skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my day, like (no exaggeration) 50 years ago, we were having the exact same conversation, but with pocket calculators playing the role of AI. Plus ca change...
Perhaps that mode of thinking is wrong, even if it is accepted.

Take rote memorization. It is hard. It sucks in so many ways (just because you memorized something doesn't mean you can reason using that information). Yet memorization also provides the foundations for growth. At a basic level, how can you perform anything besides trivial queries if you don't know what you are searching for? How can you assess the validity of a source if you don't know the fundamentals? How can you avoid falling prey to propaganda if your only knowledge of a subject is what is in front of your face? None of that is to say that we should dismiss search and depend upon memorization. We need both.

I can't tell you what to say to your children about LLMs. For one thing, I don't know what is important to them. Yet it is important to remember that it isn't an either-or thing. LLMs are probably going to be essential to manage the profoundly unmanagable amount of information our world creates. Yet it is also important to remember that they are like the person who memorizes but lacks the ability to reason. They may be able to impress people with their fountain of facts, yet they will be unable to create a mark on the world since they will lack the ability to create anything unique.
The quote is more reasonable in context.
I lived for 16 years in a house with all three: the older round pin in two sizes for different current draw, and the newer square pin.

A lot of the round pin wiring was rubber/fabric insulated. The fuzeboard was scary. Tar insulated mains cables.
>mandatory health procedures and even military conscription

Some people have these without UBI. In fact theres nothing stopping the state from doing these things right now.
On DJT: Donald John Trump.
How did you manage to somehow twist the green card lottery into something so harmful sounding? It undermines your other points.

Nobody is forcing people to join the lottery. Nobody is in “limbo” against their will. it’s something that has a huge upside if you win, and little downside (apart from the Application fees).

Which country doesn’t do some kind of background check or information gathering when letting you in (except for tourism of course).

It’s extremely onerous to get a tourist visa to the EU if you’re an Indian citizen for example. Or it used to be.

They want your bank balances to make sure you aren’t going to just get on welfare.
If a student is passing your classes while using AI, I'm sorry your class is a joke.

Every class I sophomore on was open everything (except internet) and it still had a >50% failure rate.
I walk away from every article on or attempt to use Nix more mystified
Pretty sure it's broadcom.
Why would other countries inflict that sort of self harm? It would be a bluff, and everyone knows it. If it wasn't a bluff, you would be out next election.
No, PEG is prone to exactly this in its default form. Parser combinator usually means something PEG-ish anyway.

If you memoize (packrat), it improves to polynomial time (not sure what, but it's not linear; that's false advertising and a fraudulent claim), but you're still stuck with the vulnerability to bugs in the grammar.

A better idea is to create a parser-combinator-style API on top of an LL or LR backend, for guaranteed linear time and only enough stack space for the deepest part of the AST.
>>> US wants nothing to do with China. As the biggest consumer economy in the world, the have that right.

Yes, they have the right, but it doesn’t mean this is the right way. Consumers don’t suddenly stop consuming, and factories in the world don’t immediately start producing. This is like a slow flywheel; had we been almost spinning and ready to jump, it would make sense. This is not that.

Also, China is a super power which controls more than factories today. I agree they need to be checked, but sudden changes are not the way. I wish we did it by building trust with allies and then pushing China. Right now, even our allies are wary of us.
You've evaluated a tiny sample of restaurant websites and extrapolated to make claims about the overwhelming majority - in the millions, across the globe.

"Most are generic crap" doesn't mean restaurants aim for that benchmark when they decide to get a website.

I'm not sure if you're refuting the point I was making, which I'll clarify. "Restaurant website" could be a stand-in for any basic small business website. The claim was that AI threatens small web dev agencies who make small business websites. I don't think it will, as millions of small businesses want something better than "generic crap" or cookie-cut AI copy paste; AND we've had site-building services, social media pages, and template-driven approaches for a long time.
Just don't let go of a BS1363 lead; they hurt.
IMO for the Garmin vs alarm clock example, it's less about costs and more about power & branding.

The retailer & the wholesalers involved all have a reasonable idea about what people will pay for the products in question. The portion of that final consumer price that stays with the retailer is just the result of negotiation.

The retailer can likely buy decent alarm clocks from anyone, so alarm clock makers & wholesalers have no pricing power and the retailer can demand high margins.

