skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The longer we continue to reduce human thinking to mechanistic or computable processes, the further we might be from truly understanding the essence of what makes us human. And perhaps, as with questions about the meaning of life or the origin of the universe, this could be a mystery that remains beyond our reach.
Maybe read LICENSE.md before making such claims. The additional terms are about limitations of liability and being explicit about what is not covered (e.g. trademarks). The GPL allows such additions.
Thanks, this was the sentence that was missing from the article and made me confused knowing that humans are basically made of carbon, but glass is not.
As far as I know the stock market has winners and losers.

If you're not rich but invested whatever you could over the course of your life and now the market tanks to where you've lost half (or more) of what you had then someone else is going to win that from you.

A massively rich company can hold out a lot longer than a software developer who tucked away what they could over the years. If a real crash happens that software developer just got 30 years of their net worth mostly vaporized in a few months.

How much of the population is in that category? It's the whole middle class basically. It's a crushing blow to most folks when the market crashes for a long period of time. It's even worse for folks who are already in a position of barely scraping by while putting a little bit aside whenever they can. That person is destroyed if a majority of that disappears because they may have to sell it off on the spot just to survive because if the market really crashes, you can be sure a ton of people are going to be out of work.
This is my blog. I haven't posted all the articles from there to hackernews. I think some of them are not worth discussing because too old or too poorly written, but some are just not posted because I didn't think of it at the time. Thanks for the interest, I will re-read what I wrote and post some.
I migrated today as well from Firefox to LibreWolf. I'm curious why you need a chrome based at all? I mean I have ungoogled Chromium on my desktop just in case I want to see if a broken site is only broken for Firefox, but that's rare.
Great point. Aside from the energy requirements that also makes you dependent on infrastructure availability. You seem kind of cynical about the tendency to simplify but we have to start somewhere and taking care of your own setup first seems like a good first step. We ought to be mindful of the complexity we're making ourselves dependent on and solving for that in the use cases you mentioned. Most streaming platforms will let you save a local copy, for a start. You can also rip your physical media, or forego using a computer for media consumption altogether (or in permacomputing terms, self-obviate).

But your point stands and from the perspective of permacomputing is indeed a problem.
Attacking science is not new, the only difference is these attacks are more public, clumsy, and, speculating, will be more ineffective, than the more insidious prior ones: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42979722
From Grecian Formula wikipedia;

Until 2018 the formulation used in the United States contained lead(II) acetate. Because lead acetate was banned in cosmetics in Canada and the European Union, the formulations sold there did not contain it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grecian_Formula
That does seem to be a large part of why those who were on the fence voted for Trump. So even if it's not the core, it's a large part of why he won the election.

I certainly think, that regardless of the underlying hard numbers, there's a very strong perception that life is getting harder for the average person, and that most of that is due to their money going towards things that they resent. Exactly how and what will vary from person to person and depend on their information diet and political leanings, but there's a big undercurrent of discontent with the status quo and a strong belief it's due to a relative few benefiting from it, and this especially jives poorly with any assertion that "actually, the numbers show most people are just fine!"

I would, if I had the time, like to dive deeper into this sentiment: there's a decent amount of evidence that people are better off, on average (and median, so not prone to distortion by the hyper wealthy), than ever before, and yet this isn't how the average person perceives it. What I don't know is whether this is because said evidence is wrong or misleading, because inequality matters more psychologically than the absolute wealth, whether expectations have simply grown above the growth in wealth, or whether it's because there's been a flattening of the curve where historically disadvantaged groups have gotten better off but advantaged groups have become worse off.
What are the cofactors of this substance?
https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust
I'm bullish on LLMs. They're incredibly useful for quickly collating and present info on a topic you're proficient or competent in, but maybe rusty. Using programming as an example, this morning I asked claude to write a batch file that launched 4 instances of my application and tiled their windows across my screen (on windows), wait for input on the command line and kill them all again. It spat out a working script in about 15 seconds. It's not pretty, but I know enough batch and Win32 to know that it's going to work (and it does).
My first job (2018) provided 2 weeks of PTO, with an increase to 3 weeks expected after _five_ years. Folks in the U.S. can't quite comprehend having more than that (or any at all, depending on the job).

I am very grateful for my current company's "unlimited" PTO policy, it's life-changing.
Many years ago I switched to chrome because ff felt sluggish. That’s all fixed since a long time. Not sure why so many seems to be choosing chrome today.
But you don't explain how doing the hard part shortcuts needing to understand the LLVM code.
I have Flash to thank as my gateway into real programming. I was very young (11 or 12 years old). I created personal project games that really helped me love programming. They were never good enough to be published, but I enjoyed them.

