skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You think I'm writing these comments for 'political convenience'? How strange.

I think you are interpreting evidence to support your preferred narrative without considering alternative explanations. Which is what i meant by politically convinent.

> Ordinary people aren't fighting for stripping environment regulations, or clamoring to make defense contractors billions of dollars.

Ordinary (working class people) people who work in those industries tend to be ok with it (arguably that is what makes capitalism insidious).

> "Only" 57%? 57% is 'most'. By any and every definition.

> And if you compare that to the ~3% (at absolute max) of media and political figures who argue for public healthcare, you may start to see what the problem is.

57% is a little more than half, which suggests the issue isn't correlated very strongly with class given you are counting only at most 3% as upper class.

Remember that if this issue had nothing to do with class you would expect 50% support (assuming the actual relavent variable was equally present in the sample group). The baseline is not 0% (or 3%) as that is what would happen if it was a class issue in the opposite direction (what you would get if lower classes hated the idea). ~50% suggests it is not a class issue but has some other cause that is more evenly distributed in the sample group.

Obviously this survey is the wrong type of survey to determine much of anything since its not broken down by demographics.

> This class war which we are all in (whether we are aware of it or not) has casualties; one of them is our more vulnerable and easily manipulated brethren. That's why it's "only" 57% - because lifelong propaganda does indeed have an effect, especially on the easily swayed.

Convinent that anyone who disagrees is just being manipulated.

I'm not neccesarily even saying that is untrue - propaganda exists for a reason; it can be very effective. However if you assume everyone who disagrees is swayed that is a dangerous path. Its non-falsifiable. How do you distinguish between people swayed by propaganda and people who legitamently disagree. Hell, if you are going down this path, why do you assume the 57% that want free healthcare are the real preference instead of the swayed by propaganda group? When you start believing this type of thing it starts to become pointless since you can always spin it as if everyone agrees with you regardless of if they actually do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-57

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oreshnik_(missile)

And the S550 prototypes are looking great.

> They are a full scale paper tiger

This is a bad approach to take, even if you're right.
I think they are pointing out that the current admin is doing the "sharpie on the hurricane path", or the "if you don't test for it you don't have cases" sort of approach.

But like those two ridiculous events, it's much, much larger than just government cuts. I mean...it doesn't even account for government cuts yet.
I mostly agree, but struggle with saying this with perfect certainty.

Understanding in the "have mental model of the world, apply it, derive thoughts from that model, derive words from thoughts" pattern is a thing they don't do the way we do.

But understanding of some kinds CAN be encoded into tokens and their relationships. They're clearly capable of novel, correct inferences, that are not directly contained within their training sets.

I all-but-guarantee my "My fish suffocated when I brought it to space, even though I gave it a space suit filled with pure water, why?" test case is not something it was explicitly trained on, but it correctly inferred "Because fish need oxygenated water"
NASA shows shock waves as Boom's supersonic demonstrator breaks sound barrier
One? Heselden's the only one to come immediately to mind. That the owner of the company should drive its product off a fatally high cliff is embarrassing, but still quite literally n=1.
The HN submission title is editorialized in a non-helpful way. Why beat a dead horse instead of focusing on what’s actually new in TFA?

The linked paper proposes an obvious-in-retrospect form of data augmentation: shuffle the order of the premises, so that the model can’t rely on spurious patterns. That’s kinda neat.
The only issue Microsoft has to worry about is legacy COM add-ins for Office products. The 'modern' method of creating add-ins has been around for awhile and has the benefit of also working on macOS and the web, plus not having an add-in that can crash the particular Office product, doesn't require an install on Windows, more secure, etc. etc... There are benefits to Microsoft and to end users. Migrating complex COM add-ins to modern add-ins is still a big lift.

The app itself (Outlook) dropping COM support is simply given it no longer needs COM support for add-ins, it can drop COM itself.
I'm sorry to break the news to you, but for a large section of the world population (especially in the global South), the US was the villain for a long time before Trump came along - and I don't mean only in the "evil empire" countries.

