skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What percent of your money comes from labor vs capital appreciation? Which is the hand that feeds you?

Below $1M NW, you are probably labor. Above $10M NW, you are probably capital. These thresholds come from asking the question "does a conservative estimation of the passive income from these assets replace a wage?" -- below $1M, no, above $10M, yes, feel free to adjust by playing with the assumptions or plugging in wacky edge cases. The point is that incentives determine so much about politics and the incentives of each individual tend to heavily favor one side or the other which tends to translate into politically relevant policy preferences that favor one side or the other.

The tax code is comically tilted in favor of capital. We should fix that. Unearned income shouldn't be taxed less than earned income, for a start. Also, if I can pay property tax on my house, mega-billionaires can pay property tax on their stock pile. But these are details, and focusing too much on details can be a distraction from the root issue: the tax code is comically tilted in favor of capital, and we should fix that.
Any matrix multiplication can be trivially unwrapped into a bunch of for loops with basic arithmetic. In fact, that is exactly what any GPU kernel ultimately does in some sense.

What differentiates a “traditional computer program” from a single matmul? How about a bunch of matmuls? How about a bunch of matmuls with some non-linear arithmetic thrown in between them? And if we are adding in sampling from a distribution but set temperature to zero and use random seeds so that it is fully deterministic?
Right wing media is popular. Right wing news is a niche. See the WSJ and National Review, now WaPo. Not much other news.
Why do you talk about these things like you "can't." You obviously can. You made the post. Losing karma is engagement with your post.

I would like to think the truly right-wing-- in it's best sense-- attitude would be an appreciation for the ability to openly voice these opinions and the ability for people to openly disagree with you. If you're getting downvoted by individuals for your criticism of a private opera house's policies, that's a win for personal liberties, not an indictment of them.

I don't mean to strawman, but it seems like you're advocating for the exact opposite of what you claim. You want an authority to step in and tell these people downvoting you that they can't have their opinions? You want your viewpoints to have a certain number of mandated agreements?
We didn’t miss that.
> Destruction to the built environment is an offense against society.

If someone crashes into a streetlight, is that an offense against society? Obviously not.

> 25 people were killed in the riots and there was $2 billion in property damage.

In the entire country? And is there a source for it?

Sorry about your fro-yo and coffee. The places I know have long forgotten the 'riots'.

> private sector people were not at risk.

People died. Does it not matter because they worked for the government? How about the democracy and government of people in the private sector? I think boiling it down to property is much too convenient.
My opinion is that "personal liberties and free markets" is effectively a safe refuge from having to directly confront the reality of what's happening right now.
I think microservices kind of break that wall with a herd of stampeding elephants being chased by even angrier bees.

If you're still using one database in 2025, even if you wouldn't touch microservices with a ten foot pole, then you've got some problems.

OLAP, KV, cache heirarchies, you aren't running a singular database, except maybe for a standalone app.
All while disclaiming all responsibility for all the low quality / dangerous / poisonous crap they facilitate sale of. Talk about having your cake and eating it too
Are you going to buy from BYD instead?
> Where does that definition come from, and where did Bezos embrace the definition and reject civil liberties?

Good question. This use of the term has become a popular dog whistle [0] in right-wing circles. It would take a bit of research to see how it was coined in its current form. They know that when you say "personal liberty," you really mean "my liberty is more important than your civil rights."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_whistle_(politics)
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Or even better, he should just come over to your place, crash in your garage and spend his days teaching you how to make a game, right?
Bezos didn't start the Washington Post. He used his insane wealth to steal an established institution. Same with Elon and Twitter. It is the unchecked power of insane wealth that is tearing this country apart.
25% tarrifs on Europe certainly isn't an example of free markets.
Congrats, I've seen a few people playing this lately :)
These are elements of genre, any taxonomy of human expression naturally escapes the ability to be concretely defined. You can no more give a succinct, definitive differentiation between prose and poetry than you can between Rock&Roll and Pop music, or between Modernist and Expressionist painting.

To wit, you'll find there's a large amount of literature about "prose poetry", the most well known form being free verse. The idea being to capture or express some elements of poetry outside merely rhyme and meter. Which elements? How many are required to be considered "real" poetry? I can no more define that than Justice Stewart could define pornography [1].

This obsession with strict taxonomy is itself a shibboleth of the juvenile. What value does strict differentiation provide, if one exists at all? It is a poem because I deign it to be so, and my friends understand what I mean when say this thing I have made is a poem and that thing I have made is a short story. There are a set of characteristics these labels may imply (and such implications make them useful), but none are required, some may even be mutually exclusive.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it
hey, thanks! will definitely implement some comparison / filtering function soon.
An effective way that usually increases accuracy is to use an ensemble of capable models that are trained independently (e.g., gemini, gpt-4o, qwen). If >x% of them have the same output, accept it, otherwise reject and manually review
I'm curious why a Tokamak rather than a spherical design; aren't they supposed to be more compact?
Best of luck!
Penetrating through walls is really bad in urban areas though.

