skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anybody know how that would work? I know of the 3 ways of measuring GDP in econ basics (All income, All expenditure, All value add). I assume they only use one method and just pull out government? I assume it's expenditure method, but what would it mean for income method. Ignore incomes of gov employees? But then what about contractors. At what point do we start to view the number shifting as untrustworthy like China and Russia.
Order Doesn’t Matter, But Reasoning Does
When a language model is trained for chain-of-thought reasoning, particularly on datasets with a limited number of sequence variations, it may end up memorizing predetermined step patterns that seem effective but don’t reflect true logical understanding. Rather than deriving each step logically from the previous ones and the given premises, the model might simply follow a “recipe” it learned from the training data. As a result, this adherence to learned patterns can overshadow genuine logical relationships, causing the model to rely on familiar sequences instead of understanding why one step logically follows from another.

In other words, language models are advanced pattern recognizers that mimic logical reasoning without genuinely understanding the underlying logic.

We might need to shift our focus on the training phase for better performance?
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How does this affect the prior comment?
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Hey e/acc subset who were pro-Trump because of how much he was recruiting from Silicon Valley, is this the whole massively revitalized economy we were supposed to be getting?
Yea, likely this was some kind of trip + glitch that happened to look like an attack. But it really did have a "boxing" style movement.

I saw a video of the Unitree [1] robot doing a kung fu routine the other day. I imagine developers are constantly programming in some pre-scripted moves. Similar to all the Boston Dynamics demo videos. They're great for showing off movement. Conceivable that someone could run the wrong demo routine. Imagine the Atlas robot doing it's classic backflip in the middle of a crowd.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iULi4-qz22I
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In Brazil you get a day off work every year to donate. Which I think is a good compromise.
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The video is pretty unsettling, kind of showing how strong robots can be compared with humans. (We already knew this, but it’s good to remember.)

Reminds me a bit of the chess robot that broke a child’s finger: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/jul/24/chess-robot-gr...

What annoyed me at the time was them describing the child as having broken some “rule” about waiting for the robot or something.

We should reject this framing. Robots need to be safe and reliable if we’re going to invite them into our homes.
Expensive pencils are one of those things that totally worth it. I use Faber-Castell pencil, eraser and sharpener, and while they are maybe double or triple the price of a cheap one, they last way longer than that because they do their job.

I have sharpened a cheap pencil more than 3 cm at once because either the lead or the wood keep breaking.
And that's fine as long as there's a "build/process *.sass" step happening on the server before the resulting HTML+CSS is getting sent to the client (browser).
Until your local paramilitary cosplay group decides to equip their SWAT team with them.
The end developer doesn't need to even see or read the agents.json file. It's a means for transparency and meant to be implemented by the API provider. Tooling to make creating an agents.json easier is on our roadmap. We have a process internally where we use a validator to guide creating an agents.json.
Folks, don't fall for rayiner's in-bad-faith comments. Best not to respond, they are trying to goad you into an argument.
There is a video floating around of it. It's a sudden forward movement that certainly looks alarming but wouldn't call it "unexpectedly displayed aggressive behavior".

More like it's hardcoded to do something (maintain balance or whatever) without limits on how fast it can move to achieve the goal.

i.e. bad safety controls rather than malice
> I hope we get monthly or at least quarterly Ladybird Newsletter just to keep the attention of the project along with attracting those who still dont know.

They do monthly newsletter and accompanying youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/@LadybirdBrowser
Years ago when I was a student at uni I volunteered to take part in a research study with robots.

I went to a rented house near campus where they had a normal living room set up and sat me down on a dining chair in the room and handed me a box with a button on it.

"The robot will approach you. Just press the button when you feel like it is getting too close" they said.

They left the room so I was alone, and a few minutes later the wheeled robot entered the room and started slowly but deliberately to move towards me.

Let's just say the robot got too close.

I was sat there alone as the robot moved towards me. I was frantically mashing at the button but it did not stop until it actually collided with my feet and then stopped.

To this day I am not sure if it was meant to stop or not, or even if it was a robotics research project at all or actually a psychology research project.

In hindsight it was as terrifying as it sounds. Still, I got £5 for it.
As an academic you have a vested interest in holding that opinion and you should disclose that
safety regulations are written in blood
Is figure 4's legend correct from the NTU link? It would seem that the grey is the top 1%, not bottom 50%.
So it begins.

