skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The study analyzed two separate things:

* Change in engagement for posts by Elon Musk

* Change in engagement for republican content

It seems to me that when taken together, these two make a fair case that there was a change in algorithm on the given date?

Besides, the study you are claiming "is not science" did not even make strong claims as to there being an algorithm change. The study made an analysis, and concluded that they might point towards there being an algorithmic change.

Additionally, as you say "If the claim is that Musk tuned the algorithms at that special date, you have to prove it by other means". What other means exactly? We have no data to go on except observations of what happens on the platform. From the information we have it seems like everything points towards this being the case.

The case for manipulation happening furthered even more by Elon Musk repeatedly showing he is full of shit, and has no qualms lying and totally making stuff up. (see his repeated lies about Autopilot, his lie about being world class at video games, his lies about DOGE cuts, etc).

Before dismissing these findings, ask yourself honestly: would you apply the same rigorous standards of proof if the algorithmic changes benefited different political figures or viewpoints?
You can say the same about Trump, except words are not noble. Loud noise but do very little. Mainly pushing ally to accept the surrender terms.

Btw, EU spent more than USA, both military and financially.
Sowing chaos in foreign blocs is a classic far-right manoeuvre.
So this drug would mess with my head – am I understanding it right?
Because anorexia exists it would do harm to completely unregulate access to appetite suppressants. Someone should be looking out for people who would willingly wither away.
The blades are hollow and have air injected from where they attach to the outside edge and fin of the blade, so when it’s spinning the blade doesn’t contact the exhaust stream because it’s coated with a layer of relatively cold air. Same thing happens with your car pistons but using an inertial layer.

Image search for a turbine blade and you’ll understand as soon as you see it.

The reason you can’t shut the engine down or power off suddenly is because the blades and housing cool at different speeds, the clearance between the blade tips and housing is as close as possible.

To help with this, hot air from the turbine is sprayed onto the outside of the casing via a hot bleed air bypass when the ecm determines its necessary.

If you shut down suddenly the tips of the blades can contact the housing and best case rub, worst case break.

There’s another problem along these lines which really exemplifies how tight these tolerances are, on the a320, you need to do a bowed rotor procedure if you’ve been sitting with the engines off for 45 minutes before you restart. This involves turning the engine over with the apu to equalize the cooling throughout the engine because the core of the engine cools slower but there’s two shafts running through the middle. These shafts “bend” because the outside is cold but the middle is hot, they can then rub against each other ruining bearings etc.
As countless comments have pointed out, the "savings" here are insignificant. The purpose is to hurt the US, "to put [the state] in trauma".

That part is working. As planned.

One little ray of hope though. Project 2025 & Russell Vought are getting the trauma and suffering. But they aren't getting the key component that their plan was built on:

> When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains.

I don't think anyone is falling for this. I don't think the callous chainsaw-wielding cavalcade of wanton destruction is solidifying the GOP anti-government hate machine stance across America. Its not cool, it's not making the good people doing hard work for America look like villains. The Project 2025 deconstructionists are the minority here.

Thanks Empty Wheel for this key reminder. https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/28/russ-vought-got-his-tr...
I’m somewhat the same. I need to be active for other health reasons (physical therapy, etc) and not eating enough saps my ability to push forward physically.
Before browsers was Windows. Microsoft had dominance, and they lost it.

I think browser based Apps took over in business because (1) Windows had shit security and shit App deployment, (2) Microsoft somehow forgot about developers developers developers.
There’s at least one, although as a governor he may not count.

> From the Department of Education, Medicaid, the CDC, and more - Trump and Elon Musk are gutting the agencies and programs that protect Americans every single day.

https://bsky.app/profile/jbpritzker.bsky.social/post/3lisgh4...
I'm taking GLP-1s and it's absolutely reduced my impulsiveness in ways besides food. Not completely, for sure, and being less interested in food actually means more time to spend on other hobbies.

