skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The bit about the usefulness for lubrication is fairly wrong. To put it simply, it's useful because it's a corrosion inhibitor. And while it works it degrades pretty rapidly in a hot gearbox. Synthetic alternatives were simply better. And they were developed and gaining traction before the ban, because they were better. Industrial machinery mostly doesn't need those properties. Whale oil is a poor lubricant by itself though it can look decent if your frame of reference is what's available in the 1860s.

Between what you found and what I found I think the whole thing is kinda sus.

Edit: To clarify, Whale oil is hydroscopic-ish but in a weird way, not like glycol (I'm not a chemist so IDK). My understanding is that it makes some sort of film that's protective against condensation. Gearboxes operated outdoors don't generally need this corrosion inhibitor. It has to do with the glues used on or in automatic transmission friction material and how very sensitive they are to water. You can't have water building up from ambient conditions and short trips or they'll delaminate. Your alternatives without something like this are rivets or different glue, both of which perform worse and cost more.
> Personally, I get pissed when companies misuse "open source" because without open source

In this instance, where did Gumroad claim that its code was open source?
Ridiculous article, misinformation at it's finest.Eggs have dropped in price nearly 300% a month ago with the start of egg season for a new generation of hens.

https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/eggs-us
If you can't discuss politics with them or other personal topics then they're acquaintances not friends. There's a difference.
It's the whole theological foundation of northern european and american protestantism = being rich means good loves you, so you're a good person.

How they got there from jesus saying rich people can't go to heaven is one of those theological acrobacies they criticise so much in catholics, but don't disregard doing themselves when suits them.
It's not directly or criminally illegal. It's civilly illegal in the sense that Apple has a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders in their business decision making. In practice, there are quite broad interpretations of what might be considered "good for your shareholders", but someone's personal interests generally wouldn't qualify as that.

If, hypothetically, Cook said "fuck this administration, we don't like their politics, we're not going to work with them", their shareholders could and probably would sue them. Those shareholders could make a case that Cook was asking of his own political interests, point to other organizations that did make exemption deals, and sue for losses in their share value. The reason for this is not entirely wacky: when you borrow someone's money to do something, you can't do your own pet projects with it.

Now that, of course, doesn't mean that Cook had to donate. But Cook is businessman himself, runs Apple to make money, and doing that is his modus operandi.
I read something recently that said the rise of American suburbia can be traced to increased rates of crime in the cities due to immigrant populations (this was over the last 50 years or so).

Now that Europe has seen such a huge increase in immigrant populations (and the corresponding crime increases), perhaps suburban-type environments will become more desirable there in the near future.
I already mentioned the budget. If Republicans want to pass any actual tax cuts, that's another opportunity.

I didn't claim Democrats have absolute power, but they do have some.
That wasn't my reading. It was the bread or death part that did for me.

To me it seemed like melodramatic self pity, like the person complain that they had no other choice but go to the party but be alone. If someone hates company, they should go be a hermit, not show up and tell everyone about it.

It's okay to be a loner or a hermit. If you're not doing it, then either you are choosing the trade offs or you don't actually want it.

People should own their choices. Self pity and denial of agency are two of the most self destructive cognitive phenomenon.
This reminds me of the stories that Gary's economics shared with his time at Citigroup which corroborates some of the stories my dad had as an accountant in investment firms.

That is, a lot of dicey stuff happens and management tends to only care about the results and intentionally places the responsibility on the traders by operating a very loose leash. This is combined with a % based commission which encourages rule breaking, given how high the rewards can be. The loose leash means when something bad is discovered (and this was the sort of thing my dad would uncover as an accountant) supervisors had this plausible deniability they could fall back on. This meant they could reap the rewards of positive returns while mitigating the blowback on them in the worst case outcomes.

Gary specifically shared a story when he tried to quit in that he was threatened with an investigation to dredge up all the bad stuff he'd done in order to be one of the more successful traders, which ultimately ended up as a big nothing burger as he didn't break any rules to get his returns. What was telling, was the assumption that they _would_ find something to use a cudgel to keep him there, as if it was almost expected.
I feel like the golden and fun age of GenAI is already over.
The nature of our political system is such that in the future, whether in 4 years or 12, the 'other side' will be in control and generally work to undo what the previous administration did, even if only out of spite. So most of the stuff being cancelled in contemporary times should be viewed more as being rebooted, with a bit of a delay.

But personally I would question whether just giving things to people is truly helping them. For instance take the earlier NYTimes post talking about USAID providing AIDS medicine. If we truly care about Africa's AIDS issue, then why are we just providing medicine instead of helping them to building out manufacturing/labs in Africa, independently manned, and capable of independently producing generic medicine without foreign assistance? USAID was funded with tens of billions of dollars. How much does one lab/plant cost?

