skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly besides the poor UI changes on mobile, my main complaint is the constant seasonal animations on buttons that try to get you to click the gift button especially and buy nitro for yourself or friends.

Most of the more annoying added features like TTS, Super-Reactions, and other animated non-sense can at least be moderated in server settings/ user accessibility settings.

The hostility to third party applications is a little annoying but I've only used those on edge cases (Armcord for WinARM laptops, Discord-Lite for PPC Macs)
At this point, the only thing that really works, is to have the student/candidate in front of you when you are testing them. In video interviews can be faked, take home can be faked. For schools etc it doesn't matter, if the kid doesn't learn anything, it is on them to waste their time. But when hiring, it makes a huge difference to not have a candidate who cheated.
I don't want to wait that long. If I get diagnosed with Alzheimer's, I am taking a quick farewell tour of family and friends and then I'm done. I don't want to wait so long that I need someone else to off me. I wish that all wasn't necessary but this country (US) isn't going to get smarter anytime soon.
As my late Mum often said about hedgehogs - "I want one! Or two!". I've always planned to have back-garden pond, which might be nice for beavers, but I don't suppose I will now, due to age and not being able to look after it. Sniff.

Actually, you are not allowed to have pet European hedgehogs in the UK. Why not???
(Leaflet cofounder here) - thanks for sharing that, actually just finished drafting this week! It was fun to make all the different pages with different examples / themes…and also I think a nice demo of our custom domains feature :)

Btw some parts still incomplete e.g. I want to eventually fill out more detail on each page re: how Leaflet compares to other tools, and add more examples and templates. If anyone makes good ones they'd like to share publicly, glad to add!
It was a little bit of everything, really. Discord exploded in popularity because:

1. Its free functionality was more generous than many comparable services. Nobody wants to pay for a Mumble server.

2. Its UI and audio quality and noise cancellation settings put much of the competition to shame.

3. Only needing one account for every Discord server in existance gave it the same kind of appeal that let Reddit/Facebook kill off most individual forums.

4. Good marketing, which gave it the critical mass of users and hobby groups that it needed to succeed initially and now make it harder to move away from.
the only reason I haven't written a design doc or busted out the felt tip for my rubber duck is because it can't read.
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> I don't think that means we protect a robot with no feelings ....

Pain doesn't just affect the receiver, when you die, it's your friends, family and everyone you know who is affected.

I don't think feelings should be the deciding factor.

If torture and murder itself is bad, then we should not partake in that act no matter the receiver.
I've heard this several but don't really understand the rationale. Can't you just put in a bigger heat pump? Or top up an air to water with an air to air?
Right, the original LLaMA paper. LLaMA 2 and 3 are significantly more capable models trained on orders of magnitude more data, and those papers notably do not say where the data comes from. The LLaMA 3 paper helpfully mentions that "Much of the data we utilize is obtained from the web," so I guess that's better than nothing!

LLaMA 2: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.09288

LLaMA 3: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.21783
> While this is deeply concerning, they don’t have the votes.

Does it really matter if its officially shut down or just internally sabotaged to the point of effectively not existing?

see: USAID
The Lambert case is wild. I genuinely didn't believe it when I first read about it just because it was so bizarre.
Hopefully a cure comes as a form of vaccine so some folks can be totally against that.

I don't think mental stimulation correlates to the development of alzheimers anyway. The papers I've touched on the subject seem to suggest a mechanical failure in proteins essentially choking off and killing brain structure. Although the lucidity period shortly before death is interesting.
Who's the target audience here? Trading firms and funds have a comparable, likely far better system, already.

Many hobbyists and "algo traders" only care for actionable results. Going through millions of records manually, even with AI, isn't really helpful.

Maybe I am in contact with too many quants, but this isn't even 5% of what's relevant for any given financial decision. Find out what the other 95% are about, integrate them into the product - now you have Bloomberg Terminal, great.
I’ve felt the same way. It’s so inefficient to have two patterns - OLAP and OLTP - both using SQL interfaces but requiring syncing between systems. There are some physical limits at play though. OLAP will always take less processing and disk usage if the data it needs is all right next to each other (columnar storage) where as OLTP’s need for fast writes usually means row based storage is more efficient. I think the solution would be one system that stores data consistently both ways and knows when to use which method for a given query.
If you are using Clojure or ClojureScript check out FlowStorm:

https://www.flow-storm.org/
The problem is it's difficult to have one without the other. If the cost of reducing gun violence is that hobbyists can't collect guns... that's a cost I think society can stomach.

