skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wifes family was wicked as they would let the children bond with the animals, without letting them know they gonna be dinner.

She tells a story of a wonderful pet goat.
Until one day it was "gone to another farm", and they enjoyed goat curry for dinner.

The older siblings knew... and now they dont talk lol.
One needs to decide if an animal is a product or a pet. It's difficult to have them be both.

Having them as a product does not mean you don't care for them, on the contrary, but I would say it's a completely different type of bond.

> But then the question should be is it just the "bond" which is holding someone back from killing animals? Why can't we just not kill without relying on bonds?

I would argue it's about the purpose, not the bond. You don't kill a pet, but you do kill food. And you should never kill for the sole sake of killing.
Even if that advisor hires college kids with known links to The Com?

There are reasons behind some processes. Such as getting a security clearance to access sensitive data.
I personally find python to be highly UNreadable, especially with all of its syntax and braindead scoping rules
Referring to OpenAPI: https://github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification
Anyone is quite welcome to escalate to whatever level they think appropriate in opposition to whatever they feel motivated by.

Just be aware of the consequences of failing, or succeeding.
>who said this is something that is necessary at all stages?

understanding when you don't need to measure is important too. If you are just making a small 2d app as a hobby with no more than maybe 100 draw calls on hardware that exceeds that of a potato: I probably won't waste much time with optimization schemes and just crank something out.

But that same app may want to be kept as small as it feels so I would focus more on any assets being compressed.

> inability to form assertion criteria - Not exactly sure what you mean

I took it as testing. Unable to understand what you're trying to solve, frequency of usage for such functions/modules, the amount of reach your code will have (only used once in a small module? Code code that he core multiple layers up will rely on?) and not considering potential edge cases. More or less similar to what you said.
define "everyone" -- elected officials who are supposed to have oversight and insight into where our tax dollars are going? It's not like they're providing replicas over bittorrent.
It is even worse, this $8M contract is alread partially executed, so only $5.5 millions are left.

And it does not say anything about what is being cut by cancelling the contract and whether it is useful or not.
Very interesting you have that point of view. What country are you from. The government demonstrably does not pander to the “far right” - whatever that means. The “far right” is anything other than what Kier agrees with. — e.g. you can not speak out against immigration without being anti immigrant (racist - illegal). You can’t be anti same sex areas without being transphobic (also illegal). You can’t be anti {non Christian rooted religion} without being an extremist (illegal). You can’t not speak out against the war in Ukraine or Gaza. Flying a Union flag gets you interest from the police now as it is becoming a symbol of “far right” nationalism

This is not hyperbole.

Against the rules to talk about politics here. But I am interested
I'd actually say the market is stretched pretty thin by now. I've been an AI researcher for a decade and what passes as AI researcher or engineer these days is borderline worthless. You can get a lot of people who can use scripts and middleware like frontend lego sets to build things, but I'd say there are less than 1k people in the world right now who can actually meaningfully improve algorithmic design. There are a lot more people out there who do systems design and cloud ops, so only when you choose to go for scaling, you'll find a plentiful set of human brainpower.
I think ground-zero for that line of thought is with Leopold Aschenbrenner[0]. Who I believe now runs an AI focused hedge fund.

[0] https://situational-awareness.ai
Zstandard v1.5.7 brings performance enhancements
I think this approach is not very favoured by hacker news but it's also what I prefer. It's so much easier to quickly gauge a minimum level of the basic programming knowledge and other sw knowledge by just asking some simple directed questions.

I once got a guy that claimed to have implemented multiple default HTTP JSON REST APIs and somehow had never:

- tested his API with JSON payloads, serialise serialise
- never queried his APIs manually or semi automatically (no knowledge of curl, postman or anything similar)
You sure are argumentative for someone who believes they are so correct.

