skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like people like Alex Karp and Thiel want to make Snow Crash a reality and chop America into corporate city states run by tech billionaires is more like it.
Democracy is a means for empirical truth finding that’s resistant to manipulation.

This is obviously not true.

…educational and healthcare overheads have exploded while outcomes have gotten worse.

Ther topic is medical research. What is the basis for the belief thar medical research outcomes have gotten worse?
It is pathetic and authoritarian. Once America realizes that deregulation is not a global trade policy, we will be forced to reform some of our own perverted businesses by hook or by crook. Otherwise the economy enters a suicide spiral and it makes for a really entertaining chapter in future history books.
If you can't ask questions and make observations, or you're told you're not being paid to think, you're being paid to take the fall for some executive director or above. Huge red flag.
Not really. The Overton Window has been moving rightward recently and sadly.
You can try to counter it but go ahead and look at the highest volume 3 point shooting teams and compare them to the highest volume layup teams. Part of it is that theyre following analytics so theyre looking for layups more than other teams but gravity is very real and does make it easier to get layups when you shoot more 3s.
Yeah...and it didn't cite me :)
Ez, just vote to eliminate the filibuster. Only takes 51 votes
I think there's some kind of proper name for the fallacy that things now are how things are always how they're going to be. I mean kudos for thinking and planning about the future, but it's kind of ridiculous to assume that there won't be underlying changes in society that will mess with these arcs tremendously. Upsides and downsides. As much or more than the health issues which you (sensibly) do recognise as uncertainties.
I use Tailscale for this, it works great.

It's super simple to set up, you can do it in 15 minutes. Install Tailscale on your Jellyfin server and on your personal devices, create a tailnet and connect them to it. That's it, you're done. You can now access Jellyfin from any of the devices using the Tailscale IP or hostname of the Jellyfin server.
Sure, but how long is it going to take you to get bored of the same couple hundred acres? A large part of the joy of outdoor recreation is exploring new places. And meeting occasional people.
China is demonized in the western countries for human rights abuses only because it is a communist country I am not saying that China is not doing bad shit but that western countries hypocrisy of only highlighting China. Where as they themselves have exploited and are still exploiting African countries resources by using corrupt African politicians that are doing many human rights on their people.
At least Europeans have started to at least call-out Israel now but they should also call out US for enabling Israel but for those abuses it's okay not to say anything to the US.
Quite common in German companies too, it's usually refered to as KW, tomorrow (2025/02/17) KW 8 starts.
Dinner at a North Korean Restaurant in Shanghai (2016)
Surveillance erodes democracy. Anonymous speech is one of several necessary precursors to functional democratic institutions; which surveillance technology threatens. Ergo, even if survelliance is necessary, we should limit it as much as practical.
And you get a taxpayer bailout when you call your insurance company to pay for water line repairs. It’s not easy being a rich lord.
You're only off by an order of magnitude. $370B is around 1.25% of $30T
Oliver Burkeman wrote a book about this, named "Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals". The main point (at least as I remember it) is that there are way more books to read, links to click, and things to do than you can fit in your lifetime, so it's a delusion that you could ever get to the end of your to-do list.
I've had a coding project where I actually preferred 4o outputs to DeepSeek R1, though it was a bit of a niche use case (long script to parse DOM output of web pages).

Also they just updated 4o recently, it's even better now. o3-mini-high is solid as well, I try it when 4o fails.

One issue I have with most models is that when they're re-writing my long scripts, they tend to forget to keep a few lines or variables here or there. Makes for some really frustrating debugging. o1 has actually been pretty decent here so far. I'm definitely a bit of a power user, I really try to push the models to do as much as possible regarding long software contexts.
Yeah, by far the best devices. From the original story it sounds like the OP wants them as cheap as possible, which I think contradicts - but on second reading it seems like physical size is the biggest concern.
The same ones that were also found to be using pirated bios code as well...
Not that I’ve seen or heard of but my assumption is that it is mainly due to the relative rarity of partial/vgpu offerings outside of organizations. (Other than Blender render farming and some smaller upstart p2p gpu time reselling.)

I’d say Intel’s 12th gen igpu has “best supported” consumer vGpu offerings available and it’s through sr-ion I believe as well. I’ve had it on the back burner on my homelab until a recent performant gui need had come up.
Can’t help but think the expenses were overboard. $3500 spent per video, including a producer, DP, food stylist, and editor?

Surely videos of very similar quality could be made with a fraction of that budget if the fat was trimmed and it was approached more bootstrap-y instead of a full production.
You can kind of get there with home assistant. I'm not sure if it can use tools yet, but you can expose stuff you'd ask about like the weather/etc.
Well then the people would elect None of the Above over and over again, leaving the country in permanent political limbo, like Belgium. The government wouldn't be able to do anything. But I suppose on the plus side, the government wouldn't be able to do anything.

