skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not against immigration, neither as a stop-gap measure nor in general. I believe limited immigration can even be beneficial, even with regards to cultural aspects. I also do not believe that cultures are static but rather living and evolving. And I also believe that input from foreign cultures can also improve local cultures.

But I also do not believe that we should give up on birthrates and just resign to let our cultures fade away to be completely replaced in short order by completely foreign cultures. I also do not believe that a planet Earth with one global monoculture would be as resilient as the one we have today. I also would NOT want the whole world to share the same cultural aspects that I embrace.
works fine on firefox on a 10 year old thinkpad. considering someone is also reporting issues on iphone, might want to file a bug report with apple.
Source seems dead. Is there a mirror?
To extract thermal energy you need a temperature difference. The way to do it for ocean thermal is with OTEC, which pumps cold water from deep down up to a large heat exchanger at the surface. It's usable for stationary power but I don't think it'd work for a ship, it's bulky and would add a lot of drag. Plus it mainly works in tropical regions.
I set time on my phone by voice (which is the only thing I use Siri for), because it's way quicker to say "5 minutes" than to try to set it through the app even with shortcut. But I have a kitchen timer (big, fat buttons and big digits) which I prefer to use in the kitchen because it's distinctly loud. My homepods are mostly for music.
You're right that this isn't fascism right now, but we are definitely facing fascism right now. Whether it'll degenerate into it in a proper way absolutely relies on enough people taking it in their behinds without fighting back.
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The second half of this comment reaches the opposite conclusion to what I would have expected from the first half.
What makes you think so? The Rust compiler is able to instrument LLVM a lot better and provide it with a lot more info than C++ can. The borrow checker does a lot of the work there to for example keep things on the stack or do LSE or GSE and other optimizations. It isn't just about "oh, the rewrite allowed them to restructure things and optimize the algos". It is also that Rust due to its nature is able to be absolutely damn fucking sure that it can remove or optimize certain parts, whereas C++ can't in many cases.
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Maybe, I've heard statisticians say that 30 samples the mean is pretty much unlikely to change, but that's not the issue here, but that what we are measuring goes beyond food quality and gets skewed towards experiences
Meta fixes error that flooded Instagram Reels with violent videos
Quite the self-report there.
You're right, there seems to be iron rich deep sea currents in some places that could be good opportunities for upwelling, especially if you had a carbon neutral way to do it.

There is also emerging technology for nitrogen fixing that could work - Electrocatalytic Nitrogen Reduction.

All this being said, if the goal is carbon sequestration building a viable business is going to be next to impossible.

The easiest way would be to use your renewable energy to pull bicarbonate out of the ocean directly with electrolysis, reverse-osmosis, whatever magic tech the wizards in MIT are cooking up.

Only then you've got the problem of what to do with it all once you've got it on hand.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36992-1
It's quite amazing how every thread related to "public transport" systematically ends up being "the rest of the world" trying to explain to Americans that they may want to get slightly informed about the rest of the world before they say "public transports cannot work anywhere, because in the US they don't work".

Sure, US cities have mostly (1) been designed as far away from anything that is not the individual car as possible, and now it's very difficult to come back. But at least Americans could pretend they are aware of the fact that cities can be built in such a way that public transports actually work.

(1) Because there are cities, like NYC, where it actually works!
Being a good father/husband requires a lot more than putting food on the table.
Do you have any idea of the breakdown? Because everything I've see is that no one knows, and the limited government publications are full of bullshit.

Like, if a project studying biodiversity is cut, is that because it is "related to DEI initiatives" because it shared the word "diversity"?

How many of the laid-off VA staff were DEI? The laid-off forest rangers?

How much of USAID was DEI? The Trump administration says the cut was due to wasteful spending and fraud, not DEI.

How do the cuts in DEI initiatives compare to the massive cuts to indirect grant monies?

If the Republicans believe spending should be more controlled by the states, they have a majority and can, you know, change the law. We have a representative democracy to help balance national interests, rather than the interests of a king.

I don't think we can regard threats to annex Greenland, Canada, or the Panama Canal as part of an isolationist policy. Such threats are more closely aligned with expansionism. An isolationist government would not be involved in international negotiations involving Ukraine, or providing support to Israel, to start.

FWIW, DEI is no more steeped in Marxist philosophy than the Freedman's Bureau, public libraries, or the FDIC. As far as I can tell, "Marxism" when used this way is a boogieman term used to scare off any critique of capitalism or its effects, little different than how Republicans sneered that Dukakis was an "L word", castigating the word "liberal." Both terms are used as rhetorical propaganda.

