skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have gone through Hickson's proposal, interesting.

I notice though that he is proposing to address the problem from the opposite direction to mine, though I think his approach is also viable. I dream of an HTML-like platform built to support rich UI apps, with much higher-level configurable primitives that eliminate the need for massive amounts of scripting and dependencies. He talks about providing properly configurable low-level primitives.

Both approaches can work if built properly to support what developers actually want to do. One thing that put me off WASM was the dependence on JS to bootstrap it. I just did not want to have JS in pipeline again whatsoever if I was taking that approach. The advantage of high-lvel primitives is that there will be much more of what developers want to build that is already built into the platform.
i don't have any experience in high level CEO stuff, but i heard when companies are purchased (takeover's etc.) they say consider what you need to cut; then cut double what you initially think.

i think you should keep in mind that both parties have very smart people in them that care about the country and are trying to do the right thing.

it's a shame the best gov employees are probably non-partisan but you'll never see them in those jobs.
My prediction: In a few iterations this will have turned into an inferior reinvention of HTMX.
I didn't at the time but now with the naked racism of the current administration I've been going back to these kinds of lists.
Paxlovid may not reduce hospitalization risk for vaccinated older adults
I would love to speak with you. This is the exact case I'm interested in. I'm at jbornhorst [at] gmail [dot] com if you have 20-30 mins to spare.
Mistral OCR vs. Gemini Flash 2.0: Comparing VLM OCR Accuracy
Can we just ban Kolmogorov already and get it over?

As a Gen X American, what a miracle to have that unipolar moment that we could appreciate the Russian mind.

It wasn't that long ago I thought we would just all watch Ghostmane videos and rule the world together.
Indeed, democratic republics have historically shown vulnerability to despotic movements.

However, one brand of idealism is still functionally equivalent to another. =3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeVWupFBkA8
sampling theorem only applies to sine waves. the rate is bit like the order of (fourier)series expansion and so approximations deviate as rate reduces. how many orders is enough depends and is situational
They are not gonna tell us the source of the molecule? I wanna know which berries or legumes to consume... damnit!!!
One thing I've noticed with older era CDs is that they were heavy and frequently not balanced to play at 48x
https://archive.ph/aRGRg
Everything will be even more complicated and confused.
I think it’s more complicated - this feels like a psychology and biology issue.

Those things are naturally closer to them which then means they generate stronger emotions. Just intuitively, emotions fuel pretty much all decisions. I mean, if heroin didn’t feel good people wouldn’t do it. If fast food didn’t taste good people wouldn’t eat it. Conversely, negative emotion create patterns of behavior.

Our behavior is complex and choice is a spectrum. I don’t really choose to brush my teeth, it just kind of happens. I can stop, but I don’t. I look around me and nobody stops brushing their teeth. Perhaps brushing our teeth is so popular because it creates positive emotions. Less shame, less worries, more comfort.

I think, those in power harness this quite effectively.!
Lassik surgery got rid of all those issues for me. Completely.

20 minutes of (intense) discomfort. 30 minutes later I was seeing the world in high definition (with sand-in-my eyes, yes. But high definition). I took eyedrops 3 times per day for months. Totally worth it. 20 years later I remain glasses-free.

Granted, I was a mild case: Some myopia (3 and 4 if my memory serves) and .5 astigmatism on each eye. And not everyone is eligible; some people's corneas are too thin to be "sculpted".

Only drawback is that when driving at night the lights from incoming cars and traffic lights have "extra halos" around them. Very minor inconvenience for me and definetly worth it.
> I'm not automatically against taxing high income people, but the top 10% ALREADY pay 76% of federal personal income taxes.

Like... samesies, I guess? This is an irrelevant stat without more context. It says nothing useful as-is, and even if that were fixed, it'd be of limited use because it concerns only personal income taxes. But you're presenting it as if it means something.

