skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not disagreeing with you. I’m saying that you aren’t saying anything to agree or disagree with from the standpoint of physics. Your position offers no predictions, offers no implications, and offers no way to be measured in any way. From the standpoint of physics it doesn’t exist. That doesn’t make it wrong or right nor does it make anyone replying you wrong or right about any of it. You simply have not crossed the threshold for physics to have a say. You are free to believe all of this. If you want physics to care you need to demonstrate how your beliefs predict system dynamics. How can your beliefs explain observations and do those explanations make sense in the context of everything else we know? All of the people you cite who were “free thinkers” expressed their ideas in the context of the current understanding of physics whether they were special relativity or information theory. They did this by offering predictions such as how general relativity predicts you can see a star that is currently behind the sun during an eclipse if you draw a line from the earth observer to the star or how quantum mechanics predicted the existence of semiconductors or how chaos theory explains why two systems with similar initial conditions could exponentially grow apart from each other. If you could offer such predictions from your ideas than they would “stimulate” physicists to think about them. But without such predictions your ideas simply are just your thoughts about how things work. They may be interesting to some people, but if you want to think about them as physics, you need to provide a prediction.
Do you have a source on that claim? Kagi-ing it only returns me mentions of rumors that they said that. No actual interview or reputable source.
> Trump has called for a universal baseline tariff[31] of 10% to 20% on all imports,[176][177] with increased penalties if trade partners manipulate their currency or engage in unfair trade practices.[26] Trump has also called for 100% tariffs on cars made outside the U.S. and a minimum 60% tariff on Chinese goods.[176]

Per Wikipedia for his campaign https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_2024_presidenti...

Doesn't sound much different than what's happening
Safari came out in 2003.
That doesn’t work when the problem is the battery is already sub-zero - lithium plating occurs when trying to charge in those conditions, destroying the battery.

You can’t just overvolt out of that - you need an external source of heat until you’re out of the dangerous thermal area.
HN data bashing aside in this thread - very slick site. Quick, responsive, snappy, easy to use. Nice design through and through.
Steinbeck was the first name I searched for, so this was great to see even if his major works won't be available for some time. I do wonder how badly the Steinbeck or Faulkner estates are hurt by the sudden loss of royalties? Imagine working hard to write a book to make a living and then just under a hundred years it's taken away from you. Also, AI.
In Mathematics. There's a number of prize winners. https://breakthroughprize.org/News/91 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43599745)
https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2020/04/11/project-gutenberg-p...

> Of all these projects, the most amenable to automatic typesetting are those produced by Standard Ebooks and HTML Writers Guild. The benefit of using HTML Writers Guild is their semantic markup and simple document type definition (DTD) file. Standard Ebooks, as the name suggests, are brilliantly standardized and have an excellent Manual of Style that describes what to expect from the XHTML.
The "surprise" is that people expect the President to use those powers to work in the best interests of the country, rather than focusing on enriching themselves by stealing everything they can for themselves and for those who bribe them. The executive is not supposed to be an adversarial position that the rest of the country needs to defend against. And if the President does abuse their letter-of-the-law powers, then we expect Congress to impeach and convict rather than enabling the behavior out of some sense of partisan grievances.
Only if they have the ability to stop charging if the battery pack is below freezing, and some way to heat the pack (and keep it) above freezing. Otherwise, charging in those temps will destroy the battery.
Should I be embarassed for my bash alias?

alias rsy="rsync -avP"

I do this with many unix utils that have insensible (imo) defaults
Just in case it wasn't a typo, and you happen not to know ... that word is probably "eke" - meaning gaining (increasing, enlarging from wiktionary) - rather than "eek" which is what mice do :)
Yes, and even then ‘healthy’ is not what people in normal climates think. It puts a lot of wear and tear on vehicles.
Hire an expert in the field who can create 100 sentences of "dont do this... dont do that..." then create your own business as a middleman who keeps this list a top secret and supplies the service to others.

