skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My first project at DOGE is improving the slow and paper-based retirement process.

What does that mean, I wonder?

I’m sure there’s some streamlining of social security paperwork that could be done... but looking at the Trump / Musk / Republican playbook, I can only assume this means massive cuts to SS.
SEC – Staff Statement on Meme Coins
wait is not that just real life
Five-minute cement quality test could replace week-long standard
APIs for CEX
One liner: API to help developers build apps on top of crypto exchanges

I'm launching Bluvo (https://bluvo.co).
After 2 years of running DipSway (https://dipsway.com) we want to help out new projects and established companies with their crypto infrastructure.

We want companies to build anything off-chain with Bluvo. It's a One API that lets you interact with all centralized crypto exchanges.

Build: wallet trackers, infrastructures, trading bots, tax & accounting softwares.

We just launched our playground: https://playground.bluvo.co/connect/exchange/button
Interested? Let's talk: https://calendly.com/help-bluvo/30min
Make the Apple logo on the back of the laptop be a full color display that lights up with the rainbow when you run the full screen Apple ][ simulator.
> When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox.

It's bad that it says that, because the "us" in this sentence should absolutely not be doing anything that requires such a license, and should not have a copy of it in order to do so; but "Mozilla owns" is also not a correct summary of it.
In a thread about cynicism, a poster wonders why don't more cars come with dangerous features
SpaceX is the leading rocket agency in the world. That that might be someone you don't like at the helm is secondary. If you're a world renowned rocket scientist, where else would you want to work? Boeing? Move to China? A theoretical SpaceX that didn't have Elon Musk at the helm? Blue Origin? Not to denigrate the people that work at either of those, but building the Falcon 9 is something I'd be proud to tell my kids, if I was a rocket scientist.
I have known about this game for a while. I have never bought it because I fear for my productivity.
I was unaware, thank you!
That assumes it's a possibility for him
I always get stuck with this. That yes, I could not have made any other decision, but that decision is still mine to make.

It's like being able to predict what someone is going to do, because you know them and how they think, and what decision they will make when presented with the choice, doesn't stop that from being their choice.

The universe may be deterministic, but my personality is still my personality. It is encoded into the chemical make-up of my brain, and so that complex chemistry behaves in ways that align with my personality. My personality is shaped by my previous experience, but it's still my personality. I still choose, even though the universe can predict all of my choices, because the thing I do the choosing with is part of the process.

And this seems very like the argument about intelligence and instinct. If I respond in a certain way to an event, is it because I am intelligent and "thinking" about my response, or is it instinctual and coded into my meat to respond this way? How would I tell the difference?

Same with free will, how would I tell the difference between a choice I freely made and one I didn't?
I will gladly uBlacklist (browser extension) medium, substack cancer off my searches

Less of a product probably doesn't exist on the internet. Its one step from a link shortener.
I've used both outlooks, Gmail, and a few other clients, and I think the problem isn't that these are all bad but they are all trying to solve a bad problem. So there never will be a good solution just good enough for someone. There are lots of other problems where we blame the tools and never have a universally loved tool: task planning (Jira), and ERP (Oracle) are some examples.

What I would be happy with is if I could use markdown (sans html tags) everywhere. In my emails, in notes, hell I would love if I could use it in word.
A depressing, but relatable perspective. Makes me imagine a world where the metrics politics use to assess success actually align with societal well-being.
> We know more people would die without vaccines.

We don't keep up any relevant research to prove that out. Vaccine studies don't use placebo controls, meaning we only know how they compare against what is usually the last approved vaccine. If you tell people that we know for certain that more people would die today without a particular vaccine you're lying, we simply can't know that without testing it.

> And herd immunity protects those that can't be protected by vaccines, your "experiment" would put them at risk as well.