This kind of thing is what got you the comment you're responding to.
This is awesome! The end of power outages for all of us!
David Sacks has been pretty shameless about this whole thing. He's disingenuously framing previous sales of seized crypto has having "lost" billions of dollars due to the value of those projects later increasing - as if it would have any value to the government if it weren't sold at all. Even if this "strategic reserve" is only ever funded with seized crypto, people like him still benefit from those seized tokens being kept off the market.
science used to say non white folk were scientifically dumb lol
What DeepSeek Means for the World
SpaceX Make the Same Mistake Twice with Starship Flight 8
And that's what WB is offering, isn't it? A replacement. The question is whether you should expect to own and use something for almost 20 years, then get a refund. It'd be nice if they provided one, but I wouldn't say it's obvious to me that they must.

When no replacement discs are available, that's a more interesting edge case where they should feel obligated to do something to make it right in some other way, and I'd say a refund should be on the table.
What barriers have fallen? Computers still can't even drive cars
Probably the most straight-forward criticism of the idea I've run across is:

> A strategic reserve makes sense if you can imagine a crisis where a crucial good - food, fuel, etc - would be in short supply: you want be able to release the reserve to meet demand.

> But I cannot imagine a crisis where releasing an emergency reserve of crypto would do any good.

* https://twitter.com/stephenfgordon/status/189636064029148371...
I'm curious, as a noob in web programming. That first example does

document.addEventListener('click', ...

Instead of

someButton.addEventListener('click', ...

And in fact, all the framework example show button onClick not document onClick

I know some situations where adding the event listener to the document is correct but I've never seen it in this button type situation.

Is that pattern for buttons common? What does it solve?
Did Scientists and the Media Get Covid All Wrong?
No, saves a lot of time if you know how to skim it correctly.
I see that a lot from the Go crowd. That's why I consider any strong opinions on languages to be a poor indicator for ability. Sure there's differences, but a language does not make the engineer. Someone who is attracted to flashy stuff makes for an indulgent planner.
And a more jokey-y take:

> The main argument for a Strategic BItcoin Reserve seems to be that Bitcoin holders worry about an impending shortage of greater fools and need the US government to act as the greatest fool of last resort.

* https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1870564077535470079
That's weird because in countries where you're allowed to make backups of things you buy they still cost around $15.
If head start is a moat, why wouldn't you count OpenAI's headstart as moat?
since kennedy nothing has been shocking
Starship Troopers is the darling du jour online for this phenomenon.

A movie lampooning militarism, xenophobia and… armoured supersoldiers grinding through bugs and taking their resources? Sounds cool.

Compare to games like Factorio and Helldivers 2. About 1% of the time I think “wait, am I the baddie?” and the rest is just raining down technologically enhanced Armageddon to further my mineral stockpiles.
https://archive.today/q6Oqf
Yeah this was quite an interesting finding, given how Mistral has marketed this (OCR solved!)
> Second, most art is much less political, does not claim to be something it is not and does not try to sell you something

I am not much of an art expert, but pretty much all art is about that from what I can recall from school?!
OR, it's really easy to prove the government doesn't do anything valuable when you run the government.

My concern is that they don't believe this across all pieces of the government, and they do believe it in ways that only impact everyone else negatively.
4.5 is not trained on code. And it shows. It is however to my eyes more fluid, thoughtful, has better theory of mind. It's like someone scaled up GPT-4, and I really like it.
One more case of Fire and Motion[0] in the industry.

[0] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/
Yes, sometimes I get a blurry vision in one eye the day after and hurts, cannot focus and cries a lot

It has always never lasted more than one day but it fucks up my day
Depends on what these PhDs are supposed to do. Also is this an average Phd or a brilliant PhD level? There is a huge spectrum of PhDs out there. I highly doubt these phd level models are able to solve any problems in a creative way or discover new things other than regurgitating the knowledge they are trained on.
The Internet should be Unrated and thus Adults Only by default. Just like public spaces. (Would you allow an 8 year old to wander New York City unattended? Arguments can be made for more controlled spaces but...)

