skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Devils advocate point, and one nobody wants to talk about: what if everyone can't be a high-skill employee?

Agree with this.

Also, what if there's just not a need for it?

Even if "everyone" in some abstract sense is capable of "high-skill" jobs, how many are really needed? Look at software jobs alone and the onslaught that is the current labor market.

I think there's nowhere near enough "work" ("real" or otherwise) to go around to maintain the level of employment necessary to support the population that we have at the costs that we have.

I don't think any sort of "UBI" (assuming you mean direct cash payments) is a realistic solution, either. People need to "work" in some organized fashion to avoid the common negative outcomes associated with "welfare" scenarios.

I legitimately, unironically, support the kinds of "fake" jobs that were prevalent in years' past (day in the life TikToks come to mind, Gov jobs where people send three emails a week, etc).

I guess in another sense I do support "UBI", as long as it's paired with the illusion of "work."

I understand this seems nonsensical, but just from practical experience it makes total sense to me.

Here's an example.

Years back I worked a software gig at a large non-"tech" F500 company. Much of the programming work there was extremely dull--occasional maintenance of large barely functional enterprise Java messes, writing a few SQL queries a week for wretched multi-table joins requiring all sorts of nasty casting and hacks as "normalization" was an alien concept to the original author and the like. Realistically, folks worked on this stuff perhaps 10 hours a week?

Anyway, I know a few people hit with a layoff that worked there a long time (decade+) and now they're back in the Thunderdome looking for work as "developers". The people in question are nearing retirement but presumably not there, for one reason or another.

Hows this going to work for them? I'm not denigrating them, but having worked with these folks, they're not going to be tearing into broken pipelines, adding React components, configuring Docker builds or whatever--there's a skill mismatch and the workload I've seen at roles lately is just so far beyond the pace, scope, and "scale" that there's no way they'd make it, if they can even get an interview at all.

In this example, would it be best to give them "UBI" payments, or some other slow near-sinecure where they have dignity?

Maybe I'm just soft.
That's fun, I found and subscribed to tuns.sh only 2 weeks ago. (I wrote up my experience, too https://danielittlewood.xyz/notes/self-hosting-with-tunnels)
Yep. They aren't stupid. They aren't smart. They don't do smart. They don't do stupid. They do not think. They don't even "they", if you will. The forms of their input and output are confusing people into thinking these are something they're not, and it's really frustrating to watch.

[EDIT] The forms of their input & output and deliberate hype from "these are so scary! ... Now pay us for one" Altman and others, I should add. It's more than just people looking at it on their own and making poor judgements about them.
Olive oil, coffee, chocolate, vanilla, tea, lots of fruits, sugar. These will all be massively stressed.
> We want secure housing, good education, healthy food, and an opportunity for promotion in life. Those things can only come with good jobs that are accessible to the whole working class, not just the well educated who make up most of the service economy.

What level of confidence do you have that the tariffs are a path to this outcome?
The way https://gwern.net/ does it is quite good.

The links open in a window, so you can still have centre aligned text with popups.
That's not a prank, it's just evil!
Why is this post flagged? It is, at minimum, interesting.
The selling point of a Steam Deck is that it is a PC console. One of the problems with the PC gaming market is that even though in theory all PCs are "compatible", the reality for game developers is very different. Different PCs have subtly (or not so subtly) incompatible software and hardware, and it's up to OS developers to try to maintain some semblance of compatibility, and game developers to ensure that their product runs on as many configurations as possible.

The problem is that there is a large market segment that would enjoy the greater variety of games that are available on PC than on any given console, but they simply view a gaming PC as another "console". I have a friend who I would consider a "gamer" (a long history of console ownership, hundreds of hours logged on his Nintendo Switch on "hardcore" games), whose only PC is a laptop that is too weak to run any modern games, and feels that buying another appliance just to play a handful of games he can't currently access doesn't make sense.

The Steam Deck bridges the gap by providing a console experience for PC games. Developers only need target one hardware and software configuration to ensure that any Steam Deck owner can play their games. The Steam Deck operating system indicates which games run well, and provides out-of-the-box settings for controller and graphics configurations that ensure that a Steam Deck owner can buy a game and be reasonably sure that they won't have to spend any time updating graphics drivers, remapping controls, tweaking settings, or troubleshooting PC-centric issues just so they can play a PC game. It inhabits a handheld form factor because that is the best selling form factor (see Game Boy, Nintendo DS, etc.) with the added bonus that it can be docked and played like a regular console. The same combination that propelled the Nintendo Switch to massive success.

People outside the HN echo chamber don't care about the arcane hardware and software issues that cause many to turn away in disgust, they just want to buy a device that gives them access to a library of games they wouldn't otherwise be able to play. At present, the Steam Deck is the device that does that the best.
"If propaganda doesn't dissuade people I don't think anything will."