In any case, shouldn't the goal of truly benevolent aid to create a scenario where you will realistically no longer need to provide aid in the future? Of course if you teach a man to fish, that man's no longer dependent upon you. But if you just give a man a fish each day, he'll do whatever you demand to keep getting that fish.
I don’t see it as doomerism, just realism. Looking at the realities of nuclear war shows that it is a world ending holocaust that could happen by accident or by the launch of a single nuclear ICBM by North Korea, and there is almost no chance of de-escalation once a missile is in the air. There is nothing to be done, other than advocate of nuclear arms treaties in my own country, but that has no effect on Russia, China, North Korea, Pakistan, India, or Iran. Bertrand Russell said, "You may reasonably expect a man to walk a tightrope safely for ten minutes; it would be unreasonable to do so without accident for two hundred years." We will either walk the tightrope for another 100 years or so until global society progresses to where there is nuclear disarmament, or we won’t.

It is the same with Gen AI. We will either find a way to control an entity that rapidly becomes orders of magnitude more intelligent than us, or we won’t. We will either find a way to prevent the rich and powerful from controlling a Gen AI that can build and operate anything they need, including an army to protect them from everyone without a powerful Gen AI, or we won’t.

I hope for a future of abundance for all, brought to us by technology. But I understand that some existential threats only need to turn the wrong way once, and there will be no second chance ever.
Objectivism has many of these sorts of contradictions. Most famously, Ayn Rand herself collected medicare and social security as her health deteriorated towards the end of her life.
Let's put it this way. You're a wealthy patron that sponsors an animated feature-length film you intend to put on the blockchain. You pay the animators, the film is made, and now the hash is on the blockchain.

Strictly speaking, your "ownership" is only of the hash. Unless you register the film as a copyright, the US won't recognize your ownership of the film. You cannot stop people from sharing or deriving the work without legal protection, the utility the blockchain provides in this instance is entirely cosmetic. NFTs aren't just unnecessary - they're useless without external guarantees. The "chain of provenance" for the cloud is a scam. All digital works can be copied infinitely for $0/copy, and the ultimate irony is that the only way to stop that outcome is from abandoning the blockchain and relying on a government to protect you.

You want to know where all the talented, educated and principled technologists were during the NFT boom? Far, far away from any form of blockchain.
I would traditionally agree that not today, but actually, probably even today.

But hey, changes take time!
To be fair, we've already been through this cycle at least once with animation. The difference between early Disney or even Looney Tunes and (say) late '60s Hanna-Barbera or '80s He-Man is enormous. Since then there has been generally higher-quality animation rather than lower (though I know it varies a lot by country, genre etc.)

It's not inevitable that it's a race to the cheapest and shittest. That's just one (fairly strong) commercial force amongst many.
> The gap between preaching individualism while demanding conformity has always been the movement's central contradiction.

Check out Adam Curtis's documentaries for work that zeroes in on this.
Depending on how consumer satisfaction surveys are phrased, it totally could be the norm, given this:

> Even so, they love the vehicle

I.e. if Tesla owners are constantly having maintenance issues but manage to still love their vehicles despite that, then their satisfaction is still high.
I'm kind of puzzled. I've been interested in AI for ~45 years and read quite a lot of the stuff on HN and similar. I'm not aware of any of that being pushed on me by a corporate overlord? I'll give you there is more hype and money these days.

However I also read Kurzweil / Moravec stuff which has been predicting human level intelligence around now since at least 1990 and that to me is the interesting bit, and not really at all corporate, rather than open-whatever has raised $x bn etc.
Funny but uncharitable. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Besides, there is another way, which is just as stupid: just ban everyone. No more video games, ever. And there you go: no more cheating in video games.
>Just fix the ciphers to a list of what's known to work + some safety margin.

That's already the case. The trouble is that NSS (what firefox uses) doesn't support the same cipher suites as boringssl (what chrome uses?).
If so then what a colossal waste of our planetary carbon budget. I don't know what the backend on this app is (maybe it was done properly i really hope so) but surely there is a solution which maintains or surpasses the accuracy of an LLM and uses <1% of the compute resources.

Like a small vision model combined with the size/measurements data from the AR sensors modern phones come with and an open source caloric values database should achieve the 90% accuracy they are claiming.