But it's definitely done something to my non-food behaviour, albeit I'm not sure what exactly. It may well be that I was previously trying to satiate my constant desperate hunger for food with other forms of harmful addictive behaviour, and without the hunger, I just don't need that as much. The concept of satisfying one craving with another isn't new, after all.
> A comfortable, yet completely unjustified, assumption.

I agree. Knowledgeable users are passing Play Integrity on rooted devices. The idea that these knowledgeable users who are willing to bypass local security checks are more trustworthy than users who honestly fail the security test feels like a strange stance on security.

If you want assurance that your code won't run on modified devices, don't let users run the code at all. Have them come into the bank branch and use hardware that you control.
'AI' Crawlers Hammering Git Repos Across the Web – A Rate Limiting Approach
You can use niche libraries and still benefit from AI, basically anything I want to code is something that I don't think exists, and to bend API in a way that makes a generic library do just what I want means basically writing the same code, just instead of contributing to library its immediate, because the "piping" around it magically appears. I bet if it keeps improving at a current late for a decade, the occupation "programmer" will morph into "architect".
I made a custom GPT of myself using my blog. It understood who I am, but wasn't able to replicate me very well, and mostly sounded like generic ChatGPT with some added interest in my interests.

I would imagine fine tuning with enough data would be different though
> No, facts can't contain undefined properties like "free and fair".

Free and fair are very much defined. It's why in democratic countries we have election observers and secret ballots, to remove or at least reduce possibilities of voter coercion.

> If Russia's military is so incompetent - Zelensky is going to win ~ soon, let's wait.

It remains to be seen whether Russia is incompetent enough to fail completely. They still have 4 times the population as Ukraine.

> You missed the point: Zelensky sees himself as a David from the metaphor, but reality is that he is a clown, not a leader, not even a politician, but rather a parody to one.

He's done remarkably well defending his country for a clown, don't you think?

> Yep. But Russia is at war and Europe is only cuckoldily fighting right now. Let Europe get into full blown war if they want to participate so much.

In that, we agree. Russia's barely making progress in a war with an opponent that, on paper, shouldn't have lasted a week. I'd be very interested to see how they do against a military with 4 times their funding.

> They got Ukraine military in the chokehold at the start of the operation, then Zelensky agreed to proceed with diplomacy and Russia pulled its forces back.

Oh, is that the Kremlin's reason for all those humiliating retreats in the initial months of the war?

> It goes quite slow for a few reasons: first of all, Russia isn't in a hurry: it gets really valuable first hand experience in modern warfare, the kind that almost none gets (even US hasn't fought a real war (without bombarding the area to the smithereens first) for quite a long time).

Ah, I see. So the 700,000 casualties Russia has incurred so far was worth it to get valuable, first-hand experience. Presumably the first lesson is: don't incur 700,000 casualties when fighting against a country a quarter your size.

> Another reason is that Russia successfully mobilized its economy for war time.

A "war time economy" comes at the cost of the civilian economy. Every man sent to Ukraine is one who can't work at home. Every piece of ordinance, every destroyed tank and plane, represents wasted investment that could be used to create civilian goods and services.

You need only look at the steadily rising interest rates to see the signs of an economy that's spending more than it's earning. Russia has poured billions into the Ukraine war; so has Europe, of course, but Europe's economy is 14 times larger. Europe can afford to outspend Russia.

> Another reason for going slow is that Russia isn't really fighting a genocidal war, where everyone on the other side is seen as an enemy, they just demilitarize Ukraine, fighting just its soldiers, trying not to harm civilians, and that's not so simple, actually.

Given the devastation to cities in Ukraine, they're very bad at avoiding civilian infrastructure. I know the Russian army's weapons are outdated and inaccurate, but are they really that inept?
People who don't need to be chronically medicated should not be. There are always side effects, and we don't even know for sure what the long term risks of these medications are yet.