You accidentally answered your own question.
> "who did you vote for" isn't a matter of tribalism, but it is a (good) proxy for asking someone "what are your values"

You should test this hypothesis by talking to someone for 10 minutes, then guessing who they voted for.

My hypothesis is you wouldn't do better than 50/50.
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Congratulations, you have unearthed a new layer of hell.
> No, you're reaching for something humans largely can't control - the weather

You think commercial crops have no dependency on weather and growing conditions?

You should try farming mangoes in Vermont!
The point is to bootstrap self-improving AI. Once a measurement becomes a goal, model makers target saturating it.

There is a coefficient of intelligence replication ie: Model M with intelligence I_m, can reproduce a model N with intelligence I_n. When (I_n / I_m) > 1 we'll have a runaway intelligence explosion. There are of course several elements in the chain - akin to the Drake equation for intelligent machines - and their combined multiplicative effect determines the overall intelligence of the system. If f(paper) -> code is the weakest part of the chain, it makes sense to target that.
This is exactly how it went in Russia. First it was, ‘Well, this isn’t that bad.’ Then, ‘Okay, sure, this isn’t great—but it’s not like we need to take action yet.’ And bit by bit, people kept rationalizing, minimizing, delaying—until suddenly it was, ‘Well… we’re f’d.’ That’s why we should speak up now.

We’re already at the point where one side is openly arguing that due process isn’t guaranteed by the Constitution—because it's inconvenient. So how many rights do we have to give up before it’s acceptable to call it out? How many norms have to be broken? How many lines crossed?

It's not like (other than Elon) they're going to show up in Hugo Boss suits one day and announce 'we have crossed the line to where you can criticize us now'.
Both Regan and George H.W. Bush were anti tariffs and pro free market. I believe the change happened with Trump.
Good interview about that is here [1]

[1] https://www.npr.org/2024/12/19/nx-s1-5215953/how-the-gop-wen...
I’d like to think there is a Microsoft developer out there that used this script on the very machine that is helping create one of the listed applications that was removed.
I was seriously considering it until I saw it was just one developer. Trying to keep my single points of failure to a minimum.
Totally. Steam store looks like a god damn aliexpress marketplace and is tasteless design.

The Store UI is disgusting and intrusive compared to all other competitors who actually have a decent overview and design..

You can collect gems, cards and other misleading virtual currencies.. Tons of misleading business practises and time-consuming bloatware distractions hidden behind that terrible UI.

Steam is first and foremost DRM. A game-prison. You don't own a single thing. Gamers have totally drunk the kool aid.. They forgot back when Steam was bloatware forced on Half-Life and Valve games and it was despised for a decade before they became complacent little worshippers.
JS to check user agent things like screen window dimensions as well, which legit browsers will have and bots will also present but with a more uniform and predictable set of x and y dimensions per set of source IPs. Lots of possibilities for js endpoint fingerprinting.
All that was described here is learning from a mistake, which is something I hope all humans are capable of.
Agree.

It is same thing with higher ed. Everyone should have college degree . Now even without everyone having it but just 3-4 times then before means there are tons of graduates without jobs, low paying jobs commensurate to years in education and heavy load of debt.

The question from start had to be Should everyone get a college degree?

Define all kinds of privilege/benefits as rights. And then move on to ask innocent questions as Is even asking for our rights politics?
Sure, but in practice I believe most developers would find it intuitive to just type . everywhere.

It feels more lightweight and consistent, and collisions aren’t super common once you adopt some conventions.

It’s a tradeoff for sure, but this preference comes from having lived in both worlds.
What is the difference between those things?
They know the word tariff. Can't be that dumb after all.
in 1800, 95% of American were farmers
in 1900, some 65% of Americans were farmers
in 2020, it's down to like 5%.

My point is some industries just die. And its okay. The solution is not to go backwards, but tax the winners of the change to subsidize and retrain the people who lost.

But in America, the extreme winners have convinced the rest of us that we shouldn't tax them, and Trump is now asking us to instead tax everyone more
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Trump Tariffs Send Stocks, Dollar Tumbling
There are horrible consequences and people are suffering, totally. So then what? How do we get others to understand the impacts and start to change their mind?
Yes, it fits, but I am on a very tight budget, so I was hoping for a more affordable DIY option. Thanks for the recommendation, though!
> I see many in the US thinking that Trump is an idiot. No, he is not.

