skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Distributed P2P LinkedIn query system
Linkedin (free version) is extremely search restrictive for a social network, economically makes sense for them with all the professional data/ networks, but i'm tired of making inroads for finding data on what career paths are available only to be popped up with irritating "limited search results to be viewed" or "opt for Linkedin premium" to view more profile, etc.

As a result was wondering if we could build a distributed query system (p2p) which leverages user's own LK accounts and queries LK and sends curated results.

It should be free for everyone to use - their currency is giving the platform access to their LK profile.

What do you folks think?
Ads per se are not the problem. The problem is, they tracking and loading Gigabytes of data and make every website slow.
Be careful not to appear "far right" by putting your own country above the EU...
Ad blocking happens on your own computer, which you are authorised to make changes to. But simulating a click, therefore making an entry in another person's computer is what makes it unlawful.
I am not in *the font bubble*, but can immediately recognise, say, the Guardian by its typography alone.

It can absolutely be a part of a texts character and reducing this entire field to a *bubble* is a feeble attempt at spinning ignorance as a virtue.
Isn't that basically what USB is? At least if you stick to USB 1. Obviously, since that time, it's expanded to cover a wider range of capabilities. It's a half-duplex serial line, just like I2C. Unlike I2C, it's asynchronous, like a UART.
Let's go back to basics --- show me the evidence that a large scale trade war is "winnable".

It's the economic version of the "nuclear option". There are no "winners" --- everyone loses. And those who will lose the most are largely Trump voters.

WalMart shoppers, prepare to be gouged.

This is absolutely unprecedented. No country in history has ever intentionally engaged in economic self harm to this extreme.

Over $10 trillion wiped from equity markets in 4 months. The same companies that are supposed to "Make America Great Again" have just been handicapped --- in more ways than one.

This is how you "Git er' done" with Larry the Cable Guy as leader of the global economy. It would be funny if it wasn't so serious.
If you saw a product in an ad, but aren't aware of any alternatives because you didn't see ads for them, that kind of limits your choices.
I'd like sans serif fonts more if they were readable, including being able to distinguish Weird Al from Weird AI.
LLMs ought to be good at generating simple substitutions too, but they're not: https://claude.ai/share/9495246c-b77a-496e-8643-dbc5ec58dbcb

It tries but it fails to both generate and apply a simple substitution. It starts substituting based on applying the substitution twice to some letters.

It was a very frustrating time I spent trying to solve it, especially after asking to confirm it had created a 1:1 mapping.

Since it has no reasoning, it just lies about having done so.
In the US even the president lies every day, so I guess the US can't forbid to lie.
Zero animals live underground, this will totally work.
> Look up what happened when he tried to strongarm China in 2018. China simply switched their supplier to Brazil, and never fully returned as a buyer of the American product.

Okay, let's have a look ... well, this statistic doesn't back up your claim:

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/exports/china

> Trump’s ship of fools

Which is actually part of his strategy. You need fools that commit outrageous claims, threats and actions. Then he can play the good cop when it makes sense and just fire the fool. That is basically applied game theory on a meta- and psychological level.

> Everyone will find more reliable trade partners

No, they won't and everybody knows that.
This is a easy cynical view, except that we've already migrated en masse between platforms several times. The issue at hand is the network effect, and it also happens automatically with each new generation of "eww, my parents social network". What Europe would probably get if wanted, is a rolling creation of social networks that are active at the same time.
So, it's worse than Source Sans because it removed the differentiation between a lowercase L and an uppercase i.

I'd rather use Source Sans then.
The TRS-80 has TROFF and TRON!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQoL_qpYbW0

More useful but not quite as magical as DECSYSTEM 10 and DECSYSTEM 20 BASIC's "LISTREVERSE" command!

https://web.archive.org/web/20210713130832/https://imgur.com...

Chalk one up for DEC and BASIC. What other programming languages support that feature, huh?

Now all you need is a COMEFROM and COMESUB and RUNREVERSE (or NUR) statements, and you can write reversible BASIC programs!

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Clock_World

DECSYSTEM 20 BASIC User's Guide: LISTREVERSE command

LISTREVERSE
LISTNHREVERSE

LISTREVERSE and LISTNHREVERSE print the contents of the
user's memory area in order of descending line numbers.
LISTREVERSE precedes the output with a heading,
LISTNHREVERSE eliminates the heading.

LISTREVERSE

EQUIV 10:53 13-NOV-75

40 END
35 PRINT "THE EQUIVALENT CURRENT IS",I, " AMPERES"
25 I=E1/R
10 INPUT R
5 INPUT E1

READY

http://bitsavers.org/www.computer.museum.uq.edu.au/pdf/DEC-1...

http://bitsavers.org/www.computer.museum.uq.edu.au/pdf/DEC-2...

Emacs should have an edit-reverse-mode!
Where is this choice?

