skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a lot of experience with this kind of person. I personally will bet real money that the US has troops in Greenland within a year, and is claiming it as US territory.

In my experience, the ‘personality defect’ you are thinking of is what many folks would call ‘malignant narcissistic personality disorder’. He only wants Greenland because someone once told him he couldn’t have it, and it gets him attention every time he brings it up.

It wouldn’t surprise me if he has no actual idea what Greenland actually is like, and has never visited it. He might even be confused between Iceland and Greenland, if you asked him to point to Greenland on an unlabeled map.

Plenty of other people though would benefit from the strife created by him actually taking it, or from him being happy with them by actually getting it for him, so I expect there are active plans in motion right now to invade Greenland.

He’s telling everyone what he wants to do, no one is delivering real consequences to stop him, and he is in charge. Listen to what he’s saying.

Refusing to take him ‘seriously’ and actually act against him, is exactly what normalizes his actions when he later does the thing that seemed crazy a month or a year ago.

Look at what he was saying that seemed crazy and hyperbolic a year or two ago. Look at what he is doing now, and no one is stopping him.
Even as somebody trying to get a US VISA, I think it is a bad idea. Whatever tests you use, there will be many millions trying to learn for the test, thereby massively taxing the immigration system and making it harder for the more genuinely skilled prospects.

BTW, merit VISAs already exist, and if you are rich there are investment VISAs. H1B is a cluster fuck, but it can be trivially fixed by allowing employees to switch employers.
There's a lot of things front-end developers (be they web or graphical terminal) can learn from the game development world. I can recommend playing with e.g. Pico 8 sometime, it's artificially constrained so you have to work with the limitations instead of do the usual relatively naive work. It's LUA coding so it shouldn't be a problem for JS developers, assuming they don't mind working in a 20 column code editor (or thereabouts).
I have never found a reason to do that personally. It seems like an extra step I don't need. I also don't want the printer going near a shared folder and I definitely don't want the printer's true owner (the vendor) to be handling my documents over email!
> Been running my own mail server since 1999 or so.

Same.

> No issues.

Many issues.
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Maddy did it for me. Pretty awesome.
To add to this point: We can look to China to see that the financialization of the economy, like it happened in the US, is not a natural law but can instead be restricted. China has explicitly said that they see the development of financial markets in the US as a problem for the US economy they decidedly aim to avoid.

Stories like what happened to Jack Ma have to be interpreted in that context, I think. In my reading that wasn't about politics at all, but about an unregulated peer to peer lending product (i.e. a tech based loan shark system for exploiting people in need) he was about to release.
Similar to the brain cheese in rifters that betrays humanity because it koves simple patterns
All the links you want are in the post I made that was linked by TFA (IETF very annoyingly killed its URLs for some reason so you have to wayback machine a little). That, plus trying to argue IETF doesn't design by committee (which if anyone knows anything about IETF it's that) has made me assume you're just trolling me. If not, sorry! But what are you trying to add to the conversation here? Is your argument "IETF good, get involved"? It turns out someone can take yr serialization format, rename it, and standardize it entirely without your consent, so no thank you.

I'm happy to discuss stuff, even (especially) in depth, even to be your entree into this whole thing, but you gotta meet me halfway. This whole thread is me saying "hey that's my post!" Please start there.
I guess it depends on your driving habits and homecharging situation, but after a year with my EV, I wouldn't go back if God came down and personally told me that every EV resulted in a baby seal being clubbed. Among the many advantages, never having to go to a gas station is so much better.
Hi bacteria and Lo bacteria
Well, you got me there
His "attempt" at self-driving is better than most of the industry, at a fraction of the cost.

The man does and tries things. Man in the arena.
Now this is a commendable mission.
What profession does? You realize there are vested interests, competing interests and a varying degree of people optimizing for their individual careers, right?
> Then you have to contact each one and ask them to mark it as not-spam

That presumes the email is accepted into the spam folder rather than being rejected outright at SMTP time.
You must be one of the few people who use the "program" buttons on a microwave then. I personally don't know anyone and all the people I talk to really just want a two wheel microwave. Even if I tried the programs they almost never worked accurately anyway. Admittedly newer inverter microwaves are the exception, the defrost mode actually does work (and is the one program I use on these microwaves).
I think you could see this coming as soon as they implemented chain-of-thought in their previous models.

Chain-of-thought is well understood to be the way to squeeze out performance out of these models. Slow down, go step by step, use more tokens to get a little bit better output. This is so useful, that often in the comparision graphs you see between different models, the best one (the one I want to sell) is using chain of thought while others are not. Not always, but companies have been caught using this technique to hype up their models.