Trump only managed to spread this sentiment into the West, where it wasn't dominant so far, and sow doubts among formerly close allies.
It's not really possible to make a green star because the color is mostly just determined by the temperature, with colder stars being redder and hotter being blue. A green star would just be a white star, or a star with the same temperature as the sun, whose peak output is in the green range, but having almost equal amounts of light in the blue and red range, appearing white. There is no way to "squish" the black body spectrum into a narrower range, it is determined by the Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution of velocities of particles in a gas.
> then inflation would have been lower in countries like Germany that didn't overstimulate

Germany massively stimulated to the tune of 15% (fiscal) and 25% (guarantees) of GDP [1].

[1] https://www.imf.org/en/Topics/imf-and-covid19/Fiscal-Policie...
Europeans don't like Americans, but are happy for Uncle Sam to bankroll their defense while they take 4-6 week summer vacations, retire at 60 with pension, have free education and throw away welfare on illegal migrants.

Maybe it's time to cut down the $700+B/year of spending on NATO and let the proud Europeans pick up the slack?
Also ethical problems with paid staff and executives that treat the volunteer donation system like a business.

See: various blood-donation-borne disease scandals in history.

Nobody seems to ask for those positions to all become volunteer/unpaid.

Nevertheless, there seems enough blood from a donation-only system, but not so for plasma (or most other live donation systems).
Robot wars but instead of 1v1 you have large teams of drones on a well enclosed football field.

I can't decide if that would be cool or terrifying.
Years ago at Google, the permissions system (OG ganpati, for the googlers) was having major performance issues related to OOM in Java. IIRC there was an epic thread where folks discussed potential resolutions including, this being Java, GC tuning. But in the end, string interning was what helped a ton to defer the scaling issues until something else could be done (mostly a rewrite, smh). I mostly remember this as being a shocking solution to me. Part of me imagined there'd be some fancy scalable solution instead of single-binary optimization, but at the end of the day sometimes you just gotta intern some strings.
Will we ever be able to build a war interface for remote controlled drones that is so good it just feels like an RTS game? Or will latency be an issue.
So,the api provider, like stripe, is supposed to publish a second API?

And then the "end developer" who is going to be making a chatbot/agent, is supposed to use that to make a chatbot?

Why does the plan involve there being multiple third party developers to make n products per provider? If the plan is to have third parties be creative and combine, say, Stripe with Google Ads, then how is a second API for LLMs useful.

I'm not seeing the vision here. I've seen something similar in a project where a guy wanted LLM developers to use his API for better browsing websites. If your plan involves:

1- Bigger players than you implementing your protocol
2- Everybody else doing the work.

It's just obviously not going to work and you need to rethink your place in the food chain.
> No built-in cross-database querying, making complex analytics difficult without a dedicated data lake

I've looked at Turso before and this is exactly what came to mind. I do see some use cases where it could work, but for most real-world applications, this is an absolute red flag that shouldn't be overlooked.
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I always wondered about the choice of 2 years, it's fascinating to learn that the original choice was 3 months. What motivated the change? Is 3 months so short that it captures "noise" not related to long term planning or something?
It's important to note that a robot gone rogue is still a killer robot even if the robot doesn't hate you.
Because he is not a trillionaire yet.
Because he can.
Who among the crew that is that wealthy stops trying to get even more? Come on.
You made plenty of points that I don’t necessarily agree with, but the one I’d love to see data for is that the people’s who’s loans are being forgiven don’t “need” that money!
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Too complicated. Americans don't even understand the much simpler and (IMHO) sufficient ranked choice voting [1]. Alaska, a deep red state, sent a Democrat to Congress because the voters split their votes between 2 Republican candidates because they didn't rank both candidates.

While I think RCV would be better, I still don't think it solves the problem. There are a bunch of ways in which our system is designed to create a two party system, such as what constituionally happens if no candidate gets a majority of votes in the electoral college [2].

That aside, look at other countries. Has more than two parties really helped in practice? Germany, the UK, Israel and France all have 3+ parties in their house of representatives equivalent and all have swung to the right.

Practically speaking, we could solve a bunch of our problems by simply repealing the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929 [3], which set the number of House members to 435 and a district size of 700k+. This would take a simple majority in the House and Senate and would revert district sizes back to 30,000. This would kill gerrymandering, practically speaking.

