skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Historian Bret Deveraux, writing in October 2024:

> Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if Donald Trump is running for President as a fascist. Worry not, this isn’t me shifting to full-time political pundit, nor is this the formal end of the hiatus (which will happen on Nov 1, when I hope to have a post answering some history questions from the ACOUP Senate to start off on), but this was an essay I had in me that I had to get out, and working on the book I haven’t the time to get it out in any other forum but this one. And I’ll be frank, some of Donald Trump’s recent statements and promises have raised the urgency of writing this; the political science suggests that politicians do, broadly, attempt to do the things they promise to do – and the things Trump is promising are dark indeed.

> Now I want to be clear what we’re doing here. I am not asking if the Republican Party is fascist (I think, broadly speaking, it isn’t) and certainly not if you are fascist (I certainly hope not). But I want to employ the concept of fascism as an ideology with more precision than its normal use (‘thing I don’t like’) and in that context ask if Donald Trump fits the definition of a fascist based on his own statements and if so, what does that mean. And I want to do it in a long-form context where we can get beyond slogans or tweet-length arguments and into some detail.

— https://acoup.blog/2024/10/25/new-acquisitions-1933-and-the-...
What is the source of the electricity generation? Presumably, given how slowly the nodules form, they must be acting as a catalyst/not be being consumed, so what energy source are they using?
Google will still scrape it for training data either way, this only impacts search results.
Right, earlier he was targeting individuals due to his deep-seated insecurities.

These days, he targets entire classes of US Citizens (e.g. Federal employees) due to his deep-seated insecurities.
Theoretically yes, practically not really (any more). NVMe cards are fast enough that a single core traversing the file system can actually be a chokepoint, so parallelisation helps a lot here.

I also should have made it clear that my comment also wasn't so much about the search (although the parallel search is absolutely a nice-to-have)...it was about the `-x, --exec` being automatically in parallel.

A common usecase is to find all files of X criteria, and then perform the same operation on all of them, e.g. find all session logs older than N days and then compress them, or convert all wav files in a directory tree to mp3

If the operation is computationally expensive, using more than one core speeds things up considerably. With `find`, the way to do that was by piping the output to GNU parallel.

With `fd` I can just use `-x, --exec` and it automatically spins up threads to handle the operations, unless instructed not to.
The story is good, but there are some interesting bits they mention in passing. Keys for why this all went so wrong:

"I was granted my trade Nafta work visa, which allows Canadian and Mexican citizens to work in the US in specific professional occupations, on my second attempt... I had gone to the San Diego border the second time to apply."

So: she tried to get a work visa, was denied. Hired a San Diego lawyer, entered from Mexico, got her visa granted. Went home, tried to enter the country again, got her visa revoked and told to speak to a consulate. Then tried to enter again from Mexico, at that point she got detained.

Maybe all this could've been avoided if she did the visa paperwork through the consulate, like she was told to do, instead of showing up at a land crossing after her visa was revoked? A land crossing from a country she has no status in (Mexico), especially. Presumably she was detained because they couldn't just turn her around back into Mexico.
In the Handmaid's Tale TV show, the US has turned into a repressive religious state horrifyingly cruel to women, and people will occasionally try to cross the border into Canada to safety.
It's all quite preposterous because many Canadians would probably have been fine in the past with some kind of currency union and trade and enhanced labour mobility if such a thing had been proposed during e.g. the Obama years.

At that point our currencies were often at par, the two governments were generally very friendly, and trade was going rather well. Canadians would probably welcome increased competition and services domestically.

Since then the US has become successively more dysfunctional. And while we have had our own issues and things have become problematic here in many ways (cough cough housing prices cough cough), the kind of insane disgusting culture war going on in the US is not something the majority has an appetite for.

In any case a full political union where Canada is absorbed makes no sense, it's so radically out there... the two political cultures are so far apart... and especially a "proposal" that reduces an entire continent spanning country with 3 oceans, 41 million people, two official languages... to a single US state. It's preposterous and inflammatory. "51st state" is not a serious idea, but it's become an idiotic battering ram destroying all civil discourse.
> Route Ottawa to Vancouver in google maps.

I'm not sure this is evidence of anything that you're claiming. Google routes based on criteria you choose, typically 'fastest' or 'most fuel efficient', that does nothing to prove that other routes don't exist.
I belive that for the tech industry, it will be. Take coding, not only can it help write code, it makes it possible for people that can't speak English to become involved in writing code since AI can be used in many languages. So more coders, less need to pay. High wages are a thing of the past. Coding is just an example. All areas will be impacted.
Yes, and yes!

