skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>In a literal sense, how is taxation not theft?

Being born is rape. I didn't consent to choosing this country or mother or body.

That's my mindset when I hear this. There's a social contract you didn't sign but you're subject to it and given services to be raised into a hopefully healthy citizen. In return, you chip in to make sure those services can be maintained.

Your choice here is that you can one day revoke that citizenship. But sadly you were born to early to find your own sovereign island and declare yourself king so you can avoid taxes. That part is a shame.
Hard to say how this will actually go but as a vet, I've had some pretty poor experiences with the government support networks as a whole, and the VA is no exception; I know the VA has improved from the horror days of 03-06 but it certainly feels like it could have done so much more, especially after we got out of Iraq and the overall operation tempo dropped.

I have friends who were hurt 15+ years ago now, and have been through the ups and downs of the VA system; its just sad that after all that time they're still struggling (occasionally at least) with basic things and keeping their care going.
Market cap does not equal value... Market cap does not equal value... Market cap does not equal value...
Buying Bitcoin is neutral to spend (or "debt" in your framing).

If you "borrow" $100 and "buy" $100 with it, nothing has changed. You didn't spend anything hence you didn't incur any additional debt.

If you buy $100 equivalent of Bitcoin then nothing changes either.

Only future changes in Bitcoin price relative to dollar are changing your "debt".

If price of Bitcoin goes down, you have a paper loss.

If price of Bitcoin goes up, you have a paper gain.

When you convert Bitcoin back to dollars, that paper gain or loss converts to a smaller or bigger debt.

Strategic Bitcoin Reserve is motivated by the belief that the price of Bitcoin will go up drastically in which case the more Bitcoin U.S. buys today, the more debt it'll be able to reduce in the future.
Anyone who calls 512 gigs "over half a terabyte" is bullshitting. No, thank you.
65% of veterans voted for trump.

They voted for this. Sounds like they chose their destiny, to die in a gutter homeless and no medical care. And with other public benefit cuts, low/no food stamps, delayed or stopped social security.

Its hard for me to actually care. They knew the debacle and hate, and they voted for it.
Annoyingly you'll see this brought up as a "false alarm by environmentalist" by climate change deniers when it's really a time we absolutely succeeded.
I imagine grandparent is referring to an incident in the UK where a man was arrested for “silently praying.” The additional context is that he was in a legally mandated exclusion zone around an abortion clinic.

It’s become a meme (sans context of course) in conservative circles since Vance recently reiterated it. Never mind that the US uses such free speech exclusion zones frequently.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/christian-bourne...
I would call it that, but no one in the government will. Printer manufacturers lawyers will just equate it with the same automatic updates that the printer will do by itself if it could. And they will have a dozen words buried somewhere in the middle of a bible sized tos that you "agreed to".
Wrote about this in the results section. I think there is a way to mix the two and simplify the rewards in the process. A lot of the magic behind getting the agent to teach and use cut probably could have been handled by an LLM.
Remember software can be banned or regulated via export control.
I really hate this attitude. "$24 billion a year is nothing compared to the deficit so we should just ignore it and keep spending."

Spending cuts have to start SOMEWHERE. Saying $24 billion is ignorable is insane. We are in a critical debt situation and my children's future is at stake.
The features here seem to be fairly standard with most the WireGuard based VPNs these days. For example, I use Nord for my use-case which is very similar to the author's. This allows me to rsync my home directory between my laptop, tablet, phone's Termux env, and desktop (all running Linux) to maintain configuration parity and file locality regardless of where I turn these devices on, so long as they have internet.

Does Tailscale have features that set it apart now that other VPNs have gotten the private mesh thing down pretty well?
should they not collect both sides' atrocities toward civilians?
Rust Before Main
I'm not sure. But I have seen people storing prompts in secrets and env variables
Most lotteries, all of them that I'm familiar with, blackout ticket sales for several minutes around the draw to avoid order sensitivity issues like this. It's funny, lotto vending machines here don't say when the drawings are for each game, but you can tell by reading the fine print for the five minute window where tickets are not sold.
The plastic bamboo in the foyer grows like crazy.
Memory bandwidth is the issue
That’s GPUs, not CPUs
Apple does not make server CPUs, they make consumer low W CPUs, it's very different.

FYI Apple runs Linux in their DC, so no Apple hardware in their own servers.
The bit I found confusing is that I don't immediately understand what's more performant in various scenarios, M4 Max or M3 Ultra. The former has higher architecture version but lower amount of compute, the latter is previous arch but more compute.
They usually stop sale an hour before the ball-picking, at least around here.