I have no idea how you can hold that view after seeing the hurricane forecast he sharpied. The man is legitimately a dullard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Dorian%E2%80%93Alaba...
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You can train small models with the Air M4.
some are worse than others, or at least, the consequences of the world hegemon teaching jingoistic history has really terrible results for all of humanity. one can envision an ideal world where the most powerful countries both emphasized a scientific and empathetic understanding of history combined with a sense of responsibility to decolonize the world and shepard institutions for constructing a more equal world, but we do not have that. instead we have a murderous former slaver settler-colonial nation that used to pay lip service to human rights doing realpolitik regime change around the world and settler-colonialism in Palestine.
Definitely. It gives you a lot more control on which models you want powering these browser agents, which is the important part
cma question is part of a conversation. If they wanted as a question independent of that conversation they could preference that that their question is independent of the current topic/conversation. I am going to let them assert that though and not take or assume your interpretation of their question.
This is INCREDIBLE. What! I could spend hours just playing around with the hecking documentation pages. EVERYTHING is so well thought out AND presented. I'm in awe.
This is damn near prescient, I'm having a hard time believing it was written in 2021.

He did get this part wrong though, we ended up calling them 'Mixture of Experts' instead of 'AI bureaucracies'.
F-Them... I want a future of Star Trek replicators that can molecular print most of the stuff I want. Heavy engineering seems to still need at least some high energy refinement though. (Or at the very least, replicators with different composition.)
It's a hell he's choosing for himself, he can reduce all the sarcastic fluff and just get the meat.
You need to enforce monopoly laws, and more important than individual tax rates, you need to get the tax base spread out correctly again.

1950: 25% tax revenue came from personal income. 25% from social security. 25% from businesses. 25% from excise taxes.

Today: 50% tax revenue from personal income. 35% from social security. 7% from business. 7% from excise taxes.

This problem is never understood.
Yes thank you, that's what I was getting at. Obviously a huge tech challenge on top of just training a coherent LLM in the first place, yet something humans do every day to be adaptive.
I was under the impression that CoT works because spitting out more tokens = more context = more compute used to "think." Using CoT as a way for LLMs "show their working" never seemed logical, to me. It's just extra synthetic context.
> People generally haven't formed strong opinions on most issues, and defer to party or a leader they like for the remaining.

I call this "politics as religion".

Remember you cannot reason someone out of a position they never reasoned themselves into. Route around the damage and make them irrelevant.
As the author, let me add something beyond the comparison. Zig and Odin are very different languages, Odin is – as its slogan goes - "for the Joy of Programming". Zig on the other hand doesn't feel that this is a goal. From what I can tell Zig fans like to wrestle with the features of Zig to figure out how to fit their solutions within the constraints of the language. A mental challenge, similar to that of fighting the borrow checker in Rust. People who "figured out" Zig tend to be fiercely loyal to the language in a similar way as Rust evangelists to Rust.

C3 has a lot in common with Odin, but very little in common with Zig.

C3 has a slightly different feature set than Odin (e.g. more compile time execution, has methods, contracts, but doesn't have Odin's matrix programming and more extensive runtime reflection), but the goals aligns strongly with Odin's.

If you prefer C syntax and semantics you might like C3 better, but Odin is a fine language too.
This is why I'm looking at an iPhone as my next device when my current phone gives up the ghost. If you're going to force me into a walled garden then I might get one that offers the most "social interoperability" where I live, and has a nicer (imo) ecosystem built around it.

The section on copy pasted designs really hit home for me. Android phones used to be the wild west of experimentation and phones that were cool tech in your pocket, not just mini computers. I think part of it is because phones are required for day to day living so they've converged onto a single design style. LG had some of the coolest experimentation but never really stuck with one or ever fleshed out any of their ideas. The G5 was awesome and I wish they had pushed it more for it's modularity. I had one until it got run over and upgraded to a G8, which is fine I guess? It's a very boring phone, no IR blaster, and no subtle curves leading up to the camera and fingerprint sensor.

Some of the coolest phones I've ever see were the ones that were sold with Caterpillar Inc. Rugged phones that could survive a lot, and some of them had thermal cameras, which seems like a gimmick but were incredible when you needed it.
The logic is very reductive. It's like: "the Fed's job is to cut a snake, so if they see a snake around their head they'll just close their eyes and cut both".

Raising rates does Absolutely Nothing to undo the tariffs or bringing the price down. Fed is not a blind machine.
In which case the model couldn't possibly know that the number was correct.
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Looking at this as a non-American. American politics is seems very much tribe minded as an outsider,left vs right. And where someone stands largely can tell you about their views on a lot of other things. At least that's how it is portrayed in media. I know in practice a lot of people are more nuanced.

Most countries have sometimes up to 10 political parties and what party/ies someone supports often does not say much about their views on different social issues. In the USA
it seems you can't want a secure border and civil rights for minority groups.
Yes, but to be fair we're much closer to rationalizing creatures than rational ones. We make up good stories to justify our decisions, but it seems unlikely they are at all accurate.
> FW13 battery swap needs dissasembly. Can't do it while on a train/bus/airplane.

> X60 battery is removed by 2 spring latches on the back

Yeah but the FW13 battery also lasts several times more than the battery life you get out of swapping two or three X60 batteries on the train.