At the time with no guidance, trying to build desktop applications was overwhelming (I couldn't figure out where to start), and building complicated games in the browser with HTML and JavaScript wasn't a thing (there was no HTML 5 or web canvas). Building a real game in a real game engine felt impossibly out of reach for me at the time.

Flash, through ActionScript 2 and 3, gave me that portal to make something real, and taught me all of my fundamentals around loops, functions, arrays, etc. I found a home in StackOverflow and learnt a huge amount. I won't pretend that my games were great, but they really helped to solidify that programming was something that I loved.

Without Flash I don't know that I would be where I am today. I now work as an IC in a huge international company. I didn't go down the game development route as I assumed that I would, as I learnt that my passion was in programming itself and not in just writing games. The Flash games were on my personal website when I applied for internships, and I'm sure I have them to thank in part for helping get me through the door (my interviewer did check out the projects on my website).

I was sad, but understanding, when Flash finally came to an end. It felt like an end of an era for me, despite having not used it for a very long time.

If you got this far, thanks for taking the time to read my reflections!
To realise the benefits of local generation, near means on the order of 1,000m, not km.
Maybe I am dumb but how are fonts related to privacy?
Compared to when? Compare 14/15 years ago to now... it is way worse.

Also, the way of counting has been manipulated in Spain at least to mask the data conveniently.
Ask HN: Quantum dot lattices as a classical-quantum middle ground?
I've been going down a rabbit hole lately with this idea about quantum dot lattices that might offer some middle ground between classical and quantum approaches.

The basic thought is pretty simple: instead of trying to maintain perfect quantum states (which is insanely hard), what if we design systems that deliberately operate in that messy middle area? Kind of like how our brains aren't digital or quantum, but still do interesting computation.

I'm particularly fascinated by how quantum dots could be arranged in lattices where they exhibit some quantum behaviors (tunneling, limited coherence) while still behaving predictably enough for practical use. The killer feature would be operating at normal-ish temperatures without needing the extreme cooling infrastructure.

Some specifics I've been thinking about:
- QD lattices with ~5-10nm dots in specific arrangements
- Room temp operation (or at least liquid nitrogen vs millikelvin)
- Using "observer dots" that let you measure states without collapsing the whole system

I've written up a more detailed paper on this, but frankly, I'm just a curious person without academic credentials in this space. I'd love to hear if:

1. This is obviously flawed for reasons I'm missing
2. Similar work is already happening somewhere (pointers appreciated!)
3. Anyone with lab access might find this intriguing enough to test some aspects

Has anyone seen anything in this direction? Am I reinventing a wheel or missing something fundamental? Thanks!
But a lot of Apple users who use things such as Kagi and Orion (i.e., the hacker news crowd) also use other platforms. I have a MacBook but run Linux on my desktop and I know I’m not the only one. The ability to have the same browser on all platforms (with synced tabs, bookmarks etc) is really useful.
Ironically, we are having similar discussions regarding US companies if the trend with the current administration is to continue.

The big difference is that as of today, we are currently stuck with available alternatives, but it won't surprise me if many goverments start looking back into the computing diversity infrastructure that we had during cold war days.
Cold sore discovery identifies unknown trigger for those annoying flare-ups
I agree, and it seems like Brave agrees too. From https://brave.com/blog/brave-shields-manifest-v3/:

> For as long as we’re able (and assuming the cooperation of the extension authors), Brave will continue to support some privacy-relevant MV2 extensions—specifically AdGuard, NoScript, uBlock Origin, and uMatrix

I'm no fan of Brave, but it's nice to see that they at least somewhat acknowledge that they likely won't be able to support v2 forever. Only time will tell how long they're "able".
I'm not sure what you're getting at as you argue with me about maintenance and this guy about tear-downs.

Look at that Boston home for example, nearly nothing inside that home is original. Even the floors look replaced. Certainly all those windows, the siding, the roofing.

Look at the kitchen and baths, all redone in last 10 years probably.

Look at the bedrooms - mini splits, also probably done in last 10 years. You can probably assume a pretty good gut reno to get that all done, at which time they may have gone all the way to the studs and done electrical & plumbing.

I have friends who live in 100+ year old apartment buildings that once you reach a certain project size you might as well go down to the studs because the old fuse box electric isn't up to modern requirements and god knows what's in the pipes.

Do you think the furnace/boiler are original?

