skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m so confused why they installed HEPA filters to filter out LNG and methane.

And HEPA filters don’t really scrub CO2 that effectively, even with a carbon membrane, so can we really expect lower CO2 levels?

Considering this, what’s the actual takeaway here? Cleaner air (dust/virus free?) is better for productivity?

I am asking because I want to buy the same filter for work, but I am doubtful that the $700 HEPA filter sounds like the same filter they used, even though the article mentions they used readily accessible 5 stage filters.
Read some Adam Smith (1776 -- Wealth of Nations). How highly he talks about America back then. It was always leading economically.
UB doesn't allow arbitrary time travel; any time travel you see should be explainable by happening to run code that undoes what was done previously, and where it's not possible to explain it as such it's a compiler bug (ref: wg14 member: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40836898).

This is now clearly standardized, but even without that it's pretty trivial to see how compilers would generally abide by this - if you call an external function that does arbitrary things, it may exit(), so the call can't be optimized out even if it's followed by UB. (printf & co are effectively arbitrary calls for these purposes for multiple reasons). And all other behavior is just writing things to memory, which can be undone by happening to write what was there before. (ok there's also volatile, and a bug in clang (not gcc though): https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/102237)
If I were to share this article with some loved ones, they would say the press deserves it for all the fake news and unfair treatment of the current administration.

As for the signal aspect, the last discussion I was a part of devolved into “
MI6 did it to make trump’s team look bad”. There is some bogus ‘news’ article to back this up.

I don’t know how we got here, but it’s devastating and scary.
> Based on your comment, the effect could be larger as well as smaller.

Yes, but since we know that there's a huge bias to publish and publicise larger results, you know what way to bet.
Writing an fft core in vhdl. Pipelining is not easy.
It seems strange that pg identifies "make good new things" as a "third thing" alongside helping people and taking care of the world.

Intuitively, I'd have thought "making good new things" would be a tactic to helping people and/or taking care of the world.

If I ask him "What new good thing should I make?" surely his answer has to be, "Make something people want," right??

I'm not even sure the new things are "good" unless people want them, or if new things aren't making the world better in some way.

pg notes in the last paragraph that there's "often" a lot of overlap between making good new things, helping people, and helping the world, but it seems like even pg is forgetting his own motto…?
Using an LLM built and controlled by Musk is only evidence of your ineptitude.
Hal Finney died when Satoshi disappeared, it's an old theory though, not recent. The thinking is either Satoshi died, lost the billion dollar keys intentionally or unintentionally, or beats to a different drum and is in it for the love of the game, not the money
> Now might be a good time to revisit the twitter files

Or we could skip the whataboutism that tries to go back to a prior administration, and instead focus on the current administration’s actions which are demonstrably far worse.
>The reality is that lectures are easier to follow when you aren't frantically trying to copy down the lecture slides as well as what the instructor is saying (after all, it might be on the exam!)

This is massively true IMO. Taking detailed notes during a lecture is an absurd waste of attention - we have universally-available recording technologies. Use them.

They're used professionally too, and there's essentially zero chance that they'll go away, it's much more realistic to use them in classes. This is something that has changed with phones and computers becoming universal - college needs to adapt to it.

Use lecture time to do things you can't do with a recording: interact.

(Yes I'm thoroughly aware that student interaction is a myth and it pretty much never happens - I've zoned out in classes with attendance scores too. Except for those handfuls of classes that many people can remember where it does happen, those don't count and there's surely nothing special about them that is worth learning from)
"Style" itself changes, even when the artifacts themselves don't. For example in architecture, we (20/21 century) have this view of Greek and Roman architecture and art as pale marble columns and busts. Couldn't be further from the truth. Many of those historic busts in museums used to be brightly painted. Romans loved frescoes both in commerce and homes. Pompeii has been an amazing source of what regular life was like, combined with more recent digs of Roman homes across Europe.

Also take into account the generational adoption of older styles for a season or two before it fades again. I just saw a young man the other day wearing ginkos. Haven't seen those since the 90s. I asked him, and he said his dad had passed semi-recently and he really like the jeans when he was going through his dad's stuff.

Yesterday a clothing maker on YouTube I occasionally watch shared a video about making "medieval 1970s mod culture" clothes. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g0uOmf-wHag

She used some patterns last used in the 70s and even wondered if the original dress(es) might still be around.

"Style" is subjective. The artifacts influence future style, and should be recognized as separate but linked things.
AI Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Security
I don't really care, tbh. There are better rights to fight for: food, shelter, education, healthcare. If said freedom of speech had been to be used to fight for materially meaningful rights, I'd be a big fan. Most Americans never bothered to use the right in any way that improved this country. You don't use it, you lose it.