(Sorry, could not stop myself :-)
Do you think printing fiat money is somehow harder or less silly than printing cryptocurrencies? You don't have arguments against crypto, you just have arguments against money. "Anybody can come up with a different money that would be exactly equal in every way" applies both to the Dollar and to Bitcoin.
You can use a regular bayer-matrix colour camera (or colour film) for astrophotography, it’s very common in amateur circles.

However, mono cameras and filters are also often used because the interesting colours are often not R,G,B of the visible spectrum but certain emission frequencies of hydrogen, silicon, oxygen and others. These are often combined to make false-colour images.

Filters also help penetrate light pollution by keeping only the frequencies you’re interested in and rejecting much of the light reflected by the atmosphere.

In addition, getting lenses to focus all frequencies of light equally well at the same time is quite tricky. For a mono camera with narrowband filters, this is less of a problem: you can focus precisely on one colour at a time and you can get away with simpler optics or cheaper glass.
Could they have made them more creepy? It's way too much like the terminator from Terminator: Dark Fate (https://collider.com/terminator-dark-fate-images-featurette/)
I agree that it's fluffy and empty. Utopia in art isn't worth much except for advertising. However...

> Concepts like "Abundance without waste" are like saying "Humane torture", sorry that's an oxymoron

Sustainable abundance isn't a logical contradiction, even if we haven't figured it out yet. "Waste" is unavoidable, and as a word and an idea, it tends to take on moral dimensions that overshadow the practical.
I understand the concern but I feel like it was on the right side of the line. The article says:

>displayed aggressive behavior

>swinging its arms in a manner described as aggressive and violent, similar to human behavior

I can understand aggressive and violent as descriptions of behavior that don't necessarily (on charitable interpretation) imply an internal emotional state.
This article mentions one downside of ACCESS.bus (low speed), but misses another big one: it's a shared bus. Meaning that any misbehaving/buggy device can bring entire bus (and all devices on it) down, or slow it down significantly (via SCL stretching)

Compare this to USB, which has fixed timing (once you get the bus, you have to respond in time or release bus without sending anything). Moreover, all USB traffic is sent via hubs - so if device is misbehaving, hubs can cut it off without affecting the rest. The spec even has provisions for cutting off the power to misbehaving device, but most cheap hubs do not implement this.
Somehow out of everyone I know with one or both consoles, 100% of 360s got red ring, 0% of PS3s got yellow light.
> feeling overwhelmed only for brief periods of time

There is something deeply, darkly comedic (depressing?) about the qualitative language here. Primarily the way it simultaneously intersects with modern discourse around wellness, anxiety, and mental health in such a banal manner at the same time as the latent/implicit violence of action (given that the obvious subtext is operating semi-autonomous killing machines).
Treasury ends enforcement of database meant to stop shell company formation
Seems to me that it loses its balance and extends its arms in order to rebalance itself, similar to what's happening in their demo videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtPs_ygfaEA?t=24 I've worked with their robot dogs before and they kick their legs really fast when they sense that they are falling over.
Now we just need -punk warfare. Each nation has a different form of punk, and their tenuous treaty just broke down... Can our heroes unite these societies that cannot understand each other?
After the shitshow in the Oval Office, I finally do unironically believe that he could actually walk down fifth avenue and shoot someone, and they’d still cheer for him and proudly declare it the victims fault.
Not at all following how presence or possibility of sanctions supposedly invalidate scarcity as such. How does it follow? I think you are confused.
Johnson County is not in the middle of nowhere, Texas. It’s just about 30 minutes south of DFW.
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Kind of, yeah. The DOJ IMO is pretty ignorant.

That being said, I also don't think the browser "duopoly" is as entrenched as market share suggests. As Chromium is open source, the cost to the consumer of switching browsers is minimal; Chrome, Edge, Brave, Vivaldi, Opera and un-googled Chromium all offer very similar browsing experiences and the main difference is small UI things. If Google does something anti-consumer, people can jump ship very easily. Other corporations can also fork Chromium very easily (as some have already done).
And then will force ceasefire between Ukraine-Russia and Russia will open the market to US and it will be flooded with US products.
Treasury ends enforcement of business ownership database
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Oh, guys (both of you) I'm totally in favor of having a Federal government that spends money in a way that obtains an actual use for that money, to protect and defend the nation.