I'd love it for our farm in the middle of nowhere.
Haha yeah this is cool but the days of watching Twitch Plays Pokemon or RNG Plays Pokemon or things like that were much more entertaining
what do you mean by democracy here and what's the effect you think moderation of the opinion section will have?

the writers will be better off on substack, and the owners have a newspaper where they publish the opinions they like. news remains unchanged.

the name "Washington Post" to historians is of a newspaper that spent decades advancing racism. it didn't serve more balanced news journalism until nearly 100 years after it was founded. this is not some fine and well storied institution.

their tag line of "Democracy Dies in Darkness" is from the first Trump era and is a call back to watergate era investigative reporting. it has nothing to do with opinion articles.
> My opinion is that "personal liberties and free markets" effectively steers the Post away from engaging with issues of immediate concern.

Why? I'd say those issues are of immediate concern to many, especially insofar as they are used as euphemisms to describe the goals of the American political right.
> What's wild to me is that Gen Z and Gen Alpha are basically computer illiterate by and large.

That's something I've realized as well. There was a time where typing was something more and more people could do, but now nobody cares/needs to learn how. The number of households that had at least one computer was something I thought would get to pretty much everyone, but now there are more and more people with the only compute device being their phone. Owning a computer seems to be an age indicator like wearing tube socks.
Well I agree, and I myself supplement with D3; however the mainstream advice is to avoid sun exposure, for example:

https://www.skincancer.org/skin-cancer-prevention/

Clearly more research is needed.
Bah. This is like saying "I support the idea of DOGE but am opposed to their methods".

The motivation for DOGE is not efficiency. It is destruction of the federal civil service and destruction of oversight for Musk's business empire.

I don't believe Bezos' motivation is honest. For God's sake, he is saying "I will silence opinions that do not align with my own; I am narrowing the intellectual capacity of this organization".

It's also loaded. He doesn't give examples of opinion pieces or a trend of speaking against free markets (so-called) or personal liberties.

It is now the personal opinion section of Jeff Bezos. Look what money can buy.
Are you talking about US race politics? Do you feel this has not been discussed enough yet?
We had someone request a wiki on wiki.gg for Ballionaire, and it's at https://ballionaire.wiki.gg/wiki/Ballionaire_Wiki. Assuming you have structured data easily accessible, you can pretty easily use the MediaWiki API to create some automated pages for each of the items and any other entities that should have pages. Example repo: https://github.com/RheingoldRiver/sorcerer-update That repo is assuming that some "infobox" templates already exist, which you can find documentation about here: https://support.wiki.gg/wiki/DRUID_infoboxes or feel free to email me (address in bio) if you'd want to create the pages assuming that the infobox template already exists and have me make said template for you!
MSRs can melt down, but the steps to get there are rarer. Also the number of things that can go wrong and release radioactivity might be higher than LWRs.
naysayer here, but best of luck anyway

it's definitely a good choice to target a niche market, but imho (DT) fusion will never be competitive on earth unless theres a breakthrough in cold fusion, muon fusion, etc

the right niche is probably spaceships

fusion is still worth pursuing; i always judge these efforts by their scientific output rather than their chances of reaching commercially viable fusion (zero)
For people who get the flu? I thought that was just for mental health problems.
I am playing it on the linux desktop. It's super nice.

I'm also curious about the changes required between linux and windows, is it quite a bit? Or is that just abstracted mostly by the framework?
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7934974/

Hanson, Alison. "Spontaneous electrical low-frequency oscillations: a possible role in Hydra and all living systems." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 376.1820 (2021): 20190763.

Discussion of some of it here with M. Levin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZPhqwrSC24
Many boundaries are in rivers.
Well I guess once the Bird Flu jumps to Humans, which due to Trump's and Musk's Stupidity will happen, and next years flu arrival we will have another yet another Trump Caused pandemic.
How do you define adaptation and learning? What about say, an autoscaler which is programmed to just track the the load for every hour over the last week, and use the average of the last 7 days at 8am to pre-emptively auto-scale? Is that learning and adapting?

Alternatively, neural networks are also just doing explicitly what they are designed to do… sure there is a larger computational graph with lots of operations, but it’s all deterministic… backprop is not really much different on a procedural level than the simple fitting algorithm that I outlined above, in as much as it is just a specific well-defined algorithm or sequence of steps designed to compute some parameters from data.
Nothing in the story suggests anything about editorial control.
You might be interested in sigstore[1], although I'm not sure if/how it can be used in an iOS app.

[1] https://www.sigstore.dev/
Just wanted to say that I appreciate you calling out the distinction between capitalism and free markets. Too often I see them confounded, even though it's pretty trivial to see that they're not the same.

