skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(2024 - 3/4 year old) Since this article we've had:

The Loneliness Epidemic Is a Security Crisis (85 points, 73 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43049191

Surgeon General says loneliness is driving US into anxiety and pessimism (44 points, 95 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42330341

The myth of the loneliness epidemic (48 points, 56 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42238160

A lonely man in his 30s found welcome and community at spin class (140 points, 200 comments) A lonely man in his 30s found welcome and community at spin class

Loneliness can increase stroke risk by up to 56% (4 points, 2 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40818696

Loneliness trajectories are associated with midlife conspiracist worldviews (67 points, 90 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40795368

Better Sleep Lowers Loneliness (17 points, 3 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40529129
So an AI Mastra Class?
For me, where electricity is $0.45/kWh, assuming 1kW consumption, it would be around $80 USD/million!
NIH grant review (secretly) paused
Not planning on it — we think frameworks should be single-language
The article says they phish people into linking adversarial devices to their Signal:

> [...] threat actors have resorted to crafting malicious QR codes that, when scanned, will link a victim's account to an actor-controlled Signal instance. If successful, future messages will be delivered synchronously to both the victim and the threat actor in real-time, [...]
Understood. Here’s a more refined and articulate version:

"Can you provide this without the characteristic vagueness and padding of AI-generated text? I’d prefer something more precise, substantive, and thoughtfully constructed."

This keeps the directness while adding depth and clarity. Let me know if you'd like it even sharper.
>One definition of fascism is the merger of corporate and government power.

Literally DOGE
> This new administration lays bare what we've known all along - the legislative gridlock and dysfunction in the house of representatives and senate has made them completely incapable of governing -- the least productive in a generation.

Some articles which were written a few years ago, but were re-upped recently:

> In a presidential system, by contrast, the president and the congress are elected separately and yet must govern concurrently. If they disagree, they simply disagree. They can point fingers and wave poll results and stomp their feet and talk about “mandates,” but the fact remains that both parties to the dispute won office fair and square. As Linz wrote in his 1990 paper “The Perils of Presidentialism,”[1] when conflict breaks out in such a system, “there is no democratic principle on the basis of which it can be resolved, and the mechanisms the constitution might provide are likely to prove too complicated and aridly legalistic to be of much force in the eyes of the electorate.” That’s when the military comes out of the barracks, to resolve the conflict on the basis of something—nationalism, security, pure force—other than democracy.

* https://slate.com/business/2013/10/juan-linz-dies-yale-polit...

> Still, Linz offered several reasons why presidential systems are so prone to crisis. One particularly important one is the nature of the checks and balances system. Since both the president and the Congress are directly elected by the people, they can both claim to speak for the people. When they have a serious disagreement, according to Linz, “there is no democratic principle on the basis of which it can be resolved.” The constitution offers no help in these cases, he wrote: “the mechanisms the constitution might provide are likely to prove too complicated and aridly legalistic to be of much force in the eyes of the electorate.”

* https://archive.is/https://www.vox.com/2015/3/2/8120063/amer...

When it has come to presidential systems, the US has been the exception as most others with something the same have not worked out over the long term.
and yet

One in Four US Households Likely Exceed New Soil Lead Guidance Levels

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GH00...
Well, the response really sounded unnatural and llm-ey. If it's not then please take my apology.

I write SIMD kernels and the conclusion drawn in the article makes no sense regardless of the fact who wrote it. I don't doubt the observations made in experiments but the hypothesis that the SIMD is slowing down the code.

The actual answer is in the disassembly but unfortunately it wasn't shown.
Here is the Google Gemini summary of the text of the Executive Order: "This executive order aims to increase Presidential control over the executive branch, including independent regulatory agencies. It asserts that the Constitution vests executive power in the President, who is accountable to the people. The order argues that independent agencies have operated with too little Presidential oversight, undermining accountability. Therefore, the order mandates that all executive departments and agencies, including independent agencies (with specific exceptions for the Federal Reserve), submit proposed and final significant regulatory actions to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) for review. It also directs the Director of OMB to establish performance standards for agency heads, review agency obligations, and adjust apportionments to align with Presidential policies. Furthermore, it requires agency heads to consult with the Executive Office of the President, establish a White House Liaison position, and submit strategic plans to OMB for clearance. Finally, it clarifies that the President and Attorney General provide authoritative legal interpretations for the executive branch, binding all employees, and that no employee can advance a contrary interpretation without authorization. The order includes standard severability and general provisions, stating it doesn't create any enforceable rights and is subject to applicable law and appropriations."