How can we know herd immunity works as we predict it should without testing it? Its an untested hypothesis, and that's totally fine if we're not willing to risk testing it. We can't act as though it is scientific fact at that point though, its a hypothesis that a large majority agree with but that has yet to be tested in any significant way.
Why? Only one of them is intent on actively destroying the US Gov't.
We basically had a single table that we wanted to be able to nest on itself arbitrarily. Think categories and subcategories, maybe 100k nodes/rows

Postgres worked fine but cypher is so much more expressive and handles stuff like loop detection for you, neo4j was much easier to work with. Performance wasn't ever really an issue with either.
If every request is quick, you can easily re-use connections, file handles, threads, etc. If requests are slow, you will often need to spin up new connections, as you don't want to wait for the response that might take hundreds of milliseconds.

But I did start by saying it's not important. It's a small difference, unless you hit a connection limit.
No wonder Vault is now trying to get me to pay $50 a month to store more than 25 secrets. Enshittifucation has already begun.
Lyx is a pretty great alternative to Overleaf, but transferring files from one platform to another can be a hassle, at least for me.
Honestly, so far if you can afford the up-front investment for the space you need, and the ongoing power costs, a NAS with a RAID array (or similar redundancy scheme) that can tolerate more than one drive failure at a time is probably the best long term archival storage. Spinning rust disks in my experience rarely completely fail without warning so you can usually catch and replace failing media before data loss occurs. Additionally if you don't, I've found that recovering data from failed HDD is also usually "easier" and "cheaper" for most values of both compared to other media storage (admittedly with no experience with recovering tape media)
>"GPT4.5, the most knowledgable model to date"
>Knowledge cutoff: October 2023
Your posts are always out there but this one seems completely divorced from reality. On what basis? He didn't pass any laws, he's attacking "DEI" whatever that is...
> In 1938, Ford was awarded Nazi Germany's Grand Cross of the German Eagle, a medal given to foreigners sympathetic to Nazism

~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford#Honors_and_recognit...

By US standards, Musk is pretty good. And I doubt there'll be any economic consequences for him no matter what ideologies he holds. The literal next line on Wikipedia is "The United States Postal Service honored Ford with a Prominent Americans series (1965–1978) 12¢ postage stamp".
> Don't editorialize

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Tell me to exit my echo chamber as you post a liberal source for a liberal narrative, nice! Try finding factual statistics and report back, we will wait.
Anyone think this is to afford the ability to run a remote AI service which provides services that would be improbable to run locally?
Is that because anyone is finding real use for it, or is it that more and more people and companies are using it which is speeding up the rat race, and if "I" don't use it, then can't keep up with the rat race.
Many companies are implementing it because it's trendy and cool and helps their valuation
I looked deeper into the first case and it doesn’t look like a random border check. He was a political activist who got in touch with a member of terrorist organization, if I understand it correctly. There was a massive media campaign to present this case in a certain way, but at least two courts confirmed the legality of the demand to unlock the devices.

The abuse of power means they could detain him indefinitely etc (as it happens in countries where abuse of power is common). But in this case he had the right to defend himself in the court and he used it.

This is very far from the situation where encryption is illegal, all communications are transparent to the state and it can search for incriminating data without asking.
> A h2 proxy usually wouldn't proxy through the http2 connection, it would instead accept h2, load-balance each request to a backend over a h2 (or h1) connection.

Each connection need to keep state of all processed requests (the HPACK dynamic headers table), so all request for a given connection need to be proxied through the same connection. Not sure I got what you meant, though.

Apart from that, I think the second sentence of my comment makes clear there is no smuggling as long as the connection before/past proxy is http2, and it's not downgraded to http1. That's all that I meant.
Just wanted to chime in and say it’s nice to see someone from IT on the site. I love the site and can follow a lot of things but feel like it’s mostly developers here.
I wonder if he had done more than insulted or fired people. With his wealth, he could inflict more damage to his enemies.
One revelation I had was when hearing Joyce reading it out loud [1] and realizing how much of the weirdness is just phonetic spelling.