But the retailer can only get Garmin from Garmin. If Garmin has done a good job promoting the brand, such that the retailer feels they have no choice but to stock it, they will have to suck it up and accept low margins.
and trying with cd quality audio? from my recollection (using a bose qc 25 in passive mode) from my first setup it changed it a little but i cannot describe it nowadays, i concluded the difference was "better" and kept it for (too?) many years now. funny thing i do remember was adding AutoEQ in twice - once through APO and once through Peace. but i notice it now more when im not listening via my headset, its subtle.

sounds like a win though on the Koss KSC75 regardless though, just makes em more portable to other devices for you
Old Security Rakes in New MCP Yards
You missed the "you can fix it with money though, and our friends are just the people to give the money to" step that comes after each problem statement.
> focus on [...] the few points that brainpower is really needed

The person you're responding to is talking about it from an educational perspective though. If your fundamentals aren't solid, you won't know that exponentially smoothed reservoir sampling backed by a splay tree is optimal for your problem, and ChatGPT has no clue either. Trying things, struggling, and failing is crucial to efficient learning.

Not to mention, you need enough brain power or expertise to know when it's bullshitting you. Just today it was telling me that a packed array was better than my proposed solution, confidently explaining why, and not once saying anything correct. No prompt changes could fix it (whether restarting or replying), and anyone who tried to use less brainpower there would be up a creek when their solution sucked.

Mind you, I use LLMs a lot, including for code-adjacent tasks and occasionally for code itself. It's a neat tool. It has its place though, and it must be used correctly.
Treading on the upturned plug also isn't the nicest

It's pretty much impossible for a US plug to lie with the prongs facing upwards because there's no flat back
What does that have to do with the topic at hand? Nearly every CEO at a company making physical products from 1990 onward owes much of their net worth to Chinese factories.
> I would dismiss this article as pure fantasy.

Why? The article starts from the point where Nike pays $25 per shoe boarded into a container on a boat, where that number covers all expenses until that point. Yes, this includes the shoe workers' wages, but it also has the factory construction and maintenance, manufacturing equipment, the inputs that go into the shoe, transport to get the shoes packed into a container and to the port, etc etc.
Is there a gap in the market? It's being rapidly filled with the likes of MacWhisper, etc., which offer local-only, one-off pricing.
The Fed intervention was under Bush.
The vast majority of the "COVID response" was under Trump.
If you look at deficit spending by administration, you will also see that you have things backwards.
Interesting. How will (physically) AI install a new HVAC system? There must be some form of physical presence to get the job done. And, the current set of installers have a difficult time as it is (running duct work, low/high PSI lines, etc).

Again, how will (physically) AI take over lawn maintenance? Do you expect a fleet of self-driving lawn-mowers to take to the streets? How will they get to your place? Who will be managing them? So many questions.

Personally, I think the AI hype is way overblown. Sure, AI can help give better data for these areas, but I highly doubt AI will take over. I think AI can help smart people get even smarter (better ways to mow, more efficient ways to run HVAC lines, etc), but at the end of the day, you still need physical presence for many/most jobs.
Yup. We don't have causal studies on fluoride's effects on intelligence, to my knowledge. This is so obviously not about kids' health, but like MMRs, partisan/social identity signalling.
> So you learn something, [...] You internalize it.

Or they don't.
I think the common consensus is that the primary benefit of fluoride is topical, not systemic:

* Initially, fluoride was considered beneficial when given systemically during tooth development, but later research has shown the importance and the advantages of its topical effects in the prevention or treatment of dental caries and tooth decay. [The Fluoride Debate: The Pros and Cons of Fluoridation; Prev Nutr Food Sci, 2018; https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6195894].

* The actual mechanism of fluoride action is still a subject of debate. A dogma has existed for many decades, that fluoride has to be ingested and acts mainly pre-eruptively. However, recent studies concerning the systemic effect of fluoride supplementation concluded that the caries-preventive effect of fluoride is almost exclusively posteruptive. [Systemic versus topical fluoride; Carries Res, 2004; https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15153698/]

* As noted by
Thorrez, your link does not mention topical application vs systemic ingestion. There is a publication from the CDC however stating that the benefit of fluoride is mainly topical:

> Fluoride's caries-preventive properties initially were attributed to changes in enamel during tooth development because of the association between fluoride and cosmetic changes in enamel and a belief that fluoride incorporated into enamel during tooth development would result in a more acid-resistant mineral. However, laboratory and epidemiologic research suggests that fluoride prevents dental caries predominately after eruption of the tooth into the mouth, and its actions primarily are topical for both adults and children (1).
[https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm4841a1.htm ; 1999].

This material was covered in depositions for TSCA Fluoride trial in 2018, where Casey Hannan (director of the division of oral health at the CDC) was the examinee for the deposition. A temporary upload of a clip from this deposition may be found at https://0x0.st/8Lom.mp4.
You're on the right track with money, but that's not exactly how I'd describe the goals. My impression is the primary goals are getting things coded and billed properly and thoroughly, and getting things documented in a way that minimizes legal liability.
We rely on the guarantees of Rapier's determinism. I haven't done extensive testing on the determinism claim yet, but it has held up so far.
https://rapier.rs/
it's tsmc
This compares sound recording hardware, not microphones.