Personally, it seems better to have elected oversight of such powerful (and expensive) organizations rather than non-elected oversight.
Specifically, the plutocratic class wants an employment recession. Disciplining labor, and getting to drop interest rates both increase their grasp on the world.
Discussion on the original source (234 points, 5 hours ago, 70 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43102284
"Appears"? Give us a story when there's some actual action more than a tweet from 6 weeks ago. This is like that NASA firing story yesterday that wasn't a story yet and ended up being "there's no firings". Not supporting Musk here but there's no story, yet.
>Instead of choosing not to reply, you chose to continue the discussion instead of being done with me as you said you preferred, just to make a bad faith accusation.

You do understand that you're also engaging with me, right?

And that every comment you've made for the last hour has been directed at me as a person?
Now compare it to 1st Gen SE.
Not calling Trump a nazi, but if there were a nazi in the presidential seat, he would disregard the fundamental checks and balances of the US government. He would call anybody different than him "vermin". He would install a bunch of billionaires to his cabinet.
Until I saw that video, I had no idea about the level of compatibility required to change over to a new fuel type. Since the lead-free fuel would need to be compatible with the plane you're putting it in (e.g. seals, pipes) as well as other fuels that it could be mixed with.
This seems like an extremely flawed methodology - it would seem that if you are being shown photos of mates, you can see the attractiveness with your eyes, whereas simply being told the less attractive ones are “more intelligent as reported by their peers” (what does this even mean?) is not as easily visible. Since the mechanism of choice is visual, of course people are going to respond mainly to visual cues. I bet the results of this study drastically change if the women themselves are allowed to interact with mate choices and rate intelligence by their own metrics. What a silly way to go about this.
I think it was definitely bad that Joe held on so long before letting Kamala run but incumbents lost globally[0], not just here in the US. People aren't happy with the effects COVID had, which is valid, but misplaced the blame which is how we got here.

[0]: https://apnews.com/article/global-elections-2024-incumbents-...
A criminal investigation certainly requires at least lies of omission.
Oh nice, did you write your own proxy or are you using something like https://www.npmjs.com/package/mcp-proxy ?
Realtime WebGPU favicon diffusors (45% faster than tensorflow.js)
Built a compact diffusion model (~11M parameters) in WebGPU that generates favicon images entirely in-browser. Some highlights:

- Runs 32 diffusion steps (350M params) in ~0.7 seconds
- 45% faster than TensorFlow.js implementation
- Optimized using custom kernels, tiling, and memory management
- Trained and distilled from 8k timesteps down to just 32

Demo: https://web-dit.vercel.app
Source: https://github.com/neelr/favicon-diffusion

Details on the kernel optimizations, training process, and browser-specific challenges in the blog post.
BadJoke LoveIt.

Similarly, 0day ABNF to identify probable NSA front companies:

[optional-firstname] <surname> [optional-adjective] <"systems">
Yeah, at this market tier 60Hz is a perfectly usable target.
My thinking has evolved on this topic significantly as of late. My current thinking is we should create a secure gossip network on top of the Bluesky API, and forgot about all the DAG-CBOR stuff that gets stripped from the Jetstream. Hash the posts on the gossip layer and if posts change then diff them. This is all prep for when X billionaire buys out Bluesky then we just pop some signing key crypto on top of this gossip layer and wow! It's distributed!
svelte <5 versions were sometimes hard, but they were, you know, pretty understandable.

rxjs/reactive like, stores subscriptions, ah that's nice.

But i was disappointed about svelte v5, because it changed paradigm. runes force you to change your mind and it is no more rxjs, it is class-based enterprise angular-js.
New version added a lot of new things, but they are not described well.

I also hate some things like your class fields that have state are undefined by design and you need to do cast or null-check every time. Also your getter can't return derived, it should be class field, meh.

Ah, also I HATE how they force SvelteKit. Guys, hello, I need just plain svelte, why do your starter template creates for me non-ssr sveltekit project? Do you really think that I'll choose this new sapper?

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But, svelte is the only non-runtime framework that is trending and has big community. Hope Rich will do better new versions :)
You seem to be fixated on something completely different than the question at hand.
Having stayed up until 4 AM to prepare reviews for a Thursday study section, only to have it cancelled Wednesday at noon, I am feeling very frustrated. Anonymous sources say that since early February the program officers are receiving instructions to pretend that meetings will take place until the afternoon before, but that so far there have been no waivers to allow them.

No grant review means either no grants funded OR (conveniently) the normal rigorous grant review system is bypassed.
It is also possible to communicate without using Meta services.
> otherwise you can just point to his absence and claim its only covering his add

… or trying to arrange to save positions at the last minute.

I’ve seen the other side of this before.

If he’s a shit leader, he’s just hiding.

If he’s a good leader, then he is firing off e-mails and banging down doors explaining how letting go of this position or that position (or department or whatever) will create irreparable harm.

And with this administration, he probably has the added task of trying to figure out which aspects of irreparable harm the administration wants and which ones they don’t want — an extreme exercise in doublethink.