I don't have control over what certain qualities ad companies deduce and store about me. I can't even ask them to pretty please show me fewer ads if I give them all my data.

Do you think someone with a Google account, using every one of their products and being tracked every which way sees less advertising across the web, as opposed to someone without an account?

I do, however, have direct control over whether ads are shown to me or not, through blockers.

This is the only leverage I have in this unfair deal, so I'm damn well going to exercise it.
Literally every source of information that lets you know about the existence of a product is, by definition, an ad. How do you make a rational decision about something you don’t know exists?
Right. I want to make it clear I wasn't saying "I support Ayn Rand's thought's on Platonism", what I wanted to convey was my interpretation of what Rand/Piekoff Wrote and why I think they read Plato and had the reaction they did.

I'm not a professional philosopher, but I think the nebulous nature of how Plato addresses forms and shapes is difficult for someone from a Randian Materialistic viewpoint to accept.

I think that even at it's weakest interpretation, the concept of forms and shapes at least provides an avenue for aspirational meditation as we can discuss what an "ideal" of a thing (food, medecine, political ideaology, etc) might be
That's what drove up housing costs after we switched from single to double income households. But before that, but before that, people in lots of countries could afford a house and a family on a single income, despite competition from other countries.

It's not that this situation was unsustainable or only attainable for the US; this situation should have been the norm, with the additional income just providing extra luxury or time off, but instead we got screwed through artificial scarcity and more money going to the very rich instead of the working and middle class.
It looks like every "designer's font" introduced since the designers went insane over the iPhone.

Anyway, I'd like sans serif fonts more if they were readable, including being able to distinguish Weird Al from Weird AI.
Facebook and Google+ tried to do this with their realname policies. It doesn't work as well as one would expect:

• Toxic assholes are not deterred by their name being attached to what they're saying, because they think they're saying righteous things and/or fighting bad people who don't deserve any respect.

• People self-censor, because they don't want to risk upsetting some random violent stranger on the internet who can track them down.

• People who don't use their legal name publicly have trouble participating. This impacts transgender people, but also people using stage names/pen names, and stalking victims.
Betteridge's Law is strong with this one. The lede is buried at after all the sob stories about guys who discovered they were pedophiles because recommendation algorithms are really good as showing you what you want to see. This is all just pretext to the UK government's massive privacy overreach and censorship.

> Along with other countries, the UK is bringing in tighter controls on the porn industry. Porn sites will be required to have age verification processes in place by July to stop children viewing their content, a process that will be monitored by Ofcom under the new Online Safety Act (OSA). But the OSA does not ban or control certain common practices in porn, such as strangulation, sexual fetishisation of incest or the abuse of children acted by adults. The government argues depiction of sexual strangulation is banned but a recent in-depth review of porn by Baroness Bertin, a Conservative peer, warned it is not, in reality, covered by case law. She called for tighter regulation of “legal but harmful pornography like choking, violent and degrading acts … even content that could encourage child sexual abuse”. While headlines picked out the call to ban strangulation, Bertin also demanded clearer rules around “incest, step-incest and ‘teen’ porn”.

I think the people pushing these moral purity bills need a wake-up call about what women find hot. Because this worldview makes no sense once you know that these "violent and degrading acts" are extremely common fetishes among women who play the part of the "victim." It's not men who are reading gothic horror where incest one of the tamer depictions. The problem in the real world is that, despite the public perception otherwise, guys are generally deeply uncomfortable playing out the other side of these
kinds of fantasies.
Not your vaults, not your gold...
Even if there ever was a coalition of 60 pro-choice senators, it wouldn't matter. Federal abortion protections would need to be passed under the commerce clause and would obviously be challenged and struck down by the 6-3 court. Even EMTALA, which ties federal funding for hospitals to a requirement that hospitals provide abortion care for pregnant people when a pregnancy is a serious threat to their health, is being challenged in court (and successfully blocked in the 5th circuit). The challenge would be even easier for the right if there's no connection to serious threats to the health of the pregnant woman.

All of these "you should have ignored the courts and focused on legislation" arguments aren't based in a lick of reality.
> The problem is that it doesn't have context

You are supposed to give it context, if you dont provide it context how will it know what its supposed to do?
Plenty of celebrities & other rich people left. Just because you didn’t read it on Fox News, doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. You can easily google and see.

Trump already backpedaled on his tariffs a handful of times. I agree his strategy is bad, from a game theoretical perspective. He’s eroding trust with partners for nothing at all. Just like he ran all his businesses.
You can't just make extraordinary claims [1][2], demand rigorous citation for those who question it, even going as far as to word lawyer the definition of cognition [3], and reverse the burden of proof. All the while providing no evidence beyond what essentially boils down to "anything and everything is possible."

> Vague phrases mean nothing.

Yep, you made my point.

