skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's very convenient to sign other people up to pay for your preferred government services and I'm sure your peers are willing to eagerly pat you on the back for your generosity, but ultimately even taxing the wealthy at 100% won't cover the deficit no matter how good it would make you feel. That's the "And".

There's a reason nearly every developed nation has a VAT.
Pretty obvious outcome given the PR nightmare
> It's practically impossible to
> send SMTP from your own IP address.

I haven't had any problem in that regard in over 20 years of running a mail server on an old PC, on residential ISP connections. SPF, DKIM and rDNS config seemed to keep all the big players happy.

Which just made me realise I don't even have valid rDNS anymore, but it still works.
> has always been

Well now it is not: it is now "the difference between something with outputs that sounds plausible vs something with outputs which are properly checked".
You can’t fully defeat a nuclear power. You can, at best, drive it back — if you’re willing to pay the price.

And that price means Europe will have to absorb a dramatic, sustained drop in quality of life — plus forced mobilisation.

Even the Poles - the most serious player in Europe right now — only have about 200,000 troops.

The British and French combined have maybe 40,000 soldiers actually capable of high-intensity combat. That’s enough for, what - four weeks of real war?

After that, there will be no volunteers. That means a draft.

So the real question is: Are you ready to be drafted to “defeat Russia”?
Specific details, sure.

Locations of military assets, passcodes, officials' personal details, etc.

But you cannot have a democracy without the people knowing what their government is doing.
Question: is Gary Tan willing to make a public statement about YC's stance regarding the propose Crypto Reserve how CoinBase will benefit?
In particular,
addressing Brian Armstrong's position that Bitcoin and only Bitcoin should be in the reserve? https://finance.yahoo.com/news/coinbases-brian-armstrong-thi...
I don't expect TSMC to continue on this.

Trump is cancelling the CHIPS act and Taiwan is more valuable with TSMC in Taiwan. They need as much guarantees as they can under an untrustworthy US ( with Trump).
This is interesting, but the values could use some refinement:

gpt-4o: speed 3/5
gpt-4.5-preview: speed 3/5
gpt-3.5-turbo: speed 2/5

In practice 3.5 turbo is, what, 5-10x faster than 4.5 preview?
I don’t agree. Compile times are definitely and very noticeably quicker on my Intel gaming laptop (that’s actually a few years old now) vs my M3 MBP.

That said, I’ve never once felt that the M3 MBPs are sluggish. They are definitely super quick machines. And the fact that I can go a full day without charging even when using moderately heavy workloads is truly jaw droppingly impressive.

I’d definitely take the power performance over that small little extra saved in compile times any day of the week. So Apple have made some really smart judgements there.
Duolingo is a great kickstarter from zero knowledge, in my experience it also leads to very fast reading proficiency.

I'm convinced I can make sense of a newspaper within weeks and read novels within months in any language just using Duolingo (maybe longer if I also have to learn a different writing system). I did it with Danish years ago. I could read newspapers after a month and after four months I read a few novels at a slow but still enjoyable pace.

Or another example: my daughter was struggling with English at school and I bribed her to keep a 200-day Duolingo streak. That was enough to allow her to understand sources in English about her hobbies and interests, and now after a couple years her level is way above what is taught at school, she aces every test effortlessly.

Fluency... English is not my first language, but I can write, read and understand it pretty well. I even "think in English" at times, but I have never spent more than 4 consecutive days in an English-speaking country, and my fluency suffers a lot comparatively.

I can speak about anything, even give a talk or teach, but my accent is very thick, I'll stammer and stutter and stop here and there to find the right turn of phrase, or struggle to pronounce words that I have written a thousand times but never said aloud.

