skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Accepting assistance is perfectly in accord with her philosophy.

You can verify her position from https://courses.aynrand.org/works/the-question-of-scholarshi.... She views taxation as theft. Those who agree and advocate against this theft, may morally accept government largesse as restitution. But those who accept both the taxation and the redistribution become complicit in the theft, and are therefore immoral.

There is a lot to criticize in her views. But this piece of it is not inconsistent. Only bizarre to someone who doesn't understand her.
That is the kind of comment that a well run bulletin board would moderate. Then again, there are probably not enough VMS systems people left to really have an r-war (short of architecture war).

VMS' key feature over Unix is consistency and beyond that it is being interrupt driven at all levels (no wasted cycled polling except for code ported over using POSIX interfaces). VMS was killed by a confluence of business issues, not because it was obsolete or inefficient.
Wrote floating point routines in assembler back in college. When you get it, it's one of those aha moments.
Most explanations I've seen for it being rational if the goal is improving the economy or furthering American national interests reek of "sanewashing" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanewashing). The formula they used for calculating tariff rates other countries impose on us is nonsensical and potentially LLM generated: https://www.axios.com/2025/04/03/trump-tariffs-formula-calcu...

In my opinion, they're just using the "reciprocity" argument to paper over more nefarious goals. Onshoring certain critical supply chains and using targeted tariffs to achieve that may make some sense, but that's not what's going on with these across-the-board taxes punishing what are becoming former US allies.

From a self-interest perspective, it may be rational if you're optimizing for increasing your raw power at the expense of American national interest. My understanding is that tariff exemptions can be granted unilaterally: https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/trump-tariffs-trade-war-sto...

so in a sense, the administration is holding both the disease and the cure unless Congress strips it of this power (unlikely).

Crashing asset prices may also generate opportunities for rich people with large cash holdings to buy up assets on the cheap before inflation really takes hold.

This is not directly related to tariffs necessarily, but one related theory I've thought about is how leaders stay in power in countries like Venezuela or North Korea. With hyperinflation and good shortages, your ability to procure basic necessities becomes more of a function of proximity to those in power with the ability to acquire goods through their monopoly on the use of violence. If you can't feed your family without being subservient to an authoritarian leader, you're probably less likely to help depose a dictator. I've thought about this a little in the context of the purging of top national security officials and how they're getting replaced with loyalists: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/us/politics/trump-meeting...

I don't think we're there until we're there, but it feels like they're teeing things up for a 3rd term. If you have congress inept, friends in the highest court of the land, and functional control of the armed forces leadership, who is to stop you from declaring a national emergency and staying in power because of a crashing economy or a new war?

The economic contagion of the Great Depression historically also preceded a huge change in the world order (WW2). If you're trying to change the world order irreparably or just scoop up some territory, you might try to do some economic decoupling first, as well. There was a small trade war about 5 years before real war broke out when Germany invaded Poland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German–Polish_customs_war
A while ago I did some exploration into scraping recipes with GenAI (it works ok, but better when using JSON-LD), and this was just a fun response.
"All of which to say, it all strikes me as more theological than philosophical."

Oh yes, when marxists debate about the interpretation of the holy words of the manifest and how dictatorship is not bad, if only the right people with the right ideological mindset are in charge, then it always annoyed me, that they claim to be rational scientists.
I have a lot of respect for Anders Hejlsberg. But that doesn't mean he is never wrong. Hejlsberg doesn't think anyone would want to recover from exceptions. "There's a bottom level exception handler around their message loop. That handler is just going to bring up a dialog that says what went wrong and continue." Okaayyy... I think we know a bit more about exception handling than that today! Real-world applications often need more sophisticated exception handling strategies.
we spend most of our lives playing iterated prisoners dilemmas, a game which presumably can be cracked by some godlike intellect, but which is far beyond the capabilities of our current philosophy. Emotions, put well to use, do well at this task.
The cost of onboarding a sales person (you) seems high for a maybe-functional part time employee. For you, learning enough about countless products sounds challenging.
My startups get 4 of these pitches a week. All performance based. All with amazing claims of close rates - for lines of business that are completely unrelated to mine.

The investor side of me thinks the founders should be doing early sales. I don't agree that capital is any harder to raise. IMHO market turmoil is good for angel/seed as those with means are looking for alternatives.
Maybe because Apple got pissed on how Khronos took over OpenCL, AMD and Intel never offered tooling on par with CUDA in terms of IDE integration, graphical debuggers and library ecosystem.

Khronos also never saw the need to support a polyglot ecosystem with C++, Fortran and anything else that the industry could feel like using on a GPU.

When Khronos finally remember to at least add C++ support and SPIR, again Intel and AMD failed to deliver, and OpenCL 3.0 is basically OpenCL 1.0 rebranded.

