skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>There is no incentive to make up allegations, period.

That's obviously not true. For example, this woman confessed to making up an sexual assault allegation for political purposes:

>One of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh’s accusers admitted this week that she made up her lurid tale of a backseat car rape, saying it “was a tactic” to try to derail the judge’s confirmation to the Supreme Court.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/kavanaugh-accuser-admits-she-fabr...

https://globalnews.ca/news/4628088/brett-kavanaugh-rape-accu...

And we know that at up to 10% of rape accusations are provably false. The real number of fake accusations could well be higher.

https://archive.is/x0DEo#selection-915.19-919.1

>Lying about sexual assault in court is perjury and jeopardizes victims as much as the defendant.

So what? If I make up an allegation against you, there is little risk to me unless you can PROVE I lied. But if the "evidence" against you is just my word, what can you do with that to establish that I am lying?
I think I heard that 77 was factored as well
Well it depends on how you define worthless. For you as an individual to ascertain truth, it may be useless. To build up a bloated AI Enterprise stock value. For false consensus narrative scripting. Very valuable.
Ah one click away from a $500 egress transfer bill.

I only say that because I’ve done it. The NAS is no longer backed up to S3. (Testing the backups caused the bill)
Indeed.

The new Trump head of Treasury is just making a statement confirming what already was.
This is exactly what's happening, with the additional feature that the newer techniques likewise come with their own hype.
I had a relative named Null, who worked in tech in the 80s, 90s, and 00s. Apparently it caused him so many issues that he finally gave up and changed his name to the name of the town where our family came from.

I think he was a Java guy too. I’m sure that just made it worse.
Does your credit card statement report exactly what you bought or just where you bought it?
Probably could have avoided it by choosing less noisy "governance".
The question and assessment is around how your dhcp device can control DNS behavior (usually by broadcasting the name server IP). And I pointed out many devices that do DHCP often also act as the gateway device and internal firewall.

It’s not meant to answer your direct question, but pointing out what’s possible. Because yes, there are a lot of IoT and other devices that misbehave on a network.

And it’s incredibly trivial to port ban or port forward a selection of IPs and not affect the behavior of your Pi-hole. Packets carry last hop ip and source ip. I do it all the time on my gateway device.

DoH is a completely different story. Now you are talking about browser based DNS systems, apple private relay and other related 443 based solutions.
Then it's worth asking: surely no matter what your perspective is, it's possible to come up with intelligent and capable malefactors who'll further your power and that of your side?

No matter who you consider to be malefactors. Let's say we call ancaps malefactors, and we're talking about the reformation of society. Surely it's possible to find capable people who will set that in motion and lock it in so it can't be avoided? There must be so many people able to plan this out. You might be one of those people!

And yet, how come we're looking at a pile of nonsense people, hurling grenades and being catastrophically useless in their own rights, across the board?

Do you consider them incompetent, when the claim is they'll make everything great and you hope they'll serve your interests?

Or do you consider that they're doing exactly what they are meant to do, but they're meant to be saboteurs and the damage IS not only the point but the only real plan?

In that case, they might not even be in control of what they think they're intending, but they've been selected to do exactly what they're doing. Some of the bigger ones seem to be carrying on like Bond villains, presumably because they enjoy that, but even they are poised to do catastrophic damage to what they're supposed to 'rule'.

So do they even expect to rule anything, or are they simply trying to break everything before fleeing the ruins? They're not acting like they're trying to build power, it's something else. Even Trump's bluster is not really building power in any way, it's only undermining American hegemony at a staggering rate.

That might be the only purpose.
Title: Finite Capacity-Based System Manuals

Which you posted:

2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43087490

4 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43070507

6 days ago twice: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43052500 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43048365
Good it lets them do their job of rooting out waste and corruption. Why would they give the corrupt scum, that have been stealing from the country, their plans and tactics on weeding the rot out of the government?
What DOGE is doing has happened in China 10 years ago. Instead of “fighting corruption” they claim “government efficiency”, but the ultimate goal is to silence and destroy any opposition. Because bureaucracy is inherently universally corrupted, to some extent, and the US has tons of laws at the DOJ’s disposal. That is Xi’s playbook to solidify his power and I am afraid Trump may be using the same one. I certainly hope we won’t be going down that road but to be honest I am not bery optimistic.
Respectfully, this is not accurate. Zimbabwe's debts were not denominated in their own currency. You are repeating a claim which has been debunked for decades, and is based on a misunderstanding of how our monetary system works.
Computer Freaks: The untold history of how the internet almost didn't happen
Well, Python and Pascal were designed as a teaching language, and ended up being remarkably good for actual programming.
"Will continue to work with"

That's like saying bulletproof glass makers working with gun makers. How can you trust either when both are "working together?"