So in my opinion if you want to speak well, you have to speak a lot and I don´t think Duolingo is very good for that.
As of now I'm not planning on adding any more translations but it's something I'd definitely consider in the future!
This is ZeroTier territory. Not as polished as Tailscale, but provides L2 like Himachi and has been bulletproof for years already.
Not all airplanes have plugs and at cafe's people tend to prioritize seating near the precious outlets. Its a small thing but having to pack up or go home when you are in the zone is a hassle I will pay a little extra to avoid.
True I forgot about smog and acid rain, never been to LA that I remember much less during the height of the smog covering. London also had times when the entire city was covered in super dense smog that cut visibility incredibly short.
You seem to think that the indexing and searching happens only if there is a reason. Why do you think that? There are all kinds of cases where government agents were found to have abused access to data for reasons that had nothing to do with illegal or immoral behavior by a target.
you dont port it you wrap it.
you can put anything in an rl environment. usually emulators are done with bizhawk, and some lua. worst case theres ffi or screen capture.
Do mainstream consumers really need a VPN?
That second link really hits home, ouch.
Wait for the tariffs to kick in a month.
It's the easiest to setup, but you can get 2x-6x faster with TGI and vLLM depending on the scenario.
You seem to be making a wild leap in logic here?
https://ollama.com/library/qwq:32b
Malicious Go Package Exploits Go Module Proxy Caching for Persistence
Markets still seem to be pricing Tesla as a company that has large growth potential. Anyone have a reasonable case to make here for this being true?
I mean they're not exactly following the separation of powers right now...
if youve done the work to to make the rival rl based and have the ability to go around youd probably have added basic battle controls
GitHub repo available here:

https://github.com/AutistiCoder/canvas-game/tree/main
Age my friend. Age.
The market is currently valuing the stock based primarily on their robotaxi initiative and humanoid robots.
The iPad Pro vs iPad Air seem distinguishable from each other, yes, but there's the iPad (A16) and mini muddying the lineup.

For example, the mini costs more than A16 iPad yet lacks a landscape center stage camera — but also has features the even more expensive Air doesn't, like true tone flash on the 12MP camera.

The iPad lineup is a mess, and spending more money can lead to getting less features. The iPhone lineup is pretty messy too, but the iPad situation is particularly terrible, and sales peaked years ago.
i dont think so.

I live in japan and I dont see this political slave talk here ever.

its a western guilt thing.
Humanoid robots and self driving car deals. At least that’s why people are thinking
It's also well known that Russia has a lot of fake accounts on social media sites.
Yes, it depends on the country. but the European average is well above the US.

Also, the US has a more progressive federal income tax code than Europe (or every other developed country), so the tax burden in the US is carried more by the upper class than it is in those other countries, resulting in the average middle class American paying significantly lower taxes than a peer in Europe.
See the comparison section here on our fundamental differences with nix: https://codeberg.org/stagex/stagex/#comparison

Unlike nix, stagex is reproduced and signed by multiple independent parties avoiding centralized trust in any single person or computer. It is also full source bootstrapped, 100% reproducible (nix is not quite there yet), container native, and toolchain agnostic (since you can use any OCI toolchain you want, docker, podman, kaniko, etc etc).

This has some tradeoffs though. Nix has more of a wikipedia-style approach to contributions where anyone can add almost anything with minimal accountability or friction. This approach positions them as more of a hobby distribution not designed for high security use cases.

On the positive side, this tradeoff means nix has a -huge- number of packages, and -most- things are reproducible, which makes it a fantastic reference for distros with more strict requirements like stagex.
This should just be called "why VPNs are useful", i think?
I absolutely love my MacBook Air M3 15”. Of course I’d love it to be faster but I’ll probably upgrade to an M5 or M6 at this point as the marginal improvement isn’t sufficient to warrant upgrading this soon after purchase.
The Funnel won't add secure activity to what happens inside the connection itself.
Gotta rob Paul if you wanna pay Peter.
I a missing component is a plan for recourse if the student doesn't take to the new pace/material.

That was my biggest problem, that and I wasn't actually on-board for the skip. Educators need to learn how to admit when they fucked up and learn how to improvise a new strategy.
Sure, it's not technically "impossible", but like...