The majority of the electorate has dissatisfaction after any election. The job of democracy is not to obtain good governments, but partly tolerable ones.
You're solving the wrong problem.

The issue isn't direct file vs TurboTax.

It's whether most individuals should have to file at all.

A few tweaks around employment income and capital gains, and you can do away with filing altogether for most people.
I did the same thing! For me though it was a bunch podcasts she was on.
As others have pointed out, this will actually require more accountants since more things will need to be itemized. It's not really about learning to be more efficient, because it's not going to be more efficient to require more accountants.
Curious about RAGs. The article made it look like just a few additional parameters (context) you pass to the LLM. Somehow I was under the impression RAGs required training.

All I want is an LLM front-end to a local Wikipedia drop.
This quote is where the author seems to reach the conclusion they want, that is Gorton being the Proto-Indo-European of these drafting letterforms:

> Each of these reappearances made small changes to the shapes of some letters. Leroy’s ampersand was a departure from Gorton’s. Others softened the middle of the digit 3, and Wrico got rid of its distinctive shape altogether. Sometimes the tail of the Q got straightened, the other times K cleaned up. Punctuation – commas, quotes, question marks – was almost always redone. But even without hunting down the proof confirming the purchase of a Gorton’s pantograph or a Leroy template set as a starting point, the lineage of its lines was obvious. (The remixes riffed off of Gorton Condensed or the normal, squareish edition… and at times both. The extended version – not that popular to begin with – was often skipped.)
That's 1% of the speed of light. So a trip to the nearest star would take 400 years. Practically we need to go at least 10% of light speed to get much further than our closest neighbors.
Can't it be that defense got better too? Free throw percentage is up since '95 so they aren't just less accurate in general at that distance.
Bit: Compose performant, consistent platforms from independent business features
Democrats need to go on the offensive and hard. Call Trump a scumbag in public. When the loudmouth bully magas speak up, remind them that Traitor trump is a sexual predator. Remind them he’s an insurrectionist and failed businessman. Remind everyone, everywhere that he’s horrible by every single measure. A convicted conman. Make up lies about Republicans and repeat them. Play dirty. They only get defensive when you tell lies about Republicans. They wear ignorance as a badge.
By design, the USA gets the chance to do that peacefully every 2 years.

Spend your energy finding the 7M voters who dropped out after 2020.
You mean those lights you can see when it's dark outside? Don't let them bother you.
Sounds like we need our own VAT.
Pre-diabetes undoubtedly leads to impaired glucose metabolism in neuronal cells.
You should buy more reliable vehicles, then, if you care about maintenance costs. Ignoring tires, my maintenance budget for my daily is about $200/year, and including them, averages ~$300/year. With above average mileage per year.
Having worked with many of the latter and having had the displeasure of educating them on nix systems fundamentals: ugh, oof, I hate this timeline, yet I also feel a sense of job security.

We used to joke about this a lot when Java devs would have memory issues and not know how to adjust the heap size in init scripts. So many “CS majors” who are completely oblivious to anything happening outside of the JVM, and plenty happening within it.
We haven't detected life yet, but there could be plenty of planets out there where it began to evolve around the same time it did here. Let's say many began broadcasting centuries ago, the signals could still take millions of years to reach us.

The further away from Earth, the further back in time, the smaller the chance of highly evolved life.
Does this work for GPUs without a physical display out port? For example an Nvidia A30 or H100
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Good points here, but I'm afraid this is analogous to advocating ISO8601 format for dates.
Or why not start with a more modest production budget? It takes longer to shoot, but with the right equipment, you can shoot this stuff yourself. Watch one of Mend It Mark's videos (1). He does the whole thing all by himself and it looks absolutely fantastic. Then, if you get a couple million subscribers, hire some people and go big time. Because you can afford to.

(1) https://www.youtube.com/@MendItMark/videos
tfw "defensive play" is actually just blocking your own pieces on purpose
Don't forget gpt-researcher and STORM which have been out since well before any of these.
I served in the military two decades ago, and I was proud to do so. I had mixed feelings on the GWOT, even though I was a conservative then. But the country’s political leadership felt at least somewhat stable, competent, and loyal to America.

