skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What made his story so special that it was told and remembered for thousands of years by real people with real lives to worry about?

I don't know. Maybe a lot of people agree with the message of "always listen to God and things will work out". That doesn't mean it's good morality, or a good way to live your life. While there's certainly selection bias in good stories surviving the test of time, I don't think it's 100% given that an old story is inherently good.

If you found meaning in the story, that's great. I just don't know that meaning was the authors' intent. That might not matter to you, that's fine, but I simply did not get the message of "Abraham + Isaac is actually a limitation on sacrifice".

> And why not? In a different time and a different place that would have been the normal, decent and rational thing to do, and if you didn't then people would look very strangely at you.

I can't know what it's like to have lived thousands of years ago, so I can only answer from someone in the late 20th and early 21st century. The reason I think you shouldn't sacrifice humans now is because I value human life, and that I think it would be wrong to deprive that person of life to appease a God that I do not think exists. There are times where ending a life might be justified, like physician assisted suicide, or self defense, and probably a few other cases, but none of those reasons are to appease a god.

I don't pretend that I have any kind of objective morality on this, I'm not even sure if I believe in objective morality as a concept,
> but once the dominant professional association the game changes forever, because the vast majority of people just want to emulate the pros, because they grew up dreaming of becoming pro

I don't want to squash anyone's dreams but I feel like "emulating the pros" undermines the "spirit of the game" a lot. Most sports are literally "bet I can" style games that have then been refined and refined. They don't intrinsically matter to life continuing.

When you've experienced "sledging" in a low skill amateur series and the defence is "the pro's do it" then the fun of the game is gone...
If people judged name callers based on their actions then how did we get here?
Go allocations aren't that bad. A few years ago I benchmarked them at about 4x as expensive as a bump allocation. That is slow enough to make an arena beneficial in high allocation situations, but fast enough to not make it worth it most of the time.
not sure about anyone else, but the scientists I know who worked there only stayed for a few seasons, which makes this pretty damning.
What about it is (or should be) illegal? They're playing by the exact same rules as every affiliate marketer in existence.

I have a dozen or so rhetorical questions I'm not going to bother with, because I doubt there's any progress to be made.

Honey is just capitalism incarnate, baby.
Why implement broadly useful HTML widgets when you can instead put those engineering resources to work on a new WebBeer API that fetches the number of beers in the user’s fridge or something else similarly niche?
Dumb question time continues: The majority of the solar planets rotate in the same way, and the majority of the large moons rotate in the same direction as their planets. I assume this is influenced by the rotation of the relevant accretion disks. And I assume this is common for stars within a galaxy?

I don't think the universe is considered to have any significant rotation, however. Is this due to scale for us to measure, and/or having nothing external to compare against?
"This story is free for a limited time. Subscribe to enjoy uninterrupted access."

Not going to lie, I was really hoping that this would be much more like the 99% of articles on NYMag that is fully paywalled, for irony's sake.
My small daughter is watching https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Tsubasa , and I think I saw something like that in one episode.
GOMEMLIMIT has saved me a number of times. In containerized production, it's nice, because sometimes jobs are ephemeral and don't even do enough allocations to hit the memory limit, so you don't spend any time in GC. But it's saved me the most times in CI where golangci-lint or govulncheck can't complete without running out of memory on a kind-of-large CI machine. Set GOMEMLIMIT and it eventually completes. (I switched to nogo, though, so at least golangci-lint isn't a problem anymore.)
Agree. However, it's one thing to have bug in my code and sitting with a cold coffee staring at debug prints trying to find the incorrect operation.

It is quite another thing to have a big chunk of code simply missing from the compiled binary, because complier found a path that reaches integer overflow and thus decided that the code is unreachable.
Wow! That's really cool. Thanks for sharing!
I think what both have in common is this: People who don't otherwise care about the sport will watch highlights of people smashing balls really far with sticks. And "people...will watch" generates revenue.

People who are passionate about either sport will find them less and less interesting, but 1) most of you will keep watching anyway, and 2) the sports can afford to lose you for the parts you won't watch if it increases the total amount of "seconds people will watch" enough by drawing in enough new eyeballs.
Large Language Models Can Verbatim Reproduce Long Malicious Sequences
It's not that they are weaker, but that many things actually confer long term immunity. The "common cold" is actually many viruses, once you've beaten one it's not likely to get you again but it's cousins will.
I actually had a ZJ and liked it. I bought it heavily used in 2016, I think 250K miles or so? The heater was anemic, and it didn’t really like to go into or out of 4WD. I flushed the heater core and radiator, changed every fluid, adjusted the transmission kickdown, and replaced most of the suspension. It worked great, and gave me zero trouble. All of the electrics worked, including the various fluid sensors, like wiper fluid level.

