skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've heard reports via the NIH subreddit that this censorship was actually added back in January, not over the weekend while Trump and Musk broke the NIH website.
fun, but annoying to use. clearly not made for mobile!
Perhaps I was mistaken in thinking this was obvious, but... their opinion is utterly irrelevant; only one person's opinion matters here and that's Putin's.
All the forks are currently dependent on Mozilla. That doesn't mean no one else will step up when their drawn out suicide concludes. Mozilla goign under is not an existential threat for Firefox - quite the contrary, it is likely the only thing that can save it.
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Despite my own misgivings about the current state of US government.

IN THEORY, I do think that the obvious social issues aside, the US's federal state setup would potentially allow for absorbing someplace like Canada fairly easily. The US is more top down than it has been in the past, but states still make a lot of decisions on their own and I do think that would allow absorbing someone else a little easier. In theory.

Not that they should.
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> public airport built by elected officials after due consultation

That's optimistic.
How the Ubuntu Linux Performance Has Evolved for RISC-V over the Last 4 Years
I intended to move my home server (an am4 system in an old fractal case) to a rack, but it just never happened. Instead I found that it lies perfectly at the bottom of the rack. I am probably never going to move that system over. I can still access the drives just fine, and there is no psu shroud in the case, so I can route new cables without opening the back panel.
This seems poorly grounded. In fact almost three decades after the release of the Java HotSpot runtime we're still waiting for even one system to produce the promised advantages. I guess consensus is that V8 has come closest?

But the reality is that hand-optimized AoT builds remain the gold standard for performance work.
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Where did I say that Aristotle wasn't a foundational scientist? it's just that we're not at CRISPR and mRNA vaccines without the rest of modern society.
Exactly. Pixar is somewhat a victim of its own success, but in this case Inside Out 2 is just Inside Out again - none of the additions or developments are really surprising.

And that's not bad! Sometimes you really do just want more of the same - after all, many wildly successful TV shows are just the same story, told differently each episode.

Flow wildly beat expectations which already gives it a leg up, but it was "new and weird" enough that I bet more of the reviewers actually watched it vs Inside Out 2 or other big-name movies.

Even the tagline of "feature length movie with no dialogue that's actually good" is enough to get people interested.
^ Dutch native.

The reason is quite simple.

Almost everybody here, no matter their political ideology, despises the 2025 Trump administration.

Mark Zuckerberg decided to put his full support behind Trump. This is the result.
VR is IMO the evolution of systems like the Kinect, but that aside, the various companies that made VR sets have spent billions developing the technology and I'm confident they are offering (game) developers money to make VR versions of their games or new IPs targeting VR; I think at this point every major developer and publisher has done one or more VR titles, be they exclusives or VR versions of games (like Skyrim VR).

But even then, VR never became the runaway success that they were hoping for. I think, anyway. Same with Apple Vision, it went real quiet around that after the initial release.

Looking around my neck of the woods (the Netherlands), VR / AR is basically nonexistent. You'd expect VR and VR titles to have their own section in gaming stores... no such luck. (mind you / caveat, we don't actually have many gaming stores like that)
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I think it depends on the relationship with the junior. If you do have a level of trust, this wouldn't be a question. If you don't have a level of trust, then is there a way to build it quickly, so you can help them get to the right answer while they feel good about it.
>Take sound waves. When they come into contact with matter, most of the waves energy turns into heat, yes? But might a mechanical imprint be made onto a surface? For example tree sap that hadn't yet completely solidified. Could we resurrect the roar of a dinosaur?

I think it's a fascinating idea and something like that instinct has a "there" there. I suspect that, as another commenter is noting, you probably lose too much information in most cases, but it's intriguing enough to merit consideration.

I think I'm sympathetic because I have a version of that too - I'm curious about the idea that the earth's light, sent out into space, may in some instances be recoverable due to spacetime curvature sending old light back to us. Imagine seeing a stream of light livestreaming what the earth looked like millions of years ago! But my understanding is that light spreads out more and more the further it goes so it's not likely to hold together as a decipherable image, but I still wonder about a middle ground of what might be partially recoverable.
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What in the actual hell is this doing here.
The embedding is kind of weird. Like, there's no reason a "degree: 1" node should be so far away from its sibling.

Example: https://imgur.com/a/7Cktyzp

This makes the graph look more random/noisy/disorganized than it actually is.
Yes, although we weren't using a boolean.

(There was a reason for this - the field was used elsewhere within a PowerBI model, and the clinicians couldn't get their heads around True/False, PowerBI doesn't have an easy way to map True/False values to strings, so we used 'Clinical/Non-Clinical' as string values).