Also, VGA out is useless in this day and age and USB-C is not only robust but also way faster and more capable.
If global warming keeps up, we'll be growing pineapples in Vermont in no time!
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> The Fed has two mandates: maximum employment & stable prices.

It actually has three listed in the Federal Reserve Act:

* Maximum employment

* Stable prices

* Moderate long-term interest rates

It's popularly called a “dual mandate” because it is perceived that properly balancing the first two will naturally also achieve the third.

> If prices go up, the Fed is mandated to raise interest rate.

No, it isn't, especially if employment is already below the “full employment” level and expected to drop even without the rate hike. Demand-pull inflation in periods of strong employment and economic growth or looming deflation in periods of weak enoloyment and economic growth are easy-mode monetary policy choices (at least as to direction, magnitude may be tricky).

But tariff-induced cost-push inflation in weak growth slowing employment conditions, where Congress and the President decline to remove the non-monetary policy root cause, that’s hard-mode monetary policy, because the usual tools to address either the employment or price problem will make the other worse.
Unfortunately they're thinking the same thing today.
Wait, are you saying they don't offer the full HMMs and FRU list like IBM/Lenovo did/does for ThinkPads?????

IBM HMMs, or creatively named Hardware Maintenance Manuals, were written so that if all steps in the document were performed from start to end as written, the laptop would be a pile of FRUs or Field Replacement Units, so that those FRUs can be inspected, discarded, ordered, and replaced, and then the process can be done in reverse to produce a working unit.

Why - I mean I think I know why - they likely don't have enough control and/or influence over parts suppliers to be able to publicly expose those data unlike the Big Blue - but why...

0: https://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles_pdf/...

1: https://thinkpads.com/support/hmm/hmm_pdf/42x3550_04.pdf
Whomever designed that interactive landing page animation deserves some kind of Nobel prize.
Unless you include "getting correct results" within the scope of "use".
> going back to my very first post on here…address the core point that the US government, has in actuality caused more suffering, to more people, in more countries, over a longer period of time than any other since the end of WW2.

Lets look at that.

>Vietnam alone, over fifty years ago, ignoring everything that's gone on since was 1.4 million deaths

This ignores that the USSR was on the other side of this war, so those deaths are shared equally.

>Cuba, Nicaragua, Korea, the Congo, Cambodia, Lao

These are all Cold War proxy wars with the Soviet Union, a direct result of duopolistic fighting.

> the former Yugoslavia

The Yugoslavian wars were internal/civil wars over nationalism and involved extensive ethnic cleansing. The US stepped in and ended the wars after a fairly short bombing campaign.

>We don't have a body count as the US stopped counting in Vietnam, but I'd wager if we took all the deaths for which the US is directly responsible, it outstrip would outstrip Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union combined by an order of magnitude.

Mao’s Great Leap Forward is estimated to have caused 30 to 45 million deaths. Stalin’s Great Purge murdered between 700,000–1.2 million. Stalin also forcibly deported 15 million people as part of his Dekulakization, and cause 20 million deaths total. This claim that the US has killed orders of magnitude more people has no basis in fact.

A majority of the wars were proxy wars, and as horrible as they were, they were less destructive than wars of conquest they replaced. The Napoleonic wars killed 6.5 million with muskets and cannons. Meanwhile, the Iraq war, the worst US war since the fall of the Soviet Union, resulted in less than a third of the deaths in Korean or Vietnam wars.

Listing the United States Superpower misdeeds only sound horrible when you ignore the context of what the other Superpowers were doing. At it ignores the amount of violence in a unipolar US world compared to duopolistic and multipolar worlds.
Wait 3.5 years? Look at the situation with Canada, you might just need to wait 3.5 days when he changes his mind and reverses the tariffs for some reason. The uncertainty must drive manufacturers nuts.
In my experience, any time you're using scp, you'd be better off with rsync.
> Usrs will be able to pick between thundermail.com and tb.pro domains.

That "Usrs" is not my typo. And what strange choices for domain names.

Anyway I hope they launch a custom domain supporting paid email service (and not go skimpy on details and features like, e.g., Apple's iCloud).
>That’s holding LLMs to a significantly higher standard than humans. When I realize there’s a flaw in my reasoning I don’t know that it was caused by specific incorrect neuron connections or activation potentials in my brain, I think of the flaw in domain-specific terms using language or something like it.

LLMs should be held to a higher standard. Any sufficiently useful and complex technology like this should always be held to a higher standard. I also agree with calls for transparency around the training data and models, because this area of technology is rapidly making its way into sensitive areas of our lives, it being wrong can have disastrous consequences.
I wrote a short blogpost about this before, trying to answer the question: https://c3.handmade.network/blog/p/8886-why_does_c3_use_%252...