skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're conflating promotion and advertising - as do most people.

Billboards, commercials, and advertisements fall under "advertising", the act of trying to coerce consumers into buying a thing or patronizing a product through manipulation.

Promotion, on the other hand, actively involves someone talking directly with someone else about their product, or using some other form of demonstrable evidence of your product or works.

Let's take a few examples:

* An artist sharing their latest work to their social media feeds is promotion, while shoving it in your face with incentives to buy it at their website on a random forum post is advertising.

* A lawncare company that asks a client if they could leave a small sign behind promoting their services after a job is fine, but buying advertising time on a television spot with CGI graphics and staged visuals is not.

* Demonstrating your product at a kiosk at a mall or event is promotion, but spending money on a pre-roll YouTube spot with imagery deliberately cultivated to induce purchase is advertising

I am fine with promoting something; I am not fine with advertising something. Promoting often just takes time, which anyone can reasonably do; advertising costs money, and equating that to speech means admitting money is speech, which I think most folks would agree is a very bad thing.

If you're encountering issues with promoting your product, it's likely because it's coming off as advertising. Instead of saying "I built a new app over at this URL and would love your feedback", be more specific with what you're asking for: "Is my business model viable?", "Is the UX legible and accessible by folks using screen readers?", "Could someone try penetrating my tech stack before I go live?"

Promotion as a way of soliciting feedback has to be done in a specific way, else it is advertising. That's why forums and sites are very particular about anti-advertising/anti-spam/anti-promotion rules. As long as it's not the equivalent of shouting, "HEY, LOOK AT ME" through a megaphone that's unsolicited by the forum or venue inhabitants, generally most folks in my experience are going to be fine with it.
and it drove me back just now, flawlessly. i must be living in an alternate reality to these "journalists". they are so transparent about why they write this stuff hahaha
That was my first impression as well. So much of Rust’s language and standard library enforces correctness, that gaps start to feel way more visible.

“as” is a good example. Floats are pretty much the only reason PartialEq exists, so why can’t we have a guaranteed-not-NaN-nor-inf type in std and use that everywhere? Why not make wrapping integers a panic even in release mode? Why not have proper dependent types (e.g. to remove bound checks), and proper linear types (to enforce that object destructors always run)?

It’s easy to forget that Rust is not an ideal language, but rather a very pragmatic one, and sometimes correctness loses in favour of some other goals.
lobste.rs is not though. Its not impossible to have such a thing without advertising
Scientists Are Mapping the Boundaries of What Is Knowable and Unknowable
While the other commentator is correct -- you can't just choose arbitrary floating-point formats if you want to run performantly on existing hardware -- there is some variety to choose from once you get down to the lower precisions. At 16 bits you can take either the standard IEEE fp16 format (1/5/10) or the exponent-heavy bf16 (1/8/7); for 8 bits, there technically is no IEEE specification, but in practice the E5M2 format (1/5/2) serves as "IEEE-equivalent" while E4M3 (1/4/3) takes some liberties with NaNs and drops infinities altogether -- and both are supported on recent Nvidia GPUs.

So between these four you honestly cover _most_ of the desired solution space: e.g. it's hard to imagine wanting to give up more of the mantissa than you already do on E5M2, while E4M3 is already at the lower bound of dynamic range before you need to start giving up IEEE compatability (which can definitely be a pain). There's some room left at the fp16 level but in practice bf16 was already designed for use in neural networks, so in practice people are happy using it for training and then leaving inference to fp16 (which has higher precision).