And crowing about saving $200/mo not buying food at Starbucks, well now Novo Nordisk is getting that.

Toast a bagel at home for $0.50/day instead.
It's not orthogonal to affordability, it's in opposition to it.
You're saying you believe the response to Russia dropping a nuke on Ukraine would itself be nuclear in nature? There's no way anyone would do that, it would trigger a nuclear WWIII. No nuclear power (Russia or the others) would just sit by and let a nuke get dropped on their own head. They would immediately escalate back.
> alcohol spending fell 85%

You've replaced one drug with another. Freud would be proud.

> If you told someone in 1850 that air conditioning would reshape the global economy, they'd think you were crazy.

This is incredibly misinformed. You've lived /with/ refrigeration and /without/ malaria for so long you have no Earthly idea how people in the opposite state lived their lives or saw the world around them.

> We're discussing the first medication that effectively regulates human impulse control. Think about that.

It has side effects. Think about that.

> The significant economic impact occurs in the second and third-order effects.

Yes and many of them will be negative. This is hyper futurism with zero grounding in the past. This is extremely lazy writing.
I am a fan of Carroll Quigley's style of writing (Georgetown University professor and ole Slick-Willie's mentor). I find having DeepSeek restate articles in his style to be much more enjoyably ingestible.
> Not outperforming a placebo means they don't actually do anything.

SSRIs are potent pharmaceutical drugs that have multiple, very strong effects.

For example, Setraline (SSRI) is one of the most effective drugs to treat premature ejaculation. It used to be prescribed for exactly this purpose (and maybe still is).
If anything, this is one of the most pronounced and easily measurable effects of SSRIs.

If I took 25mg of setraline per day (extremely small dose) for a week, it would become impossible to ejaculate.

It also has a whole multitude of other effects that are more dependent on individual (age, gender, bodyweight, etc), some other effects for males are -> crushing testosterone levels, weakness.

For me personally, it turns me extremely, extremely emotional, makes me able to sleep all the time, and mentally turns you into a zombie where your lifes dreams and aspirations just disappear.

Does it help with depression? I would say no. That however doesn't mean it doesn't do anyting, because they do all sorts of things.
It is a very potent and poorly understood pharmaceutical.
I’m not calling them evil. I’m just trying to come up with a rationale answer for why storefronts would be left vacant for extended periods of time.
> It's well known the russian elite contain a large pro-western contingent, though the public in russia is not and much more pro-war than the elite. Putin is looking at a way of returning the economic situation to a pre-war state without angering the public -- without it "all being for nothing" and so on.

It would be nice if it was true. Someone else might argue that Putin just wants to extend its empire westwards as much as he is allowed to.
“ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS, EXCEPT EUROPA.

ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE.

USE THEM TOGETHER. USE THEM IN PEACE.”

― Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38EDhpxzn2g
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What exactly is on the table? Putin will just stop? Don't make me laugh. You know his stated aims right?
For me, as an old-timer (?), the definition of a hacker has always been this one[^1], and it has little to do with the issues you're describing.

[^1]: https://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
Basically, a git repository for all the issues certificates.
From a doc, it was just a figure of speech. Most docs have no idea what a statistical distribution is.
Sir, please hold still while we insert you Neuralink.
> This is not AGI.
> Let's take an old version of the Wikipedia page about AGI, from end of 2022

sure, its not AGI by old wikipedia definition, which imo is human-centric and more definition of superintelligence (requires ability to exceed all existing humans in all tasks). But it is AGI by current wikipedia definition.
I don't get your strong objection. A 1.0 release that is fit for use by >80% of the addressable market, and gets high marks from those users is a "boondoggle"?

Perhaps you overestimate the fraction of taxpayers that itemize deductions, have gig/rental/business income?
Sorry about that. This is a default rails 8 setting, removed the blocker.
I would feel like an absolute failure if I need medicine to help create willpower.

