skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And one day they'll get into an accident, run into the wrong person, or die of old age and then what? Their legacy will be AI generated gold statues and maybe their name on a building.

But that's the problem of the 'capitalist west' (i'm not sure what is better or what would work); everyone is out for short term gain. Most people care about themselves and some of their close family/friends, but in the end, they couldn't give a flying f if the entire planet implodes when they die. We should be planning on a 2000 year timeline as humanity but instead we plan on 4-8 years instead. So far (but that might be reading the wrong propaganda), China seems to have a plan beyond 4 years and beyond Xi's life and not be in such a neckbreaking hurry of breaking everything over a few years more or less.
I would like to mortgage the house for it. Do you want to sign off the mortgage for my house in the city which is bombed to the dust by Russians?

It is quite easy to end the war: give enough weapons to Ukraine and put strict sanctions to Russia. However USA decided not to this. They sent some old weapons with huge restrictions to use against Russians, to be able barely survive.

End the war - means force Ukraine to accept capitulation and encourage Russians to advance to the next neighbor. This Trump-Putin deal looks like Hitler-Stalin agreement to divide Europe.

Russians takes Ukraine now, mobilize Ukrainians to the Russian army and will send them as cannon fodder to the Baltic states. This is a future of Trump's "peace" deal.
Next step: fountain pens.
> An organization allegedly about reducing waste is creating it instead

The point you missed in the parent comment was that this is temporary. I don't have a strong opinion on the matter, but if the way we discover that government offices were sitting vacant for years (i.e. big waste) is by having people return to them and be unproductive for a few days (i.e. small waste), then the trade will be worth it. I doubt anyone wants employees to be sitting in offices that aren't functional. We have discovered something bad...which would seem to be part of the reason of doing it.

The counterargument is obvious to anyone willing to think about it for a few seconds, but the article doesn't even bother addressing it. They even admit that the headline office without wifi was only without wifi for a few hours:

> In one Department of Health and Human Services office, there was no Wi-Fi or full electricity in the first hours when people returned last week.

...and yet this is in the headline. This all reeks of cherry-picking.
Is anyone even remotely curious why do government offices with no desks exist?
Oh god please don't get me started on Airplay bugs.

I honestly have some work to do this month.

"Hey, let's rewrite the framework again and not do any regression testing or test against old implementations or see what happens with any codec that is not exactly what we are expecting for any reason." - Airplay devs, every year.
So, this thing called Covid hit. It was a pandemic, and because it was infectious, a large push to work remotely was made (both in private and public businesses).

When employers realized that work was being done despite not being in the office, they started to shutter their offices (ya know, to save money).

I can't believe I have to explain to another adult why offices after Covid don't look the same.
> This was in the Western Ghats in India

Climate change in the subcontinent is going to kill way more birds and wildlife. You think oil and gas drilling or coal mining is better for them?
Feel free to provide any resources that support your take, otherwise I'll consider it to be bullshit
How could they fall for it. I mean, even during the first time it was obvious that he actually meant it, as he did try to enact all the crazy bullshit. The only saving grace was adults in the room around him. Now all the adults are gone.
Different types of reactors have less risk of meltdown. Look up Molten-Salt Reactors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUnik4gxrtM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-salt_reactor