I had a similar a-ha moment listening to Fiona Shaw perform T. S. Eliot's The Wasteland [2] — now I can't stand anyone reading it without doing the "characters" (e.g. Gielgud's awful version).

[1] https://youtu.be/M8kFqiv8Vww?si=FjTwYqBvBCjZnlJl

[2] https://youtu.be/lPB_17rbNXk?si=MvEZRGx8PlRO6zvN
Conspiracy theory: they’re trying to tank the valuation so that Altman can buy it out at bargain price.
Top shelf question-begging there, counselor.
I get some animal farm vibe reading this. I'm looking at the US gov and I'm looking a the cartels, and I can't figure out which one is which.
The way this US gov is operating, they pretty much operate likes cartels "we are the boss, you stfu and you do as we say, or else".
One difference with food delivery/ride share: those can only have costs reduced so far. You can only pick up groceries and drive from A to B so quickly. And you can only push the wages down so far before you lose your gig workers. Whereas with these models we’ve consistently seen that a model inference that cost $1 several months ago can now be done with much less than $1 today. We don’t have any principled understanding of “we will never be able to make these models more efficient than X”, for any value of X that is in sight. Could the anticipated efficiencies fail to materialize? It’s possible but I personally wouldn’t put money on it.
I don’t really know - but the power of the Mexican Cartels suggests they have connections into the Mexican oligarchy.

More credible than a random guy in Thailand being “a pedo” because he disagreed with Musk.
This is 100% my experience. There are different captains, but since they share the same memory, there's an illusion that they are one. When you look into who is in the driver seat now at different times, it is clear that there are multiple drivers. Which one is driving now depends on the context and state of my brain.
When was Microsoft known for being anything but a provider of bloated software?
Yeah, the problem is my preference is for machines with styluses/handwriting/drawing capabilities (hence my fondness for the Newton).

Sadly, the iPad and its walled garden don't appeal to me --- the "click" of the Apple Pencil when it is touched to the screen drives me nuts --- really sad that there isn't a real successor to the Axiotron Modbook. I'm tempted by a Mac Mini w/ a Wacom Movink 13 screen, but it's quite low resolution compared to the Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360 I'm writing this out on.
Yes, that's the goal for the plugin system. The overall interface should not noticeably change from here on out.
Ea-nāṣir sold me poor-quality copper. I need high-quality copper. Therefore, I will buy loads of copper from Ea-nāṣir, and sift through it until I find high-quality copper.
Anecdotal, but I've noticed some men lose the need for sleep as they get older.
My problem is I support so many applicants which use MAPI calls to create emails to Outlook, and they haven’t and may never add support for MAPI to the web-based version. I kinda thing one reason they are trying to kill the classic Outlook is it’s getting harder to find programmers willing to maintain it.
Austerity Is Back, and More Dangerous Than Ever
A decade and a half after the global financial crisis, austerity has returned. But this time it is not just an economically dangerous idea that promises to make a bad situation worse; in the hands of Elon Musk and Argentine President Javier Milei, it is also a political weapon and a redistributive tool.
"What happens if I turn a table saw on and start breakdancing on it?"

Of course you're going to hurt yourself. If you didn't put lifecycle blocks on your production resources, you weren't organizationally mature enough to be using Terraform in production. Take an associate Terraform course, this specific topic is covered in it.
You'd need to demonstrate competence first, but it's clear you're making stuff up. Have a nice day!
Two industries filled with old companies with entrenched management wanting to keep the status quo, not wanting to take risks and innovate.
> Mozilla can suspend or end anyone’s access to Firefox at any time for any reason, including if Mozilla decides not to offer Firefox anymore.

On what planet is that free, open source?

Can you imagine: "The Free Software Foundation (FSF) can suspend anyone's access to GNU Emacs at any time for any reason, including if the FSF decides not to offer GNU Emacs any more".
Jeong led a really interesting and tragic life - a great example of how a divided nation ruled by tyranny screwed over people's lives.

