skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two Robots and a Pig
The time is 2035 and you are sitting in a room with two robots. You ask one of the robots if they can help you with a nuclear fusion problem you have. The robot says sure thing, hit me with it. After a few minutes of discussion, you finish. Then the robot turns to the other robot and speaks in a single burst of noise to the other robot. At the same time the other robot speaks back to the robot in again a single burst of noise. The conversation they have is over in a second or two. The first robot explains that they have the answer for you.

Great.

In that instant both robots communicated a few novels worth of information between them. Instead of speaking in words, they spoke in novels.

To us, a pig that oinks to another has very simple communication. We think of them as not clever and not really worthy of care or attention. Sometimes we even keep them in cages to reduce the cost of keeping them.

To those two robots you are a pig.
Salary negotiations are a very simple example, you can easily compare your salary to that of your peers and to similar positions in other companies. If your boss tells you they pay you the industry average or company average or whatnot, you wouldn't be able to check whether that's actually true otherwise. You can also have a rough ballpark of what a company pays before you apply for a job there. In general, information like this being public empowers people, whereas in most countries companies hold all the cards and use this information asymmetry to their advantage.
Does what you scroll burn coal? Mythbusting energy consumption on the web
America is and will be fine.
English speakers' seeming obsession with "safety" and "security" has always struck me as a bit weird. I wonder if it's a bug in the language or in the mindset of native speakers. Or maybe one reinforces the other. From endlessly being told to "mind the gap", to nagging announcements about "Safety & Security", to many ingrained phrases like "stay safe" & "take care". It's also visible in people being concerned over behaviours that are perfectly normal in non-English speaking parts of the world, like children walking home alone or steep stairs without railings. Both of which have been known to cause a stir in the US & UK.
I've stood up machines for this before I did not know they had a name, and I worked at the mouse company and my parking spot was two over from a J. Beibe'rs spot.

So now we have Slashdot effect, HN hug, and its not Clarkson its... Stephen Fry effect? Maybe can be Cross-Discipline - there's a term for when lots of UK turns their kettles on at the same time.

I should make a blog post to record all the ones I can remember.
Thanks. Now I can sleep in peace knowing that I didn't miss anything worthwhile.
It's not the government's job to take money from Paul to give to Peter. I fundamentally object to this. I take the view of Austrian economics. IMO, all the corporate monopolies we have today are caused by excessive government money printing, weaponizing the people's money against the people. How about having empathy for the worker, the value creator, who has been robbed of money and, worse, opportunities as a result of government-backed corporate monopolies and regulatory moats?

You can't imagine how bad things have been for some of us.
"alternative" implies that this is either on a comparable level of battle-testedness and feature completeness as sqlite, or that it solves problems that sqlite has, or that is delivers substantiable, or at least noticeable advantages over sqlite.

So, which of these points apply?
GvR always prioritised ease of debugging over performance, and honestly I'm in the same camp. What good does a fast program do if it's incorrect?

But I think you can get a fine balance by keeping a recent call trace (in a ring buffer?). Lua does this and honestly it's OK, once you get used to the idea that you're not looking at stack frames, but execution history.

IMHO Python should add that, and it should clearly distinguish between which part of a crash log is a stack trace, and which one is a trace of tail calls.

Either way this is going to be quite a drastic change.
Here's a crazy idea. Create a large empty file on your VPS. Call it
backingfile.lol. Then remotely mount the directory containing
backingfile.lol using sshfs on your local machine, so that you can
access backingfile.lol as if it were a local file. Then create a
loopback device on the local machine using backingfile.lol as the
backing file, and create a luks device on top of the loopback device.
Format the luks device with the filesystem of your choice, mount the
filesystem, and rsync your secret files with it. Tear down everything
except backingfile.lol on the VPS when not in use, and your files will
persist inside it.