I am reluctant to share the code example, because I'm preciously guarding an example of an LLM making an error in the hope that I'll be able to benchmark models using this, however here's the powerquery code (which you can put into excel) - ask an LLM to explain the code/predict what the output will look like, and compare it with what you get in excel.

let

MyTable = #table(

{"Foo"},

{

{"ABC"},

{"BCD"},

{"CDE"}

}

),

AddedCustom = Table.AddColumn(

MyTable,

"B",

each if Text.StartsWith([Foo], "LIAS") or Text.StartsWith([Foo], "B")

then "B"

else "NotB"

),

SortedRows = Table.Sort(

AddedCustom,

{{"B", Order.Descending}}

)

in

SortedRows

I believe the issue arises because the column that sorts B/NotB is also called 'B' (i.e. the Clinical/Non-Clinical column was simply called 'Clinical', which is not an amazing naming convention).
There are incredible visuals in the movie, but not because of their realistic details. They are instead incredibly evocative of a mysterious depth behind the relatively small story being told in the movie.

The movie doesn’t look real, but it also doesn’t act real either.
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Do you have any type of text responses that you feel are ambiguous in terms of if there's any meaning behind them other than an ACK?
I'd love to get feedback on what can be improved and where the app should go next

Some ideas I have are:

- Memorization game with the 1000 most common words

- Text to speech - Hear the word when it appears
- Add support for other languages - Which if any would you like to see support for?

- Add the ability to type along to a classic fable/expression/poem - the app gives you x seconds to type each word

- Game Center support - Track scores, compete with friends

- iPad/macOS support

- Streak system / Notifications - keep users motivated by helping them track their progress

Anything above sound particularly appealing?

Beyond that:
What's missing? What needs improvement?
If there was a killer feature you would pay for, what would it be?
This is a really insightful breakdown of dynamics I recognize from places I've worked. I think the "actions" section is a little....slanted towards one way of managing people but it feels like it comes from an experienced place.
They are likely raising a round or preparing to, so would like to raise awareness of what they're doing. I think it's fine - you work on something by yourself for 2 years, you have something neat to show to world and need more money to keep going, so you invite folks over and show them what you've done.
> CEOs are evil.

Worse, they are evil because the system filters out anyone who has any kind of empathy. If they don't maximize profits, they are immediately replaced by someone who is more psycho than them, who will maximize profits without blinking at any human or societal cost.

> They do this actively, and effectively by spreading "free-market" propaganda and continually steering the conversation away from the realization of a more equitable society, which is already technologically feasible.

Moreover, they do this as the predicted collapse of capitalism due to the majority not being able to get any economic value out of the system to be able to buy products and services, happens in front of their eyes. There are products, but people don't have the money to buy them. The system collapses, but what the execs are doing is maximizing short-term profit because what happens afterward is "Someone else's problem".
And yet, a lot are well received. People still miss the Zune and are disappointed that Microsoft didn't continue with it.

But then, the dedicated music player industry pretty much died when smartphones became a thing. There was Windows Mobile for a while which also did some interesting innovations (I was impressed by the animations) but which probably did not meet expectations. A shame, it was probably the strongest contender for a 3rd party in the mobile OS ecosystem. Various other phone manufacturers built their own OS but ultimately conceded that it's a big effort.
Xbox 360's were The Original Netflix Machine of that 2008-2012 range. Sure maybe Wii's sold more but they only effectively played Wii Sports and didn't support Full HD. Sure PS3's had blu-ray drives in them but people were beginning to stop caring about physical media. The most popular "game" in terms of hours played on the 360 was the Netflix App.

So because of that, I'm not surprised that casual audience also got a Kinect at some point too. Because of the Netflix app, you always had your 360 plugged into your TV.
I suspect as I said elsewhere that "feature length movie with no dialogue that's actually good" was enough to get people watching it, even seeking it out. We're more than a hundred years out from silent movies, so it's a curiosity by that metric alone.

And then it turns out to be actually good!

It's similar to the Lego Movie in that respect, everyone had assumptions about what it was and then it went and was well done and hit you right in the feels.
Imported via Rotterdam port?
I don't want to waste my time with a process that has zero benefits to me
Global GDP is way up since the Europeans started abolition so everybody is ahead.
> I think he leans towards an idea that quantum mechanics has a way of making more-than-Turing computation happen (note that this is not about what we call quantum computers, which are fully Turing-equivalent systems, just more efficient for certain problems), and that this is how our brains actually function.

