skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really, the machines these days are owned by everyone, the type of labor is not the same as it was, as anyone can own a laptop as a means of production. As an aside, I have seen your comments quite a bit on AI art related threads over the past few years, especially while I see close to none on ones related to AI code related ones, and I always thought there was some hypocrisy there, which actually led me to the theory that it is not the tech that threatens people so, but the economic incentives behind them, as you state in this comment.

That is why I would advocate for people to support open source AI that at least does not drive profits to any one entity, but people have been so knee-jerk reactive to anything AI over the years that they do not understand that more regulation only means that big tech, with the means to buy licenses to content, would essentially be the arbiters to new popular culture, ironically screwing creators even more in the process; think Disney, but 10x more powerful.
Using a Linux boot DVD that has never been near my network, I'd nuke the machine entirely. Then I'd set it up offline with an application-level firewall to block outgoing communication, and a limited account to block write access as much as possible across the system. I would also rebuild any other computers on your network in the same way. Before anything got back onto my network I would rebuild the router and stuff too.
So they "solved" gangs and installed a ruthless and illegal dictatorship in their place — which may in fact be secretly conspiring with those same gangs behind the scenes.

I feel sorry for El Salvador. It may now have to experience several generations of Soviet-style repression and suffering before a new regime is able to overthrow the current one. Meanwhile, thousands of families will never get to find out what happened to their loved ones in those horrifying concentration camps.

FYI, many of our (Americans') ancestors fled their home countries precisely to escape this sort of state-enacted brutality.
To me, the stuff that grows from a shell invocation must be a process tree.
There was widespread institutional selling, and typically dip buyers are non-professional traders who underperform the market [1] [2]

At the end of the day, does it really matter who's the marginal buyer and who's the marginal seller?

Do we learn anything about the value of Apple Inc by learning that the marginal buyer was an HFT hoping to offload inventory in 500ns, a mid-frequency shop who will hedge delta at end-of-day, or a value investor who will hold for a lifetime?

I claim any such information would be rapidly priced in by flow-analysis algos, and thus reflected in the closing price.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/markets/retail-bought-stocks-largest...

[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/retail-investors-buy-dip-tru...
I think many economists would argue that both countries are winning in this exchange. Many would argue that such a transaction would be an example of a “positive sum game” where each side gains more than they lose.
12 000 words is ~1h30 of talking non stop. These averages seem pretty high to me... on a median day I probably speak about 50 words, and my average must be around 1000.

However, the average number of words I listen to is several times higher. It would be interesting to do such a study, with a similar methodology: do women listen more than men?
Gaza was not a need of the vast majority of their voters, whatever a handful of college kids who are utterly incapable of understanding basic international politics think of themselves.

Neither is Bernie’s idiotic version of Medicare for all, in spite of it being a fun bumper sticker.

Y’all have gotta give up the TikTok bullshit and read some books.
> reevaluating funding on a regular basis and dropping all funding if metrics are not met.

The US government isn't going to exert that level of influence on a private enterprise without being a majority shareholder, which is what happened with GM in the 2008 bailout.

The government also can't be in a position where pulling billions in funding based on targets it sets leads to mass layoffs, that would be a political minefield come election time. Subsidies are about creating jobs as much as they are about enabling technology development.
I'm sorry for being a bit off-topic, but I'm a founder of a PaaS company myself, and I think that what we offer is a great alternative to Coolify for companies that need a more "managed" and reliable infra.

https://stacktape.com is a Heroku/Vercel-like PaaS platform that deploys directly to your own AWS account.

It supports both serverless (lambda functions), and serverful (AWS ECS Fargate or EC2) deployments. Besides that, it supports other AWS infrastructure resources, such as RDS MySQL/Postgres, Redis, ElasticSearch, etc..

You can deploy from console, using git-push-to-deploy, or even use preview deployments (ephemeral environments for every PR).

