skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"According to the DMV case report, whenever D&L employees went to the DMV office, they would make eye contact with Stefanski, who would then allow them to cut the habitually long, slow-moving lines. In exchange for this favor, the report said, Stefanski would spend his days off walking the company’s lot selecting vehicles that had belonged to other people only weeks or months prior. D&L would then undervalue the cars on DMV forms, investigators said, allowing Stefanski to buy them cheaply and resell them for a profit."

What? They're giving away cars just to cut in line? That seems a pointlessly costly deal. Maybe I'm not understanding the scam correctly.
I am posting this because I always forget which one it is and searching for it is damn near impossible

https://peps.python.org/pep-0457/#syntax-and-semantics

"/" marks the boundary between "positional only" and "mixed" and then "*" does the same for "mixed" and "kwargs only"
A lot of things can affect your vision. Definitely your sleep patterns, your diet, if you get proper exercise. Your eyes are truly a window into your soul (and your body).
OpenAI is over ambitious.

Their chasing of AGI is killing them.

They probably thought that burning cash was the way to get to AGI, and that on the way there they would make significant improvements over GPT 4 that they would be able to release as GPT 5.

And that is just not happening. While pretty much everyone else is trying to increase efficiency, and specialize their models to niche areas, they keep on chasing AGI.

Meanwhile more and more models are being delivered within apps, where they create more value than in an isolated chat window. And OpenAi doesn’t control those apps. So they’re slowly being pushed out.

Unless they pull off yet another breakthrough, I don’t think they have much of a great future
As a lazy person, I've been using this method for a while now, and I greatly appreciate it. But there are two major flaws:

- the end results usually suck: they either feel incomplete, have a major flaw, or just don't work.

- sometimes, the AI just won't understand what the request was, or it will get stuck on a loop while trying to troubleshoot one bug and causing even more.

I believe that code written by actual reasoning people will be miles better than what a machine can. AI should be used for "au-to-ma-tion", and tasks that one doesn't want to or doesn't like to do, like writing documentation.

Here's one instance where this "vibe coding" went right and I got a mostly functional program (game): https://chatgpt.com/share/67a125b3-15cc-8001-9863-13372338e3...
If the first thing I do in the morning is play on my phone for 20 minutes, my eyes are fucked literally the entire day. First thing I do is look out the window for a while or go outside. Even looking across the room is better.
We do require ID to enter e.g. porn stores and bars though, or to make age restricted purchases.

I also recall walking a few miles to e.g. the mall, target, walmart, etc. without any adults when I was around 10. I'm not sure I'd characterize public spaces as adult oriented by default.
I would argue their main valuation comes from lock-in. They managed to basically grab the entire public sector and big corp OS and office software space, and continuously expand from this into communication, process management, etc.

No or government in the world currently functions without Microsoft...
Continual Learning, it's a barrier that's been there from the very start and we've never had a solution to it.

There are no solutions even at the small scale. We fundamentally don't understand what it is or how to do it.

If you could solve it perfectly on Mnist just scale and then we get AGI.
I don't understand why they chose ImGui. As it is immediate mode framework, it means it repaints whole window for every incoming event, like pointer motion? Ridiculously inefficient.

Also I don't think it is safe to add third-party repositories as they suggest to do for Linux users. I never do this.
I had 1.5 Mbps DSL in 1999, and I think nearly all of my co-workers either had that or a cable modem with similar speed. I think T1s were like 5x the price for the same download speed.
Don't forget `vars()`.
The Pope directs the spiritual priorities of his Bishops and thereby all Catholics, a lot of people. He's not going to be able to say "Kill, fornicate, and steal now!" without losing all credibility, but he can say, "We're going to ask for contributions monthly for X good cause." There's also money and diplomatic effort to be directed to dioceses around the world.
Preferential treatment may be quite valuable, but this definitely seems a bit overkill.
"in the extreme" arguments are easy to abuse and not always helpful. In the extreme, the right to free speech results in libel, defamation, piracy, and yelling fire in a theatre to all be protected. But in practice, we limit "free speech" to a more practical subset of speech. In the same way, grownups talking in good faith can talk about a right to health care that is practical and not jump immediately to doctors at gunpoint.
My sense is that JS and CSS have an easier time with building gracefully degraded experiences than HTML might. On top of that, changes to HTML either have to be isolated (no accompanying changes to JS in the browser), or they have to be coordinated with the updates to JS.
Also why "ad hominem" can be legit. Lawmakers' personal beliefs and incentives say a lot more than whatever generic arguments they pick.
we are going to add community section for everyone free and more advance asset packages to the paid users. :)
Is there something special about Lisp and Primes?
Nit:

Phenomena is plural. The singular form is phenomenon.

(Other similar words with a Greek root: lexicon/lexica, criterion/criteria, automaton/automata)
I should point out that your all-inclusive question also doesn't give you enough information to determine which goblins are liars. In the general case that will always require one question per goblin, plus one more if you also care about the doors.
It also has local AI for offline voice recognition, which works really well for me.
> The actual norms we have are that you're SOL if your product breaks after the warranty, even due to a defect, and even for things that cost 1000x the price of a DVD.

That's not technically true. Implied warranties are a thing. The law in the US and many other places does place obligations of warranty on sellers beyond the whims of their voluntary warranties.

There's a reason every piece of FOSS software doesn't simply come without a warranty, they all disclaim warranty.

Now it isn't likely that it would be applicable to products quite as old as these, but the idea that "the manufacturer's written warranty is the only warranty" is a total falsehood that large companies want you to believe.
The government taking away your right to freedom of movement resolves a conflict with freedom of movement?
Garbage in, garbage out. These hundreds of pravda sites rank high on Google. They are doing a good SEO job.

One countermeasure would of course be unblocking RT, which no one cares about anyway. Perhaps the SEO would stop. RT was trash, but never as trashy as these fake pravda sites.
OpenAI already started divorce proceedings with their datacenter partnership with Softbank/etc, and it'd hardly be prudent for the world's largest software company NOT to have it's own SOTA AI models.

Nadella might have initially been caught a bit flat footed with the rapid rise of AI, but seems to be managing the situation masterfully.
this tool aims for the game developers, studios or also who needs to generate 3D models
My elderly father-in-law had this issue even with new glasses until I switched him to my own optometrist who identified some eye muscle issue (need to find out exactly what.) They had him consult with an ophthalmologist which said it was not serious. Then the optometrist made additional correction to his prescription and the new glasses were perfect.
Computing is the science of constructing abstractions. For quantum computing to be computing, it must be separable from the physics. What you have just said is equivalent to "you can't take the semiconductor physics out of silicon computing."

Many good attempts are being made to do exactly this with QC, and it is a good thing.
"non-insiders" -- kent state is covered in high school US history as part of the civil rights / vietnam era
If you are debating it, then you've lost.

That's what they want; it is the point of propaganda: To effectively disable your capability with distractions, in this case rabbit-hole debates about distractions and that lead nowhere. It's like directing the enemy force into a pathless swamp rather than to the battle.

The solution is that you need to define the merits, before you analyze the issue - just like you should define your own specifications before you talk to the salesperson. The merits of this issue are the cost (including the risk), economics, interference in free market, policy benefits/costs of establishing crypto, and most of all the corruption.

The other issue is the fraud and propaganda - why are they using propaganda? Is that an appropriate way to communicate with the public?
I think a right wing think tank isn’t a unbiased watcher of left projects

> Welcome to CRC’s work-in-progress, InfluenceWatch.

>Capital Research Center conceived of this project after identifying a need for more fact-based, accurate descriptions of all of the various influencers of public policy issues.

>The Capital Research Center (CRC) was founded in 1984 by Willa Johnson to “study non-profit organizations, with a special focus on reviving the American traditions of charity, philanthropy, and voluntarism.