We’ve already seen that CoT (usually!) improves a model’s performance. So does prompting the model with examples of correct question-answer pairs (called in-context examples). But in reports, some models are evaluated with CoT, while others aren’t. The number of in-context examples is often different, and the prompts are almost always different.

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/07/can-you-trust-an-ai-press-...

As soon as OpenAI was desparate for performance upgrade, they implemented this as an actual feature.
The E46 and E39 are one of my favourite cars. Great looks and pure Inline 6 BMW feeling.
Nowadays the design of most of their cars is unfortunately quite ugly, not sure what they are aiming at.
This is the worst kind of pedantry. There is now code in a text file that wasn't there before. It doesn't really matter to me if they code came from human fingers, an auto generator tool, an LLM or a ouija board. It looks like written code and it compiles like written code - it's written code. You can rightly criticise the use of LLMs in many ways but it is more useful to focus on the actual reasons they cause harm than to set red lines over language.
We're long past the point where we can say "how it works" from how it used to work.

The incentive is there now, when it wasn't before. Cooperation emerges under external pressures, almost as a rule.
You’ll find that money is noise, this, us, together, is wealth
The body’s just cosines and vectors, love is the real health

Dog with Rabbit in Mouth, Unharmed, Beauty Pill

https://youtu.be/0GENOl4sbiE
So you are being offered a job, or a degree which might get you a job?
Do you want a job?
> Meanwhile off-by-one errors are ludicrously common…

Off by one errors in general have nothing to do with being 1 or 0-based indexed.

In French off-by-one error is called “the post and fence problem” because there's always one more post than piece of fence (unless your fence makes a loop).

It arises because it's easy to confuse the number of intervals between elements and the number of elements (which is also: do I need to include the bounds or not). 1-based indexing isn't going to help at all in the general case (it will help for the most basic error which is getting the last element of an array with `a[a.length]`, but that's it)
From a practical point of view, I think anyone who has written any substantial amount of code is aware of the cost of context switching. Now picture a diary where you have 5 to 10 meetings a day with 30min free slots in between, and staying on top of emails on top of that. How much thoughtful coding do you expect to achieve?

I think managers gain at doing some coding to stay in touch, and certainly home projects are very useful. But it is impractical to expect anyone who runs a large team to be productive in term of writing code.
So many spies would happily take up that offer.
I agree. One other thing that the US has that no other country has is freedom of speech.

My entire family was killed in my previous country for daring to speak up against the leader at the time. It has something that has shook me to my core. Now, even to this day, I cannot find another country besides the US who not only respects freedom of speech, but encourages it among its residents. I will not move to another country no matter how drastic it gets.
I have a HIKMICRO mini USB-C thermal camera and out of the box it worked like a normal UVC camera so I could use other standard webcam-compatible apps to view it (thermal apps tend to have choppy video capture). I was reviewing it so I updated the firmware, and then UVC functionality was basically broken, so it only worked with their app afterwards. I contacted them but they didn't seem to grasp the significance or care.
Last time I checked, some of the Google Docs/Sheets functionality wasn't fully-baked in anything but Chrome/Chromium... Maybe this has improved though? I have a nice Chrome extension that automatically checks my various GMail/Workspace accounts and gives me an icon and popout thing so I can see previews without having to fire up multiple different tabs just for a quick glance.

This was part of why I moved to Vivaldi from Chrome about a year ago. But the fact that Vivaldi can only do so much (with the Chromium base) to stave off deprecation of the best ad-blocker has me considering a move back to Firefox now.
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But what about privacy? Don’t you mind printing a copy of your passport or payslip or any sensitive doc via a print service (e.g., in a kiosk)
Using this now, and love it. For easy mail reception and sending, mail-in-a-box does it all for you (if you don't mind opinionated, but stable) and Stalwart does it all for you and is highly configurable, including an oauth2 server and more. Keen to try Mox, but I think it went viral and their website accidentally got ddos'ed.
Can You Trust an AI Press Release? (2024)
> multiple projectors could be used to increase brightness.

Done in at least one early military large screen display system, using six CRTs (RGB x2) aimed at the screen. If one failed, the brightness dropped on the others but you still had an image.

The USAF put a huge amount of effort into early large-screen displays.[1] Not very successfully.

