skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But we can see throughout history that the prevalence of disease follows closely with societies that raise animals. That said, I think it is a poor excuse for advocating against animal husbandry. Disease will always exist and spread, but keeping livestock and pets does increase the chances of it happening a bit.
NSA opposes crypto (for anyone but themselves).

If they cannot read the message, they seek to block it implicitly.

Fast flux is just crypto in time, name, ip space to prevent blocking.

How's Clipper Chip and Skipjack going? Al Gore brought us that too.
If Americans believed this there wouldn’t ever have been a problem.
The guys who created Space Quest kickstarted another sci-fi comedy adventure game... 13 years ago. It went (and is still going) poorly, and Kotaku just posted about the ordeal today:

https://kotaku.com/spaceventure-space-quest-kickstarter-stea...

I backed the project, but at one of the lowest levels, so I'm not really mad. It's just kind of sad.
No, I did not. Are you actually going to engage with the arguments I have made?
How on earth do you classify estate taxes as stronger than fixed term ownership?
As a price-weighted measure, even a percentage drop is not that comparable over time.
For coding, I‘m finding Claude‘s responses most to the point and on-task. While many other models try to extrapolate or lecture or patronize. DeepSeek is pretty good though. Maybe it’s the high latency (probably due to prompt processing)?
I’m not talking about compensation. I’m talking about a reason to live at all.
It's an odd piece of procedural technicality.

* Trump declared emergency Tariff powers.

* An appeal was made to stop this.

* The appeal has to be heard and voted on within X number of "Calendar days"

* "Calendar days" usually means "every day of the week, including weekends and holidays, as a 24-hour period from one midnight to the next."

* However this term has been "redefined in a context" such that it no longer means that ... (just with respect to the appeal against Trump's tariff powers)

with the result that the filed appeal will never be heard or voted on within the current session.

Programmers likely are familier with changing the meaning or type of things within a context .. it's a procedural version of that.
How about outright harassment of Jewish students at Columbia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_at_Columbia_Unive...

Does that qualify? No? Now replace Jewish with African American. Is that still OK in your book?
FOSS is built for hacking, but hacking is not limited for FOSS.
Porn looks (to me) like stupid theater for stupid masses. Similar to wrestling in spandex costumes. Please don't wank or squirt in my direction.

IN THICK BLACK EDDING: And keep the futa away from the freckled ginger forest fairies with puffy nippled perky tits!
>“In the first term everyone thought they were president,” a senior White House official said.

I think the issue is that Trump thinks any opinion not in lock step with his own is a problem. That's not "thought they were president" that was more likely people who know about a thing and maybe the president should know about that too ... that's why you surround yourself with qualified people, not hangers on ...
The main hang-up is that ARM uses PC as a general register a lot and in ways that make translating ARM instrs rather messy.

ADD R0, SP, PC, ROR SP

is entirely valid, even if nonsensical, instruction. But you must translate all valid inputs, else you risk breaking things. That may be a contrived example, but here is a common one: if one has a jumptable of relative offsets somewhere, pointed to by R10, even this is valid:

LDR R0, [R10, R0, LSL #2]
ADD PC, R10, R0

That gets messy to translate
I don’t think that was their claim that they knew this.

I think it’s hilarious that apparently few have learned from Theranos or WeWork.

OpenAI is in a precarious position. Anything less than AGI will make them look like a bust. They are backed into a situation where they are heavily incentivized to lie and Theranos their way out of this and hope they can actually deliver something that resembles their pie in the sky predictions.

We are at the point where GPT-5 is starting to look like the iPhone 5.
Airbnb’s original promise was magical, thrilling, interesting - get to stay in unusual places that are full of charm and possibility.

But that promise was broken for me when Commaleta played back the video of her front door camera and counted that we had 10 people walk in her door, not eight. She proceeded to accuse us of throwing a party, when we absolutely did not, and tried to charge us $1000 extra dollars.

