skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, sure, if you're exceptionally picky about non-normative use cases you can probably find a use for it that is not harmful to the average person. But you're doing a lot of heavy lifting already to justify a positive use case (contacting a person you apparently have no other way of reaching, which isn't in the top 3 of primary use cases for X). Anyway, I was speaking in the aggregate. X (so, post Elon) has been bad for society as a whole and if that's not an objective statement then it is at least close enough to make no difference. I suspect any arguments to use it anyway probably boil down "but...I like it". And since we live in a free world that's a good enough argument to have. It is not, however, harmless.
I wonder how much of this is a result of past outsourcing, IP theft, and all that. But it doesn’t matter now - China is competitive and is a much more dangerous adversary for free societies than the Soviet Union ever was. I wonder when western countries will have a better plan for this new reality.
An unprovoked invasion of a foreign country is a legal order.
A.C.L.U. looks as odd as U.C.L.A. would. Is the New Yorker style book reverting back to the 1950s?
Page title is currently "You Will Never Win an Argument On the Internet—Here's Why", but here it's "Learning happens in environments optimized for understanding, not winning".
How can being racist belong to a minority while literally being the force that elected a white supremacist like Donald Trump?

Moreover, it’s not that simple. Racists can express themselves. I was talking about racist discourse, not racists themselves. Racism is a hate speech, which has nothing to do with, for example, the right to enjoy one's body and have an abortion as a woman or the ability to express one's gender identity—something that, according to all scientific studies and meta-analyses on the subject, clearly improves the well-being of trans people.

I know very well that racists are experts at playing the victim and making it seem like they are the ones facing repression, but who runs the country? Who are the journalists on television? Are they women or men? White? Rich?

It’s outrageous to claim that the richest man in the world—Elon Musk, a racist, antisemitic, misogynistic white supremacist—is supposedly "censored" and unable to express himself freely! Remind me of a time in American history when a woman had as much power as Elon Musk over the country, or even over other countries (as we see with ALD in Germany)?
only if police and judges are stupid.
This is absolutely amazing work but I would not call him a hobbyist.

Again not diminishing the work but adjusting the expectations, this output is not from a curious guy in a shed. He is a trained Electrical Engineer working as a Senior Consultant/Scientist in RF design for a Finnish Engineering Consultancy.

This guy clearly has a breadth and depth of knowledge from his professional career which he brings with him into his out-of-office projects.
I'd focus on your previous point about second-strike capabilities.

> Even if Moscow or St Petersburg are completely wiped off the map, Novosibirsk, Kazan, Omsk, etc will remain while much of Poland is irradiated.

Yes, but the goal isn't to win a first strike, it's MAD to prevent the other side doing that.

Russia has enough warheads to not just level Poland's cities, but every settlement and forest in the country.

Poland with 10 credible nuclear weapons is enough to break the economic back of any country who attacks, so they won't attack.

This needs what you said before, second-strike capability. Either that or a fast enough response time that they can launch while hostile missiles are still inbound. (Or does that still count as second-strike?)
If only we could get some HN statistics on number of unsubmitted replies on this comment thread ...
Is it a "statistical bias" if it reflects the underlying data? Is it "bias" to generate mostly male lumberjacks, even though most are male?
I wonder if this Gimp stuff can be used to work with 3D model files like TMD and TMD_TOON files.
At this rate, the fundie conservative types will be kings of the ashes because every bit of "developed country" activity will become impossible here.
Wouldn't you pause for a moment to consider how a 2004 standard is relevant to a COBOL codebase that is probably more than 50 years old at this point?
Personally, I find it to be an excellent ebook reader. Easy to navigate, and works well with epubs and PDFs. I like to highlight and annotate on books as I read, and to me that is an absolutely killer feature that the remarkable allows me to do. It also saves a separate copy with the annotations so you aren't marking up your original, which is something I really love.

Devices made specifically to be e-readers are usually a bit less friction. but to me, The openness and hackability of the remarkable and it's excellent feature set for writing makes it an excellent choice.
I meant here, though I think there is also tendency in general

As a side note I think the state of current discourse has shown that anything other than concrete language presents too much opportunity to talk past each other. So I don't think talking about yimbys is specific enough (and its too tempting to strawman). Same for magas and libs, they are broad labels for a broad spectrum of people
Being used as money creates value.

So, to see if cryptocurrency is a pyramid or not, just look at how much is transacted compared to its total value...

Or don't, because you already know the result. But it's not inconceivable for a cryptocurrency to create value. It's just that nobody did one that does it yet, and the culture around them makes it less and less likely as time passes.
There's a Copilot thread I've been subscribed to since 2022 [1] about disabling autocomplete of comments in code.