This comes across as some sites make Brave look bad, and they are calling them out for whatever reason.

--

Also of note - De Beers owns the diamond certification company, which is convinient because why not.
How does a Coral unit compare to a current gen AMD or Intel CPU in terms of throughput for ML tasks?
One thing to keep in mind that Federal Spending represented 23.4% of GDP in 2024. Around 12% of that is defense spending. I have yet to see any way these cuts do not result is massive decreases in GDP. Even if all of it is redirected to defense.
If you're training robots to interact with humans this is the kind of behavior you'd want. Humans use a ton of nonverbal hints like this to register context.
> So yeah; they are in favor of more state government in lieu of federal, even though they hate certain states’ policies.

They just nixed NYC’s congestion fee. They are gonna do plenty of meddling.
30 years into this career I'm still learning to code, just different things than the ones I have started with. And without a shadow of doubt, AI is a godsend for me. You can have it code up a well known algorithm you already know in a different language, or for a different platform (e.g. GPU), or vectorized, or without dynamic memory allocation (for embedded) - limitless variation. If something is not clear in a language in unfamiliar syntax, just cut and paste and have it explain the idioms like you're five. Unfamiliar library which you aren't even going to need again? Just have it write a canonical usage example and go from there, and then ask for advice on how to do what you want to do. Take output as a starting point. Endless array of tools, filling the exact gaps most of us have. My son is a CS student, and I'm telling him the exact same thing as I just wrote - if you use this stuff _and_ your brain at the same time, it's a tremendous force multiplier and an absolutely unrivaled educational aid.
AMA? How about, why do you have a fake moon in your backyard?
You don't think there's any segmentation going on?
I don’t know what’s more “wtf” - your first message or the actual follow-up with proof. Why?
In the same way that there is not a neat line where land meets sea, yet any reasonable person can distinguish the difference between the two and understand that they are not the same.
> He said he was going to do huge, groundbreaking things and actually delivered on them?

How many huge, groundbreaking things that he promised has he _not_ delivered on?

And how many of those groundbreaking things have been accomplished by abusing people -- employees, customers, or even rescue divers?
Definitely! Although I'd be lieing if I said I haven't used pickle for a few models even relatively recently when safetensors wasn't convenient
It's hard for me to imagine that the software built around this isn't just going to start crashing with enough of these changes. You've given a handful of (generously) junior engineers access to decade+ old software and they've just started changing things willy nilly. There will be downstream effects of this that software stops they're putting in place just stop working.

I wouldn't be surprised if someone changes this accidentally in a way that a limit like this is by-passable with minimal effort in the coming weeks (if not already).
>That's... not how things work in general.

Most ISP I have seen implement it like this. A large chunk of those "most" also require you to bind a phone number to each separate hwaddr appearing in the network via SMS. (Not all though.)

Those few that implement it differently, do the following:

They serve ULAs to the customers over slaac, and nat6 all the ULAs to a single ipv6 assigned to the router (actually a wifi hotspot).

I totally believe that where you live things are done differently, but this is exactly why ipv6 critics call it defective. It allows too large a variety in implementations.
Ara Agui Nakajima DCT compression algorithm
I enjoy both low and high density living.

The argument in favour of density is that if you increase density, then you also decrease the average distance that people have to travel until they get somewhere interesting, like a job or a shop.

Vehicle-delivered utilities like garbage collection, package deliveries, and mass transit get more efficient, and the same goes for tunnel-delivered utilities like fiber internet and water.

San Francisco is economically one of the world's most impactful cities; it'd be good for all of us if there was more of it. You get all sorts of interesting multiplier effects when you put lots of a certain kind of person in one place.

- all the theater kids in one town: LA

- all the bankers: NYC, London

- all the computer people: SF
Indeed, VC culture (esp. for the fabled "unicorn" wannabes) is DOGE culture.

It might rarely be admitted openly, but it sometimes is alluded to... e.g. Eric Schmidt's Stanford talk where he said:

"I want to say that if your product becomes popular, you can hire a bunch of lawyers to sort everything out. If no one uses your product, don’t worry -- no one will care that you stole someone else’s content."
Our great computers fill our hollow halls.
Just train them with Australians, problem solved.
> I'm pretty sure NULLABLE is default for int in PostgresSQL

It's not the default...
“Hmm, who else should we demoralise? Let’s go for the Mexicans!”
You’re the one arguing in bad faith. This administration is the most protective of the core functions of government of any GOP administration in decades. Bush wanted to privatize social security. Trump took that off the table.