At that point, I decided that Airbnb’s hosts were too much of a wildcard in most travel situations.

By the way, the story above is from 10 years ago and I will never forget her name for the rest of my life…she turned what should’ve been a relaxing, beautiful week into a miserable arbitration process. It’s hard for ABNB to succeed long term when one experience like that can ruin everything.
I posted this 5 days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43522396
And more importantly you're also just incompetent while publicly admitting you fired a bunch of people without actually being sure you wanted to.

Feels like we have a word for that: when you unnecessarily expend resources. I'm sure it'll come to me...
They thought, "if I do a good job, I'm going to get a bonus"
If you're asking what the SPLC is, even if you google it and see the first result, you have no skin in this game. Sit this discussion out. You're just using this opportunity to leak your anti-semitism and you're not even being subtle about it.
I respect those people quite a lot. A lot more than I respect the parasites and frauds filling out the machine learning department.
> Which is why all US military clothing is mandated to be domestically produced (Berry Amendment).

Cool.

> But how much industrial capacity do you want to take up making clothing?

I actually want the market to decide that. But that is fundamentally what we do not have. It has been more or less the result of conscious trade policy (by all governments involved) to incentivize production in other countries.
Ethically sourced "spare" human bodies could revolutionize the market for unethically sourced "spare" human bodies ...
Hawthorne is not Los Angeles—it's an hour away+ in heavy traffic during rush hour. :-/
I don’t get the point on going open source aside from a tiny boost in marketing. What is the objective and proposition here? Considering as others have said is not really open source. If I were the founder I would not do that. It’s like if Airbnb went open source or something
Does the really need reinforcement learning? It seems like something that classical controller should be able to do.
According to Wikipedia, China had 22 under construction as of 2023 for 24 GW of power. They have a goal of 150 by 2035.

I think they'll probably be able to finish at least 1-2 by 2027.
The 'Judicial Black Hole' of El Salvador's Prisons Is a Warning for Americans
Show HN: Skype is closing down, I built a replacement
You may have heard Microsoft is closing down Skype in a month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43202052#43202881

As someone originally from the UK who spends a significant amount of time in Morocco, I constantly faced the challenge of making affordable and straightforward calls back home, especially to essential services like my bank or credit card company - Skype always made it easier for me with their outgoing to calls to a regular phone number. I used Skype 2/3 times a week.

When I heard they were closing down, and saw a post by @levelsio on X, I put my head to creating a replacement, and here it is: https://www.zippcall.com

It allows you to make international calls from your web-browser to regular phones (landline or mobile/cell) in any country.
> Did they kick students out of school because of their viewports?

Yes actually! Almost every presigious/non public college has speech codes. And those speech codes have consequences. Up to, and including, expulsion if you keep breaking them.

Check out how well each college is doing here: https://www.thefire.org/colleges
Ehh, I don't think the problem is so much that we eat meat, it is how we produce it. Beef for example is raised primarily with alfalfa, a legume that puts nitrogen in the soil for free rather than having to turn fossil fuels into nitrogen fertilizer or spending substantial fractions of the total world's electricity generation on its production. Plus the fertilizer from the cow shit itself. Its not like we are short on land capable of growing grass, farmland utilization has been dropping for decades, a lot of those places get regular rainfall and alfalfa is nearly free to grow and harvest.

Of course getting people to learn about these things and politicians to adopt sensible policies about it is a whole other game.
From the standpoint of using a human likeness, I don't see the difference between encoding a "conceptual representation" of Ford's face into a model and encoding it into any other digital or analog format from which it can later be decoded into a reasonable facsimile of the original.

I think that calling it a "conceptual representation" over-complicates the issue. At the very least, the model weights encode a process that can produce a copy of their training date. A 300x300 pixel image of Harrison Ford's face is one of what, like 1.5x10^12 possible images. Obviously, only a tiny fraction of all possible images are encoded in the model. Is encoding those particular weights into a diffuser which can select that face by a process of refinement really much different than, say, encoding the image into a set of fractal algorithms, or a set of vectors?

