPython cannot know at compile-time: everything is deduced at runtime).

CPython has since grown new machinery to do a pre-pass over the list, and do a form of cheaper comparison specialization for what turn out to be homogeneous lists of suitable types (including "small enough" ints). That alone gives enough speedup to make some of the original choices sub-optimal. For example, binary insertion sort for short runs is no longer best then. That was aimed at minimizing worst-case # of compares, but as comparisons get cheaper that has less value.

There are also surprises in everything. For example, the worst case for binary insertion sort on most machines was _not_ reverse-ordered input, despite that it requires the most data movement. Instead the worst case was randomly ordered data. Why? Branch prediction. In randomly ordered data, each branch is unpredictable. In reverse-ordered data, "move to the left" is always the test outcome.

Another generality is that Python's sort cares more about speed for shorter lists than huge ones. "Big data" problems are more likely to use, e.g., extensions geared to "big data problems", like numpy for giant arrays of floats. In those contexts more suitable _algorithms_ exist, like radix sorts, or multi-key quicksorts for lists of long strings with long shared prefixes.

Python's niche is more in, e.g., web services, where a great many sorts of shorter lists are common.

Bottom line: there is no one "best" sorting algorithm. I keep an eye out for newer developments, but haven't seen anything better yet for what Python is aiming at. I was, e.g., very impressed by pdqsort - but it's not a stable sort, and that alone makes it a non-starter for general Python use.
No, this isn't about civil nuclear safety. This is about the safety of nuclear weapons.
Why are you coming at me like I'm suggesting we ban cars
Tell me about it. I just can't get over why it is this costly. None of the features except excel or word seems to be of any use to the user. Hoards and hoards of unnecessary security features have been piled up
I switched to the Kobo store specifically because its DRM is so trivially breakable. They've gotten hundreds of dollars from me, and I switched to independent book sellers for physical copies of things. I order a few, and next time I'm in the suburb with my favorite indie store, I pick them up there.
This is fascinating. Idk if it was a good or bad thing. In college I once looked up some insurance chart of life expectancy probabilities. It puts things in perspective that’s for sure.
Funny fact: clocks used to feature "Una ex his" (for "Una ex his erit tibi ultima") in order to maximize this "terrifying reminder" effect
We all keep making this joke, and one day someone’s going to try it. I have a feeling it’ll be moderately successful too.
You say that as if using git isn't a team sport. I only have control over my behavior, and that goes double for what happens after $(git pull) or its $(git rebase) friend
Are you being serious here? Those companies have moved past the things you're implying. On the other hand you have the CEO of Tesla dismantling US institutions as a shadow president and doing nazi salutes. You must be trolling or be incredibly dense.
Use of mRNA vaccines is fairly recent, can you show even a correlation between them and cancer rates?

How is depression causing childhood cancers?
Get Started with Vibe Coding
> Annual number of prescribed burn acres had been stable since the 70s with a sharp increase in the last two-three years.

The number of burns isn’t as important as much as how much ground is covered by burns and where. Has anyone studied it in greater detail?

> The main issues are sprawl and aging, above the ground electrical infra

I am not sure what sprawl matters, but I agree electrical infrastructure that is surrounded by fuel or can be affected by winds is problematic. But that still comes down to local and state leadership doing their job. It’s incredible that such large budgets and large numbers of public employees fail to produce outcomes that are any better than other states.
Git does indeed remember conflict resolutions (if the ReReRe feature is enabled), but in practice it's only helped me a handful of times.

(And I am big on obsessively rebasing and cleaning up history before pushing a change.)
What you suggest is worthwhile. But it shouldn't be our only card. Let's do both.
Techbros gonna techbro.
It hadn't yet been at the time this program was in practice. I wager the enthusiasm for nudging was probably around its peak at the time we're talking, somewhere early 2010s?
Is the ArXiv safe from the current US Government attacks?
Text to 3d mesh model
We had a rather smallish cat who loved killing rats.
I missed that, thought it was apps only.
Agree strongly with you. This statement make Alzheimer’s into a wonderfully “simple” monogenic disease like Huntington’s but all age-related disease have many complex interwoven weaker and stronger causes—-even Huntington’s disease in which the same mutation type (numbers of CAG mutations in neurons) can cause symptoms over a 20 year range.

Too bad that headlines are inherently short and sometimes misleading. Simple sells.
https://www.newsweek.com/openai-warns-deepseek-distilled-ai-...

There are many sources and discussions on this. Also DeepSeek recently changed their responses to hide references to various OpenAI things after all this came out, which is weird.
It’s a very popular sport / athletic activity.
Should be enough to relieve the pads I think? The less wobble the less the pistons need to retract too.

I mean you can hear scratching when the pistons get crusty and the don't retract like they are supposed to.
As some comments there note, the flood of AI applications to those forms makes it even worse. The online dating comparison is spot on.
Thanks for sharing. Pi5 + cheap AMD GPU = convenient modest LLM api server? ...if you find the right magic rocm incantations I guess

Double thanks for the 3rd party mac mini SSD tip - eagerly awaiting delivery!
Bjarne's opinion on variants hardly matters to WG21 working process.
Why does one need a looming Alzheimer's issue to get one's affairs in order?