EDIT: under the assumption of an average person who is not under any medical condition that may result in lack of willpower
Blink forked from Webkit more than a decade ago. There are tests that try to measure their compatibility, like https://wpt.fyi/results/?label=experimental&label=master&ali... (part of https://web-platform-tests.org/). They also have different JS engines these days (V8 vs JSCore).

That said, as a frontend dev, I very very rarely run into real world issues between Safari and Chrome. More often it's Firefox/Gecko that lags behind, usually in some sort of graphics optimization (SVG and canvas stuff). Also some differences in WebGL and webgpu support, but those are niche enough that it's not a big deal yet.
1. Sources vary from 40-45, but also mode not mean; population demographics makes mode go like that.

2. 25 is drafting young men; given where their shortages are there just isn't a benefit to reducing this to 18.
I do think this is a uniquely US problem. I know many places in Europe and Asia don't have this issue, yet nearly every city in the US faces it.
Now do Visual Studio. Give Visual Studio Code a spin, too, if you have time.
Which must make it the most MD comment I've seen in a long time. It's hilarious!
Are you saying the only way that citizens are informed of the current tax rates is through price tags?
That's cute. Also just reading the first part "Drone captures narwhals using their tusks..." my mind jumped to a more sinister interpretation, poachers using drones to spot and hunt narwhals by recognizing tusks with AI... I've clearly been reading too many AI headlines recently.
How much time Putin will need to break Minsk’s third ceasefire agreement?
And those is suppose to be a bad thing?
>it's likely underweight.

The only way this can possibly be correct is if you think that the "correct" weight is whatever the population average happens to be which is just...wild to me.

If we assume commenter is male (a statistical likelihood), then 20% is the high end of normal, and could very safely be halved. In the less likely case that they are female, then it is right in the middle of the normal range, and could safely be reduced by 5-10% at least.
Unreal how quickly this topic was flagged.

Almost like some people don't want to see the truth about tech-led or tech-supported corruption coming out.
I've never tried Muscimol (don't even know what is), but psilocibin is the only entheogen I'd recommend anybody experience more than just once / casually.

Cannabis is a daily part of my life, for two decades. In the same way I'm "trying to drink less coffee," I'm trying to vape less, too... but everybody should try LSD and/or DMT at least once in their lifetime (but not before becoming comfortable with psilocibin).
But 1 of 1000s? That sounds like it's made up, or a very, very, very fitness-focused company.
These are distinct senses of "random". Pi is conjectured (but not proven) to be a so-called normal number, which means that n-grams have uniform frequencies, so if you slide a window of size n over the digits, then every sequence of n digits will come up with equal frequency in the limit.

Chaitin's omega is "random" in a stronger sense. There is no finite algorithm that can produce the digits. There's no compact, finite representation from which you could "unpack" those digits. The digits are what they are, the best way to represent them is simply to list them.

Pi's digits are very "regular", but the pattern is not about repetitions in digits or skewed frequencies of certain digit sequences but that the digits follow from simple rules. A short program can generate those digits to arbitrary length. So in some sense they have redundancy, a kind of pattern to them.
Microsoft Outs Hackers Behind Tools to Bypass Generative AI Guardrails
Yes, and at the end of the day, these diagnosis aren't there to pathologize people, but to actually provide help, even if critics don't believe so.

This is something you only understand if you dealt with neurodivergent people. Suddenly it all makes sense, once you learn that their brains filter and process information in a somewhat different way, resulting in all kinds of different observable symptoms.
Now do almost any modern video game, particularly those with Denuvo, if you have time.
I haven't seen anything on memory vulnerability issues. The project originated within a larger project to implement an operating system from scratch - including all dependencies (e.g. font parsing/shaping, image parsing, libc, you name it). That means that the project itself, and every single one of its dependencies, need to go through that whole cycle.
It’s not working
> military experts suggest would be a small scale nuclear strike on a Russian facility of proportional impact

You could attack those facilities with conventional weapons too. What would be the point of using nukes to achieve the same purpose? All it would do is to make it more likely they'd escalate back.
Which is why we can't give in and establish that nuclear powers can do whatever they want. That way just leads to getting closer and closer to nuclear war with every country now having to have their own nukes, not further from the risk of nuclear annihilation.
He should've tested 4.5. This model is hallucinating much less than any other model.
I would point out that it isn't unforeseen, given that genz don't drink, go out or do drugs to anywhere near the extent that millennials did at the same age. (https://www.statista.com/chart/30783/alcohol-consumption-by-...)

