skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think we should consider "bully" to be synonymous with all violence perpetrated by kids.

Yes, some kids are psycho and violent, but to me, the term "bullying" implies some amount of social hierarchy too.
While I have never heard of someone referring to 7 as a lucky number, 7 is the most common sum of two rolled dice. So I can see how people would regard it as a lucky number. Along the same lines, I assume that someone who mentions 42 as a random number has at least some interest in science fiction.
Experimenting with the Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Freedoms? Freedom to squash an opinion article? Snap out of it.
Nate Silver also had an article saying that the most likely scenario would be a blowout. There was a 25% chance that Trump would win all 7 battleground state, a 15% chance Harris would win all 7. No other permutation of the 7 states was anywhere close.
I'm aware that I'm in a privileged position

Why? You're a 21st century plumber without union protection. Sort out
your company's plumbing, then do wtf you want on your own time.
Rolls Royce is also responsible for building and maintaining the nuclear reactors used in Britain's missile launch submarines.

If things really got so bad that American investors began intentionally sabotaging the operations of foreign companies, it would probably be forcibly nationalised by the British Government.
There is the label on the thing, and the thing itself.
I like the label, like you do.
I assume parent does not like the thing.
If you feel strongly about this, and can come up with a better alternative, preferably from the article itself, email your suggestion to the mods at hn@ycombinator.com.

Guidance: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40770024> <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9908533>

Banal snipes within threads are not productive: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42489399>
https://archive.is/AfeHU
Many Americans aren't saving for retirement.
If Repubs cut SS the riots will start.
Thanks. I didn't use uBlock but I will be switching due to Chrome removing support for non-subsituting keywords (search engines with no %s), which I used heavily as basically aliases for web addresses.

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/397720842?pli=1
GNU Radio comes with receivers for ATSC and DVB-T. You'll need an SDR that can provide 6 MHz (ATSC) or 8 MHz (DVB-T) of bandwidth (which an RTL-SDR cannot do).

DVB-T2 and ATSC 3.0 receivers are too difficult and nothing exists for them.

Here's a screenshot where I'm transmitting to myself (GNU Radio also has an ATSC transmitter).

https://www.w6rz.net/atscdemo.png
I wonder whether we hold LLMs to a different standard because we have a long term reinforced expectation for a computer to produce an exact result?

One of my first teachers said to me that a computer won't ever output anything wrong, it will produce a result according to the instructions it was given.

LLMs do follow this principle as well, it's just that when we are assessing the quality of output we are incorrectly comparing it to the deterministic alternative, and this isn't really a valid comparison.
> Hey look, the goalposts are being moved again.

Typically the "moving goalpost" posts are "we don't have AI because ....". That's not what this post is doing - it's pointing out a genuine weakness and a way forward.
They really needed to buy Matrox and make multi-monitor 3D a thing.
Historic Arabic names also have such rich context - father's name, son's name, place.

Ibn, bin -- son of
Abu -- father of

Sometimes, if Abdul happened not to have a son, the placeholder would be filled by some other famous Abdul's son.
I'm not really waiting around hoping for someone to control things for me.
Well if you’d bother to read it, you’d discover this is about tail calls in C, not in Python. It has nothing to do with tail recursion in Python. Guido has explicitly said that Python will never have it.
No, I am saying that the correlation between equities and bonds is not constant. You need a correlation forecast to weight the portfolio correctly. The problem was the herding behaviour that happened before.

I worked in the industry at the time, we dealt with one of the biggest RP providers in my country that eventually blew up because their vol/corr forecasting was bunk and they made huge hiring mistakes because, like you, the execs thought it wasn't a directional strategy...they lost 95% of their AUM and everyone got fired, 100% of the team, gone. The timeline was very clear: rates fall, people ask how does this work with zero rates, providers say corr is holding up, it starts going wrong but then EU brings in negative rates...big bail out for the boys..., people then ask how it works with -2% rates, providers say corr is holding up, no bail out, they begin loading up on duration, numbers stack up on paper, equities skyrocketing, more duration, if rates go up then big trouble...but the Fed is in control...then rates go up, and it is over. Risk limits breached 3-4x over. I remember seeing funds that had 5-7% annual vol targets dropping 25-30% in six months.

No, it isn't. The principle is that you lever up to create components that are equal in vol...that is the "parity" in risk parity, you lever/delever to create equal-risk assets (it is actually more simple than this: because equities have poor risk-adjusted returns due to leverage limits then risk-parity was effectively increasing bond allocations and reducing equity allocation, that was it). Diversification is an outcome if you have forecast vol and correlation correctly, if you have not then it is not some magic way to increase your returns.