As it stands most people associate it with the right to behave like a dick in public.
I'd say war became hot again way back when with Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Korea. Proxy wars but wars nonetheless. A major war? Perhaps 2022 was the start of it like you said, that tracks. Hopefully not though.
> I've seen images of pro-environment demonstrations that just trash their immediate surroundings while pretending to be concerned about the global state of pollution.

What a weird comment. So... they have clean-up after the demo? That is pretty normal where I have lived.
I think a lot of people convinced themselves he was going to be as restrained as in Trump 1 and we'd get a fairly standard pro-crypto, pro-business, tax cutting Republican. Instead we've elected a mad king.
Not sure why you're being downvoted. It's a legit question.

So, I think college can be different things to different people. Most will treat it as vocational training. And yes they'll end up being good office workers and we need those.

I refer to luck only because I perceive the other to be in the minority. Also because you can't make someone see it. Even if I tell you it's there (it's not a secret) doesn't mean you'll get it.

And again, my perception is that "getting it" leads to a better life. (For some definition of "better", usually not financial. )

Which doesn't make office workers bad. That's objectively a good life.
Donald Trump is currently doing immense damage to the personal liberty of some and to the free expression of all. Every one of the numerous things listed in the article is something that actually happened. I don't know nor do I care whether you believe what you're saying. Donald Trump, a man petty enough to punish a news organization for not saying "gulf of America" and cruel enough to send people to a foreign prison without trial, clearly doesn't.
This kind of response reinforces the parent's concern. Expressing concern for the erosion of free speech rights doesn't make one a right wing fanatic just because they don't mention every other political issue in the exact same comment.
https://archive.is/HUZGR
If you ask Grok, it will point you to the source. But let me do that for you below.

Original Transcript: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/2v8g39z2ab1jo0waj6tn4/AJhMeQd...

MR. BILL WHITAKER: And yet Prime Minister Netanyahu seems to be charting his own course. The Biden-Harris Administration has pressed him to agree to a ceasefire, he's resisted. You urged him not to go into Lebanon, he went in anyway. Does the U.S. have no sway over Prime Minister Netanyahu?
VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: The aid that we have given Israel allowed Israel to defend itself against 200 ballistic missiles that were just meant to attack the Israelis, and the people of Israel. And when we think about the threat that Hamas, Hezbollah presents Iran, I think that it is without any question our imperative to do what we can to allow Israel to defend itself against those kinds of attacks. Now, the work that we do diplomatically with the leadership of Israel is an ongoing pursuit around making clear our principles, which include the need for humanitarian aid, the need for this war to end, the need for a deal to be done which would release the hostages, and create a ceasefire. And we're not going to stop in terms of putting that pressure on Israel, and in the region, including Arab leaders.

Edited Transcript: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/2v8g39z2ab1jo0waj6tn4/AJhMeQd...

MR. BILL WHITAKER: And yet Prime Minister Netanyahu seems to be charting his own course. The Biden-Harris Administration has pressed him to agree to a ceasefire, he's resisted. You urged him not to go into Lebanon, he went in anyway. Does the U.S. have no sway over Prime Minister Netanyahu?
VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: The work that we do diplomatically with the leadership of Israel is an ongoing pursuit around making clear our principles.

PS: The above transcripts were linked from CBS site: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-publishes-transcript...
When the government's reason for defunding a media organization is based on that organization's viewpoint, then it is absolutely an attack on freedom of the press. I'm not sure about Radio Free Asia, but Trump has specifically cited his objections to the viewpoints of Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty as the reason for destroying them.
Then you're not looking.
I'm working on https://inboto.com, an AI agent for email support. I'm tried out sending receptive emails, or switching between different platforms to find unified information about the customer.
Which begs the question. How many of those places are there, and how many large groups of humans with children would you believe live in such places?
Why do journalists not reference the things they are reporting on these days?
I'm not sure what it was but I remember learning where with a continuous runny noise in certain classes (buildings) with AC. Outside and different buildings were fine at least for me. In those effected buildings I estimate that 5% were also effected by hearing people sniff every minute or so. This definitely caused distraction while learning. A good filter on the AC would properly have solved this.
You should have to vote, you just don't have to vote for anyone. A blank ballot is still a vote. But you have to show up.
Looking all the way downstream, to the end result (voting numbers) is much less valuable vein to mine for insight than how he was portrayed in media, online and in legacy media, before votes were cast. That provides much more insight in to how his campaign failed, in my eyes at least.

I don't have all the historical polling data to say this with certainty, but his policies were pretty much always supported by a majority of the american public from a cursory perplexity search (grain of salt and all that, but seriously, can you think of one policy of his that wasn't popular?)

