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Like many others here I once wrote a toy lisp in golang, and I added a help function. It would give usage-information for all the built-in functions.

> (help +)
Arguments N arg1..argN
Adds all arguments present to the first number.

> (help map)
Arguments lst:list fun:function
Return a list with the contents of evaluating the given function on every item of the supplied list.
See-also: map-pairs
How was that relevant to a statistical physics exam?
I didn't know about these JD texts, but it checks out. It has seemed to me that:

* Trump has a chip on his shoulder over this first impeachment and the Muller investigation

* He sees this whole thing as a bother, and Zelensky a nuisance

That oval office "mean girls" meeting makes total sense now; both Trump and Vance feel the above. They just want quick credit for a quick end and care about nothing else.
HAHAHA thank you!
You wouldn't need to go nearly that hard. 50%, or 25%, would still be a giant budget-balancer.
Wouldn't automation and layoffs be synchronized, in such a plan ?

Also, how do we plan automating park rangers ?
First, racism is a public health issue. I know you're imagining "no blacks" signs on restaurants but it's actually that... well Jesus damn near everything is set up in a way that produces worse health outcomes for people of color. But even if you don't subscribe to the wider systemic effects it's still an issue even restricted to our healthcare system itself. They weren't saying that bullets from cops was a public health crisis, your own article outlines it really well.

The second was because if they didn't the ACLU was going to sue them into the ground on a 1A violation because protesting is the most bright line clear cut political speech. This wasn't a Black Lives Matter thing only either, the protests against the (in practice) vaccine mandate and social distancing itself were protected by this. How else could you protest them?
Daylight saving time and early school start times cost billions
> Even PhD students, who's nominal salary is maybe $3-5k a month

Do they really get paid that much these days?
It's worth reading the bill, S.146.[1] It's Ted Cruz's bill, and it passed the Senate last year, but too late in the session to go to the House. Seems to be the same bill this session.

It's structured much like DMCA takedown, but with no safeguards. There's no way to challenge a removal and force a put-back, as there is with the DMCA.
There's no penalty for making a false claim.
There's both a civil forfeiture provision, and criminal provisions. If it had roughly the same terms as the DMCA [2] it wouldn't be so bad.

It only applies to images, at least. If you run a site that allows uploading content, for compliance purposes it might be useful to have a classifier recognize any pictures which include administration officials and blank them out.

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/146

[2] https://www.copyright.gov/512/
It's been proven in the past that this does not increase revenue in the long run.

If you want to significantly increase revenue, you'd have to tax the middle class harder.

I'm not automatically against taxing high income people, but the top 10% ALREADY pay 76% of federal personal income taxes.
If someone claims you posted porn of them, do you think the giant company is going to take the time, money, and resources to give you the benefit of the doubt and investigate? Or are they simply going to ban your account with no recourse?

The DMCA and copyright strikes don't work correctly and are rife with abuse. I definitely don't expect this to work as intended, either.
The popover API is not a replacement for <dialog>. It's an alternative to some dialog like functionality if the use case is right.
It's not even 1d chess. It's like playing War with a deck of cards.
I'd say it is because the $ it takes to build out even a small gpu data center is still way, way more than most small cos can do. It's not an impenetrable moat, but it is pretty insulating against startups. Still have a threat from big tech, though I think that will always be true for almost everything
I don't think the hardware is that easy to source just yet. Musk pulled some strings and redirected existing inventory and orders from his other companies, namely Tesla, to accelerate delivery.
Trump was pretty open about his desire to use it for other stuff.

> "And I’m going to use that bill for myself too if you don’t mind, because nobody gets treated worse than I do online, nobody."
This is amazing and exactly the right thing for my brain! Thanks so much.
The larger question is why is the US Government giving Columbia $400M when their endowment is $14.8 billion with a 11%+ RoR? That's 1.6 billion/year.

https://endowment.giving.columbia.edu/endowment-performance-...
I don't mind them working with congress and the cabinet secretaries to shrink government. That's how it works!

What I do mind, personally, is them illegally (as in, prohibited by current laws and regulations) dismissing as many people as they can without cause and without recourse to the correct labor review boards, etc that have been in place for decades.

There is some waste in the federal government, absolutely, but most jobs are underpaid compared to the market and worked by folks that want to do good work.

Waste can absolutely be found and cut and deprioritized, but the programs that they've started cutting with a chainsaw are small dollar programs that are trying to move things forward in many cases, or keep basic systems from going off the rails.

You want to go after government you evaluate and then cut and then make sure the congressional budget also cuts the funding.

Problem is - Congress likes these programs and they can't pass a budget to save their lives. They're good for their districts so they will make you spend the money through the law.

You have to work through the process - the way they're doing it is lazy because they're taking shortcuts instead of doing it right. White House, Congress, AND a number of court justices and they still don't have the will to do it the legal way with appropriate checks and balances. Shameful.