In any case, I don’t think I’m a Luddite. I use many ai tools in my research including for idea generation. So far i have not found it to be very useful. Moreover the things it could be useful for such as automated data pipeline generation it doesn’t do. I could imagine a series of agents where one designs pipelines and one fills in the codes, etc per node in the pipeline but so far I didn’t see anything like that. If you have some kind of constructive recommendations in that direction I’m happy to hear them.
Why do you have to accept it? Trump doesn't accept the actual law.
It's used in multiple senses, so it's almost impossible to tell what the person using it means.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_that_proves_the_rule...
If you want accountability someone needs to have root access. If you don't want accountability, you are a politician getting kickbacks through obfuscation.
Backyard chicken farming is a great hobby, and surprisingly tech heavy.

My Coop controller, which is hand build by grumpy bearded East Germans, even has modules to integrate into a smart home system and supports remote monitoring via cellular network.

https://jost-technik.de/PHB2.0-Klappensteller%20+%20Steuerun...
Do civil servants have trade unions in the US? This seems like a place they could step up to offer advice.
Deepseek didn’t seem to invest in talent as much as it did in smuggling restricted GPUs into China via 3rd countries.

Also not for nothing scaling compute x100 or even x1000 is much easier than scaling talent by x10 or even x2 since you don’t need workers you need discovery.
So how is this any different from all the random employees who might have access to this data as part of their jobs? I would understand if there was this sort of scrutiny over every federal employee but as it stands I never know who has access to my data and if they can be trusted.
Here is my moviepy code:

import asyncio
from moviepy.editor import VideoFileClip, clips_array, vfx

def merge_shorts_sync(content_duration: int, satisfaction_duration: int, content_path: str = "content.mp4", satisfaction_path: str = "satisfaction.mp4", output_path: str = "final.mp4") -> None:
# User-specified proportions
p1 = 0.6 # first clip will occupy 60% of the final height
p2 = 1 - p1 # second clip will occupy 40% of the final height

# Load the video clips
content_clip = VideoFileClip(content_path)
satisfaction_clip = VideoFileClip(satisfaction_path)

# Adjust satisfaction clip duration relative to content clip
if content_duration > satisfaction_duration:
speed_factor = satisfaction_duration / content_duration
satisfaction_clip = satisfaction_clip.fx(vfx.speedx, speed_factor)
else:
satisfaction_clip = satisfaction_clip.subclip(0, content_duration)

# Use the height of the content clip as target
target_height = content_clip.h

# Resize clips to target height
content_clip_resized = content_clip.resize(height=target_height)
satisfaction_clip_resized = satisfaction_clip.resize(height=target_height)

# Helper to crop a clip centrally by a vertical proportion
def crop_central(clip, proportion):
current_height = clip.h
target_crop_height = current_height * proportion
top_crop = (current_height - target_crop_height) / 2
return clip.crop(y1=top_crop, y2=top_crop + target_crop_height)

# Crop each clip according to the desired proportions
content_clip_cropped = crop_central(content_clip_resized, p1)
satisfaction_clip_cropped = crop_central(satisfaction_clip_resized, p2)

if abs(p1 + p2 - 1) > 1e-6:
raise ValueError("The sum of the proportions p1 and p2 must equal 1.")

# Stack clips vertically (the final height will match target_height)
final_clip = clips_array([[content_clip_cropped],
[satisfaction_clip_cropped]])

# Export the final video
final_clip.write_videofile(output_path, codec="libx264", fps=content_clip.fps, audio_codec="aac")

async def merge_shorts(content_duration: int, satisfaction_duration: int, content_path: str = "content.mp4", satisfaction_path: str = "satisfaction.mp4", output_path: str = "final.mp4") -> None:
# Offload the synchronous video processing to a separate thread
await asyncio.to_thread(merge_shorts_sync, content_duration, satisfaction_duration, content_path, satisfaction_path, output_path)

If you want to create a script that autogenerate videos, we can continue on discord.
> not the cheapest option, but definitely the most rewarding

It's not that much more expensive if you were to compare with store-bought eggs that actually match the quality.
It should be noted that as a customer of the French ISP Free you get a one year free subscription of Le Chat Pro (Free CEO Xavier Niel is an investor).