Maybe I had a unicorn and didn’t know it. It was my first and only Jeep.
What was shown in the video seems to be something like Karl Sims' work[0], which is completely different (genetic algorithm for optimising black-box locomotion within a physics simulation framework) from AI image generation / what we're currently calling "Ghiblification".

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZtZia4ZkX8
Are we supposed to believe this not specifically designed to get engagement from the Elon-hate trend? Are the same media outlets going to be promoting apologetic stories when/if in 6 months the verdict comes back that everything was on the up-and-up? And they wonder why people hold journalists/media outlets in low regard. Full disclosure. I've never owned a Tesla, don't currently own a Telsa, and have no plans on owning a Tesla in the future. I have only been inside of Tesla for a 5-minute backseat car ride in ~2018. I don't own any Tesla stock, have never owned Tesla stock, and have no plans on owning Tesla stock in the future.
This is unfortunate. I've been mainly using Postgres so luckily avoided the issues you speak of. I guess yet another reason towards the bucket of "why use Postgres/MariaDB instead".
> I have the same thing with YouTube. Even if I pay for premium I'll still need to mess around with the sponsorblock plugin to get a truly adfree experience.

I wouldn't say this is the same thing at all. The sponsors are something that the individual video creator chose to do, and which youtube doesn't really have power over. If you pay for premium and you don't get ads injected by youtube, then they are holding up their end of the bargain in a way which "ad-lite" deals aren't.
It's been a long time since I read The Myth of the Framework, but I think the concept of "talking past each other" is wrong. On the other hand I often feel this kind of fatigue and don't want to get involved in debates. It probably isn't really about incompatible "level of understanding" (or "frameworks" as in the title), but something else.
>tbh i think it's a good thing when people can make art in a style they love

I agree. But people aren't making art in a style they love, people are telling a machine to make an inferior copy of something resembling art in a style they claim to love.

I say "claim to" because I find it hard to believe someone could be a fan of Ghibli and treat the studio's work in a way that Miyazaki would despise. This isn't love so much as exploitation.

If people value the Ghibli style so much, they could learn the art of drawing and animation, and actually make art instead of insulting the studio's talent and legacy by avoiding the craft and seeking an endorphine high from AI slop. It doesn't have to be perfect or even good to be satisfying, but it will be yours.
I don't think those car sales numbers are as unsurprising as those Amazon numbers.
Does the law call someone who drives without a license an illegal driver or an unlicensed driver? Someone who practices medicine an illegal doctor or refer to them as unlicensed? Someone operating without a permit is not an illegal worker but an operator without a license.
>pop-ups that let users reject tracking

No pop-up is needed to reject what is already banned union-wide. Therefore, a banner that is trying to collect my explicit+specific+informed+voluntary consent to partially lift that ban is not a "pop-up that lets users reject". Its a "pop-up that lets users surrender" some of their rights & freedoms.
The people that simply want an excuse to be racist do. That's a part of the country that people like trump enable. Happened in 2017 and is happening again.
Great read. I particularly noted

The takeaway? If you’re launching a consumer product, technical superiority doesn’t automatically translate to cultural impact. In the battle for attention, a memorable vibe often beats a better benchmark.
This story is hilarious. Yes, lots of people will want to buy Teslas when the government announces that the $5,000 subsidy is about to end. The other car manufacturers are just mad that they lost out due to their antiquated sales process. If they had direct purchase via online ordering, maybe they would have gotten a larger slice of that remaining subsidy money?
"No payments will be made until we are confident that the claims are valid" - Freeland.

That seems like a very reasonable statement by the government, very different from the media reports.
That seems to be the approach most UK newspapers are taking. Consent or pay.

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-re...
...perhaps this is what it takes to finally end the farcical narrative of "intellectual property" and usher in an internet age where everybody can access the entire corpus of evolved knowledge.
I know I'm late to reply, but to explain since many people seemed to be confused by what I said –– I think the speed at which xAI has caught up with the competition from nothing is quite impressive, and the lengths they had to go to to do this, even more so.

Grok is now competitive with the other big players in the foundation model space. To do this they had to recruit some of the top AI talent, speed run the building of massive AI data centers and of course execute well to bring it all together.

All of their competition have either had a time and/or financial advantage over xAI so it's quite impressive what they've managed to achieve given this. Deepseek's achievement in this sense is more impressive so I'm not delusional, but I was still very surprised to see how good Grok 2 was.
Actually you are right, I was wrong about that. I was thinking about before Israel's foundation (as in, Jews lived in the Muslim worlds for a long time without ethnic cleansing).
As for morocco, yes they were very much treated as worse than second class citizens.

So yeah, I agree that Jews were basically pushed to leave, and at some point were just directly kicked out and cleansed out of a lot of Muslim countries.