> MSRs eliminate the nuclear meltdown scenario present in water-cooled reactors because the fuel mixture is kept in a molten state. The fuel mixture is designed to drain without pumping from the core to a containment vessel in emergency scenarios, where the fuel solidifies, quenching the reaction.
The government only had enough surplus to extract from the population because of capitalism.
SoftWindows is located here https://winworldpc.com/product/softwindows/30
Quite the contrary: it literally says that imports are not always proportional to demand. During the day, imports are around 10%, while at night, they rise to 25%... probably because it's much cheaper and more convenient.
My brother explains what it's like to run an AI startup
While CNN's assertion that Russia's economy is on par with Italy's in nominal GDP may be technically accurate, it does not fully consider the economic nuances that are crucial to a comprehensive analysis. This is an example of propaganda.
thank goodness, we’ve had nothing open to do efficient distributed computing with for years!
Huh, so you're claiming that GDP data and such is not correct? Any source on that? Because I see multiple sources reporting that in 2023 the GDP of Russia was $2,009,959M and that of Italy was $2,300,941M, although Italy has a higher debt %. Which would confirm the original posters claim considering Italy is a much, much smaller country than Russia. What I find a common trope is people claiming facts are incorrect without stating proof.
Yep, exactly my point.
> Wanting to end a war that's been at a stalemate for 3 years doesn't mean sympathy or treason.

This is what I call the "just let Hitler have Poland" theory.

Is it a good idea? You can't evaluate that without having an understanding of why an independent Ukraine is considered important internationally, what the function and reason of NATO is, what a third world war would realistically look like, what Europe and Asia would look like with an expanded totalitarian Russian empire, what AI-driven done warfare will look like, what the actual (vs merely rhetorical) threat of nuclear arms use is, what will happen with global climate goals if Russia is unopposed (considering Russia considers itself a potential "winner" if climate change intensifies), and what the famine/disease/refugee situation looks like if climate change does intensify.

There are simply too many variables for random internet commenters to have an informed opinion on most of these things. And I would guess that even world leaders with full access to all the classified information can't be certain about most of these questions.

But it does seem to me that an independent Ukraine (with its natural resources intact) is the ultimate Chesterton's Fence right now.
Why is the answer always more real estate, and not private ownership of housing? If you don’t live in it you can’t have it.
Apple’s software quality has certainly taken a hit in recent updates.

I’ve been experiencing issues like home screen widgets not updating or showing incorrect data (like wrong date/times).

Notifications are another frustration, especially with Signal Messenger, where they just don’t come through reliably.

The camera app also seems to have a bug where the screen goes black, making you think the camera is broken, but force closing and reopening the app fixes it.

Finally, sharing content from Safari to Gmail often causes the entire UI to freeze until I force close Safari.

These are small but annoying issues that seem to be affecting the overall experience, and it’s disappointing for a platform that once prided itself on stability and polish.
Show HN: I Gamified Sales Training–17-Year-Old's Free Prototype with LLM Twist
> Taiwan is ridiculously favourable terrain for the defenders; if they fight back, there can't be quick victory

Not true. Just sneakily cut the submarine cables i.e. Internet before the "offical attack".

Most of the comments talk about a blockade, but no need. I doubt a lot of things will function without Internet. There were discussions of Satellite but not confirmed.
Rust February Project Goals Update
Neuro-Symbolic Semantic Slam with Hierarchically Categorical Gaussian Splatting
There should be international agreements for nuclear energy where neighboring countries can come and inspect each others power plants, or one org on the continent level.
> offshore workers

Also people who need jobs. And that's just the case you personally know of. Maybe people should retrain instead of pining for jobs of the past. And we should support them in the transition as much as possible .

> only generates reasonable numbers of jobs during initial construction

We're gonna need a lot of initial construction though.
> And yet, the federal government was paying for all these things, city-scale numbers of unused office space

Do you know what a lease is? I can dumb it down a bit if you need.
Already achieved, easily.
If only I had some good idea.
> grossly-improper maintenance would cause a fallout incident.

At scale, in the long run, you will get grossly improper maintenance. I feel comfortable asserting that without feeling like a total cynic.

It's not just nuclear either, this is also a problem with dams.
The French definition of the meter can also be described as "such that the distance from the equator to the North Pole, through Paris, is 10,000 km." This is a handy number to know!