Prior to founding CRC, Willa Johnson had been Senior Vice President of the Heritage Foundation, then worked as deputy director of the Office of Presidential Personnel in the first Reagan Administration, and as a legislative aide in both the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives.

The Capital Research Center has expressed concern that “Many charities and foundations now urge lawmakers to expand the powers of the welfare state, regulate the economy and limit individual freedoms.

As part of the conservative campaign to ‘Defund the left‘ the Capital Research Center produces a range of publications targeting foundations, unions and activist groups that it views as supporting liberal causes.

From https://www.desmog.com/capital-research-center/
How is a preteen girl ordering products from a website?
> Having a lot of problems doesn't mean you have to throw up your hands and take a totally unstructured approach to solving them.

Having a lot of problems for a long time generally means other attempts have failed.

> So work on setting realistic budgets instead of slashing and burning things at random.

According to prior governments, the current budget is realistic. According to the current admin, a slashed and burned budget is realistic.

> The problem with both of these is that they require people who a) know what they're doing and b) really want to make things better. The new US administration does not appear to fulfill either of those requirements.

We ran a deficit the whole way through the greatest economic expansion since the post WW2 era. IMO no admin in the last 25 years has fulfilled those requirements.
This is fantasy. The guy does endless interviews and explains why he's doing everything he's doing, at length, and negotiates in public. You can hate it, but if he's addled then Biden didn't even count as alive for his entire term.

The reason that he came out of the gate so hard is due to extensive planning, and he's the only person during your lifetime who was the president, had four years off to reflect on it, then became president again. He recorded weird little videos of all of his future policies a couple of years ago, and he's not deviating from them significantly.

He's the least confused guy in politics right now. Whether you like it is a different story, but I personally am thankful that the worst, covert elements of the government made an enemy of him in his first term. The obvious temptation when handed a dystopian nightmare of surveillance, censorship, front groups, fake science, and an infinite mandate to the executive from Congress would be to use them. Thank god Trump actually hates them personally, and is petty.

Economically, he's sincerely trying to keep the US from paying the piper for the trade deficit we've been running for 40 years. He obviously actually believes in this. It is also completely mainstream economic theory. I wish there was a political force that could oppose him on policy and say why things should be done a different way, but the "resistance" base is still announcing that the walls are closing in on orange Hitler any minute. Policy is like kryptonite to anti-Trumpers right now. They refuse to argue anything on the merits, because they all sound like Reagan Republicans when they do.
Sanctions arguably help Russian mobsters and corrupt officials who proxy money and goods through friendly intermediate to launder their origins. They are bypassed easy enough through these black market connectioms, largely impacting normal citizens who don't have means to bribe or cover the margins to these mobsters (or do, but have to cover costs).

I think the goal is to hurt Russian corrupt officials and mob by taking away these black market margins.
Thats pretty useless for most applications though. If you're hiring a phd level person you dont care that if in addition to being great in contract law they're also great in interior design.
>cataract surgery, which is very very common, and very very safe.

Ever since my elderly friend had cataract surgery (5 years ago) she finds bright light painful, so she spends less time outdoors.
Our state-issued eID cards are supposed to have a function that allows anonymous age verification to a trusted party. It should work like this: a requesting party sends a request signed by state-issued certificate to the ID card, the card verifies the request authenticity and responds with a signed confirmation of legal age and that signature then can be verified by the requester.

No personal information is shared.

While I do not aggree with pervasive age restrictions, this is a nice technical solution to privacy preserving age verification
Currently, it feels like many of the frontier models have reached approximately the same level of 'intelligence' and capability. No one is leaps ahead of the rest. Microsoft probably figured this is a good time to reconsider their AI strategy.
Dear god: https://github.com/igrek51/wat?tab=readme-ov-file#load-from-...
I don't know if it's the way my brain works, or just an aesthetic thing, but I am completely allergic to programming with strings. Totally get the reasoning behind this, especially the accessibility wins, but I'm not particularly excited about using element IDs for yet another layer of web app behavior.
Sure, here is a translated post:

Title: Distribution of the Number of Steps to Kaprekar's Constant

We are trying Kaprekar's routine.

