skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This illustration is a classic in the style of Tufte's Envisioning Information although I don't remember seeing it in his books. But given the current climate of DOGE cuts and Musk's demand for email reports of what each gov employee did last week it occurs that a public online org chart of the entire non-classified Federal Government with weekly entries made by all employees would be a huge win and would justify the level of spending.
Does that mean he is right or that he knows what Maoism is?
Java has made some big strides here to catch up with the functional and data-oriented features other languages are all adding.

I was pretty surprised and impressed to see a modern example lately. There’s Record data types, stronger type inference with `var`, pretty great structural pattern matching, switch expressions (that return a value), stream apis for map, filter, and reduce etc. All of these move it further away from strictly OOP.

And separate but still cool is a pretty neat virtual thread system too. Java has definitely had a bit of a glow up since I learned it in uni.
Please document one or two cases. Everything I have seen has turned out to be a little more complicated than initially presented.

E.g. This story of the French researcher which started as, "A French scientist has been denied entry into the United States, apparently because the scientist had expressed a personal opinion on the Trump administration's research policy"

In fact turned out to be, "The French researcher in question was in possession of confidential information on his electronic device from Los Alamos National Laboratory — in violation of a non-disclosure agreement— something he admitted to taking without permission and attempted to conceal,”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/world/europe/us-france-sc...
Nice. I'm doing 10 days and I booked one thing. Happy to skip the high end sushi and whatever else needs booking years in advanced.
Is it, though? Most people don’t really have a notion of the file system, or hierarchical file structures. They drop files onto their desktop, or keep them in the downloads folder. Just ask a parent or your next-door neighbour.

That’s a bit of a problem when discussing problems of normal users with power users, because they don’t even realise how what they’re doing is actually not what normies do.

I’m inclined to agree that hotkeys in MacOS are hard to discover, but cluttering the interface with stuff many users simply do not need cannot be the correct answer.
I wonder how much of the general sentiment about Google search sucking around tech sites is due to tech-savvy people turning off personalized search.

I have a feeling that turning it off is the greatest source of bad search results
Yeah to me the overt lying is more damning than any particular decision. If he owned the decision to bypass ethics review and release a model, fine, we can argue if that was prudent or not, but at least it's honest leadership. Lying that the counsel said it was ok when they hadn't is a whole other thing! When someone starts doing that repeatedly, and it keeps getting back to you that stuff they said was just outright false, you can't work with them at all imo.

If this is something he's been doing for years, it becomes clearer why Y Combinator fired him, though they have been kind of cagey about it.
TFA is equating the beginnings of the ethnic cleansings of a highly and historically persecuted peoples to the authoritative actions against politically active citizens and non-citizens. I’m sure there are many cases with classified rationale, and many that are also blatantly illegal.

I’ll keep reiterating: I don’t think what’s happening in the US is ok. But I also don’t think the analogy is ok.
> When coming from telephony and high availability [world]

That's a good point, its pretty easy to forget BEAM's heritage from the telecom world. The defaults on the VM are for that use-case, I'm so used to thinking of everything from a web perspective that I didn't even consider this, despite knowing of its history.
It claims that OpenAI output is "free", but the OpenAI ToS says (among other things)

> You are prohibited from ... Using Output to develop models that compete with OpenAI.

If this were a software license, it'd surely be classified as nonfree.
I should say that software complexity is different than normal engineering complexity; physical constraints are replaced with cognitive constraints on managing abstractions. To address both: designing a modern microprocessor is very complex. I think certain software tools used to aid in this, e.g. a simulator to test designs, are very complex. These complexities are different: the former is based in science and the latter is based in logic. Even so, they intersect in the real world, but aren't equal. I think the latter has a much higher ceiling for difficulty, as complexity comes for free there.
I can only speculate, but I suspect it's related to our infantilization. A proper democracy requires an informed and rational electorate, and we just don't have that.

As I said elsewhere in this post, most adults now read below the sixth grade level. Popular media has been getting shorter and shorter, all while relying less and less on the printed word. Meanwhile the most popular news sources are targeted to people with the comprehension and reading skills of children, and the most popular movies are literally based on children's comic books. Hell, video games outsell movies by an ever increasing margin and the majority of adults now find it impossible/unpleasant to sit through even an entire comic book film without checking their cell phones. Even music has become increasing simple and repetitive, designed not to challenge the listener. Our shared culture is almost entirely the culture of children.