If my understand about all this is correct, your adversary could have
physical access, root access, and Intel's own ME signing keys, but
will see only encrypted data at rest on the VPS, because your keys
never leave the local machine, affording him no recourse short of
cracking AES.
Hahaha - possibly!
it's probably better to get iPhone 15 Pro even if second hand but good condition. On swappa you can get it for $550 and iPhone 15 Pro still support apple intelligence.
That's emblematic of their entire business arc.

"What's the most pointless matter-of-fact thing we could say/do in any given situation, just for the sake of the checkmark of having said/done it?"
We might - I was testing it out on some salesforce apex code and it was doing a better job then o3 mini high at getting to job done for me…
Waves hands even more vigorously
It's less about the language syntax and more about the capabilities of the underlying Erlang runtime. There's also Gleam on top of Erlang if you like stronger typing (gleam.run).
Hmm. After Spurlock lied through his teeth in his first film, why would anyone trust him ever again?
It would be a good idea for DOGE to publish something like that, for the sake of transparency, but there's no historical precedent for doing that, and they are under time pressue so they probably won't.
> You are assuming that Ukraine has their forces uniformly distributed across it's territory which would make it the dumbest army in the universe, in reality most of it's armed forces are near the front, if they are gone, there won't be much left to defend the rest of Ukraine.

I fully understand that you hope to see sudden breakthroughs, but they are clearly not happening anytime soon. In the early months of the war, we saw large armoured spearheads, such as the one destroyed at the Siverskyi Donets river crossing in May 2022, which consisted of 80-100 vehicles. Advancements in drone warfare on the Ukrainian side and equipment shortages on the Russian side have made it impossible to assemble such spearheads anymore. So even if there are breaches in Ukrainian frontlines, they cannot be (and haven't been) exploited on a massive scale as they were earlier in the war.

Besides that, any rapid Russian advancements in Ukraine would likely be countered by the deployment of a multinational European force. This seems to be currently in preparation even without any breakthroughs.

> You keep assuming that Russia needs more territory that's why this war is happening, whereas in reality Russia does not want a powerful Ukraine armed to the teeth with NATO gear right next door, that's it, that's what the Russians have been saying all along, their position has never changed, you can look up the Minsk agreement.

Europeans are expected to officially announce a 700bn defense package after the German elections on Sunday. 700bn is many times more than has been provided to Ukraine so far, by the entire world, combined. The longer the war drags on, the more modern equipment Ukraine will receive to replace the destroyed Soviet stocks and the more closely it will be aligned with NATO countries.

This is another measure by which the Russian invasion has been a complete failure. We went from Obama refusing to provide lethal aid to Ukraine in 2014, to Ukraine's air force flying F-16s and Mirages in 2025 while Rheinmetall is building arms factories in Ukraine.

This is far more than any NATO ally has received since the Cold War.
> Europe has more or less managed to avoid descending into a mass war for almost a century now, if we assume the one brewing now is just a mirage, so basically they've got it all figured out and their smugness is totally justified.

Europe hasn’t descended into total war since WWII because the US has military bases all over Europe, mostly in Germany.
I just ask to share a text editor and write down my questions. Its critical anyway because often then not its not always clear for tech questions what exactly i asked (linux command for example).

This blocks their screen too.

and yes we do know very soon if you look somewere else, take time or rephrase the question to get more time.

If you able to fake it, at that point you should just get th ejob anyway :P
While I agree in principle, that's not an entirely intellectually honest evaluation. The government is prohibited from creating an electronic registry of guns, not because of the guns themselves, but ultimately because of the judicial understanding of the Second Amendment confirming (not granting) an inherent right of citizens to possess them. The restriction is in service to the gun owners by protecting them from government overreach. The guns are merely a layer of abstraction on that.
In many countries using Tor can get you in trouble.
there's just a pile of things. usually reproductive -- becoming egg bound, etc. there's parasites, viruses, bacterial infections. and being flock animals, they hide it, too.

yeah some varieties of chicken are remarkably tough around cold which is crazy considering their original tropical origin.
> SpaceX consumed enormous amounts of cash

No, spacex projects are extremely $ efficient. The total project cost of starship is like 20% of the SLS.