I choose a four-digit number with at least two different digits: 2345. We find the largest possible variant 5432 and the smallest possible variant 2345 from the digits and begin the routine...

5432 - 2345 = 3087
8730 - 0378 = 8352
8532 - 2358 = 6174

We have arrived at Kaprekar's constant: 6174 after 3 steps.

This is fine. If I now do this on all possible four-digit numbers, the number of steps required before 6174 is reached is distributed as follows:

The diagram showing the distribution of steps: https://earth.hoyd.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/kaprekars_...

This distribution seems a bit strange and not entirely intuitive. I immediately feel that the distribution should have been more evenly distributed.

Perhaps not evenly, but I think that one step to 6174 should be rarer than seven steps, shouldn't it? It has to do with the calculation i guess. There are a limited number of combinations where the result is 6174 on the first attempt. It feels a bit obvious and matches the diagram above. It slowly rises towards seven steps, is that to be expected?

What I find most strange is that three steps tops all others. Why is that? Why is there such a large presence of three? What does it mean? I would very much like to find an explanation for this.
I'm thinking a market correction, like when the dotcom bubble burst and a lot of value disapeared from the stock market overnight. This is really not a good thing, and almost definitely would affect the IT industry as a whole.
0.37g/pound is on the very very low end though, far from optimal on a weight loss diet.

See this article: https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/high-protein-diet-plan#...

> The Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) of protein is 0.8 g per kilogram of body weight (g/kg/bw), or 0.36 g per pound of body weight (g/lbs/bw).

> However, the authors of a 2019 review suggest that this number is often misinterpreted as the ideal number. It’s only the minimum amount of protein required to prevent nutrient deficiencies and muscle loss in most healthy individuals.

> A 2017 study found that participants who ate a high protein diet of 1.34 g/kg/bw (0.6 g/lbs/bw) for more than 75% of the 6-month duration experienced significantly more weight loss than the group who followed the RDA requirements.

> A 2016 review found that eating up to 2 g/kg/bw (0.9 g/lbs/bw) may help promote strength and prevent muscle degeneration.

etc.
It's 10 years away. Same as it was 30 years ago.
LLMs can do web searches
Amazon basics is so hit or miss anyway. I bought a bunch of their rechargable batteries, but it's hard to discern the quality of invisible specifications.

I kind of wonder if they suck, because some physical amazonbasics things I've bought were actually not great.
I mean, eventually everything is crab right?
Valedictorian
The demo video has a lot of Borland's Turbo Vision vibes.
> von der Leyen had ruined the German army

Not on her own, and not during her time. From what I understand, she felt she needed those external consultants to cut through the noise of her own org. Which had become known as an ineffective, design-by-committee place with no purpose other than to cover ones own asses.

Running that place (BMVg and Baainbw) was famous for being an unwinnable job. I dont love VdL, but I don't think this should be construed as her career failure.
Age verification should be baked into the parenting.

It's about the only place it might have the intended effect anyway, and has the advantage of not enabling mass surveillance.
I took a class by Martha Nussbaum when I was 18 years old. It was a graduate ancient philosophy class on Sophocles' Philoctetes. I had idolized Nussbaum as one of the great minds of our time and leap at the opportunity to learn from her. I remember having to get her permission to take the class as it was for philosophy and classics grad students, but she agreed. It was like drinking from the firehose, but it really ignited my dedication to studying the classics in college, for which I am immensely grateful. She is such a quick mind.
I'm not sending my prescriptions to Amazon. I'm just not.
The intent paradox of AI generated code
Low level means simple translation to assembly, not the gigabytes it takes to make a compiler or the crazy implementations, I wonder why Randal Hyde's HLA is not popular or maintained by the community.
That's your American opinion !! :-)
Naive take:

- doing something with all that seized crypto is probably a good idea. I've never heard of how it's actually used or managed but also never cared

- doing it as a strategic reserve of any significant value is multi-dimensionally insane given how technically blockchains work

- this is 100% a con. The only more obvious evidence would be to say he wants his own coin in the reserve
So is video streaming, which is just as unrelated to the topic at hand.
Counterexample: Rocket Lab's tech [1] landed Blue Ghost on the Moon.

