skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Smart guy, von Neumann. We should've listened to him.
Uhhh is there a full clip because 18 seconds of what looks like a speech seems like cherry picking.
This is important -- as in, history books important. Two things: whomever won was going to inherit a balanced budget, and (in hindsight) be able to claim wartime priorities due to a pair of terrorist attacks. Those are highly influential for Gen-X and later generations, and not honestly impactful at all for Boomers and prior generations. Bush did not carry younger voters in either election.

In 2001, the Supreme Court ruled that Florida, counting too slowly yet not carefully-enough, could not fully count their ballots. Every other state had successfully counted, but the Court sat through Florida's legal arguments, even though the state was a poster child for inadequate election planning. So, the popular vote would not matter. Statistically, if you don't count Florida, Gore's districts accounted for 60% of American GDP, and Bush's only 40%. This statistic becomes only more lopsided: in 2024, Biden would lose and election even though Trump represents only 30% of American productivity.

Anyway, in 2004, today's median American was still a minor. Giuliani would give the convention address for Republicans in New York; he re-used then-Senate candidate Barack Obama's catchphrases. It was the highpoint of his career. He would only be noteworthy among the unusually-named group "white ethnics" of the Republican Party from then on.
There are many researchers, but a limited number with the ability to make the revolutionary leaps necessary. To take your analogy: there were many physicists who knew an atomic bomb was possible, and many who even attempted it, but the Manhattan Project was the first to succeed through a combination of the right people and the right resources.
We definitely tried extending the lookahead, but I don't think we tried having a curriculum-style thing where we gradually increased the speed of the song. Great idea though!
Similar Sonic projects include SA2 Redux[0] and Project 06[1].

[0]: https://gamejolt.com/games/SA2R/939490

[1]: https://youtube.com/c/ChaosX (best link as there is no official website)
lol i envy people like you my friend it is a feudal oligarchy wake up learn to read the graffiti
*Technically not a department.
I know what Cloud is, and OVH has a cloud, with many of the same services as AWS. Even Bunny can be configured via terraform. So the reality today is that AWS and other cloud offerings have strong alternatives, but Office and Github don't.
Yeah AI Is going to be a major problem not because of what it can do but because of what people in charge think it can do and that it actually can’t. So yes I’m concerned
Having a shit job at a dream company vs. having a great job at a shit company.

You can land a poor career path and sometimes you just have to take a hard turn.
Yeah... guaranteed after the teething issues.

My understanding is that there were problems with the whole Open PDK, and that most designs would have run into similar issues even if Caravel wasn't preventing IO configuration.

The didn't ship those early OpenMPW runs out at all, the designs where resubmitting to later runs. In a way, the incident proves the point: Caravel allowed them to quickly prove their yield for those early shuttles was essentially 0%, without needing to test the user design.
> It’s simply not possible to reach anything close to a single billion without unbelievable exploitation of lower classes and it scales as you get richer.

Whatsapp's founders made $6.8B each from the acquisition, Whatsapp only had 55 employees when acquired who all got a big payout afaik.

What lower class 'got unbelievably exploited'?
The vast majority of our services were overhauled when we started Minecraft: Earth (defunct AR game) as it was _very_ service heavy. It was actually really nice stretching our legs with services and growing a team on an incubator project, then moving onto the "real deal".

Those services and any written since then have all been .net based. Still lots of older services hanging around though :)
No, look up prop 13, it heavily incentivizes sitting on land and never triggering a valuation reset. It’s a massive wealth transfer from the newcomers (who tend to be younger) to those who’ve lived there longer.
I never worked for apple, but huge companies with established, incumbent cash flows and huge moats can bear a truly, spectacularly, mind-bogglingly incredible amount of internal dysfunction while still generally going forward. This can make it really crushing to be a sensible, well-intended single person inside this beast where you have essentially no power yourself.
Ah, how the tables turn.