I'd argue that the largest models are akin to a compression method that has simply pre-encoded every word and image they've ingested, such that the "compressed file" is the prompt you give to the AI. Even with billions of weights trained on millions of texts and images, they've only encoded an infinitely tiny fraction of the entire space. Semantically you could call it something other than a "copy", but functionally how is it any different?
Sounds like the Theranos of physical security.

It shouldn't be of any surprise that with the "AI" hype wave, we're going to get many more half-cooked magical solutions to difficult problems.
Maybe you can look at squarespace templates together, you help him obtain a domain, set it up, connect email, create the initial site for him, show him how to make changes.

These are trivial for us but for him would be a great starter and timesaver.
Shout out to all those generous souls who posted how-to's and project notes for their IoT projects, so that machines could learn from them.
Not only that. Fortran is very good for writing number-crunching code. Modern Fortran is a pretty ergonomic language, it gives you a really easy way to auto-parallelize things in many ways, and new Fortran code is being produce unironically. Of course it normally uses the treasure trove of existing numerical Fortran code. (Source: a friend who worked at CERN.)
COVID was basically an act of god that effected everyone and for whom no single actor could be blamed.

This is the thoughtless incineration of trust in a network of relationships, and that has to be earned back.

It's unclear how long that will take even if the GOP loses the next few presidential elections given how much US policy can change from one term to the next.

The world will be waiting to see if Trumpism ends with Trump or if it becomes something they have to account for possibly taking power every four years.

This has ramifications for any long-term investment into the US like factories and manufacturing. The risk has just shot up and will be much slower to come down.
How is this too complicated? All of the oligarchs surrounding Trump knows that if they manipulate him to their advantage, he's not bright enough to know it. So, they realize how much he loves the beautiful word "tariff", and the nudge him even further. Voila! It's win-win
> I don't consider sodomy a basic human right, but i could be argued with, i guess.

...

> I am unsure why people keep deleting their replies. It is possible to have a reasoned discussion about inflammatory topics.

I also think it is possible, but I don't think your first quoted statement here is compatible with that discussion.
Google, Wikipedia, kagi. Now, please tell me your source.
But in this case neither the input nor the output are actually nonsense!
It's really uplifting to hear this? If it's not too personal, what shifted your perspective? Have you been able to reach out to people in a similar situation?
That’s a garbage cop-out. Intelligence without creativity is not what AI companies are promising to deliver.

Intelligence without creativity is like selling dictionaries.
Rayiner says it in a comment upthread. Whereas most lawyers in the US work on cases filed in state court, Rayiner works on cases filed in Federal court, and if you were to sue the US government to try to assert the free-speech rights of the immigrants we are talking about, you'd do it in Federal court.

Sadly, his comment has been flagged.
I'm not aware of any production version of Chordite (that this design is based on) as of now; but in the wider family of chorded keyboards, the one with a production version that I'm aware of is the Twiddler.
At some point you'll want to upgrade the hugo generator, and then you'll need to wade through their release logs. I neglected my personal site for years and I had to hunt down various errors and deprecations. It's out of reach for non-developers to do. A 1.x compatibility promise would go a long way.

My wife's site runs on Squarespace, and she's been self-sufficient since it was set up.
The current US government is a circus full of unqualified yes-people - the only thing that stops losing even more is to disband the circus.
Because businesses always support their software better than individuals?
This is delusional. The stock tanked literally the moment the board came out. Futures went -5% across the board. The actual minute China announced retaliation: boom.
My point was that this is a minority preference in most paces.
A no-code website builder, 100%. You don't want to maintain that thing. A good builder (I like framer) let's non technical people take ownership over it while still providing flexibility in UI and high speed (for SEO & bounce rate). After seeing landing pages that non tech friends have built, there's no way I'd do it from scratch. Too buggy and time consuming.
I think he was worried about Sun Microsystems involvement[0] w Tcl when John Ousterhout went there[1], too. But mostly seems like a collection of unsolicited strawmen[2]. Also probably love-of-lisp.