Then in a couple months go out of business when someone tricks the AI to spill its prompt
No, the reality of this situation is that people need to save a snapshot of what the LLM said when they read it, just in case they need to substantiate it or blame someone for what they read at the time.
I agree with you on the plague of financialization. Just not that it’s driven by government debt. My take is that it’s caused by growing inequality and trickle-up redistribution of money from those who don’t have enough to spend to those who already have too much and thus will save/invest rather than spending.
Aren't there better ways to manage the debt than crashing trade? Print a ton of money and deliberately cause inflation, that wouldn't be as harsh as tariffs. Print the money and use it to buy foreign currency, that would weaken the dollar.
We describe "consuming" information and media just like food. I would settle for all media and advertisements having a required Nutrition Facts label:

Serving size: 1200 words / 60 seconds

Total commercial advertisement content: 600 words

Total US Government sponsored content: 300 words

Total foreign government sponsored content: 100 words

Total NGO sponsored content: 200 words

% of daily content of society shaping propaganda: 30%

% of daily content of subliminal content: 15%

% of daily content of emotional manipulation: %40

% of daily content of Gen5 warfare: 20%
Accidentally stumbled on this and not sure what problem you're solving: not wanting to type the server name into the `mstsc.exe` window? Not having to re-type credentials across connections?
I find that everyone who replies with examples like this is an expert using expert skills to get the LLM to perform. Which makes me think why is this a skill that is useful to general public as opposed to another useful skill for technical knowledge workers to add to their tool belt?
https://archive.md/jnAjK
Parr for the course on this admin
In Australia and Britain if the PM acts this wildly, the party steps in and replaces them. They call them party room coups, and everyone gets shitty when it happens, but they protect the status quo pretty well. It happened to 4 Australian PMs in a row and everyone was generally fine with it.
For a while, (up to including Sequioa 15.3) both rsync_samba and rsync_openrsync were available, via /var/select/rsync or the env variable CHOSEN_RSYNC.

One particular annoyance of openrsync is that it claimed to support the
/./ magic path element for --relative. I sent a bug report to Apple for this about a month ago.

rsync_samba is gone as of Sequoia 15.4.

I've installed rsync from homebrew.
I imagine there's a similar statistic for book shops and public libraries.
There is a well-known young-earth creationist who holds a PhD in geology from Harvard. Does that mean Harvard's geology program is garbage?
Related Jumping Spiders (127 points, 1 day ago/5 days ago, 70 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43549469
Currently the omission looks like it's a message being sent from Russia:

> Hey look, we write US policy, don't mess with Russia or we'll have the US mess with you.

If that's not the case, why not take the zero-cost step to avoid making it look like that's what it is?
The parliamentary system is a lot more volatile and competitive - if a leader irritates their party enough or is tipped to lose they're quickly challenged and voted out. In Australia we had 31 leadership spills from 2000 to 2015 and 5 prime ministers from 2010 to 2018.
Not to mention that the leads are no longer working on it. Asahi Lina and Hector Martin are gone.
The problem is not the kernel. It's the anti-user hostility to open source (GPL3 utilities e.g. modern Bash and rsync etc) and open standards (e.g. OpenGL and Vulkan) that stem from an over-active legal department. And the GUI that's stuck in the past. The top menu hasn't made sense since screens got bigger than the original Macintosh. The Dock has always sucked. Window management is primitive and saddled with interminable animations. And then there are the random unconfigurable things like the stupid camera gesture recognition popup or the inability to use natural scrolling on touchpads without reversing the mouse wheel too. MacOS needs an overhaul.
IMO broad categories of government employees should be restricted to owning broad index funds. But at least as far as upper echelons of political power - house, senate, supreme court, president and his cabinet - there should scarcely be any debate at all.