> It is a common misconception that it is impossible to run your own email server

... the FAQ then goes on to give all the reasons that argue it's really really hard and probably not worth it for most people.
Irritatingly naive
They are not and while basic privacy and security is definitely a focus (making sure random external people can't get access to your docs and account) end-to-end encryption and privacy is not. There are tools that focus on that that seem great. I think proton mail has a product in that space, and https://docs.fileverse.io/ seems interesting, and there are many more on the more notion side. We wanted to focus our efforts on the interface and experience.

All that being said, I'd love at some point to manage to get everything end-to-end encrypted, but it'll be a big lift!
On its face this sounds like it makes sense but why would the lottery care, at all? They get money per ticket, a story that buying lots of tickets increases your chances of winning, it's win win win for them.
You don't have the right to say no or even stay silent. If you refuse to give up your passwords they will charge you with the whatever the legislation around it is, it's 2 years behind bars for refusing.
So many.
Lot of stocks are not profit based at this point.
Agree. Finally I can have several hundred browser tabs open simultaneously with no performance degradation.
I love that emphasizing math learning and coding leads to general reasoning skills. Probably works the same in humans, too.

20x smaller than Deep Seek! How small can these go? What kind of hardware can run this?
Interviews serve 2 functions.

1. Weeding out the people you surely don't want... that is it answers: does this candidate meet the minimum bar for working here?

2. Providing enough information about a candidate to give them a score... that is it answers: how good is this candidate?

You can "pass" an interview - that is the answer to question 1 is "yes, this person meets our qualifications", but fail in question 2 under conditions where there are more qualified candidates than there are positions. It's really common actually to wait until there are a few qualified candidates before making a hiring decision, rather than just hiring the first person that meets the minimum standards. This bit of hedging allows for making better teams from the available hiring pipeline (on average anyway).
You can always use portable drives, cloud, or a NAS to store photos. In either case you need a backup, storing everything on one laptop is a bit limiting.
Please stream the gameplay to twitch so people can compare.
Who gets excited about negative expected value? Now, suppose the expected value of a $1 lottery ticket was about $0.97 so people could be indifferent between zero-interest savings accounts and lottery tickets, and maybe I could see that being exciting.

But clearly the gambling industries are predicated on quite a lot of volume going to negative expected value purchases which sounds depressing rather than exciting.
I understand your reasoning but on the other hand it seems like any attempt to reel in big tech ends up in "all roads lead to censorship/free speech infringement" territory.

So there's really no way to reign in big tech on any of this?
I work at ByteDance (though not for long). Most of the "sexy" part of the app is native, or C++ crossplatform for things that would normally be in C++. I'm not sure I'm allowed to share what Lynx is used on, but it's a small subset of the app.
I wonder what kind of sales volumes Apple sees with the desktop Mac variants compared to Macbooks. I know the Pro and Mini probably see decent sales number as servers, but I wonder just how many people are still buying iMacs or these Mac Studios.

For me, the main value proposition from Macs are in their laptop offerings.
I remember being a PC enthusiast in high school, spending my lunch hours pricing up Mac's, comparing them to market pc component prices, to laugh at the cost of addons. Seems like nothing has changed.
The good news is that human brain is amazing and will probably revert to reasonable perception if you use your non retina 60Hz screen for long enough :)
This has been posted a lot over the past few days.

With comment(s):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43259663
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43234061

No comments:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43250618
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43264796
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43241423
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43238158
I understand that's not your point, but the government is a massive entity: it's entirely possible that the intelligence community has capabilities that wouldn't be admissible in court and therefore are of limited use to law enforcement. Or that they might be unwilling to share them with law enforcement.
Answer the three questions posted in the comment to which you replied.
> because code and text share domain (text based) – large, generic models will always out-compete smaller, specialized ones – that's the lesson

All digital data is just 1s and 0s.