The practical solution: Manually toggle it.

My favorite solution: Start the comment with a curse word.

1: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/8062
For servers, if you have anything pointing to it (DNS, clients pointing to the IP, firewall rules...)
Why pay for analytics when I can set up Umami with a single command ?
you can disagree all you want , that is experience from our tests and based off from all the complaints from my clients (50 users) back in 2022 .
OnlyOffice had become daily drivers for us and it is leaps and bounds better in Terms of Performance , Ease of Use and Compatibility with office formats.
Very simple formatting could break and LibreOffice refuse to fix those but blames Microsoft for the format changes - that is deal breaker for us.
And deal with the problem of surplus Scottish children.
They declared that the DOGE stuff is official presidential records and thus not subject to FOIA.

https://www.businessinsider.com/musk-doge-records-public-inf...

Sometimes, the simplest explanation is the right one: they're fascists and the rules are not applicable to them.
Do you have sources on leftist administrations doxing people in the last decade? If not, and it is just randos who are on the left, then you aren't making a valid comparison. Did those leftists have access to every person's information in the way that Musk does?

This is a false equivalency I've been seeing for a very long time: Someone on the right claims that the left is just as extreme as the right (usually they're claiming the left is more extreme), when the people they are referring to on the left are nobodies with little to no political influence or power, whereas on the right the extremists run the entire party and currently control the entire government. It isn't a valid comparison.

There will always be nuts in any large enough group, the difference is that the left doesn't give them outsized power, whereas the right elects them as congresspeople and president.
I'm with you in that hope. There has been wild growth for a very long time. Realignments are painful but necessary.
Which part? That programmers ever had that level of autonomy?
The question: "Wait, who is threatening to use the US military against US citizens?"

The answer: Numerous examples of Trump threatening to use the US military against US citizens

The retort: He didn't explain exactly how he would do it, so it's not a threat.

> This is like someone saying "If I find out you stole my bike, I will come to your house and take it back" and people saying "oh my god, doesn't he know murder is illegal? you can't go into someone's house and kill them just because they stole from you!"

No, it's like someone saying I'm going to steal your bike, then you tell other people they said they're going to steal your bike, then someone else defends them arguing they didn't say how they were going to steal your bike so stop saying they said they're going to steal your bike.
Good read! I am developing PINNs at work and this certainly helped me recall important concepts. This post used deepxde library [2] to compose the PINN. Can anyone comment on how NVIDIA's modulus [2] compares to this? Modulus appears to be much more verbose and poorly documented.

[1]: https://github.com/lululxvi/deepxde
[2]: https://github.com/nvidia/modulus
>the [nuclear] football lucy was holding [until we axed the whole department of energy]
I hate the "3D" in many video games, in particular in strategy games. Beauty is appreciated everywhere, but for me the most important part is the gameplay loop/mechanics, however you call it. In a (real) strategy game that's decision making. You're reading the map of sorts, and come up with a strategy based on what you see. This 'parsing' of the map is a crucial element, and in particular an element I don't want to be challenging. That is, I'm not a fan of "find hidden objects" genre. I want the map to be very clear, with important elements easy to spot. Well, all elements involved in game mechanics easy to spot, as it should be me who decides which is important.

And here comes the problem with 3D: The more advanced a 3D engine, the more varying looks of the same object (e.g. metamerism): The object can be occluded (happens in 2D to a very limited degree), it can be lit at various angle by Sun (various angle if the Sun moves) and other light sources, it may have reflections, there may be a perpective distortion, and maybe some more.

All this means that a particular element can't be easily recognized, because there's no particular look that your mind may look for. It's just less readable. Imagine a strategy game, where you don't control your mouse cursor directly, but it's attached to a string to the real cursor, and swings all around as you try to click things. Interesting gameplay? Maybe, but not what I'm looking for when playing strategy games.
Wow, that's cool to see on Windows 11. Thanks for finding & sharing this.
Are you in standard or scientific? Each new operator (Not sure if thats the correct term) is calculated immediately. ie 1+2x3 is worked out as 1+2 (Stored into buffer as 3) x 3 = 9

But scientific does it correctly where it just appends the new expression onto the buffer instead of applying it
Note that Biome https://github.com/biomejs/biome is alive and well.
Now let’s hear from some dead people for balance.
What's the going pay for an employee – sorry "cast member" – at a Disney park? Around $15/hr, and largely part time?
How far away from your job do you have to live to be to find something you can afford at that rate? Southern Georgia? Mobile, AL?
Anyone who doesn’t have “Trump Derangement Syndrome” at this point is either a fool or a deliberate fool.
Mine would have longer and longer delays on each page turn when I started using it again last year. It's a 10+ years Paperwhite as well.