However, transferring my tax dollars to persons/investors wanting to unload his cryptos is pure theft of my money, and just a pure transfer of my money to whoever's smart enough to be dumping their coins.
Agree with your overall point, but for user session specifically, once a user has entered an identifier can't you use their specific DB for sessions? You also have things like JWTs/PASETO that can carry the DB mapping in the token.
Yeah, I was about to suggest litestream. Isn't it local-first-with-cloud-backups?
> They may have the manufacturing muscles

This sounds like it's dramatically under-estimating the Chinese engineers. If you take a drone today, like a DJI Mavic. Pretty much every single component of that drone is better than what we can do - at scale - in the West. It's not like we sent them blueprints and they mass produced the drones. Their technology is first class, arguably better than the West in the field of robotics.
I am personally fine with advertisements curated to me. I intentionally interact with Instagram ads that I like to affect the algorithm, even if I don't care for the product at that moment. However, with request fingerprinting [0] and the like, the targeting can go far beyond the web surfer's awareness and desires.

[0] https://amiunique.org/fingerprint
There is an often unaddressed risk in robotics because there is a lack of theory-of-mind. We’ve evolved to intuit what others humans are thinking (based on words, body language and other context) which helps us predict behavior and mitigate risk. Unfortunately we can’t do the same with robuts so there is a potential for more latent risk (same as dealing with “crazy” humans where our mental models fail to predict behavior).

IMO this means we won’t be comfortable with robuts and safety critical applications until they are well, well beyond human capabilities. This is where I think the crowd that aims for “human-level performance” is wrong; society won’t trust robuts until they are much, much better than humans.
Yeah, NIMBY means "Not In My Backyard" implying that we want that thing, just elsewhere. I don't think anyone in this situation actually wants the drones whizzing around when there is little actual benefit in the first place, and a lot of noise.
Uh-oh.

I wonder how all the Ayn Rand acolytes in power today will react to the bad news.

Their approach to macroeconomics can be summarized as: first, they always blame bureaucrats for bad economic conditions; and second, they believe that if they can get the bureaucrats out of the way, they need only to inspire people, to get everyone's animal spirits roaring, so the economy can grow, because they believe "growth is a choice." I'm exaggerating, but only slightly.

Well, all these Rand devotees are successfully destroying the federal bureaucracy, or at least preventing it from functioning, as they have always dreamed, and they're constantly chanting about making things great again, to inspire people. So far, they're getting everything they want, and yet... here we are, seemingly headed for a recession.

Could it be they don't understand things as well as they think they do? It sure could. Alas, they won't want to change their minds. As J. K. Galbraith wrote, "faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof."

If we indeed have a recession, my best guess is that we'll see them repeatedly calling for more optimism, or something like that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot%E2%80%93Hawley_Tariff_Ac...

That's what put "Great" in Great Depression. Let's see if this one will be "great again".
This looks like the work of a team of stable geniuses.
Easier to scale what? Also did they elaborate on how having two names would make that easier?
> this is due to a surge in imports in response to looming tariffs

“GDPNow is an excellent tracking model, however, the January surge in imports - especially for gold - caused the model to move negative. As the Atlanta Fed noted: ‘the contribution of net exports to first-quarter real GDP growth fell from -0.41 percentage points to -3.70 percentage points’.

Usually there would be an offsetting increase in inventories, but that is a lagging indicator. This is a short-term distortion and will balance out over the next month or so. I don't expect negative GDP in Q1.”

[1] https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2025/03/a-comment-on-gdpn...
Terrifying. I get the sensation playing VR games and have robots swing at me. Don't enjoy it at all.
> One of the great secrets to life is that happiness is found primarily through changing your mindset, not through changing your circumstances.

Not at all in relation to dating (rather to something related to age) that was exactly what I needed to read today :)
> to get back home to Canada

Many now return to the area near Necedah Wildlife Refuge in Juneau County, WI - adjacent to Leopold's Sand (Sauk) County.
No, I wouldn't exactly call Oil worthless. lol. Thanks for the entertainment tho, with that post.
Calls for boycotting US products spread in northern Europe
Some of these numbers are nearly impossible to measure because:

- tech gets better
- products move upmarket as companies target richer customers
- sometimes, products move downmarket and gets worse
- products fall out of use and new ones take their place

With something like TV's, we can clearly see deflation at work. Your dollar buys vastly more TV than in 1990.

