skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But this was true before LLMs. People would and still do take any old thing from an internet search and treat it as true. There is a known, difficult-to-remedy failure to properly adjudicate information and source quality, and you can find it discussed in research prior to the computer age. It is a user problem more than a system problem. In my experience, with the way I interact with LLMs, they are more likely to give me useful output than not, and this is borne out by mainstream non-edge-case academic peer-reviewed work. Useful does not necessarily equal 100% correct, just as a Google search does not. I judge and vet all information, whether from an LLM, search, book, paper, or wherever We can build a straw person who "always" takes LLM output as true and uses it as-is but those are the same people who use most information tools poorly, be they internet search, dictionaries, or even looking in their own files for their own work or sent mail (I say this as an IT professional who has seen the worker types from before the pre-internet days through now). In any case, we use automobiles despite others misusing them. But only the foolish among us completely take our hands off the wheel for any supposed "self-driving" features. While we must prevent and decry the misuse by fools, we cannot let their ignorance hold us back. Let's let their ignorance help make tools, as they help identify more undesirable scenarios.
Why do you interpret this comment as anti-OOP ?

I see it has criticising rust choice to not do OOP at the beginning to finally do it piece by price and that it would have probably be better for the language to embrace it from start.
Autoregressive Biomedicine
TL;DR This essay proposes three capabilities to look for in powerful biomedical AI: data alchemy, world modeling, and translational reasoning. With these in mind, it assesses whether tokenizing all biomedical data ever collected and feeding it to a large next-token prediction model will move us in the right direction.
This was the language they taught in our functional programming course while I was doing my CS degree. That was around 15 years ago now. I wonder if they still use it in the course
Sometimes I see a post and immediately know it’s going to take over my day. I’ll probably spend at least three hours reading this and the linked wikipedia articles.
Wasn't meant like that, was just a term I've heard used a lot in the industry - i.e. traditional "ICE" manufacturers who are very much late to the party in terms of both EV adoption (i.e. everyone except Nissan and Renault), and the impact of Chinese makers (which is everyone, including Tesla).
Again, sure. Now try to contribute to the source.

https://www.christopherspenn.com/2021/08/simple-is-not-easy/
> Except it's not—fluoride in the drinking water concentrations is proven safe and it doesn't affect brains.

What's amazing is these anti-science wackos are rejecting the largest-scale experiment of all time, with the best evidence that anyone is ever going to have on the subject. We have both temporal and spatial boundary conditions with and without community water fluoridation, where a large population has it and another large population doesn't have it. There is no evidence that the without-fluoridation population has higher intelligence! There is a huge body of evidence that the people without fluoridation have more decayed teeth.
If you're alluding to the tariffs on things like dairy and egg products, those are only applicable beyond a set quota which the US has not exceeded.
>This ban is anti-freedom. (Just like forcing them could be argued to be, even though that's what you argued against.)

By that logic is the first amendment "anti-freedom", because it prevents communities from instituting censorship laws, even if they actually want them?
To the author: Nice site. The very first link, https://effective-shell/, is broken.
Incisive comment, thanks for questioning the assumptions here.
>Actually if Intel were to push 18A on server it would make performance / density even better

Don't you end up needing pretty insane electric capacity not to mention cooling for that kind of density?
The DSN is already strained
Well, yes and no.

Providers are (I believe) required to let you bring your own equipment. Every DSL or cable service I've seen has allowed this.

However, it is also required that the modem you plug into the network accepts and runs firmware provided solely by the network operator. They can update your device at any time and there's nothing you can do about it.

So yeah, you can run your own hardware if you want, but the ISP will run their software on it whether you like it or not.
I'm not a big Riemannian geometry buff, but I took a look at the definition in Do Carmo's book and it appears that "grad f" actually lies in TM, consistent with what I said above. Would love to learn more if I've got this mixed up.