That probably helped downloads.
everything it adds is by default backwards compatible, because old programs didn't use it, because it wasn't there yet, and so won't break.

Python's problem is that the non-new stuff is not always backwards compatible. It happens way too often that A new python version comes out and half the python programs on my system just stop working.
I had to ask Grok 3 what the bitter lesson was. It gave a plausible answer (compute scale beats human cleverness)
> how could AI not be the deciding geopolitical factor of the future?

Easily. Natural resources, human talent, land and supply chains all are and will be more important factors than AI

> You expect progress to stop

no

> and AI not to achieve and surpass human intelligence

yes
I used to get tipped in eggs by this wonderful human at a bar I worked at and while I'm not sure I could tell them apart in a blind taste test I can say that the variety of pretty colors the egg shells came in and the richness of the yolk combined to make them noticeably more satisfying. I have a lot of experience tasting things though, I could absolutely see someone having a similar experience to mine and chalking it up to a superior taste. Or maybe there is a regional component to basic grocery store eggs and I live in a high quality zone, idk.
> no country will stand a chance to compete with them militarily or economically.

It really depends on how they go about it. It can easily instead end up with lots of people without work, no social security and disillusioned with the country. Instead of being economically great, the country may end up fighting uprisings and sabotage.
Question was raised (and answered) at 16:35 on the video.
Because its gravity would cause a shock wave as it rapidly moved through you, not because it would absorb any material doing so.
> Imagine if, to make a website, you had to fill out forms and submit them to the government for approval. Sorry, you can't have an unrestricted server connected to the internet, you can just make webpages using an approved website builder GUI using only those images that aren't filtered out by the host.

This is what the new online safety bill has you do though. It is ridiculous. And we can not even vote on it.
Put the Web on K9P and stay inside plan9 to manage content but accept scaleable pods to serve it?

Cheating.. but it's at least a red headed bastard grandchild
> though if you are thinking ahead you can open these in another tab

or add it to the "Watch Later" playlist :) so you can watch it...later.
To read about the basics of tail calls optimization:

https://blog.reverberate.org/2021/04/21/musttail-efficient-i...
You can't live without food. Eggs are a food.

So you can live without eggs, but when you have no other food, you can't.
The scent thing can be useful for a forgetful person wondering "did I wash my hands recently?"
> They couldn't build a system that used my style of components because a failure due to a component would bring the whole system down and require an expensive service call

Could they not make the scope easily replaceable by the user and just supply a couple of spares?

Just thinking of how cars are complex machines but a huge variety of parts could be replaced by someone willing to spend a couple of hours learning how.
That's a gross misrepresentation of what's happening here.

We don't have to respect anything, except the law. Trump and Musk's actions are neither legal, ethical nor sensible. If you're of that mind then removing Musk and Trump via any legal or political means is not only acceptable but, if you care about your country, an imperative.

The biggest problem America has is how readily it normalizes incompetence and evil, to its detriment.
UK lawmakers want to push out making you a terrorist or pedo if you own an llm or genai capable of generating such - i.e. any.
Purportedly the Netherlands, but the research was badly performed.

KNOWN PFAS contamination was around heavy industry, and yeah, if you live near those regions, maybe don't. Otherwise proceed with scepticism and/or some testing.
Blows my mind how fast this switch was. I thought it would trail off over years, but its like everyone decided at once to drop DEI.
It does change the semantics if n is negative or large enough to cause an overflow. The challenge for the compiler is to somehow prove that neither of those things can happen.
I strongly suspect no single employee had access to all that data.
what an awesome handle; also caught this as it reads: 1970-01-01 10 hours ago
>Musk is on the bandwagon now, are there really that many organizations or individual decision makers who have the resources to make him more fabulously rich than he already is?

well, he's so rich that getting richer doesn't matter. But running the whole country is priceless
The reason they're now pretending that Musk is an "advisor" is that there are laws against what he proudly says he's doing, and Trump has said Musk is doing.