Once you’re dealing with government leaders at this level, I would default to a charitable view until proven otherwise. They aren’t perfect for sure, but they trend towards being pretty damn good at their jobs.
Thanks for all the fun and I only pirated one game you were involved with!
If the idea is that "goon" work is work that exists to deal with people behaving in ways you don't like, those all involve some goon work.
Universal Potential is Godhead!

Either way you look at it.
What became of Blekko?
I dislike all the warts of React, all the rules that fail at runtime... If hooks and the rules of them would be enforced at compile time, it could be great.

I prefer solid
I've been following the HTML export thread, good to see some progress.

I've experimented with 'transpiling' to RST with Pandoc for purposes of digital documentation - but it's not quite there. Would love to see a flavour of Typst that could be viable for digital documentation with a decent live preview experience in VSCode.

I know this isn't the purpose of Typst, but one can hope. Would also welcome advice on this subject of decent authorship digital documentation - some of these frameworks are quite frankly massive, unweildy and painful to deal with.
I've written a lot of Lisp in my past. I'm used to reading Lisp. Still hate it. For example, everyone else has figured out that mathematical notation uses infix. Stock Lisp's inability to handle infix notation means most software developers will not consider using it seriously. Obviously not all will agree with me :-).
I don't think this shows anything because intelligence was given as a rating, while attractiveness was given as photo. Presenting attractiveness on a scale would make it more fair but only shows how a rating is not how we measure these things naturally. A video of the man doing something intelligent or stupid might be better. But like this, it just replicates prejudice.
Hardware Token Encryption
Ran into these guys with this cute way of encrypting data. It basically uses a steel bar with random notches machined onto them as the key.
Metaphysic, who de-aged Tom Hanks in 'Here,' acquired by DNEG's AI arm Brahma
Currency is zero sum, prosperity shouldn’t be.
Please call your representatives and senators. https://5calls.org/ offers some scripts if you're unsure of what to say.
The Dems were more afraid of the Israel lobby than they were of an actual Nazi movement seizing power over the country. Money has totally erased any semblance of morality from governance in the United States.
OK, but it has to be a US highway (or Interstate) for that to work, doesn't it? If the state built the road, the federal government doesn't get to yell "establishing post roads" and suddenly start dictating the rules.
Biology is a bad example when applied to a government.

Almost all change in biology happens to populations, not individuals. In order for that to apply to governments, we would need to have massive churn and rapid experimentation of government policies and structures. These are not conducive to voter feedback (eg. Democracy) and would be so disruptive to business and life as to make governments useless until they reached some steady state.

I remember hearing that Italy had 52 governments in 50 years. It’s suffering from all of the same problems as the rest of western countries, perhaps somewhat worse than average.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/23/301
Only math Elon understands is $$
Soldiers are not allowed to carry a cell phone.
The Gatsby team made a lot of promises upon which they didn't follow through. Not a great way to build confidence in your next big project.
The subjects got to see the photos first hand, but only got a written description of intelligence.

Next time flip it: Have the subjects interact over text as the proxy for intelligence, and give them a written description of attractiveness instead of a photo
Meh, you can always come up with reasonable competing hypotheses which is why you need to put it to the test.

If it turned out that intelligence outperformed attractiveness, then you could say that it isn't surprising since parental intelligence would keep their offspring alive longer than just being good looking in a challenging survival situation.
For reference topological phases of matter have been observed in other contexts since the mid-1980s. So "entirely new" here is misleading.
I don't think that's really right. E.g. what makes finding the Higgs boson difficult is that you need to build a really large collider, not coming up with the idea, which could be done 50 years earlier. Admittedly the Higgs boson is still a "complex idea", but the bottleneck still was the actual testing.
Republican Senators want this. It's not about statistics. They believe in this stupid Unitary Executive thing (aka, we should have a King).
I should point out that I review for a basic science (learning and memory) panel. So quite divergent from food or vaccines or what people might imagine as "woke" topics.
(Cost of)
Assuming they mean Solaris, it's still technically maintained, at least in the Oracle sense (of both "technically" and "maintained").
The models answer was a page long essay about why the question wasn’t worth asking. The model demonstrated common sense by not engaging with this idiot chase of a hypothetical.
The headline reads very oddly, and I was wondering how GPT4 got significantly less intelligent. It's that the cost of GPT4-level intelligence has dropped 1000x in 18 months
Gatsby never made sense to me. Weird design decisions I couldn’t find any plausible reason for. As soon as Next.js became capable of doing SSG I convinced my team to abandon Gatsby. Definitely a minus, sorry.
Anya from spy family x
Is human behaviour not predicable enough for you? I bet passengers are more likely to congregate on the side that the door enters/exits, etc
Yes it is, they actually use the signal protocol,[0] but they collect metadata which Signal supposedly doesn't (you can't really know)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_Protocol#:~:text=Severa...
For better or worse we're heading into a world with cameras everywhere. We can do better than 1:10.
>You do understand that you're also engaging with me, right?