Yes, but that is totally irrelevant to this discussion. It is just some guff that they use to sell funds to idiots.

Again, this is a directional strategy. The firms that make money have both vol and correlation forecasting models that work. It is not magic, it is just a way to portfolio weight...which requires good inputs.
Mentioning “no IaC management overhead” is weird. If you’re not using IaC, you’re doing it wrong.

However, GitOps is IaC, just by another name, so you actually do have IaC “overhead”.
Github, nodejs, and PM2.

I can deploy to my local machine AND to EC2 with a single deploy command using PM2 configuration facilities. This works quite well for side projects.

I also have nginx and postges running on both locations with local (to the server) database connections without opening unnecessary ports to the world.
A term coined by Andrej Karpathy.

"There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It's possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. Also I just talk to Composer with SuperWhisper so I barely even touch the keyboard. I ask for the dumbest things like "decrease the padding on the sidebar by half" because I'm too lazy to find it. I "Accept All" always, I don't read the diffs anymore. When I get error messages I just copy paste them in with no comment, usually that fixes it. The code grows beyond my usual comprehension, I'd have to really read through it for a while. Sometimes the LLMs can't fix a bug so I just work around it or ask for random changes until it goes away. It's not too bad for throwaway weekend projects, but still quite amusing. I'm building a project or webapp, but it's not really coding - I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy paste stuff, and it mostly works."

https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383
Do you think Firefox should let me install an unsigned extension?
> I know I was born too late to experience the golden age of journalism where journals would actually stick to give you the news...

Can you clarify what time period that was?

> This is not a journalist. This is someone that writes their opinion on a column.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalist

"Depending on the form of journalism, 'journalist' may also describe various categories of people by the roles they play in the process. These include reporters, correspondents, citizen journalists, editors, editorial writers, columnists, and photojournalists."

You're thinking of a reporter.
Sorry but I don't think you understand the newspaper business. Bezos bought the entire Washington Post for $250m. Amazon has a market cap of $2T of which Bezos owns ~9%. The capitalist incentives are very clear, the market dictates that Bezos should do practically anything to WashPo to help Amazon. Let's say that WashPo drop to 0 value, that would be a real shame! And I'm sure Jeff would sigh really quite loudly while sailing his megayatch over to Blue Origin where they're working on that $3.4B contract for Nasa that Trump could cancel any minute. That megayatch? It cost him 2 Washington Posts to build.

I don't know what you think market forces are going to do here?
It used to be ads; before the Internet there was limited advertising space that reached lots of people, so papers could fund themselves with their wide distribution even in the face of competition from TV. Of course, the Internet blew that wide open.

A couple of places have tried diversifying content towards what readers will pay for; NYT has done probably the best job with the branching out towards cooking, Wirecutter, etc. that people do want to pay for. Buzzfeed attempted to do the same for clickbait to fund real journalism but that fizzled out.
Is that a temporary state, until both powers converge, as is happening now?
Many companies run k8s for compute and use rds/sqs/redis outside of it. For example RDS is not just hosted PG, it has a whole bunch of features that don’t come out of the box (you do pay for it, I’m not giving an opinion as to whether it’s worth the price)
I upvoted this post and would not have commented if not for yours, so maybe my reason for (almost) abstaining is similar as other people who upvoted. What follows might be a ramble and is just my anecdotal experience on HN:

I've been an HN user for years, and I've found it somewhat hard to comment on anything related to economics or non-technical / pop-cultural topics. Many HN users are experts in their technical fields, and they seem to think this automatically translates to expertise in political science, sociology, psychology, and all the other fields of endeavor where we can't just point to source code to justify our positions. I mostly find that HN commenters are a thoughtful bunch. But, there's a small, noisy group of armchair experts waiting to swoop in and correct your grammar or disagree on some technicality over social issues like this.

Since HN is tech-focused, even posting something not directly related to technology can get your post flagged and taken down as irrelevant. So in a way, discussing these things is disincentivized by the site's purpose. I get that WaPo is an online platform and therefore in-scope, but it's "scarier" to comment on because it's more social than technical.

In part, the act of being a thoughtful commenter also means steering well clear of any flame wars (that aren't related to NixOS, Rust, or LLMs). I.e., it's like jazz in that it's about the notes you don't play— it's the comments you don't make that foster a good online experience.

This is also a US-specific article, and lots of American people are overwhelmed by the onslaught of post-election political news; so, this might be a cultural thing in that people are not commening as much because they're dealing with a big inbox of emotions to sort through.