Born in China under ethnic Korean parents, raised and educated as an elite, he chose North Korean citizenship in 1963, probably out of patriotism. And what did the North Korean government do? Tell this linguistic genius to disguise himself as a Lebanese, enter South Korea, and lead a double life while spying for NK.

And he did lead a double life, getting married, doing a ton of research on medieval Arab-Korean relation as Muhammed Kansu, an "Arabic scholar interested in Korean history," while faxing mostly low-quality information to North Korea. After all, he was a scholar at heart, not a spy, and there's a limit to how much useful information one can get living a day life as a professor of history.

After his cover was blown in 1996, he was sentenced to 12 years of prison. He reportedly told his wife to forget him (because he was already married in North Korea), but the wife persisted.

He was released from prison in 2000 and fully pardoned in 2003. (I think it helped that his spying was largely ineffective.) He came back to academia, studying the history of Arab-Korean relation, now as his true self.

He died without ever meeting his first wife in North Korea again.
Having worked with a very large Nomad cluster, I cannot disagree more.

For simple use cases, sure, but you could also just use AWS ECS or a similar cloud tool for an even easier experience.
The same as in any other language when what you wrote was not what you intended? Sorry, I’m really confused what your complaint here is or how you’d prefer it to work. If you make a sensitive resource managed by any kind of IAC, of course the IAC can destroy it in a manner that would result in irretrievable data loss. The language has for forever put semantics in place to prevent that, and I’m not sure as a power user I’d want it any other way, I’m explicit with what I want it to do and dont want it making crazy assumptions that I didnt write.

like, what happens if you forget to free a pointer in c? sorry for snark but there are an unbelievably numerous amount of things to complain about in tf, never heard this one.
Uh, if we do finally invent AGI (I am quite skeptical, LLMs feel like the chatbots of old. Invented to solve an issue, never really solving that issue, just the symptoms, and also the issues were never really understood to begin with), it will be able to do all of the above, at the same time, far better than humans ever could.

Current LLMs are a waste and quite a bit of a step back compared to older Machine Learning models IMO. I wouldn't necessarily have a huge beef with them if billions of dollars weren't being used to shove them down our throats.

LLMs actually do have usefulness, but none of the pitched stuff really does them justice.

Example: Imagine knowing you had the cure for Cancer, but instead discovered you can make way more money by declaring it to solve all of humanity, then imagine you shoved that part down everyones' throats and ignored the cancer cure part...
Musk, who has personal calls with Putin. But you were saying ?
This is a performative declaration. You don't really believe that.
IBM has been on a shopping spree of garbage companies. Which tools are next?
Shake it, baby!
The current tariff discussions are about imports into the US.

And for at least the value of the paper it is written upon, the US Constitution prohibits taxes on exports.

So I think it is unlikely that an AWS price increase for Europeans would go to th United States Treasury. Bezos pockets sure, Treasury no.

Good luck.
What’s the deal with Imgur taking ages to load? Anyone else have this issue in Australia? I just get the grey background with no content loaded for 10+ seconds every time I visit that bloated website.
Did they already disable it?

When using `gpt-4.5-preview` I am getting:
> Invalid URL (POST /v1/chat/completions)
Hey! I've played it for a while now (and haven't even followed any Reddit / YouTube guides yet).

Early game: Get a joker that gives you a big mult (e.g., Half Joker w/ +20 Mult for small hands). This will allow you to survive while you build out your points engine. (You can survive with flushes in the early game, but it can get harder to win with flush later, due to Bosses, unless you have flush friendly Jokers and a large hand size.)

Mid game: Generate $$$ so you can buy planets and tarot cards. Once you're happy with your jokers, you want to level up the hands that work well with those Jokers. Try easier hands like Two Pair or Pair or High Card. (Assuming you can generate enough cash to level up those hands.)