If you scroll down, there are some sound sample files made with three different microphones across the numerous sound recorders, but no numbers comparing microphones. Only the recorders are quantitatively compared.
I don't think the GP argued they want to balance the books.

In fact, if they wanted to balance the books, they wouldn't care about the interest rate. The only reason to bet your economy into reducing the interest is if you want to go deeply negative on the books.
USB-C and its overengineered history [video]
I wrote my Senator, Dick Durbin, prior to the November 2024 election, begging him to do something to shore up the legislature, prior to Trump's possible return to office.

He responded that he's not allowed to discuss campaigning and that I can instead donate to his 'friends' network (PAC?)

I don't think the Dem establishment really opposes Trump at all...
> is it a matter of absolute capacity still being insufficient for current model sizes

This. Additionally, models aren't getting smaller, they are getting bigger and to be useful to a wider range of users, they also need more context to go off of, which is even more memory.

Previously:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42003823

It could be partially the DC, but look at the rack density... to get to an equal amount of GPU compute and memory, you need 10x the rack space...

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/andrewdfeldman_a-few-weeks-ag...

Previously:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39966620

Now compare that to an NV72 and the direction Dell/CoreWeave/Switch are going in with the EVO containment... far better. One can imagine that AMD might do something similar.

https://www.coreweave.com/blog/coreweave-pushes-boundaries-w...
Anecdotal but I haven't seen a 2nd-hand bookshop in years however those little "tiny libraries" where people just donate their books are in abundance. What I've seen other used-item shops are doing these days is checking online what things are worth and selling them for very slightly less and it seems like this has to be a death-knell for secondhand stores in general.

And I know they have to do this, everything donated has to be checked to ensure safety and cleanliness, it costs them money to keep the shop open and staffed. But if you can't actually save money by buying secondhand goods there then why would anyone shop there?! It's a 10 - 20 percent discount on goods that may be years old when Amazon rotates these discounts through new goods 24/7.
FYI this was unveiled at the 2025 Google Next conference, and they're apparently unveiling a gRPC client for Rapid Storage, which appears to be a very thin wrapper over Colossus itself, as this is just zonal storage.
Agentics.org
Yeah Nix seems like an insanely useful concept (declarative, reproducable, diffable, source controllable definitions of linux environments). But actually using it is a nightmare.

I think there's some point on the spectrum between "commit your dotfiles to git" and Nix that would be useful, I don't know what it is though. Containerization is kinda like this, but they're entirely imperatively defined rather than declarative and I wouldn't really want to use a docker container as my main system environment.
Rusty Cascading Style Sheets – Another CSS Preprocessor
You can still get similar to those today. 5A sockets, for plug in lighting.
Purchasing an apartment on board starts at $2 million, plus the annual maintenance fees which can range from $60 000 to $270 000. If you have to ask 'how much?', you probably can't afford it. (2015)

https://discover.hubpages.com/travel/The-World-Cruiseship---...
It can be more sinister.

If judiciary blocks X, then trump will say "these are the real bad guys, they are as worse as the dems, lets remove them". And BAM ! You have a dictator.

The sad part is that one of the most powerful nation in the world is filled with idiots who will lap up the above argument.

I would say that all this current situation is because of corporate greed, leading to a skewed distribution of wealth, leading to the evolution of a class of voters who are desperate, gullible and mis-informed.
Very awesome. Not having to burn time on a UI that looks and feels nice is a huge win.
For context, this particular article is a cool deep dive into how Nix works, but it doesn't represent what using Nix + Nixpkgs is like in practice. I've been using Nix personally and professionally for almost 10 years now (yikes has time passed quickly!) and I have never needed to operate at the level of derivations like this.
That misses the whole point, in that you cannot refer to Y inside of Y in an environment that doesn't have recursion.
Sure, my post was not expansive enough to account for criminals and the mentally ill. The bottom I referred to is for people without means, but with capacity to care for themselves.

The hard part of that conversation is that we consider criminal offenses as the only grounds for forcibly incarcerating a person. Mentally ill people need policies that will better protect them fron themselves and their neighbors BEFORE they commit crimes and end up in prison. We likely need new models of mental institutions and new laws which allow people to be committed when it is in everyone’s best interest… yet somehow avoid the abuses and horrors of the past. A very hard problem indeed.
Literally the exact opposite. Government cheese was created because due to subsidies, there was way too much milk that was going to be dumped into the nearest river until the Govt paid the farmers to convert it all to cheese and bought it and shoved it into storage to prop up cheese prices.

It is the definition of over-abundance, since all the farmers were going to have to shoot their dairy cows to actually afford to keep some around and continue producing milk
> coming to the end of the long tail of human intellectual capability

Really? We invent LLMs, continue to improve them, and that's the end of our intellectual capability?