But what about education? That's nearly impossible to measure because we're learning different things. So if the price goes up by, say, 100%, how do we offset that against the nearly unmeasurable change in value?

You can see why economists resort to measuring Platonic, spherical eggs.
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I'm not opposed to employee ownership but there's no reason to think that mandating a certain minimum level will produce better outcomes. The equity dilution will increase the cost of capital, making it harder to start or expand businesses. Most workers have virtually zero ability to impact shareholder returns. And low skilled workers really need cash today, not the possibility of dividends or capital gains tomorrow.
Solve the deficit at the same time!
This seems disingenuous twice:

1. You're welcome to argue that, but you haven't here. You've just stated it.

2. You shouldn't supplant one topic with another. High energy prices kill people, because energy drives the cost of everything, and people can direct less value into things that keep them healthy if they're spending a greater proportion of their income on survival. You can say "also air should be clean", fine, but not "Don't think about prices! Look over here instead!"
We need some sort of special police unit to liquidate renegade robots.

Those police officers need a catchy name.
it looks like the robot tripped at the barricades and balanced itself.
The AI emotion discussion is interesting, but at the end of the day, does it matter? The question is, is it safe? And if it's not safe, how unsafe is it?
Depends on whether Germany wants to participate in a war or prefers peace and good relations with countries important to their economy (either as one that sells them something or as one whose territory could be used as a market for the goods you produce and sell).
> Sure, just hard code them.

That would be super lucky if possible - almost all reals are not computable. How would we initialize or specify this Turing machine? Going to use non-constructive methods?

Given how quickly reality unfolds, it's a bit of a stretch to assume that "simulate it to arbitrary precision" means "computable in a digital representation in real time." I mean, if we have Turing machines that did each computation step n in 2^{-n} time.
Folding phones are great though. I love mine, absolutely worth the purchase price. It's like a portable mini tablet and great for reading.
The Xbox 360/PS3 era of video game consoles is probably the hardest era to emulate. Subsequent generations of consoles are essentially the same hardware as regular computers, just with a custom OS (and known hardware profile, certainly a benefit over regular consumer PCs). But that era of video game consoles is the last gasp of the custom hardware design of earlier consoles, which is substantially harder to emulate because the hardware just doesn't look like what modern hardware looks like.

Furthermore, said era is also right after Denard scaling came to an end, which means that current hardware doesn't have that much better specs, at least in easy-to-use form, than the hardware of the time. If any game tried to take the hardware to its limits, it would be a real struggle to emulate it with regular computers.
Doing that unpredictably is almost worse. Functionally, the point of anthropomorphizing is to tell a story that makes things predictable. In other words, “unsafe if angry, safe otherwise”.

But if you can’t tell if it’s “angry” then we have to assume it’s always unsafe. Of course this was always true.
The Kanji for Mitsubishi is 三菱, which literally means “three rhombus”. It is possible that they were independently invented, but the hypothesis on family crest crossovers still feels more likely
I thought we believed in the principle of innocence until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law by a jury of one's peers.

If you don't, that's fine, but I'm going to label you as a terrorist since you clearly see no problem doing it.

So here we go: by fiat, you're a terrorist. Congrats! Hopefully other astute readers will perform their civic duty and report you to local and federal LEOs. /s
"As you can see from the smile on the robot's, let's call it face, your honor, this was clearly a friendly gesture."
Salaries are not set according to how much you need the money. The reason US salaries are high is that US software companies can make staggering amounts of money.
Even if the desire to absorb Taiwan is ideological, they would certainly also understand the severe practical implications of losing access to their chip production.
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Going to litigation made sense here because, tbh, I didn't want to deal with the PAC's office taking three years to complete the RFR while never actually understanding the underlying issue. They really stink at interpreting anything technical. Also, I've never done pro bono (I probably could though), but I don't trust myself on procedural matters!
We antropomorphize animals all the time, it won't be any different with robots.

When one wants to be picky, we can't be certain about other people's emotions either. A psychopath may not feel any anger when hitting you, or he might be feeling something very different from what a normal person would label "anger".