Personally I would prefer restricting them to SNP500. US does well - they’ll do well.
Longtime Writing Community NaNoWriMo Shuts Down After AI Drama
Congressional (or executive branch.....) stock trading is completely unacceptable and should be totally banned. Full stop.

With that being said- the idea that they're outperforming the market I think has been debunked several times. I'm sure that they're acting in bad faith and believe that they have some kind of precious inside information. But a few different studies have shown that they basically do the same as any group of a few hundred people that pick individual stocks- some outperform, some underperform, and in general their returns are a random walk. See

https://studenttheses.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/20.500.12932/47... "no significant abnormal returns"
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4954641 "significantly underperform"
https://andy.egge.rs/papers/EggMueller_capitol_losses_jop_20... "between 2004 and 2008 the average member of Congress would have earned higher returns in a passive index fund"

Stick to index funds folks
You don't need to want money to want something. Maybe you just want significance, or love, or connecting to others. Still, none of what you said makes any sense. It's crackpot stuff.
> I guess the problem with LLMs is that they're too usable for their own good, so people don't realizing that they can't perfectly know all the trivia in the world, exactly the same as any human.

They're quite literally being sold as a replacement for human intellectual labor by people that have received uncountable sums of investment money towards that goal.

The author of the post even says this:

"These machines will soon become the beating hearts of the society in which we live. The social and political structures they create as they compose and interact with each other will define everything we see around us."

Can't blame people "fact checking" something that's supposed to fill these shoes.

People should be (far) more critical of LLMs given all of these style of bold claims, not less.

Also, telling people they're "holding it wrong" when they interact with alleged "Ay Gee Eye" "superintelligence" really is a poor selling point, and no way to increase confidence in these offerings.

These people and these companies don't get to make these claims that threaten the livelihood of millions of people, inflate a massive bubble, impact hiring decisions and everything else we've seen and then get excused cause "whoops you're not supposed to use it like that, dummy."

Nah.
One important cause of comparative advantage is cheap labor.

Or perhaps I should say comparative "advantage" because cheap labor is actually bad from society's point of view!

It used to be that a person in the US could graduate from high school and get a factory job that provided enough income to have a house with a yard, a non-working spouse, and children.

Then the factories moved overseas to exploit the comparative advantage of cheap labor.

If you have a tariff, it undoes the advantage that cheap labor used to provide.

Operating in a society that pays its workers well is ultimately to business's advantage. Workers who have more money spend more money, they generally buy more products at higher prices and higher margins. Social and political stability happens when most people feel the system is working for them, they have a stake in the status quo, and they have something to lose.

I don't dispute the OP article's thesis, that tariffs cause some loss of economic inefficiency. The question is whether the gain is worth the cost.
Richard Burr may have been convinced to not seek reelection to avoid prosecution.

“a 2012 law, the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act, bars members of Congress and their aides from making investment decisions based on inside information they have access to as part of their Senate work, including both criminal and civil penalties for violations. Legal experts say that determining what information is “nonpublic” can be exceedingly difficult; no one has been successfully prosecuted under the law.”

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/feds-wont-charge-sen-richa...
this is true of all 'config.d' schemes, and why most such schemes suggest/use number-name.ext style filenames to deal with sorting.
Notable 1k-Year-Old Companies in Japan
Agreed. We have the staying power.
> The only plausible way out I see in the near term is a bunch of carve outs and one-off deals that allows the U.S. government to say, "our bluff worked."

It's not a bluff. This is Idiocracy in action. They have no idea how to fix "the starving bullshit, dust storms, French fries and burrito coverings." It turns out governance requires collaboration and compromise, and some measure of trust. Without that, the executive can only press the buttons given by the legislature.
> So for iOS, it’s pretty obvious why they don’t use gplv3… because it would violate the terms.

Apple using "openrsync" because they want to close the code more than the rsync license lets them.
The gemini example was a wonderful summary of the comments, but audio is not very practical for something that long.