The most successful projection display before LCDs was the Eidophor. (1949-2000)[2] Big, expensive, complicated, high-maintenance, but reliable. Worked by distorting an oil film in vacuum with an electron beam. Biggest buyer was NASA's mission control center. In its final 1990s form, it was bright enough to be used in stadiums.[3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iconorama

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eidophor

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5783jPTKzjk
The fact that US gdp and population has grown while energy inputs have stayed flat is an important measure of both the energy efficiency of an economy and the mix of sources of gdp. "Energy intensity" is a measure of PPP gdp per capita per kg of oil. If you want to grow your economy then you either improve energy intensity (get more gdp for the same or less energy) or find new energy sources. China wants to reduce their energy intensity. Yet the author is showing a "graph goes up" to mean "better" with all the confidence of an engineer outside their circle of competence. The US energy intensity has halved since the 1980s - less oil and more IT.
It's not true there was no growth for decades there, but otherwise I agree.

He is not far off from the truth that a lot of the American economy is phony with wrong incentives. I submitted an article recently that makes the same argument, about e.g. the 2008 crisis "we used to sell mortgages to so we can build houses, not build houses so we can sell mortgages".

But his solutions fall on their face. The contradiction you mention is not the only one - his wrong way involves "protectionist economy" which is actually exactly what is happening right now.

It's also a bit funny the current backlash against globalization I'm the US government is led by the people that profited the most from it. That right there tells you their intentions are not noble.
When did you buy it? After a cursory search it seems that Xerox engages in the same scammy behavior with 3rd-party consumables: artificially degrading the quality (lower DPI, fake printhead jerks), region-locking, wasting ink so it drains faster, and DRMs that blank out refuse anything that didn't pad their bottom line.
> once the legislative powers biased through the influence of party P implement solution S,

My point is that isn't happening. Due to partisan deadlock party P can't implement solution S.
US didn't want other countries to have a large military ( which includes nuclear with a Russian neighbour) power.

Germany didn't want that role too, as one of the biggest economies in Europe, because of... History.

Germany just enabled 1 trillion in spending for the military. That's historical

1,7 trillion of the Norway fund will be enabled ( partially ofc), that's entire Russia's GDP alone.
> in reality it’s the same thing in both places.

the utility of a toaster is different in different places.

It may also be the case that a toaster costing 5x in the US, because this is including an opportunity cost for that toaster being made (which means a different thing wasn't made).
Good to know thanks for the heads-up! I'll wait for a confirmation from someone else and then update the article
Have you tried this tool?

I just generated two tetris games, one with ascii art and one with WebGL, and I found it quite impressive. Maybe simplistic apps, but still quite impressive with it's ability to create functional games and fix bugs with minor prodding.
Usually, yes. The break even point depends on how clean your energy source is but 15-40k km is about where they even out even considering batteries. Remember if you live somewhere like Norway or Scotland where it’s dark for 6 months, it’s also very very bright for the other 6 months.
> Ink is what makes money.

IaaS (Ink as a service). /s
Binjr: A standalone time series browser
Deflation is fairer and reduces moral hazard in finance.
The weak point of gold is that it’s too slow to settle transactions (you have to move it), so a paper gold system on top of it inevitably arises.
[0] “broken money” by Lyn Alden
Just wanted to say that I really dig your enthusiasm! I read most of PerlPleBean’s README and was smiling the whole time - APE was so exciting to read about when it came out, and your project may just inspire me to look more into what it can do!
When you need Adobe for work, you don't have option to abandon Windows completely. At least we have IoT LTSC version of Win.
Economics has two broad disciplinces, micro and macro economics. Macro economics is for if you're trying to plan or consider the economy, micro economics is if you want to understand a business or person and how it makes decisions etc.,. Broadly, there's also normative and positive economics. Normative economics is stating opinions about what's right (e.g,. there should be a minimum wage so that no one can be paid less than X for their work) whereas positive economics is about facts (e.g., if you raise the price of something, you'll generally sell less of it).

Anyway, idk if that's useful. I'd say though, economists don't really need to care about what people value, except to the extent that they can e.g,. learn about what people value by observing their behavior, or use how they ascribe value to something to predict their behavior. That is to say, "real" economists _do_ study allocations of physical resources etc., don't think they just try to model some theoretical value function :)
Got you, I was a bit on edge from previous not so fun exchanges on another thread.

I go by Feynman's logic: if you can't explain it simply you don't understand it. Redundancy doesn't seem to me to be a good thing in documentation. Would make it harder to parse and maintain...
> > So a single 300-kW port in a public charging station includes about $90,000 of power electronics, of which about $54,000 is for the isolation link.
> I would love to see a concrete BOM for a sample build and mouser links to back this up.