I'm not blaming hobbyists for gun violence or anything, obviously, but these ideas are not unconnected.
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There's also a non-zero chance you'll die before year 20. I agree with the premise that seeking financial independence should be a significant factor in career/life decisions, but if you would be filled with regret by finding out it will be cut short at year 18, you're too singularly focused.
The combo of ease of use and rich feature set makes services like Discord hard to resist for users and hard to compete with for FOSS software/services which prefer to take more focused, more technologically-inclined approaches.

It’s a major factor in what made Reddit big, too. Spinning up a subreddit is effortless and takes practically no knowledge and similarly easy for users.

IRC doesn’t seem terribly complicated to me, but I came of age when using computers seriously required a higher level of knowledge. I don’t find it restrictive either, but when I started communicating with others online, being able to send “just” plain text was amazing. Things have changed since then… the communication styles popular with young people haven’t been strictly text in many years and the overarching expectation is to be able to start using services in seconds after discovering them with as few clicks and as little research as possible.
It is quite funny on 4chan and similar places watching everyone accuse everyone else that protests in some way of being a fed. Which I guess is job done for the security services.
To contextualize this: After this "slash" it is still more expensive in the US ($499/month) than any other Western country by triple or more, even unsubsidized.

- Japan/Canada/Switzerland: $150~ USD/month

- Germany/Netherlands: $100~ USD/month

- UK/Sweden/Australia: $90~ USD/month

- France: $80~ USD/month

So when people blame insurance for stuff being expensive, just remember this is straight from the pharma to your front door with zero insurance/PBMs and they're still charging the US 3x+ more than other Western countries.

The main reason why is that other countries won't allow drugs to be sold AT ALL in their markets without negotiating drug prices, regardless of buyer (e.g. private, government, individual). The US doesn't do this.

Semaglutide is cheap to make, and most of the research 20~ years old. The biggest costs come from auto injector pens which aren't required for safe effective delivery (just ask diabetics pre-2015).
People in their early 20s are also much less likely to have other responsibilities "intruding" into their headspace. It's a lot easier to be monomaniacal when you don't (for example) have kids yet.
I remember our British Leyland Rovers. Yeah not great.
Piracy is one of the reasons SaaS has much weaker adoption in South East Asia.
I'll tell you my experience as someone who's been using Math Academy for past 6 months.

Math Academy does what every good application or service does. Make things convenient. That's it. No juggling heavy books or multiple tabs of PDFs. Each problem comes with detailed solution so getting them wrong doesn't mean looking around on the internet for a hint about your mistake (this is pre ChatGPT era of course, where not getting something correct meant putting down MathJax on stackexchange).

> better than just prompting ChatGPT/Claude/etc

The convenience means you are doing the most important part of learning maths with most ease: problem solving and practice. That is something an LLM will not be able to help you with. For me, solving problems is pretty much the only way to mostly wrap my head around the topic.

I say mostly because LLMs are amazing at complementing Math Academy. Any time I hit a conceptual snag, I run off to ChatGPT to get more clarity. And it works great.

So in my opinion, Math Academy alone is pretty good. Even great for school level maths I'd say. Coupled with ChatGPT the package becomes a pretty solid teaching medium.
The question is: "how much can they do quickly?"

The question is definitely not: "what is the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law?"

If they can fire people and shutter facilities quickly enough, it won't matter much that they get sued for it or what the outcome of the lawsuits is. The department will be gone.
I looked up Ray Peat because I was unfamiliar with him.

I'm sure some of his advice has backing to it. A lot of it doesn't. A good amount of it even has a fair body of evidence against the claim (like Alzheimer's can be stopped by using tobacco).

This is classic highlighting hits while ignoring misses. A quack that tells you to exercise and eat 5lbs of raw chicken every day can be right about the exercise, that doesn't mean their raw chicken diet is also valid.
Here’s an interpretability idea you may find interesting:

Let's Turn AI Model Into a Place. The project to make AI interpretability research fun and widespread, by converting a multimodal language model into a place or a game like the Sims or GTA.

Imagine that you have a giant trash pile, how to make a language model out of it? First you remove duplicates of every item, you don't need a million banana peels, just one will suffice. Now you have a grid with each item of trash in each square, like a banana peel in one, a broken chair in another. Now you need to put related things close together and draw arrows between related items.

When a person "prompts" this place AI, the player themself runs from one item to another to compute the answer to the prompt.