> he's competing against all the biggest companies in the world in this race.

No, this is a not a pissing contest on who has the most $. If it is about who can come up with most $, then the entire race is already over as the CCP has access to trillions of $ CASH.
In an era marked by unprecedented advancements in artificial intelligence and decentralized technologies, traditional governance models have increasingly struggled to reconcile efficiency, transparency, and ethical accountability. This paper introduces Neuro‐Symbolic Consensus Networks (NSCNs) as a transformative framework that fuses the predictive power of deep neural networks with the clarity of symbolic reasoning, secured by quantum‐resistant blockchain technology and reinforced through tokenized ethical auditing. By integrating these diverse components, NSCNs offer an innovative alternative to legacy consensus protocols—such as proof‐of‐work (PoW) and proof‐of‐stake (PoS)—that are beset by energy inefficiencies, centralization risks, and opaque decision-making processes. The theoretical underpinnings of NSCNs are grounded in a rigorous mathematical formalization that maps neural embeddings to logical predicates, while a hybrid loss function ensures that the system remains both adaptive and interpretable. Our work details the architecture of NSCNs through an in-depth exploration of its three core pillars: the neuro-symbolic AI consensus engine, quantum-secure blockchain ledgers, and tokenized ethical auditing systems. We further substantiate our theoretical claims through extensive empirical case studies, including AI-regulated decentralized research trials, autonomous law enforcement applications, and economic policy simulations. The results from these studies indicate significant reductions in governance inefficiencies, improved policy adaptability, and enhanced compliance with ethical standards. By charting a comprehensive future roadmap that spans targeted pilot deployments, mid-term expansion, and eventual global integration, we demonstrate the viability of NSCNs as a robust, scalable, and future-proof paradigm for decentralized, AI-driven governance.
I had a TI-99/4A. I learned to program from the excellent Basic manual that came with it. I wrote my code on paper, then keyed it in to run.

I mainly wrote basic games for my friends. Most popular was a two player competetive snakes variant, a bit like Tron but with traces only growing as you gobbled up food. I also wrote a 'defender' like game that enjoyed some success amongst friends.

I had no periperals or cartridges as that was too expensive. The living room TV was my monitor. It was quite a while before I got a cassette tape player, so in the early days a computer session started by retyping all code from my notebook.

I later got a ZX Spectrum which was far more powerfull, but the TI (and a HP41cv) are what got me into programming.
Why do you get to decide it is? The onus of proof is on the one making the claim.

I guess someone could also repeatedly bash you over the head with a tire iron and break your legs, and when criticised reply “how do you know their purpose isn’t to get hurt?”

“Well, when I approached them to hit them, they cowered in fear, asked for mercy, and tried to flee.”

“Your attempt to evoke an emotion doesn’t answer the question though. How do you know their purpose is not to be ravaged?”
>That is exactly what wasn't being done before

Did Elon Musk tell you this? You believed it?

>Nothing they are doing even takes very much skill at all

It requires the skill of understand all of the components, systems and partners involved in every transaction. Elon and crew have amply demonstrated that they don't understand any of those parts, nor are they interested in any due diligence or actual work.

Because they don't have to. There is a large enough contingent of Americans that will accept whatever garbage they say, however outrageous the lie or falsity.

The US has descended to an unbelievably corrupt idiocracy. People were too comfortable so they want a little chaos, and they're going to get it. In four years, the tens of millions that voted for this profound stupidity are going to claim the Dems made them or something. But her emails.
Show HN: Jupyter Variable Explorer for Python
For me the biggest downside is that they reliably attract vermin. I tried a bunch of things to deter rats but they were ever present when we had hens
Yes, something about video games, I think.
So tor with 2 hops?
I do make fried chicken for them occasionally and I season with a bit of curry, cumin, and smoked paprika.