Sometimes I think the confounding is intentional, as well.
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=civil+libertie...
What are people getting for scores anyway? Broke 8k just now. The abilities stack nicely.
Exactly. It allows him to speak in tongues while the right wing carries on with its agenda.

Oops, I edited my post while you were responding. I'll let your quote represent what I originally wrote, which I think was in the same spirit. Sorry about that.
I appreciate your balanced view. It reminds me of “I disagree with your opinion, but will defend your right to share it” (paraphrased)
How did you reach publishers? Did you have any previous contact/connection to get to them?
It's only the opinion section. It just seems like a pivot to a business paper, perhaps shifting to more competition with the WSJ.
>This makes me think that our formal [definitions] of "intelligence" […] and what we intuitively look out for, are really two different things.

Just two? You can name so many more terms in this concept cloud, e.g.: personhood, moral agency, consciousness, self-awareness, processing power, wit, autonomy, feeling-and-experiencing capacity, and so on… We don’t seem to agree on what’s separate from what, and yes, it would be useful.
To Bezos, "free markets" is a world where Amazon is free to monopolize however it wants without interference. It is one where people like Lina Khan are imprisoned or shot rather than placed in positions of power.

What consumers want is a competitive market with many choices that pushes down prices and forces companies to innovate. What Bezos wants is to crush everybody else.
> There are a much fewer number of countries that could take out a lunar facility and I don't think any could do it in a way that has any plausible deniability.

Sure, but if the goal is to get around copyright law, i think the usa would be very happy to do it. No plausable deniability needed.
> crows sitting in the trees

crows making noise are a surefire way to find out anything going on in the woods.

except once I found a silent crow, but a bluejay squawking - the crow was stealing from the bluejay's nest.
That's what you'd think, but actually violence mostly pushes things to the extreme and sinks the effort permanently. Nonviolent movements are often defeated by one side goading the other into losing control and doing something violent, at which point they immediately cede the moral high ground and lose the support of the masses. (The masses are mostly useless in pushing a movement forward, but are critical for a movement to succeed.)

Violence can work if you have the biggest club, but it's mostly ineffective at grassroots change.
It’s my hope that AI tools will be a help, here.

They already help me to write marketing copy (a weakness of mine), and have been helpful in solving bugs and researching the correct approaches to design.

I’ve been doing “soup to nuts” apps for a long time, but it can be tedious, so my scope is limited. I’m hoping that AI will help me to expand it.
I owned a G3 that was the last beige box Apple made before that clear plastic Fisher Price looking unit. I didn't mind the colorful iMacs. In my mind, the iMacs were fun things and the colors were okay, but the towers were meant to be serious computers and fun is just not allowed or something moronic. Those towers were just something I never cared for with no real reason. Oh, and the hockey puck mouse that came out around that time. Yuck
that's not creepy at all. why would that sound like a good idea that someone would want?
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It's a change we'd love to see taking place.

We are aware of tech teams that use our challenges instead of LeetCode style questions for interviewing. We run our interviews using this system. Candidates seem to enjoy the experience, and it's much harder to "fake".

There are two main challenges today:

* Interviewers themselves are used to the standard format — they have answers for, a way to benchmark, tools they're familiar with over years, etc.

* While much harder to "cheat" on these challenges (since there are so many touch-points), offering these as take-homes might be lengthy for some engineers.

If you were in our place, what would you try to do for increasing adoption (whether for hiring or learning)?
idk why ppl do this to themselves, likes?
for debate's sake, I'm genuinely curious, if there are "out of public view" drafting/editing how can it be hardened against building a meta-narrative by making sure the two opinion pieces aren't choreographed to make A or B look bad?
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On the scale of left|lean-left|center|lean-right|right, AllSides rates Washington Post as lean-left[0].

The Washington Post's last 10 US Presidential endorsements were all Democrats[1]: Biden in 2020, Clinton in 2016, Obama in 2012, Obama in 2008, Kerry in 2004, Gore in 2000, Clinton in 1996, Clinton in 1992, Dukakis in 1988, and Mondale in 1984.

[0]: https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart
[1]: https://ballotpedia.org/Endorsements_by_The_Washington_Post_...
Change is not inevitable in this lol. We all speak English here despite the fact that the language has many nits to pick. There's no inherent reason why C needs to be abandoned because some new thing came along and solves a few of the associated nits. C++ was never used for the Linux kernel despite the fact it solves many of C's problems and is far easier to integrate than Rust. Integration of Rust is a pet project that Linus and others have taken an interest in, not some absolutely groundbreaking or necessary change.
> chop

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> federal courthouse in Portland

What about it? Did it burn down? How many were injured?

> streamers for months were showing people looting

It's interesting that people criticize the professional news media, then believe whatever they see on social media.