Tip: Blue Seals are helpful!

To Win: Look for jokers that get you increasingly higher +mult or xmult for things you'll do anyways. There are jokers that increase mult for using tarot cards, or jokers that increase xmult for adding new cards to your deck.

Tip: Steel cards are also awesome.

Tip: If you have an xmult joker, move it to the right side, as jokers trigger from left to right. You want to multiply after you add!

Disclaimer: I have not beaten ante 11 yet. I can get a couple million points with my strategy, but 7+ million is too difficult. I don't see an easy path to naneinf (not a typo). I guess I'll need to give up and watch some YouTube guides as some point.

I feel like I win about 50% or more of my games on regular white stake difficulty. I've won some red stakes, but I don't really feel a need to make the game much harder. I think if I played it safe I could win 75% or more of my games on white stake. The reason my win rate on base difficulty is lower is because I like to try weird strategies with different jokers.

The amazing thing about Balatro is.... there are many many different paths to a victory. Everyone has their own favorite joker, and it might all be different.

For a long time, I liked two pair hands the most. Now most of my games use pair or high card. I find it too difficult to get to ante 9+ with a 5-card strategy. (4-card flushes are OK.)
A free trial of an amount of credits that would otherwise cost $100, I'm assuming.
EA could release the source code of Chuck Yeager’s Air Combat and LHX.
Please open source Nox!
If you are held back by a lack of artistic creativity, then you should simply expend the effort to do a journey of self-improvement in the name of acquiring artistic creativity. Life is that simple, yes? Because game development without game development is what leads to consequences like the stagnation of the game development industry whose population decline you lament. Making tools for nobody or nobody in particular is aimless unproductivity. But the desire for quantity over quality is the fatal economic mistake you are making. Especially when you're not amiable toward the idea of filtering bad development skills out of your social industry you're envisioning. You only need one good game, made by one good developer, at the minimum. Any more enthusiasm than that is just silly post-scarcity arrogance and delusion which is very harmful to sensible progress.

What is more ambitious would be something like incubating or founding a small province of dedicated developers who aim to fulfill your wish. Exclusivity, selection, and culling ineffectiveness would definitely be essential here, rather than being tolerant to policies which would want to try to cram a bunch of diverse individuals into a melting pot of a future failed empire of creative ideas and technology that only serves as an ironic example of what not to do in building your own development industry and securing your own game production economics. Caring one bit about the ontological time of today and its youth, a mere phenomenological axiom which leads to concerns about some content creator crisis, is the tendency you need to abandon, if you want to start your theoretical project and see its successful completion.
Yes, it's experimental at the moment: https://docs.vlm.run/guides/doc-ai/guide-visual-grounding
I remember dragging my wife there ages ago. Being a vegetarian, she was concerned there wouldn't be much for her until she saw there was a section of the menu labeled "Artichokes"
IBM switched off Notes to Microsoft 365, maybe two years ago or so.

I only correct you because it's an even bigger indictment of Notes that IBM switched off of it.
Mainly to prevent you from using it
We knew that early humans and protohumans lived in grassy savanna environments, but
"Humans were thought to have not lived in rainforests until relatively recently".
> Just confirms reasoning models are the only way forward.

Reasoning models are roughly the equivalent to allow Hamiltonian Monte-Carlo models to "warm up" (i.e. start sampling from the typical set). This, unsurprisingly, yields better results (after all LLMs are just fancy Monte-carlo models in the end). However, it is extremely unlikely this improvement is without pretty reasonable limitations. Letting your HMC warm up is essential to good sampling, but letting "warm up more" doesn't result in radically better sampling.

While there have been impressive results in efficiency of sampling from the typical set seen in LLMs these days, we're clearly not making the major improvements in the capabilities of these models.
Sim City 2000!
Been gone for a couple of years now. Outlook replaced it. Legacy Domino apps still around in various places though.