Compared to alternatives, it's both very easy to use, and flexible/extensible at the same time. You can use it to quickly deploy anything in a few minutes, yet it will be sufficient to cover even complex infrastructure needs you might run into in the future.
It's fine with Firefox/Dark Reader.

Short version: magic means serendipity, finding the obscure thing you were looking for, rather than an answer soup. The author argues for "adding more intentional personalization" in AI tools, though that is left an open proposition, IMO having big technical and philosophical problems, i.e. how much do you want some LLM to know about you?

I purposely use anonymous search with zero profiles (DDG) and don't get personalized search results. I ive with that, rather than letting someone else know all my personal info. (voluntarily, anyway)
https://docs.vultr.com/how-to-install-podman-on-freebsd-14-0
It's a dependency bottleneck that requires a pretty hefty amount of money ($9/mo) to get around
> You're right. Just the other day I got this annoying spam message from my local pharmacy

Right. That's who TCR doesn't stop.

But lets say you buy a DIY home upgrade from a local biz and the two of you are in a support session and are sending pics and messages back and forth over SMS.

This is what TCR stops.
Imperial units are British, and the United States doesn’t use the imperial system.
Not to be picky, but they could be on a par. There doesn't have to be a massive difference in this regard. Jails are well established, and well understood. I prefer BSD solutions and I run jails and Linux kvm.
I'm fairly convinced it's easier feel like there is some plan, even if a bad or sinister one, than things being in a state of genuine chaos.

You occasionally see the people jumping between different ideas as to what the underlying plan is, once events no longer support their initial idea.
> 50 years ago, a movie ticket was 0.50 cents in revenue.

he average price in 1975 was $2.05 [0], which is ~$12 today [1]. That is not so different from most movie prices today, excluding concessions.

[0] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cost-movie-ticket-were-born-1...

[1] https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1975?amount=2.05
We haven’t had an evolutionarily relevant reason to stop. If sentient alien life looks like a chicken we’d stop eating chicken. If pigs get any smarter we’ll have to stop eating them. We’ve already mostly stopped eating cats and dogs in most western countries. For me, personally, I view it as a 3rd or 4th tier problem. We’re not solving world hunger for another 2 centuries so I put it out of my mind. If I’m going to solve a “food problem” it seems cruel and irresponsible to solve the food’s problem.
Show HN: PokemonGym – 387 milestones designed to test agents and LLMs
We've developed PokemonGym, an open-source benchmark that uses Pokemon gameplay to evaluate LLM capabilities in tool use, information extraction, and reasoning.

The benchmark features 387 carefully designed milestones (reaching locations, catching Pokemon, earning badges) with assigned difficulty scores to create a standardized evaluation framework.

Our initial testing revealed an interesting performance gap: amateur human players require ~400 steps to catch their first Pokemon, while Claude 3.7 needs ~450 steps - suggesting AI models are approaching human-level performance in this domain.

The benchmark will soon be available on benchflow.ai with a simple API for testing your own agents and models.

GitHub repo: https://github.com/benchflow-ai/pokemon-gym

We're looking for collaborators interested in improving the harness or running experiments with different models.
Do you trust the bios or UEFI enough to reinstall via unwritable media, you downloaded independently? Was it a
Locked boot state? Does it have a locked reinstall image?

Checksums are your friend. If you had a checksum over the post install bios state you can verify reinstalling.

If not, remove the hard drive/ssd media and reconstruct elsewhere.
A spellchecker is a linter. LLMs are a false equivalency.

I have yet to see AI “used wisely.” It is always precisely as parent complained about: people who neither know nor care to learn about the subject of their profession using it as a shortcut. If that is to be the state of the field, then salaries need to be _drastically_ cut. There’s absolutely no reason that you should be paid six figures to ask an omniscient entity a question, and copy/paste the answer.