The only thing that's missing is support for more esoteric formats, e.g. fp4 (E2M1, E3M0) and maybe packed ternary.
But if the final result is of high enough quality, who cares about reasoning? It’s a trick to get the quality higher, at the cost of tokens and latency.
I like reading what’s on the list. Otherwise I wouldn’t have heard of 90% of these books!
Jeff Geerling won't connect his dishwasher to your stupid cloud [video]
Trying to meddle and interfere with foreign elections wasn't Elon Musk's smartest idea
I've had quite a few jobs. I've been a computer engineer now I'm a software engineer. These are the only jobs I've had where I felt I could be fired for performance.
I've found that it's a good idea to practice such skills when buying things in $100 and above range, especially if you are directly talking to the seller. It almost never hurts to ask "hey, I see the price is X, I like your product, would you be able to squeeze in some discount?" with a smile on your face. Even if for a 2% discount.
Perhaps if the transistor was invented today, some people would be disgusted at how it mimicks the ingenuity of humans calculating
Their definition of "terrorists" included drug gangs and such terrorizing people, not so much the political variety
I would guess even in absolute terms there will be more browsers with JavaScript disabled within the remaining 10%
Ask HN: How to Use "Deep Research"?
The issue I have had with llms since the start has been the slop. Contrary to popular belief, the open web was mostly slop before ChatGPT. We just used to call it SEO blogspam. And all llms are trained on them.

So when I tried google's Deep Research in Gemini, I ran into the same problem. It was basically a typical llm chat response, but a lot more verbose and citations to the same blogspam listicles that makes regular human research difficult.

How do I avoid this pitfall? So what I am asking is, how do I use deep research?
"Maximum severity RCE" no longer means "unauthenticated RCE by any actor", it now means "the vulnerability can only be exploited if a malicious file is imported"

Grumbling about CVE inflation
The weird thing about it though is that whatever the dark matter is it has to be spread out. It couldn’t be little planets or brown dwarfs or burned out stars (in a hidden dimension or not) because we’d see more gravitational lensing events than we do

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MACHO_Project
Mortal enemies? That's a bit dramatic. Whether Trump understands it or not, the EU is his ally and Russia his an example of an "enemy" (i.e. geopolitical competitor).
We're ready for a fight.
Finding a Rails Job in 2025
You can use the hidden attribute.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_att...
>So "crime" has gone up

Just not for regular folks that can walk around their city and not get mugged or shot
“GET 20% OFF THIS UNDERWEAR YOU GLANCED AT YESTERDAY” with a dopamine megaphone in your bedroom“
Honestly, I was under impression Democrats were for tariffs :-) I guess I was unnecessarily worried that Democrats love tariffs. It is the other way around now.

I do remember this speech by Bernie Sanders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzpmhBEA9Ok
It’s a secular version of the Rapture.
If you’re a manufacturer how quickly can you even stand up a factory in the US and train that factory of workers to produce your item? 3-4 years? What’s the chances republicans still control congress by that time? The presidents continued ability to enforce this relies on controlling both chambers because the tarrifs are being put up under an emergency declaration that congress has the power to override. If you don’t think that’ll continue to be the case in 2 years time it seems very difficult to justify the investment, and if markets continue to crater I would think it would further reinforce this
After digging a bit into astromy, computationally myself... There are some heavy assumptions used in the functions that maps pixels to mass densities. Outsider's 2c, but I assess a misalignment between CDM confidence in papers, and this mapping.
Right. You’ll notice I never mentioned WW2. I said this:

> You, and I, and the entire world, have been living under a Pax Americana for the past 70-something years. As that world order fractures, you will see that no country without hard assets and military power, the Netherlands and Switzerland included, are as powerful as they may seem.

And that is true! The Korean War was more than 70 years ago.

Since then, US military-industrial capacity has absolutely ballooned. Our modern military is orders of magnitude more capable, armed, and well-equipped than the one which fought the Korean War.

I don’t get what point you’re trying to make. Your arguments are redundant and make no sense.

With regards to military engagements, I’m explicitly talking about non-nuclear engagements, and I’m pointing out that states without true military capability will not be “live players” in the new world order.