Things look different twenty years later. I wouldn’t be eager to fight for America now because it feels like I’d be fighting for Trump’s ego more than anything else.
> "There's God's side and the other side." --Katt Williams

This reminds me of one of my favorite things:

> Now I am enjoying the last rays of the sun again, marveling at the incredible beauty of everything that has not been created by man. The red dahlias at the white garden gate, the tall serious fir trees and the trembling golden birches with their now shining trunks in front of all the green and rust-colored foliage, the golden sun that enhances the luminous colorfulness of every single thing instead of, like the glowing summer sun, smothering everything that still wants to move next to it. Everything is so astonishingly beautiful that I do not yet know what kind of feeling my speechless heart should develop for it, for it is not yet mature enough for pure joy; it is amazed and content with delighted astonishment.

> Isn't it puzzling enough, and if you don't know the reason for it, almost frightening, that everything is so beautiful? Despite the terrible things that happen. Something great and unknown has intruded into my sheer joy in everything beautiful, namely a sense of its Creator, whom the innocent created creatures praise with their beauty.

> Therefore, only man can actually be ugly because he has the free will to separate himself from this song of praise. And now one could often think that he is capable of roaring over this song with the thunder of cannons and cursing and blasphemy. But I realized last spring that he can't, and I will try to side with the victors.

-- Sophie Scholl in a letter to her friend Lisa Remppis, October 1942

Of course just boiling it down to "love" is prone to misunderstandings, and bringing up "God" is like whipping out a hand grenade on HN. People with different perspectives read these words differently, and of course we get triggered by the religious fascists it makes us think of; but what can you do. Yet also:

> But I have learned that a hard spirit without a soft heart heart must be just as unfruitful as a soft heart without a hard spirit. I believe the sentence comes from Maritain: "Il faut avoir l’esprit dur et le coeur tendre". A word that is not experienced by the soul is a dead word, and a feeling that is not the womb of a thought is in vain.

-- Sophie Scholl, January 1942
Is it fair to lump YC in there as well? It might be, genuinely not sure.
And yet, Tor--even in its browser form--uses three hops, despite not having global passive adversaries in its attacker model. I guess I thereby don't understand your thesis, which seems--to me--a bit muddled... you are saying Tor does not solve all problems (it would have to be the opposite to make sense... Tor hops would need to protect concrete models that Obscura doesn't solve, providing an excuse for the fewer hops) and you are saying users give up anonymity in other ways anyway (which is both a non-sequitur and also a bit wrong, as I will assert someone can be happy giving their real name and driver's license to Facebook but not be happy divulging their current IP address, as the many varied forms of private personal identification are not inherently fungible; and like, Tor being a browser doesn't even solve this: that solves yet a different problem that is out of scope for the hops)...

...but the only reason you cite for why 2 and not 3 is that 3 is slower than 2. You know what's even slower than 3? 4! ;P But AFAIO Tor doesn't, in fact, think "more hops is better than fewer": they believe there is a single correct number of hops, and that if you add even more hops you actually can cause new problems with their structure? Regardless, I think we all agree that 1 is slower than 2, and yet 1 definitely isn't enough ;P.

So, for a given attacker model, I contend that there seems to be a lower bound on the number of required hops... and therefore either there is a specific attacker Tor solves that this doesn't, or they are wrong on the number of hops required to protect against their attacker model. I am willing to buy either, but do feel this needs to be explained by projects that go with 2, as the Tor people seem very sane to me ;P.

(Regardless, I am very curious about the structure of the "partnership" with your company... would you be open to partnerships with other companies? Is there anything special you added on your side to make this partnership work that maybe could be generalized and taken advantage of by other projects? I am not convinced at all by Obscura, but I do like Mullvad, and have been wanting to work with you all for quite a while now ;P.)
> We ought to share our land with our youth to homestead, in this housing crisis.

I do sympathize, but this is just so incredibly short-sighted. And allowing politicians to enrich themselves (and their already rich developer/landlord buddies who caused the housing crisis) by selling us back what we already own is no fix at all. We really shouldn't set the precedent of letting politicians buy votes from us by temporarily alleviating the problems that they themselves have caused.

The east coast is already a concrete nightmare of conurbation and paved suburbs from Boston to Miami. If you live your whole life in Europe, at least there are proper villages, but it's pretty hard to get more than a few miles away from other people, even in the Alps. If you can get to the Amazon or the Sinai or the Kashmir, then you can enjoy some peace and quiet at the risk of running into soldiers/militants/narcos. In the neighborhood of Everest/Annapurna, roads and cell towers are on the rise. Or you can freeze your tits off in the great frozen north, or file detailed travel plans with China and struggle to arrange for transport to remote areas. The combination of accessible/inaccessible in the American west plus the relative stability is unique, it is a refuge, and this kind of thing is disappearing from the world.

We'll be much poorer if we give it up, certainly the future will be bleaker, even if some people feel like they are getting a sweet deal on the acreage.
Thanks; that's an alarming article.