He can't lead a government department without being confirmed by congress. If he's just an advisor, he and his Musk Youth army can't actually give orders to government employees the way they've been doing, much less fire them.

If someone keeps lying every other breath for years and years, at some point you should stop taking their word at face value.
There would be no motor vehicles if we had told Mercedes and Ford that we would have to stop everything and wait for the environmental impact assessments to be done before replacing the horses
awesome! let us know how it goes
What makes you think it was used unironically? :)
Are we forgetting chickens can fly? Why are we using fences
Ok,can you process FedNow transactions?

Cost?
You’re clearly wrong.

Trump, and every president before Trump, has had the authority to do exactly this.
> my goal is not to work 8 hours & go home, it is to finish my work and get back to my life.

I am always wondering why people don't consider work as part of their lifes. It always has been. People always worked. Back in the day they went hunting all day to not die. Now we write code to not die. So what's the difference? Work and life have the same meaning to me
Yeah, it was added to tick the box for people who ask "does Python have pattern matching?"

If you look at the feature in detail, and especially how it clashes with the rest of the language, it's awful. For example:

https://x.com/brandon_rhodes/status/1360226108399099909
Chickens are social animals and require a pack. A dozen seems excessive though.
Would you want a prospective employer to have access to your past tax returns when negociating salary?

The article also mentions information about employees operating in conflict zones.
Your link is broken, here's a working one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCGofLIzX6g
Quick questions/observations:

1. Is there a way to reassign/set keyboard shortcuts?
2. Is there a keyboard shortcut for opening the "hamburger/3-dots" menu?
3. In the "hamburger/3-dots" menu, there is an option the open a cmd shell, but there seems to be no shortcut for it.
4. While in "quick filter mode" the context menu key does not work (but the context menu does when using right mouse button) [1]

In windows explorer and File Pilot, you can access the "breadcrumbs" bar with ALT+D. In Windows explorer you then can enter "cmd" to get a cmd shell at the current location. This does not work in File Pilot.

[1] If this does work for other people: My keyboard does not have a context menu key, therefore I use the following AutoHotkeyScript to rebind F13 (labeled mute/unmute on the keycap) to "open context menu", which so far has work everywhere, but I still wanted to mention.

F13::AppsKey
return
we are witnessing the biggest political hack in history but most of the posts related to it seem to be of little interest to hackernews
> * preference towards bias

I do prefer those things I'm biased towards.
I am British, living in Britain, voted labour in last election and I agree with what OP said - it feels like labour is constantly pandering to right wing ideas just to make sure that part of electorate doesn't go to Reform.

>>is anything other than what Kier agrees with.

Proposed changes to the the citizenship process for asylum seekers isn't a far right idea? Initially being supportive of trans rights and then walking back on it isn't a far right idea? Kier constantly flip flopping on every issue depending on how the wind blows isn't something that strenghtens the right wing parties all the time? People don't call labour "tories lite" for no reason.
It's interesting how your list contains points that are almost duplicates of each other:

- fear of original ideas = cognitive conservatism = preference towards bias

And kind of opposites:

- decision anxiety = results from, or brings about, too much measuring

So, I guess those can be digested to say that engineers are:

- Innovative
- Make informed decisions
I don't think generating hypotheses is where AI is useful, I think it's more useful for doing back of napkin (or more serious) calculations, helping to find protocols, sourcing literature, etc. Grunt work basically. Generating hypotheses is the fun, exciting part that I doubt scientists want to outsource to AI.
Funny thing is that kind of government foreign aid is the kind of soft-power over smaller countries thing that right-wingers politicians love, or at least used to. Similar to the BS that China pulls with the belt and road initiative (but probably not as bad in most instances).

Basically give/loan money, get international political support back. Use political support to bully international institutions (UN, WTO, WHO, etc) to do what you want.