Have a website and want the chance for kids to see it? Advertise in the headers that it's moderated and intended to be a given rating. Various indexers can pick that up. Complaints can be forward to relevant government agencies (E.G. for a US based website the FTC, false advertising), or as usual other agencies for harder crimes.

Parents can mark computer accounts as Child accounts and Browsers configured to follow a set of list filtering rules selected by the parent or current guardian (E.G. schools).

So again. Internet == Unrated Free Zone -- Child Mode == Allow List filtered content.
Qualcomm CEO says new modem creates a 'huge delta' in performance versus Apple
At least you get the chance to demonstrate some of your creativity and forethinking with a code challenge. LC style timed questions are just turn off your brain and regurgitate.
As far as I remember probability distributions were clearly used all over the course but were introduced in a "probability light" manner (which probably made sense for people studying physics but not so much for me).
This article needs an editor. I've no problems believing that Marsalek is a Russian agent, but Bellingcat is of course funded by the National Endowment for Democracy ...

Scandals in Germany are frequent. Olaf Scholz was investigated in the cum-ex scandal, von der Leyen in the McKinsey German army affair (von der Leyen had ruined the German army and has now a big mouth for rearmament).

In general and not related to these specific cases, certain actions by certain politicians are easier to explain if a third party has kompromat on them.
Jan Marsalek would make a great Bond villain.
I give a similar task when I interview SWE candidates: about half cannot find any bugs (and sometimes see bugs where there are none), despite years of claimed experience in the language/domain.
It's like how Odysseus demanded to be tied to the mast of his ship, so he wouldn't be tempted by the Sirens.

The grad student doesn't want to be tempted by the software industry offering to quintuple his salary.

(Disclosure: Former physics grad student, who tended a similar optics bench).
Please don't post LLM generated comments on HN.
So what questions are LLMs good for?
Yes, they can, and do. Appropriations bills are extremely detailed. Each program has to be separately authorized. The agencies and departments have very little flexibility to move money around according to their own priorities.

There's a circular dependence. Congress has to pass the authorization bills, but it starts with the President's budget request, which in turn is authored by the separate agencies. Congress routinely declares the President's budget "dead on arrival" and sets about writing its own, which usually starts from the last year's budget. In reality there's a lot of jockeying, with the individual department meeting with individual Congressmen and committees to stress their priorities.

At least, they used to. I have no idea what happens now.
Halfway through sounds like the second layer went bad.
you bring up good points. but you should also keep in mind sometimes young kids who don't know any better often do a pretty good job.

any attempt to 'do it right' is also meetings and panels and... more ways to slow down and avoid being removed. it's tough
You are likely aware of the English language's feature of multiple adjectives (that are modifying the same noun) needing to appear in a certain order to sound "correct". So for example "yellow big balloon" sounds wrong but "big yellow balloon" sounds right. This is because SIZE is supposed to come before COLOR in standard English phrases.

In this case, "robotic" and "private" could be similar enough in category to be confusing. In the Order of Adjectives[0], "robotic" is in the TYPE category, near the bottom of the list, and "private" seems to fit in that same category at first glance. By that interpretation, either "robotic private" or "private robotic" works.

What if instead of "private" it said "Californian"? That would make it an ORIGIN, and "Californian robotic spacecraft" becomes the obvious choice — otherwise, you'd think they were talking about a spacecraft belonging to robots from California. ;)

So if we interpret "private" as an ORIGIN, your "private robotic spacecraft" sounds better. That would have been my choice as well.

[0]: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/adj...
1) From an eurocrat pov, why build a browser when you can regulate the existing ones instead? EU core competence is regulating, not building, and they know it.

2) You don't actually need to build a browser to achieve this goal, you just need a root program, and a viable (to some extent) substitute already exists. cf. all "Qualified" stuff in EU lingo. So again why do the work and risk spectacular failure if you don't need to.