Do you think a model trained on raw bytes would perform coding tasks better than a model trained on code?

I have a strong hunch that there’s some Goldilocks zone of specificity for statistical model performance and I don’t think “all text” is in that zone.

Here is the article for “the bitter lesson.” [0]

It talks about general machine learning strategies which use more compute are better at learning a given data set then a strategy tailor made for that set.

This does not imply that training on a more general dataset will yield more performance than using a more specific dataset.

The lesson is about machine learning methods, not about end-model performance at a specific task.

Imagine a logistic regression model vs an expert system for determining real estate prices.

The lesson tells us that, given the more and more compute, the logistic regression model will perform better than the expert system.

The lesson does not imply that when given 2 logistic regression models, one trained on global real estate data and one trained on local, that the former would outperform.

I realize this is a fine distinction and that I may not be explaining it as well as I could if I were speaking, but it’s an important distinction nonetheless.

[0] http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
Chinese V2Ray derivatives are indistinguishable from regular traffic and still penetrate the GFW but get detected when used for domestic services, which is not advised. Work best for short lived sessions in restrictive environments.
This is unrelated, as I imagine my GP comment explains.
Trump seems to be all about providing Russia and degrading the US.

Nonetheless, I see it as a good thing for the EU - maybe we'll finally stop being a "sending prayers" pussies, develop weapons, stop depending in 100% on NATO, and grow some balls.
To all of the people who were claiming that the US can do whatever it wants...

...I wonder if Musk and his shareholders don't care about money from us liberal, woke, left wing Europeans? I suppose that is noble, being willing to destroy your brand for your ideals, no matter how half-baked. For someone like Musk, who mostly acts like money is the one true god, this is a bit of a mixed up philosophy. Perhaps he is not quite as smart as he thinks he is.

I wonder how long before Trump throws him under a bus.
Well at least 20
> The thrill is being able to dream for a week about what you'd do with the winnings.

Exactly. and as bad as the odds are, it's still the best chance they have to ever be rich.
Silver was always center-right neoliberal, he just didn't do a lot of opinion/advocacy stuff, sticking more to the statistics, while doing 538; when he left 538, he became a lot higher “geneeic politics blogger”-style output, and became more like a slightly-more-to-the-right version of Matt Yglesias.

Since Silver took his models with him, and there wasn’t that much time after he left, there wasn't much track record to judge the post-Silver 538, but I think that it remained a first-rate poll aggregator and from all appearances a reasonable poll-based-predictor.
Oh for sure, I agree, OP's take was nonsensical.
I feel like this argument could have legs, but I can also see some easy counter points depending on how you proceed with it. Thank you regardless, as this made me think for a bit.
Presumably, the government wants to get them repatriated as soon as possible. But they will be there until that happens, which could be forever.

The reason they're sending them to Guantanamo is so that they have no access to the US courts. They cannot challenge their arrest. For all we know, some of these could be US citizens.
I think there should be a new SE field for this.
Was the microcode signing scheme documented by AMD, or did the researchers have to reverse engineer it somehow? I couldn't see a mention in the blog post.
> Pokémon Red takes 25 hours on average for a new player to complete.

Seriously? I've never really played video games, but i remember spending so much time on pokemon red when i was young. Not sure if i ever really finished more than once. But i'm pretty sure i must have played for more than 50h or so before even close to finish. My memory might trick me though.

Not sure which pokemon version it was, but i got so hooked trying to get this "secret" pokemon which was just a bunch of pixels. Some kind of bug (of the game, not the type of pokemon). You had to do specific things in a park and other things and then surf up and down x-times on the right shore of an island... or something like that.
I had no idea how it worked and got so hooked, i must have spent most of my playing time on things like that.

Oh boy, memories...
What effect do you think that will have on European sales?
For years I've been calling it "meme illiteracy": the inability to communicate outside of reference to some internet trend.