I jailbroke it and installed KOReader. Suddenly, no delays, great interface, wi-fi sync with Calibre. I might replace the battery one day, but it still lasts 2-3 books.
I obviously can't know why, but apparently the system allows to keep receiving benefits without the date being present in the database and maybe even claim benefits without the date being present, which is why.

Maybe the data was there initially, but was deleted or lost for technical reasons, for example the date was incomplete, e.g. only the year of birth was known, but not the exact day and then was dropped to null as invalid during some kind of upgrade.

Maybe the data was not possible to enter into the system for technical reasons -- somebody didn't have access, something was down, the next shift was supposed to enter it once the system was back up. Maybe the same, but for process reasons, for example setting the date requires attaching the birth certificate and the birth certificate is lost.

Maybe the data was intended to be entered, but somebody forgot to actually do it, was waiting for birth certificate to be produced, but approved the benefits provisionally.

Maybe the birth certificate was shown to the official, but was of the wrong kind (handwritten extract, foreign document without consular legalization, damaged, illegible or incomplete date), so it was legit enough to start paying benefits but not legit enough to upload to the server. Maybe the date was conflicting with other records somehow. Maybe there was a court decision involved which determined eligibility for benefits but didn't determine exact date of birth.

The key point here -- the system allows for this kind of inconsistency (benefits are being paid, but the date is not present) and relies on a human process to eventually reach a consistent state, but the process failed and nobody really cares to rectify it as long as benefits are being paid.

That's assuming the benefits are actually paid to those people and the organization is not aware of this data issue and not investigating those people for fraud right now.

In an organization big enough there is always this kind of stuff happening (see "seeing like a bank"), which is tolerated as long as statutory task is not compromised.
You're right. I distinctly remembered hearing about all that DOGE nonsense a long time ago, but I checked my sources and I can only spot stuff after the election.
This is great because I am a huge believer that the immune system is at the core of many, if not all, mood disorders and maybe they will start looking at immunoneurology to start finally curing mood disorders. For example, we know that stress effects the immune system by lowering T Cells, and we know that stress makes people depressed, so would it not follow that lower T Cells makes people depressed? (T Cells make IL10)

Prozac makes me manic in a heart beat, literally one 10mg tablet (I have Bipolar Disorder) and they find higher levels of IL-10 in people with Bipolar.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10357918/

And IL-10 increases serotonin activity as well:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23410504/

So we should assume that lower IL10 could be a metabolic marker for depression.
new generation of obedient drones
(Ab)using general search algorithms on dynamic optimization problems (2023)
I wrote this blog back in 2023 but since then I became a frequent lurker on HN and decided to repost the blog here. For me, writing it was about connecting the dots between dynamic optimization techniques I've studied as an economist and the more general search algorithms studied in CS.
How do you prevent them from taking your crypto though ?
Good point.

Also, where would the information be stored? If it was in the repo itself (as metadata) then the malicious maintainer could just not update it ...
As an autistic geek who is angry at the world, I'd like to point out that he didn't exclusively refer to autistics but specified autistic geeks.
Trump, Musk, et al aren't known for respecting boundaries, norms, conventions, ... They don't have concern nor respect for the citizens they "serve". They only care about themselves, everyone else be damned. No chance they don't continue to cross every line they encounter.
This was my thinking as well. Also if they have metrics that show the top suggestion is picked 90% of the time after x characters (or even user based metrics like Bob always picks the top suggestion after 10 characters), then they can preemptively generate the response to the top suggestion leading to near instant feeling responses.
You may argue with the content of this article in one way or another, but the main fact - that all this communication, access to information, has resulted in almost zero global discursive improvement - is something blaringly obvious to reflect on:

"Were did these assumptions were wrong?"

>This sounds counterintuitive. Debate sharpens the mind, right? Exposure to different viewpoints broadens our perspective. That's what Socrates taught us, what our schools drill into us, what every "how to think better" course preaches. But something fundamental has been broken in discourse,

I wouldn't say it is "counterintuitive" because it wasn't "intuitive" to begin with: this is some artificially-constructed wisdom, but it is generally accepted, has been built up upon centuries of not millenia, and is fundamental to the way many core aspects of modern society are designed, like freedom of expression and democratic institutions.
>That just makes the problem worse.

The core problem is that there are a large contingent of homeless drug users who just want to be left alone so that they can continue to be homeless drug users. Any services given to them will just be redirected by them towards enabling continued drug use. It's like an inbuilt self-sabotage that is totally alien to regular folks, but the choice way of living for those with it.

This isn't talk about much at all, because the story book tale is that homeless people are just regular people who are down on the luck, and if we could just show them some respect, compassion, and spare a few resources, they'd be right back on their feet again. But that story is just a fairy tale used to sell a feel good idea, reality is way more fucked up than that.
You should probably read up on the history of the United States' activities in the Americas.