[1]: https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/3624553-re...

[2]: https://www.usa.gov/electoral-college

[3]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reapportionment_Act_of_1929
Until 800==650 the headline's off
The US was already granted its mulligan in 2020. And then 4 years later the populace went and double down on all of this. It won't be so easy going forward.
Those numbers are significantly smaller than the American numbers, yes? Also, Germany kept their deficit under 3%.
Enabling Touch ID for sudo on macOS, before and after Sonoma (2023)
That claim sounds like a quote from a paper but it's not from the currently linked paper. The paper itself seems more like antidote to the problem and does seem to roughly assume the claim.

I like the claim and I'd guess it's true but this seems like a weird way to introduce it.
So many were saved, surely someone here must have been saved by him, or has a child who was saved?
Heating in particular is an especially easy problem to solve; various kinds of thermal energy storage (sensible-heat, phase-change, TCES) can store heat for later climate-control purposes several orders of magnitude more cheaply than batteries. Washing your clothes is a harder problem, although a stockpile of clean clothes is easily stored.

Predicting how willing Swedes will be 10 years from now to buy extra jeans and install phase-change energy storage in their houses, however, that's beyond anybody's ability.
Maybe should not but as long as I can remember we have. Individual terrorists have always had a bit of a following on here.

The unabomber has always been popular here, I saw his manifesto mentioned as recommend reading several times over the years. When he died the comments were initially neutral-to-positive, some even openly admiring. Sentiment shifted but is still very very far from consensus condemnation. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36272409

When israel booby trapped pagers and detonated them in public places, injuring thousands of civilians, HN came out overwhelmingly in favor of this attack. There is certainly some quibbling in the comments about the precise definition of "terrorism" vs "war crime" and people did fight against the consensus. But again it is extremely striking how favorably those actions were viewed here vs in less america- and tech-centric venues. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41567299 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41580205

Anyway just a couple of recent examples. I don't think this is a good thing, but for better or worse this is a place where quite a lot of people support (some) terrorists.
I'm gonna be honest, I thought the story was over when they started talking about "oh hey here's this hypervisor code that loads extensions", because obviously extensions are going to be a massive increase in attack surface. But even then, the system wasn't actually broken by the extension being badly designed; the extension was just the most useful target to use the actual attack on.

How the hell has this the Xbox 360 hypervisor remained basically impenetrable? You'd think at some point, someone would write and sign a hypervisor extension with a cripplingly bad memory safety bug. Hell, Apple's PPL[0] has better hardware isolation than Xenon's hypervisor mode[1] and it still gets 0wned more often.

[0] Page Protection Layer. On Apple processors, every ARM exception level has a corresponding guarded exception level that has privileges over the regular one; chiefly corresponding to memory management.

[1] On Xenon, the hypervisor runs in "real mode" plus HRMOR; Apple PPL's GL1/2 still have virtual memory and page table permissions.
this is a deeply insightful comment, thank you.

i worked at a FAANG for six years and this matches my experience. there's a variety of responses:

- to burn out. sometimes the flameout is spectacular, other times it's a quiet, lonely exit.

- to "go with the flow." soft-quit, accept that the dysfunction is there and narrow your own expectations within it

- (rarely) to productively challenge it, and -- through picking battles and careful resource management -- push through and make something truly good for yourself or your reports.

this is situational. all three are often present in one career at different times.
> Government spending drove <50% of ~2022 inflation

Totally. But if prices were up under 18% (3.5%/y) over the last five years instead of 37% (6.6%) [1], I don’t think we’d have Trump.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PCE
> 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".

Anyone know what's up with the surge of gold imports? We don't have gold tariffs, right? Are people hedging against the dollar's instability?
At which point does a "thing that moves by itself" like a Railway crossing and a thing that keeps itself in an upright position become a robot that needs to determine if an action can lead to physical harm on something else or itself?

I do not thing this thing can be cautious because it is a remote controlled car with 2 legs and everything the "AI" part is doing build down to keeping balance and locating the position that it hardcoded needs to grab.