Who would you fire if they did things that support you throughout your day? Who would you fire if there was no backup plan? Who would you fire without even looking at their role OR their performance?
I think Microsoft isn't buying the AGI hype from OpenAI, and wants to move to be more model agnostic, and instead do what Microsoft (thinks) it does best, and that's tooling, and enterprise products.

MS wants to push Copilot, and will be better off not being tied to OpenAI but having Copilot be model agnostic, like GH Copilot can use other models already. They are going to try and position Azure as "the" place to run your own models, etc.
>Tell me you haven't looked at Nvidia's financials (especially the margins) without telling me.

What happens to industries that have huge margins? They get compressed by competition. The biggest companies on the planet, literally, are figuring out how to not pay Nvidia those huge margins.
Mobile absolutely uses “shit from 1994”.

The UI framework in iOS is a direct descendant of the NeXT one I’m talking about.
Yeah this is exactly it. It’s the only solution; and the logical conclusion of not taxing the extremely rich aggressively.

Otherwise they will use their power to get rid of safeguards and government assets to essentially buy the governments power and assets.
Pila Energy - Plug-and-play home battery that integrates with Home Assistant
Now that OAI has "PhD level" agents, I assume they're largely scaling back recruitment?
we still have to cut the deficit or increasing revenue is still just kicking the ever-growing interest payments down the road. If we don't do both, it's like increasing our salary and using it to justify getting another credit card when we have already maxed out the ones we have.

We can -- and often do -- monetize the debt, but printing money to pay the debt is a regressive tax that affects those with the least disproportionately, so I would imagine you aren't trying to push for that.
IMO slippery slope is a fallacy when the small step only supports the big step symbolically, shifting the “Overton Window”. It’s true that the Overton Window has some effect, but we shouldn’t avoid taking a step towards the middle just because it’s also a step towards the opposite bad side, if the middle is good.

Wrt. privacy, the real issue is that the small step helps the big step not just symbolically. ID-based age-verification, even when used for good reasons, gives the state and government access to its people’s history of age-restricted content. If this government decides to, say, prosecute anyone who viewed/bought/consumed (inane) X, it’s far easier vs. a government that doesn’t have age-verification. Both governments face major opposition, but the latter government’s opposition is more effective, because the former’s has already shared their history.

One thing the article doesn’t state but implies, that I don’t agree with, is: the slippery slope is still a fallacy, when a government first decides to age-gate reasonable X (e.g. porn) then unreasonable Y (e.g. history books). Because said government will receive almost as much opposition and people doing work-arounds for Y, as if they went straight to age-gating Y; although not exactly as much, I generally assume (and hope) the difference doesn't outweigh the benefits of "stepping towards the middle". In the article, X is porn, and Y is facial cream, dating apps, and diet pills. But these things arguably should be age-gated; and even the article’s talking points are not that these are OK for children, but that gating them gives the government data on more people (which is a real slippery-slope, not a fallacy, as explained in the above paragraph), specifically people who don’t watch porn (perhaps some of the readers don’t mind porn viewers being monitored because they aren’t one of them). If states were to actually start age-gating history books, I guarantee there would be serious opposition, including from people who are completely fine with age-gating porn.
I guess this is like a dunk and I shouldn't even respond, but I'd probably (from less) do /nick.*http and then hit n or N a bunch to jump around. Yeah, it's technically a regex, I guess, but I think it's probably the easiest/most common form. You don't really need to remember much of anything or understand how it works. You could be used to wildcards from a shell and just think "I gotta put a . in front of it sometimes for it to work".

I would not get more advanced than that, personally. Sure you'll have matches that aren't exactly what you're looking for, like that'd match both lines I said and lines mentioning me, and URLs that aren't images (better than trying to account for all types of image URLs, IMO) but I'll probably find what I'm looking for fast enough for it to not be worth looking up more complicated regex. Often I'll remember who posted something, too, so then maybe I'll throw their nick in the search as well, before mine. Or at least I could narrow down who posted it to a few people and just try a few searches pretty quickly back to back.

I would also say this particular search you're talking about would be fairly uncommon. I might even remember something like "oh, Bernie said that image was the funniest thing he'd seen all day, I'll search the word 'funniest' starting from the end of the file since it was under a month ago and should end up near the URL".
Consider Aider. Open source. Agentic as well. And you can control the context it sends (apparently not as much in Code).
not sure I agree with Truffaut; I think that Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July, for example, are quite good at _not_ glorifying war
Can an LLM "discern" Pravda and Pravda?
Ordinarily when there's a really big problem, a President will go to some effort to explain to the public what the problem is, and how their actions will fix it. Apparently this problem is definitely motivation Trump and is also somehow so deeply hidden that we can only find out about it from random newsletter sites.