I still take active interest in political posts like this and personally think Bezos is a modern-day robber baron in the new Gilded Age. But, I'll seldom say so, opting instead to upvote so others can see the post and then move on silently.
It happens all the time because e.g. third party developers follow the same patterns in the standard lib. And it was designed that way. Another example: logging libs are frequently quite similar. Even though the stdlib didn’t define that interface, you can still make your own that works for lots of libs. But even if you don’t use that part of it, it’s still great to limit the scope of your dependency. Less to mock, more flexible code. You obviously don’t like this and I’m not going to convince you, I think. But this is really one of the best features of Go.
Pretty sure they do rank sites based on performance: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/page-ex...
I think it's a good sign when someone making a browser is so uncompromising on the principle of individual autonomy and lack
of central control that they're still up there dying on that hill even when they're wrong.

It gives me confidence that there will never be a situation where some issue is of such grave importance that they feel like they must leverage their position and compromise on it, for the safety of children of course. Because we know what's best for you. Bleh. It reminds me of the libertarians who oppose seat belt laws. Like you're wrong and so you shouldn't be in a leadership position of the DoT but you believe so strongly that institutions shouldn't get a say in your life that I think you would do great if I tasked you with health insurance reform.
I agree with much of that. Corporate "identity" and "ethics" is a
nonsense - mostly conjured up by types who like to hide their
malfeasance in a crowd. But there is such a thing as group psychology
[0]. And many fascinating ways in which groups exhibit memory and
latent intent.

My objection is to vague attacks on all and any "institutions". Yes,
most of them are corrupt and broken now. But that doesn't preclude the
belief we can build good institutions, and should keep trying.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_dynamics
As a developer, the one feature I really love in Chrome is PWAs. But Firefox abandoned PWA support years ago, and seems to have no appetite for adding PWAs back[1]. Maybe I'll just have to split my usage across PWAs in Chrome (since I trust those apps/websites anyway) and Firefox for general browsing.

[1] https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/bring-back-pwa-progress...
There's also Leafcloud, they put their servers in urban buildings and recycle the waste heat: https://leaf.cloud/
> the people of the interwebs would go crazy in the forums when the shitty ink they used did not work correctly in the printer.

They definitely wouldn't, because this is a case of corruption being taken to the extreme. Official ink costs more than printers. If I bought awful bootleg ink three times and the last fake cartridge melted the printer into a smoldering pile of plastic, I could buy another printer and still break even.
There's a theory circulating about it's all a show to provoke rate cuts. Theory behind theory is rate cut period boosted the previous run, so it ought to boost another one?
Canada has been cracking down on their border for the last year as well since the student worker controversy. It says:

> She was planning to stay with a host family where she would carry out domestic chores in exchange for accommodation and was told she should have applied for a working visa, instead of a tourist visa

She probably told the Canadian border that was her plan in Canada as well and told her she needs a work visa. Basically like a live in house keeper.
I wish more were done to push back against this consolidation of power by these platforms.

We're like frogs that have been stoking the fuel of our own pot.

It used to be that DRM was considered to be in conflict with the browser, because it was not acting on behalf of the user. If you must have DRM, then it is on the platform to shoehorn it in through an external plugin, like Silverlight.

When Firefox adopted EME extensions, I knew it was the beginning of the end; they were rolling out the red carpet for DRM. If we make DRM a switch that can simply be thrown, then it will become the norm, not the exception. And there have been proposals for years to DRM fonts and other absurdities. If a company insists on using DRM, then they should have to shoulder the burden of doing something that a browser was never support to support.

The nightmare that we're racing toward is you will only be permitted to cache a trickle of video at a time and your TPM attestation hardware must include a token in every HTTP request. Your browser will just be a software cablebox.

They aren't happy about URLs either and would love to require that if you want to share a reference to something, you have to do it on their terms, like generating a url in their app with a hash that expires and limited in how many times it can be viewed. I'm sure influencers will still have the privilege of unlimited sharing.

They've been slowly rolling this infrastructure out for the last decade. These are not isolated inconveniences, these are coffin nails.
With an offline copy, I can watch a video on an airplane or other environment where I don't have Internet access.
I consider it "time-shifting."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_shifting
They already do, go use the latest version of yt-dlp to download like 20 videos from a channel without passing cookies, and a very short time afterwards, everything at your IP address will be blocked from watching any videos unless you sign in.
> they go out of business forever, and Firefox finds a good home chosen by the community.