> riots happened

I expect some did, depending on the definition of riot, but that's not 'nationwide rioting' and a call to use the military to suppress the great majority of peaceful protests.
> If someone crashes into a streetlight, is that an offense against society?

If you do it on purpose, yes.

> Sorry about your fro-yo and coffee. The places I know have long forgotten the 'riots'.

There’s tons of evidence that riots lead to long term depopulation of the neighborhoods where they happened.

> Does it not matter because they worked for the government?

Yes. This is America, not Europe: https://www.monticello.org/research-education/thomas-jeffers...
This is the general idea of the Tangle newsletter [1]. They pick a topic from the news and provide "What the Right is saying" and "What the Left is saying" about the topic.

[1] https://www.readtangle.com/
"Old" Minecraft Java mods were truly great: IndustrialCraft 2, ComputerCraft, Buildcraft, Tinkers' Construct...

The new generation of mods (e.g. Create) also have their charm, but they lost the simplicity - as did the game in general. And I am glad that's the case, wouldn't it be way worse if everything stayed the same?
That's interesting. I didn't know how it was being used.
Not that it was ever in question, but it's clear these cuts are not about "reducing waste" but "reducing regulatory burdens on large corporations who funded Trump's campaign".

The effects of this won't be felt immediately by the average American, leading some people to think "see, nothing happened!". But they will be felt.

Sad times.
A strict theoretical regex yes, but a lot of regex implementations in practice are not strict NFA/DFAs and may indeed be turing complete
That is chilling...
>we need to substantially raise taxes on the rich and reduce them for everyone else

The problem with these solutions is that the math doesn't add up.

Either there are too few rich people in reality, and even if you can collect 200 percent from them - it won't affect the overall picture (and in the end there will be even fewer of them, and you'll have to raise taxes for everyone).

Or, if we expand the category of rich - a poverty funnel is created, where taxes on the "rich" protect the "super-rich" from competition. What difference does it make that you have to pay 90% if all the money is yours, because no one will invest in competing with you, since success will bring them 10%, and failure will take everything?

Everywhere in the world, the rich pay less. Even in countries with formally progressive tax rates, there are a huge number of subsidies and programs that in the end of the day boil down to the fact that the effective tax rate for the rich is lower (even if this means simply reducing their competition so that they get more money and pay a "progressive" tax on it).

Because the problem is not inequality, the problem is poverty. And any measures that discourage production in the end of the day increase poverty. For this reason, any construction of socialism always ends in hunger. Because what difference does it make what just and fair distribution system you came up with if your production fell ten, a hundred or a thousand times because of such a system?
Arguably, Android is a systems software large chunks of which are written in Java.
Please refresh my memory as to when "oligarch Hillary" was owner, and held control of, a large media company or social media network.
I’m still not sure what you mean. Do you mean that Bezos’ definition of Liberty aligns with the pledge of allegiance?
It's literally not 5x the cost, it would take me 3 minutes to whip up a tokio example. I've done both. I like C# too, I totally understand why you like it so much. This is not a C# vs Rust argument for me. All I'm saying is that Rust is a productive language.
"I backed the trailer part way up the driveway. I hope that's ok, sir."

"You'll want to feed him some oats unless you're ready to butcher him in the next two hours."
Because we lack an infinite tape and infinite time, not everything that is Turing complete can run DOOM
Not quite the same guarantees.
>Eliminating birthright citizenship would permanently reshape the electorate and weaken U.S. democracy. Importing one of Europe's most illiberal policies would result in a permanent underclass in the U.S., held back by respectability politics and the shifting goalposts of integration.

Is that not the goal of the whole plan? The cruelty is the point.
how do you know the specification is correct? Its turtles all the way down here
It's not particularly controversial. Also, my definition of "competent" is correct.
Pro/Con op-eds is one name this goes by, and used to be incredibly common.
The establishment is the apparatus currently complaining loudest about its demise at the hands of DOGE: unelected government bureaucrats and all downstream beneficiaries of their policies from SEC-mandated DEI practitioners in private industry to bloated university administrative offices.

Quibble about "leftist" if you want; this is what the grandparent refers to. You can disagree with the narrative but if you fail to understand your opponent you can't ever hope to change their mind.
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I'm slightly suspicious that this comment was written by a bird.
I wonder if there isn't room for middle ground? By the time a kid born in the US and who has attended school there their whole life reaches ~13 years old, their identity as an American will be pretty strongly cemented for life. Perhaps this can be the point where they are automatically granted citizenship?

It won't impact their right to vote, which wouldn't be for a few more years anyway.

But then again, I have no idea what problem the US opponents of birthright citizenship are trying to solve.
Yes, it's called: Mortality - Death Clock - New Tab

It's a countdown timer of sorts ;)
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