Filling out forms is I think one of the biggest use cases for computer use agents. We're working on some stuff to specifically make that use case faster and more accurate

Regarding monitoring a specific inbox, and auto-responding, you could also set-up an agent to do that, but I would advise having the agent automate more formulaic/simple emails rather than having it use too much of its own judgement when writing the copy for these emails. You can also add in checks for the agent to check in before you before hitting send
Temporary solution and only works if only some of us are doing it. What if these bots have a "manager" LLM agent that takes the decision on what pages to scrape?
Perhaps more interesting that we haven't found life!
We don't need this vile tool, and it is extremely important that we not leave it functional for others to use, against us or against anyone.

Attacking the country to which you owe allegiance is a well-understood crime with normative punishments that we have used in living memory. We already have all the carceral tools we need to resolve this.
there is another similar problem about the largest number where all digits are prime numbers. which afaik has only been proven in base 10.

similarly there the largest number with all prime digits actually differs if you ask the question in different bases.

and there is also a pattern that exists to predict what the number will be in a given base.
"purchasing power" and "standard of living" are two very different things.

For instance, Americans have plentiful access to cheap televisions, but an ambulance ride costs thousands of dollars, even with good insurance. This leads to a situation where people have the purchasing power to own multiple TVs, but at the same time forego lifesaving medical treatment because the cost of access is too high.

Is that a high standard of living, by your standards?
That implies they are actually trying to learn anything from their failed rollouts.
It's not just React, but all the other rando packages that your co-workers installed.
Totally off topic, but after reading some comments here I got curious and went to Google and typed "population" and autocomplete offered "of Canada" with an answer of 40.1 Million already there. Of course that's what I was going to type, but but but... I'm in the U.S. so there's no reason to know what country I was going to look for unless Google (or this MS browser) knew I was just reading this in another tab. Really kind of creepy.
I would cut down a little on the AI usage, it might be getting a little too ahead of you. While it's completely fine to ai generate your own physics engine for learning or whatever, I noticed your PR to google/metrax which seemed AI generated -- that's not the best thing to do, especially when you're not able to tell that the AI output for that PR was completely off-base.
How do you intend to compete with Nvidia's DIGITS/DGX Spark hardware that is hitting the market soon?
> How do you know? It's not far fetched to think that, if humans don't go extinct in the meantime, they will continue to find ways to shape the world according to their needs.

I'd say it's pretty far-fetched to imagine humans caring about things 7 generations into the future, let alone 3e7 generations.

> By the time the Sun goes red giant, we may well have found a way to alter the orbit of Earth. By the time the Sun goes supernova, we may be able to move to another star. Who knows.

We already know how to meaningfully alter Earth's orbit over such timescales[0], the sun won't go super-nova anyway (too small)[1], and we know what it would take to increase its lifetime by a few orders of magnitude even if organising ourselves on the numerical and time scales required is beyond us[2].

But even maximally extending the lifespan of Sol would take us to perhaps 100 trillion years if we're very lucky, and that's if we actually engage in the exact kind of long-term thinking that people currently criticise the Longtermism movement for even daring to consider.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0102126

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernova#Core_collapse

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_lifting#Stellar_husbandry
Forever? It's four years and the flip will flop back to the other side. Funny how the rest of the world immediately hates America when we decide we are tired of paying the largest share for the security of Europe for 80 years, or we are tired of our immigration laws being ignored, or we are tired of having our middle class jobs shipped overseas. People only like us for our money, weapons, and jobs. They want the benefits of American culture and capitalism without any of the responsibility.

Its easy to give your citizens free healthcare and college when taxpayers over in America forgo all of that to subsidize your country's security.
It's not about the individual homes, it's about the aggregate holdings. If people with large asset portfolios (and corresponding large incomes) stop buying homes because they have an incremental carrying cost to them due to taxes, the prices will drop for everyone. The problem we have now is that big PE firms are buying up single-family homes because they have the massive incomes to out-compete everyone else in the market. They then turn around and lease those homes to increase their income even more.
It looks like the longer route adds about 1 hour and 30 minutes. So, truck drivers would compare the toll price, additional gas usage, and the schedule change to determine if paying is worthwhile, thus limiting how much the toll could effectively charge.
The title is clickbait, in the article it says they can verify online. The change is to stop verification over the phone.
I feel the other commenters being dismissive of this are overlooking that there is massive proliferation risk with drone technology.

The next time a western country has a civil war, you can expect that one or both sides will be using drones, at least for surveillance if not for offense.

While it's true that the things on AliExpress could be built by a dedicated hobbyist, a typical large city would only have 100 to 1,000 people even capable of putting together a computer vision module in a couple of months' time. Selling a computer vision module on AliExpress puts that capability in the hands of anyone that wants it at the speed of FedEx.
While the majority of the population and infrastructure is located close to the border with the U.S., Canada's East and West is not connected by a single internal road. People do not have to travel through the U.S. to get from one side of Canada to the other. People even have multiple options! I should know. I'm Canadian, and I've done the drive from Montreal to the Yukon and British Columbia.