who is going to support, maintain and develop Firefox in your scenario ?
Musk Calls Entitlements the 'Big One' to Cut, Countering Trump
Previously, he states that R.E. Burke had visited New York and Portland, where she spent time with a host family, helping with household chores in return for accommodation. She then travelled to Seattle with plans to travel to Vancouver in Canada to stay with another family, "just like a cultural exchange". But the Canadian authorities then denied her entry as they were concerned she may try to work illegally and returned her across the border. It was then that US officials told her she was being detained as, according to her father, they considered "that host family cultural exchange to be work… So basically she couldn't go into Canada, she wasn't allowed in the US".
Meh, so does violence and conquest and coups. Certainly there's a feedback cycle between them, but the path to autocracy has many forks. Again it's the rule of law that's the exception, not autocracy.
Peanut allergies?
https://archive.today/deA7R
An accurate model can output a 50-50 prediction. Sure, no problem there. But there is a human bias that does tend to make 50% more likely in these cases. It is the maximum percentage you can assign to the uncomfortable possibility without it being higher than the comfortable possibility.

538 systematically magnified this kind of bias when they decided to rate polls, not based on their absolute error, but based on how close their bias was relative to other polls' biases.(https://x.com/andrei__roman/status/1854328028480115144) This down-weighted pollsters like Atlas Intel who would've otherwise improved 538's forecast.
The only relevant thing to me is that they un-killed the electric car. Now everyone and their mum is making them.

There are thousands of innovative ideas for cars that are scary to implement. Is the rotary engine a success now? I don't even know.

This seems fun: https://digital-library.theiet.org/doi/10.1049/iet-its.2018....

Have the vehicles build a virtual environment together. Even if it is crude, it should be possible to measure space behind you and break automatically if the car in front of you suddenly stops.

It seems much easier and more robust to build a virtual environment using road side cameras compared to just the vehicle pov. There is enough location data from accidents.

Tickets for speeding can come out of a prepaid account in real time displayed on the dash. No-claim insurance seem rather crude. If I was an insurance company I'd much rather see years of decent driving data.

What other fun stuff is there from an IT perspective?
What I specifically mean by 'large media elements' is that I currently have the uBlock option active to 'Block media elements larger than [50] KB'. (Where the 50 is a spinner so I can increase or decrease the size if I want.)
Yes pedantically, not really. :)
What are you talking about? The sentiment towards USA has been positive, pretty much worldwide apart from the places you would expect (Russia, china, greater middle east, parts of the Balkans). In Europe it was pretty stellar until the Iraq war.

Looking at sentiment towards the USA in Africa it is clear that there is quite a lot of goodwill.
The Internet Archive uses torrents for the files uploaded to their platform.

Is that an issue that the Electronic Frontier Foundation would need to be involved in?
What I meant by that was complaining about boring work is privileged compared to those people who can't find any jobs at all (at least not ones that pay well).

Still, I feel like I should at least try.
She was on a tourist visa. She should have gotten a J-1 visa who can do 20 hours/week part time work with some constraints. Some details about this visa: https://yfuusa.org/2024/05/16/j1-student-visa/
Most http frameworks don't do this right. They typically wait until all known in-flight requests complete and then exit. That's usually too fast for a load balancer that's still sending new requests. Instead you should just wait 30 seconds or so while still accepting new requests and replying not ready to load balancer health checks, and then if you want to wait additional time for long running requests, you can. You can also send clients "connection: close" to convince them to reopen connections against different backends.
People are alive. They have rights and responsibilities. They can be held accountable. They are not "just as bad" as your LLMs.
Ok, I tried to sign up for a Reddit account and it failed over and over on Firefox. Same computer, Chrome worked first time. I guess Reddit wanted to fingerprint my browser in a way that Firefox wouldn't allow.

This is not the only case btw, just a nice clearcut one
One year is not indicative. Point of interest will be around 2030-2035, when multiple countries are having aggressive deadlines for EV adaptation. So, the question is will toyota be able adapt to new reality? So far they couldn't, EV attempts failed and they just are milking decade old tech/infra/supply chains. They will need to rebuild manufacturing and support significantly, while tesla has everything in place already.
Sophie Wilson on the future of microprocessors. (YouTube) (2023)
Absolutely. I have no idea if their store requires signing, but in any case, I think you should be able to sideload your own extensions after being lectured on how it might be dangerous. I'm not saying it should be easy, though.
Well, she resigned in protest of the entire newspaper becoming an opinion piece.

But the idea that news is without bias/opinion is a bit controversial. They have limited space, what they choose to report on and not, promote, etc. are all forms of opinion that reflects ideology.

Maybe it is us in our era who are too naive and gullible, asking for something that isn't possible, instead of learning to think for ourselves and be critical.
Guess it is the color of naïve then.

As much as I appreciate that everyone has their different tastes. Being mounted by a heaving silver back, with deep grunting and howls, sweaty and lumbering, isn't everyone's cup of tea.