I'm not saying that this makes it BS. But I'm also saying if this doesn't ring your BS meter, you don't have one anymore.
Laserdiscs/DiscoVision are analog, they can technically still work but their image quality could be heavily degraded.

Also, storage conditions can deeply affect how well a medium lasts but that's no excuse for defective discs.
Similarly to how many LLMs don't actually know (or want to share) who they are, I wouldn't trust self-reported knowledge cutoff dates.

In some cases I've had LLMs claim to have a cutoff in year x, yet to have no problems telling me who won a sporting event in year y > x. (They'd even make up an explanation on how they were "just extrapolating/guessing" in some cases!)
Meta keeps secret 'do not rehire' list of ex-employees
Those are just products. Microsoft has distribution at a level that is orders of magnitude harder to build and worth far more.

Comparing how much money it would take to build a competitive portfolio of products to compete with Microsoft is like comparing how long it would take to build a Twitter or Facebook clone. Sure, it wouldn't take that long or that much money, but product is the easy part.
In general, people often borrow money to spend on capital improvements, with the goal that those improvements will generate more money than the cost of debt plus interest. Businesses do this all the time, and they don't have the ability to print money.

But if you care about this you cannot honestly argue for tax cuts. You should be arguing for a broad-based increase in taxes. But that's politically unpopular and tax cuts are popular.
The feed lacks enough context for me to tell what I think about basically everything on it. If I uncritically accept that things on it are exactly what they're presenting them as being, sure, there's stuff that looks sketchy. But Musk is also the guy who has been telling me that Teslas will have "full self driving" within a year or two for the last decade, so...

Plus, should you trust that raw feed? There's already news stories about them going through and removing stuff from their big list of cuts that they messed up: https://archive.is/fCO84
So one law invalidates artistic parody and triumphs over free speech?

All that Beeple Trump art just became illegal.
I refuse to believe you’re actually this clueless
I did look. There is:
- Location Services
- Secure User Plane Location
- Predicted Satellite Data Service

It's not immediately obvious what I need to enable in order to get better location services, if it's already enabled, and whether the feature in the linked post even helps with the issue. Why are you so hostile?

I use Graphene for privacy without a massive hassle, I don't care enough about my phone ecperience to be really into it, I just want provacy. And generally GrapheneOS has been GREAT for this.
It always amazes me that we are on this super hardcore capitalist site 'hacker news' and yet so few people here know how income works at the highest levels.

Super high earners don't earn W2 income. It's mostly long term cap gains or gains in tax advantaged accounts. A 90% tax would just encourage them to never sell their stock and to borrow against it instead.
It's certainly disrespectful of the process, and even of his client to do something like this. Presumably he didn't even read / validate any of what was cited?
> ideological neutrality

Could you point to an institution or even individual you feel is an exemplar of ideological neutrality? I don't believe this exists but I'm very curious how you perceive it.
The problem is that you have POTUS announcing his intent on using this in a deliberate way not as you describe so he can go after people saying things about him he does not like. Whatever you wanted to say about the law, its true intent was made clear when he said the quiet part out loud on national television
Grimly funny that America's race into facism includes its own version of Jüdische Physik
Raise taxes. That will do plenty to address the deficit. Instead, tax rates are in motion to decrease, making the debt problem significantly worse.
I wonder about the angle of the article, starting with "B-Trees stand the test of time" ending with "everything else has seriously diminishing returns".

I never ask myself why we still use hashmaps or heaps or whatnot, so makes me wonder if this is really an article about why Cedar does not use something else? (LSM-trees the elephant in the room?)
https://www.ft.com/content/4ebd9032-d3d1-4a9e-976c-d1235448e... ("German prosecutor drops Wirecard investigation into FT reporters")

https://archive.is/l5j76

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19737795

It's really astounding incompetence/dysfunction.
Ask HN: Are the advances in AI worth the money?
As a dev, there's a basic rule I've heard a lot, that, "don't re-invent the wheel".

If you lookup at ChatGPT or any other large research on AI, considering the significant monetary investment, number of hours of work by employees and staff, running the models on high end servers, costing higher emissions, the whole chain of events. Just so we can talk to computers as we'd usually talk with fellows? We're still the one initiating the conversation. We're and will be still the one for whom response is provided for. The only species that matters here is currently only humans, can't we just compromise? Enter and read inputs in a form computers understand and respond?

So, can't we just make do with previous forms of communication with the computers? What wall are we really facing that doesn't require compromise from us in one way or other, so that for it the solution is an LLM?

In terms of the approach taken for building LLMs is not actually much innovative than brute force, last extraordinary work I'd say was Transforms and OCR, hence a model like BERT would have been evolved into and LLM that we're all talking about today, but considering all the efforts and the tradeoffs we face is it still worth it in your opinion?