Ronald Wright writes about "progress traps" in A Short History of Progress. It's been awhile since I read that but I think about it more and more these days with AI products on the rise.
The global bond market is bigger than the global equity market - look it up. It’s held by someone and it ain’t poor people.
This reminds me that one time on one Czech Linux portal when someone posted blog about crocodile infested river, there were several characters and you were supposed to decide who is more or less moral and judge their behavior in the story. The whole thread became so massive that it brought portal down and even today when you open it it loads half a minute.
Only 4x speed seems rather low for GPU acceleration, does numpy already use AVX2 or anything SIMD?

For comparison, doing something similar with torch on CPU and torch on GPU will get you like 100x speed difference.
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I mentioned that the title makes no sense in the sentence right after it:

> Yes, the title makes no sense, but you'll see what I mean in just a second.

And yes, I didn't explain the exact mechanics of the ES spec which make it happen — but I would argue that "variables can be modified until they're out-of-scope" is even more unintuitive than just remembering this edge case. And I'm not trying to be an ECMAScript lawyer with the post, rather I'd just show a bunch of "probably unexpected" behaviors of JavaScript.
Indeed, a good point. My comment assumes that our current model of the human brain is (sufficiently) complete.

Your comment reveals an interesting corollary - those that believe in something beyond our understanding, like the Christian soul, may never be convinced that an AI is truly sapient.
Wait until you hear many antivirus/endpoint software block "recent" domain names from being loaded.
According to them new domains are only used by evil people and should be blocked.
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Sure, same situation here. Lots of apartments in mostly car dependent areas.

But there's still a lot of single-family homes, yes? Like, the majority of people living in those areas are in single-family homes? So probably the majority of car owners?
I just looked: I had my first license of Devonthink in 2008.

I organized all my teaching files in DT. Then I got a Scansnap and went mostly paperless with everythink.

The OCR was/is quite good and it got a kind of auto-file feature. Based on content it showed you the most likely folders to file the file. A great time safer - it really works when you have a semi-established structure with some files in it.

This is something that I have high hopes for: I hand a messy pile of files to locale AI to make sense of it and keep it organized.

As long as I don't get this Devonthink has been the second-best thing to this vision for 17 years.
In the late 90's, another engineer came up to me and said they had an Alpha with a couple gigs of RAM. That was almost unheard of for the time! My x86 laptop then had 32 megs. It's funny looking back at that now... Everything is a memory pig.
"I might have stolen this"
> it never includes any kind of analytic marketing inferences they have made about me

I'm not an expert by any definition, but I would bet the reason to that is the market inferences are a result of the data they provide you, and isn't an independent datapoint, but rather an extrapolation of what they've collected.

Therefore, it could be argued that the marketing information isn't classified as something to provide.

Don't know how correct I might be, I'm just playing devil's advocate out of intellectual interest.
I'm willing to bet the $450 console only price backlash is the real problem here. $500 if you want to bundle Mario Kart, but digital games costing $80 and the physical cart at $90 is a laughably high price point, that no one except nintendo thinks is reasonable.
Not the person you replied to but I'd say definitely not. It'd be easy to pick up bad habits from python (untyped variables) and try to carry them over to other languages. It's also the king of runtime errors, which will frustrate newbies.

I think a compiled language is a better choice for people just getting started. Java is good, IMO, because it is verbose. Eventually the beginner may get tired of the verbosity and move on to something else, but at least they'll understand the value of explicit types and compile-time errors.
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You don't need an ifdef.

You just need a CLI option like java's --source, where you specify the source compatibility with different language versions.
Totally, it's going to take a minute to get it all working. On a positive note, they recently got some sponsorship from Modal [0], who is supplying GPUs for CI/CD so they should be able to expand their hardware coverage.
Isn't Trump's treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, a Soros guy?

I just learned that he apparently want to impose a new economic order on the world where every country basically becomes subservient to the US, but first they need crazy tariffs to make them all beg for access to the US market. I don't think it will work, and instead the global economy will move on without the US.
Yes, and on the makers' side, you learn a lot too, trying to find uses for materials. I often wandered in Wikipedia for geology, mineralogy, flora, alloys - for those I even ended up in professional websites. I learned about the Soda pulping for paper and cotton seed oil (which is not common in my country).
I'm not quite 40 but starting to feel the effects of age, AI has been a great tool if not for the fact it saves my hands. I don't have it write the logic for me, mostly just stuff like smart autocomplete etc. I battle really severe tendonitis, I've noticed a definite improvement since I started using code complete.

As far as knowledge/experience, I worry about a day where "vibe coding" takes over the world and it's only the greybeards that have any clue WTF is going on. Probably profitable, but also sounds like a hellscape to me.

