skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The premise of an installer is pretty scary to me. Its so unclear to me what is going to happen to my system, or how I'd undo it. The Aider instructions/installer was not something I felt like I could use.

There also weren't docs for building/running it from source, which is usually what if recent Debian packages aren't available (they aren't).

It took some tinkering (chaotically trying uv sync, uv venv commands, hacking pyproject.toml lightly after hitting some errors)… but eventually I built a wrapper script that runs:

uv run --project /opt/aider-git aider $*

There was definitely considerable angst over this process. I've rarely seen a project that left me so without guidance for how to run it myself. Wading into python projects often feels like it requires a long history of python packager/build tools knowledge, and has brought me considerably suffering. I've muddled through many dozens of projects, but never a moment of illumination, a feeling that I grok the scene, understand the pieces and how the tool is working those components together. There's lots of different tools & epochs of python, and it feels like there's no core truth, just many different semi-overlapping styles and techniques and you need context & experience to figure out what to apply.

Where-as node_modules and package.json#scripts have felt so direct, isolated, self explanatory to me. Feeling super abandoned by python tooling is a feeling I'm used to. It was, at least, some comfort to have squeaked out a win once again though!
Agree that China is playing a long game and has tremendous patience. If I read your argument right, you're saying that it is foolish to think Russia could be "won over" to Europe, that they were always destined to be autocratic, and therefore their "values" are just too opposed to the West to ever be a partner.

Ok, but I don't think Russia has to be a "Western-style" democracy to not be an active ally of China. They have interests like any other sovereign nation. Maybe breaking up the Russian Federation is a bridge too far, but the achievable policy goal is to weaken Russia internally and make it quite inconvenient for Russia to be allied with other US geopolitical rivals. These are, primarily, China, our true superpower rival, and regionally, Iran (Persia), that asserts privileges in the Middle East that threaten US interests. Russia is the one that could be inconvenienced by alliance with either China or Iran. It was inconvenient and costly for Russia to support Iran ally Syria. There are some pipeline interests for Russia there but Syria is more important to Iran than Putin. Instead of making it costly for Russia to support China, we've made it costly for Russia not to support China. The opposite of what is needed to destabilize our rivals.

Look, I like Europe and have spent a lot of time there and have family there, but I care mostly about American prosperity. To the extent that Europe promotes American prosperity, our interests align. But Ukraine is also about disciplining Europe. Europe has shirked its own security obligations to police its European neighborhood. Worse, some European powers (ahem, Germany) have tried to assert independence from US political control by exploiting access to Russian energy and trying to achieve some kind of energy independence from the US. No bueno. Given its history, the calls for Germany to raise an army and invade Eastern Europe in a war for independence sound like a bit of farce, don't you think? Anyway, not going to happen. Europe must remilitarize, but only to a point. They need to spend enough money to carry their share of the burden, but not to achieve political independence.

I would also challenge the coherence of any arguments based on "Western values" and democracy. Those are terms that have many possible meanings, or no meaning at all.
I really want to love uv: It's a hair away from being perfect, they just have to find a solution to the "poetry version" (bump) problem = https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/6298 (Work in progress, last I heard!).

Once we have a way to get package version bumps, I can finally leave poetry for the speed of uv!

Of particular interest to me, uv has "workspaces", perfect for monorepo-like sub-packages: useful for plugin-based workflows where you may want to keep a few independent plugins in one repo.
replace tin droplets with DT pellets :)
>"Once I learned the above two things, here’s what I did:

o Instead of trying to get into big accelerators, I started off by joining smaller founder communities like LOI (Canada), OnDeck, Mercury Raise. They give you enough perks, network, traction to start building up momentum.

o Switched to delivering services over software. Instead of selling an SEO software for $200/mo, I delivered outcome based services instead for $2K/mo. Within 3 months, I was at $10K MRR. If I had continued doing software, it would have taken many more months to ever get close to that number."