Here are a few pointers to get you started:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Pana...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Gren...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_occupation_of_Ha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overthrow_of_the_Hawaiian_King...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...
Can I ethically use LLMs?
> We are also deploying first-of-its-kind routing, maximizing the cable laid in deep water — at depths up to 7,000 meters — and using enhanced burial techniques in high-risk fault areas, such as shallow waters near the coast, to avoid damage from ship anchors and other hazards.

How does this affect maintenance? Is it still possible to pull portions of this cable up to repair it? What happens when it is at end of life? Does it get removed?
You don't "choose" your IPv6, they are assigned to you. Even if you used private IPs (ULA) for whatever reason, there are enough of those too not to conflict.

By comparison my company uses the entirety of the private IPv4 space. `docker compose up` often fails because there is no private IP range left that is not directed through the VPN.
Windows PE is based on real Windows 11, it's not a custom thing.
Maybe, maybe not. Cheapening costs can improve access, especially if it’s possible to perform a new cheap technique more widely.
Here's a video showing it in action: https://imgur.com/a/qel0acA

Given that the completion of "What is the history of Fr" is "What is the history of Fringe theatre and its impact on the arts?" and for "What is the history of G" it suggests "What is the history of Glassmaking through the ages?" I'm pretty sure this is a discovery mechanism using a fixed list of safe, quirky topics, rather than a serious attempt at predicting the user's next word.
> This is pretty much describing the US, which is both not a democracy (it’s a republic. And a bad example of one) and not what I’m talking about.

I'm glad we agree on this, but I'll add that all so-called democracies suffer from the same problem.

> I’m talking about democracy and dictatorships as forms of governance in the abstract.

Yes, talking in the abstract is all we can do, because honestly, I can't find any true examples of democracy at the moment.
I agree, however they probably assume it's their fault or something to do with this arcane black box they use but don't quite understand how it works.

For me, I bought a single DRM book against my better judgement because it was the only available way to get it quickly at the time. Predictably, I eventually lost access to it and never bought another one since.
I think the author might have missed the `usenet` era. Over the years it was running, I have had very good discourses in com.* and sci., without the debate, must-win aspect.

I distinctly recall discussing the inner working of IPX/SPX and how we can develop tooling, compressions post LZH, and alike. We discussed direction for protocols and came to agreement on sometimes as nuanced things as bit flipping in the packets.

Get into alt.*, and that is a whole different reality.
Can you provide sources for the relevant electoral districts…?

At the very least, whatever has been imagined hasn’t translated into a ground reality expected by the parent. So I doubt it’s true.
This is the real danger: Baking ideological bias into a utility function for the worst of all worlds.

An LLM can't be ethical because mercy cannot be computed through a distance function. Truth isn't weighted, and justice requires context windows so large that humans can barely manage it and often fail.

We can tune these things to be as inoffensive as possible and they will deliver a seeming that is impenetrable to the casual user, because that satisfies the utility function. That seeming will be worse than the loss of consensus reality we've experienced in the last few decades.

I don't find it frightening that LLMs spit out things that are wrong. I find it frightening that so many people are ready and willing to cede the details to these programs and abrogate critical thought.
The Fermi paradox seems to take for granted that complex multicellular life will eventually develop technological civilization, but there is no reason for that to be true. Orcas could very well be more intelligent than humans, but they are physiologically incapable of building tools. Human hands and visual processing were an evolutionary fluke that took tens of millions of years of natural selection, long before apes started using these adaptations to build simple tools. It is plausible that "bipeds with hands" will eventually lead to civilization: getting there is the hard part.

Put another way: birds are very intelligent bipeds, but I am not convinced that the dinosaurs would have developed advanced technology if the meteor didn't hit. There has to be an evolutionary path to develop something like hands, which means either sprouting extra arms or compromising a claw / leg / wing. Perhaps that path shows up, perhaps it doesn't - maybe there are fossils of raptor-like dinos with unusually dextrous claws. But without hands, even superintelligent animals cannot reliably make fire, build ropes, sew leather, carve stone, etc etc.
Math Academy for Adult Students
The author says we should look for:
“Controlled Environments - Save serious discussions for spaces designed for learning rather than engagement. Book clubs, study groups, and moderated forums can create conditions for genuine discourse.”
I find the constant, gentle moderation here at hn encourages the better angels of our nature. I learn something new from all you fine people everyday. Thanks for your cumulative effort.
As an American I am unfortunately very familiar with that narrative.
No, that's just life. If you are afraid of changing something and decide to do nothing, you are still changing things by not acting as a beeing with agency.