That $1.2M home may have had $400k of renovation work in the last decade, depending on how much was done all at once. My point was that "reasonable care" involves a lot of 5-figure projects over the years, or a giant 6-figure project per lifetime.
There is no single large market in Europe, everything is fractured by language and different cultures in each country. Monetizing it is also difficult.
What does “problematic” even mean here?
I feel like “looks like it’s written by AI” might become a critique of writing that’s very template-like, neutral, corporate. I don’t usually dislike it though, as long as the information is there.
Three bullet points AND three sentences?!! Get outta here...
I mean, it seems possible that with greater absolute wealth people might tolerate greater relative inequality but like … why run the experiment?

Anyway, that’s the path we are on - Piketty doesn’t hazard a guess about if/when society collapse, IIRC the point is just that things will only continue to get more unequal unless there’s a major crisis or some political intervention (e.g wealth or inheritance taxes - imagine trying to get the US to agree to that lol).

Also you can’t ignore relative inequality because wealth is strongly coupled to political power/influence.

Look at the head of DOGE - he spent $300m to get himself a top gov role, in charge of regulating his own business and restructuring US gov spending to suit his own whims.

In terms of percentages / orders of magnitude it’d be like your avg citizen spending $100 for a top gov role.
This "company" must one very angry guy...who also fanatic about Linux and OSS (which is fine btw); but boy! he's got the worst sales strategy ever :)
I am very skeptical of a fusion startup claiming to provide commercial power in the 2020s, and I would like any media to be appropriately skeptical as well. If it’s not, then I wouldn’t feel informed at all.
This is like the potential of High-Speed Rail.

It isn't a theoretical, it's something China is 30+ completed projects deep on. The technology existed decades ago. We just treat infrastructure like it's an impossibility here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-high-voltage_electricity...
They don't say the binaries are proprietary. "To use the compiled binaries, you must own the game." is not a statement about licensing, which is why it is not under the "license" section. It's a statement about completeness of the repository: it doesn't include the game data which you need to obtain separately buy buying the game. This is pretty much standard for open source releases of old games.
Like using <table> for layout, <center> is still unreasonably convenient.
>Geothermal has similar economics.

Doesn't the ground itself act as an energy reservoir for geothermal? I haven't looked this one up, but it definitely seems like geothermal should be very dispatchable.
Trickle down economy is totally going to work. Just wait another couple decades! /s
Then we might have reached the point to discuss whether it’s enough to lift the worst-off to some minimum where they can survive or whether we’re in a position now to also enable participation on broad scale.

Right now it looks like wealth is self-enforcing. Across certain thresholds, you can get an expert or have the network to help with your taxes, legal issues, investment strategy and so on. Maybe you even inherited it all from your parents. There are certainly prominent counter examples of people who crossed these thresholds with their own hard work. The majority of people does not.
Spielberg did a great job on Animaniacs, so it is possible to do well.

Many modern cartoons are 3D-rendered, and I feel a bit "uncanny-valley" about them. That may be, because I was raised on the classics.
As someone with degrees in both law and mathematics I was struck by the similarities in the subjects when I learn law. Everyone was surprised when I told them that... except for my cousin, a mathematician. It didn't surprise him at all.

Law (analytically - practically it is about problem solving, strategy, tactics, understanding your client's problems, clear presentation of ideas, etc. like any other business) is all about logic, reasoning, thinking clearly, separating precedent and antecedent, the logical flow of ideas, etc.

In practice, legal reasoning is more inductive than deductive (not entirely), which means if has a different flavour in practice. It is still just as much about logic.

But don't get distracted by things like the standard of proof etc. That has much more to do with the fact that you are making decisions based on unreliable and imperfect information, as opposed to reasoning about entirely abstract ideas like a mathematician.
Absolute sovereignty is the important detail that brings the strategic reserve argument into complete focus. There are many types of wealth but none of them offer the level of freedom against censorship and external interference that bitcoin does. In an increasingly multipolar world bitcoin offers the greatest degree of self sovereignty for individuals and nations alike.
Just because it didn’t work for your hair doesn’t mean it wasn’t a good decision to eat it, though! I have ADHD, and broccoli (which has folate) helps me focus.
No it doesn't. You are allowed to require payment before you provide a copy of open source software.
I thought we were talking data and security, not ideology.
Look into about:support, what does `HARDWARE_VIDEO_DECODING` and sibling features say? If it's off, you could try force-enabling video acceleration by setting `gfx.webrender.all` to `true` in about:config. I've had it force-enabled for years with no issues.
Nice write up, however personally I'd take ERB over Phlex a million times.

Sure ERB is another DSL and some things are not perfect. But for the mark-up you write actual HTML instead of having to learn and get used to writing blocks for each element.

I guess to each their own, you enjoy rails with Phlex and I will with ERB.