Well done!

I especially like the "join smaller founder communities" idea -- that one is a keeper!
I can personally vouch that I have seen new teeth growing in a woman that was 103 years old.
Yes, but the same contractor manages the AirNow Data Management Center [0], and according to this talk [0] DOSAir is the actual program here, and they are piggybacking the EPA AirNow data infrastructure, and per the OP they are keeping the sensors running.

So I'm all the more confused about what exactly necessitates this specific State Dept-directed funding freeze that happens to impact only the network that communicates the data from embassies into AirNow, but not the data center or other data producers.

[0] https://www.airnow.gov/sites/default/files/2020-11/hylton-st...

[1] https://youtu.be/RcdBIWdA-e4?si=PTpOEG7rFnGod7EH&t=2615
Amit's Thoughts: Emacs Tree-sitter custom highlighting, part 3
You conveniently left out the justification for that statement: because the author believes monocultures are bad, and doesn't want to support them. I think that's entirely reasonable, and characterizing it as "goth subculture" is dishonest.
The ultimate communist goal is achieve a decentralized society where nobody is controlled or directed. They see abolishing class hierarchies as the path to achieving this.

Anarcho-capitalist libertarians seek a very similar society. They see abolishing governmental hierarchies as the path to achieve this.
That seems to be already happening -- Canada is not removing its countermeasures in response to Trump's gamesmanship. The art of the deal indeed.
Ever hear of Afghanistan or, I don’t know, World War Two? Do you know what the word ally means?
1984 was a manual.
This is an absolutely paltry change in light of other avenues to recoup revenue. And even if it were not, the way to change these systems is not to delete them but to restructure their incentives.

However.

Let's not kid ourselves that this program probably cost upwards of several million dollars.

- Wired cut my access just before I was able to cite, but someone said the program cost "just tens of thousands of dollars a year, because equipment had already been purchased". The cost of procure install and maintenance I would imagine was wildly excessive.
> So, I figured I'd write a series of posts publicly exploring this dataset and sharing my findings.

> ...

> At the end, I'll have a single database of Telegram messages from the whole dataset. I'll be able to query it to, for example, show me all messages from Scot Seddon sorted chronologically. This will make it simple to see what he was saying in the lead-up to January 6, immediately after January 6, and then what he's saying about Trump these days, after he was re-elected.

There are more parts to come in this series, which is very clearly stated in the post.
It's not symbolic, unless there's a beaver involved.
So someone got a job from it. They paid income tax, spent their salary at the local stores, which paid other people's salaries who paid income tax and spend their salary at the local stores. Why is this a problem. Reducing all this employment reduces money flowing around the economy (a factor in the Great Depression).
Pew Research.
Yeah what does “air quality data network” even mean? Do they have dedicated circuits between all the consulates and then some pop somewhere all for air quality sensors? If so, then it deserves to be shutdown because that would be grossly over engineered for the task. Imagine, an entire dedicated network and all the gear and lease expense that comes with it to read some sensors from a rest api.
The reason I wonder this isn't because I don't understand the economic or political gravity of the technology. It's because:

1) AI as a software concept strikes me as something that will be very easily stolen and replicated.

2) AI that is both nefariously aligned and super intelligent sound like fire that is wet. A super intelligent AI will likely be so logical that the only control we can exercise over it is censorship.

3) What value is there to harness from anyone after AGI? CEOs and Presidents are liable to end up on the same chopping block as everyone else at that point.
It depends.

If you want to hire a mid-career PhD in a field that has a real job market outside the academia, and the person already has a stable job they are content with, $240k might not be enough. At least unless the job is particularly interesting.

And the total cost of employment is obviously higher than the nominal salary. (Which is mostly a convenient lie for tax purposes.) If the total cost including benefits, employer-paid taxes, and mandatory insurance is $240k/year, the nominal salary could be $180k or even lower.
Biden was elected in 2020.
Any chance you remember the name of the SQLite course?
Respectfully, I disagree on both points.