In fairness though - this will happen. China/Russia etc. might claim they have secret "social glue" (Dugin has a whole philosophy on this), but liberalism and ergo US is still the top-dog because Communism has destroyed the "old" social-glue (Orthodox Xtianity and Buddhism/Confucianism) already. India is even worse (and likely unsaveable) because in addition to all this, the elites don't even the glue of the language (and largely identify as pan-Anglo nationalists).

US (w/ smaller allies like Japan/Korea) still largely set the social "ontology" across the world (and also why China will run into the same traps and pathologies that Japan/Korea/India and other Asian states have gotten stuck in). I doubt Robotics/AI would save them anymore than it did Japan.
The latest autopsy came down pretty firmly on it being a suicide. Even if it could've been an assassination, there isn't much motive: his claims were about copyright violation, which neither OpenAI or the government would much care about in an arms race.
One thing this comment ignores is the very non-zero chance, which increases with dose and time on the drug, of developing gastropwresis. Gastropwresis will ruin your life to the point where you may never be hale to eat normal solid food ever again.
I don't know if I am neurodivergent (on days I take my meds, eat all my superfoods, and exercise for the third day in a row (I would say "or more days", but you know)), but I can say that having a clear and motivating goal is the best way to learn anything, no matter how unnatural/challenging it seems at first. As long at it has put itself between myself and my goal.

Also, hardship. I have learned so much from that, that it feels almost hypocritical not to heartily recommend it.
Article II says: “The executive Power shall be vested in a President.” Congress can give the executive more or less power through law, but whatever executive power it does create must ultimately be invested in the president, not someone else.
Just guessing here, working for a corporation, dealing with the inevitable internal bureaucracy of such an organization is soul crashing.
> I'm curious why they haven't attempted to tighten the screws on Tesla since Elon's position has weakened and they can really put him in a bad spot if they force him to give up something to them.

Its possible they believe he will destroy Tesla left to his own devices and their best course of action is to sit back and let it happen naturally with no meddling exposure for themselves and then maybe they can even poach some of his employees in the aftermath.

Considering that the administration Elon is gleefully making himself the "chainsaw" figurehead for is actively working to cripple the EV market in the US, this doesn't seem like a bad plan to me.
Neel, based on your linkedin, you're 27 or 28. You're a grown adult. Stop following your mom's orders. Quit your job, take some time off to decompress and recover from your clear burnout, then figure out what you want to do. Life isn't Microsoft or flipping burgers. There's a lot of things in between. You have one life, don't waste it trying to please others. But simultaneously, don't assume that your burnout is permanent. Just take a break my friend.
If the refund is paid in less than 45 days after the tax filing deadline or the day you file your taxes, they will pay you interest. See here: https://www.irs.gov/payments/interest#pay
Reality is not helping. An alarming percentage of people in the USA are extremely insulated from reality. They are even insulated from pure logic. For a great many people it seems completely consistent to say that the federal government is a swamp of corruption and bureaucracy that requires drastic action to bring it back in check, then also say that we should do whatever it takes to put the management of the Panama Canal back into the hands of that same government.

I just listened to Trump say, "You're playing cards with the lives of millions of people. You're playing cards with WWIII. I am forcing you to play cards because you made a campaign appearance for a different candidate." I was dumbfounded. Then I looked around at all the people nodding their heads and saying, "Right on!"

Some people think that "reality" TV is reality. And some people think that reality is just another TV show. What a world when you put the word "real" in front of the word "reality" to try to differentiate it: real reality. The spinning top trick doesn't work.
I don't understand this type of parenting, and I'm sorry you had this.

I'm fairly certain I'm not the smartest guy around, never was, but my mother never put anything in my path to make me believe I wasn't.
I'd say this is a self-fulfilling prophecy of the American social structure.

Sure, in America why would anyone move from State A to State B to get less paid and pay more taxes. The social conditions are (in a wide-stroke) the same.

This is ofc not the case if you move to say, Europe or SK/Japan. The amount of money you need to live a similar socio-economic lifestyle is different.