I would also gently point out the evidence for tempering alcohol only seems to be evident with people who have high BMI https://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/clinical-areas/mental-heal...

So yes, its worth thinking about how our economy is organised.

But the thing that is going to kneecap the US economy in the short terms are one of the following:

o Tariffs

o Cutting government spending (especially welfare)

o a steep rise in unemployment caused by government firing of civil servants

o fucking with the structure of the monetary system

o AI eliminating whole classes of jobs (taxi driving, phone centers, clerical work, etc etc)
I’ve been hyper aware of the muscle loss caveats and I think it’s the most important thing to know when starting the drug.

You really need to prioritize protein intake and make sure your calorie deficit isn’t extreme.

Losing too much weight too quickly, with or without the help of a drug, can be very unhealthy.

I drink 4 protein shakes a day (160g total) in addition to regular food. If it weren’t for the protein shakes I definitely would be protein deficient.

You’re 100% spot on with decreased energy at the gym. I’ve had to pull back 4x weekly cardio to 1-2x weekly. Then again, anyone who’s in a calorie deficit has lower energy. It’s not a unique phenomenon of the drug, just a side effect of weight loss.
You can't build a liquid-fueled rocket engine without a pump, can you? The liquid will just stay in the tank unless there's something pressurizing it to a higher pressure than you achieve inside the rocket's combustion chamber, won't it?

An electric pump still sounds much more complex than a jet engine, which has, I believe, one moving part to both compress that incoming air and harness the exhaust. Admittedly, it's a moving part subject to high stresses, high temperatures, stringent balancing requirements, and demanding aerodynamics, so the larger number of parts in the electric pump might still be easier to make.

Ultimately I think long-distance aviation will probably get electrified by way of abundant renewable energy powering electrical synthesis of synfuel on the ground which its engines burn.
Open Source and the Oligarchy: Banned from Discussion
I do not assume anyone is obviously wrong and prefer to ask questions. Most bugs exist in classes, and variants are something you typically consider when a bug results in a production incident.

I'm not sure I read anything that makes me confident this class of bugs could never recur. I could be reasonably confident this _exact_ bug in this _exact_ scenario may not happen again, but that only makes me more concerned about variants that may have equal or more serious implications.

So I'm wondering which claim did it for you? I only really saw pen test as a concrete action.
In Vienna you can see a narwhal tusk that was sold to the emperor as a unicorn’s horn. I’d love to know the story - probably a dead narwhal washed up in a beach, someone took the horn, then how many hands it passed through before making it to the Austrian empire, and who actually believed it was from a unicorn?
> I really don't get how so many people can get LLMs to code most of their tasks without those issues permanently popping up

They can't, they usually just don't understand the code enough to notice the issues immediately.

The perceived quality of LLM answers is inversely proportional to the user's understanding of the topic they're asking about.
I wonder how easy it would be to influence super LLMs if a particular group of people created enough articles that were clear to any human reader that it's a load of garbage and rubbish and should ignore it but if a LLM was to parse it wouldn't realise and then ruin it's reasoning and code generation abilities?
What are you smoking? 20% is a perfectly healthy bodyfat number and (for a man) anything down to 15% or so is fine. Sub 10% is when you pretty much need a crazy bodybuilder lifestyle to maintain it. And on the other side, 25% is around the lien where you start facing some minor health risks from excess body fat.