Followed by SYCL efforts, which only Intel seems to care, with their own extensions on top via DPC++, nowadays openAPI. And only after acquiring Codeplay, which was actually the first company to deliver on SYCL tooling.

However contrary to AMD, at least Intel does get that unless everyone gets to play with their software stack, no one will bother to actually learn it.
2013 called and wants its favorite infrastructure as code (IaC) tool back.
I don't know, did you see the 2012 Olympic opening ceremony?
I think the license change and initial fork was back in 2019? It's been a while.
Smallest Pacemaker Is the Size of a Rice Grain
Hot Schrödinger Cat States
Was this a response to my comment?

There’s no such thing as an “actual indicator.” The economy isn’t a real thing that exists. It’s all correlates, some leading, some trailing, some accurate, and some inaccurate.

The contents of the shopping cart of the person in front of you is an indicator.
DeepSeek R1 is by far the best at writing prose of any model, including Grok-3, GPT-4o, o1-pro, o3, claude, etc.

Paste in a snippet from a book and ask the model to continue the story in the style of the snippet. It's surprising how bad most of the models are.

Grok-3 comes in a close second, likely because it is actually DeepSeek R1 with a few mods behind the scenes.
It is vastly underpowered and has a huge bill of materials compared to those chips. It only supports 16 bytes of memory, has an impoverished instruction set, is slow as molasses, and tends to be very flaky.

Even as a pure-ttl building exercise, it trades off efficiency and usefulness in favor of understandability and fancy blinking-lights so you can see what is happening.

It is useful only for toy programs at the most.

But as a learning exercise it is absolutely first rate. 10/10 would recommend.
Doing Evil Things with Generative AI and Recipes
Republicans on average are more charitable than Democrats: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/03/your-money/republicans-de...

Maybe Democrats are less charitable because they are more likely to live in Democratic controlled areas that provide more government services to the needy. However, does that really reflect compassion if you merely live in a system which provides those services through mandatory taxation? A republican moving from Kansas to NYC doesn't become more compassionate simply by paying more in taxes because they have to.
The METR graph proposes a 6 year trend, based largely on 4 datapoints before 2024. I get that it is hard to do analyses since were in uncharted territory, and I personally find a lot of the AI stuff impressive, but this just doesn't strike me as great statistics.
I'm not sure the 'true value' is that important for trade. Taking the example of antibiotics, they may be worth 1000x the cost of production but if country A stops selling them you can just make them in country B. We got by fine without Chinese exports until they started becoming a thing from around 1990 on.
English version:

https://www.ufreetools.com/en
Interesting work on open-ending language models to foster imagination and narrative generation. The idea of role-playing as different characters is novel. I wonder how well it would generalize to non-fantasy domains and if the lack of grounding could lead to hallucinations. Excited to see where this research goes!
The USA needs to shift its mentality towards this if we ever hope to get high speed rail that's up to par with other developed countries
This sounds like the "affiliate marketing" business model (earn a commission when you sell someone's thing). That business model is definitely alive and well!

I might have tried a service like you're proposing when our company was very small.

Now that it's bigger, we have revenue goals that we need to hit, and I wouldn't want to hire someone for free to help hit important KPIs. If a larger company does engage with this model, it would probably be to supplement an existing revenue stream I would imagine.

I think the biggest risk with the model you're proposing is that it's more appealing to small companies who are more likely to not have reached PMF yet, and therefore have products that are more difficult for you to sell compared to more established companies.
You are missing something really really important.

Most startups don't have product market fit. Further, most startups make things no one wants. The product might sound good to you and you will think "oh I can sell this", but you will work your ass off for no results.

They you may go back to the client and say "Hey the market doesn't want your product, they want this instead". Now you are doing free market research for them, and most likely, they won't listen to you anyways.

You may think "okay I need to be good at identifying startups struggling to sell who have products people want" and then you may realize there's a whole industry of VCs trying to do this, that mostly suck at it.

I think you'll find that young companies with products people want who are struggling to sell is extremely rare.

There's a reason the business model your suggesting isn't more prevalent with startups, and it's because sales skills matter far less than market fit.
I’m surprised that they only ran the measurements ten times. Hard to trust any data in this post given it is certainly deficient.
In contrast, when Lizz Truss wrecked havoc in the UK, she lasted only more than a month. And that was in a place that has only a fraction of billionaires as US do.
Yes, shading languages which are more productive without the gotchas from those languages, as they were designed from the ground up for compute devices.

The polyglot nature of CUDA is one of the plus points versus the original "we do only C99 dialect around here" from OpenCL, until it was too late.
Using LLMs to shortcut critical thinking is sometimes a cheat code and sometimes a stupid idea, it depends.