What about putting the text version that's used to make the audio somewhere on the page? (or better, on a subpage where there's no audio playback)
Patches to mainline rsync added support for extended attributes, particularly for supporting macOS metadata.

Bombich "Carbon Copy Cloner" is a GUI app that wraps it.

https://support.bombich.com/hc/en-us/articles/20686446501143...

I started following Mike Bombich from his posts on macOS Server sysadmin boards; see

https://web.archive.org/web/20140707182312/http://static.afp...

Nathaniel Gray created a testing tool to verify the fidelity of backups; files with multiple streams, extended attributes and ACLs, all the good stuff... Backup Bouncer:

https://github.com/n8gray/Backup-Bouncer

See also this SwiftUI app that wraps rsync, RsyncX.

https://github.com/rsyncOSX/RsyncOSX

We used to really care about this stuff, back when we were still running software from "Classic" macOS on top of our new UNIX systems.

https://web.archive.org/web/20161022012615/http://blog.plast...
3.5 turbo instruct is a huge outlier.

https://dynomight.substack.com/p/chess

Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42138289
What Trump and GOP said they'd do closely followed "project 2025" and the top level of tariffs proposed in that text was 10% ... and that was on China.

Trump is levying a 35% tariff on the penguins of Heard and McDonald Islands. No humans present, and also no clarification by the administration on who exactly is being taxed here ...

Trouble is, Trump is still popular. This pain will filter through the economy, but one would expect, it will filter through slowly. It may take 6 months, even 12 before it will really turn republican voters against Trump due to personal hardship.
I truly wonder if there is a phenomenon where companies turning everything into an advertisment eventually backfires due to the pure saturation. It must dilute the effectiveness of ad spend and videos like this. I as a consumer on a commercial flight now expect my display to be full of junk like credit card ads before the flight gets underway so I try to tune it out.

I also wonder if the flight attendants in aisles physically demonstrating and making eye contact with passengers has something of an effect of guilting you into paying attention. There's no guilt in ignoring a screen talking at you in an obnoxious way.

Probably my biggest dislike about these safety videos is when they demonstrate safety features with fake props and "clever" representations of aircraft. If they are going to use visual aids they should try to match your environment so that you know what to look for in a real emergency.

My second biggest dislike about these videos is the cognitive overload. Sure, there's an argument that something catchy will help grab your attention so that you aren't just tuning out the safety information, but on the other hand so many of these videos turn into an incredibly high-stimulation affair. There's more of a focus on jokes and visual gags that it's hard to stay focused on the actual safety instructions on offer.
The better way is what Clinton did throughout his terms as President - cut government waste and run budget surpluses. It doesn't have to hurt if you do it gradually enough. Some commentators will argue that the U.S. enjoys some sort of unique exceptionalism due to the dollar being a "reserve currency" and whatnot, such that they should not attempt to do this. These commentators are wrong.
EDIT: A summary of this is that it is impossible to write a sound std::Vec implementation if NonZero::new_unchecked is a safe function. This is specifically because creating a value of NonZero which is 0 is undefined behavior which is exploited by niche optimization. If you created your own `struct MyNonZero(u8)`, then you wouldn't need to mark MyNonZero::new_unchecked as unsafe because creating MyNonZero(0) is a "valid" value which doesn't trigger undefined behavior.

The issue is that this could potentially allow creating a struct whose invariants are broken in safe rust. This breaks encapsulation, which means modules which use unsafe code (like `std::vec`) have no way to stop safe code from calling them with the invariants they rely on for safety broken. Let me give an example starting with an enum definition:

// Assume std::vec has this definition
struct Vec<T> {
capacity: usize,
length: usize,
arena: * T
}

enum Example {
First {
capacity: usize,
length: usize,
arena: usize,
discriminator: NonZero<u8>
},
Second {
vec: Vec<u8>
}
}