3) Building alternative browser for EU commerce that you'd have to use for single market, but likely wouldn't work for webpages from other countries would be a bad user experience. I know what I'm sayig, I use Qubes and I've got different VMs with separate browser instances for banking etc. I'm pretty sure most people wouldn't like to have a similar set up even with working clipboard.

There are things you can't achieve by regulation, e.g. Galileo the GPS replacement, which you can't regulate into existence. Or national clouds: GDPR, DSA, et al. won't magically spawn a fully loaded colo. Those surely need to be built, but another Chromium derivative would serve no purpose.
perl-rename - rename is also good, but much more annoying to use for me as it doesn't use standard regex notation like perl-rename.

printf - shell is natively great at interpolation already, but having C-style printf formatting is often useful and echo has a lot of footguns
Deriving Muon
> still a few elements that still need to be worked on. Capacity and size of machine

Rather an understatement. These are absolutely foundational engineering problems which nobody yet knows how to properly solve.
It's the responsibility of leadership to set the correct goals and metrics. If leadership doesn't value maintenance, those they lead won't either. You can't blame people for playing to the tune of those above them.
Google banned the extension since apparently they couldn't figure out a good way to discern what is a real click or not. Seems to be more effective than you would think.

If the value of a click goes to zero then does it make sense to show ads?
I wonder if incentives for most companies favor doing things in-house?
My understanding of the executive action is that it authorizes this sovereign wealth fund as a place to store the Bitcoin that US authorities seize from criminals; that the Treasury is allowed (but not required) to develop a budget-neutral plan to purchase more Bitcoin; and that key people involved have stated that they never want the reserve to be liquidated.

I think you can definitely slippery slope your way into finding a problem with this, but it seems pretty reasonable to me. The government had all this bitcoin anyway. They've definitely sold some of it over time, but otherwise its just rotting in evidence lockers somewhere. We could definitely have a better plan in place to sell it, but that's boring.
I’m against these vulnerabilities as much as anyone, but if we want to move the world forward as a whole, nationalist protectionism cannot take us there. If every country wasted its resources building up its own fully independent industrial supply chain, and kept it fully modernized abreast of other nations, the average citizen’s standard of living would have a very low ceiling indeed. There’s a reason why corporate mergers happen.

If you want to see truly prosperous societies then you have to maximize peaceful international cooperation through shared democratic values. That takes educated citizenry with post-material values who will be invested in the stability and longevity of such an international system.

And they need to cooperate against authoritarian bad actors like Putin, who seek to divide and conquer.
Hustle Fund is doing some investing this week, you should take a look at their Events.
the assembly can mislead you, i have seen complex, long assembly that even does memory reads perform 2.5x the performance of “simple” assembly that would have been 4-5 lines.

Benchmarking is the only thing you can really do in some cases.
would love to chat to learn more from your experience. i'm at jbornhorst [at] gmail [dot] com if you have 20-30 mins to spare.
I understand the hesitation, but that's the thing about this: It's even simpler than cataract surgery (where they actually _replace_ your own lenses instead of just flopping one in front of it), which is very very common, and very very safe.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cataract_surgery

IIRC the chance of complications for Lasik is about 10x that of the one for intraocular lens implantation. The nature of the complications for the latter is also more along the lines of "an eye infection for a month" instead of something permanent.

I definitely suggest researching it (and not mentally lumping it in with Lasik, because they are quite different). Cheesy, but my only regret is not having done it years sooner.
>It's really astounding incompetence/dysfunction.

The word is probably "corruption."
It's actually very much not "fine" to want to "wipe out" an entire generation of a nation's scientists and replace them with ones that fit your ideological preferences.
Have you tried Flutter? It works well although web performance leaves some to be desired.
Oooh, so that's why the local recycling facility doesn't take black plastics. Thanks for sharing!
True- I saw that too, but I also wanted to start a thread to chat with the community and hear different perspectives. Would love to get your thoughts!
Well, a model with PhD level intelligence could presumably produce research in minutes that would take an actual PhD days or months.
Private large old round blue American metallic robotic spaceship.