> We can all look at various polls and get an assessment of who is generally ahead.

I probably could, but there's a lot of polls to look through and I don't really want to spend the time. Much rather have someone else do it for me.

> if no matter what the result, we can always just say "the candidate who won could always have won given the forecast" - what are we really adding to the conversation here?

Isn't this hypothesis testing? If you have a weighted coin and a guess as to which side is heavier and by how much, you're going to need multiple flips to see if you are right. And it doesn't even really make sense to talk about how right/wrong you are about a single flip, only on the aggregate.

It's possible someone has already compiled FiveThirtyEight's results to get some aggregate accuracy, I haven't checked. If they have and he's wrong on average and that's what you are referencing, my apologies.
Passmark is an outdated benchmark not optimized for Arm.
Thanks for reading! Interesting. Thats kind of like FRP right? 3D CAD modeling seems like a really good domain for such a paradigm, coupled with a declarative style of programming.
Yeah, it is doing a lot of work, as it should be. It's a summary in marketing material, not a research report.
US experts also came up with the voucher system that allowed Oligarchs to buy everything up.
This is not an accurate description of the magnitude of polling error in 2016 in WI, which was the state with the most significant polling error that year by a very large margin, see Table 2 "2016 final polling average versus actual results": https://centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/polling-error-in-2...

The final difference from polling in WI was 7%, other states had smaller polling errors. The fact is that 2016 was simply an extremely tight race in many states and difficult to forecast even with completely normal polling error bars.
You already have a choice - parental controls on devices. Anything else requires age verification and you giving your ID to random websites.
Tariffs don't create local jobs, they shut down exporting industries (other countries buy our exports with the dollars we pay them for our imports) and some of those people may over time transition to non-export industries.

Here's an analysis indicating how many jobs would be destroyed in total over several scenarios: https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/federal/trump-tariffs...
Mother of god, these things are cheap. The 98" model is only $2,600.
Maybe that's the true progress in self-driving. It's cheaper and better. It's a win/win. Now we just need UBI and it can be a win/win/win.
I actually just got JMH set up in Gradle, and I'm rewriting my tests to try and give more accurate results. Once I have numbers from JMH I'll write another post, and I'll put a caveat to take them with a grain of salt.

In this specific example, I was actually afraid that randomness taking indeterminate time could be an issue, which is why I pre-allocated all the UUIDs at the beginning, and used the same list as input data for each one; I figured if all the setup was allocated before I started the timer, and every test has the same input, then we can factor out any inefficiencies since that should affect all of them roughly equally.

Anyway, I have wanted to learn JMH for awhile, so this is the push I needed to actually do it.
Why is this necessary? I just alias aider to:

uv tool run --python 3.11 --from aider-chat@latest aider
> These cars are garbage

A few years ago this was true, but quality has improved massively since then. Was in China recently, got to ride in a bunch of Chinese EVs including several BYDs. Really impressed with them, and came away wishing I could buy one myself, but that seems unlikely to be an option for now in the US unfortunately.
Gaming laptops aren't neccessarily bulky, my Razer Blade 14 is about the same dimensions as my macbook pro 14. They're about the same age and price (2022), the main difference is that the Razer is much faster (plugged in) but the MacBook is vastly more efficient. I do respect how fast MacBooks feel subjectively, but in terms of number crunching and graphics processing the Razer is a lot better. I guess my overall point being youre not going to beat a macbook on efficiency, but there are options out there that aren't bulky or tacky.
> It's not something I would expect a US administration hostile to China to cut.

I think in this case it's just a result of the haphazard approach to all of these cuts where nothing has actually been analyzed and planned. They are cutting things without thinking about repercussions, and of course their knee-jerk response to air-quality measurement is "it has to do with the climate and climate change, so we must suppress it".