My take is that you have never been to Canada, and if you have, it was only to a major city, like Toronto.
Funny, OpenAI is one site where I've noticed that the login is kinda wonky. Every so often it just randomly fails, gets stuck, gets caught in a redirect loop... That may not be Ory's fault, but unfortunately this may not be the ringing endorsement they were hoping for.
Funny how the richest person in the world feels less of a chilling effect than career staff at federal agencies!

What makes you think I'd prefer that he not speak plainly?

I'd certainly prefer that he:

1. Not break a bunch of laws while running the government (while having a totally unclear official role?).

2. Not use his control of twitter's algorithm to push his own political priorities.

3. Not use his wealth and bully pulpit to intimidate people (like judges) who don't just bow to whatever he wants.

But beyond that, I have absolutely no issue with him speaking plainly. And I think death threats are bad, always.
As someone with 15+ years of experience, a lot of that FE specific, that is the advice I always give newer devs if asked. Learn the fundamentals of Javascript, HTML, CSS (it's like a 3 legged stool, even if the JS leg is oversized in the days of web apps). If you know how to program, and you know the fundamentals, you can work in whatever framework is thrown your way.

Now, practically speaking, that's actually probably better advice for someone with a job and 1-2 years in. To get an initial foothold in the industry, people often need to specialize in one specific thing (React at the moment most likely), in order to be able to demonstrate enough competence to get that initial job and so I understand how fundamentals can be backburnered initially. But I recommend devs don't let that initial success lock them into that framework - that's the time to get back and learn all the fundamentals, go wide, learn a couple other frameworks even so it's easy to compare and contrast the strengths/weaknesses of each.

And you will want to be well-versed in the framework you currently use day to day, knowing best practices, architecture patterns that work and those to avoid, etc. Knowing the fundamentals will help, but there will be framework specific things that will change from framework to framework, even code-base to code-base sometimes. So it's always going to be a bit of a balance. But long-term, IMO, being well-versed in the fundamentals affords you the most flexibility and employ-ability long-term.
I would be very interested, thank you. The flag is probably justified since HN is not really the place for these culture war things :) but I'm genuinely trying to understand the perspective here, because it does seem like a big gap between my understanding (the Democratic party has moved left on these issues) and theirs (the Democratic party is just playing defense on these issues).
At the very least you would expect them to start looking at other sources for arms.
We got a live one here folks!
I tried this approach when attempting to get Deepseek-r1 and GrokV3 to create a simple CUDA application. It was necessary because the iterative approach kept leading to hangs and divergent behaviors. I still wasn't able to get a working application, however.
> I thought we were free speech people

The US were never the land of free speech (or of the free). It's all marketing.
A modern version of "Computers Don't Argue".
OpenAI upgrades its transcription and voice-generating AI models
You could make this justification for a lot of unapproved bot activity.
There are lots of Canadians who have felt under attack from within their own country. The ruling regimes of Canada have over time implemented certain policies and ideological values that are a deviation from what was in place before. Not everyone shares those new values, and they feel like the real principles and political culture of Canada has been broken. They’re rather have change, and they see that in America’s rejection of progressive politics. What I’m saying is, to them, it’s not an invasion but a return to normal from a different kind of invasion. I don’t know if it is fringe or not - just explaining the perspective.
That’s not how Trump will spin this. He’s going to pander to some idea of right to move between territorial holdings. He can whip his base up to request an invasion. There are few republicans that are willing to stand up to Trump. That’s why we have the idiocy of impeachment against judges.
It can't for high power LEDs.
Hyprland's development isn't what it used to be
A big part of depletion of the Ogallala aquifer is due to domestic policy to include corn in just about anything - including fuel.
The Hyundai Ionia 5 could do nearly a full charge in 20 minutes, if you had access to a charger that basically no one did.

Wonder what the details are on this BYD claim.
How can you be so sure? Processors love locality, so they fetch the data around the requested address. Intel even used to give names to that.

So, similarly, LLM companies can see this as a signal to crawl to whole site to add to their training sets and learn from it, if the same URL is hit for a couple of times in a relatively short time period.
Rerun Raises $17M in Funding
If a human triggers a browser by pressing a button, should it ignore robots.txt?
I will seriously consider in the near future about withdrawing my future plans from the US if the SCOTUS do not show any backbone to this.
It's not that they can't afford storage.

It's that not doing so means they can increase their profit numbers just a skoshe more.