> They help you move faster, reduce routine effort

You cannot understand something if you don’t understand its fundamentals. Reducing routine effort translates to “I don’t want to write boilerplate.” And that’s fine, if and only if you already know how to write it, what it does, and why it is the way it is. Wax on, wax off.
consider gold to be a commodity (easy to do, because it is), shipping it overseas, you're engaged in trade, exporting gold, importing stuff or foreign currency. But nobody holds currency, because "time value of money", you want to hold something that yields income.
China's Rare Earths Curbs Put Multiple US Industries at Risk
https://archive.is/2LHlG
Routine antibiotic use in livestock has been banned in the US for a few years.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/12/health/fda-to-phase-out-u...
> freeloaders that have benefited from our technology, military defense, and foreign aid while simultaneously being net exporters to the US.

I'm not trying to jump on you for having captured it, but the problem is that this is wholly nonsensical - the repayment for benefiting from our technology and military defense IS the net exporting to the US (via holding our currency). That "logic" is still based on having one foot in the paradigm of the financial engineering puppetmasters where getting real physical goods is somehow a liability rather than a benefit!

For sure, this enviable position has had a corrosive effect on our economy. But the inability to deal with that has been wholly down to self-inflicted policy wounds of previous decades - chiefly led by the Republican party marketing a game of fake "fiscal responsibility" whereby the government is prevented from taking deliberate action to mitigate the displacement of industry and workers, while the increased (but now centralized) wealth from offshoring (and other technological/economic gains) was merely handed over to the banksters in the form of low-interest loans that went into driving up the asset bubble.
Will I finally understand transistors?
The humans aren't subject to foam depopulation and its successor: ventilation shutdown.
Wow really violent gangsters hurt people and are bad? Thanks for your insight!
How do you know that the "overwhelming majority" are "bad people who prey on others" without a functional judicial system to prove it?

As the number of incarcerated grows from 2% to 5% to consolidate Bukele's power, what recourse will anyone have outside the party elite?

The pattern of strongman politicians, indefinite emergency measures, and erosion of liberties to manifest full bore dictatorship has repeated over and over and over again in the 20th and 21st centuries — and you still can't see it happening? You may enjoy it now, but consider this the honeymoon phase: it only gets worse from here on out.
It’s very much on-topic. You’re just shilling your own product under the thread of a similar product, nothing to be ashamed off chief. Shill away.
Ok, I buy the premise that maybe the top 1000 people are super evil mr. burns type folks. I even buy the fact that they would be giving up absolute wealth for greater relative wealth.

But you know the easiest way to do that. Inflation. Expanding the money supply. Increasing the value of their assets at the expense of the working class. not tanking the value of the companies they own!
Oh so you just have it all in cash in a savings account or something?
I have a similar test for image gens. I try to get them to write reversed text in condensation on windows. The new GPT is the best so far, it can sorta, maybe, do it sometimes. Others will sometimes reverse the letter order, but not flip each character.
L'impact des cryptomonnaies sur les stratégies économiques internationales
The Dutch and Swiss are very powerful, relative to their size. You can say fantasy things like "if they were invaded tomorrow", but that's not reality.

The US has atomic weapons, but has lost almost every war it has started since having nukes. Having weapons doesn't mean you will be faced with contexts to actually use them. "Genome-targeted bioweapons" is just made up nonsense. Just making up "if" statements of fantastical capabilities that do not have grounding in reality is just that: fantasy. Living in fantasy land is how the richest nation the world has ever seen could lose a war to teenagers in Afghanistan.
Clawtype: Custom wearable chorded keyboard and mouse
The US represents a huge proportion of global demand.

These countries can establish as many new trade agreements as they want, but they aren’t going to replace the US market.

And to claim that the US has lost allies is ridiculous. Countries have done far worse and remained allies.

Let’s not overplay the impact here. Free trade is a relatively new thing. We’re just going back to the world the way it was a few decades ago.
So, is this book any good?
> It’s the lack of clear vision and support that makes the electorate so desperate for it to happen. If we were to actually reinvest in our citizenry (meaning the wealthy in this country would need to pay a little more in taxes) and have proper support for people in the meantime the public would be supportive and it would be better for the country as a whole.