Given the influence Marx had on studying "class relations, social conflict, and social transformation" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism), it's all too easy to say that any study of those topics must be Marxism, and therefore fomenting a communist revolution.
Exactly. I wish all languages implemented things like this, a bit more strictness (such as requiring all possible match cases to be handled across a set of inputs) goes a long way
A few years ago there was another AI that tried to beat Pokemon. It wasn't a LLM. I think it was an LSTM trained with reinforcement learning. It got stuck in Mt Moon.

Right now, Claude has been stuck in Mt Moon for nearly a day. It keeps forgetting where it has been. It also almost always runs from battles instead of changing Pokemon or fighting.

At one point it got stuck in a Pokemon center when it mistook the character's red hat for the red carpet around the exit. It kept pressing down and wondering why it wasn't working. It only broke out of that when it mistakenly concluded it had successfully exited the Pokemon center. Then it wandered around a bit and only realized it was still in the Pokemon center after talking to Nurse Joy.
The New Yorker has always done long-form journalism and profiles about a variety of subjects, with no regard to a geographic connection to NYC.

It's not a magazine about a city. The first few pages DO remain "Goings On About Town," but that's a fraction of the page count.

I have the February 10th issue on my desk right now, actually. The long articles in this one are:

- A discussion of an unusual development in a high-rise condo

- A long article by MacArthur winning music critic Alex Ross (ie, not the comics artist of the same name) on Alma Mahler-Werfel

- A piece on the struggle of the US Military to keep recruiting up ahead of ordinary depletion

- An article on the pursuit of an artificial blood substitute

Incidentally, if you're interested in modern classical music at all, Ross' book THE REST IS NOISE is pretty great.
Only noteworthy if it was done using or now features a LLM :D
A lone multibillionaire in a society of impoverished people has a deeply boring and dangerous life.

This is why, among other things, our multibillionaire are buying their way into the highest levels of government and media distribution. In their boredom, they are playing kings and manufacturing consent.
It seems unlikely that it is inhaled, especially its burned form, when used as "mood stabilizer and antidepressant"
The cost of employees in the Federal gov is less than 5% of the total Federal budget. There are already agencies with oversight of spending and Congress sets the budget usually in the fall timeframe but it varies per department/agency.

Firing/laying off non-political appointee federal employees, aka civil service employees, will do nearly nothing to save money. The Federal government isn't a software company where one of the most expensive things is the cost of people.

If the budget is about $6,000B per year, 5% of that is $300B and if the target is laying off 10%, you are talking $30B. It sounds like a lot of money to a person but that means your federal budget is now $5,970B.

Basic budgeting concepts - if you wanted to save a lot of money you wouldn't be looking at something which only accounts for 5% of your budget. It would be like if your personal debt keeps increasing each year and you have a $800/mo car payment, $4000/mo mortgage, etc. and think eliminating 1 coffee run per week will save you.
Can DOGE fire itself for being freaky?
If the dead internet theory wasn't true already,
it's getting there fast.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory
The original one (bourne) had a great number of limitations and yet as part of a standard it didn't see much change.

Everyone wanted something better and each person had an idea of what better was.

bash became quite common because it's a superset and its' offered by GNU whose other tools made up for many other deficiencies in the various commercial UNIX implementations.

Then FreeBSD and Linux made GNU stuff the default and that was a big boost.

I tried fish couldn't really be bothered to persevere. A lot of the things I didn't like about bash were because I hadn't understood various bits and the more I know the more I find it fairly powerful and it has a kind of consistency. I don't love it but I found myself suddenly disempowered with things like fish.
just like many open-source projects (primarily maintained by a company) turning their projects non-commercial, a la redhat, terraform
Imediatelly reminded of the anonymous quote: "I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do laundry and dishes."

I understand it's a bad argument because 1) people may need assistance to do art/writing and 2) the advancements gained from teaching AI to do art can be applied to other non-artistic endeavors (e.g. piano AI could be really good to operate machines with lots of buttons and no computerized interface).

However, the cost cutting side of the argument is the one that bothers me because companies/people WILL use AI like that in place of actual humans because they're likely to be cheaper in the future. So that pianist or musician playing in a local restaurant can be sure their job will be automated away by a subpar AI and real humans will be relegated to very expensive locations (an extension of replacing humans with recorded music, in a way).

My pessismist side thinks greed will be the downfall of humanity.
It sounds so more reasonable to have a director who is actually technical, doesn't it? I'm absolutely amazed how this (to the east) contrasts to understanding (to the west) that directors rather need to know finance, strategic planning, and marketing, than the actual nuance of the work.
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The assumption I started my last comment with is extremely important. I'm assuming we are referring to "the flu" as the disease not the influenza virus itself.

Disease is just a named collection of symptoms, that it. A vaccine absolutely can cause those symptoms, and when they occur together it would meet the definition of the disease. That obviously doesn't mean the vaccine caused an influence infection.