I just find it weird to justify Israel's actions by saying that what they are doing is "just ethnic cleansing" which is basically what the comment I was replying was doing. Not only is it super weird, but it's also telling to only apply that logic to Muslims. Can Jews just go and massacre Germans and Europeans because of the Holocaust? Then why justify the wholesale destruction of a Muslim city with that?
I love the bad-assitude of knowing a system so well you can simulate it in your head, feed inputs to a third-party who actually has eyes/hands on the real thing, and have the state in your mind and reality match. I think of it a little bit like using a human as a convoluted (and sometimes unreliable) expect script.
If a government takes action like this, it is newsworthy whether or not it's "designed to get engagement from the Elon-hate trend".
Why? You have control over the parts where control yields noticeable savings, and the rest just kind of works with reasonable defaults.

Taken to the extreme, Go is still nice even with constraints. For example, tinygo is pretty nice for microcontroller projects. You can say upfront that you don't want GC, and just allocate everything at the start of the program (kind of like how DJB writes C programs) and writing the rest of the program is still a pleasant experience.
Here's how this happened as I understand it.

The original founder of the guardian, Taylor, ran it like a business. While today journalism struggles to make money, in the 1800s news was lucrative.

In his will, Taylor carved out a sweetheart deal (right of first refusal) to sell the paper to CP Scott, a progressive Liberal politician, and also his nephew.

After running the paper for many years, CP Scott's will named his two sons to inherit. Both of whom worked as editors on the daily.

In a freak turn of events, both CP Scott and one of the sons died within a few months. The remaining son was concerned about paying double for the hefty inheritance tax at the time ("death tax").

The death tax could be so large as to force a sale of the paper, to create liquidity to cover the tax. I guess it was a tax on unrealized gains!

The remaining son, John, cleverly found a workaround to avoid the silly death tax: by renouncing his ownership and transferring the business to a Trust. Since he worked at the paper as editor, giving up ownership was a clever tradoff that actually gave him de facto tenure as editor, by making his day job more stable.

This is all to say: the guardian became a nonprofit-like trust at a point in time it was already a stable business, with capital to self-finance.

This was not a case of a independently wealthy businessman creating a foundation to create a paper from scratch (like many created universities).

The Scott trust was created by journalists for journalists, at a unique point in time where journalists had money to self-finance. Motivated not by some idealistic vision but by a more practical desire to avoid a hefty tax on unrealized gains.
They do have power over it. They can force the creators to make sponsor-free versions for premium users. It can simply be part of their T & Cs just like they don't allow porn etc.

Don't forget the creators already get a lot more money for a premium view than an adsponsored one. And nothing for an adblocked view.

Besides, I deal with YouTube. Not the creators.
If anything, it enabled it through acts like gerrymandering. That's how Trump won the first term in the 2nd or 3rd time in 250 years the electoral college defied the popular vote.
> On the other hand, I don’t think the solution to someone holding a shotgun to their foot and threatening to pull the trigger is to make everyone wear armored shoes.

I don't think so, either, it's just that I think there are better solutions than a test-mode flag at the level of the `java` launcher. If the mechanism that runs the tests can automatically configure the appropriate capabilities without requiring the user running the tests to do manual configuration then the problem is solved for those who just want to easily run tests just as well as a test-mode configuration.

The idea of a test-mode flag has been floated before and considered; we're not ruling it out, but if such a mode is ever added, I can't tell you now what it would mean exactly. In any event, it's better to carefully study the nature of the problem and its origins before suggesting a particular solution. As Brian Goetz likes to say, today's solutions may well become tomorrow's problems.

> They’re already a lost cause, and there are a billion other ways they can shoot their foot off, if they are so inclined.

True, but our experience shows that it's not a good idea to make the bad choice the easiest one, or people may pick it out of laziness. Let those who want to shoot themselves in the foot work for it. If nothing else, it increases the chance that they learn what their (not-entirely-trivial) configuration means, and maybe they'll realise they don't want it after all.

Someone might point out that there are still ways to do the wrong thing out of laziness by blindingly copying a configuration from StackOverflow etc., but we're not done yet.
I think the Fortune article lacked background, I found more here: https://www.yahoo.com/news/tesla-43m-canadian-ev-rebate-1306...

For some reason the Canadian iZEV rebate was provided to the dealer, not the end customer. Dealers were to sell below cost and then get money back from the government, so they'd be on the hook for the difference if they couldn't get the rebate. The rebate was scheduled to cut off in March but was obviously running out of funding before schedule. Dealers had some leeway to batch their claims and Tesla sent an unprecedented number of claims right at the end that drained the remaining funds, but these claims are not necessarily all for sales from that small window. I can't find any specifics but surely the claims submitted have to substantiate that a car was sold to a Canadian resident. I'm still not sure that Tesla did anything illegal unless they are found to have sent fraudulent claims, which should be trivial to check.
Is it dominant because it is the best with a free tier?
I naturally went down a rabbit hole to see if I could find why those characters weren't printing properly.

https://www.atarimania.com/mags/pdf/Antic_Vol_7_No_4.pdf

On p. 31, you can see the intended characters.