I would hate to be a junior right now.
Well based on what I'm reading, the OP's intent is that, not all (hence 'fully') validation, if not most of, can be done in-silico. I think we all agree that and that's the major bottleneck making agents useful - you have to have human-in-the-loop to closely guardrail the whole process.

Of course you can get a lot of mileage via synthetically generated CoT but does that lead to LLM speed up developing LLM is a big IF.
States, cities losing billions in federal childhood vaccine funds
Yeah, some sort of packet mirroring setup (eg. in iptables or at the switch level) + packet capture tool should be enough. Then you just need to join the data from the packet capture program/machine with your load balancer, using src ip + port + time.
Phone makers are ditching Gorilla glass, but what gives?
Moby Dick itself contains a ton of factual errors (even accounting for the state of knowledge contemporary to its writing) about whales and whaling. I think in this case it still points you in the right direction but that's mostly just luck.

And it is mostly focused on the habits of one particular whale fishery. Others are discussed but not in depth and the bias of the narrator in regard to them is itself an important part of the story. I don't know either way but it's plausible to me that other fisheries, positioned closer to their whaling grounds, would have dragged them back for processing.
ML reachers don’t write code, they ask ChatGPT to make a horribly inefficient, non-portable notebook that has to be rewritten from scratch :)
> charging it from low to full must be quite the consumption of energy

Charging it from low to high generally uses the same energy as five charges of 1/5th the capacity.
Look at any other objective measurement. Percent of people living below the global poverty line adjusted for PPP. Median income, 25th percentile income.

By all of those measures, the poorest states in the Deep South rank higher than many European countries.

So saying "poorer than anywhere Europe, or even the US Deep South", implies that you think the Deep South is poorer than anywhere in Europe. This is an absurd statement because the poorest places in Europe are much poorer than the poorest places in the US.

If you take the poorest zip code in the United States and look at the median income, 1st quartile income, (or even percent of people under the global poverty line adjusted for PPP), it's not even close to last place among European countries.

People have a very skewed view of the Deep South. Because parts of it are poorer than average for the rest of the country doesn't mean it's objectively poor when compared to the rest of the world.
>But the problem is that Trump is an idiot and he is the one who has to navigate this.

I mean I totally agree here. The goal however will be a deal that lasts decades and hopefully trump will be a rekoning and we will see a return to more stability in the future.

It seems we are boarding this bus no matter what, and Trump is driver. If he flies off a cliff, then we can all say "told you so" to the right on the way down, for whatever that is worth.
You're acting as if there aren't already tens of thousands of actual open source projects that exist just fine, some even make enough money to support continued development.

Why are you acting like the alternative is to burn down the system, you realize that there are plenty of people, organizations, and businesses that make actual open source software right? Like today even.
The article goes on to make the same error again though.

If the common person's automatic transmission needs whale oil you can't ban it.

The kind of oil that can be produced in the conditions of a mammal's body tends to not hold up to well in a 300deg automatic transmission. Synthetic oil was developed because using a factory to do "this can't happen in a body" things to tree oil results in a superior performing product. These products were adopted because they're better. And then there was little need to use whale oil, so it got banned at which point the synthetic new hotness got back ported into the older specifications of oil.
His overall point, that it happened later, after different technological innovations, and required government regulation is correct though
100%!

But the alternative would be the tool doesn't get built because the author doesn't know enough Python to even produce crappy code, or doesn't have the money to hire an awesome Python coder to do that for them.
This business model is always compelling, but you have to be extremely selective with which customers you decide to take on.
> An argument against the current practice where Anduril is banned?

An argument against Anduril being able to post in the first place before they were banned, or maybe all corporations. The current practice was to allow Anduril to post, when they made their post. The poster was celebrating the removal and the ban as a step in the right direction, but my impression is they would go farther.

They seemed to revel in Anduril's ban which seemed at least to be schadenfreude, and they did not back some of what they said while doing so, but I think that can be separated from the rest of their argument/desires.
> This is a completely unserious claim

Sure: https://youtu.be/UMYlO5eMhl4?t=15
I think the average American today, including the average admissions officer, has a negative view of technology. So, an application that is unequivocally optimistic about technology is unlikely to be well received. I think that that is what happened here. We also have no visibility into letters of recommendation, which are likely a big factor.
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Many people will analyze this from a tech perspective. I urge you not to. This isn't about whether the technology is good or bad. The real reason they succeeded is their mastery of marketing, particularly TikTok and influencer marketing. Understanding distribution is far more important than knowing how to build something, and this is truer now than ever before. I know it stings but its the truth.
Happy to answer any questions or share more on how it works
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