Few disease definitions actually take into account severity of symptoms. There are some examples where we have two named diseases where one is distinguished only by being more severe, but unless I'm missing something the flu doesn't fit into that category.
Java version can be played in VR as well, using Vivecraft. My personal experience has been pretty good.
Yeah, it's kind of a lost idea now, but through the 80s and 90s the absolute best places to get a story published were, in no particular order:

* The New Yorker
* Harper's
* The Atlantic
* and, believe it or not, Playboy

In re: the latter, see https://ew.com/books/playboy-hugh-hefner-famous-authors/
It's easy to understand, though? Daily outrage and vilification porn. Highly addictive stuff, and people will equivocate and believe the most preposterous things you've ever heard in order to keep the outrage righteous and their pornographer of choice credible.
The "millions of colors" was a part of a lawsuit by some photographers who found out it wasn't actually millions.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/08/03/26/apple_settles_mil...
Anecdote time: I did a test like this with a small hobby project of mine (c++). I ported it to rust and saw roughly a 25% speed increase because of some refactorings I was meaning to do for a long time. I then ported the rust code back to c++ and saw another 15% gain in performance. Backporting the changes to rust again yielded no significant difference.

I am no rust programmer though, and I don't think the rust code was very idiomatic.

But then again I apparently write c++ like a common lisp programmer...
The DoD wants in on that deal. I suspect the full-court PR press Microsoft is engaging in is, at least in part, designed to get a DARPA contract for their approach to quantum computing. It's also a potentially useful distraction in case the AI bubble pops.
Funny I still don't have CAPTCHA problems affecting my web crawling projects but try browsing anything with Android/Chrome and I get harassed by them all the time. Is it the new green bubble?
I acknowledge your point that politicians of all stripes (Clinton, some Kennedys, Gingrich, Trump, Larry Craig, Eric Massa as examples) flout sexual mores. I think the difference here is that conservative politicians in the past have used a "character matters" stance to do things like impeach Bill Clinton. Did you know Brett Kavanaugh was deeply involved on the Republican side?

I agree we should be honest about politician's warts, and I'll even go so far as to say that some things go too far, and should be impeachable.
Why the scare quotes around drywall? It's just gypsum board. If you have plastered walls it's the same thing. But it needs far less skill to install correctly since the sheets are manufactured, smooth, and you just have to hang them.
The picture of that pool reminded me of this Columbo episode (S4 Exercise in Fatality) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRoVLfuADqw&t=220s
To be even more clear, it's Hindu nationalist propaganda, and not a serious academic paper, and there's a reason it was never published in a reputable journal.
It's not VCs who are mostly funding this boondoggle. It's the DoD and NSF (and equivalents in Europe and China).

I am half convinced that one of the main strategic benefits of PQC is the ability to stop funding quantum computing programs on the value of "what if this one works?"

Also, note that quantum sensors are not quantum computers, and actually have made real advances in the last 30 years. This article is light on that, though.
I have one of the first 5K iMacs from 2014. I contemplated doing a similar project but I don't really want to destroy a perfectly fine computer. It doesn't run the latest OS, but it still runs the latest Chrome though. I often use it to SSH into a more powerful machine for coding, and I occasionally use remote desktop.

If Google decides not to support this for Chrome, I'll firewall it from the internet but still plan to use it as an SSH machine.
It has merged!
My parents were pretty pro-kids, but I'm not. It's a flawed argument.
Why is Mozilla copying my search? It should only goto the search engine I selected. Mozilla doesn't need that data. Firefox just does the HTTP transfer and display's on my screen. Almost all software does that. Also why Mozilla did not require a ToS for two decades but now?
The article mentions intelligence a lot actually. It's also conjecture that consciousness and intelligence are unrelated. Qualia could be functional, and emerge naturally from the development of ever more sophisticated intelligence.
backlog orders esp ones with long waits, can be cancelled.

if a few other orgs make the same decision that Microsoft did -- no more AI data centers -- then their growth looks shakey
>"I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that."

Amen, brother. RIP.
VOIPThrowaway's comment was all about the intent behind the amendment. Part of the intent may have been to "make sure Democrats couldn't say that former slaves weren't citizens" but the legislative history clearly shows that wasn't the only reason.

How else would you demonstrate what their intent was, if citing primary evidence is off-limits?

I'm arguing it's not a loophole because that's how US law works, and has worked for not just the last 250 years, but in the common law that we inherited from England. I provided citation to show that legal history, so you can double-check me.

If you don't like the way the law works, well, use the 18th-century logic embedded in the Constitution to repeal the amendment, like how the 21st repealed the 18th. Make new state and federal laws to invalidate the relevant common law, which would still exist after the repeal.