For example, you stand near the monkey, it’s your short prompt, you see around you a lot of items and arrows towards those items, the closest item is chewing lips, so you step towards them, now your prompt is “monkey chews”, the next closest item is a banana, but there are a lot of other possibilities around, like an apple a bit farther away and an old tire far away on the horizon (monkeys rarely chew tires, so the tire is far away).

You are the time-like chooser and the language model is the space-like library, the game, the place. It’s static and safe, while you’re dynamic and dangerous.
I watched this happen decades ago. Smart coders knew about memory allocations. Okay coders just assumed that the garbage collector would handle it. One friend of mine wrote code that was 1000 times faster than the people in the next cubicle over. Why? Because he was careful with memory usage and didn't trigger the virtual memory thrashing.

AI is just another form of automation.
> More than twice as fast as Nvidia 4090 for AI.

Not in memory bandwidth which is all that matter for LLM inference.
I think you need an apex predator / mammal to solve affordable housing...

Contractors' quotes 5x higher than for private buildings? Send a brown bear to talk to 'em.

Limited government funding? Send a wild boar to budget meetings.

Restrictive zoning laws? Put a mountain lion in the room at the next zoning review.

NIMBYs don't want affordable housing? Wolves roam their neighborhood until NIMBYs agree to allow new housing.

Lengthy approval process? A honey badger asks for approval.

Economic disparity between rising housing costs and stagnant wages? Moose roams around in businesses until wages raise.
I agree it is utopian, but it is aslo true that it is what communists believe. The end stage communist state is contingent on post-scarcity. That is to say, more can be voluntarily produced than people willingly consume.

This is not mutually exclusive with providing a minimum standard of living.

This becomes evident when you dig into the details of the phrase "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs".

>Marx delineated the specific conditions under which such a creed would be applicable — a society where technology and social organization had substantially eliminated the need for physical labor in the production of things, where labor has become not only a means of life but life's prime want.[1] Marx explained his belief that, in such a society, each person would be motivated to work for the good of society despite the absence of a social mechanism compelling them to work, because work would have become a pleasurable and creative activity. Marx intended the initial part of his slogan, "from each according to his ability" to suggest not merely that each person should work as hard as they can, but that each person should best develop their particular talents.[15][16]

>Claiming themselves to be at a "lower stage of communism" (i.e. "socialism", in line with Vladimir Lenin’s terminology),[17] the Soviet Union adapted the formula as: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his work (labour investment)".[1]

Exchanging individual direction and rights for central planning and minimum standard of living is a characteristic of socialism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_each_according_to_his_abi...
No one is denying there are extremists in the military. There are also street gang members in the military. Saying they are a significant portion of the population is a much different argument than saying there is a fringe population where there are standing orders to expel them if found.
I'm not a macOS dev, so not talking from
direct experience, but you can select a minimum deployment target in Xcode as low as macOS 10.13, I believe. There must be a reason some devs choose not to support that.
front page, scroll down, there's Developers - Source Code
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> in control of what should be your message

The message isn't yours anymore after you sent it, it's the other party's now. When you mail someone a letter, it's up to them what to do with it. Why would this be different? If you want to retain control over something, don't give it away on a medium you can't control.
I believe the point they are making is that for plenty of tools people don't change any configuration settings. If I haven't changed from the application default setting, why is the application creating a configuration file in my home directory hierarchy?
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Sounds about right. I don’t think their investors were too happy with their ‘open source’ activities.

Neo4j got to where they are on the backs of the open source community, which makes this situation that much more maddening.
Their "about" page reads "home for poorly researched ideas that I find myself repeating a lot anyway"
Google Collab: Julia as a language in runtimes
I own an EV and while the instant torque is fun, nothing will ever come close to the joys of driving a manual sports car.
Since you're on HN, I'll assume you're pretty cool, but most people take what politicians like as an inverse signal. If they don't like it, it's probably good.
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retro computers are also obsolete but they still have considerable amount of supporters.
This article contains references to studies and talks that have only become more relevant as we continue to approach machines that appear to be alive (Large Language Models).