> Do you see the difference?

Yes, I clearly state my reasons. I can confidently claim that LLMs are no replacements for programming languages for two reasons.

1. Programming languages are superior to natural languages for software development. Nothing on earth, not even transformers, can make up for the unavoidable lack of specificity in the hypothetical natural language programs without making things up because that's how logic works.

2. LLMs, as impressive as they may be, are fundamentally computerized parrots so you can't understand or control how they generate code unlike with compilers like GCC which provides all that through source code.

This is just stating the obvious here, no surprises.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43567653

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43568699

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43585498
> Every adult that eats meat is quite aware of what goes on to bring it to his table

> They are knocked out first, so it is quite humane

Those two statements contradicts themselves: most of the chicken aren’t knocked out, or failed to be. It’s however easier to finish your dish if you don’t bother evaluating agroindustrial marketing material (and the cute kid’s farm you saw when toddler)

Same happen with "caws eats grass", "this fish was sustainably catch because the label said so", "that chicken had a mn happy life because it’s an organic one".
I logged in specifically to say the following: I do not think it is possible that Scott Alexander would sign his name to something that would in any way promote Zizian views. I don't know him personally, but I've read enough to know where he stands.
> that is as accessible as Meta'a networks are.

Meta's networks mostly inaccessible to the public. Only registered users - who IIANM are people who establish their identity vis-a-vis meta, with a phone number, or what-not - can access them.
Windows on arm. And by arm, we mean wrist
This is brilliant and necessary, Leetcode needs to die and a means to an end in the age of AI.

For our business we don't use Leetcode, the future looks something like paid bounties and in person interviews.

tinycorp from George Hotz does the very same thing of paid bounties to get hired there.

The highly talented people will do this for fun, while those who aren't will self select themselves out.

(0) https://tinygrad.org/#worktiny
> I personally prefer smaller companies, even if they don't take over the world

Me too, but Europe should be able to compete and provide alternatives to Big Tech which requires bigger scale companies to also exist. I think it's in Europe's best interest to be able to compete in this global market and become a technological leader. It's about relevancy but also potentially about European security.
You don’t need to track individuals to provide contextually useful adverts based on the website and webpage someone is on.
this is great because it's just going to bring back in office interviews and hopefully any tests are in person as well
What’s the use of using generative AI to OCR the text?
Needs a "(2024)" on the title.
Spouting "game theory" to everything does not mean he will win these bets, tho.

> No, they won't and everybody knows that.

That's delusional. 70% of the world has China as their main trading partner. The world definitely can thrive without Coke, Facebook, Nike and McDonalds.
Where you get the free VM from?
Do you understand why the Cambridge Analytica scandal was a scandal? Advertisers target you in their interest, not yours.
https://archive.ph/NjtM3
Perfect, then it's simply not for people like you. But you’re still free to read along if you're interested in what others have to say.
You go to an imaginary price comparison website, choose "speakers" for example, and see all the kinds of products that exist. What do you need an ad for?
u block origin and the annoyance filters should work. make a custom one for the pop up element if you have to?
There is no alternative for Apple if you prefer iOS.
It is also clear that you can write a formal spec down before writing down prose, if your language is simple and low-level enough.
I don't know which circles you visit, but out of my discover feed only one was lamenting about the old internet. Nobody was talking about other social media, the topics that dominated was stock market, stock market, and more stock market.
> The idea is that people can't take new ideas in as they age makes zero sense to me.

Hmm. My counter to this would be that I agree it isn't impossible, but would take such an enormous amount of voluntary effort that no one would spend it to completely update their information about the world.

To give a non-controversial example, take dinosaurs. Almost everyone who grew up before about the year 2000 thinks of dinosaurs as big, scaly lizards, myself included. That's what we were taught, that's what all of our culture showed us, that's what our museums contained. It was the pervasive view for well over a hundred years before we were even born. But now we know that many of them had feathers! This is an uncontroversial fact, but almost everyone currently over the age of 30 is wrong about it, and everyone under the age of 30 has the (currently believed to be) correct view!

Now think about how many other facts we were taught 30+ years ago. Which do we now know are wrong? What cultural beliefs did we learn growing up, that are now outdated and believed to be harmful? What systems do we need to have to update those beliefs? Given current evidence, will those systems actually work? Relearning information and modifying your lifelong habits is really, really hard compared to children learning new information. I don't think the vast majority of people would put in the effort. I think science and culture would stagnate. Death is the process by which we give power to younger people, who have better information to work with than we did. Death is how we make cultural and scientific progress.