This would be nice, because it would generalize the "gradient" from vector calculus, which is clearly and unambiguously a vector.
Using a website is a strange example because that’s not at all how web services are architected. The only pieces that would have images in memory is a file serving layer on the server side and the user's browser.
In Germany, you can buy salt with or without fluorine. Both options are available at my local Lidl. It's clearly marked on the front of the box.
I used rclone to migrate about 2PB of data between datacentres last year.

There were some ways to make it go a bit faster, found by reading the rclone manual, but otherwise no surprises.

I wasn't sure what the maximum transfer speed could have been, but as one side was still the production system I didn't care to reach the limit anyway. Over 10Gb/s anyway.
The book about this, "A Higher Call", is excellent
I don't have any, but I wouldn't expect them to degrade any worse than anything else built to the same standard. Everything on it appeared to be "OEM quality" as people are fond of saying.

Remember that Tesla thought they could get away from that by using large touchscreens that then leaked, etc.. I don't see that with BYD - they seem to be using the same quality of parts that household car brands in Europe do, so I'd expect them to last as well.
Outside of industry no one has ever gotten a job because they spent 2k on a bag instead of 200$
Reinforcement Learning on Operations Research Problem
The comment I was replying to made it sound like this was insurance purely for recorded footage being destroyed, and not it being leaked. The former is very easy to fix by having everyone's workstations keep a copy of what they're working on[0]. But the more copies you have, the easier it is for the footage to leak. The two risks impose different and conflicting mitigation measures.

[0] Remember that one time Pixar rm -rf'd their server and almost lost Toy Story 2 but for one manager who had a local copy of the project at home?
I’m not a fan of the current administration, but I’ve found that my lack of trust in science has been driven almost entirely by how science has become less scientific and more bureaucratic, so removing yet another bureaucratic mandate that didn’t exist until a few months ago doesn’t seem like a bad idea. I think adding more bureaucracy isn’t going to fix the systemic problems in science today. I can’t find a copy of the policy online that doesn’t time out, so I can’t confirm whether the policy was bad or not though.
The person I responded to implied that Andrej is over-complicating things. That all you need is Python and Sqlite.
I suppose so. 99% of what I learn is outside uni.
That isn't the point I was making. Read again.
Please add

Jevons Paradox
We don’t know if their detention is lawful. Whether their detention is lawful hasn’t been litigated yet, but the fact they there’s a preliminary injunction against them doing it more that was upheld by the DC circuit court indicates that it is not lawful.
So if the Science™ said it was good to add antibiotics (reduces illness!) and anti-psychotics (reduces violence!) to the water supply, you'd be for it?
> based on another thread it sounds like they have an interesting Mormon safety net

as long as you're Mormon. Approximately 60% of the state.
Teaching LLMs to Write Like You: Fine-Tuning vs. Prompting
"In Switzerland 85% of domestic salt consumed is fluoridated and 67% in Germany. Salt fluoridation schemes are reaching more than one hundred million in Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Cuba. The cost of salt fluoridation is very low, within 0.02 and 0.05 € per year and capita. Children and adults of the low socio-economic strata tend to have substantially more untreated caries than higher strata. Salt fluoridation is by far the cheapest method for improving oral health. "

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24308394/

(Sea salt and Kosher salt are the salts that aren't fluoridated and iodated in those countries, fancy, more expensive salts, regular table salt- and the salt added in commercial/restaurants has both.)