And we already know that many people don't put certain value to increased income past a certain threshold (people want to feel safe and well-off; not necessarily be a millionare). We are in the HN/US-Tech bubble so ofc it feels like "everyone want to be the next Zucc with their startup" but if you once leave that bubble, you'll notice that most people are not a over-fitted model to one metric called income.
> Disabling features, possibly at the hardware level with e-fuses

They have a common hardware architecture configured by software (Ada), https://static.sched.com/hosted_files/riscvsummit2024/fe/Key...

> How secure are they though

Good question. That depends on whether enterprise insiders have more or less economic incentives than media pirates. One of the enterprise browser vendors exited for ~600M USD to Palo Alto, so perhaps the security bar is only at the level of corporate firewall rather than gaming console.
All of this lament is great, but if you don’t like this, please pick up the phone and call your reps. Every day.
because it flies away
Ah, but proponents also want to make it difficult for you to leave with your money.

Capital controls are very seductive, even though they’re very authoritarian.
> red scare

You understand that a contemporary communist country had just murdered a few million of their own civilians, yes?
I didn't mean to throw any shade at S3. It certainly isn't their fault that people use their private protocol on other projects.

I was trying to point out that S3's protocol is "proprietary" so if you're using it you're still (somewhat) using "proprietary bullshit" in your stack!
This is a really fun app. I took a painting class for a few years in an effort to exercise the other side of the brain - and this does what I failed to do with tens of hours of effort with GIMP, and no amount of prompt magic could do with $LLM.

I trust your tip jar gets and stays full - bringing this back to life is a wonderful contribution!
hehe i love the barons in each country they have a different approach to social engineering
It shows how careless the industry is that these security questions persist. Sarah Palin’s Yahoo! account was handed by someone guessing easily accessible security questions. That was 17 years ago.

When backward systems force you to answer these questions, I agree it’s better to generate a random string just for this question and provider. Plus it’s a fun time on the odd occasion these extra questions are required in a phone call.

“To complete security, what was your first pet’s name?”

“I’ll never forget dear PMM&7Qhdcim6WdJ:2XaviMw”
I'm thinking they might sell/license the rights (not sure if that's the right phrasing) to these charging stations along with the maintenance/repair costs to a private company. If they spend $100M to decommission them, I will be very surprised.
They want to make government bureaucracy less streamline, so they can point out how inefficient it is and therefore should be abolished (ignoring the fact that they sabotaged it).
Like I said, you're wrong.
What kind of context do you think would excuse that sentiment? Given his extensive public record, would you argue that this is somehow out of character for him? It seems rather consistent based on the rest of his career:

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/01/03/russ-voug...
Like anything, really hard to say right now.

My impression is there's some weakness from the auto industry struggling which is flooding the job market; but there's a lot of upside. They're investing big in a lot of new industries that don't even really exist in the US (energy related).

Rheinmetall and the rest of the defense industry seems like its set to really take off over the next few years, which even if you aren't eligible for (citizenship requirements), it'll lead to other industries needing labor though.

I'm not from there and don't follow it super closely so am not an expert, but that's kindof been my read on it.

For what its worth, this started because I struggle to find 2-3 jobs in the US per week worth applying for in my field. I can find 8-10 a day over there without much trouble (had several interviews, 2 final rounds, 1 "you weren't a fit for this role, but we really want to talk to you again in May").
I started going to these last year and they’re great. People selling rackmount servers off the beds of pickups, bins full of spinning rust HDDs, everything you need to make a garbage homelab.

The first one of 2025 is on March 9th.
There's heaps more invisible wealth taxes that increase the marginal tax rate by a few percentage points. Rates, Insurance, increased financial liabilities, means testing, unequitable seperations, oodles of time wasted managing money, yadda yadda. And if you want to keep up appearances then the costs skyrocket up.

If you don't have anything then you can avoid certain costs, or sometimes you can get subsidised.