Remember when the most obviously questionable company to which new college grads flocked was Facebook?

This one is giving off much more obviously bad vibes.
Happy to see this take here. I feel like all the AI hype is fake news, but then am constantly told my experience is not what I think it is by non-developers who gush about how helpful copilot is or how awesome of a React UI chatGPT made for them etc. This feels like Typescript to me: a well meaning decision made today that will wreck productivity in the future.
No training needed, but you need to generate embeddings for all the content, store it in a vector DB, and wire it up.
There's also:

~Systems exist to perpetuate themselves, not to provide the service for which they were created.~

It's a fantastic book
Broadcom, TSMC eye possible Intel deals to split storied chipmaker, WSJ reports
It's probably fine; but it's not perfectly unambiguously fine, which means the first defendant may face years of uncertainty and millions of dollars of legal fees before they win. Maybe the other party would be ordered to pay some of that, and maybe they'd manage to collect. Against the €0 they've been paid, that's still a pretty bad bet. That's the good outcome, where they win. They probably won't lose, but if they do then it's potentially catastrophic.

Perhaps you could find a law student who didn't appreciate those second-order consequences, but no one who's ever had involvement with a real nontrivial proceeding would. I think whatever training you've received has given you some false confidence here.

A real lawyer's answer to almost any question is stereotypically "it depends", and that's for good reason. Even the smallest points of uncertainty can get expensive fast, both in legal fees and in expected value when a small probability gets multiplied by a very large worst-case loss. The EU has created a new such point here. That's probably more from sloppy drafting than from any intent, but it's unfortunate.
> (10^100) + 1 − (10^100) is 0, not 1.

I came to ask about this. I was confused for the whole article about how this could possibly be 1.
Karp is exactly correct. America has ideals and values that are worth fighting for, such as free speech, civil rights, (mostly) free markets, and so on. We are seeing a revival of more substantial companies that can help uphold those values, after wasting two decades on social media or whatever.

The comments here on HN are disappointingly shallow and suggest people aren’t reading the article or are taking the most uncharitable interpretations to support an attack on Karp or what he’s saying.
not criticizing communism? pray tell, what species are you considering? - E O Wilson
I've been using CF tunnels to expose my jellyfin instance, with github oauth in front to prevent brute forcing.
If it's an L we're talking about the back and the seat, right? But OP didn't say seat; they said arms.
That's a common trope. People often complain about administrative bloat. Then there is a budget deficit and some administrators are cut (as it often happens in public institutions around the world). And then people start complaining how they don't have time for their actual jobs, because they have to do the work the administrators were doing.

Most of the time, compliance requirements only increase with every policy chance. Today in the US, there are new regulations on what you are allowed to do with federal grants. And those regulations are mostly on top of the existing ones. Administrators need to spend more time to ensure compliance, and the actual overheads go up.

The administrative part of grant overheads is already capped at 26%. Even if universities managed to fire every single administrator, common grant overheads would still be 30% or higher. According to the current rules, which are insufficient to cover the actual overheads. At least if you ask the people who are supposed to understand the rules.
No need to explain the reference.
In this specific case, Reddit makes an API[1] available for developers.

And again, there is no crawling involved.

Crawling is a very specific, well defined behavior. I'll assume with good intent that you aren't familiar with the definition of crawling, in which case you probably should become familiar with it before making inaccurate comments like these in the future.

If you had taken the time to do some relevant reading before writing your inaccurate comments, you would have seen:

> Our [Reddit] robots.txt is for search engines, not Data API users.

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/wiki/api
Felt a lot like self-fulfilling prophecy when I read the series. Too many people were aware of the predictions.
Always look at insurance companies lists to see the build quality.

Which cars will break down quickly and which one’s wont?

Marketing is hell of a drug, but the truth is out there when incentives align.
I think the stock Michelin Primacy MXM4 are a low rolling resistance tire.
The end of a basketball game feels almost completely unwatchable for me when they devolve into constant fouling, stopping the game every couple of seconds.

There are possessions where the defense has the sole objective of ignoring everything other than fouling as fast as possible, which feels boring and can stretch 30 seconds of in game clock time to 5+ minutes of back to back stoppage. I get that it might be the mathematical best play because it forces the winning team to take free throws and then turn the ball over without taking any clock time, but they could architect the rules to avoid it.

I totally agree with the block call being a coin flip.... I'd extend it to almost every other call. NBA reffing seems like it absolutely sucks for such a large scale professional league. Basketball is a fast paced game so I know they can't catch everything, but when you're watching on TV you see so many things that are so inconsistently called. Those calls end up changing the outcome of the game when one team has 20 more ft chances than the other.