[0] That any proximity to commerce is evil?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ousterhout

[2] https://vanderburg.org/old_pages/Tcl/war/
In Anger: a theologically-confused tale of nominative determinism.
Time to learn more about REEs in China: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xu_Guangxian and his wife https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gao_Xiaoxia
Possibly because of xor with 0xc0 which, for lowercase ascii, has the same effect as adding 64.

Probably seeing xor-encoded input is common in the training data.
Thanks for the links.
I didn't know about SwiftWave.

I have a page with a comparison table of self-hosted PaaS on my site: https://dbohdan.com/self-hosted-paas.
It only covers options that don't use Kubernetes.
I have just added SwiftWave.
Surprised DOGE hasn't fire-bombed the Library of Congress and triumphantly boasted about how much money was saved.
Also Americans have always allowed government over reach and corruption on the assumption that the AR-15 they have a pretty good grouping on at weekends is what'll solve the problem if it gets "really bad".

I call it the violence event horizon: a whole lot of people's critical thinking just stops, as though an actual war will make things so much simpler.
Consider https://www.framer.com/
Bus factor maybe? Which is mitigated by good community/contributors
This is very LSD. I didn’t realize Bill was into it, until recently

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHY5i9-0tJM
Oh nice. A culture where asking questions is punished. If this was a problem don't fire people. Train them. Make sure everyone does required training. If they refuse then you may have a case for PIP.

Otherwise it is just landmine driven performance

Rant not at comment! But the situation of the comment. Hope it worked out for you!
Totally agreed. Among the many complaints I have here, this is a big one. As long as Dems are saying "this sucks we hate it we will change it", we have a lot of uncertainty, and so it is definitely not time to build factories.

I'd contrast this with the Obama energy policy, which was a significant change in US policy toward energy independence, consistently and fairly quietly applied without generating a worldwide recession or trade war.
Well then, luckily the name is "Coolify" and not "Coolie."
I think you've covered the whole philosophy, the rest is just implementation details.
hmm I have seen conda env with far too many packages and maybe a lot of current version bumping, and the dev says "who cares" and it naturally gets a bit more.. Intentionally complicated is more like an accusation of wrongdoing.
I said that. And agree.
> That's about 10% of US household spending on food

Isn't ~10% spending on food like a historical best of any country ever?
Consequences as “asinine”? Let’s agree to disagree.
Modern gadget are next to impossible to fully debug since they are based on software. Software gives us infinite possibilities which is a double edge sword. We get infinite ways to design what we want but with that comes infinites ways that bugs can creep in. One way to mitigate the problem is to define strict design rules which minimize problems but that would also mean we minimize creativity.

Current tech may seem worse but that's simply because it tries to so much more which means we see a lot more unintended problems.

Bottom line, software-based-perfect-design is a moving target that it will never be achieved to our complete satisfaction.
Because.

There.

Was.

No.

Vote.

Please, show me the bill they signed for these tariffs. Please, show me the bill for DOGE. The dissolving of the DoE. The mass firing of federal employees.

Democrats cannot do anything because Trump has dissolved the power of the legislative branch and Republicans are capitulating. He is acting unconstitutionally as a king who declared unilateral edicts. The only they can do is sue in the courts afterwards, but they would still need standing, which politicians lack.
While I have no doubt that Vietnam went calling, facing devastating tariffs, the "hat in hand" bit is uproarious.

What do you think Vietnam will offer?

It has negligible tariffs on US goods. It exports a lot to the US because it has very cheap labour, because it's a poor country. It is in no position to buy more from the US. There is no universe where it's going to even remotely close that trade deficit.

So what, in your rose-coloured view, do you think they are offering up?

I mean, everyone realizes this is a hilarious cope regardless. Trump declared, with utter absolutism, that the tariffs are not going anywhere and there is no way to negotiate them. That his "ERS" would net trillions and balance the budget. But wait...now it was really a masterful negotiating strategy?