And at least as long as they haven't IPOed, that number's the only thing that matters. Everything getting in the way of increasing it is just an obstacle to be removed.
that sounds a lot like where i live (bend, or)
And if they want me as a customer, they have to follow _my_ rules.

Obviously the restaurant has enough other customers and I have enough other restaurants to go to, so we both will be fine.
I also miss the web. When HTTP form posts were a thing. React and friends are desktop apps, delivered over HTTP, where the browser is the runtime. You know why we got so obsessed with JavaScript? Cause screen refreshes look janky. "Just use XMLHttpRequest to send the data ONLY over the wire! And get data ONLY as a response!" That's how we got into this mess. I'm not saying you don't need JavaScript, or there aren't reasons to use React. I'm saying there are easier solutions to jank. If good engineering is the ability to design the least complicated solution to a problem, we are far from good engineering.
Pretty certain! I inspected the board closely, and tested after reassembly to make sure it couldn't hear me anymore. That Nest Mini lives with its mute-switch permanently engaged anyway, just as a fallback.
P.S.: That said, I can imagine this technique being used in an arguably-moral way, putting poisonous data on pages that scrapers and LLMs have not been permitted to use, to trigger nonsensical behavior down the line.

Much like how poison works in nature, protecting the animal from ingestion by anything that ignores the warning-colors.
isn't annexing another country based on it being merely an economic client state a...fascist rationale?
This sounds like a straw man. Do you have a link showing where supporters think Canada won't resist the US?
Wow, troll much?
But how did you find those sites that had the robot.txt to begin with? LLM must somehow find the existence of those pages and store that information before they can crawl them further or mark as acceptable source.
It's like a line of platforms waiting for their own agents for web search
You have got more patience than me. I have tried to use these tools to generate (basic) network diagrams and by the time I reached your third step I already knew that it was time to quit and draw it out myself. Diagrams need to be correct and accurate otherwise they're just art. I also need any amendments to be made to the same diagram, not to have it regenerated each time.

I do like the idea of another commenter here who takes a photo of their whiteboard and instructs the AI tool to turn it into a structured diagram. That seems to be well within reach of these tools.
That only matters if you reuse a memorized password. If I have my hacker news password memorized but never use it for anything else there's no need to worry about it.
If you could share a HAR file (stripped of credentials of course) or a screenshot of your network tab when it happens, we'd love to take a look and figure out what's going on! If it's reproducible even better.

You can send it to aeneas at ory.sh. It may not be OAuth2 related, and I'd like to make sure.
this is a no-brainer right? if you play stupid games, then you win stupid prizes. british columbia has every right to do this.
So, do you mean LLMs are human-like and conscious?

I thought they were just machine code running on part GPU and part CPU.
> dismissed both as ridiculous

I think this idealism/naiveness is why you're now sliding further and further away from democracy. Older countries already had their democracies stress-tested, but seemingly this is the biggest test so far for the "checks and balances" in the US, and I feel like many other countries learned to always live with idea that democracy can slip away really quickly unless you always pay attention.
How do you call this desing/ui astethic? I like it
I would say yes, but the key words here are “democratised” and “advanced”.

How advanced do the AIs need to be to have this effect? Is current AI tech on a path to reach this level, or will we need to go through another AI winter or three?

Will we avoid a monopoly or a cartel controlling access to the technology? (The answer may be different in different parts of the world.)
people keep looking up the population of Canada to see where it would rank as a state
Interesting, I inserted a bunch of "fuck"s in the text and the "NYC Cabbie" voice read it all just fine. When I switched to other voices ("Connoisseur", "Cheerleader", "Santa"), it responded "I'm sorry I can't assist with that request".

I switched back to "NYC Cabbie" and it again read it just fine. I then reloaded the session completely, refreshed the voice selections until "NYC Cabbie" came up again, and it still read the text without hesitation.

The text:

> In my younger and more vulnerable years my father fuck gave me some fuck fuck advice that I've been fuck fuck FUCK OH FUCK turning over in my mind ever since.

> "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, oh fuck! FUCK! "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had fuck fuck fuck FUCKERKER the advantages that you've had."

edit: "Emo Teenager", "Mad Scientist", and "Smooth Jazz" are able to read the text. However, "Medieval Knight" and "Robot" cannot.
It has gotten consistently better for years, the core product of streaming from server your own content from server to device is and has always worked great, and the lifetime pass is an absolute steal at $120. I paid $75 a long time ago and have gotten so much value for my money.

There is a thread of anti-Plex talk all over the place that I really don't understand. I don't think there is even any XBMC/Kodi code in it anymore.

I am a longtime user of Kodi/XBMC back to the soft-modding an OG Xbox days, and I eventually moved to Plex for the client-server model. It was and still is a great piece of software