skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you really don't know what you're talking about. 50 years ago, Trump, or someone like him, being very wealthy outside of politics, could have just bought his own media source, or several smaller ones, and let em rip with yellow attack journalism while promoting his vision. Failing that, he could have made paid agreements with all kinds of supposedly "reputable" mainstream media sources to promote his politics. This is indeed exactly what a lot of dirty politics across the decades did and your vision of some golden age in which it didn't apply is completely false. This is particularly so considering how many mendacious lies and other garbage these same major media outlets sold to the public over decades on behalf of government. We should applaud their golden past? Get out of town.

Today at least, if anything, people have access to a vast plurality of views that despite many of them being absurdly mistaken at least through the mechanism of their existence let massive cracs rapidly open in any official or propagandist narrative. On the whole, this is what major media truly hates, while couching its complaints in fear mongering about misinformation.... Much of that fear mongering surged especially strong during the recent pandemic, while media at the exact same time promoted several major official narratives that were obviously politically motivated rather than being based on any thing resembling solid editorial standards.
This is one of the articles that influenced me most. I did write two articles trying to tie it into some other books I've read on software design, the first being https://entropicthoughts.com/software-design-tree-and-progra...
I'm 63, and still learn new stuff, every day.

I write code, pretty much every single day, and also, solve problems, every single day (7 days a week).

I think solving problems is important. Not just rote coding, but being presented with a bug, or a need to achieve an outcome, without knowing the solution, up front, is what I like.

Basically, every single day, I'm presented with a dilemma, which, if not solved, will scrap the entire project that I'm working on.

I solve every one (but sometimes, by realizing it's a red herring, and trying alternate approaches).
Only if you get a rest of your life. While most do I've known more that one person who didn't make it to 40. Worse those that do all srart reporting their body is starting to fail. If you have not done some things by 40 it may be too late to ever do them.
> ok - "modules that hide design decisions" implies OOP

It doesn't. Implementation/design decision hiding also exists in procedural, functional and in other paradigms.
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I feel so much dumber since having a kid :(
Many appear to be public information. Here are some listed on his RationalWiki entry:

Avocados

Peat claimed that avocados are carcinogenic because they contain a lot of unsaturated fat.[8] Like all the other nonsense he spouted, he failed to back up this ridiculous claim with any scientific evidence.

Orange juice

Peat was a big fan of orange juice which he said is "anti-estrogenic".[41] He also claimed that orange juice is good because it raises people's cholesterol.[42] There is not any evidence in the medical literature that shows orange juice consumption raises cholesterol. Studies have found the opposite, as it lows LDL-c and total cholesterol.[43][44] A 2022 review of clinical trials found that orange juice significantly reduces circulating total cholesterol levels.[45] Everything Peat said about foods should be fact-checked because in most cases he was entirely wrong in what he had claimed.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ray_Peat
> graduated college with major in computer science and a minor in math.

Me too. High five!

> My goal is 5-8 more classes for a second degree in math (major).

But why? Wouldn't it make more sense to go for a master in computer science? Are you going to use it for work. Otherwise, aren't you going to "lose it" anyways? Also, is your job paying for the degree or are you paying out of pocket?
I run Windows daily at work on a 60Hz display. I recently got my son a gaming PC complete with a 144Hz monitor. I was genuinely confused why Windows itself “felt” so much better. Just dragging windows around seemed like magic. It’s not that the UI is lagging on my machine, it’s more the smoothness of things when they move around. It makes everything seem faster, despite us timing various things and finding no actual performance differences.
You might also be able to avoid the subjective acceleration of time that happens to many of us as we age.
I get that. The apartments are small studios created by placing an 11' utility wall that is the kitchen on one side and the bathroom on the other. The kitchen side has 13 129 Volt outlets plus 2 220 volt oven and dryer.

I purposely had all those outlets installed as joke to the 150 amps out.
He's talking about social security revenue. Obviously, the government is much better at this than your 401k plan even though they pissed away decades of surpluses by buying treasuries with them that would require the government to massively increase future taxes to ever be able to pay those back (let alone with interest). Instead, he would prefer, I suspect, that social security withholdings be increased, taxes increased, all so that 23 million people can continue to receive poverty-level checks of $1950 a month, though you won't be allowed to collect yours until you're 70 or older.