- 1 pack of 6 thighs or 3 breasts
- 4 tbs corn starch + 1 tsp salt + 1/2 tsp each of curry powder, cumin, smoked paprika to coat
- slice chicken thinly and use a mallet to flatten to make it even and cook faster (this also increases the ratio of breading to chicken which they like)
- coat each slice in the corn starch mix
- beat 2 eggs and then dredge the coated slices in egg
- coat the now egg coated chicken with bread crumbs of your choice
- fry in a flat pan with just about 4-6mm of oil
- about 60-90 seconds each side

They love it! But it also takes me almost 2 hours to do! So it's a once in a while thing in these busy times.
Theory 2 doesn’t explain the bias for the AfD.

Their economic plans are backwards and their immigration politics are unrealistic.

As Weidel was asked how she thinks how the federal police could implement the AfD plans, although much more personnel would be needed for this, she said: Don’t ask me, I‘m a politician.
When it comes to integration, efficiency isn’t the most important quality attribute (“ility”). Having the interfaces be easily used by humans manually is more important. It’s why http1 has been dominant for so long… it’s easy for humans to understand and manually use without needing complex tooling. Yeah, eventually these things get replaced once machine-to-machine efficiency becomes a real pain point, but it’s far down the road. Not the first thing you try to tackle.
Heh, I can't tell if the downvotes are pro-gender studies, anti-gender studies, or just don't want to hear about gender studies.
They will cut the DoD budget now but just bring it back in 6months due to some incident.
I wrote the blog post, and I did it on my own freewill, and am receiving no compensation. The main reason I wrote it was to help cement my own learnings from the book. I've heard that the best way to learn something is to teach it, so I wanted to see how much I could regurgitate on my own. Turns out, not a whole lot. It was hastily written, and more of a "brain dump" than anything else. I'm entering a new-to-me field, and wanted a place to document the things I'm learning. If anyone finds it interesting, great. If not, no big deal.

As for the specifics of the model I trained, I would be hard pressed to recall the specifics off the top of my head. I believe I trained a small model locally, but after completing that as a PoC, I downloaded the GPT-2 model weights, then trained / fine-tuned those locally. That is what the book directed. All the steps are in my github repo, which (unsurprisingly) like the author's repo. His repo actually has more explanation. Mine is more or less just code.
I didn't mean it too seriously. Just with regard to how one point in the ideology is about governments being small and how DOGE is at least in rhetoric trying to fire federal employees en masse.
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I've backed up my personal files. But they lie on a with macOS encrypted and APFS formatted hard drive. So even if I have backups I have to make sure that they are encrypted but also readable by all operating systems...
All of those disasterous mistakes were justified in terms of defending “a liberal world order.” Look in the mirror—you’ve become a Reagan Republican now. You’ve embraced the same disasterous ideology of liberal universalism.
I don't think Americans are more accepting of aggressive capitalism, they're victims of an exploitative system that has completely captured their government, media, education, and every aspect of life. Sure many of them are willing participants, or victims who aspire to join the all-powerful ruling class - but that's the result of generations of social engineering and brutal suppression of any viable alternatives.
even better when you are app developer or your phone is just laying down on table - it was nice when you didn't have to pick it up to unlock it and put it down.
So far it seems at least half of the people do agree, though.

And the US military doesn't answer to the people at least not directly. I don't think it should be swayed by public opinion like that. I mean, we're talking about a military coup here. I despise Donald Trump and would like nothing more than to see him drummed out of office, but the military making that happen means we don't have a democracy anymore.
Move fast, break things.

Easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission.

YOLO.
> As for "why not 50 years", even the pessimistic reports of that video have it at ~30 years.

