skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
america’s litigation problem is really not about google specifically , rather a broad cultural issue. Perhaps the internet age has outgrown industrial age laws, or maybe america just sucks (Grandma saw segregation, suppression of woman’s suffrage, use of nuclear weapons vs Japan), or maybe maximizing self interest is fundamental to nature.
I'm also using it to remove distractions from stack exchange sites like hot network questions. I can stay focused on solving my problem much better if my eyes can't wander to interesting unrelated stuff.
Browser engine identification is not the same as fingerprinting.
A whole host of useful but forgotten extensions will be removed.
This is a clear example of conflict of interest Google has.

It makes money almost exclusively from ads, and people want to block ads. No matter how they try to portray decisions like this - it is obvious they are moving in direction where people are unable to do what they want.

I am sure if Google from today would launch a browser, it would fail to gain traction knowing all the state of their core business and negative sentiment users have.

Let's hope Mozilla doesn't go the same route, but it seems they are also not under good leadership and are slowly loosing the trust of users.
For anyone else like me that hasnt tried uBO lite wondering what features are missing: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as...
The best thing for Brave to do would just be to build it into their own ad blocker because Google is going to intentionally make it more and more impractical to support older extensions that interfere with their business model.
>there's opposing viewpoints that you may not agree with, but are just as valid as yours.

>"Musk's braindead agenda"
No one takes the time to fully understand all the PRs they approve. And even when you do take the time to “fully understand” the code, it’s very easy for your brain to trick you into believing you understand it.

At least when a human wrote it, someone understood the reasoning.
Chromium browsers can't make that pledge and those that promised have red flags in my book.

1. These browsers can barely add their own functionality on top of upstream, and maintaining Manifest v2 compatibility may be expensive. Consider that the development of Chrome exceeds 1 billion per year.

2. They all use Chrome's Webstore as a distributing channel, except for Edge, but IMO, Microsoft has an even bigger interest in seeing uBO die.

Brave itself has ad-blocking built-in, which won't be affected, and it's fairly capable, but promising that they'll keep compatibility with uBO is a lie, if they ever made that promise.
Search for "p-hacking", that will give you a nice starter on the topic.
One of the reasons for punishment is deterrence. It it becomes clear people consistently go to prison for doing something like this that will reduce the likelihood of people doing this in the future
> The strong reason for this attack was Russia's security concerns got ignored and stepped on by a military alliance (NATO).

If it were a simple individual somehow escalating to nation state level, I could understand them being initially forced to use deception, but not so for an entity that is already a nation state. Especially not so for a nuclear nation state!

Right before the outbreak of the full scale war (ignoring ~2014), Western intelligence services observed troops, tanks, military materiel amassing on the Russian / Ukranian border. In an attempt to dissuade Russia from invading the UK intelligence services decided to predict Russia's invasion publicly.

Russia repeatedly claimed "Nyet, nyet, no invasion, just some push-ups next to border!"

If a nuclear power were acting on existential security concerns, the last thing it would do is hide the connection to security concerns and pretend just doing some push-ups on border.

To me this invalidates this whole theory of yours and imcritic
This sent me down a rabbit hole reading about the author's style of having an "Arena allocator," [0] which was fascinating. I often did something similar when writing ANSI C back in the day—allocate a big enough chunk of memory to operate, and do your own bookkeeping. But his Arena implementation looks more flexible and robust.

[0]: https://nullprogram.com/blog/2023/09/27/
Already posted and discussed back in august 2024, 45 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41140185
It's still a gotcha in Rust, I've seen code like:

#[non_exhaustive]
pub enum Protocol {
Tcp,
Udp,
Other(u16),
}

It allows you to still match on the unrecognized case (like `Protocol::Other(1)`, which is nice), but an additional enum variant may eliminate that case, if our enum gets extended to:

#[non_exhaustive]
pub enum Protocol {
Tcp,
Udp,
Icmp,
Other(u16),
}

Even though we can add additional variants in a semver-nonbreaking way due to `#[non_exhaustive]`, other people's code may now be broken until they've changed `Protocol::Other(1)` to `Protocol::Icmp`.

Having had this in the back of my head for quite some time, I think instead of an `Other` case there should be two methods, one returns an `Option<Protocol>` and the other one returns the `u16` representation. Unless there's a match on one of your expected cases your default branch would inspect the raw numeric type, which would keep working even if that case is added to the enum.
Drywalling is easy. Good drywalling is not that difficult if you are patient.