What does this look like? Progressive taxes go up, better safety nets, those are straightforward. What does a solid middle class look like when all the cheap labor manufacturing comes back to automation (~8% of US jobs are manufacturing).

The US service sector is almost 80% of the economy. We are walking into perpetual labor shortages due to structural demographics. So perhaps we don’t need “good, union jobs” and instead need to make sure people are paid enough to live comfortable lives, regardless of job (services, manufacturing, whatever). Some combination of universal healthcare (squeeze out the profit potential, cram down non care costs), public housing (see how Austria does it) to prevent investor capture, increasing the minimum wage further faster, etc.
But what if a significant fraction of the employees believed in some message being spread that intern?

Whether the intern is an inveterate grifter, and/or happens to be personally sponsored by a powerful mob boss, does not matter for the employees latching onto that message.

In that context too, I have a feeling these flaws would be tolerated/overlooked.
If you remember he blew up TTIP, TTP/TTPA during his first mandate.
I think that you should consider trying to widen your media diet. Everyone can benefit from listening to opposing perspectives.
>then trade that USD with each other

USD has no value other than what it can purchase in the US.

Saudi Arabia does not pile up USD, they pile up USD denominated investments.

(basic finance that most people don't realize: When you put money in the bank, and the bank gives you interest, that's not your money in the bank, that's the bank's money. What you own is a certificate entitling you to the stream of interest payments. If you ever want your money back from the bank, you need to give them back the entitlement for the interest payments, and the interest payments will stop.)

the Saudis don't hold US currency, they hold bonds, et al.
Because to check email your active participation is needed so you must start an application while to accept texting no such action is needed. Thus for short information (read-and-forget) short messaging (SMS or RCS) is more convenient. Of course, you could use a specialized application to check your email account and filter those needing immediate notification, but if such a service is already available what is the reason to generate additional much bigger traffic?
Indeed! Money is a special kind of a commodity, at least initially. With fiat money, it's more complicated, but still. All trade is barter trade, in a sense.

Money, e.g. gold, has a very special quality: it's accepted in exchange for any goods. It's the ultimate "narrow waist" of goods exchange. This gives money a very special status among commodities.
And I for one would much rather it go to subsidize university research than subsidize the defense industry
Never used CUDA, but I'm guessing these map to the same underlying stuff as timestamp queries in graphics APIs, yes?
Thank you for sharing, I'm gonna save this comment and come back to it. I'm in Vietnam and chose this case partly because it seems resellers do have it in stock here. It's all the other stuff - custom risers and cables - I'm worried about.

I'm gonna target a 4080/5080 - stuck with Nvidia because CUDA - which gives me a lot more wiggle room with the power supply.

I've built plenty of PCs, including a few SFF PCs without GPUs, but never something requiring this kind of customization so I'm planning to find a detailed build online and mostly copy what the other person did, if possible.
I like it a lot... whatever prompts they have given it makes it seem a lot more human.
Via:

a slide for yann lecun's lecture on "Mathematical Obstacles on the Way to Human-Level AI"

https://xcancel.com/ravi_mohan/status/1906612309880930641

in fato creditis?
Friend perhaps we can save the accusations of racism for Reddit
It sounds like you’re arguing for the military industrial complex.

“The Ukraine war is great because it creates US jobs through weapons manufacturing. Yeah, we might get our hair a bit mussed with the hundreds of thousands of deaths, but net-net it’s a win!”
Any model of international trade that does not also model externalities is worse than useless. International trade accounts for 30 percent of CO2 emissions alone.

Maybe you should produce X and Z.
The first time I encountered the memory fragmentation problem common in hashtables wasn't even in a hashtable implementation, it was in a program that used realloc heavily, and doubled the buffer size every time.