The more important question, to me at least, than "in 2016 did america think bernie was a crazy leftist?" is, "why, when his policies all had majority voter support, did the candidate himself carry the McCarthy era veil of 'crazy leftist' and 'communist'"?

And I think the answer is the same as in my original comment, a concerted effort from the billionaire class (who own all our media) to do anything BUT accurately portray the guy who vocally wanted to cost them money in favor of those who wanted to enrich them. I think the billionaire class almost always plays a bigger role than we think, but that might just be all the books I read about the machinations of the rich and powerful to manufacture consent. I'm no expert.
was it an interview? give details.
He’s helping make the left care about free speech again. Something they wanted to continue censoring.
It's just been revoked
Life-long classical liberal here. I don't know how you could arrive at these conclusions today.
With republicans in control of congress and/or the senate and opposing everything the democrats did it is hardly surprising is it.
The disconnect here is that your professors are assigning you work like this because the purpose of a university education is to broaden your horizons, challenge you, and force you to think about _how to think._

this would be fine if it didn't cost as much as a new car and my career did not depend on it. I can broaden my horizons for free at library
Not sure if it is the same in India but in the US there needs to be a supermajority of both houses and the amendment must be ratified by the states. Since the first ten amendments are considered more or less integral to the constitution, I have a hard time believing even this court would consider itself above amendments.

And even then, term limits would be a weird hill to die on, since it would open the door for future courts to strike down constitutional amendments.
Who needs electromagnetism in an EE course anyways?

Where I live you need to take an exam to become a Professional Engineer (legal title) and you would be cooked — for good reason — if you could not do calculus.
You ever heard of the paradox of IQ?

IQ has about a 0.2 correlation with income. The paradox arises when you zoom out for a more macro view. National IQ has about a 0.6-0.8 correlation with GDP per capita.

Performance in class rooms is definitely an IQ thing and different view points will likely generate different sets of data.

I'm interested in seeing controlled trials on individual performance, not just observing real world scenarios.
my handle, gene witch, is literally from the book(s) being discussed. They're real good books.
During the first Trump term, most of the institutions did resist Trump. The fact that he go reelected after his first term was so chaotic and scandalous has basically demoralized everyone. There are other factors, like the utter failure of Biden and the democrats, but its hard to recon with the fact that people are so far gone at this point.
I think in this case they are referring to the documentation of what happened to them, not their immigration status
Autonomous AI Agents Should Not Be Developed
Maybe the T-800 comes back reprogrammed to save us.

He is feeling out of place, his stock is down, his popularity has tanked.

He probably got what he wants from the current admin.

Hope it doesn’t get late.
You can demand it under gdpr right to be forgotten and see where that gets you. Even being a US site they have to be compliant for EU users.
In that case the claim boils down to "they were doing important stuff the entire time" and I... just don't believe the important stuff lasted that long contiguously.
Futurama already did this episode though? It caused the Earth to stop spinning.
Not really clear what this article is about. If it's about using Signal app to escape FoIA it's odd not to discuss who actually started that or use of personal servers in basements & shredding mails when caught.

If it's about the leak which was inadvertent even if a sack-able offence then that's nothing to do with 1st or any amendment.

If it's about free speech in general, to have any trace of integrity, objectivity & not sound like propaganda it must discuss the censorship and cancel culture and its inventors

I know this comment will be unpopular given the general trend in this forum but it needs to be said. In fact how's it's received itself will itself be a good mirror.
You are right, what degraded is not simply the students attention and motivation, it is the whole institution. They keep pushing ineffective approaches all over. You are right to blame LMSes, they are absolute disasters, poorly designed and ineffective at anything except save time for professors (and let's be real here, they also do social media and unrelated to their work activities so they are trading their teaching opportunities for leisure). Those LMSes are probably as detrimental as PowerPoint has been for communicating to an audience.
It is as if everyone is trying to avoid doing what they are here to do. They replace thought, exchanges and discovery with miserable tools just so they can go waste their time on something else.
Interactive AI-generated Wikipedia?
I've been messing around with having AI generate entire Wikipedia-like web-pages. This makes it possible to do things like ask arbitrary questions about the content you're exploring or generate content expansions where-ever you need them.

Try it out: http://wiki-ai.link
This is partisan garbage, I’ve been in infosec circles long enough to see democrats always get a pass for doing the same thing republicans do. Selective outrage is fake outrage.
>Having dominated its home market of China, the world’s largest auto market, BYD is starting to expand globally, with notable exceptions like the United States, a country it is effectively barred from due to 100% tariffs on its passenger cars.