It means, for example, that the circumference of the Earth is four times as big, or 40,000 km (roughly speaking; I know that the Earth is smooshed due to its rotation etc.). And then to estimate the diameter, you just divide that by pi:

40,000 km / 3.14159... ~= 12,732 km

and half that is the radius of the Earth:

r_Earth ~= 6366 km
Speaking of Rogan, did you listen to the Mike Benz episode? If Benz is gaslighting you have a point, but if Benz is truthful, then you don't.
These nuclear cost arguments always gloss over the fact that nuclear has no insurance or cleanup costs. Developers will only build plants if the government assumes both of those costs.

Add to that the uncertainty over fuel and the disposal of used fuel, and there's literally no valid cost argument for nuclear.

I'm not anti-nuclear, but the fiscal realities seem insurmountable.
It's interesting to see how you describe your company when my experience with them as an employee of a company that uses meQuilibrium is through the emails you send out around wellbeing, managing my mental health etc.
It stands out that there is no mention of employee wellbeing in your description, only data analysis and tracking.
Exactly.

The US nuclear umbrella was not charity, contrary what some in the US appear to believe. It was and is a pure power play.

Another little tidbit that is not generally well-known is that the NPT (Non-Proliferation Treaty) actually requires the current nuclear powers to get rid of their nuclear weapons...eventually.
To add, it's worth reading the Levelized Full System Costs of Electricity paper: https://iaee2021online.org/download/contribution/fullpaper/1...

Energy mix is key: the cost of 100% dependency on intermittent renewables is extremely high.

Going for 95% dependency on intermittent renewables with the remainder being filled in by low-cost dispatchable generation halves system costs (see table 6, pg. 21).
The green energy lobby has everything to gain, and it's been working extra to make it a reality. For example, Greenpeace has been fighting nuclear power all over the world.
America is a third-world country because people stopped caring, stopped reading, and fell for a cult.
> This includes processing your data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice.

The Privacy Notice says they can use your data in anyway they sit fit to make the business a success. They should close that loophole if they want to gain trust.
Snow Leopard and other releases were a mess and macOS had huge network bottlenecks that limited throughput to 2gbps even with a 10gbps or faster network card until recently. macOS is way ahead of windows or Linux in terms of kernel and os guarantees for user security. There will be bugs when products change so I’m glad they continue to evolve the stack.
> I have no doubt that it can be cut down by 50% without adversely affecting anything long term.

Is this percentage based on anything more than vibes? Does it matter to you which eggs get broken and do you agree with the methods being employed to choose/break them? And sorry for all the questions but how do you feel about the conflicts of interests with people like Musk overseeing so much of this?
USA 2024 population was ~340.1 million (census estimate).

156,302,318 voted (~63.9% of ~244 million eligible voters, extrapolated)

77.3 million voted for Trump (~49.8% of voters).

So that's ~31.6% of eligible voters or ~22.7% of the US population.
Do you know what a lease is? I can explain if you need.

This is like asking "Why does my car that I leased for 3 years still exist after 1?" Idk man.
China to publish policy to boost RISC-V chip use nationwide
"fed employees I encountered every day did little to nothing" so arguing for the action plan of "get dressed and at least physically show up to collect a paycheck"

"they would just leave the government and seek employment elsewhere" when "There aren't any well paying jobs in the private sector" (because of "immigrants" and "corporations")

What a mental system ... or whatever! It is true then: there are people looking up to the level of Trmup!
I mean, there's a whole bunch of recently unemployed people with federal work credentials.

If I was knowledgable about government contracting, I would scoop up a bunch of those folks for a government-certified TaskRabbit service.

After all, private sector is always more efficient.
Screws are the king of parts count, manufacturing process (for the screw itself, and it's nut, as well as then using the screw), and falling apart later.

Having the thing be held together by screws is not necessarily the problem, it's having so many instead of having interlocking pieces that need only a couple screws, or maybe none.

The alternative doesn't have to be glue or rivets or welding, just folds and tabs and slots.