This was causing massive problems trying to concurrently read a stream over the network and start parsing it, because the realloc had trouble finding appropriately sized fragments. Once I pointed it out to the lead dev he used a different strategy and cut the load time on a multi-megabyte file by a factor of ten.

Much later on I would learn that he could have also solved the problem just by adjusting the growth factor to 1.5 instead of 2x.
Airbnb hosts are penalised if they cancel - they get downrated - so it's not something that hosts generally want to do. Far better if they can persuade a guest to cancel
I feel bad for Lesotho- 50% is tough.
Hum, no.

Adam Smith didn't understand that people would trade even if one of the peers was better at every single thing. He got lots of stuff right, and even some things that took until the 19th century to make into mainstream economics. But not this one.
well for the Russia sanctions, initially it did have an impact but then both people and corporations found workarounds...

for example, blocking swift does not make money transactions impossible, makes it difficult for the layman in the first a few times.

nowadays, everyone uses crypto/usdt for the transactions and realizing it is actually cheaper and faster than the swift.

for the europe, they still buy the gas even at a higher price. grounding berlin to moscow flights only benefits turkish airlines and qatar airlines as now they profit from being monopolies (connections through istanbul and dubai)

the reality is that people adapt. i am not a trump supporter, i do not agree with the tariffs but that's what trump is trying to do; force people to adapt local goods
They do. I think it’s one of these beliefs vs logic things
Another approach:

let mut iterator = data.chunks_mut(stride);
while let Some(line) = if !flipped { iterator.next() } else { iterator.next_back() } {
…
}

I sometimes wonder idly if the language would have been better off without a `for` loop (if `while let` had happened much earlier). `while let` is more verbose, mainly because iterator construction has to be an explicit separate line, but it’s also more amenable to alteration to make it more fit for purpose. (You can go down to `loop` and `break`, but I think this sacrifices too much in ergonomics and comprehensibility in the usual case. As `while let` also compromises, but I wonder if it’s closer to the sweet spot than commonly imagined, and `for` doesn’t actually get you so much.)
My rant was specifically about people who embed themselves in a group, but resent the group and their situation. Thats how I interpreted "[Their] choice is not between bread and cake, but between bread and an empty belly."

If this is not the case, then the rant doesn't apply.
> This is kinda like Docker/Podman thing on Linux – but secure instead.

How true is this? I know jails have been around longer than Linux containers, which are explicitly not designed as "secure" isolation (which is why people like fly.io use VMs instead).

How battle-tested are FreeBSD jails?

In particular, I note we're talking FreeBSD, not OpenBSD, which is the one that's all about security.
You’re retconning history from a mid-20th century civil rights lens. That lens focuses on increasing access to a civilizational order that has already been built. Its about expanding access to what white males already had. But it’s an inadequate lens for understanding how that order was built in the first place.

The hard part is getting “from 0 to 1.” You need a state, the state needs to impose order and gain control over warlords, you need law and civil institutions, you need a government that is controlled by more than a handful of people, etc.

England or New England in 1800 was already a more developed society than Bangladesh or Somalia or Iraq in 2024, even though slavery still existed and suffrage wasn’t universal. Just getting to that point would be transformational for much of asia, the middle east, and africa.

This is why nation building in the 20th and early 21st century has failed so spectacularly. You can go into Iraq and create a nice constitution with rights and universal suffrage and religious freedom, but you’re just redistributing 0. The “rights lens” doesn’t actually tell you how to get Iraq in 2024 to the point where England was in 1800.
Because they're wealthy enough to have separation between their 'existence' money and their 'power and status' money. Tank the country and they get to own a little sliver more of it. The cheese and clothes they buy don't change. Because they've got more than plenty.
"In the throws of narcissism" is best way to describe them.

Living hellish painful lives purely volitionally, from the mental cage they created for themselves.

Must've had extra specially unpleasant childhoods.