That was my understanding on Penrose's position as well which is just a "Consciousness of the Gaps" argument. As we learn more about quantum operations the space for Consciousness as a special property of humans disapears.
Source on that tracking 6 skeletons? That's cool.
I wonder if you could use clang/llvm to do a super-JIT by having it recompile its IR as the program runs, taking advantage of profiling to optimize the hot paths.
Correct. It's corporate email. Imagine the amount of contributions that are gated behind stupid email policies because some fossil mailing list client can't handle modern email in the year of our lord 2025
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There are indeed no good answers, but that doesn't imply that the premise is wrong - it can just as well be that we assume that notions like "identity" are fundamental when it is in fact a property that we ascribe based on factors not directly related to consciousness (i.e. things like bodies), simply because our day-to-day experience always includes those factors and places them front and center.

Even with humans there are cases where this breaks down to some extent. E.g. in the case of multiple personality disorder, how many distinct streams of consciousness are there, and should we consider them distinct identities?
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It's powerful if you agree with that perspective, but I don't. We are all imperfect by nature. Said another way, we are all sinners. I don't believe that time shrinks your margin for error, as much as it grows your capacity to learn. I don't think mistakes are always character flaws. Youth chases a fading ideal of perfection but age reveals a richer self-awareness. Life's worth lies not in perfection, but in acceptance, gratitude and love.
I’m in the process of loading up my instance of FreshRSS with my MVP YouTube subscriptions, with plugins to allow videos to be viewed inline, sans anything relevant to politics or news. It will be the final algorithmically determined feed that I am routinely exposed to. I left most social media for good over 12-years ago (I am an early adopter, even in cynicism about the societally damaging potential of social networks).

The benefit of having a chronological feed that consists entirely of plain text headlines cannot be overstated. I can feel a tangible difference in how I engage with news and information that’s presented without the usual “tricks of the trade”. I am going to setup accounts on my system for friends and family, but I wish there were a more straightforward mechanism for doing this, and I fear that Cloudflare, Discord, and actions from the big players in this game will take actions to prevent this kind of separation of content from its platform, but for now this is working well.
Just thinking about writing this makes me think about how messy this stuff is.

But like, is there some long-term goal that there is world peace? And in that long term goal of world peace, is there some kind of international governing body?

And yeah, I guess in theory I think what you say is true, in practice, part of what makes a culture a culture are the sort of “decided questions” and one may not want to join a government that tries to enforce a different set of “decided questions” or undecided certain questions.

I’m sure some of the messaging would be to “liberate Canadians from their oppressive national healthcare system”
Nice work. I wonder how the experience would be in VR.
> Remember: Their cultural weight does NOT give them permission to override your actions and efforts as a leader. You don’t want the old corrosive culture of the past to subvert the new positive culture of the present.

Oh man, how dumb were those people in the bad old days before “you” showed up to save this dump? Good thing things are positive now that “you” are at the wheel, passive-voicing the veterans to death…

> "Being passionate about your work is valuable, but emotional stability is also a core job requirement. How can we help you find a more sustainable balance?"

What’s that old canard, “the beatings will continue until morale improves”?
I'm curious if they tested this in highly-congested cells, since that's when cellular modems have to do the most "magic" and probably hit weird implementation edge cases. I think using the C1 in a packed football stadium is the real test of whether Apple has caught up to Qualcomm.
MacOS is an end-user platform. The speed of opening files is practically a premature micro-optimization.
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how are high capital gains difficult to implement? we have clear 15/20% federal rules on them now. we can just change those numbers to whatever we want, like many states already have (NY, CA)
> Please by all means, name these superior civilizations with minimal wealth inequality.

You have to go quite far back to find those civilizations, so you can't really compare them to modern ones. Also depends on what the goals of society are. It's possible that people are happier on average in a poorer but more equal society, so would it be inferior just because it has less material wealth?

> It's when he obtains literal political power that I worry,

Money is literal political power. If it wasn't, you would not be seeing a bunch of billionaires running the government. I agree that current forms of government also concentrate power too much, but there will always be some kind of entity that makes the rules, and always those with the most resources will naturally be the most able to take control over that entity and make rules that benefit them.

> having the legal authority to prevent a rich person from owning a social media platform is much more dangerous than that rich person simply owning a social media platform (in a landscape of others that it has to increasingly compete with).

I agree, but letting people amass unlimited amounts of wealth will lead to that authority anyway. Once someone or some group of people is wealthy enough that they're able to buy the government, they'll obviously use it to give themselves that and any other authority they wish. It doesn't matter if that government is small or large, weak or powerful. There will always be a rule creating and enforcing entity, and that entity becomes whatever those who control it wish it to be. It will be controlled by those with the most resources. The solution is therefore not to try to limit the functionality of the tool that is government, but to maximize the number of people that have control over it. That requires having a more equal distribution of wealth.