Now that we have thinking models and methodology to train them, surely before long it will be possible to have a model that is very good at the kind of thinking that an expert OSINT analyst knows how to do.

There are so many low hanging fruit applications of existing LLM strengths that have simply not been added to the training yet, but will be at some point.
Not trying to justify the other commenters but, for what it's worth, you actually seem to have misread the sentence from what I can see in your original comment. In particular, the way you separated the phrase "hacking and distributing [stuff]" into the pull quotes

> hacking

> distributing [stuff]

makes it appear as though you read it like "hacking: distributing [stuff]" instead of "hacking and distributing [stuff]". I believe to your point, it would be ridiculous for them to write "was reportedly caught bragging about hacking: distributing pirated e-books, bootleg software, and game cheats" but that's not what they wrote. They are referring individually to "hacking" and "distributing" as separate and distinct things.
We’re talking about people having their lives judged by thousands of people online based on a 5-second video from someone with an agenda.

There’s no way for them to clarify, no way for them to “have their day in court,” apologizing just makes the mob smell blood. The only point is revenge and sadism, there’s no redemption, no point other than pain, pure and simple.

People are complicated and I don’t want a video of me on a bad day edited and then posted online for everyone to see.
Its a variant of the orchestration software. I'm not sure this is as enticing as other permissive licensed projects like OpenTofu/Ansible (push) or OpenVox (pull) based on available documentation/market share.

Of note, this is not affiliated with Chef itself [1], but looks like Chef has blessed it [2]

[1] https://cinc.sh/disclaimers/
[2] https://cinc.sh/blog/cinc_client_is_live/
An Implementation of AutoDAN Turbo
>wouldn't call Republican policies pro-big-tech considering they are behind the Tiktok ban

The USG forcing a sale of the 3rd largest social media platform to FAANG from China is extremely pro-big-tech.

Also, the most recent administration is seeped with VCs. The Vice President JD Vance is a Peter Thiel protege.
No, because of the second-order dynamics:

OP will have multiple clients. OP’s sales employees will get to choose which things to sell.

OP’s customer still has to do a lot of work to bring OP’s salespeople up to speed at all, and even more if they want to be successful/“compete” with OP’s other customers for OP’s salespeoples’ attention/effort.

It can be a good business model for OP if he can get it, but as has been mentioned elsewhere seasoned potential customers will not, and should not generally, bite.

The downside for OP is once the sales process starts working, his customer grows, probably hires in-house sales staff, trains them off OP’s work, and cuts his contract, so he is always having to work to bring in new.
According to the standard `realloc(NULL, size)` should already behave like `malloc(size)`. You shouldn't need that special case unless you're working on a system with a very buggy/non-compliant libc.
So like any other commercial cloud based system.
Yes, and the new kid in town, slang has more chances of adoption.
You meant to say that people's expectations have shifted. That's expected seeing the amount of hype this tech gets.

Hype affects market value tho, not reality.
>People living in those dwellings were informed that it is therefore illegal for them to say anything against abortion in the privacy of their own homes.

Quoting easily debunked nonsense like this makes it clear that you aren't getting the full picture. [1]

77% of people in the UK support a ban on protests outside of abortion clinics. [2]

[1] - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c87d9j17pjqo

[2] - https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/47568-where-does-the-...
He brought down the empire by committing the ultimate offense: walking across the street and taking the additional money. Hundreds of thousands of people lost their careers, millions more disrupted because of his selfish act. In the 9th Circle will be at least your hero, RMS of GNU and Vint of PPP and Carly of "That Face."
> Has there ever been a moment in human history where we’ve (as a society, not as individuals) looked back and were envious?

I am guessing that generation that transitioned from Pax Romana to early middle ages in Europe.
First Rust needs to have tier 1 support for CUDA, in a way that doesn't feel like yak shaving when coding for CUDA.
Effective and reversible oral contraception in mice and primates via YCT-529
they agreed it was an error, to send him to that particular prison, not out of the country in general.

he is an illegal and his deportation defense in 2019 was he feared for his life from a "rival gang" indicating he was in the MS-13 gang that the feds and judge found him to be part of.

he's not just some "father", as the left leaning news likes to portray. he participated in human trafficking and himself admitted he was a gang member.

it seemed that the left did not care about vetting when gang members were coming into the country.

...but now they're being deported, it seems vetting is crucial (which is being done, but you're not always privy to (or aware of) the information)

and "anonymous snitch" is quite derogatory. you do know how evil MS-13 is right? listen to yourself.

they chop people up without blinking an eye. the fact someone risked their life to "snitch" saved so many people. this isn't playground shit.
This breach reinforces the importance of robust security measures, particularly for sensitive financial data. Pension funds must prioritize investing in state-of-the-art cybersecurity defenses and incident response plans. Transparent communication with affected individuals is crucial to maintain trust and mitigate potential harm. Swift action is needed to prevent future attacks.
Again I have to stress how behind the times this take is. I recommend you check out the Steam Deck and the Proton project. It's something like 20,000 compatible games at this point.