Don't just make up interpretations because you don't like reality.
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An interesting implication of this is that it would point to Firefox being considered a service from Mozilla (hence why they need a license to facilitate your use of the program).

If we now look at their "Acceptable Use Policy", we can find this:

> You may not use any of Mozilla’s services to [...] Upload, download, transmit, display, or grant access to content that includes graphic depictions of sexuality or violence, [...]

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/acceptable-use/

And to corroborate the applicability of the Acceptable Use Policy to the Firefox browser:

> Your use of Firefox must follow Mozilla’s Acceptable Use Policy, [...]

("Acceptable Use Policy" is hyperlinked to the aforementioned page)

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/terms/firefox/

So one could interpret this all to say that you're not allowed to view or download porn via Firefox. Additionally, "graphic depictions of violence" could extend to things like the sort of bodycam footage and reporting from war zones frequently seen in news reports.
I think part of the argument on the other side is that if the forest service better managed its finances and revenues they wouldn’t have to lay people off. I am positive there is a way they could have kept those employees but they (possibly correctly) prioritized spending elsewhere
It's so weird how so many people on HN think fusion is magic technology at the level of antigravity.
Not all though. I am currently writing my own Lisp dialect, and as much as I wish and hope I will be able to force case/switch to be exhaustive, I don't see a direct way for that in a dynamically typed version.

I do plan to add something similar to Clojure's spec though, so the compiler can at least be advised about things and warning if stuff is missing.

But I do agree, any statically typed language should have that check and not just warn about it. It should be a hard error, no questions asked. And I love that Rust didn't relegate it to a warning that could be turned be into an error.
GPUs compute in two dimensional vectors, and auto-regressive models compute in sequence. Diffusion seems to me to be the more efficient and natural fit for computation on GPUs.

When o3 solved the ARC[1] challenge, Sam Altman said it was recognizing the image pixel by pixel linearly, and i found it pretty hilarious that they start by using a chip which computes in two dimensions, they use it to compute a line, and that line is a two dimensional image of the ARC challenge.

[1] https://arcprize.org/
The law in Romania is certainly not known for its perfection, but what legal system doesn't flex when the US (or a regional equivalent great power) leans on it? This is not a reasonable benchmark.
It's an interesting space for discussion.

What I've found after developing software for many decades and learning many languages is that the concepts and core logical thinking are what is most important in most cases.

Before the current AI boom I would still have had a problem doing some tasks in a vacuum as well. Not because I was incapable, but because I had so much other relevant information in my head that the minutia of some tasks was irrelevant when I had immediate access to the needed information via auto-complete in an IDE and language documentation. I know what I needed to look up because of all that other knowledge in my head though. I knew things were possible. And in cases where I didn't _know_ something was possible, I had an inkling that something might be possible because I could do it in another language or it was a logical extension of some other concept.

With the current rage of AI Coding Copilots I personally feel like many people are going down a path that degrades that corpus of general knowledge that drives the ability to solve problems quickly. Instead they lean on the coding assistant to have that knowledge and simple direct it to do the tasks at a macro level. On the surface this may seem like a universal boon, but the reality is they are giving up that intrinsic domain knowledge that is needed to be functional at understanding what software is doing and how to solve the problems that will crop up.

If those two paragraphs seem contradictory in some manner, I agree. You can argue that leaning on IDE syntax autocomplete and looking up documentation not foundationally different than leaning on a coding assistant. I can only say that they don't _feel_ the same to me. Maybe what I mean is, if the assistant is writing code and you are directly using it, then you never gain knowledge. If you are looking things up in documentation or using auto-complete for function names or arguments, you are learning about the code and how to solve a problem. So maybe it's just, what abstraction level are we, as a profession, comfortable with?

To close out this oddly long comment, I personally use LLMs and other ML models frequently. I have found that they are excellent at helping me formulate my thoughts on a problem that needs to be solved and to surface information across a lot of sources into a coherent understanding of an issue. Sure, it's possible that it's wrong, but I just use it to help steer me towards the real information I need. If I ask for or it provides code, that's used as a reference implementation for the actual implementation I write. And my IDE auto-complete has gotten a boost as well. It's much better at understanding the context of what I'm writing and providing guesses as to what I'm about to type. It's quite good. Most of the time. But it's also wrong in very subtle ways that require careful reading to notice. And I'll sum this paragraph up with the fact that I'm turning to an LLM more and more as a first search before I hit a search engine (yet I hate Google's AI search results).
I can't tell what were your respective positions. In many ways

LLMs : computer science = [opposite of calculator] : calculus

A calculator will not let you discover terms for you to BFS/DFS knowledge on.

It will not help find the terms of art for fuzzy concepts you encountered and can barely describe.

It is not a learning accelerator.