And some amount of welding or rivets isn't necessarily anti-repair either, it just depends what, where, & why.
Most consumers don't care much about ISA or architecture, as long as there is software available.
Hey all, I’m 17, no cash, no big network—just a guy who saw sales training wearing people out. It’s dull, stiff, and reps tune out fast. So I built a free prototype to gamify it—think retro arcade vibes with an interactive edge and a dash of LLM smarts. It’s here to fix boring training, help sales folks level up their skills quick, and keep them hooked because it’s got that addictive pull—like a game you don’t wanna drop. I coded it solo, but I had o3-mini, this slick LLM assistant, helping me write efficient, fast code to get it done. Just a kid with a laptop, chasing a hunch this could click for real people. Try it, hit the feedback page on the site, and let me know what’s solid or trash. Aiming to boost retention and make sales reps sharper—maybe even a bit legendary. What do you think, HN? Thanks a ton!
Been grinding this out with late nights, cheap coffee, and o3-mini’s brainpower—betting gamified learning can shake up how sales teams grow.
I was about to make that argument. Functioning but almost to the brink of death. They are overburdened, and the new staff coming from immigrants isn’t as good. It is a huge concern nowadays.
That’s raw uranium ore. Uranium undergoes several refinement steps. In each Russia has an enormous market share.
> I'm a fan of remote work and would prefer that we crash the Commercial Real Estate market by canceling leases rather that stuffing people back into cubicle farms,

Do you have even the slightest bit of proof that wasn't already the case? How do you know this wasn't already in progress?
I'm not even sure it's true Russia is doing this. I think our elected officials might just be really stupid on their own.
If you should ever couch its knowledge as your knowledge, I would think you could be in serious trouble. You would have to say something like "the AI's plan to treat you, which I think might be correct", when what I want to hear "my plan to treat you is: ..."

But I think it's more subtle than that, because I expect the AI to reinforce all your biases. Whatever biases (human biases, medical biases, biases that arise from what a patient isn't telling you) go into the question you feed it, it will take cues you didn't even know you were giving and use those cues to formulate the answer it thinks you expect to hear. That seems really dangerous to me, sort of like you're conceptually introducing AI imposter doctors to the staff, whose main goal is act knowledgable all the time so people don't think they are imposters...

I dunno. I'd like to give this particular strain techno-futurism back. Can I have a different one please?
I have similar feelings about both of our votes carrying the same weight. Disappointment in democracy is inevitable.
That website misrepresents the RFC in a way that I can only describe as deliberate and egregious. To quote the RFC itself, "This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes."

In other words, someone had an interesting and possibly good idea, and did the non-trivial to get it published as an RFC (getting even informational RFCs take considerable effort) and now someone (else?) is trying to misrepresent its status.

As said in another comment, "nothing burger". Also, {click,flame}bait.
Because Trump is a kleptocrat. He's not in it to make government better, he's in it to steal as much as he can for himself and his friends.
Orion's Compute Puck: The Device That Helped Make Our AR Glasses Possible
Ask HN: Is there any tool to create pdf parsing heuristics?
There are a lot of PDF parsing tools, non of them really works for me. So i thought I can define heuristics myself (whitespace, headers, footer) since i only need to parse one type of pds. Is there any tool which can help me to configure those heuristics?
Didn't this have issues recently where symptoms or stories were hallucinated and attributed to the patient?

This seems like a tool that insurance companies would love to get a copy of the data stream, and that could get very sticky quite quickly.
Most of the people I talk to seem to have one thing they are holding on to as the thing they'll get out of their vote. Like "he's going to eliminate the income taxes I pay on my social security" etc

The thing is almost never true, and even if he were is a horrible self centered justification.
That is why Trump is pushing Ukraine to accept capitulation on Russian terms. Like to give Russia two big cities Zaporizhzhia and Kherson they have no control of.
The UK is drowning in debt. The Office for National Statistics publishes several datasets charting the sorry story. Here's a good one:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/governmentpublicsectorandtaxe...