The difference is I said upfront that I would continue to reply to messages as I see them, as where you just said you wanted to be done yet keep making the effort to engage - even if it's just to make a bad faith accusation.

Edit: And interestingly as your below comment shows, you are manually refreshing to monitor replies which is an extra level of dedication.

> And that every comment you've made for the last hour has been directed at me as a person?

So? I keep getting notifications that you've replied, and I am not engaging in any other discussions so far.
For now, yes :)

Since we operate at the TCP level, we can actually handle pretty much any protocol. I have an implementation of a postgres handler in my git stash that intercepts and shows the SQL queries executed + the resulting rows alongside the HTTP request that triggered it (I still need to do some robustness and correctness testing before it's ready to merge). With a handful of other protocols like MySQL, Mongo, Redis, Kafka, or even FTP lol, I think Subtrace can cover most practical dev workloads.

Btw Subtrace can already record .pcap files today since it's just a simple TCP stream proxy, but raw network packet captures are mostly only useful when you're implementing new protocols, which 99% of the people using Docker containers today aren't doing. It's also a solved problem because you can just run `apt-get install tcpdump` inside the container.

Automatic tracing for app-level protocols that is easy to setup, works everywhere, lightweight for prod, fast to search, and can show the data in a clean interface is still insanely difficult today. That's the problem Subtrace is trying to solve.
You have to assume that anyone wearing these things is filming you. It's creepy. People who use them are creepy.
Come for the made-up jargon, stay for the horrific PR abuse of the English language like "Unlocking quantum’s promise"
Are there any plans to add automatic retries for individual steps (with configurable max attempts and backoff strategy)?
Engineers turn the body's goo into new glue
Also signals spam folder isn't open source on server side. They literally have code that reads your messages and checks if spam or not and you cant see what it does or how it's written.

Couple this with signal being the preferred messaging app for 5 eyes countries as advised by their 3 letter agencies and well if you think those agencies are going to be advising a comms form they can't track, trace or read you obviously don't understand what they do.
If you like radix trees, you may also find this article interesting and useful: https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2017-ipv4-route-lookup-lin...
What books would you recommend, that proof that connection?

"Privacy is a precondition to democracy"
So what you're saying is "If you want to make an omelette, you've gotta break some eggs"?
Maybe it's a growth hacking trick?
Intelligence is likely difficult to assess during most of our evolutionary timeline. There weren't signals like attending Harvard. So physical attractiveness, providing reasonable value in health/strength/etc..., has likely evolved to be how we generate attraction.

This makes sense, although what is interesting is that what is physically attractive does change quickly. For example, chest hair as recently as the 70s was considered attractive and now less so. But how did something that seems as intrinsic as physical attractiveness could change in a generation (and so drastically).
Determinate is now directly compatible with Nix-Darwin
Weak study. You show photos where attractiveness is obvious. When you talk with people intelligence is obvious. Likely in a real meeting things could go differently.
> Wait how is this debatable. We saw wealth inequality explode in ‘20 ‘21 ‘22 and ‘23 as the wealthiest Americans navigated rapid inflation

What "rapid inflation"? Inflation was right around the historical average for 2020, 2021, 2023, and 2024. The only outlier was 2022 with 8% inflation, but that's still far from "rapid" historically speaking: https://www.minneapolisfed.org/about-us/monetary-policy/infl...
I've noticed this with my young cousins. Has to be the tangibility. Like sure Daddy's cell phone is easier to use - I can tap Mommy's face and start a video call - but the landline is Big and Noisy and has Moving Parts just like my toys. And I don't have to ask permission to use it. I can see the appeal.

Fwiw they feel the same way about digital cameras and ipods - touchscreens are "simple" but nothing beats a single-purpose tool for playing around with.
Not the parent, but broadly agree that a change to apportionment would heavily change the US for the better. I don't think it would be a single fix for the country, but I think it would greatly help quite a few of the issues.

Originally there were about 35k constituents/rep. Today it's an average of ~750k constituents/rep, with some districts at over a million.

This is because of the Apportionment Act of 1929 capped the number of reps. If we had the same constituent/rep ratio, we'd have ~10k reps total.

If instead we went back to the constituent/rep ratio that existed originally, a lot of our structural problems go away, via a mechanism that's accessible via US code rather than a change to the constitution.

For instance, the electoral college is based on federal representation. If you expand the house by ~50x, that dominates the electoral college by nearly two orders of magnitude, and creates a very close to popular election.

It's also much much harder to gerrymander on that scale.

That scale would also have a return to a more personal form of politics, where people actually have a real chance to meet with their reps (and the candidates) face to face.

It also feels that by having a much larger, more diffuse legislative body, we'd better approximate truly democratic processes in a representative democratic model.
Highly likely...