[1]: https://www.rocketlabusa.com/updates/rocket-lab-space-softwa...
I'll grant that it definitely sounds ambiguous, but I actually think the phrasing "robotic private spacecraft" is more correct in the end.

I think this is a fair analogy: suppose we were talking about a "private detective". If we were writing a sci-fi book, we might talk about a "robotic private detective", but "private robotic detective" would sound odd.

Now, I'll grant that "private detective" has a lot more cultural weight than "private spacecraft", but I think it's fair to say that at least the word "private" is playing a nearly identical role in both phrases. With that in mind, I think "robotic private spacecraft" makes sense.

I suppose you could take this argument one step further and resolve the ambiguity by asking which distinction (robotic/non-robotic, private/public) the article writer thinks is more notable and placing that first.
A man points a gun at me. He says: Give me the money, or die. I make the voluntary decision to give him the money.
They don't have to let you go free if there aren't enough judges though. You can end up in jail or otherwise restricted for quite a long time.
A few other comments have already said this, but I was thinking that a "bubble burst" or "market correction" would really not be a good thing for the IT sector. It'd directly cause a bunch of unemployment, and additional spook investment out of other areas.
> "This $200 million is being spent on <insert program> that we don't need at the moment."

That's "waste" (in their opinion), but they keep saying "waste, fraud, and abuse".
Just curious: 1) which country/eID is this? and 2) does it send the date of birth back, or does it perform a zero-knowledge proof that the date of birth is greater or equal than a given value (current date minus age requirement)?
> if they could perform the valid logical inference from the conjunct they could also then conclude "I am insane" alongside "I am sane".

They can conclude that directly; "I am insane and I am sane" is another false belief that they already have.
> Never invade Russia in winter.

I thought it was never get involved in a land war in Asia.
Daily Wire Welcomes Perplexity to Advertise on the Ben Shapiro Show
He also has https://github.com/ekmett/succinct-binary
Fullscale mobilisation would lead to fullscale disintegration of Russia. That is why the price for soldiers is so high in Russia.
when gravity is 1/6, a lower centre of gravity might not do as much as you think
We replaced polystyrene food containers with paper which has to be coated in pfas to resist oil and water. We traded trash for poison. Bad trade.
People who think it is cool, I guess.
yeah https://www.reddit.com/r/quotes/comments/16qgwcv/if_you_cant...
Their charter is far narrower than DOGE, and are really only empowered to chase outright illegal behavior.
Fountain Pens vs. Rollerball Pens vs. Ballpoint Pens
Virtual Punch Card Creator
No, it is terrible that "they" continue to extend and "improve" HTML.

This is the reason it seems impossible for an independent web browser to be created and maintained: because what should be a simple and predictable spec over the last twenty years is a rapidly moving target that takes significant resources just to track.

We could have ten different open-source web browsers (like Konqueror) if we weren't cramming the HTML spec full of bloat that nobody wants and that we all install extensions to disable anyway ...
It’s funny - I think of DESQView/X, their fully compliant X11 server complete with both Motif and OpenLook. The exact opposite of vanilla DESQview.
In both the USA and Germany, people in power do not care about the well-being of their country as long as they can enrich themselves. They even both use the same fearmongering about immigrants to get votes.
From Prompt to Adventures:Creating Games with LLMs and Restate Durable Functions
Agree it is a con. One note -- the government currently sells seized crypto once the courts have resolved ownership and restitution.
The bag is secured
The go and rust crowds both love writing things in their own language for its own sake. Not because it's a good choice. For a large web backend, go is great. For many other things it's terrible.