So then, do we really expect these adult-sized children to be capable of facing down hard choices, or making rational informed decisions? No, they accept the "obvious" (but often incorrect) answers offered by charlatans and simpletons in lieu of genuine reason and the hard work of finding actual (and often painful) solutions for the very messy real world.
https://www.google.com/search?q=google+search+quality+reddit (the irony is not lost on me, still better than reddit search)

https://gizmodo.com/google-search-results-are-getting-worse-...
might've been replied from iphone, mail.app does that sadly.
I have it turned on and I subjectively find it pretty bad still.
Someone can think something is bad, while simultaneously thinking it’s an exaggeration to liken it to Nazi persecution of Jews.
I must’ve missed all the people we deported for attending IRA funerals.
A few times in my life I really had to get through a locked door and asked myself "What would Kojak do?" and always got through with at most three kicks.
You have not been able to trust any single search engine for a long time since all of them have their biases, their quirks, their blind sides, their errors and other reasons for not relying on them as sole search engine. This also goes for Kagi which so many around here tend to push with the same fervour they push Apple. Just because you pay for something does not make it good, just because you paid more than the person next to you does not mean you get the better product.

What then, you ask? Well, that is for you to decide. Choose a few search engines - real ones which create their own index, not only re-badged versions of Google or Bing - and use those in a round-robin schedule or search whatever you want in all of them. Use a meta-search engine like SearxNG [1] which submits your query to a select set of engines and shows the results from all in a single page (this is what I have been using for many years). Install YaCy [2] and create your own index for sites you frequent. Pick and choose, don't rely on a single source. This has been true for as long as web search engines exist.

[1] https://github.com/searxng/searxng

[2] https://yacy.net/
"Every day, ~100TB of material are uploaded to the Internet Archive"
"Science has been completely destroyed"

Really? Completely?
Yeah, this is one of those places where because RFK Jr took the anti- stand there's an understandable assumption that it's more nutty anti-science stuff, but it's much less clear cut when it comes to fluoridation. Europe has much lower rates than the US, which is an outlier on these stats only approached by Australia, and before Utah the major high profile anti-fluoride stance was made by Portland:

https://www.wweek.com/portland/blog-30229-portland-voters-so...

To the extent this is a polarized left-right issue, it's only recently and only because everything is polarized right now.
The most impressive thing here is that you physically go to friends houses to play games together.
> popular talking points from my in-group to attack them

Pointing out that we're currently being de facto ruled by a circle of wealthy billionaires and millionaires is not a "talking point". This comes across as projection.

> I'm convinced that you are a lot smarter than that

Thank you. I'm not sure what you're looking for me to add to the conversation however, I just plainly said what I saw, which was them to bat for several oligarchs who are currently making a mockery of our country.
Wasn't a personal attack. I was attacking the opinion. And in any case, pointless, completely contrived race baiting does have a place here? Those are the kinds of comments that deserve to be called out for their blatant stupidity.

Also, people on this site regularly engage in personal attacks. I'd suggest you read the comments on many posts more carefully since you've appointed yourself to be the conduct police.
I suspect that's a big reason. Remember about a decade back or so when Fox had four of it's upcoming television shows leaked onto public and private tracker sites about six months before their actual premieres?

Lucifer, Minority Report, Blindspot, and Carmichael were all leaked, and those shows were on different networks, which means it was likely a third-party company that was doing effects in post. I don't recall if it was ever sussed out what exactly happened and now they all got leaked, but it definitely made the industry a bit warier.
Every day I am more glad not to be part of the windows ecosystem.
Precisely. The framework has been in-place since 9/11. The government (i.e., Democrat and Republican) has been testing the limits of what it can get away with, very gradually, ever since.

What Trump is doing right now is nothing but an application of this “domestic security” framework.

Heck, the government even gave everyone a taste of what’s to come with the repression of pro-Palestine college protests across the country, and the dystopian shutdown of any criticism of a foreign country.

You can always ignore the use of repression on people or causes you don’t agree with, but don’t start complaining when you or your cause is the one being repressed.
The past is just as available to inform us as the present, as your reference to past nazis indicated. It's an inconvenient comparison, but it remains apt. I think most people like to believe that current events are special, but they rarely are. Just takes a little bit of historical perspective to realize.
I actually tried the first version.. back in the day.
But even if NEXIS is stupid expensive it's still acceptable if you have the productions for it.

One of the main reasons it's used in larger post houses is the hardware and software support that is world wide with people on site if needed.
> But I think the analogy in TFA is also insane.

That's what people in Russia were thinking in 2012. And now people there are literally arrested just for saying a wrong thing.
When both things are claimed based on the same evidence it follows to judge them together.
arent most of these doors magnetic, ie the power goes down, all doors open
Even if there is measurement, it’s pretty easy to cherry pick stats or question the existing stats. I’ve seen it time and time again often “data driven” only matters if the data agrees with the leader/devs preconceived beliefs.
I am wondering about hardware keyrings like Yubikeys : From a security point of view is it safe to cross international borders with them ? How do you connect back to your accounts without one when all your devices are based on two-factor authentication if your hardware keyring has been seized when by customs. Could you be detained for not "remembering" the second factor to unlock the keyring ?
is Utah cutting school support and social services?
> No one that is an expert in nonlinear optimization has a PhD in... nonlinear optimizations. Typically their degree is going to be in Mathematics...