I think the bigger challenges with emails is that action mailer itself is a little dated and feels cluttered. Most email clients being a nightmare with the actual rendering and not being able to use stylesheets etc makes it even harder... So I'd love to see a general iteration on action mailer to bring it up to the level of Rails 8
Where are the trillions of chicken/cow/pig/duck/dog fossils from everyones lunch last week?
See. But building a jet engine that "just works" without a particular profitability is not at all hard. Like, one that burns 50% fuel for same thrust than the best state of the art. That's about the level of disposable engines used in cruise missiles and drones.
One of the reasons the military has so many independent branches is that it would take all of them to rebel and join the opposing side in order to win. It's impossible to tell how they would side in a real internal conflict and the whole apparatus probably has to break down first before they will ever officially take sides of a force that opposes the federal government. At that point there will be total chaos and the wealthiest people can once again swoop in, amass the most powerful force and take over.
> Every explanation of git I have seen starts by explaining that git is cool because branches are just pointers and then talks about the index/staging area.

Which is precisely _not_ a "just memorise these commands" approach to git right?

Also re: your general snark - try a bit more empathy? I'm sure you are an experienced dev but we are talking about people LEARNING git, they don't have the same points of reference as you do today.
Is it connected to the network?
Of course this will be the case, but probably not for the reasons you are concerned about. It is because a lot of people have been enabled by these tools to realize they are able to do things they thought were beyond them.

The opaque wall that separates the solution from the problem in technology often comes from the very steep initial learning curve. The reason most people who are developers now learned to code is because they had free time when they were young, had access to the technology, and were motivated to do it.

But as an adult, very few people are able to get past the first obstacles which keep them from eventually becoming proficient, but now they have a cheat code. So you will see a lot more capable programmers in the future who will be able to help you fix this backlog of bad code -- we just have to wait for them to gain the experience and knowledge needed before that happens and deal with the mistakes along the way.

This is no different from any other enabling technology. The people who feel like they had to struggle through it and pay their dues when it 'wasn't easy' are going to be resentful and try and gatekeep; it is only human nature.
Real world education story: I struggled with Calculus, having to take it 3 times before passing. I went to my professor and explained to him that I was simply unable to conceptualize what we did to solve calculus problems as not being arbitrary steps. I showed him a software program I wrote that translated my Latin homework into English, and remarked how the rules we use to solve calc problems feel like just another Latin translator. Then I showed him that I was finally getting the calc problems right by doing them with statistics first, and then knowing the statistical answer I'd play with the calc rules until I got the same answer as I got from statistics.

He was quite surprised, and we discussed what I was doing at length. He asked me what I wanted as a career, and I told him that I already had a video game studio, products in the market, and simply wanted to get better, maybe pursue that new field of 3D computer graphics. (This was '83). My professor completely changed his course and nature of his homework, it was still Calculus 1 and 2, but he was using video game situations and simulations and illustrating the duel nature of solving with statistics or with calculus and when one is the choice over the other. That class, that single professor's insight to modify his course set me on a track that led to a career many dream about, some disbelieve when I relate it, my career has been stellar.
Pity that the videos were accompanied by such cheesy music. A soundtrack derived from telemetry would have been killer. Example project here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbLdd1fdNg5ymNYshv2xW...
Your construction is wrong. Just over half of voters selected Trump, about 77 million people. There are about 244 million people that are eligible to vote, and millions more citizens than that.

(The point being, his active support is probably not quite so high as 1/2 the country)
Sorry, but statistical significance has a pretty narrow meaning, and it's wrong.

> 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.

I'm not arguing to remove it from the vocabulary. I'm arguing that that bloomin' threshold is the source of many problems.

The article also isn't about methodology, it's about the secondary school curriculum. To provide pupils with a false understanding of statistics is just bad. And to teach them why it's bad, is hard.
Environmental is another form of storytelling. Not everything needs to be explained in detail.
> 2. Reviews are not just about the code's potential mechanics, but inferring and comparing the intent and approach of the writer. For LLMs, that ranges between non-existent and schizoid, and writing it yourself skips that cost.

With humans you can be reasonably sure they've followed through with a mostly consistent level of care and thouhht. LLMs will just outright lie to make their jobs easier in one section while in another area generate high quality code.

I've had to do a 'git reset --hard' after trying out the Claude code and spending $20 bucks. It always seems great at first, but it just becomes non-sense on larger changes. Maybe chain of thought models do better though.
Yes, this is true. The federal government already has the US dollar. It does not need "another one". Why would it?
Stickman Michael Jackson; complete with moon walk, anti grav lean, side glide, circle slide, and a toe lean at the end. Crotch grab optional (maybe on click?).