Is it that much of an improvement?
Remember this moment the next time a Democrat suggest a law suppressing speech.
For some of the cuts there could be a profit angle. You can fire government employees and replace their functions with favored contractors.
If you watch Come and See and are excited about war afterwards, you aren't smart or introspective enough that external media has a meaningful effect on your thoughts anyway.
Are there any decent but basic swipe keyboards? Swiftkey was miles better than Gboard, but Microsoft acquired it and made it crap. It's got AI in it now apparently...
IANAL. I would think fraud needs investigation much deeper than; "This $200 million is being spent on <insert program> that we don't need at the moment."

First you find where the money is being spent and if it doesn't match the goals of the administration, you turn it off. If there is potential for fraud, you mark the case for further evaluation and investigation. The most important first step is always to stop the bleeding and in this case, bleeding money.

You can come back to investigate at a later time. Prosecuting fraud before the bleeding has stopped is a waste of time imo.
They fired the people helping with automation, and the people with domain knowledge to enable automation.

We know the hack and slash method leads to more corruption and doesn't produce savings.

The resources like 18f would have been critical for what you are describing above.

'Agentic AI' is still a pipe dream, context is still required for application of what we know it can do anyway.

Nothing shows any inkling that DOGE has the appropriate SME's in place. If they do they better start communicating intent and proving themselves.

Right now it seems that they are rank amateurs who are nothing more than an impediment to efficient, effective government.
I agree, ultra-rich capital gains taxation should shift towards being mark-to-market. The step-up basis for irrevocable trusts, and all the other games that make sense for $100MM+ net worth people, need to be eliminated.
I haven't bothered to read the feed, but I'm going to go with "all of them", because what I personally object to is the process, so even trying to frame it in the veins of "do you support spending on X" is the wrong question to ask in the first place.

There's already a lot of evidence for these cuts happening in large part by someone doing the equivalent on Ctrl-F on a database for terms and zeroing them out, which is not an effective process if you're trying to reduce "waste," no matter what your definition of "waste" is.
How about this link posted by the other commenter? https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/weaponizati...

It is also well known now that Twitter literally had a hotline with the FBI and whitehouse, gave them their own web interface to remove posts on Twitter.

Pretty much every law that extends police authority and surveillance is just like this (one thing that both parties can universally agree on). They are intentionally wide open so that the executive can apply them selectively however they like without legal recourse of the victim. DOGE was also born from a legal construct that was created by a democratic government (Obama if I remember correctly). Not to mention control over the discourse on social media by politically motivated moderators (reddit is particularly egregious in this regard). "Democrats" do this shit in exactly the same way and they love it... until they lose control of it and it hits them in the face. Now they're finding out what it's like on the receiving end and my compassion is limited.
IBM of the early 1940s.
The EU didnt take the threat seriously because they couldnt comprehend Putin jeapordising trade relationships with the rest of Europe. Putin in turn thought that Europe would roll over like they did with Crimea, they'd also be scared to lose access to Russian gas. Both sides were wrong. Putin was stupider than the EU realised and Russian gas was not as indispensible as he though it was.
The solution for me to eliminate headaches when working at computer screens was getting an extra set of intermediate distance glasses specifically for computer work. The "computer screen distance" of 3 ft is in between book-reading distance of 1 feet and driving distance 20'+ feet. I also avoid progressive lenses or high-index lenses for computer work. I commented about how arrived at this solution previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15375221

Reading glasses work fine when the screen is very close to your face such as a laptop screen. However if it's a separate monitor that's ~30 inches away, reading glasses are slightly blurry which can lead to eyestrain and headaches.

https://www.warbyparker.com/learn/wp-content/uploads/2023/04...

Look into it if you suspect it's a contributor to headaches: https://www.google.com/search?q=computer+glasses+%22intermed...
> You can’t exactly take the physics out of quantum computing

Why? I've actually heard even physicists claim the exact opposite.

> otherwise you’re just left with linear algebra with a certain set of axioms.

You say it like it's a bad thing. In my book, it's a very, very good thing.

> Physics is full of examples of math informed by physical phenomena.

Yes indeed, it is. And many a discovery in math actually came from physics in the first place.

And the magic of math is: it extirpates the interesting principles and patterns from the muck of physical reality, making it available, stripped of its lowly origins, to reason with and apply to completely different contexts, including other areas of physics and engineering and CS.

> There are some good QM/quantum optics books that heavily lean on the linear algebra.

Please list some, I'd be very happy to peruse them.

Specifically please list some that don't just "lean" on linear algebra but use it exclusively.

Many a QM book basically expounds on the fact that it is both possible and legitimate to derive QM axiomatically and without ever resorting to physical references, only to immediately do the exact opposite of what they claim in the next chapter.