Or in other words there is an operator, like with an RC car or a real car.
Shouldn't the response header returned by Chrome say "4-138724" then though, and not "4-1943507"? The synthesized response body doesn't include bytes "138725-1943507".
But the Content-Range header and the Content-Length header both indicated the "expected" number of bytes e.g. the number of bytes that would have been returned if the server had given a 206 or a 200, not the truncated number of bytes that the response actually contained. Is that expected?

The latest response from the Chromium team (https://issues.chromium.org/issues/390229583#comment20) seems to take a different approach from your comment, and says that you should think of it as a streaming response where the connection failed partway through, which feels reasonable to me, except for the fact that `await`ing the response doesn't seem to trigger any errors: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/390229583#comment21
I hope the comments here don't end up quibbling about the practicality or economics of this toaster specifically, because the point here is the process. This project involves reverse engineering, designing from scratch, manufacturing, developing beginner-accessible documentation, and performing real-world user studies. We should be encouraging people to do more of this!
I can give you some anecdata on this. Just yesterday I was talking with my Trump-supporter family members, and they literally had no idea he'd been convicted for felony fraud - they thought his only charges were related to the sexual assault accusations from E. Jean Carroll and they hand-waved those away with gusto anyway.

So to answer your question: It's all fine and going on as expected for them, and if you tell them otherwise you're labeled an alarmist crybaby democrat.
That's a lot of JS for a static site. For some reason it hijacked my keyboard shortcuts for back and forward.
Reminds me of Yamaha, pianos and motorcycles sharing name and logo.
> If the Democrats even remotely demonized wealth

The point is we have strong rhetoric around both. That is internally inconsistent.
I think that's unlikely. My theory is that the voters will prefer to blame immigrants, Muslims, DEI, the Woke mob, Democrats, trans people, Antifa, and RINOs in approximately that order.

If Hitler could convince 65 million Germans that all their problems were caused by a million Jews, Trump should be able to manage something similar.
Or a society in which only just laws are on the books.
The same person did NT for PowerMacs[0], which was discussed earlier[1].

[0] https://github.com/Wack0/maciNTosh

[1] Windows NT for Power Macintosh (github.com/wack0)

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40945076
Then after that, they passed Hawley Smoot Tariff Act to make up for the budget short fall. That caused an already bad situation to get much, much worse.
Trump literally made a shitty economy his first term. Farmers had to be bailed out.

They all insisted on voting for Trump "for the economy".

When you opt-in to a controlled media ecosystem, you can be convinced of anything.
America buys from China, Brazil, Russia, and Iran even though we have not always had the best relationships.
Why is it real GDP when a government contractor makes a PDF report, but isn't real GDP when I make a poem?
I depend on litestream for production backups and as the months wear on without any releases I am getting more nervous. To be clear, I don’t feel entitled to anything with an open source project like this, but bug reports and fixes seem to be accumulating. I have flirted with the idea of building from main.

I’ve also flirted with the idea of forking litestream and stripping it down dramatically. The reason why is that I don’t like the idea of the production server being in charge of rotation and deletion. It seems like the thing getting backed up shouldn’t have the privilege of deleting backups in case it gets compromised. I might even go so far as to propose that the “even liter stream” process merely writes to a different local volume and then some other process does the uploading but I haven’t gotten beyond the daydream stage.
I'm so glad I ignored that stupid law.
You might not agree that a blank canvas is a $100k "art piece", but assuming both parties are sincere, what's the issue? It's not really any different than some luxury brand selling a $50 (being really generous here) t-shirt for $500.
the people who came up with this are obviously brilliant but being french myself, I really wonder why no one is proof-reading the english, this gives an overall bad impression of the work imho
Income taxes require extra infrastructure. If you can do everything buy-side, it'd cost less to implement I think.
Some Norwegian company posted that they would stop selling fuel to US ships after "the biggest shitshow ever presented 'live on TV' by the current American president and his vice president". They've since deleted said post, and Norway says it will keep fueling US ships at its ports. [0].

But also, "tens of thousands of people have joined Facebook groups!"

Peak journalism.
That's where tying elected representation to the issue is useful.

Relatively few folks vote in local elections: blanketing the city/county with "X is responsible for Y" can sway an election.
This only works within the European Union because the EU rules allow it.

It would not work between the US and Ireland.