Or it's even more "innocent" than that: they were given a target dollar amount or percentage to cut, and they're scrambling to find ways to get there, without really thinking things through.
It it possible to send much faster voyagers these days that’d overtake them in a matter of years?
These aren’t systems you just toggle off and then back on if you realize you miss it.

Once you do the layoffs and shrink the organizations, those people go get other jobs. You can’t just flip a switch and have everyone back like before.

You have to rebuild the organization. It’s expensive. It’s not efficient.

I think we’re in this mess because people who don’t understand how to operate organizations, departments, and government systems are treating these like servers in a closet that can be turned off and back on again.

Doesn’t work like that.
I usually add "upgrade": `uv tool install --upgrade --python python3.12 aider-chat`. So that it will upgrade the version to the latest if the current one is not already.
Their argument seems to be that the current administration is playing checkers with tennis rackets on trampolines. Nothing makes sense or actually serves any goals, and are just random child-like stomping and smashing.

In this case someone probably saw this as somehow related to "the environment" so it's bad.
Thanks for trying aider! Sorry to hear you had trouble with the install. Installing Python cli tools is tricky, which is why I recommend using the uv-based installer.

The docs do list a variety of other install methods:

https://aider.chat/docs/install.html

And there is a faq about running aider from source:

https://aider.chat/docs/faq.html#how-can-i-run-aider-locally...
CPU inference is both bandwidth and compute constrained.

If your prompt has 10 tokens, it’ll do ok, like in the LinkedIn demo. If you need to increase the context, compute bottleneck will kick in quickly.
I think this is an interesting way to package a python library but, they also have curl -LsSf https://aider.chat/install.sh | sh instead so I can see the tradeoff either install a whole new package manager or just trust that the shell script is legit.

I still use either pip -m venv venv or conda. I really tried to figure out uv but I just switch back to venv because it was too hard to use.

Also, when I tried Aider I really didn't like this feature

* Aider automatically git commits changes with a sensible commit message.

since I rather actually do the commits (I'm guessing this can be turned off).
> Turns out though information is like water; you need enough, but too much and you drown.

How do we slow down or control the flow of information ? Genuine question. I'm just asking to see if there are any studies or proposals that already exist out there.

I've heard people talk about education. But this seems to be part of a long term solution. How can we solve this problem now so that in the next election (next 2 or 4 years) people will not vote against their own best interests ?

Convincing people to quit social medias or stopping listening to TV pundits ? So far that hasn't worked. Facebook/Tiktok just keeps growing.
"The claims that Putin is trying to rebuild the Soviet Empire is probably mostly propaganda" is correct by Putin's own he words. He just wants control of everywhere in the ex-Soviet where Russian speakers live.
The legacy media is not a reliable source for his comments as they tend to take tidbits and intentionally take them out of context to mean something other than clearly intended, often to the point of absurdity. I couldn't find a transcript for that presser and would really like to know what the context was, and also what was said in those ellipses.

The timeline there corresponds 100% to probable fraud DOGE discovered at the Treasury and I'm fairly certain that's what's being referenced. They found something like $100 billion/year in entitlements being paid to accounts lacking a social security number or even temporary ID numbers.

EDIT: Ok yeah LLMs are actually good for some things. I found the 'transcript' (actually a video) here. [1] And yeah it's exactly what I thought. The media is lying as usual:

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Reporter: On spending you found some maybe questionable expenditures or Elon Musk?

Trump: Not some questionable, the whole country looks like it's a fraud. It's fraud waste abuse but it's a tremendous fraud. And what Elon and his group of geniuses have found is unbelievable. It's unbelievable. And that's just in USAID. Soon we're going into education. You'll find the same thing but bigger. Soon we're going into the military and you're going to find a lot of bad things happening there.