You’re acting like DOGE is about turning the U.S. into some libertarian paradise. But look at what they’re actually focused on. Foreign aid is completely optional, but PEPFAR (an effective foreign aid program) promptly got a waiver. What’s been targeted for cuts? Stuff that detracts from the core mission, such as meddling with elections in India. The federal government is full of this shit—and full of people who care about distractions rather than the core mission.

I’m no libertarian, just a citizen who lived in Baltimore and rode Amtrak and has been to functional countries like Germany and Japan. I like government. But our government sucks at governance. And I’m fine with someone taking an axe to all the distractions so government can refocus on maintaining order and providing fundamental services.
You're thinking of this in a very strongly technical way that comes across as so callous and is tough to even read from a human perspective.

> Sure, but if you wait ~5 seconds when trying to conceive a child then that first potential person won't exist and a different one will instead

You could literally say the same about anything. If I left the house 3 nanoseconds earlier on the 15th June 1994 then Covid might never have happened. What's the point here? That literally every entity is expendable because we could have been conceived with a different sperm?

> As a fetus ages its expectation of existing in the future increases over time but never to the extent that its' mother expects to exist, so expected utility of mothers exceeds fetuses in every scenario.

From a purely technical perspective not really. A fetus age 8 months has probably a 95% chance of living to 75 more years. A mother age 35 probably only has a 95% chance to reach 45 more years so the baby is kinda more valuable here if you like using cold calculations to value human life.

Having said this, if there were genuine threat to my wife's life, of course I would save her, even on the brink of birth.

> a slave class to exist whose sole or primary purpose is reproduction

Nobody is saying this. If a woman gets pregnant and she didn't want it to happen, that sucks. It really does. But this is the biology they were born with and as human beings we know that sex can cause babies. If I love committing insurance fraud then surely I should accept the risk of doing so right? (given that my participation in said fraud was consensual)
Sorry not right now :(
Yes, he threw money to build up teams to solve hard problems. According to this Wikipedia article he was a co-chair of OpenAI when it was founded in 2015: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI#:~:text=A%20total%20of%... I'm open to being wrong on that though.
that's super fun! what kind of jobs do you run on it?
Interesting. Let's how the market will react. Yesterday I read this comment by @kasey_junk:

>He’ll get to the Fed. But it won’t be overnight. The administration will start messaging it and choreographing the change long enough before so it won’t spook Wall Street. [0]

It feels sooner than expected tbqh.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43101200
I tried Element X but it failed to authenticate with no suitable explanation for me because it's lacking SAML support.

Edit: it's also lacking threads still, apparently?
Convince an AI not to end humanity in 10 messages or fewer
I find your answer most interesting yet, especially about Article II.

Apparently the president can appoint temporary advisors that does not need approval from congress. If Mr Musk qualifies for such appointment I guess is that something for the courts to decide. I guess that implies that the audit itself is time framed.
Slavery was never actually banned. The 13th Amendment leaves a Death Star sized loophole.

> Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/20/business/elon-musk-wealth-gov...

Waste and inefficiency
Is that really the hard part? I figured that part out before I knew much programming: made a simple Excel type formula parser. (A horrible, horrible solution based around replacing strings and manually counting parentheses... but it worked!)

I never got much farther than that though, I've looked into making a compiler many times and got overwhelmed every time.
Ad blockers are just the embodiment of the internet’s social convention: send whatever bits you want, and I’ll render them however I want. If somebody wants to sent me ads, I prefer not to render them. But they don’t burn my eyeballs out.

They are more like a picket fence, than a fortification with barbed wire and all that.

If a site is really persistent about circumventing my adblocker, they are basically hostile to me and I should just leave.
What are Harvard's coffers up to these days? Over 2bn? IIRC that's free and clear.
what do you mean, the LLM abstracting things for us while we speak to it?
The Civil War settled that the feds could rule over the explicitly authorized powers of the federal government. In the 30s the feds reneged and decided blatantly unconstitutional stuff like the (later passed) Civil rights act could hold if they just call everything interstate commerce.

When the US falls apart this will be a likely central focus .
Same here. These are the shapes and fill patterns of the edition by Ravensburger, which is the one usually found in Europe.
Just flag and move on.
Yea it has been out for years. I bought one and during the Covid supply chain crisis I sold it for $450 ish.
NPV of deferred payment being less than the equivalent payment is not sufficient to demonstrate savings. 1) you must know the market clearing rate of the up front payment. 2) This sidesteps the difference in payer.

$100 today and $100 is cheaper than $200 today, but not if the alternative is $101 today. Similarly, you might not agree is a good deal if I offer $100 today instead of $200 and leave you the $100 debt. Beneficiaries are not the same as the debt holders.