You can see two upticks in debt: first was the steady rise after the 2008 crisis (which austerity clearly failed to stem) and the second around 2020 which may be pure Covid or may be also due to a bit of Brexit.

When the UK government talks about "growth", it really means "growth in tax revenues". This means they want you and me to spend more because transactions are the drivers of revenue.

Inflation is generally painful for the public but very useful for a government up to its ears in debt because debt payments do not rise with inflation but revenues do.

And public services are highly toxic to an economy which requires 4-5% growth just to meet its debt payments. Why provide services for free when you can collect VAT receipts for basic essentials like clean water, energy, and medication? Why spend millions on regulatory oversight when the inevitable health issues downstream will result in more private spending and GDP growth?
When did you last visit? I have seen a very big change in just the last year. Most bathrooms have soap and toilet paper now, at least in my random sampling of tier-1 and tier-2 cities.

Smoking is still ubiquitous, though. "禁止吸烟" signs are just completely ignored.
It would be misleading if sales peaked in 2018, then fell, and have subsequently surpassed the 2018 peak. That's not what happened though. And reporting "sales have peaked" 6 years after the peak is reasonable - doing so 2 years after the peak would be premature.

I still support adding it to the title, because it's even more impressive.
The worst thing about being born in a rich country during prosperity is that every single issue is the worst problem you've ever faced in your life.
> As always with nuclear there are a few taboo topics. One of them being fuel supply.

It's not taboo, the answer is just extremely simple: mining needs people willing to work in a dangerous and exhausting field, so when practical, rich countries tend to prefer outsourcing this (capitalism does not tend to reward ethics). It's very practical for uranium because nuclear reactors need a tiny volume which is trivial to ship and to store. Most countries with a nuclear program keep a stockpile of multiple years.

Mining uranium in other places is very feasible, as are other more expensive options like extracting it out of the ocean. After all, with nuclear the cost of the fuel is a tiny amount of the actual cost of power generation. This is not happening because there's really no need to. In the past, there have been uranium mines in pretty much every european country, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_mining_by_country#Euro...

(Refining/processing is a different story. But that's more obviously a "money/care" problem - there's no possible physical constraint for refining/processing as there could be for mining.)
Apple introduces iPad Air with powerful M3 chip and new Magic Keyboard
Just curious, what do you think Aurora itself does better than regular fedora kde?
Out-of-touch billionaires who never did an actual day of work in their entire lives are convinced all workers are lazy slobs collecting social security checks while procrastinating their WFH jobs on their couch.

They hate us, and now that they're in power, they're showing us just how much.
I think this is everything, for example YouTube has about 20 different bugs, a few off the top of my head. 1) video is often cut off making chess content annoying to watch 2) replying to people sometimes removes their username leaving just an @ symbol 3) you can’t edit comments on web mobile 4) sometimes you’ll try to fast forward and end up selecting content on the screen 5) don’t get me started on Shorts polluting the experience etc. etc.

Smaller teams with fewer managers and clearer direction on what improves user experiences would be a good plan. Sites like this end up with so many features that aren’t needed.
Cool paper but unsurprising results since anything benefits from RAG
The comparison is a little pears to apple. Similar nutritions but different enough to not draw conclusions. The hardware in the Ceph test is only capable of max 1.7TiB/s traffic (optimally without any overhead whatsoever).

I also assume that the batch size (block size) is different enough that this alone would make a big difference.
The nothing has actually changed cannot be known. There is no transparency here. This is just what you think based off of their weirdly worded statements. Many people were outraged over the sponsored links here on this very site.
I'm starting to think the "government is inefficient" folks have never actually worked in any corporate job. I've worked in two companies since I left the federal government 5-10 years ago, and both were significantly less efficient, and less effective than the federal agency I worked for. I'm sure that's not _always_ true, but it just seems like any large organization full of people is difficult to keep efficient.
Zen is perfectly usable by your family.