Now assume the compiler has used niche optimization so that if the byte corresponding to `discriminator` is 0, then the enum is `Example::Second`, while if the byte corresponding to `discriminator` is not 0, then the enum is `Example::First` with discriminator being equal to its given non-zero value. Furthermore, assume that `Example::First`'s `capacity`, `length`, and `arena` fields are in the in the same position as the fields of the same name for `Example::Second.vec`. If we allow `fn NonZero::new_unchecked(u8) -> NonZero<u8>` to be a safe function, we can create an invalid Vec:

fn main() {
let evil = NonZero::new_unchecked(0);

// We write as an Example::First,
// but this is read as an Example::Second
// because discriminator == 0 and niche optimization
let first = Example::First {
capacity: 9001, length: 9001,
arena: 0x20202020,
discriminator: evil
}

if let Example::Second{ vec: bad_vec } = first {
// If the layout of Example is as I described,
// and no optimizations occur, we should end up in here.

// This writes 255 to address 0x20202020
bad_vec[0] = 255;
}
}

So if we allowed new_unchecked to be safe, then it would be impossible to write a sound definition of Vec.
And this is why I think gibson1 is wrong: we can argue about which projections or systems of logic should be used, concepts are still "calculations".
>Perhaps it’s the third-or-fourth-hand story telling.

Likely after having passed through several motivated reasoning filters along the way.
I have suspicion that we are currently seeing the administration at the least strange it will be for the next four years.
> relatively soon

2026 is a loong way off considering the pace that Trump is setting the place on fire.

Yet he still has time to play golf.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-has-another-miracle-golf...
There's another dimension to this, that storage is so cheap that being wasteful with it isn't really disincentivized. I know for example at work of a portal that accepts uploads of large files from external clients that stores both the initial upload and every subsequent transformation of the file (of which there are 4-6) permanently. It's extremely useful for debugging, as one of the bits of metadata we shove on the zip archive is the git hash of the code that was running, so it's trivial to pull down any failed step and diagnose what happened.

We are using 4-6 times as much storage as we need to, and these are often not small files (on the order of 100 MB - 5 GB, several dozen times a day) but fixing this overuse is so far down the priority list that I don't think it survived the great Jira purge of mid-2024.
Their Community is dead compared to React Native :(
It still sounds like it is many years off.
About a decade and a half ago I worked on a large data migration project at a FAANG. Multi-exabyte scale, many clusters across many countries. Once everyone was moved the old storage platform wasn't completely empty, because the number of migrations was large and users were (naturally) more focused on ensuring their data was in place and available on the target platform rather than ensuring every last thing was deleted on the legacy platform. We weren't initially concerned about it because it would all get deleted when we turned down the old setup.

As we were gearing up to declare victory and start turning down the several dozen legacy storage clusters someone mused that given some users were subject to litigation holds -- not allowed to delete any data -- that at least some of the leftover data on the old system might be subject to litigation hold, and we'd need to figure that out before we could delete it or incur legal risk. IIRC the leftover 'junk' data amounted to a few dozen petabytes spread across multiple clusters around the world, in different jurisdictions. We spent several months talking with the lawyers figuring that out. It was an interesting dance, because on the one hand we were quite confident that there was unlikely to be anything in the leftovers which was both meaningful and not migrated to the new platform, while on the other hand explaining that it wasn't practical to just "go and look" through a few dozen PB of data. I recall we ended up somewhere in between, coming up with ways to distinguish categories of data like caches and working data from various pipelines. It added over six months to the project, but was quite an interesting problem to work through that hadn't occurred to any of us earlier on, as we were thinking entirely in technical terms about infrastructure migration.
We aren't experiencing bad policy, we are experiencing an attack on rule of law, a coup, and "a revolution that will be bloodless if the left allows it to be."

Russia has elections too and you should probably think about how they are different and why they are different, and how that relates to rule of law.
Alternatively, you posted a 5 word question that was maddeningly vague and was almost destined to be misunderstood.