I assume that hour is for all the "picks" to be transmitted up to them for record keeping.
It's impossible to beat with random actions or brute force, but you can get surprisingly far. It doesn't take too long to get halfway through route 1, but even with insane compute you'll never make it even to viridian forest.
Steam engines and computers solve problems to improve human life. They more efficiently perform tasks to free up time for humans to do other things they would rather be doing.

These API composers perform a task many humans want to do. And there are roughly zero consumers of music saying "you know what's missing from the music market? music made with no human input."

This strictly serves capital. The goal is to destroy more artists livelihood to marginally increase the wealth of already wealthy people.
Does this make the ESA’s Pathfinder [1] redundant? Or are they measuring something materially different?

[1] https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2023/06/Satnav_fro...
In fairness China did crack down on that[0]. Some limits are excessive, but here the minor hit was worth it.

[0]

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03277-w

https://www.dw.com/en/ozone-layer-recovery-back-on-track-aft...
IIRC the remaining risk lies in multiple people winning or attempting arbitrage simultaneously, thus dividing the expected revenue by the number of winners. So not a free lunch.
There's an entire section on how the decompilations were used :)
> Holy hell, they hired 83,000 people since 2019? Does no one care we are $36T in debt? 40% of our income taxes go to paying just the interest on our debt!

In short: no, no one cares. Particularly not the guys in the party who are carrying out these cuts.

The main reasons we are, in the year 2025, spending so much on interest, are:

1) A financial crisis that required massive bailouts
2) A pandemic crisis that required massive bailouts
3) Two wars in the Middle East that cost a lot of money
4) Perhaps the most important one here: a steadfast refusal by about half of the country to have a realistic, adult conversation about government revenues since George H.W. Bush said "Read my lips: no new taxes", which solidified the Reagan practice of deficit spending and the belief that any and all private holdings of massive amounts of money were still better than giving that money to the government, regardless of the economic reality.

The VA hospital in your nearest city is a drop in the bucket.
Same feeling about Mac OS. What am I going to do? Move to Windows? I suppose I could install Gentoo or read the entire Arch wiki. However, I am no longer an unemployed 23-year-old. Don't have the time or care to bother with recreational sysadminning.
> cutting these jobs cuts spending by .3891%

A billion here, a billion there, soon it adds up to real money.
That's quite a reductio ad absurdum. No, I don't generate my own electricity (though I could). But I don't use tools for work that can change out from under me at any moment, or that can increase 10x in price on a corporate whim.
Look up a few definitions of "surrender". Ceasing resistance, and giving into your enemies demands, is surrendering.
Math Academy is awesome, I'm fully hooked, but, repeating something I wrote elsewhere: it is a bleak existential confrontation with your ineptitude with fractions.
There seems to be a LOT of interest in such a site in the comments here. There seem to be multiple IP issues with sharing your code repo with an online service so I feel a lot of folks are waiting for the hardware to make this possible.

We need a SWE-bench for open source LLM's and for each model to have 3Dmark like benchmarks on various hardware setups.

I did find this which seems very helpful but is missing the latest models and hardware options. https://kamilstanuch.github.io/LLM-token-generation-simulato...
The memory bandwidth does double, but in order to exploit it the program must be written and executed with care in the memory placement, taking into account NUMA, so that the cores should access mostly memory attached to the closest memory controller and not memory attached to the other socket.

With a badly organized program, the performance can be limited not by the memory bandwidth, which is always exactly double for a dual-socket system, but by the transfers on the inter-socket links.

Moreover, your link is about older Intel Xeon Sapphire Rapids CPUs, with inferior memory interfaces and with more quirks in memory optimization.
I have to assume they’re doing something like that in the lab for 4 years from now.
Wikia/fandom are both as bad if not worse than reddit if you don't have an ad-blocker.
There have been several cases in the US where the mother wasn't given miscarriage care due to their anti-abortion law not having a clear enough exception. Even where there are if the criteria are too tough the wait can damage the woman's future chances of successfully having a kid too.

One example there's several more out there. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/30/texas-woman-...
> It was a deliberate attempt to deprive Native Americans of their historical means of support.

No, it was not. The bison population collapse was not something expected or planned. One year the bison simply disappeared (1882).

The bison ecosystem in North America was deeply unnatural. Bison are fast-replicating herbivores that don't have any natural predators! This only happened because Natives exterminated almost all the large predators.

Such systems almost always go through boom-bust cycles, and that's exactly what happened. The migration patterns were disturbed by railroads, and that likely led to the spread of the Texas tick fever and anthrax among the bison population. They have around 90% death rate, and that's what caused the population collapse.