Social security doesn't work though, unless there are a dozen workers paying into it for every retiree, and no one's having enough children for that to ever be the case again.
All those stupid genpop people raiding their 401ks. Why can’t they be smart like me and have more money so they don’t need to do that?
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The best solution is to offer accelerated math classes in public schools, in both elementary and middle. Mostly in middle school because elementary math can usually be handled through differentiated instruction by the teacher, unless the child is exceptionally advanced.

I really like the way my kid's middle school does it: accelerated 6th grade math covers the entirety of the 6th, 7th, and 8th grade standard math curriculum, which sets the kids up for algebra in 7th grade and geometry in 8th. Because the standard middle school math curriculum is essentially just advanced arithmetic, it's pretty straightforward to bundle this way. It also makes it easy to inject 7th graders who missed 6th grade accelerated math into the accelerated track if they pass the algebra qualifying test before 7th grade.

When I was growing up the G&T program started in 4th grade and cohorts from multiple schools were pulled into a school that ran the "gifted" program. Essentially all the kids were tracked from 4th grade through high school graduation and there was no real possibility for non-G&T kids to get into the "gifted" classes in middle school. In HS that just transitioned into APs and college dual-enrollment; by the time I graduated HS in '99, I had 22 credit hours of college classes banked, including dual-enrollment bio and calc 1 + 2, plus a bunch of humanities APs.

Today -- at least in our bay area public high school -- there's no tracking outside of math and the vast majority of classes can contain students in multiple grades. That absolutely was not the case when I was in school, and imho it's an improvement.
Exactly this. If a company isn't bringing in enough money to support their service, they are going to look to other sources. Those sources aren't just free money though, but the company can take that influx of cash and spend it on implementing things that do make money. And these money-making strategies have to be far more aggressive because not only does the company now need to make enough to keep everything running and their employees paid, but it also needs to make extra on top of that so that investors can see a return.
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It has never been easier to pickup a subject and start learning on Youtube or similar streaming platforms. Just Do It, folks! You can do it!

At nights and weekends, I have been learning home improvements, home automations, piano, Korean, and LLM toolings. All from streaming platforms.
Even support for D? Wow they thought of everything
New regulation: AI-based tagging forbidden for use on politicians.
> During the discussion, Hu said that even if product builders rely heavily on AI, one skill they would have to be good at is reading the code and finding bugs.

Naturally, that brings to mind the classic:

> Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?

-- Brian Kernighan, The Elements of Programming Style

And also:

> Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

-- Abelson & Sussman, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
In a sense, OLAP is just a series of indexing strategies that takes OLTP data and formats it for particular use cases (sometimes with eventual consistency). Some of these indexing strategies in enterprises today involve building out entire bespoke platforms to extract and transform the data. Incremental view maintenance is a step in the right direction - tools like Materialize give you good performance to keep calculated data up to date, and also break out of the streaming world of only paying attention to recent data. But you need to close the loop and also be able to do massive crunchy queries on top of that. I have no doubt we'll get there, really exciting times.
> The View is just a chit-chat show anyway, so a source that proves that somebody said something on it doesn’t prove anything compelling.

This is a fallacy. I repeated numbers, that person was also repeating numbers, however, they're on a national news program and no one has given any reason that the numbers stated were wrong. It does not matter who says something, you have to weigh it on the merits of the statements.

It isn't a "factual mathematical issue" it's a sociological issue, and it's bearing out in this comment thread - burying one's head in the sand because "Los Angeles is bigger and has more people" or "land doesn't vote" or "so what, it wasn't a majority" is missing the forest for the trees. Something about the platform did not work for our neighbors. A platform that worked in 2008, 2012, (2016 if you reckon the pundits are correct), and 2020 - it ceased working in 2024; and merely "doing the same thing" going forward won't work.

I think the unspoken part is this: "If the left just pushes on as it has been, the midterms and 2028 aren't going to be '1.5%' margins"

People often assume i am part of the opposition party.
> The R35 has already been discontinued in most markets because it can't comply with new regulations.

Another thing to add to the list of things to love about the R35.
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https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a23319884/lightning-la...

The GT-R appears three times, at 75, 76, and 93. The Mustang Dark Horse, Audi RS3, and Supra are all about $60K.
I wonder if this can be used to figure out what code is running on the PSP?
You can browse all 3,120 cats and try to find the few dogs that were submitted.