Now good and fast that's the hard part.
63% of American workers don't use AI
What happens when we can't cool them down anymore? https://www.wired.com/story/nuclear-power-plants-struggling-...
> I don't think it's fair to call anti-Black bias in the legal system a false belief/conspiracy

Let me re-phrase that then to the main cause of Black over-representation in prison being bias. Because yes, one can always find some bias, but does it contribute to 1-10% of the outcome, or 80-90%? Although one could argue that the bias goes in the other direction - i.e. that Blacks are favored by the legal system, since, estimating based on fraction of homicide perpetrators (56%), they are under-represented in prison at 32%. Of course this is just that - an estimation, and it could be simply that they genuinely commit fewer other crimes. But it is impossible to come to any consensus on those, since those figures are easier to fudge.

In your place I would choose a different example than college admissions, however, because, at least for the Ivy League, whites are the most under-represented group by a significant margin, despite doing comparatively well in tests:

https://archive.org/details/ivy_league
I think the problem is that exploit can mean multiple things, and it’s obviously true that companies want to exploit everything in the non-pejorative sense.

The problem is transforming the word’s meaning in the next sentence to imply they use the resource/personnel unfairly, which is demonstrably untrue as you point out (though it’s certainly the case that for some companies both meanings apply)
What is a world war- then a flaring off of revolution. Send the peasants to fight somewhere, buy another 30 years of stability aka a generation of peace from the wheel of strife for the price of sacrificing all the people popping up everywhere.
You can see the patterns a.k.a. "code smells"[0] in code 20x faster than you can write code yourself.

I can browse through any Java/C#/Go code and without actually reading every keyword see how it flows and if there's something "off" about how it's structured. And if I smell something I can dig down further and see what's cooking.

If your chosen language is difficult/slow to read, then it's on you.

And stuff should have unit tests with decent coverage anyway, those should be even easier for a human to check, even if the LLM wrote them too.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_smell
Motorola moto g play 2024 phone, Termux, usbredirect, QEMU: Disks, GPT partition
Emacs' magit is great too.
My machine is 10 years old. With Firefox video playback on YouTube is choppy even at 1080p. With Chrome it's perfectly smooth.

If Firefox performed better for me I would have switched to it long ago. This is on Windows 10 btw.
With any non trivial system you can’t actually test every corner case. You depend on human reason to identify the ones most likely to cause problems.
Because if you're within Wi-Fi range of each other, just use Wi-Fi to sync. The product would fail to sell
Just for the record: uBlock Origin Lite can block ads, but the user can’t add their own custom rules.
Arc (until they completely abandon it), Firefox, Orion.
Some background might be useful.

In the 1800s, geometry was seen as the best math to train one's mind. Abraham Lincoln, for example, "kept a copy of Euclid in his saddlebag, and studied it late at night by lamplight; he related that he said to himself, "You never can make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means; and I left my situation in Springfield, went home to my father's house, and stayed there till I could give any proposition in the six books of Euclid at sight"." (quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid%27s_Elements ).

This held until around WWII. One way to see how curriculum has changed over the last 75 years is in Sheldon Glashow's autobiography. He graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1950. Quoting https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1979/glashow/biogr... , "High-school mathematics then terminated with solid geometry."

In the post-war era, the government needed a lot of people trained in the physical sciences and engineering fields where applied skills in calculus was more important than abstract ideas of how to think.

In the last 25 or so years there's been an effort to de-emphasize calculus as the end-goal progression for high school math, and to teach more statistics. AP Statistics wasn't offered until 1997, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AP_Statistics

This essay is part of that modern movement.

That said, I think the author has almost dismissed the classic idea of a mathematical education - to learn logical thinking. The only mention of "proof" is in reference to Gelman's "restructuring mathematical education around understanding uncertainty rather than abstract proofs."

I know nothing of Gelman's writing, but as the Lincoln example shows, abstract proofs are useful in constructing and analyzing legal arguments (and programming, IMO), in way I think should not be so readily set aside.
I use uBlock origin lite and there are no ads on youtube or embedded youtube videos
Brave does have an element picker for creating cosmetic filters. It even works on Android, I just tried it.
> Get an old used Thinkpad. Put Linux or one of the BSDs on it. Use low-resource options: LDXE, i3wm.

And then people use this upcycled, environmentally friendly option to connect to social media, their music provider, 2-3 streaming services, their workplace account, and various AI systems, all of which require datacenters eating up so much energy, that by now we consider building nuclear power plants just for them.
>None of it scales. None of it is optimized. None of it has to. My time spent on these "chores" is free, because I recharge and enjoy that time.

80% of the resources you are buying to support your hobby farm are produced by people living in places where this makes no sense.