However, this time the population did not recover by itself.

> But if you can eliminate a major source of food for them, it's possibly even more effective.

It's the same nonsense as giving smallpox-impregnated blankets used to exterminate populations.
Im not sure about this one, but it usually happens with a progressive jackpot that gets bigger every time someone doesn’t win.
None of your claims are sourced and appear on the surface to be conspiracy theory / both sideism designed to distract from what Trump is doing.

> Burisma/Hunter emails

For example, you appear to be hinting towards the Russian disinfo that Biden was involved in a corrupt deal in Ukraine. That is false. The main source of this claim was arrested for lying about it.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68313086

I'll try again with my question, if Trump was taking direct orders from Putin, what would he be doing differently?
Yes, we've taken a wrong turn into a hellish dystopia.

We've created machines to replace humans doing things humans enjoy doing. Leaving the drudgery machines were supposed to eliminate to be done by humans.
This paper seems to be saying that externally impressed ~40 Hz stimulation helps mitigate the pathology of diseased brains. But I don't think it's quite correct for the general review to call it "promoting brain health". The cellular pathology is still there. The functionality of the brain is just being augmented.

Reports of improved performance with this 40 Hz brain stimulation being agumented is not surprising given the biological origin of this 40 Hz EEG observable correlating with the switching of the thalamo-cortical loops that are necessary for (but not sufficient for) self-reporting of "conscious" state in humans.

It may be these thalamo-cortical neuronal populations are getting a bit of help getting over the hump from the auditory cortices thalamocortical loops to get those action potentials going like they used to.
I meant single-core performance.
NCSC, GCHQ, UK Gov't expunge advice to “use Apple encryption”
Why would any business pay Apple Tax for a backend, server product?
NSO Group executives charged for responsibility in the Pegasus espionage case
Thanks.

>> Apple seems to be using LPDDR, but HBM will also likely be a key tech. SK Hynix and Samsung are the most reputable for both.

So not much Micron? Any US based stocks to invest in? :-)
It's not like you can use an alternative without facing jail time if you don't give up the keys.
This seems pretty suspicious. The whole org is about 450k people and overall federal employment peaked in the 1990s.
Thanks for reading my blog post! I'm going to pickup that book today and make sure to start reading it!
Try netbird, it's the same idea but with support for using kernel-mode WireGuard when one of the peers is able to connect to another one directly without doing NAT tricks (so either both peers are on the same subnet, or at least one of them has a public IP).
> Reddit pushing new Reddit layout and killing 3rd party apps is what did it for me. But it seems like nobody really cares.

It's not that users don't care, it's that the money dried up.

It used to be that when a site suffered enshittification, a new batch of VCs would show up to fund some clean and functional competitor. Then after the IPO or sale, the former "upstart" quickly becomes the incumbent and shitifies itself.

Nobody's investing in a de-shittified reddit or most social media companies.

The only exception seems to be bsky, right now a VC funded deshittified twitter with massive growth. But they got a huge boost from Jack Dorsey early on - I doubt they would've gotten off the ground without the tech and financial resources he brought in day one. This Digg play seems to sort of be in that same vein, despite the old brand.
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All it does it turn the government into a hedge fund making bets, while paying off crypto holders with taxpayer money along the way.
Why would I engage with you? You trust Large Language Models! I gave you a bit of time earlier, but that was more than enough. I don't suffer fools twice.
Especially if said "private entity" happens to be the mob.

My understanding is that the proliferation of casinos, state lotteries, etc. has been very bad for organized crime's traditional business model.
Sure, but that's because the government acted in ways contrary to what Parliament willed.
on reflection they had one with an HDMI port. maybe that was the difference
The Mac Studio hit a sweet spot in 2023 that the trash can Mac Pro couldn't ten years earlier. It's mostly thanks to the high integration of Apple Silicon and improved device availability and speed of Thunderbolt.

The 2013 Mac Pro was stuck forever with its original choice of Intel CPU and AMD GPU. And it was unfortunately prone to overheating due to these same components.
People who have web pages for graphical tools of any kind, where screenshots of the tool are not front & center on the website, I have a question for you: WHY?!
This is a funny comment. If this doesn't force Putin to the negotiation table, then you know what will - the US stopping all military aid to Ukraine. One of these things that US has done to Ukraine is bound to convince Putin, right?
They don't really care if the end result is to make Govt inept for privatization.

If that happened, good, otherwise, the Rich will still get their tax cut.