We will try another shot at this one day
I don't even get the icon \o/ maybe I'm missing something?
meta: a bit confused about people comparing a muscle car to a japanese sports coupé.

there's more to a car than price and performance benchmarks.
An academic pursuit can be done for sake of knowledge. Forcing your mind to constantly flex is never a bad idea.
Uses what?
Even better: although the reason for the algorithm is IPv6, all mainstream implementations do it on IPv4 also.
> People voted to transfer wealth to the rich, reduce benefits for the masses cut taxes for the rich, scammy corporations, general immunity for the crony rich who are exploiting the government, customers, and employees.

Not only that. They also voted for economic structures that make it easier for the wealthy-and-powerful to take advantage of the less-wealthy-and-powerful. Healthcare is tied to your job. Housing costs 40% of take home pay. Worker protections are constantly under attack. Regulatory capture is everywhere. Oligopoly is everywhere; every minor crisis is an excuse to raise prices, which of course never come down, and because the CPI doesn't include wages it gets hand-waved away as "inflation" instead of being correctly identified as declining consumer surplus. Employment is at-will; if you don't keep your head down and dedicate your life to your job, and to making new kids who can dedicate their future lives to their future jobs, there is a nonzero risk of lifelong misery for you and your family.

And this time around people went even further. A popular majority eagerly voted for authoritarianism, more or less explicitly in service of breaking down cultural resistance to those economic structures.

Most politicians are just trying to grab and hold onto whatever they can before the ship sinks. They only differ in whether they are accelerationists actively trying to sink the ship faster, or denialists allowing it to sink while quietly enjoying their hoard of grabbed stuff and making a weak show of trying to fix things for appearances.
I think of dimensions like 3D space. Normal people dimentions. Math calls independent variables 'dimensions' but it's a overloaded naming convention that causes people to think it has something to do with normal everyday dimensions like space. Math may as well use a different term than 'dimension' similar to Rank and there would be no confusion. Using the everyday dimention term makes a harmful misconception about quaternions for normal people because they are associated with understanding everyday geometry.

So the dispute is just using words differently. For quaternions, I think its very important to understand how they apply to everyday space / reality / imagination / intuition / Geometry. I wish it was something everyone understood.

To prove that statement to a normal person in the normal dimension way you'd need to define your 4 dimensions like space, time, or scale and explain examples of quaternions.
It should be forbidden to "torture" or "abuse" robots not because robots have rights but because torture and abuse also warp the torturer/abuser.
> Camaro ZL1 is close on performance

Are those 4wd ?
I didn't say "it demands OOP" I said "implies OOP" .. what you say is true also
The working class in America (specifically the lower segment) is surprisingly opposed to social protections, which is strange considering they live in the wealthiest country in the world while also being the most unprotected among Western democracies.

Social protections are something that not even conservative parties in Europe can challenge (at least for now, we’ll see if the US trend spreads there though).

As a European who has spent a decade in the US and has always had a speech for expanding the social safety net (and, BTW, I’m on the fortunate side of US society), it seems impossible to me that some people will ever understand this, especially and shockingly, those who need it the most.
> We don't want to raise taxes to improve funding for it

Key word: “for it.” We’re apparently fine raising taxes if we just call them tariffs.
This seems kind of dumb.

>A state could try to disrupt such an AI project with interventions ranging from covert operations that degrade training runs to physical damage that disables AI infrastructure.

China has about half a dozen companies working towards AGI including DeepSeek and it doesn't seem that practical to go over to sabotage them in case they do well. Better to encourage local companies. And of course the US has already limited chip exports.
This happens all the time and is super irksome. Being able to step backwards as well as forwards is super cool. Also, being able to do that with a loop using a slider is cool.
My mother lived in a gated community, in Maryland. They had a small lake.

Beavers used to come up from the nearby park, and dam up the lake. They'd chew down the decorative cherry trees (boo), and Bradford Pear trees (yay).

I was reading (maybe here), that beavers basically obviated a multimillion-dollar dam project, somewhere out West.
As the US Administration becomes more erratic and Musk continues to meddle in the affairs of other countries, I believe we will see more and more Western countries embrace China and Europe to partner with.