> a Casio, which would never be able to replace a social worker no matter how hard you tried

And LLMs can't replace a social worker no matter how hard you try today.
Frederick Douglass always amazes me.

I hate to think this, but with today's US Gov and this being a .gov site, I wonder when it will be purged.

I just went to the wayback machine to the save the page to be safe, but nice to see it was already saved!
I'm pretty sure the best middle ground that currently exists is the various "immutable, snapshot to upgrade" distros out there.
I'm glad that someone out there is working safety guarantees for CSS ;P
I was very hopeful for the UK when the Bexited because the EU political machine has become as what I perceive as independent of the people's will but it seems it rather went down from there. People being tried for "silent prayers," arrested for protesting violence .. "Online safety" just seems like an excuse rather than actually making things better. Gab.com also recently posted intimidation attempts at censorship well outside of the UK's authority. I disagree with much of their content but I'm so very thankful for the 1st amendment! I totally understand bitchute's position. The UK market is likely not worth the hassle but I'm sad that geopolitics have more and more effects on the once free internet.

No matter where you stand, I'd be happy to hear some Brits' opinions on that OSA!
Its possible they will learn to live with the ebb and tide and ride along. What else can you do?

Apple is perhaps already hiring a fleet of planes and ships to transport iPhones from all over the world to the US.
There were pretty much abandoned years ago. The software stack support from Google only really lasted a few months and even then the stack they ran on was already years old versions of operating systems and python versions.

The only support is via a few enthusiastic third party developers.
Sewer AI (https://www.sewerai.com). But it predates LLM things.
Cool, I imagine you also could use multiple cameras to make photogrammetric 3D scans of tiny particles and such. You don't have control over the orientation, but that doesn't matter if you can take the pictures fast enough while it is tumbling around.
Whether or not many people have estimated the odds is not what defines what a bet is, it's just something that people placing a bet are going to look at.

Derivatives exchanges are handled separately from betting because they have other tangible benefits the to financial marketplace. I'm not sure I buy the pitch that prediction markets should fall into the same carveout at face value, but why has nothing to do with how many stats are run.
> Remember that China promised trump in term 1 to massively import US goods and reduce fentanyl

China stopped selling unlicensed fentanyl to the USofA, it later stopped supplying fentanyl to both Mexico and Canada.

The problem was that criminals in the USofA and Mexico purchased precursor chemicals in bulk and made their own fentanyl. Restricting precursors led to pre-precursors being purchased in bulk for drug labs to make their own precursors in order to make fentanyl.

The fentanyl problem continued under Trump and rapidly grew in size during his first term.

In 2021, Mr. Biden issued an executive order imposing sanctions on individuals and companies engaged in the illicit opioid trade. His Treasury Department put sanctions on more than 300 individuals and entities, freezing entire networks of fentanyl suppliers and traffickers out of the international financial system.

In 2023 and 2024 he identified China as a major illicit drug-producing country for its role in the synthetic opioid trade — a blow to the reputation of China’s chemical industry.

Simultaneously, the Biden administration pushed U.S. law enforcement agencies to conduct aggressive investigations and build indictments against dozens of Chinese citizens and companies that were trafficking fentanyl precursor chemicals into the United States.

[..] Biden secured a personal commitment from President Xi Jinping to restart counternarcotics cooperation in November 2023

[..] And we made progress. International fentanyl supply chains showed signs of disruption, forcing traffickers to change sources and tactics.

Together with other diplomatic initiatives and an expansive public health campaign, the number of lethal fentanyl overdoses in the United States has dropped.

In the 12 months ending September 2024, overdose deaths were down an estimated 24 percent from the year prior.

~ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/opinion/trump-china-trade...

What has Trump done now he's back in office? Destroyed any cooperation with China on counternarcotics cooperation.

Tariffs alone will not push China’s government to help reduce drug overdose deaths in the United States. In fact, with Beijing already imposing retaliatory tariffs and proclaiming that it’s “ready to fight till the end,” Mr. Trump’s blunt-force tactics might drive China to cooperate less on fentanyl, not more.

With the stakes as high as they are, American communities cannot afford a miscalculation.
> Freedom and personal liberty actually are ideologies.

Feyerabend in particular would likely differ, and say instead that freedom and liberty are what emerge when mature adults democratically order their societies, irrespective (or in spite) of any ideologies used to bind them
As a side note: Columbia/Columbian used to be a byword for america
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_(personification)
More likely they’re used as an excuse to roll back workforce protections, child labor protections, minimum wages, environmental protections, and consumer protections to the levels in the countries that have been producing these goods until now —- because “how else can we produce goods at reasonable prices?”