So sure, you don't need to fluoridate the water, if you fluoridate the salt instead. But you have to do it some way or another. And the US and Canada doesn't, at present fluoridate the salt because we have it in the water. Remove it from some people's water but don't add it to the salt because everyone else has it in the water? Bad combination.
Planes fly, birds fly. They use related, but ultimately quite different mechanisms to do so. Yet we call both flying.
I can't think of a single thing that would kill the bit last of joy I take in computing more. If I woke up in such a world, I'd immediately look to reimplement Linux in an app and proceed to totally ignore the host OS.
Still I've never heard a pilot communicate like that. On the European airlines I've flown on the pilot would concisely and professionally explain the situation and then make a formal apology.
Eating preferences and customs are cultural and learned. Healthy eating is a matter of acquired tastes (takes some effort to acquire them, often thanks to parents' pressure) and delayed gratification. Junk food, like all sort of mass products, gives immediate gratification to simple, innate preferences: fat, salty, sugary, high-calories and strongly flavoured.
People with low impulse control and less strict education from their families are naturally drawn to junk food, and the effects compound through the generations.
The average parent in the US can't afford an extra $12000 per year in expenses. College students take out loans to pay for their education. I'm not sure what the average debt load is currently, but people I personally know who got away with a "small" student loan debt owed around $30000, and I've known people with >$100k student loan debt just from an undergraduate education.
In my experience with GCP, go through a Google partner (that will aggregate multiple clients to get discounts) and you'll be able to get commitment discounts with $500K/year or even less. But don't save too much money during your commitment period: if you don't expend your commitment, you'll pay for it anyway, and you might even lose some discounts.

Also, one trick to inflate your commitment expenses is asking your SaaS providers if it's possible to pay them through AWS or GCP marketplaces: it often counts against your commitment minimum expense, so not everything has to be instances and storage.
I think the victims of this earthquake, who will suffer a lot more as a result of these changes, will likely disagree with that. But I dont think they have internet access right now so you're good
Personally, I prefer that we are not consistent with three decades past. Gay marriage wasn’t recognized back then and so on. So I’m not surprised we’re inconsistent with that time. Over the period of one or two admins I prefer some degree of consistency but over three decades? Not so much.

If we had back then it wouldn’t have struck me as crazy if we’d considered the IRA a terrorist group. That we didn’t do this doesn’t mean we’re locked out of it forever.
That's kind of true, but it's not black and white.

For example, look at Golang. The syntax is very plain and it's by design so that everything looks the same.

Then take a look at Lisp. On the surface the syntax looks all the same but in reality, everyone can write their their own macros and people usually do. Then, you can barely understand what's going on if you are new to the codebase - but on the other hand, the flexibility is enormous.

Scala is somewhere in between. When you hire someone for Golang, you don't really need to make anything clear in terms of code style (I believe). In Scala (or Lisp) you should definitely clarify the style that you use. It's actually normal (I've hired pretty big number of Scala developers over my career and I have also rejected job offers due to the style the company uses which doesn't match what I like).

C++ probably is alike, but I don't really any C++ experience.
USAID has had a minimal presence in Myanmar for years - the junta kicked them and other NGOs out under the Biden administration [0] when the coup happened and the US sanctioned Myanmar [1].

Furthermore, whenever disasters happened in Myanmar, it would be neighboring states that did the bulk of aid work because logistics to Myanmar are tough even at the best of times.

Also, I agree with Hollerith - not everything is about the US and this thread has no relevance in a conversation about Tonga.

[0] - https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/12/13/myanmar-junta-blocks-lif...

[1] - https://www.courthousenews.com/biden-administration-kicks-up...
I'm not sure it's useful, but someone posted how to do a similar thing for Racket with PoweScript
https://onor.io/2025/01/more-scripting-with-racket.html
> Poor people in the US are capable of using fluoride toothpaste and flossing

This is absolutely not a substitute for fluoride in drinking water, which is most important for kids. When your teeth are forming below the gumline, the fluoride you ingest strengthens them. Brushing gums with fluoride doesn’t help.
With RISC-V being an open ISA a vendor can freely add some non-RVV thing on the instruction space used by RVV if it doesn't desire to support RVV. And that already exists with Xtheadvector (aka RVV 0.7.1) where thead made hardware with pre-ratification RVV that's rather incompatible with the ratified RVV1.0 but still uses generally the same encoding space.
> You missed the point. It’s not objectively true in all situations that if you don’t believe fluorinating water is necessary that you’re an a-scientific bad faith actor.