I agree with Kate Darling that we need to provide protections for things that appear to be alive, not for their sake, but for ours. To that end, I think I agree with Thomas Metzinger that we should stop trying to create intelligent machines. But he doesn't want to increase suffering, whereas I want to avoid even the question of distinguishing the appearance of life/suffering from some "true" life/suffering. I believe any distinction between the two will lead to a regression in the rights and moral considerations of humans and animals that have been established over the past 200+ years.
Yep. See also Al Sharpton.
in the introduction they explain that it's not possible

"The first question everyone has about microcode updates is something like "So can I execute ARM64 code natively on my Athlon?" It's a fun idea, but now we know that a microcode patch doesn't work like that -- so the answer is no, sorry!"
> The tech cuts aren’t scary at all because who can cry foul when the ice cream machine is about to replace the ice cream man? Ice cream man was never a real job to begin with.

what ?
The Fed audit is in the Bingo cards I guess.

Only the president can set interest rates.

Raises hand, “Bingo!”
I don't consider variables to equal dimensions so I'm glad you put them in 3D too. People take the term 'dimension' very literally when thinking about things.

What's the difference between doing:

rotors:
01 + bxy + cyz + dzx

and

quaterions:
01 + bjk + cki + d*ij

?

edit:
https://api.lib.kyushu-u.ac.jp/opac_download_md/410895/178c....
this seems to explain the difference
Not everyone is a Linux user, or willing to become one.

You can install Ubuntu on 100 Thinkpads and have that be the official OS of your company.

The tech folks will love it, but Mr Smith in accounting will be angry and confused. QuickBooks doesn't work, how will he get anything done ?
He doesn't want an open source alternative. He wants QuickBooks.
if you hate the process of driving then you are correct
(Leaflet cofounder here) - this is a really good point! We actually had an explicit 'delete' button earlier but removed it temporarily b/c it was causing some confusion I think with people accidentally deleting collaborative docs for everyone and not just for themselves. So right now we have 'remove from home' but not full delete. We should add that back and see if we can improve the UX.

Right now all docs are unlisted but anyone with the link can view; we're also thinking about fully private or password protected docs (several people have asked about this) but still exploring the best approach there.
That’s only true if you go with an architecture that involves doing so in terraform. A common pattern I implement is an initial management cluster bootstrap that runs Argo then after that it’s possible to manage everything, including cluster components of “child” clusters, using Argo. Can use either cluster api provider or cross plane for that, or one of the cloud specific ones like ack.

One single imperative helm install command to start the whole train rolling then after that it’s all IaC
And like many of Trump's actions a dismantled DoE is going to disproportionately hurt "red" states:

https://imageio.forbes.com/specials-images/imageserve/67928b...

Good job "owning the libs" MAGA voters.
Back in the shitpiles, we used to call that a "false consciousness". We are required to authentically participate in being each other's jailers, wholeheartedly and without losing our minds; even the Scrivener's hopeless "I would prefer not to" is beyond the capabilities of a great many. Hence, yes, enforced cognitive dissonance, and all the "fun" things that are causally downstream from that.
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To say it is 100% useless would be to say that the moral training of children is useless. You're not really that cynical, are you?
The legal justification is the story about the border. From an explainer article:

> Part of the reason Trump could impose the tariffs so quickly is because the White House is invoking a sweeping national security law to justify the new levies.

> Until now, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, IEEPA, had been used mainly to impose emergency sanctions on foreign dictators or suspected terrorist groups.

> But the Trump administration argues that the illicit global fentanyl trade and immigrants at the Mexican border both qualify as "unusual and extraordinary" foreign threats to American national security, justifying Trump's use of emergency powers under IEEPA.
This seems really interesting. I'm curious how this compares to fully automated EHRs similar to what Modernizing Medicine has built for Dermatology practices. Also there's a startup called DayDental which does RCM, for dental practices. Additionally, are you planning on integrating with large EHRs like Epic/Cerner, or is this for smaller EHRs like SimplePractice?
There are two kinds of people. <10 open tabs and >100 open tabs. Nothing in between.

I think of the >100 ones as people who have completely lost control of their lives. I'm sure they think of me as someone who needs everything to be just so and can't deal with the messiness of real life.
I will be buying a new laptop soon and have been researching this topic recently. I agree that MacBook is not a great option as a dev machine (great laptop, just not for devs, pretty much just because of that ridiculous OS).

Since I'm in the EU, I ended up with 2 possible options: ThinkPad T14 (non-s model), Gen.5 or newer. Or Framework 13 AMD.

System76 also make some interesting laptops, but it's just too expensive to get one in Europe.
The whole end to end system seems pointless. If you want to learn ethics you can do so with ChatGPT alone. It can provide you interesting questions, review your papers, argue against you etc. The university is providing no value.
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