Sounds a bit wrong, I want to put American first.
No, they specifically test for this (the "RL" case). They most particularly can not do this with random generation, which is very interesting.
Anyone can make an LLM. There are hundreds of choices in the market today. Many of them are even open source.

OpenAI brings absolutely nothing unique to the table.
I was CTO for an online eye exam for 5 years and have a couple of patents in this area. Happy to chat! Not an ophthalmologist but I know some things and some people. Email is in my profile.
It's a good strategy. It should be obvious to anyone paying attention that OpenAI doesn't have AGI secret sauce.

LLMs are a commodity and it's the platform integration that matters. This is the strategy that Google, Apple embraced and now Microsoft is wisely pivoting to the same.

If OpenAI cares about the long-term welfare of its employees, they would beg Microsoft to acquire them outright, before the markets fully realize what OpenAI is not.
It's not contrived. Pulp fiction is real, and there are plenty of computer games that aren't "pulp games".
Good point - these could most likely be exploited as well. That's another way for the US to get there. Break up Canada. The Quebecois get to be their own mini-nation. Not sure what would happen to the Maritimes or Newfoundland. And it's not like Western Canada is uncontroversial, look how much people bag on Alberta.

The thing that would for sure not happen is Canada becoming an actual state in the US. Way too liberal for that and logistically it wouldn't make sense.
golang is decent and is the only new lang climbed up to 7th in popularity, it does shine at what it's good at
Interesting that these five eyes nations are backing out of intelligence sharing with the US, and also removing the advice to use Apple encryption. Does this mean the US is able to get that encrypted data in plaintext already, and was previously sharing such with these governments? Now they won't have that and need (want) to see the communications move to platforms they have readily access to.
The American Sunlight Project which coined the term "AI grooming" and is the reference for this article should be familiar to many:

> The American Sunlight Project is a left-of-center organization that seeks to counter what it considers “disinformation” online.

> Founded in 2024 by former Biden administration “disinformation czar” Nina Jankowicz, the organization supports President Joe Biden’s claim that modern people live in the age of disinformation, advances the idea that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to benefit then-Republican candidate Donald Trump, and conducts open-source investigations to undermine those who challenge disinformation researchers.

From: https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/american-sunlight-...
> […] framing previous sales of seized crypto has having "lost" billions of dollars due to the value of those projects later increasing - as if it would have any value to the government if it weren't sold at all.

And this is not only true for cryptocurrencies but for money in general: having a bunch of coins or bills or a number associated with your bank account is not the point of money. The point of money is to buy goods and services that make life possible and enjoyable.

Certainly one needs some amount of money just sitting around as an emergency (or retirement) fund so you can sleep without worry about unpleasant possible future events (job loss, car breakdown, etc), but you're (generally) supposed to get money to spend it.

Having a bunch of cryptocurrency assets sitting around is generally just as useless.
https://archive.ph/3rDGb
Ukraine, Nuclear Weapons, and Security Assurances at a Glance (2020)
https://archive.ph/20250305142055/https://www.technologyrevi...
> “It’s the first modem that has so much AI, it actually increases the range of performance of the modem so the modem can deal with weaker signals,” Amon told CNBC.

That's quite intriguing, but having worked in the past on signaling systems it's hard to imagine how they can ensure integrity. It seems like bit flips would be trivial compared to the potential for distortions and corruptions from an AI trying to guess at and reconstruct a weak signal. For encrypted stuff, is hard to even imagine how that could work. I've been out of that segment for a long time though, so if anyone has insight I'd love to hear it
True, but I wouldn’t wave that around as a reason not to care about objective truth.
> The React/JS code is far simpler and less clunky than the Objective-C equivalent.

How does it compare to Tcl/Tk? Especially canvas with tags over elements, with tags having their own bindings.