If you're really missing something, then great, get a console to go with your Linux desktop or laptop setup. Still no need for Windows.
There is a reason for all the restrictions. Some of it is bad reason, but we have done some really stupid things as well. Anyone who wants to be YIMBY (which includes me) needs to come up with ways to figure out how not to do the bad as well.
The Failed Assumptions of Free Trade
interesting, so you're saying wavelengths are also a construct of the human mind (handed with a device to measure them). Maybe then the Buddha was right when he said "form is emptiness"? Which would mean there's no way that something really is independent of the way of looking at it, that things are empty, there are only ways of looking...
programming entire AAA video games

Even this is questionable, cause we're seeing it making forms and solving leetcodes, but no llm yet created a new approach, reduced existing unnecessary complexity (which we created mountains of), made something truly new in general. All they seem to do is rehash of millions of "mainstream" works, and AAA isn't mainstream. Cranking up the parameter count or the time of beating around the bush (aka cot) doesn't magically substitute for lack of a knowledge graph with thick enough edges, so creating a next-gen AAA video game is far out of scope of llm's abilities. They are stuck in 2020 office jobs and weekend open source tech, programming-wise.
Yes, I think that this is the fundamental paradox that this "new right" viewpoint will have to grapple with. If you want tribute from other countries, it basically means you want them to send you free stuff, which undercuts your domestic production. If you want to maintain a trade surplus like China, then that means you want to send stuff to other countries and accept less in return. You can only have it one way or the other; those can't both be seen as freeloading.
Functiontrace: A Python profiler using the Firefox profiler as GUI
My point is that there is no prompt engineering that could keep Vikings white without also keeping Italian plumbers looking like Mario. Unless you singled out Mario, but there are too many examples to do that with. The AI does not put Mario in a different category than a Viking. You have to try to get the AI to avoid using exact literal imagery, to make sure it's mixing things up a bit, varying facial features and clothing styles when it shows people ... you know, being "diverse". How are we supposed to get an Italian plumber in anything other than red overalls without getting a Viking wearing a sari?

The Gemini prompt was something like "make sure any images of people show a diverse range of humans", or something. Yes, it was totally ham-handed, but that's not what people were pissed about. It's also ham-handed that we can't generate a nipple, or a swear word, or violence. Why does "make sure images do not contain excessive violence" not piss people off? The Vikings were fucking brutal. It would be very historically accurate to show them raping women and cutting people's limbs off. Are we all supposed to be pissed that AI does not generate that image? It's just as ham-handed as "make sure humans are diverse". No, it was not the ham-handedness that enraged people. It was not the historical inaccuracy. It was the word "diverse".
> how not to do the bad as well

What is the bad that rivals our current housing crisis and infrastructure depletion?
https://www.inverse.com/science/hollow-earth-theory-history-...

> According to a 1716 paper mentioned in the book, Hollow Earth: The Long and Curious History of Imagining Strange Lands, Halley devised the Hollow Earth theory as a way to explain strange disturbances in the magnetic field that were connected to the aurora borealis — Earth’s natural light show. Halley was right about the magnetic field, but not so much about Hollow Earth..

> Years later, War of 1812 veteran and explorer, John Cleves Symmes, seized on the Hollow Earth theory.. to justify American expansionism.. into Antarctica. Similar to Halley, Symmes believed that the Earth was made of a hollow shell 800 miles thick, but he added his own twist: there were openings to Earth’s hollow core at both the North and South Pole. These he called “Symmes holes.” There, he believed that light — and human explorers — could descend underneath the surface into the hollow core.

There was also a German sci-fi novel "Two Planets" by Kurd Lasswitz (1897), which influenced a young Werner von Braun who would later contribute to German rocketry and American space program, and write his own sci-fi novel about Mars exploration, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39571588
I fell in love with Mexico because of the colorful architecture. I've found that many buildings would make for good color palettes. So I made an app to convert 145 photos of mine into color palettes.

https://seis.pointlessprojects.com/
Phrasing is important though.

"She wanted to let kids die from accidental drownings so she'd be able to have a pool."

vs

"She wanted pools to be legal."
I have fond memories of implementing a variety of parallelized search algorithms with Occam for the one Transputer we had at the school lab. I loved it. The professors and TAs thought I was nuts.
Good lord. Can we just get a sane market? Why do people want to have their employer involved? PAY ME AND I BUY THE STUFF! Fuck the health insurance mafia.