I read today that even Russia is beginning to question what is going on because they are having a hard time accepting the fact that the Trump administration would purposefully destroy the country and its relationship with the West.

It feels like the wheels are coming off the wagon.
I'd like to see how much of the decline is correlated not with age but with Parent Brain.

The mental energy occupied by and spent with parenting is palpable, not to mention long-term continued stress, physical, mental and emotional exhaustion. I wouldn't be surprised if having kids (which is of course correlated with age) is much more of a factor than age itself.

I for one feel dumber than pre-kids.
In fairness, I think of EMR/EHRs as thin wrappers over insurance automation to begin with.
> Social Security only applies to the first ~$176k of your income. What percentage of young people are at that income level

I think they’re saying most young people make less than $176k.
I use Diffrax and my own stuff with Numba/CuPy JIT-ing. Can you compare the Python ecosystem for DEs with Julia according to your experience?
It’s difficult to argue against that, and I think I agree. A part of me considers it the right way for the world, considering that driving is one of the most dangerous things we partake in regularly, that it should be demoted to just a hobby. But I have reservations about that too. I’m trying to stay (maybe out of delusion) hopeful that driving will still matter and be enjoyable.

I think tuning needs a readjustment in perception. We’ve removed one way to tune, power, and I guess it’s more difficult to get excited about suspension geometry or alignment or handling balance vs a big shiny Garrett turbo, but the fact is we’re still talking about boxes with four wheels at the bottom. Tuning is, and always has been, about how to make a car use those tyres to their full effect.

The GT-R, as impressive as it was, also had its detractors for being a computer on wheels. Car lovers have always disliked techy cars and longed for simpler driving experiences. I know people who still insist carbs are better. I don’t see why the Plaid couldn’t have made Porsche miserable in all the same ways the GT-R did.
Is the White House trying to engineer a recession?
As a researcher who changed career paths to teaching at a community college, I empathize. Twenty years ago when I graduated from high school, I was inspired by the stories I’ve read about Bell Labs, Xerox PARC, and early Apple and Microsoft. I wanted to be a researcher, and I wanted to do interesting, impactful work.

Over the years I’ve become disappointed and disillusioned. We have nothing like the Bell Labs and Xerox PARC of old, where researchers were given the freedom to pursue their interests without having to worry about short-term results. Industrial research these days is not curiosity-driven, instead driven by finding immediate solutions to business problems. Life at research universities isn’t much better, with the constant “publish-or-perish” and fundraising pressures. Since the latter half of January this year, the funding situation for US scientists has gotten much worse, with disruptions to the NIH and NSF. If these disruptions are permanent, who is going to fund medium- and long-term research that cannot be monetized immediately?

I have resigned myself to the situation, and I now pursue research as a hobby instead of as a paid profession. My role is strictly a teaching one, with no research obligations. I do research during the summer months and whenever else I find spare time.
No, you can't easily play a game "as released" with today's model. However, on the other hand, how many old games can you only play "as released" as the developer and/or publisher has gone out of business and the patches are no longer hosted?

Of the two, which is a greater impact? I know of many games with bugs, some even showstopping ones and can't think of any game that I want to play "as released" because the patch makes things worse.
> We’re apparently fine raising taxes if we just call them tariffs.

Of course, because the current tariff strategy is intended to be a regressive sales tax targeting the broad populace who is already being extracted from, to avoid income tax increases.

Edit: It's also about control it appears.

Trump Press Sec Accidentally Blurts Out Real Goal of His Tariff Scam - https://newrepublic.com/article/192391/trump-press-sec-accid...

> Then press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters directly that if Canada wants to avoid tariffs in the future, it should become the fifty-first U.S. state. She revealed it: Trump’s tariffs aren’t about fentanyl or any supposed unfair treatment of the U.S. They’re about forcing Canada, with no justification whatsoever, to submit to his will.

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3ljnnnf5hvh23
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Those aren't, and never were, pensions. Few pension programs exist anymore, they were (almost) all replaced with retirement accounts starting I don't even know when, but finishing by the mid 1980s. The pension programs were all going bankrupt due to various reasons (bad economy, American industrial collapse, etc) but mostly demographic implosion.
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They want my phone number and email address just to look at a forum I don't plan to participate in yet which information I would like to access is siloed in.
Any chance of something like this being available for Java/Kotlin on JVM?