Lastly, deferred payment is a good deal if I invest the present savings. If I dont, the NPV calculation benefit calculation isn't applicable.
This reminds me of the husband-wife duo of Patrick and Radhia Cousot, who together created Abstract Interpretation [1]. Useful technique, learned about it in my formal verification class.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_interpretation
Yeah I believe that's what they all do
> But still not sure why Element X isn't featured more prominently on matrix.org then.

That looks to be a snafu. It’s featured on
https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/ for instance.

> And surprised to hear Dendrite is now just experimental and not the future anymore. The README and FAQ on GitHub give no indication of that at all, maybe start there?

Yup, the readme needs to be updated and that’s with me.
It's kinda eerie how they look at each other after handover
Exactly. This is all about power grab without going through a proper due process. The government is shitty and inefficient but DOGE is not the way to fix it.
> Because he built a massive electric car company, launched a new global satellite internet service with micro-satellites, and successfully launched reusable heavy rockets?

That's a non-sequitur.

> Elon is clearly capable but I get it, people disagree with his politics so they pretend he not credible at all?

Exactly wrong, and I'd turn that around and say that people tolerate his nonsense because they agree with his politics, and defend him beyond reason.

All I'm saying is people should be judged on what they say and do and the relationship between the two. They shouldn't be excused from lying, abuse and dissembling just because they're successful in business.
Yeah...it's so close to other beautiful nature. not to mention two world class university near by.
Too late. You think DOGE is going to go back in and uninstall whatever hooks they put into the system? Nobody would even be able to verify that.
A big part of what the government does is provide stability. It's supposed to be slow an inefficient. It provides a lot of jobs to people who are otherwise unemployable.

If we aim for 100% efficiency we end up with massive unemployment, because a lot of jobs and businesses are just not necessary. We all just got to experience that first hand, as when COVID hit something like 1/3rd of people either stop worked or worked massive reduced hours and the truth of the matter is the world kept spinning JUST FINE, save for a some inconveniences.

The more efficient things becomes, the more another mechanism is needed to control people, so you are going to eventually have to bring back some kind of formal class system or slavery.
If you really wanted to know, most of the tests for Brave's adblock engine are at https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust/tree/master/tests

Those are automated unit and integration tests with controlled filter data as inputs. That's the only practically useful kind of test for an adblocker.
Accurately observed, but I think they're foolish and are only being used by a particular nation-state with a grudge against the US. Their alliances are pretty obvious, but an empire trying to reclaim its empire does not keep its promises to tech barons.

The Project 2025 people are probably sincere, but wildly impractical. Their impracticality has been indulged by a global adversary which simply intends to destroy the United States on every possible level. There's no reason the tech barons will be given mini states. Why would that happen?
Better to Escape Room for AI Hackers: Win $10K by Jailbreaking LLM? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43107178
sidentoe: If you wanna live out a super dense dream/experience on the cheap, go spend 6 months in Seoul, I lived in Manhattan for 10+ years and still found Seoul pretty intense.
https://folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html
> Surely, there are so many employees in general that probationary employees aren't needed.

I did read somewhere - and I may be incorrect - but a lot of internal employees are put on 'probation' after internal promotions, and not all probationary staff are like new hires.
Series of posts by former Department of Labor economist and professor starts with:

https://bsky.app/profile/jrothst.bsky.social/post/3liin7up3c...
It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.

Higher unemployment leads to lower consumer spending - the USA economy is built on consumer spending.
What's the cost of living and healthcare like?
I think the latest drama where they won’t commit to taking memory safety seriously; https://thenewstack.io/c-committee-divided-on-memory-safety-...
My last name is a popular Irish name with an apostrophe in it. I have tons of issues with my name in forms. I'm basically a walking SQL injection detector.

But also I've started to drop the apostrophe in most of my online profiles and things. So I think we're starting to see the end of apostrophes in people's names, thanks to some fun oddities of the internet and common database technologies.
This seems unclear. For example, the Department of Transportation just told NY they have to shut down the new (and apparently relatively successful) congestion pricing [1] in NYC. (As with some other things being torn down by the administration, apparently the rules say the government cannot do this.)

So it appears, at least, that the administration doesn't actually respect states' rights and is looking to take over everything.

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/nyc-congestion-pricing-...
Probably not.

Programming is automated thinking, and people think about politics all the time.
Yeah, their vision is us living in burbclaves of New South Africa, Mr Lee's Hong Kong and Reverend Wayne's Pearly Gates and the bankrupt US Government with trillion dollar notes not to be used as toilet paper because it is illegal and clogs the plumbing.