That's not what was being debated. What was asserted was that fluoride in water lowers IQ, a position that has been so thoroughly debunked at this point, that if, much like being anti-vax or thinking climate change doesn't exist, any continued movement reinforcing it is almost by definition bad faith. The information exists and short of purposely going out and looking for contrarian nonsense relative to the established position of science on the subject, you and everyone else can find it.

As frustrating as it is that "do your own research" has been basically ruined as a phrase by the professional internet bullshitter industrial complex, you really should, with a nod to the need for critical analysis of sources, an important part of that that frequently gets left to the side.

> Your statements very strongly supposed that this is a solved case closed topic

Because it is, and we need more of that and less endless citation. Not because citation is impossible or bad, but because we don't need to keep arguing every last point. If you think certain things, like fluoride lowers IQ, or that climate change doesn't exist, you are not needing an intellectual rebuke, you're needing enough people making fun of you that you stop spouting horseshit and go learn about things. All of humanity's knowledge is at your fingertips. It is not the responsibility of reasonable people to educate you against your will.
Products could version each interface as well as their aggregate, so you know if the parts you are using are breaking. It does introduce complexity, I know.
Inherit is the first step to tell.
FWIW, my requirements for a new laptop, if one of these is missing, I will stick to used Thinkpads:

1. Trackpoint

2. Ability to disable trackpad in BIOS, or better yet, no trackpad.

3. 16:10 screen. 10:9 stinks

4. Nothing from Nvidia

5. Ability to be used with OpenBSD. That means just about any OS should work on it.

6. A standard audio jack to allow me to plug in headphone

7. Just 1 Video Chip (GPU)

No need for bluetooth, but if there I would want to disable it via BIOS
It's not a novel problem but it _is_ a relatively novel (bad) economic environment. We've been in "let the good times roll" mode longer than ten years. In comparison to 2009-2011, it was different. Many ops professionals are younger than that and have gone their entire careers without doing anything on premise.

I remember trying to convince some very talented but newly minted ops professionals -- my colleagues -- to go on prem for cost. This was last year. They were scared. They didn't know how that would work or what safety guarantees there would be. They had a point, because the org I was at then didn't have any on prem presence, since they were such a young organization that they started in the cloud during "the good times". They always hired younger engineers for cost, so nearly no one in the org even knew how to do on prem infra. Switching then would have been a mistake for that org, even though cloud costs (even with large commit agreements) were north of six figures a month.
> This issue just doesn’t seem important enough to me to spend any effort arguing either way.

Your comment is well-stated, and in the spirit of a free and liberal society. The problem—not with your argument, but with the world—is that today there seems to be literally no issue unimportant enough not to argue about, or use as the battlefield for an unending ideological proxy war. My guess is that few of the people arguing this issue on HN have strong feelings about flouride qua flouride, but have strong feelings about the kinds of people they believe oppose or support the use of flouride in water, and this notion is what they're really railing against.
"Fleeting" in this context is just a synonym for "short lived" or "momentary".
yeah what EU country does that? Not Denmark...
What are the stats of the new system?

Cost per giga?

Latency curve on read? Latency curve on write?

Support for concurrency?

Max throughput?

I think the article is somehow shallow, but S3 is a very deep and flexible system. Of course, someone will just need it's basic features, but someone else may be interested in advanced features as well.
That’s an even stupider comparison than the antibiotics one.

Let’s dismantle what you did here that you think is so clever.

You took an absurd comparison of a tried and tested naturally occurring substance with a substance that public health professionals are trying to get us to use less of.

You took that, and replaced it with an even more far-fetched and even more generalised hypothetical.

At least, given your ignorance around antibiotics you might be forgiven for thinking it would be a good thing to give antibiotics for all. I mean if it’s good enough for your food supply it should be good enough for humans right? Ignore egg prices going through the roof cause your flock has no innate immune system.