While this is something I feel strongly about, I also understand your point of view. I'm open to being convinced otherwise, but I think the folks working in longevity fields really need to think about and address these problems before they open Pandora's Box and eliminate natural death. I'm not convinced their work is good for humanity.
It’s cheaper to travel to Canada or Mexico than to buy it at that price.
That's a very funny video! I'm curious to see if I can get my swim club to do something like this :-)
Light-powered NPUs could massively reduce energy consumption in AI data centers
UK convicts five romance fraudsters who stole millions from duped singles
I like leetcode easys for job interviews because it shows you know how to actually code. Many applicants cant even do fizz buzz.
You can't automate something that you can't already do manually (IMO/IME).
> there's the fact that the only thing discussed in those places is how terrible the thing they're trying to replace is.

If you only go check it after there is some major news that get people talking about it, then yes you'll probably end up seeing mostly this annoying meta-conversation around the Fediverse.

However, if you manage to stick around just a bit longer you will see that there is a tiny-but-growing number of people who are using Mastodon/Lemmy/Peertube "just" because they have found enough interesting people and conversation.

There is also nothing stopping you from taking initiative and starting the conversation around other, "better" topics. I made a habit of posting at least 3-5 links every day to Lemmy. You can always push out some introduction post on Mastodon with some relevant hashtags to see if you can help bootstrap a community, etc.

[0]: https://communick.news/u/rglullis?page=1&sort=New&view=Posts
As with most[^1] social platforms, what you see is determined by who you follow.

[^1] "Most" may be an overstatement these days.
During a massive global downturn many did austerity. Partly because not every country can just infinity take on more debt. You also have to understand that in that time, debt was used as a political weapon, France didn't want to take on debt, because its debt was used by the US against France diplomatically both in 1919 and 1923, France wanted to prevent that from happening again.

You could stay on the gold standard and do austerity or not. Or you could leave it and do austerity or not. All these four are options and different country picked differently for various reasons.

The US under Hoover and FDR first practiced limit stimulus under gold and then left, and continued stimulus even more so. Actually they always did both as tariffs can be seen as type of tax, but that's debatable. And FDR was of the 'throw spaghetti at the wall and hopefully something works' type.

Germany stayed and did austerity. They couldn't leave the gold standard as it would make it even hard to pay back debt. Adam Tooze pointed this out on his commentary on "Golden Fetters". If somebody would have lent them a lot more money if they had wanted to do a massive stimulus program is questionable, the terms would have been harsh. So its understandable they didn't want even more high interest debt.

Its also the case that those that left the gold standard instantly saw the situation get better and therefore saw less need for austerity. So that plays into it as well. The US had its fast historical growth in industrial out put ever the few month after it left gold (that then collapsed the NRA was adopted). So Britain who left gold early recovered better and didn't have to be as extreme.

That said, in the minds of many at the time the gold standard and prudent physical policy were linked. In Japan for example, balanced books and gold were seen 'womanly' a true warrior didn't give a shit, just go and steal that shit. So you tended to have liberal and centrist being pro austerity and pro gold standard. While right wingers hated gold standard (its internationalism) and wanted massive military spending. They didn't care about debt because they would simply take over and steal everything.

But this is just historical coincidence. Being pro fiscal spending and pro gold is a perfectly reasonable position that some at the time held. It just not how politics happened to break down in most of the world.

I actually am on the 4th side where I think (depending on country) leaving gold and doing some amount of austerity or at least re-appropriate spending and taxes is reasonable (remember raising taxes on the rich is austerity as well).
There are killers in prisons, of course, but I don’t think their techniques will carry over to the microbial world!
Wow, that is very expensive. Yeah, we're are having a second solar boom here, I installed a second small 2 kWp system on our garden shed for about 700 €. I'm adding a small 5 kWh battery on top so we can use all this generated energy.
Except then it happens on every cloudflare-protected website and you're banned from 60% of the web
Asking just for me to learn:

Does it really need someone on the other side to buy or can it be like other markets (consumer goods lets say) where you can set the price lower and not necessary have a buyer. You just announce it that you are willing to sell 10k of this type of share at 200 or lower up to 190. Then someone else seeing this says we are also willing to sell 20k at 190 or 180 ? And so even if no one bought these shares now their “average” price is not 200 but 190ish?

Sorry if the scenario sounds stupid and it is far away how the shares market works.
Very cool. How does activemcp figure out what tools I have defined? I haven't read the code, does it do a dynamic class lookup based on the tool name like rails does for controllers?

What's the right way to start the server in an existing rails app? Do I just create the server and call start in an initializer or something?
So, am I missing something? Is this just a tool allowing job candidates to commit fraud?

I'm no lawyer, so I'm not sure this would rise to the level of actual legal fraud, but moral fraud at the very least is what I think I'm seeing.

EDIT:

Now I see it at the bottom of the page... "Interview Coder is a desktop app designed to help job seekers ace technical interviews by providing real-time assistance with coding questions."

So yes, it's exactly what it looks like.
Great, another paid tool to cheat at coding interviews. I guess the future is coming back to on-site interviews only.