I mean, Trump could have said "here's the tariffs we have estimate based upon a current analysis", and if isn't remediated in a month we'll stagger in "reciprocal" tariffs. That isn't what he did. Instead he did the stupidest thing imaginable, which is what we see today. So yes, when he has to backtrack because it was the most catastrophic self-destruction in history, feel good that a super poor country came "hat in hand".
It is still actively developed and used, yeah. People tend to mention the fpga scene most, tcl is the predominant language there, but I use it mostly with or along side audio/visual software.
Tariffs will have negative impact if it’s on an everyday item. That group doesn't buy new luxury euro cars and wines every day. They buy domestic or Japanese and domestic beer and liquor. I’m convinced that east asia (Japan, Korea, Vietnam) will negotiate the tariffs down and that will bring Japanese/Korean vehicles and clothes prices down because China will need to lower prices to stay competitive to Vietnam and Korea and will just eat the tariff.

Coffee will go up, but most food staples will not be all that volatile because Mexico got the out. Coffee is weird one though…because people will gladly pay 30% more for coffee on account of it being more an habit/addiction.
but that is literally how the browser window DOM works, no? It depends on how diligent the maintenance is IMHO
From my other comment elsewhere. These resources helped me understand the topics better.

If anyone wants to understand fundamentals of machine learning, one of the superb resources I have found is, Stanford's "Probability for computer scientists"[1].

It goes into theoretical underpinnings of probability theory and ML, IMO better than any other course I have seen. But, this is a primarily a probability course that discusses the fundamentals of machine learning. (Yeah, Andrew Ng is legendary, but his course demands some mathematical familiarity with linear algebra topics)

There is a course reader for CS109 [2]. You can download pdf version of this.
Caltech's learning from data was really good too, if someone is looking for theoretical understanding of ML topics [3].

There is also book for excellent caltech course[4].

Also, neural networks zero to hero is for understanding how neural networks are built from ground up [5].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MuDZIAzBMY&list=PLoROMvodv4...

[2] https://chrispiech.github.io/probabilityForComputerScientist...

[3] https://work.caltech.edu/telecourse

[4] https://www.amazon.com/Learning-Data-Yaser-S-Abu-Mostafa/dp/...

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMj-3S1tku0&list=PLAqhIrjkxb...
Interesting, thanks. I see it attributed to both, but the numbers favor Rayburn. Possibly LBJ quoted him on it at some point.
>declarative

>create_table

Commands are not declarative. You want a single file with the state of your schema in it? We call that a schema file. It is strictly a negative to declare your schema in SQL, an imperative language. There is no way to guarantee this create_table will run safely, because it's not meant to ever be run.
Hmm... that's interesting. It sort of gives me a glimpse, but I'm still very confused about what the "process" of programming is for you. You mention in your explanation that these things in your head are somewhat "vague" and "abstract" - so how do you see the action of converting a general idea in your head into working code in the computer?

Just to recap, the way I see this is that the non-verbal neural processes are insufficient to fully define a computer program and it is only at the point where a person converts their abstract thoughts into verbal statements/expressions that the program is fully generated.

So is it that you have some process whereby you feel that you can generate a specific program in your head (e.g. with those shapes you mentioned) that exits in fullness without any equivalent of statements? And if so, can you foresee a future human-computer interface that would allow you to program directly via those shapes without having to type statements?
> What are the chances that XAI just happened to have a thinking model close to as good as revolutionary DeepSeek but happened to launch it 30 days later?

Extremely, extremely good. That was in fact the real point of the deepseek paper - it was extremely cheap to turn a frontier(ish?) model into a reasoning model. There is nothing suspicious about this timeline from an ML Ops point of view.

In fact DeepSeek themselves in a sort of victory lap released six OTHER models from other providers finetuned with reasoning as part of the initial drop.
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