I guess soft-power is not enough anymore, they want all the power.
Large Language Model Inside an Electron.js Desktop App for Anonymizing PII Data
Did you try the MuchPDF package mentioned near the bottom of that discussion? It seems to do the job for what I tried.
The moment they had physical access to the system, it was necessary to assume this. It's called an 'evil maid' attack, and of all communities this one should have been blowing the whistle. Loudly, repeatedly, and in open defiance of people who argue that this is a storm in a teacup, a non issue, just another MOT, etc.

Especially when you look at the background of the Doge team - 'ex' hackers, 'security specialists', full-on racists...

Perhaps surprisingly, the CEO of YC and Paul Graham have been publicly supportive of the DOGE team, despite all the racism and existential threat. I don't know if that's from fear, or greed, but there are strong arguments for both.

Some of the stories about this topic which have been flagged here can be seen in my favorites. I'd be interested in collecting more examples, if you know of any missing.

> In the coming weeks, the team is expected to enter IT systems at the CDC and Federal Aviation Administration, and it already has done so at NASA, according to sources we’ve spoken with at each of those agencies. At least one DOGE ally appears to be working to open back doors into systems used throughout the federal government.

If discussing this openly and often this isn't possible due to very simple flag abuse, then what is this community actually even worth.
The ideal flow is investing a lot of time in (say) the first two or three years (three full season cycles gives you a fair amount of exposure) getting the swing of watering, planting, sowing, gathering waste, etc.

With any luck you can then transition into barely spending an hour at most a day (on most days) keeping things ticking along .. bursts of weeding, pruning, turning soil as needed and letting the plants do the work.

It's good steady exercise keeping on top of a substantial but "small" home garden but it doesn't have to suck up all your time once you get the swing of it.
Theory of mind should naturally emerge when the models are partly trained in an adversarial simulation environment, like the Cicero model, although that's a narrow AI example.
last updated 2022 though; i'd assume it is outdated for win11 though im unsure if it syncs its actions against something more recently maintained
Huh? This has nothing to do with neutrinos.
> For tooling shipped to client environments, I now tend to steer clear of it.

A guy on r/WritingWithAI is building a new writing assistant tool using python and pyQt. He is not a SE by trade. Even so, the installation instructions are:

- Install Python from the Windows app store

- Windows + R -> cmd -> pip install ...

- Then run python main.py

This is fine for technical people. Not regular folks.

For most people, these incantations to be typed as-is in a black window mean nothing and it is a terrible way of delivering a piece of software to the end-user.
The distinction between whether or not someone is formally registered as dead and whether or if they receive money are two completely different things and should not be confused. If you conflate the two issues then you can only be being disingenuous.

I've worked at a company which had people who have been dead longer than America exists in their database and some of them do not have a recorded date of death. That does not mean they are not dead, just that the death was not confirmed. And no they weren't being paid.

However if you get some junior developer in with no real knowledge of what they are doing on the job, stuff like this will appear and you can use it for political collateral because no one cares enough to understand the problem and ask questions. Like yourself.
Prediction: faangs will come up with something clever or random or just fly everyone onsite, they are so rich and popular, they can filter by any arbitrary criteria.

Second-rate companies will keep some superficial coding, but will start to emphasize more of the verbal parts like system design and retrospective. Which sucks, because those are totally subjective and mostly filters for whoever can BS better on the spot and/or cater to the interviewer's mood and biases better.

My favorite still: in-person pair programming for a realistic problem (could be made-up or shortened, but similar to the real ones on the job). Use whatever tools you want, but get the correct requirements and then explain what you just did, and why.

A shorter/easier task is to code review/critique a chunk of code, could even just print it out if in person.
That blog needs some inline padding for mobile view.
> If you can't physically [philibister for hours/days] ... well, maybe that's a sign in and of itself.

And reason has prevailed again.

But sarcasm aside, its a difficult question who controls parlaments, when democratic participation is not enough. Maybe oversight or veto rights by randomly picked citizen councils are a better way then blindly trusting anything that happens in-house.
Meshtastic: Decentralized communication with low-power devices