Trump: You'll find it because our government has not functioned properly for many many years and we're going to make it function properly. We're even looking at treasuries there could be a problem. You've been reading about that with treasuries. And that could be an interesting problem because it could be that a lot of those things don't count. In other words that some of that stuff that we're finding is very fraudulent. Therefore, maybe we have less debt than we thought of.

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The thing the media ellipsed out is specifically him mentioning "you've been reading about", completely removed that the comment was in reference to DOGE, as well as that it was in the context of a laundry list of fraud discoveries. The context makes it clear that he was referencing the already publicized fraud DOGE found at the Treasury, which he then mistakenly called treasuries rather than treasury payments.

Note the reporter could have asked for clarification because his comment wouldn't make any sense when taken at face value (there was nothing written about fraudulent treasuries that people had been reading about, nor had DOGE investigated such), and this would have been a HUGE revelation if true. But she didn't want clarification, because she obviously knew what he was talking about, but wanted to lie with some plausible deniability.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pShlwrxzXtQ (around the 20min mark)
Hedge in case the site couldn't serve the videos. I appreciate their punk rock style.
I highly doubt they're less popular, it's just that most people who use them aren't as vocal as their detractors.
I'm very disappointed with my Surface Pro tablet ... battery life sucks, resuming from sleep is really slow and the keycover needs to be disconnected and reconnected for it to 'remember' it is there. I've owned 4 Surfaces over the years and won't buy again.

I'm not a fan of OS X but seriously considering one of these just for the battery life and it-just-works portable computing.
This article keeps getting posted but it runs a thinking model at 3-4 tokens/s. You might as well take a vacation if you ask it a question.

It’s a gimmick and not a real solution.
I would never pay $20k for a car. No matter who made it.
Putin isn’t in any way a communist.
For starters, don't complain about downvotes. It's boring and lazy.

But I think you're actually getting downvoted because your comment has no context. I have no idea what Seattle has to do with any of this; if you'd actually explained what Seattle is doing in this space, it would have been an informative, useful comment that could teach people something, and lead to more interesting discussion. But as-is, your comment is just a drive-by, low-effort nothing.
Valve supports games on MacOS
But it cost us at least $15,000,000, right? It's this "this is cheap compared to the value it provides" has analogs in coupon clipping shopaholics: "you don't understand, it was 50% off!" Right, but it still cost money, a significant amount.

I could live forever on $15mm, and help so many people off just dividends and yeild. $15mm is a lot of money.
Perhaps the fire department can start trying setting fire to homes — the ones that don't catch fire can become the new building code.
Quality of life is something that many people evaluate along very very different metrics at different weights. But losing that $7k and bringing it down to $3k does not look like it will be accompanied by plumbers no longer paying for healthcare out of pocket.

One measure of the lead of the US is how it is a destination for those looking to create great science, a great startup, build a business, or otherwise build a long-lasting contributor to our institutions. Europe, Japan, other places certainly rank highly here too, but the US is by far the biggest player and attracts the most people as far as I can tell.
> People (even criminals) are not perfectly economic thinkers. That's probably a good thing.

why is that a good thing?

Perfect economic thinkers are good, because they'd be predictable and can be reasoned with. Providing economic incentives to such means you can direct behaviour in an easy and efficient way.

Irrational thinkers cannot be reasoned with via economic rationality. Therefore, either you have to stack the incentives so high that the cost becomes overbearing, or you use some other means of control that's less nice.
You can use —no-auto-commits or see these docs for all the git settings:

https://aider.chat/docs/git.html
They can, and have, challenged their detention in US courts. There is a ton of litigation on this. It's just that... they are still there, somehow :(
my first thought was, "what does it look like fully specced out, 512 GB RAM cannot be cheap"
fully specced out it's ~$15k
now I bet that'd be a fine $15k AI machine but if I wanted a CPU AI rig a cobbling of multi-core motherboards could get higher performance at a lower cost, and/or some array of used nvidia cards.
the good news is 3 or 4 years from now hardware specs such as this will be much cheaper, which is exciting