So then you replace that reasonable sounding but stupid supposition and you replace it with “a word” that you pulled out of the air that sounds like it might be a thing and then wowed us with your abuse of glyphs™

You are nothing but a depressing waste of time and whoever is putting you up to this I’d suggest you go back to them with your cap in hand and admit you’re not up to it.

I enjoyed that. Thanks for the run-out.
Good point, but I believe that this is what the anime intended. Because if you look at it, this is what Okabe does, changes the past with the least effects. You are totally correct this amount of changes is actually a lot
What's in the pledge? Why is it necessary? What are the unintented consequences? You shouldn't go by name alone.

If my wife of 20 years asked me to sign some legally binding "fidelity pledge", it would def raise an eyebrow

In other words, if trump said there's some pledge I want NIH to sign that will make sure it's unbias and truth seeking, would you be for it? It could even be in the name , the NIH Truth Seeking Pledge.
Or where locality is critical. Like if you have a game that hits peak traffic at different times throughout the day in different regions. So, a company may not want to own hardware in multiple regions, when they would only be at peak usage for a few hours.
No. What a bizarre example to choose. This is so easy to demonstrate. They will all come back with the exact same correct answer
I do not really understand how this is self contained, when you have to install additional software to run it.

my approach is to use python build-in venv
https://gist.github.com/Szpadel/43794d606d9924e7fea3e63fb800...

that way you can run scripts with external packages with only basic python installation
>The difference is that fluoride is effectively an industrial waste product and thus it benefits multiple parties to use it

Source? Moreover, how much of a market can municipal water fluoridation create that companies would bother lobbying for it?
You joke, but a lot of these freedom-rah-rah-rah people absolutely cried like babies and resisted seatbelt laws back in the 80s and 90s, too. Half my family believed it was evidence a communist takeover, and they all had those little defeat devices that you plugged into the latch, which silenced the car's seatbelt-off indicator.

"You can't tell me what to do" has been a religion in the USA for a long, long time.
Escape Sequences in File Names
Every compiler should recognize and optimize for tail recursion. It's not any harder than most other optimizations, and some algorithms are far better expressed recursively.

Why is this not done?
if vendors like Pure weren't so incredibly irritating with the documentation behind a paywall i'd actually recommend them to clients.
What happens now is, a client already has pure, and as a contractor I can't get access to documentation. Seriously, what year is it.
I agree, mostly, but there are definitely some programs I want running on my phone and outside of the default browser.

- Timer / alarm clock
- Camera
- File browser
- Offline maps
- Another web browser

But not 250MB banking app.
but that's the crux of the issue: some people think that if software is insecure, it is better for it to be actually unuseably broken. see for instance how many valid usecases of software that "spies" on global key input are broken by X11 -> wayland for the sake of better security: stuff like autohotkey, global recording in apps like OBS Studio, global key displays, yaquake-style terminals..
I'm going to say something really out of pocket about the average American student, so forgive me.

Americans aren't used to having to compete. When they lose (and especially when they lose to foreigners) they get extremely resentful and behave as if something has been taken from them.

I think a large part of it is an entitlement issue that's pretty common in our culture. But there are also cultural undercurrents from resentful Americans who failed to get ahead in life that actively denigrate the concept of education and the educated.
It is not just _running_ things that's the problem, authentication and authorization are massive, I've attempted to run various Audio plugins with Wine which either do not run at all or they run on a one-time basis which is not feasible for any long term setup. Oh if only you could run them under a vm..
Current Excel Autosave when used with ODSP is different -- changes are individually autosaved (change cell, autosave, format table, autosave). They're completely transparent to the end user.

Word is similar.
They have a direct financial incentive to prevent you from turning off ads.

That's it, that's the entire story.
Efficient light control: Meta-optics replace conventional lenses