You can see this with Ukraine and Russia! Military mobilization and aid has boosted the Ukrainian military to the second largest in Europe. If they didn’t have that aid and that military power, you can be sure Kyiv would be Russified tomorrow.
reasoning is giving the option to trade $ for additional performance, seems like you would always desire this optionality for any model
They may actually live to regret it this time.

Screwing with Apple is one thing, but trying to "make an example" out of a company with strong ties to the current administration won't end well for them.
Scottish Register records 10,000th tartan
Accountability is oligarchs’ kryptonite
only relevant part of buffets document is that "why foreigners cant ditch US dollars part"
Yes, and if you make a "human error" that is really, really bad then you should be fired.

I mean, Jesus Christ when I was 16 and working at a Dairy Queen I saw people get fired for their drawer coming up a dollar short. Why are we holding fast food cashiers to a higher standard than our top government officials? Does that legitimately sound okay to anyone?
TI-83

I still think these things (especially the TI-89) are really underrated. They have a battery life measured in months to years and can do calculus symbolically.
No one is truly independent when it comes to politics. Everyone belongs to a political tribe, and if you don't, you are against whatever tribe you are currently engaging with.
Irving Gould really did Rattigan dirty for no good reason. Big egos really can bring a company down.

Steve Jobs also had a massive ego, but somehow managed to use it to bolster Apple in their hour of need.
The US president is 78 and learned to speak russian propaganda fluently.
I actually live in the heart of it. Yes, there are US cars here but maybe 1 out of 10 is American in my local and wider area. People tend to buy German, Swedish or French cars here.

> Wait until you realize [...]

Well, I won't buy am american car (maybe a smaller ford, but not the typical US car) because where I live you won't bring them into most parking lots, and for sure not in parking building. Especially in cities many of them are narrow even with typical EU cars.
Discussion (1006 points, 13 days ago, 661 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43463200
I guess at some point the EU has to do something if they want companies to keep implementing these regulations under the calculus of “cost of implementation vs. cost of fines that arise from non-compliance”.

I would love to believe that some companies would follow these regulations even without severe threat, because they’re the right thing to do for users, but I know in a lot of cases it can take significant time, effort, and money to keep up with every regulation coming out of the EU
Great work! Gutenberg project books have always been a pain to read. Thank you for caring!
"Progressive enhancement is completely dead" is in fact something I only expect to see posted on Hacker News. rolls eyes

Meanwhile, out on the open web, people build progressively enhanced solutions all the time.
Gaza has an incredibly high obesity rate, over 4K calories a day per capita, and it’s Hamas that stockpiles food not Israel.
I think it's one thing you think it's another. Why don't you get curious or steel man instead of prosecuting?
You're playing with words, using a sort of ordinary-language-philosophical re-invention of the idea of free speech, and saying, why doesn't it apply to the blackballing someone from a job. In paragraph 1, you suggest that it's legitimate protest. In paragraph 2, I'm actually relabeling it (not sure what that means, but yes - it's a real world example).

Your paragraph 1, though, has the thoughtful query of exploring what is and isn't freedom of speech, and throwing out some scenarios to mull over. I agree that This principle you have of consequence free speech can only exist as a principle. Once it interacts with the complexities of the real world it becomes impossible to actually define, legislate, and enforce fairly.. How about, the spirit of the principle of freedom of speech could be that we don't strike fear in people who express opposing views.

Should it be illegal to make a personal decision not to buy a company's product? Reductio ad absurdum fail. No, because aside from being stupidly unenforceable, it has nothing to do with shutting down opposing views. Company listening to protesters and firing a company? Should it be illegal? It should be illegal on the basis of workers' rights, but I don't consider it freedom of speech to fire anyone or to keep them. It's another category of problem. Basically: it sounds like you're trying to defend shutting down speech by looking for ways to say that it's freedom of speech to do so.