I can't believe that Trump and Musk conspired to put a 100% tariff on these cars. This will really screws over American consumers as the average price for a new car reaches over $50,000. Clearly Trump and Musk hate America.
They don't support him because he identifies as pro-socialism and anti-capitalism, while in 2019 socialism polled at -13 and capitalism at +32. Sanders is well aware of this, but as he's explained in the past, his goal is to spark a political revolution and he doesn't care if that leads to opposition from wealthy or corporate interests.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2022/09/19/modest-decli...

https://www.vox.com/2016/1/28/10853502/bernie-sanders-politi...
How have those methods worked against authoritarian governments historically? I think we need to start being more realistic.
I don't get why people expect the government to make their lives amazing?

Has this ever happened, where had some amazing QoL thanks to their countries government.

I expect my government to manage public resources, the economy and defense. It can provide social safety nets for worst case scenarios. But if your eating food and have a home and making money what are people actually expecting from the government?
>>>> "Black people are abusive, violent thugs, within a subculture of violent thuggery, in cities which lack..."

>>>> Maybe a bit better, but you're still overgeneralizing in order to demonize an entire group of people.

>>> cops aren't a marginalized group

>> why does this matter

> There's a difference between punching down on marginalized groups, compared to speaking against / badly about authority figures.

hope this clears it up.
> The idea that it's somehow suspicious to be in favor of free speech has got to be one of the worst developments in American politics.

This isn't really a recent development but I think I understand what you mean. Authoritarians, regardless of their political leanings, try and sow distrust in free speech in order to garner support for advancing their agenda.

Currently, the "right" is using "free speech" as a tool to push back against the "woke agenda." So now "free speech" is becoming faux pas, at least in certain circles. Mentioning it as something you value without some long preface to explain yourself now associates you with a certain group of people, whether that group actually values free speech or not.
Nobody is banning books. Removing inappropriate material from school libraries isn't book banning. Have you seen some of the books that are being removed? That books with graphic depictions of aren't appropriate for children is a view perfectly compatible with strong support for freedom of expression.
Civil disobedience. There's an entire spectrum of what you can do with that.
How do you get realtime data from LinkedIn?
You are taking large movements with at least tens of thousands of participants and cherry-picking actions of a few people, you are contributing to the free speech problem by making false associations.
Personally, I respect reluctance to protest. Protest is situationally effective and sometimes necessary, but holds a dramatically outsized place in public imagination. So much of effective politics happens elsewhere.

The core of politics is building coalitions of cooperation that can sustain and grow themselves, ideally around habits of ongoing participation and policy goals that have wide benefits.

That means you have to start by developing habits. You are a political organization of one. What habits of schedule and focus will sustain that? How will you widen them into an organization of two, of six, of twelve, and more?

> I've debated it, but I think I'm a bit too eccentric to be a good politician.

There may be an example or two of people who many would find eccentric who are currently holding elected office. You never know.

> I am also afraid it would turn me evil.

The key is making sure that you don't ever place yourself outside relationships of accountability. As long as you can think of recent conversations where you've engaged in reflective give and take with a personal or public critic that you have sustained relationships with, chances are pretty good you're OK.
I'm guessing someone had a hunch and wanted to buy some HEPA filters. Also, all HEPA filters should filter air similarly, the price should be based on the rate at which air is filtered. I bought a HEPA air filter for $150 for my room.
> You can't deny this has been the most effective first 100 days in decades. That upsets you. This is what we voted for.

A circus isn't effective, but it's entertaining at least.
> Even for thus which where involved in spying not all of them did so of their free choice.

You are implying some of the China Initiative victims were spies. However, based on this wikipedia page[1], none of them are.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Initiative
The Flipper One is Coming [video]
Wasn't it the other way around for way too long and still is in places like UK, Germany?!
Old people can be good. But young people are more likely to be hungry/ambitious and take ownership, which (at least has the appearance of) produces more/better outcomes.
>It would be hilarious if he did that and BYD said "Go for it" and they just sold cars everywhere except the US.

EU tariffs BYD around 28%.
> Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people.

No, tradition is ways of living that have stood the test of time. They might not be perfect, but the idea that you can just reinvent all that stuff and do it better than tradition is the kind of thing that the Greek word "hubris" was invented for.

Also, upholding tradition doesn't mean being blindly enslaved to it. Part of the reason traditions got that way is that people adapted them when things changed.
Meh. Kind of. The reuters article is a bit shorter. Basically reuters deleted some comments from bad persons praising Trump. So, nothing much relevant.

Bus in this article he's shifting the Attention for 3rd term to Vance. Reuters didn't say a thing about that.