The wealthy also get some financial boosts e.g. house appreciation. And white collar crime has cheap convictions (or you can avoid consequences)

I've never had kiwisaver because I believe in the value of optionality with my own money. I severely hate locked up money. Being able to deploy money has gained me a small house worth of money. The FIF rules are a cunt to manage and Sharsies are SHIT - they've promised to deliver an FIF report but haven't done so.
If you didn’t understand how the code works to begin with, what knowledge did you lose?
A challenging hypothesis that made me think deeply. My perspectives as a non-American who follows their lib / left publications and SM...

Founded on stolen land is historically accurate AFAIK.

Slavery was practised in some regions but I don't remember being told that the US was founded on it.

I have been told that some sections are racist and sexist, especially in so-called "red" states. These beliefs seem to be whitewashed by right media using euphemisms like "all lives matter" or "pro-life".

But the nation itself was not painted as sexist or racist. Indeed, it was often described as
mostly welcoming of all races and immigrants.

I don't think it's been called an illegitimate nation and don't see it as such. Rather manipulative and bullying. With bad healthcare and ruthless capitalism. But still a better values-based policeman than the USSR or Russia or China.

I see Trump admin as a higher level success of the racist sexist sections. It is destruction. But by the wrong section of society on the better sections. I see it not as restorative justice but as a path to worse future injustice.

Are those who talked about all this to blame for these consequences? Observing a phenomenon to analyze, criticize, and predict is something we all do. They were just the messengers of a phenomenon that was already in motion.

The phenomenon was irrational brainwashing using euphemisms and disinfo to whitewash unethical ideas, done by the US rightwing media and its corporate backers.
Language and ease of immigration are going to be very important to the decision of where to move. Naturally, those things you mentioned are important, but so is language.
As is the case that Trump, Musk, Vance and Thiel are Russian assets.

It’s just common sense to use Trumps own words.

Just remember that as these people drag us into a war for “peace”
There would be a threshold below which the rate is zero, just like there is with income
Revenue neutral carbon taxes with all income dividended back out per capita are really the move here. It’s also one of the few really promising ways to tackle climate change effectively.
Ada for bigger projects, D for quick one-offs and more “scripty” work.
The two most interesting problems I know of with data driven decision-making are:

1) The “drunk looking for his keys under the street light“ problem. There is a human inclination to limit the scope of thought to what is visible.

2) The inclination to look for data that supports your conclusions. This is the real intractable problem. For most people, gathering data is a fetch quest for what they want to do anyway. It’s a big problem for academics doing “real science”. In a company where many are trying to launch, get the promotion and move onto another job, (without even the veneer of a check through peer review) it’s an even bigger problem.

This isn’t exactly a replied to your post I know, but I see that everyone else is using your thread to bring up there quibbles with data driven decision-making, so I thought I’d do the same cause I don’t see anyone making these points
I think they won’t but even 50-100m paying users is big money
> In fact, I’ll just live off dividend income and try to get my new IT startup Fourplex off the ground

It’s easy to say no when the money is not needed.
But we do know what sort of things government is needed for. Public goods for example are generally better when handled by government. Private sector can help of course but they don’t like free riders.
Nice, subscribed.

I wonder how far you could get without solving #13, which does seem to be genuinely hard.
One doesn't preclude the other, but I have serious doubts about free speech concerns. There are moderate and extreme movements in Europe. They all express themselves freely within the law.
nah jesus says that's a sin we can only stay here with our heavenly chosen barons or go to heaven or hell
They're not saying medical treatment makes us weaker. Can you refute what they're saying without strawmanning them?
You can learn to do this when not tripping, but it's much easier to pick up when on drugs. I often hear instrumental music that's entirely a hallucination when drifting off the sleep—rock, jazz, pop, I'm not sure how my brain decides. As best I can tell most of it is synthesized in my brain—it's quite different from "playing a track in your brain" from memory.
A picture of the current us president would be funny as heck
When nations attack each other, often innocent people are the ones that end up suffering.
I knew the very basics of the story, but did not know/hadn't put it together in my mind that kernel 1.0 appeared in mid-1994, and not somewhere in the 1991-1993 timeframe as I had vaguely assumed. Certainly, the Red Hat Linux 2.1 (kernel 1.2.13) I installed in December 1995 (making my home 100% Microsoft-free ever since) felt pretty feature-complete.
lmao think of all the jobs the CIA would have had to cut

bad citizen don't you want all the marines and special forces to be employed?