Since you are fishing for 'first principles' (as a tech-centric board I can see how sexy it is to try to re-invent the concepts and throw them out as unworkable, as if law were mathematical), how about we think about the abstract 'spirit of the law' so-to-speak, and break out of the idea that since the idea of freedom of speech is imperfect, it should be thrown out. Because if you consider SUPPRESSING speech to be an 'expression' of speech, then it sounds like you're attacking the entire foundation of it, and we just don't align on values. We're in the realm of the social, the legal, cultural, not in the realm of absolute principles or foundational mathematical notions. I am not suggesting that, again, it should be ILLEGAL or LEGAL to do very specific things (we can spend forever mulling through scenarios), I'm suggesting - a few messages up in the thread - that if we don't CARE about freedom of expression, things like blackballing people from a job or deporting someone on a green card are perfectly OK. And I 'both sides-istically' purposely showed examples of the Right doing it, and the Left doing it, in order to provoke people to go back to thinking about the abstract principle of it.

The LEGAL matter is a different category, and super interesting to talk about. It's philosophy, it's Supreme Court precedent in the U.S., there are some fascinating speeches by ACLU figures like Ira Glasser, their arguments in the old 1st Amendment cases of the 20th century.
Israel is a terrorist state and should be treated as one.
> The better question is could you achieve the same thing using much less computing power and simpler methods?

If only there were a way to play Quake 2 on a 90mhz Pentium with 16MB of RAM...
If you’re going to dismiss an entire field, you could at least point to specifics that are widely held tenants.
Another solution: wrap the feature in a custom element, use CSS :not(:defined) to hide the element, then in JS register the custom element so it's defined and the CSS no longer applies.
It also loses value when the fact-checking suffers from the same biases it is supposedly trying to rectify.

One way a govt can circumvent the first amendment, for example, is to fund a grant for "misinformation" research unit at a prestigious university. Where the entire staff are political fellow travellers who, not surprisingly, find everything the govt disagrees with to be "misinformation" and then applies pressure to get it taken down.
Are you regularly exposed to ads? I don’t understand this at all. Advertisement has next to nothing to do with “telling you about a product” which is why old ads are funny today. They hadn’t figured out a lot of the techniques we use to elevate advertising so far beyond that. An easy example, which some old ads even caught onto, would be associating the product with something else the consumer desires. Ever see an ad for a car with a happy family in it? Ever see an ad for a sportier car with a guy driving around an attractive lady? Is the happy family related to the function of the car? Of course not; the goal is to tie the thing the consumer wants (a happy family) to the thing they don’t yet (the car).
Nobody should be planning on steady stock market gains for their retirement income. The stock market goes up and it goes down. In both the dot com crash and the 2008 financial crisis the market fell significantly more. Even in Covid it fell more. So you should plan for many of these events to happen within your retirement. If you're more conservative (pun?) you should plan for great depression style events within your retirement.

EDIT: I don't usually respond to downvotes but it's really important to understand the stock market is a volatile investment. You shouldn't have money you're planning to use in the short or medium term in the stock market. It's a longer term (10 years+) investment.
> Or they want to extract the maximum work from you

I think that if this strategy works and salary is increased, then the job is burned anyway and I'd be looking for a new one no matter what they say, while pocketing the extra cash for a few months. If management starts to ask for documenting processes or training someone, that's a dead giveway and, ethics aside, the best course of action is (unfortunately) to do bare minimum and focus on job search.
Yeah, sure, NOW! Old orange has been talking about them for months and there was all kinds of positive spin from the MAGA crowd. It's only now that he's actually gone and done the thing and the consequences are already showing that people are saying "wait a minute..."
Sure, and I do too, when it makes sense and is simple enough. A marketing page with one form? Why not?

But a CRUD-heavy app with forms and modals and many moving parts? Forget it. It’s about as relevant as people using IE.

2 years ago, again on HN, someone asked if progressive enhancement “lost the war.” In reality, it never showed up for battle on its own merits.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37779408
Are we really saying the government of Europe should be afraid of a foreign business? That honestly sounds like even more reason they should be fighting to regulate.
Companies don't really care about "the right thing to do for users."