The fact that you're saying "I don't care if it scales" implies you're solving a problem for yourself, not the world.
I've tried to understand what makes this so incredible impossible to maintain by asking people, I feels like FUD from the FF community (which I'm a part of) because it's all just wishywashy statements that it'll be impossible to maintain.
Well, you were the one telling me "space tech evolves slowly", when Apollo was taking their pictures with a film coconut, Firefly is using a digital apple, and yet the output still looks eerily similar.
How many of them sued someone else with the assistance of a personal injury lawyer?
My experience with LLM has been that if the question/search is basic or common (in any particular subject), the results are no better than an ordinary search, and if it isn't, the responses are too frequently wrong. The problem isn't so much hallucination, but gullibility. The LLM appears "intelligent" but stupid. It seems to lack introspection, i.e. applying good sense in evaluating its sources and conclusions. You can ask an LLM how to properly evaluate sources and come to conclusions, but it doesn't apply these lessons to its own operation.

In other words, LLMs work well when you don't really need them and don't work well when you do. I have yet to see an LLM give a good result when a better result, written by a human, isn't available.
>Yet we've seen how centralising everything has made our world a lot less resilient.

A lot less resilient compared to what?
As a Brit I have been underwhelmed at our efforts to go nuclear (Sizewell C cost ‘has doubled since 2020 and could near £40bn’ https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/14/sizewell-c-...)

and would rather like some cheap solar panels and insulation to help get away from our impressively high energy costs. Sadly I live in a flat so it's not really a goer.

My dad had a 160 acre farm outside London on which you could have had loads of solarpunk type dwelling at zero cost to the government but instead it's impossible to build anything due to regulations plus they spend the billions on overpriced Sizewells.

I daresay the reason you can't build anything is people want green countryside rather than packed in unsightly housing estates but maybe something like the art in the Wikipedia could satisfy both? Functional while not hideous?
There’s a pretty good discussion of this at https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/i4igt7/did_p...
No no no. You couldn't have gotten this more wrong. The replication crisis comes from soft sciences under-powered statistical training.
> Someone making steady contributions should have around 10 times the amount of wealth at age 67 than they do at age 30.

What part of that justifies or explains away record inequality?

> Millennials have more wealth than previous generations _at_ _the_ _same_ _age_[2]. Generation Z is earning even more than millennials _at_ _the_ _same_ _age_[3].

Hm - might that be because they live with their parents and can't afford kids? Or because they're sharing an apartment with 5 other people, and having a lot less fun in their life (aka, quality of life).

And are we ignoring the difference between average and median when cherry-picking statistics?

> If you have evidence for why we should dismiss age cohorts, feel free to share it.

My argument isn't that we should ignore age. I never said that. No one said that.

It's that even accounting for age, however you want to do that, there's an extremely problematic level of inequality.

America has 10 million hungry children. Half a million people claim medical bankruptcy every year. There's no excuse for that - and now a cabal of billionaires is gutting Medicaid to help pay for a $4tn tax break mostly for the top 1%.

As of 2023, the top 1% of U.S. households held 30% of the nation's wealth, while the bottom 50% possessed just 2.6%.

This is all deeply psychotic. It's perverse and abnormal in the extreme; and no, it's not explained away by age demographics. It's very intentional bipartisan policy, inflicted against the will of a large majority of Americans.
Google's New Tech Means Video Calls May Not Be the Death of Us After All
Polynomials had always struck me as begging for the question "when are we ever going to use this"? It eventually makes sense when you get to linear algebra and calculus, but for students not on that track, it seems designed to make them hate math.
Stuff can change. Who knows. I might switch platforms until then so my choice might become invalid. I might die. No reason to do it now, when there is plenty of time.

I'm a happy Firefox user on mobile though (yeah, I know, I know the recent changes in their legal stuff)
There are also people who just don't ever travel, we lower that average holiday budget. I don't travel, and I think it's a bit weird how "normalized" it is. Not that it is wrong to travel, but people always ask me where did I go to this year, and are baffled when I tell them I didn't go anywhere.
It isn't exactly surprising that someone who is the beneficiary of a system which has no accountability is against the imposing of such, I was just hoping you had something better to offer back than 'I don't like it' and assertions that something is bad without ever explaining why. I have no idea why 'blameful postmortems' are bad because you never told me, you just say it is. Why should I change my mind in that case?
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That’s why they use more than one.
Reminds me of the brain of a man that went down with the Swedish warship Vasa that was found preserved (turned into soap.)
https://hbr.org/2021/06/the-dark-side-of-solar-power
It may serve a different purpose, but I personally use https://zolk3ri.name/cgit/ggrp/about/ for displaying commits, because it categorizes commits based on prefixes such as "feat:", "fix:" and so forth, and supports scopes too (e.g. "feat(foo)"), and a lot of my projects have commits with such prefixes.
Again, whether I think this or not is irrelevant to the question the paper is tackling.