Lol wut. On the contrary there are absolutely zero people with a "PhD in Mathematics" and definitely very many people with PhDs whose dissertations have the words "nonlinear optimization" in them.
It's not snark, in your reply you for whatever reason cut out the context at the end of the sentence. "Lucky 10k" is referring to this xkcd comic [0] which I thought was a pretty good one and I've tried to take to heart. I was genuinely surprised, but that's the point, what one thinks is "common sense" or "everyone knows" is always going to be brand new to someone every single day. It's happened to me lots, and is one of the delights of HN, to learn about a whole new set of use cases you've never considered before. In this case maybe it will lead them to consider how it might be useful in their own offices or homes for that matter. Making a powerful machine run quietly is both challenging and can be fairly expensive. But if you have the physical space available, then you may be able to just use powerful, cheap loud fans by virtue of putting it in an area of a basement or the like away from living space/home office and accessing it remotely. Depending on how you do so the quality can be the same as if you were sitting in front of it.

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0: https://xkcd.com/1053/
I think people can see the milky way in the right conditions alright.. We know from ancient records that people could see it as well.

As far as I can tell though, making out the actual spiral features of another galaxy is generally assumed to be impossible... And I don't think it actually is, for someone like yourself.
This is shortsighted. A lot of EU businesses can, and do, benefit from partnering with China. Most EU countries willingly and intentionally de-industrialized in the past decades (see Dutch disease) and moved the production to China.

European countries also willingly and intentionally outsourced their technological edge to the US. This didn't end up in disaster either. Why should it be any different with China?

When Japanese or Korean cars came we had almost the same reactions. Nobody complains now. Why should it be different with China?

Most of the chips are produced in Taiwan. There is no way EU can catch up. What does, economically, change if this moves to China!

Treating technology and economy as a zero sum game is simply wrong.
The CHIPS act did include specific funding for mature (>= 28nm) nodes. It definitely wasn't the bulk of the funding but it was there.

Initial estimates were that about a quarter of funding would go to supporting legacy/mature nodes, and at least 2 billion (of the initial 39 billion) was directly earmarked for legacy/mature nodes.

https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R47523
From the post:

https://archive.org/details/gokuraku-paradise-theater-1994-1...
Utah has among the best schools in the nation: https://www.reddit.com/r/Utah/comments/1idrt6j/utah_spends_t...

It also has among the happiest citizens: https://www.deseret.com/utah/2024/09/09/utah-mental-health-h...

It has the highest economic mobility in the country: https://www.forbes.com/sites/adammillsap/2023/12/22/utah-top...

Despite being filled with guns, it’s got a homicide rate only a little higher than Canada: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...

And it’s ranked in the top 10 states for life expectancy: https://www.axios.com/local/salt-lake-city/2022/08/24/utah-t...

Utah and Massachusetts are basically the steel-man versions of their respective ideologies. But Utah doesn’t have the benefit of Harvard and MIT, major Pharma companies, etc. It’s surrounded by desert and has no natural resources to speak of.
The Palestinian Authority doesn’t control who is allowed to enter and live there; Israel does. So “Palestine” has no way to deport anyone.
I don't mean this in a shitty way but how much of what you know about the US comes from recent (say last 40 years) media and culture sources?

Because if you read into its history, I mean we started with a genocide and chattel slavery. Then created & implemented an entirely novel and comprehensive social-legal framework to justify and manage an apartheid society for another few generations. Lynching was a beloved public spectacle just a century ago. Hitler & Hendrik Verwoerd looked to us for inspiration.

I'm american and not particularly an america-hater overall, I could create an equivalent list of positive things we've accomplished. But both are true, and the above are facts. What's happening now has always been part of our country too. We have never really reckoned with this, and it will keep coming back until we do.
I understand and respect your moral position, I just feel that I have an even stronger moral requirement to take care of myself and my family first, and I think that others should do the same.

As the stewardesses say, you should always put on your own oxygen mask first.
Is sample size even relevant here? If they’re working with NHS data, presumably they have pretty reliable population data (i.e. not randomly sampled) to work with.

And regardless, even if it was a sample, I don’t see how a sample of thousands would be too small to detect a very large effect like that, unless the variance was extremely high. (But again, I’m not sure that complaining about “sample size” even makes sense in this case.)
Within constraints, yes, it does, but I think there are many improvements I could still make. Speaker diarization and identification are ongoing subjects of research and right now there's not a good end-to-end model, so if your constraints are local inference only or low latency, it can be harder to get amazing results with current hardware and off-the-shelf models. It's still a lot better than nothing.
Not to mention that blanket statements about Apple are absurd. I was a developer there for a decade, and every group was different.