just wow what would jesus say we both know he hates all the savages but he loves jobs more
My apologies on this.
Yeah, this post is mostly rambling nonsense
While there is a concern about the plaintext answer leaking, I wouldn't think too much of it, since if the credentials db got compromised, I would assume the attackers also got everything else of value. Leaking the password at that point is no different than any other random string.
> They wanted to estimate the risk of accidental detonation of a nuclear weapon, and concluded that the risk is zero because it never happened so far.

Given it didn't happen so far, I'd say they were right on the money.

While mishandling and accidents did happen, the number of failsafes guarantees you have to purposefully activate it. Most nuclear weapons nowadays just don't have a way to reach criticality outside of nano-second controlled timing array.
What freedoms would they lose?
I have the opposite problem: i try to watch scripted entertainment and all I see are actors in makeup on a set. Very hard for me to immerse myself when I keep getting distracted by bad wigs.
This post does not deserve such self-righteous vitriol.
He seems to be of Indian origin. Indian households can be very tight knit and prioritize financial success a lot more.
I don't have a published study to back this up, but in my 10 < n < 100 experience, the alcohol suppression effect is limited to occasional-to-moderate drinkers.

Giving a GLP-1 to a heavy drinker/alcoholic results in a skinny alcoholic.

Given that the overwhelming majority of alcohol is consumed by heavy+ drinkers this isn't the gamechanger people think it is.
> There were no conservatives at 18F.

And we know this how?
I see the graph, but I'm not sure this is very different from years gone by. Maybe 10 years ago, the top 10% of Americans accounted for 50% of travel expenses. Politics feels more significant: Trump-voting counties have never made up more than 36% of GDP.
Far worse. They've crossed the rubicon. We'll have a nasty period of civil unrest and conflict. I'd put 50/50 odds on a military junta within the decade.
“There is no pretty way” Bill Clinton would like a word
So I just bought the latest Itch.io bundle for the California wildfires [1]. I bought it partly because there are a few decent "big" indie games on there, but mostly because these mega itch bundles nostalgically remind me of two similar eras in my life: Digging through Shareware CD mega packs, and browsing for weird games on Newgrounds.

The shareware CDs were fun, because they always had enticing titles like "More than 800 games!" or something like that, and as a kid I would dig around the directory structures and play the weird stuff that they had pulled off BBS's. Some of them games would be good, most of them would be pretty mediocre, some would be bad, but it sort of felt like you were unearthing stuff, trying to find an interesting game as you played.

Similarly, I would do the same thing on Newgrounds a lot as a teenager. It was fun to find unique games, especially since a lot of these games really had no ambitions of making money, so they could so a lot of things that you couldn't get away with in retail games. You could make them hyper-violent, or gratuitous sexual content, or just odd humor that wasn't really meant to be understood by anyone but the creator and their friend group.

My first "real" job after dropping out of college was writing Flash and Coldfusion software in 2012, because I had cut my teeth with Actionscript as a teenager. This was after Steve Jobs' infamous letter, but Flash was still more or less relevant, and I'm grateful to have had paying work with it, if only briefly.

[1] https://itch.io/b/2863/california-fire-relief-bundle
Unless the resource disappears unexpectedly from the config, in which case it gets deleted. That's the issue.
There was a fork of KaiOS called GerdaOS, not sure how active it is:

https://web.archive.org/web/20231216111510/https://gerda.tec...
https://archive.luxferre.top/gerdaos