When a prediction is at a timescale where the person making the prediction will be retired by the time the prediction applies, you can safely ignore the prediction. That person has no reputational skin in the game.
Appreciate it! I know it's kindof niche, but Tiny Combat Arenas description seems exactly on point, unfortunate that it's only on PC.

I never considered Star Wars Squadrons, all the reviews on console seriously dragged the game, and I don't have a lot of time (and I think their multiplayer is kindof dead by now), but it has been coming up at $8.99 when I was paying attention so I'll keep an eye out.

Thanks again!

Edit: look up screenshots from this one: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Meier%27s_Ace_Patrol ...it was effectively a turn-based version of what I was talking about. https://www.mobygames.com/game/65565/sid-meiers-ace-patrol/s...
The ends do not justify the means.

These means can easily lead to a nightmare. We've been through that a century ago. Look up Dehomag. Never Again.
> would you be able to document this negative fit in an impartial way when rejecting a protected class?

Likely. But haters gonna hate, and lawyers gonna sue.
Any LLM that is uncensored does well on Chatbot tests because a refusal is an automatic loss.

And since 30% of people using Chatbots are Gooning it up theres far more refusals...
Not that I know of!

It would be interesting, but I agree it would need to be content moderated to some extent.
> they are parallelising the work

That's an interesting rephrasing for "sidestepping all security to get access".

> The access is read only, and they are not linking personal data between agencies

Yup, that's exacly what someone who wants to change the beneficiaries of a few contracts and payments, as well as fire some of the people overseeing my companies would say.
It's pretty important to add that there was a latent distress in this person all along, with a big dose of untreated mental health issues.

The protagonist mentions that their previous jobs gave the same anxiety and pointlessness. (The previous boss that was bombarding them with tickets, emails, etc. seems like a stand-in for typical micromanagers who don't respect boundaries. And the protagonist was obviously bad at saying no and standing up for themselves, etc.)
Since you seem to know what you are talking about:

I am a bit confused by your stressing the access is read-only. Isn't that obviously given (apologies for the redundant words, but I really don't know how to convey my confusion). For what purpose they could ever be given a write access to the hundreds of federal databases they are supposed to analyze?

Also, if they don't have the manpower to go over the data one by one then they don't have the power to go over them in parallel. When you say "parallelising the work" what exactly does that mean? What is it specifically that they are "parallelising"? Is there an engineer/analyst looking at multiple screens simultaneously and arriving conclusions for multiple agencies at the same time?
Move fast and kill things?
It would be fun if someone did the funni at him there
No, the animosity is coming from the belligerent way DOGE is going about its work, and the lack of security clearance or any oversight of these people, some of whom are very inexperienced and some of whom have clear conflicts of interest, and the enormous power they are accumulating.
So an organization is massively accessing sensitive government data on citizens without transparency or safeguards?

Hence why people are reacting negatively.
> and later when serving each follower's timeline, fetch the celebrity's posts and merge them into the timeline

I think then you still have the 'weird user who follows hundreds of thousands of people' problem, just at read time instead of write time. It's unclear that this is _better_, though, yeah, caching might help. But if you follow every celeb on Bluesky (and I guarantee you this user exists) you'd be looking at fetching and merging _thousands_ of timelines (again, I suppose you could just throw up your hands and say "not doing that", and just skip most or all of the celebs for problem users).

Given the nature of the service, making read predictably cheap and writes potentially expensive (which seems to be the way they've gone) seems like a defensible practice.
Yeah, but there are scenarios between no war and a nuclear war - and I want to be at least somehow prepared for those.
> I'm worried that one of Musk friends might be a Chinese or Russian spy.

Given Musk's ties to China and his overt friendship with Putin, I don't think there's a need for one of his friends to be a spy when he's right there with a glowing neon finger over his head.
> They are, and you don’t kill them or harm them to eat the things they produce with the purpose of being eaten and spread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43113489
> OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things.

This is what makes Erlang (gen_servers) my favourite OOP language! And that's only partially joking.