Wills, etc should be done decades before that stage of life. As soon as one has any spouse or dependents one should do all that jazz.
We could also try to fix

Not gonna happen with lobbyists and shareholder corps benefitting from an intellectually stunted populace. The unregulated economic system incentivizes this.
This wasn’t my experience until the 2010s. Before that, bookstores did not choose those picks to be obviously politically biased. I don’t think bookstores or libraries should be in the business of propagandizing customers.
We're not pretending it doesn't exist, but the failures of Texas power grid have been pretty obvious the last few years with major power failures, rampant price gouging, and deaths attributable to these failures - so the "oh the incentives are fixing it!" when no states needs to have those problems is looking with rose tinted glasses.
That was nice to watch. I spent about 25 minutes going through that.

But it was horrifying for me. I realized that I wanted to see if the source code is available but then realized that I really don't remember those details. I remember random things for my childhood but I don't remember the date when I started elementary school. I know that I got my first computer when I was in third grade but don't remember the date. I don't even remember the date I started college and I probably wrote the wrong date couple of times during grad school application. While I started recording something less than a diary to record some of these but this was around covid.

Thanks OP and HN for this reality check.
Use Pijul instead. It uses the theory of patches from Darcs, does not have the exponential-merge corner case, and is written in Rust.
> In the end, it’s all about optimizing every ball possession.

While I partially agree with the article's stance, you can't optimize for this[^1] or this[^2] because they’re unpredictable—historically great outliers that defy averages and planning.

[^1] Luka Doncic WCF G5 against the Twolves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H3bGEXk3GA

[^2]: Giannis Antetokoumpo scoring 50p in G6 of the 2021 NBA Finals (featuring 17/19 FTs) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHPLeWsAQw4
I think it is possible to create an RNA template anti venom for snake bites because often people did not know the snake species they were envenomed by = it would also be good to create a venom test kit, or to create an RNA multivariant anti venom.
Sadly, most bites are in poor countries, with many species = a low profit potential in many cases - but India and perhaps Nigeria might be able to assess the potential, as they are the leading snake envenomed countries.
I totally agree, you're absolutely right about that. have a good one.
All you need is napkin maths. We gain energy by turning carbon into carbon dioxide. Now, we need the same energy to reverse it, but with a loss factor.

In addition to the chemistry other people have mentioned -- if we burn hydrocarbons and then capture carbon we're still net positive H -> H2O, capturing carbon as carbonate rocks can be less expensive than splitting CO2 to C and O2, etc -- most serious proposals for carbon capture have involved using cheap electricity, e.g. solar power in the middle of the day.

It's quite possible that using cheap midday electricity to generate methane (which can be easily stored in large quantities) which is then burned in gas "peakers" when power is expensive would be economically profitable despite not being thermodynamically profitable.
> intellectually stunted populace

Case in point. Go out and meet some of these people and then report back.
Jungle primaries make this nearly impossible.
The thread continues, also asking about GitHub, anyone using Microsoft services, BlueSky, and Apple. Mentioning DEI, equality, representation ... do these make something a target for cessation of funding and possible seizure?

People are making sure they have off-continent backups of everything ...
I don't see why the supreme court couldn't rule a lot of these departments unconstitutional. The justification for many of them is flimsy at best, and seems to be to be in direct contradiction to the "only those rights specifically enumerated" deal.
It’s the same thing that happens every time you rebase or cherry pick commits in git.
It's worth noting that for 2, projects are generally quoted in just "hours", with the storage capacity in MWh implied
I hate regulatory capture as much as anyone, but this makes for a more damning-sounding headline than it actually is. To steal a comment from Reddit[1] user NewInThe1AC:

> It's a lot less concerning if you actually think about what he specifically did, and what information he would've had access to at the time

> He was 23 and working on an early career project. Given how consulting teams are structured, he was not an architect of any grand scheme or plan, and was just executing the work ahead of him. Based on the evidence cited in the article, this was run of the mill business research -- interviewing experts about how pharma sales works and how to segment doctors, summarizing and framing to get to recommendations, and editing PowerPoints

> It's only bad when you consider that the product was opioids, but keep in mind that the scientific literature he would've had access to at the time would not have suggested they were especially harmful. If anything, there were compelling reasons for a 3rd party at the time to actually believe that more widespread use of these products would improve wellbeing. If it was so obvious to everyone how bad these things were, we wouldn't have ended up with the crisis we did

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/1ipgwcm/sfs_n...
> Distilling means fine-tuning an existing model using outputs from the bigger model.

Crucially, the output of the teacher model includes token probabilities so that the fine-tuning is trying to learn the entire output distribution.
That's a good point. I missed the procedural part and sort of jumped at the genAI bit. Their post was briefly my minute's muse.