The question the paper is tackling is how human behavior today (limiting this to modeling interest rates) would change if people generally expected money to transfer from labor to AI.

A future where this happens isn’t necessary for this paper to be valuable. Heck, even if people never believe this will actually happen makes this paperback less valuable.

As an analogy, let’s say someone wrote a paper on how humanity could respond to a catastrophic hit by a large meteor.

This paper would be valuable even if the earth is never hit by a meteor while humans are still here. Further, it would be additionally valuable because the insights gained here could then be applied to other, less catastrophic scenarios, such as a volcano eruption that destroys a single city.
Thank you so much, what other OCW courses exist on modern AI?
Best practices for Kubernetes metadata in OpenTelemetry
I think it doesn't support 'vt' because the techniques are adequately demonstrated just with faces and normals, so it would be more code without serving any pedagogical purpose. The author would, I think, not suggest you copy this code and try to use it as a library or something, but that you should develop the skillset to be able to write code like this when you need it.
The space shuttle isn't relevant to this conversation. Private industry has been putting things in space for decades, long before SpaceX existed. The reason no private company put a thing on the moon isn't because they couldn't, it was because nobody was paying them to, and because there is not otherwise any economic benefit to them for doing so. If your expected income is zero, it doesn't matter how low your costs are.
Haven't watched yet but that was my gut reaction. When the engine first got stable released I tried it and was impressed at how quickly it got to a 90% solution, but the now complicated lighting scenarios that it couldn't handle took me back to cycles.
This is absurd. There's no limit to energy needs - they only grow.
I wish we'd just admit we're heading for SASS and use that. It'd save a lot of hand-wringing and time spent justifying adding each feature.
>Statistical significance is bullshit. Learning about it is as useful as learning about phlogiston.

The term-of-art "statistical significance" isn't bs because we ultimately have to choose what to pay attention to. Removing "statistical significance" from the vocabulary doesn't change the underlying reality about people deciding what to do based on a threshold of a number.

The observed effect of <something> is either:

(1) appearance of cause & effect is actually not there and just random chance or coincidence

(2) a real cause & effect and not random chance

Yes.. but "statistical significance" leads to "p-hacking" and other academic fraud! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_dredging)

That's true but the abuses still doesn't eliminate the need to name the concept of real cause & effect vs random chance. Whatever alternative mental framework one uses to decide which of those scenarios is happening, you will arrive at something that looks like "statistical significance" even if you don't call it that.

As an analogy, even though "averages" in math is misused, it doesn't mean "averages are bs".
Anyone with 100 million dollars or more does not have an income (unless they decide for their own reasons to voluntarily have one; but we will ignore that for the moment).

Who do you think makes the decision regarding the way the government will collect its money?
Ans: The people with 100 million dollars or more. They pay to elect their Senator and Congressional Rep who will create the laws they are instructed to create.

So, when the wealthy told the politicians who should pay the money to operate the government, what did they decide?
Ans: People who worked for a living. People who had incomes. A tax on "income".

The very thing the truly wealthy did not have unless they choose to have an income.

And, the usual way wealthy have to pay tax is when they sell an asset, such as stock. Now there are two things to know about that:

1. Why would an ultra wealthy person sell stock?
Ans: To take advantage of an opportunity for that money to make an even greater annual return than it is currently making.

2. That is still not taxed as income. It is taxed as a long term capital gain. With a maximmum tax rate of 20%.

So, their money is moved from one asset to an even better asset, and they are only taxed at a flat tax of 20% on the profit when the asset is sold before it is invested into the better investment. And of course, they only do this if the proposed new investment is so much better than the way the money is currently invested, that it is going to make overwhelming financial profit after the 20% tax is paid (in other words, this is all by choice - unlike the income tax paid by the workers).
Would love feedback and suggestions for good projects!
To be fair, it is a very active volcano.
I'm more interested in who actually implemented those backdoors.
Law seems an odd application of proofs. I've never seen anything in law to which mathematical rigor could apply.

Learning to reason is always good as a brain exercise. But legal "proof" has always struck me as laughably vague.
>Not sure why you are being downvoted

Not a downvoter, but I suspect it's because we all know that people have a tendency to act in their own best interest.

But, we also expect leaders to consider the best interests of their charges, as a function of good leadership.
How did that work out in the USSR and CCP, where groups regulated the corrupt power of others on behalf of the people?

What you’re describing is the perennially utopian pitch of Marxist societies — a century of failure, not withstanding.