This kind of checks out with the price of 200kW and 400kW chargers from Alpitronics: https://www.connect-gp-joule.de/en/shop/dc-charging-stations...

Between €67k and €102k (for some reasons VAT included in that price) for these units.
Of course they should. The volume does not matter as much as the depth. alternatively you could ask "Should managers understand the domain in which they work"?
I agree with the thrust of your argument but the idea that you need to have a really really large pile of gold sitting in a warehouse to fix it seems silly to me.

Can't they just not print so much?
Contrary to serious economists Austrians try very hard to avoid specific forecasts, but we all can nonetheless look at their writings and compare what actually happened during every crisis in the last 50 years - and nothing Austrians are postulating proved correct. Or just look at the very last, covid caused one: If you'd been doing prognoses with textbook keynesianism regarding inflation, demand, stimulus effects and so on, you'd been pretty spot on. Just read the old blog posts from krugman from 2020 onwards as an example. The Austrians, by comparison, predicted 5 of the last 0 hyperinflation scenarios correctly.
None of the systems you listed will protect against an 80% majority wanting to force through specific legislation. Through brute force they will get their way eventually and inevitably.

If you disagree, I hope you can give a more fleshed out example than, what seems to be, to be the vague handwaving you have been doing so far - no offense intended.
The US since the GFC is probably the most obvious one.

As I understand it, pretty much every developed country employed mmt practice in response to covid.

Now we have (even more) rampant inflation and wealth inequality with no sign of slowing down.
I believe "FoxyGestures" is the best solution for that piece on FF at least. (As a fellow gesture enjoyer it was one of the reasons I moved to Vivaldi from Chrome.)
> I prefer my economic takes from economists, or people who actually study these things.

I think the ideas are interesting and worthy of discussion. If you want an actual credentialed economist talking about similar issues — here’s one: https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2025/02/21/donald-trumps-econ...

But you need to recognise that there is an “orthodoxy” and challenges to that. You aren’t going to hear the questioning of the status quo without looking outside the “establishment”. Here’s a taste (note that Yanis is old school left as far as politics goes)

“Faced with President Trump’s economic moves, his centrist critics oscillate between desperation and a touching faith that his tariff frenzy will fizzle out. They assume that Trump will huff and puff until reality exposes the emptiness of his economic rationale. They have not been paying attention: Trump’s tariff fixation is part of a global economic plan that is solid — albeit inherently risky.”
At work, we provide video courses of therapists to other mental health professionals.

I help run a youth group, which uses lots of software to manage, communicate, learn and empower the next generation.

Nothing physical, but there is no question in my mind that all this software is intrinsically valuable.
I have no interest in ideology and don't see even the concept as relevant to any point I've made.
For tracing I use inkscape, it’s pretty good at that.
You can also spend 8 hours furiously typing at Google to confirm your biases and vomit out a bunch of theories.
Obviously, the main point of this is to disable adblockers, I've understood. But can anybody tell me what actual benefits is the user going to see from this manifest? Are all extensions secure now, or can they still sell all my data to anyone?
I daresay the US has all the resources it currently gets from China on its own landmass as well. It’s just not doing anything with it.
A lot of this really depends on the scale and scope of the codebase(s) that the manager is accountable for. Staying on top of a service with a few very clear usecases is very different than staying on top of several services, jobs, and tools across multiple repositories.

The ideal is to try and structure code in such a way that it "screams" about what is going on, but realizing that ideal in some contexts is extremely difficult.
I’ve heard of Zellij before but never got a chance to try it. My main use of tmux is with a Synology NAS to run some long running commands where I don’t have to retain the ssh session until completion. Unfortunately, Zellij doesn’t seem to be available as part of the community packages. [1]

[1]: https://synocommunity.com/packages
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Apple's hate for the concept of files has me up in arms ever since I realized this is why my parents are so confused anytime anything on their iPhone doesn't work.
Concrete Programming Language
Right. This facade is what makes soccer a sport instead of a brawl. In sports, and in life in general, there's all sorts of extra rules that make activities interesting and/or prevent them from decaying into violence. Playing for keeps - like, really, seriously, going for the win no matter what, is universally frowned upon and basically a telltale sign of dangerously pathological sociopathy.
There's a tradition of "homologation specials" where a car company produces the absolute minimum number of cars for a vehicle or part to count as "production" for use in notionally "stock" racing series.
Eventually we get to the point we let nothing near the internet!
It would be quite hard to take the wheels without the tyres.