I love reading articles that purport to tell the public how things at Apple work. They're almost always laughably full of shit.
They found confidential information on his phone as he was attempting to enter the US, and their response was to turn him back instead of detaining him for violating those agreements or espionage?

Does that sound plausible to you? Or even a better argument? If I was fully onboard with America is the only country that matters I would be apoplectic to find out they let a known spy just leave
By not relevant, I mean that while you can use incentives to design a fair society that encourages other people to do right, that's not how you can decide what to do for yourself when the environment for the purposes of an individual choice has already been determined.
Atop 2.11 heap problems
Well, I hope the kool aid is tasty at least.

Do you ever stop and think it’s an amazing coincidence that every criticism of Musk is totally unfair?
No, it was not torture, it was just “enhanced interrogation” and “extraordinary rendition”.
I will also say that I don't hate vinyl records or people that like to DJ with them, I get why it's cool, I think it has a place. What I do take issue with is any kind of vinyl elitism or snobbism, because it's just so backwards at the professional level. I can't think of an analogue to another area of endeavor where there is this culture or sense of disdain for using the current tools and technology to do your job better. It's nonsense gatekeeping.

People that use hand tools to make things don't have this attitude that it's "better" than using power tools, it's just a different way that they enjoy.

Please carefully read everything I've posted in this thread. I'm speaking from a position of wanting to provide the best experience to the customer and the fan of dance music events.
I had no background in AI, but over 8 days I built cidafm: a prompt-based protocol for modular AI behavior.

It uses simple language-layer commands to define state, modify behavior, and execute actions. I open-sourced it, and to my surprise it started spreading; likely in private channels, based on an analysis of my GitHub cloning stats.

This article is a reflection on how that happened, why it seems to resonate, and where I want to go with it. If you'd rather skip the article and just see/experiment with the prompt, it's on cidafm.com.

Feedback is welcomed, and very much needed.
https://archive.is/OLfe2

of the approximately 150 Gen Z respondents, 30% said not sharing locations is a relationship killer. Almost 60% of participants said sharing locations signals the relationship is official.
Being under the rule of the Spaniards in Mexico was no ball of fun, but then again being under the rule of the Aztecs (if you weren't one) wasn't either. I'm not qualified to judge the details.
Also all reads and writes have to go across pcie and through the cpu, which should be fast but you are not going to get vram to gpu access speeds
Yeah, 4th would have been better.
Generate autounattend.xml files for Windows 10/11
I just want to jump on this because I was thinking about it just yesterday. I was raised Catholic but I am not religious and based on the creeds I would not qualify as a "true" Christian since I reject miracles like virgin births and resurrections of the dead.

But I have read selections of the bible, as well as a bunch of other religious texts like selections from the vedas and sutras.

The first parable in the gospel of Mark, the oldest gospel known, is Jesus talking about a farmer sowing seeds. Some of the seeds end up on rocks and birds eat them. Some seeds end up in shallow soil and wither quickly. Some end up surrounded by thorns and are choked out. Only a few land in fertile soil. But the crop that results from the grain grown from the fertile soil is massive, enough to feed people and leave over seeds to repeat the process.

The entire point of the literal first teaching of Jesus is: most people won't actually do what is taught. For various reasons, they will hear the teaching but it won't stick in them. But it doesn't matter because the few people who actually listen to the teaching and actually change their lives will be enough for goodness to spread.

So the criticism of "some (or even most) believers don't act as they profess to believe" is accounted for in the teaching pretty explicitly. Jesus even states later on how at the time of judgement many people will call his name and he will tell them that they never knew him.
Sure, but nobody is going to read that comment and think, "this guy is a solid Bolshevik."
Fluoride is known to be problematic at high concentrations (hell, everything is). The problems of fluoride really start to come into play at concentrations of around 10-20mg/L, and some of the areas being studied are running well in excess of 100mg/L of fluoride.

The EPA limit for fluoride is 4mg/L. There's an argument to be made that it should be lowered to 2mg/L. When fluoride is added to drinking water, the target is around 0.9mg/L--no one's coming close to the EPA limit, and that exists because groundwater sources can end up being naturally high in fluoride. (I'm not sure what the typical natural occurrence of fluoride is in Utah, but I strongly suspect that they're not making any moves to actually remove fluoride from existing systems.)
Is there scope to believe they just think it may be better not to have it in the water?
But you're discouraging experimentation with nothing else but a reference to a silly comic
The Quote: "AI can never fail, it can only be failed" is something to think about
Nice.

So basically just work at a company in an office and you'll be more productive.

Literally company