No matter what, The Rich wins.
Someone has got to be working on a better method than that. Hundreds of billions are at stake.
I am a total noob in chemistry and Claude said that it was a great question, but the answer were quite unclear about the feasibility. Mainly theoretical filters on lab scale. So that led me to put forward the thought.
In the first image in the article, what is a "SuperDay"?

Is this like a trial day where you're invited to do a day of work for free?
What's the evidence that it's better than a private entity?

State lotteries pay out ~60% on average, compared to ~90%+ for casinos. Not apples to apples, but it seems like competition does shrink profit margins, for the benefit of the buyer. It's not clear to me which is better, but I'd be curious to read good analyses, if anyone has a pointer.
Thanks for reading my blog! M4ML is the next course for me after I complete MF3. What are you doing now on math academy!
What if everybody's correct in some way and things like this are so uncertain simply because a "consumer" economy no longer bears much resmeblance to a "producer" economy.
1) don't reward a dictator after renegging on promises by allowing them more trade

2) use foreign policy maneuvers to pressure UAE to end its support for the paramilitary group

3) provide aid of our own which strengthens our position and gives us more options to end the paramilitary group's reign

4) install a new dictator. it's not a good option, but if the previous options don't work, I think the citizens of Sudan would admit it's better than genocide and starvation at this point.

Remember back in "Trump 1.0", when he stopped us from being involved in foreign affairs "because America First", and there were warnings that a lack of American presence would create a power vacuum that our enemies would fill? This is that outcome.

If we had been the ones providing aid instead of the Saudis and the UAE, this whole recent catastrophe might have been avoided. An important lesson for the current administration as they continue to end foreign aid to gain cheap political points.

And granted, I know a whole lot of people go "so what?" to genocide and starvation, but also Coke & M&Ms are now more expensive, so maybe that'll matter to them.
Recession is good for The Rich. They can scoop asset and suppress wage.
In this case it's directly firing your voter base. It's the same with medicaid, social security and other cut proposals. Tariffs also.

People care the most about their own wallet and income. The policies have no indirection or subtlety.
Just be glad they didn't focus on movies, music and cute apps. Macs seems to be the only product line that continues to semi-dodge Apple's myopic media/services/social kiosk lens they now view all their other product lines through.

If that sounds too negative, compare their current vision for their products with Steve Jobs old vision of "a bicycle for the mind". iOS-type devices are very useful, but unleashing new potential, enabling generational software innovation, just isn't their thing.

(The Vision Pro is "just" another kiosk product for now, but it is hard to tell. The Mac support suggests they MIGHT get it. They should bifurcate:

1. A "Vision" can be the lower cost iOS type device, cool apps and movies product. Virtual Mac screen.

2. A future "Vision Pro that is a complete Mac replacement, the new high end Apple device, filled out spacial user interface for real work, etc. No development sandbox, Mx Ultra, top end resolution and field of view, raise the price, raise the price again, please. It could even do the reverse kind of support, power external screens that continued working like first class virtual screens, when you needed to share into the real world.

The Vision Pro should become a maximum powered post-Mac device. Not another Mac satellite. Its user interface possibilities go far beyond what Mac/physical screens will ever do. The new nuclear powered bicycle for the mind. But I greatly fear they want to box it in, "iPad" everything, even the Mac someday.)
They propose to address this with a buck regulator:

> [If] we are to get rid of galvanic isolation [there's still a ] need to prevent mismatches between the utility’s AC line voltage and that of the EV battery.

> The solution to this problem is a device called a buck regulator (or buck converter). A buck regulator is similar, functionally, to a step-down transformer, except that it handles DC current rather than AC. In the event that the utility’s AC voltage exceeds the battery voltage, the buck regulator operates like a transformer and steps it down. In comparison with an isolation link of the same power rating, a buck regulator would cost less than 10 percent and the power loss would be less than 20 percent.
Huh. What's the source of truth here? How do we know what anybody has won or not won?

Can I create an iPad screenshot of myself winning a Monster Jackpot, and then be awarded a Monster Jackpot?
I'm not an expert on the economics, but as of now, Bitcoin hasn't been hacked, which suggests it lives up to its promises. Personally, I find it incredibly useful to be able to carry my wealth anywhere on Earth, just by remembering a few words.
It would take some downtime (or at least a really long extension cord and redundant power supplies for swapping one-by-one) because you'd still need to connect it to power.

The solution is obvious: Qi inductive wireless charge coils on the outside of the server cases.
If I wanted an AI-generated CV, I could just ask ChatGPT to make one. Why would I pay a company to do it for me?
if you helped with pret then god bless you