I now remember that Atari actually had their own variant of ASCII, called ATASCII:

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

Atari 8-bits were actually really cool computers, in that they let you do things like redefine character sets entirely (to create custom character sets to effectively create tile-based displays), play with display-list interrupts, etc.
> it does make me uneasy if OpenAI charges more than at-cost to help people do so though. it's the profiteering off others' work that is gross.

i think they shouldn't be able to sell anything at all. violation of copyright isn't a excuse to sell stuff at-cost, let alone feed Nvidia with trillions of USD by releasing open-source (if they ever release) technology
In this case, it's nothing specific to uv though: there's a PEP outlining how this stuff is declared and uv is just one of the tools that happens to support the format. I wouldn't be at all surprised of pipx also supports it.
macOS/iOS/iPadOS has used this internally for several years to implement various ancillary filesystems (like FAT), but macOS 15.4 is the first time it's been exposed as a supported API to 3rd parties.
What's your basis for 8,600 cars being "surprising"? The article says that works out to 18% of annual volume, which means the cancellation of the rebate brought forward just over 2 months worth of sales. That seems plausible to me. I could totally imagine myself making the leap and buying a car immediately if it meant that I'd save $10k (or whatever the rebate is) compared to if I bought 2 months later.
"They've made their law, now let's see them enforce it."

I don't envy the conscience of those who voted for Trump. They will bear a terrible weight for many years.
Teslas owner did a literal nazi salute, so it's not a particular stretch to call them any of those things.
Exploring the effects of jumbo frames (2022)
> Modern doesn't always win for me: I prefer [...] bash to zsh

Bash and zsh are approximately to same age. I think bash is older by only a few months.
And still nobody truly knows what AGI will do, or if it is even possible to achieve via massive datacenters.
The copyright infringement is on the part of the models being trained on Studio Ghibli's work without permission. There's no law against you "accessing the entire corpus of evolved knowledge" and doing the work yourself.
At the end of the day, when we select our leaders to represent us, we seem to have forgotten that a big part of it should be about about the ethics, principles, character, and judgement of the individual.

If someone on "my side" was found guilty of embezzlement or fraud -- through due process in a court of law with sufficient evidence that there was no path of appeal -- then I have ZERO problems denouncing the individual and would celebrate their punishment.

This is the fundamental problem with the left in the US: the standards for ethics, principles, judgement, and character are simply higher and the left will more readily fault candidates for even small lapses while the right has no such qualms.
But it would still be illegal to use? Does the exact mechanism matter?
Wealthy people don't want to pay existing income taxes, let alone more income taxes (progressive income tax policy). Trump has pushed tariffs, and said other countries will pay for it. That is, of course, not how it works [1], but the people who believe this are...unsophisticated [2] [3] [4] and are voting their hate [5] and the uneducated view that POTUS controls price levels [6]. So they will cheer on tariffs that they will pay for, increasing a regressive tax on themselves and others who buy goods that will increase in price to cover this tax, while enabling the wealthy to not have to pay more income taxes. If it wasn't so terrible, I would compliment it as clever.

“The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them.” -― Turkish Proverb

[1] Who Pays Tariffs? Americans Will Bear the Costs of the Next Trade War - https://taxfoundation.org/blog/who-pays-tariffs/

[2] Searches of ‘who pays for tariffs’ sees massive spike after Trump’s announcement - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/searches-pays-tariffs-sees-ma...

[3] "I Love the Poorly Educated" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpdt7omPoa0

[4] “I don’t care about you I just want your vote” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLJHHF3xY20

[5] “He’s not hurting the people he needs to be”: a Trump voter says the quiet part out loud - https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/8/18173678/tr...

[6] Pew Research: What Trump supporters believe and expect - https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/11/13/what-trum...
The first principles here refer to the basic equations of the Standard Model. There were a lot of alternative theories in sixties and seventies but eventually they were disproven experimentally and only SM survived.

But the problem with SM is that when one deals with strong interactions, nobody so far came with good ways to calculate things. For example, in theory the mass of proton can be derived. But in practice it is not. So one uses that as an extra parameter and tries to use that to constrain calculations in other areas.
The people that are most likely to pay are (in most cases) the most loyal users, who visit the site regularly. If those loyal users who push up ad views then move to an "ad free" plan, ad views go down, ad sales team gets sad.

Don't get me wrong, everything about this model sucks -- it's just not as straight forward as it might seem.
Of course they did but it's still going to suck without accuracy and consistency. Like manus uses so much time and credits to do super simple things it basically renders it unusable.
Holy crap this was my operating systems professor!!! I was not expecting to see this here... big smile on my face. He was a great teacher :).