It's really just a sub-category of internet brain rot.

Ha Ha! The 15sec "set your balls on fire challenge" video is SO FUNNY!
Change is possible and change always feels difficult before it happens, but feels inevitable when looking back. Change would be harder in places like Texas, sure, but East coast cities and the Midwest have so many opportunities to continue to develop more and more public transportation options.

Anyone who has had the privilege to live in a city where walking is easier than driving knows how much more freeing not having a car is than having one.
Thunderbolt 5 (TB 5) is pretty handy, you can have a very thin and lightweight laptop, then can get access to external GPU or eGPU via TB 5 if needed [1]. Now you can have your cake (lightweight laptop) and eat it too (potent GPU).

[1] Asus just announced the world’s first Thunderbolt 5 eGPU:

https://www.theverge.com/24336135/asus-thunderbolt-5-externa...
This is a global trend that seems to follow the general decline of parenthood in almost every country. The more hostile our culture becomes to parenting the more it will decline. While it’s a personal choice to have children, there is a societal threat to declining birth rates. We would do much better to be supporting parents and encouraging family formation.
I never let startups get away with "The" on Hacker News when I see it. I always replace it with "A" :)
In our last product (hyperlink.academy) we went through a lot of iterations on multipage designs, from carousels, to stacking decks, to a kind of 2-pane view, and eventually settled on the side scrolling view. Really useful for drilling down into things, looking at things side-by-side, etc. Glad to hear you like it!
It's a good thing then that they're quite deliberately skipping it without compunction, though it seems not without unwarranted judgement.
I just want to support decentralized social media. I can’t handle the constant national hysteria the stems from centralization. I don’t use reddit other than reading comments on a movie I saw or recipes for eggplant. Now that I’ve down ranked it I have found there are other sites and communities to read instead with the same information. For example lemmy is active enough for movies and there are popular cooking blogs with comments.
That's not correct. It's for people who think they might be targets of surveillance operations, like journalists and activists.

> Lockdown Mode is an optional, extreme protection that’s designed for the very few individuals who, because of who they are or what they do, might be personally targeted by some of the most sophisticated digital threats.

(from https://support.apple.com/en-us/105120)

This is mostly useful if you run it all the time, since you generally won't know when you will be targeted.
> The fact that it was bailed out says something about its place in American society.

Yes. It's extremely well connected to the levers of power.

Other examples would include the protectionist legislation offered when they were getting their shit rocked by Asia the last time around, in the 70's, every time we've gone to war overseas for oil, and the CAFE standards which have generous exemptions for all the vehicles they actually make money on because no other manufacturers bother to make 3 ton trucks for suburbanites.
The number of users who even understand why they might want to do that aren't a consideration when they build such a service/agreement. It's only considering what the average tenant is looking for, which is more akin to "water comes out of the pipes when I move in" than "do I get to mess with the plumbing?".
i was referring to drivers&occupants only
Getting paid is, at least, fair. Everyone has some skin in the game. Pretty impressive.
I agree, z should be absorbed into μ and Σ, e.g. you always input `[1 0 0 ... 0]`, and the first layer of the neural network would essentially output z. They would have to stop approximating the KL(q(θ)||p(θ)) as O(θ^2) though, so maybe this is more computationally efficient?
CEO controls the US government (corruption)
same climes, different times

>A Salpetersjudare collected urine soaked earth to assist with the production of saltpeter.

https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Sweden_Occupation:_Salt...
Because it's an important reminder that it doesn't need to be perfect to replace you.
> It feels great to work on a machine that you feel like you own a bit more than any other.

This is a thing right? You come back to your computer, and it’s exactly as you left it. It didn’t try to magically reboot because of overnight updates, it didn’t prevent you from starting a program because it phoned home to the mothership and it told them that particular dev hasn’t forked over their $100 yet. It’ll tell you there are updates and ask if you want to install them.

It’s such a relief to work on something not windows or mac in so many ways.