They care about maximizing profits from you.

If you're hoping companies are going to "do the right thing for you" on their own, you're probably going to be disappointed.
Racism is probably true, but the vast majority of the world is strongly ethnically homogeneous within country borders, so their racism isn’t as politically charged as ours is, because it’s simply not a matter of domestic policy for them.

LGBTQ matters have varying degrees of acceptance around the world and Europe and the collective west are in front of it all, but that downplays the fact that LGBTQ acceptance has been rising nearly everywhere in the world with the exception of fundamentalist religious states.
I can't understand why government offices for many countries are still on Twitter. At least Germany has their own mastodon service, but my home country Finland still uses Twitter.
It’s analogous to MOND [1].

Mathematically valid. Genuinely interesting. An active field of research. But heterodox, and thus coming with a stable of armchair physicists who are drawn to it because it feels rebellious.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Newtonian_dynamics
Often the issue is with mDNS device discovery across vlans or subnets, especially with IoT / home automation type devices.

What you are doing with SSIDs will not create any segmentation on your network, unless you have implemented either vlans or subnets, and corresponding firewall rules to gate traffic.
> Purge of USAID is likely to make the situation worse, but only marginally worse

Do you have a degree in public health?
I know some may will decry it for what it stands for, but I think this is great for edge case mitigation, imagine civilization games where you can use flexible strategies mimicking real life, versus following programmed decision trees. Gameplay that is responsive to environmental destruction, agent cores in the console that are constantly scheming against you. If done right, we can continue to do new and innovative things. One can get bogged down by the bad 3d animation out there, or marvel at what Pixar and before it, films like "Flight of the Navigator" and "Terminator" did.
He spent an outrageous amount to buy his own platform just to boost tweets that ironically highlight how making - or losing - money doesn’t reflect talent in anything else.
I can see how my exploration of the Mensa list might come across differently than intended. My aim wasn't necessarily to endorse this specific list or the 'IQ club,' but rather to explore the experience, the friction and challenge, that comes from engaging with demanding texts, wherever they are found. For me, it was less about surrendering judgment and more about using the list as a specific, challenging prompt to sharpen critical thinking against difficult material. Perhaps 'exercise regimen' isn't far off, but ideally one that builds perspective rather than just ticking boxes.

Thanks for the recommendation on Christopher Nguyen's "Value Capture".
It took many years before Einstein's ToR was confirmed by pictures of light bending around our sun during an eclipse.

Paul Dirac predicted antiparticles purely by mathematical intuition. It wasn't until later that the theory proved true, and he was recognized to be the genius that he was.

First comes the theory, then experiments are devised. Then physics gets updated.

I merely suggest these things, not because I have the math to understand how it would affect GR or QED, or even what experiments would be needed to verify them, but merely to plant the seeds of how things work to stimulate those who can do those things to think about what their ramifications might be.

That no one understands how these things can even be known, much less that they are true, is already known by me, but the truth is never beholden to the naysayers. I'm not a Boltzmann who was (sadly) bullied into suicide by the fools of his era. I don't really care if anyone believes what I say. I say these things because I love you all and maybe a few people will be stimulated to contemplate other avenues that may explain the as yet inexplicable.

And, really, y'all are out of ideas as to what or where dark matter or energy are anyway, so there is nothing for anyone to lose.

Put another way, Einstein knew what would happen to light that passed close to the sun (even though his calculations were off), but the naysayers were irrelevant, right? They, too, thought they already knew it all.
That’s a good analogy. Like the Rapture, the people who talk the most about it seem curiously hurried to bring it on.
> Elon Musk enjoys a level of access to the US executive branch that other companies only dream of

In short, he's an oligarch. Over here we don't react kindly to that level of political corruption.
If you were to find the expert editors for the other languages would you let them publish the works in those other languages on standards books website?